Deborah and Barak

Deborah and Barak
Jabin king of Canaan.... The commander of his army was
Sisera, ... had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for
twenty years he had harshly oppressed the children of
Israel.

... Deborah, a prophetess, ... sent and called for Barak
..., and said to him, "... the LORD God of Israel
commanded, 'Go and deploy troops at Mount Tabor; take with
you ten thousand men ... and against you I will deploy
Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots
and his multitude at the River Kishon; and I will deliver
him into your hand'?"

And Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, then I will
go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go!"

So she said, "I will surely go with you; nevertheless there
will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for
the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." ...

And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his
army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera
alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot ... to the
tent of Jael, the wife of Heber ... And ... she covered him
with a blanket.

... So [Jael] opened a jug of milk, gave him a drink, and
covered him....

Then Jael, ... took a tent peg and ... a hammer in her
hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his
temple, and it went down into the ground .... So he died.

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day
... (Judges 4:2-9,15-21, 5:1, NKJV)

Notice first of all that Deborah was a prophetess, a female
prophet. The Lord is no respecter of persons, and considers
males and females equally (1 Samuel 16:7). As a prophet,
Deborah's ministry was to proclaim the messages of wisdom
and instruction she received from the Lord. People would
come from miles around to hear the wisdom of the Lord, and
have Deborah act is a judge in interpersonal disputes. In
the course of her ministry, she received a message for
Barak to lead a small Israelite army against Sisera, the
commander of Jabin's troops.

It was the Lord's intention to not only defeat the armies
of Sisera, but also to exalt Barak to the position of
military commander over the armies of Israel. However,
Barak was only willing to fulfill the Lord's command as
long as Deborah came with him. Barak knew that the Lord
was with Deborah, but he wasn't totally convinced that the
Lord was going to be with him and provide him success in
his battle with the armies of Sisera. He had faith, but he
also had unbelief, and unbelief lead to fear.
Unfortunately, his unbelief, caused him to miss the entire
blessing the Lord had planed. Yes, the Lord enabled him to
defeat the armies of Sisera, but he was not allowed to
personally kill Sisera himself. Instead of Barak getting
the full credit for the defeat of Sisera, an obscure woman
named Jael was honored as the one who actually killed
Sisera. In fact, in the celebratory song of victory after
the conflict, Barak had to share accolades with both
Deborah and Jael, all because of his limited faith mingled
with unbelief.

So what can we learn about faith from Deborah and Barak?
First, unbelief, severely limits faith. It causes us miss
the full benefits the Lord intends for us. Second, unbelief
leads to both fear and doubt. Unbelief causes us to
distrust the Lord, His intentions, and His ability to
deliver us through our trials. Third, the Lord has a
specific ministry chosen for each of us, which He expects
us to fulfill. The Lord expects us to fully commit to the
ministry He has given us, and invest our entire being and
all our efforts, even as Deborah fulfilled her ministry as
a prophets. The Lord expects us to limit ourselves to the
confines our specific ministry; Deborah had no intention of
going beyond the limits of her ministry as a prophet, but
acquiesced for the sake of overcoming Barak's unbelief,
doubts and fears in the conflict with Sisera.

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Jon Straumfjord is the author of numerous articles about
the Seven Spirits of God and the God of the Bible. He is
also the creator of the website http://www.7-spirits.com ,
and is the author of the book "The Seven Spirits of God."

Law Of Attraction, The Holocaust And 911 Part 2 (conclusion)

Law Of Attraction, The Holocaust And 911 Part 2 (conclusion)
So you can see that firstly a human "being" in my
imagination is by no means a simple creature. A person's
life can be looked at as that individuals "demonstration"
or as stated ...his or her canvas. The final stroke upon
that canvas is the individuals type of departure or "death
OF the physical".

There is no death for the "being". We have expressions
like "the good die young" to quell our sadness when we see
young people die in a car accident or in battle or die in
some atrocious way. We question the meaning of those
seemingly senseless deaths, senseless murders, senseless
illnesses, senseless disabilities or deformities that
babies carry into this physical life.

They are not senseless. They are demonstrations. Could
"beings" choose those horrific demonstrations you ask.
Others believe these conditions and "demonstrations" are
put upon the individuals by fate, luck, destiny or God. To
believe that is to believe that your life is controlled by
outside forces. Frankly, by believing that you are actually
insulting your "self" and demonstrating an immense lack of
self worth.

So to understand what I am offering as an answer to this
question you would have to believe in manifestation, mass
manifestation and freewill. You would have to believe in
the subconscious, super conscious, mystical magic of this
powerful being's choices of demonstration, even if those
choices occur on a super subconscious level. Again this
sounds like quite a stretch for the average "human being".
The opinion of one's own self can be high or low or
anywhere in between. I, simply, choose ...extremely high.

For some individual being to make the choice that his
personal demonstration will be one containing such horrific
or atrocious "qualities" is unfathomable for most people.
They "believe" that no individual being would choose such a
seemingly nasty and ugly demonstration of life or death.

Let's face it most people don't even believe we choose our
type of death or control the time of our death because they
do not understand the "being". They have no connection with
their super consciousness and they look at life from quite
different perspectives than those that have mentioned here.

To them the answer they will receive here will not be
understood because of their perspectives of how they view
physical life and how they view physical beings. I realize
your mind may be spinning and flooded with questions and
counter arguments. You might ask and state simultaneously,
"this is absurd, no one would choose such horrible
demonstrations even if they could".

My response to that is...Who are you to say what the
perspectives of an individual omniscient being would be and
what reasons that being might have for making choices that
you as a "human" can not fathom. Now we are coming to the
point.

You must pretend and imagine you can understand the
difference between the physical human and the all knowing
"being". That understanding can take humans many lifetimes
of physical experience to achieve. That understanding is
contained by the being before and after its physical birth
and death and is an awareness quest that the human embarks
upon. It has been called enlightenment and has several
other definitions and names.

As humans, first of all, many of us see death as this big
bad tumultuous event. As beings we see death as no big
deal. As beings we see death as being no more tumultuous
than going to sleep at night and waking up in the morning.
To the being it is not only some simple, matter of fact,
transition, but it is a welcome transition because the
being knows that it returns to what has been called source
or the non physical. That place is adored by the being and
feared by the human. I am speaking of most humans and all
beings.

So now, with all this foundational belief information ...I
say these mass manifestations in situations like the
Holocaust or 911 do not make the "victims" have fault.
Other evil players like Hitler, in the case of the
holocaust, certainly played their part in creating and
bringing these events to fruition.

Some people with a distorted view of karmic retribution
might say those evil cause players will reincarnate for
eternal lifetimes as a fly in stool. I am not going to get
into explanations of karmic lifetimes but I will say that
justice does prevail especially in the alternate realms.
That justice has been described elsewhere as self
inflicted...the most appropriate of all justice.

The Jews made holy, dignified and superior choices. They
are, many times, the choices that only the greatest true
heroes can make and they often appear to create victims.
These demonstrations are a way of going to war against
atrocity and teaching by example for generations to come.

These demonstrations expose the perpetrators and defeat
them in a way that no war could ever do. And, mostly, these
demonstrations are chosen on a super conscious level
totally unbeknown to the human personality. However they
become memories not only for us but for those who
participated in the demonstration. Only the participating
being knows the growth and expansion that it creates
through these scenarios. Only the being knows why it chose
to be the one to participate, possibly for reasons relating
to its own character and journey.

I feel like I have gone out on a limb here to even attempt
to present this information to those who will only be more
enraged by what I have written here. I too sought out the
great gurus and proponents of Law of Attraction and no one
would provide an in depth answer.

You come to realize that so many people choose the path of
least resistance. They will not deal with situations or
scenarios that they deem as negative or resistant to their
flow of well being. It is always best to first look inside
for your answers and feel the magnificence of your own
"being".

It is refreshing to step outside the "human" box for a few
seconds and sense your own omnipotence. At that moment you
may sense the magnificence of other beings that have gone
before you, are here now and are yet to come. Any one
who has gone into battle in war could have chosen not to do
so. There are a multitude of ways and options available to
not experience that.

Any one who, as they say, fought the hard fight or took the
higher road was definitely not taking the easy way out or
path of least resistance. These questions addressed here
are a factor of perceptions. You must look deep to find
answers that strictly relate to the "being" and not the
human. When you look deep, you will be amazed at the
deceptions that the human creates. You will be amazed at
how the being operates in these seemingly mystical and
omnipotent ways even while in a physical body.

I want to say to my favorite author and all of her
following that you can not brush these historical incidents
under the rug. You can not tell people "oh don't ask that
question and don't think such negative and resistant
thoughts". You are not giving answers that way. You are
just avoiding the question because you can't seem to find
the words to describe the answer.

The words are inside but at times you too prefer the path
of least resistance. You worry sometimes that addressing
certain issues will be bad press for you. I say practice
what you mostly preach. I am not trying to fault you for
avoiding what is atrocious and not easily explained in a
short seminar. However, I feel that when someone is the
recognized leader of the Law of Attraction movement, they
should really not avoid issues because they are unpopular
or not quickly explained away.

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Seth Manne is the inspired author of Manifesting the
Ultimate and a foremost authority on the "Seth Material".
He is also an expert in areas such as Parapsychology,
Metaphysics and Quantum Physics. More information at
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Gideon

Gideon
Then the LORD ... said [to Gideon], "Go in this might of
yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the
Midianites. Have I not sent you?"

So he said to Him, "O my Lord, how can I save Israel?
Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the
least in my father's house."

So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat, and unleavened
bread ...

Then the Angel of the LORD put out the end of the staff
that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the
unleavened bread; and fire rose out of the rock and
consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Angel
of the LORD departed out of his sight. (Judges
6:14,15,19,21, NKJV)

... the same night ... the LORD said to [Gideon], "... tear
down the altar of Baal that your father has, ... and build
an altar to the LORD your God on top of this rock ... So
Gideon ... did as the LORD had said .... But ... by night.
(Judges 6:25-27, NKJV)

Then the LORD said to Gideon,"By the three hundred men who
lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into
your hand. (Judges 7:7, NKJV)

Now the Midianites and Amalekites, ... were ... as numerous
as locusts; and their camels were without number, as the
sand by the seashore in multitude. (Judges 7:12, NKJV)

Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies,
and he put a trumpet into every man's hand, with empty
pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers. ... When I blow
the trumpet, ... then you also blow the trumpets on every
side of the whole camp, and say, 'The sword of the LORD and
of Gideon!'" (Judges 7:16-18, NKJV)

After having enjoyed forty years of peace, the nation of
Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and suffered
torments from the Midianites and Amalekites for the
subsequent twenty years. Then the angel of the Lord came to
a teenage boy named Gideon, who was threshing wheat in a
wine press, concealing his activities from his enemies.
Gideon had heard stories about the Lord's mighty deeds, but
he neither knew the Lord, nor had seen him work. The Lord
told this timid boy to lead an army of Israelites against
the Midianites and Amalekites, and promised to empower him
to defeat his enemies.

After worshiping the Lord and destroying his father's idol,
Gideon asked the Lord to perform a miraculous sign for him
as a confirmation of His protection and guidance. First, he
asked the Lord to cause the morning dew to settle
exclusively on a bundle of wool. The Lord granted his
request, and, even though the surrounding ground was
completely dry, he was able to wring a bowl full of water
out of the wool. The Gideon asked the Lord to reverse the
situation, and the wool was dry while the ground was
drenched (Judges 6:36-40).

The Lord complied with Gideon's requests, but then greatly
increased the stakes of trusting the Lord: He pared an army
of 32,000 Israelites down to a mere three hundred men,
against an enormous army of perhaps hundreds of thousands.
In the end, Gideon and his men performed a prophetic act,
and all their enemies killed each other as they fled in
fear.

So what can we learn about faith from Gideon? First, age
has little or no bearing on faith (Matthew 10:15). Second,
exercised faith will naturally increase over time. Third,
the Lord encourages the growth of faith, by continually
increasing the demands on our faith. Fourth, the Lord
honors sincere requests for confirmation of his
instructions, but then requires an even greater exercise of
faith when confirmation is given. Fifth, our faith should
always be in the Lord Himself, and in His benevolence and
omnipotence, not in our own strength. Sixth, faith can
change things very quickly.

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Jon Straumfjord is the author of numerous articles about
the Seven Spirits of God and the God of the Bible. He is
also the creator of the website http://www.7-spirits.com ,
and is the author of the book "The Seven Spirits of God."