SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

Exodus 32:9 KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

OBSERVATION!

Here we are in the season for Yeshua’s return to lift his righteous who will meet him in the clouds! Yeshua  will bring about a massive ascension of those walking righteously receiving their new celestial bodies and not having to succumb to death as our Lord Yeshua has overcome it!

The importance of our daily assessments will ring loud and clear for those who heeded this call from our Heavenly Father to sit at the table set by Yeshua and daily break spiritual bread with him!

Now, recognizing the significance of being obedient in all manners of their walk! As I continue researching this posting, it becomes clear, that it is important to share what Yahewa has in store for those who are living with their decision to remain in their iniquity after repeatedly rebuking the truth placed before them.

Ezekiel 33:9
[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.

I pose this question! What will it take to change those entrenched in a centuries-old delusion, as they have ingrained an erroneous religious belief mixed with pagan customs and traditions in their minds!

This walk is the same mindset of the Israelites, who exited Egypt, whom God recognized as stiffnecked and dealt with them over the next 40 years as they wandered in the desert!

Today’s stiffnecked believers are enduring a  similar fate as the Exodus Israelites [on a spiritual level] who believed in their minds they were worshipping righteously, but none the less with the equivalent results, being removed from the promise of, over- coming death,  having an eternal life with Yeshua and Yahewa! Not receiving the blessings and gifts offered by Yeshua.

Ultimately, they will face a judgment, and the second death, as my research has brought forth that the Exodus Israelites were held to accountability Exodus 32:35
[35]And the LORD plagued the people because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

COMMENTARY!

The words of God are oracles, certain and infallible, and of unquestionable authority and obligation they are to be consulted as oracles, and by them all controversies must be determined.

They are lively oracles, for they are the oracles of the living God, not of the dumb and dead idols of the heathens: the word that God speaks is spirit and life not that the law of Moses could give life, but it showed the way to life: If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Moses received them from God, and delivered nothing as an oracle to the people but what he had first received from God.

The lively oracles which he received from God he faithfully gave to the people, to be observed and preserved.

It was the principal privilege of the Jews that to them were committed the oracles of God, and it was by the hand of Moses that they were committed.

As Moses gave them not that bread, so neither did he give them that law from heaven (John 6:32), but God gave it to them and he that gave them those customs by his servant Moses might, no doubt, when he pleased, change the customs by his Son Jesus, who received more lively oracles to give unto us than Moses did.

OBSERVATION!

Note, Many that are not immediately cut off in their sins are reserved for a further day of reckoning: God’s  judgment is slow, but sure.

For the present, the Lord plagued the people (Exodus 32:35), probably by a pestilence, or some other infectious disease, which was a messenger of God’s wrath, and an earnest of worse.

Aaron made the calf, and yet it is said the people made it because they worshipped it. Deos qui rogat, ille facit–He who asks for gods makes them.

Aaron was not plagued, for his was a sin of infirmity, theirs a presumptuous sin, between which there is a great difference, not always discernable to us, but evident to God, whose judgment therefore, we are sure, is according to truth.

It is here where a comparison must be made of how the actions of the two groups, the Exodus Israelites and the modern-day stiffnecked believers, are similar. Their walks incorporate pagan customs, traditions, and myths.

And note that how the Exodus Israelites who were seen as stiffnecked were dealt with due to their presumptuous sin! 

Recognizing those of today’s Assemblies classified as stiffnecked are suffering the same fate described in Exodus 32:35
[35]And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

PONDERANCE ON A SPECIFIC POINT!

QUESTION: How do we see God defining stiffneckedness? Where in the scriptures can we find Yahewa’s definition of stiffneckedness?

Perhaps in this verse, Jeremiah 35:15
[15]I have sent also unto you all my servants the

prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

OBSERVATION!

I ponder if this verse is more appropriate for today’s believers.  Exodus 34:12 KJV
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

COMMENTARY!

Take heed to thyself, for thou art upon thy good behavior. It is a sin that thou art prone to and that will easily beset thee, and therefore be very cautious, and carefully abstain from all appearances of it and advances towards it. Make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land.“

Never more than now, the importance of being unique and non-conforming looms large!

It would appear that Jeremiah 35:15 contributes a portion of Yahewa’s definition as unheeding his warnings, and Exodus 34:12 is describing how in  disobedience you would become prone to place yourself into a covenant with the walking dead.

Psalms 103:1-3
[1](A Psalm of David.) Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
[2]Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
[3]Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

OBSERVATION!

It is the Lord that is to be blessed and spoken well of for he is the fountain of all good, whatever are the channels or cisterns it is to his name, his holy name, that we are to consecrate our praise, giving thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

It is the soul that is to be employed in blessing God and all that is within us.

We make nothing of our religious performances if we do not make heart-work of them, if that which is within us, nay, if all that is within us, be not engaged in them.

The work requires the inward man, the whole man, and all little enough.

In order to our return of praises to God, there must be a grateful remembrance of the mercies we have received from him: Forget not all his benefits. If we do not give thanks for them, we do forget them, and that is unjust as well as unkind, since in all God’s favours there is so much that is memorable. “O my soul!

To thy shame be it spoken, thou hast forgotten many of his benefits but surely thou wilt not forget them all, for thou shouldst not have forgotten any.”

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen in the name of Jehovah our creator and provider of all things righteous and Holy.