Well, have you had enough?
Do the headllines cause you to be concerned?
What will happen? Are the movies regarding the "Last Days" accurate?
Well, get ready for change in paradigm.
Did you know that the endtimes escatalogical understanding that is preached in so many churched today is a theory that came to be only 200 years ago?
First let's establish the character and nature of YHWH/G-d.
How can we do this apart from the Scriptures/Bible/Torah.
If you see terms like Torah you must know that I am talking about our Bible or I may be talking about only the first five books of the Bible.
Never the less, we are not talking about anything other than that which we recieve our Lord Jesus from.
The Nature and characteristics of G-d and of Jesus/Yeshua are articulated in the Torah. Before the incarnation through Miriam/Mary we can see pre-incarnate theophonies of the Risen Savior. But most importantly we can establish these truths about our G-d.
He is not a man that He should lie. I must elaborate and say that He couldn't lie as it would deny His character.
You will never see a shadow from His turning. In other words He doesn't change his mind.
That He keeps the covenants that even we break. He is a covenant kepping G-d.
Slavation comes from G-d alone through the perfect life lived in His Son Jesus/Yeshua who became the Passover Lamb once and for all shedding His blood for all mankind.
So let's look at the end of time thought process that so tortures the believer.
the following are only assumptions and falsehoods.
1. God will finally lose it, and destroy the unbeleivers during the tribulation.
2. God will "rapture" up the holy church into the sky and abandon the wicked on earth to be toyed with and tortured by haSatan.
3. Assumption- we are the holy ones and the Jewish people will stay on earth through the tribulation to find out who there Savior is.
First off let me say that I am not writing this to make anybody mad. So don't let the enemy toy with us.
dividing the house has bee the plan and the M.O. of the perpetrator.
Remember so long as we buy into the division of the House of Israel/Jacob the whole kingdom of God is put off for another time.
The intentions of our messiah was to restor the Whole House of Jacob/Israel so that through Israel the message of the Messiah and the redemptive nature of YHWH would be spread/taught. However due to the nationalistic pride of Judah the good news of redemption was kept from the Nations/Gentiles because of their "unclean" status.
When Jesus/Yeshua came to earth it was not to establish an alternate religion. Nor was it to Judge with an iron fist. Rather He said He came to deliver.
Deliver... Deliver from what?
Brokeness, and despair, Fear and separation from a loving God.
Imagine if you will that the purpose of the saviour coming was to inspire us with the Holy Spirit of G-d to go out and delilver our brethren rather than to chastise and condemn. Conviction comes from the Holy Spirit and Condemnation comes from our brethren.
If YHWH looked upon the creation and said, "It is good," then why would He destroy it? Maybe if we all repented of thinking we would know how to run the world and only would submit to His ways; Torah rather than rejecting it sight unseen, then we might begin to see the Kingdom of G-d manifest.
If every man, woman and child began to walk more in the ways, characteristics and attributes of Jesus, we would not have the moral depravity and absence of ethical conduct that is rampant today.
It is not about religion, remember, it is about relationship with the Creator of the Universe. If we love Him we would want to know what pleases the LORD and make efforts to do those things that please God. Not to appease but to be pleasing.
Question... Why hasn't God raptured the church yet and what on earth is He waiting for?
The so-called church is still in exile for the most part, though we "accepted" Jesus or rather the work that He did, we still reject the majority of His Character and separate ourselves from one another with labels. Christian, Jew, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, Muslim, buddhist etc, etc, ad infinitum.
What I beleive He is waiting for on earth is the realization of His children that we are the wall of enmity that separates the kingdom from coming.
There is one God, His name is His Characteristics and Attributes. He never changes, he never gives up, He never changes His mind, He never makes mistakes.
He is long suffering and patient for us to move.
The power of the Living God and Risen Savior lives and resides with in each of us. Only together can the Kingdom come, bringing change and restoration to our families and to our country.
It will be the nation of Isarel/ You and I who can power the change to happen. It will be the Ruach Ha Chodesh/ the Holy Spirit of the Living God who provides the power and the words. Without Jesus/ Yeshua there is no use .
I believe in the Power of Yeshua with in you to make a change. even if it is small it is a change none the Less.
Where is Jesus/Yeshua today? He is in You!
If He is in you and I then why look up into the physical clouds for His returning?
Why not look into the Spiritual clouds also known as witnesses/believers?
For He will return in the same manner in which He was taken up; in the clouds.
Remember how he was surrounded by the clouds and taken up?
You are the clouds, I am the clouds, we are the clouds!
If we get out of His way the light of the Son can shine through.
May God richly bless you and give you sight to see that His presence is in your midst...
When we look at the Holy half-Shekel, think of it representing the two houses of Judah and Ephraim.
Judah representing the Jewish people who do know the nature and character of the Savior but may not have seen Him yet.
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Ephraim also referred to as Israel; representing those who are thought by their Jewish brethren to have been scattered to the ends of the earth due to their rebellion to the Torah and are thought to be "dead" due to their spiritual status of being separated from the Ha Torah. This House of tribe if you will permit, is or could be the church today who is in posession of the Messiah but lacks the deeper understanding of the Scriptures that our brother the Jew possesses.


If you coudl imagine the Jew and the Church being the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Ephraim coming back together as one (Ezekiel 37 prophecy of the two sticks) then we can see that our reunion of sorts could restore order to the world. No longer would we be bamboozled and hoodwinked by the political correct acceptance of readical Islam. As Our country rejects the Bible and any mention of Yeshua/Jesus in schools they make mention of allowing Sharia Law being permitted in our Country.
simply doesn't make much sense.
We have Jesus but we stand to learn much more.
Our brothers the Jews beleive in the same Bible we have. They simply haven't seen Yeshua modeled in me, maybe us.
We are going to make it if we begin to look at the world differently and not as though the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would utterly destroy the earth and create another. He loves us with an everlasting love. Can we reciprocate by drawing near to His ways? I hope so, it seems to be our only hope.
May God encourage you this day and every day.

Pastor Donald J. Maher
Beit Tikveh U'Nesim
House of Hope and Miracles
401 N. Commerce Street
Lockahrt, Texas 78644