Cursed is the man or blessed is the man

 

 

 

 

Who is cursed and who will be blessed?

Read these verses very carefully to understand what is meant by “Cursed is the man  who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from Yahuah and “Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahuah, and whose trust is Yahuah.

 

The curse.

Jeremiah 17:5-6 Thus said Yahuah, “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from Yahuah. “For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and not see when good comes, and shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land that is not inhabited.

Israel as a nation did not turn to Yahuah in faith during their distress, but looked toward other nations for sources.

Are we today trusting in man and making flesh our strength? What examples do we trust in man today: health (medical schemes, doctors, pharmacy etc.), weather (changing or affecting the weather), farming (force feeding animals and modifying crops), teach the word (listen to preachers or making up religious doctrines and traditions), governments (man’s laws: teaching the children and marriage rules) to name a few.

 

The blessing.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 “Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahuah, and whose trust is Yahuah. “For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and does not see when heat comes. And his leaf shall be green, and in the year of drought he is not anxious, no rdoes he cease from yielding fruit.

Psalm 146:5-7 Blessed is he who has the El of Jacob for his help, whose expectancy is in Yahuah his Elohim, maker of the heavens and earth, the sea and all that is in them, who is guarding truth forever, doing right-ruling for the oppressed, giving bread to the hungry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We trust Yah for healing, family, children, rain, health, food, teaching, protection, to name a few.

It is best to trust in Yahuah then in man’s entertainments.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahuah.”

 

Our parents have inherited lies and vanity

 

 

O Yahuah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, our fathers have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them – Jeremiah 16:19.

 

 

 

This is what the people will be saying at Messiah's return when they see all their pagan customs were not pleasing to Yahuah and only brought curses.

The truth, and the Messiah, was given to Yisra’el, not to the pagan nations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If we want to be part of Yahuah’s truth then we need to turn away from the lies and futility that our parents inherited and start walking in Yahuah’s righteousness. This includes all the traditions we have added to a simple, easy to follow Word.

Would man make idols for himself, which are not but dead wood, stone, steel, money, buildings etc. (Jeremiah 16:20).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The good news is Yahuah will cause them to know His hand and His might; and they shall know that His Name is Yahuah (Jeremiah 16:21).

When the true Yasra'el (Israel) is returned no longer will Yahuah be referred to by pagan titles and names but all people will know that Yahuah is the one redeeming them.

 

Voice will cease

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is what Yahuah said to Jeremiah of the things that will no longer be found in people and their places because of their sin.

“See, before your eyes and in your days, I am making the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride to cease in this place (Jeremiah 16:9). Read also Jeremiah 25:10.

The voices of rejoicing, of gladness, of the bridegroom and of the bride will not be heard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guess what the people will say when this happens!

Jeremiah 16:10 ‘Why has Yahuah pronounced all this great evil against us? And what is our crookedness (iniquity), and what is our sin that we have committed against Yahuah our Elohim?’

Yahuah answers in Jeremiah 16:11-12 ‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ declares Yahuah, ‘and have walked after other mighty ones and served them and bowed themselves to them, and have forsaken Me, and did not guard My Torah. ‘And you have done more evil than your fathers, for look, each one walks according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Because of people worshipping idols and not following Yahuah’s commands. It is the breaking of the Torah that led to this grave attack and ultimate captivity. Yahuah laid out in the precepts of the Torah how to serve and love Him and how to love our fellow man. When the Torah is ignored for mankind’s own human nature, he will ultimately fail and bring his own misery.

 

Jeremiah 16:12-13 And you have done more evil than your fathers. For, behold, you each one walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to Me. And I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, you nor your fathers. And there you shall serve other Elohim day and night, where I will not grant you favor.

Yahuah warned the people long before Jeremiah’s time of what would happen if they worshipped idols – read Deuteronomy 28:64.

A time will come when people will forget about the Almighty Yahuah – Jeremiah 16:14.

In this time when the people are scattered all across the world, Yahuah will visit the wicked from within the people as these wicked people will not be able to hide from Yahuah – Jeremiah 16:16-17.

 

Jeremiah 16:18 “And first I shall repay double for their crookedness and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the dead bodies of their disgusting matters, and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

Can we blame Yahuah when we go through punishment because we fall away from doing what is right like these people did in those times.

Something to think about!

 

 

Given us of His Spirit

 

 

 

 

 

Believers are given His Ruach who live in Him (live by His ways because we love Him).

1 John 4:13 By this we know that we stay in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

His love through His Spirit is perfected in us.

When His love is in us through His Spirit then we will love His commands and we will guard them because of love.

 

1 John 3:24 And the one guarding His commands stays in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He stays in us, by the Spirit which He gave us.

His Spirit (Ruach) in you, makes love to be perfected in you which leads then to loving your neighbor and to loving His commands.

 

John 14:23 Yahusha answered him, “If anyone loves Me, he shall guard My Word. And My Father shall love him, and We shall come to him and make Our stay with him.

Acts 5;32 “And we are His witnesses to these matters, and so also is the Set-apart Spirit whom Elohim has given to those who obey Him.”

1 John 2:5 But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Elohim has been perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

But now here is a big warning for all of us as there are those who have a false spirit in them which must be tested.

 

1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from Elohim; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

Isaiah 8:20 To the Torah and to the witness! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no light.

A true prophet will only teach what is scripturally sound according to Yahuah’s commands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The true and the false spirit is mentioned in 1 John 4:2-3 The Spirit of Elohim is known by this: Every spirit which confesses that Yahusha Messiah has come in the flesh is from Yahuah. And every spirit which does not confess that Yahusha Messiah has come in the flesh is not from Elohim; and this is the Anti-Messiah which you heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

Anti-Messiah means to be in the place of Messiah.

1 John 4:4 Little children, you are of Elohim and have overcome them, because He that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.

The Ruach in you is greater than the world.

 

1 John 4:5-6 They are of the world, therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of Elohim – the one knowing Elohim hears us. He who is not of Elohim does not hear us. By this we know the Spirit of the Truth and the spirit of the delusion.

 

 

 

 

 

The one with the true Spirit of Elohim in him, hears Him but the one with the false spirit is in error and hears delusions.