Break Down the Altars and You’ll Have Success

Message Of The Week – Jonathan Cahn shares of the amazing discovery hidden for over three thousand years and what it has to do with our lives. The secret of Gideon, the opposite law of the kingdom, warring against the gods, breaking down the altar, the days of Gideon revisited, and what Jerubbaal means for such a time as this.

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

You say you follow the Lord. But to follow the Lord also means to not follow. When Messiah called the disciples, He called them first to stop following what they were doing before. “Drop your net,” wasn’t about nets, but a different way of life. Matthew stopped being a tax collector. You have to stop following something in order to follow Him. So if you’re the Lord’s disciple, then you have to also become an un-follower. You can’t serve two masters. You need to stop following what you’ve been following your whole life. As you follow Messiah, He gives you the power to un-follow the voice of temptation, the voice of the flesh, the voice of anger, the voice of lust or the voice of addiction. You don’t have to follow it. You’re an un-follower now. You don’t have to follow the past, the world, the television, the internet. You don’t have to follow them anymore. You have the power to drop your nets and make a clean break. Because the Lord has not only given you the privilege of being a follower, but the power of being an un-follower.

They have reverenced and feared the gods.
If you’re gonna be free, you gotta break down the altar of those gods.
Interesting is just break it down, cutting down. You know what the name Gidian means?
Giddolan means the one who cuts down.
In the modern age, critics of the Bible have denied what the Bible says.
The existence of people and places and events that the Bible says, and they say it didn’t happen.
And then all of a sudden, from the dust of the earth, comes the uncovering of ancient evidence proving that what the Bible said was in fact true.
They said, if they have with David, then they they said David who didn’t exist, then comes up David, from the then, they said that then it comes up hezekiah, Kyaphas, uh, baruch, all the just one after the other.
Now this week, it happened again. The stones cried out.
Never has there been any intelligible word inscription found in Israel from the days of the book of judges until this week.
Israeli archaeologists uncovered a description over three thousand years from the book of judges, a full word for the first time ever.
That alone is, uh, gigantic. The letters were Yud Reish Ayen Bet Lamid.
It forms not just a word, but it’s a name. The name it forms, is it forms is Yirobaal.
Now what is that?
In the book of judges, and you could open it up if if you have your bibles.
Six, it talks about a man who’s called translated as Jirub Jirubal.
We know him as Gidyan. The name of Gidyan after three thousand years.
Now the thing is that name, he was called Jirabal or Yirabal, that also, that’s not a common name.
That was a name given to him because of something that happened in his life.
So it is a good good probability that this is talk this is actually Gideon.
And they and Gideon was the hero of the Bible who against all odds with just three hundred men against thousands of midian with no chariots, no horses, no swords, no spears, Nothing.
Nothing, but a shofar and a clay jar with a torch inside and faith in god.
He delivered Israel. In the Lord’s plans after three thousand years from the time of judges comes the name Yiraba al Jerabal in the year twenty twenty one.
Could there be a message in that? Perhaps even for us and for such a time as this?
What is the meaning of the name, Yerubba al, Jereba?
Again, it’s linked to one man And not just one man, but one specific event that’s recorded in the book of judges chapter six verse twenty four.
Listen, then Gideon built an altar He built an altar there to to the lord and named it.
The lord is shalom. To this day, it’s still an Oprah in of the Beza rights.
Now on the same night, the Lord said to him, take your father’s bull and a second bull, seven years old, tear down the altar of baal, which belongs to your father and cut down the Asherah that is beside it.
That’s a poll also used to worship.
And build an altar to the lord you’re a god on the top of this stronghold in an orderly way and take a second book and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you cut down.
Then Gideon took ten man from his servants and did as the lord had spoken to him because he was afraid to do it for his fa father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day.
He did it by night. Alright. To understand the significance of this, you have to understand the context.
The account opens this way. It says then the children of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the lord, and the lord handed them over to the midianites for seven years.
The power of midian prevailed. The Israelites are oppressed by midian. Not because of the midianites, but because of themselves.
They turned away from god. The Bible says, and it gets more specific verse ten.
And I said to you, says the Lord, I am the lord your god.
You shall not fear the god of the Amorites in whose land you live, but you have not obeyed me.
You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites Now the word for fear there is the Hebrew word, Jireh.
Try it. Yireh means to reverence, it can mean part of worship.
To reverence, but it also means to fear as in being afraid. When you fear something, you’re reverencing it.
So what does god ask Gideon to do?
Break down the altar of Baal, the god of the land, and the poll of Ashira, one of the chief goddesses of the land.
They have reverence and feared the gods.
If you’re gonna be free, you gotta break down the altar of those gods.
Interesting is just break it down, cut it down. You know what the name Gidion means?
Gidone means the one who cuts down.
God is planning a victory for Gidion, and all this, but there’s something gidion’s gotta do first before the battle, before the victory.
He’s gotta break down the altar of the gods. It’s written. God always leads us to victory.
God has victory. His will for your life is victory. Victorious life, victim situation, your your problem.
Victory is his will. But there may be something preventing it.
There may be an altar of baal or a pole of Ashira, something that is not god’s will in your life, a sin, a habit, an attitude, a way, a thing, a stronghold.
It’s not that god doesn’t love you, hasn’t chosen you, he has.
But the altar will hinder the purposes of god that he has for your life.
It will hinder the victory that he has for your life.
Is it worth it is the sin worth it, is that habit worth it forfeiting all the best God has for you.
Forfeiting the victory, the breakthrough, the freedom. They had an altar of bail.
An altar is a thing you gives you put sacrifices on.
They turned to foreign gods and yet the gods all had altars. The gods required sacrifices.
When you serve other gods, When you serve sin, when you compromise, that which is not god, you’re gonna end up sacrificing to that god.
You’re gonna end up giving, sacrifice costs you, sacrificing your peace, your integrity, your joy.
On the altar of foreign gods, believers have sacrifice their marriages, their ministries, their callings.
You have to ask, is that thing worth it? Is it worth verification of Victoria’s life. Hi.
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