Monday, May 4, 2009

What Is The True Nature of Obedience?

We read in this way in Davarim (Deuteronomy) 28:1,2:

1. And it shall come to pass if hearing you hear by the voice of the Hashem your God for {receiving the ability of} guarding {the word given to you} for {the purpose of} doing the very thing, his commandments, which I have commanded you {as the light of} the day, then I will give you, Hashem your God, {as a c}over upon all nations of the earth.

2. And will come over you all the blessings, these {which shall be expressed} and {they will pursue and} overtake you because you heard the voice of Hashem your God. {Because you heard the ruach HaMashiach.}

-- The voice of Hashem your God -- this is the ruach HaMashiach.


We Must Be Careful About How We Use Our Intelligence

Our intelligence was given to us in order to assist us in listening to G-d. We use it in this world instead of listening to G-d.

We understand that the calling of Adam was in the beginning to hear the commandment given in the Garden of Eden, not through their own voice of thier own understanding but through the voice of the spirit of Mashiach. What is this spirit? It is the true spirit of the Oral Torah. What is this saying?

It is saying that from the very beginning, when G-d first gave a commandment to Adam, He gave with it a principle of interpretation and that this principle came as a spirit to enlighten the intelligence, to overcome the evil inclination and to give victory over temptation.

When this is understood it can also be understood that the day of death for disobedient Adam was a day of grace in which Adam was called by that same spirit of Mashiach to repentance, even though they were already in their graves in the sight of G-d, their Creator, Blessed be He.


Here we are at the source of all understanding of the The Great Commission.

For we are charged not with a new message, but with the message that was from the foundation of the world, to hear the Torah of the God of Israel through the spirit of Mashiach.

Is this another Oral Torah than that received through the Pharisees and the rabbis of Israel? May Israel's G-d forbid the thought! Rather, it is the eternal light of this tradition. For all the Oral Torah of Israel shall be made to shine with this light, the light of the voice of Mashiach, and shall radiate through this light forever.

Now how will this great unification take place between the spirit of Mashiach and the full body of the Oral Torah, which has had to speak to the most imperfect conditions of this world and has therefore not ever reached the level of perfection which Adam lost, the level where once the the commandment might have been received perfectly in the spirit of Mashiach? The answer to this is that which is to be given in the revelation of the mystery of G-d, which revelation is spoken of in Revelation chapter 10. For more on this see Hearing Seven Thunders.

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