Discerning the Times. Discerning the Times The Spirit s Wake-Up Call. The Spirit s Wake-Up Call

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1 Thank You for Attending our Teshuvah Luncheon The Mystery of Teshuvah The Mystery of The Mystery of Teshuvah Prepares Israel for Messiah s Coming and the Church for Departure/Rapture. The Next Greatest Event to occur on planet earth is connected to the season of Teshuvah. This Event is the Fifth Hebraic Festival, (Trumpets) Yom Teruah, Day of the Awakening Blast. (I Cor 15:52; I Thes 4:16). To Understand Teshuvah (Return/Repent) We Need A Basic Understanding of the Hebraic s and Festivals We must step back in time to Mt Sinai. Brief Overview of HIStory 1

2 At Mt. Sinai The LORD betrothed Himself to Israel. He gave Moses His Word to give to the children of Israel: 7 Covenants His s Civil 7 Festivals Shemitah Year Torah-His Ways The LORD S Hebraic s are Israel s: Civil - Natural Creation/Garden - First Adam - Spiritual - Israel Redeemed out of Egyptian bondage. Last Adam (Redemption) The Two s are a double witness, a basic Hebraic principle by which our Father operates. Garden of Eden Civil Natural, Adam & Eve (Creation) Month - Tishri 1 All Hebraic dates are figured from creation of Adam Years after Creation of Adam Moses Received at the time of Israel s Redemption out of Egypt (Ex 12) Garden of Eden Day 6 of CREATION Natural Adam Natural First Adam Last Adam 2448 Mt. Sinai REDEMPTION The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the Second Man is from heaven. 1 Cor 15:45-47 Garden of Eden CREATION 2448 Heading to Mt. Sinai REDEMPTION CIVIL Creation of Adam (Gen 1) Crown Lord King of the Earth 1.Tishri 1 Our Father s Hebraic New Year (Sept/Oct) 2. Cheshvan 3. Kislev 4. Tevet 5. Shevat SACRED 6. Adar Redemption 7. Nisan Nisan 1 8. Iyar 2. Iyar 9. Sivan 3. Sivan 10.Tammuz 4. Tammuz 11. Av 5. Av 12. Elul 6. Elul 1.Tishri Tishri 1 2

3 The LORD S Seven Festivals: Spring and Fall Seven Festivals foreshadow the LORD S prophetic program for Israel and the Church. The Hebrew word Hag means Festival. Mikrah, often translated convocation, actually means rehearsal. Israel annually walks out the Seven Natural Festivals as prophetic rehearsals of Messiah s fulfillment. We must understand our Father s day begins in the evening, His month begins with the renewed moon. Seven Festivals: Spring and Fall Prophetic of Messiah s First and Second Coming First the Natural then the Spiritual Natural Israel I Cor 15:45-46 Spiritual Messiah The LORD S Three Spring Festivals Natural Passover (Pesach) Lev 23 Nisan 14 Spiritual Passover (Pesach) A lamb without blemish... on the 14 of the month. Unleavened Bread Seven days you shall eat unleaveneded bread Nisan (7 Days) Messiah Our Passover Lamb Messiah the Unleavened Bread Believers eat of Him 7 days a week. The LORD S Festivals: 3 Spring and 1 Sivan Natural Firstfruits Nisan Date Varies Spiritual Resurrection Day after Sabbath after Passover Pentecost Shavuot Day after 7 Sabbaths after Firstfruits One Festival - Sivan Sivan Date Varies Messiah the Firstfruits Sheaf Messiah s Ascension Seen 40 Days, ascended instructing His disciples to wait 10 days to Pentecost Holy Spirit. The LORD S Three Fall Festivals Civil Tishri 1 - Tishri 1 Rosh Hashanah Awake Celebrates creation of Adam, Son of God. Keeper of the Garden. Foreshadows the Last Adam, Messiah, Son of God Returns at the sound of the Last Shofar / Yom Yom Teruah Day of the Awakening Blast to reign as King of the earth. Psalm 81:3 Blow the shofar at the moon s renewal, at the time appointed for our festive day. Because it is a decree for Israel, a judgment [day] for the God of Jacob. (Stone s Translation / Jewish Bible) CIVIL Creation of Adam was to: Crown Lord King of the Earth 1.Tishri 1 Our Father s Hebraic New Year (Sept/Oct) 2. Cheshvan 3. Kislev 4. Tevet 5. Shevat 6. Adar 7. Nisan 8. Iyar 9. Sivan 10.Tammuz 11. Av 12. Elul 1 1.Tishri 1 BIG New Year 8. Cheshvan 9. Kislev 10. Tevet 11. Shevat 12. Adar 1. Nisan 1 2. Iyar 3. Sivan 4. Tammuz 5. Av 6. Elul 1 7.Tishri 1 SACRED Redemption DAY Fifth Festival The LORD S New Year & Fifth Festival Tishri 1 - Tishri 1 Rosh Hashanah Fifth Festival AWAKE Yom Teruah, Day Messiah Day of the will come Awakening Civil Day of Judgment, Yom HaDin every person passes before the LORD, decrees written for the coming year (Acts 17:31) Day of Remembrance, Mal 3:16, Yom HaZikkaron Blast / Last Shofar the Day Messiah will raise all the righteous dead (I Cor 15:50-52; I Thes 4:16). 3

4 Civil 1 st Tishri 1-7 th Tishri 1 Rosh Hashanah Day Messiah will come Day of Judgment, Yom HaDin Fifth Festival Yom Teruah, Day of the Awakening Blast/Last Shofar to raise raise righteous dead. Teshuvah is in two Segments 30 days & 10 days 30 Days of Preparation Elul Days Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur 5 th Festival Rosh Hashanah 1 st Day of High Holy days 6 TH Festival Yom Kippur 10 th Day of High Holy days Tishri 1 HIGH HOLY DAYS Tishri 10 CIVIL Creation of Adam was to: Crown Lord King of the Earth 1.Tishri 1 Our Father s Hebraic New Year (Sept/Oct) 2. Cheshvan 3. Kislev 4. Tevet 5. Shevat 6. Adar 7. Nisan 8. Iyar 9. Sivan 10.Tammuz 11. Av 12. Elul 1 Teshuvah 1.Tishri 1 New Year 8. Cheshvan 9. Kislev 10. Tevet 11. Shevat 12. Adar 1. Nisan 1 2. Iyar 3. Sivan 4. Tammuz 5. Av 6. Elul 1 7.Tishri 1 SACRED Redemption Begins Fifth Festival The Mystery of An Ominous Day The Spirit Issued a Wake-Up Call Why are Hebraic Concepts Challenging for Christians? Our Answer Lies in the Mystery of Rev 2:4 Brief Overview I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Rev 2:4 Seven Churches of Revelation 4

5 An overlay of the Historical Record on the Biblical Text reveals our Savior s correction. It is not as scholarship teaches: i.e., believers love for the Savior began to wane. Rather: Satan deceived the Early Church Fathers to believe our Father was finished with Abraham s seed line Israel. Now the Church was the New Israel. (page 18) Satan Seeded Anti-Hebraism at Ephesus (Areas of focus) 1.The death of the Apostles left a void of Hebraic teaching. 2. A turning away from Hebraic exegesis of Scripture. 3. The destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. 4. Gentiles began filling synagogues after Acts 2, Pentecost. Dr. David Rausch, a leading scholar in the field of Jewish studies, who authored Legacy of Hatred, writes, Christianity was (is) the child of Judaism. The rapid acceptance of Christianity among Gentiles led to an early conflict between the church and the synagogue. Gentiles soon outnumbered Jewish believers. As the Jewish apostles died, Gentiles from Greek/ pagan backgrounds assumed leadership. Fr. Edward Flannery in Anguish of the Jews concurs with Dr. Rausch, The Gentile Christians interpreted the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem (70 A.D.) as a sign God had abandoned Judaism, that He had provided the Gentiles freedom to develop their own Christian theology in a setting free from Jerusalem s influence. It is important to understand this change, because it influenced the Early Church Fathers to make anti- Jewish (Hebraic) statements. Early Church Fathers Homilies are recorded in Roberts & Donaldson 38 volumes. Sunday after Sunday their messages spewed forth anti-hebraic teachings (keeping in mind laity does not have the Scriptures) that soon developed into anti-semitic words and actions which spread forth throughout the then known world. 5

6 IDENTIFYING THE MYSTERY OF: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Epistle of Barnabas A.D. The Epistle of Barnabas is dated A.D. It is definitely written after the destruction of the Temple. The death of the Apostles left a void of Hebraic teaching. Satan saw his opportunity to seed Anti- Hebraism (Hebrew). In 9.9 the writer argues that the Christians are the only true covenant people, and that the Jewish people had never been in a covenant with God. THE MYSTERY OF Revelation 2:4 Satan s deceptive plot began with Ephesus and Smyrna in the and second centuries, first spread to all seven Churches and is clearly seen in the Church today. Without Jewish oversight, the early Church Fathers from Greek/pagan backgrounds lacked Hebraic understanding of the ways of the LORD and principles of exegesis of Scripture. They embraced spiritualizing the Biblical text and used an allegorical approach. Ephesus and Smyrna first embraced the Church as the New Israel. IDENTIFYING THE MYSERY You have forsaken the love you had at first. Early Church Fathers Writings: Ignatius of Antioch A.D. Ignatius in his Epistle the Philippians claimed that Satan fights along with the Jews to a denial of the cross and If anyone celebrates the Passover along with the Jews, or receives emblems of their feast, he is partaker with those that killed the Lord and His apostles. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Jewish Scholar, Walter Laqueur The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism, The question that has preoccupied historians and theologians was and is to what extent the New Testament was anti- Jewish (anti-hebraic) from the beginning or whether it was only interpreted as such by the church fathers several centuries later. Without original text there is, to put it cautiously, at least a strong suspicion that those who copied them over the ages edited or even rewrote them. Paul writes, Abraham is the Father of the circumcised and the uncircumcised. We can agree Abraham is our Father in the Faith. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Paul were all Hebrews and taught our Father s Hebraic ways (Isa 51:1-2; Rom 4; Gal 3:29; Rom 11:18). IDENTIFYING THE CORRECTION: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Joseph Klausner ( ) Jewish scholar of Hebrew University wrote Jesus of Nazareth, From Jesus to Paul and History of the Second Temple Era (1922). Klausner was one of the most eminent of Jewish historians of the first half of the twentieth century. Klausner was the first to bring to the Jewish world, in a scholarly manner, the place and meaning of Jesus. 6

7 IDENTIFYING THE CORRECTION: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Klausner quotes Julius Wellhausen, a Christian anti-semitic scholar, Jesus was not a Christian; He was a Jew. He did not proclaim a new faith, but taught men to do the will of God. According to Jesus, as to the Jews generally, this will of God is to be found in the Law and other canonical Scriptures. Klausner states, Never before did such a statement escape the pen of a Christian scholar and such a scholar, and such an enemy of Jews and Judaism as was Wellhausen! Historical Record Identifies Anti-Hebraism as the answer to the Rev 2:4 Mystery Litmus Test: Most believers do not know our Father s Ways, His s, Festivals, or the vital role Covenants occupy in Scripture, regarding Israel s prominent role and promises of restoration. First Jewish and Gentile believers knew and loved the Hebrew language and our Father s Hebraic Ways. With the Early Church Fathers teachings the Hebraic connection was lost. Rev 2:4 is Anti-Hebraism which gave birth to Anti-Semitism The Mystery of Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 2 Cor 13:1-2 Oct 1998 the Spirit issued a Call to come apart. On at 1:00 A.M. I had a WAKE-UP CALL. (explaining why I was to come apart): I was shown Three Scenes with Two Implications: 1) A Weeping Woman 2) Scales on the eyes of the Church toward the Jewish people, 3) Satan had stolen the Church s Hebraic covering. Three Scenes with Two Implications: 1) As the Woman continued weeping A Hand appeared (Yad) chipping on the eyes; the Scales began to fall off. 2) As the Woman continued to weep, Satan s hand was forced to return the covering he had stolen from the Church. (This call led me into a three and half year research journey). As September of 1999 approached the Spirit instructed to gather our MNL morning and evening Bible study groups on a Saturday to share with them what the Spirit was revealing. I was guided to chose Confirmation came through the Jewish (Hebraic) as the date was Rosh Hashanah. 7

8 On I had prepared Acts 3: On my way to St. Andrews Episcopal Church, the Spirit entreated, tell your group you are blowing a Shofar. Several years later I received a CD with a message by Jonathan Cahn: Jonathan told how the Spirit directed him to go to the Statue of Liberty on Rosh Hashanah and blow the Shofar. As he blew the Shofar a plane appeared casting a shadow on the Twin Towers where the first Tower was hit Message of Rosh Hashanah Blow the Shofar AWAKE Psalm 83:1 Recall, decrees are written for the coming year. Hence, on Rosh Hashanah the Decrees were written for To understand the Mystery of we need a few excerpts from 2000 that connect HIStory. I was given for Final Repentance for enthroning Pallas Athena as Patron Goddess of K.C. Prior to that day, I received two prophetic words: I) Pulling in something Big, 2) Heavy curtain if it didn t go up I would go up. Prior to the Final Pallas Athena repentance meeting, held in Barney Allis Plaza Park I went to speak to a group of pastors ; on my way back I saw a Bill Board with these words: From those words I was given to understand the LORD was going to expose this goddess and dethrone her through our Repentance. What I did not understand until the Spring of 2014, Curtain Up! New Era Begins. was not only for the dethroning Pallas Athena but a Word to the Church. As of the Curtain has been raised on the Nation & the Church. The Spirit is exposing, shaking everything that can be shaken. Judgment begins at the household of Faith. His present Call to the Church is Repentance. We are now 14 years into the Spirit s Warning! (page 6-13) 8

9 Seven times our Savior pleads with His Body He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Neither the Church or Nation has heeded the Spirit s Call. The Tree of Hope at Ground Zero died and was removed this past Spring (2014) Shemitah Year begins September 25, 2014 Ends Elul 29, September 13, 2015 (pp ) A Call to Repentance for the Church and the Nation. Thank you for being with us for our Teshuvah Luncheon 9