Oh, How He Longs to Bless His People
“Once you take up your cross and follow Yahshua (Jesus), you will become a bondservant to Him. Your life is not your own, your thoughts are not your own, your purposes do not line up to what you used to think, and your words are truly going to scare you if you think you need the love of people, for they are guaranteed to be swords that divide””
“How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, and says to Zion, Your God reigns!’ Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, they shout joyfully together; for they will see with their own eyes when Yahveh restores Zion. Break forth, shout joyfully together, you waste places of YAHrushalayim* [Jerusalem]; for Yahveh has comforted His people, He has redeemed YAHrushalayim. Yahveh has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations, that all the ends of the earth may see the salvation of our God” (Isaiah 52:7-10). It is time for us to wake up and co-labor with our God and Savior as never before. Oh, how He longs to bless His people. There is no middle of the road anymore; this message is the light that shows forth the harvest field. His judgments are falling and He is separating the wheat from the tares, so we can’t delay. Once you take up your cross and follow Yahshua (Jesus), you will become a bondservant to Him. Your life is not your own, your thoughts are not your own, your purposes do not line up to what you used to think, and your words are truly going to scare you if you think you need the love of people, for they are guaranteed to be swords that divide.
As “born again” “new creations” we are to be the salt and the light, and it is incumbent upon us, as redeemed believers, to bring the full measure of truth regarding His love for the Jews to an apostate religious system and a world filled with anti-Semitism (John 33, 2 Corinthians 5:17). Let this message be as a Spirit led donkey, stopping you from going down a reckless path by forgetting His heart and His purpose to bless His Jewish people. Let us build a sure foundation of truth that will not falter when the whole world goes into a rampage against what happens in Israel. Yet we know, “There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek [Gentile], but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with Yahveh (the LORD)” (Romans 2:9-11).
“ We are going to use the story of Balaam because we are being called to be humble donkeys, through which the Holy One of Israel is going to speak to keep people from going down the wrong path regarding the Jews””
May Yahveh’s word be a sword that goes into our hearts to do His work, to cut away the soul from the spirit. We are going to use the story of Balaam because we are being called to be humble donkeys, through which the Holy One of Israel is going to speak to keep people from going down the wrong path regarding the Jews. Let us go to Numbers chapter 22 and learn from the teaching on Balak and Balaam, which has so much meaning and so many facets, including: “Yahveh the God of Israel fought for Israel.” The events in chapter 22 follows the defeat of her enemies who would not cooperate for her to move as a nation through their land in order to get to their promised destination. These enemies of Israel were at odds with the purposes of the Mighty One. We have to know His heart and His purposes to bless Israel lest we inadvertently be at odds with the Hoy One ourselves.
“Moab was in great fear because of the people [Israelites]…. ...Balak the son of Zippor…sent messengers to summon Balaam…saying, “Please come, curse this people for me since they are too mighty for me; perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. I know that he whom who you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed” (Numbers 22:3-6). Balak is calling for Balaam, who is a diviner, a soothsayer, a seer. He was powerful through the spirit of divination. When Balaam cursed people they must have fallen dead, or Balak would not have been so intent on hiring his services. His sorcery, soothsaying, and divination were quite effective. It was the greatest tool that Balak, king of Moab, had at a time when he thought that his country’s demise was at hand. This is what Balak said, “A people came out of Egypt; behold, they cover the surface of the land, and they are living opposite me” (Numbers 22:5).
““How odd of God to choose the Jew, but not so odd as those who choose the Jewish God and hate the Jew””
Right now, multitudes of Jews have miraculously returned to their sovereign God given land, which has stimulated the spirit of anti-Semitism, not only to Israel’s neighbors but in the whole world. Anti-Semitism is raging to the point that as it is written, “It will come about on that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will injure themselves severely. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it” (Zechariah 12:3). This is the spirit of anti-messiah (antichrist), this is the spirit of Balak which hates the God of Israel and wants curses to be put upon them. Things haven’t changed over the years—names have changed, but the spirit of the devil has not changed at all. As someone said, “How odd of God to choose the Jew, but not so odd as those who choose the Jewish God and hate the Jew.”
In these prophesied last days, there will be no other people on the face of the earth but true believers who will love Yahveh (the LORD) and stand with Israel. They know the truth of Genesis 12:3 that the Almighty promises to bless those who bless the Jews and to curse those who curse them. The whole world will be clamoring for peace because we are on the brink of disaster, and there is going to be one thorn in that peace process—Israel. We need to know the very primary foundations of the Abrahamic covenant and the land grants** and all that causes Israel to be unequivocally stubborn over this. We have to know what is going on and hold out His word of truth that will pierce the darkness that pervades the earth. We must bring the word of truth to our family and friends around us, lest their darkness envelop us.
“The God of Israel’s chosen people are blessed. That statement is like gravity; since Yahveh spoke it into existence, it is a fact””
The spiritual battle is ultimately between Satan and the God of Israel and between Satan’s attacks against the Jews and the true believers who are one with the Jews as “one new man” through faith in Yahshua the Jewish Messiah. We are to be the objects through which He blesses them. Yahveh’s (the LORD’S) answer to Balaam, “Do not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed” (Numbers 22:12). The God of Israel’s chosen people are blessed. That statement is like gravity; since Yahveh spoke it into existence, it is a fact. Throughout Scripture and throughout history those who bless Israel are blessed, and those individuals and nations who curse Israel are cursed. Yahveh doesn’t lie (see Numbers 23:19). We need to understand His merciful covenant to His firstborn, regardless of her sin. After she has “received of Yahveh’s hand double for all her sins” (Isaiah 40:2), He asks us to speak kindly to her and comfort her. Apostle Paul speaks to the Gentiles who were given mercy to believe in the Messiah and become one with redeemed Israel, they were to continue in His kindness towards the Jewish people or they would be cut off from Israel because they harbored anti-Semitism, symbolized through Balak and Balaam.
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* The modern derivative “Jerusalem” means “the peaceful city (or habitation) of YAHveh.” It may have been derived as follows: Jerusalem <YERushalayim<YAHrushalayim (“YAHveh Shalom”).
** Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 1:7-8.
