The following is a response to a conversation concerning dreams, dreamers of dreams, interpretation of dreams and what must be the desires of our hearts:
"Dear Friend,
I am sending you a Shabbat gift today. I hope you will take it in the spirit it is given. Teachers come from many places and some may be trusted and others many not. May Father show us clearly whom to trust. In my heart I feel you wish to 'be right' with the Creator and in this light, I send the following:
Deut 6:4-9
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Hear, O Israel: YHWH, is our Elohiym. YHWH is ONE :5 And you shall love YHWH, your Elohiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.
6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:
7 And you shall teach them and intensively inculcate them into your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8 And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand
(what you do), and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes (what is in your mind).9 And you shall write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates.
(so all who enter knows that this house is under the authority of the Almighty, YHWH)Deut 29:1-29
1 These are the terms of the covenant YHWH commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
2 Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that YHWH did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.
3 With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those miraculous signs and great wonders.
4 But to this day YHWH has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.
5 During the forty years that I led you through the desert, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.
6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am YHWH, your Elohiym.
7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.
8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
9 Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.
10 All of you are standing today in the presence of YHWH, your Elohiym-- your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,
11 together with your children and your wives, and the aliens living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.
12 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the YHWH, your Elohiym, a covenant YHWH is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,
13 to confirm you this day as His people, that He may be your Elohiym as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
14 I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you
15 who are standing here with us today in the presence of YHWH, your Elohiym but also with those who are not here today.
16 You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.
17 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from YHWH, your Elohiym to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
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When such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.20 YHWH will never be willing to forgive him; his wrath and zeal will burn against that man. All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and YHWH will blot out his name from under heaven.
21 YHWH will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
22 Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which YHWH has afflicted it.
23 The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur-- nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in fierce anger.
24 All the nations will ask: "Why has YHWH done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"
25 And the answer will be:
"It is because this people abandoned the covenant of YHWH, your Elohiym of their fathers, the covenant He made with them when He brought them out of Egypt.26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.
27 Therefore YHWH's anger burned against this land, so that He brought on it all the curses written in this book.
28 In furious anger and in great wrath YHWH uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now."
29 The secret things belong to YHWH, your Elohiym,
but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.Prov 28:4
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forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.Deuteronomy 13 warns us about anyone, even those we love or trust most, coming to us and asking us to follow any mighty one except YHWH. He does not allow us to worship any but Him and He alone.
YHWH speaks in Deuteronomy in very strong terms about the exclusive worship that belongs only to Him.
Deut 13:1-11
1 If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder,
2 and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken takes place, and he says, "Let us follow other gods" (gods you, my people, have not known) "and let us worship them,"
3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. YHWH, your Elohiym is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your being.
(He should be the desire of our hearts)4 It is YHWH, your Elohiym you must follow, and Him you must revere. Keep His commands and obey Him; serve Him and hold fast to Him.
5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death…
…because he preached rebellion against YHWH, your Elohiym, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way YHWH, your Elohiym commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods"
(gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other),(the fathers did not know jesus christ, they knew YHWH)
8 do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him.
9 You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting
him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such
an evil thing again.
You may not see this as a gift but it is. Only you can open yourself to YHWH.
I pray that that we can find common ground and learn His will for us accurately.
With love and care for you and in YHWH's service,
YahChannah"