The INTERCESSOR+ ... Pre-PASCHA Meditations.... Ephesians 1:16

Take the Name of Y'SHU+ with you !

PRE-PASCHA MEDITATIONS

A note to Syriac or Aramaic Followers of Y'SHU+: 

The time to stand united has come; the WHOLE House of Israel… yes, the WHOLE House… is coming under persecution world-wide, both the natural and the grafted-in branches. 

It is time to lay aside differences and seek The LORD in repentance, on our face.  It is clear that the 10 kings of Revelation 17 are actively pushing their agenda to eliminate all those who hinder their program.

Followers of Y’SHU+ the M’SHIKHA are the only ones on the face of this earth who can, through their obedience and their prayers, hinder their efforts.  The satan knows this, thus the persecution of the Whole House of Israel.

Also note:  I have used the form, Y’SHU+ the M’SHIKHA through-out, as found in the Peshitta, instead of the Jewish form of Y’SHUA+ haMOSHIYACH.

   

Meditations  for  the Pre-Pascha Season

(The Passover Season, 2016)

Now is My+ soul troubled;

and what shall I+ say ...

FATHER,

save ME+

from this hour ?

but for this cause

came I+ unto this hour.

FATHER,

Glorify Thy Name.

Then came there a Voice from Heaven, saying,

I have both glorified IT,

and will glorify IT again.

John12:27-28

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Meditation Verse 

Ephesians 1:16

[ I, Paul ]

Cease not to give thanks for you,

making mention of you

in my prayers;

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Now, from the Syriac / Aramaic translations of Dr’s. Etheridge, Murdock, and Lamsa, courtesy of Dukhrana.com :

- ܠܳܐ ܡܶܫܬ݁ܰܠܶܐ ܐ݈ܢܳܐ ܠܡܰܘܕ݁ܳܝܽܘ ܥܰܠ ܐܰܦ݁ܰܝܟ݁ܽܘܢ ܘܰܠܡܶܥ݈ܗܰܕ݂ܟ݂ܽܘܢ ܒ݁ܰܨܠܰܘܳܬ݂ܝ

Ephesians 1:16 - have not ceased to give thanks on your behalf, and to remember you in my prayers;

Ephesians 1:16 - cease not to give thanks on your account, and to remember you in my prayers;

Ephesians 1:16 - Never cease to give thanks for your sakes and to mention you in my prayers;

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Meditation

Our dear Brother and Apostle Paul !

What made his prayers SO EFFECTIVE ? Let’s look at his life remembering this:

EVERY OBEDIENCE BRINGS

A FURTHER ANOINTING.

2 Corinthians 11 relates some ... just some... of his sacrifices for the New-Born Church.  Verses 23 to 28 --- five short verses --- records a LIFE-TIME of suffering.

Are they ministers of the M'SHIKHA+?

(I speak as a fool) I am more;

in labors more abundant,

in stripes above measure,

in prisons more frequent,

in deaths oft.

Of the Jews

five times

received I forty stripes save one.

Thrice was I beaten with rods,

once was I stoned,

thrice I suffered shipwreck,

a night and a day I have been in the deep;

In journeyings often,

in perils of waters,

in perils of robbers,

in perils by mine own countrymen,

in perils by the heathen,

in perils in the city,

in perils in the wilderness,

in perils in the sea,

in perils among false brethren;

In weariness and painfulness,

in watchings often,

in hunger and thirst,

in fastings often,

in cold and nakedness.

 Beside those things that are without,

that which cometh upon me daily,

the care of all the churches.

We see this same Apostle who had been transported into the Third Heaven and heard unspeakable words that were "unlawful for man to utter" ...

saying this: 

 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

For I could wish that myself

were accursed from the  M'SHIKHA+

for my brethren,

my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Romans 9:2-3

Thus we see this great Apostle and mighty Confessor of The LORD Y'SHU+ the  M'SHIKHA+ not only "simply prayed for "... but he ALSO  made intercession for the other followers of Y'SHU+.

What is intercession?

How does INTERCESSION differ

from supplications

and other prayers ?

It is what Our LORD Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+ did for each one of us: 

HE+ came

between

the satan and us.

HE+ intervened --- placed HIMSELF+ between the destroyer and us, his victim  --- and protected us from destruction by the satan.

HE+ took the satan's blows, meant for us. The LORD Y'SHU+ fought the devil and won.

The LORD Y'SHU+ came as a man but lived in unity with His+ Heavenly FATHER, pleasing HIM in all things.

As the SECOND ADAM+ , Y'SHU+ fought the devil ... and beat him FOR US.

His+ Divine intercession entails more than supplications and requests to Our FATHER for us.

It is interVENTION.

Y'SHU+ INTERVENES --- placing Himself+ directly between us and the satan. Furthermore,   the  M'SHIKHA+ ever liveth to make intercession for us... which takes effect when we submit our lives unto HIM+.

Hebrews 7:25

Wherefore HE+ is able also

to save them to the uttermost

that come unto GOD

by HIM+,

seeing HE+ ever liveth

to make intercession for them.

HE+ not only delivered the victims from the satan's domain once

"taking captivity captive"

at the Resurrection,

but HE+ is living -- abiding, staying, remaining constant forever --- in that VICTORY, winning  over the satan  daily in the  battles, traps, and wiles the devil sets for our souls.

The satan loses and loses and loses... over and over again ... because of HIS+ INTERCESSION, the intervention, of our LORD Y'SHU+ on our behalf.

The Apostle Paul knew how to intercede.  He knew how to make supplication to Our Heavenly FATHER for the New-Born Church.

But also...

that dear Apostle did not hold himself back from all manner of suffering for the sake of the church.

He wrestled with the evil spirits IN THE NAME OF Y'SHU+ the  M'SHIKHA+ in order to deliver the brethren from the satan's grip.

Remember Acts 19 and the sons of Sceva ?

19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Y'SHU+, saying, We adjure you by Y'SHU+ Whom+ Paul preacheth.  And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

Acts 19:15

And the evil spirit answered and said,

Y'SHU+ I know,

and Paul I know;

but

who are ye?

That was the real question then.

Here is the real question today:

Who are we ...

to the evil spirits, when we pray ?

Are we so in unity with the Will of Our LORD Y'SHU+, with the Blessed RUACH ha  KADOSH, and our Heavenly FATHER ...

that the evil spirits

tremble when we pray   ?

Have we the commitment to turn away from self indulgence ... in all the little ways we employ... to do like the Apostle Paul and bring our bodies into subjection daily ? (1 Corinthians 9:27 ) 

Are we willing and able to  endure suffering for the sake of wrestling individuals from the grip of the satan ?

Are we as certain that The LORD Y'SHU+ will honor our suffering for the Kingdom of GOD as was this Apostle who followed Y'SHU+'s example?

The Apostle Paul did not cease to give thanks for the Brethren.

Nor...

did he cease to labor and embrace suffering for the New-Born Church. 

What a good example !

Our LORD Y'SHU+ is the Great Intercessor+. Our Brother and Apostle Paul simply followed The LORD'S example in his heart, in his life ... and in his daily dying to himself.

That, dear brethren,

is how we resist the devil .

REMEMBER:

EVERY OBEDIENCE BRINGS

A FURTHER ANOINTING.

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Let us pray:

Thank YOU+, LORD the  M'SHIKHA+, for going to the Cross, coming between me and the satan, for my deliverance.

Forgive me for forsaking the Cross when it is uncomfortable. Help me to embrace the Obediences YOU have called me to embrace.

Help me, O LORD, to embrace true intercessory prayer. Strengthen me to die daily to my flesh for the sake of Your Kingdom.

And in that death to Self, help me, LORD, not to be afraid. Help me to entrust my happiness and my well-being unto YOU, my LORD and my KING+.

For the sake of Your Holy SON+, the LAMB+ of GOD Who+ takes away the sin of the world, I offer You my life through Y'SHU+ the  M'SHIKHA+ my LORD. 

Amen.

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Worthy is the LAMB+.

Worthy is The LAMB+

that was slain.

Worthy is the LAMB+,

slain

from the foundation

of the earth.

Revelation 13:8

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PRAISE and THANKSGIVING

be to The FATHER,

and to His Beloved SON+

Y’SHU+ the M’SHIKHA,

and to

the Blessed RUACH haKADOSH.

ONE GOD:

FATHER,

SON+,

and RUACH ha KADOSH,

both now and forever,

world without end.

Amen.

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NOVATIAN: Paraqlita in the PRE-Peshitta, Pre-Nicene Writings of the Early Christian Apologists

 

NOVATIAN, (d. 257)  p. 639 , Vol 5 ANF , excerpts from chapters 28 and 29. Treatise Concerning the Trinity,

>>> Let the reader take note of the verses quoted in John, in reference to the Paraqlita,   and its translation by this Early Christian apologist, that it is in line with the other Early Christian apologists, never being translated as "Redeemer+".  

 

Here is what Novatian wrote: And HE+ further subjoins [John 14:15 and 16],

“If ye love ME+, keep My+ commandments; and I+ will ask THE FATHER, and HE+ will give you another Comforter.”

After which also HE+ adds this [ John 14:23]:

“If any one loveth ME+, he shall keep My+ Word: and My+ FATHER will love him; and WE will come unto him, and will make OUR abode with him.”

Moreover, also, HE+ added this too [John 14:26 ]:

“But the Advocate, that HOLY SPIRIT whom THE FATHER will send, HE will teach you, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I+ have said unto you.”

And the LORD said,

“Receive ye the HOLY SPIRIT: whose sins ye remit, they shall be remitted; and whose ye retain, they shall be retained.”

But this HOLY SPIRIT the LORD CHRIST calls at one time “the Paraclete,” at another pronounces to be the “Spirit of truth.”

And HE is not new in the Gospel, nor yet even newly given; for it was HE Himself who accused the people in the prophets, and in the apostles gave them the appeal to the Gentiles.

For the former deserved to be accused, because they had contemned [ i.e., despised ... SrJH ] the Law [ i.e, O.T./ Mosaic Law ... SrJH] ; and they of the Gentiles who believe deserve to be aided by the defense of the SPIRIT, because they earnestly desire to attain to the Gospel Law  [ i.e., the Royal Law of CHRIST, as spoken of in Matthew 22:37-40,  in James 2:8, and in John 15:12... SrJH ] .

Assuredly in the SPIRIT there are different kinds of offices, because in the times there is a different order of occasions;

and yet, on this account, HE who discharges these offices is not different, nor is HE another in so acting, but HE is one and the same, distributing HIS offices according to the times, and the occasions and impulses of things.

Moreover, the Apostle Paul says,

“Having the same Spirit; as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.”

HE is therefore one and the same SPIRIT Who was in the prophets and apostles, except that in the former HE was occasional, in the latter always.

But in the former [i.e., the O.T.  Prophets] not as being always in them, in the latter [ i.e., the Apostles] as abiding always in them; and in the former distributed with reserve, in the latter all poured out; in the former given sparingly, in the latter liberally bestowed; not yet manifested before the LORD'S Resurrection, but conferred after the Resurrection.

For, said HE+,

“I+ will pray THE FATHER, and HE will give you another ADVOCATE, that HE may be with you for ever, even the SPIRIT of TRUTH.” [John 14:16, 17 ] 

And, “When HE, the ADVOCATE, shall come, Whom I+ shall send unto you from My+ FATHER, the SPIRIT of TRUTH Who proceedeth from My+ FATHER.”[John 15:26 ]

And, “If I+ go not away, that ADVOCATE shall not come to you; but if I+ go away, I+ will send Him to you.”[John 16:7 ]


And, “When the SPIRIT of TRUTH shall come, HE will direct you into all the truth.”

And because the LORD was about to depart to the Heavens, HE+ gave the PARACLETE out of necessity to the disciples; so as not to leave them in any degree orphans, which was little desirable, and forsake them without an ADVOCATE and some kind of PROTECTOR.

For this is HE Who strengthened their hearts and minds, Who marked out the Gospel sacraments, Who was in them the enlightener of divine things;

and they being strengthened, feared, for the sake of the LORD'S name, neither dungeons nor chains, nay, even trod under foot the very powers of the world and its tortures, since they were henceforth armed and strengthened by the same SPIRIT,

having in themselves the gifts which this same SPIRIT distributes, and appropriates to the Church, the Spouse of CHRIST, as her ornaments.

THIS [ HOLY SPIRIT ] is HE who places prophets in the Church, instructs teachers, directs tongues, gives powers and healings, does wonderful works, often discrimination of spirits, affords powers of government, suggests counsels, and orders and arranges whatever other gifts there are of charismata; and thus makes the LORD'S Church everywhere, and in all, perfected and completed.

THIS is HE Who, after the manner of a dove, when our LORD was baptized, came and abode upon HIM+, dwelling in CHRIST full and entire, and not maimed in any measure or portion;

but with HIS whole overflow copiously distributed and sent forth, so that from HIM others might receive some enjoyment of HIS graces:

the source of the entire HOLY SPIRIT remaining in CHRIST, so that from HIM might be drawn streams of gifts and works, while the HOLY SPIRIT dwelt affluently in CHRIST.

For truly Isaiah, prophesying this, said:

“And the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding shall rest upon HIM+, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and Piety; and the Spirit of the fear of the LORD shall fill HIM+.”


This selfsame thing also he said in the person of the LORD HIMSELF+, in another place:

“The SPIRIT of the LORD is upon ME+; because HE has anointed ME+, HE has sent ME+ to preach the Gospel to the poor.”

Similarly David:

“Wherefore GOD, even Thy+ GOD, hath anointed THEE+ with the oil of gladness above Thy+ fellows.”

Of HIM [ The HOLY SPIRIT ] the Apostle Paul says:

“For he who hath not the SPIRIT of CHRIST is none of HIS+.”

“And where the SPIRIT of the LORD is, there is liberty.”

HE [ The HOLY SPIRIT ] it is who effects with water the second birth as a certain seed of divine generation, and a consecration of a heavenly nativity, the pledge of a promised inheritance, and as it were a kind of handwriting of eternal salvation;

Who (the HOLY SPIRIT) can make us GOD’S Temple, and fit us for His house; Who solicits the divine hearing for us with groanings that cannot be uttered; filling the offices of advocacy, and manifesting the duties of our defense, — an inhabitant given for our bodies and an effector of their holiness.

Who, working in us for eternity, can also produce our bodies at the resurrection of immortality, accustoming them to be associated in Himself+ with Heavenly power, and to be allied with the divine eternity of the HOLY SPIRIT.

For our bodies are both trained in Him and by Him to advance to immortality, by learning to govern themselves with moderation according to His decrees.

For this is HE Who “desireth against the flesh,” because the flesh resisteth against the SPIRIT.”

This is HE who restrains insatiable desires, controls immoderate lusts, quenches unlawful fires, conquers reckless impulses, repels drunkenness, checks avarice, drives away luxurious reveling, links love, binds together affections, keeps down sects, orders the rule of truth, overcomes heretics, turns out the wicked, guards the Gospel.

Of this says the same Apostle:

“We have not received the spirit of the world, but the SPIRIT which is of GOD.”

Concerning HIM he exultingly says:

“And I think also that I have the SPIRIT of GOD.”

Of HIM he says: “The SPIRIT of the Prophets is subject to the prophets.”

Of HIM also he tells:

“Now the SPIRIT speaketh plainly, that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, doctrines of demons, who speak lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience cauterized.”

Established in this [ HOLY ] Spirit, “none ever calleth JESUS anathema;” no one has ever denied CHRIST to be the SON+ of GOD, or has rejected GOD the Creator; no one utters any words of his own contrary to the Scriptures; no one ordains other and sacrilegious decrees; No one draws up different laws.

Whosoever shall blaspheme against HIM, “hath not forgiveness, not only in this world, but also not in the world to come.”

THIS is HE Who in the apostles gives testimony to CHRIST; in the martyrs shows forth the constant faithfulness of their religion; in virgins restrains the admirable continency of their sealed chastity;


In others, guards the laws of the LORD’S doctrine incorrupt and uncontaminated; destroys heretics, corrects the perverse, condemns infidels, makes known pretenders;

Moreover, rebukes the wicked, keeps the Church uncorrupt and inviolate, in the sanctity of a perpetual virginity and truth.