Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual Warfare

 

          The Scripture is rightly called the Holy Book, because it contains the knowledge of the saints, while at the same time, it unites and harmonizes their words, deed, doctrine and action. It points out the true relation of man to the Omnipotent, and ministers to their YAHVEH. It affords the most direct reference to the great truths of the spiritual verses the intellectual. The visible agents that YAHVEH employs in the great works of redemption, to once again start the process of establishing that eternal light.

There is a remarkable illustration of spiritual warfare YAHVEH style in the Bible. The encounter between Moses and Pharaoh is a classic depiction of this clash. Egypt, by the way, is an illustration of the world.

The first nine plagues were signs or wonders; these signs were designed to accredit Moses as regards to the Children of Yisrael and Pharaoh. So the plagues were designed to accredit Yahweh, that is to say, Adonai has the power recognized by Pharaoh in its entirety. The first nine plagues differ from the tenth by form and vocabulary. The account ends with Pharaoh’s absolute refusal, and Moses never sees him again. There is now nothing for him but to flee. The story then continues with the pursuit of the fugitive and the miraculous act in the Red Sea.

There is a method in the way YAHVEH is dealing with the Egyptians and a systematic and orderly way in which He is sending the plagues. The first plagues were directed against the different YAHVEHs, YAHVEHdesses, and idols that infested the land. Now YAHVEH is beginning to direct the plagues in a manner that works a tremendous hardship upon the people and their struggle to stay alive. The plague of locusts certainly has its effect, and the people try to convince Pharaoh that things are bad. This causes Pharaoh to temporarily repent. The moment the plague is removed, however, Pharaoh changes his mind and goes back to his original position. YAHVEH is going to force him to let the children of Yisrael go.

 

There are also many redeemed leaders today who leave their flocks and herds in the land of Egypt. Many of the redeemed that are faithful in the church, support their Pastor, give to YAHVEH’s work and all the rest, but they still do business in the land of Egypt. They keep their flocks and herds in Egypt, if they had to make a choice to serve YAHVEH by making a trip out of Egypt you know which direction they would go.

The church has never been free of internal problem brought on by the enemy. In the early church there were complaints about equality among members, they had lying and deceit from members, lawsuit among members, they got drunk at communion, other slept with their stepmother, and the freedom of the gospel was under constant attack by Jewish legalism and Gnostic prescriptions. Yet the early church never permitted its internal problems and contradictions to turn it away from its true purpose in evangelizing the world.

The Evangelist must always guard those in the church who work together with him, and war against those heretics who come into the church in stealth. We can look at The Evangelist as a person who deals with spiritual warfare on a constant basis. In the Old Testament, Joshua was a type of an Evangelist; He was a warrior. In order to go into the enemy camp and take back what he has stolen, spiritual warfare must be done. I believe that in the church, The Evangelist should lead song service.  Song service is a time for mass spiritual warfare, for lost souls, for those who are stricken with demonic activity and when the Voice of YAHVEH needed to be heard. The Evangelist should have an element of prophetic ability about them. They need to operate under an open heaven to be able to see what YAHVEH is doing and lead the Song Service in that direction.

The Evangelist must equip the saints to clearly communicate the Good News in their own sphere of influence, including their homes, at work, at school, and their own neighborhoods. The Evangelist is a gatherer; He is the first step in the ways of the cross and the first furniture in the Tabernacle of Moses. When we accept Yahushua the Messiyah as our Lord and Savior, we accept the Blood of Yahushua. The Blood is the foundation of the redeemed life and is the first experience or step on the way to full maturity. It is at the Brazen Altar in the Tabernacle in the wilderness where the blood is applied. It was in the feet of Yahushua that one of the nail pierced His Flesh, signifying Salvation. It is YAH’S will to nail our feet to our cross that is why we are admonished to take up our cross daily and follow Him.

The office of the Evangelist as depicted in the Tabernacle of Moses by the Brazen Altar where the Blood is applied to the individual life. The Evangelist must therefore know everything and anything about the Blood. Lets investigate what the scripture has to say about the Blood.

Blood is the life, Gen. 9:⁴ “But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. Lev. 17: ¹¹‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. ¹⁴ “for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life. Therefore I said to the children of Yisrael, ‘you shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off. 

Deut. 12:²³ “Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat. ²⁴ “You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

Matt. 27:⁴ saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!” ²⁴ When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it. We are instructed not to eat blood because the soul of the animal is in the blood. When the blood is removed from a body that body ceases to live.

Sacrifice in Scripture has two meanings, and produces two different things. It provide the:

§       Kaparah (hrpk) – Absolution, atonement. Ritual purification.

§       Korban ( Nbrvooq) – sacrifice, victim, an offering to draw near to YAHVEH.

Kaporah seem to illustrate, the absolute atonement for the sinners sin, at initial salvation. While Korban sacrifice is a drawing near process. At every Altar, The Brazen Altar, the Blood from our Messiyah feet, The Laver the Blood and the Water that flow from His side, the Menorah the Blood from His Right-Hand, the Altar of Showbread the Blood from His Left-Hand and the Altar of Burn incense the Blood form is Forehead.

When we group together the source of spiritual impurity we will find that they are categorically related to YAH’S judgment, in Genesis 3. The serpent was cursed and made to crawl on its belly, becoming the first uncleane creature. This may be the beginning of all unclean animals. The woman was punished with difficulty in childbirth; therefore menstruation would therefore render a woman unclean. The man was punished with mortality. He was told that he would die. Therefore the judgment of mortality is now considered unclean. Death brings on uncleanness. The disease of Leprosy that represents a sort of living decay is actually walking death. It renders all that comes into contact with it unclean. Uncleanness is not sin, but it is the mark of human mortality, and mortality is a result of Adam’s sin.

Purification ritual was offered to ritually purifying the man before he would even enter into the Tabernacle, where we can once again eat of the Tree of Life. Therefore we can safely say that the Blood of Yahushua is to make us ritually pure again, so that we can once again enter the Garden of Eden and eat from the Tree of Life.

The advancing condition of decay or growing old is what presence a person ritually unclean. Anything that is sin or decaying is unclean before the present of YAHVEH. This is a completely normal human condition. The moment we are born, starts the process towards unclean. Adam and Eve were in a process of Immortality, but due to sin, the process of death start, the process of spiritual uncleanness. Adam and Eve were ritually pure, meaning without the process of decay in their lives, and they did not grow old. Before they sinned, we see man and YAHVEH living together, YAHVEH came walking in the cool of the day, and they interacted together. Man saw the Shekinah of YAHVEH and lived. Why, because when Adam was created they were created in a ritually pure state, Tahor (rvht). That was why Adam and Eve had no need for sacrifices, they were completely pure.

     Let see what the Scripture say about the following:

The Messiyah: Matt. 26:²⁸ “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Mark 14:²⁴ And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many. 

Luke 22:²⁰  Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

John 6:²⁰ Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you. The majority of today’s churches see this as an opportunity to perform communion, this is not what this Scripture says about it. It is not eating a peace of bread and drinking a little wine. It is the sharing of the Word of YAHVEH, the Bread, and the Holy Spirit the New Wine. When Yahushua/Jesus had Passover they had four cups of wines, two cups during dinner and two after dinner. It was at the third cup of wine, the cup called the cup of redemption, that He took the cup and said this is the new covenant. The new covenant is a covenant of redemption, and it should be done as often as we possibly can.

The ministry of the Evangelist, even though recognized by today’s churches, needs to return to what it was originally designed to be. To start the process back to ritual cleanliness, back toward that which was lost in the Garden of Eden, back to the one on one fellowship with YAHVEH. It should not be sub servant to the office of the Pastor, but the first step in ministry to the ministry to the Body of the Messiyah. The following scripture can best describe the state of today’s ministry.

Jeremiah 2:¹³ “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Blessed are you Hashem our YAHVEH King of the Universe, who has chosen good Evangelists and has delighted in their words, which were spoken in truth. Blessed are you Hashem our YAHVEH who has chosen the scriptures and the Five-Fold ministry as the Mighty Hand of Adonai as His servant, and Yisrael, the church, and the Evangelist the carrier of truth and righteousness.