Turning Back Before its Too Late

To begin this discussion, lets go back to the list I gave you on the previous page, Is Anybody Listening? which shows us what we should be doing:

As we already discussed, it is pretty obvious what the first thing Abba, Our Heavenly Father, wants us to do and that is to make Him the number one priority in our lives. You do that by studying His Word and speaking to Him in prayer every day. No excuses will be accepted when you have to stand before Him in judgement... You definetly do not want to hear Him proclaim, "I never knew you!"¹ So, make your relationship with Him the most important thing!

The second thing that Abba wants us to do is keep His Sabbaths. I hope you accepted my challenge to find the scripture where Abba Yah tells us to keep the sabbath on Sunday, Christmas or Easter. If not, then you will need to do it now in order to find out when His Sabbaths really are! Please go to BibleGateway.org and read through the listings for the word "sabbath".

In Leviticus 23, the Lord tells Moses exactly when and how all His Sabbaths should be observed. Now, I know what most of you are going to say next... "Jesus was the final sacrifice! We don't need to make any more sacrifices!" Well, according to the Bible, that is not true! Please read Ezekiel 45 which tells us about some sacrfices that we will be making for "the Prince in Israel" when He returns among other things! At the moment, we do not have a Temple in Abba's chosen place, Jerusalem, where we can make sacrifices. But, that does not mean that we should not keep His Sabbaths. We can memorialize these days just as the Jews have done since the Temple was destroyed.

The third thing that Abba wants us to do is revere His sanctuary which we know to be our bodies since He tells us:

God's Word tells us alot about how we are to revere our bodies. In fact, the Apostle Paul tells us in the same passage:

In this passage, we are told that everything is permissable but not everything is good for us. Then Paul proceeds to give us an illustration of this by telling us that just as food and our stomachs go together so do our bodies and Jesus, Yahshua Ha'Mashiach. He then states that our bodies are not intended for sexual immorality eventhough it is permissable as he has prefaced all this by telling us that all things are permissable. But, he does go on to say, "Shun immorality and all sexual looseness" because "he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body."² So, we can conclude from this scripture that eventhough all things are permissable for us, some things that we do can cause us to sin against - irreverence - our bodies! And that will take us back to the beginning of this passage from Paul...

Since he began this comparison between the relationships of our bodies to Meshiach and food to our stomachs, could it be possible that he is aluding to the fact that maybe there are some foods that are permissable to eat but that cause us to sin against our bodies? I would say "Yes!" because otherwise it would be an incomplete simile!

Now, I know that everyone quotes Acts 10:9-23³ about the Apostle Peter's vison to say that all food is now clean. Eventhough I disagree that food is the topic of this chapter - the topic is the future visit to Cornelius' house - and that food was what was made clean - no, it was Gentiles like Cornelius (let's keep things in context people!) - it doesn't matter... The passage from 1 Corinthians 6 above tells us that eventhough all things are permissable, we can still sin against our bodies by doing - or eating things we shouldn't! So, I am hoping you will ask, "How are we to know what to do or not to do?"

Well, since sinning against our bodies is not only unhealthy, it also does not glorify God. Therefore, we should revere our bodies by shunning sexual imorality and other practices that could make us ill - including eating too much food or food that Abba told us is "unclean". Let's not forget that the act that got Adam and Eve expelled from the garden, was for eating something they shouldn't have! Not only that, but Jesus/Yahshua said:

Considering what Yahshua said above, do you think that people who are unwilling to give up their bacon and shrimp would be worthy of Him? I don't think so. Will you pick up your cross and sacrifice your love of eating unclean food for Him? If so, please read Deuteronomy 14:1-21 to find out which animals you should and should not eat.

According to the list we made from Leviticus 19:1-4 above, in order to have rain and productive crops, we must walk in His statutes and keep His comandments and do them. Many of you have been taught that the only laws we need to keep are found in Matthew 22:37-39... “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ But, the next line is often not taught or done so incorrectly. Please read the following:

The phrase, "the Law and the Prophets" is referring to the Tanach which is the old Testament writings. The reason why they hang on these two commandments is because they are a summary of the Ten Commandments. The first four are about loving God:

The last six are all about loving your neighbor who are all people:

These are Abba's commandments that we are supposed to do. But, what are His statutes? They are all the various applications of these laws which are found in the books of Leviticus, Deutoronomy and Numbers. If you have been taught that these were all done away with, then you have been taught lies. I know that that sounds harsh, but it is true.

That is right, you have been taught unprofitable lies! Even Jesus/Yahshua said:

Obviously, the sky and the earth haven't passed away so the the Law, the Torah, has not been done away with!

I hope you now understand why we have drought. But, do you understand why it is in the Bible Belt? Please read the following:

That's right, judgement begins in the house of the Lord and that is why we have drought in the Bible Belt. I hope that you have learned enough with this teaching to understand that it is time to turn back to Abba in repentance before it is too late. If you will remember, the very first scriptures that I presented to you in the previous article, "Is Anybody Listening?" was Leviticus 26. Please read that scripture in its entirety⁴ so you will find out what Abba has warned us will happen next - if we do not repent. Please do not let that happen... Repent and share what you have learned with other brethren that you know. Thank you!