Today is Thursday 18 March 2010
Today's Maya Date:
12 . 19 . 17 . 3 . 11
9Chuen
9 Kumku
1009 days until 13.0.0.0.0
Owls
1.Any of various often nocturnal birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, having hooked and feathered talons, large heads with short hooked beaks, large eyes set forward, and fluffy plumage that allows for almost noiseless flight.
2.Any of a breed of domestic pigeons resembling owls.
[Middle English owle, from Old English úle, of imitative origin.]
Owl
Owl, common name for an order of widely distributed nocturnal birds of prey. There are two families: the typical owls and the barn owls.
An owl's large eyes are encased in a capsule of bone called the sclerotic ring, which allows almost no eye movement. Owls can rotate their heads 270 degrees to see sideways. Most owls hunt at night, so their hearing is particularly important. Many have asymmetrical skulls, with the ear openings at different levels; this feature enables the bird to locate an animal's sound precisely. Some owls nest in holes in trees or among rocks, others construct large tree nests; and others nest on the ground. Owls feed entirely on living animals, mostly insects and mammals.
An owl's large eyes are encased in a capsule of bone called the sclerotic ring, which allows almost no eye movement. Owls can rotate their heads 270 degrees to see sideways. Most owls hunt at night, so their hearing is particularly important. Many have asymmetrical skulls, with the ear openings at different levels; this feature enables the bird to locate an animal's sound precisely. Some owls nest in holes in trees or among rocks, others construct large tree nests; and others nest on the ground. Owls feed entirely on living animals, mostly insects and mammals.
The largest genus (Otus) contains more than 50 species. The eagle owls (Bubo) are among the largest species. They have large, earlike tufts of feathers on their heads. Of this genus, only the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) lives in the Americas, but 17 other species exist in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The elf owl (Micrathene whitneyi) is the smallest species and lives in the southwestern United States and Mexico. It is 13 cm (5 in) long and nests in large cacti.
Scientific classification: Owls make up the order Strigiformes. Typical owls make up the family Strigidae, and barn owls make up the family Tytonidae.
The smallest of American owls, the elf owl, often nests in the Gila woodpecker’s cactus hole after the woodpecker leaves. The owl measures barely 6 inches tall. It specializes in catching scorpions, seizing each by the tail and nipping off its stinger. It then swallows the scorpion’s body, pincers and all.
If the great horned owl were to be totally stripped of its feathers, the naked bird would weigh less than its feathers.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
To see at night as well as an owl, you would need eyeballs as big as a grapefruit.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-handed corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
(9 Et'znab (Flint) / 6 Muwan (Owl) - 178/260 - 12.19.14.17.18)
Elohim
"Question: Many entities might be highly skeptical that such a Council could be
actually paying attention to these things on such an individual level with so many
billions of people on this planet. Could you describe a little bit how that process works.
How that noticing takes place?
Answer: We see you as energy systems as energy circuits. When there are particularly
bright spots, we know to pay attention to these. The bright spots are indicative that a
person in your density has tapped into the greater collective field and is thus accessing
consciously the required information to further free themselves from the confines of the
third density. In this manner we are able to pay attention to those among billions who
are able to make the initial sojourn into the greater developmental entities awaiting
higher galactic consciousness connection."
"the night that (Girlfriend X) had (Girlfriend Y) over and we established a
communication path at that time and then spoke again through (Girlfriend Y) the night
she was with you and she was trying to keep it all quiet and you were very important to
this...
Realize that hurt feelings are based on past similar experiences where the past experience
magnifies the hurt of the present. Seeing Girlfriend Y helps to clear some of that. She
lets you talk and let you get out some of the feelings and she lets you feel you are Realize
that you are loved and you are doing the work that other people are not doing and
cannot even see and you are very needed. Not everyone will see this. People have there
own growth patterns and if they don't understand it is not personal. And that all
things can heal in time. Above all don't take it personally."
Question: The first question I want to ask is that we are in Mesa with an other
24-36 hours to spend here. Is there some way you can recommend to make best
use of that time?
Answer: There's one place that would be good to visit. It's on the SE part of
the town, in the middle of the Se part of town. It would be good to drive around
there.
Question: What is the place?
Answer: It's one of the temples.
Question: Is it the temple on Main St down from the motel where we are?
Answer: I would say another temple that's smaller.
Question: Is there a name of someone or something we should look for?
Answer: It's the temple on (anonomous) Street.
Question: Am I correct in my assessments as to why we were supposed to come
to Mesa?
Answer: It's not the entire Mormon Church. It's a certain group within the
Mormon Church to interface with.
Expansions of the Holy Names of G–d.
In standard gematria (Hebrew numerology), the numerical equivalent of Hebrew words is calculated by adding up the values of the individual letters that are their component parts (alef = 1, beis = 2, etc.). In addition, there is a “filled out” form of gematria in which the letters of a word are themselves written out fully phonetically. For example, the letter yud is equal to ten, but when written out fully, it is yud-vav-dalet and it equals twenty. The letter heh can be filled out three different ways: heh heh (HH), heh alef (HA), and heh yud (HY). Likewise, the letter vav can be written as vav vav (VV), vav alef vav (VAV), and vav yud vav (VYV). For the expansion of the Holy Names YHVH and EHYeH, see the table below. The Divine Name ELoHIM can also be filled in with a yud, a heh, or an alef.
Expansions of the Holy Name EHYeH
ALEF HY YUD HY
161 or “KSA” (i.e. "kuf samech aleph")
אלף הי יוד הי
ALEF HH YUD HH
151 or “KNA”
אלף הה יוד הה
ALEF HA YUD HA
143 or “KMG”
אלף הא יוד הא
( ¤ )( ¤ )
Dear Reader,
While posting this crazy little compilation together I left my computer to grab my coffee off the counter, as I walked up the counter I thought - it’s all about the Faith, on the table was the bible so I quickly opened it to see what it would say an I came across this:
Psalms 23, (which just happens to be my mothers day of birth)
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in the green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Even though I walkthrough the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Shekinah
A Biography of The Shekinah by Soror Shekinah
The Shekinah is the only aspect of the Western Monotheistic Diety which is feminine. She is an aspect of Elohim, Yahweh, the God of the Jews, Christians and Moslems. Although the later incarnations of the religion under the Christians and Moslems do not incorporate the Shekinah as a female, she none the less has been and continues to be the heart and soul of the Sabbath of the Jews and the Kabbalah of both the Jews and the Magicians. Much is written about her and she is often misunderstood by Modern Esoteric Magicians. So I decided to write her story. Here then is the history, development and life of the Shekinah.
The Shekinah is used in Rabbinical Judaism as a term identifying God's nearness to man. It is his divine presence and is used in order to distinguish between the presence and the hidden persona of God. Although grammatically feminine, the Shekinah is not differentiated from God in Rabbinical Judaism. Kabbalah takes the concept of the Shekinah and gives her a sexual identity and "quasi-independence". [1]
The female and sexual conception of the Shekinah is a major theme in Kabbalah and has transformed the theology and rituals of Judaism. The Shekinah of the Rabbinical sages, as evolved by the Kabbalists, helps to maintain the possibility of human interaction with the Divine. The philosophical movement in Judaism in the late 11th Century created a huge abyss in the relationship between the Jew and his God. During this movement god began to be more and more omnipotent and less accessible. Many in the movement asserted that God in fact was unknowable and indifferent to his creations. God became an idea, an abstract concept. It is unknown whether or not Kabbalah was a reaction to philosophy or this philosophy was a reaction to Kabbalah, but Kabbalah was an answer to the widening of the abyss between Man and God by the Philosophical movement in Judaism. [2]
The Shekinah as an aspect of God truly developed in Ashkenazi Hasidisim in the 12th CE. The German Pietists extended the meaning of the Shekinah of Rabbinical Judaism, the Divine Presence of God, to include the Divine Glory or Kavod. The Kavod acquires transcendence and divine powers in Hasidic literature and takes on more responsibilities in the divine workings. The Kavod of the Hasidim is described as the power that receives the prayers. Symbols and mystical features of Hekhalot and Merkevah mysticism became united in the Kavod or Shekinah. The Hasidim began to address the philosophical problem of a knowable versus unknowable divinity by developing the Kavod.
One of the books the Kabbalist used to bridge the abyss is the highly controversial Shuir Qomah, the anthromorphic conceptualization of God. The Shuir Qomah came out of the Merkevah body of Jewish Mystical writings, 1-6th CE. In this work God is given a human form, albeit absurd and abstract physical dimensions, none the less a human body. At the time of the Merkevah this presented great theological problem for the Jews. The Kabbalist used this book to expound on the Sephiroth and the Skekinah. They add an element of Hermetics to their teachings by establishing God as a physical being with physcial characteristics mirroring mans.
The Shuir Qomah gives some fascinating descriptions of God. His beard is described as black and curly containing 9 paths with powers associated with each path. The oils in the beard have special magical properties. The same description used on the beard of God is used to describe the hair of the Shekinah, long, black and curly with again 9 mystical paths.
Gradually the Doctrine of the Kavod (Glory) develops into the concept of the Shekinah of the Medieval Kabbalist. The Kavod is identified as the created light, the first creation of Genesis, the Holy Spirit. As the Hasidim address the problem of the knowability of God, they eventually distinguish between two kinds of Glory. One kind is attributed to God in his unknowable omnipotence and the other is identified directly with the Shekinah and is referred to as the "inner Glory". This inner glory becomes the visible glory, which appears to Moses in the Bush and is on the Throne of Glory of the Merkevah Mystics. The vision of the visible glory of the Kavod becomes the aim of the Ashkenazi Hasidics. The Hasidim also associate the Kavod and the visible glory with the cherubim of Ezekiel and the "great fire of the Shekinah" that surrounds God on the Throne. From the great fire of the Shekinah emanates the human soul. (In later Kabbalah it is the union of the Shekinah and Tiphareth that creates human souls). The Hasidim refer to the Kavod as "Holiness" and "Kingdom" (the term for Malkuth) and give this light a western location. The Talmud also associated the Shekinah with the West, and the Sabbath Bride is ushered in from the West. To the Kabbalist this visible Divine Glory is the same as the one that appeared to Moses, and spoke to Noah. This is the Shekinah. [4]
The Bahir develops the emanations of Sefer Yetzirah into the Sephirotic aspects of Divine. Their meaning, symbolism and order are a major influence in future Kabbalistic works. Perhaps the most influential innovation of the Bahir is the reference to the Shekinah as a feminine principle. It introduced into Judaism the idea the God was a bi-sexual being containing both masculine and feminine sides. With the exception of the Shekinah all of the feminine aspects of God contain those attributes that are harsh and negative. The Shekinah contains all possibilities; but she it totally dependent on the Sephiroth above her.
The Shekinah is the tenth Sephirah, also called Malkuth or Kingdom. It is the emanation farthest from the Eyn Sof and closest to the terrestrial world. Like the moon, she is purely reflective and has no identity or light of her own. She is identified as divine speech, the oral Torah and the mouth of the Sephiroth:
"....Tiphareth, the voice of YHVH. This voice is transformed into speech through Shekinah, the mouth of the Sephiroth. The entire process can be imagined as the birth of divine language." [5]
She is also identified as the Holy Apple Tree, the Bride, a field, water, the kingdom, the colors black and blue, a mirror, a rose, the Throne of Glory, the Garden of Eden and the poor:
"In the Zohar it is the poor who are like God's broken vessels. They are compared to the Shekinah, because like her, they have nothing at all of their own (3:113b). As She is provided for by the other Sephiroth, so we must provide for the poor and anyone who mistreats a poor person mistreats the Shekinah." [6]
She is the culmination of all the Sephiroth above her and is their creation. She is the final He of the Tetragrammaton, the daughter of Chokmah, (Yod the father) and Binah (the first He, the mother). She is the channel through which all the other emanations filter into the earthly realm and the gate for the mystics into the divine.
"He appointed his daughter and set her in and in her garments all the different pathways. Anyone who wished to enter the palace should look to her." [7]
The Bahir refers to the Shekinah as mother, bride, Queen, wife, daughter and sister, who stands at the side of the Divine, usually associated with masculine power. [8]
"This is like a King's daughter who came from afar, and nobody knew where she came from. When they saw that she was a fine lady, beautiful and just in all that she did, they said: 'she undoubtedly was taken from the side of light, for her deeds give light to the world'." [9]
The Bahir also introduce the conceptualization of the Shekinah in familial terms.
A certain King has a good, beautiful and perfect daughter. He married her to a prince and dressed her, crowned her, and adorned her....and whenever the daughter needs her father or the father needs his daughter, they meet together at the window. [10]
The familial terms used to define the interrelational aspects of God, father, mother, son and daughter become common themes in Kabbalistic writings. The sexual symbolism begun by the Bahir develops in the relationships between the mother and father, son and daughter, and the father and daughter.
In an effort to explain sin in a divinely created world, Kabbalah shows what I believe are some of its greatest innovations. The doctrinal and theological debates that occur throughout western monotheistic religion over this issue are tackled with great creativity and ingenuity by the Kabbalist. One theory they hold is that the fifth emanation, Gevurah (Din) is the Sephirah that created evil. Judgement became so out of balance because of the sin of Adam, that it broke away and spawned the Sitrah Ahra[11], the other side. It is the side of evil and the realm of Samael and Lillith.
Kabbalah assigns the negative or harsh aspects of God to the feminine emanations. The left side of the tree, Binah, Gevurah and Hod (understanding, judgement and majesty) are collective called the Pillar of Severity. The right side is referred to as the Pillar of Mercy and contains Chokmah, Hesed and Netzach ( wisdom, lovingkindness and splendor). These negative or harsh aspects of the left as well as the more positive aspect of the right flow into the Shekinah. If the side of Severity is more powerful than Mercy, then the Shekinah can fall into evil and associate with Samael. This imbalance occurs when Israel sins. These individual acts of the people affect the balance in the divine emanations. The Shekinah being the closest to the veil between the celestial and terrestrial realms is very vulnerable to the effects of sin. Samael is in a constant battle with Tiphareth and the Shekinah over her virtue. She sometimes fights him off with the help of the other Sephiroth; however is there is much sin, she cannot fight, but willingly gives into evil. It is through the commandments that the Sephiroth are empowered to over come evil. The Kabbalist attempt to empower the Shekinah in her fight against Samuel.
Shekinah is also the harlot and great desire of Samael the devil. Samael has Lilith as his consort, but wants the Shekinah. He wants to defile her and steal her from Tiphareth. Thus the battle for her goes on between Tiphareth and Samael. The Shekinah has no, I repeat, no ideas or thoughts that are her own. She is completely at the mercy of the things below her and things above. If Israel is good, the Shekinah is uniting with her beloved, if it is bad and full of sin, then she is in Samael's bed as the harlot. The Shekinah does not control her destiny in anyway.
The Zohar explains sin through the original sin of Adam, the primordial man. Adam worshipped and partook of the Shekinah alone, and removed her from the rest of the Sephiroth, disrupting the union of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (the Shekinah) and the Tree of Life (Tiphareth). It was then that the Shekinah was first driven into exile with Adam.[12]
"YHVH Elohim expelled him from the Garden of Eden....He drove out et Adam." (Z54)
(Et is a Kabbalistic code name for the Shekinah: as Divine speech, she spells out the entire Hebrew alphabet from Aleph to Tau).[13]
Perhaps the most visible Kabbalistic influence on Modern Jewish ritual and theology is the sacred marriage of the Sabbath Bride and God, Shekinah and Tiphareth respectively. The union of the Shekinah and Tiphareth is perhaps the most important quest of the Kabbalists and the Magician. Until the Shekinah is united with her lover Tiphareth, sin will abound in the world and she-and consequently Israel-will remain in exile. It is the 5=6 formula of the magician, the union of the microcosm and the macrocosm. She is the Vision of Adonai. And the union of the two is the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
In the writings about this love affair we see the intense passion between God and the Shekinah. The Song of Solomon is the basis of the development of this aspect of the Shekinah. It is a love affair between a man and his bride, and metaphorically between God and Israel, Tiphareth and Shekinah.
How beautiful is your love my sister, my bride, how much more
Delightful is your love than wine, and the fragrance
Of your ointments than all spices!
Your lips drip honey, my bride, sweetmeats and milk are under your tongue;
And the fragrance of your garmenst is the fragrance of Lebanon.
You are an enclosed garden, my sister, my bride, an enclosed garden
A fountain sealed .[14]
A spring of Gardens, a well of living water, flows
From Lebanon.[15]
Let my lover come to his garden and eat its
Choice fruits.[16]
Here the Shekinah is the Spring of Gardens; the well of waters flowing down to the human realm. The Song of Songs truly develops the symbolism of the Shekinah as the bride and the beauty of Tiphareth and the intense love in the unity of God. It is this unity that the Kabbalist must achieve. The union of the mystic with the Shekinah and consequently her union with Tiphareth is accomplished on the Sabbath, if only briefly. Through prayer and ritual and physical union with his wife the Kabbalist can bring about the Sacred Union. It became significant in Safed Kabbalah that physical intercourse between a man and his wife occurs on the night of the Sabbath. They believe that love in the terrestrial world was symbolic of the union in the celestial world.
Welcoming the Sabbath Bride in Safed meant going out into a field and facing West and ushering her into the synagogue. The Kabbalist Solomin Alkabez authored the Sabbath hymn Lekhah Dodi (Come my beloved), still sung today in most synagogues as the welcoming hymn of the bride.[17]
In Hasidic writings of the 18th Century the sacred union of the Shekinah and Tiphareth is combined with the personal union of the Hasidic and the Shekinah in prayer. The sexual symbolism of the union of the Bride and her Groom is applied to all prayer.
Union in Prayer
Prayer is a coupling (sexual union) with the Shekinah. Like a physical coupling it should begin with movements. Move your body when you start your prayer, then stand still and enjoy the profound communion with the Shekinah. Moving your body in worship, thus reminding yourself that the Shekinah is standing before you, will rouse you to a state of intense excitement [18]
Through intercourse with his wife and through ecstatic prayer the Hasidic are constantly working to bring about the celestial union, which will usher in the Messiah.
The Union of the Shekinah
Everyone should pray for the light of the moon to be the same as the light of the sun and for the moon to be complete, with nothing missing or diminished, for this means that there will no longer be and evil element and all the satanic powers will be destroyed,.....
If something is missing from the light that flows down to the Tree of Life, it will also be missing from the divine emanation that in turn flows from the tree. The Shekinah is called the "moon" because she has no light of her own, just as the moon receives all its light from the sun. Symbolically, the Shekinah is like a mirror, she does not have her own source of light, and whatever light she receives from comes from God.
But when the ultimate union of Shekinah and God takes place, with nothing missing and nothing lacking, all the emanations of goodness and blessing will completely and freely descend-and then all the evil powers and all the satanic elements will be destroyed.
The moon is the symbol of the Shekinah, the last Sephirah, whereas the sun is the symbol of Tiphareth, the sixth Sephirah. Tiphareth and Shekinah are husband and wife. God intended them to be of equal luminosity, but because of the imperfection of the created world the Shekinah lost most of her light. At the end of Days the equality will be restored.[19]
The Shekinah began in Judaism as a synonym for "God". Through the Bahir, Zohar, Safed and into Hasidism the Shekinah has become the Mother of Israel. Today in synagogues the Sabbath Bride is welcomed with Lekhah Dodi: although much of its Kabbalistic symbolism has been lost, it is still sung. The notion of the Shekinah and her femininity was a popular innovation. She developed as the central focus of Kabbalah and the mystic. The Kabbalist loves God though a woman that he can create in his own mind, to his own perfection. He is charged with her protection and purity. He is her father, son and lover.
As the Kabbalist converges upon the tree and makes the ascent he unites with the Shekinah. The Kabbalist and the Shekinah become one and it is through her that he is able to unite with the divine at Tiphareth. Perhaps this is what Crowley is refering to when he says aspirants to the AA are men, but brothers of the AA are women.
[1] Scholem, Gersholm; On the Kabbalah and It's Symbolism (New York/Schocken Books, 1965) page 105.
[2] [for more on this refer to Maimonides, Guide to the Perplexed]
[4] Scholem, Gersholm; Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (New York/Schocken Books, 1954) page 80-118
[5] Matt, Daniel; Zohar, The Book of Enlightenment (New Jersey Paulist Press, 1983) page 249
[6] Ibid
[7] Ariel, David; The Mystic Quest (New York/Schocken Books, 1988) Page 93 (from Das Buch Bahir, ed. By G. Scholem)
[8] Dan, Joseph; The Early Kabbalah (New York/Schocken Books, 1986) page 29
[9] IBID, page 64 (The Book Bahir)
[10] Ariel, David; The Mystic Quest (New York/Schocken Books, 1988) Page 92 (from Das Buch Bahir, ed. By G. Scholem)
[11] [note on the Qlipoth]
[12] Matt, Daniel; Zohar, The Book of Enlightenment (New Jersey Paulist Press, 1983) page 216
[13] IBID
[14] Song of Songs 4:10-12
[15] IBID 4:15
[16] IBID 4:16
[17] Fine, Lawrence; Safed Spirituality (New Jersey Paulist Press 1984) page 33
[18] Dan, Joseph; The Teachings of the Hasidism (new Jersey Behrman House, Inc. 1983) page 110
[19] IBID page ____
The Autiot of the Shekinah by Carlo Suares
First published in Tree: 3, ed. David Meltzer, Winter 1972
According to a popular tradition, the Shekinah's first appearance is in Exodus, but that is not true. The better informed know that that schema is only derived from Ex. XXV/8, where Yod-Yod is supposed to have said to Moses: And they shall make for me a sanctuary and I shall dwell in their midst. The schema Shakhanti means nothing more than that, and is not even conditioned by the making of a sanctuary. Another appearance of the verb "to dwell," in Gen. XVI/16 is in reference to the tent of metting, and has a simple colloquial meaning.
It is not through any excess of argumentation, nor through legal casuistry, nor through dialectical reasoning in the application of hermeneutic rules that the verb "to dwell" came to have such an exalted meaning as the Manifestation of Divine Presence in the life of man, or even the Divine Immanence in Creation. It is due to the fact that the Hebrew way of thinking has always been and still is an all-inclusive, analogical perception of the One in and with all that is. When we are true to that thiking and know itss keys, as they are alive on the Autiaut, we are Qabalists, and the roots of the Jewish idiom, when such keys are applied to them, open the who range of Manifestation to the searching minds.
The root of Shaken (dwelling) or Shakan (to abide) is Ken, colloguially "Yes, this is so", with no meaning of its own: who says yes to whom, about what? But, as nearly always happens with ontological roots the idiomatic Ken suggests two opposites: something upright and honest, and something lousy as a worm. The beauty of the sacred language, when understood according to the original code, is that every schema has a full meaning of its own, in different spheres of manifestation. I will not repeat, here, the explanation of the code, that I have given so many times, in the Ciper of Genesis, in Tree II, in the Song of Songs and elsewhere: I will only give a reminder of it, as applied to our present subject.
Ken: Kaf-Noun is 20.50 in the sphere of concrete existence, the lowest potential Energy (hence its degraded colloquial meaning) and 20.700 in the Cosmic Power (hence the colloquial uprightness). Kaf, 20, is my -- or anybody's -- bodily action.
The assertion Ken links that action, either to the existential life of Noun 50 or to the universal Principle of Indetermination, Noun (final) 700. It is a positive option, a declared state of relationship either with the existential aspect of life or with the unknown Principle at stake in the universe. For the qabalist, it is both , because the qabalist's mind and body assert both spheres.
When Sheen comes here as a prefix, there is a permutation of Sheen-Yod-Noun (its complete spelling) into Sheen-Kaf-Noun: Yod, the general sign for existence becomes specified in Kaf. Sheen being cosmic, its final noun is always 700. Therefore Sheen's intervention in Ken divides it, as its intervention in Maim divides Shamain from Maim.
Now we have two meanings for Shaken. Where Kaf resists the One Energy acting as Sheen, it asserts any individual dewlling such as "my house, your house, anybody's house." Where Kaf yields to Sheen, the schema Sheken becomes Shekinah, (Sheen-Kaf-Yod-Noun-Hay), in which the final Noun becomes actual, incarnates in Yod, and is alive with Hay.
The beauty of this schema is that projection in factual existence of the Cosmic Indetermination, Noun, 700. Thus Shekinah is indeed the dwelling in flesh of Sheen, the cosmic living Breath.
But how has it come to be said, by the means of the schemata Ken, Sheken, Shekinah, that the universal organic Life dwells only in Israel? It is asserted by those very same schemata, slightly, altered into Sheen-Kof-Yod-Noun: Sekeen, a word that has come to mean colloquially simply knife. In fact, it is the cutting of flesh for th penetration into it of Sheen: the circumcision according to the Hebrew Covenant.
(For the explanation of what circumcision at eight days really is, I must refer my readers, once more, to The Cipher of Genesis -- the chapter on circumcision.).
"Who now and then does bestow ; A drop of heaven on worms below"
And they went up and breadth, on the earth and compassed the camp of saints about, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be the tormented day and night forever.
"Do our opinions line up with the Word of G-d?"
Let's look at a few verses:
"I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim"
Romans 12:1-2 (The Scriptures)
Romans 12:1-2 (The Scriptures)
Proverbs 3:7 -- "Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil."
"Let us walk becomingly, as in the day, not in wild parties and drunkenness, not in living together and indecencies, not in fighting and envy, but put on the Master Yeshua Messiah, and make no provision for the lusts of the flesh."
Romans 13:13-14 (The Scriptures)
Romans 13:13-14 (The Scriptures)
"“A woman does not wear that which pertains to a man, nor does a man put on a woman’s garment, for whoever does this is an abomination to your Elohim."
Devarim (Deut.) 22:5 (The Scriptures)
Devarim (Deut.) 22:5 (The Scriptures)
Here are some definitions of Modesty from Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary.
"Properly restrained by a sense of propriety; not forward or bold; not presumptuous or arrogant; not boastful; moderate; not excessive or extreme; not extravagant; purity of manners; retiring and unobtrusive manners; conceding to all others due honor and respect; modesty results from purity of mind; unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of their honor."
Holiness
The word says and makes it VERY CLEAR: "Without HOLINESS it is IMPOSSIBLE to please Elohim."!
After we are saved from sin, we are commanded, "Go, and sin no more" (John 8:11).
We are commanded to live soberly, righteously, and godly (Holy) in this present world (Titus 2:12) and warned that without holiness no one shall see YHWH (Hebrews 12:14).
We must present ourselves as holy unto YHWH (Romans 12:1), cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit (II Corinthians 7:1), and separate ourselves from all worldliness (James 4:4).
If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? (I Peter 4:18).
No one can live a holy life by his own power, but only through the Holy Spirit. "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES" (Acts 1:8)
We are commanded to live soberly, righteously, and godly (Holy) in this present world (Titus 2:12) and warned that without holiness no one shall see YHWH (Hebrews 12:14).
We must present ourselves as holy unto YHWH (Romans 12:1), cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit (II Corinthians 7:1), and separate ourselves from all worldliness (James 4:4).
If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? (I Peter 4:18).
No one can live a holy life by his own power, but only through the Holy Spirit. "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES" (Acts 1:8)
Holiness is MORE than an inward condition. It is making clean the INSIDE of the cup AND THE OUTSIDE as well. It is "coming out from the world and being separate". The word teaches MODESTY in dress as well as in all other things.
The Son of God
Ben Elohim.
The Son of God (Matt. 16:16; 26:63; Jn. 6:69).
Children of God
by Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis
Hebrew B'nai ha-Elohim, a term for the heavenly hosts; angels (Gen. 6; Job 1). The singular term, Ben Elohim, son of God, is an honorific given to Israelite kings of the Davidic line based on II Samuel 7 and Ps. 2. This is not to be confused with the Christian doctrine that Jesus is the "Only begotten Son of God."
In fact, in Hebrew, the word for "son" is "ben", such as found in names like Ben-ya-min / Benjamin ("son of the south", or "son of my right hand"), "Ben-oni" ("son of my sorrow", the first name given to Benjamin) or Ben/Bin Laden (also a Semitic name).
In Torah names are not fixed, exclusive facts. They can be changed or added. Abram becomes Abraham (Gen 17:5), Sarai becomes Sarah (Gen 17:15), and Jacob becomes Israel (Gen 32:29). Jacob's youngest son is called Ben-Oni by his dying mother, and Benjamin by his father (Gen 35:18). Pharaoh gives Joseph an additional name (Gen 41:45), which is one of the reasons that his brothers don’t recognize him in Egypt (Gen 42:8). The whole nation is interchangeably called Hebrews and Israelites. Non-Israelites too may have more than one name. Esaw becomes Edom (Gen 25:30), and even places can have more than one name (Gen. 28:19). It is likely, then, that some or all of the terms by which Elohim is known are also His names.
I, Yahweh, am the same Elohim Who sent My messages in days of old, messages of hope and encouragement and messages of doom and destruction. However, before I do anything major n this world I always give warnings as I have declared in Amos 3: 7:
“Surely [Adonai, YAHWEH] the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets”.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown:
It is for this the reason why I have specifically chosen to send you this Message for the peoples of the United Kingdom at this time. Although the serious things which are happening are not unique to the United Kingdom, I have singled her out because she was once a nation which honoured, feared and worshipped Us: Yahweh, Yahushua Ha Mashiach and the Ruach Ha Kodesh, her Elohim. However, she has now become a very secular and pagan nation. Thus she has rejected and cast Us, her Elohim, aside while she has embraced the gods of this world and every unclean, foul and abominable practice, including idolatry, paganism, witchcraft and sodomy. To these she has given great prominence.
I, Yahweh, the Creator of this world and the Elohim Who blessed and prospered the peoples of the United Kingdom and made their country one of the greatest nations in the world and envy of many nations because they acknowledged, reverenced and worshipped Us, their Elohim, am sending you this Message, Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
I have chosen to send it to you because the religious leaders have ignored the Message I sent to them in 2007, entitled:
“A Call For the Restoration of Righteousness Through Repentance, Fasting and Prayer.”
Sadly, the religious leaders who profess to worship and serve Us, Elohim Yahweh, Elohim Yahushua and Elohim Ruach Ha Kodesh, have remained silent in spite of the evils and iniquities which are done in the land. Some of them have given credence and embraced the abominable practices which are being done. There is nothing heard from them when serious calamities are upon the land, no spiritual leadership is given to the people or calls for prayer for Our divine intervention. Thus like the people, so are the spiritual leaders of the land!! For their negligence and lack of spirituality, I, Yahweh, will punish these leaders who profess to work in My vineyard!!
You, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are over the peoples of England, and you have great influence in other parts of the United Kingdom. Therefore, I, Elohim Yahweh, am sending you this message because I am about to bring great and terrible judgments upon the United Kingdom.
These judgments will include:
- Greater financial troubles for this country from which the nation will find it extremely difficult to recover.
- The recession and credit crunch will get far worse and will bring dire consequences as more and more firms close down and more people lose their jobs and homes, causing great hardships for the peoples of these lands.
- More extreme and severe weather conditions and disasters than the disasters of the past, and the present snow and ice which have caused great havoc in the country.
- Severe famine for the blood of the murdered victims which cries to Me, Yahweh, from the ground.
- Terrible pestilences and also diseases which will puzzle medical science. There will be no cure for these diseases.
These are but few of the judgments which I, Elohim Yahweh, have laid up to bring upon the nations of the United Kingdom for rejecting Us, her Creator and Provider, Who made her great when she worshipped and served Us. My judgments will also fall upon her for casting Us, Yahweh, Yahushua Ha Mashiach and the Ruach Ha Kodesh, aside and trampling Our holy Name in the dirt. I will punish her for her sins and for her pride and arrogance and for making money her god!! Likewise, I will punish her for bringing into this land, from where My Name and Word went to the rest of the world, paganism, witchcrafts, abominations and abominable practices, as well as the abortions which are performed and the inhumane activities which are done in the land.
The United Kingdom’s cup of iniquity is now full and I, Elohim Yahweh, have come down to Planet Earth because the evils and iniquities in the land have come up to Heaven My throne and dwelling place!! The iniquities in the land are so great, it is like the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah which caused Me to come from Heaven 4000 years ago and rain fire and brimstone upon them and destroyed those evil people.
I, Yahweh, destroyed the peoples of Sodom and Gomorrah with molten fire because of the their abominable practice of Sodomy. The sins of the United Kingdom far outweigh the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, therefore she will not escape My fierce wrath!!
I, Elohim Yahweh, have been very patient with the peoples of the United Kingdom because of My faithful children among them who continually pray to Me to forgive the sins of the people and have to mercy upon them. The time has come, however, that I will judge this nation!!
During the time of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, when he took credit for building great Babylon, I sent immediate judgment upon him and drove him into the pasture to live like a beast for seven years until he acknowledged that he was but a man and that I, Yahweh, the Most High Elohim, reign in the kingdoms of men and give it to whomsoever I will. When he was humbled and returned to his senses and acknowledged that I am the Elohim of Heaven, I restored King Nebuchadnezzar to his former position as king of Babylon. This story of King Nebuchadnezzar, can be found in the fourth Chapter of the Book of Daniel.
The iniquity of the peoples of Nineveh was also great before Me, Yahweh. Before I destroyed them, I sent them a message through Jonah, the reluctant prophet. In that message I told them that I was going to destroy their city. The people of Nineveh heeded the warning and went in to mourning and into fasting and prayer and repented. They besought Me, Yahweh, to have mercy upon them and to forgive their sins and iniquity. I saw their contrite hearts and heard their prayer and relented from the destruction which I was about to bring upon them. The people of Nineveh repented and began to worship Us, their Elohim. They continued to do so to this day in Mosul in Iraq, where because of the War by the USA and the United Kingdom, most of My followers have been persecuted and driven out by some of the Islamists in Iraq.
I, Elohim Yahweh, am about to bring more severe judgments upon the United Kingdom and show to her that it is I, Yahweh, Who created this world and her inhabitants and will overturn it when I see it is necessary to do so, for I have declared in Deuteronomy 32: 39, 40:
39 “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever”.
YAHUSHUA HA MASHIACH WILL RETURN SOON!!
In addition to these judgments, it must be known that this present world is at an end! All the signs which Elohim Yahushua said would show that His return to this world is at hand, have been fulfilled. He has given My servant, Benita, several Messages for the peoples of the world, including the peoples of the United Kingdom to tell them of His soon return. However all the Messages have been rejected.
Soon Elohim Yahushua will return to this world for His children who have accepted Him as their Saviour and Adonai (Lord). Those who have rejected His love, grace and sacrifice will be devoured by the fires which will go before Him at His return (Psalm 50:3). Only their bodies, however, will die but their spirits (spirits and souls) will go to Hell and torment (Luke 16: 19-31). That will not be their end because 1000 years later will be the great and final Judgment.
At the end of the 1000 years they will be resurrected from the dead and will be around the great white throne in the great Judgment. Those who are in that Judgment will have to give an account to King Yahushua of their time here upon earth. They will also have to give to Him, their awful Judge, the reason why they rejected Him. In that Judgment each one will receive their final reward. This reward will be the Lake of fire and brimstone which they will share with Satan and his host. There with him, whom they gave their allegiance, they will be tormented throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity because the spirit does not die (Revelation 20).
It must also be understood that human beings are more than just bodies!! Their true selves, the spirit and the soul, which inhabit the body during the life time never die. Therefore they must realise that they could leave this world at anytime. However, the question is: WHERE DO THEY GO WHEN THE DIE?? This is the question which each person should ask themselves and which should be of great importance to them because DEATH IS NOT THE END OF THEIR LIVES!! This is because it is only the body which dies, while the spirit, the true person, lives on. However, without a body it has no legal right in this world and must leave.
Elohim Yahushua Ha Mashiach has clearly stated in Luke 16: 19-31, what becomes of those who accept Him as their Saviour and also what becomes of those who reject Him. For those who have accepted Him as their Saviour and Adonai, they will come to Heaven and paradise where I, Yahweh, dwell. However, for those who have rejected His love and grace, they will go to Hell and torment where they will await the final Judgment around the great white throne, where they, too, will receive their reward in the Lake of fire and brimstone, along with Satan and his angels (Revelation 20).
It means therefore, that the people should realise that at any moment they could leave this world as was evident this very week (as the message is being given) with the deadly fires in Melbourne, Australia. Therefore, it is imperative that the people know and understand that this world is not all there is. They should also know that death the end of life!! They MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WILL EVENTUALLY HAVE TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT TO US, THEIR ELOHIM, WHO GAVE THEM LIFE!!
Prime Minister Gordon Brown:
The times are serious and so is the spiritual condition of the people of this land!! Therefore, I, Elohim Yahweh, through Elohim Ruach Ha Kodesh, the Elohim here in this world, have sent you this Message so that you can take action to call the nation to fast and pray, for I have declared:
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”. 2 Chronicles 7: 14 (KJV)
Therefore, the time has come for people of the United Kingdom to repent from sinful ways and to return to Us their Elohim: Yahweh (God the Father), Yahushua Ha Mashiach (Jesus Christ), and the Ruach Ha Kodesh (the Holy Spirit); Who blessed and prospered and made them a great nation! Therefore, the time has come to call a fast throughout the United Kingdom for the people to fast and pray and ask forgiveness for their sins, and for the sins and iniquities committed in this land.
During the fast, they should also pray for forgiveness and for the cleansing of the land because of the shedding of blood from the murders which are constantly committed in the land and which is continually crying from the earth to Me, Elohim Yahweh!!
They also need to pray and ask for forgiveness for rejecting Us, their Creator and Elohim, and for turning to the gods of this world; none of which can help them and which I, Yahweh, do no know. It may be that as they pray, I will hear their prayers and will relent as I did for the people of Nineveh. However, if this Message is ignored as others in the past have been, I shall send my fierce judgments upon the land, and especially upon her failing economy. This will get her attention even more than it is in her present financial crisis.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown:
This is My Message to you for the peoples of the United Kingdom. You may choose to heed the Message, or reject or you may choose to ignore it. If you reject it as others have done in the past; and if you fail to call the people to fasting and prayer so that they will see their need to repent and ask forgiveness for their sins and turn from their wayward ways; My fierce judgments will continue to fall upon the United Kingdom until her people acknowledge that I, Elohim Yahweh, Elohim Yahushua Ha Mashiach, Who died for them, and Elohim Ruach Ha Kodesh, their Elohim here upon Earth, rule in the Kingdoms of men, including the lands of the United Kingdom. Then they will know that the gods whom they worship are helpless and useless, none of which will help or deliver them from My fierce wrath.
The United Kingdom’s cup of iniquity is now full and I, Elohim Yahweh, have come down to Planet Earth because the evils and iniquities in the land have come up to Heaven My throne and dwelling place!! The iniquities in the land are so great, it is like the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah which caused Me to come from Heaven 4000 years ago and rain fire and brimstone upon them and destroyed those evil people.
I, Yahweh, destroyed the peoples of Sodom and Gomorrah with molten fire because of the their abominable practice of Sodomy. The sins of the United Kingdom far outweigh the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, therefore she will not escape My fierce wrath!!
I, Elohim Yahweh, have been very patient with the peoples of the United Kingdom because of My faithful children among them who continually pray to Me to forgive the sins of the people and have to mercy upon them. The time has come, however, that I will judge this nation!!
During the time of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, when he took credit for building great Babylon, I sent immediate judgment upon him and drove him into the pasture to live like a beast for seven years until he acknowledged that he was but a man and that I, Yahweh, the Most High Elohim, reign in the kingdoms of men and give it to whomsoever I will. When he was humbled and returned to his senses and acknowledged that I am the Elohim of Heaven, I restored King Nebuchadnezzar to his former position as king of Babylon. This story of King Nebuchadnezzar, can be found in the fourth Chapter of the Book of Daniel.
The iniquity of the peoples of Nineveh was also great before Me, Yahweh. Before I destroyed them, I sent them a message through Jonah, the reluctant prophet. In that message I told them that I was going to destroy their city. The people of Nineveh heeded the warning and went in to mourning and into fasting and prayer and repented. They besought Me, Yahweh, to have mercy upon them and to forgive their sins and iniquity. I saw their contrite hearts and heard their prayer and relented from the destruction which I was about to bring upon them. The people of Nineveh repented and began to worship Us, their Elohim. They continued to do so to this day in Mosul in Iraq, where because of the War by the USA and the United Kingdom, most of My followers have been persecuted and driven out by some of the Islamists in Iraq.
I, Elohim Yahweh, am about to bring more severe judgments upon the United Kingdom and show to her that it is I, Yahweh, Who created this world and her inhabitants and will overturn it when I see it is necessary to do so, for I have declared in Deuteronomy 32: 39, 40:
39 “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever”.
YAHUSHUA HA MASHIACH WILL RETURN SOON!!
In addition to these judgments, it must be known that this present world is at an end! All the signs which Elohim Yahushua said would show that His return to this world is at hand, have been fulfilled. He has given My servant, Benita, several Messages for the peoples of the world, including the peoples of the United Kingdom to tell them of His soon return. However all the Messages have been rejected.
Soon Elohim Yahushua will return to this world for His children who have accepted Him as their Saviour and Adonai (Lord). Those who have rejected His love, grace and sacrifice will be devoured by the fires which will go before Him at His return (Psalm 50:3). Only their bodies, however, will die but their spirits (spirits and souls) will go to Hell and torment (Luke 16: 19-31). That will not be their end because 1000 years later will be the great and final Judgment.
At the end of the 1000 years they will be resurrected from the dead and will be around the great white throne in the great Judgment. Those who are in that Judgment will have to give an account to King Yahushua of their time here upon earth. They will also have to give to Him, their awful Judge, the reason why they rejected Him. In that Judgment each one will receive their final reward. This reward will be the Lake of fire and brimstone which they will share with Satan and his host. There with him, whom they gave their allegiance, they will be tormented throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity because the spirit does not die (Revelation 20).
It must also be understood that human beings are more than just bodies!! Their true selves, the spirit and the soul, which inhabit the body during the life time never die. Therefore they must realise that they could leave this world at anytime. However, the question is: WHERE DO THEY GO WHEN THE DIE?? This is the question which each person should ask themselves and which should be of great importance to them because DEATH IS NOT THE END OF THEIR LIVES!! This is because it is only the body which dies, while the spirit, the true person, lives on. However, without a body it has no legal right in this world and must leave.
Elohim Yahushua Ha Mashiach has clearly stated in Luke 16: 19-31, what becomes of those who accept Him as their Saviour and also what becomes of those who reject Him. For those who have accepted Him as their Saviour and Adonai, they will come to Heaven and paradise where I, Yahweh, dwell. However, for those who have rejected His love and grace, they will go to Hell and torment where they will await the final Judgment around the great white throne, where they, too, will receive their reward in the Lake of fire and brimstone, along with Satan and his angels (Revelation 20).
It means therefore, that the people should realise that at any moment they could leave this world as was evident this very week (as the message is being given) with the deadly fires in Melbourne, Australia. Therefore, it is imperative that the people know and understand that this world is not all there is. They should also know that death the end of life!! They MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WILL EVENTUALLY HAVE TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT TO US, THEIR ELOHIM, WHO GAVE THEM LIFE!!
Prime Minister Gordon Brown:
The times are serious and so is the spiritual condition of the people of this land!! Therefore, I, Elohim Yahweh, through Elohim Ruach Ha Kodesh, the Elohim here in this world, have sent you this Message so that you can take action to call the nation to fast and pray, for I have declared:
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”. 2 Chronicles 7: 14 (KJV)
Therefore, the time has come for people of the United Kingdom to repent from sinful ways and to return to Us their Elohim: Yahweh (God the Father), Yahushua Ha Mashiach (Jesus Christ), and the Ruach Ha Kodesh (the Holy Spirit); Who blessed and prospered and made them a great nation! Therefore, the time has come to call a fast throughout the United Kingdom for the people to fast and pray and ask forgiveness for their sins, and for the sins and iniquities committed in this land.
During the fast, they should also pray for forgiveness and for the cleansing of the land because of the shedding of blood from the murders which are constantly committed in the land and which is continually crying from the earth to Me, Elohim Yahweh!!
They also need to pray and ask for forgiveness for rejecting Us, their Creator and Elohim, and for turning to the gods of this world; none of which can help them and which I, Yahweh, do no know. It may be that as they pray, I will hear their prayers and will relent as I did for the people of Nineveh. However, if this Message is ignored as others in the past have been, I shall send my fierce judgments upon the land, and especially upon her failing economy. This will get her attention even more than it is in her present financial crisis.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown:
This is My Message to you for the peoples of the United Kingdom. You may choose to heed the Message, or reject or you may choose to ignore it. If you reject it as others have done in the past; and if you fail to call the people to fasting and prayer so that they will see their need to repent and ask forgiveness for their sins and turn from their wayward ways; My fierce judgments will continue to fall upon the United Kingdom until her people acknowledge that I, Elohim Yahweh, Elohim Yahushua Ha Mashiach, Who died for them, and Elohim Ruach Ha Kodesh, their Elohim here upon Earth, rule in the Kingdoms of men, including the lands of the United Kingdom. Then they will know that the gods whom they worship are helpless and useless, none of which will help or deliver them from My fierce wrath.
I am Yahweh, the Most High Elohim, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, and all planets, the Giver and Sustainer of life, the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Israel.
Given the relation between Bennett and Smith, Bennett probably had communicated some Masonic ideas to Smith before petitions were made for the formation of a Nauvoo Masonic Lodge in mid-1841. That the temple endowment ceremony developed by Smith in May 1842 was influenced by Masonry cannot escape notice. But beyond the temple endowment, several other components were developing in Joseph's vision during this period that sounded an even stranger resonance with ideas from esoteric Masonic quarters. Two stand out: organization of an "Order of Illuminati" or political Kingdom of God, and introduction of "Spiritual Wifery."114
Bennett claimed that in a revelation dated 7 April 1841--the day before he was made Assistant President of the church--Joseph Smith personally commissioned him to establish an "Order of the Illuminati" in Nauvoo.115 Though the organization was not then specifically called by this name, a revelation received by Joseph on 7 April 1842 commanded formation of "The Kingdom of God and His Laws with the keys and powers thereof and judgment in the hands of his servants."116 More commonly called the Council of Fifty, the organization finally took form in March 1844. Joseph was soon thereafter ordained King of the Kingdom, a ritual of coronation also performed for each of the next two presidents of the church, Brigham Young and John Taylor. Whether Bennett got the idea for an order of Illuminati from Smith, or Smith from Bennett, is open to argument. But Ebenezer Robinson, editor of the Nauvoo Times and Seasons until February 1842 and a contemporary observer, thought the stimulus arrived with Bennett: "Heretofore the church had strenuously opposed secret societies such as Freemasons . . . but after Dr. Bennett came into the Church a great change of sentiment seemed to take place."117 Subsequent history links the idea with Bennett. After Smith's death, Bennett sought out the charismatic claimant to Smith's prophetic mantle, James Strang, and convinced him to establish an "Order of the Illuminati."118
On Sunday afternoon, 7 April 1844, Joseph Smith stood before a crowd estimated at 10,000 and delivered his greatest sermon, the King Follett Discourse.130 Dissension, rumor, accusation, and conspiracy all abounded in Nauvoo on that pleasant spring day, and Joseph was at the center. This would be Joseph's last conference, ten weeks later he lay murdered at Carthage Jail. In this atmosphere of tension, many in the congregation probably expected a message of conciliation, a retrenchment. Instead, the prophet stunned listeners with his most audacious public discourse--a declaration replete with doctrinal innovations and strange concepts that many of the Saints had never before heard. As Fawn Brodie noted, "For the first time he proclaimed in a unified discourse the themes he had been inculcating in fragments and frequently in secret to his most favored saints: the glory of knowledge, the multiplicity of gods, the eternal progression of the human soul."131
Van Hale, in his analysis of the discourse's doctrinal impact, notes four declarations made by Joseph Smith which have had an extraordinary and lasting impact on Mormon doctrine: men can become gods; there exist many Gods; the gods exist one above another innumerably; and God was once as man now is.132 Interestingly, these were all concepts that could, by various exegetical approaches, be found in the Hermetic-Kabbalistic tradition. But even more astoundingly, it appears Joseph actually turned to the Zohar for help in supporting his introduction of these radical doctrinal assertions.
The prophet begins his discussion of the plurality and hierarchy of the Gods with an odd exegesis of the first words of Genesis, Bereshith bara Elohim:
I suppose I am not allowed to go into an investigation of anything that is not contained in the Bible. . . . I will go to the old Bible and turn commentator today. I will go to the very first Hebrew word--BERESHITH--in the Bible and make a comment on the first sentence of the history of creation: "In the beginning. . . ." I want to analyze the word BERESHITH. BE--in, by, through, and everything else; next, ROSH--the head; ITH. Where did it come from? When the inspired man wrote it, he did not put the first part--the BE--there; but a man--a Jew without any authority---put it there. He thought it too bad to begin to talk about the head of any man. It read in the first: "The Head One of the Gods brought forth the Gods." This is the true meaning of the words. ROSHITH [BARA ELOHIM] signifies [the Head] to bring forth the Elohim. If you do not believe it you do not believe the learned man of God. No learned man can tell you any more than what I have told you. Thus, the Head God brought forth the Head Gods in the grand, head council.133
By any literate interpretation of Hebrew, this is an impossible reading. Joseph takes Elohim, the subject of the clause, and turns it into the object, the thing which received the action of creation. Bereshith ("in the beginning") is reinterpreted to become Roshith, the "head" or "Head Father of the Gods," who is the subject-actor creating Elohim.134 And Elohim he interprets not as God, but as "the Gods." Louis C. Zucker, who published an insightful examination of Smith's study and use of Hebrew, notes that this translation deviates entirely from the interpretative convention Joseph had learned as a student of Hebrew in Kirtland. Joshua Seixas, the professor who had instructed Joseph and the School of the Prophets in early 1836, used in his classes a textbook he had written, Hebrew grammar for the Use of Beginners.135 In the Seixas manual (p. 85), this Hebrew text of Genesis 1:1 is given along with a "correct" word-for-word translation: "In the beginning, he created, God, the heavens, and the earth." Seixas would not have introduced in his oral instruction a translation entirely alien to the conventions of his own textbook. Zucker comments on Smith's strange translation of the verse: "Joseph, with audacious independence, changes the meaning of the first word, and takes the third word `Eloheem' as literally plural. He ignores the rest of the verse, and the syntax he imposes on his artificial three-word statement is impossible."136
But Zucker (along with Mormon historians generally) ignored another exegesis of this verse--an exegesis which was a basic precept of Jewish Kabbalah from the thirteenth century on and which agrees, word for word, with Joseph's reading.137 In the tradition of Kabbalah, Bereshith bara Elohim was most emphatically not an "artificial three-word statement," as Zucker implied. Gershom Scholem, in the middle of a long discussion, explains this other view:
The Zohar, and indeed the majority of the older Kabbalists, questioned the meaning of the first verse of the Torah: Bereshith bara Elohim, "In the beginning created God"; what actually does this mean? The answer is fairly surprising. We are told that it means Bereshith--through the medium of the "beginning," [Hokhmah, or "Wisdom," the primordial image of the Father God in the Kabbalistic Sefiroth]--bara, created, that is to say, the hidden Nothing which constitutes the grammatical subject of the word bara, emanated or unfolded,--Elohim, that is to say, its emanation is Elohim. It [Elohim] is the object, and not the subject of the sentence.138
Scholem's point is perhaps made clearer by restatement. In the Zohar, and in the commentaries of the majority of older (that is, thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Kabbalists), the verse Bereshith bara Elohim is grammatically turned around. Bereshith is understood to refer to the Sefirah of Hokhmah, translated as "Wisdom" and identified in Kabbalistic theosophy as the Supernal Father--the figure who is usually interpreted in Kabbalah as the First of the Godhead. Hokhmah then emanates, or "creates" in the sense of unfolding, the Elohim.139 As Scholem notes, the interesting thing here is that Elohim has become the object of the sentence, and is no longer the subject. This is precisely Joseph Smith's reading.
This interpretation of Genesis 1:1 is not deeply hidden in the Zohar, but constitutes its opening paragraphs, and is the central concern of the entire first section of this long book. The Zohar begins with a commentary on Bereshith bara Elohim:
It is written: And the intelligent shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness like the stars for ever and ever. There was indeed a "brightness" [Zohar].140 The Most Mysterious struck its void, and caused this point to shine. This "beginning" [Reshith] then extended, and made for itself a palace for its honour and glory. . . . Thus by means of this "beginning" [Reshith] the Mysterious Unknown made this palace. This palace is called Elohim, and this doctrine is contained in the words, "By means of a beginning [Reshith, it,] created Elohim."141
So far this is exactly Joseph Smith's reading. In his exegesis Joseph takes Elohim, the subject of the clause, and turns it into the object which received the action of creation from the first god-image (here called Reshith), just as does the Zohar. Indeed, his words as transcribed by William Clayton, "Rosheet signifies to bring forth the Eloheim," are almost identical with the Zohar's phrasing of the interpretation.142
In his next step of translation, Smith interprets Bereshith to become Rosh, the "head" or head God. As Zucker objected, orthodox standards of translations do not yield the word Rosh, or "head," from Bereshith. But it was not "audacious independence" alone that led Smith to changed the meaning. A basis for this reading is actually found in the next verse of the Zohar: By a Kabbalistic cipher of letters--a technique used in Kabbalah to conceal deeper esoteric meanings--the Zohar explains that the word Reshith "is anagrammatically Rosh (head), the beginning which issues from Reshith."143 (To understand the fuller intent of this phrase, one must again remember that Rosh or reshith is here interpreted by Kabbalah to be Hokhmah, the first god-image, the Supernal Father.) Thus in this text Reshith has been interposed as an anagram for Rosh--who is understood to be the "Head God," Hokhmah. Could this be what Joseph means when he says "a man, a Jew without authority" changed the reading of the word, perhaps by failing to understand this ancient Kabbalistic anagram?
Finally, Smith translates Elohim in the plural, as "the Gods." The word is indeed in a plural Hebrew form, but by the orthodox interpretative conventions Joseph was taught in his Kirtland Hebrew class (which remain the norm) it is read as singular. In the Zohar, however, it is interpreted in the plural. This is witnessed throughout the Zohar and appears clearly in the following paragraph from the opening sections of the work, where the phrase "Let us make man" (Gen. 1:26) is used as the basis for a discussion on the plurality of the gods:
"Us" certainly refers to two, of which one said to the other above it, "let us make," nor did it do anything save with the permission and direction of the one above it, while the one above did nothing without consulting its colleague. But that which is called "the Cause above all causes," which has no superior or even equal, as it is written, "To whom shall ye liken me, that I should be equal?" (Is. 40:25), said, "See now that I, I am he, and Elohim is not with me," from whom he should take counsel. . . . Withal the colleagues explained the word Elohim in this verse as referring to other gods.144
Within this passage is both the concept of plurality and of the hierarchy of Gods acting "with the permission and direction of the one above it, while the one above did nothing without consulting its colleague." This interpretation is of course echoed in the King Follett discourse and became a foundation for all subsequent Mormon theosophy.
Two months after giving the King Follett Discourse, Joseph returned to these first Hebrew words of Genesis and the subject of plural Gods. Thomas Bullock transcribed his remarks on the rainy Sunday morning of 16 June 1844. This was to be Joseph's last public proclamation on doctrine; eleven days later he lay dead. Joseph first introduced his subject--the plurality of Gods--then again read in Hebrew the opening words of Genesis and repeated his interpretation of Bereshith bara Elohim, using much the same phrasing recorded two months earlier in the King Follett Discourse. He then turned to Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man," the same passage interpreted in the Zohar to imply a plurality of Gods. After reading the verse aloud in Hebrew, he interpreted the text and found in it the same occult import given by the Zohar: The God "which has no superior or equal" (the Zohar's words), the "Head one of the Gods" (Joseph's term) addressed the "other Gods," Elohim in the plural translation, saying "let us make man." Bullock transcribed his remarks thus: "if we pursue the Heb further it reads [here he apparently read in Hebrew Genesis 1:26] The Head one of the Gods said let us make man in our image. . . . in the very beginning there is a plurality of Gods--beyond power of refutation--it is a great subject I am dwelling on--the word Eloiheam ought to be in the plural all the way thro."145
As he began his exegesis of the opening Hebrew phrase of Genesis in the King Follett Discourse, Joseph stated that he would go to the "old Bible." In Kabbalistic lore, the commentary of the Zohar represented the oldest biblical interpretation, the secret interpretation imparted by God to Adam and all worthy prophets after him. Joseph certainly was not using the knowledge of Hebrew imparted to him in Kirtland nine years earlier when he gave his exegesis of Bereshith bara Elohim, or plural interpretation of Elohim. Was then the "old Bible" he used the Zohar? And was the "learned man of God" he mentioned Simeon ben Yochai, the prophetic teacher attributed with these words in the Zohar?
Joseph wove Hebrew into several of his discourses during the final year of his life. In these late Nauvoo discourses, however, he interpreted the Hebrew not as a linguist but as a Kabbalist--a reflection of his own predilections and of the fortuitous aid of his tutor, Alexander Neibaur.146 But in conclusion, we need to step back from this discussion of words and see that behind them resides a unique vision, a vision characteristic of the occult Hermetic-Kabbalistic tradition. Harold Bloom called the King Follett Discourse "one of the truly remarkable sermons ever preached in America." It is also a remarkable evidence of the prophet's visionary ties to the archaic legacy of Jewish Gnosticism and to the single most influential force in the evolution of Christian occultism: the Kabbalah.
It is this last link--Joseph's sympathy for Kabbalah--which may be the key that finally unlocks a pattern, and opens a new methodology for understanding the prophet Joseph Smith. As Richard Bushman noted:
The power of Enlightenment skepticism had far less influence on Joseph Smith. . . . Joseph told of the visits of angels, of direct inspiration, of a voice in the chamber of Father Whitmer, without embarrassment. He prized the Urim and Thummim and the seerstone, never repudiating them even when the major charge against him was that he used magic to find buried money. His world was not created by Enlightenment rationalism with its deathly aversion to superstition. The Prophet brought into modern America elements of a more ancient culture in which the sacred and the profane intermingled and the Saints enjoyed supernatural gifts and powers as the frequent blessing of an interested God.155
Another way of viewing 12/21/2012 is to break it up into 3 phases.
INTRODUCTION
PREPARATION
RECEPTION
Introduction, Preparaton identifies with increases in government authority, ending in MARTIAL LAW. Reception begins with the reduction in MARTIAL LAW (Dec. 21, 2011/ more accurately April 7, 2012), ending with a subornate authority which is given you, for the purposes of the fullfillment, which a priviledge given to (assumption) adherence, and obedience, not slavery or dependance. (12/21/2012 - 1/6/2050) - which is the fullfillment of NEW LIFE
CLARAFICATION - Past Mayan Mythology
Your WARNING, duration was actually 463 days, which was the time which began April 5, 2009. The WARNING, is not included in the MAYAN CALENDAR, but the other 2 phases are INCLUDED. I'm gona break the silence between Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelations 13. We'll clear up the ANTICHRIST meaning, as this negative is turned into a positive by the opposite force which is GOVERNMENT. The apex meaning did not extend before July 12, 2010. So there isn't a contradiction, with the inclusion of events after December 21, 2012.
DANIEL 7:4 The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
The lion, is a reference to ROMAN CATHOLISM. This is the antichrist of the WARNING phase, which you are still inside. Precisely, this passage describes July 12, 2010. This is the beginning of ISLAM as being seen as the ANTICHRIST.
DANIEL 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and [it had] three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
The BEAR, is a reference to ISLAM. This is the antichrist of the CHASETISEMENT phase. The "BEAR" is the beginning of the HOUR OF THE BEAST, or 1 half hour (it raised itself up on one side). The "BEAR", identifies with the end of ADAM is dominant (three ribs in its mouth). This is also 1 of 3 phases (between the teeth of it).
DANIEL 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
The LEOPARD, is a reference to ADAM. This is the antichrist of RECEPTION. The final and most pronounced form of PERDITION also. The LOCUST and HAMMON-GOG are the apex meanings of the MAYAN CALENDAR. And also, these are identified with the coming of NEW LIFE, and the fullfillment of NEW LIFE.
DANIEL 7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, [color=#800000]before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.[/color]
This is me literally. Your WARNING, comes before the 3 phases. I am no ANTICHRIST, so i have come against the 3 phases, with understanding for the benefit of NEW LIFE. The littlehorn, is at war with ROMAN CATHOLIC, ISLAM, "ADAM". The littlehorn or WARNING, both is, and is not. Both is used as a judgement, and is not, in that the littlehorn is not counted as a "beast". So the WARNING, is technically off the record. This is the intention. (you'll be taking your own lives for the reason stated, there's no scapegoats for you, both is and is not, because the littlehorn is not a figure of authority, past July 12, 2010)
DANIEL 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had ten horns.
There's only 3 phases. Not 4. This references the covenant of NEW LIFE. From which the iron and clay smote the image and became the image itself. The completion of the fullfillment of the promise which is the NEW LIFE, where CHRIST is both freedom and life. (aka blasphemy)
REVELATION 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
REVELATION 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
VERY GOOD. You Understood. The covenant of new life is blasphemy, and it has 7 heads and 10 horns. This 7 heads, 10 horns, 10 crowns. Also is CHRIST, where christ is both freedom and life. Rev. 13:2 we learn that the GOVERNMENT, which is the DRAGON. Has benefited from the "lion", "bear", and "leopard". The 3 phases of the covenant of NEW LIFE. Which the "antichrists", in hurting themselves, have benefited the DRAGONs which are the nations. The passage from ADAM to AMON, where ADAM is the ANTICHRIST, gives us the 3 beasts which are of a similar nature PERDITION.
EZEKIEL - a different look
EZEKIEL 39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the [noses] of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call [it] The valley of Hamongog.
Gog, identifies with BABYLON, the ships which will throw out the bodies of "religion" anti-life theology, against the coming of NEW LIFE. The WARNING phase, is removed from direct association, and instead 39, 39:11 moves to the CHASTISEMENT phase. The "way to the east", is the beginning of NEW LIFE, in this verse its called "valley of hamongog". Which would mean the "hour with the beast". However, the WARNING phase is not addressed, "ROMAN CATHOLISM" is addressed in the following scripture...
EZEKIEL 39:13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury [them]; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
EZEKIEL 39:14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
The dead bodies of July 12, 2010. Which mainly identifies with Roman Catholism, will be buried. And this does glorify CHRIST, where "religion" false doctrine, is further removed as a threat to government. ANTICHRISTDOM VS. GOVERNMENT. The government will win ofcourse. This is the beginning of the 12/21/2012 movement, for preparation of NEW LIFE. "Continual Employment" is a reference to the on-going progress of government against PERDITION, which grow in intensity, ending as stated in the second phase with martial law, and nuclear warfare.
EZEKIEL 39:15 And the passengers [that] pass through the land, when [any] seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
EZEKIEL 39:16 And also the name of the city [shall be] Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
This is a reference to the 2nd Phase, again. Remember, nobody understood the first phase WARNING, the littlehorn both is and is not. And the emphasis is more on the 2nd phase, as the spiral of perdition continues.
Mohammud - hamonah - Cleanse the Land
Qu-ran - man's bone
If Roman Catholism, represented the mentality of murder-suicide which is PERDITION. Then Islam represents the physicality of murder-suicide which is PERDITION. Important, anti-idealism will be developed from these 2 in their phases, which will help counteract PERDITION in its fiinal form with ADAM, for the protection of life which is AMON.
The valley of hammongog which identifies with the full HOUR. Yet the city, identifies with the dead bodies, which is inclusive of islam, and the 2nd phase of continual perdition, against life.
EZEKIEL 39:17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
1.7 billion, is an accurate figure, of possibility. Because i'm the littlehorn, there's no contradiction, because i don't have authority over your judgement, which is about "you". This is a good figure, to encourage activity. Which begins with 200,000,000 upon the mountains of ISREAL. This is all against ADAM, as the flesh of ADAM will be eaten, and the blood of ADAM will be drunk, by the new life which is AMON.
(there still is not direct connection to biblical theology, because this is figurative, you can't ask the "antichrist" who the "antichrist" is, thats the main reason church related doctrine is incorrect in these times)
You don't know me--you never will. You never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it; I shall never undertake it. I don't blame anyone for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself.
--Joseph Smith, April 7, 1844.
Another unusual element entered the matrix of Smith's creativity around this time. From his associations with ceremonial magic and then Masonry, Smith had almost certainly heard of "Cabala". But in 1841 a Jew raised in the Polish borderlands of Prussia, educated at the University of Berlin, and familiar with Kabbalah, joined the Mormon church, migrated to Nauvoo, and there became Smith's frequent companion and tutor in Hebrew. Documentation has recently come to light suggesting this individual, Alexander Neibaur, not only knew Kabbalah, but probably possessed in Nauvoo a copy of its classic text, the Zohar. Joseph likely became familiar with the Zohar while under the tutelage of Neibaur. Indeed, it appears Smith's April 7, 1844 public declaration of a plurality of Gods was supported by an exegesis on the first Hebrew words of Genesis (Bereshith bara Elohim) drawn from opening section of the Zohar.7
During the period after 1841, Joseph introduced the practice of plural "celestial marriage"--what later evolved into Mormon polygamy in Utah--to a small group of his most trusted followers. In this era not only men, but a few women--like Lucinda--secretly took a "plural" spouse. The sacred wedding ritualized by Smith was a transformative union that anointed men and women to become "priests and priestesses", "kings and queens", and then ultimately Goddess and God--the dual creative substance of Divinity in eternal, tantric intercourse. The ceremony was intended to be performed in the holiest precincts of his new Temple. By late 1843 Joseph revealed several ritual extensions to the "endowment", all ultimately incorporated into Mormon Temple ceremony. This legacy of mysterious initatory rituals revealed by Joseph Smith between 1842 and 1844 remains little altered as the sacred core of Mormonism.
Fifty years later, at the end of the nineteenth century, leaders of the Utah church would still occasionally state in private that the Mormon temple ritual embodied "true Masonry"--a fact unknown to most modern Mormons. But then, of course, almost all of this history is unknown to the average modern Mormon. Even well-educated "Latter-day Saints" today seldom understand the origins of the compass and square embroidered upon the breasts of the ritual garment worn by temple initiates. The relationship of these temple rituals' development with Joseph Smith's occult vision and the concurrent introduction of Masonry in Nauvoo is now, however, becoming the subject of intense renewed interest.
The complexity of these questions defy simple declarations. Nonetheless, Smith did apparently espouse themes familiar to Gnosticism--prominent among them being his affirmation of the reality and necessity of continuing, individual revelation as the source of salvific knowledge. Joseph Smith and his religion eschewed theology in favor of the dynamic process of revelation. The result was best summarized in what Bloom remarked to be "one of the truly remarkable sermons ever preached in America", a discourse delivered by the Prophet on April 7, 1844. Known as the the King Follett Discourse, it was Joseph's last major address to his church, presented just ten weeks before his death at age 38.
"There are but very few beings in the world who understand rightly the character of God," he began. "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend their own character." Within humankind there is an immortal spark of intelligence, taught the Prophet, a seed of divine intellect or light which is "as immortal as, and coequal with, God Himself." God is not, however, to be understood as one and singular. Turning to Hebrew and an oddly Kabbalistic exegesis of the first three words of Genesis (an exegesis probably taken directly from the Zohar), Smith pronounced there are a multitude of Gods emanated from the First God, existing one above the other without end. He who humankind calls God was Himself once a man; and man, by advancing in intelligence, knowledge--consciousness--may be exalted with God, become as God.
Near the beginning of his ministry in 1833, Smith declared "the glory of God is intelligence", eternal and uncreated. Those who wish to find in him a Gnostic have pointed out that Smith used the word "intelligence" interchangeably with "knowledge" in his prophetic writings during this period. Indeed, they suggest, his words might be read poetically to proclaim God's glory is Gnosis--a Gnosis that saves woman and man by leading them together to a single uncreated and intrinsically divine Self.
It is already widely recognized that the Old Testament (Torah and Tanakh), the New Testament, and the Quran suffer from errors in translation and interpretation. Translators and earlier scribes changed many references to the Lord, (Melchizedek or “Archangel” Michael) to refer to God and vice versa. Likewise, the terms El and Elohim were regularly mistranslated as God, though Elohim is a plural term. It appears that this was part of a concerted effort to purge symbolism misinterpreted as signifying multiple gods. In fact, they were symbolic references to God’s nature (Seven Spirits of God and wisdom’s seven pillars) and were rewritten to literally refer to a singular Lord, God, Holy Spirit, or to many fantasy angels. Consequently, most of the symbolized philosophy like Solomon’s seal, Solomon’s Temple, the seven pillars of wisdom, the Doctrine of Two Spirits, the Two Ways, Seven Spirits, and Seven Eyes in The Apocalypse and Book of Zechariah were recast to fit Babylonian-inspired images of a powerful male god. It is no mere coincidence that all of the specifically named fantasy angels have the root “El” within their names. Likewise, the titles Melchizedek and Archangel Michael” contain the root “El.” Due to translation and interpretation errors further compounded by purposeful embellishment, the religions of ancient Israel and Juda were rife with false doctrine. It is therefore undeniable that the state religions of ancient Israel involved the worship of lies and errors.
When you understand that the post-Babylonian-exile state religion was based on ignorance of the original wisdom symbology and further compounded by the strong desire to accumulate wealth and power, it is undeniable that modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam represent greatly compounded error, ignorance, false doctrine, and verifiable deception. Furthermore, the images of the “gods” expounded by these religions are based on a morass of verifiable misinterpretation, embellishment, deception, and false doctrine. This leads to no other conclusion except that these religions are worshipping false images of the Creator, hence false gods. This is precisely the message of the Hebrew saints, sages, and prophets who consistently and invariably chastised rich and powerful religious and political leaders for their greed, arrogance, and fraud.
One of Moses’ last pronouncements to the priests of Israel was that he knew they were going to modify the wisdom he delivered by bending it to their own selfish aims. I now deliver verifiable proof that the Hebrew prophets and sages opposed religion and thereby mistrusted the religious and political leadership whom they knew would modify and embellish prophecies and wisdom texts. Once you truly understand the symbology, these facts are easily and redundantly verified. Consequently, the symbology of the original texts purposely encoded a loud and resounding message: Religion is ignorance, deception, and strong delusion; unquestioning faith, belief and worship are the refuges of fools and the chosen tools of deceivers.
The original wisdom texts were all constructed using the symbology of the ancient Philosophers’ Stone. Later derivative texts reused the original symbolism because of its mysterious and inspirational qualities and because certain stories told in a certain manner had grown to represent the core of ancient traditions. The creators of the ancient symbology fully anticipated and prepared for the fraudulent activities of future religious and political leaders. Accordingly, the resulting wisdom texts were purposefully designed to endure and survive millennia of tampering, misrepresentation, and misinterpretation.
Like Mohammed “the Prophet” of hundreds of millions of Muslims, Joseph
Smith fulfilled many of the ancient signs and pagan prophecies. In the Nag
Hammadi Egyptian text, the prophecy of a “Ben Bera Kaida”(Joseph) was 100%
fulfilled in the person of Joseph Smith, Jr. There can be little doubt that he was
endowed with incredible, supernatural gifts and powers. He was clearly not a
“common”, unschooled, illiterate country preacher. He had an extreme
intelligence, a virtual photographic memory, and was an extremely gifted
speaker, writer, and communicator. His charisma was unparalleled in American
religious and social history. As he solemnly declared to the last great gathering
of his followers in a “General Conference” speech on April 7, 1844, “You don’t
know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it; I
shall never undertake it. I don’t blame anyone for not believing my history. If I
had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself.”
Brother Joseph, I believe I do indeed know your history, and it is indeed truly
remarkable. Your “story” is today designed to change the world into Mormonism,
the “one-world religious model”. The complete story must be told.
The purpose and design of this book is not intended to sling mud, or to
damage the faith of any individual. It should not be “labeled” as “anti” anything.
On the contrary, it is designed and dedicated to further one singular goal: to
share with others the truth as seen from the eyes of one man. It is hopefully “pro”
truth, not “anti-Mormon”. The author fully understands that Truth can often be
subjective in nature. The observations and experiences revered as “truth” by one,
are often nothing more than “blasphemy” to another. However, what are
incontrovertible, are historical facts. This is the all-encompassing “truth and
nothing but the truth” that is universally sought in an honest court of law.
You see, an honest court of law is not too interested in the “opinions and
feelings” of witnesses for the most part. It is interested primarily in the
establishment of facts. While such facts can often be “spun” in numerous
different ways to form different conclusions, the important thing in the objective
search for truth, is to correctly, and objectively establish the facts. This is what
the author will do his best to accomplish with this book. As unpopular, or as
unconventional as they might appear to be, facts are the basis for all objective
truths. Facts should not be feared or restricted if Truth is ever to be established.
As Winston Churchill so eloquently declared: “The Truth is incontrovertible.
Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
In addition to seeking Truth, we should not limit ourselves to, or be satisfied
with, partial truths. We should be seeking the WHOLE Truth, and nothing but the
WHOLE Truth, and we should pray from the depths of our souls, “So help me,
God, (to uncover and see the WHOLE Truth)!!” The WHOLE Truth makes such
a huge difference in the outcome of any trial, especially an individual Trial of
Faith. For instance, in a capital murder trial, it may become established fact
(Truth) after reviewing all available evidence, that the defendant took a gun,
smuggled it past a security checkpoint, and then shot and killed a powerful and
popular public figure. From the documentation of these “truths” alone, a jury
would easily bring down a swift conviction of guilt. What would be the result,
however, if the jury was presented incontrovertible proof, (more Truth), that the
Smith fulfilled many of the ancient signs and pagan prophecies. In the Nag
Hammadi Egyptian text, the prophecy of a “Ben Bera Kaida”(Joseph) was 100%
fulfilled in the person of Joseph Smith, Jr. There can be little doubt that he was
endowed with incredible, supernatural gifts and powers. He was clearly not a
“common”, unschooled, illiterate country preacher. He had an extreme
intelligence, a virtual photographic memory, and was an extremely gifted
speaker, writer, and communicator. His charisma was unparalleled in American
religious and social history. As he solemnly declared to the last great gathering
of his followers in a “General Conference” speech on April 7, 1844, “You don’t
know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it; I
shall never undertake it. I don’t blame anyone for not believing my history. If I
had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself.”
Brother Joseph, I believe I do indeed know your history, and it is indeed truly
remarkable. Your “story” is today designed to change the world into Mormonism,
the “one-world religious model”. The complete story must be told.
The purpose and design of this book is not intended to sling mud, or to
damage the faith of any individual. It should not be “labeled” as “anti” anything.
On the contrary, it is designed and dedicated to further one singular goal: to
share with others the truth as seen from the eyes of one man. It is hopefully “pro”
truth, not “anti-Mormon”. The author fully understands that Truth can often be
subjective in nature. The observations and experiences revered as “truth” by one,
are often nothing more than “blasphemy” to another. However, what are
incontrovertible, are historical facts. This is the all-encompassing “truth and
nothing but the truth” that is universally sought in an honest court of law.
You see, an honest court of law is not too interested in the “opinions and
feelings” of witnesses for the most part. It is interested primarily in the
establishment of facts. While such facts can often be “spun” in numerous
different ways to form different conclusions, the important thing in the objective
search for truth, is to correctly, and objectively establish the facts. This is what
the author will do his best to accomplish with this book. As unpopular, or as
unconventional as they might appear to be, facts are the basis for all objective
truths. Facts should not be feared or restricted if Truth is ever to be established.
As Winston Churchill so eloquently declared: “The Truth is incontrovertible.
Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
In addition to seeking Truth, we should not limit ourselves to, or be satisfied
with, partial truths. We should be seeking the WHOLE Truth, and nothing but the
WHOLE Truth, and we should pray from the depths of our souls, “So help me,
God, (to uncover and see the WHOLE Truth)!!” The WHOLE Truth makes such
a huge difference in the outcome of any trial, especially an individual Trial of
Faith. For instance, in a capital murder trial, it may become established fact
(Truth) after reviewing all available evidence, that the defendant took a gun,
smuggled it past a security checkpoint, and then shot and killed a powerful and
popular public figure. From the documentation of these “truths” alone, a jury
would easily bring down a swift conviction of guilt. What would be the result,
however, if the jury was presented incontrovertible proof, (more Truth), that the
defendant was in fact part of a covert para-military operation from the age of 7,
that his conscious mind was in reality forced to dissociate into “multiple
personalities”, and that certain corrupt men used chemical drugs, systematic
hypnosis and electrical stimulus to absolutely control his every action? If the
defendant was in reality a mere puppet of other men, should he be held 100%
accountable for his actions, especially if he was a very real “victim” himself? Or
would he be found “innocent by reason of insanity” while the real culprits remain
free? Furthermore, if this “para-military” cabal that controlled the defendant was
extremely well organized, controlled billions of dollars in liquid assets, hundreds
of wealthy corporations worldwide, powerful attorneys, judges, and politicians,
chances are excellent that the jury would never, EVER, hear even a whisper of
the WHOLE TRUTH, and an innocent man would face the firing squad or a lethal
injection (or an assassin’s bullet) in order to keep the cabal’s secrets intact.
There is a profound East Indian parable that brings this point out extremely
well. Seven wise men from different “civilized nations” were brought to India in
order to experience a very new animal they had only heard fantastic rumors
about, an Indian elephant. They were each blindfolded, and taken to the animal
for only 2 minutes. They could only touch a part of the animal, and were not
allowed to see it in its entirety. One grabbed onto the trunk, and described the
animal as a snake. Another touched only the ear, another experienced the treelike
leg, another the tail, another the elephant’s side, etc. Each then went into a
separate room and wrote a detailed description of the animal they had each
touched. The next day, all seven wise men were promised a large fortune if they
could articulate their individual writing, and convince all of the other six to agree
with them. They argued for days, and nearly came to fisticuffs. Each was
absolutely positive of the reality of their experiences. Each was convinced they
alone possessed the “Truth” concerning the animal. Eachwas bound by their
pride and false egos to reject everything else. Because of the profit motive, they
never stopped to think that perhaps they did not have the “Whole Truth”. So they
embellished and promoted a piece of their subjective, individualized, cherished
Truth in their own countries, and amongst their own people. Decades and
centuries later, this piece of the truth, over time, became a gigantic legend, a
myth, and began to foster a number of TRADITIONS among the people. Can
you see the importance of seeing the “entire picture”, gettingas much of the
“whole Truth” before jumping to conclusions?
that his conscious mind was in reality forced to dissociate into “multiple
personalities”, and that certain corrupt men used chemical drugs, systematic
hypnosis and electrical stimulus to absolutely control his every action? If the
defendant was in reality a mere puppet of other men, should he be held 100%
accountable for his actions, especially if he was a very real “victim” himself? Or
would he be found “innocent by reason of insanity” while the real culprits remain
free? Furthermore, if this “para-military” cabal that controlled the defendant was
extremely well organized, controlled billions of dollars in liquid assets, hundreds
of wealthy corporations worldwide, powerful attorneys, judges, and politicians,
chances are excellent that the jury would never, EVER, hear even a whisper of
the WHOLE TRUTH, and an innocent man would face the firing squad or a lethal
injection (or an assassin’s bullet) in order to keep the cabal’s secrets intact.
There is a profound East Indian parable that brings this point out extremely
well. Seven wise men from different “civilized nations” were brought to India in
order to experience a very new animal they had only heard fantastic rumors
about, an Indian elephant. They were each blindfolded, and taken to the animal
for only 2 minutes. They could only touch a part of the animal, and were not
allowed to see it in its entirety. One grabbed onto the trunk, and described the
animal as a snake. Another touched only the ear, another experienced the treelike
leg, another the tail, another the elephant’s side, etc. Each then went into a
separate room and wrote a detailed description of the animal they had each
touched. The next day, all seven wise men were promised a large fortune if they
could articulate their individual writing, and convince all of the other six to agree
with them. They argued for days, and nearly came to fisticuffs. Each was
absolutely positive of the reality of their experiences. Each was convinced they
alone possessed the “Truth” concerning the animal. Eachwas bound by their
pride and false egos to reject everything else. Because of the profit motive, they
never stopped to think that perhaps they did not have the “Whole Truth”. So they
embellished and promoted a piece of their subjective, individualized, cherished
Truth in their own countries, and amongst their own people. Decades and
centuries later, this piece of the truth, over time, became a gigantic legend, a
myth, and began to foster a number of TRADITIONS among the people. Can
you see the importance of seeing the “entire picture”, gettingas much of the
“whole Truth” before jumping to conclusions?
"Unto thee, O YAHWEH, do I lift up my soul.
O my ELOHIM, I trust in thee: let me not be shamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
Show me thy ways, O YAHWEH; teach me thy paths.
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the ELOHIM of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O YAHWEH.
Good and upright is the YAHWEH: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
All the paths of the YAHWEH are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
For thy name's sake, O YAHWEH, PARDON MINE INIQUITY; FOR IT IS GREAT.
What man is he that feareth the YAHWEH? Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
The secret of the YAHWEH is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.
Mine eyes are ever toward the YAHWEH; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Redeem Israel, O ELOHIM, out of all his troubles." Psalm 25
"If you love me keep my commandments." John 14:15
"And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
He that saith, I know him, and kept not his commandments , is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But whoso kept his word, in him verily is the love of Delhi perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
He that saith he abide in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." 1John 2:4-6
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of YAHWEH, and the faith of YESHUA." Revelation 14:12
There has been much debate and confusion as to what are these commandments, but then again Satan's middle name is "Babylon", for he is the King of Babylon, which means confusion. He wants you to believe that the law, the Torah, which was the writings of the prophets and the Law given to Moses, was nailed to the cross. He wants you to build a false sense of security that no matter what you do you can be saved by the gift of his son, in a sense he wants you to build a tower of "Babel", that you can become as gods yourself. What does the Apostle Peter say of the mindset of mortal man in the last hours of his existence on the earth, in the eleventh hour, just before nightfall, when the Son of truth goes out forever, when the mercy of a gracious, benevolent, long-suffering, slow to anger Delhi of Abraham, of Isaac, and Jacob, can abide with a stiff-necked rebellious "generation" no loner, which has turned from serving him and has gone after other gods?
"But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceiving's while they feast with you;
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet.
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantoness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. (These are the thorns which choked out the seeds of the gospel sown by our Savior in the parable of Matthew 13!)
While they promise them liberty they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Master and Savior YESHUA MESSIAH, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
FOR IT HAD BEEN BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT, AFTER THEY HAVE KNOWN IT , TO TURN FROM THE HOLY COMMANDMENT DELIVERED UNTO THEM.' 2Peter 2:12-21
What is this bondage Peter speaks of in verse 19? It is the bondage of sin, the web of deceit and confusion spun by Satan to beguile our people into thinking they can live a presumptuous, lustful, covetous, lascivious life-style, only to go on a blasphemous day of sunday-worship and claim the words with their lips, and pray to the god of Baal in their heart, this "tower of babel", this "tower of pride", which they have erected, based on the foundation of their own beliefs, on the commandments of men, serving the god of the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, this "Jesus" they call him, professing their love for him, and claiming the gift of his blood, and the inheritance of his promise. In the Hebrew, Babel means "gate of god." Through the manufacture of their own gate to heaven, man has sought to become as god, and to know good and evil. Do you think the Father in Heaven, who sent his son to a fallen race, to redeem them from their sins by his blood on the cross, to pay the wage of sin for them if they would turn back to him, do you think he is going to stand by and watch this monument built on vanity, and vexation of spirit, rise to the hosts of heaven? No! He will strike it down with the thunderbolts from heaven as he did in the days of the Nimrod, King of Babylon.
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:" Matthew 7:13
"Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the YAHWEH, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy." Zephaniah 3:8
What is this JEALOUSY of the YAHWEH? We only have to look to the simple written WORD, for the way to serve him, to enter in through "the strait and narrow gate" is to do his will, for his will is written in the commandments.
Commandment #1. "I am the YAHWEH thy ELOHIM, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME." Exodus 20:1
This Egypt represents Babylon, the land of idolatry, it is also the land of Ur of the Chaldees, where Abraham was called out of. The house of bondage is the slave pit of Satan, whereby we serve him through sin and death. The YAHWEH'S command is simple and to the point---put no god before him, whether it be the god of pleasure, the god of wealth, the god of appetite, etc., particularly on his Holy Sabbath. He wants you to set aside the hours of the day, the 8:00a.m.-9:00a.m., and the 2:00p.m-3:00p.m., to serve him and put him first in your lives. When the whole world is going to work at the 8:00a.m. hour to serve the god of money, this is when he wants you to come unto the door of the tabernacle, TO SERVE HIM AT HIS APPOINTED TIME NOT MAN'S APPOINTED TIME!
Commandment #2. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the YAHWEH THY ELOHIM AM A JEALOUS GOD, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." Genesis 20:3,4
By this commandment we are not to make ANY IMAGE OF ANYTHING LIVING! We cannot make statues, figurines, have pictures hanging on the wall, etc. YAHWEH IS THE ONLY CREATOR OF LIFE, and he does not want to share that title with mortal man. I ask you who created this god of Sunday called "Jesus". Is he written of in the true word of the YAHWEH, or is he really a watered-down version of the HEBREW YESHUA? This watered-down version, which by the way has the name of the Greek God Zeus, proclaims to be a god "of love", who cares nothing about serving the commandments of the YAHWEH, or his law forbidding the worship of images, or his denunciation of sin, or his observance of his Holy Feast Days, who gives his salvation
freely, to both sinner and saint alike, and they all together will be taken up into the clouds of glory, right?
"Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her FEAST DAYS, HER NEW MOONS, AND HER SABBATHS, AND ALL HER SOLEMN FEASTS. (He is speaking of the false feast days Satan has tricked us into following, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, etc., and he is speaking of the FALSE SABBATH OF THE SUNDAY-KEEPING WORLD!)
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, (other gods) and forgat me, aitch the YAHWEH.
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a DOOR OF HOPE: AND SHE SHALL SING THERE, AS IN THE DAYS OF HER YOUTH, AND AS IN THE DAY WHEN SHE CAME UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT.
And it shall be at that day, aitch the YAHWEH, that thou shalt CALL ME ISHI; AND SHALT CALL ME NO MORE BAALI" Hosea 2:9-17
YAHWEH does not want you calling him Baal, the sun god of Phoenicia, nor does he want you calling his son Jesus, the god of the Greeks, he simply wants you to serve him as the one true god, and follow his commandments which were given to his servant Moses, and to have the faith, love, and determination which his son had in carrying them out, even unto the death. Are you willing to die that you may live?
Commandment #3. "Thou shalt not take the name of the YAHWEH in vain: for the YAHWEH will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." Exodus 20:7
We shall not say the YAHWEH told me thus, or the YAHWEH told me that, or use his name for our own vanity or false presumption.
Commandment #4 "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the YAHWEH THY ELOHIM: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the YAHWEH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the SEVENTH DAY: wherefore the YAHWEH blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:9,10
The last time I checked the word "seven" meant the number after six, and before the eighth. I will offer anyone a thousand dollars if they can show me anywhere in the Sacred Scriptures, IT IS WRITTEN THAT WE ARE TO OBSERVE SUNDAY AS THE SABBATH. Furthermore, is there anywhere in the Holy Scriptures a penalty pronounced upon us if we do not observe the Sunday? On the contrary there are SEVERAL SCRIPTURES which pronounce judgment on man if THEY DO NOT KEEP THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH OF THE YAHWEH. They are:
"Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people." Exodus 31:14
"For thus aitch the YAHWEH unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off." Isaiah 56:4,5
"And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day.
And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
And the YAHWEH SAID TO MOSES, THE MAN SHALL BE SURELY PUT TO DEATH: ALL THE CONGREGATION SHALL STONE HIM WITH STONES WITHOUT THE CAMP.
And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the YAHWEH commanded Moses." Numbers 15:32-36
The children of Israel were brought out of the land of Egypt on the Sabbath Day to symbolize their coming out of the land of Idolatry, and into the land of promise, just as Abraham had came out of the Land of Ur, some 500 years earlier. They were to rest on the Sabbath Day, as the YAHWEH RESTED AT CREATION, to sanctify the day as a day of rest, AND A DAY OF FREEDOM FROM SIN AND SLAVERY.
"And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the YAHWEH THY ELOHIM commanded thee to KEEP THE SABBATH DAY." Deuteronomy 5:15
"But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I KINDLE A FIRE IN THE GATES THEREOF, AND IT SHALL DEVOUR THE PALACE OF JERUSALEM, AND IT SHALL NOT BE QUENCHED." Jeremiah 17:27
And finally we turn to the example given to us by the all important SON OF THE ALMIGHTY ELOHIM. Did he not keep the Sabbath holy? (Mark 1:21, 6:2, 15:42; Luke 4:16; 4:31) Did he not go into the synagogue on the evening of the sixth day, to worship, or attend the synagogue on the Sabbath day to teach the WORD to all who would listen? Did he not, in
defiance of the rulers of the temple, heal the sick on the Sabbath Day? (Matthew 12:10; Luke 6:6, 13:12; John 5:9, 9:14) Did he not, when he and his disciples were ahungered, walk into the cornfield to pluck and eat the corn off the stalk? (Matthew 12:1; Luke 6:1) Did he not warn the disciples when the fall of Jerusalem came that they should pray it not fall on the Sabbath? (Matthew 24:20) What was the message he was sending to the rulers of the temple and to the children of Israel?
"Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace." Mark 3:4
"Is not this the fast I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" Isaiah 58:6,7
Finally, YESHUA clears it all up in these two verses.
"The SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, and not man for the Sabbath
Therefore the SON OF MAN IS "GOD" ALSO OF THE SABBATH!" Mark 2:27,28
The Sabbath was made for man to give him a day of rest, that he could drink at the wellness of life, and give thanks to his creator, and thus be refreshed, with a newness of body and spirit. He was to set aside the day to give reverence to something higher than himself, the god of his fathers, the HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL WHO IS THE BESTOWER OF ALL LIFE. If YESHUA HERE STATES HE IS THE "GOD OF THE SABBATH, THE SEVENTH-DAY, THEN WHO IS THE GOD OF THE FALSE SABBATH, THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN, CONSTANTINE'S EDICT OF MILAN IN 313 A.D.?
I'll tell you who it is, it is the same one who deceived Eve,
who said,
"Ye shall not surely die, for the YAHWEH doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL." Genesis 2:4,5
Her eyes were opened alright, for the only thing she saw was her own nakedness and shame, and the evil which she had committed along with Adam. THE GOD OF SUNDAY IS SATAN, THE GOD OF THE SABBATH IS YESHUA, for is not it written of by Daniel the prophet that he will exalt himself in his own heart, even to the prince of host? (Daniel 8:11, 11:36) The Apostle Paul warned us that the Day of Judgment would not come unless there "come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called Holy, or that is worshiped; so that he as YAHWEH sitteth in the temple of YAHWEH, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS SUPREME." 2Thessalonians 2:3,4
Can it be any plainer than that? Are we not warned what to expect? Let him that have the vision let him see, let him who is of sound hearing hear the WORD OF THE YAHWEH, let him who hath the heart to receive the seed of the promise sow it in his heart and sanctify and prepare himself for the GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE YAHWEH FOR WHO SHALL STAND! let him that have the eyesalve to see the sword coming blow the trumpet on the walls of Zion.
Commandment #5 "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the YAHWEH THY ELOHIM giveth thee." Genesis 20:12
Plain and simple, the YAHWEH adds a blessing if we honor our earthly mother and father, for he does not like stiff-necked rebellious children. He wants obedient children, not high-minded and disrespectful ones.
Commandment #6 "Thou shalt not kill"
This not only pertains to humans, but to any animals that
are killed out of sport or pleasure. There is a difference between killing to survive or for food, or to protect one's livestock or family, and killing for the thrill of death, such as hunting for sport. From such steer away.
Commandment #7 "Thou shalt not commit adultery."
We cannot covet anything of our neighbor's especially our neighbor's wife or husband. We must keep the sanctity of the marriage between man and woman. If a man cannot have fidelity in marriage to his wife; how can he have fidelity to the YAHWEH, to not go a whoring after other gods. Satan knows this and he has done everything to destroy the marriage, by divorce courts, lawyers, and the moral degradation of the sanctity of marriage. There is all manner of adultery of television, which is a medium of Satan, and the media is nothing but licentious propagation, shows such as "survivor", "American Idol", etc. The women of our day run around dressed like harlots on the street corner, and the only thing that keeps us from falling into the PIT OF HELL AND DAMNATION AT THIS VERY MOMENT IS THAT THE PROPHETIC TIME CLOCK HAS TO TICK DOWN TO THE APPOINTED TIME, AND THAT DAY IS FAST APPROACHING. Can anything save us?
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the YAHWEH: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool.
IF YE BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT, YE SHALL EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND:
BUT IF YE REFUSE AND REBEL, YE SHALL BE DEVOURED WITH THE SWORD: FOR THE MOUTH OF THE YAHWEH HATH SPOKEN IT." Isaiah 1:18-2
"Fret not thyself because of evildoers,
neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Trust in the Yahweh, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Delight thyself also in the YAHWEH; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." Psalms 37:1-4
Commandment #8 "Thou shalt not steal."
Commandment #9 "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
Commandment #10 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's." Exodus 20:15-17
Self explanatory right? Can they be followed? Is it possible to keep nine and just break one occasionally? Do we even have to keep them, Satan said, "they were nailed to the cross and since YESHUA rose from the dead on sunday, we changed the day of worship, by the powers of darkness to Sunday, and by spiritual wickedness in high places, namely Constantine, we did so; and by the way, we changed the Saviors name to my real name "Jesus", so the people would exalt me and not him, and I can sit myself right down in the tabernacle of his holy mountain."
YAHWEH be merciful unto us, for,
"Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Revelation 12:12
"For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
For verily I say unto you, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS, ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE SHALL IN NO WISE PASS FROM THE LAW, TILL ALL BE FULFILLED.
Whosoever therefore shall BREAK ONE OF THESE LEAST COMMANDMENTS, AND SHALL TEACH MEN SO, HE SHALL BE CALLED THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same SHALL BE CALLED GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, ye shall in NO CASE ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." Matthew 5:17-20
Why does the ark of the testimony, which contains the five books of Moses, called the Torah, and the writings of the prophets, appear to all mankind as the heavens role back as a scroll in Revelation 11:19? It appears there as a witness to sinful man, for they have rejected the way to salvation through the following of the law, and they have rejected the Faithful Witness (Revelation 3:14) who came and lived the law according the Father's Will and bore testimony to the truth that it could be followed. The YAHWEH would not give us a law that we, made in his own image, could not follow. All we have to do is have FAITH AND BELIEVE AND IT WILL BE SO. (Matthew 8:13) Just because the YAHWEH has not given us a sign, and just because he has tarried, don't bet your soul that he is not going to fulfill his word in due time.
When Moses was up in the mountain of Sinai, for forty days and forty nights (Exodus 24:18), and he delayed and did not come down, the children of Israel, went to Aaron and said, "Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." They believed that the YAHWEH who brought them out of Egypt with a mighty hand with all manners of plagues and great wonders of heaven, could not keep one man alive on a fiery summit for forty days and nights. They were driven by a lack of faith and a sinful heart, so to is this modern man driven by that same motivation, for since YESHUA has delayed his coming they have fallen into the same state as those who erected the golden calf. Their fate shall be the same, their carcasses shall fall in the wilderness, until all that sinned against the YAHWEH shall be consumed. (Numbers 14:23)
"Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy
people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of
the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness: neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered, but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he SHALL DIE FOR IT.
Again, when I say unto the wicked, THOU SHALT SURELY DIE; IF HE TURN FROM HIS SIN, AND DO THAT WHICH IS LAWFUL AND RIGHT;
IF THE WICKED RESTORE THE PLEDGE, GIVE AGAIN THAT WHAT WAS ROBBED, WALK IN THE STATUTES OF LIFE, WITHOUT COMMITTING INIQUITY; HE SHALL SURLY LIVE, HE SHALL NOT DIE.
NONE OF HIS SINS THAT HE HATH COMMITTED SHALL BE MENTIONED UNTO HIM: HE HATH DONE THAT WHICH IS LAWFUL AND RIGHT: HE SHALL SURELY LIVE." Ezekiel 33:12-16
"For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not HIDDEN FROM THEE, NEITHER IS IT FAR OFF.
It is not in heaven, THAT THOU SHOULDEST SAY, WHO SHALL GO UP FOR US TO HEAVEN, AND BRING IT TO US, THAT WE MAY HEAR IT AND DO IT?
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, WHO SHALL GO OVER THE SEA FOR US, AND BRING IT UNTO US, THAT WE MAY HEAR IT, AND DO IT?
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it." Deuteronomy 30:11-14
The choice is ours to give, as it has been since the beginning, since the time of Adam at the garden. Whether to trust in the YAHWEH and live, or whether to trust in ourselves or what others tell us and die, whether to lose life in order to find it, whether to be last in order to be first, whether to be a servant of the YAHWEH, the King of Light and Goodness, and Happiness, and Joy, and Life, or whether to be a slave to the King of Babylon, the king of darkness and despair, of wickedness and selfishness, of violence and hatred, and chaos. Do you chose life or darkness? Death or Life?
"And if it seem evil unto to you to serve the YAHWEH, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for ME AND MY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE YAHWEH." Joshua 24:15
"I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
And the YAHWEH answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may RUN THAT READETH IT.
FOR THE VISION IS YET FOR AN APPOINTED TIME, BUT AT THE END IT SHALL SPEAK, AND NOT LIE; THOUGHT IT TARRY, WAIT FOR IT; BECAUSE IT WILL SURELY COME, IT WILL NOT TARRY." Habakkuk 2:1-3
-------servant of the MOST HIGH
Tuesday April 7th, 2009. 12 Manik, 15 Mac, 4 Eb
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Article taken from: http://www.paoweb.com/sn040709.htm
Selamat Jarin! We come with more information for you. As you know, our Earth allies are on the verge of success. Their plans are to change your present world of lack and limitation into a realm of abundance. This project includes a legal foundation that permits them to alter the world that you now know. All this fits nicely into our First Contact plans despite the fact that they are far more complex than any we have known. Normally, a whole host of preconditions followed by a series of special negotiations precedes First Contact. In your case, planetary conditions prevent us from observing the usual protocols. We are relying instead upon a special group of well-placed and wealthy individuals to achieve our preliminary objectives. This initial phase, generally called the 'awakening,' is somewhat tedious. It includes the work that Heaven is doing to return each of you to Full Consciousness. It also involves the grand work so far accomplished by our Earth allies. To aid them in this, we offer our advice and good offices when needed. This phase is nearing the last steps before its manifestation in the public arena.
The 'awakening' phase includes the announcements of our existence by the transitional governments and other actions that are to prepare your world for our arrival. If these preliminaries proceed smoothly, they can take the place of the initial contacts required of a normal contact operation. We are setting up liaison teams that can work with the new governments to create programs elucidating various aspects of First Contact and to introduce the technologies currently withheld from you. To these will be added some of our technology which can boost the present capabilities of your devices. It is important that your present apprehension and worry about us be dispelled as positively as possible. This can go a considerable way toward easing you from your awakening phase into the next one, which consists of the actual mass contact. Under Heaven's guidance we are doing everything possible to make this First-Contact mission as complete as it normally would be. Assisting us in an advisory capacity are the Agarthans, your Inner Earth cousins. They are keen to reunite with you and re-form a planetwide galactic society.
The actual First Contact operation still comprises two options: The first consists of a mass landing without government announcements and, hence, you are still unaware of our existence and intentions. We will, however, make our own series of broadcasts to prepare the way for our ships. As you can imagine, this option is the more difficult one. Over the years we have discovered a great many things about you that stress the importance of preparatory announcements by your governments. Also, there are sinister elements in your dark cabal that are abnormally fearful of us. They view us as interlopers in their grand scheme to turn your world into a realm of tyranny and hopelessness where they and their cohorts can rule supreme. They will use anything in their dirty bag of tricks to stop us. The second option is the one we update you on each week. The first is only an emergency back up in the event that the present course is unable to be achieved within the timetable given to us by Heaven.
We have talked at length with our Earth allies and the Agarthans, and all agree that a series of preliminary governmental announcements are required. In due course our own Galactic Federation broadcasts will be made as part of the mass-landing operation. Our Earth allies have suggested that we participate in a few joint projects and this will be made known by the caretaker regimes. The idea is for your fears to be assuaged by our open cooperation with your governments. Your 'sci-fi' literature and mass entertainment programs are filled with deliberately false and scary images about us. These need to be countered by some well-executed and positive episodes of mutual cooperation with you. This can go far in encouraging trust and setting the stage for our mass arrival. During this time we intend to begin putting into operation some of our technology and this can become more widely used after the mass landings.
After you are prepared for our arrival and understand why we have come, we can proceed with the mass landings. From our standpoint, these will be unusually extensive owing to the huge numbers of craft involved. We need to land counselors, one for each human on the planet, and technicians to install a series of devices, such as replicators for each household. You will require instruction on how to use, communicate with, and maintain this technology. In essence, its operation is quite simply, but it is nonetheless a very powerful, sentient interactive device. It does what many of you may consider to be miraculous. Hence, you can see that it is important for you to actively participate in the initial meetings between us. These can go a long way in preparing you for the first information we shall be giving you about your metamorphosis into fully conscious Galactic Humans. There is much to cover in a short space of time.
The post-landing period is to last about four months, during which you can get to know and trust your assigned mentor. This individual knows all about you: your history and life path, what stage you are at, and who you are to become once the metamorphosis process is completed. Your transformation back into Full Consciousness involves a lot of complex, detailed change to your many energy systems. To this end, each person will have a Light chamber personally calibrated to their own requirements. It can mend and restore all the damage and 'unplugging' done to your RNA/DNA during the latter days of Atlantis. It will reconstitute and unify your 13-chakra system and bring it on line, and your lost physical, mental, and spiritual abilities will be restored. Heaven's mandate that you be restored to Full Consciousness in this way is quite unique in the annals of Federation history! You are indeed to become very special Beings of Light.
Once you are fully conversant with all aspects of your restoration process, you can be shown your specially prepared residence in an Inner Earth crystal city. It will be identical to your then-current surface dwelling. Placed next to it is your personal Light chamber which will complete your change into a fully conscious Galactic Human. Your guidance team and assigned mentor are to watch over you very carefully during your time in the Light chamber. They will monitor your energy systems while a cascade of interdimensional Light converts your RNA/DNA and your body's chakra system into the 12-strand genetics and the 13 chakras that characterize a Galactic Human. During this time you are to go over your many 'past' lives and learn what your true objectives are for this one. At last the mystery of who you really are can be revealed!
After your transformation in the Light chamber you will need a period of acculturation which we call Full Consciousness Etiquette. You are now a fully sentient being, possessing quite unfamiliar powers that require a new sense of responsibility and mindfulness. In a sense, you are to go to 'school' to learn to control and use your new powers, including telepathy, clairvoyance, rejuvenation, and teleportation. For example, you can now 'hear' not only everybody's thoughts but also the Song of the Universe! You are now literally 'one' with everything and you need to learn how to fine-tune your abilities to avoid physical, mental, and emotional overload. You need to learn the cultural and social etiquette that will allow you to fit in easily with your galactic family and to know the great inner joy that is your heritage.
Today, we talked about more aspects of what lies just ahead for you. We have prepared in great detail for all contingencies surrounding First Contact. We are confident that the time for all this is close. Know that something magnificent is just around the corner! We now take our leave. Know, dear Ones, in your Heart of Hearts that the countless Supply and never-ending Prosperity of Heaven are indeed Yours! So Be It! Selamat Gajun! Selamat Ja! (Sirian for Be One! and Be in Joy!)
FREEDOM FROM WITHIN
Sivan 8, 2009
Holy Convocation
Day of Pentecost
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
50 Days from the Passover of Abib 14, 2009
sun., May 15, 2005
II TIMOTHY CHAPTER 1
"Paul, an apostle of YESHUA MESSIAH by the will of ELOHIM, according to the promise of life which is in YESHUA MESSIAH,
To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from ELOHIM the Father and YESHUA MESSIAH our MASTER.
I thank Elohim, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
Greatly dersiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;" II Timothy 1:1-4
Timothy met Paul on his first missionary journey to his hometown of Lystra. He was the offspring of a mixed marriage. His father was a pagan Greek, and his mother was a devout Jewess. His mother Eunice and his grandmother Lois, both Israelites, had nurtured Timothy from childhood. As Lois and Eunice we converted by Paul to the acceptance of YESHUA being the fulfillment of the Old Testament, so to was Timothy converted, and on Paul's second missionary journey, the Apostle himself circumcising him and adopting him into the church, and taking him as his own spiritual son as well. Paul's message here has added gravity, because they were the very last that were penned in the Apostlle's ministry.
"Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of Elohim, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
For Elohim hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." II Timothy 1:6,7
Stated here is THE GIFT, which was made in the heart of every man by the CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. It lies beneath our conciousness, waiting for the baptism of the Holy Spirit to bring it to life. It is not the Spirit of fear, but the Spirit of boldness, and power of the YAHWEH, THE SAME POWER WHICH WROUGHT MIRACLES IN EGYPT, WHICH BROUGHT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF THE LAND OF BONDADGE, the same power that fashioned the heavens and set them in motion, of which is available to all men if they can obtain the faith, and just believe. It is not the Spirit of weakness, but of power, power to overcome death and hell, and him who has the power over death, who enslaves them with fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14) It is not the Spirit of chaos and mania, but the "Spirit of a Sound Mind", the peace of "green pastures" and of "still waters." (Psalms 23)
"Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Master, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of Elohim;
Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in YESHUA MESSIAH before the world began," II Timothy 1:8,9
He that denies the YESHUA in the presence of men, so to will the SON OF MAN deny him before the HEAVENLY FATHER AT THE JUDGMENT. (Matthew 10:32) With his stripes we are healed, for as we suffer affliction so will be shapened in the image of our SAVIOR, and as he was resurrected and glorified, so to will we be. (1 Peter 4:12) The predestination is the gift of the sealing of the children of the YAHWEH, THOSE WHO WILL BE SAVED, and it was arranged at the foundation of the world! (Ephesians 1:5; Luke 11:50; Hebrews 4:3; Revelation 13:8)
"But is now made manifest by the appeaing of our SAVIOR YESHUA MESSIAH, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and
immortality to light through the gospel:
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles." II Timothy 1:10,11
The hope of promise, instilled in every man at the foundation of the world, was only brought to light by the sacrafice of the LAMB OF YAHWEH, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. He was the manifestation of the WORD (John 1:14) which would bring man out of darkness, and death, and into the light and life, through the Spirit in order to overcome sin. (Romans 8:2) In effect, he brought FREEDOM TO THE PRISONERS OF SATAN! (Isaiah 42:7)
"For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he (YESHUA) is able to keep that which I have committed unto him (he is speaking of his own soul) against that day." (This day of which Paul speaks is the Day of Judgment, when all people shall stand before the YAHWEH.----servant) II Timothy 1:12
Are you suffering affliction because of your faith? If not you are following not the commandments of the YAHWEH and the testimony of YESHUA. (Revelation 14:12) YESHUA was afflicted and persecuted. Paul was afflicted and persecuted. I am afflicted and persecuted for preaching this message. Are you?
"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in YESHUA MESSIAH.
That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the HOLY SPIRIT which dwelleth in us." II Timothy 1:14
That good thing Paul committed to Timothy, was the message of salvation. If we commit our lives to the SAVIOR, fully without sin, he will keep our soul and deliver it from the fire on the day of judgment. (Ezekiel 20:38) For the SAVIOR HIMSELF HAS SAID, UNLESS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEED THAT OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARACIES, we will not see the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:20)
"This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes." II Timothy 1:15
These two rejected the teachings of Paul, and opposed his ministry at Ephesus. They denied him and did not support his testimony while in Rome, on trial. They like Peter, abandoned their Master at his most crucial hour. These are the thorns of Matthew Chapter 13, which choke out the seed from being sown, the seed of promise. They do not want salvation because they are of the world, yet, they prevent others from receiving it.
"The YAHWEH give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of MY CHAIN:
But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
The YAHWEH grant unto him that he may find MERCY OF THE YAHWEH IN THAT DAY: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well." II Timothy 1:16-18
The Apostle of YESHUA states here as well as in verse 8, that he is a prisoner in chains to the YAHWEH OF THE HEAVENS, AND A SERVANT UNTO HIS ETERNAL SON, whom called him out of the world of sin, the world of Satan. There are but two masters in this universe, ONE OF LIGHT, ONE OF DARKNESS. All mortals who live, and even the angels who are immortal, serve one or the other. Thus there are two classes of people that serve them, and they are brought to light again in the verses of this chapter. Those who rejected the gospel, or the seed of truth, the Phygellus' and the Hermogenes', and those who accepted the seed of truth, for their heart had been prepared to receive it, like Onesiphorus, who upon hearing the WORD was converted and ministered unto the Apostle Paul during his hour of need. These two classes represent the redeemed from the earth, and those who will perish in it. The redeemed represent those who are willing to lose their life to serve him, and the lost are those who want to hold on to their idols as Lot's wife did, and thus they will be turned into ashes of salt.
"They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the YAHWEH was my stay.
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
The YAHWEH rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of the YAHWEH, AND HAVE NOT WICKEDLY DEPARTED FROM MY ELOHIM.
For all his judgments were before me, and I did not PUT AWAY HIS STATUTES FROM ME.
I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Therefore hath the YAHWEH recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright;
with the pur thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward.
For thou wilt save the afficted people; but wilt bring down high looks." Psalms 18:18-27
-------servant of the MOST HIGH
"And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; to which you do well that you take heed, AS TO A LAMP SHINING IN A DARK PLACE, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spoke from Yahweh, being moved by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1:19-21).
"For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says Yahweh of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and you shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, says Yahweh of hosts." (Malachi 4:1-3).
"But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shines more and more to the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble. My son, attend to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes; Keep them in the middle of your heart. For they are life to those that find them, And health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life." (Proverbs 4:18-23).
"My son, keep the commandment of your father, And forsake not the law of your mother: Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them about your neck. When you walk, it shall lead you; When you sleep, it shall watch over you; And when you awake, it shall talk with you. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life." (Proverbs 6:20-23).
"And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness could not master it. There came a man, sent from Yahweh, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came that he might bear witness of the light. There was the true light, even the light which lights every man, coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not." (John 1:5-10).
"And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that Yahweh is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Yahshua his Son cleanses us from all sin." (1 John 1:5-7).
Light As Metaphor and Simile
All the Scriptures, to which we refer above, inform us that a light emanates from Almighty Yahweh. The darkness of this world (resulting from sin and the rejection of Yahweh’s Laws) cannot overcome or master it. This light shines ever stronger towards a perfect day of righteousness. This light is based upon the Law of Yahweh and His commandments, statutes, and judgments.
Yahweh will do nothing except He reveals His secrets to His servants, the prophets (Amos 3:7). Consequently, we should become aware that a final judgment from Almighty Yahweh will be poured upon this current sinful age.
Many liberal religions today give very little credibility to Bible prophecy. They imagine that the Bible is merely a book of inspiration to encourage those who need help during times of difficulty. Liberal theology casts aspersions upon everything contained in the Bible, including its historical record. Conversely, Bible prophecy presents an accurate message from Almighty Yahweh. Bible prophecy comprises the mark of supernatural authenticity Yahweh placed upon the sacred Scriptures. Prophecy serves like a watermark imprinted by the genuine manufacturer upon fine stationary. It may be overlooked unless one seeks it, then it may be found. Unless the student carefully seeks Bible prophecy by faith, you may miss this important message from Almighty Yahweh. Therefore, remember that Peter compares the simile of Bible prophecy to be like a lamp that shines in a dark place. We have also related the metaphor of Yahweh’s Word being a lamp to our feet (Psalm 119:105), as it symbolizes the commandments of Yahweh (Proverbs 6:23)
He Blesses Me
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing..." Ephesians 1:3
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing..." Ephesians 1:3
Psalm 23 is definitely a favorite for many people. Perhaps this is because many of us have experienced what it is like to walk through the valley. Most of the testimonies I have heard over the years have described how God has blessed, in spite of adversity. When it seems you are being beat down from the hail storms of life, God becomes a shelter in the time of storm. When there is death in the family there is going to be grief, and yet in that grief we often rediscover our Faithful Friend who knows what it is like to lose someone close.
In those times of stress and fear, He gives peace and strength. God hands out, in measure, these priceless blessings to support us in the hardest times. He wants you to recognize who your Provider is. You see, you will never know how strong the rope is, until you pull on it. "He blesses me, and blesses me and lets me rest in Him."