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| Introduction: When ever you see יהוה It is translated in most bibles as LORD. It would be more properly translated as "Yahuah or Yahweh". “We Have Inherited Lies” In today’s society, people like to have their ears tickled. If you are one of those who likes everything sugar coated then please don’t waste your time reading what I have to say. If you are interested in the Truth and the Meat of the Word, then read on. I would challenge everyone who reads these passages to ONLY HAVE ONE course of thought, and that is to seek out the truth, not from any paid man's lips that has a need to bring more people in to the church so that he can make more money, and then say that he is doing it for the Father in Heaven. To do anything else could put your eternal salvation at stake. Do not believe what I or anyone else has to say without having the facts from the scriptures and factual historical accounts to back up what is said. Think about it, if a man is getting paid to teach you the scriptures, and he does it as a job, where does his motivation lie? If he doesn’t teach with style and charisma, then do you really think people today that want to be entertained, will really want to listen to him? Would he still have a job if people weren’t supporting him? Look at all of the churches in just the US alone. How many of them are supported by good intentions and the truth? How many churches are there that aren’t growing, and the ones that are, how many of them teach without worrying about offending their congregation? We are a people that live in an age of political correctness, even in the church. We should be worrying more about the truth and what The Father in Heaven has to say, rather then upsetting the people that pay our salaries, and what they think. Oh how quickly we are willing to hand over our hard earned cash  just because someone is telling us what we want to hear, and making us FEEL good about ourselves.
How many of the prophets in the scripture got paid because they told a message that made everyone FEEL good. In contrast, they were stoned to death, or put to death in some other barbaric way because they where willing to tell the hard truth, the Fathers Truth. Look at the Son of the Father that came here and DIED for us. What message did he teach? Was He popular with the establishment and the people of the time? Did they put Him to DEATH because he was getting rich, and the people were following him because He was telling them what they wanted to hear so they could feel good about them selves? If you think so, then you have never read the true meaning of what He was teaching in the scriptures. How many times did He ever say, raise money to build this big new church building? Actually, He said, sell your things and give the money to the poor. Take care of the needy people around you. Don’t let someone go hungry or be thirsty, or go without having the clothes that they need to stay warm. Love one another, for by this you are showing Me to them.
I was watching a very popular Christian TV show here in the US, and they were showing off all of the work that they had done in their building there, and how much money they had spent. All of the marble columns and all of the gold inlays in the walls, and the entire tile work that they had done. All of the shinny brass hand rails, and all of the fiber optic displays there just for the entertainment of the people watching. They were actually proud of all of the money  they had spent there and said that it was for the Father. The Father said that HE doesn’t dwell in houses made by man's hands. How many people could they have fed and clothed with all of those millions of dollars they spent on that building that THEY dwell in? How many lies are we going to listen to before we wake up and smell the truth of what they teach us before He comes back and pours out His judgments on us for allowing them to gain power and get rich while His little ones suffer? Chew on that awhile… (The Scriptures 1998+) Jer 16:19 O יהוה, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and there is no value in them.” 1 Footnote: 1See Ps. 147:19, Isa. 2:3, Isa. 60:2-3, John 4:22, Rom. 2:20, Rom. 3:2, Rom. 9:4. :20 Would a man make mighty ones for himself, which are not mighty ones? :21 “Therefore see, I am causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And they shall know that My Name is יהוה!” More on these Scripture in a little while, but first let me make a comment. If you are of the thinking that you can serve and worship the Father in heaven anyway that feels right to you, then you need to read the Bible better. The following verses explain how He, “the Father in Heaven,” expects us to worship Him, or rather not to worship Him. (The Scriptures 1998+) Deu 12:30 guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their mighty ones? And let me do so too.’1 Footnote: 1See also 18:9, Lev. 18:3, Jer.10:2, Ezek. 11:12 & 20:32, Eph. 4:17, and 1 Peter 4:3 :31 “Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim, for every abomination which יהוה hates they have done to their mighty ones, for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones. :32 “All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it – do not add to it nor take away from it. 1 Footnote: 1See also 4:2, Prov. 30:6, Rev. 22:18-19. (The Scriptures 1998+) Jer 7:1 The word that came to Yirmeyahu from יהוה, saying, :2 “Stand in the gate of the House of יהוה, and you shall proclaim there this word, and shall say, ‘Hear the word of יהוה, all you of Yehuḏah who enter in at these gates to bow before יהוה!’ ” :3 Thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “Make your ways and your deeds good, then I let you dwell in this place. :4 “Do not trust in these false words, saying, ‘This is the Hĕḵal of יהוה, the Hĕḵal of יהוה, the Hĕḵal of יהוה!’ :5 “For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do right-ruling between a man and his neighbour, :6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil, :7 then I shall let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever. :8 “See, you are trusting in false words, which do not profit – :9 stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, and swearing falsely, and burning incense to Baʽal, and walking after other mighty ones you have not known. :10 “And you came and stood before Me in this house which is called by My Name, and said, ‘We have been delivered’ – in order to do all these abominations! :11 “Has this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I Myself have seen it,” declares יהוה. I would also like to point out, we have no right to try making His rules into what we feel they should be. He created us, and He makes the rules. I heard this story a long time ago, and here is how it goes… There once was this potter that made clay pots. One day while the potter was making a clay pot, the clay said to him, "don’t make me like that!". The potter was perplexed. What right did a piece of dirt, “the Clay”, have to say to me, “the Maker” “Make me like this or like that.” I decide how the clay should look, and what its function is. I decide if it should be a glass to drink from, or if it should be a bowl for me to eat out of. I decide how it is to serve me. I have the power to make it however I decide, and then to utterly destroy it, and start over with what ever design I decide. How arrogant is this clay? Guess what, we were created out of clay! Do we really want to say to the Maker of everything, I will choose to serve You however, I see fit? (The Scriptures 1998+) Isa 29:16 How perverse of you! Should the potter be reckoned as the clay? Should what is made say of its Maker, “He did not make me”? And what is formed say of Him who formed it, “He did not understand”?
(The Scriptures 1998+) Isa 45:9 “Woe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’? I’m not here to tell you how to think or what to believe. I’m just offering you some of the facts I have discovered, and I am offering you a glimpse into some of what I believe. Whether or not you decide what I am presenting is for you, well, you need to come to your own conclusion. Consider your beliefs, and how you feel the Father wants you to serve Him, but do it with fear and trembling. Remember, He made the rules that govern how we should live and serve Him. If we choose to ignore these truths, then we are walking a very slippery slope. We will, every one of us, one day, have to answer to Him, and be judged for our actions, and in the way we choose to serve Him. Whether we “choose” to believe in Him or not, the fact is, He is. Just because we “CHOOSE” not to believe in something, does not make it unreal. Some people, I have heard say, “I don’t believe in abortion,” “and I am not by any means saying that I approve of or condone abortion,” but to say that we don’t believe in something that truly is, and factually exists, in my view, just plain foolish. Yes, I know, sometimes people are saying they don’t agree with such practices, but if you look at my point, I think you will understand it. I would also like to point out that I am not endorsing any particular religious group or organization. If I choose to use someone’s material as a reference, it is because I have found what they have presented is scripturally, historically, and factually correct. When quoting other author’s work or publications, I will give credit to them.
I would like to thank my Mother for her input and assistance in editing this publication. Thank You Mommy!!!
- Rex Erwin 12/30/2007 | |
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