A Covenant Is An Exchange

When A Woman Marries A Man, She Gets His Last Name; But, That’s Not ALL That She Gets.  She Also Gets His Authority.  I’ll Show You What I Mean.  She Can Walk Up To His Bank, And If The Husband By Virtue Of Marriage, Has Made A Joint Account With Her; She Can Write A Blank Check With Her Newly Acquired Last Name, And Say, “I Want To Withdraw ALL The Amount That My Husband Has In His Account”, And She Can Wipe Him Out~!

This Exchange Of Covenant Wasn’t One Sided, For Now Yahweh Called Himself, ‘The God Of Abraham’, And After Abraham’s Descendents Were Born, Yahweh Went On To Call Himself, ‘The God Of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob’, And Yahoshua Was Referred To As, ‘The Son Of Abraham ’, (Matthew 1:1), or As, ‘The Son Of David ’, (Which To Me Shows That David Must Have Had Something To Do With Prophesying And Bringing Forth Yahoshua Into The Earth, Along With Abraham As Yahweh Does Nothing Without Speaking It Forth First From Out Of His Heart, or Having Us Speak It Forth As A Word Of Yahweh ~ Romans 4:17).

The Flip-Side Of This Exchange Was That Yahoshua Called Himself, ‘The Son Of Man’, (Not The Son Of God As You Might Have Expected … Except Implied When Cornered In John 10:34; And Implied Again In John 5:17-18, 30).  In Fact, Only Others Called Yahoshua, ‘The Son Of God’, (John 10:33-38); And Many Of These Were The Demons, (Matthew 8:29; Luke 4:41), or d-Evil One When Trying To Tempt Yahoshua, (Saying, “If You Are The Son Of God”; Matthew 4:4-6: Luke 4:3-4;19), And The Religious Folks Trying To Crucify Yahoshua, (Matthew 26:63; Matthew 27:40-43).

Also Note That Yahoshua Said In Matthew 8:12 That, ‘TheSon Of Man’, Was, ‘Lord’, Even Of The Sabbath.  It Would Have Been Obvious That, ‘The Son Of God’, Was, ‘Lord’, Of The Sabbath.  Later On, We See That When Stephen Is Stoned, He Identifies The One On The Right Hand Side Of The Throne Of Yahweh As, ‘The Son Of Man’, (Acts 7:56).

Click Here To Find ALL Occurrences  Of, ‘Son Of God’, In The Four Gospels While Yahoshua Was On The Earth, And Click Here To Find ALL Occurrences Of The ‘Son Of Man’, In The Four Gospels While Yahoshua Was On The Earth.

We Now Can Partake Of His Divine Nature, (2 Peter 1:4), And Do Greater Things Than Yahoshua Did, (John 14:12), Because Yahoshua Became 100% Man.  We‘re Blessed With Every Spiritual Blessing In Christ, (The Messiah ~ Ha Mashiach), (Ephesians 1:3) ~ Blessed Be The God And Father Of Our Lord Yahoshua Ha Mashiach, (Jesus Christ), Who Has Blessed Us With Every Spiritual Blessing In The Heavenly Places In Christ.  We Are Not Automatically Blessed With Every Spiritual Blessing, Apart From Yahoshua Ha Mashiach Coming To Earth As A Human Being~!

A Covenant Is Way More Than A Contract

Even Today When Two Corporations Merge, There Is A, ‘Contract’, Between Them, And They Are Usually Called By The Combination Of Both Of Their Former Names, Like When The Manufactures Of The DC-3, (Douglas), Merged With The McDonnel Corporation; Then We Have The McDonnel-Douglas Corporation.   (Next Time You Fly And You Notice That You Are Flying On A MD-80… That Stands McDonnel~Douglas-80, Then Think Covenant), Then Recall That This Is A Type Of Covenant.  (Other Examples Would Be Owens~Corning Fiberglass, Mercedes-Benz, Baskin-Robbins, Sherwin-Williams, Harley-Davidson, or Teledyne~Brown, or Lockheed~Martin).  Generally Speaking A Hyphenated Company Name Indicates A Merger, or A Covenant.  But Some Companies Just Use An Ampersand, (Briggs & Stratton, Johnson & Johnson), or A Space Like Exxon Mobile).

Just The Fact That The Family Name Like, ‘Douglas’, or, ‘McDonnel’, Was Given To The Corporation Is Another Display Of Covenant.  Mr. Douglas Could Not Have Manufactured ALL The Aircraft With Just Him And His Family, And So He Gives His Covenant Name To The Employees In Exchange For Their Labor.  On A Smaller And More Temporary Scale, The Employees Become Part Of The Douglas Family, or Partners With Each One Gaining Something From Their Combined Agreement.

A Covenant Is More Than A Contract, But Contract Is The Word That We Have Best That Sort Of Explains It To Us.  Like When You Buy An Item At A Store, And On The Receipt It Is Printed, “No Refunds, Exchanges Only Within 5 Days”.  If You Come Back After 5 Days, You’re Not Going To Get An Exchange, Even If You Take It To Court.  This Small Sliver Of Paper On Which The Receipt Is Printed Serves As A Legally Binding Contract Between You And The Vendor.

You Might Persuade The Seller Before The Transaction Is Made, To Give You More Time Because This Is A Gift Item.  However; You Have To Write This Extension Of Time On The Receipt And Get Both Parties To Sign It, And Then You Have A New Legally Binding Contract That Would Be Upheld In A Court Of Law.  But The Conditions That Both Parties Are Agreeing To Has To Be Done First Before The Exchange Of Merchandise And Money Transpires.

This Is Called A Contract, {insurance Policies Are Binding Contracts, But Not Very Unilateral, The Conditions Are Outlined By Only One Set Of The Parties, And The Other Agrees To These Conditions}.  A Covenant, Like A Contract Is A Legally Binding Agreement, {This Differentiates It From A HandShake or An Agreement}, That Serves As A Title Deed or Legal Document Of Guarantee.  Unlike A Limited Warranty, {i.e, “For As Long As You Own The Vehicle”}.  A Covenant Is A Lifetime Warranty And Like LeafFilter Is Transferable, {Adding Value To The Home}.  On The Same Day Yahweh Made A Covenant With Abram, Saying: “To Your Descendants I Have Given This Land…”, (Genesis 15:18).  Why Should Being ‘A Daughter Of Abraham’ Matter, Except For The Fact That Yahweh Had Made A Covenant Between Himself And Abraham That Included Being Made Whole. Therefore, A Covenant Between Man And Yahweh Is Also Like A Contract, In That It Describes The Terms And Conditions Of Yahweh’s Peace Plan Between Yahweh And Human-Kind.  A Covenant Goes Way Beyond A Contract, As We Are Now Family With All The Privileges Of Having Yahweh As Our Father, (Ephesians 1:4-6; Ephesians 2:4-8).

I Can Go Back Home To Visit My Parents, Even Though I’m An Adult Now, And Walk Right Up To The Refrigerator And Get Something To Eat, {Healing Is The Children’s Bread, Matthew 15:22-28}, And It Belongs To Us Just As Much, As My Parents Don’t Mind If I Get Something To Eat.  In Fact, They Like It And Want To Try To Feed Me, And I’ll Show By The End Of This Web Page How Healing Does Belong To Us.  If I Need Something In Dad’s Tool Shed, I Would Not Even Think Twice About Getting It, Even If The Door Was Locked And I Had To Break-In Through A Window To Get It, (Then Repair The Window).  But, I Feel That I Have Rights To Access His Stuff, Because I Am My Father’s Son.

The Making Of The Covenant Involved Blood, {Genesis 15:9-10; 17-18}

This Was A Blood Covenant, And Each Party Of The Covenant Brought Something, {Abraham Brought For Both Yahweh And Himself A Heifer And A Female Goat And A Ram, All 3 Years Old And A Turtledove, And A Young Pigeon}.  Except For The Birds, He Divided Them In Half, And One Half Was For Yahweh’s Portion.  Yahweh Could Have Taken All The Animals, As He Made Them.  However, He Had Given The Animals To Adam, (Genesis 1:28).  Abraham Had To Be Obedient To This Command or Nothing Would Have Happened.

⁹ Yahweh Said To Him, “Take For Me A Heifer Three Years Old, A Female Goat Three Years Old, A Ram Three Years Old, A Turtledove, And A Young Pigeon’. ¹⁰ He Brought Him All These, And Divided Them In The Middle, And Laid Each Half Opposite The Other…”

¹⁷ It Came To Pass That, When The Sun Went Down, And It Was Dark, Behold, A Smoking Furnace And A Flaming Torch Passed Between These Pieces. ¹⁸ In That Day Yahweh Made A Covenant With Abram, Saying, “I Have Given This Land To Your Offspring …”

A Flaming Torch Passed Between The Halves Of The Animals.  The Covenant Is More Like When Native Americans Become Blood Brothers With Another Race, or With Each Other.  They Made A Blood Covenant And They Would Cut The Palm Of Their Hand And Then Touch The Other Party In The Covenant And Smear Their Blood Together So That Their Blood Is Now One Blood And You Could No Longer Separate One’s Blood From Another.  If You Find A Choctaw Native American That Has Become A Blood-Brother With An Apache, This Means That Not Only Does This Choctaw Have ALL The Rights Of An Apache, But If You Mess With Him, It Will Be Like You Messed With One Of The Apache’s, And They ALL Will Be After You~!

Or In Our Modern Day, When The Hatfield’s And The McCoy’s Feud, And You Are A Brown or A Smith That Happens To Live Close By To The McCoy’s, It Would Behoove You To Enter Into A Covenant With The McCoy’s So That One Of The Opposing Parties Doesn’t Destroy Your Property.

Now, You Are A McCoy-Brown, or A McCoy-Smith, And This Gives Assurance That The McCoy’s Will Not Attack You, And The Hatfield’s Now Know That If They Touch Your Property, Then The McCoy’s Will Retaliate On Your Behalf.  Anytime You See A Hyphenated Name, You Can Be Sure That There Was A Covenant Made Between Someone.

Irrevocable ~ Can’t Break This Contract~!

We Hear About Movie Stars Breaking Their Contracts, But You Cannot Break A Covenant. 

Well, In Joshua’s Time, {Actually Pronounced “Yahoshua”, As There Was No “J”, In Hebrew, Same Name As The Messiah ~ “Yahoshua” … Interesting Coincidence, (Proverbs 16:33)}.  Ponder The Saga About The Hatfield’s And The McCoy’s In This Similar Story.

In Fact, This Is Precisely What Happened To Joshua And The Israelites.  Joshua And Israel Following The Direction Of Yahweh Conquered AI And Jericho.  However, When The People Of Gibeon Heard What Joshua Had Done To Jericho And Ai, They Were Afraid Of Israel And Resorted To A Ruse, And Said They Were From Afar And Not Part Of The Local Folks Slated For Destruction And Tricked Joshua Into Making A Covenant With The Israelites, (Joshua 9:1-26).  Oops, Joshua Should Have Been Like David And Inquired Of Yahweh Before He Entered Into A Covenant With Them, (Joshua 9:14).

But Now, Though The Gibeonites Were Formerly Enemies And Were Scheduled To Be Destroyed, Once They Entered Into A Covenant With Israel, Even Through Deception And Trickery, They Not Only Would Not Be Destroyed, But Protected.  A Coalition Of Five Kings From Neighboring Towns Joined Together To Attack Gibeon When They Discovered The Gibeonites Had Entered Into A “Peace Treaty”, With Israel.  The Men Of Gibeon Sent To Joshua At The Camp At Gilgal, Saying, “Don’t Abandon Your Servants~!  Come Up To Us Quickly And Save Us~!  Help Us; For All The Kings Of The Amorites That Dwell In The Hill Country Have Gathered Together Against Us”.

So, That Is What Joshua And Israel Did~!  And How Did Yahweh Feel About This Situation?  Even Though The Israelites Had Been Deceived Into Entering Into This Covenant, And Didn’t Inquire Of Yahweh Before Making Covenant; When The Gibeonites Beckoned For Support, Not Only Did Joshua And The Calvary Arrive Traveling All Night Long To Get There, But Yahweh Also Intervened And Yahweh Hurled Down Great Stones From The Sky On These Five Kings And Their Armies To Azekah, And They Died.  There Were More Who Died From The Hailstones Than Those Whom The Children Of Israel Killed With The Sword,

(Joshua 10:1-28 Exodus 14:14,
{Covenant Promise ~ “Yahweh Will Fight For You;
You Need Only To Be Still”}).

Then Joshua Commanded The Sun To Stand Still And It Did~!
(Joshua 10:12-14)
¹² At That Time Joshua Spoke To Yahweh In The Day When Yahweh Gave The Amorites Over To The Sons Of Israel,
And He Said In The Sight Of Israel, “Sun, Stand Still At Gibeon, And Moon, In The Valley Of Aijalon”.
¹³ And The Sun Stood Still, And The Moon Stopped, Until The Nation Took Vengeance On Their Enemies.
Is This Not Written In The Book Of Jashar?  The Sun Stopped In The Midst Of Heaven And Did Not Hurry To Set For About A Whole Day.
¹⁴ There Has Been No Day Like It Before or Since, When Yahweh Heeded The Voice Of A Human Being
, For Yahweh Fought For Israel.

We Were Once Enemies Of Yahweh, (Romans 5:8-10; Ephesians 2:3, 12; Colossians 1:21-22); And Furthermore, We Had No Rights To The Promises Because We Did Not Have A Covenant With Yahweh, (Ephesians 2:12, ~ That You Were At That Time Separated From Christ, Alienated From The Commonwealth Of Israel, And Strangers From The Covenants Of The Promise, Having No Hope And Without God In The World.).  However, Since Yahoshua Became A Human Being And Entered Into Covenant With Yahweh For Us As A Human Being, As One Of Us, (A True Representative), All That Changed And We Can Be Protected And Can Have All The Covenant Promises And Privileges, (Hebrews 2:14)… If We Believe And Mix Faith With The Word Of Yahweh, (Hebrews 4:2).

But, That’s Not All Folks~!  There’s More To This Story.  My Wife’s Uncle Once Shot At A Deer That Was Standing Close To Another Deer And Killed Two Deer With One Shot.  These Were The Five Kings Whose Cities Yahweh Had Instructed Joshua, (Yahoshua), To Destroy And Here They All Were Gathered Together Against Joshua’s Armies, (Saving Joshua From Going To Each Of Their Territories ~ Like Killing Two Deer With One Shot).  So Joshua Told Yahweh, For The Sun To Stand Still, And The Sun Stood Still For A Whole Day~!  And The Army Of Joshua Whooped d—Evil One Completely And Joshua Had The Israelite Leaders Stand And Put Their Foot On Each Of The King’s Necks, And Then Joshua Killed The Five Kings Who Had Been Hiding In A Cave And Tossed Their Bodies Into The Cave~!  What d—Evil One Meant For Bad, Yahweh Turned It Around For The Good Of The Israelite Folks~!  ~ (Genesis 50:20).  It’s A Pretty Amazing Story And I Encourage You To Read The Original Account At Joshua 10:1-43.

This Is The Only Time Recorded In History That The Sun Stood Still.  And By Defending Those That Had Tricked Their Way Into A Covenant With Yahweh, Joshua Captured And Slew Five Kings That Had Opposed Them~!

But, Wait.  There Is Still More To This Story.  These Were The Same Gibeonites That Later On, King Saul Decided Should Be Eradicated From Off The Face Of The Earth And Saul Had A Bunch Of Them Killed~!  But Then, There Was A Three-Year Famine In The Days Of David, Year After Year; And David Inquired Of Yahweh.  Yahweh Replied, “It Is On Account Of Saul And His Bloody House, For He Put To Death The Gibeonites”, [Who Were Formerly Enemies But Had Entered Into A Covenant With Israel, {Even Though They Did So By Using Trickery And Deception} ~ (2 Samuel 21:1-14)].

Bloody House?  What About David Killing And Looting All The Geshurites; The Girzites; The Amalekites, {Which Joshua Was Supposed To Have Alienated, (1 Samuel 27:8-12)}.  Or Saul Killing All Those Innocent Priests At Nob, (1 Samuel 22:16-21).  None Of These Were Mentioned, Nor Were They The Cause Of A Famine, But Mess With People Yahweh Has A Covenant With And Watch Out~!

In Other Words, There Was A Famine In The Land, Because Saul Attacked People That Had A Covenant With Yahweh~!

So, King David Asked The Gibeonites, “What Must We Do To Make This Right?”  These Folks Were Still Up To Their Old Cunning Tricky Selves And Said “Neither For Us Shall You Kill Any Man In Israel”.  David Said, “I Will Do For You What You Say”.

Oops Again, David Should Have Done As He Usually Did And Should Have Checked In With Yahweh First Before He Agreed… For David Had Previously Swore To Saul The Following:

1 Samuel 24:21-22 ~
²¹ Swear Now Therefore To Me By Yahweh, That You Will Not Cut Off My Offspring After Me, And That You Will Not Destroy My Name Out Of My Father’s House”.
²² David Swore To Saul. Saul Went Home, But David And His Men Went Up To The Stronghold.

They Wanted To Kill Seven Of King Saul’s Sons, (2 Samuel 21:6).  David’s Word Had Already Gone Out.  So, To Appease Their Anger And To Stop The Famine, King David Handed Over Seven Sons Of Saul Because Of Their Covenant With Israel.

(2 Samuel 21:7;
1 Samuel 18:3;20:12-17;
1 Samuel 23:18).

However, There Is A Noted Exception Listed Here.  David Spared Mephibosheth, The Son Of Saul’s Son Jonathan, Because Of The Covenant That Was Between David And Jonathan, Saul’s Son.

We’re Going To Talk About Mephibosheth Later On.  (Ironically, There Was Another Mephibosheth, The Son Of Saul’s Concubine And This Mephibosheth Was One Of Those Offered To Be Hanged Along With His Brother).  One Mephibosheth That Had A Covenant Relationship With King David Lived And One Mephibosheth That Did Not Have A Covenant Relationship With King David Died.  According To The Scriptures, Merab Was Meant To Marry David, But She Was Given In Matrimony To Adriel The Meholathite.  In Other Words, Had Merab Married David She Would Have Been In Covenant With David As Marriage Is The Strongest Covenant Possible.  But Because She Not Marry David She Was Not Protected And All Five Of Her Sons Were Given To The Gibeonites And Were Hanged.

Covenant Started

Now, Let’s Go Back And See How That The Covenant Originally Started, And What Were The Obligations Of Each Party In The Covenant.  Yahweh Required Something From Abraham.  Abraham Had To Agree To Serve Yahweh.  I Will Serve Yahweh, (See Also Exodus 23:25-26).

“Come, Let Us Go Over To The Garrison Of These, unCircumcised”.

Maybe That’s Why Their Hearts Were Knit Together, (1 Samuel 18:1).  But, I’ll Talk About Both Of These Two Men As They Later Made A Covenant With Each Other So They Obviously Must Have Understood Covenant~!

Abraham Had Blood, But Yahweh Didn’t, So Yahweh Told Abraham To, “Take For Me”, The Blood Of Some Specific Animals, (Genesis 15:9).  And Abraham’s Part Was To Serve Yahweh And Have ALL Males Circumcised.  Yahweh And Abraham’s Part Are Described In More Detail In (Genesis 17) (I’m Just Trying To Establish The Fact That Blood Was Required).  If You Want To See More About What Yahweh’s Part Is, (Deuteronomy 28 Gives You A Real Good Look~!

But The Problem Isn’t That We Don’t Have A Covenant.  The Obstacle That Hinders Us Is That We Don’t Know That We’ve Got A Covenant, or What The Covenant Rights Give Us.  “My People Are Destroyed Because Of Lack Of Knowledge”, (Hosea 4:6), Being Strangers To The Covenant Of Promise, (Ephesians 2:12).

Their Was A Woman That Had A Rich Uncle And He Passed On And Left Her A Large Inheritance.  But, She Didn’t Know It And Never Found Out.  Do You Suppose That Her LifeStyle Would Have Changed Significantly Had She Known?  Of Course It Would Have.  This Is The Way God’s Folks Have Been.  We Haven’t Know What Is Ours.  What Happens When You Merge FedEx And UPS… You Get FedUp?  I Hope That You Are Fed Up With Not Knowing What Is Yours~!

Much Applause And Grateful Thanks To The Folks At The Bible Gateway And At Bible Study Tools For Their Efforts To Put The Scriptures On The Web With Many Bible Translations, And Strong’s Concordance Numbers, And Even Have The Scriptures Read Out Loud To You.

I Am Very Excited That The Bible Gateway Has The Amplified Bible Classic Edition OnLine, (Which Really Gave Me A Greater Understanding Of Words Like, “Blessed”, In Matthew 5).  I Gave Away Two Bible Software Applications, And ALL I Use Now Are These Two OnLine Bibles, And They Really Bring A Futuristic Way Of Reading With The Ability To Link The Verses Directly From This Website.  This Is A Symbiotic Relationship, (Like A Covenant, Taking The Strengths Of Each Other, And You’ll See That Later As We Find Out What A Covenant Is And What It Means For Us).

One Of Those Things That Yahweh Promised If They Would Enter Into This Covenant With Yahweh, Is That When d—Evil One Would Come Out Against You One Way, That d—Evil One Would Flee From You Seven Different Ways.  In Fact, Going Further In This Same Verse Yahweh Promises That Our Enemies Will Be Smitten, {Yahweh Promises To Smite Our Enemies}, (Deuteronomy 7:2)~!  Also, Find This At Deuteronomy 28:7 Below.  And Look At Deuteronomy 28:10, Where Yahweh Says That They Will Be Afraid Of You, And Just To Point Out That The Name Is Important In A Covenant, Look Again At Deuteronomy 28:10.

So, Let’s Travel Forward Past Abraham And Moses, And Come To Jonathan.  Jonathan Was The Son Of Saul, The Current Reigning King Of Israel.  Jonathan Is The Heir, And As Such Destined For The Throne.  But, Something Happens Along The Way.  Yahweh Disapproves Of Saul After Saul Disobeyed Yahweh’s Prophet Samuel, And Samuel Under The Direction Of Yahweh Appoints A Ruddy Little Shepherd Boy Named David To Be The Next King.

Saul Acquires An Army From The Finest Men In The Country.  If Saul Saw Someone That He Considered Built Like A Line Backer or Valiant, He Took Them As His Own, {(1 Samuel 14:52), Just As Samuel Said That A King Would Do In (1 Samuel 8:11)},  But, David Was Not Chosen.  Either The King Didn’t See David, or Thought He Was A Scrawny Throw-Back With Nothing Resembling Bravery, And We Know This Because ALL That Saul Saw That He Thought Were Strong or Courageous He Took, And He Took Three Of David’s Brothers, (1 Samuel 17:13).

1 Samuel 17:45-47, 51-53 ~ ⁴⁵ Then Said David To The Philistine, You Come To Me With A Sword, A Spear, And A Javelin, But I Come To You In The Name Of Yahweh ~ T’Sebaah, (“The Captain Of The Armies”), The God Of The Ranks Of Israel, Whom You Have Defied. ⁴⁶ “This Day Will Yahweh Deliver You Into My Hand”, “I Will Strike You, And Take Your Head From Off You”, “I Will Give The Dead Bodies ¤ Of The Host Of The Philistines This Day To The Birds Of The Sky, And To The Wild Animals Of The Earth”, ⁴⁷ “And That All This Assembly May Know That Yahweh Doesn’t Save With Sword And Spear: For The Battle Is Yahweh’s, And He Will Give You Into Our, {Plural ~ More Than One} ~ ⁵² And The Army Of Israel, {Plural ~ More Than One} Slew The Philistines}”.

Mephibosheth Finds Out That He Has A Covenant~!

But Somebody Else Was Watching David That Day That Had Also Realized That They Were In Covenant With Yahweh, And That Someone Was Jonathan.

David Answers King Saul In 1 Samuel 17:58, And Then We Find In The Very Next Verses, (1 Samuel 18:1-4); That Jonathan And David Enter Into Covenant With Each Other Saying That ALL That Is Yours Is Mine, And ALL That Is Mine Is Yours, (Including The Throne).  The Prince And The Pauper Story Was Here Long Before Charles Dickens Ever Told It.  David Probably Had Shared His Intimate Thoughts With Jonathan, (1 Samuel 18:1, 3-4).  They Even Exchanged Coats And Weapons.  Jonathan Also Had Went So Far As To Initiate A 2nd Covenant, (or Reinforce The 1st Covenant), With David, (1 Samuel 20:8, 14-23);Which Further Shows That They Both Knew What A Covenant Was ALL About.  Your People Shall Be My People, And Your God Shall Be My God Said Ruth To Naomi, (Ruth 1:16).

¹ And It Came To Pass, When He Had Made An End Of Speaking Unto Saul, That The Soul Of Jonathan Was Knit With The Soul Of David, And Jonathan Loved Him As His Own Soul.
² And Saul Took Him That Day, And Would Let Him Go No More Home To His Father’s House. ¤
³ Then Jonathan And David Made A Covenant , Because He Loved Him As His Own Soul.
⁴ And Jonathan Stripped Himself Of The Robe That Was Upon Him, And Gave It To David, And His Garments, Even To His Sword, And To His Bow, And To His Girdle.

¤ See, I Told You That If Saul Saw Someone That He Considered Built Like A Line Backer or Valiant, He Took Them As His Own, {(1 Samuel 14:52), Just As Samuel Said That A King Would Do In (1 Samuel 8:11)},  So Obviously, Saul Saw That David Even Though David Was Not Very Tall or Strong That David Must Have Been A Valiant Man~!

In 1 Samuel 14:6-16, You Will Find Another Remarkable Story Of Courage And Bravery Of Jonathan, Echoing Almost Word For Word What David Said, Again Referencing The UnCircumcised And Making Mention Of The God Of A Few Good Men.

David And Jonathan Were Saying What Our Policemen Say When They Wear A Badge.  ”We May Be Small In Number, But You Harm One Of Us Then You Will Have To Deal With Who We Represent”.  Native American Blood-Brothers Have This Same Viewpoint, And So Do Gangs.

Jonathan Probably Got A Sling And A Stone, And David Got Jonathan’s Sword, Bow, And Girdle.  This Is Covenant~!  Where Have We Heard This Story Before?  It Was Ruth That Said It To Naomi, (Ruth 1:16).  Do You Suppose That In Ruth’s Family That This Story Was Told To Her Family And Children And Grand-Children Over And Over Again, And Before The Advent Of Television That The Story Of The Courtship Between Her And Boaz Was Told In Dramatic Details, How She Came In As A Foreigner And Entered Into And Made Covenant With The People Of Israel.  Same Story Was Probably Passed Down To Ruth From Boaz’s Mother Rahab, {Formerly A Canaanite Harlot In The City Of Jericho}.

Did You Know That Rahab, {The Former Canaanite Harlot} Was David’s Great, Great GrandMother, or That Ruth Was Formerly A Moabite, And Also David’s Great Grandmother?  Boaz’s Mother Had Been A Canaanite And Boaz Married A Moabite.  {Salmon The Father Of Boaz, Whose Mother Was Rahab, Boaz The Father Of Obed, Whose Mother Was Ruth, Obed The Father Of Jesse, And Jesse The Father Of King David, (Matthew 1:5-6).  So, “Whose Son Is?”, This Might Be A More Important And Appropriate Question Than We May Have Thought, As King David Was GrandFathered Into A Covenant Relationship With Yahweh).

These Foreigners And Strangers To The Covenant Have Been Adopted And Grafted In To Be The Children Of Yahweh, (John 1:12; Romans 8:14-17;
Galatians 3:26; 1 John 3:2).  When The Alien Resides With You In Your Land, You Shall Not Oppress The Alien.  The Alien Who Resides With You Shall Be To You As The Citizen Among You; You Shall Love The Alien As Yourself, For You Were Aliens In The Land Of Egypt: I Am Yahweh Your God”, (Leviticus 19:33-34; Leviticus 24:22).  {See Also Exodus 12:49; Joshua 8:33-35}.  Listed Among Yahoshua’s Disciples Was Simon, “The Canaanite”, In The King James Version, (Matthew 10:4; Mark 3:18), {It May Be That This Simon Was Not An Israelite}.

Saul Asked, “Whose Son Is?”, But His Intention behind The Question Was To Ensure That David Came From One Of The Tribes Of Israel And That He Had A Covenant Relationship With Yahweh And David Goes On To Be In The Ancestry Of Yahoshua.  But, Just In Case You Think That Yahoshua Was From A Line Of The Highest Pedigree Of Blue Bloods, If You’ll Check Out His Lineage You Find It Is Less Than Royal, And Certainly Not Regal Nor Stellar As Even Perez The Scandalous Son Of Judah Is Also Listed, (Matthew 1:3); Further Showing How Deep A Covenant Relationship Is And Cannot Be Broken~!

King Saul Never Liked David, (1 Samuel 18:6-9, 17-29), But Took Him Into His House, So That He Could Take Glory For What David Had Done.  Saul Told Jonathan To Not Be Friendly With David, And Went So Far As To Say That David Would Take The Throne Away From Jonathan.  Little Did Saul Know That It Was Too Late, As Jonathan Had Already Given David The Throne In Their Covenant Agreement.  And You Can Read The Whole Exciting, “Robin Hood”, Story In (1 Samuel 18-31).

But, Eventually, Saul Was In Battle And His Sons Were Also Involved In The Same War.  On That Particular Day, They ALL Were Killed In Battle, Including Jonathan, (1 Samuel 31:7).  And Eventually, David Became King.  Well, One Day While David Was King, He Thought About Jonathan.  They Were Very Close.  Their Hearts Were Drawn Together.  But, This Was Much More Than A Close Friendship.

So, Finally There Was A Lasting Covenant Made Between Yahweh And Man, And Our Representative Was The Man Yahoshua, (Hebrews 2:17; Philippians 2:5-8).  Yahweh Made A Covenant With Yahoshua, And We Are Joint Heirs With Christ, Romans 8:17; Ephesians 3:6;
1 Peter 3:7.

Do You Recall That Time When Jairus Came To See Yahoshua, And While They Were Conversing, A Messenger Came And Said, “Your Daughter Is Dead. Why Trouble The Teacher Any Further?”  And Yahoshua Immediately Said To Jairus, “Do NOT Be Afraid, Only Believe”, (Mark 5:36).  If Yahoshua Was On Earth As God, Why Didn’t He Say, “Never Fear, Here I Am To Save The Day, Please Stand Back While I Go To Your Daughter And Raise Her Up From The Dead”.  So, Why Bother To Talk To Jairus About Believing, (Faith).

Why Didn’t Yahoshua Just Say, “Tell Me Where She Is And I’ll Go By Myself”.  Yahoshua Was Only Going Because That’s Where The “Word Of Faith”, (Romans 10:8), Was Coming Out Of Jairus’ ‘Mouth’, (…“COME AND LAY YOUR HANDS ON HER, THAT SHE WILL BE HEALED, AND SHE WILL LIVE”.  (Mark 5:23).  {See Also Deuteronomy 30:14; Romans 10:8}.

If Yahoshua Came To Earth As God, Then He Would Know Where Jairus Lived.  In Fact, He Would Have Known A Lot Of Things That He Didn‘t Like “Who Touched Me”, … Because He Had Known That Power Had Gone Out Of Him, And That This Wasn‘t His Faith That Drew This Power Out, (It Was The Woman’s Faith With The Issue Of Blood… “And He, [Yahoshua], Said To Her, Daughter, Your Faith Has Made You Well~!” ~ (Mark 5:30-34; Luke 8:46-48).

¹⁶ Therefore It Is Of Faith, That It Might Be By Grace; To The End The Promise Might Be Sure To All The Seed; Not To That Only Which Is Of The Law, But To That Also Which Is Of The Faith Of Abraham; Who Is The Father Of Us All.

The Spiritual Force Called “Faith”, Is The Receiver~!  Faith Made The Connection, And Yahweh Did The Rest~!

And Romans 4:16 From The J.B. Phillips New Testament In Modern English.

“The Whole Thing, Then, Is A Matter Of Faith On A Person’s Part And Generosity On God’s. He Gives The Security Of His Own Promise To ALL Men Who Can Be Called Children Of Abraham”, i.e. Both Those Who Have Lived In Faith By The Law, And Those Who Have Exhibited A Faith Like That Of Abraham.

Meditate On This:  The Carpenter Lives By Their Hammer.  That‘s The Tool With Which They Make Their Living.  The Musician Lives By Their Musical Instrument.  That‘s The Tool With Which They Make Their Living.  The Just Live By Faith.  That‘s The Tool With Which They, {The Just}, Receive Their Living.

Matthew The Tax Collector Frequently Would Describe Something Yahoshua Did And Point Out That This Was Done On Purpose To Fulfill A Scripture, (Debt Owed—Debt Reconciled, Like An Accountant, or A Tax Collector Would Do).  Now, (Psalm 69:21) Does Say, “Then Also Gave Me Gall For My Food.  In My Thirst, They Gave Me Vinegar To Drink”.

However, Using This Premise, Then You Would Have To Say That Peter Denied Christ Three Times So That He Might Fulfill Yahoshua’s Prophecy.  No, It Was Just That The Prophecy Was Fulfilled And Then Peter Recalled What Yahoshua Had Said, “And Peter Remembered The Saying Of Yahweh”, (John 18:13-27; Mark 14:66-72;
Luke 22:54-62).

Or That Judas Sold Yahoshua For 30 Pieces Of Silver On Purpose Just To Fulfill Prophecy.  Or That Judas Hung Himself In The Potter’s Field On Purpose Leaving His Office Vacant Just To Fulfill Another Prophecy.  Matthew 27:3-10 Says, “Then Judas, Which Had Betrayed Him, When He Saw That He Was Condemned, Repented Himself, And Brought Again The Thirty Pieces Of Silver To The Chief Priests And Elders, Saying, “I Have Sinned In That I Have Betrayed The Innocent Blood”.  And They Said, What Is That To Us?  See Thou To That.  And He Cast Down The Pieces Of Silver In The Temple, And Departed, And Went And Hanged Himself.  And The Chief Priests Took The Silver Pieces, And Said, It Is Not Lawful For To Put Them Into The Treasury, Because It Is The Price Of Blood.  And They Took Counsel, And Bought With Them The Potter’s Field, To Bury Strangers In.  Wherefore That Field Was Called, The Field Of Blood, Unto This Day.  Then Was Fulfilled That Which Was “Spoken”, By The Prophet, {(Zechariah 11:12-13)}, Saying, And They Took The Thirty Pieces Of Silver, The Price Of Him That Was Valued, Whom They Of The Children Of Israel Did Value; And Gave Them For The Potter’s Field, As Yahweh Appointed Me”,

Acts 1:16-20 Says, “Men And Sisters And Brothers, This Scripture Must Needs Have Been Fulfilled, Which The Holy Ghost By The ‘Mouth’ Of David Spake Before Concerning Judas, Which Was Guide To Them That Took Jesus.  For He Was Numbered With Us, And Had Obtained Part Of This Ministry.  Now This Man Purchased A Field With The Reward Of Iniquity; And Falling Headlong, He Burst Asunder In The Midst, And All His Bowels Gushed Out.  And It Was Known Unto All The Dwellers At Jerusalem; Insomuch As That Field Is Called In Their Proper Tongue, Aceldama, That Is To Say, The Field Of Blood.  For It Is Written In The Book Of Psalms, Let His Habitation Be Desolate, And Let No Person Dwell Therein: And His Bishopric Let Another Take”.

One Commentator Writes Matthew 27:9-10 Says “That Which Was “Spoken” ~ Not, “That Which Was Written”, So There Is No Need To Look For The Exact Quotation In The Book Of Jeremiah.  Jeremiah Spoke The Prophecy But Did Not Write It.  Zechariah Then Wrote Jeremiah’s Oral Prophecy While Omitting The Reference To A Field Probably Because That Detail Had Already Been Described In Jeremiah 32:6-10.

One Of The Things That Up Unto This Point, Prevented Us From Doing The Same Things That Yahoshua, (Jesus) Did, Is That We Believed That Yahoshua Came To Earth As God, And That Only He Could Perform Special Miracles or Gifts Of Healings Because He Was The Son Of God, or Because He Was God.

As A God, Yahoshua Could Not Die, But As A Human Being, He Said, “Therefore My Father Loves Me, Because I Lay Down My Life That I May Take It Again.  No One Takes It From Me, But I Lay It Down Of My Own Accord.  I Have Authority To Lay It Down And Authority To Take It Up Again”, (John 10:17-18).  So, If Yahoshua Would Have Used His God Abilities, He Would’ve Made Void The Covenant Between God & Man.

Now, If I Made The Covenant, I Might Break It or Annul It, or Try To Add Something To It, And Yahoshua Being A Human Being While He Was On Earth, Would Have To Rely On The Holy Ghost To Keep It Also.  Yahoshua Was Not Impervious To Wounds, And He Showed Us That When He Was Cut, He Bled.  Which Should Make You Think, Well What If Yahoshua Got The Flu And Couldn’t Make It To The Cross?  If Being Sick Is Just A Thing We ALL Get, Why Didn’t Yahoshua Ever Get Sick?

Because Sickness Was Not Part Of The Covenant Blessings, But Part Of The Curse, (Deuteronomy 28:61), And Yahoshua Walked In The Blessings Of The Previous Covenants.  In The Covenant, Our Part Is To Serve Yahweh Our God, And We Can’t Serve At ALL If We Are Sick.  (Exodus 23:25).  And We Are Supposed To Be Conformed To The Image Of His Son Who Is The Image Of Yahweh, And Yahweh Is Not Sick, And So Neither Could Yahoshua Have Been Sick Then, Nor Is Yahoshua Sick Now, (Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 4:4).  And Since We Are Conformed To Yahoshua’s Image, Then We Are Not Sick Either.

You See, Yahoshua Had To Become A 100% Man To Be Able To Legally Make This Covenant With Yahweh~!  Even Though Yahoshua Had Been 100% God, He Did Not Come To Earth As God, But As A Human Being Just The Same As You And Me, Operating Under The Old Covenant.  You See, Yahoshua Was The FIRSTborn Of Many Sisters And Brothers, (Romans 8:29).  ‘Yahoshua Is Our Older Brother~!’  In Fact, When Yahoshua Rose From The Dead and Saw Mary Magdalene, He Told Her “Go And Tell My Brothers, {Kinfolks}”, Not “Go And Tell My Disciples” or “Go And Tell My Followers”, (Matthew 28:10; John 20:17).  Matthew 25:40;

Hebrews 2:11,17
¹¹ For Both He Who Sanctifies And Those Who Are Being Sanctified Are All Of One,
For Which Reason He Is Not Ashamed To Call Them Brothers and Sister,
¹⁷ Therefore, In All Things He Had To Be Made Like His Sisters and Brothers,
That He Might Be A Merciful And Faithful High Priest In Things Pertaining To God, To Make Propitiation For The Sins Of The People,

Yahoshua Became A Human Being And Went Back To Heaven As A Human Being, (John 3:13; John 1:14).  One Of The Ways That We Are Told To Test The Spirit And To Ask, “Did Yahoshua, (The Messiah) Come In The Flesh”, (1 John 4:2-4).  In Other Words, This Is A Two Part Question.

1) ~ Is Yahoshua The Promised Messiah, The Anointed, The Christ?

2) ~ Did The Messiah Come As A 100 Percent Man?

John 3:13

Note Here In John 3:13 That It Was A Human Being That Ascended Up To Heaven.  Yahoshua Was 100% God, But He Turned Off His God-Powers While He Was On Earth And Became 100% Man Only, So That He Could Enter Into Covenant With Yahweh On Our Behalf.

John 1:14

Yahoshua Is Still A Human Being~!

Let Me Explain It From A Different Perspective.  For Logistic Purposes, It Would Not Be Practical To Send The Entire Church To A State Convention As There Would Have To Be An Enormous Building To House All Those Folks.  So, We Send One or Two Persons That Will Be A Stand-In For A Particular Church.  It’s As If I Go To A Convention Representing A Certain Church That I Am Not A Member Of, And At The Convention They Vote To Take Up $100.00 A Month Per Church For A Good Cause Like Helping The Homeless.

And When It Comes Time To Cast Votes, I Cast The “Yes”, Vote Representing A Church That I Am Not A Member Of.  And They Accept My Vote As Valid, And Write It Down.  Later On, When The Convention Board Calls This Certain Church And Asks Where Is The Contribution That Was Promised; The Response Will Ultimately Come Down To The Fact That I Was Misrepresenting The Church, As I Am Not A Member Of That Church, Nor Was I Appointed To Go As An Ambassador or Representative, And That My Vote Is Null And Void.

Conversely, If I Were The Genuine Delegate, Then My Vote Would Count, It Would Be As If The Whole Church Went To The Convention And Every One Of The Members Voted, “Yes”.  I Would Be Their Representative.

Even As I Would Have To Be An AuThentically Appointed Member To Go And Represent This Church, Yahoshua Had To Be A Bona Fide Human To Represent Human-Kind, And Romans 5:15 & 1 Corinthians 15:47 Tells Us That Yahoshua Was A Human Being, “But The Free Gift Is Not Like The Offense.  For If By The One Man’s Offense Many Died, Much More The Grace Of God And The Gift By The Grace Of The One Man, Jesus Christ, Abounded To Many”.  Yahweh As God Cannot Die, But Yahoshua As A Human Being, Could And Did Die, {“It Is Appointed For Man To Die Once” ~ (Hebrews 9:27-28)}   So, Yahoshua Cannot Be Half-God And Half-Man~!  The First Man Was Of The Earth And Made Of Dust; The Second Man Is Of Yahweh From Heaven But In An Earthly Body”.  I Didn‘t Say Yahoshua Wasn‘t Lord, Because He Was And Is.  But, He Did Not Come To Earth As Such, “In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was With God, And The Word Was God…” “And THE WORD BECAME FLESH”, John 1:1, 14; 1 John 1:1-2, In Other Words, The Word Became A Human Being In The Human-Kind Class, And If Someone Becomes Something Else, Then It Cannot Still Be What It Was, (A Butterfly Does Not Go Back To Being A Caterpillar; A Frog Does Not Go Back To Being A TadPole, Nor Does An Adult become A Child Again).

Yahoshua Did Not Come To Earth Knowing Everything, Nor Was He Fully Grown As A Human.  He Had To Learn From Yahweh Just Like We Do.

^{Luke 2:40} “And The Child Grew And Became Strong In Spirit, Filled With Wisdom; And The Grace Of God Was Upon Him”
^{Luke 2:52} “And Yahoshua Increased In Wisdom And Stature, And In Favor With God And Men”, (Luke 2:40, 52).

Now, If Yahoshua Were Still A God That Would Disqualify Him From Being Man As Yahoshua Had To Be Our Brother.  It Would Be Odd, That Yahoshua Is The Firstborn Of Many Sisters And Brothers, {With The Exception That He Was Also God}.  No.  Yahoshua Laid Aside His Ability To Be God, So That He Could Be Just Like Us In Every Way~!

One Of The Test To Know If Something Is From God or Not Is To Ask The Spirit, “Did Yahoshua Come In The Flesh?”, “By This You Know The Spirit Of God: Every Spirit That Confesses That Yahoshua Ha Mashiach, (Jesus The Christ), Has Come In The Flesh Is Of God”, (1 John 4:2).  Asked Another Way, “Was Yahoshua A Human Being?  In Other Words, Did Yahoshua Come To The Earth As A Human Being, Not As A God-Man Being Half God And Half Man, But Did He Deny His God Powers; And Become Just Like Us, So That He Could Become The Firstborn Of Many Sisters And Brothers, (Romans 8:29)?

Hebrews 2:14 ~ Forasmuch Then As The Children Are Partakers Of FLESH And BLOOD, He Also Himself Likewise Took Part Of The Same; That Through Death He Might Destroy Him That Had The Power Of Death, That Is, The Devil;

Yahoshua Was The Son Of God And He Was And Still Is The Only, “Begotten”, Son Of God, (John 3:16).  But, He Is Not The Only Son Of God Anymore, Just The Only, “Begotten”, Son Of God, As The Rest Of Us Were Not “Begotten”, But Have Been Adopted And Grafted In To Be The Children Of Yahweh,

(John 1:12; Romans 8:14-17;
Galatians 3:26; 1 John 3:2).

In Fact, There Are Now Some Daughters Of Yahweh.  Bonus: A Woman Is A Man Also, And Even Has The Word “Man” In Her Description Of WoMAN ~ She Is Just A Man With A Womb, In The Human-Kind Class Same As The Male Gender Of Human-Kind.  A Man Can Never Be A Woman, Because He Has No Womb.  Look At Another Scripture That Says That Yahoshua Is The Firstborn Of Many Sisters And Brothers And Other Scriptures That Says That Yahoshua Is Our Example Of What We Are To Do Today, (John 13:15; 1 Peter 2:21).  So, If We Put These Scriptures Together, We Come Up With The Fact That We Are Supposed To Be Doing The Same Thing That Yahoshua Did.  That’s Precisely What Yahoshua Said In: John 14:12, “Most Assuredly, I Say To You, He Who Believes In Me, The Works That I Do They Will Do Also; And Greater Works Than These He Will Do, Because I Go To My Father”.  {Human Sisters And Brothers Have The Same Father, If Yahoshua Was Not A Human Being, But Came To Earth As Anything Other Than 100% Human Being, Then He Would Not Have The Same Father}.

Yahoshua Said, They “That Believe On Me, The Works That I Do, Shall They Do Also, And Greater Works Than These Shall They Do”, (John 14:12).  So Put Another Way, Any Work That Yahoshua Did, We Can Do Greater~!   This Is Really A Hard Pill To Swallow, And Unless You Realize That Yahoshua Was Operating Just As A Human Being By Faith Walking Out The Old Covenant.  Again, We Haven’t Known Covenant And What The Covenant Blessings Were That Yahoshua Walked Under.  We Usually Rationalize That, “Yahoshua Could Open The Eyes Of The Blind Because He Was God”.

Yahoshua Did Not Cheat And Rely On His Being God.  He Came Into The World Knowing Nothing More Than What You And I Know.  Yahoshua Had To Grow In Stature And Wisdom, (Luke 4:1), He Had The Same Advantage That We Can Have Today Over The Carnal Man When We Are Full Of The Holy Ghost.

There Is A Clause In The Earth That Is Pretty Kew~EL~!  {And It Is Not Santa Claus}.  It Basically Says That Whatever You Said While On Earth While You Were Still Alive Still Stands.  We Call It A Person’s, “Last Will & Testament”. “Testament”, Like In A Person’s Testimony or Like The New Testament, or The Old Testament.

Testament Is Also The Same Word Used For Covenant, (See For Yourself Without Knowing The Greek or The Hebrew By Looking It Up By Entering On The Following Link At Hebrews 9:16-18, {or By Opening Up The Scripture Reference In The New American Standard Version / King James Version}).

So, In Order For A Covenant or A Person’s, “Last Will And Testament”, To Be In Force That Person Has To Die.  Kind Of Obvious.  You Can’t Walk Up To Your Parents, And Say I Know That You’re Going To Leave Me Your House, So I Want To Go Ahead And Take Possession Of It Now.

No, No.  Just Like With The Circumcision, Some Blood Has To Be Shed.  There Has To Be The Death Of The One Who Made The Covenant.

Their Faith Is Still Going And That’s Why Hebrews Chapter Eleven Is So Important~!  These Men Had Faith, And When It Came Time For Them To Die, They Still Had Not Lost Their Faith That Yahweh Was Going To Come Through On What They Were Believing For, Whether They Saw It Come About In Their Life Time or Not, And Most Of Them Did Not See It Come About While They Were Still Alive.  So, They Kept The Faith To Death And Beyond.  The Word Of Yahweh That Yahweh Had “Spoken”, To Them Cannot Never Be Stolen or Other Wise Nullified, (Reference Mark 4:13-21), From Them After They Have Died.

Abraham’s Faith Was Still Going, Believing That Even If His Son, (Which Would Include The Seed, Yahoshua), Was Killed That Yahweh Would Raise Him From The Dead; Read It For Yourself Below In Hebrews 11:17-19.

It Was The Very Faith Of Father Abraham That Allowed Yahoshua To Be Raised From The Dead, {For Abraham’s Faith Was Like The “Energizer Bunny”… Still Going And Going, (However, Yahweh Prevented Abraham From Killing His Only Son, Because Of The Covenants Which Yahweh Made With Abraham Written In Genesis 15 & 17)},

After Abraham Obeyed Yahweh And Was Going To Offer His Son As A Sacrifice, Yahweh Was Now Obligated Under The Covenant To Offer His Son To Death.  Yahweh Did Us Good, By Making It Legal For Him To Get His Son On The Earth.  Yahweh Stopped Abraham From Killing His Only Son, And We Could Have Stopped Yahweh From Killing His Only Son, But We Did Not, And Yahoshua Died On The Cross.

So Yahweh Also Had Access To The Faith Of A Certain Man, {Abraham}, With Legal Rights To Be On The Earth, To Believe That His Son Would Be Raised From The Dead, (As Yahweh Was In Covenant With Abraham).  Being Born On The Earth Gives You A Legal Jurisdiction And Authority Over This Planet.  And Now Abraham Had Put Forth Faith To Believe That Yahweh Was Going To Raise His Son From The Dead.  This Faith Was Unused And Reserved, or Bottled Up.  Abraham Was Not Just Obeying When He Went To Offer Isaac, But Also Believing~!  Wow~!  So, Yahweh By Covenant Had To Offer His Son And Was Legally Permitted To Believe That Yahoshua Could Be Raised From The Dead, (Even Though At The Time Yahweh Had Given All Authority Over The Earth To Adam And Adam Gave It To d—Evil One And Yahweh Had No Legal Rights… Until The Covenant With Abraham~!

Bonus:, “Abraham Said To His Young Men, “Stay Here With The Donkey. The Boy And I Will Go Over There. WE Will Worship, And Come Back To You”, {WEB}, (Genesis 22:5).  {“WE … Will Come Back To You” ~ And There Was Only Abraham And His Son Isaac With Him, So When He Said “WE … Will Come Back To You”, That Could Only Mean That Abraham Was Intending For Both Himself And Isaac To Return, {Which They Did As We Read Starting In Genesis 24, How Isaac Grew, Got A Wife, Acquired Land, Got Old}, And That Means That Abraham Was Believing Yahweh To Raise Isaac From The Dead For As He Left, He Had Isaac Carry The Wood For The Sacrifice While Abraham Carried The Knife And The Fire, So Abraham Knew That He Was Going Up To The Mountain To Sacrifice Isaac, (Genesis 22:6-8).  WOW~!  Abraham Had Some Kind Of Faith, No Wonder He Is The Father Of Us All, (Romans 4:16)}.

Compare This With (Matthew 18:19), Where Yahoshua Said That If Two or More Agree “On Earth”, (Don’t Go To Mars, or This Verse Won’t Work).  Well, It Probably Would Because We Are Born On This Earth, And Since I Am Made Of The Dust Of The Earth, I Would Be Taking Earth With Me To Mars.  We Have A Natural Citizenship To The Planet Earth, But Now We Are Dual-Citizens Of Both Heaven And Of Earth~!

This Is A Failsafe That Prohibits The d—Evil One From Using or Working Any Kind Of Spiritual Law, For The Prince Of This World Is Not Of The Earth, But Is Prince Of The Power Of The Air, (Ephesians 2:2).  This Is Why d—Evil One Needed Adam, Because Adam Was Born On The Earth, And Had Been Given Authority Over The Earth.

What d—Evil One Did Was To Cause Adam To Doubt That Yahweh’s Methods Would Work And Then To Trust Self, or d—Evil One Method’s For His Source.  The Moment That Adam Did This, He Placed The Devil Up As A God And Man Surrendered His Rights To The Earth.

Yahweh Told Abraham To Offer His Son Isaac On The Altar, (Genesis 22:1-18).  Yahweh Never Intended For Abraham To Be Allowed To Kill His Only Son, But Needed This Abraham To Go Through The Motions To Obligate Yahweh, {According To Covenant}, To Have To Send His Own Son, (Yahoshua), To Die On The Cross.  None-the-Less, As Far As Abraham’s Part Was Concerned, Abraham Had The Knife In His Hand And Was About To End His Own Son’s Life Before The Angel Called Out To Abraham, {Abraham’s Only Son By Sarah At That Time ~ The Son Of Promise, (Genesis 18:9-10; Genesis 17:15-19)},  But, By Abraham Being In Covenant With Yahweh; This Now Obligated Yahweh To Do The Same Thing With His Only Son.

But, There Is Still More To This Story.  Abraham Not Only Obeyed Yahweh And Was About To Kill His Son. But, Abraham Believed That He Would Be Blessed As Yahweh Had Promise Through His Son Isaac.  How Is That Going To Be Possible?  If Abraham Kills Isaac Before Isaac Has An Opportunity To Reproduce Offspring?  I Am So Very Glad You Asked.  This Is The Key To Covenant.  This Is The Faith That Raised Yahoshua From The Dead.  Genesis 22:5; Hebrews 11:17-19 tells How This Is Possible, And I Describe This In Detail Above On This Same Web Page At Their Faith Is Still Going, {Enter Here To Read It}.

I Can’t Help But To Marvel At The Love Of Yahweh As I See This Part Of Yahweh’s Personality Revealed.  Yahweh Told Abraham To Offer His Son On The Altar, Just So That It Would Obligate Yahweh To Have To Offer His Son For Us.  This Is Like Losing At Checkers To Your Child On Purpose, But With Much More Grave {pun} And Serious Consequences~!   Yahweh’s Love Is Greater Than I First Thought. 

Romans 5:10 ~ For If While We Were Enemies We Were Reconciled To God Through The Death Of His Son, It Is Much More [Certain], Now That We Are Reconciled, That We Shall Be Saved (Daily Delivered From Sin’s Dominion) Through His [Resurrection] Life.

Colossians 1:21 ~ Once You Were Alienated From God And Were Hostile In Your Minds Because Of Your Evil Deeds.

But, I Wonder If Abraham Realized That Yahweh Really Meant To Bless Him When He Was Instructed To Offer His Only Son, The Son That Had The Promise Of More Children, (Including Yahoshua).  Forget “Mary Did You Know?”, “Abraham, DID YOU KNOW?”  If Yahweh Wants Something From Us, Like Tithing, You Can Be Assured That It Is For Our Benefit~!, {But God, Being Rich In Mercy, For His Great Love With Which He Loved Us, Ephesians 2:4};

So, Yahweh’s UnRelenting Love For Us Made Him Pursue Other Ways To Get His Kindness On The Earth, As Yahweh Was Barred From Coming Into The Earth Since Adam Had Locked Yahweh Out Until The Lease Was Up, And Yahweh Did This By Entering Into Covenant With Different Folks From Adam To Now.

So, We Needed A Second Adam, A Second Perfect Man To Make A Covenant Between Yahweh And Man; And Yahweh Got Legal Right To Have His Son On The Earth By A Covenant Between Him And Abraham, So That Yahweh Could Make Another Covenant With His Son For Us.

This Second Adam Was Of Course, Yahoshua, And You Can Find That In Yahweh’s Word Listed Above.  Yahweh Had To Work Yahoshua Into The Earth, And Yahweh Did It One Step At A Time, By Using Covenants, Which Gave Yahweh Authority Through Yahoshua To Speak Into The Earth.

Yahweh Even Had To Work Out The Last Minute Details While Yahoshua Was Still Alive On The Earth Making It Possible For Yahoshua To Be The Scapegoat For ALL Human-Kind.  Yahweh Being The Kind Of Yahweh That He Is, Even Used The High Priest To Help Out, And Yet The High Priest Was The Very One Trying To Kill Yahoshua.

Watch This In John 11:49-51.  And One Of Them, Caiaphas, Being High Priest That Year, Said To Them, “You Know Nothing At ALL, Nor Do You Consider That It Is Expedient For Us That One Man Should Die For The People, And Not That The Whole Nation Should Perish”.  Now This He Did Not Say On His Own Authority; But Being High Priest That Year He Prophesied That Yahoshua Would Die For The Nation.

If The High Priest Hadn’t Said This, Then Every Body Else Would Still Have To Be Responsible For Their Own Sins.  This Is Where I Believe That It Became Possible For Yahoshua Who Knew No Sin To Be Made Sin For Us.  The High Priest Decreed It So With A Prophetic Word From Yahweh~!

This Is Where The d—Evil One ~ Got Fooled~!  He Was So Eager To Get Hold Of Yahoshua, That He Didn’t Realize It Had Already Been Set Into Law By Yahweh That A High Priest Was Also Supposed To Offer A Sacrifice For Himself Also, (See Leviticus 4:3, or Hebrews 5:1-5).

And Yahweh Had Already Placed Into Effect That The Messiah Would Be The High Priest.  Ironic That The Last High Priest Offered The Now High Priest A Pardon, or A Way Out So To Speak.  Kind Of Like The President Of The United States Laying A Law For The Next President.

By The Way, There Is A Difference Between, “World”, And, “Earth”.  The Earth, or, “The Ball”, Is Still Yahweh’s, And The Earth, Yahweh Has Given To The Children Of Men, (However, Could Yahweh Promise To Give Abraham Land, If He Didn’t Own or Have Rights To It.  “To Your Descendants I Have Given This Land…”, (Genesis 15:18).  But The “World”, Refers To The Current World Order Of Government That Revelation 18 Describes As, “Babylon”, And Portrays Her Downfall.  Yahweh Has To Bring His People Out Of Egypt, (A Type Of The Babylonian World System), So That We Can Worship Him According To His System Of Government.

Right Now, The “World”, Is Set Up So That It Must Obtain ALL It’s Ways Of Producing Prosperity Through The d—Evil One.  Most All Of The World’s Way Of Doing Things Say That, “We’re In Business To Make A Profit”.  Even When They Give It Is To Have A Tax Write Off, (In Other Words To Gain ~ As They Must Make More Than They Expend To Stay Afloat).  Sounds Good Right?  However, Yahweh Has A Different Kind Of Profit, {Prophet}, Sharing, (Matthew 10:41).  Yahweh Is The Richest Entity Anywhere And Yet That Is Not His Philosophy.  Yahweh’s Ways Are To “Give And It Shall Be Given Unto You”, (Luke 6:38).  Yahweh Is Into Increase, And You Only Increase When You Get Back More Than You Invested.

The World Views This As A Profit, But The Buyer Has To Pay all The Extra Hidden Costs For Building Materials, Labor And Insurance And Lights And The Gas, etc… I Think The Way That Yahweh Does It, He Must Pay For All Those Things, As He Is The Provider, The Supplier, (Philippians 4:19), or He Gets It From The Wealth Of The Sinners That Is Laid Up For The Just, (But That Doesn’t Explain How He Does It In Eternity And I’m Not Sure The Wealth Of The Sinner Is Enough For That, or That There Will Be Sinners In The Afterlife).  Sometimes, Yahweh Even Has Us Pay More Than Something Cost.  Can You See That This Is The Opposite To The World’s View?

Yahweh Wants To Once Again Be Our Source Instead Of Us Leaning or Relying On The “Worlds”, Methods.  Look At Jeremiah 17:5-10.  Right Now, Yahweh Is Trying Us, And Testing Our Minds And Hearts To See, “Will We Serve Yahweh, or Mammon?”, (Mammon Is The World’s Ways Of Trying To Provide For Our Needs And Wants).

We Once More Have Authority Over The Earth Under The New Covenant, (Colossians 1:12-13), However; There Are Now Two Kingdoms, (1 Peter 2:9), And Some Still Operate Under The Kingdom Of Darkness, While We Can Operate Under The Kingdom Of His Dear Son And Partakers Of The Inheritance Of The Saints In Light.

Yahweh Made A Covenant With Yahoshua, And Now That Yahoshua Has Died, That Covenant, or “Last Will & Testament”, Cannot Be Annulled or Broken, (Galatians 3:15-17).  And That Covenant Included That, “By His Stripes We ARE Healed”~! … (Isaiah 53:5, Matthew 8:17, 1 Peter 2:24).  Just Like The Bride That Has Access To ALL Her “Husband’s Possessions”, We As THE Bride Of Yahoshua Have Been Given A Blank Check Including Giving Us ‘His Name’, Plus We Are Authorized, (Yahoshua Said “ALL Authority Is Given To Me, Therefore You Go” ~ “The Yugo ​Principle”), And Yahoshua Is The Heir Of All Things And Put Us On The Account As Joint Heirs With Himself, (Romans 8:17).

We Are Still In The Covenant That Yahweh Made With Abraham~!

Because We Are Abraham’s Seed Also, (See Below).  But Now We Have The Covenant Made Between Yahweh And Yahoshua.  We’ve Still Inherited ALL The Promises Of Deuteronomy 28-30.  Let’s Start With Just A Few Verses From Galatians, Remembering That Deuteronomy 28-30 Also Talks About The Curses, And Even Out West In The 1900’s, Everyone Knew That Someone Being Hanged From A Tree Is Cursed.

Now If Under The Old Law , Old Testament or Old Covenant , Yahweh Said, “Blessed Be The Fruit Of Your Body”, (Deuteronomy 28:4), Then Someone Being Born Sickly Would Not Match That Promise, And I Am One Of Abraham’s Offspring, (Galatians 3:29).  For If You Are Christ’s Then Are You Abraham’s Seed.  Hey, That’s Us~!

“Father Abraham Had Many Sons And Daughters, And I Am One Of Them, So Let’s Just Praise Yahweh~!  Right Arm… ♪”

So, I Don’t Have To Be Sick Anymore, And I Don’t Have To Ask Yahweh To Heal Me~!  This Is Good News~!  Just Like Mephibosheth Got Back What Was His Just Because His Father Was In Covenant With The King, So What Has Been Stolen From Us Has Now Been Restored.  I Just Appropriate The Blood Of Our King, And Mix Faith With The Word And Voice This Word Of Faith, (Romans 10:8); And Let The Kingdom Of Yahweh Come, And The Will Of Yahweh Be Done On Earth Just As The Will Of Yahweh Is Already Being Done In Heaven.

I Have Promises That Belong To Me As Being That I Am A Seed Of Abraham Under The New Covenant That Yahoshua Made With Yahweh.  I Don’t Have To Be Ashamed Of The Gospel Anymore.  Just Like The Newly Married Woman, I Have The Name Of Yahoshua.  I Am The Bride Of Christ.  I Do Have His Power Of Authority.  I Just Receive What Yahoshua Has Appropriated For Me.

I Am Not Ashamed Of The Gospel Of Christ, For It Is The Power Of Yahweh Unto Salvation, (Romans 1:16).  Salvation Is The Modern Translation That Comes From The Greek (Arabic) Word, {Soteria, (Strong’s Concordance # 4991); Which Encompasses Health, Wealth, And Deliverance}.  So, Who Are These unCircumcised Folks Anyhow?

Same Thing As Deuteronomy 30:15-19, (I Set Before You Today Life And Death, Blessings And Cursing, Therefore Choose Life).  By The Way, The Sign Of Our Covenant Is No Longer A Physical Circumcision, But A Circumcision Of The Heart,
(Deuteronomy 30:6,
Romans 2:29).

FOOTNOTES:
F33: NU-Text Omits Take, Eat.
F34: NU-Text Omits Broken.
F35: NU-Text And M-Text Read The Blood.
F36: NU-Text Omits In An UnWorthy Manner.
F37: NU-Text Omits Lord’s.

Recall That Woman That Yahoshua Encountered That Had Been Bent Over or Hunched-Backed By Satan For 18 Years, And Yahoshua Inquired, “Why This, ‘Daughter Of Abraham’, Should Not By Virtue Of Her Being A ‘Daughter Of Abraham’, Be Made Whole?”  They Could Have ALL Laughed At Yahoshua And Said, “Look Around You, We Are ALL Children Of Abraham.  What Makes This Woman So Special Because She Is A ‘Daughter Of Abraham’”,?

When We Go Around Being Sick, We Are Taking Yahweh’s Name In Vain, (We Are Not Using Something That Is At Our Disposal That We Are Entitled To And That Which Belongs To Us)~!  “Do Not Take The Name Of Yahweh Your God In Vain, For Yahweh Will Not Hold Him Guiltless Who Takes His Name In Vain”, (Exodus 20:7).  “Vain” Means To Render Something Obscure, Worthless or Useless.

There Was A Man That Saved Up ALL His Money To Go On A Cruise Across The Ocean, And Then Was Hidden Away In A Corner Watching The Other Passengers Dine, While He Ate Cracker Crumbs And Water.  The Purser Found Him And Inquired Why He Was Starving Himself So.

He Replied Back, “It Took ALL The Money That I Had Saved To Buy The Ticket For This Cruise, And I Don’t Have Any Money Left To Buy Meals”.  The Purser Said, “Didn’t You Know That All The Meals Are Included~!”  Likewise, We Haven’t Know What We Are Entitled To~!

Suppose I Give My Daughter or Son A Car, And I Keep A Full Tank Of Gas In It At all Times And Leave The Keys Handing On A Hook, And I Ask Her / Him To Take A Letter To The Post Office.  When I Come In And Ask Did You Take That Letter To The Post Office And They Respond Back, I Had No Way To Get There.  Why Didn’t They Use The Car?  Now, Suppose This Letter Was My Approval For Them To Go To College or To Participate In Some Event That They Really Wanted To Do, But This Letter Of Approval Must Be In The Mail By Today, And I Was Otherwise Detained, And So I Assigned My Child To Deliver The Letter To The Post Office, And They Didn’t Do It.  Well, It’s Too Late Now.  There’s No Excuse, No Waiver, The Letter Missed The Cut-Off And Now They Are Going To Forfeit The Advantages Of This Letter Of Approval All Because They Didn’t Appropriate What Was Available To Them.  The Letter Of Approval Is Now Ineffectual, A Moot Point.

In The Same Way, Have We Made The Name Useless And Of No Effect?  Fortunately, Our Cut-Off Time Is Until We Leave This Earth.  The Name Of Yahweh Is A Strong Tower, A Safe Refuge, (Proverbs 18:10).  Yahweh Rapha ~ I Am Yahweh That Heals You ~ Exodus 15:26).  Yahoshua Also Said That Greater Things That He Did, Shall We Do, (John 14:12), And Yahoshua Spoke To The

Wind, Saying, “Peace Be Still”, And It Was So~!

(Psalm 107:29;
Matthew 8:25-26;
Mark 4:39;
Luke 8:24)~!

Now That You Know, You Still Have Ample Time To Invoke The Name Of Yahoshua, {Jesus}, Over Your Concerns.  I Have Written More On This And If You Need Healing, or Whatever; Go To These Web Sites And Read What To Do, (Health, Healing, Have What You Say, The Power Of The Tongue).

A Lot Of Insight Into Yahweh’s Compassion For Us And His Knowledge Of The Covenant Between Yahweh And Abraham Is Seen In Yahoshua As He Was Often Moved With Compassion Before He Laid Hands, (Luke 13:12-13), On Folks And They Got Healed As Faith Works By Love, (Galatians 5:6).

(Exodus 14:11-12;
Exodus 16:3; Numbers 14:2
Numbers 20:4; Numbers 21:5).

¤ Their Words Of Doubt And UnBelief That They Were Speaking In Talking To Yahweh Were Evil.  They Didn’t Believe The Report Of Yahweh, And Yahweh Called Their Report An Evil Report, (Numbers 13:32).  Ten Of The Spies Discouraged The Hearts Of Their Sisters And Brothers.  They Influenced The Whole Community, They Swayed Them And Caused Their Hearts To Melt,
(Numbers 32:7;
Deuteronomy 1:28).

The Reason That The Great Majority Of The Hebrew People Could Not Go Into The Wilderness Was Their Words~! (Numbers 14:11, 28)  You Can Read A Lot More About Their Words Being Evil By Entering Here.  And Their Murmuring Words In The Privacy Of Their Tents Were Heard, “Having No Faith In His Promise ~ They Didn’t Believe His Word”,

(Deuteronomy 1:27-37;
Psalm 106:24-26;
Exodus 16:2;
Numbers 14:2, 20-35;
Hebrews 3:17-19: 4:1-2,

*Especially, Deuteronomy 1:34 & Numbers 14:28 ~ “What You Have Said In My Hearing I Will Do To You”).
Check This Out From Matthew 12.

¤¤ The Messenger That Heard What They Said Was An Angel, (Exodus 23:20-23). 

Angels Are Employed As I Speak Out Loud By Giving Voice To The Words Of God, And They Respond To Our Words, (Psalm 103:20-21; Daniel 10:12).  Because Of Their Words, The Angels Had No Word Of Yahweh To Work With.  Angels Hearken To The Voice Of Yahweh’s Word(s).  You Are The One That Has To Give Voice To Yahweh’s Word.  The Angels Give Heed, They Hearken; So, You Are Going To Have To Talk Out Loud… Anything Times Zero Equals Zero, (So, If You Say Nothing, There Is Nothing That Can Be Multiplied ~ Faith Without Works, {‘Corresponding Actions’}, Is Dead,  (James 2:14-24).

In This Case, The ‘Corresponding Action’ Would Be You Voicing It Out Loud~!

The Three Stooges Did A Phone Bit Where Curly Picks Up The Phone Receiver And Says ‘You Don’t Say…”, “You Don’t Say…”, “You Don’t Say~!”  And When The Conversation Ends, Moe Asks Somberly “What?” And Curly Responds “They Didn’t Say?”

Well, That Is The Way It Probably Is For Angels, They Are Ever Listening For Us To Voice Yahweh’s Word , So That The Angels Can Respond To, And Instead, God’s People Assume That Verses Like “When A Thief Is Found, He Must Repay Seven Times…” Will Just Happen Automatically And We Voice Nothing At All.  So, One Angel Must Turn To Another Angel And Ask, “Well, What’s Our Assignment?”, And The Other Angel Says, “They Didn’t Say”.  So, Let’s Quit Making Our Angels Like The Maytag Repairman, (Having Nothing To Do).

Here’s What Usually Happens. Someone Answers The Phone And You Hear A Gasp And An “Oh No~!”… Then When The Phone Conversation Ends, You Ask With Compassion, But Soberly, “What Happened?”, And They Tell You That Such-n-Such Has Been In A Car Wreck or Someone’s In The Hospital In Critical Condition.  You Think This Is Awful. You Might Even Join In What You Call Prayer And Ask, “Lord Please Heal So-N-So…”

None Of This Is Faith.  First Of All, His Name Is Not Lord, That Is The Name That They Called The Baals, (Plural As Baal Refers To Multi-Gods).  However, What Is Really Lacking Is An Absence Of, “Let The Redeemed Of Yahweh ‘Say So’”.  There Is No One Standing In Faith On Mark 11:23-24 Declaring, That They Shall “Live And Not Die, And Declare The Works Of Yahweh”, (Psalm 118:17).  There Is No One ‘Saying So’.  And No One Is ‘Saying So’, Because They Don’t Know The Word Of Yahweh For That Situation As “Faith Comes By Hearing And Hearing … {The ‘Rhema’, <4487> or ‘Revealed Word’ From Yahweh}”; Not By Having Heard, (Romans 10:17).

Well, It Could Be That You Don’t Want To Say or Declare Something And Then It Be Wrong, And To Have A Presumptuous Faith ~ Pretentious Faith, or A Cook-Book Religion Where You Just Open The Scriptures And Find Whatever Verse Fits The Occasion.  I Understand That, And We Need To Be Led By The Holy Ghost.  But, If Your Reason For Not Stepping Out Bold In Faith Is Because We Don’t Know What The Will Of Yahweh Is,  Then You Don’t Know The Scriptures And “Having A Form Of Godliness But Denying Its Power”, “Avoid [All] Such People [Turn Away From Them]”, (2 Timothy 3:5).  That Is Why I Am Writing This Now~!  To Help You Succeed In ‘Faith’ At All Times, But Especially In A Time Of A Crisis.

James 2:14-24
¹⁴ What Is The Use (Profit), My Sisters And Brothers, For Anyone To Profess To Have Faith If He Has No [Good] Works [To Show For It]? Can [Such] Faith Save [His Soul]?
¹⁵ If A Brother or Sister Is Poorly Clad And Lacks Food For Each Day,
¹⁶ And One Of You Says To Him, Good-Bye~!  Keep [Yourself] Warm And Well Fed, Without Giving Him The Necessities For The Body, What Good Does That Do?
¹⁷ So Also Faith, If It Does Not Have Works (Deeds And Actions Of Obedience To Back It Up), By Itself Is Destitute Of Power (Inoperative, Dead).
¹⁸ But Someone Will Say [To You Then], You [Say You] Have Faith, And I Have [Good] Works. Now You Show Me Your [Alleged] Faith Apart From Any [Good] Works [If You Can], And I By [Good] Works [Of Obedience] Will Show You My Faith.
¹⁹ You Believe That God Is One; You Do Well. So Do The Demons Believe And Shudder [In Terror And Horror Such As Make A Man’s Hair Stand On End And Contract The Surface Of His Skin]~!
²⁰ Are You Willing To Be Shown [Proof], You Foolish (Unproductive, Spiritually Deficient) Fellow, That Faith Apart From [Good] Works Is Inactive And Ineffective And Worthless?
²¹ Was Not Our Forefather Abraham [Shown To Be] Justified (Made Acceptable To God) By [His] Works When He Brought To The Altar As An Offering His [Own] Son Isaac?
²² You See That [His] Faith Was Cooperating With His Works, And [His] Faith Was Completed And Reached Its Supreme Expression [When He Implemented It] By [Good] Works.
²³ And [So] The Scripture Was Fulfilled That Says, Abraham Believed In (Adhered To, Trusted In, And Relied On) God, And This Was Accounted To Him As Righteousness (As Conformity To God’s Will In Thought And Deed), And He Was Called God’s Friend, {(2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23)}.
²⁴ You See That A Person Is Justified (Pronounced Righteous Before God) Through What They Do And Not Alone Through Faith [Through Works Of Obedience As Well As By What He Believes].

The Renowned Evangelist Dwight L. Moody Spent Hours Praying For Faith. He Once Said, “If All The Time I Have Spent Praying For Faith Was Put Together It Would Be Months. I Thought That Someday Faith Was Going To Come Down And Strike Me Like Lightning. But Faith Did Not Come.  Then One Day I Read In The Tenth Chapter Of Romans, “So Then Faith Comes By Hearing And Hearing By The ‘Rhema’, <Strong’s Concordance #: 4487> or ‘Revealed Word’ Of Yahweh, (Romans 10:17).  I Had Closed My Bible, And Prayed For Faith.  I Now Opened My Bible And Began To Read God’s Word, And Faith Has Been Growing Ever Since”.  Much Of What Believers Describe As “Faith” Has Nothing To Do With Biblical Faith.  There Are Many Teachings, Seminars, Churches, And Ministries Which Base Everything On A Faith Which Constitutes, In Effect, Believing That God Will Give You Whatever You Desire.  Our Faith Must Be Based Not On Emotion And Not On Want, But On The Word Of God, Which Is Messiah, His Death And Resurrection.  If You Want Greater Faith, Open Your Bible.  Apply And Live The Word Today. And Faith Will Come And Grow, By The Word Of God”.

“So Then Faith Comes By Hearing And Hearing By The ‘Rhema’, <4487> or ‘Revealed Word’ From Yahweh”, (Romans 10:17).

The Same Way That We Got Saved Is The Same Way That We Get Everything That Belongs To Us.  In Other Words, “We Have To Say It Out Loud~!”  When We Are Saved, We Didn’t Get Saved By Works, But By Grace, (Ephesians 2:8)… However, There Was One Action That We Had To Do According To (Romans 10:9-10; Acts 2:21)… We Had To Say What Hezekiah Said, Or What David Said, or What The Three Hebrew Boys Proclaimed, “Our God Will Deliver Us”, (1 Kings 8:60; 2 Kings 18:30; 1 Samuel 17:46-47; Daniel 3:17).  You Had To Make A “Profession Of Faith”, (’Profession’ Is The Same Exact Greek Word For ’Confession’; {Strong’s Concordance # G3671})~!

⁵ As Jesus Went Into Capernaum, A Centurion Came Up To Him, Begging Him,
⁶ And Saying, “Master, My Servant Boy Is Lying At The House Paralyzed And Distressed With Intense Pains”.
⁷ And Jesus Said To Him, “I Will Come And Restore Him”. 
For It Is As You ‘Say’ It Is; It Is As You Believe”.  And The Officer’s Servant Was Healed, Right Then~!
⁸ But The Centurion Replied To Him,
“Master, I Am Not Worthy or Fit To Have You Come Under My Roof; But Only “Speak The Word”, And My Servant Boy Will Be Cured”.
⁹ For I Am A Man Under Authority, Having Soldiers Under Me: And I Say To This Man, Go, And He Goes; And To Another, Come, And He Comes; And To My Servant, Do This, And He Does It.
¹⁰ When Yahoshua Heard It, He Marveled And Said To Those Following Him,
“I Tell You The Truth, This Is The Greatest Faith I Have Found, Even In Israel”, (Mattew 5:10).
¹¹ Then Yahoshua Turned To The Centurion And Said, “You May Go Home.

If Yahoshua Has Not Found Anyone In Israel With Such Great Faith”, Then Yahoshua Just Called This “The Greatest Faith”~!

Ever Been In A Church Setting Where You Feel That You Know More Than The Person In Charge?  Or That Your Job Was So Minimal.  Maybe, You Were The One That Cleans The Bathrooms And Scrubs Toilets, While Someone Else Preaches And Gets All The Glory, (Not Realizing How Important Your Job Is).  Well, If You Decide To Murmur And Confront This Person And Say I’m Just As Anointed As You Are, You’ll Be Well Advised To Read Numbers 16:2-3; 12-19; 41-49.  Murmuring, Complaining Especially Against Your Leaders, Can Cost You Your Life~!  Also Read Numbers 13:18-19;25-28;30-33;
Numbers 14:1-11;21-25;36-38.
* {Note The But, Never-the-Less In Numbers 13:28}.

For The Priest’s Lips Should Guard And Keep Pure The Knowledge [Of My Law], And The People Should Seek (Inquire For And Require) Instruction At His / Her ‘Mouth’ ; For They Are The Messenger Of Yahweh ~ T’Sebaah, (“The Captain Of The Armies”), (Malachi 2:7).

I Wrote About This In Greater Detail By Entering Here.  To Read Even More About The Ten Spies And The Evil Report Given By Most Of Them, {Enter Here or Enter Here}.

Just After Yahoshua Said That “You Shall Know The Truth [That You Know] And The Truth Will Set You Free”, (John 8:32), Yahoshua Went On To Say That Their Father Was The Devil, (John 8:44), In Other Words, They Were Under A Different Kingdom, or A Different Set Of Rules, or Laws.  Yahoshua Came To Restore Us Back To The Kingdom Of Yahweh.  The Message That Yahoshua Preached Everywhere He Went Was The Same One That John, The Baptist Preached, And That Was “The Kingdom Of Yahweh”.

A Good Way To Remind Yourself Of Covenant Is To Think About An Exchange.  Yahoshua Represents Us In Heaven, But We Represent Yahoshua On The Earth.  Yahoshua Needs Us As Much As We Need Yahoshua.  We Have A Legal Jurisdiction And Authority Over The Planet Earth.  In Other Words, Yahoshua Has Called Me To Say And Do The Same Things That He Would Say And Do If He Were Here.  Christ Is The Head, But We Are The Body, We Are His Hands, (Romans 12:5,1 Corinthians 12:12–27; Ephesians 3:6; 4:15–16; 5:23; Colossians 1:18; 1:24).  Everything Yahweh Is Going To Do, He Does Through People, (Amos 3:7).

We Are The Hands And The Arms, And The Legs And Feet.  If We Don’t Go, Then No One Goes To Visit The Folks In Prison.  This Is Why It Becomes Apparent That Wealth Is A Part Of The Covenant That Is Our Inherited Right, For Us To Do The Part Of The Covenant That Yahweh Wants Us To Do.  I Can Back This Up With

Deuteronomy 8:18, And With
Matthew 6:33 And
2 Corinthians 9:6-15.

Luke 13:16 ~ “And Ought Not This Woman, Being ‘A Daughter Of Abraham’, Whom Satan Has Bound, Lo, {Look And See}, These Eighteen Years, Be Loosed From This Bond On The Sabbath Day?”

Why Is Her Being ‘A Daughter Of Abraham’ Important Enough For Luke, {The Physician Noted For Paying Close Attention To The Details}, To Even Mentioned?  This Wasn’t To Display Her Lineage or To Show What Tribe She Was From.  It Was Because Yahweh Made A Covenant With Abraham; And Covenants Always Extend From One Family To Another Family Down Through The Generations, And She Was Entitled To Healing.  If You’re Still Wondering If It God’s Will To Heal, Then I Urge You To Reexamine Why You Thought This To Be True.  But This Time Through The Eyes Of The Covenant Relationship That Got Into The Earth By Abraham That Allowed Yahoshua To Be Even Be Born Into The Earth And To Die For The Many, (John 11:49-51), And To Be Raised From The Dead,

(Genesis 22:1-18;
Hebrews 11:17-19).

So The Reference To Her Being A ‘A Daughter Of Abraham’ Is A Precise Intentional Reference To The Covenant Established Between Yahweh And Abraham’s Seed, (or Generations To Come).  That Covenant Between Yahweh And Abraham Made Possible For Yahoshua As A Legal Man Born On Earth With Jurisdiction On Earth To Make A New And Better Covenant Between Himself And Yahweh.

Now, Since This Covenant Is Between Yahweh And Yahoshua, And Yahweh Can’t Ever Break His Part, Because Yahweh Is Not A Human Being That He Should Lie, And Yahoshua Can’t Change It Either As This Was His Binding Last WILL And Testament, {Covenant}, That Cannot Be Changed Nor Annulled, (Galatians 3:15-17), Since He Has Already Died, Hebrews 9:16-18 As A Human Being. Yahoshua Died, [He’s Still A Man, But Not Having To Be Limited To Being Just A Human Being Anymore, So He Is The New Man, The First Fruits,( 1 Corinthians 15:23) ~ {More Fruits Like You And Me To Come, The First Born Of Many Sisters And Brothers, (Romans 8:29)}]. So, This Covenant That Includes Your Health And Wealth, An Irrevocable Exchange That Cannot Be Changed, Annulled Nor Broken~!

The Power Of Agreement~!

This Will Help Clear Things Up For You.  Once My Wife And I Went To Buy A Car And We Got So Much For Our Trade-In And My Wife Finally Told Me That If They Would Make The Deal To $7000.00 She Would Agree.  I Knew That Even With Our Trade-In That The Value Of This Vehicle With All The Amenities Was Worth $9000.00, (As I Used To Sell Cars Also).  My Wife Would Not Budge.

I Heard The Only Ghost Say, “If You’ll Just Agree With Your Wife, You’ll Have This Car”.  I Said, “How Can I Agree With Her When I Know That The Value Of This Car Is At $9,000 And I Can’t Make These Folks Sell For Less Than What The Car Is Worth”.  The Holy Ghost Asked Me, “Can You Believe My Word And That I Cannot Lie?”  I Replied, “Yes”. The Holy Ghost Spoke Tenderly And Said, “Then Just Focus On My Word Being True At Matthew 18:19” ~ “Again I Say Unto You, That If Two Of You Shall Agree On Earth As Touching Anything That They Shall Ask, It Shall Be Done For Them Of My Father Who Is In Heaven”; And Get Into Agreement With Your Wife And Not The Problem”, (The Problem Being The Value Of The Car).  So, I Agreed With My Wife And We Held Firm On Our Price.  I Spoke It Out Loud And Told The Sales Person, Go Tell Your Manager That “We Will Buy This Car Today For $7000 Plus Our Trade”.  “We Will”, Not “If” You Agree.

The Sales Person Came Back From Seeing The Manager And Said That The General Owner Of This Car Dealership Just Happened To Be Here; And He’s Usually Not And That He Said That He Didn’t Know Why He Was Doing This, But He Felt Impressed That He Was To Sell Us This Fully Loaded Pontiac Bonneville With All The Amenities Below His Invoice Price At $7000, And We Drove That Car And Made Many Road Trips For 13 Years~!

So, In The Same Way When Someone Asks For You To Lay Hands On Them And To Pray For Them To Be Healed?  Can You Heal Anybody?  No, And Neither Can I.  No More Than I Could Make The Dealership Lower Their Price Below The Value Of That Bonneville.  However, I Can Believe Yahweh’s Word And That Yahweh Cannot Lie.  I Can Believe That Because We Have A Covenant With Yahweh.  Now You Have An “A-Ha Moment” Where You Realize Why Her Being ‘A Daughter Of Abraham’ Is So Important~!  Yahoshua Healed Folks By Faith ~ Not Because He Was The Son Of God With Special Powers, Nor By Magic, Nor Some Mysterious Gift Like A Genie Conjuring Up A Spell, (So Many Times Yahoshua Said, “Your Faith Has Made You Well”).

But, In This Instance, It Was Yahoshua’s Faith Believing That Because She Being ‘A Daughter Of Abraham’ Had Covenant Rights And Privileges.  Yahoshua Worked The Work Of Yahweh In The Same Way That We Do… By Faith, (Hebrews 11:1, 6).  We Are Not Called To Be Healers.  We Can’t Heal Nobody.  We Are Called To Be Believers, (Mark 11:24; James 5:15)… And That You Can Do Just Like We Did With Our Bonneville, Focus On Yahweh’s Word Being True And Not The Problem.

This Will Help Preachers Not To Be Jealous When Someone In Their Congregation Lays Hands On The Sick And They Are Made Whole And It Seems Like You Can’t.  Well, Now You Can.  You Know Precisely How Faith Works.  Faith Comes By Hearing And Hearing The ‘Rhema’, <4487> or ‘Revealed Word’ From Yahweh, (Romans 10:17).  Hear The Word, Believe The Word, Bear Much Fruit.

(Mark 4:20; Matthew 13:23; Luke 8:15;
Mark 11:23-24; Hebrews 4:2; James 5:15).

Then Act On The Word, By Laying Hands On The Sick And Speaking Forth The Healing, (Mark 16,17-18; James 5:13-15), As Yahoshua, {Who Was Our Example Of How To Get Things Done, (John 13:15; 1 Peter 2:21)}, SAID To Her, “Woman, You Are Loosed From Your Infirmity”, (Luke 13:12; Mark 11:23; Romans 10:8).

Despite What You Might Have Been Taught And Believed For It Is The Traditions Of Folks, (Matthew 15:6, 9; Mark 7:9, 13); That Make The Word Of Yahweh Useless, {Of No Effect}; For Yahoshua Operated, {Just The Same Way You And I Operate}, By Faith As A Human Being~!

Here Plain And Simple Are Some Of The Basic Terms Of The Covenant~!
(To Which We Now Are A Part Of).

(Also Read Deuteronomy 28)