Jan 2008 we were woken up to the signs of the times that pointed to a coming economic crisis and the Vatican's activities in the US. I began to study prophecy to ascertain where we were in prophetic time to know present truth. We put our home on the market to sell. And sold by June.
Father gave us the promise - I will lead the blind by a way they know not, I will lead them in paths they have not know, I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them and not forsake them! How He has fulfilled His promise has more than amazed me.
I discovered that after 1888 in 1892 EGW wrote that the church would have to go back to wander in the wilderness for 40 years. In The Sealing Chapter in T5, she indicated that the SDA church would be given 3 generations (of 40 years) of probation. If begun from the rejection of Y'shua at 1888 GC, it would end in Tabernacles 2008. If begun from the two years after 1888 when she said Y'shua could have come, it would end in 2010. If begun at the time she wrote it, in 1892, it will end in 2012.
I discovered that there is a warning given in Daniel 12 that we need to understand before the end, a prophecy of the saints being trodden underfoot for 3 & 1/2 years. Then I learned from the Great Controversey that the prophecies will be fulfilled not only as to the event on God's calendar of appointment times but according to the time for the fall feasts which are yet to be fulfilled.
I threw myself into studying YHWH's calendar and methods of time calculation - a fascinating study - and learned significant facts that throw light on the language relating to the future prophecies for the people of YHWH. Specifically about the latter rain and harvest which is the end of the world and the reapers being the angels, that is depicted in Revelation 14. The latter rain in the fall of the year falls to bring the fruit to perfection and ready for harvest.
The barley harvest represents the 144,000. There are 2 harvests depicted in Rev 14, but in YHWH's calendar there are 3 harvests. This seemed like a discrepancy until I realised that the 144,000 have already been reaped in Revelation 14, and they stand with their bridegroom singing the song that no one could learn but they themselves, could it be the Song of Songs, the wedding song that only the bride and bridegroom can sing? They represent the barley harvest that is presented on the day after the Sabbath of Unleavened Bread as a wave sheaf offering. This tallies with the discovery in the original text of the Aramaic English New Testament version that the 10 virgins go out to meet the bridegroom and the bride as EGW says in COL. The bride (144,000) are already in the procession when the 10 virgins awake.
The wheat harvest presented on the day of Pentecost is the harvest of the Christian world, and the fruit harvest at Tabernacles is the harvest of the gentiles. The harvests are the result of the early and latter rains. The calendar provides secrets to unlock so much about the future. Now understanding the prophetic significance of the feasts, we commemoratively kept Tabernacles.
This message was that the law that was done away with by Y'shua (Jesus) was the law of the sacrifice and oblation that Daniel 9 prophecied, the priesthood law of Hebrews 7-10, and that the statutes and judgements were given by YHWH to guard the moral law of the ten commandments and are included in the definition of sin and righteousness according to EGW and the message given at 1888, thus the new covenant law written on the heart and mind in Hebrews 7, is literally the Torah, as the new covenant promise says in Jer 31:31.
The righteousness of Y'shua the Messiah is the righteousness of the TORAH, for he said, as quoted in Hebrews, "I delight to do THY WILL Oh my Elohim, yes your TORAH is within my heart." Ps 40:8 As Hebrews 10 tells us it was God's son doing his father's will in a human body that WAS the sacrifice that took away the shedding of animals blood. "He first said: SAcrifice and oblations and holocausts for sins which were offered according to Torah you did not desire; and afterwards he said: Behold I come to do your will, O Elohim: hereby, he abolished the former that he might establish the latter." Heb 10:1-14 So Paul could say that "The Messiah (Mashiyach) is the end (telos = goal) of the Torah so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes." Rom 10:4 About the coming Messiah, the Prince it was written, "He will magnify the Torah and make it honourable" Is 42:21 So Y'shua himself said, "Do not think that I have come to LOOSEN (d'ashra in Aramaic) TORAH or the prophets, I have not come to loosen but to fulfill. (Aramaic = amala). Until heaven and earth pass away, not one yodh or stroke will pass from TORAH until everything happens." Matt 5:17
And as if that wasn't big enough, the message came that the feasts were part of the applicable Torah, the statutes and judgements. This is a huge issue which we continue to study out. It was amazing to discover that EGW writes in 1875 in a special article on the law of YHWH, May 6, Review and Herald that the statutes and judgements given by YHWH to Moses were not the ten commandments, but were given to guard it, they were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ, they were to govern the people of God, everyday life, to protect life, made the principles of morality more clear, specified the duty of man to YHWH and to his fellowman, clearly and definitely explain the moral law, define and simplify the principles of the mora law, increase religious knowledge, apply to marriage, inheritance, business justice, keep his people from following the customs of the heathen, and be binding on all men in all ages as long as time shall laws.
As I continue to study it, I have learned that the law in the New Testament is the Torah, as it was in the Old, the issue of study at the 1886 GC session. The new covenant promise is to write the TORAH on our hearts and minds! And in Nehemiah we learn that it is at Tabernacles that the Torah was read! So this was Father's gift to us at Tabernacles, that typifies the last great feast...it has surely arrived!
Not only that but the root word for Torah "aur" in Hebrew and in Aramaic means light! Literally, the LIGHT IS IN THE TORAH! The Elijah message goes before the arrival of Y'shua to his temple in judgement, the judgement of the living recorded in Mal 3:1-4. His message is, Remember ye the law (TORAH) of Moses..with the statutes and judgements. Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Elohim, and he shall turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the hearts of the fathers to the children lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. His work is to restore what the great apostasy has taken away and bring about the restoration promised under the latter rain!
The Laodicean message came to us, to repent of our 'rich and full' condition and recognise our neediness, to prepare us to receive what Father wanted us to have. The promise to laodicea is that if we repent and open the door to the faithful witness he will come and eat with us, it is the message that will prepare us for the latter rain and translation according to The Shaking chapter in Early Writings.
The promise of a feast of the tabernacle harvest is fulfilled under the latter rain...a time of restoration of the years that have been lost. This equates with the message that Elijah restores all things, and the repairers of the breach will be the restorers of paths to dwell in. If they restore the paths, then they must have been taken away!
What needs to be restored? What the great apostasy has taken away! What has the great apostasy taken away? The faith that was once delivered to the saints! Can we know what was taken away? Yes! the prophecies plainly tell us! Among many things taken away are these ---->
*Antichrist would deny the Father and the Son, (1 John 2:22) and would not worship the God of his fathers (Daniel 11) He established the Trinity as the Catholic God and the definition of the Catholic faith - as revealed in the Athanasian creed which the SDA church have voted in 1980 to the Fundamental Beliefs, as revealed in the Documents of intrest in conversations between the WCC and the SDA church in the book, So Much in Common.
*He would think to change times & laws (Aramaic word for times is applicable to the Moed's or appointed meeting times that is translated 'feasts' with YHWH - revealed in Leviticus 23 as the Seventh Day Sabbath & the Feasts) and laws (10 commandments & Torah). The Sabbath was ruled out in the Council of Laodicea, the calendation of the Jewish calendar was ruled out also. The 10 commandments were changed, and all ties were cut with the Jewish roots of the early faith. The Tabernacle is the Tabernacle of the Moed. Lucifer desired to sit in the mount (har) of the Mowed's. The battle at the end of time is the battle of the har mow'ed, not Har meggido or Armegeddon. The latter rain restores the years! (8141 shaneh = a year revolution used in Gen 1:14 describing how the sun and moon were made for signs and Mowe'ds, for days and years (8141). Does a restoration of YHWH's calendar happen under the latter rain?
*He would blaspheme the names (Rev 13) new gentile pagan names were given to the God's of the new faith. Y'shua (salvation, protection, deliverance, safety) became JeZeus (the Greeks had to put Zeus's name into everything), YHWH became God, adapted from Gott, the druids sun deity. Lord, a name for Baal was substituted for Master and Christ from krishna and Mithra was substituted for Mashiyach or Messiah. The Torah says we are not to speak the names of other deities.
*Jerusalem would be trodden down of the gentiles until the times of the gentiles be fulfilled. Blindness in part is happened to the Jews until the fullness of the gentiles be come in. The church written in heaven has been trodden down but is now being restored to it's fullness!
*The laws would be thought to be changed. The greatest surprise to me has been that the law in the renewed covenant promise from Jer 31:31 is the Torah - minus the law of sacrifices and offerings that ceased with the death of Y'shua, the law of the Levitical priesthood mentioned in Hebrews 7-10 as Y'shua was the sacrifice and He became the High priest of the Melchisadek priesthood. The law that has been changed is the law of the priesthood, for it is written, "But as there is a change in the priesthood, so also is there a change in the instruction." The law that was changed was the Levitical Priesthood laws andn sacrifices and offerings.
* The root word for Torah "aur" is light! Light comes out of the Torah. Righteousness is light and light is defined by the torah! The angel told EGW that there was yet much more light to shine out of the law and the gospel of righteousness!
*The Messiah is our righteousness! Y'shua was the righteousness of the torah. By trusting in him and believing in Him and his righteousness our faith brings the spirit which writes the Torah on our hearts in the renewed covenant promise! "Do not think that I have come to loosen TORAH of the prophets. I have not come to loosen but to fulfill. For truely I say to you that until heaven and earth pass away, not one Yodh or one stroke will pass form the TORAH until everything happens. Matt 5:17 AENT
We need to search to examine our ways in the light of His torah, for we nullify the word of Elohim because of our traditions, and in vain we worship him when we teach for commandments the doctrines of men. Matt 15:3-9
* The promises of the latter rain are fulfilled that He will come to us as the rain, the early and latter rain upon the earth, that it is the teaching of righteousness according to righteousness.How is righteousness defined? by the law. Those who have the Torah in their heart are the people who know righteousness. Sin is the transgression of the Torah. (AENT) The Torah is the WAY, the path that the repairers of the breach restore. It is also a greater expansion of righteousness - a magnification of the TORAH and a greater knowledge of sin, and a greater knowledge of Y'shua our righteousness who fulfilled the TORAH. In looking at Y'shua we see a visible depiction of the magnification of the Torah! Matt 5:17AENT Our knowledge of righteousness and sin, and Y'shua himself is expanded!
* Wondering who we are, how would we identify ourselves, as others have asked, all I could say was that we most closely resembled the early group of believers in Mashiyach known as the Way, or the Nazarean sect that Paul and the disciples were known as. Believing in the Father and Son, the Sabbath, the Torah, the feasts, the true names - we are seeking to restore the original faith in all it's purity - the Netzarim faith! But we are SDA's who are accepting the greater light! So I guess we aspire to be Remnant SDA Nazarene's!
* On searching for the original text of the New Testament, as evidence has begun to weigh heavily that the New Testament was written, not in Greek, but in the language of the first century Jews, of Aramaic and Hebrew, I came across a wonderful translation that has brought me great joy, and my Jewish friends and Rabbi's. It is from the earliest Aramaic text (which researcher BG Wilkenson says was the foundation for the textus receptus, although he didn't know it was the original text) and it confirms all we are learning. Called the AENT, a link is on the right to learn about & purchase it.
* And in the midst of this the message has come again, that the SDA organisation has become part of Babylon, having accepted it's MYSTERY deity, which is now in her forehead instead of the Father and the Son as the 144,000 have, the foundation of all CAtholic doctrine and the very definition of it. That there organisation is a Catholic heirarchy the leaders have admitted in court documents. That the leaders see the Lord's supper as the eucharist, they freely admit. That the belief in the Trinity is the very definition of Catholicism is the Athanasian creed that the SDA church agreed to as witnessed in the book, So Much in Common, (documents of intrest in conversations between the WCC and the SDA church) enabling them to have membership in the Faith and Order commission of the World Council of Churches, the organisation which the SDA Bible Commentary identify as the agency of Babylon. The SDA organisation that calls itself the church is both Catholic in structure and faith. Sunday laws are being urged by the Papacy on the European Union in the working time directive; in October and now in December. Are they being faithful watchmen or is the message being silenced? Where is the warning being given?
There is no other message now, but to give the call to "Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that you recieve not of her plagues." The false dieties of Tammuz, the sun god and the false pantheistic spirit in the animals revealed in Ezekiel 8 being worshipped by the SDA leaders just before the judgement of the living is being fulfilled right before our eyes. Don't get in a huff about words like this about the sacred SDA institution, saying "the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are we." It is fallible. No person, no church, no leader is INFALLIBLE. Is it? That is a Roman Catholic doctrine, one that the Jewish nation believed and led to their downfall. One that the SDA church harps on also.
Did you know what determines the DESTINY of the SDA church?
The very DESTINY of the SDA institution depends on the way it receives the Laodicean message. (The Shaking Early Writings) According to the prophecy of the Omega of apostasy in the SDA church, all has been fulfilled exactly. The Fundamental Principles have been changed, God has been removed, and the structure has been placed off the rock and onto the sand, and the storm and tempest will sweep away the structure.
It is dangerous on the sand! We have a mission to attatch people to the rock now, the confession that Y'shua is the Mashiyach, the SON of the living God, for on this rock Y'shua builds his church and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it! Matt 16:16 Those sighing and crying will be sealed and protected Ez 9...this is a serious message not to be a part of sin or sinners and the corporate guilt will pollute and destroy our souls. Rev 18:1-5 He calls us to come out from among them and be separate and touch not the unclean thing and He will receive us and be a Father unto us. A promise he has abundantly fulfilled.
I feel so loved and comforted, and am resting in his promise that He will complete the good work He has begun in me and am so joyful by Father's loving kindness and mercies being poured out upon us. His faithfulness and mercies are new every morning! How much He loves us and cares about us.