There are two kinds of believers, the Wheat and then the Tares which are amoung the Wheat. Tares appears to be “the real thing”, but can be very poisonous to interact with as it will contaminate the mind and pure faith of the True Believer in YaHUsha Messiah.
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Ps. 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
One of the first things we noticed in Palestine, and we could scarcely believe our eyes, was the enormous loads carried by the porter or “atal”.
You can scarcely understand unless you have seen these burdens yourself. We have several times seen a single porter carry an ordinary piano on his back for quite a distance. His piled up burden very often extends far beyond his head. After the burden has been placed on the porter’s back, he cannot easily lay it down until he has reached his destination.
When he becomes desperately weary and must have a little rest, he calls a wayfarer, and the latter just stoops down under the load for a few minutes, takes the weight of the burden from the weary porter, and gives him a short rest.
This is what Galatians 6:2 means …
“Bear ye one another’s burdens …”
In the same chapter and the fifth verse we read …
“… for every man shall bear his own burden.”
That sounds like a contradiction, but not so.
In our Greek Testament in verse two we have the word “baros”, meaning the very heavy burden like the porter carries; in verse five we have this word “phortion”, the light burden that any person might carry in his hand.
The Word of God is telling us that Christians must be ready to get under another’s heavy load and give him a little rest, he must not throw his own lawful burdens upon others, he must carry the light ones alone.
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From: STRANGE SCRIPTURES THAT PERPLEX THE WESTERN MIND, Clarified in the Light of Customs and Conditions in Bible Lands, by Barbara M. Bowen, Second Edition 1940.
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What is the “Vessel of honor”? Well, let us go back to the pottery and ask to buy a vessel. The potter will ask, “Do you want to carry it to the fountain? Then you must bear a vessel of honor”. In Jeremiah 22:28 we read of a vessel called “empty of pleasure.” This is the vessel beside the vessel of honor on the bench.
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What were the Shepherd’s rod and staff of Psalm 23:4? The rod was for the protection of the sheep and the staff was to assist the sheep tenderly out of a difficult space. “Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.”
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Barbara M. Bowen describes a custom of Palestine that pertains to Eph. 1:13 – 14, the sealing and redemption of a purchased possession.
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“I will give him a white stone.” (Revelation 2:17 ). This Scripture may have a connection with a custom which Barbara M. Bowen described in her book “Strange Scriptures that perplex the Western Mind” in 1940.
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Elohim does not promise light for a mile ahead or a half mile, but for one step at a time.
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As ‘n slaaf van jou omstandighede waaruit daar vir jou geen uitkoms is nie, roep jy tot JaHUaH, roep jy om hulp. Uit Sy Afgesonderde Plek hoor Hy jou onmiddellik, want gedurigdeur is jy voor Hom, onuitwisbaar in die handpalms van JaHUsha uitgegraveer.
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Gelowiges as Akkers of Tuine gaan ten gronde a.g.v. die gebrek aan die kennis van die Waarheid weens die gebrek aan lering aangaande JaHUsha as kern van die Woord. Daarom is reën skaars, en dit bring droogte mee. JaHUsha se leer moet drup soos die reën, Sy Woord moet vloei soos die dou, soos reëndruppels op die grasspruitjies en soos reënbuie op die plante. Maar wat is Sy Leer?
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Smirna beteken: “mirre” of “soet geur”. Mirre is ‘n plant met ‘n aangename geur, maar ‘n bitter smaak. Om te sterf aan die SELF het ‘n lieflike geur vir JaHUaH en vir almal om jou, behalwe vir jouself. Jy sal self nie bewus wees van die aangename geur nie, omdat dit vir jou op daardie oomblik bitter smaak.
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