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!
Signs of the End of the Age
3 While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached Him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what is the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?” (C)
4 Then Jesus replied to them: “Watch out that no one deceives (D) you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many. (E) 6 You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines (F) [a] and earthquakes in various places. (G) 8 All these events are the beginning of birth pains. (H)
No One Knows the Day or Hour
36 “Now concerning that day and hour no one knows—neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son [p] —except the Father only. (AH) 37 As the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. 38 For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark. (AI) 39 They didn’t know [q] until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be: 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one left. (AJ) 42 Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day [r] your Lord is coming. (AK) 43 But know this: If the homeowner had known what time [s] the thief was coming, he would have stayed alert and not let his house be broken into. (AL) 44 This is why you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. (AM)