The Nativity Scene

We read in Luke Chapter 2 that the reason Joseph and Mary, who was pregnant, traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem in the first place was because Augustus Caesar decided to have a census taken of all the people in his dominion.  Each man went to the city of his clan to be registered. Joseph was of the house of Ephrath (Bethlehem), least among the clans of Judah.  During their time in Bethlehem is when Mary gave birth.  Because of the census underway there were many people in town and all the usual lodging places were booked up, so she ended up laying her newborn son in a manger.  A Messenger of Yahweh appeared to the shepherds who were out that night watching over their flocks and told them about the birth of the Savior and where to find him.  The sign they were told to look for was that they would find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger.  The Messenger went back up to heaven and the shepherds made haste to get to town to see this thing they were told about.  About two years go by before the 'wise men' from the east show up.

 

By reading Matthew Chapter 2 we learn of the Magi who came from the east to Jerusalem.  They ask: 

"Where is he who has been born the king of the Yehudeans? For we saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."

The Magi were astrologers/astronomers from Babylon. This class of men were originally taught by Daniel during the time of the exile and that knowledge had been passed down.  These Magi were believers in Yahweh and were aware of the prophecies telling of the birth of His Son, so when they saw 'the star' they recognized 'the sign' and traveled following this sign, bringing gifts worthy of a king, and to bring the good news back to their homeland.  Scripture does not tell us how many of these magi made the journey.

 

There are many prophecies in the Old Testament in regards to the Son of the Creator, and here are a couple that the Magi recognized: The Star and the territory of Judah.

The prophecy of Balaam, Numbers 24:

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near.

A star will come forth from Jacob (Israel),

and a scepter (king) will arise from Israel.

The prophecy in Micah 5:

And you, Bethlehem of Ephrath, least among the clans of Judah, 

from you one shall come forth to rule Israel for Me

Hence they began their journey from their homeland traveling west towards Jerusalem, following 'the star' to their destination: Bethlehem.

 

Herod wasn't too pleased to hear about a king being born since he was the king.  He gathered all the chief priests and scribes in Jerusalem and was asking the people where this Anointed One would be born.  They let him know it would be in Bethlehem, quoting prophecy. Afterwards he secretly met with the Magi and learned when the star first appeared to them. He let them continue to Bethlehem but asked them to carefully inquire about the boy and come back and tell him where he was. Herod lied and told them he, too, would go and worship him. During this time 'the star' was not visible but reappeared and led the Magi to Bethlehem. It stopped and was above the house where the boy was. They entered the house and saw the boy with Maryam, his mother. They rejoiced and worshipped him and offered their gifts of gold, myrrh and incense.

The magi traveled from 'the east', the area of Babylon (in modern day Iraq) and that would be around 1,000 miles east of Jerusalem. They stopped in Jerusalem asking about the 'king', and then they traveled southward, another 7 miles or so, to Bethlehem. The 'star' they had been following showed up again after their time in Jerusalem, and led them south to Bethlehem where it stopped over the house where Mary, Joseph and their boy were staying.

As for Herod finding out when the Magi first saw the 'star' (that time not precisely recorded in Scriptures) we follow the clue when Herod ordered all boys in Bethlehem and its surrounding area be killed who were two years of age and younger; he wasn't taking any chances.  This tells us the Magi first saw this star two years before they arrived in Jerusalem which means Yahshua was near two years old by the time they came to Bethlehem.  After the Magi left Bethlehem, Yahweh told Joseph in a dream to get up and take the boy and his mother to Egypt because of Herod's plan to kill the boy.  Joseph got up and fled with his family that night.

We often read in Scriptures of situations that do not fit what we know of the world (physical realm), so we must be careful not to carry our own imagination and assumptions into what is written. The 'star' seen by the Magi was a sign given by Yah (spiritual realm). What they had learned from Daniel was becoming a reality and they traveled to bear witness to this 'king' and bring the good news back to their homeland. After first seeing 'the star' they made plans and prepared for the journey, to follow the star by faith and see the boy who would become a future king.

Note: None of this describes a planetary conjunction.

 

A little research on 'stars':

•Revelation 1:20 says those particular stars are angels

•Revelation 9:1 says a star falls from heaven and is given a key

•In Matthew 2:2 the magi ask about 'the king' because they saw 'his star' rise

•In Job 38:7 we read the morning stars sing together and the angels shout for joy

 

The star that rose when Yahshua was born was an angel, a Messenger sent by Yahweh. It was the unmistakable sign the magi were waiting for.  It appeared, disappeared and returned again for the magi to see and follow.  The shepherds in the field did not see a star but an angel told them a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes would be found in a manger, that was their sign.

There was no drummer boy, no three kings; there were no three wise men nor any angels hanging around the manger when the shepherds came to witness the event.

FYI: "We Three Kings", also known as "We Three Kings of Orient Are" or "The Quest of the Magi", is a Christmas hymn that was penned by John Henry Hopkins Jr. in 1857. He was the pastor of a Church in Pennsylvania, and composed the hymn for a pageant in New York City.

Chickens

Today's chickens are the result of years of 'selective breeding' which created hybrids, some of which were eventually used in the commercial industry for meat and egg production.  The ancestor of them all is the Red Jungle Fowl from southeast Asia.

Red Jungle Fowl, male and female (from google images)

Chickens can be traced back to four species of wild jungle fowl which were originally used in cock fights and sacrifices.  After centuries of 'selective breeding' chickens now exist in many colors, shapes and sizes.

Definition of selective breeding:
The process of modifying the characteristics of living things especially to enhance one or more desirable traits by selection in breeding controlled by humans.

That should be a red flag right there when we read 'desirable traits by selection in breeding controlled by humans'.    Yahweh's creation was good just as it was from the beginning until Satan thought it could be better.  Satan influences mankind using doubt. He causes man to doubt the Word of God, encouraging him to do things his own way. Once man starts interfering with Yahweh's Instructions nothing good comes from it.

My question is, should we be eating chickens and their eggs now that we know they have been altered by man?  To me this is the same as we should not eat any genetically modified foods or crossbred meats. In Leviticus 19 we read Yah says not to let cattle mate with a different kind and not to plant a field with two kinds of seed nor should we wear clothing that is a blended material.  If chickens were originally jungle fowl and became what we are familiar with in today's world, perhaps we should stop eating them.

Add to this the inhumane treatment of animals in the commercial meat industry.  Watch a video or two via YouTube about this subject and that will help you make a decision.  It is a hard habit to break.

(photo from google images)

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Unclean Beasts

 

As of Dec. 9, 2021 this statue ^ is at the UN location in NY

 

The beasts written of in Revelation: 

One rises from the sea and the other from the land. These beasts represent the final governing system and religion of the world.

The beast that rises from the sea (ten horns, seven heads with names of blasphemy, ten crowns) is a system of ten 'nations' with ten leaders, one will seem to have had a fatal head wound that was healed and three will eventually be removed (leaving seven heads/leaders) to make room for the last one, the eighth king. This symbolic 'beast from the sea' prophecy has attributes like a leopard, a wolf and a lion and its power, authority and throne are given to it by Satan. The people of the world respect and admire this beast for they believe no one would attempt to wage war against it. Now people are deluded into thinking they have "peace and safety". The UN statue is called "the guardian of international peace and safety".

 

(Note: Job's Leviathan beast, "There is no one on land who can dominate him, made as he is without fear. He sees all that is haughty; he is king over all proud beasts.")

The people will worship The Dragon (the serpent, Satan) because he gave authority to this beast. Another way we will recognize this beast system is how it speaks out against God, His Instructions, against His authority and His host in heaven. Each blasphemous word that comes out of its mouth will make us, the Set Apart Believers, cringe in our souls, but we must endure through all this, as it wages war against us.

 

In 2016 I posted a study that starts out like this:

Consider the possibility of the United Nations as the seat of the New World Order governing system.  It would be the perfect place for 10 world leaders to meet and fulfill prophecy (whether they know it or not) under the pretext of Sustainable Development for the World. Of those 10 leaders, three will disagree and eventually refuse to follow orders. They will be 'removed' so that their chosen World Leader can take his place. 

The link to that ^ post

 

I also did some ramblings about the UFO conspiracy in which I included this observation:

In January 2021 it seems that our govt has been officially handed over to Satan with a swearing in ceremony. Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) offered a prayer to open the 117th Congress and this is how he ended it:

“We ask it in the name of the monotheistic god, Brahma, and god known by many names by many different faiths.... Amen … and A-woman."

Emanuel Cleaver is a pastor at St. James United Methodist Church of Kansas City, Missouri (he definitely falls under the 'False Teacher' category). The word 'Amen' is commonly used to "express solemn ratification (as of an expression of faith) or hearty approval (as of an assertion)", and has nothing to do with gender! and what does he mean by A Woman? Is he suggesting Kamala Devi Harris-Emhoff ?!? 

The Link to That ^ Post

 

These are just bits and pieces of the big picture but I find it very interesting that the New World Order system is no longer trying to hide - there is really nothing to hide behind any more if y'all have been paying attention over the years.  I wasn't 100% in love with 'the Donald' but saw him more or less as the last stand for this country, even though he was pro-vaxx.  He could be one of those leaders who needed to be 'removed' in order for the NWO to take place.  This country needed to be taken down in order for the hodgepodge of socialism/communism/Islamic law to take over. 

 

This new UN statue is just a symbol of things to come, a message for all to see - things will never be the same.  It will be a while before it is openly official but this is worth keeping an eye on so we know where we are in the time line of things.  I can easily see the United Nations, who is partnered with the World Government Summit who is partnered with the International Monetary Fund who is mixed in with the World Council of Churches etc.... all being used as the main players in the final world governing system which is represented in Scriptures as the kingdom made up of clay mixed with iron.

 

This is interesting as well.... the artists who made the statue are inspired by 'Alebrijes' which is Surreal Oaxacan Folk Art and this was a gift to the UN from Oaxaca Mexico.

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Native to the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico, alebrijes are animals that escaped the nightmares of an artist (who had fallen ill and became unconscious due to fever*) and appear as a variety of different species, both real and fantastic. 

In other words, the newest statue standing on UN property is an image of a demon; an image of a beast that escaped from someone's nightmare.....

 

One more puzzle piece to add and then I will wrap it up and let you continue to study it out for yourself.  Our Creator has told us the end from the very beginning - we are not clueless and should not be taken by surprise by the insanity we see in the world around us.  As long as we continue to read and study His Word we shall stand strong in the faith once delivered and endure.

 

In Daniel 11 we read this about the final world leader: He will do as he pleases; exalt and magnify himself above every god and speak awful things against Yahweh the only living God. This end times leader will have no regard for the god of his ancestors or the one dear to women. He will honor the god of fortresses with gold and silver, precious stones and costly things, a god that his ancestors never knew (never experienced).   

 

This leader takes over when he proposes a treaty to stop WWIII from happening and it will appear that world peace has become a reality, but this only lasts for three and a half years.  Then Satan possesses this 'man' and all hell breaks loose. This will be the time of the tribulation which lasts for three and a half years.  This is when the mark of the beast is implemented, image worship and all that goes with it.  At the end of the final three and a half years is when our savior, Yahshua the Anointed One, returns.

 

Isn't it nice to know what to expect and to prepare for it? 

 

Think about it: The beginning of 2021 our government swears allegiance to Satan and the NWO; the planned scamdemic taught people worldwide to get in line to be injected, so standing in line to receive 'the mark' in order to buy and sell stuff will seem a natural next step when that time comes. And as this year comes to an end the symbolic beast is erected on the UN's property.  All the while folks worldwide have been divided right on down to those who have received the injection and those who have not.

You might be wondering about the statue's wings.  They say the image is a blend of a jaguar and eagle.  I remembered of one of Daniel's beasts he saw arise from the sea which had wings. This UN Statue could represent the former kingdoms that ruled the earth and lets us know that the new world Kingdom has risen.  More on this, later.

*About the artist who created the original images:

Pedro Linares (1906-1992), a renowned indigenous Mexican artist, first created vividly colorful papier mâché sculptures called alebrijes. As the story goes, Linares became very ill when he was 30 years old. Not having access to medical attention, he laid in bed and lost consciousness. Linares dreamed of a bizarre, peaceful place that resembled a forest. He recounted seeing giant rocks, tall trees, and an expansive sky. The artist felt remarkably healthy again and he felt happy as he walked along trails through the dense foliage of his dreamworld.  (Some say he was arrested for a disease that causes hallucinations. In his delirium he could see a species of beings that inhabited a forest).

Suddenly, the clouds, rocks, and trees began to transform. The land features around him shaped themselves into animals that were familiar and yet like nothing Linares had ever seen before. There were mules with dragonfly wings, roosters with antlers, creatures that resembled gryphons and dragons, just to name a few. They had unnatural colors and patterns swirling over their bodies. These creatures began repeatedly chanting a single word: alebrije...alebrije...alebrije! Linares became fearful of these strange, powerful creatures chanting this nonsense word. He couldn't tell if they were warning or threatening him. However, it was enough to startle him awake in time for his fever to subside. (end quote)

About the artists who made the UN statue: Jacobo and María Angeles are from the village of San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca. This village is famous for it's carvers and Jacobo and María are among the finest. They concentrate their carvings around the Zapotec figures of "Tonos" or "Nahuales" known worldwide as "Alebrijes."  Each piece is elaborately decorated using "Mixteca-Zapotec" iconography.

It has also been suggested that the word 'alebrijes' could be a compound word that means “far away witch”.

 

 

More of my writings for your further research:

A Woman Rides the Beast

Babylon

Behemoth and Leviathan

What a Gift

In all these years I have never thought about Yah's Creation other than His creation, but now I see this old earth as such a wonderful gift to us humans; yet mankind has succeeded in polluting it once again. I truly understand the reason for His coming Day of Wrath.

Yahweh's Creation was perfect from the beginning and we will get a taste of that perfection when His Son takes control of the promised land of Canaan. In the meantime we must continue to put God first in all things and learn His Ways and live by His Teachings, following in the footsteps of His Son, Yahshua.

God's Perfection began to fall apart when that old serpent, Satan, convinced Eve (who convinced Adam) to disregard one simple rule the Creator gave them:

Genesis 2:17 ....but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.

This is when death entered the picture, 

not only physical death but a spiritual death as well.

Back in the day, about 200 of God's heavenly host decided to leave their spiritual stations to live on earth and intermingle with His physical creation. They taught humans many things they were not supposed to know.  The divine beings had sex with human women and their offspring were soulless mutants called the Nephilim - genetically modified human beings, not part of Yah's creation.  Life went down hill from there until The Flood was necessary to destroy the evil that had infected mankind.

 

This same event is recorded in the Books of Enoch with more detail of just how bad things had gotten.  The divine beings wanted to be like 'God' - they created life via human women.  This behavior echoes Satan's ultimate goal which is to be worshiped as a god.

 

We find a similar account recorded in Jasher. In the latter days of Methusalah, men were turning from Yah in rebellion, and corrupted the earth, robbed each other and transgressed and corrupted themselves, up to the point Yahweh thought to destroy and annihilate them.  The earth was filled with violence. The difference in Jasher is there is no mention of 'divine beings' but 'judges and rulers' who took wives by force from their husbands and that the 'sons of men' (Nephilim?) in those days took cattle, beasts and fowls and taught the mixture of animals of one species with another in order to provoke Yahweh.  This could relate to what is written in Enoch about the Nephilim sinning against birds, beasts, reptiles and fish. Sin is living according to one's own imaginings, turning against the teachings of Yahweh the Creator.

Leviticus 19:19

You shall not let your cattle mate with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; you shall not put on cloth from a mixture of two kinds of material.

From the writings of Enoch:

These women became pregnant and gave birth to what is called the Nephilim, who grew to 300 cubits in height (450 feet?). They ate every thing produced for them and when that ran out they turned against mankind and ate them. The Nephilim sinned against birds, beasts, reptiles and fish (more genetic manipulations? crossbred mutants?) and began to eat each other's flesh and drink their blood (cannibals and vampires?). They were lawless ones. They taught men metallurgy in the making of swords, shields, knives and breastplates as well as bracelets and ornaments. They taught the use of antimony (A metalloid element having many forms, the most common of which is a hard, very brittle, shiny, blue-white crystal) and the use of paints and dyes, the use of make up to beautify eyes, the use of gemstones - then did all godlessness increase and everything was corrupt.

Setting all this aside for a moment, look again at our Father's Creation and how good and right it is for everyone under His Instructions.  While this should bring joy to our hearts we also recognize, once again, the earth has become filled with violence and how corruption has overtaken men and how governments transgress every single law recorded in Scriptures.  Yes, Yah's Day of Wrath is well earned by these evil doers.

Our salvation gives us hope in the Kingdom to come.  Lets keep the joy of perfection in our hearts and live according to His Ways. 

 

Our faith gives us what we need to endure.  Faith is our commitment to the One who spoke Creation into existence. Yahweh has told us the end from the beginning so there is no excuse for us not to know what was, what is and what is yet to happen. This is the beginning of knowledge, and we do not want to be destroyed for lack of knowledge.

 

Time is nearly up for fence-sitters and middle-of-the-roaders. 

As it was in the Days of Noah

I copied this from an article by Mr.M.Adams,

Friday, November 19, 2021

who drops the bomb on the 'vaxx holocaust'

which is a 'genetic bomb' against humanity. 

 

This report is nothing new but the result of almost 2 years of research and study by many reliable people world wide who have seen this 'scamdemic' for what it is right from the beginning.  I am not sure about Mr.A's 'pureblood' idea, but these days almost anything is possible.

There were several things going on in the days of Noah and one event was when a few divine beings left their station in the heavenlies, in rebellion against our Creator, and came to dwell on the earth. They had sex with human women which resulted in the ungodly breed called the Nephilim = genetic mutants.  This is what it means when our Messiah said it would be like 'the days of Noah' before he returns.  Genetically Modified people as well as other genetically modified organisms. 

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The vaccine, by suppressing the natural DNA repair mechanism in the body — known as NHEJ, or Non-Homologous End Joining — makes people highly susceptible to devastating, cancerous mutations even when exposed to very low levels of ionizing radiation such as sunlight exposure or mammography. With NHEJ suppressed by the spike protein, the body can no longer repair its damaged DNA, and cells mutate out of control, devastating the entire body and bringing about genetic disintegration of the organism. 

 

The study documenting all this was published in the MDPI journal “Viruses” and was carried out by scientists at Stockholm University, Sweden.  The study shows that NHEJ efficiency collapses in the presence of the mRNA (covd vax) spike protein.

 

No living organism on the planet can survive without genetic integrity. NHEJ is part of every cell in every living plant, animal and human being on the planet.  The spike protein (injection) is an attack on the genetic integrity of humans, and those who take the vaccine will be largely unable to reproduce because their babies will self-abort due to genetic mutations. This is why 82% of pregnant women who take covid vaccines during their first trimester of pregnancy end up losing their babies to spontaneous abortions. 

 

How depopulation globalists can accelerate the mutations among the vaccinated Importantly, once the beings on a planet are widely injected with the covid vaccine, globalists can unleash a nuclear accident (or nuclear terrorism) to distribute radiation across the planet. Even a low level of cesium-137 exposure (or strontium*-91, iodine-131, etc.) will unleash a wave of deadly cancers among those who have been vaccinated. While normal, healthy people can repair the DNA damage caused by low levels of ionizing radiation exposure, vaccinated people can barely conduct the repairs (they have roughly a 90% suppression of DNA repair). 

 

Thus, cancer rates will skyrocket among the vaccinated, and when they die, the deaths can be blamed on cancer rather than the vaccines. So this binary weapon arrangement also allows vaccine-pimping globalists to escape blame for the vaccines. It covers up vaccine deaths by categorizing them as cancer deaths.

All they need is another Chernobyl, Fukushima or nuclear explosion somewhere in the Northern hemisphere — almost anywhere — and the winds will spread the radioisotopes across half the planet, achieving the low levels of ionizing radiation necessary to turn vaccinated people into cancer-ridden mutants with accelerated deaths.  Those vaccinated individuals who aren’t killed by the cancers are very unlikely to be able to produce viable offspring due to DNA damage of sperm and egg cells. 

 

Interestingly, once it becomes obvious that vaccinated individuals cannot tolerate sunlight without suffering genetic mutations, they will shun daylight and become creatures of the night. In cultural mythos, vampires are creatures of the night who suffer instantaneous disintegration when sunlight touches their skin. In reality, the disintegration will take much more time, but it’s a similar idea:

Covid vaccines + sunlight = genetic disintegration.

 

Only purebloods will be able to reproduce, so the future of humankind belongs to those who reject mRNA vaccines

 

Those who reject covid vaccines are known as “purebloods.” They are the only ones who will be able to maintain genetic integrity for generations to come, which means the future of the human race belongs to those who reject covid vaccines. (People who take spike protein / mRNA covid shots are winning the Darwin Award…) 

 

According to God, via the Old Testament, the blood is where the life exists. Your body manufactures two million red blood cells each minute, and these are manufactured in your bones. This is why Genesis says Eve was made from the rib of Adam. The bones are where the DNA exists to manufacture blood, the essence of life, and to find the genetic pattern that describes the biology of a new being. A person who suffers genetic mutations in the blood is diagnosed with leukemia, essentially blood cancer. This is a disintegration of the genetic integrity of their blood manufacturing templates, put simply, and no mammal is viable in the long run when the genetic integrity of their blood is destroyed.

 

Yet this is exactly what the vaccines will accomplish when accompanied by low-level ionizing radiation exposure. Stated again:

Spike proteins + Ionizing radiation = DNA mutations / loss of genetic integrity

 

Those who took the spike protein injections are already experiencing accelerated growth of cancer tumors. This is being widely reported among naturopathic doctors and analysts. While it is possible that DNA mutations might be halted through an aggressive nutritional detox program and a lifetime of anti-cancer lifestyle habits, most people are in fact leading pro-cancer lifestyles via their toxic foods, toxic personal care products and toxic indoor living environments. Most people are vitamin D deficient on top of that, meaning they are essentially “cancer factories” even before spike protein injections came along.

 

Thus, we are about to see an explosion in worldwide cancer due to covid vaccines. This will really accelerate in 2022, and we will easily see over one million cancer deaths in the USA during 2022 (although the data won’t be available until 2024, most likely). Over the next decade (2022 – 2032) we will likely see tens of millions of cancer deaths in the United States.

 

Any radiation release by globalists will only accelerate these numbers and cost more lives. (That’s the goal of the globalists.)

Meanwhile, those who took the mRNA spike protein injections will be giving birth to mutated babies who lack genetic viability, even if they survive their own mutations. Currently about half the human population has taken covid jabs of one kind or another, which means the depopulation globalists may have already achieved their goal of destroying fertility / genetic viability for a significant portion of the human race.

 

The die-off has now begun. This winter, cancer deaths will explode across America, and they will skyrocket for the next decade in those who were gullible enough to be injected with deadly spike protein bioweapons. Get ready to see a tidal wave of cancers in America, Europe, Australia, Canada and every other nation where gullible people have committed vaccine suicide.

 

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Sodom and Gomorrah

Nephilim

Note: Some heavy metals found in 'chemtrail' residue include aluminum, *strontium, barium, and thorium. Also, another component discovered in these chemtrail cocktails is a "special bacillus which contained what is known as a DNA restriction enzyme. What this allows, in effect, is gene splicing. A scientist can take a specific length from a DNA chain and transfer it to another organism creating a mutation. This substance is found only in genetic engineering laboratories." 

 

""One of its uses is to create exotic viruses with specific characteristics and pathologies.""

 

Many layers of evil intentions have been put in place over many years so we will not recognize what is truly going on in our lives = The Strong Delusion.  The Plan of TPTB have been interwoven with day to day life so that they may achieve their goals, which line up with the goal of Satan.  Read Scriptures and trust what Our Creator says about these things.  

We've been invited to the wedding feast so we best stop wasting time to make ourselves ready to enter the banquet hall.  Time is running out.

The Loss of a Loved One

Death has been part of Life ever since 

Adam and Eve were expelled from The Garden.

 ~~ Grief ~~

Essentially, grief is a deep sadness most times caused by someone's death. For some it is a feeling of deep distress caused by the state of being sad because a family member or friend has recently died. For others it causes depression rising from their broken heart.

No one seems to want to talk about death. If folks had a better understanding of life and death, according to our Creator, maybe it would have been a normal topic of conversation started long ago. This lack of knowledge has made talking about death some sort of taboo leaving many satisfied with speculation and religious doctrines - children grow up not knowing any better just as we did. And then the time comes when we face death and know not how to react; emotions rise and take over. Are we feeling guilty because we blame ourselves for what happened or are we selfish and blame God for taking them away? These are emotional reactions that do not help one adjust, accept, grieve and see clearly to continue living life to its fullest.

I pray that those struggling with grief will know: day by day and piece by piece the hole felt within where the heart used to be can and will be filled with the good life and memories our loved ones leave for us, as we let our family and friends be the light along the way; together helping each other stay grounded. Eventually joy will outweigh sorrow and the pain won't be as devastating, as we allow our Creator's Peace to comfort us.

 

The heart may ache even in laughter

Proverbs 14

 

We read of a 'time of mourning' in Scriptures:

Genesis 38:12 ~ A long time afterward the wife of Judah died. When his period of mourning was over he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers....

Genesis 27:41 we read that Esau was waiting for the 'days of mourning' for his father to end so he could take revenge on his brother Jacob.

Genesis 50 we read Joseph had the Egyptians embalm his father Jacob and that took 40 days.  Then they mourned 'the wailing period' of 30 days.

Numbers 20:29 ~ the whole community knew that Aaron had breathed his last . All the house of Israel bewailed Aaron thirty days.

Deuteronomy 34 after Moses died the Israelites mourned him for 30 days, also called the 'period of wailing and mourning'.

 

Our Heavenly Father Knows Best

 

It seems in today's world this lack of public mourning is what causes folks to hide their feelings, letting grief fester inside.  No one thinks anyone could possibly know what they are going through so they close off contact with friends and family. Yet, if we were raised according to our Creator's Instructions the period of grief would be a natural process shared by many for the one and not some private nightmare with no end in sight.

 

If we apply God's Word to our lives then we should learn 30 days is a good and right time for weeping and wailing over the death of a loved one.  We spend a healthy amount of time grieving the loss, yet know the time will come when He gathers us once again.  This Good News gives us Hope and strengthens our Faith in the One who loves us so much that He gave us His Son who laid down his life for our sake. 

 

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ... you should not (continue to) mourn over them who have fallen asleep (died), like other people who have no hope... :14 For if we believe that Yahshua died and rose again, even those who sleep will the Father, by His Son, bring with him. :15 and this we say to you by the word of Messiah, that we who may survive and be alive at the coming of Messiah, will not precede them who have slept (died before us) :16 Because our Messiah 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 Messiah will rise first and then we who survive and are alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet our Messiah. And so comfort yourselves one another with these words

 

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.