Basics - Lost & Found?

Verse of the Week

Here is the patience of the saints; here are the ones keeping the commandments of YAHWEH,

and the faith of Yahshua.

(Revelation 14:12) (HRB NOTE: It is quite clear that at this time the true believers in Yahshua are keeping the Torah in faith and obedience to the one who wrote it, (Revelation 19:13, John 1:1-3; John 1:14).

Thought for the Week

It seems ironic to me that as many humans, especially in the US, tout themselves as being so highly advanced they seem to have lost sight of the basics. Morals are disappearing faster than clean water. High school graduates can hardly read, write, do math, or use reason because teachers are too busy pushing Islam and homosexuality (which is banned in Islam). I would say that freedom is fast becoming a myth from the history books but modern history books already teach more about slavery than they do about freedom anyway. And then there are the folks that claim to be “Christian” - some of who do not even believe YHWH exists or refuse to called Him by name!

Have you ever wished you could learn and study the Gospel as taught by Yahshua to his disciples untainted by the corrupt influences of man and time? You can if you are brave enough to face the scorn of those around you. How you may ask? Well, start by realizing that Yahshua would never have taught anything that runs counter to what YHWH says. Then continue by flushing any and all doctrines that were not explicitly taught by Yahshua and hold dear all those that are explicitly taught by him; and, also listen to who he told you to – YHWH's Spirit!

Did YHWH ever say He was a part of a trinity? NO! Did Yahshua ever say he was a part of a Trinity? NO! So right off the bat you should reject the false doctrine of man called the trinity and worship YHWH just as He says to – only Him, as one! Even Yahshua called YHWH “his God”!

Did YHWH command observance of the seventh day Sabbath? YES! Did Yahshua keep and observe the seventh day Sabbath? YES! So right off the bat you know that you must keep and observe the seventh day Sabbath – the seventh day, NOT SUNDAY! Consider the following from the Hebraic Roots Bible:

And returning, they prepared spices and perfume. And indeed they rested on the Sabbath,

according to the commandment.

(Luke 23:56) (HRB Note: Another clear proof that the Sabbath commandment was still binding after the death of Yahshua. One must remember that this good news message was written by Luke some 30 years after the crucifixion and if the Sabbath was no longer binding it would make no sense to make such a strong statement in support of it.)

And in the coming Sabbath, almost all the city was gathered to hear the word of God.

(Acts 13:44) (HRB Note: All early believers kept the 7th day Sabbath (Saturday). Sunday worship did not come about until it was instituted by the Roman Bishop Sixtus in around 116 A.D.)

Did YHWH command to obey His instructions - His Torah, His Law, His TEN COMMANDMENTS? YES! Did Yahshua observe and teach YHWH's Law? YES! So right off the bat you know that YHWH's Law must be obeyed! READ the details - YHWH says some laws are directly His and some were given through/from Moses.

It is way past time for folks to take a step back from technology and “progress” and return to the core fundamentals of YHWH and freedom.

Quote of the Week

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. – John Major

Comment: Almost half of the single people under the age of 35 in the US are still living with their parents. That would be great if it were out of love and honor instead of a failure to learn individual responsibilty. The “system” is raising a generation of adult-aged-infants to suckle on the Nanny State.

Did You Know

Many States threatened to cede from the Union long before the War of Northern Aggression (aka the Civil War). John C. Calhoun, vice president under President Jackson, wrote an essay titled "The South Carolina Exposition and Protest" and later became the first US vice-president to resign. In response Jackson wrote, "the tariff was only a pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question." This was in 1833! Comment: Yet ignorant liberals have long screamed that the “Civil War” was only about slavery and not State's Rights. Calhoun, even as Vice President of the US, saw the tyranny coming! FYI – The Left needs to realize that if the War was only about slavery then more US white men died for black freedom in one day than all the US black men have from racism for the over the last hundfed and fifty years!

The AFA President, Tim Wildmon, recently said, “We want to make it very clear that AFA does not believe the transgender community poses this danger to the wider public.” COMMENT: It turns out even the AFA are back pedaling cowards when it comes to standing up for YHWH.

2015 NAEP (aka the Nation’s Report Card): Only 37% of U.S. high school seniors are prepared for college-level coursework in mathematics and in reading. COMMENT: Ignorance brought to your children courtesy of the Left's focus on Common Core and an anti-Christian, pro-Muslim agenda.

Saul of Tarsus, aka Paul, never quoted Yahshua but he quoted several pagans. The first, Epimenides, was a 6th-century BC philosopher and religious prophet who believed that Zeus was immortal and called the Cretans liars because they did not:

They fashioned a tomb for thee, O holy and high one
The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies!
But thou art not dead: thou livest and abidest forever,
For in thee we live and move and have our being. — Epimenides, Cretica

Paul quotes and agrees with this pagan's assessment of Cretans (Titus 1:12/13). Some also believe Epimenides is cited by Paul in Acts 17:28 (compare the verse with the last line of the poem above) along with quoting the last line of Phaenomena, a poem by another pagan Zeus worshiper named Aratus (circa 240 - 315 BC). Paul also quotes the pagan Menander's (circa 342/41 – c. 290 BC) work Thaïs, in 1 Corinthians 15:33. Comment: Paul was a Roman by birth and was not Jewish - no surprise that he was well versed in pagan ways (even declaring it lawful to eat meat sacrificed to pagan gods).