He's Coming Again - by Joshua Arron

Sometimes in th he world of gloom and doom prophecy (though the endview is eternal light and Shalom) you need a bright spot.  Recently I came across Messianic worship leader Joshua Arron, and have been truly blessed by His music.  I want to feature one of his songs, for which reason this blog exists... He's Coming Again!  Shalom!  😇

How to Atone For Iniquity (Pr. 16:6)

Do you ever come across a verse, and you're not sure how it works?  I've had plenty of those, and this verse is one of them:

6 By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for,

And by the fear of the Lord one keeps away from evil.

Proverbs 16 (logos.com)

When I read this, it almost seemed like it taught a works-salvation.  It left me confused!  I knew that man could not save himself.  Certainly, I couldn't!  All people have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:22).  There is no man on earth who continually does what is right and never sins (Ecc. 7:20).  Yeshua Himself said that "there is no one good, except God alone."  The Apostle Paul says, "Let God be found true, and every man a liar" (Rom. 3:4).

In seminary, I was introduced to the Hebrew phrase "lovingkindness and truth."  It's made up from the words "chesed," meaning covenant love, loyalty, faithfulness, graciousness, godly action.  The Hebrew word for "Truth" is "Emmet".  Taken together, you have a name for God.

So how is truth applied to atone for sin?  What is truth, if I might sound like Pilate?  Scripture teaches Yhwh's Law is truth (Torah, Ps. 119:142).  Yeshua said He was the truth (Jn. 14:6), and that Yah's word is truth (Jn. 17:14, 17).  Y'shua is the word of God (Jn. 1:1-3) made flesh, that took up His Sukkah (feast of Sukkot ~ tabernacles/booths, Jn. 1:14) among us, perfectly fulfilling Torah (God's righteousness), not abolishing or nullifying it (Matt. 5:17-19) to become our propitiation, effectively atoning for our sins (Rom. 3:25).

That's how Prov. 16:6 works!  Through Chesed and Emmet, Lovingkindness and Truth, iniquity is atoned for.  It is the person of Y'shua haMashiach Himself.

The Pope Issues Statements Against the Teachings of Yeshua

This has been happening for a while, but now the Pope has said that fundamentalism is "a disease of all religions."   Fundamentally speaking, just what is the Pope saying?  The fundamentals are the basic building blocks, the basic instructions or directions of a faith.

Yeshua taught in John 14:21

He who has My commandments [the fundamentals] and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”


So it seems the very words of the "Vicar of Christ," are against the Messiah Himself. The Messiah, who taught that "vengeance belongs to Go, and "to love our neighbours as ourselves" also taught that "I am the way, the truth and the life." (Jn. 14:6). But now, if we believe that and hold our lives to that, believing Yeshua when He said "Your word, O God, is truth," (Jn. 17:17), that somehow makes us a disease on society?

Something's up.  The Pope is us in ::) a linguistic sleight-of-hand equating the violence sanctioned in Islam with Christianity, which teaches the above platitudes, along with respect for human life, authorities, and government.  He then calls it (with the MSM) "fundamentalism" and applies it to all the faithful across the board!

 By his own words, this Pope is anti-Messiah.

An Instance of Yeshua (Jesus) Teaching Torah

In the Gospels, if we read it with our eyes open, we can see clearly that Yeshua taught/clarified and explained Torah.  Here, in Jn. 7, during the Feast of Sukkot (Booths), Yeshua begins teaching mid-way through the feast.

"Now when the feast was already half over, Jesus went to the temple courts* and began to teach.* Then the Jews were astonished, saying, “How does this man possess knowledge, because he* has not been taught?” So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but is from the one who sent me. If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my* teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself."

The Jews were clearly impressed and amazed at his teaching.  He was not teaching to do away with the Law (Torah), otherwise they would have torn their clothes and decried him a blasphemer.  But this is not what happened (Jn. 7:19-24).

We are not told all of what Yeshua taught here, though we are given a glimpse of some ( vv. 19-24), exhorting the Jews to follow Moses and KEEP Torah!  All His teaching had a point, we can safely assume it had something to do with the feast of Sukkot, and His role in fulfilling it (c.f.. Matt. 5:17-19).  The Apostle John points out in the beginning of his Gospel account, that the incarnated Torah (Word of God) became flesh and tabernacle (or "sukkahed") among us (Jn. 1:14).

"Now on the last day of the feast—the great day—Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink, the one who believes in me. Just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’ ” Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)"

We see here that indeed Yeshua was teaching on how He is the substance of what the feast is pointing to.  He's not saying "Quit keeping the feast," but explaining how He is the fulfillment (Mt. 5:17).

Yeshua taught we are to keep His commandments, and the word (of His time, he did not supercede it, He WAS it) commands we observe Yhwh's feasts (Lev. 23; Mt. 5:17-19).

Hanukkah, it's Significance for Believers Today

The next holiday coming up on the Hebrew calendar, celebrating Yah's prophetic events, is Hanukkah.  This feast is not commanded in scripture, yet it is important in the life of those who love the Saviour.  Also know as the feast of Dedication, it was celebrated yearly by Yeshua (Jn. 10:22-23).

In this short video. Pastor Deyoung gives us a brief insight inn the prophetic significance of this feast for believers today.

"Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked." 1 Jn. 2:6

ISIS, Yhwh's Tool for Judgement on The Israelites

About a year or so ago, Yhwh spoke to me as I was studying my Bible.  The previous night on the news, there was much celebration of law-lessness.  And Abba said to me, "Look, the eyes of my Lord Yahweh are on the kingdom of sin, and I will destroy it from the surface of the earth. However, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares Yahweh."  Amos 9:8

As we reject the ways of Yhwh on earth   in our respective countries, we think Elohim doesn't see.  Or we think He is like us, and that's part of the problem, we worship a God made in our image.  We reject the holy, set-apart God who has revealed Himself to us in the Bible.

As a consequence of disobedience to the Torah, the ten northern tribes were scattered. Dispersed to the ends of the earth (Hos. 7:8), 9:17).  Later, around 135 C.E., the house of Judah also was exiled into the nations.  The tribes have migrated, and in fulfillment of prophecy, gone to the ends of the world.  And so Yhwh has graciously extended the Covenant to all peoples.

And we are there descendants.  If we reject Father's instructions, do we think we shall escape judgment?  Abba Yhwh knows all things.  He has prophesied a coming shaking.

“Yes, look, I am going to command and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations like one who shakes with a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground. All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil will not overtake or confront us.’" (Amos 9:9-10).

Repent and follow Yhwh's instruction, the Torah.  The Torah-less one is coming, and he is here!

The Prophecy of Avram's Birth

Many of us know of Father Abraham, from whom is descended Ishmael and Isaac, and the line that comes from him, known as the Biblical patriarchs.  But most of us don't know of the early life of Abram, other than his lineage described in Genesis, because Gentile believers were separated from the Hebraic roots of their faith by an baptized pagan emperor, who syncritized the faith with pagan worship, that has entrenched the faithful.  But knowing this prophecy of Abram's Birth puts the modern prophetic circumstances into a greater Biblical context.

And when all the wise men and conjurors went out from the house of Terah, they lifted up their eyes toward heaven that night to look at the stars, and they saw, and behold one very large star came from the east and ran in the heavens, and he swallowed up the four stars from the four sides of the heavens.

3 And all the wise men of the king and his conjurors were astonished at the sight, and the sages understood this matter, land they knew its import.

4 And they said to each other, This only betokens the child that has been born to Terah this night, who will grow up and be fruitful, and multiply, and possess all the earth, he and his children for ever, and he and his seed will slay great kings, and inherit their lands.     (http://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/8.htm)