“RETURNING TO THE FAITH OF OUR BELOVED”
Would you pray with me? “Yeshua, my King, thank You for teaching me about Your yoke and about the faith of our fathers. Thank You for Your burden that is light and for opening the eyes of Your people to the truth about who You are. Would You please teach us more about how to follow You and how to seek Your kingdom?”
When we walk with Him, the firstborn Son, we begin to see the connection with God’s chosen people, Israel, also called the firstborn of Avinu (our Father). As we walk out our faith journey, pressing forward, not stopping at the elementary teachings, but continually maturing, growing, our eyes fill with wonder, and the true picture of who He is comes into focus. We see Him, the Son of God, the Son of Man, in His beauty, the crucified and resurrected Chosen One of the God of Israel.
Just like in ancient times, He continues to show us miraculous pictures here in the natural realm. He shows us the Land of Israel that He created for Himself as a revelation of His plans. He wants us to know about the mysteries of the Land, to know Him, to know what His plans are, and to help prepare and build up the spiritual infrastructure of the highway from heaven to earth. If we miss the unveiling of the mystery of the Kingdom through the revelation of God’s covenant with the people of Israel and His relationship with the Land of Israel, our understanding will always be disconnected from the full truth of His Word.
He was proclaiming that on this Land, the Land of Israel, is the gate of heaven. Here lies a major clue for understanding how He has planned the reconciliation of all things back to Himself. It is for us to embrace. Just like Jacob, we may say about the revelation of the Land, “..How awesome is this place. This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.” (Genesis 28:10-17)
Our Yeshua is the Connector, the Ladder, the Highway, the Gateway into the knowledge and experience of living in the Kingdom of heaven. If we will receive it, we will learn that the syllabus for understanding God’s Word rests on the Land of Israel and His covenant with His people. We climb this Ladder, ever higher and higher. Yeshua is the Way, the Gate, the Door, into the Kingdom of heaven.
One of the most beautiful mysteries of Messianic Faith is how understanding about Israel creates a greater intimacy with Him, but even this one example about Jacob’s dream shows us how Yeshua and the Land are connected, how they are the same in so many ways. It’s truly throughout the Scripture that we see these examples, from the concept of the Firstborn to the eternal Kingdom expressed by the Promised Land, we see the Oneness of Yeshua and the Land. To love Yeshua is to love the Land. To love the Land is to love Yeshua. His yoke is the yoke of the Kingdom of heaven.
As we learn about how Yeshua lived as a Jewish Man on planet earth, we see He lived His faith within the culture of Israel. His people were followers of Moshe’s teachings from God. He followed Torah and obeyed every commandment to perfection. Today, I continue to discover more about intimacy with God by observing the appointed times of the Lord and by studying about and worshiping Yeshua, the Living Torah.
It has been so exhilarating to learn His ways and to grasp just the very surface of His deeps as the truth is unveiled by obeying His commandments to keep the Feasts. I so love to celebrate and enjoy the Feasts of the Lord. I love the traditions and the customs, too. But what He is revealing to us as He teaches us is beyond the customs themselves, higher than “religion” or liturgy. We must recognize that. It will stir our hope beyond human comprehension for the Kingdom to come. It will exercise our spirits and cause our hearts to grow bigger than our flesh until we can walk by the Spirit with less times of walking by the flesh!
This pure-like gold-Messianic-Faith is what Yeshua reveals to us with the sacrifice of His Life. He shines like the sun in all its brilliance and teaches us by His Ruach more than ritual or practices, wearing certain garments, and doing prescribed religious things. He teaches us Transcendent Torah. He said, “unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven”. He calls us ever so much higher until we know that He, Himself, is the fulfillment of every Word. It would be impossible to obey Him if He didn’t live inside us. Through Him, the impossible is possible. He makes us holy for Himself. The Spirit is calling us to return to the transcendent faith of our Beloved.
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