Redeeming the TIME

[Shmanu YAH]

shalom l'kulam, first and foremost: ALL praises and glory to whom it truly belongs >>> YHWH ~ baruk h'shem!

And also that we not ever forget: "baruka h'bo b'shem YHWH" meaning: blessed is YOUR coming in the name of YHWH >>> Yahushua.

I pray all is well & getting better for you and yours, todah YHWH

It has been a while (over a year) since I last composed anything for the edification of the saints - to tear down much mis-informantion and much mis-teaching, so I dealt with a topic of GREAT importance >>> WORSHIP.

Many got the message correctly - but some are still too lazy or PROUD to bow their heads to the ground before YHWH, ...maybe he's not worthy?

Anyway at this time I feel the need to deal with another important issue and as always I maintain the position given by Yahshua: "freely ye have received, freely give" - so I freely share knowledge from the spirit of truth without charge because only a few understand: "TRUTH is it's own reward" ...and I myself had to learn over time >>> People won't search for truth - when they THINK they already have it. .....selah.

So I now feel the need to share the extremely important truth of T I M E.

In the English language that we speak, TIME can be defined as: 1) conditions at present or at some specified period - usually used in plural.
2) the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
3) a limited period or interval, as between two successive events.
4) the point or period when something occurs.

In the Hebrew language one of the main words for TIME is "zeman" pronounced: zem-awn (Strong's 2165 & 2166), and it basically means:
1) to be fixed, appointed
2) event, occurrence, indefinite period

So any way you look at it, TIME has a limitation for us - but NONE for our creator because he is outside the time-space continuum ...HE determines our time - not us!
learn: of the three continuum - time, space and matter - only one of these do we ALL have in common >>> the counting of TIME! Yep we all have 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to a hour, 24 hours to a day, about 30 days to a month, 12 months to a year, 10 years to a decade, 10 decades to a century, 10 centuries to a millennium, etc. ...and this is YHWH's doing!

That's why only YHWH the "attiyq h'yamim" aka ancient of days is the only one that is never has to redeem or even confined by the restraints of TIME, ...he lives in eternity aka "from everlasting to everlasting" ....haleluYAH!

( we saw our limits in 2nd Esdras 4:5 ) ...And I said: tell on, my master, then said he unto me, Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or  CALL ME AGAIN THE DAY THAT IS PAST

Now let's get at it,

Shaul aka "Paul" advised them in Ephesus and even to us still today at whats recorded in chapter five,

5:15 "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

5:16 REDEEMING THE TIME, because the days are evil.

5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of YHWH is. 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to YHWH; 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto YHWH the Father in the name of our Master Yahushua the Messiah", ....~ simple enough to understand so no need to expound, but there remains the question:

ARE WE TRULY REDEEMING THE TIME? ( and what could ever be good about being stagnant anyway? )

fact: these days and times when children "act up" or don't act accordingly, parents put them in something called "TIME OUT", ( which I didn't really understand ) which was constructed to make them take TIME to sit and think about their behavior, so even at a young age they are being made to redeem the TIME, ....selah

wisdom: We as adults should have learned a valuable lesson by now, instead of buying the children the things WE NEVER HAD - we should take the TIME to teach them the things WE NEVER LEARNED >>> like torah! Even my close family and friends that work in social services with children as a career often say: "it's one thing to pay your child support (money) - but it's another thing to > support your child" (TIME)

...And that's another way we could prove we are "redeeming the TIME".

To redeem something is defined as: to buy or pay off; clear by payment or to buy or pay off; clear by payment, or to make up for; make amends for, etc.

In our case we would best be served by: making up for, making amends for. If you noticed the way it's worded, how we utilize time or money both carry the same verbal description >>> SPEND.

Yes, some believe money is more important so they concern themselves with how they spend their money while others with MORE wisdom concern themselves with how they spend their TIME.

wisdom: You can always get more money to spend and buy things with and replenished what you spent ...either wisely of foolishly, but there is NO way you replace the time you spend if you choose spend it foolishly, and there is NO good return nor profit. .....selah

Here are just a few scriptures dealing with utilization of time:

John 9:4, "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work". (Yahushua)

psalms 90:12-14, "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 90:13 Return, O YHWH, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 90:14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days". (melek Dawid)

psalms 115:15-18, "Ye are blessed of YHWH which made heaven and earth. 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are YHWH's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. 115:17 The dead praise not YHWH, neither any that go down into silence. 115:18 But we will bless YHWH from this TIME forth and for evermore, Praise YHWH". (melek Dawid)

Romans 13:11, "And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed".

Mark 13:32-33, "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. 13:33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is". (Mark)

Acts 1:6-7, When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Rabbi, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. (Yahushua)

James 4:13, "Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 4:15 For that ye ought to say, If YHWH will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 4:16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin". .....~ WOW! (James)

2nd Peter 3:8-9, "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with YHWH as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 3:9 YHWH is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance". (Kepha)

Colossians 4:5-6, "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. 4:6 Let your speech be always with favour, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man". (Shaul aka Paul)

Ecclesiastes chapter 1 and 3, 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem,
3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. (melek Sholomo)

I am yet amazed at lack of understanding of this writing by melek Sholomo pertaining to these wisdoms, many just don't take the TIME to meditate on these so let us take the TIME now:

1) A time to be born, and a time to die = birth and death: not just physically but mainly spiritually, we need to take time to be reborn and die to self daily

2) A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted = that same time to sow and reap ... because we will reap what we sow, - more spritually than physically

3) A time to kill = not just our attackers, but also the old man in us - that you see many refuse to destroy (because they are comfortable with old sin)

4) A time to heal = understanding no wound should stay open whether it be physical or spiritual because we know it will control our focus away from abba YHWH - so we must accelerate that time

5) A a time to break down, and a time to build up = so we don't get too comfortable where we are physically or spiritually and we will understand when we need to leave that old habitation and where we need to go

6) A time to weep, and a time to laugh = so we can understand the sincerity of many things we can not change - yet we will understand through our abba YHWH >>> ALL things will be made merry to us

7) A time to mourn, and a time to dance = because we understand MANY are the sorrowful afflictions of the righteous, but our abba YHWH deliver us out of them all

8) A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together = out with the old building blocks, in with the new building blocks

9) A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing = because at times we need to hold on to each other ...true, but in that great getting up day we better be ready to hold on to abba YHWH with all of our might

10) A time to get, and a time to lose = although we do need to gather things to survive, some seek extreme gain - but they will learn: what profit a man to gain the world if he looses him own soul?

11) A time to keep, and a time to cast away = we know there are physical and spiritual things we still hold on to, - and there are many! ...but the anointed Yahushua told a man to "sell ALL you have and follow me", and we better understand that because that time is NOW!

12) A time to rend, and a time to sew = because even tho they covered us, we have to tear off the old garments and take the time to be "correctly" covered in new garments of righteousness daily

13) A time to keep silence, and a time to speak = those seasons in our lives when we need to sit and listen and learn, then that time when we need to speak up to edify others and not keep correction just to ourselves

14) A time to love, and a time to hate = when we should not just love family and friends but love all things righteous period! ...and that time when we need to hate evil and evil doers - both outside and among us

15) A a time of war, and a time of peace = when we should not just talk battle like you know MOST do, but actually go to war physically AND spiritually against ALL things we know are not of YHWH, only then will he give us peace!

^^^^^^^ It took TIME in the presence of YHWH to receive this ^^^^^^^

If you ever read with understanding anything I ever wrote, you would know by now from YHWH: LIFE is the first gift to us, TIME is the second, and that gift of TIME would be best spent when you use it to please YHWH instead of man! ...did you notice how Yahsuhua spent his TIME? he spent his life trying to show those (that sought light), how to live in the coming kingdom and NOT on the current earth? ...Have YOU taken the TIME to see that?

Even in the animal kingdom from insects to the largest birds to the largest mammals, they stay busy and NONE of them ever waste TIME! They don't need a clock, they go by sun up and sun down and spend very little time recreating, only domesticated animals waste time >>> and they learnt that from humans, and unfortunately squandering TIME is something we have become addicted to.

I remember in a past post about addictions I wrote:

There are various types of addictions in today's society we use as crutches to mask those deeper issues we've not properly dealt with, and here are a list (some more dangerous than others) of the more notable common bad habits turned addictive: alcohol, smoking, drug abuse, gambling, stealing, sex addiction, pornography, fame, seeking fortunes, food and sweets addictions, shopping, video games, texting, and some are even addicted to the internet           ...( real talk! )

These addictions are all futile crutches that many use to hold themselves up, but that in itself speaks to the issue that they are gradually f~a~l~l~i~n~g. .....~ Now bringing this reality to this day and hour did anyone notice something about addictions I wanted the masses to catch? ALL addictions take TIME, TIME, TIME! >>> and any time away from our creator = waste of time!

Many of us are that are mistaught and misled are waiting to decide when we should wholly go to YHWH - instead of spending TIME submitting to him.

Did you notice how many so-called believers spend TIME under each other comfortably instead of boldly taking his word out to the lost? (2nd Tim 4:2) If you look to YHWH for a comfort zone YOU have failed! >>> a zone has limits and boundaries and but YHWH himself has no limits when it come to protecting us, so spending TIME sitting under each other = waste of time!

Even a gentile American author, journalist and social activist by the name Jack London stated years ago in the early 1900's: "The proper function of man is to live, not to exist, I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them, I shall use my time." ...nuff said!

Did you notice how many so-called lonely believers spend TIME listening to those that say things they know good and well Yahshua would never say? = waste of time!

Did you notice how the adversary himself can't change TIME but he can cause you to squander yours (proverbs 6:9-11) constantly? ...h'shatan disrupts your precious TIME when he gets you to listen to voices that don't represent righteousness instead of YOU studying scripture = waste of time!

We ourselves can never manipulate time - only utilize it, so let's make sure we do that because how we utilize the gift of time determines what we become >>> no need to blame other people for that! We must learn to properly utilize TIME because ALL of our days are numbered (Job 14:5). A person in the faith asked me a short time ago why the Most High took a loved one from this earth, it's not for any of us to say concretely because we don't sit in the Heavenly Father's seat, but we should have enough wisdom to know that the creator does nothing without a perfect strategy. However there is much logic to his timing and the only wisdom I could offer when the Most High calls anyone off this earth is:

1) That person had fulfilled their purpose - in their TIME - in this life
OR
2) That person had to be removed to make others "grow up" and fulfill their purpose in their TIME
OR
3) That person was misdirected and was gonna do damage to self or others to destroy their lives irreparably ...and the Most High couldn't allow that.

Anyone that has been to a funeral in the last few years are forced to realize that TIME is NOT sympathetic but YHWH is ...so we would be best served repenting as often as we can while we can >>> and not in word but in deed because again at funerals we see: TIME is much more precious than money.

I have a mindset that I got from the understanding "dying daily", we know that doesn't mean our heart stops beating and we stop breathing - it has to do with spiritual maturity that we ALL should take the TIME to proceed forward to. So my mindset is: "If you knew me yesterday you don't know me anymore, I'm not that same person because I change for the better daily " ....selah.

We have read the understanding of what's written in 1st Corinthians 3, 3:6 "I have planted, Apollos watered; but YHWH gave the increase. 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but YHWH that giveth the increase". .....~ we know what's written here is easy to understand, but yet in still this process takes TIME - so if you can't prove you are around a righteous planter or a righteous waterer ...then how could you ever get a righteous increase from YHWH? (and many don't) so if you can't show the increase then your life is squandered = waste of time!

What's really embarrassing is the excuses many make about why they waste their precious time, but when we think about what happens before birth we remember all them tiny sperm cells (that make no excuse for their miniature size) once released spend ALL their short existence (fueled by a spirit) fighting to get to a egg, - so that they can live?  NO NO NO >>> so that YOU can live!

So why dare waste that effort when they gave all they had swimming for you to just sit there and drown? >>> in your excuses! = waste of time!

A prime example of wasting TIME is ignoring what's in Psalms chapter 1, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 1:2 But his delight is in the law of YHWH; and in his law doth he meditate day and night". = great use of time!

Another example of wasting TIME is constantly ignoring 2nd Timothy 2:15, "Study to shew thyself approved unto YHWH, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth". = great use of time!

Unfortunately still many are caught up listening to talking heads and big mouths that are truly a waste of our TIME as we hear them mislead the masses by their pathetic understanding of scripture - even to the point of disturbing our appointed TIME with YHWH every week. On the shabat aka sabbath we read with understanding that we are not to worry about feeding our flesh but instead feed our ruach / spirit. We even read the very first termination of a man's TIME on the earth AFTER the torah was given came from him gathering sticks on the shabat as we saw in Numbers 15,

15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day. 15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. 15:34 _nd they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. 15:35 And YHWH said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. 15:36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; >>> as YHWH commanded Moses. .....~ This is NOT a hard saying! - yet and still h'shatan has entered in and told the talking slicksters: this was not about cooking on the shabat., .....Oh really???

I'm the wrong one to try and slide this by! - Let's get back at that adversary with a couple of examples to prove we can't be deceived by his weak mess. Let's take the TIME to show and prove the purpose of "gathering sticks".

1) Yeremiyah 7, 7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 7:18 THE CHILDREN GATHER WOOD, and THE FATHERS KINDLE THE FIRE, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other elohim, that they may provoke me to anger. 7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith YHWH: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? .....~ Obviously the massive sin here was >>> making cakes to the Queen of heaven < .....but MY point is when we see gathering of sticks or wood, it's mainly to >>> kindle a fire.

or this example:

2) 1 Kings 17, 17:8 And the word of YHWH came unto him, saying, 17:9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there GATHERING of STICKS, and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 17:11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 17:12 And she said, As YHWH thy Elohim liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I AM GATHERING TWO STICKS, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. .....~ well, well, well, Obviously some mouths could care less about these scriptures due to their own lust of a comfortable meal over spending TIME in the comfort of YHWH every week, .....BAD CAREER MOVE!

So the purpose of gathering sticks on shabat? >>> To kindle and cook, aka flesh over spirit

So you see I only have 3 words for h'shatan's minions pertaining to torah >>> LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!!! ...lol

Some talking heads also mislead the masses with statements like: We are about to enter into the "TIME of Jacob's trouble" .....really? Maybe if they stop wasting our time and read, they could possibly get on track. Example: In Yeremiyahu aka Jeremiyah chapter 30:7-8 we saw,

"Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. 30:8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith YHWH of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him". .....~ You mean these talkers actually think the descendants of Jacob haven't been in "troubles" for a long time already? What about the many many voyages of slaves off the west coast of Africa sold into bondage, shackled and packed down in the hulls of those nasty unsanitary slave ships? .....~ You mean that's not trouble? I guess not if we wasn't one of them huh? - while we sit comfortably at home whining about goofy stuff on the internet. Talking irresponsibly = waste of time!

Yet and still many are wasting their TIME and are caught up listening to talking heads and big mouths try to warn of: "the coming race war" ...wth? Do these people even know what war is? >>> let's check some definitions:

1) a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; 2) warfare, as by land, sea, or air, 3) a state or period of armed hostility, 4) a contest carried on by force of arms, as in a series of battles or campaigns or armed fighting, as a science, profession, activity, 4) methods or principles of waging armed conflict, and mainly >>> 5) active hostility or contention; conflict; contest. .....~ You mean these talkers are too goofy to know we have been warred on for centuries >>> due to our "race" ???

You mean they actually need a signed piece of paper saying: We are going to beat you, cut you, rape you, lynch you, burn you, shoot you, imprison you, etc. >>> due to Your "race" - for them to know the war is in full force? And yes people actually still listen to these mouths and are still waiting to see a race war start = waste of time!

think: We know there is NO real "war on drugs" but there is a "drug war" - but who do you think the "drug war" is really directed at? .....selah

These points are more proof that many talking heads have information but not revelation, fully proving YHWH doesn't don't deal with them or show them anything >>> so they are lost when it comes to understanding.

It's amazing how in the TIME the Most High have given us to live and learn, that many haven't learned that the highest paid talkers are those that learn a script and present that script in front of a camera and or microphone and these are known as actors, the best of which also receive awards. So now we have other paid talkers that learn another type of script but not for the movies >>> these learn "scripture" that is intended for YHWH'S people and those that will be grafted in - and these talkers corruptly present that same bible script for fame and fortune (without any need for the movie industry) for the sole purpose of uplifting themselves to "internet people of renown", .....BAD CAREER MOVE!

That's why I maintain" we would be best served repenting as often as we can and serving YHWH because if we don't, we will experience directly what hard times really are aka the resurrection will be the worst day of our life. Yes we should spend more time controlling ourselves and putting ourselves in our place, but more importantly we should spend more TIME doing what we can to put YHWH "in his place", ....and I mean that !!!,

We know we can't put our Heavenly Father in a place of safety or provision, ...we actually need that from him, but we need to seriously take TIME to put him in his place pertaining to the rest he deserves instead of him needing to baby-sit us all the TIME. we need to seriously take TIME to put him in his place of authority over every aspect of our lives, ...and we really need to seriously take TIME to put him in his place where he doesn't have to spend so much TIME forgiving us of sins >>> we should no longer be committing in the first place! .....selah

Remember in school we were mainly given the lessons to prepare for the test, - but in life we are given the test to LEARN A LESSON!

my point: It's about TIME we redeem this limited amount of existence given us as a test - to prove that we are worthy to spend time everlasting with him in his coming Kingdom, = a PERFECT USE OF TIME.

selah and shalom

Shmanu Yah