A FALSE PROPHET... A FALSE KINGDOM... A
FALSE KING
If Peter had then introduced a premature or
false kingdom - in defiance of the warning of
2 Jesus - who has been its governor? Christians
have created an Anti-Christ expectation; an
Anti-Messiah figure which is
expected to rise in the future. Through
the centuries they have tried to identify him. One who would supposedly mislead the whole
world and introduce a false peace on earth. Many world figures have in the past been so
identified - the Pope, Adolf Hitler etc. They all failed. And still he is sought in the future. But is such a false God/Messiah really to be
found in the future? Or has he been with
us, in disguised form, through the 2000 years of tribulation, as predicted by 2
Jesus in the prophetic sermon and by the Lamb in his first seal? “Ruling”
over a false and premature thousand years “Peace Millennium” of Rev. 20 -
a “millennium” that has strangely
lasted for two millennia now? This is a
false “peace millennium”, which, in fact, resides in the tribulation of the
first five seals of Revelation, awaiting the sixth seal with its preceding signs. Are we not approaching the seventh millennium
of recorded history? The true millennium
of peace and rest - the Sabbath
Millennium?
A false “Peace”?
1 Thess.5 :2 “…for you know very well that the day of the
Lord will come (future -
with Elijah) like a thief in the night (Peter says God calls it complete)..
:3 While people are saying “Peace and
security” (which is the current
Church
“Kingdom” position), destruction
will come on them
suddenly...
:4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that
this day should surprise
you like a thief.”
Surely this Paul knew that the
“true peace” only comes AFTER “that day” and not before. He warns them in his next letter that “that
day” has not yet come, warning them against false prophecy. He is a friend of 2 Jesus and an enemy
of Peter.
Any consideration of such an
Anti-Christ figure has to take cognisance of
the position in relation to Daniel’s 70 weeks. The Anti-Chiliastic Church, for instance, in
its post-70th week position, having appropriated Israel’s kingdom
prophecies for itself, cannot possibly explain its futuristic expectation of an
Anti-Christ figure, as such a figure is clearly limited to week 70.
Alternatively, the expectation
of an Anti-Christ figure in the future by this Anti-Chiliastic Church is, in
fact, a statement that the 70 weeks are yet incomplete. Such a statement nullifies its entire Theology
and existence.
The two prophecies by 2 Jesus and the Lamb, together with
those in the book of Daniel, indicate that such a person would have to appear before
the fulfilment of the great prophecies of Israel, before Elijah and before Yom
Yahweh, at which time he will expire.
All indications are that he would exist within Daniel’s extended 70th
week - which is the present time. We
have to find him in the past and present. And, according to 1 Paul, he has to be revealed for Elijah, Yom Yahweh, Yahweh Himself,
and the Conquering Messiah to come; for the “delay” to be revoked, for Michael
to arise and for the great prophecies of Israel to be fulfilled. Before any of that can happen, says 1 Paul, we have to discover what the
“secret power” is - which was already at work in his time and is still preventing
the revelation of this strong man. The secret
power, which is protecting him and which needs to be removed for him to be
revealed. We believe the secret power is
hidden in... the changing of the declared times of Daniel’s people -
Israel.
The introduction of Elijah and
Yahweh by the Synoptic Gospels - through the pen of Mark - presupposes that the
Anti-Christ had previously come and gone. The Gospel writers do not identify him and
Church explanation is that he is Antiochus Epiphanes - the middle of week 70
supposedly being in163 BC!? Yet, when 2 Jesus and the Lamb are allowed to
speak for themselves they/he places the
Anti-Christ in the immediate future from their/his perspective.
2 Jesus, in the Prophetic sermon, is in fact warning his Jewish audience that:
“Be warned. Many will come in my name and make “Messiah” of me and persecute you because you
won’t believe them.”
The Lamb:
Rev.6 :1 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of
the seven seals. Then I heard
one of the four
living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!”
:2
I looked, and there before me
was a white horse! Its rider held a bow,
and he was given a crown, and he
rode out as a conqueror bent on
conquest.
Let us now identify the
characteristics of the “strong man” on a “white horse” and look for one who
would fit the picture. He and other
false “anointed ones”, performing great signs and miracles, would appear (Matth.
24:24, 2 Thes. 2:9) before the preceding signs of Yom Yahweh (Matth. 24:29). If we have to believe the Elijah of the
Synoptic Gospels then these had previously come and gone.
It is important to remember
that this entire concept concerns the religion and the people of Israel, who
are the people of the Book (The Bible). They
are the main players in the story. It is their expectation which is under
threat. It has to be judged from their
perspective and not from the position of the Gentile Church.
The Characteristics of the
False King/God/Messiah:
1. He will
try to change the set times and Torah (Dan. 7:25). Will be a man of Torahlessness (2 Thes. 2:3).
2. He will abolish the daily sacrifice, desecrate the temple, in the
middle of “that seven” –
70th week (Dan. 9:27;
11:31; Rev. 13:6).
3. He will forsake the Holy Covenant (Dan. 11:30c,32).
4. He will make a covenant with
many for one “seven” (Dan. 9:27).
5 ... He will declare peace to the world - a false peace.
6. No one will be able to work
or do business without his mark on right hand or forehead
- his name or the number of
his name (Rev.13:16-18)???? So it is
thought. Or does this
belong to another?
7. He will wage war against the
saints (of Israel); speak against the Most High – for a
time, times and half a time
– second half of week 70 which, as we have seen, has now been
extended by 2000 years by virtue
of the “Delay”.
8. The “man of lawlessness” who sets himself up in God’s temple,
proclaiming himself to
be God (2 Thes. 2:4).
9. He will already be in existence (Dan.7:8; Rev.6:2) BEFORE the arrival
of the
Conquering Messiah, in
heaven (Dan.7:13; Rev. 12:5).
10. He represents a foreign concept, a foreign ideology - the beast from the sea (Rev. 13:1).
11. He recovers from a deadly wound and has the whole world follow
him – for 42 months
- second half of week 70
(Rev. 13:3-5).
12. He has an image made of
himself to be worshipped by the world (Rev. 13:14). He has a
local false prophet promote
him - the beast from the land (Rev. 13:11-12).
13. He sets up the abomination of
desolation in the temple. (Dan. 9:27, Dan
11:31,
Mark 13:14, Matth. 24:15).
14. Is associated with the number 666?
Or is he?
Where are all these
characteristics found? They are all
found in the Roman Catholic Church and inherited by the Reformation! They have unwittingly occupied this extended
latter half of week 70, while believing to be post-week 70. Their founder, inspiration and architect of
their theology is Saint Peter... the prophet and Vicar of its Kerugmatic
Christ.
1. Changing of the set times and Torah... a man
of Torahlessness.
Dan.7 :25 He
will speak against the Most High and oppress His saints and
try to change the set times and the
laws. The saints will be
of week 70, now extended by 2000 years
due to “delay”)
handed over to him for a time times and
half a time. (The latter half
Even though the Chiliastic Church might believe a “future
Anti-Christ” will
only be empowered for seven years – the last full 70th - that time has already been
vastly expanded.
2 Thes.2 :3
Don’t let anyone deceive you in any
way, for that day will not
come until the rebellion occurs and the
man of Torahlessness is
revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
What are the “set
times”?
Lev. 23 :1 ..These are my appointed feasts/times...
:3 .the
seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly.
:5 Yahweh’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth
day of the
first month.
:6 On the fifteenth day of the first month Yahweh’s
Feast of
Unleavened Bread begins, for seven days... A
High Sabbath
(Shabbat
Gadol) on the first and last days.
:11 On the day after the Sabbath... the feast of
Firstfruits.
:16 Count off fifty days to the day after the
seventh Sabbath... the
Feast of weeks/Shavuot/Pentecost.
:23 ...On the first day of the seventh month... a
day of rest and
sacred assembly... Yom Teruah/Feast of
Trumpets.
:27 The tenth day of the seventh month...Yom
Kippur/Day of
Atonement/Day of the Fast.
:39 So
beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month...
Sukkoth/the Feast of Tabernacles.
Lev.5 :3 For
six years sow your fields...
:4 But in the seventh year the land is to have
a Sabbath of rest, a
Sabbath to Yahweh... the Sabbatical year.
:8 Count off seven Sabbaths of years... forty
nine years…
:10 Consecrate the fiftieth year... the Year
of Jubilee/Yovel.
Dan.9 :24 Seventy
sevens (weeks of years) are decreed
for your people...
Ps. 89 :37 It (David’s throne) will be established
forever like the moon,
the faithful witness in the sky.
The Biblical month begins with the New Moon - Rosh Chodesh - a Sabbath
of its own, eg. Ezra 3:5.
All of these have been changed or abolished by the Roman
Catholic Church. The
Sabbath changed to a Sunday, first day “Sabbath” day of
worship. “Easter” at
“Lent”. Pentecost,
not a day of celebrating Torah but of “deliverance from law unto
grace”. Yom Kippur “fulfilled” on a day of “Easter”. Unleavened Bread and Sukkoth
abolished. The seventy weeks and “Kingdom” prematurely
appropriated – ignoring
“Delay”. The Lunar Biblical calendar replaced by the Gregorian
Solar calendar and
the institution of an unbiblical “Christmas” at
the mid-winter solstice
How many most sincere and devoted Christians know that
they did not replace
God’s
people and that all these festivals are not Jewish festivals and times but are
those
of Yahweh that will never change
All of these festivals are not only set times, but also
Torah, which have been
changed.
And yet... there is 2 Jesus... and 3 Jesus to come... when the Man of Torahlessness
has
been revealed.
They both are, and will be, totally devoted to the Set Times and Torah.
More about
Torahlessness under “Forsaking of the Holy Covenant” later.
2. Abolish the Daily Sacrifice
and desecrate the Sanctuary in the middle of week 70.
Dan. 9 :27 He
will confirm a covenant with many for one seven, but in the
middle of that ‘seven’ he will put an
end to sacrifice and offering.
Dan. 11 :31 His armed forces will rise up to desecrate
the temple fortress and
will abolish the daily
sacrifice.
Dan. 12 :7 ...It will be for a time, times and
half a time...
:11 From
the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the
abomination that causes
desolation is set up, there will be 1290
days.
Matth.24:15 So when you
see standing in the Holy Place the abomination that
causes desolation...
Rev.11 :1
...Go and measure the temple of God
and the altar, and count
the worshippers there.
:2 But
exclude the outer court, because it has been given to the
Gentiles.
They will trample on the holy city
for 42 months.
:3 ...My
two witnesses will prophesy for 1260 days.
Rev. 13 :5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and
blasphemies and to exercise his authority
for forty two months.
:6 He opened his mouth to
blaspheme God, and to slander His name
and His dwelling place.
Whether these statements of desecration of Temple and Sacrifice pertain
to military or spiritual interventions, and whether they are limited to the
latter half of week 70 after revoking of “delay” or encompass its present
extended form... they are sanctioned by the New Testament. Let us look again at the contradictions
between 1 and 2 Jesus and how David
is misrepresented.
1
Jesus
David
Hebr.10 :5
Therefore, when Christ came Ps.40 :6 Sacrifice
and offering you did not
into
the world, he said: “Sacrifice desire, but my ears you have
and
offering you did not desire, pierced
(for obedience?)
but a body you prepared for me. burnt offerings and sin offerings
you
did not require.
:6 With burnt offerings and sin :7
Then I said, “Here I am, I have
offerings
you were not pleased.”
come with the scroll written
for me
(or it
is written about me in the
scroll)
:7 Then I said, ‘Here I am - it is
written
about me in the scroll :8
To do your will, O my God, is my
-
I have come to do your will, desire;
your law is within my heart."
O God’...??
(Vital statement omitted)
2 Jesus:
Mark 1 :43
Jesus sent him (the man healed from leprosy) away with a strong
warning:
:44 “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to
the priest and offer the
sacrifices that Moses commanded for
your cleansing, as a
testimony to them.” (Testimony of your
healing and my observance.)
Hebrews is quoting David in
his own predicament - not “Christ” - from Ps. 40. The entire Psalm testifies to this. David
knows that without a change of heart, sacrifices and offerings are useless. However, a contrite heart will bring joy to
God and make those sacrifices and offerings acceptable:
Ps. 51 :16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would
bring it; you do not take
pleasure in burnt offerings.
:17
The sacrifices of God are a
broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart,
o God, you will not despise.
:18
In your good pleasure make Zion
prosper; build up the walls of
Jerusalem.
:19
Then there will be righteous
sacrifices, whole burnt offerings to
delight you; then bulls will be
offered on your altar.
In quoting David from Ps. 40:6-8,
the author also misquotes him in omitting his last statement, namely:
Ps. 40 :8 “...your
law is within my heart.”
This is another case of
dishonesty of the New Testament writers in creating a slanted ideology. The
anonymous author of the Epistle to the Hebrews has formulated the sacrifice of
Jesus to be the end of the “useless and failed” sacrificial system and of the
“Old Covenant” introduced by Yahweh and endorsed by Yeshua. Failing to recognise “Asham” - the Guilt
Offering - the author has described the sacrifice of the Lamb as the final Yom
Kippur offering - the once a year entrance by the High Priest into the Most
Holy Place (with his own blood) - as the final consummation of the sacrificial
system.
Hebr. 9 :7 But
only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a
year (on the tenth
day of the seventh month) and never without
blood...
:11 When Christ came as high priest of the good
things that are already
here...
:12
He did not enter by means of the
blood of goats and calves; but he
entered The Most Holy Place once for
all by his own blood…
For 1 Jesus to have been able
to do this, God had to change Torah:
Hebr. 7 :12 For when there is a change of the
priesthood, there must also be a
change of the law.
Abolition of the Levitical Priesthood? Changing of
Torah? ...NEVER!
Jer. 33 :17 This is what Yahweh says: “David will never
fail to have a man to sit
on the throne of the house of
Israel,
:18
nor will the priests, who are
Levites, ever fail to have a man to
stand before me continually to
offer burnt offerings, to burn
grain offerings and to present
sacrifices.
:20 “If
you can break My covenant with the day and My
covenant with the night , so that day
and night no longer come at
their appointed time,
:21
then My covenant with David My
servant - and My covenant with
the Levites who are priests
ministering before Me - can be
broken...”
Matth. 5 :18 I (2
Jesus) tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not
the smallest letter, not the least
stroke of a pen (yod or tittel)
will by any means disappear from the
Law until everything is
accomplished”
Lev. 23 :27 The tenth day of the seventh month is the
Day of Atonement…
Lev. 16 :2 Yahweh
said to Moses; “Tell your brother Aaron not to come
whenever he chooses into the Most
Holy Place behind the curtain in
front of the atonement cover on the
ark, or else he will die…”
For Yeshua to have performed
what the author of Hebrews ascribed to Him, this is when it would have had to
happen - the tenth day of the seventh month and at no other time. This aberration by Hebrews is another
instance of the changing of time and law, in the same way as the Passover Seder
cannot be celebrated at any other time - as the Church does with Communion -
but only on the fourteenth day of the first month.
The author of Hebrews has
“tried to change the Law... tried to abolish the daily sacrifice” as a result
of “changing of the set times…”. The
Church has maintained, as Gospel truth, the Crucifixion of Jesus as the
abolition of the daily sacrifice... in the middle of “that seven”, the 70th
week. It has insisted on believing this unknown
person at the expense of both the prophet and 2 Jesus.
“…and he will try to change the set times
and the law...”
“...and he will abolish sacrifice and
offering in the middle of that seven”
“...for a time, times and half a time...”
We have seen from our study of
Ezekiel 40 - 48 how, in the Yom Yahweh, the Prince in Israel - in his capacity
as High Priest in the Order of Mechizedek - will function alongside the
Zadokite Levitical priesthood, and not at the expense of that unchanging
priesthood. And also, from Mal.3, how 3
Jesus - the Conquering Messiah - will restore the Levitical priesthood to
its proper order and function... when he comes.
ASHAM DOES NOT ABOLISH THE TEMPLE ORDER.
ASHAM RESTORES IT.
And 2 Jesus endorsed Moses in the man
he healed of
leprosy
3. Forsake the Holy Covenant
Dan. 11 :30 ...Then he will turn back and vent his fury
against the
holy covenant. He will return and show favour to those who
forsake the holy covenant.
:32 With flattery he will corrupt those who have
violated the
covenant, but the people who know
their God will firmly resist
him.
Dan. 12 :6 “...How long..?”
:7 “...It will be for a time, times and half a
time.”
All occupying and opposing
forces in Israel have in the past opposed and denigrated Yahweh’s covenantal
system with His people, Israel. A
covenantal system which had its rudimentary origin with Noah and firmly founded
with Abraham. It was further developed
in Moses in the giving of Torah and will be renewed in “the Day…”. Both the Mosaic, Torah-based Covenant and its
future renewed version are functions of the Abrahamic Circumcision Covenant. This Grand Covenant was targeted by the
Babylonians in their destruction of the temple. The Persians had the temple restored and it
was once again desecrated by the Greeks through Antiochus. The Romans, through Titus, then destroyed the
Temple in 70CE. All these forces
committed abominations in the Temple, denied the institutions of Israel and
qualified for the title of men “of lawlessness/Torahlessness”. And so 1
Paul was aware of another “man of lawlessness” who had to be revealed
before Yom Yahweh could come.
What is the “Holy Covenant”, the Brit Kadosh? Kadosh means to be set apart; to
be different from the surrounding idol worshipping nations. Yahweh says He sets his people apart - makes
them different - by His Torah.
Ex. 19 :5 “Now
if you obey Me fully and keep My covenant, then out of all
the nations you will be My
treasured possession. Although the whole
earth is Mine,
:6 you
will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a set apart nation.
Yahweh then gave them the
substance of the Set Apart Covenant, which is Torah. Yahweh sets His people apart by His Torah.
All enemies of Israel would always seek to
forsake or defy the Set Apart Covenant.
And so the Church of Rome also
sought to “forsake or defy the ‘Holy’ Covenant” in its effort to distance
itself from that “rejected nation”. By
using that esoteric term “holy” to interpret “kadosh”, the meaning of “set
apartness”, and the means by which Yahweh attains it for His people, is lost to
the Church. We now find the terms “Old
Testament” and “New Testament”, “Old Covenant” and “New Covenant”. The “Old Covenant” is dead and buried. The “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31:31-34 has
been appropriated prematurely - before the revoking of delay - at the
expense of the Holy Covenant.
There is no such thing as “Old
Testament” and “New Testament”. They are
merely terms and symptoms of Replacement Theology. There is only one Bible, the Bible as it
existed in the time of Yeshua. Everything
else, apart from the God given Revelation, is commentary, which has to be
tested against the Bible with its “Holy Covenant”. The Canon of the New Testament, as confirmed
by Athenasius, Bishop of Alexandria, at the end of the 4th century
is a product of the Replacement Church which was, and remains captive to the
idiosyncrasy of Yom Yahweh. When Paul
says “All scripture is God given, Spirit inspired and useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16), he is
referring to the Bible as it existed at that time. He would never have thought that his writings
would become a “New Bible”. Had he
known, he would have been far more careful and would not have contradicted
himself so violently in Galatians - the “slave woman” (“Old Covenant”) to be
cast out as redundant, and 2 Corinthians - “the ministry that brought death...”.
If indeed it was written by the original
Paul and not by some pseudo-Paul.
The Church has forsaken the
“Holy Covenant” – both Circumcision and Torah - of which 2 Jesus had said “not one yod or tittel, the least stroke of a pen,
would ever change”. And it found its
inspiration in these outrageous statements of
2 Paul and also Hebrews. The author quotes the “New Covenant” from Jer.
31:31-34, which is an event of the future “Day”, in Hebr. 8:8-12 and comments:
Hebr.8 :13 By
calling this covenant “new”, He has made the first one obsolete
and what is obsolete and ageing will soon
disappear”
The Church thus calls the “Holy Covenant” obsolete...
This is “the ministry that brought death”... in the middle of “that seven”.
This “New Covenant” will not
replace the “Set Apart Covenant” but
renew it, not on stone tablets but by the Ruach Hakodesh - the Set
Apart Spirit - in the hearts of God’s people.
Ezek.36 :27 And I will put My Spirit in you and move you
to follow My decrees
and be careful to keep My laws.
However, perhaps the greatest inspiration for the Church to forsake the
Holy Covenant comes from 2 Paul’s
statement to the Galatians;
Gal. 5 :2 Mark
my words! I, Paul, tell you that if
you let yourselves be
circumcised, Christ will be of no
value to you at all.
:3 Again I declare to every man who lets
himself be circumcised
that he is obligated to obey the
whole law.
:4 You who are trying (?) to be justified by law have been alienated
from Christ.
What “Christ” is this that
would dispose of circumcision and Torah observance - on account of himself -
for people to get “saved”? Certainly not
the Jesus of whom it is written that he was circumcised on the eighth day, had
his first born and purification rights performed and was taught Torah at the
feet of Hillel.
To say that, if circumcised,
Jesus will be of no value... is simply outrageous, never mind the motives of
those who encouraged the Galatians to be circumcised. James’s Torah observant Church will tell you
so. They would certainly have practiced
circumcision. Torah observance - obeying
the whole law - is in any event a non-negotiable for God’s people, and not a
means of “trying to get saved”. “Work
out your salvation with fear and trembling” said 2 Jesus, who came “not for the righteous, but for the lost sheep of
Israel”. These “righteous” - the
“Tzadikim” - were made Kadosh by Yahweh’s Torah. A “righteousness” and “salvation” for Yeshua’s
people that existed before his crucifixion.
In fact, the opposite of Paul’s statement should be true: “Circumcision and ‘obeying the whole law’
would make the circumcised and observant “Christ” most valuable to you”. How else are we to interpret Paul (the other
“Paul?”) in his circumcision of Timothy?
Acts 16 :3 Paul
wanted to take him (Timothy) along on
the journey, so he
circumcised him because of the
Jews who lived in that area, for they all
knew that his father
was a Greek.
Timothy was a Gentile. Did Paul say to him “I am now making Christ of
no value to you”? Surely not. Is Paul being double minded? Or are there two different persons involved -
a true and a false Paul? The Church
fathers, with their anti-Jewish notion, elected to believe the latter of the
two personas.
What was this Paul trying to
do? Introduce a foreign “Christ” to the
Gentiles? A "Christ" whose philosophy was foreign to the Bible and to any of the Jesus
figures we have seen? Yet we have seen
from the “Gospel to the Gentiles” from Isaiah, endorsed by 2 Jesus, that the Gentiles would honour the same Holy Covenant
as Israel in order to one day be brought to God’s house of prayer for all nations.
God’s salvation - collectively and
personally - has always been a matter of grace and not of merit.
Paul’s statement is a double
whammy to the “Holy Covenant”: Abolition
of circumcision and abolition of Torah. The
Church has became a lawless society... and it shows.
Circumcision, in its broadest
Covenantal sense has, in any event, far greater significance than “personal
salvation”. It has everything to do with
the eventual fulfilment of God’s plan for His people, Israel, and all who join
her... the “mystery”, which He has revealed to His servants the prophets, which
will come about at the revoking of the “delay.”
Long live the Holy Covenant!
4. Make a Covenant with many for one “seven”.
Dan. 9 :27
He will confirm a covenant with many
for one “seven”, but in the
middle of that “seven” he will put an
end to sacrifice and offering.
The Anti-Chiliastic, Roman
Catholic and Reformed Church has claimed fulfilment of Daniel’s seventy weeks
for itself. It has moved beyond that
final “seven” into uncharted territory, where it has created a “kingdom” which
is foreign to Biblical expectation. And
it has moved beyond the time window of “circumcision” and the existence of the “Anti-Christ/Anti-God/Anti-King...
without recognising the “delay”. What
“future covenant” a “future Anti-Christ” will confirm with many for a future “one
seven” is beyond comprehension.
To secure its “kingdom” the Church proceeded
to create a profoundly unbiblical “covenant”, the “Covenant of Infant
Baptism”, which it deems necessary for “salvation” - in the place of infant
circumcision. Entrance into the “kingdom
community” without this is impossible. “Baptism”, or “Mikvah” was a
standard part of Torah purification rights performed at the annual festivals
and for various other purposes. Nowhere
in the Bible or the New Testament is there any instruction that this procedure
should attain Covenantal status… at the expense of the clearly defined
“Circumcision Covenant”. Nor can it
be derived from “The Great Com-mission” instruction of 2Jesus:
Matth.28 :19
Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
:20 and
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
What did he teach them? As a Jewish Rabbi he taught Torah - nothing
more, nothing less - and as part of Torah... Mikvah. Whether this “Scripture” was original or
added in, it would be impossible to construe covenantal instructions from these
statements. In any event, “everything I
taught you…” - Torah - would always include circumcision. And he never denounced his own circumcision or
indicated that it would become redundant and not applicable in the future.
This “Covenant of Infant
Baptism” or “Covenant Theology” - as the physical expression of the premature
“New Covenant” or “New Testament” (B’rit
Hadashah) - has its origin in the baptism of Yeshua by John the Baptist.
The Church fathers have deemed it valid
from that day. Conversely, as we have
seen, this “baptism” was also the beginning of his three and a half year
ministry, which introduced that last “seven,” having been revealed (introduced)
at the completion of week 69, as our study of Daniel’s 70 has shown. Yeshua was the Anointed Prince in Israel,
destined to be “cut off and have nothing” – after the 69th week, or mid 70th.
The net effect of this is that the
Church has unwittingly created and confirmed an unbiblical covenant with many
“for one seven” - originating with the baptism of Yeshua and covering the
entire expanded last “seven,” which is still in progress - while believing
itself to be in a post 70th week position. This is the legacy of the false prophet.
The Church has therefore
forsaken the “Holy Covenant” and established its own “covenant” with many for
one “seven.”
5. Declare Peace to the world - a False Peace.
1 Thes.5:2 "...because you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
..............:3 Because when people say "Peace and security" -then suddenly destruction comes over them."
This Paul clearly sees "the Day...", followed by true peace, in the future. The Church, however, declares that we are living - and have been living for 2000 years - in the Post Yom Yahweh, Post 70th week Messianic Milennial Reign of Peace of Rev. 20. And it has a Jesus - 1 Jesus - who now rules over it and who will return thereafter to "judge the living and the dead", according toRev. 20:11. A Jesus who now declares "peace". This is the result of the premature appropriation (in the past) of the Yom Yahweh, and misrepresentation thereof in the future.And, yes, "destruction" has regularly come upon the world - the Great Tribulation of Yom Yahweh to follow.
6. No one can work or do business without the
“mark.”
Rev. 13 :17 ...so
that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is
the
name of the beast or the number of his name.
It is a well known fact from
history that throughout the life of the Roman Church it had dominated and
subjected the people of primitive Europe. It had denied the people access to the
Scriptures and forced its will on all who lived in their domain. The Pope, as the Vicar of Christ had sole
authority to interpret the Scriptures and discern “Deus Vult” - the will of
God. The Church conducted its “kingdom”
literally with an “iron fist” on behalf of Christ. And it used its various Orders, eg. Franciscan, Dominican and the notorious
Order of Loyola of Ignatius de Loyola, to do its bidding. Its most powerful agency was the
“Inquisition”, a type of “holy court” which had powers of enforcement and
judgment. Many died in the fires of
non-compliance. And people had to be
baptised to be part of society and to participate in their normal activities of
survival.
The Jews of Europe were
especially targeted with the threat of “baptism or death”. Many complied just in order to survive. Many refused and were martyred. Others fled into exile. They just could not survive, perform business
or follow careers without the “sign” - having to denounce their circumcision. The Spanish Inquisition was particularly harsh
in this regard.
No baptism… no survival. It was the rule of thumb of the Medieval
Church - the sign of Christ on their foreheads. And
the sign of the Cross.
However, this “number of his
name” may not belong to the sought after “Anti-Christ” after all. It may indeed belong to the False Prophet (to
be discussed shortly).
7. Make war against the saints, blaspheme the
Most High.
Dan. 7 :21 As I
watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and
defeating them,
:22
until the Ancient of Days came (advent of Yahweh in Yom Yahweh)
and pronounced judgment in favour of
the saints of the Most High,
and they came and possessed the
kingdom.
:25
He will speak against the Most
High and oppress His saints…
Rev. 13 :6 He opened his mouth to blaspheme, and to
slander His name and His
dwelling place and those who live in
heaven.
:7 He
was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer
them. And he was given authority over every tribe,
people, language
and nation.
(:5 ...to
exercise his authority for forty-two months.)
We have seen the multiple
mistaken identity of Yahweh and His Name. We have seen
the “Holy Covenant” forsaken, called a failure and discarded. Central to the Holy Covenant is “My House of
Prayer for All Nations”, which has been dismissed by the “New Testament” Church
as redundant. This has come about mainly
through the Epistle to the Hebrews and some of the writings of Paul. The Church now believes that, as there is no
Temple in the “present kingdom”, there is obviously no more need for it and the
modern “temple” now consists of the body of believers in Christ.
They also believe that God had
obviously taken Jerusalem and the Temple from the Jews in His “New Kingdom”
dispensation. They saw it as symptomatic
of His rejection of them... the “God killers”. The scourge of Anti-Semitism was born and the
Jewish people became fair game for the Church and the people’s of the world who
persecuted them relentlessly. History
bears witness to the Crusades of the 10th and 11th
centuries, of which the Popes said: “Deus Vult” - God wills it. The Pogroms, Inquisition and the Shoah (Holocaust)
are the most notorious of the endless persecution of God’s people - exactly
as Daniel, 2 Jesus and Revelation
predicted. Yet, a different outcome is
at hand - as all three of them also predicted.
Yes, the “saints” who would be
persecuted and defeated are the righteous in Israel. The
Gentile Church resorts under “every tribe, people, language and nation”. And it all happened in this extended second
half of week seventy. The persecution is
likely to increase when the “delay” is revoked and the “forty two months”
reverts back to real time... “They will
trample on the Holy city for 42 months”.
8. The “Man of Lawlessness”... who proclaims
himself to be God.
2 Thess.2 :3
Don’t let anyone deceive you in any
way, for that day will not come
until the rebellion
occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed,
the man doomed to
destruction.
:4 He will oppose and
will exalt himself over everything that is called
God or is worshipped, so
that he sets himself up in God’s temple,
proclaiming himself to be
God.
:7 For the secret
power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one
who now holds it back will
continue to do so till he is taken out
of
the way.
:8 And then the “lawless one” will be revealed... (and that day
will
come)
This Paul is clearly an
apologist for Torah - the “Holy Covenant”. He opposes the future “rebellion” against
Torah and he is aware of the then already
present “secret power of lawless-ness” and the one behind it, who would
have to be removed in the future for the “lawless one” to be revealed.
The other “Paul”, or “Pseudo
Paul” takes a diametrically opposing position by promoting a “Christ” who
appears to have no need for circumcision and of obeying “the whole law”. These sentiments contain the seeds of
“lawlessness” and “rebellion”. Unfortunately,
the Church has taken its cue from this latter “Paul” and embarked on a course
of “rebellion” against God and His Word for the duration of this extended
“seven.”
1 Paul had to know that the false message from his fellows, as to the Day of
the Lord having come, which he was warning the Thessalonians against, had to
entail the changing of time. He had to
know that this premature announcement of Yom Yahweh had to contain the seed of
lawlessness. And he had to know
who was responsible. He also had to know
that “…that Day” had been... delayed.
We now know that it was Peter
who announced “the Day” and the Kingdom of Israel prematurely - in defiance of 2 Jesus – from Joel. And we also know that this “premature kingdom”
would have to take on different proportions, as none of the expected conditions
prevailed. These different proportions
then came in the form of “lawlessness and rebellion”
The “secret power of
lawlessness” is thus contained in the premature introduction of a non-existent
“kingdom”, which became the allegorised “Spiritual Israel” at the expense of
“Holy Covenant Israel.” The changing of the set times and Torah is the essence of the "secret power of lawlessness."
Who then is 2 Paul’s “lawless Christ”...the one who
distances himself from circumcision and Torah… the one protected by Saint
Peter? The one so strenuously warned
against by 1 Paul? Is
he not the “Yahweh” introduced by a premature Elijah, and called Jesus... 1 Jesus... in the premature “Yom Yahweh”,
which 1 Paul warned about? The one who failed in his mission as Messiah
of Israel? Trinity Theology has declared
him to be “God”!
“He sets himself up in God’s
temple proclaiming himself to be God”. There
are two instances that allude to this:
i. We have already seen how Paul
invokes the promise of Yahweh to Israel in Lev. 26:11,12
and applies it to the Gentiles
in 2 Cor. 6:16-18
Lev. 26 :11
“I will put My dwelling place among
you, and I will not abhor you.
:12
I will walk among you and be your
God, and you will be My people.”
after having told them to...
:2
“Observe my Sabbaths (plural) and have reverence for My
sanctuary
(dwelling place).”
2 Cor. 6 :16 What
agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For
we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live
with them and walk among them, and I
will be their God, and they
will be My people.”
:17 “Therefore
come out from them (the idol worshipping unbelievers)
and be separate (kadosh
= holy), touch no unclean thing (Isa.52:11)
:18
“I will be a Father to you, and
you will be My sons and daughters,
says Yahweh Almighty.” (2 Sam.7:14)
Contradictions abound. Yahweh made a promise to His circumcised, Torah
observant
and Sanctuary honouring community about His
future Temple and His presence in their midst... the detail of which we have
seen. Paul invokes this on a
non-circumcised, non-observant, Sanctuary-despising community outside of Israel,
and declares that they - the body of “believers” - are now that temple. He then proceeds to invoke other scriptures of Israel in exhorting them to be “kadosh” by
being observant - “touch no unclean thing.” These are elements that he
discounts and ridicules in other writings of his!
It is inconceivable. Yet the net effect is that Christ, being
elevated to the level of God,
is placed in “God’s temple” ...which is supposedly the Church.
ii. Secondly we find a Jesus who
questions his Davidic descent and hints at his
own deity in God’s Temple.
Matth.22 :41 While
the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
:42 “What do
you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?”
“The son of David,” they replied.
:43 He said
to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit,
calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,
:44 ‘The Lord
said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your
enemies under your feet.”’
:45 If then
David calls him ‘Lord’, how can he be his son?”
Is this Jesus denying that he, the Christ, is
descended from David and claiming that he is equal to God? We have seen this quote from Psalm 110:1 and
its counterpart in Ezek. 44:3... the Prince in Israel in the presence of Yahweh
in the Kingdom Sanctuary - the Prince who has to present sacrifices for his own
sin and therefore cannot be “God”. We
have also seen who the “Prince” will be...
“David will be Prince in Israel…” (Ezek.34:24; 37:24,25) - surely he
will be a son of David. Matthew presents
Psalm 110:1 as though the two “Lords” are equal and the second could therefore
not be the son of David... “The Lord said to my Lord...” Is Matthew trying to promote his divinity
theology of Jesus in order to supplement his “Virgin Birth” philosophy?
The Hebrew text, however, clearly discerns
between the two. The first “Lord” is “Yod
hey vav hey” - Jehovah or Yahweh, depending on the unknown pronunciation of the vowel sounds. The second
“Lord” is “lamed alef dalet nun yod” - l’adonai or l’adoni, which is a title
for a person of high esteem, similar to Mister, Sir or Master. And so David says “Yahweh said to my Master…”,
or…”my esteemed descendant” - his most esteemed anticipated descendant. The
same distinction between “Lord” and “lord” is found in Mal. 3:1.
This distinction is quite clear. Yahweh is not speaking to an equal counterpart
of himself in a heavenly context. He is speaking to his highly esteemed
conquering servant in an earthly Sanctuary context - the Prince in Israel. However, the net effect of Matthew's Jesus’s
dialogue with the Pharisees is that he,
the “Christ,” is not Davidic of descent, but God... in God’s temple.
9. Already
Active before Conquering Messiah arrives in the heavens
Dan.7 :8 ...This horn had eyes like a man and a
mouth that spoke
boastfully.
:9
As I looked , thrones were set
in place, and the Ancient of Days took
his seat...
:11
Then I continued to watch
because of the boastful words the horn was
speaking.
:13
In my vision at night I looked,
and there before me was one like a son
of man coming with the
clouds of heaven. He approached the
Ancient
of days and was led into His
presence.
:14
He was given authority, glory
and sovereign power; all peoples,
nations and men of every language
served him.
:25 ...a
time, times and half a time.
Rev. 6 :1 I watched as the Lamb opened the first
seal…
:2
I looked, and there before me
was a white horse! The rider held a bow,
and he was given a crown, and he
rode out as a conqueror bent on
conquest.
Rev. 12 :5 She will give birth to a male child who will
rule all the nations with an
iron scepter. And her child was snatched to God and to his
throne.
:6
...1260 days. (This is the
time of revoking of “delay” - the
same timeline
remaining, which is the sixth shofar of the seventh seal).
:7 And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against
the dragon…
Dan. 12 :1 At that time, Michael, the great prince who
protects your people, will
arise...
:7
...it will be for a time times
and half a time…..
(The latter half of week 70 - which has been hijacked by the false
“king”-
will see the demise of the King of the North - Dan.11:29-45)
Ever since that pagan, sun
worshiping king Constantine had his vision of a cross in the sky with the words,
“In this sign conquer”, the Crusading Church has had the emblem of the cross on
all their insignia and weaponry in their grand effort to rule the world... and
failed... on behalf of Jesus.
Could these verses about the
Conquering Messiah arriving in heaven possibly speak of Jesus and his
“ascension”? If so, the “Anti-Christ”
would have had to exist before his time, during his time and even today. Neither the Bible nor history have any
knowledge of such a person. No. The “Anti-Christ” has to exist between the
Lamb and “the Day of the Lord”, between 2
Jesus and the revoking of the delay, which is... now. And the “Anti-Christ” exists before the Bethlehem
birth of the Davidic Messiah (1st seal before 7th seal)
and his ascension at the revoking of the “delay” - at the commencement of real
time. Who is he?
10. A Foreign Concept... from the sea.
Rev. 13 :1
...And I saw a beast coming out of
the sea... many horns and
heads, each with a
blasphemous name.
:2 The
beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear
and a mouth like that of a
lion. The dragon gave the beast his
power
and his throne and great authority.
:3 One
of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but
the fatal wound had been
healed. The whole world was astonished
and followed the beast.
Dan. 7 :3 Four great beasts, each different from the
others, came up from the
sea.
:4-7 ...like a lion, ...like a bear, ...like a leopard, ...one with
large iron teeth...
:8
...a little horn (“Anti - Christ“, before the Conquering Messiah
appears in heaven)
This beast, empowered by
Satan, with its many heads and coming from the sea, is a collective image
of the system of idol worship so
pervasive throughout the known world and
known history of the time. This is a
system from outside Israel that has expressed itself through numerous cults and
names, among others: Isis, Osiris, Ra,
Horus, Tammuz, Adonis, Astarte, Dyonisis, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Zeus, etc. Furthermore, they are representative of
successive empires - Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome.
All of these “gods” exist only
as images. They are myths and have
statues in high places. Some are
proposed to have died and come to life again, symbolised by seasons of
suffering and well-being, drought and rain, barrenness and fruitfulness. They all have frenzied festivals dedicated to
them. Within all of their systems are
manifested a holy mother and child configuration. And so Zeus, the Sun god, had a mid-winter
festival to commemorate his return or rebirth, which became incorporated in the
new Roman religion, Christianity, as Christmas.
Nimrod, the son of Cush, the
son of Ham, the son of Noah, became the first “Anti-Christ”,
opposing Yahweh and challenging Him by seeking to build his own empire by
subjecting many peoples. He was
worshiped as “a mighty one”, presumably a son of the Sun god. Legend has it that Shem, the blessed son of
Noah, in seeking to protect the honour of Yahweh, persecuted and executed
him.
The beast from the sea, a
composite of many idolatries, empowered by the dragon, would therefore impose
an extension of himself on the people of Israel through a false prophet from
within themselves.
“Satan, go away from me. You are a stumbling block to me….” says 2 Jesus to
Simon
Peter.
11. ..He recovers from a deadly wound and has the whole world follow him - for 42 months - second half of week 70 (Rev.13: 3-5).
We have dealt painfully with the Resurection story and Paul and Luke's claim that it was widely predicted by Torah, the Psalms and the Prophets. And we have found no such substantiation for these claims..of what is supposedly the greatest event in the religion of Israel. Yet the "whole world" has been made to subscribe to it.
12. The Image and the False prophet... from the earth
Rev. 13 :11
Then I saw another beast, coming out
of the earth. He had two
horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a
dragon.
:12
He exercised all the authority of
the first beast on his behalf and
made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast
whose
fatal wound (meaning that he was dead) had been healed.
:13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even
causing fire
to come down from heaven to earth in
full view of men. (Is
this the fire of that day of
Pentecost? The whole event was
corrupted)
* :14 Because of the signs* he was given power to
do on behalf of the
first beast, he deceived the inhabitants
of the earth. He ordered
them to set up an image in honour of the
beast who was wounded
by the sword and yet lived.
:15 He was given power to give breath to the
image of the first beast,
so that it could speak and cause all who
refused to worship the
image of the beast to be killed.
None of these beast “gods”
exist. They are mythical figures that
exist as images in the minds of their “subjects” and as carved or sculpted
idols which are worshipped.
So also does 1 Jesus not exist. He is a creation, a construct, of the Gospel
writers, at the instigation of a false prophet. He exists only as an image, a caricature,
created and empowered by the false
prophet from the local people of Israel, and his succession in Rome – by means
of a fictitious Yom Yahweh. He is empowered
to do all the things ascribed to him - all the characteristics we have seen. We do not find a physical “person” being
followed or worshipped, only an image of an idea with a spiritual inspiration -
a myth empowered by the dragon.
Even if 2 Jesus, Yeshua, the “Jesus” that does exist, was the Davidic
Messiah;
1. Born from the
house of David,
2. Circumcised on
the eighth day,
3. Sat at the feet
of the great Hillel,
4. Fully
subscribed to Torah - which he confirmed would never change,
5. Fully endorsed
the Temple service and confirmed that observing Gentiles would
also be invited...
Yes, even if he was that one...
HE WOULD NEVER EVER CHANGE TO BECOME THE ARCHITECT OF ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS
ASCRIBED TO HIM.
*,*“Signs” for example the violent deaths
of Ananias and Sapphira for what appeared to
be repentable and forgivable sins of no major
magnitude (Acts 4:32 – 5:1-11). The
whole
sequence of events is quite out ofcharacter with the approach of Yeshua
to sinners and his
teaching from Torah on how to deal with them. They were under no obligation to sell
their property, nor had they any obligation to reveal the price or to
submit the full
amount if they did sell it. It
was clearly a freewill offering of their own choice.
Could Peter accuse them of lying to God by the power of
Satan? No! And the further
events surrounding Sapphira are astounding. No one pleaded with her to repent. They
simply allowed her to die. Peter
had no right to enquire from her as to the price of the
land and then accuse her of lying to God. No.
These were freewill arrangements among
men and not binding instructions from
God. And if she did lie to Peter
she could have
repented and retained the right to decide what amount to give - if any.
Nevertheless, the whole Church was gripped with fear... to
this day. It smacks of
Inquisition. The first of the
infamous Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church. To rule
by fear. History is rife with the manipulation of
gullible people. Cult leaders requiring
their followers to sell all their belongings and leaving them destitute.
This is not the way
of the Elohim of Israel. Even in
our day, great Evangelical leaders
enrich themselves
under the guise of “Prosperity Gospel”. Yes, there is the Torah principle of Tithes
and
Offerings - yet often misrepresented in building huge empires and
personal castles –
without honouring Torah, Sabbath,
Circumcision - the great institutions of Yahweh for
all generations. And many
Christians lie about their business dealings and get away with
it.
The image of Jesus
held by the medieval Church must have been of a violent and
uncompassionate god; a type of
Marcionite Demiurge (the herecy of Marcion held that
the god of the Old Testament was a bad god - a demiurge - while the god
of the New
Testament was a good god).
This is The Vicar of Christ.
P.S. See the contradiction
resulting from the fear;
Acts 5 :13 No
one else dared join them….
:14 Nevertheless more and more people believed in
the Lord (Jesus?) and were
added to
their number.
13. The Abomination that causes Desolation in the
Temple
Dan. 9 :27 ...in the middle of that seven he will put
an end to sacrifice and
offerings. And one who causes desolation
will place abominations on a wing of the
temple.
11 :31 His
armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and
will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the
abomination that causes desolation.
Mark 13 :14 “When you see the abomination that causes
desolation standing
where it does not belong…” (2 Jesus)
Matth 24:15 “So when you see standing in the holy place
the abomination that
causes
desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel (2 Jesus)
2 Jesus points to this event as being in the future from his position– he
points to the time when “the daily sacrifice is abolished in the middle of that
seven”. 1 Jesus - and the Anti-Chiliastic Church – in their post-70th
week position, have to find it in the past… in Antiochus Epiphanes.
In previous desecrations of the temple, often in
the month of Av (July), abominations would have been performed by conquering
heathen armies. No doubt Antiochus, in
164 BC, would have been no different. He
sacrificed a pig on the altar and brought idols into the temple - possibly an image
of himself. Many Roman Emperors
proclaimed themselves to be gods and were worshiped as such - Caligula for one.
However, some of the worst
abominations performed in the Sanctuary came from within Israel herself. 2 Chronicles 33 tells the horrendous story of
detestable practices by king Manasseh involving altars to the Baals and the
starry host in the temple of the Lord. Sorcery,
divination, witchcraft. A carved image
in the temple. And he sacrificed his own
sons in the fire. Jeremiah has told us
that it was because of these abominations of Manasseh that the land and the
temple was left to them... desolate.
“The abomination of
desolation” will consist of these: a carved
image, worship of the heavenly bodies - the sun in particular. And the Name of the Lord - which He said would
be in the temple and Jerusalem forever (2 Chron.33:4,7) - will be defiled.
Ezekiel, in his vision, saw an
example of this in the remnant of Jerusalem, while in exile in Babylon. Ezekiel 8 tells the story of the detestable
things performed in God’s temple by the elders of Israel. These included:
1. The idol of
jealousy or the idol that arouses God’s jealousy (:5).
2. On the walls
crawling things and detestable animals (pigs on the altar?) and all the
idols of Israel (:10).
3.
Seventy elders burning incense (:11).
4.
Women mourning for Tamuz (:14).
5.
Twenty five men with their backs to the
temple, worshipping the sun (:16).
Second Commandment: You shall
have no other gods before Me.
Third Commandment: No idols in the image of anything in the
heavens…
Not to bow down before them and
worship them
“I am a jealous God…” (An idol
that provokes God to
jealousy
in Ezekiel’s vision).
Fourth Commandment: You shall not profane the Name of the Lord
your God.
Every Roman Catholic Church in
the world has an image of Jesus, with a sun halo around his head before which
the faithful bow down - with their backs to the temple - as though he is God,
while the clerics wave their incense and pray to Mary. A Church that has professed to be the “temple
of God” since the days of Paul - in the middle of the extended “one seven.”
What if... 3 Jesus, the
Son of Man Messiah, appears and builds the temple? Will not the Church - the king of the North -
mistake him for “Anti-Christ” and oppose him by placing their Jesus-image in
the temple? Daniel may have seen this.
Dan. 8 :9 Out
of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in
power to the South and to the East
and toward the Beautiful Land. (Is this
from Rome to Jerusalem - a foreign beast from
the sea?)
:10 It grew until it reached the host of heaven,
and it threw some of the starry
host down to the earth and
trampled on them.
:11 It set itself up to be as great as the
Prince of the host; it took away the
daily sacrifice from him
and the PLACE OF HIS SANCTUARY was
brought low.
(This is the false messiah.)
:12 Because of rebellion, the host of the saints
and the daily sacrifice were
given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and
truth was thrown
to the ground.
:13 ...How long..?
:14 ...2,300 mornings and evenings (1150
days); then the
(His) sanctuary will be reconsecrated.
:24 He
(the horn) will become very strong, but
not by his own power…
:25 ...Yet
he will be destroyed, but not by human power.
Does this not speak of an
entity that would exist in the time span from after the Greek Empire, through
the time of “delay” to the culmination of week 70? It cannot be a single person. Is this not the created and empowered image,
the empowered figurehead who would grow strong and strike out from the place of
his origin, at the head of the Crusading hordes and overpower the host of the
saints of Israel? Is this not the “one”
who would eventually confront the Conquering Messiah - 3 Jesus - when he
appears to build his sanctuary before being raptured at the revoking of the
delay? Represented by his “Vicar” who will place his carved immage in the newly
constructed Sanctuary in the greatest of all Crusades? An image of a non-existent figurehead that is
to become the “Abomination of Desolation” in the Messiah’s sanctuary. The one who will be destroyed by the breath of
his mouth – his spoken word - “not by human power” - when he (3 Jesus)
comes to his temple in “the Day…”, according to Mal.3:1. This is the time when the sanctuary will be
“reconsecrated” as the final expected event of week 70 (Dan. 9:24).
14. 666 ?
For centuries many have looked
out for the “Anti-Christ”, finding him in numerous abominable figures of
history, eg. Adolf Hitler. The stories
abound. And they are always looking for
him in the future, despite the Anti-Chiliastic
Church’s post-70th week
position (and thus, post-“Anti-Christ” position). The elusive number 666 is always attached to
the search. However, is this association
valid?
Revelations 13 reveal two
beasts of tribulation inspired by Satan. The first beast:
Rev. 13 :2
The beast (from the sea - foreign to Israel) that I saw resembled a
leopard, but had feet like those
of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion.
The dragon gave the beast his
throne and great authority.
:3 One
of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound (he was
dead), but the deadly wound had been healed (rose
from the dead). The
whole world was astonished and
followed the beast.
:5 The
beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and
to exercise his authority for forty
two months.
:6 He
opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander His name and
His sanctuary.
This beast appears to be a composite
of the four beasts of Daniel’s vision (Dan. 7), with their lion, bear and
leopard features and a “little horn” who:
Dan. 7 :25
He will speak against the Most High and oppress His saints and try to
change the set times and the
laws. The saints (of Israel) will
be handed
over to him for a time, times
and half a time. (forty two months)
The “head with the deadly
wound” and the “little horn” appear to be the same... Anti-Christ or false
Messiah. From Dan. 7 it can be seen that
this person PRE-DATES the Son of Man Messiah, whose arrival in heaven - in the
future - is recorded in Dan. 7:13. The
“head with the deadly wound” and the “little horn” both blaspheme God and
“rule” for the latter half of Daniel’s 70th week which - at the risk
of becoming boring - has now been extended by two thousand years as Paul’s “man
of Torahlessness” remains hidden by the “secret power of Torahlessness”.
This first beast - from the
sea - of Revelation is fully described in Rev. 13:1-10. The second beast - from the land - occupies
Rev. 13:11-18...the local false prophet.
Throughout the description of this second beast, whenever there is a
reference to the other beast - on five occasions - there are clear distinctions
between the two.
Rev. 13 :12
He exercised all the authority of the
first beast on his behalf, and
made the earth and its inhabitants
worship the first beast whose fatal
wound had been healed.
:14 Because
of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first
beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set
up an image in honour of the
beast who was wounded by the sword
and yet lived.
:15 He
was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast…
The last verse of this section on the second beast, however, contains no
such distinction:
Rev. 13 :18 This
calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight,
let him calculate the
number of the beast, for it is the number of a
person. His number is
666.
If we then, in view of these
clear distinctions, consider this last verse, we have to conclude that it
speaks of the second beast (from the land) who is the subject of this
section of Rev. 13. – the local false prophet.
Daniel’s four beasts refer to
four kingdoms (Dan. 7:17) and the composite form thereof in Rev.13 has to
represent the Satanic system of idol worship which permeates those kingdoms.
The heads and horns are then an expression of all these numerous idols, eg. Isis,
Osiris, Ra, Horus, Dyonisis, Astarte, Zeus, Sol Invictus, etc. Worship of the Sun God, in various forms,
would be one, or some, of those heads, which finds expression, through its many
horns, in numerous cultures. A “Jewish Anti-Christ” would then be an
extension of this foreign “beast”, at the behest of the local “False Prophet.
So the first beast is not “a person” but a conglomerate with numerous
identities. “Anti - Christ” is but a
singular expression of a vast demonic system, which contains numerous
identities of which one comes to Israel. The term “Anti-Christ” for the
composite beast is in any event not a Biblical name, but a Church
invention.
The second beast then, whose number
is 666, is a single “person”. 666 is
therefore not the number of the “Anti-Christ”. It is the number of the False Prophet...the number of his name.
Shimeyon Kefa
Pey(Fey) Yud Kuf Nun Vav
Ayin Mem Yud Shin (Hebrew back to front).
T . .
: .
Hebrew is a language of
Consonants, written from right to left. The
vowel sounds - niqqud - are a later addition in the form of dots and dashes,
mainly beneath the consonants. Biblical
Hebrew was written without niqqud and the vowel sounds were a matter of
inherent understanding. Only the
consonants have numeric value. Wikipedia
on Hebrew numerals show these to be:
(Unnumbered niqqud are shown in
brackets)
Name of Consonant Numeric value
Shin
300
(hirriq “ i “)
Yud
10
Mem
40
(shva short “ e “ or silent)
Ayin
70
Vav holam (dot above vav “ o “) 6
Nun
50
Sub total 476
Kuf
100
(zeire “ e “)
Yud
10
Pey (without dagesh - central dot = Fey) 80
(kamatz “a “)
Sub
total 190
Grand total 666
We have a False Prophet whose name is :
Shimeyon Kefa
Simeon Petros
Simon Peter
And the number of his name is... 666.
Some would say the “Kuf”
should be “Kaf”, with a different numeric value. Some translations do use the “kaf”. However, without the central dot (dagesh) the
“k” attains a softer or gutteral (“ch”) sound. Both this, and the English translation
“Cephas” - the “C” and not “K” - would
lean toward the use of “kuf”. Little
distinction is made between the two.
Kehilah” - community or
Church” - is spelt with the “kuf.”
It could also be said that
“Kefa” should have the final “alef” or that the “nun” of “Shimeyon” is the
final form (“nun sofeet”), both of which would alter the numeric value. The “alef”, however, is a silent letter and
has no real value as indicated by the later addition of the “kamats” (“T”) below the “pey” to indicate the hard “a” as opposed to “ah”, which
the “alef” would allude to. The transliteration also does not have the “ah”. The “nun” aspect would also be questionable.
Would the ancient Hebrew or the associated Aramaic of the time have made these
distinctions? But let us look more closely at the whole Kefa/Petros/Rock
matter.
Matth.16 :18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on
this rock I will build my
Church
and the gates of hell will not overcome it.
Kefa, the “Rock of the Church?
Really?
Where does “Peter” come from? The
man’s name was Simon. In John 1:42 we
see Yeshua giving him the name “Kefa” which means “a stone”. In the Greek New Testament it is rendered, not
as “Petros”, but as “Kefas”. The Hebrew
dictionary does not know of Kefa as “rock”. The Milon Hebrew dictionary renders it as “a
little green stone used for purposes of divination”. It quotes Dr. Hugh Nibley as suggesting the
most accurate English translation would be “Seerstone”. It would therefore be an object of occultic
purpose.
The Greek dictionary does not
know of “Petros” - neither as a name (in the name search) nor as an object. It knows “petra” which can be a stone or a
small rock. And it renders “Petra” as of
female gender. Yet Matthew’s Yeshua, probably quoting the same
event as John, is reported as calling him “Petros”... and then addresses him as
“Satan.”
Matth. 16 :18
And I tell you that you are
“Petros” - Peter - and on this rock will
I build my church and the gates of
Sheol will not prevail against
it.
:23 Satan,
go away from me. You are a stumbling
block to me. You
do not have in mind the things of
God, but the things of
men... (Greek philosophy?)
“Kefa” - the “seerstone” - cannot be translated into a
non-existing Greek name “Petros” and then be rendered as “rock”. Even the female form “Petra” would not be
accurate.
This is the most incredible interaction! Why would Yeshua entrust such enormous
universe moving powers to one whom he addresses as “Satan” and a “stumbling
block” to him?
:19
I will give you the keys of the
kingdom of heaven; whatever you
bind on earth will be bound in
heaven, and whatever you loose
on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Would it be for purposes of fulfilment of the prophecy of Job? That Israel would be tested by Satan in the
same way as Job was... through the premature introduction of the “kingdom” by
Kefa/Petros?
What is Matthew’s Jesus really saying?
Matth. 16 :17 Blessed
are you Shimeyon Bar Jonah...
:18 And I tell you that you are Petros...
Is that what he said? No. There
is no way in the world that this Torah-teaching Hebrew Rabbi, whom we perceive
to be a Jewish Messiah and who appears to have had no dealings with Greeks or
their culture, would give a Greek name to a man with such a profound Hebrew
name! The original text of Mathews
Gospel could not possibly have contained the name “Petros”. It had to be “Kefa” as in John’s Gospel. And from that perspective the name “Petros”
would not have appeared in any of the original books of the New Testament.
It is preposterous for the
Gospels to contain that name so abundantly, especially before the time of
Matth. 16:18 - This is the only place where the name “Petros” could have been entered into the scripture It appears that, from here, the name was imposed on all the books of the New Testament...
for ideological purposes. The
transliteration of the Greek name “Petros” into the Hebrew/Aramaic text is
certainly an ideological interference. (See
Hebrew rendition of the King James New Testament: “pey - zeire yud - tet - resh - vav holam -
samek” =
Petros; Matth. 16:18).
(The Hebrew consonants are here rendered left to right - which is inverted - for purpose of matching the Greek)
What would the purpose of such an ideological
interference be? As this person appears
to have been endowed with enormous power and authority he could not be
allowed to have a name of ridicule for those who wished to use him. If he was to be the “rock” upon which an
empire was to be built, he would have to be given a name that would resemble
that rock. The “rock”, however, on which
the Church would be built, is neither rendered as “Kefa” nor “Petros”, but as: “samek
- segol - lamed - patach – ayin”: “Sela” or “Se’lah” = Rock. And it does not refer to the person, but to
the revelation given to Simon in Matth.16:16,17 just
previously;
Simon Peter(?)
answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God
(Matthew’s deification by the “virgin birth” theory).”
Jesus replied,
“Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you
by man, but by my Father in
heaven.”
There remains another major question
mark regarding this foundational ideology of the Church, as derived from
Matthew. According to John’s Gospel, it
was not Simon who received the “revelation” of the identity of Jesus. It was Nathanael.
John 1 :49 Then
Nathanael declared; “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the
King of Israel”.
As Kefa did not feature here, this real new name was left unchanged... for
us to know. It is no surprise that the
mighty Catholic Church refused to have the laity read the Bible for sixteen
centuries - for fear of being caught out!
Mark’s rendition of this interaction between Yeshua
and Peter is very brief and merely states that it was Peter who received the
revelation. There is nothing in Mark about
the change of name and Yeshua also addresses him, “Peter”, as Satan.
Mark 8 :29
...Peter answered, “You are the
Messiah”.
:33 “...Out
of my sight, Satan!”
Mark:3:16 contains an explanation in brackets:
Mark 3 :16 These
are the twelve he appointed: Simon
(to whom he gave the
name Peter)…
Could this have appeared in
the original? Or is it part of the
general imposition of the name “Petros”, and its concomitant ideology, on the
New Testament?
And so we find Yeshua
addressing this man both as “Kefa” and as “Shatan” - both as “small green stone
of divination” and as “the dragon”. Is
there not a clear correlation - cleverly disguised by the imposition of the
non-existent “Petros”? The Church had
disposed of Urim and Thummim - those sacred objects in the poach on the heart
of the High Priest - by which Yahweh communicated with the king and the people
of Israel. Urim representing light and
Thummim, absolute truth. Instead, it
opted for the “Seerstone” as its source of
“truth”.
Finally, on the name “Kefa”: It is not the strong one which it is presented
to be. And, together with its female
connotation, it would therefore qualify for the “kuf” rather than the “kaf” in
its numbers.
Simon Peter is the one who
unwittingly sowed the seed of a “False Messiah”. His succession in the Roman Babylon created
that False Messiah on the model of their prevailing platform of idol worship
and the Mystery religions, which is the “substance” of the first beast. The False Messiah exists only as an image, as
do all the idols of the nations... without substance.
THE FINAL TEST OF THIS THESIS
IS THE MORTAL CONFLICT BETWEEN
2 JESUS
(ACTS 1:7) and ST. PETER (ACTS 2:16,17):
2 JESUS: No
one knows when Yom Yahweh will come… when Elijah will
come… when the kingdom of Israel will be restored… when the
Son
of Man Davidic Messiah
will come. Only God knows.
St. Peter: God says all these things have happened.