Awakenings are not new or unusual, they occur when people cry out to the Father. Believers sense something is happening and they want to know what it is and more importantly they want to get closer to Him.
In the last 2000 years there have been awakenings/revivals in nations all over the world.
Following the dark ages when the Bible was kept from the general public, Martin Luther had a personal apocalypseand an awakening followed.
There was the Welsh revival of 1904 with Evan Roberts,
the revivals of the 1700’s with
John and Charles Wesley
and
Jonathan Edwards.
History records those of the USA,
also called the first revival
and
the second revival
Some quotes from previous awakenings
Modern society has forgotten the notable Saints who’s writings have been the solace and encouragement to thousands over the centuries.
Born of confinement often from prison cells, voices of godly men and women, such as Paul Bunyan in Bedford Jail for 12 years and Mme. Guyon in France, echo across the ages, scattering and putting to flight desolation and discouragement that so often assails the human heart. It’s grip tries to squeeze out the life of the spirit that sustains it. There are countless others and this list is ever expanding.
Many others in prison for their faith and testimony. It is the epitome of Grace in human flesh to allow the Ministry of Holy Spirit to flow through an imprisoned soul when all seems lost in captivity.
Mark 7:33 and he took him aside from the multitude.
Matthew 5: (KJV) 1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
Matthew 7:13 (KJV) 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
This new walk must show signs and changes in the heart, mind and soul.
But the gate is narrow and the way broad that leads to life because many people who have claimed to have passed through the gate, continue to walk in the broad way.
Matthew 7:13
Many people thrive in view of the multitudes and among the Saints at large, yet how would we respond to sudden confinement faced only with our own flesh?
In the silence of solitude comes the face to face encounter.
First with self and then with the Father. The disturbing realization that we really don’t know ourselves; and we certainly don’t know Him as we should. Only in the quiet place is what is with in us revealed and awakened.
A personal apocalypse!
And it is by His design. For we are accountable for our own life and there will be a reckoning.
Here is the place of awakening.
Once we’ve become a new creature/new birth, through Messiah Jesus/Yeshua, then and only then are we able to truly come to the Father and this communion is a supernatural one. It is a path of Light.
And when we awaken to The Word and The Light then we are to awaken others.
Sadly Christianity has become only about a gate. Ministers stand at the front and tell you that once you ‘walk down the isle’ that this is enough…but it’s more that the walk down the isle.
Asking Messiah Jesus/Yeshua into our hearts is only the first step.
Herein lies the gate.
The scriptures tell us that the only way a man/woman can walk through the gate is because the Father has to have made a supernatural change, and initiates a deep work in his/her life.
2 Corinthians 5: (KJV)
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The New birth experience, (Holy Spirit) with man reveals a manifestation, which is equal to Genesis 1, and John 1-the beginning of a new life and His Light enters our world.
This places us in quite the predicament. Because if you truly show the signs of a changed person, we must conform to the Word, not the worLd. Take the L out of your worLd and Life and leave the WO–RD in. The L’s of life have to go!
The List is in the Wo–rd in 2Timothy 3:1-5; Gal.5 :18-21. It’s the list of what people will be like in the last days and Mark 4 tells of the things that choke the Wo–rd of life. Love of other things Lusts/desires of the flesh. Looking back to Sodom. Longings, Lies, Loose morals, Loose living..etc
It is the ultimate goal of the pilgrim, the traveler through this realm,
For we are not of this world we are simply passing through.
It could be said that if you’re a believer, and life meets no resistance from the world, from the flesh, from the Devil…then you know you are on the broad path.
Is your life fraught with battles, fighting and conquering? Then, you know you’re on the right path.
This life is a battle. Jesus/Yeshua warns His followers that they will be persecuted because they are not of the world, but have been chosen out of the world, and therefore the world hates them just as it has hated Messiah Yeshua/Jesus (John 15:18-21). This is precisely why Messiah Yeshua/Jesus exhorts His would-be followers to first count the cost. For anyone who is unprepared or unwilling to bear a cross and follow Messiah Yeshua/Jesus, simply cannot be His disciple (Luke 14:25-33).
In choosing the right way we are to discern the state of our faith/heart. But don’t be confused we must not let the heart guide us, instead, we must guide the heart into submission to Him, to the Word – Jesus/Yeshua is the Word. For if we do not, even our hearts can lead us astray. Num. 15:40
The warnings are of a world where there are people who do not walk the walk, they talk the talk; however this is a completely different path.
There is one that leads to life.
Listen to Jesus’/Yeshua’s words:
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?”
He’s telling us that those who THINK they are doing right by Him are not!
Why is that?
Because they walk in the path of least resistance. They walk in the world, by the world, for the world. We need to have Conformity to the Word, NOT to the worLd! The L of the world and the world can certainly be L!
(It’s Not scripture, it’s also not wrong!)
In Truth we are spiritual beings
having a human experience –
We are NOT human beings having a spiritual experience.
There is a huge difference between those two statements.
There are Spiritual pursuits and earthly based ones.
To be enlightened or awakened does not mean that we are flawless or never make any mistakes or sin, it simply means that we are watching our own thoughts and reactions, aware that the Father above does the same over all His children.
Our awareness is heightened in that we are understanding the truth that as spiritual beings experiencing a human life, for most of the time we are within this physical form, we forget who we are.
It’s critical in this hour that we remember.
It’s essential criteria of the awakening.
The scripture tells us we are one with the Father.
If we could only grasp hold of this simple truth it would relieve our minds of the burdens of this life; they would simply melt away and our spirits would raise up and with it lift the soul and the emotions to a realm high up above, where we are supposed to be….. seated in heavenly places with Him.
We have earthly limitations.. however our hearts cry is echoed in this song as many of us question, how long ’til we awake in your likeness?
There is a part we can play, to prepare our hearts to reach for the higher realms of the Spirit of our Heavenly Father.
When we realized that like Nicodemus we must be born from above.
It is the very beginning of the awakening.
John 3:1-36; 11:11-14
After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.
Like Lazarus we are revived from being dead in sin and awaken to the true life – dead to the world and alive in the Spirit, (Ruach), of a Holy, (Kadosh), Heavenly Father.
The quickening of His spirit.
Awake oh sleeper and arise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you. Eph. 5:14
The awakening causes us to face the reality of eternal issues and our need both to acknowledge them and to do something about it.
The awakening of a sleeping soul means that, we must not become so locked into a false sense of security, (like the proverbial ostrich or the frog in the pan), until the time to wake up has come and gone.
The quickening of the spirit/ruach, to quicken our mortal bodies and make us alive in Him. Rom.8:11.
We need to awake to His truth, to His plan, awakening the one new man because
the plan of the father ultimately to REdeem those who have always been His.
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations
RE = Second time examples like RE-view and RE-revived and RE-surrected. Re indicates a second occurrence from something that has happened previously.
Many individuals have sensed their destiny since childhood. A knowing that they were not like the mass majority. Never truly fitting in, although many attempts were made. Knowing there was something greater than the life most chose to live, which seem pointless and without a true or significant purpose.
Those ones are among the called, they are beginning to sense an awakening, a quickening, a change in the spirit, a shift in dimensions. A new alignment, a change from that which we are presently in, as the weight of eternity and His coming Glory presses from His realm into ours.
I have chosen you and I have called you. Is 43:1; John 15:16.
The balance of energies of the very Ruach/Spirit of Jesus/Yeshua is disturbing the waters and this time it’s not just the Pool of Siloam, בריכת השילוח – the Breikhat Hashiloah. John 9:7
But the Waters of the very earth itself.
Once more I will shake the heavens and the earth. Hebrews 12:26 Haggai 2:6
Revive us again Lord Ps 85:6
The shaking has begun and those with sensitivity of hearing and discerning spiritual eyes, will perceive with joy, the coming changes that will ultimately bring the return of Messiah to our midst.
The sky will roll up as He returns to raise the sleeping Saints into resurrection life and then we too will be changed from mortality to immortality in the twinkling of an eye at the speed of light. (186000 miles per Second.)
For God is light.
1 John 1:5 – This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
He is a being of light and we are made in His image, therefore we too are beings of light.
Jesus/Yeshua said, while I am in the world I am the light of the world after I go you are to be the light of the world.
The light of His spirit in and through us is what keeps the darkness at bay. One match can cause the darkness and an entire room to dissipate. It flees from the light, from the Genesis / Begining / Bereshit /בראשית.
Be Light/Light Be
Light was the first word the Father spoke. Genesis 1:3
Light will never be quenched.
It is impossible.
It is of eternal quality and essence, of imperceivable and mysterious elements that we cannot describe or comprehend and yet it is within us. It’s what connects us to Him and to each other.
His life was the light of men John 1:4 it’s His word, it lights our path. Ps. 119:105
It is His power – the lightning’s of Sinai’s presence, the fire of His pillar, the glory of Transfiguration, we call it electricity. The hiding place of His power, Habakkuk 3:4
The glory of His manifested presence, the rhythm of life that keeps our heart beating, with electrical impulses which travel to our brain, they fire bursts of electrical energy between the neurons so we can think and function. We understand so very little, we have become dull of hearing and slow of life.
Are we settling for a spiritual pauper’s existence when the realms of light beckon? – Sometimes a shift in our position is what we need to give us a fresh perspective and it opens up possibilities we had not seen previously.
Awake oh sleeper and arise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you. Eph. 5:14
Rise up seek His face.
Prepare the way of the Lord. Mark 1:3
It’s time to lift up the gates of our hearts for the Lord of Glory to come in. Ps.24:7
Awaken to His presence and be revived once more – leave behind the mundane, the ordinary, and become all He has called us to be.
Now is the time.
Today is the day of salvation in all of its fullness.
Draw close to Him and He will draw close to us. Seek Him while He can be found and immerse our souls in His light and be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
Allow His word to challenge and change us.
To be all that we are called to be –
the awakening is in motion.
The awakening is in progress.
Don’t miss our day of visitation.
The Resurrection changed EVERYTHING!
We are beings of His light, His glory.
It’s time to shine like never before as beings of that light.
Isaiah 60:1 Arise it’s time to Shine
The light is a metaphor for a number of concepts:
1. The 3rd Temple
2. Messiah
3. Torah
4. The primordial light of Genesis creation, which they say Father withdrew from the world and will return it in the Messianic Era.
It’s a prophesy about the magnificent future for the kingdom is coming and the glory of the Messianic era will envelop Jerusalem and Isaiah refers to spiritual illumination.
It’s another way of saying…
Let’s shine, we are part of it.
Shalom!
Please, don’t leave this page until..
you are awakened to Messiah..
we all need to born again from above..
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
Its all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.
NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.
What is the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?
The disciples asked the very same questions 2000+ years ago that we also ask today. His answers are the same today as they were to those disciples; and given an option, it’s probably not what we would choose to hear either. According to Yeshua/Jesus own words, it is not going to be a pleasant time, as this is the time of Gods’ judgment on the rebellious world system.
These following verses which give Matthew and Luke’s account of the same event would seem to indicate that the words parousia and apokalupsis do refer to the SAME ONE COMING OF CHRIST.
In Matthew 24:37 it says …“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming [parousia] of the Son of man be.” … And the same account in Luke 17:26, 30 says … “As it was in the days of Noah … Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed [apokalupsis].” This is how we are to find out the TRUTH. We need to compare scripture with scripture.
So why are the two Greek words used?
Parousia means presence, a VISIBLE return. And Apokalupsis means to reveal, a REVEALING OF THE TRUTH.
So to turn these two words into two separate comings would appear to make no sense.
They both describe the ONE event, the physical, visible, loud, fiery second coming of Christ, in which the truth will be REVEALED!!
26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28 Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
29 “Immediately after the distress of those day the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
30 “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory.
31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Yeshua said,
“…when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.
For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”
Luke 21:20-28
Here are 2 separate events,
the sign of your coming and of the end of the age,
that we may have not really read but have just believed what someone told us without taking the time to check it out for ourselves. People tell you the truth as they know it, especially when they have believed what they were told. We have no reason to doubt someone’s sincerity, however they can be sincerely wrong and what we choose to believe will never change truth.
Loving Caveat:
This post may challenge long held beliefs, as it has for mmm, however living in ignorance and deception due to exposure to false teaching/doctrines in the past does not serve us well for the future. Knowing TRUTH is the only WAY that leads to LIFE and makes us FREE in HIM.
This is not about proving or disproving doctrine, or being right or wrong, as always its about TRUTH and the fact remains, that the ‘rapture’ in and of itself, is not as important as the TRUTH that, Messiah IS coming back for His Bride.
The attempt to condense this post failed miserably!!! To divide again would cause loss of focus in the content….so grab some coffee, or whatever is your yen, get comfortable, an apocalypse is coming, so enjoy the ride! This is most assuredly a Megamannamoment! Much Shalom from 1gratefulheart!
Most important and critical to all studies and conclusions is…What does the scripture say?
What does Yeshua/Jesus say?
1 The sign of your coming
2 The end of the age
The end of the age has the signs of the days of Noe/Noah and Lot. This look into the days of Noah has its own apocalypse, revealing facts that have been obfuscated and lost in time..
The sign of His coming. vs. 27-31
Days of Noah,days of flesh– Natural pursuits of the consumer flesh body.
Verse 28, days of Lot
Eating
(Consuming resources, all of these things are fleshly desires and indulging the flesh)
Drinking
Buying
Selling
Planting
Building
Until the day Lot came out of Sodom and it rained down fire and brimstone/meteors and killed them all!
Days of Noah, verse 26.
Eating
Drinking
Marrying
Being given in marriage, (much perverse unrestrained
behavior and lasciviousness).
Sinned against the animals and plants.
This one above on closer examination, could include genetic modification and interbreeding because they ‘sinned against the animals and plants’. No different to todays scientific trends.
Often overlooked for one reason or another, giants, the offspring of intermingling/interbreeding between humans and fallen angels! (Yes apparently it did happen! Og, Goliath, his brothers and the ones the spies encountered, (The Fallen Ones, Rephaim, etc.) were very real. Gives new meaning to ‘we were as grasshoppers in their sight’ and would explain the oversize/genetically modified grapes?!
They came from somewhere and there were more than just one or two. It’s simply that no one talks about it much as it’s become too controversial! The past gets buried, (literally,) or secreted away in vaults which are generally inaccessible to the public and over centuries, the various cultures collective memories fade as generations pass away. What was once common knowledge becomes the stuff of legend and no 21st century person is going to believe such ‘nonsense’! This may be quite a shock to the senses, however it is no joke and yes, that is 36ft or 10.97 meters! Too many bones have been documented to dismiss this simply as a hoax.
As always we encourage personal research. The mere fact that Genesis 6 mentions them and in connection with the Days of Noah, the correlation to End Times is enough to spark our curiosity. (If that’s you, type Gensix Giants in your browser for a site with information and one that also believes in Jesus.)
Here are several pictures of artifacts that appear to be genuine however, we know not everything on the internet is to be believed. First one was from 1895 before photographs could be manipulated.
Further information can be found at http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6658-giants
Indulging the flesh.
Opposite of abstinence, until the day Noah entered the box/ark and the floods came and killed everybody.
His days were noted by increased fallen angel activity.
Production of Nephilim offspring.
Transhumanism, i.e. creation of hybrids/clones.
Advanced technology.
Rebellion and hostility toward God.
Corruption of Gods creation, human and animal and plant GMO foods and animals.
Inter-dimentional Portals, breaching the barriers between natural and spiritual realms.
Satanic temple sparks uproar by unveiling statue of goat-headed, winged creature called Baphomet in Arkansas state capitol of Little Rock. U.S.A.
The days of Noah included the building of the ark and of course the flood itself.
Noah was pure/righteous in his generations meaning his DNA was undefiled. His bloodline was directly from Adam. 100% human DNA.
Some of the signs are not immediately obvious and many of the writings mentioned in the scriptures that shed much light on the end times; were not included in the canon of the Bible. (As determined by a small group of men at the council of Nicea.)
One of these is the book of Enoch.
Enoch was a important person, he is mentioned in Genesis 5:24. Enoch was the 7th from Adam, the son of Jared (Gen. 5:18) and the father of Methuselah (5:21; Luke 3:37). ‘He walked with God and was not for God took him’. So he had a very close relationship with God.
A little information about Enochs’ book:
We first learn of Enoch in Genesis 5 but it leaves us with questions. Hebrews 11 has the answers and Jude quotes Enoch! How did Jude come to know the words of Enoch? They are not in the Bible. The answer is The Book of Enoch. A book which is actually quoted not only by Jude, but also James the natural brother of Yeshua/Jesus. The Book of Enoch chapter 68:1 “And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me all the secrets in the book…
The Book of Enoch; (also 1 Enoch; Ge’ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ mets’iḥāfe hēnoki), is an ancient Jewish religious work, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. The older sections, (mainly in the Book of the Watchers,) of the text are estimated to date from about 300 BC, and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably to the first century BC.
The Book of Enoch is not accepted as part of the Canon of Scripture as used by Jews, apart from the Beta Israel canon; nor by any Christian group, apart from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church canon.
It is mentioned in Jude 1: 12-15. quoting Enoch 1:9
The quote is as follows: “In the seventh (generation) from Adam Enoch also prophesied these things, saying: ‘Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads, to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners spoke against him’.”
James 4:5 Jesus quoted it and so did the apostles
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Mat 5:5) The elect shall possess light, joy and peace, and they shall inherit the earth. (Enoch 5:7 {6:9})
the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the son (John 5:22). the principal part of the judgment was assigned to him, the Son of man. (Enoch 69:27 {68:39})
shall inherit everlasting life (Mat. 19:29) those who will inherit eternal life (Enoch 40:9 {40:9})
“Wo unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. (Luke 6:24) Woe to you who are rich, for in your riches have you trusted; but from your riches you shall be removed. (Enoch 94:8 {93:7}).
Ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Mat. 19:28) I will place each of them on a throne of glory (Enoch 108:12 {105:26})
Woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born. (Mat. 26:24) Where will the habitation of sinners be . . . who have rejected the Lord of spirits. It would have been better for them, had they never been born. (Enoch38:2 {38:2})
between us and you there is a great gulf fixed. (Luke 16:26) by a chasm . . . [are] their souls are separated (Enoch 22: 9,11{22:10,12})
In my Father’s house are many mansions (John 14:2) In that day shall the Elect One sit upon a throne of glory, and shall choose their conditions and countless habitations. (Enoch 45:3 {45:3})
that ye may be called the children of light (John 12:36) the good from the generation of light (Enoch 108:11 {105: 25})
the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (John 4:14) all the thirsty drank, and were filled with wisdom, having their habitation with the righteous, the elect, and the holy. (Enoch 48:1 {48:1})
Sep 14, 2016 – In several of the Dead Sea Scrolls there is a complicated network of parallel … papyri showing portions of the Book of Enoch in Greek (P.Mich.inv. … Fragments of these books, Enoch and Jubilees, were also found at Qumran Cave 4: I Enoch in Aramaic,Sep 14, 2016 – In several of the Dead Sea Scrolls there is a complicated network of parallel … papyri showing portions of the Book of Enoch in Greek (P.Mich.inv. …
Doesn’t it seems strange that his book was not included? Reading his descriptions of the things God revealed to him may shed some light on why he was dismissed! Controvertial is a word often associated with Enoch. Makes one want to know why! What did they not want us to read?
For the curious a Free copy can be downloaded as a pdf at this link
Luke 17:30 it will be according to these things on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Lightning from east to west, clouds, power and great glory, (doxa or shekinah), angels with loud trumpet calls gathering the elect who apparently are still on earth.
It’s Not going to be hard to miss!
There is another option to Daniels 70 weeks suggesting that 69 have already passed and with 1 week left. The thought is that the last week which is indicative of a 7 year period began when Yeshua Messiah was born and further that the half of that ‘week’ was fulfilled by His 3 1/2 years of ministry. The conclusion being that the final 3 1/2 years is the time of Jacobs trouble/tribulation in the last days just prior to His return? An interesting interpretation!
On researching this subject there was no specific reference found in the scriptures pertaining to a literal period called the 7 year tribulation! Like most having been taught and believed in a rapture, it is somewhat disturbing to find the Word of God doesn’t seem to support that belief!
Remember when you believed in things like Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy/Father Christmas.
We are ensnared by half truths and fables, (lies) and make believe, since we were little children. We were told stories that were pure fiction and when we find out they are not true we inevitably go through a process.
Shock – someone we trusted told us something that’s not true
Disbelief – don’t want to acknowledge the 1st and still want the ‘lie’ to be truth, so we may choose to continue to believe it until one day there is undeniable proof.
Anger – why did they do that and now I have to get over the issues
Reality – people don’t know everything and sometimes they lie! so can you trust what people say?
Sense of loss/sadnessour bubble has been burst, our sense of reality has changed. Innocence is being diminished a little more.
Disappointment and disillusionmentthat we believed something that seemed wonderful only to have the illusion taken away.
There are similar feelings that accompany learning and realizing other ‘truths’. Especially spiritual ones!
Some are much more serious than a bunny and old men in red costumes.
However there is nothing worse than finding out something after the fact that is contrary to our strongly held opinions and doctrines and worse someone knew and could have told you.. Wouldn’t we rather know the truth however unpalatable and inconvenient at the time and have to deal with it now, and not when it’s too late? How many millions are going to cry out, ‘Why didn’t you tell me about salvation through Jesus/Yeshua’? Why didn’t you make me listen?
The Truth will make you free and it is the Way that leads to Life.
How can we be prepared if we don’t know what to be prepared for?
Charts showing various sequences of end time events
There is no debate of whether or not a type of rapture (as in Messiah/Jesus is coming for the saints) will occur; the Bible is clear on that question. There are 2 Comings He came the 1st time and He will return which is the second coming.
The catching away does not scripturally fit with a separate rapture, that is, apart from at the second coming!
What if there is not such a thing as the rapture as has been taught?
The Rapture is the belief that faithful Christians will be bodily caught up from the earth, suddenly taken out of the world, avoiding all the bad end time tribulation, to be united with the Lord in the air.
However, not only did Yeshua/Jesus not mention a rapture, but the word “rapture” as such, does not occur in the Bible.
What if we are looking for the wrong event?!
It’s all in the timing.
Reading the scriptures carefully gave pause for thought and after confirming some facts, the findings are presented here.
Yes, Messiah Yeshua/Jesus is coming
for the believers who are ready
and looking for His coming.
However, it clearly says in Thessalonians that those who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with Him in the clouds
BUT..it also says..
that our being taken up to be with the Lord will not precede the resurrection of the dead in Christ!
So when is the resurrection of the dead? Whenever that occurs….we are next!
“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God.
And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words” (1 Thess. 4:13–18,
The Greek term meaning “caught up” is harpazo, which means to seize suddenly or snatch. In Latin the word is rapio, which means to seize and carry away; it is from this Latin word that the term “rapture” comes.
The word ‘rapture’ is in the Bible if you have the Latin Vulgate!
Seems like we should be looking for the resurrection of the saints instead!
1 Corinthians 15:50-52 tells us that we shall be changed at the last trump. The LAST, that means there is not another trump after that one!
While it is true, that the word rapture is found no place in our English Bibles, it comes from the Latin word rapturo, (Latin)which means the very same thing as the Greek word harpazo (Greek) in 1Thessalonians 4:17.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Yeshua will Elohiym bring with Him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Father/YHWH, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Father/YHWH shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Father/YHWH himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of Elohiym: and the dead in Messiah shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up [harpazo, rapturo] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Father/YHWH in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Father/YHWH.
This Greek word harpazoin 1 Thessalonians 4:17 means the following: to seize, to catch away, to pluck, pull, take (by force), and it has the very same meaning as the Latin word rapturo.
It is also the same word in Hebrew for takenin2 Kings 2:11 which islaqachwhen Elijah was taken in a chariot of fire:
#3947 laqach law-kakh’ a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of application): —accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, up), use, win.
It is important to point all of this out because there are some that would try to argue that there is no such thing as a rapture/catch awaybut this is not the case. The issue is timing and that it has a different name.
As already stated this word does not appear in our English Bibles, the word rapturo (Latin) or harpazo (Greek) or laqach (Hebrew),all mean the very same thing, as when the bridegroom comes and seizes his bride and carries her away into the marriage.
The five wise virgins will be taken into the marriage, while the five foolish virgins will be left out of the marriage, and then the door will be shut.
Interestingly, the Hebrew & Greek meaning for takenmeans to take into marriage while the Hebrew & Greek meaning for the word leftmeans to divorce or forsake.
Some teach and believe, the ones who are taken is the bride of Messiah into a set-apart place, and then she returns with Him on white horses after a seven-day wedding.
The ones who are left behind are the ones who are going to be eaten by the birds of prey down here on earth on the Day of Wrath! (Revelation 19:21).
Matthew 24: 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
There is no debate among Bible scholars as to whether there will be a catching away/rapture, but much discussion has occurred over when the catching away/rapture will occur.
We must guard against the ‘itchy ears’ and ‘superficially interested’ in doctrine, or the desire for knowledge; just because we are satisfying our curiosity and want to be ‘in the know’! For we are to be doers of the Word and put into practice what we learn or it is not worth anything.
There have been five main theories put forward as to the timing of the rapture and they all surround what is known in prophetic biblical teaching as the “tribulation” period, which is mentioned by Jesus/Yeshua in Matthew 24 and described in great detail in Revelation 4—19.
The five hypotheses are:
First: Post-tribulation – believers are raptured at the end of the tribulation period, when Messiah returns in judgment (Revelation 19). Second: Pre-wrath – believers are caught up somewhere between the sixth and seventh seals described in Revelation. Third: Mid-tribulation – living believers are taken in the middle of the tribulation period. Fourth: A Partial rapture – only faithful believers are taken to be with Messiah at the beginning of the tribulation, with unfaithful Christians being left to endure it. Fifth: (and most favored) A Pre-tribulation – believers are caught up to be with Messiah before the tribulation begins.
Here are a few brief historical facts
Research reveals that the origin is in fact from an interpretation by John Nelson Darby, considered by many to be the father of dispensationalism, he first proposed and popularized the pre-Tribulation Rapture in 1827-31 and it was further used by Darby and Schofield and then enhanced by the intricate detailed charts by Larkin.
Preached and taught so may times, it became a doctrine and was adopted by various denominations and even inspired movies and books like the left behind series.
This view was accepted among many other Plymouth Brethren movements in England. Darby and other prominent Brethren were part of the Brethren Movement which impacted American Christianity, especially with movements and teachings associated with eschatology and fundamentalism, primarily through their writings.
Influences included the Bible Conference Movement, starting in 1878 with the Niagara Bible Conference. These conferences, which were initially inclusive of historicist and futurist premillennialism, led to an increasing acceptance of futurist premillennial views and the pre-Tribulation Rapture especially among Presbyterian, Baptist and Congregational members.
[32] Popular books also contributed to acceptance of the pre-Tribulation Rapture, including William Eugene Blackstone’s book Jesus is Coming published in 1878[33] and which sold more than 1.3 million copies, and the Scofield Reference Bible, published in 1909 and 1919 and revised in 1967.
The main scripture used is Thessalonians 4: 16-17 where The word rapture is a transliteration of the greek word used and translated as caught up.
The term “caught up” in the verse is where we get the term “rapture.” This is because the Latin Vulgate translated the Greek word “harpazo” into the Latin word “rapiemur.” Both of these words have the idea of a violent snatching away, or capture.
Source(s): Latin Vulgate
If the rapture theory is a true Biblical teaching. Why was it not well known and popularized until the early 20th century?
Amillennialists and premillennialists use First Thessalonians 4:17 to teach that, in the future, Jesus will materially appear in the sky in such a way as to be visible and physically “rapture” the saved from the planet to meet Him in the air, and then to be materially changed and taken to Heaven.
First Thessalonians 4:17: Then [after the dead in Christ rise, v. 16] we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
The phrase caught up comes from the Greek harpazo which means to seize (Strong’s, Thayer’s, Bauer’s, et. al.; cf. Septuagint of Lev. 6:4 & Jug. 21:21 & 23), and Vine’s and Bauer’s specifically says that a suddenness is involved in the term. (A twinkling of an eye [1 Cor. 15:52] kind of suddenness you think.) An examination of harpazo reveals some interesting information:
It’s derived from the Greek term from which we get our word “heresy“—the term hairesis, which Vine’s says refers to ‘a … choice’ (from [the verb] haireomai [meaning] to choose’). Strong’s says that haireomai means “to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer—choose” (cf. Bauer, Mat. 11:12); i.e., so it’s a choice based on one’s preference.
The Greek term harpazo also carries with it the idea of “oneness,” i.e. making those things or … people … which a person prefers and chooses one with himself, implying of course that they are or become one with each other in the process. An illustration of a biblical example from the Septuagint (the Greek version of the OT):
In Job 24:19 harpazo is used of assimilation of water and sinners: As drought and heat consume the snow water, so the grave consumes those who have sinned.
Two of the scriptures focused on are Matt:24:41: Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Again consider that it’s the wicked one that is removed and the believer left, as in days of Noah and Lot!
and
1Thessalonians 5:4: You [the Thessalonians], brethren, are NOT in darkness so that this day should overtake you [the Thessalonian brethren] as a thief.
Who didn’t have an excuse of being overtaken by the day of the Lord? The Thessalonian Christians. Why? Because they not only knew the signs of Matthew 24, they believed in the Lord who spoke them, meaning that they had no reason to let anything bother them.
This is meaning that believers will NOT be in darkness NOR will it come like a thief for us, however it will come as a thief in the night for those unsaved and not ready. If we are in the light and ready we will see Him coming. We will hear the trumpet.
The sequence through the year being an annual rehearsal of the actual events that will all take place fulfilling what each of the 7 festivals/feasts/appointed days represent. The spring feasts have been fulfilled the fall/autumn ones are said to be also when Messiah returns.
They give detail about the first coming including the date on which He would arrive, the manner of His death, on the birth of the ecclesia the called out ones /church/ecclesia.
The rituals/ feasts speak of a natzal (or rapture) and also of a terrible time called the Yamin Noraim. Days of Acharit ha-yamin, the latter days, is the time of the promise of restoration of Israel.
Only when they are in tribulation, b’tzar lekha, as declared in Deut. 4:30-31. This agrees with Yeshua’s words in Matt. 24:21, foretelling of Israel’s coming troubles in the latter days.
Only after they cry out calling for Him to come saying,
blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.
Baruch haba be’shem Adonai.
Maybe that’s what we as believers need to be calling out?
Maranatha come Messiah Yeshua/Jesus in reference to Yeshua. Then they will they be delivered during the 70 birthpangs of the Messiah, otherwise called,
Chevlei Mashiach חֶבְלֵי מָשִׁיחַ
(חֶבְלֵי הַמָּשִׁיחַ) the “birth pangs of the Messiah” (Sanhedrin 98a; Ketubot, Bereshit Rabbah 42:4)
or the Time of Jacobs Trouble.
This is the time immediately before the coming of the Mashiach. The world will undergo various forms of tribulation and is called Ikvot Meshichecha the Footsteps of the Messiah. A phrase that comes from Psalm 89:51.
It is this great test of faith during the Chevlei Mashiach that frightened Rabbi Yochanan to the point that he said, Let the Messiah come, but may I not see it!?
The years which are viewed as the birth pangs of Mashiach, are said to last for seven years, during which Israel will be refined spiritually in preparation of His arrival.
The 7 years is a combination of 2 periods of time of 1,260 days each.
(Matthew) 24:21: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
We need to read that scripture again!
(We gloss over it and do not fully understand the ramifications it implies, especially if we have believed we are to be ‘raptured out’ of here before any of that happens!)
Now we can see that the word time in the phrase times, time and a half timescan actually mean several things. If we take the word, time, (mowed/moed), to mean a literal year, then the phrase means the following:
time = mowed in Hebrew = 1 year
times = two years
half times = six months
hence, times, times, half times = 3.5 years
We see that during this time the two witnesses will have a ministry of 1,260 days (3.5 years)
It makes it hard to continue to believe that we will be taken up to meet Messiah in the air before the Great Tribulation, when Matthew 24:29 makes it abundantly clear that Messiah will gather His elect, (we the believers), immediately AFTER the tribulation?
In order to ascribe to a pre-tribulation catching away of the bride, we would have to believe in two raptures for the righteous, but the Bible says in Revelation 20 that there are only two resurrections for two groups of people:
1.) One for the righteous and this is called the first resurrection.
2.) One for the wicked after the 1,000 years are finished.
In 1Thessalonians 4:16-17 the Apostle Paul/Sha’uwl says: ‘the dead in Messiah shall rise first, then we which remain shall meet them in the air.’
So as soon as we see the Abomination of Desolation, then shall be great tribulation (Matthew 24:15-21). The 2 witnesses will prophesy 1,260 days (3.5 years) and the false Messiah will speak blasphemies for 42 months (3.5 years).
The last half of Daniel’s 70th Week (3.5 years), picks up with the Anti-Messiah setting up ‘The Abomination of Desolation’, in the 3rd Jewish Temple, and this it appears is when the Tribulation period actually begins. (Matthew 24:15-21).
Concurrently, the two witnesses in Revelation 11 will also have a ministry that lasts for 1,260 days (3.5 years).
Jacobs’s Time of Troubleis for a time, times and a half, according to Daniel 12 & Revelation 12. As previously noted, the word time in Hebrew and Greek means one year and so time = 1 year; times = 2 years; half times = 6 months, hence 3.5 years. There is no place in scripture that specifically says that the Tribulation is ‘7’ consecutive years; although 1,260 days x 2 = 3.5 years x 2 = 2,520 days = 7 years!
The word tribulation both in Greek & Hebrew literally means persecution.
When they build the 3rd Jewish Temple, the man of sin, will sit in the temple and demand to be worshiped as God (2Thess. 2:4). Then he will probably become possessed, supposedly by the Messiah Jesus, but it will actually be Satan.
(There is already a strange rumor that they have cloned Jesus from the DNA found in the Shroud of Turin. Which it was thought was the burial cloth of Messiah and has recently been disproven).
Messiah Yeshua is said to make his appearance during the eighth ‘year’.
On the eight day, at the beginning of the eight day [also meaning “year”] the baby is to have its foreskin removed – i.e. the concept of a foreskin which acts as a barrier between man and God. We read in Zachariah(13:2) that God will destroy the spirit of impurity form the earth. This is believed that it will occur during the eighth year.
Some scholars say Yom Kippur isalso the same day when Jesus/Yeshua Mashiyach, was circumcised as a baby boy, eight days after Hs birth; and some say it may have been on (our calendar) September 11th in 3 B.C.; which happened to fall on the Feast of Trumpets that year or Yom Teruw’ah.
Why would the Messiah be circumcised on Yom Kippur? His Blood was sprinkled as an infant because His Blood would later on be the Blood of the Lamb that would be sprinkled on the Mercy Seat for Israel/Yisra’el. Hence, the blood released when His foreskin was removed is like the veil to our hearts that is removed when our hearts are circumcised. (Deuteronomy 10:16, Jeremiah 4:4, Romans 2:28). Interestingly in these aspects, it could be said that He fulfilled all three of the Fall Feasts at His birth, for He was born on Yom Teruw’ah (Feast of Trumpets), circumcised on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and He also dwelled in a sukkah (manger) with His parents during Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)!
(Ps. 19:5, Joel 2:16) the children of wrath who are caught off guard by,the thief in the night, are having bowls of wrath being poured out upon them and they still won’t repent. (Dan. 12:10, 1Thess. 5:2, Rev.16:15).
And then after 1000 years, we will go into the 8th day or the 8th millennium, which parallels to the last day of The Feast of Tabernacles. At the end of the Millennium, this present earth that we know of will pass away. This temporary earth, or shelter, that we dwell on, will be replaced by a New Heaven & a New Earth (Rev. 21:1).
At the end of the Millennium on the Last Great Day will be the white throne judgment seat of Messiah. (Rev. 20:11-15)
In a Hebrew Wedding custom, the bride is given a three-day notice that the groom is on the way. She hears the shouts from a three day’s journey in the distance and she knows that sometime within those three days, he will be there to catch her away. It is said that this could very well be the same period of 3 ½ days where the Two Witnesses will have their dead bodies lying in the streets and then at the sound of the 7th angel (7th trumpet), they are resurrected. (Rev. 11:11-15).
Here is why this feast is prophetically called, The day that no man knows. Not only does the bride not know the precise timing of when the bridegroom will arrive; (although she knows the approximate timing), but the enemy is not made privy to this timing, so that he cannot come and kidnap the bride away!
Another reason why Yom Teruw’ah is called, The day that no man knows, is because it cannot be determined by a fixed time on the calendar. It can only be determined by the first sighting of the new moon by the Two Witnesses.
Also, in a Hebrew Wedding custom, the bridegroom (not wanting to make known the exact timing of his arrival to the enemy), tells the nosey people who inquire about the wedding date, no man knows the day nor the hour – only my father knows!(Matthew 24:36). This is a Hebrew Idiom for the Feast of Trumpets.
Only the wise will understand that all these trials and pains of the Chevlei Mashiach are part of a consecutive series of events orchestrated by God in which each new birth pang unfolds a notable occurence and is absolutely crucial and brings us that much closer to our desired goal of future redemption. But many will not understand and will not pass the test.
Zion will be comforted when Messiah Yeshua is received by Israel as the rightful king and He will set up His Kingdom for 1000 year reign of true Shalom. For those non Yeshua believing Israelites, it is the first coming of their Messiah.
We need to get the timeline in correct order. The 7 (messianic) festivals, are the biblical appointed times, God commanded the ancient Israelites to observe.
This is the reason why He commands His covenant people to celebrate and observe His seven annual feast days; ‘as a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.’ (Lev. 23:21). He wants His bride to be ready when He returns, therefore, He has given her these seven feasts as “holy convocations” (Lev. 23:8). The Hebrew word for convocation, literally means a rehearsal. What is the bride rehearsing for?
The Marriage Supper of the Lamb, as described in Revelation 19:7. Without these seven feasts, the bride will not be ready to meet the bridegroom! This is the reason why the traditional Christian Church does not fully understand prophecy. It is because some are keeping the counterfeit holidays of the Anti-Messiah, such as Christmas, New Years Day in January, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Easter Sunday, etc. These counterfeit holidays are patterned after the false Messiahs of the Roman Empire with their Julian & Gregorian calendars and are designed to keep us off course and in the dark concerning the times and seasons of Messiah.
This is why Rev. 18:4 commands followers of Messiah to ‘Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.’
The true bride will not mistake the timing of her bridegroom’s return, because she knows The Times & Seasons (1Thes. 5:1), which are The Appointed Times, Moedim/Mowediym, the seven annual feast days or rehearsals. There are those in the Christian Church who believe that our Messiah’s return is imminent, meaning that it can happen at any time. The justification for believing in His imminent return is a mis-understanding/mis-interpretation of
1Thess. 5:
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of YHWH so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
From Paul’s warning, it says that only those who are in darkness are expecting His return to be like a thief in the night, but the children of light know when to expect His return, because they are already rehearsing His seven annual feast days! The idea that the ‘Church’ will be taken by surprise without warning into what is commonly called The Pre-Tribulation Rapture. Once we realize that the bride is given clear instructions to observe the seven annual feasts from year-to-year it really has no scriptural foundation. These are the times and the seasons spoken of by Paul in 1Thess. 5:1 which are to help the bride to make herself ready, and to light her path into the marriage supper.
Rev.20:6 …’Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.’
There is no mistaking that there is a time period that is going to be a 1000 years, but when does it start? The popular mainstream teaching is that after the church is raptured, the saints spend 7 years in heaven with Messiah Jesus, while the great tribulation happens on earth. Then after the 7 years, they believe the church comes back to earth with Jesus where He will reign from Israel for a 1000 years.
From the following verse it indicates that the first resurrection may startsthe thousand year millennium.
Matt. 24:30-31 …’And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.’
1 Thess. 4:16-17 …’For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.’
So we have the second coming of Messiah in the above scripture, where He sends out His angels to gather the saved. The ‘dead in Christ’ rise first and then those who are Messiah’s and still alive at His coming, they are caught up with those who have been resurrected and they meet Messiah in the air.
A vital point to remember about the second coming of Christ, is that He does not touch the ground when He returns, we meet Him in the air. So this is the first resurrection above, and is it the starting point of the 1000 year millennium?
In Rev. 20:5 it says that ‘the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished’. The rest of the dead are those who are lost (the wicked), that were either killed at the second coming, or were already dead at Christ’s coming. To support with scripture that the lost living at the second coming, ARE killed, look at the following verses:
Lk. 17:26-30 …’And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all … Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.’
When Messiah returns, the lost will be destroyed. Just like in the flood and the fire judgment of Sodom, ALL the lost were destroyed and only the righteous were left alive. And when does Revelation say the lost are resurrected? AFTER the 1000yrs.
The following verses describing what the earth will be like after the second coming of Christ …
Isa. 13:13 …’Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.’
Isa. 24:1 …‘Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,
and turneth it upside down,
and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.’
To put it back to where it once was
Jeremiah 4:23-26 …’I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.’
Verse 27 of Jeremiah 4 says that the whole land is desolate, but God will not make a complete end. This matches with the truth that the earth will be ‘made new’, and we will inhabit this ‘earth made new’ after the 1000 years. So God is not going to totally destroy this world. He is going to ‘burn up’ all things in it (2 Peter 3:10) and then renew it (2 Peter 3:13).
Jer. 25:33 …’And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.‘
The wicked are destroyed at Messiah’s second coming. The saints go to heaven with Him.
One interpretation gained from the scripture above, is that the earth will lay desolate for the 1000 years! Is it telling us this is what the earth will be like during the thousand year millennium? If so, it won’t be a happy, peaceful place where Messiah reigns over the nations, it will be desolate, laid waste and empty! Could it imply that to Satan it will be as a “bottomless pit” to which he is bound for the thousand years? Time will show us if that scenario is accurate or not.
However by all accounts it seems l that we should be looking for the resurrection of the saints!
Jesus/Yeshua, was the first fruit resurrection from the dead. Then many people came out of their graves and walked into the city! Was this also a resurrection? If we are still alive at His coming, we will not be ‘resurrected’ but changed/transformed in the twinkling of an eye, at the speed of light!
Paul teaches that Christ will come at some future point in time for those who belong to Him. Those who are the “dead in Christ” will experience their resurrection first and be gifted with glorified bodies when He comes. Those believers in Christ who are alive at that time will then be instantly transformed from their earthly state to their eternal state, and will not experience death. Instead, they will be caught up, to be with all those who have previously gone on, to be with the Lord and be transferred to heaven. Paul speaks about this generation of believers who will not taste death when he says, “Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, (die) but we shall all be changed” (1 Cor. 15:51).
This is a resurrection, a transforming. We will have to have new bodies because Corruptible cannot go into the presence of a Holy God and must put on immortality/incorruption.
The idea of just living our lives with a, ‘someday being raptured away before anything gets bad,’ may not be the reality, for the years of tribulation include all the events which are listed in Revelation.
Are we spiritually and physically prepared to endure to the end, however long that may be? Partway into the last years? Halfway in? or longer? There is nothing that tells us an absolute, except the resurrection of those who have died in Him. However it does point to His second coming at the end of the tribulation period.
Mathew 24:13 But he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved.
To endure means “to remain firm in a commitment to be true to the commandments of God despite temptation, opposition, and adversity.”
It would be easy on the flesh and soul to believe we get ‘scooped up’, before any of the events described actually begin. Many 1000’s of our brothers and sisters are however going through horrendous persecution for their testimony of salvation in Yeshua all around the world. Being wrong about the ‘Rapture’, would be fine in this instance, however better to believe the worst and hope for the best and be spiritually prepared for whatever unfolds as time moves forward.
However The Day and Hour is Unknown
36 No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
As to when the so called rapture will take place, no one knows the exact timing of the event. Messiah confirms this in Luke when He says, “You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Luke 12:40).
Again being prepared and not needing it, is preferable to the shock that we were not ready and be one of those who hearts fail them for fear of what is coming!
That sounds pretty serious!
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Fill those lamps with oil!
We must guard against the ichy ears and being superficially interested in doctrine or the desire for knowledge just because we are satisfying our curiosity and want to ‘be in the know’! For we are to be doers of the Word and put into practice what we learn, or it is not worth anything.
If our doctrine and beliefs are sound and on the firm foundation of the Rock of His Word and we maintain a deep relationship with Him, they will stand the storm of scrutiny.
This is simply to determine if we have some hard times ahead and what to expect and to give us an opportumity to be more prepared than we are today.
Just remember for believers, its NOT the end, it’s a transition into the next part of Fathers plan.
John 14:1-3 …’Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.’
Jesus said “I will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I AM there ye may be”.
Whatever is used to try and deceive prior to Messiah’s return, whether its pseudo aliens who supposedly created us, (which are in reality demons, evil spirits and fallen angels,) we know the devil is behind it.
Looking at the above verses, there will be no mistaking it when He does appear.
So for all believers, the apocalypse the revealing is NOT a one time incident, or some event to fear, but something to look at, as a way of being shown things we did not know before. Information that we can better understand concerning what The Ruach of the Father is trying to tell us. When we receive knowledge, then we are accountable for what we have been told.
It’s often a way of waking up a sleepy group of people and encouraging them to go forward, to grow and mature; and we can in fact live in the intimacy and safety of His Shalom presence, even while we remain here. Just as His chosen ones in the days of Noah and Lot, if we are in Him, we will be taken through the things to come.
We need to be about our father’s business, busy doing His commands and not focused on being scooped out of here avoiding any hard times. Let’s look to the author and finisher of our faith and trust His plan. Nothing is going to take Him by surprise and with Him nothing is impossible.
In a nutshell what we are being told is that,
If you seek to keep your life you will lose it, if you lose it you will preserve it alive.
Loving not our lives unto death but focused on Him just as Stephen did.
Flesh always wants the soft option and inevitably chooses the easy road. We are not of those who shrink back but are those who are to be very courageous.
The righteous are bold as lions (of Judah)
There are multiplied 1000’s of our brothers and sisters around the world who are tortured suffering and dying for their faith every day. If we cannot physically change their situation we can pray for them and in turn God will raise up intercessors for our needs.
Chazown (Revelation) 22:17
“And the Ruwach ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit) and the bride say, Come. Andlet him that hears say, Come…”
Be encouraged family we are awaiting the return of our King and He will NOT disappoint us. You are greatly loved!
May His Shalom surround, guard and keep you in Name of Yeshua, the author and finisher of our faith.
PLEASE Don’t leave this page before you make certain Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him because…
the sands of your TIME on earth are running out!
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
Its all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.
NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.
He was the inversion and opposite of the Messiah desired by the people who were looking for change and for freedom from the Roman Empire, under whose shadow He was born.
He came to turn the world right side up; to declare the kingdom of the heavens is both at hand/close and within us. (Luke 17:21)
Confirming John’s message of Mt. 3:1-2 in Mt. 10:7 & Mk. 1:15And to show us we have been looking at things from the wrong perspective.
Those who have eyes to see Matt. 13:9-16.
Mark 4:9; Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
Mark 8:18; Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? … “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
Matt. 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
In today’s language, He may have used the word dimension, in describing the Kingdom of the Heavens.
For He said, John 18:36; My kingdom is NOT of this world! And He came to show us the WAY to inherit that kingdom!
מַּלְכוּ ‘malku’ meaning ‘Kingdom’ Strong’s 4437
Strong’s Number H8064 matches the Hebrew שָׁמַיִם (shamayim)
pronounced
שָׁ shä· מַ mah’ יִם ·yim
Shin Mem Yod Mem
The Hebrew word for heaven is shamayim;
(read from right to left) שָׁמַיִם
the Hebrew word for “the heavens” in Genesis is hashamayim.
He was not the Warrior King but the Servant of all and the Redeemer of mankind who came to pay the ultimate price for sin…Rom. 6:23; Prov.10:16.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua / Christ Jesus our Lord.
He came to destroy the works of the devil…
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8;
and
to restore our relationship with the Father and mandate us with the ministry of reconciliation and…
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Col. 1:20
..He was born to turn the world upside down!
According to John 10:10,
The works of the devil include:
the thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy everything of Father’s creation; by perverting, dis-orientating, flipping, mirroring, inverting, turningupside down, back to front, opposite, twisting and confusing.
For he is a deceiver and a liar from the beginning and the father of lies. John 8:44“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah lamented. “Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” (Isaiah 5:20-21).
The hallmarks of the Upside-Down World are:
truths changed to lies;
material things exalted above the God who made them;
plain, clear, scriptural understanding scorned
and irrational human reasoning worshiped.
The Apostle Paul put it this way: ‘Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools’ (v. 22).We really have a skewed image of the world we live in, (courtesy of the devil.)
for deception is his M.O.Unless we view it with our spiritual eyes, hence:
Eph. 1:8 The eyes of your understanding/heart being enlightened.
To see ourselves as God sees us..
Which cannot happen unless we are born again.
Pause and think for a moment….. We come into this world through the matrix, the womb…
Remember Matrix definition is – something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form in the womb, an environment or material in which something develops; a surrounding medium or structure: the set of conditions that provides a system in which something grows or develops:
Through the breaking of waters gushing out and through blood in a downward direction bringing with it birth, a new life.
As He died on the cross, the skin of His side was broken, the water and blood gushed downward out from Jesus/Yeshua’s body. His Life was in The Blood poured out and brought with it a RE NEWed Life. Streaming in a downward direction, before turning and raising upwards in Resurrection life.
In Ps. 51:5, the Scriptures say that we are conceived and born in sin and if we are not converted we cannot see the kingdom of heaven. John 3:3-8
We must be turned the other way up; right side up, by being born again of water and of the spirit of God.
We are spiritually washed in His blood to erase the sin.
Then we can ascend to the kingdom of the heavens.
The way up is first down.
If we are to ascend to the heavenlies we must first get back to basics.
There is no quick fix.
This life is a PROCESS for the soul /spirit to grow and mature, to BECOME His disciple. At the start, we die – to self. Mark 4:28 is the process
Always remembering as the NUN, we must remain attached to the root. For it’s the root that supports us, it’s the Yod, source of life.. we are planted in,(grafted into), the MEM! By the work of the YOD, the HAND, we begin to become His Disciple.
We began upside down, the Way the truth and the life is to be converted.
And go upwards, just like Jesus/Yeshua and the blade.
For this to happen
First the eyes of our soul need to be opened.
Second the eyes of our understanding need to be enlightened.
For I was blind but now I see.
Opening the eyes of the soul, to receive His Words of Life which are spiritual food, Manna to the hungry.
Psalm 146: 7-9; Isaiah 24:1 –6; the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
The enemies kingdom is perverted, inverted and reversed and it’s why it all back to front and topsy turvey.
This is why the disciples were spoken of as those who’ve turned the world upside down. Acts 17:6
The Apostle Paul recorded a scathing rebuke that has shown itself to be remarkably prophetic: He described scholars and academics “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever” (Romans 1:25).
The devil’s Upside-Down thinking and reasoning is everywhere on display. He is a master at cloaking his motives, dressing up his destructive ambitions, making them appear noble and upright. “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light,” Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 11:14.
However, when his lies are compared against the right-side-up revelation in Scripture, the truth becomes clear.
Everything the world, the flesh and the devil have to offer, is a fake, a faxcimile, a copy of the real thing. Whether happiness, success, etc. etc. It’s his version of it and everything is distorted and rooted in a lie. He cannot create, so he takes the things of God and perverts them, twists them. It is all a distortion of reality, a complete illusion and fabrication, designed to deceive.
We are in this world not of it. The devil is the ‘god’, of this world and unless we are freed through new birth by Ruach haKodesh; we are his slaves and will remain so; trapped in the ‘prison’ after ‘entering the matrix’.
Through Jesus/Yeshua, the Father made a WAY of escape to know the TRUTH that leads to eternal LIFE and freedom from this prison. The choice is ours.
Our hope is in the Word of God, which promises that Jesus Christ /Messiah Yeshua, will return and set this world right-side up. The Apostle Peter called this “the times of refreshing” and “the times of restitution of all things” (Acts 3:19-21). Jesus.Yeshua Himself, called it “the regeneration” (Matthew 19:28) We must be renewed and turned upside down; which is why its called conversion.
Converted from the wrong way to the RIGHT WAY.
Before Jesus/Yeshua ascended to heaven the scripture record that He went into hell, to the ‘pit’ – then to the ‘palace’. Just like His Old Testament ‘type’, Joseph.
Jesus/Yeshua went through a full physical life. He didn’t skip the hard parts; He learned obedience by the things He suffered.
Heb. 5:8-10 Although he was a son, [Jesus] learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchi-zedek.
The suffering Jesus/Yeshua endured during His earthy life was needed in order to learn obedience. Jesus’/Yeshua’s suffering made Him fully empathetic with the sufferings and struggles of the world, things that we endure even today. Jesus’/Yeshuas suffering qualified Him to be the perfect High Priest of the whole world, once and for all. Jesus/Yeshua experienced the full spectrum of human suffering and remained fully obedient without sinning, which solidified His qualification to be our forever High Priest. Heb. 2:9-10
As believers in Jesus Christ/Messiah Yeshua, the scriptures prepare us that we will experience suffering. When we do, it is important that we stay surrendered to God and obedient to Him. Thanks to Yeshua /Jesus’ human experience, we now have a High Priest who understands every situation we walk through.
He did not gain the victory by having it easy in the lap of luxury!
Yeshua /Jesus did not have to learn obedience as the Son of God, but being fully God and fully man, He did have to learn obedience as the Son of Man.
The original Greek word for suffered, being used in this passage is most commonly used, to discuss going through difficult situations like persecution, (1 Thess. 2:14; 1 Pet. 3:12) or disease (Mk. 5:26). Inherent in its meaning, is also a positive transformation of the sufferer due to the struggles he has walked through (2 Cor. 1:3–9; Rom. 5:3).
Jesus/Yeshua, chose to endure suffering because this was God’s will for Him while He was on earth. Jesus/Yeshua the man was “made perfect” by His suffering. In this situation, the word “perfect” means “complete.”
Yeshua /Jesus walked through every struggle that we face; He is no stranger to suffering. Yeshua /Jesus remained obedient to God, perfectly fulfilling the Old Testament Law and offering Himself as the spotless, sacrificial atonement for our sins. Because of this, when we put our faith in Him, we are saved from sin, and we are able to approach Him in confidence, knowing we will find His mercy and grace.
When He set His face like flint towards Jerusalem. Luke 9:53; Knowing what was ahead, this is counting the true cost of discipleship in following Him for ‘Jerusalem’ is our goal also! Taking up our cross.
There are some teachings that say because He suffered, we don’t have to; that because He fasted, we don’t need to; however Yeshua/ Jesus own words are clearly contrary to this, saying, not if, but.. When you fast… Matt. 6:16,17
In this world you will be objects of hatred by all people on account of my name John 16:33 doesn’t sound like a happy time!
He who endures to the end… Mt. 24:13 and we are to do just that. Mt. 10:38 and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. Luke 14:27, And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple. Luke 9 :23 then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
Matt 16:24-26 Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus – Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it.
The Christian life is not the mossy track seen through rose colored specs, it’s a rocky climb up a high mountain.
We’ve been fed many misconceptions, for when its tough we are accused of being in sin or error! Prosperity and abundant wealth with all its accoutrements, is not a guaranteed sign that someone is truly blessed by God in the truest sense of the word. It’s all a matter of what you think and believe the blessing of God really is, neither of which will change Truth.
We were never promised a life of ease but He gave us a helper to get us through it.
One day at a time.
When it’s tough, we have a tendency moan and complain. Our flesh thinks we are missing out on what others have, as they seem to be so blessed! The life of self denial, sacrifice and discipline; of laying down our own goals and dreams, is not the sermon that those who love to have their ears tickled want to hear.
The Pharisees were the ones who taught that worldly wealth and prosperity was the result of those who were godly. It’s the same promise of the prosperity gospel of today.
We should remember Yeshua/Jesus said in Mark 8:36; For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Consider the butterfly, a creature often used as symbolic of the metamorphic change that takes place a new believers life.
From a worm like caterpillar, to a beautiful winged creature.
Sadly, this too is used as a symbol by those following the adversary, the hater of our souls, for their plans of mind control.
(Space does not permit examples however a web search reveals sinister and nefarious plans for the same goal the devil has always had; that we can become like God through transmutation from one form to another. That of ‘god-like beings’ and enhanced by genetic manipulation together with the mixing of Nephillim DNA. The co-mingling, like the experience of Nimród in Genesis 10:8 who ‘began to become..’ and others also after the flood.)
The search for any such ancient DNA, seems now to be in full force through heritage sites, such as 23 and me, and the unusual increase at law enforcement checkpoints, where officers have been charged with taking similar information. Those in opposition to the Kingdom of Heaven, are looking for something and are amassing a databank of citizens genetic makeup.
(Sounds crazy? Again a web search will reveal things that we have not even dreamed about! The devil is busy for he knows his time is short).
You will see, along with those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear, that butterflies, the monarch in particular, as part of logos on promotional materials. Movies and music videos and advertising et cetera et cetera. Their agendas are hidden in plain site. E.g.The monarch is a symbol used by occult, (occult means Hidden,) based societies and groups who are anti/against Jesus Christ and are following the devils lies; in basically the same as he did in Genesis; that ye shall be as ‘gods’ and not die!
The spirit of man ascends. Ecclesiastes 3:21. The beast goes down, using that same lie he did in the begining.
This information is NOT to cause fear but to inspire courage, so we are not taken by surprise. We need to be alert, ready and on guard for our enemy is..1Pet.5:8
and remember that we with Titus in 2:13 are in this season looking for the blessed hope..
and manifestation of the glory!
However, returning to observe the butterfly cycle. From the egg
producing a worm-like, crawling caterpillar;
who crawls through it’s short life on the ground like the serpent; who was cursed, consuming all in its path.
Eating the dust of the ground of which we are all formed!
One day it climbs a tree and turns itself upside down, hanging on a tree.
It is ready to die and become something else entirely. (Has a familiar ring to it!) The caterpillar forms a protective hard shell around its body. Called a chrysalis and in that tomb like structure it dies to one form.
This structure resembles the tight hard lacquered strips of cloth used in burial and in swaddling clothes at birth! Familiar?
Only in dying to self as a worm form can it undergo the metamorphosis, in a process of change, beginning to become, another creature. And when metamorphosis is completed a new being emerges, it is born-again from the shroud of death.
The chrysalis this new creation does not in any way resemble its former self.For behold all things are become new. 2Cor.5:17
It will never have to crawl again for it now has wings and will soar upwards no longer earthbound.
It’s prison door is open and it is free to ascend, and live in the image that the creator planned, the One who gave it the breath/ruach of life, chaim.
And so are we to become the beautiful new creation in Jesus/yeshua the creatures we were always meant and designed to be.
There is a mystery revealed within.
We are given life by father, the butterfly gives life to the caterpillar and as it crawls not knowing its purpose or destiny. Still earth bound and unaware of why it was born at all; we are like that too. We think like a caterpillar, crawling along, consuming, going somewhere and thinking caterpillar thoughts. And see only what is right ahead, going, working, eating, sleeping in a continual cycle.
Then the miracle happens and the earth-bound life is terminated and for us the metamorphosis begins. From being first, born as earthly creatures upside down; now we are born again by His spirit pheuma/ruach into new creatures right side up in Him. Freed from the prison of the earthbound matrix, we are turned right side up becoming children of Heaven.Eph. 2:76 Made to dwell in and abide in the heavenly realms with Him leaving behind everything that held us earthbound everything of the prison that tied us to the world, to the things of the flesh and to sin.
We are turned right side up and headed in the right direction out of the ambigram matrix into the eternal light of heavens glory/ the symbolic dwelling place of the righteous. Where He has raised us up with Him and we are..
Eph. 4:22, 23; Gal. 2:20; 2Cor. 5:17; Rom. 6:4-8;
Thank the Father in Yeshua’s/Jesus’ Name, that according to Jn. 5:24 and 1Jn. 3:14; We have passed from death to life..
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed
from
unto
The life/death ambigram is a
typographical design consisting of text modified in such a way that it can be read in multiple orientations, as in mirror image words that have been flipped, mirrored, inverted, turned upside down!
Which WAY will we let it read?
Death to Life or Life to Death?
We will go one WAY or the other – Life or Death –
choose this day..and choose LIFE!
Shalom!
Please don’t leave this page without turning upside down !
Make certain Jesus is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
Its all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.
NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.
The genealogy of the High Priests was focused on in previous posts…
High Priest in Hebrew: כהן גדול –kohen gadol;
With definite article: ha’kohen ha’gadol,
the high priest;
In Aramaic: kahana rabba.
Recall that the High Priests belonged to the Jewish priestly families and traced their paternal line back to Aaron. He was the elder brother of Moses, through Zadok, a leading priest at the time of David and Solomon.This tradition came to an end in the 2nd century BC during the rule of the Hasmoneans, when the position was occupied by other priestly families unrelated to Zadok.
Even though Aaron was the first High Priest mentioned in the Book of Exodus, the legendary passage revealed the first man who assumed the title of High Priest of God was Enoch. He was succeeded by Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, (or Melchi zedek), Abraham, Isaac and Levi.
These priests are referred to as ‘descendants of Aaron,’ in the biblical traditions drawn upon by the writer of Chronicles. Aaron had 4 sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.However, Nadab and Abihu died before Aaron (incident of offering strange fire); so only Eleazar and Ithamar had sons. Chronicles records, one priest, Zadok, from Eleazar’s descendants and another priest, Ahimelech, from Ithamar’s descendants, were designated by King David to help create the various priestly work groups.
Aaron received from the Lord the promise of priesthood, it meant his children and their descendants would be part of the Levite priestly class called the Kohanim.
At the time his grandson Phineas had already been born, which meant he did not automatically receive the honor of Kohanim; and possibly also due to the fact that Phineas’s father, Eleazar, had a wife who was a Gentile. Exodus 6:25. She was a daughter of Jethro, a former Midianite priest called Putiel.
With these facts in mind, this post is connected to Aaron’s grandson, Phineas.
Phineas performed a very serious act during the rebellion at Baal Peor recorded in Numbers 25:10 – 30:1.
He killed a Prince of the tribe of Simeon, Zimri, (son of Zurishaddai, called Shelumiel;) because Zimri was engaged in rampant immorality with Cozbi a princess of Midian.
Those that were following Zimri’s leadership, as head of the tribe of Simeon, were the ones that partook the most in the sin of their leader.
Because of this blatant rebellion against Torah, a plague broke out amongst the people and 24,000 people died from this terrible disobedience.
If it was not for the zealous and righteous anger of Phineas, perhaps the entire tribe of Simeon would have been destroyed.
The plague affecting Israel was stopped by God due to Phineas’ zeal.
It took something to kill a family member, from one of the 12 tribes, and he would have had to count the cost. Here is another example of the sacrifice of the lives of the few for the many.
Phineas took a spear(the instrument by which sin was judged/death) and went into the tent and killed both the Zimri, his Israelite relative and his mistress.
Following this righteous act showing zeal for his God, the Lord rewarded him by making him a Kohen, Priest and promised him a covenant of peace.
He blessed him for his action because his heart motive was truly out of concern to stop any further deaths of the children of Israel that had been caused by these two individuals.
There is a spiritual principle here with this action, showing how to stop the plague of death, which is the consequences of sin.
This story tells us that the plague was not going to stop until someone paid with their life for Israel’s sins. In this case, we discover that it was the leaders of the rebellion that had to die to save the sins of their brothers.
Jesus/Yeshua did the same for us. Did He not take upon Himself the sin of all the people, shouldering all of it Himself?Was He not also thrust with a spear causing the life-giving water and blood to flow for all mankind?
(Spear, the instrument by which sin was judged and His death confirmed!)
Was not the plague of the law of sin and death destroyed the second He breathed His last?
It is Finished!
Behold I am giving to him my covenant of peace.Hineni noten lo et-beriti shalom.
Hebrew word for covenant is Berit
(which is also a popular Norwegian/Scandanavian name)
The Hebrew word berit, is most often used to express the idea of covenant, and originally meant a shackle or chain.Later it came to mean any form of binding agreement. The covenant in the Biblical contexts combines God’s free offer of a special relationship and the people’s willing response in faith by agreeing to take the obligation to worship and obey only this God, Yahweh.
This was a further promised for his descendants, as a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, brit kehunat olam;(because he had been zealous for his God and made kafar/ atonement for all of Israel.)
Here it would appear, is a clear type of Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah and His Greater Priesthood; those of whom He is First-Fruit.
The copying of scrolls was the only way to reproduce the Torah and it was critical the scribes made certain to keep the Scriptures unaltered over the generations since Moses.
Because of this there are strict guidelines concerning the writing of the Scriptures.
It is called, ‘Soferut Laws for Sefrei Torah’.
Writing Torah requires that each letter to be well-formed in the Hebrew script. No letters must touch other letters.
None can be badly formed, illegible or broken!
Here is the mystery of the broken VAV.
In the ancient scrolls, Numbers 25:12, there is an exception to this rule.
It concerns only the Hebrew letter VAV.
This letter is part of the word Shalom
as it is normally written but here it is like this.. (m o l sha – in the Hebrew letters reading from r to l.)
Recall the Pardes of the last post and the levels of understanding in the Scriptures; like the layers of an onion.
Peshat- literal- the plain meaning – Pinchas righteous indignation the census and the holy days.
Remez – just beyond the literal = God’s character = a God of Salvation Redemption = Hidden glimpses of promised Messiah – broken VAV and in the 7 Appointed times of the year – moedim = application for us in our lives today – to be on fire for Him zealous in our love.
DRASH –to seek deeper by comparison- anomalies such as Enlarged letters e.g. broken vav small yod and enlarged nun– symbolism.
SOD further research e.g.– Dead sea scrolls and Gematria numbers equaling the value of each letter and torah code.
And look at this broken VAV on a SOD (Mystery) level.
This broken VAV is a picture of the broken-ness of the Messiah for our ultimate deliverance, our salvation.
How is this possible as Jesus/Yeshua never had a broken bone in His body?
How was He broken for us?
Here the letter vav represents the number of man, six, and the broken vav represents a man that is broken.
In this verse, (pasuk), the man has been broken for the sake of a covenant of peace that brought atonement to Israel,a clear picture of Messiah Yeshua and His ultimate deliverance and restoration for us.
The ‘broken word’ shalom, can also be read as שָׁלֵם – shalem.
(Phonetic spelling – shaw-lame)
Meaning COMPLETE, which indicates that the covenant is one of finality, perfection and completion.Repairer of the breach.
Restorer – bringing complete reconciliation to the broken relationship between God and man,
the broken covenant renewed,
He came to heal the broken hearted.He came to heal the broken in spirit those who have been crushed by the serpent, whose head He came to crush.When we think of His brokenness as He told us to do in remembrance of Him, at the breaking of bread.He says it in His own words this is My Body, BROKEN for you. He is the Bread of Heaven and of Life.
Manna = the pieces that are made at the breaking, it’s the spiritual connecting of each of us into one body of believers. One New Man.
We, as Messianic believers, understand that the promise to Phineas. It was a clear fore-telling of the Glory of the Greater Priesthood of Yeshua/Jesus, after the Order of Melchi-zedek, indestructible and everlasting.
The glory which is REVEALED to those who the Father has called. The same resurrection glory that raised Yeshua/Jesus from the dead WILL quicken our mortal bodies and make us alive in Him.
The broken vav promises us that His is restored.
Remembering from a previous Post that the vav, (in the paleo hebrew alef bet), is the…
The nail, peg, hook, symbolizing joining together; making sure; becoming bound; nailed to.
The nail that secures!
It is written in the Hebrew Scriptures of Deut. 5:15 that the Lord made the heavens and the earth by the Zeroah.
So it was by the Zeroah that everything we see, the universe itself, came into existence.
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. Jer. 32:17
When He brought the Hebrews out of Egypt on Passover, with miracles and wonders it is written that He did so by the Zeroah; and concerning salvation, it is written that the Lord will make known His Zeroah and all the earth will see the salvation of God.
Isaiah 53 contains the prophecy of one who will be wounded and crushed/BROKEN for our sins who will die for our judgment and who by His death will bring us healing life and redemption.
The ancient rabbis identified this one as the Messiah.
The opening verse of the chapter Isaiah 53, ‘who has believed our report and to whom has the Zeroah of the Lord been REVEALED?‘
The Zeroah is the one who dies for our sins and it is also the BONE of a LAMB which is the most mysterious object on the Passover table.
The death of the Lamb would be the death of Messiah and connects back to Isaiah 53. Zeroah however, was also there at creation because the Zeroah is the power of God, that which accomplishes the will of God is the arm/Zeroahof the Almighty.The first letter of Zeroah is Z – In Hebrew, Zayin.
Zayin and the Crownlets:Zayin is the 7th letter. The pictograph for Zayin looks like a sword. In the classical script the Vav on its head there is a large crown! There are 3 marks on the top of the letter Zayin. 8 hebrew letters are given this special mark by attaching to them 3 crownlets or ‘tagin’.The mystery of the ZAYIN is that its considered a crowned VAV. In the same way the VAV represents ‘Yashar’ – a straight line from God to man- so ZAYIN represents ‘or chozer’ or ‘returning light’. It is in itself a paradox meaning both ‘weapon/sword’ yet derives its root from a word meaning ‘nourishment/sustenance’. The word for war milchamah contains the word lechem/bread. Sometimes war = fighting for survival and therefore able to find food and be nourished.
They are collectively called ‘sha’atnezgets’ letters. Some sages comment that they are small zaynin (swords) and function as spiritual weapons e.g.in Ps.91
Zayin is the Crowned Man (Yeshua/Jesus) equipped with the Sword of Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh. It is not hard to see that, since VAV represents MAN and ZAYIN is the crowned VAV (that is the Crowned Man), it is clear that ZAYIN represents Messiah Yeshua, the true King of the Jews while Zayin also represents a sword = the Word of God and Holy Spirit.
And here is another paradox, the arm of the Almighty, who was witnessed as weak, BROKEN and dying on a cross – was the manifested love of God and there is no greater power than that – dying to self that we might find life.
If we have ever dropped anything on the floor and seen it shattered into a million pieces, we know that there is no hope of ever putting it back together. Even if we glue every bit, it would never be the same as it was before. Jesus/Yeshua is the great renewer. The first mention of the re-new-ed covenant was to Jeremiah in the Hebrew Scriptures, Jeremiah 31:31 – 34. Telling of the covenant that had been broken, so it would seem that the re-new-ed covenant is born of brokenness.
It exists because ofbrokennessand it was first spoken of in the days when the land of Israel lay in ruins in the wake of judgment.
It’s the covenant God made for those who had fallen from grace,a covenant for the broken.
The covenant is not just for Israel but is given to everyone and its nature is the same for all.All have sinned – all have BROKEN His precepts – we have all failed – all fallen and become BROKEN in someway.
So the re-new-ed covenant, is the covenant God gives to all who have sinned, all who have failed and fallen; and all who should have no hope of any covenant with God, those who don’t deserve it. It’s the covenant He makes with them regardless of what ever they have done and it has a very special power.
It is the power to put together that which is BROKEN.
The power of restoration and healing.
The power to pick up and bring together all the broken pieces of our lives.The covenant of the BROKEN – the VAV – symbolizing joining together, making sure, becoming bound, nailed to. The nail that secures. Hosea 14:4 – 7; John 8:9 – 11
There is another mystery, a secret hidden in the translation and it can only be seen in the original language.
John 19:23–24; 1John 3:16.
It’s in the question that says, ‘to whom has the ARM of the lord beenREVEALED?’
Revealed in Hebrew is niglatah.MI HE’EMIN LISHMU’ATEINU UZERO’A HASHEM AL-MI NIGLATAH?
Who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of Hashem revealed?
זְר֫וֹעַ Strong’s Hebrew: 2220 zeroa arm shoulder זְרוֹעַ zerowa
Messiah Yeshua/Jesus is the ‘arm of the Lord’
These words open the 4th and last of Isaiah’s ‘Servant Songs’, 4 prophecies describing the “Eved Adonai”, the “Servant of Adonai”, Who suffers and dies.The Arm/Zeroah of The Lord is REVEALEDto those open to seeing it, even right here.
The arm of The Lord is being revealed in this very question.
גָּלָהgâlâh, gaw-law’; a primitive root; to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal:— advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, plainly, publish, remove, reveal, shamelessly, shew, surely, tell, uncover.
Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon.
Revealed is a translation of the Hebrew word niglatah but niglatah means much more than revealed. Niglatah means to be taken captive.
The KJV translates Strong’s H1540 in the following manner:
So the arm/zeroah of the Lord, the power of God will be taken captive. The Messiah was taken into captivity, arrested he became a prisoner.Niglatah also means to put to shame/disgraced.
So the arm of the Lord will be put to shame and disgraced.
Messiah was put to shame mocked degraded and condemned as a blasphemer.And niglatah also means stripped, naked, exposed and laid back. So the arm of the Lord will be stripped, naked and exposed. So Messiah was stripped of His garments and exposed ‘naked’* on the cross.
(*The Hebrew understanding of naked means, to remove all clothing except a loin cloth.)
It is the most famous image in this world, that of one who has been taken captive, stripped, naked and exposed.
It’s the arm of the Lord revealed the power of the almighty. But how could the strongest power in existence be revealed in the death of a naked man on the cross?
That is the revelation of the arm of God the strongest force in the universe the power of the almighty the power of love.
Most religions teach that salvation comes from the one who needs to be saved, an arm reaching up to heaven.
Only one message is different – the Gospel.Salvation is just the opposite:
It’s an arm, the zeroah of the Lamb of God reaching down from heaven.
We need to stop struggling and striving to be good enough.
Stop seeking to save ourselves. We can’t, and we don’t have to.
Messiah is Heaven’s ARM reaching down to us.
In biblical prophecy, its the Zeroah, the Arm of God. Wherever we are, wherever we’re not, just grasp on to heaven’s arm and He will do the rest.Not only does this story tell us that in order to receive life more abundantly, you must first die to the flesh and take up our cross and follow Him, it also tells us how Father/Yahweh feels about people that are sold out and zealous for Him.
He loves people with zeal and passion, people that love what He loves and hate what He hates.
In the story of Phineas IS The REVEALING. The Niglatah, the baring of God’s Holy Arm was personified as a type of Messiah in Phineas (priest) with His spear the instrument of his zeal to save his family the children (sheep) of Israel.The broken covenant symbolized by the broken VAV in shalom/peace was restored by His zeal as fulfilled in Yeshua as the sacrificial lamb on Passover, the Zeroah/arm of Pesach.
In the brokenness, due to the severing of the connection with His Father, when He said, ‘why have you forsaken Me’? Sin causes separation from God.
His substitutionary sacrifice was the restorer of the breach, (of the relationship that was breached/broken); and we are now reconciled to the Father and this IS the gospel message.
We are ministers of reconciliation telling of the promise of the BeritShalom – His covenant of peace – which was there in the VAV, the nail, that secures and joins together that which was broken.He was broken that we may be made whole.
The Hebrew word ‘kanaw’ qana’ קָנָא means: zealous, jealous, competitive.
It carries with it the idea that no one can come between you and the one you love – jealous for God.Love is stronger than death – it’s the glue that holds everything together and is revealed… with
a broken vav,
a shank bone of a sacrificial lamb,
the zeroah arm of the Lord given in love,
for a covenant of peace,
with our High Priest after the order of Melchi-zedek,
Who is alone the One who can put everything back together.
His brokenness was not in His BONEs but
in a better WAY of TRUTH that leads to LIFE.
Derek – Emet – Chaim = Yeshua/Jesus
Shalom Aleichem – שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם
Peace be upon you!
Are you saved? Are you broken?
PLEASE Don’t leave this page without making that life-saving decision – time is running out. Don’t miss the day of your visitation!
This life is NOT all there is!
You are not here by chance!
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…Don’t put it off one more moment…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.
You are now Born Again by the Holy Spirit of the Living God and you are part of the ever growing family of believers. You will never be the same again!
for His Bride.
Following the dark ages when the Bible was kept from the general public, Martin Luther had a personal apocalypse and an awakening followed.
There is one that leads to life.
(It’s Not scripture, it’s also not wrong!)
The sky will roll up as He returns to raise the sleeping Saints into resurrection life and then we too will be changed from mortality to immortality in the twinkling of an eye at the speed of light. (186000 miles per Second.)
you are awakened to Messiah..
The 
The five hypotheses are:
The way up is first down.
Everything the world, the flesh and the devil have to offer, is a fake, a faxcimile, a copy of the real thing. Whether happiness, success, etc. etc. It’s his version of it and everything is distorted and rooted in a lie. He cannot create, so he takes the things of God and perverts them, twists them. It is all a distortion of reality, a complete illusion and fabrication, designed to deceive.
Hineni noten lo et-beriti shalom.
(m o l sha – in the Hebrew letters reading from r to l.)
He says it in His own words this is My Body, 
is restored.
Even if we glue every bit, it would never be the same as it was before. Jesus/Yeshua is the great renewer. The first mention of the re-
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Salvation is just the opposite:
Love is stronger than death – it’s the glue that holds everything together and is 
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