Men of Torah Day--Understanding Kingdom, Men of Torah Walking In The Law of Preparation By The Way of The Wilderness

Exodus 13


We are walking in today:  Men of Torah Day--Understanding Kingdom, Men of Torah Walking In The Law of Preparation By The Way of The Wilderness

Witness abib/nisan throughout the Bible:  H24 ​'abiyb ​fresh, young barley ears, barley month of ear-
forming, ​ of greening of crop, of growing green Abib, month of exodus and Passover (March or April)
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H5212 Nisan -- their flight, the 1st month of the Jewish calendar corresponding to Mar or Apr

Exodus 13:4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.

Torah:  Exodus 9:31, 23:15, 34:18; Leviticus 2:14

Prophets:

Writings:  Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7

Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, H24 and keep the Passover unto the LORD thy
God: for in the month of Abib H24 the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

Exodus 13: 19 Moshe took the bones of Yosef with him, for Yosef had made the people of Israel swear an oath when he said, “God will certainly remember you; and you are to carry my bones up with you, away from here.”

Anyone who travels the “spiritual path” of sanctification (being conformed to the image of Christ) will ultimately discover something known as the “wilderness experience.” What exactly is it? And why does it happen to those who are faithful to God and who try to live their lives in harmony with His will? Conversely, it describes times of distress, doubt, and alienation from God with the imagery of a desert or wilderness.

The wilderness is where water is scarce… where a traveler walks alone in the heat and the cold without shade or protection… and where wild animals live. In a spiritual wilderness, God feels far away, distant, absent, and unresponsive… faith feels doubtful or uncertain… we feel alone, vulnerable, lost, and unprotected… there is the fear of hopelessness and the unknown… and it’s the place where Satan resides. they commonly think that God has forgotten or abandoned them… that all of their past efforts have been nothing but a waste… that they are simply too unspiritual and unlovable… that if God exists at all, He is a cruel, fickle monster… and that maybe this thing called Christianity is nothing but a myth. No believer can fully avoid the wilderness experience — it is the path we must all travel.

Psalm 28:1-2
(1) Adonai, I am calling to you; My Rock, don’t be deaf to my cry. For if you answer me with silence, I will be like those who fall in a pit. 2  Hear the sound of my prayers When I cry to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

Psalm 38:9-10
9 Lord, all my desires are known to Thee; and my groaning is not hidden from Thee. 10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me; as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

The Wilderness Experience

When we going through the wilderness experience some choose to renounce the outside world, seclude themselves from normal life activities due to the tactics of trickster’s agents of HaSatan. Who causes all kinds of thoughts; as well as reminders in condemnation. But never our own act of free will to choose to enact satanic projected imagery.

When we are undergoing a wilderness experience, the devil will come alongside us — his primary purpose is to tempt us to doubt God and to serve him (and ourselves). HaSatan’s supreme goal is to get us to disobey God, to destroy our fellowship with God, and to steal our destiny & blessings. If we are to come out of the wilderness triumphantly, we must follow the example of how Yeshua gained the victory over the devil in the wilderness.

How did Yeshua (Jesus) defeat the enemy?

First, He fully submitted to God and His will for His life and second, He fully trusted the Word of God. That should tell us that only way the enemy can be defeated is by the Word of God. So as we speak the Word over our situations and circumstances, and affirm the truth over and over again, it will ultimately settle peacefully in our souls, thus renewing our confidence that everything is truly working for our good and for God’s glory. The resultant peace that comes from God’s Word is actually a weapon or tool for us to use against the enemy’s attacks.

Mathew 4:11 Then the Adversary let him alone, and angels came and took care of him.

Roman 8:28-29 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

The Wilderness Experience of Yeshua.

Matthew, Mark, and Luke all describe Jesus’ wilderness experience (Mt 4:1; Mk 1:12; Lk 4:1). They tell us that the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The verb “drove” in Greek has a nuance of compulsion and violence, thus the Spirit violently hounded Jesus to go to the wilderness. It was there in the desert that Jesus suffered from hunger, thirst, and loneliness it was there that He was tempted to desperation, and to give up on God altogether.

The Wilderness Experience of Israel.

In that precarious placed called the wilderness, the children of Israel learned to trust The Most High, and to believe profoundly in His goodness and mercy despite the wilderness. Thus, they had to learn to trust that God is still good that The Most High is for them and not against them even amidst the unpredictability of life. So the wilderness is a place of exile from a predictable kind of a The Most High; we are forced to give up on that kind of a God. The wilderness forces us to let go of our control, and in the dark night of faith, we let God lead us in the journey to the Promised Land even if we get theirs circuitously by the way of the desert. The experience of the wilderness opens us up to a deeper and more profound faith in God and in His goodness even as we wander through the lonely desert. The wilderness is not the end of the story.

Hosea 2:14-20
14 (12) I will ravage her vines and fig trees, of which she says, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’ But I will turn them into a forest, and wild animals will eat them. 15 (13) I will punish her for offering incense on the feast days of the ba‘alim, when she decked herself with her earrings and jewels, pursuing her lovers and forgetting me,” says Adonai. 16 (14) “But now I am going to woo her —I will bring her out to the desert and I will speak to her heart. 17 (15) I will give her her vineyards from there and the Akhor Valley as a gateway to hope. She will respond there as she did when young, as she did when she came up from Egypt. 18 (16) “On that day,” says Adonai “you will call me Ishi [My Husband]; you will no longer call me Ba‘ali [My Master]. 19 (17) For I will remove the names of the ba‘alim from her mouth; they will never again be mentioned by name.
20 (18) When that day comes, I will make A covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds in the air and the creeping things of the earth. I will break bow and sword, sweep battle from the land, and make them lie down securely.

How to Overcome the Wilderness Experience.

The process of faith formation, of transition through to maturity in Christ, is a process that inevitably contains darkness, doubt and desert wanderings. Though the experience is both confusing and disconcerting, the other side of the desert brings a far deeper and richer faith. The believers faith can be fostered if he will engage in spiritual reading and theological study — this will help him reconstruct his beliefs and learn new forms of spiritual practice, like meditation, contemplative prayer, the employment of music in personal worship, journaling, engaging with God through physical activity, and discovering a new kind of practical service or ministry that impacts the world around him. All of these behaviors can be extremely helpful.

The ultimate purpose of the wilderness is not only to develop a deep transforming faith but to develop a profoundly energetic and rewarding intimate connection with God.

Soul searching and “self-examination” are the things that take place in the wilderness. There are only “three roots” to all kinds of evil, that when we examine all sin we discover they all have their origins in pride, money and sex.

Lust of the flesh = passions; lust of the eyes = possessions; pride of life = position.

1 John 2:16  because all the things of the world — the desires of the old nature, the desires of the eyes, and the pretensions of life — are not from the Father but from the world.

The love of money= is the root of all kinds of evil.

1 Timothy 6:10  For the love of money is the root of all evil; and while some have coveted after it, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

During the wilderness experience, it is time to “focus on the goodness of God.” The only way to get out of your wilderness experience is to “ignore the symptoms” God’s ultimate desire for us as His children is that we learn to “walk by faith alone,”

Part 1 of this preparation in the process series. To see that the wilderness process is necessary and important in the growth the Kingdom way. Just the Lamb that was slain. Slain as is murdered not died but even further He Sacrificed himself. Don’t get it twisted, The Most High is all powerful omnipotent. The murder of our own selves to become more in action deed thought image. Just as The Most High designed the wilderness process to fulfill. Picking up our crucifixion stake and walking out our process. Through the preparation of the wilderness without complaint but willingly.  Shema Selah let us pause and consider the walk in the wilderness here with the Most High!! Facebook LIVE video