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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