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When the Children come Back

14 Wednesday Jun 2017

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There is a little story not told till now about the return of Hannah and Ishah, daughters of Abiyah, almost two years ago. They had finally come home from the children’s home.

One young imma (mother) and her two little girls had a song to present.

First she told the story of how she and her girls had also been taken at the raid on September 5, 2013, but because of not being registered in Klosterzimmern – or in Germany at all at the time – they somehow were released at the end of the day. This young mother described some of her distress at trying to mother and comfort those children who were there without any of their parents that day.

After they were released, they were on the road for a long time. Her children didn’t understand and kept asking when the other children were coming. The faces of each of those children was right there in her mind. At some point she started to sing with them:

I said to myself what a wonderful day it will be when the children come back. I said to myself what a wonderful day it will be when the children come back. We will sing all day, we will dance all night on the day when the children come back.

(It’s a little children’s song that a sister in another tribe had written one time for her sister when she was coming home from somewhere.)

And so they sang this little song, and they sang and sang. And then they started singing it with the name of each child who had been taken – which is all of the children in both the communities in Germany. Somehow, on the road, the hope of this little song comforted them. And therefore she and her two girls had sung this song for Haninah and Ishah when they came home after two years of being away.


So when Merea was miraculously at her sister’s wedding, the king asked for this song to be sung. So the first sister and a few of the children jumped up and sang the song – and then EVERYONE joined in. We were singing and crying what a wonderful day it will be when Merea comes back. Merea and the two women educators who had escorted her to the wedding were touched with all of us at the wedding. As we say, we touched hearts.

And now the wonderful day has come. Merea is back! Our Father protected her heart! We are extremely thankful here about this. And we are praying for the release of more – all of our children.

May they all be as Merea was on her return, a fish in water!

 

Wedding in Exile

31 Wednesday Dec 2014

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From the Heart of the Groom

Wedding09Have you ever thought about…

Why do I live?   For what purpose was I born?

I believe that many ask themselves this question but there’s no right answer. This question comes from a deep longing in the soul of every person to be connected with their Creator. If you know that you are at peace with your Maker, you will be happy and satisfied. So many children today are born, not knowing whether their parents love them. Therefore, they are not prepared for the life that lies ahead. They try fill the emptiness in their soul with various selfish and worthless things; they only look at the short-lived pleasure of fulfillment. For so many on that path, there is not much to identify as God’s image in man.

Wedding08But in the midst of this confusion God forms a new social order where men, women, and children learn to deal with their selfishness by loving their Creator and each other. But this is only possible because man Yahshua, the Son of God, who loved the people so much that he has lived a selfless life and died to pay for our sins. If you are truly experiencing God’s love, then you want to return everything to Him and leave your selfish ways behind. If you experience forgiveness, you want to forgive others. If love is shown you than you want to return that love. If someone lays down his life for you, it makes you want to do the same. This is called a bond, that only best friends have together.

I grew up in the Community under the loving care of my parents and I know that I am one of the few privileged children who always knew they were loved and had a purpose for life. My parents cultivated a good relationship with us children which connected us with the One who gave us life.
Wedding07The desire to one day find a woman who was pure and holy, I talked about with my parents. I wanted to find someone who would completely understand, support, and strengthen me, and who had the same heart as I do. I was also very clear that I would include my whole life with this woman if I had found her and that she would give her life to me.

By this time I noticed Tehorah and admired her sincere heart and dedication to our common life that I love so much.

I developed my relationship with Tehorah. By the time we became best friends and our love for each other grew, so that we could not live without each other. Our relationship reached the point that we wanted to seal the marriage covenant with each other.

Now we will build this common life of love, where the lost, lonely, and seekers can find a home and a purpose. Here we want to spend our whole lives and give our heart, all our soul, and strength that God’s Kingdom may come down to earth.

It is worth everything to us and we would like to invite everyone to be part of the restoration of all things.

Children’s Offering at our Wedding

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For justice to come to the earth

30 Tuesday Dec 2014

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A Representation of Things to Come

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The Groom and Bride meet in mid-heaven.

November 29, 2014—It was a wonderful and amazing wedding day. One of the moments that stirred me up was right after Mephibosheth crowned her, my daughter, Tehorah, who grew up in the way of Abraham…

The bride sung, “You laid down your life that we could be set free…a nation of people who sing in unity.”*

When Tehorah motioned to her people, I saw this is the bride — a united people. It was as if she was showing Yahshua Himself, “Here is your bride, Yahshua, the people who have become like you. You are still the only one worth living for.”

I am so extremely glad that the bride is real – as real as Tehorah is to Mephibosheth.

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Greeting the children after their offering.

What the Future Holds for His People

I started thinking of all she (we) will need to go through in order for justice to come to the earth. Of course, I thought of our beloved Tribe of Levi, the great suffering that is at hand. Times will become very, very evil. There will be terrible, hard suffering on the earth. At the same time, there will be a pure people, a holy people being raise up, prepared – the BRIDE of Messiah.

There is a standard of love to be lifted up in these dark times and that love is the very obedience to His commands, nothing less.

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Honoring their parents!

Wherever that standard is being upheld, in this evil day and age, you can be sure that great suffering will come upon all who are upholding it. We know this is true because we see our brothers and sisters in Germany. There, all that is good is being beaten down and all that is bad is being lifted up. We know it will happen in other places as well, but we appreciate those brothers and sisters so much.

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering. (2 Thessalonians 1:4-5)

It will get so hard for His holy people to live in that evil society that she will have to flee. But just before she does she will send out the best of her purest generation. One hundred forty four thousand young men – the purest men that ever walked the earth besides our Master Yahshua. They will be hated just like He was hated. And they will be killed for the message they bear witness of.

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Waiting for His Bride to be made ready.

At the beginning of the pre-enactment we saw Yahshua sitting on the throne in heaven. Right there with Him will be the souls of all those beautiful young men who were killed because they were just like Him. The time will be so near and they will be crying out to Him, “How long? How long until you will go back to earth and bring judgment?”

But our Master is on the edge of His throne waiting until the last of them have been killed and the final preparations of the bride are complete. I was imagining (if I possibly could) the incredible intensity of that scene in heaven and the bride in the wilderness. It is the very end of times. When those last two witnesses are killed, the bride will also be READY! Then at last will come the blast of the Yobel!

Tears well up in the depths of our being as we realize that the sound of the Yobel in the ears of us suffering people will be the most marvelous sound we ever heard. For us who overcome it will mean that it’s finished! It will mean that we made it! It means…ALL OF OUR SUFFERING IS NOT IN VAIN!”

Finally, justice can come to earth!

We live for that day when finally justice can come to the earth and there will be an age of peace where Yahshua and His bride will rule together on the throne for a thousand years. No more evil on the earth because it will be the year of Jubilee when everything goes back to the one it belongs to. We know that the earth belongs to Yahshua! Even now, but He needs us to overcome with that same heart for justice that He has in order for Him to come back to rule over what actually belongs to Him. I am so glad that the King gets what He deserves!

We don’t know what we will need to go through to bring all this about, but we want to be like our brothers and sisters in Levi – not ashamed or afraid to lift up our Father’s standard of love –obeying His commands, clinging to Him, a three strand cord in our relationships with one another, making the chain stronger and stronger that will bind the evil one. We want to be right there on that day when the Yobel sounds, overcoming to be one with Him.

A nation upholding the standards of the One who is Love – raising up a pure generation – through much suffering she is purified and made ready. One bride for our wonderful King Yahshua, the only One worth living for! That is what is clearly seen in the heart of Mephibosheth and his wife! We love them so very much.

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Singing to all of us.

From a very thankful imma,

Gilah shel Yehezkel

 

* The Song, “You Laid Down Your Life” sung by a Community.

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Marriage and Family: God’s Fingerprint

07 Sunday Dec 2014

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Marriage and Family—You can see God’s Fingerprint

It is easy to lose sight of the fact that we have rights. Should not everyone have at least one friend to whom they can look deep into their eyes and trust completely? And know with absolutely certainly that the other would never knowingly harm them, but only have their well-being in mind?

All married couples should be able to make that claim from each other. Such a relationship of trust expresses God’s character and reflects what he longed for humans. Certain behaviors build on this trust, others destroy it.

Virginity

was once a sign of moral integrity. To squander your integrity for a selfish HadassahWithChildrenAndGoatspleasure, instead of preserving it for your future – your marriage – was once considered cheap and a sign of low character. A woman bears the sign of virginity in her flesh. Behind that sign lies the essence of her identity in creation — she is the bearer of life. That was the name of Eve, “the mother of all living”.

Grave Consequences

When a woman kept herself pure for her husband, it was a sign that she was also reserving for him her whole self, her whole life, her love for him alone. All over the world this was once seen as a noble thing, that a young woman would so guard her heart. Today, of course, it is seen as a light, inconsequential thing to lose your virginity. Actually, it has grave consequences.

Noah-MoedahWhen a young man kept himself pure for the day of his wedding, he showed that he wasn’t going to be ‘one of the boys’. It showed he’d become an adult. An adult is someone who has learned to put aside his selfish nature and is capable of looking out for the good of others. Some people never grow up. Make no mistake about it, all sexual relationships outside that of a husband and his wife are selfish and without foundation. A man who keeps himself pure would only desire a woman who kept herself pure. Such a man shows that he fears and honors his Creator.

The loss of the honorable and essential place of virginity in society today signals the loss of the birthright. There is an inevitable cost to violating your conscience in such a fundamental matter — it does irreparable harm to your ability to form deep relationships. Sexuality before or outside of marriage, or not between a man and a woman, twists something in the very nature of a man or woman. It damages the most godlike aspect of humanity — people’s ability to make and keep a covenant. SadLonelyWoman_NoWords

Men and women need friends. They need other human beings who don’t fear the cost of being their true friend. There is a cost, because when you get involved in someone’s life, you get the whole package. Casual friendships, casual sex, and living together all avoid the lifelong commitment of friendship. The demands of friendship are too high for the selfish heart, but without such friendship, men and women do not fully develop and become whole.

Their personalities and character remain fragmented and immature. You can see the sad results all around you in society. It is a tragedy.

Mutual Selfishness

The very word covenant is all but meaningless today. A contract is the closest concept most of us have. Instead of entering the covenant of marriage, couples now sign prenuptial agreements, dividing up their assets in anticipation of the time when their mutual selfishness no longer allows them to live together.

But in reality, in the truth that we all know, there is something deep in the heart of every person that longs to make a covenant with another person. A blood covenant is the closest, most enduring, most solemn and sacred of all contracts. Those who make a covenant will be loyal to it to the point of shedding their own blood. That is why there is blood shed at the time you make a covenant: it means that this agreement is made at the expense of your life.

This desire to be bound together in covenants — to promise your life, love, and protection unto death to another human being — is inborn in all men and women. It is in them because it is in their Creator. They are like Him. This desire is behind their longing to marry. Marriage is a blood covenant that is sealed by the shedding of blood upon the union of a man and a woman. The marriage covenant is a covenant unto death.

The man who would lie with a virgin and then forsake her is a treacherous man — never to be trusted again. The virgin who would lie with a man and forsake him has taken on the nature of a harlot — whether she chooses to be paid in money or other wages. They have both turned their backs on the true meaning of a man and woman becoming one flesh in the sexual union. That union is meant to establish the bonding of marriage. It means YarashAndRachelthat all other aspects of their relationship are right and ready. That union enhances the personalities of both the man and wife. It is the foundation for all trust between them. It is the basis of a moral society.

Where that trust is lacking, men and women have turned their backs on their birthright — the potential to be like their Creator. Like Him, men and women who enter into a covenant will never break it, no matter what the cost. When a man and woman come together in physical intimacy, it is the most profound statement by the two, that “my life is yours — just as I give my body to you, so I give my whole being and all my love to you.” This is the absolute standard in every person’s conscience.

But when the family, as the basic building block of society, is in order, this will have a positive impact on all other aspects of social life. 

The Good Foundation for Raising Children

You will see the natural outcome of such a union — a happy married life, and wanted, desired children who grow up to be moral, responsible adults who respect other human beings. This is the basis upon which human society exists.

AlonAndWifeApart from this foundation, human society will crumble as it is doing today.

Yahshua, the Son of God, said, Every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit (Matthew 7:17). The wanted and the unwanted child are both marked for life. They will live lives in accordance with the security and authority they have either known or not known. The breakdown among families today inevitably points back to the bad beginning — that the sexual intimacy between the parents was less than the highest expression of love between them. Selfishness fathers selfishness; insecurity mothers insecurity. How hard is it to straighten a tree allowed to bend in its youth.

So how serious is unfaithfulness in the sexual relationship? How serious is it that a child would not even know his father because he didn’t love his mother enough to marry her? How serious is it to violate the covenant of marriage?

The Remedy

There’s only one remedy for the deadly virus of sin. It is found in the New Covenant of our Master Yahshua. He has already shed the required blood to seal this new covenant. He did it out of His love for us so we could live and give our lives to Him. The peace of His forgiveness is very real. It’s priceless; it’s worth everything. Giving Him everything is the only proper response:

He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf (2 Corinthians 5:15).

Forgiveness

Have you ever wished to start over once again? Did you ever feel the pain of your own selfishness—the same pain you caused others to feel? Even if you were trying to make amends for the damage, your friendship was no longer the same. Gradually you withdrew and ended apart. How many times have you have changed your partner, your job, your home, and your friends? But you’ve changed? Or are you like an old record that plays over and over again the same selfishness, stuck in the same wrong behaviors—and then again have ruined a relationship?

This happens because the true root of our personal problems was never treated.

Sin is the origin our problems. Because of our sinful nature we hurt others and we get hurt, too. How do you react when you get hurt? Are you offended and then looking to avenge yourself? Or do you pull back and throw a higher level of security wall around yourself, so that by no means can you be hurt again?

Whether you react aggressively and do not care who it is you hurt, or you react with silence, distance, and coldness, sin is the same — you do not love! There is only one remedy for sin, and it is only in Yahshua, the Son of God, that we will find a cure. He has known – as we have – feelings, desires, and pain, but His love remained complete in every situation. If he was violated, He endured the pain patiently and humbly and He even forgave. As his fellow men were even cruelly killing him, He exclaimed to His Heavenly Father: “Please forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.”

Every time we hurt others or take advantage of someone, we commit a sin.
This way of life leads to eternal death. Our Master Yahshua came and gave His life to pay the penalty for our for sins. He died in our place voluntarily, and took the guilt of our sins upon Himself. If you your conscience is not at peace and you are tormented in emptiness of soul—if you wish to start again from scratch, then come to us. We hope that you can know our Savior and Healer and learn from Him. His yoke is easy and His burden is light.

Robert and Salem’s Wedding Day

24 Friday Oct 2014

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We knew them as Yathar Pore and Salem as Shalomah Simchah

This is what we wrote about their wonderful and joyful wedding in the summer of 2003, for the August entry of our InterTribal News.

DieGemeinschaftKlosterzimmernThe best news this month was how very
wonderful the wedding of Yathar Pore and
Shalomah Simchah was. Through much opposition Yathar and Shalomah shone through as victorious overcomers. We were all deeply moved to see how our beloved Yathar was given such a precious bride as Shalomah – the oldest daughter of our faithful friends Ephraim and Baruchah.

What was most outstanding about the wedding of Yathar and Shalomah was how embarrassing their love was for each other. Shalomah mobilized the whole body in the two weeks before the wedding to do things that they never thought they could do. Never had we organized a choir and an orchestra for a brides’ dance, but Shalomah had wanted to do a dance with tambourines for her king. She got help from Tamiydah shel Kefi r (and friends) in Yehudah (and other locations), and received the music and dance steps to The Marriage of the Lamb.

The first singing practice was squeaky and hesitant, but Shalomah had faith. “It’s for YATHAR! He’s going to love it! He DESERVES it!” She drew things out of the body that stimulated our love for Yathar, and our desire to give everything for our Master.

There were many children’s offerings for the king, who has been devoted to the training of our children, and for his bride who we all know as an encouraging friend to children. One could see tears on Yathar’s face as he watched those children whom he has been laying down his life for many years for dancing and singing for him with all their hearts. When the little ones laid their little paper crowns at his feet, he went and put each crown back on each little head (with Shalomah’s help), thanking them and hugging them. Our Master’s heart for us was clear.

Well, I could go on. Because of the heart of the king and of his bride who has placed herself in his hands, the whole day, from beginning to end, brought honor to our Master Yahshua.

Our houses and grounds were full with guests, friends, family of the king, many people who want to know more about us. They have a lot to think about. There was much said.

From this wonderfully amazing beginning, so much was to be hoped for. But in a short time, as Shalomah relates, things began to change in her husband’s heart. See the post, “Robert Pleyer’s (former) Wife Speaks Out, Part 1.”

A Brand New Culture, Part 1

24 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by commonpurse in Marriage in a Brand New Culture, Pictures of our Children, Religious Freedom

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Download this wonderful Freepaper! (Brand New Culture-en.de)

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Photo next to “We work together…” is from Klosterzimmern.  EineBrandNeueKulture03

Image next to “We live just like…” is a Hoffest children’s play.

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Image next to “Unlike many churches…” is a photo from Noah and Moedah’s wedding, described in “The Nicest Song on Earth“.

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Youth who’ve grown up in the Community.

See also, “A Brand New Culture, Part 2“.

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