![]() ![]() Now it's time for your mind and your spirit to get the message and prepare to experience the ultimate freedom that comes with His Covenant at Shavuot! If you observed the Passover, then you've already been set free. It's the time that we work to change our own slave mentality and build up our own spiritual character. ![]() This is what makes us a servant of the Most High Elohim.Ĭounting the Omer is a call for us to undergo a serious spiritual transformation. We have to learn His Torah and obey His commands. Nor can we be a slave to our own desires - doing whatever we want, whenever we want, and however we want. ![]() If we are to accept His Torah, then no longer can we just go with the flow of society. We have to remind our self that He alone is our Provider. We have to practice training our mind to look to YAHUAH only for all our needs. To be a Yahudi(te), a servant of YAH, all that has to change. We get used to doing things the way we see fit and go along with whatever is accepted by popular society. We're easily trained into thinking that we take care of ourselves, our jobs provide for our needs, and our bank account balance is our security. Technology and the world's systems blind us from Him, and we quickly start to depend on ourselves and the world for our needs. In today's world, it's super easy to lose sight of Elohim. This period of the Omer, between Passover and Shavuot, is a time of testing and training. they were breaking that 'slave mentality' and rebuilding their spiritual character according to His way. Mitsrayim was not their might-one, YAHUAH was their Elohim! Each time they looked to YAH for food, water, safety, etc. Mitsrayim was no longer their provider YAHUAH was their Provider. ![]() He showed them time and again that they could - and must - put their complete dependancy on Him. Each and every time, YAHUAH provided and took care of His people. It was a test to see how much they truly depended on YAH. They faced certain defeat as the Amalekites came to fight against them, but Moshe raised his hands to Heaven and Yehoshua (Joshua) won the battle.Įach challenge, each obstacle, each life-or-death situation was a test from Elohim. YAHUAH then made bitter waters sweet, brought water from a rock, and provided bread from Heaven. Then, the sea closed - cutting them off from Mitsrayim forever. He then tested them with hunger and thirst, while they grumbled to return to Mitsrayim. At the Red Sea, they feared being recaptured by Pharaoh, but YAH delivered them and brought them through the Sea on dry land. Then, and only then, would they be ready to receive the Torah and fulfill their spiritual purpose of being a light to the nations, proclaiming His Name throughout the earth.įor seven weeks, as the Hebrews traveled from Mitsrayim to Sinai, YAHUAH prepared His people. They had to break their slave mentality and completely rebuild their spiritual character to YAH's standards. This type of transformation required that the Hebrews go through a period of testing and training. 20:6-10) but they would worship the Most High YAHUAH only. No longer would they worship idols as some of them had begun to do (Ezek. No longer would they be slaves to Pharaoh, but they would be servants of Elohim. No longer would they depend on Mitsrayim for their existence, but instead put all their trust and dependancy on YAHUAH. In order to accept the Torah, they had to change this 'slave mentality.' A major spiritual transformation was in order.įor several generations, the Hebrew people had been slaves - depending on their Mitsrite (Egyptian) masters for their very existence. Now, before they could accept YAH's laws, they had to come up to one of the highest spiritual levels. In Mitsrayim, the Hebrews had descended to one of the lowest spiritual levels while in slavery. They had to be prepared to receive the Torah. Sinai for Shavuot was a time of testing and training for YAH's people. This time between leaving Mitsrayim (Egypt) at Passover and arriving at Mt. ![]()
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