YHWH
is my Banner נסּי יהוה
Ex.
17:15
Read the passages Exodus 17:8-16 and Deuteronomy 25:17-19.
“YHWH is my Banner,” and we are His “army under
banner” (Song of Songs 6:4, 10; 2:4). How does that banner look like?
P 65 = 5 * 13 — He loves us and has reconciled us to GOD by His
own Blood. — O, the Banner
portrays our Mashiach on the Cross! It is red because of His Blood.
“YHWH is my Banner.” The Hebrew word for
“banner” here is נס which means “banner, standard; signal pole.” You find it
in this description:
“And the children
of Israel journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go round the
land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient on the way; and the people spoke against
God, and against Moshe, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt that we should
die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and no water, and our soul
loathes this light bread. Then YHWH sent fiery serpents among the people, which
bit the people; and much people of
Mashiach Himself spoke: “As Moshe lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness, thus must the Son of Man be lifted up, that every one who
believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal” (John
3:14-15; Num. 21:14-15). The serpent on the signal pole in the desert
illustrates Mashiach on the Cross. Think of what He suffered in taking on
Himself the curse we deserved, that we may inherit His eternal blessing. He
cried, “My GOD, my GOD, why have You forsaken me?” — to unite us forever with GOD.
He prayed, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they
do,” — and was slaughtered as our Passover Lamb, to freely forgive every
repenting sinner. Everyone looking up to Him is instantly healed from the
serpent’s poison and revived.
Satan took dominion
over man by deceiving him to sin against GOD. “For the wages
of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Mashiach
Yeshua our Lord” (Rom.
“GOD was in Mashiach, reconciling the world to
Himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the
word of that reconciliation. We are ambassadors therefore for Mashiach, God as it
were beseeching by us, we entreat for Mashiach, Be reconciled to God.
Him who knew not sin He has made sin(offering) for us, that we might become God's
righteousness in Him” (2 Cor.
This alone is
the message which heals the wounds of mankind. “And salvation
is in none other, for neither is there another name under heaven which is given
among men by which we must be saved,” than in the Name of Yeshua Mashiach (Acts
Even though Satan roars against that
army of happy witnesses proclaiming His salvation, they cast out Satan and all
his demons by so doing, for “they have overcome him by reason of the blood of
the Lamb” (Rev. 12:11).
N 146 = 2 * 73. — 73
Mashiach is RISEN in glorious victory
— 2 * and we in Him.
“Him God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death,
inasmuch as it was not possible that He should be held by its power; for David
says as to Him, “I have set YHWH continually before me;
because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart
rejoices, and my glory exults; my flesh moreover shall dwell in hope. For You will not leave my soul to Sheol,
neither will You allow Your Holy One(s) to see corruption” (Acts
And “God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith
he loved us, (we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the
Mashiach, (ye are saved by grace,) and has raised us up together,
and has made us sit down together in the heavenlies in Mashiach
Yeshua” (Eph. 2:4-6).
“Incline your ear, and
come unto Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting
covenant with you, the sure mercies of David” (Is. 55:3-4).
“Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where,
O death, is your sting? where, O death, your victory? Now the sting of death is
sin, and the power of sin the law; but thanks to God, who gives us the
victory by our Lord Yeshua Mashiach” (1 Cor.
“Having spoiled principalities and authorities,
He made a show of them publicly, leading them in triumph
by it” (Col. 2:13-15; and Hebrews 2:9, 14-15).
“Thanks be to God, who
always leads us in triumph in the Mashiach, and makes manifest
the odor of His knowledge through us in every place” (2 Cor.
S 211 — Yeshua is LORD!
“YHWH said to my Lord, Sit
at My right hand, until I put Your enemies as footstool of Your feet. —
YHWH hath sworn, and will not repent, You are Priest for ever after the
order of Melchisedek. The Lord at Your right hand will smite through
kings in the day of His anger” (Psalm 110:1, 4-5).
Because He was “obedient even unto death, and that
the death of the cross, therefore also God highly exalted Him, and
granted Him the Name, that which is above every name, that at the Name of
Yeshua every knee should bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings,
and every tongue confess that Yeshua Mashiach is Lord to God the
Father's glory” (Phil. 2:8-11).
“No one can say, ‘Yeshua is Lord,’ but by the Holy Spirit” (1
Cor. 12:3). “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” (Luke
6:46).
After His
resurrection our Lord Yeshua spoke to His disciples: “All
power has been given me in heaven and upon earth. Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations, baptizing them to the Name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever
I have enjoined you. And behold, I am with you all the days, until the
completion of the age” (Matth. 28:18-20).
If we follow and obey Him, like
“Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also,
and sent them two and two before His face into every city and place where He
Himself was about to come. And He said to them, The harvest indeed is
great, but the workmen few; supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest that
he may send out workmen into his harvest. Go: behold I send you forth as
lambs in the midst of wolves. — And the seventy returned with joy,
saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through Your Name. And He said
to them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling out of heaven. Behold,
I give you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions and over all
the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise injure you. Yet in
this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice that your
names are written in the heavens” (Luke 10:1-3, 17-20).
R 81 = 34 — a Fountain of Living Water
“And the people thirsted there [in the desert at Rephidim]
for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why is it that you
have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle
with thirst. And Moses cried to YHWH, saying, What shall I do with this people?
Yet a little, and they will stone me! And YHWH said to Moses, Go on before the
people, and take with you of the elders of
The Rock is Mashiach smitten on the Cross for our sins and
rebellion. “After this, Yeshua, knowing that all things were now finished, that
the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I thirst. There was a
vessel therefore there full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge with
vinegar, and putting hyssop round it, they put it up to his mouth. When
therefore Yeshua had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished;
and having bowed His head, He delivered up His spirit” (John
“In that day there shall be a Fountain opened to the house of
David and to the inhabitants of
“My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me,
the Fountain of Living Waters, to hew them out cisterns, broken
cisterns that hold no water” (Jer.
“A MAN shall be as a Hiding-place from the wind, and a Covert
from the storm; as Brooks of Water in a dry place, as the Shadow of a
Great Rock in a thirsty land. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and
the ears of them that hear shall hearken; and the heart of the rash shall
understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak
plainly” (Is. 32:2-4).
“In the last, the great day of the feast, Yeshua stood and
cried saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He
that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water” (John
The prophet Johanan prophesied about Yeshua Mashiach in the
desert: “I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven, and It abode
upon Him. And I knew Him not; but He who sent me to baptize with water, He said
to me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending and abiding on Him,
He it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen and borne
witness that this is the Son of God” (John 1:32-34; Matth. 3:11; Luke 3:16).
And here you see how the disciples of Yeshua were baptized
in the Holy Spirit and Fire: “And when the day of Pentecost was being
fulfilled, they were all together in one place. And there came
suddenly a sound out of heaven as of a violent impetuous blowing, and filled
all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted
tongues, as of fire, and it sat upon each one of them. And they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the
Spirit gave to them to speak forth. — But Peter, standing up with the
eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke forth to them, Men of Judea, and all ye
inhabitants of Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give heed to my words:
for these are not full of wine, as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the
day; but this is that which was spoken through the prophet Joel, And it shall
be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit
upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions, and your elders shall dream
with dreams; yea, even upon My bondmen and upon My bondwomen in those days will
I pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy. — Men of Israel, hear these
words: Yeshua the Nazarene, a man borne witness to by God to you by works of
power and wonders and signs, which God wrought by Him in your midst, as
yourselves know — Him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, you, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified
and slain. — Let the whole house of
They were persecuted, cast into prisons, scourged, stoned,
but no one could stop these bold lions on Fire with the Holy Spirit from
spreading the Gospel of Eternal Life to the ends of the earth. The greater the
hindrances, the greater their victory. The Lion of Judah reveals Himself in
them up to this day. “Who shall separate us from the love of Mashiach?
tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or
sword? According as it is written, For Your sake we are put to death all the
day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter. But in all these things
we more than conquer through Him who has loved us” (Rom.
Jesus, I my cross have taken, All to leave and
follow Thee;
Destitute, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my
all shalt be.
Perish every fond ambition, All I’ve sought, and
hoped and known!
Yet how rich is my condition. God and heav’n are
still my own!
Let the world despise and leave me; They have
left my Savior, too.
Human hearts and looks deceive me; Thou art not, like man,
untrue.
And while Thou shalt smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and
might,
Foes may hate, and friends may shun me. Show Thy face, and
all is bright!
(Henry F. Lyte)
But Amalek is not an outward enemy, but inside: the
old flesh. And the king of Amalek is Agag = self!
And Mashiach has crushed not only the head of
the old serpent, but also Amalek: the old self, when He died in our stead
on the Cross. This mighty victory of YHWH is described in the doubled numerical
value (counting
סּ twice). There are however some conditions, which we must
meet:
P• 80 — that we are a new creation in Mashiach.
“For the love of the Mashiach
constrains us, having judged this: that ONE DIED FOR ALL, THEN ALL HAVE DIED;
and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves,
but to him who died for them and has been raised. So that we henceforth know no
one according to flesh; but if even we have known Mashiach according to flesh,
yet now we know him thus no longer. So if any one be in Mashiach, he is a
new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have
become new” (2 Cor.
“I am crucified with Mashiach, and no longer live, I, but
Mashiach lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith
of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me” (Gal. 2:20). O,
what a glorious reality. This is the fruit of Mashiach’s vicarious death and
resurrection.
“Far be it from me to boast save in the Cross of our Lord
Yeshua Mashiach, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the
world” (Gal.
The plain costs of discipleship: Yeshua said, “The Son of Man
must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and
scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. And He said to them
all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his
cross daily and follow me; for whosoever shall desire to save his life
shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he
shall save it” (Luke 9:22-24).
If we are not crucified with Mashiach, we are cut down by
Amalek, like King Saul, 2 Samuel 1:8-16; 1 Samuel 15:3, 13-23. Flesh cannot
combat flesh, and self not combat self.
N•
206 = 2 * 103 — that we are in YHWH, for His eternal praise
and glory in His Son.
Yeshua Mashiach prayed to His Father: “I do not demand for
these only, but also for those who believe on me through their word; that they
may be all one, as You, Father, are in me,
and I in You, that they also may be one in us, that
the world may believe that You have sent me. And the Glory which You have given
me I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one; I
in them and You in me, that they may be perfected into one
and that the world may know that You have sent me, and that You
have loved them as You have loved me” (John 17:20-23).
This is “the mystery which has been hidden from ages
and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints; to whom God
would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
nations, which is Mashiach in you the hope of glory. — If
therefore you have been raised with the Mashiach, seek the things
which are above, where the Mashiach is, sitting at the right hand of God — for you
have died, and your life is hid with the Mashiach in God. — Do not lie
to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds, and having
put on the new, renewed into full knowledge according to the image of
Him that has created him; wherein there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and
uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Mashiach is
everything, and in all” (Col. 1:26-27; 3:1-3, 9-11).
Yeshua Mashiach is the Head, and we the members of His body,
the assembly of Mashiach (Eph.
S•
286 = 26 * 11 — that YHWH is exalted!
— “and in His temple every one says, Glory!”
(Psalm 29:9).
“It came to pass when the trumpeters and singers were as one,
to make one voice to be heard in praising and thanking YHWH; and when they
lifted up their voice with trumpets, and cymbals, and instruments of music, and
praised YHWH: For He is good, for His loving-kindness endures for ever;
that then the house, the house of YHWH, was filled with a cloud, and the
priests could not stand to do their service because of the cloud; for the
glory of YHWH had filled the house of God” (2 Chron. 5:13-14).
“The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the
former, says YHWH of Hosts” (Hag. 2:9).
Here you see the Glory of GOD filling His house: “And when
they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook,
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the Word
of God with boldness. And the heart and soul of the multitude of those
that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he
possessed was his own, but all things were common to them; and with great
power did the apostles give witness of the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua,
and great grace was upon them all” (Acts 4:31-33). “By this all men will know
that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John
“Do you not know that you are the
And every individual Christian is the temple of the Holy
Spirit: “Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own? for ye have
been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body” (1
Cor.
But when you have taken off your helmet and breastplate, and
rest out a little, especially after a great victory, Amalek, the old flesh, may
suddenly attack you from behind, like you read about in ROMANS 7:15-8:14,
— LOOK UP to YHWH MY BANNER. Look up to Yeshua Mashiach on the Cross, and
praise Him for His victory! Don’t look on Amalek, don’t look on
yourself, look only on Yeshua Mashiach! Lift your hand to heaven like Moshe,
count on YHWH.
So Mashiach overcame by looking up in faith on His Father. So
you overcome by looking up to Him! Psalm 16:8, the secret of the
permanent victory of Mashiach.
This is the right war strategy: 2 Chronicles 20:21-24; Judges
7:19-22; Psalm 149:6-9; Psalm 8:2; Acts 16:22-31; Psalm 22:3: “You are holy,
Who throne on the praises of Israel”; Zechariah 4:6.
R•
126 = 2 * 32 * 7 — as risen with Mashiach we must walk in the
Spirit.
We must learn to follow our Banner like the army of
“And YHWH went before their face by day in a pillar of a cloud,
to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them
light; so that they could go day and night. The pillar of the cloud did not
remove from before the people by day, nor the pillar of fire by night.
The Angel of GOD protected them from their enemies: “And the
Angel of God, who went before the camp of
And we must learn to run in the Spirit like the cherubim in
Ezekiel’s vision: “They went every one straight forward: whither the Spirit was
to go, they went; they turned not when they went. And as for the likeness of
the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, as the
appearance of torches: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the
fire was bright; and out of the fire went forth lightning. And the living
creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning” (Ezekiel
“As many as are being led by the Spirit of God,
these are sons of God” (Rom.
“But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall
in no wise fulfill flesh's lust. — But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness,
self-control: against such things there is no law. But they that are of
the Mashiach have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit” (Gal.
“If we walk in the Light as He is in the Light,
we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Yeshua Mashiach His Son
cleanses us from all sin. — He who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk
in the same manner as He walked. — Because as He is, so also are
we in this world” (1 John 1:7; 2:6;
How shall we avoid stumbling? “He who loves his brother
abides in the Light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. —Bear
one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of the Mashiach” (1 John
Hereby we have known love, because He laid down His life for
us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren” (1 John 3:16;
this is the fruit of John 3:16).
“Who is she that looks forth as the dawn, beautiful as the
moon, pure as the sun, terrible as troops under banner? — These
are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes” (Song of Songs
Mary had learned the royal lesson from a life with Yeshua;
and she spoke to the servants, “Whatever He may say to you, DO”
(John 2:5). Had they not done exactly what Yeshua said, no drop
of wine would have come.
Indeed, “His Banner over me is Love” (Song of Songs 2:4).
