Sivan 9,5769 First Day Yom Reeshone
Forgive me dear ones that I have not blogged in a while but to be frank, we all go through some times of feeling inadiquent...like...who am I to even think I should speak out about the LORD and what He says.
But here I am again. There is so much I could say...so many things I have had on my mind but for right now I am thinking about Shavuot and the death of Dr. George tiller, the infamous murderer of the unborn..an abortion doctor who specialized in late-term abortions.
I do not know who killed Tiller. I am assuming it was a person who is pro-life, meaning AGAINST ABORTION. I AM ALSO ASSUMING HE IS IN CUSTODY BECAUSE HE WENT INTO TILLER'S CHURCH...YES Dr. TILLER WENT TO CHURCH...and yes it is unbelievable that his church would condone the murder of probably thousands of innocent lives by this man and his clinics. But as is usually the case...the 'church looks the other way'.
Oh wait, I forgot, Tiller was acting lawfully to murder babies. So because it was the law, he could be in good standing within his church. Hmmm. It sounds like his church does not follow the Commands of God...'Thou shall not murder'.
But to go on, he shot him in the church so he was probably taken into custody.
What did I do when I found out Tiller was dead? I shouted for joy and began praising God. "OH gloria, how can you act this way and say this?" Because I did it! Tiller lived his life as he desired. He was given many chances to be repentant but I have seen no evidence that he ever repented and went his own way away from his money making death mills. Am I being too hard for you? Well, I am not sorry.
I wrote some comments on Facebook and some will not agree and my comments will not be understood by many. We are all on a path through life. Some of us have chosen to walk with God but does this mean we are always on the straight and narrow? NO! We veer off but He does reach out to us and He will even put up road blocks but remember, We have free choice and we sometimes do as we want to do.
Tiller was obviously NOT ON A PATH WITH GOD. He had made choices in his life that took him on a path of death and destruction in the guise of being helpful to women...to 'lovingly' help them get rid of their problem.
I have no idea about the man who shot tiller. He could have been in on the other attempts at Tiller's life. He might be profoundly Pro-Life and desperately wanted to stop Tiller. He might say he is a Christian.
Do I condone Tiller's death..NO. But Tiller had set himelf on this path and the man who killed him was on a path set by his own choices when he set out to kill Tiller.
God gives us the path we should go but He also sees all of the alternate routes and both men set out on a collision course.
The man who killed Tiller will face the law of the land and I hope he comes to an understanding that he too took a life and will need the Hand of God upon him. I pray the peace of God that passes all understanding upon him and his family.
I, as I am sure many many others have done, prayed that God would step in and do something with Tiller. Well, it is done. We will now have to see how it is all played out as the press will take Pro-Lifers to task and I am sure this will make Nobama come out even stronger for both sides to come to an understanding.
As for me and my house we will serve the LORD and we cannot come to an understanding about the murder of innocent babies.
I love you and want only the best for you...with love to you in and through our Mashiach Yeshua...His servant, gloria
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
The Signs of the Times and Cults
IYYAR 24,5769 SECOND DAY YOM SHAYNEE
Dear Friends, I cannot believe it is the 24th of Iyyar already!...The last day, the 29th, will be this coming Shabbat! Rosh Chodesh Sivan! I stand amazed! I am amazed each Shabbat that another week has passed so quickly. Summer is upon us and I feel that I can only wish for those 'lazy hazy days of summer' because it, too, will pass so quickly! Time is speeding up but is it because I have grown older? Or is it truly a sign of the last days?
We see all around us that the seasons are no longer as they once were and we see the signs in the way people are and in their attitudes. I just read an article about the Girl Scouts. It is NOT the Girl scouts of my childhood....it is something of this day and age! Teaching the girls about New Age doctrines and Feminism and even Planned Parenthood is a part of it. I am not against birth control or sex education but I am totally against abortion and this is Planned Parenthood's money maker and we do know from factual articles that it has and does coerse young women and girls into abortions. Just today on 'The View', which I do not normally watch, the younger black woman, Sherrie, said Planned Parenthood coersed her into an abortion when she was seventeen even though she had second thoughts about it.
We are in the birth pangs of the 'Last Days'. We, who are called by His name, who desire to be in His Way, see this and understand this. None of us know the date or time but we 'see' and 'understand' the signs.
It is amazing to me how HaSatan can coerse humans into believing in a god other than the true God, YHWH Elohim. We understand that he has done this since the begining of time. He told Adam and Eve that too could be as gods and they believed. He led all the human race into the beliefs of strange gods and idols except for a few people and the Hebrews. If God had not reached Abraham and Abraham had not had eyes to see he would not be the Father of the Jews and all who believe in our Father and the Son. Abraham's immediate family were idol worshippers and it is said he was hidden as a child because the pagan 'seers' saw he was going to be a threat to their religion. It is also said that he broke his fathers idols. But, thankfully he did have righteous believers in his family....Noah was still alive when Abraham was born, and died when Abraham was 58 or 60 years old. Shem, the son of Noah died 35 years after Abraham died. The entire blood line of Shem was still alive, when Abraham was born. It has been written that these men had a great influence on Abraham. More so than his idol worshipping pagan father Terah.
It has been written that Abraham was taught by Noah and Shem, The Way of God.
There are so many cults in this world. I just watched the National Geographic Documentery "Inside A cult:Messiah On trial". I had researched it before watching and was already disgusted with the leader Wayne Bent/Michael Travesser.
Wayne Brent was a Seventh Day Adventist preacher who then had a revelation that he was the Messiah, Michael Travesser, and claims to be the son of god. He has a flock of about 60 believers and they live in a compound in New Mexico called Strong City. He also has seven wives who were given to him by his 'father' to comsummate the marriage of the lamb. He uses the Bible extensively in his teachings but uses it to suit his beliefs.
All through the documentary I kept thinking of the big cults....mainly the Catholics, the Mormans, the Muslims. All three of these use the Bible but do not believe it as the absolute Word of God.
The Catholics totally disregarded the Word of God as being the truth and did away with His Commands to keep the Sabbath Holy and they have usurped all power from our father, preferring to give all power to their church and its pope...and of course to its pagan goddess and the idols its believers bow to.
The Mormans believe an angel came to Joseph Smith and gave him golden tablets and a way to read them and thus were given the Book of Morman. They do not believe in the deity of Jesus/Yeshua..but believe all men are gods and will one day rule their own world.
Muslims believe that Muhammad was given the Koran by revelation and that YHWH ELOHIM is not God but is their god named allah. Their beliefs totally reject the Son of God and they believe in total adherence to thir beliefs, much the same way as the Catholics.
Millions of people are in these cults and in those of Hinduisn, Budism and any number of other cults. Why? Because Satan can and does give them a way to expresss themselves and believe. He gives them a way to understand and feel a part of something, even though it is false and is taking them straight to hell. He makes his lies seem as truths and even takes truth and makes it into half-truths.
What can we do? We can stand our ground in knowing in Whom we believe. We can live what we preach. We can say that the Bible is the Word of God and live it..not as the world does..but as He wants us to. Giving His Seventh Day Sabbath it's rightful place and following His Word which is Torah. If we call on the name of Jesus/Yeshua then we are calling on Torah and we must acknowledge this.
It is good to go back to the old path to the "Way of God...but beware of those who are wolves and come in sheep's clothing and say they believe in God's Way...like Paula White and Steve Munsey, just to name two. They teach about His way but do not follow His Commands. They do not separate the holy from the unholy...they do not remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. They continually ask for money so that you will receive blessings from God. Beware!
BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE! Holiness is not spelled Christmas or Easter or Lent or Advent or St Patricks day or Valentine's day or halloween, these are the days of man.......Holiness is in the Days and Times of Elohim.....His FestIvals...Remember Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot, Yom Turah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and His Hanukkah and Purim. These are of Him not of man.
Please remember I want only the best for you.
With love to YOU in and through our Savior Yeshua haMashiach...His servant, gloria
Dear Friends, I cannot believe it is the 24th of Iyyar already!...The last day, the 29th, will be this coming Shabbat! Rosh Chodesh Sivan! I stand amazed! I am amazed each Shabbat that another week has passed so quickly. Summer is upon us and I feel that I can only wish for those 'lazy hazy days of summer' because it, too, will pass so quickly! Time is speeding up but is it because I have grown older? Or is it truly a sign of the last days?
We see all around us that the seasons are no longer as they once were and we see the signs in the way people are and in their attitudes. I just read an article about the Girl Scouts. It is NOT the Girl scouts of my childhood....it is something of this day and age! Teaching the girls about New Age doctrines and Feminism and even Planned Parenthood is a part of it. I am not against birth control or sex education but I am totally against abortion and this is Planned Parenthood's money maker and we do know from factual articles that it has and does coerse young women and girls into abortions. Just today on 'The View', which I do not normally watch, the younger black woman, Sherrie, said Planned Parenthood coersed her into an abortion when she was seventeen even though she had second thoughts about it.
We are in the birth pangs of the 'Last Days'. We, who are called by His name, who desire to be in His Way, see this and understand this. None of us know the date or time but we 'see' and 'understand' the signs.
It is amazing to me how HaSatan can coerse humans into believing in a god other than the true God, YHWH Elohim. We understand that he has done this since the begining of time. He told Adam and Eve that too could be as gods and they believed. He led all the human race into the beliefs of strange gods and idols except for a few people and the Hebrews. If God had not reached Abraham and Abraham had not had eyes to see he would not be the Father of the Jews and all who believe in our Father and the Son. Abraham's immediate family were idol worshippers and it is said he was hidden as a child because the pagan 'seers' saw he was going to be a threat to their religion. It is also said that he broke his fathers idols. But, thankfully he did have righteous believers in his family....Noah was still alive when Abraham was born, and died when Abraham was 58 or 60 years old. Shem, the son of Noah died 35 years after Abraham died. The entire blood line of Shem was still alive, when Abraham was born. It has been written that these men had a great influence on Abraham. More so than his idol worshipping pagan father Terah.
It has been written that Abraham was taught by Noah and Shem, The Way of God.
There are so many cults in this world. I just watched the National Geographic Documentery "Inside A cult:Messiah On trial". I had researched it before watching and was already disgusted with the leader Wayne Bent/Michael Travesser.
Wayne Brent was a Seventh Day Adventist preacher who then had a revelation that he was the Messiah, Michael Travesser, and claims to be the son of god. He has a flock of about 60 believers and they live in a compound in New Mexico called Strong City. He also has seven wives who were given to him by his 'father' to comsummate the marriage of the lamb. He uses the Bible extensively in his teachings but uses it to suit his beliefs.
All through the documentary I kept thinking of the big cults....mainly the Catholics, the Mormans, the Muslims. All three of these use the Bible but do not believe it as the absolute Word of God.
The Catholics totally disregarded the Word of God as being the truth and did away with His Commands to keep the Sabbath Holy and they have usurped all power from our father, preferring to give all power to their church and its pope...and of course to its pagan goddess and the idols its believers bow to.
The Mormans believe an angel came to Joseph Smith and gave him golden tablets and a way to read them and thus were given the Book of Morman. They do not believe in the deity of Jesus/Yeshua..but believe all men are gods and will one day rule their own world.
Muslims believe that Muhammad was given the Koran by revelation and that YHWH ELOHIM is not God but is their god named allah. Their beliefs totally reject the Son of God and they believe in total adherence to thir beliefs, much the same way as the Catholics.
Millions of people are in these cults and in those of Hinduisn, Budism and any number of other cults. Why? Because Satan can and does give them a way to expresss themselves and believe. He gives them a way to understand and feel a part of something, even though it is false and is taking them straight to hell. He makes his lies seem as truths and even takes truth and makes it into half-truths.
What can we do? We can stand our ground in knowing in Whom we believe. We can live what we preach. We can say that the Bible is the Word of God and live it..not as the world does..but as He wants us to. Giving His Seventh Day Sabbath it's rightful place and following His Word which is Torah. If we call on the name of Jesus/Yeshua then we are calling on Torah and we must acknowledge this.
It is good to go back to the old path to the "Way of God...but beware of those who are wolves and come in sheep's clothing and say they believe in God's Way...like Paula White and Steve Munsey, just to name two. They teach about His way but do not follow His Commands. They do not separate the holy from the unholy...they do not remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. They continually ask for money so that you will receive blessings from God. Beware!
BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE! Holiness is not spelled Christmas or Easter or Lent or Advent or St Patricks day or Valentine's day or halloween, these are the days of man.......Holiness is in the Days and Times of Elohim.....His FestIvals...Remember Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot, Yom Turah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and His Hanukkah and Purim. These are of Him not of man.
Please remember I want only the best for you.
With love to YOU in and through our Savior Yeshua haMashiach...His servant, gloria
Monday, May 11, 2009
SPACE, do we dare?
iyyar 17,5769 Second day Yom Shaynee
I went and saw the new Star Trek movie and was again thrilled to the bone to see Captain Kirk and Spock going into the unknown where no man has gone before. I, like so many, have always loved the space films and tv shows. When Star Trek came on tv when I was young it was the opening of so many other science fiction tales about outer space and man traveling to other worlds and of course aliens, because we looked at the universe and said, "It is so huge and we are but a tine speck, we can't possible be the only life forms."
I watched today, as I try to always do, the lift off of the Sapce Shuttle. Very exciting. But, I don't have that same wonder in me that we will eventually get to another planet. My faith does not compute with this.
Man loves adventure. We love to explore the unknown..and of course claim it as our own....As we have done so many times in history when 'finding' a 'new' land already inhabited by other humans but this made no difference, those who were exploring were entitled to the land, right?
What does drive man to the extreme of going out into space and exploring completely away from earth? I can't say for sure but I believe that the enemy has given mankind some knowledge and pricked his ear to desire to know more than he should.
In the days of Noah, man was doing things far beyond what he was capable of knowing and doing, according to the sages. And this was not pleasing to God. Should we think that He is pleased with space exploration?
I wonder?
In Jeremiah 31, our Elohim tells us how He is going to give Israel a new covenant....
Jeremiah 31:31-37 (New International Version)
31 "The time is coming," declares the LORD,
"when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to [a] them, [b] "
declares the LORD.
33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time," declares the LORD.
"I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,"
declares the LORD.
"For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more."
35 This is what the LORD says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the LORD Almighty is his name:
36 "Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,"
declares the LORD,
"will the descendants of Israel ever cease
to be a nation before me."
37 This is what the LORD says:
"Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,"
declares the LORD.
What did He say?
"Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,"
declares the LORD.
Think on this and ask the LORD for understanding of this.
What do I think?
I think satan does give knowledge and he fashioned this whole space race to give man great knowledge. He has tried to wipe Israel out and so far he has not accomplished it. But being who he is, he always has another plan and what plan? To get man to search the heavens to measure it with great telescopes..to see as far as the end of the universe. To desire to travel in space and be as God..going into the heavens seeing all he can see. And to also go to the depths of the earth and into the deep waters to search it and see what is hidden from him. Man desires to know everything...he desires to be as God because the enemy has always told him.."he is as god".
Satan stepped up knowledge after so many years of darkness and especially after Israel became a nation. Let us beware of him at all times. Let us pray...."COME QUICKLY YESHUA, COME QUICKLY!"
I went and saw the new Star Trek movie and was again thrilled to the bone to see Captain Kirk and Spock going into the unknown where no man has gone before. I, like so many, have always loved the space films and tv shows. When Star Trek came on tv when I was young it was the opening of so many other science fiction tales about outer space and man traveling to other worlds and of course aliens, because we looked at the universe and said, "It is so huge and we are but a tine speck, we can't possible be the only life forms."
I watched today, as I try to always do, the lift off of the Sapce Shuttle. Very exciting. But, I don't have that same wonder in me that we will eventually get to another planet. My faith does not compute with this.
Man loves adventure. We love to explore the unknown..and of course claim it as our own....As we have done so many times in history when 'finding' a 'new' land already inhabited by other humans but this made no difference, those who were exploring were entitled to the land, right?
What does drive man to the extreme of going out into space and exploring completely away from earth? I can't say for sure but I believe that the enemy has given mankind some knowledge and pricked his ear to desire to know more than he should.
In the days of Noah, man was doing things far beyond what he was capable of knowing and doing, according to the sages. And this was not pleasing to God. Should we think that He is pleased with space exploration?
I wonder?
In Jeremiah 31, our Elohim tells us how He is going to give Israel a new covenant....
Jeremiah 31:31-37 (New International Version)
31 "The time is coming," declares the LORD,
"when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to [a] them, [b] "
declares the LORD.
33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time," declares the LORD.
"I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,"
declares the LORD.
"For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more."
35 This is what the LORD says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the LORD Almighty is his name:
36 "Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,"
declares the LORD,
"will the descendants of Israel ever cease
to be a nation before me."
37 This is what the LORD says:
"Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,"
declares the LORD.
What did He say?
"Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,"
declares the LORD.
Think on this and ask the LORD for understanding of this.
What do I think?
I think satan does give knowledge and he fashioned this whole space race to give man great knowledge. He has tried to wipe Israel out and so far he has not accomplished it. But being who he is, he always has another plan and what plan? To get man to search the heavens to measure it with great telescopes..to see as far as the end of the universe. To desire to travel in space and be as God..going into the heavens seeing all he can see. And to also go to the depths of the earth and into the deep waters to search it and see what is hidden from him. Man desires to know everything...he desires to be as God because the enemy has always told him.."he is as god".
Satan stepped up knowledge after so many years of darkness and especially after Israel became a nation. Let us beware of him at all times. Let us pray...."COME QUICKLY YESHUA, COME QUICKLY!"
Friday, May 8, 2009
BEING TOO CRITICAL
Iyyar 14,5769 Sixth Day Yom Ha'shee'shee
Father I ask forgiveness from You and from all who know me and who read this, I have not been in Your Word studying as I should and have not lifted worship and praise to You as I should. I see myself, as becoming as those around me, who call themselves Yours, who say a prayer to You and then go about their day.
NO, that isn't me, not really. But, what is it? What makes me feel as though I am not in full favor? I pray to You all the time. You are always on my mind. There is nothing I do that I am not thinking about you. My day begins and You are on my mind. I watch something on TV and You are on my mind. As I get Arrin ready for school school, You are on my mind. I sit outside and praise You. I lift Your Name up. Before I go to sleep, you are on my mind. You are woven into my dreams.....So what is my problem?
Maybe I have a critical heart towards others. I desire for those who do not know the truth to 'see' as You showed me. I desire for each of my children to walk this Way with me. I desire for them to 'See' that the Old Path is the true Way.
The more I study, I 'see' the lies that have been told for so long and how almost every 'Christian' believes those lies. I remember that I, too, followed the way of the world church. No, Not the Great Pretender Church of Constantine...the Great whore church..the Catholic church...but I was a Protestant and my beliefs were intertwined into the maze of the teachings of this usurper church. I believed that I was to go to church on the sun day. Why? Because we had been led astray. I believed your Commands..Your instruction to us, was not for the New testement church. Why? Because we had been led astray. I followed all the 'holidays' of the 'church' and in it participated in all that is pagan...why? Because I was led astray. I, in turn, led my family astray. Allowed my children to believe in a satanic magical man who would come once a year and bestow gifts upon them if they were good because he could see and hear all and knew all, I allowed them to believe in a magical bunny who layed magical eggs and treated them to candy and sometimes presents. We were led to believe this whore church was the 'mother church' because it had been the beginning of the Christian faith.
But You...You have brought truth to my eyes and I now see that all was lies. That this whore church took all that was good and wonderful, Your Feasts and Festivals..Your Holy Days, Your Sabbath and shrouded it...as though all saw with veiled eyes and it performed magic and incantations to bewitch the people and kept its followers bound to its doctrines and sacraments. It stole your people and gave the world a 'new' belief, telling all that it had the power of god on earth and salvation only comes through it.
Of course, I knew salvation only comes through You, because You were able to reach through the dark void of the minds and speak and You were heard. But as with so many things, man did not stop and hear the rest. So we have been bound to a church system, clothed in paganism and have worshipped the devil himself. He is very clever. But, now we see the truth.
If I had not listened to You. If I had not stepped out in faith with You. If I had stayed mired in the religios attitude of the 'church', would I have been ok? I would have still been reaching out to You. Always working towards more. I am still desireing more but I now know where to get it, through Your Torah and from Your Holy Days and Times.
I can't make people change. I can't make them 'see' through their darkened mirrors. Only You can change them but there has to be a desire in them and if they are content that all that is being fed to them is truth than they are left to their own religious attitudes. They are much set in their ways and this will be the way it is until something awakens them to the truth.
This is a burden upon me but You have called me to worship and praise so I must be an example. I heard the old expression, just the other day....If you talk the talk you should walk the walk...this is where I am at. I have allowed comprimises to abound in my life. I cannot expect those who are still bound by the devil in the world church to want to be free if my life is not an example of Your Ways.
I do not want to be critical of others who are still bound. I will be more loving and kind, as Torah teaches, because we are called to be light to the world and only through this light will they see You. I praise You and thank You for You are so good, Your love and mercy endures forever!
But I will still speak and write the truth and stand on Your word as to what is holy and what is unholy
DAILY LIFT
Rabbi Zelig Pinkin
#585 Thinking Good About Others
I heard many times from Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, the late Head of Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. "The commandment to refrain from speaking negatively against others does not start with what we say when we speak. Rather, it starts with what we think about when we think about another person."
The Torah obligation starts with our thoughts. When you master the ability to see what is good about other people, their virtues and positive attributes, their strengths and accomplishments, then you will speak positively about them. Knowing that they have many positive qualities and have done much good, you will find it easier to refrain from violating the Torah prohibition against negative speech.
(Growth Through Tehillim: Exploring Psalms for Life Transforming?Thoughts, p. 86)
A Word thru Bev Robinson
You have some blind spot in your thoughts and words. I hear coming from your heart and mouth judgments directed toward specific people. These ones are not measuring up according to your standards. You are even thinking this action is what I want you to do. Absolutely not. What if I treated you this way? You are not seeing this sin you are committing, but I see this. Open your eyes. Wake up and see the way you are treating these precious ones. What if I acted toward you that way? If you continue in this vein there will be consequences…remember you reap what you sow. Pour on blessings instead of curses.
Matthew 7:1-4 "Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults—unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It's easy to see a smudge on your neighbor's face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, 'Let me wash your face for you,' when your own face is distorted by contempt?” Bev Robinson
Father I ask forgiveness from You and from all who know me and who read this, I have not been in Your Word studying as I should and have not lifted worship and praise to You as I should. I see myself, as becoming as those around me, who call themselves Yours, who say a prayer to You and then go about their day.
NO, that isn't me, not really. But, what is it? What makes me feel as though I am not in full favor? I pray to You all the time. You are always on my mind. There is nothing I do that I am not thinking about you. My day begins and You are on my mind. I watch something on TV and You are on my mind. As I get Arrin ready for school school, You are on my mind. I sit outside and praise You. I lift Your Name up. Before I go to sleep, you are on my mind. You are woven into my dreams.....So what is my problem?
Maybe I have a critical heart towards others. I desire for those who do not know the truth to 'see' as You showed me. I desire for each of my children to walk this Way with me. I desire for them to 'See' that the Old Path is the true Way.
The more I study, I 'see' the lies that have been told for so long and how almost every 'Christian' believes those lies. I remember that I, too, followed the way of the world church. No, Not the Great Pretender Church of Constantine...the Great whore church..the Catholic church...but I was a Protestant and my beliefs were intertwined into the maze of the teachings of this usurper church. I believed that I was to go to church on the sun day. Why? Because we had been led astray. I believed your Commands..Your instruction to us, was not for the New testement church. Why? Because we had been led astray. I followed all the 'holidays' of the 'church' and in it participated in all that is pagan...why? Because I was led astray. I, in turn, led my family astray. Allowed my children to believe in a satanic magical man who would come once a year and bestow gifts upon them if they were good because he could see and hear all and knew all, I allowed them to believe in a magical bunny who layed magical eggs and treated them to candy and sometimes presents. We were led to believe this whore church was the 'mother church' because it had been the beginning of the Christian faith.
But You...You have brought truth to my eyes and I now see that all was lies. That this whore church took all that was good and wonderful, Your Feasts and Festivals..Your Holy Days, Your Sabbath and shrouded it...as though all saw with veiled eyes and it performed magic and incantations to bewitch the people and kept its followers bound to its doctrines and sacraments. It stole your people and gave the world a 'new' belief, telling all that it had the power of god on earth and salvation only comes through it.
Of course, I knew salvation only comes through You, because You were able to reach through the dark void of the minds and speak and You were heard. But as with so many things, man did not stop and hear the rest. So we have been bound to a church system, clothed in paganism and have worshipped the devil himself. He is very clever. But, now we see the truth.
If I had not listened to You. If I had not stepped out in faith with You. If I had stayed mired in the religios attitude of the 'church', would I have been ok? I would have still been reaching out to You. Always working towards more. I am still desireing more but I now know where to get it, through Your Torah and from Your Holy Days and Times.
I can't make people change. I can't make them 'see' through their darkened mirrors. Only You can change them but there has to be a desire in them and if they are content that all that is being fed to them is truth than they are left to their own religious attitudes. They are much set in their ways and this will be the way it is until something awakens them to the truth.
This is a burden upon me but You have called me to worship and praise so I must be an example. I heard the old expression, just the other day....If you talk the talk you should walk the walk...this is where I am at. I have allowed comprimises to abound in my life. I cannot expect those who are still bound by the devil in the world church to want to be free if my life is not an example of Your Ways.
I do not want to be critical of others who are still bound. I will be more loving and kind, as Torah teaches, because we are called to be light to the world and only through this light will they see You. I praise You and thank You for You are so good, Your love and mercy endures forever!
But I will still speak and write the truth and stand on Your word as to what is holy and what is unholy
DAILY LIFT
Rabbi Zelig Pinkin
#585 Thinking Good About Others
I heard many times from Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz, the late Head of Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. "The commandment to refrain from speaking negatively against others does not start with what we say when we speak. Rather, it starts with what we think about when we think about another person."
The Torah obligation starts with our thoughts. When you master the ability to see what is good about other people, their virtues and positive attributes, their strengths and accomplishments, then you will speak positively about them. Knowing that they have many positive qualities and have done much good, you will find it easier to refrain from violating the Torah prohibition against negative speech.
(Growth Through Tehillim: Exploring Psalms for Life Transforming?Thoughts, p. 86)
A Word thru Bev Robinson
You have some blind spot in your thoughts and words. I hear coming from your heart and mouth judgments directed toward specific people. These ones are not measuring up according to your standards. You are even thinking this action is what I want you to do. Absolutely not. What if I treated you this way? You are not seeing this sin you are committing, but I see this. Open your eyes. Wake up and see the way you are treating these precious ones. What if I acted toward you that way? If you continue in this vein there will be consequences…remember you reap what you sow. Pour on blessings instead of curses.
Matthew 7:1-4 "Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults—unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It's easy to see a smudge on your neighbor's face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, 'Let me wash your face for you,' when your own face is distorted by contempt?” Bev Robinson
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The Mark of God & The Mark of the Beast by Maria Merola
Iyyar 7,5769 Fifth Day Yom Khah'mee'shee
The Mark of God & The Mark of the Beast Revealed Sunday,
April 26, 2009 at 3:26am
Dear Friends,
Greetings in the name of Yeshua the Messiah of Israel!
The Mark of God & The Mark of the Beast Revealed
By Maria Merola
In this episode, Maria will be discussing the “Mark” or the “sign” that Yehovah marks his own people with “in the forehead” (Ezekiel 9, Revelation 7 & 14). The Holy Sabbath Days & Feast Days of the Lord (Leviticus 23) are a “sign” which God says are between him and the children of Israel (all believers in Messiah) FOREVER! This means that we are commanded to keep them under the New Covenant, and that they were never meant to go away. The devil also has a “mark” or a “sign” that he marks his own people with, which are the “antithesis” to the Mark of God and they are the 8 Pagan Sabbath Days celebrated by witches, Wiccans, and Satanists since the Tower of Babel. These Satanic “Holy Days” have been disguised to appear “Christian” by the Vatican. The Sabbaths of Yehovah will ultimately be the “sign” that separates the true believers (who have the “seal” of the Holy Spirit in their foreheads) from the counterfeit Mother Harlot Church who follow the Feast Days of the Beast (Papacy).
THE FEASTS FOR THE BEAST ARE FULL OF YEAST
Yeshua/Jesus warned us to “beware of the leaven” (Yeast) of the Pharisees of his day. Today nothing has changed within Christendom, we have the “Doctrines and Commandments of men” (the Papacy) being taught in the Church and in Seminaries. This, my friends is the “Leaven” or Yeast that grows within the church today and it is a “bacteria” that hinders us from seeing him as the Unleavened Bread from Heaven. Yeshua Messiah is that “Bread of Life” and he is revealed in his Holy Feasts, for they are the THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS (Revelation 19:10). Those who "have his testimony, and keep his commandments" are they who will have the right to "eat from the Tree of Life”(Revelation 12:17, 22:14) And to those who“overcome” the Beast and his system, Yeshua offers us the“hidden manna,” the mysteries to understand the Kingdom.
Revelation 2:17 “....To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
Eight Pagan Sun God Sabbaths
1.) Imbolc Saint Valentine’s Day: February 2nd-February15th
2.) Ostara (Easter): Rome changed it to Passover week to identify her with Christ’s Resurrection. March 21st-March 25th (Pope changed to Passover week to confuse with Christ)
3.) Beltane (Mayfest) (goddess of fertility/Mary): May 1st
4.) Midsummer Solstice (First Day of Summer):June 21st (Catholics call it St. John’s Day)
5.) Lugnasad (Catholic Mary’s Ascension):August 1st-August 15th
6.) Mabon (First Day of Autumn):September 21st
7.) Samhain (Halloween) Catholic “All-Saints Day” or“All-Souls Day”:October 31st
8.) Yule (Christmas) birthday of false Christ: December 21st-December 25th
Last week I sent out a teaching about the microchip implant being just one aspect of the “Mark of the Beast” but in the podcast I will be doing tonight, I will be addressing another aspect to the “Mark of the Beast” besides the literal computer chip that will go underneath the skin.
When interpreting prophecy, we must see that there are usually 3 or 4 “layers” of understanding. God’s Torah teaches us to “love the Lord” with 4 aspects our being: “heart (spiritual), mind (intellectual), soul (emotional), strength (physical).”
In Jewish thought, these 4 layers of understanding apply to all 4 aspects our being.
The Torah is divided into four levels of teaching. They are: P’shat, Drash, Remez and the Sod. Brief explanations are below:
1.) P’shat Level The P’shat level is the plain sense of the text. What does it actually say? Every word, phrase, and thought has a meaning, there is no word that is redundant or idle. Even if it appears to be, it is not. It is filled with meaning for us to learn. (Physical or literal application)
2.) Drash Level The Drash level is where truth and principle are presented. Truth can only be truth if it is confirmed. Confirmation as we know must come in the form of evidence and evidence must be at least two or three witnesses. (Intellectual, or rational)
3.) Remez Level The Remez level is the underlying theme or story that is told while speaking of other things. It is how prophecy is laid into the story of history. This level shows the plan for Yashua’s redemption and restoration. (Emotional application or parables we can relate to)
4.) Sod Level The Sod level is the mysterious and coded level. This involves the understanding of numbers along with the meaning associated with certain numerical values. For example, the number 1 represents “Echad” or Oneness, “Two” represents struggle, division or witness, etc. This level also involves the meanings of names. (Spiritual application or metaphor, allegory)
In the prophecies concerning the “Beast” system, there are 4 applications:
1.) The Beast’s Government – A corporate political system (intellectual, drash)
2.) The Beast’s Economy – A form of currency, the microchip implant (emotional, remez)
3.) The Beast’s Religion – A religion that deviates from scripture (spiritual, sod)
4.) The Man of sin – A man who will counterfeit the Messiah (literal, physical, p’shat)
This beast system will counterfeit the true Messiah at his second coming. Our Messiah Yeshua will have the “government upon his shoulders” and he will “rule and reign for a thousand years.
1.) Yeshua’s Government – (Isaiah 9:6-7, 22:21)
2.) Yeshua’s Economy – (Isaiah 55:1, Jeremiah 32:44)
3.) Yeshua’s Undefiled Religion – (Isaiah 2:3, Micah 4:2)
4.) Yeshua, the manchild who will rule all nations – (Isaiah 9, Revelation 12)
In all three of these streams of influence we can see aspects of how the “Mark” of the Beast will have an influence upon people:
1.) The Mark of the Beast will have a political aspect:The Central Computer system in Luxembourg Germany has the acronym"BEAST" The European Union headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium, and has a huge computer system they call “the Beast.” It is an acronym for the Belgian Electronic Accounting Surveillance Terminal. The Beast of the scripture is a corporate “man” with “ten horns” and “seven heads.” This “corporate man” is a government headed by “the man of sin” the Antichrist.
2.) The Mark of the Beast will have an economic aspect:The microchip implant will replace currency so that no man might “buy or sell” unless they have this microchip implant. It will only be available to those who “worship” the Beast through his counterfeit religion which will also include his counterfeit “holy days.”
3.) The Mark of the Beast will have a religious aspect:The counterfeit holy days of “Sunday” Sabbath and pagan sun god worship festivals will be instituted as the official days of the Antichrist religion. Those who refuse to honor Satan’s counterfeit “holy days” and decide to honor the Feast Days of Yehovah will have to lose their lives for obedience to the commandments.
4.) The Beast has a physical image:The “image” of the Beast will be the Abomination of Desolation that sits in the temple of God, the 3rd Jewish Temple when it is built; Revelation 13:14-15, Revelation 14:9-11.
The Image of the Beast
What is the “image of the beast”? In order to find out, we must find out what the “image of God” is:
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person , and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
Yeshua, the “Son” is the “image” of the Father as seen in Hebrews 1:3. In the same way, Satan the master counterfeiter will have an “image” and it will be the “Son” of Satan himself who masquerades as the true Messiah.
The Vatican proudly boasts that the Pope is the "The Visible image of Christ on earth…”
In the Catholic Catechism:
Pg. 235 #882 it says: “For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.”
The word Vicar in Latin literally means “substitute.” Is the Pope the substitute for Christ? Another way of using the word “anti” according to the Greek dictionary of the Strong’s Concordance of the Bible is to say “instead of” or “substitute” for. Do we have the Pope “instead of” Christ? Or as the Vicar (substitute) of Christ? Or is the Pope the “Antichrist”? Well, here we have it, the word “anti” does not only mean against or opposite, as you might think, it literally means “substitute” in Greek, or “vicar” in Latin. The Catholic Church admits in their catechism that the office of the Pope is the seat of the Antichrist!
Not too long ago many of the Protestant Reformers believed that the office of the Pope was the office of the Antichrist. Let’s see who these men were: Wycliff, Luther, Calvin, Tyndale, Knox, Sir Isaac Newton, Fox, Wesley, Finney, Moody, Spurgeon. Could they be right? Let’s see what the popes have had to say about themselves:
“We declare, assert, define and pronounce: to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every human creature altogether necessary for salvation…” (Pope Boniface VIII)
“We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty…” (Pope Leo XIII)
“ I am all in all and above all, so that God, Himself and I, the Vicar of God, have but one consistory, and I am able to do ALMOST ALL THAT GOD CAN DO…. what therefore, can you make of me but God?” (Pope Nicholas)
Theory or Speculation:Now please understand that this is merely a theory of mine. But in order for Satan to “claim” that he is God according to 2nd Thessalonians 2, he would have to take on the role of the CREATOR! So, how can Satan claim that he “created God”?
Well one way is through “cloning.”
There is a group of so-called “Christians” on a web site entitled “Christians for the cloning of Jesus.”
They want to take the “Shroud of Turin” and use the DNA in it to “clone Jesus.” This may very well be the IMAGE spoken of in Revelation 13. The “Shroud” is now in the possession of the Vatican, although it had been in the possession of many others up until the 21st century. At this site, the alleged plan is to arrange the “cloning of Jesus” on March 25th 2000, so that his birthday would land precisely on December 25th in the year 2000.
If they did in fact succeed in using the DNA from the Shroud to clone “Jesus” on March 25th 2000, then that would make him ready to act as an impostor of Jesus Christ by the year 2030. Satan has always wanted to be God, the Creator, and now, he may finally get his chance to “create God.” Of course even if this “cloning of Jesus” becomes a reality, it may have his physical characteristics yet it still won’t possess the divinity of Jesus Christ----his Holy Spirit.
This cloning process would be the epitome of the “creature” trying to become the “creator” as Lucifer said in Isaiah 14:14 that He would become “Like the most high God.” Cloning “Jesus” would be the ultimate blasphemy of man trying to create and become God; hence the number 666 is a trinity of “man becoming God.”
Though this is merely a theory of mine, I believe that a “clone of Jesus”, made from the “Shroud of Turin” could very well be the IMAGE to the “beast.”
Recently, there has been a lot of attention turned to the “Shroud of Turin” by the Roman Catholic Church. The “Shroud of Turin” is said to have been a cloth that was used to wrap Jesus’ corpse when he came off of the cross. This “Shroud” allegedly has an impression of Jesus’ face and entire body left from his blood. Many scientists have studied it and have found it to be authentic, although there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the Shroud.
Maitreya the “Christ” for All Religions
In 1984 the New Age Church made an astounding claim. They published a full page ad in the New York Times and in Newspapers globally stating that “The Christ” for all religions is here, and that he possessed Pope John Paul II.
Satan’s false Christ called the Antichrist will profess to be a “reincarnation” of Jesus Christ.
Will there be a “clone of Jesus” from the Shroud of Turin sitting in the 3rd Jewish Temple?
Will the next Pope, the “8th King” of Revelation 17 be the one who will be possessed by Maitreya the “false” Christ for all religions? Does this sound far-fetched to you? Well think again! The New Age Author, Lecturer, and “channeler”, Benjamin Crème says: “Jesus will be here too, at home in Rome, ‘possessing’ the Pope.” The New York Times ran a full page ad as well as newspapers worldwide back in 1984 that read:
“In the last 2000 years Jesus has worked in the closest relation to the Christ, saving his time and his energy where possible and has special work to do with the Christian Church. He (Jesus) is one of the Masters who will very shortly return to outer work in the world TAKING OVER THE THRONE OF ST. PETER IN ROME. He will seek to transform the Christian Church, insofar as they are flexible enough to respond correctly to the new reality which is the return of Christ and the Masters will create.”---Benjamin Crème----“Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom.”
Here, Jesus is warning that false Christs and prophets will try to deceive us into believing that Jesus is physically going to manifest “here” or “there”, but Jesus said “Believe it NOT!!”
Jesus tells us that when he returns it will be in the sky for all to see!
Matthew 24:24-27 “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
Substitute Son of God & Substitute Sabbath
It is imperative to understand that the 4th Sabbath commandment of Yehovah contains the “seal” which identifies him and differentiates him from all of the other false pagan gods. If Satan wants to “Substitute” the image of the Son of God with a counterfeit, then it only stands to reason why he has to also “Substitute” the “Day of the Lord” (the 7th Day) to the day of Sunday for the “sun god” in honor of Nimrod, Tammuz, Mithra, Horus, Apollo and all the other impostors born on December 25th .
In Daniel 7:23, God showed Daniel that “The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth.” Daniel saw in his vision, that this 4th beast, (which would be the Roman Empire), “shall think to change times and laws” (Daniel 7:25). Daniel's vision is accurately portrayed in Ferraris’ Ecclesiastical Dictionary:
“The Pope has the power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ. The Pope has the authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ.”---Decretal de Tranlatic Episcop. Cap (The Pope can modify divine law) Ferraris Ecclesiastical Dictionary."
So what does 666 mean?
6 = the number of “man” because on the 6th day God created Adam
666 = a “trinity” of mankind trying to become God through cloning or “creating human life.”
The official Title of every Pope is as follows:
Vicarius Filii Dei = 666 in Roman Numerals
Also, the title “Vicar of Christ” adds up to 666 as well
What does “Vicar” mean in Latin? It means “SUBSTITUTE”
What does the word “Anti” mean in Greek? The word “Anti” in the Strong’s Greek Concordance means:
"SUBSTITUTE"
Hence “Antichrist” & Vicar of Christ mean exactly the same thing!
When a Pope decides to “Substitute” the commandments of God with “the doctrines of men” this is exactly what the term “Antichrist means” it means “in place of” or “instead of.”
Listen to what the Vatican claims is their “Mark” of Authority over the Protestant Churches. The Roman Catholic Church proudly “boasts” of her rebellion against the commandment of God:
“Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The Holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. ‘The day of the Lord’ was chosen, NOT from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church's sense of its own power…People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become Seventh-day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.” (Saint Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.)
“Of Course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was her act…And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things.” H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.
“Sunday is our MARK of authority…the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is the proof of that fact.” ---Catholic Record of London, Ontario Sept 1, 1923.
“Protestants do not realize that by observing Sunday worship instead of Saturday Sabbath, that they accept the authority of the Holy Father of the Church, the Pope.”----Our Sunday Visitor, February 5, 1950
“No such law in the Bible…Nowhere in the Bible do we find that Jesus or the apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep the Sabbath day that is the seventh day of the week, Saturday. Today, most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the Roman Catholic Church outside the Bible.”-----Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947
“Sunday is a Catholic Institution…..From the beginning to the end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer….from the last day of the week to the first.”----Catholic Press, Sydney Australia, August 1998
“Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her;----she could not have SUBSTITUTED observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is NO SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY.”----Rev. Steven Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism, “On the Obedience Due to the Church,” chapter 2, pg 174.----Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, archbishop of New York.
The world is already moving towards this civil legislation to make “Sunday” worship mandatory by law:
“Christians will naturally strive to ensure that 'civil legislation' respects their duty to make Sunday holy”----Section 67 of Pope John Paul II's “Dies Domini”, July 7th 1998
“The Pope is calling for Global Sunday Observance”---From the Brook, July-Sept 1998, Vol. 4, No.3
“This organization proposes in every possible way to aid in preserving Sunday as a civil institution. Our national security requires the active support of all good citizens in the maintenance of our American Sabbath. Sunday Laws must be enforced.”---Quoted as "Principles contained in the Constitution" in the original organization (then called the American Sabbath Union), cited in The Lord's Alliance 25th Report (1913) pg. 6
“If we believe religion is true, we should be re-introducing a criminal penalty for those who fail to attend church on Sunday.”----Daily Independent 4-11-98, Sarah Maitland “On the issues of belief.”
A bill to be introduced in the Morobe Tutamang . The proposed Bill expected to draw debate because it seeks to ban all activities –social and economic on Sunday. The Law will carry penalty provisions for operators and agencies caught violating it. Mr. Wenge said yesterday the move was radical one but that was based on “Christian” principles and values. The Bill is being drafted for tabling in the provincial assembly in its first session next year-----Post Courier NewsPaper October 6, 1998 Papua New Guinea
Not only has the Papacy been instrumental in changing the weekly Sabbath from the 7th day (Saturday) to the 1st day (Sunday) after the "sun god" but the Papacy has also been instrumental in disguising the EIGHT PAGAN SABBATHS that the witches, Wiccans, & Satanists call "holy." All of Satan's important "Feast Days" since the Tower of Babel have been "changed" to "appear" Christian, but they never were.
Daniel 7:
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The "Beast" is the 4th Kingdom = Rome
The "Beast" has the power to "change times and laws...."
The Mark, Sign & Seal of the Beast
You will notice that in all of the verses that follow, those who “receive” the mark of the Beast in their right hand and in their forehead, also “worship” the “image” of the Beast. And this will be a Substitute for the Son (the image of God), in other words it will more than likely be a “Pope” who already bears this title officially and who already has the “number” of his name Vicar (Substitute) of Christ. And his name, and his number equal 666. And to go along with this image, he will have a certain day that he claims is “holy.”
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Revelation 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands: and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
The Mark, Sign & Seal of Yehovah
God has given us “signs” that identify him and he tells us in the Torah what these are:
Genesis 1:4 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
He wants us to keep his times and seasons according to his new moons and Sabbaths “forever” which is why he gave us the sun and the moon to divide the light from the darkness.
God tells us to “bind” the commandments as a “sign” upon our “hand” and upon our foreheads:
Deuteronomy 6:8 “And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”
In other words, our hands represent our “works” or our deeds. The “frontlets between the eyes” are the “forehead” and this means our minds, our will. If we have the “mind of Christ” we will desire to keep his commandments.
HAND = WORKS, DEEDS
FOREHEAD = OUR THOUGHTS, OUR MIND
Exodus 31
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying,Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations;that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
Ezekiel 20:20 And hallow sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
In all of the above verses, the word for "sign" the Hebrew Concordance is as follows:
#226 'owth oth probably from 225 (in the sense of appearing); a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:--mark, miracle, en-sign, token.
On the day of Pentecost (called Shavuot in Hebrew) the believers received the“seal” the Holy Spirit which is also called the“Law of the Spirit of Life” Torah written in our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit. The commandments have been transferred from Stone Tablets into “fleshy tables of the heart.” (2nd Corinthians 3:3)
The commandments have not been “nailed to the cross” but they are now “written in our hearts and minds” under the New Covenant:
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
So what was nailed to the cross? In Colossians 2:14 the Apostle Paul says that the “commandments contained in ordinances” were nailed to the cross. But when you look up the word “ordinance” in the Original Greek text, it is the word “dogmatizo” which is a man made decree. Reading further down in verses 20-22, Paul says that these are “doctrines and commandments of men” so we know that he is not speaking of God’s commandments, but rather man made ordinances such as Christmas & Easter. He goes on to admonish believers that they should not allow any “man” to judge them in how they keep God’s Holy Days. He tells them not to go back under any man made traditions “after the rudiments of the world.”
The“seal” of the Holy Spirit that God places on his elect is a “down payment” or an “engagement ring” if you will. The word for “seal” in the following verses is as follows in the Hebrew:
#2368 chowtham kho-thawm' or chotham {kho-thawm'}; from 2856; a signature-ring:--seal, signet.
Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony,seal the law among my disciples.
Also in the New Testament there are other recurring themes about the “seal” of the Holy Spirit which can be seen in the following verses:
John 3:33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
2nd Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption.
2nd Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
The same meaning to this word “seal” is also seen in the Greek Concordance as meaning the same thing as in the Hebrew. It means “signet ring”or a “mark”:
#4972. sphragizo sfrag-id'-zo from 4973; to stamp (with a signet private mark) for security or preservation (literally or figuratively); by implication, to keep secret, to attest:--(set a, set to) seal up, stop.
#4973. sphragis sfrag-ece' probably strengthened from 5420;a signet(as fencing in or protecting from misappropriation); by implication, the stamp impressed (as a mark of privacy or genuineness), literally or figuratively:--seal.
The elect have their names written in the right hand of the Lamb who sits on the throne:
Revelation 5:1 And I saw the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
He has engraved us in the palms of his hands, which is why he bore the nails in his hands and feet.
Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands thy walls are continually before me.
The “Tav” is the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet. This is the same word used for “mark” in Ezekiel 9:4 “...set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.” Yeshua is the “Aleph & Tav”, the Beginning and the Ending. Messiah is the “Tav” the end result of the Law/Instructions/Torah. In him we fulfill the righteousness of the Torah when we walk by the Spirit (Romans 8:4).
When we obey God’s Torah (instructions), the end result is the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet which is the “TAV” which is a “cross-shaped mark or sign.” In other words we are the living example of the cross in the earth. We are crucified with him, and our lives bear the fruit that shows it! So you see that the “mark” is an invisible mark that God places on us. In the Hebrew Concordance the word for “mark” in Ezekiel 9 is as follows:
#8420 tav tawv from 8427; a mark, by implication, a signature:-desire, mark.
#8427 tavah taw-vaw' a primitive root; to mark out, i.e. (primitive) scratch or (definite) imprint:--scrabble, set (a mark).
Paul the Apostle says in: Galatians 6:14-17 “....But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.....From henceforth let no man trouble me: I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.”
What he is saying is that the “marks” are born in his body as well as in his spirit because he is crucified to the flesh.
Also, in 2nd Corinthians 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Once again we “bear in our body” the “marks” of his cross by our crucified lives! It is both spiritual and physical, therefore the Mark of the Beast is also both physical and spiritual.
One thing I have learned with prophecy, is that God usually has a “literal” or a physical application as well as the spiritual or “metaphor” application as well. What the Lord has taught me is that if we lean too much on just the spiritual application and never take scripture literally, that leads to gnosticism (which teaches that Jesus did not come in the flesh). You see if Yeshua “is come in the flesh” (1st John 4:3) then his word became “flesh” meaning literal or physical (John 1). But then he resurrected into a spiritual body also which supersedes the corruptible body. Therefore, the “word” has the literal/physical application which applies to our corruptible world, but then it also has the eternal/spiritual metaphor application as well because his word is eternal. So the “mark” is a literal/physical one but it is also a “spiritual mark” also having to do with the way that we worship God. The Holy Sabbath Days in the 4th Commandment tells us “how” God wants to be worshiped. But the antithesis to this is the way that Satan wants to be worshiped is through a different set of Feast Days which identify him. So you see, what Feasts we keep in these last days will determine which God we really serve. Which Feasts will you keep? The Feasts for the Beast which are full of yeast? Or will you honor the 4th Commandment to keep God’s Holy Sabbath’s Holy?
God marks his own with an invisible “mark” which is mentioned in Ezekiel 9, and he says that those who SIGH AND CRY AT THE ABOMINATIONS receive a “mark” in their foreheads. Also in Revelation 7, he tells the angel to seal the 12 tribes in their foreheads (12,000 from each tribe). But in Ezekiel 8 he lists what all these ABOMINATIONS are that his elect “sigh and cry” about. He says that they set up the IMAGE OF JEALOUSY (obelisk, Washington Monument, steeples), he says that they worship the sun god Tammuz (reincarnated each year on Dec. 25th), and he says that they put the branch to the nose (Christmas Trees, mistletoe) in other words they worship nature. So we see that those who “sign and cry” at the Abominations of the Mother of Harlots church will be “marked” with God's mark which is the TAV (last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet). In other words, the Torah. Yeshua is the Alpeh & Tav,the beginning and the ending. The Tav is the “end of the law” or the end result of obeying the Torah. Messiah is the “end” or final result of what happens to us when we obey his Torah. We become exactly like him!
Love & Shalom to all of you in Yeshua Messiah,
Maria Merola
http://www.DoublePortionInheritance.com
The Mark of God & The Mark of the Beast Revealed Sunday,
April 26, 2009 at 3:26am
Dear Friends,
Greetings in the name of Yeshua the Messiah of Israel!
The Mark of God & The Mark of the Beast Revealed
By Maria Merola
In this episode, Maria will be discussing the “Mark” or the “sign” that Yehovah marks his own people with “in the forehead” (Ezekiel 9, Revelation 7 & 14). The Holy Sabbath Days & Feast Days of the Lord (Leviticus 23) are a “sign” which God says are between him and the children of Israel (all believers in Messiah) FOREVER! This means that we are commanded to keep them under the New Covenant, and that they were never meant to go away. The devil also has a “mark” or a “sign” that he marks his own people with, which are the “antithesis” to the Mark of God and they are the 8 Pagan Sabbath Days celebrated by witches, Wiccans, and Satanists since the Tower of Babel. These Satanic “Holy Days” have been disguised to appear “Christian” by the Vatican. The Sabbaths of Yehovah will ultimately be the “sign” that separates the true believers (who have the “seal” of the Holy Spirit in their foreheads) from the counterfeit Mother Harlot Church who follow the Feast Days of the Beast (Papacy).
THE FEASTS FOR THE BEAST ARE FULL OF YEAST
Yeshua/Jesus warned us to “beware of the leaven” (Yeast) of the Pharisees of his day. Today nothing has changed within Christendom, we have the “Doctrines and Commandments of men” (the Papacy) being taught in the Church and in Seminaries. This, my friends is the “Leaven” or Yeast that grows within the church today and it is a “bacteria” that hinders us from seeing him as the Unleavened Bread from Heaven. Yeshua Messiah is that “Bread of Life” and he is revealed in his Holy Feasts, for they are the THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS (Revelation 19:10). Those who "have his testimony, and keep his commandments" are they who will have the right to "eat from the Tree of Life”(Revelation 12:17, 22:14) And to those who“overcome” the Beast and his system, Yeshua offers us the“hidden manna,” the mysteries to understand the Kingdom.
Revelation 2:17 “....To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
Eight Pagan Sun God Sabbaths
1.) Imbolc Saint Valentine’s Day: February 2nd-February15th
2.) Ostara (Easter): Rome changed it to Passover week to identify her with Christ’s Resurrection. March 21st-March 25th (Pope changed to Passover week to confuse with Christ)
3.) Beltane (Mayfest) (goddess of fertility/Mary): May 1st
4.) Midsummer Solstice (First Day of Summer):June 21st (Catholics call it St. John’s Day)
5.) Lugnasad (Catholic Mary’s Ascension):August 1st-August 15th
6.) Mabon (First Day of Autumn):September 21st
7.) Samhain (Halloween) Catholic “All-Saints Day” or“All-Souls Day”:October 31st
8.) Yule (Christmas) birthday of false Christ: December 21st-December 25th
Last week I sent out a teaching about the microchip implant being just one aspect of the “Mark of the Beast” but in the podcast I will be doing tonight, I will be addressing another aspect to the “Mark of the Beast” besides the literal computer chip that will go underneath the skin.
When interpreting prophecy, we must see that there are usually 3 or 4 “layers” of understanding. God’s Torah teaches us to “love the Lord” with 4 aspects our being: “heart (spiritual), mind (intellectual), soul (emotional), strength (physical).”
In Jewish thought, these 4 layers of understanding apply to all 4 aspects our being.
The Torah is divided into four levels of teaching. They are: P’shat, Drash, Remez and the Sod. Brief explanations are below:
1.) P’shat Level The P’shat level is the plain sense of the text. What does it actually say? Every word, phrase, and thought has a meaning, there is no word that is redundant or idle. Even if it appears to be, it is not. It is filled with meaning for us to learn. (Physical or literal application)
2.) Drash Level The Drash level is where truth and principle are presented. Truth can only be truth if it is confirmed. Confirmation as we know must come in the form of evidence and evidence must be at least two or three witnesses. (Intellectual, or rational)
3.) Remez Level The Remez level is the underlying theme or story that is told while speaking of other things. It is how prophecy is laid into the story of history. This level shows the plan for Yashua’s redemption and restoration. (Emotional application or parables we can relate to)
4.) Sod Level The Sod level is the mysterious and coded level. This involves the understanding of numbers along with the meaning associated with certain numerical values. For example, the number 1 represents “Echad” or Oneness, “Two” represents struggle, division or witness, etc. This level also involves the meanings of names. (Spiritual application or metaphor, allegory)
In the prophecies concerning the “Beast” system, there are 4 applications:
1.) The Beast’s Government – A corporate political system (intellectual, drash)
2.) The Beast’s Economy – A form of currency, the microchip implant (emotional, remez)
3.) The Beast’s Religion – A religion that deviates from scripture (spiritual, sod)
4.) The Man of sin – A man who will counterfeit the Messiah (literal, physical, p’shat)
This beast system will counterfeit the true Messiah at his second coming. Our Messiah Yeshua will have the “government upon his shoulders” and he will “rule and reign for a thousand years.
1.) Yeshua’s Government – (Isaiah 9:6-7, 22:21)
2.) Yeshua’s Economy – (Isaiah 55:1, Jeremiah 32:44)
3.) Yeshua’s Undefiled Religion – (Isaiah 2:3, Micah 4:2)
4.) Yeshua, the manchild who will rule all nations – (Isaiah 9, Revelation 12)
In all three of these streams of influence we can see aspects of how the “Mark” of the Beast will have an influence upon people:
1.) The Mark of the Beast will have a political aspect:The Central Computer system in Luxembourg Germany has the acronym"BEAST" The European Union headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium, and has a huge computer system they call “the Beast.” It is an acronym for the Belgian Electronic Accounting Surveillance Terminal. The Beast of the scripture is a corporate “man” with “ten horns” and “seven heads.” This “corporate man” is a government headed by “the man of sin” the Antichrist.
2.) The Mark of the Beast will have an economic aspect:The microchip implant will replace currency so that no man might “buy or sell” unless they have this microchip implant. It will only be available to those who “worship” the Beast through his counterfeit religion which will also include his counterfeit “holy days.”
3.) The Mark of the Beast will have a religious aspect:The counterfeit holy days of “Sunday” Sabbath and pagan sun god worship festivals will be instituted as the official days of the Antichrist religion. Those who refuse to honor Satan’s counterfeit “holy days” and decide to honor the Feast Days of Yehovah will have to lose their lives for obedience to the commandments.
4.) The Beast has a physical image:The “image” of the Beast will be the Abomination of Desolation that sits in the temple of God, the 3rd Jewish Temple when it is built; Revelation 13:14-15, Revelation 14:9-11.
The Image of the Beast
What is the “image of the beast”? In order to find out, we must find out what the “image of God” is:
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person , and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
Yeshua, the “Son” is the “image” of the Father as seen in Hebrews 1:3. In the same way, Satan the master counterfeiter will have an “image” and it will be the “Son” of Satan himself who masquerades as the true Messiah.
The Vatican proudly boasts that the Pope is the "The Visible image of Christ on earth…”
In the Catholic Catechism:
Pg. 235 #882 it says: “For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.”
The word Vicar in Latin literally means “substitute.” Is the Pope the substitute for Christ? Another way of using the word “anti” according to the Greek dictionary of the Strong’s Concordance of the Bible is to say “instead of” or “substitute” for. Do we have the Pope “instead of” Christ? Or as the Vicar (substitute) of Christ? Or is the Pope the “Antichrist”? Well, here we have it, the word “anti” does not only mean against or opposite, as you might think, it literally means “substitute” in Greek, or “vicar” in Latin. The Catholic Church admits in their catechism that the office of the Pope is the seat of the Antichrist!
Not too long ago many of the Protestant Reformers believed that the office of the Pope was the office of the Antichrist. Let’s see who these men were: Wycliff, Luther, Calvin, Tyndale, Knox, Sir Isaac Newton, Fox, Wesley, Finney, Moody, Spurgeon. Could they be right? Let’s see what the popes have had to say about themselves:
“We declare, assert, define and pronounce: to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every human creature altogether necessary for salvation…” (Pope Boniface VIII)
“We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty…” (Pope Leo XIII)
“ I am all in all and above all, so that God, Himself and I, the Vicar of God, have but one consistory, and I am able to do ALMOST ALL THAT GOD CAN DO…. what therefore, can you make of me but God?” (Pope Nicholas)
Theory or Speculation:Now please understand that this is merely a theory of mine. But in order for Satan to “claim” that he is God according to 2nd Thessalonians 2, he would have to take on the role of the CREATOR! So, how can Satan claim that he “created God”?
Well one way is through “cloning.”
There is a group of so-called “Christians” on a web site entitled “Christians for the cloning of Jesus.”
They want to take the “Shroud of Turin” and use the DNA in it to “clone Jesus.” This may very well be the IMAGE spoken of in Revelation 13. The “Shroud” is now in the possession of the Vatican, although it had been in the possession of many others up until the 21st century. At this site, the alleged plan is to arrange the “cloning of Jesus” on March 25th 2000, so that his birthday would land precisely on December 25th in the year 2000.
If they did in fact succeed in using the DNA from the Shroud to clone “Jesus” on March 25th 2000, then that would make him ready to act as an impostor of Jesus Christ by the year 2030. Satan has always wanted to be God, the Creator, and now, he may finally get his chance to “create God.” Of course even if this “cloning of Jesus” becomes a reality, it may have his physical characteristics yet it still won’t possess the divinity of Jesus Christ----his Holy Spirit.
This cloning process would be the epitome of the “creature” trying to become the “creator” as Lucifer said in Isaiah 14:14 that He would become “Like the most high God.” Cloning “Jesus” would be the ultimate blasphemy of man trying to create and become God; hence the number 666 is a trinity of “man becoming God.”
Though this is merely a theory of mine, I believe that a “clone of Jesus”, made from the “Shroud of Turin” could very well be the IMAGE to the “beast.”
Recently, there has been a lot of attention turned to the “Shroud of Turin” by the Roman Catholic Church. The “Shroud of Turin” is said to have been a cloth that was used to wrap Jesus’ corpse when he came off of the cross. This “Shroud” allegedly has an impression of Jesus’ face and entire body left from his blood. Many scientists have studied it and have found it to be authentic, although there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the Shroud.
Maitreya the “Christ” for All Religions
In 1984 the New Age Church made an astounding claim. They published a full page ad in the New York Times and in Newspapers globally stating that “The Christ” for all religions is here, and that he possessed Pope John Paul II.
Satan’s false Christ called the Antichrist will profess to be a “reincarnation” of Jesus Christ.
Will there be a “clone of Jesus” from the Shroud of Turin sitting in the 3rd Jewish Temple?
Will the next Pope, the “8th King” of Revelation 17 be the one who will be possessed by Maitreya the “false” Christ for all religions? Does this sound far-fetched to you? Well think again! The New Age Author, Lecturer, and “channeler”, Benjamin Crème says: “Jesus will be here too, at home in Rome, ‘possessing’ the Pope.” The New York Times ran a full page ad as well as newspapers worldwide back in 1984 that read:
“In the last 2000 years Jesus has worked in the closest relation to the Christ, saving his time and his energy where possible and has special work to do with the Christian Church. He (Jesus) is one of the Masters who will very shortly return to outer work in the world TAKING OVER THE THRONE OF ST. PETER IN ROME. He will seek to transform the Christian Church, insofar as they are flexible enough to respond correctly to the new reality which is the return of Christ and the Masters will create.”---Benjamin Crème----“Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom.”
Here, Jesus is warning that false Christs and prophets will try to deceive us into believing that Jesus is physically going to manifest “here” or “there”, but Jesus said “Believe it NOT!!”
Jesus tells us that when he returns it will be in the sky for all to see!
Matthew 24:24-27 “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
Substitute Son of God & Substitute Sabbath
It is imperative to understand that the 4th Sabbath commandment of Yehovah contains the “seal” which identifies him and differentiates him from all of the other false pagan gods. If Satan wants to “Substitute” the image of the Son of God with a counterfeit, then it only stands to reason why he has to also “Substitute” the “Day of the Lord” (the 7th Day) to the day of Sunday for the “sun god” in honor of Nimrod, Tammuz, Mithra, Horus, Apollo and all the other impostors born on December 25th .
In Daniel 7:23, God showed Daniel that “The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth.” Daniel saw in his vision, that this 4th beast, (which would be the Roman Empire), “shall think to change times and laws” (Daniel 7:25). Daniel's vision is accurately portrayed in Ferraris’ Ecclesiastical Dictionary:
“The Pope has the power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ. The Pope has the authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ.”---Decretal de Tranlatic Episcop. Cap (The Pope can modify divine law) Ferraris Ecclesiastical Dictionary."
So what does 666 mean?
6 = the number of “man” because on the 6th day God created Adam
666 = a “trinity” of mankind trying to become God through cloning or “creating human life.”
The official Title of every Pope is as follows:
Vicarius Filii Dei = 666 in Roman Numerals
Also, the title “Vicar of Christ” adds up to 666 as well
What does “Vicar” mean in Latin? It means “SUBSTITUTE”
What does the word “Anti” mean in Greek? The word “Anti” in the Strong’s Greek Concordance means:
"SUBSTITUTE"
Hence “Antichrist” & Vicar of Christ mean exactly the same thing!
When a Pope decides to “Substitute” the commandments of God with “the doctrines of men” this is exactly what the term “Antichrist means” it means “in place of” or “instead of.”
Listen to what the Vatican claims is their “Mark” of Authority over the Protestant Churches. The Roman Catholic Church proudly “boasts” of her rebellion against the commandment of God:
“Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The Holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. ‘The day of the Lord’ was chosen, NOT from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church's sense of its own power…People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become Seventh-day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.” (Saint Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.)
“Of Course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was her act…And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things.” H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.
“Sunday is our MARK of authority…the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is the proof of that fact.” ---Catholic Record of London, Ontario Sept 1, 1923.
“Protestants do not realize that by observing Sunday worship instead of Saturday Sabbath, that they accept the authority of the Holy Father of the Church, the Pope.”----Our Sunday Visitor, February 5, 1950
“No such law in the Bible…Nowhere in the Bible do we find that Jesus or the apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep the Sabbath day that is the seventh day of the week, Saturday. Today, most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the Roman Catholic Church outside the Bible.”-----Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947
“Sunday is a Catholic Institution…..From the beginning to the end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer….from the last day of the week to the first.”----Catholic Press, Sydney Australia, August 1998
“Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her;----she could not have SUBSTITUTED observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is NO SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY.”----Rev. Steven Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism, “On the Obedience Due to the Church,” chapter 2, pg 174.----Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, archbishop of New York.
The world is already moving towards this civil legislation to make “Sunday” worship mandatory by law:
“Christians will naturally strive to ensure that 'civil legislation' respects their duty to make Sunday holy”----Section 67 of Pope John Paul II's “Dies Domini”, July 7th 1998
“The Pope is calling for Global Sunday Observance”---From the Brook, July-Sept 1998, Vol. 4, No.3
“This organization proposes in every possible way to aid in preserving Sunday as a civil institution. Our national security requires the active support of all good citizens in the maintenance of our American Sabbath. Sunday Laws must be enforced.”---Quoted as "Principles contained in the Constitution" in the original organization (then called the American Sabbath Union), cited in The Lord's Alliance 25th Report (1913) pg. 6
“If we believe religion is true, we should be re-introducing a criminal penalty for those who fail to attend church on Sunday.”----Daily Independent 4-11-98, Sarah Maitland “On the issues of belief.”
A bill to be introduced in the Morobe Tutamang . The proposed Bill expected to draw debate because it seeks to ban all activities –social and economic on Sunday. The Law will carry penalty provisions for operators and agencies caught violating it. Mr. Wenge said yesterday the move was radical one but that was based on “Christian” principles and values. The Bill is being drafted for tabling in the provincial assembly in its first session next year-----Post Courier NewsPaper October 6, 1998 Papua New Guinea
Not only has the Papacy been instrumental in changing the weekly Sabbath from the 7th day (Saturday) to the 1st day (Sunday) after the "sun god" but the Papacy has also been instrumental in disguising the EIGHT PAGAN SABBATHS that the witches, Wiccans, & Satanists call "holy." All of Satan's important "Feast Days" since the Tower of Babel have been "changed" to "appear" Christian, but they never were.
Daniel 7:
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The "Beast" is the 4th Kingdom = Rome
The "Beast" has the power to "change times and laws...."
The Mark, Sign & Seal of the Beast
You will notice that in all of the verses that follow, those who “receive” the mark of the Beast in their right hand and in their forehead, also “worship” the “image” of the Beast. And this will be a Substitute for the Son (the image of God), in other words it will more than likely be a “Pope” who already bears this title officially and who already has the “number” of his name Vicar (Substitute) of Christ. And his name, and his number equal 666. And to go along with this image, he will have a certain day that he claims is “holy.”
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Revelation 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands: and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
The Mark, Sign & Seal of Yehovah
God has given us “signs” that identify him and he tells us in the Torah what these are:
Genesis 1:4 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
He wants us to keep his times and seasons according to his new moons and Sabbaths “forever” which is why he gave us the sun and the moon to divide the light from the darkness.
God tells us to “bind” the commandments as a “sign” upon our “hand” and upon our foreheads:
Deuteronomy 6:8 “And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”
In other words, our hands represent our “works” or our deeds. The “frontlets between the eyes” are the “forehead” and this means our minds, our will. If we have the “mind of Christ” we will desire to keep his commandments.
HAND = WORKS, DEEDS
FOREHEAD = OUR THOUGHTS, OUR MIND
Exodus 31
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying,Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations;that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
Ezekiel 20:20 And hallow sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
In all of the above verses, the word for "sign" the Hebrew Concordance is as follows:
#226 'owth oth probably from 225 (in the sense of appearing); a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:--mark, miracle, en-sign, token.
On the day of Pentecost (called Shavuot in Hebrew) the believers received the“seal” the Holy Spirit which is also called the“Law of the Spirit of Life” Torah written in our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit. The commandments have been transferred from Stone Tablets into “fleshy tables of the heart.” (2nd Corinthians 3:3)
The commandments have not been “nailed to the cross” but they are now “written in our hearts and minds” under the New Covenant:
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
So what was nailed to the cross? In Colossians 2:14 the Apostle Paul says that the “commandments contained in ordinances” were nailed to the cross. But when you look up the word “ordinance” in the Original Greek text, it is the word “dogmatizo” which is a man made decree. Reading further down in verses 20-22, Paul says that these are “doctrines and commandments of men” so we know that he is not speaking of God’s commandments, but rather man made ordinances such as Christmas & Easter. He goes on to admonish believers that they should not allow any “man” to judge them in how they keep God’s Holy Days. He tells them not to go back under any man made traditions “after the rudiments of the world.”
The“seal” of the Holy Spirit that God places on his elect is a “down payment” or an “engagement ring” if you will. The word for “seal” in the following verses is as follows in the Hebrew:
#2368 chowtham kho-thawm' or chotham {kho-thawm'}; from 2856; a signature-ring:--seal, signet.
Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony,seal the law among my disciples.
Also in the New Testament there are other recurring themes about the “seal” of the Holy Spirit which can be seen in the following verses:
John 3:33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
2nd Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption.
2nd Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
The same meaning to this word “seal” is also seen in the Greek Concordance as meaning the same thing as in the Hebrew. It means “signet ring”or a “mark”:
#4972. sphragizo sfrag-id'-zo from 4973; to stamp (with a signet private mark) for security or preservation (literally or figuratively); by implication, to keep secret, to attest:--(set a, set to) seal up, stop.
#4973. sphragis sfrag-ece' probably strengthened from 5420;a signet(as fencing in or protecting from misappropriation); by implication, the stamp impressed (as a mark of privacy or genuineness), literally or figuratively:--seal.
The elect have their names written in the right hand of the Lamb who sits on the throne:
Revelation 5:1 And I saw the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
He has engraved us in the palms of his hands, which is why he bore the nails in his hands and feet.
Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands thy walls are continually before me.
The “Tav” is the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet. This is the same word used for “mark” in Ezekiel 9:4 “...set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.” Yeshua is the “Aleph & Tav”, the Beginning and the Ending. Messiah is the “Tav” the end result of the Law/Instructions/Torah. In him we fulfill the righteousness of the Torah when we walk by the Spirit (Romans 8:4).
When we obey God’s Torah (instructions), the end result is the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet which is the “TAV” which is a “cross-shaped mark or sign.” In other words we are the living example of the cross in the earth. We are crucified with him, and our lives bear the fruit that shows it! So you see that the “mark” is an invisible mark that God places on us. In the Hebrew Concordance the word for “mark” in Ezekiel 9 is as follows:
#8420 tav tawv from 8427; a mark, by implication, a signature:-desire, mark.
#8427 tavah taw-vaw' a primitive root; to mark out, i.e. (primitive) scratch or (definite) imprint:--scrabble, set (a mark).
Paul the Apostle says in: Galatians 6:14-17 “....But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.....From henceforth let no man trouble me: I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.”
What he is saying is that the “marks” are born in his body as well as in his spirit because he is crucified to the flesh.
Also, in 2nd Corinthians 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Once again we “bear in our body” the “marks” of his cross by our crucified lives! It is both spiritual and physical, therefore the Mark of the Beast is also both physical and spiritual.
One thing I have learned with prophecy, is that God usually has a “literal” or a physical application as well as the spiritual or “metaphor” application as well. What the Lord has taught me is that if we lean too much on just the spiritual application and never take scripture literally, that leads to gnosticism (which teaches that Jesus did not come in the flesh). You see if Yeshua “is come in the flesh” (1st John 4:3) then his word became “flesh” meaning literal or physical (John 1). But then he resurrected into a spiritual body also which supersedes the corruptible body. Therefore, the “word” has the literal/physical application which applies to our corruptible world, but then it also has the eternal/spiritual metaphor application as well because his word is eternal. So the “mark” is a literal/physical one but it is also a “spiritual mark” also having to do with the way that we worship God. The Holy Sabbath Days in the 4th Commandment tells us “how” God wants to be worshiped. But the antithesis to this is the way that Satan wants to be worshiped is through a different set of Feast Days which identify him. So you see, what Feasts we keep in these last days will determine which God we really serve. Which Feasts will you keep? The Feasts for the Beast which are full of yeast? Or will you honor the 4th Commandment to keep God’s Holy Sabbath’s Holy?
God marks his own with an invisible “mark” which is mentioned in Ezekiel 9, and he says that those who SIGH AND CRY AT THE ABOMINATIONS receive a “mark” in their foreheads. Also in Revelation 7, he tells the angel to seal the 12 tribes in their foreheads (12,000 from each tribe). But in Ezekiel 8 he lists what all these ABOMINATIONS are that his elect “sigh and cry” about. He says that they set up the IMAGE OF JEALOUSY (obelisk, Washington Monument, steeples), he says that they worship the sun god Tammuz (reincarnated each year on Dec. 25th), and he says that they put the branch to the nose (Christmas Trees, mistletoe) in other words they worship nature. So we see that those who “sign and cry” at the Abominations of the Mother of Harlots church will be “marked” with God's mark which is the TAV (last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet). In other words, the Torah. Yeshua is the Alpeh & Tav,the beginning and the ending. The Tav is the “end of the law” or the end result of obeying the Torah. Messiah is the “end” or final result of what happens to us when we obey his Torah. We become exactly like him!
Love & Shalom to all of you in Yeshua Messiah,
Maria Merola
http://www.DoublePortionInheritance.com
Sunday, May 3, 2009
KEEPING THE LAW
Iyyar 9,5769 First Day Yom Reshone
Dear Ones, COME OUT OF THE WORLDLY CHURCH!
Get into the truth oF our Elohim...into The Way of Yeshua.
SOME MAY SCOFF AND OTHERS TELL LIES AND SO MANY HAVE VEILS OVER THEIR EYES and SOME ARE JUST BLINDED....BUT YOU CAN RECEIVE TRUTH...WHEN YOU SEEK HIM HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO YOU BUT IT IS UP TO YOU TO DESIRE TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
I was once as you are, I loved the LORD and I sought Him and I desired to know more. I wanted a deeper relationship BUT I was still wallowing in the world's church and religion that had me believing in many pagan ways. I was Protestant but yes, the Protestant churches are filled with the pagan. Almost all preach Christ's mass, easter, they do special things at halloweeen, although most don't call it that, they do for Valentine's day and St. Patrick's day AND some are beginning to even fall into the trap of lent and advent and other days of the church of Constantine or the Great Pretender church, as I call it.
I have even read that there are Protestant preachers who are teaching that the churches must come into the teachings of this great cult that it is the truth. In no way should we ever come under its wings..it is not of God! COME OUT!
I came across the teachings below thru a friend on Facebook. I liked them so much I searched the internet and found their blog.
I love YOU and want only the best for YOU.
With love to YOU in and thru Yeshua our Mashiach....His servant, gloria
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
A HEBREW SAGE MIGHT SAY. . .
When you fulfill CREATOR GOD'S commands, you are actively demonstrating honour for HIM.
KEEPING THE LAW
"Whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." [James 1. 25]
There are many things mentioned in the Law of the ALMIGHTY ONE that must be remembered and never forgotten. "MY son, do not forget MY Law (teaching), but let your mind retain MY commandments." [Proverbs (Mishle) 3. 1 Tanakh, Kethuvim] "You shall faithfully observe all the INSTRUCTIONS that I enjoin upon you today that you may live and increase and be able to possess the land that the LORD promised on oath to your fathers." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 8. 1 Tanakh, Torah]
Again from Deuteronomy, the BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, Moses continually instructed GOD'S people to "Remember, Never Forget." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 9. 7 Tanakh, Torah] "Take utmost care and watch yourselves scrupulously, so that you do not forget the things that you saw with your own eyes and so that they do not fade from your heart and mind as long as you live. And make them known to your children and your children's children." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 4. 9 Tanakh, Torah] "Take care then, not to forget the covenant that the LORD your GOD concluded with you, and not to make for yourselves a carved image in any likeness, against which the LORD your GOD has forbidden you." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 4. 23 Tanakh, Torah] "Take heed! Do not forget the LORD WHO freed you and brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage. Revere only the LORD your GOD and worship HIM alone, and swear only by HIS NAME. Do not follow other gods, any gods of the people about you - for the LORD your GOD in your midst is a QANNA (jealous, impassioned) GOD - lest the anger of the LORD your GOD blaze forth against you and HE wipe you off the face of the earth. Do not tempt the LORD your GOD...keep the commandments, decrees, and laws that the LORD your GOD enjoined upon you." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 6. 12 - 17 Tanakh, Torah]
Then in the NEW COVENANT, Peter warns those who were in danger of becoming "forgetful hearers" of the WORD OF GOD: "Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder) that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the LORD and SAVIOUR, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts." [2 Peter 3. 1 - 3]
Believers must remember the PURE WORD in order to counter the teaching of the false prophets, false teachers, and scoffers who would bring in damnable heresies. "For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth." [2 Peter 1. 12]
Destruction comes on those who forget the HOLY ONE'S INSTRUCTIONS, "MY people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge and obedience, I reject you as MY priest; because you have spurned the teaching and forgotten the Law of your GOD. I in turn, will spurn and forget your children. The more they increased, the more they sinned against ME; I will change their dignity and glory into shame and dishonour." [Hosea (Hoshea) 4. 6 - 7 Tanakh, Nevi'im]
David, king of Israel declared, "I study and meditate on YOUR precepts, I contemplate and regard YOUR ways. I take delight in YOUR Laws; I will not neglect nor forget YOUR WORD." [Psalms (Tehillym) 119. 15 - 16 Tanakh, Kethuvim] O, that we ever delight in the LAW OF THE LORD and constantly meditate and reflect on it -- "Give me understanding that I may observe YOUR teaching and keep it wholeheartedly. Lead me in the path of YOUR commandments, for that is my delight." [Psalms (Tehillym) 119. 34 - 35 Tanakh, Kethuvim]
May that be our prayer!
Sha'alu (Pray) for the Shalom (Peace) of Jerusalem and all of Israel!
May GOD, WHO separates the holy from the secular, forgive our sins as we performing the Havdallah Service, bidding farewell to Sabbath. We taste the wine, smell the spices, see the shadow of the candle, hear the prayers and songs and touch family and friends wishing them "Tov Shavua (have a good week) - a week of peace, joy and gladness!"
When you pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, you are praying for the Kingdom of Heaven to come, when God’s will shall be done over the entire earth, in perfect righteousness and peace, just as it now is, in Heaven [Matthew 6:10, Luke 11:2]
Email: delrifkah.kralman@comcast.net
Web Page: http://delrifkah.homestead.com/
Please visit our web page for teachings on Bible texts and subjects.
Also notice the section showing the disparity between the Bible and the Muslim Koran.
The newest section is our thought by thought study through the Bible. Having completed the Torah (books of Moses), and the Gospels of Jesus, we are now going through the book of; [Philippians].
Tags: daily, thought
Dear Ones, COME OUT OF THE WORLDLY CHURCH!
Get into the truth oF our Elohim...into The Way of Yeshua.
SOME MAY SCOFF AND OTHERS TELL LIES AND SO MANY HAVE VEILS OVER THEIR EYES and SOME ARE JUST BLINDED....BUT YOU CAN RECEIVE TRUTH...WHEN YOU SEEK HIM HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO YOU BUT IT IS UP TO YOU TO DESIRE TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
I was once as you are, I loved the LORD and I sought Him and I desired to know more. I wanted a deeper relationship BUT I was still wallowing in the world's church and religion that had me believing in many pagan ways. I was Protestant but yes, the Protestant churches are filled with the pagan. Almost all preach Christ's mass, easter, they do special things at halloweeen, although most don't call it that, they do for Valentine's day and St. Patrick's day AND some are beginning to even fall into the trap of lent and advent and other days of the church of Constantine or the Great Pretender church, as I call it.
I have even read that there are Protestant preachers who are teaching that the churches must come into the teachings of this great cult that it is the truth. In no way should we ever come under its wings..it is not of God! COME OUT!
I came across the teachings below thru a friend on Facebook. I liked them so much I searched the internet and found their blog.
I love YOU and want only the best for YOU.
With love to YOU in and thru Yeshua our Mashiach....His servant, gloria
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
A HEBREW SAGE MIGHT SAY. . .
When you fulfill CREATOR GOD'S commands, you are actively demonstrating honour for HIM.
KEEPING THE LAW
"Whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." [James 1. 25]
There are many things mentioned in the Law of the ALMIGHTY ONE that must be remembered and never forgotten. "MY son, do not forget MY Law (teaching), but let your mind retain MY commandments." [Proverbs (Mishle) 3. 1 Tanakh, Kethuvim] "You shall faithfully observe all the INSTRUCTIONS that I enjoin upon you today that you may live and increase and be able to possess the land that the LORD promised on oath to your fathers." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 8. 1 Tanakh, Torah]
Again from Deuteronomy, the BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, Moses continually instructed GOD'S people to "Remember, Never Forget." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 9. 7 Tanakh, Torah] "Take utmost care and watch yourselves scrupulously, so that you do not forget the things that you saw with your own eyes and so that they do not fade from your heart and mind as long as you live. And make them known to your children and your children's children." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 4. 9 Tanakh, Torah] "Take care then, not to forget the covenant that the LORD your GOD concluded with you, and not to make for yourselves a carved image in any likeness, against which the LORD your GOD has forbidden you." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 4. 23 Tanakh, Torah] "Take heed! Do not forget the LORD WHO freed you and brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage. Revere only the LORD your GOD and worship HIM alone, and swear only by HIS NAME. Do not follow other gods, any gods of the people about you - for the LORD your GOD in your midst is a QANNA (jealous, impassioned) GOD - lest the anger of the LORD your GOD blaze forth against you and HE wipe you off the face of the earth. Do not tempt the LORD your GOD...keep the commandments, decrees, and laws that the LORD your GOD enjoined upon you." [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 6. 12 - 17 Tanakh, Torah]
Then in the NEW COVENANT, Peter warns those who were in danger of becoming "forgetful hearers" of the WORD OF GOD: "Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder) that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the LORD and SAVIOUR, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts." [2 Peter 3. 1 - 3]
Believers must remember the PURE WORD in order to counter the teaching of the false prophets, false teachers, and scoffers who would bring in damnable heresies. "For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth." [2 Peter 1. 12]
Destruction comes on those who forget the HOLY ONE'S INSTRUCTIONS, "MY people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge and obedience, I reject you as MY priest; because you have spurned the teaching and forgotten the Law of your GOD. I in turn, will spurn and forget your children. The more they increased, the more they sinned against ME; I will change their dignity and glory into shame and dishonour." [Hosea (Hoshea) 4. 6 - 7 Tanakh, Nevi'im]
David, king of Israel declared, "I study and meditate on YOUR precepts, I contemplate and regard YOUR ways. I take delight in YOUR Laws; I will not neglect nor forget YOUR WORD." [Psalms (Tehillym) 119. 15 - 16 Tanakh, Kethuvim] O, that we ever delight in the LAW OF THE LORD and constantly meditate and reflect on it -- "Give me understanding that I may observe YOUR teaching and keep it wholeheartedly. Lead me in the path of YOUR commandments, for that is my delight." [Psalms (Tehillym) 119. 34 - 35 Tanakh, Kethuvim]
May that be our prayer!
Sha'alu (Pray) for the Shalom (Peace) of Jerusalem and all of Israel!
May GOD, WHO separates the holy from the secular, forgive our sins as we performing the Havdallah Service, bidding farewell to Sabbath. We taste the wine, smell the spices, see the shadow of the candle, hear the prayers and songs and touch family and friends wishing them "Tov Shavua (have a good week) - a week of peace, joy and gladness!"
When you pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, you are praying for the Kingdom of Heaven to come, when God’s will shall be done over the entire earth, in perfect righteousness and peace, just as it now is, in Heaven [Matthew 6:10, Luke 11:2]
Email: delrifkah.kralman@comcast.net
Web Page: http://delrifkah.homestead.com/
Please visit our web page for teachings on Bible texts and subjects.
Also notice the section showing the disparity between the Bible and the Muslim Koran.
The newest section is our thought by thought study through the Bible. Having completed the Torah (books of Moses), and the Gospels of Jesus, we are now going through the book of; [Philippians].
Tags: daily, thought
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Ten Commands and More
Iyyar 7,5769 Sixth Day Yom Ha'shee'shee
Dear Ones,
I thought with everything going on that maybe we should look at a few things. We need to get ourselves straight with the LORD. We need to be the 'set apart' people that he wants us to be. I am writing none of this to anger anyone but any of you can search the Word and search the internet for these truths.
Let's start with the Ten Commands.....the web page below shows the three major virsions.....Jewish, Catholic and Protestant.
I am sure, by now, you know I would have to prefer the Jewish but there is something very interesting to note....the controversy over the Sabbath. If you look at the three versions, you will note that both the Jewish, which is by far the oldest..coming straight from the mouth of Elohim thru Yeshua to Moses, and the Protestant both say.....
"You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy."...the Fourth Command from God Himself.
The Catholic says....."Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day."...'it's' third command.
Why is there a difference? Because when the church of Constantine came into power, it usurped the power of God. They changed the day of worship from the Seventh day Sabbath to the first day worship of the sun. And by what authority? THEIR OWN.
Yeshua/Jesus gave NO ONE the authority to do this. There is only one who gives man this authority and that is the enemy himself, Satan. He has always told man he can be as God.....he wants us to believe we are gods. But we are not. When we, as humans, start to puff ourselves up and take over the ways of God then we are in disobedience to our Creator.
The Catholic church itself, in its own publishings, says that 'it' has the authority to change the day of worship and that all Protestants who say they are Bible Believers and worship on sun days are in direct disobedience to what the Bible says. 'It' states that Protestants should be Sabbath observant just as the Jews are.
The Catholic church further states 'it' is above the Bible and that 'it' is infallible..not the Bible. It believes 'it' has all the power of Jesus on earth and what 'it' says is truth OVER THE WORD OF GOD WHICH IS YESHUA/JESUS.
God's Sabbath is forever. FOREVER!
http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible
And I feel I must speak on this.....
The teachings of Mary are not from the Word of God but from the teachings of this usurper church. Mary was not an Immaculate Conception. She was a sinner just as you and I are. She was found righteous and held within her, for nine months, the Messiah Yeshua, who was born during the Fall Festival of Sukkot or Feast of Tabernacles.
Mary DID NOT stay a virgin because she was a married Jewish woman and would have taken her wifly duties very seriously. And having done this she had several more children. Four more sons and at least two daughters. Remember that the Word of
God says Yeshua was Mary's 'first born son' but says Yeshua was "God's only begotten Son"...."His one and only Son".
God is not playing games....He is very serious. We have got to get ourselves right with Him. Stop playing the 'church' games. He wants you to be either HOT OR COLD.....FOR HIM OR AGAINST HIM. You cannot be lukewarm...it just isn't going to work.
Study to show yourself approved. Pray and seek God. He WILL reveal Himself to you and He will put you on the right path.
You can stay where you are or you can seek to know the truth in Him. Yeshua is the same today, yesterday and forever. If you are being taught anything different...AND we all were...if you believe the Old Testement is of no relevance today because of the New...then you have been taught WRONG. THE NEW ENHANCES THE OLD. IT IS THE TEACHINGS all based on the Old. Nothing is new in it...it all comes from the same place...Yeshua!
We, as a new Testement church, have been taught that the Kosher Laws for food and cleanliness are not for us. I am not talking Rabbinacal laws but Biblical Kosher. Yeshua spoke this to Moses for a reason and if He had a reason, it is good enough for me.
When the Black Plague swept through Europe, Jews were killed in great numbers, not by the plague, but by 'Christians' who thought the Jews had caused the plague. Why? Because they did not get it or die from it as the regular population did.
The Jewish people followed and still follow the laws of cleanliness and of eating food. The 'Christians' did not. The 'Christians' threw their body waste right out their windows where Jews buried theirs. The 'Christians' did not take regular baths or even wash their hands but Jews always did. The 'Christians' drank from standing water but the Jews drank fro living waters even if they had to haul it a ways. And the list goes on and on.
I am telling you all of this so you will realize everything that is happening now is very serious but if we follow the Way of God He will keep us safe. He set His guidlines in His Word for a reason and if there ever was a time to follow His way, it is now.
I love you and want the best for you!
With love to you in and through our Savior and soon coming King Yeshua.......His servant, gloria
Dear Ones,
I thought with everything going on that maybe we should look at a few things. We need to get ourselves straight with the LORD. We need to be the 'set apart' people that he wants us to be. I am writing none of this to anger anyone but any of you can search the Word and search the internet for these truths.
Let's start with the Ten Commands.....the web page below shows the three major virsions.....Jewish, Catholic and Protestant.
I am sure, by now, you know I would have to prefer the Jewish but there is something very interesting to note....the controversy over the Sabbath. If you look at the three versions, you will note that both the Jewish, which is by far the oldest..coming straight from the mouth of Elohim thru Yeshua to Moses, and the Protestant both say.....
"You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy."...the Fourth Command from God Himself.
The Catholic says....."Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day."...'it's' third command.
Why is there a difference? Because when the church of Constantine came into power, it usurped the power of God. They changed the day of worship from the Seventh day Sabbath to the first day worship of the sun. And by what authority? THEIR OWN.
Yeshua/Jesus gave NO ONE the authority to do this. There is only one who gives man this authority and that is the enemy himself, Satan. He has always told man he can be as God.....he wants us to believe we are gods. But we are not. When we, as humans, start to puff ourselves up and take over the ways of God then we are in disobedience to our Creator.
The Catholic church itself, in its own publishings, says that 'it' has the authority to change the day of worship and that all Protestants who say they are Bible Believers and worship on sun days are in direct disobedience to what the Bible says. 'It' states that Protestants should be Sabbath observant just as the Jews are.
The Catholic church further states 'it' is above the Bible and that 'it' is infallible..not the Bible. It believes 'it' has all the power of Jesus on earth and what 'it' says is truth OVER THE WORD OF GOD WHICH IS YESHUA/JESUS.
God's Sabbath is forever. FOREVER!
http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible
And I feel I must speak on this.....
The teachings of Mary are not from the Word of God but from the teachings of this usurper church. Mary was not an Immaculate Conception. She was a sinner just as you and I are. She was found righteous and held within her, for nine months, the Messiah Yeshua, who was born during the Fall Festival of Sukkot or Feast of Tabernacles.
Mary DID NOT stay a virgin because she was a married Jewish woman and would have taken her wifly duties very seriously. And having done this she had several more children. Four more sons and at least two daughters. Remember that the Word of
God says Yeshua was Mary's 'first born son' but says Yeshua was "God's only begotten Son"...."His one and only Son".
God is not playing games....He is very serious. We have got to get ourselves right with Him. Stop playing the 'church' games. He wants you to be either HOT OR COLD.....FOR HIM OR AGAINST HIM. You cannot be lukewarm...it just isn't going to work.
Study to show yourself approved. Pray and seek God. He WILL reveal Himself to you and He will put you on the right path.
You can stay where you are or you can seek to know the truth in Him. Yeshua is the same today, yesterday and forever. If you are being taught anything different...AND we all were...if you believe the Old Testement is of no relevance today because of the New...then you have been taught WRONG. THE NEW ENHANCES THE OLD. IT IS THE TEACHINGS all based on the Old. Nothing is new in it...it all comes from the same place...Yeshua!
We, as a new Testement church, have been taught that the Kosher Laws for food and cleanliness are not for us. I am not talking Rabbinacal laws but Biblical Kosher. Yeshua spoke this to Moses for a reason and if He had a reason, it is good enough for me.
When the Black Plague swept through Europe, Jews were killed in great numbers, not by the plague, but by 'Christians' who thought the Jews had caused the plague. Why? Because they did not get it or die from it as the regular population did.
The Jewish people followed and still follow the laws of cleanliness and of eating food. The 'Christians' did not. The 'Christians' threw their body waste right out their windows where Jews buried theirs. The 'Christians' did not take regular baths or even wash their hands but Jews always did. The 'Christians' drank from standing water but the Jews drank fro living waters even if they had to haul it a ways. And the list goes on and on.
I am telling you all of this so you will realize everything that is happening now is very serious but if we follow the Way of God He will keep us safe. He set His guidlines in His Word for a reason and if there ever was a time to follow His way, it is now.
I love you and want the best for you!
With love to you in and through our Savior and soon coming King Yeshua.......His servant, gloria
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