Heaven: A Believer's Final Resting Place?

One of the greatest myths ever foisted upon the church... not quite as much as the Church being separate from Israel, is that believers go to heaven when they die.  Did you realize that nowhere in the Bible does it teach that believers go to heaven when they die?  Now there are some believers who were beheaded, seen under the altar in Revelation, waiting for God's justice to be poured out on His enemies.  But that's a weird place to spend eternity.  That passage is primarily teaching about Yhwh's dealings with fallen man and their fallen leader.

In doing a word study on heaven, I went through, and looking at the uses of the word heaven in scripture, and in most cases, it is referring to the atmosphere over our heads.  There are cases where it states that Yhwh lives in the heavens... and there are cases where believers, when they die, are with the Lord, but nowhere in scripture does it say that that is in heaven, above the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:19  (19) "And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Exodus 31:17   (17) "It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed."

Deuteronomy 9:1   "Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified to heaven,

Deuteronomy 11:11  (11) "But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,

Judges 5:20   (20) "The stars fought from heaven, From their courses they fought against Sisera.

And there are many more such verses, but for sake of brevity, I will not include them here.  It would make a excellent bible/word study though to go to your favorite online bible, and simply study on the word "heaven," and I think you will be greatly encouraged and amazed at what you find.


The Bible does teach however that believers in fact go to Abraham's bosom, located in Hebraic thought, under the earth. 

Luke 16:22  22 "Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.

Another passage we see a glimpse is where king Saul went to inquire of the prophet Samuel by a witch, at En-dor.  1 Samuel 28:15  15 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?"

When the Messiah Y'shua, after his crucifixion, where did he go?  This is probably the most agreed upon by students of the Bible, his spirit descended down into hades, the place of prison of disobedient spirits. 

1 Peter 3:18-20  18 For Messiah also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to Elohim, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;  19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,  20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of Elohim kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

In extra-biblical Hebraic literature, there is a picture of many things that dwell under the earth.  It is taught that under the earth there are indeed two places, both Abraham's bosom, the place of paradise and comfort for all followers of the Messiah, and of Hades or Sheol, a gloomy place of punishment for those spirits who rejected Yhwh's Covenant of forgiveness and life in Messiah Yeshua.  We see a glimpse of this in the already quoted parable of Lazarus and the rich man:

Luke 16:25-26   25 "But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.  26 'And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'

So we can see here the Y'shua believed and taught about believer's being carried to Abraham's bosom.  And this was believed by the disciples, and by the entire early church.  Through the ages there has been a slow departure from these beliefs and teachings of our older, wiser fathers, as man entered into eras of "enlightenment," realizing he could know things apart from the word of Elohim.  But we didn't consider the words of Proverbs: "The fear of Yhwh is the beginning of knowledge." (Pr. 1:7).

There is also a passage I love speaking of the redeemed Israelites in the last days, as they are bought into the kingdom of Elohim, the land of Israel (cf. Ezek. 36), and they report to the Yhwh:
Jeremiah 16:19  19 O YHWH, my strength and my stronghold, And my refuge in the day of distress, To You the nations will come From the ends of the earth and say, "Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood, Futility and things of no profit."

In these last days, the Father is exposing corruption everywhere, and has shown us that most of what we have been taught, is wrong, and/or a lie.  I know that this post is far from conclusive concerning the matter of believers, and their final resting place, but I hope that this will spur you on to read, and search, and you too will conclude that a believers final resting place is in the land of Israel, with Messiah, keeping Torah.

Luke 16:16-17  16 "The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.  17 "But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.

Your Sons Like Poplars...

The Yhwh gave this to me a couple of weeks ago, and I just haven't had time to write about it yet, but this was such an encouragement and confirmation about what Yhwh is doing in these last days, and in our lives.

I was reading in Isaiah 45, and had gone back the enxt day, to read and study and chew on the text, but I wanted to start a chapter previous, to get more of the context and appreciate what the text was saying.  When I started reading in chapter 44, it said this:

 NAU Isaiah 44:1 "But now listen, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have chosen:  2 Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you, 'Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.  3 'For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants;  4 And they will spring up among the grass Like poplars by streams of water.'  5 "This one will say, 'I am the LORD'S'; And that one will call on the name of Jacob; And another will write on his hand, 'Belonging to the LORD,' And will name Israel's name with honor. 

The latter half of Isaiah is written all about the restoration of Israel in the last days.  Yhwh always tells Jacob/Israel now to be afraid, and that He is for them.  

3 'For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants;

In verse three, He says that He will "pour out water on thirsty land, and streams on dry ground."  The Word in Scripture is likened to Water, and dry, thirsty ground to people or lands where there is no hearing of the Word of the Yhwh.  As I was reading through this verse, it brought to mind imagery, both of Yhwh literally fulfilling this in the land of Israel, where there are already streams of living water flowing in previously dry stream beds.  But then we also have the spiritual component, because the phrase is complemented in the second stanza by saying He would pour pout His Spirit on your descendants.  The apostle Peter stated that this is what was happening on Pentecost, after the ascension of the resurrected Messiah, Yeshua ben Josef. 

4 And they will spring up among the grass Like poplars by streams of water.' 

Then I received another insight as I continued to read.  The imagery of trees planted by streams of water from Psalm 1.  "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the Torah  of Yhwh, and on His Torah He will meditate, day and night.  And he shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season, and whose leaf never withers, in whatever he does, he prospers" (Ps. 1:1-3).

And so I picture all this dry, cracked waste land which we picture of ancient Egypt, and I think of John hte Baptist at the Jordan, with the scribes and the Pharisees looking on.  And he says to them, "God can raise up children from these stones!"  And I wonder if he is not drawing from this prophecy in Isaiah 44.

 4 And they will spring up among the grass Like poplars by streams of water.'  5 "This one will say, 'I am the LORD'S'; And that one will call on the name of Jacob; And another will write on his hand, 'Belonging to the LORD,' And will name Israel's name with honor. 

And so you have a picture of this vast waste land, dry and cracked, with sparse shoots of grass here and there, and all of a sudden, these Poplar trees begin to shoot up, not all together, but spaced apart, in random places... and they begin to grow large in height and strong, like trees planted by streams of water.  And the water is the Word, the Torah (which let's not forgot, was the only Word of God during the time of Yeshua and the apostles).  

So this passage is telling us that in the last days, in land stricken by a famine of the Word of the Yhwh, that He would pour out His Spirit on sons and daughters, and cause them to grow up like Poplars planted by streams of water, that is, full of strength and knowledge and understanding of the Word, the Torah... and that they would begin again to identify with Israel, and proclaiming to belong to the God of Israel.

And that has been me and my wife's experience with our beliefs and convictions, as we have studied about the return of the Messiah in the last days, and of his coming for His people.  And Abba has revealed these truths to us.  As He says in Ps. 25:14, "The secret (or counsel) of the Yhwh is for those who fear Him, and to them He will make known His covenant."

Birthed By Truth. (Jas. 1:18)

By his* will he gave birth to us through the message of truth, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. (Ja s. 1:18)

The typical believer says amen!  But what exactly is the message of Truth?  Yeshua the Messiah tells us that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life (Jn. 14:6).  Okay, but is there more?  How is this understood from a biblical worldview?  A good hermeneutical principle is that. Scripture always interprets scripture.

In Ps. 119, the longest  chapter in the Bible, which is in praise of the Torah (law) of Elohim, we are told this:  "Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth" (142).  So here we are told Yhwh's Torah is truth.  This is perhaps one of the most neglected verses of scripture by the entire Christian Church, and it separates those who belong to Messiah, and those who have a spirit of religion.

Further down, in Ps. 119:151, we read: "You are near, O Yahweh, and all your commands are truth."  In fact, reading sections Tsade and Qoph, verses 137-152, you see the themes of 'righteousness,' 'the word,' 'belief,' and 'obedience' to Yhwh's righteous commands.

So for the Jews living during the days of Yeshua's first advent, they would have understood the term "word of Elohim" as the Tanak, or more specifically, the Torah, which we see throughout the Psalms, and the entirety of the Tanakh (Old Testament).  So when the apostle John writes "The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us" (Jn. 1:14), he was communicating that the Torah became flesh!"

We know Yeshua lived a sinless life by keeping God's Law (Torah) perfectly.  That is how He was able to fulfill Passover as the lamb of Elohim.  John further instructs believers in one of his lesser known books, that "anyone who claims to live in him must walk as that one walked" (1 Jn. 2:6).  That is to say, believers must walk in righteousness, that is, in Torah, not to be saved, but because they are saved, in obedient love.  Yeshua taught, "The one who loves me will keep my commands."  Amen!

Changing standards of Rughteosness? Amos 2:4-5

Christian doctrine claims affirms the OT teaching that God does not change, but is the same yesterday, today and forever, where Yhwh says, "I do not change" (Mal. 3:6).  Yet the belief is maintained by nearly all Protestants that they are "set free from the Law (instruction)".  Yet when we read the Prophets, we see that Yhwh's great wrath is aroused for the rejection of the Torah.

"Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his rules, and their lies have led them astray, after which their ancestors walked! So I will send a fire against Judah and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Jerusalem." Amos 2:4-5

So the question is raised, does Yhwh change?  Will he punish Israel for rejecting His Torah while giving unrighteous pagan Gentiles a free pass, and then continue to judge Israel by the standard of Torah?

Elohim's very word states that He does not change.  Yeshua, the word of God made flesh, is testified by that author of Hebrews, that he is the same, "yesterday, today and forever" (13:8).

Genesis 6:1-4 About the Nephilim Detailed in Enoch

In Genesis chapter 6 we have somewhat of an enigma, denied or explained away by much of the church in these last days.  But the book of Enoch, known and read by Y'shua and his disciples, quoted and referred to (according to J. Lumpkin, hundreds of times) in the pages of scripture, details the actions of the fallen watchers to do this deed.  In Gen. 6 we read:

Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose. And Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty warriors that were from ancient times, men of renown. 

In the book of Enoch we read more detail as to what really happened:

Chapter 6

1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
2 And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men
3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not
4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations
5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves
6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn
7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal,8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.

(http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/ethiopian/enoch/1watchers/watchers.htm)

And so we see the 200 watchers descended on Mt. Sermon.  At the base of this mountain is where Yeshua asked his disciples (talmidim) "Who do men say that I am?" against a backdrop of pagan temples.  Today Mt. Hermon has a U.N. building sitting atop it!  http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/ethiopian/enoch/1watchers/watchers.htm

Today, Mt. Hermon, whilst a tourist location, also has a U.N. facility creating the top, likely in location of the portal the angels used to descend to enact their desire. Messiah Yeshua told us, Matthew 24:37
"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."

Streams of Water - Prophetic Fulfillment

This occurence has happened some time ago, and I caught it briefly on the news, but never got to post about it.  And as time passes, you forget, but this popped in my head just a bit ago, and I've wanted to mention this.  It's different from many of the geo-political developments and prophecies going on around us, or that of the para-normal and demonic.  This one is natural, for the God of Scripture, Yhwh, is the God, the Creator of Nature.  This is an amazing thing, which was declared through the mouth of the prophets long ago.  The dry stream beds in Israel are beginning to fill with water, much as rain returned to the land after the Israelites began returning.  If you haven't seen this, watch below:

Isaiah 30:25

On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streamsrunning with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isaiah 32:2
Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm, Like streams of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.

Isaiah 44:3
‘For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants;

Jeremiah 31:9
“With weeping they will come, And by supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of waters, On a straight path in which they will not stumble; For I am a father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.”

The Israelite Kingdom of God.

The Kingdom of God (Yhwh), what does it look like in the end?  Most believers today have a faulty view of what the kingdom of God is, since "the Church" believes to one extent or another that it has replaced the Jews for rejecting their Messiah, Yeshua ben Joseph.

We lose track and forget the promises that Yhwh made to the Father's, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Note: you hear Muslims say they are worshippers of "the God of Abraham", but not, "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob"!), to multiply the I descendants like the sand on the seashore, that through them, all the nations of the earth are blessed.

Genesis 12:1 "And Yahweh said to Abram, “ 'Go out from your land and from your relatives, and from the house of your father, to the land that I will show you. And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you.' ” 

Genesis 15:17  On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram saying, “To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates river, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” 

Gen. 17:3 Then Abram fell upon his face and God spoke with him, saying, “As for me, behold, my covenant shall be with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. Your name shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. And I will make you exceedingly fruitful. I will make you a nation, and kings shall go out from you. And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land in which you are living as an alien, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting property. And I will be to them as God.” 

So that is it.  All this fighting over the land of Israel, the culmination of a centuries old battle to control this land promised by the Creator to Abraham, and to regathering his dispersed descendents from the ends of the earth, all the tribes of the Israelites, back to Israel!  Ezekiel spells out the Renewed Covenant Yhwh makes after His people had broken the first Mosaic Covenant (all foreseen by Moses, Deut. 30:1-5).

Ezekiel 36:26- 36  "And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give into your inner parts, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh. And I will give my spirit into your inner parts, and I will make it so that you will go in my rules, and my regulations you will remember, and you will do them. And you will dwell in the land that I gave to your ancestors, and you will be to me as a people, and I will be to you as God. And I will save you from all of your uncleanness, and I will call to the grain, and I will cause it to increase, and I will not bring famine upon you. And I will cause the fruit of the tree and the crop of the field to increase, so that you will not suffer again the disgrace of famine among the nations. And you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourself over your iniquities and over your detestable things. But not for your sake am I acting,” declares the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you, be ashamed, and be put to shame because of your ways, house of Israel. 

“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘On the day when I cleanse you from all of your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt. And the land that was desolate will be cultivated in the very place that it was desolate before the eyes of all of the persons crossing over. And they will say, “This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden, and the wasted and desolate and destroyed cities, now being refortified, are inhabited.” And the nations who are left all around, you will know that I, Yahweh, I built that which was destroyed; I planted the desolate land; I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act.’ 

How Obama Ushered in the New Age of Christian Martyrdom

A somber, sobering look at what is coming to America.



How Obama Ushered in the New Age of Christian Martyrdom

Roman Catholicism Expert Shares What Pope Francis Is Really Up To!

History Of Unmistakable Divine Wrath Should Serve As Warning Against Obama / Pope Francis Push For Iran-Mageddon Deal

The below article has an excellent outline of the divine retribution that has followed all moves to take the land away from Yhwh's chosen people.  And now we can understand clearly that Ps. 2 is clearly speaking of the times in which we live.





History Of Unmistakable Divine Wrath Should Serve As Warning Against Obama / Pope Francis Push For Iran-Mageddon Deal

TRUNEWS 5/7/15: MENA LEE GREBIN - PART 1 - Prophetic Warning to America

Blood Moon: Mainstream Media and a Call to Prayer - Israel News

Blood Moon: Mainstream Media and a Call to Prayer - Israel News

In this article, Bob O'dell, co-founder of Root Source, offers a refreshing and optimistic insight on the Blood Moon Phenomenon.

I've posted some clips of his article below.  The full article can be read by clicking the link above.

So what about the Shemittah year predictions from Jonathan Cahn? Well, so be it, but we ask in response, does the fact that Blood Moons and Shemittah are coinciding on the very same year mean for sure that the impact of these events must be exactly the same? And is God so one-dimensional that he is all about judgment all the time? Hello! Redemption anyone?

The Shemittah work by Jonathan Cahn is quite good, and likely signals some level of judgment. But it seems to us that the Blood Moons and a Solar Eclipse at the North Pole are a very different phenomena. One could easily imagine there could be two very different storylines happening simultaneously.

If the Shemittah is about judgment, then why can’t the simultaneously occurring Blood Moons be about redemption! The God I have fallen in love with is the One who lives to bring us all to redemption much more than he desires to bring us all to the judgment we deserve! “For with the LORD there is lovingkindness, And with Him is abundant redemption.” [emphasis mine]

My beliefs in the redemptive nature of the Blood Moons are detailed partially in lessons 4, and then in lesson 5 and 6 of the free Blood Moons series I recorded for Root Source in the last few weeks. I say ‘detailed partially’ because my first goal is not to convince anyone of what I believe, but rather give viewers the tools to make up their own minds about all the theories. I’d rather you learn to ask really good questions, even of my views, than to simply accept my views!

image: http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/blood-moon1.jpg

Now what about the call to prayer? Mark Biltz and I, while having somewhat different views of the meaning of the Blood Moons, agree in principle that God loves Israel and will care for her. As such I am honored to join with him in his call to prayer for the peace of Jerusalem on Saturday April 4th, at 11:58AM GMT, 7:58AM Eastern, 6:58AM Central, 4:58AM Pacific, to pray for 4 minutes and 44 seconds while the moon is totally engulfed in the earth’s shadow.

This is not only the world’s shortest blood moon in history; it is the world’s shortest Passover eclipse in history too!

Praying Psalms 122 for the peace of Jerusalem, as we are exhorted to do by King David himself, is a biblical, unifying prayer that all Christians and Jews can pray.

But why are we taking such a not-so-dire approach to this lunar eclipse, when the Jewish sages have said that lunar eclipses are a bad omen for Israel? Because they also give a concluding remark in that very same paragraph of tractate 29a, that is overlooked by everyone it seems:

“But when Israel fulfills the will of the Omnipresent, they need have no fear of all these [omens] as it is said, “Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the nations are dismayed at them, the idolaters will be dismayed, but Israel will not be dismayed.”

So dear Christian friend, please consider whether you believe Israel is, overall, in the will of God right now? If you say yes, then perhaps God is telling us that they will be quite safe in His hands! But believing even that does not mean that there is no reason for prayer! Indeed we should all join in with King David and pray for the peace of Jerusalem this Saturday morning at a local time that you can find right here.

When there is peace in Jerusalem, there will be an increased measure of peace in the world. Therefore, this prayer is a prayer for the ‘world’. In fact, given that this prayer was authored in the heart of God, before it was authored by Kind David, we can even say that it is in fact ‘universal’ in nature.

A cynical mainstream media may even make fun of us for praying for the peace of Jerusalem during a less-than-five-minutes lunar eclipse. But, some of us really do believe that any time spent praying for the peace in Jerusalem is time well-spent. Those who might demean this action will suffer in return no ill will from me, nor, I hope, “from us”, yet they should be wary of standing in any way against the welfare of Israel, or they might find themselves in opposition to someone much more powerful – and I don’t mean even the mighty, ancient King David, but the Almighty Ancient of Days.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/35203/saturdays-blood-moon-the-mainstream-media-and-a-call-to-prayer-opinion/#ElwQK0aHubRcdwR0.99

Storing Up Wealth For the Last Days?

Ok, here it is.  Some of you were probably wondering if I were going to tackle this topic.  How should we store up wealth in the end-times?    Many bloggers and Christian shows have dealt with the topic, advising people to buy gold and silver to prepare for the coming economic collapse.  For most people, gold is out of teh question, as the economic price is just too high, even per ounce!  For us, even silver is quite high.  Just a little bit is all we could afford.

So, when you are part of that 98% of the world's population who makes less then the upper one percent, is that really a wise investment of your resources, to put it all into one little piece of metal?

The other day I was reading in James (or Jacob, really, in the Greek/Hebrew), the half-brother of Yeshua, and came to a section where he speaks about the topic, storing up wealth in the last days:

5 Come now, you rich people, weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your wealth has rotted, and your clothing has become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived self-indulgently on the eartha and have lived luxuriously. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous person; he does not resist you. 

(www.biblia.com)

James seems to think that those who store up wealth for the last day aren't going to receive a whole lot of good from it. In fact, he says it will be a witness AGAINST you and consume your flesh like fire! I thought that is what we were trying to avoid, being consumed by fire! In context, we see from verse four, that James is speaking to those who have people in their employment, who are withholding wages, and living luxuriously on earth, at the expense of those who do their labor.

Verse Six tells us, "You have condemned the righteous person, he does not resist you." Nowhere in holy scripture does it teach taking vengeance on one's enemies, contrary to the belief of Islam. In fact, Yeshua tells us to "love our enemies," and "pray for those who persecute us" (Mt. 5:43).

Now there may be some wisdom in securing your financial assets in precaution to a financial collapse, but I don't know that selling all to buy gold and silver is the answer. The believer's life is one that is marked by faith in Yeshua Messiah. All Yahweh's prophecies concerning the end have been being fulfilled for thousands of years. It's silly to think that they will stop now. We have the full assurance that we are able to walk in the faith and confidence in the YHWH's power, for He is a shield about us (Ps. 3:3), an ever present help in trouble (Ps. 46). YHWH is our Good Shepherd, even in the last days, when the adversaries forces are running about upon the earth, Yhwh still leads us to green pastures, to lie beside still waters, and to restore our soul. He is over all, and He can prepare a table before us in the presence of our enemies (Ps. 23).

Hab. 2:4b "but the righteous shall live by his faith."

Hab. 3:

16 I hear and my stomach shakes;

my lips quiver at the sound;

infection enters my bones;

that which is beneath me trembles;

I wait quietly for the day of trouble

to come upon the people attacking us.

17 Though the fig tree does not blossom,

nor there be fruit on the vines;

the yield of the olive tree fails,

and the cultivated fields do not yield food;

the flock is cut off from the animal pen,

and there is no cattle in the stalls,

18 Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh;

I will exult in the God of my salvation.

19 Yahweh, my Lord, is my strength;

he makes my feet like the deer;

he causes me to walk on my high places.

To the choirmaster with stringed instruments.

For my Czech/Slovak Readers...

Cau, Nazdar, Ahoj!

Y'ak mas?  I wanted to let you know that I am so excited to see so many readers from Czesko and Slovensko viewing my blog.  Byval na Slovensko na Kosic pre dve rokov.  Slovensko na Czesko je velmi krasni krainas(?).  I apologize for poor language.  I very much enjoyed my time, living and traveling in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.  In fact, Praha was probably my favorite city to visit as when my team got to travel there.  During my stay, I served with Studenske Hlas Pre Krista, and during some of our student retreats, was able to interact with various Czech and primarily Slovak students.

Having lived there nearly two years, I very much feel a bond with the countries and there people, in fact, that little region of Europe is very close to my heart.  I remember while living there, learning how Cyril and Methodius were the first people to bring Christanity up into the region, and feeling somewhat akin to them also serving Krista, whom now I prefer to refer to as Messiah, the more literal Hebrew rendering.

I am so thankful that I have been able to serve and live among you, and be able to learn some of your language (though much of it is gone now!) I began typing this post the other day, but then accidently deleted half the post(!)... so I apologize.  It was a really neat time getting to work with Hlas Pre Krista, and meeting and interacting with so many of the University students there.

When I was originally composing this letter, I think the bent that I wanted to take with it was what the Yhwh has been teaching me of late.  Something my grandmother said when I was a high school student, "We are the northern  Ten tribes of Israel."  In all my high school wisdom, I thought she was crazy!  But recently I started looking into what really happened to the Ten northern Israeli tribes once they were conquered by Sargon, King of Assyria.  Where did they all go?  Did they just remain in the land, and become today's Syrian?  Or is there more to it?

We know that in the last days, Yhwh Elohim's word tells us that He will assemble the 144,000; 12,000 from every tribe (Rev. 7:4).  But that means that the tribes need to be reassembled!  The Jews are only three tribes, from Judah, Benjamin, with their apportioned Levites, who were known as "Judah" during the days after Yhwh split the kingdom (2 Kings 15:29, 17:6, 18:10).

To keep a long story short, many of the Israelites became known as the Scythians, and some as the Cimmerians.  They all through different routes immigrated up into Europe, some comiing through the steppe-lands of Southern Russia.  But many of them settled there in Europe, and mixed with the children of Japeth, putting an interesting twist on Noah's prophecy concerning his sons Shem and Japeth.

But it seems that today, many Israelites are living in Europe today, and we have lost this history, this heritage, because we do not study where the Vikings came from, nor the Gauls, etc.  There is still a pass in the Caucasus mountains today known as Israel's pass, and a mount called Mount Sion, after the Scythians (Isaac's sons) moving through the mountains on theie journeys and expansion north and westward.

This is a great study, and some really helpful resources I've found to use are Yair Davidy, and Austrailian Jew whose devoted his life to researching the disappearance and migrations of these ten tribes.  He published a book called Brit Am, and has a website; www.britama.org.  Anorther is a Canadian who's done a whole lot of study and found many of the same conclusions: Joseph Dumond.  He's also on Youtube, and has a site, www.sightedmoon.org.

Ahoj!  Dovidenia!  Blessings, Shalom to you in the name of Messiah, Yeshua!


"Ja som cesta, na pravda, na zivot..."  Jn. 14:6
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Israel Now News - Episode 160

Islam Endorses Murder and Hate, But Claims Abraham!

As we all know, and can clealy see, Islam and the Muslims "extremists" (thought in Muslim eyes, the faithful), the Quran teaches hatred of the Jews, and the end goal of Islam is annihilation of the Jewish people, to bring about global Sharia law on every person.  Not only does it endorse the teaching of hatred, instead of love, which Ye'shua taught, and is taught in the Torah, but Islam endorses violence, murder and death, so much so, that the only guarantee of entering eternal life in heaven, is by dying in battle with the infidels (unbelievers of Islam).

But in the Gospels, Ye'shua has a different message.  He spoke to murderers who claimed to have Abraham as their father, as do Muslims.  But he told them who their father really is.  We read in John (Injil) 8:

39 They answered and said to him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus said to them, “If you are children of Abraham, do the deeds of Abraham! 40 But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do. 41 You are doing the deeds of your father!”

They saidq to him, “We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come forth from God and have come. For I have not come from myself, but that one sent me. 43 ⌊Why⌋r do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message. 44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own nature,* because he is a liar and the father ⌊of lies⌋.s 45 But because I am telling the truth, you do not believe me. (biblia.com)

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Speaking the names of gods... Good Lord?

Among the different religions of the world, there are many different religous figures who are revered, and or worshipped, or given the status of gods.  And of all these various religions, they have no problem speaking the name of their god.  In Islam the defiantly chant, "Allahu akbar" (Allah is greater!), In Buddhism, the adherents often quote, refer to and model their lives after the Buddah.  Hindus have many gods, such as Vishnu, Krishna, Shiva, Lakshmi, Durga, to name a few....  

But did you ever notice it's not that way in Chrisitanity (and Judaism to a lesser extent).  In Christianity, it's followers have to hide behind a translation.  They never speak the name of their God, the one true God, but hide behind a translation of a title meaning master.  But then difficulties arise... the worshipper has to rely upon the knowledge, intent/agenda and resources of the translators of their religous text, especially and primarily when the original tests are not in that followers native tongue (ie, language).

So in Christianity, the name most often used for their God, is "Lord", or "LORD."  This implies someone who has control over, lordship over, or a mastery over a specific object or region.  One day a few weeks ago, I heard someone suggest to look up the definition of "Lord" on the Merriam Webster dictionary.  Happening to have that on my phone, I typed it in, and found at the bottom of the entry, it indicated the Heb. origin was none other than Ba'al!  Hmmmph!

Good Lord!  Not really.  For those of you who have ventured to study the historical development of the  evolution of religious gods/deities, you will know that Ba'al, the sun-god, worshiped in Egypt as Ra, Sumeria (ancient Babylon in Iraq/Persia) as Ba'al, is based on the myth of Gilgamesh, known in the Bible as Nimrod, who was the one-world ruler over mankind of his day, when the earth was still being populated.  

I went to Merriam Webster dictionary on the larger screened PC computer, and could not find this reference, but it was stating that the first known use of the (etymological origin) of the word was in the 12 C. Europe, hlaford, a loaf-keeper.  Hmmmph?  Why the discrepancies?  So I researched a little more, and found it at dictionary.com.  See below.  I pasted the pertinent section.

(4.) Heb. ba'al, a master, as having domination. This word is applied to human relations, as that of husband, to persons skilled in some art or profession, and to heathen deities. "The men of Shechem," literally"the baals of Shechem" (Judg. 9:2, 3). These were the Israelite inhabitants who had reduced the Canaanites to a condition of vassalage (Josh. 16:10;17:13). (5.) Heb. seren, applied exclusively to the "lords of the Philistines"(Judg. 3:3). The LXX. render it by satrapies. At this period the Philistines were not, as at a later period (1 Sam. 21:10), under a kingly government.(See Josh. 13:3; 1 Sam. 6:18.) There were five such lordships, viz., Gath,Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron.  

(posted from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lord)

In Genesis 10, Nimrod is credited with founding eight cities, both in the land of Shinar (ancient Persia/Sumeria) and in Assyria (modern Syria), which contains some of the longest inhabited cities of the world!  He is credited with being the founder and leader at the building of the tower of Babel, and in the Israelite historic writings, he is said to have organized three parties in their attempt to dethrone the God of heaven!  One of the groups indeed, shot arrows into heaven from atop the tower at Babel before their languages were confused.

So the conclusion is, when you are (in English) using the word "Lord" in reference to the one true Creator God of the universe, you are calling the name of Ba'al or Nimrod, the proto-type of the coming one-world ruler and Anti-Christ.  And it's extremely frustrating, I have found in my own experience, trying to correct the problem, because the word "Lord" is so ingrained in my habit of referring to Yhwh, King of the Universe.  It is in our Bibles, which note *it is a 'device" to refer to the name of the Hebrew God of scriptures.  Why not use the device of Buddah, or Krishna?  Because that would be outright recognized as idolatry!  It is also found in Hymnals, praise songs, and certainly cultural cliches of amazement or disbelief, "Good Lord!"  But I want to suggest, Ba'al was not good, but wicked!

I don't know about you guys, but something funny is up!  I now try to speak the Biblical names of God.  Call it reconnecting with my Hebrew roots... as if that's a bad thing!  Didn't Yeshua our Adonai (see!) teach "salvation is of the Jews" (John 4:22)?  My Savior was Hebrew, coming in fulfillment of the promise Yhwh made to Abraham and the Hebrews descended from him!

And that could very well lead to another post... have you ever thought about why they don't translate the Hebrew name of the messiah Yehoshua as Joshua, instead of "Jesus"?  Jesus sounds more palatable to pagan ears, more similar to the names of gods they were used to worshipping, such as Ze-us, Dionysius, etc., with the "-sus" ending.  But nowhere in the original Hebrew texts is "Jesus" used.  The name "Jesus" does not translate into Hebrew.  This is significant, because it involves the concept of the meaning of the name "Ye-hoshua," which means, "Yahweh is salvation!" 

Elohim, our Creator, created all of creation through speaking, the spoken word.  We are created (intimately, caringly) in His image, with the ability to speak, and we are warned in the Bible of the consequences of the words we speak.  "Death and Life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit" (Prov. 18:21).  So when we speak the name Yehoshua, or the shortened form Y'shua, we are proclaiming a Biblical truth, that Yhwh is salvation!  It is a shout of defeat over the enemy, who was set up camp all over this world, in his attempt to become as the one true God (cf. Is. 14).  The spirits and the fallen watchers wince at the sound of the name Yeshua!  

Remember, we are told in 1 John 5:19 that "the entire world lies in the control of the evil one."  That means he might even have agents within Biblical translation societies, certainly many TV preachers, and Y'shua Himself taught that in the last days there would be many false prophets, and many antichrists (1 Jn. 2:18-19; Mt. 24:24), to lead astray, and even deceive the elect.

And maybe the awakening to this knowledge is a fulfillment of the Last days spoken of in Hosea 2:16 - "It will come about in that day," declares the Yhwh, "that you will call me Ishi ["my Man", ie, "Husband"] and no longer call me Baali ["my Lord" or "master"]"!