Tammuz 20
True of False
“If anyone should say to you then, behold the Messiah is
here or there, do not believe it. For false
Messiahs and lying prophets WILL arise and they WILL produce signs and great
wonders in order to DECEIVE if possible even the chosen. Behold, I have told you beforehand.” (Mat 24:23-25 AENT, emphasis mine)
While still on this earth, Messiah Yeshua,
as well as the first apostles, warned us that there would be a false ‘Way’ in the end times, a doctrine
not according to Torah, a counterfeit,
if you will (see Mat chapter 24, 2Pet 2:1-3).
Noah Webster defines ‘counterfeit’ as: “that which is made in imitation
of something with a view to defraud, by
passing the false for true; assuming the appearance of something; not
genuine”[1].
To put this into other words, this so-called end-time religion would have all
of the appearance of the true Way,
the walking and living out of the Torah-lifestyle. Only those who have diligently “studied to
show themselves approved” (2Tim 2:15), and who are now trained (such as bank tellers and cashiers are trained to recognize
counterfeit bills) will recognize this false religion, and not be taken in and
deceived by it.
So how do train ourselves? It is very simple: through the Word of YHWH. The Word is always the first, and the
last, authority on everything. However,
we must first learn, study, and familiarize
ourselves with this Word, so that we may be complete and well-equipped for
every good work (2Tim 2:15; 2Tim 3:17). What
this also means is that we should have more than a casual knowledge of the
foundation of all of the Scriptures, which is the Torah, the first five (5)
books of what is referred to as the Old Testament.
Accompanying our ever increasing
absorption of the Word of our Elohim, we should seek to develop sensitivity in
hearing the voice of the Holy Breath of YAH.
The Ruach/Spirit will quietly but
firmly warns us, quicken to our spirits, that all is not as it might appear
with a minister, a ministry, with a group, or an individual. Does what we are hearing line up with the entire Word of Elohim, and His message of deliverance through
Messiah Yeshua? Our Master Yeshua is the
only way; He is the only truth; He is the only life (see John 14:6); He is the only door to the Father (see John 10:9).
There simply is no other way.
“Who
is the liar, except the one denying that יהושע is the Messiah? This is the anti-messiah,
the one denying the Father and the Son.
No one denying the Son has the Father. The one confessing the Son has
the Father as well. As for you, let that
stay in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the
beginning stays in you, you also shall stay in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that He has promised
us: everlasting life.”
(1John
2:23-25 ISR)
ABBA, Father, we ask You to sharpen in us the sense of
hearing, our spiritual hearing, that we would be quick to hear when You caution
us to take a step back, to take a second look.
Thank You, YAH, that You are the Teacher, that You are the Revealer of
the Word, that You are the Illuminator of the Truth. You, my Master, guide us into all truth. Thank You, YHWH, that You
continue to fill us, and as we continue to feast on the Word, You bring it to
our remembrance in the hour that we need it.
In the Name and authority of Messiah Yeshua we pray, Amein and AMEIN…
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