ROBERT’S OPEN DECLARATION!”
My position in presenting these postings is done not as a pastor, minister, or teacher of God’s words. They are brought forward as messages to be discerned by those receiving them and choosing personally how to react. Scriptural foundation for their delivery Ezekiel 33:9
Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
It is with great love for all given to me by Yeshua that you are receiving them. Luke 10:16
[16]He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.  And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.

PRELUDE: It is my duty to bring forward this information. Please note: the commentary offered are quotes by Matthew Henry (1662-1714).

The Observations offered are from Robert (1945 – current), offering his research guidance and  commentary as Yeshua’s Watchman (Ezekiel 33:9).

SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

Deuteronomy 28:15 NLT
“But if you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and do not obey all the commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you:

OBSERVATION!

How is it we, as Yahewa’s children, we try to blame Him for events, trials, and tribulations that are at times detrimental and deal a demise and end to our fleshly journey in this realm of time.

Instead of recognizing the desire to appease our flesh and end up in disobedience but denying it and suffering the various consequences laid out in Yahewa’s edits towards disobedience in maintaining His commandments?

We all have desires in our lives. One might be to walk with Yeshua and another to just be comfortable and accepted by those in the world.

We are then faced with choices. Which desire is going to hold the greatest influence and find us pursuing it? The rocking chair analogy definitely applies here.

Will it be the tempatations appeasing the comforts and luxuries that will continue personally holding you in your rocking chair and denying you’ve been living in the comfort and luxuries of sin?

Or would your desire be, to be, obedient to our Lord, Yeshua, cause you desire to continue deepening your walk and personal relationship with Yeshua? 

With the continued renewing of your mind and further development of your personal attachment and relationship with Yeshua and our Heavenly Father Yahweh.

How many followers are strong enough to withstand the wiles of Satan and his minions? Only that individual knows the answer! An answer, which will play a key factor in that individuals walk and spiritual future in Eternity.

However, the problem is identified in this question, “does God’s curses of the Old Covenant apply to us as adopted children into the New covenant, or does Grace supercede them?

Romans 3:31 NLT
Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.

Please note: both covenants were made to apply to the righteous of Israel, which we, as Gentiles, have been adopted into, meaning it applies to all who live under our Heavenly Father’s Grace Jew or Gentile.

Romans 3:30 NLT
There is only one God, and he makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.

Does that mean as many do today? Believe the laws spoken by Yahweh in his first Covenant don’t apply to the second Covenant because we live under Grace in the new Covenant.

Note, If a covenant be made and kept between God and man, God must have all the honour but, if ever it be broken, man must bear all the blame: on him shall this breach be

(3) Breaking his covenant. Though every breach of the commandment does not amount to a breach of the covenant (we were undone if it did), yet, when men have come to such a pitch of impiety as to despise and abhor the commandment, the next step will be to disown God, and all relation to him.

Romans 3:31 NLT
Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.

Then, I desire you to ponder this scripture before you make a stand on that thought. Many do believe the curses of the first Covenant don’t apply and suffer as a consequence.

Psalm 119:160 NIV
All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.

You see, their thought process is that the curses would only apply to unbelievers! My question then is to those who believe this teaching. “Would anyone who proclaims to be walking in Salvation but walking in disobedience in keeping Yahewa’s commandments be seen as walking with the unbelieving and  subject to the edits of the curses.

Here is a sample I am sure many are not aware of and possibly daily break!

Exodus 22:28 KJV
“Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

COMMENTARY!

Meanwhile, there was a fear which should endure, and which God desires: not panic, but awe; not the terror which stood afar off, but the reverence which dares not to transgress “Fear not, for God is come to prove you” (to see whether the nobler emotion or the baser will survive), “and that His fear may be before your faces” (so as to guide you, instead of pressing upon you to crush), “that ye sin not.”

OBSERVATION!

How needful was the lesson, it may be seen by what followed when they were taken at their word, and the pressure of physical dread was lifted off them “They soon forgot God their Saviour they made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the work of their own hands” Perhaps other pressures which we feel and lament today, the uncertainties and fears of modern life, are equally required to prevent us from forgetting God. And pondering the comforts and luxuries we surround ourselves in while marveling the works of our hands.

It is not the function of law to inspire men to obey it; this is precisely what the law could not do, being weak through the flesh. But it could arrest the attention and educate the conscience.

Leviticus 26:14-16
[14]But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
[15]And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
[16]I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

COMMENTARY!

Let them not think themselves so deeply rooted as that God’s power could not ruin them, nor so highly favoured as that his justice would not ruin them if they revolted from him and rebelled against him no You only have I known, therefore I will punish you soonest and sorest. Amos 3:2.

Observe, I. How their sin is described, which would bring all this misery upon them. Not sins of ignorance and infirmity God had provided sacrifices for those. Not the sins they repented of and forsook but the sins that were presumptuously committed and obstinately persisted in.

Two things would certainly bring this ruin upon them:

1. A contempt of God’s commandments (Leviticus 26:14): “If you will not hearken to me speaking to you by the law, nor do all these commandments, that is, desire and endeavour to do them, and, wherein you miss it, make use of the prescribed remedies”

Thus, their sin is supposed to begin in mere carelessness, and neglect, and omission. These are bad enough, but they make way for worse for the people are brought in (Leviticus 26:15) as,

(1) Despising God’s statutes, both the duties enjoined and the authority enjoining them, thinking meanly of the law and the Law-maker. Note, those are hastening apace to their own ruin who begin to think it below them to be religious

(2) Abhorring his judgments, their very souls abhorring them. Note, Those that begin to despise religion will come by degrees to loathe it and mean thoughts of it will ripen into ill thoughts of it those that turn from it will turn against it, and their hearts will rise at it

Those who reject the precept will come at last to renounce the covenant. Observe, It is God’s covenant which they break: he made it, but they break it.

2. A contempt of his corrections. Even their disobedience would not have been their destruction if they had not been obstinate and impenitent in it, notwithstanding the methods God took to reclaim them.

Their contempt of God’s word would not have brought them to ruin if they had not added to that a contempt of his rod, which should have brought them to repentance. Three ways this is expressed:

(1) “If you will not for all this hearken to me, Leviticus 26:18,21,27. If you will not learn obedience by the things which you suffer, but be as deaf to the loud alarms of God’s judgments as you have been to the close reasonings of his word and the secret whispers of your own consciences, you are obstinate indeed”

(2) “If you walk contrary to me, Leviticus 26:21,23,27. All sinners walk contrary to God, to his truths, laws, and counsels, but those especially that are incorrigible under his judgments. The design of the rod is to humble them, and soften them, and bring them to repentance but, instead of this, their hearts are more hardened and exasperated against God, and in their distress they trespass yet more against him, 2 Chronicles 28:22.

This is walking contrary to God. Some read it, “If you walk at all adventures with me, carelessly and presumptuously, as if you heeded not either what you do, whether it be right or wrong, or what God does with you, whether it be for you or against you, blundering on in wilful ignorance”

(3) If you will not be reformed by these things. God’s design in punishing is to reform, by giving men sensible convictions of the evil of sin, and obliging them to seek unto him for relief: this is the primary intention but those that will not be reformed by the judgments of God must expect to be ruined by them.

Those have a great deal to answer for that have been long and often under God’s correcting hand, and yet go on frowardly in a sinful way sick and in pain, and yet not reformed crossed and impoverished, and yet not reformed broken with breach upon breach, yet not returning to the Lord, Amos 4:6, &c.

God complains of his people’s incorrigibleness under the judgments which he had brought upon them in order to their humiliation and reformation. He had by several tokens intimated to them his displeasure, with this design, that they might by repentance make their peace with him but it had not that effect.

And I keep hearing this question, “why does Yahewa allow, so much pain  suffering in the world.”

My question for all to ponder is it really Yahewa, or is Man doing it to HIMSELF and pointing the finger to deflect the truth? Choose wisely it will affect your choices and eventually your eternal life!

Robert is a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.