Eze. 33:1-6: Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Why the Muslim must hate the Jew!



Something I received today and which I consider worth reading - the source, in my opinion, is reliable.  I am afraid that we have gone too far down the road of Political correctness and are thus no longer able to make a stand on what we believe to be right or wrong for fear of offending somebody somewhere!


I recall a rather frightening Scripture which may jolt us - Mark 8:38: 


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August 3, 2012 
Why Muslims Must Hate Jews
By Nonie Darwish 

Recently, a Pakistani religious leader, Pirzada Muhammad Raza Saqib
Mustafai, said: "When the Jews are wiped out ... the sun of peace [will]
begin to rise on the entire world."  The same preaching is routinely
done not only by clerics, but by politicians -- in Iran, Saudi Arabia,
Egypt, and elsewhere.  This is not just Ahmedinijad; it is at the heart
of Islamic theology that world peace will be established only when all
the Jews are wiped from the earth.  But few people in Western media are
alarmed by this kind of rhetoric or care to expose this dreadful dark
side of Islam's obsession with Jew-hatred.
I do not believe that one has to be an authority on human behavior or
group thinking to find out the obvious pathology in Islamic Jew-hatred.
It is time for all of us to uncover and expose this atrocity against the
Jewish people.  We owe that to humanity and the truth.
No true Muslim can see that such hatred is unbecoming and unholy for a
world religion to focus on and that the credibility of Islam is
tarnished by such hatred.  No Muslim is allowed to go far enough to
self-analyze or ask why such hatred.  Muslims defend Jew-hatred by
claiming that Jews betrayed Muhammad and thus deserve of this kind of
treatment.  Even when I was a Muslim, I believed that the one-sided
story against Jews by Islam was enough to justify all the killing,
terror, lies, and propaganda by Islamic leaders against Jews.  To the
average Muslim, routinely cursing Jews in mosques feels normal and even
holy!
After a lot of thinking, analysis, research, and writing, I discovered
that Jew -atred in Islam is an essential foundation to the Islamic
belief system that Muslims cannot seem to be able to rid themselves of.
Jew-hatred masks an existential problem in Islam.  Islam is terrified of
the Jews, and the number-one enemy of Islam is the truth, which must be
constantly covered at any cost.  It does not matter how many Muslim men,
women, and children die in the process of saving Islam's reputation.
The number-one duty of Muslims is to protect the reputation of Islam and
Mohammad.  But why would a religion burden its followers like that?
This is why:
When Mohammed embarked on his mission to spread Islam, his objective was
to create a uniquely Arabian religion, one created by an Arab prophet,
which reflected the Arabian values and culture.  Yet to obtain
legitimacy, he had to link it to the two previous Abrahamic religions,
Judaism and Christianity.  He expected the Jewish tribes who lived in
Arabia to declare him their Messiah and thereby bring him more
legitimacy with Arabs, especially with his own tribe in Mecca, the
Quraish.  Because his own tribe had rejected and ridiculed him, Mohammed
needed the approval of the Jews, whom he called the people of the book.
But the conversion of Jews to Islam was part of the scenario that
Mohammed had to accomplish in order to prove to Meccans that they had
made a mistake by rejecting him.
That was one of the reasons Mohammed chose to migrate to Medina, a town
that had predominantly been settled by Jewish tribes and a few
impoverished Arabs who lived around the Jews.  The Jews allowed Mohammed
to move in.  At the beginning, the Koran of Mecca was full of appeals to
the Jews, who were then described as "guidance and light" (5:44) and a
"righteous" people (6:153-154), who "excelled the nations" (45:16).  But
when the Jews rejected the appeasement and refused to convert to Islam,
Mohammed simply and completely flipped.  The Quran changed from love to
threats and then pure hatred, cursing, and commandments to kill Jews.
Rejection by the Jews became an intolerable obsession with Mohammed.
Not only did the Jews reject him, but their prosperity made Mohammed
extremely envious.  The Jewish Arabian tribes earned their living from
legitimate and successful business, but Mohammed earned his living and
wealth through warfare -- by attacking Arab tribes, some of whom were
from his own tribe -- and trade caravans, seizing their wealth and
property.  That did not look good for a man who claimed to be a prophet
of God.  The mere existence of the Jews made Mohammed look bad, which
led Mohammed to unspeakable slaughter, beheading of 600 to 900 Jewish
men of one tribe, and taking their women and children as slaves.
Mohammed had the first pick of the prettiest woman as his sex slave.
All of this senseless slaughter of the Jews was elaborately documented
in Islamic books on the life of Mohammed -- not as something to be
ashamed of, but as justified behavior against evil people.
One does not have to be psychiatrist to see the obvious: that Mohammad
was a tormented man after the massacre he orchestrated and forced his
fighters to undertake to empower and to enrich himself and his religion.
To reduce his torment, he needed everyone around him, as well as future
generations, to participate in the genocide against the Jews, the only
people whom he could not control.  An enormous number of verses in the
Koran encouraged Mohammed's fighters to fight, kill, and curse Muslim
fighters who wanted to escape fighting and killing Jews.  The Quran is
full of promises of all kinds of pleasure in heaven to those who
followed Mohammed's killing spree and curses and condemnation to those
who chose to escape from fighting.  Muslims were encouraged to feel no
hesitation or guilt for the genocide because it was not they who did it,
but rather "Allah's hand."
Mohammed never got over his anger, humiliation, and rejection by "the
people of the book" and went to his grave tormented and obsessed that
some Jews were still alive.  On his deathbed, Mohammed entrusted Muslims
to kill Jews wherever they found them, which made this a "holy
commandment" that no Muslim can reject.  Muslims who wrote sharia
understood how Mohammed was extremely sensitive to criticism, and that
is why criticizing Mohammed became the highest crime in Islam that will
never be forgiven even if the offender repents.  Mohammed's message on
his deathbed was not for his followers to strive for holiness, peace,
goodness, and to treat their neighbors as themselves, but rather a
commandment for Muslims to continue the killing and the genocide against
the Jews.  Killing thus became a holy act of obedience to Mohammed and
Allah himself.
Mohammed portrayed himself as a victim of Jews, and Muslims must avenge
him until judgment day.  With all Arab power, money, and influence
around the world today, they still thrive at portraying themselves as
victims.  Sharia also codified into law the duty of every Muslim to
defend Mohammed's honor and Islam with his own blood, and allowed the
violation of many commandments if it is for the benefit of defending
Islam and Mohammed.  Thus, Muslims are carrying a huge burden, a holy
burden, to defend Mohammed with their blood, and in doing so they are
allowed to kill, lie, cheat, slander, and mislead.
Mohammed must have felt deep and extreme shame after what he had done to
the Jews, and thus a very good reason had to be found to explain away
his genocide.  By commanding Muslims to continue the genocide for him,
even after his death, Mohammad expanded the shame to cover all Muslims
and Islam itself.  All Muslims were commanded to follow Mohammed's
example and chase the Jews wherever they went.  One hundred years after
Mohammed's death, Arabs occupied Jerusalem and built Al Aqsa mosque
right on top of the Jewish Temple ruins, the holiest spot of the Jews.
Muslims thought they had erased all memory of Jewish existence.
Mohammed's genocide of the Jews of Arabia became an unholy dark mark of
shame in Islamic history, and that shame, envy, and anger continues to
get the best of Muslims today.  In the eyes of Mohammed and Muslims, the
mere existence of the Jewish people, let alone an entire Jewish state,
delegitimizes Islam and makes Mohammed look more like a mass murderer
than like a prophet.  For Muslims to make peace with Jews and
acknowledge that Jews are humans who deserve the same rights as everyone
else would have a devastating effect on how Muslims view their religion,
their history, and the actions of their prophet.
Islam has a major existential problem.  By no will of their own, the
Jews found themselves in the middle of this Islamic dilemma.  Islam must
justify the genocide that Mohammad waged against the Jews.  Mohammad and
Muslims had two choices: either the Jews are evil sub-humans, apes,
pigs, and enemies of Allah, a common description of Jews still heard
regularly in Middle Eastern mosques today, or Mohammad was a genocidal
warlord not fit to be a prophet of God -- a choice that would mean the
end of Islam.
Then and now, Mohammad and Muslims clearly chose the first worldview and
decreed that any hint of the second must be severely punished.  Jews
must remain eternally evil enemies of Islam if Islam is to remain
legitimate.  There is no third solution to save the core of Islam from
collapsing; either Mohammed was evil, or the Jews were evil.  Any
attempt to forgive, humanize, or live peacefully with Jews is considered
treason against Islam.  How can Muslims forgive the Jews and then go
back to their mosques, only to read their prophet's words, telling them
they must kill Jews wherever they find them?  It does not add up, if
someone wants to remain Muslim.
That is why the number-one enemy of Islam is, and must remain, the
truth.  If the truth exposes Islam's unjustified Jew-hatred, Muslims
will be left with an empty shell of a religion, a religion whose prophet
was a murderer, a thief, and a warlord.  Without Jew-hatred, Islam would
self-destruct.
Nonie Darwish author is the author of The Devil We Don't Know.
(See also: "Fed to the Sharks by Political Correctness")

Read more:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/why_muslims_must_hate_jews.html#ixzz22rHMdr64

Friday, August 3, 2012

Babylon Marriage

BABYLON MARRIAGE

I am busy at this time working on a larger and more extensive study of this topic, however I feel an urgency to get something circulated in the meantime.

To get the ball rolling I would ask that each of you who are reading this blog to please take a moment to reflect on the question I wish to now pose –

SHOULD YOU BE MARRIED, TO WHOM DID YOU DEDICATE YOUR MARRIAGE TO?   Selah (pause, contemplate)

Strange question I know but I shall try and explain why I believe we need to ask it, and maybe more importantly, why we should attempt to answer it!

The Word begins in Bereshith (Genesis) with a marriage instituted, officiated and ordained by YHWH alone with the obvious agreement of Adam and Chava (Eve) –

And YAHWEH Elohim formed the rib which He had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. (Bere 2:22 HRB)

The Hebrew sages of old say, and I tend to agree with them, that Bereshith 2 indicates the very first marriage took place on a Shabbat; interesting that the playing out on earth by man of the image of His Eternal Marriage should have been consummated on the day which is a sign of His Betrothal to us (Ex 31:13ff), but that is for another day.

The Word ends in Hitgalut (Revelation) with the fully consummated Marriage of the Lamb; the Second Adam; The King (Melech) of Israel to a Bride without any defects at all (as Her Husband was, is and shall always be):

Let us rejoice and let us exult, and we will give glory to Him, because the marriage of the Lamb came, and His wife prepared herself. And it was given to her that she be clothed in fine linen, pure and bright; for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.  And he said to me, Write: Blessed are the ones having been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These Words of YAHWEH are true.
(Hig 19:7-9 HRB)

Husbands, love your wives, even as Messiah also loved the Congregation and gave Himself up on its behalf,  that He might sanctify it, cleansing it by the washing of water and by the Word,  that He might present it to Himself as the glorious Congregation, not having stain or wrinkle, or any such things, but that it be holy and without blemish.
(Eph 5:25-27 HRB)

 Observing the above I might be forgiven for saying the entire Word has to do with a Marriage!

Again a quick side bar: Did you know that the first letter in the Torah (Bere 1:1) is a Bet - Bereshith and the last letter in the Torah (5 Books of Moshe – Dev/Deut 34:12) is a Lamed – Yisra’el. Put these two letters together (remember Hebrew is read from right to left) you get Bet Lamed which is the root word for Heart – so when the Messiah says that He was shown to the people through Moshe (Torah) I wonder what He meant? 

"Then I said, Lo, I come, as it is written about me in the beginning of the Books I delight to do Your will, O Elohim." (Psa. 40:6-8)
(Ibr/Heb 10:7 – HRB Emphasis mine)

Or just as importantly this may give an indication as to why we are told in the Scriptures that the Law is good and beneficial for us? (Ps. 19:8; read Psalm 119 – as the ministry 119 ministries say “If the Torah of God has been abolished then Psalm 119 is the biggest joke in the Bible )  Ps 119:174 reads:

“I have longed for Your salvation (Y'shua*), O YAHWEH; and Your Torah is my delight.”

Or Proverbs 4:2

for I give you good teaching; do not forsake my Torah.”

If this is the Heart of YHWH how can it be bad for us?  Or would YHWH give from His Heart something He knows will never benefit His People? - Just a thought or two.  But again - another topic; another day! 

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one accusing you, Moses, in whom you have hoped. For if you were believing Moses, you would then believe Me; for that one wrote concerning Me.  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My Words? (Yoch/John 5:45-47 HRB)

Believing that the entire Word has to do with a Marriage, and not just any marriage, but a Marriage between the Salvation of YHWH, Yeshua HaMessiach and His Set Aside (Holy) Bride; then I believe I would not be going out too far on a limb to say we had better be careful how our earthly, physical marriages are entered into and conducted if we truly want a marriage that reflects the relationship of Yeshua with His Bride (Assembly) for the whole of creation to see!

Something else can we learn from the Word when taking it in its entirety is that from the fall of man in Bereshith 3 to the marriage of the Lamb in Hitgalut 19 the Bride (the Remnant of Israel) is in the process of being fully reconciled to her Husband by returning to the Covenant of YHWH made with Israel, His Bride.  Please understand that after the fall of man Israel was raised up to be a light to the Nations and indeed a NATION herself for YHWH to use to present His Son Yeshua HaMessiach to the NATIONS!    

A quick overview may be in order here: After the period of the Patriarchs Abraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov, the 12 Tribes of Israel (including a “mixed multitude” Shem/Ex 12:38 - Nations) were led out of Egypt into the Sinai desert.  Here Moshe was told that there would be one Law (Covenant) for home-born (Biological Israel) and the Stranger (gêr – alien) sojourning (joining) with Israel; therefore for the first time, she, Israel, (including the mixed multitude joining her by being willing to follow the Covenant through Faith in the Redeemer of Israel) had the Marriage Covenant proposed to her as a Nation, no longer just individually:  She, Israel, as a Nation accepted the Marriage Covenant: BUT as with all mankind, She - Israel, as a Nation, broke the Marriage Covenant at Sinai – BECAUSE OF THIS FRACTURE OF THE COVENANT  we see the need for the appendage of the Levitical Priesthood to be added to the Covenant.  Now please check this out very carefully – I am saying that with the understanding that I have of the Scriptures at this time, I believe that the Marriage Covenant committed to writing at Mount Sinai by the Messiah Himself has always and will always be in effect WITHOUT ANY ALTERATION : THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD WAS ADDED AFTER THE GOLDEN CALF INCIDENT WHICH CAUSED THE MARRIAGE COVENANT INITIALLY ACCEPTED UNCONDITIONALLY BY ISRAEL AT MT SINAI TO BE BROKEN!

However on the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Our Messiah HE became our High Priest in the Order of Melchizedek and annulled and replaced the High Priest of the Levitical Priesthood (Ibrim/Heb 7;8;9) BUT NOT THE MARRIAGE COVENANT – THAT STANDS FOR ETERNITY.  We also read in Ezekiel 40ff that there will be a millennium Temple here on earth which will use the services of both the Levitical Priesthood as well as Sons of Zadok in that Temple again; BUT Messiah Yeshua shall be our High Priest and King reigning out of Jerusalem, OUT OF HIS TEMPLE.

Quick aside here again please: Just ask yourself;
·         If Messiah Yeshua is the Word –
·         If Messiah will never change –
·         If Messiah is from eternity to eternity –
·         If Messiah, The Word will never in any way be altered –

Then how come The Israelites of Old were saved by Works of the Covenant but we are saved by the exact opposite?  Does not make sense does it?  They, Tanakh (O/T) Saints gained Salvation through Grace by Faith in Messiah just as we do (Kefa Alef/1 Peter 1:10-11); however they had the added appendage of the Levitical Sacrificial System to teach and lead them into the Truth of the need for atonement of sin (breaking of Covenant) by the blood sacrifice of an innocent life; this obviously pointed to the foreshadowing knowledge and faith in the Sacrifice Messiah (The Salvation of YHWH) would one day make for humanity and which was prophesied repeatedly for our forefathers in the Scrolls of the Torah starting with Bere/Gen 3:15.

So does Faith (Greek Pistis = Fidelity) in the Messiah (Messiah the Word, Messiah The Covenant; thus fidelity to The Covenant) mean we are now entitled to break the Covenant?  Rav Sha’ul (Apostle Paul) screams out:

What then? Shall we sin (break covenant) because we are not under the penalty of the Torah, but under grace? Let it not be!  (Rom 6:15 HRB –Emphasis added)

Rav Sha’ul (as he was known in his day) also tells us that the Torah is just, holy and good (Rom 7:12):  That the Torah is Spirit (Rom 7:14):  That Torah agrees with his conscience (Rom 7:21): That his spirit delights in Torah (Rom 7:22): And so he goes on and on;  Please note this is the same Sha’ul (Paul) who tells us we may eat whatever we want; worship whenever we feel like it; ignore Torah, in fact that Torah is a burden, a curse!   How can this contradiction I fact and word be reconciled?

Dear brother and sister in Messiah Yeshua it is painfully evident that confusion abounds BUT  know that confusion is not of YHWH and never shall be:

For YAHWEH is not an Elohim of confusion, but of peace, as in all the congregations of the saints. (1 Cor 14:33 HRB)

The attributes of confusion are lies, instability, unauthorized additions and all these are attributed to Hasatan, they are also the attributes of Babylon; Babylon in both the Hebrew and Greek stems from the Hebrew word H1101 Bâlâl  confusion through mixing: 

Wow! Let’s see that again – confusion through mixing

Let’s have a quick run through this shall we:

We have only two K/kingdoms here on the earth at this time and have had since the fall of man:  They are, the Kingdom of Light (YHWH) and the kingdom of dark (Hasatan) – no more choices I am afraid.  Our Messiah said to Pilate on the day of His Crucifixion that He (Messiah Yeshua’s) Kingdom was not of this world (Babylon) – but strongly states that His Kingdom will come (But now My kingdom is not from here.)  Messiah states in no uncertain terms that He came to make His Kingdom Rules evident and visible by witnessing the Truth! Strangely enough Pilate poses the question we should all ask ourselves: - What is the TRUTH?

Yahshua answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would have fought that I might not be delivered up to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.
Then Pilate said to Him, Are You really a king? Yahshua answered, You say that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I might witness to the Truth. Everyone being of the Truth hears My voice. Pilate said to Him, What is truth?
(Yoc /John 18:36-38 HRB)

·         So what is the Truth? Messiah is the TRUTH!
·         Torah (Covenant) is TRUTH – (Ps.119:142)
·         How did Messiah prove He was the TRUTH? HE complied with and fulfilled the prophecies referring to Him as written of in the Tanakh (Torah & O/T).
·         How did He bear Witness to the TRUTH? HE LIVED OUT THE TORAH (COVENANT) PERFECTLY

NB: MESSIAH LIVED OUT THE PERFECT MARRIAGE COVENANT AS THE PERFECT HUSBAND; WE ARE THE WHORE.  NEVER WAS IT NECESSARY FOR MESSIAH TO COMPLY WITH THE LEVITICAL REQUIREMENT OF A SIN SACRIFICE – WHY? BECAUSE HE LIVED OUT THE COVENANT PERFECTLY WITH OUT BREAKING IT AT ALL IN ANY WAY!

Dear Reader PLEASE NOTE: WE, MANKIND, HAVE BROKEN HIS MARRIAGE COVENANT FOR WHICH HE HAD TO DIE TO PAY OUR DEATH SENTENCE OFF, SO DOES THAT MEANS WE CAN NOW BREAK HIS MARRIAGE COVENANT HE HAS MADE WITH US WITH IMPUNITY – CERTAINLY  THAT WOULD MAKE US ADULTRESSES AND WHORES (IDOLATERS IN THE SPIRIT) WORSHIPPING THE IDOLS OF BABYLON (MIXED RELIGIONS)!

One of my favorite verses is 1 Yochanan Alef /1 John 3:4 – it tells us what sin is:-

Everyone practicing sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is the breaking of the Torah.

So Messiah never broke the Torah – BUT the main line theology preached in many churches today would require HIM to have to break His COVENANT when He one day comes back to marry His Bride so as to accommodate His Sabbath breaking, pork eating, Christmas celebrating wife JUST LIKE THE FIRST ADAM DID?   Is that what your denomination teaching implies and requires?  – Well I should say Heaven forbid of course HE will never break His COVENANT:

Do not think that I came to annul the Torah or the Prophets; I did not come to annul, but to fulfill.  Truly I say to you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, in no way shall one yod or one stroke pass away from the Torah until all comes to pass.  (Matt 5:17-18 HRB)


ARE WE  NOT TO BECOME ONE WITH MESSIAH, BONE OF HIS BONE, FLESH OF HIS FLESH NOT HE WITH US?

For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. (Eph 5:30 HRB)

If so then maybe we should walk as HE walked, ate as He ate, worshiped as and when He worshipped; Married as HE wants us to marry!

OR we risk hearing on that Great and Fearful day:

Many will say to Me in that day, Master, Master, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many works of power?  And then I will declare to them, from everlasting, I never knew you; "depart from Me, those working lawlessness!" (Psa. 6:8)
(Matt 7:22-23 HRB)


This is what the Messiah (WORD/COVENANT), HOPEFULLY OUR HUSBAND TO BE HIMSELF SAYS – not me! 

So now I must again ask – IF YOU ARE MARRIED, TO WHOM DID YOU DEDICATE YOUR MARRIAGE TO?

To a contract/covenant made with the local Church, the State (with all the contributing laws), your Lawyer, your denominational doctrines and Elohim (added into the mix)?

OR

To a Covenant made between YHWH, your spouse and your parents? (Gen 24).

I hear the dissenters calling out: What about Romans 13 and Kefa Alef 2:13ff to which I answer, read Acts 5:27ff esp. verse 29 and see what the self same Kefa (Peter) said to the governing council (The Sanhedrin); the clarion call has gone out by Kefa himself:

It is necessary to yield obedience to Elohim rather than men (ABP)

In closing I shall say that I believe that two people who are not born again cannot ever enter into a Biblical marriage under the Protective Authority and in accordance with the requirements of the Kingdom of YHWH! But that is not to say that should we be in such a marriage YHWH is not capable of rectifying it and us through the Blood of the Lamb, the King of Israel and return us back to His Marriage Covenant so that our marriages shall truly reflect His Marriage to His Bride - but the call must go out repent and turn from our wicked way – that is what His Grace and Redemption is all about – Hallelujah!

He, who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Shabbat Shalom in Messiah Yeshua

Steve Swanepoel.