AGUEST SAID
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how exactly do they mediate? what exactly do they do?
They "mediate" by acting as "leaders" in the manner of Moses, dear P (the greatest of love and peace to you!), who Israel chose and assigned to speak with God FOR them... rather than doing so themselves. As such, they tell the R+F (often by implication rather than actual statement) that "God requires" such and so from them (the R+F), which they ("mediators") claim they know because... well... they don't know, actually, but just say they do.
They are ALLOWED to mediate these things... NOT by God, though... but by the R+F. Because the people
LOOK to them to do so... rather than doing so themselves. They CHOOSE these as their mediators, then, those who "seat themselves in the seat of Moses" by acting as "leaders"... rather than going to and through the "Moses"
chosen and provided by God: His Son, the Holy One of Israel, JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJah).
Jeremiah wrote of it quite accurately:
“‘For among my people there have been found wicked men. They keep peering, as when birdcatchers crouch down. They have set a ruinous [trap]. It is men that they catch. As a cage is full of flying creatures, so their houses are full of deception. That is why they have become great and they gain riches. They have grown fat; they have become shiny. They have also overflowed with bad things. No legal case have they pleaded, even the legal case of the fatherless boy, that they may gain success; and the judgment of the poor ones they have not taken up.’”
“Should I not hold an accounting because of these very things,” is the utterance of JaHVeH, “or on a nation that is like this should not my soul avenge itself?
An astonishing situation, even a horrible thing, has been brought to be in the land:
The prophets themselves actually prophesy in falsehood; and as for the priests, they go subduing according to their powers. [u]And my own people have loved [it] that way[u/]; and what will YOU men do in the finale of it?”
Jeremiah 5:26-31As with the Adversary and bad spirits, they only have the power given them. At one time, our Adversary had power over many kingdoms. Now, all authority has been given Christ, in the spirit realm AND the physical realm. Those who belong to Satan, then, are given over to the power of Satan. For Israel... and those who go with... if others have power over us in a spiritual sense, it's because we give it to them.
Again, peace to you!
YSSFS of Christ,
SA