Pentecost Sunday or Shavu’ot: Do you know the roots of your faith?

The YHWH flag used by many messianic jews

Pentecost is a day that is barely mentioned in most protestant and catholic churches. Unless you go to a pentecostal church you probably have never really celebrated pentecost. Even then the way the pentecostal churches celebrate this holy day is a disgrace. Pentecost and Savu’ot are the same holy day. It is a holy day that all christians should observe. The festival of the weeks is to be celebrated 49 days after the second day of passover. “The Counting of the Omer” 49 day countdown begins on the second day of passover. It is a festival that required pilgrimage to Jerusalem and was considered a high sabbath. This holy day is commanded in Leviticus 23:15-22 but I will just quote a few verses of that passage for time and space.

Leviticus 23:15-16, 21 KJV “15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.”

A cool drawing and royalty free photo showing a Torah scroll, the ten commandments and the first fruits.

The verses between 16 and 21 gives a lot of the technical aspects of this holy day. That is why I left them out. I do encourage you the reader to do more independent study on this topic. I included verse 21 for a reason even though it contains technical aspects as well. The last part of this verse says it will be a statue “forever” in all your dwellings throughout your generations. Keeping shavu’ot is a charge to be kept for all time. I know a lot of people who would argue that is just for jews but that is not the case. Certainly most professing christians would argue legalism with me to justify their sin but that is the same thing the Pharisees did to justify their unscriptural beliefs. As gentile christians are grafted into the house of Israel through Yeshua (Romans 11:18-20), they are to take part in this holy festival as well and keep it as commanded in the torah. The same way with passover. The hebraic jews referred to this day as shavu’ot but hellenistic jews referred to the day as pentecost. This holy day was celebrated in early church history as the birth of the church. The giving of the holy spirit coincided with shavu’ot the jewish festival of the giving of the torah.

Matthew 5:17 17“Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.  I did not come to destroy but to complete.

Acts 2 records the giving of the holy spirit. It says the day of pentecost came. Pentecost was just the hellenistic jewish way of saying “shavu’ot”. So it could rightfully read “as shavu’ot was being celebrated they were all with one accord in one place.” That comes from verse one. Then it records in the following verses 2-6 the spirit descending on the multitudes and the gift of speaking in tongues being given through the spirit. This is totally different than a private prayer language. This was when everyone could understand everyone’s speech. There were devout men (jews and believers) from every nation there at the time. There was not a common language among all of these believers as hebraic jews refused to speak greek. Hebraic jews during that time would claim “it is better to feed your young swine than to speak greek”. There was many sects at this event and many other languages. Those people were there for shavo’ut because shavu’ot required a pilgrimage to Jerusalem as commanded in Exodus 23:14-17.

Verses 7-11 of chapter 2 in Acts records that the people were amazed and marveled at the miracle. It also gives a full list of the nations of the people in attendance. Respectfully there was not a true common language among all believers in attendance because language among jews was considered a sacred thing. If there was a common language that would have defeated the purpose of speaking in tongues. If that is the case the idea of a common language would go against YHWH and the holy scriptures. Some had a common language but not all of them. Language was sacred just like time was sacred and still is sacred in judaism. Even the sabbath day is a sacred time because YHWH blessed and made time holy before any other thing. The time of the death of Yeshua was sacred in time and space. That is the importance of the time and place of his death at passover shortly before sunset. The fact that time is holy is why YHWH and Yeshua sent the holy spirit down to the first century believers on shavu’ot. It is because time is holy and these sacred times and events should be observed until the end of time by all jews and those who profess the name of YESHUA HAMASHIACH (JESUS CHRIST)!

Sunflowers is a wonderful decoration for Shavu’ot!

This is something that most modern believers cannot wrap their minds around. This is because they do not view time as holy or “kodesh” the word that holy comes from. Kodesh means “set-apart”. (Set-apart meaning of special importance)

Verses 12-15 speaks of people being amazed and some were mocking and making fun of them calling them drunk but that was not the case. Peter stood up with the other 11 apostles and began speaking, it makes it clear they were not drunk for it was only about 9 am when it happened. Verses 16-21 speaks of how this event of the giving of the holy spirit fulfilled what the prophet Joel prophesied about. The rest of the chapter is Peter’s sermon and the number of believers in Yeshua increased by 3000 and after that day numbers were added daily to the believers. That is a day that we should rejoice on, the actual days of Shavu’ot falls this year 2013 between sunset on May 14 to sundown on May 16th.

Shavu’ot is a time to remember the giving of the Torah and the Holy Spirit

The modern day pentecost sunday is just a paganized version. Very few churches even give pentecost a special place in their churches. In other words they do not keep it as kodesh or holy. You will hear more about mothers and fathers day than pentecost in most churches. Even fewer celebrate it in a correct fashion. It should be days of remembrance. Days to celebrate and read the scriptures and discuss what the holy spirit is doing in our lives and how it makes our lives so much better! It should be a sacred time when we take off from work, spend time with fellow believers sharing in the joy of what our savior Yeshua has done for us! It should be a time to reflect on how wonderful both YHWH and Yeshua really are! It is okay to decorate the houses in spring time decorations and have a dairy social. This goes back to the tradition of eating dairy on shavu’ot because it is not kosher to mix dairy and meat together. It is a harvest festival after all. During the giving of the torah they were unable to kosher meat so they had manna and dairy. It is a tradition that is fun and wonderful. All christians should keep the hebrew holy days in mind and cast out the pagan holy days. Shalom my friends and have a wonderful Shavu’ot!

Keep the Sabbath Holy or Go to Sunday Meeting?

The first thing my family and I did when returning to our hebrew roots as messianic jews was keeping the sabbath. At first this was difficult because of work schedules. We were messing up in several ways. For instance we tried doing sabbath on other days of the week which was not spiritually healthy at all. It was a sin that we have repented of. We now observe sabbath properly from Friday sunset to Saturday sundown. Doing it at the proper time has really increased the joy we take from it. I want to address an idea and issue that most professing Christians are struggling with and that is keeping the sabbath holy. This is done because of lack of understanding about the roots of their faith.

Every christian needs to educate themselves on the hebrew roots of their faith.

Even though my genealogy is filled with hebrew roots, every Christian’s faith is rooted and grafted in to the jewish faith. If you fail to understand Judaism, understanding the Holy Scriptures and the Christian faith will be impossible. That is what has enabled the harlotry of the church with pagan faiths. The gentile believers thought they were better than the jewish people for the last 2000 years. Only recently has the truth come to light among many of the gentile churches. They cannot exist without the house of Israel. Many are interested in judaism but many still shy away from that area of study viewing it as unnecessary. The very fact that the gentile believers and even the modern day church have no understanding of the jewish faith enables the sabbath to be dishonored and replaced with pagan worship on sunday in buildings call churches.

I have several good friends who go to church every sunday and keep a sign called “The Hillbilly 10 Commandments”. There is plenty wrong with this sign but the reason I am sharing it right now is because of number 4 that reads “Git yer hide ta Sunday meetin’”. You can see a picture of the sign below. Keep in mind I understand the commandments are in a mixed up order but you get where this is coming from.

Amazed that people think this blasphemy is cute or funny and acceptable.

For anyone who is interested in learning first hand about the sabbath or as it is commonly referred to among people who keep the sabbath as “Shabbat”. You can sign up for shabbat dot com and be a shabbat guest in a jewish home that observes the proper sabbath. Here is the link:

http://www.shabbat.com/

Shabbat is not just a day of prayer and worship. Although prayer and worship is a part of shabbat, it is not a day of prayer and worship. No more is it a day of prayer and worship, than it is a day of eating and breathing for we are to pray and worship everyday. Shabbat is a holy day of rest that keeps us in covenant with YHWH. Most people do not understand what a true day of rest is. They think as long as you aren’t getting paid you are resting. That is simply not true. It is resting from all work, especially works of creation as YHWH rested from the creation of all things on the sabbath day and set it aside as a holy day for all time.

So beautiful

This is the point where most people get turned off from shabbat. The fact that watching TV takes away from shabbat and should not be watched on shabbat is too much for some people. Not being able to drive or haul stuff is a big turn off as well. Some people who like to paint, write, draw, work in the garden or yard get turned off from shabbat because they honestly don’t know how to truly rest and find peace in YHWH. Those people can’t let their own-selves rest because they would have to confront something they are trying to avoid. That is why they work themselves to death. They are the same ones that are always complaining they always feel drained and would love to escape to a deserted island somewhere. They can find the peace of that deserted island in shabbat if they can truly let go and find their joy in YHWH and Yeshua.

Keeping the Sabbath will give you the peace you think a deserted island will give you!

Shabbat is the best day of the week. It is the one day that we have no worries. We spend the whole day relaxing and enjoying what YHWH has created. It is a day to recognize that we are not in control of anything and that everything is in YHWH hands and works for His will. YHWH takes care of what I was not permitted to do on shabbat. For example my grass seedlings were in a crucial stage last week and needed constant watering. YHWH sent rain clouds and allowed it to rain on Friday and Saturday watering my seedlings for me. Shabbat is not a day of restrictions but a day of freedom. It takes us away from the worldly and material things and gives us a day of feeling the spirit and love of YHWH and Yeshua. As long as you hold on to materialism you will view it as a day of restrictions. If you truly put your treasures in spiritual things instead of worldly things you will enjoy shabbat. Read Matthew 6:19-24:

Matthew 6:19-24
King James Version (KJV)
“19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

One last thing I wish to mention to all of the nay-sayers who will continue to view sunday as their holy day and insist that by being in church on sunday morning is keeping the sabbath holy. What about when Yeshua (Jesus) spoke in Matthew 24 about the signs of the end of the world and his second coming? If Yeshua meant to destroy The Torah (the law) and do away with the hebrew version of sabbath day as the teaching of sunday worship promotes: Why would he warn us to pray that our flight into the wilderness takes place not in winter or on the sabbath day in Matthew 24:20? In the winter is obvious to most people, survival would be very hard.

Matthew 5:17 17“Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.  I did not come to destroy but to complete.

Survival on the hebrew sabbath when trying to flee into the wilderness would be equally hard as fleeing in winter. You are not allowed to haul anything on the sabbath, nor are you allowed to light a fire, or drive a car, or build a shack, erect a tent and many of the other worldly restrictions. You would have to flee on foot with nothing and you would be out in the wilderness with nothing to eat and could not even start a fire to keep you warm. The teachings of sunday worship would not be anything to worry about in regards to fleeing into the wilderness. There is no such worldly restrictions on the sunday worship doctrine because it came from paganism and not from the holy scriptures. Sunday worship is not a true holy day of worship and honor to YHWH the one true God of Heaven and Earth. If you wish to use the excuse that Yeshua was speaking to just the apostles, then why is the scripture referring to the time of the second coming of Yeshua? Also YHWH is no respecter of persons Acts 10:34, what authority does the holy scriptures or YHWH give to gentiles to be exempt from this practice?

Acts 10:34-35
King James Version (KJV)
“34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.”

I discuss more about the sabbath day and other topics in another blog post called “Tattoos, Transgression, and Redemption”. If you have not read that I encourage you to read it today from the link below. Shalom everyone!

http://montanatruthseekers.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/tattoos-transgression-and-redemption/

Tattoos, Transgression, and Redemption

I was 20 years old and was in the middle of a period in my life of rebellion and transgression. That phase lasted for several years before then and a couple of years after that. I was struggling with my faith and heritage and did not know what to believe. I knew in my heart of heart and soul of souls there was one true God. I knew God existed but did not even know the name of God. I believed that God hated me and loved everyone else. I was wrong for ever believing that, God, YHWH loves me very much. That lie was put in me because of hate-filled churches and the public school system. I had been in seminary but was living a double life.

The sign in front of the seminary I attended.

I was attending church and dabbling in witchcraft and paganism. I got into tattoos. I have four tattoos actually and by sheer coincidence or destiny, they are a testimony of mine from that time. They symbolize how I was caught between a spiritual battle of Good vs. Evil, literally. I still am caught in the middle of that battle and will be until the day I die. I have the army of darkness tattooed on my left arm and the eternity of the cross on my right arm. It is even more bizarre that when danger is near and demonic forces are at work, the tattoos tingle. This is a time and event in my life that I am not proud of at all, I am ashamed of it.

However after speaking with my friend Chris about spiritual matters the idea for this blog came to me. I should have shared this testimony a long time ago. He had pointed out that I had not always followed my heritage and faith because of the tattoos. My great great grandmother was a jew that converted to the Methodist protestant denomination. Then my great grandmother became a campbellite. We had traditions in our household growing up that came from judaism. Even though as small children we did not always understand why.

After a few generations of my family shunning our heritage, they had become indoctrinated into the replacement theology of the Campbellites. (Campbellites are followers of Thomas and Alexander Campbell in the Church of Christ denomination) My mother had gone through the conversion to Judaism classes at Beth Shalom Synagogue in Memphis Tennessee before I was born. However there was still many problems within my family and I still grew up in that Church of Christ background because of my grandmother. I had a mixed up bringing. I grew to be just as ashamed of my heritage as my grandmother had been. That is something I am now equally ashamed about. I did not stand with my people, for that I am sorry. I have repented of all of these things and by the mercy of YHWH and Yeshua I have been redeemed. Yeshua is the name of Jesus in Hebrew. (I will do another blog about the name of Yeshua in the future) Repentance is a necessary act that leads to redemption. Repentance is not just saying “I’m sorry” it is meaning it. Repentance means making up for the wrongs you committed and turning from that sin. Then by the grace and mercy of YHWH giving his only begotten son Yeshua we are forgiven. I have been forgiven and restored to the house of Israel. I am now living the life of a messianic jew.

The YHWH flag used by many messianic jews

Many messianic jewish groups do not allow conversion to the faith because they view it as unscriptural. All other christian and jewish sects allow conversion. Jews do not recognize messianic jews as real jews but as a sect of Christianity. There is one sect of messianic jews that allow for conversion and that is “Nazarene Messianic Judaism”. That has enabled our branch that was damaged to be repaired by our Great Shepherd and Saviour Yeshua! Now our branch is restored. Even though many would not accept our branch back. That is their problem not our problem. They should remember the story of the prodigal son if someone has a problem with my family’s redemption. (Luke 15:11-32)

I do want to address another issue and that is many protestant denominations and catholics believe that Yeshua came to destroy the law even though they preach and claim they do not feel that way. They recognize the scripture in Matthew 5 that reads and teaches the truth, however, their other teachings contradict the fact that they claim to believe Yeshua came to fulfill the law not destroy it.

Matthew 5:17-19 ISR
17“Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete. 18“For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done. 19“Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so,shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.

If you read the above scripture from the KJV or other versions it reads “the law” instead of “The Torah”. The law simply meant “The Torah”. The ISR version is a messianic judaism bible referred to as “The Scriptures”. Translated directly from the the original languages by messianic jews who had respect for the word and had a healthy fear of God, unlike the KJV and other modern versions that were translated by men who were holding on to pagan traditions of men coming out of the catholic and protestant churches.

The scriptures is the best translation on the market that I know of.

I will never forget growing up and hearing it preached that the only thing we had to obey in the old testament was the ten commandments. Even then we only had to keep 9 of those ten because they believed when Jesus came, keeping the sabbath was done away with and was replaced with Sunday worship. I was told this in seminary and churches. I never fully believed that and always understood that teaching was wrong. Coming back to my heritage and embracing messianic judaism has given me the fulfillment that I have been seeking for so many years. It is who I am and that is why I never belonged anywhere or to any group. It is my missing piece.

The Law means The Torah

Our passover seder brought me more joy than anything I can remember! Keeping the sabbath has brought me so much joy that the Sabbath is now my favorite day of the week! I am now looking forward to “Shavu’ot” now that we are in “The counting of the Omer”. It is a joy that is found in God. It is far different from the joy of getting presents and seeing the joy on loved ones faces as they open their gifts on Christmas and so much better than that too. The joy that comes from the hebrew festivals surpasses any false happiness the pagan festivals that has been intertwined with the church can bring. Finding your joy in YHWH and Yeshua is far better and more important than finding joy in materialism.

Santa and the Easter Bunny is nothing but pain and problems! Embrace the hebrew festivals instead!

Of course going back to the issue at hand. The modern church that has embraced harlotry does not support the sabbath or hebrew festivals that are commanded in the Old and New Testaments. They pick and choose through old testament passages to randomly condemn various acts. For example my tattoos were not well received in churches preaching that the only scriptures you have to obey in the old testament was the 9 commandments. Those same people would quote from Leviticus 19:28 to condemn my actions but ignored shaving your face or head is a sin mentioned in just the verse earlier in Leviticus 19:27.

Leviticus 19:27-28 KJV 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.”

They don’t even understand that teaching the 9 commandments, replacement theology, and embracing pagan festivals over scriptural hebrew festivals, while preaching piece meal commandments from the Torah are causing a great falling away. They discredit their own selves with this kind of behavior. (The grafted in ones (Romans 11) are allowed and commanded to partake in the hebrew festivals.)

It’s called the 10 commandments for a reason. PLEASE STOP PREACHING THE 9 COMMANDMENTS!

Also consider the act of taking communion originally meant celebrating and keeping the passover in remembrance of the perfect sacrificial lamb Yeshua! It was never meant to be weekly or monthly Sunday communion that actually stems from pagan sun God worship. It was meant to incorporate the death of Yeshua into the passover celebration. In the new testament when it speaks of the first century church meeting on the first day and breaking bread it is not referring to unleavened bread “matzo” like at the last supper and passover but Challah bread. They could have even been eating a full meal because breaking bread does also refer to eating a meal but most certainly challah loaves were served at this event either way. In Acts 20 it speaks of how Paul came to Troas from Philippi after the passover had already ended and they stayed in Troas for a week.

Acts 20:7 KJV “7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.”

My wife makes wonderful Challah Bread! This is a picture of a loaf that her friend made under Stephanie’s instruction.

On “the first day” is where most people get confused because of how different things are today, plus because of the general lack of education among most people in today’s society. The first day began right after the Sabbath ended (On Saturday Night) because back then the new day began at sunset. People did not want the sabbath to end so they met Saturday night to break Challah bread (a traditional sabbath bread). Saturday night was considered the first day of the week. This was at the end of Paul’s 7 day stay in Troas. It was kind of like farewell event. If Paul had preached until what we know as the midnight that ends Sunday and begins Monday (as preached in most churches) it would have been recorded that he preached until midnight on the second day of the week. Not midnight on the first day of the week. They were going to be leaving Sunday morning. It even says in verse 7 of chapter 20 they would depart on the morrow, which means in the morning. If they had all gotten up at 10 am on Sunday morning and his speech had lasted until midnight Monday it would have read “he preached all day and into the middle of the night on the second day of the week” or something like that.

Yeshua did not come to destroy the law meaning the Torah. He came to fulfill it. He added to the law and most of his new instructions are recorded in the Gospel of Matthew chapters 5-7. Other instructions are listed in various parts of the messianic scriptures. For example before Yeshua came it was a sin to have sex with a person other than your spouse but not to simply fantasize about the act in. After Yeshua came he made it clear even if you are fantasizing that counts as adultery of the heart and is just as bad as adultery of the flesh Matthew 5:27-30. Yeshua commanded us to keep the passover in remembrance of him read Luke 22:19. Paul in Acts 18:21 and 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 commands us as Christians to keep the passover. Celebrating Easter, the spring festival of Ishtar that falls close to passover is not keeping the passover. It is mixing pagan lies with the faith! YHWH and Yeshua hate this as spoke of in Romans 3:7-8.

Celebrate Passover! Forsake Easter!

In Acts 27:9 it speaks of Paul keeping an important fast, that fast was the Yom Kippur fast something Christians should also keep as well. People often use 1 Corinthians 8 to justify mixing the pagan festivals with messianic faith. They fail to realize that is not a justification for that sin. It is speaking of people’s knowledge causing them to be weak and defiled for thinking they could eat food sacrificed to idols and mixing pagan traditions with the true faith. Their knowledge that puffed them up told them that since the were nothing but wood, metal and stone they could eat food sacrificed to idols but it made them defiled. Compared to having the love of YHWH and Yeshua in your heart that makes believers stronger in the faith. Paul speaking on the same topic 2 chapters later in 1 Corinthians 10 says do not eat food sacrificed to idols because they are being sacrificed to demons, not to YHWH! (YHWH is God the father). 1 Corinthians 10:14-22 commands us to keep the passover, not the festival of Ishtar or Easter. Paul clarified his earlier statement because he knew people would take it out of context! Just because the idols were nothing did not mean the intentions behind the sacrifices wasn’t evil.

In conclusion: Redemption is possible but first we must repent of our sins and ask Yeshua into our hearts to save our souls from eternal damnation. We must be baptized in the name of Yeshua, not in the title of God the father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We must seek him and live a very difficult life. Striving to do the will of YHWH under the salvation of our High Priest and Savior Yeshua! I encourage you all today if you have not accepted Yeshua into your hearts that you do so today. Read the scriptures daily and pray that Yeshua will guide your footsteps. Shalom!

Name Code in Genealogy of Yeshua!

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The Holocaust, Tolerance, and Gay Marriage

April is holocaust remembrance month. Many events regarding the liberation of the camps happened in April. Seventy years ago on April 19th the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising happened. It was a great revolt and showed the strength of the Jewish victims. One of the most famous holocaust victims was Anne Frank, who passed away in March of 1945 of Typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Only weeks before her camp was liberated. These are things to be remembered, the victims and rebels should be honored. Modern Americans do not have the strength of Anne Frank and many of the other victims and heroes that rose during the Holocaust. 

It is also important to note that Hitler killed 6 million Jews and 5 million other people from various groups that included dissenting clergy, freemasons, mentally ill, mentally retarded, the disabled, gypsies, homosexuals, some Slavic people, also people who were affiliated with communist, socialist, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Hitler was a typical catholic for that time period and the many centuries before then Catholics hated jews and freemasons. Some still do hate jews but as far as I know all Catholics still hate freemasons. Although Hitler and the Catholic Church hated jews with a special passion above all others. Even Hitler liked using jewish babies as targets for his personal gun range. Consider that when World War 2 began there was 9 million Jews in the region. Hitler managed to kill 6 million of them. That number is mind blowing!

Most people complain and make a big deal when someone calls them a name or disagrees with their life style. Our society is one that promotes false tolerance. That mindset shows weakness of character in my opinion. If someone refuses to affirm certain immoral lifestyles a huge fight erupts and people call people intolerant. Affirm means to declare ones support for something. If I view homosexuality as immoral I am called intolerant, my views should not be allowed to exist. Tolerance is defined as allowing something to exist even though one disagrees with it. If people who view homosexuality as being moral yet suppress my right to have a different opinion or even a right to voice that opinion who is the one that is intolerant? Even the act of homosexual marriage is nothing more than a intolerant act to destroy the covenant of marriage by radical homosexual activist. That is according to lesbian journalist Masha Gessen who spoke of the real goal on the radio show “Life Matters” on Radio National network in Australia. Don’t believe it, look it up! For this blog post I have sourced the link below. Please just take this time to remember the victims of the holocaust and toughen up because you and I and everyone else in the USA are no where near as tough as the people who went through the holocaust! 

Sources:

http://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/homosexual-activist-admits-true-purpose-of-battle-is-to-destroy-marriage/#.UW7L74_ma0A.facebook

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/affirm

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tolerance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank

http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-ultimate-emblem-of-resistance-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/victims.htm

Natural Causes and Empowering Bullies!

I apologize for failing to write any blogs lately. I had mentioned a while back that I had been struggling with allergies or detox symptoms. I thought it was getting better but it got worse. I ended up having pneumonia. I am still in recovery from that but I am feeling better. Plus my mac’s monitor blew on me during a power outage, so I needed to get it replaced. I only work on the blog from the mac or laptop and I have been stranded on the PC desktop for a while. I found a really good 19 inch flat screen high def monitor for 20 bucks at a second hand store. My God Elohim is wonderful and provides for me. I hope to have that new Easter Aliens blog done sometime this week. I know it is late but better late than never right. Assuming it is the Lord’s will of course. I am just now feeling like working on the blog again.

For now I just wanted to update everyone and speak about two things annoying me from the local newspaper this morning. I was reading through the obituaries when I came across something I have seen about 4 or 5 times this month. A 5 year old was in the obits this morning, the cause of death was listed as natural causes. Like I said I have seen this 4 or 5 times this month. That is only the time frame of 2 weeks. All of these kids were under the age of 10. I have seen many others over the age of 10 for months. Mostly men and women in their 20s and 30s that are dying of what is listed as natural causes. I understand certain long term diseases where everyone knows the person will not make it and unexplained sudden death will be listed as natural causes. However I do not think those things should be listed as natural causes.

SIDS is a dangerous condition that only happens to children who were recently vaccinated. Did you know you will never see an unvaccinated child die of SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? It just does not happen, the medical establishment list it as “natural causes”, when they need to list it as “SIDS due to Vaccination”. Vaccines after all are big money to corporations that believe we need to depopulate the world. If you are unaware of the dangers of vaccines you need to do your research. They have to protect their own rear ends.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027178_autism_vaccines.html

I am not saying this 5 year old died of SIDS. He died in a hospital which was probably some long term illness and the parents were expecting it. I can understand the parents not wanting to list a COD. However listing what ever happened as natural causes is evil. Natural causes of death is people growing old and dying of old age because their bodies are too tired to go on living. It is an issue I have a problem with and I cannot even write a letter to the editor over it because it would be disrespectful to the families going through this. I am not going to be mean and hurt the people hurting already. Chances of them reading my blog is slim to none though.

http://www.vaccineriskawareness.com/Vaccines-And-Sudden-Infant-Death-Syndrome

There is another issue that bugged me that I may write a letter to the editor about. That is the fact that parents and school systems are empowering bullies and creating a society of criminals and victims. The worst part is they believe they are helping stop bullying. There was a time in America where people stood up against bullies. A time when crime rates were low. A time when men were men and women were women.

Many local campaigns to stop bullying end up having a rebound effect of empowering bullies.

Times started changing. The church sold out to the immoral 501(c)3 contracts and gospels that tickle the ears. Immorality has grown to be the main stream. People still holding to morality are looked at as behind the times and old prudes that are intolerant and judgmental. Really the immoral ones are the intolerant ones because they do not believe any opinion that is moral and opposes immorality should be allowed to exist. Tolerance is disagreeing with something but allowing it to exist.

As immorality grew people, especially children were punished for standing up for their self. I was one of those children. For the most part I did not go around starting stuff. The bullies would start it with me and I would finish it. The fact that I stood up for myself instead of getting beat up (fighting back) caused me to get suspended from school several times. Even though I was just defending myself. They reward kids for being tattle tales and give the bullies being tattled on a slap on the wrist. The bullies have no resistance from their victims so they feel stronger and better about themselves. That feeling empowers the bully and makes them take it to the next level to feel that way again. They grow to be meaner and meaner after time goes on as the thrills of calling someone a mean name and making them cry grows old. They move up to physical and even sexual assaults.

Only standing against the bullies will stop bullies. I know because I was a huge victim of bullies. Snitching only made things worse, standing up to them made it better.

The snitch programs they have for bullies and how they punish students who stand up for themselves is a disservice to the bullies and the victims. That is why crime rates have been steadily going up over the last few decades. Not only does the school system and public lifestyle empower bullies to become future criminals, they see violent acts and all kinds of sin glorified in the media! These programs are also helping the rates of suicide grow. People who are trained to be a victim feel no hope because of the relaxed slaps on the wrist that does not stop the bullies but makes them worse. In the end they see no hope and take their own life. The victim was victimized by the school system, public life, and the bullies. Then ultimately they decided to take their own life instead of standing up for themselves and trying to help others. In the end the victims sin and murder themselves, sending their own soul straight to hell. I feel that is one of the saddest things that can happen to a person. They have been made weak by the system and the system needs to change. I pity people who commit suicide. Suicide is something I assure you all that I would never do.

Parents fall for this stuff too and empower their children to become a bully or to train them to be a victim. The reason I am speaking about this is because a woman wrote a letter to the editor bragging about how she went to her child’s school to report that he child was being bullied by another child, that goes to a different school, at the local skating rink. She was also complaining that she never heard back from the other child’s school as to what disciplinary action they took. Most of my readers are very smart so I am going to let that sink in for a moment.

Most bullies will gladly take that slap on the wrist to feel the empowerment and feel good sensation that comes from being a bully.

That was nothing but insanity. If the woman had a problem with it so badly she felt like snitching or complaining herself. She should have complained to the skating rink that they need to supervise what is going on better. Better yet maybe she needs to go everywhere with her child to supervise and give the kids at her child’s school where she can’t supervise more reason to pick on the child. It is just sad that people have become so foolish and immoral.

After the Tribulation: Debunking the Pre-Trib Rapture

Awesome video please check it out. Sorry I am not blogging here lately. I will try to get some writing done soon.

A One Year Update

This is a one year update blog. I started Montana Truth Seekers Ministry last year. It was the evening of March 31st. My first post went up on April 1st 2012 though. Since I have started this blogging ministry my life has drasticlly changed. My wife and I were going to weekly midwife appointments we were pregnant with our first child, a son we named James Jr. but call Junior. In June I was appointed to a local neighborhood council. It is something they have in Montana communities. It is lower than a city councilman but you are still a councilman. Only a couple of weeks after I was appointed to the council my wife gave birth to our son Junior. She ended up having to have an emergency c-section as many of you already know.

Picture of a blood moon that we kept seeing in late August of 2012. I posted this picture in a blog in August too. Memories..

From the c-section she developed a nasty blood clot that ran from her hip to her ankle in her left leg. Three peices of the clot broke off and gave her a pulmnary embolism. She was in the ICU for a while and I was scared I was going to lose her. After months of praying, the Lord healed the clot overnight. It was a true mircale healing that we praise our God Elohim and his son Yeshua for. I ended up resigning from the council because I wanted to spend my time with my wife who I thought was not going to make it. I did not want to have any regrets.

A picture taken at a JB’s right after Stephanie got out of the hospital with her clot.

The blog became more popular than I had expected. As of right now the blog has 261 subscribers who I am very thankful for. The blog has had 441 comments and a grand total of 10,751 views from 85 different countries. The biggest day I had was 207 views in one day. These numbers are all showing up on the stats area that wordpress dot com offers. To me this is mind blowing. It is beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Lord God Elohim and His son Yeshua are with me and have blessed this blogging ministry.

I stepped out on my own trying to make a weight loss blogging site. I do not feel that was God’s will anymore and I mistook it for my will. I was able to work on it a few weeks and then I got sick from a health detox and allergies. My wife and I are both still losing weight but I have decided to shut the weight loss blogging site down. On top of my gut feelings, working on two blogs is just way to much.

If it is the will of God I will be doing another Easter Aliens blog this weekend. The easter aliens blog that was one of the first blogs I posted on Montana Truth Seekers has proved to be one of the most popular post on this blog. A local reader came across another easter alien product at the store, bought it and gave it to me as a gift. They thought I would be interested in it. I told them I was interested and it has been sitting in my kitchen for 2 weeks waiting for me to feel well enough to get back to work on the blog. I appreciate all of the love and kindness all of you have shown to me. Expect more blogs to be coming soon.

A picture from the first Easter Aliens Blog that was post on April 6 2012.

Awesome Chart

Awesome Chart

Awesome chart about the death and resurrection of our Lord Yeshua

A Pig in the Mud

I have been sick for the last week and a half due to a health detox and allergy attack from getting hit in the face with carpet sprinkles. My voice is steady but weak so I am happy that I can have a conversation again. I know several people who were upset that I had not made any new post on either blog (I missed this Super Food Sunday post on the health blog) or made a vlog lately. I am always amazed at how many people look to me for guidance. God has surely blessed me with a wonderful ministry and people to minister too. I understand my sickness was no reason to not type. I just could not think of any messages to give.

Just a stock photo but please don’t forget to read the Holy Bible daily. Remember man does not live on bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

I have a message now and that message is: A pig in the mud is a happy pig. Most of us live our lives like a pig in the mud. We wallow around in filth, pleasure, and comfort not willing to part from our mud pits. It is very much the American way of life. It is even more common in churches who practice whoredom with other Gods, political correctness, and prosperity gospels. Trying to get the church to repent is like trying to pull a happy hog out of a mud pit. I am not talking about a little pot bellied pig but a full grown 250 to 300 pound farm hog! Assuming you have the tools, strength and man power to pull one of those monsters out of the mud pit it will return to the mud pit. That is a fact of life. Using the analogy of a pig and a mud pit is almost as old as creation. The origins go back so far you cannot trace it. One example of it being said in The Holy Bible happens in 2 Peter 2:22

2 Peter 2:22 KJV “But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”

It is easier trying to get the hog out of the mud pit than the blind out of the church living in whoredom.

This is speaking to recent converts who had back slid into their old ways. That problem had been going on and still does. The day Christianity was legalized it was also perverted. All true christians who dared defy the Pope were executed. Even in todays society, explain the true way to someone from a church and condemn the hellenzation of worship on Sunday, Christmas, Easter, and the fact that many of the rituals are pagan in nature. You will be told you are a false teacher. Prophesize in the name of God and allow the Lord to speak through you and allow Him to give them signs to know you speak the truth. They will get the signs and will insist you are a powerful end times prophet that can perform false signs and wonders to deceive the elect. I know that happens because God used me in that way one time and that was what I was told by the people I was sent to prophesize too.

The true way of holiness is in messianic Judaism. Dietary laws and circumcision were lifted but only for those whom it would become a stumbling block. It is better to partake in those aspects as well. As people who accept Yeshua the Hebrew name of Jesus we are grafted into the house and covenant of Israel. Even changing the name of Yeshua to the Greek “Jesus” is hellenization. You wouldn’t change the name from the Greek “Jesus” to the English “Joshua” would you? Of course not! Then why change it from Yeshua to Jesus? We are grafted in but we should not boast that we are better than Jews for how can we exist without their covenant. We must accept Yeshua and the old covenant to truly live the way of holiness.

Much like this grafted tree that is two separate trees made one. We christians are grafted into the house of Israel!

Romans 11:16-18 KJV “ 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.”

Yeshua came to fulfill the law not to destroy it. The way the modern church teaches it means he came to destroy the law, not to fulfill it. Even though by their lips they claim he came to fulfill instead of destroy. It is how they teach the scriptures that say otherwise.

Matthew 5:17 KJV “17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”

When I was at Magnolia Bible College it was taught that the only things we are to follow in the Holy Bible in the old testament are the ten commandments, with the exception of keeping the sabbath because we didn’t have to do that either. It makes no sense that we have to obey only nine of the the ten commandments. This is part of the fallacy of the church. That makes as much sense as churches claiming to believe Jesus was in the ground 72 full hours and those 72 hours happened from Friday just before sunset to around Sunday morning sunrise. If you stop and do the math on that they think that somehow 36 hours is 72 hours. It is unsound judgement that stems from pagan traditions and teachings, plus lack of free thought. We should keep the passover in remembrance of what Jesus did for us.

Celebrate Passover! Forsake Easter!

The gentiles have always struggled with the pagan traditions it was a real stumbling block for them. Those traditions took over the catholic church and many are still heavily used in the protestant churches. They are wicked and sinful traditions. Church goers will say that is not what it means to them or what it means anymore. To those: It is written that God hates those pagan holy days and if you mix them in with the faith it will condemn you. It is made clear in both the old and new testaments. Also God never changes, just because the year is 2013 does not mean our God Elohim that the church slanders with their actions is any different today than when the holy scriptures were written. Here are a few scriptures to think about:

Here in Romans it says in the New Testament that mixing pagan lies and traditions to increase the glory of God is an abomination that condemns souls: A common excuse for mixing pagan lies and traditions with the faith is that it is for God’s glory

Romans 3:7-8 KJV ”7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.”

NEWS FLASH LYING FOR ANY REASON WILL CAUSE YOU TO BURN! HOW MUCH MORE THE JUDGEMENT WHEN YOU LIE ABOUT GOD!

Here in Malachi it makes it clear that God never changes with the times. Just because it is 2013 and you live in the USA or anywhere else for that matter does not make it okay to mix those lies in with the faith or live a hedonistic lifestyle. 

Malachi 3:6 KJV “6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”

This is what the Lord said to Israel when they started mixing pagan festivals with Judaism. 

Amos 5:21 KJV “21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.”

So in conclusion: I encourage you all to come out of the whoredom of the 501(c)3 churches and embrace the true way of holiness by following the gospel and the Torah! Throw out your pagan festivals and embrace the jewish festivals. Do not let the traditions of man become a stumbling block for you.

Please come out of the church living in whoredom