Part Fifteen
The Big Exchange
“Blessed are the pure in heart [circumcised in heart], for they shall see Yahveh (the LORD)” (Matthew 5:8). Do you want to see and know your Almighty God and Creator? Yahveh says, “Come to Me I am your Provider, your Reward. I am everything you need Me to be because I am that I am. I am going to bring you your healing and your deliverances. I am going to bring you wisdom. So come directly to Me and don’t run around looking for blessings in the popular “outer court of religion” (the religious system that mixes truth with error) or anywhere else.” Look to the Head, not the Babylonian head, but the head of Yahshua (Jesus), to be in the Holy of Holies where Yahveh’s Presence dwells.
This is a major exchange given to those who put their flesh and all the things that so easily beset them on the altar with repentance. So they will no longer be laden down with the gravitational pull of earthly cares and concerns."
The Holy One is not a God who is far off, He is as near as our breath. (Acts 17:28) The kingdom of God is in us, and Yahveh wants us to learn to go to Him. There is going to come a day when our mobility and freedom of mobility on the horizontal plane of this earth is coming to an end. It is going to become less and less. We have already seen many freedoms flying away. Satan is smashing and destroying them like we read in the book of Daniel, “His sanctuary [and truth] was thrown down” (Daniel 8:11) causing deceit to prosper. All of this is happening, and more and more is going to take place. We are going to have less mobility and freedom to go where we want in the days ahead. With this minimizing mobility, the vertical exchange from heaven to earth and earth to heaven is so that we can live and breathe in the Spirit and lack nothing. (Acts 17:28) This is a major exchange given to those who put their flesh and all the things that so easily beset them on the altar with repentance. So they will no longer be laden down with the gravitational pull of earthly cares and concerns. We have to get ready like the bride with the oil of the Spirit because this is where we are going to meet our Bridegroom, on that plain. (See Matthew 25:4) Not on the horizontal but on the vertical. The more we exchange the things of our flesh and of the religious system for Him, the closer and closer we will advance toward the proximity of His glorious life-changing presence.
To be able to move vertically in the Spirit, you must get rid of everything that is not of Yahveh, so the gravitational pull of it is broken. So, it is Yahshua (Jesus) in you: “for in Him we live and move and exist…” (Acts 17:28). The more you stay in the Spirit, the more the Spirit changes you from glory to glory. (2 Corinthians 3:18) And you can have that exchange of moving from the earth into the heavenly’s more and more. In the Spirit you go into His direct Presence. The other exchanges have to come first, therefore you have to see and know what you are repenting for so that you do not go and do it again and return to the outer court of religion. This is why Yahshua (Jesus) said "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:24) We have to leave the earthly realm and its many preoccupations to live in the Spirit. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." (Mark 10:25) You cannot take flesh. It is by the Spirit that you go into the spiritual realm where our Master and Savior live.
Yahshua (Jesus) is taking us out of harm’s way through the narrowing path into safe pastures. He alone knows the way."
- John 10:27-28 -
“Yahveh (the LORD) is our shepherd, we shall not want … He guides us in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake … [His] rod and [His] staff, they comfort us.” (Psalm 23 vs 1-4). Those who are His sheep are going to know the comfort of His rod and staff. Sadly, most people want to go where they want to go, do what they want to do, and they do not want Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) rod and staff directing where their footsteps are ordered. For “Yahveh (the LORD) orders the footsteps of the righteous” and the righteous are so grateful. (Psalm 37:23) “He prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies” (Psalm 23 v 5). Our enemies are all around. As we feast on Yahshua (Jesus) in the presence of our enemies, we are going to feel the surrounding protection of His indwelling Holy Spirit. Do you feel the blessing of having your Good Shepherd’s rod and staff ordering your footsteps as the word says? His sheep are hearing His voice and lovingly following Him. Yahshua (Jesus) is taking us out of harm’s way through the narrowing path into safe pastures. (John 10:27-28) He alone knows the way.
Our Heavenly Father is leading and drawing us upward with wooing cords of love— beckoning us to come up higher and leave this earthly realm. Yahveh is crying out on our behalf to the enemy, “Let My people go that they may serve and worship Me.” (Exodus 8:1) “The Son will set you free”, but you have to choose and recount the cost continually; you inevitably will be leaving more and more of your familiar comfort zones—which will be taken down with the judgments of the earth. (John 8:36) Let’s not wait until it is taken; let this be a time of exchanging the worthless to get the preciousness of the light of Yahshua (Jesus) as was told in Jeremiah “if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman.” (Jeremiah 15:9)
That is a prerequisite to discern and distinguish our Shepherd’s voice, which is the preciousness of truth. Then “He will anoint [our] head with oil” (Psalm 23:5) and call and choose us to speak the truth that will set others free. If we are surrendered through our heart’s desire to follow our Good Shepherd at any cost, He will continually be tearing down strongholds over our mind leading us to repentance so that we can be set free by the Son to run and finish the race victoriously. (see 2 Timothy 4:7) Yahveh is not pleased and cannot work with us when we have adopted a form of religion that is a mixture of the holy and the common (the Spirit and the world). You cannot please Yahveh and man. (Galatians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 2:4) You cannot be a friend of the world and be welcomed into the kingdom. (see James 4:4) It is an offense to Yahveh because we are to be a separated people who are peculiar, distinct, and holy as they worship in His Spirit and uncompromised truth. (2 Corinthians 6:17, 1 Peter 2:9, John 4:24)
