A critical passage in the besorah of Mattithyahu keeps rising in my spirit as the Father breathes new life into this bit of wisdom in the governance of our affairs in these last hours of the age of man.  Let’s begin with the preamble:

Mattithyahu 11:27

All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

All things are delivered unto Mashiach from the Father.  Where else do we see that?

Yahuchanon 1:3

All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

We see here that all things are in the hands of Mashiach in the physical world.  That subject is for another time.  But let us consider the Father for just a moment.

Yeshayahu 63:15-16

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness (qodesh) and of your glory (tipherah): where is your zeal (qinah) and your strength (gevurah), the sounding of your bowels and of thy mercies (rahkham) toward me? Are they restrained?

16 Doubtless you are our father (avinu), though Abraham be ignorant (lo yada) of us, and Yisra’el acknowledge us not: you, YAHUAH are our father (avinu), our redeemer (ga’al); your name (shem) is from everlasting (olam).

The discussion in Yeshayahu about the Father is interesting, because he sets forth some of the radiances of YAH in this discussion; namely the tipherah, the gevurah, and the chesed (rahkham).

Yeshayahu 64:8

But now, O YAHUAH, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Now consider again the phrase that no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. This term know in the Hebrew is yada, but have knowledge is da’ath, another radiance of ELOHIYM.  Da’ath (knowledge), binah (understanding) and chokmah (wisdom) are the three radiances of the Rosh, which is the Godhead we call ELOHIYM, which is YAH in his plurality, and these are unreachable except through Mashiach.

From this knowledge we might ask ourselves the question: how much will be required of us to know the Father – to obtain the knowledge, the understanding and the wisdom of the Father? Fortunately we are given the answer in these next verses in Mattithyahu:

Mattithyahu 11:28-30

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

This was a verse I learned in Russian and which I could recite from memory.  When I arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2004, I found this verse tacked on the dining room wall:

Придите ко Мне все труждающиеся и обремененные, и Я успокою вас; возьмите иго Мое на себя и научитесь от Меня, ибо Я кроток и смирен сердцем, и найдете покой душам вашим; ибо иго Мое благо, и бремя Мое легко.

This was a verse I needed to deliver to Pastor Zaali Tkeshilishvili, and to deliver in Russian – but I did not, for I did not fully understand the implications.

So now I am finding a way to rejoice in the coming tribulation, for the yoke of Mashiach is indeed easy, and His burden is indeed light.