Yom Yahweh - the dreadful and awesome Day of the Lord - is not an expression of the Sabbath, or of the Church Sunday or of the Day of Judgment as variously assumed.  It is the collective expression of the expected fulfillment of the great prophecies of Israel. 

In His own singular directive in the New Testament - the Book of Revelation - God showed His servant the vision of that great Day;

“I was in the spirit on the Day of the Lord”  Rev. 1:10.

In this vision, Adonai has shown His servant- and us - what has happened to the expectations contained in it:

                          THEY HAVE BEEN DELAYED

 

“...There will be no more delay!  But in the days when the Seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as He announced to His servants the Prophets.”   Rev 10:6,7

“The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:  ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of Yahweh and His Messiah, and He will reign for ever and ever’” Rev 11:15

 

  DELAYED?           WHY?            WHEN?         HOW?

 

 It is with the utmost respect and trepidation that the great Name of the God of Israel is invoked in this study from the tetragrammaton, the four Hebrew consonants which contain His Name and, as Hebrew is written, given right to left;

 

HEY - VAV - HEY - YOD

   H      V     H       Y

 which, depending on the vowel sounds added, is often pronounced as

 

“JEHOVAH”  or  “YAHWEH” or, as some now suggest,  “YAHUWAH” 

 

“For I will proclaim the NAME of Adonai.” (D’varim/Deut.32:3)

The purpose of expressing the Name is to discern Yahweh from Yeshua (Jesus), who are both indiscriminately referred to as “LORD” in modern renditions of the Bible.  The term “Lord”, from “Adonai”, can only refer to Yahweh.  This confusing dual identity of presenting both Yahweh and Yeshua as “Lord”, is the direct result of the misplacement of Yom Yahweh by the authors of the New Testament - the distortion which this study seeks to unravel.

 We will see how the New Testament speaks with two voices on the subject, each presenting its own “Jesus” persona.  One voice states the DAY OF THE LORD as a fait accompli, by presenting an Elijah figure who introduces YAHWEH and calls Him YESHUA, the MESSIAH.  Another voice - another “YESHUA” - denies this and places the DAY OF THE LORD, with the advent of YAHWEH and His MESSIAH, in the distant, unknown future ...beyond tribulation... beyond its preceding signs... beyond the revoking of the “DELAY”.  This dual presentation has gravely compromised the identity of both Yahweh and His Messiahs, of whom Yeshua is one.

 

Zech,14: 1 Yahweh has a day.....      

                        :  9  Yahweh will be king over the whole world. On THAT DAY Yahweh will be ONE, and His Name ONE or the ONLY NAME.         

For the Gospel writers to have "Elijah" introduce Yahweh in "The Day of the Lord" and present him by another name - Yeshua - is most problematic. For the Church Fathers to the proclaim Jesus as another variation of Yahweh, in Trinity, is equally problematic. SH'MAH YISRAEL, ADONAI, ELOHIM, ECHAD  -  HEAR, O ISRAEL. THE LORD YOUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE...testifies Yeshua (Mark 12:29 from Deut.6:) ...NOT OF HIMSELF.                                                                                                                                            

Failure by the Church Fathers to recognise “delay” in fulfilment of the great prophecies of Israel is the single most important reason for the premature establishment of a Spiritualised or Allegorised “Kingdom of Israel” by the Church in itself.  A “Kingdom” form with its undercurrent of Anti – Semitism, its manifold errors and divisions. A “Kingdom” form which has seen the loss of untold numbers of its adherents because it does not answer to its expectations .

There is an as yet undetected divisive factor in New Testament Scripture which ignores the “delay” and lies at the heart of the problem.  We need to find it.

 

                          BARUCH HA’SHEM         BLESSED BE THE NAME                                    

 

 

                                                      SHALOM

 

 

 The numerous Bible text references are mostly taken from the New International Version –

The NIV.