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     Christianity at its core and root is Jewish and can only be viewed from that perspective.      The LORD spoke to Israel as the nation that He delivered from slavery, whom He "brought up" from the land of Egypt. However, even though they were to have a very special relationship with the LORD, their sins had separated them from Him. They could no longer discern the traps and snares that had been laid for them even while they were being warned of them by the LORD and His prophets. ( Amos 3:1-5 ). The LORD said, "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? Surely the LORD God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the LORD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?" (v. 6-8).      Prophecy is not determined by men's interpretation, but by comparing the scriptures of what the LORD has sa...

      Many churches never teach the Feast Days of the LORD, but there is prophetic revelation within them that applies to the believers in Jesus, the Messiah/Christ. The prophet Hosea wrote that God's people perish from a lack of knowledge, and even reject that knowledge. This refusal to receive the knowledge that God has given to them leads to their destruction, as the prophet wrote, as the LORD refuses them also as His priests. We are called to be priests and kings in service to the Lord, and we are to receive and walk in the knowledge that He has given us through His Word.      Even the heavenly bodies were created and are used by the Lord as signs, according to Gen. 1:14, to alert His people and to call them to His set times, His appointed feasts. The sign in the heavens of the Feast of Trumpets, also called Yom Teruah and Rosh Hashanah, is the new moon which will mark the beginning of the next month on the Jewish calendar. This new moon of the Feast of...

      There is a misconception in the Church regarding "The Day of the LORD." We view this Day as being associated mainly with the Rapture of the Church and the Millennial Reign of Christ on the earth. However, the prophets of scripture and the revelations of the New Testament give us a different view of what this Day entails.      The prophet Joel wrote that the Day of the LORD would be marked by earthquakes, gloominess and deep darkness as the light of the sun, moon and stars are withdrawn. He wrote: "...for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?" (Joel 2:10-11). Malachi also asked the question: "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' sope..." (Mal. 3:2). Jesus said: "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man...

      We are seeing signs in the current events today that make us aware that the return of Jesus Christ is near, especially as tensions mount in the Middle East. Scripture talks about foreigners who could read the spiritual signs while the people of God couldn't or wouldn't see them. At the birth of Jesus, the magi from the East followed the sign of a special star in the heavens that they knew would lead them to a new King. They followed the sign to Bethlehem, where they found the Messiah/Christ. Herod, a foreign-born king, recognized the signs and had all of the babies and children of Bethlehem killed to prevent the rise of the new King that might threaten his throne. Why didn't the religious leaders of the day recognize the same signs?      Jesus wept over Jerusalem because they had not recognized the time of their saving visitation by the Son of God. As a result, the city would see great destruction. Jesus said that if His disciples were silenced from d...

      The signs of the times are all around us and it is time for the Bride to trim her lamps and be ready for the return of the Bridegroom.       The prophet Daniel was given to see in the Spirit through dreams and visions certain kingdoms of the earth that would rise up, which Daniel called "beasts" because they appeared to him in that spiritual form. The fourth beast that he saw had ten horns, and he called it "dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong, with great iron teeth with which it devoured and broke in pieces. Daniel saw that this terrible beast would be slain and his body given over to the burning flame. ( Dan. 7:7 , 11 ).  Daniel also saw the Kingdom of heaven: "...and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, ...

      The Church should not just seem to be the Church, but it should BE the Church as Jesus intended. New groups like Christian Nationalism and new denominations full of false doctrines are springing up that have nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, nor the Church as Christ purposed it to be. There is a lack of the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of Scripture that the Lord has called us to have: "Hear ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding...Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her." (Prov. 4:1-8, excerpt).      We are also told in scripture to hide God's Word in our hearts, but we seem to...