Sound the alarm!
Take a deep breath, and raise your voice, My prophet.
Now’s not the time to pity your vocal chords or save ink!
For this message must ring true: far and wide, like a shofar.
Confront my people with their transgression;
tell the house of Jacob their error.
They keep devotions daily; with services, programs and crusades booked year-round in big halls.
They call ‘seeking Him daily’ a priority and delight to hear the ‘freshest’ preacher, as though {they were} a righteous nation which hath not forsaken the ordinances of their God:
they pre-order in bulk, My Books of Justice Collection;
they love to take selfies near My courts.
Week in, week out, they complain.
“LORD, why have we fasted, and You see it not?”
“Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no knowledge of it?”
Behold, in the day of your fast you still seek your own profit, and require maximum effort from your workers, driving them hard.
you never give (celebratory) bonuses in My Name; nor let the workers close early
Behold, you fast, not to be penitent of heart (unto repentance);
but only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day will not qualify your voice to be heard on high.
Is this My definition of a fast?
A day for a person to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and
to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD?
“a day acceptable” suggests that God views a “fast” as a day offered as sacrifice unto YHVH.
🔥 Is not this the fast that I have chosen:
- to loose the bonds of wickedness,
- to undo the knots of the heavy burdens,
- to let the oppressed go free, and
- to break every yoke?
🔥 Is it not to
- share your bread with the hungry and
- bring the wandering, homeless poor into your house;
- cover him, who is naked, and
- not hide yourself from your own flesh (family)
✅ Then shall
- your light 🌤️ break forth {out of obscurity, beyond dark clouds} like the dawn, and
- your healing shall spring up {as a 🌳 tree} speedily;
- your righteousness {vanguard + herald 🎺} shall go before you;
- the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard {🛡️}.
✅ Then you shall
- call, and the LORD will answer;
- cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ {For He’ll be walking; keeping step with you, all the way}.
🔥 If you
- take away the yoke {every form of oppression} from your midst/nation,
- stop the pointing of the finger {scornful accusations}, and
- refrain from speaking sinfully {unrighteous judgement | wickedness | vicious slander},
🔥 if you lay down your life for the hungry and
put an end to his misery,
✅ then shall
- darkness flee before the glory of your new dawn; and
- the radiance of noonday will be your gloomiest.
✅ And the LORD will
- guide you continually and
- keep you unaware of drought in scorched places; by hiding you in His Secret place and
- make your bones nutrient-dense like GOD-Ore;
- and you will flourish like a watered garden, like a spring of the deep, whose waters do not fail.
✅ And
- your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;
- you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
- you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Pathways to Secret Realm(s).
🔥 If you turn back
- your foot from trampling My Sabbath Protocols,
- from doing your pleasure on My holy day,
- and call {esteem} the Sabbath a delight, looking forward to it; and the holy day of the LORD honorable;
🔥 if you honour the LORD,
not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or speaking your own words; but
acknowledging Him in all your ways;
finding pleasure in His judgements;
seeking first, His Kingdom and Zedek with every word from your lips…
✅ then you shall find yourself fully satisfied in your epignosis of Yahweh,
and I will
- make you ride upon the high places of the earth;
- feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.