YHVH rules over the nations

I've just got to find out where I'm starting and get my mind back into the right gear. YHVH rules over the nations and, subtitled, The Devil is Defeated. That sounds okay doesn't it? Now all we have to do is put it into practice, live it, walk it and I think some of what Yakira was prophesying in song was kind of along this line as well so I'm keen to get a transcript of what all of that was about.

Okay, so Matthew Chapter 4, verse 1 Then Yeshua was led by the Ruach into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After he had fasted for forty days and forty nights he was hungry. When the tempter came to him he said, If you are then Elohim, son of God, tell these stones to become bread. But Yeshua replied, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

When the devil took him into the Kedosh city, placed him on the highest point of the temple. If you are then Elohim, he said, throw yourself down. For it is written, He shall command his angels concerning you. And upon their hands they shall lift you up, so that you may not strike your foot against a stone. Yeshua said to him, Again it is written, You shall not put YHVH your Elohim to the test. Then the devil takes him to a very high mountain and shows him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

And he said to him, All these things I will give you, if you fall down and worship me. How preposterous is that? Then Yeshua says to him, Go away, Satan. For it is written, You shall worship YHVH your Elohim, and him only shall you serve. Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and began to take care of him. It's an amazing passage of scripture, isn't it? You know, Yeshua demonstrated his authority and power over Satan.

And he revealed that Elohim's word and faith in that word will always defeat Satan and the powers of darkness. His word is greater than anything Satan ever throws at us. Whatever the enemy wants to do to stop us from fulfilling our purpose and our goals, because that's what Satan was about. If he could get Yeshua to do one thing that he asked him to do, then he had the victory. He had the ascendancy, and the purposes of YHVH were finished, he had sinned.

And so we know that Yeshua stood steadfast and firm upon the truth of God's word and said, I will not budge from what the word of God declares. Stand true to the word and your call. And the devil has no defence, and he must walk away. Yeshua said, this is the word, get behind me. This is the word, I stand on it. I will not listen to anything you have to say, because the word of God is what I base everything I'm here to do.

And that is exactly the same for us. We must stand true and strong to the word and to the call of God that's upon our life. He brings us together, he utilises us, and he matches our giftings, he matches our personalities and natures, our ability to hear and to see, our capacity and desire to know that we are of one heart and of one mind. And we must stand true to that. And as we stand true to that, and acknowledge that we are called of God to be who we are, and to serve him in the capacities that he has raised us up to serve him, Satan cannot get through that barrier.

Our defences, our defences are YHVH's word and his call upon our life, and he will never win the victory. No matter what he throws at us, no matter what he says or how he says it, he will have to walk away when we say, be gone. This is the word, that's what I stand on, this is my call, I will not change. It's a powerful thing. Satan uses scripture in a way, through preachers, through teachers, through other people, that give us false understandings and beliefs, and gives him a control over people's lives.

We know how Satan twisted the word of God when he quoted that to Yeshua. Throw yourself off the top of this building, because the scriptures say, his angels will take care of you. Yeshua says, you do not tempt or test God like that. You are twisting the word to suit your agenda and purpose, to rob me of my calling, purpose and ministry, so that the peoples of this world will never know salvation, will never know the blessing and the power of God, just because I followed one twisted scripture, to try and stop me from being what I'm called to become.

Nothing's changed, and Satan uses scripture in a multitudinous, ways that are to rob us of the truth of scripture, to fulfil a purpose that's not of God, and that's of man and of Satan. Most people don't even recognise it is Satan at work, with the thoughts that come into their mind, and with the way in which scripture is used to manipulate and to control, and to establish kingdoms of men. They don't even recognise that it's Satan who is working in their thoughts.

It all sounds so spiritual, so biblical, no matter whose mouth it's coming out of. The devil has the ability to impart thoughts and messages and promises subliminally, and we can think they're a bell or hymn when they're not, because they can be so subtle, and if we do not know the word of God really, really well, and if we do not have a really, really good relationship with Ruach HaKadosh, if we are not attuned to him giving us understanding and revelation of the truth of scripture, and all we have in our mind is what we grew up with, what's been cemented into our spirit and our brain to believe, no matter how wrong it is we believe it because we grew up with it, and we heard it a million times over every week of our life coming from platforms, and in that there is a multitude of subliminal messages that take over our thoughts and we're not even aware what's happening.

We're just following the train, and it becomes a train wreck at the end of the line. Satan is the master at these tactics. And so we, the devil, is exercising an authority over people's lives, and the kingdoms of this world as well, in all their seeming splendour, which he said there, and they are not aware that the devil is their God in many forms. He is the God of this world. Satan is this world's God, and they do not know that it is so.

And if we do not know the word, or the Torah, like Yeshua did, then we're sunk. We will follow whatever pathway we're told to follow, whether it's Presbyterian, Catholic, Anglican, Pentecostal, Charismatic, doesn't matter what it is, they've all got their own forms of gospel and tradition and biblical interpretations and understandings that will not match the word of God in its pure form and its original form. And the next thing we know, Satan's in our ear, and we're following the traditions of men.

We're keeping the doctrines of various different religions, and don't give it a second thought. Know Torah, keep Torah. It's your defence against the devil. We must know the word. We must allow Ruach HaKadosh, the Spirit of God, to show us what we haven't seen before and understand it in a way that doesn't lead us away from the truth of God's traditions, as Yeshua taught and said. Matthew 13, verse 36. Then Yeshua sent the crowds away, and he went into the house.

He just told them a parable. The disciples came to him saying, explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field. So Yeshua answered, the one sowing the good seed is the son of man, the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, and the weeds are the sons of the evil one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

Therefore, just as the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. The son of man will send forth his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who practise lawlessness. He gives us an understanding and the truth of what's important to God, and what's important to Satan, and they're both at loggerheads with each other. Both Yeshua and the devil are sowing seed.

That's what we must keep in our mind. Yeshua is sowing seed, the devil is sowing seed. When it says that Yeshua is sowing good seed, and the devil is sowing evil seed, it is saying that people are being sent out into the world to either establish the kingdom of God in the world, which is the field where the seed was being sown, or to infiltrate and destroy the kingdom of God. Isn't that an amazing message from Yeshua? Tells the parable, the people never understood it, the disciples never understood it, they come into the house, or the crowds are sent away, and the disciples say, please tell us what does that parable mean? And he said, the field is the world, and the seed that I'm sowing are the sons of the kingdom.

He said, I'm sowing good kingdom people into the world, to bring my message, to establish truth based on the kingdom of heaven, repent, the kingdom is here, the kingdom is near. And Satan is doing exactly the same thing, he is sowing people into this kingdom world message of Yeshua's, because he wants to compromise the message of the kingdom. And he wants the seed, you and I, the people of the kingdom, he wants to sow, Satan wants to sow people into that kingdom place, into that mix, to create diversion and compromise, and to twist and to turn the word so that the message of the kingdom is lost.

And so, we know that the world and the church is filled with two kinds of seeds. There are those who are sown of Yeshua, God, YHVH, who are genuinely and truly kingdom people, and then there are lots and lots of people who are the seed of Satan. And they're being sown into the same place, mixing the seed, until all there is is division and confusion and uncertainty, and everything gets destroyed. So as he said there in verse 41, the son of man will send forth his angel and I will gather out of his kingdom all stumbling blocks and those who practise lawlessness.

So he is making it very clear that the seed that I sow, keep Torah. The people that I sow understand the word, know the word, and keep the word, and quote the word as it is written. The same word that Yeshua quoted to Satan. He quoted from Deuteronomy and he quoted from the Psalms. God hasn't got rid of them, but the church has. They are saying law is gone, grace overrides law, don't need it anymore. Yeshua fulfilled it, Yeshua walked it, we don't need to be worried about that side of it.

Just believe in Yeshua. It's not what scripture teaches, it is the seed the devil is sowing. Yeshua said at the end of the age when I return, the angels will come and they will gather the bad seed. Those who are bringing and causing, creating stumbling blocks. Those who are lawless, who do not keep my law, the word, as Yeshua said to Satan, every word that proceeds from the mouth of God is the one that I follow, not yours.

And if we aren't as confident and as sure about the truth of Torah, the law, the commandments, the feasts, the festivals and the Sabbaths, if we are not absolutely confident and unshakable on everything the Torah teaches, unclean meats, tithing, everything. He says if anyone tells you something different than anything that's in here, that is a stumbling block. That is lawlessness. And he says at the end of the age, they're not going to be part of my kingdom.

They shall be separated. That's a powerful parable. It's a powerful message and Yeshua is making sure the word gets out. The devil is this world's God, including most of the Christian world as well. He fills this world with compromise and the fulfilment of the desires of the flesh. Even the desires of the flesh to be a great evangelist or the desires of the flesh to pastor a church, he will fulfil those desires as long as you're listening to his interpretation of scripture and the interpretation of tradition and doing communion and doing this and doing that, even though it's not in the word of God, he's happy to give you the desires of your heart.

Make sure it matches the word or it'll be short-lived. Their minds have been blinded to the light of the good news of the majesty of the Messiah. In 2 Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 1, I'll read the whole chapter because I've picked out a couple of verses but then the whole chapter is too good to be left out. For this reason, Paul says to the Corinthians on his second letter, since we have this ministry, just as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.

Instead we renounce the hidden shameful ways, not walking in deception or distorting the word of God. Why did he say that? Because he knew that he was one of those men. He was one of those people who had to renounce the hidden shameful ways, not walking in deception or distorting the word of God. That's what rabbis did. That's what the leaders of the temple did. That's what the priesthood did. And I was working for them. But now he is saying, we have received this ministry.

We have received mercy. We do not lose heart. We have renounced the shameful ways. That's powerful. But commending ourselves before Elohim to everyone's conscience by the open proclamation of the truth, he is comparing his word with the words of what he used to preach and teach and others were preaching and teaching. He says we have renounced all that and here we are proclaiming the truth. And even if our good news is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

In their case the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so they might not see the light of the good news of the glory of Messiah who is the image of God. And he is not talking to the people in the world, he is talking to the people who are believers in God. He is talking to the people of the congregation of Corinth. And here he is telling them the good news is veiled to those who are perishing.

He says I know that some people's eyes are closed. I know that some people's ears are deaf. I know that they have no heart to understand the truth of what we're talking about and there will be opposition and we know he received lots of opposition from believers. Messianic Jews opposed him to the nth degree and here he is confronting it. He knew Satan sows seeds wherever Paul went to sow the seeds of the good sons of God of the kingdom, he knew Satan was sowing seeds wherever he went.

Isn't that amazing? That's the truth then, that's the truth today. In their case the God of this world has blinded the minds of those unbelieving, unbelieving of the truth that I'm preaching so they might not see the light of the good news. They must not see the light of the good news of the kingdom of God. Let them have a different doctrine, a different theology because that is what it's about. For we do not proclaim ourselves but Messiah Yeshua as Adonai and ourselves as your slaves for Yeshua's sake.

For Elohim who said let light shine out of darkness is the one who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the honour, the praise, the exaltation of Elohim in the face of Messiah. You see the greatness of who Yehovah is in the face of the Messiah, in the message of Messiah, in the walk of Messiah, in the life of Messiah. You see the almighty majesty of God in Yeshua the Messiah, the one that I've come to proclaim, the one that you have so long rejected, the one that the Pharisees and the Sadducees reject in his face.

You see the power of the God that they say they worship. He's a bold man. But we have this treasure in jars of clay so that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from Elohim and not from ourselves. We are hard pressed in every way, listen to this, we are hard pressed in every way yet not crushed, perplexed but not in despair. This is a lot of what Yekirah was saying in her prophecy. Persecuted yet not forsaken, we're struck down but we're not destroyed.

Always carrying in the body the death of Yeshua so that the life of Yeshua may also be revealed in our mortal body. For we who live are always being handed over to death for Yeshua's sake. Isn't that amazing? His call, his ministry, his journey throughout all the countries that he went, he is saying that we are always being handed over to death for Yeshua's sake so that the life of Yeshua may be revealed in our mortal bodies.

While I'm in the flesh I will serve Yeshua no matter what it costs me. So death is at work in us so that life may be at work in you. Isn't that an amazing sacrifice? Isn't that the giving of your life? Isn't that the taking of the call of God that's upon our life that we may die to self and whatever the world or Satan throws at us is that you may have life. We will suffer anything, we will be perplexed, we will be chased, we will be stoned, we will be whipped, beaten and thrown into prison for your sake so that our message may bring the life of Yeshua into your lives.

That's the kind of people God is looking for, that Yeshua just died for. He said I am throwing the sons of the kingdom into the field of this world and Satan is going to oppose you. Oppose you? The call on your life will be opposed. He will use anybody and anything, everybody and everything to stop us fulfilling our call if he can. We must stand strong to what YHVH is saying and doing. We have the same verse 13 but we have the same spirit of faith according to what is written.

I believed and therefore I spoke. So we also believe and therefore we also speak knowing that the one who raised Adonai Yeshua will raise us also with Yeshua and will bring us with you into his presence, the resurrection. For all things are for your sakes so that the grace, the free gift, the favour of God that is spreading through more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the honour of Elohim. Therefore we do not lose heart.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Isn't that what Yehudah was saying before? It was a message to us, don't lose heart. I am with you. Do not be afraid. I will go with you to the end of the age. It's the same message. Though our outward man is detaining, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. For our trouble, light and momentary, I wouldn't call his trouble light and momentary, I'd call my trouble light and momentary.

But that's in his heart and mind saying the price I'm paying is very, very small for the trouble I brought his people and God's message. Is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison. As we look, not at what can be seen, but at what cannot be seen, the eternal. For what can be seen is temporary. What we're going through, what we're establishing, what we're preaching and teaching, the oppositions that are coming, these are just temporary.

This is a temporary condition, a temporary challenge. This is temporary. We only have a limited amount of time to do what we are doing. But what cannot be seen is eternal. We are bringing salvation, we are bringing the kingdom of God into people's lives. Those things are eternal. What it costs us does not matter. Amazing message. There are those who teach YHVH's Word, yet who walk in deception. That's what Paul is saying and Yeshua are saying.

Because they are distorting the word of Elohim. But we must always keep in mind, no matter what the cost, what we share is eternal. Eternal. And the good news is veiled to those who are perishing. If we will not do what we're called to do, if we will not go, if we will not say, here am I, send me, then the good news is veiled to those who are perishing. Yeshua tells these teachers and preachers and rabbis and leaders who they are really following and serving, if it's not based on the truth of the word of God.

In John chapter 8, verse 39. Abraham is our father, they said to Yeshua, Pharisees, Sadducees. And Yeshua said to them, if you are Abraham's children, then do the deeds of Abraham. But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from Elohim. This Abraham did not do. You are doing the deeds of your father. They said to him, we were not born as illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself.

Yeshua said to them, if God or Elohim were your father, you would love me. For from Elohim I came and now I am here. For I have not come on my own, but he sent me. Now that's a strong word, he sent me. I came from heaven, I came from the father. He sent me and I am here. Why don't you understand my speech? Because you're not able to hear my words. You're deaf, you're blind, you're dumb.

You are of your father, the devil. And you want to do the desires of your father. You want to get rid of me and my message. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth. Because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks lies, he is just being himself. For he is a liar and the father of lies. He's talking about them. He's comparing them with him. Their message with his message.

He's saying what you say is of the devil. Because the devil is your father. And he was a liar from the beginning and he is a murderer at heart. He wants to destroy everything I stand for. And he says I'm here speaking truth and you're here speaking lies. That's in your face. That's exactly what he said to them and they knew what he was saying. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sinning? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me? He who belongs to God, hears the words of God.

The reason you don't hear is because you do not belong to God. Does it get any stronger than that? That's the religious spiritual leaders of the day of that nation. They run the temple. From them comes the high priest and the priesthood. And here he is telling them that they are liars. And the reason you don't hear is because you don't belong to God. And I think I say it strongly. I don't hold a candle to everything that Yeshua says.

He gave them no excuse for who they are, what they said and what they were trying to do. And it's what's needed today. Nothing's changed. The same devil is sowing the same seeds of untruth. And Yehovah is looking for a people who will, in Yeshua's name, sow the seeds of the kingdom so that people may enter into life eternal and that Ruach HaKadosh may open their eyes to truth. And he will. There are always those that he will, if we will take the word and be true to that word.

Satan thinks he can rule over Elohim's kingdom and his people. But he can't unless we let him. Because Yeshua has all authority. Satan can only get access to our life to the degree that we let him have it. Satan can only rule over Elohim's kingdom if we let him rule over it. And his kingdom dwells within us and he wants his kingdom to be revealed and released to others. And that won't happen if we let Satan get his way and subdue us and stop us from following our calling and fulfilling our dream in him.

Yeshua has all authority. Satan has none. But he usurps that authority because we give it to him. Adam and Eve gave it to him and we still keep giving it to him. And we have to take it back from him. All authority belongs to me, said Yeshua, in heaven and on earth, it's mine. Don't let the devil tell you anything different. Satan's defeat. The devil challenged Elohim millennia ago and he was cast out of heaven. YHVH and his angelic hosts, his angelic army, the army of heaven, was too powerful for Satan and his demon powers that opposed God and his angelic army.

And they were cast out of heaven. So, where's the power of Satan in comparison to the power of the Almighty? There is none. How much greater is he than the kingdom of heaven? He isn't. He's been cast down to the earth. What are we going to do? If our God is greater than him, then so are we greater than him because of who we are in Yeshua the Messiah and the power of the Spirit of God.

Satan knows that his time is short and his evil knows no bounds in the church and outside of the church. He has full reign because he is this God's world or the world, Satan is this world's God. And they bow down to him and don't know they're bowing down to him. They're blind to the truth of who is the master of false doctrine and deception. He is the master. He knows the scriptures better than you and me and he knows how to twist them and use them to his own ends and purposes.

And the scripture is full of it. We can't deny it. We deny these things to our own destruction. The loss of our call, the uselessness of our ministry, the impact of our message is not empowered by Ruach. And so all we do is tickle people's ears that love to hear what we've got to say to them that makes them feel good about themselves. Satan loves that. God hates that. And Yeshua confronts that. And we must do the same.

The earth is Yehovah's and the fullness thereof and everyone on it, everyone in it. The nations of the earth are Yeshua's inheritance and he is coming back to take it over. Wow. The world thinks they can master the problems in this world but they don't know they're dealing with Satan. They don't know that Satan is behind governments, behind powerful businessmen and women. They don't know that Satan is behind everything that is going on in this world that is in conflict with the truth of scripture.

Satan's behind it to destroy this world and everything in it. In 1 John 3 verses 7 and 8 says, Children, let no one mislead you. This is the apostle who knew Yeshua intimately. The one Yeshua loved. Had a special connection with. And he says, let no one mislead you. This is near the end of his life. The one who practices righteousness is righteous. What did I say? What did John say? The one who practices righteousness is righteousness.

Keep the law, walk the law, do the law or there is no righteousness in us. Just as Yeshua is righteous. Why? Because he walked the law, he taught the law, he kept the law. That was a demonstration of true righteousness. The word of Yehovah, Torah, is the righteousness of God in written form. Yeshua is the righteousness of God in living form. Written Torah, living Torah. He walked in righteousness just as we must walk in righteousness. James said, show me your faith without works and I'll show you my faith by my works.

The one, he goes on to say, the one who practices sin is of the devil. The one who does not walk according to the law, the Torah, is of the devil. For the devil has been sinning from the beginning. Ben Elohim, the Son of God, appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. Isn't that amazing? It's also very clear that if we will be a righteous people walking in obedience to Torah because of our love for God, because of our faith in Yeshua, we have been asked to walk like him, to be like him and to be one with him in everything that he is, in everything he does, in everything he teaches and says, in everything he asks of us.

He says that's righteousness. That's righteousness because of your faith in me, because of your love for me, because of your obedience to me and my word and my Father's word. You keep it, you walk it, you live it. Righteousness. The righteousness that is seen in Yeshua. The one who doesn't is of the devil. For the devil has been sinning from the beginning. And the Son of Elohim, he came and appeared for this purpose. What was the purpose for which he came? It's written there, to destroy the works of the devil.

Do not mistake that the devil is out to destroy us and to rob us and to make sure we don't fulfil our call in God and that we do not do what God wants us to do. What are we? A dozen people? Twenty people? And God says, go to the ends of the earth and change the world for me. That's the call of God. Why should we be amazed that we are at where we are at? Because he knows that we are sons of the kingdom.

We are the true deal. We have the right heart. We have one heart, one mind with the right giftings and callings in God to do what he asks and he doesn't need an army to do that. And we're doing it, sons of the kingdom being sown into the world in order that the works of the devil may be destroyed in people's lives, in people's congregations, in preachers' and pastors' hearts and lives. He says, you go and change them in my name, in the power and the anointing of the Ruach HaKadosh.

That's why I came and that's why I've called you. Go into all the earth and preach the good news of the kingdom of God, telling them to keep my commandments, immersing them into my name, the name of my father and the name of Ruach Yehovah, the power of the almighty kingdom of God. Every power of darkness is defeated. The devil is defeated in the power of Yeshua's resurrection. Ruach power raised him from the dead in triumph and victory over all sin and the devil.

Everything the devil is and stands for was destroyed when Yeshua rose from the grave. Sin and Satan put him to death. Resurrection power and Ruach HaKadosh raised him in victory. I have no sin. Death cannot keep me nor retain me. I died for your sin, not mine. Satan has no victory over me. And he rose in victory and triumph over Satan himself. In next chapter 10, 1038, which we know the scripture very well, Peter is preaching on the day of Shavuot.

You know how God anointed Yeshua of Nazareth with the Ruach HaKadosh and power. How he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil because Elohim was with him. Isn't that amazing? Exactly the same thing that John said. He said, the purpose for which I came was to destroy the works of the devil. And here Peter is saying on the day of Pentecost, Yeshua went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil.

If it's not of God, then it's of the devil. If it destroys life, it's of Satan. We are witnesses to all he did, both in the Judean countryside and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. But Elohim raised him up on the third day and caused him to be visible, not to all the people, but to us, witnesses, who were chosen beforehand by Elohim. We ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

And he commanded us to proclaim to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by Elohim as judge of the living and the dead. Remind people of it, he says. All the prophets testify about him, that everyone who puts his trust in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name. So, no, I'll go down to the bottom. While Peter was still speaking these words, the Ruach HaKadosh fell on all those hearing the message.

All the circumcised believers who came with Peter, the Jews, were astonished, because the gift of the Ruach HaKadosh had been poured out even on the Gentiles, for they were hearing them speak in tongues and magnifying Elohim. Then Peter answered, Can anyone refuse water for these to be immersed, who have received the Ruach HaKadosh just as we did? So he commanded them, and that's a strong word in the Greek, he commanded them, he ordered them. Now, whether he ordered the people to get baptised or he ordered those with him to baptise them, it's the same message.

He commanded them to be immersed in the name of Messiah Yeshua, in the authority of the one who gave them the authority and power to immerse. He says in his name we come and do this immersing, because he commanded us to baptise people into the name of Yehovah, and under his command, because of his instructions. And then they asked Peter to stay for a few days. So, here we find that everyone who puts their trust in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.

And he said there all the prophets testify about him. There was no Matthew, Mark and Luke and John. There was no Acts of the Apostles. This is the beginning of the book of Acts. There was no Peter, James and John 1, 2 and 3. There was none of the writings of what we call the New Testament. Where's he taking them? He says all the prophets testify of Yeshua. So, everyone who puts his trust in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.

He says that's the writings of your scripture, that's Tanakh. And all the prophets tell you this message I'm telling you. And what you see happening today is because of what the prophets have already taught. All scripture is good for instruction, for teaching, for rebuke, for correction. It's not the new, it's the old. It's the Tanakh that has everything we need, the Tanakh. If we don't know it, then we have missed most of the truth that's in God's words.

When we got rid of a lot of this, we got rid of the festivals, we got rid of the Sabbaths, we got rid of the Ten Commandments, to whatever degree we wanted, they threw them out. And here is Peter saying, the prophets tell us everything we need to know about Yeshua. As your Saviour, the one who brings forgiveness of sins in his name, that's all there in Tanakh, Torah. Nothing's changed. We... Yeshua's resurrection was Ruach power at work.

The same power that sets people free from every oppression of the devil today is the same Ruach working through Yeshua to set every person free from the oppression of Ruach in his day. And Peter's quoting it and saying, this is an eternal message. And so, because Elohim was with him, Peter said, he was able to do that. Because the power of God was with him and he's still with us today. Yeshua is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Nothing changes, he doesn't change, what was his is ours. Greater works than these shall you do. Because I'm going to the Father, you're staying, Ruach's coming, you shall be empowered to do what I was empowered to do. It's clear. Yehovah's saying, are you one of those people? Will you be that for me? And we say, yes. And that's why we are doing what we are doing. The devil is subject to Yeshua. Satan's total objective is to destroy by death everything that is precious to Yehovah.

But Yeshua, through his death, on behalf of all humanity, broke the power of the one who had the power of death, the devil. We have been set free from the power of death, from the fear of death, which Satan has held people in bondage to all their lives. Yeshua came, destroyed that fear, does away with it. Because in him our life is eternal and nothing can change it as long as we remain faithful to him. In Hebrews chapter 2 verse 6, but somewhere someone testified saying, what is man that you are mindful of him? Or the son of man that you care for him? For a little while you made him lower than the angels, that's because we're lower than the angels, and he became like us.

You crowned him with kavod, majesty and honour. You put all things, what, in subjection. Underneath his feet. For when he put all things in subjection to him, he left nothing outside of his control. That's our Yeshua, that's the one we serve, that is the sovereign master, who is the God of our lives and our calling. But for now we do not yet see all things subjected to him, but we see the one who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely Yeshua.

He is now crowned with kavod, glory, honour, power, majesty and honour. Because of the death he suffered so that by the free gift, the favour of God he might taste death for everyone. Yeshua tasted death for us. For it was fitting for Elohim, for whom and through whom all things exist, in leading many sons to honour, to perfect through sufferings the initiator of their salvation. Or that word is a word that means the pioneer of their salvation, the one who brought their salvation into being and pioneered the pathway of salvation for all peoples.

For both he who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all from one. So he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters, saying, I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters, that's us. In the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to you. And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, here am I and the children Elohim has given me. Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same humanity as you and I, so that through death he might break the power of the one who had the power of death, that is the devil, and free those who by fear of death were in bondage all their lives.

That's the power of Yeshua. And Yehovah has put all things in subjection under his feet. Why? Because he came to earth to live like us, to be empowered by the Ruach, to walk it out sinlessly, to die at Calvary and that he may destroy the works of the devil. All things are in subjection to him. We have to understand and know that. All things aren't under his feet, all things aren't in subjection to him. Literally, at this point, he's coming to do that.

But spiritually, all things are under his feet. All things are in subjection to him. And if we will believe and walk in everything that Yehovah is calling us to do and be true to his word, then we are with Yeshua and all things are in subjection. Everything the devil can throw at us, every threat, the fear of death itself is gone because in Yeshua everything is in subjection to him. It's just that the world doesn't know it, the devil knows it, that he wants to keep us blind to the truth of it and he wants us to walk in the power of that subjection.

He wants us to walk in the power of resurrection authority. He is the first fruits and we are one with him as the first fruit. And he is saying, what I have done, I have destroyed the works of the devil, walk in it, believe it, live it. Don't let Satan take over your life and control you. Don't let the enemy rob you. You stand in the power of the spiritual truth that Satan is subject, subject to Yeshua, to Elohim and to us who walk in that power.

Acts 10.38 and beyond and a multitude of other scriptures. If we do not have the power that Yeshua said is ours, then we have nothing to offer this world. We have no authority, no power, no gifting, nothing. And all of those things were given to defeat the powers of darkness so that we may walk in victory, not under the thumb and the pressure of those who want to rob us of what we know is right. We want to walk in what God has called us to walk in, no matter what anybody else thinks.

This family is living testimony to that. You walk away from whatever tries to stop you from being what God has called you to be. As Zechariah said earlier, from the womb I called you, from the womb I knew you. Serve my purposes. And he doesn't ask us to serve his purposes if he doesn't empower us to serve those purposes. If Satan is greater than my faith, then my faith is worthless. He has given us an authority.

Yeshua said to the apostles as he went into the air, he said, all authority in heaven and on earth is mine. Go therefore. Therefore means in the truth of what I have just said, it's yours. Go in that power. Go in that authority and disciple the nations. Wow. If we believe it, we will do it. If we believe it, he will use us. If we will walk as he asked us to walk, we will conquer everything that comes to oppose us in doing what God wants us to do.

We see Satan at work all around us. On the news every day, wars and death and violence and murder and suicide and abortions by the millions. All around us we see the powers of darkness at work in our world. But we see, what we see is something very different. We see YHVH who is ruling over the nations and bringing all nations into alignment with his word. Why is there war in Israel today? With Hamas, with Lebanon, with Iran, with Yemen, with anyone who wants to take them out.

Why is that happening? Because God is bringing all nations into alignment with his word. YHVH said this is what would happen and it's happening. Israel is paying a price. There will always be death and destruction in Israel because they are not obedient to this word. There is a little smidgen of people who are true to the Messiah. The rest are divorced. LGBT2 pride is horrendously horrific in Israel. Orthodoxy, Judaism that doesn't match the truth of the word.

God says I must bring all things into the matching of my word. And because you have disobeyed Moses, because you are disobedient to the truth of who Abraham is, you will find the nations of the world wanting to destroy you and wipe you out. Why do they want to wipe you off the face of the earth? Because you belong to me, the God. Satan is making sure that every nation hates you. And I will allow those nations to have an authority that will bring destruction and death into your homes until you recognise me.

Until my feet touch the ground and you cry out, YHVH, YHVH, save us. When I come, you will see. You will be desperate. Your nation will be in desperate, desperate trouble as nations war against you. And that will happen until most of you have died in the conflict and a remnant will be saved and you will become my chosen who will run my kingdom for the next 1,000 years. The truth of God's word is not changed and the message he gives will never change.

And YHVH is using the nations of the world to come into exactly as it's described in the word of God. In Daniel, in Revelation, in Zechariah, are all describing what nations will be at war with what nations and the Middle East will be right at the centre of these conflicts. The seals will be open, the trumpets will be blown, the bowls will be poured out and YHVH's moving all the chess pieces of the nations of this world so that those nations line up with his word.

The EU, Europe has to become more and more powerful and stronger. America and the West has to become weaker and this conflict is doing exactly that. The East has to become strong. The links that are forged with Russia and China, with North Korea, with Iran, with Assyria, they have these connections in the East that are part of the biblical picture of how the end times will unfold. And what we see today is YHVH who is in control of all nations, not Satan, he's the God of this world.

He's not the owner of this world. The world worships him, they don't know they're worshipping him, they're worshipping him. That YHVH is the God, Yeshua is the King, he is the one who inherits all nations, they all belong to him. And while Satan fools the world and the church, God is in control, putting it all into perspective and place. So that the end time picture of scripture will be exactly as it is written. So the kingdom of heaven is about to be released onto the earth and the devil will be chained up for 1,000 years.

As has been said, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Fear will not own us, fear will not control us. We will rise in faith and trust and honour to the Almighty and do what he has asked for his kingdom. I'm going to close with Psalm 66. YHVH read this to us last night, it's our little Shabbat get together. I thought, wow, that's exactly my message in the psalm, I must read that. So I'll close with Psalm 66.

Psalm 66. For the music director, a song of psalm. Shout joyfully to Elohim all the earth. Sing the majesty of his name, make his praise glorious. Say to Elohim, how awesome are your deeds. Because of your great power, your enemy cringes before you. All the earth bows down to you and sings praises to you. All sing praises to your name, Selah. That's a coming day. Come and see the works of Elohim, how awesome his deeds. For the children of Adam, he turned the sea into dry land.

They crossed the river on foot. There, let us rejoice in him. He rules by his might forever. His eyes keep watch on the nations. Let no rebels exalt themselves. Think about that. Bless our Elohim, O peoples. Let the sound of his praise be heard. Keeping our soul in life, he has not let our foot slip. For you have tested us, O Elohim. You have purified us as silver is refined. You brought us into a net. You laid a burden on our backs.

You caused men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and water, yet you brought us out to superabundance. With burnt offerings, I will come to your house, fulfilling my vows to you that my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble. That's what God is trying to do to Israel today, to bring them back to this place. To you, I will present burnt offerings of fat animals with the sweet smoke of rams.

I will offer bulls with goats. See la, think about that. Come and listen, all you who fear Elohim. I will tell you what he has done for my soul. I cried out to him with my mouth and exaltation was on my tongue. If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, Adonai would not have listened. But surely Elohim has heard. He has listened to my voice in prayer. Blessed be Elohim who has not turned away my prayer nor his loving kindness from me.

Amen. Thank you, Father. Amen. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word because your word is what enables us to be your people. If it wasn't for your word, Father, the truth and the power of your word, we would not understand anything about what is happening in the world today. We wouldn't know anything about a devil or Satan that is according to your word. Father, we understand and we know that you have placed upon us the joy, the blessing, the privilege, the honour of serving you and your kingdom.

Help us, Father, to see the power of your majesty at work in our lives, our meetings, our ministries and our service for you across this nation. In Yeshua's name, amen. Amen.