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Yahushua Ha Mashiach gave us a clear picture of how the times would be just before His return. Matthew 24:3-8 “And as He sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and the end of this age? And Yahushua answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many will come in My name, saying , I am Messiah; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famine, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these things are the beginning of sorrows.”
 Note that these things were to be the beginning of sorrows.
Most generations have thought their own times to be the end of days, there has been strife throughout the ages; also plagues, famines and earthquakes. How can we know for sure that we are now in the Last Days? What is any different to other ages?
In times past, we had all these things, plagues, famines etc. but they tended to be on a more isolated level. Today disasters however are on an increasingly global level. In the time of the apostles the known world was much smaller, today the world is entirely known. With the increase in speed of travel due to the invention of the aeroplane, disease can
also travel faster and further. Thus such problems as SARS would once have been isolated, today many people travelling all over the world can spread viral disease far and wide before the virus has even been identified.
The face of war has also changed, where once nation rose against nation, today however we face the added threat of terrorism from extremists, (all acting in what they perceive to be the name of their god), they pop up in multiple countries randomly, so that none is quite sure where the next attack will be.
We live in a world dominated by greed for both money and power. Behind the scenes the stage is being set for the implementation of a “New World Order” the anti-Messiah beast power. If you have never read the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ you may wish to do so, but be warned what is contained therein is a blatant display of the mind of Satan. While this document is held in the British Museum like some relic of history; this power is not something that can be shelved to the archives of history. The mandate put down in these protocols is alive and well, drawing ever closer to its fulfillment as prophesied i
n the book of Daniel. W
e are now fast approaching the final week of prophecy, when the Anti Messiah Beast Power will emerge and all will be forced to decide whether or not to take the mark of the Beast. While all the signs given in 2Timothy3, are ever increasingly evident in our present society; can we see the sign of the times, given by Messiah in Matthew 24? The sign of false teachers and false prophets. A quick glance at any world wide web search engine, will quickly show the vast number of individuals and groups, all with different ideas on prophecy and doctrine. What is truly apparent is that most of these groups and individuals are false teachers and false prophets. While we believe that the vast majority of these people, sincerely believe that what they are saying is true, the fact is they cannot all be correct. Messiah said, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” (John14:10) There is no division between The Messiah and The Father, so there can not possibly be this multitude of opinion and teaching, all supposedly being revealed by the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit). Messiah and the Father do not suffer from a multiple personality disorder. Before the advent of home computers and the world wide web, the average person was not able to see the number of varying opinions and beliefs being preached, the world over. Now with PC’s being increasingly used, even in some 3rd world countries, all the ‘would be, wanna be’ prophets and preachers are coming out of the woodwork (so to speak) to tell the world their ‘pet theory’. Remember however that Messiah said all these things were the “beginning of sorrows” (Matthew24:8) Sadly most of the people who believe that they are being led by the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) are not; they are either led by a counterfeit spirit or by their own imagination. JEREMIAH 9:13-14 “And Yahuweh saith, Because they have forsaken my law(Torah) which I set before them , and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Ba’alim, which their fathers taught them”
Remember also that Messiah said most would be deceived at this time.
Mark 13:22 “For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.”
The Good News is that there is a small number referred to here in Mark 13, as “the elect” that will be led by the genuine Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) who will not be deceived. That is not to say that these ‘elect’ have never been deceived, all have been deceived at some time. REV.12:9 “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”
So we see that the whole world has been deceived, but this small number of people have had the veil of deception torn, and have grown in grace and knowledge through the Ruach indwelling, to a point where they can no longer be deceived. Many are in that process right now. Just maybe you were born into a family that believes it is the “One True Church” so that you are one who has always had ‘the truth’ and never been deceived. Let us tell you right now that, you are deceived. Because there are so many “One True Churches” we do not want to go into details of these deceptions on this page. If you are in a “One True Church” such as; the ‘Catholic Church’, ‘Worldwide Church of God’, ‘PCG’, ‘LCG’, ‘UCG’ or any other HWA off shoot church; ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’ ‘Latter Day Saints’ or ‘7th Day Adventist’, to name a few and would like to know in what way we believe you are deceived; please e-mail or write us, telling us which group you belong to and we will answer you A.S.A.P, specific to your group and situation. If you are in the process of considering joining one of these groups, please look carefully before doing so. We will be happy to give you information on why we believe these groups are deceived.
So how can we protect ourselves from the deceptions of false prophets and false teachers? The simple answer is, we can’t! We can only rely on The Father, sending us the Ruach Ha Kodesh to lead us into ALL Truth. So what can we do that will insure that we are led by the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit)? First we must diligently seek Him. HEBREWS 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to Yahweh must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Sadly many people believe that they diligently seek ‘Him’, when the truth is they diligently seek to prove their own ideas or seek to get their own way. They seek to have their prayers for their own wants answered or seek to have their own pet theories confirmed. They diligently seek Him for their own ends. This is not what is meant by diligently seeking Him. We have to examine our own motives with His help to see this trait in ourselves and overcome it, as oft times we deceive ourselves to our true motivation and need to be on guard against this. Here again it is not something we can do by ourselves, we need Yahuweh’s help to see where we need to change our attitude.
JEREMIAH 17:9-10 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I Yahuweh search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”
With Yahuweh’s help it is possible for us to see inside ourselves and approach Him with the correct attitude of ‘diligently seeking Him’. We need to remember that we are called according to His Purpose and not according to our own purpose.
ROMANS 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love Yahweh, to them that are called according to His purpose.”
When we seek Him diligently, then what can we rely on the Father to send us?
JOHN16:13 “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into All Truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak and he will show you things to come.”
JOHN14:26 “But the Comforter, which is the Ruach Ha Kodesh (holy Spirit), whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you.”
So we see here clearly that it is the genuine Ruach Ha Kodesh( Holy Spirit) by which we learn all things and will show us things to come. By this we can clearly see that the many different teachings that abound today cannot all be led by the True Spirit of Truth, most are sadly led by a counterfeit spirit, no matter how ‘good’ they may sound on the surface.
2CORINTHIANS13:15 “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Messiah. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”
Is there yet another sign that we are at the end of this age and close to the return of Messiah? We believe there is!
JEREMIAH16:21 “Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that My Name is YAHUWEH.”
ISAIAH52:5-6 “Now therefore, what have I here, saith YAHUWEH, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith YAHUWEH; and My Name continually every day is blasphemed. Therefore my people shall know My Name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.”
There are at this time an increasing number of people becoming aware of the importance of the True Name. While it is true that there are some minor differences of opinion on the correct rendition of this name, we believe that in due time Yahuweh will reveal precisely His correct Name. In the meantime we have confidence that Yahuweh, who looks on the heart and knows all our problems and limitations, will not turn aside from any sincere attempt to ascertain and use His correct name. The awakening of people to the importance of His Name is a sure sign that the end of the road is near.
REV.14:1 “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred and forty four thousand, having His Father’s Name written in their foreheads.”
JOHN6:43 “I am come in My Father’s Name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.”
Yes Messiah Yahushua was well aware of the coming of a counterfeit Messiah, both in the spiritual sense and the physical sense. The Apostle Paul spoke of how soon the people were moved to a counterfeit.
GALATIANS1:6-7 “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Messiah unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Messiah.”
Sadly by now, that counterfeit gospel has been preached so far and wide, for so long, that now most think it is the true gospel; and think the true gospel is wrong. This is how so many are deceived today. Messiah did not bring a new religion, Messiah was unhappy with the Pharisees for teaching traditions of men, adding burdens to the True Torah instead of teaching the True Torah given to Moses. Messiah came and showed us how to Live Torah perfectly, he came not to change any of the law, He magnified the law, if you have any doubt about this at all read Matthew Chapter 5 carefully. Yahushua taught Torah (the Law), He did not do away with it. Even many Sabbath keeping groups and Hebrew Name users still hold to many false traditions that stem either from Paganised Christianity or Kabbalistic, Talmudic Judaism. It is a mine field of misinformation out there folks, study prayerfully and carefully and come out of Organised Corporate Churches and groups. The True sheep are scattered in little autonomous groups, some are alone, some are just individual families, the true sheep are coming out of the big groups and out of a sick society. This is how it is folk, being one with Yah is not a bad thing. Remember what Yahushua said,
MATTHEW18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst if them.”
Noah was alone with Yah when he built the ark; Abraham walked alone with Yah. So also did Joseph; Moses was alone with Yah when he faced Pharaoh and led the people out of Egypt. King David faced Goliath alone with Yah. Elijah thought he was the only one on earth that followed Yah until Yah told him otherwise. Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego were just three facing the fire and trusting Yah. The point is, that there is no safety in numbers, only in Yah is found safety.
Maybe when you came to this page you thought we were going to give our “pet theory” on how the fulfilment of prophecy will come about. We chose not to do this, as we do not want to add to the confusion already out there. Furthermore at this time we do not have anyone in the group who has the particular ‘gift of prophecy’. So while we do have our ideas, (that we discuss in fellowship with each other) we do not feel that prophecy is His purpose for us at this time. We therefore have deliberately just looked at the signs of the times around us. We feel at this time His purpose for us, is to offer fellowship, encouragement and support to those coming out of the Churches and Groups and out of a sick society. Also to help to point folk back to the Father in Heaven who gives us the Spirit to teach us all things.
MATTHEW 7:14 “ Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Think carefully on that verse, as most believe, or act as though they believe, something quite different, “....few there be that find it”. You have to search for it, diligently seek it, not wait for some man to send you a magazine or such like telling you how and what to do. Following a man won’t get you there. Yah provides fellowship and helps through men but the Spirit of Truth comes only through Yah.
LUKE 12:32 “Fear not little flock; for it is your father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom”
There is one aspect of prophecy that we will state, that is, the One World Order Beast Power spoken of by Daniel, will manifest on the scene very soon. Even now, preparations for this, including setting things up so that most will happily accept it, can be easily seen by those who know what they are looking for. We are not going to speculate who the Anti Messiah will be, just go to a search engine and put in ‘who is the beast’ you will get a lot of sites come up, a favourite is Prince Charles, another is Prince William, George Bush gets a look in. I guess it depends on who is alive, who is in or out of office and a lot of other things as to who this person will be, but he needs to have a lineage to the tribe of Yahudah to claim the throne. The Beast Power when it manifests will not be an easy time (understatement) for believers, but the Saints of Yahuweh do overcome this beast power. HOW? Not with guns and weapons and military might!
EPHESIANS 6:13 “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of Yah, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”
With what will the saints overcome after taking on the whole armor of Yah?
REV 12:11 ‘And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto death.”
DANIEL 7:18 “But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever even for ever and ever.”
DANIEL 7:21-22 “ I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgement was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.”
So we see in the final moment the Saints of Yahuweh will have the victory. These Saints are those who are ‘called and chosen’, who are the elect spoken of in Matthew 13:22. These are not necessarily the same people as canonised by the Catholic Church, although a few such as the Apostles and King David may be Saints of both the Catholic Church and Saints of the Most High. Many of the Saints of the Most High would never be recognised as Saints of the Catholic Church and vice versa. The common idea of a Saint and Yah’s idea of a Saint are not necessarily the same thing.
What ever may happen in the meantime, we look forward to the return of Messiah to the earth, to establish the Kingdom, this will not happen secretly as some suppose, nor has it happened as Jehovah Witnesses believe that Yahushua started ruling in 1914. This will be an event that no one alive will miss.
MATTHEW 24:27-33 “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn the parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.”
So we see how these signs we have looked at tell us that the Messiah’s return is very close. What an amazing event that will be.
ZECHARIAH14:3-9 “Then shall YHWH go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west,and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto A’zal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uz-ziah king of Judah: and YHWH my Elohiym shall come, and all the saints with thee.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: But it shall be one day which shall be known to Yahuweh, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter it shall be. And Yahuweh shall be King over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Yahuweh, and His Name one.”
This will certainly not be an event that will be missed by any living at the time.
We will end this page with one last prophetic scripture and thought, please bear in mind that Damascus’s claim to fame is that of being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, yet Isaiah 17:1 tells us that Damascus will be “taken away from being a city”. Now see what Jeremiah has to say.
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