"Do you know the name of GOD?

I recently read Rabbi Johnathan Cahn's new book "The Book of Mysteries", an excellent book and a wonderful daily guide to the mysteries of GOD and his infinite love for His creation, us. I highly recommend this fine work for it is spirit filled and an additional gift from GOD to all believers. You will be blessed and your heart will be renewed and spirit filled. I have taken the liberty of expounding and connecting a few of the profound ideas Rabbi Cahn has touched upon here in his fine book and may great thanks and blessing find the Rabbi and his family and may blessings be upon the Holy Spirit for conveying these jewels to one whom can so easily transfer these deep things of GOD into simple terms for those of us who understand simple things.

"Do you know the name of GOD?

I have wondered about this subject since I was a boy when I heard "call upon the name of the Lord", my first question was always OK, and what name is that? Assuming, as I did that Howard was not his true name as my cousins tried repeatedly to tell me that we know His name because of the "Our Father" prayer, "Our Father who art in Heaven Horward be thy name,..."

Perhaps a little levity but it is amazing how confused young catholic boys can become when faced with such nonsense and unfortunately that confusion carry's on into adulthood as I can attest. I asked for the true name of God so that I may include His name in my prayers because the Bible says "If you call upon my name". GOD stated to Moses in Genesis 3:4 "
"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."

" I AM THAT I AM " in the English vernacular would be hayah. HaYah is a verb but verb of action.

God has included himself in your speech everyday whether you realize this or not, for you say, as an introduction, " I am Paul " I am using God's name prior to my name so God comes first in my life, again, whether you know it or not. YHVH means I AM. His name is woven into the fabric of your life and very existence, you cannot speak of yourselves in a proper way without saying His Name first. I t is rather like a trademark that identify you as a product made by Him. You only exist because of his I AM.

The secret to life is to understand that you live your life for and by HIM, allow yourself to see your actions coming from Him, that the emotions you feel in your heart flow from Him, the words you speak are originally from him. Keep all this in mind before you add to or take away from the things you say and do for a truth heart understand that your being is from God and therefore let God be Preeminent in your life. 

19 September 2016 

Behold the Hand Behold the Nail

I just made this as a going away gift for my neighbors and it turned out quite well considering I had no idea what I was doing in the process required to put this together, all I had was a picture in my head to begin. In my normal fashion I began adding and changing things about this particular little sculpture but it never look quite right until I prayed about it when I got the message that simple and bold is exactly what the message to mankind was so just keep the simple message in picture form and let it do it's own work on behalf of the Gospel.

In the end I still felt it necessary to ad something that would personalize the new conversation piece so the chains at the base represent the family, the black iron chain is the family's Father and the gold and silver chains are interwoven within the links of the iron chain represent the wife and child forever linked to each other and all 3 of their lives are based on and lived for the "Message of the Cross".

The resin molded hand is mounted on an beautiful agate plate of blue and white and the nail is very real and was made in a 2000 year old blacksmith shop in Turkey that actually did make iron hardware, including iron crucifixion nails for the Roman army during the time of Christ. 

America's New Role in the World

" If God do not destroy America He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah", a quote that is most appropriate today.

"The only thing history teaches us is that we learn nothing from history", another great truth.

America is now the standard and pinnacle of Satan's greatest accomplishments in world history. I had always thought that the Vatican and Catholic religion (not a Christian Church) were far above any other evil work of Satan but today it is very evident that the once Christian Stronghold of American is now on an even footing with that vile organization.

The Vatican church of Satan has for 1600 years deceived and fooled 1/3 of the worlds population into believing that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, in their Latin the word vicarius is from vice, meaning "instead of", so basically they told the people of the world that their Pope is the replacement for Yeshua Jesus Christ, our Salvation and through them is salvation only. Read a short history on the Popes and you will find that they are abominable, one Pope in one day killed more Christians than the entire Roman Empire did in it's history. You will also find that the Popes have been murderers, pedophiles, rapists, liars, pagans and even made their illegitimate children Cardinals at ages as young as 8 years old in order to consolidate their power over the Diocese and the Kings of Europe. You can begin to see why, as an historian, why I have held this view of the Satanic Catholic church even though I grew up an Roman Catholic with questions.

Well, now my study of history has presented me a terrible realization that America is now fulfilling the role of a once great nation under the protection of God but has now turned their backs on God in pursuit of that which appears right in their own eyes. What happens to a nation that turns their backs on God, read the Old Testament, not a pretty picture.

We are now an American nation that has installed leaders who supported removing prayer from all public institutions, an American nation that supports the removal of God from all public institutions, an American nation that supports and demands the abortion of children, an American nation that supports and demands homosexual rights and demands national recognition of homosexual unions in what was a holy matrimony, an American nation that supports theft, an American nation that supports racism, an American nation that supports lying as the new truth and an America that is the world capitol for pornography and drugs. 

Yeshua will never abandon those who believe in Him and call His name Holy but God will abandon the nations that have put into power leaders who abandon Him, this is called the curse of abandonment. America is now under the curse of abandonment and that absence of God's protection has opened the gates to Satan. I hear people say everyday how they think the world is going nuts, well, you ain't seen nothing yet. America will slowly be crushed but it's own financial weight and become ripe for a liberal totalitarianism under the guise of "This is what we must do to protect and save our country." The rot will be fairly slow at first but just as the rot on a peach takes hold it will double then triple rapidly until the fruit is no longer recognizable and no longer of any benefit to anyone. This will be America's role in the near future world events, just no longer of consequence. I always wondered why I could find no real Biblical information on America's role at the end of this era, well now I see clearly that there is no role for America in the future because America will no longer have the ability to influence world events other than just another country that used to be great when they believed in God.                  

Guilty but Still Loved

I wanted to write a small piece about understanding God's love of each one of us as individuals and try to clarify for some out there what was once a major misunderstanding and of great concern I had at one time and it was a very major sticking point in my relationship with God and one that caused great turmoil and slowed my progress in my relationship with God down to a crawl, a wall that almost stopped my progress as a believer completely.  It is a simple and apparently common error on the part of those just coming into a relationship with the Lord.
 
I am talking about His love truly having no bounds, the boundary that we have made in our understanding is ultimately a major road block. God's love is truly exceptional from a human point of view and one that is very hard to conceive of at all.
 
Starting with the fact that if you or I were in a position to save the lives of our neighbors I believe most of us would do so if we saw that no imminent to ourselves or family would be implied by doing so but if there were the chance of danger coming to our family by doing so most probably we would not take the chance and if the chance were 100% that some grievous danger would befall our family then I say almost none would act to save our neighbor. There lies the difference in our understanding of love for one another and the love that God displays by willingly giving His Son to die brutally as He watched knowing He could immediately put an end to the terrible pain, suffering and humiliation Yeshua, in Greek called Jesus, endured but He did not save His only Son because He knew it was the only way to save us from ourselves, and keep the promise He made to us. How much love is that? Immeasurable by human understanding. If that were your son hanging on a cross and left to die in agony and you had the power to stop it all would you have been able to allow it? 
 
Now try to imagine that when we, sinners in every sense, want to have a relationship with God we
think we understand when Yeshua tells us we are forgiven our sins when we accept that He is the promised Christ and believe in Him. We understand that we will be changed from the inside when we accept that Yeshua died and covered us with His blood and will be seen from that time forward as clean of our sins from that point onward but some of us still don't understand that as we continue our slow transformation into the child that wants only to please our Father we sometimes continue to sin, say something like a smoking, drinking, sexual desires, lying etc. and we fall into the trap of saying "How can I be forgiven my sins if I still sin?". God's love and forgiveness is still extended to us and Christ's blood still covers us during this process as long as we know that we are a work in progress and continually pray for the strength to overcome our sinful nature. When we succumb to the notion that we cannot be forgiven because have sinned many times since our acceptance of Yeshua as our Savior and Redeemer we are falling into a trap laid by Satan, a trap of doubt. Simply accept what Yeshua has said and believe Him when He says that you are saved but join the battle with all your heart and all your ability to reclaim your soul by praying and trying every moment of everyday to overcome those sins of addiction and sins of evil thought. For some of us it is a long and hard struggle to fight for our souls and some others it is easier but like chipping the accumulated rust from the surface of a metal implement it takes time and effort but we know that underneath that corroded surface is the child of God we want to be and will be, sometimes it just takes more time than we first thought but holding fast will produce fruit with the help of the transformative power Yeshua promised us, namely the Holy Spirit, we will be changed. God still loves us even when we sin.
 
God's love for you is powerful and unfathomable in our human eyes and sometimes very hard to understand and grasp but Faith in what He says and believing he means it is all that is required to change from the inside out. He loves the sinner but hates the sin, remember this and fight the sin and never presume to put human limits on God's limitless love.

Mazzaroth is the Zodiac in the Bible

I still receive questions from people about the use of Signs in the Heavens and what the Bible is talking about and some don’t believe that this is scriptural so here is a starting point for all those who want to examine the scriptures for this evidence. Did you know that most ancient civilizations saw and related the celestial bodies in like kind?

Mazzaroth

Job 38:31-33

“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?  Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?  Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?”

The "Mazzaroth" is the twelve constellations within the sun's apparent path through the heavens, commonly referred to as the "Zodiac."[1] These are in the form of pictures constructed from the stars within that constellation, a woman (Virgo), scales (Libra), a Scorpion (Scorpio), an archer (Sagittarius), a goat-fish (Capricorn), a man with a water pot (Aquarius), two fishes (Pisces), a Lamb (Aries), an Ox (Taurus), twins (Gemini), a crab (Cancer), and a lion (Leo). In God's response to Job, He indicated that He alone brings forth the twelve signs each year in their proper months. Psalm 19, and Paul's quote of it in Romans 10:16-18, proves that the Zodiac (Mazzaroth) was designed by God as a means of communicating a prophetic message in pictures to all languages of the earth.

 Several authors have interpreted the zodiac from a Christian perspective, repeating the original work of Frances Rolleston in the mid nineteenth century without adding anything new or substantial. The premise of Rolleston's work was flawed, making many of her conclusions doubtful.

 The Zodiac is a twelve-step prophecy, a clock counting down the end of this age and the establishment of Messiah’s Kingdom on earth. The zodiac lays out the same story as the Bible, in the same historical sequence, using the same pictorial language as the Hebrew prophets.

 All previous interpretations of the zodiac, whether pagan, Jewish, or Christian, have failed to account for the meaning of the sun's sequential path through the twelve zodiacal signs. Since the creation, the sun's path each year through the 12 zodiac signs has foretold the whole story of God's plan to redeem the creation through the nation of Israel. In doing so, it demonstrates that the God of Abraham is the source of the zodiac.

Virgo - Abrahamic Covenant                                      Libra - Mosaic Covenant

Scorpio - Wilderness Wandering                              Sagittarius - Promised Land

Capricorn - Davidic Covenant                                    Aquarius - Babylonian Captivity

Pisces - Return from Captivity                                   Aries - Lamb of God

Taurus - Apostolic Mission                                         Gemini - Jew & Gentile United

Cancer - Great Tribulation                                          Leo - Messiah's Kingdom

Search out the truth for yourself and gain an understanding of the Scriptures, God waits for you every second of every day to come to Him and ask questions to which He will give you answers.

The American Curse Unfolds

Proverbs 4:7 “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” Understanding comes from God and is freely given through His Word. He wants you to understand and provided you with the answer book.

There would be no purpose to a long list of America's violation of these "eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained" as stated in the 1789 Inaugural Address of George Washington at Ground Zero New York. A minimum 60 million babies have been taken from their mothers' wombs. Homosexuality is being actively legitimized by those in control. Promiscuity is the widely accepted norm. Anyone who reads a newspaper or listens to the news knows that we are no longer a people living in accordance with GOD's law. It is increasingly difficult because American law actually forbids following GOD's law in many areas of American society. America no longer claims a national identity as a God believing nation and continually moves toward an all-inclusive Humanism religion of we are all divine and therefore we are all God, a very satanic claim.

More than 2,700 years ago God gave ancient Israel a specific warning accompanied by nine symbolic signs of things to come if it didn’t return to Him. Those same harbingers of destruction are today reappearing—in uncanny detail—in America. Has God issued the same prophetic message for our nation of what is yet to come?

Is it possible that there exists an ancient mystery in which is hidden the secret of America’s future? Is it possible that this mystery lies behind everything from 9/11, to the War on Terror, to the crash of Wall Street and the global economy, to the Great Recession and more—even the words and actions of American leaders, including the president of the United States? And is it possible that this mystery contains a prophetic word—a message to America from God, a warning of national judgment?

It might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel or an Indiana Jones movie, but it’s real. In fact, it’s so real that it has affected and is affecting the course of our nation to this day.

Before God judges a nation, He sends warning. He repeatedly sent warnings to ancient Israel through the prophets. In 732 B.C., after years of calling Israel back—to no avail—God removed Israel’s hedge of protection and allowed its enemies to breach its borders in a devastating strike that would traumatize the nation.

Instead of heeding the call and responding with repentance, the nation responded with defiance. In Isaiah 9:9-10, the prophet recorded how the Israelites proclaimed a vow, saying “in pride and arrogance of heart: ‘The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.’”

What they were saying, in other words, was this: “We will not be humbled and we will not repent or return to God. We will continue in our course of rebellion. We will defy the hand of God and rebuild stronger than before.”

Israel’s defiance in the face of God’s repeated warnings sealed its fate. There then appeared in Israel nine harbingers of judgment—nine prophetic signs, alarms and foreshadows of what was to come.

Today America is the nation in rapid departure from God’s will. And God has likewise allowed America’s hedge of protection to fail and an enemy to breach its borders in a devastating strike that began on Sept. 11, 2001. It was, as with Israel, a nation’s wake-up call.

Exactly 7 years in September of 2008 a second warning was sent through the economic collapse and still American leaders repeated the same defiance publicly and they have once again unknowingly sealed the fate of America with ancient curse of judgment.  Again, Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee”

Yet America, like Israel, has not responded with repentance but with defiance. Long before the rebuilding began at ground zero, while the dust of the attack still hovered above the ground of devastation, a well-known American senator issued this call: “I believe one of the first things we should commit to ... is to rebuild the towers of the World Trade Center and show the world we are not afraid—we are defiant!” Other key leaders—from the mayor and governor of New York to the president of the United States—offered similarly defiant proclamations, echoing the same sentiment boldly pronounced thousands of years earlier by ancient Israel’s leaders.

And now the same nine harbingers of judgment that appeared in the last of ancient Israel have reappeared on American soil. Four harbingers have manifested in visible detail at ground zero, two have manifested in Washington, D.C., and several involving the highest leaders in the land. Each harbinger contains a prophetic message.

It is now inevitable that the next warning is around the corner. The next calamity will be worse and you may say “How can it be worse than the 2008 economic collapse?” One thing you need to know about these warnings is that they come faster and faster and become bigger and bigger blows to the nation. My humble opinion is that the time is ripe for the strength of the nation to be removed. What is that strength? The world is dependent on the strength of the American dollar and has pegged all world currencies and commodities to the dollar because of this strength but the world leaders have been actively discussing removing the American dollar as the world’s reserve currency and why not. Considering we are the biggest debtor nation on earth with no real means of ever paying it back I would be very leery of pegging all my hopes to failing economic system too. So don’t be surprised if you wake up one day and find that overnight your dollars have become worthless. If the American dollar is not worth the paper it is printed on what form will buying and selling take? Will it be a disorderly transition? How long will it take the government to respond, days, weeks, months or years? Will there be panic? Will you be prepared? Will you understand why? Will you return to God or will you be one of many going the opposite direction? The way to redemption is narrow but free and it is God reaching out to you. The way to separation (Hell) is wide and crowded with people who have made a choice and don’t want the free gift of salvation. Do you understand the gift or why the gift is given? Do you understand what Heaven truly is? Do you understand what Hell truly is? Do you know that learning the answer to both questions is only your next heartbeat away?