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The Synagogue of SatanThe Secret of the Khazarian Kingdom - Now Called Ashkenazi

In both Revelation chapter 2 and 3 a special, evil group is described. They are called the Syna-gogue of Satan. The Synagogue of Satan claim to be Jews. This means they claim to be Yahweh’s special people – the seed of Abraham – who will inherit the Earth, as Promised to Abraham. But the Bible is plain in stating that though the Synagogue of Satan CLAIM to be Jews, they are not re-ally God’s chosen people – they are liars, who actually belong to the congregation of Satan.

Revelation 3:9 “Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”

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Ancient Khazaria & the Synagogue of SatanRevelation 3:9 “Behold, I will make them of the Syna-gogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and wor-ship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”

Isaiah 35:8-9 “And an high-way shall be there, and a

Way, and it shall be called The Way of Holiness; the

unclean shall not pass over it… but the redeemed shall

walk there.”

John 8:39 “They answered and said unto him, Abra-

ham is our father. Yahshua saith unto them, If ye were

Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of

Abraham.”

Revelation 17:5“Babylon is “the mother of

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The Synagogue of Satan Say They are Jews, But Are Not - They Lie

Yahshua told the Jews who claimed to be Abraham’s seed – or Israel – that they were only Israel, (or Abraham’s seed) in Heaven’s Eyes, if they did the “works of Abraham.” The Synagogue of Satan (Revela-tion 3:9) is another name for this group who want to claim righ-teousness, while rejecting the Way of Holiness (see Isaiah 35:8-9 and John 8:39 shown in the right panel). The Synagogue of Satan are spiritu-ally unclean because they reject Holiness.

Because the Synagogue of Satan are a church, who claim to belong to Yahweh, but actually belong to Satan, we can quickly connect them with Babylon – the false church who claims to be Christ’s Bride, but actually rides the Beast and is empowered by Satan (Rev-elation 17).

The Bible also warns in Ezekiel to beware of false priests who mix the sacred with the profane and bring idolatry into the supposed wor-ship of Yahweh. This is in complete contrast to the true Church (people of Yahweh), who are cleansed and have Grace-empowered obedient works, referenced in John 8:39 as “the works of Abraham”.

So if the true Church are those who love and obey God in every age… And if the true Jews, or Abraham’s Seed, are those who do the obedi-ent works of Abraham… Who are the Synagogue of Satan?

If we claim to belong to Christ, while rejecting Truth and the Torah, we are fooling ourselves. The Torah is the Foundation of His Righteous Government. Clearly there is a spiritual Synagogue of Satan, be-ing those who claim to belong to

Article Reference: Synagogue of Satan by Andrew Carrington

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The Origins of the Rothschild’s Dynastyand the Money Moguls of Today’s World

“...For the love of money is the root of all evil... But thou, O man of Yahweh, flee these things; and follow after righteousness...”

1 Timothy 6:8

In the 8th Century AD, in a land locked between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, lay the Kingdom of Khazaria. The native people of this realm were Turk-Mongols, but of them was born a modern “Jewish” race.

The Khazarian people were a vulnerable people in about 740 AD. They had Muslims on their southern borders and Christians on their West. Because the Kingdom of Khazaria was an idola-trous country being nei-ther Muslim nor Christian, they constantly feared attack from either side. In fact, since both the Chris-tian and Muslim faiths were advanced through invasion, Khazaria was

clearly ripe for conquest by one or both forces.

Khazarian King Bulan de-cided that in order to pro-tect themselves against attack, Khazaria needed to convert to one of these

religions. But which one? The king also had a third option – Judaism… At that time, the Jews were able to deal with both Muslims and Christians. King Bulan decreed that his entire kingdom would

convert to Judaism. But they did not worry about the Torah. Instead they became students of Talmud and the mystical, occultic Kaballah. King Bulan was right. He would live to see his country unconquered, his people convert to Judaism and adopt the principles of the Talmud.

He would not live to see his nation’s converts to Judaism grow to repre-sent 90% of all the Jews on the planet, and call themselves Khazarian or Ashkenazi Jews, when in fact they were not Jews at all. They were an Asi-atic race of people who converted to the Jewish religion.Khazaria: Home of the Ashkenazi “Jews”, who were

Turk-Mongols that “converted” to mystic Judiasm

In fact, it would be a Khazarian descen-dant, who would be far more powerful than King Bulan was himself, who would find the means to dominate the whole world through money.

This Khazarian descendant would be named Bauer and would spawn the Rothschild’s dynasty. King Bulan could not have imagined that one day the

descendants of the Khazarian kingdom, who now claimed to be Jews through conversion, would usurp the wealth of the world, through the Rothschild’s dynasty. He could not have known how, through deception and intrigue and controlling the world’s money supply, the tiny realm of Khazaria would one day conquer and dominate the whole world.

One famous Khazarian descendant was Mayer Amschel Bauer (founder of the Rothschild Dy-nasty), who realized King Bulan’s desires far beyond his wildest hopes or plans. But, long before the first Rothschild began to dominate the world, the Ashkenazi Jews worked to take over gov-ernments and subjugate the world. History books tells us of a terrible anti-Semitism which pervaded the world. But, few tell the reason behind it. People wrongly associ-ated the Ashkenazi “Jews” with the true descendants of Abraham.

Abraham, the father of the Hebrews, was a BLESSING to the world around him, just as it promises he and his descendants would be in the Torah (Genesis 22:17-18). The difference be-tween Abraham and the “converted” Jews from Khazaria was that Abra-ham followed the Torah, which is God-centered, while the Askenaki Jews followed Talmud and the satanic Kabballah. Thus, they received the same global reception as the Jesuits.

As author Bernard Lazare, documented in 1894, in his book titled L’Antisemitisme Son Histoire

et ses Causes, the Ashkenazi Jews quickly became known for working to take over the world, threatening governments and good citizens everywhere. This pattern was so well-knowns and far spread that they were thrown out of every European kingdom into which they tried to settle.

These self-proclaimed Jews were not content to dwell in a land, instead they worked to take it over. And the entering wedge they used to dominate a political struc-ture was finance.

Oliver Cromwell was a Puritan in England. He worked to promote the principles of Torah, and was instrumental in get-ting Christmas-keeping

banned from England.Perhaps it was his per-sonal Torah-observance which made Cromwell more sensitive to the needs of the “Jews”. Cromwell decided to ignore the law banning the Jews from entering England, allowing them back in defiance of the law.

As A.N. Field wrote in his book, “All These Things,” (published in 1931) “Thirty-three years after Cromwell had let Jews into Britain a Dutch Prince (William of Orange or William III) arrived from Amsterdam surrounded

Puritan, Oliver Cromwell mistook Ashkenazi’s for “Jews” resulting in their domination of England

by a whole swarm of Jews from that Jewish financial centre. Driving his royal father-in-law (King James II) out of the kingdom, he graciously consented to ascend the throne of

Britain.

A very natural result fol-lowing on this event was the inauguration of the National Debt by the es-tablishment six years later of the Bank of England for the purpose of lending money to the crown. Brit-ain had paid her way as she went until the “Jews” arrived.”

In 1694, the deceptively named Bank of England was founded. It’s name gave the impression that it was controlled by the Government of England.

At first, the Bank of England only loaned £1,250,000 to the Eng-lish Government. But, in only four years, that debt amount increased 1280% to a whopping £16,000,000.

As Christopher Hollis explained in his 1934 book “The Breakdown of Money,” the Bank of England was actually a private institution found-ed by Ashkenazi Jews. It’s creation and lending of funds to the British monarchy, resulted in a quiet take-over of British Government. Through their control of the Bank of England, the Ashkenazi Jews had control over the British royal family and the country of England.

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The people from the once small realm of Khazaria had learned the principle of inflation and were using it to take over the throne of England.

How, exactly, did this work? If the money in circulation in a country was £5,000,000, the CEN-TRAL bank would print another £15,000,000… By so doing, the value of the initial £5,000,000 was less. Initially, the £5,000,000 was 100% of the economy. While this was true, the £5,000,000 was worth more. But, after the Central Bank printed and circulated an additional £15,000,000, instead of being 100% of the economy the original £5,000,000 had been reduced to only 25% of it.The Central Bank then had control of 75% of the money in circulation. This was stage one of a hos-tile financial takeover.

This bank practice of printing more money was what produced inflation, which is simply the reduction in worth of money borne by the common person, due to too much money being flooded into the econo-my by the Central Bank. As the common person’s money was worth less, prices of things would increase. Citizens would have to go to the bank

to get a loan to run their businesses.Then, when the devious Central Bank was satisfied that there were enough people with debt, the bank tightened the supply of money, not offering loans. This was stage two of the Ashkenazi Bankers’ plan.

Stage three was sitting back and waiting for the people indebted to the bank to go bankrupt, al-lowing the bank to seize from them real wealth, businesses and property for pennies on the pound. Inflation never affects a Central Bank, in fact they are the only group to ben-efit from it, for if they are ever short of money, they can simply print more, all the while getting the real assets from the people who are going bankrupt.

Thus, through the Ash-kenazi “Jews” who estab-lished the Bank of Eng-land, the government of England had fallen to the Khazarians long before the first Rothschild ever came on the scene.

But what the Khazarian de-scendants accomplished in England, was increased 100-fold through the work of the Rothschild family.On February 23, 1744, Mayer Amschel Bauer, an Ashkenazi Jew, was born in Frankfurt Germany, son

of Moses Amschel Bauer, a money lender and the pro-prietor of a counting house.

Moses Amschel Bauer placed a red sign above the door to his counting house. It was a red hexagram, now called the Star of David. Revealing the Khazarian un-derstanding of the occultic Jewish book Kabballah, this shape was numerically and geometrically a 666.Notice how the angles on the equilateral isosceles tri-angle are all 60 degrees. The upright pyramid, symbolizes the realm of light and has three 6’s through the three equal angles of this pyra-mid. Then, when joined to the upside down pyramid to form the Khazarian star, there are again 3 6’s. The upside down pyramid indi-cates the realm of darkness. And occultists believe that Lucifer joins both kingdoms, as is symbolized in this star.

During the 1760’s, Moses Amschel Bauer died, and Mayer Amschel Bauer re-turned to Frankfurt to take over his father’s business. He recognized the significance of the red shield hexagram over the door and decided to make it and its kabalistic message the symbol for himself and his posterity. “Rot” is German for “red” and “Schild” is German for shield or sign. So quite liter-ally, Bauer gave himself the new last name of the Red Shields or Rothschilds.

Rothschild strategically ar-ranged to become the close associate of Prince William of Hanau, grandson of George II of England. The prince was so taken with Rothschild that

he gave permission for Mayer Amschel Rothschild to hang a sign on his business premise declaring, “M.A. Rothschild, by appointment court factor to his serene highness, Prince William of Hanau.” While Rothschild’s overtures to the prince were seemingly friendly, even appar-ently helpful, his plan all along was to take over the throne, not in fact, but in power.

By 1770, Mayer Amschel Rothschild had drawn up the

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“Give me control over a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws.”

Baron M.A. Rothschild

It was under a Rothschild’s in-struction, that this Rothschild star, now called the Star of David, end-ed up on the Israeli flag some two

centuries later. The occultic sign of one who claimed to be a Jew,

but was not, has now become the symbol of Judaism everywhere.

Before his death, Mayer Amschel Rothschild set up the system of governance and the balance of

power within his own family. By the first generation England, Ger-

many, Austria, Italy, and France were already dominated by the

grasping Rothschild clan.

Then the Rothschilds’ attention turned to the rising United States.

To control America’s economy, they set up the 1st Bank of the

United States. It failed. They tried again, establishing the 2nd Bank

of the United States. In 1833, then President Andrew Jackson waged

war against this cabal and their bank. Jackson considered his

victory over the bank his greatest contribution to the free world, even having the words “I killed

the bank” put on his tomb. This same clan took control of the

United States through their pri-vately held Federal Reserve Bank.

President James A Garfield said, two weeks before he was assas-sinated, “Whoever controls the...

money in our country is absolute master of all industry and com-merce… And when you realize

that the entire system is very eas-ily controlled... by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have

to be told how periods of infla-tion and depression originate.”

plans for the creation of the “Illuminati.” Then he entrusted Ashkenazi Jew, Adam Weishaupt, with its organization and development. Weishaupt was outwardly Roman Catholic. But he, being a Khazarian disciple of Talmud, was the perfect “founder” of the Illuminati, which is based upon the Rabbinic teachings of the Talmud, as Andrew Carrington Hitchcock points out in his book The Synagogue of Satan. This secret society was to be called the Illuminati because this is a Luciferian term meaning, “keepers of light.”

By 1776 Adam Weishaupt officially completed his organization of the Illuminati, based upon Rothschild’s plans. The purpose of the Illuminati, from its inception was to divide the non-Jews through political, economic, social, and religious means. The plan is for the opposing sides of the goyim (non-Jews) to be armed while incidents were to be provided in order for them to fight amongst themselves; destroy nation-al governments; destroy religious institutions; and eventually destroy each other.

Many are aware that the secret societies like the Bilderbergers and Illuminati com-prise the “Shadow Government,” which controls the world. But, it is less commonly known that the Khazarian Rothschild family is the power behind the scenes, nor do they realize its prophetic significance. This kabal is the literal fulfillment of Revela-

tion 3:9. They are the Synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, but are not. And through avarice, cunning and the occult, they have taken over the world. Now, in these Last Days, this dark force is preparing, as never before, to do battle with the Kingdom of God.

For more information on this subject, see the following sources:“Thy Synagogue of Satan” (DVD) by Mark Manfredine (recorded 1/23/16)“Decoding Ezekiel Series Part 1: Zion-ism, Israel and the Final War” (DVD) by Shauna Manfredine (recorded 2/6/16)“The Synagogue ofSatan” book by An-drew Carrington Hitchcock, available online at www.amazon.com

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Taking Passover Down Under! - Australia!Lighted Way Ministries has been asked to give Passover and Unleavened Bread in Australia this coming Spring! A team of five of us: Mark Manfredine, Shauna Manfredine, Katrina Manfredine (our 15-year old daughter), and Chet and Vickie Burba will be travelling to various sites in the ter-ritories of New South Wales and Queensland from April 17 to May 10, 2016.

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HOW YOU CAN HELP. Our switcher is old and needs to be replaced. We will need to replace it in order to film and make DVD’s while in Australia. This will cost $15,000. If the Father impresses you to help us with this purchase, it will bless so many, making DVD’s and Livestream possible. Also, please pray for us!

JOIN US ONLINE! We are praying to be able to take our camera equip-ment to Australia so that the meetings there can be recorded and uploaded to Livestream. With the Father’s Blessing to this end, you should be able to join us for this exciting mission trip! Fol-low the Livestream link at www.lightedway.org

Yahweh is Expanding our Borders (1 Chron-icles 4:10) We are very excited to announce that Lighted Way Ministries will be going to Australia this coming Spring! We’ll be giving the Passover and sharing with a group of folks in Melbourne (which is down at the bottom of Victoria), then we’ll travel up to the top of Queensland to meet with some folks in Cairns and Townsville. Finally, after the Week of Unleav-ened Bread is over, we will end up with a round of weekend meetings in Rockhampton.

Our Lighted Way Ministry team will include: Mark and Shauna Manfred-ine (who will be doing the speaking), Katrina

Manfredine (our 15 year old daughter), Chet and Vickie Burba (who are coming as our camera crew and behind the scenes prayer warriors).

Our plan is to still provide Passover/Unleavened Bread for those who normally join us - via Livestream. Australia is 18 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time, so we’d simply record the messages, upload them to the Internet via Livestream, and the folks back home could watch the talks, virtually joining us “Down Under”!

Also, the folks in Australia have requested that we create and bring Bible study lessons to hand out on the Torah, the

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“And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the

Gospel...” Mark 16:15

...Feasts, the Sabbath, and several other doctrinal topics. We are in the process of creating this new Bible Study lesson series on the Fourth Angel’s Message and related doctrinal subjects. Each lesson will be in full-color, and printed to look much like our Liv-ing Beyond the Keys Bible study lessons (which are on sanctified living, if you are not familiar with them). The folks in Australia want the lessons to deepen their own understanding and also so that they will be prepared to give Bible studies on these topics to others. We believe these doctrinal lessons will be a blessing to not only the Australia believers, but also to anyone anywhere, who is looking to “prove all things and to hold fast to that which is good,” (1 Thessalonians 5:21). We hope to get these lessons to press by no later than mid-March. Please pray for Lighted Way Ministries and for the precious folks in Australia. We received this call to go to the other side of the world because of the work of a dear couple named Tony and Daphne Connor.

How We Came to Be Invited to Australia...

Quite some time ago, Tony and Daphne Connor (whom we can’t wait to meet!) began ordering our books and DVD’s by the box-load. They would read/watch the materials, duplicate them, and ship them to points all over Australia. As a result, there is a great deal of interest in our Annual Sabbath message, Bible Prophecy, and also Spiritual Warfare.

Where We’re Going...

Our first stop will be in Melbourne, Australia (April 20-24). We will actually be giving the Passover with a precious group of believers at this location. We’ll also stay, speaking there for the first couple of days into the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Then we’ll head up to Cairns (April 25-27 & May 3-4). There we’ll share for a few days, followed by a trip to Townsville (April 28 - May 2). We’ll conclude Unleavened Bread with meetings there. Finally, we’ll go to Rock-hampton (May 5-10), where we’ll speak over the weekened after the Feast has ended. Many of the folks we’ll meet with are new to this message! Please join us in praying for the work that Yahweh is doing with the precious believers in Australia!

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Scripture tells us to “keep” the Torah, or Law, of Yahweh. The Torah refers to the Com-mandments (10 Command-ments) and Statutes (613

Statutes) found in the first five Books of the Bible (Genesis - Deuteronomy). But it is the concept of keeping the Torah, upon which we especially will focus.

”And Yahweh thy Elohim will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand (our activi-ties will prosper), in the fruit of thy body (our children will be

blessed), and in the fruit of thy cattle (our pets and livestock will be blessed), and in the fruit of thy land (our property will prosper), for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over thee for good, as He rejoiced over thy fathers. IF (these blessings are conditional upon the fol-lowing terms) thou shalt hearken unto the Voice of Yahweh thy El, to KEEP His Commandments and His Statutes which are written in this Book of the Law. And if thou turn unto Yahweh thy El with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,” (Deu-teronomy 30:9-10).

The blessings Yahweh is waiting to bestow are spelled out plainly. But

“The Law (“Law” is translated from the Hebrew word “Torah”) of Yahweh is perfect, converting the soul. The Testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The Statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart. The Commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever. The Judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.”

what does it mean to “keep” Yahweh’s Commandments and Statutes? The word “keep” is from the Hebrew word “shamar”. Using E-sword (or Strong’s) we find the following:

H8104 - shamar (pronounced: shaw-mar’), meaning:“...To hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard... to protect, attend to... take heed, keep, mark... observe, preserve, regard... (be a) watchman.”

We know that we are all called to be “watchmen on the Walls of Zion”. And, as the meaning of “shamar” shows, “keeping, preserving, and taking heed to” the Law of Yahweh is part of the duty and priveledge of a watchman.

But the “to-hedge-about-as-with-thorns” portion of the definition of “shamar” (keep) gives powerful mean-ing that only becomes plain when we consider Biblical history. In ancient times, it was a common practice for a band of travelers to protect themselves at night by setting up a ring of thorny brush around their campsite. This prac-tice kept the lions out of the encamp-ment, protecting the travelors while

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they slept.

Hedging about one’s cattle or homes with thorns is something that is still done by certain primitive peoples. For ex-ample, the African Maasai tribe live in compounds or “kraals” that are ar-ranged in a circle and are surrounded by a “fence” made of acacia thorns. This hedge of thorns is set up specifically to prevent lions from attacking their cattle at night.

The Bible tells us that the enemy of souls is like a roaring lion, seeking unprotected souls which he can devour (1 Peter 5:8). And just as a hedge of literal thorns keeps out the literal lions, so a spiri-

tual “hedge of thorns”, erected by keeping the Law of Yahweh, keeps out the ultimate preditor - Satan.

We are forgiven, cleansed and protected by Yah,

when we have fully confessed and repented of every sin. (Sin is an area of Law-breaking, for sin is the trangression of the Law - 1 John 3:4.) Then, by Yahweh’s Grace, we are empowered to live in

obedience with the beau-tiful principles contained in the Torah. While we are obediently keeping the Sabbaths holy, honoring our marriage vows, and living in a way that brings glory to Yahweh’s Name; the devil roams about the peripherah of our lives, unable to pounce, rend or destroy.

Just as Israel, while faithful to Yahweh, was uncursable to Balaam, so the children of the Most High are beyond Satan’s reach, so long as they remain within the protec-tive confines of Torah. So, the next time someone suggests to you that Torah-keeping limits your freedoms, remember: the Torah is not a prison wall. It’s a guard-rail - a protec-tive hedge of thorns!

To Keep the Law of Yahweh, means to hedge us about as with thorns - which keeps the lion out!

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The Meaning of Worship“...The true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for

the Father seeketh such to worship Him,” John 4:23

If someone asked you what it means to really worship Yahweh, what would you say? Would you tell them that really worship-ping Yahweh means keeping the Days which He set apart as holy? Would you tell them that worshiping Yahweh is singing praises or praying to Him? Would it surprise you to learn that if you answered in either of these ways, you would have missed the true es-sence of worship? - Oh, don’t misunderstand! Keep-ing the Days Yahweh has ordained is a vital element of worship, as are praying and praising His Name. But, while these are all necessary elements in true worship, they are not true worship in and of themselves.

Proof of this is found in the expe-rience of the ancient Israel. The Bible tells us that they were keep-ing Yahweh’s Sabbaths and New Moons. They were praying and go-ing through all the right motions. But what they were doing wasn’t true worship - not in Yahweh’s Eyes. He found their process of “going-through-the-right-motions”, without true worship, to be tedious - to the point that He was sick of it all!

Isaiah 1:13-15 “Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto Me; the New Moons and Sabbaths, the Calling of Assemblies, I cannot away with! It is iniquity, even the solemn Meeting. Your New Moons and your Appointed Feasts My Soul ha-

teth! They are a trouble unto Me. I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine Eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear...”

Some have wrongly interpreted this Passage to mean that Yahweh is sick of Sabbath keeping. But one must notice that Sabbath keeping is not the only worship element mentioned in these verses. Isaiah also said that Yahweh was sick of their prayers.We shouldn’t stop keeping the Sabbaths any more than we should cease from praying. It isn’t these

activities which are loathsome to Yah. But if these activities are done, without the essence of true worship behind them, they become noth-ing more than empty and tedious repetitions, which cannot substitute for true worship.

So what is true worship then? Wor-ship, at its essence is about attitude. We find Yahweh, when we search for Him with ALL our hearts, minds and souls (Jeremiah 29:13). It is an

“I’m-all-in”, totally-involved, every brain cell is fo-cused on Yahweh experience! To illustrate, let us tell you about our friend and her cat.

We have a dear friend who is a true cat-lover. On her country property she has nine or ten pet cats. She loves them all. And they all respond to her in dif-ferent ways. Some of her cats simply come around

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The Worship Yahweh SeeksJohn 4:23-24

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.”

“God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

Let’s BE such wor-shippers, by His Grace!

when they want something from her - like when it’s feeding time. And she loves and cares for them, even petting the most independent ones, when they allow it. But of all her cats, one really stands out. She is an especially affectionate tabby cat, whose love and devotion for her owner goes far above the norm. When her beloved mistress is away, tabby waits, watching eagerly for her return. And when kitty sees her owner’s car pull in the driveway, she races up to greet her. Our friend snuggles the purring cat into her arms. Tabby even puts her little arms about her mistress’ neck and purrs to such an intensity that her whole body seems to vibrate with sheer joy. In that moment, the world melts away for kitty. Nothing has her attention or can distract her from the delight of being in that moment with her beloved owner.

And what effect does the intense adoration of this cat have upon our friend? To say that she has the same depth of relationship with all of her cats, equally, would be incorrect. She loves all of her cats - true. But there is one little tabby cat who holds a very special place in her heart. And there one of all her kitties which she most looks forward to seeing each day. But the lesson of this precious kitty is far more than just a heart-warming story. Unbeknownst to her, kitty is giving us all a valuable lesson on true worship!

Have you ever thought about devoting yourself as wholeheartedly to Yahweh as tabby does with her mistress? What if you decided not to be like the other “cats” who merely come around the Heavenly Court when its “feeding time”? What if you chose to be so “all-in” with Yahweh that you didn’t notice time or distractions of any kind, but were simply focused on the joy of His Presence, with every fiber of your being “in-tune” with Him? There have been some noteworthy people who displayed this cat-like level of devotion towards Yahweh. David was called “a man after God’s Own Heart” for doing so. And Moses was so deeply connected with Yahweh that Scripture calls him the greatest of prophets, with whom Yah-weh spoke Face to face.

Just how deep do you want to go with Yahweh? Did it ever occur to you that the level of depth you reach may be your choice? Doesn’t Yahweh long for this level of devotion from all of His children? In 2 Chronicles 16:9, we find that He is looking for this characteristic. “For the Eyes of Yahweh run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect (wholehearted) toward Him.”

So, the question comes down to you now. What’s it going to be? Will you be contented with a normal relationship with Yahweh - you know the kind: there’s an occasional “pat” here and there, the daily demand to be fed and blessed by Him, but there’s an independent spirit and a desire to do your own thing which keeps you always at a distance. Or, will you be the kind of a worshiper who is wholeheartedly “all-in”, loving Yahweh in a similar way to our friend’s devoted cat? One thing is certain, if you choose to be “all in” as the cat example, you’ll never be the same! This is the true meaning of wor-ship!

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