Syncretism is the co-mingling of pagan ritual and practice with the Elohim ordained worship to the Creator and it is forbidden in Scripture. Yet somehow man seems to believe he has been given the authority to worship the Almighty in opposition to HIS commands. Do you have faith?
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of the LORD. Faith is believing what HE said and was written down by Moses and the other true prophets of Elohim. Believing is doing. We do what we believe. We are told explicitly in Scripture that we cannot serve the world and Elohim at the same time. We can't have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom. We are either gathering with HIM or we are scattering. The Word that Paul references in telling us where faith comes from is Torah and the Prophets. The writings of the New Testament did not exist then.
Specifically, the Word of God - Elohim is the first five books of the Bible. The Prophets came preaching repentance to Torah, the Word of the LORD. Yeshua came to set man straight about their additions and subtractions to Torah - syncretism. Paul preached a return to the pure Torah and a rejection of the Jewish law of additions and subtractions - Judaism. The Torah - Instruction of the LORD is not doubtful. The Word of the LORD is sure and trustworthy because HE said it and it is who HE is. AND HE does not change. But man adds to HIS Word and takes away from HIS Word, opposing it and replacing it with HIS own ways. That's why we see the reference to "their feasts" and "the feast of the Jews." This is contrasted with HIS Feasts the way HE gave them in Leviticus 23. HIS Feasts are pure, holy, spiritual, and a delight. Man's contrivances are bondage. When we add man's contrived, Satanically inspired holidays in with and in replacement of HIS Feasts we enter into bondage.
Yeshua - Jesus came to set us free from that bondage. HE did not come to set us free from HIS Word, yet that is what most believe. Sad to say some, even pastors, believe that Yeshua broke the Torah commandments! They must not realize that if HE did HE could not be the Messiah! See Deuteronomy 13. HE did not add to or take away from HIS Word that HE spoke from the beginning. HE came to remind us of what HE said and it is in contrast to what man says. Matthew Five, Yeshua says, "You've heard it said, but I say to you...." HE's saying that today to those who truly want to hear HIS Voice instead of the voice of men. Will you hear HIS Voice?
Remember Paul said to Timothy.
| << 2 Timothy 3 >> New American Standard Bible © |  |
“Difficult Times Will Come”1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me! 12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
All Scripture; the sacred writings that Timothy knew from childhood was Torah and the Prophets, including Psalms and what we call the history books. In essence it is what we call the Old Testament, however the thought of it being old is detestable to me, and I believe to Yahweh, because there's nothing about HIS Word that is old, as in outdated. However, as Jeremiah was inspired to write, it is the "ancient path" that we are to seek out. Notice the benefit derived from this belief and practice of "All Scripture." It equips the people of Elohim, who have faith in Yeshua, the Living Word - Torah. But adding to what HE said perverts it and places man in bondage. That's why HE tells us to "come out of her (Babylon) MY people!" HE is going to judge Babylon and those who are living in her. We live in her when we practice her lawlessness along with a little bit of Yahweh's Word. This is syncretism - co-mingling pagan practices with Yahweh's loving Instruction. We bounce back and forth and believe we can live in the two realms. HE says we can't.
Now notice what Elijah says -
"The words of Elijah are appropriate today and tomorrow. I pray you will consider them, "Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people did not answer him a word." New American Standard Bible (©1995)
How long? Will you continue to drown out the Voice of your Creator who is calling to you with urgency to repent and to make up your mind to wholly follow HIM? Or will you choose to shut out the voice of those around you who say that this loving God will not judge you for disobedience. After all you are HIS child and HE will never bring judgement upon you. I must remind you that is what the false prophets were telling Israel and Judah at the same time Jeremiah was telling them to repent and that judgment is coming. Judgment is coming! The true children will hear HIS Voice. I pray it is you and me.
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