Shabbat Shalom!

Have y’all been tracking the volcanoe in iceland – Eyjafjallajokull?

Have y’all been tracking the earthquakes? At least one magnitude 6 or greater every week sometimes every day….

Wars, rumors of wars, etc, etc.

Yeshuah said these are the beginnings of birth pains (Matthew 24)… The start of the very last gap.  He said, we are already IN the last gap when He was here, but these signs are the signal of the start of the end.  It seems around the turn of the 18 and 19th century have seen leaps and bounds of increase of earthquakes, volcanoes, and wars beyond count!

Currently there are fears (based on 100% track record) that the Icelandic volcano – Eyjafjallajokull – will trigger an explosive eruption 1000x greater in the neighboring Katla volcano.  If you haven’t watched this excerpt from youtube.com I suggest watching it and seeing that the World is confused, what’s it mean, what’s gonna happen! But we need not fear, we know what’s going to happen, even if the volcano doesn’t erupt and cause such adverse global effects, we know that somewhere else one will, and it’s going to be getting worse and worse and closer and closer like contractions of a pregnant woman!

Matthew 24:7-9

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these [are] the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

So much for “pre-tribulational rapture” haha, but that’s a whole nother post!

Have a blessed and shalom full Shabbat!

One of the pictures of what the “End Times” will be like is given to us through the experience of the Maccabees. These devout servants of Yeshuah (Yes, they served the SAME Messiah as you and I despite His not being crucified yet) lived in terrible times indeed.

Why was it so terrible though?  They could have had anything they wanted, all they needed to do was just eat a little pork, submit to their “government” that was ruling over their region at the time.  They only needed to not do their Hebrew Festivals of Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot, Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets), Yom Kippur, Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles).  They only had to stop restricting themselves from a BIBLICAL lifestyle and just live the way everyone else did.

Why then aren’t we yet to the WORST tribulation of all?  Half of those who claim to be on Yeshuah’s team don’t even know it’s not right to eat pork or unclean animals.  Thanks to a perverted twist of Brit Chadasha (“new testament”), they think that Acts chapter 10 gives them warrant to do whatever they want and eat whatever they want and defy Yah (Our Creator) and HIS Torah.

Yeshuah says very clearly that there WILL be tribulation, such as has never been seen before, but He will not have returned until AFTER that… that’s another perverted portion that is taught to those who think they’re on the side of Adonai.  They think they got this free ticket out… yet NEVER has our creator given us a free ride.  Passover is a REMEMBRANCE that we will NOT get a free ticket out. The Maccabees never got a “free ticket”, nor will any of Yah’s people save those who endure THROUGH to the end and actually survive to see Him return!

Why isn’t America and her “church” persecuted?  Because the “Christians” of america don’t follow Yah’s torah, they follow their own hearts and their own ways so they will just “fall away” with the rest of the world and those that DO follow Yeshuah and know that FREEDOM that Yeshuah gave us is Freedom to Serve Him through HIS Torah and His laws and NOT be conformed to the ways of the world but be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

Follow the Maccabees’ example, Serve YHVH, DO His commands as He told us and SHOWED us how through Yeshuah, and THEN we will see persecutions as we should, THEN we will see tribulations like no other and THEN Yeshuah will return for His bride.

Baruch Ata Adonai!

There are so many countless passages in scripture regarding the end times.  I quote Daniel here, but Matthew 24 has the greek phrases commonly derived end times to be called escatology from the greek word eskatos!

Daniel 12: