Kayce's Korner

2011-12-28T13:32:00.004+01:00

2012

Most of you are probably convalescing from the Christmas holidays or Hanukkah, preparing yourselves mentally for the social onslaught of New Year's day.

In spite of the pagan roots of the 25th of December, Christmas used to have at least SOMEthing to do with Yahshua's birth, at least, that is what I thought.

But, turning on the TV on December 24th I was covered in an avalanche of syrupy santa movies, one even worse than the other, as well as other sentimental garbage.

The only decent movie on TV was on December 25th which featured a version of Dickens' Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart in the role of Scrooge, which he performed outstandingly.

I don't watch TV often, and the past weekend was again a good reminder why I should not indulge too much in this passive passtime.

So, is the circle now complete and has Yahshua been replaced by santa, sentimentalism, excessive consumerism, gluttony and greed?

Perhaps it's YHWH's way of moving Yahshua out of Christmas to give Him His proper place on YHWH's calendar (Sukkoth), and revealing the true spirit of today's Christmas: Satan, a.k.a. Santa.

To counterbalance the santa madness we can always choose to watch the North Korean madness on TV over the death of Kim Yong-il.

It's hard to believe that in this day and age such collective hysteria over the passing of one single evil-minded tyrant still exists.

People howling and falling down in the streets, surely this is something worthy of either a psychiatric clinic or a Monty Python sketch?

But, since it is not one single individual displaying this sort of psychotic madness but thousands of people, it becomes a cultural phenomenon which ought to be respected.

Sure...

All I see is a bunch of brainwashed monkeys performing their monkey rituals on cue in order to get the brownie button of approval from the head monkey, a phenomenon not confined to North Korea lone, just take a good look around you!

Let's hope the son of Kim Yong-il, Kim Yong-un, does not live up to the Dutch meaning of his name.

The Dutch word 'oen', which is pronounced as 'un', means 'idiot'.

2011 is almost finished, and we have seen some astonishing events this past year.

It makes you wonder what 2012 will bring with the (purported) end of a cycle of the Mayan calendar in December 2012.

2011 has not seen any announcement of the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem, so it is unlikely that it was the beginning of the final seven years for Israel which will bring Jacob's trouble just yet.

But, 2011 DID bring us great political changes and the death of quite a number of prominent figures, as well as a hitherto unprecedented catastrophe for Japan.

Additionally here in The Netherlands we had a terribly confused climate: Summer in the Springtime, Autumn in Summer, and Spring in Autumn (I could sit outside in my shirt basking in the sun in November!), and now Autumn in Winter.

I have heard someone who describes himself as a major prophet say that the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012 marks the beginning of Jacob's trouble, and if you look at the current political situation in the Middle-East he may not be far off.

Israel cannot risk Iran becoming a nuclear threat, so Israel or the USA (or both) will have to decide to take action sooner rather than later, and the current signals from Washington indicate that something is on the way.

But, who can tell what Iran has up its sleeve to retaliate?

A joint military action from the USA and Israel could very well mark the beginning of a world war since China and Russia are in support of the enemies of Israel, and it is unlikely that they will simply stand by and do nothing.

Besides that, Obama and his wife are not exactly people I would describe as trustworthy, and who knows what his plans are to divert the attention from the incredible mess he made with his economic policy?

On the other hand, we still have not seen a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem or any signals indicating that the temple is about to be rebuilt.

The part of Daniel's prophecy pertaining to the beginning of Jacob's trouble (Daniel 9.27) speaks of a cessation of the sacrifice and offering in the middle of the final seven year period, and this refers obviously to the presence of a temple.

It could be that as a result of the outcome of an imminent military conflict in the immediate future Israel will finally decide to go ahead with a new temple, in which case the final seven years are at the doorstep.

We also have not seen the rise of the empire consisting of ten kings (nations) which is described by Daniel and John.

First this empire needs to rise, then three of those nations will be brought down by the leader of another nation, and he will begin the time of Jacob's trouble, which features among others a great persecution of the nation Israel during this time.

So, will 2012 see the beginning of the time of 'Jacob's trouble'?

I wish I could tell you for sure, but I simply do not know.

The countdown of 7 years from 2011 made sense, yet the prophetic requirements for this year to be the beginning of Jacob's trouble were not met.

This countdown COULD begin in 2012 because that would still make sense because of the Jubilee year, which I will not go into now.

If you look at the spirit of unrest sweeping through the Middle East in 2011 it is obvious that change can happen very rapidly, especially if a war breaks out, but still, one year is very little time for the rise of a ten nation federation in the Middle East.

There are many doomsday prophets on the internet who apparently get visions or angelic visitations every week, and conspiracies and revisionist history abound in the hands of those who would be much better off seeking professional counseling.

Often I am amazed how certain individuals can evangelize their psychotic ideas with a straight face before the camera in order to make them appear as truth.

Even among 'prophets' whose spirit comes from the right place, and who appear to have all the correct knowledge and great insight, I cannot help but wonder how it is possible that even a major prophet can have certain blind spots.

The reason is that we tend to have a view of Old Testament prophets as icons who were perfect in their knowledge, words and deeds.

Yet the truth is that they were human beings like us, and the fact that YHWH gave them messages to deliver does not necessarily imply that they did not have blind spots and knew everything there is to know.

They just knew what they needed to know, because that is the way YHWH deals with us.

HE is the source of the message, not a prophet.

Prophecies should not glorify the bringer of prophecy, but the Source of prophecy, YHWH.

If I have a tendency to point an accusing finger I am always reminded of how three fingers are pointing back at me, and I have to acknowledge that I am not perfect in my knowledge either.

I only know what YHWH lets me know, and that's it.

There is a strange phenomenon where false prophets may give a very accurate prediction, and true prophets can display imperfection or blind spots in their knowledge.

YHWH designed it this way on purpose in order to test us and see to what extent we will love the truth and the spirit of truth.

Because, although the false prophets, whose aim it is to lead people away from YHWH, may make an accurate prediction, their spirit is not one of YHWH.

If you truly love YHWH's Spirit in your heart, you will love the presence of this Spirit in others, and you will feel a bit awkward if there is another spirit in someone who claims to be a prophet.

It may take some time before you realize what is going on, but your love of truth will always make itself manifest.

These false prophets are a test to see who will follow them blindly because of their accurate prediction, and who will reject them because their 'spirit is not coming from the right place', even though they may have been interested in this prophet for a season.

They are a test of love to separate those who love YHWH from those who idolize a person.

Likewise, a prophet from YHWH may not live up to your idea of what a prophet of YHWH should say or do.

They are a test to see if you will reject the truth of YHWH they bring because of this reason, or whether you love truth in your heart so much that you accept the truth they bring, even though there may be areas in them you disagree with.

YHWH created them this way in order to make sure that the center of attention does not go to the prophet so that he is idolized and people get caught up with the person of a prophet, but that the honour and the attention go to the Source of the message, YHWH.

Both prophets, the false prophet and the true prophet who does not meet your requirements, are tests for all of us to bring out what is inside of us.

Do we love YHWH enough to accept the fact that true prophets may not be perfect and live up to our idea of what they should be, and accept with gratitude to both the prophet and YHWH the nuggets of truth they bring?

Do we love YHWH enough to reject the lies of false prophets even though their prediction may come true?

Even though you may meet a lot of phony prophets, don't reject ALL prophets because there is so much disinformation coming from the camp of the fallen spirits.

Learn to look for truth in your heart first and foremost, and don't put people on pedestals as prophets or spiritual leaders.

Simply accept truth from whoever it comes, and honour the messenger of truth in that capacity, not by putting him on a pedestal, but by being grateful for what YHWH gave you through him.

And, of course, if someone claiming to be a prophet continues to give false predictions, it is obvious that such a person is just a poser not worth giving attention to, but you probably knew this already.

So, in spite of the abundance of prophecies and conspiracy theories I don't think anyone has been given a clear peek into the future to see what 2012 will bring, and so, anything can happen.

It could be the worst year we have experienced up to now, or it could be quite a good year for us.

I hope the latter of course, although I am very aware that the period leading up to the restoration of Israel and the transformation of Earth will emerge out of gloomy darkness preceding it.

Although I am looking forward to the renewal of Earth, I am not looking forward to going through the terrible calamities preceding that time, because it will be a time of going through life in survival-mode.

Like the time when Jeremiah gave this prophecy to his scribe Baruch in Jeremiah 45.4-5:

'Thus says YHWH: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up-that is, the whole land.

And do you seek great things for yourself?

Seek them not; for behold, I am bringing evil upon all flesh, says YHWH, but I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go."

The exact timing of the final calamities is something no one knows.

So, as long as you are given the time and opportunity to live in peace and do something with your life, avail yourself of that opportunity to work and do what you can, because a time is coming when you may want to work, but you will be unable to do so, and like Baruch you have to learn to endure and thank YHWH that He gives you your life as a prize of war.

Cherish the time you can live in peace and enjoy life, and mentally prepare yourself for the time of clouds and darkness.

In spite of the clouds on the horizon, try to have a happy and sunny 2012.

May YHWH bless you and watch over you in 2012.

2011-12-03T16:51:00.004+01:00

A Different Way Of Looking

In previous posts I have touched upon the vision John had, and how this vision has a main storyline which reads sequentially.

In addition to this main storyline we come across certain aspects which are described independently from the sequence in the storyline like a flashback in a movie.

For example, in Revelation 12 we read about the story of Israel, how the Messiah was born out of Israel and how He was taken up into Heaven, how Israel was dispersed, and how just before the final restoration Israel will suffer during a period the Bible calls Jacob's trouble, and the description of this highlight or flashback includes the spiritual inter-dimensional aspects involved with it.

There are other aspects which are highlighted, such as the appearance of the two witnesses, the implementation of the Mark of the Beast, the destruction of Babylon, etc.

Yet, there clearly is one main storyline which reads sequentially, just read the chapters 6 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11.14-19 - 15.5-8 - 16 - 19.11-21 - 20 - 21 - 22.

The sequential steps described in this storyline has lead some to believe that it therefore also implies a chronological order of the events described in the storyline.

According to Michael Rood, Revelation should be read this way, and in his opinion it the book is easy to understand. Well, I think this is the former marine Rood being a little overconfident, because I strongly feel he is making a classical mistake of underestimating the complexity of Revelation.

If I were to make a movie of this Revelation, it would confuse many people because of the way I would flash back and forward in Time, giving the spectator the feeling which is the equivalent of car-sickness.

Only in this case it is Time-sickness caused by moving across the entire spectrum of Time in a non-linear way.

Revelation is one of the most complex forms of religious art on this planet because it is so multi-layered, and it describes things not just from the Earth dimension but it encompasses the other dimensions as well.

The result is a story which has baffled many people for centuries, even to the exent that in this day and hour there still is not a single person who can reveal John's Revelation completely.

At best some aspects are uncovered, and the contours of the prophecies contained in Revelation become clearer as Time progresses, but for the ultimate revelation of Revelation we will still have to wait until YHWH shows it to us.

I know that there are individuals who claim to have the key to Revelation, but I have not come across a single one of them who truly has the key which unlocks and demystifies Revelation completely.

It is very well possible that the sequential description of the opening of the Seals, the blowing of the Shofars, and the pouring out of the Bowls of Wrath does NOT imply a similar chronology in the sense that FIRST we will experience what is described in the opening of the Seals, then the events the Shofars announce, and then at long last the Bowls of Wrath.

After all, the opening of the Seals and the sounding of the Shofars, which come BEFORE the Bowls of Wrath in the storyline of John's Revelation, bring catastrophes on the Earth and as such they are part of YHWH's judgment, His Wrath.

Furthermore, the after the last Shofar the elders in Heaven declare that YHWH's Wrath came and the Time for the Tead to be judged (Revelation 11.18).

So, this leads me to believe that indeed the sequentially written main storyline in itself is not chronologically ordered, but rather describe three different angles of one and the same period.

Additionally it is interested to note a mathematical aspect of Revelation.

We find the description of three different angles, while there also is a fourth angle of the seven Thunders which is sealed (Revelation 10).

As I have pointed out in previous posts, the sequence 1 - 3 - 4 refers to Judgment.

It is also used by the prophet Amos when he writes "...for three transgressions of ..., and for four I will not revoke the punishment".

This ´1 - 3 - 4´ sequence is based on what is written in the Torah, Deuteronomy 28 where we find one section describing the Blessings for those who keep YHWH's commandments, and additionally three sections describing the Curses for those who rebel against YHWH.

Those three sections increase in severity until ultimately the destruction of the nation Israel is described and the resulting dispersion of the remnant of Israelites to the four corners of the Earth.

This is why the sequence ´1 - 3 - 4´ indicates Judgment brough about by YHWH.

And so, in Revelation we find once again this sequence in the form of 3 different angles of YHWH's Judgment, plus a fourth angle which is sealed.

That is what the Seals, the Shofars, the Thunders and the Bowls really describe: Judgment, YHWH's Wrath.

I have tried to apply the chronological approach to Revelation, but to tell you the truth I did not feel comfortable with it, it felt incorrect.

You cannot understand Revelation properly if you view it from a chronological point of view.

But if you begin to look at it and appreciate it as a religious work of art which YHWH gave to John, then within the context of this truly fantastic artwork suddenly things begin to fall into place.

It is not chronological, because Time is not important for YHWH.

The fact that YHWH begins something and brings it to a conclusion is important, how He implements justice and brings about the World He wants it to be, THAT is the focus.

YHWH describes the death pains of an old corrupt World, which are the birthpangs of a New World for YHWH's children.

Time and the chronology contained within Revelation are completely irrelevant.

Instead, it's about who everything is interconnected even to the extent of the interaction between dimensions besides the Earth dimension.

If you simply leave behind preconceived notions of your analytical intellect and simply dare to look at Revelation with the new eyes of someone looking at a profound work of art, then you begin to see the shapes and contours of Revelation and how they are interconnected.

THEN let your intellect derive its analytical input from this new perception, and suddenly Revelation begins to make a lot more sense than before.

If you want to understand I challenge you to begin to look at Revelation in a new way which requires you to leave behind your old concepts of how you thought Revelation should be read. These old concepts are like colour stained glasses preventing you from seeing the true colour of Revelation.

So, put off your glasses and learn to stand back in wonder.

2011-09-12T21:53:00.004+02:00

The Last Joke

I have been working on an elaborate presentation on and off for quite some time, and tonight I was writing a paragraph in chapter 12 of the presentation which I want to publish here already as a word of encouragement to you, the reader of this blog.

I have had some obstacles put in my way writing the presentation I referred to, so I guess there are spiritual forces at work which do not want me to publish the presentation.

Once you will read what I have been given to know you will understand, because I bring to light certain issues which remain obscure and hidden up to now, and -among other things-, I expose the nature of Evil and what Evil really is.

I will continue work on the presentation in spite of some of my circumstances, and I hope to publish it in the very near future.

And without further ado, here is my word of encouragement.

You may wonder why YHWH would place us in a dimension where the Evil side of the Dualism coin rules and makes life hard, especially for those who love YHWH.

After all, this World is filled with suffering, misery, exploitation, injustice, and those who revel in Evil are the ones who seem to receive all the good things life on Earth has to offer, while the ones who worship YHWH in Truth are held back and mistreated in all manner of forms.

The ones who conform to the Satanic System in this World seem to be the ones who thrive (at least, for a season).

So, given the fact that YHWH's people are treated as the misfits and the outsiders, not even worth spitting upon, isn't it cruel that those who wish to do Good and love YHWH are the ones put in this miserable state of affairs on Earth?

All too often YHWH’s people are used as power generators, the ones who provide the Satanic Order with Energy, Talents and Life-force STOLEN from them by wicked, devious means.

The answer to the question why we are here is really very simple.

YHWH put us here on the wrong side of the coin of Dualism not because He is cruel or mean, but because we need to be perfected in Love, and the perfection of Love is brought about through the Test of Life.

The Test of Life is this: to be lead in situations which challenge our Love for YHWH.

If the Evil One holds out fame and fortune, money and power, after he put you through suffering and rejection, and hewhispers in your mind that it can be yours if you say 'YES' to him and 'NO' to your Creator, what will you do?

Will you forsake YHWH’s standards and conform to the World's standards to end your misfortune and reap the material benefits, or are you willing to endure the misery you have encountered for the sake of loving your Creator?

If your response is the latter, your Love for your Creator has grown and is made stronger through the adverse circumstances you have encountered and endured.

We are put here to grow in Love and be perfected in Love, in order that we might be ready to enter the next phase of Creation.

Love grows stronger under adverse conditions, when you persist in it even though you have nothing to gain but hardship and suffering, just like light shines the brightest in a dark environment.

That is when your Love is put to the test and you bring out that which is in your heart.

Our choice is either to sell out and belong to the dwellers on the Earth, OR to make a difference and be rejected and cast out since we are dwellers in Heaven and do not fit into the Evil system on Earth.

There is no middle road.

A knife is sharpened by means of the friction with the grindstone, just as Love is perfected through the friction with the manifestations of lovelessness.

Either we reveal ourselves to be Lovers of YHWH, and the friction with the grindstone makes us perfect in Love, or we are revealed as being part of the grindstone producing the friction.

The grindstone ONLY serves the purpose of sharpening the knife, it has a servile role, just as the Satanists ONLY are allowed to exist on Earth for the purpose of serving as a grindstone.

Yes, the conformists to the Satanic System may look like the overlords with YHWH's people cast in the role of unworthy servile dogs to please the Satanic Masters, not even worth spitting upon.

But the truth is that YHWH's people are the major stars of the movie while the Satanic Conformists only serve to bring out the leading star role.

YHWH's people are the real substance while the Satanists only have a fleeting appearance of substance and existence, but in essence they embody the absence of substance.

From the point of YHWH and His Loved Ones the Satanists and their fanbase will be as though they never have existed.

The moment the knives are all sharpened to perfection, the grindstone is cast aside since it has served its purpose.

That is the fate awaiting the Satanic Conscripts after their 15 minutes of fame on the stage of the World, which they turned into 15 minutes of suffering for the servants of the Most High.

Trust me, it is infinitely better to endure the fleeting 15 minutes of discomfort in order to be made ready for an eternity of bliss rather than to enjoy the 15 minutes of fame and fortune followed by an eternity of shame and suffering.

And you know what?

It's my pleasure to announce the end of the current wicked System of Evil ruling this planet.

YHWH has created it already in Heaven and we are very close to the moment in Time when Earth will be lifted up and transformed, leaving the Satanic Conformists behind in their Death Realm where they will have no people of YHWH left to feed on.

All they will have is the reflection of their own wretched self and the awareness of how they completely failed to understand the meaning of what it was all about.

I am given to know that the moment of transformation is close, and in my Spirit it looks as if this current World is gradually fading out of existence.

It's hard to put it into words, but the current system has grown stale and it is like the sound of a passing car growing weaker as the distance of the car increases.

It is the equivalent of a joke which has been told 1000 times, and right now someone is trying to tell the same joke for the 1001st time.

Nobody is able to laugh at it anymore because it has long ceased to be a joke, and since it always has been a joke at the expense of YHWH’s people they never were able to enjoy it anyway.

Well my friends, the joke is over, and the Satanic Hate Crowd gets only one last 1001st chance to tell the joke and make it as gruesome as possible, after which all that remains is the dying echo of the last incarnation of the joke since nobody of their ilk will be around to laugh at it anymore.

But the Satanic Conformists will have an eternity to witness re-runs of the same old lame joke.

Only, whereas before it was a joke at the expense of YHWH’s people, the joke will now be at their own expense, forever.

The only ones left to inherit Earth after the transformation will be the ones who never were able to enjoy the joke in the first place, and it is their turn now, OUR turn.

The doors which were shut for us by the Satanists will swing wide open, the box of isolation we were forced into at the hands of the Satanic Conformists will be ripped apart, the obstacles which were put on our path by Demonic Parasites will vanish from existence.

FINALLY the avenues which were blocked will open up for us, and we will not be obstructed in our walk in Life by Evil Spirits and the ones acting in service of Evil.

FINALLY we will be able to live from our natural given Energy and Life-force without anyone able to leech it away from us, and the Talents stolen from us will be fully returned to us with interest so that we may use them to celebrate this wonderful Father and Creator Who has given us this precious gift of Life in His Kingdom.

The 15 minutes of fame for Evil on this planet are up, and the last gruesome incarnation of the same old joke is about to be told.

So, endure, have hope, live in Faith, and learn to move mountains with your Faith.

Through Faith we change Earth-reality and become part of the Heavenly Forces paving the way for the transformation.

We are the generation that will hear the last Satanic joke on Earth being told, the generation which will witness the transition to the full transformation of Earth as she is turned into a Garden of Eden.

The transformation exists already, and it is about to manifest on Earth as it already exists in Heaven.

2011-04-17T04:30:00.001+02:00

Passover Feast 2011

Since the first Feasts of the new year are approaching I thought it would be good to write this post as a reminder.

The feast of Easter held in Christian churches is a far cry from the commandment in the Bible to keep Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Yahshua kept the Biblical Feasts, His disciples kept the Feasts, the early believers kept the Feasts, but somehow over the course of centuries the Bible commandments were thrown in the trashcan, and man-made commandments were issued which resulted in the feast of Easter today as it is held in Christians churches.

Why should you keep the Biblical commandment of keeping the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread?

Because you love and respect your Creator YHWH who commanded His people to keep these Feasts.
YHWH's commandment to keep His appointed Feasts is an everlasting commandment for His people, just read Leviticus 23.

Who are YHWH's people?
The people of Israel.

If you believe in YHWH and in Yahshua you are grafted into Israel, and you become part of His people.
There is NO separate church as a provision for a second class of YHWH's people, just read the Bible.

I know some church authorities believe they have the authority to cut and paste in the Bible at will, but that is just a form of self-deception.
Because you will end up with a reflection of your own ego and your own spiritual concepts, not YHWH's truth.

So, for those of you who love your Creator and seek to follow His commandments: Sunday evening April 17th after sunset (tonight) until sunset on Monday April 18th will be the 14th day of the first Biblical month Aviv.
This means that the Passover sacrifice is to take place in the evening of next Monday.

Since there is no temple at the moment we are not able to fully comply with YHWH's commandment on how to keep the Passover, but we can do our best with the means we have at our disposal.
Although we are to eat lamb's meat in the evening of the 14th day of the first month, I have not been able to find any lamb's meat, so I guess I will have to use a substitute.
This is not out of disrespect towards my Creator, it's simply born out of necessity.
Our Creator is not a very stern taskmaster Whose aim it is to strike you down the moment you do something wrong, so don't worry about that; YHWH understands and He will honor your celebration if it comes from your heart.
That's the most important thing: it must be done out of love for YHWH, and that is the thing He will honor.

The meal in the evening of the 14th day of the first month (next Monday) is the meat of a roasted lamb, together with bitter herbs. You can eat for instance radish and chicory garnished with curcuma or something like that.
We are to eat our meal with with matzah, unleavened bread, and drink red wine to go with the meal (in rememberance of the commandment Yahshua gave us before He was crucified, to eat the unleavened bread in rememberance of His body which was crucified for us, and to drink the wine in rememberance of the blood Yahshua spilled for us).

This meal in the evening of the 14th day of the first month goes straight into the 15th day of the first month, which is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
We are to avoid eating anything which is leavened during these days and eat our meals with matzah.

The first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (the 15th day of the first month which is from sunset Monday to sunset Tuesday) is a day of rest. You are not to buy or sell on that day, or to do any work like for instance cleaning your car, your house, or work in your garden.
The last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (the 22nd day of the first month which is from sunset Sunday april 24th to sunset Monday april 25th) also is a day of rest.

In the week of Unleavened Bread we have yet another Feast which is tied in with the Temple, which unfortunately is still absent from Jerusalem: the First Fruits offering, which takes place on the 'morrow after the Shabbat'. Yahshua was the very first of the First Fruits offering, presenting Himself before YHWH after His resurrection.
Rabbis of today's Judaism claim this 'Shabbat' is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Karaite Jews claim that the 'Shabbat' is the Shabbat day in the week of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
I believe the Karaite Jews are correct in this matter, so the morrow after the Shabbat will be next Sunday april 24th when the priest is supposed to wave the offering of the First Fruits before YHWH in the temple.
It is not a day of rest, but the day is important because it starts the countdown to the next Feast, Shavuot. We are to count 7 weeks from the morrow after the Shabbat, and the day after the 49th day, the 50th day after the morrow after the Shabbat in the week of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, is the day of Shavuot.

Back to the Feasts which are at hand: Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the First Fruits offering.
I have discussed the reason for the Feasts in earlier posts, so rather than write it down again it's better to refer to what I wrote previously (this one and this one) about the Feasts.

Whether you keep it together with others or whether you are alone: if you keep it out of love for your Creator, He will take notice and accept your love offering and bless you for it.
After the Passover meal make sure that you do not eat anything leavened during the week of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

This means NO bread, NO cookies, NO cakes, NO pie.
Eat your meals with matzah for an entire week, and aside from the spiritual aspects you will find that if you also abstain from grains you will have the benefit of losing weight (nice for the ladies who feel they want to improve their looks), and because your body is not burdoned with having to burn up carbohydrates it can do some Spring cleaning.
Make it an enjoyable and healthy week for yourself, and eat fresh vegetables, minimize coffee and tea intake (green tea is OK), avoid candy, and drink some more mineral water.

Yes, you probably are going to experience a craving for a cookie or leavened bread, just as you experience a craving for sin in your life.

Believing in Yahshua (expressed in the Passover meal) means you may experience the craving, but you should take a stance and get rid of all the leaven of sin in your life.

That is the symbolic meaning of the week of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
The spiritual aspect of the week is that once you partake of the Lamb (believe in Yahshua), the conditioning to sin has to leave your life (the unleavened bread), but I think I am writing nothing here that you did not know already.

So, remember:
Sunset Sunday April 17th - Sunset Monday April 18th: 14th day of the first month; Passover meal in the evening of the 14th day, which goes into:
Sunset Monday April 18th - Sunset Monday April 25th: week of Unleavened Bread, and in that week we start counting the weeks leading to Shavuot on:
Morrow after Shabbat on Saturday April 23rd = Sunday April24th

The days for this year's Feasts you can find here.

2011-03-01T14:46:00.004+01:00

Matthew's Genealogy and Numbers

Usually it's the part of the Bible which most people tend to skip.

After all, who wants to read something which seems to be nothing more than just a summation of dry facts?

Who would be interested in for instance the genealogy mentioned in the first chapter of Matthew?
But it becomes more interesting if you look at the numbers behind the facts and realize what is being communicated to us by means of numbers.

About the numbers

Numbers in the Bible express a lot more than just mathematics.
Numbers are a means to convey an implied spiritual truth, and in this capacity of an alternate, mathematically based language they are used with great consistency throughout the entire Bible.

In Deuteronomy 28 we find the blessings and the curses which will come upon Israel and each one of us if we obey or rebel against YHWH and His instructions.

In this chapter the part of the blessings is ONE block, and it is not subdivided.

The reason for this is that the blessings are the result of obedience to and love for YHWH, and in a sincere love for YHWH there is unity and no subdivision. As such, the one (1) block of blessings can not be subdivided because it would indicate a falling away or breaking apart of the blessings, disunity, disharmony.

The part of the curses IS subdivided into three (3) blocks, entirely in accordance with the character of curses: a falling apart, division, disunity, disharmony.
In the end the curses result in the destruction of a nation and its national identity (or the destruction of an individual), resulting in the banishment of the people of the nation to the four (4) corners of the earth.

During the time that the curse comes into being there always is opportunity to repent from sin so that the '1' of the blessings can overrule the curse.
However, once the three blocks are passed, the ultimate punishment of exile follows. The number '3', as used here in the three stages of curses, is the number which makes the curse complete.
So, when Matthew mentions '3 X 14' generations he signifies that the time is complete for the coming of the One who would take the curse of Death and destroy it for once and for all.

So, the pattern of the curses expressed in the numbers mentioned above is the sequence '1 - 3 - 4'.
The number '2', although missing, IS implied in the sequence, because the falling away from the unity in the blessings results in division, as can be witnessed in the history of Israel when the nation was broken into 2 parts, the Northern (a.k.a. Ephraim or the House of Israel) and the Southern Kingdom (a.k.a. Judah, or the House of Judah).

When the curses are reversed this results in the reversed sequence of '4 - 3 - 1'.
This means that the punishment is lifted, the repentant people of the nation who were scattered to the four (4) corners of the earth are regathered and brought back because the curses (3) are broken, and the people are re-united in a sincere love for YHWH and obedience to His instructions resulting in the blessings (1).
Again, the '2' is implied here because as a result of a repentant heart, the hearts of the people are re-united in YHWH so that the division falls away, and gives way to unity.

We see this same sequence of '4 - 3 - 1' in the manifestation of our Creator in His Creation.
From the ends of Creation (4 - the four corners of the universe), YHWH's people are united through reconciliation in Yahshua Who is the embodiment of YHWH's Salvation, the renewal through YHWH's Holy Spirit, and the loving disciplining hand of YHWH our Father (3), uniting us in our sincere love for YHWH our Creator (1).

By the way, this does not mean that there are three Gods, but there is one G-D manifesting Himself in three different aspects in Creation: as our Father, our Salvation, and our Consolation/Renewal.

Matthew's Numbers

Matthew's genealogy counts '3 X 14' generations from Abraham to Yahshua, leaving out the cursed kings who married into Achab's cursed bloodline.

As I explained previously, the number '3' in the sequence '1 - 3 - 4' indicates the three stages of the curses mentioned in Deuteronomy 28.

The number '14' can be seen as a '1' and a '4', and in the '3 X 14' formula we see the numbers referring to Deuteronomy 28: the '1' of the blessings giving way to the '3' of the curses leading to the '4' of the punishment of exile.

We can read this thus:

'1 -> 4': because the blessings have fallen away the curses come into effect leading to the punishment of exile away from YHWH and His promise.

The '3' in the formula '3 X 14' can be read as the blocks of curses which came into effect because of the falling away of the blessings, resulting in the ultimate punishment of exile.
In a deeper sense our proclivity to indulge in sin causes us to suffer the banishment of exile away from YHWH, the only Source of existence.

Furthermore, adding up the separate numbers of the formula '3 X 14', '3 + 1 + 4', adds up to eight, the number of new beginnings as personified in Yahshua.
The number '8' is like two zeros stacked on top of each other, and they are like a symbol of eternity since the number '8' like zero looks as if it has no beginning or end.

TWO zeroes united in one '8': the former '2' houses of Israel, a division which came about as a result of YHWH's punishment, are united into one '8' for all eternity, because Yahshua, the embodiment of the '8', is eternal and His salvation knows no end.

So, the numbers used in Matthew's formula tell us the story of the falling away of the blessing due to the rebellion against YHWH and His commandments, giving way to the three blocks of curses, leading up to the exile, first of the house of Israel which already had been exiled, and the exile of the house of Judah which had already taken place when Judah was deported to Babylon, but which would be completed after the death of the Messiah.

On a personal level the numbers relate to us the story of the falling away of YHWH's blessings because of our rebellion against Him, leading to the punishment of being cut off from His presence, exiled into death.

In the Messiah we find the embodiment of the number '8': a new beginning for the entire people of Israel on a national level, forgiveness for their rebellion against YHWH and the reversal of the curses back into the '1' of the blessings, the unity of one people loving YHWH with all their heart and soul. The two houses become one renewed Israel.

On a personal level Yahshua embodies the new beginning for each one of us, forgiveness for our rebellion and sin, and the reversal back of the curse of death (the ultimate exile away from YHWH) to the blessing (being reunited with YHWH through Yahshua).

Before the national forgiveness can come about we first have to experience the new beginning in the Messiah Yahshua on a personal level. The healing of this single cell of the individual will result in the healing of the entire body of Israel.

In Yahshua the '1 + 3 + 4' were absorbed and erased in the '8' of Yahshua, and the order of the numbers was changed back into '4 - 3 - 1': the curse is changed into the blessing.

The numerical formula for the blessings and the curses and the ultimate outcome of the curses (1 - 3 - 4), and the reversal of this punishment through repentance (4 - 3 - 1) can be found in many other places in the Bible.

Like when YHWH tells us that He will visit the sins of the fathers (sin is rebellion against YHWH, disobedience to His instructions) to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Him.

The three blocks of curses act as a warning for an individual to repent and return, and if ignored they will result in the ultimate destruction of a person as personified the number 4.

For Israel on a national level this resulted in the destruction of the nation and the exile away from the promised land for a long time.

Counting the Generations

If you read Matthew 1.8 you may notice two discepancies:

Matthew skipped three kings (the three descendants of Jehosophat: Ahaziah, Joash and Amaziah), and if we add up the number of generations we seem to arrive at a total of 41 generations, not 42.

It is highly unlikely that Matthew made a mistake, because it is very easy to trace back the lineage of the kings of Judah by reading the books of Kings and the Chronicles, especially if you also use the genealogy of I Chronicles 3.

To get a clear overview of all the kings of Judah and the House of Israel I wrote down in a notebook the names of all the kings of both Judah and the house of Israel when I read the aforementioned books of the Bible, and I can assure you that you don't accidentally overlook the three kings the Matthew left out.
Furthermore, Matthew seem to have forgotten to mention Jehoiakim, the father of Jehoiachin who was carried into exile to Babylon.

The Three Kings Who Never Were...

The three kings who were left out of Matthew's genealogy were the descendants of Jehosophat's son Jehoram.

Why were they left out of Matthew's genealogy?
Because Jehoram married king Ahab's daughter Athalia (a very nasty piece of work, just like Jehoram - read II Chronicals 21 and 22) and thus joined himself to the house of Israel and the house of Achab. By taking Ahab's daughter as his wife Jehoram married into a cursed bloodline, and the curse on on Ahab (1 Kings 21.20) came upon Jehoram and his descendants.

So, Jehoram's sons were under Ahab's curse, PLUS the fact that by marrying Athalia Jehoram sold out the bloodline of Judah to the House of Israel.

Now, why would a cursed king NOT be mentioned in any genealogy?

If you look at this from a spiritual perspective and the nature of our Creation it makes sense.
Our Creation is based on the phenomenon of opposites: everything which has substance has its counterpart which expresses in essence the lack of that substance.

For instance, darkness is nothing but an expression of the absence of light. Light is, darkness in essence is not (=the manifestation of what happens when light is not).

In the same way YHWH IS, and by that I mean that He is the source of everything which exists.

Outside of YHWH nothing is.

Because we live in a polarity based Creation YHWH has created existence for that which in essence cannot exist.

If YHWH is good, then Evil in its essence expresses nothing other than the absence of good, and on the deepest level it expresses the absence of existence since Evil is the manifestion of the absence of existence in YHWH.
This subject matter is very deep, and I will go in lengthy detail into this matter in a series of articles which I will hope to present by means of a presentation series on YouTube in the near future. In these presentations I will shed a different light on the nature of existence, and I will deal with life's most fundamental questions in the way YHWH has given to me.

Now, the CURSE simply implies the absence of the blessing, and it results in that which Evil embodies: non-existence, the absence of existence in YHWH.

Since the three kings I mentioned earlier were under the curse and acted out the curse, they went the way of oblivion, and as such they embodied NOTHING, in the same way as EVIL is the embodiment of the lack of substance of things which can only be found in YHWH, the 'I AM'. Evil basically is 'I AM NOT'.

If you read what these kings have done in their lives (II Chronicles 21-25) you see that YHWH visited the sin of their forefather Jehoram (who had inherited the curse on Ahab) upon the third and fourth generations, and they followed in the footsteps of Ahab's sin by committing idolatry and turning away from YHWH.

Remember YHWH's commandment, '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 serve them; for I YHWH am a jealous G-d, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love Me and keep My commandments'?
We see YHWH's warning applied here to the kings of Judah, starting with Jehoram who committed the iniquity (first generation) all the way to Amaziah (fourth generation), and all of them fell to the same sin of idolatry, the sin which Ahab was guilty of.

The fifth generation from Jehoram, king Uzziah, did not fall for the generational sin of idolatry, but he made a grave mistake of falling prey to the sin of pride.

When Jehoram married Ahab's daughter Athalia and thus voluntarily CHOSE to invite Ahab's curse into his own bloodline, the next generations were absorbed into the cursed line of Ahab as evidenced in their decision to follow Ahab's example of idolatry and thus repeating and reinforcing the Sins of their forefather.

Ahab's demon as it were 'ate up' these generations of kings who, by their way of life, have much more in common with the genealogy of Ahab than with the genealogy of the house of David.

The Bible clearly indicates this in for instance II Kings 8.18: "And he [Jehoram] walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife".

So, these generations of kings carrying the curse on the Israelite house of Ahab were omitted by Matthew.
Entirely in line with Psalm 109.13 ('May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation') and Ezekiel 13.9 ('They shall not be in the assembly of My people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel').

YHWH (1) visited the curse their forefather Jehoram invited upon the third (3) and fourth (4) generation (1 - 3 - 4).
I have written the numbers on purpose because they have a deeper meaning, as you may know by now.

The Forgotten King...

Another king that Matthew seems to have omitted from his genealogy is the king Jehoiakim.
I emphasize here the word 'seems' because it is doubtful that Matthew has omitted the name.
It's the name ending the second set of 14 generations, AND the name which starts the third set of 14 generations after the exile.

So, could it be that two different persons are referred to by one name?

This is very well possible if you consider the fact that some manuscripts use the same name (Jeconiah) for both Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin, and some manuscripts actually have added Jehoiakim's name.
So, it's likely that Matthew did not omit Jehoiakim's name as may seems at first glance, but that the Jehoiachin mentioned BEFORE the exile is in fact Jehoiakim, and the Jehoiachin mentioned AFTER the exile is in fact Jehoiachin, the son of Jehoiakim.

Compare it to for instance the Dutch names Jan and Johan: both are translated into English as John because Jan really is a short version of Johan. It's not hard to see how this can lead to confusion if you have a father Jan and a son Johan.

Should they be listed?

Question: if Jehoiakim and his descendents were placed under a curse, why then are they mentioned in Matthew's genealogy?

If the three kings Ahaziah, Joahs and Amaziah are not listed in the genealogy of Matthew because they were absorbed into the curse resting on the line of the Israelite king Ahab, why then are Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) and his descendants Shealtiel and Zerubbabel listed in this genealogy?
After all, Jehoiakim was a king who committed great evil, and as a result Jeremiah placed him and his descendants under a curse as recorded in Jeremiah 22.18-30.

To find the answer you have to take into consideration that Jehoiakim did NOT make the mistake of marrying into the bloodline of a cursed king in Israel, as his forefather Jehoram.

So, the bloodline was not again absorbed into the curse resting on an Israelite king.
But this is only part of the story.

For Jehoiachin the son of Jehoiakim the curse was this: "Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime; for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule any more in Judah."

While some say that this curse implies that Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) would be childless, I want to point out that this passage states that Jeconiah would be written AS childless, because none of this descendants would take his place as a king of Judah. It does not say that Jeconiah would have no children, but that he would have no children to take his place as a king.
The curse does state very clearly that Jeconiah would not prosper, and none of his descendants would sit on the throne in Judah. If he was part of the genealogy of Yahshua then it would follow that because of this curse Yahshua could never be the Messiah, and Jeconiah and his cursed descendants should not be listed in the genealogy of Matthew.

HOWEVER, if we look at the life of Jeconiah we can see that he had children (1 Chronicles 3:17-18), eventually after imprisonment Jeconiah DID do well (2 Kings 25:27-28), -even though he did not sit on the throne of Judah-, and his grandson Zerubbabel (whose name means 'I asked G-d [for this child]) was appointed by YHWH into a position of leadership AND he prospered (Haggai 2:23). Zerubbabel became governor of Judah being at that time a Persian province, and he led the first group of Jews returning from their Babylonian captivity.

So, was the prophet Jeremiah wrong or what happened that the curse as pronounced by Jeremiah did not fully come to pass?

Jeconiah indeed did not succeed in sitting on the throne of Judah (when he tried to rule as king in Judah it lasted only 3 months and 10 days which is the fulfillment of Jeremiah 22.24-25, and the king of Babylon appointed his uncle to take his place), he was indeed taken into captivity in Babylon where he did not prosper but instead suffered hardship, and he did not return from Babylon (which is the fullfilment of Jeremiah 22.26-28), so that part of the curse bore fruit.

And in his lifetime he did not see any of his descendants sit upon the throne of Judah.

But what about the part of the curse which stated that Jeconiah would not succeed in his lifetime, and that NONE of his descendants would succeed in sitting on the throne of David? Is it not written that the Son of David, the Messiah, would rule from the throne of David?

YHWH decreed that Jeconiah would be placed under a curse, and the curse began to bear fruit when Jeconiah was taken into captivity and he was removed from the throne and imprisoned in Babylon.
However, where the three kings which were not mentioned in the genealogy in Matthew hardened their hearts and showed no sign of repentance, Rabbinical literature indicates that during his imprisonment Jeconiah repented and changed.

The fact that Jeconiah repented may account for the fact that his hardship did not last an entire lifetime and that he was moved into a highly esteemed position later in life under a new Babylonian king (2 Kings 25.27-30).

YHWH apparently decided to soften the blow of the curse for Jeconiah and showed pity on him.

We find that YHWH even decided to break the curse completely in the third generation of the exile, the fourth generation from Jehoiakim, in Jeconiah's grandson Zerubbabel, which is corroborated by the prophet Haggai as we can read in Haggai 2.23 where YHWH speaks to Jeconiah's grandson Zerubabel:
"In that day, saith YHWH Tsevaoth, `will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, My servant, the son of Shealtiel,' saith YHWH, `and will make thee as a signet; for I have chosen thee,' saith YHWH Tsevaoth".

Compare these words to the words used in pronouncing the curse against Jeconiah in Jeremiah 22.24-25:
"As I live, saith YHWH, "though Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet upon My right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence".

The words spoken by Haggai, which use the same terminology as the words spoken by Jeremiah to invoke the curse, indicate a reversal of the curse, and this is the reason why Jeconiah and his descendents WERE mentioned in the genealogy of Matthew: they did not harden their hearts like Ahaziah, Joash and Amaziah, even moving YHWH to soften and roll back the curse entirely in line with what His commandments.

Furthermore, neither Jehoiakim or Jehoiachin became part of a curse resting on the house of an Israelite king and they were not absorbed into the line of Israelite kings because of such a curse.

If Jeconiah is considered to be the first generation, then his grandson Zerubbabel being the third generation, received grace and the reversal of the curse entirely in line with the commandment of YHWH that He would visit the iniquitiy of the fathers upon the third and fourth generation of those who hate Him, but that He would show love and mercy to thousands of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

From what we know from other sources and the Bible we know that Jehoiachin did not harden his heart (hate YHWH), and apparently his grandson Zerubbabel loved YHWH as evidenced by Haggai 2.

Numbers...

The numbers I have written about, and their place in the sequences, are numbers you will find all throughout the Bible in various contexts.

You may want to keep the meaning of the numbers in mind, because these numbers and ratios of numbers tell a story on a different level, and in doing so they shed a different light on the context in which they are placed.

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To Halal or Not To Halal

I wonder how many people are aware of the fact that they may be buying meat which is halal, or even cheese which lives up to the Islamic halal standard, without actually KNOWING it?

Halal meat or cheese or dairy products (including baby food) are not always specified as halal on the packaging label, and without knowing it people may be eating halal food, or offering it to their children.

What madness is it that has invaded our society that we should bow before the wishes of a religious minority worshipping an idol named allah? How is it that we may be eating ritually slaughtered food offered to an idol unknowingly?

The islamic slaughter of animals is done without anesthetic by cutting the throat of an animal with a knife. If that knife has been used an X amount of times it should not come as a surprise that it becomes blunt, and the 'cutting' takes on more characteristics of actually sawing an animal's throat.
It's barbaric and unnecessary.

Aside from that, there's another very important aspect to food offered to an idol which a lot of people would consider 'over the top', but which is something even skeptics would do well to consider, and that's the spiritual aspect of eating food offered to an idol.
Before the animal is slaughtered, the butcher offers the meat of the animal to the idol allah by declaring 'bismillah' ('in the name of allah').

I strongly feel that any food which has been declared halal or which uses ingredients from other products which are offered to allah should have a label specifying this fact.

So, WHY should we care whether we eat meat which has been offered to allah?

The god of Muhammad, allah, is often promoted as the one universal god.

Muhammad joined all of the gods of his day and age into one concept, the concept of allah, and he also tried to incorporate the God of the Jews and Christians into his concept of allah.

A close look at the Bible and the koran should make it very clear that allah is very different from the God who presented Himself to Moses as YHWH, the one and only Creator of the Heavens and Earth.
Allah is the god-concept promoted by a man who presented himself as the ultimate prophet of this god, and proceeded to exercise his authority by means of mass murder, rape, pillaging, pedophilia and immorality.

Of course, being the ultimate prophet of allah, it was his divine prerogative to do as he liked and put the words of this authority to do so in the mouth of his allah.
He inspired his followers to follow in his footsteps, and today we can witness the results on a worldwide scale.

This allah is nothing other than what Moses warned against: an idol, a demon (evil spirit) posing as a god and promoting a lie.

“They sacrificed unto demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.” -Deuteronomy 32:17

When Muslims slaughter an animal, the meat of the animal must be ‘halal’ (allowed by the islamic faith) and the slaughter must be done in the ritually prescribed way by offering the meat to allah (uttering the phrase 'bismillah' before the animal is slaughtered).
In doing so muslims actually offer the meat to a demon.

So, should Jews and Christians care about this and avoid halal meat or doesn’t it matter?
To answer this question, take a look at what the Bible tells us.

"Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice" -Exodus 34.15

"And they [Israel] shall no more offer their sacrifices unto demons, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations."
-Leviticus 17.7

"And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baal of Peor, and the anger of YHWH was kindled against Israel.
And YHWH said unto Moses, 'Take all the heads of the people and hang them up before YHWH against the sun, that the fierce anger of YHWH may be turned away from Israel.'" Numbers 25.1-4

THAT is not a small punishment, and it shows how strongly YHWH feels about eating food offered to idols. By partaking of the food offered to idols, Israel became part of the demonic influence behind the idol.

It should be clear that in Torah eating food offered to demons (idols) is strictly forbidden, and any Jew ought to abstain from such a practise, as should all Christians.

BUT, Christians have this yoke of church tradition which usually pitches the 'Old Covenant' against the 'New Covenant', as if they are two entire different things with different rules, different laws.

The result is that more often than not you will find Christians declaring that they have the 'freedom in the Spirit' to eat anything they like since all things are declared clean.
After all, 'Paul said so'.

Only, when they may be offending the conscience of a 'weak brother' they should let that weigh as more important than their own freedom, and of course they always are quick to assign the role of spiritual superiority to themselves of course, making allowances for the 'others', who are 'weak', unlike them...

Well now, let's first ask ourselves, what did Yahshua’s apostles say about the topic of eating food offered to idols?

"Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the gentiles are turned to God:
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."
-Acts 15.19-20

And again in Acts 15.28-29:
"For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. If ye keep yourselves from these things, ye shall do well."

These were the basic laws that newly converted unbelievers were required to live by first.
The apostles gave these instructions bearing in mind the society the new believers lived in and the spiritual traps they faced.
When it came to educating them and teaching them the other commandments (of the Torah!, yes, the apostles had not abrogated the law in the slightest), the apostles wrote that each town had a synagogue where the law of Moses was taught:
"For Moses from olden times hath in every city those who preach him, he being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day." -Acts 15.21

And what did Yahshua (Jesus) say about eating meat offered to idols?

"But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication." -Revelation 2.14

"Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols." -Revelation 2.20

It should be clear that Yahshua does NOT allow us to eat meat offered to an idol.
This should not come as a surprise because Yahshua is the living Torah upholding the rules of Torah.
Well, that should be clear enough for ANY Christian.

Still, ‘we are living under the new covenant and not under the Law anymore and Paul told us we can eat what we like’.
A Christian mantra recited TOO often by people lacking in understanding.

First of all, the New Covenant is nothing other than a renewed Covenant.
The first Covenant pointed forward to the atoning sacrifice of Yahshua, which was fulfilled in the ‘New Covenant’.
The New Covenant added a new dimension to the first Covenant which was written on tablets of stone.
The New Covenant is written on the living tablets of man's heart with the ink of love emanating from the Spirit of our Creator.

There is such a big misunderstanding in traditional Christianity about the meaning of the New Covenant and Paul!
Paul is probably the most misunderstood and mistranslated author in the entire Bible.
If I browse through any average Bible and read the translations of the letters of Paul he is either contradicting himself and at odds with Yahshua, or the translations are incorrect, or the manuscript used for the translation is not entirely correct.
You really have to be prepared to spend time researching his letters and the various translations to be able to find out what he really wrote and meant to say.

Yahshua stated VERY clearly in Matthew 5 that the Torah has NOT passed away, and that He did not come to abolish it and that not one dot or comma would perish from Torah until Heaven and Earth pass away.
Then, if He did not come to abolish it, but only to fulfil the sacrificial part of the Torah, who decided to declare Yahshua to be a liar and abolish the Torah?
Yahshua’s words should end ALL possible discussions about whether or not we should still practise the commandments of the Torah.

Yes, well, how about Paul then?

Peter warned very adamantly about Paul being easily misunderstood, and that this misinterpretation of Paul’s letters had led to ‘lawlessness’ (Torah-lessness).

“..just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters.
There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless [Torah-less] people and lose your own stability.” -II Peter 15.15-19

So, what DID Paul write about eating meat offered to idols?

“Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
What say I then? That the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?
But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I would not that ye should have fellowship with demons.
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils; ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of devils.” -I Corinthians 10.18-21

So, here Paul is VERY explicit: you can NOT eat food offered to demons (idols) AND have fellowship with YHWH.
Not that the idol truly is another god, since the idol is a lie told by a demon posing as a god, and exercising his influence through the lie of the idol. That is why you and I and every other believer can NOT have part in that which is dedicated to a demon, AND have part in YHWH’s fellowship.
It is one, or the other. CHOOSE.

With this in mind, read the rest of I Corinthians 10.

You probably have noticed that here in most Bible translations Paul seems to contradict what he wrote earlier in this chapter.
First he said that you cannot eat food offered to idols AND have fellowship with YHWH, then in the rest of chapter 10 he implies that it’s OK to eat food offered to idols if you deliberately choose to remain ignorant, and as long as you don’t offend another believer.
That’s ridiculous and hypocritical!
If the food being offered to you may be spiritually poisoned you better ask beforehand what has happened to it, right?

Also read I Corinthians 8 in your Bible, and Paul again seems to say that it’s alright to eat food offered to idols as long as you are not seen by another believer who may be offended by it.

This would imply that Paul goes directly against Yahshua’s words and the words of the Law, Torah, and that Paul even contradicts himself in chapter 10. If that is true, , he has disqualified himself from being taken seriously.

Well, first of all, there are quite a number of examples in the Bible where Paul states he upholds the Law (Torah) and does not seek to overthrow it or abolish or change it.
Like for instance in Acts 21 where Paul deliberately shows to everyone in Jerusalem that he upholds Torah by going to the Temple for purification according to the instructions of Torah (Acts 21.17-26).

Secondly, having as many enemies as Paul did, claiming that Torah has been done away with would mean a death sentence for him, since he had to take an oath as a Pharisee to uphold the Torah on penalty of death.
Had Paul preached that the Torah had passed away, and that people are not to live according to Torah anymore, he would have been killed instantly by his enemies, you can be sure of that.

However, if you read a different translation of these passages based on the Aramaic version of Paul's letter, then Paul seems to say something very different.
Here is I Corinthians 10.22-29 (verses 18-21 are quoted above) from the restoration scriptures study Bible:

"22 Do we provoke YHWH to jealousy? Are we stronger than He is?
23 All things lawful in Torah are permitted for me, but all things are not profitable: all things lawful in Torah are permitted for me, but all things do not build up my Faith.
24 Let no man seek his own interests only, but every man another's well-being and welfare.
25 Whatever is sold in the meat market eat nothing: ask questions about the food for conscience sake:
26 For the Earth is the Master YHWH's, and the fullness of it.
27 If any of them that believes not invites you to a feast, and you desire to go; whatever if set before you eat nothing; ask questions about the food for conscience sake.
28 But if any man says to you, This is offered in sacrifice to idols, do not eat it for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the Earth is the Master YHWH's, and the fullness thereof.
29 The conscience, of which I speak is not yours, but others; for why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?"

If you read this passage, then the preceding passage of verses 18-21 makes sense and Paul is consistent where before he seemed to contradict himself.

Now, read I Corinthians 8 in your Bible, and then read the next translation of chapter 8, again based on the Aramaic version of Paul's letters:

"1. Now regarding food offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2. And if any man think that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he should know.
3. But if any man love YHWH, this person is knows by Him.
4. As concerning therefore the eating of food that is offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in this world (age), and that there is no other God than the One from Israel.
...
7. However, every man does not have that correct knowledge: for some with a clear conscience being aware of the idolatrous sacrifice, still eat things offered to idols and their conscience being weak becomes defiled.
8. But food commends us not to YHWH: for neither, if we eat this kind of food, are we better in His sight; neither, if we do not eat this kind of food, are we worse in His sight.
9. But beware lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to those that are weak.
10. For if any believing man sees you who has a true knowledge of YHWH sitting to eat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be encouraged to eat those things which are offered to idols?
11. And through your indifference shall the weak Israelite brother perish, for whom Moshiach died?
12. But when you sin in this manner against the Israelite brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Moshiach Himself.
13. So, if meat causes my Israelite brother to stumble, I will eat no meat while the world stands, lest I cause my Israelite brother to stumble."

So, the 'weak brother' is the one who is enticed to partake of food offered to idols if he sees a fellow believer he holds in high esteem doing that.

The other 'weak believer' is the one who thinks he has the liberty to eat meat sacrificed to idols and thus defiles his conscience, dragging other weak believers with him.

Paul makes it clear that besides the issue of food offered to idols, there also is the matter of how we affect others by our behaviour.

In this passage Paul addresses those believers who feel that they can and do eat meat offered to idols because an idol does not exist anyway. Paul points out another aspect which those who claimed to have the liberty to eat meat offered to idols overlooked, which is the effect they have on other believers.

He speaks to those who feel that they have been blessed with the knowledge that they can eat meat offered to idols since idols don't exist, and focus on their own knowledge and sense of being right at the expense of the awareness of the effect they have on other believers, who ALSO may be tempted to eat meat offered to idols and thus defile their conscience as well.

Paul points out that, even though those 'strong believers' may think it their prerogative to exercise their imagined freedom as they like, the fact that they do not consider the effect they have on other believers is a sign that they are selfish and puffed up with their imagined knowledge and image of themselves.
This should at least cause them to ponder on their alleged 'strength of faith'.

Reading Paul's letters in the standard Bible translations makes him look like someone who is a hypocrite and contradicts himself and others (including Moses and Yahshua).

But if you take the effort to study Paul's background, the circumstances of the people and communities he addresses in his letters, then Paul's writings become better understandable within that context.

If you then look at other possible translations, suddenly it becomes clear that the letters Paul wrote all too often are co-written by translators putting words and ideas into Paul's mind that he never had.

As you can see in the examples above, Paul's letters in a different translation suddenly begin to make sense and show a consistent man who does not contradict himself or who behaves like a hypocrite.

So, to answer the question about whether or not Christians are to eat meat that is halal: NO, most definitely NOT!

Remember how the book of Acts mentions how even aprons and handkerchiefs carried YHWH’s power of blessing?

“And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.” -Acts 19.11-12

If then objects can transfer the power of blessings upon people, you think that the power of curses cannot be transferred through objects and food offered to demons?

If you’re smart, DON’T eat meat that is halal.
If you are unsure about whether or not the product you want to eat is halal, ASK beforehand, lest your ignorance becomes a curse unto you.
This is why I very strongly advocate the use of a label for any product which is associated with halal.

If you’re dumb, then go ahead and eat and believe what you like.

2010-10-27T14:41:00.002+02:00

Islam - in the words of Al Rassooli

I have written about Islam in the past and how this religion at the core is violent, corrupt and intolerant.
This may be offensive to many Muslims, but I have explained why I reached this conclusion in many other posts I have written on this blog.

Instead of repeating my old posts I want to feature parts of recent interviews with an expert on the subject of Islam, I.Q. Al Rassooli, and let him explain why Islam is not what many Muslims proclaim it to be.

This is all the more important right now, because here in The Netherlands a politician is on trial, -I'm sure you are familiar with Geert Wilders-, and the reason for persecuting him is because of his criticism on Islam.

Many politicians still (claim to) believe that, since Islam is a religion, it should enjoy equal standing with other religions.

Whereas the Left so often has tried to ridicule and cut Christianity out of the fabric of Dutch society, they now turn out to be staunch supporters of Islam in the sense that they pave the way for Islam into the fabric of Dutch society in all its different aspects by rolling out a broad red carpet, attempting to mow down anyone daring to stand in the way.

And Wilders stands in the way, so, he is to be mowed down by any means available.

The Dutch people just witnessed an example of this in the first part of the recent political trial against Wilders.

This first part of the trial made me feel as if I am living in a satelite state of the former Soviet Union with fake trials and corruption on all levels, and it was a shocking revelation of how intensely prejudiced and corrupt the Dutch judicial system really is.

'Since Islam is labeled as a religion it should enjoy the constitutional right of a religion', is the reasoning of many politicians.
But what if Satanism became more dominant and expressed the desire as an organized religion to infiltrate the fabric of Dutch society on all levels, should we still remain tolerant?

If Islam, with a holy book commanding all Muslims to kill everyone not submitting themselves to Allah, is granted the religious status of 'untouchable', have we then not given an intolerant criminal doctrine with a license for murder a place of protection in our society?

This is a very serious issue, all the more because those who stand in opposition against the ideology of Islam and warn for the consequences of giving Islam a status of political protection in society are persecuted and brought before a court.

It has reached the point where Western nations are beginning to look like Islamic caliphates due to the way Islam is protected by politically correct, ignorant politicians.

Maybe I should have typed 'deceptive' instead of 'ignorant', because I think those politicians dare not risk losing the support of their Islamic voters, and therefore they lie for personal political gain.

This is why I want to highlight the nature of Islam again by the words of Al Rassooli, and

feature three excerpts of recent interviews with I.Q. Al Rassooli.

1. Allah is not God

2. Early life of Muhammad

3. Islam is War

2010-08-29T17:16:00.003+02:00

Forbidden Gates

Now that the creation of synthetic life by man is an established fact the inevitable question arises: what makes a human being human?
Suppose a vaccine would arise which modifies our DNA to make us immune to a virus, or a DNA altering substance which significantly lengthens the life span of a human being and makes him resilient against many diseases, to what extent would that alter us as human beings?
If children are born with re-engineered DNA, will they still be human?

The Bible makes it clear that there is no salvation for beasts because they do not need to be saved, whereas human beings are fallen from what they were created to be, and are in need of salvation from their fallen state.

In Yahshua YHWH has created a way for all human beings to be saved from death and destruction.
YHWH also created a fixed order for the various animal species and the human species, and human species and animals remain strictly separated.
But when scientists start playing God and merge human DNA with animal DNA, to what extent will the resulting lifeform still be human?
And who can tell exactly what kind of experiments have already been conducted in laboratories in the realm of the modification of human DNA and the possible merger of human DNA with beast DNA?

For those who live in denial of the Creator and have adopted an evolutionary philosophy the merger of human DNA with animal DNA is not much of an issue, since in their view we evolved from the animals.

But if the ultimate outcome of the evolution theory is that through his experiments with DNA modification man is about to engineer his own destruction, then the price of the widespread acceptance of this theory and the spiritual ignorance is very high indeed.

The Bible book Revelation speaks of a time when the image of the Beast will come alive, and question arises what is meant by the 'image of the Beast'?
All those who have received the 'mark of the beast' (a mark indicating genetical modification?) are destined for destruction, 'YHWH's wrath'.
For any human being there always was forgiveness in the case of idol worship, if those involved in the idolatry would repent of their ways and return.
How can it be then that those who will worship the Beast in the Bible book Revelation seem to be unable to repent? This could be explained if they no longer are human and therefore salvageable, but rather a creature which has no place in YHWH's created order.

Could the 'image of the beast' be the emergence of a synthetic lifeform, or the rise of a hybrid human/beast creature?
And since human beings are more than flesh and also have a gateway to heaven of hell, what will come through the gateway of a hybrid human/beast creature?
In ancient Greek mythology there is mention of creatures which are a blend of human and beast DNA, and could it be that perhaps there is some truth to the myth because beings from another dimension (watchers or fallen angels) experimented on human beings?

In his latest dramatic promoclip for his upcoming book 'Forbidden gates' Tom Horn asks profound questions concerning our future in a very compelling way.

2010-08-27T18:11:00.002+02:00

The Cash Flow

It’s money which makes the world go round, and it’s money which turns the heart around.
So, if the ruler of this world is Satan, then surely his middle name must be Mammon.

Is it not for the enticing promises of Mammon that men become what they profess to despise, is it not for the sake of Mammon’s dreams of grandeur that men will sell their very souls?

The service of Mammon is so widespread that we no longer are surprised at news items about corruption among those who have an income which is more than the average Joe will ever see in his entire lifetime.

Politics has become a very lucrative way to augment the income of politicians at the expense of the average Joe who has a hard time making ends meet.

All too often when the expenditures exceed the budget, the deficit is solved by imposing more and/or higher taxes.
Thus the people pay for the failures of their leaders, and as long as there is money to get from the people politicians inevitable manage to get away with their failures unscathed.

No wonder Pilate asked the question: "Truth? What is truth?"
It's the same question resounding through today's political arena. That's what happens when lies become your truth: amnesia of what truth really is.

In the worship of Mammon more is never enough: more requires more, and more again, because in truth Mammon’s belly is a bottomless pit, never satisfied, never full, always hungry.

Just as we no longer are surprised to see the worship of Mammon in politics, we deem it a natural phenomenon when it comes to the world of finance where indeed more is never enough.
Even the worst manager seems to be able to walk away with a golden handshake as long as he worked in service of Mammon where truth is what financial advantage dictates it to be, and where integrity exists in the service and devotion to Mammon.

To think the worship of Mammon should stop at the doorstep of philanthropic or religious institutions is wishful thinking at the best.
On the contrary, where people open their hearts and wallets with noble intentions, corruption seems to thrive like nowhere else.
The cash flow for a seemingly worthy cause knows MANY side-streams leading to leaches sucking their belly full under a legitimate cover.

People bleed and give, the leaches feed and live, and make people bleed some more, while Mammon calls the shots once more.

Like YHWH has His holy mountain and his instructions carved on tablets of stone, Mammon lives on his own depraved mountain where he carved his instructions on tablets of gold held out in promise to the avid practitioner of Mammon’s religious service.
The mount of Zion is turned backward and becomes the mount of Noiz, the sound of truth from YHWH is morphed into the noiz of lies from Mammon.

The wealth of the Catholic church and its minions is only too well known, but also in the Protestant camp the calling of the man of God has been transformed into a profitable profession for the well-to-do educated man of knowledge.
Any ‘calling’ is tantamount to the call of becoming one of Mammon's trained monkeys.

So, is it any wonder that even in religion so little truth and so many lies are to be found?
If the heart is impure, how can the lens of the soul be receptive to the purity of the heavenly realm, how can the jewels of truth make a home in the muck of a pigsty?

But Satan KNOWS how to make a pigsty appear as Mammon's palace of golden promises, he KNOWS how to make demons and unclean spirits pass for expressions of YHWH's Ruach HaKodesh, not only blaspheming the Holy Spirit in the process but also reducing worshippers to complete idiots.
You can see this in action in the many clips at YouTube where you can find people howling, screaming, shaking on the floor, crawling around, all in the name of Jesus for the glory of YHWH inspired by the Holy Spirit.
How can being part of such a circus spectacle be uplifting and inspiring, how can anyone fall for such a con-trick and allow themselves to be debased by evil spirits? Does the Holy Spirit express Himself by making someone howl as a dog to YHWH or crawl around as an animal, or is it the work of an unclean spirit?
I sure hope the answer is self-evident to you.

Then there are religious icons who venture higher up Mammon's golden mountain by becoming independent.
Become a guru, invent a new denomination, create a personality for people to believe in, Wall Street propaganda infiltrating the place of the holy.

Oh, how they love to stress the importance of ‘tithing’ and being generous, seducing their victims with the mantra that the more they give, the more they will receive, a sure lever to yield an ever increasing stream of cash flow for THEIR ministry!

Create greed to need to feed your own need to greed!
Any con-man worth his salt knows this principle only too well.

Like the ilk of the infamous Benny Hinn with his private jets to fly him and his gospel across the globe, all for the good of the kingdom of course.
Question is: WHOSE kingdom?

False prophets are Mammon's cloaked losses, Mo-losses for the damned. Their only purpose to YHWH is that of sticky paper to catch the flies.

Hallelumammon!
That is the hidden credo which drives them all, wrapping itself in a pristine pure robe of white linen, seeking to inspire worship of Mammon dressed up as the prosperity-Jesus for today's breed of self-serving believers.

What a stark contrast between the likes of Hinn and believers in countries such as North Korea or Iran who stand to lose their lives for their love for Jesus!
All too often they work hard for a living, and after work they have to meet in secret underground gatherings, knowing all too well that attending such a meeting may cost them their lives.

And how the Mammon ilk of preachers love to inspire their beneficiaries to 'name and claim it all' in the name of Jesus! It's like the wizard's magic formula.
It's just a way to trap people into the service of Mammon, just as they are trapped.
Want a new car?
Make sure you offer your donations, then name it and claim it in the name of Jesus and like magic it's yours.
Actually, this IS magic, just read my post on praying in the name of Jesus.

Just because Jesus provided us with a pardon for our sin it does not mean He automatically gave us an entitlement to come into His palace and reach into His treasure vault to take as we please.
Greed-driven requests are not authorized by Jesus, they carry the stamp of approval of Mammon.

When I read about the disciples and apostles I cannot see anyone of them accumulating money for themselves or pursuing a luxurious lifestyle, quite the contrary.
Often they had to endure hardship and make ends meet whichever way possible.

Paul wrote about how he, -since he did not want to burden anyone-, earned his bread by performing manual labor at times, even though as a fulltime messenger of the gospel he was entitled to at least some recompense for his efforts.

Unfortunately all too often the saying that 'a laborer is worth his wages' ends up as a cover for living in service of Mammon by pumping up the volume of those wages.
All in the 'service of the kingdom' and 'for the good of the message' of course.

Only one disciple secretly worshipped Mammon, and we all know how Judas ended up, don’t we? In the end his worship of and obedience to Mammon became the noose around his neck.

Or maybe money is not the carrot at the end of Mammon's stick, but rather esteem, recognition, spiritual air to puff up king Ego.
The office of prophet has begotten popularity on the internet like never before.
"After all, a prophet is as close to God as anyone can possibly get, a man from whose mouth escape the oracles of YHWH Himself, so if I'm a prophet, I'm closer to God than others, a man of importance, and I should receive honour and recognition as such."

And so the prophets and abundantly-anointed suddenly proliferate complete with blessings and curses escaping from their mouths in the same breath, slaying with their tongue any dissent mercilessly, in the name of God of course.

All too often the truth about prophets is forgotten, which is that usually they are the misfits who suffered rejection and persecution because of their message, the ones who stood out like a sore thumb.

Not so with the hordes of vanity driven internet prophets preaching the Molasses gospel!

Have they forgotten the stern warning to be found in Deuteronomy 18.20?
"But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die".

This is true for the likes of Muhammad right down to the many self-made prophets or teachers today claiming to have 'a word from the Lord'.

Why then do so many preachers, ministers, teachers, prophets-and-whatever-title-people-like-to-bestow-on-themselves, continue to turn their hearts and souls over to Mammon for the vain pursuit of dreams of comfort, wealth, recognition and prosperity?
Dreams are not real, and sooner or later we ALL get our wake-up call.

Even in the movement which purports itself to be the ‘final transformation of the church’ I could not help but notice so many sizeable paunches among 'leading figures' within this Messianic movement.
Those bellies do not come into existence because they suffer from severe hunger, hardship, or some metabolism disorder.

Just the other day I heard of a well known Torah teacher named Glenn McWilliams executing the last phase of a long-planned hostile take-over of Michael Rood’s ministry in true Judas fashion, using the donations for Rood to further his own cause and increase not only his own salary but also the paychecks of McWilliams’ relatives, according to the words of many eye-witnesses.
How anyone can teach YHWH's commandments and stoop so low is beyond me.
You'd be inclined to think that of ALL people HE should be aware of the consequences, wouldn't you?

Earlier this year I found out how the representative of an orphanage in India I sent money to assorted to lies and tricks to get me to send donations when PayPal announced it would stop all money transfers to Indian charity causes.
Up to that point I trusted him, yet when I suddenly was confronted with a man resorting to lies and tricks the red flag went up faster than the speed of light.

Have we arrived at the point where absolutely no one at all can be trusted anymore?
I personally have sent money to worthwhile causes every month, because I think it’s important to learn to give and help our fellow man in need.
But in all honesty I have to say that I have almost run out of worthwhile causes that I can trust to put my money to good use.
All too often the money ends up being used to build little personal empires, welfare isles for 'God’s' men to live comfortably, monuments in the cloaked worship of Mammon.
Armed with this knowledge how can anyone contribute either directly or indirectly to the welfare of a privileged few pretenders having turned YHWH’s affairs into a profitable business of their own?

The thing which really can make me angry is when I see ordinary people giving money with good intentions, hard-working people who do not have much to give, and the ones who profit the most of those well meant donations are leaches who live at the expense of those people.
Like mosquitoes feeding on the flow of blood in a person’s veins they (secretly) tap into the cash flow for their own ever increasing needs.

Perhaps this is why the Son of the Almighty drove out the merchants from the temple: when money is involved, the righteous and honest YHWH usually has to give up His rightful throne to the depraved and corrupt Mammon, and all which remains is worship in the service of the debased presence of the demon on the throne.

No wonder James, Jesus' half-brother, wrote(James 5.1-6:):
"Come now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted and your garments motheaten.
Your gold and silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton.
Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Ye have condemned and killed the just, and he doth not resist you."

James' words are not the beginning of a socialist manifesto, they are a warning against the worship of Mammon in all it's diverse cloaks, especially the cloak of religion.

Lest the idolaters should forget: YHWH has the responsibility of Judge, and He WILL judge those who pretend to work in His service but who in reality work in service of Mammon.

If you receive donations make sure you do not use them in service of Mammon by virtue of your greed and/or your desire for comfort, luxury or recognition, because you certainly will go the way of Mammon.

Remember the words spoken by Malachi:
"But who can endure the day of His coming?
Who can stand when He appears?
For He will be like a refiner's fire or a launderer's soap.
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver." -Malachi 3.2-3

Know that the words spoken by the prophets to not only political leaders and people in key positions, but also those who have taken up religious positions are destined to come to pass:

Isaiah 56.10-12:
"His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark, sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand; they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
‘Come ye,’ say they, ‘I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.’"

Ezekiel 34.2:
"Thus saith the YHWH Adonai unto the shepherds: Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?"

Jeremiah 25.34-36:
"Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye leaders of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished, and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the leaders of the flock shall be heard; for YHWH hath despoiled their pasture."

Be pure and upright in all that you do, and if you have to live on donations be of impeccable integrity.
If possible, seek your own source of income outside of your calling so that your calling is completely separated from the realm of finances.

But if you will not listen and pursue the path of Mammon and his ever elusive dreams, don’t be surprised to see your self-created crystal cathedrals come falling down before your very eyes in the hour of YHWH’s power.
Their shrapnel surely will become a public monument to your idolatry and a warning for all. Remember that repentance is a gift, and there comes a time when the iniquity is of such proportions that YHWH will withhold the gift of repentance, as in the case of Judas. He sought it, but he could not find it.

A laborer certainly is worth his wages, but all too often the supportive role of the wages is exchanged for a dominating role.
If a preacher or pastor belonging to a certain denomination is confronted by a perversion of truth within the leadership of that domination, how many of them will dare to stand up and forfeit the comfort of the paycheck? All too often their silence is a witness of their hidden worship of Mammon.

That's the reason why YHWH did not give the Levitical priests an inheritance of land in Israel: the possession of land and worldly goods all too often turns the allegiance of the heart of a man around from a pure devotion to YHWH to a devotion to the lures of Mammon.
YHWH was the inheritance of the Levitical priests, and so they should remain pure and kadosh.

Ancient man needed to see his god in a tangible, physical image of gold or silver.
Today the image of Mammon rules through the hunger for silver and gold and the illusions of security, comfort, luxury and esteem associated with them.
He uses a perpetual hunger to give man incentive to worship him and apply his commandments above all else.
That's where man becomes the enemy of YHWH as he bows in his heart before Mammon and exchanges YHWH's truth for Pilate's credo: 'Truth, what is truth?'

2010-08-14T17:47:00.000+02:00

This Year?

Right now we are just a couple of weeks away from the first day of the seventh Biblical month.

I have commented in previous entries in my blog about the possibility of the last 7 years of Daniel's '70 sevens' prophecy playing out in 2010/2011.

The reason for this assumption is the fact that

Israel

was established as a nation in 1948, and counting 70 years from that date we arrive at 2018.

Why should we count from 1948?

Because it's a prophetic milestone fulfilling Isaiah's prophecy (Isaiah 66.8).

Why should we count 70 years?

Because Daniel received his prophecy of the 70 sevens after realizing that 70 years were determined to 'end the desolations of Jerusalem'.

Daniel then proceeded to pray for his people and repent for their rebellion, whereupon the angel Gabriel appeared and told him that 70 sevens of years have been decreed to "finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness".

It does not automatically imply that we must start counting 70 years from

Israel's rebirth as a nation

HOWEVER, the setting of the context of this prophecy DOES carry such an implication.

Our Creator speaks in several ways, and one way is through mathematical patterns and numbers.

If you look at 70 from a numerical perspective, then 7*10 carries the message of the completion and fulfilment (7) together with compliance with and obedience to YHWH's law (10).

The number 10 carries a reference to YHWH's law and thus implies the obedience to YHWH's law as well as the beginning of a new series of numbers (first 0-9, then the same numbers now in a decimal arrangement , 10-19).

Based on this numerical data the counting of 70 years from the prophetic milestone of

Israel

rebirth makes a lot of sense, especially if you can combine it with another countdown of 50 years.

Synchronous to the 70 years countdown we can count the number of years of a Jubilee from the recapture of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem was recaptured in June 1967, and when we follow the instructions pertaining the counting up to Shavuot (which is a type of Jubilee) we must start this countdown 'from the morrow after the Shabbat in the week of Unleavened Bread'.

Since this week of Unleavened Bread was already past when Jerusalem was recaptured, the first available date begins in 1968.

The 50 year countdown from 1968 and the 70 year countdown from 1948 both end in the year 2018.

Furthermore, in a numerical sense 50 + 70 = 120, and 120 = 10*12, meaning, obedience to YHWH's law (10) for all 12 tribes of

Israel

(5+7).

Since the prophecy of Daniel tells us of a very difficult time for Israel leading up to this end date, the final seven of years, it makes sense that 2010/2011 is the timeframe when the trouble begins.

I know that if you visit end-times blogs and news sites regularly you may get the idea that the world is ending on subscription basis every day or so. But there is reason why this year is different from other years, and the reason I have outlined briefly above.

From a numerical perspective it makes a lot of sense.

But I have to point out that unlike others I see no clear indication in prophecy that the end of the final seven means the return of Yahshua right at the end of this seven.

Yahshua made it clear that AFTER the tribulation (the last 7 years of Daniel's prophecy) there's a period of 'signs in the heavens' before the world will see the 'sign of the Messiah' in the heavens, and there is no indication how long this period will last.

Daniel's 70 sevens prophecy pertains to

Israel

, and not to the world at large.

The seventh Biblical month has Feasts which pertain to this last period, and the first day of this month begins with Yom Teruah.

Some call it the Feast of Trumpets, but it literally means the 'day of loud noise'.

When Israel was to capture Jericho, YHWH instructed them to make a loud noise on the seventh day, and this may be a shadow picture of the Yom Teruah for the seventh month as it will happen at the very beginning of Daniel's prophesied last seven years: the restoration of Israel and the judgment upon those who stand in the way of that restoration (like Jericho), beginning with a 'loud noise'.

This is why Yom Teruah 2010 is such an important date, because it may very well bring the fulfilment of the prophetic implication of this day: the day of the loud noise.

On the rabbinical calendar this day is on September 8/9, but according to the Biblical calendar this day will be on September 10/11, '9/11' in other words.

If we look at the situation right now in the Middle East it's not hard to be aware that a big war in that region has become very likely.

Iran's quest for nuclear technology almost has run its course with Iran coming out as the big winner, thanks to the big enabler of evil called Russia, and Israel is forced into the position of having to make very drastic decisions about what action they should take.

To do nothing equals facing a nation with nuclear arms seeking to wipe

Israel

off the map, a nation in support of the evil neighbours of Israel, among whom Hamas and Hezbollah, and this scenario is definitely something

Israel

cannot afford.

As long as Islamic hardliners are in charge in Iran Israel is forced into the huge dilemma of doing nothing and creating the possibility of a horrific scenario for the future where Hezbollah and Hamas may have nuclear weapons at their disposal, or strike pre-emptively and create the possibility for an all out war in the Middle East.

The first nuclear power plant in Bushehr - Iran will be active on August 21st, so Israel's timeframe to make a decision is narrowed down to as little as one week.

2010-08-06T18:23:00.005+02:00

The Temple

It's not hard to understand how bad food has a bad effect on your health.

If you continuously eat food with carcinogens, then it should not come as a surprise if one day you are diagnosed with cancer.

What you eat becomes part of you, and therefore it is very important to pay close attention to your choice of food.

If you are smart you make sure you eat only food permitted by our Creator, in the form He created it.

But if you choose to ignore YHWH's instructions, then any unclean element in the food is absorbed by the body so that your body begins to incorporate unclean elements.

In the same way as we ought to eat kosher food so that no unclean element becomes part of our body, our spirit and soul should remain clean from any unclean element, because it is due to those unclean elements that we put obstacles in the way of our Creator.

What is the purpose of our body? Is it just to provide our soul and spirit with a fleshy home?

Then my next question is: what moves our spirit and our soul? Is it not the presence of our Father YHWH?

So, in essence the body we have is more than just a home for our spirit and soul, it also is designed to be a home for our Creator.

But if our conduct in life is characterized by indulgence in immorality, how could a kadosh (set-apart) Creator ever take up a home in our body?

If He did He would destroy us by His presence and the body would perish as would we.

Just as 'we are what we eat', in other words, the food we eat becomes one with us, the sexual act makes 'one flesh out of two bodies'.

This means that we become one with the one we are intimate with, just as in the act of eating the nutrients contained in the food become part of our body.

If then the sexual act carries ingredients with act like carcinogens to our body, spirit and soul, then partaking of that unkosher offering will end in destruction in the same way as the absorption of carcinogens by the body leads to cancer.

This is why there are so many warnings in the Bible against immorality.

If the body is designed to provide a home for our Creator, then surely any poisonous sexual act is a direct sin against the body, as well as the soul and spirit, and above all, against YHWH's Spirit.

However, where you can eat unclean/carcinogenic food, and still be saved in your soul and spirit (even though you may have your share of suffering in your body due to your wrong choice of food), it is not possible to partake of 'carcinogenic' immorality and still be saved in soul and spirit, because the sin involves your entire being.

If we indulge in immorality we cut ourselves off from salvation, because just as two individuals become 'one flesh' in the sexual act, a man's soul and spirit were intended to be one with the Spirit of the Creator. If then, through partaking of the forbidden fruit of sexual sin, we absorb the evil carcinogenic ingredients of the sin in our entire being, how can the holy (kadosh) Spirit of our Creator be one with us?

After all, we have become one with the evil force present in the carcinogenic ingredients in sinful offering, and evil has absolutely NOTHING in common with good because both are mutually exclusive.

If we then have become one with evil, how can we be one with Good (YHWH)? If through becoming one with evil our body has become the temple of evil, how is it possible for YHWH to dwell within us?

Have we not committed a great sin against our bodies if we deny the body the purpose for which it was build and turn it into a shrine for evil?

Furthermore, the act of immorality, due to its sinful nature, enslaves us once we have partaken of it, and we are enslaved to (identify with) the evil which is now part of us. Evil becomes us and we become evil.

If YHWH's full presence would enter us we would react in the same way evil does and shirk away from His presence by retreating to the realm of evil, and we would die instantly.

Fortunately YHWH has given us the 'human interface' of Yahshua, if I may call like that.

In Yahshua YHWH's presence can be established within us without immediately destroying us because Yahshua embodies besides YHWH's salvation also YHWH's grace

This is why it is so important to make sure that ALSO in matters of moral conduct we make sure we honour YHWH's rules and regulations and not seek to elevate our rebellion into a 'way of life for us'.

In truth it's a certain way of death for us, a death through deception.

Why should we choose for the road to death?

Because of the 'kick', the pleasure we derive from it?

It's nothing more than a ploy of evil to trick us into giving our life substance to the black hole of evil until the moment it sucks our very soul into the abyss.

It's an empty, meaningless lure into the death zone, and it can bring no happiness whatsoever since in essence it's a lure AWAY from true happiness compensated by pleasure to dull our senses to the ugly reality of what we are becoming in the process.

The evil force reigning in us through our submission to the lure of temptation robs us not only of our life force, but also it gobbles up the purpose for which we were created which could bring us happiness and true satisfaction.

All this just for an elusive carrot dangling at the end of the pleasure stick.

Those who excuse their immorality as their way of life truly have traded in their birthright as sons and daughters of YHWH for a measly plate of lentil soup.

Just as the principle of 'becoming one flesh with...' exists, also the principle of 'becoming one spirit with...' exists.

Since Good and evil are polar opposites it is impossible to unite the two.

It's either one, or the other, you make your choice.

You cannot choose to be one flesh with evil and one spirit with Yahshua.

If you desire to be one in spirit with Yahshua you have to discipline yourself that your body also may be filled with the presence of Good, and not with evil, because through the act of becoming one flesh with evil (as in the case of immorality) your spirit will be drawn in the same inclination as the flesh so that your body becomes a tomb of evil instead of a temple of the living God.

Not that sex is inherently poisonous or evil.

It isn't anymore evil than food is evil, but just as bad food has devastating effects on the health of your body, immorality (forbidden sex) has devastating effects on your entire being (body, spirit and soul).

Unfortunately, due to a wrong view of sexuality in Christianity, enforced celibacy on priests has left its devastating traces in a Christian denomination like the Roman Catholic church.

It imposes on its priests the diametrically opposite of Israelite priests who were commanded to get married, probably to prevent the very problem which some churches seek to establish through celibacy: sexual immorality. All too often the repressed sexuality wrongly dealt with by well meaning but ignorant priests transmogrifies into not only sexual immorality but also sexual perversion.

This does not mean that waving the marriage certificate means that all the sex you can have with your partner is automatically good and kosher.

I know there are rabbis who believe that.

Allow me to remind those rabbis that just because food is kosher it does not mean that people cannot get killed and feel miserable from overeating.

If anyone seeks to escape into food as a compensation, a way of denying something which is wrong with them on a deeper level, then the partaking of kosher food is anything but kosher before YHWH. Perhaps 'kosher' is not the right word to use here, but I'm sure you understand what I mean.

In the same way, if sex becomes an act of self-denial and escapism, sex becomes a problem and can lead to a person's destruction, even though it may be practised within the context of marriage.

Marriage does not automatically make sex right anymore than kosher food makes the food automatically good.

It's the way we RELATE to sex or food which determines if sex is right or not, or if food is right for us or not.

And yes, a right way of relating to food should involve kosher food just as a right way of relating to sex should involve kosher sex within the prescribed context of YHWH's laws (marriage).

But to think that all will be well if you just paint a kosher veneer on the outside while on the inside there is no right standing before YHWH equals living a lie. The only way kosher food can be good for you (and the same goes for kosher sex) is if you live in harmony with your Creator and cling to His presence on the inside.

The inner man has to be in tune with the outer man, just as the presence of YHWH's Spirit requires an outer man living in harmony with that Spirit. Otherwise your life will exemplify an unbearable dissonance.

This is why it's impossible to unite immorality with living in harmony with YHWH: being one flesh with evil excludes being of one spirit with YHWH.

Our bodies are created as temples for YHWH, not for immorality.

And STILL people celebrate and defend their immoral 'lifestyle' (deathstyle) and join in Gay Pride parades, or Love Parades, the current Gay Pride in Amsterdam this year even being backed up by Christian, Muslim and Jewish boats.

They ought to know better than to stick up their middle finger in the face of the Almighty, because, as I pointed out in my previous post, YHWH is a kind, loving father, BUT He ALSO carries the responsibility of being the Judge and Avenger of iniquity as defined in His law.

I felt I had to write this post after reading a part of Paul’s first letter to Corinthians, I Corinthians 6.13-20:

"'Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food'—and God will destroy both one and the other.

The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, 'The two will become one flesh.'

But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.

Flee from sexual immorality.

Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?

You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.

So glorify God in your body."

2010-08-01T12:23:00.006+02:00

The Judge

Imagine a society without any laws.
Since there are no laws, there is no need for law enforcement, nor is there any need for judges to pronounce a judgment based on the law.

I think most of you will agree that this situation would quickly devolve into chaos where the right of the strongest is turned into law and where the biggest beast will rule.

Laws are created for our own good, and they are based on the distinction between good and evil, two polar opposites which New Agers insist are but an illusion we have created through the way we perceive them.

Our laws are based on a moral consciousness which has its roots in the spiritual dimension, to be more precise, in our Creator.
Laws are designed to protect those who seek to do good, and punish those who seek to inflict evil.
When those laws no longer reflect YHWH's concepts of good and evil, confusion is the result, and evil rules through the subversion of the law.

Imagine if a nation has good laws, but the judges acquit every criminal who is brought before them in court.
Surely it would not be hard to imagine how crime would explode since unrepentant criminals are not held accountable and receive clemency from the judges.
Criminals would laugh at the judges and harbour contempt for them in their hearts, and they would feel encouraged to continue on their course in life by committing more crimes. After all, they will be acquitted just like the last time they faced a judge, there are no consequences attached to their misbehaviour.

Just as there are earthly judges with a very responsible task to punish transgressors of the law, even to the point of sentencing them to death, there is a heavenly Judge who fulfils this role.
This Judge is the Judge of individuals, nations, angels, all creation.

The Bible knows many examples of nations being judged for the transgression of YHWH’s law, and from these examples we would do well to learn from them and take the lesson to heart that if we violate YHWH’s law as a nation, be it through the legalized murder of unborn babies, corruption or the promotion of sexual immorality, there ARE consequences attached on a national level if we do not repent as a nation.
Ultimately this may lead to the total and utter destruction of a nation because YHWH has pronounced His judgment upon that nation.
Just prior to and upon the return of the Messiah YHWH will act as the capacity of Judge, and pronounce judgment on all the nations who have rebelled against His law.

Often this role of YHWH as the ultimate Judge is completely misunderstood because fairytale believers think of Him as someone who will pardon everything and issue no punishments.
To those who believe this misconception I want to point out YHWH's responsibility as the Judge of All.
He CANNOT pardon everything because He would have become the underminer of His own law, just as the earthly judges who acquit unrepentent criminals of any punishments are in fact establishing anarchy where evil will thrive, simply because there are no consequences attached to violating the law, turning it thereby into a fossil of no use to anyone since there is no personal accountability.

This role of YHWH as a judge is often completely overlooked when people cannot come to grips with the fact that it seems at odds with YHWH's character as a kind, benign, loving Creator.
It is important to understand that although YHWH's character is indeed kind, patient and loving, the role of a Judge requires that consequences are attached to violation of the law, albeit in proportion to the crime committed.
YHWH created universal laws of good and evil for His creation, and He also is responsible for the enactment of His laws.

YHWH's law for mankind can be found in the first five books of the Bible as well in the form of our conscience, and as you read those first five books you will see that the punishment for sin knows various incremental stages right up to and including the ultimate sentence of death.
Those who claim that the death sentence is not Biblical clearly have not read the Bible from cover to cover, because not only in the first books of the Bible but also in the last books you will find references to the death penalty.

But YHWH is not a Creator who enjoys inflicting the death penalty.
Furthermore, (the penalty of) death is the logical result of falling away from the Source of Life, and since sin (transgressing the law) is the falling away of this Source of Life, it automatically implies a falling away into death, no matter what the exact nature of the sin is.

Remember how Paul wrote: "the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law"? (I Corinthians 15.56)
The moment we sin, we fall away from the Source of Life and begin to die; this is the sting of death, like the bite of a snake.
The law (both external in the Bible and internal in our conscience) relates the rules pertaining to good and evil to us, and when we see how we have transgressed certain laws, we become aware of being at odds with the law and how we have fallen to sin, and through sin to death.
This is the power of sin: it is established by presence and knowledge of the law which discriminates between good and evil.
If there would be no law, there would be no sin, and if there would be no sin, there would be no death.

Since it stands to reason that punishment should be rightly proportioned to the crime which is committed (I'm sure every sane human being will agree with me), it's not hard to see the absurdity of sentencing someone to death for stealing a piece of candy in a store.

YHWH foresaw this issue from the very start, and He also knew how we have inherited this inclination to sin from our forefathers.
Somehow the death penalty for mankind based on the legacy of sin we inherited from our forefathers seems very unreasonable and unfair.
Yet on the other hand when we look back on our lives we all know moments that we KNOW we should have chosen differently, but instead WE deliberately sinned and had to face the guilt of this sin, so we definitely are NOT guiltless and COULD and SHOULD be held responsible for those moments of failure.

Because of our dilemma YHWH created for mankind a way back to Him.
YHWH has a very kind heart and hates destruction; instead He loves to see us thrive and live in harmony with Him and with each other.

For this reason He decided to grant mankind a pardon for sin in Yahshua.
YHWH did not force Yahshua into this role, Yahshua volunteered to take this role upon Him, let's not ever forget this unselfish noble act of our King!
When we take refuge in Yahshua we have Someone who took the punishment for our sins upon Himself by allowing Himself to be judged and sentenced to death.

This is the reason why Yahshua had to be tried as a criminal: He took our place as our substitute in court, and as such He was sentenced as a criminal to die as a criminal. Yahshua's trial and sentence was a shadow of YHWH's trial at the end of the age where we ought to be standing before Him in court, facing Him in the role of the Judge.
Originally this would have been our destiny, a hopeless, bleak prospect awaiting mankind at the end of time. But because Yahshua took this upon Himself we are acquitted from our sins against YHWH's law, and we no longer will have to stand trial for our crimes against YHWH's laws.

HOWEVER, it should be kept in mind that if a criminal is pardoned from his crimes, the pardon does not equal a license to commit the same crimes over and over again.
From our perspective as those in whom a sinful identity has come into existence which is in violation of YHWH's law, the faith in Yahshua should produce a new identity, so that where old sinful nature declines, the new identity in Yahshua grows up.
This implies that if we say we are sorry, yet return to repeat the same sins over and over again in our lives without any true repentance and see the power of sin diminish as a result of our repentance, we are like unrepentent criminals who regards their crimes as their way of life, and we will find ourselves judged for the misuse of the pardon we could have found in Yahshua.
Yahshua died for those who are willing and yearning to repent and change, not for those who seek to have it their ways and regard Him as a license to do as they like.

So, YHWH, knowing that He also acts in the capacity of Judge and as such has the personal obligation to enact the law (which also knows the death penalty), has created a Way for us to receive clemency for our transgressions of the law, ON CONDITION that we repent.
There is NO acquittal for those who know no repentance.

But I must stress that you must not think that after you believe in Yahshua and you find yourself sinning again, that therefore you will not be granted any acquittal of your sins.
Just as the sinful identity took time to grow, it also takes time to die, and so will the power of sin diminish over time.
You may find yourself failing from time to time and experiencing agony over it, but it does not automatically imply that you have forfeited your pardon.
This is not the same as an unrepentent attitude from a criminal who has not learned anything.

An unrepentent attitude means that you continue to commit the same crimes over and over again because you don't care, you see it as your way of life.
In other words, you identify with the part of you which likes to sin.

A repentant attitude means that you don't want to commit any 'crimes' anymore (sin), even though the dying identity of sin within you may raise its ugly head from time to time. But you will experience this identity of sin as an alien intrusion in your life, it's not what you want, it's something alien within you that you want to get rid of.
It's this alien identity ('sin having made a home in you') which seeks to revive and strengthen itself by sinning. You, on the other hand, experience this as an attack on your soul.

This latter attitude is very different from the former attitude, and whereas there is no pardon for the former attitude, the latter attitude, due to its repentant nature as a 'work in construction', still qualifies for the pardon of Yahshua.

Yahshua came to us as the great pardon for our sins. It took great love and endurance on His part to fulfil this role for us.
Without that pardon the Heavenly Judge would have no other option than to condemn all of us according to the law.

In the capacity of Judge YHWH can and has pronounced death sentences on cities, and even entire nations.
Not because He is a cruel despot, but because of His responsibility as a Judge: He MUST act according to the law.

If you were wondering how it is possible that YHWH is a Creator with a kind a good heart, and yet does not hesitate to sentence people to death, you should bear in mind that although YHWH is our Father, He ALSO carries the responsibility of the Judge who MUST confront us with the consequences of our transgressions, because that is the responsibility of a Judge.

IF this Judge would acquit everyone, including unrepentent individuals, He would have created a provision for evil to thrive, and His law would have become a fossil which is of no use to anyone. Furthermore, chaos would result and injustice and cruelty would have free reign in His creation.

This is why He MUST take it upon Himself to Judge, there is no way around it.

Fortunately for us YHWH's law for mankind has incorporated one provision from the very beginning, as can be seen in the various sin offerings and the Pesach celebration: the acquittal of crimes because one Man offered to take our place and bear the punishment.

Because of His responsibility as a Judge YHWH also has included a moment in the history of mankind at the end of time when everyone will be judged, including kings and earthly judges for the way they handled their responsibility as kings and judges.
Everyone, except the ones who have been claimed by Yahshua because they qualify for His pardon.
And just as is the case in an earthly court, the moment before the Heavenly Judge walks into court the word will be heard "All rise!"

2010-07-14T19:28:00.012+02:00

Seeds of your Future - Part IV

There's power in the name of Yahshua, you know that?

To be more precise, it's not so much the name itself, the sound of the name, but the Person behind the name that the name represents.

That is where so many churches and Christians take the wrong turn, because they attribute power to the words alone, and use those words as a magic formula to get want they want.

John described Yahshua as ‘the Word made flesh’.

Yahshua is the embodiment of the Word of Salvation which YHWH spoke, and as such He is like a seed planted (spoken) in our physical reality.

The word/name 'Yahshua' embodies all that Yahshua stands for, which is unwavering faith in YHWH, Who spoke Salvation in Yahshua and put His energy and essence in Him.

Being the embodiment of YHWH's word, Yahshua fed the spoken word of Salvation through obedience and faith, so that the seed of the Word grew up and became the reality of YHWH's Salvation for mankind.

Yah-Shua, 'YHWH is Salvation', was made manifest in the person Yahshua, and THIS is the power of the name Yahshua which causes the evil forces to tremble with fear. It’s not a simple word, it represents everything Yahshua is and stands for: the salvation of mankind and the destruction of the powers of evil.

The name Jesus or Yahshua always managed to fill me with a deep respect and awe.

There IS power attached to the name of Yahshua, but I immediately want to add that this power is not simply due to the ‘sound of the name’, but it is because of the Power behind the name, everything that Yahshua stands for.

Unfortunately there are many Christians and church leaders who have the idea that by speaking the words ‘in Jesus’ name’ at the end of their prayers this formula alone will make them heard. This is not limited to 'in Jesus' name' alone, but this kind of magical mis-use of words as aural push-buttons which activate the miracle machine, can also be found in other standard formulas used in certain denominations in order to achieve the desired result.

Due to a great lack of understanding and depth, the concept of the name 'Jesus' or 'Yahshua' has been relegated to the ranks of magic by them, some sort of incantation formula which will act like a miracle machine fulfilling every wish as long as the correct incantation formula is used. Like ‘white magic’ (which of course does not exist; there’s only black deception).

This two dimensional understanding of what it means to pray in the name of Yahshua is not correct.

As I have written, Yahshua stands for the embodiment of the Word of Salvation which YHWH spoke, and this Word stands for obedience in faith.

When we pray in the name of Yahshua it can only mean something if we become the extension of Yahshua and walk in faith and obedience to YHWH’s instructions. This is what it means when YHWH states that He will write His name on our foreheads: His character, as it shines in Yahshua, will also shine in us in our faith and obedience to YHWH's instructions.

Remember how the seed of a word/concept grows because we feed it, remember my description of HOW this works?

Likewise the concept of praying ‘in the name of Yahshua’ is energized and grows from being fed by our obedience to YHWH’s instructions and faith in Him. Without that, all which remains are words which will never produce fruit after their kind, because we do not FEED the words by faith and obedience.

The more faithful and obedient in your walk you will prove to be, the more result you will see from praying in Yahshua’s name.

Does that mean that if we are obedient and walk in faith that we will get anything we ask for?

After all, Yahshua said: "If you ask from the Father in my name He will give it to you" (John 16.23-24),

"And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive" (Matthew 21.22) and again,

"Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them" (Mark 11.24).

In the latter quote you may also read 'believe that you HAVE received them'. In the physical realm you will receive them, but in the spiritual realm they ARE already given to you, awaiting to be manifested in the physical realm through your faith.

So, does this mean that everything we ask for in Yahshua's name, believing, will come to pass?

No, our words need authorization, and sometimes we may want something but our Father YHWH has different plans.

At such times we should not throw up our hands in the air, or put the blame on YHWH or Yahshua. We should continue in faith and deep love in our hearts, trusting that YHWH knows what is best.

Remember the lesson we can learn from Job.

Not all prayers sent up in obedient faith are fulfilled.

Yahshua prayed that the cup of His impending suffering be taken away from Him, adding that not His will but YHWH's will be done.

The cup was not taken away from Him because it would have obstructed YHWH's plan for the salvation of mankind.

The concept of ‘praying in Yahshua's name’ does not imply that everything we ask for will be granted to us if we simply add the 'in Yahshua's (Jesus') name' prayer ending.

To pray in Yahshua's name first and foremost means that we come before YHWH in the same spirit of Yahshua, putting YHWH's will first and aligning ourselves with it.

That should also be our attitude in prayer and faith: put YHWH's will first and aligning ourselves with His will, keeping this always in our heart and mind whenever we ask for something in the name of Yahshua.

When we align our will with His will, then speaking in His name will represent expressing our faith, our alliance with the will of the Person in whose name we speak.

The more we walk in faith and obedience, the more YHWH’s will translates into our will.

And the more faithful and obedient we prove to be, the more YHWH will honour our requests and our words.

It’s important to understand that you don't have to be a helpless playball in the hands of the evil one.

Yahshua has the authority to destroy the power of evil in your life and the life of others, and by aligning our hearts, souls and minds to the will of Yahshua (and thus to YHWH in Yahshua) the power of darkness can be bound and removed from our lives.

The name 'Yahshua' represents the living Word who turns on the Light switch, and there's power and authority in that name, or rather, the Person behind that name.

So learn to speak in faith in the Person behind that name, using it in your daily battles, and remove the evil one's influence from your life.

YOU have been given power over him in the name and authority of Yahshua, not the other way round.

ASSERT yourself then in that precious Name and use it like a sword to destroy evil.

Remember that, because our faith in Yahshua is the most powerful weapon given to us which destroys the power of evil.

Cleanse your hearts and seek the will of YHWH, so that you can bind the powers of darkness in your life and your home/family, and command them to leave in the name of Yahshua, and speak this in faith believing that it is so.

The challenge for us is learning to walk in faith, letting faith prevail over circumstances, letting YHWH's spiritual reality shape the physical reality we see around us.

After all, the spiritual reality is the greater reality, while our physical reality is like a holodeck designed for our benefit.

If you think physical matter that you can see, feel, taste, hear and smell is the ultimate reality, you have fallen for a lie, because there's a far greater reality beyond the physical.

Ironically enough it's this spiritual reality which is usually seen as less real than what we see around us, but the truth is the opposite of that.

If we had an unbroken connection to YHWH we would be able to impose His spiritual reality over any physical reality, as Yahshua said, we would be able to say to a mountain to be thrown in the sea, and sure enough it would come to pass. Unless it would obstruct YHWH’s plan, always bear that in mind. You can pray until you see blue in the face that Jerusalem be relocated from Israel to China with all the faith in the universe, but the chance of that coming to pass is zero, because it goes against YHWH's will.

However, when you pray, and there is so much as the slightest doubt in you that what you ask for will be given to you (“Well, I asked for X, and perhaps, who knows, maybe if it is God’s will my prayer will come to pass, time will tell”), the doubt will act as an obstruction.

Think of what Paul said: “Faith is the evidence of things unseen and the substance of things hoped for”.

But, remember that what I am writing about is NOT the same as magic where a word is said to possess magical power in itself.

The name of Yahshua stands for the character of Yahshua.

When the Bible speaks of YHWH writing His name on our foreheads it means that He imprints His character on our soul and mind.

"And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. And they shall see His face, and His name shall be in their foreheads" (Revelation 22.3-4).

So, praying in the NAME of Yahshua implies praying in the likeness of character and attitude of Yahshua besides believing in and counting on the authority given to Yahshua.

Don't be too involved with your circumstances as if they are the ultimate reality, because they are not. The challenge for us is how we deal with circumstances and how we can influence the circumstances by our faith.

It's important to guard our words lest we may be planting more seeds of doubt and despair for our future.

Be abundant in sowing seeds of faith, hope and blessings, and you surely will reap the future of what you have sown in abundance.

To the extent that you seek, spend time, reserve time for prayer, listen to others that YHWH is directing you to, to that extent you are building a lasting relationship, and as that relationship grows, intimacy also develops, and as intimacy develops, the bonding through faith grows strong, and the more your will lines up with YHWH's will, and the more you are able to move about in faith and pray in faith.

As you live like this, just as Yahshua lived, prayers sent up in the name of Yahshua are filled with power and authority bestowed on you by Yahshua, because you live the way He did, and thus you energize the name of Yahshua to bring forth the promise contained within the seed of that Name.

2010-07-05T18:35:00.006+02:00

Seeds of Your Future - Part III

In the previous parts I discussed how our words testify of us what power we have put our faith in, and how our faith in that power shapes our future whereby the words we speak in that belief act like seeds which will yield fruit after their kind.

It's not the same as the idea that words possess inherent power to change reality, as if we are little gods capable of creating the world we desire by the use of certain words.

I have written how the words we speak carry the energy of the force which inspired the words within us by means of creating the right chemistry settings and thoughts within us.

Thus, the words we speak become seeds planted by that force in order to create our lives in the image of that force, a force reaching out from beyond through our micro-cosmos into the macro-cosmos of the world we see around us.

But HOW exactly can the seed of a word grow up to produce more of the reality of that word?

This happens because we FEED that word, just like rain and sunshine nourish the seeds in the field so that they grow up and produce fruit after their kind.

How do we FEED it?

On a SPIRITUAL level we feed it by believing the lie of the force of evil (or the truth of the force of Good = YHWH).

It is our belief (faith) in the force which drives us which energizes the words so that they grow up to produce fruit in the image of the force which inspired the words.

On a PSYCHOLOGICAL level we feed it by giving our full attention to the concept the word embodies, and we begin to compulsively and obsessively focus on it.

When we focus on that word we begin to look at the world through the eyes of that word, like looking at the world through a coloured lens so that we become oblivious to colours other than the colour of the lens.

For instance, if the word ‘failure’ is our focus, then we look at the world through the concept of failing. We no longer see opportunities, but instead we notice traps which can lead to failure.

Because of this, the concept of the word ‘failure’ grows stronger and stronger, until it has absorbed all, and we can see and react to the world only in terms of ‘failure’.

Thus we spend all of our time and energy reacting to what was initially just a small seed named ‘failure’, which produced fruit after its kind by receiving more energy from the evil force which first planted the seed in the garden of our life.

The energy of the evil force is stolen from us because evil managed to lure us away from the protection of faith into the state where we believe in and react in a wrong way to the lie. And as I have explained, the ‘wrong way’ of reacting is either through fighting it by means of ego energy through our emotions, or by accepting it, believing in the lie.

And by the way, by fighting the wrong way against the implanted word ('failure') we ALSO believe the lie, because we allow our lives to be shaped by reacting to 'failure' as if it is a reality, while in truth it is a suggestive manipulation from the force of evil.

In essence it is nothing, and we should not react to it as if it is something.

But because we react to it as if it IS something, it gets the energy to become something in our lives that we end up fighting against.

Even though we may end up as the seemingly opposite of failures in terms of material success, in reality we have been failing all the time because we allowed ourselves to be created in accordance with the intentions of the force which implanted the concept 'failure' within us.

We never grew freely into the person we were intended to be, but instead our lives were shaped from the concept 'failure'.

So, in essence, even though we fought it, we 'BELIEVED' in the lie of 'failure'.

Just as the act of succumbing to doubt destroys faith, the act of faith has the same effect on doubt (because in essence doubt is simply a word expressing the absence of faith).

As long as we BELIEVE in the lie of ‘failure’ inspired by the force of evil, the energy of that force contained in the word/concept ‘failure’ not only remains alive, but it also grows constantly and becomes the creation of our life, like a satanic make-over.

In essence it’s a perversion of the act of Creation as described in Genesis: “And God said: let there be ...”.

In the case of our example we can read it as: “And the evil one said: let there be failure”, and this word comes up from hell through the micro-cosmos of our heart, soul and mind, and begets a physical reality through our ‘negative faith’, by means of which it grows from the seed of a concept/word in our life into a matured manifestation of the concept 'failure' in the macro-cosmos of our lives in this world.

However, the moment we see the lie we have come to believe in for what it truly is (and we can only see the nature of the lie because YHWH imparts His contrasting truth in our hearts), and DISBELIEVE the lie by BELIEVING in truth, then the seed of the lie no longer is fed and it begins to whither away.

Because we now have found FAITH, -the belief in and bonding with the Creator Who told us truth-, our alliance with the truth of our Creator now translates into thoughts and feelings reflecting the will of YHWH, and the words we speak will be like seeds carrying the energy and signature of our Creator.

These words and concepts will also grow because we keep feeding them by walking in faith, aligning ourselves with the Force which brought forth the new words and concepts (meaning, we keep and walk in YHWH’s instructions), and thus receiving new energy from Him which will cause those words to bring forth fruit after their kind.

It is through our FAITH in Him that His words for our life are energized to bring forth fruit after YHWH's kind.

It’s like Genesis 1 revisited to undo the works of the weed-sower.

YHWH plants the good seeds, and the evil one seeks to destroy the good seeds by sowing the seeds of weeds, counting on the fact that the weeds will suffocate the seeds sown by YHWH.

Summary:

The words we speak are like seeds of concepts planted in the garden of our life.

These words have their origin in the way we react to the forces at work within us. The way we react and believe the force at work within us causes us to feed the words we plant.

The process which enables all this is FAITH.

Just as there is good and evil in this world, there also is GOOD faith and EVIL faith.

GOOD faith is when we believe YHWH and His truth for us, this destroys 'doubt', or, 'evil faith'.

EVIL faith is when we believe the force of evil within us to be true and give in to the 'truth' (=lie) of evil, or fight it as if the lie is a truth that we need to prove wrong by achieving the opposite of what the lie suggests. In our fight we make it become something of substance in our life, because our life then evolves from our reaction against the suggestion evil planted in us, and not from the truth of YHWH which sets us free from the lies of evil.

Ancient magicians knew that there also is a power to be derived from evil faith, or 'faith in the occult'.

The magicians at the court of Pharaoh during the time of Israel's servitude in Egypt were by no means mythical figures which sprang from the imagination of the author of the Bible book Exodus, but they were living persons with occult knowledge and abilities.

Their magic comes about through 'evil faith', or, 'occult faith'.

As I have written, words in themselves are just sounds, but they get power when they are energized by faith.

As such, those who believe that the sound of a formula like 'hocus pocus', or for that matter, 'in the name of Jesus' will make things come to pass will be quickly disillusioned.

It's not the sound of the formula, but the FAITH in what the formula represents which causes the word to be charged with energy.

You may wonder how it is possible that 'occult faith' can have any power. After all, when you compare light with darkness it's obvious that light is the active part while darkness is the passive part (it only expresses the absence of light), just as evil expresses the absence of good.

So if the Light has the power, how can darkness also have power?

Have you never wondered where all the life-energy of people and the energy of creation goes? After all, energy does not vanish, it transforms.

The same is true for evil: it feeds on the energy of the Light and uses the energy for its own purposes to create an appearance of substance and power.

The channelling of this power is what makes the 'miracles' of occult faith possible.

The important thing to remember is that it is our FAITH which shapes our lives, because by means of faith in one force or the other we become vehicles which energize the concepts planted in our minds by the force we believe in.

In the last part I will write more about what Yahshua taught us about faith and the power of His name.

2010-07-05T17:59:00.003+02:00

There's Madness in the Method(ist)

Sometimes the Christian Jesus is as far removed from the Jewish Yahshua as the East from the West.

The UK Methodist Church brings forth the fruit of believing in the image of the jesus they built: a boycott against Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Read about it at JPost or thejc.

Yet, you got the Hamas murderers and truckloads of other vile terrorists seeking to shed Jewish blood in the holy land, but nevertheless the Methodists have decided it's all the fault of the Jews.

If you ask me the devil is a Christian nowadays...

2010-06-28T20:20:00.003+02:00

Seeds of your Future - II

Originally this topic was one lengthy article, but upon re-reading it I realized that certain short statements I made could be interpreted in a wrong way due to the way it traditionally has been explained. So, since I needed to make amendments and add more explanations of what I meant I decided to cut it up in three pieces to make it more digestible.

In part one I wrote about words and the concepts they embody as seeds growing up to produce fruit after their kind.

However, words are just half the story.

Taken in isolation, words are just 'air sculptures', sounds, but when we speak words the words are charged with the energy of the force which caused us to speak the words.

This force brought forth thoughts and the accompanying chemistry settings of our bodies which preceded the words, and the nature of this force charges the words with the signature of that force.

For instance, when a force within us causes doubt to rise in our hearts and the feelings associated with doubt, we can either surrender to it, or reject it.

When we surrender to it, the thoughts we have and the words we express are charged with the energy of the force which caused doubt.

When we reject it in the right way by observing the feeling within us, and identifying it as an intrusion on our faith, the force seeking to induce doubt is unable to get access to our soul and it cannot feed itself on the energy which is released through our (wrong) involvement with doubt.

When we reject it in the wrong way by seeking to repress doubt by means of sheer force of will, we end up giving our energy to it, so that eventually we end up giving in to doubt anyway because it has grown too strong and overwhelming for us.

By repression we only postpone and make things worse, it does not solve anything.

So, there's a motivating force behind our words, a force which causes us to speak words which testify of sadness, or joy, or hopelessness, or faith.

This force resides within us, in our micro-cosmos, and each one of us carries the capacity to conceive and express the force of evil and the Force of good, and depending on the inclination of our soul we become the extension of either the force of evil, or the Force of good.

We need to learn to distinguish one from the other, observe the mechanisms yielded by these forces, and cling to the Force of good (YHWH) for our identity.

Whenever the force of evil seems to assert itself we need to recognize that this is NOT us, it is an alien element planted in our 'flesh' which is at contrast with whom we are (in YHWH in Yahshua), and at such times we must learn the meaning of the verb 'to endure' and hang on, not allowing this force of evil to capture our faith and plant seeds of doubt in our garden, but constantly starving this force of evil by abstaining from all temptation it has to offer and keeping a lock on our mouth.

Bridle yourself lest you find yourself planting seeds of destruction in your garden.

Words are the expression of the motivating force behind them, and by guarding your words you have taken one step in the right direction.

More important than that is to learn to distinguish between the forces at work within you and how they operate, because the words we speak are preceded by the way we deal with the forces at work within us.

To distinguish between those forces and to align yourself with good (YHWH) is the most important step to conquer the contrasting force of evil, because you then have become rooted in Him who saves, Yahshua, and the alien element of evil is brought to Light.

Yahshua SAVES you from the force of destruction.

In His Light the works of darkness are completely revealed in all their ugliness.

Let the words you speak or write continuously be a vehicle for clinging to your identity in YHWH in Yahshua, constantly praising Him, thanking Him and blessing Him.

And when the evil one blocks out the light and seeks to tempt you through either pleasure or pain, just see those two impostors for what they are, i.e., tools of manipulation, and guard your mouth that no word escapes your mouth which will plant seed of doubt (= lack of faith) in your garden.

What does this mean?

It means that when the evil one seeks to draw you into hopelessness and you see no light, you simply praise your Creator in your prayers, and although you may tell Him that you are under attack, you keep believing in your heart that He WILL make things right for you.

The way to fight the enemy of evil within is simply by clinging to your Creator in your heart and keep holding on to your faith in Him, even if it seems to be nothing more than an intellectual concept at times and your feelings are overwhelming you.

STILL hold on, keep blessing praising and thanking your Creator, express your love for Him Who loved you first.

This is how you overcome evil: you STARVE it to death by NOT giving your life force over in the act of yielding to temptation which energizes (feeds) the force of destruction within you.

You starve it by choosing NOT to express feelings that the force of evil manipulates within you in order to plant the seeds of destruction for your future.

Remember what James said: “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you”.

He will flee because there's no food to be found in you that he might be nourished and strengthened.

Mind you, when you seriously start to apply what I wrote here you will discover that the force of destruction within you is NOT going to cooperate!

Quite the contrary, the devil will seek to destroy every progress that you make, and you can be sure that he will make life hard for you.

And that is also good news.

Because, if you are a bodybuilder, how are you going to ‘build your body’? Is it not by applying more stress to the muscles so that as they learn to deal with the stress of increased weights they can grow more?

Likewise, the devil in our lives plays the role of stressor, and if we learn to resist him in the right way, meaning, we do not seek to combat him with our own ego by fighting our feelings, but instead we learn to observe his attempts to move us into ego action and simply cling to our heavenly Father within us to the best of our ability, then the devil causes us to become stronger in the process.

So, that is an additional reason NOT to sink into depths of despair whenever your life has become dark and you are plagued with negative feelings.

You simply are being stressed that you may become stronger.

Remember that the devil flees from you when he cannot feed on you.

When he cannot feed himself on any reaction he sought to elicit, it means he is faced with the strength of the Light.

The place he flees away from is filled with YHWH's Light, and THIS is how you grow stronger: you become filled with more Light from YHWH, and it's the strength of YHWH which overcomes all evil, just as light overcomes darkness by its mere presence.

YHWH is our strength, and to become stronger in the process implies to become more imbibed by YHWH's presence. There is no strength outside of Him.

You can try to struggle with sheer force of will, but you will see that somehow, like magic, the force you combat grows stronger and stronger until your will does not have the strength to impose itself any longer. You fed the monster with the energy of your ego and it has been eating you all the way of your struggle.

So, take care of what escapes your mouth lest you may be planting tomorrow's misery.

Learn to take hold of faith and assert faith.

In the next parts I will write in greater detail about the mechanics at work and how even in today’s churches you will find magic being practised due to a lack of understanding.

2010-06-25T19:41:00.011+02:00

The Seeds of Your Future - I

The words we speak are the seeds we plant in the soil of our future.

Our words testify of us what we are inside and what motivated us to say them, and if you identify with force behind those words (in other words, you ARE the sadness, you ARE the doubt, you ARE the depression) then you plant seeds which will bring forth the manifestation of the power which caused you to speak the words: MORE sadness, MORE doubt, MORE depression.

Already in the very first book of the Bible we can read how our Creator said: "Let there be ...", and after He spoke, it came into existence.

First He spoke in the spiritual dimension, which translated itself through the dimensions into our physical dimension in the birth of that which He spoke.

Likewise, when we speak we do not utter mere words, but we speak because a force within us motivates us to do so.

We speak from our micro-cosmos into the macro-cosmos.

When we doubt, the words we speak are not only expressions of doubt, but they also act as seeds of doubt bringing forth the fruit of doubt.

In a depressed state of mind the words we speak are not just expressions of that depression, but they serve to enhance it: little seeds bringing forth the continuation of the depressed state of mind.

We may say something like 'the world is a miserable place and it will never change', and by saying those words we not only express the sadness and hopelessness within us, but we also find ourselves planting seeds that we give our energy (faith) to, words which are the focus of our attention. When you constantly focus on one aspect you become unaware of other aspects, and you will look at your world through the eyes of the one aspect you obsessively are focusing on.

When we doubt, we sow the seeds of doubt with our words expressing the doubt, which will proliferate the doubt at the expense of that which could destroy doubt, i.e., faith.

Words are the expression of our state of mind and soul, and the energy they are charged with causes them to become seeds which will yield fruit after their kind over time.

If you wallow in negativity and constantly express sadness, grief, pessimism and doubt, you are setting yourself up to receive more of the same in the future.

You will reap what you sow.

It has become your environment through your failure to deal in the right way with life's blows, i.e. by allowing your faith in YHWH to prevail over the circumstances. And now you are reinforcing that environment by planting more seeds of that same force which caused you to fail in the first place.

For instance, imagine you're a child with a wilful ambitious mother who wants you to be the best at school.

Although you do your best, you fail to live up to her standards and the word she throws at you is 'failure'. You're no good and you'll never amount to anything because you fail to meet the standards she set for you.

You react with sadness and anger to the will of your mother, and fear sets in, fear over your accomplishments at school and how your mother will react.

You start to work to avoid being the failure, and no matter how you try, you simply are not the best of your class, and you slowly begin to see yourself as a failure.

You become insecure, afraid to make mistakes, and you do not undertake anything for fear it may turn into a failure. You're afraid to make mistakes because the relentless whip of your mother's conditioning is planted firmly into your subconscious.

And so you see your life gradually reflecting back at you the fact that you are a failure, never going anywhere, never achieving anything, not because you're a failure, but because you BELIEVE into the lie that you are a failure and thus remain a slave of the conditioning planted within you.

One day you find yourself saying with tears in your eyes 'I'm a failure', echoing the lie you have succumbed to, and planting the seeds originating from the first seeds your mother planted in you.

The seed of the word 'failure' planted in you by your mother through your resentment, fear and sadness, has grown up and brought forth fruit after its kind.

You have given your faith, your energy, to 'failure', and this is what you have become in your mind. Your obsessive focus is on 'failure' at the expense of so many other, far more positive aspects.

The truth is that you are not a failure at all, since this is simply a mind trick used to turn you into a slave of the will of the evil force which used your mother.

This trick can be reversed by observing and acknowledging the mechanics at work which damaged you in life, and 'disbelieving' the lie it produced in you. The act of disbelieving is easy when you learn to look at yourself through the eyes of your Creator, who does not think of His creatures as failures at all. He has a very different definition of success and failure than the world.

Disbelieving implanted lies comes about by believing truth, just as doubt simply is the absence of faith, which disappears the moment faith is present.

So you see how the dominating will of the mother turned into the foundation of your misery and obstructed you in your walk in life.

One implanted word or suggestion, fuelled by your reaction, becomes energized and causes more reactions within you which strengthen the evil force behind the word. Every mistake you make screams 'FAILURE' at you and enhances the conditioning together with your verbal confirmations of the negative faith you have acquired, the belief in the lie about you.

So you fight NOT to be a failure, but the energy you spend fighting is the energy the concept uses to grow inside you, and every occasion you do not turn out to be the very best you find yourself saying to yourself that you have failed, planting seeds of failure in the garden of your life.

The mother who planted the seed of failure may not even have had the intention of hurting her child.

She may not even have been aware of the fact that she was destroying a personality, quite the contrary, she did 'her best' to make sure that her child would succeed in life, and so she tried to make him the best of the class.

This is why it is all the more important for us to learn to control our emotions through hanging on to faith and not let the enemy pull us away from it.

We always need to be forgiving, meaning we should learn NOT to become the judge who pronounces the verdict guilty and then take on the role of executioner who uses the verdict to implement hatred and resentment for the condemned.

We are not equipped to play God.

When we do, we deny Him His place and automatically become slaves to the force which opposes God, and we grow in the likeness of that force which first acted through the mother in this example, and now shapes the character of the 'failing' child.

If we yearn for things to get better, there's a very easy place to start: our tongue.

We need to monitor that which escapes our mouth and learn to modify it so that no new seeds of destruction can be planted in the garden of our future.

Learn to speak blessings, bless YHWH continuously, bless your fellow man, bless the new day you have received and thank your Creator for it (even though your feelings may want to drag you into a pit of darkness), bless the kindness of our Creator, thank Him for the new day given to you, thank Him for the food He gave you, keep thanking and blessing no matter what.

This way you plant seeds of blessings and thanksgiving in your garden, positive seeds which will bring forth positive fruit if you keep feeding them with faith.

When you feel sad and depressed, thank YHWH for the day He gave you and bless His kindness and goodness.

Sure you can ask Him to give you joy, but don't let your sadness express itself in complaints and negativity, because then you will be sowing the seeds which will cause more of the same to come into your life.

Don't focus on the negative, because in essence the negative is NOTHING. I will be going deeper into this in a new series. Darkness really is a name for the absence of the substance of light. Likewise the negative is in essence an expression of the absence of the positive, so why waste energy on the absence of something while you could spend your time and energy on the 'something', i.e., the positive, faith, hope, restoration, life.

In the next part I will focus on the forces behind the words we speak, which not only cause us to express the presence of those forces in the words we speak, but which also feed the words we have spoken.

May YHWH bless you and guide you in faith and give you a blessed Shabbat (there you go, one seed planted).

2010-05-31T13:27:00.014+02:00

Bias

How often have we witnessed the outrage of the international community whenever Israel comes into action, and how often we have witnessed the total absence of a proper response of that community when acts of terrorism are committed against Israel?

The latest military action of Israel is no exception to this strange phenomenon of the international bias against Israel.

News reports underplay the fact that these 'peace-activists' and 'humanitarians' willfully ignored the Israeli warnings, and used violence including iron bars, guns and knives against the Israeli military when they came aboard of the ship, and the context of the event seems to escape the attention of the media entirely.

Strange behaviour for 'peace activists' isn't it, to use violence for their 'cause'?

To put things into perspective read a report shedding an entirely different light on the events surrounding the Israeli response which outrages the (biased) international community.

At this moment we find ourselves in a situation where various countries and regions around the world are primed to explode, it looks very bad at the moment.

If you add the current economic crises which seem to morph into an unstoppable vortex, plus ecological disasters increasing at an alarming rate, we may be in for a ride so rough that it defies all expectations for the future.

Well, I applaude Israel for taking decisive action because that is the only language which terrorists understand.

And yes, I include LYING terrorist supporters who call themselves 'humanitarians' or 'peace activists' among the terrorists.

May YHWH bless Israel.

Update:

Here are some more reports on what really happened:

Jpost.com and Haartez.com.

It should be apparent that the outrage should be directed towards the international reaction to what happened.

You know, since the West did not have empathy for Israel's plight when faced with Islamic murderers, YHWH introduced us to the same problem here in the West.

After all this time it seems Western political leaders STILL have not learned to cultivate some empathy for Israel's position, and we should not be surprised to see in the future more Islam- inspired slaughters in our nations to make us aware of what Israel is up against.

Maybe when the Western countries see their sons and daughters dying at the hands of unscrupulous murderers, finally a little empathy will go out to Israel facing the same problems?

...And by the way, among the 'humanitarians' on the boat was the Dutch Amin Abou Rashed, one of the top dogs of the terrorist organization Hamas, and one of the organizers of the 'humanitarian mission to Gaza'.

Rashed is the leader of Hamas in The Netherlands and connected to the notorious al-Aqsa foundation. He also has been active as a fundraiser for the Hamas terrorists, and this fundraising usually happens under the flag of various 'charity' causes, such as the Holy Land Foundation, an organization which was dismantled in the USA because it existed to finance Hamas terrorism.

...And "most of those who attacked the Israeli boarding party on the Miva Marmara aid ship on Monday were Al Qaeda mercenaries".

Furthermore, "a group of 40 of the more violent passengers were found to have no identification papers when they were arrested upon arrival in Israel. Nearly all members of that particular group were equipped with bullet-proof vests, night-vision goggles and various light weapons. Each also carried the same exact amount of money as the others in his pockets".

"It had already been discovered that one of the organizations behind the so-called "aid" flotilla was the Turkish IHH, a movement that for years has supported anti-Western and anti-Israel terrorist organizations. At certain points in the past, the IHH has aided Al Qaeda."

...Meanwhile in Israel concerns are growing that Turkey will take on a more active role by accompanying future flotillas.

This would imply a direct confrontation of the Israeli navy with the Turkish navy, and a war between the two countries would most certainly mean a war with all the countries surrounding Israel.

...And if you thought 2010 would be a smooth uneventful year perhaps this article may cause you to reconsider.

...And of course Obama never fails the lead the pack in either outright stupidity or in malignant intentions.

He's no friend of Israel or YHWH.

But I'm sure Palestinian humanitarians love him.

Update 2:

Here you will find a video where Netanyahu explains the flotilla incident and displays the common sense which is so notoriously absent in the reaction of world leaders.

When you compare Obama or most other political leaders of the West with Netanyahu there is such a striking difference: the mad, insane pack vs. the lone sane individual, pseudo-intellectual lying garbage vs. common sense and truth.

...And in case you still might be wondering about the motives of the 'humanitarians' on the flotilla, check out this link to hear it direct from the horse's mouth.

It should be obvious that this entire flotilla-event is used by terrorists seeking to create international pressure on Israel to allow the passage of future flotillas on a 'humanitarian' mission to Gaza in order to smuggle weapons and Iranian rockets into Gaza.

Update 3:

...And for those who believe 'humanitarian' missions to Gaza are essential because the Palestinians are starving, you may want to check out this news item.

Palestinians are not even close to starvation, as a matter of fact, often they are in possession of items which even Israelis cannot buy. Any money sent to Gaza goes straight into the pockets of the evil Hamas to buy guns and increase their killing potential.

Meanwhile, students in Israel decided to create their own flotilla as a response to the Gaza flotille, boats on a humanitarian mission to help the suppressed Kurds in Turkey. Ha, you gotta admire their sense of wit and Chutzpah.

...And if you believe in a neutral western media then perhaps you may be shocked to find out how Reuters censored photos in favour of (of course) the terrorists.

The real photos show a very different picture, namely a picture of Israeli soldiers under attack by the palestinian terrorists.

Are there any relatives of the dreaded former white house correspondent/witch Helen Thomas on the editorial staff of Reuters? It is not the first time that Reuters manipulated photographic material pertaining to Israel.

This Philistine Thomas lederhosen sympathizer said that Jews should 'get the hell out of Israel and go back to Poland or Germany.

...But then again, sometimes you can find your worst enemy in your very own house...

2010-03-31T13:05:00.007+02:00

Passover 2010

Those who abide by the rabbinical calendar have already celebrated Passover, but those who abide by the Biblical reckoning of time -which is based upon the visible new moon and not the astronomical new moon-, will celebrate Passover tonight.
Since I think the scriptural Jews (Karaite Jews) are right in this matter I will also celebrate Passover tonight.

Have you ever wondered why we are supposed to EAT a sacrificed lamb, why we are supposed to EAT unleavened bread, and why we are supposed to DRINK red wine?

Well, can you imagine any animal sweeter and more innocent than a little lamb?

Among all the animals this lamb is the epitome of all that is good and innocent.

When we EAT we aborb the nutrients of the food we eat in our body so that we may live and be strengthened and renewed by the nutrients, and our body is strengthened in accordance with the characteristics of the food we eat.

So, when we EAT the lamb we absorb the nutrients in the lamb.

Since a lamb's character is so sweet and innocent we -in a symbolical sense-, also absorb the innocense and kind, good character of the lamb.

Nourished by those nutrients we are strengthened and renewed in accordance with the character of the nutrients offered by that lamb, so that we assimilate the goodness and the innocense and they become part of us.

Of course eating the lamb is a ritual, but in the spiritual sense the Lamb which came to offer Himself as a sacrifice offers our soul-body the nutrients of eternal life, and as we grow closer to Him and are fed by Him continuously we assume His character in our hearts, so that we too become like lambs displaying the Lamb's goodness, His kindness and His sweetness in this world.

And why did Yahshua command His disciples to EAT His body as symbolized in the unleavened bread?
Because, in this ritual, leaven (chametz) is used as a symbol of sin which can permeat man's entire being.
When we EAT the UNleavened bread we absorb within us the nutrients of the unleavened (sinless) bread so that we assume His sinlessness and the chametz of sin disappears from our lives.

This sinless Bread is offered by only ONE Man, our Messiah Yahshua.

Yahshua was that unleavened bread, and by participating in the ritual of eating from the unleavened bread we express our desire to be fed by His sinlessness so that our character, growing from the sinless nutrients contained within the unleavened bread, assumes the characteristics of that which it is fed with, the sinless offering of our Messiah.

Red wine resembles red blood.
What does blood do?

It transports nutrients and oxygen (the spirit) to the cells of our body.

Likewise, the red wine is to depict the atoning blood of the Lamb's sacrifice, so that when we drink of that wine we, as it were, absorb the Lamb's innocent blood within us, and this blood cleanses and nourishes us from within.

And what is a characteristic of wine?

Doesn't it make the heart glad?
Likewise the atoning blood of the sacrifice provides us with the joy of living as renewed human beings before our Creator and fills us with gladness, just like wine.

So the ritual is not depicting some sort of psychic cannibalism, it is an expression of something of a spiritual nature in a way that we can clearly understand.

And by making a ritual out of it YHWH provided us with a strong reminder and a way to feel it in our souls as well as understand it.

Isn't there a saying 'You are what you eat'?
Think about that when you eat the lamb, when you eat the unleavened (sinless) bread, and when you drink the red wine.

Have a blessed Passover, and a blessed week of Unleavened Bread.

2010-02-26T20:02:00.002+01:00

YHWH’s Most Distinguishing Character Trait: Chesed - Rachamim

Our Creator speaks to us in various ways, and one of the ways He sometimes uses to deliver a message is by what others would call ‘coincidence’.
I’ll give you an example.

At one time I was unemployed and I had very little money to spend.
One day when I had gone to town I was approached by an Iraqi man requesting a donation for refugee children of Iraq.
Although initially I had no plans whatsoever giving any money, the story of the man opened my heart for the children he tried to raise money for, and although it was not much I decided to donate some money for the sake of the refugee children.
When I arrived home I was feeling glad that I had given the money even though I had very little money myself.
I took the Bible and opened it, and the first thing I read was the heading of a chapter in one of the letters of Paul: ‘God loves a cheerful giver’.

Some might call it coincidence, but I knew that YHWH was trying to make something clear to me.
He was trying to point out that I should be generous regardless of the circumstances and always be prepared to offer sacrifices for the needy, and that I should do it not grudgingly, but with a cheerful heart, because that is how His joy was able to come into my heart.

It’s very important to continually offer sacrifices for the needy on a regular basis.
Because in doing so we show 'loving kindness' towards our fellow man, and we show ourselves to be children of the One whose essence is this loving kindness.

And so it happened that a few weeks ago I opened my Bible, and the first thing my eyes noticed were the words of II Chronicles 7.3:
"For He is good, for His steadfast love [chesed - loving kindness] endures forever".

...Chesed and Rachamim

Some Hebrew words are difficult to translate because they have no equivalent word in the language they are to be translated into.
One such word is the Hebrew word ‘chesed’.

Chesed expresses that ‘I will continue to love you in spite of you and make things well for you, in spite of what you have done’, and as such it is translated in English Bibles with ‘loving kindness’, ‘steadfast love’, ‘mercy’.

It’s NOT a word which allows itself to be used as a license to ‘do as we like’ and rebel against YHWH, because if we abuse this loving kindness in order to perpetuate evil, we close ourselves off from that loving kindness.
Chesed can only blossom if there is a grateful and loving embrace on our part of that chesed, expressing itself in a changed individual seeking to respond to that chesed with gratitude and love for YHWH.

Chesed is a word which allows for our failings and expresses YHWH’s love for us in spite of our failings.
Even though we fail and be lacking in our response to YHWH, YHWH will never fail us nor turn His back on us forever. He may be silent for a season, and always for a good reason, but He cannot deny His own heart which is full of chesed.

We can only love because YHWH loved us first, and His restoration of Israel is not because Israel has deserved it, but it happens because of YHWH’s chesed, because He is YHWH, and He will be the first to initiate love because of His most distinguishing character trait: loving kindness, a good heart which seeks to do good and forgive.

Another Hebrew word which is often translated with steadfast love, or mercy, is ‘rachamim’, the plural form of ‘rachum’.
Whereas chesed is masculine in nature, rachamim is feminine, and it stands for 'compassion', 'pity', 'mercy', in the same way as a mother feels the pain of her child and is understanding towards her child and responds with love, even though the child may have hurt her feelings.

The word ‘rachum’ is derived from the Hebrew word ‘rechem’, which means the womb.
A womb offers a protective environment for a child, and as the child grows the womb grows bigger to accommodate the child, until the time has come to push out the child into the world we see around us.
Likewise, YHWH’s rachamim offers us a protective environment of mercy flowing from an understanding of YHWH of our plight and struggle with sin.

...Chesed and Rachamim Jumped Off the Pages

And so I read the passage in II Chronicles 7.3, but I did not know what to make from it or why the Bible would open exactly at that passage.
So I shrugged my shoulders, closed the Bible, and I arbitrarily opened it again, and this time the first words my eyes read were the words of Psalm 89.1:

"I will sing of the loving kindness [chesed] of YHWH, forever;
with my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness to all generations.
For I said, 'Steadfast love [chesed] will be built up forever;
in the heavens You will establish your faithfulness.'
You have said, 'I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn to David My servant:
I will establish your offspring forever,
and build your throne for all generations.'"

Now, what are the chances on reading the exact same words twice upon arbitrarily opening the Bible, both pointing to YHWH’s chesed?
These words proclaiming the steadfast love of YHWH, His loving kindness, jumped out at me.
Still, it left me wondering about what to make of it.

A few days later on Shabbat again I opened my Bible, and the first passage where it opened was Jeremiah 33.11:
"Give thanks to the LORD of hosts [YHWH Tsevaoth],
for YHWH is good,
for his steadfast love [chesed] endures forever!"

Again these same words, again after opening the Bible at an arbitrarily chosen place, again the first words I read.
I decided to read on:

“For I will turn back the exile of the land as at first, says YHWH.
Thus says the LORD of hosts [YHWH Tsevaoth]:

‘In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.
In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them,’ says YHWH.

‘Behold, the days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will fulfil the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and He shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely.
And this is the name by which it will be called: YHWH is our righteousness.
For thus says YHWH: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever.’

The word of YHWH came to Jeremiah:
‘Thus says YHWH: If you can break My covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time, then also My covenant with David My servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and My covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David My servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to Me.’

The word of YHWH came to Jeremiah: ’Have you not observed that these people are saying, YHWH has rejected the two families that He chose?
Thus they have despised My people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
Thus says YHWH: If I have not established My covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth, then I will reject the offspring of Jacob and David My servant and will not choose one of his offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
For I will cause their exiles to return and will have mercy [rachamim] on them."

The first thing my eyes noticed was the word ‘chesed’, and after reading about the coming restoration in the light of YHWH’s faithfulness to his Covenant, my eyes were directed to the female counterpart of the word ‘chesed’: ‘rachamim’.
YHWH’s loving kindness, His mercy, expresses itself in the soon coming restoration, a process which is already happening but which is not yet complete.
YHWH’s loving kindness here is connected with its materialisation in the promise of restoration for all Israel.

Again I closed the Bible, and arbitrarily opened it again.
This time the book of Psalms was in front of me, and the first thing my eyes rested upon were words proclaiming the restoration of Israel in context of YHWH’s loving kindness (His steadfast love).

Foolish as I was I did not make an effort to remember which Psalm it was and again I closed the Bible and opened it arbitrarily at any point.
Now I read the words of Psalm 37.34:

“Wait for YHWH and keep His way,
and He will exalt you to inherit the land;
you will look on when the wicked are cut off”

Here the promise of restoration was repeated.

I tried to remember which Psalm I read previously, and I went forward in the Bible, just taking a number of pages, and I read the words of Psalm 106:

“Praise YHWH! Oh give thanks to YHWH, for He is good,
for His steadfast love [rachamim] endures forever!”

Well whaddayaknow!
I was amazed at reading those first words, because it felt that YHWH was somehow making sure that in case I did not get it the first time His message would register now that again I read the same words.

I then turned a page where I read these words in Psalm 107, which I think was the forgotten Psalm I first read when I opened the Bible again after reading Jeremiah 33.
In Psalm 107 I read in the first verses:

“Oh give thanks to YHWH, for He is good,
for His steadfast love [rachamim] endures forever!
Let the redeemed of YHWH say so,
whom He has redeemed from trouble
and gathered in from the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.”

The entire Psalm is one which proclaims restoration of Israel, on a spiritual, national and individual level. YHWH will bring back the exiles from the four corners of the earth.
The Psalm speaks of the restoration that YHWH will bring, because His mercy, His steadfast love endures forever and cannot be broken, ending with these verses:

“Whoever is wise, will observe these things;
even they shall understand the loving kindness [chesed] of YHWH”

The Psalm opens with the word ‘rachamim’, and ends with the word ‘chesed’, both male and female aspects of YHWH’s steadfast love, His loving kindness, His mercy, just as the man and the woman form one whole family together.

I was amazed at the things I had found ‘by coincidence’, so once again I arbitrarily skipped a few pages forward where I first read these words in Psalm 118:

“Oh give thanks to YHWH, for He is good;
for His mercy [rachamim] endures forever!”

Verse 1-4 repeat the word ‘rachamim’ four times, as if to point to the exiles of Israel who have been scattered to the four corners of the earth. It's a perfect continuation of the previous passage I read.
YHWH will again have mercy upon them and show them His rachamim, His chesed.

I skipped another page after reading those words, and my eyes fell on Psalm 119.41:

“Let Your steadfast love [chesed] come to me, O YHWH,
Your salvation according to Your promise”

Again YHWH’s loving kindness, His chesed, is tied to His covenant and the restoration and salvation from the power of evil.

After reading those words my eyes jumped forward and rested on verse 64:

“The earth, O YHWH, is full of Your steadfast love [rachamim];
teach me Your statutes!”

YHWH’s instructions (His statutes) are an expression of His chesed, His rachamim.
It’s because He loves us in spite of our stubborn natures that He provides us with instructions designed to keep us well on a spiritual and physical level.

YHWH’s instructions are not despotic decrees, they are the words of a Father concerned for the well-being of His children, words given for our protection!
What a completely different message this is from what is taught in Christian churches where they throw the instructions in the bin because they have become ‘irrelevant’, ‘belonging to the Old Covenant and Old Testament’.

Well guess what? The ‘New Covenant’ is simply the ‘Renewed Old Covenant’ just as the ‘new moon’ is simply the ‘old moon’ starting a new cycle, and the ‘Old Testament’ points forward to the ‘New Testament’, just as the ‘New Testament’ confirms the validity of the ‘Old Testament’.
These are labels which are unnecessarily confusing and leading people to misconceptions.

Where YHWH finds the fertile soil of acceptance and loving embrace of His offering, He will rain His rachamim in abundance upon those who look towards Him.

After reading the words of verse 64 my eyes jumped forward and rested on verse 76:

“Let Your great loving kindness [chesed] comfort me
according to Your promise to Your servant”

It seemed as if in the entire Bible I was able to read nothing but verses proclaiming YHWH's chesed, His rachamim, and how this loving kindness will bring about the full restoration of all Israel for those who trust in YHWH and keep the rules of His Covenant.
Both female and male forms of YHWH’s mercy seemed to alternate, as if they were dancing in unison to proclaim the essence of YHWH’s character

So, I tried again jumping a few pages back, allowing the Bible to open up at any given place, and once again my eyes read the following words in Psalm 92.1-4:

“It is good to give thanks to YHWH,
to sing praises to Your Name, O Most High;
to declare Your steadfast love [chesed] in the morning,
and Your faithfulness by night,
to the music of the lute and the harp,
to the melody of the lyre.
For You, O YHWH, have made me glad by Your work;
at the works of Your hands I sing for joy”

I was amazed that once again YHWH's steadfast love, His loving kindness seemed to be everywhere where I focused my eyes upon, and I jumped a few pages forward where I read in Psalm 103.11:

“For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is His steadfast love [rachamim] toward those who fear Him”

Wow, that’s like a never-ending amount of rachamim for those who love YHWH.

I took a few pages in my hand and allowed my eyes to rest on any given point where the Bible would open, and so AGAIN I read the same words in Psalm 136, this time every other sentence was about YHWH’s steadfast love, or His loving kindness:
‘...for His steadfast love [rachamim] endures forever’.

Well, I was amazed at what was happening, and so I took a few pages in my hand and skipped back to any passage which would open.
It did not come as a surprise to me anymore that the first thing I would read were the words of Psalm 100.1-4:

“Make a joyful noise to YHWH, all the earth!
Serve YHWH with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
Know that YHWH, He is El!
It is He who made us, and we are His;
we are His people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving,
and His courts with praise!
Give thanks to Him; bless His name!
For YHWH is good;
His steadfast love [rachamim] endures forever,
and His faithfulness to all generations.”

So I continued to arbitrarily skip back and forward where I read the following passages:
Psalm 80.3:
“Turn us again, O El, let Your face shine, that we may be saved!”

And in verse 19:
“Turn us again, O YHWH Elohim Tsevaoth [translated as ‘God of hosts’]!
Let Your face shine, that we may be saved!”

The same words twice, as if they were spoken for both houses of Israel (and those who have joined them).
I turned the page and I read Psalm 85.10-13:

“Mercy [chesed] and truth are met together;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Truth shall spring up from the ground,
and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Yes, YHWH will give what is good,
and our land will yield its increase.
Righteousness will go before Him
and shall set us in the way of His steps.”

Again I turned a page and my eyes rested on Psalm 89.28:

“My mercy [rachamim] I will keep for him forever,
and My covenant will stand firm for him”

I thought that perhaps on a subconscious level I was so focused on finding texts with the words ‘steadfast love’, ‘mercy’, 'loving kindness' and 'restoration' in them that perhaps this might be the reason why I constantly seemed to find ONLY and exclusively passages in the Bible speaking of YHWH’s chesed and rachamim, and how because of this steadfast love YHWH will restore all things.

So I closed my Bible and I opened it again.
This time my eyes read the words found in Zechariah 9.9-17:

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King is coming to you;
righteous and having salvation is He,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
and the war horse from Jerusalem;
and the battle bow shall be cut off,
and he shall speak peace to the nations;
His rule shall be from sea to sea,
and from the river to the ends of the earth.

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
today I declare that I will restore to you double.
For I have bent Judah as my bow;
I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
against your sons, O Greece,
and wield you like a warrior’s sword.

Then YHWH shall be seen over them,
and His arrow shall go forth as the lightning;
YHWH Elohim will sound the trumpet
and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
YHWH Tsevaoth shall defend them,
and they shall devour and subdue with slingstones;
and they shall drink and make a noise as through wine,
and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

And YHWH their El shall save them in that day,
as the flock of His people;
for they shall be as the stones of a crown,
lifted up as an ensign upon His land.
For how great is their goodness, and how great is their beauty!
Corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids”

I think the message is quite clear.
Amidst all the increasing turmoil and the plans of the wicked to transfer world control into the hands of an elite YHWH proclaims His Salvation and His restoration for His people, the ones who believe in Yahshua and keep the instructions of His covenant.
YHWH proclaims the destruction of the wicked and how His people will see and look on as YHWH liberates them from the stranglehold of the wicked and turns the tables on them.

Why will this happen?
Because of YHWH’s chesed, His rachamim, His steadfast love which is so abundantly present in His character that He cannot hold it back anymore and will restore all things.
In spite of Israel's faithlessness YHWH cannot be unfaithful to the promise of His covenant, He cannot deny His own character.

...The Mercy Gate

In Jerusalem there’s one gate called the ‘Golden Gate’ in Christian literature, and upon His return Yahshua is prophesied to enter Jerusalem through the Golden Gate.
The Jewish name for this gate is ‘Sha'ar Ha-rachamim’ because they used to pray for mercy (rachamim) at this gate.

Isn’t it remarkable then that the Bible opened for me at a passage proclaiming the restoration and salvation of all Israel, beginning with the entrance of the King, the Messiah, on a donkey through the ‘Sha’ar Ha Rachamim’?
When Yahshua will return He will again enter Jerusalem through the Sha’ar Ha Rachamim, the gate in the Eastern wall which currently is sealed shut and considered by the Arabs as their exclusive property.

The Arabs knew of the expectation of the Jews that their King would arrive through the ‘mercies gate’, so in order to prevent this the East Gate (the Golden Gate) was walled up by Muslim conquerors in 1530, and a cemetery was put in front of it so that no Jewish Messiah could enter through that gate, or even walk up to it.

Yet in spite of the muslim efforts to thwart the coming of the Jewish Messiah, Zechariah announces that there will be a critical point in history when the closed-off rachamim and chesed of YHWH can no longer be contained, and they will burst forth and bring the restoration of all Israel. The gate of mercies will open again for YHWH’s loving kindness for His nation, His chesed, His rachamin, to come bursting forth like a great deluge.
No muslim will be able to stop that and I advise them not to stand in the way.

...Lesson Learned

That was the lesson I received about chesed and rachamim.
You may know how to interpret all the prophecies, you may know every dot and comma of the commandments and strictly keep them, but if you do not have chesed and rachamim, you have nothing at all.
Because in rachamim and chesed, in pure love for your Creator and your fellow man, you express the essence of the Spirit behind the Torah and the entire Bible.

And it’s the essence which matters and which gives meaning to everything else.

Without the essence of the Messiah, the promises contained in rituals of the sacrifices prescribed by the Torah are rendered hollow.

Without the essence of YHWH’s Spirit, the words of the Bible become empty shells.

Without the essence of unadulterated love, as expressed in chesed and rachamim, any form of religion is an exercise in futility.
In exercising chesed and rachamim on a daily basis we show ourselves to be sons and daughters of the Most High, because we carry the likeness of His character traits in our being.

Perhaps it’s because I tend to be forgetful that YHWH brought these two most distinguishing character traits of His person to my attention in the way that He did, just to make sure that I would not forget. He did it in the same way as in Psalm 136 where every other line the fact that YHWH’s rachamim lasts forever is repeated.

Only in my case every other line the words rachamim and chesed alternate, the male and female traits of YHWH’s love, just as in the perfect family the man should exemplify the chesed where the woman expresses the rachamim.

Perhaps it’s because I thought of these two words in small letters while they in fact should be spelled out in capitals that YHWH repeated the message over and over again.

Perhaps it’s because the fruit of YHWH’s chesed and rachamim as visible in the prophecies about the restoration are about to explode upon this earth that 'rachamim' and 'chesed' leaped out at me.

Whatever may the case, it’s one lesson I hold very dear in my heart, and by means of this post I wanted to share this lesson with you so that you too can experience in your heart the essence of YHWH’s character: ‘ahava’ (= ‘love’, literally ‘I give’) bringing forth the twins of ‘chesed’ and ‘rachamim’.

In closing I want to leave you some food for thought.
I just mentioned the Hebrew word ‘ahava’, which literally means ‘I give’, and it is translated into English as ‘love’.
But what a different concept of love that is when compared to our Western definition of ‘love’!

We express love as a need or a facilitator, but that is completely opposite of what love is all about. Hell evolves from exercising the Western concept of love, and surely that cannot possible be the outcome of real love?

Hebrew teaches us that ‘to love’ = ‘to give’, it is NOT ‘to need’, it is not ‘to seek to get’, and love always stands in right relation with the Ultimate Giver, YHWH.
If all men were to exercise this type of love we’d have heaven on earth, and divorce and dysfunctional families would be rare indeed.

And with this thought I have come full circle.
YHWH loves a 'cheerful giver', because 'ahava' = 'I give', and in giving cheerfully and unselfishly we love and express the essence of YHWH's character. In doing so, He will rain the refreshing rains of infinite rachamim and chesed on the soil of our hearts, that we may bring forth more fruit abundantly.

Interesting what we can learn from the study of the Hebrew language, isn’t it?

Have a blessed Shabbat!

2010-01-02T17:08:00.002+01:00

2010

2010, another new year on the Gregorian calendar.
What will this year bring us?

When we look at the financial predicament of western nations the picture is not very rosy: according to this article more nations in the EU block will become a risk zone, and this includes The Netherlands.
If we want to avoid national bankruptcy the budget deficit needs to be addressed, but if this is done by increasing taxes and taking away even more money from the average citizen and private corporations than before it will have a devastating effect on any hope for economic recovery.

So, we’re in quite a serious predicament.
Thanks to all those wonderful bankers and their political friends.

2010 will also bring the beginning of a new Biblical year in a couple of months, and it will be a very crucial year since it marks the beginning of year 63 in the 70 year count from the birth of Israel in 1948.
Revelation makes it quite clear that the final period before the restoration will be the most turbulent period in the entire history of man. So if the full restoration of Israel will indeed take place after the counting of 70 years, then autumn 2010 may very well mark the beginning of an extremely unpleasant period.
I’m not only talking about terrorism, wars and violence, but also about nature and the earth itself being shaken violently.

So will 2010 indeed turn out to be the beginning of that dreaded period referred to as Daniel’s final week?
For me it’s been very quiet spiritually lately, and I don’t know if it’s just me or if it is the silence before the storm.

Whatever may come, I hope that YHWH will smile upon us all this year and remember us with kindness and love in His heart, and be gracious to us. May His goodness be part of our lives and may His love touch and move us all, so that we can be a difference in an indifferent world.

Barchu Et Shem YHWH, Barchu Et Shem Yahshua, Barchu Et Ruach haKodesh.
(Bless The Name Of YHWH, Bless The Name Of Yahshua, Bless The Holy Spirit)

2009-12-22T18:15:00.003+01:00

Reminder

It cannot hurt to give you a strong reminder of what we are really tolerating when we speak of the 'great religion of peace called Islam'.

Still so many politicians speak favorably about Islam and the cause of the 'palestinian people', glossing over any act of violence committed in the name of Islam or a 'free palestine', whilst at the same time condemning Israel when she strikes back in defence after the umpteenth assault on Israeli citizens.
Jimmy Carter is such a man, the Dutch equivalent Van Agt is another.

The political arena is infested with men facilitating, condoning or even actively supporting evil.
When Jews are killed they look the other way, when a Jew steps on the toes of a palestinian fundamentalist they cried bloody murder.

That is why I am publishing this link which leads to a site featuring a videoclip about children beheading a man in cold blood while acting as if it is the most normal enjoyable leisure activity in the entire world.
Even today I have a hard time watching the video because it is so incredibly gruesome.
Yet in the videoclip children actually perform the atrocity with joy in their hearts. Unbelievable, what will become of such children when they grow up?

Well, it's all for the sake of pleasing allah the demon god, so I guess that makes it alright...

2009-12-19T14:10:00.003+01:00

Goremythology

As politicians seek to establish an agreement on climate control in Copenhagen, thus looking for an excuse to leech the finances of the average man in the street and place the burden of ‘saving the planet’ on his neck, as well as seeking to establish a supranational body of authority, we are experiencing very cold winter weather here in The Netherlands.
Last night temperatures sank to even -18 C in certain places.

It’s as if our Creator wants to imprint a message on our minds, since we collectively are being dumbed down by parrot politicians seeking each others approval, slimy excuses for human beings.
They all have one credo which complies with the false religion of Al Gore and his compadres, who deliberately have falsified information in order to create support for their agenda for globalization.

Yet how much attention does the media pay to all this?
Honestly, why in heaven’s name should we bother with excuses for journalists who only lend themselves for a politically correct agenda and do not bother to investigate deep enough in search of truth? If someone fails to do his job, surely it stands to reason that he should be fired and get another job?

I will not go into depth into this subject matter since Klein Verzet have already written a number of items on the subject matter; just go over there to read more about it.
The global warming issue only serves as a battering ram for the agenda of political elitists, to redistribute wealth on a global scale and make Western economies subservient, placing massive burdens on the heads of the men in the street who will pay big-time for the lies the climate mob imposes on them.
But don’t worry, the wealthy elite remains scot-free since they will have ways to increase their privately accumulated wealth as if by some obscure form of black magic. They don’t mind global socialism, as long as they are able to retain and increase their fortune.

It’s very annoying to see how lies are fabricated with far reaching consequences (remember the ideal of a united Europe and how we lost our national sovereignty?), yet the established newsmedia pay very little -if any- attention to it.

Yet here we are, and just like last winter it’s very, very cold.
Is Someone trying to get a message across?

2009-12-06T16:57:00.002+01:00

As It All Comes Together

Below you will find the latest newsletter from Jerry Golden.
He speaks of the current situation in Israel and the great tension among Israelis.
It’s not just one isolated country which threatens Israel, but all surrounding nations, including the belligerent Syria with its missiles able to carry chemical and biological warheads, which are able to reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, threatening to take back to Golan heights.

If Israel decides to launch a pre emptive strike on Iran, you think the Iranian ally Syria will stand by, watching and doing nothing? Any pre-emptive strike on Iran also implies war with Syria, and in that light Michael Rood’s prediction for Yom Teruah 2010 that it will bring the fulfilment of Isaiah’s prophecy of Damascus being reduced to a ruinous heap may very well come true.

Anyway, the stage is set and war seems to be inevitable, whatever way you look at it.

"As it all comes together.

Posted: Monday, November 30, 2009
- written by jerry golden

If you saw a sign stating that Jews were not allowed to live in your town, or even in your country, would you find that offensive?
Of course you would, and surely you can see how we feel when Obama and the UN both tell the Jews they cannot build in the city of Jerusalem or live in Judea or Samaria.
To take it a step further, they cannot continue to have babies, for there can be no 'natural growth' in their present neighbourhood.
I know that is putting things in very simple terms, but in fact that is exactly what is happening here in Israel.

The Arabs. who call themselves "Palestinians", shelled our civilian population with missiles and rockets for 8 long years - terrorizing the entire population. Yet our weak leaders were so afraid of upsetting the USA by fighting back that they waited until there was sufficient pressure from the Israeli population to force them to retaliate.
And, even then, taking every possible precaution not to kill civilians - whilst having to fight an enemy that chooses to hide behind their women and children, hoping that some will be killed thus allowing the media to bring down the wrath of the world upon the IDF. They do this knowing that they have the full force of the UN behind them, and the endorsement of the European leaders now terrified of offending their Islamic constituents.

Consider the mental pressure we suffer here in Israel knowing that Hezbollah and Hamas are being supplied with weapons by Iran for the next war, and hearing Syria saying daily that they will take back the Golan by military force - that they have missiles capable of reaching Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem attached with Chemical and Biological warheads.
Add to that the knowledge that Syria is, and has been, building secret nuclear plants with the help of Russia and North Korea.

For the past two years Russia has been moving warships to a Syrian Port just north of Israel, putting them in easy striking range of Tel-Aviv.
At the same time Egypt has been completely re-armed thanks to the USA. They have F-16, F-15's and long range artillery and are daily trying to figure out ways to move them closer into the Sinai Desert nearer Israel.

As you know, Israel has a peace treaty with both Jordan and Egypt.
It would, however, be very foolish to think they will not join in with the rest of the Arab world when the war begins.
They would be afraid not to simply because if the Arabs were victorious, they would be the next target because the whole Arab world would turn on them. Egypt has long memories of the 1967 and 1973 wars - and they seek revenge.

It's not easy to figure Turkey out. The Turkish people don't want any war, they don't want any of the Arab style of Islam, and from the many contacts I have there it is easy to determine that they are not in favour of their Government kissing up to Iran and Syria.
The Turkish Military has always been secular, and has in the past held the religious politicians back from forcing fanatical Islam on the people.

There are however, many indications that the Turkish military is now leaning more towards the Islamic point of view, and that is very dangerous for the Turkish people - and the world.
The most troubling development lately has been the chilling of relations between Israel and Turkey.
Keep in mind Ezekiel 38:5-6 where you read of Togarmah being one of the five countries that will join in the fatal fight against Israel in the 'latter days'. Togarmah was a grandson of Noah who settled in what is today called Turkey.

You must know as I do, that end time events seem to be rushing in upon us. When you consider what is happening in the US, there is only one way Obama could have been elected, and we both know that reason is to bring judgement upon the US - and it is coming quickly.
Be prepared. [Gen 12:3].

There is more than enough reason for us to be concerned about our loved ones and their salvation, as well as their welfare.
But the first thing you have to consider is your own relationship with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob because no one can make that decision for you. It is between you and God.

You might ask the question - as I have many times - how will this Ministry rescue Jews when along with the global insanity and wars the world will once again be blaming the Jews and another Holocaust is all but certain?
The answer I always give is that my only concern is to be about the Father's business and to be obedient and to keep my eyes on the things God has appointed unto me.
So my answer to you is the same; if God has called you to this Ministry that will also be your answer.
God willing, we will succeed in our efforts to save Jewish lives.
It is now up to us to be diligent and prepare as best we can and it will take obedience from each of us, for much is needed.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem for our son Joel and all the IDF soldiers. Pray for this Ministry and your part in it.

Shalom, Jerry Golden"

2009-12-04T17:46:00.003+01:00

The European Soviet Union

A very interesting news item is this following article in the EUtimes.

Our national politicians have sold their people as slaves to the bureaucratic entity referred to as as the EU.
We only need to take a good look at the countries which were once part of the dreaded Soviet Union to know the future of those living in Europe today.
And the EU has an ability to monitor each individual to such an extent that the former Soviet Union could only dream of.
Total control by pushing just one button.
Records of each individual and the visual information from cameras are all there in various databases; all that is needed is software linking all databases together and you got full control over everyone.

Who is willing to sacrifice his spirit on the altar of the EU?
Certainly not I, but when I look at the world today there are so few places of refuge left.
The USA used to be such a place, yet Obama is very rapidly destroying the American independence from within by cultivating and promoting the socialist mindset.
So where can we go, what can we do, how do we fight an invisible enemy?

The Netherlands now is nothing more than an illusion to lull the minds of those living in The Netherlands to sleep.

2009-12-02T18:34:00.003+01:00

Pointers in the News

In the light of my comments on Daniel’s final week the following two recent news items are interesting.

The first news item deals with a prophecy from the renowned rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman, a.k.a Vilna Gaon.

He predicted that the moment the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem would be rebuilt for the third time the Temple also would be rebuilt.
Since the synagogue is scheduled for completion and rededication on March 15th 2010 this would mean the temple could be rebuilt right after that date.
It would fit in perfectly with the beginning of Daniel’s final week in 2010, a prerequisite for which would be that the rebuilding of the temple begins prior to Yom Teruah 2010.

“According to a centuries-old rabbinical prophecy that appears to be coming true, on March 16, 2010, Israel will begin construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem.
During the 18th century, the Vilna Gaon, a respected rabbinical authority, prophesied that the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem, which was built during his day, would be destroyed and rebuilt twice, and that when the Hurva was completed for the third time, construction on the Third Temple would begin.”

Read the article at Israeltoday.co.il.

Another news item of interest deals with the Swedish attempt to concoct an EU resolution which will recognize an eastern Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, while no mention is made of the recognition of west Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Rather than giving my own comment I will let YHWH’s comment speak for itself:
“And on that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people. All who burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it“, Zechariah 12.3

The only good news that I see is that the dreaded bureaucratic entity called the EU, a paradise for power mongers and their slimey trails, will ultimately be cut into pieces by YHWH Himself.
The downside is that I do not know what form or shape it will take, but we can be sure that YHWH takes no half measures. I just pray He will keep in His mind and heart that many of the people living here never wanted a EU to begin with, and furthermore we cannot influence the strange and often other worldly policies they adopt.

Here are a two excerpt from the news item at Jpost:

“Sweden's attempts to insert language into an EU resolution on the Middle East that would recognize east Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent Palestinian state harms European efforts to play a significant part in mediating between Israel and the Palestinians, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued Tuesday morning.”

“However, as one Israeli diplomatic official pointed out, what is maddening from an Israeli view point is that the call for east Jerusalem to be the capital of an independent Palestinian state is not coupled with a call to recognize west Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”

2009-12-01T07:05:00.009+01:00

Psalm 83 and Daniel’s Prophetic Week

...Psalm 83 and 2009

Where the idea of Psalm 83 as a prophetic psalm about the end times comes from I do not know. As often is the case, it suddenly popped up on the internet and was picked up by various people.

Psalm 83 deals with the historical enemies of Israel, yet it is not confined to history alone since the words of this Psalm are indeed of a prophetic nature.
Some phrases we have heard or read in the media are found here in this Psalm verbatim, as if this psalm is a comment on the world today.

Just look at verse 4 which repeats the exact words of not only Ahmadinejad, but also of many imams preaching that islamic gospel in their mosques, words which embody the credo of terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Psalm 83 deals with the current situation of Israel (as the forefront of the entire Western world) vs. Islam (the entire Middle East plus MANY Islamic cells all over the world).

Many politicians do not realize that right now at this very moment there’s a very real possibility for an Islamic nation such as Iran to cause an electro-magnetic pulse to knock out the technological supremacy of the West in just one moment and launch a worldwide jihad, and that the enthusiasm aroused by the prospect of a worldwide Islamic supremacy would cause many sleeper cells (moderate Muslims) in our Western world to awaken and be transformed into Islamic warriors for the sake of Allah.

Ahmadinejad knows this, and that is why he remains defiant to this very day, deliberately setting course for a military confrontation.
What does he have to lose?

If Israel should be successful in bombing Iran in a pre-emptive strike the backlash of the Islamic countries in the Middle East would be overwhelming and Israel would be under attack from all sides. Besides that Iran has a few tricks up its sleave.

If the world or Israel refrains from any action Iran becomes a nuclear power and achieves the status of one of the untouchables with devastating power at her disposal.

Suppose Iran would launch an EMP over Europe and the USA, then a worldwide jihad becomes possible, and who would help the West?

Russia? Or China? Most likely they will seize the opportunity to 'redeem their investments' in the West by invading it and confiscating entire countries.

...Psalm 83 and the Middle East

When we look at the nations mentioned in this psalm we can see that they comprise all the surrounding nations of Israel:

-Assyria or Asshur (at least Turkey, Syria and Iraq, even including Egypt if we look at Assyria around 670 BC),
-Ammon, Moab and Edom (Jordan and the West Bank),
-Tyre (Lebanese Hezbollah),
-Philistia (Gaza strip),
-Ishmaelites and Hagarites (which includes Saudi Arabia).

These are the nations which will bring about the latter half of Daniel’s final week with untold persecution for Israel.

They also are the nations who will be subjected to YHWH's fire when He unleashes it in Judah’s heart (“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the peoples round about”, Zechariah 12.6), causing Judah to lash out at the surrounding nations with devastating consequences for these nations (“and the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel [name means ‘lion of El’], all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night”, Isaiah 29.7)

...Psalm 83 and The Missing Seventh Day

Walid Shoebat mentions how the 6-day war, -which had a similar scenario as depicted in psalm 83 with Israel under attack from all sides-, leaves only one more last day in order to arrive at the complete sequence of 7 days.

This is a very interesting comment in the light of Daniel’s prophecy, because this prophecy awaits its fulfillment in one more final week, during which the time of ‘Jacob’s trouble’ will occur.

The parallel with Daniel’s final week is obvious:
after 69 weeks one more week remains in order to come to the 70 sevens – after 6 days of war one more day of war remains to come to one full seven.

At the end of the 6-day war in 1967 Israel managed to get Jerusalem back, and as such it marks an important milestone which gives a starting signal for a countdown.

As I have explained in other entries in my blog, in cases where we begin counting 50 years, a Jubilee, we have to follow the rules for counting the Jubilee, which is the equivalent of counting up to another type of Jubilee, Shavuot.
We have to count Shavuot from the morrow after the Shabbat in the week of Unleavened Bread, 7 weeks (7 Shabbats) we must count, and the day after the 7th Shabbat is day 50, the Shavuot, a type of Jubilee.

So, in the case of counting from the end of the 6-day war (which ended in June 1967), we have to look for the morrow after the Shabbat in the week of Unleavened Bread. Since this was already past in June 1967 we have to start counting from 1968.
When we do that we arrive in 2017/18 as the Biblical year 50, the Jubilee or Shavuot, which also is year 70 from the foundation of the nation Israel, another important prophetic milestone.

Shoebat believes that the one missing day from the 6-day war will be a one-day war in the future, but I think that this ‘day’ is not a literal 24-hour day, but a period corresponding with Daniel’s final week, the last ‘1’ in the structure of Daniel’s 70 sevens prophecy (7-62-1).

Just as the 7th day is the day of YHWH, a day set apart from all other days, the one missing day from the 6-day war is a type of Shabbat when He will deal with Israel’s enemies (the surrounding nations on the 7th day) and will proceed to pour out His judgment on the nations.

This 7th day as the day after the 6-days of war in 1967 is the day prophesied by Zechariah in chapter 12.2-9 when he writes ‘on that day ...’.

Zechariah gives a description of this one day which seemed missing in 1967 but which was not missing but reserved for a later date.

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

And on that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people. All who burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

On that day, saith YHWH, I will smite every horse with astonishment and his rider with madness.
And I will open Mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness; the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, `The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in YHWH Tzevaoth, their Elohim.'

On that day will I make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf, and they shall devour all the people round about on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
YHWH also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

On that day shall YHWH defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David, and the house of David shall be as Elohim, as the angel of YHWH before them.
And it shall come to pass in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem”
Zechariah 12.2-9

Just as the 70 sevens (weeks) prophecy of Daniel is multi-layered, the 7-day war is layered.
Just as the 70 sevens prophecy was broken up with the last week broken off and reserved for a later space in time, the final 7th day of war for Jerusalem was broken off and reserved for a later period which is yet to come.

In Daniel’s prophecy of 70 sevens we find three layers:
1. 70 weeks of years in the first layer,
2. 70 weeks in the second layer and
3. 70 literal years in the third layer,

The 7-day war awaiting its fulfillment in the 7th ‘missing day’ to come to the number of completion, 7 days (one week), knows 2 layers:
1. a layer of 6 literal days, and
2. a layer of one 7th day, a period of one seven of years, which in my opinion is not a literal day but the period of Daniel’s final week.

After all, the 7th day is the Shabbat, the day of YHWH that He set apart to give rest to the weary to refresh and renew them, just as the final 7th day after the 6-day war be a day of YHWH when He will set Israel apart from the nations and give her rest from her enemies and bring judgment on the enemies of Israel (“after two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up that we may live before Him”, Hosea 6.2).

When I then look at Revelation where, after Daniel's final week consisting of the 7 seals and 7 trumpets, Israel is given victory over her enemies at the end of Daniel’s week, this ‘missing 7th day’ corresponds exactly with Daniel’s final week of 7 years.

So the ‘7-day war’ has a structure of 6 + 1: 6 literal days after which Jerusalem was conquered (1967), and one remaining day standing for one seven of years, Daniel’s final week.
In its entirety this 7-day war is structurally the same as Daniel’s final seven (7 year-days).

After this 7th day -which will end with Israel’s victory over her enemies and the restoration of a complete and renewed Israel-, YHWH will proceed to pour out His bowls of wrath (Revelation 16 will take place) and He will vindicate His will one more time for the entire world to see when the massive end times army crosses the river Euphrates and marches into Israel to receive the ultimate judgment from the Almighty in the battle of Armageddon.

After the 7th day followed by the ‘bowls of wrath’ there will be one more uprising, a war to end all wars (at least, for the time of one millennium), which is the war at Armageddon.
Yahshua will personally intervene and destroy the massive end times army crossing the Euphrates in order to deal Israel the death blow.
Instead of dealing the death blow to Israel, the nations will become the recipients of Yahshua’s judgment on them, and as they sought to do unto Israel Yahshua will do unto them.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

After the 7th millennium of the Messiah one more final war will follow, thus encapsulating and setting apart this one ‘day’ of the Millennial reign of the Messiah with two moments of extreme darkness as if to emphasize Yahshua’s light by contrasting it with two of the darkest attempts of evil to overcome the light.
Since the acts of darkness at the beginning and end of Yahshua’s millennium are identical in nature Ezekiel describes them both in one prophecy in chapters 38 and 39.

Then the light of the 8th millennium will burst forth leaving us to speculate about the goodness it will bring when we read the descriptions of that day at the end of the book Revelation in the Bible.
But one thing we can be sure of, and that is that it will surpass anything we have expected it to be in terms of the goodness and joy it will bring.

Read all about it in tomorrow’s newspaper, Revelation.

The reason why I believe that the final week prophesied by Daniel will NOT bring Ezekiel’s war, and why the end of the final week is NOT the moment of Yahshua’s return you can read in the entry ‘The Moment of Return’.

...Body, Mind and Spirit

The restoration of Israel occurs in three phases: the restoration of the BODY (nation), the restoration of the HEART and MIND (Jerusalem), and the restoration and renewal of the SPIRIT, the RUACH, which is yet to happen.

The prophecy of the rebirth of the nation Israel, the BODY of Israel, was fulfilled in 1948, thus fulfilling YHWH’s promises that He would bring Israel back on the world scene in just ONE day (“Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children”, Isaiah 66.8), and that He would restore the tents of Judah first (“YHWH shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah”, Zechariah 12.7).
Notice how the birth of Israel as a nation also happened in the timeframe of ONE day, a literal day? As if YHWH wanted to give us another clue to His time-piece.

In 1967 the body of Israel was given her own HEART back, Jerusalem, yet Israel lacked one more essential element: the Ruach HaKodesh Who would come to put a new spirit in the body and heart of Israel.
Furthermore, Israel’s body and her heart are not yet complete and under constant attack by many.

Both the foundation of the nation of Israel (which occurred on the day preceding Shavuot, day 50, which brought war instead of peace and restoration) and the conquest of Jerusalem (which brought about two ‘ventricles of Jerusalem’, east and west, YHWH vs. Allah, remaining divided to this day) reach out into the future for that one moment of Jubilee when all will be restored.

The Shavuot of 1948 (the Jubilee) was taken out and reserved for a later date, just as is the case in the structure of Daniel’s prophecy which is subdivided in 7 sevens (49 years) – 62 sevens – 1 seven (seven years): the ‘1 seven’ is expected AFTER the first 7, yet instead it is taken out and placed at the end.
Daniel’s prophecy consists of 70 sevens, i.e. 490 years, 49 decennia, thus also indicating the parallel with counting 7 Shabbats (49 days) leading up to Shavuot, the Jubilee, day (or year) 50.

Just as the Jubilee of 1948 was taken out and placed in the future, the final 7th day of war did not take place in 1967.
The ‘7’ is an indication of completion, and the fact that after 6 days of war the 7th day did not occur in 1967, is something which has a parallel in the Shavuot (in Christian circles ‘Pentecost’ when the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh is remembered and hoped for) of 1948 which was taken out and reserved for the end.
Instead, after 6 days of war, Israel had conquered Jerusalem with only one properly functioning ventricle.

Thus, this 6th day points forward to the final day, Yom Shabbat, the day when YHWH will give rest to His people from her distress and bring peace.
This 7th day was taken out and reserved for the time of the end.

...The Heart of Israel

I likened Jerusalem to a heart having only one properly functioning ventricle.
Do you know how ventricles work?

The heart has a right and a left ventricle.
The right ventricle pumps blood in the pulmonary artery which brings blood to the lungs where it is enriched with life-giving oxygen.
From there the enriched blood is transported into the left ventricle of the heart, which pumps the blood to the various parts of the body where the organs are the recipients of the oxygen. The blood then returns to the right ventricle of the heart in order to be enriched with new supply of the life-giving substance called oxygen.

If Jerusalem has only one properly functioning ventricle, how is the oxygen (the Ruach HaKodesh – Holy Spirit) ever going to be able to renew the body of Israel?
For that to happen ONE united heart with two properly functioning ventricles are required.
THEN the Spirit of YHWH will flow freely through the body of Israel without the obstacle of a left ventricle held hostage by Allah.

However, before that can happen Allah will provoke a heart-attack.
But it will come at the expense of the spirit masquerading as the Creator YHWH.
It will have all the pains of a heart attack, but YHWH will use that opportunity to carry out His open heart surgery and create a new stronger heart of Israel.
YHWH is always smarter.

...The Numbers & the Message

YHWH often uses mathematics to convey a message to us, and in the 70 years in combination with 50 years we can read a message of restoration for and renewal of Israel.

When we count 70 years from 1948 (or, 7 decennia just as a complete week has 7 days), and we count 50 years from 1968 (or, a counting towards a Shavuot, the Feast Day when it is remembered that YHWH gave His Torah and Yahshua sent the Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit), we arrive at the same end date (the Biblical year in 2017/18).

70 + 50 = 120 = 12 * 10, numbers which convey the message of all 12 tribes united in obedience to YHWH’s commandments (10).
Year 70 is the ‘Shabbat’ (7 decennia), year 50 is the Jubilee (or Shavuot), day 7 (of the unfinished 6-day war) is the Shabbat, and taken together they convey the message of rest, restoration and renewal for Israel, with Israel comprising ALL 12 tribes walking in YHWH’s statutes (12 * 10).

The counting of 50 (the number of a Jubilee, the time of renewal and restoration) in combination with 7 decennia (completion) indicates the time required for all things to be completed for the restoration and renewal to begin.

50 = 5 * 10, and 70 = 7 * 10, two ‘tens’ indicating the two houses of Israel (12 = 5 + 7), two tens indicating also the written Torah and the living Torah (Yahshua).
The third ‘ten’ remains in the future, the ‘10’ symbolizing the renewal of the restored Israel through the Ruach HaKodesh.
The reservation of the ‘1’ in both Daniel’s prophecy (7-62-1) and the 7-day war (6-1) is a pointer to this Ruach HaKodesh, the Shavuot that did not take place in 1948 but was taken out and reserved for a future date, or, the Shabbat which did not take place after the 6 days of war but was taken out and reserved for a later date.

‘70 times 7’, words spoken by Yahshua which encompass an entire prophetic structure in these two numbers.
70 times 7: 70 years incorporating the final 7 prophesied by Daniel.
70 times 7: after the completion of 70 years, after the completion of the 7 days (6-day war plus 1 day equaling the period of the final week) the restoration will be a fact.
70 times 7: words spoken by Yahshua in the context of complete forgiveness for sin, just as Israel’s sins will be washed away after this period.
70 times 7: equaling 490, the total period of Daniels 70 sevens prophecy.

When we count forward in the future one seven (week) of decennia, 70 years, from the foundation of Israel, and one Jubilee from the return of the heart of Israel which was a fact after 6 days of war in June 1967 we arrive at the year 2017/18.
Remember, in the structure of Daniel’s prophecy 1 seven was placed at the end, just as the 1 day of 1967 after the 6-days of war was taken out and placed at the end as one day consisting of one seven.

So, if the math is accurate (and it all lines up perfectly), the 7 year period preceding 2017/18 will bring us the final reserved week of Daniel, the 7th day of the 7-day war which started in 1967, which will culminate in the restoration of Israel.
At the end of that week YHWH will have destroyed or at least have crippled the nations mentioned in Psalm 83.

At this point in time the stage is set for war and calamity with a Middle East primed to explode, the ever defiant, unreasonable and utterly psychotic Ahmadinejad proudly acting out the role of the mullah's good little marionet, forcing the nations to light the fuse, even willing to sacrifice his own people on the altar of his god.
Next year will be the year 2011, and the closer we come to it, the more it looks like year one of Daniel's final week.

2009-11-30T14:17:00.034+01:00

Psalm 83

O El, do not keep silence; do not hold Your peace or be still, O Elohim!

For behold, Your enemies make an uproar;

those who hate You have raised their heads.

They lay crafty plans against Your people;

they consult together against Your treasured ones.

They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;

let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"

For they conspire with one accord;

against You they make a covenant

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Asshur also has joined them;

they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.

Do to them as You did to Midian,

as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

who were destroyed at Endor,

["for the day of YHWH is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes”, Joel 1.15]

who became dung for the ground.

[“and the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night”, Isaiah 29.7]

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,

all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves the houses of Elohim."
[“For as you have drunk upon My holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been”, Obadiah 1.16]

O my Elohim, make them like a wheel,

as the stubble before the wind.

As fire consumes the forest,

[“the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them”, Obadiah 1.18]

as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

[“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shal devour to the right and to the left all the peoples round about”, Zechariah 12:6]

so persecute them with Thy tempest,

and make them afraid with Thy storm!

Fill their faces with shame,

that they may seek Your name, O YHWH.

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever;

yea, let them be put to shame and perish,

that they may know that You alone,

whose name is YHWH,

[and not allah]

are the Most High over all the earth.

2009-11-16T20:55:00.007+01:00

The Moment of Return

…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.

2009-11-14T10:19:00.006+01:00

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.

2009-11-05T17:10:00.003+01:00

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.

2009-10-31T17:23:00.002+01:00

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?

2009-10-19T14:58:00.000+02:00

Goldstone Debunked

Just watch this short presentation on YouTube.

2009-10-18T15:50:00.005+02:00

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.

2009-10-09T10:59:00.003+02:00

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.

2009-10-06T12:10:00.006+02:00

Two Witnesses

...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.

2009-10-03T14:16:00.002+02:00

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.

2009-10-03T14:03:00.002+02:00

Kippur

Well, what a week it has been.
In this week I celebrated Yom Kippur, as is my custom. Prior to Yom Kippur I had been fasting for a week, and unfortunately, precisely on the day of Yom Kippur my gallbladder decided to aid the internal cleansing of my body my pumping some gall into my stomach, probably because I drank too little water.
This ruined the entire morning of Yom Kippur, but fortunately, my gallbladder finally respected my wish to celebrate Yom Kippur and kept a low profile for the remainder of the day.

Prior to Yom Kippur my mother, who had not been well for some time, decided to go to the doctor to have a blood test, and in the afternoon she got a phone call that there was something wrong with her blood, and that she should go to hospital immediately.
She did, and the doctor diagnosed her as suffering from leukaemia, or, blood cancer.
Further tests indicated that she suffered not just from the usual chronic leukaemia, but she also had a very rare type of acute leukaemia, one that needs treatment as soon as possible because of its aggressive nature.
This was quite a shock for all of us, and I suddenly found myself confronted with the possibility of life without my mother.

I love my mother, and the idea of having to miss her was a very heavy weight on my mind. You only get one mother in your life, so whatever shortcomings she may have, you better learn to love her in spite of any shortcomings, just as your Father in Heaven loves us in spite of our shortcomings.
Who of us can stand up and claim to be worthy of YHWH’s love?
Certainly not I, it was a gift He gave me, for the sake of His name and His character that He loved me before I could love Him.
I learned from YHWH’s love to let go and have the same attitude towards people, not to look at their shortcomings, but rather look at YHWH’s love for me and have that same attitude, no matter what.

So, this Yom Kippur, which started Tuesday night because I celebrate the Feast days according to the reckoning of time based on the observation of the visible new moon, the affliction was more intense than ever before.
I had a lot on my mind, asking for forgiveness and reconciliation for me and my family, my friends, YHWH’s children everywhere, Israel, and at the same time asking for recovery of my mother’s health, burdened with the thought of losing her.

But, after the sad Yom Kippur I awoke the next morning like a newborn baby, as if YHWH had filled me with new strength and vigour, and from this state of mind I have proceeded forward.

So I fight and I pray, keeping my vision focused on YHWH, trusting in Him, the One Who seeks to heal and restore, and in His will is my hope and my certainty, whatever His will may be.
I heard Tom Deckard define faith in a very accurate and beautiful way: 'faith is not the definition of reality derived from what your eyes and ears tell you, but it is accepting and living from the definition of reality YHWH gives you in your heart.'
It's living with your inner vision focused on YHWH.

Strange how cancer has reached epidemic proportions.
Most people know at least one person suffering from some sort of cancer.
This is not normal; has our living environment, including our foods, been altered to such an extent that we are constantly surrounded with toxins?
It sure seems to be that way.

Yesterday afternoon I went to visit my mother in hospital.
Her face was more swollen up than earlier in the week, that’s how fast the disease spreads through her body. Her liver did not function well, and she was suffering from diarrhoea. And this while her body needs all the nutrients it can get.

Although I wanted to see her, I dreaded to visit her, because whereas most men are able to keep a calm posture, my tears always seem to win from me.
So, I was afraid that I might add to my mother’s burden by my tears, but when I got there a calm came over me, and fortunately I could talk with her from a serene state of mind.

At this point the doctor in charge cannot determine any course of treatment, also because the disease is so rare.
And so more examinations will follow in order to determine what course of action to take next.

Sometimes life is ugly.
It shows a cruel cold face none of us likes to behold.
I know it’s the result of man’s fall away from YHWH through sin, which caused evil to enter our world and express its horrible character.
But still, it’s hard to endure...
I long for the day when YHWH's kingdom will burst forth on this planet.

Instead of the usual entries in this blog that you are familiar with I wanted to write something more personal. I’m sure you understand that my heart is burdened.
May YHWH grant my mother’s health to be completely restored, in the name of Yahshua.

I would appreciate it if you could send up a prayer for my mother that she may be healed.
May YHWH bless your kindness sevenfold.