The SHEMA, the greatest command in
Scripture, the command to HEAR found in Devarim 6:4-9;
“Hear, O Israel,
YHVH our
Elohim, YHVH
is One! And you shall love
YHVH
your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with
all your might. And these Words which I am commanding you
today shall be in your heart, and you shall impress them upon your
children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and
when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise
up, and shall
bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets
between your eyes.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your
gates.”
The Mark of
YHVH is a SPIRITUAL mark, for the
flesh profits nothing and will return to the dust from whence it
came. Those who bear the Mark of
YHVH, a relative few for the path is narrow and the way is
hard, can be seen by their works and the fruits of the Spirit that
are inherit therein.
Having forgone the matters of this
world, the matters of the flesh, these have set their expectation on
the matters of the Spirit, desiring the guidance only He can provide
so that one may return to their first estate.
Being a SPIRITUAL mark, it remains
hidden from all but a select few, those who are True
Israel, first of the heart, and
then of blood, yet of blood only if of the heart. Hidden not
in the sense of unattainability, for to obtain the Mark of
YHVH simply requires one to seek
an interpersonal relationship with Him with their whole heart,
coming to Him as a child, offering oneself as a living sacrifice
wholly and completely acceptable unto Him, our reasonable service.
Hidden because so few are desirous of such a relationship with their
Creator. It is not the sacrifices and offerings of the flesh
that YHVH is interested in, yet
the sacrifice of the heart, so that one may begin to be molded into
a vessel worthy of that which He desires to accomplish through him.
Perhaps easily spoken, but the works that witness to the desires of
a man’s heart are comprised of more than mere words.
Much attention and speculation has
been paid over the years to the mark of the beast found in
Revelation 13. Most of this attention and speculation centers
around a physical mark, currently believed to be in the form of some
type of computer microchip that will be placed in one’s right hand,
or perhaps their forehead. The technology certainly exists to
accomplish this, as does the desire in the hearts of certain men of
diabolical means to perpetrate this abomination on mankind.
Yet, for all the
attention spent on the “physical” mark of the beast, its true nature
has been obscured. There are many who have become intimate
with the darkness and are deceived into thinking that since they are
able to see and understand some of the evil ways that lurk therein,
they are walking in the Light, and have been entrusted with some of
the true riches, that being an ever-evolving understanding of the
infinite depths of the mysteries of the Kingdom that is only shared
by Abba
YHVH with those who have been
first found to be trustworthy in the small matters. Not ever
really knowing Him and what it means when He says
“I am
your exceedingly great reward”,
yet only knowing of Him, some of these same draw near to Him with
their lips, yet their hearts are far from Him, and to these He will
say
“I knew
you not”.
Having mistakenly thought they heeded the call of Revelation 18 to
“Come out of Babel”, they understood not its true meaning. For
the call is to come out of Babel and become set-apart unto
YHVH. Desiring not the
fellowship to be had with the One that is
Israel’s Father, Husband and
ultimately Best Friend that is closer than a brother, these go from
one of Babel’s various haunts by names many to another, knowing not
what they do in the flesh, yet following their desire for eternal
separation from Him that is found in their spirit.
Many of these same will refuse the physical
mark of the beast, perhaps even to the death of their flesh, knowing
not that their spirit has already received the reward for its works,
having received the only other spiritual mark available, that of the
beast that they worship. For having come upon them like a
thief in the night, just as in the days of Noah, their spirit was
taken away for destruction and now resides either in the pit from
which there is almost no hope of turning away from once opened again
for its season at the end of this Seventh Day that we are now a
little over 3 ½ years into, or for a swim in their eternal
recreation place known as the Lake that
burns with fire.
Again, just as in the days of Noah,
those who have received the Mark of YHVH
will abide safely in His Ark (spiritual) while the flood (spiritual)
of evil that spews from the mouth the enemy covers the earth.
This is a SPIRITUAL safety, not meant to convey that the flesh of
all who are spiritually in His Ark will also survive the coming
destruction that man will perpetrate on his fellow man, an evil so
full of hate that no flesh would survive this time if He were not to
shorten these days for the sake of His chosen ones, and the
corresponding consequences thereof. As an Elohim of love,
compassion and kindness, He will not allow even one of His to endure
that which is coming without a purpose, giving to those in need the
strength necessary to accomplish that which He desires to do so
through them, and giving to the others rest from their labors.
The Second Exodus, out of Babel that
covers the face of the earth, is first spiritual and in process
since around 1998 when Ephrayim’s 2,730 year penalty was completed,
then physical when Abba leads all
of His people back the Land of Israel
to enter into His Rest and live and reign with Him for the remainder
of His Seventh Day. Until such time, we are left physically
wondering around in the wilderness, yet not without His presence and
guidance. It is in this same wilderness in which we now dwell
that He will provide a place of safety for us as found in Revelation
12. Upon the opening of the Sixth Seal, and the corresponding
destruction that will befall the entire earth, as the earth quakes
and the heavens are shaken and the sun becomes blackened and the
moon becomes as blood, every man will be looking to find a place in
the “wilderness” from which to hide from this destruction.
Many millions, and if enough men survive the evil perpetrated by
mankind on his fellow man until this time, perhaps even billions,
will all be looking for the same place to hide and will all be in
need of the same basic necessities; food, water, shelter, fuel,
clothing, etc… to survive from day to day, hour to hour and
eventually minute to minute. Where on earth will all these
people “go” to find a wilderness that can provide even the bare
necessities for short-term survival? Give heed to what will
happen when YHVH says the entire
earth will quake and the heavens will be shaken, the sun becoming
blackened and the moon as blood. Will not the earth be
transformed into a wilderness by these events? If so, then
what is one to do but stay put where
Abba YHVH has them,
preparing for that which was spoken so clearly from before Creation,
a warning of the plans conceived in the heart of the enemy and of
those who would follow, along with the consequences to all of
mankind for their choices, while awaiting the safety of the
wilderness that will come to us.
So be not deceived Brethren, for when
they say to “look” for the Messiah, whether that be in the desert,
the inner rooms, or anywhere else on earth, you will not “see” Him,
for our Creator Messiah is Spirit and is One. What will be
seen is that which those who worship the worthless flesh have set
their expectation on; a man, flesh and blood, to come and save their
own flesh and blood from having to spend eternity with the Spirit.
What these same seem to have missed is that as flesh and blood
cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven, a place they wish not to abide
in anyway, the only place left for the worthless flesh is the dust
from whence it came.
Just as the mark of the beast comes with its
rewards, so too does the Mark of YHVH.
Shalom v’Ahava B’Shem
YHVH,
Peace and Love in the Name of
YHVH,
Dale
October 27, 2009
The Mark of YHVH