You are invited to attend the 2nd Caribbean Unity Conference, to be held in St. Kitts from February 27th to March 1st, 2003. Each congregation is asked to send at least one representative to this very important Unity Conference.
Information regarding accommodations and venue will be sent in a subsequent correspondence.
Please note that preceding and during the conference, a nightly Evangelical Tent Outreach is planned from February 23rd, to March 1st, 2003. We therefore ask that the brethren who can should make plans to arrive in St. Kitts prior to the start of the Conference in order to participate in this outreach. Once again, we kindly ask that you inform us of your availability as early as possible.
The following is a tentative agenda for the Conference. Further, we request that you submit your suggested topics for discussion so that we can confirm the official agenda to the following address:
Elder Calvin R. Jenkins
St. Kitts Assemblies of Yahweh
P. O. Box 510
Basseterre, St. Kitts.
Phone: 1-869-465-6809 - Fax: 1-869-465-1190
Email: jenksl@hotmail.com
We look forward to your full support of this very important conference as we seek to bring Almighty Yahweh's people together for the building of the body of Messiah.
May Almighty Yahweh through His Son Yahshua the Messiah give us the desire through His Holy Spirit to work tirelessly for the UNITY OF THE FAITH.
Elder Calvin R. Jenkins
St. Kitts Assemblies of Yahweh
2nd Caribbean Unity Conference
St. Kitts.
Several years ago, prior to "teshuvah" - the 40 days prior to Atonement, when observant families in the Jewish faith, examine their lives in preparation for the Holiest day of the year - Atonement- the one commanded fast day of affliction and introspection. It is believed this is the day when the world will be judged.
I had been studying into the Hebrew roots to the faith - the "walk" I had begun, following the Messiah in Sabbath and holy day observance, in what foods to eat and which to avoid, and especially in attitude toward others. We know the scriptures. "Confess your FAULTS to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed." I realized how easily I had accepted the lie that basically, I was a "good" person. This by the way, is a result of improper worship, where ministers use the Sabbath mostly to harass the people and tell them how "bad" they are and put them in a state of hopelessness -- giving the impression that no matter what you do, you are still an "unprofitable servant." I realize this response was not what most people got from church attendance. But I, very zealous and diligent, took every sermon, whether it applied to me or not, to heart and was in a constant state of demoralization.
That changed, of course, when the Big Sandy congregation dropped every notion of the "walk" we had accepted by it being said from the pulpit that the Sabbath was not holy (how can you make a day holy??) (DUH!) and that in the face of starvation, it would be smart to forget the laws of Lev. 11, and that even a game of golf would be okay on the Sabbath...etc. and I heard it with my own ears.
You all know, of course, that 40 is a number YHVH uses to pass judgment on people. It can be 40 days, weeks, months or years. It's a time of testing and judgment. Well, guess what happened exactly 40 WEEKS from the time of this sermon given to a bulging field house in Big Sandy??? You guessed it. The man was dead.
There isn't a word that is spoken that the Almighty is not aware of. He wants to see what is in our heart. And I realized that during "teshuvah" - or "return" or repentance, I had been ANGRY and that was my biggest area to repent of. Little did I know that for the following 2 plus years, I would be afflicted with PAIN in my body, such that I believed every night that I would not see the light of the next day. And I learned several things from the teachings in the Hebraic world.
PRAYER CHANGES THE ONE WHO PRAYS. Yes, we are praying for you who are in need of healing, but you must pray for others so that you may be healed. Study the book of Job. I did, many times during my trial. And believe that as in the case of Job, YHVH is faithful to deliver YOU.
OUR WORDS IMPACT OUR LIVES. Evil speaking is a Hebrew term "lashon hara" which implies anything that proceeds out of the mouth that does not have a POSITIVE effect on the hearers. For instance, gossip was the biggest stumbling block in the WCG. Euphemistically, it would he said, "I heard it on the grapevine". It was gossip. Evil speaking is always true, by the way. It is simply not edifying. It can be the very truth that there is an Adversary who wishes to destroy G-d's people. Notice not once did Job accuse the devil for his misery.
What is your thought pattern??? Is it filled with the Psalms??? If not, READ THE PSALMS AGAIN AND AGAIN - PRAY WITH THE PSALMS. The Psalms were given to David by inspiration and they express the thoughts of YHVH and how YHVH delivers again and again.
And finally, I was delivered. There is a Jewish prayer that, considering that everything in this life is a rehearsal for the better life in the world to come, that praises YHVH for the rehearsal of sleeping and waking. It is a rehearsal of dying and of the resurrection. I pray that daily. I Bless G-d for the rehearsals. YHVH is faithful.
I also gave up the fear of dying. Should I have died, my next waking moment would have been seeing the face of the Messiah in glory and power and majesty. What is there to fear?? Then I realized how much my death would have hurt my mother, who has already lost 2 children, a brother early in life, etc. I realized how much my husband and my daughters and grandchildren would hurt and how difficult life would be with the husband of my youth. My prayers changed. My prayers were not for me but for them -- and YHVH took away the cause of my pain (a dislocated rib pressing on my chest and heart) just as quickly as it had come.
Please focus on HIM - all you who need prayers from us. We pray for you, but please pray for others. Prayer is a tool to change you. Confess to yourself, to G-d, to those closest to you. Examine yourself. And perhaps by Passover you will sing a song of deliverance.
Shalom/peace and love to each of you,
Eli Shabba
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Small Purchase on the Sabbath
A question was submitted by a brother recently concerning the Sabbath day. He asked, "If he took a walk on the Sabbath and became really thirsty wouldn't it be okay to buy a drink to quench his thirst?" We must rely on the scriptures to answer this question and not our own judgments. Proverbs 3:5 Trust in Yahweh with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: The Sabbath requires preparation. When Israel was released from Egypt Yahweh fed the people in the wilderness with a substance called manna, meaning "what is it". The command of Yahweh was to collect just what one would need for the day except on the sixth day when twice as much was to be collected. If on the first through the fifth day they collected more than they could eat it would become rotten and worm infested in the morning. On the sixth day it would be good for the sixth and the seventh day. Israel also was allowed to turn the manna into other baked items anytime except the Sabbath. So in Exodus 16:23 Yahweh tells Israel to bake what they needed for the Sabbath on the sixth day.
Exodus 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which Yahweh hath spoken, Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto Yahweh: bake that which ye will bake, and boil that which ye will boil; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Yahweh clearly points out that the Sabbath is to be a solemn rest. The Sabbath is a break from what is done all the other days of the week and no work is to be done on it. From Exodus 16 we learn that Yahweh expects us to prepare in advance for the secession of daily activities on the Sabbath. The Sabbath rest is not a burden because we are prepared, it is a vacation from the world by having our food and drink ready so that all we have to do for substance is take the time to sit down and eat. Another item that Exodus 16 points out is that we are not to exert ourselves on the Sabbath. We will be given twice as much on the sixth day so that on the seventh no work is required to sustain us for the Sabbath day. This extra measure is a blessing for those who keep the Sabbath.
Considering the question maybe the walk we took is too exertive and is causing us to not to keep the solemn rest. If one plans to take a walk on the Sabbath it can also be planned to take a bottle of water with on the walk. Looking at the question from a different angle we could ask is it wrong to spend money on the Sabbath. Nehemiah had to deal with this question because the gentiles came to sell there items or food on the Sabbath day.
Nehemiah 10:29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in Elohim's law, which was given by Moses the servant of Elohim, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Master, and his ordinances and his statutes; 30 and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; 31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Nehemiah says by the commandments of Yahweh the people will not buy the items that the nations bring to sell. One of these items was grain which was a food product for the animals and the people. Nehemiah was dealing with a major problem in Jerusalem, he writes in chapter 13 of the many things that the people had done to pervert the Sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:15 In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine-presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses therewith; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. 16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? 18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our Elohim bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath. 19 And it came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I over the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
In verse 19 of Nehemiah 13 we find that the gates were shut so that Jerusalem would not do work outside of the city. This also was to prevent the nations from bringing items into the city to sell on the Sabbath day. Nehemiah was preparing the people for the Sabbath by making sure to his authority that business would not continue on Sabbath. Shutting the gates meant that if one lived in Jerusalem that he or she would have had to be home before the Sabbath and be prepared to keep it holy.
Nehemiah was dealing with Jerusalem in a manor which he was inspired to keep the Sabbath holy. Was Nehemiah on track with the teachings of Yahshua? The author of the question might say well my ox is in the ditch, is this justification for purchasing a drink? Luke in Chapter 14 writes of Yahshua healing on the Sabbath.
Luke 14:1 And it came to pass, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him. 2 And behold, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy. 3 And Yahshua answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not? 4 But they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go. 5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a sabbath day? 6 And they could not answer again unto these things.
Yahshua is not telling the Pharisees that it is okay to pull the ox or ass out of the well rather he is comparing compassion for an animal to that of a brother. It might also be a test of value because an animal has a certain value that would be received at sale. Brethren are priceless so any objections would show that one values their own processions more than the love of a brother. The Sabbath is not a barrier for compassion. The buying of the drink once again is lack of preparation so really the only ox in the ditch is the one that we put in the ditch. The thirst in the questions was caused by exertion and lack of preparation for the exertion caused this brother to go against the commands of Yahweh. Yahshua not only kept the commandments of Yahweh without blemish but he also made it clear that disobedience was not acceptable. Yahshua gave us the example by which we are to live.
Mark 1:21 And they go into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. 22 And they were astonished at his teaching: For he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.
Mark 6:2 And when the sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, Whence hath this man these things? and, What is the wisdom that is given unto this man, and what mean such mighty works wrought by his hands?
Jonah - Atonement of Nineveh
Jonah, which means dove, is one of most interesting Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. Jonah's plight seems to be self inflicted. Consider that since the time of Jacob the seed of Israel was not exactly open to those who didn't come from the same family. Consider a faith that allowed those of only one linage to conduct themselves within the temple gates. Perhaps this is truly a parable and not a historic record either way the impact is great.
Yahweh sends forth a dove to a gentile people. That may not be hard to understand to us today but imagine that the people all turned around at Jonah's warning. In all this Jonah is upset because he knew that the people would turn. We must be careful not to be like Jonah but rejoice when we see the repentance of others. This account gives us the prequel to one of Yahshua's major accomplishments and warnings. Yahweh didn't want a temple made with hands perhaps because as with Israel the people worshipped the temple and as Yahshua put it, they put the value on the gold in the temple. Yahweh wanted his people to follow him without physical representations and so soon after Yahshua's sacrifice for all men as the Passover lamb the temple was destroyed in 70 CE.
Yahweh is the One we worship! So let's read the story of Jonah and see what we can glean from this inspired teaching.
Jonah 1:1 Now the word of Yahweh came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Jonah is recorded here and in II Kings 14:25 as being the son of Amittai, translated as, "my truth". In other words Amittai brought forth truth in Jonah and is only referenced as being the father of Jonah. The year that this revelation from Yahweh comes to Jonah is disputed, if Jonah is truly historical then it is estimated that he lived around 815-741 BCE. This is a rather large number of years but is historically as close to the date as most scholars can estimate. It is known that around 606 BCE Nineveh was destroyed. Much of the linguistic evidence for dating found in the book of Jonah is that there is an Aramaic influence seen in the writing. The Aramaic influence via Aramaic wording leads many to conclude that Jonah is in fact a parable given in reference to Jonah. There are of course other explanations as to why the Aramaic words are used in Jonah including the fact that scribes may have later clarified the book using the words of their day. Yahweh is direct with what he would like Jonah to do concerning Nineveh.
Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Jonah is given the task to proclaim to the people of Nineveh that Yahweh has seen their wickedness. Jonah doesn't answer this call though, he decides to head east to Tarshish (the Greeks called it Tartessus) which is in southwestern Spain.
Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
Jonah concludes that he can hide from Yahweh. This in a way shows that Jonah thinks really of Yahweh tied perhaps to the land of Israel. Yahweh knows what Jonah is doing and puts great trials in front of him in the form a mighty wind.
Jonah 1:4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his deity; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
The mariners were greatly afraid that they would die and they called upon their deities without any sign of help. They knew by something about the storm that they were being punished, perhaps the storm was completely different than what they knew. Jonah was completely oblivious or perhaps thought he could hid out of Yahweh's site so with this storm that looks like it is going to break up the ship he is asleep. This clearly distresses the shipmasters.
Jonah 1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy Elohim, if so be that Elohim will think upon us, that we perish not. 7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. 8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
A lot is cast and it falls on Jonah, this worries the shipmasters and so the questions begin as to what Jonah has done to cause this storm which has come as punishment. These men truly trusted that the lot was correct as they come to find out it was correct. Jonah's choice was the reason for this storm.
Jonah 1:9 And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Yahweh, the Elohim of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land. 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, What is this that thou hast done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them. 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous. 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not: for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
It is interesting that they attempt to row back to land making me wonder how far on this journey did they travel. The men of the ship attempt many things, like lightening the ship, not wanting to throw Jonah overboard. Perhaps they were truly kind hearted people or may be they were afraid for their lives, so that if they threw Jonah in the water it would only get worse. Only Yahweh knows for sure but their reluctance to ditch Jonah is powerful to say the least.
Jonah 1:14 Wherefore they cried unto Yahweh, and said, We beseech thee, O Yahweh, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for thou, O Yahweh, hast done as it pleased thee. 15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging. 16 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto Yahweh, and made vows.
Men who worshipped pagan deities saw this powerful show of force by Yahweh and they called unto Yahweh asking for His protection and understanding that He would not take vengeance on them. The men feared Yahweh and made offerings and vows to Him. This is perhaps the first show in the book of Jonah that men of pagan faiths could change. These men by most sources would have been Phoenicians worshipping many deities but now seeing the power and glory of the Almighty giving them strong will for conversion.
Jonah 1:17 And Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Chapter 1 of Jonah concludes with Jonah being swallowed by a great fish. Yahshua fulfilled the sign of Jonah by being in the belly of the earth for three days and three nights. Three is usually used to represent a magnification of an item in the Hebrew. Chapter 2 starts by expanding on the time that Jonah spend in the belly of this giant fish.
Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto Yahweh his Elohim out of the fish's belly. 2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Yahweh, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice. 3 For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me. 4 And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Yahweh my Elohim. 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple. 8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Yahweh. 10 And Yahweh spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah's prayer to Yahweh is heard and Yahweh releases him from his watery grave. Yahweh has not given Jonah's task to another. He remembers and reminds Jonah to go forth to Nineveh.
Jonah 3:1 And the word of Yahweh came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jonah makes the journey to the great city of Nineveh said to be three days journey from one end to the other. On the first day journey of entering the city Jonah proclaimed that in forty days the city would be overthrown. To Jonah's surprise and dismay the people made an immediate atonement.
Jonah 3:5 And the people of Nineveh believed Elohim; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto Elohim: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knoweth whether Elohim will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And Elohim saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and Elohim repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Not only the poor but the rich fasted. This was a great fast and mourning that went all the way down to the animals. The animals were even covered in sackcloth. The people mourned and this mourning reached the king and he too mourned and decreed that all should mourn and fast. They cried greatly to Elohim and made changes from the evil and violence that plagued their city. Yahweh saw the works of the people of Nineveh and spared them certain destruction.
Jonah 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed unto Yahweh, and said, I pray thee, O Yahweh, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious Elohim, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3 Therefore now, O Yahweh, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Nineveh was a huge success but Jonah was angry saying why did he even have to go because he knew Yahweh would turn from His anger. This of course isn't at all why Jonah was on his way to Tarshish. Jonah begs after this beautiful change of a people that Yahweh takes his life. Jonah has no sympathy for the people of Nineveh. Rather than rejoicing he is disappointed that his words didn't come true. Just imagine the different world we would live in if natural Israel would have harkened unto Yahweh from the beginning. Yahshua told the disciples to go to the lost sheep and this shows the strong connection between Jonah and the preparation for Yahshua's ministry. The Nineveh people apparently had this will to obey Yahweh. Yahweh puts forth the question to Jonah; does it do you well to be angry?
Jonah 4:4 And Yahweh said, Doest thou well to be angry? 5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.
Jonah leaves the city but sets up camp to see what might happen to the city. He is still determined that something has to happen to Nineveh but Yahweh uses his sympathy for gourd to prove the value of the people Jonah doesn't value. It is interesting to note that he sets up a booth or a Sukkoth. Perhaps this is the time of Tabernacles and the Atonement was during the Day of Atonement also called Yom Kippur.
Jonah 4:6 And Yahweh Elohim prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. 7 But Elohim prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that Elohim prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
The gourd is possibly a castor-oil plant or a bottle-gourd. Any which way you look at it the importance seems to be Jonah's sympathy for the plant over the people of Nineveh. The plant apparently wasn't that tasty, its root means "to vomit up" so this was really a poor fruit not meant for food at all. Once again Jonah becomes so angry that the gourd dies and dries up that he prays his life be taken. It is through this example that Yahweh demonstrates to Jonah that he has set his values to a point that is ridiculous. Jonah values the gourd as much as the people or seems to be equally angry.
Jonah 4:9 And Elohim said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. 10 And Yahweh said, Thou hast had regard for the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11 and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
The book of Jonah closes with a question posed by Yahweh. Something that Jonah didn't labor for perished and Jonah was angry. Should Jonah be angry because the destruction of 120,000 people who don't know even the smallest things is spared because they turned from their wickedness? The real problem for Jonah was that Yahweh had mercy on those who were not natural followers of Yahweh. This meant that if one would turn to Yahweh whether natural or not Yahweh would save them. This was a powerful message in the time when openness was not encouraged and physical was seen as more important than spiritual. Perhaps the exclusion of those who did all they could to follow Yahweh is the iniquity that really caused failure among the generations of Israelites. Jonah's jealousy and self preservation lead him to flee when the calling came from Yahweh.
Yahshua is found through out the Old Testament as I hope Jonah has shown. We fast to be closer to Yahweh and mourn to ask for his intervention. Let's learn from Jonah and not be quick to hope for the end judgment because there are many still searching. Yahweh's mercy endures forever lets pray that we reside under the covering blood of Yahshua the Messiah who paid the ultimate price to redeem us from the sins of this world.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of Elohim hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying unrighteousness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and righteously in this present world; 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great Elohim and our Saviour Yahshua the Messiah; 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
