​Who are the Overcomers?

1 John 2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

YAH is calling us to a pure worship and lifestyle of “Overcomers.” 

John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Yahshua came to do the will of the father and He kept all of the commandments, statutes and laws. He did not come to wipe away the teachings of the Torah. He fulfilled the blood sacrifices, so we no longer sacrifice animal blood to cover our sins He has taken this upon Himself. What does this mean to us and what is an overcomer required to do? 
Noah was accounted for his faith as he was considered by YHWH to be a righteous man. However it didn't just stop there, Noah was required to build and ark. He preached the gospel and he remained faithful and diligent. We are also accounted righteous when we accept the atoning sacrifice for sin but we still need to build the ark and be ready to get in it when we are commanded to. We are saved by grace and we come under His grace when we obey His commandments. We did nothing to be saved but when we are saved we work at overcoming all sins and wash our garments and put away all uncleanliness and it took Noah 100 years to get the ark built so we have got some fine tuning to do with His help to overcome our natures and be ready when He returns for us.  
Yahshua kept the sabbath and the festivals and taught the love of YHWH through healing the sick and living a sinless life and our love for Him should show in us as we follow His example through our obedience to His commandments. John 14:15. 

​Deuteronomy 12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee forever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.

​YHWH is commanding us everywhere to observe and hear all His words.
He did not say just pick out a few of my commands and do them and think that is sufficient because He requires full obedience in order to be doing what is right and good in His sight. Not our sight but in His sight. 

​Verse 29; When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

Whatever land we are dwelling in YAH desires we are cut off from the many religions and their teachings. 

VERSE 30;  Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

​Don’t even ask other pagan religions how they follow their gods. We are not to be ensnared to follow their ways. 

Meaning we don't look to other religions to see what we should do or how they worship so we can do likewise. An example of this is those who have left christianity and its false easy grace and customs of pagan festivals ie Christmas and Easter, Halloween, Valentines day, many have woken up and left this false religious system but then they start looking to the Jews to follow their customs thinking they must have it right. ​No they don't have it right and are far from the truth. ​

Verse 31; Thou shalt not do so unto Elohim: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

YHWH hates their abominable worship of false gods. Christianity has allowed abortion and gay marriage laws and therefore these nations are following satanic false gods and are an abomination to YHWH. ​So the nations we live in and their gods are an abomination to YAH and their worship He hates!

Verse 32; 32 What thing so ever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

We do not worship Him in the same way the wicked nations worship their gods. Jesus is the sun god of Rome. The name is made up of Roman and Greek origin. The son of YHWH never was a Roman or Greek gentile. He is the son of YHWH and therefore He is named a hebrew name. See His name is Yahshua. 
You are set apart from these pagan religions – so don’t mix with christianized pagan practices of sun god worship.

Exodus 34:12  Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

Do not partner with pagan religions in your land or it will be a snare to you. 

The  illegal migration of the nations by Islam and then being careful not to offend them and their pagan practices is happening all over the world at present. Acceptance of all beliefs is the new norm and our culture and way of life is disappearing rapidly and what once was evil is now called good and what was good is now considered hate speech. The truth of even what gender you are is being shut down so that girls are forced to have sexual deviant men in their bathrooms and all sense of separation and dignity is mixed up into one cesspool of iniquity. 

Immorality is celebrated and flaunted in front of our children. Pedophilia and child abduction, sex slaves by the millions captured and forced into depravity.
​The above scripture shows us exactly why we should not accept or welcome and allow pagan culture as a mixture with YHWH good and decent moral family values of honesty and decency as it is soon pushed aside for a crude and evil depraved society that now surrounds us. 

Verse 13;  But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

​You will destroy - not partake of their idolatry and you must cut it out from your life. That goes for Christmas trees, false teachings, Easter are all false alters and the pagan roots and practices of christianity. 

We were never to accept the false gods of Islam we were to reject them and give them no place among us unless they repent and turn from their evil and only then they are acceptable to us. 

​        VERSE 14;  For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

​YAH is jealous and is highly offended by our mixing our worship with other pagan religious ritual and practice.

1 Corinthians 10:21  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

​You cannot partake of any of their traditions and customs because YAH considers that to be seated at the table with devils.

1 Corinthians 10:22  Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Deuteronomy 7:2;  And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Verse 3; Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Your sons and daughters are not to marry amongst these pagan religions. They are not to associate with these pagan religions.

What did Yahshua say about mixture? 

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Many will say to that it all changed because Yahshua spoke about all being the same.
However I do not believe that he is saying that we marry into differing religions or cultures. What He is speaking of is male, female are all equal in His sight, gentiles, Jews when they are all one in Him Yahshua Ha Mashiach.
They are no longer mixed but have become one in purpose with Him. So can we marry someone who has accepted Yahshua and obeys His commandments and is of a different race? Yes I believe we can because it has never been about color it has always been about the heart and the purpose just as Miriam was chastised by YHWH for objecting to the etheopian woman because it was never about her race it was about her worship of Him and just as Ruth married Boaz after coming out of Molech worship and Joseph married an Egyptian. YHWH has not been racist about color he has been jealous over His own people and how they honor and worship Him and He will not have a mixed worship and we see this when He instructed Solomon if you marry foreign women they  turn you from Me. Which is precisely what happened Solomon lost the Kingdom due to turning to foreign gods and building pagan temples for the wives to worship in. 

​1 Kings 11:7  Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

​1 Kings 11:11 Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

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Deuteronomy 7:5; But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

Literally; We need to become passionate about what and who we associate with and just as Yahshua threw the money changes out with a whip we are to be just as focused and forceful about removing idolatry and false religion from our homes and lives. Cut them down, remove them and do it with conviction! ​YAH requires you take action and desecrate the religious pagan practices and remove yourself from them completely.

​Verse 6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

​We are a set apart people. Above all people and Yahshua, has chosen us to be His people, His bride and His alone, betrothed to Him forever. 

Deuteronomy 22:11  Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

People find these requirements are odd and do not understand the principle behind this. Mixture of worship is a serious problem and YHWH shows his displeasure of the idolatry and his Levite priests who began to follow after Northern Israel who became the lost tribes. It causes whole nations to divide and fall into ruin and Northern Israel simply disappeared from the bible. We are only learning of who they are now. 

Ezekiel 44:10 “Some Levites wandered far away from me when Israel went astray. They worshiped the statues of their gods. So they will be punished because they have sinned. ​​

There is always a practical application to YHWH commands. He tells us that the mixture of cloth caused people to sweat and we certainly don't want sweaty armpits from the priests as they handle the shew bread and wine now do we? A polyester synthetic is the cause of many embarrassing and unsightly things that would not fit the surrounds of the Temple of the most High. 

18 They must have linen turbans on their heads. They must wear linen underwear around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them sweat. ​

We must separate from the world and from the religions of the world or the Kingdom will be taken from us.

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King Hezekiah came to power and HE removed all pagan worship.
 

We are required to have the obedience of King Hezekiah if we are to be considered among the overcomers. ​

​2 Kings 18:4  He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

​Verse 5;  He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

We need to trust in the Lord just as King Hezekiah did and obey His commands.
 

Verse 6; For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

We need to cleave to YAH and keep His commandments. Just as a marriage. 

Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Same terminology used as in a husband and wife. We must become one with Yahuah. 

2 Kings 22:10-11  And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. 11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

​We see that the king had not heard the book of the law (Torah) and on hearing it the King rent his clothes. He knew that this book was for his instruction but he had not read it.

Being very deeply affected with a sense of guilt, and an apprehension that dreadful judgments hung over them, and were ready to fall upon them. 
This is a similar description of the judgments coming on the Christians who have not read the book or followed the book of the LAW. The Torah. Rome removed it from our teachings and took away the festivals and all of the teachings of the Torah which means all those who are not following the book of the law are under judgement.

Those who are not following the book of the law will be cut off and destroyed. 

2 Kings 23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23:28  Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

​2 Kings 23:4  And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

​The King removed all association with anything to do with Baal worship, pagan sun god worship Rome. And destroyed all and even carried away the ashes and disposed of them.
 
The King then commanded all the people to keep the festivals of YAH and restored all that had been lost from the covenant with YHWH.

​2 Kings 23:21  And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

​2 Kings 23:25  And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

If we are to rule and reign with Yahshua then we need to be like King Hezekiah and completely remove all pagan worship and association to it and restore all of YHWH's commands and live our life as one who was pure in worship, loving Elohim with our whole mind heart and strength.