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“Ye shall NOT ADD TO THE WORD which I command you, NEITHER SHALL YE DIMINISH FROM IT, that ye may keep the commandments of אֱלֹהֵיכֶם יְהוָה - the LORD your Eloleichem, which I command you”. Davarim - Deuteronomy 4:2. (JPS-1917).

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“Israel’s Spiritual Condition”

With Rabbi, Dr. Reuven Ben Avraham-Goossens, PhD.

The spiritual condition and obedience of Israel are intrinsically linked to the actions of the nations.

1. The Scriptural Principle of Israel’s Obedience:

According to our beloved Tanakh, when Israel perfectly cleaves to יְהוָה - the LORD, and obeys the Shabbat, and upholds His Blessed Name, the nations do not have the power to project ‘spiritual’ or ‘physical dominance on Israel’.

The Blessing of Distinction:

Let us read Deuteronomy 28:1-14:

“1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ - the LORD thy Eloheicha, to observe to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ - the LORD thy Eloheicha will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ - the LORD thy Eloheicha. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7 יְהוָה - the LORD will cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee; they shall come out against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways. 8 יְהוָה - the LORD will command the blessing with thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and He will bless thee in the land whichיְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ - the LORD thy Eloheicha giveth thee. 9 יְהוָה - the LORD will establish thee for a holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ - the LORD thy Eloheicha, and walk in His ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the name of יְהוָה - the LORD is called upon thee; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11 And יְהוָה - the LORD will make thee over-abundant for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, in the land which יְהוָה - the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 יְהוָה - the LORD will open unto thee His good treasure the heaven to give the rain of thy land in its season and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow. 13 And יְהוָה - the LORD will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ - the LORD thy Eloheicha, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them; 14 and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them”.

As we have seen above, with Moses outlining that with our complete obedience, that would cause all the nations of the earth to see that “the Name of יְהוָה - the LORD is called upon thee”, establishing absolute distinction!

The Removal of Scourges:

Let us now look at Leviticus 26:3-8:

“3 If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them; 4 then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread until ye have enough, and dwell in your land safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword”.

Again here we see an amazingly great promise, for when we are walking within His blessed statutes; we were not only ensured peace in the land, as well as preventing any foreign adversaries or destructive forces from passing through our land, let alone a superb harvest!

2. The Mechanics of the “False Pen” and Exile:

At the appearance of ‘foreign creeds’, ‘Hellenistic dogmas’, and later ‘religious movements’ historically occurred during periods of Israel’s ‘spiritual vulnerability’, ‘displacement’, and ‘exile’ (Galut).

The Vacuum of Identity:

When the true knowledge of אֱלֹהִים יְהוָה - the LORD Elohim and ‘His unmoving Law is obscured’ or ‘hidden’, a spiritual vacuum opened from among the nations.

The Rise of Intermediaries:

This vacuum allowed for the creation of ‘Complex Unities’ (trinities), ‘Verbs of Becoming’ (incarnation concepts), and ‘new prophetic claims’ that ‘violated אֱלֹהִים יְהוָה - the LORD Elohim Written Word’!

3. Conclusion:

Had Israel maintained absolute adherence to the אֱלֹהִים - Elohim’s Sacred Law without turning to ‘the left or the right’, the structural boundaries between the Remnant and the nations would have remained impenetrable? That “Greek/Pagan Veil” and alternative ‘’theological systems’ would have had no historical anchor or ‘theological baseline’ from which to ‘mimic’, ‘mutate’, or alter our precious ‘Hebraic thought’. In a state of total ‘obedience, the sovereignty of  אֱלֹהִים יְהוָה’ would be visibly manifest to the entire world, leaving no room for the emergence of ‘competing systems’ or that alternative messianic narratives.

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Rabbi, Dr. Reuven Ben Avraham-Goossens, PhD.

 

 

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