For a period of years, now, there have been numerous events in the lives of my immediate family and myself that, I believe, have been set in motion by Yahweh to birth this very teaching. A teaching, a revelation from the Ruach HaKodesh (Set Apart Spirit of Yahweh), so relevant today that without it, Yahweh’s body of Messiah cannot and will not experience the unity that is required for the millennial reign of Yahshua Messiah.

These personal trials we’ve experienced, from an emotional standpoint, have been (at times) down right devastating to the heart. From a spiritual standpoint, they have been a series of steps in our lives that have caused us to grow in the truth of Yahweh’s scriptures. In order to accept these events as “good” things in our lives, we were required to reject all thoughts and feelings of the natural human inclinations to react with bitterness and hatefulness. To say that this has not been easy is a monumental understatement. I know in my heart that my family and I are not alone when I speak of these happenings within the body of Messiah. This issue of which I am about to speak of has been strongly impressed in our minds from these hurtful personal experiences. There is such a compelling pulling on my heart from the Ruach to write these things (for nearly a year now) that I must conclude that the body of Messiah has been and is now suffering immensely from this curse of Dan.

Those of us raised in “Christianity” can attest to the numerous preaching/teachings on prophecy about the books being UNSEALED in the end of this age. But what is the unsealing really all about? I believe that the unsealing spoken of, is about the true meaning of the written scriptures as revealed by the Ruach HaKodesh. These truths are the new and fresh truths or “the green pastures” of Tehillim (Psalms) 23 where Yahweh is our Shepherd, not the false shepherds/preachers of the religious church. It is Yahweh who is the good Shepherd. For it is Yahweh, our Heavenly Father, our Teacher/Mentor, who abounds toward us in wisdom, revealing the mystery of His will.

I am continually amazed to read this passage for volumes could be written about it. “After hearing the word of truth”, WE TRUSTED in Messiah (which is an action - something we did as an act of obedience out of love for the Father). After the further act of obedience of “believing”, WE WERE SEALED WITH THAT SET APART SPIRIT OF PROMISE. Now here is a “sealing” with the Ruach HaKodesh but the SEALING IS ALSO THE REVEALING. John 16: 13 “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, [that] shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come.”

It is through life experiences that Yahweh abounds toward us in wisdom, revealing the mystery of His will. This is how He removes the scales from our eyes that we might SEE truths that otherwise would yet remain in the shadows and sealed.

On the surface, an outsider could come to the conclusion that our family had been “accursed” with failed friendships. Fellowships with brethren had turned sour and turn after turn friendships disintegrated leaving behind a cripple here and there. Always, there was a spirit of judgment that was found at the root of these events. Dan means “judge”. Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Yisrael. But there is so much more, in order to gain a full understanding (revelation) of Dan.

Judgment is an interesting and sometimes strange thing, or at least our perception of it is. Yahweh, our Father, has given us ensamples (examples) in our lives to show us truths. Lets take the judicial system that we live in today. Let’s examine some of the components that comprise this system. We will find people filling positions of Judge, Jury, Witness, Defendant, Victim etc.

There are specific rules and procedures that must need be followed in any proceeding in order for the final JUDGMENT to be considered a LAWFUL judgment.

JUDGE: First of all, the person sitting as JUDGE cannot under any circumstances be any of the following. A) He cannot be the victim; B) He cannot be the Defendant; C) He cannot be the prosecutor of the case; and, D) He cannot be a material witness or be in possession of any material evidence that would/could be perceived as compromising his impartiality in this matter. A “Judge” is charged to have a full and complete understanding of the law, (or he must research the law until he does) before he issues his findings or judgment.

JURY: Likewise, anyone sitting on the Jury must A) not have been victimized by the Defendant; B) not have been a witness to the alleged wrong doing of the Defendant; C) be able to sit impartially to judge the matter justly without having any issues that would otherwise cloud their impartiality; D) be able to sift through only the relevant facts in making a determination of the correct judgment of the case.

WITNESS: Any person requested or required to give testimony as a witness cannot pronounce judgment on the Defendant. A witness cannot put forth their “beliefs” in any matter regarding the case. A witness can testify to what they have personal knowledge of, period. A witness gives testimony of facts under oath. That’s all, nothing more, nothing less.

The correct scriptural admonition in order for a Judge or a Jury to make a finding of guilt against a Defendant is “at the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established”. Deut. 17:6; Deut. 19:15; Matt. 18:16; II Cor 13:1; I Tim. 5:19; and Heb. 10:28. I’d say it is “unfortunate” but (since I truly don’t believe in fortune or unfortunate, rather in Yahweh’s blessings and cursings,) I’d have to say it is a CURSE that today in our modern judicial system the unscriptural Babylonian admonition of “AT THE MOUTH OF ONE WITNESS” is sufficient to judge, convict and pronounce sentence. Likewise, there is a curse upon the body of Messiah, when the Babylonian admonition of “at the mouth of ONE witness” is sufficient to break up friendship and dis-fellowship a brother/sister and count him/her as a non-believer.

In the not so distant past much was said and written about vigilante justice. We all know that “vigilante justice” is when a person or group of persons takes the law into their own hands and become judge, jury and executioner mostly based upon rage, vengeance and the likes. Vigilante justice is unacceptable in any society and especially unacceptable in the body of Messiah. Taking the law into your own hands is another way of saying that people judge another according to their OWN UNDERSTANDINGS (i.e. interpretations) of the LAW or mixing (adulterating the process) by pursuing more than one part(y) in a trial as defined above. The trial isn’t “Lawful” if the law/rules of law is/are not followed. It, then, turns into something described as “awful”. Leave out the “L” in “lawful” and you have “awful”. In English, the Letter “L” is pronounced as “el”. In other words, leave out the Laws and order of Yahweh our “El” [Mighty-One] in any “trial” or “judgment” situation, and to one or more parties, it will be awful. [For several years, now, I have wondered how anyone could sing the carol “noel”. Do not people hear the words that come from their mouths?]

But the law isn’t the only thing people are being judged by others in the body over. The Way/the walk that Yahweh has set forth for us in Scripture is also largely under attack by the personal interpretation and impositions upon the brethren on how one sees fit that another should walk. Again, judgment, by brother against brother, has taken and is taking place daily according to each our own beliefs/understandings of what we each see as the TRUE WAY for another to walk! The curse of Dan is that the “body” judges improperly without a full understanding (within our limited knowledge) of the true meaning and intent of Yahweh’s Laws. Only Yahweh knows the full “intent” of the law He has established for us. We only have a current “understanding” of it. We all know that our “understanding” can and does change as additional truth of the meaning of Yahweh’s word and law are revealed to us by His Ruach (Spirit).

Yahweh told us from the beginning in Bereshit (Genesis 49) that this day would come and that the curse of Dan (judgment) would cripple, hurt and divide the body of Messiah.

“Dan (pronounced “Dawn”) shall judge his people.” Nothing is mentioned herein that it would be a righteous judgment. The kind of judgment that Dan would administer is fully defined in the next few verses.

“Dan shall be a serpent by the way.” A “serpent”; Satan was also a serpent - one who caused Yahweh creation to stumble and sin; “by [or ‘in’] the way” as in “gets in the way” [Yahweh’s Way that leads to Life] or “disrupts the walk”.

An adder in the path Here again is reference to a snake/serpent that is causing a disruption of the walk of Yahweh’s people. [People who are trying their best, in love for their Father, to walk in the Path or Way of Yahweh]. Here is a second witness to the origin of this curse.

that biteth the horse* heels strikes out against and wounds, injures, hurts, cripples

so the rider Yahweh’s people carrying His messages of truth.

falls backwards stumbles - forward motion in the walk of Yahweh’s way of life is disrupted - an unexpected fall or being thrown from a horse certainly can cause the rider to have many aches and pains at the least, perhaps a broken back or even DEATH which would signify a totally cessation from the desire to walk in the good way any longer.

I have waited for thy salvation [the body needs deliverance from this curse] O Yahweh.

Yahweh pronounced this curse upon “the serpent” in:

The “enmity” is the animosity that is stirred up when the spirit of the serpent “JUDGMENT” rears its ugly biting head from the dust (filth) of the ground. Dirt: To dig up “dirt” on someone; to “soil” another’s reputation or good name; “dragging your good name through the mud’ are all expressions commonly used which bear truth of a common denominator between the serpent curse and pulling a person down as in to destroy someone’s name, reputation and testimony.

Having made known to us the mystery of His will, we can most assuredly say “The serpent”, “Dan” and “judgment” are responsible for this very bruising of the “HEEL” so that the body of Messiah would be injured, hurt and crippled causing a great stumbling of the feet that desire to Walk the Path in Yahweh’s truth and righteous Way. But the judgment we speak of here is man’s judgment upon man (their fellow brethren), not Yahweh’s righteous judgment upon His creation.

Yahshua gave the strong admonition in Matt. 7:1-5 “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.”

Luke 6:37 “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:”

James 5:9 says “Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.” {Grudge not : or, Groan, or, Grieve not }

Yet many brethren will say, “we have the right to judge”. My question is “why would you want to”? Have you not enough to do to keep your own house and family in order that to cast a critical eye on your brother? Can you honestly stand before your brother and tell him/her that you have a full and complete (or even a sufficient) understanding of Yahweh’s laws and therefore be qualified to judge him/her as Yahweh would judge? Remember, if you are wrong in your understanding of a matter, you will certainly execute a wrong judgment.

(Note:  I need to briefly address the issue of "open sin".  If a brother is caught in "open sin" and confronted, that brother is usually so embarrassed they leave the fellowship anyway and are seldom interested in restoration to the fellowship.  I can honestly say I have NEVER witnessed an issue of open sin in a fellowship.  What I am speaking here is of judgment against a brother or sister being more of a conflict over a doctrinal interpretation of how to live and walk and not of an open sin nature.)

I have witnessed occasion after occasion where someone judges another person (on issues not of an open sin nature) and later find out that they didn’t have a full revelation of understanding on an issue and judged their brothers/sisters wrongly causing great hurt and loss of friendship and fellowship. For instance, how many of us, in the past, cast a critical comment against those who were working on Saturday and not keeping the Saturday Sabbath? Why certainly this was a “sin” against Yahweh for which they were going to be condemned and we NEEDED to set them straight? Right? Haven’t we been taught that we need to set someone straight according to OUR understanding of scripture?

Well…………. What do we do when the Ruach haKodesh (Yahweh’s set apart Spirit) later opens our eyes and we see that man created a seven day circle called a week, but Yahweh linked Sabbath with the quarter phases of the lunar cycle? We have broken fellowship, caused broken friendships and created deep wounds with and in our believing brothers/sisters. What righteous judgment awaits us from Yahweh for our unrighteous judgment against our families, friends and fellow worshippers? Remember scriptures say “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” You can take that to the bank, brother.

Judging our fellow brothers and sisters with our limited and INCOMPLETE understanding of Yahweh’s laws puts us in great danger of being judged by the only one who IS RIGHTEOUS. How would you like to be dragged into your local county courthouse, charged with a capital crime, and find out that your judge had never been to law school but was a janitor in the courthouse and told to put on the black robe and sit in judgment over you today. Then you find out that your “legal counsel” was trained to be a surgical assistant and knew nothing about the law. I suspect you are probably going to be squirming around quite a bit and ranting and raving about how UNLAWFUL and WRONG this is all. “What a kangaroo court”, you scream out loud. Do you see the picture here, now, why the brother you falsely judged reacted the way they did and left your fellowship? You stood in Yahweh’s place of judgment and pretended to be as qualified as Yahweh. Yes, I said “pretended”! For when you or I judge according to our own knowledge, (and we don’t have even 10% of the knowledge of Yahweh’s universe) we are a pretender, just a janitor in the courthouse.

Ephesians 2:12-15 “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. [What part of “your own” and “fear and trembling” don’t we understand?] For it is Elohim which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings [Strong’s 1112 “grudging”] and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of Elohim, without rebuke,[298 - that cannot be censured] in the midst of a crooked [4646 - unfair, perverse] and perverse** nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; {harmless: or, sincere}

** 1294 diastrepho {dee-as-tref'-o}
from 1223 and 4762; TDNT - 7:717,1093; v
AV - perverse 4, pervert 2, turn away 1; 7
1) to distort, turn aside
1a) to oppose, plot against the saving purposes and plans of God
2) to turn aside from the right path, to pervert, corrupt