Ramadan: Month of Jihad - Prophetic Convergence?

As the month of Ramadan comes in, many Muslim groups are calling fellow Muslims to unleash upon their infidel neighbors in whose midst they dwell.  Many news sources report this.  Breaking Israel News, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, just to name a few.

Some are disenchanted, having grown numb by all the all of jihad and rumors of war from so many quarters.  Indeed, is this not what Yeshua, the very Word of Elohim said would happen in the last days.  Matthew 24:6  6 "You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end."

That is not yet the end!  That is but a setting stage for the entrance of the Instead-of-Messiah.  Some call him Maitreya, the world teacher.  Others are looking for Mahdi or Christ.  But the holy Bible, which has been and IS accurate in all of its prophecies, says he will be the man of Lawlessness (2 Thess. 2:3).  

What is Lawlessness by which we can distinguish this man/being/creature with a Savior complex?  "Lawlessness" is the English translation of being without the "Law" of God, Yhwh, Elohim, the God of the Bible who revealed His Memorial name to Moses.  The English word translated as Law is more properly translated as "Instruction," as is more fitting of a Father giving direction to His children.  But this word, "Law," is translated from the Hebrew for "Instruction," which is better known as "Torah."

Both Protestant and Catholic Churches throughout the world believe and teach that believers were set free from the Law in our Gentile understanding of the scriptures.  They are right in saying that we cannot earn our salvation by keeping the Law.  True enough, Paul makes this abundantly clear in his beautiful exposition in Romans 3, where he tells us that the whole world is under the Law, yet no one is manifestly able to keep it, for we all fall short of the glory of Elohim.  

But, he tells us that we are justified (declared righteous) through grace, by the redemption which is in Messiah Yeshua, whom Elohim displayed publicly as a propitiation (Rom. 3:24,25).  But then he asks in verse 31, "What then?  Do we nullify the Law through faith?  May it never be!  On the contrary, we establish the Law through faith!"  Romans 3:31 is one of the least expounded verses in the Protestant Bible.

Believers in the Jewish Messiah are to KEEP THE TORAH!  The Apostle John tells us in his first epistle, "He who commits sin commits lawlessness.  Sin is Lawlessness" (1 Jn. 3:4).  So when Scripture declares the coming deceiver/one-world leader the "Man of Lawlessness," we can also translate/understand that as the "Man of Torah-lessness."  So we see his spirit is already among us, and the church is in position spiritually to fall right in line with him.  

But back to the prophecies.  There was a rabbi not too long back leading a group in prayer for the nation of Israel, meeting at the cave of Elijah, who fell into a trance and had Elijah appear to him, and warn of a war coming in the south of Israel, moving northward, in which the lives of many Jews would be lost.

More recently, a New York rabbi received a message from the divine telling him that after Shavuot (the feast of Pentecost), there would be a major civil-war in America.  In the article covered by Israel Today, he is quoted as saying:

"Listen to me carefully dear Jews," said the rabbi, "whoever has in his hand to get up and go and go to the Holy Land Israel as soon as possible while it is still is possible, this includes leaving large parts of South America and most of Europe … also the United States will be a place of danger in the war and it is still too early to say which states within the United States will survive, but many parts will be destroyed and poisoned, even civil war will break out in the United States and states will cut themselves off from the federal government … the Land of Israel will be the safest place to survive the war, although there will also be terrible difficulties there."

And there are more prophecies given of rabbis concerning the end.  Yhwh is not through with His people, nor His Torah!  Read how Messiah will rule upon His return!  Torah is not dead, nor a curse.  It is the Truth (Ps. 119:142)!  The Most High still communicates through dream and vision to His prophets and rabbis.  He is warning us.  Will we listen?

Hebrew Theology, Hebrew Roots

In college, I majored in Philosophy, and it was there I learned and really began to see that all people see the world through a certain paradigm, or world-view, if you will.  Christians hold a different world-view from Muslims, though at certain points they intersect.  Hindus and Buddhists have had much of their world-view covertly imported into the traditional Western world-view. 


The Biblical authors all had a Hebraic world-view, shaped by the author of the Bible Himself.   The world-view of the Hebraic peoples, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all had one thing in common, their Hebraic culture and world-view, shaped by the Torah, the instruction of Yahweh.


Abraham Isaac and Jacob all held a Hebraic world-view.  Moses had one.  So did Joshua, David, Joseph, Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Hosea, Joel, and so on till Yeshua. Yeshua had a Hebraic world-view.  He lived the word of God.  He WAS the word of God!  The word of Elohim in the flesh.  He was the Torah.  He IS the Torah made flesh!


The Hebrew world-view, the roots of the Hebrew religion, the roots of the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were shaped and put in place by Yhwh Elohim Himself, the great I AM.


When ministers and pastors come out against the Hebrew Roots followers, and label them as divisive, they are right.  Adonai Yeshua said, "Do not think that I came to bring peace to the earth, but to bring a sword" (Mt. 10:34).  The Word of Elohim is "sharper than any two-edged sword, dividing both soul and spirit, joints and marrow" (Heb. 4:12), separating out the wheat from the chaff.  But those of the "Hebrew Roots" are following and remaining true to the faith of Abraham (Rom. 4:12,13), and with Rabbi Paul, the Pharisee, they "celebrate the feast" (1 Cor. 5:8), for Messiah Y'shua was a minister of a better, re-newed Covenant (Heb. 7:22, 8:6, 12:24).


This is why Y'shua taught his disciples saying:


17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law (Torah) or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.
18 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.


19 Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


^{Ps. 119:142} Your righteousness [Yhwh] is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law (Torah~ instruction) is truth.

Genetic Roots of the Ashkenazi Jews | The Scientist Magazine®

Today, many are rediscovering the Hebrew Roots of their faith, and many are re-discovering the migration of the ten northern tribes.  It seems Yhwh is calling out the descendants of Ephraim.  The below article from The Scientist discusses some of the mitochondrial variation among Ashkenazi Jews.



Genetic Roots of the Ashkenazi Jews | The Scientist Magazine®

PM Netanyahu We Are a Family!

Does Netanyahu understand something most Americans don't?  Does he understand that many Americans are descendants of the Northern Israelite tribes that were dispersed around 722-721 B.C.E., which later immigrated up into the Steppe-lands of Russia, and into Europe through the Caucausus mountain range as the Cimmerians, and the Scythians (respectively)?  We are family!  We are brothers!  :-D

The Apostasy - Millenia old?

 2 Thess. 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. [from www.biblegateway.com]

The great apostasy, which Rabbi Paul told us would happen before the coming of the Torah-less one! You say, "Chris, you are being so extreme calling the Antichrist the Torah-less one!"  Am I?  In English Bibles, the word translated to denote God's revelation of His ways and His character to man was translated as Law in the English language, to convey the depth and overarching supremacy of Yhwh's commands and their reach within and throughout creation.

But today that meaning has been lost.  In our lands of laws and rights, or lack thereof, we have come to see the Biblical word Law in a negative light, and so much so that a key Christians motto is "Christ has set me free from the Law!"  Let me suggest that the reason this is so is because Christians were separated from the Jews and therefore no longer understand the context of the Biblical authors in which they wrote.  The Biblical authors, inspired by the Holy Spirit, wrote out of a Hebraic theological context.

So many of us, who discuss the importance of interpreting scripture "in context" and "knowing the context" are missing the very deepest, and first and foremost context of all, the Hebraic worldview of the children of Abraham!  

 This issue is of first relevance when we come to the description of the arch-rebel against Yhwh, who has been working throughout all of human history to create an army of rebels, and destroy the Elohim's creation, and steal his praise (Is. 14:13-14).  Rabbi Paul describes him as the (as conveyed in the English text) the "lawless one."  I already dealt with this in a previous post.  To the mind of a Jewish rabbi (a "Hebrew of Hebrews" Phil. 3:5), certainly this meant "Torah-less one"  that is, one without and opposed to the revealed will of Yhwh Elohim.  

Now today the church says, "I am not under the Torah!  I have been set free from the Torah!"  Is this not the spirit of the Antichrist already, the son of perdition?  So we see that the spirit of the Antichrist is already in the Church, and most of "the Church" is ready for , and indeed, already under, the great deception!

So this brings us to the title of our post.  The apostasy, the great falling away... did it recently begin historically, as America banned bibles from school in the 60s, and the country saw a massive increase in sexual immorality and crime?  Or did it begin with the advent of human science ('knowledge'), discovering all it could learn about reality apart from the revealed will of the Creator?  Or did it begin, and this is what I think, when Christians were separated from their Jewish brethren in Messiah, and from the tribes and customs of the teachings of the Torah?

For what is the greata falling away supposed to mean?  Falling away from the ways of Yahweh, and from sound doctrine?  In the minds of the Hebrew authors of scripture, what denotes sound doctrine (2 Tim. 4:3)?  The Tanakh, the Torah.  

2 Tim. 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, (emphasis mine)

This is the Bible Adonai Yeshua used.  And again, He affirms it in John 17:17 when He says, "Yhwh, sanctify them by Your truth, Your Word is Truth."  

As Christians, followers of Messiah, we find ourselves in a bind.  We claim to follow the Truth, the person of Messiah Yeshua, who claims to be the Word in the flesh (Jn. 1:14), but yet we also claim to be free of the "Law," the Torah, found in the Tanakh, which Yeshua believed to be the Truth!  And what part of scripture is most often contested and rejected or so poorly taught in Christian churches today?  It's what Christians know as the Old Testament, which is really the Former Testament, or Covenant (that's still very much in force and validity, except where Messiah satisfied its requirements for our justification (Rom. 3:23-25).

So I propose, the great falling away did not begin only recently historically, but began ages ago... as the apostle John said: 1 John 2:18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. 

Go back, and read your Bibles anew with this new understanding, that Yeshua came to reveal to us the Tanakh, and the Torah (the instruction)!  We were not set free from Elohim's instruction (His Torah), but only from the curse of the Torah (for disobedience, the torah of sin and death).  Apply this understanding to your Bible study, and you will find a whole NEW BIBLE, one you have most likely never seen before!!!

#3 The Ten Lost Tribes | Where They Went, What They Are Now Called -- Pa...

This is one the best of videos teaching on the dispersion of the 10 "Lost Tribes"!  It's an hour and a half, but Dumond, a Canadian, is so full of Biblical insights and information.  It is truly a great watch, even if it takes two or three days, you won't be sorry you saw it!  His website is www.sightedmoon.com.

A message to the Church: WWJD? Keep Torah!

It's hard to argue with.  The sinless Son of God... how did he remain or achieve sinlessness?  Unlike all his ancestors in the flesh, the people of Israel, Jesus kept the Law of God perfectly!  And for this reason, He was able to offer His life up as a sin offering on the Lord's feast of Passover (Pesach), the spotless lamb of God.

Keeping the Law of God is really quite a feat!  The Jews had all sorts of rules and traditions, "laws" they passed down on top of God's revelation in order to safeguard the keeping of the Law.  Ever since I have been alive, the Church and American Christians have claimed that Yeshua came and fulfilled the Torah in order to "set us free from the Law!"  But as I began to study eschatology,(the study of last things), I began to notice a few things.

Certainly a major component to Biblical prophecy is when the usurper of God's throne, the Evil One takes throne during the last "Seven" (shabua), which is prophesied by an angel of righteousness to Daniel, telling of the 70 "Sevens" decreed for the people of Israel to finish transgression, bring in everlasting righteousness and atonement for sin, and to anoint the holy Temple (Dan. 9:24).  So from this prophecy, and especially as these times are upon us, it seems that the "Old Covenant" is not out of business; God is not finished with it!  In fact, part of Moses' prohecy in Deut. 30:1-8, at the end of the Torah, extended down to this very day, 3000 years later, after the Jews and Israelites were dispersed into all corners of the earth, and began to be brought back to the land promised to Israel!

Quickly, the other thing I noticed was in Zechariah, speaking of the LORD's return, when the people of Israel "look on Him whom they have pierced," (12:10); Mashiach Yeshua sets up His millennial reign on earth, and "all who are left of the nations that came up against Jerusalem (some will be left!) will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the feast of Sukkot [of booths]." (Zech. 14:16)

So if for the 1,000 years that Jesus is reigning on earth(!!!!  He is, He IS returning!!!!) He will require the inhabitants of the earth to worship and celebrate the feast of Sukkot, or Booths, commemorating Yhwh's deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt into the promised land (which, Egypt Biblically became synonymous with "sin", thus signifying Yeshua's salvation, His deliverance from sin).

Now if these things are going on, WE in the Gentile Protestant Church don't have it all figured out!  I thought something was up!  While in seminary, I remember our professors telling us that the term "Law" in the Bible, was really a poor translation choice for the word "Torah" in the Jewish Tanakh.  A better translation for the term "Torah" would be "instruction."  

So let's apply this dynamic.  "Yeshua came to set us free from keeping God's instruction!  Yay!!!"  Now, how does that sound?  Pretty ludicrous doesn't it?  We say, "Oh Jesus came to set us free from keeping the Law (Torah/instruction) of God!"  Following that logic, it makes it clear that we can live any way we want, and claim salvation.  Not far from me, there is a church with a female pastor, and when she or the church is confronted with the verse, "An overseer [i.e. pastor] should be the husband of one wife, (1 Tim. 3:2)" the immediate response is Gal. 3:20, "we have been set free from the Law!"  But it's funny isn't it, both statements are taken from the New Testament!  What have they really been set free from? 

The problem with this logic is, and I'm tempted to say to them; "Well great!  There's a couple of congregants here I really don't like, so it'd be okay if I killed them!  I mean, we're set free from the Law right?  And isn't the prohibition against murder in the Law, I mean following that would be legalism!"  And you could make that argument about adultery, abortion, murder, homosexuality, etc. etc. ad inifinitum.  

Did Jesus really set us free from the Law?  Let us look at some of the scriptures now with this new understanding.  In Matt. 5:17-19, Jesus says "I did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets.  I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. Amen I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Torah until all is accomplished.  Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever keeps and teaches them, shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

On its face, does that sound like Yeshua is saying "Be free from the Law of God my child!  Be Free!"  No, it doesn't.  In fact, it sounds just the opposite!  We can also see this with the apostle to the Gentiles, Rabbi Paul, as he tries to set out this faith in Messiah to the Jews and dispersed Israelites (remember, the house of Israel was dispersed into the nations circa 720 B.C.) in Rome.  Rabbi Paul says, "What then, should we continue in sin, so that grace may increase?  May it never be!"  Let's remind ourselves, how do we know what sin is?  From God's Torah, His Word!  Again, Rabbi Paul says, "What shall we say then, Is the Torah sin?  May it never be, on the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Torah; for I would not have known about coveting, if the Torah had not said, 'You shall not covet!'" (Romans 7:7).

"But Christopher", you might be thinking, "Are you saying we need to keep the Law in order to be saved?"  Not at all!  Look, Rabbi Paul deals with this also in Romans 3:19-31.  And this really helps if, when you're reading the word "Law," to interpret it as "Torah" or "instruction."  The Apostle Paul taught that we are "saved by grace through faith, and that not of yourselves.  It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast" (Eph. 2:8,9).  In Romans 3:20-22a, 24, Rabbi Paul teaches us:

"because by the works of the Torah no flesh shall be justified in His sight (that is, made righteous, or "saved"); for through the Torah comes the knowledge of sin" [... hence, in order to live life free of sin, like Yeshua, the Son of the living God!] But now, apart from the Torah, the righteousness of  God has been manifested [see Jhn. 1:1-3], being witnessed by the Torah and the Prophets.  Even the Righteousness of God through faith in Yeshua the Messiah for all who believe... being justified [i.e., declared righteous] as a gift by His grace through the Redemption which is in Yeshuah the Messiah" 

We've been SO conditioned, and I think set up for the end-time deception through our use of the word "Law," and it's secular usage (1 Jn. 5:19).  Paul says in verse 31, "Do we then nullify the Torah through faith?  May it NEVER be!  On the contrary, we establish the Torah!"

"What!" you're thinking, "We (Protestant Evangelical Christians) ESTABLISH THE TORAH!!!????"  That is what Paul is telling us!  In Leviticus 23, the proscribed feasts are not called "the feasts of the Jews," but rather, "the feasts of the LORD... even these are My feasts (Lev. 23:2)."

Here's another verse for consideration.  Adonai Yeshua, when giving his high priesetly prayer to the Father, in John 17, says "Sanctify by Your truth, Your Word is truth."  There was no New Testament in existence at the time, nor would the first epistles be written for another 20-30 years.  What Word was He talking about? The revelation given from God, the Jews know as the Tanakh, containing the Torah.  Yeshua said, "[It] is truth" (17:17).

Do Christans not claim to follow the Truth?  We do.  We claim to be people of the Truth.  And we define sin from reading from the Truth.... yet we do not follow the Truth.  We do not establish it, as Paul told us through the Holy Spirit (Ruach hakodesh)(!)  But it seems that there is a growing awakening in our time, as the number of Messianic congregations increase throughout the world, and believers begin to follow Yhwh in Truth.  The LORD is opening people's eyes to understand His Truth.  

This is one reason I have a hard time with the church using "Sunday school" material, which really has become a discipleship material, but has kept believers from seeking understanding of the Scriptures from the Holy Spirit Himself, because the Spirit is the One who gives understanding (John 14:26), not Sunday school quarterlies!  It seems to me that Sunday school quarterlies have kept the church "boxed in" to a predetermined set of beliefs, much like the Jehovah's Witnesses, which have a commentary at the back of their bibles to tell them how to interpret or belief their scriptures from the Watchtower Society, or the Pope, who tells his congregants what and how to believe, and how he gets away with changing God's eternal Truth.  Sunday School quarterlies is a very Popish practice!

But really this Great Deception (THE Great Deception/Falling Away?) started back in the Fourth Century A.D., whcn the Christian Church was separated from the Jews, and the day of their worship was changed from the Sabbath.  The LORD commanded that we honor the Sabbath, and keep it holy.  But Emperor Constatine did not want the Christians to look like the Jews, so he changed the day of worship to Sun-day... the day of worship of the pagan sun god which can be traced back to Nimrod (Gen. 10:8-12), who became a "mighty hunter before the LORD."

Before this, Christians, Messianics and Jews all worshiped together, celebrating the feasts along with observing Torah.  Much of the current confusion in the church today, and why it looks like the world, and why it is losing its young people to the world in the name of science and through Darwinian Evolution (to which even the Pope, the supposed "Vicar of Christ" bowed)... all of this goes back to when the "Christians" were separated from the Jews by the Holy Roman Empire, i.e., the Vatican, and the Christians no longer obeyed the Spirit's command through the Apostle Paul to "establish the Torah" (Rom. 3:31).

When we recognize this fact, we began to have our eyes opened to a whole new Biblical understanding and understanding of what is and will happen in the end times, and why.  I think this is also one reason why we do not see miracles as much in the Church today... for we do not accept Deuteronomy (Second Telling of the Torah) chapter 28, as normative or true for Christians in today's church.

You might still think that I'm being fanatical and legalistic and reading the New Testament thorugh the lens of an extremist zealot.  Haha, ok... but if what I'm saying is true, wouldn't we find evidence of it in the Old Testament, the Tanakh?  After all, the LORD is the same, yesterday, today and forever, right?  What did Yhwh Himself promise of the New Covenant when it was announced through the prophets (remember, Paul mentions it testified by the Torah and the Prophets)?  Let's look in Jeremiah:  

"But this is the Covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD, 'I will put my Torah within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people" (Jer. 31:33).  

This has been one of the Deceiver's greatest deceptions that is still flying under the nose of believers today, and one of the greatest hindrances to the power of the Redeemed of Messiah on earth, as they struggle to carry out the LORD's commands.

"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.  For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith!"  (1 John 5:3,4)

"If you love me, you will keep My commandments."  (John 14:15)

"He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and disclose myself to Him."  (John 14:21)

Now, as for you, is Yhwh's Torah written on your heart?  Will you keep His commandments, and establish His Torah (Rom. 3:31), or will you perpetuate the doctrine of demons and the traditions of men over the word of God?

The Gospel (Good News)... in the Last Days

The term the "Gospel," what does it mean?  It is a term that is connoted with so many meanings today, both positive and seemingly negative... but the term literally means "good news."  In our day of Severe Weather on a daily basis, disappearing or hijacked plane flights, disease outbreaks, UFOs, sudden animal die-offs by the thousands, tropical storms and hurricanes, increasingly stronger and more frequent earthquakes... all of us could use some good news!

So what is it?  What is this "Gospel," this good news we are supposed to be hearing?  It starts with the proclamation of what we already know.  We are all broken, fallen in sin and in our relationship to our Maker.  Sin effects every part of the human being, from our thoughts, to our emotions, intentions and actions.  Even our seemingly good and noble deeds are infiltrated and infected by sin (fear, greed, lust, etc.), so that the prophet tells us that "righteous deeds are like filthy rags before the Yhwh" (Is. 64:6).  And not only is this sin effecting every part of our lives and relationships, it effects the world around us.

The Good News is that a man born a descendant of Abraham, Israel, of the tribe of Judah, born in the city of David, was born to us, and lived a life in perfect obedience and fulfillment of the Torah (instruction of Adonai given to Moses on Mt. Sinai in Arabia).  This Jesus, or Yeshua, whose name means "God is salvation," laid down his life on the the Yhwh's feast (Lev. 23) of Pesach (Passover).  He laid down his life as the spotless, blameless Passover lamb of Adonai.  He shed His own blood for our brokenness, for the sin in our lives, that often rules and directs our lives.  He laid down his life on the tree, and shed His own blood so that we could be set free from that sin that wrecks and brings death into our lives, for the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23).

But that is not all!  Yeshua, who died for our sins to set us free from its control, and set us free to serve and love our Maker, or Father over all, to delight in His ways, is also buying back (redeeming) the entire universe, all that exists.  But that He is going to do it through His chosen people, the Jews, and for the whole house of Isaac (bringing back the dispersed northern 10 tribes).  In fact, the LORD told us this in Daniel 9:24, when He decreed that there were 70 "sevens" or shabuas (seven year periods of time) for the Jewish people to finish transgression, make an end of sin, make atonement for iniquity, and bring in everlasting righteousness, seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place (i.e. the Temple).

Zechariah tells us that in the last days every nation will be against Israel (Zech. 12:3-4), but that Yhwh Himself, Yhwh Sabaoth, will fight for Israel, and show that He alone is God most High, God of Armies!  

We are quickly coming into those days.

God is fighting for Isreal... and His Messiah will return after the Seven Year peace treaty is signed, and Satan, that great deceiver, has his way with this earth.  And so the most important thing today is, do you know Messiah, whose name means salvation?  Or are you going along with the world, pursuing its desires (money, fame, beauty, laptops, technology, human enhancement, etc.).  The world and its desires are coming to nothing, but the one who does the will of God, he shall live forever (1 John 2:14-17)!

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Should Gentiles Return to Torah?

What do you think...

Matt. 5:17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. 18 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not [a]the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Torah until all is accomplished. 19 Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches [b]others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever [c]keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (biblegateway.com)

We know the First Covenant is not finished from Daniel 9:24,27 and it's resumption is near! We know under the Millennial reign of Messiah, all the world will celebrate the Feast of Sukkot (Zech.14:16). The Protestant Reformation fell short when it did not reunite the Gentile Church with its Jewish roots... and of course, this was still in God's timing. But we need to realize Yeshua is a Jew, a Hebrew of the tribe of Judah, both the root and an heir of King David.

We are of the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. How then in our churches can we not teach the Feasts and observe them, according to the words of Messiah Yeshua above? Think and pray on this. Shalom in Yeshua!

THE RABBI WHO FOUND MESSIAH!

This is not necessarily new news, but this is certainly something timely to behold, and to rejoice in!  The Jewish Messiah who appeared to Rabbi Kodouri, revealed His name as Yehoshua, or Yeshua!  It's not going to be much longer now before His return.

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes, FIRST the Jew, THEN the Gentile!"  Rom. 1:16

For the Devil so loved the Nephilim...

I hope that all my family and friends has had a wonderful Thanksgiving time with family and friends, lots of good food and time hanging out with loved ones.  I've been out of the loop for a week or so with crazy trails going on around some much needed home improvements, and getting ready for all the festivities of Thanksgiving.  But I'm back now.

A week or so ago I was reading in the Bible in 1 Chronicles, and the LORD gave me an insight which I've never heard anyone point out before... but it's because the majority of U.S. preachers do not accept the reality of the Nephilim, the human-angel-animal-plant hybrids, so their Biblical worldview does not allow them to see it.  And it's not their fault... They were raised like the rest of us, in the 20th century scientific enlightenment worldview that largely rejects supernaturalism.  This is also what much of the signers of the American Declaration of Independence were, but that's an entirely different work, to which Chris Pinto has done an outstanding job with, if you're not already familiar with him and his Noise of Thunder radio program.

1st Chronicles ch. 20 is a most interesting chapter.  It tells of encounters the post-settlement Israeli army under king David had with the giants, the Nephilim, or, descendants of Anak.  The first account is of Joab leading the army into Battle against the sons of Ammon.  Now not much is said here to indicate anything strange, until we read that David took the king's crown, which weighed one talent of gold.  We're like, okay, cool.  It was a heavy gold crown.  I can totally see that.  But the Scofield Ref. bible, (which I was using the other day) translates the measurement of this unit to be 76 lbs!!!  :-O  I said!  You just don't wear a 76 lb. object around on your head everyday, unless you have really thick neck muscles!  But this could be easily explained if he were Nephilim, which many of the people groups descended from Ham and Canaan, which lived in the region were (Gen.9:25-26; 10:15).

Next in the chapter we are told about a giant, when the Jews battled the Philistines in Gezer, named Sippai, who was a descendant of Rapha, or the Raphaim (1 Chron. 20:4).  In v. 5, we're told there was another war with the Philistines, where Elhanan killed Lahmi, the brother of the the infamous giant Goliath (1 Chron. 20:5)!  

Verse 6 tells us of a man of great stature, who had a total of 24 fingers and toes (1 Chron. 20:6).  It seems that many of the skeletons which were unearthed and many spirited away, reportedly had such features.  This giant was put to death by David's nephew, Shimea.  So all of these descendants of Anak, which Joshua had not entirely wiped out (Joshua 11:22), were finally dealt with.  The text doesn't tell us that the giants were totally wiped out, only that these mentioned were killed.  From evidential remains found around the globe, the activity on the fallen angels to deceive humanity was taking place on a global scale.  There are many sites that are exposing these facts, and they are asking questions, where are the remains at?  Why have they been kept out of the public's eye?  What purpose would the government have in withholding this sort of information?

The Bible gives us the explanation for that too.  It tells us that in the last days there will be a great deception on the earth so powerful that even the very elect would be deceived, if that were possible (evidently, it sort of sounds like it is ~ Mt. 24:24; Mk 13:22; 2 Thess. 2:3)!  But I think what Jesus and Paul are teaching here is that it will be very powerful, very deceptive, and the seeming "Christians" will be taken in by it, but not those truly called to salvation (2 Thess. 2:10-11).  But certainly, by those verses, those who do not know Jesus and His life-transforming/redeeming power will be given to the deception coming on the world.

But here's where the scriptural insight came.  Just when the Israelites have been wiping out the remaining giants living in the land of Israel, the children of the gods (the fallen angels), Satan has taken notice and come to put a stop to it, and attack King David!

1 Chronicles 21:1  Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel. (emphasis mine)

So you see, the chosen people of Yahweh had been destroying whom I believe you can demonstrate scripturally are the seed of the serpent.  And while that curse (Gen. 3:15) ultimately is fulfilled in the individual seeds of Christ and the Anti-Christ, I think it is also played out in a larger scale between the children of Adam and Eve and the fallen archangel Lucifer.  And as the people of Yahweh God are killing the human-angle hybrids, the fallen angels wanted vengeance for their off spring being killed.

Proposal to Manage Temple Mount for Both Jews and Arabs - Latest News Briefs - Israel National News

Proposal to Manage Temple Mount for Both Jews and Arabs - Latest News Briefs - Israel National News


In order for the Man of Sin to declare himself God, he must have access to the Jewish Temple.  How is he going to do that?  Believe it or not, the Vatican has been working for some time (yes, again, centuries after the Crusades), on managing, or gaining control of Jerusalem.

In 2011:  The Israeli government and the Vatican are deadlocked in discussions over the status of the religious sites. Vatican officials are now reiterating their demand for control over the religious sites in the ancient and holy city founded by King David as the capital of ancient Israel and now the capital of the reestablished Jewish state.  


Satan always tries to copy what God does, and in his vain imaginations, he tries to pull it off better.  Islam is Satan's mockery of Christianity, and their end-time beliefs are  near photo-copy negative of what scripture teaches.  They believe that their Madhi is returning (instead of the true Messiah), that he will be accompanied by a prophet, the Muslim Jesus, who will point all people to the Madhi (false prophet?).  They even believe the Madhi will be killed after 7 years, by the antichrist (the Bible says this is when Yeshua returns on his white horse with his heavenly army)!

My wife and I believe that the "Jesus Christ" who accompanies Mahdi/Maitreya/World Teacher, etc. will be none other than the progressive "Vicar of Christ" who holds sway of millions throughout the world.  And if you haven't heard it yet, St. Malachy gave a prophecy that says the current Pope is the final one, and that the great Judge will return at the end of that Pope's reign

If you don't know Jesus as your Savior and Lord, and want to escape eternal damnation in a lake of fire, ask God to forgive you of your sins (for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God-Rom. 3:23), and turn from those sins in your thinking!  Ask Jesus to come into your life to be your LORD and Savior, and He sill save you (Rom. 10:9-10, 13)!

MAJOR Catastrophic Event That Will Change The World Is Imminent- 9 Month...

Inside the Ring: Russia to test new missile - Washington Times

Inside the Ring: Russia to test new missile - Washington Times

An Israeli defense source told Israel’s Walla! news outlet: “Changes have recently occurred in the Middle East. The [Israeli Defense Force] is preparing for those changes in both the closer and more distant perimeters, and yesterday’s exercise was intended to signal the IDF’s serious intention of dealing with those problems and thwarting them.”

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The Church; Seeing Signs, Yet Missing It

Being on the road, I have just been in awe of the majesty and glory of God displayed in creation, and so thankful for my relationship with the Father, and with His Son.

The signs that Jesus gave us in Matt. 24 are happening now at an unprecedentd rate, with tornadoes, flooding, hail, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happening all at the same time, in various parts of the nation simultaneously, and the world!  It makes for grat ratings on the TV, yet the will not call these signs for what they are, harbingers of Yahweh's near return, so that people may turn from their sins and to the only begotten Son of God, who died and rose again as the atoning sacrifice for our sins, to put us on good terms again with the holy, just Father.

At a recent Travel Center, I picked up a book on A Rabbi's Look at the Last days, by Rabbi Johnathan Bernis.  It was a very refreshing read, and his whole line is not on the paricular signs that are being fulfilled, but one that most of us Christians in the line of the Protestant Reformers miss, is the fulfillment of the Jews.

Maybe you haven't noticed.  I've spoke of it some on this blog, but today there are more and more Jews that are realing the Messiahship of Yeshua (Jesus), and are turning to him in unprecedented numbers not seen historically.  Much prophecy talks about the Jewish feasts, the blood red moon, etc., and it would do us well to take that further, and remember that we Gentiles are only grafted into Israel and the faith of Abraham.  IT IS NOT ABOUT US.  It is not about the Jews.  But they are the people to whom God's covenant promises to Abraham are centered.

As the LORD has drawn my wife and I into the heart of our Jewish centered faith in Yeshua haMashiach, we have realized this more and more.  If you have not worshipped with a congregation of Messianic Jews, I recommend you find one and partake with them.  But many of us awtchmen have been expecting the imminent timing of the rapture, of which the only sign Yeshua gave was the preaching of the gospel to every ethnic group (panta ta ethne).

But the when the rapture occurse, this will be the resurrection of the dead (1 Thess. 4:16, but scripture must interpret scripture, and we do not seem willing to apply that principle on this doctrine.  But what does the apostle Paul tell us?  "Fore if ther rejection is teh reconciliation of teh world, waht will their acceptance be but life from the dead."  Rom. 11:25.  That i swhy the gospel is "the power of God to everyone who believes, first  the Jew, then the Gentile!"  Rom 1:16. 

We have been so blinded to this!  Are you making every effort to reach the Jewish people in your life with the love and good news of Mashiach?  Let's keep Romans 11:25 before us, and work to bring our Jewish friends to their Messiah.  Amen.  Maranatha!

Pope for a New World?

Yesterday I was out and in a conversation with a conservative Catholic man who is in full agreement with me about the signs of the times, and how we are heading (quickly) to a one world government.  We had just finished our conversation and stepped into a convenience store to purchase some snacks.  On my way out, I notice a magazine with a large photo of the Pope on the front cover.  It was Time Magazine, and the captioned read: "Pope for a New World."

These are the times we are living in.  With Joe Biden's recent declaration about bringing in the New World order... though I doubt there will be much order in it... Things appear to be rapidly moving to this end.  And if the Pope really is the false prophet, then this seemingly unanimous support being given to a "Christian" socialist emporoer would be what we expect to happen.

Revelation tells us that the second beast, the false prophet, has "two horns like a lamb," but "the voice of a dragon."  Is the scripture telling us that this false prophet, when he comes, will stand in the stead of Christ, but have the agenda of Satan and the Luciferic one-world order?

But let us remember, as Martin Luther said(I believe he said it), "the Devil is God's Devil."  All that he will do, is well within the confines of YHWH's redemptive purposes to cleanse and sanctify a people for Himself, and bring salvation to humanity, fulfilling the promises made to Abraham so long ago, that "all the peoples of the earth will be blessed through you."

God Will Judge Gaza?

⁴ For Gaza will be abandoned And Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod will be driven out at noon And Ekron will be uprooted.  ⁵ Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, The nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; And I will destroy you So that there will be no inhabitant.

 

Gaza will be abandoned?  So says Zephaniah (2:4).  Zephaniah speaks of a war with the neighboring countries around Israel who are destroyed, abandoned and of some he says, “made like Sodom…”  and, “made like Gomorrah” (2:9).  Moab and the land of the Ammonites are destined to be made like the OT cities which were destroyed for their widespread practice of homosexuality; their great immorality against the I AM (Gen. 19:24).  So if that tells us anything concerning the Muslim lands around Israel, their fate, like Sodom and Gomorrah will be a rain of fire and sulfur “out of heaven,” that is, from the sky.

So how are you sure where exactly these locations you are speaking of are in the Bible?  Many of the place in scripture are described with enough identifiers to know which locations are spoken.  But aside from that, most of certainty concerning Biblical places comes from archaeological finds that confirm Biblical data.

One website which I think is an excellent tool in researching Biblical locations, which has already done much of the homework, is http://a.openbible.info/geo/.  With this site you can type in the book and chapter of the Bible you are in, and using Google earth, find the Biblical locations which are being spoken of.

Using this site for Zephaniah ch. 2, it places the locations, though some retain their ancient and Biblical names, like Gaza and Ashdod for instance.  Sodom and Gomorrah are located at the south end of the Dead Sea, while Gaza, Ashdod and Ashkelon are located on the coastline of Israel proper.  Today, these cities and territories are inhabited by Muslim peoples that are increasingly raging against Israel, as told of in Psalm 83:4-5.  Verse five tells us that in conspiring against Israel and the Jewish people, they are in fact conspiring against Yahweh Himself (v. 5)!

Psalm 83:5  ⁵ For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant:

When Israel first came up out of servitude in Egypt, the LORD told Israel not to provoke or take the land of Esau’s descendants (Edom) or that of the children of Lot (Moab and Ammon).  But these relatives of the Israelites grew a contempt against Israel, and the prophet Zephaniah prophesies that they are going to be punished, even destroyed for the attitude and behavior toward Israel.

Zephaniah 2:9-13, 15   ⁹ "Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, "Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah-- A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them."  ¹⁰ This they will have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the Yahweh Saboath.  ¹¹ The LORD will be terrifying to them, for He will starve all the gods of the earth; and all the coastlands of the nations will bow down to Him, everyone from his own place.  ¹² "You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword."  ¹³ And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness.

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¹⁵ This is the exultant city Which dwells securely, Who says in her heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." How she has become a desolation, A resting place for beasts! Everyone who passes by her will hiss And wave his hand in contempt.

 

Muslims seek to annihilate the Jewish race in the name of their god, Allah.

John 16:2-3  ² "¹They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.  ³ "These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.

Matthew 11:27   ²⁷ "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”