9.17.25 ~ Return to Mom's House

Good morning!!

We are a week from Yom Teruah. A time of new beginnings. A time for a fresh start. A time to take the lessons from the past and use them to springboard into the future. It's the beginning of the Fall Feast Season (Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles). It's Prophetic and empowering. It really is the most wonderful time of the year!

With every new beginning we make new resolutions. It’s very easy to make New Year resolutions! It’s easy to get swept away with emotions and make commitments not ready to keep. It’s easy to wish to be someone you’re not and wish that you were like someone else. There are a lot of things in life that are very easy! It’s easy to volunteer for something that you want to become, but aren’t quite equipped to make it happen. It’s easy to open your mouth and insert your foot! What isn’t easy in life is sticking with something to the very end without deviating off the perfect path.

We are currently in the 6th month of God's reckoning of annual rime;; the time when the ‘king is walking in the field’ with each of us within His Kingdom. It’s a time of intimacy and unworthiness. It’s a time of seeing your inadequacies as we draw closer to His presence. It’s a time of longing to do better than ever before. But, most of all, out of necessity it has to be a month of hope. Hope for a better future. Hope that you won’t get stuck in the same ole rut again as in years past. Hope to succeed. Hope to go where you’ve never gone before! Hope that this will be the year of fruit-bearing that you’ve always longed for (2 Kings 2:19-22).

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when it is realized it is a tree of life (Prov. 13:12)!

We are more than half way through the appointed times/Moedim on the Lord God/Yahweh Elohim’s prophetic calendar for this biblical year. Is it what you’ve expected? Were you hoping for more? Do you, like the men of the city in 2 Kings 2, anticipate a great fruit harvest every year only to see that the fruit miscarry and fall short of maturity? You know something’s missing, but you’re not sure what it is?

Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the ground barren.” And he said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.  Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’ ” (2 Kgs. 2:19-21)

There is an interesting scenario that we find in Scripture that helps us find the answer. We touched on it in the book of Ruth, but didn’t expand the concept of ‘going back to your mother’s house’. This statement is only found 3 times in Scripture. At first glance, it wouldn’t seem to mean much, but when examined from each angle, we begin to find that ‘going back to your mother’s house/beit immah’ is a significant term regarding one theme…hope and fruitfulness for generations to come.

Naomi told Ruth and Orpah to go back to their mother’s house (Ruth 1:8). The first time we find this statement is when Rebecca runs back to her mother’s tent to report the arrival of Abraham’s servant, who is looking for a bride for Isaac, the Promised Seed (Gen. 24:28). The Song of Solomon’s reference deals with sexual intimacy and the place of conception (Song 3:4). Whether it’s Rebecca, Ruth, or the Shulamite woman, all three references to the ‘mother’s house/beit immah’ is about a future lineage; a future hope and a new line that includes foreigners and healing of family divisions.

The Apostle Paul tells us, ‘the Jerusalem above, which is free, is the mother of us all’; for all who’ve been born from above (Gal. 4:26).

She is the ‘matriarch’ of the body of Messiah. Our heavenly Father provided the seed (Luke 8:11) and the Heavenly Jerusalem, the pattern for the earthly Jerusalem, where the Torah flows from (Isa. 2:2-5), is the spiritual mother of us all, where we are born from above (John 3:3, 7; 1 Pet. 1:23).

Many of us know what it’s like to wander from our ‘mother’s house/beit immah’…is it time for you to return to your mother’s house? The month is the time of ‘turning back/teshuvah’ to your mother’s house. It’s the time to prepare yourself for a future relationship that will bring forth fruit. For some, it will be a time of ‘returning’. For others it’s a time of new birth. For others, it’s a time to continue the journey and never forget your birth place and learn how to honor your mother and father; the source of our lives (Ex. 20:12).

In our Torah portion today, Nitzavim/to stand, it's a good day to make the commitment and the prophetic declaration that when the future 7th day, the 1,000 year Millennial Kingdom, is inaugurated, that we will find our new year resolution standing strong in our 'mother's house'.

Chag Sameach and happy 4th day of the week!

Shalom,
Alan