I want to encourage my brothers and sisters on this narrow path to keep being sold out disciples of YESHUA, because the reward is great! This means never denying Him and not turning aside from any of the commandments!
Deuteronomy 5:29 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Therefore you are to be careful to do as YAHWEH your ELOHIM has ordered you; you are not to deviate either to the right or the left. 30 (33) YOU ARE TO FOLLOW THE ENTIRE WAY which YAHWEH your ELOHIM has ordered you; so that you will live, things will go well with you, and you will live long in the land you are about to possess.”
Temple Scroll (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) Column 59 page 215
“Afterwards they WILL RETURN TO ME with all their heart and all their soul, inconformity with ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW, and I will save them from the hand of their enemies and redeem them from the hand of those who hate them, and increase them and exult over them. I will be their ELOHIM and they shall be My people.”
Revelation 14:12 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Here is the hope of the set-apart ones, and here are those who DO THE COMMANDMENTS OF YAHWEH, AND BELIEVE IN YESHUA.”
As we know, YAHWEH does not lie, and there are many rewards awaiting the righteous; and one of them I want to discuss is how those who endure will shine brightly.
Matthew 13:43 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“The Son of ELOAH will send His messengers. All the stumbling-blocks in His Kingdom and the evil ones, He will place in the fire of Gei-Hinnom, and there will be weeping and trembling of teeth. Then the RIGHTEOUS ONES WILL SHINE LIKE THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER.”
The disciples saw a glimpse of what this will look like when they saw the esteem of YESHUA when His face shone like the sun!
Matthew 16:28 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“Truth I say to you that some of these who are here will not die, until they have SEEN THE SON OF ELOAH COMING IN HIS KINGDOM.”
YESHUA’s statement about Him being seen coming in His Kingdom leads right up to the following verses in the next chapter. And what happens?
Matthew 17:1-2 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“And after five days He took Keipha (Peter), Ya’aqov (James) and Yochanan (John) his brother, and after he brought them up onto one exceeding high mountain, the figure (His figure) was changed before them, and the form of His FACE SHONE LIKE THE SUN, AND HIS GARMENT WAS LIKE SNOW.”
Scripture tells us that we will be made like YESHUA
1 John 3:1-2 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“See what love the Father has lavished on us in letting us be called ELOHIM’s children! For that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it has not known Him. Dear friends, we are ELOHIM’s children now; and it has not yet been made clear what we will become. We do know that when He appears, WE WILL BE LIKE HIM; because we will see Him as He really is.”
And being that this is true, YESHUA’s words are confirmed in many places!
Daniel 12:2-3 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Many of those sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken, some to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame and abhorrence. But those who can discern will SHINE LIKE THE BRIGHTNESS OF HEAVEN’S DOME, AND THOSE WHO TURN MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE THE STARS FOREVER AND EVER.”
Enoch 104:1-2
“I swear to you, that in heaven the messengers remember you for good before the esteem of the Great One, and your names are written before the esteem of the Great One. Be hopeful, for you were previously put to shame through illness and affliction. But now you shall SHINE AS THE LIGHTS OF HEAVEN, YOU SHALL SHINE AND YOU SHALL BE SEEN, and the gates of heaven shall be opened to you.”
Enoch 108:11-13
“And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the GENERATION OF THE LIGHT, and I will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh were not repaid with such honor as their faith deserved. And I will bring forth in SHINING LIGHT those who have loved My Set-Apart Name, and I will seat each on the throne of his honor. And they shall be magnificent for times without number; for righteousness is the judgment of ELOHIM.”
2 Esdras 7:97 (Rewards for the righteous)
“The sixth order, when it is shown to them how their FACE IS TO SHINE LIKE THE SUN, AND HOW THEY ARE TO BE MADE LIKE THE LIGHT OF THE STARS, being incorruptible from then on.”
2 Esdras 7:125
“Or that the FACES of those who practiced self-control shall SHINE MORE THAN THE STARS, but our faces shall be blacker than darkness.”
2 Baruch 48:48-50
“Now, then, let us leave the wicked and inquire about the RIGHTEOUS. I will recount their blessedness and will not be silent to proclaim their esteem, which is preserved for them. For surely, just as in a little time in this world that passes by, in which you live, you have endured much labor, so in THAT WORLD THAT HAS NO END YOU WILL RECEIVE A GREAT LIGHT.”
2 Baruch 51:7-12
“But to those who have been saved by their works, and to those for whom the Torah now is hope, and understanding is an expectation, and wisdom is faith, to them marvelous things will appear in their time. For they will see THAT WORLD WHICH IS NOW INVISIBLE TO THEM, and they will see a time which is now hidden from them. And time will no longer make them older. For on the summits of THAT WORLD they will live, and they will be like the angels (Matthew 22:30), and they will be DEEMED EQUAL TO THE STARS. They will change themselves into any shape they wish, from comeliness into beauty and FROM LIGHT INTO ESTEEMED SPLENDOR. There the expanses of Paradise will be spread out before them. And they will be shown the comliness of the majesty of the living creatures that are beneath the throne, as well as the armies of angels who are now held by My word, lest they reveal themselves, and who are held by the command, that they stand in their places until their advent will come. And then the RIGHTEOUS will be more excellent than the angels.”
Wisdom 3:1-9
“But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of ELOHIM, and no torment will ever touch them. In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be a disaster and their going from us to be their destruction, but they are at peace. For though in the sight of others they were punished, their hope is full of immortality. 5 Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because ELOHIM tested them and found them worthy of himself; like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them. In the time of their visitation they will SHINE FORTH and will run like sparks through the stubble. They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and YAHWEH will reign over them forever. Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his set-apart ones, and he watches over his elect.[a]
Community Rule (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls) page 102, Chapter 4
“And as for the visitation of all who in this spirit, it shall be healing, great peace in a long life, and fruitfulness, together with every everlasting blessing and ETERNAL JOY IF LIFE WITHOUT END, a crown of esteem and a garment of majesty in UNENDING LIGHT.”
Thanksgiving Hymns (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, Hymn #15) pg. 282
“For You have succored my soul, O my ELOHIM, and have lifted my horn on high. And I SHALL SHINE IN A SEVEN-FOLD LIGHT in the Council appointed by You for Your esteem; for You are an everlasting heavenly light to me and will establish my feet upon level ground for ever.”
We know the #7 represents completeness, fullness, and perfection! So the righteous will shine in complete perfect light for eternity.
Thanksgiving Hymns (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, Hymn #24) pg. 299
“You have caused the straying spirit to return that it may enter into a Covenant with You, and stand before You forever in the EVERLASTING ABODE, ILLUMINED WITH PERFECT LIGHT FOR EVER, with no more darkness, for UNENDING SEASONS OF JOY AND UNNUMBERED AGES OF PEACE.”
Proverbs 4:18 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“But the path of the righteous is like the LIGHT OF DAWN, SHINING EVER BRIGHTER UNTIL FULL DAYLIGHT.”
In the “peshat” the literal meaning of the scripture, just as the day gets brighter as the sun continues to rise, is how those who begin to walk in the Torah and continue walking in it by the leading of the RUACH HA’KODESH (The Set-Apart Spirit) will grow in understanding and be lights on this earth to help the lost.
Matthew 5:14-16 (Hebrewgospels.com)
“And it happened furthermore, that YESHUA MASHIACH said unto His talmidim (disciples), “You are the INSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD, but the instruction is cut off by them who are not saved, and nothing else is fit, except to cast them to the street and trample them. The LIGHT OF THE WORLD is not able to hide the city that rests on the mountain. No man lights the lamp in order to set it under a covering, but to set it upon the menorah, in order to give light to all those who are in the house. So let your LAMP SHINE BEFORE ALL, that they may see your GOOD DEEDS and praise your Father who is in the heavens.”
Philippians 2:14-15 (Complete Jewish Scriptures)
“Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure children of ELOHIM, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation, among whom you SHINE LIKE STARS IN THE SKY, as you hold on to the Word of Life. If you do this, I will be able to boast, when the Day of the Messiah comes, that I did not run or toil for nothing.”
Likewise, in the “remez” the hint to a deeper spiritual meaning is that those who continue to endure until the end by keeping the commandments and belief in YESHUA (Revelation 14:12) will shine like the sun for eternity just as all the scriptures above have confirmed.
Let this found to be us those who hear His words and obey His words and grow in our understanding of His Torah, which leads to us grower brighter in our walk on earth, and to shining like the sun and stars in the Kingdom.
As always may YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!