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ADVENT – CHRISTMAS – PESACH (Easter): There is no more secret!
(The lies of mysticism and charismatic sorcery…)
Yaakov, Béla Orbán
Waiting and Advent among the Jewish Community
The following prayer – or blessing (the two concepts being inseparable from each other) resounds each Friday in the synagogues during the introduction cult of Shabbat:
"Shake you up, stand up from dust!
Put on your celebration clothes my People:
Yishai’s son (Yesse), the Salvation approaches my soul from Bethlehem!" (Jewish prayer book – in Hungarian p. 194)
I think that from here, it is useless to go on trying to prove that the Jewish believer is in a constant waiting and that his life is a period of Advent in itself.
But may also the 12th and the 13th articles of the Jewish dogma be further proofs to this:
"12.
And I believe by a deep faith the advent of the Messiah and even if He is keeping us waiting, I am waiting for His coming each day.
13.
And I believe by a deep faith that the resurrection of the death will be fulfilled when the will of the Creator will rise up."
(Jewish prayer book – in Hungarian p.140-141)
These parts of the prayer book are not simply the testimony of the fact that Jews are really "messianic" but as an example to be followed, they teach us that this expectation is far from being inactive.
While praying, the Jewish believers sends back to God the Will of God and ask Him to fulfill them soon as possible.
Before that anybody would accuse Jews to ask this a bit too late, since Yeshua was already born in Bethlehem, everyone must remember that the Promise of God according to which the veil that has been laid over the eyes of the Chosen People will remain upon Jews until this present period of the history of Salvation will not come to its end.
This was the reason why till not so long ago (about 100-150 years before), in our country (Hungary), the countrymen persecuted the Jews of the village while going home from the midnight mass pushed by the impatience and the fury coming from Satan.
You must not fall in the same sin again, nor in words nor in thoughts by accusing Jews in expectation of the Messiah to be from the antichrist. Because however Jews cannot accept this pagan holiday called Christmas by no means, they are still waiting the Messiah, Christ, every week and are praying for the fulfillment of this promise every day of their life.
Nobody should take the curse on him, as the fruit of the Christian pride by accusing the Jewish people waiting for the Messiah (Christ) to be from the antichrist (antimessiah).
Advent according to the Christian religiousness…
When they finish eating their gooses on the occasion of "saint" Martin, the period of Advent starts for them.
The mystery plays multiply and are not only an integral part of Christmas but they also last until Easter.
The succession of mysteries starts at Advent, passes through "the research of the shelter/hospitality" (when preachers are selling the Gospel door to door in return of some donation), and lasts until the Passion.
This waiting of Advent is simply popular, religious, magic, bewitched and superstitious.
But let us talk a bit about the main force hiding behind these ceremonies. Because where we can find any mystery play, the mystics are also there and mysticism does work too!
In this case, we cannot deny that the roots of all these things are common. The starting point and the functioning of these religions or cults are all coming from the same spirit of paganism.
The common root of each one of them is hiding in mysticism.
The definition of the word shows well the pagan essence of the phenomenon.
It hides a kind of cult where the priests or the "initiated ones" are trying to get in touch with their gods.
The same functioning could have been observed earlier within the cults of Mithras, Osiris, Isis, Serapis, Baal, Cybele and Aphrodite.
There it was also the "initiated ones" who were searching for the closeness and the presence of their gods. They were apparently pushed by a good will, since they were looking for being purified from their sins and were searching for forgiveness, righteousness and absolution together with the proximity and the unification with their gods.
It is just the same within the 2000 years old Christianity. The one that moved far away from its Jewish roots and that still did not purified itself from its pagan roots. The same marks are daily visible through all sorts of cults, celebrations and other religious traditions.
It is then not a hazard if the pagano-Christian clergy has deliberately put a veil on God (as Creator – Almighty – Eternal) before men, and has also veiled all that God revealed to the world.
Their pagan roots are directly coming from religions, from mystic cults and rituals like the one of Ophis (snake) or even Mithras, and do also link with many other pagan gods.
Unfortunately the situation is exactly the same anywhere where these roots have not been entirely torn off and purified and where the grafting in Yeshua HaMashiach, in the roots that were first given to the Jewish People has not been realized yet.
Because such as in the mystical cults where the initiated tried to unite with their gods and acquire some secret and occult powers through all kinds of feasts or even through fasts or by immersing themselves in some "magical" waters, these kind of performances are indeed still present today.
The contemporary "initiated ones" are no other than those who praise themselves to have any "authority". They are the ones who use the fast, the baptizing or even the Holy Communion as some magical tool. They also use to call this false authority "unction" that they distribute and transmit to each other.
It is exactly about these functioning that Paul wrote in his Epistles when he severely judges these holidays and other orgies and do categorically depart from them.
We must delete the word mystery from the Body of the Messiah!
Because all religion living outside the Revelation and through myths is pagan.
It is the religion of those who denied and hided the Revealed Will of God, it is the religion of those who veiled the Revealed Word of God!
It is then still important today to purify the Body of the Messiah from all myths and other mystical garbage!
For this reason, the dogma according to which God would be the mystery Himself is totally wrong and unacceptable.
We have a God who does not keep us in ignorance, in secrets, in enigma or mystery, in fear in a word; but we have a God who unveiled and showed himself through his Revelation and Word: through Yeshua HaMashiach.
Because the one who is living in the Messiah was born again and his Lord is Yeshua HaMashiach and he does really know the Father!
The one living and walking in the Spirit of the Messiah, knows the Father in spirit, the Eternal God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
This is why there is no and there cannot be any Christian mysticism, mystery or myth and nothing coming from the false use and the falsification of the word secret.
As we know, the word mystery is completely unknown in the Bible!
The words we can find in the Scriptures as the Aramaic "raz" or the Hebrew "shol" do only appear when it is question of the divine secrets.
These words are only used when it is talked about all those things that God hided from view of men, those He kept for himself while forbidding anyone to explore these secrets. Since then, all priests and other theologians are absolutely acting against God when allowing themselves digging in the secrets of the Bible by means of some common "sciences".
The notion of mysticism which was unknown among Jewish Community (secrets, secret teachings, mysticism, sorcery, occult rituals and initiatory ceremonies) only rose up after the translation of the Bible in Greek, the Septuagint.
(Although, several centuries after the appearance of the Kabbalah, some branches of Jewry have been infected and first became the followers of Numerology – mysticism of numbers – to finally also become infected by spiritism itself not long after. They are the so called Hassid who shows very striking similarities with Christian mysticism, with Zen Buddhism and the worship of Krishna together with some Christian Charismatic movements and they even do often cooperate with all these in order to build the antichrist unity.)
After the mistranslation of the "holy scriptures" in Greek, the Hellenistic spirit appeared in the non-canonical books like Tobit, Judith, Maccabbeans and Wisdom. The word of mystery that never appears in Holy Scriptures came to take the place of the original word of secret!
Following the example of the Gnostics of that time, today’s mystics are saying that the secret revelation can be known by men and that they are also able to master the mystery of the Apocalypse. In the other hand, the synoptic consider that the mystery is the Kingdom of God.
However Paul does declare before them too, that:
The Salvation project of God is the revealed secret.
Christ himself was revealed. He became visible and recognizable; moreover, He became reachable for all man! It is in Him that the Project and the Word of God were revealed and proposed to the whole world.
There is no more mystery, nor mystery of Christmas nor mystery of Easter. If there would although remain some mystery, this would be pagan and absolutely not coming from God.
When through the mystical fusion, the mystical death or through the knowledge of all kind of mysteries anyone tries to reach the limit where man wants to unify with God already while living on earth, he is doing nothing else than wanting to become a god himself.
The mystical acts are nothing more than acts of self-redemption functioning from very ancient times in many pagan religions, mostly in the oriental ones.
The "pious and charitable" monks of these mystic religions living among us would like to reach this perfect level of deification by all sorts of abstinence and methods of psychical or even physical mortification.
They are making the experience of the devilish state of the mystical death while "distributing death" through the ceremonial of baptizing children, this way committing the pagan act of ritual crime.
Moreover, the contemporary pagano-Christian people thinking to be filled up with wisdom, starts moving towards the knowledge of mysteries using many well known methods to carry out this project:
Perception – sensation – imagination – reason – intellect – knowledge: all these things they use to reach the state of "learned ignorance".
It is then absolutely not surprising to see the descendents of these mystical pagan religions end up practising the theophanical and the epiphanical faith that are rather spiritualistic many times.
Today, when we are in the middle of the Advent and Christmas, our aim is not to describe the deeply pagan nature of the Christmas’ holiday and the way it developed from the pagan holidays of Mithras, of the Epiphany or the King’s Feast.
This analysis would be useless for the moment, since mysticism does not only work during 12 months a year, but is also an integral part of Christian paganism. This Christian paganism is weaving its web around men so preventing them to know and recognize God and the power of the Messiah and impelling people an alien yoke that enslaves, bewitches and blinds them.
How can we celebrate the Advent even during Christmas ?
- Our first duty is the purification…
It is just in a limited way that this brief statement is able to give us a view over the past, the present and the future of these pagan rituals, as well as on the analogy of the Christian and the oriental mysticism and on the unification of these spiritualities in a very immediate future.
This will be the work of all those who would like to purify their life from all these infections and it is mostly the work of those who are the priests of their own families and who were given by God to walk a step before others using the gifts of the ministry.
The uncovering of the mystical work of paganism together with the work of the charismatic mysticism or sorcery, is mostly the duty of all those who belong to Christ and who gave their entire being and life together with all they received from God in the hands and under the power of the Messiah.
In other words, all people who were born again have to be the testimonies of God through their own lives.
Many people in expectation of miracles and charismatic experiences, are going under human powers for years or even for the rest of their life and they often even accept or ask for such powers. These powers are using the arm of the false authority and are standing between man and the Messiah (Yeshua HaMashiach). They are no other than the governors and the representatives of the antichrist’s powers.
They may talk about Bethlehem and Jesus, Yeshua HaMashiach of Nazareth never becomes Anointed King in their life and they also avoid others to meet the Lord of the World at first hand.
They are the Clergy which reduces the faithful (the Ecclesia) in the slavery of their earthy institution by the expropriation of all kinds of mystical knowledge and powers.
We do know well this more than 2000 years old institution. Since its roots have not been completely torn off, it unfortunately has many other offspring all over the world!
There is an enormous number of "charismatic men of God" supposedly having received an "unction" or a "very particular calling" a "spiritual authority" and who put themselves and the miracles above the power of the King Messiah. The "fruits" of their "works" would also be very difficult to estimate.
It is then not too hard to see the resemblances between charismatic sorcery and mysticism, since these "charismatic servants" are generally all coming from a branch of mysticism or are still in touch with these religions that are deeply infected by mysticism and pagan rituals.
So we all have the responsibility before God to disinfect all spirits hiding, paying no heed or even denying the testimonies of the Messiah from the place where God gave us to fulfill our ministry.
The Advent is exactly that kind of holiday. When the reality is veiled and deliberately surrounded by mysteries in order to divert the well-intentioned crowds from the Power of the Messiah towards the tepid and comfortable power of the clergy or, in the case of more modern communities, under the power of the pastor or the assembly itself.
They are the ones who are stealing, hiding or even killing the Word of God, this Word which is only complete in the Messiah. This completeness for its part is not a secret path, a mysterious life or an enigmatic truth.
The unique content that Christmas, advent or any other holiday or celebration among our family or community can have is:
The confession of our faith in the unique and absolute power of Yeshua HaMashiach of Nazareth, in other words, the praise and worship of the Lord of the World above all.
Praising and worshiping the Eternal God is also an inseparable and basic element of our celebrations. Giving thanks to the Eternal because his will, his Word became reality since Bethlehem till Pessah (Easter), from his birth till his access to the throne, when the infinite power of the Lord of the World came into effect.
Because the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Israel and of all living soul became entirely recognizable before the eyes of all men.
Because in Yeshua HaMashiach, the Anointed King, there is no more secret nor any lie. For their part, all mystics are the slaves of mystery and lie.
Those who were born again have the opportunity to be in a constant relation with the Lord of the World who is living in us and this way they do not need any further human spiritual control or power.
We just can be the testimonies of the message of the advent for each.
We can do nothing else than praise God and we are nothing else than the messengers or the delegates of the King Messiah who is coming back soon…
So, there is no more secret left since Christmas and Easter will not be mysteries anymore for those who have a new and eternal life under the power of Yeshua HaMashiach of Nazareth.
Then, there is no more place for any tradition nor any folklore or any other mystery plays all coming from pagan spirits, nor in our family cults nor in the places where we prostrate before God. Because these spirits do no just play with humans, but do also edge their way through the doors that have been unconsciously left open in order to take lives under their control.
The Word became flesh and Yeshua HaMashiach, the Anointed King is ruling…
His Kingdom is among us and we are living there as citizens in obedience to the Laws of God that are the Commands of the King. We live in this Heavenly Kingdom by accepting the Constitution of God which is the basis of the power of the King Messiah…
We are living in a Country among a People which is waiting for the return of its King…
This is the only possible waiting and Advent we can all have.
How to celebrate...when...?
According to the testimony of the Bible, Daniel and his mates resisted to the orders and temptation of the nice promises made by their kidnappers while being captives at the court of the sovereign. Or also the example of Esther where we can see that there was a People who isolated itself, who moved away, who was different and who was blessed therefore.
The Body of Christ does also have its limits, its duties and its calling that have been defined by God.
When Christmas trees light up, when people are giving presents to each other by way of love, when they buy love from each other or while they are using this love to strengthen their rule over their neighbors, we have the right to be also "different".
No matter if we are in Babylon or under the rule of Haman, let us always remain those who we are: The Body of the Messiah living in the hostile territory of the power of this world.
May nor modernism nor tradition nor the false love called humanism dominate us, because this is what the actual lord of this world is waiting for!
Since all these things can only be reached with money which takes us little by little under its control:
It takes away our time, our energy and all things we received from God for another purpose…
Indeed all this can lead to painful wastes while racing for money. We seemingly are getting richer and we do also make presents to people but we do nothing else than proclaiming this way to be "Kings" ourselves.
We often even stay alone in this mad race – since it is really a matter of a fighting – because we have no more time left for others and for our family. We have wasted our chances to build relationships with others within God’s will and service.
We loose our human and familial links and all relations that God not only offered to all men, but that He also obliged to accept to his blessing laws.
Then we remain alone with ourselves facing our Christmas tree and even visitors have disappeared.
At last, we stay alone with our memories and the question that burns us: Why did I remain alone and forgotten by all?!
The one who gives the testimony of the King Messiah does live the real Advent in the Diaspora and will never be alone again:
Even if living alone, such a person is living as the citizen of the Eternal Kingdom having an Eternal Lord. The Body of Christ will never be left on its own again. Because from now on, he always will be in communion with Christ in the same Body.
He will never want to flee from this world’s existence but will always know that the King is coming to take home His People in His Kingdom.
The Kingdom where he will be when leaving his physical body. Because it is not the carnal envelope which is important but rather what God had once blown into it, so offering the Life.
You can have a Christmas tree if you like but do always tell your children what it does mean to you…
You can have presents under it but do always tell them about the Unique and big Present that God gave to the world…
You can also talk about Bethlehem but only if you complete your story by announcing the Promise that has been fulfilled there, the still living and acting power of the King Messiah who is coming back very soon.
You can also tell them about the oriental wise men but do always warn your sons that these are the fruit of paganism and lie.
You have the right to talk about these things but you always have to unveil the Truth before your child.
Let’s also do exactly the same with the Christianity which is maintained in an infant age and all those who are unconsciously celebrating Christmas as little children in their assemblies.
We should never pull out of the hands of children the things that are cherished and important for them, but as soon as they start growing a bit, do tear off their hands the toy of miracle and charismatic experimentation that keep them in a childhood age and spiritual immaturity. Do always tell them about the "biggest secret" as soon as you can:
THERE IS NO MORE SECRET OR MYSTERY!
God declared and proposed the one and unique great secret the same way for all men. This secret that the Chosen People and the prophets would always have liked to meet:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son…"
God is not flesh nor soul but Spirit.
The spirit for its part does only have sons in spirit and this child is no other than the One who is sitting on the right hand of the Father.
The name of the One who resurrected from the deaths in a spiritual body is no other than CHRIST, YESHUA HAMASHIACH.
The One in which we are living and serving in obedience and waiting for the moment when He will return to take us home, His People, His Body in the Kingdom of God.
During our life on earth, in our Babylon, in our kingdom of Haman, as Daniel, as Mordecai, or even as Esther and as many other witnesses through the Bible, we can live in the Diaspora always knowing to which country we belong to and who is our King to which we always remain faithful and obedient.
To Him only...while waiting for the Advent.
My dear brother and sister, dear friends!
We would like you to find your way Home on the occasion of this big pagan holiday because we are waiting for you there…
This is how we wish you a blessed waiting so that the King, Yeshua HaMashiach would rule and become reality in your life also. Because it is exclusively in Him that you may have faith, hope, love and waiting ... the waiting of a new and eternal Life.
This is the "secret" that we want to show you so that you will never go searching for secrets to any secret-digger or any other witches may they belong to, or represent any clergy, in order to avoid you falling under their attraction and all curses that these powers involve.
You are now free to know and recognize the Absolute Truth in order to stop all mysteries and all sorcery in your life. This way, beyond the Secret of God, all the doors will be open before you:
You will know Yeshua HaMashiach of Nazareth and through Him, you will also know the Father, the Eternal God.
This is the moment when the real Advent starts!
And from now on, you will wish His presence, His closeness in every moment of your life.
3 December 2008
Translated from hungarian by Richard (Zeev Shlomo)
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