THE CRUCIAL MESSAGE

Repent and get yourselves ready to enter the Kingdom. That is the crucial message! This is the motive for one’s ethical moral living. The motive is to become like the lord Messiah Jesus as we allow him to live his life through us by his spirit. We must obey the words that God – Yehovah gave to His son Jesus to give to us and do so to prepare ourselves to enter his soon-coming kingdom.

We anticipate the kingdom of God that will be brought about by His agency soon. I believe that we are very close to the end of this age. We need to prepare ourselves for the advent of the kingdom. God has placed His spirit and the spirit of the lord Messiah Jesus in us which is a down payment of what we will receive when we are resurrected as glorified immortal men and women to meet the lord Messiah Jesus in the clouds. We are to use this gift of His spirit and the spirit of His son Jesus to battle Satan and his angels and human agents.

Jesus has given us the means to prepare for entrance to the kingdom through the narrow gate by enabling us by his spirit to understand the beatitudes and parables. Jesus' entire ministry was centered on proclaiming the coming kingdom of God and how to prepare to enter that kingdom when it is instituted here on the earth.

Christendom does not seem to consider the message Jesus spent his entire ministry proclaiming as very important today. In fact, anyone who attends church services regularly should ask themselves when is the last time they have heard a sermon about the soon-coming kingdom of God. Probably never.

We can trust permanently in the love of God – Yehovah with good conscience only if we desire with all our heart, mind, being, and strength, to become members of the community of the kingdom of God that Jesus will establish when God – Yehovah sends him down to take his place on the throne of David at Zion, at the end of this age.

How do we know that we will be there? Jesus says: “Lo, I am with you to the end of this age.” IF we, enabled by his spirit, hold fast to serving him and obey the words his Father gave to him to give to us, we will be ready to enter the kingdom. Our God and Father Yehovah never ever asks us to do anything that He does not provide us with His enabling spirit to carry out His will. It is all of Him and all we must do is walk before Him in faith-obedience, which means to be totally committed to doing His will in our lives.

What is His will? To love Him with all our hearts, minds, beings, and strength and to love our neighbors as ourselves which we can only do with His enabling spirit working in us and through us. It is all of Him and nothing of us, and yet in His amazing grace and love when we carry out His will enabled to do so by His spirit, then He rewards us in amazing, wonderful ways! God – Yehovah is love, truly!

How was all this made possible?

Jesus regarded his death as a “sin-offering sacrifice” which would ransom the people from the second death that will take place at the White Throne Judgement. What must be done now is that Jesus has become a “sin-offering sacrifice”, who became sin for us, who knew no sin, thereby reconciling all mankind to his God and Father Yehovah. People who have come to realize that Jesus is the one whom God – Yehovah has sent for their salvation - deliverance and must repent and be baptized, thus becoming new creations in the lord Jesus. receiving the indwelling power of God’s spirit.

If people reject the one whom God – Yehovah has sent for their salvation - deliverance the result for them will be destruction in the Lake of Fire at the White Throne Judgement, experiencing the second death. Their names will not be found in the Book of Life.

What a motivation to strive to become one who believes in the one whom God – Yehovah has sent and obey all the words his God and Father Yehovah gave him to give to the world! If you follow the creed of the lord Messiah Jesus given in Mark 12:28-32 you will become a glorified immortal man/woman and co-rule with the Messiah over the nations during his 1,000-year rule, when he establishes the Theocratic World Government at Jerusalem.

Note: The creed of the lord Messiah Jesus is to love God – Yehovah with all your heart, mind, being, and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.

Now you have a job to do. Search the scriptures to see if what I have said is in fact true. There is an awesome future awaiting all those who come to believe in the one whom God – Yehovah has sent and obey his creed.

IT IS FINISHED

When Jesus spoke the words, “It is finished” he was announcing the completion of the most stupendous undertaking the universe has ever seen, witnessed by the angels of God - Yehovah from above. Those words expressed the perfect demonstration of God’s – Yehovah’s love for mankind. It is the shout of the conqueror over the battle won!

In all this, what a disclosure of love comes forth! He loved me, a wretch like me, a repentant, pardoned sinner says, “he loved me and gave himself as a sin-offering sacrifice, for me.” This love of the Messiah Jesus is the love of the man, the son of God – Jesus, showing forth the lover of the eternal God – Yehovah who is revealed in him and through him. He now sits at the right hand of his God and Father Yehovah, who has made him lord over all His creation and Messiah. Angels, authorities, and powers are being made subject to him.

He has saved us from the bondage of sin and introduced us to the glorious liberty as the children of God – Yehovah. Because of his sin-offering sin that reconciled mankind to his God and Father Yehovah we upon repentance, give up being independent beings and becoming totally dependent on serving God – Yehovah and His uniquely begotten son Jesus. When we are baptized, we die to self and rise in newness of life as new creations in the lord Messiah Jesus. We become the righteousness of God – Yehovah in him and are grafted into the Israel of God and by the spirit of adoption placed as sons/daughters of God in His household.

Not only that, but we will at the resurrection become co-rulers with the lord Messiah over the nations during the 1,000-year rule when God – Yehovah sends the lord Jesus down to take his place on the throne of David at Zion.

With all these truths set forth before people, why would anyone not want to have a place of service in the 1000-year rule of the lord Messiah Jesus and do so as new creations in him? For people to want to make that decision they need to hear the message of the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus. That is where we who obey the lord Jesus do what he has commissioned us to do, which is to preach, publish and spread the message of the kingdom of God to the nations. Then people will have the decision to either choose life or choose death. It is God’s – Yehovah‘s desire that all men/women be saved, but He knows that most people will reject His message of salvation to their eventual destruction in the Lake of Fire at the White Throne Judgement.  

MEETING WITH OUR GOD AND FATHER YEHOVAH

Jeremiah 10:23-24 (NASB) “I know, O Yehovah, that a man’s way is not in himself; Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps. Correct me, O Yehovah, but with justice; Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.”

The disciples said to Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1). They would not have asked unless they had wanted to learn.

We are commanded: “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ... Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, ... And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ephesians 6:11, 13, 17).

Jesus says, “My sheep hear my voice ... and they follow me” (John 10:27). Are we listening?

The ultimate, or final, prayer, the one that will move mountains [major problems]. It was simply this: “Nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will” (Matthew 26:39).

This is the rest that remains for God’s people today, the rest referred to in Hebrews 4. It is to come into the blessed promise of the New Covenant, in which God declares to us, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My child.”

Secret Prayer Closet

To have a “secret closet” means simply to be shut in with God anywhere, anytime; giving quality, chosen time to seek Him and call on His name [Yehovah].

Do you have a closet of prayer? Do you have a habit of shutting yourself in with God?

Do you have a daily practice of getting alone with God? That is what the prayer closet is all about, practice.

Jesus said, “When you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place” (Matthew 6:6). In other words, when you go into your closet, don't start praying until you shut the door!

This means, don't talk to your Father with a cluttered mind. Shut out all the thoughts that keep you drifting away from Him. Be awake, focused, not wasting words, not thinking of something else.

When you come into the presence of the King, the Bible says, “He sees in secret!”

If we are to meet with God and be heard by Him, then we have to be where He is, in secret! “Your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly” (Matthew 6:6). God has invited you to come confidently to His throne of grace; and it is behind closed doors!

“The day you learn to be specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.”

Scripture makes it clear that the answer to everything in our lives is prayer mixed with faith. The apostle Paul writes: “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God” (Philippians 4:6). Paul is telling us, “Seek our God and Father Yehovah about every area of your life and thank Him ahead of time for hearing you!”

Paul emphasizes that we are always to pray first and not as a last resort, going to our friends first, then to a pastor or counselor, and finally ending up on our knees. Jesus tells us, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:33). We are to go to our God and Father Yehovah first!

God hears the cries of His children and answers them with tender love.

The eyes of Yehovah are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry.” (Psalms 34:15).

“The righteous cry out, and Yehovah hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles” (verse 17).

“This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him” (1 John 5:14-15).

These promises are overwhelming evidence of the love that God has for those who come to Him in faith.

The two main subjects of our intercession are our own spiritual growth and the needs of our brothers and sisters in the lord and our families and friends.

We cannot neglect praying seriously for the dire needs all around us.

“Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord [Yehovah] of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest’” (Matthew 9:37-38)

Take the following steps to guard your prayer time to be able to withstand all the pressures of this world and the unseen pressures of Satanic influence.

1. Make communion with your God and Father Yehovah your primary goal in life.

Only when prayer becomes important enough will you make the time to do it.

The truth is, it is impossible to waste time when you are in prayer, seeking your God and Father Yehovah.

The most effective work for God - Yehovah we'll ever do is to come to Him in prayer.  The praying Christian is hard at work moving kingdoms, shattering strongholds, and, in the process, becoming a true son/daughter of God - Yehovah!

2. You must consider your appointments with God more sacred than any appointments with people!

Communion in prayer and study in God's word cannot be optional.

Job declared, “I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food” (Job 23:12).

3. You must reject every interruption to your prayer time or study of the word of God that is within your power.   

Be aware that Satanic powers conspire to interrupt you in supernatural ways when you have committed yourself to prayer and seeking the study of Yehovah’s word!

CONCLUSION

We were made for fellowship with our God and Father Yehovah.

Does your heart cry out, “Yehovah, you are my Father, you are my everything. You are my entire being’s great pleasure, and I love talking to you!”

There are many times during the day when the Spirit of God will motivate you to communicate with him about something you have seen, read, thought, or heard. Start by praising Him with thanksgiving and seek His guidance on what you seen, read, thought, or heard. It will happen often when you allow yourself to be led by His Spirit.

There is not a problem that our God and Father Yehovah cannot solve through prayer. People who truly pray do not stay confused. People who pray get guidance.

God’s first answer to our every prayer and heart cry is His peace! All praying people have this one thing in common: No matter how bad they feel going into their secret closet of prayer, they come out filled with His peace!

THE BEATITUDES

1. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

2. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

3. “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

4. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

5. “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. 

6. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

7. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

8. “Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of God - Yehovah. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you say every evil against you on my account. “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward is great in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” 

Now the first three Beatitudes are concerned with our need, our consciousness of need; poor in spirit, mourning because of our sinfulness, meek as the result of a true understanding of the nature of self and its egocentricity, that has ruined the whole of life. These first three beatitudes emphasize the vital importance of a deep awareness of need.

Then comes the great statement of satisfaction of the need, God's provision for it: `Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.'

Having realized the need, we hunger and thirst, and then God comes with His wondrous answer that we will be filled, fully satisfied.

From that point we are looking at the result of that satisfaction, the result of being filled. We become merciful, pure in heart, peacemakers.

After that, there is the outcome of all of doing this, `persecuted for righteousness' sake'.

It seems to me that the three beatitudes which follow the central statement in verse six correspond to the first three that lead up to it.

The merciful are those who realize their poverty of spirit; they realize that they have nothing in themselves at all. As we have seen, that is the most essential step to becoming merciful. It is only when a man/woman has reached that view of himself/herself that he/she will have the right view of others. So, we find that the man/woman who realizes he/she is poor in spirit and who is utterly dependent upon God - Yehovah is the man/woman who is merciful to others.

It follows from that, that this second statement which says, `Blessed are the pure in heart', also corresponds to the second statement in the first group, which was, `Blessed are they that mourn'.

What did they mourn about? We saw that they were mourning about the state of their hearts; they were mourning about their sinfulness; they were mourning, not only because they did sinful things, but still more because they ever wanted to do what was sinful. They realized the central perversion in their character and personality; it was that which caused them to mourn.

Very well then; here is something which corresponds to that: 'Blessed are the pure in heart.' Who are the pure in heart? They are those who are mourning the impurity of their hearts. The only way to have a pure heart is to realize you have an impure heart and to mourn about it to such an extent that you do that which alone can lead to cleansing and purity. 

In the same way, when we look at `peacemakers' we shall find that the peacemakers are those who are meek. If a person is not meek, he is not likely to be a peacemaker.

The order in which Jesus expresses the beatitudes is a way to discover what underlies their precise arrangement which the lord adopted. We take the three steps in order of need; then we come to the satisfaction; then we look at the results that follow and find that they correspond precisely to the three that lead up to it.

This means that this amazing and glorious statement: `Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God' comes at this point. The emphasis is on the purity of the heart and not on the promise. If we look at it from that viewpoint, it will enable us to see why our lord set out this precise order.

He puts his emphasis upon the heart: 'Blessed are the pure in heart.' God's interest is in our hearts. In other words, we realize that our faith is not just a matter of our understanding of the word of God, but most important the condition of our hearts.

To be a follower of the lord Jesus is not just a matter of conduct and external behavior. It starts for all of us with this question: What is the state of our hearts?

The heart is the center of our personality. It is not just the seat of our affections and emotions. It is the center of our being and personality. It is the font out of which everything thing else comes. It includes the mind; the will; and the heart. It is the total man, and that is what our lord emphasizes. `Blessed are the pure in heart'; blessed are those who are pure, not merely on the surface but in the center of their being.

All our troubles arise out of the heart which, we are told by Jeremiah, is `deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?' indeed, mankind’s troubles originate at the very center of their being.

The problem is at the center of our being. The trouble is what is in the heart, and the heart is desperately wicked and deceitful. That is the problem. What can change the hearts of men and women?

What the gospel message proposes is to raise us up from our deceitful and wicked heart condition to become dead to self, as new creations in the lord Messiah Jesus, with newness of life, freed from the bondage of sin and enabled by his spirit to overcome the deceitfulness and wickedness of the heart! To become pure in heart means to become like the lord Jesus the Messiah, `who did not sin, neither was guile found in his mouth' He was perfect and spotless and pure and entire. We can become like the lord Messiah Jesus by the enabling power of his spirit working in us and through us.

Note: It says the pure in heart will see God – Yehovah. When will the pure in heart see God – Yehovah? It will be after the earth has been cleansed by fire and then recreated by Yehovah. The heavens will also be recreated. This will occur after the White Throne Judgment has taken place. Only those who are immortal, glorified men and women [the new humanity] will be able to enter the newly created earth. At that time the New Jerusalem [whose measurements are amazing] will descend from where it has been created in the heavens and God – Yehovah will come down to dwell with the lord Messiah Jesus at Zion in the Tempe, and we will see Him at that time face to face. Glorious time indeed!

Note: The new earth and the new heavens are depicted on the last great day, the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles. In the feasts of God – Yehovah we see His overall plan that consists of 7,000 years for mankind to see if they can be totally committed to following Him and fails to do so, as we see at the last rebellion of mankind against His son the Messiah Jesus and those who with him in Jerusalem at the end of his 1,000-year rule. The 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles depicts when the New Humanity that God – Yehovah has been creating since Adam's fall will enter into the newly created earth and heavens to live as glorified men and women for all time surrounding God – Yehovah and His son at Zion. The New Humanity will be able to enjoy the newly created earth and heaven for all time. What a great reward for those who hold fast to the end of their lives or this age!

Paul's confidence is also mine when he says: `He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus the Messiah'.

We who are new creations in the Messiah are in God’s – Yehovah’s hands, and God’s – Yehovah’s salvation process is ongoing. God is dealing with us, and our hearts are being cleansed. We are His workmanship. God has set His hand to this task, and I know, because of that, that a day is coming when all those in the Messiah shall be faultless and blameless, without spot or wrinkle, without any defilement. We shall be able to enter the gate of the holy city, leaving everything that is unclean outside, solely because He has brought us there. It is all of Him and nothing of us!

If there is anyone who disagrees with what I have written, I will be glad to hear your proof from the scriptures as to where I am wrong. Bruce Lyon 

SWEET LITTLE BABY TAMMUZ

In the book of Ezekiel, we read how an angel exposed the religious perversions that were being covertly conducted in the Temple.

The angel brought me to the gate of the house of Yehovah and I beheld women weeping for Tammuz. Then said he unto me, you shalt see greater abominations. And he brought me into the inner court where about twenty-five men had their backs toward the Temple, and they faced the east and worshipped the sun (Ezekiel 8:14-16).

Worship of the sun and of Tammuz started in ancient Babylon. Nimrod built a city as the epicenter of his world government. It was there in Babylon that Nimrod was worshipped as “god.” He bore totalitarian rule over the people, reducing them to slaves in his political, economic, and religious systems. According to ancient Jewish tradition, it was Noah’s righteous, eldest son Shem who slew Nimrod and scattered his body parts throughout the land of Shinar.

That should have effectively ended the worship of Nimrod, but his devoted followers erected a tower that reached into the heavens—a huge obelisk just like the ones we see in Washington D.C., Heliopolis (Egypt), Rome, London, Paris, New York City, and around the globe. These obelisks are images of the uncircumcised penis of Nimrod, the father of Babylonian sun god worship. The Creator calls this obelisk, “the image of jealousy” and an “abomination.”

A previously broken-down ancient Roman obelisk was re-erected in Israel in the summer of 2001. Coincidently, a homosexual perversion pride parade in Tel Aviv seemingly inaugurated its erection ... and in the month of Tammuz, no less!

Nimrod’s widow, Beltis (also known as Semiramus), would not willingly let the kingdom slip through her fingers when her husband was killed. She proclaimed that Nimrod did not die, but that he had ascended into the heavens and was now the sun god. He later impregnated her with the rays of the sun. (At least, that was his widow’s excuse.) She delivered that illegitimate child on the day of the rebirth of the sun, the Winter Solstice ... which, on the ancient Babylonian calendar (before the procession of the equinoxes), fell on December 25^th; the day that Nimrod, the sun god, was reborn as Tammuz.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DECEMBER 25

The December 25th birthdate of Tammuz, the Babylonian sun god, comes as a shock to some in the West but is common knowledge among Jewish scholars and historians. The Jews were taken captive in Babylon for their disobedience concerning sun worship, even though they staunchly maintained, “That’s not what ‘Tammuz’s birthday’ means to us.”

They had also been captives in Egypt, where they took on the worship of Ra, the Egyptian sun god who was born on ... December 25th.

In 168 B.C., the Syrian/Greek General Antiochus Epiphanes occupied Jerusalem and set up a statue of Zeus in the Temple and proclaimed that Zeus was god ... on Zeus’ birthday, December 25th.

When Rome conquered Persia, the Roman Army adopted the worship of Mithra, the Persian version of Babylonian Tammuz. The symbol of Mithra was the same as the symbol of Tammuz: The Babylonian “Tau,” or “cross.”

When Rome conquered Jerusalem, they hung Jewish patriots on the cross of Mithra as sacrifices to the Roman sun god who was born on ... you guessed it ... December 25th.

The confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel scattered the heathen into the far corners of the Earth and confused the names of their gods, but the rituals of worship remained much the same wherever they went. Many significant historical events concerning pagan worship occurred on December 25th; but of this one thing I can absolutely assure you that Yeshua - Jesus of Nazareth was not born on ... December 25th.

But who was? Little baby Tammuz: the “reincarnated” Nimrod.

FORTY DAYS OF WEEPING FOR TAMMUZ [during the time we refer to as lent]

Tammuz, so the story goes, was gored to death by a wild boar in a hunting accident when he was 40 years old. Hence, 40 days of weeping for Tammuz was instituted: one day for each year of his life. During that time, sun god worshipers would deny themselves a pleasure in this life, for the sake of Tammuz’ pleasure in the afterlife.

Sound familiar? It gets better!

EASTER RECONSIDERED

When Nimrod’s wife, Tammuz’s mother, died many years later, the exalted “Queen of Heaven” was sent back to earth by the gods on the first S-U-N Day after the Vernal Equinox. She arrived in a giant egg, which landed in the Euphrates River and broke open to allow her to emerge, reincarnated as the bare-breasted goddess of fertility and sexual desire. Her new name? Ishtar - Easter. To proclaim her divinity, Easter changed a bird into an egg-laying rabbit. On the western slope of the Hinnom valley in Jerusalem, in the dingy depths of the Canaanite caves designated for the worship of Easter and her son Tammuz, the priests of Easter would impregnate virgins on the altar of Easter at the Easter sunrise service. One year later the priests would sacrifice those three-month-old infants on the same altar, and dye Easter eggs in the blood of those sacrificed babies. To this very day, one denomination allows their Easter eggs to be dyed only one color: blood red! When you ask them why, they have no idea how the tradition started or what it rehearses ... but now you know!

Easter Sun day (the day set aside for sun god worship) is the day that concludes the 40 days of weeping for Tammuz; called by many “Lent.” From the time of its inception in Nimrod’s Babylon until this very day, this 40-day pagan festival climaxes as the sun god worshippers kill “the wild boar that killed Tammuz” and eat “ham” after the Easter sunrise orgy and child sacrifice service. There is one day that I can assure you that Yeshua – Jesus did not rise from the grave ... Easter sun day! And He never participated in “Lent!” WWJD? He would never, ever celebrate “Easter!”

Frequently, Easter and Passover are an entire month apart. Why? They represent the worship of two different gods. Easter is celebrated according to a pagan sun calendar developed in Babylon in accordance with the worship of Nimrod. Passover is celebrated according to the observance of the biblical new moon and the ripening of the barley in the land of Israel. Yeshua - Jesus kept the Feast of Passover. All of the rehearsals that were embedded in that feast were fulfilled in the year of his resurrection. On the other hand, Easter is the rehearsal of child sacrifice and fertility rites of the pagan sun god worshippers.

MAKE YOUR CHOICE CAREFULLY!

Which celebration should you keep? It depends entirely upon which GOD you serve; it’s your choice. Now you understand why the Holy One instructed us, “Do not learn the way of the Heathen and how they worship their gods, and then do the same to me – it is an abomination.”

Christmas and Easter are not celebrations of the birth and resurrection of Yeshua Jesus of Nazareth, but the continuation of child sacrifice festivals that were hatched in Babylon two thousand years before His birth!

We all recognize that the pagan calendar, which has been adopted by the Christian world, names every day of the week and nearly every month of the year after a pagan god or fallen angel. But many are surprised to note that the fourth month on the modern Jewish calendar is named after the pagan god Tammuz, in direct violation of the Torah, which states, “You shall not allow the names of other gods to come out of your mouth” (Exodus 23:12-14). I only speak the names of pagan gods for the same reason that the prophets of Israel spoke their names: to expose the perverted traditions that we have inherited from our disobedient ancestors.

COMING OUT OF BABYLON

The Almighty called Abraham to come out of Babylon by crossing over the Euphrates River and entering into a place where his offspring would be given a parcel of land “flowing with milk and honey,” and a job to do. Abraham’s descendants were to purge the land of every last vestige of the pagan sun god worship, and then they were to be YHWH’s [Yehovah’s] priests to the entire Earth. They were to be a nation of prophets who would make known the ways of the true GOD and call all nations to repentance. Israel was not obedient to the command to cleanse the land of paganism, but rather, they adopted the practices of the heathen.

The church was given a commission by the lord Messiah Jesus to spread the word of the coming Kingdom [Kingship] of God – Yehovah to all the nations of the world. They were to keep the creed of the lord Messiah Jesus as outlined in Mark 12:28-32. They were to love God – Yehovah with all their heart, mind, being, and strength and to love their neighbors as themselves enabled to do so by the power of the Spirit of God which they received when they were baptized, becoming new creations in the lord Messiah, and slaves bought and paid for by his shed blood when he presented himself to his God and Father Yehovah as a sin-offering sacrifice on the stake, reconciling humanity to Him!

The church has failed to do what they were commissioned to do, so much so that Jesus makes an amazing statement when he says: when the Son of Man returns to this earth will he find faith? Luke 18:8: “When the Son of Man comes, will he find the faith on the earth?”

The Torah [God's instruction] reminds us, “Do not learn the way of the heathen, how they worship and serve their gods, and then do the same and say that you are doing it for me, it is an abomination” (Deuteronomy 12:30-31). Just as the Almighty told Abraham in Genesis, He also, in the book of Revelation, tells those living at the end of the age to “come out of Babylon.”

Now the question is: "Will you come out of Babylon?"