CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GOVERNOR

Genesis Chapter 3










Today we are walking in: Characteristics Of The Governor










Today we look to the word-SPIRIT- H7307-RUWACH-wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being:—air, anger, blast, breath,







The Torah Testifies……………………….




Genesis 1:2




And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit H7307 of God moved upon the face of the waters.









The Prophets Proclaim……………………….





Haggai 1:14




And the LORD stirred up the spirit H7307 of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit H7307 of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit H7307 of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,









The Writings Witness………………………..




Job 10:12


Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit H7307.







Receives the Same Honor as Yah




Another confirmation that the Ruach HaQadesh is Yah is Yahusha’ statement about the consequences of blaspheming him. “I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Ruach HaQadesh will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.” The only sin Yahusha said you can never be forgiven of is a sin against the Ruach HaQadesh. Why did he say this? I believe that he was saying it is the Ruach HaQadesh who (1) convicts people of their need to be cleansed from sin by the work of Hamachiach, and (2) who enables us to be spiritually reborn and brings us into the heavenly kingdom. Therefore, if someone totally hardens himself to the Ruach and his work, he won’t be drawn to forgiveness through Hamachiach, and he won’t be able to receive the regenerating work of the Ruach in his life.




Yahusha Hamachiach cleanses us, the Father forgives us, and the Ruach renews us. The writer of the book of Hebrews wrote, quoting Psalm 95, “As the Ruach HaQadesh says: ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.’” In other words, if you hear his voice, if you feel his conviction, if you hear him saying, “It’s time,” then do not harden your heart because there is going to come a day when he will stop calling you. The Scriptures speak about Yah as longsuffering or patient; it doesn’t say that he is forever-suffering. He will allow foolishness for a long time, but only for so long.




The term apostate refers to someone who has entered a state where he can’t hear the Ruach of Yah anymore. You don’t want the Ruach HaQadesh to stop convicting you. If the Ruach HaQadesh convicts you about your need to repent, receive forgiveness, and enter the kingdom of Yah, you should run to him! Why? Because that means you are still in good relationship with him, and he is able to talk to you. Don’t let your pride prevent you from responding because you wonder what people will say. You should rather worry that the Ruach will stop talking!




I hope that you will listen to the most important person from heaven, who is the most important person on earth! He is vastly more important than angels, which many people hope to see. Angels, however, work for the government, but he is the government.




The Ruach HaQadesh Is a Person with Qualities, Characteristics, and a Will




So the Ruach HaQadesh is first of all “Yah extended.” Second, as we have seen, the Ruach HaQadesh is a person. A person has qualities and characteristics that distinguish him from others, so that he is a separate being. The Governor has a distinct personality, characteristics, and will. As the Representative of heaven, the Resident Governor in the colony, his main desire is for us to fulfill the King’s purposes on earth.




Yahusha described the person and work of the Ruach HaQadesh, revealing at various times that among his characteristics are his abilities to teach and guide. A feeling or a force cannot be a governor. A mist can’t teach or guide. Most citizens of the kingdom have no real relationship with the Governor because they haven’t realized they have someone invaluable dwelling in them. Someone.




The Ruach Has Spiritual Senses




The Ruach HaQadesh also has “senses” that are part of his personality. By this, I mean that he has spiritual senses similar to the way human beings have physical senses. Spiritually speaking, the Ruach HaQadesh sees, hears, feels, and smells or discerns in his dealings with the earth and its inhabitants.




The Ruach Has Feelings or Emotions




Paul wrote, “Do not grieve the Ruach HaQadesh of Yah, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” We can grieve the Ruach when we actively resist him, behave in ways that are contrary to the kingdom of heaven, or neglect him.




I want to focus on the area of neglect. Think about this: When you ignore someone, he generally stops talking to you. And the more you ignore him, the more he will ignore you. For example, if you don’t acknowledge me, eventually I will come to the conclusion that I’m not important to you and that you don’t have any regard for me. Or, if you keep ignoring me when I talk to you, then, eventually, I should have a little sense to say, “He really doesn’t want to listen to me.” Yahusha said that the Ruach HaQadesh will teach us all things. I used to be a teacher in the classroom, and let me tell you, there is no worse experi- ence for a teacher than to have a group of students who have no interest in learning.




We must realize that the Ruach HaQadesh is a person who knows when we are ignoring him. If we disregard his teaching and leading, we aren’t treating him with the respect and devotion he deserves. We also miss opportunities to learn and serve in the kingdom. And it is not only we who are negatively affected by this. Suppose the Governor prompts you five times to bring food to a neighbor. Finally, he stops speaking to you about it. Two things happen: You miss a blessing, and your neighbor may go hungry.




Or suppose the Governor prompts you during the night to get up and pray for someone, but you say, “I’m tired, and I’ve had a long day, so I need to sleep.” The Ruach HaQadesh says, “Yes, but someone is in need of help, and I need a human vessel through whom to intercede because this is the way the kingdom of heaven works on earth.” You think, “That’s just my imagination; I’m tired.” So you stay in bed and no longer sense his prompting. You find out the next day that someone was in a dangerous or troubling situation, and your prayers were urgently needed.




We listen to other people more than we listen to the Ruach of Yah. We seek other people’s advice more than we seek his. Sometimes, he withdraws our sense of his presence in order to get our attention.




Some people have not heard the voice of the Ruach HaQadesh for a long time. Why? They get up in the morning and don’t acknowledge him at all before plunging into the day. They never refer to him when they make decisions, invest their finances, work at their jobs, run their businesses, or go to school. Therefore, he’s quiet toward them.




You literally have to learn to fellowship with and listen to the Ruach HaQadesh. He speaks to us through the Scriptures, through our thoughts, and through promptings and impressions. We need to practice hearing his voice and not ignore him, but acknowledge him as a person who is intimately interested in who we are what we do, and how we fulfill our role in the kingdom.




The Governor’s Nature Expressed to Us




Let us now look at how the Governor attends to us in fulfillment of his nature. The Scriptures describe and define particular roles and responsibilities of the Ruach HaQadesh on earth. Again, in all his works, the Governor acts only according to the word of the King. “The Ruach of truth,” Yahusha said, “...will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.”




Counselor and Comforter




Yahusha told his disciples,

But the Counselor, the Ruach HaQadesh, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.




And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.




The Greek word for Counselor in both these statements is parakletos, which means “an intercessor, consoler,” “advocate, comforter.” Some Bible translations use the word “Helper.” It refers to one who comes right alongside us to assist us. Yahusha promised his followers that he would return to be with them in the person of the Governor to enable them to live the life they were called to: “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”




I’ve heard people say, “I want to become a believer [citizen of the kingdom], but I’m not strong enough. When I have enough strength to stop doing this and start doing that, I’m going to commit to the kingdom.” These people still haven’t made a commitment because they think they have to be strong first. You may be struggling with the same issue because you’re trying to change yourself on your own. The King is telling us, “Look, if you’re going to learn kingdom culture, you need help from the home country.” Receiving the Governor into your life will enable you to change. He will show you how to transform your thinking and how to live.




Likewise, some of you are discouraged because, even though you are citizens of the kingdom of heaven, you feel as if you keep falling back into the attitudes and actions of the kingdom of darkness. But the Governor says to you, “I’m going to help you up again.” This is his job! He won’t give up on you.




Yahusha emphasized the King’s commitment to you through his analogy of a shepherd who leaves his ninety-nine sheep in the fold while he goes off to look for the one that is lost. This doesn’t give us a license to keep going back to the behavior of the kingdom of darkness. Once we’re in the kingdom of heaven, we’re not supposed to keep returning to our old ways intentionally. Some people purposely do what is contrary to the kingdom, and then they want to be automatically forgiven by the King. This does not reflect a true transformation into a kingdom citizen. If we really desire to live by heavenly standards, even though we sometimes may slip up, the Governor will help us to live them out. He wants us to succeed.




Guide and Teacher




Yahusha also said about the Governor,

But when he, the Ruach of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.




As we have seen, governors were placed in colonies not just to give information, but also to train the citizens to think, act, and live the standards, the customs—the entire culture—of the home country. This involved both general teaching and individual training.




Because the governor of a colony was sent from the throne of the sovereign, he knew the sovereign’s intent. In the same way, the Governor from heaven is the only one who can enable us to understand the truth of the statements that Yahusha made and the instructions he left for us. The Ruach HaQadesh is the only one who can reconnect us to original information about the King and his kingdom. He protects us from error and from others’ opinions that are not according to the mind of the King.




One of the jobs of a governor in a colony is to interpret for the citizens what the sovereign means by the words he delivers to them. We saw in the last teaching that the Ruach HaQadesh is called the Counselor. The word counsel has to do with one who interprets law, and the Governor reveals and explains the laws of the King to us, bringing those words to life.




The prophet Isaiah said of Yahusha, “The Ruach of the Most High will rest on him—the Ruach of wisdom and of understanding.” We, too, have this Ruach of wisdom and understanding living within us. Knowledge is information, and wisdom is how to apply it. In other words, wisdom is the proper use of knowledge. The Governor shows us how to take our knowledge and apply it to life. He is the one who makes us practical people in the world.




In some religious circles, this has been reversed. The Ruach HaQadesh is considered to be the one who makes people act in strange ways. However, the Governor couldn’t be more sensible. He shows us how to apply our knowledge to family, business, community, national, and worldwide issues.




Helper and Enabler




When the King-Son was on earth, he quoted from the prophet Isaiah concerning himself,




The Ruach of the Most High is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Most High’s favor.




When a sovereign declared what he wanted for a colony, it was the governor’s job to make sure it happened, encouraging the citizens to work toward its fulfillment. As the Ruach HaQadesh carries out the will of Yah in the world, we are to be in unity with his desires and intent for the earth in carrying out our role as vice governors over the territory. We are not here to establish our kingdoms. We are here to establish the kingdom of our Sovereign, whom we represent.




In Fulfilling the Purposes of the Kingdom




The above passage from the book of Isaiah emphasizes the focus of the kingdom on earth: telling the inhabitants about the promise of the Father, freeing them from the kingdom of darkness, and showing them the nature of the kingdom and how to enter in to it. It is the Governor who helps us to do all these things.




It is the King’s ultimate purpose, as spoken through the prophet Habakkuk, that “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Most High, as the waters cover the sea.” We can take this statement as an instruction concerning the kingdom. Again, the glory of Yah refers to the nature of Yah. Yahusha said that, under the Governor’s direction, we are to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Ruach HaQadesh, and teaching them to obey everything [Yahusha has] commanded.” In this way, the prophecy will be fulfilled.




The Governor calls upon us to bring the culture of the kingdom into the foreign culture that has taken over the earth—the culture of the kingdom of darkness. We saw earlier that to disciple means to teach kingdom philosophy and values, so that the students are immersed in the mind-set of the King. The term nations is the Greek word ethnos, referring to races or people groupings. Every special grouping of people on earth is to be converted into kingdom culture.




The royal governor of the Bahamas used to appoint local commissioners, or council people, from the colony, and he would empower them do different improvement projects, such as fixing the roads. Likewise, the Governor empowers us to do good works in the world on behalf of the government. As Paul wrote, “For we are Yah’s workmanship, created in Hamachiach Yahusha to do good works, which Yah prepared in advance for us to do.”

A TRANSFORMED OUTLOOK ON LIFE

Genesis chapter 3













Today we are walking in: A Transformed Outlook On Life







Today we look to the word-MIND-H3824 lebab--mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory









The Torah testifies...............





Leviticus 24:12




And they put him in ward, that the mind H3824 of the LORD might be shewed them.








The prophets proclaim..................




Isaiah 26:3




Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind H3824 is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.








The writings bear witness..........................





Lamentations 3:21

This I recall to my mind H3824, therefore have I hope.





Job 34:33

Should it be according to thy mind H3824? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.




The kingdom’s history of “righteousness, peace and joy in the Ruach HaQadesh” is your own. Whenever Hasatan accuses you, saying, “You’re a sinner,” you can reply, “I was redeemed by the blood of the King-Son. He cleansed and washed away my wrongdoing.”




The book of Hebrews continues, “Let us draw near to Yah with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience.” Even our consciences are cleansed by the blood of our Redeemer. Again, if another person brings up your past, you can say, “You’re talking about someone who is dead. I’ve been raised in newness of life!” So the Governor teaches you your new kingdom history, for this is the will of the King for your life.




Paul wrote, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Your mind is to be transformed so that you will no longer have a mind-set filled with rebellion, guilt, depression, fear, confusion, and frustration, but rather righteousness, peace, and joy in the Ruach HaQadesh.




Remember that the Governor is the presence and nature of the kingdom of Yah on earth. This means that if you receive the Ruach HaQadesh, you should be able to say, as Yahusha did, “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” We will explore our transition into the Governor’s culture in more detail in later teachings.




New Courage and Confidence




Yahusha’ disciple John taught first-century kingdom citizens what he had learned from the Master Teacher:




“You, dear children, are from Yah and have overcome [the kingdom of darkness], because the one who is in you [the Governor] is greater than the one who is in the world [Hasatan and his followers].” When the Ruach lives within you, heaven is your home country, and you have its authority and power. There is nothing or no one in the world who has more power and resources than the King. Therefore, you don’t need to be threatened by anyone on earth who tries to intimidate or harm you. Luke the physician recorded Yahusha’ teaching on this:




My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by Yah. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of Yah.




The fear of man is a snare to us as kingdom citizens because it will cause us to live by a mindset and standards other than the kingdom’s. We won’t be acting in authority and power but in worry and timidity. Paul wrote that the King has not given us the Ruach of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind. We can be composed in all circumstances because we know that the King lives within us through the presence of the Governor.




Reconnection to Life’s Purpose




When the Governor comes to live within a person, he helps connect him to the assignment for which he was born. The prophet Joel talked about old men dreaming dreams, young men seeing visions, and sons and daughters prophesying the King’s will. I define a dream as something you can see being accomplished in the future, even though you may not live to see it fully completed. A vision is something you can see to do, which you can complete in your lifetime.




Paul wrote, “For we are Yah’s workmanship, created in Hamachiach Yahusha to do good works, which Yah prepared in advance for us to do.” We are newly created when the Governor comes to dwell in us. We can therefore start over in the kingdom to do good works, which the King planned for us to accomplish even before we were born. The Governor gives back to older people the dreams for the future they thought they had lost. He gives young people visions for their lives to help them stop wasting their time and energy on useless things. He makes us all rulers in the realms of our particular giftings.




Some people mistake the meaning of the Governor’s presence in their lives. As we have seen, they think he came just to make them “feel good,” or that he came to give them abilities that they can use to draw attention to themselves. Instead, he came to give us a vision or a dream of something that only we can help accomplish, because he has given it to us as our special work on earth. He came to give us power so that this particular work can be realized.




In addition, you can be cleansed and receive the Governor, but not understand that he wants to give you power for living the kingdom life. You therefore spend all your time fighting against attitudes and desires that are contrary to the kingdom, instead of overcoming them through the authority and power of the Ruach, so that you can do the important work for which you were born. His power should work through you so you can show evidence that your life is under the influence of the kingdom. The Governor came to empower you for work. He is here to impact the earth for heaven through your vision or dream.




Communication with the Heavenly Government




Finally, but very importantly, the return of the Governor gives us the ability to communicate with the heavenly government. We can bring the kingdom of heaven to earth and have dominion over it only if we are receiving clear instructions from the King. A kingdom can function in delegated authority only if the purpose, will, and intent of the King are being transmitted to that delegated authority.




What the King intends for earth is to be transmitted by the Governor to his vice governors, and to be executed on earth through their rulership. Whenever the Governor is not present, or the communication of the Governor is ignored, the practical rulership of the King is absent on earth. Some presence of the government has to exist. This is why the Ruach HaQadesh is the key to the kingdom of heaven on earth. The Governor is the agent of the revelation of Yah’s mind to the earth through humanity’s dominion.




Access to the King




Let me try to illustrate how vital the Governor is to our communication with the King. In the colonial period in the Bahamas, if anybody, and I mean anybody, whether members of Parliament, local commissioners, or the bishop, wanted to go to Great Britain to see the queen, they couldn’t get close to her without going through the royal governor first. This was true even for the premier of the colony.




A similar process applies in our relationship with the King- Father. Some people think they can have access to the heavenly throne because of their level of education or how wealthy they are, or how much they have done for the poor. We can’t have an audience with the King-Father, however, unless we go through the King-Son, who opened the way for us by his substitutionary death, and unless we do so through the power of the Governor, who is our means of speaking with and hearing from the Father.




When you went to the governor in the Bahamas for permission to see the queen, the governor would send a message concerning you to England, and if the governor in Nassau cleared you, you were in. Likewise, when the King-Son clears you, and when you are relying on the Governor to communicate your requests and desires, you can go straight to the King-Father’s throne room in the inner courts of the palace. As the writer of the book of Hebrews wrote, “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”




I’ve heard that when John F. Kennedy was the president of the United States, he was sitting in the Oval Office having a meeting with his cabinet. They were discussing the most dangerous situations in the world at that time, the Bay of Pigs issue with Cuba and the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons. This was the most serious meeting they had held up to that point in the administration. The story goes that the door suddenly swung open, and a little boy ran across the room, around the cabinet members, and landed in the lap of the president. All the important members of the cabinet were suddenly silent. This little boy looked up at his father— the most powerful leader in the world—and said, “Daddy, who are these people?” And President Kennedy said, “These are my Cabinet, son.” The boy looked at this powerful group of men; then he pointed to his father and said, “This is my daddy.” At that moment, it didn’t matter who the president was meeting with. The son had complete access to the father. And the same is true in our relationship with our King-Father.




Hearing the Will of the King




When a king wanted to communicate with his citizens, the Governor was also involved in this process. For example, any time the queen came to the Bahamas to visit, she didn’t announce her visit directly to the people. She told the royal governor, and he told the people. In a similar way, whenever the King of heaven is going to do anything on earth, he communicates it through the Governor, who tells it to us. As Paul wrote, “Who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s Ruach within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of Yah except the Ruach of Yah.” The presence of the Governor in our lives enables us to hear and know the will of the King for us.




Hearing from the King is actually a very practical thing for a kingdom citizen, and was modeled for us by Yahusha. The Gospels tells us that Yahusha often went off by himself to hear the King-Father’s instructions. Prayer was his means of dealing with government business. You have to be able to receive instructions from the heavenly government before you can accurately represent it. Yahusha said to his disciples, “When you pray....” Prayer, therefore, is not an option; it is daily government communication. We need to ask the King, with the help of the Governor, “What do you want done today?” And we have to be ready to listen and respond.




Keeping in Right Relationship




Worshipping the King is another form of communication with the heavenly government. Many people have made worship into a ritual, when it’s really about keeping in right relationship with the King. It is a means by which we remain in constant connection and communion with our Sovereign and honor his government.




Worship protects us from establishing our own kingdoms on earth, rather than the heavenly government’s, because we acknowledge and confirm to him that his desires and will are paramount. We affirm that his government’s interests are the ultimate reason for our existence.




The significance of our connection to the kingdom through the Governor will become even clearer in coming chapters as we explore the nature and role of the Ruach HaQadesh and his impact on the culture of our individual lives, as well as the culture of earth.




The Nature of the Governor




A person left to himself will self-destruct.




We have seen that the presence of the Governor is essential for transforming the world into the kingdom of heaven. It is now vital that we consider in more depth the nature of the Ruach HaQadesh because, though the Governor is the most important person on earth, he is also the most misunderstood and ignored.




People who are not yet in the kingdom don’t understand the Ruach HaQadesh’s indispensable role in their lives because they’ve been led to believe that he is mysterious and unknowable. Or they think he is a kind of apparition because of our modern connotation of the word Ruach and the use of the term Holy Ghost for Ruach HaQadesh in the King James Version of the Bible. Even people who have received the Governor have misconceptions regarding who he is. I said earlier that some think he’s a sensation or a thrill whose purpose is to make them feel good. Let’s explore the nature of the Governor beginning with what he is not.




What the Ruach HaQadesh Isn’t Not an “It”




The Ruach HaQadesh is not an “it” or a “thing.” Some people refer to him as a nonpersonal object, saying, “Do you feel it?” or “Do you have it?” The Ruach HaQadesh is a person with a personality. We will discuss more of his personal characteristics in the next section.




Not a Universal “Force” or “Cosmic Mind”




The Ruach HaQadesh is also not a kind of force or cosmic mind that we can “tap into” to receive the power and knowledge of the universe. He is not the sum total of the consciousness of the inhabitants of earth. To some people, these metaphysical ideas have become synonymous with Yah’s Ruach. However, no one can control the Ruach HaQadesh or “siphon off” his knowledge or power. Neither is he part of our consciousness. He is a distinct Being who grants us knowledge and power when we have a relationship with the King and are yielded to the will of the kingdom. Instead of demanding it or taking it for granted, we are to be grateful for the power with which he works in our lives to further the purposes of the kingdom and to strengthen us as children of the King.




Not a Cloud or Mist




Some people think of the Ruach HaQadesh as just a kind of smoke or mist or cloud that comes in to a place and sometimes causes people to fall down on the floor. I’m not saying that there aren’t legitimate times when the Ruach HaQadesh will manifest his presence in a physical way, but I believe that people who are always looking for such manifestations are susceptible to imaginings and fabrications.




Rather than referring to the Ruach as a kind of ethereal mist, Yahusha talked about the Ruach using the word he. In fact, this statement of his could not be clearer:




But when he, the Ruach of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.




Yahusha could have said, “When the Ruach HaQadesh comes.” He kept repeating the word he, however, as if he wanted to make sure we knew the Ruach HaQadesh is not just a force or cloud.




Not a Feeling or Sensation




The Ruach HaQadesh is also not just a “feeling.” Again, I think we have often relegated him to a kind of strange, goose-pimple- raising experience. I think part of the reason for this is that some people come to corporate worship experiences so pent up with frustration about their lives that, when they can’t take it anymore, but they sense an accepting environment, they run around screaming, roll on the ground, and call it the Ruach HaQadesh. They are simply releasing tension.




You don’t need to make noise to experience the Ruach HaQadesh. You don’t need loud drums and cowbells and screaming, shouting, and clapping. If you read the Bible carefully, most of the time when the Ruach manifested himself, it was in quietness, not feelings. The prophet Elijah had this experience:




A great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Most High, but the Most High was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Most High was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Most High was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”




Let me add this statement, however: The Ruach HaQadesh is not a feeling, but his presence can certainly affect your emotions as you experience his peace, joy, and comfort.




Who Is the Ruach HaQadesh? The Ruach HaQadesh Is Yah Extended




The most important thing we must know about the nature of the Ruach HaQadesh is that he is Yah. I like to use the term “Yah extended.” He is Yah extended to a person and/or situation to work the purpose and will of his kingdom in the person’s life or in the circumstance.




One with Yah




Earlier, we talked about the fact that Yahusha is fully Yah, even though he is also fully human. Yah the Son became Yahusha of Nazareth for the purpose of his redemptive task in the world. His dual nature never diminished His oneness and equality with the Father. The Scripture says that Yahusha, “being in the form of Yah, did not consider it robbery to be equal with Yah, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.”




You don’t need to grasp for something that you already have. Yahusha is equal with Yah, even though he is distinct in personality and function from Yah the Father and Yah the Ruach. The Scripture tells us that Yahusha was sent from the Father through the Ruach. The heavenly messenger told Mary, the mother of Yahusha, “The Ruach HaQadesh will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of Yah.” And Yahusha spoke of his oneness with the Father, saying, “I and the Father are one,” and “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”




The word Father in relation to Yah doesn’t mean father the way one is related to a human father, or in the sense of some- one who is “greater” or “older.” Yah is not “older” than Yahusha Hamachiach. Yahusha is eternal, as Yah the Father is eternal. Rather, the word Father refers to Yah’s being the Source from which Yahusha was sent.




Likewise, the Ruach HaQadesh is Yah, and he is equal to the Father and the Son. John wrote in his gospel, “Yah is Ruach, and his worshipers must worship in Ruach and in truth.” Yahusha spoke of the Ruach as “another Counselor” who would continue his work on earth. So Yah is one, but he expresses himself in three distinct personalities and dimensions.




Yahusha told his disciples, “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Ruach of truth who goes out from the Father....” Both Yahusha and the Ruach proceeded from the Father to accomplish the work that needed and still needs to be done on earth. Yahusha was sent by the Father to redeem us; the Ruach was sent by Yahusha to empower us. Yahusha was sent to restore us; the Ruach was sent to release us into a new kingdom life.




I like to describe the concept of the triune Yah by the analogy of water. Water, in its liquid state, is like Yah the Father; it is the natural source. If you were to take some water and freeze it, it would become solid ice. Ice is like Yahusha, the Word who became flesh; he was tangible, someone who could be seen, heard, and touched. If you were to take the same ice, put it in a pot, and heat it to boiling, it would become steam. Steam is like the Ruach HaQadesh, the invisible influence that generates power. Ice and steam can return to their original liquid state. All three are in essence water, although in different forms.

A KING'S LOVE FOR HIS CITIZEN'S

Genesis chapter 3










Today we are walking in: A King's Love For His Citizen's!!!!










Today we look to the word LOVE --H157 - 'ahab --a primitive root; to have affection for:—be loved, lovely, like, friend.






The Torah testifies.........……




Exodus 20:6

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love H157 me, and keep my commandments.




Deuteronomy 6:5

And thou shalt love H157 the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.









The prophets proclaim..................




Joshua 23:11

Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love H157 the Lord your God.





Micah 6:8

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love H157 mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?











The writings bear witness............




Proverbs 17: 9

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love H157; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.







A King’s Love for His Citizens





Love is the nature of the King and his kingdom.




Love’s Voluntary Limitation




To fully understand the nature of the kingdom we have an opportunity to enter, we must see that the King- Son’s motivation for coming to earth was unqualified love for its inhabitants. He loved the people of the world so much that he voluntarily limited himself in significant ways in order to restore them to the kingdom. The Gospels writer John penned one of the best-known statements from the gospel writings: “For Yah so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Love is the nature of the King- Father and the King-Son.




Yahusha is the perfect representation of Yah in human form. He came to show us what Yah is like and to take away our fear of Him, enabling us to call him not only our King, but also our Father again, because we have the same Ruach within us.




The Governor’s Limitation




The King-Son’s voluntary limitation of himself was prompted by the limited way in which the Governor had been able to work with the earth’s inhabitants since the rebellion of humanity. As we noted earlier, the Governor could only come upon people in Old Testament times to do the work of the kingdom in specific instances; he could not work from within them yet. When the Son came to earth as the man Yahusha, the Ruach could now live on earth within his body. Yet the Governor still could not dwell in all of humanity. The King-Father’s plan was for the Governor to eventually be released into all human beings who would receive him through the provision of the King-Son.




The King-Son Limited Himself in order to Become Unlimited




Yahusha’ teachings were filled with seeming paradoxes that contain great truths. For example, he taught that in order to live eternally, one had to die to oneself; in order to be strong in kingdom power, one had to be weak in oneself. He lived out a paradox by voluntarily limiting himself so that he could become unlimited in the lives of his followers—those who became children of the King and received the Governor within them. Yahusha limited himself in the following ways. He...




√ emptied himself so that we could be full; became poor so that we could be rich.




√ placed himself under the restrictions of a world of space and time so that we could be connected to the eternal kingdom.




√ subjected himself to law so he could free those under it.




√ submitted to physical death so we could have eternal life.




Paul wrote to the kingdom citizens in Philippi that Yahusha,being in the form of Yah, did not consider it robbery to be equal with Yah, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the crucifixion stake.




All the above are demonstrations of the King-Son’s powerful love for the inhabitants of earth. He did these things so that he could send the Governor back to us—and in us—with- out limitations. The Ruach HaQadesh continues the ministry of Yahusha on earth. Yahusha told his disciples,




And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Ruach of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.




Let’s take a closer look at the ways in which the King-Son limited himself for our sakes.




Limited Himself from Glory




In a letter to the followers of Yahusha in Corinth, Paul wrote, “For you know the grace of our Most High Yahusha Hamachiach, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.” The King-Son emptied himself of his heavenly power, glory, and riches to live as a physical, earthly being dependent on the King-Father for everything through the Ruach. Yahusha said, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.”




When the Son became a man, he temporarily set aside his former glory. Just before his death, Yahusha prayed, “Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.” Only three of Yahusha’ disciples were given a glimpse of this glory when he was on earth, when he was “transfigured” by the Father for a short time:




Yahusha took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Yahusha. Peter said to Yahusha, “Most High, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”




The effect of this experience on Peter, James, and John was overwhelming. The Son had set aside this magnificent glory to fulfill his mission on earth.




Limited Himself to Time and Space




The eternal King-Son also allowed himself to become restricted by time. He who owns the universe limited himself to a small region on a small planet during an earthly life of thirty-three years, where he could be in only one place at a time. He lived there, died there, rose again there, and even ascended to heaven from there. Eternity allowed itself to be limited within time, so that those in time could be reconnected to the eternal kingdom.




Limited Himself under Law




Paul wrote, “When the time had fully come, Yah sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.” The law of Moses and the sacrificial system had been instituted for those who were disconnected from the King. Yahusha had full access to, and total communion with, the heavenly Father; yet he submitted himself to all the requirements of the law so that he could perfectly fulfill them. Then, when we receive his perfect sacrifice on our behalf, we are enabled to obey Yah through the indwelling Ruach HaQadesh. The book of the prophet Ezekiel says,




I will give them an undivided heart and put a new Ruach in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their Yah.




Yahusha also submitted himself to the laws of nature in this physical world. Can you imagine Yah having a tired body? Being thirsty? Hungry? The Yah who created the whole world and all its oceans, lakes, and rivers had to ask someone else for a drink of water. The Yah who made the trees and their ability to bear fruit had to stop to pick fruit to eat. The Yah whom the psalmist said “neither slumbers nor sleeps” had to rest.




In fact, Yahusha was once so tired that he kept sleeping in the middle of a violent storm! He temporarily submitted himself to physical limitations in order to give back dominion power to humanity.




Limited Himself by Death




The Author of life had to look into the eyes of death. He met it face-to-face and submitted to it. Then he conquered it, taking away its sting from humanity. The prophet Isaiah said it pleased the King-Father for the King-Son to suffer and die. Why would it please him to have the Son experience agonizing suffering and death? Again, it is because he didn’t want the earth’s inhabitants to experience spiritual death as a result of their rebellion, and therefore the King-Son willingly died in our place. He allowed himself to be limited in a physical human body, and to be limited by the experience of death, because only another human being could be a viable substitute for humanity. Paul wrote, “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of Yah is eternal life through Yahusha Hamachiach our Most High.” Yahusha had no sin, but he took all our sins on himself, and that is why he—the perfect man, the Second Adam—died.




Yet Yahusha was resurrected, never to be limited by death again. In the same way, when we enter into the kingdom, we receive eternal life, and death can’t keep our bodies in the grave forever. Again, Paul wrote, “By his power Yah raised the Most High from the dead, and he will raise us also.” The Son’s limitation of death brought unlimited life for us! Death has no ultimate claim on us because Yahusha paid the punishment of death for us. As Paul said, “Yah made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of Yah”—so that we could receive eternal life and be in right standing with the kingdom again.




This is another clear difference between the heavenly King and the human leaders we are familiar with. You don’t hear of presidents or prime ministers dying in office for the purpose of freeing their citizens. A leader may be assassinated for standing up for a cause or because of someone’s hatred or insanity. But to choose to die for his citizens? This is unheard of in our experience. Remember the words of the disciple John: “For Yah so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Yahusha compared his sacrifice for humanity to a shepherd laying down his life for his sheep: “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.” His death was a demonstration of pure love for his people.




The Promise of Unlimited Kingdom Influence




Yahusha’ limiting of himself made possible the return of unlimited kingdom influence on earth. I’ve heard some people say longingly that they wish Yahusha Hamachiach was on earth today. They believe that if he were, and they met him personally, their lives would be different. Perhaps you wish for the same thing. I used to, also. But I’ve come to see that this is a bad wish; it’s not in our best interests. The transformation of our lives is possible because Yahusha is no longer physically on earth.




Why is this so? First, let’s consider the logistics of it. If Yahusha was physically here, and you wanted to visit him, you’d have to pay for the plane fare to Palestine. After you arrived, you’d have to make your way through all the crowds just to try to get near him. And then, you couldn’t expect him to spend all his time with you. Think of the millions or billions of people who would also want to meet with him every day. Even so, we seem to hold on to the idea that Yahusha’ physical presence on earth is what we need. This is because we haven’t realized that the Governor is now available to all people at all times.




Yahusha’ disciples made the same error we do. When the King-Son told his followers he was leaving earth to go back to the King- Father in the heavenly home country, they became depressed. They had become attached to

Yahusha’ physical presence in their lives, and they were afraid to lose it. Yet let’s look at Yahusha’ response to this perspective:




Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, “Where are you going?” Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. But I tell you the truth: it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you....In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.

Yahusha was saying that he had to return to heaven so that he could send the Governor to be with them always. They would not see Yahusha after he went away, but when he sent the Governor from heaven shortly thereafter, they would be indwelled with the Ruach HaQadesh, who would guide them into all truth and remind them of everything Yahusha had said to them.




When the Governor came, he wouldn’t be with them only in a limited way, such as Yahusha had to be when he was ministering to someone else or alone praying to the Father. He would be with them continually, day and night, in all situations. Before, if Yahusha was in Samaria, he couldn’t be in Galilee. If he was in Jerusalem, he couldn’t be in Bethany.




We should be glad that he has returned to heaven because now the kingdom can be all over the world at the same time through the Ruach HaQadesh, who lives in all kingdom citizens. Yahusha assured his disciples, in essence, “My going away is for your good. The Governor is with you now, but he will be in you.” It wasn’t Yahusha’ purpose to physically remain on the earth because this would have stopped the King’s plan of restoration right before its culmination in the return of the Governor.




When Yahusha was arrested and crucified, Lucifer thought he had won the victory over the King that he had been looking for. Actually, he was being set up for total defeat. If Yahusha hadn’t gone to the crucifixion stake and been resurrected, we would still be trapped in rebellion and in the kingdom of darkness. If Yahusha hadn’t returned to the heavenly home country and sent the Governor to fill us, the kingdom of Yah would not have been able to fully return to the earth. Yahusha had said, in effect, “If I go to the crucifixion stake, I will be able to draw all people to me and into the kingdom. I will be able to release billions of people into their original purpose of kingdom rulership and dominion.”




Yahusha limited himself, in the many ways that he did, out of self-sacrificial love and devotion to the estranged children of the King. He made reconciliation and restoration possible for all the inhabitants of the world.




A Priceless Gift for Humanity




We have seen all along that the most important person on earth is the Ruach HaQadesh, the Governor of the heavenly kingdom. He is a priceless gift to humanity, and it delighted the King- Father to restore the Governor to us. Luke the physician recorded Yahusha as saying to his disciples, “If you then, though you are evil [controlled by the kingdom of darkness], know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven [Ruler of the kingdom of light] give the Ruach HaQadesh to those who ask him!” He also said, “Your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.”




In the next teaching, we will see how the Governor returned to earth.

THE REBIRTH OF A KINGDOM PART 3

Genesis chapter 3













Today we are walking in: The Rebirth Of A Kingdom Part 3
















Today we look to the word: RESTORE- H8421- shuwb- to come back; specifically to reply:—answer, restore, return (an answer).








The Torah testifies………….




Leviticus 6:5

Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore H8421 it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.




Deuteronomy 22:2




And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore H8421 it to him again.










The Prophets proclaim………….




Nehemiah 5:11

Restore H8421, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.




Nehemiah 5:12

Then said they, We will restore H8421 them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.







The Writings witness…….




Job 20:18

That which he laboured for shall he restore H8421, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.





Psalm 51:12

Restore H8421 unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.







Baptism with Fire




Water baptism aligned and identified Yahusha’ followers with his kingdom teaching. But what had John meant when he said that Yahusha would “baptize...with the Ruach HaQadesh and with fire”? The baptism with the Ruach HaQadesh, which we will talk about in more detail in later teachings, is the consummation of identification with the King and his kingdom, as well as a reception of the power of the heavenly kingdom. The Ruach HaQadesh is the personification of the heavenly government. To be baptized in this way means you are immersed in kingdom philosophy and lifestyle, and that it has total influence over your thoughts and actions.




The word philosophy is derived from the Greek word philosophos, which is a combination of two smaller Greek words. Philos means “fond” or “beloved,” and sophos means “wise.” So philosophos means a fondness for or a love of wise things. Disciples of kingdom philosophy are to fall in love with the mind and will of the King, so that his mind and will become theirs, and their actions mirror his. As the wise King Solomon wrote, “As a person thinks within himself, so he is.”




This process of transformation into kingdom thinking and lifestyle is absolutely necessary because the Creator-King has declared this about the rebellious inhabitants of earth: “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways....As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Our thoughts and ways need to become realigned with the Creator-King’s, and we do this by identifying completely with kingdom thinking, submitting to the Master of the kingdom, and being baptized into his power.




The way to fully live out the life of the kingdom, therefore, is to be baptized with the Ruach. We are to be totally submerged in the Creator-King’s frame of reference and mind-set so that we always think his thoughts, live his thoughts, and manifest his life.




The New Testament book of Luke tells us that, following his baptism by John, Yahusha was “full of the Ruach HaQadesh,...and was led by the Ruach in the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by HaSatan.” When he emerged from that experience, having overcome each temptation, Luke further records, “Yahusha returned to Galilee in the power of the Ruach,” and the book of Matthew adds, “From that time on Yahusha began to preach, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.’” The message of the kingdom and the fullness and power of the Ruach are intimately connected.




The King-Son Demonstrated the Influence of the Kingdom on Earth




The King-Son not only spoke the message of the kingdom, but he also lived it out. His entire life on earth was evidence of kingdom rulership. Everything Yahusha said or did was the administration of the King-Father’s will through the power of the Governor within him. He spoke about this reality with statements such as these:




√ My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me.




√ These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.




√ My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.




√ I and the Father are one.




√ I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.




√ Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.




√ If Yah were your Father, you would love me, for I came from Yah and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.




√ I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.




In the Old Testament accounts we reviewed in the previous teaching, we saw that what we call miracles were actually evidence of kingdom influence on earth. The same thing applies to the miracles Yahusha performed. The administration of the kingdom could be seen whenever Yahusha healed someone who was sick (power over the effects of humanity’s rebellion), delivered someone who was possessed by an agent of HaSatan (power over the kingdom of darkness), fed thousands by multiplying small amounts of food (power over the natural world), or raised people from the dead (power to give life). These acts were confirmation of heavenly dominion over the environment of earth; they were demonstrations of kingdom power over circumstances. Yahusha was saying, in essence, “What you see is what the heavenly government is doing. I’m just manifesting it.”




The King-Son Died to Redeem and Restore Human Beings to The King-Father and His Kingdom




The King-Son’s mission on earth was not only to deliver the message and demonstrate the influence of the kingdom, but also to provide a way for human beings to reenter the kingdom and be reconciled to the King-Father. The children’s separation from the Father because of their rebellion had to be addressed. And the only way their holiness (integrity or internal wholeness and devotion to the Father) could be restored was through a sacrifice.




As we saw, the Old Testament animal sacrifices of the tabernacle and temple were only temporary. Animal sacrifices were not equitable blood payment for the rebellion and the culture of hatred and death that human beings had brought to earth. Animal sacrifice did not have the power to change the perpetually evil hearts of the world’s inhabitants. Only human blood could make restitution for the rebellion and bloodshed of humanity. Instead of making the people pay for their rebellion with their own blood, however, the Father sent the Son to earth as a human being to pay for it with his blood. The Son took the punishment for all the inhabitants of earth, which allowed them to be reconciled to the kingdom. This was the ultimate reason for his incarnation.




The King-Son could reconcile the inhabitants to the King- Father because he was holy. Again, in his humanity, Yahusha was like other human beings in all ways except one—he had no rebellion in him or double-mindedness toward the kingdom. He was fully integrated, devoted, and set apart for the King- Father. He lived within a human body because he wanted to go through every aspect of human experience—he desired to feel what we feel and experience everything about being human, without the rebellion. Yahusha demonstrated by his life what it meant to be a human being with the Governor living within. He was true humanity rightly related to the King-Father and his kingdom.




Yahusha’ death on the crucifixion stake at the place called Calvary (meaning “Skull”) was the plan of the Father to provide for the return of the Governor. It was not a mistake, but part of the program. The earthly temple with its sacrifices would no longer be needed because the heavenly temple had arrived in Yahusha’ own body; the Ruach HaQadesh was present within him. Again, Yahusha was able to be the ultimate sacrifice because he was fully aligned with the King and lived a perfect life. Yahusha explained the nature of his death before he died:




The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.




The King-Son laid down his life in payment for the rebellion of all humanity, past and present. When this was paid, the Father gave him authority to take up his life again, and he was raised from the dead. The Author of life chose to die because of his love for the human beings whom he had created; he desired to rescue them from the kingdom of darkness so they could live within the kingdom of heaven once more. Paul described our entrance to the kingdom through the King-Son’s sacrifice as walking in “newness of life”:




Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Hamachiach Yahusha were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Hamachiach was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.




Some people wish they could go back to the day Yahusha died and prevent his death. We would all want to spare anyone from that kind of death. However, his dying was necessary to fulfill the Father’s restoration plan. Yahusha’ death wasn’t forced upon him; he chose it for the express purpose of saving the world and releasing the Governor to the earth again. Once more, before he was crucified, Yahusha made his choice very clear, saying,




I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.




Yahusha told his followers beforehand that he was going to die to pay for the rebellion of humanity, even though they didn’t comprehend it at the time. He said, “This is what is written [was predicted by the King’s prophet]: The Hamachiach will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day.”




Yahusha therefore wasn’t killed as a tragic mistake. He gave up his life in sacrifice so we could be cleansed vessels for the Governor to live in. He kept moving forward with the restoration plan until everything was set in place for our reconciliation with the Father. Just before he died, he said, “It is finished.” The enemies of Yahusha didn’t finish him. He gave up his life when he was finished with his mission. Just before his arrest, he prayed,




Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true Yah, and Yahusha Hamachiach, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.




Again, Yahusha wasn’t a helpless victim of jealous enemies. He is the King of glory who overcame both sin and death. Notice that he prayed to the Father, “I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.” The Old Testament prophet Habakkuk had foretold, “The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Most High, as the waters cover the sea.” Because Yahusha completed the work of restoration, the glory (nature) of the kingdom of heaven was released and began to spread throughout the earth.




The King-Son Destroyed the Ruach of Independence and Rebellion in the Colony




Yahusha’ death at Calvary, the blood that he shed on the crucifixion stake, and his resurrection from the dead were required in order to break the spirit of rebellion in humanity. I use the word spirit because rebellion is really an attitude or nature within every human being. It’s something we’re born with; it is ingrained within us. This spirit is antagonistic to the kingdom of heaven. It couldn’t be wished away or ignored. It had to be broken. And Yahusha did break this power, allowing the earth’s inhabitants to instead yield to the Ruach HaQadesh. Paul wrote, “For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Ruach, and the Ruach what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Ruach, you are not under law.”




Breaking a spirit of independence is very difficult, but this is what Yahusha accomplished. He gave us the ability to say to the Father, as he himself said at the most difficult point in his earthly life, “Not my will, but yours be done.” He provided for the spirit of rebellion to be replaced with a spirit of yieldedness to the kingdom. He gave us the ability to obey the will of the Father. In fact, Yahusha said that submitting to him was the same thing as submitting to the Father, since he and the Father are one. “If you love me,” he said to his followers, “you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor [the Governor] to be with you forever.”




Can you imagine anyone in American politics telling the voters, “Do everything I say”? They would think he was crazy because we’re taught not to trust anyone like that. But Yahusha came to bring back the perfect government. In the kingdom of heaven, trust in the King-Son is the only way to experience life. In the kingdom of heaven, independence from the King- Son brings death, as Yahusha explained to his disciples:




Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.




Yahusha was destroying the idea of independence and rebellion, showing that this leads to deadly consequences. In contrast, dependence on him leads to life because “apart from [him] you can do nothing.” We are to be dependent on him so that he can help us be what we were created to be. Paul discovered this truth firsthand. Yahusha told him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Paul’s response was to say, “When I am weak, then I am strong [in the power of the kingdom].”




The key, then, to being freed from the grip of rebellion, restored to wholeness and devotion to the King-Father, and released in the power and life of the Ruach is to acknowledge and receive the cleansing that the King-Son accomplished for us when he paid for our rebellion through his death. His was the ultimate sacrifice for the rebellious nature of human- ity. It was a sacrifice for all of humanity. It is available for all people. Yet each human being must make a personal decision to commit to Yahusha’ kingdom school and enter into the king- dom by accepting his sacrifice to break the spirit of rebellion and by desiring to realign with the King. As he does this, he will receive the nature of the kingdom within.




“He Lives with You and Will Be in You”




This brings us back to what Yahusha told his followers about the Governor, the Ruach of the King: “He lives with you and will be in you.” Yahusha’ followers had seen the demonstration of the Governor’s power lived out in his life. The Governor’s works were manifested on the earth, but no other human being besides Yahusha had the Ruach living within. Yahusha was promising the disciples that, through his sacrifice, the Governor would be coming back to live within them, also, just as had been promised since Genesis 3 when the rebellion occurred. This would not only align them with the nature and thinking of the kingdom, but it would also empower them to live it out just as Yahusha had lived it out on earth. Soon, the Governor would be taking up his official residence again in the citizens of the kingdom on earth, as the prophet Joel had foretold.




The King-Son’s Ultimate Reason for Coming to Earth




After his resurrection, Yahusha told his disciples, “I am going to send you what my Father has promised.” The King-Son was restating the essential reason for his ministry. This next statement may shock a few people, but I believe it is vital for us to understand: the promise of the Father was not Yahusha’ sufferings, his death on Calvary, or even his resurrection. Over the centuries, the Christian church has emphasized these aspects of Yahusha’ ministry to the point that I believe the ultimate reason he endured them has been obscured.




Through the years, people—especially religious people— have changed the meaning of the Father’s promise to humanity. Christianity has become the celebration of what Yahusha did rather than a reception of the reason He did it. We have declared a message that Yahusha never gave. We’ve changed the promise into one of leaving this earth and going to heaven, when what we’re called to is restored dominion over the earth through the indwelling Ruach.




The result is that we have worshipped Calvary, rather than benefiting from it. Yahusha’ sufferings, death, and resurrection were the means to an end—the reconciliation of humanity to the King, and, ultimately, the restoration of the Ruach to humanity. They were not ends in themselves. We’ve made the process the purpose. The promise of the Father was the reappointment of the Ruach as a result of these things. The entire reason for the King-Son’s coming into the world was to break the stronghold of HaSatan, destroy the grip of rebellion from human beings, and reconnect them to their King-Father so that the Governor could be restored to them.




The Ruach is what all human beings need in order to be realigned with the King and fulfill their purpose on earth. We should note that John the Baptist never emphasized the blood or death or resurrection of Yahusha. He emphasized the Ruach HaQadesh, because John was expressing the specific reason for his coming: “He will baptize you with the Ruach HaQadesh and with fire.” Humanity is not in need of a “religion.” We don’t need rituals and traditions. We need this promise of the Father to be a reality in our lives.




We must come to truly understand that the Ruach HaQadesh is the heavenly government personified. He is the source of the power of the kingdom in our lives. The Old Testament experience of the priests and prophets was only a shadow of what was to come. At that time, the Ruach HaQadesh couldn’t live in human beings; he could only be among them. But now, Yahusha was saying, “The Ruach of truth...lives with you and will be in you.”




As I said earlier, every miracle of Yahusha, every healing, every act of dominion—whether it was walking on water, casting out demons, or cleansing a leper—was not for entertainment or for making an impression; nor was it for the purpose of creating a religion or providing interesting material for preaching. These things were for the purpose of producing evidence to the world that the Ruach of the kingdom had returned to earth and would soon live within humanity again.




Just before Yahusha died, he gave his disciples many instructions, and these instructions had important information about the Governor. He was trying to tell them, in effect, “Everything I’m about to suffer is all because of my purposes concerning the Ruach HaQadesh in your lives and in the lives of those who will believe in the future.” He told them, in essence, “I’m going to leave you, but don’t panic or worry. The Governor is going to come back; he will be with you forever, and he’ll never forsake you.”




A striking illustration of the Governor’s return occurred at the moment of Yahusha’ death. The curtain in the temple separating the people from the Holy of Holies tore in two from top to bottom, signaling that Yahusha had made provision for human beings to be holy and receive the Ruach once more. The Ruach no longer had to be separated from them, dwelling only between the cherubim on a mercy seat that had been sprinkled with the blood of animals. Because of Yahusha’ ultimate blood sacrifice, the Ruach could once more be at home within human beings, giving them direct access to the King.




The Goal of the King




The King’s desire to restore the Ruach HaQadesh to humanity, therefore, is what made the entire redemptive program of Yahusha Hamachiach necessary. The principle goal and primary purpose of Yahusha’ coming into the world was to deliver the Governor of heaven to the colony of earth. Everything else was a means to that end. He didn’t come to bring us to heaven. He came to bring heaven to earth. This is why our Master Teacher taught us to pray, in what we call The Most High’s Prayer, that the King- Father’s influence, will, intent, and laws be done on earth—the colony—as they are in heaven—the home country.




The Roman Empire as a Type of the Heavenly Kingdom




The best time in history for the concept of the heavenly kingdom to be fully communicated to the inhabitants of earth was during the time of the Roman Empire, and this is a major reason why the King-Son, the Messiah, was born at that time. It was not a random choice by the King; it was the perfect time. Paul wrote,




When the time had fully come, Yah sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, Yah sent the Ruach of his Son into our hearts, the Ruach who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, Yah has made you also an heir.




The structure and functioning of the Roman Empire (though not its moral nature) at the time of Yahusha served as a type of the kingdom of heaven. For those living under its rule in Palestine, the analogy would have been obvious. Caesar was the emperor or king in Rome, and he was a type of the heav- enly King.




Caesar sent Pilate to be his procurator or governor over the region of Judea, to oversee it and create the culture of the Roman Empire there. Similarly, Yahusha said that when he returned to the Father, the Governor would be released to earth, enabling the inhabitants to fulfill the will of the King on earth once more, making it into a replica of the kingdom of heaven. Yahusha told his disciples, “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Ruach of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me,” and “I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”




Political concepts familiar to the people of the time were present for them to come to understand that Yahusha was talking about the return of the Governor to earth to enable them to fulfill the will and work of the kingdom of heaven. Interestingly, Yahusha’ enemies recognized that his message was about a kingdom, not a “religion.” This kingdom demanded full loyalty to the King-Father through the King-Son. Because Yahusha’ enemies did not want to submit to the authority of the heavenly government, they sought to kill him. They told Pilate that Yahusha was a threat to the political order of the day, saying, “We have no king but Caesar.” In this way, they pressured Pilate into choosing between killing an innocent man and appearing to support a king other than Caesar. He caved to the pressure and allowed Yahusha to be crucified. He was responsible for his choice, even though Yahusha’ death was part of the heavenly restoration plan. Every person essentially faces the same choice. Allegiance to the kingdom of heaven does not allow for any person or anything to take the place of the King.




The Release and Reception of the Governor




After the King-Son’s life on earth, a process unfolded by which the Governor was given to his followers. First, of course, the Ruach HaQadesh dwelled within the body of Yahusha—the first human being to have the Ruach within him since Adam and Eve. When Yahusha died on the cross, eyewitness and disciple John recorded that he “gave up his spirit.” Although this term can be a description for taking one’s last breath, I believe it also has a deeper significance here. The Greek word for “give up” means to “yield up.” Therefore, I think this term means that Yahusha also released the Ruach HaQadesh back to the Father in heaven at his death.




When Yahusha was resurrected, he was raised by the power of the Ruach, and the Ruach again dwelled in him. Paul wrote, “And if the Ruach of him who raised Yahusha from the dead is living in you, he who raised Hamachiach from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Ruach, who lives in you.” Just as the King-Son was raised from death by the Ruach, and the Ruach dwelled in him, those who enter the kingdom through the King-Son’s sacrifice will also receive the Ruach.




At Yahusha’ resurrection, then, the Ruach was now poised to return to humanity and rescue lives that had lived in rebellion, confusion, and despair under the kingdom of darkness. Just as the Ruach brought life out of emptiness and order from chaos at the creation of the earth, he would transform the earth once more into a colony of heaven through the return of the kingdom in the lives of its citizens.

THE REBIRTH OF A KINGDOM PART 2

Genesis chapter 3













Today we are walking in: The Rebirth Of A Kingdom Part 2!!!!!

















Today we look to the word- CHANGE- H2015- haphak- a primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert:—become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow overturn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).












The Torah Testifies…………….






Genesis 35:2




Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that werewith him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change H2015 your garments:




Leviticus 27:10




He shall not alter it, nor change H2015 it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change H2015 beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.







Leviticus 27:33




He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change H2015 it: and if he change H2015 it at all, then both it and the change H2015 thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.












The Prophets Proclaim………





Jeremiah 2:36




Why gaddest thou about so much to change H2015 thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.






Zechariah 3:4




And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change H2015 of raiment.






Malachi 3:6




For I am the LORD, I change H2015 not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.










The Writings witness……………





Job 14:14




If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change H2015 come.






Psalm 102:26




They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change H2015 them, and they shall be changed:






Proverbs 24:21




My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change H2015:







The King-Son Reintroduced the Kingdom of Heaven to Humanity




Yahusha’ first declaration in his public ministry was essentially his mission statement: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” He continually repeated this same message for three and-a-half years during his entire ministry on earth. Throughout the written record of his life in the New Testament writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, we find him restating his central theme of the kingdom of heaven. Sometimes, he would use the phrase the kingdom of Yah. While these phrases are essentially the same, you could say that the kingdom of heaven is the place, while the kingdom of Yah is the influence. The kingdom of heaven is the headquarters, the invisible country where the King-Father resides. The kingdom of Yah is the influence of that country on its territories. Here is a sample of the King-Son’s other statements concerning the kingdom:




√ Yahusha went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.




√ “But if I drive out demons by the Ruach of Yah, then the kingdom of Yah has come upon you.”




√ “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants....”




√ “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard....”




√ “The kingdom of Yah will be...given to a people who will produce its fruit.”




HaSatan (also called Satan) knew that the King-Son had come to overthrow him to restore the heavenly kingdom on earth. He therefore tried to tempt Yahusha away from his mission by appealing to his natural human desire to exercise dominion over the earth. Notice that HaSatan tried to get Yahusha to substitute the kingdoms of the world for the kingdom of heaven, which is basically the same thing with which he had tempted Adam and Eve. This would allow HaSatan to maintain his oppressive domination and destruction of the earth. Yet the King-Son was totally loyal to the kingdom. He countered HaSatan’s temptation by rebuking him with the words of the King-Father, which were first given to the Israelites after they came out of Egypt. The New Testament book of Matthew records,




HaSatan took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” Yahusha said to him, “Away from me, HaSatan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Most High your Yah, and serve him only.’” Then HaSatan left him.




Baptism into Kingdom Philosophy




Yahusha’ temptation by HaSatan occurred right after his baptism by John. Many people are confused about the true nature of baptism and why Yahusha himself was baptized. While baptism is treated as a religious ritual by many people, it is actually a very practical act that is related to the will of the King and his desire for the colony of earth.




Changing One’s Thinking and Lifestyle




At the time Yahusha lived on earth, various rabbis, teachers, and groups (such as the Sadducees) baptized their followers. Baptism in this context meant you were publicly declaring you believed in a particular teacher and his philosophy. In fact, to a large degree, this was the significance of the baptism of John, which John referred to as a “baptism of repentance.” Our contemporary connotation of the word repentance doesn’t really convey John’s meaning. In its essence, repentance does not mean crying or wailing over wrongdoing. It simply means to change your mind, to reverse your way of thinking and acting. When a person was baptized, he was signaling that he was changing his thinking and actions and aligning them with the views and life of the teacher he had committed himself to follow.




This type of teacher-student relationship was not uncommon. The Old Testament makes references to “the company of the prophets,” also called the “schools of the prophets.” These particular prophets were closely associated with the well-known prophets Elijah and Elisha, supporting them and learning from them. In New Testament times, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Herodians had disciples. Outside the biblical world, we note similar teacher-learner arrangements among the Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and their followers. A philosopher, of course, is someone who sets forth his own ideas about life. Philosophers attract people who want to learn their ideas and imitate their lifestyles, and these become their students or disciples. The Greek word we translate as disciple means “learner” or “pupil.” Disciples were personally trained by their masters in the masters’ philosophies and belief systems, perhaps traveling with them as they learned to think and act like their masters.




Joining a School of Thought




When you became a student of a philosopher or other teacher, you joined what is called his school of thought. Schools were not originally associated with buildings. They were essentially the ideas unique to a teacher. They were the teacher’s philosophical concepts and ways of thinking, which he passed along to his followers.




From this perspective, the significance of baptism is not the water or even the act of being baptized—it has to do with the transformation of your way of thinking and living. When you were baptized in the name of your master teacher, you were saying, “I am choosing you above every other available teacher, philosopher, rabbi, and leader, and I am publicly declaring that I am submitting to your school of thought. I’m going to be associated with you only, so that whenever people see me, they’re going to know, ‘He belongs to that teacher.’”




As I mentioned, at the time of Yahusha, there were a number of teachers and philosophers, and all had their own schools of thought and their own disciples. In that culture, a man couldn’t begin such a school until he was thirty years old because this was the age at which a young man could be officially designated as a master teacher.




Therefore, when the Creator of heaven and earth himself came to earth as a man, he entered the culture of the day and presented himself in a way that the people would understand the life-changing nature of his message and its requirement of total commitment to him. It was at age thirty that Yahusha began his public ministry, became the ultimate Master Teacher, and welcomed those who desired to follow him. The kingdom was the embodiment of his teaching.




Yahusha’ Message Was in Harmony with John’s Message




Note that John the Baptist had been presenting the same message about the kingdom. Yahusha was fully aware of John’s message when he went to him for baptism. Many people are at first surprised to read of the King-Son submitting to a master teacher for baptism. Yet he did this to demonstrate to the people of the world that his teaching was not independent of John’s; rather, he was in total harmony with it. In fact, Yahusha himself was the fulfillment of the teaching of John who, as the faithful prophet of the King-Father, was proclaiming the message of the kingdom and preparing the way for the King-Son’s appearance in the world.




John had been gaining a number of disciples, and when people came to him with a sincere desire to repent (to change their thinking and lifestyle from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of heaven), he baptized them. Yet when Yahusha went to him for baptism, John was taken aback and said, in essence, “You should be the teacher, not me!” John recognized Yahusha as the King who would send the Governor to earth. In fact, John had said to the people earlier, “After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Ruach HaQadesh.”




Yahusha, however, replied to John, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” He was saying, “I understand your reluctance to act as master teacher to me. However, in order to demonstrate to the world that I am aligned with the kingdom of heaven, I need to be identified with it through baptism. I need to publicly declare that I belong to the school of the kingdom of heaven, that I am fully integrated with the mind and ways of the kingdom.”




The Kingdom School Transferred to Yahusha




When a master teacher was no longer able to teach, he would decide which of his disciples would succeed him. Whoever was chosen to take his place would automatically gain his students. Yahusha had to be a part of John’s school in order to take over leadership of it. And John turned the whole school over to Yahusha; he released his disciples to him, indicating that Yahusha was the one they should follow because he was the King who would restore them to the kingdom. The New Testament book of John records,




The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Yahusha passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of Yah!” When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Yahusha. Turning around, Yahusha saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour. Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Yahusha.




Most importantly, we should note that the King-Father had appointed Yahusha as the ultimate Master Teacher of the kingdom school. After Yahusha submitted to John’s baptism to show that he was immersed in the philosophy of the kingdom and in alignment with it, what happened to him? The Ruach HaQadesh—the Governor—descended on him. The New Testa- ment book of Matthew says,




As soon as Yahusha was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Ruach of Yah descending like a dove and lighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”




The King-Father was confirming, “This one has the Ruach HaQadesh; he is my Son, and he is fully integrated with my thoughts and ways. He is the one who will restore my Ruach to the earth.” Later on, the King-Father affirmed that Yahusha was the one whom his disciples were to listen to above all others, when he said, as documented in the book of Mark and elsewhere in the New Testament, “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!”




Yahusha had many disciples or students, but he chose twelve to be in full-time traveling work with him and to learn from him in an intense training relationship. Among these were the notable apostles Peter, James, and John. When Yahusha called various of his disciples, saying, “Follow me,” he was inviting them to join the school of the kingdom of heaven.




We are followers of Yahusha when we have decided to identify with the life and message of the King-Son and submit to him as our Master Teacher. Yahusha said, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both Yah and Money.” Although this statement was about money, it also has broader application. In the context of baptism, it tells us, “You cannot be in two schools. You cannot have two philosophies that are in contradiction to one another.”