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