Isa 6:9-12 And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.
Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation, and until Jehovah has moved men far away, and the desolation in the midst of the land is great.
News Letter 5858-012
The 6th Year of the 4th Sabbatical Cycle
The 27th year of the 120th Jubilee Cycle
The 19th day of the 3rd month 5858 years after the creation of Adam
The 4th Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle
The Sabbatical Cycle of Sword, Famines, and Pestilence
The 3rd year Tithe
May 21, 2022
Shabbat Shalom Royal Family of Yehovah,
The Third Tithe Year
I want to thank again those of you who have stepped forward to help fulfill the command to take care of the widows and orphans in the 3rd year. I mean that. I really do want to thank you all for doing this. Again, I do not want you to miss out on the blessing.
Are you Keeping the Third Tithe Year?
I want to remind and ask you all, have you remembered the widows and the orphans this year thus far? Many of you have and I want to thank you on their behalf. I will keep reminding you about this responsibility for the entirety of this year.
2022 is the 6th year of the 4th Sabbatical cycle. And anyone who has been reading our website for any time will know how to prove beyond all doubt when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are. Once you have done that then you will know when the 3rd and the 6th year of the Sabbatical Cycles are. We are told to raise a tithe every third year for this cause.
Here is a very severe warning from Yehovah to each of us.
Exo 22:21 You shall neither vex a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry. And My wrath shall become hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons fatherless.
We have now sent out before Shavuot, our second gift offering that you sent in for the widows and orphans. We have also supported a couple of other ministries that aid us in doing this work. This will fulfill the Levite part of the commandment. It was our desire to get the funds to them in time for Shavuot as we are told to do in Deuteronomy.
Deu 14:28 At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up inside your gates.
Deu 14:29 And the Levite, because he has no part nor inheritance with you, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are inside your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
We will soon be making another gift to them. If you do not know of anyone in the faith who is a widow or orphan then you can send it to us. Make sure you write me to let me know that those funds are for the widows and I will see to it they get it. But if you do not write me then I will not know where to apply your donation.
May each one of you who has given to this cause, be blessed as Boaz was blessed by Yehovah for his generosity. May each one you of be known for your support of the laws that will make the Kingdom of Yehovah strong and righteous. And may Yehovah bless you so that what you give is never missed and you never lack for your generosity towards Yehovah’s heart.
Shabbat Zoom Meeting
There are many people in need of fellowship and who are sitting at home on the Sabbath with no one to talk to or debate with. I want to encourage all of you to join us on Shabbat, and to invite others to come and join us as well. If the time is not convenient then you can listen to the teaching and the midrash after on our YouTube channel.
What are we doing and why do we teach this way?
We are going to discuss both sides of an issue and then let you choose. It is the work of the Ruach (Spirit) to direct and to teach you.
The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.
Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are Wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and I and you are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.
Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.
Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teach you and encourage you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.
We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable to explain why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.
We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as Fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.
Jas 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
We hope you can invite those who want to keep Torah to come and join us by hitting the link below. It is almost like a Torah teaching fellowship talk show with people from around the world taking part and sharing their insights and understandings.
We start off with some music and then some prayers and it’s as though you were sitting around the kitchen back in Newfoundland having a cup of coffee and all of us enjoying each other’s company. I hope you will grace us with your company someday.
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If you go to Torah Portion at our archived section, you can then go to the 6th year which is the 6th year of the Sabbatical Cycle, the one we are in now, as we state at the top of every News Letter. There you can scroll down to May 21, 2022, and see that this Shabbat we could very well be midrashing about
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Why 68% of Christian Men Watch Porn
Jeremy Wiles
Soul Refiner, CEO
Published: May 6, 2014
(Modified: May 11, 2022)
Are we really supposed to buy into the idea that 68% of men in Church watch porn regularly? Could this just be sensational rhetoric? Not according to a national survey among churches.
The survey conducted by the Barna Group revealed that 68 percent of Christian men and 50 percent of pastors view pornography regularly. But even more shocking is that 11-17 year-old boys reported being its greatest users.
The Church is in the sexual battle of its life. As these boys become adults, the Church will be flooded with porn addicts.
Pastor James Reeves of City On A Hill Church DFW has successfully tackled porn addiction in his church. He warns,
“This problem is going to sweep through the Church like a tsunami wave of destruction and we’re not prepared for it.”
A Grassroots Movement for Change
In response to this growing epidemic in the Church, a group of filmmakers took it upon themselves to create a video teaching curriculum on sexual purity called the “Conquer Series“.
The Series is the first of its kind to show men how to retrain a brain that’s hooked on porn, using biblical principles and powerful insights. “The shocking statistics were the game-changer for me,” says director, Jeremy Wiles. “So, we spent two years developing a five-hour discipleship curriculum, interviewing top Christian experts on this subject and shooting battle reenactments to illustrate the war that every man faces with sexual temptation. I wanted to give men proven principles on how to find freedom,” adds Wiles.
Director, Jeremy Wiles, behind the scenes filming the Conquer Series
The team recruited Dr. Ted Roberts, a former U.S. Marine fighter pilot, to be the host of the Conquer Series. As a former Pastor and head of Pure Desire Ministries, Dr. Roberts has counseled men for over 30 years – mainly dealing with pornography issues.
“Our goal with the Conquer Series is to give men a battle plan for purity. We’ve got a great tool here that will change lives, but we need pastors to partner with us to fight this battle,” Dr. Roberts said.
The Typical Church Approach Doesn’t Work
According to Dr. Roberts, churches often treat this issue as a moral one, but fail to recognize it’s mainly a brain problem, “We tell men to try harder, pray harder, love Jesus more.” Dr. Roberts adds, “But, what starts off as a moral problem, quickly becomes a brain problem. Telling a man to try harder is only tightening the ‘noose’ of bondage.”
Today, science sheds new light on biblical truth regarding strongholds of the mind and how a person becomes enslaved to sin.
When a woman is nursing her child and she’s skin-to-skin with her baby, her brain releases a neurochemical called oxytocin, which emotionally bonds her to her child. The same thing happens during sex.
God designed oxytocin as the glue for human bonding. During a sexual release, oxytocin, along with other neurochemicals, are released and cause us to emotionally bond with our partner.
When you watch porn these neurochemicals are also released, which bond you to those images. This is why Satan attacks our sexuality so much, because in attacking human sexuality it actually interferes with human bonding.
According to neuropsychologist, Dr. Tim Jennings, “Any type of repetitive behavior will create trails in our brain that are going to fire on an automatic sequence.” The result is years of bondage. This is how 68% of Christian men can love the Lord with all their heart, but be trapped in sexual bondage.
The repeated viewing of porn literally changes the physical structure of their brain.
A Process for Pastors to use to Fight Pornography
Wiles is confident the Conquer Series will embolden church leaders to tackle the problem by giving them a high-quality video curriculum and study guide that can be used by leaders in small men’s group meetings. Wiles says,
“Pornography is a really tough subject for a lot of pastors to openly confront. This cinematic Series will give them confidence that they can restore men using proven Bible-based principles.”
The Conquer Series has been getting a lot of positive feedback. Jason Royalty, a men’s group leader from Springfield, Tennessee, said, “This series has been so helpful to the 15-18 men that meet together for this class. Understanding how God has made us and also understanding the enemy’s tactics has been key to seeing victories in these men’s lives.”
Paul Cole, President of Christian Men’s Network, agrees, “When the Conquer Series begins to be a part of who we are, it will begin to change what we do and who we are as a church.”
There are many people here at sightedmoon.com who come here with their sins and their shame. They love to learn about the Torah and they want to be part of the Kingdom. Awesome. But we all come as broken vessels or having failed and not measuring up to the ideals we think you must have to enter the kingdom.
We pray for forgiveness but we never can forgive ourselves for what we have done. We have in many cases a Victorian attitude about sex in general. Satan has indeed deceived the whole world, including the brethren.
I come from a family where incest was tolerated. Adultery was the norm and expected. I have family who were porn stars and took part in snuff films. They were also escorts flown around the country and strippers.
There is not too much that any of you will be able to surprise me with.
There is today a shame associated with talking about anything sexual if you are a church person of any flavor. This is a deception. Everyone wants to appear as a saint when in fact they are not.
Yehovah made men to be attracted to women. He made women to want to be attractive to their man. There is nothing shameful in this. But our society has glamorized adulterous relationships and sex before marriage and made it attractive to the viewers.
So because there is this undercurrent amongst the brethren and the stigma of the shame, I have set up this course from Soul Refiners. Sightedmoon.com has paid for the course for the next year. You can go there and have a look. I think it will cost you $5 a month to join and then you can learn from each of the videos there. Just go to the link below and have a look.
If you cannot afford the $5 then let me know and I will pay your way for the year, no questions asked. I do not know exactly how this is going to work. We could create groups for men and or women to help hold each other accountable. Much like alcoholics anonymous.
If you need help then we are offering it. If you want help then here is the place to start.
We want to present you to Yehovah as His bride who has made herself ready and is spotless. He will forgive all you have done, but you must repent and stop doing the sin. Sex is not sin. Adultery is. Adultery with a real person or one in your brain is the same thing.
Mar 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mar 7:22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mar 7:23 All these evil things pass out from inside and defile the man.
I hope to see many of you take these lessons because each of those women being used in porn was someone’s little girl not too long ago. Take a look at your daughter or granddaughter and ask if you would want them to be doing that lifestyle, or would you want them to be a happy mother raising your grandchildren.
Florida First State In the Nation to Teach K-12 Child Trafficking Prevention
Kayla Sullivan
Content Writer
Published:
(Modified: )
In case you haven’t heard, Florida’s State Board of Education voted unanimously to require schools to teach human trafficking prevention in all K-12 schools.
Governor Ron DeSantis commented,
“Tragically, human trafficking is an epidemic in our country. Children of all ages need to know and understand the hazards of human trafficking and how to protect themselves from dangerous predators.”
The commissioner requires Florida schools to provide their implementation plan by December 1. Additionally, they must post an implementation plan to the school’s website for parents to review. Specifically, this plan must include the professional qualifications for the person tasked with teaching. Also, it must outline the materials, resources, and instruction type that will be used for each grade.
Students will only be able to opt out of this teaching with signed, parental consent.
Schools must submit documentation verifying completion of the prevention training annually by July 1.
Geoff Rogers, CEO and co-founder of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking commented, “Florida continues to lead the nation in the fight against human trafficking by being the first state in the country to mandate every student in K-12 to receive Child Trafficking Prevention and require every school in the state to declare itself a Child Trafficking Free Zone.”
What Is Human Trafficking
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, human trafficking is the means by which individuals are forcibly or fraudulently coerced into some type of labor or sex act. However, sex trafficking is the most reported form of trafficking reported.
Several factors contribute to the likelihood that an individual will be targeted for trafficking. For some, they may have endured economic hardship or a natural disaster. Others, however, are targeted for appearing mentally or emotionally unstable or for lacking a secured, social circle.
A common misconception is that human trafficking only happens in poverty-stricken countries. But research has concluded otherwise:
Florida ranks third in the nation for human trafficking.
In 2018, Florida reported 767 reported human trafficking cases. Of those, 149 reports involved minors.
According to the Florida Department of Education, of the estimated 30 million people world-wide enslaved in human trafficking, 2.5 million of them live in America.
One out of 8 endangered runaway youth is likely a victim of human trafficking, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
In 2018, the National Human Trafficking Hotline received 10,949 calls. Of them, 7,859 were sex-trafficking related.
Since 2012, each of Florida’s counties have reported at least one case of human trafficking.
For sexual exploitation reasons, one child is trafficked every two minutes. This is according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Yes. According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, pornography is the second leading industry for sex trafficking.
Pornography ranked #2 for number of human trafficking incidents reported in 2020
Rebekah Charleston, director for Valiant Hearts which is a non-profit organization seeking to end sexual exploitation, was once a victim of trafficking herself. She stated,
“Where you have porn, you have trafficking…”
According to Porn Harms Research directed by The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, the use of pornography serves as a marketing tool for sex trafficking. Additionally, they cite that pornography is shown to groom trafficked women and children so they will know what to do when having to perform sex acts.
Many people blindly believe that those starring in pornographic videos are doing so consensually. However, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reports, “The trauma caused by the traffickers can be so great that many may not identify themselves as victims or ask for help, even in highly public settings.”
The Truth About Victims
In an article published in the Dallas Morning News, Charleston spoke about working with police departments who set up sting operations. Posing as potential clients, they create online posts to lure individuals to a hotel room.
Once the person arrives, law enforcement officers will give them an ultimatum. Either they can go to jail or accept Valiant Hearts’ offer to help. However, many of the trafficked individuals decline the help – believing initially that it is their choice. She shared that this is often difficult for law enforcement officers to understand. One victim said,
“It’s because we’ve been coerced and manipulated to believe that. We believe that somehow we chose to be exploited.”
Charleston shared that she didn’t realize the truth of her situation until talking to a friend. The woman, who had escaped trafficking herself, asked what would happen if Rebekah said she didn’t want to go to work.
“And I just started laughing because that would have never happened. I worked 20 hours a day. I was labor trafficked all day in our businesses, and I was sex trafficked all night. And I worked every birthday, every holiday. I remember working 9/11. So the idea that one day I would tell him I didn’t want to go was ludicrous, but it was that light bulb moment for me of thinking, ‘What choices did I really have?’”
The Importance of Awareness
In light of the growth of the human trafficking industry, one can conclude that it is of utmost importance for children to be educated on prevention techniques. They need to learn the warning signs. For kids who feel threatened or fear they are being groomed for trafficking, they need to know that it’s okay to get help. And finally, children need to have their identity validated based on who they are, and not on how they can perform.
Florida’s Department of Education reports that the average age a child will be trafficked into the sex industry is between 11-14 years old. The most commonly targeted kids are those who live in an unstable family environment, or those who appear to have little or no social support.
A person, under the age of 18, who has been induced to perform commercial sex acts is considered to be a victim of human trafficking according to U.S. Federal Law. This is regardless of whether the acts have been forced or coerced.
Often people do not realize the direct correlation between pornography and sex trafficking. And maybe that’s you today. Maybe you’ve struggled for a really long time. You can choose to seek freedom from the grip that sexual sin has on your life.
Or maybe you realize that it’s time for your church to do something. You can choose to come alongside these schools to raise awareness throughout your community. And you can also pledge to help those who are struggling with pornography or sexual addiction.
Join the Conquer Series and get FREE from the grip of sexual sin today!
Millions of men in 100+ countries around the world have started their journey to freedom and awareness through the use of the Conquer Series.
The Conquer Series is a 10-week video-based teaching which highlights how Satan will employ any number of techniques to lure people into pornography and keep them trapped.
Combining science and scripture, it outlines why trying harder does not work and how the brain has been changed through the viewing of sexually explicit content. Additionally, individuals learn about the process of renewing their mind and finding their identity in Christ. Nate in Iowa shared,
“I have been so encouraged, motivated, challenged, and otherwise uplifted by the Conquer Series. I love the use of science (within the worldview of scripture) to understand addiction.”
As long as the demand for pornography still exists, trafficking of innocent men and women will not cease to exist. Make the choice to become part of the solution.
It is graduation time for many young people right now. And I wanted to find this video below from the Philippines that they sing at their graduation ceremonies. When I heard it I was impressed. When I understood the words I very impressed.
I have the words in English below for you to sing along with them.
For those children who are not talking to their parents and or hate their parents for whatever reason, I want you to consider what is being taught and expressed here.
Title: Awit Ng Anak
Song of Child
Better translation: A Child’s Song
Long time ago, a small child, being assisted, being helped & guided, in his/her every step
Now, I’m standing on my own feet
Thank you, my mother, my father
I do not have enough words
Nothing equals your care,
Now that you are old and weak, please allow me to take care of you
Chorus 1: You will be assisted and taken cared of
If crying, I will help you stop crying,
I will take care of you when you are sick
Will kiss your forehead
And when the night is cold, will hug you so tightly
I will pray for you & blanket you with LOVE
I remember your hardships for me- sleepless nights, tiring & sadness- you sacrificed
I will never forget
Your love is unequaled
Please don’t worry
In my mind and in my heart,
In my whole household, I will also practice your unending love
Chorus 2: My children will hold your hand
If crying , they will help you stop
Will take care of you when sick, kiss your forehead
And if the evening is cold, we will give you a tight hug
Praying & wrapping you in LOVE
Chorus 1: You will be loved & taken cared off
Will help you stop crying
Will kiss your forehead
……….
Coda: Nothing compares, nothing will equal you, loving mother, loving father, Thank you!
Deu 28:13 And Jehovah shall make you the head, and not the tail. And you shall be always above, and you shall not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you today, to observe and to do them.
If You will not Obey
Deu 28:15 And it shall be, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe and to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, all these curses shall come on you and overtake you.
Deu 28:43 The stranger within you shall get up above you very high, and you shall come down very low.
Deu 28:44 He shall loan to you, and you shall not loan to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
As I go through Deuteronomy 28, I find myself more often than not, checking off the curses that are now here. The ones we see happening on the nightly news as plain as day. If you have not read Deuteronomy 28 then I urge you to do so right now. Take a pen and check off each curse you see happening now to your nation. Those few you do not check off, well, just know they are on their way and coming fast to all of our nations.
Let me now share with you a recent newsletter I received. With the stock market tanking over 1100 points on Wednesday along with having declined over 4000 points for the past month as well as over 7300 points since January 2022, and the prices of fuel reaching over $4 in every state for the first time ever that same day, you might just be wondering what is going on.
Be Like Hugo Stinnes
• How the “Inflation King” took advantage of inflation to become one of the world’s wealthiest men…
• The necessity of owning hard assets…
• Then Jim Rickards shows you why hyperinflation can actually happen in the U.S., despite what many believe…
Dear Reader,
The name Hugo Stinnes is practically unknown today, but this was not always the case. In the early 1920s, he was the wealthiest man in Germany, at a time when the country was the world’s third-largest economy.
He was a prominent industrialist and investor with diverse holdings in Germany and abroad. Chancellors and Cabinet ministers of the newly formed Weimar Republic routinely sought his advice on economic and political problems.
In many ways, Stinnes played a role in Germany similar to the role Warren Buffett plays in the U.S. today. He was an ultra-wealthy investor whose opinion was eagerly sought on important political matters. He exercised powerful behind-the-scenes influence and seemed to make all the right moves when it came to playing the markets.
If you’re a student of economic history, you know that from 1922–1923 Germany suffered the worst hyperinflation experienced by a major industrial economy in modern times.
Yet Stinnes was not wiped out during this hyperinflation. Why was that?
Stinnes was born in 1870 into a prosperous German family that had interests in coal mining. Later, he inherited his family’s business and expanded it by buying his own mines.
Then he diversified into shipping, buying cargo lines. His own vessels were used to transport his coal from his mines abroad and within Germany along the Rhine River. His vessels also carried lumber and grains.
His diversification included ownership of a leading newspaper, which he used to exert political influence. Prior to the Weimar hyperinflation, Stinnes borrowed vast sums of money in Reichsmarks.
When the hyperinflation hit, Stinnes was perfectly positioned. The coal, steel and shipping interests retained their values. It didn’t matter what happened to the German currency; a hard asset is still a hard asset and does not go away even if the currency goes to zero.
Stinnes’ international holdings also served him well because they produced profits in hard currencies, not worthless Reichsmarks. Some of these profits were kept offshore in the form of gold held in Swiss vaults. That way he could escape both hyperinflation and German taxation. Finally, he repaid his debts in worthless Reichsmarks, making them disappear.
Not only was Stinnes not harmed by the Weimar hyperinflation, but his empire also prospered, and he made more money than ever. He expanded his holdings and bought out bankrupt competitors.
Stinnes made so much money during the Weimar hyperinflation that his German nickname was “Inflationskönig,” which means “Inflation King.” When the dust settled and Germany returned to a new gold-backed currency, Stinnes was one of the richest men in the world, while the German middle class was destroyed.
Stinnes saw the German hyperinflation coming and positioned accordingly. Hyperinflation may or may not arrive in the U.S., but distressing levels of inflation certainly have. It’s likely to get worse before it gets better.
As Stinnes’ case proves, inflation doesn’t affect everyone in a society equally. There are distinct sets of winners and losers. The winners are those with gold, land and other hard assets. The losers are those with fixed-income claims such as savings, pensions, insurance policies and annuities.
Debtors win in inflation because they pay off debt with debased currency. Creditors lose because their claims are devalued.
You might not become ultra-wealthy like Stinnes, but by owning hard assets, you can actually prosper from inflation while millions of Americans see the value of their savings destroyed.
But you can’t wait until inflation gets even worse. By then it’ll be too late. Make sure you have your gold and other hard assets beforehand.
There’s no time like the present.
Below, I show you why the journey from inflation to hyperinflation may be shorter than you expect. Read on.
Yes, Hyperinflation Can Happen Here
When you hear “hyperinflation,” you might only think of two images. One is a reckless third-world country like Zimbabwe or Argentina printing money to cover government expenses and worker salaries to the point where trillions of local “dollars” or pesos are needed to buy a loaf of bread.
The second image is of the same phenomenon in an advanced country such as Germany but long ago. Perhaps you think of grainy, black-and-white photos from the 1920s displaying people carting around wheelbarrows of paper money.
The last thing you probably think of is hyperinflation in a 21st-century developed economy such as that of the United States. We tell ourselves that hyperinflation might happen in faraway or long-ago places but it can’t happen here.
Yet it can happen here.
In fact, the United States flirted with hyperinflation in the late 1970s, when Treasury bonds were denominated in Swiss francs because the dollar was rapidly depreciating and people were losing faith in the dollar. We also flirted with hyperinflation in the late 1910s following the money-printing to fund World War I. Other episodes arose after the Civil War and the American Revolution.
The point is hyperinflation in the U.S. is not unrealistic.
There’s no universally agreed-upon definition of hyperinflation. But one widely used benchmark says hyperinflation exists when prices increase 50% or more in a single month. So if gasoline is $3.00 per gallon in January, $4.50 per gallon in February and $6.75 per gallon in March and the prices of food and other essentials are going up at the same pace, that would be considered hyperinflationary.
It also tends to accelerate once it begins, meaning the monthly 50% increase soon becomes 100%, then 1,000%, etc., until the real value of the currency is utterly destroyed. Beyond that point, the currency ceases to function as a currency and becomes litter, good only for wallpaper or starting fires.
Hyperinflation doesn’t emerge instantaneously. It begins slowly with normal inflation and then accelerates violently at an increasing rate until it becomes hyperinflation. This is critical for investors to understand because much of the damage to your wealth actually occurs at the inflationary stage, not the hyperinflationary stage. The hyperinflation of Weimar Germany is a good example of this.
In January 1919, the exchange rate of German Reichsmarks to U.S. dollars was 8.2 to 1. By January 1922, three years later, the exchange rate was 207.82 to 1. The Reichsmark had lost 96% of its value in three years. By the standard definition, this is not hyperinflation because it took place over 36 months and was never 50% in any single month.
By the end of 1922, hyperinflation had struck Germany, with the Reichsmark going from 3,180 to one dollar in October to 7,183 to one dollar in November. In that case, the Reichsmark did lose half its value in a single month, thus meeting the definition of hyperinflation.
One year later, in November 1923, the exchange rate was 4.2 trillion Reichsmarks to one dollar. History tends to focus on 1923 when the currency was debased 58 billion percent. But that extreme hyperinflation of 1923 was just a matter of destroying the remaining 4% of people’s wealth at an accelerating rate. The real damage was done from 1919–1922, before hyperinflation, when the first 96% was lost.
Again, if you think this can’t happen here or now, think again. As I also mentioned above, something like this started in the late 1970s. The U.S. dollar suffered 50% inflation in the five years from 1977–1981. We were taking off toward hyperinflation, relatively close to where Germany was in 1920.
Most wealth in savings and fixed income claims had been lost already. Hyperinflation in America was prevented by the combined actions of Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan, but it was a close call.
Hyperinflation acts like a deadly virus with no cure. It may be contained for long periods of time, but once it breaks out into a general population, there may be no stopping it without enormous losses.
To explain why, it’s essential to know how hyperinflation begins and how it feeds on itself. In a complex system such as the U.S. economy, small initial blunders can have catastrophic consequences once feedback loops and behavioral changes take over.
As inflation velocity spikes up, expectations of more inflation grow, and the process accelerates and feeds on itself. In extreme cases, consumers will spend their entire paycheck on groceries, gasoline and gold the minute they receive it.
They know holding their money in the bank will result in their hard-earned pay being wiped out. Americans are now realizing this.
The important point is that hyperinflation is not just a monetary phenomenon — it’s first and foremost a psychological or behavioral phenomenon.
It’s part of what I call the “money illusion.”
Money illusion has four stages. In stage one, the groundwork for inflation is laid by central banks but is not yet apparent to most investors. This is the “feel good” stage where people are counting their nominal gains but don’t see through the illusion.
Stage two is when inflation becomes more obvious. Investors still value their nominal gains and assume inflation is temporary and the central banks “have it under control.”
Stage three is when inflation begins to run away and central banks lose control. Now the illusion wears off. Savings and other fixed-income cash flows such as insurance, annuities and retirement checks rapidly lose value.
If you own hard assets prior to stage three, you’ll be spared. But if you don’t, it will be too late because the prices of hard assets will gap up before the money illusion wears off.
Finally, stage four can take one of two paths.
The first path is hyperinflation, such as Weimar Germany or Zimbabwe. In that case, all paper money and cash flows are destroyed and a new currency arises from the ashes of the old. The alternative is shock therapy of the kind Paul Volcker imposed in 1980.
In that case, interest rates are hiked as high as 20% to kill inflation, but nearly kill the economy in the process. Sadly, there are no Volckers or Reagans on the horizon today.
Today’s markets depend on the artificially low interest rates that the Fed’s been generating since 2009. Raising interest rates in a meaningful way would devastatingly pop the asset bubbles in stocks and elsewhere.
Remember how markets revolted against the possibility of further rate increases in December 2018, when rates were still under 3%? Today, rates are 1% or less and the market’s already cratering.
Inflation will likely accelerate, as it did in the U.S. in 1980 and in Germany in 1920. Whether hyperinflation comes next remains to be seen. And just to be clear, I’m not predicting it. But you need to realize that it can happen more easily than most people expect.
The assets you need now to preserve wealth in the future are simple and timeless. Gold, silver, land and select tangibles in the right amounts will serve you well. Mutual funds designed specifically to protect against inflation should also be considered.
The sooner you take defensive action, the better off you’ll be.
Regards,
Jim Rickards
The Famine Tsunami
When I first began to warn people about the curses of Lev 26, and the rising temperature, they all in unison responded that it was HAARP or Chem Trails and evil men in the back rooms doing it. Few believe me about the Jubilee Cycles. When I warned them War was coming they laughed me off as some nut case. They would not believe it. It was the same thing about the coming plague, which is now here. COVID came and instead of recognizing it was from Yehovah and that it lined up perfectly with Lev 26, the conspiratorial people went to work and said it was a CIA plot of the Chinese who were attacking us with this disease to bring down the world economies.
Before COVID, and as far back as at least 2013, I was fighting against the brethren, who were spreading these false stories. But when COVID came those false and misleading stories mushroomed and people chose to believe the lie rather than me and left sightedmoon. These curses are from Yehovah and Him alone. And they are here because we as a people and as the world will not obey Yehovah. But no, the brethren still want to believe the false conspiracy teachings of Alex Jones and the like and not the word of Yehovah.
We had focused on the coming war starting in 2020. Part of the same curse for the war was plague and famine. Well, you got the plague and yet still no one wants to credit Yehovah with sending it. Now we have the famine taking over the headline news and still, people are not seeing this is from Yehovah. Rising inflation, racing to wipe out whole economies and people are still in denial. It is Bill Gates and George Soros doing all of this. Gas prices are out of control and yet no one is saying they will repent and turn back to Yehovah. Along with the plague of COVID and the sharp rise in famine talk, due to the war in Ukrain with Russia, but we also have all of this leading NATO to build up for war and other nations racing to join NATO to combat Russia.
We expected the war to begin in 2020. The Plague began right at the start of the biblical year in 2020. Famine and war are coming in the 4th Sabbatical Cycle. We are spot on but far too many want to deny it and credit Bill Gates for it or some other silly notion.
The Famine part of this curse is now here. Either rising prices for everything will cause people not to be able to afford it or there won’t be any food on the shelves for many because it cant get to market due to rising prices for fuel. Rationing of Diesel fuel is now being talked about and all of your everything is delivered by trucks using diesel fuel.
I have five headline stories from this week to share with you. Click on each of the links to read the other stories.
Repent and turn to Yehovah with your whole hearts or conspire up some stupid plot by men in the back rooms to explain it away and justify you remaining where you are currently at. You get to choose.
Joly meets with UN leaders to address global food insecurity amid Ukraine war
By Marie Woolf The Canadian Press
Posted May 18, 2022 6:40 pm
Updated May 18, 2022
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly kicked off two days of meetings Wednesday at the United Nations to help mobilize a global response to the food security crisis resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Joly met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Rosemary DiCarlo, the undersecretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, before taking part in a ministerial “call to action” on the growing problem of food insecurity around the world.
The meeting, convened by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, was dominated by the escalating humanitarian crisis triggered by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, which is about to enter its 13th week.
Prior to the start of the war in late February, the number of people around the world facing a crippling food crisis reached more than 161 million people in 2021, up from 108 million in 2016, Blinken said in his introductory remarks.
The World Bank has estimated the invasion could well drive an additional 40 million more people around the planet into extreme poverty, he added.
“Every driver of the crisis that we’ll discuss today has been made worse by President Putin’s war of choice,” Blinken said. “It’s a crisis that demands a global response.”
Ukraine had successful harvest but food blocked from being shipped: Freeland – Apr 22, 2022
Russia has blockaded Ukraine’s ports, stopping exports of wheat and sunflower oil to countries that rely on them in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
“Canada’s approach will be bold: from providing funding at the multilateral level to logistical supply chain support to food inspectors and cargo shipments, we will get involved,” Joly told her fellow delegates.
“We will free Ukrainian grains, and countries will receive their shipments. To the secretary-general, of course, we will support his efforts to find peaceful and lasting solutions to get those grains out.”
Canada will be sending cargo ships to ports in Romania and other European countries neighbouring Ukraine to help it export its wheat — what Joly described in her speech Wednesday as “freedom wheat.”
The UN World Food Program has warned that the conflict has not only driven up the price of grain, making it more expensive to feed the hungry, but could push nations that rely on Ukrainian wheat toward starvation.
Ukraine is one of the world’s biggest exporters of wheat, with some countries, including Lebanon and Bangladesh, relying on it as a staple food.
“Let me be very clear and to the point: failure to open the ports will be a declaration of war on global food security, resulting in famine, destabilization of nations, as well as mass migration by necessity,” said David Beasley, the former South Carolina governor who now serves as the program’s executive director.
“This is not just about Ukraine. This is about the poorest of the poor around the world who are on the brink of starvation as we speak. So I ask President Putin, if you have any heart at all, to please open these ports.”
Russia-Ukraine conflict: UN says poorer nations face food, energy, finance crises due to war – Apr 13, 2022
Julie Marshall, Canadian spokeswoman for the World Food Program, said Ukraine produces enough to feed about 400 million people around the world. But millions of tons of wheat, much of it bound for developing nations, is sitting in silos and stranded on ships because of the conflict.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, Yulia Kovaliv, told a committee of MPs that not only is Russia blockading Ukraine’s ports, it is stealing its grain stores and attempting to ship them to Russian-held Crimea.
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has warned that the Russians are also targeting farm machinery and equipment needed to gather and distribute Ukraine’s harvest.
Canada is one of the world’s biggest wheat exporters and has said it will do what it can to help with the shortfall. But Bibeau has said that Canada and the U.S. had a weak harvest last year because of a drought so stocks of grain are lower than usual.
“Our farmers are in the field; planting season has started,” Joly said, describing herself as the granddaughter of a wheat grower and miller. “Let’s hope Mother Nature is on our side.”
She acknowledged that Canada — one of the world’s largest producers of potash, a key ingredient in fertilizer that is also in short supply — has not imposed sanctions on Russian and Belarusian exports the same way that other G7 countries have done.
The government is working on ways to get its own potash to ports around the world, Joly said, and will “chart a path for a long-lasting solution” to the question of sanctions.
Here is a list of countries banning wheat exports.
Our next article about the world economies was the one I used to welcome people to our revived Sabbatical and Jubilee Group on Face Book. I want you to watch the video about world events and understand it is Yehovah who is bringing all of these things about. He is doing it just as He said He would in the Torah.
I hope each of you will also join this group where you can discuss and talk about all things for the Sabbatical year and how to prepare for it now while you still can.
Shalom Brethren, I want to welcome all those who have recently joined and then those who are here from our 2016 group. Welcome.
As you know we are in the 4th Sabbatical Cycle. The one with Sword Plague and Famine. The one we have been warning as many as would listen about.
It is now here. No one believed our report. Many wanted to continue to play that religious self-righteous game they used to play when they went to church.
But this is no game. It is deadly real.
Just today India closed its borders to exporting wheat. This is due to the crop failures they are enduring due to the heat. Add this blow is added to the world’s woes after losing 30% of the world wheat from Ukraine and Russia. Hundreds of millions will soon be in famine and starving.
Yehovah has called you to get ready for the Sabbatical year. Part of that command is to stock up in the 6th year. Take Lev 25 seriously and don’t say I will try and if I fail I fail.
Say instead that if I fail I could very well be starving.
Along with the wheat shortages we also have inflation taking place and national debts that those nations can no longer pay for. And this is complicated more with rising interest rates to combat inflation hurting those national debts that are spiraling out of control fast.
Yes I am just full of good news. LOL. Here is the good news.
Lev 26:40 If they shall confess their willfulness and the willfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me,
Lev 26:41 I also will walk contrary to them and will bring them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then pay for their iniquity,
Lev 26:42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I will remember. And I will remember the land.
Lev 26:43 The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lies waste without them. And they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities; because, even because they despised My judgments, and because their soul hated My statutes.
Lev 26:44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I hate them, to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them. For I am Jehovah their God.
Lev 26:45 But for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, so that I might be their God. I am Jehovah.
If You obey. If you repent and confess as you are told, then He will save you where ever you are and He will keep you.
Invite others to join this page. Invite them to learn about this subject.
If this was only for the land of Israel then why are the curses of LEV 26 happening to the whole world and not just to Israel?
This is happening because this is for the whole world. So invite them here and teach them these truths. There many here who now know how to teach these things. Keep the conversations going. That is how you can share with others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdrLp0lKjHc
This is an article from a few years ago. But I also want you all to consider once again the teaching from it.
The Red Carpet
While in the Philippines I had the opportunity to speak before 500 Graduating Pastors in Cagayan de Oro. And today I am kicking myself for missing this rare and great opportunity to talk to them about the Red Carpet that all of them walked down in the processional ceremonies to begin the day. Why I did not pick up on this frustrates me now.
Last fall in 2017, when James and I were in Burundi and went to see the President of this country conduct a prayer service, they rolled out the Red Carpet for Him to walk on from his limousine to his seat and then from his seat to the stage. Thousands of people came to watch. Those of us who had to cross the Red Carpet to get to our seats jumped over it and did not dare to put our feet on the carpet out of respect. When large groups came they rolled up the carpet so no one would walk on it. It was reserved for the highest in the country and that was the President.
We are counting the Omer now. We all should be counting this each day. I have Psalm 69 to read each day and then another psalm that changes each day as well on our sightedmoon.com facebook page I do hope you’re doing this and if not you can get the daily readings at the back of Remembering the Sabbatical year of 2016 or at sightedmoon.com on Facebook.
This counting is for the Feast of weeks or the Feast of Oaths as it is also known as.
So what has this to do with the Red Carpet?
The earliest known reference to walking a red carpet in literature is in the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, written in 458 BC. When the title character returns from Troy, he is greeted by his vengeful wife Clytemnestra who offers him a red path to walk upon:
Now my beloved, step down from your chariot, and let not your foot, my lord, touch the Earth. Servants, let there be spread before the house he never expected to see, where Justice leads him in, a crimson path.
Agamemnon, knowing that only gods walk on such luxury, responds with trepidation:
I am a mortal, a man; I cannot trample upon these tinted splendors without fear thrown in my path.
Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting often show rugs and carpets, patterned but with red often the main background colour, laid on the steps to a throne, or on a dais where rulers or sacred figures are placed.
A red carpet was rolled out to a river to welcome the arrival of United States president James Monroe in 1821.[1] In 1902, The New York Central Railroad used plush crimson carpets to direct people as they boarded their 20th Century Limited passenger train. This is believed to be the origin of the phrase “red-carpet treatment”.[2] Film premieres are often laid down with red carpets.
It wasn’t until the 1920s that the red carpet and Hollywood became truly synonymous. The crimson-hued carpet was unfurled for the Hollywood premiere of Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks, in front of the Egyptian Theatre in 1922. And for the following decades, there were only few places where the public could catch a glimpse of charismatic stars like Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, and the red carpet was one of them.[3]
Then, in 1961, the red carpet was introduced at the Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. A few years later, the broadcasters of the ceremony opted to film outside the venue, showing the arrival of guests as they stepped out of their limousines. From this point in 1964, the red carpet became a globally acknowledged focal point for actors and actresses to make a grand entrance and showcase themselves at the Oscars.[4]
That was the answer from academia, now let me suggest something else to you. Something so plain and obvious that once you see it, you will not forget this.
Gen 15:1-21 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
Yehovah had just announced His “covenant” with Abram.
H1285 beri^yth ber-eeth’
From H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like H1254)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh): – confederacy, [con-]feder[-ate], covenant, league.
According to Theopedia, this Hebrew word derives from a root which means “to cut” and hence a covenant is a “cutting” with reference to the ancient custom of cutting or dividing animals into two parts with the contracting parties passing between them, in making a covenant, see for example
Jeremiah 34:17-19 “Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts— the officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf.
The parties of the covenant are thereby saying in essence, “May I be torn apart like these animals if I fail to uphold my part of this covenant.”
So what we read in this Genesis 15:17 is a “theophany”-an outward external manifestation of the invisible God. (Like burning bush to Moses, pillar of fire during exodus …often a type of fire. In the New Testament, we read that Yehovah is a consuming fire. This is a normal manner of revealing Himself.)
Yehovah Himself is moving between the pieces of animals.
Yehovah alone passes between the slaughtered animals (while Abram sleeps!), again emphasizing the one-sided nature of this covenant, as well as the ultimate level of commitment involved –
Yehovah putting his very life on the line, as it were, as a guarantee.
Yehovah proving the reliability of His promise to Abram.
Yehovah was saying, “IF I FAIL TO KEEP MY PROMISE…MAY I BE RIPPED APART!”
When Abraham cut the animals in half and placed half on each side, the blood would run into the middle. And it was in the middle that the flaming torch and fire pot passed through. Yehovah walked between the animal halves and His feet walked on the Red blood that had carpeted the ground as they bled out.
I am suggesting that the Red Carpet represents the covenant of cutting animals in half and the making of a vow or agreement as you walked over the blood of these animals. It was of the highest of orders and not to be taken lightly and it was to be held in high esteem.
This is why today the Red Carpet is held for the Highest of dignitaries, or the Heads of State. It is greatly diminished when Hollywood tramples all over it thinking they are worthy of this High Calling.
Why is the Bride Carried through the Door on her wedding day?
We are now just 3 weeks away from Shavuot. As you know Shavuot is the time when Yehovah proposed to Israel and we accepted that proposal. This is what is called the ketubah and it is the marriage contract. It is what we read each Sabbatical year at Sukkot, which represents the wedding week. The 8th Day Feast which is right after Sukkot represents the wedding confirmation or the wedding night.
A few weeks ago we talk to you about the Feast of Oaths which is another name for the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot.
After the wedding, there is this tradition of carrying the bride across the threshold and into the new home or honeymoon suite. What has this tradition to do with the Feast of Oaths and our ketubah with Yehovah?
For a number of years now I have been taking people to the city of two gates in the Valley of Elah showing them this famous place where David came before he went down into the valley to slay Goliath. Many times we have just come from the city of Gath where Goliath lived. While here we show the brethren each of the cities mentioned in the bible from which the Philistines fled after David slew the giant. This is one of those places where the bible comes to life. It is the place where I tell them the story of the giant in front of us now as we try to warn the world of the danger they are in, for not keeping the Sabbatical years. We are that David and the UN is Goliath. But I digress.
Here in this city of two gates, we take our group picture in this one gate overlooking the valley of Elah. It is from this gate that I do my teachings from.
But in the other gate are some very interesting things that few ever see. This is the second gate.
At this second gate is very well preserved threshold.
And in this threshold is a hole on the one side.
Now I want to acknowledge the work of Clay Trumbull who has done extensive studies on the Near East traditions about the Blood Covenant, Salt covenant, and the Threshold Covenant. I also want to thank Rico Cortes for his work on this subject and bringing it to our attention. ( You can if you want to watch all three videos here. Part one, part two and part three)
We are not going to talk about the Salt covenant in this article but a Salt covenant is one where salt is presented as a sign of peace between people.
We are going to talk about this threshold and the covenants that are made upon it and what it means and how it has been passed down to us now even though many do not understand it nor know it.
When I take people to show them this hole in the threshold either here at the City of Two Gates (Khirbet Qeiyafa, Shaaraim (Hebrew: She’arayim) or at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, they all think it is a hole where the door pivots. Not so.
Let’s look at Zechariah to learn more about this hole in the threshold.
Zec 12:2Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the peoples all around, and it shall also be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
Let us zero in on the word for cup and see what we are being told.
H5592 saph saf
From H5605, in its original sense of containing; a vestibule (as a limit); also a dish (for holding blood or wine): – bason, bowl, cup, door (post), gate, post, threshold.
H5605 saphaph saw-faf’
A primitive root; properly to snatch away, that is, terminate; but used only as denominative from H5592 (in the sense of a vestibule), to wait at the threshold: – be a doorkeeper.
Jerusalem is going to be a dish for holding blood or wine; it is going to be a door post or a gate. Jerusalem is going to be a threshold and a door keeper. You must keep this in mind from now on. You must understand that Jerusalem is the Threshold to the Temple and because the world does not recognize this, they will pay a hefty price.
We have only now begun but I want to remind you of the word Yehoshua said.
Joh 10:1Truly, truly, I say to you, He who does not enter into the sheepfold by the door, but going up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber. 2But he who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3The doorkeeper opens to him, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him. For they know his voice. 5And they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. 6Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they did not understand what it was which He spoke to them.
Joh 10:7Then Jesus said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
Joh 10:8All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
John 10:9I am the door. If anyone enters in by Me, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.
John 10:10The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 11I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. 12But he who is a hireling and not the shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away. And the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep. 13The hireling flees, because he is a hireling and does not care for the sheep. 14I am the Good Shepherd, and I know those that are Mine, and I am known by those who are Mine. 15Even as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. 16And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd. 17Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I might take it again. 18No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down from Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment from My Father.
Something else I want you all to be aware of. The Aleph represents Yehovah. The Beit is His house. The Gimel is His Authority and the Dalet represents the door.
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When you go through the door into the House of Yehovah, you go in under His Authority. You accept His laws that rule in His house.
This threshold is an extremely important place in the household as the entrance into the house of Yehovah and the importance of it is not to be dismissed.
At Passover the very first Holy Day we are told to put the blood on the doorposts. For the Israelites, this was a normal thing as they understood this meaning of the threshold covenant.
Exo 12:22And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the bowl, and strike the lintel and the doorposts with the blood in the bowl. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23For Jehovah will pass through to strike the Egyptians. And when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. 24And you shall observe this thing for a law to you and to your sons forever.
The word for bowl here is again that word Saph which is the hole found in the threshold of the doorway.
These lambs were to be killed on the threshold and their blood collected in the ‘Saph’. From that saph, they were to smear the blood on the doorposts and the mantel using hyssop.
Are you aware that across from the true Temple site in Jerusalem is the town of Silwan? When I first went there, one of the homeowners I visited told me the name and that Silwan in Arabic meant Pillar or Post. This is also known as the Mount of Offense.
It was on this Mount of Offense that Yehoshua was killed and His blood flowed on what is the post. All sin offerings were made outside the city. The Red Heifer offering was also made outside the city here on the Mount of Offense. And then the blood was carried across the Kidron valley as they walked on the bridge (the mantel) back through the Eastern Gate to the altar where the blood was then poured out on the north or south side of the Altar where it would then run down the side of the Temple into the Kidron valley.
This then would make the Kidron Valley the threshold with the blood on the doorpost of the Mount of Offense and the other door post at the Temple and the altar. The Kidron Valley is also known as the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
Joe 3:2I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will fight with them there for My people and for My inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided My land. 3And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, so that they might drink.
Joe 3:11Gather yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together all around; cause Your mighty ones to come down there, O Jehovah. 12Let the nations be awakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations all around. 13Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, come down; for the press is full; the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. 14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision!
Now we must read Revelation 14:14-20 to learn just how deep this blood is that is about to flow. It is as high as a horse bridle and it goes for about 184 miles.
Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand. And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.” So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.” So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
Hold on. I thought we were talking about the covenant made by Yehovah with Abraham. And now I have said that those on the earth are going to be killed in this Threshold like they were on the Red Carpet.
Yehovah said may He be torn apart like these animals should He not keep His word in this agreement. But now read what you are told in Isaiah about the whole earth.
Isaiah 24:1-6 Behold, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the slave, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered;
for the Lord has spoken this word.
The earth mourns and withers;
the world languishes and withers;
the highest people of the earth languish.
The earth lies defiled
under its inhabitants;
for they have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.
So how did all men come to be under this law and now must pay the price for breaking this vow?
Galatians 3:7-9 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Genesis 12:3
And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
Genesis 22:18
“In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Genesis 26:4
“I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
The whole world has been blessed by this covenant made with Abraham. But has the whole world reciprocated and begun to obey Yehovah the one who has given these blessings? No! everywhere is the Christian religion that claims to be following the bible.
Mark 16:15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mathew 28:18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Luke 24:44 “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
And because of this, because these Christian nations and people who claim to follow Yehovah but do not keep the covenant; because they are all guilty of having broken this covenant they too will be torn apart like those animals.
But at this time it is Yehovah doing it not the rest of us.
This Covenant that Yehovah made with Abraham and swore by His own name and then confirmed by walking through the blood Himself. Yehovah was promising Abraham and then the whole world. It was an engagement oath by Yehovah.
Again the Aleph Bet Gimel, Dalet. dgba This is picturing Yehovah, the Aleph at His house, Bet, going, Gimel, to the Door, Yehshua.The very next letter is Hey h. Hey is for man. I have been using the Paleo Hebrew. Here is the modern Hebrew letters. hdgba So Man is being called to come through the door to the house of Yehovah. And that is just the first 5 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. But you must come by walking on the very carpet that Yehovah walked on. The Hebrew word used for covenant is the word trk Karat to cut.
This is HIs covenant and you must agree to it. You must agree to the rules of His house in order to accept the promise He has made to us. And you do so by going through this Door, the Door with the blood smeared on it at Passover. That Door is Yehshua. Yehovah Saves.
And we agreed to this at Shavuot at Mount Sinai.
Yehovah proposed to us through the Abraham Covenant. We accepted that proposal at Mount Sinai and we accepted the terms of this Marriage contract at this time. That Marriage is going to take place at the end of the 7th Millennium just before the 8th Millennium begins. This is the whole teaching of Sukkot.
Before we continue there is one more thing we must have you make note of.
Exo 21:1And these are the judgments which you shall set before them. 2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years. And in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he was married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. 5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons. I do not want to go out free 6his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door or to the door-post. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
Deu 15:12If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty. 14You shall richly bestow on him from your flock, and from your grain floor, and from your winepress; with what Jehovah your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today. 16And if he says to you, I will not go away from you, because he loves you and your house, because it has been good for him with you; 17then you shall take an awl and put it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also to your slave-girl you shall do so. 18It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away from you free, for he has been worth a double hired servant in serving you six years. And Jehovah your God shall bless you in all that you do.
The very first thing Yehovah tells the Israelites after He gave them the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai at Shavuot was this law of the Bond Servant. Again it involves blood on the doorpost which would have dripped down to the threshold. Your ear is to be pressed against the Door as it were and then pierced. Your blood is now also on that door in covenant with our Master.
This threshold is a very serious and meaningful place in the house and we need to heed that meaning. It is about the promise of Yehovah, the Red Carpet and going through the Door, Yehshua. But there is much more.
We read what is said in Zechariah 12:2 about the cup, saph and the threshold, now let’s read verse 3.
Zec 12:3And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
The expression cut in pieces is a direct relationship to the animals killed at the threshold of the homes. It is a direct relationship to the blood that was smeared on the doorpost and the lintel.
When you make a covenant you take the animal and slaughter it and then you cut the body of it in pieces placing them on either side so that the blood from them flowed down the middle. Each person would then walk through the blood in their bare feet and say something to the effect that if they did not keep this covenant between them, may they be cut in pieces as this animal.
Yehovah did this very thing with Abraham. Making Abraham a promise that Yehovah could not break. It was Yehovah alone who walked between the animals and got their blood on His feet.
Gen 15:7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Again Yehovah is going to make Jerusalem a threshold of trembling. I am replacing the word ‘cup’ with the other word it means and that is a threshold.
Zec 12:2Behold, I will make Jerusalem a Threshold of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
Zec 12:3And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Anyone who crosses this threshold and does not seek to keep the covenant does so with evil in their heart. They will be cut in pieces and this is what is happening in the Valley of Decision, the Valley of Judgement when the armies of the world come against Jerusalem in that Day of the Lord. But also the rest of the world that has not kept this covenant will now be cut in pieces as was agreed to should we not keep this covenant. This is deadly serious and we are now fast approaching the time when this will be executed.
Another custom with the threshold was that you did not step on the threshold. You stepped over it to show a sign of respect to the household and to the sacrifice that was made on that spot for the covenant. Those who stepped on the threshold stomped on it to show disdain for the occupants of the house.
There is another Jewish tradition that we must also now look at.
A mezuzah (Hebrew: “doorpost”; plural: ? mezuzot) comprises a piece of parchment called a klaft (always contained in a decorative case) inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21). These verses consist of the Jewish prayer “Shema Yisrael”, beginning with the phrase: “Hear, O Israel, the LORD (is) our God, the LORD is One”. In mainstream Rabbinic Judaism, a mezuzah is affixed to the doorpost of Jewish homes to fulfill the mitzvah (Biblical commandment) to “write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house” (Deuteronomy 6:9). Some interpret Jewish law to require a mezuzah in every doorway in the home[1] except bathrooms (which is not a living space) laundry rooms and closets, if they are too small to qualify as rooms.[2] The klaft parchment is prepared by a qualified scribe (“sofer stam”) who has undergone many years of meticulous training, and the verses are written in black indelible ink with a special quill pen. The parchment is then rolled up and placed inside the case.
Perhaps now with all that we have shared thus far, the Mezuzah may have a more meaningful impact on you. The door and its post represent the covenant of Mount Sinai which was ratified with the blood. The Mezuzah on the door is a visual reminder of that covenant, as the mezuzah has a part of it inside of it.
At Passover, there is something you need to know and understand. When you eat that meal and drink that wine you are accepting the terms of that covenant made at Mount Sinai again. All those who join you in that meal are also accepting that agreement. This is why you do not allow those who do not keep the Torah to join you for Passover.
Exo 12:47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Here again, is that word Brit. only this time is it the Brit Milah
H1285 beri^yth ber-eeth’
From H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like H1254)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh): – confederacy, [con-]feder[-ate], covenant, league.
Gen 17:10 10 This is My covenant, which ye shall keep, between Me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner, that is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised; and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken My covenant.
That night of Passover the Israelites made the first agreement. They obeyed Yehovah and all those on the inside of that threshold were guarded by Yehovah from the death angel.
Exo 12:22And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the bowl, and strike the lintel and the doorposts with the blood in the bowl. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23For Jehovah will pass through to strike the Egyptians. And when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. 24And you shall observe this thing for a law to you and to your sons forever.
Before Israel had even agreed to this covenant, Yehovah was showing them that if they obeyed Him He would guard them and keep them safe.
Then at Mount Sinai Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and 70 of the elders ate a meal and accepted the terms of this covenant. The people too also agreed and the blood was then sprinkled on them and the law itself. You have the agreement, (covenant) and you have a covenantal meal and you have a sacrifice, the shedding of the blood.
Exo 24:1And He said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And bow yourselves afar off. 2And Moses alone shall come near Jehovah, but they shall not come near. Neither shall the people go up with him. 3And Moses came and told the people all the Words of Jehovah, and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has said, we will do. 4And Moses wrote all the Words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar below the mountain and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5And he sent young men of the sons of Israel who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of bulls to Jehovah. 6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the ears of the people. And they said, All that Jehovah has said we will do, and be obedient. 8And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words. 9And Moses went up, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. 10And they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as the essence of the heavens for clearness. 11And upon the nobles of the sons of Israel He did not lay his hands. Also they saw God, and ate and drank. 12And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to Me in the mountain, and be there. And I will give you tablets of stone, and the Law, and commandments which I have written, so that you may teach them.
Exo 24:13And Moses rose up, and his attendant Joshua. And Moses went up into the mountain of God. 14And he said to the elders, You stay here for us until we come again to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur arewith you. If any man has any matters to do, let him come to them. 15And Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain. 16And the glory of Jehovah abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17And the sight of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel. 18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mountain. And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.
This was a covenant meal the same as the Passover meal was, only now this is taking place at Shavuot. It has deadly consequences if you break it or trample upon it.
Yehshua was killed at the threshold of Jerusalem on the Mount of Offence at the edge of the Kidron. The same as the lamb is slain at the threshold of the house and its blood collected in the Saph or bowl of the lentil.
He did not have to die. We were supposed to die because we broke that covenant. But He paid that price in our stead.
BUT……
If we do not repent then we get to pay that price with our own lives. For those who repent and return to obeying the covenant the debt, the penalty for not keeping the agreement has been paid. Those who want to show hatred towards the household would not step over the threshold. Instead, they would stomp on the threshold in disrespect. They are stomping on the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
That army that is going to come up the threshold of the Kidron to stomp on Jerusalem is doing so against the Torah and Yehovah.
Rev 14:15And another angel came out of the temple, crying in a great voice to Him sitting on the cloud, Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth was dried. 16And He sitting on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. 17And another angel came out of the temple in Heaven, also having a sharp sickle. 18And another angel came out from the altar, who had authority over fire. And he spoke with a great cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. 19And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the anger of God. 20And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, for the space of a thousand, six hundred stadia.
Now consider what is written in the book of Hebrews.
Heb 10:26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,27but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28He who despised Moses’ Law died without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses. 29Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know Him who has said, “Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, says the Lord.” And again, “The Lord shall judge His people.” 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Many teachers teach about the blood covenant and the threshold covenant and salt covenant. Yet they will not keep the Sabbatical and Jubilee years and they teach you not to keep them as well. They will not obey. What about you? Are you trampling on the threshold of Yehovah? The Sabbatical and Jubilee years were part of that Sinai Covenant. The Holy Days of Lev 23 are part of that Sinai Covenant. The weekly Sabbath is part of that Sinai Covenant. This is our Ketubah, our Marriage contract that we agreed to.
Exo 23:10And you shall sow your land six years, and shall gather in the fruits of it. 11But the seventh year you shall let it rest and let it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field shall eat. In the same way you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive yard. 12You shall do your work six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Here are just a few of the other commandments of this threshold agreement that many tramble on and do not heed.
Exodus 20:1-3 And God spoke all these words, saying,
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
“You shall have no other gods before me.
There is only one Yehovah and no other.
Exodus 20:4-6 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
So why do we see so many bowing down to statues and carrying them around from place to place? If you have statutes in your house that represent God or Jesus or Mary or Buddha, or Angels you need to remove them immediately.
Exodus 20:7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
This does not mean nor is it speaking about cussing. When you marry Yehovah as you have just agreed to in this covenant then you are taking on his name and He is going to give you a new name as we are told in Revelation. It is the same as when a woman is married she now takes on the name of her husband. She now bears his name in all she does. If she is known as a prostitute or an evil woman then she takes her husbands name in vain. That is she ruins his good name. So you are not to ruin the name of Yehovah by the evil actions that you used to do.
Rev 2:17 To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’
Isaiah 56:5 To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.
Isaiah 62:2 The nations will see your righteousness, And all kings your glory; And you will be called by a new name Which the mouth of the LORD will designate.
Isaiah 65:15 “You will leave your name for a curse to My chosen ones, And the Lord GOD will slay you. But My servants will be called by another name.
This next commandment is the one that many say is nailed to the cross and done away. What they are saying is that they will not submit to the laws of Yehovah’s house. They will not agree to the blood covenant and they just will not obey Yehovah.
Exodus 20:8-11 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
We are also told in the very first verse of Lev 23 that the appointed Feast of Yehovah are also His Sabbaths. They are Gods Holy Days and not the Jewish ones. They were in force and kept long before there ever was a Jew. Yehovah is the same yesterday today and forever. He does not change.
Lev 23:1-3 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.
The Sabbath
“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.
Now after the first appointed time to meet with Yehovah He begins to list each of those times during each year when He is going to meet with you. It is up to you to be there on time so that you can attend that meeting.
Passover The Feast of Unleavened Bread
Lev 23:4-8 “These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord’s Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.”
Lev 23:9-11 The Feast of Firstfruits
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev 23:15-16 The Feast of Weeks
“You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord.
Lev 23:23-25 The Feast of Trumpets
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the Lord.”
Lev 23:26-32 The Day of Atonement
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord. And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people. And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people. You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”
Lev 23:33-36 The Feast of Booths
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord. On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord.
Lev 23:36 The Eight Day Feast
On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.
“These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the Lord food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day, besides the Lord’s Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the Lord.
All of these are part of the Marriage contract. This is all part of the Marriage Ketubah that we all agreed to.
After this Yehovah restated the Holy Days they are to keep and then concluded the agreement. Right after that, we read how all the people agreed to it with the sprinkling of the blood.
Exo 24:3And Moses came and told the people all the Words of Jehovah, and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has said, we will do. 4And Moses wrote all the Words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar below the mountain and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5And he sent young men of the sons of Israel who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of bulls to Jehovah. 6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.7And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the ears of the people. And they said, All that Jehovah has said we will do, and be obedient. 8And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words.
If you say you believe in Yehoshua, or Yehshua or Jesus or that you confess the name of Jesus as we’re are told to do in Romans do you understand what it is that you are confessing?
Rom 10:9Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.
Look at the word confess in Romans 10:9
G3670 homologeo hom-ol-og-eh’-o
From a compound of the base of G3674 and G3056; to assent, that is, covenant, acknowledge: – con- (pro-) fess, confession is made, give thanks, promise.
G3674 homou hom-oo’
Genitive case of homos (the same; akin to G260) as adverb; at the same place or time: – together.
G3056 logos log’-os
From G3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (that is, Christ): – account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say (-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.
Yehshua was the word. He was the Torah. When you confess in Him, you are in fact saying you will return to that word and you believe in that word. That word that was given at Mount Sinai. It is not just knowing that He was or saying His name. It is repenting from breaking that covenant, confessing our sins for not keeping it and then returning to obedience. This is the promise we make. All of this is contained in that first part of the word, homologeo?.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
That word was slain at the Threshold. That Covenantal Word’s blood was placed on the Doorpost. Again think of the Mezuzah. That word, those words in your bible, the first 5 books are the words that we have agreed to when we confess the name of Yehshua. Those words are Yehovah and it is those words that are contained in the blood that is flowing from the threshold of the house of Yehovah. It is His blood on the threshold that we agree to when we cross over into His Kingdom.
Now consider what is said in Jeremiah
Jer 31:31Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, 32not according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah; 33but this shall be the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
The word Cut means;
H3772 ka^rath kaw-rath’
A primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication to destroy or consume; specifically to covenant (that is, make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces): – be chewed, be con- [feder-] ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ([covenant]), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Notice the words here are consume, chewed covenant, make a league, all the ingredients of the covenantal meal along with the agreement.
Notice this covenant still has to be cut and blood spilt to ratify it. Most people read right over this part and it refers back to the original.
The laws will not be changed. They are the same laws we find in Lev but now they are on our hearts. They are not done away. They never were nailed to the cross. They have never changed.
Now consider the story of Lot.
Gen 19:1And there came two angels to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot rose up to meet them when he saw them. And he bowed himself with his face toward the ground, 2and said, Behold now, my lords, please turn into your servant’s house and stay all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise up early and go your way. And they said, No, but we will stay in the street. 3But he urgently pressed on them, and they turned in to him and entered into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter. 5And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men which came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them. 6And Lot went out to the door to them, and shut the door after him. 7And he said, I pray you, brothers, do not act evilly. 8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man. I pray you, let me bring them out to you, and you do to them as you see fit. But do nothing to these men, for this is why they came under the shadow of my roof. 9And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came in to stay, and must he judge always? Now we will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to breaking the door. 10But the men put out their hands and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
Lot brought the two angels into his house. They stepped across the threshold of Lots House. This simple act was a statement that Lot would protect these men no matter what. It was his duty to do so once they crossed over the threshold into Lots house. And this is why he even resorted to offering his two daughters to the men outside the house. But the men outside then began to break down the door and were going to cross that threshold of Lots house and do harm to the angels. Lot had vowed to protect these strangers. And these Sodomite men were trampling on that threshold of Lot’s house.
Remember what we shared from John 10? Anyone coming into the home another way and does not respect that threshold is a thief.
Joh 10:1Truly, truly, I say to you, He who does not enter into the sheepfold by the door, but going up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber. Over the threshold when you do this the man is saying, I will be your protector, I will be your provider, with all my strength.
The story of the Two Witnesses are again connected to these two messengers sent to Lot to warn him to flee. Lot brought them inside the Threshold for protection. The entire city sought them to do harm to them and they were trampling on Lots Threshold. Let us now read this part of Revelation with this new understanding.
Rev 11:1 And a reed like a rod was given to me. And the angel stood, saying, Rise up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship in it. 2 But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it was given to the nations. And they will trample the holy city forty-two months. 3 And I will give power to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. 5 And if anyone will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone will hurt them, so it is right for him to be killed. 6 These have authority to shut up the heaven, that it may not rain in the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire. 7 And when they complete their testimony, the beast coming up out of the abyss will make war against them and will overcome them and kill them. 8 And their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 9 And many of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three days and a half, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be put in tombs. 10 And the ones who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, and will make merry, and will send one another gifts, because these two prophets tormented those living on the earth. 11 And after three days and a half, a spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. And great fear fell on those seeing them. 12 And they heard a great voice from Heaven saying to them, Come up here. And they went up to Heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13 And in that hour a great earthquake occurred, and the tenth part of the city fell. And seven thousand names of men were slain in the earthquake. And the rest were frightened and gave glory to the God of Heaven.
The two witnesses will be killed in the same place Yehshua was killed on the Mount of Offense. This is at the Threshold of the Temple. These people like the people of Sodom will seek to kill the two witnesses and will trample the Holy City for 42 months. Then Yehovah will destroy 7000 of them in an earthquake.
Let us also look at another example at Mount Sinai itself.
Exodus 29:10-12 “You shall also have the bull brought before the tabernacle of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the bull. Then you shall kill the bull before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar.
The sacrifice is brought to the Tabernacle, the House of Yehovah and is killed at the DOOR, and the rest of the blood poured on the ground at the base of the Altar. The Threshold is considered the Altar of the Home.
Here is another example, again at Mount Sinai.
Exodus 32:15-29 And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written. Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”
But he said:
“It is not the noise of the shout of victory,
Nor the noise of the cry of defeat,
But the sound of singing I hear.”
So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses’ anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it. And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?”
So Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord become hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. For they said to me, ‘Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ And I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.”
Now when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained (for Aaron had not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies), then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on the Lord’s side—come to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’ ” So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day. Then Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, that He may bestow on you a blessing this day, for every man has opposed his son and his brother.”
Once again Moses is standing in the DOORWAY of the Tabernacle. Those who stood with Yehovah came to the Door and those trampling on the covenant did not and were killed.
Today you see the vestiges of this threshold covenant when nations roll out the red carpet for dignitaries. The red carpet represents the blood across that threshold. It says that your safety is guaranteed by the state while you are our guest here.
Here is another example that I have had trouble dealing with until I understood this threshold covenant. Abner was a General in the army of King Saul who hunted David. Joab killed Abner and then David later had Joab killed. Why did David do this to his trusted and loyal General Joab?
2Sa 3:12And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? He said, Cut your covenant with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring about all Israel to you.
2Sa 3:17The word of Abner was with the elders of Israel, saying, You sought for David in times past to be king over you. 18And then do it, for Jehovah has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save My people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies. 19And Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin. And Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and all that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin. 20And Abner came to David at Hebron, and twenty men came with him. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him. 21And Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, so that they may make a covenant with you, and so that you may reign over all that your heart desires. And David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.
2Sa 3:22And behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them. But Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace. 23And Joab and all the army with him came, and they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace. 24And Joab came to the king and said, What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is this, that you have sent him away, and he has already gone? 25You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do. 26And Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner, who brought him again from the well of Sirah. But David did not know. 27And Abner returned to Hebron. And Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately. And he struck him there in the belly, and he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. 28And afterward David heard, and said, My kingdom and I areguiltless before Jehovah forever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner. 29Let it whirl about the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. And let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls on the sword, or who lacks bread.
2Sa 3:30And Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. 31And David said to Joab and to all the people with him, Tear your clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And King David followed the bier. 32And they buried Abner in Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner. And all the people wept. 33And the king mourned over Abner and said, Did Abner die like a fool dies? 34Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters; as a man falls before wicked men, so you fell. And all the people wept again over him. 35And all the people came to cause David to eat food while it was still day; David swore, saying, So let God do to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else until the sun is down. 36And all the people took notice, and it pleased them, as whatever the king did pleased all the people. 37For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner. 38And the king said to his servants, Do you not know that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? 39And I am weak this day, though anointed king. And these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me. Jehovah shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
Joab and his brother Abishai had murdered Abner who had accepted the covenant meal with David and was now under his protection according to the threshold covenant. Abner had walked on the red covenant of the City of David per say. Joab broke that threshold covenant and now David could not be trusted to give protection to those in his care. This is why Joab had to die.
The Threshold covenant is a very serious deal.
We have shared with you the story of Lot and what happened there. We also connected that to the Two Witnesses. There is another story in Judges that reads the same as the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Judges 19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. But his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there four whole months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back, having his servant and a couple of donkeys with him. So she brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young woman saw him, he was glad to meet him. Now his father-in-law, the young woman’s father, detained him; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank and lodged there.
Then it came to pass on the fourth day that they arose early in the morning, and he stood to depart; but the young woman’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.”
So they sat down, and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the young woman’s father said to the man, “Please be content to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.” And when the man stood to depart, his father-in-law urged him; so he lodged there again. Then he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart, but the young woman’s father said, “Please refresh your heart.” So they delayed until afternoon; and both of them ate.
And when the man stood to depart—he and his concubine and his servant—his father-in-law, the young woman’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is now drawing toward evening; please spend the night. See, the day is coming to an end; lodge here, that your heart may be merry. Tomorrow go your way early, so that you may get home.”
However, the man was not willing to spend that night; so he rose and departed, and came opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). With him were the two saddled donkeys; his concubine was also with him. They were near Jebus, and the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Come, please, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites and lodge in it.”
But his master said to him, “We will not turn aside here into a city of foreigners, who are not of the children of Israel; we will go on to Gibeah.” So he said to his servant, “Come, let us draw near to one of these places, and spend the night in Gibeah or in Ramah.” And they passed by and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. They turned aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And when he went in, he sat down in the open square of the city, for no one would take them into his house to spend the night.
Just then an old man came in from his work in the field at evening, who also was from the mountains of Ephraim; he was staying in Gibeah, whereas the men of the place were Benjamites. And when he raised his eyes, he saw the traveler in the open square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”
So he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah toward the remote mountains of Ephraim; I am from there. I went to Bethlehem in Judah; now I am going to the house of the Lord. But there is no one who will take me into his house, although we have both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and bread and wine for myself, for your female servant, and for the young man who is with your servant; there is no lack of anything.”
And the old man said, “Peace be with you! However, let all your needs be my responsibility; only do not spend the night in the open square.” So he brought him into his house, and gave fodder to the donkeys. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
As disturbing as this story is, I want you to now pay attention the what the woman does and where her hands are.
As they were enjoying themselves, suddenly certain men of the city, perverted men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!”
But the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brethren! I beg you, do not act so wickedly! Seeing this man has come into my house, do not commit this outrage. Look, here is my virgin daughter and the mans concubine; let me bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them as you please; but to this man do not do such a vile thing!” But the men would not heed him. So the man took his concubine and brought her out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until morning; and when the day began to break, they let her go.
Then the woman came as the day was dawning, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, till it was light.
When her master arose in the morning, and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way, there was his concubine, fallen at the door of the house with her hands on the threshold. And he said to her, “Get up and let us be going.” But there was no answer. So the man lifted her onto the donkey; and the man got up and went to his place.
When he entered his house he took a knife, laid hold of his concubine, and divided her into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel. And so it was that all who saw it said, “No such deed has been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up from the land of Egypt until this day. Consider it, confer, and speak up!”
This led to the destruction of the tribe of Benjamen.
Now instead of this being a story about pagans acting as they did in Sodom and Gomorrah, Yehovah is showing us that it took place in Israel as well. We have also shown you about the two witnesses being killed at the threshold in a place called Sodom and Gomorrah and we have shown you about the valley of Jehosaphat and the slaughter of that day. We have also shown you that Yehshua the lamb of God and the Red Heifer was slain outside the gate of the city at the threshold. Yehshua is the door and when His blood fell that day on the ground once they stuck the spear into Him, that threshold became sanctified. Add to all of this before we move on, that the UN is the greatest promoter of the LGBTQ rights as human rights. Add to all of this the many, many, many votes that the UN issues against the nation of Israel for so-called human rights violations.
Are you now beginning to see the reason things happen in these last days and why? It is all connected to the Threshold and the agreement we made with Yehovah and the agreement on His part to protect us when we cross over that threshold. Hebrew means one who crosses over, does it not?
Here is another story from the bible. Understand the symbols used in relation to the threshold covenant.
Joshua 2:17-21 So the men said to her: “We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have made us swear, unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home. So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him. And if you tell this business of ours, then we will be free from your oath which you made us swear.”
Then she said, “According to your words, so be it.” And she sent them away, and they departed. And she bound the scarlet cord in the window.
The scarlet thread represented the blood on the threshold and those outside the door would die whereas those inside the door would be saved alive.
Again the Threshold was a guarantee of protection by the homeowner. Today it is the Red Carpet being rolled out for the Dignitaries from other countries.
Now when a man marries a bride and then carries her across the threshold it is a covenant of blood. He is saying in effect that he will protect her and take care of her all of her days. The same as Yehovah protected Israel from the death angel. The same as Lot protected the angels from the men of Sodom. The husband is going to protect his wife and family from all other evils with his own life if need be. The woman is also saying I agree to the covenant or the rules of this house.
Israel is the bride of Yehovah and at the end of the 7th day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Yehovah is going to carry Israel into HIs house on the 8th Day Feast. Israel must agree to obey those rules of His house. Everyone in the world who obeys the covenant becomes part of Israel.
Is this not exactly what Yehovah has done dying on the tree in our stead? And He did it at the Threshold of Jerusalem on the edge of the Mount of Offence where the red heifers were slaughtered and their blood flowed down into the Kidron. And just as Yehshua was killed on the edge of the Kidron representing the threshold of the House of Yehovah, the lambs at Passover were killed at the threshold of the door of the Tabernacle.
I have been warning for years about the coming sword and the curses for those who do not keep the commandments, the covenant of Mount Sinai. But most forget that those who obey will be protected by a very jealous Yehovah who has all the host of heaven at His disposal. We are told to fear not. If we obey we have nothing to fear. Those who do not obey are the ones who are to tremble.
Now read again what you are told in Zechariah.
Zechariah 14:1 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming,
And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Then the Lord will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.
Then you shall flee through My mountain valley,
For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee
As you fled from the earthquake
In the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
Yehovah is going to fight for those of us who obey Him and Keep His commandments, His covenant. He will fight for us. How awesome is that?
Kiddushin and Nisuin
I was looking for the reason a man lifts a woman across the threshold and I discovered the following. I think you will be blessed by this. From Judaism 101;
The process of marriage occurs in two distinct stages: kiddushin (commonly translated as betrothal) and nisuin (full-fledged marriage). Kiddushin occurs when the woman accepts the money, contract or sexual relations offered by the prospective husband. The word “kiddushin” comes from the root Qof-Dalet-Shin, meaning “sanctified.” It reflects the sanctity of the marital relation. However, the root word also connotes something that is set aside for a specific (sacred) purpose, and the ritual of kiddushin sets aside the woman to be the wife of a particular man and no other.
I noticed the Dalet which is representative of the Door and Shin which is Yehovah, in the root of this word and looked up what Eric Bissel had to say about what Qof stood for.
PILLAR OF FIRE/CLOUD. • BACK OF HEAD, BEHIND, COVER. • MESSIAH IS THE BACK SIDE OF ELOHIM, THE MANIFESTATION MOSES SAW. • HE OVERSEES AND COVERS US WITH HIS GLORY.
And then I ended up on a Kabbalah site which had the following;
Khof Meaning– 19th Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet
The letter Khof (also spelled Kuf, or Qof) originally meant the back of the head, or the eye of a needle and which also means monkey. It is the symbol of both the sacred Kedushah ?????, and the profane – the Klipah ?????, the peel, cover, or husk which represents the negativities in the world. Khof has to do with the requirement of removing the husk of the superficial to reveal the holiness within.
In Hebrew, Khof means monkey, a creature which resembles a human but is purely animalistic, with none of the higher capacities of a human. This indicates the requirement for a human to overcome his purely animalistic nature and to emulate the image of the Creator he is made in, to realize his true spiritual nature beyond just the physical. The Khof is the only letter which extends below the line of the other letters, indicating descent into the lower world, but also the ability to ascend from there.
Kuf is also ???? – circle, go around. Khof represents all the cycles of nature, changing seasons, monthly and yearly cycles. It is the constant movement, circulation, and change of life. It could also represent that through the cycles of life that we see – evolution, growth, change, suffering, happiness, life experience – we are constantly worked on in order to evolve and realize our true spiritual nature.
Last week we spoke to you of the wife walking around her husband 7 times and we showed you the 7th Day Sabbath and the 7 Holy Days and the 7 Sabbatical years and the 7 weeks until Shavuot and the 7 Sabbatical cycles leading to the Jubilee year. the act of sevening ourselves and drawing closer to Yehovah. The wise virgins while the unwise do not have the time to develop this sevening process as it takes time each year to keep each of the Feasts at the proper time.
Here in this one word, Kiddushin is the Bride of Yehovah circling him 7 times at the door at the threshold of the covenant. Such a powerful word. Back to Judaism 101.
Kiddushin is far more binding than an engagement as we understand the term in modern English; in fact, Rambam speaks of a period of engagement before the kiddushin. Once kiddushin is complete, the woman is legally the wife of the man. The relationship created by kiddushin can only be dissolved by death or divorce. However, the spouses do not live together at the time of the kiddushin, and the mutual obligations created by the marital relationship do not take effect until the nisuin is complete.
The nisuin (from a word meaning “elevation”) completes the process of marriage. The husband brings the wife into his home and they begin their married life together.
I went to look up this one word and found a long discussion about it.
the common meaning of the root of the word nissuin of “to elevate or to lift”. and that to lift something includes the meanings of both to carry and to take. In regard to the difference between kiddushin and nissuin, is that kiddushin is not so much taking her to you as much as removing her from others, where nissuin is the actual taking of her to you as one entity/partnership.
Yehovah made HIs covenant with Abraham at I am sure Joshua’s Altar. We were betrothed at Mount Sinai. Kiddushin. The wise virgins wait to be lifted up and to be one with Him on the 8th Day.
In the past, the kiddushin and nisuin would routinely occur as much as a year apart. During that time, the husband would prepare a home for the new family. There was always a risk that during this long period of separation, the woman would discover that she wanted to marry another man, or the man would disappear, leaving the woman in the awkward state of being married but without a husband. Today, the two ceremonies are normally performed together.
Because marriage under Jewish law is essentially a private contractual agreement between a man and a woman, it does not require the presence of a rabbi or any other religious official. It is common, however, for rabbis to officiate, partly in imitation of the Christian practice and partly because the presence of a religious or civil official is required under United States civil law.
As you can see, it is very easy to make a marriage, so the rabbis instituted severe punishments (usually flogging and compelled divorce) where marriage was undertaken without proper planning and solemnity.
Now consider what Yehshua said.
John 14:1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”
This is a great section of John and I would like to share it here as well
John 14:5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
John 15:1 I Am the True Vine
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
The Hatred of the World
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: They hated me without a cause.’
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
John 16:1 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.
The Work of the Holy Spirit
“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Yehovah is going to raise us up as His Bride and carry us across that Threshold
2 Cor 4:13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
4 Comments
Ella H Morgan
on 20/05/2022 at 11:01 pm
Excellent
FJ
on 21/05/2022 at 6:27 am
Shalom All
was meditating on hard asssets.
That would only work if the Economic meltdown was run without the idea of creating a NWO.
As it stands with the Biblical stance that we won’t be able to buy or sell anything without the mark of the Beast there is little or no guarantee that the principles of ownership would apply @ all.
The only people in Fascism or Communism or “controlled Capitalism” where markets are arranged through various means …whatever control mechanism for wealth distribution & accumulation is in place without Abba who have opportunities to roll the dice are those who are given permission.
Don’t think for a moment your possessions will insulate you from pain & suffering. How much food you have stored etc. Only Abba can keep the moth & rust away from it.
A government official easily can begin confiscating or shutting down what was legitimate & lawful the day before & all that you laboured for and owned that your industrious disciplined life had earnestly worked for.
Trust Yah & then keep trusting. He is our help & shield.
Shabbat Shalom FJ, you have been reading the things we say here at Sightedmoon.com for many years now. And yet you still insist on reading and allowing those conspiracy teachings to affect and pollute your TORAH.
You are dismissing something we shared this week because of the NWO that you think is at work behind the scenes. What a shame. What a shame!
I have been telling you all since before 2013, to stop using these bogus sites as your sources of information. But the lure of secret information still sucks you in, like a dog returning to its vomit. You just do not get it.
So instead of preparing and planning and building up an offering, you throw you hands in the air and give up. Like the man with one talent who buries it and has nothing to offer to Yehovah upon His return.
Again stop reading those stupid fake news sites. Just STOP IT. Study your Torah and understand what Yehovah is doing. Study it and stop mixing it with the conspiratorial nonsense. Just stop.
If you would do that then you might know and understand what you are being told in Isaiah. How will you be able to bring your gold with you if you do not store it up before hand?
Isa 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you. They shall come up on My altar pleasing Me, and I will glorify the house of My glory.
Isa 60:8 Who are these who fly like a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isa 60:9 Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.
You also failed to understand the other promises of Yehovah. Pay attention to the parts which state These people have works that they are doing. They are not defeatist. They go through DOORS Yehovah opens and they do not deny His name.
Rev 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts; and shuts and no one opens, says these things:
Rev 3:8 I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My Word and have not denied My name.
Rev 3:9 Behold, I give out of those of the synagogue of Satan, those saying themselves to be Jews and are not, but lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
Rev 3:10 Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the habitable world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.
Rev 3:11 Behold, I come quickly. Hold fast to that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.
Rev 3:12 Him who overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God, and My new name.
Rev 3:13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Keep Yehovah’s word. Keep His Torah. It does not say to keep studying the workings of Satan and the NWO. Study Yehovah and His Word.
The Laodicean Church thought they had it all together only to find out they had no works and had not done anything. They had no fruits to show.
FJ
on 23/05/2022 at 12:19 pm
Shalom Joe …
Blessings. I am thinking you have misunderstood.
Did I say anything about NOT being obedient to Sabbatical Year?
My comment this week you published is from the mindset that….
Scripture tells us our own hands don’t deliver us & that was what my comment was in relation to.
No amount of physical preparation counts if the spiritual doesn’t align with Abba’s will in the weightier principles of the Torah.
Maybe you contend with others through assuming the worst about them? Not sure.
You have been given insights into scripture & you also stand on the shoulders of those who teach you things to see further, just like the rest of us.
The Spirit gave me the heads-up on Easter & Christmas. The Spirit sent a man to invite me to a Sabbath meeting.
The Spirit inspired me to honour the Sabbatical Year before I ever knew your name.
Maybe the Spirit of Elohim is still leading my instruction.
I still don’t understand why it was OK for you to reveal NWO stuff in the Covenant made with many and the relationship of the UN in giving us the social changes being written into agreement for nations to permit sexual practices that go against the biblical stance…..etc etc etc.
…..but if other’s follow TORAH and also study to see places to be aware of so as to be wise & NOT participate & be ensnared by the enemies’ wiles, that is branded conspiracy theory time waster?
Seems fear & control on your part. Not trust in the Holy Spirit to bring us into all Truth. For freedom we have been set free. Not to receive another yoke of bondage.
Maybe Abba is done with you & has you in position for purpose & you also believe there is nothing else you need to know outside what Abba has called you to specifically.
I trust Abba to move me where & when He wants. It may be into a detainee camp & others may eat what I set aside.
On another note:
Did you know Main stream Christianity questions the need for Sabbath Keeping, by using Sabbath Keeper’s actions themselves! For not even bothering to maintain the actual 7th day & being pretenders ….using the IDL as proof of our lack of integrity? Look @ 4:25-4:50 specifically.
I am disappointed in your refusal to acknowledge the accurate research on the 7th day Sabbath & maligning me publicly as one who wanted to fit into Sunday Church for comfort. The stance has suppressed truth & light.
That Torah principle is still on my heart deeply.
I know & agree with you to want other Torah keeper’s to SEE the correct Barley reckoning to understand the beginning of the Year & come into True Calendar unity & are frustrated they do not SEE too.
I plug away with other folks who are still happy with the Jewish calculated calendar a bit here, a bit there. I pray about it.
It is an ironic situation with you being willing to deny the Calendar Truth about the 7th Day being changed on a particular section of the earth to find it OK to maintain a rather modern determination brought in by Rabbinical decree when the IDL came into existence but want to run out earlier decrees.
I see the irony between your cry out for others to change to the reckoning of Aviv Barley as the fact but not be prepared yourself to adapt to the fact that the 7th day is not Friday to Saturday on all the earth just because Rabbi’s made a call.
Abba has given me courage & strength not to turn away from Truth that the Spirit revealed to me about Abba’s Calendar in this area.
I have tried being serious. Tried joking using the same manner you used in the video about Aviv Barley using the words for Jewish words for traditions that you used. ….but those comments get wiped off & not responded to.
Maybe people will listen to you about Aviv when you again will listen to others? Abba usually refines us with the sandpaper grade we need to get rid of our roughness.
I noticed my language has become calmer & less fleshly over the time. Praise Abba!!
May you be blessed abundantly by the
Mercy you need from Messiah to do the will of Abba too.
Many blessings
FJ.
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Shalom All
was meditating on hard asssets.
That would only work if the Economic meltdown was run without the idea of creating a NWO.
As it stands with the Biblical stance that we won’t be able to buy or sell anything without the mark of the Beast there is little or no guarantee that the principles of ownership would apply @ all.
The only people in Fascism or Communism or “controlled Capitalism” where markets are arranged through various means …whatever control mechanism for wealth distribution & accumulation is in place without Abba who have opportunities to roll the dice are those who are given permission.
Don’t think for a moment your possessions will insulate you from pain & suffering. How much food you have stored etc. Only Abba can keep the moth & rust away from it.
A government official easily can begin confiscating or shutting down what was legitimate & lawful the day before & all that you laboured for and owned that your industrious disciplined life had earnestly worked for.
Trust Yah & then keep trusting. He is our help & shield.
Shabbat Shalom FJ, you have been reading the things we say here at Sightedmoon.com for many years now. And yet you still insist on reading and allowing those conspiracy teachings to affect and pollute your TORAH.
You are dismissing something we shared this week because of the NWO that you think is at work behind the scenes. What a shame. What a shame!
I have been telling you all since before 2013, to stop using these bogus sites as your sources of information. But the lure of secret information still sucks you in, like a dog returning to its vomit. You just do not get it.
So instead of preparing and planning and building up an offering, you throw you hands in the air and give up. Like the man with one talent who buries it and has nothing to offer to Yehovah upon His return.
Again stop reading those stupid fake news sites. Just STOP IT. Study your Torah and understand what Yehovah is doing. Study it and stop mixing it with the conspiratorial nonsense. Just stop.
If you would do that then you might know and understand what you are being told in Isaiah. How will you be able to bring your gold with you if you do not store it up before hand?
Isa 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you. They shall come up on My altar pleasing Me, and I will glorify the house of My glory.
Isa 60:8 Who are these who fly like a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isa 60:9 Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.
You also failed to understand the other promises of Yehovah. Pay attention to the parts which state These people have works that they are doing. They are not defeatist. They go through DOORS Yehovah opens and they do not deny His name.
Rev 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts; and shuts and no one opens, says these things:
Rev 3:8 I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My Word and have not denied My name.
Rev 3:9 Behold, I give out of those of the synagogue of Satan, those saying themselves to be Jews and are not, but lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
Rev 3:10 Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the habitable world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.
Rev 3:11 Behold, I come quickly. Hold fast to that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.
Rev 3:12 Him who overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God, and My new name.
Rev 3:13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Keep Yehovah’s word. Keep His Torah. It does not say to keep studying the workings of Satan and the NWO. Study Yehovah and His Word.
The Laodicean Church thought they had it all together only to find out they had no works and had not done anything. They had no fruits to show.
Shalom Joe …
Blessings. I am thinking you have misunderstood.
Did I say anything about NOT being obedient to Sabbatical Year?
My comment this week you published is from the mindset that….
Scripture tells us our own hands don’t deliver us & that was what my comment was in relation to.
No amount of physical preparation counts if the spiritual doesn’t align with Abba’s will in the weightier principles of the Torah.
Maybe you contend with others through assuming the worst about them? Not sure.
You have been given insights into scripture & you also stand on the shoulders of those who teach you things to see further, just like the rest of us.
The Spirit gave me the heads-up on Easter & Christmas. The Spirit sent a man to invite me to a Sabbath meeting.
The Spirit inspired me to honour the Sabbatical Year before I ever knew your name.
Maybe the Spirit of Elohim is still leading my instruction.
I still don’t understand why it was OK for you to reveal NWO stuff in the Covenant made with many and the relationship of the UN in giving us the social changes being written into agreement for nations to permit sexual practices that go against the biblical stance…..etc etc etc.
…..but if other’s follow TORAH and also study to see places to be aware of so as to be wise & NOT participate & be ensnared by the enemies’ wiles, that is branded conspiracy theory time waster?
Seems fear & control on your part. Not trust in the Holy Spirit to bring us into all Truth. For freedom we have been set free. Not to receive another yoke of bondage.
Maybe Abba is done with you & has you in position for purpose & you also believe there is nothing else you need to know outside what Abba has called you to specifically.
I trust Abba to move me where & when He wants. It may be into a detainee camp & others may eat what I set aside.
On another note:
Did you know Main stream Christianity questions the need for Sabbath Keeping, by using Sabbath Keeper’s actions themselves! For not even bothering to maintain the actual 7th day & being pretenders ….using the IDL as proof of our lack of integrity? Look @ 4:25-4:50 specifically.
https://youtu.be/He917KyQR1Q
I am disappointed in your refusal to acknowledge the accurate research on the 7th day Sabbath & maligning me publicly as one who wanted to fit into Sunday Church for comfort. The stance has suppressed truth & light.
That Torah principle is still on my heart deeply.
I know & agree with you to want other Torah keeper’s to SEE the correct Barley reckoning to understand the beginning of the Year & come into True Calendar unity & are frustrated they do not SEE too.
I plug away with other folks who are still happy with the Jewish calculated calendar a bit here, a bit there. I pray about it.
It is an ironic situation with you being willing to deny the Calendar Truth about the 7th Day being changed on a particular section of the earth to find it OK to maintain a rather modern determination brought in by Rabbinical decree when the IDL came into existence but want to run out earlier decrees.
I see the irony between your cry out for others to change to the reckoning of Aviv Barley as the fact but not be prepared yourself to adapt to the fact that the 7th day is not Friday to Saturday on all the earth just because Rabbi’s made a call.
Abba has given me courage & strength not to turn away from Truth that the Spirit revealed to me about Abba’s Calendar in this area.
I have tried being serious. Tried joking using the same manner you used in the video about Aviv Barley using the words for Jewish words for traditions that you used. ….but those comments get wiped off & not responded to.
Maybe people will listen to you about Aviv when you again will listen to others? Abba usually refines us with the sandpaper grade we need to get rid of our roughness.
I noticed my language has become calmer & less fleshly over the time. Praise Abba!!
May you be blessed abundantly by the
Mercy you need from Messiah to do the will of Abba too.
Many blessings
FJ.