In this year of 2013 YAH (GOD) has turned my life upside down and completely around. In actuality, what appears to be upside down is "right side up" and my turn around is in the right direction. This is a year of tremendous revelation for me, and what I'm receiving from the LORD is permanently changing me. So many things I once believed and thought were right have been proven to be a lie and "vain traditions of men taught as the doctrines of GOD". So much deception and worldliness has crept into the Church through the leadership that it seems unbelievable, discouraging, and nearly insurmountable. The leaders are the ones most greatly deceived and so it's no wonder that others who follow them are deceived. "Monkey see, monkey do", and more than we care to admit the monkey has often been me & you.
I firmly believe YAH is revealing these things to me so that not only will I be free but that I may help liberate others from bondage as well. JOHN 8:32; "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." It is the truth of which I am constantly in pursuit of and is molding me. That same truth has also confronted me, examined me, and exposed me. This is necessary to "make" one free. Truth is uncompromising yet compassionate, and is personified in the character & person of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. JOHN 14:6;"Yeshua saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." My primary job is to display that character and teach it to others so we may all display it. The challenge of this is in self confrontation for deliverance from vain traditions and idol worship. We can't overlook our own ignorance and it's role in our duplicity, which was often willingly, long after we grew to a point where we should know better. We have replaced Christ as our role model and follow people who quote scripture, have charisma, or speak well and tell us to follow them as they follow Christ but only lead us to themselves.
These same leaders come to us desiring fame for themselves and promoting their own names over that of the Lord Yeshua. They use his name when it is convenient or as an afterthought, and we excuse it because we are deceived into feeling that if we at least hear them say "Jesus" or "God" at some point it is acceptable. Christ himself didn't even do that as God manifest in the flesh but he always put the Heavenly Father first, and he warns us of this same deception from men in the Holy Scriptures. JOHN 5:43-44; "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44) How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?" This is how the anti-Christ will come to deceive many, and sadly we're already being set up for it by the church leaders. We call folks titles and monikers they don't deserve even over our own parents, and in some cases over the LORD. Who told us to do that? Was it our emotions or was it taught by those very ones over us? Are we so desirous of acceptance or so misled by superfluous feelings of gratefulness that we yoke ourselves unto people and make them our gods? Have we become idolaters and slaves to people who were suppose to help us be free? Did we just upgrade to a different type of bondage?
These same leaders come to us desiring fame for themselves and promoting their own names over that of the Lord Yeshua. They use his name when it is convenient or as an afterthought, and we excuse it because we are deceived into feeling that if we at least hear them say "Jesus" or "God" at some point it is acceptable. Christ himself didn't even do that as God manifest in the flesh but he always put the Heavenly Father first, and he warns us of this same deception from men in the Holy Scriptures. JOHN 5:43-44; "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44) How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?" This is how the anti-Christ will come to deceive many, and sadly we're already being set up for it by the church leaders. We call folks titles and monikers they don't deserve even over our own parents, and in some cases over the LORD. Who told us to do that? Was it our emotions or was it taught by those very ones over us? Are we so desirous of acceptance or so misled by superfluous feelings of gratefulness that we yoke ourselves unto people and make them our gods? Have we become idolaters and slaves to people who were suppose to help us be free? Did we just upgrade to a different type of bondage?
These profound truths have caused separation in some of my relations with people. I've watched church leaders leave the world for the Church, get saved, come into the ministry humble, get elevated, leave out as unsound novices or long time sons with hidden agendas, increase in pride, and reincorporate the same spirit they had in the world into their ministry and go astray. 1st TIMOTHY 3:6; "Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil." Their vain ambitions, insecurities, and narcissism was never identified or dealt with before they left, and they are now pastoring with that same spirit. They repackage their former personas and mindsets in church form and mislead others. Many never actually served another but teach others to serve them and create an entourage of church groupies enamored with their person but nearly castrated of their own personality and devoid of individuality who blindly follow them. Many start out sincere but over time who they were catches up with who they are trying to portray.
Though they often get positive results early on and are sincere in the beginning it is not until the "test of success" comes that reveals the remaining carnal desires of their heart and their lack of spiritual discernment. The people following them won't dare say different even if they feel differently for fear of church retribution and being made an outcast. Many times members won't speak out or question the leaders wrong because they feel indebted to them by any acts of kindness or past help shown to them. They feel bought & bound, and some do just sell out. Their loyalty to the leader has compromised their integrity and loyalty to YESHUA the Messiah. This is Satanic bondage and in some cases witchcraft; whether intentional or unintentional. It is of the LORD for myself and others to teach on things like this with GOD as our help to set the captives free, and so I will. The revolution may not be televised but it has already begun in the souls and minds of those who want the freedom of which the Holy Scriptures say our Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah died and rose for, and not the false doctrines and phony leaders who are unwilling to make the same sacrifice. Shalom! ~ I.J. West aka "Hitman"
LUKE 4:18-19; "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19) To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
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