There is an inate difference between talking about serving YHWH and actually serving YHWH. This is a truth that all recognize. Israel as a people talked the walk, but didn't walk the walk. They heaped to themselves leaders, who became Pharisees, hypocrites, and created their own laws based on the holy commandments of love, they didn't really keep YHWH's laws, so instead they created new ones based on those laws, new ordinances of pure fleshly observances, and kept them, and urged others to do the same, and called this "obedience." It was a counterfeit. This is the world into which Messiah first came. It is indeed the same state of affairs at his second coming as well.

The Pharisees talked the walk, but they didn't walk the walk.

Yet, how many realize that in the end times, the times in which we now live, there would be millions of people who follow after the manner of the Pharisees, and more importantly, of Judas, who claimed to follow Messiah, but had a secret covenant with the Pharisees to betray Messiah to them. The scriptures call this group "the great falling away" and "the revealing of the son of perdition." Judas was the son of perdition according to Messiah, and all who follow after his example, likewise become the "son of perdition," while those who follow in Messiah's example become "the son of God."(See "The Gospel According To Judas Iscariot."

In Thessalonians, the son of perdition is depicted as "the man of sin," and in other places, "the lawless one." Who is more lawless than he who says "the law is dead," and "the law has been nailed to the cross?" I say unto you all, warning and exhorting, that the law is not made dead by our faith in Messiah, but no, the law is made more alive, by being placed in our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit. What was made dead by the cross was actually already "dead" when he came. That is, empty observances of ordinances with no Spirit behind those actions. It was the motivations of the heart that were lacking in those who observed Moses from the very beginning. Their obedience was fake, and it did not make them "perfect," and they could not "fulfill" the law, for they attempted to do so in the flesh, rather than in the Spirit. It was this handling of the law that was nailed to the cross. This is the foundation of the "new covenant" or the "marriage covenant" between Messiah and his Bride. Messiah said "I come not to destroy the law and the prophets," (The Body of the Tanahk), he finished by saying "I come to fulfill." Yet, that which is "fulfilled" is not dead, but indeed is preserved forever, being fulfilled. We who follow Messiah's example do also "fulfill" the law, thus, the law is perpetual being fulfilled over and over and over again. How say some that the law is dead? Is Messiah not the "living word?" Did he not rise from the dead? Does he not live forever? If the "law" is the "word" and Messiah is the "word" and Messiah lives forever, therefore the law is not dead, but lives forever, in Messiah, and Messiah lives in us, therefore the "word" which is the "law" lives in us!

All who follow in Messiah's example do not seek to kill the law, nor to destroy it, but to "fulfill" the law through love, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Herein, according to John, are the "children of God," (the son of God) manifested, and the "children of the devil," (the son of perdition). This is the separating of the sheep and the goats, of the wheat and the tares predicted by Messiah. Most people have a false image in their minds of everything pertaining to scripture. For example, they see the "writing of the laws into our hearts and minds," by the power of the Holy Spirit as some "magical mystical" event, and indeed they see the Holy Spirit as some "entity," a holy personage. In one way, they are correct, but it is only when this Holy Spirit is manifested through the life of the believer when that the Holy Spirit becomes a "living person," for that Holy Spirit (which is love) gives birth to a "son of God." When it says "the law is written in their hearts and minds," it's talking about the Spirit of love, not an entity. That Spirit gives birth to good deeds, and those good deeds make the law irrelevant, for where one is obeying out of love the commandments of God, the written law is no longer necessary, for it is now a living law written in our hearts and minds. The truth really is that simple. When we give our bodies over to this Spirit of love, and let it command our every word and deed, we become "living Epistles" and we are above the law, for the law is written, not for those who are living testimonies of the law, but it is written for the transgressor.

No wonder the son of perdition is called "that man of lawlessness." Who is more lawless than he who "nails the law" to a cross, and begins to teach for doctrines the commandments of men instead, and begins to smite his fellow servants and to disobey Yahweh at every turn, all the while claiming to serve YHWH 24/7 (and to keep his Sabbath holy) every single day, rather than one day per week. I tell you now, he who says the law is dead cannot possibly be keeping the Sabbath even one day, much less keeping it 24/7, for they are law breakers, and have crucified the master afresh, for they have undone the ministry of the Holy Spirit which is to put the law into you, into your minds and heart. I say they have re-crucified Messiah, for it was to send us the Holy Spirit that Messiah died, and by nullifying the law, and saying it is dead, while they yet live in sin, and indeed claim that they can do nothing else but live in sin, they have indeed nullified the very purpose of the cross, which was to send love into them, and thereby, fulfill the law in us!

This is a great mystery to the world, only because they refuse to look at the truth, for doing so would require they abandon their life of sin. Which is why, when speaking of the son of perdition, the Apostle says, "therefore shall God send them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," that they all might perish who believed not the truth but trusted in unrighteousness. Religion is that strong delusion. The notion of the law now being dead, and that we no longer have to obey YHWH is that delusion. To say that you cannot "cease from sin," is that delusion, for what you are truly doing is calling Messiah and his followers liars, for they urged us to become "just like Messiah," and Messiah never once sinned in his entire life! How can you say you are like Messiah if you can't cease from sin? That should be common sense, yet, the wicked gnash their teeth when you teach them this, and they even seek to destroy you, and they spout their religious doctrines, which are actually their blinders. They flash their blinders at you and urge you to place those blinders on and that awful wicked light that comes to eradicate sin in your flesh will no longer "plague" you.

Yet, there comes a day when the light will pierce even through those blinders, and in that day it will be far too late for all who wear them, because the day of salvation will be upon them, and they, like the foolish virgins will have no "oil" or "annointing," and will be cast aside as hypocrites. Then they shall approach Messiah and say "didn't we do this or that in your name?" To which he will respond, "depart from me you doers of iniquity (sin) for I never knew you."

I have had those who write to me telling me that I'm the Pharisee, because I urge obedience of the law through the Spirit of love. On the one hand they claim that they are "keeping the Sabbath 24 hours a day, 7 days a week," and yet, they then tell me the "law is dead, being nailed to the cross." They cannot see how contradictory these two statements are. They claim to obey the law 24/7, and yet, they also say I'm a Pharisee for urging obedience of the law, because, they reason, "the law is dead." There is only one way to describe this sort of thinking. It's pure madness.

One does not say "I keep the law 24/7," and then "the law is no more." If they truly keep the law 24/7, then the law is alive and well in them 24/7. Their first statement "I keep the law every day, every hour, every minute," is nullified and cancelled by their second statement "the law is dead," for, they claim the law is now alive, in them, and yet they turn right around and say the law is dead. Both cannot be true. Either the law is dead, or it is alive and well, in you. He that keeps the law 24/7 becomes "a law unto himself," according to scripture. If we keep the law 24/7 we now ARE the law, we have literally become the law, we are the example by which others should live, even as Messiah is the example by which the Apostles urged us to live, for he indeed kept the law 24/7.

The madness of this thinking goes very deep, in that, while they claim to obey the law 24/7, they also teach that we do not have to observe the seventh day. They claim to observe the seventh day every day. Yet, common sense dictates that the seventh day cannot be observed every day, it is only observed once a week, which is why it is called the "seventh" day. How can every day be "the seventh day?"

Those who fall into this admit that Messiah only observed the seventh day until after his death, at which time he abolished it. Those who teach this madness cannot understand how ridiculous is their thinking, for, why would Messiah observe the seventh day in his life time if his intention was to abolish the seventh day, and further, if Messiah kept the sabbath 24/7, and that is fulfillment of the fourth commandment, he would not therefore acknowledge the seventh day by observing it, but would instead carry on with his normal activities, and you wouldn't be able to tell the seventh day from the first day when observing his life.

The very fact that Messiah, a perfect man, observed seventh day in his lifetime, is all the evidence we need that we should likewise observe the seventh day, for, if we are followers of him, and we are to watch him, observe his every move, and emulate him, how can we do so and ignore the seventh day seeing that he himself did not ignore the seventh day? He would not have observed the seventh day it if it was to be abolished. The first thing he would have done is make it clear that he no longer had to observe it, for he keeps Sabbath 24/7, thus he would be setting the proper example for us to follow. They therefore, paint a picture of an unstable Messiah, who was not a good example for us, seeing that Messiah kept seventh day observances, and fully intended for his Apostles to not keep seventh day.

They paint a Messiah who was a poor teacher, and did not properly demonstrate proper living, for, according to these muddled thinkers, he who obeys Father 24/7 no longer observes seventh day, and yet Messiah himself observed seventh day. They do not perceive that seventh day observance is commanded in the law, and if the "law is dead" and we no longer have to obey it, then we no longer have to keep the other part of the law that says "cease from your own works and doings, and do only the Father's works." If the whole law is dead, than "doing the Father's works" also are dead. You can't say that the law is dead, then turn right around and say "but you must still cease from your own works," for it is the law that commands this, and you have said the law is dead.

Yahweh bless and keep you, IN HIS LOVE.


Shalom

J. Dean

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