Scriptures Unveiled

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1 Thess. 4: 17– Does the Scriptures teach RAPTURE?

1. Paul is speaking of the resurrection of the Saints at the 2nd coming of Messiah Yahshua (v.16). They are taking up in the air to meet Messiah. It is like in the old days or as it is still the custom in many parts of the third world. A large crowd of citizens go out of the city to meet a visiting monarch, halfway, carrying palm branches and flowers, and rejoicing. So the Saints are lifting up to meet their Crown King in the air. Yahshua the King is coming to earth.

2. Zechar. 14:4 tells us exactly where on earth Yahshua lends His feet at His PAROUSIA: the Mount of Olives.

3. He is coming with all glory, with His myriads of angels, Mat. 25: 31-32, to reign on earth, Rev.5:10. He will give power to His Saints to rule over the nations with a rod of iron, Rev. 2: 26-27; 20:6.

4. The word RAPTURE is not in the Bible. Parousia simply means PRESENCE or apparition, as used in 2 Thess. 2: 8 and Mat. 24: 37. A synonymous word is APOKALUPSIS, apocalypse. All eyes will see Yahshua at His Parousia, Mat. 24:27, 30 – 1; Rev. 1: 7; Ps 50:3. This is definitely not a secret.

5. The so-called Rapture belief is a hoax that started in the 1830’s. No one had heard of it before that time. A certain Margaret McDonald claim to have received this revelation. Pastor Edward Irving began to teach it. John Nelson Darby, preacher and writer of the time, gave it large scale publication. In the 1850’s gullible Christians in the United States embraced this two-phase rapture after Scofield, “a strong believer in Darby’s teaching,” gave further credence to this error by including it in his Reference Bible. This is the story of rapture. The Hebrew Apostles of Yahshua never taught any such prank. Messianic Hebrews do not subscribe to man-made dogmas.

– 1 Cor.16: 1-2 A Sunday Sabbath?

1. This was not a Sunday Sabbath. It was a collection for the Saints.

2. This was a gathering of goods that each one had to do individually. The Saints made contribution for the Saints in Yerushalayim, Ro.15: 25-26. There was a famine going on. Several messengers were required to take their gifts to Jerusalem. This was mainly an agricultural society.

– Acts 10: 13

1. Does not show that it is all right to eat unclean meat.
2. Peter flatly and vigorously said he never ate and will not eat anything forbidden by Lev.11 as unclean, v. 17. The disciples and Yahshua kept kosher. Yahshua did not change that Law.
3. Obviously, the vision was not about meat, but people. Clean food or chosen people, are those who are set apart for the service of Elohim.
4. Elohim was showing Peter that all men, Jews or Gentiles, are clean and they are of equal importance in Yahshua Mashiach, v.28.

– 1 Tim.4: 4

1. This is about eating vegetables vs. eating meat.

2. Some people were teaching to abstain from meat, as biblical dogmas. Paul called it doctrine of demon.

3. Meat is good if those who know the truth, v. 3, receive it with thanksgiving.

4. Yahweh’s word is the TRUTH, Jn 17: 17.

5. The truth tells us in Lev. 11 and Deut. 14, which food or meat is set apart for human consumption and which one is not. It is unwise to presume to give thanks to Elohim over food, which the Word of Truth clearly says not to eat.

6. Elohim created the body. He sent it with a Manufacturer’s Book. We can’t pray over all kinds of drugs, alcohol, poisonous plants and all kinds of critters, then claim to be receiving them with thanksgiving.

7. It’s been said that some people have the cultural habits of eating pigtails. Well, those who consume pigtails can only be the tails.

8. The Scriptures clearly show that Elohim will utterly destroy those who eat the disgusting swine flesh, Is.65: 15-17. Noah did not choose unclean animals and birds to offer thanksgiving sacrifices to Yahweh, Ge. 8: 20. This shows that the concept of clean and unclean food predates Israel. Those that perish in the flood violated that divine principle.

– Revelation 12: 17

1. Does not refer to Christian Sunday churchgoers and Christian Sabbath keepers.

2. It refers strictly to ‘those who keep the Commandments of Elohim and the Testimony of Yahshua.’ The Commandments are not just ten commands. Everything Yahshua and His Apostles did and taught ought to observe by the Covenant Keepers. One cannot selectively choose one and live the others. Commandments Keepers keep Passover, Shavu’ot, etc., just as the Apostles did.

3. Churchgoers do not keep the 10 Commands. They do not keep Yahweh’s appointed feast days. They proclaim themselves to be ‘lawless’. They are not under the Law of Yahweh.

– Why can’t I go to any church I want?

1. Of course you are free to do what you want. Covenant Keepers, however, only do what Yahweh commands in the Torah, the prophets, and the Messianic Books.

2. Read Deut. 12: 13-14; 29-30.

– My pastor, deacon, and even a few members of my church are freemasons.

1. They are servants of the Devil. You should not be under the same roof with them.
2. No one can serve two masters at the same time.

– Am I not saved?

1. That’s a Christian hoax. When you are saved, you can’t be lost again.

2. Only those who persevere till the end shall be saved, Mat. 24: 13.

3. Until then He can blot out your name from the Book of Life.

– I am a born-again Christian.

1. This is another hoax design to mesmerize churchgoers.

2. When you are born again no physical being can touch you, hurt you, and see you, unless you want to, John 3: 3-9.

3. When you are born again, you shall be in the celestial likeness of Yahshua, not the terrestrial likeness of Adam, 1 Cor.15: 35-49.

4. You shall have a body that is not corruptible, v.53-54.

5. You will be in the Kingdom of Heaven, v.50.

6. You shall be able to look at Yahshua in His present heavenly glory and not die, 1 John 3: 2; 1 Cor. 1: 7.

7. You will have been born into the very Family of Elohim, which is your final destiny.

– Is it true that the earth will never disappear?

1. In the Book of Revelation, John “saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, Rev. 21: 1.”

2. Psalms 102: 25-26, “… they will perish, but you will endure; Yes they will grow old like a garment; Like a cloak you will change them, and they will be changed.”

3. Isaiah 51: 6, “… the heavens will vanish… the earth will grow old…”

4. Isaiah 65: 17; 66: 22: I create new heavens and new earth.

5. In the Garden of Eden, Satan told Eve that the Word of Elohim was not she heard. Many people are still saying the Word does not say what we read.

– Where will I spend the Millennium?

1. We shall spend the Millennium on earth: Rev.20: 1-11; 5: 10; Mat. 5: 5; Ps.37: 9, 11, 22, 29.

– How many resurrections are there?

1. There are two resurrections: one at the beginning of the Millennium, another one at the end of it, Rev. 20.

– Is Not the ‘Cross’ mentioned In the Bible?

1. The word found in the Scriptures is STAUROS. “Stauros denotes, primarily, an ‘upright pale or stake’. On such malefactors were for execution. Both the noun and the verb staruo, ‘to fasten to a stake or pale’ are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed ‘cross’. The shape of the later had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as a symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial letter of his name) in Babylon, Egypt, and adjacent lands. By the middle of the 3rd century A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrine of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches… and were permitted to retain their signs and symbols. Hence the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted to stand for the ‘cross of Christ’.” (W.E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, p.138) Read the book advertized in the back for more details.

– How Can I Be Sure We Are Very Close to Yahshua’s Return?

1. Besides latest world’s events fulfilling prophecies, Yahweh’s Plan of Salvation for mankind is seems to be intricately interweaved into the annual Shabbats. I came to this understanding in 1987. I have testified of it before several groups. I think you might benefit from it, too. I’ll be very brief. You will learn more as you grow with us.

2. The Feast of Jubilee, Lev.25: 8-17 portrays Yahweh’s Kingdom after the Millennium, the final stage of man’s spiritual journey. All yokes are removed. Everyone is set free. The earth blossoms. See Isaiah 61; 60: 19; Ro.8: 18-25, etc… Jubilee comes every 50th year.

3. In Ex. 20: 9-10 Yahweh gave us 6 days to labor from the choice we made in the garden of Eden, but on the 7th He said He’d take over.

4. 6 days = 6000 years, for ‘one day is as a 1000 years, and a 1000 years as one day before Elohim, 2 Pr.3: 8.

5. With this principle in mind, go to Gen.6: 3. Elohim gave man 120 days to repent. 120 days are also equaled to 1 year, for 1 day is = 1 year, according to Ezekiel 4: 1- 7; Dan.9: 26-27; Rev. 2: 10; also 7th day Shabbat, 7th year Shabbat, etc.

6. If you divide 50 years (a Jubilee) into 6000 yrs, there are exactly 120 Jubilees. Thus man is given 120 Jubilees to repent, 80 from Adam to Yahshua, 40 from Yahshua to the End. Why is that important?

7. Some numbers are very conspicuous in the Scriptures. They did not get there, accidentally: a) Moses left Egypt when he was 40 yrs old. He came back 40 yrs later. He died at 120; 3 x 40; b) he spent 40 days with Yahweh on Sinai; he came down and stayed for 40 days; then went back for another 40 days: 3 x 40. There were 120 disciples in the upper chamber, Acts 1: 15. There are 120 days from Shavu’ot to Yom Kippur. There were 120 priests blowing the shofar, 2 Chr.5: 12.
    

– Col. 2:14-23

1. A. No, Yahshua did not blot out the Law of His Father. He blotted out the handwriting of physical requirements.

2. This could not refer to the Law of Elohim. Yahweh’s Law is not against us. The Law (Torah) is perfect (Rom 7:12). (Ps. 119:97) David loved the Torah (Ps. 19:11).

3. The context explains what ordinances Paul is referring to. (Col. 2:8) Traditions of man according to the basic principles of the world. (Col. 2: 20-22) Commandments and doctrines of men. What kind of ordinances? Touch not, taste not, and handle not. It certainly doesn’t mean the 10 Commandments. It can’t mean the feasts where people eat and dance with delight.

4. The Greek word for handwriting or ordinances was CHEIROGRAPKOU, TOIS, DOGMASIN. Guilt from keeping man’s law.

5. We sin by obeying laws of man, not Elohim. What Yahshua blotted out was our sins.

6. The Torah wasn’t nailed to the stake. Yahshua was made our sin offering (2 Cor. 5:21). In His body He took our sins to the tree (1 Pet. 2: 24). Self-imposed religion profits nothing, v.23. Tithing, for example, is not self-imposed. It is a Law from Yahweh El Shaddai. Keeping the Feast Days at the appointed times is not self-imposed religion. Let no one judge you in the way you keep the Feast Days. The regulations of the Sadducees and the Pharisees had nothing to do with the spirit of the Torah.