-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.

-Who told you that you were naked-

   The tent of YHUH is not made with the hands of men. The Most-high has made for Himself a dwelling place, as He has said, “Let us make man in Our image and Our likeness.” YHUH breathed His own Ruack (Breath) into man, signifying that man truly was not created to do his own will but the will of His Father and Creator. YHUH Mashyck (Messiah) came and demonstrated what the purpose and authority of man’s life should look like. It is the complete representation of the Father’s will on this earth; showing forth the Loving-Kindness and authority of YH the Father.

        There has been a lot of debate on the place that the Son takes with the Father but these arguments are spoken without knowledge from the Ruack of Truth. In truth the Son does not proclaim Himself but only proclaims His Father. He has no self-existence outside of YH His Father. The Father also has never done anything without His expression being carried out by the Son.

        The idea of self that we have is a counterfeit, it comes from the flesh that has taken on a life of its own. This false life was conceived and born when Adam’s self-knowledge of good and evil replaced the truth given to him by YH YHUH.

        If you will bring to your memory that YHUH did not tell the man and woman they were naked, nor did He declare to them that it was wrong. They both walked naked and were not ashamed. So where did that knowledge come from? It was born inside the man and his wife, it replaced the innocent peace they walked in before eating of the fruit of the tree. Self-knowledge is an enemy to the plan that YHUH has for your life. After eating of the tree they hid themselves away from their Creator, fear now taking control of the confused mind. Think just for a moment of the first question YHUH posed to the man after they ate of the tree.

        “Who told you that you were naked?”

        Can you answer that question? Many would quickly say it was the serpent but that would not be true. He only sparked the idea to eat of the tree, not what to think about being naked. The woman first ate of the fruits of the flesh, believing what she saw and then gave the same to her husband who was with her.

        It reads like this, “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”

        So they looked at the tree and made their conclusion based on what they saw. This was in stark contrast to what YHUH said about that same tree.

        The view YHUH gave of that tree for the man and woman was this, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.”

        His Word Vs. the witness of the flesh. 

        Self-witness Vs. His witness.

        The mystery here is great but to sum it up shortly, your self-existence is a lie. It is death to have your own understanding of the creation of YHUH. Only by denying yourself as Mashyck (Messiah) gave us example can we walk in true life. The flesh was never supposed to have its own life. This is what it means when we are commanded not to drink the blood, for the life of the flesh is in the blood. The flesh was made from the dust of the earth and had no life until the Ruack of YHUH was breathed into it.

        YHUH Mashyck (Messiah) poured out His blood as an example to show to us that the life is not in the flesh but in the Ruack. He lives without the flesh having any dominion at all.

        Are you ready to live a life without yourself? If you are then you are ready to follow YHUH Mashyck (Messiah) to fulfill the will of your Father in Shamym.

-Two Kinds of Knowledge: Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil Continued-

            Now when YHUH came into the parts of Kaisereia Philippos, He asked His talmidim (disciples) saying, “Who do men say that the Ben of Adam is?”

And they said, “Some Yahanan the Immerser, and others Al’YAHU, and others Yarma’YAHU, or one of the nebim.”

He said to them, “And you, who do you say I am?” And Shim’on Kepha answering, said, “You are the Anointed-One, the Ben of the Living Alahym.” And YHUH answering, said to him, “Baruk are you, Shim’on Bar-Yahah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My FATHER in the Shamaym. And I say to you that you are Kepha, and on this Rock I shall build My Assembly, and the gates of the grave shall not overcome it. And I shall give you the keys of the Reign of Shamaym, and whatever you bind on earth shall be, having been bound in the Shamaym, and whatever you loosen on the earth shall be, having been loosened in the Shamaym.”

-MattithYAHU/Matthew 16:13-19

            The scripture above probably has been quoted or partially quoted as much as any other I can think of. But even with all the attention that has been given to the “keys of the Reign of Shamaym” there doesn’t seem to be a lot written or talked about what those keys truly are. Kepha is called “baruk” (blessed) because something has been revealed to him, but the way this knowledge was gained did not come in the normal fashion that most receive understanding.

            Kepha understood that the One he was speaking to was “the Anointed-One, the Ben of the Living Alahym” but even though he had witnessed all the miracles and wonders that had been performed, this by itself was not enough to bring him to this conclusion. There had been many men sent by YHUH that came before and did mighty things, even raising the dead, but none of them had been called “the Anointed-One, the Ben of the Living Alahym”. So, experiencing these things couldn’t have given him this knowledge. In order to gain this lofty insight, Shim’on Bar Yahah had to lay aside his own awareness of this world and depend upon, or trust in the knowledge given to him by our FATHER in Shamaym.

            Trust in YHUH with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; know Him in all your ways, and He all your paths straight.

-Mishley/Proverbs 3:5-6

Experiential-knowledge (Self-knowledge): knowledge related to or derived from experience; empirical or experimental knowledge. Knowledge based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience.

Revelation-knowledge (YHUH-kowledge): knowledge given outside of experience; a surprising and previously unknown fact. The making known of a secret, the unidentified or nameless. Knowledge given by YH.

From the beginning, Adam’s or Man’s understanding of his world has always been a stumbling-block between where YHUH Alahym desired Adam to be and where he goes on his own. Self-knowledge is an idol that breaks the bones of Alahym’s people and causes them to error in all there ways.

YHUH made Adam naked, and he and his wife were unashamed in the garden, walking in the knowledge given to them by their FATHER. When their eyes were opened they placed their own knowledge and understanding of who and what they were above that of their FATHER. They became their own Alahym, having gained a separate enlightenment to good and evil other than what YHUH had given them.

This would be similar to my hand suddenly beginning to have its own idea of life and wanting to decide what it should and shouldn’t do.

“I’m naked!” it might say. “Why am I not covered?”

From that point forward the hand would have to be covered as long as it walked in its own knowledge of life.

Sounds crazy right?

But it is exactly what man looks like when he lives in this world based on his own experiential-knowledge. To be alone in this world with only your own knowledge is to be a headless creature, cut off from the source of life, an abomination that has no father but Abaddon or destruction.

The knowledge of this world is only temporary and it is designed to be subject to the greater authority that comes from the Shamaym/Heavens. Nothing in the earthly realm is supposed to exalt itself above the knowledge of Alahym. If we look at Kepha/Peter one more time we can find another example of what it is to walk in YHUH-knowledge and also experiential-knowledge.

          And in the fourth watch of the night YHUH went to them, walking on the sea. And when the talmidim saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled saying, “It is a phantom!” and for fear they cried. But immediately YHUH spoke to them, saying, “Take courage, it is l, do not be afraid.” And Kepha answered Him and said, “Master, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” And He said, “Come.” And when Kepha had come down on of the boat, he walked on the water to go to YHUH. But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Master, save me!” and immediately YHUH stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, “O you of little belief, why did you doubt?”

-MattithYAHU/Matthew 14:25-31

            ~Our FATHER always seems to be able to use Kepha to show us both sides of the coin. As Kepha begins to trust in the Word of YHUH or YHUH-knowledge, he steps out of this ordinary world of earthly-understanding or Experiential-knowledge and does the impossible, he walks on water. He stepped out of the boat by the command of YHUH and began to walk towards his waiting Master. But then his eyes moved away from the knowledge of Shamaym and trust in YHUH and looked back upon the weak elements of this world. He saw the raging and howling wind and believed what his experience had taught him during all his years on the sea… STRONG WIND MEANS YOU SINK! This knowledge was a lie, wind plays no part in being able to walk on the water but his self-knowledge became an idol that exalted itself above the knowledge of YHUH.~

There doesn’t seem to be many people willing to put aside their own experiential-knowledge of this world and this current age in order to gain the revelation-knowledge that comes from the FATHER, YH, alone. The wicked false Alahym of self blinds the eyes of the masses to where the FATHER is leading. Their ears are dull to His voice and they cannot hear His Words. The world is drunken on the cheap wine of confusion that is sold in BABEL; its intoxication is fleshly satisfaction, sensual knowledge that cannot save.

Politics, entertainment (music, TV, movies, sports, hobbies, or any kind of fleshly gratification), money, families, houses, religion, or any of thousands of other things can and will choke the Word of YHUH in your life and become your self made Alahym. The heart, mind, and your ma’ad H3966 (above everything; exceedingly) were designed to be an engine by which YHUH could manifest Himself in us for His own esteem.

Self-exaltation based on self-knowledge is the embodiment of the son of perdition. The world sleeps in darkness because they walk after their own works and not after the will of YHUH. YashaYAHU/Isaiah 14 and Yachazaq’Al/Ezekiel 28 show the thoughts of a lifted of heart; this wicked condition will always exalt itself and its own haughty knowledge above the esteem of YHUH.

Knowledge that enters into man from the flesh should never become a foundation for what they believe and trust for it is written, “Thus says YHUH, ‘Cursed the man that trust in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from YHUH.’” After the Anointed Ben of Alahym rose from the dead, He set a pattern for our belief and trust to follow. He revealed that it is not those that believe because they see that are baruk (blessed) but it is those that believe having not seen that are baruk.

YHUH said to him, “T’oma, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Baruk are those who have not seen and have believed.”

-Yahanan/John 20:29

~The union between YHUH and man is the vehicle that is designated to bring all the knowledge that is needed. To be in unity with His Word and to have His Ru’ach as our guide and teacher is to have the Bread and Blood of Life. ~

           

-Covering of a Woman-

           I was recently asked a question concerning head coverings for women, and although I have heard or read many ideas on the subject none have satisfied the unction from the Ru’ach that witnesses to the truth. Therefore I began to seek earnestly for an answer to the meaning of the covering of a woman. I do not expect in no way that this short summary to cover everything that our FATHER wishes to give us, but it should give at least some insight into this subject.

           Instead of rehearsing how head coverings should be worn, I'd like to focus on what it means to be "covered", and why is it even something to be concerned with.

            First, there must be an awareness that everything in this natural world is designed to be some form of the likeness or image of the Shamaym. In truth, we are to be the image and likeness of Alahym on the earth. This is why it is so important that we do not try to make an image of Him for ourselves. We are to be that image, made by Alahym and not by our own devises. 

           The word wife, as it is translated into the English, is first used in the second chapter of Bereshith/Genesis, let’s read it now.

            “And Adam said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one is called I’shah, because she was taken out of I’ysh. For this cause an I’ysh shall leave his father and mother, and be joined unto his I’shah, and they shall become one flesh.’”

-Bereshith/Genesis 2:23-24

I’ysh איש: Husband

I’shah אשּה: Wife

Adam אדם: I’ysh and (or) I’shah; the completed man (Bereshith/Genesis 5:2)

            The words used here, I’ysh and I’shah, do not simply mean male and female. We can see those words used in Bereshith 1:27 and 5:2, zakar זכר: male, and nĕqebah נקבה: female. I’ysh and I’shah represent one creature, Adam, for he said, “Because this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh we shall be joined and become one flesh.” The I’shah is the part of the I’ysh that is under authority of the head. The I’ysh, who is the image of Alahym, is supposed to receive seed (the Word) from the FATHER and then give that seed to the I’shah and she in turn brings forth fruit as it is written,

            “And Adam called his wife’s name Cha’uah, because she became the mother of all living.”

-Bereshith/Genesis 3:20

             If we can begin to see into this unity or oneness between a man and woman, we can then start to understand the unity YHUH Alahym wants to share with us. Adam was first formed, and then the I’shah was taken from him leaving the I’ysh or authority part of Adam. The I’shah will always have some form of authority over her, the same is true of the I’ysh. The authority over the I’shah is her I’ysh or husband, and the authority over the I’ysh is Alahym. In either case the authority does not ever manifest itself as a hard domineering taskmaster but as the unity of a body for itself. It is hard for most to comprehend this kind of unity but it is exactly what our FATHER has designed for us from the foundation of the world.

             In this fallen world of “self-worship”, the humble thoughts and actions that lead into unity is an unheard tone to the deaf ears of this age.

             None of us has probably ever seen our heart, lungs, kidneys, or any other of the hundreds of parts inside our own bodies. Yet they all do their jobs without complaining or receiving any esteem. In this way, each of us has our own part to play in the body that YHUH has designed for Himself. This Body begins with the Head of the Anointed-One and then the Body of the Anointed-One being subject to the Head. The man and the woman as they were created by Alahym are a likeness to this relationship.

            The wife or I’shah was designed to have a covering or authority over her. In every way the names of Adam speak to this idea, I’ysh and I’shah, male and female, man and woman, they all show that the woman was taken from the man and is designed to be part of him. The two become one, and together are called Adam. This is a shadow of the true Eternal nature of Alahym and man.

              The wife has authority because the husband had authority first. The husband has authority because of the Word of Alahym. If a woman is not married she is then devoted to the Body of Alahym and her authority is in the Anointed-One Himself.

             The reasons for this idea of authority is that the I’shah is the vessel that is designed to carry the seed of life. There are forces opposed to the plan of YHUH Alahym that will take every opportunity that can be found to implant their own corrupt seed into the I’shah by placing their own authority on her head. The example of this taking place can be seen in Bereshith/Genesis chapter 6. Once this occurs the fruit that is given birth to will always be mighty on the earth but corrupt in the eyes of YHUH.

              Any authority that a husband exerts should only come by his unity with YHUH, and any authority that the wife exerts should only be by the unity with her husband. Fulfilling the will of our FATHER is all that any of us can hope to complete. If we allow Him to have His will in our lives, we will find true joy and peace with our being.

            The I’ysh and I’shah working in the proper union is a wonder that will show the appropriate unity between YHUH and His Body here on the earth.