The Torah
We have been taught that the final harvest has to do with people, but the Early Church taught that the harvest is actually the fruit in our lives. Understanding what that fruit is and how it is produced by the Torah is the foundation for the final move of God. The Early Church’s understanding of fruit goes against modern day church’s theology. For one, most churches have thrown out the Torah, and instead teach that Jesus did it all at the cross. Fourth century Early Church Father, Eusebius, speaks about those who have done away with the Torah:
“Some of the heretics simply deny the Law and the Prophets for the sake of their own doctrine. And under the pretense of grace, they have sunk down to the lowest abyss of perdition.”
This proves that the message, “We’re not under the law - we’re under grace” was not part of the Christian faith and was not believed by the Early Church - it is heresy. That is why I thank God for getting me out of that belief system that would’ve taken me straight to Hell. Many years ago, God started revealing the spiritual meaning of Torah to me, which has since been confirmed as I’ve read through the writings of the Early Church Fathers. These apostolic fathers of the faith bear witness to what the Lord was showing me all those years ago. My ministry is to reveal this to others.
Heresy in the church was prophesied in the book of Malachi. The book of Malachi is an end time prophetic warning. The Lord said that His priests (we are a royal priesthood as stated in Peter 2:9), have departed from the way. David said that “the Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path” (Psalms 119:105) and in Proverbs it says that the Torah is a light and the way of life (Proverbs 6:23) and by this we see that the church has departed from the Torah. This is why God sends Elijah before the great and terrible day, to restore the covenant of Levi, to teach the priesthood the Torah that will prepare them for the glory of God. The Early Church believed that the teaching of Elijah would prepare the remnant who would come out of the church to partake in the glory of God.
The word Torah has various meanings. The Hebrew language is very profound in how words relate to each other. In Hebrew, words are like the roots of a tree, having many offshoots from one source. The Torah speaks of rain, and the throwing of rain. How can you have a harvest without rain? Everyone is talking about a harvest, but that harvest can only come when the Torah, which is the rain, is released. That rain produces leaves, which speaks of healing, then fruit. The Early Church said that the fruit of the harvest is in those who have the ability to teach exactly like their fathers. Scripture says, “Be fruitful and multiply” (Gen. 1:28). The Apostle Paul instructed the church as follows: “And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also” (2 Timothy 2:2). That is why the Lord says in the book of Malachi, “For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, and people should seek the law from his mouth...” (Malachi 2:7). Malachi speaks of the end time church. We are called to be those priests that people come to in order to learn the meaning of Torah.
The Torah relates to the word yara as well, and speaks of a teacher that releases energy from above; an exchange of energy from a higher point, dispensing energy to a lower, receiving level. Paul said he preached with the demonstration of the Spirit and of power (1 Corinthians 2:4). This speaks of dunamis power, which is energy, force, and the Torah. Paul’s writings are filled with references to the Torah. Torah is the power to change a soul, and to transform a person’s life. Why would God bring His harvest to a dead church that has departed from the way of His Torah which holds the power to transform a person’s life?
You see this last move of God is about teaching people to understand the Torah so they can come into God’s image. The Torah is not a list of do’s and don’ts; it is an instruction manual on how to become anointed, on how to become the person of Jesus. Judgment is upon us now. The judgment is whether people receive His rain and become fruitful, or reject the rain and are destroyed.
Many people are saying the harvest is coming. It’s coming because the Torah is pouring out as the rain. The Lord is looking for fruit; He is looking for those who can teach what their apostolic fathers taught them. It is about killing all those fleshly ways within us so that Christ can live in us. Amen.
Sincerely,
Apostle Michael Petro
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ReplyDelete3. Accordingly I yesterday addressed "the way side," I addressed the "stony ground," I addressed the "thorny places;" and I said, Be changed while ye may: turn up with the plough the hard ground, cast the stones out of the field, pluck up the thorns out of it. Be loth to retain that hard heart, from which the word of God may quickly pass away and be lost. Be loth to have that lightness of soil, where the root of charity can take no deep hold. Be loth to choke the good seed which is sown in you by my labours, with the lusts and the cares of this world. For it is the Lord who sows; and we are only His labourers. But be ye the "good ground." I said yesterday, and I say again today to all, Let one bring forth "a hundred, another sixty, another thirty fold." In one the fruit is more, in another less; but all will have a place in the barn. Yesterday I said all this, today I am addressing the tares; but the sheep themselves are the tares. O evil Christians, O you, who in filling only press the Church by your evil lives; amend yourselves before the harvest come. "Say not, I have sinned, and what has befallen me?" God has not lost His power; but He is requiring repentance from you. I say this to the evil, who yet are Christians; I say this to the tares. For they are in the field; and it may so be, that they who today are tares, may tomorrow be wheat. And so I will address the wheat also.
ReplyDelete4. O you Christians, whose lives are good, you sigh and groan as being few among many, few among very many. The winter will pass away, the summer will come; lo! The harvest will soon be here. The angels will come who can make the separation, and who cannot make mistakes. We in this time present are like those servants of whom it was said, "Will You that we go and gather them up?" for we were wishing, if it might be so, that no evil ones should remain among the good. But it has been told us, "Let both grow together until the harvest." Why? For you are such as may be deceived. Hear finally; "Lest while you gather up the tares, you root up also the wheat with them." What good are you doing? Will ye by your eagerness make a waste of My harvest? The reapers will come, and who the reapers are He has explained, "And the reapers are the angels." We are but men, the reapers are the angels. We too indeed, if we finish our course, shall be equal to the angels of God; but now when we chafe against the wicked, we are as yet but men. And we ought now to give ear to the words, "Wherefore let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall." For do ye think, my Brethren, that these tares we read of do not get up into this seat? Think ye that they are all below, and none above up here? God grant we may not be so. "But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you." I tell you of a truth, my Beloved, even in these high seats there is both wheat, and tares, and among the laity there is wheat, and tares. Let the good tolerate the bad; let the bad change themselves, and imitate the good. Let us all, if it may be so, attain to God; let us all through His mercy escape the evil of this world. Let us seek after good days, for we are now in evil days; but in the evil days let us not blaspheme, that so we may be able to arrive at the good days.
~Augustine Of Hippo, Sermon 23, 354–430 AD