Discernment=Identity, Word/Voice of God, Supernatural (pt 2) | Ariel Blumenthal

well it's good uh to see all of you some

faces people who are away away for the

weekend at a youth camp teaching away uh

in different places people back from New

Jersey from New from New England from

traveling wonderful uh we're continuing

today uh in what will be a three-part

series today is the second one on uh

discernment really is the title uh from

Yeshua's temptations in the wilderness

in Matthew chapter 4 okay and uh the

title of the series is discernment

equals three things if you remember

first one is identity knowing who you

are in God and the second one is of

course the word the voice of God

understanding and discerning when is God

speaking and how and of course obeying

obeying that that word and then the

third thing is the supernatural

discerning what's happening in the

spirit in the spiritual realm in the

supernatural realm so we talked last

time about I'm just going to do a really

quick review like in a minute if you

remember out of the first

temptation Yeshua is finished 40 days of

fasting after he was baptized after he

heard the voice of the father say "This

is my son." 40 days are finished it's

time to eat he's hungry and he hears a

voice and you remember I said uh

that went on is that all right

Sh i'll just hold

on that's a good reminder to turn off

phones right uh and he we said that um

Yeshua was tempted and tested it's the

same word just like we are remember that

picture I showed you it's not like the

devil came to him in a red suit with

smoke coming out of his nose and talking

like the devil okay because that doesn't

require a great deal of discernment most

5-year-olds who have watched enough

cartoons can discern that that's the bad

guy okay he came he he I believe he came

the devil came to him just as he comes

to us which is through the spirit

through our soul into our mind okay so

that he heard a voice not like a radio

voice in his head but in his mind that

said if you're really the son of God

speak to this stone and turn it into

bread right and we remember the test

he's got to go through everything that

Israel and Moses went through 40 days in

the wilderness for him is equal to the

40 years of Israel in the wilderness um

he's going to go through tests just like

Moses did just like the people of Israel

did if you are the son of God this voice

is like you have to prove it remember we

talked about ego if you there's

something of the ego in there i've got

to prove who I am as the son of God wait

a minute i just heard 40 days before the

father said it i don't have to do

anything do I uh holy scripture we

talked about how Yeshua learned for 30

years and we don't he's just 30 years of

his life is we get one or two verses a

summary that's it he lived a normal life

no Harry Potter no magic no supernatural

moving things nothing just a good Jewish

boy sinless who learned the Torah and

the word of God and memorized the whole

thing so that when this time came the

Holy Spirit I see the Holy Spirit is

kind of like a browser you know it's

like your internet browser right there's

all this material out there and browser

just goes and finds it and puts it

together and connects things that's what

the Holy Spirit does but if you don't

have the scriptures if you haven't done

the work of filling up your datab bank

with the scriptures the Holy Spirit

doesn't have much to work with okay and

I told you my story how when I was first

my first year as a believer when I

didn't have much scripture because I

hadn't grown up with it and I didn't you

know I didn't uh learn it i had to have

a lot of supernatural communication from

God directly but then he said go and

learn the scriptures and things changed

okay so that's something else we learned

from that first uh first temptation uh

we learned about how waiting on God that

the speech of God is not most of the

time we don't hear God speaking we see

the result of his

speech when God God said let there be

light nobody was there to hear that and

he he had to tell Moses thousands of

years later on Mount Si that's how it

happened right but the proof that God

spoke is there was light right the proof

of God providing or speaking mana to the

people of Israel in this Passover season

when they're on their way out of Egypt

uh is nobody heard God say or nobody got

a word or Moses didn't have to command

the mana to come down from heaven god

apparently spoke and there it was a new

thing uh so we have to wait on God

learning to wait on God to change our s

praying waiting for God to change

circumstances and then he's that's how

he speaks most of the time um then we

learned about how also the the

supernatural Yeshua knew from his

reading of scripture and also from the

character of God that there's no

examples of people in the scriptures

doing supernatural things just for

themselves just for fun just to prove it

just cuz they're hungry that all of

Yeshua's signs to feed people were all

in ser in ministry signs that he gave to

help others okay um so we learn we just

we're going through process of

discernment just like he does and it's

all about God testing what's in our

heart and that's where Yeshua finishes

with Deuteronomy 8:3 remember he humbled

you and let you be hungry and fed you

with mana which you did not know nor did

your fathers know this is a new stage in

in history at the Exodus okay and at new

stages in history God does supernatural

things but he does them right um that he

might make you understand that man does

not live by bread alone but man lives by

everything that proceeds out of the

mouth of the Lord and Yeshua's

conclusion

was if God wants to provide supernatural

food for me he would do that and speak

it

i don't see it it hasn't happened god

has not spoken i'm going to walk a few

kilometers into the nearest village i'm

hungry i finish my fast i'll ask for

some bread i'll

say I'll pray and thank God for the

miraculous bread that we eat every day

and I'll be a normal human being okay

that's last time now with that

background okay we come to the second

temptation and this is where it gets

really I mean this was I mean he's

tested at a level that none of us are

ever going to be tested okay at that

level there's similarities but this is

really

really

nasty and clever what the devil does by

the way remember we talked about this

last time we know from the beginning the

first verse of chapter 4 Matthew tells

us that it's the devil okay we know but

the whole point of the testing is that

Yeshua doesn't know at the beginning

he's in a process of discernment as the

son of God as our high priest he has to

go through everything that we that we go

through uh so here we are the next

temptation the second one that's what

the focus of today's message is is going

to be verses 5-7

then the devil took him there again we

know the devil took

him into the holy city and had him stand

on the pinnacle of the temple yeshua

said to him "Oh I'm sorry i I chopped

off that in my copy paste." And he hears

the v the in his mind the verses quoted

from Psalm 91 11 and

12 cast yourself down the angels will

gather you in their hand they'll save

you okay jesus said to him "On the other

hand it is written you shall not put the

Lord God your God to the

test."

Wow we don't know exactly what happened

but remember Yeshua is somewhere down

there towards Jericho he's pretty far

from Jerusalem he's in the Judean

wilderness okay suddenly he's at the top

of the temple right over there

we're not told was that a total physical

experience was it in the spirit in other

words it could have been that his body

was still down there near Jericho but he

was but it whatever it is it's

real it's a real test by the way I

checked according to most researchers

the second temple the height the

pinnacle was about 50 m which is about

17 stories 16 17 stories so when you

look out the window here that's about

the height yeah of the very top of the

temple and you can see down you can see

people it's not like people are little

ants you can see the people and if they

looked up they could see him okay but

it's a height that if you jump and you

know nothing miraculous happens splat

that's it you can call you're you're

going straight to wherever

um so that's where he is well this must

mean that God has spoken cuz it happened

right didn't I say that from the

previous

temptation if if if it happens and it's

super then then God has spoken

right maybe maybe not okay he's really

there he can feel the wind he can hear

the voices down there

and he that same place that same thought

comes to him and says

jump test God okay because it's

written the devil knows the

scriptures oh that's tricky he's been

around a long time he reads them i don't

know in what language Hebrew Greek

Chinese whatever but he can quote them

apparently and use them and mi and

misuse them all right that's what we'll

see so this is a big test right okay you

you say you're not you live only by the

word of God okay only by what God really

does here I'll give you a

supernatural there we are in Jerusalem

the Yeshua knew if he's the

Messiah his ultimate destiny is

Jerusalem the temple and supernatural

things are going to happen there all

right this is really a big test okay as

we last time we went through said okay

as Yeshua would knows the scripture the

Holy Spirit helping him he saw what

Moses did at MBA with the rock and he

instead of speaking to it he whacked at

him in the book of Numbers and he got

angry we talked about Elijah and the

ravens you remember uh supplying him

with supernatural food bread and and

meat morning and evening things that

happened supernaturally by way of

provision that neither Moses or Elijah

had to command to happen god did it

right we think okay if the Holy Spirit

is helping Yeshua go through the spir

sort of the the Tanakh the Old Testament

to tell okay what about this what about

is there any precedent for

people testing God in this way and the

answer I couldn't find anything i mean

people I don't know Moses tried to jump

off Mount Si or something i don't think

I you know people doing really dangerous

things intentionally and then expecting

God to just send the angels and save

them no I don't i mean it's it's hard to

kind of find a reference for that that's

part that's one thing is you this is

not this is not biblical this is not

what Moses did this is not what Elijah

did this is not what David did okay and

he then he answers with this verse from

Deuteronomy 6 and I want us to go there

if you have the Bible remember we've

talked so much also when I was teaching

Romans 9:101 about when the when there's

these quotes in the New Testament it's

just one verse you got to go back to the

original context and start reading and

you'll find oh this is referencing not

just that one verse but a bunch of other

things so if you go to Deuteronomy 6

okay which of course is also the Shama

and this is after the Shama um

Deuteronomy

6:10 I'll

start then it shall come about when the

Lord your God brings you into the land

which he swore to your fathers Abraham

Isaac and Jacob to give you great and

splendid cities which you did not build

and houses full of all good things which

you did not fill and hume sistns which

you did not dig vineard vineyards and

olive trees which you did not plant and

you eat and are

satisfied then watch yourself that you

do not forget the Lord who brought you

from the land of Egypt out of the house

of slavery you shall fear only the Lord

your God Yhovah your God and you shall

worship him and swear by his name you

shall not follow other gods any of the

gods of the peoples who surround you for

the Lord your God in the midst you in

the midst of you is a jealous God

otherwise the anger of the Lord your God

will be kindled kindled against you and

he will wipe you off the face of the

earth you shall not put the Lord your

God to the test that's what Yeshua

quotes okay as you tested him at

Masa masa okay you should diligently

keep the commandments etc etc this is

referencing the similar event not the

one in Numbers but the first one in

Exodus 17 when the people complained

bitterly to Moses about the lack of

water they were really really thirsty

and they said "What did you bring us out

here to die in the wilderness?" Okay and

Moses and Aaron cry out to God this time

all right and he says "Take your staff

and go." And he the Lord says "I will

stand on the rock of of Horeb and water

will come from the rock." Okay and it

does and the people are

uh their thirst is quenched okay and

they're happy this is the test and now

this is really different than being at

the top of the temple and thinking of

jumping off okay

but the people think about it was just

the lack of faith god brought us out of

Egypt remember all the signs and wonders

the parting of the Red Sea you read in

Deuteronomy 6 he's promising us the

promised land he's going to take us in

there we're going to have victory we're

going to take over the land people have

prepared it for us miraculous things are

going to happen we're going to have a

great life just believe just keep on

going he's not going to let us die of

thirst that doesn't make sense right so

but they tested God because of their

lack of faith and that's what Yeshua

quotes okay now think we'll think about

that we'll talk about it a little bit

more as uh we go on but that was the the

test of the people of Israel which they

failed and now Yeshua is being tested

and he's going to pass and he's going to

pass with flying colors as we say

because he knows or we don't know how

much he knew exactly at this point

because you see a development in the

gospels of Yeshua starting to announce

what is going to happen at the end his

crucifixion and his

resurrection okay

yeshua is going to go he's going he's

not testing God he's obeying God but

he's going to do something far more

miraculous than a few angels catching

you falling off a building and that's

that's pretty good what is Yeshua going

to

do what is he going to

do three years later he's going to die

he's going to allow himself to be killed

listen to this this is Matthew

27:39 yeshua on the cross and you'll

hear some similar language from the

temptations in the wilderness at that

time two rebels were being crucified

with him one on the right hand and one

on the left

and those passing by were speaking

abusively to him shaking their heads and

saying "You who are going to destroy the

temple and rebuild it in 3 days save

yourself if you are the son of

God." Have we heard that

before come down from the

cross do something

miraculous in the same way the chief

priests also along with the scribes and

elders were mocking him and saying "He

saved others he can't save

himself he's the king of Israel you're

the king of is if you're the king of

Israel come down from the cross and then

we'll believe in you he's trusted in God

let God rescue him." Now if he takes

pleasure in him they're quoting

scripture for he said "I am the son of

God." And the rebels who had been

crucified with him were also insulting

him in the same way think about

it yeshua who know he in his spirit he

knew this was coming so he's

saying Jerusalem the temple yeah that's

my destiny to to to destroy the temple

and start a whole new temple in my body

my resurrected body after three days but

it's not going to be like this it's not

going to be by jumping off and the

angels saving me and a few may How many

people are going to notice down there

maybe they'll notice maybe they don't no

no no no there's no quickies here we're

going into the land there's an

inheritance it's going to take some time

there's a process i've got to walk it

out and let God don't get ahead of God

let the Father do it he's going to do

some new things just like he did the

time of Mount Si the Exodus the mana

i don't have to work it up i don't have

to do anything

crazy sorry no thanks all right let's um

just look at some of the lessons okay

that we can learn for our own

discernment our own process of

discernment that we learned from this

incident from this second temptation the

first one is not all that glitters is

gold we've all heard that and not

everything supernatural is from God

ah 2 Thessalonians 2 uh verse 10 then

the law or is it it says 8-10 but it's

one verse i'm not sure which one it is

uh no it's 8 then that lawless one will

be revealed whom the Lord will slay with

the breath of his mouth and bring to an

end by the appearance of his coming that

is the one whose coming is in accord

with the activity of Satan with all

power and signs and false

wonders it's interesting he's going to

have power especially as we get towards

the end there's going to be signs and

false wonder what's a false wonder i'm

not sure does that mean it actually

happens but it's it's Satan did it and

so you got to be careful or it's a trick

it's not really happening but it's like

smoke and mirrors i don't

know but he's going to have power to

deceive a lot of people by supernatural

or things that look supernatural and we

have to be able to discern that that's

not God um then

um 2 Corinthians 11:14 "No wonder for

even Satan disguises himself as an angel

of light." Angels angels we'll talk

about that in a little bit okay we've we

are not Satan can remember he doesn't

come to us with those like with the

pitchfork and the red suit okay that's

not that's too easy to discern he comes

to us as an angel of light power signs

and wonders he can quote scriptures all

kinds of things um you know I've when I

talk about this um I've noticed over the

years that a lot of where people get

mixed up with the prophetic which is a

supernatural thing uh and especially

people who are coming from a less

charismatic background who aren't used

to it and then they go to some meeting

where there's a prophet or a prophetic

person maybe it's their first time and

the person points them out and says

Um I s I see you when you were 5 years

old and you and your family got in that

car accident right and you

go right that's like supernatural

knowledge the person doesn't know

anything about me and they're pointing

out something that's true right when I

was 5 years old I'm not me just saying

for example I was there this car

accident it was a traumatic thing in our

family and d

um and people then

assume because that's a

supernatural knowledge that then God

must be speaking and whatever the person

is going to say next to you must also be

from

God i've seen a lot of people get messed

up this way in the prophetic because

guess what um people you know there are

uh I've spent a lot of time in the Far

East uh there's a long traditions there

of palm reading and uh tarot card

reading and all kinds of other you know

soothsayers and people we here even at

our house in downtown Jerusalem right

across our the alley is a yeshiva

synagogue and there's a a rabbi Rabbi

Brener who teaches there um regularly

and people come from all over Israel and

he reads their palms he reads their

palms and prophesies and some people

believe that he has healing powers and

they go what okay um you know now those

people and the ones who who are really

good at it and makes make big money you

find them on the internet horoscopes and

all kinds of do you think it's all

fake a lot of Christians think "Oh it's

all fake cuz it's demons it's not God."

No that people with a little intuition a

little prophetic sort of knowledge can

read sometimes what's happening in the

soul realm that's how I understand it

all right especially if this is why in a

lot of houses of prayer and prophetic

places that one of the things they say

is when you people come you don't know

them no prophesying about or no words of

knowledge about with women especially

about having children or about marriage

with men as single men and women why

because the people who have a woman who

is wanting for years can't get pregnant

can't have a child there's a deep deep

soul cry the prayer that's been going on

all for for years in that woman's soul

like Hana okay and if you're just a

little you don't need a lot of training

okay you can be intrigued believer

unbeliever you can pick you can you can

sense that okay so uh we have to be

careful okay about how what what kind of

what we do with when people have that

kind of knowledge about us so they see

something it can be a prophetic word

from God it can how do we know we have

to discern it you have to listen to it

record it write it down um I Uh I always

when I teach on this on on the prophetic

maybe the most important scripture in

all of of the New Testament is

Revelation 19:10

uh where John has there's this huge

angel who's been showing him incredible

things and then it says I John fell at

his feet to worship him and he said to

me don't do that I'm a fellow servant of

yours and your brethren who hold the

testimony of Jesus worship God for the

testimony of Jesus is The spirit of

prophecy that means that whatever

prophetic word or insight someone brings

to you if it if what they do with it the

application of it I saw this I see your

accident age five and the trauma it went

through and they start preaching healing

in Jesus's name according to the

testimony of the

gospel of who Jesus is what he did what

he's doing what he does for us in our

lives according to the word of God then

it's kosher then it's from God okay

that's how you judge it if what they

that prophetic knowledge comes or or

that prophetic insight and then what

they do with it

is something speaks something that maybe

is bringing some comfort to you but it's

not according to the testimony of Yeshua

meaning it's a kind of comfort that says

you don't have to

suffer that's not the testimony of

Yeshua

yeshua had to go to the cross we have to

take up our cross we have to deny

ourselves this is the problem with the

what we call the prosperity gospel you

know what I'm talking about where a lot

of the messages God did he did it all

now you can just enjoy enjoy enjoy enjoy

all the blessings without any

suffering that's not the testimony of

Yeshua that's not a proper spirit a

prophetic spirit you know what I'm

talking about okay so that's just one of

the one of the examples you think of

where there can be something that is

supernatural

and that's okay someone sees something

but what the application what the the

message is is something you have to

discern and be careful of okay that's

the first lesson the second one is

Jerusalem

syndrome remember Yeshua knows he he's

grow he's read the scriptures 40 days

before he's declared the son of God he

hears that he knows as the Messiah he's

going to be doing things for a few years

he maybe doesn't know exactly how long

but it's all going to end up here in

Jerusalem and at or near the temple okay

it has to because Jerusalem is Jerusalem

it's Zion the promises of God there's so

much in scripture and we love preaching

about it and sharing about it here we

are in Jerusalem high up over Jerusalem

and we will share that with the world

but you know there's there's a flip side

it can also be a little bit dangerous it

can be like a drug actually in Zechariah

it says in the end of days he will make

Jerusalem a cup of trembling like a drug

to the nations okay a rock of rock of

stumbling as well

um that uh you know here in Jerusalem

we've got to be careful uh cuz it can it

can do some weird things have you ever

heard there's actually a

semi-csychotic experience that they call

Jerusalem syndrome it's on the

psychological books i did a little

research on it it was kind of

interesting there's the people who come

who already have been diagnosed with

some kind of

psychotic thing and then they just it

kind of gets worse that's we're not

talking about that we're talking about

regular normal people they said about

it's like 50/50 between Jews and non-

messianic Jews and Christians um who

come here usually as part of a group

okay and they actually who we have tour

guide here too you've been to tour guide

school did they teach you about it it

was saying that they made Yeah they make

sure the tour guides know what to look

for okay because the same it's like

clockwork it's the same thing happens

yeah it's a guest that's okay um is a

person they're in a group and the person

starts to get a little anxious a little

start to act a little differently and

then they want to go separate they want

to go I've got to go pray i've got to go

do my thing right that's the first sign

okay I I need to the group's going I I

have to do something else right and then

it h then they the people become uh kind

of obsessed with purity and cleanliness

they start cutting their nails and

washing and showering all the time and

then they take the bed sheets from their

hotel and they make some kind of white

robe and again nobody's it's not like

they're watching it on YouTube and you

know someone you know oh this is how you

do it it's been happening for years few

people I don't know how many every year

right and they get and then they begin

to have delusions that they're a

biblical character right john the

Baptist Virgin Mary is a big one you

know my son

Jesus and it usually happens to single

it was interesting said 90 something%

it's single men or women i used to think

it was mostly women but actually the

stat says no it's evenly divided

um by the way you know it's interesting

it happens mostly to single single

people you know in kidic Judaism they

have a kind of rule that is you're not

allowed to study Cabala which is

mystical Judaism until you're married

and have one kid at least one kid then

of course they have 10 more right but

you know the the thinking is if you're

you know you've got to be rooted

something about marriage family children

keeps you rooted in this world before

you go and start studying the mystical

charismatic stuff right uh so anyway

that's what happened Jerusalem syndrome

and then the people begin to have these

weird experiences and usually it's

pretty they you know they take them away

they don't

there's a psychiatric hospital here for

a day just give them a little tranquil

little drug and they send them home and

they're fine and they come out of it

they're not it's not like a but it

happens now I'm not suggesting that's

happening to any of them but we have to

be careful in the end you know as things

go on and here in our group people we

have all kinds of people who come here

you You know and I just say the people

out there if you're thinking of coming

to Jerusalem if you're alone and as this

is especially if you're alone and some

God is telling me to go and intercede it

may be but make sure you've got a group

your pastors leader people are blessing

you people are praying for you don't

come alone you know come with a group

cuz this is the universal center of

spiritual warfare here and weird things

can happen and we don't want them to

happen to happen to anybody but there's

a good Jerusalem syndrome and that is

we're here we believe in God's promises

to Zion in Jerusalem and we're doing

everything we can to hasten his coming

right over there to the Mount of Olives

hallelujah and he's going to be in

dressed in white whiter than the bed

sheets of any hotel hallelujah all right

shining like the sun

amen um that's the the second one the

third lesson here from this this

temptation is rightly understanding the

word of God in context

now if anybody's been to seminary in

these modern times you learn that

historical grammatical contextual

interpretation of scripture in other

words you have to understand scripture

in its original context as best we can

the languages the culture the

archaeology all that kind of stuff

okay it's not something new it's what

Yeshua did right here with Psalm 91 or

what the Holy Spirit helped him to do

with Psalm 91 okay so let's look at the

kind remember Psalm 91 11 and 12 that

the devil quotes to him in his mind that

you know just the angels are going to

catch you okay and he quotes accurately

the

scripture here are the first two verses

of Psalm 91 when by the way in Hebrew in

those times they didn't have numbers on

the on the Bible there were no chapter

verse numbers they recognized the Psalms

by usually by their first line okay that

was like the title and so they would say

"Hey go to go to they wouldn't say go to

Psalm 91 they'd say go to

Beton." Okay that's the the first line

the first words in Hebrew all right

the one who

sits dwells in the secret place or the

secret of Eljon of the

highest and abides in his in Elshai's

shadow and the one who says to

Jehovah this is verse two my stronghold

my fortress

Elohai my God I trust in him

all right that's the beginning of the

psalm hose the one who's seated and

abiding in the secret place of God you

know this whole thing about sitting

Yeshua where is he

today he's sitting down where at this

throne at the right hand of the father

in this the huge black hole in the

center of the universe that's what I

believe right we don't we have the

address by

prayer and he's bringing that throne

here the tabernacle of God will be with

men the new Jerusalem okay so he's there

he's sitting he's not standing what does

that

mean he's resting it's

done he's remember how confident he was

remember this is all about

identity if you're the son of God yeah

I'm the son of God

i'm going to be seated at the right hand

of the father

okay the one who sits in the secret

place of the most high the one who is so

confident of his relationship with God

of his sunship of the adoption who's

seated that's how this starts for that

person for us as we stay in that place

of being children of God of grace not

needing to prove anything remember not

getting our ego involved then you read

the rest of Psalm 91 there's all kinds

of wonderful promises what he's going to

how he's going to save you and protect

you jumping off the top of the temple to

prove that God is going to save you come

on that's not that's not what this psalm

is about that's not the context of the

psalm who wrote this he wasn't writing

promises that you could just sort of

pull here and there and proof text and

put them on they go "Oh now here it says

I can just jump off and the angels are

going to catch

me." That's not how you read the

scripture

okay

um 2 Timothy 2:14 and 15 Paul says to

Timothy "Remind them of these things and

solemnly charge them in the presence of

God not to wrangle about words which is

useless and leads to the ruin of the

hearers be diligent to present yourself

approved to God as a workman who does

not need to be ashamed accurately

handling the word of

truth brothers and sisters we have to

study and it's not just proof text you

know what proof texting is you get an

idea and you take one verse and you say

sometimes that works sometimes you may

be taking the verse out of context and

making it say something that it's not

really saying he said people who wrangle

about words you know people get all

mixed up sometimes about the uh well the

Greek says this and the way and we need

to study that stuff and sometimes you

can miss what do they say miss the

forest for the trees you get focused on

details and words and you miss the whole

context of what the scripture is trying

to tell us that's what the devil was

trying to do to Yeshua he says "Okay we

want to talk about the word of God here

but I don't think Satan can properly

accurately quote the word of God he can

only lie." Okay but he can use the

scriptures and so we have to know and

understand that's why we study theology

what's the relationship between the old

and new and law and grace and the

gospels and the letters and all these

things okay we need to study we need to

know how to accurately handle and divide

the word of God so that we don't so that

the voices or whatever will not will not

deceive us the last thing the lesson

that I learned from this one I call it

the gospel over the

angels you know in the second temple

period there was a lot of stuff about

angels and there's all kinds of other

extra biblical Jewish literature about

all kinds of angelic stuff there was a

lot of angelic activity and people and

Jewish people there were people who were

connecting with different angels and all

kinds of stuff and prayers to angels we

have one that's left over it's been left

with us for kabala Shabbat for Friday

night in Jewish tradition

shalom we sing this song which is the at

the beginning of Shabbat dinner or the

service in the synagogue where you're

welcoming it says we welcome the angels

to come mah who make peace right the

angels of the most high we say come stay

and then we say go okay we sing that I

in our house sometimes but I also have

to be a little careful with it okay

because we don't talk to angels we don't

need to they're there we don't need to

command them there's nothing in the New

Testament that tells you to command

angels right why because we we have

direct access to the King of Kings and

the Lord of Lords who sits at the right

hand of the throne he's the one he he

does he'll send the angels to do stuff

that we don't have to know about or see

some people have a gift or sing okay

um at the end of the third temptation in

verse 11 Matthew chapter 4 it says "The

devil left him and behold the angels

came and began to minister to him."

Yeshua didn't invite them he didn't look

for them god sent them to minister to

him the son of man this is the other

thing people back in the second temple

they kind of worship the angels like

we're below the angels like they're

higher than us no psalm 8 he made us

temporarily it looks like we're made a

little lower than the angels but

actually because a son of because a man

is the son of God and we're human beings

we are higher than the angels it says in

the Corinthians that in the age to come

we are going to judge angels right so we

don't need to get mixed up trying to get

angels to you know that like they're

high like John when he saw in in

Revelation 19 he worships the angel the

angel says "No no no don't do that we're

just servants like you

guys." Um says Revelation 19 uh in

Hebrews 1:14 this is a verse I always

read or declare at the end of Shalom

after we sing that on on Friday night at

Shabbat are they not all ministering

spirits talking about the angels sent

out to render service for the sake of

those who will inherit salvation that's

us god made the angels to serve us not

the other way around all right

um let's end with this i'm going to read

from 1 Corinthians 2

uh

6-10 and just keeping in mind what

Yeshua knew again we don't know how much

he knew at this stage but his knowledge

grew that he had to obey God and he was

going to obey God in Jerusalem he was

going to do things at the temple and he

was going to be

crucified the king of Israel crucified

the ultimate obedience the ultimate test

if you will of God okay a human being is

dead in three days he can't there's no

formulas there's no prayers there's

nothing he can do you're dead and he's

saying "I I trust God i trust God i will

follow him unto death even the death of

the cross." And God raised him from the

dead among the mature however we speak a

message of wisdom but not the wisdom of

this age or of the rulers of this age

who are coming to nothing no we speak of

the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God

which he destined for our our glory

before time began none of the rulers of

this age understood

it if they had they would not have

crucified the Lord of glory rather as it

is written no eye has seen nor ear has

heard nor heart has imagined what God

has prepared for those who love him but

God has revealed it revealed it to us by

his spirit in other words Satan there in

the wilderness he's trying to tempt

Jesus he's trying to get Jesus to sin

he's trying to bring Jesus

down he

thought that when he crucified that was

it he didn't this was a

secret god had kept this secret satan

didn't know about it it's in the

scriptures but it's hidden right

and then when Yeshua rose from the dead

after he descended into hell Satan said

"Uhoh he won he won we didn't see it

coming."

Hallelujah so let's pray

lord it says in first Peter that the

prophets of old

searched by the Holy Spirit the time and

to know about your suffering and what

what the Messiah would do and it says

that they did these things by the Holy

Spirit things which the

angels want or long to see

into the mystery of the gospel this

hidden wisdom and Lord we thank you that

we have it that Yeshua knew it and he is

the author and finisher of our faith and

he was

obedient even unto death a terrible

death when they mocked him and and and

screamed at him just like Satan if

you're the son of God if you're the king

of show us something prove

it come down from the cross he said "No

I know what I'm doing i'm going to obey

God until the end." Lord help us to be

such people who do not love our lives

even unto death who have the blood of

the lamb and the word of our testimony

which is how we also overcome him

and we thank you that we can trust Lord

help us to be discerning people Lord in

these times to be first and foremost so

confident because of the word of God

because of the deep dwelling indwelling

presence of the Holy Spirit that we're

so confident in who we are as children

of God that we don't need to prove

anything and our ego is not and ego is

not involved in discerning your will

help us to study your word and to go

deeper and deeper thank you for Yeshua

the pioneer the author and finisher who

has just gone before us and was tested

at such a level Lord that none of us

could have survived but he did and by

his grace and by his spirit in us we can

overcome as well bishm Yeshua amen