Numbers as Prophetic Keys for the Future – 12

…Questioning Standard Interpretations: the Moment of Return...

In this post I want to question certain interpretations concerning the return of Yahshua.

When making the rounds on the internet I come in touch with lots eschatological theories based on subjective INTERPRETATIONS of certain passages in the Bible.
There’s nothing wrong with that if it weren’t for the fact that some of these interpretations are widely adopted to such an extent that they are being promoted as THE view of the future that the Bible holds up in prophecy.

Especially if these interpretations are not correct, the fact that they pass for Bible prophecy may cause unnecessary damage on the truth of the Bible when these ‘prophecies’ do not come to pass.

...The Second Coming: When?

‘We cannot know the day or the hour so we should refrain from any date setting whatsoever’ is an argument often put forward by Christians who oppose any date setting.
They are right that we cannot know in advance what day or hour Yahshua will return, as I will explain in this post, but it does not mean that we cannot determine any timeline or very probable dates for prophetic events to happen.

Often the Bible gives explicit time frames which commence from a certain starting point in the time line.
In addition to that there’s a logical structure to YHWH’s prophetic reckoning of time with certain keys given in the Bible as to how the logical structure should be applied.
Also, as we progress forward in time certain points (prophetic markers) begin to show up, and they provide starting points from whence prophetic time frames are activated.

Like for instance the birth of the nation Israel, the conquest of Jerusalem, we KNOW that these are very important prophetic markers.
From these starting points we can apply logical structures YHWH announced in prophecy to determine a certain date for a prophecy to occur, like for instance Daniel’s last week.

So although care is commended in calculating dates, we would be foolish to ignore Biblical references in prophecy intended to help us and encourage us.
We willfully make ourselves blind if we adhere a false credo which induces apathy and ignorance towards the very things which are intended to alert and encourage us.

As Paul said, we should not be ignorant of the times and the seasons like unbelievers.

A very popular theory is that right after Daniel’s final week (the week of the ‘Great Tribulation’) Yahshua will return.

However, I want to point out that this statement is NOT supported by Yahshua Himself.
In my opinion the ultimate spirit of prophecy is found in the words of Yahshua Himself, and we can read in Mark 13.24:

“But in those days, after that tribulation [Daniel’s final week bringing the time of Jacob’s trouble], the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers in heaven will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory”.

In other words, AFTER the time of tribulation (Daniel’s last week) cosmic disturbances will begin to occur, and after those disturbances have begun (the time during which YHWH pours out His bowls of wrath upon the earth) there will come a moment when Yahshua returns, which is AFTER the pouring out of the bowls of wrath.

So, Yahshua will return, but NOT immediately after Daniel’s final week.

We CAN pinpoint Daniel’s final week easily by reading Daniel 8.13&14:

“Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, ‘For how long is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?’
And he said to me, ‘For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.’"

If we assume the earthly year to remain fixed during Daniel’s final week at 365 days, then the whole week lasts for 7 * 365 = 2555 + 2 (there are 2 leap years) = 2557 days

2557 – 2300 = 255 days remaining.

If we take into account that the building of the temple will take a year to be completed then we arrive at 255 – 365 (the year to build the temple) = -110 (110 days prior to the start of the final week).

So when you hear the announcement that the temple is going to be rebuilt at a certain date you know that Daniel’s final week will commence only a few months after the planned date to start rebuilding temple (assuming that the rebuilding of the temple will take a year).
In addition to that there have been other prophetic markers from whence a countdown to the final week can start, but I have already discussed that elaborately in previous episodes of this series.

If Yahshua would return right after Daniel’s final week we would be able to pinpoint His return quite accurately.
However, taking into account Yahshua’s words, the date of His return cannot be pinpointed at the end of Daniel’s final week. We have to wait for the bowls of wrath to finish and the final battle of Armageddon to take place.

Yahshua explains that right after Daniel’s final week has ended, when the worst tribulation in the history of Israel is over, we are going to witness strange phenomena in the heavens.
Yahshua does NOT tell us for how long these phenomena will occur, He only indicates at some point His sign will appear in the heavens and He will return.

WHEN that happens is not clear.
It might be just a matter of days or weeks (if we do not consider Ezekiel 38 as I will explain further on in this post), but it also COULD be a matter of years.
From Yahshua’s words we cannot determine the time span between the end of the great tribulation and the return of Yahshua, and as such the day of His return may not be quite as fixed as some think it to be - right at the end of the tribulation week.
Just like Yahshua said, ‘no one knows the day or the hour’.

From the Bible book Revelation we can learn that AFTER the tribulation YHWH will judge the nations on earth and the bowls of His wrath will be poured out.
AFTER the bowls have been poured out a great army representing a coalition of nations will try to conquer Israel and come against her, and THEN Yahshua will return.

...Stringing Verses Together...

Concerning the moment of Yahshua’s return it is interesting to put verses from different parts of the Bible together.

Let’s set Yahshua’s words which I quoted side by side to Daniel’s vision in Daniel 7, where Daniel saw four Beasts rising out of the sea.
The fourth Beast was different from all the rest; it had 10 horns and one other little horn came which uprooted three of the first horns.
This little horn is the last anti-christ, and we read in Daniel 7.21-27:

“I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the Kingdom.

Thus he said: `The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down and break it in pieces.

And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise; and another shall rise after them, and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hand until a time, and times, and the dividing of time.

But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.'”

The phrase ‘until the Ancient of Days came’ looks like a description of the return of Yahshua, but if we read Daniel 7.13 and 14 it becomes clear that the Ancient of Days is a reference to YHWH Himself.

This part of Daniel, chapter 7.13&14, is the continuation of Acts 1.9:
“And when He [Yahshua] had said this, as they were looking on, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him out of their sight.”
…and then Daniel 7.13&14:
“I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him.
And there was given Him dominion and glory and a Kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”

These verses describe the time of Yahshua’s ascension into heaven where He receives the power of the Kingdom from His Father.

So, the phrase in Daniel 7.22 (“until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints received the kingdom”) actually refers to the time AFTER last trumpet (shofar), when the bowls of wrath (= the "judgment given for the saints of the Most High") are poured out on the world, after which one final massive end times army will cross the Euphrates to deal with Israel for once and for all, thus bringing about the final defeat of the Satan’s worldly military power by the might of Yahshua and the saints finally can receive the kingdom.

The ‘giving of the kingdoms to the saints’ is a process where YHWH turns the tables and allows Israel become victorious, and pours out His bowls of wrath on the enemies of His Kingdom and His chosen people, which ultimately will bring out the final act of rebellion against YHWH’s authority: the massive end times army crossing the Euphrates to march into Israel in order to snatch the Kingdom once again out of the hands of the saints.
This is when the saints will fully receive the Kingdom because then the enemy will be utterly destroyed so that the saints can live in security.

If we now connect Daniel’s words with Revelation it’s amazing to see how well they fit.

Daniel 7.21:
“I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them”

This ties in with Daniel 7.25:
“They [the saints] shall be given into his hand until a time, and times, and the dividing of time"

Which connects to Revelation 13.5:
“And it was allowed to exercise authority for 42 months”

And Revelation 13.7:
“Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them”

And Daniel 12.1:
“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time; but at that time your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in the book”

And Daniel 8.24:
“And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy wondrously, and shall prosper and perform, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people”

And Revelation 12.6:
“And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by YHWH, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days”

And Revelation 12.13-14:
“And when the dragon [the Satan] saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman [Israel] who had borne the male child [the Messiah Yahshua]. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time”.

These verses describe the final week of Daniel, as it also is depicted in the 7 seals being broken and the 7 trumpets (shofars) sounding in Revelation.
It is a week where during the second half of the week the dragon (the Satan) will seem to have succeeded in overcoming Israel (the woman).
Yet YHWH will provide place of refuge for the refugees of Israel whose hearts are inclined to Him, and He will shelter them into the wilderness (of nations, or the wilderness of Israel).

Then, after this final week, after the last shofar, we read in Daniel 7.22:
“Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the Kingdom.”

Which ties in with Daniel 7.26-27a:
“But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High”

Which ties in with Daniel 7.9-10:
“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days sat down, whose garment was white as snow and the hair of His head like the pure wool. His throne was like the fiery flame, and His wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him. Thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.”

Which connects to Revelation 11.15-18:
“And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in Heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever!’
And the four and twenty elders, who sat before YHWH on their seats, fell upon their faces and worshiped YHWH, saying, ‘We give Thee thanks, O Lord YHWH Almighty, who art, and wast, and art to come, because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry; and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints and them that fear Thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth.’”

Which connects to Revelation 15.1:
“Then I saw another portent in Heaven, great and wonderful, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of YHWH is ended”.

We see how after the 7 seals and the 7 trumpets the tables are turned as YHWH is bringing about His justice and restoration for His people.
As He sits in judgment the 24 elders announce the judgment and the restoration for YHWH’s people.
This is paralleled by the words of the angel speaking to Daniel in chapter 7 when he announced that the dominion of the little horn and the beast empire shall be taken away, consumed and destroyed to the end, and that the saints of the Most High are to receive the kingdom.

The judgment consists of the bowls of wrath to be poured out.
YHWH has shown Himself to be just and will not destroy the righteous with the unrighteous. Just think of Lot being sent out of Sodom before it was destroyed, and Noah being commanded to build an ark to be able to survive the flood.
In the same way YHWH will provide places for protection for His people, and during the time of His wrath Israel will probably be the safest place on the planet.

During the period of the bowls of wrath being poured out strange signs in the heavens will accompany the calamities taking place upon this earth according to the words spoken by Yahshua in Matthew 24.29.

Yet in spite of the calamities and the strange signs the powers that be will not turn around and repent.
Instead they will unite, -being prompted by the Islamic Beast empire (Rev 16.13-15)-, and condemn Israel, probably charging the nation with ‘war crimes, refusal to submit to the international court of justice, and colonial imperialism’, etc., and march with a strong coalition of military forces across the dried up river Euphrates with the dismantling of Israel in mind.

And when the situation looks very bleak for Israel and the massive army is gathered at Armageddon, at that very last battle before the Kingdom of Yahshua can unfold upon earth, the King will interfere as announced in Revelation 19.17-21:

“And I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, ‘Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.’
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make war against Him that sat on the horse, and against His army.

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought miracles in his presence, by which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone.

And the remnant were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse, whose sword proceeded out of His mouth. And all the fowls were filled with their flesh.”

Then, that which we hope for will happen: with the return of Yahshua the kingdom of Heaven will enter our realm, and it will transform us and raise up the dead.
Evil will be subdued, bound and sealed up for the duration of the millennium.

Revelation 19.17-21 is connected to Ezekiel 39.17-20:
“And as for you, son of man, thus says Master YHWH, Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:
‘Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them fatlings of Bashan.
You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
With mighty men
And with all the men of war,’ says Master YHWH.”

Since Ezekiel 38 and 39 also speak of Gog and Magog, which is a reference to the battle AFTER Yahshua’s millennium as we can read in Revelation 20:7-10, this prophecy very likely has a dual application: the final large battle which will usher in Yahshua’s millennium AND the battle which aims to end Yahshua’s reign.
As such Ezekiel 38 and 39 encapsulates Yahshua's millennium.

The setting of Ezekiel 38 describes a land restored from war, where the people are gathered from many nations upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste, a land where the people now dwell securely.
Clearly this is not the case with Israel in our time, nor is it the Israel during Jacob’s trouble.

It’s an indication that after the turmoil and war of Daniel’s last week Israel will be restored and there will be a massive exodus from the nations of people to Israel to participate in the restoration.
With the defeat of her enemies the people of Israel will feel safe and secure, which will then be interrupted by the coalition of nations marching up across the Euphrates against Israel.

IF this prophecy of Ezekiel 38 indeed has a dual application (and the words of Ezekiel seem to indicate as much due to reference to the words of Revelation 19 AND 20), then Yahshua’s return will NOT be within days or weeks after the end of Daniel’s final week (unless it’s possible to restore a nation in a matter of a few weeks?), but it will take a number of years during which the bowls of wrath will be poured out on the nations.

With this post I wanted to shed a different light on interpretations which are held up as ‘infallible truths’, and point out that these premises may not be as infallible as they are considered to be.

When I read the words spoken by Yahshua, and I read Revelation, and Daniel, and Ezekiel, I could come to no other conclusion than that the premise of Yahshua’s return right after the end of Daniel’s final week is NOT correct.

After the final week the tables will be turned in Israel’s favor, and this will culminate in the return of the Messiah, just as after the night daybreak does not arrive suddenly, but at a certain point light begins to shatter the darkness, and grows to the strength of the emerging sun.

This is why the Biblical day begins after sunset, a prophetic shadow picture of how the 7th millennium begins with the light being overtaken by the darkness, and how after the darkest night YHWH will send His light to shatter the power of the darkness and pave the way for the rising of the sun, the Return of the faithful Son of Yah, Yahshua.

The Mark of the Beast Encoded in Revelation

In a past entry in this blog I have already explained how the traditional interpretation of the mark of the beast as the number ‘666’ may not be correct at all.
Many have tried to decode the ‘666’ by adding the numerical values of the letters in the names of certain individuals in order to identify the ‘anti-christ’, but this may be just a huge waste of time.

If we look at the original writing (see picture) in the manuscript of Revelation 13.18 we see something which looks like a code.

When we take a close look at the elements of the code from left to right we see something which closely resembles two (Islamic) swords crossing each other, followed by a scribble which in Arabic means in ‘the name of Allah’ (bismillah) when written vertically, and an accent mark.

<- Two Islamic swords crossing each other

'Bismillah', 'in the name of allah' in Arabic. Turn it vertically and you get the second element of the code in Revelation ->

You can read a more in-depth study by downloading this PDF file, or you can watch this video on YouTube.

So, when we read the part describing the mark of the beast in Revelation, we can read the following translation, which is accurate but chooses different words for the original text than the standard translations which speak of ‘number’ instead of ‘multitude’, Revelation 13.18:

“Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding consider the multitude of the beast: for it is the multitude of a man [Muhammad]: and his multitude [his followers] is encoded in ‘chi, xi, sigma’“

A recent email from Renate Vinje illustrated this post with pictures, and I thought it would be good to dedicate a separate post to the original mark of the beast WITH illustrations so that you can see for yourselves what I am talking about, and if it is true.

After all, a picture tells more than a thousand words.

Rabbi Koniuchovsky also pointed out the alternative explanation of the mark of the beast years ago, and I know Wally Shoebat also commented on the code in the original text.
I don’t know who originally made the discovery, but since I don’t want to steal anyone’s words I thought I’d mention a few people from whom I learned the above and give them credit.

Queer Blasphemy

We all are familiar with the fact that under the banner of art the most vile expressions of artists have been legitimized, but it seems that some ‘artists’ seem to be able to find new ways to beat old records.

According to this article a writer named Clifford saw it fit to write a play about Yahshua as a transsexual ‘queen of heaven’.
The performance of the play is part of the ‘Glassgay festival’, a celebration of Scottish homosexuals, transsexuals and bi-sexuals.

May I suggest that next year they will bring a play starring the founder of Islam in a similar setting? At least we can be sure then that the backlash from the muslim community will assure that such vile garbage will not see the light of day anytime soon anymore.

It truly is an outrageous satanic attack on Yahshua.
If the participants in the play sought to bring a curse upon themselves they have succeeded in ways that will defy their imagination.

It’s About HOW You Read

If you look at a world through a yellow colored lens, the world expresses itself to you not in its true colors, but in shades of yellow, the projection of your lens.

The same is true for many issues of contention surrounding the Bible.
Because parts of the Bible are not placed in their proper context with an understanding of the mindset of the author, strange interpretations have come into existence even to the point where they have given birth to religions carrying the label of Christianity but having very little to do with YHWH’s truth as reflected in the Bible.

All that is needed for a proper understanding is for us simply to put down the yellow colored lens and look at the text with an understanding of who the author is, what his objective is, and the context of what he wrote.

The problem is that if we expose ourselves to a certain environment time and again, that environment begins to affect the way we think and see things.

If we subject ourselves to a certain dogma and the interpretations given by authority figures representing that dogma, then inevitably the yellow colored lens is put before our eyes and we begin to look at the world through the eyes of that we have been exposed to.
There is a lot of truth to the saying of the Nazis that if you tell a lie and repeat it thousands of times over, it automatically begins to sound like truth because it acquires a certain familiarity to those who have been exposed to it.

And this brings us to the greatest stumbling block in discovering truth: our conditioning to our environment. The extent to which we can let go off that conditioning and learn to look at what we are exposed to the same way a child looks at it, to that same extent we are free to rediscover the truth of the issue.
If all we do is react to our conditioning and defend it, then by virtue of that reaction there is no place in our hearts for the truth if it deviates from what we have been taught.

One of the most misunderstood authors of the Bible is probably the apostle Paul.
Many theologies have blossomed in a soil of misunderstanding and wrong interpretations of what Paul said.
Often illogical bents in the interpretations are glossed over by the excuse of ‘being too difficult to grasp’.

Yet, misinterpretations and misunderstandings of Paul’s writing have acquired a life of their own to the extent that nowadays legions of Christian theologians and preachers are proclaiming their adoption of the misinterpretations as the ‘holy gospel’, and many church-going Christians are unable to escape the bombardment of dogmatism lorded over their heads by these ‘authority’ figures.

Yet, in order to arrive at today’s Christian theology one has to bend and twist the Bible in very strange and illogical ways in order to find support for the theological concepts.
And all the while there is a simply straightforward path which unfolds if the reader enlightens himself with an understanding of the author’s mindset, the circumstances which led him to write the book, and the way a particular Bible book fits into the structure of the Bible.

Very often Bible books will reward the diligent who take the time and trouble to do some research and spend time investigating matters by unfolding their message(s) to the reader, and the unfolding is the equivalent of a simple straightforward path lighting up where before we imagined curved paths in the landscape of the dark.

So, why take the difficult curved paths with rocks in the way when there also is a simple straightforward path?

The key to unlocking the Bible is not only diligence, it also is a matter of learning to stand back and question what you have been told.
When weighed, truth will always hold up, yet falsehood will show itself too light and unsubstantial.

Probably THE most controversial issue in Christianity is ‘THE LAW’.
In theological debates this one three letter word, LAW, gives birth to the two opposites of ‘legalism’ and ‘freedom of the Spirit’ whereby the LAW is pitched in the corner of legalism and placed on opposite side of the ‘freedom of the Spirit’.
From this division new religions are created, whereby the tenet of ‘freedom of the Spirit’ lends itself very well as a vehicle for a type of doctrine which in essence is nothing other than a variation on the ‘do-as-thou-wilt’ theme of satanism. People will create the religion which lends itself best as a justification for their lifestyle, and this becomes their ‘truth’.

Yet when it comes to the accusation of legalism, Christians can be just as entrenched in ‘legalism’ (or even more so) than the ones at whom their accusing fingers point.

So let’s forget all this theological luggage derived from issues such as ‘FAITH vs. WORKS’, ‘OLD vs. NEW COVENANT’, ‘OLD vs. NEW TESTAMENT’, and instead let us look at the matter from a different perspective.

‘FAITH vs. WORKS’

Among the Jews there are those who believe that by performing ‘Torah-works of righteousness’ they are able to create a passport into heaven. There is no need for a Savior since sin is forgiven in Torah by the ritual of the sacrifices.

Paul has addressed this issue in his letters by making clear that the RITUAL in the Torah is a shadow picture for the substance it portrays.
Without the substance the shadow picture is empty and meaningless, it’s the substance which is the most important element.

Likewise, the atoning sacrifices in Torah are meaningless without the substance they point to. None of these rituals have the ability to cleanse and redeem from sin, but the spilling of the blood is pointing to the substance of the redeeming sacrifice brought to us by the Messiah, Yahshua.

Paul shows us the connection between the sacrifices of the Covenant and the sacrifice of the Messiah by making clear to us that without the sacrifice of the Messiah the promised contained within the sacrifices of the Covenant would NEVER be able to fulfill the promise. Shadows don't have substance, but the object/person from whence/whom the shadow is projected is the substance.

In doing so Paul argues that the works of Torah-righteousness are not able to create for us a passport into heaven since the Torah reveals to us our failings to live up to the Torah standard, and the blood of animals cannot save us in itself.
YET, it is the FAITH in what the blood of the animals stands for which can save us, the FAITH in the atoning sacrifice of the Messiah that the blood of the animals is pointing forward to, and when you put the two together, living according to the instructions of Torah, and when we fail we can count on forgiveness by FAITH in the atoning sacrifice of the Messiah, then we have the complete picture: the substance to which the shadow points.

No deep mystery of a controversial FAITH vs. WORKS theological debate, just common sense at work, the ‘simple straightforward path’.

Which bring us to ‘OLD vs. NEW COVENANT’.

As we could read in the previous section, the promises contained within the covenant YHWH gave to Moses and the people of Israel are rendered void if there would not be a part 2 of the covenant, where the promises contained within the Covenant could be fulfilled.
And here we have the ‘OLD’ and ‘NEW’ Covenant: the first points to its fulfillment in the second, and they both are two stages of one Covenant. There is nothing mysterious about it; it’s very simple and straightforward.

And so we arrive at the ‘OLD vs. NEW TESTAMENT’ issue.

Just as the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’ Covenant describe two phases of one and the same Covenant, the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’ Testament really illustrate these two phases, and the categorization into ‘old’ and ‘new’ is a bit misleading since they both are ONE continuous Bible and ONE continuous Covenant.
In reality there is NO division between the Old and New Testament since both represent the same Covenant, albeit in two different stages.

Yet Christian theologians and preachers assert that the NEW has done away with the OLD, which is totally and utterly absurd and insane.
How can Yahshua’s sacrifice be seen apart from the sacrifices contained within the Torah instructions YHWH gave to Moses?
How can Yahshua have done away with the Torah instructions when Yahshua Himself said that before heaven and earth pass away not so much as one dot will perish from the ‘LAW’?
Why would YHWH bother to write an ‘outdated LAW’ into the hearts of His children in the ‘latter days’? Surely a ‘LAW’ which has been done away with should belong in the trashcan, and not in the hearts of people?

Yet these theologians and preachers bring forth their champion Paul to support their rebellion against the Covenant.

However, when you look at Paul’s writings in their proper context suddenly a different picture of Paul emerges, not as the ‘law-breaker’, but as someone who puts the law in its proper context and looks at it with the discerning eye of the Spirit.

When Paul writes against those who worry the new believers by telling them that they have violated a Feast day because they did not celebrate it exactly as they did, then Paul is putting the emphasis again on the issue which is most important: KEEPING the Feast day.

Traditional Jews have adopted certain views on what they should do on a Feast day and what they should refrain from doing, and these views are a small measure of Torah with a large measure of rabbinical tradition.
Paul emphasizes that it is not the implementation of this mixture of instructions for a Feast day which saves, but it’s the faith in the Messiah which should lead an individual to a desire to keep the Feast days. If that individual deviates from what traditional Jews usually are inclined to do (or not do) then it does not automatically mean that those who do not exactly follow their esample have sinned and violated Torah instructions.

On the one hand Paul wanted to make a clear distinction between rabbinical traditions and Torah instructions, and on the other hand Paul put the issues in their proper perspective: faith in Yahshua is the most important aspect, and from that perspective obedience to Torah instructions.

Nowhere at any time did Paul encourage believers to set aside Torah instructions. All he did is put everything in its proper perspective, often warning those who were raised in a Jewish environment and thus being familiar with Torah to stop behaving in a pushy way while attempting to blackmail the new believers in accepting their traditions through manipulation of guilt.

The same is true for circumcision: Paul merely pointed out that the ritual is a shadow picture of the substance of the circumcision of the heart, which is performed by YHWH through Yahshua and the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit).
In addition to that some conversion rituals to Judaism required a re-circumcision, to which Paul objected.

Paul was not against circumcision, but once again he pointed out that circumcision does not save anyone, but instead, FAITH in Yahshua saves an individual from the curse of death (another issue of contention, the ‘curse of death’ is something very different from the ‘curse of the law’, and Yahshua came to deliver us NOT from the latter, but from the first).

Paul made it clear that when an individual believes in Yahshua and that faith has worked obedience to YHWH’s instructions, this individual is circumcised in the heart and has the very substance of what the ritual of physical circumcision stands for, just as when a physically circumcised individual acting in rebellion against YHWH’s instructions does NOT have the substance of that which the ritual of circumcision stands for and has become by virtue of his rebellion 'uncircumcised'.

If theologians were right in asserting that Paul wrote against circumcision then Paul automatically becomes a hypocrite since he circumcised Timothy who had a Greek father.
But if you keep in mind that Paul did not write against circumcision but rather pointed out that it is NOT the circumcision which saves but rather FAITH in the One who circumcises the heart, then suddenly Paul is understood correctly and his words are read in their proper perspective.

Paul simply wanted to point out that it is accepting the FAITH in Yahshua which is most important, and this FAITH will produce compliance with Torah instructions, and the growth of this tree of faith is a matter of one’s individual relationship with Yahshua and will produce its fruit in its own time.
In other words, Paul told the ‘circumcision’-party to lighten up, stop pushing the issue and leave it up to Yahshua.

The whole distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’ has served the need for a wedge to facilitate the creation of an entirely new religion bereft of the roots from whence it originally sprang into existence.

Remember how I wrote in my posts about Revelation how, by taking a clear look at the structure of the Bible book Revelation and follow the narrative according to the outline of the structure, the book Revelation unfolds before your eyes?
In the case of Revelation we only needed to read the sequence of chapters describing the timeline, and read the other chapters as illustrations of a certain point the author wanted to make.
So, if you read Revelation 6 – 8 – 9 – 11.15-19 – 16 – 19.11-21 – 20.1-15, the sequential timeline for the ‘end of the age’ is explained, and in the remaining intermittent chapters we find certain aspects of this timeline explained from a different perspective, providing us with more details.

If we apply the same kind of reasoning to the Bible from the perspective of the continuity of the Covenant, and we read from the first 5 books via all the books of the prophets right up to the 4 gospels, we find that the Covenant is announced in the beginning, with Moses bringing a clear unadorned and unadulterated Torah to the people of Israel.

This same Moses announced the coming of a prophet greater than he (Deuteronomy 18:18).

We read in the books of the prophets about their zeal for the instructions of YHWH, admonishing the people against their self-made traditions, be it in service of other idols or inventions of their own mind carried out in purported service to YHWH.
And besides their zeal for a pure Torah the prophets also pointed forward to the coming of One in Whom the promises contained within the rituals of the Torah would find fulfillment.

And after the prophets we arrive at the gospels relating to us the story of the ‘Prophet sent by YHWH’, the One who became a living Torah, acting even with more zeal than the prophets before Him against man-made traditions and hypocrisy (Mark 7.7:”teaching for doctrines the commandments of men”), pointing to a pure unadulterated Torah of which He said that ‘not a dot will pass until heaven and earth pass away’.

In His sacrifice and pure Torah-lifestyle, the living Torah became the fulfillment of the written Torah and added the missing dimension to that written Torah: the life-giving dimension.
This is why Yahshua is the fulfillment of the Torah: He fulfilled the promise in the written Torah for redemption, forgiveness and restoration.
He is the substance of the written Torah.

This line from the beginning to the end is so crystal clear that I am amazed to see people to this very day rejecting the Torah in the name of their brand of Christianity.

Following this line we clearly read in the early part of the Bible, Deuteronomy 30.15 “See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, in that I command thee this day to love YHWH thy Elohim, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply”, and what do we find the announced Prophet, the Messiah Yahshua say in Matthew 19.17?
“But if thou wilt enter into Life, keep the commandments", and once again in John 14.15: “If ye love Me, keep My commandments”, and again in John 14.21: “But if thou wilt enter into Life, keep the commandments”.

If what I wrote does not make the line of continuity between the beginning of the Bible and the end clear to you, then what will?
It is so self-evident, so obvious.

There is NO parting line between Old and New Testament, there is no division between Old and New Covenant.
There is one Covenant consisting of phase 1 and phase 2.
This is not just another dogma I put forth, if you read the Bible without dogmatic lenses in front of you, and if you read it as I have written (the first 5 books, the prophets, the gospels), then suddenly the beautiful continuity stands out very clearly.

I sometimes stand back in amazement at how it ever could be possible that it took so long for me to discover this simple truth.
Truly, if YHWH decides to hide something, no man on earth shall be able to find it though it stands right in front of him. But to the man who loves Him and diligently seeks Him and His truth He will give him to find the hidden treasures in Heaven and on Earth.

If you set aside the insanely complicated theological arguments, and simply investigate things for yourself, the truth of the issue begins to unfold in a very clear and simple straightforward way.

It’s all about HOW you read the Bible: do you read through a colored lens, or are you willing to set aside that lens and learn to look at the words you read in the Light of YHWH’s Son?

Goldstone Debunked

Just watch this short presentation on YouTube.

The Rosy Path Has Many Thorns

Just the other day I watched this series of video clips on the internet about the message for 2012 from the Maya Indians.
Great emphasis is put on the fact that this date does not mark the end of the world, but rather it pinpoints a 7-8 year timeframe surrounding that period, marking a transition into a new phase of mankind.

The similarity between the Mayan 7 or 8 year span and the 7 year period of ‘Jacob’s trouble', as prophesied by the prophet Daniel, is quite remarkable.

The presentation in this series of clips is given by Drunvalo Melchizedek.
The narrator makes it clear that the Mayan concept of progression through time cycles involves the combination of the knowledge of the past with the present so that we can determine the proper course for the future.
There’s truth to that idea, after all, isn’t there a saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it?

The narrator illustrates this point by means of the Fibonacci numbers.
Fibonacci numbers are: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on.
The idea is to take a number and add the number preceding it in order to arrive at the next number.
So, if you take 1, and you add the preceding number, 0, at you get the next number, 1.
If you take that 1 and you add the number preceding it, also 1, you get the next number, 2.
If you take 2 and you add the number preceding that, 1, you get 3. And so forth.

The interesting thing is that when you take a number and you divide it by the preceding number, the outcome approaches the number of the golden ratio closer as you progress up the Fibonacci sequence of numbers.
So, if you take 2, and you divide it by the number preceding it, 1, you get 2.

If you take 3 and you divide it by the number preceding it, 2, you get 1.5.
If you take the next number in de sequence, 5, and you divide it by the preceding number in the sequence, 3, you get 1.666.
If you take the next number in the sequence, 8, and you divide it by the preceding number in the sequence, 5, you get 1.6.
If you continue to do this you will see that you will get closer and closer to the number of the golden ratio, which is 1.6180339887..., a number which reaches into infinity.

The point is that in order to arrive at the golden ratio (the mathematical equivalent of the golden era in the history of mankind) you have to combine a number in the Fibonacci sequence with the number preceding it (combining the present with the past in order to be able to move forward into the future), and that this golden era comes closer as mankind progresses through the various time cycles just as the golden ratio comes closer as you use numbers higher in the Fibonacci sequence.

So far it’s interesting, but now we arrive at the dark side of the Mayan religion, and the ease and reverence with which the narrator spoke about it made me feel very uneasy.

It lacked a distinguishing consciousness of good and evil.

But then again, this does not come as a surprise since thinking in terms of good and evil is regarded by New Age as 'duality-thinking', which is a hindrance to coming to the requirement of the new age mankind is about to enter, which is ‘unity-thinking’.
This observation of the narrator felt a bit like watching someone speak in awe of Jim Jones, and it underlines how the rosy path of New Age can lend itself so very well as an expression of evil’s nature on this planet.

In his presentation the narrator relates to us the Mayan rituals involved in combining the knowledge of the past with the present in order to be able to move forward into the next phase of mankind.
The means to convey this knowledge is nothing other that a very deadly form of occultism, idolatry, combined with murder by consent.

The narrator spoke with the highest reverence and understanding about the Mayan ritual to preserve their collective knowledge spanning 1000 year periods in crystal skulls.
Apparently an individual (or individuals) from the Maya tribe are chosen to absorb in their lifetime as much knowledge as possible, and at a certain point when the time is right, those ‘chosen ones’ are to eat a deadly potion of herbs, including mushrooms, so that when their spirit leaves their body it cannot move on to other dimensions, but must remain here and is able to merge itself into the crystal skull.
Then, when a 13,000 year period comes to a close and a transformation takes place from one era into the next, the Mayas will open their souls to the powers of the skulls in order to receive the knowledge gathered into the skulls, and use it to enter the new era.

This ritual is nothing other than pre-meditated murder carried out within the context of a psychotic cult, consisting of individuals who at a certain point in time indulge in an occult ritual to allow their souls to be possessed by the power of the skulls.

It should come as no surprise that this practise is outlawed by YHWH, and with good reason (murder, idolatry, demonism, soul possession).
It was very strange to see the narrator speaking about this phenomenon with awe and without the slightest qualms about these highly dubious, morally reprehensible rituals.

In these Mayan rituals we can see how evil assumes the guise of good, it takes positive-sounding concepts such as a transformation of mankind through union with the Creator, and alters the content of the parameters of the concept in order to establish its own will on earth and accomplish the opposite of what people are led to believe.

This is THE most distinguishing characteristic of evil, a strategy we can track throughout the entire history of mankind.
It disguises itself as ‘good’, infiltrates what is opposing its will, and destroys it from the inside.

This takes us to the New Age credo of the narrator.
Unfortunately, as interesting as parts of the video clips are, they also are drenched in promotion for New Age philosophy, including idolatry of the worst kind: communion with the dead.

And although the information was interesting, not everything the narrator said was accurate.
Like when he mentions the occultist Edgar Cayce (referred to as a prophet by him) and how he has been mistaken only once in a very small matter in his predictions.
Well, Cayce has made MANY more predictions which did not come to pass, and not small ones either, you only need to browse the internet.

Furthermore, I know that some view men like Cayce and Nostradamus as prophets, but in fact they are nothing more than crystal ball gazers, soothsayers.
A prophet is NOT just someone who predicts the future, it is someone chosen to deliver a message from YHWH, and if YHWH chooses He will reveal the future as an illustration of the message.

It may be something which will happen when the people refuse to take the message to heart, it may be a snapshot from the future intended to encourage YHWH's people so that they may know that YHWH is in charge of time and knows the end from the beginning.
That is something very different from falling into a trance and channeling statements from the occult dimension about the future events.

And by the way, the name of this blog has NOTHING to do with Edgar Cayce and his ilk, nor does ‘kayce’ refer to a girl (thought it would be good to mention it…).
The meaning of the name of my blog reveals itself through wordplay; can you guess what it stands for?

OK, back to New Age.
When you contemplate New Age philosophy, it’s important to keep two issues in mind.
The reason is that when you keep these two characteristics in mind you will be able to focus very sharply on the methods employed by evil to nest itself in the hearts of people and lure them into its own swampland by leaving a crumb trail of familiar ideas and concepts that people feel comfortable with.

1. Infiltrate and subvert
This is THE major strategy of how evil eliminates opposition and spreads itself.
The most effective way for evil to overcome opposition is NOT by standing in contrast with the opposition, but rather it takes existing concepts, ideas and words that people are familiar with and respond to, and change the contents of those ideas, concepts and words to facilitate acceptance by means of the pre-existing conditioned response to these ideas, concepts and words.

2. Good and Evil are mutually exclusive
Like light and darkness, good and evil are mutually exclusive.
Any attempt to unite the two is an absurdity, an exercise in futility, because either light will overcome and destroy the darkness, or the darkness will seek to put out the light.
They CANNOT mingle in ‘unity’, and as long as both exist, ‘duality’ will exist wherever they collide.

...Infiltrate and subvert

Within Christianity and Judaism we learn that our bodies are temples of YHWH.

Our prayers consist of closing ourselves off from our environment, both the outward environment in the form of our involvement and interaction with outward stimuli, and the inward environment in the form of our pre-occupation with our thoughts.

One is a physical reality outside of us, the other is a virtual reality inside of us.
In both environments can be manifestations of evil. This is why Yahshua pointed out the importance of not just observing Torah instructions on the outside, but, perhaps more importantly, also living according to YHWH’s truth on the inside and submit our thoughts and our feelings to His authority, His Spirit.

Prayer is seeking the presence of our Creator in the silence within our souls.
By standing aloof from our thoughts and submitting them within to YHWH, any force causing thoughts to come into existence will be revealed for what it is.
Thoughts birthed by YHWH will be amplified and confirmed, thoughts of the evil one will dissolve as if they never existed, just light utterly destroys any darkness.

Eastern styled meditations, especially mantra-meditations (mentioned and practiced by the narrator in the clips), outwardly have the same goal and a somewhat similar appearance as the prayer meditation, yet they achieve the very opposite.

The reason why they achieve the opposite is because instead of coming face to face with the unease caused by the light of our Creator, the mantra actually attempts to drown out this source of conflict in the sound of a word or series of words in order to achieve peace of mind.
This mantra, word, acts like a blinder against the Light of YHWH coming in.

A certain kind of peace can indeed be achieved that way, but it is a peace which is the result of ‘out-shouting’ the conflict within, a conflict which stems from the collision of the darkness with the light of our Creator.
Although that kind of peace is a type of 'salvation', it is the polar opposite of the Salvation that the Creator can offer, and it is a deadly poison for the soul.

Remember that, it directly attacks your very soul by deafening it to YHWH's promptings.

So, the mantra-meditation is a prayer-facsimile which actually brings about a phony consciousness which cannot detect evil at work within the soul.

It has the appearance of good, it has the ambition of offering salvation, yet in fact it is a blinder to the awareness which can come about as a result of YHWH’s presence.
Without light we cannot see, but when YHWH brings His light into our souls we become aware of what is wrong with us, and we become aware of issues that we previously did not know existed within us.

This is conflict, and you don't want to disconnect the alarm signal the conflict sends out.

This is the wrong way of 'solving' the conflict. We NEED the conflict.

The only way to solve the conflict is by acknowledging it and asking our Creator to dissolve it.

Mantra meditation is out-shouting the conflict so that you can no longer perceive the source of the conflict. In other words, it dulls the perception of the conflict.

It can lead a man or woman deeper into the realms of the occult dimension.

And where this leads to becomes clear when you watch part 1 of the clips, where the narrator tells more about himself.
It’s not my purpose to vilify the man, he comes across as a nice individual (yet disturbing at times in his lack of moral discernment), but I want to take his words to show you how the path of roses leads to the manifestation of evil.

He tells us how one time when he was deeply into the meditation trance, two spheres of light appeared to him informing the narrator that they were him on a different level of existence.
These two spheres (or angels as he called them) led him to various ‘spiritual teachers' over the world, and one spiritual leader of the Taos tribe taught the narrator about how, by means of crystals and fetishes (stones carved into a certain shape), he was able to change and shape external realities.

So, here we have a man who sets out on a journey for ‘spiritual truth’ and the meaning of life, becoming entangled with Eastern meditation, especially mantra-meditation, who at a certain point guided by occult apparitions is lured into carving stones to change reality and gets deeper into various forms of idolatry of the tribes, ending up with the Mayas and their occult religion.

Remember the ten commandments given by YHWH?
“You shall have no other gods before Me, you shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them”.

And yet, following the rosy path in his quest for spiritual truth the narrator ends up following the illumination caused by the evil one’s deception, violating the commandments given by YHWH.
The reason why YHWH gave these commandments is because He knows exactly how evil operates, and how it establishes and increases its influence in the hearts of people.

This brings us to the second point:

...Good and Evil are Mutually Exclusive

The narrator makes reference to ‘polarity-thinking’ (‘duality-consciousness’) and ‘unity-thinking’, and describes how the transformation of mankind will cause a shift where 'duality-consciousness' will make way for ‘unity-consciousness’.

Now, the idea of unity, peace, establishing itself in the place of polarity, war, is something we also find in the Bible and foretold by the prophets.
But the Biblical concept of ‘unity-thinking’ is –as can be expected-, the polar opposite of the New Age concept of ‘unity-thinking’.

The reason why peace will become manifest and there will be a brotherly unity in the new era is because YHWH will place His 'sword' in this earthly dimension, thus creating a very sharp division between good and evil, and then He will uproot evil and throw it in ‘the bottomless pit’, and put a ‘lid’ on that pit (close off that dimension).
The unity will be the result of YHWH destroying the influence of evil on this planet.

The disappearance of duality-thinking in the New Age religion is something different.
Very much in the same vein as the mantra-meditation mutes the awareness that YHWH can bring us by His presence, the New Age unity is the result of accepting manifestations of evil as part of ourselves and others and thus create unity.

New Agers argue that the classification of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ is the result of clinging to concepts originated from ‘duality-thinking’, and by resisting the classification in favor of 'unity-thinking' (stop classifying and thinking in terms of good and evil) the transition is made to the new age of a unity-consciousness, where there is no division between good and evil.

In other words, make yourself blind to the difference between good and evil, and thus ‘unite evil with good’, which is an absurdity.
By making ourselves blind to the distinction between evil and good we cannot create unity between the two.
There’s always a tension between the energies the two polarities of good and evil, and blinding yourself to the tension by means of escapism will not change that reality. All it does is blind you to that reality.

I think all of us have a longing for a better world, and just as a con artist preys on a desire of people to hook them into his scheme of deception, evil uses New Age to hook people with the longing for a better world.

The greater the longing, the greater the chance of success for the con-artist is.

On the surface the New Age thought looks positive, but when you examine the content you see once again how the rosy veneer covers a dark content using that rosy veneer to establish and augment its influence by means of lies and false concepts.

And so, by being aware of the STRATEGY of evil combined with an awareness of the fact that it is IRRECONCILABLE with good, you have a strong shield of truth against the deception of New Age philosophy.

...and of course it should come as no surprise that the name of the narrator in the video clips is Melchizedek, a familiar name to those who read the Bible.
Entirely in line with the New Age brand of deception the narrator chose Melchizedek as his name, the name of the Biblical king of righteousness, and then brings a misleading message under that name.
Not really surprising anymore, is it?
I hope this Melchizedek will allow the truth of what his namesake stood for into his heart.

New Age will not survive in the new age to come because it has lined up itself on the wrong side of YHWH’s sword.
Unfortunately, New Agers mistake that side for the path leading to illumination while in fact its destiny is found in the bottomless pit, and they regard someone like me as a ‘duality-thinker of the old age’.

Yet my ‘duality-consciousness’ is linked to YHWH’s reality, which points out how this world is divided in two polarities.
This division will vanish only when the cause of the duality, which is the presence of evil in this world, will be removed. Only when that happens true unity can come forth, as opposed to the bogus type of ‘unity-consciousness’ which stems from escapism.

Time will tell.
I hope and pray that those who are taken in by New Age philosophy will find the Source of all happiness and truth, and may that Source carrying the name YHWH in Yahshua set them free.
‘Yahshua’ is the name of the new age to come, and ONLY in Him we find true unity and brotherhood.

The Tongue of the Serpent

This clip at YouTube will explain the title of this entry in my blog.

As time progresses Obama’s true colors are coming out, and in the speech he gave in the video clip the essence of the character of the ancient Serpent is so strongly present that this speech could have been delivered by the Satan himself.

He (ab)uses the example of Abraham to promote pluralism and support for abortion, he uses the legal commandment of stoning in the Old Testament to ridicule the entire Torah, the instructions of YHWH, He mocks Yahshua by ridiculing His sermon on the mount, I mean, if THAT is not a very clear indication of where he is coming from, then what is?

He exalts himself against the Almighty in his arrogant words, how can such a man bring a blessing on the nation? Instead he is a portal for the curse to come.
He implicitely calls the Son of YHWH out of touch with reality, he implicitely calls the Torah a framework for injustice, he implicitely calls Abraham a religious nutcase, I mean, can't you see by now WHO you are dealing with in Obama?

His reasoning spreads a bad odor all across this planet.
If we apply his reasoning we could not make laws based on the Bible anymore since the nation of the USA is not exclusively Christian. But we COULD make laws based on the religion of Pluralism.
Yes, Obama worships the god of pluralism, and who do you think that might be?

Pluralism is a self-defeating ideal, because two extreme opposites like light and darkness can never be united through compromise. One will always exist at the expense of the other, and to any reasonable human being it should be self-evident that in society there ought to be laws representing and protecting the good.

When evil is given a place of protection within the legal system, then you have introduced an element of conflict within society, a tear in the fabric which will ultimately destroy a nation.

If Obama wants to tear down laws based on the good as we can find it represented in the Bible, and wants to bestow an equal place of authority on that which is in complete contradiction with the Bible, based on his ideal of pluralism, then Obama’s implicit accusation of Yahshua being an irrational dreamer because of His sermon on the mount is a mere projection of the dream bubble Obama is living in.

In any society you have to make choices as to what values your nation will embrace, and this embrace of values is based on a subjective system of values derived from the prevalent ideology the citizens of a nation embrace.

That ideology is their religion, so the idea that ‘state and church’, and its next translation of ‘state and religion’ should be completely separated is not only an impossibility because individuals always embrace values derived from their beliefs, it also is in direct contradiction with pluralism because the group believing that religion and state should NOT be separated are obvious suppressed in favor of the group that there SHOULD be a separation.

Mind you, there's a BIG difference between separation of state and a church institute, and a separation of state and religion!

The values Obama upholds are the result of HIS views and HIS ideology and consequently, when he promotes HIS religion of pluralism, he not only shows himself to be hypocritical in the sense that pluralism forces those imposing that pluralism to make choices which discriminate against certain groups NOT underlining that pluralism, he also profiles himself as someone who has made a choice for a value system, a religion, from whence his ideas and concepts for the nations come into being.

There is no technical difference between someone believing in taking the Bible as a basis for the creation of a nation's laws, and someone adhering to a philosophy of pluraism and taking that as the foundation stone for a nation's laws: BOTH have a value system from whence their ideas about the nation's laws spring into life.
Yet all too often those adhering pluralism make it seem as if the Christian is biased and his views discriminates against certain population groups at odds with his views, while the pluralist is more educated and tolerant and does NOT discriminate against certain groups of people.
That's utter nonsense.

And when the ideas of a president believing in pluralism directly go against the laws found in the Bible, then you have a president promoting evil under the guise of pluralism.

Obama uses pluralism to destroy the nation’s laws based on Biblical concepts of good and evil.
In essence he is saying: ‘I uphold pluralism, and in pluralism there is no place for the idea that our nation’s laws should be based on the Biblical notion of good and evil, because good and evil are relative dependent on a man’s ideas, and therefore I impose my idea of pluralism upon those seeking to incorporate a Biblical moral framework into our nation’s laws’.
That’s Obama’s ideal of freedom, it comes at the expense of the nation’s foundation in Biblical truth.

You may call it pluralism, but whether you call it pluralism or demonism, the fact is that THIS is his belief system, his religion, and NOT Christianity, NOT Judaism.

So, you, the people of the USA, now have a president who promotes an ideology which in my opinion comes straight from the pits of hell because it is the Trojan horse which will enable to complete breakdown of a society.

And this is precisely what the Satan wants, to destroy America from within and turn it into a slave of the world government.

And you Americans voted that Manchurian candidate into office, you of all nations...It is not as if you could not see this coming.
You voted for your own self destruction.

Democracy only works when the majority of the people have a good heart. The moment the hearts of the people are eaten up by the shadows, darkness will spread over the country and democracy will become the recipe for a nation’s collective suicide.

And that is your future right now America, a descent into the pits of hell.

Update: ...and so the world awards Obama with the Nobelprize, even though the man has achieved NOTHING yet.
Not that the Nobel prize is anything to be desired, unless you desire to join ranks with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Yassef Arafat.

Numbers as Prophetic Keys for the Future - 11

...The Role of the Witnesses

Between the 6th and 7th trumpet in Revelation we are given a description of the sealing of the words the 7 thunders spoke, plus an account of two witnesses prophesying.

Why would this passage of chapter 10 and 11 be placed between the 6th and 7th trumpet?
The reason that I see is that it zooms in on two aspects, which are related, and which occur during the latter part of the last week of Daniel.

In chapter 10 of Revelation we read the following:

“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud; and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.

And he had in his hand a little scroll open. And he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth.
And when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write, and I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, ‘Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.’

And the angel, whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven.

And he swore by Him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer, but that in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of YHWH should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets.

And the voice which I heard from Heaven spoke unto me again and said, ‘Go and take the little scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.’

And I went unto the angel and said unto him, ‘Give me the little scroll.’ And he said unto me, ‘Take it and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.’

And I took the little scroll out of the angel's hand and ate it up, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey; and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

And he said unto me, ‘Thou must prophesy again before many peoples and nations, and tongues and kings.’”

This leaves us wondering what the 7 thunders may have said.
Their words were sealed, and the question arises why they were sealed. Why did Revelation describe 7 thunders speaking when their message is sealed afterwards and thus hidden from the reader?
Were these words too hard to bear so that YHWH decided to seal them for the time being?

I think the message of the 7 thunders is indeed a very hard message.
But I also think that their message was written on the scroll the angel had in his hand, and the fact that John is told to eat the scroll is very significant because it really means that YHWH will put the words of the scroll in the hearts of His servants during the tribulation.
The act of receiving those words is a very sweet experience, yet the content of the words and the fact that this content must be spoken may account for the bitter aftertaste.

This is why John had to eat the scroll: it simply means that the message will be revealed to the two witnesses in their hearts, and although the Spirit inspiring those words will make the experience of receiving those words through contact with YHWH a very pleasant experience for the prophets (‘sweet as honey in the mouth’), the content of the message plus the experience of having to go through the message will be a bitter unpleasant experience (‘bitter in the stomach’).
The 7 thunders are placed in the context of prophesying to peoples and nations, immediately followed by a description of the appearance of the 2 witnesses prophesying during the period of the final week of Daniel’s prophecy (the period of the 7 seals and the 7 trumpets).
This indicates that the words the 7 thunders spoke, although sealed at the time of John, will be revealed during the time of the last week in Daniel’s prophecy in the hearts of the two witnesses.
When we compare the passage in Revelation describing the eating of the scroll with another passage in the Bible, the outline of the message gains in clarity.
Ezekiel too was given a little scroll to eat, which was sweet in his mouth. We can read about this in Ezekiel 2:9 – 3:3:

“And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me; and lo, a scroll of a book was therein.

And He spread it before me; and it was written within and without, and there were written therein lamentations and mourning and woe.
Moreover He said unto me, ‘Son of man, eat what thou findest: eat this scroll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.’

So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.

And He said unto me, ‘Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this scroll that I give thee.’ Then did I eat it, and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.”

Lamentations, mourning and woe were the contents of the scroll Ezekiel ate, and the similarity between this passage in the Bible and Revelation is a hint as to what the content of the message of the scroll is that John ate, since in John’s case too the scroll turned bitter after he had received it.

We also read about the ‘fulfilment of the mystery of YHWH as announced to His servants the prophets’.
This mystery we find as the central theme throughout all scriptures, which is how YHWH used the rebellion of Israel to sow His gospel in the soil of the entire world, and how in the latter days He will do the impossible thing: He will restore Israel comprised of ALL 12 tribes and turn them into a nation of priests.

This is why the 7th trumpet announces the end of Daniel’s final week, because by then Israel, who seemed to be defeated by an Islamic coalition, will be given victory over the aggressors and she will be established as ‘Eretz Israel’, the ‘greater Israel’ as promised to Abraham.
YHWH will bring His people back to this land, and that will be the fulfilment of the mystery that we can find throughout the entire Bible, yet a mystery which remained hidden to many.

The consequences for the nations surrounding Israel, which are the nations who came against Israel, will be devastating.
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, they will suffer destruction.
And what is YHWH’s peace plan for those who sought to steal His land for the purpose of turning it into a ‘Palestinian’ state serving the idol allah? They will be utterly destroyed and wiped out of existence, 'as though they never have been' as Obadiah puts it, and the land will become once again part of Israel.

Yes, YHWH indeed IS a God of love, but woe unto the man who constantly seeks to do violence and injustice unto His people!
Woe unto the men whose hearts pay homage to the plans of the evil one!
To them YHWH will be the fearsome ancient warrior who destroyed all of Pharaoh’s army, including Pharaoh himself.

So, who are those two witnesses?
They are ‘the two olive trees and the two lamp stands which stand before the Eloah of the earth’.
We can find the use of the word ‘lamp stand' in the first chapters of Revelation where it is used to describe groups of believers. The olive tree has often been used as the symbol for Israel, and we can read about them in Zechariah 4:12-14:

“And I answered again and said unto him, ‘What be these two olive branches, which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?’
And He answered me and said, ‘Knowest thou not what these be?’
And I said, ‘No, my Master.’
Then said He, ‘These are the two anointed ones, who stand by the Master of the whole earth.’”
Israel was YHWH’s choice to bring His anointing into the world, a nation of priests, and in order to bring the anointing one has to be anointed first.
The context of the two lamp stands (groups of believers) and the two olive trees (two groups of Israel) reveals that these two witnesses must be Ephraim and Judah, they who were estranged from each other now united before the throne of the ‘Master of the earth’.

These two witnesses also are described as two individuals, one from each group, prophesying during the tribulation period. They will be killed, but YHWH will use them to show His might over death by resurrecting them and bringing them home before His throne in Heaven.

In case you are wondering if perhaps this is the ‘rapture’, since it involves the ‘two witnesses’ who are not just two individuals, but also two groups of believers part of one Israel, then the remainder of Revelation contradicts this.
The bowls of wrath which are to be poured out unto this world describe how the sixth bowl consists of the drying up of the river Euphrates to prepare the way for the final battle against Israel, and in chapter 19 we read how this massive army is marching towards Israel with the purpose of conquering it.
So, there HAS to be an Israel on earth since chapter 19 in Revelation clearly describes how the beast empire together with a coalition of nations aims to wage war against ‘Him who sits upon the horse [Yahshua] and against His army’. This is a spiritual description which translates here on earth in a massive end times army gathered to wage war against Yahshua’s people here on earth, in Israel.
That is also the very last battle before the millennium will burst forth and Yahshua will return.

So, who will kill the two individuals from Ephraim and Judah prophesying during the tribulation?
We get a clue in Revelation 11:9-10:
“For three days and a half men from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them [the two slain witnesses] be placed in a tomb, and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth”

Who has an established practise and a history of precedence of letting the slain bodies lying in the streets, and giving each other presents out of joy over the fact that they killed two prophets?
Isn’t that a very precise description of the Islamic barbarism we have seen so often?
Revelation 11 teaches us that the Islamic occupier of Israel will kill the two prophets, and the words of verse 9 ('for three days and a half') makes it clear that, aside from these two individuals, the two groups of believing Israelites (Judah and Ephraim) will be persecuted for 3.5 years, half of Daniel’s week, and the Islamic aggressors will kill many of them so that during these 3.5 years the slain bodies of Ephraim and Judah will be found everywhere.
It will be a horrible period in the history of Israel, truly the time of Jacob’s trouble.

But the 7th trumpet in Revelation 11:15 announces the end of the tribulation.
We read in verse 15-19:

“And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in Heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Eloah and of His Moshiach, and He shall reign for ever and ever!’

And the four and twenty elders, who sat before YHWH on their seats, fell upon their faces and worshiped YHWH, saying, ‘We give Thee thanks, O Lord YHWH Almighty, who art, and wast, and art to come, because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power, and hast reigned.

And the nations were angry; and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints and them that fear Thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth.’

And the temple of YHWH was opened in Heaven; and there was seen in His temple the ark of His testament, and there were lightnings and voices, and thunderings and an earthquake, and great hail.”

This 7th trumpet (shofar) announces the beginning of the millennium and the end of Satan’s dominion on earth.
The words of the elders corroborate this, and they proclaim in their words the remainder of Revelation, all the way up to the final judgment at the end of the millennium when they speak of ‘the time for the dead to be judged’.

The first resurrection is not a judgment, it is a reward for those who have believed in Yahshua and kept His commandments.
They are not judged because they have been granted clemency by Yahshua.
The ‘white throne’ judgments however, as described in Revelation 20, is the time of judgment for those who have no part in the first resurrection, and this judgment takes place at the end of the millennium of Yahshua’s reign on earth.

After the 24 elders have spoken, the tables have turned, and it is YHWH’s turn to clear the road for His kingdom to come.

Less Than One Year Left...

Recently I received a newsletter of Michael Rood, a very special one.
He too is convinced that next year the events of Daniel’s last week will begin to unfold, and his concern is for those who have not prepared.

We have less than one year left to make preparations and get our house in order.
I know some of you may believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, and my concern is with you because nowhere in the Bible can I find anything which clearly states that Yahshua will whisk His people away before the tribulation, quite the contrary.

Please take my advice to heart: even if you believe you will be raptured away, work hard this year and get your house in order.
Don’t place all your hope on one, very subjective theory.
Because I guarantee you that next year Yom Teruah you will find yourself still here on earth.
And it is not because you are a bad person who will be 'left behind', it's simply because the theory of the rapture was based on an inaccurate premise.

My heart is heavy for what is coming our way.
Revelation gives a clear indication of wars which will turn nuclear and natural disasters which will shake the earth. Revelation talks about diseases, famine, earthquakes, and who is able to survive the onslaught of all these events?
I have never seen war or famine, have you?
I never had to become a refugee because of my faith, or because of war, have you?

Yet this may be in our immediate future, so I cannot stress enough to get your house in order now.
Get out of debt lest the debt will become a noose around your neck when the economic system collapses.
Work to be physically fit and mentally able to cope with the stress that is to come.
None of the Jewish sages have desired to live through the final period of history, and they had good reason.

Learn to develop the fighter’s spirit, which is a gift from YHWH.
Learn to keep your eyes focused on YHWH and His restoration and keep reminding yourself that it will be 7 years, and then the worst is over.
Then one more final battle will follow, after which Yahshua is going to return to destroy all causes leading to sin and those who work evil. Yahshua spoke of sending out His angels to gather the ones who work evil, and destroy them.
You see, the ones taken first (raptured) are the bad guys.
By then we will have seen such a shift in our perception of reality that things will never be the same afterwards.
If you could travel in time to the year 2020 you would wonder which planet you have travelled to. There will be so much change that earth is about to go through her most dramatic change ever.

With this link you can download Michael’s newsletter (right-click mouse and select ‘Save target as…’).
Prepare NOW, make sure to be ready, and trust in YHWH.
As Michael said, the drill is over, this time it’s for real.