Genesis chapter 1
Today we are walking in: Man’s Greatest Need
Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, H7812 and come again to you.
WORSHIP
Today we look to the word-WORSHIP- H7812 shachah--to bow down; prostrate oneself before superior in homage; before the Most High in worship
The Torah testifies.........……
Genesis 24:26
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped H7812 the LORD.
Exodus 4:31
And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. H7812
Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship H7812 no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Deuteronomy 8:19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship H7812 them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
The prophets proclaim..................
Nehemiah 8:6
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped H7812 the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Nehemiah 9:3
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped H7812 the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 25:6
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship H7812 them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Zechariah 14:16
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship H7812 the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
The writings bear witness............
Joshua 5:14
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, H7812 and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
1Chronicles 16:29
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship H7812 the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
2 Chronicles 7:3
And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, H7812 and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever
Psalm 66:4
All the earth shall worship H7812 thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Chapter 2
MAN’S GREATEST NEED
Yah’s greatest desire and man’s deepest need is to share an enduring Spirit-to-spirit relationship.
Since Yah is a Yah of principles, everything He created was established to operate by certain principles that guarantee its proper function. So, all created things— whether plant, animal, fish, bird, star, or human being— must adhere to the principles that govern their life if they are to release their potential and fulfill their purpose. One of the most important of these principles ordained by Yah to preserve and protect His handiwork and to assure the maximum performance of each created thing is the principle of environment.
The Principle of Environment
The word environment is defined as “circumstances, objects, and conditions by which one is surrounded” (Webster’s, “environment”). Therefore, an environment may refer to the forces that affect the state of things, the components that make up the climate in which something exists, or the conditions in which a thing exists. Everything in life was created to function within the p articular environment that Yah prescribed for it before He created it.
In essence, before the moment of creation, Yah decided both what He would make His creation from and where He would place it after He had made it. This place designed to individually suit the makeup and purpose of each thing Yah made was its environment. When the environment was ready, Yah called forth each creation from its intended source and put it in the specific environment He had made for it.
So before Yah created the sun and the moon and the myriad of stars, He first called forth the light and separated it from the darkness, calling the light “day” and the darkness “night.” He also made a firmament or expanse to separate the waters above from the waters below and called the firmament “sky.” Only then, after all this was completed, did Yah call forth the lights from the heavens and set them in the sky to mark the day, the night, and the seasons (see Gen. 1:1-8; 14-18).
Yah’s process in creating plants and animals reveals the same pattern. Before He spoke plants and animals into being, He gathered the waters together so that dry ground would appear. The dry ground He called “land” and the waters He called “seas.” Only then did He speak to the sea, commanding it to bring forth the many kinds of fish and sea creatures, and to the land, commanding it to bring forth all manner of vegetation, seed-bearing plants and trees according to their kind, and all living creatures, livestock and wild animals according to their kind (see Gen. 1:9-12; 20-25).
Finally, Yah was ready to make man.
And Elohiym said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So Elohiym created man in his own image, in the image of Elohiym created he him; male and female created he them. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 1:26-27 את CEPHER.
These verses from Genesis clearly reveal that Yah is man’s source. When Yah made man, He spoke to Himself and man came out of Him. Thus, man was created both to be of the same essence as Yah, who is spirit, and to live in the same environment as Yah, which is the realm of the spirit or the environment of Yah (see John 4:24).
So we see that Yah prescribed an environment for everything He created before He created it. Then He placed the thing in it. Therefore, you cannot expect one of Yah’s products to function properly if you do not understand the environment He prescribed
for it. In essence, a misplaced product will malfunction if you do not follow the prescription for the environment Yah ordained. A product in the wrong environment just won’t work properly.
Yah prescribed an environment for everything He created. Therefore, environments can be good or bad, positive or negative, healthy or unhealthy depending on what the manufacturer prescribed for the product you are using. The environment itself is not necessarily bad, negative, or unhealthy. Rather the problem is a misplaced product. A particular environment is wrong only because the p roduct was not designed to function in it. The prescription and the actuality don’t match.
To say it another way, the nature of the environment will always affect the state, function, and efficiency of a product. If, for example, you buy a $5,000 television, throw it into the ocean, then try to make it work, you will soon find that you wasted your $5,000. Or, if you drag a boat down a highway behind a truck, you will find when you try to use the boat in the water that it has been destroyed by the road. Why has this happened? You put the television and the boat into the wrong environment. The manufacturer never intended that you would put the television into the ocean or drag the boat on the highway.
Therefore, no matter how expensive the product is, it will shut down if the environment of operation is different from what the manufacturer intended. A wrong environment—that is, an environment where the product is out of place—will always translate into wasted potential. Truly the key to a product's efficient and effective operation is the environment in which it is placed.
Consequently, we must clearly understand the environment prescribed for each product because it is the environment that determines the product's success or failure. This prescribed environment is what we may call a product’s ideal environment. An ideal environment means that there is perfect environment that Yah (or a manufacturer) has prescribed for each product. This is why Yah placed man in Eden. Eden is man’s ideal environment.
Man’s Ideal Environment
When Yah planned what man would be (spirit) and how man would function (by faith), He also determined where man would live (his ideal environment). Yah didn’t take the man and put him just anywhere on earth. Yah chose a specific spot on this big planet and put the man in that specially chosen place, which we know as Eden. Now let’s try to figure out what Eden is.
The root in Hebrew of the word Eden is uncertain. The Greek version of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, relates the word to the Hebrew verb eden or ayden, which means “delight” (Strong’s, H5731, H5730). Therefore, Eden is translated as the garden of delight. Other occurrences of the word Eden in the Old Testament equate Eden with the garden of the Most High.
For Yahuah shall comfort Tsiyon: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahuah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 51:3 את CEPHER
You were in Eden, the garden of Yah (Ezekiel 28:13).
This seems to concur with the Genesis description of the garden as the place where Yah walked in the cool of the day (see Gen. 3:8).
Thus, Yah prepared a garden for man, an environment where it was pleasant and where His presence touched earth. This is why the Bible never says that Adam planted the garden. Rather, Yah was the One who planted the garden. That is, Yah came and impressed (planted) His presence in the earth.
Can you get a picture of this? Eden was the one place where Yah’s presence dwelt on earth. It was the garden of His presence, the spot of His pleasantness, and that was precisely where Yah placed Adam. Unbroken fellowship between Yah and man was the environment that Yah planned for man.
This means that you don’t need church services, choirs, worship services, and meetings to succeed in life. There were none of these in Eden. Neither were there prophets, teachers, preachers, or apostles. Your ideal environment is nothing more and nothing less than the presence of Yah Himself, which was Yah’s first gift to Adam.
Yah’S PRESENCE IS YOUR IDEAL ENVIRONMENT.
His presence in your house is the most beautiful presence in the world. You don’t need a husband or a wife to succeed. You need the presence of Yah. Consequently, Yah gave Adam Himself before He gave him a woman. The first presence you need is a Yah-friend, not a boyfriend or a girlfriend. If you get a boyfriend or girlfriend, a husband or a wife, outside of Yah’s presence, you have created a state of malfunction for yourself.
Why is this true? Everything that is not in its ideal environment malfunctions. This is inevitable. No person or product can function properly outside the environment specifically designed for it by its manufacturer. So just as fish have to stay in water and plants have to stay in the ground if they are to flourish, so man must stay in Yah’s presence. Any fish that removes itself from water or is removed by another creature will eventually die and rot. The same is true of a plant. No plant can continue to live and bear fruit if its roots are not covered and nourished by the ground. In truth, a plant starts to die the instant its roots are removed from the ground, and its death is certain unless its roots are returned to the soil that is its source and ideal environment. Likewise, man’s life and the fulfillment of his destiny are possible only to the extent that he walks and talks with Yah in the garden of His presence.
Man’s Fall From Yah’s Presence
Sadly, what Yah intended and the reality of man’s situation today are quite different. The reason for this difference is man’s choice to throw off what he perceived to be the restrictive principles of Yah’s design. The fall of man, as man’s choice to sin is often called, is really a fall from Yah’s presence, with the accompanying loss of the Holy Spirit. Since Yah created man to live in relationship with Him, and sin caused a breach in that relationship, man’s opportunity to live in Yah’s presence ended. The Book of Genesis describes it this way:
Therefore Yahuah Elohiym sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Keruviym, and את a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 3:23-24 את CEPHER.
Since, as we previously noted, the word Eden in the Scriptures means the place of Yah’s presence, man’s banishment from Eden meant banishment from Yah’s presence. The creature Yah had created to live in His presence was condemned to live apart from the One who was essential to His well-being. Human history
shows the consequences of that separation, consequences that were built into Yah’s principles for man’s life.
Now we have to work hard to get into Yah’s presence; but that was not what Yah intended for the human beings He had created. We were supposed to wake up every morning and go walking in the bush with Yah. We weren’t supposed to have to work ourselves up with singing, instruments, and worship calisthenics to get us into the right mood or frame of mind for worship. Yah’s intent was that we would wake up in His presence, go to sleep in His presence, work in His presence, talk in His presence, go fishing in His presence, eat in His presence, cry in His presence, laugh in His presence, dance in His presence, and on and on. Every part of our life was to be done within the presence of Yah.
Oh, how we’ve fallen. What was once our Yah-given privilege is now denied us by Yah Himself. For when Yah sent the man and the woman away from Eden, from the place or moment of His presence, He also set cherubim at the entrance to the garden to be sure that mankind would not return to the environment that had been his home before his sin.
Why would Yah, who loves man and who created him to live in fellowship with Him, do this? Why would He banish man from His presence and ensure that he could not return? Might it be that the presence of Yah was so important Yah would not allow it to be contaminated by man’s sin? Might it be that man could no longer endure the presence of Yah because he had lost the Holy Spirit, that which enabled him to communicate with Yah and to enjoy fellowship with Him?
Yah Is Holy
The Scriptures clearly state that Yah is holy, which means that Yah is completely pure in motive and perfect in goodness, righteousness, and justice.
Exalt Yahuah Elohaynu, and worship at his holy hill; for Yahuah Elohaynu is holy TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 99:9 את CEPHER.
Sanctify Yahuah Tseva'oth himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 8:13 את CEPHER.
For your Maker is your husband; Yahuah Tseva'oth is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Yashar'el; The Elohai of the whole earth shall he be called. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 54:5 את CEPHER.
But Yahuah Tseva'oth shall be exalted in judgment, and El that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 5:16 את CEPHER.
Not only is Yah holy, He is “most” holy in that no other Yah, person, or thing is as holy as He is, and His presence is holy as well (see 1 Sam. 2:2 and Isa. 40:25). Moses encountered the holiness of Yah when he approached the burning bush and Yah spoke to him from within the bush.
“And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off your shoes from off your feet, for the place whereon you stand is holy ground. SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 3:5 את CEPHER.
Years later Joshua had a similar experience.
And it came to pass, when Yahusha was by Yeriycho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Yahusha went unto him, and said unto him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries? And he said, Nay; but as Captain of the Host of Yahuah am I now come. And Yahusha fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What says Adonai unto his servant? And the Captain of Yahuah's Host said unto El- Yahusha, Loose your shoe from off your foot; for the place whereon you stand is holy. And Yahusha did so. YAHUSHA (JOSHUA) 5:13-15 את CEPHER.
It would seem, then, that Adam became a foreign body, a contaminant, a cancer, if you will, to the presence of Yah at the time of his fall. Having lost the Holy Spirit, Adam no longer reflected the holiness of Yah that was his birthright when he was created in Yah’s image. Now Adam’s sin made him an affront to the holiness of Yah. Yah responded by sending him out from the garden of His presence and by placing cherubim at the entrance of the garden to protect His presence from sinful man.
Protectors of Yah’s Presence
Cherubim are winged angels that are guardians of the Most High’s presence. This role is seen not only in the cherubim’s station at the entrance to Eden, but also in their presence near the throne of Yah.
GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Yashar'el, you that lead Yoceph like a flock; you that dwell between the Keruviym, shine forth. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 80:1 את CEPHER.
Yahuah reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the Keruviym; let the earth be moved. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 99:1 את CEPHER.
O Yahuah Tseva'oth, the Elohai of Yashar'el, that dwell between the Keruviym, you are the Elohiym, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: you have made the heavens and the earth. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 37:16 את CEPHER.
This position of protecting the presence of the Most High was particularly evident in the design of the Ark of the Covenant, where the cherubim, with outspread wings, guarded the Mercy Seat where Yah dwelt on top of the Ark. So when the priests went in to the Most Holy Place, the cherubim were the first beings the priests saw. Before they could get to Yah, they had to get past the cherubim. Anything or anyone contaminated by sin that approached Yah’s presence would never get past the cherubim because sinful things and people could not enter Yah’s presence lest they be consumed by Him.
The prophet Ezekiel describes the cherubim as having four wings and four faces, and they were covered with eyes:
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. And everyone had four faces, and everyone had four wings. And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went everyone straight forward. As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of everyone were joined one to another, and two covered את their bodies. YECHEZQ'EL (EZEKIEL) 1:5-11 את CEPHER
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the Ophaniym, were full of eyes round about, even the Ophaniym that they four had. As for the Ophaniym, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel. And everyone had four faces: the first face was the face of a Keruv, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. YECHEZQ'EL (EZEKIEL) 10:12-14 את CEPHER.
The task of guarding the presence of Yah is also evidently shared by another group of winged angels called seraphim. Isaiah saw these angels when he received his call to be a prophet:
IN the year that King Uzziyahu died I saw also Adonai sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the Temple. Above it stood the Seraphiym: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Yahuah Tseva'oth: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahuah Tseva'oth. Then flew one of the Seraphiym unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 6:1-7 את CEPHER.
We see here that the seraphim not only protected the holiness of Yah; they also met Isaiah’s need when he recognized his sinfulness in the presence of a holy Yah. Thus, their role was both to protect Yah’s presence and to preserve man when he recognized his sinfulness and repented.
Please note that these angels, or living creatures or beings, as they are often called, didn’t protect man from Yah; they protected Yah’s presence from man. Their task was to prevent man from getting into Yah’s presence—his intended environment and therefore the place where he functions properly, despite his sin and his loss of holiness. For you see, man despite his sin is still made in the image of Yah. His sinful behavior has not changed his basic makeup. What has changed is man’s ability to act like Yah acts.
This is true because man lost the Holy Spirit when he sinned and therefore no longer has the capacity to function from the spiritual and moral character of Yah. In other words, man is still spirit just like Yah is Spirit, but he is no longer truth and righteousness, as Yah is (see Ps. 31:5; 45:4). This is why David, after his sin with Bathsheba, sought Yah with these words,
Create in me a clean heart, O Elohiym; and renew a right ruach within me. Cast me not away from your presence; and take not your Ruach Ha'Qodesh from me. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 51:10-11 את CEPHER.
David knew that his heart and spirit were not right with Yah because of his sin, and that Yah had every right to withdraw His presence from David’s life.
Sinners Are Malfunctioning Saints
This condition of a heart and spirit that are not right with Yah has been man’s plight ever since the first man and woman chose disobedience over obedience. Adam and Eve certainly appeared to be functioning fine after they left the Garden in that they lived to be more than 900 years old. In truth, they were malfunctioning fine. Adam was still working the ground and having kids as Yah had intended when He first created man. Nevertheless, Adam was completely malfunctioning because nothing outside its intended environment can function properly. Adam couldn’t function like he’d been designed to do because the absence of Yah’s presence made it impossible for him to live like Yah had planned he would live.
This is why Adam is said to have died when he sinned. Although his physical being didn’t die immediately, Adam did die spiritually in the exact moment he was cut off from Yah’s presence because death is the absence of the presence of Yah in a man or a woman’s life. So we see that the man Yah had pronounced to be “very good” (see Gen. 1:31) became very wrong because he had lost his ideal environment. He was a good creation in the wrong place and thus began to malfunction (sin).
Death is the absence of Yah’s presence in your life.
This is the whole problem with our world today. Men and women are malfunctioning (sinning) because they cannot function properly apart from Yah. This condition of malfunction would have continued indefinitely had Yah not intervened to rescue the human beings that He had created with His image and likeness. While we were yet unable to return to His presence because we were contaminated by sin, Yah died for us.
For when we were yet without strength, at the appointed time Mashiach died for the wicked. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perchance for a good man some would even dare to die. But Elohiym commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Mashiach died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to Elohiym by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. ROMAIYM (ROMANS) 5:6-10 את CEPHER
Yah came to our rescue because He wants His family back. He knows that sin is the malfunctioning of a saint, and that saints who are in the wrong environment are incapable of functioning correctly, so He sought to restore us to our right environment.
Since Yah’s work of restoration is a work in process, the evidence of man’s estrangement from Yah because of his lost holiness is a constant refrain throughout the history of Yah’s dealings with His people. Indeed, no generation escaped this slavery to sin as “again and again they put Yah to the test [and] vexed the Holy One of Israel” until Yah dealt with them because of their sin (see Ps. 78:41). Moses and Aaron, who lost the opportunity to lead Yah’s people into the Promised Land because they neglected to honor the Most High’s holiness before the people, are but an example of the many who have suffered because of their unwillingness —and indeed their inability because of their separation from Yah—to be holy as Yah is holy.
And Yahuah spoke unto El-Mosheh and El-Aharon, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Yashar'el, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. This is the water of Meriyvah; because the children of Yashar'el strove with Yahuah, and he was sanctified in them. BEMIDBAR (NUMBERS) 20:12-13 את CEPHER.
Before the fall it was easy for man to get to Yah—Yah’s presence was where he spent every moment of every day— and to be holy as Yah is holy—that was man’s innate nature. Once man sinned, however, things changed because he lost the right to be with Yah every day.
Now Yah has to deal with all our sin, iniquity, and rebellion before He can let us get near His holy place. And even when we get there, we will find cherubim and serap him hovering around Yah to prevent us from approaching Him before our sin is atoned for.
Restoring you to your garden home has been Yah’s plan all along. You are valuable to Yah despite your sin. Your only problem is that you are in a bad environment, an environment that is something other than where Yah created you to live. So Yahusha paid the exact price you are worth. He laid down His image to buy you back because He knows that although you are a sinner, you still retain His image. In other words, your value didn’t change when your environment changed, so Yah devised a plan to redeem you and to restore you to His presence.
Yah WANTS HIS FAMILY BACK.
Truly every act of Yah since man’s fall from His presence has been done to restore the relationship that man severed through sin. The entire Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi, is the story of Yah’s efforts to put man back into the garden environment that he lost.
Please note that the Bible is the story of Yah’s efforts, not man’s, to restore things to the way they once were. Man cannot accomplish this task alone. He cannot regain his proper environment without the help of his Creator. Truly he cannot even know what is his proper environment and how he was made to function unless Yah provides the way to bring him back. Man cannot overcome his sin apart from his Savior.
Man’s inability to restore the communion with Yah that was broken by sin has not stopped him from trying to reestablish this connection. The many religions of the world and the increased interest in spiritual things in our generation show just how hard man has tried and still is trying to become reconnected with Yah. Man, when he is living apart from the presence of Yah, knows that he is lost and empty, with no anchor or foundation for his soul. Whether or not he understands the reason for this void in his life, he feels the effects of it and often spends much time, effort, and money trying to fix his problem.
Nevertheless, none of our self-help books,
exercises, or occult rituals can fulfill our spiritual need. Yah’s prescription for our sin is the only one that works. The only way we become reconnected with Yah is to accept His gift of salvation through Yahusha Hamachiach to cleanse us from all sin. The only way we can stay connected is to practice His presence on a daily basis. Sadly, our refusal to accept Yah’s prescription for sin is quite evident in our sin- filled world.
Do you know why you keep sinning? You sin because you stop, or have never started, practicing the presence of Yah. It’s tough to sin and fellowship with Yah at the same time. This truth is why you must practice the presence of the Most High all day long.
“How do I practice the presence of Yah?” you may ask. “Through praise and worship” is the answer. When you are at your job, just hum a song. It’s hard to cuss, to gossip, or to complain when you’re humming a song. When someone does something to hurt you or to make things difficult for you, just start praying or singing in tongues. You can’t get angry when you are talking to Yah and singing His praises.
This is quite different from what people used to say when I was growing up, “Look, I can put my religion on the side for a minute.” What they meant was, “I’ll stop worshiping, I’ll stop practicing the presence of Yah for a spiritual minute so I can curse you. Then I’ll pick it back up again when I’ve finished taking care of you.” Yah doesn’t intend that we live like this. He designed us to always be with Him. He planned that we would never have to function without Him. He wanted us to know the joy, peace, and power of living with Him: “You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fulness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 16:11 את CEPHER. Joy and pleasures are Yah’s gifts for His children when they stay in the environment He planned for them. So if you stay in Yah’s presence, you will always please Him. Then you won’t have to fight anybody, because He’ll do it for you. Indeed, He will make your enemies your footstool (see Ps. 110:1).
MANUFACTURER’S PROGRAM TO PUT US, HIS PRODUCT, BACK INTO OUR IDEAL ENVIRONMENT.
Praise and worship are Yah’s solutions to get us back into His presence. We must be clear, however, that praise and worship don’t put us back into Yah’s presence; they bring Yah’s presence to us. That is, they are but the means that provide the conditions that invite Yah to come to us as He came to Adam and Eve in the cool of the day. They are the tools that set the stage for Yah’s arrival.
All salvation history is the story of Yah’s efforts to do just this: to reestablish the conditions where He can live with His people as He did in the garden. He is our Source and our Manufacturer. Therefore, He is the only One who knows both what He created us to do (our purpose) and where He designed us to succeed (our ideal environment). He is also the only One who can help us regain all that we lost through sin.
PRINCIPLES
1. Everything in life was created to function within a specific environment.
2. Man’s ideal environment is the presence of Yah.
3. Man’s sin has separated him from his ideal
4. Sinners are malfunctioning saints. Therefore, all our problems stem from the fact that we have lost our ideal environment.
5. Yah is holy. He cannot allow sin to enter His presence.
6. Salvation through Yahusha Hamachiach is the only means by which we can return to Yah’s presence.
7. Praise and worship are Yah’s gifts to restore His presence to man.
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