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“We have Renounced the Hidden Things of Shame . . .” - 2 Corinthians 4:2
You have now stood before the judgment seat of G-d, absolved of your sins as you beseeched the G-d of Israel to write your names for another year in the Book of Life. Yet, have you “renounced the hidden things of shame” in your life—the things that your sense of honor or pride will not allow to come into the light? You have easily confessed the things that have caused you and others so much pain and dissension within the visible circle of your friends and family, but what about those things that you can easily hide within your heart, and remain a cancerous sore for the future?
Is there a thought in your heart about anyone that you would not like to be brought into the light? Then it is your duty to renounce it as soon as it comes to your mind. You must renounce everything in its entirety, not just those areas that are visible to someone else. There must be no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all. Envy, jealousy, and strife does not necessarily arise from your old nature of sin. It can start again in your “flesh” because you are use to having these kinds of “hidden things of shame” in the past to remain hidden. (see Romans 6:19 and 1 Peter 4:1-3). The void of their spot within your heart has not been filled with thoughts of goodness and righteousness. You have not been practicing the life of a Tzaddik, a person of righteousness. So you must learn to maintain a continual watchfulness so that nothing arises in your life that would cause you shame in your life.
The purpose of renunciation of sin is not just to absolve the past, but to begin a new life and determine that you will “. . . not walk in craftiness. . .” (2 Corinthians 4:2). “Walking in craftiness” means not resorting to something simply to make your own point. This is a terrible trap to place in your life. You know that the G-d of Israel will allow you to work in only one way—the way of truth. If you believe that with all your heart and mind and soul, then you must be careful never to try to catch or trap people through the other way—the way of deceit. If you act deceitfully, God’s curse and ruin will be upon you. What may be devious for your life, may not be for others, but you are a “chosen one of G-d, and He has called you to a higher standard of living.
It is critical that you must never dull your sense of righteousness as you stand before the judgment seat of G-d. Your life must always reflect itself as the “utmost for His highest—your best for His glory”. For you, doing certain actions, and activities suggest to others that deviousness is again being demonstrated in your life. It is for a purpose other than what is the highest and best. For them to remain in your life will dull the highest ideals that G-d has given for your life.
Life is supposed to be looked at from the perspective of G-d’s vision of righteousness. You are suppose to cast away deceit and ill will towards others and not turn back, as other people do, because they are afraid to take their vision to the highest plane of spiritual elevation. It’s time to look at life from G-d’s perspective like an eagle looking down upon the earth as it soars high in the heavens.
As we approach the days of joy and thanksgiving during the Fall Feast of Thanksgiving, we are reminded of that day in the future when G-d, manifested as His Messiah, will come down and dwell with man. As the Jews live today in temporary sukkots or dwelling places, they will rejoice for a few days of joy in the fall. They will remember their days of reclamation from Egypt and the last few hours before they were redeemed from the oppression of evil tyranny in the world around them. These moments of celebration, putting them again in temporary dwellings, even again exposed in part to the elements of the rain or sun. As they look up into the heavens, they rejoice as when they were beginning their great Exodus to their Promised Land.
So today, they celebrate as we, the Lost Tribes of Israel are awakening to a new life. We must begin the art of casting out sin and craftiness within our lives. We must prepare our lives for the restoration of a new life, when again the G-d of Israel will bring us “out of Egypt” where we lived a life of materialism as we danced around our golden calf.
We as Lost Tribers of the House of Israel must begin our mental restoration, as again we know that we will be restored, as our ancient forefathers did, from a land of oppression where all our freedoms so seductively consumed our lives. We will have to experience even for a short period of time, during days of great apocalypse and calamities, what true tyranny is all about in a global world order of shame and deceit. But the G-d of our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has promised through His prophets that He will redeem us, as He promised (Ezekiel 36) back to the land of our forefathers. (See Ezekiel 36:24) Then He will come, as His Messiah during the fall Feast of Tabernacles in the manifestation of Himself to visibly “dwell” or to “tabernacle” again with us, His lost children on earth that was the purpose of His first coming; to Find the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel,
He will come to rule with the “rod of iron” of righteousness and justice. Before that day, though, we as the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel will again go through another Exodus from the land of our dwellings. We will again, seek our aliyah and be restored to the Land of Promise. At that time, we will be restored in fellowship with our cousins the Jews (see Ezekiel 37:15-17), as together we will stand in the Day of our Judgment at Yom Kippur before the Supreme Judge of the Universe, and plead our case.
When we are declared righteous, and restored in brotherhood with Judah our cousins, we will be prepared in that wondrous day, when go up yearly to “Mount of the L-rd” and worship yearly with all the seventy nations of the world, as G-d promised through the Prophet Zechariah;
Zechariah 14:16 – And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nation which came against Jerusalem shall go up from the year to year to worship the King, the L-rd of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles”.
In that day, the G-d of Israel, manifested as His Messiah, will dwell and tabernacle with His people for a thousand years of peace when this earth will be restored again as Gans Eden.
Ezekiel 36:33-36 – “Thus says the L-rd G-d: ‘On that day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.’ So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the Garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.
Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the L-rd, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the L-rd have spoken it, and I will do it.’”
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