Way of the Natsarim
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Don Bradley 8-9-25
As wonderful as the Holy Word is and continues to be in all things and knowings, there are deeper layers. This is nothing new to know. Yet, there have been prophets in the past who lived outside of the world, though in it. Our Creator and Savior, Christ Yeshua, was the same.
This living outside, yet in it, is called the path of the Natsarim – the Way.
This path is pointed to by YHVH Himself, in His words of, “a man who would save his soul, must not love the world.” And, “If a man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
It at first glance, the above sounds a deep contradiction, for YHVH – through his Holy Word and Son Yeshua – created this world and why not love the father's creation? As one would love a child, spouse, friend, tree, garden, horse, dog, or dove, simply for existing, because HE made them?
He indeed made them and for that reason alone, creation is to be loved and appreciated, as a vast world where our best fruits can be sown and grown, in the daily walk of life, each according to our measure and personal destiny/fate as is the dictates of our birth.. Every moment of every day we make countless choices based on our walk in this creation. And yet these choices determine whether a soul in the body is growing or retrograding, based on both the motive of our choices (selfish love for THINGS of the world, usually things of man, like cars, houses, land, sexual pleasure, dominion over men, and money) or things of the Holy Spirit (unselfish love for all the great gifts of the Father through Christ).
The holy word reveals to us through the life of Christ the attributes necessary to walk in this world, by His example, and by extension, the teachings of His Apostles and Prophets. This combined whole reveals how we are to walk as men, women, and children in His creation.
To further drive home this point, we are admonished in Ephesians 6 to the six points of perfection, the petals of the flower of someone with the Holy Spirit of YHVH/Yeshua, the veritable Armor of YHVH. They are
Our feet shod (shoes) with the Gospel of the Holy Word (Yeshua).
Our loins (genitals and midsection) covered in Truth.
Wearing the helmet of Salvation, the Holy Spirit, given by the blood of Christ, creating a covering and joining of the soul of man joined to the Soul of Christ.
The Breastplate of righteousness of doing, being, seeing, hearing, knowing, and living as best we are able His annointed way as we discover that way and walk, different from one person to another, yet providing the same tests and outcomes of each success creating Righteousness.
The Shield of Faith; the inner confidence and courage that gives us the Peace, Poise, and Fullness of Spirit that, come what may, keeps us forward, ever forward, on the straight and narrow way.
The Sword of Spirit; the Holy Word spoken as a great creative and yet inspiring Force and Power that it is, in Heaven and In Earth. It can and is, on the higher turn, a veritable Power that can create as well as destroy. A power that can move mountains, turn rivers to blood, make the lame walk, or even bring the dead back to life. It can lay waste to nations or uplift them, depending. But before all that, the Way of the Natsarim has to be a tested, lived, and a demonstrated fact in the life of the person who has picked up their cross following Christ Yeshua. Self denial and self sacrifice is that cross.
Each of these six elements creates and has within itself an echo of its Presence on Earth and in Heaven. We are admonished to observe the heavenlies, the constellations in their movements upon this flat Earth. For they are both the Gospel story and the story of Mankind. It's walk and way, from birth to death, life after life. Yet most do not bother in the slightest regard, save for a cursory glance on a moonless night, when the stars are free from light pollution and chemsoup.
These six elements that make up the garments (our clothes (bodies we wear, life after life), being made white, through both trial and error and salvation) that reflect the attainments as well as our failures, the dirt that makes them unclean. Choices acted upon can either clean or further sully our “clothes”, depending.
The movement of the stars in heaven mean nothing to most, save those upon the deepest walk upon the way; men and some women, whom the straight way is the single most important thing any soul, in any land, can do. When that awareness lands in the mind of the soul, they are ready to truly walk that straight and narrow way to the edification of their life and as a living member in the body of Christ on Earth, par excellence.
The constellations above reveal not only our potentials at birth, but inbound conflicts and tests to be understood and hopefully, passed. They reveal the destiny of not only mankind and nations, but of the individual. Once this becomes the understanding of the soul, a further road, already being walked, appears upon that straight and narrow way. This then becomes the realm and Way of the prophets and Apostles of old, revealed in the Holy Word.
Each step on the Way reveals to the walking soul that the elements of our clothes given over in Ephesians has its Higher Correspondence, also being created. At first, to the complete unawareness of the man or woman. Only later, as right choices are made consistently, failure after failure, to success after success, does this “seeing” occur. The inner eye of the mind lights up the pineal gland of the Spirit connected to the soul of the person. Their physical eyes become more than just doorways, seeing into the world of number, weight, and measure of our temporal, corporeal existence, but also into the dimensions that exist side by side, to the physical. This can be discussed, but never truly understood, until one experiences it for themselves. Without drugs or hallucinogens, which is unlawful and uncontrolled jail breaking of what was meant to be a lawful tract of being, life after life. The breaking in on these glands and astral/etheric eyes via narcotics is wholly the design and doings of satan and often leads to dealing with dark forces and demons one cannot control nor rarely understand.
The above may appear at first glance as some Gnostic mumbo jumbo, but I assure this is none of that. This is simply a deeper understanding of the Word given over as chapters and sentences, by Christ Yeshua himself, to the chosen authors of the Holy word, over the millennium.
This slightly deeper understandiing is only given over at this time because many of you are nearing this understanding because you HAVE chosen in all earnest doings, the Way of the straight path, above all other things in life. Many of you. This is to help those understand what they are experiencing and seeing, all around them.
Those on the way of the Natsarim understand these words for what they both reveal and teach. Those who attack, are agents of the beast, whether they are aware of it or not, and are so far from that Way, as to be on the other side of the world. So to say.
At these first steps the constellations to you are both the Gospel story and the Way forward of that High, far road, above the commonplace, of news, weather, and sports. You have a deep spiritual hunger for a deeper relationship with YHVH and His son Yeshua, that daily becomes a growing ache in your heart and your belly for such food. And you find that the ONLY thing that provides it, is living as Christ lived, finding it gentle and silken bonds, easily traversed on your daily walk. A walk filled with inner splendor, amazing miracles, and a constant around the clock relationship with the Most High, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
That...that is the Way of the Natsarim.
Don
In closing, He has led us to –
Luke 7:20-28
20When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? 21And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. 22Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached. 23And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
(Matthew 11:7-19; Luke 1:5-25; Luke 16:14-17)
24And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? 25But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. 26But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
27This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
28For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. 29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. 30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.