Tisha b'Av literally means - the 9th of Av- and it's a day of fasting and mourning for the Jewish people. They mourn the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash (Temple) in Yerushalayim and all the destruction that came upon the Jewish people ever since. It's a very sad day, probably the saddest day in Jewish history, a day when the Jews beg for the reconstruction of the third Temple and the coming of Mashaich. May it be HaShem's will that the Beit HaMikdash will be rebuilt soon and the redemption of the Jewish people begins. Bo Yeshua! Come Yeshua!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Monday, July 19, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Chabad at World Cup
Although I am not a lubavitcher (chabad) fan 100%, I do believe that they are one of the best kiruv (bringing assimilated Jews close to Judaism) oriented Jewish sect, right next to the breslov Chassidim. Aside for the fact that both sects were a bit too obsessed with their Rabbis (Menachem Sheerson and Nachman b'Uman) they have a genuine love for Judaism and yiddishkeit (Jews) and in that respect I feel close to them. They believe that joy is the cure for anything. This video is just the proof of that. Enjoy!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Friday, July 9, 2010
Get out of Mitzrayim!
When Israel was in Mitzrayim (Egypt), Adonai commanded them to take a 
perfect lamb and sacrifice it. Its blood they were supposed to put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel of their houses and they had to eat all of the lamb, without leaving any leftovers. Adonai commanded that they should remember and do this as an eternal law (Shemot/ Exod 12:14), with one small difference: they wouldn't put the blood of the lamb on the two side posts and on the lintel. The blood was a one time thing. The Jews didn't have to put the blood of the lamb on the side posts on every Pesach (Passover), they only had to eat the lamb.
We know that this is a picture of what would happen when Mashiach would come. He is the perfect Lamb of Elohim. When someone is in Mitzrayim (Egypt) and is a slave of sin, they can come out of that only covered by the blood of Mashiach. This covering is done only once because you come out of Egypt only once. If you go back there then you crucify Yeshua again (Hebrews 6:6) and that it's impossible. It was too much for Adonai to watch His Holy Son being killed by sinners and He can't go through that again. Yeshua was glorified above all things and He can't get off His throne and suffer again just because you miss the cucumbers of Egypt (Bamidbar/ Numbers 11:5). If you were set free and got out of Egypt once then it's never an option to go back no matter what! If the Jews that came out of captivity would have returned there, then Adonai would have had to bring all the plagues against Mitzrayim again, they would have had to slain a perfect lamb again, the angel of death would have had to come again, and the entire liberation process would have had to be repeated, and that was impossible. If you couldn't do that with the blood of a lamb, then even less can you do it with the blood of Mashiach.
Once you decided you don't want to be a slave anymore and you took the blood of Yeshua then you must get out of Mitzrayim and never return again. The blood of Yeshua was spilled only once and it's not necessary to be crucified every time one chooses to go back to Egypt.
After the Jews were saved by the blood of the lamb, they had to eat the lamb so they would have strength to walk a long journey out of Egypt. It wasn't enough just to put the blood of the lamb on the side posts of their homes, that was just their ticket out of captivity, but each and every one of them had to go out and start walking on this path that Adonai would show them until they would reach Eretz HaKodesh (Holy Land). If a Jew would have chosen to put the blood on the side posts but would not go out of Egypt the next day, then what would he gain that he was covered by the blood? Same thing with us, if we've been covered by the blood of Yeshua then we must be ready to walk out of Egypt, not just to sit there and thank Him for His blood. What's the point to be covered by the blood if you are still in Egypt? If you've been covered by the blood of Yeshua then you must walk out of captivity, away from sin and never return to it, then you must walk on the path that Adonai will show you. The Jews didn't know the way to Israel, but they were lead there by Adonai as a cloud by day and pillar of fire at night.
We don't know the way to our promised land either but we know the Way and if we stay on it then it can't lead anywhere else but to Adonai.
The Way s not easy so we need to feed ourselves with the Lamb of Elohim so that we won't faint on the way, but even if it happens for us to fall He will lift us up because He's merciful and He values our walk with Him. The main thing is not to go back to Egypt!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
perfect lamb and sacrifice it. Its blood they were supposed to put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel of their houses and they had to eat all of the lamb, without leaving any leftovers. Adonai commanded that they should remember and do this as an eternal law (Shemot/ Exod 12:14), with one small difference: they wouldn't put the blood of the lamb on the two side posts and on the lintel. The blood was a one time thing. The Jews didn't have to put the blood of the lamb on the side posts on every Pesach (Passover), they only had to eat the lamb.We know that this is a picture of what would happen when Mashiach would come. He is the perfect Lamb of Elohim. When someone is in Mitzrayim (Egypt) and is a slave of sin, they can come out of that only covered by the blood of Mashiach. This covering is done only once because you come out of Egypt only once. If you go back there then you crucify Yeshua again (Hebrews 6:6) and that it's impossible. It was too much for Adonai to watch His Holy Son being killed by sinners and He can't go through that again. Yeshua was glorified above all things and He can't get off His throne and suffer again just because you miss the cucumbers of Egypt (Bamidbar/ Numbers 11:5). If you were set free and got out of Egypt once then it's never an option to go back no matter what! If the Jews that came out of captivity would have returned there, then Adonai would have had to bring all the plagues against Mitzrayim again, they would have had to slain a perfect lamb again, the angel of death would have had to come again, and the entire liberation process would have had to be repeated, and that was impossible. If you couldn't do that with the blood of a lamb, then even less can you do it with the blood of Mashiach.
Once you decided you don't want to be a slave anymore and you took the blood of Yeshua then you must get out of Mitzrayim and never return again. The blood of Yeshua was spilled only once and it's not necessary to be crucified every time one chooses to go back to Egypt.
After the Jews were saved by the blood of the lamb, they had to eat the lamb so they would have strength to walk a long journey out of Egypt. It wasn't enough just to put the blood of the lamb on the side posts of their homes, that was just their ticket out of captivity, but each and every one of them had to go out and start walking on this path that Adonai would show them until they would reach Eretz HaKodesh (Holy Land). If a Jew would have chosen to put the blood on the side posts but would not go out of Egypt the next day, then what would he gain that he was covered by the blood? Same thing with us, if we've been covered by the blood of Yeshua then we must be ready to walk out of Egypt, not just to sit there and thank Him for His blood. What's the point to be covered by the blood if you are still in Egypt? If you've been covered by the blood of Yeshua then you must walk out of captivity, away from sin and never return to it, then you must walk on the path that Adonai will show you. The Jews didn't know the way to Israel, but they were lead there by Adonai as a cloud by day and pillar of fire at night.
We don't know the way to our promised land either but we know the Way and if we stay on it then it can't lead anywhere else but to Adonai.
The Way s not easy so we need to feed ourselves with the Lamb of Elohim so that we won't faint on the way, but even if it happens for us to fall He will lift us up because He's merciful and He values our walk with Him. The main thing is not to go back to Egypt!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
An eye for an eye
We know that Yeshua came to fulfill the Law (Matthew 5:17), and we know that 'an eye for an eye' is in the Law' so, if Yeshua didn't come to abolish the Law, then how can you explain His words?
The Jewish people have kept this mitzvah (commandment) for 4000 years and I can promise you that they're not a blind and toothless nation. "An eye for an eye" doesn't encourage revenge nor does it encourage people to make justice for themselves.
The context in which this mitzvah was given, is 'slightly' different than most like to quote it.
But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise. "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. - Shemot/ Exodus 21:21-26
Adonai has invented compensation. Up until the moment this mitzvah was given, the one that was stronger had absolute power and owed nothing to no one, specialy to someone poorer then them. One that was rich could harm a poor man without any consequence, without the poor person being comepensated in any way. Among goyim (non-Jews) a master could kill his slave if he so wanted to without being guilty of a crime because the slave was considered like an animal. In the same way if a man chose to beat his wife to death, he wasn't responsible in any way, because it was considered his right to do so. But Adonai is a loving God so He gave a loving Law, a Law that was sensitive even to the pain of a slave that normaly had no right whatsoever.
The Sanhedrin or the Beit Din (a court of law) was establishing the value of the loss and came up with an amount of money that would cover that loss.
'An eye for an eye' doesn't mean that if a man lost an eye or a tooth because of someone else, they would go and revenge their loss by doing the same thing to the other person.
What Yeshua is saying in Matthew 5:38-41 is that if somehow you were to lose an eye or a tooth don't ask for compensation, and if you are the one that left a man blind or toothless, then you shold pay even more than what they ask of you. If someone asks for compensation your coat let him take your cloak as well. And if he asks for compensation for you to walk 1 mile with him, then you should walk 2.
The verses in Matthew 5 are said in the context of the Law issued in Exodus 21, so it must be interpreted in that context and not to support a theory according to which Adonai no longer requires that which He once commanded. That would just make Him as changing as the weather and we know He's the same forever.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Butt Prints in the Sand
(writer unknown)
One night, I had a wondrous dream;
One set of footprints there was seen.
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some stranger prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord, “What have we here?”
“Those prints are large and round and neat,
But, Lord, they are too big for feet.”
“My child,” He said in somber tones.
“For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait.
You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith you would not know.
So I got tired and fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt,
Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave some butt prints in the sand.”
One night, I had a wondrous dream;
One set of footprints there was seen.
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some stranger prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord, “What have we here?”
“Those prints are large and round and neat,
But, Lord, they are too big for feet.”
“My child,” He said in somber tones.
“For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait.
You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith you would not know.
So I got tired and fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt,
Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave some butt prints in the sand.”
Faith in the Dark
Do you only believe when you can see with your eyes? When your prayers are answered and miracles carry you on their wings? Or do you also believe when circumstances fly in your face?If it touches you to the core, if it is a belief you truly own, if it is as real to you as life itself, then it does not change.
And if it does not change, then you are bound up with the true essence of the One who does not change. -- Tzvi Freeman
Monday, July 5, 2010
The Alef and the Tav
Thus says the LORD, the King of Yisra'el, and his Redeemer, the LORD of Hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God. - Yeshayahu/ Isaiah 44:6
Listen to me,
O Ya`akov, and Yisra'el my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. - Yeshayahu/ Isaiah 48:12
I am the Alef and the Tav, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. - HaHitgalut/ Revelation 22:13
What does it mean that HaShem is First and Last, the Beginning and the End? If Adonai is God then He is eternal, meaning He has no beginning and no end. If HaShem is the Creator of all things that means He is not contained within the things He created, but above those things. Time is a creation of HaShem so that means HaShem is not contained within time. Eternity means absence of time and if He's Eternal then time has no meaning to Him.
When God says He's the Beginning and the End, it doesn't mean that time began with Him and it will end with Him, because His person has nothing to do in essence with time, so this must be about something else.
The only way I can understand these words is that He is The First, Highest, Greatest, First in position not in age, He's above all things while at the same time He is the Last, the End, the lowest, the servant... the One that lowered Himself lower than anyone and anything to redeem those that were too low to reach Him.
It could be hard for some to wrap their minds around it, but it's the same as believing that God is both Son and Father, both Lion and Lamb, both Water and Fire, etc.
Being First didn't stop Him to be Last, and being Last didn't stop Him to be First.
No matter what your position is, it's not higher than being the First, so that means you can also humble yourself to be last, and no matter how low you are, He went lower than that, so that means you can't let your position as being ~the last~ to stop you from trying to better yourself. Either way there is hope, that's why Yeshua came on earth> to give us hope no matter if we are first or last.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Listen to me,
O Ya`akov, and Yisra'el my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. - Yeshayahu/ Isaiah 48:12 I am the Alef and the Tav, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. - HaHitgalut/ Revelation 22:13
What does it mean that HaShem is First and Last, the Beginning and the End? If Adonai is God then He is eternal, meaning He has no beginning and no end. If HaShem is the Creator of all things that means He is not contained within the things He created, but above those things. Time is a creation of HaShem so that means HaShem is not contained within time. Eternity means absence of time and if He's Eternal then time has no meaning to Him.
When God says He's the Beginning and the End, it doesn't mean that time began with Him and it will end with Him, because His person has nothing to do in essence with time, so this must be about something else.
The only way I can understand these words is that He is The First, Highest, Greatest, First in position not in age, He's above all things while at the same time He is the Last, the End, the lowest, the servant... the One that lowered Himself lower than anyone and anything to redeem those that were too low to reach Him.
It could be hard for some to wrap their minds around it, but it's the same as believing that God is both Son and Father, both Lion and Lamb, both Water and Fire, etc.
Being First didn't stop Him to be Last, and being Last didn't stop Him to be First.
No matter what your position is, it's not higher than being the First, so that means you can also humble yourself to be last, and no matter how low you are, He went lower than that, so that means you can't let your position as being ~the last~ to stop you from trying to better yourself. Either way there is hope, that's why Yeshua came on earth> to give us hope no matter if we are first or last.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Behold your God!
You who tell good news to Tziyon, go up on a high mountain; you who tell good news to Yerushalayim, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, don't be afraid; say to the cities of Yehudah, Behold, your God! - Yeshayahu/ Isaiah 40:9
Rabonim (rabbis) say that there is a passuk (verse) in Kitvey HaKodesh (Holy
Scriptures) for every person that ever lived, lives and will ever live on earth. I believe that mine is the 9th passuk of Yeshayahu 40. Why? Because I intend with all my heart to fix something that Pilate damaged.
A very long time ago, while reading about Yeshua's trial I got to the part where He was taken by Pilate before the Jews, wearing nothing but a crown of thorns and a purple robe, and Pilate with his limited understanding yelled 'behold the man!' (John 19:5). That's how Jews see Yeshua even today. Nothing but a man. A broken man, vulnerable, weak, pushed around by romans, tortured and powerless. And all that because 2000 years ago a goy took my Lord before the Jews and lifted his voice and said 'Behold the man!' I think that from where Pilate was standing that's all he could see> a man, so he told of what he saw. Pilate was a limited human and he reduced Yeshua to his own stature.
You can only present Yeshua from where you're standing. If you see Him through your humanity then you can only say about Him what Pilate said 'Behold the man!', but if you stand up on the high mountain, which is Adonai, then you can't help but see that Yeshua is Adonai and he is HaElohim shel Tzion (God of Tzion) and then you can't help but lift your voice and shout as much as you can for kol ha yehudim (all the Jews) to hear ”Hineh HaEloheichem!”(Behold, your God!)
If you want to see more than a human in Yeshua you must go up on the high mountain, Adonai. You must go up not for the purpose of being high but to be able to bring good news to Tzion. If that is not the purpose why you went up there, then you're there in vain.
I know Pilate wasn't up on the high mountain when he said 'behold the man!' to the Jews. The Jewish nation is not like other nations. You don't convince them with words and you don't disguise Yeshua in to something He's not, and you don't tell them 'behold the man!' and expect them to fall down on their knees and be convinced. If you want to bring the good news to Tzion you must go up the high mountain and shout with all your strength to all the cities of Yehudah ”Hineh HaEloheichem!” (Behold your God!)
A goy proclaiming 'behold the man!' was enough damage, they don't need to hear that anymore. But the Jews do need to hear the truth proclaimed without fear, without any trace of doubt 'BEHOLD YOUR GOD!' Hineh HaEloheichem!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Rabonim (rabbis) say that there is a passuk (verse) in Kitvey HaKodesh (Holy
Scriptures) for every person that ever lived, lives and will ever live on earth. I believe that mine is the 9th passuk of Yeshayahu 40. Why? Because I intend with all my heart to fix something that Pilate damaged.A very long time ago, while reading about Yeshua's trial I got to the part where He was taken by Pilate before the Jews, wearing nothing but a crown of thorns and a purple robe, and Pilate with his limited understanding yelled 'behold the man!' (John 19:5). That's how Jews see Yeshua even today. Nothing but a man. A broken man, vulnerable, weak, pushed around by romans, tortured and powerless. And all that because 2000 years ago a goy took my Lord before the Jews and lifted his voice and said 'Behold the man!' I think that from where Pilate was standing that's all he could see> a man, so he told of what he saw. Pilate was a limited human and he reduced Yeshua to his own stature.
You can only present Yeshua from where you're standing. If you see Him through your humanity then you can only say about Him what Pilate said 'Behold the man!', but if you stand up on the high mountain, which is Adonai, then you can't help but see that Yeshua is Adonai and he is HaElohim shel Tzion (God of Tzion) and then you can't help but lift your voice and shout as much as you can for kol ha yehudim (all the Jews) to hear ”Hineh HaEloheichem!”(Behold, your God!)
If you want to see more than a human in Yeshua you must go up on the high mountain, Adonai. You must go up not for the purpose of being high but to be able to bring good news to Tzion. If that is not the purpose why you went up there, then you're there in vain.
I know Pilate wasn't up on the high mountain when he said 'behold the man!' to the Jews. The Jewish nation is not like other nations. You don't convince them with words and you don't disguise Yeshua in to something He's not, and you don't tell them 'behold the man!' and expect them to fall down on their knees and be convinced. If you want to bring the good news to Tzion you must go up the high mountain and shout with all your strength to all the cities of Yehudah ”Hineh HaEloheichem!” (Behold your God!)
A goy proclaiming 'behold the man!' was enough damage, they don't need to hear that anymore. But the Jews do need to hear the truth proclaimed without fear, without any trace of doubt 'BEHOLD YOUR GOD!' Hineh HaEloheichem!
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Father disciplines those He loves
and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him; For 
whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. -Hebrews 12:5-11
You're considered to be a good citizen of a country if you obey all the laws of that land, and if you disobey one of these laws you are judged according to the laws you broke. But if you are a son, your father has a set of laws in his house that are not included in the legislation of the country you live in, but still he asks you to obey those laws, those rules he established in his house. If you break any of his rules you are punished according to what the father sees fit for what you've done wrong. If you go to a court of law, the judge won't care if you've cleaned your room or not, he cares if you obeyed the laws of the land and he considers you guilty or innocent according to the laws of the land and not to the rules in you father's house.
If you dishonor your father, he doesn't care how good of a citizen you are and how well you've kept all the laws of your country, he will punish you to correct your character, even though you didn't break any law.
If Adonai relates to you only as a citizen of a country that either keeps the law or breaks it, then you will answer to Him only according to His Law. But if Adonai is your Father (which can only be obtain through Yeshua) then He'll have other expectations from you, greater than only keeping the Law. Keeping the Law is easy compared to being a good son, because the punishment for a son is greater for it is not only according to the Law of the Kingdom, but according to the rules in His house. By punishment I do not mean sickness or curses that come as a result of sin. Punishment of the Father is not for breaking His Law (which is sin) but for things that I need to correct in my character in order to honor my Father's Name.
So if I get it that He holds back certain things from me so that I learn to be better, then I must endure being 'disciplined' as a daughter, knowing that I am not punished for breaking any law but because I need correction to be able to represent Him better, and even if that is grievous for now, it will bring forth a good fruit in time.
Cristina
whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. -Hebrews 12:5-11You're considered to be a good citizen of a country if you obey all the laws of that land, and if you disobey one of these laws you are judged according to the laws you broke. But if you are a son, your father has a set of laws in his house that are not included in the legislation of the country you live in, but still he asks you to obey those laws, those rules he established in his house. If you break any of his rules you are punished according to what the father sees fit for what you've done wrong. If you go to a court of law, the judge won't care if you've cleaned your room or not, he cares if you obeyed the laws of the land and he considers you guilty or innocent according to the laws of the land and not to the rules in you father's house.
If you dishonor your father, he doesn't care how good of a citizen you are and how well you've kept all the laws of your country, he will punish you to correct your character, even though you didn't break any law.
If Adonai relates to you only as a citizen of a country that either keeps the law or breaks it, then you will answer to Him only according to His Law. But if Adonai is your Father (which can only be obtain through Yeshua) then He'll have other expectations from you, greater than only keeping the Law. Keeping the Law is easy compared to being a good son, because the punishment for a son is greater for it is not only according to the Law of the Kingdom, but according to the rules in His house. By punishment I do not mean sickness or curses that come as a result of sin. Punishment of the Father is not for breaking His Law (which is sin) but for things that I need to correct in my character in order to honor my Father's Name.
So if I get it that He holds back certain things from me so that I learn to be better, then I must endure being 'disciplined' as a daughter, knowing that I am not punished for breaking any law but because I need correction to be able to represent Him better, and even if that is grievous for now, it will bring forth a good fruit in time.
Cristina
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Broken vessels
Yeshua answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." - Luke 5:31-32
I use to believe that i
n order to be able to follow Yeshua, one must be a tzadik (righteous) , to stand firm facing death and not be scared, one that is fighting his fears and his shortcomings and no temptation overcomes him, you know...like a super man.
I remember my first lie ... it was then that I understood that I am deeply flawded, that I am not some holy angel but dirty clay that forms this vessel which in time I got to break in every possible way. Now I look more like a piece of pottery from ancient times, not because I'm ancient but because my cracks and cuts are deep.
I've reduced myself to broken pieces, chips and cracks from something that use to be once. Who would ever want that? To do what with these pieces? If someone wants to use a vessel, they use one that is in good condition, and if the one that use to be in a good condition breaks, then they go and buy a new one, but no one... NO ONE starts to glue back together the pieces from a broken vessel, and even if someone would, they would always be aware not to use it too much because it can't hold that well anymore for it use to be broken once. That's what a normal person would think, because that makes sense and that is logical. Anyone would think like that but not Adonai. Normality has nothing to do with Adonai, sense has nothing to do with Adonai and logic even less than that.
He seems to be searching for the most broken vessel and the most impossible one to put together, the cheapest one that no one would even bother to look at, and when He finds it He calls all heaven to come and see His 'project'. I think malachim (angels) look at Him and they're in shock. 'Elohim, we know You can do all things, we've seen You creating the world out of nothing, and if this man that you try to repair would be nothing he would stand more chances than what it is right now. Look at him>HE'S ALL BROKEN!'
But Adonai smiles and starts picking up every little piece and every speck of dust that use to form a whole man once. He washes every piece and while He cleans it he visualizes where each piece should go. He's taking His time. He's really into His work. He first glues together the big parts and the man starts to shape a form ...but that's the easy part. He has to glue in together even pieces that not even angels are able to see that are missing. He knows exactly how this person needs to look like because He knows how He made him in the first place. He doesn't give up until He finishes what He started. Then He takes the vessel and fills it up with Water and the malachim (angels) scream 'no, don't fill it all the way up, it won't hold!', but Adonai smiles and tells them every time the same thing 'it can hold because it's strength doesn't come from itself but from the ONE carrying it and repairing it'.
You're never amazed when you see a perfectly good vessel that holds up water withing itself without breaking or without spilling the water through it's cracks, but you can't help but be amazed when you see a broken vessel, that is so broken you have no idea what's holding it, but it doesn't break nor does it spill water through it's cracks. When you see such a vessel you want to praise the one that glued together it's pieces.
I don't want to sound like Paul and proclaim myself 'the chief of sinners' but I'm not that far off either. Adonai had to work a looooooooooooooooot to repair me and then pour WATER in me. I still break sometimes. I don't do it often, but when I do break I break in such a way that no human can endure the sight of me...But Adonai doesn't go away, He's not scared or impressed by my words nor by my rebellion when I yell 'but it's not fair!'... He waits until I finish breaking and then He comes and puts me back together. Sometimes it makes no sense why He does it, other times I ask Him while He glues me together 'why don't You give up?' He smiles 'the sick need a physician, the sinners need righteousness, and ruins need a Builder'
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
I use to believe that i
n order to be able to follow Yeshua, one must be a tzadik (righteous) , to stand firm facing death and not be scared, one that is fighting his fears and his shortcomings and no temptation overcomes him, you know...like a super man.I remember my first lie ... it was then that I understood that I am deeply flawded, that I am not some holy angel but dirty clay that forms this vessel which in time I got to break in every possible way. Now I look more like a piece of pottery from ancient times, not because I'm ancient but because my cracks and cuts are deep.
I've reduced myself to broken pieces, chips and cracks from something that use to be once. Who would ever want that? To do what with these pieces? If someone wants to use a vessel, they use one that is in good condition, and if the one that use to be in a good condition breaks, then they go and buy a new one, but no one... NO ONE starts to glue back together the pieces from a broken vessel, and even if someone would, they would always be aware not to use it too much because it can't hold that well anymore for it use to be broken once. That's what a normal person would think, because that makes sense and that is logical. Anyone would think like that but not Adonai. Normality has nothing to do with Adonai, sense has nothing to do with Adonai and logic even less than that.
He seems to be searching for the most broken vessel and the most impossible one to put together, the cheapest one that no one would even bother to look at, and when He finds it He calls all heaven to come and see His 'project'. I think malachim (angels) look at Him and they're in shock. 'Elohim, we know You can do all things, we've seen You creating the world out of nothing, and if this man that you try to repair would be nothing he would stand more chances than what it is right now. Look at him>HE'S ALL BROKEN!'
But Adonai smiles and starts picking up every little piece and every speck of dust that use to form a whole man once. He washes every piece and while He cleans it he visualizes where each piece should go. He's taking His time. He's really into His work. He first glues together the big parts and the man starts to shape a form ...but that's the easy part. He has to glue in together even pieces that not even angels are able to see that are missing. He knows exactly how this person needs to look like because He knows how He made him in the first place. He doesn't give up until He finishes what He started. Then He takes the vessel and fills it up with Water and the malachim (angels) scream 'no, don't fill it all the way up, it won't hold!', but Adonai smiles and tells them every time the same thing 'it can hold because it's strength doesn't come from itself but from the ONE carrying it and repairing it'.
You're never amazed when you see a perfectly good vessel that holds up water withing itself without breaking or without spilling the water through it's cracks, but you can't help but be amazed when you see a broken vessel, that is so broken you have no idea what's holding it, but it doesn't break nor does it spill water through it's cracks. When you see such a vessel you want to praise the one that glued together it's pieces.
I don't want to sound like Paul and proclaim myself 'the chief of sinners' but I'm not that far off either. Adonai had to work a looooooooooooooooot to repair me and then pour WATER in me. I still break sometimes. I don't do it often, but when I do break I break in such a way that no human can endure the sight of me...But Adonai doesn't go away, He's not scared or impressed by my words nor by my rebellion when I yell 'but it's not fair!'... He waits until I finish breaking and then He comes and puts me back together. Sometimes it makes no sense why He does it, other times I ask Him while He glues me together 'why don't You give up?' He smiles 'the sick need a physician, the sinners need righteousness, and ruins need a Builder'
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Mechitza
For he is our shalom, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, having ab
olished in the flesh the hostility, the law of mitzvot contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making shalom; and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. He came and preached shalom to you who were far off and to those who were near. For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. - Ephesians 2:14-18
Jews have this 'wall of partition' called Mechitza. If you go to an Orthodox Jewish wedding, you'll see there is a drape or a wall separating the men from the women> that is mechitza. If you go to an Orthodox Jewish concert you'll find a mechitza again that will separate women from men. If you go to Ha Kotel (The western wall) you'll find a mechitza that separates men from women. When there was a Beit haMikdash (Temple) there was a mechitza that separated men from women and then another mechitza that separated Jews from goyim (non Jews).
When Paul is talking about the middle wall of partition he is referring to the mechitza that was in the Beit HaMikdash.
Yeshua came to brake down the mechitza that separated men from women and Jews from goyim, He didn't come to break down the mechitza that separates us from sin, because He made that one even stronger. Yeshua didn't come to break down the limits within we must stay in order to be holy, He just broke down the mechitza within the Beit HaMikdash that made a difference between men and women and between Jews and goyim. That's why it's written in Galatians 3:28 'There is neither Yehudi nor Yevanit (Greek), there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Massiach Yeshua. '
Mechitza that was taken away is now allowing the goyim to be together with the Jews and worship the same God, but it doesn't mean in any way assimilation of the Jews. It was grace that goyim were allowed in the same place as Jews but somehow goyim got it into their head that they were allowed in the place where only Jews were allowed to take away the Jewishness of the Jews. That is wrong on every level. Taking away the mechitza was meant to give freedom to those that had no freedom to come close to a place that they didn't have access before, not to go in there and kick out the Jews and 'decorate' the holy places as if they always belonged to the goyim. Goyim were allowed in to give up the worshiping of their gods and worship the God of Israel, they were allowed in the holy place to worship, not to change the ways of the Jews that were already in there to which Adonai gave these things to be an eternal law (Ex 12:17, Ex 27:21, Ex 29:9, Lev 3:17, Lev 16:29, etc.).
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
olished in the flesh the hostility, the law of mitzvot contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making shalom; and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. He came and preached shalom to you who were far off and to those who were near. For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. - Ephesians 2:14-18Jews have this 'wall of partition' called Mechitza. If you go to an Orthodox Jewish wedding, you'll see there is a drape or a wall separating the men from the women> that is mechitza. If you go to an Orthodox Jewish concert you'll find a mechitza again that will separate women from men. If you go to Ha Kotel (The western wall) you'll find a mechitza that separates men from women. When there was a Beit haMikdash (Temple) there was a mechitza that separated men from women and then another mechitza that separated Jews from goyim (non Jews).
When Paul is talking about the middle wall of partition he is referring to the mechitza that was in the Beit HaMikdash.
Yeshua came to brake down the mechitza that separated men from women and Jews from goyim, He didn't come to break down the mechitza that separates us from sin, because He made that one even stronger. Yeshua didn't come to break down the limits within we must stay in order to be holy, He just broke down the mechitza within the Beit HaMikdash that made a difference between men and women and between Jews and goyim. That's why it's written in Galatians 3:28 'There is neither Yehudi nor Yevanit (Greek), there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Massiach Yeshua. '
Mechitza that was taken away is now allowing the goyim to be together with the Jews and worship the same God, but it doesn't mean in any way assimilation of the Jews. It was grace that goyim were allowed in the same place as Jews but somehow goyim got it into their head that they were allowed in the place where only Jews were allowed to take away the Jewishness of the Jews. That is wrong on every level. Taking away the mechitza was meant to give freedom to those that had no freedom to come close to a place that they didn't have access before, not to go in there and kick out the Jews and 'decorate' the holy places as if they always belonged to the goyim. Goyim were allowed in to give up the worshiping of their gods and worship the God of Israel, they were allowed in the holy place to worship, not to change the ways of the Jews that were already in there to which Adonai gave these things to be an eternal law (Ex 12:17, Ex 27:21, Ex 29:9, Lev 3:17, Lev 16:29, etc.).
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
Monday, June 21, 2010
The death of Yeshua - Murder or Self sacrifice?
Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I 
have power to take it again. I received this mitzvah (commandment) from my Father."- Yochanan/ John 10:17-18
I know that many like to justify their antisemitism by the expired excuse "Jews killed Jesus''.
Yeshua wasn't a victim of anyone, not of the Jews nor of the Romans, that actually killed Him. How could God be killed against His will?
Both Jews and Christians alike killed many righteous people, and if Yeshua's death was just one of the many innocent people that were killed, it would be horrible indeed, but it would have no power to redeem anyone or anything. Christians make Yeshua seem like this really frail blond guy with blue eyes, almost sickly, that was abused by the mean Jews and killed by the even meaner Romans. He was a victim of bad people and if the mean Jews wouldn't have killed the poor Jesus they portray, He would have lived a long long life. GIVE ME A BREAK!
Yeshua was in full control of everything. He came on earth for the only reason of dying and redeeming the world of it's sin. He sacrificed His own life for the sake of the world. Do you know what self sacrifice means?
The giving up of personal wants and needs, either from a sense of duty or in order to benefit others.
The giving up is not a forceful action. No one could take His life away unless He gave it. He gave up His life in order to give life to everyone that believes in Him!
If Yeshua was murdered by the Jews, then the Jews have paid under that excuse that in full (and for that I suggest you research the Holocaust), so God has nothing to demand from them, for they have payed their debt. But if Yeshua, being God and not the victim of a scattered people under Roman ocuppation, gave up His own life, as a sacrifice to save the world from sin (first the Jews then the goyim) then the responsibility for His death comes to everyone that sinned, for it was our sins that took Him to the cross, not the Jews.
I don't believe in a sickly Christ that was pushed around by the mean Jews and then murdered by them. I believe in Yeshua that came on earth to die for my sin and it was my sin that killed Him. I believe in Yeshua that was God and that death couldn't hold Him (let alone a weak nation) and that He resurrected and gave life to everyone that believed in Him, first to the Jews and then to the gentiles. I don't believe in a victim of the Jewish people, I believe the the Lamb of God, a pure Lamb, whose only purpose was to come and die for me, so that I may live for Him. That is my Mashiach. That is my Rabbi. That is my God.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
have power to take it again. I received this mitzvah (commandment) from my Father."- Yochanan/ John 10:17-18I know that many like to justify their antisemitism by the expired excuse "Jews killed Jesus''.
Yeshua wasn't a victim of anyone, not of the Jews nor of the Romans, that actually killed Him. How could God be killed against His will?
Both Jews and Christians alike killed many righteous people, and if Yeshua's death was just one of the many innocent people that were killed, it would be horrible indeed, but it would have no power to redeem anyone or anything. Christians make Yeshua seem like this really frail blond guy with blue eyes, almost sickly, that was abused by the mean Jews and killed by the even meaner Romans. He was a victim of bad people and if the mean Jews wouldn't have killed the poor Jesus they portray, He would have lived a long long life. GIVE ME A BREAK!
Yeshua was in full control of everything. He came on earth for the only reason of dying and redeeming the world of it's sin. He sacrificed His own life for the sake of the world. Do you know what self sacrifice means?
The giving up of personal wants and needs, either from a sense of duty or in order to benefit others.
The giving up is not a forceful action. No one could take His life away unless He gave it. He gave up His life in order to give life to everyone that believes in Him!
If Yeshua was murdered by the Jews, then the Jews have paid under that excuse that in full (and for that I suggest you research the Holocaust), so God has nothing to demand from them, for they have payed their debt. But if Yeshua, being God and not the victim of a scattered people under Roman ocuppation, gave up His own life, as a sacrifice to save the world from sin (first the Jews then the goyim) then the responsibility for His death comes to everyone that sinned, for it was our sins that took Him to the cross, not the Jews.
I don't believe in a sickly Christ that was pushed around by the mean Jews and then murdered by them. I believe in Yeshua that came on earth to die for my sin and it was my sin that killed Him. I believe in Yeshua that was God and that death couldn't hold Him (let alone a weak nation) and that He resurrected and gave life to everyone that believed in Him, first to the Jews and then to the gentiles. I don't believe in a victim of the Jewish people, I believe the the Lamb of God, a pure Lamb, whose only purpose was to come and die for me, so that I may live for Him. That is my Mashiach. That is my Rabbi. That is my God.
Bat Melech בת מלך
Cristina
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