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Talmidim Vetchanan

Talmidim Vetchanan

Revelation chapters 1-3

Rev 1:1 This is the Revelation of Yeshua the Messiah, which Elohim gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, Yochanan,

Rev 1:2  who testified to Elohim’s word, and of the testimony of Yeshua the Messiah, about everything that he saw.

John had visions of future events.  However, his 1st century CE perspective meant he didn’t understand a lot of the 21st century technology and events that he witnessed.  He simply wrote things down as best he could.  We need to keep this in mind while reading Revelation.  This book was written around 90 CE, about 20 years after the destruction of the Temple.  We can speculate that it was written primarily in reponse to those who were claiming that prophecy was now “over” since the Temple was destroyed and Belief in Yeshua was spreading.  They had no idea how much history still lay ahead of them.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

We usually consider commandments as things we need to “keep,” but in this case we need to keep the events described in Revelation in our minds, so that we can connect the 1st century descriptions with 21st century events.  It might not be as easy as it sounds.  We must constantly be viligant.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 1:4  Yochanan, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and shalom, from Elohim, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

Rev 1:5  and from Yeshua the Messiah, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

Rev 1:6  and he made us to be a Kingdom, Kohanim to his Elohim and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amein.

These seven congregations are generally considered to represent the various stages of history though which Believers will pass.  They also, of course, represent a point in each individual’s journey with Elohim in their daily life.

Yeshua here reminds people that he is the firstborn of the dead – the firstfruits offering that precedes the main harvest and the final gleanings.  It is a reference to the spring festivals of Elohim’s calendar, which precede the fall festivals after an interval of events which cause mourning and repentance also known as the birth pangs (represented by the summer fasts and the “season of repentance” of Elul).

Revelation, continued:

Rev 1:7  Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amein.

This is from Zechariah:

Zec 12:8  In that day YHWH will defend the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like a mighty one, like the angel of YHWH before them.   Zec 12:9  It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Yerushalayim.   Zec 12:10 I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

The context is clearly the Day of YHWH, the advent of the King of Kings – the grand finale of the High Holy days and prerequisite for the inaguration of the Kingdom at Sukkot.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 1:8  “I am the Alef and the Tav, ” says Adonai Elohim, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Isa 41:4 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, YHWH, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

Isa 44:6 This is what YHWH, the King of Yisra’el, and his Redeemer, YHWH Tzeva’ot, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no [other] god.

Isa 48:12 Listen to me, O Ya`akov, and Yisra’el my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

There is only one Deity, one Being, and this One is the only one, alone, who is Elohim.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 1:9  I Yochanan, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Messiah Yeshua, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of Elohim’s Word and the testimony of Yeshua the Messiah.

Rev 1:10  I was in the Spirit on the Day of YHWH, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a shofar

Rev 1:11  saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

Like the other prophets of old, John was shown the future and told to write it down.  He was shown a specific time period that is the focus of countless other prophetic passages:  The Day of YHWH.  That day marks the end of the present age(represented by the letters to the assemblies)  and the beginning of the Messianic Kingdom.  The first seven years of “That Day” are the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, aka the Tribulation, which is the main event of the Book of Revelation.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 1:12  I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden menorot.

Rev 1:13  And among the menorot was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.

Rev 1:14  His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.

Rev 1:15  His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

Rev 1:16  He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

This description is similar to those of Daniel and the other prophets who had visions of Elohim’s throne room.

Dan 7:9 I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.   Dan 7:10  A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 1:17  When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

Rev 1:18  and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amein. I have the keys of Death and of She’ol.

Elohim died.  He de-manifested himself from creation, leaving us alone for three days.  His death was a real death, a true payment for mankind’s past sins.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 1:19  Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;

The “things which you have seen” is the vision of the Throne room.  The “things which are” is the present age, and the things which will happen “hereafter” is the Day of YHWH, which follows the present age.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 1:20  [Write about] the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden menorot. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven menorot are seven assemblies.

The Bible is its own dictionary.  Every image is explained somewhere in the Tanakh.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 2:1 “To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden menorot says these things:

Rev 2:2  “I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves emissaries, and they are not, and found them false.

Rev 2:3  You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Rev 2:4  But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

Rev 2:5  Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your menorah out of its place, unless you repent.

Rev 2:6  But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

Rev 2:7  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my Elohim.

The assembly at Ephesus is consider to represent the first decades of Believers (from about 33 CE to around 100 CE), those who were persecuted for refusing to embrace the Pharisee’s Oral Law (“those who call themselves emissaries”) and for rejecting the Paganism of Greko-Roman culture.  Their zeal for the end of days, the second coming, was great – but as time wore on, as more and more of them died, they lost their sense of urgency that the end of days was coming and that they needed to teach the world to live in righteousness instead of sin due to the fast approaching day of judgment.  Especially after the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, when the world didn’t end immediately, many were confused and lost interest in prophecy.

Concerning the Nicolaitans, we know very little.  According to the Wikipedia article:

Several of the early church fathers, including Irenaeus, Epiphanius, and Theodoret mentioned this group. Irenaeus[1] discusses them but adds nothing to the Apocalypse except that “they lead lives of unrestrained indulgence.” Tertullian refers to them, but apparently knows only what is found in St. John[2]. Hippolytus of Rome based his narrative on Irenaeus, though he states that the deacon Nicolas was the author of the heresy and the sect (Philosph., VII, xxvi). Clement of Alexandria[3] exonerates Nicolas, and attributes the doctrine of promiscuity, which the sect claimed to have derived from him, to a malicious distortion of words harmless in themselves. Eusebius (H. E., III, xxix) said that the sect was short-lived.  …The common statement, that the Nicolaitanes held the antinomian heresy of Corinth, seems not to have been proved…

It may not have been “proved” from other secular historic  sources, but since we already know the “Jezebel” followers were into sexual sins, it seems likely that the earliest Believers main danger was antinomialism (teaching against the Torah, for which Shaul was accused from the earliest days) and not sexual promiscuity.  The promiscuity came later, being a result of previous antinomialism.  After all, once you start tossing some Torah commandments out the window, the rest inevitably follow.

It is also significant that Yeshua promises them they will eat of the Tree of Life.  Notice they key words there are “WILL eat,” they have NOT eaten of it already.  They do not have immortality at this time, as Babylonian and Greek paganism incorporated into Rabbinic Judaism claims.  They will receive it at the Parousia when they spend 7 years with Yeshua during the marriage ceremony in Heaven while Elohim’s wrath is poured out on those living on the earth, as we will see below.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 2:8  “To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

Rev 2:9  “I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Hasatan.

Rev 2:10  Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Rev 2:11  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

Here we see the beginnings of Replacement Theology – those who say they are now Israel, but are not Torah observant. The Roman authorities persecute Believers as a sect of Judaism and the Pharisees and other non-believing sects are happy to throw the Believers to the wolves in order to divert attention from themselves.  The separation of Rabbinic Judaism from Believers is in view here.  The ascendency of the Roman Church is also in view here, albeit in embryonic form.   This is what followed the earliest days of the apostles.

Historically, this period spans from about 100 CE to about 312 CE.  The “ten days” are considered to be the ten caesars who ordered persecutions against believers:  Nero, Domitian, Trajan, Aurelius, Severus, Maximus, Decius, Valerian, Aurelian, and Diocletian.  The days of each caesar gradually increased in the hatred and visciousness against Believers until the general public couldn’t stomach it anymore.  The martyrs braveness grew on people and more and more came to admire the Believers.  Unfortunately, however, as they turned to Belief they brought their pagan baggage with them and did not let go of it.

Here Yeshua also reminds them (and us) that we should not be afraid to die rather than live in sin or renounce true faith.  This is a message that those who must endure the Tribulation will need to take to heart.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 2:12  “To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

Rev 2:13  “I know your works and where you dwell, where Hasatan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Hasatan dwells.

Rev 2:14  But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Bil`am, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Yisra’el, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

Rev 2:15  So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.

Rev 2:16  Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Rev 2:17  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

Bilam, of course, was instrumental in the Ba’al Peor incident, where pagan women lured men of Israel into sex outside of marriage and/or temple prostitution as a means of worship.   By this time in history, the doctrine of the Nicolaitans (Torahlessness) had become such a huge problem that even those groups that did not follow mainstreat catholicism were still infected to some degree.   Historically, this represents the time period from about 312 CE to about 590 CE.   The Torahless masses went one way, while tiny groups of Torah True Believers tried to stay under the radar.

And we can speculate that it was during this time that the Pauline epistle (I Cor 8) was being interpreted as supposedly teaching that it is ok to eat clean meat that had been sacrificed to idols, or else was edited to reflect this view.  Here Yeshua clearly states that it is NOT HIS view at all – we may NOT eat clean meat sacrificed to pagan idols or participate in banquets with pagans where such clean meat is served.  (And of course we may not eat the meat of unclean carcasses at all – that is a direct violation of Torah.)   His statement that he will “give of the hidden manna” is meant to assure Believers that they will not starve if they do not eat such meat.  The Israelites often had nothing but manna (bread) in the wilderness and survived in good health.  The lesson here is clear – if there is nothing available but clean meat offered to pagan idols, then do not eat any of it.  Those who travel in the far east need to heed this teaching even today.

The “white stone” may have something to do with the mystery cults that were being absorbed into the Roman Church, or it may refer to the Umin and Thumin, one of which was white (the other black).  The Cohen HaGadol drew these like lots from a pouch he wore – white meant “yes” or “innocent,” whereas black meant “no” or “guilty.”  Receiving a white stone would be a proof of innocence and acceptance by Elohim.

A “new name” is most likely a tribal name – finally uncovering their hereditary identity in the House of Israel.  While as Jews and many Levites know their tribe, the descendants of the other 10 tribes who have been absorbed into the syncretized Mystery Babylon religion (aka modern Christianity) do not know their identity.  Elohim, however, has not lost a single one of them and will restore their family name to them in the Messianic Kingdom iIf they repent of their Torahlessness now, before its too late.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 2:18  “To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of Elohim, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

Rev 2:19  “I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Rev 2:20  But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Izevel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

Rev 2:21  I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

Rev 2:22  Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

Rev 2:23  I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Rev 2:24  But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Hasatan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

Rev 2:25  Nevertheless, hold firmly that which you have, until I come.

Rev 2:26  He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

Rev 2:27  He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

Rev 2:28  and I will give him the morning star.

Rev 2:29  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

Once the teaching of Torahless took hold, sexual promiscuity soon followed.  Jezebel was historically the pagan queen of King Ahav, and it was her prophets of Asherah and Ba’al that Elijah challenged to a duel (I Kings 18) and proved to be false.

Historically, this represents the period from about 590 CE to about 1517, when the Roman Church had thoroughly absorbed all the mystery cults and stamped out all rivals for supremacy, even the secular Roman government itself, to become the “Holy Roman Empire.”

In more general terms, religious harlotry usually involves mixing worship of Elohim with pagan worship, such as observing “Christmas” and “Easter” and trying to pass them off as worship of Elohim.  He detests this practice and will “kill her children” – the children of the Great Mystery Babylon, those who mix paganism with Torah.  “Great Oppression” refers to the Great Tribulation, the last half of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 3:1 “And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of Elohim, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

Rev 3:2  Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my Elohim.

Rev 3:3  Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

Rev 3:4  Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Rev 3:5  He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Rev 3:6  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

Here we have complacency.  By this time, the “church” has overcome all political and social opposition and taken complete control,  and has completely syncretized all pagan worship into itself.  People coast along, not taking it seriously and not putting any effort into their spiritual life.  This describes the vast majority of mainline churchgoers and synagogue attendees today.

Historically, this represents the time periof of about 1517 CE to about 1750 CE, the “Reformation” era.   However, the Reformation didn’t really represent a return to Elohim  but simply a political rebellion against a corrupt government.  They thought that throwing off the political structure that made them “alive,” but in fact they were still mired in the same dead Replacement Theology and pagan syncretism.

Their garments are defiled because they don’t even consider what they are doing to be partly pagan and in violation of Elohim’s written Torah.  Recall that we are told that true obedient believers are NOT to be taken by surprise and walking in darkness, not knowing that the Day of YHWH is approaching.  (I Thess 5:4, et al.) Yet they are told they “won’t know.”   They don’t know because they have lost Elohim’s prophetic calendar and replaced it with pagan observances.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 3:7  “To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

Rev 3:8  “I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

Rev 3:9  Behold, I give of the synagogue of Hasatan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

Rev 3:10  Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Rev 3:11  I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Rev 3:12  He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my Elohim, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my Elohim, and the name of the city of my Elohim, the new Yerushalayim, which comes down out of heaven from my Elohim, and my own new name.

Rev 3:13  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

Historically, this represents the great “missionary era” of the church, from about 1750 CE to the mid-1900s.  Though a large contingent of Sardis-era congregants remain, a few felt a zeal to spread Elohim’s word.  However, the “faith” they were spreading was still Replacement Theology.

However, during this time the True House of Israel began to reassert itself into history.  The Zionist dream was born and nurtured.  The State of Israel was re-established, and the “lost sheep” began to hear the call of Elohim’s Ruach HaKodesh, urging Teshuvah.  The Obedient Believers of the earliest days began to reappear, and to teach the lost sheep the true definitions of faith and righteousness.  This is the true missionary spirit, and it has risen up to challenge the Sardis-era holdovers and the wealthy hubris of the Laodiceans.

While in the last gasps of the era of complacency nobody really got excited about any church teachings or doctrines, simply “going with the flow,” or just picking up and moving to a new church if something bothered them, as the end of days approaches we will see a resurgance in sectarianism – specifically, Torah Obedient Belivers versus Replacement Theology.  The “church” will rally to fight off this “threat” to their paganism and disobedience, which they complacently accept without question.

The “hour of testing” is the Tribulation, and “the whole world” and “those who dwell on the earth” are those being tested.  It should be pretty obvious that the obedient believers are not in time and not on earth, according to this promise to “keep them from” that time and place.  These are those who will be included in the Parousia and be safe in the wedding chambers of Heaven while Elohim’s wrath is poured out on the earth.

Isaiah, who clearly expects to be included in the Parousia himself,  gives us a rough outline of the era of the birth pangs followed by the Parousia and finally the Tribulation:

Isa 26:17  Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, YHWH.   Isa 26:18  We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.   Isa 26:19  Your  dead people shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.   Isa 26:20  Come, my people, enter thou into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.   Isa 26:21  For, behold, YHWH comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Those left behind at the Parousia who become obedient believers during the Tribulation face the refining fire of Elohim will be included in the Resurrection of the Just at Yom Kippur when the King of Kings returns – but they do not return to Earth to become the rulers of the Messianic Kingdom as other Obedient Believers are promised.  They get to remain in Heaven and serve in the Heavenly Temple instead of the one on Earth (as we will see again later in Revelation).   And when the new heavens and the new earth are created and the new Jerusalem descends to the new earth, they will be the highest authorities in Elohim’s government, because they have been assayed like no one else, in the Tribulation fires.

Revelation, continued:

Rev 3:14  “To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amein, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of Elohim’s creation, says these things:

Rev 3:15  “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

Rev 3:16  So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

Rev 3:17  Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Rev 3:18  I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

Rev 3:19  As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Rev 3:20  Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Rev 3:21  He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Rev 3:22  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.”

It is significant that here Yeshua refers to creation, because even churchgoers and synagogue attendees no longer believe in creation by Elohim in these last days.

We see here that in the court of public opinion, Replacement Theology is going to “win” and complacency will continue to grow in the ranks of supposedly “saved” people.   What is emerging is a sort of “unitarian universalism” in all but name being the teaching of every supposedly different sect.  As more and more small churches are forced out of business, these lifeless megachurches and Reform synagogues leech both the money and the spiritual life out of those tho attend there.

This leads to the astonishing fact that Yeshua (and by extension, the Ruach HaKodesh)  is excluded from the congregation, and is outside knocking trying to get people to come out to him.   In the more mundane sense, we can predict that Obedient Believers will be expelled from these congregations, both churches and synagogues.   Convicting people of their sin makes them uncomfortable, and lukewarm people can’t stand to be uncomfortably hot or cold.

And this war against Obedient Believers  also leads to the ultimate triumph of Replacement Theology here on Earth, the replacement of Yeshua HaMashiach as the acknowledged savior of the world with the Beast, the False Messiah, who will take his place.   He seats himself on the Throne and “prevails” against the saints,  but Yeshua here promises that those who stand by their faith and obedience and overcome ( till death or till the end of the Trib, whichever comes first) will be the real rulers of the Kingdom.

Prophetically, this Laodicean age is the last days, the time from about 1950 or so CE to until the beginning of the Tribulation.  There is not a single word of praise for this era and these believers – not one redeeming quality.  Yeshua has been expelled from his own churches, in the same way the Rabbis expelled Him (as YHWH) from Rabbinic Judaism so long ago.  The time is ripe for what is anything but a hostile takeover – the False Messiah has a field ripe for the taking in front of him, and he will take full advantage of the sheep grazing therein.  They have ignored the voice of their shephard and have been left behind from going to the place of safety.  Now they will face the wolf, who will devour them by the millions.

Next:  Epistle Vetchanan.

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