Putting toxins in your body because someone held a gun to your head, is still you choosing to accept. And this your consequences to take.
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This month's question: It is pretty clear that YHWH wants us to do the moedim where He places His Name. Several verses in Deuteronomy tell us this. There is also the account in 1 Kings 8 that shows Jerusalem is that place.
But is it still the place? Definitively, I cannot say one way or another, but I do have an opinion.
We see Paul not going up to Jerusalem for 3 years. And even in another account, he is trying to get to Jerusalem, but it doesn't sound like anything more than that was where he wanted to be.
We see in the accounts of Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah that there is no mention of them going to Jerusalem for any of the moedim. In fact in the latter two accounts, they find the Torah scrolls and relearn about the moedim and start implementing them.
We know in Isaiah 46:10, YHWH says He makes known the end from the beginning. I see Scripture as cyclical. Things happen in a certain way as laid out. This is part of why I don't believe we have any further Scripture happening. We have everything laid out already.
I see us in the time of the Judges. Everyone is doing right in their own eyes. Sure, we are all trying our best to follow what we feel YHWH wants for us, this includes those still in Judaism and Christianity, but we are all doing what WE see as right. Once we get to the time of David again, our King, will establish His Kingdom and Torah will go out from Jerusalem and we will all be on the same page.
At that point, definitely, we will be going to Jerusalem.
So for now, we do our best with what we can.
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Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching...
Romans 12:6-7
I firmly believe that everyone is happier when they know who they are intended to be and embrace it. Discover who God has made you to be and then be that, not who you wish he had made you to be.
Besides, envying someone else's place in the Kingdom is a violation of the tenth commandment: “You shall not covet... anything that is your neighbor's.”
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Romans 12:4-5
Feet are useless without knees, fingers without wrists, and vice versa. What good is a knee without everything lower? They don't make good feet. Shepherds are useless without flocks and flocks are useless without shepherds. Everyone has a role in God's kingdom and no one can fill every role.
If you are offended by what I am saying then I am in the right place. If I cause you to go confirm what I am saying then your brain is still working! If you believe 'tomato/tomauto' over the Word then your done moving forward. The mountain climb is to much for you and you are okay with setting up camp amongst the wolves in the valley. You should be offended that I am injured and am still going to push by you to continue to the top. Farming by hand is how Yahshua described the struggle of obtaining Life. The world jumbles everything together. They love to call Yahuah by anything, because they have no respect for Yahuah as the Creator. He is just another idol to them; so His Name can be whatever. We are called to be set-apart, completely, from the nations. All nations includes the pretenders waiving the star of Rempham. And we are all complete hypocrites. To the core so long as we keep even the slightest of ways that cut the slightest of corners of Yahuah's Word. People think that because Yahshua came that things got ridiculously easy. The sovereign following Yahuah meant peace for the nation. Now that it's about the individual, the goodness of your leader means nothing much except for the wellness of your flesh. And your physical action meant more back then, but now your heart is explained as equals. The heart is your flesh and the ruach is your mind. Your actions of the heart must also match the actions of your mind. Which must follow Yahuah's Torah as proof of your belief, or your belief is dead. And you must believe that Yahshua, by the power of Yahuah, can forgive your sins if you earnest turn from them, save your ruach from the second death. Sin is breaking if Yahuah's Torah. If you don't know Yahuah's Torah then you will not understand the Second Writings no matter how much you play your commentary games bouncing between languages to fit in.
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Romans 12:3
We shouldn't think of ourselves either more highly or lowly than we are. We should simply think of ourselves less and of Yeshua more. Although he expects us to improve on the raw material he has given, we are whom he has made us to be without regard to any effort or merit of ours. God creates people to be pastors, teachers, administrators, encouragers, givers and receivers of charity. All are necessary for the kingdom and none has any right to pride.
So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”
John 19:5
After having been flogged and abused by the soldiers, Yeshua would have made an extraordinarily humble picture. Pilate was mocking Yeshua's accusers for their apparently ridiculous charges as much as he was mocking Yeshua himself. Even when he said "take him yourselves and execute him", he was mocking them. Everyone knew they had already tried and failed, though they had no authority to execute anyone.
And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.
John 19:2
Israel's kings probably wore crowns and rich robes, but that was only out of pride. The High Priest was commanded to wear them. In mocking Yeshua as a king, the soldiers unintentionally mimicked the High Priest's garments.