Assembly - Not Church

A gal asked a great question:

Where did all the other churches come from, who started them?

The gist of the discussion was about Catholic rituals, confessing to a priest etc.... and their belief that Peter started the church.  Simon-Peter is who the Roman Catholic Church base their authority upon, well, actually, one sentence from Scripture is their claim to fame.

It is recorded that Simon and his brother Andrew were the first ones Yahshua called out to follow him. They are sons of Jonah and from Bethsaida. They had knowledge of Scriptures (Torah, the prophets and the writings) having been taught by John, son of Zachariah a Levite priest, and they were aware of the prophecies. They immediately recognized Yahshua as the one they've been waiting for. Without hesitation they dropped their nets and went after him. Later, Yahshua saw two other brothers, James and John, who were in a boat with their father Zebedee fixing their nets when he called to them. They, also being followers of John, were aware of the prophecies and dropped what they were doing to follow Yahshua. Thus began Yahshua's ministry in all of Galilee. He preached the Hope of the Kingdom and healed every disease and sickness among the people. His fame became know in all Syria. A great many began to follow him, those from Galilee and from the Ten Cites and from Jerusalem and from Judah across the Jordan.

In Mark 3:16 we read that Yahshua gave Simon the nickname Keefa.  'Keefa' is Aramaic and means rock.  'Kepha' is Hebrew and means rock. 'Petros' is Greek and means rock.

The Catholic Church proudly claims "Peter" as one of their own, a saint upon who the church is built, the beginning of Christianity, and they are content to take Scripture out of context to build themselves up.

Matthew 16:13

And when Yahshua came to the region of Caesarea of Philippi he was asking his disciples, "Concerning me, who do men say that I am, merely a son of a man?" And they said, "Some say (you are) John the Immerser, others say Elijah and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets." Yahshua asks them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter said:

You are the Anointed One, the Son of the Living God (EL).

Yahshua said, "Blessed are you Simon, the son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but my Father who is in heaven did.  I say also to you that you are Keefa and on this keefa (rock) I will build my assembly, and the gates of Sheol will not subdue it.  To you I will give the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and any thing you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and all things that you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."  Then he tells them not to tell anyone that he is the Anointed One.

'Binding and loosing' refers to the application of God's Instructions: what is prohibited is bound and what is allowed is loosed.  The Keys to the Kingdom are wisdom and discernment given by Yah's Set Apart Spirit which shows us how to apply His Instructions to our lives.

Scripture does not record Peter being in Rome nor does it describe Peter as being supreme over the other apostles. The New Testament does not describe Peter as being the “all authoritative leader” of the early Christian church. Peter was not the first pope, and Peter did not start the Roman Catholic Church. The origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Peter or any other apostle.

QUOTE: Reading the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Yahshua or his Apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship/adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture. So, if the origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Yahshua and His apostles, what is the true origin of the Catholic Church?

In my studies I have learned that for the first 200 plus-years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman Empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted. This changed after the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine provided religious toleration with the Edict of Milan in AD 313, effectively lifting the ban on Christianity. Later, in AD 325, Constantine called the Council of Nicea in an attempt to unify Christianity. Constantine saw Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which at that time was beginning to split up. While this may have seemed to be a positive development for the church, the results were anything but positive. Just as Constantine refused to fully embrace the Christian religion but continued many of his pagan beliefs and practices, so too the Church that Constantine and his successors promoted progressively became a mixture of the Christian religion and Roman paganism.

Following are a few examples:

Most Roman Catholic beliefs and practices regarding Mary are completely absent from the Bible. Where did those beliefs come from? The Roman Catholic view of Mary has far more in common with the Isis mother-goddess religion of Egypt than it does with anything taught in the New Testament. Interestingly, the first hints of Catholic Mariology occur in the writings of Origen, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, which happened to be the focal point of Isis worship.

The Lord’s Supper being a consumption of the literal body and blood of Jesus is not taught in the Bible. The idea that bread and wine are miraculously transformed into the literal body and blood of Jesus (transubstantiation) is not biblical. However, several ancient pagan religions, including Mithraism, which was very popular in the Roman Empire, had some form of “theophagy” (the eating of one’s god) as a ritualistic practice.

Roman Catholicism has “saints” one can pray to in order to gain a particular blessing. For example, Saint Gianna Beretta Molla is the patron saint of fertility. Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of animals. There are multiple patron saints of healing and comfort. Nowhere is even a hint of this taught in Scripture. Just as the Roman pantheon of gods had a god of love, a god of peace, a god of war, a god of strength, a god of wisdom, etc., so the Catholic Church has a saint who is “in charge” over each of these and many other categories. Many Roman cities had a god specific to the city, and the Catholic Church provided “patron saints” for cities as well.

The idea that the Roman bishop is the 'vicar of Christ', the supreme leader of the Christian Church, is utterly foreign to the Word of God. The supremacy of the Roman bishop (the papacy) was created with the support of the Roman emperors. While most other bishops (and Christians) resisted the idea of the Roman bishop being supreme, the Roman bishop eventually rose to supremacy, again, due to the power and influence of the Roman emperors.

Many more examples could be given. These four should suffice in demonstrating the origin of the Catholic Church. Of course, the Roman Catholic Church denies the pagan origin of its beliefs and practices. The Catholic Church disguises its pagan beliefs under layers of complicated theology and church tradition. Recognizing that many of its beliefs and practices are utterly foreign to Scripture, the Catholic Church is forced to deny the authority and sufficiency of Scripture.

The origin of the Catholic Church is the tragic compromise of Christianity with the pagan religions that surrounded it. Instead of proclaiming the gospel and converting the pagans, the Catholic Church “Christianized” the pagan religions and “paganized” Christianity. By blurring the differences and erasing the distinctions, the Catholic Church made itself attractive to the idolatrous people of the Roman Empire. One result was the Catholic Church becoming the supreme religion in the Roman world for centuries. However, another result was the most dominant form of Christianity apostatizing from the true gospel of Jesus Christ and the true proclamation of God’s Word.

Second Timothy 4:3–4 declares, “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”

There were no churches or christians prior to or in the days of Yahshua, the Apostles and their followers. They would congregated in homes or outside or in the temple.   Yahshua's teachings were called The Way and his followers were called Netzarim.

In the beginning Yah used Moses to record everything humanity needed to know in order to live well and govern society, all existing as part of His creation. There is no such thing as 'Mosaic Law' or 'Noahide Law' for that matter - it is all God's Law. You may have heard it referred to as 'the Torah'.  The Hebrew word 'torah' is the English word 'Instructions'.  Our Father's Instructions still apply to us today.  They do not include churches or religions or a variety of denominations, each with their own man-made doctrines added to His Word, which have successfully divided people causing them to 'doubt' the Word of God. That, my friends, is Satan's sharpest tool - Doubt - which he successfully used on Eve back in the Garden.

Faith and not religion is what Yahshua asked about, wondering if any will be found on this earth when he returns (Luke 18:8). He spoke this parable against men who relied upon themselves thinking they were righteous, while despising everyone else.

 

Religion grew from pagan traditions and rituals.  Judaism roots are in Babylon and evolved with the teachings of the Pharisees whom Yahshua called hypocrites more than once.  They made null the Word of Yahweh by adding their traditions found recorded in the Talmud, including the Kabbalah, claiming mere man could not understand Torah without them.  That is a cart load of road apples! 

 

Christianity's roots have been a challenge to uncover because most sources claim it began with "Jesus Christ" and "the church" started by Peter and he (gasp!) was the first pope. This just ain't true! Read Scriptures and gain understanding the ancient Hebrew texts and His Spirit will shine the Light brighter for us.  Catholicism claims 'the church' began with Christ telling Peter - upon you I build my church.  In ancient texts the word was 'assembly' not church.  An assembly can meet any where, any time, indoors or out.

It's no wonder why the Protestants broke away from the Catholic Church.  They were seeing things that the Church was doing which did not line up with Scriptures.  Even though the Protestants didn't understand all of it, they at least knew enough to leave Catholicism behind.  They did not make a clean break, but it was a start.

 

Follow the Trail

I began this research in Jan. 2021; composed this post in June; published in November 2021

 

I have learned that Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the supposed discontinuation of that program, it has hosted most elements of the United States biological defense program. It was recently shut down in July 2019 and resumed operations in November 2019.    

I have read that in the months leading up to the outbreak of 'the virus' in China, US media reported an outbreak of a fatal respiratory disease of unknown cause near Fort Detrick. Fort Detrick, being America’s main biological warfare lab, had been ordered to shut down after an inspection because of fears that 'contaminated waste' could leak out of the facility. This was just before the onset of an unknown infectious disease. This is not the first time the lab has been temporarily shut down due to failures in handling the dangerous pathogens inside. In 2009, research at Fort Detrick was suspended because it was discovered it was storing pathogens which were not listed on its inventory.

An anonymous ex-employee of the bio-weapon lab at Fort Detrick testified that Professor Ralph Baric is the creator of "the virus".

Is it a coincident that the 2019 Military World Games began in Wuhan the same day as Event 201 took place at the Pierre Hotel in New York in October? The Event 201 'pandemic exercise' demonstrated a number of important gaps in pandemic preparedness as well as some elements of the solutions between the public and private sectors that would be needed to fill them. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly proposed the recommendations.

 

(If you recall, this same sort of coincidental timing happened prior to the take down of the World Trade towers, the bombing of the Pentagon and alleged plane crash in Shanksville.  Those events were preplanned and staged in order for the US to wage war against 'terrorism' and, more importantly, sign the Patriot Act into law. Today's situation might be the staged event for war against China. Just a thought to ponder).

Dec. 30, 2019: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issues an “urgent notice” to medical institutions in Wuhan, saying that cases of pneumonia of unknown cause have emerged from the city’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

Chinese virologists discovered conclusively that the original source of the virus was not China, nor Wuhan, nor the seafood market, but had been traced to the US, a possible scenario being that the virus might have originated at the US Military’s bio-weapons lab at Fort Detrick (which was shut down by the CDC in July, because of outbreaks), and brought to China during the World Military Games in October 2019. (This is what I have suspected all along which is why Biden suddenly shut down the virus investigation May 2021 = it leads back to the US).

Quote: Americans did their best to deflect culpability by crafting tales of bats, snakes, pangolins, the seafood market, the Wuhan University being a bio-weapons facility (which it is not), and the CIA tale leaked through the VOA and Radio Free Asia that the virus leaked from that university. They stated (factually) that Chinese researchers had participated (7 years ago) in similar virus research funded by the US NIH, thus somehow insinuating Chinese culpability, ignoring that the prior research was irrelevant to current events. (end quote)

Moving On....

I just read an article by Mr. Adams about TDS (the deep state) planning another false flag attack which will blame "antivaxxers" and "gun owners". 

""It was suggested that the false flag operation is "perhaps just weeks away" and the ATF will be in charge, and at the same time the vaccine industry is looking for a way to "criminalize and shut down all anti-vaxxer content online".  TDS figures they can “kill two birds with one stone” and stage a false flag attack of some type that will "depict anti-vaxxers as violent gun owners pursuing murder and mayhem". With the obedient media ready to push whatever narrative they’re handed, this story can be told with tremendous effectiveness, resulting in a nationwide outcry to criminalize and shut down both “anti-vaxxer” speech and to confiscate all AR-15s nationwide.

If you don’t think they’ll try this, you have no clue how desperate they are to reach their milestone of 70% vaccine uptake by U.S. adults. That was explained to me as the other key point, that world leaders are being ordered to achieve vaccine milestones in their countries, and that these milestones must be achieved by any means necessary. Just today, rumor is that Italy is now pushing a covid vaccine mandate into law, forcing every citizen of Italy to take the shot. And California just rolled out a new statewide vaccine lottery to encourage low-IQ people to take the vaccine death shot there. These incentives are all part of the effort to reach their vaccine milestones as easily as possible.
 

Government waging all-out war to silence and disrupt anti-vaxxers

In this call, I was told that if I continue to talk about war crimes tribunals, Natural News would be completely taken down and removed from the internet. My guess is that the people involved in gain-of-function research have come to realize they will really face war crimes prosecutions as more truth unfolds, and they are using every tactic possible to threaten those who might remind fellow human beings that running mass medical experiments on humanity is a crime against humanity.

Right on time, the NY Times is pushing out tweets that state anyone talking about the covid lab leak theory is “racist.”

The message is clear: Don’t you dare look into the origins of "the virus" because that would lead directly to incriminating evidence against Fauci and his cohorts. It will also expose the truth about the vaccines, since they are using the spike protein particles that serve as the payload for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. If those spike proteins turn out to be enhanced or engineered in part through gain-of-function research — which they obviously were — then it means billions of human beings are being injected with genetically engineered bioweapons.

The “lab theory” very quickly morphs into a “bioweapons” explanation, which then exposes the vaccines as depopulation weapons.

And that’s the essence of the global vaccine depopulation plan: Inject billions now, before the truth comes out, knowing that by the time people realize what has happened, they’re already in the process of dying from the vaccine effects. Since you can’t undo a spike protein injection, most of those who took the vaccine will be beyond recovery.

The global depopulation goal is somewhere around six billion people, and according to a recent Gallup poll, there are at least a billion people worldwide who refuse to take the vaccine. That same poll found that a little over two-thirds of people around the world are currently willing to get the vaccine. This means the vaccine is going to have to be forced onto many people in order to reach the 70% global goal. And that’s the low end of their global goal. They really want a global population reduction of 90%.

Thus, the vaccine push is going through five phases:

Phase 1: Vaccinate the easy people who can’t wait to get the shot. (done)
Phase 2: Offer incentives and rewards to convince those on the fence. (Free donuts, free beer, lottery tickets, etc.) This is happening now.
Phase 3: Punish those who refuse to get vaccinated by taking away their rights (no entry, no travel, etc.). This is happening now.
Phase 4: Criminalize vaccine resisters by passing mandatory vaccine laws. (this is in progress)
Phase 5: Gunpoint medicine: Launch door-to-door vaccine squads to forcibly vaccinate people at gunpoint, against their will. (door to door has been reported but not at gunpoint..... yet)""

Elijah and Jewish Traditions

Mr. N. shared this quote:

"The chair of the prophet of the Lord is vacant."

~ Leonard Ravenhill 

 

And he followed with: In 1 Kings 19:14 Elijah complains to God about how His people had forsaken His covenant. Jewish tradition says that as a result of his zeal, Elijah should have to be present whenever a Jewish boy entered the Covenant of Abraham through the ceremony of circumcision.

 

"The chair of the prophet of the Lord" Leonard Ravenhill is speaking of is a special chair set aside at the circumcision ceremony for Jewish boys. This ornate chair is left unoccupied and is symbolically for the prophet Elijah, or "The Angel of the Covenant." 

 

Malachi 3:1 says (NKJV): 

“Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” Says the Lord of hosts.' (Emphasis mine)

Today, when so many churches and self-proclaimed "Christians" have forsaken God's covenant because it is not politically correct or because it is inconvenient, the vacant "chair of the prophet" stands as a challenge for God's people to remember Who we belong to, what we are called to be in these evil times, and shout from the rooftops that Judgment is coming soon!"

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After I did some research and refreshed my memory, I asked for him to consider this:

Take a moment and read from Chapter 18 to get a feel for all that has been going on prior to 1 Kings 19:14. Ahab confronts Elijah and wrongly accuses him for all the troubles they have been experiencing. Verse 18 Elijah points out: "It is not I who have brought trouble on Israel, but you and your father's House, by forsaking the commandments of Yahweh and following (false god) Baalim."

•The 'commandments' are All of God's Instructions (aka Torah)•   

Elijah challenges all the prophets of the false god Baal to a final test (Chapt. 18 verse 23 through 40). Ahab tells Jezebel about what happened, she sends a message to Elijah letting him know he will be dead by the next day.

Elijah wasn't complaining to God. His life had been threatened by Jezebel and he ran from there until a days journey out of Beer-sheba into the wilderness - then he was ready to give up and asked God to take his life. But, instead, one of Yah's messengers/angels lets him know there was still a journey for him to make to Mt. Horeb. As a faithful servant of Yahweh, Elijah carried on.   

When God asked Elijah why he was there, it was because of his unending devotion to God; he acted 'on faith' and continued to Mt. Horeb, even though the Israelites had forsaken Yah's everlasting covenant, torn down His altars, and killed His prophets (which is much more than just failing to circumcise an 8 day old boy or be present when it was done). Elijah was still willing to meet with Yahweh.  

None of this about Elijah has anything to do with circumcision, eight day old baby boys or some ornate chair set aside for him in the future.

"Jewish Tradition" adds a whole lot of man's opinions to the Word of God and that's not a good thing; a stumbling block for some and a snare for others. The 'chair of the prophet' is a fine example of tradition and has nothing to do with Scriptures.  Using this as a teaching platform is misleading as well.  Mr. N told me it was akin to Yahshua teaching with parables.  Do you see how this can lead to misunderstanding? another rabbit trail leading us away from the Truth of Yah's Word?

A parable is usually a short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude. Allegory is the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence and a metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable; a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else. 

Y'shua spoke in parables many times, telling stories to illustrate spiritual lessons; stories that are to be understood in order to reveal the hidden meaning of what he was teaching. There is no real mystery. He was teaching us to use our 'brain', to think and reason and not just follow the most popular preacher of the day or what was fashionable at the time.

Matthew 13:34
All these things Y'shua spoke in parables to the crowd, and he would not speak to them without a parable, so might be fulfilled the things which was spoken through the prophet who said, "I will open my mouth with parables and will bring out secrets that were from before the foundation of the world." (Psalms 78:2)

All that being said, I do get his point about so many people who have forsaken Yah's Instructions, commandments, laws, rules, decrees and teachings.... even though he ties it in with 'Churchianity'.  It is by quoting and teaching ideas, opinions and speculation which do not represent the truth of His Word that folks have been led astray, bit by bit, day by day and year after year.

All Praise belongs to Yahweh

I've been thinking on this for a while: 

Where in Scriptures are we told to 'worship Jesus'? 

I've noticed many memes, comments and posts in cyber-land that play into this scenario as if they are ignoring God altogether.  Also, why do people think angels are to be worshipped as well? 

All through the Old Testament (Tanakh) believers worshipped the one true living God - Yahweh.

In Matthew 4 Satan tempts the Son of God three times:

1. Because you're hungry, say to these rocks to become bread

2. Cast yourself down from the edge of the temple, let the angels protect you

3. You can have everything if you worship me

 

Yahshua counters these temptations by quoting from Scriptures:

 

1. It is written that the Son of man does not live by bread alone, but by all the Words that proceed from the mouth of the Father.  

2. It is written you will not test Master Yahweh your God.

3. It is written you will worship  Master Yahweh and Him alone will you serve.

When Yahshua says 'it is written' he means that which has been recorded in Scriptures, the Word of God, what we now call the Old Testament.  He was pointing out the difference between the truth which came from the Father, and the 'oral traditions' of the Pharisees, which was the beginnings of the religion Judaism.

1. Deuteronomy 8:3 ~ He subjected you to the hardship of hunger and then gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had ever known, in order to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but may live on anything that the Father decrees.

 

Psalm 91 ~  

I have lightly paraphrased just as an update for today's world. 

 

If we dwell in the shelter of the Most High and abide in the protection of Shaddai,  He will save us and we will find refuge in Him.  We need not fear the terrors of night or attacks during the day, the plague that stalks in the night or the scourge that ravages during the day.  Many will be affected and fall, but it will not reach us.  We will witness the punishment of the wicked because we chose Yahweh as our refuge.  No harm will befall us, no disease will enter our homes.  He will order His Messengers to guard us ..... "they will carry you in their hands lest you hurt your foot on a stone".  We will tread on cubs and vipers; we will trample lions and asps.  This will happen IF we are devoted to Yahweh - He will keep us safe because we know His Name.  When we call upon Him, He will answer, rescuing us in times of distress, showing us His Salvation.

 

2. Deuteronomy 6:16 ~ Do not test Yahweh.... be sure to Keep the Commandments, decrees and laws that Yahweh your God has enjoined upon you.  Do what is right and good in His sight that it may go well with you (so that we make it to the promised land)

 

3. Deuteronomy 6:13 ~ Revere only Yahweh your God and worship Him alone, and swear only by His Name.  Do not follow any gods of the peoples around you, for Yahweh is an impassioned God and His anger could blaze forth against us and wipe us off the face of the earth.

John 4:23

But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.

We are not to be in the practice of angel worship, either. 

Angels have appeared certain times throughout Scriptures and usually appeared as men - no wings, no halos, never as a female - but their divine righteousness became obvious. They usually had a Message for the human from the Creator, which is why they are called Messengers - it is the office they hold.  We have read those visions and descriptions of heavenly beings who are part of Yah's spiritual realm, things yet to be seen by our eyes, but we must not overlook examples of when man actually saw an 'angel' and knew it was a divine being.

Revelation 19:10

So I fell at his feet to worship him (the angel). But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Yahshua. Worship God !

Colossians 2:18

And let no one wish, by subverting the mind, to bring you under bonds that you worship angels; while he is prying into that which he has not seen and is vainly inflated in his fleshly mind.....

 

•This is how the verse reads in the Berean study bible:

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

So many people are compelled to share the Word of God and some have been snared by what they have been taught without ever taking it to Scriptures for proof.  They are not building on the same foundation as the 12 Apostles and are misleading many.

The Son of God is the corner piece upon which the 12 Apostles built the foundation, teaching everything that Yahshua taught them; which is everything from Yahweh our Father. Ever since then there have been disciples building upon that same foundation.  However, there are people teaching doctrines that only cause cracks in that foundation which become snares for His people who do not love the truth and lack knowledge of what is written in Scriptures.  We have been warned: these are they who will be destroyed.

 

Our songs of praise, our love and obedience is to Yahweh God Almighty first and foremost in all things.  We love Him with our entire being and know how to love our neighbors as ourselves.  This is not the end game but only the beginning.  We also have the testimony of His Son Yahshua - we openly acknowledge he is the Son of Yahweh who was killed and resurrected and will one day return for his followers, those who God gave him from the beginning.

Destroy your collection of icons and idols and put Our Father first.  Read His Instructions and gain understanding.  Stop sharing those images of angels and 'Jesus', Roman death devices and armed spiritual warriors; idol worshipping is also forbidden by Our Father.

 

Heaven and Earth

About knowing the universe, I am convinced we ought not go there. Think back when Yah stopped Nimrod from building that tower - they planned on reaching heaven. If Yah put an end to that endeavor I honestly don't think we have any business dealing with the space program. Nimrod and his people were acting on "pride and arrogance" and the same goes for any space exploration in this day and age - Scientists are blinded by science! It's their religion and money maker.

Psalm 115:15 ~~ May you be blessed by Yahweh, Maker of heaven and earth. The heavens belong to Yah but the earth He gave over to man.

The earth is ours for now and for the following thousand years after Yahshua returns and sets up his kingdom. After that time period Yah will make all things new! The spiritual realm does not belong to us yet. All that knowledge of the Great I AM is yet to be manifest because us mere humans are still in these corruptible bodies. This is where we are meant to live until that day.

 

 

 

Gathered Up at the Last Day

The Rapture is one of those topics of contention that spurred me along in a quest to find the truth of the matter. It is one of the most misunderstood topics in regards to the 'end times' and folks like to divide this event into three possible scenarios: 

Pre-tribulation; Mid-tribulation and Post-tribulation.

 

Most believe that the Tribulation is the final 7 years prior to the return of 'Jesus'. This final time line begins with the signing of a peace treaty - an agreement with many - which apparently brings 'world peace' thanks to that final world leader and his government system. This will actually be a false sense of security, yet every one will be at ease and life goes on. But, after 3-1/2 years things take a turn for the worse, like nothing that has ever happened before. Life seems good the first 3-1/2 years and the bad times, the Tribulation, appears to be the final 3-1/2 years. Realizing this, there is no way for a Pre-trib rapture to take place. Also, after further study, there is not a Mid-trib rapture either. Yahshua returns at the Last Day. We can find written in Scriptures the signs and wonders, the events and mindsets that will become very apparent prior to the return of Messiah, the Anointed One. These things must happen first and then the end will come.

 

Tribulation is defined as:

>Distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution<

This description fits what the state of things will be like 

during the final 3-1/2 years.

 

The Apostle Paul clearly teaches that the first resurrection and the 'catching up' will occur at the return of Yahshua. The sounding of a trumpet signals his return. All eyes will see and understand that the day of wrath has come. Many things will happen before the sounding of that last trumpet and the return of Yahshua. We have been told these things so we will know what to expect, that we Set Apart believers will not be taken by surprise as if by a thief in the night. Our Messiah returns on the Last Day.

 

In Matthew 24:29 we read:

And immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shine its light. And the stars will fall from heaven and the powers of heaven will be shaken. And then will be seen the sign of the Son of man in heaven...  And he will send his (angels) with a large trumpet and they will gather his chosen ones from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. 

The 7th trumpet is sounded. The earth is ready for harvest. Set Apart believers are removed from the earth temporarily for if their time was not shortened they would not be able to witness, understand and survive the heart breaking destruction to come, the final 7 cups of Wrath. This is akin to when Lot's wife, who was told not to look back at the destruction, did look back and it scared her to death - literally.

 

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ... you should not mourn over them who have fallen asleep (died), like other people who have no hope...  For if we believe that Yahshua died and rose again, even those who sleep will The Father, by His Son, bring with him....  and this we say to you by the word of Yahshua, that we who may survive and be alive at his return will not precede them who have slept (died before us); Because our Master will descend from heaven with a mandate and with the voice of the chief Messenger and with the trumpet of Yahweh; and the dead who are in Yahshua will rise first and then we who survive and are alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet him... And so comfort yourselves one another with these words...

 

During my research of this study I have learned a tidbit of info:

The main body of the rapture theory was invented by Ribera, a Catholic Jesuit theologian who published his work shortly after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572. Protestants were pointing to the Vatican as the harlot beast system of Revelation. The blood of that horrific Catholic inspired massacre of French Protestants was still being washed off the streets of Paris when the Jesuits presented their rapture theory, designed to take pressure off the Catholic Church system.... The Jesuits also peddled that 'the saints' would not be on Earth during the time of tribulation....
 

The word "rapture" comes from the Latin 'rapere' used by the Vulgate to translate the Greek word 'harpaz', which is rendered by the phrase "caught up" in most English translations.

Do not believe those who say they saw Yahshua (or Jesus) 'here or there' because many false teachers and preachers, self proclaimed prophets and ministers will produce signs and wonders (magic, enchantment, computer enhanced events etc....) in order to help with the growing deception. Even professed believers will be at risk for falling for the charade. Sadly I am seeing this in various cyber space groups.

 

We have been told beforehand so that we may recognize the times we are living in. When the time comes, Yahshua will be seen just as everyone sees the sun rise out of the east and it is seen even in the west, so shall the Son of God be seen. There will be no private viewings prior to this event! He is not walking this earth now but we have been told Satan is the ruler at this time. And even Satan can appear as an Angel of Light.... so beware and pay attention and read Scriptures so you will know the truth and not be taken in by false leadership.

 

There are two sure signs that cannot be missed that are like highway markers letting us know where we are. The first will be when it seems like World War Three is about to break loose and one man saves the day with his solution and it will seem like world peace. When this happens there will be seven years left before the return of our Messiah. The second event is when that same man suddenly changes. He will instill the system that makes all money obsolete as well as claiming he is 'god'. When this happens there will be 3-1/2 years left until the return of the Son of God.

 

There is no 'rapture' prior to any of this. Looking around at world news today we know wars are being played out here and there and the unrest in the Mideast is unmistakable. No matter who is fighting, the main trigger point is that one person who offers up a peace treaty and everyone is won over by him. In the meantime lets live our lives one day at a time.

 

Yahshua refers us back to Daniel, confirming his visions were for a future time.
Matthew 24:15 ~ And when you see the sign of uncleanness and desolation, that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, which will stand in the Set Apart place, he that reads, let him understand.
Daniel 9:27  ~ During one week he will make a firm covenant with many. For half a week he will put a stop to the sacrifice and meal offering. At the corner of the altar (in the Set Apart place) will be an appalling abomination until the decreed destruction will be poured down upon this appalling thing.

Here is the link to a study I did on Daniel's visions back in Nebuchadnezzer's day:

Last Govt System

 

 

There is no time like the present to commit ourselves to our Creator and accept His Son.  Read Scriptures daily and let His Spirit show you the truth of God's Word.  

 

 

 

 

Don't Be Led Astray

Ephesians 2:18 ~ Because by Yahshua there is access for us, by one Spirit, to the Father. Wherefore we are not strangers (foreigners) nor sojourners but are fellow-citizens with the Set Apart believers and of the household of Yahweh.

And we are built upon the foundations of the 12 Apostles and the prophets; and Yahshua the Anointed One has become the head of the corner in the edifice. And in him all the edifice is framed together and grows into a Set Apart temple in Master Yahweh; while we also are built in him for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

First Peter 2 ~ Therefore, cease all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and jealousy and backbiting and be like very small children and crave the Word as being the pure spiritual milk by which you are nourished up to life; if you have tasted and seen that Master YHWH is good. You have been drawn to His Son because he is a Living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God elect and precious. And you also as living stones are built and become spiritual temples and Set Apart for the offering of Spiritual Sacrifices, acceptable before the Father through His Son the Anointed One.

Romans 12 ~ I plead to you, therefore, my brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, Set Apart and acceptable to Him by rational service to Him. And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your minds and discern what is the good and acceptable and the perfect pleasure of Our Father.

This is how it is done folks! We are told to be like young children craving the Word; not to be shaped and controlled by worldly things but to allow our character to be changed by what we have learned by reading Scriptures - His Words - especially His Instructions (Genesis through Deuteronomy). By this we learn to discern what He desires of us, and because we love Him we act accordingly. We have not been called to be 'warriors' = Yahweh is our Warrior.

Exodus 15:2, 3

Yah is my strength and might; He is my deliverance. This is my God and I will glorify Him. The God of my fathers, I will exalt Him - the Warrior - Yahweh is His Name.

There are folks who stir up their 'followers' with this warrior mantra and sometimes it seems as if they are using 'fear' to whip up a mental frenzy. We know the battle is in the spiritual realm and we know we are in the physical realm and we should not be trying to fight a war that is out of our control. That is a big distraction from 'being like little children' don't you think? Folks pushing the Warrior doctrine are leading others down a rabbit trail.

 

Yahweh is our Warrior and our Shield. Putting on the 'armor of God' is clearly explained in Scriptures as to what that means and it does not mean we are to be enlisted as 'warriors'.  We put on Yah's Spiritual Armor so that we may be able to stand against the strategies of the Accuser.

 

Clothing ourselves with
the Spiritual Armor of our Creator consists of 

living our lives in:

•Truth 
•Righteousness
•The Good News of Peace
•Faith which gives Confidence
•Salvation
•The Sword of the Spirit (the Word of God)
•Constant Prayers for Set Apart Believers

 

It is not our job to save the world - Yahshua will do that at his return. It is not our job to drag anyone to 'church'. It is, however, our responsibility as Set Apart believers to share the Good News of His Kingdom.  This is what is meant by the Seed Parable.

 

The Good News is that our Heavenly Father and His Anointed Son are righteous and just and all who put their Faith in Yahweh are being called into righteousness to walk as Yahshua walked. He is the Way, Truth and Life.

Luke 8:1- Yahshua was going around in the cites and in the villages and was preaching and declaring the Kingdom of God.
Romans 10:13- For everyone that will call on the name of Master Yahweh will have life. How then will they call on him, in whom that have not believed? Or how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? Or of whom will they hear without a preacher? how will they preach if they are not sent forth? 

In Acts 2:38 we read in order to be saved (from the curse of eternal death) that we are to repent (return to Yah, turning away from our old sin nature) and be immersed (ritually cleansed) so that we may receive His Set Apart Spirit. By sharing the Good News of His kingdom with others we are planting seeds; those who take it to heart can make the choice to get on His Path and move along towards our inheritance = the promised land = the land of Canaan.

 

Here is some sound advice we can apply to this topic from sayings in which truth is found. Also known as Proverbs:

 

📖 Learn wisdom and discipline.

📜 Understand words of discernment (be able to separate truth from deception). 

 

🙏 Acquire discipline for righteousness, justice, fairness and success. Endow the simple with the ability to have sharp insight in practical affairs, and the young with knowledge and foresight.

🚧 If sinners entice you, do not give in, do not go with them. Keep your feet from their path - it leads to evil.

 

👂 Make your ear attentive to wisdom and your mind open to discernment.

📚 If you seek understanding and discernment, search for them as if you were searching for treasures, then you will understand the fear of YHWH and attain knowledge of Him. He is a Shield for those who live blamelessly.

♛ You will understand what is right, just and equitable because wisdom will enter your mind and knowledge will delight you. Foresight will protect you and discernment will guide you and save you from the way of evil men.

So follow the way of the good and keep to the paths of the just, for the upright will inhabit the earth and the blameless will remain in it. 

The wicked shall vanish from the land and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Lets not forget:
Yahshua taught us that folks who are poor in spirit, who are mourning, and meek; who hunger and thirst for righteousness; those who are merciful and pure in their hearts; who make peace; and those who are persecuted because of righteousness; are cursed and persecuted and every evil word is spoken about them falsely because of him; that all who do these things and suffer the outcomes should rejoice and be glad because our reward in heaven is great !! Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven where they will be comforted, and they will inherit the earth; they will be satisfied because mercies shall be upon them and they will see Yahweh when that day comes, because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.