Matter of Life and Death
Part 7 of 7
David writes in v. 11 of the 19th Psalm, “Moreover by them (His Torah) your servant is warned”. Adam was warned with a choice of trees from which to eat. Mankind was warned through Godly men such as Enoch and Noah. We were further warned through righteous men such as Moses, David, and the apostles. Yet, are we listening today any better than the constituents of these men?
Whether or not we implement righteous Torah in our lives will determine whether we live or die in the coming year or so. The time of His coming is upon us, even at the very door. We now find ourselves just a few short minutes before the midnight hour. Sadly, many will not ready for His coming.
Because of mixture lies taught by modern christianity, many good and well meaning people have put their trust in a rapture that just isn't going to happen. They have been duped into believing YHVH is going to “zap” them out of this world before the tribulation begins. When such fails to happen, ardent supporters of rapture theology may well be part of the prophesied great apostasy.
Survival in the coming days will heavily depend upon whether we live according to our mixed ways or live by His Torah. The fact is, only through Torah can one find the correct road map for the end times within which we now live. End time prophecy is not determined according to modern church theology, but according to prophecy outlined within Torah.
Without even a hint of the “church” included, Jeremiah says in 31: 31 the “new covenant” is specifically for “the house of Judah and the house of Israel”. Just as in our redemption and hope of salvation, end time prophesy centers around these two houses. We are NOT going to heaven! YHVH's faithful will endure three and a half years of tribulation before entering His kingdom for a thousand year stay in Jerusalem, Israel.
Because these two houses of YHVH's people repeatedly disobeyed His Torah, they were sent into exile—Israel by way of Assyria, and Judah a generation later by way of Babylon. For the part of Judah, their captivity was only for a short time. Soon, they would begin to return to their land, but not to become a nation again until May of 1948.
However, the captivity of Israel was far more serious. Theirs was a captivity of assimilation among the nations so great they would lose all sense of identity. Even so, YHVH promised not to leave them to their fate. He promised in the last days to bring them back into their land.
He has now begun the process of gathering from the the four corners of the earth His scattered remnant of Israel—called Ephraim in Scripture. He says of the son of Joseph through Moses in Leviticus 26: 40, “If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against Me, and that also they have walked contrary unto Me...”
For over three decades, there has been a rapidly growing spiritual awakening with pursuing the purity of Torah as its focal point. People all over the world are waking up and coming to grips with their role in these last day prophecies. Because of their love and devotion to YHVH, they are assuming personal responsibility for living out their faith by making Torah an integral part of their lives.
Because they have confessed their iniquity and recognized the sin of their fathers, v. 40, YHVH says through Moses in v. 42, “Then will I remember My covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land”.
Even though the sins of their fathers and theirs we so great, YHVH has not totally cast away His chosen remnant. He says in v. 44, “And yet for all that (disobedience), when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them: for I am the LORD their Elohim”.
He says in v. 45, “But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their Elohim: I am the LORD”.
As David says, in concluding support of Moses, in v. 11 of the 19th Psalm, I say to my readers. “In keeping them (His Torah) there is great reward.” In concert with the title of this section, there is one final reward/judgment for keeping/rejecting His Holy Torah. John speaks in Revelation 12: 17 of a people that “have the testimony of Yeshua the Messiah AND keep the commandments of YHVH”.
Many certainly have “the testimony of Yeshua”. Yet, because they reject His Holy Torah, they WILL NOT survive the coming years of tribulation. It is for us as David says in 19: 11, “Your servant has been warned”. According to Daniel's timeline, the final seven years may have begun this year, 2010. Choose the encouragement of His pure ways and come with us on our wilderness journey to Jerusalem.
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