BLESS THE LAND
RESTORATION
Moving Forward in the Restoration of the Kingdom, Power, and Glory of YHVH to all Israel.
Restoration/n a: a bringing [of the Body of Messiah/Ecclesia/Church, and the Land of Israel] back to a former position or [Kingdom] condition:
reinstatement < Spirit and Truth>
Brackets are mine.
Signals
This is a great day for receiving from YHVH. His hand is stretched out to all who are calling upon Him for visitation and revelation. Yet the shadow of divine judgment is clearly extended/stretched out across our nation as well. In San Diego County recently a pastor was required to obtain a permit to hold a Bible study in his home. This is happening more and more around the country. [About twenty years ago in our church, Jubilee Fellowship, which we pioneered and pastored for years on Cape Cod, a woman prophesied that the day would soon come in our land when Bible reading would be restricted, even illegal.] We have become a post-Christian nation. More states endorse same-sex marriage. Our federal government favors the division of Israel (a BIG mistake), and is leading us into socialism. Because of these and many other symptoms of rebellion and idolatry, Americans will see increased, strident disagreement and polarization/Balkanization within our own population and politics, our personal freedoms systematically reduced, and our national strength and stature diminshed. [And that is just for starters.] Elections and more government policies will not restore us now. Only a true, nation-wide repentance and return to the God of Israel (not a return to Christianity/Church as usual) will restore us. "Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is reproach [weakening, dulling, censure, rebuke, condemnation] to any people" (Prov. 14:34). Unfortunately, it appears that only a truly catastrophic event will bring us to our collective knees.
Nevertheless, there is much to rejoice over, for the Elohim of Israel is doing great things in the earth, and giving His people a hope and destiny. He is pouring out His Spirit and grace. Restoration of His truth, power, voice, favor and prophetic revelation is being extended to usward who believe and want to walk more fully in His Truth and Spirit! He is bringing increasing numbers into the secret place of the Most High, and pouring His New Wine and divine, supernatural anointing oil on them. He is clarifying the Ecclesia's destiny and renewing hope and vision.
Abba daily renews His Word to Believers and will continually fulfill His Promise in the season ahead. "Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because he has known My Name. He will call upon Me and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him, and let him see my [full, overshadowing] salvation" (Psalm 91:14-16).
We are moving with acceleration toward the Day of the Lord. The earnest preparation of the Bride is underway, and as the Body of Messiah is instructed in illuminated truth and renewed in the Spirit, we draw closer to the reconciliation of Judah and Ephraim, the return of Messiah, and the total restoration of the fallen Tabernacle of David--the restoration of the Kindom of Israel of which the prophets of old spoke.
Believe and Receive.
Understanding the restoration of knowledge and spiritual power to the people of YHVH enables us to receive His fullest measure.
"Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send Jesus, the Messiah appointed to you, whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time" (Acts 3:19-21).
The remarkable process of restoration of Spirit and Truth, once neglected, distorted, or lost,has been going in the Ecclesia for centuries. [The fact of Restoration is seen in Scripture and demonstrated by history.] But it is important to understand that as the Land and the Body of Messiah (all Believers) are being restored, so must every individual who is Born of the Spirit through faith in Yeshua be restored in like manner in Spirit and Truth. The Hebrew roots movement is an important, current example of end-times restoration. Starting with personal salvation, all Messianic Believers today should experience the same sequence, scope, and spiritual impartation of restoration knowledge, experience, and anointing that has refreshed and renewed the believing corporate Body in the past.
The Warrior has knowledge, but few Weapons...little Armor! He's vulnerable and falls short of his/her potential effectiveness (and joy) in life and service.
Ecclesia, don't take the helmet and reject the breastplate. Don't take the belt and leave behind the sword of the Spirit (Word of God) and the shield. Receive the Spirit but do not turn away the Baptism and tongues. Do not take healing and then disdain prophecy.
Many in the Body of Messiah do not appreciate what the Father is doing in the earth today in terms of equipping and empowering His Called-out Assembly (in preparation for end-times fulfillment of prophesy), and are kept ignorant and uninterested by denominational or network biases, doctrines, traditions, or fear. However, the Spirit is opening the understanding of Yeshua's people so they can press forward and receive all He is returning in knowledge and anointing. The necessary result of restoration of Spirit and Hebraic truth for advancing Believers is renewed faith and vision, keener prophetic insight, re-fired motivation, fresh inspiration and joy, enhanced sense of purpose, light, and over-coming power! Restoration is life-changing; indeed, it is world-changing, for it leads inexorably and systematically to the eventual, complete restoration of the Kingdom of Israel.
Only when Disciples of Yeshua are equipped with the more complete knowledge and empowerment of Spirit provided by YHVH that comes with each refreshing/restoration movement will we be equipped for the requirements of last day responsibilities.
The Body of Messiah, especially in a day of outpouring as ours is, can not afford to be inadequately educated or empowered in this crucial hour. Whoever heard of a soldier going into warfare to defeat an enemy, or free oppressed people, with only a portion of his weaponry or equipment, or with little or no powder in his cartridges? The prospect is absurd! Yet this kind of incomplete equipping has been the case, not the exception, within the ranks of Yeshua's army. The good news is that Abba Father is changing things. Each of us must be walking in all that He has restored of truth and power over the centuries to His New Covenant saints. Picking one valid doctrine while ignoring another (just as valid), choosing favored rituals/tradtions and condemning others, making a hobby of some teaching or spiritual gift while rejecting everything else the Spirit has restored is unprofitable and, hence, unacceptable..
For instance, how can Believers bring timely, Spirit-led exhortation and edification to others if they are not baptised in the Spirit and have not learned to prophesy under the unction? How will we lay hands on the sick and see them recover unless we believe in healing and miracles. How will we learn to hear His Voice and discern His Word if we have more fear for the enemy than we have faith in Yeshua? How do we participate with Him in the fulfillment of end-time prophetic Scripture concerning the restoration of Israel unless we have received divine illumination of our Hebraic identity, heritage, the two houses of Israel, and thus our roles and responsibilities?
Restoration Menu
"You prepare a table for me [us] in the presence of my [our] enemies [who look on in fear and envy]; You anoint my [our] head with oil; my [our] cup overflows" (Psalm 23:5).
He has always provided well for His people, yet today, more so than before. His table is spread every redemption blessing of the Spirit and with our long-forgotten and neglected Hebrew/Jewish heritage, privileges, and responisibilities. It is a smorgasbord.
Yeshua's restoration table (which becomes more full and complete with nourishments of Spirit and illuminated truth with each movement) includes, but is not limited to, the baptism in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, prophecy, and all the gifts of 1 Corinthians 12. Also there are the gift of faith, the value of confession, five-fold offices, visitation of His tangible and manifest Presence, hearing His Voice and discerning His Word, signs and wonders, visions, visitation of joy, healing, wisdom, higher realms of His Spirit, divine supernatural ministry, revelation of the Father and His love, personal transfiguration, and more. Partake! Move on from the elementatry milk of the Word [Heb. 6:1-3] to meat and maturity. The restoration of all Israel is actually history unfolding and progressing to the climax of Yeshua's second Coming.
All restored truth is available on the table and in this day includes (but is not limited to) knowledge of our Hebrew roots/Hebraic heritage, identity as part of the commonwealth of Israel, new roles and holy duties and responsibilities, Sabbath, Feasts, New Moons, and the eventual return to the Land.
Partake of it all and you will grow strong in faith and renewed in vision. Incorporationg these restored realitites/strengths of Word/Revelation and Spirit will add new dimensions of enrichment, vitality and new hope to one's life and and calling, especially in the face of the deterioration of the American dream/western society. The primiere benefit will be a growing, sweetening intimacy with the Messiah, Yeshua as we minister directly unto Him, and experience the overflow of His glory.
All that's required is a re-orientation of values and purpose on our part, as returning, Spirit-filled Israelites, so that we can become His participants in the fulfilling of prophetic Word as it pertains to the recognition and reconciliation of Judah and Ephraim, and the restoration of the Kingdom of Israel. Understand, we pass from elementary things to maturity as we shema/hear and do what we have been shown/taught/given. [See Heb. 6]
Have you rexperienced and learned all that Abba has revealed and returned to His Ecclesia/Called-out Assembly?
Discernment is YOUR responsibility. Make the worthwhile effort and learn to Hear His Voice and be Led by the Spirit. You'll be glad you did.
There's gold in them thar hills. There's "fools gold" too. Learn the difference, keep prospecting...and may your soul prosper.
Your advance/growth in Spirit and truth will be challenged/resisted! Every restoration movement, beginning with the early Reformation and continuing into the twentieth century's Pentecostal, Charismatic, Prophetic, Renewal, Messianic Judaism, and Hebrew roots movements, has been intended to renew and empower (revive) the Ecclesia...and advance the restoration of the Kingdom of Israel. Unfortunately each has had it excesses and hindering problems. But this is natural and should be anticipated.
Sadly, the enemy has used human errors, mistakes, falsehood, amd other excesses to drive people away from true renewal and restoration. Fringe teaching, with questionable practices and behavior, along with hurtful criticisms and judgments by unenlightened, stagnated Believers (many with unresolved spiritual issues from their pasts), are not uncommon when YHVH returns His Saints to greater anointing and understanding of His prophetic Word. These become disruptive tools that satanic forces/entities will use and magnify in order to resist Yeshua's Followers from receiving all that which will enable them to mature in Spirit and Word, and thereby walk in greater victory and intimacy with Him.
Do not be bequiled, put off or discouraged from going forward when you witness such things in a restoration movement. As we have stated, confusion and conflict have been a common phenomenom as restoration moves advanced and matured. The Hebrew roots movement/renewal/awakening, as we have seen, has not been exempt from abuse, exaggeration, legalism, or extremism either. Further, there has been a very apparent neglect of the Holy Spirit among the Messianics, some evidently preferring form over power. It's an unfortunate inclination that affects (and weakens) Christian fundamentalism, and even much of the Messianic Judaism today. Nevertheless, it is the responsibility of all Believers, whatever their camp, to discern what is of the Spirit (Gold) from that which is not (clay/brass), and then to receive and walk in the restored light and anointing. It is not an option. It is a Joy. Restoration is His way of developing an increasingly intimate fellowship, compatability, amity, affability, comradeship, sociability, togetherness...reverence; thus preparing us for our end-time functions. When we knowingly reject His restorative works, though we maintain a relationship with Him, we nevertheless distance ourselves with regards to fellowship. We either go forward in faith, or we eventually atrophy into religion. There is no middle ground. Please allow me to repeat myself. Do not allow carnal teachings and practices, which do manifest in every spiritual refreshing sent from On High, be used by the enemy to turn you away from the genuine holy truth and power that the Almighty is truly restoring. Reject the false and graft in what is true. That's our job, and He has equipped us with discernment so we can to it.
Follow the Cloud. Stay near the Fire. Be determined to receive all that that Abba Father has for you.
Step into the refreshings that are sent from Above. Be renewed and transformed. Partake of the Spirit of wisdom, power, and revelation in the knowledge of Yehsua.
Believer, take everything of Truth and Spirit that Yeshua is restoring to His Body. This grace will (precept by precept, encounter by encounter, step by step) enrich your life, improve your ministry and work, impart new vision and faith, inspire purpose in these last days, open the door for the holy, supernatural ministry of the Ruach, and provide a heightened divine awareness of His Reality, Voice, and Majesty. Renewal imparts healing, produces wisdom, and magnifies His glorious Presence. In short, this is His roadway to Zion, and to the needed transfiguratuion for returning, grafted-in Israelites that will make us, his people, better readied for Judah and the Land. In this day, the blessing of restoration of which we have spoken is indespensable!
Conclusion: Give the Spirit time and room to move your meetings and prayer time!!! Let's stop worrying about our programs and make for Him a place of visitation.
The kingdom is taken/entered by faith and determination, not by fear or hesitancy. His Body is dynamic, not static. Like the Israelites of old who journeyed from camp to camp on their way to Jordan, our journey is from restoration camp to restoration camp, revelation to revelation, outpouring to outpouring. Don't remain behind somewhere in the wilderness of elementary religion while good land is being opened up for new pasture and water. Go forward with Yeshua and you will find success and refreshing. Amen.
