RUN THE RACE AND NEVER LOOK BACK

Yahveh, we praise and thank you that you have spiritually defined the “Highway,” for your separated ones to make exit out of this doomed world; this world that is in rebellion against You. This highway is for those who have died to the flesh, who have counted the cost over and over again to follow You, and who have cast aside every single sin that Your Ruach HaKodesh has brought up to the surface; the fire of Your presence reveals all our sins that so easily beset us, or we could not run this race. (Hebrews 12:1)

If we run the race in the flesh we will end up in eternal darkness; that path is of the earth. If we run the race on the “Highway of Holiness” (Isaiah 35:8), it leads into Yahveh’s eternal kingdom. This is where He dwells, the Formless One, who is spirit and the Creator of heaven and earth. Only the righteous who have come out of the world, and live, breath, move, and have their being in the Spirit of Yahshua, will enter into the kingdom of Yahveh.

So, we thank you Yahveh that this “Highway” is there. The issue is to get all of our feet established on this “Highway of Holiness”, so when we move forward quickly, as we must do, in these last hours, we are not self deceived to think we are on that “Highway” going into Your kingdom, while we are still in the flesh, still in self justification, still in pride, still in stubbornness, still in the ways of the world. Although we will run, we will not end up in Your kingdom, because we transcend on a “highway” of EARTHLINESS instead of HOLINESS.

Father in heaven, You are working diligently to separate us. It is Your loving mercy upon each one of us, to allow us to hear Your words from Yahshua, our commander in chief. He is calling us out of this world to be in His army, never to return to civilian affairs, but to fight the good fight of faith and to run the race never looking back. There is nothing in this world, that is not going to be ultimately destroyed, one way or another, sooner or later. The only thing that will remain are the souls of those who have been sanctified by the blood, and who have left the flesh impaled, crucified on the tree with Messiah. They move agilely in the spirit of Yahshua and can run with the wind of the spirit, because they are not encumbered by the pull that holds their flesh interested in this world. There is only one interest we should have in this world and that is to get out of it; to pull out of all investments, and all of our interests, seeking Yahveh for the souls of men, if possible, to snatch them out of the fire. (Jude 23)

All of us at times justify why we hold on to preoccupations of this worldly, earthly realm that is under the judgment of the Righteous One, who sees nothing redeemable about it. He has proclaimed over and over again through His prophets, and is making it clear, even through His newscasters, that this world will be destroyed and everything in it will be laid bare, it is just a matter of time. “The earth is defiled by its people, they have disobeyed the Laws and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth, its people must bear their guilt. Therefore the earth’s inhabitants are burned up and very few are left.” (Isaiah 24:5-6)

But for us there is a provision, it is a MIGHTY provision, it is a “Highway,” a thoroughfare that only the righteous will enter in. "Do not be deceived; Yahveh says over and over again, He will not be mocked" (Galatians 6:7). If you are doing things that are against His righteousness, it is building up flesh and it is a stench in His nostrils. Yahveh says, “Come out of this world and be Kadosh, be separate, be holy, for without holiness (Hebrews 12:14) no one will enter into My presence and see My face eternally.”

If He came today, how many of us think we would hear Him say, “Well done good and faithful servant,” not based on our own understanding and self-righteous pomposity of who we think we are, but according to His holiness? How many of us think we could stand in His presence, which is a consuming fire, and not be ashamed when we see the reality of His whole Word before us, because He is the Living Word, and we see how far short we have fallen from every jot and Tittle of it.

Regardless of how you might boast, you have something down there in your heart that has offended Yahveh. The sin that is the subtlest is pride, it is at the top of Yahveh’s list that He hates the most. We can cloak it, we can masquerade the pride with a false humility, but "Yahveh’s eyes, search to and fro to see whose hearts are wholeheartedly set on Him (2 Chronicles 16:9). How many fractions is your heart divided into? Do you have unconfessed sin, are you are still tied up in yourself-SELF that wants what SELF wants, you need to know that where there is self, there is no Yahshua; self is an enemy to Yahshua.

What is it going to take for Yahveh to get us ready? I THINK IT IS JUDGMENT. He said, “In a time of peace and favor the people do not learn righteousness” (see Isaiah 26:10). (But we are still to pray that we can “escape the judgments that are coming” Luke 21:36). Yahveh knows what it is going to take to get each and everyone of us, who really want Him, into His kingdom. We are all sinners and we all have a lot to workout, but if you don’t start NOW, and you don’t stop deceiving yourselves and mocking Yahveh, then the consequences are going to be more severe.

“Go my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while, separate yourself from this world, until His wrath has passed by…Yahveh is coming to punish the inhabitants of the earth.” (Isaiah 26:20-21) We need to be so separate, with the door to the world closed behind us, not making plans for the future on this earth. Yahveh says, “He is coming for a people that are eagerly waiting for Him.” We are not waiting for something else in life, there is not going to be anything, we are deceived if we think there is. We are to occupy but we are to have our hearts and minds stayed on Him.

If you do not fully obey Him and keep His commandments you will not go into the “promised land.” From the book of Isaiah we read, “These are rebellious people they are deceitful children, and they are children unwilling to listen to Yahveh’s instructions. They say to the prophets give us no more visions of teachings of what is right, tell us pleasant things. Prophesy illusions, delusions, deceptions, this is what we want to hear; it makes our flesh feel good if it’s not confronted. Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel and His holy commandments and precepts that lead to eternal life.

Yahveh says, because you have rejected this message and depended on deceit; meaning you prefer to stay in the delusion that everything is fine with you and you are right with Yahveh. This sin will become for you like a high wall cracked and bulging that collapses suddenly in an instant. Shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found.” Yahveh is saying this shattering will come against all the pride of man, all the pride of the religious, all who did not want to hear these words of judgment because it cramped their style, and put an obstacle to their ideals, hopes, and plans, when Yahveh who was to be their “exceedingly great reward,” was not the reward they sought at all.

He goes on to say, “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but in spite of this you would have nothing to do with it. You don’t want to repent completely, to rest in Yahveh and stop trying to be something when you are to be nothing. Yahveh is to be everything in you, through Yahshua. He is the One who is to be seen and heard, not the pomposity of you.

Yet, Yahveh longs to be gracious to you, He rises to show you compassion. For Yahveh is an Elohim (God) of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him! (See Isaiah 30:9-18)

Yahveh is humbling our souls; He is bringing us down so He can lift us up. “Out of the depths, we cry to You, O Yahveh, hear our voice! Let Your ears be attentive to our cry for mercy. If You, O Yahveh, kept a record of sins, O Adonai, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness; therefore You are feared, I wait for Yahveh, my soul waits and in His word I put my hope. My soul waits for Yahveh more than watchman wait for the morning, more than watchman wait for the morning, twice He repeats it, my soul longs for You, waits for You. Oh Israel, (Oh “one new man”) put your hope in Yahveh for with Him is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption. He Himself will redeem Israel (and those joined with her); He Himself will redeem them from all their sins. HalleluYAH! (Psalm 130)