His Healing Wings

His Healing Wings “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says YHVH of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But, for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall (Malachi 4:1,2). This prophecy is comparative. The first part of this word speaks of a judgement like fire that completely consumes. The second compares Yeshua to the sun, another fire, but one that brings life and healing. The last prophecy of YHVH spoken through the prophet, Malachi, was about a Messiah who would come with healing in His wings. This word “wings” in Hebrew is the word kanaph. It means the outermost corner, as in the tip of a wing on a bird. This is the same word for the placement of the fringes (tzitzit) commanded to be worn by Israelites in Numbers 15:37. As the last prophetic word for many centuries, it was clung to with tenacious hope for the One who would come. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Yeshua and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, "If I touch even (the border- hem/tzitzit of) his garments, I will be made well." And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Yeshua, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, "Who touched my garments?" And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'" And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease (Mark 5:25-34)." This Israelite woman was in a do or die situation. Hebrew law did not allow anyone with an issue of blood to mingle among the people. There were specific regulations that governed behavior under these circumstances, for protection and holiness. This woman had spent all she had on the physicians to help her and was no better. She had nothing left. As she heard about this man, Yeshua, who brought life and healing everywhere He went, she made a decision. She was dying anyway so the punishment for breaking the rules about going out in public couldn’t be worse than that. She realized that what she was hearing about Yeshua matched up with the prophecy and she thought, “If I could only touch the hem (kanaph/wings/tzitzit), I can be healed!” She believed the word of YHVH through the prophet. She did not feel the need for Him to touch her or even to talk to Him. She literally stepped out with faith in YHVH’s word about the Coming One with healing in His wings. When Yeshua felt power go out of Him, He wanted to know who had received it. The woman was afraid because she was not supposed to be there at all due to her affliction, but she came forward and told Yeshua her story. He blessed her, called her His daughter and her faith was rewarded. And she left rejoicing just as it was prophesied. Perhaps you are in her place. Perhaps you don’t want to end up there. If you abide in Him and His words abide in you, as with this woman, then you will know the Truth and it will set you free.      Chapter One The Counterfeit Systems Fraudulent imitation is designed to deceive. Matthew 24:24 says that false (bogus, lying, dishonest) messiahs and prophets will arise and be such good imitations that if it were possible they could deceive the very elect – the saints of YHVH. We are also told in Deuteronomy 13 how to discern between a true and a false prophet. If the prophet comes with miracles, signs, dreams and visions that come true, you must also examine the direction he is leading you. If he induces you to follow the ways of other gods with their particular religious philosophies, traditions, customs or theologies, which do not agree with Torah, that prophet is false. He is not speaking for the One True Living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Throughout scripture, YHVH uses analogies to help us grasp ideas and principles. Egypt is used to symbolize sin and the world’s way of doing things. When YHVH physically delivered the Israelites from Egypt, this was the shadow of a future event that was cast backward in time. That event was Yeshua’s one time sacrifice for the spiritual deliverance of all of humanity. The beauty of the Passover is remembering the physical deliverance of YHVH’s people from Egyptian bondage and relating it to our redemption from our own Egypt of sin, shame, and man’s corrupt ways. In contrast to the pagan world kingdoms, Tzion always represents the Kingdom of YHVH and the land of promise. Satan, the enemy of our souls, is a master of deception. He is a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44). He masquerades as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14; Isaiah 14:12). Lucifer means ‘Light Bearer’. As he was once the premier angel of light, He knows very well what this looks like. The mere definition of masquerade confirms that this is a form of deception. He is also very familiar with the ways of Torah that YHVH established to keep us close to Him and out of the enemy’s grasp. Satan took the spiritual principles of YHVH and counterfeited them. They are dressed up in costume to look like the real thing and too many of us are more interested in looking like the real thing than being the real thing. Everything YHVH has promised to be to us has been reproduced by the enemy as a world system masquerading as YHVH’s provision. The financial system has become the supply for our needs. The educational system, with its lies and twisted facts, is seen as the repository of knowledge and truth and overrides the Word of YHVH as the source of wisdom. Religion, the ritual observance of a set of beliefs, is substituted for a personal relationship with the God and Creator of the Universe and faith in the medical system has supplanted faith in YHVH as Healer. The focus of this book is true healing. The healthcare industry is one of these masquerading systems. We will see what YHVH has to say about it and how it has deceived us into believing a really big lie. My hope is that this book will help identify and examine the ways in which the enemy has succeeded in persuading us to trust this particular counterfeit system. It is one thing to buy a cheap knock off, knowing it is an imitation. It is quite another to pay full price for what you believe is the real thing only to find out you have been deceived. Familiarize yourself with your Creator and His Word. He is THE Healer. HE is the real thing.