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Summary For
returning members from the Ten Tribes without a specific confession of our sins and offenses, and those of our fathers, there is no true,
deep, heartfelt repentance,
and there is no real return to G-d and His graces. This is the prerequisite act for
individuals, tribes and the whole nation of |
Why Pray the
Confession Prayer?
Psalm 78 is testimony of G-d’s
pleading with
Give
ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I
will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Which
we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them
from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,
and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
For he established a
testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in
That the generation to
come might know
them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them
to their children:
That they might set
their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a
generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast
with God.
The children of
Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
They kept not the covenant of God, and
refused to walk in his law [Torah];
And
forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
—Psalm 78:1-11
For they went and served other gods, and
worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
And the anger of the
LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are
written in this book:
And the LORD rooted
them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and
cast them into another land, as it is this day.
The secret things belong unto the LORD our
God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for
ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
— Deut. 29:26-29
Psalm 78 is also an indictment of Ephraim,
where her chief sins, starting in the wilderness and continuing afterwards are
enumerated:
The children of
Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10They kept not the covenant of God, and
refused to walk in his law [Torah];
—
Psalm 78:9-10
“And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands;
and also in the
iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their
fathers, with
their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary
unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Then will I remember my
covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with
Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.” — Lev. 26: 39-42
“If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command
the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my
name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their
land.” — II Chron 7:13-14
“Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD;
I will not frown upon you; for I am merciful, saith the LORD, I
will not bear grudge for ever.
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have
transgressed against the L-rd your G-d, and have scattered your ways to the
strangers under every green tree, and
ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the
L-rd.” — Jer. 3:12-13
This
warning and instruction as to what to do to return to the Covenant is an
across-the-board and across-all-times formula for all of Israel to
begin their “returning/ teshuvah” to God and His direct Guidance as to what He
will have us do as the firstborn nation on this planet. Since ancient times we
have failed to take seriously our calling to be the firstborn, i.e. teachers to
the rest of the children of G-d, (Ex. 4:22-23) For this reason we have been bypassed for the
priesthood within Israel, (Psalm 78:67-68), as well as having lost that status
for mankind:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou
hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy
God, I will also forget thy children.” — Hos. 4:6
Eventually
all of
“For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt
yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil
will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the
LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hand.” — Deut. 31:2).
“For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion
to the house of
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and
seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.” —
Hos. 5:14 -15
If we do not return “early” to the G-d of our fathers with
our whole hearts, we will not be spared the great calamities to come:
"Seek the Lord and you shall live; lest He break out
like fire in the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be none to quench it
in
If we are “the first contingent to arise from
the
Combined
with giving profoundly and deeply heartfelt thanks for being resurrected from
our spiritual graves, making this confession from our inner being is to be our first
task upon awakening. Without it we will
not have begun the process of being decontaminated from the uncleanness of
being in the spiritual graves for 2700 years.
To be cleansed of this spiritual uncleanness is more than just unlearning the ideological
and doctrinal contamination we have in our belief systems, logic and thinking
patterns. It is the preparing of
ourselves for the the removal of the erroneous and maleficent patterning in our
individual and collective souls whose parasitic roots have to be divinely
excised from around the core of our souls.
To
be ready for this divine act of purification to be done to us, we need to do
what we can do. Going down into a mikveh
is an act we need to do to express our willingness to be oriented toward a change of heart in order to be
forgiven. Likewise we need to do this “confession of the sins of the fathers”
in which we “pined away” for centuries. This “cleansing” is absolutely
necessary to be ready for the G-d of
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