Last week we covered the man-making myth of Satan and how the prosecutor was turned into “the personal entity who embodies all the elements of evil and stands as the arch-enemy of YAHAVAH.
We showed how this was not so but that the Satan is more like a role that is assumed by a creature, entity, even a group that embraces everything anti or non God.
Because of tradition however, few souls today can fathom the universe without visualizing a archetypical Satan running around and tempting people, causing them to sin and taking them into hell forevermore when he, the red horned devil, is victorious.
And most people believe that he is still doing this.
However, the biblical (and even secular) evidence supports a much different reality relative to “the Satan” and I maintain that the Satan can be summarized in the following ways a spiritual state of heart and mind aimed at rebellion, accusation and treachery RATHER than that of an individual created being.
I personally suggest that there have been and are created beings that envelop Ha Satan as defined above but again, that Ha Satan is or was not a personal created being or uncreated being that represents all evil and who stands against God none to nose from the beginning.
I maintain that it was “an absence of God Dark Power” either contained in a fallen angel that overcame or was welcomed into the simian creature in the Garden and that it was this very same Dark power that persuaded Eve and then Adam to choose their own paths over Gods. And then from there certain angels, sons of elohiym, demons and human beings have, over the course of biblical history, also embraced and or received this Dark spirit (beginning with the tempter in the Garden of Eden) and have therefore been empowered by it to accuse, tempt, test, seduce and try those that live on earth and perhaps those in the heavenly realm as well.
I suggest that the Dark will always be present when invited in – even today – and it will do the most damage to freewill and good as it can while returning the least rewards possible to those that operate by it.
I’ve written a book of more ramblings on this subject that is available on the Yeshuan.faith site called, LIGHT and Dark and you can download for free to consider some thoughts on this Black force and how it has works and worked in the world.
But anyway, having examined the development of Satan (last week) and what the scripture seems to describe as the real Dark power, lets talk about where “the Satan” had taken up residence with respect to Yeshua’s day and how He ultimately “crushed its head once and for all” as was prophesied all the way back in Genesis.
I want to saying that I do not believe Yeshua crushed the Dark as it is not a thing, but like in the Creation He was the very Light that cut through the Dark and established permanent borders in the hearts and minds and heavenly kingdom above in and through His death and resurrection.
In other words, through His victory the Dark will forever be obedient to His every will and wish. But it wasn’t crushed.
He did, however, “crush Ha Satan” or what embodied all the principles of the Dark on earth in that day and that is what we will speak to now.
And one of the primary facets of Ha Satan existing in Yeshua’s day was that of being “an accuser, a tempter” and a “raging lion seeking whom “it” could destroy.
That was the spiritual essence of this expression in Yeshua’s day. How was it mobile and operative? In other words, through whom was it operating?
Scripture allows us to say the following:
First, it was a liar and murderer from the beginning so it is going to take some effort to discern what form it took in the meridian of time.
So, again, the Dark has influenced, dragged away created beings of YAHAVAH from before the foundation of the world, whether they are created sons of elohiym, the Nachash that tempted Eve, Adam and Eve themselves, then the sons of elohiym that came down to the daughters of Man, then to other humans and spirits in the days of Noah and thrived even among Nations along the way.
Now, noting that one of the central traits or jobs of “the Satan” is that He is an accuser of the Brethren, we need to start looking at the principles that would enable someone or something from the heavenly realm to make an accusation against others.
What gave them/it the power or right to accuse anyone?
The Law.
We need to give some biblical backstory before we unveil the identity of the Ha Satan and its powersourse which Yeshua crushed and no longer has any strength.
I am going to paraphrase and summarize the scriptural narrative in places to get the story in our minds.
Perhaps someone else (Grady? Adnon?) can step in and give all the details in his up and coming instructional podcasts available at Yeshuans.faith
So, the Nation of Israel comes out of bondage in Egypt and enters into the wilderness.
She was lost in Egyptian thought and culture and seems to have lost any real contact with YAHAVAH at this time.
Therefore they had a real hard time trusting Him or being patient with Him – proven by their full-on complaining in the face of miraculous miracles.
But through Moses YAHAVAH enters into a marital covenant with her. You will remember that a marriage in Judaism is when there is a signed contract (called a ketubah) that is made and it essentially lays out all the promises and conditions of the union.
This is a summary of how the ketubah or marriage covenant went down between YAHAVAH and the Nation of Israel fresh out of Egyptian idolatry.
First, YAHAVAH, through Moses, conveys they following to the Nation
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
Then, Moses, in the next chapter, gives the Nation what we call, the Ten Commandments but the reality is these are really called, the ten words in Hebrew.
And we read in Exodus 34:28
And he (Moses) was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.
Got that?
Now we tend to think that what Moses wrote were ten sentences, but in reality, the Hebrew only describes ten words and this is known and accepted.
Brother Grady points out that there are, in fact, ten exact Hebrew words are what make up the first commandment which says,
Exodus 20:2 “I am the LORD thy God (which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage) “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” )
Interestingly, the Great Shema also repeats this in (that’s right) ten more Hebrew words saying,
Hear o Israel, the Lord our God is One Lord.
This is the ten word covenant YAHAVAH had with Israel on the Mount and what were articulate thereafter were expressions of having made the first ten words operative and effective in one’s
life.
In other words, there is no reason to claim obedience to the first ten words if your don’t follow through on the other expressions.
In other words anyone who follows the first ten words from the heart would naturally follow the others.
We might wonder why YAHAVAH gave these ten words then and not before?
Perhaps this has something to do with the Nation having just come out of Egyptian bondage and losing any real connection to the Living God?
So, the ten words are given but take note – no more than 40 days passed before the Nation (Yahavah’s Bride) committed adultery by creating and worshipping a golden calf!
A golden calf while Moses is up on the mount making the covenant real and in stone.
They had just said that they would do all that YAHAVAH commanded (the ten words) and in less than 40 days turned back to BREAKING the single most important part – the first ten words:
When Moses comes down and see them engaging in idolatry with another husband (a golden calf) after they said, “We will do all that you have commanded,” he smashes the written covenant bearing YAHAVAHS ten words ostensibly breaking the marriage covenant.
Then after a bunch of pleading with YAHAVAH to not destroy them or to abandon her in the wilderness, YAHAVAH has Moses create two more tablets and to bring them up to Him.
But this time, (LISTEN) but this time God does something else – this time He something more – increasingly over time – WHAt does he give? He gives Moses more and more “laws” that serve as addedums to the Covenental Contract.
These were NOT part of the original Covenant. Listen – Paul says that they were added on “because of transgression,” and were to then serve as a guide for Israel to consider so if they found themselves breaking them they would . . . run back to God in the tabernacle (which we will have introduced soon) and offer sacrifice.
The Law served to remind them of their marriage contract. This is why Paul says in Galatians 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Six verses later, Paul wrote
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
We could create an illustration of this in the following tale.
A benevolent man courts a woman and they agree to ten words to be their marriage covenant –both agree to no other spouses or relationships to any other than ourselves.
Before the ink even dries on the agreement, the woman (Israel) commits adultery (idolatry) with another God. (the golden calf).
Why does she do this? She chose to place her faith and love in an idol that was there for her – (another man) instead of trusting wholly in the One True Husband.
After a fit of anger the benevolent man, who loves her, says, “I will continue to be in a marriage covenant with you, under the same ten agreed-upon commands, (A guy named Moses is going to bring me some new tablets to write upon) HOWEVER, in addition to those (which are good and right) I am also going to demand 613 other Laws to govern almost everything else you do in your life!
The way you live, eat, move, dress, treat others and on and on and on.
And I am doing this because you need reminders in everything of who you should look to and trust – me.
If you could just embrace the ten words of our Covenant, these laws would be unnecessary. But you can’t, so here you go.
And here is the thing, God seems to say, use them because they are good because they will help bring you back to me when you find yourself straying.
So, Moses will create these added laws (given again, because of transgression) while the Nation of Israel is in the wilderness.
They are NOT the covenant, they are the Law and before they enter the promised land listen to what we read,
Deuteronomy 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, (not with the ten Words that were within and on stone) that it may be there for a witness against thee.
(LISTEN TO WHAT MOSES ADDS)
27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.
29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Got all that?
Well Moses prophetic words were more than fulfilled in and through the Nation over the course of their sordid history. Why? How?
They ran and turned to every sort of idol imaginable, proving to CONTINUE to be an adulterer in their relationship to God as they were from the beginning!
Again, what was central to all that this God of the Nation wants from them? It is the Covenant – no OTHER GODS.
The rest of the Law (the 613 statues and ordinances) were only there to help remind the Nation when they were wandering away from the one – because they would wander away – and to see their wandering through their rebellion to the added laws, and to then repent and go to the tabernacle and offer sacrifice.
ALL BECAUSE of the Ten Word Covenant that was kept in the Ark of the Covenant.
God knew that they 613 laws were NOT expected to be obeyed – they couldn’t be, but they were given to show them drifting away so the Laws were good.
Even King David, whom God calls a man after His own heart, broke two of the major commands – he committed adultery and he had Uriah slain – but David NEVER lost sight of who His God was and He never let anything in between His heart for God.
Did David sin? Yes. But His HEART never broke the ten word commandment. This is why David was a man after God’s own heart. NO idols. Mistakes? Sins? Yes? But he never broke the first ten words.
Unfortunately, INSTEAD of the NATION following this set up they INSTEAD became adept (LISTEN) at:
“obeying the letter of the Laws given to remind them that they were wandering away while ignoring the most important ten word covenantal decree! – no other Gods! Only Him.
In other words, they kept all of the LAW, but their hearts were far from Him in terms of their Covenantal agreement.
The weakness for this idolatry/adulty was there from the beginning. It’s almost like a couple getting engaged and the wife sleeping with another man on the day of the wedding!
God knew He was betrothed to a wandering nation – from the start. He knew that they would never be able to keep all of His added “laws” perfectly. But that was NOT what he desired most!
He desired them to have a heart like David that they would at LEAST not run after other gods (elohiyms) even though their flesh got week and if they sinned He longed for them to return to Him in shame.
But this is something they never did. So YAHAVAH endured with the breaking of the other Laws. Again, look at David, who
BROKE THE LAW when He put the ark of this covenant outside his house!
FORGIVEN
He took an unauthorized census!
FORGIVEN
He ate the show bread reserved only for priests!
FORGIVEN
Uriah!
Forgiven!
Bathsheba
Forgiven!
But he never pursued after other Gods – from the HEART and always turned back when the Law showed him wandering.
That is why when he sinned with Bathsheda he said in the Psalms 51
Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight:
The relationship that God desires is and has always been FROM THE HEART – the first ten words.
When the heart is right, external practices, offerings and obediences were fine because they REFLECTED the heart, but what happened with the Nation then the LAW took hold without the heart?
THE LAW became “an idol.”
From Adam until forevermore God has sought “the heart of faith,” the heart that loves by faith, and a heart that will not worship any other Gods or turn to them when times get rough.
God understands that human beings cannot obey every rule, reminder and law. That is why He sent His Son.
But He knows the hearts of those who have faith and love for Him and Him alone and who refuse to worship anything or anyone else.
I pray that this is you.
Heiser called this mindset, “believing loyalty.”
When a people or person has no faith or interest in God or loses faith in the strength, capabilities or power of their God, they will turn to others and the first ten words are lost.
It’s called Idolatry and adultery in the Bible. David committed adultery with his flesh, but he never committed it in His heart against God.
This is so important in understanding how God sees and works with us
So, what happened in the Covenantal marriage of YAHAVAH to Israel.
Over time they disregarded the importance of “believing loyalty” and started to try and please God through obedience to the Laws He gave only to warn them of wandering and to get back to the Ten Words.
In other words, they took the Law that was attached to “the outside of the ark of the Covenant (symbolizing it was not part of that Covenant in the beginning) and over time made it . . . not only an idol but an elohiym . . . their God.
Can you see it!? They took the thing that was good and purposeful but made it MORE important than God Himself!
Is it possible to take something that is good and allow it to replace God and our relationship with Him?
THIS IS THE VERY SAME THING PEOPLE DO WITH THE BIBLE TODAY! THEY WORSHIP AND SERVE IT MORE THAN HIM!
Do you see?
Is the Bibe good? Useful? Of benefit to draw us back toward a heart dedicated to Him. Absofreakinglutely.
But it is only a tool. It is not God. And it can never come between a believer who is focused on their faith and trust in Him.
Can church gatherings be good. Sure. But they cannot become an idol that comes between God and the participants.
Same with government, money, or anything else that blesses us – it cannot become an idol.
Remember the story of Moses and the brazen serpent?
Numbers 21:1-9 describes how during a time of a plague of fiery serpents that fell upon the whole nation, Moses made a bronze serpent for Israel (as commanded by YAHAVAH) and told them the people to look upon it and be spared death from the bites.
Was this a good item? Used for a good purpose (to heal and save)? Yes!
But the Jews preserved the damn thing for more than 800 years then suddenly in 2nd Kings a man of God named Hezekiah looked at it, called it “Nehushtan” (meaning, a thing of brass) then smashed the thing to pieces.
Why? This bronze serpent was a wonderful thing – it meant SOOOO much to the Nation. I mean it was even a representation of the coming Messiah, as Yeshua Himself said in John 3:14-15 that He too would be lifted up to save all men.
But the Nation took something good, something authorized by YAHAVAH Himself, and made it something that they put ahead of their worship of Him!
That is called idolatry.
And this is the very thing the leaders of Nation of Israel in Yeshua’s day did with THE LAW.
Not the Ten Words. The Law that was added but in so doing they literally started to ignore the import of the ketubah they had with Gof!
And they took and focused on WHAT WAS WRITTEN instead of worshipping Him from the heart.
Again, this is the very same thing that people do with the Bible today. Is the Bible good? Of course, it is. We use it to show us (the individual) when we are starting to wander.
Will it make us righteous? Never.
Holy? Never.
Do we place our faith and trust in it? Never. Do we place its value above our heart and relationship with the Living GOD? Never.
And this is why there are people who never pick it up that can have the right covenant, that first ten words, in their heart and be fine with Him.
Whatever material item human beings are exposed to, if we are not extremely careful, it runs the risk, over time, to become the thing we look to.
This is why I place little value in the Shroud of Tourin. Little value in traveling to Jerusalem or Israel. Little value in communion of bread and wine and little value on brick and mortar, or impressive material footprints on earth.
I’ve mentioned that I sit all day in a downtown location as a security guard. Over time the people who work in that building have become acquaintances of mine and over the course of our short talks they have more than made it known their religion – or what they call, “the Church.”
I’ve had dozens of one-direction encounters with dozens of members of the church who constantly extol the virtues of the Church, of the Prophet, of the Family centered focus – dozens.
I’ve heard about their missions for The Church, about the temple they attend. About their callings. But never about Jesus or Yeshua. Never about God or heavenly Father or YAHAVAH.
Just the Brass Serpents. Just the Law. Just the organizations. The leaders. The programs, my God the programs.
When Hezekiah broke the Brass Serpent into pieces and called it a piece of Brass, He did this because it had become a worthless idol.
When Yeshua came to earth, He completed (fulfilled) the Law and the Prophets rightly and properly (because that Nation never could or would) and it was right from His heart, with His eye on His Father and then IT was NAILED to His cross.
Why? The Jewish leaders of that day not only made it an idol but in their hands THE LAW became the accuser!
And they, that religious body, I would suggest here and now, became “Ha Satan” that would condemn, accuse, and raise themselves up to glory through their worship of that Law.
Remember, they killed Him through their use of the Law which they WORSHIPPED.
Listening to Yeshua’s speech about the Pharisees in Matthew 23, we get some insight into what He was saying with this as backdrop information.
I am going to read it with an emphasis on key words that fit the traits, ways and end-results of Ha Satan. See if you recognize the parallels, ready?
Matthew 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
In other words, what they say is true relative to the Law but how they use it, do NOT do this.
4 For (or as an example, He says) they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: (pride?) they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments
6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall exalt himself (Exalts himself) shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: (block the way of righteousness) for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense (guile/Hypocrisy) make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land (roaming to and fro over the earth) to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, (Mammon?) he is a debtor!
17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
(jumping out to verse 23 as Yeshua says)
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, (Yes, you obey the Law) but have omitted the weightier matters of the law, (They obey the Law but lack the heart) judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
(Meaning they LACK judgement, mercy and FAITH – the keystone of the religion)
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. (cunning, strategists)
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
(Pretense, fig leaves, hypocricy, guile)
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, (you practice RELIGION)
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers (remember the Garden), how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: (what do we say Satan will do to the wicked in hell for eternity?)
Then to the summary
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
And their House was left unto them, who worshipped the dead letter of the Law instead of the God of the Spirit, hollow and dead.
By their using and abusing they LAW they condemn others of sin and became the living embodiment of Ha Satan and Yeshua was about to crush them.
Now, consider replacing the word “Satan” in Apostolic Record to “the Law in the Hands of those Jews” in the following verses and see if you see more clearly what I am trying to say:
Matthew 16:23 “But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, “Law in the hands of these Jews:” thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”
Then in the Parable of the Sower
Mark 4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, the Law in the Hands of these Jews cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered (to Ha Satan in the wilderness) and said unto him, Get thee behind me, “Law in the hand of these Jews” for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Luke 13:16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom The Law in the hands of these Jews hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Luke 22:3 Then entered the Law in the hands of these Jews into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
Luke 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, the Law in the hands of these Jews has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Joh 13:27 And after the sop the Law in the hands of these Jews entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
Acts 26:18 speaks of what Yeshua did, saying
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of the Law in the hands of these Jews unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Romans 16:20 “And the God of peace shall crush the Law in the hand of these Jews under your feet shortly.”
Paul wrote in 1st Corinthians 5:5 about how the Bride needed to handle a sinner in their midst and said
To deliver such an one unto the Law in the hands of these Jews for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
He said in 1st Corinthians 7:5
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that the Law in the hands of these Jews tempt you not for your incontinency.
Then in 2nd Corinthians 2:11 Paul writes
Lest the Law in the hands of these Jews should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his (personified) devices.
2nd Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for the Law in the hands of these Jews is transformed into an angel of light.
1st Thessalonians 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but the Law in the hand of these Jews hindered us.
Speaking of ha Satan, Paul writes in
2nd Thessalonian 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the Law in the hands of these Jews with all power and signs and lying wonders,
1st Timothy 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto the Law in the hands of these Jews that they may learn not to blaspheme.
And finally Paul says in 1st Timothy 5:15 For some are already turned aside after the Law in the hands of these Jews who wrongly use and worship.
But to wrap it up, listen to what Yeshua says to the believers in the seven churches in Asia Minor
To the Church at Smyrna He says
Revelation 2:9 “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.”
OR to the Church at Pergamos
Revelation 2:13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
OR to the Church at Thyatira
Revelation 2:24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
Then Listen to what He says to the Church at Philadelphia
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie;” behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Does this not fit Paul’s description of TRUE ISRAEL??
Listen, there is a gigantic difference between the race of people who came from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the Jews who embodied the ways of Ha Satan in Yeshua’s day.
One is a race, the other was a religious sect in that day He destroyed what remains today is a race of people as beloved as all other peoples.
Two more – toward the wrap up of that Age and Yeshua’s victory over it we read in Revelation 20:2
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, (or a period of time)
And then? Verse 7
Re 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And then . . . (verse 10)
(Revelation 20:10) And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
And where does that leave us all?
Back in the Garden of Eden facing our own will and ways, choosing to eat of the Tree of Life (which is Christ) or to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which is promoted endlessly by the dark because it stands in direct conflict with the ten words – direct.
The Law is over. The Nation of Israel then is gone. Ha Satan is gone. And everyone decides whether they love the Dark more than the Light and of what fruit they wish to feed upon.
And to perhaps the single most important conclusion of this two part series:
whenever someone, something, some group, some church, some man chooses to make the Written Law of scripture more Important than faith and love for God and Man, whenever someone tries to put ANYTHING between you and God Himself remember the ten words, and how nothing else, in the end, is needed.
Just saying.
