On Broadway

[Shmanu YAH]

shalom alychem, "praises and glory to the Most High YHWH alone" - our King everlasting and from where all true wisdom and knowledge comes, and todah YHWH for YAHushua .....baruka ha'bo b'ha'shem YHWH !

                                       I pray all is well with you and yours or will be soon.

This time around I'd like to try to expound on the topic of the massive opportunities and availibilities for destruction vs. construction.

Each and every one of us in our lifetimes have had to make decisions about our own behaviour that whether we knew it or not would drastically affect our future either short term or long term or both. It seems when we come to that "fork in the road" often most people take the road most traveled ( I call that walking on Broadway ) because we feel it's safer somehow and so we rely on the carnality of "self preservation". It seems ironic to me that much of our lives we like to "roll the dice" and gamble with things we ought not to - but when it comes to walking towards spiritual advancement we get very conservative ......whats up with that?

Long ago, hundreds of years before the writing of the successfully secular book or the poem "The Road Less Traveled" the disciple Matthew recorded something of major importance by Yahushua that he best articulated it in Mat. 7:13-14, "enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it". .....- anyone with even half a brain can easily understand this passage which was his intention. The actual word used from the hebrew venacular that we read in these verses is "tzr" or as we would pronounce: tsaw-rar, - saw-rar' a primitive root; to cramp, literally or figuratively also narrow / tight or straight, (Strong's concordance 6887 and 6862 ), we see this same root word in Mtzraym aka Egypt. I believe what h'mashiach was trying to tell anyone that would listen is that to enter into the passage way of everlasting life aka the "kingdoms gate" it would be a tight squeeze as well as a hard to find entrance that only very few that walk uprightly will pass through. (Mat. 19:24, Mark 10:25)

In most churches we have been through most of our lives they alway told us "come on in, the doors of the church are always open" and we understand what they were trying to give us is a open invitation to "come to the lord", .... but now that we have grown in understanding we honestly have to ask ourselves as well as them, what are you inviting me to? We can appreciate the invitation but if they don't fully understand that they are promoting a religion ( and a tenet of a religion is to perpetuate itself ) then they should sit down, be quiet and go get some understanding before they start inviting folks to continual paganism and doctrines of man.

When Yahushua said: "broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:" do you think he was just referring to the world and to heathens? isn't it possible when he said many that he actually meant many?

Just because it's a mega church with tens or hundreds of thousands of members and the access and path to those buildings are BROAD does that mean the invitation to join can spritually profit you? Futhermore if we read with understanding what Shymon Kepha aka Simon Peter later wrote in his first epistle, 1st Peter 4:18 - "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the un-Elohymly and the sinner appear" .....- WOW, hows that for a reality check! Even the righteous aint on "easy street" but still gotta walk "tzr"- the narrow straightway and still only make it by the skin of their teeth. This very statement makes us to examine ourselves daily and our walk with the most high to make sure we are worthy to enter into the straight gate by rejecting the BROADWAY.

One of the most important pettitions we can ever make for ourselves and others, ( I know because I do often ) is to ask the most high YHWH to "order our steps" because if he orders them they will lead us NOT to where we want to go, but where we really need to go.... to HIS Kingdom. When we ask the most high to lead us, that is a sign of our submission and humility ... someting we all need to do more often without hesitation. How many so-called knowledgable people have you heard say "there are many ways to get to heaven"?, well my question is: how do you know?..... have many people got there by different paths and come back to tell you?

Finally if we take time to understand what Yahushua was fully articulating from a mountain after he had went throughout all Galilee teaching, preaching, healing, cleansing, casting out demons etc. as we read in Matthew 7:21-23, "Not every one that saith unto me, Master, Master, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Master Master have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity". .....- WAKE UP call to the anti-torah or new testament Christians!, just beacuse you put on those highly entertaining floor shows don't think that it will count for anything .....it won't! or as melek Shelomo said in proverbs 28:9, "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination" .....- nothing more to say after that!

But as Yahushua tried to tell the masses, many will be rejected because even though they did great things in his name / renoun, they still worked iniquity as they walk crooked on the BROAD WAY to destruction.

selah, ..... shalom