Restoring True Worship
Thou, even thou, art YHWH.
ALONE thou hast made heaven,
the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things
that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest
them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Nehemiah 9:6
And I saw another angel fly in the midst
of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell
on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for
the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven,
and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen,
that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication.
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any
man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead,
or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation;
and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of
the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor
night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth
the mark of his name.
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments
of God, and the faith of Jesus. Rev
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Through Messiah
Yahshua, HIS FATHER (and your Father) YHWH will draw to
Himself ALL NATIONS, and Peace will prevail upon the earth! Every
Knee will bow and every tongue declare that YHWH is THE Almighty.
The Spirit of YHWH moves today across
the face of the Nations of the world, seeking those who will worship
YHWH from where ever they are, in Spirit And In Truth.
And the Spirit of YHWH 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 YHWH Isaiah 11:2
Yahshua lived almost
2000 years ago in the land of Israel, PROCLAIMING of the coming
of the Kingdom of YHWH, and warning Israel to repent and return
to YHWH. Yahshua
overcame, and pointed us toward
THE TORAH, the key to long physical life, and the demonstrated
the rewards of heartfelt Torah Worship of the Father YHWH, while
refusing to bow to the commandments of men.
Let the Spirit of YHWH be the oil
in your lamp, and be a light unto the nations.
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The Lord sent a word
into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. (Isa 9:8)
And all the people shall know, even
Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness
of heart, (Isa 9:9)
The bricks are fallen down, but we will
build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change
them into cedars. (Isa 9:10)
Therefore the LORD shall set up the
adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; (Isa
9:11)
The Syrians before, and the Philistines
behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. (Isa
9:12)
For the people turneth not unto him
that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. (Isa 9:13)
Therefore the LORD will cut off from
Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. (Isa 9:14)
The ancient and honourable, he is the
head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. (Isa 9:15)
For the leaders of this people
cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. (Isa
9:16)
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy
in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and
widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth
speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still. (Isa 9:17)
For wickedness burneth as the fire:
it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets
of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
(Isa 9:18)
Through the wrath of the LORD
of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of
the fire: no man shall spare his brother. (Isa 9:19)
And he shall snatch on the right hand,
and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not
be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: (Isa
9:20)
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh:
and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. (Isa 9:21)
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Isaiah 9:10 Harbinger
The
destruction of 2 towers was not God's last Word to Babylon.
That Word is yet to come.
President
George Washington was inaugurated a couple of blocks away from
Ground Zero, on At Federal Hall on Wall Street - and afterwards,
he stopped off at St. Paul's Chapel to pray. The first president
of our country prayed in this very building hours after he was
inaugurated.
On
9/11/01, a sycamore tree on the northwest corner of the property
was destroyed by falling debris from one of the World Trade
Center towers. St. Paul's Chapel did not even suffer a broken
window. It should not be standing today, but it is. It is believed
that a miracle protected the church, but I believe it was both
a miracle and a warning of just how much America and ancient
Israel have in common.
There
is much more to this miracle, it appears. On Sept 12, when it
was still impossible to inspect the church, Sen. Tom Daschle
quoted a little known scripture from Isaiah 9:10 "The bricks
have fallen,we will rebuild with dressed stone. The sycamore
tree that has fallen we will replace with cedar."
Wow!
Just
like Isiah 9:10, "we the American people" stood and
boldly said, "We will rebuild - with even stronger materials."
In a sense, "if they tear down our brick buildings, we
will build stronger ones of hewn stone."
In
other words - try to make us repent - we will not see sorrow!
We will come back even stronger!
Unfortunately,
in the eyes of the entire world, and speaking for America, Tom
Daschle's quote of Isaiah 9:10, completely quoted out of context,
turned out to be an ironic immitation of ancient Israel's rebellious
spirit toward the corrective warning from God found in Isaiah
9:10.
America's
leaders have caused them to err, and she has said in her heart:
Rev
18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived
deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith
in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see
no sorrow.
Rev 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in
one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly
burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Rev 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have
committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall
bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke
of her burning,
Rev 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of
her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that
mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Rev 18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall
weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise
any more:
Rev 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver,
and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple,
and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels
of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and
of brass, and iron, and marble,
Rev 18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments,
and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat,
and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves,
and souls of men.
In the article
below, written in 2005, there is the story of a sycamore tree
that saved a historic church in NYC on 9/11. In 2003, a Norwegian
Spruce was planted in the place where the Sycamore had been,
and named "The Tree of Hope". In reality, in the destruction
of that sycamore to save that building is also a harbinger of
a nation that will be destroyed for her failure to leave her
lovers, return to her God, and repent of her harlotry with the
kings of the nations - and how the hand of God will mightily
protect a remnant who "Come out of her", before it
is too late.
New
York City’s Tree of Hope
by Rachel Snyder
Rachel Snyder is a member of Trinity/St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Manhattan.
Dec 1, 2005 —
I first saw the Tree of Hope during the 2003 Christmas season.
At that time I worked at the World Financial Center in Lower
Manhattan. Every evening as I walked around the former site
of the World Trade Center to the subway that would take me back
to Brooklyn, I passed by that tree, located in the northwest
corner of the old graveyard of St. Paul’s Chapel.
The spruce was lit not with strands of conventional Christmas
lights but with green, red, and white spotlights from the ground
that illuminated the many snow-white doves perched on its branches.
While a nice gesture, the little tree only made me more aware
of the emptiness on the other side of the street. In my mind,
no tree, no matter how beautiful, could possibly fill the void
left by nearly 3,000 people and the majestic structures in which
they worked.
The following spring I became a member of Trinity Church, which
owns St. Paul’s Chapel. And that November found me at
the start of another Christmas season, the fourth since 9/11.
As usual, the approaching holidays brought with them feelings
of warmth and happiness but also a deepening of the ache that
never completely goes away. That year, however, my view of the
Tree of Hope was different, for I knew much more of its story.
Haven at Ground Zero
St. Paul’s Chapel dates back to before the United States’
Revolutionary War and is the oldest building in continuous use
in Manhattan. It survived the Great Fire of 1777—which
was set by the British to punish New Yorkers for their support
of the rebels and destroyed most of what was then New York City—because
the neighboring residents formed a bucket brigade and successfully
kept the flames from harming the building.
After George Washington was inaugurated a few blocks away on
Wall Street, he stopped at St. Paul’s to pray. For more
than 250 years the chapel has served as a quiet place of prayer
and meditation for workers and residents of New York City’s
world-renowned financial district.
Because of its purpose as a place of ministry to its community,
as well as its close proximity to the Trade Center site, St.
Paul’s played a central role in the rescue and recovery
efforts following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Weary rescue
workers and volunteers found there a desperately needed place
of rest. Doctors and massage therapists came to soothe aching
muscles. Singers and musicians came to soothe aching souls.
The pews of the chapel became temporary cots for people unwilling
or unable to return to their homes to sleep. The marks they
made on the pews while they rested are still there.
This ministry continued until workers removed the last piece
of Trade Center wreckage at the end of May 2002. Throughout
that time, the staff of St. Paul’s received thousands
of cards, letters, banners, and other gifts sent to them from
people all over the world. Visitors and passersby left their
own messages of thanks and encouragement on the gate surrounding
the chapel.
Once the cleanup was complete, it became clear that St. Paul’s
had quite a story to tell. A temporary exhibit titled “Out
of the Dust: A Year of Ministry at Ground Zero” opened
in September 2002, and in March 2004 it recorded its one-millionth
visitor. In May of that year, a permanent exhibit opened, and
that summer more than 20,000 people visited it each week.
I walked through this exhibit three times, once by myself the
day after it opened and twice with visitors from out of town.
It’s filled with pictures and personal testimonies of
the people who benefited from St. Paul’s ministry, as
well as many of the items the chapel received from so many people
across the globe. I’m never able to experience it without
a strong mix of emotions. I feel such grief at the tremendous
pain brought to my neighborhood and my entire country. But I’m
also filled with amazement at the utter selflessness of my community
and the remarkable strength I have witnessed since I first began
working downtown.
A Miracle
What makes the story of St. Paul’s truly amazing is that,
by all logic, the chapel should not be standing today.
On Sept. 11 more than 2 billion pounds of steel came crashing
to the ground. The crash was so powerful it registered on the
Richter scale. Everything inside and below the WTC buildings
was smashed beyond recognition. Every window facing the Trade
Center was blown out. Every nearby building suffered damage,
some beyond repair. The destruction seemed endless. We now know
that the total amount of energy released by the impact of the
planes, the explosion of jet fuel, the massive fires burning
inside the towers, and finally the towers’ collapse equaled
the power of a small atomic bomb.
It wasn’t until Sept. 14 that anyone was able to inspect
what was left of St. Paul’s. Miraculously, where workers
expected to see a pile of rubble, they instead found a completely
intact chapel. Not a window had been broken (one was cracked).
Not an inch of the walls or the roof had been compromised. The
building’s structure was as sound as it had ever been.
Inside a six-inch layer of dust coated everything, which did
wreck the pipe organ, but otherwise nothing had been damaged—with
one notable exception. The giant sycamore tree that had stood
in the northwest corner of the graveyard—on the spot where
the Tree of Hope now stands—had been knocked over in the
collapse.
People say that tree was responsible for saving the chapel.
For a long time I resented the idea. How, I thought, could a
single tree—no matter how massive—possibly have
saved a tiny building from the collapse of two skyscrapers?
Why do people always feel the need to explain away a miracle?
I found myself thinking about that tree more and more. And suddenly
I realized I’d been missing the point.
The very fact that the force of the collapse was enough to knock
down such a large tree made the complete survival of St. Paul’s
all the more remarkable. It was almost as if all the power and
fury of the disaster surrounding the church had somehow been
directed at that one tree. While much larger, newer buildings
suffered massive structural damage, tiny St. Paul’s Chapel
was barely touched, leaving it available to provide desperately
needed support to those working tirelessly to clear the Trade
Center rubble. One tree, sacrificed to save the church.
Another Tree
The much smaller spruce tree planted in the sycamore’s
place is once again lit with spotlights and decorated with snow-white
doves. As we gather to turn on the lights and begin another
Christmas season, we sing the traditional carols that since
9/11 have more poignant meaning. I’m not yet at the point
where I can sing “Joy to the World” and truly feel
it in the present, and I don’t expect to reach that point
in the near future. But at Christmas we celebrate the birth
of a tiny baby who had within him the power to save all of humanity.
And I know there will finally come a day when sin and sorrow
no longer reign—all because of another tree, another sacrifice.
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The
Spirit of YHWH Elohim is upon me; because YHWH
hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath
sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to
the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are
bound
Isaiah 61:1
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And I fell at
his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do
it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren
that have the testimony of Yahshua: worship YHWH:
for the testimony of Yahshua is the spirit
of prophecy. Rev
19:10
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True Worship Begins
with Humility Before Your Creator
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In that day
the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations
will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious.
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Pass through, pass through
the gates! Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones.
Lift up a
banner for the peoples!
YeshaYahu 62:10
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For he that will love
life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his
lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let
him seek peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of YHWH
are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but
the face of the YHWH is against them that do evil.
1Peter 3:8-12
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The
Shema
Deut 6:4-9
"Hear,
O Israel : YHWH our Elohim, YHWH is one! "
"And you shall
love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being,
and with all your might. And these Words which I am commanding
you today, shall be in your heart, and you shall impress them upon your
children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when
you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, and
shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets
between your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of
your house and on your gates."
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