“ECHAD WITH GOD” By: Cathy Hargett, Highway To Zion

“ECHAD WITH GOD”

By:  Cathy Hargett

After an intense time of preparation for a recent seminar entitled “The Land of Israel and You”, I realized my own spiritual understanding of this subject had been greatly expanded. Trying to describe it reminds me of a balloon that had some air in it, even a goodly amount of air, but all of a sudden the balloon is being inflated way beyond what it looks like its capacity can hold!  That’s really how I felt, as if I would just explode with trying to process what He was pouring into my heart.

The significance of the Land of Israel and God’s covenant with Israel, and as a Gentile being grafted in by the blood covenant of Yeshua, has been a revelation I have carried in my spirit for many years. But the purified essence of this relationship with the God of Israel, with the Land of Israel, boils down to this one thing – “Echad With God”. What is “echad”?  It’s all about Oneness with God. Through His revelation of Israel, we go ever so much deeper in Him.

Think of the words of the Sh’ma – “Sh’ma Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad.” In English, “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” The word, “echad”, is a Hebrew word for “one”. There is another Hebrew word for “one” and it is called “yachid”. There is a reason that the Lord used “echad” in the Sh’ma and not “yachid”. The difference in the two words is that “yachid” refers to a singular, unique, solitary oneness, and “echad”, while also referring to singular oneness, carries with it the understanding of the idea of unity, as in the phrase "one flesh" referring to a married couple. 

With this “echad-description” of God, we also see His tri-unity – He is One God with the expression of the distinctiveness of Abba, Yeshua, and the Ruach ha Kodesh joined together as One. He is One in the fullness of His divinity. He is past finding out. In Him is the revelation of all things. The revelation of Israel’s place in His plan expands this understanding to the point that we are now able to see that in many ways He is Israel. Loving Israel is loving God.

With every growing revelation about the relevance of the Land of Israel in the life of a follower of Yeshua, there is a growing intimacy with the God of Israel, truly becoming “Echad with God”, married to God. The distilled essence is that God’s desire when He created humankind has always been that we would be One with Him, allowing Him to consume us, spirit, soul, and body. We are His workmanship, created to be like Him. We must be like Him or we cannot be One with Him. We must be made acceptable by the blood of Yeshua, fulfilling Torah.

We also see other “types” of oneness with God and each other revealed in the Land. These types include Yeshua’s physical body, your body, the eternal kingdom, the wife of God, the Bride of the Lamb, His dwelling place, the good fight of faith, Eden restored, God’s portion, the Ephod of the great High Priest, and many other amazing things. Each of these “types” are so very beautiful, intricate, and require deep study and meditation to even get a glimpse of the vastness. In fact, the revelation of Israel, the Land of Israel, reveals the whole story of the Kingdom and its coming restoration. It reveals so much of what it will be like to be in total unity with Him.

There is much more to ponder on this subject of “Echad With God”. I am asking Him to continue to take me deeper into His heart. I so desire to know Him better. Yeshua said that to know Elohim is eternal life. The Kingdom is in your heart and soon will be tangible in the restoration of all things on planet Earth. He will reign out of Zion. We will see Him face to face, and being married to God will become our everlasting reality, “Echad With God”.

Cathy Hargett

          06.29.25 

Highway to Zion Ministries
http://www.highwaytozion.org

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The Great Falling Away 

Steve Martin, Love For His People

 

 

“Adonai said to Gid‘on, “I will use the three hundred men who lapped the water to save you; I will hand Midyan over to you. Let all these others go back home.”  

(Judges 7:7-8 Complete Jewish Bible) 

 

 

There is a great falling away coming from among those who once walked with the Lord. In fact, it has already started. For decades, it was “popular” to be a Christian. Not so anymore, especially when one considers the numbers who attend a weekly church service. Looking around any given Sunday morning gathering, and in most churches you will see mostly grey hairs; and they are dying off. Sure, there are those churches that are doing well among the youth, but that is an exception. We give thanks for them. 

 

After a major crisis occurs in a nation, the pews do fill back up. But within a few months, or even weeks, the “Crisis Christians” no longer come around. It is back to normal as usual. (We may still have the “C & E” group – Christmas and Easter, but even those numbers are dwindling fast.) 

 

The apostle Paul said that in the end of days there would be a great falling away. We are living in those times. 

 

“Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.  

 

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.  

 

Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.  

 

Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.” (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 NASU) 

 

Lest you become fearful, and wonder what is going to happen when so many are gone, let me share a little insight with you. It will inspire you in faith, I believe. 

 

The Lord seems to allow for the reduction of numbers when He has a job that needs to get done. Unlike humans, more is not always better. As my good wife Laurie likes to remind me on certain occasions, “Less is more.” My accounting mind doesn’t always see it that way, but it is true. 

 

Let’s look at a few instances in the Word of God, and see how the Lord chooses to accomplish His purpose, and achieve the final victory. 

 

Take what happened when the Lord decided to flood the earth. He saved a remnant, Noah’s family of eight (Noah, his wife, three sons and their wives) and repopulated the earth with those alone. Looks like that worked. 

 

And what about Gideon’s army, when it came time to defeat the Mideonites? Gideon took as many warriors as he had available, starting with 32,000. By the time the Lord had set up a few tests, the number was finalized at 300. With those remaining, the job got done. Victory was won. 

 

Yeshua (Jesus) chose only 12 who would walk with Him for a little more than three years. Then He released them (even knowing one would be replaced by another) into the world. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, those twelve apostles changed the world. 

 

Jesus also fed the multitudes, with very little. “All we have with us,” they said, “is five loaves of bread and two fish.” He said, “Bring them here to me.” After instructing the crowds to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, made a b’rakhah (Hebrew – i.e. gave thanks). Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim (Hebrew – i.e. disciples), who gave them to the crowds. They all ate as much as they wanted, and they took up twelve baskets full of the pieces left over. Those eating numbered about five thousand men, plus women and children.” (Matthew 14:17-21, Complete Jewish Bible) 

 

The Creator of the Universe can get the job done with very few. 

 

What about the 144,000 in Revelation of Jesus (Revelation 7:4)? That sure is something to consider. 

 

“I heard the count of those who were sealed: 144,000! They were sealed out of every Tribe of Israel: 12,000 sealed from Judah, 12,000 from Reuben, 12,000 from Gad, 12,000 from Asher, 12,000 from Naphtali, 12,000 from Manasseh, 12,000 from Simeon, 12,000 from Levi, 12,000 from Issachar, 12,000 from Zebulun, 12,000 from Joseph, 12,000 sealed from Benjamin. 

(Revelations 7:4-8 THE MESSAGE) 

 

There is a great falling away that is coming through the Christian ranks. It will remove the lukewarm as the Lord Himself is going to weed them out. I believe He will then emblaze the remnant with His Holy Ghost fire, and show the world Who is the King of kings and Lord of lords. In the process, millions during that time, yet to be saved for all of eternity, will come into His kingdom, gathered from all the nations. 

 

Are you going to be one of the few? As the Marines would say in their motto, "Semper Fidelis", which translates to "Always Faithful" in Latin. I pray you are.  

 

By His grace you will keep committed and stay faithful to the end. It is going to be a battle, but He wins. Stay on His side.