Come out of the Ark!

Some of the highlights we focused on this Sabbath were the prophetic shadows of the Raven and the Dove being sent out from the ark. The description of the Raven as "going back and forth" or "to and fro" until the waters had dried up from the earth (8:7). How the first Dove "Found no resting place for its feet" (8:9) and how the second returned in the evening with a fresh olive leaf (8:11) and that the third time the Dove did not return. We looked at how the description of the Raven echoes the way Satan is described as "going to and fro" (or back and forth) on the earth. How the Holy Spirit is likened to a Dove when it finally "rests" or "remains" on Yeshua (John 1:33). We can see that the first Dove is unable to find a place to rest, the waters are still too high.

The second Dove represents the ability for the Spirit of God to be poured out and bring forth fruit from people in examples like the Patriarchs, Moses, the Prophets, and David. The faithful remnant tested in captivity and exile, refined in the atrocities of Antiochus Epiphanes, and ultimately bearing the fruit like Zechariah, Elizabeth, and Miriam, the fruit that bore John the Baptist and our Messiah! That is the olive branch coming back. Finally, the third Dove can rest and go forth through the earth, restoring creation. The Spirit was able to rest on Yeshua and overcome the world, sin, and death.

We also saw a little shadow of the calling out of Babylon that our Master gives to us, and why it is so difficult for so many to see.

In Genesis 8, God calls Noah and his family to "come out of the ark" (8:16), the very vessel that saved their lives. The vessel that God had them build, trusting Him, and enter into to be saved from his wrath. We can hear that same echo as Messiah calls "Come out of her, my people!" to Babylon the great in Revelation 18:4. He is calling many to step out of the thing that saved their very lives and into Eternity by walking with Him, following Him, and abiding in Him. 1st John describes this perfectly for us today, who are still hiding in the "Ark" of the modern day Jesus, and are called to come out and walk with Yeshua, the God of Israel and King of the Jews.

"Everyone who believes that Yeshua is the Messiah has been born of Elohim, and everyone who loves the One bringing forth also loves the one having been born of Him. By this, we know that we love the children of Elohim when we love Elohim and guard His commands. For this is the love for The Father, that we guard His commands, and His commands are not heavy, because everyone having been born of Elohim overcomes the world. And this is the overcoming that has overcome the world: our belief.

Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Yeshua is the Son of Elohim?

This is the One that came by water and blood: Yeshua Messiah, not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the Truth.

Because there are three who bear witness: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood.

And the three are in agreement.

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater, because this is the witness of Elohim which He has witnessed concerning His Son.

The one who believes in the Son of Elohim has the witness in himself, the one who does not believe Elohim has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the witness that Elohim has given concerning His Son.

And this is the witness: that God has given us everlasting life, and this life is in His Son. He who possesses the Son possesses life; he who does not possess the Son of Elohim does not possess life.

I have written this to you who believe in the Name of the Son of God, so that you know that you possess everlasting life, and so that you believe in the Name of the Son of Elohim. And this is the boldness that we have in Him, that if we ask whatever according to His desire, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin, not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life for those not sinning unto death. There is a sin unto death. I do not say that he should pray about that.

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not unto death. We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the one who has been born of God guards himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. We know that we are of Elohim, and all the world lies in the wicked one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, so that we might know the true One.

And we are in the true One, in His Son Yeshua Messiah.

This is the true God and everlasting life.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amĕn."