TISHA b’Av message

INSIGHT FOR INTERCESSORS 

Kolyah

July 29, 2020


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TISHA b’Av message

Shalom!

This may be hard to fathom, but I believe there is currently a widespread mental illness that has encompassed the globe. This mental illness has arisen from a very wicked spiritual source. This mental illness has been prospered, so easily, because of undisciplined human emotions being fed by deceived human minds; inspired by satanic/demonic agendas. Quite literally, the world has gone mad. I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised, given that rebellion against YHVH has become increasingly prevalent throughout all societies … including rebellion being sanctioned and prospered in the church and synagogue. Romans chapter 1 outlines and describes our world with great accuracy … both the state of things and the cause of this insanity:

Romans 1:18-32 (NASB)

      18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

      24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

      26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

      28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longerGod gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of deaththey not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

I really don’t think it can become more clearly stated than that! This is most certainly our world, and this is how we arrived in this dreadful situation.  When the Lord is set aside, and when His wisdom is accounted as wicked control, outdated, irrelevant, and nothing more than ignorant myth, the stage is set for satan to bring in massive blindness, delusion and culturized rebellion. Surely, that is where our world stands in this very moment.  The human mind has become empowered determine what is righteous, truthful, valid, and acceptable or unacceptable for the culture/society. Human emotions often run right over common sense; overruling it in order to dictate what is urgent, necessary, and real. How many people ever stop to think that the chaos, deceptions, violence, insanity, pain, and divisions are the result of setting YHVH aside … giving Him no thought, no honor, and no place in human life. That is the recipe for disaster, even as it is the formula for bringing Divine judgment to fall upon the world. 

Tonight, at sundown, the fast of Tisha B’Av begins for 24 hours. This, the 9th day of the month of Av on the Jewish calendar, is the saddest day of the year for the Jewish people. So many national disasters have taken place on this date … so many horrific events of loss and suffering have taken place over the centuries on this date. I won’t take the time now to delineate them, as many of you are already aware of these things. As a result of the many tragedies, this has become a day of deep repentance and mourning for God-fearing Jews.  

The judgements of YHVH are always acts of mercy, through which He seeks to get our attention, so that a course change can be made before all is lost. The hope is that when the pain and losses strike their blow, the people will stop to consider the “WHY” behind these events of suffering. To be able to find the answer to “why”, the people need to look back to the very foundations of the covenant between YHVH and a nation (and/or with an individual) … to the mandates given … to the promises of blessings given for obedience (nationally and individually) … and to the consequences forewarned and produced by the acts of rebellion against the Lord.  The next step is to recognize the connection between our sin/rebellion and the losses suffered. This is not only true of Israel’s departures from the way, will, and word of the Lord, but also for ALL of US … for every nation.  And yet, Israel is to be a nation set apart as the example. She is to be the model for the world to see, so that the rest of the nations would come to know Him, and to walk in His righteousness. Her accountability before the Lord is greater, because His evidence and His intimacy with Israel has been greater. Because of that special designation, satan has hated Israel more than any other nation throughout history. If he can deceive Israel into joining him in rebellion against YHVH, he can use Israel’s anointing for leading the nations, to mislead the multitudes into sin and rebellion. Satan hates YHVH’s love for Israel probably as much as he hates Israel.

Right now, our world is a state of chaotic shambles. Israel certainly is right there with all the other nations. Honestly, I greatly fear for Israel right now, in that since the last Tisha b’Av day last year, she has gone farther into rebellion; setting herself up for some very painful consequences. It is not anti-Semitic or judgmental of the Jews to say, with a broken heart, that she has slipped further into satan’s camp. I, as a Jew, see Israel’s rebellion as sin in my own national family that must be addressed. Some would argue that it’s not Israel’s fault that she is in such a rebellious state; suggesting that she’s not accountable because YHVH has still not unblinded her eyes to the reality of the Messiah.  But that is not what the scripture above suggests. There is a difference between being awakened to our redemption through the Messiah, so that we might embrace Him and be born again, and our innate, inner compass that points us to the Lord as our Father and Authority. The Lord put within each of us the ability to recognize Him in our world.  Read again this portion of the text:

… because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power, and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

Additionally, while the reality of the Messiah may yet be partially concealed, YHVH’s Torah … His law … was personally given to the Jewish people. His miraculous hand, has been extended to save the nation time and time again. This truth has been recorded, and even acknowledged, over generations, and yet they so often set that truth aside to walk in their own authority.  The same must be said about all those non-Jews, who declare themselves as believers in Yeshua as their Messiah. They too, have the word before their eyes, plus the Holy Spirit to alert them to sin and to error, as well as to righteousness. And yet, so many Christian denominations and congregations have adopted a humanized version of faith that is tolerant of sin … ignoring it, excusing it, and even endorsing it … through an unholy, soulish human love that contradicts and dismisses the holiness that is innate to YHVH’s divine love.

Beloved, all of our nations are all entering into this day of Tisha b’Av in a very dangerous spiritual position. That spiritual position puts us at risk physically. Just a quickly glance at a few of the affairs of Israel in this hour reveal the truth of it for that nation.

**This week the Knesset has voted in favor of a law that forbids anyone to try to “course-correct” any homosexual individual, i.e. to try to convert him from the homosexual lifestyle and practice back into a heterosexual stance. That gives more than a free pass to this violation of YHVH’s word. It gives a special endorsement of it that will legally encourage more sin and loss.

**The leadership of the Likud party (Bibi Netanyahu’s party) has leveled disciplinary action against party members, who voted against the bill that outlawed any attempts at bringing homosexuals back into YHVH’s created order for gender. NOT GOOD!

**Bibi and a large part of his party have actually endorsed and enabled LGBTQ practices and lifestyle participants: directly defying Torah in order to be popular with the human population (to gain votes and favor) … fearing the political backlash for standing with biblical morality, or from supporting any standards which oppose what is politically correct in human thinking/morality. That is blatantly fearing men over fearing YHVH, Himself … setting YHVH’s mandated word aside in order to follow the rulings/desires of humans and of demons. Simply put, it is blantant idolatry!

**Abortion is legal in Israel … even paid for by the State’s insurance programs. YHVH has spoken VERY CLEARLY about His judgments against spilling innocent blood, and against sacrificing our children to the principality named Molech. This sin has been legalized as acceptable … even as a right.

**Rather than claiming legal sovereignty over YHVH’s gift of restored inheritance to the Jews … over the portions of Judea and Samaria, as well as the Jordan Valley … the current government decided that the disapproving voices of the humanist Jews (and of the Gentile nations) were more of a threat than violating the word of YHVH. Being politically incorrect is more dangerous in their eyes than turning away His gift of restored land. There is also the continuing suggestion that Israel must sacrifice more of her inherited Land, entrusted to her from YHVH, to appease the aspirations of the false Palestinian claims, and to seek the favor of the nations. That is like taking the miraculously reacquired territory, from the hand of YHVH, and trading for the hope of being allowed to survive among the rest of the nations. In essence that says, “YHVH isn’t going to be there for us, so we need to cut ourselves the best deal possible. Besides, if the nations don’t acknowledge YHVH as real, or His word as having any authority over our lives, then surely we can’t stand on any claim that would contradict their perspective.”

**Where the Torah forbids the practices of sorcery, witchcraft, and the worship of false gods, the international Bhai Temple sits on the top of Mt Carmel. New Age festivals and covens of witches have been established and have been operating in Israel. Every day … several times a day … the Islamic mosques throughout Israel broadcast the “call to prayer”, which fills the air over Israel with Arabic words declaring that the false god, Allah, is GREATER than all gods … which includes being greater than YHVH. These things must enrage our Holy, Sovereign, YHVH! He said to never tolerate the worship of false gods in the Land of Israel.

**The ultra-Religious Jewish rabbis largely lay aside the Torah, and, instead, study the thoughts, rulings, and perspectives of human rabbis as recorded in the Talmud; giving those words equal or greater power than the written Torah … giving a greater authority to the passed-down verbal rabbinical laws, over the written word of YHVH. Many of the shepherds of Israel are not feeding the sheep (of Israel’s spiritual flock) His good food. Many of these rabbis are also involved in the mystical witchcraft that the Jews picked up during their exile in Babylon … now known as Kabbalah.

Are these violations against YHVH’s way, will, and word having an impact on the nation?  Right now, the hospitals in Israel are largely over 100% capacity in their Covid-19 units. It wasn’t this way a week ago. Where the infections of this disease, should have a low number of the infected people in serious condition, in the past week the numbers have climbed incredibly. The number of deaths has also increased.  Then, on Monday, Hizbullah made a cross border attack into Israel. The IDF responded, but Hizbullah has declared that there are more attacks are to come. That cross border engagement caused citizens in the Golan Heights, and in Upper Galilee, to stay close to their bomb shelters and sealed rooms for many hours. Will something more violent break out during Tisha b’Av? Only YHVH knows.

The only thing I can say when I look at these developments is, “YHVH have mercy!” The grip of evil is so tight! So much legal right has been given to satan because of Israel’s neglect of YHVH as the chief reality. So much evidence of His power and love have been poured out upon the modern Jewish State, in spite of its founders being largely socialist at the onset. The miracles that YHVH has done for Israel in every war, the miracles evident in the amazing development, and in the technological advances have continually declared His active presence in the life of the Jewish state. Are these things ignored, or are they seen arising as blessing and gifts from the God of Israel?  There are wonderful God-fearing Jews in the Land of Israel. I know many of them. However, sadly, they are the minority. Too many are Jews by tradition, rather than Jews by true faith or relationship with YHVH. Those, who truly know Him, and who defend the Land as being His property, are often reviled, persecuted, and rejected. 

We must pray urgently and deeply for Israel. Right now, she is very vulnerable in many ways. Her government is a huge, un-Godly, mess. It’s hard to say if it will stand or collapse in the coming months. Her left-wing populations are protesting and decrying the authority of the State, and its priorities.  Many secular lefties are calling for global intervention to be applied against Israeli sovereignty; suggesting that the Palestinians have as much right to the Land as the Jews. Israel has a number of Trojan horses operating in her midst. The most obvious example is the Palestinian MKs holding seats in the Knesset, while seeking to destroy the Jewish State; replacing it with an Islamic one. Another Trojan horse is the left-leaning High Court of Justice, which has a global humanist bent, and which continually legislates from the bench; often countering true justice, as well as biblical truths and values, in order to satisfy a global humanist agenda. Then of course there is the left-wing media, which serves as a mouthpiece for the global humanists by controlling the narrative with disinformation and political spin. The media’s biased reporting works to keep the Israeli people divided, the nation off balance, and the people fearful. ONLY YHVH CAN SORT THIS OUT! Let’s intentionally pray for the Lord to intervene in the affairs of Israel in such a way that will mercifully sort out the nation before destruction comes. Pray that He will intervene to turn the tide in Israel and in our own nations; freeing His hand to accomplish these things in whatever way He chooses … whether through difficulty and pain, or through a sudden outpouring of sovereign revelation. He gets to choose. Pray that the righteous will arise and thrown down the wicked, for the glory of the Lord.

The first step in turning the tide of any nation (or individual), that is mucking up life through rebellion and sin, is REPENTANCE. That is not just true of Israel, but of all the nations and for all individuals. The Spirit of Conviction must be released, as well as the recognition of sin and its consequences. While we must cry out for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, we must also pray that the benefits of sin will no longer work for us or for others. The Holy Spirit is all over and all-around Israel; hovering as a dove waiting for a place to land and to call home. The hearts of the people must be broken open, even as the arrogance of all of us must be broken into humility, for us to be truly receptive to hear what the Lord is constantly saying to us. The scripture from Romans 1 tells us that we are without excuse, and yet, we constantly make excuses for our bad behavior or choices.  We even make excuses for the sin that is devouring our nations.  We’d like to make it seem as if it’s YHVH’s responsibility to MAKE US SEE AND UNDERSTAND. However, we forget that we have a free will that our loving Father will not violate. We must cry out and declare our need for Him, for His help, and for His forgiveness. We must be willing to see and to hear. When everything is going well, we are inclined for forget Him. Moses warned the Children of Israel of this before they entered into the Promised Land. Too often, when things are going poorly, we tend to blame others, rather than to look at our own contributions to the pain or downfall. 

It’s time right now to do business with YHVH.  Even though Tisha b’Av is a Jewish calendar day, we all can use this opportunity to humble ourselves … to take stock of OUR OWN sin, as well as the sin of our nation. Even a quick glance at the realities should be enough to convince us that we are in very dangerous waters, and in danger of drowning, unless the Lord comes to our aid in rescue. 

Consider setting aside the time, from Wednesday at sunset until Thursday’s sunset, as a Tisha b’Av opportunity to seek the Lord in deep repentance and introspection. This exact time has been declared as a National and Global Day of Repentance for American and for the nations of the earth.  Stand in the gap for our nations; acknowledging that we will be totally lost and destroyed without YHVH’s intervention. Cry out for mercy and for revelation through the outpouring of His Holy Spirit; but beyond that, pray that our hearts would be broken to the level of humility needed for us to be truly open to receive His input. No more excuses! No more blaming others for our lack and losses. All of us have been contributors to our national sin in one form or another … at one time of another. 

**It may be the sin of apathy that must be confessed. We were too busy to get involved. If a situation didn’t impact us personally, maybe we didn’t really care about the problems that others were suffering. Maybe we wanted to take the path of least resistance, so as not to upset people, who were walking in sin, and living/speaking out of falsehood or delusion. We didn’t think it was our place to speak up. We looked at our own abilities, rather than at the Lord’s abilities through us, so we stood back.

**Perhaps it is carelessness in handing the treasure entrusted to us (our freedom, our relationships, our opportunities, our material wealth, etc.) from YHVH that needs to be confessed and repented. 

**Perhaps we have contributed to the insanity (surrounding the gains being made right now through the conspiracies of the global Luciferians), because we have listened more to the voices in the media than to the truth as being revealed through the Holy Spirit … incorporating FEAR, and giving it a platform to direct our course/conclusions, and for influencing others to follow suit. 

**Perhaps we have been too lazy to become educated to the truth; finding it easier to listen to the talking heads, who speak as if they alone hold the truth, rather than doing our own research. 

**Where have we been reticent to speak out against the sinful, politically correct, declarations, agendas, and laws being formulated?  In cowardice, we didn’t want to be seen, identified, or tagged as one standing up against the narrative or status quo.

**Where have we been critical and judgmental of people, rather than working to become problem solvers, instead of problem declarers. 

**Where/when have we returned evil for good? Where have we held grudges against those, who have loved us, or who have extended kindness to us? Who have we turned our backs to because of our sin of offense?

**Where have we refused to defend righteousness because it is unpopular? Where have we allowed others to do the heavy spiritual lifting and to take the hits from being in the front lines, while we stayed back in safety; feeling free of the responsibility to enter into the battle?

**Where have we been lovers of ourselves and of our comfort, rather than being passionate for what the Lord wants to do through us … things that may take us out of our comfort zone?

**Where have we been envious and jealous of others … greedy … unfaithful … deceitful? 

**When have we compromised what we know to be righteous and true?

**Where have we been silent, when the Lord asked us to speak up?

**Where have we gossiped or slandered? When have we spoken without understanding?

**Where have we been disobedient? Where have we been disrespectful of others, and when have we tolerated disrespect from others; enabling them to continue in their sin.

**When have we spoken hatefully, impatiently, maliciously, deceitfully, or arrogantly?

**When have we hidden the truth, rather than sharing it?

**When have we refused to forgive and to bless? When have we given ourselves the permission to maintain a hardened heart toward someone? When have we bullied others?

**When have we been stubborn and refused to listen to voices of wisdom, experience, knowledge, and discernment?

**When have we been impatient, and demanded things to be done our way, and in our timing?

**When have we sought to discredit truth tellers, so that we could continue to have the posture of being right?  We have we refused to be taught by others?

**When have we misrepresented the truth and mingled in a bit of falsehood?

**When have we allowed our emotions to drive us, and our human minds to lead us, instead of seeking the truth and wisdom from YHVH?

**When have we run over the feelings of other people in our desire to control things?

**When have we refused to repent when the Holy Spirit was nudging us to do so?

Wherever the Holy Spirit convicted us in the above questions, we need to confess and repent, as well as to receive YHVH’s forgiveness. We also must confess the sins of our nation, and ask the Lord to forgive. We, and our nations, are in dire conditions right now … spiritually, politically, physically, economically, etc. The Lord is our only help, our only security, and our only solution. Wherever the Lord calls us to repent and to make a change, we need to do that quickly and completely. There is no time for delay. The gains being made by the Enemy are coming on too strongly and too quickly.  When we are under attack … the head of the viper is up and ready to strike … we need to assume a low posture in humility before the Lord. It is possible to turn our nations through Him.  It is possible to mitigate this COVID-19 plandemic, as well as to cancel the other plans/initiatives, which are all set to be released upon us by the elite in the coming weeks and months. We must turn to the Lord with a full heart, and encourage others to do so as well. This is the day. This is the time. The Lord is waiting.

Blessings in Him,

Kolyah