Written by: Damien Powell
Should we consider the implication of what we do with our lives every day? And are we completely living for YESHUA? If He were to return today and judge the world, would you be able to look at yourself and say that you absolutely did the best you could to fully trust His Word and obey His commandments? Did you love your neighbor as yourself? Did you give freely to the poor? Did you forgive that person who wronged you for no reason? Did you follow the ways of the world instead of Elohim’s Way? Fornication, adultery, lust, greed, vanity, just to name a few. Most churches today say you are saved by grace alone and everyone is going to heaven, but what does Scripture, the ultimate authority and Word of The Elohim of Yisra’el say about it?
YESHUA said it in Mathew 7:13
“Enter in through the narrow gate! Because the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in through it. Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
YHWH said it in Isaiah 24:5-6
“For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot (plural for Torah), changed the Law, broken the everlasting Covenant. Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left.”
Notice how YHWH says the EARTH and not just the Jews have transgressed His Torah (1st Books of Bible) changed the Law as modern day Christianity has done with moving the Sabbath to the first day of the week, dietary laws, and replacing YHWH’s Holy Appointed Times in Leviticus 23 with pagan satanic replacements? He says only few men will be left! And YESHUA confirmed the words of His Father YHWH saying the way to life is hard pressed and only a few will find it.
But do we grasp what our Creator is saying? This completely flies in the face of what is being taught in the world today, which has led to so much lawlessness. YHWH in Leviticus 19:2 says “Be Kodesh (holy) for I am Kodesh (holy)!” And the word holy means set-apart and be nothing like this world. If the world hates you and you look completely different than this world does, then that is good because we cannot love anything on this earth more than Him, period! We need to follow YESHUA and believe what David said in Psalms 19:7 says “The Torah of YHWH is perfect, bringing back the being.” Has the world really forgotten how Holy YHWH really is?
· Our Elohim is so holy that it took one transgression from Adam and Eve (Hawwah) to get them banished from the Garden of Eden. The same way Satan told them a lie to get them to transgress is the same way he whispers in Christians ears today to get the same results except he wants to banish us from eternal life.
· Our Elohim is so holy He told Adam and Eve do not eat or touch the tree or they would die Genesis 3: 2” And the woman said to the serpent, “We are to eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, Elohim said, ‘Do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest you die.” They could not touch the tree let alone eat from it.
· Our Elohim is so holy He tells not to eat unclean animals or even touch their carcasses Leviticus 5:2 “Or when a being touches any unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping creatures, and it has been hidden from him, he is unclean and guilty.” And Leviticus 11:8 “Their flesh you do not eat, and their carcass you do not touch. They are unclean to you.”
· Our Elohim is so Holy that when Isaiah saw YHWH in a vision in Isaiah 6:5 he said “And I said, “Woe to me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips-for my eyes have seen the Sovereign, YHWH Saboath (Say-va-oat) Hosts.” A seraphim had to place a coal on his lips and then said “your wickedness is taken away, and your sin is covered”.
· Our Elohim is so holy He told the Levite priests to not wear wool in His Sanctuary when serving Him but to wear linen so they would not sweat. Ezekiel 44:18 “They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers on their bodies, they shall not gird themselves with sweat.”
· Our Elohim is so holy YHWH asked in Haggai 2:11-12 “Thus said YHWH of Sabaoth (Hosts) ‘Now, ask the kohenim (priests) concerning the Torah, saying, “If one bears kodesh (holy) meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, or wine or oil, or any food, is it holy? “And the priests answered and said “No.” He is so Holy that the garment that contained meat could not come into contact with bread, stew, wine, or oil because it would become unholy.
· Our Elohim is so holy that He told Moses to speak to the rock instead of striking the rock to bring forth water. What happened when Moses disobeyed? YHWH says in Numbers 20:8 “Take the rod and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron. And you shall SPEAK to the rock before their eyes, and it shall give its water. And you shall bring water for them out of the rock and give drink to the congregation and their livestock. And Moses took the rod from before YHWH as He commanded him. And Moses and Aaron assembled the assembly before the rock. And he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels, shall we bring water for you out of this rock? Then Moses lifted his hand AND STRUCK the rock twice with his rod. And much water came out, and the congregation and their livestock drank. But YHWH spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you DID NOT BELIEVE ME, to kadosh (sanctify) Me in the eyes of the children of Yisra’el, therefore you do not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” The disobedience of Moses cost him from entering into the promised-land, Joshua would lead them across the Yarden (Jordan) when Moses died. We have to completely be obedient to His instructions and not do it our own way.
· Our Elohim is so Holy He says in Numbers 14:27-31 “How long shall this evil congregation have this grumbling against Me? I have heard the grumblings which the children of Yisra’el are grumbling against Me. “Say to them, “As I live,’ declares YHWH, ‘as you have spoken in My hearing, so I do to you: ‘The carcasses of you who have grumbled against Me are going to fall in the wilderness, all of you who were registered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. None of you except Caleb son of Yephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun, shall enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in. But your little ones, whom you said would become prey, I shall bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.” In this example of Joshua, Caleb, and there seed would enter the promised-land and the rest would grumbled would die in the wilderness.
Isaiah 59:2
“But your wickedness has separated you from your Elohim. And your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.”
I use these examples to show how our society is pulling our Elohim the Creator of heaven and earth down to their level instead of climbing up to get to His. Another example is how we as humans get highly offended when someone calls us outside of our names or by the wrong name. They will quickly respond and say “That’s not my name” yet, the world feels they can call our creator by whatever name they please as if He does not care. YHWH said do not use His Name in vain, so it is personal to Him, but that is not the point of this blog just pointing out His kodeshah (holiness.)
Will a loving Elohim destroy His creation?
I’ve heard many say that a loving Elohim would not destroy His creation and that YESHUA is so forgiving that His atonement for us is enough to live a life of sin because once saved always saved right?. 2 Peter 3:9 says
“YHWH is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wanting that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
We have to remember that YESHUA was here before the foundation of the world because He is the WORD made flesh, so He was here when the flood occurred and when Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. He hates sin as much as YHWH and will come back as a roaring lion of Judah to destroy the enemies of YHWH. He already came as a gentle lamb to take away the sins of the world, the second coming will be Him pouring out His wrath on those who rebelled against Him.
So the scriptures say only a few will find eternal life? What are some examples?
· When YHWH flooded the earth only 8 people were left. Genesis 7:13 says “On that same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Jepheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with, went into the ark.
· When YHWH destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah the only ones that survived were Lot and his two daughters. His wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
· In Ezekiel 9 YHWH had six punishers go through Jerusalem, one clothed in linen with an ink horn who marked the foreheads of the men who cry over all the abominations being committed and the other five destroyed anyone without the mark (Taw). Ezekiel 9:8 says “And as they were smiting them it came to be that I alone was left. And I fell on my face and cried out, and said, Ah, Master YHWH! Are You destroying all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?” Ezekiel said that he was the ONLY one left!
· Ezekiel 14:14 “Even though these three men Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver ONLY THEMSELVES by their righteousness,” declares (Adon) Master YHWH.
· Revelation 7:4 only 144,000 from tribes of Israel will be saved and in my opinion that would fit for the definition of a few for the entire world. Why? In last week’s blog I explained how once a believer accepts YESHUA as The Messiah and Son of YHWH and they keep the commandments, then the non-native born (sojourner) is grafted in with the native-born; therefore, we are ONE is His sight. Even Leviticus 19:34 says “Let the stranger who dwells among you be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself. For you were strangers in the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt). I am YHWH your Elohim.” And as I pointed out in Ezekiel 47:22 the sojourner was amongst the tribes of Yisra’el “And it shall be that you divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who sojourn in your midst and who bear children among you. And they shall be to you as native-born among the children of Yisra’el-with you they have an inheritance in the midst of the TRIBES of Yisra’el”. So if the grafted in are considered native-born in the tribes of Yisra’el then this may encompass the entire 144,000.
It’s time we repent, obey and recognize how holy He is!
As we can see the path to eternal life is narrow as YESHUA said and the Book of Esdras confirms this. Esdras is one of the books that was contained in the Apocrypha and a part of the Geneva 1599 Bibles and original King James Bible in 1611, but removed in the 1800’s. In these passages YHWH is speaking to Esdras:
2 Esdras 7:20-22 (4th Ezra)
“Let many perish who are now living, rather than the law of YHWH which is set before them be disregarded! For YHWH strictly commanded those who came into the world, when they came, what they should do to live, and what they should observe to avoid punishment. Nevertheless they were not obedient.” This lines up with what Moses said in Deuteronomy 30:14-18 saying
“For the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart-to do it. See, I have put before you today life and good, and death and evil, in that I am commanding you today to love YHWH your Elohim, to walk in His Ways, and to guard His Commands, and His Law, and His Right-Rulings. And you shall live and increase, and YHWH your Elohim shall barak (bless) you in the land which you go to possess. But if your heart turns away, and you do not obey, and shall be drawn away, and shall bow down to other mighty ones and serve them, “I have declared to you today that you shall certainly perish, you shall not prolong your days in the land which you are passing over the Yarden (Jordan) to enter and possess.”
2 Esdras 7:72-74 (4th Ezra)
“For this reason, therefore, those who dwell on earth shall be tormented, because though they had understanding they committed iniquity (lawlessness) and though they received the commandments they did not keep them, and though they obtained the law they dealt unfaithfully with what they received- What, then, will they have to say at the judgment, or how will they answer in the last times? For how long the time is that the Most High has been patient with those who inhabit the world, and not for their sake, but because of the times which He has foreordained?
4TH Ezra 8:57-60
“Moreover they have even trampled upon His righteous ones and said in their hearts that there is no Elohim-though knowing full well that they must die. For just as the things which I have predicted await you, so the thirst and torment which are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that man should be destroyed, but they themselves who were created have defiled the Name of Him who made them, and have been ungrateful to Him who prepared life for them.”
2 Esdras 9:7-13
“For as many as did not acknowledge me in their lifetime, although they received My benefits, and as many as scorned My law while they still had freedom, and when a place of repentance was still open to them, did not understand, but despised it; these must in torment acknowledge it after death. Therefore, do not continue to be curious as to how the wicked shall be punished, but inquire how the righteous will be saved, those to whom the age belongs and for whose sake the age was made.”
Brothers and sisters in YESHUA let us not delay in repenting while a chance is still open to us and giving our lives over to YESHUA and living for Him completely. Live by trusting Him and obeying His Torah because we see that the path is narrow and only a few will find it. Ahmein!