The Crown is being made right now in Jerusalem!!!

A Golden Crown for the one who comes.

I don't know how many believers know that the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem have commissioned that a crown of gold is made for the soon arrival of a Messiah. Now it is important to know that the Jews believe that two Messiahs shall arrive soon, Messiah ben Joseph, the one to lead their armies against their enemies but he shall be killed during the battle but not to fear for another Messiah, the Messiah ben David who shall restore all things, beginning with the restoration to life of Messiah ben Joseph. The golden crown will be given to Messiah ben David and he shall be king over all the earth. 

Does this sound familiar? Revelation chapter 6 verse 2 says " And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was GIVEN unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer." Note that a crown was given unto him. I contend that the crown was not given to him from Heaven but rather was bestowed on him from the grateful Jews who do not fully understand that this man is there to wipe them out after convincing them that he is their Messiah with wonders and miracles. Revelation 13:3 says, " And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded unto death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." When the Messiah ben David heals and restores back to life the Messiah ben Joseph perhaps this is the time he is given the crown of a ruler. 

The problem the Jews currently have is that they believe GOD is one and He has no son, they do not comprehend the triune nature of GOD. God is as Jesus (Yeshua) stated one but GOD and that He, Jesus, came to us from out of the Father. I explain to those who asked that GOD can do anything and becoming a fleshly man is certainly not beyond the power of GOD Almighty. Think of water, when frozen it is solid, when it is hot it becomes a vapor when it is not hot or cold it is in a state of liquid. GOD the Father is Spirit thus vapor, God the Son is solid and presented Himself in human form, God the Holy Spirit is as water flowing from the livings waters of the throne of God to all creation. The Jews will soon realize that the one who holds the crown they gave him is not who they thought he was but rather the enemy in sheep's clothing, the who presents himself as an angel of light.  All the believers will be taken up before this occurs so the Jews and the those who dwell on the earth will see the revealing of GOD's Word on their own. Their opportunity for the revelation of GOD's Truth is now and Salvation is freely given to them now but if they are not going to turn to GOD right now and receive HIS gift of Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness through a simple belief that Yeshua is exactly who HE claimed to be then GOD will allow them to suffer under the one they all freely choose for themselves. That time will be terrible but those left to suffer have openly turned their backs on GOD's free gift.

If you don't think the end times are upon us then you need to re-evaluate your understanding of the things that happening right now on this earth for a crown is being made, for presentation in the coming weeks. The belief that one Messiah will raise another from the dead certainly appears to be a direct reflection of Revelation 13:3. Something to think about but the time is short so get your heart, mind, soul and body ready for the soon arrival of the King of Kings, Praise GOD in all things. I love I hope and pray this touches someone's heart and kindles a flame of passion finding the Truth of the Word of GOD.

It Is Time To Pray in Earnst and Seek The Face of GOD

A dark and heavy spiritual pressure is seemingly building week by week and I sometimes succumb to the continual onslaught and find my myself crying out to my Lord and Savoir "please come soon." When this happens I stop the building process and find a chair, box, step-ladder anything with a flat spot and sit myself down and begin to pray.

The last time this happened was last week and it was so overwhelming that I began to shake and the tears rolled down my cheeks and soaked my shirt. Why did this happen? I was having a great day doing remodelling work to my house, the tile is getting done faster the wall preparations for paint (lots of wallpaper in this house), new cabinet doors, sheet rock going up smoothly and mudded everything was going just fine when I was hit by this overwhelming pressure of sadness as it enveloped me and physically pushed me to the ground.

As prayed asking the Lord to hear my pray I recieved nothing, no little voice, no infilling of gladness and happiness, no great lifting of my heart but rather a deeper and deeper sadness. Why? I asked why is this happening to me is it the dark forces around me tryng to bring me low and make me miserable? Part of the problem was as I precieved and then I hear and see in my minds eye the wordly secular condition of my country and our people and the world and her people all seemingly caught up in the world's day to day living around them and never looking to GOD. It was like holding a rope only to finally notice the rope getting smaller. Of coarse not everyone is in this sad state of affairs, there are many brothers and sisters in the WORD that are living a wonderful and loving exisistence where GOD comes first and they live day to day and seek only that which is pleasing to the LORD but they know what is pleasing to GOD because they study HIS WORD and seek his face and counsel every moment of everyday.

I see so many more people , young and old, who do not seek GOD through HIS WORD and through prayer and this has caused a dimming of the spiritual skies above me and around me, not a visible thing most days but some days the oppression is as thick as a fog and heavy like a wet blanket on my spirit and soul. When this occurs I am compelled to fall to my knees and prayer overtakes me and I ask why?, well, the answer I hear most often is "because they need it".

Then I always ask, "When are you are retuning to this world? When will the people see you are who you say you are? When will this darkness be vanquished and blinders removed and ears opened?" and the answer I hear is "SOON"

Each passing day this world produces another shock or surprize that will shake your faith but do not allow yourselves to fall in a downward spiral of deception for those are tools of the devil. GOD is here and JESUS is standing at the gates of Heavens awaiting that day soon when HE and and HIS angels will gather together HIS people and remove us from harms way, just as HE did for Noah and Lot. Be faithful and hear HIS WORD and see HIS works, for you are surround by HIS glory and never truly see it all, take time to be with HIM and HE will strengthen your soul and spirit.

What is happening in the world is just water beginning to boil and it is moving about the things upon the surface, a louder warning is coming and soon the world will begin to wonder. We who are under HIS cloak have nothing to fear for fear cannot exist where there is HIS light and that light is showing us a great door soon to be opened and the path beyond leads us back to Garden where a great feast will be held.

May GOD Bless you all and fill your hearts with awe and wonder and always consider how HE has blessed each and everyone of you for you are a miracle to behold.

New Understanding of "The Great Falling Aaway"

I have been back and forth on the "Rapture", which would be better called "The Gathering" for many years. My studies have taken me from my childhood understanding of God's refinery where raw gold is processed through a series of furnaces to melt and seperate the slag, or that which is not gold is brought to the surface of the molten gold and scraped off and thrown away. After many refining furnaces the gold is pure through and through and suitable for use as an instrument to be used in God's house, because has no sin in Him and wil not allow sin to enter His home. Exactly where this original idea sprouted I do not recall but I have had that vision in my mind since I was about 10 years old. When I became older and studied the Word of God more deeply and began to meet other Christians I began to see the correlations between this refining process and the "Born Again" understanding of renewing ones spirit through the help and guidance of the Spirit of God. For once one seeks the Truth a starting point must be found and that starting point will by God's Grace be pointedly disturbing when His Spirit displays the real existing you as God sees you. When I saw the real flawed and filthy condition God saw me in I began to grow expotentially because the truth of my life was before me and the desire God has for me were very different. To get to this position I had to breakdown and seek God because I finally saw I knew nothing though my intellect and intelligence and my ability to search out the truth lead me into a darker and darker circle of lies and deception about all things. I have seen many reach this place but have not turned to God and therefore they maintain their position in an ever spirilling downward while considering their intelligence and intellect being superior because of the knowledge of this world they have gained. They do not see that there are no conclusive answers they can find only more questions. Like being caught up in a slow turning, yet powerful, vortex of water descending drain they never reach out for the life vests tied to the rock around them simply because they don't believe they can be real because they are spiritual and therefore just crazy cerebral imaginings. Sad to see someone bypass a lifeline thinking they make it to shore under their own power.

Back to the "The Gathering" of the Saints and Souls who trust in the Lord Yahshua (Jesus). I have been pondering this gathering for years and the day before yesterday I had an epipheny when I had a serious crying and shaking breakdown asking the Lord what will become of me for I am surrounded by so many problems and it was becoming overwhelming. Well, I didn't get a big boost of an answer but rather a boost of strength and committment to see it through no matter what but hours later after having addressed many of the issues before and seeing them getting smaller and smaller I was lead to sit and contemplate the Word. That Word basically said to go online and I will show you a message to calm your mind and give you confidence in my "Gathering" together my people. The message was simple and something I do quite regularly and that is to sit down with my Bibles, Concordances, Interlinears, Dictionaries search out a word.

Apostasia was the word I was given and the search was on. "The Great Falling Away" as it has become known to the modern hearer.


1611 King James Bible
2 Thessolonians 2:3 "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition"


1599 Geneva Bible
1 "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our assembling unto him,

2 That ye be not suddenly moved from your mind, nor troubled neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as it were from us, as though the day of Christ were at hand.

3 Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a departing first, and that the man of sin be disclosed, even the son of perdition,".

History comes into play here when we consider King James and his interpretation. Remember that King James and England, Scotland had been going through a very tramatic period of history when we remember Henry VIII andhis desention from the Catholic church and burning at the stake and beheadings the people of England suffered during this change. After his death the protestant Queen Elizabeth I took the throne, after some confusion, of England and her Catholic cousin Queen Mary of Scotland took the throne of Scotland and tried to force catholisism on the protestants of Scotland. This did not please Elizabeth I of England and she actively tried to undermine all Mary's efforts eventually driving Mary south for protection from her protestant subjects to her fellow Queen and cousin only to find herself imprisoned and eventually beheaded. When Elizabeth died King James VI of Scotland became James the 1st of England and took the throne of England and began the compiling of the King James Bible. As a Protestant King James wanted suppress all opposition from any and all religious leaders in the country and establish himslek as did Henry VIII as the Head of the Church of England a protestant church and protestant England. I believe the King took some liberties, as is documented in history, with some of the wording being employed in the new English Bible and one of those interpretations was the the reframing of the word Apostasia into stright up Apostacy. This has become accepted throughout the years and has influenced many other Bible versions. Today it is quite common and thought that "The Great Falling Away" from the faith is what this Greek word means and meant. Not so Fast.

Greek is an inflected language, look it up, and therefore can see sematic shifts easily. As an example awful used to mean filled with awe now it means dreadful. Over time words can shift meaning depending on the times. Well, Apostacy is a word taken directly from Greek but there are many, many words in Greek that can use the same term but convey a similar but different meaning. "Apo" in Greek means; from, moving away from something near and "stasia" means spot, space or position. Depending on the context in which the word is used it can mean moving away from a formerly held position or moving from a physical place or spot.

Look this up yourself and understand that the same word is used

Timothy 2:19 "having put away" Apotheomia

Luke 4:13 "he departed from him" Aphistema

Acts 12:10 "the angel departed from him" Aphistema

2 Cor 12:8 "that it might depart from me" Aphistema

Acts 22:29 "then straightway they departed from him" Aphistema

These are just a few examples of the word Apostasia in different form meaning physically depart. The King James Bible is a great Bible but some liberties were taken here and there to influence the people that a falling away of the faith of The Church of England was biblical and therefore should not be considered (consider the times). In actuality Apostasia, the word used in that text of 2 Thessolonians 2:3 but it is also the same word used in the interpreted text of the Geneva Bible of 1599 and was there strictly used as the Greek definition states, "except there come a departing first". I believe the Geneva Bible correctly interpreted the intended meaning of the Greek word and this is Christian world changing.

Now consider the whole text Paul is conveying;

2Th 2:1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away (departure from this place) first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Taken in this context it can be seen that that this verse stand to support the verse where

2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

I believe this is speaking of the Holy Spirit that enfills men and women of God and that when the Holy Spirit of God is taken out of the way then the man of sin is revealed. In other words the departure from this place must first occur in order for the Beast to be fully revealed. I think Paul was telling us that a "Rapture" or "Gathering together" will be accomplished first leaving the world without the Holy Spirit of God about them, the one that restains the evil.

James 1:16

"Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren."

Take it as you may but I found great serenity and comfort knowing the we are NOT appointed to wrath, either by the Lamb, by GOD, or by the devil.

I know this not a completed study by any means but I was compelled to write it and put it before the people who are still questioning.

TV isn't innocent any longer

For those who find and entertain ghost programming and read your horoscopes daily and consult with mediums please be aware of the consequences. I know now because I too thought this harmless until now.
It will be through these mediums that taking the Mark of the Beast shall be seen as acceptable and following a new Sunday Law shall appear as harmless.

Deuteronomy of Abominations to GOD

Deu 18:9
 
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

Deu 18:10

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Deu 18:11

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Deu 18:12

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Deu 18:13

Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Ecclesiastes on being dead

Ecc 9:5

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecc 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Ecc 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Ecc 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Job on the grave

Job 14:12

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

Job 14:13

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 14:14

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Matthew on the narrow gate

Matthew 7:13

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Matthew 7:14

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it

 

What is Apostasy in the Modern World?

I have heard numerous times from those who no longer attend any form of church because what they hear from the pulpit just doesn't ring true within their hearts or they just don't see any immediate benefit by continual attendance. I can understand those who turn away because the Word never really penetrated the layers secular thought being taught daily. When the Word doesn't fully take hold of an individual it is generally because the seed of the Word has fallen on desert sands or poisoned earth, a product of the individual mind set and the pollution one has absorbed throughout their lives. This is a very sad state and indicative of one continues to go through live in a small row boat with no oars and simply drift where the current current takes them and that destination is usually the rocks, again very sad when we as Christians know that not only are oars available to those who ask but outboard motors are ready to be installed on your little lifeboat once you understand that the knowledge of God and the love of Jesus are starting place for all real wisdom. People need to understand that this falling away or great apostasy is spoken of and prophesied to occur during these end days. This falling away is another sigh that all things are converging on a single point in time when all will be revealed.  Be encouraged by these signs and know that those who hold fast run the race to completion will see the throne of God. 

I want to simply point out to those who say "I used to be Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, etc. etc." or "I used to attend church but just don't go any longer because...well I just didn't see the point any more in light of the discovers made in modern times." This is a falling away, a falling away for any reason is still an apostasy, so any testing of ones faith during this period is truly the refining of the gold ore gathered. When the apostasy is complete we who are still standing in the faith will be the nuggets gathered to present before God. Life is a refinery with the individual being in control of the gathering to themselves the gold dust and small nuggets of the Truth found during ones search for the face of God. Pretty simple really, you get to build that temple within yourself with the guidance and help of the Holy Spirit if you will but accept the hand that reaches down to help lift you from the natural morass found on this earth.

Apostasy in Christianity refers to the rejection of Christianity by someone who formerly was a Christian. The term apostasy comes from the Greek word apostasia ("ἀποστασία") meaning defection, departure, revolt or rebellion. It has been described as "a willful falling away from, or rebellion against, Christianity. Apostasy is the rejection of Christ by one who has been a Christian.

Luke 8:11–13 – Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.

1 Timothy 4:1 – But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. 
Hebrews 3:12–14 – Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

When people say that they no longer attend any sort of church services but convince themselves they are still spiritual is like saying " I no longer display the American flag on the 4th of July because I just don't feel it but I still recognize the date on the calendar"  and I'm sure all of those around your neighborhood still recognize you as a flag waving patriot even though you no longer wave a flag on that special day. People are not good recognizing that which they cannot see, help them to see.  

September 2015 A Pivotal Time

Every day I am being inundated with the notion that September 2015 is going to be a very important and pivotal time period for all mankind but it will be especially important for Christians who know and observe the 7 Feasts of God.

The 7th shmittah year of the 7th shmittah cycle (almost 2 thousand years) will end 13 September 2015, according to the dating methods I have been using, and this alone will portend the dramatic failure of our economic system here in America or it could be the start of a compounding failure in the world economic system. I could even be a year off but with the Blood Moons falling on the God's Holy Feast Days I doubt that this conclusion is wrong.

The shmittah is just the beginning. Between now (May 12, 2015) and September I expect to see many more large earthquakes around the world, maybe more tsunami's, large drought stricken areas in the US and abroad which will lead to massive fires and this in turn will lead to much higher food costs and thus beginning a worldwide famine where food stuffs will have to be rationed. The wars will escalate, the unrest here at home will increase and cities across the land will find themselves fighting to keep order. 

Over the next few years I do expect an increase in meteor activity and an increase in the size of the meteors falling to the earth and actually exploding upon arrival, volcanic activity will increase dramatically over the next couple of years where we have a least 20 volcano's spitting fire, smoke and lava on a consistent basis. I know the Catholic astronomers at their Binocular telescope in Arizona (atop a cursed mountain top, as per Apache Indian Lore) which they have called Lucifer (what kind of name is that to give an instrument used by the biggest so called God fearing church in the world, makes you wonder) have said that they are tracking something headed this way, what is headed this way? 

New discoveries in the fields of paleoarchaeology, paleoanthropology and perhaps even microbiology will indeed assault the Christians and our basic beliefs but don't allow your mind to be addled with secular points of persuasion because they may look good on the surface but under pinning it all will be a lie. This may be one of the factors contributing to the great apostasy to come shortly. 

Born Again Bible believing Christians will become the central figures in a campaign to find the fault plaguing the world and it will be determined that Christians are so hard headed and stiff necked about God's Word that it will be told that these Christians are the ones keeping the world from peace and therefore they must be isolated, despised, undermined and their beliefs must be disposed of it the world is to advance to it man made Utopia on earth.

Hillary Clinton has already come out publicly and declared that Christians who think abortion is a sin and against the laws of God are wrong minded and need to adjust their thinking to accommodate abortion for all women and she will of course say that the taxpayer dollars will pay for it. She says she is a Christian but how is that possible, it is not, she is a liar, no one who obeys God's Commandment would ever say God is wrong about killing innocents and that she knows better and she says it's OK. To condone that which God has condemned is to condemn oneself.

Everything that we see today that shocks us, like Hillary's comments on abortion, the racism of the left and the attacks on Christians and our beliefs will only continue to expand and increase with great rapidity over the coming year. 

The Rapture could be this September but I never assume anything in God's plan but be assured that the "come up here" will be soon. For the sake of your soul look up and ask God, "Who am I?" "Why am I here?" "What is my purpose in this life?" and you may be surprised when the quite little voice whispers that you are a creation of God and you are here to grow in knowledge and learn the ways of God, and finally that the purpose of your life is to save that life the only way you can, thru Christ Jesus.

Time is running out and you have to make a stand if you believe God and Believe in His Son Jesus you'll want others to become aware and save themselves. God's love will sustain you and give you the power to bring the Word to those who just don't know.

September 2015-2016

How many Christians know what September 2015 will bring or for that matter September 2016. If you seek the Lord then you will get off your butts and seek the Truth that GOD has given you within the Scriptures. You need not be in shock if you are knowledgeable of GOD's WORD. Knowledge is increasing by leaps and bounds, be apart of this outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the end days.

I'll write more on this issue, its my job as a believer.

America is safer than 6 years ago?

It is not a deadly and virulent virus problem America has with the advent of Ebola within the borders but rather a messaging problem the White House has expressing how well they are handling the situation so therefore the reasoning behind the hiring of a bureaucratic liberal lawyer lobbyist. Even the Ebola threat is not seen as a problem for the American people but rather a political problem for the President overcome politically through proper messaging to the public. Let me paraphrase, The President has said that "we must contain and eliminate the epidemic in East Africa but we must maintain a corridor of free travel for those within the so called containment area." So in essence he has said "We must contain the virus but we must set it free", What?  wait a minute, What? This is nonsensical rubbish. This rubbish is the platform of the current administration and the same rubbish that is being passed on to the public through media channels (propaganda wing) as real intelligence and real logic in action. If this is acceptable to the American people then we are doomed. I sometimes wonder if the President and his advisers are sitting around a table and wondering what more must they do to confirm to the American people that the President has no love or patriotism for the United States and just doesn't care what happens here, as long as it is bad then apparently the President is fine with that. Wake up America, this administration is here to fundamentally change America into something that is only recognizable in eastern Europe. The Bible says there will be evil in high places of government in the end times and I don't think He was talking about Malta. If you think you what evil is then you are in for rood awakening because it gets a lot worse from here on out.

America needs to return to God now if we expect any change in our country for the good of the nation. 

Who Owns the World?

There 43,000 International Companies in this world and those international companies are owned by 730 international shareholders and of those 730 international shareholders 161 are the richest people on earth and those 161 individuals and those 161 people control 93% of the worlds wealth, power and products but in America we are told that the rich and powerful that have influence and control in our world are those who have $200,000 in gross income per year. I guess the Mom and Pop candy store downtown are the real evil people in our America, really? When you own the world’s mass media outlets you can have the finger pointed at those who truly are the engine that makes the world work and thrive, stop the engine, create a new paradigm and gain more power, simple equation and a foregone conclusion. 

The Prophetic Picture of Feasts and Holy Days

THE MEANING OF PASSOVER

 Salvation comes by the atoning blood of Israel's promised Sacrifice Lamb

“God will provide Himself, a Lamb". (Gen.22:8)

On the 14th day of Nisan

The sacrifice lamb is slain. The blood of atonement upon the door brings salvation as the death angel passes overhead. It is the eve of the Passover. The epic Exodus that follows sees God's covenant people delivered from the bondage of Egypt.

This was the Old Covenant fulfillment of Passover for national salvation.

On the 14th day of Nisan

In 33 A.D., on the eve of Passover, Yeshua is crucified. The blood of the promised Sacrifice Lamb is shed. This is the redemption God has provided. It brings salvation to His covenant people, delivering them from the bondage of sin and death.

This is the New Covenant fulfillment of Passover for personal salvation.

THE MEANING OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD 

The unleavened "Bread of Heaven" is the sinless and accepted sacrifice.

Leaven, a type of sin, was removed from the dwellings. Then at twilight, as the 14th day of Nisan was ending, the Passover lambs were slain. Sunset initiated the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Nisan 15 was a "high day", a non-Saturday Sabbath. Bread baked without yeast was eaten during the seven days of the feast.

Sunset began the 15th day of Nisan. Jesus was buried, just in time for the Feast of Unleavened Bread. But in the grave His body did not decay or see corruption. That Passover the sinless unleavened 'Bread of Heaven' was revealed as that long awaited perfect sacrifice for sin. Thus He fulfilled the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

THE MEANING OF THE FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS 

 After a cold barren winter new life breaks forth. On the 17th day of the Nisan moon the first fruits of the barley harvest was gathered and waved before the Lord in celebration.

On the 17th day of Nisan in 33 A.D. Jesus rises up from the grave. He is the first fruits from the dead. On that very day He fulfilled the feast. 

THE MEANING OF THE FEAST OF PENTECOST 

 50 days counted out from First fruits is Shavuot or Pentecost. God comes down to His covenant people in an earthshaking day of visitation. It is a betrothal leading into magnificent future glories.

Old Testament Fulfillment

50 days from the day the First fruits of the barley harvest was waved before the Lord, (50 days from the morrow after the Sabbath after Passover), is Shavuot or the Day of Pentecost. Rabbinic scholars believe that it was on this day that God visited His people after their exodus from Egypt and through Moses, brought the Law down from Mount Sinai. This earthshaking day of visitation, trembling, and betrothal is the birthday of the nation of Israel. Moses brings down the Torah or Law for the nation. Because of sin 3,000 die under the Law that day. The Old Covenant is a national covenant between YHVH-God and His covenant people. And so the nation of Israel was established. They agree to follow Him in devotion and obedience. In spite of past failures the nation of Israel will indeed be restored. The Jewish House of Judah will be saved and the throne of David in Judah will be established upon this earth under Messiah. But that is not all. The lost sheep of the House of Israel, the lost ten tribes of Israel, will be found and brought back home to Israel again. (See Ezek.37). The nation and Kingdom of Israel along with Messiah's  Melchizedek Priesthood will be fully restored as a single Elect and Chosen people. The Old Covenant and the Law has not been "done away with" as we have been told. Both estranged houses of Israel will embrace Messiah. Then with their partial blindness healed they will rediscover each other at the end of this age to restore the Union in both Righteousness, (the royal national burden of the Jews), and in Grace, (the holy priestly burden of the Church). Both Houses of Israel are being sifted through the nations. Those being saved are bringing many companions home to Israel with them. (See  Ezekiel 37:15-28) The nation will be reunited and regathered as that Commonwealth of Israel spoken of by our Apostle Paul. (See Eph. 2:12-13). Restored Israel is destined to be cross-linked together as that "royal priesthood and holy nation spoken of by both Moses and by the Apostle Peter. (See  Exod. 19:6, and  1Pet.2:9). The Old Covenant God made with the nation of Israel and the righteous rule of Israel’s Messiah upon this earth is in the heart of the Jewish House of Judah. YHVH-God's righteous rule will surely come and the nation of Israel will be restored, but only under Messiah and not by might or by power. The restoration will not come by a seducing religious humanism or by the military might of a crusading Church Dominionism). It will come by God's Holy Spirit. (See Zechariah 4). The New Covenant is established soul by soul and silently in the gentle bonds of love and devotion as Messiah is received into human lives. It is by YHVH's Grace through faith that His Law is written into the hearts. The prophet Jeremiah spoke of this mystery. See Jer. 31:31. See also Hebrews 8:8-12. The prophet Zechariah saw the Jewish House of Judah in Israel repenting and receiving Messiah rather late, even as Jerusalem was surrounded by armies at the close of this age. See Zechariah 12:7-13:1.

New Testament Fulfillment

50 days from the day the First fruits of the barley harvest was waved before the Lord, (that is 50 days from the morrow after the weekly (Saturday) Sabbath after Passover), in the summer of the year of Yeshua's passion, YHVH-God visits His people by His Holy Spirit. This is another earthshaking day of visitation and betrothal. But on this occasion God's Presence is not as unapproachable as on the former visitation back at Sinai. Moses had ordered 12 boundary markers placed around the foot of the mountain to hold back the people lest the fire of God flash out upon them. Amidst the thundering and lightning God came down as a consuming fire and blackened the entire summit. Only Moses could stand in God's Presence. Mount Sinai has recently been discovered east of the Gulf of Aquaba in the former land of Midian, (now Saudi Arabia).  The real Mount Sinai with many accompanying archaeological proofs of its authenticity is Jabal el Lawz, now hidden from the world behind security fences and armed guards of the Saudi military forces. Back at Sinai it was a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. But this next Pentecostal visitation was quite different. Tongues of fire descended from heaven to rest upon consecrated individuals gathered to wait upon God. All of them had received Messiah and had come to know Him in a personal way in the New Covenant. And just as Moses had seen the burning bush that was not consumed by the fire now came down and rested upon the 120 in the upper room, not to consume them but to fill them with the Holy Spirit and bathe them in the glory of God. This day of wonder sees the Holy Spirit descend in a splendid flooding wave. This was the beginning of the Holy Spirit outpouring. And Joel saw this coming to a peak at the 6th seal at the very end of the latter days. See Joel 2:28-32. The revival spreads out from the Jerusalem epicenter as the disciples go out into the streets of the city proclaiming the Good News of salvation. Whereas 3,000 had died under the Law on the previous visitation 3,000 are now saved by Grace as the Apostle Peter preaches to the crowds coming up to the Feast. And so on this awesome day in holy history, the 7th day of Sivan on the Hebrew calendar, the Feast of Pentecost comes to its appointed New Covenant fulfillment. The Feast of Pentecost, the fourth of the Seven Feasts of Israel is taken up to the next level. It becomes the birthday of the Church. The Holy Spirit revival spreads out from Jerusalem into Judea, Samaria, and thence onward to the utmost parts of the world. This was that promised Light to the Gentiles Isaiah spoke about (See  Isaiah 49:6). The ensuing 2,000 years sees Israel's Messiah continuing to 'call out' His 'ekklesia', His Congregation, by His Holy Spirit. The Good News of the Gospel overflows Israel and spreads out into the gentile nations and YHVH-God's Covenant people expand out of Israel to become a global Congregation (or "Church"), even as Israel's Jordan river overflows its banks all the days of the harvest.

THE MEANING OF THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS   (The very next feast due to be fulfilled)

The annual religious celebration, the shofar (rams horn) is blown at the western wall on the new moon of Tishrei to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets.

In the autumn of the year and on the first day of the Tishrei moon trumpets are blown to announce the Hebrew holiday of Rosh Hashanah. Biblical Christians refer to it as the Feast of Trumpets. It is the 5th of the Seven Feasts of Israel. The ultimate New Covenant fulfillment of this future Jewish New Year, (Tishrei 1 on the Hebrew calendar), will be spectacular beyond words. The feast will explode into holy history. And it will be a blockbuster. Moses declared and prophesied that it would become a "memorial of blowing of trumpets" (Lev. 23:24,25) It seems that many faithful saints will suffer at the hands of the powers when they blow the trumpet of alarm on Yom Teruah, that awesome future Rosh Hashanah.  (Ezek.33) That epic coming feast day will see the faithful watchmen of Israel faithful to the call. And "they will not be silent". This 5th feast was instituted by Moses at Sinai approximately 3,500 years ago. It marks the first day of the Hebrew (civil) new year. 'Rosh Hashanah' means 'head of the year'. The Feast of Trumpets is the first of the three, yet to be fulfilled, Fall Feasts of Israel. These Autumn Feasts relate to Kingdom/political issues rather than the High Priestly/religious matters that we saw Messiah address in the spring feasts during His first coming 2,000 years ago. Back then we saw Him ride into Jerusalem on a donkey as the 'Suffering Servant'. But when Messiah returns this next time He will come as the Conquering King.  After Trumpets on Tishrei 1 comes the "Ten days of awe" which lead on to Yom Kippur on Tishrei 10 which is the  Day of Atonement. This is the most solemn day of the year. On this awesome Day of Reckoning all accounts between YHVH-God and all His covenant people are settled. The Jubilee Year is also announced on this same tenth day of Tishri. Trumpets are also blown during special times of national crisis. God's covenant people are summoned to gather themselves together in a solemn assembly before the God of Israel. Trumpets are sounded during battle in times of warfare. Trumpets also announce the approach and soon arrival of a king.

On a future Rosh Hoshanah, on the new moon of Tishrei, the shofars will begin to sound on a day like no other. The ultimate epic future Feast of Trumpets will burst onto the world stage and into holy history. This will be an awesome day of mixed celebration and alarm. YHVH-God's determined times for Daniel's Prophecy of the 70 Weeks will resume in earnest. All of God's covenant people from  both houses of Israel will be "called out", summoned to solemn assembly at YHVH-God's new and revamped 'ekklesia', His new 'congregation', 'synagogue', or 'church' of the  70th Week". The saints will be crying out to God and this will spark the climactic End-Time Revival that Joel saw, (Joel 2:28,29,30,31,32).We now have very  strong evidence that this future Rosh Hashanah will mark the terminus of the "Roadmap to Peace". This will be the day when Israel signs the seven year peace covenant written about in Daniel 9:27. Israel will agree to divide and sell the Holy Land and their national sovereignty for a pocketful of promises of "peace and safety".  Moses spoke of this final dalliance of Israel and predicted the ensuing Great Tribulation. Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, said that they would reject Him who came in His Father's Name and said that His covenant people would consort with a  false messiah, a man who came "in his own name" (John 5:43).  Seven momentous years will then bring in the end-time witness. Then comes the final awesome Day of Atonement. Trumpets of Jubilee will herald the opening of the Day of the Lord which opens on the very next day. Angels of wrath will pluck up the wicked as tares for the fires. (Mat.13:30) At some unknown time in those ensuing days before the Feast of Tabernacles comes into its fulfillment the last trumpet will sound and all of God's Elect, (singular), will be gathered. The climactic future Resurrection will see Messiah gather His Chosen from the nation of Israel and from among the heathen gentiles. All the saints, the quick and the dead, from every nation, race, and tribe, from both sides of Calvary will be there. And they will all enter the glory together. (Isa. 49:6 and 1Thes. 4:15, 16, 17).

In Conclusion

The Feasts and Holy Days of Israel and the Jewish people are a direct and clear picture of the Salvation God has promised the believers in the atoning Blood of His Sacrificial Lamb. If this is a direct and clear picture of the promise then the words the His Prophets have given us are also meant has clear and direct information to us for growth and knowledge. To understand the Scriptures you simply must read them with a perspective that they are truly relevant and great impact on your understanding. The signs in the heavens all make sense if you remove yourself from man’s understanding and accept that man’s understanding is very limited and leaves in a state of confusion and leads most people to give up trying, you just cannot mix oil and water and see clearly. There are only two points of view, God’s view and man’s view, I trust God to tell me the Truth.

If you know the Bible this will help you understand End Times Prophecy

I know I mentioned Jewish Feasts and Holy Days so here is a little synopsis of what they currently are and is based on the foods.

 I will do another Feast Day overview so you can see where these days fit into the prophetic picture of Old Testament and New Testament but I must get my 1959 F100 back on the road first.

Shabbat

Shabbat is considered the most important of all Jewish holidays. It is the day of rest and weekly observance of God's completion of creation. Starting on Friday night an hour before sunset, it lasts for 25 hours until sunset on Saturday night.

Rosh Hashanah

During the fall when the days begin to shorten and the leaves begin to change, Jewish tradition encourages us to look inward as we prepare for the New Year ahead. The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) is a holiday marked by festive meals with foods symbolizing our hopes for the new year—such as apples dipped in honey for a sweet new year and pomegranates for a year of plenty—and a day spent in prayer or quiet meditation.

Yom Kippur

The most solemn day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement offers an entire day devoted to self–examination. Many spend the day in synagogue devoted to prayer and study while abstaining from food and drink. The goal is to begin the New Year with a clean slate.

Sukkot

This seven–day festival celebrates the fall harvest and also commemorates the time when the Hebrews dwelt in the Sinai wilderness on their way to the Promised Land of Israel. The holiday is celebrated by building (and then dwelling in) ceremonial huts called Sukkot, waving of four different plant species (palm, myrtle, willow and citron), and many food-filled festive gatherings in the Sukkah.

Shemini Atzeret

This holiday literally means the “8th day of assembly.” It is a festive day after the week-long festival of Sukkot, and is marked by the annual prayer for rain recited in synagogue. In Israel and in liberal (Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal) communities outside of Israel it is combined with the holiday of Simchat Torah.

Simchat Torah

Simchat Torah marks the end and the beginning of the annual Torah reading cycle. Every week all over the world, the same Torah portion is read in Jewish communities. On Simchat Torah the cycle ends and begins again. This is accompanied by parading the Torah scrolls about and with singing and dancing.

Hanukkah

This beloved 8–day Jewish winter festival celebrates the miracle of a small cruse of oil when it burned for 8 days, instead of only one. It also celebrates the military victory of the Jewish Maccabees over the powerful Syrian Greek army in 167 BCE. The victory was followed by a rededication (Hanukkah) of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. It is from this act that the holiday gets its name.

Tu B’Shevat

This is the Jewish New Year of the Trees. Observances include planting of trees, purchasing trees to be planted in Israel, and a mystical Tu B'Shevat ritual meal that includes different colored wine (from white to red) and different kinds of fruits and nuts.

Hamentashen Purim

The name of this holiday means “lots”, so named for the lots that were drawn to determine a dark day in Jewish history. As luck would have it, those dark days never arrived, as the evil villian's plans were thwarted by the clever Jewish Queen Esther, whose story is recounted in the Biblical Scroll of Esther. Celebrations include a public reading of the scroll, giving gifts to friends and to the needy, dressing up in costume, eating a special triangle-shaped pastry, the hamantaschen, and the drinking of alcohol for those of drinking age.

Matzah Passover

This seven or eight day festival of freedom marks the Hebrew exodus from Egypt long ago. The story is told during a festive ritual meal called a “Seder.” During the festival, it is traditional to abstain from all foods containing leaven; that is, foods made from grain that have not been prepared according to a strict Passover cooking procedure. Among the grain foods that are permitted is matzah, an unleavened bread that is baked before it has a chance to rise.

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day)

Jews all over the world mourn the loss of six million Jewish lives lost during the Holocaust as part of Hitler's genocidal “Final Solution.”

Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day)

On this Memorial Day, we commemorate the soldiers who have fallen fighting for Israel’s independence and defending its security. This holiday falls the day before Israel's Independence Day.

Yom HaAtzmaut (Israeli Independence Day)

This holiday celebrates the independence of the Modern State of Israel. In Israel the day of Yom HaAtzmaut is marked with fireworks, barbeques, and outdoor revelry. For Jewish communities outside of Israel it is a time to gather and celebrate our pride and connection to the Jewish homeland.

Lag B’Omer

This holiday marks the 33rd day of the 49-day “Omer” period between Passover and Shavuot. This 7 week period called “the Omer” is traditionally a quiet time on the Jewish calendar, but Lag B’Omer, which occurs on the 33rd day is an exception. Bonfires, outdoor parties and revelry rule the day, which is also a popular Jewish wedding date.

Shavuot

Shavuot is the holiday celebration of the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people. The celebration of Shavuot is also the Festival of First Fruits and Grains, a fulfillment of the promise of spring. The name means “weeks”, so named for the 7-week period from Passover to Shavuot.

Tisha B’Av

An important fast day in the Jewish calendar is Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av. The day commemorates the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE and 70 CE.

Tu B’Av

Held six days after the fast day of Tisha B’Av comes a festival of love! A popular wedding date, the day is celebrated in the best way possible with wine, chocolate and roses!

Truth's Foundation Comes From GOD not Men

I want to start by saying that there was a time that I allowed myself to be lead by the teachings of modern men, priests, pastors, preachers, theologians, evangelicals etc. At the time it was simply easier for me to trust in those I thought were actually enlightened from above and teaching the Truth of the Word of God but I found a nagging doubt embedded in my heart about my Salvation. 

In all honesty I was frightened of never being allowed into Heaven. I believe in God, I believe in Jesus, I believe in the Holy Spirit, I believe in a Heaven and a Hell, I believe in Satan and I believe that Jesus became a man to show us the way home. I also believe that God does not deal in generalities and that He is always showing us in parables, parabolic imagery, contradictions and mysteries that His Truth and Teaching is black and white, yes or no, up or down with no deviations. Man started to interpret the Bible using his intellect and earthly knowledge, not because he intended to but because he allowed himself to be influenced unknowingly to deviate, in small measures away from the Truth, just enough to be almost imperceptible and sounding so much like the truth that it was accepted and taught again and again until it became the accepted truth. How true was my salvation?, Could I truly be saved?, How could I be absolutely sure that I would be one of those who stayed on the narrow path and rejected the sweet and honeyed way of the world? How could I be sure that I would not be one of those very elect who would be deceived? What must I do to find my way to the Truth as Jesus taught it and the Apostles after him? Where do I go to begin to ensure my first step is truly onto the right path? Well, it took me years to discover that I could search, research, investigate until my hair turned silver and bones began to ache, which by the way is exactly where I am, and I would never find the answer to my question, How can I know the Truth?

I certainly wish I could point to the moment that this great revelation came to me but I cannot, it just developed into an answer after extensive searching. That answer was this, "Start over, begin your search again from the beginning but find out where that beginning is and who is best to guide you from the BEGINNING." As it turned out that beginning is now pretty obvious, the Bible. The next part of that answer is a little more difficult to answer but it boils down to this "You will know the Truth when you shall desire nothing but the Truth.". I can best explain it like this, "My heart cries out when I see and hear the Truth" 

That Truth was found by wiping away all that I thought I knew and had learned at the feet of men and reading the Word of God as an empty vessel asking to be filled with the Truth as taught by Jesus and the Apostles. It was not an easy task to become embryonic and try to wipe clean my perceptions but when I saw that what I thought I knew was quite different than what I was now reading and understanding from a totally different perspective the doors of the Bible opened completely and I began to see the entire Bible for what it truly was. Amazing, enlightening, humbling cannot describe how I felt in my heart but it's a start.        

I want to try to bring some of my own new clarity to any modern Christians who may read this and be searching themselves for answers their hearts tell them do not reside in the modern teachings of most churches. What Jesus taught and what His Apostles taught versus what has today become a new and accepted teaching of the Truth is remarkably different in many ways. The bottom line is that if a current Biblical teaching, philosophy or church doctrine cannot be proven and supported in and by the Scriptures, then it is not truly the Word of God but rather as it foundation in the traditions and minds of men. 

Some of these modern teachings in the Christian church are very palatable as they are coated with honey and go down easily. Some of these modern teachings are a sweet melody that find the hungry ears of those who have never been taught the original Truth of the Word of God and are accepted, by trust in their teachers alone and never supported or proven in Scripture. Sure, you will hear the message of abundance and health and healing being preached by pulling snippets and half sentences from the Scriptures but then expounded upon by the words and ideas of the man or woman presenting this "teaching". Many today depend upon other men to teach them what God has said and has to say about almost any given subject but when those other men (preachers, pastors, theologians, church leaders and councils) who were never really grounded in the Truth of the Gospel and Word of God from the very beginning because they themselves were taught an incorrect doctrine. If you found your art instructor was now going to teach your advanced calculus class also but had no roots, background or real knowledge of mathematics how much calculus are you going to learn? Everyone's foundation must be in the original teaching of Jesus, the Prophets and the Apostles.  

Please don't misunderstand what I am saying here. I am not trying to convert unbelievers here, they have made their choices and have hard hearts and will not hear. I am directing myself to others like myself who have found the Truth of Christ but who have been unknowingly lead to other paths of Salvation when there is but one true way. Modern Christian teachers, who themselves have become mislead into believing unsupported theories, traditions and doctrines of men alone are not teaching from God's Original Word but have allowed traditional interpretation to infiltrate and poison their understanding. 

I think a lot of people today have become somewhat lazy in their spiritual lives as I once did and began to fully trust the men who were teaching them rather than go home and search out the Truth for themselves. In this day and age when almost instant gratification is normal and expected ("men running to and fro") with such tools as cars, planes, TV's, cell phones, microwaves, computers, 15 second news blurbs with very abbreviated news stories, it becomes almost the expectation the modern mind to expect the same sort of abbreviated Bible teachings at abbreviated gatherings. Here is where the honey coated teaching and sweet melodies become accepted by preachers and pastors, this is where they truly fall down and that is to continue teaching the message they are to keep the people showing up. It is easier to keep people coming to a modern, worldly and humanistic acceptable message of prosperity and health today than a message that requires the individual to work hard and search out the Truth by conviction and guidance of the Holy Spirit. Listen to something nice and let someone else do all the thinking for you, very American these days. I am trying to point out that most people today in the modern Christian church have come to accept teachings that are not Scriptural but they won't know that unless the search the Scriptures for support of that teaching and if they cannot find the supporting Scriptures then it cannot be proved through the Word of God as the Truth. Christians today think that if they say they are Christians, go to church regularly, and try to do good works in the name of Jesus that they will automatically be saved, I have news for you, Jesus said;

Matthew 7:21-23
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

What could he possibly have been alluding to here? These people were convinced they were saved. Why we're they not?

Hosea 4:6-7
6 "My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast reiected knowledge,
I will also reiect thee..."
7 "...therefore will I change their glory into shame."

What knowledge was missing in their lives? The knowledge of the Truth? What Truth? We're they listening to men and not to God?

These two Scriptures are not taken out of context for they plainly express a Truth. But again I ask you what Truth?

Mark 7:6-9

6 "This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men...

9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition."

You may say that was then this is now but the Word says it is for all days. What traditions are now kept in the Bible believing church that are of men and not taught in the Bible? There are quite few that might and probably will surprise you.

Most people who believe in the Bible think that they are saved.

Most people who profess to be born again believers think they are saved.

Most people think they are good people, do good things, go to church on Sunday think they are saved.

The vast majority of people who profess to be Christians think they are saved.

Don't assume anything, Don't trust your eternal soul and your Salvation to someone else because it just sounds good and sounds right, investigate all the Biblical Truths you hold so dearly and be sure of your Salvation. 

I will write more soon and share with you some original Truths taught in the Bible that have been overlooked by most today but are needless to say still the Truth of your foundation in Christ.

 Here is a question for you to ponder, Is Jesus' name found in the Old Testament and what is that Name?          

The Real Name Has Power

A Jewish friend of mine recently asked me, "If Jesus is our Jewish Messiah, and the whole Old Testament is about Him, how come His name is never mentioned, even once?"

Then one morning while sitting on my back patio and watching the squirrels and birds feed after I put out that morning food I began to think once again, as I often did, that there was just something not right about the use of the transliterated name Jesus. This name came to us as a translation from Hebrew to Greek, the written form of the New Testament Gospels.

   

I knew from my Hebrew language studies that the name Jesus was not of Hebraic origin but was used because it was as close as the scribes could get to conveying the power of the name of the Messiah to the literate world in place at that time and aimed at the Gentiles of the eastern provinces of Rome who spoke Greek.  This was the beginning of my problem because once I began a thorough investigation of the Greek title Iesous Christos the floodgates opened to the waters of confusion because so much of this title was pulled from the Pantheons of Greek mythology which I will leave to the reader to search out and investigate on their own if they truly desire the truth.

    

Now I knew in my heart that the Old Testament includes a Gospel (Good News) pointing to the coming Messiah, as can be found in so many declarations throughout the Old Testament. For in the Old Testament all great characters were given names with a specific and significant meaning.

For example, in Genesis 5:29, Lamech called his son Noah [Comfort], saying, “This same shall comfort us concerning our work and tell of our hands.”  Genesis 10:25, Eber calls his firstborn son, Peleg [Division]; “for in his days was the earth divided.”  Genesis, chapters 29-32 the same is true of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob (changed to Israel-God's Prince), and all of Jacob's sons. In Exodus 2:10, Pharaoh's daughter called the baby rescued from the Nile, Moses [Drawn-Forth]: “and she said, because I drew him out of the water.”  We can go on and on to show the deep significance of Hebrew names but we no longer have that because the point has been made.

  

But I could not find the bridge I knew must be there to bring the whole picture to light. So I began, that morning while feeding the birds and squirrels, to ask God to show me the answer to this continually contentious and nagging idea that something was wrong about the name Jesus. I was answered with the inspiration to search for my answer among the writings of Jews themselves.  This led me to Jews who asked the same question and from them I was pointed to the Hebrew Bible and there it was,  suddenly and glaringly obvious, the true NAME of Jesus, found in the Old Testament about 100 times all the way from GENESIS to HABAKKUK!  Yes, the very NAME that the angel Gabriel used in Luke 1:31 when he told Mary about the Son she was to have.  

"Where do we find that NAME?" you ask.  Here it is, friend: Every time the Old Testament uses the word SALVATION (especially with the Hebrew suffix meaning "my," thy," or "his"), with very few exceptions (when the word is impersonal), it is the very same word, YESHUA (Jesus), used in Matthew 1:21. Yeshua written Yod-Shin-Vav-Ayin, is a masculine noun that means "He is salvation" or "He saves." Let us remember that the angel who spoke to Mary and the angel who spoke to Joseph in his dream did not speak in English, Latin, or Greek, but in Hebrew; and neither were Mary or Joseph slow to grasp the meaning and significance of the NAME of this divine Son and its relation to His character and His work of salvation.

So now when you read the Old Testament and come to verses like Genesis 49:18, when the great Patriarch Jacob was ready to depart from this world, he by the Holy Spirit was blessing his sons and prophetically foretelling their future experiences in those blessings.  He exclaims, “I have waited for thy salvation, 0 Lord!”   What he really did say and mean was, "To thy YESHUA (Jesus) I am looking, 0 Lord"; or, "In thy YESHUA (Jesus) I am hoping (trusting), Lord!"  That makes much better sense.

Isaiah 62:11 King James Version (KJV)

“Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation (YESHUA-Jesus) cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.” This becomes a clear picture of the proclamation of YESHUA-Jesus as our salvation.

Remember, the message of The Teaching of the Messiah is clear and easily understood if you just clear your mind and heart of all the traditions and nonsense taught by men. They have created a mine field of confusion with their interpretations of this and that or summarily stated this or that doesn’t matter, it does matter! Open yourself as a clean slate and only seek the Truth from the One who gave us the Scriptures, the One who’s Word it is and the One where you will find all truth and knowledge, just ask.