THE SPIRIT OF YAHUWEH AND YOU
“Ruach ha Kodesh” is Hebrew for the “Set-Apart Spirit” of Yahuweh—Elohim (God) of the Scriptures. Yahuweh (Yahweh with the breath sound in it) is the Father’s Name--given to us in Exodus 3:14-15, which means: “I AM the eternal existing One who breathes”. He is the Living Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Thus the Ruach Yahuweh is Yahuweh’s own Spirit.
Sha’vu’ot is Hebrew for “groups of sevens—groups of weeks”. In Greek the word is “Pentecost”--meaning “Fifty”. Seven weeks were counted from the Festival of First Fruits during Passover week. First Fruits was always on “the first day of the week” (Sunday)—Leviticus 23:10-11, 15-16, putting Sha’vu’ot always on the first Sunday after the seventh Sabbath.
The festival of First Fruits, during Passover week, pictures the resurrection of Messiah, Yahushua (Hebrew: Yahuweh is Salvation), from the dead—I Corinthians 15:10, 23. He is the “first fruits” – giving us promise of our own resurrection to eternal life.
“Passover” is from Exodus 12 regarding the death of the lamb, whose blood caused the death angel to “pass over” the children of Israel, but who killed the first born of the Egyptians.
I Corinthians 5:7-8, we read that Messiah is our Passover Lamb. These are eternal festivals that will continue on throughout the millennial reign of Messiah, and into eternity. Yahushua/Yahshua is “THE LAMB OF ELOHIM”. His blood causes eternal death to pass over us, so that we can have eternal life. John 1:29
Fifty days after the children of Ya’cob (Jacob)--whose name was changed to “Israel”--crossed the Red Sea (Exodus 14), they came to Sinai. Thus “the children of Israel”, or Ya’cob, were set free, as Pharaoh and His army drowned.
It was at Sinai that the nation of Israel first experienced an outpouring of the Spirit of Yahuweh—the Ruach Yahuweh--as He gave the terms of the marriage covenant between the Father and His People, and the instructions of the Kingdom of heaven to be carried out on earth. Exodus 32: When His people fashioned the golden calf and showed their rebellious heart, choosing other gods alongside of Him, He had to institute the “ceremonial laws of animal sacrifice”, which was incorporated into the Torah. It was these laws of animal sacrifice that Messiah Yahushua (misnamed “Iesous” by Greeks, “Jesus” in English) fulfilled, paying the eternal price of death for our sin (II Corinthians
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5:21). Yahuweh’s Word is eternal. He did not do away with His Torah--His teachings and instructions for citizens in the Kingdom of heaven”. In fact, in Matthew 5:17-18Messiah expands the Torah into the realm of the heart. Messiah, the Word made flesh, is the living Torah—the living teachings of Yahuweh.
This great festival celebrates the coming of the Torah--the instructions and the teachings of the Kingdom of heaven that bring the right-rulings of heaven down to earth so that man walks in the balance and peace and quality of life that was intended for him by the Creator. Isn’t that different than what the Romans substituted in their Latin Vulgate Bible as “Law”? Even the Greek word for Torah, “nomos”, means “to teach—to graze (feed) animals”. (John 21:16)
The negative concept of “the law of the Jews” or the “Law of Moses” was part of the Roman Catholic Church’s Replacement Theology, which purposely put a wedge between the Elohim or Israel and His Torah and the Jewishness of the Savior, and the theology and laws of the Church, relegating the good wisdom and right-ruling of Yahuweh’s Kingdom instructions to legalistic bondage and religious ritual to appease the angry “God of the Jews”. It was/is absolutely a satanic scheme to separate us from the Covenant of righteousness that the Set-Apart Spirit of our Father came to bring us.
From Jeremiah 31:31-34: “See, the days are coming when I shall make a renewed covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Israel after those days declares Yahuweh: `I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people’”.
The word is “renewed” not “new” as opposed to “old”. The word used, both in Hebrew in Jeremiah 31:31, and in Greek in Matthew 26:28 is the same word used for a “new moon” each month. It is not “new”, it is renewed, it is refreshed, it is brought to us again.
Following the renewed marriage covenant that Messiah gave us through His own blood with the house of Judah (southern 3 tribes) and the house of Israel (northern 10 tribes—also called “house of Ephraim” or “house of Joseph”), the Spirit came on mankind in Jerusalem on the Feast of Sha’vu’ot to empower the disciples of Messiah to carry on His work and to change them into the image of Messiah.
Messiah says in Matthew 15:24 that He only came to the “lost sheep of the House of Israel” – the twelve tribes, to re-unite them once again. [Please refer to: “Who Are the Ten?” and “Are You a Gentile?”] No one
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in Messiah is a gentile—barbarian, pagan, heathen.
Therefore, the beginning of the fulfillment of Acts 2 and Joel 2 was the coming of the Spirit on Sinai (Mt. Horeb in Midian).
In Acts 2 He came to write the Torah on our heart, to prepare His people, and especially His Bride, for the reign of Messiah on the earth. He also came to give power and authority from Yahuweh to those disciples who were born again and moving out to perform His will in the earth.
Acts 1:8--Messiah’s promise at His ascension into heaven: “But you shall receive power when the Set-Apart Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth”.
Fifty days after they crossed the Red Sea at today’s Nuweba, Egypt Peninsula (Exodus 14) the Hebrew people (Israelites) came to Mt. Sinai (Mt. Horeb), in what is now Saudi Arabia. The Arabs call it Jabel
al Lawz (the mountain of the Law).
In Exodus 19 they are told to prepare for 3 days, for the coming of the Ruach Yahuweh. In Exodus 20, Moses receives the Ten Commandments--the terms of Yahushua’s marriage Covenant. He receives also instructions regarding the building of the tabernacle, after the pattern shown him of the one in heaven.
Moses received detailed instructions regarding how the people were to carry out the terms of the marriage covenant. He received details about Shabbat-- the eternal covenant sign between Yahuweh and His people--instructions about how the seven Festivals of Yahuweh were to be celebrated each year, as rehearsals for their fulfillment in Yahushua, about what to eat and not to eat to remain healthy. He gave instructions as to how the people were to conduct themselves toward Him, and toward each other. He wanted to create His Kingdom on earth.
Man in the Garden of Eden had failed because man refused to obey Yahuweh’s good instructions. But, the Israelites on their wilderness journey also rejected His Torah and so had terrible consequences. Today, man is trying to get rid of Yahuweh and His Torah and all who practice it and know Him off of planet earth, so that His enemy Lucifer can rule and reign. But, in the Kingdom of Messiah, His good Torah will be the rule of order and righteousness. “It has delighted Yahuweh, for the sake of His righteousness, tomake the Torah great and esteemed”. Isaiah 42:21
The reason why He has to judge mankind is for breaking His Torah—
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breaking His will, His right-rulings on earth, therefore rejecting Him and His right to rule over the earth. “Sin is the transgression of the Torah”. (I John 3:4)
In Acts 2:1 and following: “When the day of Pentecost had fully come”, at 9:00AM, the Ruach again descended on the people of Elohim and empowered them and equipped them to go forward as His mighty warriors, taking the good news of the Kingdom to all the House of Israel scattered throughout the world. The coming of the Ruach was prophesied throughout the Tenach (acronym for Torah, Prophets and Writings--miscalled the “Old Testament”). Yahushua spoke much about Him. These 120 Torah-observant believers in the “upper room” in the Temple, who had been born again by their faith in the final Lamb of Elohim, Yahushua, were “baptized or immersed by the Messiah Himself--immersed into the Ruach ha Kodesh.
In Luke 3:16, we read that Messiah would baptize His people in the Ruach Yahuweh: “John answered saying to them all `I indeed
baptize you in water, but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to loosen. He shall immerse you in the Set-Apart Spirit and fire’”. When Messiah immerses us into the “Set-Apart Spirit”, the fire that purifies and cleanses burns with us, and we hate sin—and love righteousness! Romans 6 is a powerful chapter to study.
In John 15:26 we read Messiah’s words: “And when the Helper (Comforter) comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, He shall bear witness of Me”. (Italics mine)
No new “church” system was born on that day, but an assembly, a congregation, came together for the first time of Torah-observant believers in Messiah, who came out publicly with the good news of the resurrected Savior, to extend to all the salvation of Yahuweh. Yahuweh had His assembly (congregation) in the wilderness under Moses. The martyr Stephen tells us this in Acts 7:38.
Let us look a moment at the deacon Stephen. From Acts 6:1-5, we see that there was grumbling within the assembly by the Greek believers against the Hebrew believers. The Apostles assembled the people and said: “It is not pleasing for us leave the Word of Elohim and serve tables. Therefore, brothers, seek out from among you seven men who are known to be filled with the Set-Apart Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint for this duty, but we shall give ourselves continually to prayer and to serving
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the Word. And the word pleased the entire group. And they
chose Stephen, a man filled with faith and the Set-Apart Spirit, and Philip, and Prochoros, and Nikanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nikoloas…”
How important is it to be filled with the Set-Apart Spirit? It is of prime importance for those serving the Master Yahuweh to have Him inside of us directing us with wisdom and faith. Messiah was filled with the Set-Apart Spirit, leaving us an example.
Note: “The word “church” was inserted into the King James Version for the first time, forsaking the valid Greek word “ecclesia” which means “assembly” or “congregation”. “Church” was taken from a German name for the daughter of the sun god Helios—Circe--who supposedly turned men into pigs. From “Circe” we get “circle, circumference, circus and church”.
On the day of Pentecost the renewed covenant in the blood of Messiah was sealed to the believers on their heart—in fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:33-34.
The Ruach Yahuweh on that day brought forward the terms of the eternal marriage covenant from Sinai into the age of Messiah Yahushua. The coming of the Ruach on the day of Pentecost was to establish Yahuweh’s Kingdom among men, to empower His people, to bring the nature of Yahuweh into His people, changing them “from glory to glory”, and make a way to enter into the spirit of the re-born, so that Yahuweh could directly communicate with all of His set-apart children from within their inner being.
It was when they were in “one accord”--in unity--as per Psalm 133—that the Spirit descended on the Apostles and disciples. How important is it for us to walk in love and unity with our brothers and sisters in the faith? The prayer of Messiah in John 17 has yet to be filled, that we are one as They are One.
Yet, when we come together in obedience to Him, He is in our midst.
In I Corinthians 12:13, we find that one of the 40 things that the Ruach does when a person is born-again is to baptize them into Messiah. Yes, the Ruach does at least 40 things instantly as He brings a repentant and humble person into the Covenant of Yahuweh, by their faith in Messiah Yahushua.
But, as per Luke 3:16, and other passages, it is the Messiah who baptizes the born-again ones into the Ruach ha Kodesh. These are separate…yet they interlock. One is for justification—sealing of
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salvation as the repentant one is brought into the Covenant of
Yahuweh. Messiah’s baptism is for the indwelling of the Spirit of Yahuweh (as per John 17) so that we are changed into His image and become like our heavenly Father.
II Corinthians 3:17-18 reveals to us that the Ruach is Yahuweh Himself interacting with His people: “Now Yahuweh is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of Yahuweh is there is freedom. And we all, as with unveiled face see as in a mirror the esteem of Yahuweh, and are being transformed into the same likeness from esteem to esteem, as from Yahuweh the Spirit.”
John 4:23-24: Our Father is Spirit, and His Spirit is He who transforms us into the likeness of our Father. “Elohim is Spirit and those who worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth”. We worship Him from our re-born spirit.
In Luke 11:13 we read: “If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your
Father in heaven give the Set-Apart Spirit to those asking Him!”
As per Acts 8:14-17 and 9:17 and 19:1-6, the Father has used me to pray for hundreds of people in Africa, in America, and in other countries to receive the power of the Ruach Yahuweh. When He comes upon us and into the re-born spirit, He brings His power, His presence, His Person, His gifts and manifestations.
Through His presence we can become the dearest of friends and intimately in love with Yahuweh and Yahushua (John 17). If Enoch could walk with the Father and be taken unto Him, and if Abraham and Moses could be called “the friend of Elohim”, cannot we also know Him like these men did? Through the presence of the Spirit of Yahuweh within us, we can interact in intimacy and communion with Him like Adam experienced before he put the rebelled. “For the eyes of Yahuweh diligently search throughout all the earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect towards Him”. (II Chronicles 16:9)
It was the Ruach Yahuweh that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. It was His Spirit who placed the “set apart seed” into the body of Miriam. (Luke 1:35) It was the Ruach who led Simeon into the Temple at the exact time that Miriam and Yosef brought the baby Yahushua to be circumcised. (Luke 2:25-27) It is the Ruach who leads us step by step into His to-the-second appointments, so that we fulfill His will daily.
On Sinai, it was the Ruach that burned the top of the mountain and
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shook it so hard that it terrified the people. Jewish tradition says that He spoke the Torah from Sinai in the 70 known languages of the earth. Interesting tradition, since on the “day of Pentecost” in Acts 2, the Spirit speaks in all the languages of the people present so that all could understand.
In Genesis 1:2, the Ruach was “moving on the face of the waters”. In Job 26:13 Job says: “By His Spirit He adorned the heavens”—literally: “put the glitter on the galaxies”. He is the one who breathed into Adam, the breath of life. He is the one who brings a sinner to Yahushua for salvation. Without Him, no one can come to Messiah for salvation.
John 6:44: “No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws Him”.
The Ruach does not come to the world except to convict the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment (John 16:8-9). Without repentance there can be no salvation. Without cutting loose ties to Satan’s world, no one can enter the Covenant of Yahuweh and His Kingdom. Yahushua says in John 16:7 that it is good for Him to go away, so that the Set-Apart Spirit can come to those who are in covenant with Him. As an example: I had woman who grew up in the Catholic Church tell me that she couldn’t receive the “Holy Spirit”. I asked her what she was trusting in for her salvation. She said she trusted her water baptism by the church when she was a baby. I taught her about Scriptural salvation. When she truly put her faith in the Savior as her only hope, then immediately the Ruach Yahweh came upon her in great joy. I’ve had this happen in Africa several times. The Ruach Yahuweh only comes upon and in those who are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
Genesis 6:3: “And Yahuweh said: `My Spirit shall not strive with man forever in his going astray. He is flesh and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years”. Jews realize that this is talking about “Jubilee years”. A Jubilee year is 50 years. 120X50=6,000 years. My friends we are inside the 7th millennium by a very few years—but we have passed the time of His “striving” with man. It is “high time” to repent and turn to Yahuweh, for His wrath is soon to come! (Romans 13:11)