EYES TO SEE & EARS TO HEAR Why do people believe lies? Why don’t people want to know the truth, less more live it? Why are His commandments not taught and not lived? I’ve posted some video segments on the subject of satan deceiving the world and false teachers and the false doctrines that are out there and such, but why have lies prevailed and not the truth? Because people have not wanted to hear, they have not wanted to see. They have refused the truth and chosen lies. For this reason, eyes to see and ears have been removed from them and they are given over to believe lies. In refusing the truth, man also is refusing the protection from the deceptive powers of satan. The warnings about having ears to hear and eyes to see run throughout scripture. Man teaches that satan has blinded the eyes of the people. This is taken from a false teaching of the self-proclaiming apostle Paul, it is not true and it is not what scripture teaches. Scripture teaches that our creator blinds our eyes; that although seeing we see not and although hearing we hear not. The truth is hidden from those who do not fear Him. The important thing is to understand why He blinds our eyes and closes our ears and take accountability for the reason. We live in a dry and thirsty land where there is a famine, a famine of having ears to hear and eyes to see, it is a famine of the truth. We must accept that we are the cause for our lack of the ability to see and hear. My Father will gladly open up our eyes and ears, He will freely pour out His spirit to guide us into all truth but there is something that gets in the way that keeps Him from pouring out His spirit, it is our lack of desire to want Him. We must rely on Him and not glean our understanding from our way of thinking, rejecting Him as the source for all truth. The message has always been the same, repent, turn from our ways and turn unto His ways. If you want to come through the coming destruction, you will need to look towards Him in truth. Nothing matters but the truth. All is going to be destroyed that opposes Him because He is going to purge out evil as He commanded us to do. His kingdom, or His family will be set up to rule the earth and His word will govern as it was supposed to from the beginning. The challenge for all in these coming days who want to live into the era in front of us is; satan is still loose and loose with a fury I might add. He has known this time was coming for a long time and he has prepared for the battle. His false systems and false prophets are in place. The only way that you will be able to have ears to hear and eyes to see the truth is if the blinders are removed and you receive your creator’s protection from the enemy. You cannot remove the blinders with your own will-power; you will fail as all have who have tried on their own. If you want His righteousness and the benefits of His protection you will need to do as those 144,000 first fruits have done and that is hunger and thirst for it. You will need to open your mouths wide and He will fill you. The voice is crying out in a dry and thirsty land as it always has, AWAKE, turn from the lies and put on the strength of your Creator. Yehshua tells the lukewarm church of Laodicea; Rev 3:18 I counsel you to buy of me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; that you may be clothed with white raiment, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve , that you may see. What is this gold and what is this eye salve? Let’s back up a verse and see what the problem is, we know they are lukewarm from verse 16 and in verse 17 Yehshua says; 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and you know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: He is addressing a group of people who are neither cold nor hot. They obviously say they believe in Him because He addresses them as the called out ones of Elohiym, this is what the word church means. Verse 17 tells us that they are blind, they cannot see that they are naked and that they do not have the wedding garments on. They are still clothed in their wretchedness; they have not been made white by His blood. How could this be? They obviously profess His name. We can assume that they were baptized under the water, proclaiming that they were entering into the contract to be a purchased bride. They are rich in what they think is their heritage, they think they are saved and that all is good but they are drunk with the wine of fornication. They are in bed with the great whore of Babylon, the religious confusion that teaches the doctrines and commandments of men that were taught by satan, instead of hearkening to the commandments and statutes of their Creator. Yehshua’s instructions to this group; go and purchase gold tried with fire and get your eyes anointed so that you can see. So, the question remains; what is the gold and what is the eye salve, who does the anointing? We have to turn to the designer, the master potter to tell us. Examine the story; there have been nearly 6,000 years that man has been allowed to do his own thing, to go his own way. Satan has been allowed to deceive mankind because they have rejected the protection of their creator. Living the word gives us His promised protection. Yet our creator purposed to drag 144,000 out of the domain that He gave to satan for this period of time. Yehshua tells us in Matthew 22; 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how did you come into the banquet not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called , but few are chosen. So we see that YEHWEH has worked with many to be in His family over the course of time. But only a few make it, why is this? First, let’s consider how few. The number of the first fruits is clear in scripture, it is 144,000. The days are cut short so it is not a complete 6,000 years but if it was, this would be on average only 24 per year, this is a small flock indeed. I point this out to illustrate the gravity of having eyes to see and ears to hear because these 144,000 were given eyes to see and ears to hear. We must realize that maybe we are naked but do not know that we are naked. I can guarantee you on the authority that has been given to me that if you are not fighting to live by every word of your Creator, you are naked. If the commandments are not living in you, you are naked. This is simple to understand if you simply believe the words of your Messiah. I will just give you one of the many examples that scripture gives as to whom the saints of the most high are. Yehshua tells John who they are in Revelations 14; 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of Elohiym, and the belief of YEHSHUA. If you think the commandments are not a requirement, you are simply naked and do not know it. If you have a different belief or faith than did the first born Son of the Most High, who taught that we must live by every word, who Himself represented the word to perfection and lived it, your belief is certainly not His belief. I say this as a passionate warning and cry, wake up and make sure that your eyes are anointed, go and purchase the gold that you will need to have and let the potter refine it and make it pure. The gold is the same gold that it always has been. It is represented by the oil that you must have in your lamp and that oil is purchased by living by every word of your Creator, fighting to have your thoughts replaced by His thoughts, your ways replaced by His ways. It is His very character and it is symbolized by the seven spirits of His spirit. We need to have this oil in order to hear the voice of the shepherd and see the light, the truth. We read that YEHSHUA possessed all seven spirits; Rev 3:1 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; these things speaks He that hath the seven Spirits of Elohiym, and the seven stars; We find these seven spirits listed in Isaiah 11:2, they are the spirit of Yehweh, which is love, His character, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of counsel or advice, the spirit of strength or might, the spirit of knowledge (of the truth) and the spirit of the fear of Yehweh, fearing to lose out on the promises. Understanding what the oil is that we need to have in our lamps when the bridegroom returns is most important. The bride groom is the word, we need to be made ready for His return by possessing this oil, it represents all that is truth. You could say the refined gold is truth, the truth that we must embrace and rejoice in. It is the character of Elohiym. His character is defined by His spoken word which is recorded for us to live by. Our efforts to come to Him our own terms are futile. What we think is true means nothing, absolutely zero if it is not true. This life that we live is not a self-serve fuel station, we need to have our creator fill us but first we need to uphold our end of the contract so that He will fill us. In Psalms 81 we read; 10 I am YEHWEH your Elohiym, which brought you out of the land of Egypt (Bondage): open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! We see here that walking in His ways and obeying His instructions is a pre-requisite to Him filling up our tanks. Notice in verse 12 that because we do not listen to Him, He gives us over to our own counsel and our own desires. The spirit of His counsel is part of the oil that we must possess in order to be ready to go and meet the bride groom when He returns. The reason this gold needs to be refined is that we must be chaste virgins, those who will have received discipline in a way that has allowed them to be molded in His image, the image of the word, the character of Elohiym, the same image that our Messiah represented to perfection. We must become steadfast in the truth so that it becomes our rock. We must want His ways no matter what, whether reproached or reviled by men or not, even to the point of death if that be the case. We must be willing to leave all for His kingdom’s sake. I have said in other segments, the creator is not looking for quantity in His family, but for quality. For the 144,000, walking in the statutes became a way of living. They embraced the statutes and delighted in them, just as all who want to be a part of the second harvest will have to do. I will tie this together for you. Yehshua was the word that became flesh. He possessed all seven spirits of spirit of Elohiym without measure. He was given the name of the word of Elohiym. The word is a description of the bridegroom, therefor the word is the bridegroom, it is His name, we are to be married to the word of Elohiym, becoming in complete agreement with His character. In the journey to the kingdom or to the marriage banquet, we are to grow in these seven spirits, letting Him fill our tanks with His holy and perfect character, it is a maturing process, a perfecting process. We start this process by agreeing to leave all that opposes Him and live by His every word. This is what our baptism is a symbol of, dying to self. If we enter into this contract and make it void by not dying to self, then we merely are given back over to our own desires and our own counsel and we have rejected His seven spirits and rejected Yehshua’s atoning sacrifice. He allows this, we have free will. We then continue to rely on our own ideas of right and wrong, our own values, our own understanding, wisdom, counsel, strength, knowledge of what we think is true and we have no fear of Yehweh to keep us on the narrow path. In doing so, the marriage contract is voided. Of course it is more of a pre-marriage contract, agreeing to be married into His family which happens at a later date, nevertheless, it is a contract. Our Creator knows our hearts and He simply does not sign the contract if we make it in vain. If our contract is made in truth, His signature is validated by the blood of His Son, He turns the water that we are baptized in, into the blood and we are made white and forgiven and the process of writing His laws on our inward parts begins but we cannot return to the harlotry. If we void the contract with our adultery to the word, we reject His terms and He does not write His laws in our inward parts as He promised if we were to become His people and the blood of His son does not replace the water. People do not want to repent; they want to hear smooth things. Yehshua was killed and was resurrected and because of this people say they that believe in Him, yet they do not believe what He said, if they did, they would hearken unto His words instead of living lies. People want proof; they want dates when things will happen. They want specifics and signs. They are a perverted and a wicked generation. The proof was given to us over and over again. The children of Israel passed through the Red Sea, they passed through the Jordan. None of this was enough. Yehshua was resurrected, the sun does come up every morning, the heavens testify to the truth and people still live according to self, rejecting the commandments. The magnificence of creation itself testifies to the truth. The truth was made flesh and died for us that we could be forgiven, yet man has chosen to not seek their Creator’s signature on the marriage contract. Nearly everyone says that they believe in God, yet they refuse to believe Him. I am a voice crying out to you this day to turn from the lies and cry out to Him for deliverance. Matt 5:6 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. We must hunger and thirst for righteousness, not our own righteousness but that which is holy and perfect. His righteousness is spelled out through His word. He is going to rescue a people in these last days who will turn to Him in truth, will you hearken or will you be a part of the destruction? The eye salve that you will need is for him to remove the blinders, it is His anointing. Our part is to fight to receive His anointing. We must want to see and want to hear and want to live the instructions. We must fight to be in agreement with Him so that our part of the contract is valid, then He can validate the contract and sign it by turning the water that we are baptized with into the blood of His Son. The midnight cry is fast approaching, what kind of oil do you have in your lamp? If it is based on lies, it will not burn, it is just water and you are naked and cannot see your nakedness.