A word about false prophets and teachers

Every once in awhile the topic of "false prophets and teachers" crops up.  It's very upsetting to discover that so many don't seem to mind following those types. YHWH constantly warns us that if someone proclaims something that is not 100 percent from Him, it's false! (Just take a look at some of the stuff the Pope proclaims!)

There are many Facebook self-proclaimed "teachers" along with some Christian "pastors" and also several Hebrew Roots teachers who have "prophesied" things that never came true - and yet people flock to them. Why are people so gullible and so lukewarm that they are willing to accept everything and anything, no matter how ludicrous it sounds? Take a look at what Scripture says:

Deuteronomy 13:1 “When there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he shall give you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder shall come true, of which he has spoken to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other mighty ones – which you have not known – and serve them,’ 3 do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for יהוה your Elohim is trying you to know whether you love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being. 4 “Walk after יהוה your Elohim and fear Him, and guard His commands and obey His voice, and serve Him and cling to Him. 5 “And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is put to death, because he has spoken apostasy against יהוה your Elohim – who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim and redeemed you from the house of bondage – to make you stray from the way in which יהוה your Elohim commanded you to walk. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst. (ISR)

Deuteronomy 18: 20 "'But if a prophet presumptuously speaks a word in my name which I didn't order him to say, or if he speaks in the name of other gods, then that prophet must die.' 21 You may be wondering, 'How are we to know if a word has not been spoken by ADONAI?' 22 When a prophet speaks in the name of ADONAI, and the prediction does not come true -that is, the word is not fulfilled -then ADONAI did not speak that word. The prophet who said it spoke presumptuously; you have nothing to fear from him.  (CJB)

Jeremiah 14: 14 YHWH replied, "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I didn't send them, order them or speak to them. They are prophesying false visions to you, worthless divinations, the delusions of their own minds.... (CJB)

Matthew 7: 13. Enter by the straight door, for wide is the door and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many are they, those that go in it. 14. How narrow the door and straight the road that leads to life, and few are they, those that find it. 15. Beware of false prophets that come among you in the clothing of lambs, but from within are ravenous wolves. 16. But you will know them by their fruits. (AENT)

Matthew 24: 4 Beware, let no man deceive you. 5. For many will come in my name and will say that “I am the Mashiyach.” And many they will deceive. 6. For you are bound to hear of revolutions and rumor of wars. Watch out and do not be disturbed, for it is necessary that all these things happen, but it is not yet the end. 7. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and plagues and earthquakes in different places. 8. But all these things are only the beginning of sorrows. 9. Then they will deliver to afflictions and they will kill you and you will be hated by all nations because of my name. 10. Then many will stumble and will hate one another and will betray one another. 11. And many false prophets will arise and deceive many. 12. And because of the growth of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold. 13. But whoever has patience until the end, he will have life. (AENT)

Are we really to call no one "Father" or "Rabbi"?

Here's something interesting to ponder:

Matthew 23:1. Y’shua then spoke with the crowds and with his disciples. 2. And he said to them, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Moshe. 3. Therefore everything that they[1] say to you that you should keep and do. But not according to their deeds, for they talk, but do not. 4. And they bind heavy burdens and place them upon the shoulders of the sons of men, but they do not desire to touch them with their fingers. 5. And they do all their deeds that they might be seen by the sons of men. For they widen their Tefillin[2] and lengthen the Tekhelet[3] of their robes.

6. And they love the chief places at festivals and the chief seats at the assembly. 7. And a greeting in the streets, and to be called Rabbi by men. 8. But you should not be called “My Great One”,[4] for there is only one Who is Great and you are all brothers. 9. And do not call yourself Father[5] for your Father is one who is in heaven. 10. And you should not be called leaders, because one is your leader, the Mashiyach. 11. But he who is greatest among you, let him be a servant[6] to you. 12. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.(AENT)

Footnotes:

[1] A very late and unattested reading in Shem Tob Matthew states: “everything ‘he’ (Moshe) tells you to do, do it.” This rendering is nonsense; Y’shua would not mention Moshe when the Pharisees are “they” who sit in Moshe’s seat. Peshitta and Greek texts agree that since the Pharisees sit in Moshe’s seat they should teach Moshe but, instead, they elevate their oral traditions above Torah. The fact of the matter is, if they would actually study Torah, they would know Y’shua is Mashiyach. Y’shua returns to this point in John 5:46-47.

[2] Leather box/straps containing Bible verses that traditional observant Jews bind on their arms and foreheads during daily prayer, except on Shabbat (Deut. 6:8).

[3] The “ribbon of blue” of the “tzitzit” (fringes), as commanded in Num. 15:38. “Tekhelet” can also refer to tzitzit, or even the whole prayer shawl/tallit.

[4] Aramaic here does not mean "Rabbi" as in "teacher" per se, as in Matthew 28 Y'shua commands his disciples to teach the world. Instead, Y'shua is addressing the more literal meaning of “rab” which is “great” as shown in Genesis 6:5, “the wickedness of man was great on the earth.” The previous eight verses teach against elitist behavior, so "do not be called My Great One, for you have One that is Great, YHWH." This is directed to the Rabbis (leaders) themselves, not to the followers. Certainly this does not win popularity among the Rabbis.

[5] This prohibition against calling leaders “father” is to avoid giving high status to men which is due unto YHWH. Catholics openly defy this commandment, but all institutions who use flattering titles for leaders are culpable; see Job 32:21-12. Isaiah 56:10-12 exposes leaders who “can never have enough” and who keep their “followers” in spiritual and often financial poverty by seeking personal gain for themselves. See also 1 Timothy 4:3.

[6] Servant is commonly translated as “minister” which is a term that has taken on a life of its own becoming esteemed and prestigious within a hierarchical identity, which is altogether opposite of a servant. Khabouris omits “a servant” but this reading is confirmed in all other manuscripts and is in 1905.

Gargoyles of FaceBook

Gargoyles are menacing sculptures, sitting on the tops of buildings, staring out from the wall or roof-line, ready to spew rainwater from their mouths in a downpour. 

Gargoyle

The word "Gargoyle" is from from the old French word 'gargouille' meaning throat.  They are frightening, grotesque shapes most often found on Medieval Churches and Cathedrals.  They are usually carved with big wide-open mouths.  The open mouths make a gargoyle more menacing - symbolic of devouring giants.

A "FaceBook Gargoyle" (hereafter simply "Gargoyle") - distinguished from a "real" (flesh-and-blood human "friend") before FaceBook redefined the term "friend", is someone you don't really know personally. You only accepted their "friend" request.  You don't know their likes, dislikes, morals, values, etc. because you've never actually known them, nor spent any time with them. Gargoyles sit there in your "friends list", resulting in posts scrolling on your FaceBook "newsfeed", inviting you to comment.  But when you comment, and the Gargoyle disagrees with you, it will spew vitriol at you the likes of which truly burn - just as expected of the term "vitriol". (Vitriol was the original name for sulfuric acid!) 

Space alien gargoyle

Gargoyles are know-it-alls, self-righteous, armchair experts - chameleons -  who express a small part of their character in their "profile" and in benign posts and memes on their walls, never truly revealing themselves till you unwittingly push a button which transforms them into the embodiment of an architectural gargoyle only what they disgorge is not water.  Beware the FaceBook Gargoyle!

Paisley Abbey gargoyle

The FaceBook Gargoyle is not to be confused with another type of FaceBook friend whom you also don't know in real life.  Those who are in your "friends list" but who never say anything - they're simply "there". Another architectural sculptural form describes these.  Such a friend is a "Grotesque".  But now I jest.

Grotesques

 

Discussing the YHWH/Y'shua relationship

ANTI-MISSIONARY COMMENT: Yeshua/Jesus the person who I prayed to for over a half of a century was nothing but a false messiah. The Messiah of the Tanach is not divine but just a man who will be anointed, he will be like King David.

OUR RESPONSE: You clearly never understood the Father/Son relationship and have now simply substituted one religion for another. Y’shua didn’t come to replace YHWH or seek glory for himself! He came to proclaim the Kingdom and do everything His Father commanded! YHWH said HE would send a prophet who was to do everything He ordered him to do:

Deuteronomy 18: 15 "ADONAI will raise up for you a prophet like me from among yourselves, from your own kinsmen. You are to pay attention to him, 16 just as when you were assembled at Horev and requested ADONAI your God, 'Don't let me hear the voice of ADONAI my God any more, or let me see this great fire ever again; if I do, I will die!' 17 On that occasion ADONAI said to me, 'They are right in what they are saying. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kinsmen. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I order him.

Yeshua Himself said He came to do HIS FATHER's will; not His own!

John 6: 35. Y'shua said to them, I am the Bread of Life. Whoever comes to me will not hunger. And whoever believes in me will not ever thirst. 36. But I have said to you that you have seen me, and you do not believe. 37. All who my Father has given to me will come, and whoever comes not to me I will cast outside! 38. For I came down from heaven,[1] not to do my will, but to do the will of Him who sent me. 39. And this is His will, that of Him who sent me, that all that He has given to me I do not lose even one. 40. For this is the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in Him, will have life that is eternal. And I will raise him up on the last day. (Aramaic English New Testament)

[1] As in the context of Miltha (the Word) or the "Manifestation" or the "Will of" YHWH coming down from heaven to do the Will of YHWH upon earth; his Spirit is of YHWH but his nephesh (soul) and body are human and temporal. This shows that Yeshua was NOT in charge; HIS FATHER WAS!

Yeshua came to proclaim the Kingdom of YHWH and to do everything His Father commanded. He tore down the fences of man's legalism. Neither He nor His Apostles ever advocated against Torah!

John 12: 44. But Y'shua cried out and said, He who believes in me, it is not in me he does believe, but in Him who sent me. [1] 45. And he who sees me sees Him who sent me! 46. I have come as the light into this world that all who believe in me might not remain in the darkness! 47. And he who hears my words, yet does not keep them, I do not judge him, for I have not come to judge the world but to give life[2] to the world. 48. He who rejects me and does not receive my words, there is something that judges him. The word that I have spoken, it will judge him on the last day. 49. For I have not spoken from my soul, but the Father who sent me. He gave a Commandment to me what I should say and what I should speak. 50. And I know that His commands are eternal life. [3] Therefore, these things that I speak just as my Father told me, thus I speak.[4] (Aramaic English New Testament)

[1] Y'shua does not bring a new Faith, but reveals the original Faith of YHWH the Father.

[2] Y'shua proclaims that he came to give life, then he declares that His father's Commands are eternal life! The Father's "Commands" are instruction in righteousness; this is Torah which contains Commandments, Judgments, Testimony and Witness regarding the Kingdom of Elohim. Those who enter into Covenant with Mashiyach are entering into Covenant with his Father YHWH; therefore, it is evil - an outright lie - to teach that Torah is done away with and replaced by a new theology!

[3] The Commands of YHWH bring eternal life. YHWH's "Commands" refers to all of His Commandments; these are one and the same as every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of Elohim. These are not Commands only between Y'shua and His Father but they are universal for all souls who will enter into the Malchut Elohim.

[4] Y'shua speaks the Word of YHWH, not his own words; therefore, he conveys the revelation of YHWH according to the Ruach haKodesh without the baggage of man's religious tradition. Religion has a propensity to reinvent or interpret the Word of YHWH to make it "acceptable" to man's standards; whereas Mashiyach came not to please men, but to honor and bring Glory to his Father.

Yeshua was sent by the Father NOT to do His own will, but the Father's! So many seem to think He came to replace the Father and abolish Torah....Yet He came to restore man's relationship with YHWH and remind us to totally rely on YHWH for everything.

Many (if not most) Christians keep insisting "God is love" and that's all we need to know.A father teaches his child not to cross the road unless he has looked both ways; he did that because he LOVES the child. The child, believing that the father's love is all encompassing, doesn't bother to continue to obey what the father SAID because, hey, "Dad is LOVE!"; he just goes ahead and crosses the road without looking - and consequently gets smashed by a semi-truck. So, how did the father's LOVE save that child? It didn't! There are commands the kid should have obeyed in order to please his father and continue living with and FOR the father. Loving God includes obeying His rules because they are our ONLY blueprint for moral, holy living!

As the ARM of YHWH (Isaiah 53:1) Y'shua is definitely a PART of YHWH - and as a part of Him (he is also the WORD - John 1:1-5), Y'shua has a divine qnoma/nature and therefore he cannot be separated from YHWH...and consequently, we are told to pray in his Name - Acts 2:38! But when we pray in Y'shua's Name, we are STILL praying TO YHWH.

Acts 2: 38. Shimon said to them, "Repent and be immersed [1] each of you in the name of Master YHWH-Yeshua [2] for the forgiveness of sins, that you may receive the gift of the Ruach haKodesh. (Aramaic English New Testament)

[1] Shimon was preaching from the steps of the Temple in Jerusalem. Just below him were hundreds of mikveh (immersion) baths. Both the steps he spoke from and the baths are visible today outside the Western Wall. In Peter's day baptism wasn't an act of conversion from one religion to another, but an act of purification from sin. A person repented of their sin, prayed, and then entered into the waters of the mikveh (baptism) to symbolize atonement.

[2] MarYah and Y'shua appear next to one another! Therefore, Keefa (Peter) is saying that the divine part of Y'shua and YHWH are one and the same; he is referring to Him in both ways.

About beards....

Reader question:

I was wondering if we still have to keep the Law in Leviticus about leaving a beard and to not round the corners of the beard. I believe God said this because he knew the pagans practiced these facial cuttings of their beard. God's people are NOT to do anything like the pagans do. Thank you and keep telling the Truth to all! God Bless you in Yeshua's Name. Also, a friend told me his wife hates full beards and was wondering if he could just cut his into a goatee.

Our Response....

Author and Aramaic scholar Andrew Gabriel Roth responds:

There are a few issues to look at here. First and foremost, we have the main argument that ALLOWS men to shave: Genesis 41:14 - Shows context: So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When HE had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh. Now, who is writing this narrative other than Moshe? Notice there is no rebuke for Joseph ("he") shaving.

There is no indication that he was forced to either. I have read some very shoddy scholarship that suggested the Egyptians did not allow beards, but this is totally WRONG from evidence in their writings and on their tomb walls. Joseph would not have been required to shave against his will to meet pharaoh! As for Vayikra, look at this: Leviticus 21: 5 "'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies. 6 They must be holy to their Elohim and must not profane the name of their Elohim. Because they present the offerings made to YHWH by fire, the food of their Elohim, they are to be holy. 7 "'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their Elohim 8 Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your Elohim.

This instruction applies to cohenim (priests); not all of Israel, and Joseph was not a cohen. There are many requirements in Torah that apply to small groups only - such as the Nazirite vow and not to the rest of the nation. Other shaving rules apply to matters of cleanliness, against skin disease, when ending a period of uncleanness, and so on. Here is the clarifying passage in Devarim:

Deuteronomy 14: 1 You are the children of YHWH your Elohim. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2 for you are a people holy to YHWH your Elohim. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, YHWH has chosen you to be his treasured possession. See, this is NOT a prohibition against just shaving. This is a prohibition against shaving as part of a tatooing procedure for a pagan death ritual.

Now let's look at Leviticus 19:26-29:

26 "'Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. "'Do not practice divination or sorcery. 27 "'Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. 28 "'Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am YHWH. 29 "'Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness. See, the way the Hebrew reads, the WAW conjunction ("and") means BOTH conditions must be true and there is a conjunction between 27 and 28. So the commandment really is don't cut your beard WHILE doing this for the dead. Let's see it again:

Deuteronomy 14: 1 You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2 for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.

See, this is the clearer reading, and it actually also interprets the Leviticus one.

When you put this together with Devarim 14, it becomes clear that the shaving and the pagan ritual are a continual process together. The Hebrew reads to most scholars as linking the two, not separate and unrelated prohibitions. In fact, the Jewish Publication Society 1917 and 1955 readings of this verse affirm that understanding, talking about "do not shave....EVEN as you...WHILE you...". In any case, this is my understanding, that a NON LEVITE member of Israel can shave. There are also medical exemptions that require shaving as well. I would rather though stand on what I began with, that if Moshe had a problem with shaving he would have mentioned it in connection with Joseph.

It is clear that everyone who is a KOHENIM must have a beard. For other "leaders" it is kind of optional but there is a traditional trending to beards.

But for 99.9 percent of men, Torah is actually neutral on the matter. The two key parts to understanding this are that Moses himself says that Joseph shaved before Pharaoh and doesn't criticize it. Joseph, I must emphasize, was NOT forced to shave or pressure to shave. Egyptian culture had no problem with either slaves or nobility appearing before pharaohs with beards.

We have tomb walls that prove that much and pharaohs themselves both were clean shaven and had beards, fake beards, and wigs. So if Joseph had no pressure to shave, and Moses himself doesn't criticize Joseph for shaving (quite the opposite) it is only logical to conclude that non-kohenim could keep their facial hair any way they wanted to or want to. I myself am clean shaven.

On the other hand, the commandment to not mar the corners of the beard is grossly misinterpreted. This becomes a SYAG or "fence" that basically says to play it safe it is NEVER problematic to have a beard, UNLESS you are completing a Nazirite vow or in some cases of skin infection or even in the case of mourning.

But, if someone disagrees with me, and thinks there is a general prohibition against cutting the CORNERS of the beard, then by that definition, a man can NOT have a goatee....

My love-hate relationship with Christmas

I have always had a love-hate relationship with Christmas. Now – please understand I have no problems with people who do Christmas; that is strictly their business. But truth be told, Christmas holds some bitter-sweet memories for me, and I was elated to discover in my late-forties when YHWH led me to Torah, that it was NOT one of His holy days…that, in fact, it is a lie on several levels.

My first “bitter-sweet memory” of Christmas is of my foster home in Germany in the early Fifties. We were so impoverished, we barely had enough food to survive in our three-room shack that lacked running water and electricity. My foster parents (with whom I lived until I was almost 9, when my natural mother snatched me out of my poor but happy home) always made Christmas enjoyable for me, with hand-me-down gifts and cookies that Mama baked just for the occasion, and a tree they had cut from nearby woods, made alive with candles.

Any “happy” memories about Christmas ended the day I learned that “der Weinachtsmann” (Santa Claus) was a myth. That was when I first realized you can’t trust parents to always tell you the truth! I think the disappointment in my face was one of the things that spurred my foster mother on to eventually admit she and Papa weren’t my “real” parents – which further drove home the point that life HURT and people couldn’t be trusted. It hurt to know that my “real” mother gave me away to be raised by strangers! (I later learned there were two other kids she had also given away.) Regardless, I was a happy child in the knowledge that my foster parents truly did love me and they did everything they could to spoil me rotten, despite their lot in life.

Four years later, a couple of strangers – a man wearing an American soldier uniform and a “painted woman” - strolled down the dirt lane and, without warning, snatched me out of my happy foster home and tossed me into the back of a big, American car (I had never ridden in a car before!), where I discovered they were my natural mother and her new husband. Turns out, “Mother” (who I much later discovered was an alcoholic prostitute) HAD to retrieve me from my foster home because she was unable to leave Germany with her new husband who was being transferred back to the United States – Fort Carson, CO, to be exact. (That is where I learned English.) And oh yes, her new husband – well, he was a raving pedophile, a terrible, mean-spirited man who sexually abused me from the age of 9 until 14 when my mother left him to marry someone else. (And no, she never knew…I was too terrified to tell on him.)

Fast forward through all the Christmases I spent with her until the age of 16 when I ran away from home, and you’ll understand why Christmas is “bitter-sweet” for me – more bitter than sweet, actually! Christmas often found my mother inebriated, getting into physical fights and/or arguments with her latest boyfriend or husband (she was married 8 times before she died at the age of 45). My mother was Jewish through her mother (whom she hated, because her mother was the one who forced her into prostitution in her early teens), but she didn’t adhere to Judaism. From what I could tell, she didn’t believe in God, period – and her lifestyle proved it. I wasn’t able to forgive her until the day she died, when it dawned on me that, in spite of everything she had done in her life and the misery she had forced on me as a result of her decisions, she was still my mother. ”Accident” or not, she did give birth to me….

When I joined the Army after high school in 1969, I was elated to think ALL my problems were over with, and life would be a “bowl of cherries” from then on. WRONG! Satan knows how to keep you on that merry-go-round from which you can’t escape, and not only was my life constantly in a state of chaos (because, like my mother, I didn’t know how to have relationships, either); but because I was perpetually “single” most of the time, I ended up “pulling CQ” and other miscellaneous duties during the Christmas holidays, so that married folks could spend time with their families. Now, mind you, I didn’t HAVE to do it, but I have a soft heart and was easily persuaded by my married co-workers….

I do have one happy memory of Christmas and that was in my early years in the Army while stationed at Fort McClellan, AL, working at the Staff Judge Advocate’s office. A co-worker, a sweet old lady named Mary, was surprised to see I wasn’t taking Christmas vacation and when she asked me why, I told her the truth: I had no place to go and no one to spend the holidays with. Well, the next day, I came into work to discover my whole desk filled with presents, with a note from “Santa” that said: “Dear Carmen, I’m sorry I’m late but I got caught in a snowstorm.”

I never cried in those days, but I’m sure Mary could see how grateful I was to have SOMEONE care about me! YHWH allowed me to “pay it forward” many years later when I was acquainted with someone in my church who constantly gave her all, but her selfish grown children didn’t think enough of her to give her anything for Christmas….By that time I REALLY hated Christmas because of the endless sorrow it seemed to bring.

Anyway, when I found Torah, I discovered that you rarely (if ever) saw anyone becoming depressed or committing suicide over any of the Biblical Feasts - mainly because they are all about YHWH/Yeshua/Torah! Every single mo’ed (even Hannukah, which is NOT one of the mo’edim) consists of prayers honoring YHWH! It’s all about HIM, not us! (You tend to not become depressed when your focus is on your Creator!) But Christmas…well, Christmas is simply NOT biblical. And for me, that is a huge relief, because I would hate to think that YHWH was the cause of my lifetime of misery during “that time of the year.”

Yes, there it is in a nutshell: Christmas is NOT biblical! Reason Number One: Y’shua was NOT born in December; He was born on the first day of Sukkot (Tabernacles) which falls in the September/October timeframe on our Gregorian calendars! While Christmas is supposed to be about “Jesus” is it really? Turn on your TVs between late September, all the way into January when the “after Christmas sales” begin, and you’ll see what the REAL idea behind Christmas is! Sure, many devout Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, and that’s great – but why won’t they celebrate it on the ACTUAL date on which He was born…a date YHWH would approve of (even though Scripture never tells us to celebrate His birth, in the first place)? It’s because Christmas in December is a TRADITION, that’s why! It’s “fun for the kids!” (Please see my meme.)

Reason Number Two: The “three Wise Men” didn’t give presents to each other; they gave them to Y’shua. We supposedly give presents to each other because of the “gift” God gave to mankind…but what has that really turned into, and why do so many “go into debt” at this time? “Debt” goes against Scripture - Romans 13:8; Psalm 37:21, Proverbs 28:8; Matthew 25:27; Leviticus 25:35-38!

Reason Number Three: At Y’shua’s birth there was no “Santa” flying in his reindeer-driven sled to deliver presents to Y’shua or anyone else; he is yet ANOTHER “tradition”! Not only is “Santa” a tradition, but he’s one of the first LIES we tell our children – and lying is a SIN, no matter how one wishes to justify it….I will NEVER forget how I felt when I discovered Santa was a myth! Well, rather than to list all the things that are wrong with Christmas, I’ll simply post my two articles which outline the reasons: The problem with Christmas and Christmas is unbiblical on several levels.

I pray that during this “holiday season” many will open their eyes to YHWH’s Divine Instructions in Righteousness, and choose to start OBEYING Him. He has amply outlined in His Torah who He is, who His Messiah is, and what He expects of HIS people. It’s ALL ABOUT HIM and His relationship with us! He didn’t send His Divine Son to die so that we could have the” grace” to ignore Torah. Y’shua died to cleanse us of our PAST sins - Halleluyah! Y’shua will be returning soon to find – what? – myriads who aren’t paying attention to the Divine Commands which include the keeping of the Seventh Day Sabbath and the Feasts/mo’edim. That’s not too much to ask, is it? Please think about this: If we don’t obey YHWH, then WHOM are we really worshiping?