O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

John 17:25-26

Many of us were raised singing the song Blessed be the Name of the Lord in church.

The point here is not to pick apart this song. It is simply to point out a lack of Christian education, following years of traditions and not even realizing what is taking place.

The song quotes Proverbs 18:10, stating that the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Pro 18:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Anyone who reads my blogs consistently will automatically see some problems. We sing these words with the chorus “blessed be the name, blessed be the name”, without ever knowing what the name is. There are two systems of substituting the name of the Creator in this song. Christianity substitutes the name of the Creator God with “Lord”, and Judaism substitutes the same name with השם, (h’Shem), which means “the name”. Nowhere in this song has anyone revealed the actual name that is a strong tower where the righteous can run into and be safe. Why do most people sing this song over and over, never really knowing the source of the strong tower? Here is a translation the shows the name as it appears in Hebrew:

Pro 18:10 The Name of יהוה is a strong tower; The righteous run into it and are safe.

This version is great if a person knows the Creator’s name in Hebrew, but the average Christian doesn’t even know they are missing an actual name, so how can they be expected to know the name in Hebrew? Josephus, a Jewish historian, tells us the Creator’s name is pronounced as four vowel sounds. The best representation we have in English is Yahuah or Yahweh, possibly pronounced “ee ah oo wa”. The state of Iowa is suspiciously close to this. Hawaii spelled backwards is also close. “Iiawah” Considering Hebrew is right to left, the connections can be made. The point is we truly do not know the absolute correct pronunciation when Yahweh spoke the name to Moses, but we know it definitely was not pronounced “L-o-r-d”, and the strong tower is in the name Yahweh. Using these substitutions are like calling the Creator “old what’s his name”, and it is a terrible thing that we have forgotten the name.

Jer 23:26 How long will this be in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceitfulness of their hearts,
Jer 23:27 who plan to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell each one to his neighbor, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal?

Hos 2:16 And on that day—a declaration of Yahweh—you will call me, “My husband;” you will no longer call me, “My Baal.”
Hos 2:17 I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by their name.

Ba’al is Strong’s H1168 which means “lord”. Does everyone see how confusing this is?

H1168
בּעל
ba‛al
BDB Definition:
Baal = “lord”
1) supreme male divinity of the Phoenicians or Canaanites (noun proper masculine)

We have successfully fulfilled the prophecy of forgetting His name for Baal, or Lord. Whether by accident, a deep, dark trick by the devil, or by design of Yahweh, we are here! However, as of late, more and more people throughout the world are learning the name that is a strong tower, יהוה! Blessed be the name of Yahuah! Now that we know the name is Yahweh and not Baal, let’s look at the rest of the verse.

Pro 18:10 The Name of יהוה is a strong tower; The righteous run into it and are safe.

Who are the righteous? Many take this following verse out of context, claiming none can be righteous.

Psa 14:3 All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.

If we look at the whole passage, we see that it is those who say there is no God that Yahweh is speaking about.

Psa 14:1 For the music director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.
Psa 14:2 Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God.
Psa 14:3 All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.
Psa 14:4 All who do evil—do they not know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh.
Psa 14:5 There they are very fearful because God is with the generation of the righteous.
Psa 14:6 You would put to shame the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
Psa 14:7 Oh that from Zion would come salvation for Israel! When Yahweh returns the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be happy.

Paul tells us much about these scriptures.

Rom 3:9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,
Rom 3:10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
Rom 3:11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
Rom 3:12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
Rom 3:13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
Rom 3:14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
Rom 3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Rom 3:16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
Rom 3:17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
Rom 3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Rom 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Rom 3:20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
Rom 3:22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 3:26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 3:27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Rom 3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
Rom 3:30 since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 3:31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Romans 3:31, “Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.” Paul tells us we should uphold the law through faith. This is where we must “rightly divide the word of truth”. Paul’s audience would know how a person is counted as “righteous”.

Deu 6:24 And so Yahweh commanded us to observe all of these rules and to revere Yahweh our God for our benefit all the days that we live, as it is today.
Deu 6:25 And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe and do all of this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.’

We are not considered righteous by our own deeds, it’s only when through faith we are obedient to the righteousness of God. Righteousness is defined by God, not by man. Therefore, there is no amount of money a person can pay the church, no amount of times a person can attend church, or be a “good” person in the sight of men, that will have any affect on a person’s justification before Yahweh. He calls on us to be obedient to His commandments to show our faith and love to Him. Moreover, He divinely influences our heart to walk in His ways. This is the definition of grace, Strong’s G5485.

G5485
χάρις
charis
khar’-ece
From G5463; graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude): – acceptable, benefit, favour, gift, grace (-ious), joy liberality, pleasure, thank (-s, -worthy).

The divine influence of the heart, which has been translated to the word “grace” is exactly what Ezekiel prophesied.

Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Paul speaks of this in the terms of walking in the flesh, or walking in the Spirit. This Spirit enables us to please God by submitting to His law.

Rom 8:6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
Rom 8:8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

This is not very hard to understand when a person removes the twisting of scripture by people presenting a lawless gospel. The Spirit enables a person to walk in Messiah’s footsteps. Peter warned us of the weak minds who would twist the writings of Paul into a lawless gospel.

2Pe 3:14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
2Pe 3:15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
2Pe 3:16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
2Pe 3:17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
2Pe 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Repent, learn the name of the Lord, Yahweh, and avoid a lawless gospel leading to destruction. There is great peace in following the footsteps of our Messiah.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

Ephesians 6:12-13

The principalities and demons Christians unwittingly empower in their lives, by celebrating their special days, are going to die like men. Which team are you on? Who are these spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places Paul is speaking about in Ephesians?

Psa 82:1 A psalm of Asaph. God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of the gods.
Psa 82:2 “How long will you judge unjustly and show favoritism to the wicked? Selah.
Psa 82:3 Judge on behalf of the helpless and the orphan; provide justice to the afflicted and the poor.
Psa 82:4 Rescue the helpless and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Psa 82:5 They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, so that all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psa 82:6 I have said, “You are gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you.
Psa 82:7 However, you will die like men, and you will fall like one of the princes.”
Psa 82:8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth, because you shall inherit all the nations.

The nations were appointed rulers by Yahweh who were supposed to rule justly, but instead they caused men to worship strange gods and demons.

Deu 32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Deu 32:9 But the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

An example of this is seen in the book of Daniel when the prince of Persia withheld an angel until the prince Michael came to help fight him off. What type of entity is powerful enough to withhold an angel?

Dan 10:12 Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
Dan 10:13 The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia,
Dan 10:14 and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.”

What are these “princes” that are so much more powerful than angels? There appears to be good ones and evil ones. The evil ones have lead astray the nations to worship the creation rather than the creator. This is what October 31 to November 1 is about. This is what December 23 to January 1 is also about.

Speaking on celebrating the Saturnalia, later to be renamed “Christmas”, Tertullian likens it to demon worship, writing about it in the fourth century.

“Then,” do you say, “the lamps before my doors, and the laurels on my posts are an honour to God?” They are there of course, not because they are an honour to God, but to him who is honour in God’s stead by ceremonial observances of that kind, so far as is manifest, saving the religious performance, which is in secret appertaining to demons. For we ought to be sure if there are any whose notice it escapes through ignorance of this world’s literature, that there are among the Romans even gods of entrances; Cardea (Hinge-goddess), called after hinges, and Forculus (Door-god) after doors, and Limentinus (Threshold-god) after the threshold, and Janus himself (Gate-god) after the gate: and of course we know that, though names be empty and reigned, yet, when they are drawn down into superstition, demons and every unclean spirit seize them for themselves, through the bond of consecration. Otherwise demons have no name individually, but they there find a name where they find also a token. Among the Greeks likewise we read of Apollo Thyraeus, i.e., of the door, and the Antelii, or Anthelii, demons, as presiders over entrances. These things, therefore, the Holy Spirit foreseeing from the beginning, fore-chanted, through the most ancient prophet Enoch, that even entrances would come into superstitious use.

I realize that Tertullian bought into the Christian anti-Semitism of the fourth century by dismissing the Sabbath, but his writings also show us how they still understood the supernatural realm and regarded Enoch as a prophet. Enoch explains where these entities came from and much about the spiritual realm. This view was widely known until the days of Augustine in the fifth century.

Then shall they be taken away into the lowest depths of the fire in torments; and in confinement shall they be shut up forever. Immediately after this shall Shemiy’aza, together with them, burn and perish; they shall be bound until the consummation of many generations. Destroy all the souls addicted to lust, and the offspring of the Watchers, for they have tyrannized over mankind. Let every oppressor perish from the face of the earth; Let every evil work be destroyed; The plant of righteousness and of rectitude appear, and its produce become a blessing. CHANOK (ENOCH) 10:16-21 את CEPHER

More from Tertullian on idolatry:

“the Saturnalia and New-year’s and Midwinter’s festivals and Matronalia are frequented – presents come and go – New-year’s gifts – games join their noise – banquets join their din! Oh better fidelity of the nations to their own sect, which claims no solemnity of the Christians for itself!”

By the fourth century, Christianity had forsaken the fourth of the Ten Commandments which tells us to honour the Sabbaths of Yahweh; however, some still understood the first commandment on idolatry. Fast forward a few hundred years and the first commandment was no longer understood by church leadership. Fast forward hundreds of years, and the church is empowering demons on the day of the dead with trunk or treats in church parking lots, thinking they are doing something great for their god, whoever that god may be.

Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers [anomia], and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

Matthew 13:40-43

The purpose of all these blog posts I write, is to try to reach people in the church who have been deceived by a lawless gospel. It is plain to see this lawless gospel once a person’s eyes are opened, and hard to watch people in the churches blindly practicing iniquity. The Greek word that is translated to iniquity, or lawlessness, is Strong’s G458.

G458
ἀνομία
anomia
Thayer Definition:
1) the condition of without law
1a) because ignorant of it
1b) because of violating it
2) contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness

The associated word is Strong’s G459.

G459
ἄνομος
anomos
Thayer Definition:
1) destitute of (the Mosaic) law
1a) of the Gentiles
2) departing from the law, a violator of the law, lawless, wicked

These definitions are from the Thayer Greek lexicon. Strong’s has a little different definition.

G459
ἄνομος
anomos
an’-om-os
From G1 (as a negative particle) and G3551; lawless, that is, (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication a Gentile), or (positively) wicked: – without law, lawless, transgressor, unlawful, wicked.

The deception lies with, “not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication a Gentile)”. If you are serving the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, you are no longer a Gentile. Moreover, Jewish laws are rules added to Yahweh’s instructions that are followed in Judaism. These should not be confused with the instructions from Yahweh in the Torah. This is serious business when reading the words of our Messiah.

Mat 7:21 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.
Mat 7:22 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?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

With what we learned about the Greek word that is translated “iniquity”, we could provide a more accurate translation of these verses.

Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that are ignorantly or willfully violating my instructions.

If being ignorant of the instructions of God gives a person a free pass, why do these people say, “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?”?

I used to wonder at these verses before I understood the definition of iniquity. How could a person know what the Father expects? How can a person avoid hearing the words “depart from me”?

Deu 6:24 And so Yahweh commanded us to observe all of these rules and to revere Yahweh our God for our benefit all the days that we live, as it is today.
Deu 6:25 And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe and do all of this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.’

These are not Jewish commandments such as washing pots and hands properly. Do not confuse the commandments of God with the traditions of men.

Mar 7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,
Mar 7:4 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)

Jesus is very clear about the distinction.

Mar 7:6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
Mar 7:7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
Mar 7:8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
Mar 7:9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!

The Pharisees added and took away from the commandments of God just as the church does. Examples of the church adding and taking away are adding festivals of pagan deities and taking away the Sabbaths of Yahweh. These are blatant violations.

Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
Gen 2:3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Imagine that at the foundation of the entire universe, God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, or set apart and different. Next He told His followers in an audible voice at Mount Horeb how special the day is.

Deu 5:13 Six days you shall work, and you shall do all of your work,
Deu 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto Yahweh your God; you shall not do any work, or your son, or your daughter, or your slave, or your slave woman, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your domestic animals, or your resident alien who is in your towns, so that your slave and your slave woman may rest as you rest.
Deu 5:15 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore, Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath.

Yahweh then sent His prophets to remind His people about the Sabbath.

Isa 56:4 For thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose that in which I delight, and who keep hold of my covenant.
Isa 56:5 And I will give them a monument and a name in my house and within my walls, better than sons and daughters; I will give him an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Isa 56:6 And the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him and to love the name of Yahweh, to become his servants, every one who keeps the Sabbath, so as not to profane it, and those who keep hold of my covenant,
Isa 56:7 I will bring them to my holy mountain; I will make them merry in my house of prayer. their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples,”

Finally Yahweh sent His son.

Mar 2:27 And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
Mar 2:28 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

Joh 14:23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Joh 14:24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

Christians say “yeah whatever, that was for someone else. I am going to do what I want because my pastor said I could”. They say “Sunday is the Lord’s day and we go to church and give a tithe, so we are free to do whatever we want now”. This was also prophesied by Jeremiah and Ezekiel. These prophesies are for the latter days.

Jer 23:16 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “You must not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you with visions of their mind, They do not speak from the mouth of Yahweh.
Jer 23:17 They are continually saying to those who disregard the word of Yahweh, ‘Peace it will be to you,’ and to each one who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’
Jer 23:18 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he has seen and heard his word? Who has listened attentively to his word and heard it?
Jer 23:19 Look, the storm of Yahweh has gone forth in wrath, even a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon the head of the wicked.
Jer 23:20 The anger of Yahweh will not turn back until his doing and until his keeping the plans of his mind. In latter days you will look closely at it with understanding.

Eze 22:26 Its priests treat my law violently, and they profane my holy objects; they do not distinguish between a holy object and what is unholy, or between the clean and the unclean. They do not teach the difference, and they hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned in the midst of them.
Eze 22:27 Its officials are like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain.

Jesus gave us a parable to describe this situation.

Mat 21:33 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
Mat 21:34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit.
Mat 21:35 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Mat 21:36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them.
Mat 21:37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
Mat 21:38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’
Mat 21:39 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
Mat 21:40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
Mat 21:41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”

The Sabbath is only one example. I suggest taking the commandments of Yahweh seriously. They are for our benefit. Who has the authority to claim that which Yahweh said for His people to do does not matter any more? Does a pastor of a church? Perhaps an emperor? A prophet or priest? No, nobody.

Deu 13:1 “If a prophet stands up in your midst or a dreamer of dreams and he gives to you a sign or wonder,
Deu 13:2 and the sign or the wonder comes about that he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (those whom you have not known), and let us serve them,’
Deu 13:3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer, for Yahweh your God is testing you to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your inner self.
Deu 13:4 You shall go after Yahweh your God, and him you shall revere, and his commandment you shall keep, and to his voice you shall listen, and him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast.
Deu 13:5 But that prophet or the dreamer of that dream shall be executed, for he spoke falsely about Yahweh your God, the one bringing you out from the land of Egypt and the one redeeming you from the house of slavery, in order to seduce you from the way that Yahweh your God commanded you to go in it; so in this way you shall purge the evil from your midst.

All these abominations that have been brought into the church are tests from Yahweh to see if the people truly love him. Yeshua could not endorse changing the Sabbath without violating these words in Deuteronomy. He also would not endorse eating things the Father said not to eat. These things are proclaimed “in order to seduce you from the way that Yahweh your God commanded you to go in it”. Once the enemy has seduced a person to disregard the commandments of Yahweh, then that person will have serious problems to contend with. They may still do “great works in my name”, but the Father does not hear their prayers.

Pro 28:9 If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

A counterfeit gospel has been brought forth and widely accepted. It has caused people to forget the name of God, His instructions and the righteous, ancient path. The enemy has sowed the tares to weaken the church.

Mar 1:14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,
Mar 1:15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

Jesus started His ministry with the message to repent and believe the gospel. This Gospel Jesus preached was much different than what is taught today. The gospel is the good news that you are able to repent and draw near to the kingdom of God! So, take it seriously and search these matters out.

Just as Yahweh commanded us not to worship Him with the same symbols, traditions and manners the other nations worshipped their gods, the Apostles gave this same instruction to new believers unfamiliar with the teachings of the Torah. Unfortunately, they did not listen, and the church syncretized every day, tradition and symbol from the worship of other gods they could find.

Deu 12:29 “When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are about to go to, to dispossess them before you, and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land,
Deu 12:30 take care so that you are not ensnared into imitating them after their being destroyed from before you, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, and thus I myself want to do also.’
Deu 12:31 You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 All of the things that I am commanding you, you must diligently observe; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it.”

Act 15:19 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
Act 15:20 but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
Act 15:21 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

The word curious comes from Latin according to etymoline.com. “mid-14c., “subtle, sophisticated;” late 14c., “eager to know, inquisitive, desirous of seeing” (often in a bad sense), also “wrought with or requiring care and art;” from Old French curios “solicitous, anxious, inquisitive; odd, strange” (Modern French curieux) and directly from Latin curiosus “careful, diligent; inquiring eagerly, meddlesome,” akin to cura “care” (see cure (n.)).”

I am playing with words because the word we are looking at in this blog post is the Greek word Kurios, which sounds something like curious. So, we are being curious about the word Kurios.

Why do we not see the name of Yahweh in the New Testament? It appears over 6000 times in the Old Testament. In most English Bibles it is rendered LORD. Many Bible prefaces with explain that LORD replaces the name of Yahweh. Yet in the New Testament, we do not see LORD; typically, we simply see “Lord”. LORD will only show up in an obvious, direct quote from the Old Testament that includes Yahweh. Is the term “Lord” speaking of a different Lord, or the same LORD?

Jer 23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
Jer 23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

Baal is Strong’s H1168, meaning lord.

H1168
בּעל
ba‛al
BDB Definition:
Baal = “lord”
1) supreme male divinity of the Phoenicians or Canaanites (noun proper masculine)
2) a Reubenite (noun proper masculine)
3) the son of Jehiel and grandfather of Saul (noun proper masculine)
4) a town of Simeon, probably identical to Baalath-beer (noun proper locative)

Perhaps I am overthinking this, but Yahweh said we would forget His name for Baal. Baal here is presumed to be a Phoenician deity, but ask any average Christian today and they will call the Creator, lord and Jesus lord, yet not know the Creator’s name or how it relates to the Hebrew name of Jesus, Yeshua or Yahusha.

The Greek translation of what we call the Old Testament was around, at least in part, as early as 200 BCE. It is called the Greek Septuagint, and it replaces the name of Yahweh, יהוה, with the Greek word Kurios.

Here are three translations of Genesis 2:8:

Lexham English Bible:

Gen 2:8 And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

King James Version:

Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

The Scriptures 2009 Version:

Gen 2:8 And יהוה Elohim planted a garden in Ěḏen, to the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

I like the Scriptures Version, where they just leave the four Hebrew letters of the name without translating, transliterating or substituting it.

The Old Testament is easy in terms of the name of God because we have really old Hebrew manuscripts that show us the name of God in Hebrew. When we get to the New Testament, we only have Greek manuscripts, mostly. Let’s look at the Greek Septuagint rendering of Genesis 2:8 for a reference point.

Gen 2:8 και G2532 CONJ  εφυτευσεν G5452 V-AAI-3S κυριος G2962 N-NSM  ο G3588 T-NSM  θεος G2316 N-NSM  παραδεισον G3857 N-ASM  εν G1722 PREP  εδεμ N-PRI  κατα G2596 PREP  ανατολας G395 N-APF  και G2532 CONJ  εθετο G5087 V-AMI-3S  εκει G1563 ADV  τον G3588 T-ASM  ανθρωπον G444 N-ASM  ον G3739 R-ASM  επλασεν G4111 V-AAI-3S

The Greek word used for Yahweh is Kurios, Strong’s G2962.

G2962
κύριος
kurios
Thayer Definition:
1) he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master, lord
1a) the possessor and disposer of a thing
1a1) the owner; one who has control of the person, the master
1a2) in the state: the sovereign, prince, chief, the Roman emperor
1b) is a title of honour expressive of respect and reverence, with which servants greet their master
1c) this title is given to: God, the Messiah

The Greek Septuagint predates the writings of the New Testament, and we can easily see the influence of using Kurios for the name of Yahweh in the Greek manuscripts. “Angel of the Lord” is a recognizable phrase from the Old Testament. In the New Testament, this phrase is used quoting Old Testament verses and on its own, such as the angel of the Lord who spoke to Joseph. In Acts chapter seven, Stephen is retelling the story of the angel of the Lord appearing to Moses.

King James Version:

Act 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

The Scriptures 2009 Version:

Act 7:30 “And after forty years were completed, a Messenger of יהוה appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, Exo 3:2 in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.

Exodus 3:2 is being quoted here in Acts 7:30. “Angel of the LORD” is Angel of Yahweh, with the name being in the Hebrew as יהוה. The Scriptures translation simplifies this for us.

Exo 3:2 And the Messenger of יהוה appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. And he looked and saw the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed.

This can all seem very confusing, which reinforces the prophesy of Yahweh in Jeremiah 23, saying the prophets would lie and hide his name, replacing it for Baal, or lord.

If we look at Acts 7:30 in the New Testament Greek manuscripts, we can see the Greek word is Kurios, Strong’s G2962, just as is used for the name Yahweh in the Greek Septuagint.

It appears that wherever Kurios is used in the Greek, the writers were substituting it for the name of God, Yahweh, just as English translations use LORD in the Old Testament and Lord in the New Testament. What is very confusing is using Lord in the New Testament could mean lord, master or Yahweh, depending on the context. Here is a verse using Kurios twice, which would not appear to be substituted for Yahweh the first time and master the second time.

Act 2:34 For G1063  David G1138  is not G3756  ascended G305  into G1519  the G3588  heavens: G3772  but G1161  he G846  saith G3004  himself, The G3588  LORD G2962  said G2036  unto my G3450  Lord, G2962  Sit G2521  thou on G1537  my G3450  right hand, G1188
Act 2:35 Until G2193  I make G5087 G302  thy G4675  foes G2190  thy footstool. G5286 G4675 G4228

Both times Strong’s G2962 is used for Lord, even though the first time is all capitals quoting Psalms 110 for Yahweh, and the second time is simply Lord or Master. Here is the verse being quoted in Psalms using the Lexham English version.

Psa 110:1 Of David. A psalm. A declaration of Yahweh to my lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.”

In the Greek Septuagint, Strong’s G2962 is only used once, seemingly for the name Yahweh.

Psa 110:1 αλληλουια G239 INJ  εξομολογησομαι G1843 V-FMI-1S  σοι G4771 P-DS κυριε G2962 N-VSM  εν G1722 PREP  ολη G3650 A-DSF  καρδια G2588 N-DSF  μου G1473 P-GS  εν G1722 PREP  βουλη G1012 N-DSF  ευθειων G2117 A-GPF  και G2532 CONJ  συναγωγη G4864 N-DSF

Why does Luke use Kurios twice in Acts, quoting a verse that only uses it once in the Septuagint? Probably because the reader knew how to differentiate, or we do not have the original manuscripts. The Scriptures 2009 version seems to translate these verses in a way that would be consistent with the Hebrew scriptures.

Psa 110:1 יהוה said to my Master, “Sit at My right hand, Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

Act 2:34 “For Dawiḏ did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself said, ‘יהוה said to my Master, “Sit at My right hand,
Act 2:35 until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” ’ Psa 110:1.

Another translation that attempts to correct the Kurios confusion of the New Testament is the eth-Cepher. Here are the verses we used for examples in this translation.

Act 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he said himself, Yahuah said unto my Adonai, Sit on my right hand,
Act 2:35 Until I make your foes your footstool.

Psa 110:1 YAHUAH said unto my Adonai, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footpath.

The name of the Creator of the universe is very important. It is not just the phonetics and spelling, but the reputation and fame as the word “name” means. A verse that would be nice to have a proper translation for, is Philippians 2:11. Is Paul claiming Jesus is Yahweh here, or does He mean something else?

King James Version:

Php 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Php 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The Scriptures 2009 version using the Hebrew name Yahusha, in Hebrew, for Jesus:

Php 2:9 Elohim, therefore, has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name,
Php 2:10 that at the Name of יהושע every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
Php 2:11 and every tongue should confess (Isa 45:23) that יהושע Messiah is Master, to the esteem of Elohim the Father.

Finally, the eth-Cepher version:

Php 2:9 Wherefore Elohiym also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Php 2:10 That at the name of Yahusha every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Php 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Yahuah is Yahusha Ha’Mashiach, to the glory of Elohiym the Father.

The eth-Cepher actually translates the verse to say that “Yahweh is Jesus Christ to the glory of God the Father”. In light of Isaiah 45, I can see how it could be translated this way. These are the verses Paul is quoting.

Isa 45:22 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none besides me.
Isa 45:23 I have sworn by myself; a word that shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness: ‘Every knee shall kneel down to me; every tongue shall swear.’
Isa 45:24 ‘Only in Yahweh,’ one shall say to me, ‘are righteousness and strength.’ He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed.
Isa 45:25 In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right, and they shall boast.”

This offends many people who picture three separate gods in a trinity. I am not saying one of these translations is better than the other, just pointing out the differences in case people are ignorant of them. It will be up to the reader to interpret what all this use of Kurios means. Jesus points out the importance of declaring the name of God.

Joh 17:25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Joh 17:26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Jesus also points out that He is one with the Father.

Joh 14:8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
Joh 14:9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

If Yeshua is not Yahweh, then He is a mirror image according to this, He definitely is not a new god with His own agenda as some like to say.

The purpose of this blog post is simply to bring awareness to the fact the Yahweh didn’t disappear in the writings of the New Testament. He is still prominently there amongst the word twisting of Kurios. Only someone who wants to know the truth will be curious enough to try to understand the difference between Yahweh, Master and Lord.

And Yahweh sent among the people poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many people from Israel died.

Numbers 21:6

What happens when the people of Yahweh grumble, complain and are disobedient? Typically they are thrown into some type of tribulation. What better example of this is there other than when Yahweh sent poisonous snakes to bite His disobedient Israelites?

Num 21:5 The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest this miserable food.”
Num 21:6 And Yahweh sent among the people poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many people from Israel died.

It was Yahweh that sent the poisonous snakes, not “the devil” or some evil ruler. Once the people realized their sin, they repented and asked God to forgive them. Yah gave them a way out of their dire situation by having Moses put a serpent on a pole for them to look at to be healed.

Num 21:7 The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes from among us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
Num 21:8 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Make for yourself a snake and place it on a pole. When anyone is bitten and looks at it, that person will live.”
Num 21:9 So Moses made a snake of bronze, and he placed it on the pole; whenever a snake bit someone, and that person looked at the snake of bronze, he lived.

Jesus referenced this “snake on a pole” event in regards to His own situation, being the way to inherit eternal life. He also tells us no one has ascended to heaven. This is ignored as much as the sign of him being in the grave three days and three nights. Our theology says we go to heaven when we die, yet Jesus told us no one ascended to Heaven other than Himself. Our theology says he died on Friday and rose Sunday, when there is no way to get three days and three nights if that were true.

Joh 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
Joh 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
Joh 3:15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Deuteronomy has a lot to tell us concerning the latter days, even if you were told by your pastor it doesn’t apply to you. It will take tribulation for the people of Yah to turn from their disobedience. Once people realize they have been breaking the covenant, turn from their rebellion and repent, Yahweh will listen.

Deu 4:23 Watch out for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had made with you and make for yourselves a divine image of the form of anything that Yahweh your God has forbidden,
Deu 4:24 for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Deu 4:25 “When you have had children and grandchildren and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image of the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, thus provoking him to anger,
Deu 4:26 I call to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you are crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; you will not live long on it, but you will be completely destroyed.
Deu 4:27 And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to where Yahweh will lead you.
Deu 4:28 And you will there serve gods made by human hands, of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.
Deu 4:29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deu 4:30 In your distress when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice.
Deu 4:31 For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you, and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors that he swore to them.

It is we that are in the dispersion. Peter wrote to us, and it is arguable if we ever left the government run, pagan temples of Greek and Rome.

1Pe 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are residing temporarily in the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1Pe 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and for sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Jesus, or Yeshua in Hebrew, told us we would be thrown into tribulation for tolerating Jezebel and the ways of the Nicolaitans. It was only a matter of time. Reading the Bible is much like reading the newspaper these days.

Rev 2:20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Rev 2:21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
Rev 2:22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
Rev 2:23 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
Rev 2:24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.
Rev 2:25 Only hold fast what you have until I come.
Rev 2:26 The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,
Rev 2:27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.

When it comes to the authorities imposing their will, it has taken me many years to understand what Paul was talking about in Romans 13. He is basically describing today’s church landscape. Yahweh puts rulers in place to punish those disobedient to the covenant.

Rom 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except by God, and those that exist are put in place by God.
Rom 13:2 So then, the one who resists authority resists the ordinance which is from God, and those who resist will receive condemnation on themselves.
Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a cause of terror for a good deed, but for bad conduct. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from it,
Rom 13:4 for it is God’s servant to you for what is good. But if you do what is bad, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword to no purpose. For it is God’s servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does what is bad.
Rom 13:5 Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.
Rom 13:6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are servants of God, busily engaged in this very thing.
Rom 13:7 Pay to everyone what is owed: pay taxes to whom taxes are due; pay customs duties to whom customs duties are due; pay respect to whom respect is due; pay honor to whom honor is due.

Paul is referring to breaking the commandments of God. “For it is God’s servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does what is bad”. The churches have been more and more rebellious toward the holy covenant in recent years. Is it any surprise that Yahweh will use plagues and the ruling authorities to punish His people? Are you wondering why churches are being affected so greatly by current events? What is the solution?

Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a cause of terror for a good deed, but for bad conduct. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from it,

Forget about fighting the authorities. Focus on repenting and doing what is good. You are where you are at due to disobedience. The only things that are good are what Yahweh told us to do, and Yeshua showed us in person. Yeshua told us we would be thrown in tribulation for sexual immorality and pagan idolatry. Worse than that, our kids are going to die unless we repent. Isaiah told us there was supposed to be a refreshing, but the people would not listen.

Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

Peter told us about this too.

Act 3:18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Act 3:19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
Act 3:20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
Act 3:21 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

Isaiah told us there would be a refreshing of the covenant, and Peter told us it was through Jesus. Since I like this picture from Unsplash so much, I am using it again. “Yet they would not hear” You are here!

What is said about those who want to fight in the flesh what Yahweh has ordained to punish his people for disobedience? It is not good.

Mat 26:52 Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
Mat 26:53 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
Mat 26:54 But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

We are watching prophesy be fulfilled in our life time. No one can change the hand of Yah with a political rally, resistance or complaining. The solution is to repent, give up pagan idolatry and start following the commandments. Even then, we are not guaranteed a happy ending in the flesh. Matthew 10:28, “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell”. We have gone too far!

Rev 13:9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear:
Rev 13:10 If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

The only way the church has convinced people the verses in Revelation are not for them is by one, omitting Revelation from sermons and two, by telling people they will be raptured, watching from heaven. Is Yahweh going to rapture a rebellious people breaking all His commandments? It is spelled out for us that we have to have faith in Jesus and keep His commandments, and these have to be the same as the Father’s commandments.

How can anyone say our deeds don’t matter if they follow us when we die? What deeds would matter to Yahweh other than what He told us to do? You have been lied to and deceived with your pop culture gospel. This is prophesy being fulfilled. You will also go into tribulation. My hope is someone remembers these words when they find themselves in tribulation. Ideally, we wouldn’t wait until it gets worse.

Deu 4:30 In your distress when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice.
Deu 4:31 For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you, and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors that he swore to them.

Jer 23:19 Look, the storm of Yahweh has gone forth in wrath, even a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon the head of the wicked.
Jer 23:20 The anger of Yahweh will not turn back until his doing and until his keeping the plans of his mind. In latter days you will look closely at it with understanding.

The priests and the prophets are telling us nothing bad will happen. They say they have a word from Yahweh, when Yahweh didn’t speak to them. “Burden of the LORD!”. They are not speaking words from Yahweh unless they are saying to repent and follow the holy covenant. In other words, do righteousness.

Jer 23:32 Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of lies,” declares Yahweh, “and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all,” declares Yahweh.
Jer 23:33 “Now when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask you, saying, ‘What is the burden of Yahweh?’ then you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden, and I will forsake you,'” declares Yahweh.
Jer 23:34 “And the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, ‘The burden of Yahweh,’ I will punish that man and his house.
Jer 23:35 Thus you shall say, each one to his neighbor and each one to his brother: ‘What has Yahweh answered?’ or, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’
Jer 23:36 But you shall not mention the burden of Yahweh, for the burden is to each one his word, and so you twist the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.
Jer 23:37 Thus you shall say to that prophet, ‘What has Yahweh answered you?’ or, ‘What has Yahweh spoken?’
Jer 23:38 But if you say, ‘The burden of Yahweh,’ therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘because of your saying these words, “The burden of Yahweh,” then I will send to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The burden of Yahweh.'”‘
Jer 23:39 Therefore look, here I am, and I will surely lift you up and forsake you and the city that I gave to you and to your ancestors from my presence,
Jer 23:40 and I will bring upon you an everlasting disgrace and an everlasting shame that will not be forgotten.”

“For the burden is to each one his word, and so you twist the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God.” This sounds similar to the words of Jesus.

Mat 12:35 The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
Mat 12:36 I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
Mat 12:37 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Yahweh is using the situations at hand to at least wake up some of His people. Some will awake and repent, but many will not. They will be given over to an reprobate mind and strong delusion.

2Th 2:9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
2Th 2:10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
2Th 2:11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
2Th 2:12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Forget the lies you have been told and look at what Paul is saying. “They refused to love the truth”. Paul is talking about the righteousness found in the truth spoken by Yahweh that people will refuse. This is prophecy in our face right now.

Psa 86:11 Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, that I may walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear your name.

Psa 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth.

“Pleasure in unrighteousness” is doing what you want to do and not what Yahweh says to do.

Rev 2:26 The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,
Rev 2:27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.

We must follow the instructions Yahweh gave us if we want any chance of things to go well. It wasn’t until the people repented in the desert, that He gave them a way to be saved from the poisonous snake bites. Unless we repent and start doing what Yahweh said to do, we will face this plus much harsher punishment; such as the sixth seal.

Rev 6:12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
Rev 6:13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
Rev 6:14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Rev 6:15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
Rev 6:16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
Rev 6:17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth.

John 1:14

Many people will start the observance of Sukkoth today depending on the calendar they are following. This feast is also called booths and tabernacles because the Israelites were commanded to live in temporary dwellings for seven days.

Lev 23:37 “‘These are Yahweh’s festivals, which you must proclaim, holy assemblies to present an offering made by fire to Yahweh—burnt offering and grain offering, sacrifice and libations, each on its proper day—
Lev 23:38 besides Yahweh’s Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides your vows and besides all your freewill offerings that you give to Yahweh.
Lev 23:39 “‘Surely on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at your gathering the land’s produce, you shall hold Yahweh’s festival for seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest period and on the eighth day a rest period.
Lev 23:40 And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the first fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and branches of a leafy tree and of a brook’s poplar trees, and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God for seven days.
Lev 23:41 And you must hold it as a festival for Yahweh for seven days in the year; it shall be a lasting statute throughout your generations; in the seventh month you must hold it.
Lev 23:42 You must live in the booths for seven days; all the natives in Israel must live in the booths,
Lev 23:43 so that your generations shall know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them from the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.'”
Lev 23:44 Thus Moses announced to the Israelites Yahweh’s appointed times.

It is likely that Jesus was born during the feast of tabernacles. John 1:14, “And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth.” (Modern King James Version)

One of the biggest mistakes that Christendom has made is the belief that these feasts, such as Sukkoth, are only for the “Jews”. Lev 23:37, “These are Yahweh’s festivals”. One could argue that the term “Jew” did not even exist when these feasts were proclaimed. Christendom also failed to recognize being grafted into the natural olive tree puts a person in the commonwealth of Israel. We were once alienated, but now we are brought near as the Israel of God.

Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—
Eph 2:12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Jesus, or in Hebrew, Yeshua, only did what was pleasing to His Father, Yahweh. If someone doesn’t believe that they are grafted in to Israel and no longer a Gentile, then it makes sense that they would not do the things of Yahweh. Yahweh is the name the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob gave to His people. Christendom changed His special day, the Sabbath, to a different day, changed His special holidays to those of foreign gods (Halloween, Christmas and Easter), changed his name to the generic term “Lord”, changed his commandments and changed the people group from the commonwealth of Israel to simply the “church”, with a completely different identity than Israel. With all these changes it begs the question if they are worshipping Yahweh, or another god. They have disassociated themselves from Yahweh. Who is your god? Is it the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, or another god? Do you follow His instructions and His special days, or those of different gods and Demi-gods?

Joh 8:25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.
Joh 8:26 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
Joh 8:27 They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.
Joh 8:28 So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
Joh 8:29 And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

Having a birthday celebration on the day of the birth of the sun god, Mithras, or changing the Sabbath to the venerable day of the sun, does not please the Father; therefore, there is no way Yeshua would sanction either of these. By understanding the feasts and scripture, we know Yeshua was not crucified on Friday and did not rise from the dead on Sunday. This is simply a myth to fit the account to honor the goddesses Venus (Freya) and Ishtar (Easter), and sun god Mithras (Saturn). It is only through the twisting of scripture that people have fallen for these things. Once the feasts of Yahweh are understood, scripture clearly shows the Messiah, Yeshua, was crucified on a Wednesday and rose at the end of the Sabbath, Saturday. These are hard words unless a person immerses themselves in scripture, becomes obedient and asks to be shown the truth.

Deu 12:29 “When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are about to go to, to dispossess them before you, and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land,
Deu 12:30 take care so that you are not ensnared into imitating them after their being destroyed from before you, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, and thus I myself want to do also.’
Deu 12:31 You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 All of the things that I am commanding you, you must diligently observe; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it.”

The early church leaders reinforced the Deuteronomy 12 instructions by telling the new pagan converts to give up their things that are polluted by idols. It obviously didn’t work because pagan idolatry over took the church.

Act 15:19 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,
Act 15:20 but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
Act 15:21 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

Peter continues with this messaging. Being “ransomed by the futile ways of your forefathers” and “do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance” is talking about pagan idolatry. Replacing Yahweh’s holidays with those blended with foreign gods and their traditions, is the same thing Peter was speaking about in his letter to the dispersion. The house of Israel was separated from Yahweh for doing these things. Yeshua made a way for them to come back, and many never did. They simply blended their pagan traditions with some new religion later to come under the name of Christianity. We have inherited these lies from our forefathers, just as Peter indicates.

1Pe 1:13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1Pe 1:14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
1Pe 1:15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
1Pe 1:16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1Pe 1:17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
1Pe 1:18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
1Pe 1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

There is an argument that today we are not even able legitimately to observe the feast of Sukkoth. In Deuteronomy, it says to appear where Yahweh chooses.

Deu 16:16 Three times in the year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty-handed.
Deu 16:17 Each person shall give as he is able, that is, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you.

Whether we believe we should keep Sukkoth by living in temporary dwellings, based on these scriptures or not, does not give us a license to make up new holidays on the holy days of foreign gods. It is a good practice to learn the feasts and remember what Yahweh did for His people, along with the future hope we have. It is especially easy to keep a Sabbath.

Yeshua kept the feast, even if it was later then the rest of the people. Perhaps He was keeping the correct calendar?

Joh 7:1 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
Joh 7:2 Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand.
Joh 7:3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.
Joh 7:4 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
Joh 7:5 For not even his brothers believed in him.
Joh 7:6 Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
Joh 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Joh 7:8 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”
Joh 7:9 After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
Joh 7:10 But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.

Yahweh tells us through the prophet Hosea that Ephraim will have to dwell in tents again. This is what is referred to as the second Exodus. It is all through scripture where Yahweh will deliver His people in the end times. Ephraim is another name for the house of Israel, who was dispersed into the nations.

Hos 12:5 Yahweh the God of hosts, Yahweh is his renowned name!
Hos 12:6 But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Hos 12:7 The trader, in his hand are scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.
Hos 12:8 And Ephraim said, “Surely, I am rich, I gained wealth for myself; in all my toil they have not found guilt in me that is sin.
Hos 12:9 But I am Yahweh your God since the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, like the days of the appointed festival.

This time that Yahweh is referring to does not look like it is in the distant future either. It will be such a great event that we will not even talk about the first Exodus. This has not happened yet because we are still talking about the first Exodus.

Jer 23:5 “Look, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign as king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 23:6 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in safety, and this is his name by which he will be called: ‘Yahweh is our righteousness.’
Jer 23:7 “Therefore look, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when they will no longer say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who led up the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’
Jer 23:8 but ‘As Yahweh lives, who led up, and who brought the offspring of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he had driven them.’ Then they will live in their land.”

This is speaking of the event Yeshua told us about.

Mat 24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Mat 24:30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

One thing is for certain, everyone that is part of the millennium kingdom will be keeping this feast, or they will not get rain. This takes place after the great day of Yahweh.

Zec 14:16 And then every survivor from all those nations coming against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, and celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Zec 14:17 And then whoever of the clans of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, it will not rain on them.
Zec 14:18 And if the clan of Egypt will not go up and come in, on them will be that plague Yahweh inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Zec 14:19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Zec 14:20 On that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to Yahweh.” And the cooking pots in the house of Yahweh will be holy like the sacrificial basins before the altar.
Zec 14:21 And every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of hosts, and all those who sacrifice will come and will take from them, and will cook in them, and there will be no longer a trader in the house of Yahweh of hosts on that day.

Learn the feasts of Yahweh, knowing they are a shadow of things to come, or a remembrance of events that have happened. The fall feasts all point to future prophecies that have not been fulfilled. Remember what Yahweh has done and the hope we have of a future kingdom where we will be keeping the feasts as intended. Leave behind the pagan idolatry we inherited from our forefathers, and follow Yahweh’s instructions!

Amo 9:8 Look, the eyes of my Lord Yahweh are on the kingdom of sin, and I will destroy it from the surface of the earth. However, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares Yahweh.
Amo 9:9 “Yes, look, I am going to command and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations like one who shakes with a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground.
Amo 9:10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil will not overtake or confront us.’
Amo 9:11 On that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen, and I will repair its breaches and will raise up its ruins and will build it like the days of old.
Amo 9:12 Thus they may take possession of the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” declares Yahweh, who does this.
Amo 9:13 “Look, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when the one who plows will overtake the one who reaps, the one who treads grapes will catch up with the one who sows the seed. And the mountains will drip sweet wine and all of the hills will flow with it.
Amo 9:14 And I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they will rebuild the desolated cities and will inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and will drink their wine, and they will make gardens and will eat their fruit.
Amo 9:15 And I will plant them on their land and they will not be uprooted again from their land that I have given to them,” says Yahweh your God.