Right-click to download PDF version

For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall rise up to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house shall perish. And who knows if you have attained to the kingdom for such a time as this? Ester 4:14

      In this fast paced world where time seems to be rushing by and where problems multiply faster than the speed of light, sometimes we need to pause, stand back and assess what is really happening around us. Environment is 90% of our battle as believers and our mindset within that environment is 90% of that. That is why it is crucial to keep a positive mental outlook and to keep our prayer and Bible study at an optimal level always.

      As when we first come into the truth it seems we are so eager and excited about the truth of Yahweh. It seems we are so zealous and thankful for simply being called out of the great darkness of our lives and called to Yahweh’s most wonderful truth.

      However, then as time goes on and life continues we tend to sometimes allow our focus to wane and our biblical habits to fade; and unfortunately for some, they even lose their sanctification away from the world through a variety of different means.

It is to all those that I want to write this article, to all those who have been waning and fading and maybe even feeling guilt for not following through as you know you ought to. But, this is not an article of judgment, but one of encouragement. I would like to remind you of the very things, which are our very salvation, that originally gave us that zeal and love for the truth of Yahweh. Yahshua speaks to the congregation of Ephesus and states the following:

Rev 2:4 Nevertheless, I have something against you, because you left your first love.

Rev 2:5 Then remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works. And if not, I am coming to you quickly, and will remove your menorah from its place, unless you repent.

Yahshua admonishes this congregation to renew their first love. They at one time had this true love of Yahweh, Yahshua and His truth, but as I mentioned, the cares of life and other things entering came in and stole that love away. The first thing one must do to recapture their first love is to recollect and remember the things that initially brought them to the truth. Think about finding out the blessing of Yahweh’s true Sabbath for the first time and the many blessings that keeping the Sabbath has brought you throughout your time as a believer.

Think of Yahweh’s Holy Days and the blessing of being a first-fruit, who is privileged in keeping the yearly Passover memorial correctly, and even when we fall that Yahshua still year after year allows us to continue to be a covenant disciple of His.

Think of all the wonderful Sukkots that you have been blessed to partake of, and if you have ever come to Israel before, then thank Him a million times over for being able to even step your foot on the very Promised Land of Yahweh, when so many believers around the world have never had this blessing even once. Think of how blessed your life is that you have been called out of Satan’s sick, warped world of drugs, and alcohol and homosexuality and every evil you can imagine and that you have been called into Yahweh’s marvelous light.

Rev 5:8 And when He took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having harps, and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the saints.

Think of the greatest honor and privilege in life; that as children of Yahweh we can get on our hands and knees anywhere in the world and go directly in prayer to our heavenly Father’s throne and bring our petitions before Him. Think about the fact that when we were called out of darkness to Yahweh’s marvelous light that we had already committed sins worthy of death, and that Yahweh loved us enough that while we were yet sinners He sent His son to die for us and pay the penalty of those sins that we may be righteous before Him (2nd Cor 5:21). Think about how much Yahweh loved us that He would not be ashamed to call us brethren, and even more than that, has chosen each of us to be collectively His very bride at His return.

Whatever we focus on becomes most real to us, and many are focusing on worldly things; and that is why they cannot see the times we are living in, and they are not experiencing the joy and blessing that they should in their lives with the Spirit of Yahweh dwelling in us and setting us apart as sons and daughters of His. Yet, let me admonish each of you that all the signs that Yahshua gave us to see that we are in the end times and the last generation, are upon us. Israel, the fig tree, is a nation again for 69 years now.

Mat 24:32 But learn the parable of the fig tree when its branch becomes tender and it puts out leaves, you know that the summer is near;

Mat 24:33 so also you, when you see all these things, know that it is near at the doors.

Mat 24:34 Truly I say to you, In no way will this generation pass away until all these things have occurred.

Many of the prophecies Yahshua warned about in the Olivet prophecies are coming alive right before our eyes.

Mat 24:3 And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And, what is the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?

Mat 24:4 And answering, Yahshua said to them, See that no man deceives you.

Mat 24:5 For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Messiah. And they will cause many to be deceived.

There has never been such deception and false doctrine ever in the 2,000 year history of the congregation due to the rise of the Internet; and many are falling away and being deceived and even denying Yahshua as Messiah.

Mat 24:6 For you are bound to hear of revolutions and rumor of wars. Watch out and do not be disturbed, for it is necessary that all these things happen, but it is not yet the end.

Mat 24:7 For nation will be raised against nation and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines and plagues and earthquakes against many places.

Mat 24:8 But all these are a beginning of sorrows.

There are currently more wars and revolutions going on worldwide than ever before, and it has exploded in the Middle East with the Arab Spring since the fall of 2010.

Luk 21:11 And there will be severe earthquakes from place to place and famine and plagues. And there will be fears and terrorist acts and great signs will be seen from Heaven. And the winters will be severe.

In the history of the world there has never been so many major earthquakes worldwide, and terror in the last decade has sky-rocketed out of control. Yahshua stated that this generation will be compared to both the days of Noah and the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Gen 6:11 And the earth was corrupt before the Elohim, and the earth was filled with violence.

In the days of Noah the earth was corrupt and filled with violence as we see today. Interesting enough the word for violence in Hebrew is “Hamas”, who is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, so the scripture in the original Hebrew is telling us that Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood would bring violence to the earth in these end times.

It also said that it would be like Sodom and Gomorrah, which were filled with homosexuals, but our time is even worse, because the New World Order is trying to brainwash humans into thinking that this is somehow a normal, natural act, instead of the vile, wicked, perversion; which it is.

Rom 1:24 Because of this, YAHWEH gave them up to filthy lusts of their hearts, and their bodies to be dishonored among themselves,

Rom 1:25 who changed the truth of YAHWEH into the lie, and worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Rom 1:26 Because of this, YAHWEH gave them up to dishonorable passions, for even their females changed the natural use of their sex to that contrary to nature.

Rom 1:27 And so also their males forsook the use of females, which is natural, and burned with lust toward one another, male with male, they did what is shameful, and received in themselves the just recompense of their error.

We are living in these times. Also, it stated above in Luke 21:11 that winters will be severe. No matter where you live on this planet you are seeing that the weather patterns are totally out of whack and each year the winters seem to get worse and worse, even recording the temperature last winter in one place on earth to be 135 degrees below zero.

Mat 24:20 And pray that your flight will not occur in winter nor on the Sabbath.

We no longer need to ask why this scripture states this as we are living in those days. Also, the time for end time Babylon and its system of covetousness and greed is coming to an end.

Jer 25:11 And this whole land shall be a waste and a horror; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jer 25:12 And it shall be, when seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, and the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, says YAHWEH; and I will make it everlasting ruins.

The seventy years of Babylon are nearly over and those living in Babylon, as well as those living in the nations need to start preparing for how the world will be different when Babylon falls; and those living in Babylon need to NOW take serious the 7 direct commands to flee the land of Babylon or take the direct wrath of Yahweh on them.

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice out of Heaven saying, leave the land of her, My people, that you may not share in her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues;

There will be no one who survives in Babylon, not even one.

Jer 50:40 As Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, states YAHWEH, so no man shall live there, nor shall a son of man stay in it.

We have seen signs in the heavens and blood moons on Holy Days as markers as predicted in Joel 2:31 and Luke 21:25. Yahweh also has given us the heavenly sign from the Hebrew Mazzaroth.

The Mazzaroth are the 12 constellations that are on the ecliptic circle that the sun appears in each one for approximately 30 days each year. This yearly procession, each and every year from Creation, has told the plan of Yahweh in the heavenly bodies.

There is also something called the procession of the equinoxes. This is the fact that because of the earth’s wobble on its axis, about every 2000 years or so the earth moves in a way that at the equinox and the beginning of the year, the sun would be in a different constellation. This has told the plan of Yahweh in the heavens from Creation. At Creation the vernal equinox and year started at the constellation of the ox. In Hebrew the ox was the original word picture of the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet called “aleph” and denotes headship and strength as an ox denotes strength.

We also know in Scripture Yahshua is called the “Aleph” and the “Tav”; the aleph being the first letter in the alphabet and the tav being the last letter in the alphabet. The Mazzaroth turned about the time of the making of the covenant with Abraham and at that time the year was now starting when the sun was in the constellation of the ram. We know the ram was Yahweh’s provision to Abraham, instead of his son Isaac, to be sacrificed and was symbolic of Elohim providing His only Son Yahshua as the substitute for each of our sins, if we believe in Him and repent.

Then, when Yahshua was born, the Mazzaroth turned again and the year started when the sun was in the constellation of the fish; the fish being a sign of Yahshua coming and making us fishers of men. Also in Gen 48:16 when Jacob blessed Ephraim and Manasseh he also gave them this blessing.

Gen 48:16 The Messenger that redeemed me from every evil, may He bless the youths; and may my name be called on them, and the name of my father’s Abraham and Isaac, and may they like fishes grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

It is also interesting to note that the symbol of the tribe of both Ephraim and Manasseh is the ox. And now in these last days it is most interesting that the Mazzaroth is in the process of changing again in this coming decade to the sign of the man bearing a vessel as the water pourer. Since it takes more than 2,000 years for each changeover in the Mazzaroth, it takes about 10 years to know for sure the change has occurred. This is clearly showing the Messianic age is ready to emerge and Yahshua, the great King, who has the only true living water, will be pouring it out all over the earth during His millennial reign.

Joh 7:37 Now on the great day, which is the last of the feast (The eighth day), Yahshua was standing and He cried out and said, If a man thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.

Joh 7:38 Anyone who believes in me as the scriptures have said, rivers of living water will flow from his belly.

Rev 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, coming forth out of the throne of YAHWEH and of the Lamb.

Even the pagan astrologers call this constellation ‘Aquarius’ which means water bearer or cup carrier. Clearly by the signs in the heavens Yahweh is showing that the bridegroom is coming out of His chamber.

And let’s not forget about the amazing sign of the Tabernacle of David being found and rebuilt for Messiah’s return.

Amos 9:11 In that day I will raise up the Sukkoth of David that has fallen, and I will wall up its breaks. And I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as the days of old;

But the good news is that Scripture also states the following:

Mat 24:14 And this good news of the Kingdom shall be published in all the earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Yahweh is showing us every sign imaginable that the end times are upon us and the Kingdom of Yahweh is coming very soon. What could be more important in our life than working for Yahweh in this great end time commission of bringing His good news to a world that sorely needs it?

Very soon there will be a famine of the Word of Yahweh and this work from Jerusalem will end.

Amos 8:11 Behold, the days are coming, declares Adonai YAHWEH, that I will send a famine into the land, not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but rather a famine for hearing the Words of YAHWEH.

Amos 8:12 And they shall stagger from sea to sea, and from the north even to east; they shall roam about to seek the Word of YAHWEH, and they shall not find it.

However, right now, Yahweh is putting an open door before us like never before:

Rev 3:8 I know your works. Behold, I have given a door being opened before you, and no one is able to shut it, for you have a little strength and have kept My Word, and have not denied My name.

This door will not stay open forever and when world war comes it will be too late. Remember the warning that Yahshua gave to those invited to the wedding supper who refused to come.

Mat 22:2 The kingdom of Heaven is compared to a man, a king, who made a wedding feast for his son.

Mat 22:3 And he sent his slaves to call those being invited to the wedding feast, but they did not desire to come.

Mat 22:4 Again, he sent other slaves, saying, Tell the ones invited, behold, I have prepared my supper; my oxen, and the fatlings are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast.

Mat 22:5 But they sneered at it and they went away, one to his own field, and one to his trading.

Mat 22:8 Then he said to his slaves, Indeed, the wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy.

Mat 22:9 Then go onto the exits of the highways and call to the wedding feast as many as you may find.

Mat 22:10 And going out into the highways, those slaves gathered all, as many as they found, both evil and good. And the wedding feast was filled with reclining guests.

I am telling you from the bottom of my soul that the time is SHORT and the time to work for Yahweh is NOW! If not, you risk being one of those in the parable above who will miss out on the Kingdom and be thrown in the Lake of Fire. What could be more important than Yahweh’s Kingdom and the many souls out there that still need to hear this good-news message? Let’s look at the story of Queen Esther to put this in perspective.

Est 4:13 And Mordecai said to take back to Esther, Do not imagine within yourself to deliver yourself in the king’s house more than all the Jews.

Est 4:14 For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall rise up to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house shall perish. And who knows if you have attained to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Yes, the rocks will cry out if they have to because the Kingdom of Yahweh is moving ahead and will come to this earth in our very lifetime! Can you imagine that in maybe the next 10-12 years or so that Yahshua will actually be here with us during Sukkot and the Holy Days, right here in Jerusalem leading the services to worship Him and Yahweh.

Each and every Holy Day we keep here in Jerusalem we have what Leviticus 23:7 calls a “holy gathering” and this word can also mean “a rehearsal”. We rehearse with joy and singing and worship in anticipation for our wonderful Savior’s return and the setting up of the Kingdom of Yahweh. What a blessing it is for those who are blessed to be with us each Sukkot as we count down to the one Sukkot that Yahshua will be here in Jerusalem with us.

The time is Now, and Yahweh has called each of us according to the ability He gave each of us. How do you know if your whole purpose for living and being called by Yahweh, and that everything you have gone though in your life until now is, as it states in Esther, “FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS?!”

Thank You Yahweh for calling each of us, and thank You Yahshua for Your love and mercy and grace; to have suffered and paid the penalty for our sins. May we work to bear fruit for that soon coming Kingdom while it is still called day, as the night comes soon where no man will work (John 9:4) and may we use the gifts that Yahweh has given to each of us for Yahweh’s Kingdom, for such a time as this. Come Master Yahshua, Come!

Rev 22:20 The One testifying these things says, Yes, I am coming quickly. Amen. Yes, come, Master Yahshua!