Yahowah The
Mighty One Yahowsha The Anointed Messiyah
Yada Yahowah
Book 1: Genesis
…Why Are We Here
Dabar – Word
Do You Know My Name?
Yahowah has chosen to initiate this conversation with
us using a mashal,
the
Hebrew word for “parable,” or more accurately: “a
word picture depicting
something important.” The wisdom and guidance we are
going to analyze is from
“Proverbs,” a transliteration of the Latin proverbium.
The 30 th chapter
of this collection reveals an essential message. It asks: “Do
you yada
Yahowah?”
In the words which follow, God introduces Himself, He
presents the source of wisdom, He reveals the way to
life, He meticulously details
the things He will not, under any circumstances,
tolerate, and He prophetically
presents the consequence of us ignoring His advice.
In that God created mankind for the express purpose of
developing personal
one-on-one relationships, He used individuals with
whom He had a relationship to
make Himself known to the rest of us. His prophets and
wise men serve as guides,
illuminating the way to our Heavenly Father. One such
man was ‘Aguwr; he
along with Solomon and Hezekiah, were inspired to
write the Mashal.
‘Aguwr’s name tells us that he was one “who
gathered,” in this case, the
wisdom of Yahowah. We know this because he was the
son, or representative, of
Yaqeh, “the blameless one who burns brightly and
cleanses.” These names
indicate ‘Aguwr gathered and shared Yahowah’s
enlightenment. His disciple,
‘Ukal, devoured these insights; serving as an
example for us.
They begin: “The
word (dabar
– account and testimony) of
‘Aguwr (the one
who gathers) , the
son (ben)
of Yaqeh (the
blameless who burns brightly and
cleanses) and ‘Ukal
(the one who consumes):
‘Yshayah’el (a name which
means: God ( ‘el)
Existing As (hayah)
Man (‘ysh))
bears burdens, lifts up, and
carries souls away (massa’
– unburdening and uplifting
them). The Mighty and
Upright (geber/gabar
– the strong and able One who
confirms, strengthens, and
prevails as) ‘Yshayah’el
(God Existing As Man) declares
divine revelation
( na’um –
speaks prophetically as God, delivering an authoritative message).”
(Proverbs 30:1-2) The one who “bears our burdens and
uplifts our souls is the
Redeemer, the Messiyah, the Anointed Implement of Yah,
Yahowsha. He is
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‘Yshayah’el: God existing in the form of a man. He
is the source of Divine
revelation. He is the Word made flesh.
‘Yshayah’el is one of the most important and least
understood names in
Scripture. Yahowah used it to describe His Messianic
manifestation in Isaiah’s
ninth chapter—the passage we examined earlier in
amplified form. While it is
stated more majestically and unequivocally there,
Yashayahu (Isaiah) also
confirms that ‘Yshayah’el is our Savior, that He
is Almighty God in human form.
Listen to it again: “For
unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given,
eternally bestowed, delivered up, and allowed to pay.
Supreme authority
shall always exist on His shoulders for Him to carry
our burdens away. His
name has been, is, and will be called out, summoned,
and read aloud:
Wonderful Councilor, Almighty God, Eternal Father,
Patron of Redemption.
Of the exceeding greatness and magnitude of His favor
and restoration,
friendship and reward, and His supreme authority and
power, nothing will
ever diminish throughout all space-time. He shall rule
upon the throne of
David (of Love) and over His realm, rendering it sure
and prosperous and He
will restore and renew it with verdicts which are just
and vindicating, leading
to justification and salvation from this time forth
and forevermore. The
passion of Yahowah will perform this as ‘Yshayah’el.”
(Yasha’yahu/Isaiah
9:6-7)
If you are checking, you won’t find “’Yshayah’el”
written in any English
translation, but it is there, sure as life, on the
2,000-year-old Great Isaiah Scroll
found in Qumran. In the chapter dedicated to this
passage, “’Yshayah’el,” I’ve
even provided you with a link to an online photograph
of this section of the scroll
to demonstrate this reality. So the issue isn’t that
the translators didn’t know that
‘Yshayah’el was the culmination of Scripture’s
most profound Messianic
prophecy, or that they did not realize that ‘Yshayah’el
was a name, and not a
word. You’ll find it referenced in Strong’s
Concordance, the dean of biblical
lexicons. In the interactive form of Strong’s, the
name is linked directly to this
passage. The problem is: scholars have very little
respect for God’s name and His
titles. The consequence of this grievous crime will
become evident as we unwrap
this divine mashal,
or parable.
Before we leave Isaiah, however, on a topic related to
‘Yshayah’el, there is a
specific reason the verse begins “unto us a child is
born, unto us a Son is given”
and yet not one in a million Christians or Jews
comprehends the significance. The
key to understanding the verse is provided in the
account of the fourth day of
creation. Yahowah predicted that in mankind’s fourth
millennium after the
departure from Eden, the “greater light (the
Messiyah)” would become “visible to
us as a sign and symbol.” That’s what happened.
Yah’s son, His representative,
the one who came in His father’s name and was about
the Father’s business,
became visible to humankind. As the human
manifestation of God, the Messiyah
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Yahowsha was not, however, “born.” God has always
been and will always be. As
a result, it is senseless, even demeaning, to
celebrate “Christ’s birthday.” Simply
and brilliantly stated: a child was born, a son was
given.
Returning to the opening of Proverbs 30, it’s worth
noting that the King
James renders massa’,
meaning “lifts up and carries a
burden,” as “even the
prophecy,” even though that isn’t what the word
means. The NIV, or New
International Version, unable to separate itself from
the KJV legacy, conveys “an
oracle,” but provides a footnote, saying that it
could also be saying: “Jakeh of
Massa.” The NASB also demonstrates that it is a
slave to familiarity by writing
that Aguwr’s father, Jakeh, was “the oracle.” Strong’s,
the oldest Hebrew-English
dictionary, acknowledges that massa’
is a cognate of nasa’
and means “to bear a
burden and to uplift a soul,” but since it is keyed
to the King James, its author
routinely adds the KJV rendering at the end of his
list, no matter how awkward or
out of place it may be.
Yet, all one has to do to verify that massa’
means “to bear a burden and/or
to
uplift a soul,” is to look at any of the other 65
times the word is used in Scripture.
In each case, the “lifting a burden” definition
fits and “prophetic oracle”
misrepresentation doesn’t. The reason, however, that
the translators elected to
render massa’ incorrectly
here is because they didn’t consider the meaning of
‘Yshayah’el, or acknowledge its inclusion in
Isaiah/Yahsha’yahu’s Messianic
prophecy. No ordinary man could do the things being
attributed to ‘Yshayah’el in
this Proverb. So this is one of a thousand examples
where inaccurate translations
transformed a profoundly important message into
meaningless drivel.
‘Aguwr recognized what we must come to know and
accept if we want to
understand our Creator and His creation. This message
is for those who want to
live forever with Him in it. He was inspired to write:
“Surely (kiy
– because and
indeed; and by way of contrast) separated
(min
– removed from the source) I
don’t exist (ba’ar
– I am senseless and destroyed),
a man (‘ysh)
without the
understanding (lo’
biynah – devoid of discernment,
lacking the insight and
wisdom) of ‘Adam (‘adam
– mankind)—neither
(lo’)
taught (lamad)
wisdom
( chokmah)
nor one who knows and experiences (yada’
– recognizes or is
acquainted with, understands) the
Set-Apart One (qadowsh
– from qadash,
the
One who is separated, pure, majestic, and honored; the
One who sets apart,
cleanses, and purifies) .”
(Proverbs 30:3)
‘Yshayah’el, God Existing As Man, is being
identified with “the Set-Apart
One,” one of many Messianic titles. Just a moment
ago, we were told that
‘Yshayah’el was “the Upright One” and “the
Mighty One,” our Redeemer and the
“Divine Revealer.” Now we discover that He is the
source of existence and
wisdom. That makes ‘Yshayah’el the Creator, our
Savior, and the Light of the
world. ‘Aguwr states emphatically that it is through
recognizing and knowing
Him that we live. Separated from Him we die. Further,
by using yada’,
meaning
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“to know and recognize in a relational sense,” the
Set-Apart One is being
presented as a personal and living entity, an
individual who can be known and
experienced.
Introductions made, and testimony revealed, we are now
confronted with
some very compelling questions: “Who
(miy)
descends from (yarad)
and
ascends to (‘alah)
heaven (shamayin)?
Who gathers and receives (‘acaph
–
harvests into His company and collects into His
association) the Spirit (ruwach)
into the palms of His hands (chophen)?
Who wraps up (tsarar
– encloses and
restores) the waters
(mayim
– the source of life and
cleansing) in a garment
( simlah –
a feminine noun meaning apparel which covers and adorns)?
Who
comes onto the scene, stands upright, enabling others
to stand, establishing
( quwm)
all the (kol
– the whole) earth
(‘erets
– land and realm) without
ceasing
( ‘ephec)?
What (mah)
is His personal and proper name (shem
– renown and
identification) ?
What is His Son’s (ben)
personal and proper name (shem)?
Surely (kiy)
you know (yada’
– recognize and understand, are
acquainted with
and acknowledge it) .”
(Proverbs 30:4) Once upon a time,
in the land of revelation,
these names were known and they were shouted from the
rooftops. But that time
and place isn’t here and now. Of the six billion
souls who currently occupy our
planet, maybe less than one in a million people know
both names.
Yet there is only one who comes and goes from heaven,
who gathers and
receives souls with His Spirit, who provides life,
cleanses, and adorns, who stood
up for us so that we could stand and be established
forever with Him. He is
Yahowah. And His Son, His representative, the One who
came from Him bearing
His name, doing His business, is Yahowsha. There is no
other God, nor any other
manifestation of God-Existing-As-Man. There is but one
Mighty One, one Set-
Apart One, one Upright One, one Son of the Almighty,
and one Redeemer. None
but Yahowsha even make the claim.
God manifest Himself in human form, which is what ‘Yshayah’el
means. He
did so to save us, which is what Yahowsha means. The
Messiyah was set apart
from God; He came onto the scene; He stood upright for
us, and enabled us to
stand with Him, established forever. Consider this a
synopsis of the Word.
Yahowah personally provided the answer to this
proverbial question in the
introduction to His Commandments. “God
(‘elohiym)
spoke (dabar
– declared)
all (kol)
these (‘ehel)
Words (dabar),
saying (‘amar
– avowing, claiming,
commanding, and promising) :
I am Yahowah (YHWH) your
God (‘elohiym).
Because of relationship (‘asher)
I came forth to bring (yatsa’)
you out of (min
– to set you apart from) the
house (bayith
– the dwelling and abode) of
bondage
( ‘ebed –
slavery, servitude, and submission; of work and worship) in
the land
( ‘erets –
territory and realm) of Mitsrayim (the
crucible of Egypt). You shall not
( lo’)
establish or institute (hayah
– bring into existence or exist
with) other
( ‘acher –
different) gods (‘elohiym)
beside and beyond (‘al
– in addition to) My
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personal presence (paniym
– My face to face appearance
before you).” (Exodus
20:1-3)
The Creator and Savior introduces Himself by name. He
says “I am Yahowah
your God.” The next word tells us why. ‘Asher
is all about relationship. Yahowah
wants to establish a personal relationship with us on
a first-name basis.
The Commandment suggests what the Proverb confirms.
God is active and
personally engaged in the lives of His people. He
makes personal appearances to
rescue and establish them. Moreover, He is about
freedom, not bondage. He is
interested in us standing up, not bowing down in
submission. He is committed to
relationships, not religion.
Further, the Commandment confirms what the Proverb
suggests. There are
two “houses or abodes,” not one. The Proverb
depicts God-Existing-As-Man
descending from and ascending to heaven (His home) to
gather and receive those
who possess His Spirit, enabling them to stand and
endure forever with Him. The
Commandment speaks of Yahowah personally rescuing His
people from the
house of submission and slavery, the house of work and
worship, and thus of
religion. This is the crucible known as the Abyss; it
is the abode of the Adversary.
And while these realms represent the only eternal
destinations, we will soon
discover that the overwhelming preponderance of souls
will simply die and know
neither liberation nor incarceration.
Since it is natural for most to lose sight of the big
picture in the midst of the
detailed strokes which comprise it, please understand
that while Yahowah freed
His people from servitude in Egypt, this act serves as
a metaphor for something
much more universal and profound. By including a
reference to this exodus from
servitude among the only words He wrote with His own
hand, Yahowah is saying
that His merciful rescue of His people from bondage in
Egypt is central to His
plan of salvation for the rest of us—that imbedded
in that plan is the plan—a
plan
of salvation immortalized in the seven Miqra’ey’s
portrayal of the Exodus.
The name Yahowah selected for Egypt, “Mitsrayim,”
means “crucible.” As
such, it is a place where impurities are separated and
burned away, leaving only
the pure, tested, and desired material. Egypt, as a
crucible, was a place of anguish,
death, and destruction, from which God freed His
people to live with Him in the
Promised Land. The deeper message being delivered here
is that our mortal
existence on Earth is also a crucible, one wrought
with oppression and
enslavement in human schemes. But fortunately, Yahowah
has provided a way out.
Putting it all together we see God telling us that He
wants to free us all from
bondage, removing all those who ask Him from our
temporal crucible, pure,
without the stain of sin, so that we might live in His
presence.
However, those who elect not to rely on Yahowah, and
who are left as an
impurity in the crucible, will find themselves forever
imprisoned in the Abyss.
And those who remain slaves to men in religious
submission, will find their souls
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separated as dross, ultimately ceasing to matter,
returning to the dust from which
they were made. In the crucible metaphor, souls who
don’t accept God’s way out
are “burned off” into nothingness, while their
oppressors are left confined for all
time. And yet those who rely upon Yahowah and walk with
Him, are led to the
Promised Land.
There is no better place to position this message than
in the introduction to
His Commandments. It tells us that the Exodus is more
than one nation’s escape
from oppression; it is a process, a pathway to
salvation, which begins with
Passover, Unleavened Bread, and FirstFruits, and ends
with Reconciliations and
Shelters—a time of camping out with God in His home.
It means that the seven
Miqra’ey aren’t thoughtless religious
celebrations, but instead the way to God—
the path for all people and all generations. It also
means that Lent, Palm Sunday,
Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, along
with Halloween and
Christmas play no role in mankind’s exodus from the
crucible.
The final salvo in the introduction to the
Commandments conveys a message
incompatible with the sensibilities of modern man, of
man steeped in the religion
of secular humanism. Mankind’s replacement moral
code of political correctness,
of multiculturalism, debilitating entitlements, wealth
reallocation, responsibility
avoidance, sexual alternatives, deceptive
rationalizations, unfounded opinions,
and hypocritical diatribes on tolerance, are at odds
with God’s position. Yahowah
has drawn a line in the sand and said that you are
either with Me or against Me,
free or enslaved. According to our Creator, there is
only one God, and He will not
tolerate those who institute, establish, or exist with
any other god or with a spirit
by any other name. It’s relationship or religion.
You can’t have both.
I am often asked, “Can someone be saved without
knowing Yahowah’s and
Yahowsha’s name, and without knowing the Word?”
The answer is “Maybe, but I
wouldn’t bet my soul on it.” The fact is, God
couldn’t and didn’t tell us how
corrupt our understanding could be before we are more
wrong than right.
He could and did, however, tell us what was wrong and
what is right.
Therefore, I am certain that all who understand the
Word, who know Yahowah,
and who rely upon Yahowsha become sons and daughters
of God, inheriting all
that is His. They will live forever in His home—guaranteed.
I am also certain that those who corrupt the Word,
whitewashing it, leading
people away from the way, the truth, and the life,
will be judged. They will all be
convicted and then punished by way of eternal
incarceration, receiving the penalty
of the perpetual anguish.
As for those caught in the middle, those who are
neither ambassadors of truth
nor of deceit, the victims of religion, their fate
depends upon how unfamiliar they
are with God and the path to Him, and/or how corrupt
and errant their beliefs have
become. If their understanding of God and His plan
differ materially from
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Yahowah’s revelation, then they will be unknown to
and separated from the source
of life. As such, death will be the end of their
consciousness.
So I ask those seeking to know the fate of loved ones
victimized by religious,
political, societal, and academic deceptions: “Upon
whom did they rely?” Was it
the spirit of Christmas and Easter or the Spirit of
Tabernacles and Passover: Satan
or Yahowah? Was it the Lord of Sunday Worship or the
Set-Apart One of the
Sabbath rest: the Counterfeiter or the Creator? Was it
the fearsome god of religion
or the Upright One who establishes revered
relationships: the Adversary or our
Heavenly Father? Did they trust the edicts of man or
the Word of God? Did they
seek forgiveness by confessing to a priest and rely
upon the Church for salvation?
Did they pray to Mary and solicit the aid of Saints?
Was the Babylonian practice
of Communion and Mass important to them? Was their god’s
name “Lord” and
their savior’s name “Jesus?” Did they end their
prayers saying “In god’s name we
pray, Amen,” and thereby attribute divine status to
the Egyptian sun god, Amen
Ra? Did they think they would earn a pass to heaven by
being good or by doing
good?
It all boils down to this: how misleading can a path
be before it heads in the
wrong direction? How errant can one’s beliefs be
before they are delusional? How
much poison can someone ingest without dying? How
corrupted do you suppose
the object of a person’s faith must become before
their trust is placed in that
which is not true? If the god a person knows is a
spirit created by men, then
chances are, they do not know the Spirit who created
men.
Yahowsha said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the
Life.” He did not say that
He was a way,
a variation of truth, or one of many sources of life. Scripture, from
Genesis to Revelation, teaches that those who rely on
Yahowah and His Word
will live and those who rely on themselves or man’s
words will die.
That said, my job isn’t to determine which
individual souls will be rewarded
with life or succumb to death. I have been called to
illuminate and recommend the
Way to Life and to expose and condemn the path that
leads to death. Those who
have passed away can no longer be helped. Their fate
is sealed. It profits no one to
agonize over them. But for those who live, what you
and your loved ones choose
to do with the truths made manifest by the Word will
ultimately determine your
destiny.
Based upon Scripture, I know for certain that no
matter how religious the
Muslim, none will be saved. Their path, revelation,
and god are the antithesis of
Yahowah and His Word. No matter how observant the
Hindu or devout the
Buddhist, so long as they don’t deceive others,
their souls will be annihilated. The
same fate awaits the passive socialist and secular
humanist. Because in the end, it
matters not if they relied upon a false god or no god
at all.
But that isn’t the end of the bad news. Revelation’s
open letters tell us that
even within Christendom, most will die. Catholicism is
called “the seat of Satan.”
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The religion is proclaimed “dead” for having
married the Whore of Babylon, Lord
Ba’al. Protestants, living in Western democracies,
are referred to as vomit for
being neither completely right nor completely wrong.
Speaking of these souls,
Yahowsha said that He was outside looking in, and thus
most are not saved. This
alone is sufficient to answer the question of how
misguided and therefore
unfamiliar Christians as a whole are with God—and He
with them. It also
suggests how intolerant God will be of that which is
inaccurate when it comes to
salvation. It is why He said that “the way is narrow
which leads to life, and few
there are who find it.”
This is not God’s fault; it is our own. We have
corrupted His Word and made
our own way. Yahowah’s revelation is clear,
uncompromising, and consistent. It
is so magnificent in its detail and majestic in its
scope, so brilliant in its insights
and profound in its style, so timeless in its truths
and accurate in its predictions, so
gracious in its message and loving in its purpose, it
could be from none other than
God, the Creator and Redeemer, from ‘Yshayah’el,
the Set-Apart, Mighty, and
Upright One—Yahowah. His Word serves as His
invitation to life.
I say these things emphatically because He said the
same thing: “The entire
( kol –
the whole and every, the totality of the) Word
(‘imrah
– the promise and
the prescription) of
God (‘elowha)
is pure, tested, and true (tsaraph
– refined,
precious, and worthy) ,
a shield for (magen
– an enclosure which surrounds,
defends, and saves) those
who put their trust in (chacah
– those who seek
salvation through reliance upon) Him.”
(Proverbs 30:5) And lest you miss
it,
Yahowah has once again underscored His crucible
metaphor.
Also, should you not have known the answer to the
question God posed in the
previous verse, Yahowah tells you where to look for
it. Scripture confirms that
Yahowah as Father and Yahowsha as Son uniquely meet
the delineated criteria.
The instruction of where to look for answers, for
understanding, for truth, and for
salvation is the same throughout Scripture. Yahowsha
and the apostles
consistently tell us that there is but one place to
turn to know these things: “the
Torah, Prophets, and Psalms.”
God was not coy about sharing His name with us either.
Search the Word and
you will find Yahowah written exactly 7,000 times.
Seven is the Creator’s
favorite number. Everything important is based upon
the principle of six (the
number of man) in addition to God (who is one) equals
the desired result: seven
(perfection).Yahowsha’s name is engraved in 77
Messianic prophecies. Between
them, they appear an average of seven times a page.
Prior to man’s meddling, this
frequency was more than sufficient for all mankind to
know the answer to both
proverbial questions. But after clerical copyedits,
fewer than one in 7,000 souls
can answer this question: “What
(mah)
is His personal and proper name (shem)
and what is His Son’s (ben)
personal and proper name (shem)?”
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If you believe that God is forgiving of such things,
that God will surely save
the religious, or that God was surprised by man’s
dubious deed, think again.
Three thousand years ago He revealed this poignant
warning: “Do not add to
( yasaph –
augment or rephrase) His Words (dabar
– sayings and message,
communication and account, record and revelation) lest
beware (pen)
He will
judge and convict you (yakach
– adjudicate and rebuke you,
punishing you) and
you shall be proven a liar (kazab
– you shall be disappointed and
will fail in
your vanity, either ceasing to exist or arriving at an
unsatisfactory condition and
conclusion) .” (Proverbs
30:6)
All who are judged will be found guilty and will be
convicted. The standard is
the Torah, and it requires perfection. So the only way
to avoid being found guilty
is to be ransomed—to have someone who is perfect and
worthy pay the penalty
your thoughts, behaviors, words, and deeds have
earned.
This admonition devastates the notion that the Church
has the right to
establish doctrine, to replace the Sabbath with
Sunday, Passover with Easter,
Tabernacles with Christmas, Trumpets (Taruw’ah with
Rosh Hashanah, Yahowah
with “the Lord” or “Ha Shem (the Name),” the
Messiyah Yahowsha with “Jesus
Christ,” the Set-Apart Spirit with “Mary, Mother
of God/Queen of Heaven,” and
Scripture’s redemptive relationship with religious
ritual. When men claim the
authority to augment the teachings of God with their
own edicts, they are liars.
This verse confirms that every pope shall be found
guilty and will be punished by
Yahowah.
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Preaching and promoting lifelessness and separation, shav’
in Hebrew, is the
unforgivable sin manifest in the Third Commandment.
That decree is amplified in
this Proverb, as it explains that shav’/desolation
and damnation come by way of
errant and deceptive words. Speaking to Yahowah, ‘Aguwr
says: “Two things I
ask (sha’al
– request) of
You; don’t withhold them (mana’
–deny them) before
( terem –
between now and the point in time) I
die (muwth).
Keep me far away
from (rachaq
– distant and removed from) desolation
(shav’
– lifelessness and
emptiness, worthlessness and abandonment, devastation
and damnation, vanity
and futility, being destroyed, forsaken, and separated
for having been deceitful)
and keep me far away from (rachaq
– distant and removed from) deceptive
words (kazab
dabar – untrue statements, false
speech, lies and liars, delusions
and the deluded).” (Proverbs 30:7)
Since this passage sheds light on one of the least
understood and most poorly
translated Commandments, consider the actual words
Yahowah etched in stone.
“You shall not lift up or deceitfully advance (nasa’
– errantly accept or
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promote, falsely carry, support, bear, or sustain,
forgive or endure) lifelessness
( shav’ –
that which is desolate, deceitful, deadly, destructive, or damning) in
the
name (shem
– character or renown) of
Yahowah your God (‘elohiym),
for I will
not consider innocent, forgive, pardon, release, or
fail to punish (naqah
– free
from guilt, exempt, or cleanse) one
who by association (‘asher
– who takes part
in) promotes,
sustains, or accepts (nasa’
– lifts up, carries forth,
advances,
supports, bears, tolerates, or forgives) that
which is desolate, deceitful, deadly,
destructive, or damning (shav’
– lifeless) in
My name.” (Exodus 20:7)
Properly translated, the message communicated in what
we refer to as the
“Third Commandment,” evolves from man’s trivial
and irrational rendering to
something that merits our undivided attention. Man’s
version is senseless. One
cannot “take” a name. Yahowah’s name isn’t “the
Lord.” And “vain,” not only
isn’t included in the text, that word means “egotistical
or failed,” depending upon
the context. So rather than God telling us not to use
His name, or not to swear, He
was telling us not to deceive in His name and not to
lead people away from Him
and thus from life. He is saying that promoting
religion is unforgivable. This truth
is further manifest by the realization that nasa’
also conveys the idea of
“promoting false teaching and being engaged in
deceit and deception,” something
completely consistent with the Proverb.
The reason false religious teachings upset Yahowah is
because they lead souls
away from Him, depriving God of the thing He covets
most—loving familial
relationships. Those engaged in this kind of deceit,
of this kind of corruption and
counterfeiting, along with anyone who associates with
them, accepts, tolerates,
and promotes their teachings, contribute to the
annihilation of the souls of those
who listen to them, who trust them. These victimized
souls are is worth
considering when someone you know asserts that a
person’s good intent can
somehow bridge the distance between God and the place
where their religion and
church have led them.
In the next verse we are reminded that self-reliance
is an express ticket to
death or damnation (to separation) because the only
way to obtain eternal life in
the presence of God is to rely on Him. Specifically,
we must receive the bread
which was prescribed and then broken for us. This is
the promise, now fulfilled,
of the Miqra’ey (Called-Out Assemblies) of Passover
and Unleavened Bread.
“Permit me (nathan
– grant to and bestow upon me) neither
(‘al)
poverty (reysh
– the state where I lack what is needed to sustain
life) nor wealth (‘osher
– riches
in abundance) . Break
bread (tarap
lehem) for
me as clearly communicated and
prescribed (choq
– as shared and allotted, stated
and ordained) lest I be
selfsufficient
( saba’ –
satisfied and surfeited, be self-reliant, considering my needs
met to the point of indulgence) and
be deemed insufficient by You (kachash
–
be found disappointing and deceived, be disowned for
having only deceptively
feigned a relationship with You and having faked my
reliance on You, causing me
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to cower in fear, prostration, and submission as the
result of a failed and deceitful
dogma) .” (Proverbs
30:8)
The boastful and arrogant attitude that comes from
abundance is viewed
unfavorably by God. In fact, it would be fair to say,
that second only to the
advancement of shav’/lifeless
deception, it is the trait most disliked by our Maker.
It is one of many reasons Yahshua is so harsh in His
judgment of today’s
Protestant Assemblies in His prophetic letter to the
Laodiceans in Revelation.
As we journey together through the Word, there will be
many surprises. One
of them is encapsulated in the comparison between saba’/sufficient
and
kachash /insufficient.
While it is not developed here, the consistent message of
Scripture, and one manifest in the Fifth Commandment,
is that when we
collectively or individually elevate our view of
ourselves and diminish our
perception of God, God reciprocates. If you see Him as
worthy, He will deem
your soul worthy of living forever with Him.
But for this to be true, for it to be relevant and
meaningful, the reciprocal also
needs to be true. Therefore, those who consider
Yahowah
of little value will be
seen by Him as having no value. God invests as much in
a relationship as is
properly solicited by the other party. Diminish the
role Yahowah plays in your life
and God won’t go to heroic efforts to extend it upon
your death. From God’s
perspective, a person who through ignorance,
indoctrination, apathy, or informed
choice, elects not
to rely on Him and form a
relationship with Him, will be like a
stillborn child. They don’t know Yahowah and Yahowah
doesn’t know them.
That is the quid
pro quo inherent in the following
passage. “Don’t let me say
( ‘amar –
think, boast, and avow, ask, answer, and declare):
‘Who (miy)
is
Yahowah (YHWH)?’
lest I be disinherited (yarash
– impoverished and
dispossessed, be destitute and destroyed) ,
caught in the act, arrested, and
incarcerated for (taphas)
removing without permission and
carrying away by
stealth (ganab
– for secretly stealing and
clandestinely removing) the personal
and proper name (shem)
of my God (‘elohiym).”
(Proverbs 30:9)
There are two outcomes delineated here. Both are bad,
but one is infinitely
worse than the other. To be disinherited by Yahowah is
to be damned, which
means to be separated from Him. Those who are removed
from His presence will
be destitute of life, and their souls will be
dissipated upon death. But those who
purposely deceive, those who remove Yahowah’s and
Yahowsha’s personal and
proper name from the Word and from their sermons, will
be incarcerated. And
that’s not good because it means that Yahowah has
deemed them to be in league
with the Adversary. For this crime they will spend
their eternity kept away from
God.
Yahowah realized that the translators of the KJV, NKJV,
IV, NIV, ASB,
NASB, and the JPS Tanach would all do this very thing—and
that they would do
so regardless of His warning. Even in this Proverb
devoted to the importance of
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knowing Yahowah, religious clerics replaced God’s
personal and proper name
“Yahowah” with: “Who is the Lord?” And that’s
not good, because the Hebrew
title Ba’al, means Lord, Ba’al is Satan, and
lording over everyone is the
Adversary’s prime ambition.
This chicanery isn’t a victimless crime.
Clandestinely removing Yahowah’s
name by stealth leads to souls being disinherited. God
considers it shav’—an
act
of desolation leading to damnation. According to the
Word of God, those who do
such things will be caught; they will be arrested and
incarcerated. In subsequent
chapters we will discover that all those who are
incarcerated will endure the
perpetual torment. Their fate will be to spend all
eternity in the Abyss with the
Adversary. And since this crime is perpetrated by the
overwhelming
preponderance of pastors and priests, Hell will be a
very religious place.
As for their victims, this verse suggests that they
will be disinherited, and thus
become destitute of life. Such souls will be
destroyed. While that theme isn’t
developed here, Yahowah will cover this topic on many
occasions, each time
adding to the body of knowledge needed to make good
choices and to make good
witnesses. God is serious about His name, and His
family, even if mankind is not.
When confronted with the reality that religious men
have copyedited God and
have purposely altered His revelation, many dismiss
the evidence by saying “I
can’t believe God would allow such a thing.” But
God has no alternative but to
allow men to choose poorly, and to allow the
repercussions of their errors
reverberate. The moment Yahowah interferes with
freewill, the act of choosing to
rely on God becomes irrelevant, love becomes
impossible, and our very existence
becomes contrived.
One last thought before we move on. Yahowah has used ‘elohiym
in this
passage which is the plural of god. He isn’t saying
that there is more than one
God, only that He embodies the full measure of the
familial relationship He
wishes to establish with us. Yahowah is our Heavenly
Father, our Spiritual
Mother, and the Son. He is one God who manifests
Himself in two different and
diminished ways to commune with us and to serve our
needs.
The prophet who introduced us to the notion of ‘Yshayah’el,
that our Creator
is the Son, the Wonderful Councilor, the Redeemer, the
Eternal Father, and
Almighty God, also communicated the concept of the
Suffering Servant,
predicting Yahowsha’s sacrifice as the Lamb of God.
Therefore, in the context of
what has just been said, I think that the “servant”
referenced in the next verse is
God. This conclusion is partially derived from the use
of qalal,
meaning “to view
as insignificant.” “Do
not slander (lashan
– falsely accuse) the
Servant to His
Master (‘adown)
lest (pen)
He consider you of little account (qalal
– slight you,
trifle with you, view you as lightly esteemed and
insignificant, recede from you
and diminish you) and
you be declared guilty, and become desolate or be
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punished (‘asham
– be held liable, suffering the
consequences).” (Proverbs
30:10)
It isn’t likely that a slave owner would trifle with
a person who slandered one
of his servants. So, since the plain reading of the
text doesn’t warrant a divine
revelation, considering the context, it would be
reasonable to conclude that God is
saying that if someone falsely accuses Yahowsha,
claiming for example that He as
the Suffering Servant was neither God, Messiah, nor
Savior, the consequence of
that act might well lead to incarceration.
The most interesting illustration of trifling is found
in Genesis, where
Yahowah puts mankind on notice. Comparing how a person
or nation treats
Yisra’el (Israel) and Yahuwdym (Jews), to how He
will reciprocate, God reveals:
“I will kneel down and adore, blessing (barak
– I will love, favorably and
eternally endure with, and empower) those
who bless and adore you, and I will
slight, trifle with, and abate (qalal
– view as worthless and
insignificant; nullify,
omit, reduce, recede from, decrease, and terminate) him
who curses you (‘arar
–
invokes harm or injures you; threatens, entraps,
binds, punishes, or oppresses you
by way of a spell) .”
(Genesis 12:3)
Qalal is that
which “reduces and decreases, diminishing to nothingness
someone who is viewed as insignificant.” It is a
lesson which is completely lost in
the sloppy English translations which render the
verse: “I will curse those who
curse you.” Proper disclosure reveals one of the
least understood concepts in
Scripture. The consequence of choosing to reject
Yahowah or harm Yahuwdym is
having one’s soul dissipated—to be seen as
worthless and to be terminated.
God did not say that He was going to “curse” those
who don’t love Him or
His people. He didn’t say that He was going to roast
all who don’t adore Him and
His chosen in hell. He simply said that if you don’t
value Him and those He
values, He won’t value you. The souls of those who
die without accepting
Yahowsha, Yahowah’s “source of blessings, His
gift, the One who kneels down in
adoration and brings reconciliation” will be qalal,
meaning, they will be “nullified
and reduced to nothingness.” It will be as if they
were never born. It isn’t that God
despises them; it’s that He doesn’t know them. And
those He doesn’t know, don’t
live.
This is one of hundreds of examples demonstrating that
there are three choices
and three destinations presented in Scripture. The
souls who adore God and who
accept Yahowsha’s gift will live forever in Yahowah’s
home as members of His
family. Those who make no choice, those who have
little regard for God, those
who reject His gift, those who never leave their
fallen state, will simply cease to
exist. When they die their souls are diminished,
dissipated into nothingness.
That is not to say that there is no place of perpetual
anguish. There is. And one
earns this fate by leading souls away from Yahowah and
His gift of life. Entrance
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is earned by removing Yahowah’s name from His
message and by adding human
traditions to God’s revelation. Those who lift up
and carry forth the doctrines of
lifelessness and desolation (religion and politics)
will suffer the same fate as the
demonic spirit so many of them serve.
While the teaching embedded in this verse is profound,
there hasn’t been any
overt prophecy thus far, so you may be wondering why
Yahowah wanted to
commence His dialog with us with this passage. Fact
is, I was wondering that
myself until… “A
generation (dowr
– people living in a time or
age) will slight,
trifle with, and consider of little account (qalal
– view as worthless and
insignificant; lightly esteem, nullify, and recede
from) their Father (‘ab
– God as
head of the eternal household) and
will not adore (lo
barak – will not love, will
not favorably and eternally endure with, will not be
empowered by, will not speak
words which evoke divine favor to, nor praise, extol,
or thank) their Mother (‘em
– source of life, protector, and caregiver) .”
(Proverbs 30:11) While there has
been
plenty of competition, our generation has trifled more
with God than most any
other.
The notion of considering our Father of little
account, and of not loving our
Mother clarifies the spiritual message contained in
the Fifth Commandment. It
begins with kabad,
the antithesis of qalal.
“View as significant and consider
as
worthy (kabad
– favorably value, distinguish,
and glorify, honor) your Father
( ‘ab –
God as head of the eternal household, thus Heavenly Father) and
your
Mother (‘em
– source of life, protector, and
caregiver, thus Spiritual Mother) and
your days (yowm
– time) will
be prolonged (‘arak
– become continuous,
maintained throughout time) in
the land (‘adamah)
which by way of
relationship (‘asher)
Yahowah your God (‘elohiym)
has prepared and given
to you as a gift (nathan
– granted, devoted, and ascribed
as a present).” (Exodus
20:12) Salvation is the “gift” of prolonged life
in the place Yahowah has prepared
for us.
Since Yahowah routinely criticizes Yisra’el’s
fathers and mothers for their
infidelity and deceit, it isn’t reasonable that He
would want us to kabad /
“glorify”
our earthly parents. Moreover, doing so wouldn’t add
so much as a minute to our
time in the place Yahowah has prepared for us.
Therefore, the object of great
value, the sole source of prolonged life, and the one
who bestows the gift, is our
Heavenly Father and Spiritual Mother. And that is why ruwach,
the Hebrew word
for Spirit, is feminine, as are all of Her attributes.
Yah’s message is consistent: value our Heavenly
Father and He will value
you. Love our Spiritual Mother, and She will endure
with you, renewing you. Do
these things and God will favor you with the gift of
extended, continuous, life.
Arguably, the prophetic portrayal contained in verse
11 could apply to other
generations. But Yahowah isn’t finished yet. With
each additional complaint, only
one people, place, and time qualify.
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What follows is the result of considering our Heavenly
Father of little account
and of not evoking the favor of our Spiritual Mother: “A
generation (dowr
–
people living in a time or age) will
be pure and clean (tahowr
– ethically
upstanding and flawless) in
their own eyes (‘ayin)
and yet not washed of
( rachats –
not cleansed of) their filth and
excrement (tsow’ah
– feces and dung),
a generation (dowr
– people living in a time or
age) lofty and exalted (ruwm
–
self-aggrandized, arrogant, and haughty) in
their own eyes. How and why (mah)
are their eyelids raised (nasa’
– lifted up, expecting to be
carried away, to be
forgiven, and to endure) ?”
(Proverbs 30:12-13)
This concept of spiritual misjudgment and of
self-reliance is echoed in
Yahowsha’s seventh and final prophetic open letter—the
one written to the
Laodiceans (meaning the people rule) in Revelation. It
is one of many reasons I
see it speaking to our generation.
Forgiveness is for those who recognize they need to be
forgiven. Redemption
is for those who know that they need to be ransomed
from the consequence of
their sin. And herein lies the problem of revisionist
morality, that of political
correctness. The modern secular humanist mantra (at
least superficially) is that
everything is acceptable except that which is
intolerant and judgmental. So we
live in a generation which has been conditioned to
believe that their depravity is
ethically acceptable. This generation considers itself
flawless and yet God sees it
rolling around in its own feces and filth. So Yahowah
says, don’t look to Me for
help. You can keep your *&%$ to yourself.
God will confirm many times over that the benefit of
embracing our Spiritual
Mother is that She envelops us in a Garment of Light.
Since light obliterates
darkness, once we are reborn Spiritually, Yahowah only
sees the good in us and not
the bad. We become like our Maker, perfect, at least
in His eyes.
Continuing to assail our generation, God reminds us
that deceitful and
delusional words, desolate and damning edicts, are the
most destructive and
deadly of all weapons. Wielded by the politically and
religiously empowered,
they devour hope and life. Here we find sharp, cutting
words slaying, oppressing,
and destroying both willing and reluctant victims. “A
generation (dowr
– people
living in a time or age) whose
teeth are swords (chereb
– are cutting) and
jaws
are knives, devour (‘akal
– slay, oppress, and destroy) part
of (min)
the earth
( ‘erets – land)
in order to (la)
impoverish and afflict (‘aniy
– inflict misery and
hardship on the humbled, poor, and weak by way of
imposing a lower societal
status on) the
willingly abused and oppressed (‘eboyown
– those who consent to
and accept being controlled politically, those who
acquiesce to religious
submission) by means
of (min)
man (‘adam
– mankind or humankind, thus
read
“secular humanism”) .”
(Proverbs 30:14)
In this regard, Islam is the Arabic word for “submission.”
Muslim means “one
who submits.” In the Qur’an, Allah says that he
has chosen the religion of
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submission for man. As a result, those imperiled by
Muhammad’s poisonous
words not only willingly consent to live in the most
oppressive and abusive
nations on earth, they are intent on imposing their
dreadful condition on everyone
else.
Likewise, Hinduism’s caste system is all about
oppressing the weak.
Countless Indians live in abject poverty as a direct
result of a destructive religion.
Roman Catholicism was better at imposing poverty on
those who would not
consent to the Church’s dictatorial authority, than
any institution in human
history. They have abused more than their share of
willing stooges, inflicting
untold misery on many during the Dark Ages.
Socialist secular humanists see themselves as
enlightened masters ruling over
the profane masses. To them, the end justifies the
means. They will deploy all
manner of despicable lies and ruthless violence to
ensure that everyone under
their control is impoverished and oppressed. It is the
way of man.
The verses which follow all foreshadow our time: a
time of “leeches, who
cry, ‘give me more,’ but they are never satisfied;
it is never enough.”
(Proverbs 30:15) Seventy percent of America’s
federal budget is now allocated to
wealth redistribution, but apparently it isn’t
enough. We have become the
entitlement generation—self-absorbed and
self-serving. Through Social Security
and Medicare, we are even willing to tax our children
to pay for our indulgences.
As a generation, we are so far removed from Yahowah’s
presence that the
“grave (she’owl
– the abode of the dead) and
the womb are both barren
prisons (‘otser
– coercive, oppressive, and
lifeless places of incarceration),
satisfied to be without living and cleansing waters.”
(Proverbs 30:16) Our
culture, schools, churches, and entertainment mediums
have become so polluted
with errant and perverse notions, our children are
stillborn spiritually.
Our books and movies “mock
(la’ag
– deride, disparage, and
ridicule) our
Father and see our Mother as despicable (buwz
– contemptible and
insignificant) ,
refusing Her guidance, authority, and cleansing (yiqqahah
-
purging and purification) .”
(Proverbs 30:17) This continues to
be eerily similar to
Yahowsha’s criticism of the Laodicean Assembly
(Protestant Christians living
today in the Western democracies).
We are told that this is: “The
way of an eagle (nesher
– bird of prey or
vulture) in the sky,
the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a navy in the
midst of the sea, and the way of a fighting man with a
virgin.” (Proverbs
30:19)
Because this is all prophetically indicative of the
powers at play during the
last days, I believe that these examples point to the
Socialist Secular Humanists of
the New World Order and their clandestine conspiracy,
to the religion of
Christianity, especially as it is manifest in Roman
Catholicism, to Islam, currently
man’s most vicious dogma, and to the Antichrist. In
that light, the eagle, vulture,
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and bird of prey may be symbolic of the American
financiers and industrialists
who are the power brokers of the New World Order.
Scripture refers to them as
the merchants of Babylon. Peter’s second epistle is
dedicated to their conniving
conspiracy. Like the vulture, they feed on decaying
flesh; and in their case, of
those they have impoverished and oppressed.
The serpent upon a rock is a dead ringer for Roman
Catholicism. In His
Revelation letter, Yahowsha calls Catholics “the
seat of Satan.” And Peter, in the
view of Roman Catholics, is the “rock” upon which
their “Church” was built and
upon which it claims it’s authority to rule over
men.
It’s hard not to see the jihadist promise of virgins
in paradise stamped all over
the final example. As confirmation that it is
indicative of Islam, recognize that the
Magog War is an all Islamic attack on Israel which
will play out during man’s
waning days. We are told that one quarter of the
planet’s population will perish in
its wake.
And finally, during the last days, the Antichrist, who
is said to align with the
spirit of war, will control much of the world’s
military arsenal. He will no doubt
project his influence over a consortium of nations by
way of naval prowess. It
appears that he will deploy their nuclear capability
during this time. We are told
that a third of the earth’s surface will be scorched
beyond repair, and that during
his extended war, another third of those remaining
will die in what appears to be
an atomic holocaust.
The unifying ingredient in all of this is the Whore of
Babylon. She is the one
with unclean lips—the one whose lies lead people
away from Yahowah and to their
willing or unwilling submission to evil’s
consortium. She represents Satan and the
counterfeit religious and political scheme born and
bred in Babylon. As we move
through time and the Word, we will learn a great deal
more about this whorish
beast.
“In like manner, such is the way of the adulterous
woman, she devours
( ‘akal –
consumes, destroys, and slays), and
then she wipes (machah
– blots out
and abrogates, abolishes and obliterates by way of) her
mouth (peh
– words and
speech) and says, I
have done (pa’al
– committed and ordained,
plotted, devised,
fashioned, and forged) nothing
deceitful or corrupting (‘aven
– nothing out of
arrogance designed to damage one’s relationship with
God, nothing evil, morally
corrupt, or false which leads to idolatry, calamity,
misfortune, or punishment) .”
(Proverbs 30:18) The common thread in politics and
religion is death and
destruction through disingenuousness. Hypocrisy is the
devil’s strong suit.
This thought is echoed in the Psalms’ closing words.
“If (‘im
– when) you
have been foolish (nabal
– ignorant and contemptible,
senseless) in (ba)
self
exaltation (nasa’
– promotion and lifting up),
and if (‘im)
you have devised a
plan (zaman
– decided upon, plotted, and
intended a course of action, and
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conceived a scheme) put
a hand (yad)
on (la)
your mouth (peh).”
(Proverbs
30:32)
It is interesting to note that nbl
root has two potential meanings
depending
upon how the three Hebrew consonants are vocalized.
While nabal conveys
the
idea of “lacking appropriate respect and values,” nabel
means “to wither, shrivel,
die, and decay.” It is the quid
pro quo of Scripture. Those who
foolishly elevate
themselves above God will be diminished. Those who
contemptuously thirst for
religious, political, or economic power will find
themselves “fallen, on their
knees, cowering in fear” come judgment day.
Most every English translation renders zaman
“thought evil” or “planned
evil” following the lead of the King James. However,
zaman simply
conveys the
concepts of “thinking, devising, planning,
proposing, muttering an idea,
meditating, plotting, scheming, deciding, intending,
and resolving to do
something.” While the scheme may be evil, the
intended thought was that any
human scheme designed to exalt man is not only
foolish, it will have the inverse
result of what was intended. Secular humanism has
degraded society and
mankind. Communism has diminished the masses to the
lowest common
denominator. Political correctness has produced
fallen, dying, decaying, and
valueless nations. Our entire perspective is wrong.
Recognizing the power and influence of words, Yahowah
recommends
shutting our mouths. When it comes to self-exalting
human schemes, it is better to
be quiet and appear foolish, than it is to open your
mouth and remove all doubt.
When it comes to judgment, the penalty for promoting a
religious or political
agenda is eternal incarceration, while being the
victim of such a plan is simply to
be diminished to nothingness. This is an overt warning
to those who propose to
elevate themselves through oratory—pastors, priests,
and politicians.
Just as the previous verse has been practical, the
word picture painted by the
last verse of the Proverb is designed to be graphic. “Indeed
(kiy
– because)
stirring up and agitating (miys
– pressing and squeezing,
angrily churning) milk
( halab)
brings forth (yasa’
– disseminates and produces) butter
(hem’ah),
stirring and agitating (miys)
angry snorting (‘ap
– aggressive, quick-tempered,
and wrathful breath) brings
forth (yasa’
– produces and disseminates,
leads to
and yields) bloodletting
and death (dam
– killing, both murder and
manslaughter) ,
because angry (‘ap)
agitation (miys)
leads to (yasa’)
contention,
strife, quarrelsome opposition, and hostility (riyb
– taunting insults, mocking
ridicule, conflict, and fighting) .”
(Proverbs 30:33) Muhammad’s,
Constantine’s,
Hitler’s, Stalin’s, and Mao’s words were spoken
in anger and were specifically
designed to agitate their audience, prompting them to
kill others on behalf of their
self-promoting scheme. Muhammad wasn’t the first,
and Mao won’t be the last to
use words in ways which debase humankind.
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If you want to be spared from the dreadful days
lurking on our not-so-distant
and dark horizon, if you don’t want to be victimized
by evil’s trinity, or die at the
hand of man’s self-exalting schemes, Yahowah has told
you where to look and
upon whom to rely. He has even told you where not to
look and whom not to
trust. But should you not yet be convinced that
Yahowah is God, that His Word is
trustworthy and true, and that He has provided a way
for you to live together with
Him for all eternity, rest assured He will make His
case. We have just begun…
LE: JP 09-20-08 / CW 09-24-08
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