Main Themes: Teshuvah, repentance, mending Torah fences, building individual and Yah'shua's Bayit's
Minor Themes: Dreams of broken fence and neighbour's wild animals, Judah & Tamar, Levirate Law, the world as neighbour, witnesses, thinking patterns, cultural expectations, Western vs. Eastern thinking, private property, Absalom, moving boundary stones, a man's shem (good name), the Samaritan woman and number 6, the 7 women of Isaiah 4:1, High Priestly prayer of Yah'shua, 3 modern realities, dreams of decorators, removing reproach

Grace and peace to all of you, brethren and sisters, and Shabbat Shalom on this our second Sabbath of the Teshuvah or repentance season.

Repentance a Delight

Yahweh delights in repentance. And He delights in repentance because repentance always leads to good, healthy, upbuilding, positive things. Each Teshuvah season Yahweh lays things heavily upon my heart that He wishes me to address, and indeed does so with all the House of Israel who honour His Name, trust in His Son, and obey His Commandments, because it is by means of repentance, amongst other things, that He builds His Bayit or House - the House of Messianic Israel.

Autumn's Signs

In this part of the world in Scandinavia autumn or fall is clearly in evidence. The weather is colder, the wind blows more often, there has been lots of rain, the leaves are turning into their yellow and red hues, wild animals are leaving for gentler climates and people are slowly but surely making ready for the winter. The firewood is all ready.

In the southern hemisphere, of course - and I think of those of you in particular in Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa and South America - the opposite is happening even though as Israelites you follow the northern hemisphere's agricultural cycle in your worship patterns for the sake of echad and in obedience to the commandment. And, cf course, those of you nearer the equator, as I once used to be in my childhood, follow a different agricultural pattern altogether.

There have been record levels of rain with extensive flooding in England and this has, apparently, been one of the warmest summers for the last one and a half thousand years, though you might not think so given all the rain we've been having. It's been so warm, in fact, that blue sharks have come to southern British shores and started attacking humans. One good kickback from this, from the horticulturists' point-of-view, has been the growth of gigantic vegatables which have been beating all the records. I saw a picture of a giant cucumber and thought to myself, 'a whole tribe would be needed to eat this!'

New Changes

With change comes both good and evil, blessings and challenges, and big readjustments. And though we may try to escape change, it is always advisable to accept it as a part of Yahweh's providence, understanding that certain things in His - and our - Universe will always remain constant. Yah'shua doesn't change and neither do His laws, His nature or His Priesthood - thank goodness (Heb.7:24; 13:8).

A Revelation for Teshuvah

It has been a busy week with the curtains of heaven parted a great deal for me. A couple of mornings ago I had a dream and a series of experiences which absolutely confirm Yahweh's message to me for all of us in this teshuvah or repentance season.

Dream of the Broken Fence

In the dream I was shown a long wooden fence of the type that is common in England which is used for dividing properties. Sections of the fence had gone rotten and my father had removed all the rotten planks and disposed of them. There were gaping holes in the fence which I knew my father was about to fix. Having seen the damaged fence, I then found myself in a neighbour's house behind that fence. It was not a house in real life so I immediately knew it was symbolic of spiritual realities. It was the house of an old man, fairly bare and dull, but adequate. He was very pleased to see me and was happy.

Repairing Broken Relationships

Upon awakening, the meaning of the dream was plain enough to understand. 'Mending fences', as you know, is an English expression meaning 'repairing broken relationships'. This was the season for restoring damaged relationships between people. There was a second dream but I will share this with you in a minute as first I want to relate confirming experiences so that you will be in no doubt that this is from Yahweh.

Genesis 38

Having recorded my dreams, as is my custom, I opened my Bible randomly at Genesis 38, which I will be studying together with you presently, which is all about building up your brother's or neighbour's 'house', meaning his family. I mention this now only so that you can see the continuity of Yahweh's revelation to our families, confirming the message He wished to give to me.

Dream of the Animal Invasion

After I had had my Bible study, I got up and showered, and then chatted with a member of my family who shared a dream that she had had about the same time as mine. It was about our home, but not the literal house we live in, so I knew that this too was symbolic of spiritual truths. She did not know what I had dreamed about.

In her dream a neighbour's animals had got loose and were swarming into our garden - horses, cows, lots of dogs, lions, bears, leapoards and other beasts. The alarm was raised as all the doors of the house were open and animals were beginning to come in, creating chaos.

The first in were all the dogs, which were harmless enough but a major irritation because they were so noisy. I gave the order to close and secure all the doors and windows but this did not deter the predators like the bears and tigers who began breaking down the doors and gaining access to the house, occupying rooms one by one.

I headed for my rifle past various animals though an attempt was made to stop me by a concerned member of my family who did not want me to get hurt. But having secured it, I handed it over to her, saying that I did not need it after all. In one of the largest rooms, where there were a considerable number of wild beasts of prey, I instead raised what looked like a stick or a sceptre in my hand, and immediately there was this blinding explosion of light like a nuclear bomb going off and spreading in all directions from a central point. The effect of this was to kock out a number of the animals, which lay motionless on the floor, and to drive the remainder away out of the house.

The World is a Neighbour to Messianic Israel

As I listened to the dream I knew exactly what it meant. This was indeed symbolic, the neighbour being the world and his animals representing his carnal spirits or demons whose one desire was to destroy my house because it was, and is, a House of Yahweh. The beasts of prey did not interfere with, threaten, or attack, the domestic animals - the dogs, horses and cows, which they normally would have done - again confirming the spiritual nature of the symbolism, for these represent the apparently 'agreeable' and 'safe' side of the world which is nevertheless in allegiance with the dangerous, murderous side. Remember that in biblical symbolism dogs are unclean, being compared to fools (Prov.26:11) and in other negative terms (e.g. Dt.23:18) like being outside the Holy City (Rev.22:15).

Beware of the 'Nice' Side of the World

Do not be deceived by the 'nice' side of the world and think that it is safe - it seeks to invade and occupy the House of Yahweh no differently from the 'nasty' side even if it does so in less threatening ways.

Satan's Distractions

During this entire dream a conversation was apparently going on between me and a woman in a telephone over loud speakers, someone who I used to spiritually counsel for deliverance but who never saw it through. This was a reminder that Satan will try to distract us and waste out time helping people who do not want to be helped when we should be helping people who do genuinely want to repent and who are genuinely seeking the Kingdom of Heaven, and not those who want deliverance and healing to simply allow them to be more active and hedonistic in the world.

The Witness of Postman Pat

Having listened with fascination to this dream to then interpret it, I went to get my youngest son up. Before I went to his room the Ruach said to me: "Read a story to him", something I never do in the morning. When I got to his room I saw a book lying on his bedside table. I asked him if he would like me to read him a story and he readily agreed. I read through six pages of a Postman Pat book and when I came to the seventh page (the number of completion) and saw the illustration I smiled and quietly praised Yahweh. Have you guessed? Well, maybe not. The text reads:

"Pat was on his way. He saw Ted, mending a fence on the hillside."

And there, in the picture, was Ted mending a damaged fence as Pat drove by in his van with his cat Jess sitting by his side.Well, as you can imagine, I immediately 'knew' and saw the hand of Yahweh. Hallelu-Yah!

Two or Three Witnesses

I hope this will serve as an inspiring introduction to my theme today. Yahweh gave multiple witnesses through three sources, for as it is written:

"By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established" (Matt.18:16, NKJV).

And though a revelation is not invalidated because it only has one human witness, it is of great benefit to the Body of Messiah, and has more impact, where there are two or three. On Yom Chamashee (Thursday) morning I got my two witnesses independently through two members of my family through a dream and in a children's book.

Lest we get too occupied with the testimonial side of this, let us get to the meat of the message which takes me back to Genesis 38. Before I read it to you I want to draw your attention to a problem and its solution.

Wrong Thinking Patterns

The problem, as I have articulated many times and in different ways over the years, is that we are imprisoned by wrong thinking patterns and processes. We have been taught to think and emotionally react in ways that are at odds with the Bible revelation. The efect of this is to create suspicion in, and mistrust of, certain things in the Bible which clash with the world view in which we were raised. This in turn often causes us to back off and try to 'excuse' or 'explain away' the things in Scripture which may make us uncomfortable or even just plain upset us. Typically the reactions we give are: "Oh, that was for then, not now" and "That was the primitive past. Today we are more enlightened and spiritually advanced". You know what I mean. You have heard me say this before.

Cultural Priorities and Emphases

Part of the problem in growing up in non-biblical or semi-biblical cultures is that we tend to have different priorities and lay different emphases on different things. We notice these differences when we go to other cultures and get to know their ways and mannerisms. And we are not always positive, are we? We may scratch our heads at the apparent unfathomlessness of their thinking or their apparent 'hard-heartedness' and end up radicaly misjudging them.

Just listening and reading the propaganda fed to us on the media would lead you to believe that certain races are cold-hearted monsters. But it's not until you really get to know them and gain their trust that you discover that they have brains and hearts little different from our own - they're human after all, made by the same Creator, and endowed with the same capacity for love. Some of their ways turn out to be good, and better than ours, and some bad, and worse.

Getting to know different cultures for the contrast alone is a healthy and needful things because we do need mirrors thrown back up at us and they need mirrors thrown back at them. And though in all such contacts the cross-fertilisation of ideas and sentiments can be both good and evil, it is a necessary way to gain understanding and promote spiritual growth.

The Biblical Culture

I count myself blessed to have been raised in a multi-cultural and multi-religious Asian culture, to have then tasted and known the contrast of first Western and then Eastern European cultures. But by far the most important contasting that we need, and which we are both supposed to learn from and imitate, is the Torah- and Messiah-based culture of the Bible world. This is our manual of faith and the book showing us the lifestyle Yahweh wants us to live. In the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'rit Chadashah (New Testament) Scriptures we are to get our proper mental and emotional grounding.

Introduction to Genesis 38

The world of Genesis 38 is radically different from our own. To the Western mind it is alien, shocking, primitive and perhaps even disgusting. That is because the Western mind is rooted in self and self-aggrandisement, the neutralisation of the genders, and the replacement of the family by the state. And yet this chapter of the first book of Genesis is rooted in a time when Yahweh's revelation was clearly manifested and under the Melchizedek Priesthood Order which is very similar to the Melchizedek Order of the New Covenant established by Messiah Yah'shua. Their 'Gospel' was, and is, essentially identical to the one preached by Yah'shua and the apostles but it is not one followed by Christendom because it has become paganised.

Judah, His Three Sons and Tamar

I am only going to be looking at the first part of this chapter right now - the second we'll read afterwards.

"It came to pass at that time that Judah departed from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her and went in to her. So she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. And she conceived yet again and bore a son, and called his name Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him. Then Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him. And Judah said to Onan, 'Go in to your brother's wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.' But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased Yahweh; therefore He killed him also. Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, 'Remain a widow in your father's house till my son Shelah is grown.' For he said, 'Lest he also die as his brothers did.' And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

"Now in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah's wife, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. And it was told Tamar, saying, 'Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.' So she took off her widow's garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife" (Gen.38:1-15, NKJV).

Yahweh's Way of the East

My purpose today is not to talk to you about Judah's foolishness - and he was very foolish - or his marrying a pagan wife, or the way his daughter-in-law Tamar played the harlot to put him straight in his failure to see her done right.What I am interested in is a whole way of thinking, feeling and responding which paralyses the Western mind. And I am not even talking about what moderns call a 'primitive custom' in order to dismiss and so distance themselves from it. I am speaking of the Law of Levirate, as it came to be later known when it was written down in the Law by Moses, which is that if a man dies without a male heir, it is the duty of his surviving brother to marry her - either mongamously or polygamously - to raise up an heir for the late brother. I don't even want to get into the subject of marriage practices but rather to turn to the theme which Yahweh gave me in the two dreams I have related to you, namely, the building and preservation of a man's 'House' - not his home (the physical building) but his family. For as must be readily apparent from the passage of Scripture I just read to you, the preservation of a man's House is so important to Yahweh that He executes those men who fail to live up to their responsibilities. This very Eastern concept, so 'strange' to the Western mine, is nevertheless dear to the heart of the One who gave it, Yahweh, and must therefore, by extension and stewardship, become very dear to us.

Western Reactions to the Levirate Law

A Westerner, reading this passage, will have two reactions, depending whether it is a man or woman we are talking about. The man may think: 'Oh great! Another woman, more sex!' The woman may think: 'Oh, how gross, how perverse. The woman is just a tool, never mind about her feelings!' And yet as you read the text it is clear that neither the men nor the women thought in this way because they had different goals or objectives to Westerners. That is why passages like Isaiah 4:1 are so meaningless to Westerners steeped in heathenistic Greco-Roman thinking because they cannot understand why a woman would even want to think this way - so they dismiss it as a 'primitive custom' or, worse, 'brain-washing':

"And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, 'We will eat our own food and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by your name (shemi), to take away our reproach'" (Isa.4:1, NKJV).

A Long Path of Repentance for the Westerner

The reaction of the modern, Western woman might be: "Go get a life! I can manage myself, thank you very much!" And in saying this she reveals how utterly separated she is from the Kingdom of Yahweh. As for Western men, they are not at all interested in getting a "name", which is a Hebraic figure of speeach meaning getting a 'godly standing in Yahweh's eyes' - they would be more than happy to serially seduce seven women, get them pregnant, encourage them have abortions, and then dump them for the next seven. Western men and women live in a different universe to Yahweh's people, modern and ancient. There is a long road of teshuvah or repentance for them in order for them to get alligned with Yahweh's way.

The Centrality of a Man's Bayit

As I said, this is not a sermon about marriage, the law of Levirate or even polygamy which normally follow on from a study of these passages. My message to you is to somehow convey to you, with the Ruach's anointing (since neither I will be able to convey this message, nor you receive or understand this message, without the supernatural activity of the Ruach), the importance of a man's BAYIT ¹ or HOUSE.

As you read through the Scriptures you will discover the primacy that both Yahweh Himself and Yahweh's servants give to this concept. You will understand, when this principle is neglected, downgraded or downplayed at the expense of other things, why it makes Yahweh so angry to the point that He will even execute those men who fail to live up to their divine callings! Man has a duty to build and guard his Bayit as a sacred stewardship to Yahweh, and Yahweh in His turn severely punishes the men who fail to do their duty and anyone from outside who tries to interfere with it. And if, having read the Scriptures on this subject, we do not have the same view as Yahweh, and react in the same as Yahweh does when that Bayit is threatened or abused - and we should - why don't we? If we have a totally different or opposite reaction, what demonic system is in the way of our understanding and in the way of the correct emotional response? What sin is it in us that leads us to react in this hostile or negative way, which we must, of necessaity, to in order to be right with Yahweh, repent of?

Patriarchal Barrier-Building

In my dream my father - who represents the patriarchal principle - is repairing (or is about to repair) a damaged fence. The first truth we must understand, teach and emphasise is that Yahweh expects certain barriers to be built, strengthened and maintained between Houses or Families. This principle is so important that in Torah boundary stones between private property are viewed as sacred and those who move them are cursed:

"Cursed is the man who moves his neighbour's boundary stone." (Deut.27:17, NIV).

We remember Absalom, whom we spoke of last week ², who moved the 'boundary stones' of the Bayit or House of his father David, seizing of his family members (principally his pilegesh wives) and his kingdom. Yahweh arose in rage against this theft and usurpation and in the end destroyed him, using this terrible situation to refine David even more - it is largely because of Absalom that we have most of the Psalms which generations of believers have benefitted from. And we remember Solomon who abused his own family and nation, reaping the inevitable:

"He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind" (Prov.11:29, NKJV)

This is the way it is to be even in the Millennium - there will be no apartments or flats then! You only have to look at modern cities and towns, orginally established by the antichrist Nimrod ³, with their apartment blocks to see a system that is opposite to Yahweh's. This is not how it is to be. Not only our our physical houses to be separate but so also are our Families. No kibbutzes or mixing of families, buy separate homes clustered near one another.

Satan wishes to tear the walls down between families, destroy the husband's and father's authority and eradicate the sexual barriers of marriage. He wants everything mixed up. So sacred is this Hebrew concept of the Bayit that it is the set-apart responsibility of a man to marry his late brother's wife - whether he is married or not - if that late brother had no son to continue the late brother's Name and therefore his Bayit or House because a man who is not fruitful is a dead man in Yahweh's eyes. That is part of the meaning of the Parable of the Talents (Mt.25:14-30). And the woman's calling and rôle is to assist him in that task of establishing and multipying his Bayit - it is not to build her own!

How different all of this is from the Western man's goal to get as much recreational sex and money as he can even if it means destroying his own seed through the murderous practice of abortion. And how different is this from the Amazonian spirit of modern Western woman who wants ti try and 'go it alone',having her own career, using the man for recreational sex and then dumping him in search of someone 'better', just like he does. And, of course, I am not attacking the genders here, whose natural Yahweh-driven impulse is Bayit-building, but the selfish demonic distortions we have been fed and have embraced.

Physical Seed

Obviously fruitfulness does not just concern the raising of children and propagating the name of the father, yet this is of prime importance. And in saying this I do not wish to try and guilt women who are unable to have children of their own through no fault of their own. There are many ways to share in the blessings of a man's Bayit because no matter whether there are four women in a family like Jacob's, with children from all, or an infertile woman with adoped children, she can still be House-building.

Spiritual Seed

This House, moreover, does not just include physical seed, but spiritual seed as well. Looking at this from a New Covenant perspective, which adds to and expands the horizons of the Old, what we are talking about is Kingdom-building not just on the familiar but on the national, Israelite level as well. Putting the Law of Levirate in a New Covenant context (and by this I do not mean 'replacing' this with a New Covenant understanding but 'filling up' or 'completing' it), if one man is witnessing to an unbeliever, and fails to impregnate him with the truth, and that Israelite is taken out of the life of that unbeliever through death, relocation, apostacy, or whatever, and then it becomes the responsibility of his brother to complete the job that he did not - or was not able to - finish.

Apostacy's Reward

I mention 'apostacy' here for two reasons. Firstly, as we see from Genesis 38, Judah's first two sons through the Canaanite woman were wicked - they did evil in Yahweh's sight, so Yahweh killed them. (That in itself upsets the 'fragile', lawless minds of many Westerners). They were wicked for different reasons, one supposes, though we are not told what Er's wickedness was. Onan, whose sin was not so-called 'onanism' ⁴ but refusing to make his late brother's wife fruitful while she was still fertile, was refusing giving the offspring to their late father by giving that offspring their father's name. ⁵ What was his main sin? He would have inherited the wealth (if their father was dead) of his late (dead) elder brother which he would have inherited as the firstborn with the responsibility of take care of the material needs of the family as head of his father's Bayit or House. Presumably Onan did not want to foot the bill for feeding yet another mouth especially as the boy would not have his name. I suspect that his chief interest was economic.

A Shem: Self-Generated or from Yahweh?

Many believers refuse to serve Yahweh unless they can get the glory for increase in the Kingdom. There are many ministers in the ministry just for the prestige and wealth. They want their own name rather than Yahweh's. This does not mean that a righteous man should not have a name but that he should not consciously seek it in order to bring conscious glory to himself, but ONLY to Yahweh. Clearly righteous men by default have a shem or a good name, which is why those seven women of Isaiah 4:1 sought it because they know how important that good name was in Yahweh's eyes and that it would remove their reproach.

The Samaritan Woman and the Number 6

Contrast this with the messed-up life of the Samaritan woman who had five husbands and a lover, who was in desparate need of a Redeemer in Yah'shua and who, finally, found and embraced His Truth (Jn.4:1ff). She was having one man after the other, meeting Yah'shua at her sixth attempt, 6 being the number of man, nnlike 7 which represents divine perfection. When you attempt to attain perfection through a wrong path, as the Samaritan woman did, belonging to a community with a counterfeit 'Jerusalem' and temple, then it divine providence to stop you before you hit '7' and ripen in iniquity. Yah'shua caught her at '6', representing the false way. She had been a part of sex houses or bayit and yet was part of none because they were not a part of Yahweh's system. The Samaritan woman represents a compromised faith or truth, one mixed with error, a rival system to Jerusalem and to Yahweh, and though the Samaritans have survived to our day, they have progressively dwindled in numbers so that there are only about 700 of them today.

The Goal of the Seven Women of Isaiah 4:1

Many commentators wrongly suppose that what the seven women of Isaiah 4:1 wanted was food, clothing and shelter. But what they themselves say disproves that because they insist that, if necessary, they will provide this for themselves, presumably meaning they had the means. This is not to say that this is what wives should do - the husband has the responsibility to provide for them, even if they may, like the woman of Proverbs 31, be making their own contributions. No, what they are after before physical well-being, sex, children, shelter, a home, food, physical well-being or anything visible to the carnal senses is THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE GOOD NAME OR SHEM OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN WHO CAN GIVE THEM SPIRITUAL COVERING AND A GODLY HEART IN WHICH TO LIVE.

The World's Blindness

This does not compute in the Western woman's head because she has become so divorced from Yahweh's truth. They view such women with contempt or as victims of a system of male brainwashing and control. Yet we must understand this mindset. Without it, much of Yahweh's Plan of Salvation will remain a frustrating and incomprehensible mystery, and our attempts to 'explain it away' will simply push us out into even greater darkness.

The Desperation of Tamar

Tamar did something that no Western woman would ever do. Why do you suppose Tamar was led to her desperate act? After the deaths of Er and Onan, Judah had a third son called Shelah and she was waiting to be given to him to raise up seed to her late husband Er even though he had been a wicked man. What is she thinking? Is she insane? Why would she wish to raise seed up to a dead reprobate husband? The Western woman's mind boggles, doesn't it? The Western woman says: 'Get a life, baby! You deserve better than these creeps! Go do your own thing! Go and live life!'

And, O, how 'noble'-sounding that seems, echoing as it does the political correctness of feminism, but it is perverse in Yahweh's eyes. This woman Tamar had a righteous heart because she knew and understood what Yahweh's holiness and righteousness was, and her part in it. True, she went about doing 'right' in the wrong way by seducing her father-in-law Judah (who was clearly a reporobate himself in so many ways). Let is see what she was driven to in the second half of this story:

"When Judah saw [Tamar], he thought she was a harlot, because she had covered her face. 16 Then he turned to her by the way, and said, 'Please let me come in to you'; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. So she said, 'What will you give me, that you may come in to me?' And he said, 'I will send you a young goat from the flock.' So she said, 'Will you give me a pledge till you send it?' Then he said, 'What pledge shall I give you?' So she said, 'Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.' Then he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him. So she arose and went away, and laid aside her veil and put on the garments of her widowhood. And Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her. Then he asked the men of that place, saying, 'Where is the harlot who was openly by the roadside?' And they said, 'There was no harlot in this place.' And he returned to Judah and said, 'I cannot find her. Also, the men of the place said there was no harlot in this place. Then Judah said, 'Let her take them for herself, lest we be shamed; for I sent this young goat and you have not found her.'

Think of the human body with organelles, cells, tissues, and organs all cooperatively functioning as an echad whole. Satan's equivalent is one giant cell like a bacterium or, preferably, from his point-of-view, a parasitic virus. Every cell membrane, every enclosing wall for an organ (like the percardial cavity around the heart) or the rib cage around the lungs, are biological fences like the spiritual boundaries and the property boundaries we have been talking about. You can see this principle throughout the cosmos even if the 'fences' are not all visible. One of the most pernicious heresies in some Messianic quarters is the doctrine that Yahweh is completely yachid or singular because it destroys the divine pattern throughout the whole of creation and actually - ultimately - agrees with the satanic model. ⁶

The Quest of the True Woman

The true wife - the true believer - wants to find security, rest and peace in a true Bayit or House for which she was made, but modern husbands and churches/assemblies are not providing this. So what choice does she have but to get the protection she needs by any means possible, including deception and seduction? Every Bayit or House is to be distinct but living with good neighbourly relations with every other house (family) in Messianic Israel and with the House of ones pagan neighbour too.

Three Modern Realities

We need to deal with some realities here:

• 1. First of all, we do not live in the theocratic nation of Messianic Israel. And we won't until Yah'shua returns.

¹ Normally anglicised as 'Beth' (as in Beth-lehem) but also rendered as beit.

² See Teshuvah 2008 I: Repentance from Sin and the Absalom Factor

³ See The Empire of Nimrod

⁴ A euphamism for masturbation that stems from an incorrect understanding of Gen.38 - his sin was refusing to fertilise his late-brother's wife by engaging in coitus interruptus.

⁵ Surnames were not the same in ancient Israel. As in many modern cultures (e.g. India), the surname of a son is the first name of the father. Thus Jacob's name was Ya'akov ben Yitschak, or Jacob son of Isaac.

⁶ See Messianic Heresies Exposed

Author: Lev-Tsiyon

Glossary of MLT Hebraic, Greek and English Terms For other terms and full details please see the Micropedia A Adon(ai) = Master, a pagan fertility god, Adonis; used by many Messianics but not MLT (a)eon(ian) = 7 dispensation- or age-long time periods, not forever (see le-olam-va-ed) Alef-Tav = Alpha-Omega, A-Z, first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet = Yah'shua Amen = truly, let it be so, written Amein by some Messianics Apocrypha = Hebraic Scriptures not a part of the Protestant canon (e.g. Baruch) Anti-Messiah = Hebraic term for the end-time Antichrist or anyone opposed to the Messiah antinomian = lawless Christian who disregards all or part of Torah/commandments Ashkenazi Jew = East European Jew descended from the Turkic-Japhethite Khazars Assembly = church, congregation, ekklesia, community, fellowship, koinonia, gathering Azazel = the Yom Kippur scapegoat B Baal, Ba'al = any other master than Yahweh, usually demonic in MLT terminology Bachor(im) = firstborn son(s) Bar/Bat Mitzvah = Son/Daughter of Commandment, covenant to obey Torah at age 12 being = soul, the whole person (spirit and body), e.g. "my whole being" Beit, bet, beth = house, e.g. Beit Yisrael (House of Israel), Beth Lechem (House of Bread) Beit haMikdash = Yahweh's Temple in Yerushalayim B'rit Chadashah = the New Covenant; B'rit Chadashah Scriptures = New Testament B'rit Milah = circumcision - abolished in the B'rit Chadashah, replaced by Mikvah C canon = authoritative Scripture (Heb. qaneh, Gk. kanôn = measuring instrument) Catechumen = a serious, covenanted investigator seeking Mikvah or Baptism in MLT Chag haMatzah = Feast of Unleavened Bread, second of the annual feasts of Yahweh Chavurat Bekorot = MLT's Priesthood Order, Holy Order and Assembly of the Firstborn Cohen = priest; Cohen Gadol = High Priest (also spelled Kohen) Council of Yah's elohim = the heavenly Assembly of the Firstborn or Chavurat Bekorot D demon = fallen malek or angel in rebellion against Yahweh (Heb. shad; see Êl-Shaddai) derech = the Way, Path or Road - Yah'shua and the Gospel are the Way Drash = moral or homiletic interpretation of Scripture - see PaRDeS E Echad = One, Union of two or more in one (as opposed to Yachid) - see Elohim Echad Godhead Doctrine = Father Yahweh, Son Yah'shua and Sevenfold Ruach (Mother) Êl, Eloah, Elah = God the Father, Yahweh Êl-Elyon = Most High God, Yahweh Êl-Shaddai = Master/Lord over all shads or demons Elohim = God, the Godhead (Father, Son & Holy Spirit), lit. 'Mighty One(s)', 'Ruler(s)' elohim = Israelite judges, rulers, angels or gods (false deities, idols, demons) emunah = faith, actively trusting, clinging or adhering to (especially Yahweh or Yah'shua) emet = truth, Yah'shua is the Emet Ephraimite = descendant of the patriarch Ephraim and head of Messsianic Israel F Feasts of Yahweh = the 7 annual Moedim (Pesach, Chag haMatzah, Yom haBikkurim, Shavu'ot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot) G Gan-Eden = Garden of Eden, Paradise and state of the purified heart in Messiah goy(im) = nation(s), Israelites or gentiles not born in or converted to the Covenant H hallelu-Yah = praise Yah(weh)! Heylel = proper name of Satan or haSatan = the Adversary, the devil Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone) Hochmah = Wisdom, title of the 7-fold Ruach haQodesh I IDL = International Date Line, false man-made time division in Pacific Ocean IDL Zone = Area between the true Divine Date Line (Lake Van/Eden) and the false one Israeli = citizen of the modern Edomite-Khazar Republic of Israel (not Biblical Israel) Israelite = citizen of biblical state of Israel or a modern follower of the Messiah J Jew = post-biblical term describing descendants of Edomite and Khazar converts to Judaism Johannine = pertaining to the Apostle Yochanan (e.g. Gospel of John) Josephite = descendant of the patriarch Joseph, the head of Messianic Israel Judahite = a person in direct descent from the patriarch Judah, forefather of the Messiah Judaism = a Talmudic-based religion rejecting Yah'shua the Messiah Judean = a citizen of the Kingdom or Province of Judah until the 2nd Century diaspora K Kadosh la Yahweh = set-apart or dedicated to Yahweh, 'Holiness to the Lord', MLT motto Karaites = Jews (from 700 AD) who reject the Talmud and accept only the Tanakh kashrut = keeping kosher, food laws of Yahweh and correspinding lifestyle Ketuvim = Writings or Hagiographa of the Tanakh Khazar = a Turkic convert to Judaism ~700 AD forming the Ashkenazi Jewish community kosher = clean foods authorised by Yahweh for human consumption L Lashon Hara = evil-speaking, gossip or slander legalism = false route to salvation through works (self-salvation) le-olam-va-ed = dispensation- or age-long, aeonian, not eternal, forever or for eternity Lev = heart, as in Lev-Tsiyon = heart of Zion Lev-Tsiyon = Heart of the Fortress [of Yahweh], Hebrew name of MLT's founder M Master = Lord, Sir, Adon(ai) - (one in authority, a ruler - a king, husband, prophet, judge) Malak(im) = Angel(s), heavenly supernatural messenger(s) manna = wafers of honey, bread from heaven (lit. 'what is this?') matzah = unleavened bread, see Chag haMatzah Menorah = 7-armed candlearbra = the 7 annual Moedim and 7-fold Ruach haQodesh Messiah = Christ; Anti-Messiah = Antichrist Messianic Community = Body of Christ, sum total of all true believers; all true fellowships Messianic Israel = all who worship Yahweh, trust in Yah'shua, obey Torah and overcome Messianic Jew = Messianic convert from Judaism still clinging to Talmudic traditions Midrash = aggadic interpretation of scripture viâ Drash, a scriptural discussion Mikvah = baptism by immersion of convert into Yah'shua or of wife into husband Mishpachah = family: nuclear, congregational, tribal or the whole of Messianic Israel MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon = family of the heart of the fortress [of Yahweh] Mishpat = right-ruling or judgement mitzvah/mitzvot = commandment(s) moed(im) = appointment(s) of Yahweh, 7 Annual Feasts, Sabbath and Rosh Chodesh N Nefilim, Nephilim = giant offspring of materialised demons and human women Nevi'im = prophetic writings of the Old Testament or Tanakh New Birth = spiritual conversion in the Ruach haRishon, being 'born again' with new heart Nidah = a woman's menstruation period during which no intercourse is permitted O Olive Branch = collection of revelations, prophecies and visions published by MLT P Paraclete = Comforter, Advocate (NEB), Counsellor, Ruach haQodesh (Gk. paraklêtos) PaRDeS = method of textual interpretation (homiletics) - see P'shat, Remez, Drash, Sod Patriarch = a father who is head of his family, clan or tribe (lit. 'father-ruler') Pentateuch = first five books of the Tanakh (Genesis-Deuteronomy), also called Torah peribolaion = headcovering worn by daughters/wives in submission to fathers/husbands Pesach = Passover, first of the annual feasts of Yahweh Peshitta = an Aramaic version of the Bible Prototrinitarianism = early, simplified MLT formulation of the Echad Godhead Doctrine Prush(im) = Pharisee(s) Pseudepigrapha = Non-canonical Hebrew writings additional to the Apocrypha P'shat = literal, contextual, philological, exoteric, outer meaning of Scripture - see PaRDeS Q Qadosh Qadoshim = Holy of Holies, most sacred set-apart room of the Beit haMikdash Qodesh, Kodesh = set-apart, holy (see Ruach haQodesh) R Rabbi = Teacher, term used by Messianic Jews and some Messianic Israelites = Pastor Refuge, the 12 Cities of = divinely protected MLT fortresses during the 7-year Tribulation Remez = hint or allegorical level of Hebraic understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS Rosh Chodesh = monthly New Moon appointment of Yahweh ruach = spirit of a person (lit.'breath') Ruach Elohim = Spirit of God (the Spirit of the collective Godhead or Elohim) Ruach haChamashee = 5th Ruach presides over Yom Teruah and Yom Chamashee Ruach haQodesh = the Sevenfold Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost (lit. 'Set-Apart Breath') Ruach haRevee = 4th Ruach presides over Shavu'ot, Yom Revee and Bar Mitzvah Ruach haRishon = 1st Ruach presides over Pesach, Yom Rishon and the New Birth Ruach haShanee = 2nd Ruach presides over Chag haMatzah and Yom Shanee Ruach haSheshi = 6th Ruach presides over Yom Kippur and Yom Sheshi Ruach haShleshi = 3rd Ruach presides over Yom haBikkurim, Yom Shleshi and Mikvah S Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone) Satan = rebel archangel Heylel, father of lies, devil, chief demon (lit.'Adversary') Sephardic Jew = West European Jew of mixed blood containing many Judahites Septuagint = Greek translation of the Tanakh, LXX Shegal haShabbat = 7th Ruach (Sabbath Queen) presides over Sukkot and Yom Shabbat Shekinah = Divine Presence and Glory of Yahweh-Elohim Set-apart = holy, sanctified, consecrated, dedicated, separated (to and by Yahweh) Shabbat-Shabbaton = High Sabbath (e.g. Yom Kippur) Shalom = heavenly peace, standard Hebraic greeting invoking Yahweh's peace Shamash(im) = servant(s), deacon(s), attendant(s) Shavu'ot = Pentecost or Weeks, fourth of the annual feasts of Yahweh Sheol = grave or pit, euphamism for Hades or hell - also see Tartarus shofar = ram's horn, blown during Yahweh's Moedim simcha = joy, keynote of Sukkot Sod = mystical, anagogic, inner or esoteric understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS Sukkot = Tabernacles or Booths, seventh of the annual feasts of Yahweh Synagogue = Greek word used by Jews and Messianics (but not MLT) for a meeting house T talmid(a) = male/female disciple or student Talmud = scriptures, teachings and commentaries belonging to non-Messianic Judaism Tanakh = acronym for Old Testament Scriptures - Torah, Nevi'im & Ketuvim Tartarus = place of imprisonment under the earth for rebellious angels and Nephilim teshuvah = repentance, remorse and contrition leading back to Torah obedience Torah = Yahweh's teachings or Law; New Covenant Torah includes Yah'shua's teachings Tribulation, the Great = the final 7 years of the present aeon when Anti-Messiah rules Trinity = Catholic Godhead formula - see Echad Godhead Doctrine and Prototrinitarianism Tsiyon = Zion, a fortress, a name of Jerusalem and a prominent hill Tzitzit/Tizitziyot = tassel(s) worn by men in remembrance of Torah U Universalism = salvation of all at the cosmic Yovel, with different rewards and punishments Y Yachid = one, single person or item, as opposed to Echad (many in one, unity) Yah'shua the Messiah = Jesus Christ (the Son) Yahudah = Judah - see Judahite Yahweh, Yah, YHWH = the true Name of our Heavenly Father, also carried by Yah'shua Yahweh-Elohim = LORD God (the Father, Yahweh as Head of the Godhead or Elohim) Yahweh haQatan = the sent Yahweh = Yah(weh)'shua, Malak of Yahweh's Presence Yam Suf = Sea of Reeds, the true Israelite Exodus water crossing, not the Red Sea Yarden = Jordan River (lit. 'meanderer') Yerushalayim = Jerusalem Yisrael = Israel (lit. 'ruling with Êl') = true believers under the New Covenant Yom Chamashee = 5th day of the week (Thursday, Friday in IDL Zone) Yom Din, Yom haDin = (the) Day of Judgement Yom haBikkurim = Feast of Firstfruits, third of the annual feasts of Yahweh Yom Revee = 4th day of the week (Wednesday, Thursday in IDL Zone) Yom Rishon = 1st day of the week (Sunday, Monday in IDL Zone) Yom Kippur = Day of Atonement, sixth of the annual feasts of Yahweh Yom Shabbat = 7th day of the week and Sabbath Rest (Saturday, Sunday in IDL Zone) Yom Shanee = 2nd day of the week (Monday, Tuesday in IDL Zone) Yom Sheshi = 6th day of the week (Friday, Saturday in IDL Zone) Yom Shleshi = 3rd day of the week (Tuesday, Wednesday in IDL Zone) Yom Teruah = Day of Trumpets, fifth of the annual feasts of Yahweh Yosef = Joseph - see Josephite Yovel = Jubilee or Year of Jubilee Z Zaqen(im) = elder(s) of an assembly or congregation, or senior members of a community Zoë Life = Greek term for spiritual life in the Messiah Commonly Used MLT Abbreviations For additional abbreviations and explanations, please see the Micropedia A Amp.V(er). = Amplified Version of the Bible Aram. = Aramaic AV = Authorised Version of the Bible - see KJV B BCAY = B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh - see NCCG BoA = Books of Abraham (e.g. 1Abr., 2Abr., etc.) C cp, cf = compare with CB(Q) = Chavurat Bekorot CEV = Contemporary English Version of the Bible ch. = chapter CJB = Complete Jewish Bible CLNT = Concordant Literal New Testament CYe = Council of Yah's elohim E Eng. = English F ff. = and onwards/forwards fn = footnote G Gk. = Greek GNB = Good News Bible - see TEV H Heb. = Hebrew, Hebraic HEM = Holy Echad Marriage, eternal marriage HO = Holy Order - see Chavurat Bekorot HOC = Holy Order Collection of revelations - see OB HRV = Hebraic-Roots Version of the Bible I ibid. = ibidem (lit. 'in the same place'), referring to a book previously cited ICJC = Independent Church of Jesus Christ, earlier name of NCCF ISRV = Institute for Scripture Research Version of the Bible J JB = Jerusalem Bible JBP/Phillips = J.B.Phillips translation of the New Testament JNT = Jewish New Testament K KJV = King James Version of the Bible - see AV L LB = Living Bible lit. = literally or literature LXX = Septuagint, Greek translation of the OT M MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon Moff. = Moffatt translation of the Bible MRC = Messianic Renewed Covenant Version of the NT MS(S) = Manuscript(s) N NASB, NASV = New American Standard Bible/Version NC&C = New Covenants & Commandments - see OB NCCF = New Covenant Christian Fellowship, earlier name of NCCG NCCG = New Covenant Church of God, earlier name of MLT - see BCAY NCP = New Covenant Press, publishing arm of MLT NCW = New Covenant Witness, MLT magazine NEB = New English Bible NIV = New International Version of the Bible NKJV = New King James Version of the Bible Nor. = Norwegian NT = New Testament, B'rit Chadashah NWT = New World Translation of the Bible, unreliable Jehovah's Witness version O OB = Olive Branch - see NC&C op.cit. = opere citato (lit. in the work cited) OT = Old Testament, Tanakh P p(p). = page(s) pl. = plural - see s. PWNC = Prophetic Words of the New Covenant, revelation cataloging system - see OB Q QED = quod erat demonstrandum (lit. which was shown to be proved) R RCF = Restoration Christian Fellowship, earlier name of ICJC RhQ = Ruach haQodesh, Holy Spirit RSTNE = Restoration Scriptures True Name Edition of the Bible RSV = Revised Standard Version of the Bible RV = Revised Version of the Bible S s. = singular - see pl. S&G = Smith & Goodspeed Version of the Bible T TEV = Today's English Version of the Bible - see GNB V Vulg. = Biblia Vulgata, Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible W WEB = World English Bible Glossary Copyright ©2007 Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon (MLT) - All Rights Reserved

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