DRINKING from the WORLDLY WELLS - 11 June 2019
Everything in the Bible was WRITTEN for a REASON. In its entirety - it is the MANUAL - the GUIDEBOOK of LIFE. It teaches us:
RIGHTS from WRONGS -
SHOWS us the WAY -
TEACHES us HOW we should LIVE -
It CORRECTS us -
It HELPS US to LIVE A RIGHTEOUS LIFE -
and the MOST IMPORTANT :
It HELPS us to KNOW our CREATOR and our SAVIOR - so that we can WALK our LIVES IN A WHOLEHEARTED COVENANT RELATIONSHIP with Him.
ABRAHAM - a prophetic 'figure' of our heavenly Father:
Looking at the old PATRIARCH ABRAHAM - also called the "father of faith" - prophetically represents YAHWEH (our loving heavenly Father). (Rom. 4:16 "... For Abraham is the FATHER of ALL WHO BELIEVES ...")
ISAAC - a prophetic 'figure' of the promised Son:
ISAAC was the PROMISED SON that was born to Abraham in his old age of hundred years old - with Sarah ten years younger at ninety. Prophetically Isaac represents Yahshua. (Gen. 17) "Yahweh said to Abraham, 'I will change the name of SARAI, your wife to SARAH (Princess) ...' Then Abraham said to YAH (God) 'Please let Ishmael be the SON YOU PROMISED.' Yahweh said, 'No, Sarah your wife will HAVE A SON, and YOU WILL NAME him Isaac. ... My COVENANT, My PROMISE and PLEDGE, I WILL ESTABLISH with Isaac.' ")
Isaac's wife Rebekah was a match from heaven - prayed for selected and received through the hand of YAHWEH.
SEPARATE from the OTHERS - They dwelled in a place of SEPARATION (KADESH):
Isaac and Rebekah dwelled in the south west country of KADESH. KADESH means "A PLACE of SEPARATION".
By the WELL - BEER-LAHAI-ROI (The well of the VISION of LIFE):
It was also by the WELL, BEER-LAHAI-ROI meaning "A WELL, to the LIVING One Who SEES me" or "The WELL of the VISION of LIFE".
WATER was a SIGN of WEALTH AND INDEPENDENCE:
A WELL in the desert was the SIGN of WEALTH and INDEPENDENCE. WELLS were DUG BY HAND and MUCH LABOR WENT INTO it for it was DUG through SOLID LIMESTONE.
Some WELLS had carved limestone steps to enable the people to go into the well with their containers to carry water out. Others had ropes and buckets or water skins to draw water out - and water wheels with attached pitchers attached to a ROPE that went down into the well coming up full of water - were also used.
Around the wells were built a low wall, keeping animals and people from falling into the well. The people who OWNED WELLS, SOLD their water or traded with those who used the well. Wells were most important for without water, you could not keep herds.
Those who owned wells, could maintain LARGE FLOCKS of SHEEP, and the LARGER your FLOCK, the WEALTHIER you were.
KADESH AND BEER-LAHAI-ROI:
Isaac dwells in "A PLACE of SEPARATION" (KADESH) by the "WELL of the VISION of LIFE" (Beer-LAHAI-ROI).
The BIBLE is our "VISION of LIFE":
Relating it to the Word of YAHWEH God, the BIBLE is the "VISION of LIFE" and THOSE who SEPARATED THEMSELVES unto the WORD of YAH and APPLY the WORD to their LIVES - LIVING the WORD and DOING the WORD - become like the WORD (Messiah) as SONS/DAUGHTERS of YAHWEH God.
WITH HIS WORD IN US - we BECOME HIS CHILDREN:
Gal. 3:26 "So IN Messiah Yahshua you are ALL CHILDREN (sons and daughters) of Yahweh through FAITH."
The WORD of YAHWEH God - is the WELL OF LIVING WATER:
YAHWEH'S WORD is also the WELL of LIVING WATER. EVERYONE who DRINKS of it will be REFRESHED, HEALED, RESTORED, STRENGTHENED - will RECEIVE WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING ... and out of those who has the WORD IN THEM will ALSO FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS from their INNERMOST BEINGS. These are those in WHOM YAH (God) DWELLS ... Him IN us and we IN Him ... John 15:4 "DWELL IN Me, and I WILL DWELL IN you. [LIVE IN Me, and I will LIVE IN you."
John 7:37-38 "Now on the FINAL and MOST IMPORTANT DAY of the Feast (Tabernacles John 7:7) YAHSHUA STOOD, and HE CRIED IN A LOUD VOICE,
IF ANY MAN is THIRSTY, LET him COME to Me and DRINK!
:38 He who BELIEVES IN Me, [who CLEAVES TO and TRUSTS IN and RELIES on Me] as the Scripture has said, FROM his INNERMOST BEING shall FLOW [CONTINUOUSLY] SPRINGS and RIVERS of LIVING WATER."
A WELL OF LIVING WATER SPRINGING UP IN us:
John 4:14 "... but whoever DRINKS the WATER I GIVE them WILL NEVER THIRST. In fact, the water I (Yahshua) will give him will become a WELL OF WATER springing UP IN him ..."
NOT LIVING the WORD as a habitual LIFESTYLE means to FORSAKE YAHWEH:
Jer. 17:13 "O Yahweh, the hope of Israel, ALL WHO FORSAKE You will be put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be written down, because they have FORSAKEN the FOUNTAIN (WELL) of LIVING WATER ... Elohim Yahweh."
The MORE OF HIS WORD that is IN US, has SETTLED IN us, has BECOME our LIFESTYLE - the MORE HE DWELLS in us. King Solomon wrote in Prov. 29:18 "Where there is NO VISION, the PEOPLE PERISH; but HE WHO KEEPS the LAW, HAPPY is he."
TODAY in our modern generation, there is NO VISION and NO WORD in the people:
PEOPLE ARE PERISHING for LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. Even those who ARE CALLED - SOMETIMES has LOST their VISION.
DRINKING from the WORLDLY WELLS:
The people today are THIRSTY but they are QUENCHING their THIRST from a FALSE WELL - a RELIGIOUS WELL - a TRADITIONAL WELL - a DOGMATIC WELL - and they are NOT SEPARATING THEMSELVES unto YAHWEH God's PURPOSE for their lives.
FAMINE in the LAND – The FULL TRUTH of the WORD is NOT TAUGHT ANYMORE:
Gen. 26:1 "And there was a FAMINE in the land, BESIDES the FAMINE that was in the DAYS of ABRAHAM. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar."
Amos 8:11-12 "Behold, the days come, says Elohim Yahweh, that I WILL SENT A FAMINE in the LAND, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, BUT OF HEARING the WORDS of YAH; And they shall wander from SEA to SEA, and from the NORTH even to the EAST, they shall RUN TO AND FRO to SEEK the WORD of YAH, and SHALL NOT FIND IT."
There is a FAMINE in the land - in the WORLD - the WELL BEER-LAHAI-ROI has DRIED UP - the WELL in the PLACE of SEPARATION has DRIED UP. The PEOPLE HAS FORSAKEN their CREATOR - there is NO REPENTANCE and TURNING BACK as the VISION OF LIFE (the PURE WORD) is not TAUGHT anymore.
The MESSAGE OF LIFE is NEGLECTED:
The MESSAGE OF LIFE - OBEDIENCE - REPENTANCE - BAPTISM and SEPARATION of yourself from the WORLD - is NOT PREACHED ANYMORE – REPENTANCE of SIN is NOT PREACHED ANYMORE – FALSENESS HAS CREPT IN and KEEP the PEOPLE in BONDAGE - IN the WORLD and IN WORLDLINESS.
The BABYLON SYSTEM:
BELIEVERS are BEING KEPT in the BABYLON SYSTEM (an inherited false religious system) - where FALSENESS and DECEPTION and TRADITION have REPLACED and NULLIFIED the WORD of YAHWEH God.
FALSE and CHEAP LOVE - GRACE AND PEACE:
With the ENLIGHTENMENT that FLOODED the churches way back in the 70's, a UNIVERSAL PREACHING OF LOVE and GRACE and PEACE (FALSE and CHEAP LOVE - GRACE and PEACE) are being preached - and the people sit in churches, thinking that they are in right-standing with YAHWEH God.
These teachings and TRADITIONAL PRACTICES have REPLACED and NULLIFIED the Word of Yahweh God - Matt. 15:6 "... you NULLIFY the WORD of GOD for the SAKE OF YOUR TRADITION."
Mark 7:13 "Thus you NULLIFY the WORD of YAHWEH God by YOUR TRADITION that YOU HAVE HANDED DOWN. And you DO MANY THINGS LIKE THAT."
THERE WAS FAMINE in the LAND:
There was FAMINE in the land where Isaac dwelled. Because of the famine, Isaac went into the land of the Philistines to Abimelech.
PHILISTINE means WALLOWING in the MUD (SIN):
Philistines represents the FLESH - the word Philistine means "WALLOWING in the MUD" (SIN).
LIVING IN THE "FLESH" and ENJOYING the "FLESHLY" THINGS:
The prophetical Philistine is those who REFUSE to SEE the TRUTH ...
Those who are REFUSING to HEAR the TRUTH -
Those who are just keeping on DOING their SIN - LIVING THEIR SIN - LIVING in the "FLESH" and in the FLESHLY PLEASURES.
Those living in the FLESH (Philistine church members) REFUSE to come to the WATER OF LIFE:
Isaac went to Abimelech ... he wanted to re-open the wells of his father Abraham.
ABIMELECH is NOT A MAN'S NAME:
Abimelech is a TITLE for the KING of the Philistines - IT IS NOT A MAN'S NAME.
It MEANS "MY FATHER IS KING"
The RELIGIOUS CHURCH SYSTEM of TODAY:
This is prophetically the religious church system today (the church is king). The "FLESH" is king - not being OBEDIENT to the WORD - not being REPENTANT - not SEPARATING themselves from the world and the worldly things - only hearing the preachers preachings that come from Theological denominational schools - and not THINGS THAT COMES FROM THE SPIRIT of YAHWEH God.
Things that SUIT the DENOMINATION is preached and taught. Things that are DENOMINATIONAL TRADITION is PRACTICED and taught - and they QUENCH the SPIRIT of YAHWEH God and NULLIFYING the WORD of YAHWEH God.
EGYPT representing the "WORLD":
Yahweh told Isaac to NOT GO to EGYPT and to stay in Gerar. Egypt is representing symbolically the "WORLD" in our lives.
IN THE WORLDLY SYSTEM the WELL of LIVING WATERS IS BLOCKED:
Gen. 26: 2-6 "And Elohim appeared to Isaac and said, Do NOT go down to Egypt; LIVE in the LAND of which I will tell you. Dwell temporarily in this land, and I WILL BE WITH YOU and WILL FAVOR YOU with BLESSINGS; for to YOU and TO YOUR DESCENDANTS I WILL GIVE ALL THESE LANDS, and I WILL PERFORM the OATH which I SWORE to Abraham your father. :4 ... and by your Offspring (Messiah Himself) shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, or BY Him, BLESS THEMSELVES. For Abraham LISTENED to and OBEYED MY VOICE and KEPT MY CHARGE, MY COMMANDS, MY STATUTES AND MY LAWS. So ISAAC STAYED in GERAR."
The PHILISTINES (the church is king) has FILLED UP the WELLS of LIVING WATERS:
Gerar is the land in which Abraham dwelt in after Mamre (Gen. 20:1).
While in Gerar, Abraham's servants dug WELLS to WATER the FLOCKS. These wells were ALL FILLED UP WITH EARTH by the Philistines after Abraham's death.
Gen. 26:12-13 "So Isaac sowed seed in the land and received in the same year a hundred fold as much as he had planted, and Elohim FAVORED him with BLESSINGS. And he became GREAT AND GAINED MORE AND MORE UNTIL HE BECAME VERY WEALTHY and DISTINGUISHED."
:14 Isaac OWNED FLOCKS, HERDS, and a GREAT SUPPLY OF SERVANTS, and the PHILISTINES ENVIED him.
:15 Now ALL the WELLS which HIS FATHER'S SERVANTS had DUG in the DAYS OF ABRAHAM his father, the PHILISTINES HAD CLOSED AND FILLED WITH EARTH.
:16-17 So Abimelech said to Isaac, GO AWAY from US, for YOU ARE MUCH MIGHTIER THAN WE ARE. So Isaac went away from there and pitched his TENT IN THE VALLEY of GERAR, and DWELT there."
RE-OPENENING of the WELLS:
Gen. 26:18 "And Isaac again DUG the WELLS OF WATER which HAD BEEN DUG in the DAYS OF ABRAHAM his FATHER, for the PHILISTINES had STOPPED THEM AFTER the DEATH of ABAHAM; and HE GAVE them the NAMES by which his FATHER HAD CALLED THEM."
The EARTH - the FLESH:
The EARTH the wells of Abraham had been FILLED with - represents the "FLESH".
WELLS REPRESENTS the LIFE-GIVING WORD of YAHWEH-God.
ONLY KNOWLEDGE - NO LIFE-GIVING TRUTH:
The Philistines representing the "church" has FILLED the LIFE-GIVING WORD of YAHWEH-God with their FLESHLY CARNAL THEOLOGICAL DENOMINATIONAL TEACHINGS which ONLY IMPARTS KNOWLEDGE (from Theological teachings) and the PEOPLE are PERISHING because they are ROBBED of the TRUE and FULL TRUTH of the WORD OF YAH, and LOST their VISION.
TRAPS - BONDAGES:
The Philistine (church system) has TRAPPED YAHWEH'S PEOPLE into their traps - have BONDAGED them - PUT CHAINS AROUND THEM - HOLD THEM PRISON - with NONE that ARE PROCLAIMING the MESSAGE of LIFE - (OBEDIENCE, REPENTANCE, BAPTISM and TURNING AWAY from SIN (the WORLD) and the WORLDLY to YAHWEH GO into a WHOLEHEARTED RELATIONSHIP with Him).
The VALLEY of GERAR:
GERAR - Meaning "to DRAG AWAY and PONDER, THINK OVER, CHEW OVER AND OVER, FEED" - VALLEY - Meaning a PLACE of REFRESHMENT.
FATHER IS CALLING HIS PEOPLE OUT!
Symbolically our Father in heaven is CALLING HIS PEOPLE OUT from the Philistine church system to a PLACE OF REFRESHMENT - to BE FED with the WATER of LIFE - FILLED with VISION. Those that have already came out of the system of religion and tradition and dogma and culture are CHEWING the WORD OF YAHWEH God OVER AND OVER to OVERCOME ALL the "EARTH" - the FLESHLY - the CARNAL THINGS - that the Philistines has PUT in their WELL of their SALVATION.