Consumer Alert ..... Buyer Beware!

[Shmanu YAH]

shalom mishpacha, ALL praises, honor and glory to the most high YHWH and "baruka habo b'shem YHWH", - "blessed is your coming in the name YHWH" ->>> Yahushua.

                             I pray all is well and getting even better with each and every one.

This writing is merely a short reminder or inculcator of that which we know but may slack up on from time to time. The majority of us have already establshed our stand on our faith and beliefs (rooted) and vow not to waver, however every so-often some listen to those around them that may have something a little different or seems more exciting at the time.

We have been instructed and even warned in scipture not to stray so lets get right into it. What was written by the brother of James ->>> Yehudah aka Jude (a brother of Yahushua as we read in Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3), may be the most popular to todays readers when he wrote Jude 1:3-4, "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints". ....- Jude made it very plain in this part of the verse that they had to "earnestly contend" for the faith because he knew it would be a attempt to remove faith in mashiach and lurings to follow other doctrines of "religions". 4 "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, un-Elohymly men, turning the grace of our ELOHYM into lasciviousness, and denying the only Master YHWH, and our master Yahushua h'mahiach" ....- This is surely a fore-warning word to the wise (hint hint) speaking from prophecies of old ( psalms 22:16, 69:9, 109:2, 118:22, also Isaiah 53:4-6, also Daniel 9:26 and Micah 5:1, etc.) and indicating that some would sneak in with their doctrines against YHWH's grace to us through the mashiach which has already come.

Lets look at what a real prophet like Jeremiah had to say on the issue: Jeremiah shows us even from times of old in Jer. 14:4, "Then YHWH said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart." ....- The same old same even till today! also he showed us a warning of old in chapter 23:16 +32, "Thus saith YHWH of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of YHWH". ....- Seems to me so many today will consume anything spoken to them out of the mouth of anybody with a bible in their hands, and in vs. 32, "Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith YHWH, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith YHWH" .....- This is a wake up call to beware comsuption if ever there was.

Lets also look at what a real prophet Ezekiel had to say on the issue: In Ezekiel 13:6-8 he warned them as well as us, "They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, YHWH saith: and YHWH hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, YHWH saith it; albeit I have not spoken? 8 Therefore thus saith my Master YHWH; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith my Master YHWH". .....- This is another wake up call for those that like to listen to so-called visions from fake bible toters.

Yahushua himself spoke to the issue: Yahushua also warned us about who to consume from, In Matthew 7:15 he spoke: "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves". ....- Maybe many of us understand this warning about false prophets in general but we need to focus on the indication of how they approach you in "sheeps clothing". If a person illuminates your TV or sounds off through your radio or even knocks on your door or comes to you however with a bible in their hand ---> buyer beware!

Right after that we read in the book of Acts in chapter 20:29-30, "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them". ....- Notice how he refers to them as wolves sparing NONE and even worse he says they will come from among YOU. Apostle Shaul aka Paul also weighed in on the issue: At the end of his epistle to those in Rome he wrote: Romans 16:17-18 "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve not our Master Yahushua h'mashiach , but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple". ....- tisk tisk tisk, - he tried to warn us NOT to consume the speakings of the Great orators but beware of them! , because they are NOT "obad" aka servants of Yahushua and those that will be deceived the most are the "simple".

Apostle Paul also made a distintion in Corinthians 2:17, "For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of Elohym: but as of sincerity, but as of Elohym, in the sight of Elohym speak we in mashiach". .... - well well well, - You mean Paul was from centuries ago exposing that MANY were corrupting the word of Elohym? ..... nawww Apostle Paul also wrote to them at the end of his 2nd epistle to Timothy 4:2-4 "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables". ... - if this isn't sound advice as well as prophecy come true I dont know what is. Paul didnt just write because he was bored, he wrote this out of necessity!

Apostle Paul best summed it up in his epistle to those in Ephesus, In Ephesians 4:14 Paul wrote: ."..... that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive"; .....- warning warning! - it was past time to grow up from where they were mentally and spiritually to where they need to be ( can you say rooted, stable and focused? ).

Kepha aka Peter also weighed in on the issue: Peter warned in his 2nd Epistle vs. 1-3, "....but there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Master that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not". .....- again we see another warning as well as prophecy teaching us "consumer beware!"

Even today computer programmers still have a saying: "garbage in - garbage out", and even though some of them are athiest they understand the importance of what should be accepted for correct function. In OUR daily walk through life let us as believers continually give due dilligence to the directive that we must "earnestly contend for the faith once delivered" and be mindful of the wisdom "you are what you eat " (consume) so that we NOT consume that which will not only destroy the body, but more importantly NOT consume or buy into that which will destroy our soul!

selah and shalom