Leaving Jerusalem

The tables have been turned over and now it's time to grieve.  We're leaving today for a couple of days on the Med.  It will be sad.  We have loved our vacation but our Father has shown us many things.  He has shown us a glimpse of culture and thought going on in 1st century and in earlier times.  We either serve YHVH or we are serving another regardless what we say.  

This vision has been eye opening.  It has caused me to be more bold and more urgent to reason the scriptures.  The truth is in there.  It's whether or not we have eyes to see it.

Mat 23:37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.39 For I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’


Jerusalem is full of idolatry.  The people of God lust after their own rabbis.  Men's commands take higher priority over our Father's commands.  We are all adulterous, who have followed traditions instead of Torah.  This grieves our Father greatly and is the reason the people of God were vomited from the land to begin with.  But things have not changed.  And here, it is not just a religion that some people follow.  Here it is an ideology that a country follows as evidenced by both hotels that we have stayed in while in Jerusalem.  Pray for Jerusalem.....but not for worldly peace.  Pray for the peace that comes from above.  The peace that can only be gained in repentance; returning to our Father.

Deut 30 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever YHVH your God disperses you among the nations, 2 and when you and your children return to YHVH your God and obey Him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, 3 then YHVH your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where He scattered you. 4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there YHVH your God will gather you and bring you back. 5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. 6  YHVH your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. 7  YHVH your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. 8 You will again obey YHVH and follow all His commands I am giving you today. 9 Then YHVH your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. YHVH will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as He delighted in your ancestors, 10 if you obey YHVH your God and keep His commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to YHVH your God with all your heart and with all your soul.