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After the Ruach released me and the vision withdrew like a receding flame, I returned to my father’s tent.
2 [15:2]
There I found my brothers, voices raised, hearts divided, arguing over the things our father had said.
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And he had spoken deep and meaningful things, ethical dilemmas, societal challenges, hidden and sealed matters—things that cannot be grasped unless one turns and inquires of יהוה YHVH.
4 [15:3b]
But they were jaded and cynical, and because of this, they did not look upward as sons ought to look toward Abba Ha’Briy’aha as they should.
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My soul was heavy with sorrow, sorrow for their resistance, and sorrow for what I had seen.
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And I knew these things must surely come to pass because of the great corruption that spreads among the children of mankind.
6 [15:5]
I was overcome by grief, as I had seen the fall of my people in vision: their scattering, their breaking, and my affliction felt greater than all others.
7 [15:6]
¶ Yet as strength eventually returned to me, I turned to my brothers and asked: What is the cause of your argument?
8 [15:7]
They answered: We do not understand the things our father said, the natural branches of the olive tree, the goyim, the meaning hidden within his speech.
9 [15:8]
I asked them: Have you asked YHVH Yir’eha for enlightenment?
10 [15:9]
And they said: We have not; Ha’Kadosh Yisraela does not reveal such things to us.
11 [15:10a]
Then I asked: How is it that you do not keep your mitzvoth?
12 [15:10b]
How is it that your hearts have become as stone and you walk toward your own demise?
13 [15:11]
Don’t you remember that YHVH El Rachama has said: If you do not harden your hearts, and you ask in faith, believing you will receive, and walk diligently in the mitzvoth I give you, these mysteries will be opened to your understandingb.
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¶ Hear this: By the Ruach of יהוה YHVH, Yisrael was likened to an olive tree: rooteda, livingb, covenant-bearingc.
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And are we not branchesa of that tree? Are we not cut off, yet still of the same living root?
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What our father spoke of, the grafting in of the natural branches through the fullnessa of the Gentiles, means this: In the latter days, after our descendants fall into unbelief for many generations, after the Mashiyach reveals Himself in flesh, the fullnessb of His Besorah will go first to the goyim and then flow back to the remnant of our seed.
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Then shall they awakena, then will they know, not merely believe, but know that they are of Ha’Bet Yisrael, the covenant people of יהוה YHVH.
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They will remember their fathers, they will remember the Ga’alia who ministered among them.
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And they will know His doctrinea clearly: how to draw near, how to return, how to be healed.
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And will they not rejoice? Will they not praise their Elolauma, their Yesod, their Salvation?
21 [15:15b]
Will they not receive nourishment from the true Vinea, the shefab flowing from the Rootc of Life?
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Won’t they return to the true Fold of YHVH Adoni Ha’Shabotha?
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I tell you, they will be numbered again among Bet Yisrael.
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They will be grafted back as a natural branch into the living olive tree,
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this is what our father meant.
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And he meant that this tikkuna comes only after scattering, and it comes by way of the goyim,
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And he meant that it will come by way of the goyim so that יהוה YHVH may show His power among them, even as He is rejected by Yisrael for a season.
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Our father did not speak of our seed alone, but of all Yisrael, pointing to the covenant that would be fulfilled in the latter days,
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The covenant sworn to Avraham: In your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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¶ I spoke long with my brothers, teaching them of these things,
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And of the restoration of Yehudim in the latter daysa.
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I recited the words of Isaiaha, who foresaw Yisrael’s return,
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and their healing, their end of scattering.
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And as I spoke to them, their hearts softened, and they humbled themselves before Shalom YHVHa, and peace settled among us.
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¶ Then they asked again: What did our father’s dream mean?
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What was the tree that he saw?
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I said: It was the Tree of Lifea.
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And the rod of iron that led up to the Tree of Life? they asked.
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I told them that it is the Word of YHVH Ameth; whoever clings to it will not perish.
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No temptation nor fiery dart of the Adversary can blind them or lead them away.
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I begged them to pay attention to the Word of Yah!
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With all the strength of my soul I urged them: Hold fast to the Word of יהוה YHVH! Remember His mitzvoth, always!
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Then they asked: What was the river of water?
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I said: The water our father saw was filthinessa.
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His mind was filled so much by other things that he did not see how dirty that water was.
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And I told them of the terrible gulf that separates the wicked from the Tree of Life and from the kedoshim of יהוה YHVH.
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I told them it is the qliphoth, the abyss of sheol prepared for corruption, what the messenger called the place of separation prepared for those who reject the light.
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I told them that our father had seen how the justice of יהוה YHVH divided the wicked from the righteous,
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and that the brightness of it was like the brightness of a flaming fire, one that shoots up into the heavens, up to Ha’Elohim forever and ever, having no end.
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¶ They asked: Does this speak of bodily suffering now, or the soul’s fate after death, or of earthly things?
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I answered: It speaks of both: temporal and eternal.
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All must be judged by both their intent and their actions.
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We see that if one dies in corruption, they are cut off spiritually from righteousness,
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and must stand before Ha’Eolhim for judgment.
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If their works are unclean, they remain filthy.
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And if their hearts are filthy, they cannot dwell in Malkut Elohima, the Kingdom of יהוה YHVH,
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if they could, then Malkut Elohim would be filthy too.
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I tell you, Malkut Elohim is not filthy, so nothing unclean can dwell in Malkut Elohim.
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Therefore, a place of separation exists,
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that terrible deatha, founded upon the Adversary himself.
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The final state of the soul is either dwelling in Malkut Elohim or being cast out by Gevurah Shamayima, the Justice of Heaven.
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The wicked are separated from the righteous and from the Tree of Life, whose fruit is the most precious of all,
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the fruit of that tree is the greatest gift Abba Ha’Briy’ah gives.
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And these are the words I spoke to my brothers: Amen.