Hanukkah - End-Time Revelation

When He was on earth before His death, resurrection and ascension, Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ, or Salvation the Messiah/Anointed King) was a Rabbi who observed the Torah. He is the Word/Torah (in Greek, it is logos - the Word - and in Hebrew it is torah - the instruction, or teaching) of Yahweh in the flesh (John 1:14). He was called haTorah (the Instruction/Teaching) of the Kingdom by His disciples. He observed the weekly Sabbath (on the seventh day from Genesis) and the Seven Feasts of Yahweh in Leviticus 23, and He also observed Purim (the Feast of Esther - the feast of the Jews) and Hanukkah (the Feast of Dedication - commemorated the dedication of the Temple of Solomon). He observed all these feasts, and He taught His disciples to do this, who taught their disciples to do this, etc., until the Roman church intervened and removed all traces of the jewishness/hebrewness of belief in Yeshua HaMashiach at around 300 A.D. Yeshua came to magnify (put under a magnifying glass) the Torah/instructions of Yahweh, not do away with it.

In jewish/hebrew thinking, time is not a straight line with an unknown end. It is a repeating cycle with an end that is a repeat of earlier things. The Feasts of Yahweh are like this, and they are the fulfillment of prophecies like those in Daniel and the other prophets of the Tanach/Old Testament. The historical story of Hanukkah was a fulfillment of the prophecies of Daniel 11. The "abomination of desolation" mentioned by Yeshua in Matthew 24:15 and Mark 13:14 is the setting up of the statue of Zeus and sacrifice of pigs on the altar during the time of the Maccabees (see the Apocrypha at www.sacred-texts.com, or go to www.hearoisrael.org/Teachings.html for a history of Hanukkah which includes Maccabees from the Apocrypha).

You might ask, "Why do I care what happened in the story of Hanukkah when it is extrabiblical history? The attitude of churches today towards the majority of the books of the Bible is the same, as follows:

"Yet, still, almost all Protestant denominations teach that the Tenach is history, and therefore non-applicable to today. Almost all teach that we are not under Yahuweh's good instruction of the Kingdom of heaven, but under our own free will to do as we wish-called “grace.”

Yet, without the foundation of the Tenach, beliefs regarding the Savior are mostly built on shifting sand, and not fully understandable. The Messianic Writings are based on Hebraic understanding from the Tenach. When Paul and Peter and the other Apostles, in their writings, talked about the “Word,” they meant the Tenach!" - by Yedidah, in her article at http://www.remnantexodus.com/16__hanukkah__shocking_revel.htm

Now you might say, "What does all this have to do with me or the end-times?"

Go online to any nonmainstream media source, like www.youtube.com or www.prisonplanet.com, and you will find that the one-world government was declared in May 1999 live on CNN and BBC. Don't listen to the mainstream media (ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.) because they are already under the control and manipulation of the world's elite leaders under the leadership of Lucifer. The antimessiah/antichrist is already in the process of being chosen, and may already have been. In addition to this, evangelical and messianic churches have brought themselves under the Pope, the head of the Roman church, while we were sleeping and trying to catch terrorists and focusing on ourselves and our money!

Because of the Hellenistic/Greek mindset of western society today, we are being boiled alive and don' t even know it, like the frog brought up to boiling slowly. We have been deceived. Wake up, get out of the humanistic, Greek mindset and see your connection with the Jews and the Hebrew lifestyle of the Elohim (God) of Israel! We are Israel if we have joined ourselves to them through Messiah Yeshua! We do not replace Israel; we join their camp under the Kingship of King Salvation!

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What's Wrong with Celebrating Easter as a Christian?

What it is:

• On the first Sunday after the spring equinox, the impregnation of the moon goddess, Ishtar, is celebrated.  Ishtar is believed to be impregnated by the sun.  Her other names are Semiramus (Nimrod's wife), Shiva/Devaki, Isis, Demeter/Athena/Artemis/Diana, Venus/Astarte/Biblia/Charis, Ceridwen/Freya/Frigga/Eostre, Asherah/Ishtar/Easter/Tanit, Ashtoreth, Ishtar, Cybele/Ceres, Rashnu, Abatar, Maitreya (names put together with a / are related names in the same culture).   
  

What it isn't:

• It is NOT another name for Passover.  At the 15th of the biblical month of Aviv, Passover is celebrated.  Passover is the remembrance of the Exodus out of Egypt after the angel of death passed over the firstborn of Israel and killed the firstborn of Egypt.  The month of Aviv is determined by the new moon AND the ripe barley (aviv = ripe) in Israel AND the precession of the equinox (the sun has to pass through certain constellations for this to happen).  
  
• It is not the day that Yeshua was resurrected from the dead, either.  He was resurrected before the beginning of the first day of the week, on the weekly Sabbath (Saturday).  
  
• See www.toolonginthesun.com for more detailed information.  

Symbolism

• Easter Eggs - eggs brought by Ishtar (Semiramus) which had been dipped in the blood of babies sacrificed to her husband, the Sun (Nimrod)
  
• Easter Bunny - the legend of Ishtar, who was Semiramus, the wife of Nimrod, says that she came down to earth as a rabbit which laid eggs by the Euphrates River
  

Can't we use to share the gospel? 

• Again, how can we, as believers in the One True King, Messiah Yeshua, link our worship practices with those of sun and moon worshippers?  Yahweh will NOT tolerate any other gods IN HIS FACE (Deuteronomy 5:7)!  
  
• Those who follow the MOST HIGH must not be involved in sacrificing babies either!  The Ashtoreth or Asherah, and those who worship them, are found very frequently to be at the receiving end of judgment by Yahweh in the Bible.  "Make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth" Exodus 23:13.  
  

What's Wrong with Celebrating Christmas as a Christian?

What it is:

• The Roman Feast of Saturnalia, a Mithraic celebration of the rebirth of the sun (Sol Invictus or the Invincible Sun) on the 25th of December right after the death of the sun at the winter equinox.  It was mixed in (adulterated) with beliefs in Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah (Christ, or Anointed King) by the Roman catholic (catholic means "worldwide") church after Constantine made Christianity a state religion in the 4th century AD.  
  
• December 25th is the birthday of every sun god known to man, including Nimrod, Baal, Brahma, Amon Ra, Zeus/Apollo, Deus/Jupiter, Woden/Teutates/Heil, Baal Mithras/Ahura Mazda, Shamash/Chemosh, Dagon, Marduk, Joshaman, Ormazd.   
  

What it isn't:

• The birth of Jesus Christ - Jesus (Yeshua) was born at the Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, which happens in the fall during the Jewish month of Tishrei at the full moon.  He was born in a sukkah, not a stable.  A sukkah is a temporary structure built to keep animals while they are being herded somewhere.  The children of Israel lived in sukkot (plural of sukkah) during the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness as they were learning to cling only to the Elohim of Israel, Yahweh, and to stay pure and clean from the false gods of the nations.  We, as those joined to Israel in the Messiah Yeshua, are commanded to live in sukkot once a year for seven days, and Yosef and Miriam were being obedient to this when they went to Beit-Lechem (House of Bread), even though Miriam was pregnant and due to deliver at that time.  At the appointed time (Hebrew, moed, referring to the seven appointed times or feast of Israel - not just the Greek meaning of "when the right time came"), she gave birth.  The sukkot at Beit-Lechem were also shelters for the special lambs being brought to Jerusalem for Passover, Shavuot (Pentecost) and Sukkot.  These were the sacrificial lambs, and they were inspected with the  swaddling clothes, which were rags from used priestly garments out of Jerusalem.  

Symbolism:

All these symbols come from Roman times, were assimilated into the practices of the church, and the church never encouraged the Celtic peoples to repent of them when they came as "missionaries" to Britain and northern Europe.  

• Christmas Tree - the phallus of the sun god, a pillar of jealousy, the tower of Babel.  See Jeremiah 10:3-4!  
  
• Evergreen Wreath - the womb of the earth, waiting for the sun god's, or Nimrod's phallus
  
• Gold and Silver Balls on the Tree - the reproductive organs of Nimrod
  
• Santa Claus - Nimrod, the sun god.  Sun worship has been the downfall of Israel since they began, and it's what got the 10 northern tribes sent into exile so much that they are unrecognizable today.  The two calves in Dan and Bethel that they were worshipping were bull calves, and bulls are a symbol of the strength of the sun in Mithraism and other sun-worshipping religions.  
  
• Elves - demons
  
• See www.toolonginthesun.com for more detailed information.  

Can't we use it to share the gospel?

• "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit" Jeremiah 16:19.  If we have inherited lies from our fathers, shouldn't we face them, repent and avoid using them to bring people out of the kingdom of darkness where the father of lies reigns?  
  
• How could we think that Yeshua (Savior) the King (Messiah) of all Creation would link His Holy (set-apart) Name with the worship of any other gods like those listed above?  "For My Glory, for My own sake, I will act; for how can [My Name] be profaned?  And My Glory I will not give to another" Isaiah 48:11.  

What's Wrong With Celebrating Halloween as a Christian?

What it is:

Samhain (pronounced sa-ween), the highest holy day for worshippers of demons and their master. It is the Feast of the Dead from Druidic demon worship.

What it's not:
It is not a feast of Yahweh in any way, shape or form. Even November 1st, All Saints Day, is really the Day of the Dead in many cultures, and it is nothing but another man-created day to focus on something other than Yahweh.

Symbolism

• Jack-o-lantern - during the time of the Druids, pagans were required to give up their children for a lottery to determine which one would be sacrificed. The children stood within a circle of marker stones around a pole, and when the shadow the pole fell on one of the children, the child was tied up and burned alive on a bone-fire (modern term - bonfire) as a sacrifice to the sun. The fat leftover from the child was collected and made into a candle, then placed in a hollowed-out pumpkin or other sun-shaped vegetable. The victim was then called the "jack-of-the-lantern."
  
• Witches - Druidic myth said that witches flew their brooms over crops for fertility rituals.
  
• Trick-or-Treat - pagans left gifts of food outside their homes to keep the roaming ghosts of the dead from harming them on the Feast of the Dead.
• See www.fossilizedcustoms.com for more detailed information.

Can't we use it to share the gospel?

• We can't mix the demonic and witchcraft with our beliefs in Yeshua and Yahweh. He commands - You shall have no other gods before Me (in My face - Hebrew translation) in Deuteronomy 5:7. Remember what Yahweh did when the Ark of the Covenant was placed in the temple of Dagon, the fish god of the Philistines in 1 Samuel 5:2-7? Their idol was toppled and broken before the Ark (the carrier of the presence/shekinah of Yahweh). He does not tolerate false gods of any kind IN HIS FACE!
  
• Also, how can we, as believers in Yeshua, participate in something that harkens back to the sacrifice of children? In Bible times, the Israelites (which we are in Yeshua) were forbidden to sacrifice their children to false gods, let alone to the sun, which is what the worshippers of Molech (king in Hebrew) and Chemosh (sun in Hebrew) were doing and which is what entrapped King Solomon (1 Kings 11:7) so that he sinned against the LORD with the consequence of the kingdom being torn from his son, Rehoboam.
  

Why Be So Extreme?

WHAT DOES SCRIPTURE SAY?  WE ARE TO KEEP OURSELVES UNSTAINED BY THE WORLD AND BE HOLY AND BLAMELESS!  

• Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this:  to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to KEEP ONESELF UNSTAINED BY THE WORLD (James 1:27).  

• Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be HOLY AND BLAMELESS before Him...(Ephesians 1:4).  

• That He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would HOLY AND BLAMELESS (Ephesians 5:27).  

• Yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you  before Him HOLY AND BLAMELESS AND BEYOND REPROACH...(Colossians 1:22). 

• But like the HOLY ONE who called you, BE HOLY YOURSELVES ALSO IN ALL YOUR BEHAVIOR...(1 Peter 1:16).  

• Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in HOLY CONDUCT and GODLINESS...(2 Peter 3:11).  
  

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HOLY AND BLAMELESS?  

HOLY:
Greek - hagios (Strong's G40) - set apart for God, to be, as it were, exclusively His, selected
Hebrew - qodesh  (Strong's H6944) - set-apart, separate

BLAMELESS:
Greek - amomos (Strong's G299) - without blemish, free from faultiness, sinless, unblamable
Hebrew - tamiym (Strong's H8549) - perfect, complete, whole, entire, sound, unimpaired, innocent, having integrity

WHAT IS THE WORLD?

Greek - kosmos (Strong's G2865) - the ungodly multitude; the whole mass of men alienated from God, and therefore hostile to the cause of Christ; the whole circle of earthly goods, endowments, riches, advantages, pleasures, etc., which although hollow and frail and fleeting, stir desire, seduce from God and are obstacles to the cause of Christ

Hebrew - tebel (H8398) - fertile, inhabitable, created earth

Hebrew - cheled (H2465) - age, duration of life, the world

WHO OWNS THE WORLD?  WHY DOES HE GET TO JUDGE?  HE'S THE CREATOR.  HIS NAME IS ELOHIM (JUDGE).  HE MADE THE WORLD AND THE RULES IT IS GOVERNED BY.  HIS WORD/LAW/INSTRUCTIONS/TORAH (NOT SAME AS NOMOS IN GREEK) WAS GIVEN TO "INSTRUCT" US HOW TO LIVE IN IT.  

• And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity (Psalm 9:8).  

• The earth is the LORD's, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it (Psalm 24:1).  

• Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him (Psalm 33:8).  

• If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and all it contains (Psalm 50:12). 

Becoming Torah Observant - Hebrew Roots/Nutrition Studies

The group we studied Creationism with was made up of two other couples from our church who were homeschoolers and into natural foods and herbal remedies.  One couple had been sharing with us about Hebrew Roots as well.  They shared some materials with us, but we weren't ready to hear it.  We did, however, begin to see the logic in not eating pork and shellfish and other creeping things as commanded in Leviticus 11, "This is the law regarding the animal and bird, and every living thing that lives in the waters, and everything that swarms on the earth, to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the edible creature and the creature which is not to be eaten."  Dr. Jordan Rubin, on page 38 of The Maker's Diet, said, "'By-products that originate from digesting such scavenger meat are highly poisonous.  We're referring specifically to the so-called death enzymes, such as cadaverine, putrescene...these death enzymes are extraordinarily useful in nature.  Without their assistance no flesh would revert to dust...they are extremely useful to break down a corpse, but terribly inconvenient in a living human body.'"  After reading this and the rest of the book, we began to conclude that there is, after all, a reason why God told us not to eat such things!  Maybe we needed to investigate the rest of the "laws" further.  We were also being shown by the LORD that our mindset was Greek, not Hebrew, and this is evident in our US government schools (the subjects taught and how they are taught), our government buildings (Hellenistic architecture) and our churches (we separate families from each other to teach them, we talk about obedience but do very little of it, and we think we can redeem things by mixing them into our worship).  

Links:  

www.wildbranch.org - Hebrew vs. Greek mindset

www.hebroots.org - Hebrew Roots

Becoming Torah Observant - Creationism

Back in 2002, our family started studying creation vs. evolution with Dr. Kent Hovind.  We ordered his entire series on creation from a biblical perspective, as well as several debates with evolutionists which were very well done.  We came to confidently believe that the first book of the Bible is true and can be supported by many archeological sources.  It took us a few months to watch these videos as a family with a group of families from our church, and we learned that:  

• There is scientific evidence to support a young earth and universe, about 6,000 years old.  

• Dinosaurs did live on earth, and some are still here today.  

• The earth at Creation had a different environment than we have now, and it was changed by the worldwide flood of Genesis.  

• Evolution theory as taught in public schools is full of unproven and falsified evidence, and is as much a "religion" based on faith as any other.  

• Evolution theory is behind the atrocities of the last few centuries, especially genocide related to communism and fascism.  
  

Creationism Links:  

www.drdino.com - Dr. Hovind's materials and those of many others

www.answersingenesis.org - lots of evidence here - our daughter used a lot of this in one of her term papers

www.creationevidence.org - museum in Glenrose, Texas, with a biosphere recreating the original environment of Eden