YAHUAHSHUA
The Messiah
"Repent and be Baptized in the
Name
of YAHUAHSHUA the Messiah."
YAHUAHSHUA
The Messiah
"Repent and be Baptized in the
Name
of YAHUAHSHUA the Messiah."
Write: YAHUAHSHUA the Messiah
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0.0) Introduction
1.0) Name of the Almighty and of the Messiah
1.1) Distortions of the Name thru Time and Language
1.2) The Messiah's Name thru Languages
1.3) The Only Tribe of Israel to carry the Father's Name
1.4) Names in the Hebrew O.T. with YAH or YAHU
2.0) The True Biblical Calendar
2.1) Intercalating the True Calendar of the Bible
2.2) The Feast Days of YAHUAH
2.3) Passover and the Crucifixion of the Messiah
3.0) Key to Understanding the Book of Revelation
3.1) The Great Tribulation
3.2) The Mark of the Beast
3.3) The Return of the Messiah
5.0) Chronology of the Messiah's Life on Earth
6.0) Important Variances in the N.T. Manuscripts
7.0) Tools to Study the Bible (including the Manuscripts)
8.0) Names in Paleo-Hebrew Script dated about 1000 BCE
9.0) The City of YAHUAH in the Center of the Hollow Earth
10.0) Lost Books of the Bible
12.0) Free Downloadable Powerful Bible Study Software
13.0) Revealing Light for the Last Days from the Dead Sea Scrolls
14.0) Signs that we are in the Last Days
15.0) More Signs that we are in the Last Days
16.0) Babylon, Great Whore and U.S.A. are One and the Same
18.0) The Identity of the 1st Beast Begins to Unfold
19.0) Monumental Pagan Symbols for the Last Days
20.0) Good News! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
21.0) The 7 Laws of Noah will affect Believers in the Last Days
22.0) Danger! Warning! Beware of Copycat Websites!
23.0) Man's 6000 Year Time-Line
24.0) Jubilee Year Cycles from Adam to the End of the 6000 Years
25.0) The 7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, and 7 Vials Correlation Chart
26.0) Passover and Crucifixion Chart for the Messiah's Death in 30CE
27.0) Feast Days for the 364 Day Sacred Calendar- 2000CE to 2011CE
28.0) Comfort you My People
29.0) Having more than one wife or husband is wrong - it's Adultery
30.0) Keeping Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
31.0) Keeping the Feast of Weeks (Feast of Pentecost)
32.0) End-Time Revelations related to the Messiah
33.0) The Hand Writing on the Wall of Daniel 5:25
34.0) O.T. Variances for All the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls in New Book
35.0) Keeping the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Taruah)
36.0) The Last 10 Years to the End of the 6000 Years from Adam
37.0) The Sign of the Prophet Jonah in the Last Days
38.0) Bits and Pieces for the Last Ten Years
39.0) The Fall Feasts as a complete Block of 22 Days and the Last 10 Years
40.0) The 7 Thunders of Revelation and the Last Tabernacle Years
41.0) The Messiah the Aleph and the Tau, His 1st and 2nd Coming
42.0) The Abomination of Desolation of Daniel during the Great Tribulation
43.0) Iraq, Euphrates River, Armageddon, and the Last 22 Years
44.0) The First and Second Seals of Revelation 6:1-17 are OPEN!
45.0) The Third and the Seventh Heaven
46.0) Image in Daniel: Timeline between Neo-Babylonian Empire & Messiah's Return
47.0) The Rewards Promised to them that Overcome
48.0) Beginning of Sorrows of Matthew 24:8 starts Sacred New Year March 19, 2003
49.0) Countdown to the Messiah's Return
50.0) The Last 7 Years to the Messiah's Return and the Jubilees of Days
51.0) The Importance of the 2nd Month on the Sacred Calendar and the Last Days
52.0) 70 YEARS from the Atlantic Charter in 1941 to the Messiah's Return in 2011
53.0) Halley's Comet (Signs in the Stars) and the Messiah's 2nd Coming
54.0) Numerical Value of the Messiah's Two Names Related to His 2nd Coming
55.0) Scriptures related to the Last Days and the Messiah's Return
56.0) Flight of Believers in the Winter of 2008, During the Great Tribulation
57.0) The 70th Week of Daniel 9:24-27 is the 7 Years before the Messiah returns
58.0) Time for the Sealing of Believers and the Mark of the Beast upon Unbelievers
59.0) When will we call upon the Messiah using his future name of YAHUAHTSADAQ
60.0) The Time of Jacob's Trouble
61.0) The Grain Harvest, Feast of Weeks, the Messiah and the Last Days
62.0) The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) and the Last 7 Years
63.0) The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) a Key to the Pattern of the Last Days
64.0) Signs in the Heavens, the Times and the Seasons in the Last Days
65.0) The 3rd Seal of Revelation 6:5-6 will be Open in the Spring of 2007
66.0) Fall 2004 to Spring 2008: 3 1/2 Years Preparation for the Great Tribulation
67.0) Timeline for the Events during the Last 22 Years (7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, 7 Vials)
68.0) Feast of Trumpets in 2004 started the Beginning of Sorrows of Matthew 24:8
69.0) Storm Clouds on the Horizon
70.0) Time Before and After the Messiah's 2nd Coming
71.0) Last 7 Years of 52 Jubilees of Days Cycles to the Messiah's Return
72.0) Last 22 Years and the 120 Day Cycles to the End of the 6000 Years from Adam
73.0) Connection between Noah's Flood, and the Messiah's 1st and 2nd Coming
74.0) Security Features in the Sacred Calendar and the Two 7 Day Cycle Systems
75.0) Connection between the Feast Days and the Last 7 Years of Jubilees of Days
76.0) Sign in Constellation of Orion of pending 9.0 Earthquake and Tsunami in Asia
77.0) More on Time and Prophecy related to the Messiah's Crucifixion
78.0) Sealing of the Righteous from Spring 2007 to Spring 2008
79.0) Pattern of the Numbers 15 & 37 in the 7 Year Jubilees of Days to the Messiah
80.0) The 4 Seasons of Jubilees of Days in the Last 7 Years to the Messiah's Return
81.0) 2nd Passover, 2nd Feast of Unleavened Bread in 2nd Month and the Last Days
82.0) The 22 Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet and the Last 22 Years
83.0) Hurricane Katrina: Like the Days of Noah before the Coming of the Messiah
84.0) Last 7 Years viewed as 1 Year, and the Seasons in Prophecy
85.0) 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season, another Sign for the Last Days
86.0) 2007 Pivotal and Preparation Year for the Great Tribulation
87.0) More on the Sealing of the Righteous from Spring 2007 to Spring 2008
88.0) The Last and 144th Hour of the 6000 Years from Adam
89.0) Sealing of the Righteous by the End of the 18th Year Confirmed
90.0) The Seal of Yahuah upon the Last 7 Years of 52 Jubilees of Days
91.0) Summer 2006, Abraham at 100 Years old and Patterns of 26 & 22
92.0) Manna, Wheat Harvest and the Last Days
93.0) The Year 2006, what time is it on Yahuah's Clock of Time
94.0) 70 Weeks of Daniel 9:24 and the Messiah's 2nd Coming
95.0) The Number 70 and the Last Days
96.0) The 3 1/2 Year Cycles in the 6000 Years from Adam
97.0) Preparing for the Great Tribulation
98.0) Believers Tabernacleling in the Wilderness for 3 1/2 Years in Last Days
99.0) Number 120 of Man, and the Terminators of 22 for the Last Days
100.0) Terminator of 22 Days in the Three related Calendar Time Systems
101.0) Three Distinct Time Systems that affect the Calendar Year
102.0) The Preparation Year 2007 and the Great Tribulation with Terminators
103.0) Seasonal Pattern of 21 + 49 + 21 Days and the Last 7 Years to the Messiah
104.0) Seasonal Pattern of 21 + 21 + 21 + 21 Months in the Last 7 Years to Messiah
105.0) The Sunspot Cycle and the Intercalation Year of the Sacred Calendar
106.0) Intercalation Year 2006/7, Pentecost 2007, Sealing and 1 1/2 Year Prophecy
107.0) 3 1/2 Year Great Tribulation is Wheat Harvest before the Messiah's Return
108.0) 3rd Seal of Revelation is now Open, Great Tribulation to begin Spring 2008
109.0) Countdown, 9 Months to the start of the Great Tribulation on March 20, 2008
110.0) Feast of Trumpets 2007 begins the preparation for the Great Tribulation
111.0) Trumpets 2007 countdown to Great Trib and the Messiah's 2nd Coming
112.0) Messiah's Future Name Key to understanding 1290 Day prophecy of Daniel
113.0) Understanding the 1335 Day Prophecy of Daniel 12:12
114.0) Lamentations of Jeremiah and the Great Tribulation
115.0) Rewards and consequences of not taking or taking the Mark of the Beast
116.0) The Great Tribulation began on March 20, 2008 but the Signs are subtle
117.0) Last Invitation for the Marriage Feast sent out and Wheat Harvest has begun
118.0) World preparing to receive Extraterrestrials - Satan and his Fallen Angels
119.0) The Seven 6 Month Semesters of the Great Tribulation
120.0) Progressive Intensity of the 7 Semesters of the Great Tribulation
121.0) 70 Weeks of Daniel and the Opening of the 5th Seal of Revelation
122.0) The 4 Phases of the Great Tribulation
123.0) The 4 Elements of the Beast System are quickly creeping upon us
124.0) 2300 Day Prophecy of Daniel and the Messiah's 2nd Coming
125.0) The 4th Semester of the Great Tribulation
126.0) Sealing of the 144,000 on the Day of Atonement on September 26, 2009
Y
YAHUAHTSADAQ Lion of the Tribe of Yahudah
Let's start first with the name of the Almighty and of His Beloved Son. The very first thing that you teach a child in worshiping is the Name of the one being worshiped.
Most people can figure out the name of the Almighty from the Old Testament, but very few know or understand what the Messiah's name is!
To those who are not too acquainted with the Hebrew Language; Hebrew is read from right to left while English is read from left to right.
Please keep in mind that due to the limitations of the space on this Web Page the articles here are just a short version. Any one of these topics could easily take up the entire Web Page and more.
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The Messiah carries the fullness of His Father's name of all four Hebrew letters of YOD, HE, VAV, HE written as YAHUAH in English. About 169 different names of people in the Old Testament carry two or three letters of the Father's name of YAH (yod, he) or YAHU (yod, he, vav) but never ever with the fourth Hebrew letter "he". The only exception being the Messiah himself as written in Jeremiah 23:6 & Jeremiah 33:16. There you will see the Messiah's future name of YAHUAHTSADAQ (yod, he, vav, he, tsaddi, daleth, qoph) with 7 Hebrew letters which is also the future name of New Jerusalem as also noted in Revelation 3:12 and means YAHUAH IS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
The Messiah's present name from the Hebrew is YAHUAHSHUA (yod, he, vav, he, shin, vav, ayin) with 7 Hebrew letters which means YAHUAH IS SALVATION and which can be proved using the Old Testament Hebrew & Greek manuscripts, and comparing them to the New Testament Greek manuscripts.
If you check the New Testament Greek manuscripts, you will find the Greek name used for the Messiah as IHCOYC(iota, eta, sigma, omicron, upsilon, sigma) and other variations such as IHCOY, IHCOYN, IHCOI depending on the grammatical structure of the sentence. This is a poor attempt to transliterate the name JOSHUA from the Hebrew O.T.. In the N.T. Greek manuscripts you will find the name IHCOYCand its variations abbreviated as IC,IN, IY or as IHC, IHN, IHY (also called the nomina sacra) with a line over the top of these abbreviated letters which can stand for a name, a word, or a number in the Greek manuscripts. It is very rare to see the name IHCOYC written out in full in the N.T. Greek manuscripts.
Now that we have some idea what the name for the Messiah looks like in the Greek. We have to go back to the Hebrew to look for his true name, for he was a Hebrew of Hebrew parents and he had a Hebrew name. We can't compare Greek with Hebrew but we can compare Greek with Greek. The Old Testament was translated into the Greek about 300 years before the Messiah in the Septuagint (LXX). So if we take the name for the Messiah in the Greek N.T. and we look for an identical name in the Greek O.T. we will find that the only name that does match is the name for JOSHUA and is also written as IHCOYC in the Old Testament Greek with its variations.
In the O.T. Greek the name IHCOYC is usually written out in full but there are manuscripts where it is also abbreviated just like in the N.T. Greek.
Now that we have established that the Messiah's name in the N.T. Greek is identical to the name of JOSHUA in the O.T. Greek, we must find out what the Hebrew name is.
The name of JOSHUAin the O.T. Hebrew is usually written as YOD, HE, VAV, SHIN, AYIN (five letters) and pronounced as YAHUSHUA. But is also written in its fuller form twice as YOD, HE, VAV, SHIN, VAV, AYIN (six letters) in Judges 2:7 & Deuteronomy 3:21 also pronounced as YAHUSHUA.
The only difference of whether the second VAV is visible or not is a cosmetic one. Since Hebrew is a consonantal language the vowels are visually put in as the reader reads the word. The second VAV is there in both cases but in the more common occurrence it is understood and put in while reading, while in the rare occurrence it is there visually. In both cases the name is identical and pronounced the same. For example, the word BEN in Hebrew means son and is spelled as BN (beth, nun) and the vowel sound of E is put in and pronounced while reading the word but is not there visually.
We have now established the name of JOSHUA in Hebrew as YAHUSHUA (yod, he, vav, shin, vav, ayin) with six Hebrew letters. We have also proved that the Messiah's name and Joshua's name are identical in the Greek. But there is one major difference between the names of these two men. And that difference is the fourth letter of the Father's name. Joshua only carries three letters of the Father's name as do other people in the O.T. . The Messiah carries the fullness of His Father's name with all four letters and so the Messiah's name is YAHUAHSHUA (yod, he, vav, he, shin, vav, ayin) with seven Hebrew letters. Some of the N.T. scriptures that prove the Messiah's unique name are: Acts 4:12; Ephesians 1:20,21; Philippians 2:9-11; Hebrews 1:4.
We also know that the Messiah's name is unique because there are other people in both the O.T. and in the N.T. with the name of Jesus. In Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8 the Jesus here is Joshua the son of Nun. In Colossians 4:11 it is Jesus called Justus. In Acts 13:6 there is Bar-Jesus where the word Bar is Aramaic for son.
We are not saved through common names such as Jesus or Joshua. There are thousands of people even today in the Spanish speaking world that use the name of Jesus as their first or last name. Also in Israel, a lot of people have the name of Yahushua. The Messiah's name is unique and there is only one person with that name and that is the Messiah himself. There is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved. When we call upon the Messiah using his name, we are actually calling upon His Father because the Messiah's name carries the Father's name and means YAHUAH (the Father) is SALVATION. So when we pray to YAHUAH the Father we petition Him through His Beloved Son YAHUAHSHUA our High Priest after the Order of MelechiTsadaq and our Passover Lamb that perfect sacrifice who died for our sins that we may have Eternal Life.
Many people also say that no one knows the proper pronunciation of the Father's name of YAHUAH any more and that it has been lost. Which is not true. Anyone who can read Hebrew knows it but will not pronounce it and replaces the name with other words such as Elohim (the Mighty Ones), Adonai (Master), Ha Shem (The Name), or G_D. But there is a very easy and simple way to know and pronounce the Father's name. Most people know and pronounce the name of the Tribe of Judah which in the Hebrew is YAHUDAH (yod, he, vav, daleth, he). The only difference between the spelling for the name of YAHUDAH and the Father's name of YAHUAH is one letter the D (daleth). So if you remove the letter D from the name YAHUDAH you have the proper pronunciation for the Father's name of YAHUAH.
the name of God, Lord, Amen, the Tetragrammaton, Jehovah, Yahweh, Yahvah, Iao, Jesus, Christ, Yeshua, Yahshua, Adonai, Ha Shem, G_D, etc. just to name a few.
From the scriptures, it is very plain that the Father has one name and that name is YAHUAH (yod, he, vav, he).
With the hybrid forms of Jehovah, Yahweh and Yahvah we can quickly check to see that the distortions come over time because the value of the letters of the alphabet have changed. For instance, the letter J developed from the Roman letter I during the middle ages and at one time even was the same letter. The same can be said for the letter U and W which both are derived from the Roman letter V which originally carried an "oo" or "uu" sound. Even the name for the letter W still carries the old value of double UU or as it is called in French double V V. So back in the middle ages all three of these variations would have been pronounced as YAHUAH.
Yeshua (yod, shin, vav, ayin) is a short form of Yahushua.
All the different forms, variations and substitutes can be traced back in time. Again the word "God" is Teutonic and was used to worship stones and other pagan objects.
"Lord" is old English and comes from two words "half" meaning loaf and "weird" meaning guardian, essentially "guardian of the loaf".
"Amen" is an Egyptian god whose name literally means "hidden" and was used in conjunction with other Egyptian deities as "Amen-Ra" for example. The Hebrew word amen means "so be it" and we should say "so be it" when we agree to a prayer rather than the word "Amen". Even though the word Amen in both the Old and New Testaments is a clean and acceptable word and in Revelation the Messiah is also called the Amen. We should use the Father's name and the Messiah's name when we pray so that there is no confusion as to who we are praying to.
b) IESOUS = Latin, transliterated from the Greek.
c) IHCOYC = Greek, poor transliteration of the Hebrew name Joshua.
d) YOD, HE, VAV, SHIN, VAV, AYIN = Hebrew, properly translated to and pronounced in English as YAHUSHUA, the fullest form of the Hebrew name of Joshua and means YAHU is Salvation.
e) YOD, HE, VAV, HE, SHIN, VAV, AYIN = Hebrew, properly translated to and pronounced in English as YAHUAHSHUA, the full Hebrew name of the Messiah after his resurrection from the dead and means YAHUAH is SALVATION.
The name of the members of the tribe of YAHUDAH are called YAHUDI.
The Messiah was of the tribe of YAHUDAH and was a YAHUDI.
The Messiah carries the name of His Heavenly Father in his present name of YAHUAHSHUA as well as in his future name of YAHUAHTSADAQ.
The Messiah is our High Priest after the Order of MelechiTsadaq which from the Hebrew means MY KING is RIGHTEOUSNESS.
So you see, all the scriptures are interwoven with meaning and purpose to help us to understand more about our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son.
a) ISAIAH = YESHAYAHU which means Salvation of YAHU and is the Messiah's present name backwards less one letter.
b) ZEDEKIAH = TSADAQYAHUwhich means Righteousness of YAHU and is the Messiah's future name backwards less one letter.
c) JOSHUA, JEHOSHUA, JEHOSHUAH = YAHUSHUA which means YAHU is Salvation and was the name of the Messiah while he was alive on this earth.
d) JEHOZADAK, JOSEDECH = YAHUTSADAQ which means YAHU is Righteousness which is the Messiah's future name less one letter.
e) ELIJAH = ALIYAHU which means My Mighty One is YAHU.
f) JOSEPH = YAHUCEPHwhich means YAHU will Add.
Originally people in the O.T. used the full form of YAHU in their own names but later started to shorten it to YAH (yod, he) or YU (yod, vav). An example of the use of YU in a name is in the name of Joseph which now is written as the shorter form YUCEPH. The fuller form of Joseph used to be YAHUCEPH.
As you can see, translating the Hebrew names into the English or any other language for that matter can create many variations for the same name, but in the Hebrew the name is consistent.
To further illustrate this, take an Israeli Telephone Book in English and check the names of people who carry the name YAHU as part of their own name. You will find YAHU translated as YAHU, YAHOO, IAHU, IAHOU, IAHOO, etc. but the Hebrew would still be the same three letters of YOD, HE, VAV.
Note: As an English speaking person you can quickly check the Hebrew and Greek names in the Bible using a "Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible" which has a Hebrew and Greek Dictionary at the back of it: You simply look up the English word or name in the English Concordance in the main section which will point you to the Hebrew or Greek which it stands for in the appropriate Dictionary at the back.
The true calendar has to be solar as the Feast Days are directly linked to the agricultural year. The true calendar also has to have the following units of time:
1 Day = night time + day time = 24 Hours (Gen.1:5, John 11:9)
1 Week = 7 Days (Gen.1:1-31; Gen.2:1-3)
1 Month = 30 Days (Gen.7:11,24; Gen.8:3,4; Rev.11:2,3; Rev.12:6; Rev.13:5)
1 Year = 12 Months (I Kings 4:7; I Chronicles 27:1-15)
1 Year = 12 Months x 30 Days = 360 Days
1st Day of the Year = 5th Day of the week (Gen.1:14-19; Since the solar year is based on the sun and the sun was created or reset on the 4th Day of the Week, it makes sense that the solar year starts with the 5th Day of the Week after the creation or resetting of the sun was complete. Sundown on Wednesday marks the end of the 4th Day, and begins the 5th Day of the Week. So the Year begins at sundown on Wednesday night with the beginning of the 5th Day of the Week.
The agricultural year is directly linked to the Feast Days and the Calendar (Ex.23:14-17; Ex.34:21-23).
1st Month = Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread -beginning of the Barley Harvest with the Sheaf Offering (Ex.12:2; Lev.23:5-15).
3rd Month= Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) - end of the Wheat Harvest (Lev.23:16-22).
7th Month = Feast of Tabernacles - the end of the agricultural year and the ingathering of grapes, olives, pomegranates, dates, etc. (Lev.23:23-44).
Now that we know what units of time the true calendar consists of, we can now look for a calendar that meets these criteria.
The True Calendar of the Bible
The only Calendar that meets all of these criteria is the Solar Calendar found at Qumran mentioned in Mismarot from Cave IV, also mentioned in the Book of Enoch (I Enoch) Chap.72-75, as well as in the Book of Jubilees Chap.6:23-38, and has the following characteristics:
This calendar has 1 Week = 7 Days, 1 Month = 30 Days, 1 Year = 12 Months, 1 Year= 360 Days plus 4 intercalary days to make an even 364 Day Year which is perfectly divisible by the 7 day week to give 52 Weeks a year, 1st Day of the Year = 5th Day of the Week; 1st Month = start of the Barley Harvest.
This is a fixed Calendarwith the 1st Day of the Year and the 1st Day of each 3 month period falling on Wednesday night the beginning of the 5th Day of the Week. The dates of the feasts are also fixed with a particular day of any given month being on the same day of the week every year. One intercalary day is fixed at the end of each 3 month period and acts as a buffer or division point between the next season or 3 month period. Each season or 3 month period has exactly 13 weeks. Here is what the reconstructed calendar looks like (keeping in mind that as Sabbath is on Saturday but starts Friday night so all the days in this calendar start the night before):
The 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th Months
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Reference: "Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judea" by J.T.Milik 1959
For more info refer to:
#2.2)The
Feast Days of Yahuah.
#2.3)Passover
and the Crucifixion of the Messiah.
#26.0)Passover
and Crucifixion Chart for the Messiah's Death in 30CE.
#27.0)Feast
Days for the 364 Day Sacred Calendar - 2000CE to 2011CE.
#30.0)Keeping
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
#31.0)Keeping
the Feast of Weeks (Feast of Pentecost).
The solar year consists of approximately 365 1/4 days per year. The beginning of the solar year also starts at the Spring or Vernal Equinox on about March 21. In scientific terms this is 0 degrees or 360 degrees. Since the length of the solar year is not evenly divisible by a whole number of days it is difficult to have a solar calendar line up with the solar year.
The Gregorian Calendar which most of us use, has 365 days. But to keep the calendar in line with the solar year the 1/4 day must be accounted for. To take care of this loss of 1/4 days per year, the Gregorian Calendar is intercalated every 4 years during which time 4 x 1/4 days = 1 day was lost. Therefore, every four years we have a leap year of 366 days and that extra day is added on February 29.
With the True Biblical Calendar a year consists of 360 days + 4 intercalary days to give 364 days per year. So 1 1/4 days is lost each year. Therefore, every 5 or 6 years this calendar is intercalated by one week.
This method is very simple and the calendar becomes self correcting. The calendar gets its starting point when the Spring Equinox is on the 4th Day of the Week Jerusalem Time between Tuesday sunset to Wednesday sunset. As 5 or 6 years pass, the Spring Equinox again is on the 4th Day of the Week. This is when the calendar is intercalated by one week. This keeps the calendar always within approximately one week from the Spring Equinox.
It is critical to keep the calendar synchronized with the Spring Equinox because the Feast Days along with the calendar are directly linked to the agricultural year which is in turn directly linked to the solar year.
For more info refer to:
#27.0)Feast
Days for the 364 Day Sacred Calendar - 2000CE to 2011CE.
a) Sabbath - the weekly Sabbath on the 7th Day of the Week from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.
b) Passover - on the 14th Day of the 1st Month from Tuesday sunset to Wednesday sunset. The Messiah observed the Passover with his disciples on Tuesday night after sunset; later was taken by the mob led by Judas Iscariot; and on Wednesday at 12Noon he was crucified and died at 3PM.
c) Feast of Unleavened Bread - from the 15th Day of the 1st Month to the 21st Day of the 1st Month, starting Wednesday sunset and ending a week later at Wednesday sunset. In the middle of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is the Sheaf Offering of the Barley on the 18thDay of the 1st Month and marks the beginning of the Barley Harvest.
d) Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) - 50 days from the time of the Sheaf Offering of Barley (the barley was offered on the 18th Day of the 1st Month the 1st Day of the Week). Then 7 Sabbaths (7 Sabbaths x7 days = 49 days) had to be complete, "even unto the morrow after the 7th Sabbath shall you number 50 days". So Pentecost was on the 7th Day of the 3rd Month on the 1st Day of the Week Sunday but actually started on Saturday night the night before at sunset. The name Pentecost derives its origin from the Greek word "Pente" which means 50. Pentecost celebrates the end of the Wheat Harvest. The Holy Spirit was poured out on the Day of Pentecost. The Wheat Harvest also represents the end of this system and the return of the Messiah (Matt. 13:18-30; Matt. 14:36-43).
e) Feast of Trumpets - on the 1st Day of the 7th Month. In the Hebrew it is called Yom Taruah or Day of Great (earth shattering) Noise. The scriptures indicate that this is the day on which the Messiah will return the second time.
f) Day of Atonement - on the 10th Day of the 7th Month. In the Hebrew it is called Yom Kippur or Day of Pitch (tar) in the sense of wiping out either our sins or our names from the Book of Life. It is also a Day of Judgement.
g) Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths) - from the 15th Day to the 21st Day of the 7th Month. This is the Harvest Feast that marks the end of the agricultural year. The 22nd Day of the 7th Month is the Last Great Day, a High Sabbath that signifies a transition from the completion of the old agricultural year to the beginning of a new one. The Messiah in John 7:37-39 talks about those who believe in him, out of their belly shall flow rivers of living water. In Ezekiel 47:1-12 we are told that living water shall flow from the sanctuary into the dead sea and the dead sea shall be healed. This I believe will happen in the last year of the 6000 years from Adam when the Messiah has established his Kingdom on this earth and ushers in the 1000 year Millennium of his reign.
For more info refer to:
#26.0)Passover
and Crucifixion Chart for the Messiah's Death in 30CE.
#27.0)Feast Days for the 364 Day Sacred Calendar - 2000CE to 2011CE.
#30.0)Keeping Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
The Messiah kept the Passover with his disciples on Tuesday night after sunset on the 14th Day of the 1st Month (Luke 22:7-14; Lev.23:5; Matt.26:18-20).
All four of the Gospels indicate that the Messiah was crucified at 12Noon (6th Hour) on Wednesday still the 14th Day of the 1st Month. There was darkness from 12Noon (6th Hour) until 3PM (9th Hour) when the Messiah died. This is backed up in Matt.27:45-46,50; Mark 15:33-34,37; Luke 23:44-46; and John 19:14-18. Daniel prophesied that the Messiah would be cut off in the middle of the week (Daniel 9:26-27).
However, there is one scripture in Mark 15:25 which says that "it was the 3rd Hour (9AM) and they crucified him". Usually there are at least two scriptures to confirm something. And when there is only one, it should always be prayed about. Something else that makes this particular scripture suspect is the short and long version of Mark Chap.16 which the oldest and most reliable Greek manuscripts differ about. So Mark Chap.15 & 16 should always be looked at a little more closely.
We also know that Wednesday sunset would have started the High Sabbath of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the 15th Day of the 1st Month (John 19:31) which was not a regular Sabbath.
We also know that the Messiah had to be in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights (Matt.12:40; Jonah 1:17). The evening of Wednesday would have been the 1st Night and Thursday the 1st Day. The evening of Thursday the 2nd Night and Friday the 2nd Day. The evening of Friday the 3rd Night and Saturday the 3rd Day.
So the Messiah rose from the dead on Saturday the regular Sabbath the 7th Day of the Week before sunset. After sunset would have started the 1st Day of the Week which agrees with Matt.28:1 "in the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first of the week"; John 20:1 "the first of the week comes Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark". Again as stated earlier, Mark Chap.16 is problematic and Mark 16:2 is out weighed by the other scriptures.
The year that the Messiah died can be narrowed down by pooling information from scripture, the Talmud, historical events, the different calendars at the time, astronomical events at the time, etc. One sure reference point that we have is the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70CE. The Messiah foretold in the dual prophecy of Matt.24:1-51 the destruction of Jerusalem in 70CE as well as his Second Coming in our time now. The Messiah said in Matt.24:34, "this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" and a generation in the Bible is 40 Years. So, 70CE less 40 years gives the year 30CE.
At the time of the Messiah's death, in Matt.27:51 we are told that the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom and the earth did quake and the rocks rent. In the Talmud in Yoma 39b we are told, "Forty years before the Temple was destroyed (70CE - 40 years = 30CE) ...the gates of the Hekel (Holy Place) opened by themselves".
Pontius Pilate became governor of Judea in 26CE and died in 36CE.
The True Hebrew Solar Calendar and the Jewish Lunar-Solar Calendar are identical in the year 30CE for the 1st Month of the year and the 14th Day of the 1st Month which is Passover the day the Messiah was crucified was the same for both calendars in that year.
From scripture, we can assume that the year the Messiah was crucified was also a Jubilee Year. The Jubilee Year is a year of release when those that are in bondage, servitude or debt were given their freedom. In the larger picture, it is through the shedding of the blood of the Messiah our Passover Lamb that are sins are forgiven and we are made free from the bondage of sin. For without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin (Hebrews 9:1-28). With the Messiah's death, the prophecies in Isaiah 61:1-2 and Luke 4:18 are also fulfilled where it is written, "YAHUAH has anointed me...to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of YAHUAH".
From other events in the Bible, we can also narrow down the age of the Messiah and when he died. We know that he started his ministry when he was 30 years old (Luke 3:23). We also know that he was not yet 50 years old (John 8:57). We know that he was born during the fall feasts because he was 6 months younger than his cousin John the Baptist (who was conceived soon after his father Zacharias a priest of the course of Abia served in the Temple - the timing of the course of Abia can be figured out). We know that the Messiah was born before Herod died in 5BCE. There is also a similarity to King David and the Messiah; because David began to reign when he was 30 years old and reigned 40 1/2 years (I Chronicles 3:4; II Samuel 5:4-5). The Messiah was 40 1/2 years old when he died and was the perfect sacrifice.
The scriptures back up the fact that the Messiah would have been at least 40 years old and stress the significance of the number 40. The children of Israel in the wilderness for one generation of 40 years; Moses and the Messiah both fasted for 40 days and 40 nights; the rains cleansed the earth for 40 days during the flood at the time of Noah; Miriam the Messiah's mother had to cleanse herself for 40 days after giving birth to the Messiah a male child; the wine that was offered up and presented in the temple had to be finished fermenting and be at least 40 days old.
In conclusion, the Messiah was 40 1/2 years old when he died. He also died on Wednesday at 3PM on April 5 in the year 30CE on Passover day the 14th Day of the 1st Month in a Jubilee Year.
For more info refer to:
#26.0)Passover
and Crucifixion Chart for the Messiah's Death in 30CE
#30.0)Keeping Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
For more information refer
to:
#25.0)The
7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, and 7 Vials Correlation Chart.
The Book of Revelation goes into more detail with the duration in time of the Great Tribulation which will be 3 1/2 Years. All the following major events will happen during that 3 1/2 Years of the Great Tribulation:
a) The Two Witnesses will prophecy for 1,260 Days (Rev.11:3; Malachi 4:5). These two witnesses will be the two people in scripture that have never died but will have to come back to die and they are Elijah (ALIYAHU) and Enoch (HANUCH).
b) Jerusalem given unto the control of the Nations (United Nations?) for 42 Months (Rev.11:2).
c) Believers in the Wilderness for 1,260 Days (Rev.12:6).
d) Beast continues (makes war) for 42 Months (Rev.13.5).
e) Satan cast unto the earth for the 3 1/2 Years (Rev.12.9). Satan (the Dragon) is in league with the Beast (Rev.13:4) until Satan is bound for 1000 Years at the coming of the Messiah (Rev.20:1-6).
f) The 4th and 5th Seals (Rev.6:7-11).
g) The First Six Trumpets (Rev.8:7-12; Rev.9:1-21).
h) The First Six Vials (Rev.16:2-16).
To the best of our understanding at this time, the Great Tribulation will begin in the Spring of the Year 2008.
For more information refer
to:
#25.0)The
7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, and 7 Vials Correlation Chart.
The oldest record we have of Revelation 13:17,18 is in the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri P47 dated the 3rd Century CE in which, the number 666 is written in Greek as three Greek letters Chi, Xi, Sigma with a single line across the top of these three letters.
In this particular N.T. Greek manuscript, the line across the top of these three letters means that these three letters together stand for a word, a name, or a number. In later Greek manuscripts this disappears completely and is replaced with the number "666" written out in full as three full words as "six hundred, sixty and six".
The only viable explanation for what this number 666 stands for is as follows:
In the old Roman world and even today, the Roman Alphabet letters stood for letters and for numbers. For example, the Roman counting system only used the Roman letters I, V, X, L, C, and D; while the letter M which stood for 1000 was originally two D's back to back to form what latter was perceived as the letter M and so is not an additional letter. So the Roman counting system consists of the following letters and values:
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DICLUX: where DI is the Latin for GOD and C in Greek is the Roman equivalent of S which makes a word plural where DIC = GODS and where LUX is the Latin for LIGHT. So DICLUX stands for GODS OF LIGHT.
In our modern day hi-tech society this meaning and terminology makes a lot of sense. Cities all over the world never sleep and with the help of electricity there is artificial LIGHT 24 hours a day all year round.
There is also a small elite and secretive group that apparently control the world called the ILLUMINATI, the enlightened ones. And no wonder for in II Corinthians 11:14,15 we are told that Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light; therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness. We know that Satan temporarily controls the world (Luke 4:5,6) until his lease runs out and then the Messiah will return and establish the Kingdom of YAHUAH on this earth.
During the Great Tribulation there will be four aspects of the Beast that we as believers will have to avoid - namely the 1)IMAGE, 2)MARK, 3)NAME and 4)NUMBER of the Beast. We have to avoid worshiping the Image of the Beast; and avoid taking the Mark, Name or Number of the Beast to buy or sell (Rev.13:15-18; Rev.14:9-11; Rev.15:2).
The Great Day of YAHUAH and the Return of the Messiah is one and the same event (Rev.6:16-17; Rev.19:15; Rev.11:15-19; Rev.16:17-21).
a) The Great Day of YAHUAH represents the Wrath of YAHUAH: (Isa.13:19,13; Zeph.1:15; Joel 2:11; Zech.12:9; Jer.30:7-11; Dan.12:1-13; Ezek.7:1-27).
b) The Signs of the Messiah's Return are the same as the Great Day of YAHUAH (Rev.6:12-14; Matt.24:29; Isa.13:10; Joel 2:10; Joel 3:15; Mark 13:24; Luke 21:25; Zech.14:5-7; Isa.24:1-23,20-23).
c) The Messiah will come with an Army on the Great Day of YAHUAH and he will rule the earth (Rev.19:14,15,19; Isa.13:3,4-9,11-19; Zeph.1:7; Joel 2:1-9; Joel 3:2-14; Jer.25:30-37; Zech.12:9-10; Zech.13:6; Zech.14:2,4,5).
For more information refer
to:
#25.0)The
7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, and 7 Vials Correlation Chart.
12BCE - Haley's Comet at Perihelion on October 5.
7BCE - Wise men come and Herod kills the children of Bethlehem.
7BCE - Herod executes two of his own sons.
7BCE - Triple Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on May 27, Oct. 6, & Dec. 1 (the Star of Bethlehem?).
7BCE - The Messiah is a young child of about 5 years old.
5BCE - Herod dies. Messiah is about 7 years old.
19CE - The Messiah starts his Ministry at 30 years of age.
26CE - Pontius Pilate appointed Governor of Judea.
30CE - The Messiah is Crucified on Wednesday April 5 at 12Noon and dies at 3PM.
30CE - Jubilee Year.
30CE - The Messiah is 40 1/2 years old.
Mark 16:9-20
Luke 22:43,44
Luke 23:34 [And Yahuahshua said,"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."]
John 7:53-8:11
b) Scriptures which are of DOUBTFUL AUTHENTICITY with regard to the Original Text:
Matthew 12:47 All of verse 47.
Matthew 16:2b-3 Half of verse 2 and all of verse 3.
Matthew 21:44 All of verse 44.
Luke 8:43 Part of verse 43.
Romans 16:25-27 All of verses
25-27.
c) Scriptures DERIVED NOT FROM the Basic Textual Witnesses, BUT FROM Modern Editors:
Matthew 17:21 All of verse 21.
Matthew 18:11 All of verse 11.
Matthew 23:14 All of verse 14.
Mark 7:16 All of verse 16.
Mark 9:44,46 All of verses 44 & 46.
Mark 11:26 All of verse 26.
Mark 15:28 All of verse 28.
Luke 17:36 All of verse 36.
Luke 23:17 All of verse 17.
John 5:3b-4 Verses 3b-4.
Acts 8:37 All of verse 37.
Acts 15:34 All of verse 34.
Acts 24:6b-8a Verses 6b-8a.
Acts 28:29 All of verse 29.
Romans 16:24 All of verse
24.
d) Miscellaneous Variances:
I John 5:7 (In the King James Bible) "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." This verse doesn't appear in the Greek Manuscripts.
Revelation 13:1a is actually Revelation 12:18 which changes the meaning.
Revelation 14:1 The Greek N.T. Manuscripts read "who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads."
The word Calvary comes from the Latin Vulgate and is not in the Greek N.T. Manuscripts.
Revelation 22:19 Should read
"Tree of Life" instead of "Book of Life".
Reference: "Greek-English New Testament" by Nestle-Aland 1993 (based on the 7th Printing of the 26th Edition of the Novum Testamentum Graece).
Now that you have chosen
a Bible version, you are now ready to gather other study books, keeping
in mind that some of these study tools are based on a particular Bible
version. Also, the following books are suggestions only as there are new
and more up-to-date books coming out all the time so please shop around
and check out the books before you buy them, as these can be expensive:
b) Hebrew Interlinear
(Hebrew/English):
"The Interlinear Hebrew/Greek
English Bible", by Jay Green 1979 (note: the O.T. Hebrew in 3 Volumes
is not too bad but the N.T. Greek in 1 Volume is poor).
c) Hebrew Lexicon (Hebrew
word/English meaning):
"Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee
Lexicon to the Old Testament", by Samuel P. Tregelles 1974
d) Hebrew Analytical Lexicon
(Hebrew word points to root word/English meaning ):
"The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee
Lexicon", by Benjamin Davidson 1995
e) Hebrew Concordance (Hebrew
word/English listing of Biblical verses):
"Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance
of the Old Testament", Published by, Samuel Bagster & Sons 1971
f) Hebrew Concordance (Hebrew
word/Hebrew listing of Biblical verses with Latin notes):
"The Mandelkern Biblical Concordance"
by Dr. Solomon Mandelkern 1896
g) Hebrew O.T. Manuscripts:
"The Text of the Old Testament", by
Ernst Wurthwein 1995 (in English)
b) Greek Interlinear (Greek/English):
"The New Greek/English Interlinear
New Testament", by R.K.Brown and P.W.Comfort 1993 (Note: based on
the "Greek New Testament" UBS 4th Edition, Nestle-Aland 26th Edition).
c) Greek Lexicon (Greek word/English
meaning):
"Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of
the New Testament", by Joseph H. Thayer 1997
d) Greek Analytical Lexicon (Greek
word points to root word/English meaning):
"The Analytical Greek Lexicon", Published
by, Samuel Bagster & Sons
e) Greek Concordance (Greek word/English
listing of Bible verses):
"The Englishman's Greek Concordance
of the New Testament", Published by Zondervan 1974
f) Greek N.T. Manuscripts:
"The Text of the New Testament", by
Kurt and Barbara Aland 1989
g) Greek N.T.Manuscript (Codex
B) (Interlinear):
"The Emphatic Diaglott", by Benjamin
Wilson 1942 (Note: copy can be obtained from the Jehovah's Witnesses).
b) Greek Concordance of the Septuagint
(Greek word/Greek listing of Biblical verses with some reference to the
Hebrew):
"A Concordance to the Septuagint and
the Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament (including the Apocryphal
Books)" in 3 Vols., by Edwin Hatch 1983.
The oldest record we have of the Father's name of YAHUAH is in the Moabite Stone dated about 890 BCE in Paleo-Hebrew script and appears as follows:
The Messiah's present name of YAHUAHSHUA in Paleo-Hebrew script would appear as:
The fifth letter from the right, the shin "W" looks like a serpent which could signify the Messiah's victory over Satan (the Serpent) and the world. Also in Numbers 21:7-9 Moses was commanded to make a brass serpent and put it on a pole and the children of Israel who looked upon it were saved.
The sixth letter from the right, the vav "Y" could represent the upright pole that the Messiah was crucified on and also looks like a man praying with his arms stretched out in beseeching YAHUAH.
The seventh letter from the right, the ayin "O" could represent the circle of life of all mankind from birth to death.
The Messiah's future name of YAHUAHTSADAQ in Paleo-Hebrew script would appear as:
The fifth letter from the right, the tsaddi "h" could represent the throne chair on which the Messiah will sit on in Jerusalem when he rules as King of Kings for 1000 years on this earth.
The sixth letter from the right, the daleth "A" could represent an eye or the seven eyes which are the seven spirits of YAHUAH that the Messiah has (Rev.3:1; 4:5; 5:6; Isaiah 11:2).
The seventh letterfrom the right, the qoph "P" could represent the tree of life which we will have access to again through the Messiah.
The Messiah's future name
of YAHUAHTSADAQ has other hidden treasures in it. The numerical
value for this name is 220 which is 22 times 10. 10 is a number of judgement.
22 is a number of completion: the Fall Feasts have 22 days and the Hebrew
alphabet has 22 letters. The Messiah is the WORD OF YAHUAH (John
1:1,14) and he compares himself to the alphabet in Rev.1:8,11. There is
something very important in Genesis 1:1 which is not translated into English
in the King James Bible: first, there are seven Hebrew words in Genesis
1:1 and two of them are aleph-tau a two letter word that most scholars
don't know what it means. Some do have the right idea, that since aleph
is the 1st letter and tau is the 22nd letter of the
Hebrew Alphabet, that these two letters represent all 22 letters and consequently
the
WORD OF YAHUAH (the Messiah as well as the written word of YAHUAH),
as the entire Bible is composed of combinations of these 22 letters.
There are two other names
in the Paleo-Hebrew script important to know, the names of Elijah and Enoch.
I believe that these are the two witnesses mentioned in Rev.11:3-12 that
will appear on this earth with the start of the 3 1/2 Year Great Tribulation
as early as March in the year 2008 CE.
These two witnesses could
be using their old Paleo-Hebrew names and would appear as:
I believe that I am duty bound to reveal to the world the wonderful truth about the physical location of the Kingdom of Heaven. This knowledge will not affect your salvation but is a very real comfort to know and will help us to understand many things in scripture, that without which we would be kept in the dark. So here goes.
The earth is hollow with large openings at the North and South Poles. These two regions are covered by heavy cloud cover most of the time and difficult to see even from space. The interior of the earth has land and oceans and rivers. It flourishes with animals, plant life and beings similar to humans but larger. In the center of the interior of the earth is what most people understand to be a central sun. In reality, this so called sun is the City of YAHUAH which gives heat and light to the interior of the earth. There is no night there! It is daytime all the time. Because of the openings at the top and bottom to the interior of the earth, it is referred to in scripture as the Bottomless Pit!
The Hollow Earth
Evidence from the Bible:
1) Job 26:7-10 "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end."
2)Revelation 21:23,25 "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of YAHUAH did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And ... there shall be no night there."
3)Revelation 22:5 "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for YAHUAH Elohim giveth them light ..."
4)Exodus 8:22 "...I am YAHUAH in the midst of the earth."
5)Psalm 74:12 "For YAHUAH is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth."
6)Philippians 2:10 "That at the name of YAHUAHSHUA, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth."
7)Revelation 5:3,13 "And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth ..."
8)Exodus 20:4 "... in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
9)Isaiah 66:1 "...The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool ..."
10)Matthew 5:35 "Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool ..."
11)Matthew 12:40 "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." Note:Please keep in mind that the tomb where the Messiah was laid was above ground level!
12)Revelation 9:1,2,11; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1,3 "And the fifth angel sounded, ... and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit."
13)Job 1:6,7 "Now there was a day when the sons of YAHUAH came to present themselves before YAHUAH, and Satan came also among them. And YAHUAH said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered YAHUAH, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
14)Revelation 21:1-27 "... the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from YAHUAH out of heaven ... the wall of the city had twelve foundations ... and the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: ... and the breadth and the height of it are equal." Note: This description is of the physical City of YAHUAH in the center of the earth; the New Jerusalem that will come down from Heaven will be a spiritual City made up of the living stones (believers) with the Messiah as the chief corner stone -- I Peter 2:5-7; Matt.16:18; I Corinthians 3:9-17; Ephesians 2:19-22.
Note: Another Bible related source is "The Book of Enoch", by R.H. Charles 1972. In Chapter XIV 9-21 Enoch describes The City of YAHUAH: "... bore me into heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire...And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: ... A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its portals blazed with fire. ... And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: ... And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason of the magnificence and glory, and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and none around could draw nigh Him."
Physical Evidence and Proof:
1)Satellite Photos:
there are over 2000 U.S. Government Satellite photos of the poles. One
of the most clear, was taken by the ESSA-7 satellite on November 23, 1968
when there was almost no cloud cover; the ice fields on the surface can
be observed, and the hole at the North Pole can be clearly seen. (ESSA
= Environmental Science Services Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce)
Ref: A plate of this photo
appears in "Secret of the Ages: UFO's From Inside the Earth", by Brinsley
LePoer Trench 1974
2)Arctic Explorer Dr.
Fridtjof Nansen:
In the Record Log of the
voyage of exploration of the ship Fram (1893-96) on Friday February 16,
1894 at 80 degrees 1 minute North Latitude Dr.Nansen writes: "To-day another
noteworthy thing happened, which was that about midday we saw the sun,
or, to be more correct, an image of the sun, for it was only a mirage.
... I soon discovered that it could not be the sun itself. The mirage was
at first like a flattened-out glowing red streak of fire on the horizon;
later there were two streaks, the one above the other, with a dark space
between; and from the main top I could see four, or even five such horizontal
lines directly over one another, and all of equal length; as if one could
only imagine a square dull-red sun with horizontal dark streaks across
it."
Note: on page 361
Dr. Nansen has a sketch of this square sun showing a third above the horizon,
the rest below the horizon.
Ref: "Farthest North", by
Fridtjof Nansen 1897 (consisting of 2 Volumes).
3)Rear Admiral Richard
E. Byrd of the U.S. Navy:
a)February 1947 before his
7 Hour flight of 1,700 Miles beyond the North Pole said, "I'd like to see
that land beyond the (North) Pole. That area beyond the Pole is the center
of the Great Unknown."
b)November 1955 he quoted: "This is the most important expedition in the history of the world." (before departing to explore land beyond the South Pole).
c)January 1956 Radio announcement from Byrd's Antarctic expedition, confirmed by the American press of February 5, 1956 : "On January 13th, members of the United States expedition accomplished a flight of 2,700 Miles from the base at McMurdo Sound, which is 400 miles west of the South Pole, and penetrated a land extent of 2,300 Miles beyond the Pole."
d)Before his death, Rear Admiral Byrd said: ..."that enchanted continent in the sky, land of everlasting mystery!"
These are strong indications
that Rear Admiral Byrd flew into the earth's interior both at the North
and South Poles.
Ref: "The Hollow Earth",
by Dr. Raymond Bernard 1976
4)Seismology and the Earth's
Structure:
The main body of information
about the physics of the earth comes from studies of earthquake waves,
which provide the equivalent of X-ray pictures of the interior. It has
been determined from the P waves and S waves produced from
earthquakes that the interior of the earth has three main layers, the mantle,
the outer core and the inner core. If the earth was one solid medium the
waves would go through the earth in a straight line. But the waves are
refracted and reflected within the earth indicating three layers. Personally
I understand these three layers to be the thickness of the earth which
is the outer shell, the air inside the earth and the City of YAHUAH in
the center of the earth.
Ref: "Scientific American", March 1975
5)Airline Pilots fly around
the North and South Poles and not over them:
The magnetic north and south
poles are not a point. They are a circumference around the poles. When
a pilot tries to fly over the pole, the navigational instruments go haywire.
6)The Northern and Southern
Lights:
The Aurora Borealis (Northern
Lights) and the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) are luminous displays
of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres respectively. Visible in a variety
of colours and forms over areas near the geomagnetic poles. I believe that
these lights are radiating from the City of YAHUAH through the polar openings.
7)Norse Father and Son
sail into the Inner Earth:
A Norse father and son sailed
into the inner earth and spent 2 years there. They describe the people,
their religion and their sun.
Ref: "The Smoky God", by
Willis George Emerson
Other References:
"Phantom of the Poles",
by William Reed 1906
"A Journey to the Earth's Interior or Have the Poles Really been Discovered", by Marshall B. Gardner 1920
17)Jude 14,15 - quoted from the Book of Enoch Chap.1 verse 9 "And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute judgement upon all, and to destroy all the unrighteous: And to convict all flesh of all the works of their unrighteousness which they have unrighteously committed, and of all the hard things which unrighteous sinners have spoken against Him."
18)2 Timothy 3:8 - information from the Book of Jasher Chap. 79 verse 27.
B)Books of the Apocrypha included in the Old and New Testament Greek and in the King James Bible of (1611):
Books of the Apocrypha are contained in the Old and New Testament Greek in the Codex Vaticanus 1209 (Codex B - 4th century C.E.); Codex Sinaiticus (Codex Aleph - 4th century C.E.); and Codex Alexandrinus (Codex A - 5th century C.E.). The King James Bible of 1611 also had most of these books in it.
In the Old Testament:
1)1 Esdras
2)2 Esdras
3)Tobit
4)Judith
5)Additions
to the Book of Esther
6)Wisdom of
Solomon
7)Ecclesiasticus
(Wisdom of Yahushua Son of Sirach)
8)Baruch
9)Letter of
Jeremiah
10)The Prayer of
Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men
11)Susanna
12)Bel and the Dragon
13)The Prayer of
Manasseh
14)1 Maccabees
15)2 Maccabees
In the New Testament:
a) In the Codex Alexandrinus:
1)1 Clement
2)2 Clement
b) In the Codex Sinaiticus:
1)Barnabas
2)Hermas (Shepherd)
- Visions: A,B,C,D,E
3)Hermas (Shepherd)
- Commands: A,B,C,D
C)Ancient Books related to the Bible:
1)The Book of Enoch
(1 Enoch)
2)Secrets of Enoch
(2 Enoch)
3)Book of Jasher
4)Book of Jubilees
IN SUMMARY:
There are too many Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Books of the Old and New Testaments to list here. It is important to know that these books exist or have been lost. We should always keep an open mind to learning new truth and to relearning lost truth. Both the Old and New Testaments are a collecion of books. Over the millennia books have been added and removed from both the Old and New Testaments. It truly is a miracle that we have the Bible today; and I believe that there is more than enough in it for salvation, guidance and comfort.
However, there are those that desire to learn as much as possible and dig relentlessly through the Lost Books of the Bible. There are definitely golden bits of truth to find but the enormous amount of material to sift through can be overwhelming and extremely time consuming for the little benefit that it will yield.
It is much better and more profitable to focus on studying the Old and New Testament Books that we already have. Heaven only knows how much we can learn from studying the Old and New Testaments in the Hebrew and the Greek, as well as in the English.
Bibliography:
1)"The Book of Enoch",
by R.H.Charles 1972
2)"Book of Jasher"
1840
3)"Book of Jubilees",
by Rev. George H. Schodde 1888
4)"The Lost Books
of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden", 1974 [Note: includes
1 & 2 Clement; Barnabas; 1,2 & 3 Hermas - Visions, Commands, &
Similitudes; The Secrets of Enoch; etc.]
5)"The Book of the
Secrets of Enoch", by W.R. Morfill and R.H. Charles 1896
6)"The Oxford Annotated
Apocrypha: The Apocrypha of the Old Testament", by Bruce M. Metzger 1977
7)"The Old Testament
Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments" Vol.1 & 2, by
James H. Charlesworth 1983
8)Article: "Why Study
the Pseudepigrapha?", Biblical Archaeologist December 1983
9)Article: "Why Study
the Septuagint?", Biblical Archaeologist September 1986
11)"The Septuagint
with Apocrypha: Greek and English", by Sir Lancelot C.L. Brenton 1980
12)"An Introduction
to the Old Testament in Greek", by Henry Barclay Swete 1968
13)"The Apocryphal
New Testament", by Montague Rhodes James 1980
14)"New Testament
Apocrypha" Volume 1 (Gospels and Related Writings), by Edgar Hennecke 1963
15)"New Testament
Apocrypha" Volume 2 (Writings Relating to the Apostles Apocalypses and
Related Subjects), by Edgar Hennecke 1965
The beauty of the main Online Bible program is that you can call up several program modules on the screen at the same time. For instance, you can have the English King James Bible, the Hebrew Old Testament, and the Greek Old Testament on the screen all at the same time! And each is searchable like a concordance. You can also compare different versions of say the New Testament Greek such as the Textus Receptus (the Greek on which the King James Bible is based on) to the Westcott-Hort 1881 Greek New Testament (which is based on the most important collection of the New Testament Greek Manuscripts - the only better version of the Greek New Testament being the Nestle-Aland, "Greek-English New Testament", 27th Edition OR the United Bible Societies 4th Edition "The Greek New Testament").
You can do very powerful Bible searches and studies in English, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and most other languages from around the world! If this is not a sure sign that we are in the last days, I don't know what is. We are told in scripture that His Word must first be preached in all the world and then shall the end come (Matthew 24:14).
Two Online Bible Web Sites - For Free Downloadable Software are as follows (both are different):
Note: Both of these two Online Bible Web Sites are different but the software modules are interchangeable depending on the version of the program and the version of the modules.
2)http://www.davepohl.com/winonlinebible.html
Suggestions Before Downloading the Software:
a)Point#1:
The Files you will download are Zipped(Compressed).
b)Point#2:
Create structured Directories on your C: Drive as follows:
1)Create
a Main Directory called, Online Bible.
2)Create
a Sub-Directory for each version, eg. Version 9.01.
3)Create
a Sub-Sub-Directory for each Module that you will download, eg. KJB - King
James Bible.
c)Point#3:
Once you have created the Directory containers, then you can begin to download
each module in its own directory container.
d)Point#4: Once
the Zipped file is copied to its appropriate Directory container, you can
UnZip(Uncompress the file). This way you have all the Unzipped files for
that module in one container.
e)Point#5:
Now you can install the Main Online Bible Program. The program usually
requires at least one other Module eg. a Bible Module before it will install
properly. To install the individual modules, follow Steps #4 to #10 in
Point#6 when you get to the dialogue box while installing the main program.
f)Point#6:Once
you have installed the program, you can always add more modules as in Version
9.01 by:
1)clicking
on the Tools Menu.
2)then
click on User Module Tools.
3)then
click on Restore.
4)in
the dialogue box double click on C:\.
5)double
click on Online Bible Directory that you created.
6)double
click on Version 9.01 Sub-Directory that you created.
7)double
click on the Module Directory that you created of the module that you want
to install eg. KJB.
8)click
on the File that appears in the 2nd Window of the diaglogue box eg. av.101.
9)click
OK button.
10)when it finishes
installing the module click the EXIT button.
Important Online Bible Modules to Download:
1) A copy of the main Online Bible program. The most current version is 1.00 dated August 17,2000. The previous version 9.01 was very good. Some of the older versions such as 8.12 and 8.10.05 are still available. However, you have to watch the version of the modules that you will use with it. For example, some of the Bible modules and other software will only work with versions 8.12 or higher. And you also have to make sure you get the right version for your particular computer operating system, whether it is Windows 95/98/2000/NT or MacIntosh etc.
2) King James Bible in English or your preferred English or other language Bible (with or without links to Strong's Numbers).
3) BHS - Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (the Old Testament Masoretic Hebrew Text).
4) BHM - Biblia Hebraica Morphological (the Old Testament Masoretic Hebrew Text with the prefixes and suffixes of the Hebrew word separated by a colon).
5) Westcott-Hort 1881 Greek New Testament (a good N.T. Greek text based on important major N.T. Greek Manuscripts).
6) Textus Receptus (Greek New Testament on which the King James Bible is based on). Two versions are the 1550 Stephens or 1894 Scrivener. The Textus Receptus is based on poorer manuscripts and is not as reliable as Westcott-Hort 1881 or Nestle-Aland 27th Edition (or UBS4 - United Bible Societies 4th Edition), Greek New Testaments.
7) LXX Greek Old Testament Septuagint (in Greek). Which is usually based on the Codex Vaticanus 1209 Septuagint. The New Testament part of the Codex Vaticanus 1209 is one of the oldest most complete and valuable manuscripts we have for the Greek New Testament dated about the 4th Century C.E.(A.D.).
8) LXX Apocrypha of the Greek Old Testament Septuagint (in Greek).
9) LXXE English Translation of the Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton 1851. Which is based on the Codex Vaticanus 1209 early 4th Century C.E.and supplemented by Codex Alexandrinus 5th Century C.E.(another very important major manuscript for the Old and New Testament Greek).
10) APC Apocrypha 1769 (in English) of the Old Testament by Oxford Press. This is missing 2Esdras 7:36-105 which is lacking from the standard editions of the Latin Vulgate and from the King James version. They are present in the Syriac, Ethiopic, Arabic, and Armenian versions, and in two Latin manuscripts. The section was probably deliberately cut out of an ancestor of most extant Latin manuscripts because of dogmatic reasons, for the passage contains an emphatic denial of the value of prayers for the dead. 3Maccabees and 4Maccabees is also missing.
11) RAPC Revised Apocrypha (in English). This version has 2Esdras 7:36-105, as well as 3Maccabees and 4Maccabees.
12) 1905 Syriac Peshitta New Testament (in Aramaic written with Hebrew characters). The Greeks had called Aramaic by a word they coined, "Syriac", and this artificial term was used in the West, but not in the East, where it has always been known by its own name, "lishana aramaya". A good source in book form is, "The New Covenant Aramaic Peshitta Text with Hebrew Translation", by the Bible Society in Jerusalem 1986.
13) Vulgate - Jerome's 405AD Latin Vulgate (in Latin). In Luke 23:33 in the King James Bible we have the only occurrence of the word, "Calvary" but in the Greek manuscripts it is the word "kranion" which means skull. So where do we get the word "Calvary" from? It comes from the Latin word "Calvariae" which also means skull. So the word Calvary comes from the Latin Bible. The terms used for the name of the Creator in the Latin Bible are Deus, Deo, Dei, Di etc. which in a good Latin Dictionary is the Greek god "Zeus"!!!
14) Hebrew Lexicon (Dictionary). To look up Hebrew words with the meaning given in English.
15) Greek Lexicon (Dictionary). To look up Greek words with the meaning given in English.
16) 1917 Jewish Publication Society Old Testament.
17) Easton's Bible Dictionary.
18) Original Strong's Lexicon.
19) Matthew Henry Concise Commentary.
20) Manual for your
particular version of the Online Bible Main Program. Please remember
if you download the manual in .PDF format, you will need Adobe Acrobat
to read it.
Hints when Searching the Hebrew and Greek Texts:
a) Searching the Hebrew Text:
Keep in mind that the Hebrew you are searching is the Masoretic Text which uses final letters and vowel points. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew Alphabet but the Masoretic Text introduces final letters for Kaph, Mem, Nun, Pe, and Tsaddi. The Final Letters are used at the end of words. To type the final letter, for example for Mem: to get the Final Mem, use Shift key + letter M key. For the vowel points, the only letter you have to watch out for is the Shin. Use the S key for the regular Shin, and the V key for the other Shin.
Hebrew also has prefixes and suffixes added to a word. So you should use the wild card asterisk * before a word for prefixes and and asterisk * after the word for suffixes otherwise the search will not pull up all the variant occurrences.
The other thing that you should keep in mind is that in Hebrew you may have several ways to spell the same word. That is why to get the meaning of a word, it is usually necessary to find the root word using an Analytical Hebrew Lexicon. Unfortunately, this will not help you to find all the possible different spellings for that particular word.
Just remember, Hebrew is
read from right to left.
b) Searching the Greek Text:
Searching the Greek Text is much easier than the Hebrew. In Greek there is only one final letter and that is the Final Sigma. To get the Final Sigma just press the V key on your keyboard. But again as in the Hebrew, Greek words can have a variety of spellings, so you will need to use an Analytical Greek Lexicon to find the root word and its meaning. Greek words don't have prefixes, but the endings of the words do change depending on the grammatical structure and context of the sentence. For example, the Messiah's name in Greek can be IHCOYC, IHCOY, IHCOYN, IHCOI, IHCOYE. In which case, his title of XPICTOC will change with it and match the ending. For example, IHCOYC XPICTOC, IHCOY XPICTOY, IHCOYN XPICTON, etc.. (Note: the Greek letter P is the letter Rho, with an R sound.). One way to call up these variety of different endings is to use the wild card asterisk * where the differences start. For example, IHCO* will bring up IHCOYC, IHCOY, IHCOI, IHCOYN, etc..
c) Tutorial Function in the Main Online Bible Program:
As you start up the Main Online Bible Program, the first window has a Tutorial Function button which will open to give you more info on how to use the Online Bible Program.
d) Manual for the Online Bible Program:
The manual will give you very valuable tools and commands on how to use the Online Bible Program more quickly and efficiently when doing searches.
Conclusion:
These powerful tools to study
the Word of YAHUAH have only been made available in the last few years
and will enable us to speed things up considerably when studying His Word.
What would take me months or even a year of tedious searching and researching
literally takes me just minutes on the computer!!! And it really doesn't
make any difference whether you are using the English, Hebrew, Greek, Latin,
or some other language!
Praise be to YAHUAH for
the joy of having such wonderful tools to work with.
In the spring of 1947, Muhammed adh-Dhib discovered as many as eight scrolls in Cave 1 at Qumran near the Dead Sea. This discovery included the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) which is the most complete and well preserved Biblical manuscript ever found at Qumran. To believers, this is a very important event because the name of Isaiah in Hebrew is YeshaYahu (means Salvation of Yahu) which is the Messiah's name backwards. The book of Isaiah also includes prophecies of the Messiah.
Near the Dead Sea, there were found about 800 manuscripts and 100,000 fragments. Of this number, approximately 230 manuscripts (about 30%) are Biblical. Of these 230, only a small number preserve a considerable part of the Biblical books. The rest are mostly poorly preserved but still valuable in helping us to understand the early Hebrew Old Testament. Included among the best preserved Biblical manuscripts are:
1)Isaiah 1QIsaa(1QIsaa
) (almost the entire 66 Chapters of Isaiah).
2)Isaiah 1QIsab
(1QIsab + 1Q8) (about 45 partial Chapters).
3)Exodus 4QpaleoGen-Exodl
(4Q11)
(about 20 partial Chapters).
4)Exodus 4QpaleoExodm
(4Q22) (about 31 partial Chapters).
5)Leviticus & Numbers
4QLev-Numa (4Q23) (about 25 partial Chapters).
6)Numbers 4QNumb
(4Q27) (about 24 partial Chapters).
7)1&2Samuel 4QSama
(4Q51) (about 42 partial Chapters).
8)Minor Prophets 4QXIIg
(4Q82) (partial Chapters of 9 Books of the Minor Prophets).
9)Leviticus 11QpaleoLeva
(11Q1) (about 18 partial Chapters).
10)Psalms 11QPsa
(11Q5) (about 38 partial Chapters).
11)Job Aramaic Targum 11QtgJob
(11Q10) (about 25 partial Chapters).
12)Minor Prophets 8HevXIIgk
(8Hev1) (partial Chapters of 7 Books of the Minor Prophets).
13)Minor Prophets Mur XII
(Mur 88) (partial Chapters of 9 Books of the Minor Prophets).
Another important aspect of the Biblical manuscripts found in the Dead Sea area is their age. They are about 1000 years older than any other Hebrew Old Testament Biblical manuscripts ever found. We do not have any Hebrew manuscript of the entire Old Testament earlier than the tenth century. The oldest dated manuscript is the Codex Cairensis which only contains the Prophets and is dated 895 A.D..
In some of the Dead Sea Scrolls
the Father's name of YAHUAH stands out in a very special way, for
instance:
a) In the Psalms
Scroll 11QPsa the Father's name of YAHUAH is written in Old
Paleo-Hebrew script while the rest of the manuscript is in normal square
Hebrew script. The same can be seen in the Habakkuk Commentary 1QpHab.
Ref: 1)"The Dead
Sea Psalms Scroll", by J.A. Sanders 1967.
2)"The Dead Sea Scrolls of St.Mark's Monastery Vol.1: The Isaiah Manuscript
and the Habakkuk Commentary", by Millar Burrows 1950.
b) In the Greek Septuagint
Minor Prophets Scroll 8HevXIIgr from Nahal Hever (near the Dead Sea) the
Father's name of YAHUAH is written in Old Paleo-Hebrew script while the
rest of the manuscript is in Uncial Greek.
Ref: "Discoveries
in the Judaean Desert Volume 8: The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal
Hever", 1990 by Emanuel Tov, R.A.Kraft & P.J.Parsons.
c) In the Greek Septuagint
Genesis and Deuteronomy (P.Fouad 266) papyri (not from the Dead Sea area)
dated 1st Century B.C.E. the Father's name of YAHUAH is written in square
Hebrew script while the rest of the manuscript is in Uncial Greek.
Ref: "Three Rolls
of the Early Septuagint: Genesis and Deuteronomy", by Zaki Aly and Ludwig
Koenen 1980.
d)In the Psalms fragments
of 1QPsb (1Q11) the Father's name of YAHUAH is written in Paleo-Hebrew
script while the rest of the manuscript is in square Hebrew script.
Ref: "Discoveries
in the Judaean Desert" Vol.1,1955, p.71.
e)In the Exodus fragments
of 2QExodb (2Q3) the Father's name of YAHUAH is written in Paleo-Hebrew
script while the rest of the manuscript is in square Hebrew script.
Ref: "Discoveries
in the Judaean Desert" Vol.3,1962, p.52-55.
f)In the Lamentations
fragments of 3QLam (3Q3) the Father's name of YAHUAH is written in Paleo-Hebrew
script while the rest of the manuscript is in square Hebrew script.
Ref: "Discoveries
in the Judaean Desert" Vol.3,1962, p.95.
The name of YAHUAH is the Key to understanding who the Creator is, who His son the Messiah is, who the Holy Spirit of YAHUAH is, in identifying His word, His Laws, His Sabbath, His Feast Days, His Calendar, etc. and the scribes understood this only too well! Just to give you an idea of the importance of His Name, His name of YAHUAH appears almost 7,000 times in the Hebrew Old Testament. His people and prophets carry two or three letters (YAH or YAHU) of His name. The numerical value of His name in Hebrew is 26, a number which occurs frequently in His Sacred 364 Day Calendar. In 6 months there are 7 Days X 26 Weeks. In the 3 1/2 Years Great Tribulation there will be 7 Half Years X 26 Weeks or 7 x 7 Days X 26 Weeks (49 Days X 26 Weeks -- counting the 4 Intercalary Days per year). When the Messiah returns on the Feast of Trumpets immediately after the 3 1/2 Years of Great Tribulation, that day will be exactly the 26th Jubilee of Days from the beginning of the Great Tribulation! From this understanding of the Calendar, I pray that YAHUAH will also enlighten us about the events that are unfolding in these last days, especially during the Great Tribulation.
B)The 1990-1991 Milestone:
Up to 1991 only about half
or 400 manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls were made available or published
over 44 years since 1947. In 1991, the few scholars who had control over
the scrolls were forced by circumstance to make available the rest of the
scrolls. Important events at this time were:
1)1989 - Iron Curtain falls in Eastern Europe.
2)1990 - At the beginning of the Gulf War with Iraq, President Bush talks about the "New World Order" for the first time.
3)1990 - Was the Last Jubilee of the 6000 years from Adam; and the 1st Year of the Last 22 Years to the end of the 6000 years from Adam.
4)The Book of Isaiah has 66 Chapters, which could represent 66 years. From 1945 to 2011 is exactly 66 years. 1945 was the end of World War II, the creation of the United Nations, the start of mass immigration of the Jewish people to Israel (the first time in 2000 years to establish a homeland) and the dropping of the first atomic bomb which changed the world forever. 2011 is the end of the 6000 years from Adam. The discovery of the Great Isaiah Scroll 1QIsaa was the first of the scrolls to be found and also the most well preserved and complete of all the Biblical scrolls. Isaiah's name of YeshaYahu is the Messiah's name backwards. The Book of Isaiah has prophecies of the Messiah in it. The Messiah is the Aleph and the Tau which represents the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet! The Book of Isaiah has 66 chapters which is equal to 3 X 22. And surprisingly enough, in these last days, the entire book of the Bible has exactly 66 books in it! And the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation has exactly 22 Chapters! From 1990 (the last Jubilee of the 6000 years from Adam), to 2011 (the end of the 6000 years from Adam) is the last 22 years!
5)i)1945 + 22 years = 1967: In 1967 was the Six Day War which gave Israel complete control of Jerusalem, the first time in almost 2,000 years!
ii)1967 + 22 years = 1989: In 1989 the Iron Curtain in Europe fell which ended Russian aggression and isolation from the rest of the world. The doors were now open to global unity.
iii)1989 + 22 years = 2011: In 1990, President Bush of the United States declares the New World Order in his speech during the Gulf War Crisis. In 1991, the 2nd half of the Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the World.
iv)The Last 22 Years from 1990 to 2011: In this year 2000, we have already come to the 11th year, the half way point in the Last 22 years. From scripture, these Last 22 years are a type of the 22 Days of the Fall Feasts which occur in the 7th Month.
v)The Isaiah and Psalms
Manuscripts from the Dead Sea Area:
The largest number of Biblical
manuscripts found in the Dead Sea area were that of the Book of Isaiah.
The second largest number of Biblical manuscripts found in the Dead Sea
area were that of the Book of the Psalms. Of the approximately 142 Prophecies
of the Messiah in the Old Testament, 40 are in the Book of Isaiah, and
40 in the Book of Psalms. This accounts for about 56% of all the Messianic
prophecies of the Old Testament in just these two books! And there are
39 Books in the Old Testament. Again, the name Isaiah is the Messiah's
name backwards, YeshaYahu, and means Salvation of Yahu. This knowledge
from the Dead Sea Scrolls is a wake up call to the World, for the Great
Day of YAHUAH and the Return of the Messiah is drawing nigh!!!
C)Flood of Information
now available on 2nd Half of the Dead Sea Scrolls (since 1991):
There are a lot of variations
between the Biblical manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew
Masoretic Text, as well as the Old Testament Greek Septuagint . Most of
the variations are very minor but there are some that will definitely change
our understanding of the Old and New Testament scriptures. With this new
wealth of information now available to us, we can now study and find new
revelations of YAHUAH's word in the Old Testament.
Sources for Studying the Dead Sea Scrolls:
1)A Good Internet Web
Site, "Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated
Literature":
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/index.html
2)On CD-ROM:
a)"Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic
Reference Library, 2" (Non-Biblical, includes Dead Sea Scroll database),
by Emanuel Tov 1999 E.J.Brill Publisher $259.00U.S.
b)"The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic
Reference Library on CD", Vol.1: CDD0019, Vol.2:CDD0099 (all 800 Texts
from 11 Caves) Note: This info was obtained from the Yale University
web site at:
http://www.library.yale.edu/div/overview.htm
3)Tools for Sourcing Material
on the DSS:
a)"The Dead Sea Scrolls
Catalogue: Documents, Photographs, and Museum Inventory Numbers", by Stephen
A. Reed,1994: SBL Resources for Biblical Study 32.
Comments: Excellent
for cross-referencing DSS manuscript inventory numbers.
b)"The Dead Sea Scrolls:
Major Publications and Tools for Study", Joseph A. Fitzmyer 1990.
Comments: Excellent.
c)"A Bibliography of the
Finds in the Desert of Judah 1970-95", by Florentino Garcia Martinez 1996.
Comments: Excellent.
d)"The Dead Sea Scrolls &
Modern Translations of the Old Testament", by Harold Scanlin 1993
Comments: Excellent!
Includes Chart of the Biblical Manuscripts, Textual Criticism, bibliography,
etc.
e)"The Unpublished Qumran Texts from Caves4 & 11", by Emanual Tov : Biblical Archaeologist June 1992.
4)Facsimiles and Transliteration
of 1QIsaa :
a)"The Great Isaiah Scroll
(1QIsaa ) A New Edition",
by Donald Parry and Elisha
Qimron 1999 in Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Vol.32 E.J.Brill.
b)"The Dead Sea Scrolls of St.Mark's Monastery Vol.1: The Isaiah Manuscript and the Habakkuk Commentary", by Millar Burrows 1950.
c)"Scrolls from Qumran Cave1", by J.C.Trever 1972 (includes the Great Isaiah Scroll, Order of the Community, and Habakkuk Commentary).
5)Facsimiles and Transliteration
of 11QPsa :
a)"The Dead Sea Psalms Scroll",
by J.A.Sanders 1967.
6)"Discoveries in the
Judaean Desert" the Series:
This series of books consists
of 36 Volumes and costs about $100,000 per volume to publish. As of August
2000, 28 Volumes have been published. This is a very important source of
info. Here is a list of the volumes that have Biblical manuscripts and
have been published:
a)1955 - Vol.1: Cave1 Partials
of Biblical Texts.
b)1962 - Vol.3: A)Texts,
B)Plates, Small Caves of Qumran 2Q-7Q,&10Q Biblical Texts (in French).
c)1965 - Vol.4: Cave11 Psalms
w/plates 11QPsa .
d)1990 - Vol.8: Greek Minor
Prophets from Nahal Hever.
e)1992 - Vol.9: Cave4 Paleo-Gen.,Exod.,Deut.,Job;
LXX Greek Lev.,Num.,Deut.
f) 1994 - Vol.12: Cave4
Gen.,Exod.,Lev.,Num..
g)1995 - Vol.14: Cave4 Deut.,Josh.,Judges,
Kings.
h)1997 - Vol.15: Cave4 Isaa-r
,Jera-e ,Ezeka-c .
i) 2000 - Vol.16: Cave4
Psalms to Chronicles (Not Published till September 2000).
j) 1998 - Vol.23: Cave11
11Q2-8,20-31 Lev.,Deut.,Ezek.,Psa.,Jubilees, etc.
7)Facsimiles of the Dead
Sea Scrolls:
a)"The Dead Sea Scrolls
on Microfiche. A Comprehensive Facsimile Edition of the Texts from the
Judean Desert", by E.Tov and S.J.Pfann (E.J.Brill) 1993, 134 fiche.
b)"A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls" Vol.1&2 1991, by R.H.Eisenman and J.M.Robinson.
c)"Companion Volume to the Dead Sea Scrolls Microfiche Edition", by Emanuel Tov and S.J.Pfann 1995.
8)Translation and Transliteration
of Most of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Reference to the rest:
a)"The Dead Sea Scrolls
Study Edition", Vol.1 1Q1-4Q273 1997; Vol.2 4Q274-11Q31 1998; by Florentino
Garcia Martinez and E.J.C.Tigchelaar.
Comments: Excellent.
Includes Index of Manuscripts by Name and by Inventory Number.
9)Textual Criticism:
a)"The Dead Sea Scrolls
and the Origins of the Bible", by Eugene Ulrich 1997
Comments: Good info
on the Paleo-Hebrew Biblical MSS from Qumran Cave4. Good comparison of
variants to the Masoretic Text. Good info on LXX Septuagint MSS from Qumran.
10)"Studies on the Texts
of the Desert of Judah" the Series:
This series of books is
also a good source of info for the Dead Sea Scrolls.
a)Example: "Time to Prepare
the Way in the Wilderness" 1995 : Studies on the Texts of the Desert of
Judah, Vol.16.
11)Qumran Messianism:
a)"Qumran - Messianism:
Studies on the Messianic Expectations in the Dead Sea Scrolls", by J.H.Charlesworth,
H.Lichtenberger, & G.S.Oegema 1998.
12)Concordances:
a)"Graphic Concordance to
the Dead Sea Scrolls", by James H. Charlesworth 1991.
b)"A Preliminary Concordance to the Hebrew and Aramaic Fragments from Qumran Cave II-X Including Especially the Unpublished Material from Cave 4", by R.E.Brown, J.A.Fitzmyer, W.G.Oxtoby, and J.Teixidor 1988.
13)Calendar:
a)"Calendars in the Dead
Sea Scrolls: Measuring Time", by James C. VanderKam 1998.
Conclusion:
A lot of answers to
Old and New Testament questions will undoubtedly be found in this great
wealth of knowledge from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
B)Sign Number #2:
There is absolutely nothing
being reported in the news media at all about this second sign. Hard to
believe as it is, there is Major Construction going on, on the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem! It began in November of 1999 last year. The Waqf,
the Muslim religious trust responsible for the Temple Mount began in November
1999, in the dead of night, to dump hundreds of truckloads of earth from
the Temple Mount into the Kidron Valley and municipal garbage dumps. About
6,000 tons of earth were removed to open an authorized emergency exit for
the al-Marawani Mosque, creating a huge hole about 200 feet long and 75
feet wide. The exit, enlarged beyond the approved width, has become, ...'a
monumental entry gate'.
The Construction continued in the Spring of 2000, to open what was supposed to be simply an emergency exit for the al-Marawani Mosque, located in the underground area popularly called Solomon's Stables. Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, though opposed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), Israel's attorney general Elyakim Rubinstein and Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert, has signaled that he will not impede the Waqf's activities. Following a June 28,2000 meeting, a spokesman for Barak announced that the prime minister will allow paving work to continue along 600 feet of what is now an exposed earthen area inside the eastern wall of the Temple Mount. Barak rejected any limits on the extent of the paving. Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, perhaps fearing that intervention would adversely affect peace talks with the Palestinians, has been unwilling to call a halt to the work.
This spring and early summer of 2000, trucks and tractors returned to the Temple Mount, bringing building materials in and carting earth away through the Lion's Gate, just north of the Temple Mount. For 200 yards along the inside of the Temple Mount's eastern wall, from the al-Marawani Mosque's new entrance to somewhat south of the Golden Gate, lie stacks of paving stones, scaffolding, wood and iron materials.
The Waqf's plans for building
on the Temple Mount are contained in a detailed report given to Barak and
revealed on June 18,2000 by Nadav Shragai, correspondent for the newspaper
Ha'aretz. Shragai writes that a master plan includes erecting another Muslim
prayer area on the Temple Mount, "along the eastern wall, a smaller version
of the Ka'aba Mosque in Mecca." Hardly mentioned in press reports is the
fact that there already is another Muslim prayer hall on the Temple Mount,
inaccessible to all but a few visitors and also prepared without archaeological
oversight by the IAA.
Sources:
a)"More Temple Mount Antiquities
Destroyed, A Personal View", by Suzanne F. Singer : Biblical Archaeology
Review,Sept./Oct.2000,p.28-33.
b)"Furor Over Temple Mount
Construction", by Strata : Biblical Archaeology Review,March/April,2000.
The areas we have to be focused on and closely monitor for signs of the approaching Great Tribulation are:
1)Jerusalem.
2)Unusual Global activities
in nature, such as the trees, grass, animals, rivers, and seas.
3)Unusual activities in
the Sun, Moon, and the Stars.
4)Unusual Global activities
affecting man, such as wars, famine, and disease.
5)Global organizations affecting
all mankind, such as the United Nations.
6)Global economic systems
for the Mark of the Beast.
Sign Number #4:
The current violence in Israel which as of November 5, 2000 has now killed over 185 people and injured 4,000 to 5,000 others was sparked by just one man, Ariel Sharon going onto the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on September 28, 2000. The only practical temporary solution seems to be the placement of United Nations troops in Jerusalem and other flash points in Israel to keep the two sides of Israelis and Palestinians apart. The presence of U.N. troops in Jerusalem, especially on the Temple Mount could be the beginning of the fulfilment of the prophecies of Luke 21:20; Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; Daniel 9:26,27; Revelation 11:2.
The fact that a person with the name of ARIEL sparked these monumental events happening in Israel especially on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is also prophetic. ARIEL in Hebrew means "LION of the Almighty". This is an indication of the Coming of the Messiah, as the Messiah is the "LION of YAHUDAH". ARIEL is also a symbolical name for Jerusalem.
A good source of current
up-to-date information of events in Israel is:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com
We can also prove that theGreat Whore of Revelation 17:1 is identical to Babylon the Great of Revelation 18:2. In Revelation 17:5 the Great Whore has on her forehead the name written, "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth". Also the description given in Revelation 17:2,4,6 of the Great Whore are identical to the description of Babylon the Great in Revelation 18:3,16,24.
Now that we have identified Babylon the Great (the Great Whore) with the United States of America, we can also see from the Bible the power structure that supports it.
The 1st Beast of Revelation 13:1 with the 7 Heads and 10 Horns carries the Great Whore (Rev.17:7). In turn the Great Red Dragon of Revelation 12:3 with the 7 Heads and 10 Horns gives his power, seat, and great authority to the 1st Beast (Rev.13:2,4). The 2nd Beast of Revelation 13:11 supports the 1st Beast.
With such powerful backing is it a wonder that there is no other nation on the face of the earth that can make war with the United States of America! (Rev.13:4).
To grasp the meanings and understanding of the prophecies in the Bible, we have to know the past, present and the future. To know the past, we study history. To know the present, we read the newspapers, listen to the radio, and watch T.V. for world news events. To know the future, we read Yahuah's word and pray that Yahuah will teach us and quicken us with His Holy Spirit. Then we can combine all three to give us a true understanding of what was, and is, and is to come. Most people live in the present with no clue as to the past or the future, and even block out the truth of the present as well. Pray that Yahuah will fill you with His Holy Spirit that you may understand.
The identity of the 1st
Beast is made easier once the relationships and characteristics of
the major players such as the 1st Beast, the Dragon, the Great Whore, Babylon
the Great, the 2nd Beast, and the False Prophet is more clearly understood.
Like a jigsaw puzzle all the pieces start to fall into place.
A) RELATIONSHIPS OF THE MAJOR PLAYERS:
1)1st Beast (with
7 Heads & 10 Horns) carries the Great Whore (Rev.17:7).
2)The Dragon (with
7 Heads & 10 Horns) gives his power, his seat,
and great authority to the 1st Beast (Rev.13:2; 12:3).
3)Babylon the Great
is the Great Whore which is the United States of America as can be proved
from Revelation Chapters 17 & 18.
4)2nd Beast of Rev.13:11-18
is the False Prophet (Rev.16:13-14;19:20; 20:10).
B) DEFINITIONS:
a)Many Waters: the many waters that the Great Whore sits upon (Rev.17:1) are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues (Rev.17:15).
b)The 7 Heads: the seven heads are seven mountains or hills on which the Great Whore sits (Rev.17:9). These 7 Heads (mountains or hills) are 7 Major Nations around the world, most likely very powerful capitalistic nations like the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Germany, etc.. Each nation has a Capital (Capitol) City where the power or government of that nation is represented and concentrated. The location of the national government buildings is usually on a site called the Capitol Hill. The origin and meaning of the term Capitol Hill has religious and political historical significance.
c)Capitol Hill: the word Capitol comes from the Latin word caput which means HEAD! Here are several meanings from different dictionaries for the word Capitol (and Capital - same word but different spelling):
1]Capital:Relating to the head. Of or pertaining to the head or top. Affecting the head or life.[Ref.The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary,Vol.1,A-M,1933].
2]Capital:The city or town which is the official SEAT of government in a country, state, or province, or of justice in a county. The head or uppermost member of anything.[Ref.The Century Dictionary,1889]
3]Capitol:In Rome, and in Roman cities and colonies, the precinct and temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the protector of the city. The Capitol at Rome, situated on the southwestern summit of the Capitoline Hill, was the center of the official religion of the state. Meetings of the Senate and other legislative bodies have been held in or on the Capitol in both ancient and modern times. Literary references or inscriptions prove the existence of a capitol on the model of that in Rome in more than twenty provincial cities of Italy, Gaul, Spain, Africa, and the East; there can be no doubt that a similar foundation was established in every regularly constituted Roman colony. The Roman capitol of Toulouse,...has been the chief seat of authority in that city from medieval times to the present day.[Ref.The Century Dictionary,1889].
4]Capitol:Literally, A citadel on the head or top of a hill. esp. The great national temple of Rome, dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, on the Saturnian or Tarpeian (afterwards called Capitoline) Hill; sometimes applied to the whole hill including the arx or citadel. Chambers Cycl. s.v., Anciently the name capitol was..applied to all the principal temples, in most of the colonies. U.S.-The edifice occupied by the congress of the United States in their deliberations. Also, in some states, the state-house in which the legislature holds its sessions. [Ref.The Oxford English Dictionary,Vol.2,C,1933].
5]Capitoline:Pertaining to any Roman Capitol, or to Jupiter the Protector, of whose worship the Capitol was the official seat; specifically, pertaining to the Capitol at Rome, or to the hill on which it stood.[Ref.The Century Dictionary,1889].
6]Capitoline Games:
in ancient Rome, annual games originally instituted by Camillus in honor
of Jupiter Capitolinus, and in commemoration of the preservation of the
Capitol from the Gauls. Later they were celebrated every fifth year.[Ref.The
Century Dictionary,1889].
C) ROMAN AND RELIGIOUS SYBOLISM IN THE UNITED STATES:
1)The Goddess of Liberty
(in Washington,D.C.):
A colossal bronze statue
of the Goddess of Liberty stands on the dome of the Capitol in Washington,D.C..
The statue is 19 1/2 feet tall, weighs about 15,000 pounds, and faces
east, very difficult not to notice. Her left hand holds a laurel wreath
of victory. Her helmet features a crest composed of an eagle's head, feathers
and talons. This symbolism is not unlike the statue of Zeus in Olympia,
Greece, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world with a wreath around
his head and he held a figure of Nike the victory goddess in his right
hand. He held a scepter with an eagle in his left hand.
Another one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus which was one of the largest and most complicated temples built in ancient times and resembles the buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington,D.C.. The Senate and Congress both are decorated with symbols from the ancient Roman world. (Ref.a)"The National Capitol",by G.C.Hazelton,1907; b)"The Statue of Liberty",by Marvin Trachtenberg,1976).
2)The Statue of Liberty
(in New York City):
Another one of the seven
wonders of the ancient world was the Colossus of Rhodes. The Colossus of
Rhodes was a huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios holding high a flaming
torch in his right hand and with a radiant crown on his head. It stood
about 120 feet tall - about as high as the Statue of Liberty with the same
symbolic features. (Ref.The World Book Encyclopedia,1986,Vol.17).
An older sister statue to the Statue of Liberty is the statue of Faith (also called Religion) which also has the familiar radiant crown of spikes of Helios the sun god. This statue of Faith is located in the Vatican at Rome, on the Monument to Clement XIII (created by the artist Canova) in the passage to St.Michel's Chapel. The statue of Faith has the worst form of blasphemy on her forehead -- in Hebrew it has the Father's Holy Name of Yahuah and reads, "Qadush Yahuah"! It's bad enough that the Father's Name is on this idol, but to read, Holy is Yahuah applied to an idol is blasphemy.
D) CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MAJOR PLAYERS:
i)The Dragon: The
Dragon is Satan the Devil (the old serpent) (Rev.12:9; 20:2).
-The Devil shows the Messiah
the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them (Matt.4:8,9).
-Has 7 Heads and 10 Horns
(Rev.12:3).
-Gives his power, seat,
and great authority to the 1st Beast (Rev.13:2).
-Dragon bound for 1000 years
(Rev.20:2).
-After 1000 years let loose
for a short time (Rev.20:7).
-The Devil cast into the
lake of fire (Rev.20:10).
ii)The 1st Beast:
The 1st Beast is a fallen angelic being which comes out of the bottomless
pit (Rev.11:7; 17:8).
-He also rises out of the
sea and has 7 Heads and 10 Horns (Rev.13:1).
-It is the image, mark,
name and number of this 1st Beast that we have to avoid (Rev.13:14-17).
-The Dragon gives him his
power, seat, and great authority (Rev.13:2).
-He will continue for 42
months (Rev.13:5).
-It is this Beast on which
the Great Whore sits (Rev.17:3).
-1st Vial - sores on men
that have the mark of this 1st Beast and worshipped his image (Rev.16:2).
-5th Vial - poured on the
seat of this Beast, his kingdom full of darkness and pain (Rev.16:10).
-1st Beast cast into the
lake of fire (Rev.19:20).
iii)The 2nd Beast (the
False Prophet): Comes up out of the earth (probably a fallen angelic
being) (Rev.13:11).
-Has all the power of the
1st Beast and causes all people on the earth to worship the 1st Beast (Rev.13:12).
-Deceives those that dwell
on the earth by miracles which he had power to do (Rev.13:14).
-Says to the people of the
earth to make an image to the 1st Beast (Rev.13:14).
-Has power to give life
onto the image of the 1st Beast and those that don't worship the image
should be killed (Rev.13:15).
-He causes all to receive
the mark of the 1st Beast, or his name or number of his name (Rev.13:16-18).
-Unclean spirits come out
of the Dragon, the 1st Beast, and the False Prophet working miracles
going unto the kings of the earth and the whole world to gather them to
Armageddon (Rev.16:13-16).
-The False Prophet wrought
miracles by which he deceived them that had received the mark of the 1st
Beast, and them that worshipped his image (Rev.19:20).
-Cast into the lake of fire
(Rev.19:20; 20:10).
iv)Nations and Empires
of the World: Satan wields his power on earth through the Nations
and Empires throughout time (Matt.4:8,9).
-The Four Great Beasts in
Daniel Chapter 7 that came up from the sea are Empires of the earth (Dan.7:1-28).
-The Fourth Beast of Daniel
7 had iron teeth which symbolizes the Roman Empire and it's 10 Horns relate
to the Last Days (Dan.7:7-27).
-The 1st Beast of Rev.13
has the 7 Heads and 10 Horns which are given to it by the Dragon (Satan)
(Rev.13:2).
-The 7 Heads (Nations) and
the 10 Horns (Remnants of the Roman Empire probably the European Common
Market) are described further in Rev.17:1-18.
-6th Vial - poured out,
the 1st Beast and the kings of the earth make war with the Messiah (Rev.16:12-16;
19:11-21).
CONCLUSION:
In conclusion, the deception is very strong. That is why we have to be diligent and be on the watch. It is written,"My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6). We have to study to gain back the knowledge that was lost to us over the millennia. Just to give you an idea of how deceived the people are today. Pagan idolatry, symbolism, and practices are so interwoven into the fabric of our society and our daily lives, that most of the time we are oblivious to the meaning and understanding of what we are observing and practicing, bowing down to and giving into pagan practices such as Christmas (tree worship), Easter (fertility goddess of Spring with rabbits and eggs), etc.. Even simple things like the names of the week have pagan origin, such as Wednesday (the god Woden), Thursday (the god Thor), Friday (the goddess Freya), etc.. Also in what seems to be harmless sayings such as, "by Jove" which is actually taking an oath by the Roman god Jupiter.
We have to study, and study hard. We have to be on the alert. It's not a wonder that it is so difficult to understand what is going on in these last days. Satan (the Dragon, the Serpent, the Devil) has had thousands of years to weave his deception. Today the symbolism of thousands of years of pagan idolatry is still with us. But very difficult to see or understand because some symbolism has survived intact while others have been changed or added to. But with diligence and good detective work and especially with Yahuah's guidance and the quickening of Yahuah's Holy Spirit we won't be caught off guard. We will be able to know the truth and avoid the evil. As it is written, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues" (Rev.18:4). And how can we come out of her? By keeping Yahuah's Sabbath, Feast Days, and Laws; and forsaking the pagan customs, idolatry, and evil that saturates society today.
By keeping our minds and hearts focused on Yahuah and His Holy things, we will be able to recognize the Key players in these last days and be able to avoid taking the mark of the beast, his name or his number, or worshipping his image.
a)The Washington Monument (Washington,D.C.) is the Largest Obelisk in the World!
The Obelisk is a phallus symbol (male sex symbol) and also associated with sun worship. The Largest Obelisk in the World is an appropriate identifier of the Great Whore.
The Washington Monument is 555 Feet high and is the tallest free-standing masonry structure in the world. It has a pyramidic cap on the top of it. When it was built, donations of stone instead of money was given by individuals, cities, states, and countries from all over the world. The names of the contributors are on the stones throughout the structure. Fifty flags surround the base of the Monument, one for each State in the Union. The monument also acts as a giant sun dial casting its shadow a great distance during the day.
b)The U.S. Supreme Court Building (Washington,D.C.) - the Temple of Justice:
The architecture and design of the U.S. Supreme Court Building is typical of ancient Greek and Roman Temples. The goddess of Justice was called "Justitia" by the Romans and "Themis" by the Greeks. She was depicted as a stern looking woman, blindfolded and holding a pair of scales and a cornucopia. The cornucopia was a symbol of prosperity, represented as a curved horn overflowing with fruit, vegetables, grains, etc., also called a horn of plenty.
The West Pediment (triangular front face of the roof) of the U.S. Supreme Court Building has a central figure sculpture of the goddess Liberty enthroned. She is posed right above the word justice in the inscription and was probably designed to represent the goddess Justitia (Justice) as well. She is flanked on either side by Roman soldiers.
c)United States Capitol Building (Washington,D.C.) - the Temple of Liberty:
The most important public building in the United States is the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington,D.C.. It is one of the nation's most familiar landmarks. It is also the central starting point for the District of Columbia's street-numbering system. At the center of the U.S. Capitol Building is the Dome with the statue of the goddess of Liberty on top of it.
As they say, all roads lead to Rome, but in this case all roads in the U.S. lead to the heart of the nation which is the U.S. Capitol with the statue of Liberty at the center of it. It is quite understandable as the U.S. is noted for its motto of Freedom and Liberty. What better way to symbolize Freedom than with the goddess of Freedom (Liberty). The only objection is that it is pagan symbolism.
"The goddess of Liberty was known as early as the Roman republic, which built a temple on the Aventine Hill to her in the third century B.C.. But the ancient concept that she embodied was in origin personal rather than political. Liberty was simply the state of not being a slave. The Roman concept was embodied in art by a robed female holding a scepter (indicating sovereignty over herself), accompanied by a liberty-loving cat alongside a broken jug at her feet (symbol of confinement), and crowned by the Phrygian bonnet - the pilleus libertatis - bestowed upon slaves when granted freedom". (Ref.The Statue of Liberty, by Marvin Trachtenberg 1976).
We above all believers before us have real reason to rejoice. The Messiah truly is coming in our life time and possibly as soon as in the next few years. Throughout the ages, believers everywhere have longed for the 2nd Coming of the Messiah. To think that the Messiah is really coming so soon, we have much to rejoice about. He will usher in a time of Peace on Earth for 1000 years. He will establish the Kingdom of His beloved Father Yahuah on earth and rule from Jerusalem.
Remember the parable of the ten virgins. In Matthew 25:1-13 we read, "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps."
The oil represents the Holy Spirit of Yahuah which will guide us into all truth. The Holy Spirit will guide us to Yahuah, through Yahuahshua the Messiah His beloved Son. He will teach us His ways and we will walk in His paths (Isaiah 2:1-22; Rev.6:12-17).
The Messiah is the Word of Yahuah. Through the Messiah we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit quickens us to understand Yahuah's written and living word. And they are the words of Eternal Life! "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" (Psalm 119:105).
1)Justice.
2)Blasphemy.
3)Idolatry.
4)Illicit Intercourse.
5)Homicide.
6)Theft.
7)Limb of a Living Creature.
It is the second of these laws, the one on Blasphemy that will affect us directly. This law relates to blaspheming Yahuah by misusing His Holy Name. Under this law an Israelite would be stoned to death but a Gentile would be decapitated (beheaded). This agrees with Revelation 20:4 which reads, "I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Yahuahshua, and for the word of Yahuah, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with the Messiah a thousand years".
You have to keep in mind that the Jewish people do not use or say the Father's Holy name of Yahuah. They use substitutes such as Elohim (means Mighty Ones), Adonai (means Master), HaShem (means The Name), etc.. And in the eyes of the Jewish people, anyone who believes in the Messiah of the New Testament is not a Jew (or Israelite), even if that person was born a Jew. The Jewish people do not believe in the Messiah of the New Testament. So in the eyes of the Jewish people, the fact that we believe in the Messiah of the New Testament and use the Messiah's true name of Yahuahshua which carries the Father's full name of Yahuah is considered Blasphemy. Of course it's not blasphemy, but that is their perception. And anyone outside of Judaism is a Gentile and subject to the 7 Laws of Noah.
We are commanded to call
upon the name of Yahuah and Yahuahshua for salvation. Yahuah's name is
very holy and we are to use it with great respect in worshipping Him and
His beloved Son. Here are a few of the many scriptures that show us how
important it is for us to know and call upon Him by His holy name:
-1Kings 8:43 - "that
all people of the earth may know thy name".
-Psalm 8:1 - "how
excellent is thy name in all the earth".
-Psalm 79:6 - "Pour
out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms
that have not called upon thy name".
-Psalm 91:14 - "Let
them praise thy great and fearful name for it is holy".
-Proverbs 30:4 -
"who has established all the ends of the earth? what is His name, and what
is His son's name, if you can tell".
-Isaiah 52:6 - "my
people shall know my name".
-Joel 2:32 - "whosoever
shall call on the name of Yahuah shall be delivered".
-Zechariah 13:9 -
"they shall call on my name, and I will hear them".
-Malachi 1:11 - "my
name shall be great among the Gentiles".
-Malachi 2:2 - the
priests that do not give glory to Yahuah's name shall be cursed.
-Matthew 28:19 -
we are commanded to make disciples of all nations immersing them into the
name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
-Luke 24:47 - "that
repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all
nations".
-John 1:12 - "But
as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of Yahuah,
even to them that believe on his name".
-John 3:18 - "condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten
Son of Yahuah".
-John 5:43 - "I am
come in my Father's name".
-Acts 4:12 - "there
is none other name ... whereby we must be saved".
-Ephesians 1:21 -
Messiah given a name above every name.
-Philippians 2:9,10
- "Yahuah also has ... given Him a name which is above every name".
-Hebrews 1:4 - "by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name".
-1John 3:23 - "that
we should believe on the name of His Son Yahuahshua".
-1John 5:13 - "These
things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of Yahuah;
that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe
on the name of the Son of Yahuah".
The Messiah was crucified for being accused of blasphemy (Matt.26:65). And He said that we shall be hated of all men for His name's sake (Matt.10:22). Be of good cheer for we are in good company, for the apostles and the disciples of the Messiah also suffered for His name's sake (Acts 4:17-18; Acts 5:28,40-41; Acts 9:14). We will be sealed with the Messiah's name that carries His Father's name (Revelation 14:1 - New International Version).
The 7 Laws of Noah are Law in the State of Israel. There are indications that they are Law in the United States as well. And there is also a movement to have them made Law in the International Court of Law for the whole world.
Reference:
1)"The Seven Laws
of Noah", by Aaron Lichtenstein 1981.
2)United States Congress
Public Law #102-14, March 20,1991, 102nd Congress, "Education Day, U.S.A.".
2)http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Jungle/5344
3)http://members.tripod.com/YAHUAHSHUA
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We rejoice that so many people have come to the knowledge of the truth of knowing who Yahuah and Yahuahshua really are! We praise Yahuah through His beloved Son Yahuahshua and by His Holy Spirit that He has opened our hearts and minds to know who He is! (Philippians 1:15-18). But as the Messiah and the Apostle Paul warned us, there will be false prophets and deceivers and if it were possible would deceive even the very elect.
Therefore, there is a great need to warn everyone, everywhere, of the growing dangers that lurk in the shadows. As the Messiah and Paul warned us, so we too warn you to be on the alert and to be wary of wolves in sheeps' clothing. By their fruits you shall know them. If they speak not according to His word it is because their is no truth or light in them. So please be careful.
To understand time and it's relation to man on earth, we have to piece together units of time from the Bible. Yahuah gives us definitions of time in His Word.
We know that Yahuah re-created life on earth and reset the heavenly clock of stars and planets in 6 Days and rested on the 7th Day. With Yahuah 1000 years is as one day. Therefore, His 7 Days of Re-Creation can represent 7000 years. The 7th Day Sabbath can also represent the 7th Millennium (1000 year Sabbath) during which time the Messiah will rule on earth for 1000 years when he returns at his 2nd Coming.
Adam was created on the 6th Day of the Week and was told that he would die on the day that he sinned. Adam lived to be 930 years old and died within the 1000 years per day definition. Man's time is also limited to 6 Days or 6000 years. So how can we determine where we are at the present in relation to this 6000 year plan? We have to find a reference point to which we can refer back to and to measure time from. This reference point is the time of the Messiah's death. The Messiah is the Key to understanding the 6000 year plan of man.
The Messiah is the Key:
The Messiah is the prophesied Son and Key of David. Through the Messiah our understanding is open to things kept hidden from the foundation of the world. Yahuah reveals all things to us through His beloved Son Yahuahshua by His Holy Spirit. The Messiah is the Word of Yahuah, the spokesman for the Father. The Messiah is the Key to unlocking the Mystery of the 6000 year Time of Man.
The Messiah's Death and Crucifixion is the Reference Point:
The Timing of the Messiah's Death and Crucifixion is the Reference Point from which we can go forward and backward in time. The Messiah's death is the most accurately recorded event in the entire Bible. We know the hour, day of the week, day of the month, the month, and the year. The Messiah was cut off in the middle of the week on Wednesday at 3PM Jerusalem Time, on the 14th Day of the 1st Month in a Jubilee Year (which was on April 5 in the year 30CE on the Julian Calendar). The Sacred Calendar and the Jewish Calendar synchronize perfectly for the Day of Passover in the year 30CE and both calendars celebrate Passover on the same day in that year. About 70% of Biblical scholars agree that the Messiah died in the year 30CE. See Topic #2.3)Passover and the Crucifixion of the Messiah, above for more details.
The Birth, Death, and Age of the Messiah in Structuring the 6000 Year Time-Line of Man:
All aspects of the Messiah's life is a map to understanding the 6000 years of man from Adam.
a)The Year of the Birth
of the Messiah:
We have figured out the
Spring of the year 30CE as the most probable time for the Messiah's death
and also his age to be most likely 40 1/2 years old. We then can go back
40 1/2 years to the Fall of 12BCE as the most probable year and time of
his birth. Keep in mind that all the bits and pieces of history, scripture,
astronomy and calendar information has to fit all at the same time. You
can't just move something without affecting something else somewhere else
-- everything is interlocked and will affect everything else in the time-line.
It all has to fit perfectly and it does.
The year 12BCE is very significant and perfectly fits the year for the Messiah's birth. We have the appearance of Halley's Comet in 12BCE. The Fall Equinox is on the Day of Atonement on September 25, 12BCE which is also a regular weekly Sabbath Day. The Messiah would have been born during the Fall Feasts and most likely on the Day of Atonement. The significance is that the Messiah is our High Priest after the order of Melchitsadak (King of Righteousness). Only the High Priest went into the Holy of Holies once in the year on the Day of Atonement and not without the shedding of blood for the sins of the people. Also, the Jubilee year was celebrated on the Day of Atonement.
We use both the Spring and Fall Equinoxes as factors when intercalating the calendar. The Spring Equinox started the year because the Sun was reset on the 4th Day of the Creation Week (Wednesday). The Messiah was Crucified on the 4th Day of the Week. It makes perfect sense that the Messiah was born on the Fall Equinox which was the Day of Atonement and also a Weekly Sabbath Day. The Messiah was also the master of the Sabbath Day and almost every occurrence of the number 7 has to do with the Messiah. On the Day of Atonement (the Day of Judgement) the Messiah will judge the world when he comes as King of Kings.
b)The Messiah Died
in a Jubilee Year:
In Luke 4:16-21, the Messiah
indicated that with his death he would set at liberty them that were bruised
for without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins and the
year of his death is a Jubilee Year when the captives were to be released
(Leviticus 25:8-10). So 30CE the year of his death was also a Jubilee Year.
c)Jubilee Cycles within the 6000 Years from Adam and the Age of the Messiah Determines the End of the 6000 Years:
Let us take the number 6000 and check to see how many Jubilee cycles there are in it. So 6000 divided by 49 will give us 122 Jubilees plus a remainder of 22 years (note also that 122 + 22 = 144). Adam was created on the 6th Day of the week and 6 Days x 24 Hours/Day = 144 Hours. The 6th Day is symbolic of the 6000 years of Adam and man.
The significance of the 22 years left over should be obvious to most students of the Bible. The Spring Feasts have been fulfilled which have 21 Days but the Fall Feasts which have 22 Days have yet to be fulfilled. They will be fulfilled at the time of the Messiah's return. The Fall Feasts last 22 Days in the 7th month. The Messiah said he was the first and the last, the Alpha (Hebrew Aleph) and the Omega (Hebrew Tau). The Hebrew Alphabet has 22 letters, the 1st is Aleph and the 22nd is Tau. So we can relate the 22 remainder years to the Fall Feasts and to the Messiah. The 1st year of the 22 years relates to the Feast of Trumpets, the 10th year to the Day of Atonement, the 15th to 21st to the Feast of Tabernacles, and the 22nd to the Last Great Day.
Using the year of the Messiah's death in 30CE which was a Jubilee year as our reference point and anchor, we can calculate Jubilees forward and backward in time. The Messiah told us in his word when he is returning. In Matthew 24:3 his disciples asked him, "what shall be the sign of thy coming (2nd Coming), and the end of the world". The Messiah replied in Matthew 24:29-34 that he would come immediately after the Great Tribulation and that this Generation (meaning himself - his generation or age being 40 1/2 years old) would not pass till those things would be fulfilled. Just as he prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem within his generation 30CE + 40 years = 70CE; so also his return. If we take 30CE and add 40 of his Generations in terms of Jubilee cycles we get: [40 x 49 years/Jubilee = 1960 years, plus 1/2 x 49 years/Jubilee = approximately 22 years (Note: It can't be more than 22 years because that is the only remainder of years in the 6000 years)] which brings us to the year 2011CE. Where 30CE + 1960 years = 1990CE (1990CE is a Jubilee year which is also the 1st year of the next Jubilee count). And 1989CE + 22 years = 2011CE where 2011CE is the 6000th year from Adam.
If 2011CE is the end of the 6000 years from Adam, then 2011CE minus 6000 years would give us the year 3989BCE when Adam was created (3989 + 2011 = 6000). We now have the beginning and end points of the 6000 years.
What is also special to note is that 1990CE would be the last Jubilee year in the 6000 years from Adam and that there seems to be a 490 year cycle as well as the Jubilee cycle of 49 years. From 30CE to 1990CE is 1960 years divided by 490 years = 4 cycles. From 30CE going back in time another 8 cycles of 490 years exist, back to 3891BCE. So there is a total of 12 cycles of 490 years. Note also that 490 years is actually 10 Jubilees = 10 x 49. But what seems to be strange is that one would expect this cycle to start from Adam and not 2 Jubilees after Adam. With further study one finds that Abel was killed in the 99th Year from Adam (Book of Jubilees Chapter 4:2), the very year when this 490 year cycle starts. In Luke 11:50-51 we are given a meaning for this starting point, "that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; from the blood of Abel...". In Matthew 23:35 it is even clearer, "that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel...". Also in Hebrews 12:24 "And to Yahuahshua the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel". So these 12 cycles of 490 years is a time related to the shedding of the blood of the RIGHTEOUS.
Keep in mind also that man's
life span was limited to 120 years old in Genesis 6:3. From the
death of Abel to the last Jubilee is 120 Jubilees. And if you add
the 1st two Jubilees from Adam which is 98 years plus the last 22 years
of the 6000 years, you get 120 years. It is like having the entire
history of man simplified from Adam to the end of the 6000 years into a
symbolical
120 years.
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2011/2012CE-6000thYear ofAdam |
From this plan the year 2000CE is the 11th year of the last 22 years of the 6000 years from Adam. Because the last 22 years are also similar to the 22 days of the Fall Feast days in the 7th Month which have not been fulfilled, we believe that there is a direct relationship in meaning. At this point, we don't know for sure exactly when the Messiah will return. However, we do know that the Messiah will return immediately after the Great Tribulation. Then the harvest festival of the Feast of Tabernacles would start on the 15th day of the 7th month. With time there will be more and more events that will surely show us exactly when the Great Tribulation will start. Once we know for sure when the Great Tribulation has started, we can then count 3 1/2 years to the coming of the Messiah. There are enough signs around the world now to show us that we are close, very close indeed. Rejoice and look up for your redemption draws nigh!
For example: 1 jubilee
= 49 + 1
2 jubilees = 49 + 49 + 1
3 jubilees = 49 + 49 + 49 + 1
etc.
During the 6000 years allotted to man, there will be 122 Jubilees plus 22 years left over (6000 divided by 49 = 122 jubilees + 22 years). After the 6000 years the Messiah will rule during the 7th Millennium for 1000 years when Satan will be bound.
Therefore, using the year 3989BCE as year #1 when Adam was created, the 122 Jubilees from Adam to the end of the 6000 years of man is as follows:
Jubilee Cycle and Jubilee Year Chart
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The 4th & 5th Seals,
the First 6 Trumpets, and the First 6 Vials will all take place during
the 3 1/2 years of the Great Tribulation.
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Luke 21:8-36 Mark 13:5-37 Luke 17:22-37 a)2 Witnesses:
b)Believers in
c)Jerusalem
d)1st Beast:
e)Satan cast
f)Signs in
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3rd Seal:
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Rev.16:2 On Earth sore upon men with Mark of the Beast & on them which worship his image. Will start during Great Tribulation |
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After the Great Tribulation: Matt. 24:26-31 Mark 13:24-27 Luke 17:23-24 Luke 21:25-28 Messiah Returns Sept.15, 2011 |
Rev. 6:12-17 Messiah Returns Sept.15, 2011 |
Rev.11:15-19 Messiah Returns Sept.15,2011 |
Rev.16:17-21 Messiah Returns Sept.15,2011 |
When we accept and keep Passover, we accept the Messiah, for the Messiah is our Passover (John 6:27-69; 1Corinthians 5:7).
Related scriptures for understanding the timing of the Passover: O.T. - Lev.23:5-15; Ex.23:14-17; Ex.34:18-26; Joshua 5:10-11; Ex.9:31-32; N.T. - Matt.26:2-75; Mark 14:1-72; Luke 22:1-71; John 13:1-38.
The Messiah was cut off on Wednesday in the middle of the Week, on the 4th Day of the Week (Daniel 9:26,27).
Note: Mark 16:9-20
is not in Codex Vaticanus 1209, Codex Sinaiticus or in many other ancient
copies of the Greek New Testament.
Also, Mark 16:9 translated
from the Greek reads, "Having risen and early first of week he appeared
first to Mary etc."
The Definition of a Day = Night + Day (Genesis 1:5,8,13).
For more info refer to:
#2.2)The
Feast Days of YAHUAH
#2.3)Passover
and the Crucifixion of the Messiah
#30.0)Keeping
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
#31.0)Keeping
the Feast of Weeks (Feast of Pentecost).
Passover Chart for the Messiah's Death in 30CE
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Footnotes:
# = to observe
Passover meal on Tuesday night after sunset and note that the Messiah was
crucified at 12Noon the next day on Wednesday and died at 3:00PM that same
Wednesday afternoon.
Second Passover = observed only if the first Passover Day could not be kept at the appointed time, see Numbers 9:9-14.
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= is a High Sabbath observed starting at sunset the night before
(this is to be observed similar to a regular Sabbath but keeping in mind
the significance of the Feast being observed).
364 Day Sacred Calendar Feast Days - Part 1
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364 Day Sacred Calendar Feast Days - Part 2
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Reference Texts for
the 364 Day Sacred Calendar:
1)1Enoch 72:7-36.
2)Book of Jubilees 6:1-3,
14-15, 21-36.
3)Essene calendar substantiated
by texts from Qumran Cave 4 ("Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness
of Judea", by J.T.Milik 1959).
Notes:
a)The Hebrew day is night
and day starting at sunset and finishing at sunset (Genesis 1:5).
b)The Sacred Year starts at sunset on Wednesday night (the beginning of the 5th Day of the Week according to Hebrew reckoning).
c)Intercalation:The Sacred Calendar is intercalated every 5th or 6th year by one week (7 days). Usually when the Spring Equinox is between Tuesday sunset (about 6:00PM) to Wednesday sunset (about 6:00PM) during the 4th day of the Hebrew week based on Jerusalem Time. However, on some years the Spring Equinox comes before Tuesday sunset or after Wednesday sunset such as the years 2001CE and 2002CE. In this case, there are two criteria that we look at. First, we make sure the intercalation doesn't happen after a 6th year (eg. stretched out to a 7th year) because every year 1 1/4 days is lost (difference between 365 1/4 day solar year vs. 364 day Sacred Calendar) and 6 X 1 1/4 days = 7 1/2 days. Second, there is a pattern that shows that the Day of Atonement and the Fall Equinox line up the year before the year to be intercalated, year 2000CE was such a year. Therefore, year 2001CE is the year that has to be intercalated.
d)The Day of Atonementis
a fast day and from sunset to sunset no food should be eaten -- you can
drink water for health reasons. But keep in mind that in ancient times
even water was abstained from. It may be wise for children to go only a
short time or only a part of the day without food.
The Lamb's Book of
Life:
People have a misconception
about the Book of Life. They wrongfully believe that it is by good works
and achievements that our names will be put into the Book of Life. But
in fact the names are already written in the Book of Life. The question
is not that we are worthy enough to have our names written into the Book
of Life but rather the Danger of having our Names Blotted
Out of the Book of Life! (Ex.32:32; Rev.3:5; Rev.13:8; Rev.21:27).
It is sin that separates us from Yahuah. Sin is the transgression of the
Law of Yahuah. For the wages of sin is death. Be of good cheer for through
the Messiah we have the forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit
to guide us into all truth.
Keeping Our Spirit
Alive:
It is very important, and
also our responsibility to look after all three: the body, the mind and
the spirit. But the problem is that most people are starving and killing
their spirit without even knowing it. Most people don't even know that
they have a spirit. The Messiah clearly warns us of the dangers to our
spirit. In Matthew 10:28 the Messiah says, "Fear not them which kill the
body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able
to destroy both soul and body in hell" (Romans 8:1-39; 1John 2:15-17).
If you neglect your spirit, it will die. We are told not to quench the
spirit (1Thessalonians 5:4-24). So now comes the question, "How do we feed
and care for our spirit?
Feeding our Spirit:
Feed your spirit with Yahuah's
Word, invite Yahuah's Holy Spirit into your life, hang on for dear life
and never let His Spirit go. Be clothed with Yahuah's Holy Spirit. Keep
Yahuah's Sabbath and Feast Days. Forsake not the assembling of yourselves.
Worship Yahuah in spirit and in truth. Sing psalms to Yahuah and rejoice
before Him always. Read and study Yahuah's Word daily. Obey Yahuah. Forsake
the evil. Produce fruits of righteousness, having the fruit of the Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25). Put on the whole armour of Yahuah (Ephesians
6:10-18; Romans 13:12-14; 2Corinthians 6:1-10). A good habit to get into
is to read one chapter of the New Testament at breakfast, starting with
Matthew Chapter 1. Then read one chapter of the Old Testament at night
before going to sleep, starting with Genesis Chapter 1. By the end of the
year you would have read most of the Bible. By constantly reading His Word,
His Word will become a part of us.
When should we Start
to Feed our Spirit:
In 2Corinthians 6:2 it is
written, "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day
of salvation". We have the opportunity to repent and change our ways up
to the day we die. Problem is, none of us knows when we will die. As soon
as we die, the books are closed and we are judged either to life eternal
or eternal damnation. Before you is life and death, choose which way you
will go. As for me and my House, we choose Life, we choose Yahuah through
Yahuahshua the Messiah, by His Holy Spirit.
Spiritual Warfare:
Satan is waging a spiritual
warfare. Once Satan has us hooked on fleshly and materialistic things,
our spirit gradually dies. To fight back, we have to strengthen our spirit
and clean house that the Spirit of Yahuah may dwell with us. Once our being
is in tune with Yahuah's Holy Spirit, we can do all things through the
Messiah (Philippians 4:13; Galatians 2:20; John 14:12-27). Once we have
true faith, we can move mountains and will be able to do what seems to
be impossible.
Satan wants to keep us in the dark. Satan is happy when we love our sins, when we are, excuse the expression, "Happy as pig in shit". It is time to awake and flee the sins that so easily beset us and drag us down. Take hold on life. Sins are what drag us down. Repent and accept Yahuah's forgiveness through Yahuahshua our High Priest. Forsake the lust and sins of this world. Take hold of Eternal Life and never let go.
The World Today:
Have you noticed that the
things of this world today are focused to control and deceive the mind!
By stages Satan has conquered man. From the time of the Industrial Revolution
starting around 1750, man was enticed to move from being an independent
farmer to an industrial slave. Now we are in the Information Revolution
which will take total control of our lives and the little freedom that
we have left. It will be extremely difficult to worship Yahuah in the years
to come. The jobs and lifestyle of today require very little physical work.
This is deliberate. Lack of exercise weakens the body. Overworking the
mind exhausts both body and mind resulting in sickness. We are overwhelmed
with technology. We are overwhelmed with information. The mind gets supersaturated
with information that can cause confusion and depression. We have to take
control of our lives. We have to focus on what is important - namely Yahuah's
Word, seeking His Kingdom, and His spiritual things. We still have to live
here, but we sure don't have to be a part of the evil that surrounds us.
As it is written, "Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers
of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues" (Rev.18:4). We are
a Holy Nation set apart (1Peter 2:1-25). Don't be surprised if the world
hate you, for so hated the world our beloved master Yahuahshua, the prophets,
and all the righteous from Abel.
Dealing with Fear:
There are different types
of fear. There is a good and natural fear that protects us from danger.
There is a righteous fear that helps us to worship Yahuah the true creator
with reverence and respect. But there is also a destructive fear that keeps
us in bondage. Destructive fears can cripple and stunt our physical, mental
and spiritual growth and retard our full potential in life. Throughout
the Old and New Testaments we are commanded not to be terrified by these
harmful types of fear. We were told in the Media that the number 2 cause
of death by the year 2000 would not be cancer or heart attack, but DEPRESSION.
And depression is usually caused by stress, worry and fear. Through the
Messiah we can do all things, even conquer fear. Yahuah gives us His written
word, His Holy Spirit, and the hope of Eternal Life through His beloved
Son Yahuahshua: to comfort us and to help us throughout our pilgrimage
during our life on earth. Here are some comforting and strengthening scriptures
to help us to deal with fear:
1) 1John 4:18 - "There
is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment.
He that fears is not made perfect in love".
2) 2Timothy 1:7 -
"For Yahuah has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love,
and of a sound mind".
3) Isaiah 41:10-18
- "Fear not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your Elohim:
I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with
the right hand of my righteousness".
4) Isaiah 43:1-5
- "Fear not ... When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and
through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through
the fire, you will not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you".
The greatest fear that most people face is the fear of death. And the Messiah frees us from even the fear of death. In Hebrews 2:9,14-15 it is written, "that through death he (the Messiah) might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage". The Messiah also reassures us of a place for us in the afterlife. In John 14:1-6 the Messiah says, "Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in Yahuah, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: ... I go to prepare a place for you. ... Yahuahshua says unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me".
In Matthew 19:3-12, the Messiah says, "For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore Yahuah has joined together, let no man put asunder." In the union of marriage, the Messiah talks of only two people, one husband and one wife.
In 1Corinthians 7:1-40 the apostle Paul too, only writes about one man and one woman in the union of marriage. Paul says that it is better to be single but it is not a sin to marry. Did you know that there is no such thing as pre-marital sex? But that sexual intercourse is the bond of marriage! Paul again writes in 1Corinthians 6:15-16, "Know you not that your bodies are the members of the Messiah? Shall I then take the members of the Messiah, and make them the members of an harlot? Yahuah forbid. What? Know you not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two saith he, shall be one flesh."
Know you not that, "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers Yahuah will judge" (Hebrews 13:4). Again, "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death" (Revelation 21:8). And again, "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie" (Revelation 22:14-15).
So dearly beloved and fellow believers, partakers of the sufferings and death of our master Yahuahshua, flee the lusts of the flesh in this wicked and adulterous generation.
So it is very clear that we are to keep Yahuah's Laws. But if we do sin, we have an advocate with the Father through the blood of the Messiah.
So how about the Feast Days? The Feast Days are directly linked to the Messiah. Let's look at the Passover as an example. In 1Corinthians 5:7 Paul writes, "the Messiah our Passover is slain for us". And how important is it for us to keep the Passover? In John 6:53-56 the Messiah says, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him". What did the Messiah observe before He died? The Messiah observed Passover before He died, as it is written in Matthew 26:17-19. And what did the Messiah command us in how to keep the Passover? In Matthew 26:26-28, the Messiah tells us, "And as they were eating, Yahuahshua took bread, and blessed it and brake it and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink you all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins". In Luke 22:19 the Messiah commands us to observe the Passover in remembrance of Him.
Events leading up to
the Passover:
To fully understand Passover,
we have to pull together other scriptures related to it. From John 12:1
we know that the Messiah had supper with Lazarus 6 days before the Passover
which would have been Friday night on the 9th Day of the 1st Month. The
next day, the 10th Day of the 1st Month, the Messiah made His triumphant
entry into Jerusalem riding on the colt of an ass.
Events that happened on the
10th Day of the 1st Month:
1)The Messiah's Triumphal
entry into Jerusalem (John 12:12-16).
2)The Passover Lamb
was chosen (Exodus 12:1-5).
3)Children of Israel
entered into the Promised Land (Joshua 4:19,1-24).
4)The Measuring of
the Temple in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 40:1; Ezekiel Chapters 40 to 48).
5)The Day of Atonement
which is on the 10th Day of the 7th Month is directly related to the 10th
Day of the 1st Month on the Sacred Calendar; as the 1st and 7th Months
are identical. The Day of Atonement is when the Messiah will judge the
world at His Second Coming.
Keeping the Passover:
Passover is to be kept on
the 14th Day of the 1st Month from Tuesday sunset to Wednesday sunset (Leviticus
23:5; Exodus 12:6-14; Numbers 9:1-14; Deuteronomy 16:1-7). The Passover
meal was observed just after sunset on Tuesday night. And if a person was
unclean and could not keep the Passover on the 14th Day of the 1st Month,
he still had to keep it on the 14th Day of the 2nd Month (Numbers 9:6-14).
When the children of Israel obeyed Yahuah and kept the Passover by putting
the blood of the lamb on their door posts, then the angel of death Passed
Over them and were saved (Exodus 12:7-14). Through the blood of the
Messiah, our Passover Lamb, we continue today to have the protection, forgiveness
of sins and the hope of eternal life when we keep Yahuah's Passover in
the light of the New Testament. But to fully understand Passover we still
have to be aware of why and how Passover was observed in the Old Testament.
A)Observing Passover
in the Old Testament:
1)Passover kept on the 14th
Day of the 1st Month.
2)Passover Lamb slain between
Tuesday sunset to Wednesday sunset.
3)Passover meal could be
observed between Tuesday sunset to Wednesday sunset. The 1st Passover in
Egypt was kept after sunset on Tuesday night.
4)The blood of the Passover
Lamb was to be put on the two side posts and on the upper door post of
the houses where they would eat the Passover meal.
5)The Passover Lamb was
roasted with fire and eaten that night with unleavened bread and with bitter
herbs.
6)Children of Israel ate
the Passover meal in haste; with loins girded, shoes on their feet, and
their staff in their hand.
7)Children of Israel were
not allowed to go out of their houses until the morning.
8)At midnight all the firstborn
of man and beast in Egypt which were not in the houses that had the protection
of the blood of the Passover Lamb died.
B)Observing Passover
in the Light of the New Testament:
In Hebrews 10:4 it is written,
"For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away
sins". The whole sacrificial system of the Old Testament was a foreshadow
of the Messiah's perfect sacrifice (Hebrews Chapters 1 to 10). The Messiah
shows us the new way to observe Passover. The Passover is still to be kept
on Tuesday night after sunset on the 14th Day of the 1st Month. But instead
of killing a lamb however, we are now for the Passover meal, to eat
unleavened bread which represents His broken body and to drink red wine
that represents His blood that He shed for us for the forgiveness and remission
of our sins. By observing Passover in this new way we acknowledge His sacrifice
of suffering and death for our sins (Matthew 26:18-28; Mark 14:12-24; Luke
22:1-20).
Keeping the Feast of
Unleavened Bread:
In the New Testament it
can be a little confusing on when and how the Feast of Unleavened Bread
was kept. On the Passover Day on the 14th Day of the 1st Month only during
the Passover Meal was unleavened bread used; however, you can still eat
leavened bread the rest of that same day. It is on Wednesday night after
sunset which begins the 15th Day of the 1st Month that the Feast of Unleavened
Bread starts. The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasts 7 Days from the 15th
Day to the 21st Day of the 1st Month (Leviticus 23:5-16).
From scripture we know that leaven (yeast) represents sin. So at the time of the first Passover, unleavened bread was symbolic of the children of Israel coming out of sin (out of Egypt and away from idolatry). Going into the Promised Land was symbolic of believers going into the Kingdom of Yahuah.
Today, we still keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as it was observed in the Old Testament. However, we observe the Feast in the light of the New Testament. We eat unleavened bread for 7 Days from the 15th Day to the 21st Day of the 1st Month. The 15th Day and the 21st Day both are High Sabbaths and are observed as Sabbaths (John 19:31; Leviticus 23:6-8). We keep in mind that our sins are washed away by the blood of the Messiah and we eat unleavened bread which is symbolic of our abstaining from sin.
We also keep in mind that the Messiah was in the tomb from Wednesday sunset (15th Day of the 1st Month) to Saturday just before sunset (17th Day of the 1st Month) for 3 Nights and 3 Days. The Messiah rose from the dead on Saturday just before sunset. Saturday sunset began the 18th Day of the 1st Month. The 18th Day of the 1st Month was the time when the Sheaf Offering of the Barley was observed and was also the 1st Day of the 50 day count to Pentecost (Feast of Weeks). The Messiah represents the First of the Firstfruit Offering of grain (barley) and the beginning of the barley harvest. Symbolically the Messiah is also the Bread of Life. The 18th Day of the 1st Month is also one of the three times in the year when all males were to present themselves before Yahuah and not to appear before Him empty handed (Exodus 23:14-17).
For more information please
refer to the following:
#2.0)The
True Biblical Calendar.
#2.2)The
Feast Days of Yahuah.
#2.3)Passover
and the Crucifixion of the Messiah.
#26.0)Passover
and Crucifixion Chart for the Messiah's Death in 30CE.
#27.0)Feast
Days for the 364 Day Sacred Calendar - 2000CE to 2011CE.
#31.0)Keeping
the Feast of Weeks (Feast of Pentecost).
Determining the Day
of the Sheaf Offering of the Barley:
So how do we determine exactly
when the barley sheaf offering was offered up? From Leviticus 23:10-22
we know that it was offered on the 1st day of the week (Sunday). We know
that it was at the beginning of the barley harvest (green ears). In Deuteronomy
16:9 we read, "Seven weeks shall you number unto you: begin to number the
seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the grain".
We know that this barley harvest had to be in the land of Israel from Leviticus
23:10, "when you come into the land which I give unto you". What is even
more amazing is the fact that the growing season for barley in Egypt where
the children of Israel were is identical to the earliest growing season
for barley in Israel even though the means of watering the crops is completely
different for the two countries. In Egypt the crops depend on the flooding
of the Nile. From Exodus 9:31-32, we know that at the time of the exodus
the barley was in the ear, "And the barley was smitten: for the barley
was in the ear,... but the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they
were not grown up". In Israel the crops depend on the former (October/November)
and latter (March/April) rain. Keep in mind that in Israel there are 3
to 4 different growing seasons depending on the region, so we would have
to choose the earliest one which would be near Jericho in the Jordan Valley
because the children of Israel could not eat of the new grain until they
had offered up the sheaf offering.
There were three harvest festivals that the children of Israel were to keep each year (Exodus 23:14-17; Exodus 34:18-24; Deuteronomy 16:8-17). It was commanded that all males were to appear before Yahuah during these three festivals and not to appear before Him empty handed. The three harvest festivals are: 1) The Feast of Unleavened Bread (Beginning of Barlely Harvest starting with Sheaf Offering of Barley); 2)Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) (End of Wheat Harvest with the offering of two loaves of Wheat Bread); 3)Feast of Tabernacles (End of the Agricultural year with the offering of New Wine, Fresh Olive Oil, Pomegranates, etc.). So we also know that the right week for the Sheaf Offering of the Barley had to be during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. So the Sheaf Offering of the Barley had to be on the 18th Day of the 1st Month (Sunday).
This also makes sense as the 1st month of the year is the month of Abib (on the old Hebrew Calendar). The Hebrew word Abib means "green" as in "green ears of grain". So we know that it was in the month of Abib and on the 1st Day of week, on the 18th Day of the 1st Month (Sunday) that the barley sheaf offering would have been offered up . This is backed up in Joshua 5:10-12, when the children of Israel came into the promised land, "the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the 14th Day of the Month at even in the plains of Jericho. And they did eat of the old grain of the land on the morrow (15th Day of the 1st Month) after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched grain in the selfsame day. And the manna ceased on the morrow (16th Day of the 1st Month) after they had eaten of the old grain of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year". And it is also written in Leviticus 23:14, "you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering unto your Elohim". Also Deuteronomy 16:9, "seven weeks shall you number unto you: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the grain".
Keeping the Feast of
Weeks (Pentecost):
So counting 50 days (7 complete
weeks) from the 18th Day of the 1st Month (Sunday) the day of the Barley
Sheaf Offering we come to the 7th Day of the 3rd Month (Sunday) which is
the Feast of Weeks (Day of Pentecost). The New Testament root origin of
the Greek word "Pentecoste" means the number "Fifty".
There is also a spiritual aspect of counting from the time of the Barley Sheaf Offering. The Barley Sheaf Offering represents the Messiah who became the perfect sacrifice for us just after he rose from the dead (he rose from the dead the day before the offering was made). The Messiah is also the first of the firstfruits, the first begotten of the Father and the first begotten of the dead representing the beginning of the grain harvest. After the Messiah rose from the dead he was seen for 40 days before he ascended up into heaven. The apostles and disciples were commanded to stay in Jerusalem for the next 10 days until the 50th day, the Feast of Weeks.
The Feast of Weeks is a High Sabbath and to be observed as a Sabbath. This is one of the three Feasts in the year when all males are to appear before Yahuah and not to appear before Him empty handed. It was on the Feast of Weeks (Day of Pentecost) that the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the believers that were gathered together to keep the Feast in Jerusalem. The Feast marks the end of the grain harvest and the Wheat Harvest in particular. The grain harvest started with the raw green ears of barley but finished with the finished product of baked wheat bread. Keep in mind that the Messiah is the Bread of Life! The Messiah was born in "Bethlehem" which from the Hebrew means "House of Bread". The Messiah said in John 6:35, "I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes in me shall never thirst". When we eat the unleavened bread (which represents his body) and drink the wine (which represents his blood) during the Passover meal, the Messiah becomes part of us spiritually.
In Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 the Messiah gives us the parable of the Wheat and the Tares. This is a prophecy of the end of the world and of His Second Coming. The good seed of wheat represent the children of the kingdom. The Wheat Harvest represents the end of the world. By similar comparison the 3rd Seal of Revelation 6:5-6 could mean the testing of believers with the weighing in the balances of the barley and the wheat. And in Revelation 14:14-16 the grain harvest of believers is indicated. While in Revelation 14:17-20 the harvest of the grapes of wrath indicates the harvest of unbelievers and those that do evil.
For more information please
refer to the following:
#2.0)The
True Biblical Calendar.
#2.2)The
Feast Days of Yahuah.
#2.3)Passover
and the Crucifixion of the Messiah.
#26.0)Passover
and Crucifixion Chart for the Messiah's Death in 30CE.
#27.0)Feast
Days for the 364 Day Sacred Calendar - 2000CE to 2011CE.
#30.0)Keeping
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
A)Hidden Treasures
in the Messiah's Two Names:
As believers on earth, we
pray to Yahuah through the Messiah using the Messiah's name of Yahuahshua
(which means Salvation of Yahuah). When the Messiah returns the
scriptures in Jeremiah 23:6; 33:16, and in Revelation 3:12 indicate that
He will use His new name of Yahuahtsadaq (which means Righteousness
of Yahuah). But what is the Messiah's name now in Heaven? I believe
that in Heaven the Messiah is called Yahuahtsadaq and sits at the right
hand of Yahuah Himself. When we pray on earth, we are beseeching or begging
Yahuah for forgiveness and salvation through His beloved Son Yahuahshua.
But in Heaven the Messiah is acknowledged as the Righteousness of Yahuah
and uses the name of Yahuahtsadaq. There are many places in the Old Testament
where you will find the combined attributes of Salvation and Righteousness
used to describe Yahuah. For example, in Psalms 24:5; 71:15; etc.. The
grain harvest of believers started with the death and resurrection of the
Messiah in the year 30CE. We are saved by Yahuah through the blood of the
Messiah but if we deny the Messiah, we will die in our sins. So this process
of salvation will continue until He returns. When the Messiah returns as
King of Righteousness He will be called Yahuahtsadaq on earth and in Heaven.
In the Year 11CE the Messiah was 22 years old and the Year 11CE is also the Year 4000 from Adam. The Messiah was born in 12BCE within the 4000 years from Adam. So the Messiah was born in the 4th Millennium and brought up under the Old Covenant. The Messiah died on the 4th Day of the Week and carries the 4th Letter of the Father's name of Yahuah. The Messiah died in the Year 30CE which is in the beginning of the 5th Millennium and the New Covenant began with His death. In the New Covenant Yahuah through Yahuahshua shows us the Spirit of the Law and opened to us the way of Salvation and Righteousness.
The Messiah is our High Priest
of the Order of Melchitsadaq (King of Righteousness). The Messiah carries
both the name of Yahuahshua and Yahuahtsadaq. These two names could represent
the 10 Commandments: The 1st four letters in each name carries the Father's
name of Yahuah and could represent the 1st four Commandments as to how
we are to love Yahuah. The last three letters in each name combined adds
up to 6 Hebrew Letters containing Shua (Salvation) and Tsadaq (Righteousness)
which could represent the last 6 Commandments on how to love our neighbour.
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Vav=6 Symbol of man praying. Man created 6th Day and dies on 6th Day. |
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B)Parable of the 50
Days of Grain Harvest and the End of the World:
In Matthew 13:24-30; 13:36-43,
the Messiah gives us the parable of the Wheat and the Tares. The Wheat
which are the believers are sown by the Messiah since His first coming.
The harvest is the end of the World. From the parable in Matthew 13:18-23
of the sower and the seed, the seed is also the Word of Yahuah. The Grain
Harvest is 50 Days from the Sheaf Offering of the Barley to the Feast of
Weeks (Pentecost) on the 50th Day. This 50 Days consists of 7 Weeks, the
1st 3 1/2 Weeks for the Barley Harvest and the next 3 1/2 Weeks for the
Wheat Harvest.
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1)The Great Tribulation will last 3 1/2 years.
2)Barley Harvest is 3 1/2 Weeks.
3)Wheat Harvest is 3 1/2 Weeks.
4)Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) is the 50th Day of the Grain Harvest and is on the 7th Day of the 3rd Month. If you multiply 7 X 50 = 350 which is a 3 1/2 ratio of 3.5 X 10 (350 is half of 700).
5)The Last Letter of the Messiah's name of Yahuahshua is the Letter Ayin which has a numerical value of 70. In Luke 10:1-24 the Messiah chose 70 disciples in pairs or 35 pairs (3.5 X 10), to go before Him. The Messiah here talks about sending these disciples as labourers into Yahuah's Harvest.
6)The Messiah was crucified in the middle of a 7 Day Week, 7 Days divided by 2 = 3 1/2 Days. The middle of the Week is also on the 4th Day of the Week. This middle point of a 7 is also significant and usually deals with the Messiah. For example, it is the 4th letter in both of the Messiah's names, the letter He, that makes the Messiah's names unique and above every name because it carries the fullness of His Father's name of Yahuah.
7)The Menorah has 7 lamps. The middle one is the main one which feeds the other 6 with oil. The Messiah has the 7 Spirits of Yahuah (Revelation 5:6). In Isaiah 11:1-2 we are given a list of the 7 Spirits of Yahuah. The main spirit is the Spirit of Yahuah, and the other 6 are in pairs.
8)The Messiah was born in the 4th Millennium from Adam, which is the middle of the 7000 years from Adam.
9)When the Messiah returns, he will judge the world. The Messiah will be that critical pivotal middle point so crucial to the balance of the scales of justice, weighing the heart of every person of the living and the dead.
In Conclusion:
We still don't know everything
about the future. But we do have the comfort of Yahuah's Word and of His
Holy Spirit to guide us. We praise Yahuah for His great mercy and love
that He shows us through His beloved Son Yahuahshua and the gift of His
Holy Spirit. Also for opening our hearts and our minds to understand so
many wonderful truths. HalleluYah! Toda Aba Yahuah!
The beginning of the Great Tribulation will start with the prophecy of Daniel 9:27. As the Messiah says in Matthew 24:15-29 (also Luke 21:20-27) , "When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place ... for then shall be Great Tribulation ... etc.".
The Messiah's Second Coming is also foretold in Daniel 2:31-45, where the stone (the Messiah) will smite the image. And this stone will smite the toes of clay and iron of the image and will destroy the image. Then the Messiah will establish the Kingdom of Yahuah on the earth at His Second Coming. In Daniel 4:30, Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon brags about creating great Babylon (or Babylon the Great). In Revelation Chapters 16-19, again we are told that Babylon the Great of our time will fall just before the Second Coming of the Messiah. So there is a lot of info that we can glean from in the Book of Daniel for our time.
Note also that the word "Babylon" in the Old Testament Hebrew is spelled as beth,beth,lamed or better known as "Babel". So there is a direct connection between the Tower of Babel of Nimrod in Genesis 10:9-10; 11:1-32; Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon and Babylon the Great of our present time in Revelation 17:5. We get the spelling for the word Babylon as we know it from the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint LXX) where it is spelled as beta,alpha,beta,upsilon,lambda,omega,nu in the Greek. The other thing to keep in mind is that the terms Babylonian and Chaldean are synonymous and are one and the same. Abraham was from Ur of the Chaldees and was a Chaldean and consequently a Babylonian. Abraham gave us an example in that he came out of Babylon. So we too have to come out of modern Babylon.
The Hand Writing on
the Wall:
The hand writing on the
wall in Daniel 5:25, I believe is also related to our time. The hand writing
is made up of 4 Hebrew words and consists of 15 Hebrew Letters. The 1st
Word is the word "MENE (MINA)" with 3 Hebrew letters (mem=40, nun=50,
aleph=1) with a total numerical value of 91. 91 is exactly one quarter
of the 364 Day Sacred Calendar year (counting the intercalary days) or
equal to one Season. If we divide 91 by the numerical value of Yahuah's
name of 26 we get 3 1/2. The 2nd Word is also the word "MENE (MINA)"
with a value of 91, and divided by 26 again gives 3 1/2. Note:
2 X 91 = 182 = 7 X 26. The 3rd Word is "TEKEL" with 3 Hebrew
letters (tau=400, qoph=100, lamed=30) with a total numerical value of 530.
The 4th Word is "UPHARSIN" (root word is PHARAS) with 6 Hebrew
letters (vav=6, pe=80, resh=200, samech=60, yod=10, nun=50) with a total
numerical value of 406. The total for all 15 letters in the phrase is 1118
= 43 X 26, perfectly divisable by 26!
This is the way Daniel interprets
the hand writing in Daniel 5:25-28:
MENE (MINA) = the
Almighty has NUMBERED your kingdom and finished it. (Note:
the common Mina is equal to 50 shekels or 1000 gerahs).
TEKEL = you are WEIGHED on the scales and found lacking.(Note: With Yahuah a just weight is perfectly balanced. In this case a MENE (MINA) should equal a MENE (MINA) when placed on the scales and weighed; but doesn't because of corruption and injustice).
PERES = your kingdom is DIVIDED and given to the Medes and Persians. (Note: The word "Peres" (Pharas) (Pe,Resh,Samech) is the root singular of UPHARSIN (the "vav" at the beginning of the word means"and"). The word Peres means: 1)to rend, to tear, as a garment. 2)to break bread, to any one; to give or distribute to, to cleave, divide the hoof. 3)to divide. 4)the osprey, a species of eagle. 5)proper name of Persia, Persians.).
A)First Meaning for
our Time:
So what could this Hand
Writing on the Wall mean for us today? I believe that it refers to Daniel
9:27 for our time and means the abomination of desolation when there will
be a confirmation of a covenant for one week (7 Days) and in the midst
of the week (in 3 1/2 Days) he shall cause the sacrifice to cease. The
1st MENE (MINA) represents 3 1/2 Years; the 2nd MENE (MINA) represents
3 1/2 Years; for a total of 7 Years. And the last of these two 3 1/2 Year
blocks will probably be the Great Tribulation. You can even picture the
Messiah's two names, Salvation on one scale and Righteousness
on the other. The Messiah was still in the flesh for the 1st 3 1/2 Days
of the Week, then crucified on the 4th Day of the Week; then in the spirit
for the 2nd 3 1/2 Days of the Week. Right now, we are still in the process
of salvation, and we have the hope of salvation. As the Messiah said, "he
that endures unto the end shall be saved". This flesh of corruption must
put on the incorruption of the spirit. You can also think of it as the
idea of separating the unclean from the clean. Keep in mind too that
they weighed out 30 pieces of silver for the Messiah and we too are bought
with a price, by the precious blood of the Messiah to cleanse us of our
sins.
B)Second Meaning for
our Time:
There is a second meaning
of the Hand Writing on the Wall for our Time. If you put both Minas on
one scale and Babylon on the other, so that you weigh one against the other.
Then the two Minas (one Mina equals 1000 gerahs) together will be 2000
gerahs or 2000 years. The year 11CE is the end of the 4000 years from Adam
and the Messiah was 22 years old in 11CE. The Messiah was born 22 years
before the end of the 4000 years from Adam. From 11CE to 2011CE is the
last 2000 years. 2011CE is the end of the 6000 years from Adam. We also
have a 22 year period before the end of the 6000 years from Adam which
ends in 2011CE. Babylon the Great of our Time will be judged and destroyed
at the Second Coming of the Messiah at the end of the 6000 years from Adam.
In Conclusion:
We are constantly given
bits and pieces of truth and revelations for the last days. The closer
we get to the end, the clearer and more focused will be the full picture.
Be of good courage dear friends and fellow pilgrims, we are sure to succeed
if we faint not. Remember, Yahuah is our hope, strength and salvation through
the Messiah Yahuahshua. If Yahuah be for us who can be against us. Like
the Messiah said in John 10:25-29, "My sheep hear my voice ... neither
shall any pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them to me,
is greater than all; and none is able to pluck them out of my Father's
hand". Be of good cheer, the Messiah has overcome the world! And we can
do all things through the Messiah who strengthens us.
The title of this new book
is:
"The Dead Sea Scrolls
Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English",
by Martin Abegg,Jr., Peter Flint, and Eugene Ulrich. Published in 1999
by HarperCollins Publishers Inc. ISBN 0-06-060063-2 (Hard Cover). Note:
Paper Back version will not be released until November 2002.
This is such a fantastic book! There is a special introduction to each book of the Bible in regard to the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls related to it. The variances are noted in italics which makes them very easy to spot. Important commentaries are given in the text. Valuable footnotes indicate sources for variations and what the variations are from what source.
All in all this is a very important tool for understanding the development of the Old Testament and what variations there are compared to our modern Bible. There are a lot of variations but the majority are very minor and does not change the text of the Old Testament. More than anything else, the accuracy and soundness of the Old Testament as we know it is reinforced.
Keeping the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Taruah):
The Feast of Trumpets (Yom
Taruah) is observed on the 1st Day of the 7th Month. It is a High Sabbath
to be kept as a Sabbath, keeping in mind the significance particular to
it. No heavy work is to be done. The people assembled together on this
Feast Day. In Nehemiah 8:1-12 the Book of the Law of Moses was brought
before the people and read to them on the 1st Day of the 7th Month. The
people rejoiced in hearing the words of the law. The people rejoiced with
great joy, feasting in eating the fat, and drinking the sweet and sent
portions to whom nothing was prepared. The people began to keep the Feast
Days of Yahuah in the 7th month by hearing the word of Yahuah from the
Book of the Law of Moses and heard it with great joy.
Better Understanding the Hebrew word "TARUAH":
In Leviticus 23:24 the Feast is called, "Zikrun Taruah" which in the English means Remembrance of Great Noise. In Numbers 29:1 from the Hebrew the Feast is called, "Yom Taruah" which translated into the English means Day of Great Noise (ear splitting, ear shattering, extremely loud sound or noise). The wordTaruah (Tau, Resh, Vav, Ayin, He) in the Old Testament Hebrew is used in several ways to denote very loud sound; which can be produced by a shofar (ram's horn) or other musical instrument, the human voice, etc.. Some examples on how the word Taruah is used in scripture are:
1)Leviticus 23:24 and Numbers 29:1 - The name of the Feast Day (Yom Taruah) celebrated on the 1st Day of the 7th Month.
2)Leviticus 25:9 - Blast(Taruah) of the shofar (ram's horn) in a Jubilee Year on the Day of Atonement to proclaim freedom, restoration of land and restoring those in bondage back to their families.
3)Numbers 10:5,6 - To strike an alarm or signal (Taruah) for the children of Israel to move their camps and to go on their journey.
4)Numbers 23:21 - Yahuah is with him and the shout (Taruah) of a king is in him (perhaps a king like a lion roars with power).
5)Joshua 6:5,20 - By the great shout (Taruah) of the children of Israel (about 1 million people) the walls of Jericho fell down.
6)Ezra 3:11-13 - Children of Israel shout (Taruah) with great joy when the foundation of the 2nd Temple was laid after returning from the captivity.
7)Psalm 33:1-3 - The righteous rejoicing with musical instruments and singing a new song unto Yahuah skillfully playing with a loud noise (Taruah).
8)Jeremiah 4:19 -
For the sound of the ram's horn I have heard. O my soul, the alarm (Taruah)
of war!
The Return of the Messiah on the Feast of Trumpets:
The Feast of Trumpets is synonymous with the Great Day of Yahuah, the day on which the Messiah will Return. We can prove this as follows:
The 1st Beast of Revelation 13:4-5 will rule for the full duration of the Great Tribulation which will last 3 1/2 Years. From Matthew 24:21,27-30 we know that the Messiah will Return IMMEDIATELY after the Great Tribulation which will last 3 Years and 6 Months. So immediately after the 6th Month is the 1st Day of the 7th Month which is the Feast of Trumpets!
We also know that the Messiah will Return at the 6th Seal (Revelation 6:12-17); the 7th Trumpet (Revelation 11:15-19); and the 7th Vial (Revelation 16:17-21). The 6th Seal, the 7th Trumpet, and the 7th Vial are all one and the same event, namely, the Return of the Messiah!
Just as we have 6 days of work then comes the 7th Day weekly Sabbath. So we also have after 6 months a type of 7th Month Sabbath. After 6 years we have the 7th Year Sabbath. After 6000 years from Adam, we have the 7th Millennium Sabbath during which time Satan will be bound and the Messiah will rule for 1000 years!
Introduction:37.0) The Sign of the Prophet Jonah in the Last Days:These Last 10 Years starting from March 21, 2002 to March 14, 2012 has everything to do with the Return of the Messiah. March 15, 2012 will be the First Day of the Beginning of the 7th Millennium when Satan will be bound and the Messiah will rule for a thousand years. Some time during these Last 10 Years and most likely toward the end of it, the 3 1/2 Year Great Tribulation will take place and immediately after the Great Tribulation, the Messiah will Return.
The Year 2002, starting from March 21, 2002 is the 13th Year of the Last 22 Years to the end of the 6000 Years from Adam and is also the 1st Year of the Last 10 Years to the end of the 6000 Years from Adam. The number 10 is the number of Judgement in scripture.
The children of Israel searched out the Promised Land for 40 Days. Because of fear they refused to go into it. Therefore, Yahuah made them wander in the wilderness for 40 Years, a year for a day. It was a time of cleansing when all the unbelievers died out and were not permitted to go into the Promised Land. Revelation 2:10 says that believers will have tribulation for 10 Days. I believe that the 10 Days referred to in Rev.2:10 are these Last 10 Years, a year for a day. It will be a time of trial and testing not just for believers but for the whole world. At the end of the 40 years in the wilderness, Yahushua the son of Nun (Joshua) who is a type of the Messiah led the remaining children of Israel into the Promised Land. In the same way, Yahuahshua the Messiah (perhaps using his future name of Yahuahtsadaq when he returns) will lead the remnant of believers into the Kingdom of Yahuah. These Last 10 Years will be a duration of 40 Seasons: where 1 Season = 91 Days, or 13 Weeks, or 3 Months.
The Messiah carries His Father's name of Yahuah in both his present name of Yahuahshua and his future name of Yahuahtsadaq. The Messiah's present name of Yahuahshua equates with the 1st six months of the Year when he was here on the earth at his 1st Coming when the Spring Feasts and Pentecost were fulfilled. The Messiah's future name of Yahuahtsadaq equates with the 2nd half of the year starting with the 1st Day of the 7th Month and the Fall Feasts which have not been fulfilled yet. The Father's name of Yahuah has a numerical value of 26. The 1st six months of the year = 13 Weeks + 13 Weeks = 26 Weeks or 2 Seasons. The 2nd half of the year = 13 Weeks + 13 Weeks = 26 Weeks or 2 Seasons. For the whole year giving 26 Weeks + 26 Weeks = 52 Weeks. 7 Years = 52 Weeks x 7 Years = 364 Weeks. 3 1/2 Years = 26 x 7 Weeks = 26 x 49 Days. In 3 1/2 Years there are 26 Jubilees of Days with the Last Jubilee actually being the 1st Day of the 7th Month.
Each Season of the year consists of 13 Weeks or 91 Days. The 91st Day of each Season is an Intercalary Day which is always on a Wednesday the 4th Day of the Week when the Messiah was crucified. The 91st Day of each Season represents the Messiah. This 91st Day or Intercalary Day is the Messiah that both separates and also is a bridge between the Seasons. Yahuah has created all things through His beloved son Yahuahshua and gives us our food from the earth through the Seasons, through His beloved Son. As it is written, the Messiah is the Bread of Life. The Messiah is also the bridge between the Old and New Covenants (Testaments).
The Last 10 Years in Units of Time:
a)10 Years = 10 x 12 Months = 120 Months.
120 Months = 40 + 40 +40.
120 Months = 40 x 3 Months.
120 Months = 98 + 22 = 49 + 49 + 22.
(also: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15=120)Note: Abel (the first righteous person to die) died in the 99th year from Adam in the year 3891BCE which was a Jubilee year at the age of 22 years old. The 1st of the twelve 490 year cycles in the 6000 years from Adam starts with Abel's death in 3891BCE and the 12th 490 year cycle ends in 1989CE. 1990CE is the Last Jubilee year and starts the Last 22 years of the 6000 years from Adam. This can be summed up as 6000 years = 49 + 49 + (12 x 490) + 22. Where 120 (49 + 49 + 22) is the number of years of man (Genesis 6:3). Now there is also a similar pattern in these Last 10 years which equals 120 Months (49 + 49 +22).
b)10 Years = 10 x 52 Weeks = 520 Weeks.
520 Weeks = 40 x 13 Weeks.c)10 Years = 10 x 360 Days (without counting the Intercalary Days) = 3600 Days.
3600 Days = 25 x 144 Days.10 Years = 10 x 364 Days (counting the Intercalary Days) = 3640 Days.
3640 Days = 70 x 52 Days.
3640 Days = 140 x 26 Days.
3640 Days = 40 x 13 x 7 Days.
3640 Days = 40 x 26 x 3 1/2 Days.
3640 Days = 40 x 91 Days.There are strong connections between these Units of Time and Biblical Perfect Numbers such as:
120 = Maximum life span of man in years.
40 = A Generation, a time of cleansing.
50 = A Jubilee, a new beginning.
49 = A Time of completion (7 x 7).
91 = A Season in Days (4 Seasons x 91 Days = 364 Days).
13 = A Season in Weeks (4 Seasons x 13 Weeks = 52 Weeks)
3 = A Season in Months (4 Seasons x 3 Months = 12 Months)
26 = The numerical value of the Name of Yahuah.
22 = The number of Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet.
The Significance of the Number 91 and 13:
Even mathematically, the numbers 91 and 13 are directly linked. For example, if you take all the numbers in sequence from 1 to 13 and add each one, one after the other as:
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13 = 91
you get a total of 91!
In the Sacred Calendar, 91 Days or 13 Weeks (91 Days divided by 7 Days = 13 Weeks) is equal to One Season.In the Sacred Calendar of Yahuah which consists of 360 Days plus 4 Intercalary Days giving a Total of 364 Days per Year, the numbers 91 and 13 signify One Season. One Season is 1/4 of the Year, or 91 Days, or 13 Weeks, or 3 Months. The Fact that there were Four Seasons per Year in the Land of Israel is backed up by such archaeological finds as the Synagogue Mosaics from Sepphoris (5th Century CE), Hammat-Tiberias (4th Century CE), Beth Alpha and Na'aran (6th Century CE) and Ussfiyeh.
The Hebrew word Amenin the Old and New Testaments has a numerical value of 91. The Messiah is the Amen of the Old and New Testaments. In Revelation 3:14 the Messiah is speaking and says, "these things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of Yahuah". The Hebrew word Amen consists of three Hebrew Letters, Aleph, Mem, Nun. Aleph is the 1st Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet and has a numerical value of 1. Mem is the 13th Letter with a value of 40. Nun is the 14th Letter with a numberical value of 50. So the total numerical value of Amen is 91 (1+40+50). 91 = 7 x 13 or 26 x 3 1/2.
The Messiah is also the Aleph and the Tau, the 1st and 22nd Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. In Amenthe 1st Letter Aleph has a numerical value of 1 and makes it possible for the word Amen to have a total value of 91. The 91st Day in a Season is an Intercalary Day which both separates and links the Seasons to each other. The Mem is the 13th Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet and has a numerical value of 40. If you multiply 40 x 13 you get 520 which could represent the 520 Weeks of these Last 10 Years.
The Numbers 40 and 50:
There is also a direct connection of the word Amen to the Books of Genesis and Exodus. Genesis symbolizes Creation and a new beginning which has 50 Chapters (50 = a Jubilee). Exodus symbolizes cleansing by the coming out of Egypt (a fleshly corrupt life) and after 40 Years in the Wilderness going into the Promised Land (spiritual life). Exodus has 40 Chapters (40 = a Generation). Yahushua the son of Nun (Joshua) is a type of the Messiah who led Israel into the Promised Land.
In the Sacred Calendar, the 7th Jubilee of Days (a 50th) which is on Sunday the 28th Day of the 12th Month is symbolic of the 1st Day of Creation. Monday the 29th Day of the 12th Month would be a 51st Day. While Tuesday the 30th Day of the 12th Month would be the 52nd Day and also the Last Day in the Year. These facts confirm that we have the right calendar, the correct way to intercalate the calendar and the way we determine the Feast of Pentecost is also correct.
Each Season has 91 Days. Amen has a total numerical value of 91 where Aleph = 1, Mem = 40, and Nun =50. So if you take Aleph to represent the Intercalary Day, the 1st Day of the Season, then the Mem would represent the next 40 Days, and Nun the remaining 50 Days. In this way, the 40 Days would always end on the 10th Day of the 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th Months of the Year. While the 50 Days would always end on the 30th Day of the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th Months. Now what is significant about this is that the 40 + 10 Combo equals 50. For example, on the 10th Day of the 2nd Month (also the 40th Day) Noah and his family moved into the Ark and were warned of the Flood waters that would come in 7 Days (it started to rain on the 17th Day of the 2nd Month). The rain lasted for 40 Days finishing on the 26th Day of the 3rd Month still in the 1st Season of the Year. Another example is, on the 10th Day of the 5th Month (also the 40th Day) the 1st Temple was Destroyed. The number 40 is a time of cleansing, while the number 10 is the number of Judgement, and the number 50(Jubilee) is the number of a new beginning or new creation. Another example is when the children of Israel were in the wilderness for 40 Years and entered into the Promised Land on the 10th Day of the 1st Month. Also, the Messiah ascended up into heaven 40 Days after His resurrection which was 10 Days before the Feast of Pentecost (50th Day). Again, the Jubilee Year (a 50th year) is observed on the 10th Day of the 7th Month.
Coincidences with the number 91 and 13 are:
1)Abel died in the year 3891BCE.
2)The Year 2002 is the 1st of the Last 10 Years, the year 5991 from Adam, the 13th Year in the Last 22 Years.
3)The Last 10 Years is 40 x 13 Weeks.
4)The Last 10 Years is 40 x 91 Days.
5)In the word Amen,which represents the Messiah, the Letter Mem is the 13th Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet with a numberical value of 40 where 40 x 13 equals number of Weeks in the Last 10 Years.
6)Revelation 9:13-21 - four angels loosed for 1 Year, 1 Month, 1 Day, 1 Hour to slay 1/3 of men on earth = 13 Months or 391 Days (360 Days per Year).
Other coincidences with numbers:
1)The Messiah's future name of Yahuahtsadaq has a numerical value of 220 (10 x 22) and the two World Trade Towers which were distroyed on September 11, 2001 both had a height of 110 Stories high each, where 2 x 110 = 220.
2)The Messiah is the Aleph and the Tau, the 1st and 22nd Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. Tau is the 22nd Letter with a numerical value of 400 where 400 x 22 = 8,800. 8,800 = 40 x 220. The Tribute in Light at Ground Zero in New York City consists of two light beams, made up of 88 intense searchlights arrayed in two side-by-side 50-foot squares.
3)Revelation 9:1-11 - unbelievers tormented for 5 Months = 150 Days (like in the days of Noah waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 Days).The British Royal Family and the Last 10 Years:
Many believe that Queen Elizabeth II sits on the throne of David and she is a direct descendant of King David. The Messiah also is a descendant of King David and will inherit his throne when he returns. So events related to the British Monarchy relate to the Messiah's Return as well.
King George VI died on February 6, 1952 and Queen Elizabeth II was declared Queen the same day. So February 6, 2002 is the Queen's 50th Jubilee. The number 50 dominates the events related to the British Royal Family in the year 2002. The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret died on February 9, 2002, 50 years after her father King George VI. February 9, 2002 was also a Sabbath and the 22nd Day of the 11th Month in the 11th year to the 6000th year from Adam. The Queen's mother, the Queen Mother died on March 30, 2002 exactly 50 days after Princess Margaret! March 30, 2002 is the 10th Day of the 1st Month, a Sabbath. The 10th Day of the 1st Month is when the Passover Lamb was chosen, and when the Messiah made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The 1st and 7th months on the Sacred Calendar are identical so there is a direct connection between the 10th Day of these two months. The 10th Day of the 7th Month is the Day of Atonement, a day of Judgement and also the day on which the Jubilee Year (50th Year) was celebrated.
There are also other connections numerically to the British Royal Family. Yahuah's name has a numerical value of 26. Queen Elizabeth II became Queen when she was 26 years old. She was born on April 21,1926. And her parents were married on April 26,1923.
The Last 10 Years equals a division of 5 Years + 5 Years:
There are indicators both in the Old and New Testaments that these Last 10 Years will be equally divided into two blocks of 5 Years each. In Matthew 25:1-13, the Messiah gives us the Parable of the 10 Virgins. 5 were Wise, 5 were Foolish and this parable relates specifically to the Messiah's 2nd Coming. In the same way, there are three different objects in Solomon's Temple that relate to these Last 10 Years as well.
In the Holy of Holies, 1Kings 7:49 & 2Chronicles 4:7, there were 10 lampstands, 5 on the right side of the Ark of the Covenant and 5 on the left side. The Ark had the Mercy Seat which represents the presence of Yahuah and of the Messiah. The Messiah will judge the world and the divide the sheep (believers) on the right hand side, from the goats (unbelievers) on the left hand side, when He returns. 5 Menorahs x 7 Lamps each = 35 Lamps on the right. 5 Menorahs x 7 Lamps each = 35 Lamps on the left. For a total of 70 lamps = 7 x 10 = 3 1/2 x 2 x 5 x 2. Where 5 Menorahs = 7 x 5 = 35 OR 3 1/2 x 10.
In Solomon's Temple, 1Kings 7:38 & 2Chronicles 4:6, there were 10 lavers of brass where each laver contained 40 baths. 5 lavers on the right side of the house and 5 lavers on the left.
2Chronicles 4:8, Solomon also made 10 Tables and placed 5 on the right and 5 on the left side in the Temple.
In Daniel 5:25-26, we have the example of the Hand Writing on the Wall of MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. Which represents a Judgement Scale with 50 Shekels on one side and 50 Shekels on the other side. (Note: a Mene is equal to 50 Shekels).
In Matthew 27:51, when the Messiah was crucified in the middle of the week on the 4th day of the week as soon as he died, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom. Here again is this division of splitting into two parts. The Messiah said that he would cause division. Dividing the clean from the unclean.
Conclusion:
The numbers related to the Messiah, His beloved Father, the Calendar, and the Events unfolding now, correlate just too perfectly. These next 10 Years to 2012 will be a time of Judgement. It will also be a time of cleansing which will be 40 Seasons (91 Days per Season). And that Last Year of the 6000 Years from Adam, the 22nd Year (March 2011 to March 2012) will be a new beginning with the Messiah ruling the Earth as King of Kings. These are signs to us to get ready for the Messiah's Return. Let's pray that through the Messiah, Yahuah will consider us to be worthy to enter into His Kingdom. The Messiah is at the door knocking. Will you allow Him to come into your life or will you ignore and reject the author of life a second time.
In Matthew 12:38-41 the scribes and the Pharisees asked the Messiah for a sign. The Messiah replied that an evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the Prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was 3 Days and 3 Nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of Man be 3 Days and 3 Nights in the heart of the earth. Also in Luke 11:29-32 the Messiah says that, "For as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of Man be to this generation".38.0)Bits and Pieces for the Last 10 Years:In Jonah 1:2, Jonah was commanded by Yahuah to go to the Great City of Nineveh and to cry against it; for their wickedness was great before Yahuah. Instead, Jonah ran away and was swallowed up by a great fish. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for 3 Days and 3 Nights. Then Jonah prayed to Yahuah and was vomited out of the fish unto the dry land. So Jonah went to Nineveh and preached that after 40 Days, Nineveh would be destroyed. But the Ninevites repented of their evil and Yahuah didn't destroy them.
As Jonah was sent to Nineveh to preach unto the people to turn from their evil ways, so through the Messiah we are commanded to repent and receive forgiveness for our sins. The sign to us is the same as it was to Jonah's generation. After his death, the Messiah was 3 Days and 3 Nights in the heart of the earth. After his resurrection from the dead, the Messiah was seen for 40 Days, before he ascended up into heaven (Acts 1:3). The 1st Day of these 40 Days started on the 18th Day of the 1st Month, the 1st Day of the Week (Sunday) which was the Firstfruit Offering of the Barley Sheaf. At the end of the 40 Days when the Messiah ascended up into heaven, the two angels said to his disciples that, "Yahuahshua which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven" (Acts 1:11). From the time the Messiah ascended into heaven to Pentecost is 10 Days. Pentecost marked the end of the Wheat Harvest. Pentecost is the 50th Day from the beginning of the grain harvest from the time the Messiah rose from the dead. The 1st 25 Days is the Barley Harvest and the 2nd 25 Days is the Wheat Harvest. In the Messiah's parable of the Wheat and the Tares (Matthew 13:24-30,34-43), the end of the Wheat Harvest (Pentecost - 50th), represents the end of the world system when he will return to rule the world for 1000 Years. The 10 Days to Pentecost represents these Last 10 Years! (from Sping of 2002CE to Spring of 2012).
Note: In Matthew 24:29-34, the Messiah says, "this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled". The Messiah was 40 1/2 Years old when he died, so his age (generation) was 40 1/2 Years. Matthew 24:29-31 refers to the Wheat Harvest at his coming immediately after the 3 1/2 years Great Tribulation. The Messiah died in the year 30CE. From 30CE to 1990CE was 40 Jubilees. From 1990CE to 2012CE is approximately 1/2 of a Jubilee (where 50 years is one Jubilee). Keep in mind that the Jubilee Year was the 50th year and also the 1st year of the next Jubilee cycle. For example, where 2 Jubilees = 49+50; 3 Jubilees = 49+49+50; 4 Jubilees = 49+49+49+50; etc..
Note: From the 1st Day of Creation, on the 1st Day of the Week (Sunday) in the 1st week of the Year to the 18th Day of the 1st Month is 22 Days. The Messiah is represented by the number 22, as he said he is the Aleph and the Tau, the Hebrew Alphabet which has 22 Letters. The 18th Day of the 1st Month is also the 4th Day in the middle of the 7 Days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The 4th Day of a 7 Day week also refers to the Messiah. As the Messiah was crucified on the 4th Day of the Week. The 4th item in a 7 item string also refers to the Messiah: for example, the 4th Lamp of the Menorah feeds the other 6 Lamps; the 4th Hebrew Letter of the Messiah's present and future names is the most critical Letter which carries the fulness of His Father's name and which makes His name unique; etc..
1)The 10 Commandments given in the 4th or 5th Month:39.0) The Fall Feasts as a complete Block of 22 Days and the Last 10 Years:
Keep in mind that the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) is on the 7th Day of the 3rd Month. From Exodus 19:1,2 we know that the children of Israel came to Mount Sinai in the 3rd Month. Israel had to sanctify themselves for 3 Days (Ex.19:10,11). The glory of Yahuah abode on Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it for 6 Days (Ex.24:16). And on the 7th Day Yahuah called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. Moses went up into the cloud and was in the mount for 40 Days and Nights (Ex.24:18). After the 40 Days and Nights, Yahuah gave the 10 Commandments (Deut.9:11). The earliest time that the 10 Commandments could have been given once the children of Israel were at Mount Sinai is 3 + 7 + 40 = 50 Days from the 1st Day of the 3rd Month which would be the 20th Day of the 4th Month. The latest would be the 20th Day of the 5th Month if counting the 50 Days from the 30th Day of the 3rd Month. So the most likely time that the 10 Commandments were given would be sometime during the 4th Month.2) The Lifespan of Man is set at 120 Years:
The number 120 is interwoven in the fabric of the life of man. The number 120 keeps coming up throughout the 6000 Years of Man from Adam and at the end of it.
-6000 Years = 120 Jubilees x 50 Years.
-6000 Years = 120 Jubilees x 49 Years + 120 Years.
-The Last 10 Years = 10 Years x 12 Months = 120 Months.
-One Year = 360 Days = 3 x 120 Days.
-Moses lived to be 120 Years old and after he died, Joshua a type of the Messiah led the children of Israel into the Promised Land.3) The Messiah's Two Names of Salvation and Righteousness, the 10 Commandments and the Last 10 Years:
a)The Messiah's Two Names:
The Messiah's present name of Yahuahshua contains 7 Hebrew Letters. 3 Letters for Shua which means Salvation and 4 Letters for the Father's name of Yahuah. The Messiah's future name of Yahuahtsadaq also contains 7 Hebrew Letters. 3 Letters for Tsadaq which means Righteousness and 4 Letters for the Father's name of Yahuah. In all there are 10 unique Hebrew Letters representing the Messiah's two names if we count the Father's name once. So we have Shua (Salvation) = 3 Letters, Tsadaq (Righteousness) = 3 Letters, and Yahuah (the Father's Name) = 4 Letters to give a total of 10 Hebrew Letters.b) The Messiah's Two Names and the 10 Commandments:
The Messiah's two names can be broken down into 10 Hebrew Letters and grouped into two distinct parts. The 1st part is the 4 Hebrew Letters of the Father's name which is in both of the Messiah's two names. And the 2nd part contains the endings in both of the Messiah's two names which when added together gives 6 Hebrew Letters and stands for Salvation and Righteousness.Broken down in this manner, we can directly co-relate the Messiah's two names to the 10 Commandments. The Father's name represents the 1st four Commandments and how we love and worship Him. And the endings of the Messiah's two names of Salvation and Righteousness combined relate to the last 6 Commandments and how we love our fellow man.
All the scriptures and the Holy Things of Yahuah always include the Messiah in one way or another. The Messiah said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man comes unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:6).
c) The Messiah's Two Names and the Last 10 Years:
The 4 Years at the end of the Last 10 Years from 2008 to 2011 seems the most likely to contain the 3 1/2 Years Great Tribulation. Those 4 Years represent the Father's Name. While the 1st 6 Years represent the Messiah's two names of Salvation and Righteousness.In relating the calendar to the Last 4 Years we get:
360 Days/Year x 4 Years = 1440 Days or 10 x 144!
Where the number 10 is Judgement and the 144 stands for the 144,000 Righteous from the 12 Tribes of Israel.d) The Messiah's Two Names related to the 1st 7 Months of the Year:
Each of the Messiah's two names as we have already said has 7 Hebrew Letters. The first 4 Letters in each of His names contain the Father's name and the last 3 the Messiah's unique distinguishing names. These 7 Hebrew Letters can be directly related to each of the first 7 Months of the Year. Keep in mind that the Feast Days in the first 3 Months of the Year have been fulfilled with Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) which contain 3 High Sabbaths. But the Fall Feasts which represent the Father's Name and contain 4 High Sabbaths have not been fulfilled as yet.So the first 7 Months of the Year can be related to the letters of the Messiah's two names in reverse order. For example, the Last Letter of Aiyn in Yahuahshua and the Last Letter Qoph in Yahuahtsadaq represent the 1st Month of the Year. Vav and Daleth the 2nd Month. Shin and Tsaddi the 3rd Month. He the 4th Month. Vav the 5th Month. He the 6th Month. Yod the 7th Month. Keep in mind that the Yod has a numerical value of 10 which signifies Judgement and corresponds to the 10th Day of the 7th Month which is the Day of Atonement. And in the Sacred Calendar, from time to time, the Fall Equinox will be on the Day of Atonement.
The most significant letter in both of the Messiah's two names is the 2nd He (the 4th Letter of the Father's name) which makes the Messiah's two names unique from any other person that has ever lived or will live, as he carries with that 4th Letter the fullness of His Father's name of Yahuah and proves to the world as to who he is. That 4th Letter of the Messiah's two names represents the 4th Month of the Year. The 1st Day of the 4th Month is the 26th Day from the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost). Again, the numerical value of the Father's name is 26! The 1st Day of the 4th Month also starts the 2nd Season of the Year. I believe also that the two tablets of the 10 Commandments were also given sometime during the 4th Month. It is also interesting to note that the 40 Days of Noah's Flood started on the 17th Day of the 2nd Month and ended on the 26th Day of the 3rd Month. Another very important factor relating to the 1st Day of the 4th Month is that last year in the year 2001 when the Sacred Calendar was Intercalated, the Summer Solstice was on Thursday June 21,2001 9Hours 38Minutes 56Seconds (Jerusalem Time) on the 1st Day of the 4th Month!
In Conclusion:
Our beloved Father Yahuah through His wonderful son Yahuahshua and by His Holy Spirit is comforting us and revealing His truth to us in these Last Days. Never in the History of the World has man encountered the exponential increase in knowledge as our generation is experiencing now. As it is written in Daniel 12:4; "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased".
The meaning of the Fall Feasts changes when observed collectively as a Block of 22 Days as opposed to observing them as seperate entities. For example, there is very little in the Bible as to the meaning and the way we are to observe Yom Taruah (the Feast of Trumpets). However, if Yom Taruah is taken as the 1st Day of a Block of 22 Days where all the Fall Feasts are treated as being part of a complete whole of 22 Days, then the meaning changes completely and is much clearer.Significance of the number 22 in the Bible:
The Hebrew Alphabet has 22 Letters. It is clear from Revelation 1:8,11 that the Messiah is represented by the Aleph and the Tau the first and last letter of the Hebrew Alphabet (not the Greek Alphabet, as the Messiah was a Hebrew not a Greek). Even the Book of Revelation has 22 Chapters in it, which contains revelations related to his return. The 6000 years from Adam consists of 122 Jubilees + 22 Years (122 x 49 + 22 = 6000). These Last 22 Years (from 1990 to 2011) relate to the Messiah's Return. In Genesis 1:1 the word Aleph,Tau appears twice (but is not translated in the King James Bible). So from Genesis to Revelation the Messiah is being referred to at times directly and sometimes indirectly. Most of the prophecies regarding the Messiah are in the Psalms and the Book of Isaiah. Psalm 119 has the Hebrew Alphabet in acrostic form in it and Isaiah (YeshaYahu) which is the Messiah's name backwards consists of 66 Chapters (22 x 3). Lamentations also has 22 x 7 verses in it. References to the Messiah are interwoven throughout the fabric of the Bible and the number 22 relates to the Messiah.Yom Taruah (Feast of Trumpets):
Yom Taruah is the 1st Day of the 7th Month and begins the 22 Days of the Fall Feasts. The Messiah will Return on Yom Taruah September 15 in 2011. This is the Great Day of Yahuah which is talked about in the Old and New Testaments. It will be a day for believers to rejoice but a day of fear and terror for unbelievers (Revelation 6:12-17). The 10 Days from Yom Taruah to the Day of Atonement is a time of repentance and judgement just as it is for these Last 10 years.Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement):
Yom Kippur is the Day on which the Messiah will judge the world. The Hebrew word Kippur means to cover with pitch (tar). So the Messiah will judge the living and the dead on the Day of Atonement when he returns. One of two things will happen to each individual that is judged. Either his/her sins will be blotted out through the Blood of the Messiah or his/her name will be blotted out of the Book of Life through his/her sins that have not been washed by the Blood of the Messiah. A decision that will affect each person into eternity!Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles):
Sukkot is the 3rd and Last Harvest Feast in the Year. It will be a time of Great Rejoicing as Satan will be bound for 1000 years. The 4 days leading up to the Feast is a time of preparation for the Feast.The Last Great Day:
The Last Great Day, the 22nd Day of the 7th Month is the last day of the Fall Feasts. The Last Great Day completes the Fall Feasts. The Last Great Day is symbolic of the 22nd year, the Last Year of the 6000 years from Adam, which will be the year 2011. This Last Year is when the Messiah will Return and Rule the World (the Great Day of Yahuah is synonymous with this Last Great Year of Yahuah). 2011 marks the end of Satans rule on earth and his presence in heaven. Spring of 2012 begins the Millennium when the Messiah will Rule on earth for 1000 years.The Last 10 Years from 2002 to 2011:
In Revelation 22:13 the Messiah said, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." In 2011 the Messiah will return on the 1st Day of the 7th Month on Yom Taruah and which will be in the 22nd year of the Last 22 years. The tragic event of September 11,2001 in the U.S. was exactly 10 days before Yom Taruah which was on September 20,2001. From Yom Taruah on September 20,2001 to Yom Taruah on September 15,2011 when the Messiah will return is exactly 10 Years! According to Revelation 2:10 believers will have tribulation for 10 days which I believe are these Last 10 Years. Since the number ten signifies Judgement, then 2002 marks the beginning of judgement until the Messiah Returns when he will truly judge the World.In Conclusion:
We are beginning to see what is coming. September 11,2001 is a wake up call to the world of the 2nd Coming of the Messiah! Today is the Day of Atonement September 28,2002 which means that the 1st of these last 10 years is gone already and only 9 years remain before the coming of the Messiah. The Great Tribulation is 3 1/2 years before his return. This means that from today, it is 5 1/2 years to the beginning of the Great Tribulation which will start on March 20,2008. These dates are not absolute but will be more accurate and sure as the days go by. Signs of the coming of the two witnesses, the Mark of the Beast and the 1st Beast's rule which will be at the beginning of the Great Tribulation along with other events will enable us to more clearly identify the time frame that we are in. Time to get ready and be prepared to meet our maker!
INDEX OF TOPICS:40.0) The 7 Thunders of Revelation and the Last Tabernacle Years:
The 7 Thunders:41.0) The Messiah the Aleph and the Tau, His 1st and 2nd Coming:The 7 Thunders of Revelation 10:3-4 were revealed to John but he was told to seal up the things that the 7 Thunders uttered. These 7 Thunders are relevant for our time and will happen just before the Messiah Returns. We know this because in Revelation 10:7 we are told that the 7 Thunders were just before the 7th Trumpet. The Messiah will return at the 7th Trumpet. The knowledge in the Book of Daniel will also be sealed up to the time of the end. We are now in the End Times and the things in the Books of Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation will be open in our time! For these are the Last Days and the Time of the End!
In Revelation 10:1-11 the 7 Thunders are related to a little open book which John ate and which was sweet as honey in his mouth and in his belly bitter. A parallel scripture to this is in Ezekiel 2:9,10 where Ezekiel is given a book full of lamentations, mourning, and woe. Ezekiel was told to eat this book which was sweet as honey in his mouth (Ezek. 3:1-27). Chapters 4 to 7 of Ezekiel suggests that the 7 Thunders contain the woes of famine, disease and war that will come upon the entire world just before the Messiah Returns and especially during the 3 1/2 Years of Great Tribulation just before His Return. Ezekiel 8:16-18 shows one of the abominations of the House of Yahudah where they have turned their backs to the House of Yahuah and face the east to worship the sun, could this be in front of the Wailing Wall (Western Wall) of Jerusalem in our time where worshipers bow and pray toward the east?
The Tabernacle Years from 2004 to 2010:
If you compare the Last 22 Years to the Fall Feasts, then 2004 is the 15th year and the 1st of the 7 Tabernacle years. 2010 is the 21st year and 2011 is the Last Great Year (22nd Year) when the Messiah will Return.
The 7 Tabernacle Years with a half year shift towards 2011 can be compared to a set of weigh scales. The whole world will be weighed in the balance. Like the hand writing on the wall in Daniel 5:1-31. 2007 is the 18th year, the pivotal year. If you can picture the scales of Justice with the 1st 3 1/2 years from the Fall of 2004 to Spring of 2008 being weighed against the 2nd 3 1/2 years from the Spring of 2008 to the Fall of 2011 (Great Tribulation). Then the Messiah returning in the Fall of 2011 in the Last Great Year.
The 18th Year in the Year 2007 Begins the Tsaddi Year:
The Fall Feasts and these Last 22 Years can be equated with the 22 Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. So the 18th year which is from the Spring of 2007 to the Spring of 2008 is the Tsaddi Year. The letter Tsaddi relates to Righteousness and Justice. This can be seen in Psalm 119 which is acrostic. Psalm 119 is divided up into 22 blocks representing the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. Each block contains 8 verses and the first letter of each verse starts with the Hebrew Letter which that block represents. So for the letter Tsaddi, verses 137 to 144 start with the letter Tsaddi. Notice how many times the word Righteous(ness) and Justice appears. Notice also that the last verse for this letter is verse 144 which represents the 144,000 Righteous believers who will be Sealed with the Name of the Messiah from the 12 Tribes of Israel (Revelation Chapters 7 and 11). When the Messiah Returns, he will not use his present name of Yahuahshua (Salvation of Yahuah), but instead will use the name of YahuahTsadaq (Righteousness of Yahuah). By the end of the 18th year (Spring of 2008) it is possible that the Sealing of the 144,000 could be complete along with the countless other Righteous believers who are not of the blood line of Israel. Then the believers would be Sealed and prepared to face the 3 1/2 years Great Tribulation which will begin in the Spring of 2008.
This 18th year is a critical year for believers. This 18th year is the 4th year (or middle year) in the 7 Tabernacle Years. It is a pivotal year. The significance and importance of the 4th in the middle of a set of 7 can be seen in:
1)4th Day of the Week (middle of the week) - Messiah Crucified.
2)4th Day of the Week - In the creation week the Sun and Moon created (reset) so life on earth can begin and the agricultural year starts.
3)4th Day of Unleavened Bread - Messiah Risen from the Dead and Messiah represented by the Sheaf Offering of the Barley which begins the grain Harvest.
4)4th Day of the Feast of Tabernacles - Messiah talks of Righteous Judgement (John 7:14-36).
5)4th Letter of the Messiah's two 7 Letter names of Yahuahshua and YahuahTsadaq which makes both these names unique and all powerful, the Messiah being the only person beside Yahuah the Father Himself to carry the fullness of Yahuah's full 4 Letter name.
6)4th Lamp of the Menorah feeds the other six with oil.
7)Middle pivotal post of a weigh scale that enables things to be divided and to be weighed in the balance. Like the scales of Justice.
8)4th of the 7 Spirits of Yahuah is the Holy Spirit of Yahuah and the other 6 Spirits are paired to either side of it. Just as the 4th Lamp of the Menorah feeds the other six, so the Holy Spirit of Yahuah feeds the other six spirits (Isaiah 11:1,2 and Revelation 1:4; 5:6).The 4th of a set of 7 divides, balances, and/or joins. During the 7 Days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: the Messiah is dead and in the flesh for the 1st three days (in the Tomb), 4th day he is risen and is made the perfect offering before Yahuah (Sheaf Offering of the Barley), then next 3 days he is in a spiritual state. The Flesh is weighed against the Spirit. I believe the same will happen during the 7 Years before the Return of the Messiah. From the Fall of 2004 to the Spring of 2008 will be 3 1/2 years: for believers it will be a time of preparation and the sealing with the Messiah's name of YahuahTsadaq. Believers will have to be extremely strong spiritually to be able to endure the next 3 1/2 years of the Great Tribulation (from Spring 2008 to Fall 2011). I believe that Yahuah will prepare us and will give us the strength to deal with whatever we will have to endure. Our time on this earth is so short. But what is that compared to eternal life with Yahuah and Yahuahshua (YahuahTsadaq) in His Kingdom.
In Conclusion:
There are difficult years ahead of us. But we have the protection, the love, the joy, the peace, the strength, the faith, the forgiveness, the mercy, the comfort of His Word, the promises and the hope that Yahuah gives us through Yahuahshua and by His Holy Spirit. Just remember that there will be a calm after the storm. The birth pangs will probably start in the Fall of 2004 and the painful birth during the Great Tribulation. But once the child is born, what indescribable joy! Look up and rejoice for your redemption draws nigh! (Luke 21).
From Revelation 1:8,11 we know that the Messiah is the Aleph and the Tau which are the first and last letters of the Hebrew Alphabet (the Messiah was a Hebrew not a Greek so we refer to the Hebrew Alphabet and not the Greek Alphabet). The Messiah says that he is the beginning and the ending, who is (alive now in heaven), who was (when he came the 1st Time), and who is to come (when he comes at his 2nd coming). The Messiah is the first and the last. So the Messiah compares himself to the 22 Letter Hebrew Alphabet. There are things in the true Biblical Calendar and time that relate to the Messiah's number of 22. Even the Book of Revelation which prophesied of His 2nd coming has 22 Chapters in it and is the Last Book in the Bible. The Fall Feasts have 22 Days. If you divide the 6000 years from Adam by 49 you get 122 Jubilees with a 22 year remainder. And we are now in these last 22 years, in particular this year 2002, is year 13. All this information can be compared together.42.0) The Abomination of Desolation of Daniel during the Great Tribulation:You can relate the Hebrew Alphabet and the Fall Feasts to the Last 22 Years. For instance, The Aleph Year which is the Yom Taruah Year (Feast of Trumpets Year) is the 1st of the 22 years. The Tau Year is the Last Great Day Year which is the 22nd year of the 22 years.
The year 11CE is the 4000th year from Adam and also the year in which the Messiah was 22 years old! The Messiah was born in the year 12BCE at His 1st Coming. So the Messiah was born in the Aleph Year (the Yom Taruah Year) the 1st year of the 22 years before the end of the 4000 years from Adam.
The year 2011CE is the 6000th year from Adam, the year in which the Messiah will Return at His 2nd Coming. The year 2011CE is the Tau Year (the Last Great Day Year) the 22nd year of the 22 years before the end of the 6000 years from Adam.
Abel died in the 99th year from Adam when he was 22 years old. In Matthew 23:35 and Luke 11:51 we are told that the shedding of righteous blood starts from the death of Abel. In the 6000 years from Adam, the twelve 490 Year Cycles run from the death of Abel in the year 3891BCE to 1989CE. If you remove these 490 Year Cycles you have the first 98 years from Adam plus the Last 22 years at the end of the 6000 years which are from 1990CE to 2011CE. Added together, 98 + 22 = 120 Years which are the life span expectancy of man in Genesis 6:3.
In Conclusion, at His 1st Coming, the Messiah came in the Aleph Year (12BCE) (1st Year of 22 Years) when He was born as the Lamb of Yahuah but will return at His 2nd Coming in the Tau Year (2011CE) (22nd Year of 22 Years) and will come as the Lion of Yahuah and will judge and rule the world! The Messiah is the Aleph and the Tau, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the Ending!
Introduction:Believers throughout the ages have wondered about the Abomination of Desolation of Daniel 9:27. This is now revealed to us in these End Times.
The Time and Duration of the Abomination of Desolation:
In Daniel 9:27 we read, "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consumation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate". This week that is talked about is 7 years. We know this from Daniel 12:11 which talks about the 2nd half of this 7 year period. Daniel 12:11 reads, "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days (1290 Days = approximately 3 1/2 years)". We know that this will be in the End Times from Daniel 12:1-4,9.
From Matthew 24:15,21,29-30 (Mark 13:14-26), we know that the abomination of desolation will be during the Great Tribulation. Matthew 24:15 reads, "When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place". Verse 24:21 reads, "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be". Verses 24:29-30 read, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days ... 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".
The Messiah will come immediately after the Great Tribulation. The 2 Witnesses will prophesy for 1260 Days (3 1/2 years) before the Messiah's Return (Rev.11:1-19).
Jerusalem will be trodden down of the Gentiles for 42 months (3 1/2 years) before the Messiah Returns from Luke 21:20-28 and Revelation 11:1-2. This treading down and pollution of Jerusalem (especially the Temple Mount) by the Gentiles is the Abomination of Desolation.
The 1290 Days and 1335 Days of Daniel 12:11-12:
Daniel 9:27 talks about a 7 year period. The second half of which is the 3 1/2 year Abomination of Desolation which will be during the Great Tribulation. But in Daniel 12:11-12 there is a discrepancy of 30 days which is the difference between 1290 days verses 1260 days (3 1/2 years). Then there is the 1335 days which isn't explained enough for us to understand what it refers to. However, if we add the two numbers together, it does become clearer. 1290 days + 1335 days = 2625 days. 2625 = 1260 days + 1260 days + 105 days. 2625 days = 3 1/2 years + 3 1/2 years + 3 1/2 months. The only clue that we are given as the meaning of the 1335 days is in Daniel 12:12 which reads, "Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the 1335 days". The main event that believers are waiting for and rejoice for is the Return of the Messiah when the dead believers will be raised from the dead and the living believers changed in the twinkling of an eye. The Return of the Messiah is immediately after the 3 1/2 years Great Tribulation. So how does this 3 1/2 months remainder fit in? Since counting back from the Messiah's Return we have to have two consecutive blocks of 3 1/2 years which gives one cohesive 7 year block.
Two possible ways in which this combined number of 2625 days can be interpreted are as follows:
1) The 2625 days = 3 1/2 months + 7 years. So counting the full 2625 days back from the Messiah's Return on September 15, 2011, we first count the two 3 1/2 year blocks, then the 3 1/2 month remainder. In this way, we end up on the 16th day of the 3rd month in 2004 (June 1, 2004) which is exactly 10 days after the Feast of Pentecost in 2004.
2) The 2625 days = 7 years (+ 3 1/2 months) , where the 3 1/2 months remainder is counted within and at the end of the 2nd 3 1/2 years, at the end of the 7 year period immediately before the Messiah's Return. In this case the 3 1/2 months would start on the 16th day of the 3rd month in 2011 (May 31, 2011) which again is exactly 10 days after the Feast of Pentecost in 2011. This could be significant in relation to the two witnesses who will prophesy for 3 1/2 years and whose dead bodies will be on display for 3 1/2 days before the Messiah Returns (Revelation 11:1-19). This 3 1/2 months would have something to do with the two witnesses at the end of the Great Tribulation just before the Messiah's Return. The 7 years would run from the Fall of 2004 to the Fall of 2011.
Meeting the Messiah when He Returns:
When the Messiah Returns on the Feast of Trumpets on September 15, 2011 immediately after the Great Tribulation, the believers that have died will be raised from the dead and the living believers will be changed: both will be given immortal bodies (Matthew 24:31; 1Corinthians 15:50-58). Note Matthew 24:30-31, "... 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". Note also 1Corinthians 15:51-52, "... we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed". This again confirms that the Messiah will Return on the Feast of Trumpets which is also the time of the 7th Trumpet of Revelation 11:15,18.
In Conclusion:
It is truly wonderful to have some idea of what is coming and when, so that we can prepare for it. With the Great Tribulation being possibly just 5 1/2 years away from today (today is October 27, 2002). We can at least plan ahead for an escape route and a place of refuge with Yahuah's guidance. When that time comes, it will be too late. We will have to leave the cities. In Revelation 12:6 we read, "And the woman (the believers) fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of Yahuah, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days (1260 days = 3 1/2 years)". Matthew 24:15-22, "Let them which be in Yahudah flee into the mountains ... But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." I am sure that the believers at the time of the destruction of the 2nd Temple in Jerusalem in 70CE would have had plenty of warning and would have fled from the city long before it was surrounded. Noah was given 7 days warning before the rains for the flood came. We today are given the warning now and should start preparing for the move out of the cities. The event of September 11, 2001 in the U.S.A. was our wake up call!
INDEX OF TOPICS:43.0)Iraq, Euphrates River, Armageddon, and the Last 22 Years:
Introduction:Iraq is prominent in world news today. The threat of war between the United States of America and Iraq is causing global concern and will affect the entire world. But how does this relate to Bible Prophecy for these Last 22 Years?
The Identity of Iraq in the Bible:
Modern day Iraq is the Old Babylonian Empire. The largest and most important historical portions of both the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers are in Iraq. The Old City of Babylon was located on the Euphrates River in Iraq, while modern day Baghdad is on the Tigris River in Iraq. The ruins of the City of Babylon are about 65 miles south of Baghdad. The Babylonian Empire and the Chaldaean Empire are synonymous. Iraq has played and will play a very important part in Bible Prophecy. Abraham was born in Ur of the Chaldees in Iraq and was a Chaldaean (Babylonian) (Genesis 11:26-31).
The Importance of the Euphrates River in Bible History and Prophecy:
The first time that the Euphrates River is mentioned in the Bible is in Genesis 2:10-14. The Euphrates River is one of the four branches of the river that watered the Garden of Eden! The Euphrates River is the northern border of the Promised Land that was given to Israel (Genesis 15:18; Deut.1:7-8; Deut.11:24; Joshua 1:2-4). One of the two sources of the Euphrates River is near Mount Ararat where Noah's Ark rested after the Flood.
The Euphrates River is one of the largest rivers in the world. From its source in the Armenian mountains to the Persian Gulf, into which it empties, it has a course of about 1,700 miles.
Just before the Messiah Returns, major events will happen at the Euphrates River. The 6th Trumpet of Revelation 9:14-21 reads, "... Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of man". The 6th Vial of Revelation 16:12-16 reads, "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. ... go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that Great Day of Yahuah. ... And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon".
Jeremiah 46:10 "For this is the Day of Yahuah of armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for Yahuah of armies has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates".
Jeremiah 51:1-64, verses :63-64 reads, "And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: And you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her".
The Last 22 Years:
1989 was a 49th year, a year of completion (as the number 7 is a number of completion: 7 x 7 = 49). The significance of 1989 is that in that year, the USSR started to collapse and the Iron Curtain fell.
1990 was a Jubilee year, the 122nd and Last Jubilee from Adam. 1990 was also the 1st Year of the Last 22 Years. It is interesting to note that the major global event of 1990 relates to Iraq with the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990! Now get this, on September 11, 1990 then President George Bush uses the term New World Order for the first time in his speech to Congress. This speech was in response to Iraq's invasion! Here are some extracts from Bush's speech:
1)["We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective -- a New World Order -- can emerge: a new era -- freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony. A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor. Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we've known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak. This is the vision that I shared with President Gorbachev in Helsinki. He and other leaders from Europe, the Gulf, and around the world understand that how we manage this crisis today could shape the future for generations to come"].
2)["At this very moment, they (Americans) serve together with Arabs, Europeans, Asians, and Africans in defense of principle and the dream of a New World Order"].
So this crisis with Iraq in 1990 made the Birth of the New World Order possible and gave the United Nations real teeth for the first time on a scale never before seen in human history. President George Bush in his March 6, 1991 speech to Congress sums it up very nicely:
["Until now, the world we've known has been a world divided - a world of barbed wire and concrete block, conflict and cold war.
Now, we can see a New World coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a New World Order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a "world order" in which "the principles of justice and fair play ... protect the weak against the strong ..." A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfil the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations.
The Gulf war put this new world to its first test, and, my fellow Americans, we passed that test.
For the sake of our principles, for the sake of the Kuwaiti people, we stood our ground. Because the world would not look the other way, Ambassador [Saud Nasir] al-Sabah, tonight, Kuwait is free.
Tonight as our troops begin to come home, let us recognise that the hard work of freedom still calls us forward. We've learned the hard lessons of history. The victory over Iraq was not waged as "a war to end all wars." Even the new world order cannot guarantee an era of perpetual peace. But enduring peace must be our mission ..."]
On September 11, 2001, the tragic event at the World Trade Center in New York City was exactly 11 years from President Bush's speech on September 11, 1990! The number 11 is repeated many times over again, related to this tragic event. The first plane that hit the north tower of the World Trade Center was American Airlines Flight #11, which had 11 crew members. Each of the two towers was 110 stories high (11 x 10 = 110). And the two towers side by side had a silouette of the number 11 against the sky. This gives a total of 26 x 11's, or 13 x 22. Something else worthy of note is the fact that almost all Western countries use the 365 Day Solar Gregorian Calendar while in Islam the 354 Day Lunar Calendar is used, with a difference of 11 Days! Do you think that all these occurrences of the number 11 is a coincidence? I think not. The significance of the number of 11 in the Bible is related to the number 22 (22 = 11 x 2), these Last 22 Years, to the Messiah (who is the Aleph and the Tau = 22 Letters) and to His Return! Shortly after the event of September 11, 2001, there was already rumours that the United States would attack Afghanistan and Iraq to protect itself from terrorism.
Today is November 13, 2002 and another crisis of war between Iraq and the United States looms.
2011 is the 22nd Year of the Last 22 Years. The Messiah will return on September 15, 2011 on the Feast of Trumpets. And just before His return, the Euphrates River again comes into the picture! Since the Euphrates River is 1,700 miles long and runs through Armenia, Turkey, Syria and Iraq the events of the 6th Trumpet and the 6th Vial of Revelation can happen in any one of these countries but most likely it will be in Iraq.
From Revelation 9:14-21 we know that at the 6th Trumpet, the four angels will be loosed from the River Euphrates to slay the third part of men. This will start an hour, a day, a month, and a year before the Messiah's Return. By counting 396 days back from September 15, 2011 we come to the 30th Day of the 5th Month which is Sunday August 15, 2010. So these four angels will be loosed on Sunday August 15, 2010.
From Revelation 16:12-16 we know that at the 6th Vial the water of the River Euphrates will be dried up that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. The Spirits of devils will go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that Great Day of Yahuah. The Great Day of Yahuah is when the whole earth will come down to make war with the Messiah when he Returns. Verse :16 reads, "And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon". The Hebrew is acually, Har Meggido, which means Mountain of Megiddo a place south east of Mount Carmel in Israel.
In Conclusion:
It is hard to see into the Future. But Yahuah in His mercy allows us to see into the Future through His written Word the Bible and by His Holy Spirit. This year, the year 2002 is the 13th Year in these Last 22 Years. Although it is hard to be certain on what is before us, we can look back to confirm where we are now on Yahuah's timeline. The events that are happening now with Iraq and the events that have already happened since 1989 confirms that we are in the Last Days. As the threats of terrorism increases, governments are moving closer and closer to biotechnology for identifying everyone of their citizens. One step closer to the Mark of the Beast and the Great Tribulation which is about 5 1/2 years away from now. Look up and rejoice for our redemption draws nigh! Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
INDEX OF TOPICS:44.0) The First and Second Seals of Revelation 6:1-17 are OPEN!:
Introduction:45.0) The Third and the Seventh Heaven:The old saying, "ignorance is bliss" fits our generation perfectly. Just as the ostrich buries its head in the sand with the approach of danger, so the people of this generation ignore the warnings of the soon approaching Great Tribulation. Even those that are religious give reasons not to heed the warnings. They point to one scripture without taking all the other scriptures into consideration, thereby distorting the word of Yahuah. For example, they take Matthew 24:36 out of context which reads, "But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." But if you continue to read the rest of the chapter, it is clear that Yahuah does tell us about the time by His word and through His Holy Spirit. It will be those that are not watching that will not know or understand as noted in the following scriptures:
1)Matthew 24:42-51, "But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up."
2)1Thessalonians 5:1-11, "For yourselves know perfectly that the Day of Yahuah so comes as a thief in the night. ... But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief."
3)Revelation 3:3, "If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you."
We know from Acts 1:6,7 that it was not meant for the early believers to understand the timing for the last days. But it is meant for us to know as we are in the Last Days. Even Daniel 12:8-10 backs this up, "Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. ... none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand." Be not deceived brethren, Yahuah is faithful and will not leave us in the dark about the evil that is here now in our time. Even Noah was given a 7 day warning before the rains came (Genesis 7:4). I have gone through this lengthy introduction to show you from scripture, that it is meant for us to know what is happening and what will happen in these Last Days and that we are not meant to be kept in the dark.
Figuring out the Time for the Seals of Revelation 6:1-17:
The Seals, Trumpets, and Vials of Revelation are related. But we have to sort out the relation between them and the order of the sequence of events to get a sense of the timing involved. The 6th Seal, 7th Trumpet, and the 7th Vial are all the same event and will happen at the same time, namely, the Return of the Messiah on the Feast of Trumpets on September 15, 2011 at 12 Noon.
The first 6 Trumpets and the first 6 Vials will happen during the 3 1/2 Years Great Tribulation immediately before the Messiah Returns. We know this because the 1st and 5th Vials talk about the Beast and the Trumpets run parallel to the Vials. But the Seals are different. Only the 4th and 5th Seals will happen during the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation will start in the Spring of 2008. That leaves 3 Seals that have to happen some time before the Spring of 2008, but when? With the event of September 11, 2001, we finally are given the answer.
First and Second Seal of Revelation 6:1-17 are OPEN!:
The key to understanding the opening of the first 3 Seals are directly related to the event of September 11, 2001 with the tragic attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. We have to find a connection to the Sacred Calendar. In 2001, the Feast of Trumpets was on September 20, 2001. The Feast of Trumpets represents the day that the Messiah will Return. September 11, 2001 was exactly 10 days before the Feast of Trumpets in that year. The number 10 also represents Judgement. But this info by itself is not enough. Another important link to September 11, 2001 is exactly 11 years before it, on September 11, 1990.
In 1989, the Iron Curtain fell and the Cold War ended. In 1990, the U.S.S.R. was collapsing leaving only one Super Power left in the world and that was the United States of America. On September 11, 1990, President Bush Sr. declared the New World Order. Again in 1990 the Feast of Trumpets was on September 20, 1990 exactly 10 days later. 1990 is the last Jubilee (122nd Jubilee) of the 6000 years from Adam. 1990 is also the 1st year of the last 22 years to the end of the 6000 years. The Messiah is the Aleph and the Tau, which are the 1st and the 22nd letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. 1990 represents this first letter of Aleph and it is the Messiah that opens the Seals. The Messiah opened the 1st Seal in 1990. The United States in 1990 declared war on Iraq which started the Gulf War. In 1990 the United States, the only Super Power left in the World is the White Horse riding, conquering and to conquer, thus the 1st Seal of Revelation was open. This conquering continued with Bosnia, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc..
Both in 1990 and 2001, September 11 marks spectacular and historic events that have affected the whole world. In both these two years the Feast of Trumpets was also on September 20 exactly 10 days later. Is there a pattern in the Sacred Calendar that stands out and relates to the date September 11? Yes, there is. Checking the years between 1981 to 2011, there was an outstanding find. There are only 3 years in which the Feast of Trumpets is on September 20 (which is 10 days after September 11) and those years are 1990, 2001, and 2007! Since the first 3 Seals of Revelation have to be open before the start of the Great Tribulation in the Spring of 2008; we now know exactly in which years they will be open. The 1st Seal with the White Horse (rider going about conquering and to conquer) was open in 1990. The 2nd Seal with the Red Horse (President Bush Jr. declares War on Global Terrorism) was open in 2001. And the 3rd Seal with the Black Horse (famine and food rationing) will be open in 2007.
Third Seal of Revelation will be open in 2007:
In the last few years, there has been severe drought in Canada, the U.S. and Australia. These are three of the worlds largest grain producing countries. With drought, these countries have produced only about half their normal yield. Other food sources such as the oceans are just about depleted and oil spills are making the situation even worse. When you take into consideration other factors such as insect infestations, flooding, crop diseases, unusual heat and cold, exponential population growth, etc. it gives a grim picture indeed of what the world has to look forward to in the next few years in regard to our food supplies. The year 2007 is a good candidate for food rationing world wide. We don't need to wait much longer to find out. Once countries around the world start creating and enforcing laws in regard to food rationing, we will know for sure.
The 3rd Seal of Revelation 6:1-17 reads, "A Black Horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. ... A measure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny."
Intervals between the Seals:
From the 1st Seal in 1990 to the 2nd Seal in 2001 = 11 Years.
From the 2nd Seal in 2001 to the 3rd Seal in 2007 = 6 Years.
From the 3rd Seal in 2007 to the 6th Seal in 2011 = 4 Years.As a brother in the faith quite accurately pointed out: these intervals resemble birth contractions. The closer together, the more painful. 1Thessalonians 5:3 reads, "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."
The very last interval of note is the death and exposure of the bodies of the two witnesses. Since the Messiah will Return on the Feast of Trumpets on September 15, 2011; then the two witnesses would probably be killed on September 11, 2011 which would be 3 1/2 days before His Return. The two witnesses will witness for 3 1/2 years and will then be killed. After they are killed, their bodies will be on display for 3 1/2 days before they are raised from the dead (Revelation 11:3-19).
In Conclusion:
Knowledge is power. As it is written, "My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge". Now that we know from Yahuah's word what is coming, we can prepare for it. The most important thing that we can do is to be spiritually prepared and strong in Yahuah to meet whatever challenges that lay ahead of us. We can also plan to some extent in a material way by having some place of refuge prepared in advance that is outside of the cities and far away enough that we may escape the devastation that is soon coming. We can plan now. We can prepare now. But when that time comes we will have to flee for our very lives with very little time to even think. Yahuah in His love, warns us now to get ready.
In light of this new knowledge, Topic 25.0) The 7 Seals, 7 Trumpets, and 7 Vials Correlation Chart: has been changed accordingly.
Introduction:46.0) Image in Daniel: Timeline between Neo-Babylonian Empire & Messiah's Return:What prompted this article is the ignorance and the lack of knowledge of Bible preachers teaching about the different Heavens of the Bible. The first indication that we get that there is even more than one Heaven is from Genesis 1:1 which in the Hebrew reads, "In the beginning created Elohim Aleph-Tau the Heavens and Aleph-Tau the Earth". So the King James Bible has a mistranslation which only reads a singular Heaven instead of the plural Heavenswhich is really there in the Hebrew. The next reference we have as to some idea of what number of heavens there are, is in 2Corinthians 12:2-4 which reads, "I knew a man in the Messiah above 14 years ago ... such an one caught up to the Third Heaven. ... How that he was caught up into Paradise ...". The only real source of information that we have about the different Heavens of the Bible is in The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2Enoch). The Book of the Secrets of Enoch clearly talks about 7 Heavens!
Now before we get into a detailed description of these 7 Heavens I would like to say a few words about Enoch. Enoch was the 7th from Adam and Enoch was 365 years old when Yahuah took him (Enoch never died). The only other man that did not die is the prophet Elijah. These two prophets Enoch (Hanuch) and Elijah (AliYahu) are the two witnesses mentioned in the book of Revelation that will witness for 3 1/2 years during the Great Tribulation. In the other book that Enoch wrote, in The Book of Enoch (1Enoch) in the very first verse of chapter 1, Enoch talks about the Great Tribulation that will start in just over 5 years from now in the Spring of 2008. At the end of this chapter 1 in verse 9, Enoch talks about the Return of the Messiah with ten thousands of His Holy ones immediately after the Great Tribulation. Note that Jude 14-15 in the New Testament of the Bible is a direct quote from The Book of Enoch (1Enoch) Chapter 1 verse 9! Note also that among the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, 20 manuscripts of Enoch were found (as many as the book of Genesis) and all of them in Aramaic!
The Seven Heavens:
Here is a description of the 7 Heavens from The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2Enoch):
1st Heaven (Chapters 3-6):
In the 1st Heaven is the Great Sea, where there are the elders, and the rulers of the orders of the stars. There are 200 angels who rule the stars and their heavenly service. Here are also the treasuries of the snow, ice, clouds, and dew.2nd Heaven (Chapter 7):
In the 2nd Heaven is Darkness, where there are the fallen angels suspended, reserved for and awaiting the eternal judgement.3rd Heaven (Chapters 8-10):
The 3rd Heaven contains two seperate areas: 1)Paradise with the Garden of Eden (for the Righteous) and 2)The Northern Region a place of Darkness (for the Unrighteous).1)Paradise: Has the Garden of Eden with the Tree of Life. A delightful place with all manner of fruit trees. The trees and fruit give off a sweet fragrance. And it is beautiful, more than any created thing. There are 300 angels who keep the garden and who sing with blessed voices unceasing. This Paradise is prepared for the righteous who endure every kind of attack in their lives for the sake of righteousness.
2)The Northern Region:Is a terrible place. And there is all sorts of tortures in this place. Savage darkness and impenetrable gloom; and there is no light there, but a gloomy fire is always burning. And all that place has fire on all sides, and on all sides cold and ice, thus it burns and freezes. It is a place prepared for evil doers and the unrighteous.
4th Heaven (Chapters 11-17):
In the 4th Heaven is the Course of the Sun and the Moon, the comings and goings forth and all the rays of the light of the sun and moon. The sun has a light 7 times greater than the moon. Enoch shown the twelve gates of the sun.5th Heaven (Chapter 18):
In the 5th Heaven are the Giants, followers of Satan reserved for punishment at the Great Day of Yahuah. There is no service in the 5th Heaven.6th Heaven (Chapter 19):
In the 6th Heaven are the 7 Bands of Archangels very bright and glorious who:
1)Arrange and study the revolutions of the stars, and the changes of the moon, and the revolutions of the sun, and superintend the good or evil condition of the world.
2)Arrange teachings, and instructions, and sweet speaking, and singing, and all kinds of glorious praise.
3)Are appointed over the angels.
4)Hold in subjection all living things both in heaven and earth.
5)Are over seasons and years, over rivers and the sea, over the fruits of the earth, over every herb, giving all kinds of nourishment to every living thing.
6)Are over all souls of men, who write down all their works and their lives before the face of Yahuah.In the midst of the archangels are seven phoenixes and seven cherubims, and seven six-winged creatures, being as one voice and singing with one voice; and it is not possible to describe their singing, and they rejoice before Yahuah at His footstool.
7th Heaven (Chapters 20-22):
In the 7th Heaven is the Throne of Yahuah. There is in the 7th Heaven, a very great light and all the fiery hosts of great archangels, and incorporeal powers and lordships, and principalities, and powers; cherubim and seraphim, thrones and the watchfulness of many eyes. Enoch shown Yahuah from afar sitting on His lofty throne. And all the heavenly hosts who approach stood on ten steps, according to their rank: and made obeisance to Yahuah. And so they proceeded to their places in joy and mirth, and in boundless light singing songs with low and gentle voices, and gloriously serving Him. They leave not nor depart day or night standing before the face of Yahuah, working His will, cherubim and seraphim, standing round His throne. And the six-winged creatures overshadow all His throne, singing with a soft voice before the face of Yahuah: "Holy, Holy, Holy: Yahuah Elohim of Sabaoth! heaven and earth are full of Thy glory!". Gabriel the Archangel and Michael the chief captain bring Enoch before the face of Yahuah. Enoch anointed with Yahuah's Holy oil and clothed with raiment of Yahuah's glory. And the appearance of that oil was more than a great light, and its anointing was like excellent dew; and its fragrance like myrrh, shining like a ray of the sun. In appearance, Enoch was like one of Yahuah's glorious ones.In Conclusion:
Of the 7 Heavens, the ones that will affect man the most are the 3rd Heaven with Paradise and the Northern Region and the 7th Heaven with the Throne of Yahuah.
As human beings, we will all have to face three judgements. The 1st Judgement immediately at the point of death. The 2nd Judgement at time of the Messiah's Second Coming. And the 3rd Judgement, the Great White Throne Judgement of Yahuah at the end of the 7th Millennium. So we better get our act together and turn from our evil ways, repent and start doing that which is right before Yahuah. It really doesn't matter whether we believe or not. We shall all reap what we sow.
As Paul reminds us in Hebrews 6:8-12, "But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. For Yahuah is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which you have showed toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises".
Before you is life and death, choose which way you will go and who you will serve.
References:
1)"The Book of Enoch" (1Enoch), Translated by R.H.Charles, 1972.
2)"The Book of the Secrets of Enoch" (2Enoch), Translated from the Slavonic by W.R.Morfill, 1896.
Introduction:47.0) The Rewards Promised to them that Overcome:The Great Image in Daniel 2:28-45 is a direct reference to the Messiah's 2nd Coming! Daniel says in verse :28, "But there is a Mighty One in heaven that reveals secrets, and has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the Latter Days". This prophecy is for our time! Most Bible scholars will agree, that the Stone that will smite the 10 toes of the image is the Messiah at His 2nd Coming! So how can we figure out the timing bewteen the gold head of the image which is the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the 10 toes at the time of the Messiah's 2nd Coming! We are already given the answer in Daniel 12:11-12 which has a dual meaning and has a dual prophecy. The 1st meaning relates to the time just before the Messiah's 2nd Coming and is measured in Days to give 1290 Days + 1335 Days = 2625 Days. The 2nd meaning relates to the time between the Neo-Babylonian Empire to the Messiah's 2nd Coming and is measured in Years to give 1290 Years + 1335 Years = 2625 Years (a Year for a Day).
From the previous studies that we have done on the True Bible Calendar, we have come to the conclusion that the Messiah will Return in the Fall of 2011CE. But counting 2625 years back from 2011CE, can we connect to any historical events related to Nebuchadnezzar to prove this prophecy of the Great Image? The answer is a definite YES! First we have to study the history of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and its beginnings.
The Beginning of the Neo-Babylonian Empire:
The date for the beginning of the Neo-Babylonian Empire varies among Historians. Some say that it began with Nebuchadnezzar's father Nabopolassar when he revolted against the Assyrians and made himself king of the Sealand in 626BCE. Others say it began with the fall of Nineveh the Assyrian capital in 612BCE which was only possible with the combined armies of the Medes and the Babylonians. The true date however, seems to be 614BCE. Now what makes the year 614BCE so special? Prior to 614BCE, the Medes and the Babylonians attacked the Assyrians seperately but neither had enough strength or power to defeat the Assyrians.
In 614BCE, Cyaxares the king of the Medes signed an alliance with Nabopolassar and this agreement was cemented when Nebuchadnezzar his son married Cyaxares' daughter. It was due to this marriage union that their united armies destroyed Nineveh in 612BCE. This marriage is historically recorded as one source states:
"In 614 (BCE), they (the Medes) succeeded where the Babylonians had failed during the preceding year: they took Assur. Nabopolassar arrived too late to help the Medes, but he managed to conclude a treaty with their king Umakishtar, who is better known as Cyaxares. The Babylonian historian Berossus (third century BCE) tells us that the alliance was cemented by a royal wedding: the Babylonian crown prince Nabu-kudurru-usur, also known as Nebuchadnezzar, married Amytis, the daughter of Cyaxares' son Astyages. This is impossible (Astyages was too young); probably, Amytis was the daughter of Cyaxares himself."
So the Neo-Babylonian Empire really started in 614BCE with Nebuchadnezzar's marriage to Cyaxares' daughter which made it possible to defeat the Assyrians.
The Timeline from the Head of Gold to the 10 Toes:
In Daniel 2:38, Daniel clearly identifies Nebuchadnezzar as the Head of Gold which also represents the Neo-Babylonian Empire. This Neo-Babylonian Empire starts with the alliance with the Medes and with the marriage of Cyaxares' daughter to Nebuchadnezzar in 614BCE.
Now if you take the two numbers in Daniel 12:11-12 and add them together, you get 1290 + 1335 = 2625. As we said before, these numbers can have a dual meaning, of days or years. And in this instance we are treating the numbers as years. So if you take the year 614BCE and add 2625 years to it, you come to exactly the year 2011CE (614 + 2011 = 2625 years)! This is another confirmation that the Messiah will return in the year 2011CE.
The Identification of the 10 Toes in our Time:
Most Bible scholars will acknowledge that the legs of iron of the image represents the two halves of the Roman Empire. The Western half represents Europe and the Eastern half represents the Middle East which can be confirmed from historical maps of the Roman Empire. The dividing point between the two halves is Constantinople which is modern day Istanbul in Turkey. Europe represents the Christian world while the Middle East represents the World of Islam. When the Messiah Returns, the armies that will come up against Him will consist of 5 Kings or Kingdoms from Europe and 5 Kings or Kingdoms from the Middle East.
In Revelation 17:12-18, we are told that 10 Kings will receive power as kings for one hour with the Beast. These 10 Kings will hate the Great Whore (Babylon the Great) and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. These 10 Kings of Revelation are the 10 Toes of Daniel Chapter 2. And the Stone in Daniel 2:34-35,44-45 is the Messiah that will smite the 10 Toes so that the whole image will be destroyed. So the Messiah will not fight against Babylon the Great when he comes. He will fight against the Beast and these 10 Kings! In Revelation 17:14 it reads, "These (10 Kings) shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Master of Masters, and King of Kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." This war of the 10 Kings with the Messiah will be Armageddon (Rev.16:16)!
In Conclusion:
Yahuah is so merciful to us. In countless ways, He asks us to turn from our evil ways that we may worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. He has warned man since the time of Adam to turn to Him. He is warning us now of what is soon to come to pass. The signs are all around us. The two of the four horsemen are already riding, do you not hear the hoof beats of their horses?
Introduction:
In Revelation Chapters 2 and 3 there is a list of Rewards Promised to them that Overcome. Yahuah will give us these Rewards through the Messiah (Rev. 1:1). Overcome what? As the Messiah said in John 16:33, "Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." But how can we overcome the world? By overcoming evil and Satan. In Romans 12:21 we read, "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." In 1John 2:13-17, we read, "because you have overcome the wicked one." "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of Yahuah abides for ever." So how do we overcome? By doing the will of Yahuah. And how do we do the will of Yahuah? By obeying Yahuah and keeping His commandments. 1John 4:4,1-21, "You are of Yahuah, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.48.0) Beginning of Sorrows of Matthew 24:8 starts Sacred New Year March 19, 2003:In 1John 5:1-5,10-19, we read, "Whosoever believes that Yahuahshua is the Messiah is born of Yahuah: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of Yahuah, when we love Yahuah, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of Yahuah, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of Yahuah overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Yahuahshua is the Son of Yahuah?"
"And this is the record, that Yahuah has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of Yahuah has not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of Yahuah; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of Yahuah."
"We know that whosoever is born of Yahuah sins not; but he that is begotten of Yahuah keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not. And we know that we are of Yahuah, and the whole world lies in wickedness."
He or She that overcomes will receive not just one, but ALL of the Rewards in Revelation Chapters 2 & 3!
The List of Rewards in Revelation Chapters 2 & 3 to them that Overcome:
1)To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of Yahuah (Rev.2:7).
2)He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death (Rev.2:11).
3)To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows saving he that receives it (Rev.2:17).
4)And he that overcomes, and keeps my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star (Rev.2:26-28).
5)He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels (Rev.3:5).
6)Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my Mighty One, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my Mighty One, and the name of the city of my Mighty One, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my Mighty One: and my new name (Rev.3:12).
7)To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne (Rev.3:21).
In Conclusion:
Our life in these mortal bodies is short and temporary. We all know that we are all going to die one day, which is certain. And yet people are paralyzed all their lives by the fear of death which is inevitable anyways. Yahuah sets us free from the fear of death by offering us eternal life through his beloved Son Yahuahshua and by his Holy Spirit. The Messiah came in the flesh to show us the way and that it is possible to overcome the world. In Hebrews 2:14-15,18 we read, "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. ... For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted."
The Messiah shows us how to overcome in his Father's Word (The Bible). So let us follow in his footsteps and keep the commandments of Yahuah. Trust and believe in Yahuah through Yahuahshua, for he is able to help us in any situation. For if Yahuah be for us, who can be against us!
Introduction:49.0) Countdown to the Messiah's Return:The New Year on the Sacred Calendar started on Wednesday March 19, 2003 with sunset at 6:12PM Eastern Standard Time in the Eastern Standard Time Area.
The Ultimatum Deadline by U.S. President Bush for Iraq's Saddam Hussein to disarm was Wednesday March 19, 2003 at 8PM Eastern Standard Time. At 7:12PM President Bush gave the order to attack Targets of Opportunity in Baghdad in the attempt to decapitate Saddam's regime. 40 Cruise Missiles and bombs by U.S. Bombers were dropped on selected targets in Baghdad at about 9:30PM. So began the War on Iraq. In the wider picture of history and prophecy, sunset March 19, 2003started the Beginning of Sorrows of Matthew 24:8.
The Coming of the Messiah:
In Matthew 24:3 the Messiah's disciples asked, "Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the world?"
In Matthew 24:6-8 the Messiah replies, "And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in different places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
The Beginning of Sorrows will last for 5 years from Spring of 2003 to Spring of 2008. In the Spring of 2008 the Great Tribulation will start which will last for 3 1/2 years. At the end of the Great Tribulation in the Fall of 2011 on the Feast of Trumpets, the Messiah will Return.
The Timing for the Messiah's Return given in Prophecy:
In Matthew 24:29-35 we are told that after the Great Tribulation the Messiah will Return. In verse :34 we read, "Truly I say unto you, This Generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. The generation the Messiah was referring to is Himself. The generation of the Messiah from His birth in the Fall of 12BCE to His death in the Spring of 30CE is 40 1/2 years. The Messiah was 40 1/2 years old when he died. The term "This Generation" in verse :34 has a dual prophecy: the 1st was fulfilled in 70CE when the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, about 40 1/2 years later; the 2nd will be in the Fall of 2011 when the Messiah Returns. The year 30CE was a Jubilee Year: 30CE plus 40 Jubilees (40 X 49 = 1960 years) brings us to the year 1990CE (30CE + 1960 years = 1990CE); plus 1/2 Jubilee (approximately 22 years) gives the year 2011CE (30CE + 1960 + 22 = 2011CE). This is a very simplified summary to figure out the timing for the Messiah's Return. There is a tremendous amout of knowledge and information about the Sacred Calendar that is taken into consideration, much of which is given in detail in the many topics given above on this Web Page.
The Warnings given to prepare for the Messiah' Return:
There are many parables given by the Messiah to warn us and to tell us how to prepare for His Return. One such parable is in Matthew 25:1-13 which reads, "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps."
From 1Corinthians 3:16-17 we know that the lamp is the vessel of our body. And the oil is the Holy Spirit. In verses :16-17 we read, "Know you not that you are the temple of Yahuah, and that the Spirit of Yahuah dwells in you? If any man defile the temple of Yahuah, him shall Yahuah destroy; for the temple of Yahuah is holy, which temple you are."
Conclusion:
So how can we prepare for the Messiah's Return? We can prepare by keeping ourselves undefiled from the world and by keeping the commandments of Yahuah. Revelation 18:4 reads, "Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues".
Again, Revelation 22:11-17 reads, "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie. I Yahuahshua have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
Are you getting ready to meet your Maker!
Introduction:50.0) The Last 7 Years to the Messiah's Return and the Jubilees of Days:To understand the meaning of the major events that are happening now we have to understand their connection to the Sacred Calendar and Yahuah's reckoning of time. Yahuah's definition of time is measured in different increments of time. From scripture we know that Yahuah has given us a range of units of time to measure from short to longer periods of time. Some of the units of time are the hour, day, week, month, season, year, Sabbath year, Jubilee Year, millennium, etc.. The least understood or used is the unit of the season. So how does the season time measurement relate to the last years to the coming of the Messiah?
From previous studies, we know that the Messiah will return on the Feast of Trumpets on September 15, 2011. And the end of the 6000 years from Adam will be in the Spring of 2012. The time frame that we are interested in is the last 10 years. Ten years equals 40 Seasons. One Season equals 3 Months (91 Days) with 4 seasons per year. The number 10 denotes JUDGEMENT and we know that the Great Tribulation and other judgements will occur just before the Messiah's Return. Now the question is where to start the last 10 years from. There are two possibilities, we can start the count from Spring of 2002 to Spring of 2012 which ends the 6000 years from Adam; or we can start the count from Fall of 2001 to Fall of 2011 when the Messiah Returns. Both are valid for different reasons. If we start from Spring of 2002 the Messiah will return on the 1st Day of the 39th Season (keep in mind that the Messiah received 40 lashes lest one or 39 lashes and by his stripes we are healed). If we start from the Fall of 2001 we have exactly 40 seasons to the Messiah's Return. The one that is more revealing is the 40 seasons immediately before his return starting from the Fall of 2001. So this is the one that we will look at in more detail.
The 40 Seasons from the Fall of 2001 to Messiah's Return in the Fall of 2011:
The first major event that confirms that we are on the right track is the tragic event of September 11, 2001. The Feast of Trumpets was exactly 10 days later on September 20, 2001. So we will start our count of seasons to the Messiah's Return from September 20, 2001.
Let's look at the most significant seasons of the 40 seasons before the Messiah's Return:
1st Season: Starts September 20, 2001 the 1st Day of the 7th Month: ten days after September 11, 2001.7th Season: Starts March 19, 2003 at sunset the 1st Day of the 1st Month: U.S. attacks Iraq and begins the war with Iraq.
10th Season: Starts December 18, 2003 the 1st Day of the 10th Month: (Note: the significance of the 10th Month is again Judgement; eg. the seige of Jerusalem began on the 10th Day of the 10th Month and the 1st Temple was destroyed 18 Months later in 586BCE).
13th Season:StartsSeptember 16, 2004 the 1st Day of the 7th Month: this starts the last 7 years before the Messiah's Return. The U.S. Presidential Elections will be held about this time.
22nd Season: Starts December 14, 2006 the 1st Day of the 10th Month: the 3rd Seal of Revelation with the Black Horse of Famine could be open at this time or at the time of the 26th Season. The number 22 is a number of completion.
26th Season: Starts December 20, 2007 the 1st Day of the 10th Month: the 3rd Seal of Revelation with the Black Horse of Famine could be open at this time. The number 26 is the numberical value of the name of Yahuah. The 26th Season is the Last Season before the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation lasts 14 seasons (3 1/2 Years) and begins in the Spring of 2008.
40th Season: Starts June 16, 2011 the 1st Day of the 4th Month and ends the day before the Messiah Returns. The 40th Season also ends the 3 1/2 Year Great Tribulation. The Messiah Returns on September 15, 2011 the 1st Day of the 7th Month.
Conclusion:
The seasons are milestones marking the events that lead up to the coming of the Messiah. The Sacred Calendar and the units of time in scripture help us to identify these milestones.
Three of the seasons are significant because they start in the 10th month (December) of the year which is in the winter, and are namely the 10th, 22nd and 26th Seasons. These three are also significant because of their Biblical perfect numbers where 10 = judgement, 22 = Hebrew Alphabet and completion, 26 = name of Yahuah. Even on the old Julian Calendar, December was the 10th month of the year. The word December comes from the Latin word which means 10, just as September = 7, October = 8, November = 9. Matthew 24:20-21 and Mark 13:18-19 talk about a time during these last 10 years and we read, "But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be."
These last 40 seasons in our time can also be compared to the 40 years that the children of Israel were in the wilderness. The children of Israel had just come out from the house of bondage in Egypt. So why did they have to stay in the wilderness for 40 years (Numbers 13:1-33; 14:1-45)? 12 men, a ruler from each tribe searched the Promised Land for 40 days. 10 of these men gave an evil report of the land but Caleb and Joshua gave a good report of the Land. But because of their fear and unbelief the 10 men that gave an evil report discouraged the people from going into the Promised Land. So the people rebelled against Yahuah. Consequently they were forced to roam in the wilderness for 40 years, a year for each day that they searched out the land until all those that murmured against Yahuah died in the wilderness except for Caleb and Joshua (Yahushua) son of Nun who gave a good report to the people of the Promised Land.
Note that it was the Messiah in the form of the pillar of a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night who led the children of Israel through the wilderness (1Corinthians 10:1-4; Exodus 13:21-22). It was the Messiah who was a wall of protection between the Egyptians and the children of Israel when the Egyptians pursueded them (Exodus 14:19-20). And it is the Messiah who will protect us and lead us into the Kingdom of Yahuah during these last 40 seasons .
So dear believers in the Messiah, take heed to the warnings given by the Apostle Paul in Hebrews 3:7-19; 4:1-11 where we read, "But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?"
These Last 40 Seasons will be a time of trial and tribulation. A time of the testing of our faith in Yahuah and in Yahuahshua. It will be a time that will challenge and test us Spiritually, Mentally, and Physically to our limits. Therefore, put on the full armour of Yahuah that you may be able to stand in the evil day and to stand against the wiles of the devil (Ephesians 6:10-17; Romans 13:11-14; 2Corinthians 6:4-10, 17-18). So that at the end of these 40 seasons, the Messiah will lead us into the Kingdom of Yahuah as Joshua also led the children of Israel into the Promised Land.
We have to begin to prepare to leave the cities before the 26th Season which will start in December of 2007. The recent outbreak of SARS in the Spring of 2003 is just a reminder how vulnerable we are in the cities. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global alert on SARS on March 12, 2003 just 7 days before the beginning of the Sacred New Year (not counting the Intercalary Day). The quarantine period for SARS is also 10 Days which is the number of judgement. The signs are all around us to get ready to leave the cities. The warning is given in Revelation 18:4 where we read, "Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues."
Introduction:To understand Time, we have to have Yahuah's Sacred Calendar and Yahuah's measurements of Time. Once we have the right Calendar, we still need to know how the knowledge of Yahuah's Word and Truth relates directly to His Calendar. For instance, once we have Yahuah's true name we can determine the numerical value of His name which is a key that opens our minds to understand Yahuah's plan of events in these Last Days. The numerical value of Yahuah's name is 26 and relates directly to His Sacred Calendar. The number 26 is Yahuah's stamp or seal of authority that it is His.
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