Friday, September 9, 2011

If We Walk In The Spirit

There comes a time when followers of the Spirit of Israel's Messiah can no longer walk in the Spirit each in their own way.  When the Shepherd of the sheep has gathered all the strays into one place, into the one flock, the Spirit no longer leads the sheep separately but leads only the flock as a whole.  The Shekinah leads the whole camp of Israel through the wilderness, not separate tribes separately, certainly not separate individuals separately.  But there was a great scattering and all the sheep who were able to hear the voice of the Shepherd had to be called back into one flock.  The time of the testimony in the wilderness is the time of the testimony of unity.  The time of the testimony of unity is the time of the testimony of the whole house of Israel to Yehoshua HaMashiach, which is a testimony in mystery and with a plot of suspense.  For it is the testimony of a people who are whole and not whole.  They are whole because they are one but they are not whole because they are yet in the wilderness.  For they are the people whose land is the land of the new creation of the heavens and the earth.  This testimony, therefore, is a narrative, a story of a journey of a people with their God and toward their God, a people who as one walk in the Spirit and do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh for a kingdom of a few days.  For when the Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, the Good News of the Kingdom of God, is announced unto the ends of the earth, then the end of the kingdom of a few days will come.  The kingdoms of the proud giants will fall and Israel will enter her land.