Iyar 13
Judgment
“Her heads judge for a bribe, her priests teach for pay, and her
prophets divine for a price. Yet they lean on יהוה, and say, “Is not יהוה in our midst? EVIL DOES NOT COME UPON US.” (Mic 3:11 ISR, emphasis mine)
It is always with amazement that I look at people
who are so obviously breaking Torah,
yet believe with everything in them that they will not be held accountable for
the wrong that they are doing. And
truthfully, is this not the heart of the “once saved, always saved”
doctrine? In other words, “I said the
magic words, recited the mantra, paid up my fire insurance, now I can do
whatever I want with the assurance that my eternity is taken care of”. What horrible deception!
If “what has been is what shall be, what has been done
is what shall be done”
(Ecc 1:9), then we should be able to study
the history of Yisra’el, to learn from their mistakes, that we would not be in error, and fall into
the same judgment – correct? We can follow
through the pages of the Tanakh of the rise to prominence of the Hebrew nation,
and their subsequent decline into captivity, and eventual dispersion. The reason for their punishment: Disobedience
to Torah, and to the Elohim who chose them from among the nations (see Deu
28:15; Jer 2:13; Isa 1:4).
According to our
opening verse, these people believed that because
they were the chosen people of Elohim, nothing evil or bad would happen to
them, regardless of what they
themselves did. My perception of this
scenario would be that there was no longer a real and necessary fear of Elohim, of facing the repercussions
of disobedience and rebellion. How can
we, those of us who cling to the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and
believe that we are grafted in, deceive ourselves
into believing that this same punishment
for disobedience does not apply to us
as well?
“Many shall say to Me in
that day, ‘Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out
demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name?’ And then I shall
declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness [Torah-lessness]!” (Mat 7:21-22 ISR,
insert mine)
“Because IT IS TIME for judgment to begin from the House of Elohim. And
if firstly from us, what is the end of those who do not obey the Good News of
Elohim?” (1Pet 4:17 ISR)
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