Friday, April 18, 2025

Compromise

If one is going to walk on the road toward Zion, the dwelling place of the Most High Elohim and His Son Yeshua, compromising the reality of identity to the promised seed of Abraham is out of the question. If one is going to bear the testimony of YHVH’s covenant-keeping faithfulness, then one cannot compromise the truth that Elohim raised Yeshua from the dead. The Messianic birthmark of our coming forth from Sarah is the faith of Abraham, who believed resurrection life from a dead womb (and also the ‘sacrifice’ of his only son Isaac). The latter foreshadowed the even more significant event, namely, the Life that came forth from the tomb.

The Abrahamic faith has been passed down, generation after generation, in seed form, as YHVH watched over its sowing until the fields were ripe for the harvest. The Word of Elohim strongly exhorts us that unbelief is tantamount to disobedience. “And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief” (Hebrews 3:18-19).  Compromise is unbelief and will quickly lead one off of those narrow highways to Zion. Compromise is dangerously close to causing one to become a false witness to YHVH’s Covenant faithfulness.

“For when Elohim made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, ‘I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply you.’ And thus, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.  For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute. In the same way Elohim, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, in order that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for Elohim to lie, we may have strong encouragement…” (Hebrews 6:13-18 emphasis added).  The Father’s anointed seed’s identity in this generation is bearing witness to His faithfulness in keeping His promise to Abraham and Sarah.  “For this is a word of promise: ‘At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son’" (Romans 9:9)…”for neither are they all children because they are Abraham's seed, but: ‘through Isaac [Sarah’s son] your seed will be named… the children of the promise are regarded as seed” (Romans 9:7-8).  “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; it was he to whom it was said, ’In Isaac your seed shall be called’" (Hebrews 11:17-18).

 “He [Elohim] has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations, the covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac. Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant…" (Psalm 105:8-11). 

YHVH has been faithful to keep His promise to the forefathers’ seed; how much more will He be faithful to keep the New Covenant promise to the same seed. The Christian world is celebrating “resurrection day,” but little do they know that believing Elohim raised Yeshua from the dead (see Romans 4:24) is a declaration of Elohim’s faithfulness to the first Covenant made with their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. “For those who are of the faith are all the seed of Abraham” (Romans 4:16). 

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