While Tribulation is widely seen solely as punishment, Israel – a people punished by God for disobedience TWICE before – will realize they have seen the movie before and lead the REPENTANT back to true worship of the Lord – and that covenant applies to EVERYONE (a mixed multitude) who will repent.

I know many who don’t give a second thought to being unkind, or to more serious issues like tacit support of abortion or LGBT. Tribulation is a chance to get right before final judgment. If you find yourself in Tribulation, do like Israel and REPENT – perhaps you may yet find the LORD merciful – even after a THIRD time of turning away.

The “church” is not keeping the Lord’s new moons or feasts, and most of the time, not even His sabbaths. In fulfillment of the prophecy, “night is coming that no man may work,” (John 9:4) believers were early led astray from the truth into darkness.

The error is simple: Jehovah’s calendar is based on a BRIGHT, FULL moon – not on the occult, dark moon.

As JEHOVAH is to be sought while He may be found (Isaiah 55:6), not observing HIS feasts, and not keeping – though occasionally stumbling onto – HIS sabbaths (whose sabbaths are we keeping?) has led to feckless congregations of believers most of the time.**

It is time for the Gentiles to break free of the dark traditions inherited by our fathers and walk in HIS light. Observe Jeremiah 16:19:

“O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.”

We should have realized a full moon exodus was incorrect – how would Israel have “sat in darkness” in Egypt on Passover night if it were a BRIGHT moon? Why would they have needed the pillar of fire to lead them out? Why did the troops need torches to locate Jesus if a BRIGHT moon were nearing? Why would we not realize a dark-to-dark Moon cycle is the life cycle of a MAN, not of the bright-to-bright eternal life of the Son of God who left the brightness of His glory with the Father to come down and be humbled and die, but to then resurrected to restored to glory with the Father?

The time for Atonement is RAPIDLY approaching, and the time for the congregation to rediscover the Word during the seventh month – a story told in Nehemiah 8 – might be prophetic.

Consider Joel 1:14-15, also referring to this feast – we know since the 9th-10th is for the day of Atonement:

“Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.”

This next W*dnesday night, Sept 19, 2024, will reveal the moon rising in glory signalling Chodesh and Sabbaths on following Th*rsdays. As the most important days of the year – and perhaps in any of our lifetimes! – are closely following Chodesh, you can bet I’ll be blowing my trumpet Wednesday night!

*Feel Isaiah’s lament that in saying the days of our week we recognize pagan deities. Ugh.

**At least ONE revival broke out during the time that the LORD’S sabbaths and the WORLD’S sabbaths coincided: Cane Ridge. When the full moon arose AFTER SUNSET on S*turday, July 25th, 1801, it marked Sunday, 7/26/1801, as the holy day, chodesh, along with the four successive Sundays: August 2, 9, 16, and 25. As the revival is commonly dated August 6-12, having an appointed sabbath day in the middle is at least one data point supporting the gathering of the faithful on the days on which Jehovah intends to meet His people.

The “church” has failed to understand Biblical prophecy.

The fundamental idea of prophecy is this: the Bible contains literally true stories that represent literally true parallels with corresponding characters and events in the past OR the future.

Three such stories form the basis of most of human history:

1. The literal six-day creation nearly 6,000 years ago which parallels and includes the six ages of creation previous to it. God not only rested on the Sabbath Day, but in parallel He is providing REST for His people via this Age, while His loyal creator-agent angels take this Age as rest. The existence of this relationship is proven by coupling the Jubilee calendar with knowing the Millennium is the Lord’s Sabbath – which He swore in His wrath that those who did not look upon the bronze serpent would not enter.
2. The arc of Israel out of Egypt to the Establishment of the Kingdom. The crossing of the Jordan corresponds to the 144,000 and mixed multitude walking bodily into conditional everlasting life through the Tribulation. The 7/7/7 motifs of Joshua and the Revelation tie these together.
3. The Davidic Kingdom arc from the coronation of David to its end in AD 70. This is parallelled by believers in the Messianic Kingdom – augmented by a remnant from the Davidic Kingdom – which truly unites Gentile and Jew in Messiah. The Tribulation corresponds to the invasion by the King of Babylon, while the AD 70 destruction of Jerusalem is contrasted with the establishment of the everlasting Kingdom after the complete destruction of the Enemy that will then surround it.

Once the structure is used to properly place people and events where they go, the intricacy and completeness of prophecy becomes breathtaking – and pressing, as the “church” today is the addressee of the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah.

The spirit of antichrist is now orthodox doctrine in the “church.” By teaching that men cannot be free of bondage to sin, they are teaching that Jesus did not come in flesh like ours: else, by having HIS LIFE empowered by HIS SPIRIT, the Spirit of Holiness, we might be able to resist sin as Jesus did!

This error has been promulgated and normalized by carnal men who did not experience the supernatural gift of a new nature, so therefore could not teach it. And unless one is baptized with the knowledge of the Holy Spirit (of Holiness!) one cannot receive Him.

It is likely that nearly every Gentile man is born into bondage to sin, and hence feels the Romans 7 bondage. Men freed by God from this spiritual leprosy are the chosen priesthood: the SONS OF GOD. All creation awaits their appearance because they will inaugurate the TRUE CHURCH, shake the Enemy’s hold on this earth, and thereby force the Enemy to incarnate so as not to lose his hold on power. So we await GENTILE MEN to undergo this FULL GOSPEL GIFT.

Here is how:

1. Start with the tongue. As Isaiah observed, we are people of unclean lips. Ditch not only all foul and coarse language, but quit crediting pagan gods like F*ortuna for the blessings received from the hand of Jehovah Elohim. And it IS Je-Ho-Vah, from the Hebrew verbs for Will Be, Is, ans Was – hence John in Rev 1:4. Y*hweh is the name of J*ve (the pagan god J*piter). The same Bible translations that use one tend to use the other!

2. Guard against lying. For example, politics today is full of deceit. Sure, one may BELIEVE certain people have done certain things, but without solid evidence, accusations should be appropriately qualified. Assiduously obey all other commands you find in the Word: including tithing (in at least some way).

3. Examine attitudes. Hateful attitudes toward any human being – fellow children of God (not Sons of God, necessarily) is unacceptable to the Lord. Even if such people are serving the Enemy, they are deceived, and even if not, to be pitied.

4. If one does all the things one CAN do, God may miraculously come in a moment of seemingly unbearable temptation when one is crying out for deliverance and DO what one cannot do: put the flesh to death. It is immediate and miraculous. (You may hear the sceam of what was slain at the instant of death, even!)

5. After some time of miraculous numbness to the former bondage, one can again see and remember the feeling of the former bondage – which may seem disappointing – but one must remember the priesthood is the Lord’s living sin detectors. Just like the priests of Leviticus, they are experts at recognizing sin – having smelled, tasted, and died because of it. They will do this forevermore – knowing good AND evil, unlike the Jews and the Resurrected who thankfully never will know such wretchedness!

Any two Sons of God who meet together for the purpose of praising God create the conduit which may facilitate the flow of the Spirit. TRUE revival is only this: the same manifestation of the Spirit seen at Pentecost. With PROPER understanding of the Spirit, the priesthood, and the Church transmitted to all, and with the Spirit invoked to ensure pretenders and imposters are not admitted, this priesthood can serve the Saints as the willing wash their robes in the cleaning flood of God’s grace! Maranatha!

The TRUE CHURCH is today what it was from the start: a Spirit-inspired gathering of believers led by MEN who have been crucified with Christ and raised to new life.

Any gathering that admits carnal men to leadership will soon quench the Spirit’s move. To prevent the rise of the unqualified to leadership, the Spirit should be invoked and given permission to forcibly (if necessary) remove those who seek the office without qualification. NO man should ever desire to maintain his own life while misleading God’s people.

The discipline of the Spirit seen with Ananias and Sapphira is necessary to purify the ranks.

The spiritual shortcomings of “the church” can be clearly seen in music. It seems God has given us music to reveal and illustrate spiritual truths. And the breakdowns that lead to pathetic offerings of praise reveal the spiritual pathologies of the people engaged in it.

Understanding the key note and the scale mirrors understanding there is a God and knowing what He expects. The ability to read and sing praise mirrors the ability to read and do what God’s Word tells us to do. The ability to read and follow rhythm mirrors the ability to discern and follow the Spirit.

The rise of copyrighted worship music, like the use of electronic and/or equal-tuned instruments mirrors the overwhelming influence of the world. The outsourcing of God’s praise to professionals or worse yet recordings shows a people unwilling to devote themselves to presenting a worthy sacrifice.

Just as corporate worship was being revived about two to three centuries ago, church leaders turned over music and general education to the State, which promptly divorced human achievement from its ultimate goal: God’s praise by ALL HIS PEOPLE.

I know there is next to NO interest on the part of self-proclaimed believers in humbling themselves to learn, or to show their novice abilities in order to learn and strengthen skills, or devote themselves to practice and excellence, BUT

GLORIOUS, MEANINGFUL, HEARTFELT PRAISE FROM THE VOICES OF THE ASSEMBLED WILL BE THE MARK OF THE CHURCH OF THE SAINTS, reflecting the devotion, harmony, and beauty from, among, and within God’s TRUE CHURCH.

“The church” is a stumbling block to belief because of its calumny to God and His FAIR and JUST judgment.

First, they hold to the doctrine of ECT – Eternal Conscious Torment – even after Edward Fudge’s masterful analysis of the Biblical evidence in his book “A Fire That Consumes.” This error is made more egregious since those who hold it claim they are “Bible-only” “fundamentalist” “literalists” – when the Bible LITERALLY says it is the WORM and FLAME that “dieth not,” and the only humans who receive ECT also take the yet-to-be-revealed Mark of the Beast.

Second, they fail to rightly divide that Hell is not the Lake of Fire, and Hell – as an enemy of God – is thrown INTO the Lake of Fire. SOME in Hell will be resurrected and saved, while some professed believers will be banished to OUTER DARKNESS, which IS NOT the Lake of Fire.

Lastly, they fail to rightly divide between BELIEVERS and CHRISTIANS, and attempt to hold the WORLD to the standard of Christians – while THEY THEMSELVES falsely claim to have attained it.

The WORLD will be judged by the standard Jesus lays out in Mt 25:31-46, which is AS PROMISED THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE a judgment of works, as Micah 6:8, Ecc 12:13-14, Mt 16:27/Rev 22:12, Acts 10:35, and Rom 2:10, et al. make clear.

THE CHRISTIAN is judged solely on whether the Spirit has put them to death and given them new life.

The failure to rightly divide the court of the tabernacle, where the people meet the priests, from the holy place (and in the NT the holy and most holy place), where the priests come into the presence of God, has meant they have perverted the Gospel by condemning the just (though possibly pagan through ignorance) while conferring a paper righteousness on their fleshly selves: hence the Laodicean church warning of Rev 3:17-18 fits them.

“The church” is a stumbling block to belief because of its insistence on umbilical creation theories.

Biblical creation is laid out by understanding Jubilee calendar AND the Sabbath. Once we understand we are IN the Sabbath age, and the coming millennium IS the LORD’S Sabbath, we can see WHY science reveals six previous extinctions (the end of the previous seven “weeks”) and understand Jer 4:23-26 is a view of the end of the sixth age – before the recreation.

We also do a disservice to our apologetic by discounting the role of angels in creation – as their development with God’s direction parallels our own, and accounts for the “evolution” but with injections of new designs as God commands in Gen 1. Their involvement also explains how the involvement of fallen angels will soon so quickly again pervert creation AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.

“The church” is under judgment because NOWHERE in the “church” today will men hear that through sex they are responsible to God to care for His creation. Just as God wholly devotes Himself to His children, EVERY PREGNANCY is the result and responsibility of a MAN. Thus it is discernable that God holds MEN PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE for abortion. Men are also responsible for the sowing of seed indiscriminately to sperm banks so the children can be sold off to homosexual “parents” for a life of darkness and disorder.

Sex consummated the marriage of Adam and Eve, and the Bible plainly teaches that sex IS marriage. That any “church” teaches a concept of premarital sex is a failure to properly instruct its children.

Every young boy should be taught that sex IS marriage, and that they need to not practice lust FOR EVERY woman which will tend to adultery, but to prepare for responsibility TO ONE woman. They need a TRUE CHURCH that provides the grace to free their mind from the lust of the world so they can live to adulthood beyond temptation, appreciate delayed gratification, and appreciate their own bodies without the fornication of lustful imagery.

The failure of “the church” to teach boys (and girls) how seriously God takes sex and procreation has condemned many to hell – and it were better for “the church” that a millstone were tied around its neck and it thrown in the sea than to enter the Tribulation that the real King of Babylon is bringing to it soon.

Jehovah will require the blood of the wicked at the hand of “the church.”

Ezekiel 3:18 explains clearly why the “church” is in the crosshairs of the REAL and COMING King of Babylon: the “church” is failing to speak out on what God has called wicked. Granted, some of this reticence arises from the manifest bondage of some “church leaders” to the very sins the Word condemns – e.g. Ravi Zacharias – but some of it is plain neglect.

Criminal behavior gets LITTLE or NO ATTENTION from those claiming to be “the church.” “Stop snitching” should still be challenged with “Start telling” in accordance with Lev 5:1, as it is often only by exposing and punishing evildoers that they confess and repent. The will of the Lord for judgment is universal (Jer 9:23-24), and the Lord should be regularly entreated for help by the government and people. The general lawlessness in society is aided by the failure of “the church” to instruct and encourage witnesses to speak the truth even if it threatens their life.

An unbiblical fear of speaking up against wickedness (Matthew 10:28) has allowed for the presence of organized crime, gangs, and career and other serious criminals to prey upon and demoralize His people – HUMANITY!!

This is a sin for which the “church” will answer.