Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Make Room for the Last One
Deceptive Spirits•Demons
•Jude 1:3 ~ While I take all pains to write to you of our common life, it is needful for me to write to you, encouraging you to maintain a conflict for the faith which was once delivered to the Set Apart believers.
What does that mean, the faith once delivered, and why do we need to fight for it? Keep reading:
Long before the days of Yahshua, wicked men had been infiltrating assemblies of Yah and continue to teach lies to this very day. It is up to us as Set Apart believers to remind folks of the faith that was delivered long before men began to pervert it. All religions have perverted the Word of our Creator to one degree or another.
The False Messiah
The Beast from the Sea
In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.
Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea. Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:
•The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and given the mind of a man.
•another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’
•another beast appeared. It was like a leopard, and on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.
•After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns. 8While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
To paraphrase: We read of the second beast that comes out of the earth. This beast will appear to us as as a spiritual leader but ends up speaking for Satan, the Dragon. He has all the authority as the first beast (he is government sponsored) and will perform great signs, even to bring fire down from heaven to earth (he has a demonic spirit working in him). This false prophet/religious leader will convince people to make an image, a statue, of the first beast. After they do, this religious leader will appear to have given life to the Image and command all to worship it. Those who refuse will be killed. It is during this time that the Law to be Marked (in order to buy or sell, conduct commerce) will be enforced. Everyone will be required to have this mark on their right hand or upon their forehead in order to shop or sell goods (groceries, gas, clothing, pay bills etc...)
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
It is very important for us to understand this:
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.
Saturday, September 17, 2022
Ice Age Theory
This planet earth
was void and without form before our Creator began working with it. We
do not know how long it existed as 'void and without form' but we do
know about 6,000 years ago is when Yahweh spoke creation into existence.
No life as we know it existed on this planet 'millions of years ago'.
Nothing He created 'evolved' into something else. Neither is there an indication of an Ice Age following the The Flood recorded in Scriptures.
Psalm 104:6 ~ You made the deep cover it as a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. The waters fled at your blast, rushed away at the sound of Your thunder, mountains rising, valleys sinking, to the place You established for them. You set bounds they must not pass so that they never again cover the earth.
Genesis 10:32 - These are the groupings of Noah's descendants, according to their origins, by their nations; and from these nations branched out over the earth after the flood.
Dinosaurs and Cavemen
Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that first appeared about 245 million years ago. They dominated the planet until an extinction event wiped out a large swath of life on Earth about 66 million years ago. But now we know that the Age of Dinosaurs never ended. Instead, a group of dinosaurs gave rise to a new, small airborne form: birds.
"The extinction that occurred 65 million years ago wiped out some 50 percent of plants and animals."
- impious: lacking in reverence or proper respect
- irreverent: having or showing a lack of respect for someone or something that is usually treated with respect
- profane: to treat something sacred with abuse, irreverence, or contempt
Satan's sharpest tool is Doubt which he successfully used against Eve and has continued to use throughout the years. If you believe this evolution theory then you do not believe Yah our Creator or trust what He says is true. Satan lured you to his side of the fence by causing you to doubt the Word of our Creator.
Darwin famously said .... there would be fossils of transitional forms (missing links) which would provide irrefutable evidence of such gradual progressive change. However, as many even renown Evolutionists have had to admit, such transitional forms have not been found, despite the many claims to the contrary, which have been and are constantly being touted as “missing links”. In the not too distant past we had the Neanderthal Man, the Peking Man, the Cro-Magnon Man, the Piltdown Man, the Nebraska Man, all of which have been shown to be fraudulent claims, as admitted by no less than the famous Paleontologists Evolutionist Dr. Donald Johansson in his book Lucy. He claimed his find, Lucy, to be the real missing link between apes and humans, which also has been debunked as being anything more than an extinct variety of ape. So the very legitimate question Scientific Creationists pose is, when is the evidence Darwin admitted would be absolutely necessary to support his theory, going to be forthcoming?Scientific Creationists have a competing model to explain the observed phenomenon, i.e. the fossil record. According to their theory there won’t be any “missing links” or “transitional forms” because they are merely figments of the imagination of the Evolutionists. According to [Scriptures] there are created kinds which are essentially the same as they were originally in the beginning, and there has never been any transitional forms naturally evolving from one kind to another – they are all essentially the same as originally created by God.
The entire article can be read here: The Fossil Record
We need to completely change our Neanderthal thinking. We are on a downward path as a species. This goes contrary to the theory of evolution, but it fits nicely within the framework of biblical knowledge about our ancestry and our current path as a society.
This planet earth was void and without form before our Creator began working with it. We do not know how long it existed as void and without form but we do know that almost 6,000 years ago is when Yahweh spoke creation into existence. No life as we know it existed on this planet 'millions of years ago'.
Keep this in mind as you ponder this lesson:
The Nephilim existed prior to The Flood.
Genesis 6 -- When men began to increase on the earth and daughters were born to them, the Divine Beings saw how beautiful they were and took wives from among those that pleased them. It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on the earth (as a result of sexual relations between the Divine Beings and human women). They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
God Does Not have a Sense of Humor
You talkin' to me?
"I saw his face"
Beware, let no man deceive you. For many will come in my name and will say that 'I am the Anointed One' and many they will deceive. For you are bound to hear of revolutions and rumor of wars. Watch out and do not be disturbed for it is necessary that all these things happen - but it is not yet the end. Nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and plagues and earthquakes in different places But all these things are only the beginning of sorrows.
Do not believe those who say they saw Yahshua (Jesus) 'here or there', for false teachers (preachers/messiahs/prophets/regular old folks you trust) will produce signs and wonders in order to help with the deception, if possible even the chosen.
We are told beforehand so that we may recognize the times we are living in. 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.
Taking this to heart, how can we be certain of those folks who claim God talked to them, or they saw Jesus in a vision. Who was the last person Yah talked to? Where is Yahshua now? Remember, Yahshua gave his Apostles another Redeemer, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth. This is the same Spirit that works in us if we let him do his job. Yahshua is sitting on his throne next to Our Father until his enemies become his footstool. It is His Spirit that makes us as One, just as the Father and Son are One.
I am aware of many people who claim to have 'seen the face of Jesus' and/or heard God talking to them. I am suspicious of these claims in light of what we read in Scriptures. Besides that, none of us know what Yahshua looks like, we've never seen him, there are no photographs of him, only artwork by artists using their own imaginations. We do not know what 'Jesus' looked like while living as a man on earth since the Bible does not tell us, however, a most meaningful description that gives us an indication of his appearance is from this prophecy in Isaiah 53.
Isaiah 53Who can believe what we have heard? Upon whom has 'the arm of the Father' been revealed? For he has grown, by His favor, like a tree crown; like a tree trunk out of arid ground.He had no stately form or beauty that we should look at him; no charm that we should find him pleasing. He was despised, shunned by men, a man of suffering, familiar with disease. As one who hides his face from us (like a leper does) he was despised; we held no account of him. Yet it was our sickness that he was bearing, our suffering that he endured. We believed him plagued, smitten and afflicted by God; but he was wounded because of our sins, crushed because of our iniquities, our evil ways. He bore the chastisement that made us whole, and by his bruises we were healed. We all went astray like sheep, each going his own way and Yahweh visited upon him the guilt of all of us.He was maltreated, yet he was submissive, he did not open his mouth; like a sheep being led to slaughter, like a ewe, dumb before those who shear her, he remained silent.By oppressive judgment he was taken away. Who could describe his abode? He was cut off from the land of the living through the sin of my people who deserved the punishment. And his grave was set among the wicked and the rich, though he had done no injustice and had spoken no falsehood.But Yahweh chose to crush him by suffering, that if he made himself an offering for guilt he might see offspring and have long life and that through him Yah's purpose might prosper. But out of his anguish he shall see his vindication; he shall enjoy it to the full through his devotion.My righteous servant makes the many righteous, it is their punishment that he bears; assuredly, I will give him the many as his portion, he shall receive the multitude as his spoil. For he exposed himself to death and was numbered among the sinners; whereas he bore the guilt of many and made intercessions for sinners.
"I heard His voice"
The Bible records Yahweh speaking audibly to people many times (Exodus 3:14; Joshua 1:1; Judges 6:18; 1 Samuel 3:11; 2 Samuel 2:1; Job 40:1; Isaiah 7:3; Jeremiah 1:7; Acts 8:26; 9:15—this is just a small sampling). There is no biblical reason why He could not speak to a person audibly today. With all the times Scripture records Yahweh speaking, remember that they occur over the course of some 6,000 years and Yahweh speaking audibly is the exception, not the rule. Even in the biblically recorded instances of His speaking, it is not always clear whether it was an audible voice, an inner voice, or a mental impression.
God more often than not “speaks” via His Set Apart spirit. His Spirit guides us and becomes more obvious as we continue to spend time in Scriptures. His Spirit helps us to discern right from wrong so we make the right decisions (1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Peter 3:16). We come out of the world system being transformed by the renovation of our thought process as we discern what is good and acceptable to Yahweh (Romans 12:2). Yah allows events to occur in our lives to direct us, change us, and help us to grow spiritually (James 1:2–5; Hebrews 12:5–11). First Peter 1:6–7 reminds us:
“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith, of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire, may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Yahshua is revealed.”It is possible that Yah may sometimes speak audibly to people. It is highly doubtful, though, that this occurs as often as some people claim. Even in Scriptures, Yahweh speaking audibly is the exception, not the rule. If anyone claims that God has spoken to them, always compare what is said with what the Bible says. If Yah were to speak today, His words would be in full agreement with what He has said in the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16–17). He does not contradict Himself.