The Zadok Priesthood - Part II



THE ZADOK PRIESTHOOD – PART II

Correct Intercession and Spiritual Warfare

in the Garments of the High Priest

(A Study from Ephesians 6:10-18 and Exodus 28)

The Father, Yahuweh, Elohim (God) of Israel, is restoring all things in order to take us to the very tip of the roots of our faith and our salvation, which is in what Messiah Yahushua left us at His ascension, and what the original Apostles taught His disciples. Knowing that our roots are in the Hebrew/Jewish Messiah Yahushua, and in the Torah (Instructions and Teachings) of the Father, Yahuweh, we must turn from everything that does not line up to His plumb-line of Truth. He is calling us into His set-apartness: “Be set-apart, as I am set-apart”. (Amos 7:7-8; Leviticus 20:7, 26; I Peter 1:16)

To correctly understand the difference between what the Apostles left us and what became “Christianity”, we need to go to the roots of Christianity historically. By the mid-first century, Greek Hellenists--Greeks and Jews who wanted to force the Greek culture on the Jews as a whole--were happy to accept salvation from the Jewish Messiah. But, because they loathed and rejected anything “Jewish” or “Hebrew”, including Yahuweh Himself and His Torah, they Hellenised His teachings--thus creating a new Greek sect--a break-away sect-- from the original teachings of the Apostles.

They adopted for themselves the name ”Christian” from the Greek god “Kristo”, Christos (Latin), Creston, or Krishna (Hindu). The Apostles and disciples of Yahushua were called “followers of the Nazarene” or “followers of the Way”. (Acts 24:5,14)

Later, Rabbi Akiva, the man who created Rabbinical Judaism around 133CE, led persecution against the Torah-observant believers in Yahushua. The Rabbinical Jews called them “Talmidei Yeshua”--the followers of salvation. Much persecution of the true believers who kept Yahuweh’s Torah, came from both the Jews and the Hellenised Christian sect that embraced Gnosticism--the “I am god” philosophy of Lucifer from the Garden of Eden. Greek Gnostic Christianity merged with Platonic Greek Philosophy, the Alexandrian method of allegorizing the Scriptures, and pagan practice. Thus today, a lot of the Messianic Scriptures are misunderstood, because by 133CE, most of the believers in the salvation of the Jewish Messiah had become so corrupted and lukewarm by compromising with Greek, and later Roman, paganism, that they dismissed their Hebrew roots. Their understanding of the Messianic Scriptures was lost. Greek names and titles of pagan gods were substituted for the Name of the Father and Messiah, and pagan festivals and days of worship were substituted for the Festivals and the Shabbat (Sabbath) of Yahuweh.

Therefore, “Christianity” is not the original faith of the Apostles and disciples.

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In the parable of the tares sown in among the wheat in Matthew 13:39-41, we see that the tares are “those who practice lawlessness”. We see the fruit of this lawlessness in those Christians who, like the Greeks, reject the Torah (Instructions and Teachings) of the Kingdom of Yahuweh. The one who sowed these tares is Satan and his ministers. As in Matthew 7:23, these lawless ones cannot abide in the presence of Yahuweh.

C.J. Koster talks about the sowing of lawlessness within the true belief of Yahushua and the Apostles, on page 109 of Come Out of Her My People: “This is the outcome of the merger of the religions, which came about at the time of Constantine. Previous to this time, the seed-bed was prepared by the half-Christian Gnostics, the partly-Gnostic Alexandrians (such as Clement and Origen), …the predominant Sun worship of the Roman cults, the influence of Neo-Platonic philosophy, and the Alexandrian method of allegorizing the Scriptures…Moreover, the ground for the merger or compromise had been prepared by the concealment of the Name Yahuweh.” -- Thus, paving the way for the Messiah, Yahushua, to be separated from the Father.

In 133CE, the Jews and Torah observant believers in Messiah Yahushua were banished from the synagogues by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who outlawed circumcision and the Torah, thus most of them lost their anchor in Yahuweh and His Torah. Most joined with the pagans to the degree that the pagans said: “You are just like us, you just meet in different places than we do”. But, a small remnant stayed faithful to the truth. Yahuweh always deals with a small remnant, as the Scriptures prove out.

In 325CE at the Council of Nicea, the Roman Emperor Constantine took Greek Christianity to its heights in the creation of the Roman Catholic Church. As the first Pope, he commanded that all be baptized into his new religion and worship him or die. He was a type of anti-messiah. Constantine officially moved the day of worship from Yahuweh’s Sabbath to the day of sun god worship--Sunday. He officially declared Easter and Christmas (both pagan festivals) to be celebrated as part of his new “Church”. As his foundation, he made the Jews to be villains, labeling them “Christ killers”. He began the slaughter of the Jews and Torah-observant “followers of the Nazarene”. His symbolic instrument of killing was his sword, fashioned into the shape of an ancient pagan fertility symbol, “cross”, which also stood for the beginning letter of the original sun god’s name--Tammuz. This was the first time that believers in Messiah were represented by the “cross” as a symbol. The followers of the Messiah always had the menorah as their symbol. Thus Greek Christianity came to sit on the foundation of the totally pagan, sun god worshipping, Roman Catholic Church.

From this time, up until the present century, the Church has continued to collect into its belief box, man’s beliefs, elements of paganism from way before

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Yahushua was born, incorporating all sorts of traditions in practice and methodology, which are no where to be found in the Scriptures.

Greek Gnosticism taught that “Jesus” (IE sous) was just a man, not Deity. At the Council of Nicea, based on the statements of the early Apostles and the early “Church Fathers” regarding Yahushua (“Jesus”—English transliteration of “IE sous”--the Greek god of healing) was declared to be Deity. The Arian Greek view of “Jesus” was defeated, and this infuriated the Greeks. Thus Greek Gnosticism in all other aspects came to hide within Roman paganism. Rome did not uphold His Deity because they actually believed in it. But in order to unite his empire around a central God, Constantine had to maintain that IEsous (Yesu in Latin) was the supreme God of his new religion. Thus, the identity of the true Jewish Messiah was locked out from the people. He was disassociated with Yahuweh, the Elohim of Israel. Because the Vatican became a world ruler, Greek culture and philosophy took a back seat--until now.

Gnosticism (“gnosis” or knowledge) began with Lucifer in the Garden of Eden. Lucifer convinced Eve that she would be as Elohim, if she would just eat of his tree. The trick worked, as you know. Mankind has been eating of this tree of the knowledge of good and evil ever since, throwing out the Tree of Life and Yahuweh as being restrictive, bondage, legalism, and basically undesirable. Gnosticism teaches the freedom of man to be a god—to create his own world for himself, throw off all restrictions, (especially sexual) and live within his own laws of his own choices. Thus their concept of a Gnostic Jesus was of a human who was totally without restrictions from Yahuweh. Here we see the roots of the “cheap grace” touted by Evangelical Protestantism.

Gnosticism teaches that Yahuweh and His Torah are bad and evil, for they restrict man from becoming the god that he is. He is accused, especially, of restricting women. The Feminine Movement, Goddess movement, Mother Earth worship and the like, is moving to the forefront in the modern world. Colleges now offer Degrees in “Women’s Studies”. That is a nice name for the goddess movement, in which the “Divine Feminine” is preparing to be exalted as Queen of heaven, and earth. Gnosticism teaches that Lucifer, the shining one, the illumined one, illumined Eve with the knowledge of good and evil. She was made a goddess. Adam was her son, they say, and subservient to her. Thus Paul makes this correction in I Timothy 2:13, saying “Adam was formed first, and then Eve”. He was correcting Gnostic women teachers who had come into the assembly of the set-apart ones. Gnosticism is basic Lucifer’s doctrine, which is embraced by the most powerful, elite world leaders, and of course, their organizations--the Illuminati, the Masons, the Council on Foreign Relations, the

Trilateral Commission, the Skull and Bones, the New Age Movement, etc.

While Gnosticism says every man can be his own god, the world’s elite rulers

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and their followers want to conquer and rule over the masses of the world, subjecting all to their control and power.

Here are two examples of modern Gnosticism: 1) a woman’s “right to choose” includes murdering her unborn baby, and 2) a man or woman has a right to choose their “sexual preference”. But, it doesn’t stop with the “right to choose”. These Gnostics want to force their teachings on everyone in the world. Now, in Canada, and perhaps soon in the United States, the Bible has been declared a “hate book”, because it speaks against Gnostic liberties. To speak against homosexuality is now called a “hate crime”. Yet, those who uphold the Bible have no right to interfere, or even present their beliefs in public. So only the Luciferic Gnostics have the right to choose. Thus, Greek “democracy” makes a person think they can choose. But in actuality decisions are controlled--either by people being programmed to make the “right choice”, called social pressure, or by manipulation, or by fear of being out of line with the elite world rulers. Therefore, the anti-messiah (world ruler) will be elected by democratic vote.

Thus Greek Gnosticism is at war with the Roman Vatican and its restrictions, especially on women and sexual freedom. The deception is that the Roman Vatican has been believing in, and practicing Gnostic freedoms, since 325CE. The Roman Church outlawed marriage for its clergy, but not free sex. That is how the false Jewish Messiah of the late 1600’s, Shabbati Zvi, had no problems selling his no-Torah teachings to the Vatican and to the world.

Both Greece and Rome threw away Yahuweh and His Torah, but now, Greece wants to throw away the control of Rome. This rise of Greece is creating the sexual revolution within the world--and within your home, via media like TV. You are being programmed to accept what Lucifer wants you to accept via international media. Greek Gnosticism, which hid in Christianity for about 1,900 years, is now breaking loose within all forms of Christianity.

The Jesuit Order of the Vatican (“Society of Jesus”) brought forward the Luciferic doctrine of Gnosticism in their organization--the Illuminati (May 1, 1776). It is Luciferic because it the ancient religion of Lucifer (Satan as the “angel of light”) via Nimrod, in its many forms, which gives worship to Lucifer. It is basic sun god worship, nature worship, or the worship of the “illumined one”. Lucifer means “the shining one, illumined one”.

In Daniel 12:4, we read, “knowledge shall be increased”, as a sign of the last days. Yes, gnosis is indeed increased, by the technology of the mass media, especially television and the Internet. People lust for knowledge, yet do not find the Truth of Yahuweh!

Therefore, to be able to stand before Yahuweh we have to remove ourselves

totally from all forms of Gnosticism, and return to the Covenant relationship

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between Yahuweh and His set-apart people. We must return to the original faith and teaching of Yahushua and the Apostles!

This is modernly called “returning to our Hebrew roots”. But, in order to return to Hebrew roots, we have to totally pull up all roots of pagan Christianity and be grafted into the tree of Israel, whose root is Messiah. (Ephesians 2:11-19)

Because the spirit of Gnosticism hides within Christianity, correct understanding of Yahuweh and His Torah has all but been lost totally.

One such phenomenon of our culture is that the proper balance between the roles of male and female are being lost. Women are free within Christianity to assume the goddess role. Catholics made Mary the Queen of Heaven, a “co-Redeemer with Christ.” This “Queen” is really Isis, an ancient mother-goddess. The Catholic statues of “Our Lady of Fatima” are identical to the ancient statues of Isis. Mary is worshipped in sects of Islam and Hinduism. This goes back to Nimrod’s wife, in the plains of Babylon, Semaramis, and the first sun god, Tammuz. Yahuweh says in Jeremiah 7:18: “The children are gathering wood, the fathers are lighting the fire, and the women are kneading their dough, to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me”.

Ezekiel 8:13-14: And He said to me, `You are to see still greater abominations, which they are doing’. And He brought me to the door of the north gate of the House of Yahuweh, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.” This “weeping for Tammuz became “Lent” in the Roman Catholic Church, as people were to prepare for the rising of Rome’s sun god (from his winter death-state) at the festival of Ishtar (Easter). Thus, another example of pagan, heathen Greek and Roman worship hidden inside of Christianity.

I realize that Christianity covers a broad spectrum of beliefs. But, in 1994, a burned bridge was rebuilt and a falling away was enacted, when many well-known Evangelical and Charismatic leaders of America joined in a pact with the Vatican to erase the Protestant Reformation and return to the “fold of Rome”, because they are also “Christians”. Thus, institutionalized Christianity is coming together under the banner of the one world religion.

For even though the Roman Catholic Church said that IEsous was Deity, most of the Church Fathers, Popes and insider leaders always knew that the Greek “Jesus Christ” was a myth--a breakaway from the teachings of the Apostles and the real Jewish Messiah. Pope Leo X (the Pope who dubbed King Henry VIII the “defender of the faith”) is on record as saying: “It has served us well, this myth of Christ”.

The Romans hated the Jews and the Torah-observant believers in Messiah Yahushua as much as the Greeks. Both Greece and Rome were determined to rid themselves of anything to do with the Torah. By the 4th century, secular historians tell us that the faith of the original Apostles and disciples had been

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stamped out. But, we read Church historians who said that these “heretics” were still alive until the 13th century and still had their copy of Matthew in

Hebrew. By the end of the horrible Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church, supposedly there were no remains of the original faith of the Apostles left on the earth. But, they forgot Acts 3:10-21. The Father has restored the original faith back into the earth, and it is developing into a remnant that includes the Bride of Messiah. These Covenant-keeping Torah-observant believers in the Jewish Messiah, Yahushua, and in His Father Yahuweh, are increasing and anchoring deep into their roots!

The big problem is that many, in returning to their Hebrew roots, are mixing the true worship of Yahuweh with Greco/Roman Christianity, because most refuse to give up Christianity totally. Yet, our Savior tells us that the mixture of truth and paganism will cause Him to spew many out of His mouth.

The man-made, easy belief, cheap grace, lawless (Torah-less) sect called “Christianity” has gone on from the first century to today to tout approximately 1.8 billion members world wide. Yet, is this the faith that Messiah left us? A simple reading of the New Testament through will expose the truth that the early believers were a small group within Judaism, who had their eyes on eternity, not on this world.

Here are just a few samples of the path of the truth: Matthew 7:14ff: “Enter in through the narrow gate! Because the gate is wide—and the way is broad—that leads to destruction, and there are MANY who enter through it. Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed which leads to life, and there are FEW who find it”. Matthew10:37-39: “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me, and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take up his stake and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. And whoever has found his life shall lose it, and he that has lost his life for My sake shall find it”. Luke 14:33: “So, then, everyone of you who does not give up all that he has, is unable to be My disciple”.

Matthew 10:22: “And you shall be hated by all men for My Name’s sake. And he who shall have endured to the end shall be saved”. What Name was He talking about? The Name that identified Him with Yahuweh, of course—Yahushua!

II Timothy 2:3-5’ 11-2 and 3:12: “Suffer hardship with us as a good soldier of Yahushua Messiah. No one serving as a soldier gets involved in the affairs of this life in order to please only him who enlisted him as a soldier. And if anyone competes in a game, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules”. Whose rules--each person’s rules, the church’s rules, or Yahuweh’s rules?

“Trustworthy is the word: For if we died with Him we shall also live with Him. If we endure, we shall also reign with Him….And indeed, all those wishing to live godly lives in Messiah Yahushua will be persecuted”. Acts 14:22: “…we

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must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of Elohim”.

Yahushua warned us, in speaking to the religious leaders of His day: “You are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but Elohim knows your hearts, because what is highly thought of among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim”.

In this world, there are poor, suffering, persecuted Christians, who are being martyred hourly. They practice their faith in the Savior spoken of in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and are true to what they believe, being truly born again by faith. Millions are dying as martyrs. Father has great mercy and compassion on these little ones. They are living up to everything they know to please Jesus. But, we who are privileged to have access to truth about the roots of our faith are held responsible for what we know. He has great compassion on ignorance when their heart is sincere, but when knowledge has come He has no compassion on the willfully rebellious.

Compare the attitudes of the first century Torah-observant believers described in Acts 4 and 5, with the modern free wheeling gospel of “what’s in it for me?”

The modern Church is powerful, wealthy beyond imagination, world centered, controlling, politically active, and clearly at odds with the Covenant that Yahushua brought forward and renewed from Yahuweh. The only way such a thing could have happened was for man to separate Yahuweh from the Savior, and that is what the Greeks did in the 1st century. The Tenach, the “Old Testament” was separated from the Messianic Scriptures, the “New Testament”, and Yahuweh was “old” and Jesus was “new”. Thus, “Replacement Theology”—the lie that the Church replaced Israel and His promises to Israel—is the foundation of the Church. To accomplish this, the real Jewish Messiah had to be replaced by a Greek counterfeit. So Yahushua, who came in His Father’s Name, Yahuweh, became the Greek “IEsous”. This counterfeit religion is a collection of beliefs and practices with their roots in paganism from the mid-1st century to this day.

Yet, Revelation 12:16; 14:12; 22:14, and other Scriptures tells us that in the last days, there will be a Bridal-hearted company who will be on the earth, a remnant of His people, who will again keep His Torah, and also believe in Messiah Yahushua, the “Lion of the tribe of Judah”. All of the approximately 300 passages on the second coming of Messiah in the Tenach talk about Yahuweh coming in power to set up His Kingdom. Yahushua will rule over it “with a rod of iron”.

Stubborn sentimental attachment to what Yahuweh hates and will judge, is the “Lot’s wife” syndrome. Our Messiah reminds us: “Remember Lot’s wife”. Luke 17:32

There is a great separation coming: All Christianity will disappear in the 3 ½ years of tribulation. Either 1) Christians will be martyred for their faith, 2) they

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will deny Him and take the “mark of the beast” (world ruler), or 3) they will die

from the effects of man’s weapons of destruction, disease, beasts of the earth, starvation or lack of water, or 4) they will embrace the true faith left to us by Yahushua. The anti-messiah will demand worship of himself, as the ancient emperors did. Those not worshipping him will be killed. Only a marked Bridal-hearted remnant will be able to survive. Revelation 17 tells us that the one world government will destroy the whole system of Christianity with fire, thus ridding itself of all restrictions of the flesh.

As you can see, Yahuweh and Yahushua were never a part of Christianity, or Rabbinical Judaism. Elohim stands outside the systems of man. Yahuweh/Yahushua never made any covenant with “gentiles”. The Covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was never rescinded, only renewed and expanded in the blood of Messiah. (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Matthew 5:17-19)

Yahuweh is a Covenant-keeping Elohim. Salvation, the new birth, is only possible within the Covenant perimeters of Yahuweh (Ephesians 2).

Yahuweh is merciful, and those who have believed in the salvation of the One in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, have been born again. But, the day is fast approaching when anything to do with the evil roots of Gnosticism and paganism will be destroyed, along with His wrathful destruction of the evil root that He calls “the great whore”. (Revelation 17)

Nimrod created the trinity belief. All pagan religions have their trinity. By the trinity doctrine in Christianity, Rome successfully separated the Father from the Son. This was a purposed wedge put in between the Father and the Son to hide the Son’s connection to the Father--Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Then, in the 11th century, the Roman Church added another quirk to the Nicean Creed, making the Ruach Yahuweh coming forth out of both Yahuweh and Yahushua. There is no Scripture to back that--the Ruach (Spirit) is Yahuweh Himself. When Yahushua was asked what the greatest commandments were, He referred to Deuteronomy 6:4-5 and Leviticus 19:18, beginning with: “Hear O Israel, Yahuweh our Elohim, Yahuweh is one!

Nimrod (Genesis 10-11) set himself up as the supreme god to be worshipped, along with his son Tammuz--the sun god who died in the winter and rose again each spring. Nimrod’s wife, Semaramis, became the Queen of Heaven and the “Mother of God”. Nimrod founded the Kingdom of Babel, where the “tower of Babel” was built.

Historically, Nimrod’s religion and Babel itself, ended up in Rome, via Pergamos, Turkey, then went into Western Europe, then finally resting in America, and the American-style Christianity of the 20th century. Thus, America as a nation, embodying the fullness of ancient Babylon, will be totally destroyed in the last days by Yahuweh. (Revelation 17-18; Isaiah 47; Jeremiah 50 and 51 and several other passages of Scripture) He is calling out His people from every vestige of it.

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Revelation 18:4: “Come out of her (the Babylonian whore system) My people, lest you partake of her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues”. The Church is called a “whore” because she is unfaithful to Yahuweh and His Torah, thus she is unfaithful to the Bridegroom Yahushua.

James 4:4: ‘Adulterers ands Adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim? Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim”.

Luciferic tradition is so intertwined with American culture that most Christians do not realize that they are in the camp of Lucifer, where the trap will be soon spring.

Father is calling us to a totally set-apart lifestyle! Because most people, Christians included, do not “love the truth”, Yahuweh will send a “strong delusion” that people will believe a lie and be damned. (II Thessalonians 2:9-12)

How did Christianity get over 2,000 denominations? It is because man, who doesn’t listen to the Ruach Yahuweh, makes up his own set of rules and beliefs. Each denomination and organization has their own list of rules for you to be accepted with them. If someone has a different opinion, the local church splits, and a new one is formed. Is this what Messiah left us?

In Matthew 7:22 He says: “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)’”.

Now, that this supposedly lost Jewish sect of the Nazarene, the “followers of the Way”, has resurfaced, the forces of Lucifer are particularly targeting us. Compare this set-apart Bridal people, who are “blameless before the throne of Yahuweh” and the lifestyle of the modern Church.

I lay this groundwork of 7 pages, because I want you to see the total difference between the fruit of what we call Christianity today, and the fruit of what our Savior left us. The fruits of the Torah-observant believer in Messiah--filled with the Ruach, walking in the fruits of righteousness, in His love--are in stark contrast to the worldly fruit of the counterfeit religious system of man.

One attempt to derail us in our fight against the “evil one” came from the Greco/Roman foundation. We were taught in Sunday School that the armor of the spiritual warrior, or the intercessor of Ephesians 6:10-18, is that of a barbaric, defiled, pagan Roman soldier. NOT SO!

The Torah-observant writers of the Messianic Scriptures would never have used pagan names of our Father and Messiah, or pagan titles, or pagan words based in the names of pagan gods, OR PAGAN ILLUSTRATIONS, to replace

Elohim’s Teachings and Instructions!

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The “armor” that must be worn to approach the throne of Yahuweh, for

intercession for His people, is the blood-sprinkled garments of the High Priest of the eternal priesthood of Zadok--“righteousness”. As part of our entrance into a Covenant relationship with our Savior, at the new birth, we exchange garments.

We give Him our filthy garments of sin, and He gives us His robe of righteousness. For proper intercession, He also gives us the robes the earthy High Priest. Without wearing these garments, we cannot properly intercede or do spiritual warfare against the forces of Lucifer.

These garments were passed down to the earthly priesthood (both spiritually and naturally) from the GREAT HIGH PRIEST, YAHUSHUA, of the eternal priestly order of Melchizadek--THE KING OF RIGHTOUSNESS.

Our Savior is of the eternal Priesthood of Melchizadek--the King of Righteousness. (Genesis 14:18; Psalm 110:4; Hebrews 5:6, 10, 20; 7:1, 10-21) The name of this Priest of Salem (Peace), (#4442 Strong’s Concordance) who met Abraham with bread and wine, had no mother, no father, no beginning, and no end. He was most likely Yahushua in His pre-incarnate form. “Melek” means “King” (#4428), and “tsch-dek” (#6664) means: “right, equity, prosperous, just, even”.

This reminds us of Isaiah 11:1-5. Listen to the language of the priestly duties and the priestly garments in this prophetic passage concerning Yahushua: “And a Rod shall come forth from the stump of Jesse, and a Sprout from his roots shall bear fruit. The Spirit of Yahuweh shall rest upon Him--the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahuweh, and shall make Him breath in the fear of Yahuweh. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears. But, with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with straightness for the meek ones of the earth, and shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and slay the wrong with the breath of His lips. And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and trustworthiness the girdle of His waist”.

Yahushua’s priesthood has NO BEGINNING and NO END--coming from eternity past and going into eternity future. The priesthood of Zadok, from Jacob to Levi, to Kohath, to Aaron, to Eleazer, through Phinehas, is an eternal priesthood that HAD A BEGINNING in Levi (the first Levite), and which is also eternal and WILL HAVE NO END.

There is a natural “Kohanim”—priesthood--the sons of Zadok today. The males have a special distinction in their Y chromosome in their DNA that trace them back to Levi through Aaron. Many of these set-apart ones, the flesh and blood descendants of Levi, are returning to their positions as priests, preparing, and being set-apart for their future work in the Temple of Messiah in Jerusalem.

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I quote from DNA Traditions by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, page 108 and 22: “Genetic research confirms that the Kohanim are, in fact, the most ancient unbroken male dynasty in the existence of the world. The simplest, most straightforward explanation is that these men have the Y-Chromosome of Aaron”.

The restoration of the original Aaronic Priesthood is most thrilling. The restoration of the spiritual “sons of Zadok” is most thrilling. The restoration of the teachings of the first Apostles, from Yahushua Himself, is the most thrilling of all. He is calling us to set-apartness and purity. “Let the righteous be more righteous, and the set-apart be more set-apart”. Revelation 22:11

This study is in Part II of the original foundation-laying article: The Zadok Priesthood.

In these end days, two companies of His set-apart remnant are surfacing and

merging together in union—“the Elijah Company” and “The Zadok Company”. These are the pure-of-heart marked ones, who will be alive and remain until Messiah’s coming--the “first fruits” of the resurrection--the Bridal remnant. (In Part II of The Foundation of Deception, I Have Departed, I go from Genesis to Revelation and talk about the marking in the forehead of the set-apart ones for their preservation in the days of the great tribulation on this earth for 3 ½ years).

The first of these two companies is the Elijah Company. (Zechariah 4/ Revelation 11), which is restoring the “children to the fathers”--Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and calling for separation from all that is of Baal and a return to Torah (Malachi 4/I Kings 18).

The second company is the Zadok Company, which is restoring the purity and set-apartness of His people unto Yahuweh, calling for obedience to His Instructions and Teachings (Torah). (Ezekiel 44:22)

Zadok was the faithful priest under David and Solomon. He and his descendants, forever, are to teach the difference between what is defiled and what is clean before Yahuweh, so that His set-apart ones do not touch what is defiled, unclean, or an abomination in His sight.

Excerpts from Ezekiel 44:15-31: “`But, the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who guarded the duty of My Set-Apart Place when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall draw near to Me to serve Me, and shall stand before Me to bring to Me the fat and the blood’, declares the Master Yahuweh. `They shall enter My set-apart place and they shall draw near to My table to serve Me, and they shall guard My charge’. `And it shall be, when they enter the gates of the inner courtyard, that they put on linen garments, and no wool shall come upon them while they attend within the gates of the inner courtyard or within the house. They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers of

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their bodies, and they shall not gird themselves with what causes sweat. And they are to teach My people the difference between the set-apart and the profane, and make them know what is unclean and clean. And they are to stand as judges in a dispute, and judge it according to My right-rulings. And they are to guard My Torah and set apart my Sabbaths. And they are not to defile themselves….’ `I am their inheritance…I am their possession’”.

Revelation 19:7-8: “Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him praise, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. And to her was given to be dressed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteousness of the set-apart ones”.

The Bride of Messiah wears linen garments! She wears the “robe of righteousness”. Isaiah 61:10: “I greatly rejoice in Yahuweh, my being exults in my Elohim, for He has put garments of deliverance on me. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels”. This is the true new birth.

The faithful sons of Zadok, the company of spiritual priests who stand before Yahuweh in set-apartness, are calling His people back to the standards that

Yahuweh set forth, that Yahushua expanded and magnified, and that the Apostles and disciples taught and lived.

Now, in 2005, one of the great miracles that the Ruach Yahuweh is doing is that these two companies have united into one (echad) and are unified to forerun the two witnesses and the coming of the Messiah.

These are the pure-hearted Bridal souls who have one desire, faithfulness and

eternal marriage to Yahuweh their Bridegroom.

According to Revelation 12:17 and other passages, the Bridal souls not only believe in Messiah for salvation, but also keep the Commandments of Torah. She is marrying a Jewish Messiah, and so adheres to His Teachings and Instructions.

Their eternal goal of His set-apart Bride is found in Revelation 22:3-5—to stand before Him for all eternity, and see His face, and never leave His eternal New Jerusalem, nor leave His presence. The set-apart Bridal souls have His Name on their forehead. These are the ones talked about in the assembly in Philadelphia, Revelation 3:7-13.

Leviticus 20:7-8, 24, 26; II Corinthians 6:17-7:1; I Peter 1:16-17: “And you shall set yourselves apart, and shall be set-apart, for I am Yahuweh your Elohim, and you shall guard My laws and do them. I am Yahuweh your Elohim, who has separated you from the peoples of the earth. And you shall be set-apart to Me, for I Yahuweh am set-apart, and have separated you from the peoples to be Mine”.

“`Therefore, come out from among them and be separate’, says Yahuweh, `and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you. And I shall be a Father to

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you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me’, says Yahuweh the Almighty. Having, then, these promises beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting set-apartness in the fear of Elohim”. “…because it is written, `Be set-apart for I am set-apart. And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear…”

I Kings 17:1, regarding Elijah: “And Elijah (Eliyahu) the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gad, said to Ahab, `As Yahuweh, Elohim of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew or rain these years, except at my word’”. Thus the rain for 3 ½ years stopped totally. “Before whom I stand”—the power of Eliyahu rested in his covenant relationship with Yahuweh. Priests “stand before Yahuweh”.

Zechariah 4:2-3, 14: “And he said to me, `What do you see?’ So I said, `I have looked and see a lamp stand all of gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven spouts to the seven lamps. And two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left’. And he said to me `These are the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Master of the earth’”. Revelation 11:3-4: “And I shall give unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands that are standing before the Elohim of the earth”.

The Bride will stand with her Bridegroom in the presence of Yahuweh forever. Psalm 45 is the wedding Psalm of Israel: Verse 9: “At Your right hand stands the Queen in the gold of Ophir”.

Now, spiritually, she is preparing, like Esther, to stand in His presence! Thus these two companies of the last days are the two companies of the marked Bridal remnant--representing all 12 tribes of Israel. He has saved the “best wine for last”. “The last shall be first”. He has saved back His Bride until now!

The High Priest could not go before Yahuweh without wearing the set-apart garments, sprinkled with blood, or without the anointing oil. We cannot approach the throne of the great Yahuweh, the Most High, without the blood of Messiah sprinkled on us for the forgiveness of sins, nor without the anointing oil (the Ruach’s presence), nor without His garments of set-apartness upon us, necessary to be clean in His eyes. In order to have boldness to approach the throne, as Hebrews 4:16 indicates, we must have “confidence” based on our cleanness.

I John 5:14: “And this is the boldness that we have in Him, that if we ask whatever according to HIS DESIRE, He hears us”.

The Greco/Roman Church system does not teach people to study the Word for

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themselves. They do not teach the “fear of Yahuweh” or teach what not to touch--what is defiled, unclean, and an abomination to Him. Proverbs 8:13: “The fear of Yahuweh is to hate evil…” We must hate what He hates, and love what He loves.

Being born again for 54 years, and in the Christian ministry for over 40 years, I have noticed general attitudes within the church and ministry. Much of it is because the church has adopted American cultural values, which is basic Gnosticism. But, unfortunately, too many American ministries of intercession, without realizing it, have Gnostic attitudes of pride, religious self-righteousness, self-centeredness, attitudes of superiority, control, manipulation, selfish ambition, and aggressive behavior unbefitting His requirements for His Bride. Many are actually controlling churches and Christian organizations. They appear to be nice people as long as they are getting what they want, but most of the time, if you cross them they can turn very vicious, with no conviction of wrong doing. The spirit of “I am god” is coming to its fullness. Now, some popular charismatic preachers are even teaching that we are gods. Most of these intercessors/prophets are women, who without realizing it, are falling into the restoration of the worship of the goddesses--“the divine Feminine”. BEWARE! It is a long fall downwards!

Daniel 1:3-5 shows us that to prepare to go before King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon for use in his kingdom, Daniel and his friends had to go through three years of training, and preparation to be able to stand before King Nebuchadnezzar and have his favor upon them. Three years of intense preparation! Part of that preparation was to learn the Cauldean language, and learn the ways of the government of Babylon.

In Esther 2:12-15, 17, she was put through intense preparation for twelve months before she was allowed to go before the King. She prepared in all ways, so that when she approached him, she would have his favor. What type of preparation do you think Elijah (I Kings 17:1) and Elisha (II Kings 3:14) went through in order to tell the Kings of Israel that they stood before the Elohim of the whole earth? Both of these men moved in tremendous power. Yes, of course, He receives the repentant sinner with love, as the Father received the prodigal son. But, He wants us to grow up into Him, and assume the responsibility of adults in His Kingdom. His training of His “sons” is very hard training indeed, because He wants us to grow up!

Modern Christianity has taught that all you have to have is a belief system from “receiving Jesus into your heart” and God is at our disposal to meet all of our needs, wants and desire. There is no reality to that. When we enter into the new birth, we enter a Kingdom, and are responsible to the King and His Instructions. Americans were raised on Walt Disney’s fantasies, Santa Claus, flying reindeer, and other magic fantasies, where all a person had to do was “wish” and they got

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what they wanted. Such things all come down from Babylonian mysticism and occult thinking. Yahuweh is not a magic lamp.

I John 5:14: “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us…” In fact we must not ask for anything unless 1) it is ours, in His Word and 2) it is in His will to give it to us. Yahuweh is not Santa.

There is protocol to approach human royalty. How much more are there requirements for approaching the King of Kings, Master of Master--the Creator of the Universe? He has His list of protocol, regulations and requirements for right standing in His Kingdom, and even more stringent requirements for approaching His throne--especially to intercede for someone else. They are clearly outlined in His Word.

The High Priest, on Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) went before Yahuweh with blood, to intercede for the people. But, he also had to deal with his own sin, before he could intercede for the people. A person must not come before Yahuweh with sin, and rebellious attitudes against the Torah, and against His Name, and claim that the blood of Messiah will make it all OK. Grace is not a license to sin. We must repent, and “cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and the spirit”, if He is to receive us. “Sin is the transgression of the Torah”. (I John 3:4)

There are now two companies forerunning two different events: One company is the united Elijah/Zadok company, forerunning the Messiah Yahuweh, and the other company is the Gnostics Luciferic company forerunning the anti-messiah. Will the choice come down, as in the 1st century, to a Gnostic Jesus of the Christians vs. Messiah Yahuweh of the set-apart ones?

Torah teaches the proper balance between the roles of male and female. The Greek world teaches an imbalance of those roles. Yahuweh and Yahushua never taught the demeaning of women. But, women must realize that they have a different role than men to play out. Women need to uphold the modest, humble, pure, sincere role of a woman before her children, her husband, and her associates. A woman of Yahuweh must not be aggressive, pushy, bossy, demanding, loud spoken, or seek to attract attention by her demonstrative performances. Yet, these things are typical of the new breed of “women ministries”. It seems that the wilder a woman, or man, preaches, the more of an audience they get. Yet, this preaching of sermons, and getting paid for them, goes back to the Greek sophists in the 5th century BCE. The sophists are credited for inventing rhetoric (the art of persuasive speaking). Their art became so popular in Greece, and later Rome, that people would congregate to hear them speak, and then pay them for it. The early disciples were an interactive group, where everyone got a chance to share, in a home-type situation. Meetings were not a performance, spectator sport, as it is today.

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We all know about “the Proverbs 31 woman”: “Who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies…she opens her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the Torah of kindness…Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman that fears Yahuweh, she shall be praised”. The woman who observes the Torah of Yahuweh, is a content, peaceful woman, who doesn’t need to act out to get her point across.

Now that His Names have been restored to His people--Yahuweh (or Yahweh) and Yahushua (or Yahshua), to use the names of pagan gods in His face, or pagan titles is not acceptable.

Moses was a Levite. To the Levites is given the task of speaking His correct Name into the earth. Yahuweh gave His Name to Moses to give to the children of Israel (Exodus 3 and 6).

Exodus 23:13: “And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no mention of the names of other gods, let them not be heard from your mouth”. Exodus 20:3: “You shall have no other gods against My face”. We need to clean up our mouths!

It is literally overwhelming to me that so many know His correct Name and do not use it before Him in prayer. The excuse I hear most is: “ God knows my heart”, or “He doesn’t care what I call Him”. Listen to that horrible illogic. Yes, He knows our heart all right--Jeremiah 17:10--“The heart is deceitful and wicked above all things”. The Hebrew word for “heart” relates to the soul realm--the carnal realm--of the mind, the will, and the emotions--the seat of the carnal nature. You can’t say you love someone and take that kind of liberty! You don’t do that to someone you love!! (Please ask for my documented article: The Hebrew Names and Titles of the Creator of the Universe—The Father and Messiah of Israel, January 2005).

Remember that there was no “J” sound or letter in any language, before it was invented and inserted into English about 480 years ago. Therefore, there was no “Jesus” before then. “Jesus” is a Greek substitute name for Yahushua, and is the transliteration into English of “IE sous”—the Greek god of healing, related to Zeus.

Yahushua is Yahuweh! The Torah-observant Jews of Yahushua’s day despised the Greek culture in every way—including its language. Most of the Messianic Scriptures were originally written in Hebrew. Names mean something in Hebrew. The Name of a person is connected to their reputation. How blasphemous to call Elohim by the name of a Greek god!

So many Christians tell me that they don’t hear from “God”. Yet, one day my friends and I did some brainstorming, and came up with at least 40 different ways that He speaks.

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The Gnostic spirit within Christianity has taught women to be aggressive, not only in the church but also in the home. Thus the church is overwhelmed with divorces, abortion, homosexuality, lawless children running wild with no discipline--especially since the Gnostic revival began around the 1940’s.

I am not against women ministering, and neither is the Father. From the late 1700’s to the present, about 80% of all mission work, and Bible translation, has been done by single women. The Apostle Paul was not against women ministers either, just against the Gnostic Greek women who were coming into the assemblies of the Torah-observant Messianic believers, bringing Luciferic doctrine, and usurping authority over the men in the congregation.

But, because of the sexual revolution and the “I am god” revolution, the spirit of the goddess is in world, in the Church and the homes of Christians. The TV and all public media, has been methodically programming the husband, the wife, and the children, to throw off their traditional roles. Children are being programmed to be rebellious, disobedient, and lawless.

The spirit of lawlessness (Torahlessness) is in the earth. When the distinctive roles of male and female are done away with, when absolutes and perimeters are done away with, you have a society that is capable of anything evil. Children like boundaries. But, the Gnostic world system seeks to release children from all boundaries. Therefore, the school systems are overwhelmed with discipline problems, with emotionally disturbed children, with children fed on sugar diets and then on drugs--children without restraint. It makes teaching “the 3 R’s” almost impossible.

To show you how far good Christian women are being led into Gnostic philosophy, and not questioning it at all, some women I’ve heard in their romanticizing of Yahushua, are creating a sensuous male in their fantasies. Yes, our precious Bridegroom is tenderly romantic, loving, precious and sweet, gentle, kind and wonderful!!! But, He is NOT humanly sensual. They are reducing Him to the status of a mere human without realizing it. This is the Gnostic Jesus spirit that is in the church. This twisted Gnostic Jesus does not exclude the men either--the Gnostic Jesus was bi-sexual. Yet, Yahushua tells us that in eternity there will be no more marriage, because we’ll be like the angels--spiritual beings. The Gnostic Jesus, preached by the early Greek Christians, was a free sex Jesus, who mingled his teachings in with seducing women, and men, into sexual activity. He was a “cool” Jesus, who allowed sin with “no problem”. That is where the “cheap grace” doctrine has come from. This is why they broke with the Torah-observant believers—Yahuweh had too many restrictions on their “freedom”. The Gnostic Jesus is the Jesus of the DaVinci Code book and movie--the one who married Mary Magdalene and had children, supposedly producing the famous “Movovingian bloodline” from their union, with the hope of putting a ruler on the throne of the world. This is a key belief of the

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Luciferic elite and the motivation behind their plans for the one world government and religion—one world without Yahuweh.

Even though Roman Catholicism exalts Jesus as “God” in their creed, he is still being manipulated to be whatever anyone wants him to be within the Church system. Today, Protestants in hundreds of organizations and denominations, and Messianic believers, also feel free to make “Jesus” or “Yeshua” into anything they want.

Of course, most Evangelical and Charismatic believers would never consider Jesus to be like the Gnostic Jesus of the DaVinci Code. But, the “spirit of the Gnostic Jesus” has corrupted ideas about Him to a high degree.

But, the Greek “Jesus” and the Messiah Yahushua of Israel are ultimately two different people. We are seeing these differences more and more all the time, for the fruit of the two different beliefs are entirely different—the fruit of those who follow the Western modern church Jesus is becoming more and more distinctively different than the fruit of those who know the Messiah of Israel.

Yahushua warned us: “I have come in My Father’s Name and you do not receive Me. If another comes in his own name, him you would receive”.

Many modern church intercessors are actually practicing witchcraft without knowing it. “In the name of Jesus” they are praying people in and out of churches, praying their will into people’s lives, praying what they think is right, and generally praying against the Word in many cases. This is no different than casting witch’s spells. Only Yahushua has the right to judge what we should pray. In fact, because of the de-emphasis on the Word in the Church, most intercessors, prophets and prophetesses, are actually praying, prophesying and teaching against the dictates of the Word. Therefore, they can accept the alchemy (demonic witchcraft) of the gold dust phenomenon, and think it is from their Bridegroom. Like I said, Father has had mercy on us all.

We must get Greece and Rome 100% out of our lives, if we are going to marry a Jewish Messiah!

There are five things that set us apart:

1) The blood of Yahushua Messiah

2) The Anointing Oil of the Ruach Yahuweh

3) The set-apart garments of the High Priest, complete with gold plate on the forehead saying “Set-Apart to Yahuweh”

4) The choosing of Yahuweh--the sealing of the Ruach, and the marking of Yahushua

5) Personal righteousness--purity, faithfulness, obedience, child like trust and dependency, humility, cleanness, and set-apartness of heart

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Ephesians 6:10-18, From The Scriptures: “Put on the complete ARMOR OF

ELOHIM, for you to have power to stand against the schemes of the devil, because we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the world rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual matters of wickedness in the heavenlies. Because of this, take up the complete ARMOR OF ELOHIM so that you have power to withstand in the wicked day. And, having done all to stand, stand then, having girded your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace. Above all, take up the shield of faith with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows of the wicked one. Take also the helmet of deliverance and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim, praying at all times with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones, …”

How could we have missed it? It is the ARMOR OF ELOHIM, not the armor of a pagan Roman soldier! It is the armor of our High Priest, Yahushua, which He gives to His set-apart, pure of heart, Bridal souls, to use in spiritual intercession before Him for His people. But, we must be aware of the anointing that goes with such a high and set-apart privilege!! At times I can feel so strongly, the breastplate upon my chest, as I carry before Him continually, the remnant of His people, especially of the House of Israel, who will return to their roots, and align with Yahuweh. I carry on my heart, His Bride, and the remnant of the 144,000 and the two witnesses, who will forerun the Messiah. At times, I can tangibly feel the anointing oil of His presence with me. It is a very delicate balance to walk before Him, and still continue on with everyday life as needed!

The Eight Parts of the Armor of the True Priestly Intercessor: We will go into the details of each one from a Hebraic standpoint further on—giving the Hebrew meaning of each part.

1) The hip area “girded about with truth”--this is the belt, or “girdle” of the High Priest. It is wrapped around the hip area, the area of digestion, and reproduction. We take in truth and we reproduce truth.

2) The “breastplate of righteousness”: The High Priest had a breastplate, on which were jewels representing the twelve tribes of Israel, and which concealed the Urim and Thummin (lights and perfections) by which He judged correctly according to the will of Yahuweh.

3) The feet shod with “preparation of the gospel of peace”: The feet of the High Priest were anointed with blood and oil. With the feet, Yahushua bruised the head of Satan, gaining for us our peace, thus fulfilling Genesis

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3:15. “The chastisement for our peace was upon Him” (Isaiah 53) By His

scared feet, we gained peace with Yahuweh. His feet with stand on the

Mt. of Olives. His feet stood in the eternal Set-Apart Place with His own

blood, to make atonement for us. The High Priest took blood into the Set-

Apart place once a year on the Day of Atonement. Then he walked out to

the people proclaiming that they their sins were forgiven.. The High Priest

walks out the “tracks of righteousness”--the Festivals--proclaiming the

seven elements of the plan of salvation. We put on our shoes when we go

out to proclaim the Good News.

4) The “shield of faith”: The Levite has no inheritance among the tribes. Yahuweh is his inheritance. The other tribes cared for his needs. He works for Yahuweh, so Yahuweh is the source of good in his life. He lives by faith. By faith, he blocks all the incoming missiles of the evil ones, who seek to defile his life, and sidetrack him from the purity required for intercession before Yahuweh. By faith the High Priest offered sacrifices before Yahuweh.

5) The “helmet of salvation” or “deliverance”: The High Priest wears a

turban on his head. On the turban, on his forehead, is a gold plate,

inscribed with “Set-Apart to Yahuweh—YHWH”. Without this gold

plate on his head, he cannot intercede!

6) The “sword of the spirit, which is the Word of Elohim”: The High Priest is

responsible for teaching the Word to the people, and helping the people

understand it. One of the first things that Ezra did, on returning from

Babylon, was to read the entire Torah to the people, having the other

Levites explain it to them in small groups, so that everyone understood.

7) “Praying…in the Spirit…watching….”: We must pray according to the will of the Ruach Yahuweh, and watch to make sure that our prayers are

in line with His set-apart will. By praying “in the Spirit”, in our heavenly

prayer language, we pray according to the will of Elohim. The High

Priest could not make up his own rules as to how to intercede for the

people. He had to follow only Yahuweh’s rules, or die. The High Priest

had proper “fear of Yahuweh”.

8) We must also have on the priestly robe, which covered his body. This is

the “robe of righteousness”. Without being justified by the blood of

Messiah, we cannot intercede. Without personal righteousness, we

cannot intercede either.

The Bride’s clothing is righteousness. It is linen clothing. The priest’s

garments are made of linen--from flax. The cloth was not mixed with any

other fabric—no mixtures allowed before the throne of Yahuweh.

That is why intercession cannot be done by a mixture of truth and error in the life

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of the one interceding. The priest could not wear wool, or anything that caused sweat.

This shows that he could not do anything in his own power or energy, but was to be 100% submitted to the will of Yahwueh and His Torah. Yahuweh is restoring His right rulings, and in the Kingdom of Messiah, Yahushua will rule “with a rod of iron”. Those who line up with Him will also rule, by the Torah, with a rod of iron (Revelation 2:27)

The High Priest interceded between the people and Yahuweh, by his prayers, and by offering the blood sacrifices. Yahushua fulfilled the laws of the blood sacrifices for the removal of sin from His people. But, if we want to properly intercede, we have to have our lives sprinkled with the blood of Messiah, and bring His offering into the courts of Yahuweh, along with our own purity and right-standing with Him through obedience.

A High Priest could not just go into the presence of the Father without being properly clothed. Neither can we! We cannot approach the set-apart throne with any sin, or defilement, any lawless disobedience, any uncleanness in action, word or thought, or with anything that might offend His Royal Highness. Therefore, we live in “instant repentance”, and are always aware of what pleases Him and what does not.

Like the early Hebrews on the wilderness journey, too often we approach the throne with complaints, arguments, and requests against His will. We have examples of the results of those on the wilderness journey who provoked Him. We are at the end of the age, and the Kingdom of Messiah is very near. He tells us that what once He winked at, He now will judge.

Isaiah 8:13: “Yahuweh of hosts, Him you shall set apart. Let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread”. “Fear not him who can kill the body…but fear Him, who can destroy both soul and body in hell”. Matthew 10:28 “The fear of Yahuweh is the beginning of wisdom”. Psalm 111:10

Where He once had mercy, now He is dropping the Amos 7:7-8 plumb-line, and all who don’t align will be destroyed. Yahuweh is coming in wrath through Yahushua. Those lawless ones, who now mock the Torah as “outmoded, outdated, and non-applicable for today” will have the shock of Matthew 7:21-23: “I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness”.

In Leviticus10:1-7, we have the report of what happened when Aaron’s 2 oldest sons disobeyed Yahuweh in front of the people, and brought “strange fire” to the altar. They were usurping the honor that should have gone to Yahuweh. Yahuweh came in fire, and burned them totally up, in front of all the people, their brothers and their father Aaron. What were Moses’ instructions to Aaron? Because we in America have been steeped, programmed and totally submerged in the doctrines of tolerance of evil, we would probably have been horrified that “God” killed those nice young men. But, He sees things differently than we do.

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Moses explains what happened to Aaron: “This is what Yahuweh spoke, saying `By those who come near to Me let Me be set-apart! And before all the people let Me be esteemed’. And Aaron was silent. And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, `Do not unbind your turbans nor tear your garments, (to demonstrate your grief), lest you die, and wrath come upon all the people. And do not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of Yahuweh is upon you’”.

There are three very important lessons to be learned here: 1) We must set Him apart, and not make Him common in our prayers, our intercession, our songs, or before the people. To reduce Him to the status of a human, or bring Him down into a pagan box of theology is very dangerous. To demand of Him is also dangerous. We are called to submit, and humble ourselves. 2) We must not take off the set-apart garments to grieve over what He does not grieve over. If we are clothed in His garments, we are responsible to Him alone. We must be in accord with His justice. To take off the turban, Aaron would have had to take off the gold plate, on which was inscribed “Set-Apartness to Yahuweh”. In order to grieve for his son’s just executions by Yahuweh, Aaron would have had to become not set-apart unto Yahuweh. Thus, he would have opened himself up to also being burned up by Yahuweh. 3) If we are in His presence under the anointing of His oil (the Ruach Yahuweh), we are not to go out into the outer court and socialize with the people, thus profaning the anointing. As long as His presence is overshadowing us, we must remain alone with Him in the Set-Apart Place. We must not make Him common or cheap. This is the meaning of the 3rd Commandment: “You shall not bring the Name of Yahuweh your Elohim to nothingness”.

Read carefully this very profound truth: Yahuweh had to divorce the “House of Israel” (also known as the House of Ephraim, or House of Joseph)—the northern 10 tribes—because of their idolatry, whoredom, and rebellion against Him. He scattered them into the nations, among the gentiles. They lost all knowledge of Yahuweh and His Torah. Yahushua said in Matthew 15:24: “I have not come except for the lost sheep of the House of Israel”. He sent His Apostles (except for Paul) to give the Gospel of Messiah, and to renew the covenant of return to Yahuweh and His Torah, to the “lost sheep” who were lost only to themselves. Yahushua had to come and die and rose again to be able to remarry the prodigal--the House of Israel--under the requirements of Torah. Yahushua is not coming to marry another lawless, unfaithful wife! He is looking for a Bride, like Queen Esther, who will prepare herself according to His standards of acceptance!

There is grace for ignorance, but even ignorance must be repented of, once

truth comes. Acts 17:30-31: “Truly then, having overlooked these times of ignorance, Elohim now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has set a day on which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a

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Man whom He has appointed, having given proof of this to all by raising Him from the dead”.

The Gnostics prized spiritual experience, saying that it equaled truth. This is a basic problem in the Charismatic Movement especially. People are “chasing God” to find an experience. Yahushua said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments”. He is looking for obedience in His people, not a people seeking signs and wonders!

Christians are dazzled with modern TV personalities, especially prophets. Everyone wants “a word from God”. Yet, they are not willing to study the Word, and let the Ruach Yahuweh give them a Word from Elohim. Man is obsessed with gurus, big names and big meetings, big personalities, and books, tapes, seminars and conventions. Man wants gnosis, but few lives are changed.

Yet, what these sensation seekers are getting is deception, lies and beguiling of the enemy. Unless a prophet is walking in obedience to Yahuweh’s Kingdom Instructions and Teachings, they are giving prophecies out of their own heads—false prophecies. This is no more than a lust for fortune telling. Yet, their followers prize spiritual experience, and so think that the words of these prophets are true. These prophets are exalted in the minds of the people as hearing from God, and at the same time become very rich. Experience must only be judged by the whole weight of Scripture, and by the nature of Yahuweh Himself. Many are having “psychic dreams” thinking they are from “God”. But, they are hearing from their soul realm, which is easily tampered with by demonic forces.

There is so much ignorance in spiritual warfare that most spiritual warfare just stirs up more demonic activity, and gives the demons legal loopholes to come in to “kill, steal and destroy”!

In the story of Acts19:13-16, the “vagabond Jews” decided to exorcize demons their way, saying: “We exorcise you by Yahushua whom Paul preaches”. The evil spirit answered these “seven sons of Sceva”: “Yahushua I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?” And the evil spirit attacked them.

Demons (fallen angels who followed Lucifer in his rebellion--Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28) are legalists, and if intercession is not made correctly, they can and will attack back—retaliate. Therefore, simple rules must be followed in dealing with these very real entities. If they can find any sin in you or find loopholes you’ve left, they will retaliate back on you, and/or your family, your possessions, your finances, and/or your health. They can be pranksters, and hide things, cause chaos, and confusion, and play mind and emotion games, to literally torment you to the point of either depression or mental craziness.

Therefore, this is no game, as some have made it out to be. We must raise our authority level slowly, and only address, in warfare, or intercession, what the Ruach Yahuweh Himself, backs us up on. If He does not back us up—we’re in

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trouble. This is where Christians get into trouble—they presume on “God”, and overstep their limitations and boundaries, because of the “I am” spirit. Therefore, they think they can take on principalities and powers that no one person can take on. In fact, if you read the book of Daniel, you will see that even Gabriel and Michael had boundaries in their warfare against Satan. If the most powerful of Yahuweh’s angels have boundaries and perimeters of authority, what about us little people?

Many times, intercessors get in the way of the Ruach’s work in someone’s life, by praying against the will of the Father. Many assume the devil is doing something, when oftentimes it is the Father bringing that person to a point of repentance. Oftentimes, a person has to be severely disciplined by the Father in order to save their eternal life. We must not play “Holy Spirit” in the lives of others.

Yet the false principle, in most charismatic circles, is that if something appear bad for a person, if must be the devil, and if it appears good, it must be God. It can be the reverse. We must always get the mind of the Father before we begin intercession and spiritual warfare, so that we do not fight the Father’s will.

Right now, we cannot follow some of the actual practices of Torah, for it is against our country’s culture and law. The complete Torah will be enacted in the Kingdom of Messiah and Yahuweh. So, how can we bring the principles of the Torah into modern life, regarding a person’s situation that is beyond our understanding as to how to pray? Yahushua said to pray: “Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven”. When we do not know how to pray over a situation, we can ask that the Father’s will be done, according to His desire alone—and He will enact the Torah in our behalf. But, we must be willing to accept His answer, because it might not be what we would want at all.

Also, it is most important that we stay filled with the Ruach, and use the prayer language that He gives us, to pray the will of the Father back to Him.

The prayer language, to be used in private intercession and warfare, and for personal edification, is a most powerful weapon against the enemy. The enemy cannot fight against it, for it bypasses not only our reasoning (which can get in our way), but it bypasses the devil’s understanding.

Why do you think that Satan fights the right use of “the tongues of angels” so mightily among the intellectual leaders of the Church? Of course, there is the counterfeit, but if a person knows the Ruach ha Kodesh, they know what is of Yahuweh and what is not. If there is a counterfeit—there is a real.

We must have the power of the Ruach in us, more now than ever before, so that

He can lead us into all Truth from within our spirit. The nine “gifts of the Ruach” in I Corinthians 12:1-11, are only possible by being baptized into the Ruach by Yahushua. These manifestations of the Ruach are incredibly invaluable for survival in the days to come!

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No, we do not receive the Ruach upon receiving the new birth—there is no Scripture to uphold this teaching. Acts 1:8 was given to born again men and women, and Acts 2:1ff was an event received by born again people. It is Yahushua Himself that baptizes into the Ruach, whereas at our new birth, the Ruach baptizes us into Yahushua. (I Corinthians 12:13/ Luke 3:16)

Romans 8:26-27: “And …the Spirit does help in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for, but Spirit Himself pleads our case for us with groaning unutterable. And He who searches the heart knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the set-apart ones according to the will of Elohim”.

In intercession, praying in our prayer language from the Ruach Yahuweh, which all receive when they receive Him, is invaluable to getting it right before Yahuweh.

Ephesians 6:18: “…praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit”. This is part of our duty of warfare in the garments of the High Priest!

Jude 20-21a: “But you, beloved ones, building yourselves up on your most set-apart faith, praying in the Set-Apart Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of Elohim…” For intercession, warfare and building ourselves up—the tongues of angels is invaluable!

But, using tongues is not a show, a performance, or a yelling contest. He often gives different tongues to a person for different things. He has given me warfare tongues. Yet, these tongues are not to be used in the church as some badge of spiritual superiority, but are to be used in private or with a small prayer group, in humility and contriteness. Authority does not mean a big mouth! Authority is best used with firmness and a normal voice tone!

Wisdom is needed in dealing with demonic forces! In spiritual warfare do not “hold hands”, or touch the person you are praying for. Demonic forces jump from one person to another—they are cast out of one, and go into another. Isn’t this obvious from the man set free at Gadera—the demons were happy to go into the pigs. Demons must be bound by our command, and loosed only “to the dry places of judgment”, and told to remain there, in the Name of Yahushua, until judgment. Otherwise, they just come back. Yahushua told us that if the house (our life) is swept clean and left empty, they come back. A delivered person must fill the void with the Word and much prayer, and watching, otherwise, the demons have a legal right to return. In spiritual warfare, we must not encourage

the demons to speak, or manifest. This is not a show or game. Yahushua, nor the Apostles, played games with them. Do a study of the Gospels and the book of Acts, and take your instructions from the way that Yahushua and the Apostles delivered people--they used their authority from Yahuweh! Our authority level comes out of our relationship level with Yahuweh!

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deliverance or in any Christian ministry do not study the Word with the Ruach to guide them, nor are they obedient to the Word that they know. So in many cases they are operating in the favor of and for the benefit of the demonic forces! If we approach the throne with sin, unforgiveness, anger, bitterness, selfish motives, self-centered attitudes, or anxiety and worry, fretting and upset, He cannot and will not hear us. Darkness cannot approach light! Faith means we approach Him with praise and worship, and thanksgiving. The language of faith is thankfulness! – Not as a formula, but from the heart.

One great deception that intercessors are practicing is a ritual in which the wine and communion wafers—bread--are being poured on the sites of demonic strongholds. The blood of Messiah must not be used like a piece of garlic to ward off Dracula. This is witchcraft.

The “pleading the blood” formula, that is so common, is not in the Word, but is a form of witchcraft ritual. He shed His blood as the Kinsman Redeemer, for the Redemption (the buying back) of the lost sheep of the House of Israel, to renew the covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah. (Matthew 15:24) It is not to be cheapened by pouring its symbols on demonic strongholds. All that does is stir up demons that go forth for destruction. The “communion” has been so cheapened. Actually, “communion” was only meant to be taken once a year, at the Seder, on the night of the 14th of Abib, which began Pesach week. In that “last meal” of Yahushua, we remember Him at Passover.

The forming of a circle to pray, holding hands in a circle, is from ancient witchcraft--the circle representing the sun’s collective power within it. Demons jump from one to the other, and by corporate spiritual experience, they can deceive a whole room full of people at one time. The circle around the “communion altar” is definitely pagan, Druid, and Satanic in origin. The altar symbolizes a sacrifice. Yahushua never told us to honor Him in the way of the pagans. (Read Jeremiah 10:1 and following)

We must not join in prayer with, or be prayed for by, those who are using the pagan names and are not Torah-observant. There is no fellowship with those who are not walking in the Light of the Kingdom of Heaven. I know--that one statement will ruin most people’s social life, but being alone with Him in the Word and prayer is wonderful, believe me, I know!!!

As children, many of us went to carnivals and had our “fortune” told. We saw

Bugs Bunny with a fortune-teller’s hat on, and even Lassie looking into a crystal ball with a wizard’s hat on his doggie head. These things bring demonic spirits, and years later we wonder why things happen in our lives that are tragic, things we cannot explain. We must repent and loose these things off of our lives, never to return. We can’t intercede with demonic spirits hanging onto our lives!

He gives His set-apart ones the authority in their mouths to declare and

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proclaim His Word against the powers of darkness. But, again our level of authority before the throne is dependent on our relationship with Yahuweh.

Many people leave the TV on after watching something benign, or not benign, and the demonic forces of Gnostic world culture fill the house with demons, who program people’s minds while they sleep. I can be in a house where the TV has been left on, and within a few days, I am having intense dreams of things I’ve never seen or heard before. It is from the demons from the TV--same with the Internet, videos, video games, or cassette music tapes that are ungodly. The mind is a computer, and brings what it hears and sees into its memory box. Reading “murder mystery” books was a fad when I was growing up. I literally read one after another--I was a chain reader. (I still am—but the material is different for sure!) Then Father told me to stop it, and stop watching anything about murder, violence or fantasy, etc. on the TV. I had to cut out my favorite murder mystery shows. But, now I realize that they are programming the mind to desensitize it and bring it into focus on things that Satan is doing. It dulls the desire for the Word and His presence. Isaiah 33:14-17, which is in the context of His second coming, tells us that those who want to escape the “everlasting burnings” not to purposely look on evil.

Satan loves to tell on himself, thus many receive psychic dreams from Satan, telling of things that he is doing in great detail. Dreams, and visions (either mental or by physical sight) from the Father, via the Ruach, are always in picture form, and He alone has the right to interpret them--according to the Word. Dreams from Father give us a desire to pray, or to act in His will on a matter. Many intercessors are having psychic dreams, and some are going to occult books about dreams for their interpretation. Mysticism and many occult practices are now within the circles of modern popular intercessors and false prophets. The only way to discern between the spirits of Yahuweh, man and Satan is by the Ruach. I Corinthians 12:10 tells us this is a gift of the Ruach Yahuweh. By knowing Him and His Word correctly, we also can discern correctly.

When we open ourselves up to the spirit of Lucifer (Satan as an “angel of light), he gets a hook in us that we have to purposely remove through repentance and hard changes. We must close all doors, to Lucifer, of entrance into our lives. The wicked one often gets a hook in us before we are 5 years old, leading our lives

into deceptions. The homosexual agenda for world take over (yes they have one) says that every child should be sodomized by the age of 5.

Most people are justifying evil as just kid stuff or fantasy. Many Christian schools allow Harry Potter books in the Library, because it is considered just kid stuff—fantasy. But, the message is Gnostic—that through any means, we must be our own god. The same for Christmas, Easter egg hunts, and the like—abominations to Yahuweh, but justified as “fun” by pagan-based Christianity.

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After suffering under many horrors from Lucifer’s world, and learning about in from many sources, for about 38 years of my life, I am well able to teach correct spiritual warfare. I have seen many who were very demonized totally set free by the power of the Ruach Yahuweh in Africa, and America, and other parts of the world. The wisdom I have gained has been through “on the job training”. I cannot cover the whole subject of spiritual warfare or intercession in this article. But, I am giving you some practical hints because of abuses that I see that are so common. I’m not writing this article from some man’s book, or from some man’s sermon or theory—I am writing it from the wisdom I’ve learned personally, in my own life and in ministry to others, and from what the Word says at all points. Everything I am telling you here is absolutely true. I am giving you no formulas or patterns.

A Satanist revealed that Satan’s favorite trick is to hide in Christianity, because it is so easy to fool Christians. Christians are not taught to discern the “wiles of the devil”. They love the “wolves in sheep’s clothing”, even defending the “angels of light” above the true minister’s of Yahuweh. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil…” (Isaiah 5:20) II Corinthians 2:11: Speaking of Satan, Paul said, “we are not ignorant of his devices”. Maybe they were not ignorant of Satan’s devices in the 1st century, but today, the whole Christian world is ignorant of Satan’s devices. They are falling for them hook, line and sinker.

Because Gnostic Christianity does not define sin beyond the major acts of sin, people can be unforgiving, thoughtless, worldly, lustful, unkind, inhospitable, greedy, rebellious, stubborn, self-righteous, judgmental, critical, hurtful, controlling, manipulative, cruel, sadistic, vindictive and vengeful, have selfish ambitions, selfish motives, selfish desires, self-centered agendas, be competitive, jealous, envious and have other Jezebel traits, and that’s OK—it is supposed to be accepted as “that’s just me”. Thus they do not know that these things leave open doors for Satanic activity in their lives. Most of these traits are very common among Christian ministers and leaders in particular.

II Corinthians 10:3-6: “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in Elohim for overthrowing strongholds, overthrowing reasoning and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, taking

captive every thought to make it obedient to the Messiah, and being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is complete”.

The greatest weapons are His Hebrew Names, His Word, our loving worship of Him, and His “tongues of angels”, spoken from the mouth of a humble, obedient, yielded intercessor. Zechariah 3:2-3 is the most powerful warfare of all--using the Name of Yahuweh Himself. But, in using His Name in warfare, we must be right in our standing with Him, through obedience. How can we intercede if we are lawless?

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Even praying or doing spiritual warfare, or deliverance in “the name of Yeshua”, (which is a nickname--a feminine past participle for “yesha”--meaning salvation), we leave loopholes for the enemy to come in, especially if we are dealing with principalities and powers that are mighty ones in the heavenlies. The demons are legalists, and they know the power of YAH—I AM. Without the “Yah” in Messiah’s Name, His Name is detached from the Father’s Name. He referred to Himself as “I AM”, which infuriated the religious leaders.

It is “YAH” that Satan does NOT want to hear-- Yahuweh/Yahweh or

Yahushua/Yahshua! Only the One who came in that Name defeated Him forever! No wonder He has tried so hard to get rid of that Name! Yah means “I am the eternal One”. Lucifer knows he has an end, and whenever he hears “Yah”, he is reminded that his enemy has no end.

It is interesting that the Luciferic world community in all of its aspects would recoil at the thought of serving Satan. Yet, they are one in the same. Satan hides as Lucifer—the shining one, the illumined one, the “angel of light”. Therefore, his messengers also hide as “angels of light”. The ravening wolves are in “sheep’s clothing”, and Lucifer’s agents appear as the agents of light. (See II Corinthians 11:14-15 and Matthew 7:15)

The Christian world is so steeped in deception that they believe what looks good and sounds good must be good, and are falling for angels of light all over the place--in the U.S. government, in the church, in society, and among their friends and even family members. Christianity is the best place for Lucifer to hide, because all his agents have to do is say the right things, and carry a Bible, and go to church, and the good Christian Right thinks they are one of them. Luciferic agents of the one world government are hiding in both types of Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism). The “Christian Right” is actually promoting one world agenda without knowing it.

The final stages of “great falling away” is in process, while most people do not know that “Christianity” began falling away in the first century from what Yahushua left us--from what the Apostles believed, taught and practiced--and what the early disciples believed and practiced. He is calling His real Bride into the Most Set-Apart Place, into His Presence, into humility, and meekness,

and lowliness and submission to His will. He is preparing her in the womb of the wilderness to depend on Him alone. He is removing from her all her agendas, her selfish ambitions, self-confidence in her ability to make things happen, and her control over her own life. She will “follow the Lamb wherever He goes” without balking. She has no plans of her own. She is totally dependant on Him for everything. She seeks only to please her Bridegroom. She has a Bride’s heart of love for Him, and for what He loves.

If we are clothed in the blood stained garments of the High Priest of the Zadok

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Priesthood, the righteous and faithful priesthood, then we have a totally different approach to intercession and spiritual warfare. The approach of those who are Bridal of heart and submitted to the Word brings great power, and great deliverance that is lasting. Let us look at those garments in detail.

THE EIGHT PIECES OF “ARMOR”: From Hebrew and Greek words--getting behind the meanings that the Apostle Paul was revealing to the assemblies.

1) “Having your loins girded about with truth”—the girdle, the belt of the

High Priest. “Gird”: #4024 Greek: “To fasten on, from #2224 “to bind about--one’s belt--putting it all around”. “Loins” #3751: “the hip; procreative power”. It is the area of digestion and reproduction. We take in Truth, we digest it, we reproduce it, then we birth it to bless others. We conceal no hidden agenda, or secret knowledge (gnosis). The ancient priests of paganism kept secrets, which gave them their power over the people. Therefore, the “Great Whore”--“Mystery Babylon” (Revelation 17)--is the “hidden wisdom” of Lucifer, known only to his priests--the knowledge of the tree of good and evil from the Garden of Eden. The priests of Yahuweh do not hide the Truth! They do not compromise the Truth. They wear the Truth openly for all to see. They are wrapped in Truth--“Your Word is Truth”--John 17:17. From the belt of truth hangs the “sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim”. I Peter 1:13, spiritually speaking in the context of suffering for Him in the days before His second coming: “Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Yahushua ha Machiach”. Actually, the “mind of the spirit” of man is located in the belly/hip area.

Isaiah 11:1-5 – a prophecy of Messiah: “And a Rod shall come forth from the stump of Jesse, and a Sprout from his roots shall bear fruit. The Spirit of Yahuweh shall rest upon Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahuweh, and shall make Him breathe in the fear of Yahuweh. And He shall not judge by

the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears. But, with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with straightness for the

meek ones of the earth, and shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and slay the wrong with the breath of His lips. And righteousness all be the girdle of His loins, and trustworthiness the girdle of His waist”. Righteousness is a girdle/belt around our mind, and around our intake and output in all ways, so that we only take in what is right/truth and only give right/truth out.

2) “The breastplate of righteousness”: #2382 Greek: The breastplate is over

the chest area. #1343/Greek: “righteousness” means “equity, justification, rightness”. Isaiah 59:14-17: “And right-ruling is driven back, and righteousness

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stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter. And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil, makes himself a prey. And Yahuweh saw, and it displeased Him that there was no right ruling. And He saw there was no man, and was astonished that there was no intercessor. So His own arm saved for Him, and His righteousness upheld Him. And, He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of deliverance on His head. And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and His righteousness upheld Him. According to their deeds, so He repays, wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies….”

Doesn’t this passage in Isaiah 59 describe our day?

Ezekiel 44:24: “And they (the sons of Zadok) are to stand as judges in a dispute

and judge it according to My right rulings”. The faithful intercessors, pure of heart, with no personal agendas or ambitions, filled with the Father’s love, can be trusted to rightly discern, according to what the Father shows them. The High Priest under Torah, was the judge of right and wrong. He does not trust many to do this. If the High Priest had a question as to Elohim’s will in a matter, he used the Urim and Thummin to give him answers from Yahuweh. Only the High Priest, clothed in his garments, could hear the correct, clear answer from Yahuweh, as to how to judge a situation. Judging from one’s own heart and mind is very dangerous!

The breastplate has the jewels representing the 12 tribes of Israel. We are to carry the 12 tribes upon our heart, and intercede for them, “according to the will of Yahuweh”. This is a very serious responsibility, not to be taken lightly.

The ones who are mixing Christianity and Hebrew roots cannot take on this responsibility. From Exodus 28, we see the seriousness of intercession, and the perimeters of it before Yahuweh.

The Father has called me to intercede for His remnant from all 12 tribes, whom He is calling out, setting apart, and marking as His Bride in these last days. I can feel, at times, the weight of their presence on my chest. I am indeed carrying

them. It isn’t something we can take off at night, or for vacation or holiday. It is something that we wear 24/7, because His Bride is on His heart every moment.

“Put on righteousness as a breastplate”. #8302 Hebrew: Breastplate/Hebrew:

#2833/Hebrew: “to contain, or sparkle with jewels”, #8302, from 8301: “to free, in the sense of turning, as if twisted – a breastplate”

Hebrew for “righteousness”: #6666 “Tsed-aw-kaw”: “righteous, righteousness, virtue, justice, prosperity”. From #6663: “To be right, to cause to be right, to cleanse, clear self, justice, justify self, to turn to right, to do justly”.

The Zadok (Tsa-dok) Priesthood, clothed in the garments of Yahushua, is called to stand between what is right and what is wrong, for the sake of the good of the children of Israel.

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3) “Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace”:

“Preparation” #2091/Greek: “to prepare, to make ready” #6431 Hebrew: “to erect, to set up, establish, fix, prepare, apply, confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, frame, ordain, order, perfect, make preparation, make ready, make right, arise, fast, forth, be stable, establish, stand, tarry, prosperous, prepare”. The Hebrew word comes from such passages as Isaiah 40:3 “Prepare the way of Yahuweh”. “Shod”: #5265/Greek: to “bind on one’s feet, shoes or sandals”. #5274/Hebrew: “to fasten with a bar or cord, a sandal, bolt, enclose, lock, shoes shut up”. I put on shoes to prepare to walk to town to get groceries. The putting on of shoes is a sign of preparing to go and do something!

To take off the shoes, is a sign of humbling and submission—as when Yahuweh told Moses to remove his shoes before the burning bush, and for Joshua to remove his shoes before the “Captain of the Host”. But, putting the shoes on, means you are preparing to go forth to do something—in this case, to bring the good news of peace won for us by Messiah Yahushua!

The High Priest’s feet are sprinkled with blood. See the ordination of the High Priest in Exodus 29:20-21: Blood is sprinkled on the garment, and the blood is applied to the Priest’s right ear, right thumb, and right big toe. The Priest is required to: 1) hear Yahuweh, 2) serve Yahuweh, 3) intercede for His people, and 4) to walk in Yahuweh’s paths. We put on our shoes and walk the straight plumb-line of truth. We carry the truth to His people, as we carry the saving blood of Messiah to them, on His behalf. We present to others the straight plumb-line of truth.

The “Gospel” or “good news” is that He has bruised the head of Satan with His nail-scared feet, and so given us peace. Isaiah 53:5: “He was crushed for our transgressions. He was crushed for our crookedness. The chastisement for our peace was laid upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed”. The feet walk in a

straight path to life and peace, or in a crooked path to destruction. Those who walk the straight path of truth, bring straight right rulings to others. He brought us peace, by walking the straight path of obedience to the Father. There is no peace outside of Messiah, and obedience to Yahuweh’s Torah.

Therefore, the gospel of peace must not only contain salvation by faith, but also loving adherence to the Torah of Yahuweh. The Priest walked into His presence, and brought His forgiveness to the people in the outer court. Forgiveness through the blood of Messiah brings us peace with Yahuweh.

Romans 5:1: “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with Elohim through our Master Yahushua Messiah.” When the High Priest Yahushua stands on the Mt. of Olives, He will bring the ultimate peace to the entire world.

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Yahuweh for the nation, then he walked out and proclaimed their salvation and redemption. We take His blood to the people, and proclaim that He has bought our salvation, as the Lamb of Elohim. This is the good news of peace—peace and reconciliation with the Father Yahuweh! (II Corinthians 5:17-21)

4) “The shield of faith”: #2375 Greek: “a large shield, door-shaped”. Hebrew

#4043: “a protector, as the scaly hide of a crocodile, defense, to arm, shield or buckler”.

“Fiery” #956; “darts” #4448/Greek: “A missile, spear or arrow—something aimed and shot purposely—purposed assault”.

Greek #4448: “fiery”—“to kindle, be ignited, glow, be inflamed with anger, grief or lust, to be on fire, burn, fiery”.

The “fiery” darts are mainly attacks on the mind and emotions—attacks that cause wounding, crippling, or devastation. Of course, there are physical attacks also.

Examples of fiery darts: Outbursts of hate, jealousy, anger, rebellion, mockery, sadism, cruelty, slander, demeaning, loathing, despising, rejection, sarcasm, crushing of the spirit, inflamed hostile passion, violence, murder, theft, rape, overwhelming grief, traumatic fear, financial devastation, regret, self-hatred, lies that wound, and truth that finally comes out that wounds, news of tragedy, news of lawsuits or divorce, finding a spouse unfaithful, or a child on drugs or a daughter pregnant outside of wedlock, news of fatal illness in oneself or a loved one--things designed to destroy the mind, emotions and spirit of man, as well as the body. Daily living is filled with fiery darts. These fiery darts (missiles) are either sent directly from the demonic world from demons, or through their human agents.

“Above all, take up the shield of faith with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows (fiery darts) of the wicked one”.

There is not a day that goes by, but that the enemy of our souls sends these burning arrows. Some of them are like great missiles with nuclear warheads, and some like arrows of wood. But, if we do not have the “shield” of faith, we can be utterly devastated. This is why so many commit suicide, or are alcoholics,

or take drugs and “stay high”, or become mentally ill, have emotional breakdowns, and go into depression or other psychological hiding places.

Without the shield of faith, believing and standing on the promises of Yahuweh, and having a personal relationship with Yahuweh so that we know His nature and personality, we cannot make it through this life with a healthy mind and with emotional stability. In Hebrew culture, the High Priest was the symbol of emotional security. Yahushua Himself is our emotional security! The High Priest was the rock of stability for the people. He was the mediator, the

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intercessor, before Yahuweh. When the High Priest was a good man, dedicated to Yahuweh, then the people felt secure. They prospered and had peace.

Yahuweh said to Abraham: “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield and your exceeding great reward”. (Genesis 15:1)

Psalm 18:30, 35: “The El--His way is perfect; the Word of Yahuweh is proven; He is a shield to all those who take refuge in Him…And You give me the shield of Your deliverance, and Your right hand (Yahushua is Yahuweh’s right hand) supports me…”

Psalm 84:11: “For Yahuweh Elohim is a sun and a shield; Yahuweh gives favor and esteem; He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly”.

Hebrew #8314 for “fiery”: “burning, poisonous (serpent), a fiery serpent, copper colored”.

I lived for about 12 years in North Carolina. There they had “copperheads”--snakes that carried deadly poison. One day I saw several “worms”, copper colored ones, crawling in my front yard. I got down to watch them, and was all too surprised to find that they “slithered” back and forth, and raised their heads while their tongues went in and out—baby copperheads. I was told that the young ones pack as much poison as the bigger older ones. It is not the size of the serpent that matters, but the quality of the poison in its mouth.

Greek/#1228 “devil”: “a traducer, false accuser, slanderer”. Hebrew #7700:”a demon, as malignant”, from 7736: “to swell up, insolence, to devastate, waste”.

It sounds to me like a puff adder--when aroused, he puffs up to strike. One time, in North Carolina, I saw a large snake beneath my balcony. I was standing on the balcony, so I took a rock and threw it at the snake. It puffed up almost double in size. Wow—that scared me. But, this is a picture of how the enemy appears to be so huge and overwhelming—he puffs up to scare us. With the shield of faith, based in our relationship with Yahuweh, we do not need to be afraid of his puffing up.

I John 3:8: “The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil”. The word “destroy” does not mean “to do away with”--otherwise we would be in the Kingdom, and the devil in the pit, right now. That day is coming. It means that Yahushua came to release us from the grip of, the

power of, the control of, the devil. Now, as in Romans 6, we can be servants of righteousness, being freed from slavery to Satan. We now have power over Him, through Messiah. The thing is to stay free! Therefore, we need the armor, the garments, on at all times to enforce our freedom, and to enforce what Messiah purchased for us, and for others.

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for you, and you can pick and choose what you want to believe. They also equate spiritual experience as truth. The Hebrew concept is this: If you believe something, demonstrate your belief by your actions—otherwise you do not believe it.

The High Priest had to be armed with the shield, for he was not only the head of the faith on earth, but he was also the defender of the faith before the people!

5) “The Helmet of salvation”: #4030/Greek “helmet”: an encirclement of the head”. Same for “helmet” in I Thessalonians 5:8: “But we who are of the day should be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the expectation of deliverance (salvation)”. We are to circle our head with the expectation, the hope, of deliverance.

Isaiah 59:17: speaking of Yahushua: “And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of deliverance on His head. And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped Himself with ardor (zeal) as a mantle”.

Psalm 140:7: “You cover my head in the day of battle”. #5526/Hebrew: “to entwine as a screen, to fence in, cover over, protect, defense, defend, hedge in, join together, set, shut up”.

He provides total protection for the head “in the day of battle”, our minds being totally focused on the expected hope of deliverance. He protects and delivers our mind from being devastated by the enemy.

Isaiah 59:17: “helmet” #3553/Hebrew: “to be high or rounded, a helmet”. The High priest had a helmet, which was rounded, and encircled his head. It is called his turban.

Like all the other pieces of his garments, this turban had to be on his head or he could not intercede between the children of Israel and Yahuweh. His mind had to be focused on the salvation and deliverance of His people though the blood sacrifice.

“Salvation”/Greek #4992: “defender, defense, salvation” from 4991 “soteria”: “rescue, safety, deliver, health, salvation, saving”, from #4990: “a deliverer, a savior”.

Ephesians 6:17 uses #4992--the helmet of defense. It is a defense against attack

of the mind. As has been truthfully said, “the mind is the battlefield”. Satan wants to attack, destroy, or win over the minds of people. Our helmet of

expectation, of the hope of deliverance, is our defense, our protection, against the “wiles of the devil”. In I Thessalonians 5:17, the “helmet of deliverance” or of “salvation” is just that--a helmet of expectation--of hope of deliverance. It is a mental attitude!

Romans 12:2: “…Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is the good, and well-pleasing, and perfect will of Elohim”. This is traditionally called “sanctification” or the

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setting apart of our minds to Yahuweh. We are to “take captive every thought and make it obedient to the Messiah”.

From Sunday School teaching we are taught that the helmet, or turban, was somehow our born again experience. But, this is shallow reasoning. Of course, the turban of the High Priest is only on the set-apart ones. Our hope of deliverance, our hope of the coming of Messiah, is our defense and protection against the assault of the mind. It goes far beyond our Sunday School teaching.

Hebrew#3444, “salvation”: “yeshua”—“something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity, health, help, salvation, save, welfare”. It is the feminine past participle of #3467 “yaw-shaw”—“to be open, wide, free, to be safe, avenging, defend, deliverer, help, preserve, rescue, be safe, bring salvation, savior, get victory”.

II Corinthians 10:4-5: “For the weapons we fight with are not fleshly but mighty for the overthrowing of strongholds, overthrowing reasonings and every high matter that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to the Messiah”.

Human reason and thought can be diametrically opposed to the “mind of the spirit”, which is in tune with the mind of Yahuweh. “`For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways’, declares Yahuweh. `For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts’”. (Isaiah 55:8-9)

Philippians 4:8: “…whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is righteous, whatever is clean, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good report, if there is any uprightness and if there is any praise—think on these”. Philippians 2:5: “Let this mind be in you which was also in Messiah Yahushua”.

Isaiah 59:17: “He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of deliverance on His head…” Yahushua Messiah has on the helmet of “yeshua” (salvation, deliverance). On His head, then, is wrapped the turban of the High Priest, which represents all that He became for us.

A most exciting revelation is concerning the pure “gold plate” which is placed over the turban of the High Priest on which is engraved “Set-Apart to Yahuweh” will be discussed in following pages. Without this gold plate over the turban (helmet), no one has the right to intercede for anyone.

6) “The sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim”: #3162/Greek: “a knife, war, judicial punishment, sword”. Hebrew/#2719: “a cutting instrument from its destructive effect, a knife, sword, or other sharp implement—axe, dagger, knife, mattock, tool”. This sword is the only aggressive part of the armor, or the Priestly garments.

Revelation 19:15: “And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He

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should smite the nations. And He shall shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of El Shaddai”. Verses 11-13 tell us about the “crowns” on His head and the robe dipped in blood.

Isaiah 63:1-3 tells us that His robe is blood splattered. These are all priestly references, and also references to His second coming in power. The “crown” is the gold plate over the turban, saying “Set-Apart to Yahuweh”. He is the sinless Savior!

The Priest’s garments must be splattered with blood, or else he cannot intercede. Our spiritual high priestly garments must be splattered with the blood of Messiah, or we cannot approach the throne of Yahuweh.

The sword is the Word. The Priest’s sword goes from His mouth—the Word of Yahuweh and the Names of Yahuweh and Yahushua are the two most powerful weapons of aggressive warfare that any human can possess!!

His Word promises defeat of the enemy!

There is an aggressive side to the sword that the Levites had to wield in cases when intercession required the killing of the evil ones who were destroying His people, and those who were dishonoring Yahuweh. In Numbers 25:1-13, Phinehas is given an everlasting priesthood, because he defended the Word and the honor of Yahuweh in the killing of two who were rebelling publicly in front of the whole congregation of Israel. In Exodus 32:26-28 we read how the Levites stood for Yahuweh when no one else did. It was after the “children of Israel” worshipped the golden calf at Sinai, and Moses came down from Sinai with the Ten Commandments, discovering them in their shame and sin. “And Moses stood in the entrance of the camp and said, `Who is for Yahuweh? Come to me’. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him. And he said to them, `Thus says Yahuweh Elohim of Israel: “Each one put his sword on his side, pass over to and fro from gate to gate in the camp, and each one slay his brother, and each one his friend, and each one his relative”. And the sons the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day”.

This is a picture of Elijah also, who killed 450 prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel (I Kings 18). It is very possible that he was not only a prophet, but a priest as well.

In Ezekiel 9:1-11, we read of six men who come from the north gate of the Temple. These are Levites. Another one comes, also a Levite, dressed in white

linen. The one is to mark in the forehead all those who sigh and cry for the abominations done (the sin) in Jerusalem, and the six were to follow this one and slay all the others who did not have the mark of protection on their forehead. One of the jobs of the priesthood is judgment. They carry the sword when needed. It is the Word—it stands for justice, righteousness, and the right-ruling of truth. It hangs from the belt of truth for this purpose. The priest is the one

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who can rightfully declare a sacrifice worthy of acceptance before Yahuweh. Yochanan (John) the baptiser pointed to Yahushua and said, “Behold the Lamb of Elohim, who takes away the sin of the world”. (John 1:29) Being a full-blooded Levite, he could declare the Lamb perfect and acceptable to Yahuweh for sacrifice.

Here is an example of the combining of the Name and the Word in warfare: As in Zechariah 3:2-3, after Yahuweh rebukes Satan, using His own Name of Yahuweh, He says, “Yahuweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you”. The fulfillment of His Word includes the casting away of Satan from everything that Yahuweh rules over--into the lake of fire. The sword comes out of our mouth only as He wills.

In Matthew 4:4, 7 and 10, Yahushua uses verses from Deuteronomy to rebuke Satan (from Deuteronomy 8:3; 6:16; and 6:13). The spoken word from our mouth is the sword of the Spirit (Ruach) of Yahuweh. With it, we defeat our enemies. It also, when used with the shield of faith, makes for victory every time. Yahuweh does not expect us to use armor that He Himself does not use. He uses the same weapons against the enemy that He gives to us.

The Priest carries the shield--faith, and the sword--the Word, and these two

together form the powerful duo of offensive warfare. Unless we are in offensive warfare, we are on the defense. If we are on the defense, there is a 50/50 chance that we will be defeated. Therefore, we must have our armor/garments on at all times, and be ready to go on the offense, as the Ruach leads us.

One day I learned that a lady whom our church had been praying for, had died. She was the daughter of prominent people in the church, so there was much prayer that went over her--yet she died of cancer. I asked the Father “why did Patty die”? His answer I pass on to you: “The way My people enter into a situation, is almost always the way the come out of it”. Patty was a nominal, lukewarm, average Christian. She had her free ticket to heaven, but no relationship with the Father, no obedience level, no Word level. She went to church and as far as anyone could see, she was a “good Christian”. When she found out she had cancer, she became very afraid. Yet, because she herself had no foundation of faith, or strength in the Word, she came out of the situation the same way she went into it--in fear.

Faith does not automatically come when we are in a crisis. It has to be built

through intimate relationship day by day with our Elohim. If we are not on the offensive, full of His anointing, His power, with His presence with us--we cannot use the shield of faith, or the sword of the Spirit in times of attack--we will be too weak to use our weapons. If we do not stay clothed, daily, in the

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garments of the High Priest, sprinkled with blood, and anointed with oil (a symbol of the Ruach Yahuweh), we will be weak and unable to fight!

7) “Praying in the Spirit”: #4336/Greek “worship, pray”. Hebrew/#6419: “to judge, to intercede, pray entreat, judgment, supplication”.

Praying “in the Spirit” is praying with a prayer language of “angels”, given to us when Yahushua baptizes us, by our request, into the Ruach Yahuweh. This “baptism” is a purification--a cleansing, a purging by His fire (Luke 3:16). Thus the prayer language is a powerful warfare instrument, for it is He speaking through us. It by passes anything that the enemy can understand, and “prays according to the will of Elohim”. We often do not know what to pray in intercession, we are not clear as to the perfect will of Elohim, therefore, through the prayer language of the Ruach, we can pray directly to Elohim according to His will. Oftentimes, the Ruach will give us “warfare language” which is different than other languages that we might speak “in the Spirit”. This language is accompanied with a bold anointing to break loose the powers of Satan off of His people, or off of a person. The “baptism into the Ruach Yahuweh” is not some Pentecostal/Charismatic “experience” to give goose bumps, and a spiritual “high”. It is His power in us to war against the forces of darkness. To receive the Ruach Yahuweh, we must be yielded, obedient, humble and pure of heart.

The High Priest is primarily an intercessor between the people and Yahuweh. He is to stand before Yahuweh in His throne room. Oftentimes, he has to stand between the people and what Satan is trying to do. The High Priest stands before Yahuweh with the set-apart garments on, with the blood of sacrifice, with the anointing oil, with purity of heart, cleanness, and set-apartness, with obedience to the Torah of Yahuweh. Standing for Yahuweh correctly, gives him authority before the throne. Otherwise, Satan has every right to destroy him and his family’s life. THIS IS VERY SERIOUS!

8) The Robe of the High Priest—the “Robe of Righteousness”

This is not mentioned in Ephesians 6:10-18, but without the robe, the other pieces of armor, the other garments would go on a naked body. There is also an undershirt. The robe covers nakedness, as do the under-trousers, necessary for

ministering on the high altar. The robe of the High Priest is blue, which speaks of eternity.

Isaiah 61:10: “I greatly rejoice in Yahuweh, my soul exults in my Elohim, for He has clothed me with the garments of deliverance (salvation). He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels”.

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Revelation 19:16: “And on His robe and on His thigh, He has a name written: KING OF KINGS AND MASTER OF MASTERS”.

From Messiah regarding His future day of His wedding: Matthew 22:11-13: “And when the King came in to view the guests, he saw there a man who had not put on a wedding garment, and he said to him, `Friend, how did you come in here not having a wedding garment?’ And the man was speechless. Then the King said to the servants, `Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him out into the outer darkness-there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth’”. Without the “wedding garment”--the robe of righteousness--no one cannot attend the wedding of Messiah Yahushua. The guests are all “saved” people. The garments of deliverance/salvation are necessary to have eternal life.

Ephesians 4:22-24: “…take off--with regard to your former way of life--the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of deceit, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, which was created according to Elohim in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth”. This “new man” is the robe of righteousness--clothing us in His likeness.

In salvation, we take off the filthy robe of sin and attachment to Satan’s world, and put on the garments of purity, cleanness, and right ruling. This is called “repentance”.

Isaiah 22:20-22: “And it shall come to pass in that day, (a reference to Messianic times) that I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah. And I will put your robe on him, and strengthen him with your girdle (belt), and give your authority into his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. And I shall place the key of the house of David on his shoulder. And he shall open, and no one shuts, and shall shut and no one opens. And I shall fasten him like a peg in a steadfast place, and he shall become a throne of glory to his father’s house”.

Father will restore a pure priesthood, a true Kohathite priesthood, in the days of His Kingdom. This is beginning now. Naturally and spiritually, He will take the garments of the High Priest off of the unfaithful ones, and put them on the faithful ones—the Zadok faithful! He will restore power to the pure ones, and take power from the rebellious ones.

Clothed in the garments of righteousness, the High Priest had much authority and power before Yahuweh on behalf of the people. The garments of righteousness include all that righteousness is: set-apartness, purity, humility,

contriteness, obedience, submission to His control, integrity--living a life of right-rulings before Elohim and man. The fruit of righteousness is: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control”. (Galatians 5:22-23)

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The priest has the duties of righteousness:

1) To teach the Word, as Ezra did to the people after the Babylonian captivity. Nehemiah 8 tells how Ezra stood to read the entire Torah to the people, and the Levites taught them to make sure that each person understood the Torah for themselves—verse 8: “And they read in the Book of the Torah of Elohim, translating to give the sense, and caused them to understand the reading”. It was after this reading that the people wept because they were so appreciative to have the Torah again in their possession. Nehemiah tells them not to weep. In verse 10 he says, “Go, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom none is prepared. For this day is set apart to our Yahuweh. Do not be sad, for the joy of Yahuweh is your strength”. This phrase has been used as a shallow song and idea in Christianity, but it has been taken out of context. The context shows that the joy of Yahuweh is our strength because we guard the Torah and love His Word. This makes Ephesians 6:10 more understandable: “…be strong in the Master and in the mightiness of His strength”. The mightiness of His strength is our joy, which causes us to rest in His unchangeable Word! Therefore, because we have joy in His unchangeable Word, we can put on the whole armor of Elohim and go forth in a defensive warfare against the enemy.

2) The priest must intercede between Yahuweh and the people, but the priest must always be covered in the blood of the Lamb, and must only intercede within the guidelines of set-apartness, according to the Word.

3) The priest must Guard the Torah as an example to the people.

4) The priest must protect and set the sheep apart unto Yahuweh.

5) The priest must lead in praise, worship and thanksgiving. As spiritual priests we offer up a) the sacrifice of joy—Psalm 27:6, b) the sacrifice of thanksgiving—Psalm 107:22; 116:17, and c) the sacrifice of praise—Jeremiah 33:11 and Hebrews 13:15.

6) The priest moves in righteous judgment when needed. The set apart ones will judge angels, so we must know how to judge by the rules of Isaiah 11—righteously.

7) The priest ministers to Yahuweh Himself—in the Most Set Apart Place. There he not only intercedes for the people at times, but there He blesses Yahuweh. Psalm 134: “Come bless Yahuweh, all you servants of Yahuweh, who are standing in the House of Yahuweh by night! Lift up

your hands in the set-apart place, and bless Yahuweh. Yahuweh Maker of

the heavens and earth does bless you from Tziyon.”

8) The priest is the unifier of the people—the gatherer of the people around Elohim. The priest is to bless the people, by putting the Name of Yahuweh on the people. Numbers 6:23-27: “Speak to Aaron and his sons

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saying, `This is how you bless the children of Israel’. Say to them:

`Yahuweh bless you and guard you; Yahuweh make His face shine upon

you and show favor to you; Yahuweh lift up His face upon you and give

you peace’. Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Israel, and I

Myself shall bless them”.

Excerpts from Exodus 28:4-29:29: “And you shall make set-apart garments for Aaron your brother, for esteem and for comeliness. And these are the garments, which they shall make: a breastplate, a shoulder garment, a robe, an embroidered long shirt, a turban, and a girdle. And they shall make set-apart garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, for him to serve as priest to Me. And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet things and the fine linen, and shall make the shoulder garments of gold, of blue, and purple and scarlet and fine woven linen, the work of a skilled workman.” (Note: On the shoulder garment were placed 2 onyx stones, with the names of the 12 tribes of Israel engraved in them--6 names on each stone.)

Verse 12 and following: “And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the shoulder garments as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel.

And Aaron shall bear the names before Yahuweh on his two shoulders, for a remembrance”. (Note: The High Priest carries, in intercession and in judgment and in help, the names of the children of Israel on his heart--the breastplate--and on his shoulders. Intercessors bear the burden of the one being interceded for.

Verse 15 and following: “And you shall make a breastplate of right-ruling, a work of a skilled workman, like the work of the shoulder garment. Make it of gold, of blue, and purple and scarlet material, and fine woven linen. It is square…and you shall put the settings of stones in it, four rows of stones. The first row is a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald. The second row is a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond. The third row is a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst. The fourth row is a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper. They are set in gold settings. And the stones are according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve according to their names…each one with his own name, for the twelve tribes”.

Revelation 21:10-12: The Apostle John speaking: “And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the set-apart Jerusalem, descending out of the heavens from Elohim, having the glory of Elohim, and her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal, and having a great and high wall, having twelve gates, and at the gates

twelve messengers, and names written on them, which are those of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel”.

To bear the names of the children of Israel on our heart now, is to enter into His eternal plan for them. In Deuteronomy 33 and Exodus 49, we have prophecies of

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the twelve tribes for these last days. In Ezekiel 37 and many other passages, we know that the Father is restoring the whole house of Jacob.

The 144,000 from all the tribes (Revelation 7 and 14) stand for this uniting in purity and blamelessness before His throne. In these last days, there is no greater intercession to be done, than to call out and pray for the remnant of all the 12 tribes back to the Land, to the Torah, to the Covenant, to their inheritance, and to Yahuweh! (Ezekiel 37) The 144,000 are all part of the Bridal remnant.

Excerpts from Isaiah 43:3-7: “For I am Yahuweh your Elohim, the Set-Apart One of Israel, your Savior…Since you were precious in My eyes…and I have loved you…Do not fear, for I am with you. I shall bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west. I shall say to the north, `Give them up’! And to the south, `Do not hold them back’! Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—all those who are called by My Name, whom I have created, formed, even made for My esteem”.

To be a part of this great ingathering back to Yahuweh, and to His Land, and to

His Torah is the greatest calling on earth, for we partner with Him on a personal level!

There is prayer, and supplication and petition, but those are NOT intercession. Intercession is not praying for “prayer requests”. Intercession is to stand before the Elohim of the Universe to proclaim His own Word and plead for its fulfillment! It is to enter into His plans and purposes in partnership. It is to bring His Word into the earth, by His Names, for its fulfillment. This kind of partnership requires covenant relationship.

Moses, in Exodus 32, interceded for the children of Israel before Yahuweh, when

Yahuweh wanted to kill them all for making the golden calf. Verses 30-34: “And it came to be on the next day, that Moses said to the people, `You have sinned a great sin. And now, I am going up to Yahuweh—if I might atone for your sin’. And Moses returned to Yahuweh and said, `Oh these people have sinned a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! And now, if You would forgive their sin, but if not, please blot me out of Your book which you have written’. And Yahuweh said to Moses, `Whoever has sinned against Me, I blot him out of My book. And now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. See, My Messenger goes before you. And in the day of My visitation I shall visit their sin upon them’”.

Moses, in his intercession, put his own eternal life on the line for Yahuweh’s people. Yahuweh said we don’t have to go that far. But, we do have to lay

ourselves down for our brethren, even as Yahushua laid Himself down for us in His intercession of death.

Yahushua said: “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”. (John 15:13) This is true intercession.

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Paul, (Sha’ul) speaking in Romans 9:1-4a: “I speak the truth in Messiah, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Set-apart Spirit, that I have great sadness and continual grief in my heart. For I myself could have wished to be banished from Messiah (“accursed”) for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh, who are Israelites…” The examples of Moses and Paul are examples of two men who were consumed with the love of the Father for His people, and were used in intercession as vessels of that love, to stay off the wrath of Elohim, justly due to the people. This is what Yahushua did for us.

Exodus 28:28 and following: “…and they bind the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the shoulder garment (ephod), using a blue cord, so that it is above the embroidered band of the shoulder garment, so that the breastplate does not come loose from the shoulder garment. And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of right ruling over his heart, when he goes into the set-apart place, for remembrance before Yahuweh, continually. And into the breastplate of right ruling you shall put the Urim and the Thummin, and they shall be on the heart of Aaron when he goes in before Yahuweh. And Aaron shall bear the right ruling of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahuweh continually.

And you shall make the robe of the shoulder garment all of blue. The opening for his head shall be in the middle of it, a woven binding all around its opening, like the opening in a scared armor, so that it does not tear. And on its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material, all around its hem, and bells of gold between them all around. And it shall be upon Aaron to attend in, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the set-apart place before Yahuweh and when he comes out, so that he does not die.”

Exodus 28:36 and following: “And you shall make a plate of clean gold, and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet: ‘SET-APARTNESS TO YAHUWEH’. And you shall put it on a blue cord, and it shall be on the turban—it is to be on the front of the turban.

And it shall be on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron shall bear the guilt of the set-apart gifts which the children of Israel set-apart in all their set-apart gifts. And it shall always be on his forehead, for acceptance for them before Yahuweh. And you shall weave the long shirt of fine linen, and shall make the turban of fine linen, and you shall make the girdle of woven work. And you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and shall ordain them, and shall set them apart and they shall serve as priests to

Me. And make linen trousers for them to cover their nakedness, reaching from the waist to the thighs. And they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when

they come into the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near the altar to attend in

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the Set-Apart Place, so that they do not bear crookedness and die—a law forever to him, and to his seed after him”

Exodus 29:4-9; 20-21, 29: “And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water. And you shall take the garments, and shall put on Aaron the long shirt, and the robe of the shoulder garment, and the breastplate, and shall gird him with the embroidered band of the shoulder garment, and shall put the turban on his head, and shall put the set-apart sign of dedication on the turban (the gold plate) and shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head and anoint him. Then you shall bring his sons and put long shirts on them, and shall gird them with girdles (belts from which hangs the sword)--Aaron and his sons--and put the turbans on them.

And the priesthood shall be theirs for an everlasting law. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons”.

Notice that there were things that the sons did not have—the shoulder garment with the onyx stones, the breastplate, and the gold plate over the turban. There are divisions of assignments in intercession and warfare. Not everyone is called to enter into the depths of intercession and warfare. One must be equipped by intense training from the Ruach!.

Intercession is not a “ministry” that we can take upon ourselves. The right to intercede must be granted to us by Yahuweh. It has to do with relationship built on mutual trust. We must fully trust Him, and He must fully trust us!!

It is not a matter of going before Yahuweh with “prayer requests”. From The Tabernacle by W.G. Moorehead, D.D., page 111: “Intercession is grounded in sacrifice”. In Yahushua’s intercession for us upon the stake, He entered into our suffering and our sin.

Isaiah 53:12: “Therefore, will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he has poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressor”.

The true intercessor becomes one with who he is interceding for. He stands in proxy for the one being interceded for, therefore, he must be totally wrapped in the garments of the High Priest, set-apart to Yahuweh, or the judgment of Yahuweh will fall on him.

We enter into the heart of Yahuweh during intercession, and so we must not have any of “self” in our lives. We must never pray what seems good to us to pray, but always seek the mind of the Ruach Yahuweh, so as to only intercede for His purposes. That is why so many times in intercession the “spirit of travailing prayer” comes upon an intercessor, to birth through the Ruach the breakthrough

for the person or persons. As the Ruach moves through our bodies in travailing prayer, it feels like the birth of a baby. In I Kings 18:42: Elijah assumes the posture of a woman giving birth in the Eastern culture, as he prays for rain. It is

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interesting, that the enemy counterfeits this travailing prayer into something unseemly, and some intercessors assume the position of lying on their backs, as in the modern western way of delivering children. But, as He has moved through me, I have been on my knees, in the posture of Elijah. We cannot work up these manifestations of the Ruach, we must submit in intercession to His using our bodies, our minds, our spirits, our emotions, and our mouths, as He sees fit.

Oftentimes an intercessor will break down in sobbing and crying, because they have touched the heart of the Father for that person. This is called “the fellowship of His sufferings”. When we feel what He feels, we are like a Bride, who cries for what hurts the one she loves. He suffers also for His people. He grieves, He cries for His people.

In Luke 19:41, as Yahushua is approaching the Temple on the day of His entrance before His death, it says: “And as He came near, He saw the city and wept over it”. The word “wept” means “convulsive sobbing”. He then goes on to say “If you only knew even today, the things for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes”.

Sometimes, in intimate intercession for His people, we can only submit our bodies to Him, for Him to cry and sob for His people through us. What a high privilege!!

This type of intercession is not throwing up a few prayer requests—this is entering into the depths of love from the heart of Yahuweh. Oftentimes, fasting is required to break through to victory. This is another form of death to self! Truly, an intercessor must be “dead to self”, and merely a channel for Him to function through!!

Excerpts from Rees Howells Intercessor by Norman Grubb, page 81-86: “There are three things to be seen in an intercessor which are not necessarily found in ordinary prayer: identification, agony and authority.” “The identification of the intercessor with the ones for whom he intercedes is perfectly seen in the Savior…`He tasted death for every man’”. (Hebrews 2:9) Identification is thus the first law of the intercessor. He pleads effectively because he gives his life for those he pleads for; he is their genuine representative”

“But before He can lead a chosen vessel into such a life of intercession, He first has to deal to the bottom with all that is natural--love of money, personal ambition, natural affection for parents and loved ones, the appetites of the body, the love of life itself, all that makes even a converted man live unto himself, for his own comfort or advantage, for his own advancement even for his own circle

of friends, has to go to the cross”. “As crucifixion proceeds, intercession begins--the Spirit begins to live His own life of love and sacrifice for a lost world through his cleansed channel.” “This is intercession in action. When

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the Holy Spirit really lives His life in a chosen vessel there is no limit to the extremes to which He will take him in His passion to warn and save the lost”.

“If the intercessor knows identification and agony, he also knows authority. Intercession so identifies the intercessor with the sufferer that it gives him a prevailing place with God”. “When we pray in a normal way, we may hope that God in His goodness will give us the thing. If He does, we rejoice; it is His gift to us; but we have no power or authority to say that we can always get that same answer at any time. But, when an intercessor has gained the place of intercession in a certain realm then he has entered into the `grace of faith’ along that special line the measureless sea of God’s grace is open to him. That is the gained place of intercession.”

From page 97: “A prayer warrior can pray for a thing to be done without necessarily being willing for the answer to come through himself; and he is not even bound to continue in the prayer until it is answered. But an intercessor is responsible to gain his objective, and he can never be free till he has gained it. He will go to any lengths for the prayer to be answered through himself. But, once a position of intercession has been gained, tested and proved, the intercessor can claim all the blessings on that grade, whenever it is God’s will for him to do so.”

In other words, intercession is so intimately involved with who and/or what is being prayed for, that we must do all we can if possible to answer the prayer ourselves. If a person needs finances, for example, it is wrong to say “I will pray for you”, when you have money to give. Intercession is an emptying of ourselves totally, so that the Ruach can use us as a channel, before the throne, and in the natural. Gaining clout with Elohim raises us into a new relationship level with each test passed. Oftentimes, prayer is an excuse to get out of helping, when we can help. We can’t pray for the re-gathering of the House of Jacob, unless we are willing to do something to aid in this prophetic fulfillment. What if Yahushua interceded for our help, but did nothing to help us? In Yahushua’s intercession for us, He helps us also.

Never say “I’ll pray for you”, unless you intend to do it. It is best to pray on the spot, so that you don’t make yourself a liar.

How can we pray for a people or a country, and not even have a map before us, or not know anything about them? I have met so many that say they pray for the peace of Jerusalem, but they can’t tell me where Jerusalem is on the map, neither do they do anything to help the Jewish people. Love causes us to get involved in all ways!

Rightly the Word prophesied, because of sin, “the love of many will grow cold”.

Authority in the realm of intercession and/or spiritual warfare must be earned, one level at a time, through much testing of our faithfulness and obedience.

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Each level of authority is gained only after testing, and our passing our tests. It is a gained position through relationship with the King. Authority to intercede must be granted. It cannot be assumed. He does not grant us the backing of His authority, nor raise our level of authority, unless we are dead to ourselves, humble, submissive, and totally without selfish agendas and ambitions. We cannot approach Him as a channel for His fulfillment, if we’re filled with self. So many intercessors are yelling and making displays of their bold praying, yet there is no authority in that from Yahuweh. It does nothing but stir up the demons, and cause intercessors to have a sore throat.

A popular event for many Christian intercessors now is to go on “prayer walks”--to declare certain things in certain places, under the directorship of someone’s ministry. Most of these volunteer intercessors, under the auspices of another ministry, have no idea what they are getting themselves in for—especially if the prayer walk is in another country, where demonic spirits are of a different quality and power than the hidden ones in America. They have no idea the requirements for intercession in the first place, and are placed in situations where they are encountering strong demonic forces. Oftentimes, these demonic forces come home to America with them, and reek havoc in their homes. Intercession and spiritual warfare is not something for fun and adventure. I love to go on prayer walks, but only with wise people, who are not being presumptuous beyond their boundaries in the Word or the spirit realm. Therefore, I don’t do too many prayer walks with others. Some of the demonic forces that are coming upon the earth now, being released from the pit, have never been on the earth before. There is demonic phenomenon in the world that most people don’t even know about yet. This is a highly dangerous thing to go against these hierarch powers without the garments of Yahushua Himself. When we are wearing the garments of Yahushua, and coming in His Name, the enemy has respect for us--otherwise, no respect.

Many times these women, representing “Jesus”, are dressed immodestly out in public on these prayer walks. True women of Elohim dress modestly, not like men, but like proper ladies. I have seen intercessors out walking and praying in Israel wearing shorts, low cut tops, sleeveless tops, walking in among lust-filled Arabs and others who think of such women as whores, and among religious Jews who are disgusted at such immorality. The arrogance and boldness of these women are either a sensuous attraction to males, or a deplorable disgust. But, without knowing it, it is a Greek Gnostic Jesus that they represent. This is why

the Jews are so turned off towards Christianity—they know it is pagan and the fruit is evident. Christians just do not represent Yahuweh or Yahushua.

Yet, many American women do not think about how they come across to others. For a woman to speak loudly in public in most cultures is a disgrace. All their

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praying and demonstrations, banner waving and singing, shofar blowing too, result in little more than a spectator sport for other onlookers. There is also an assuming the role of a male in some public practices by some Christian women, as in the wearing of full talits, tzitzi, and blowing shofars. This is unacceptable in Israel for women to be so demonstrative in public. Yet they go home thinking they’ve done something for “God”. It is very sad. Women who represent Yahuweh and His Messiah must be dignified and mature women who are sensitive to act as women who represent Him. He says that we must not misrepresent Him before His people! (Leviticus 10:1-6) Yes, they are sincere, but they are sincerely making fools of themselves. It represents a wrong attitude.

I am not talking about the lovely ladies who wear the beautiful modest dance costumes and carry banners on their prayer walks, or those who dress modestly, and pray quietly.

One popular Christian happening is to have reconciliation prayer and meetings with Arabs and Jews. These things are not in the Word, so His children must not do this.

Yahuweh calls us to be set-apart from what is not of Him. There cannot be unity outside of Yahuweh/Yahushua. Besides, how can Christians ask forgiveness for what they did to the Jews over the centuries, for example, and still remain inside Christianity? Roman Catholic Christianity is still slaughtering Jews and Bible-believing Christians worldwide!

Also remember that the enemy is getting people into side issues that are not Scriptural, like “redeeming land” in America for what was done wrongly in America. America is a land of captivity, just like any other land outside of His Land—it is modern Babylon, no matter how nice is appears. We cannot redeem land. We must remain within our perimeters of authority. We must not assume that we can do things just because some ministry says we can do them. Only the Kinsman Redeemer, Yahushua, as Boaz did for Naomi and Ruth, can redeem land for His Bride and His People. His Land is Israel, the borders He gave to Abraham. We must stay focused on what is in the Word!!

Of course, intercession before Yahuweh does not mean that we can by-pass

Yahushua. “For, there is one Elohim and one Mediator between Elohim and men-- the Man Messiah Yahushua”. (I Timothy 2:5) No human is capable of entering the presence of Yahuweh unless they come in the Name of Yahushua, and in the covering of His blood.

Here we begin our study of the gold plate on the forehead of Aaron. Without it, he could not intercede before Yahuweh on their behalf. In order for those whom he is interceding for (bringing their sacrificial animal sacrifices before

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Yahuweh) for to be accepted before Yahuweh, Aaron had to have on the gold plate. In order for our prayers to get through for those whom we are interceding for, we must also have our foreheads marked with “SET-APARTNESS TO YAHUWEH”.

On December 27, 2004, I was in the Temple Treasures Institute in Jerusalem, and I saw the gold plate that they made for the forehead of the High Priest of the Temple under Messiah. I could not take my eyes off of it—the YHWH engraved on it—it truly is special! Yes, He will restore a pure Zadok Priesthood to be in full operation during His Reign on earth.

Revelation 22:3-5: “And no longer shall there be any curse, and the throne of

Elohim and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. And they shall SEE His face, and His Name shall be upon their foreheads. And night shall be no more, and they have no need of a lamp or the light of the sun, because Yahuweh Elohim shall give them light. And they shall reign forever and ever”.

This gold plate is also called “the crown”, and “the sign of dedication”. It is the crown of the Bride, and the sign of her set-apartness to her Bridegroom. Only the Bride has the right to live in the throne room of Yahuweh/Yahushua. Only a Bride has the right to live in the house of her Bridegroom, which is in the “Father’s house”.

Without this marking in the forehead with His Name, Yahuweh—YHWH—no one has the right to see His face. “Without set-apartness, no one will SEE Yahuweh”. (Hebrews 12:14) “The pure in heart will SEE Yahuweh”. (Matthew 5:8)

In churches, people are taught that everyone is His Bride, and everyone gets to rule and reign, and walk on streets of gold up in heaven, and see “God”. This is not Scriptural. A careful reading of Revelation 19-22 will dispel a lot of fantasy. In fact, careful reading of whole books of the Bible will dispel a lot of deceptions for sure.

Revelation 3:11-12--to the assembly at Philadelphia, which pictures the Bridal remnant, Yahushua speaking: “Behold, I am coming speedily! Hold what you have that no one take your crown. He who overcomes, I shall make him a supporting post in the Dwelling Place of My Elohim, and he shall by no means go out. And I shall write on him the Name of My Elohim, and the name of the city of My Elohim, the renewed Jerusalem, which comes down out of the heaven from my Elohim, and My renewed Name.”

We must make sure that no one takes the gold plate--the crown--the sign of

dedication to Yahuweh, set-apartness to Yahuweh, or else we cannot live with Yahushua in the New Jerusalem.

So, what about all those “saved” by faith, who are not set-apart to Yahuweh in

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His covenant, yet are not going to hell? Where will they spend eternity? These are the guests and attendants at Yahushua’s wedding. Revelation 21:24-27 shows us that the guests are on the new earth, and have to have “kings” as ambassadors to go into the city to represent them to Yahuweh. The guests are not allowed into the City or before His throne. They are called “dogs”, because they are unclean by Yahuweh’s standards of His Torah (Instructions and Teachings). The dog in Arab culture, and by Biblical standards, is an unclean animal. The Canaanite woman of Matthew 15, by faith, got her daughter healed by Yahushua, but she went back to her Canaanite lifestyle—her “vomit”. Yahushua called her a dog. Multi-millions receive salvation from Yahushua because He is gracious, but they return to their vomit--their old lifestyles and attitudes and ways--and do not enter into the Covenant of Yahuweh. Thus, “outside the City are dogs”. It is the dogs that trample revelation knowledge and truth, because they have no heart for it—they have not been set-apart by the standards of Yahuweh. Matthew 7:6: “Do not give what is set-apart to the dogs…” The dog tears apart truth, analyses it and dismisses it. The dog is content with the shallow things, and remains rebellious to anything that would confine him. The dog wants his way, and won’t stand for anything that is in his way.

Exodus 28:36-38: “And you shall make a plate of clean gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet: `SET APARTNESS TO YAHUWEH’. And you shall put it on a blue cord, and it shall be on the turban—it is to be on the front of the turban. And it shall be on the forehead of Aaron ad Aaron shall bear the guilt of the set-apart gifts in all their set-apart gifts. And it shall always be on his forehead, for acceptance for them before Yahuweh”.

Exodus 39 has more details about the garments of Aaron and his sons and how they are to be made. The gold (verse 3) in the garments is literally beaten out sheets of gold, and cut into threads and worked in with the blue, purple and scarlet material, and into the fine linen. These garments must have been very gorgeous. But, now they have been re-made for the future High Priest during Messiah’s reign.

Exodus 39:30-31: “And they made the plate of the set-apart sign of dedication of clean gold, and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving of a signet: SET-APARTNESS TO YAHUWEH. And they put on it a blue cord, to fasten it above on the turban, as Yahuweh had commanded Moses”.

Leviticus 8:6-12: “So Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water, and put the long shirt on him, and girded him with the girdle, and dressed him in the robe, and put the shoulder garment on him, and girded him with the embroidered band of the shoulder garment on him, and put the

breastplate on him, and put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate, and put the turban on his head. And on the turban, on its front he put the golden plate,

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the set-apart sign of dedication, as Yahuweh had commanded Moses. And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the Dwelling place and all that was in it, and set them apart. And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all the utensils, and the basin and its base, to set them

apart. And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to set him apart”.

Psalm 133: “How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity--like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes, like the dew of Hermon that comes down on the mountains of Zion. For there Yahuweh commanded the blessing--life forever!”

Where is the blessing, the unity, the peace, and life forever? It is in the anointing oil--the presence of the Ruach Yahuweh--completely covering us. Without being anointed with the blood of Messiah and being immersed into the Ruach Yahuweh for the anointing oil to cover us and fill us, we cannot function before the Father.

Exodus 39:30-31 Amplified Bible: “And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold…” Leviticus 8:9 Amplified Bible: “And he put the turban on his head; on it, in front, Moses put the shining gold plate, the holy diadem…”

II Timothy 4:7-8: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have guarded the faith. Therefore, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Master, the righteous Judge, shall give to me on that day, and not to me only, but also to all those loving His appearing”.

Only the Bride really loves His appearing, because she knows it is for her. She is not looking for an escape from trouble--she is looking for her beautiful Bridegroom whom she loves with all her heart! “The Spirit and the Bride say `Come’”. (Revelation 22:17) Hope of escaping tribulation does not qualify as “loving His appearing”.

I Corinthians 9:24-25: “Do you not know that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to obtain it. And everyone who competes controls himself in every way. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we for an incorruptible crown”.

Revelation 3:11: “Behold, I am coming speedily! Hold what you have that no one take your crown”. This is written to those living now.

Revelation 14:14: “And I looked and saw a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was One like the Son of man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle.” There is the crown of the High Priest, and the crown of the King. That is why in Revelation 19:12 it says: “…and on His head were many crowns”. He will have the crowns of all the kingdoms of this world, His own

crown, and the crown of set-apartness.

Hebrew #6731: “tseets”: “clean, shiny, gold, glistening in the sunlight”. Hebrew

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#6692: “tsoots”: “glistening, twinkling--The plate of the set-apart sign of dedication, the set-apart crown or diadem”.

“Pure, or clean gold”: #2889: “to be bright, pure, clean, unadulterated, uncontaminated, innocent, set-apart, to cleanse self, purge, purify”.

”Crown”: #5145 “set-apart, dedicated, consecrated, separation” from #5144: “to hold aloof, abstain from impurity, to set apart, consecrate, separate”.

The word does not mean “crown or diadem” as in the crown of a Queen or King. From The Scriptures: “The plate of the set-apart sign of dedication”—that what it is—a sign of dedication and set-apartness.

Ezekiel 22:26-31: Yahuweh is angry because the House of Israel had mixed pagan worship with supposed worship of Him. Here are a few excerpts from this familiar passage: “`Her priests have done violence to My teaching, and they profane My set-apart things. They have not distinguished between the set-apart and the profane, nor have they made known the difference between the clean and the unclean. And they have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned in their midst. Her leaders in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy lives, to get greedy gain. And her prophets have coated them with whitewash, seeing a false vision, and divining a lie for them, saying `Thus says the Master Yahuweh’ (or `Thus says the Lord’) when Yahuweh had not spoken. And I sought for a man to among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the Land, that I should not destroy it--but I DID NOT FIND ONE! Therefore, I have poured out My

displeasure on them, I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath. And I have put their way on their own head’, declares the Master Yahuweh”.

Could He not find someone willing to pray? Or was He looking for someone who upheld His Name, His Torah, and His standards—someone willing to go into intercession on behalf of the Land? I’m sure, to save the Land, somebody maybe prayed. But, prayer petitioning is not what He’s after--it is intercession--the standing before Him in “the power and might”--clothed in His garments!

He seeks for true intercessors for His Land, His people, His remnant, His Bride, in these last days. His focus in on finishing what He started! He is focusing on the promises made to Abraham Isaac and Jacob, and to the seed of Jacob.

The true intercessor faithfully keeps Scriptural Shabbat--the set-apart sign of the marriage covenant with Yahushua. It is the Bride’s day (from sundown on Friday night to sundown on Saturday night) with her Bridegroom. It is a set-apart time for the intercessor to hear from Him, to learn His ways. The set-apart intercessor keeps the seven Festivals of Yahuweh, and His dietary law

(Leviticus 11 and 23). She is careful to be on His calendar system and not Rome’s.

The new birth is an exchange as we enter into a blood covenant, a marriage

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covenant, with Yahushua. I Corinthians 6:19-20: “…you are not your own, for you were bought with a price, therefore glorify Elohim in your body and in your spirit, which are of Elohim”. The only people who are “bought” are bond slaves. We put ourselves in that position to learn obedience. Acts 20:28: He purchased the people of Elohim with His own blood. We give Him all we are and all we have, and He gives us all He is and has. He must love us very much because this is a very uneven exchange. Notice how much of this ancient blood covenant exchange has to do with the garments of a person.

Here are excerpts from chapter 1, pages 6-17 of The Chosen People: THE BLOOD COVENANT by Don Esposito:

“Our Elohim is not about religion, but about covenant relationships. A covenant is an agreement between two parties, in which each party has an obligation under the agreement to fulfill. The most solemn of all covenants is the blood covenant. Each person who repents of his sins and accepts the shed blood of Yahshua enters into covenant with Yahweh the Father, through the blood of His Son Yahshua. There is no greater intimacy than a blood covenant. The word `sacrifice’ in Hebrew is `Korban, lehakriv’ derived from the word `to come near to, to become closely involved in a relationship with someone’. This is the purpose of the blood covenant. Sin has separated mankind from Yahweh, and sacrifice, and particularly the sacrifice of Yahshua, His Son, is meant to draw us back into the relationship with Him.”

“Let me take you now through the 9 steps of an ancient blood covenant ceremony. This is not some form of ancient tradition, but the very ritual, according to Scripture, that every covenant relationship requires.

1) Take off your robe or coat

“The robe is taken off and given to the covenant partner. To a Hebrew the robe

represents who he is. By taking off the robe, he is saying symbolically `I am giving you all of myself--My total being and my life I pledge to you”. Our great High Priest took off His robe before being nailed to the stake. (John 19:23-24) He asks us to take off the “old man” of sin and death, and exchange it for His robe of righteousness.

2) Take off your belt

“The next thing you do is take off your belt, and give it to your covenant partner. Now an Israelite does not use his belt to hold up his pants, but to keep his …bow, his arrow and his sword. Symbolically, he is saying that he is giving to

you all of his strength and all of his ability to fight. If anyone attacks you, they must also attack your covenant partner. He will fight for you and defend you with his very life.” In the garments of the High Priest, Yahushua has taken off

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His armor, his belt, and given it to us through the Ruach.

3) Cut the covenant

“Now the two partners would actually cut the covenant by taking an animal and splitting it right down the middle. In Scripture, an animal is only split down the middle in a blood covenant ceremony. After we split the animal, we would lay each half to the side of us and stand in between the two bloody halves of flesh, with our backs to each other. Then we would walk right through the bloody halves, making a figure eight, and come back to a stop facing each other. In doing so we are saying two things: First we are saying that we are dying to our old self, giving up our own rights to our own life, and beginning a new walk with our covenant partner until death. And second, since the blood covenant is such a solemn pact, we each point down to the dead animal and say `Elohim do to me and more if I ever try to break this covenant’”. We see examples of this in Genesis 15:9-10 and Jeremiah 34:18-20, and in Daniel 9:26a, where Messiah is “cut off; but not for Himself”. The Hebrew word for “cut off” means: “to make a covenant by cutting flesh and passing around the pieces”. Messiah said, “Take eat; this is My body which is broken for you.”

4) Raise the right arm and mix the blood

“Then we would raise our right arms, cut our palms, and bring them together. As we did this, our blood would intermingle, and we would swear allegiance to each other. It denotes unity”. This is the relationship that Yahuweh/Yahushua want to have with us. Think about this: Has the prayer of John 17 ever been fulfilled by the Christian Church? NO! Was it fulfilled by the 1st century Torah observant believers—partially yes! Will it be fulfilled by the end-time Bridal remnant—YES!!!

5) Exchange names

This is seen in the marriage covenant, which is a blood covenant. The Bride of Messiah will have His Name on her forehead, and the Father’s name on her forehead.

6) Make a scar

The cut in each partners skin must be deep enough to make a scar, to remind them of the covenant. Our Savior has scars in His wrists and feet that remind us of our covenant with Him.

7) Give the terms of the covenant

Everything we have is exchanged for everything the covenant partner has. “What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine”. In this, we give Him

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everything we are and have or ever will be, and He gives us all that He is.

8) Eat a memorial meal

Luke 22:14-20, the Seder meal of “communion”.

9) Plant a memorial

“The last step to the blood covenant ceremony is to leave a memorial. You would do this by planting a tree that would be sprinkled with the blood of the covenant”. Yahushua planted the stake for us to remember the covenant. Don concludes with II Samuel 7:24: “For You have established Your people Israel to Yourself, to You for a people forever. And You, O Yahuweh, have become their Elohim”. “Only the nation of Israel has entered blood covenant with Yahuweh”. To enter blood covenant with Yahuweh/Yahushua, we have to come to the Elohim of Israel.

In Zechariah 3:3-7, Yehoshua, the High Priest is dressed in filthy garments. Satan comes to accuse him. This passage is a beautiful picture of the new birth and the covenant exchange. In verse 4, Yahuweh gives the command: “Remove the filthy garments from him. And to him He said, `Behold, I have removed your guilt from you, and shall put costly robes on you’. Verse 5: “And I said, `Let them put a clean turban on his head’. Then they put a clean turban on his head, and they put garments on him. Verse 7: “Thus says Yahuweh of hosts, `If you walk in My ways, and if you guard My duty, then you shall also rule My house, and also guard My courts…”

We exchange our filthy garments for the garments of Yahushua, the High Priest, in order to minister before Him and the people, and to guard His Word.

In Malachi 3:2-3: “He shall cleanse the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall belong to Yahuweh, bringing near an offering in righteousness”.

He has to purify us from all our defilement with paganism, and then He can use us in His set-apart service.

I hope that you have gained much in this study on the High Priest’s garments for intercession and spiritual warfare. We must elevate Yahuweh and Yahushua into His proper place as Elohim, and honor our Elohim as the Most High.

“By their fruit you will know them”, Yahushua said. The true set-apart ones who have access to His throne forever, and who will see His face, will have paid a high price in this life to obey His set-apart standards. But, the nature of these

set-apart ones to Yahuweh is very different than the nature of those set-apart unto themselves. Eternal goals are what is at stake now.

Blessings to you and Shalom,

Yedidah

July 2005/edited Page 56

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