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Special evidence

When we arrived at Tel Aviv on the 20th of October, we took a sharut to bring us to Jerusalem. A young man came in, orthodox I suppose, because of his hair. He took the seat before us and then something took my attention.

His tzittzits had a blue thread… on the picture I see three!

While he was sitting before me, I could see these blue threads and what did I see more?

Light!

I was looking more accurate and I saw the light was there beside the chair this young man was sittng.

I took the priviledge to take a picture to keep it in remembrance and then later when I returned home and looked to the picture, I saw the symbolism…

Bleu thread belong to this young jewish orthodox man and this Light…

The oldest son never have left the house of the Father, we did. And we know the result. It is written in Scriptures.

It made me think and when I continued my journey through my homeland I experienced so many new situations… like the article of Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz and other evidences…I am wondering.

We do live in exciting times!

 


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Nu daagt het in het oosten…

Juist deze week teruggekomen van een bijna veertiendaags bezoek aan Israel, waaronder vijf dagen het tweede Congres Bney Yosef National.

 Wat ik gedurende die dagen regelmatig kreeg waren de woorden uit Jesaja 45:19

“Ik heb niet in het verborgene gesproken, in een donkere plaats der aarde; Ik heb tot het zaad van Jakob niet gezegd: Zoekt Mij te vergeefs; Ik ben YHVH, Die gerechtigheid spreekt, Die rechtmatige dingen verkondigt”.

De indrukken moeten nog een plaatsje krijgen en velen zijn al druk in de weer om verslagen te schrijven…

Lees met ons mee, te beginnen met Ephraim en Rimona Frank op

http://etzbneyosef.blogspot.nl/2016/11/overview-of-second-bney-yosef-national.html

https://thebarkingfox.com/2016/10/29/israel-2016-picking-up-where-we-left-off-a-report-on-the-second-bney-yosef-national-congress/

https://natsab.com/2016/11/02/israel-2016-family-in-twelve-languages-the-conclusion-of-the-second-bney-yosef-national-congress/?wref=tp

Meer verslagen gaan volgen….

We houden u op de hoogte!

https://bneyyosefholland.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/woorden-zoeken-voor-indrukken/


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Ware verootmoediging geeft bijzonder resultaat

In de dagen opgaand naar Yom Kippur kreeg ik recentelijk van Ken Rank, die ik als een broer ben gaan kennen, een berichtje toegezonden dat hij op de website van United2Restore had gepubliceerd. Direct al bij het begin had het mijn volle aandacht!

Een paar zinnen in die open brief troffen me,  omdat ik dat zelf al weleens gedacht had, dat Yuda van mij, van ons zou kunnen denken, maar Ken had de moed en nederigheid om het openlijk te verwoorden!

Citaat:”When Hitler came into power, he claimed to be a Christian. Despite him being a poor reflection of the one he claimed to serve, the Jews should not be expected to have to discern who may or may not be reflecting the values of Christianity. Thus, from their perspective, if Hitler claimed to be a Christian, and I claim to be a Christian, then in their eyes, I am not much different than Hitler. Vertaling: Toen Hitler aan de macht kwam, beweerde hij een christen te zijn. Ondanks dat hij een slechte weerspiegeling van degene die hij had te bereiken moet van de Joden niet worden verwacht te onderscheiden wie niet of wie wel al dan niet de waarden van het christendom reflecteert. Dus, vanuit hun perspectief, als Hitler beweerde een Christen te zijn, en ik beweer een Christen te zijn, dan ben ik in hun ogen,niet veel anders dan Hitler”.

Ik ben Ken gaan kennen als een broeder die, hoewel een oceaan ons scheidt, betrouwbaar is in de relatie als familie in Yeshua. Het zijn geen loze woorden die hij schreef en wij mogen ze ter harte nemen. Hij triggerde wortels die er nog steeds zijn en die, hoewel voorvaders van ons ze deden, wij wel hun nazaten zijn. Een gevallen steek dient opgehaald te worden, wil het breiwerk een mooi resultaat zijn.

Ervaring met een huisgenoot die uit het Middenoosten voor enkele jaren in ons huisgezin kwam, heeft ons inzichten bijgebracht en zodoende kan ik met recht zeggen dat mensen uit het Middenoosten ons niet beoordelen op wat wij zeggen, maar wat onze houding is. Woorden als bovengenoemd zijn daarentegen krachtig, de houding is een bevestiging.
Ik denk dat Israeliers in het algemeen en zeker ook degenen die in de natiën leven, die middenoosten- mentaliteit niet verloren zijn.
Daarom laat ons ja “ja” zijn en ons nee “nee”!

Wanneer wij op ons hart hebben om in hun slechte tijden hen te bemoedigen, weten zij dat wat wij zeggen serieus is. Wanneer wij de moed durven te hebben om de fouten van onze vaderen aan te kaarten en aan te geven dat we begrijpen dat zij ons ook zo zien totdat wij het tegendeel bewijzen, dan gaan we inhoudelijk bezig. Dat zal zoden aan de dijk gaan zetten.

De open brief van Ken Rank gaf vrij gauw resultaat (1).

Om de hand te reiken dienen we zelfkennis te hebben en de moed om te bekennen ook al hebben we het zelf niet persoonlijk gedaan.
Dan krijgen de woorden “wij en onze vaderen tevens…” inhoud, die vroeg of later duurzaam resultaat gaat geven.

Kom ga met ons en doe als wij, psalm 122

(1) http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/76964/yom-kippur-repentance-devout-non-jew-jewish-response-opinion#6b3y5KoEZs7gsrZb.97

 


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Zaait aan alle wateren….

Zaait aan alle wateren…

Een zin met bijzondere betekenis
Een zin om op te wekken uit te gaan
Uit de comfortzone zoals men tegenwoordig weleens placht te zeggen

Jesaja 32:20 Shalom gijlieden, die aan alle wateren zaait; gij, die den voet des osses en des ezels derwaarts henenzendt!
Het vraagt inzet om te gaan en zeker naar wateren die Hij op het oog heeft. Om de os en de ezel ook die kant op te laten gaan, je zou kunnen zeggen dat dat symbolisch was, maar in de tijd van Yeshua was daar wel sprake van.
De ezel die zijn gebruikelijke gangetje weet, gaat niet vanzelf een andere route…

Jaren geleden zijn we es met een ezel twee dagen op pad gegaan. We kregen instructies hoe we met het beestje om moesten gaan. Dat was een mooie levenservaring en aan te bevelen! Onderweg kwamen we mensen tegen die met de eigenaar moesten bellen omdat de ezel geen poot meer verzette.
Het zou kunnen dat wij een makkelijk dier hadden,maar we hadden begrepen dat het geen paard is dat je bevelen geeft. Met een ezel moet je laten zien dat jij de route bepaalt en vervolgens in een soort van kameraadschap verder trekt.

Vanmorgen kreeg ik die woorden van genoemde tekst weer in gedachten toen me een artikel uit het Reformatorisch Dagblad onder ogen kwam waarin Bob van Dijk werd geciteerd en die woorden maakten me blij.
Blij, omdat Reformatorische kringen mij aan het hart gaan. Ik kwam er zelf zijdelings uit en onder hen zijn veel serieuze mensen.
Van hen leerde ik dat het Woord het Woord is. Dat je het Woord serieus moet nemen. Van hen leerde ik in beginsel dat YHVH heilig is. Het besef dat Hij boven alles staat en niet een loyale, tolerante vriend, die zaken over het hoofd en door de vingers ziet. Nu zoveel jaren later is dat in mijn beleving nog steeds zo, maar gedragen door Zijn aangereikte liefde, zoveel voller.
Daarom blijft dat achterland mijn belangstelling hebben en ook mijn sympathie, alhoewel zij dat niet altijd begrepen hebben. en dat is niet erg, wat het is Hij, YHVH, Die me die gevoelens geeft. In dienst van Hem ben ik, wandelend en lerende.

Zaait aan alle wateren…
In het besef en wetenschap dat we gezonden worden
Dat geeft de juiste houding
Overeenkomstig daarmee en Zijn aanmoediging tesamen, brengt iets in beweging waarvan Hij de uitkomst weet.
Halleluyah!

Artikel Ref Dagblad met Drs Bob van Dijk


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An honour when He calls us to come closer

“So why is God willing to accept a cry of repentance “immediately” at this time of year as Rambam suggests? Because it is during this time of year that we go above and beyond what might be considered “normal” in an effort only to draw closer to Him. Don’t forget, God uses our earthly marriage as a picture of our relationship with Him. The times when you or your spouse can truly see the love you have for one another occurs when you go above and beyond the normal routine for each other. That is what God desires, for us to go above and beyond the normal routine.”

http://www.united2restore.com/2016/09/26/the-10-days-of-awe/

 


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The behavior of the prodigal son

Recently I have read the parable of the prodigal son and I saw something special I wasn’t aware so far and in detail.

Luke 15:11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:
12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.”

Isn’t it written in the book Hosea,chapter 2, that the things we have received from our Father we have taken for our own pleasure?

Verse 8: ” For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal”

All the goods in that foreign country gave him not the real food he needed and it was when he had nothing  he became aware of his behaviour and acts.

Vers 17 of Luke 15: “And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”

He came to himself…

He didn’t look around to teach others he had receive the truth in a behaviour of thinking he knows more than others, especially our brother Juda…

He was aware of his own behaviour to his Father…And this awareness was more than enough to have and to realise who he was!

And this he was thinking and experiencing he was:

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee”

The younger son knew because of YHVH’s law what punishment was right for him to undergo and he was complete ready to receive this punishment.He was prepared to confess the Father his sin and he was ready to accept the humble position not to be a son anymore than a servant…

“And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”

The younger son was serious about that. He was aware and thinking to arise and go tho his father. He wasn’t thinking to go to his older brother. His conflict was with the head of the family, his father.

And he arose, and came to his father.”

He went..With this act he took the first step to repent in a very humble behavior.

I suppose he didn’t expect what we read in the following words:

“But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him”.

The younger one was not thinking “oh my father is kissing me and hug me…I will say nothing” He was not going to his father to earn Father’s love and acceptation.

His awareness, this preparation inside the son, came from the Ruach haKodesh, made him pure:

And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son”.

His father have loved his son always and he was so glad. Beside that or can I say because of that never ending love and promises, the behaviour of the younger son  became pure.

This son was renewed in his whole being.And still it was the dialogue between only the father and the young one.

Who was telling about this great news to the older son?

Was it the younger one?

First it was a servant and you can see the result, because a servant don’t have the authority of the Father…

25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
28 And he was angry, and would not go in:”

“therefore came his father out, and intreated him”

At that very moment the Father came out was sharing the news to the older son. He was the right person, as  head of the household to tell the older son what has happened. The authority of the father was needed to give the older son to understand it was because the father, his father allowed the younger one to be his son.

“And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.”

As soon as thy son was come… The older one didnt accept the younger as his brother, because he has seen the process and felt himself more righteous and maybe also jealous…

And the father, knowing his never ending love for his older son as well, shared with him what he experienced as a father in his authority:

“And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.”

While the older son said to his father  : “thy son” the father was saying to him: ” for this, thy brother…” The father had given the younger son the position of son and  in his position and love for both, the father told the older one what position the younger already has received. In the house of the father there was no difference. A son is a son. Even with different talents and gifts. What a special revelation!

It seems that during the feast the two brothers came together and reunited as brothers..

In Scripures YHVH has given authority to the father in a household, like He has in the household of His people. Like a shepherd has with a flock.

In this parable we receive knowledge of wisdom and understanding from above.

Let us be aware of this great lesson!

Baruch ata YHVH!

Thankful and honour to Yeshua Who was, is and shall come!

 

 

 

 

 


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Dedication more than agreement

Why can people, especially believers, be so united in one accord and then suddenly there is a message, an experience and the understanding of family/mispocha is disapeared. In the situation I have experienced a process of biblical act was not practiced so far. Can that be a fruit of the Ruach HaKodesh?

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.

Why not going to a brother, a sister and ask from firsthand what whas happen instead of listen to a third person and conclude without hearing the first person with open heart like before?

Matt 18:15  Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Me myself take the Word of YHVH serious in this. When people dont’t practice that advice Scriptures gives and don’t share the process with all the ones who were with them in the very beginning, I can only conclude there is something wrong. Because the words of Galatians 5:22 gives us a clear explanation of the fruit…

This subject reminds me also to Matth 13:3

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
Which way can we go when we have made devision and have listen to third persons?

We need to do the biblical way of repentance, otherwise we can’t come in and follow our way with them we first were negative to. Otherwise we will not be one again like before.

1 Cor. 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

The love of the Father is not incidential, it is dedication. He have made a promise and He don’t change. When Yeshua commands in Joh.15 He give instructions of dedication, because He dedicated Himself to His dearones.
Joh 15: 2 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Can we conclude that when we want to love like John 15 gives, we need to dedicate ourselves to our dearones, our mispocha?

If so then we can trust we will continue in a precious relationship with YHVH ánd our dearones.

May it be so!

So that the world can see Who’s Father we serve.

 

 


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Connecting four corners because of His blessing

Since I received more light about Ezekiel 37 and other references in Scriptures, I was led mostly to my english-speaking mispocha in the world to write and share with them.

Over the years we were blessed with longterm and more than friendly contacts.

One result was a journey to Canada and Alaska to visit friends who are practising Yeshua’s Torah. For ourself we are not common to do such things, but it was such a blessed experience.

And this was just the beginning…

Last year we went to the first Congres of Bney Yosef National what took place at Ariel.Such a tremendous joy and shalom there was and not because of the  people who all practice the same calendar, speaking the Name with the same pronounciation or more.

No, the ttremendous joy and such an overwhelming shalom came direct from Father’s heart.

Before this experience we had preparations. Ephraim and Rimona Frank wrote blessed emails to help us with advise how to unite ourselves with our differences.YHVH had blessed these written advises.Four facts we had and have in common: Confessing Yeshua, Practising written Torah, Love to the land (Israel) and love to the people.

We came as individuals and we went as individuals with the experience of a whole new mispocha. The Congres itself is not an organization or new denomination, so we went back to work out what we experienced. A European group and a North American group were created spontaniously.

We both have worked things out.We are not a duplicate of eachother, we are different in different countries, but with the same four facts in common.

There are more initiatives. It seems the word Ephraimites seems to become a hype and when you look carefully you can discover differences with the focus more or less on something.

For me personally it is very important not to loose the central fact in my life: Yeshua Who was, is and shall come again. Yeshua Who is YHVH in the flesh, Yeshua Who’s Name is YHVH Who saves.He came for the lost tribes of Israel first.

It is not necessary to come under a halacha of a human being and loose my faith in Yeshua to enter the land, Ha Aretz. So while I live and work I wait upon my Father for the best result.

YHVH Who saves will create a path to enter His land at His time.Before that we are allow to work in His vineyard. As a Father He knows the best for His children.

Let us ask Him to hear His voice and how He prefer we will be to everyone we meet, continueing the path He shows us.

Recently we have had an European meeting of BY in the Netherlands and we have experienced such a deep shalom with all of the participants and some came also from Israel and US/Canada. We could share with open hearts and minds to eachother and again YHVH have blessed this meeting.

This year second Congres Bney Yosef National will take place, YHVH willing.

1Cor.1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Yeshua HaMasshiach, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

 

 

 

 

 


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Misschien hebben ons teveel gefocust, dat het nog moet komen…

Recentelijk waren Ephraim en Rimona Frank in ons land en spraken ze op een avond in de buurt van Gorinchem over de Levende Torah en leven door de Geest.

We maakten wat notities…

Yeshua is het Levende Woord en de Geest van Torah…
Torah is geestelijk…wet is hier Torah en geen wet
Rom.7: 14
Wat ontvangen we als Israël van het Woord
Rom 9: 4 lijst van
Torah kan niet gescheiden worden van het verbond
Hand 3 : 25
Niet alleen Shema maar praktiserend volgen is de liefde voor Elohim met alles wat in je is..dan kan
In het natuurlijke is het haast onmogelijk om te houden
Wij krijgen de Ruach en in Zijn kracht kunnen we het doen
Ezechiel 11: 19,20
Zonder torah geen natie
Leven van de geredde gemeenschap
Velen die dit gaan volgen en uit de kerk komen en er zijn er die veel langer eruit zijn en die gaan ontmoeten…wat vinden ze?
Vinden ze eenheid..De liefde van de torah..of komen ze onder een oordeel van mensen?
Wat bieden wij hen als ouderen in het geloof?
Liefde van Yeshua en liefde tot de naasten
Wat ziet Yudah als ze ons zien?
Yudah zegt dat het Nieuwe verbond er nog niet is en we zijn et ook niet omdat we ons nog net zo gedragen als in de kerk …we maken hen niet jaloers.
Het meeste belangrijkste handeling is bekering!
De enige weg om de Torah te doen is met de Ruach!

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