TRUMPETS, 2005
CONT., page 9
GOVERNMENT IS RELATIONAL
In section 2 of this writing, we noted in Hosea 1:11 that the union
of Judah and Israel under “one leader” produces the testimony that “they
will go up/ascend from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel,”
and that Lo-ammi and Lo-ruhamah (“not My people” and “not have mercy”) are
then called Ammi and Ruhamah (“My people” and “mercy”).
Thus we see the testimony of Yahweh having mercy.
On October 18 Wilma became a hurricane and on the 21st
hit the Yucatan Peninsula. Then on October
24 it made landfall on Florida and took the rod. On
October 22 the first ever Tropical Storm Alpha formed.
Alpha crossed Haiti and then went northward, and on October 24 these
two storms united as one. Following are satellite
photos of their union. In the first image
you can see the two distinct storms – Wilma over Florida and Alpha east
of it. In the next image you see the two merging
closer together. And finally in the third broader
image the two unite as one.
Even as Yahweh has been
attesting to having mercy in the order of Ruhamah, He was once again
evidencing this with the union of Wilma and first-ever Alpha. From the greater sense, this is a union of Christianity
and the Remnant; for once again as a testimony of Christianity, Wilma took
the rod. And as a representation of the Remnant,
first-ever Alpha was a new thing. When one
considers Zechariah 4 and the places the two Remnant have on each side
of the lampstand, indeed they are truly the alpha and the omega of the
church, the beginning and the end. As testified
by these two hurricanes, the greater work that was from the west, or death,
Christianity; is united with the much lesser work from the east, or life,
the Remnant. The testimony then was the union
of these two kingdom works that brings mercy!
But before there is this union of these two greater works, there
must first be the union of the two Remnant – the first and the second,
the alpha and the omega. This union will not
fully come until the second Remnant is completed and the two are joined
together in heaven (on the mountain) to receive their glorified incorruptible
bodies. Until then, we today experience this
union that evokes mercy by the formation and union of the twelve apostles
and the twelfth apostle, who is legally a part of the first Remnant. Legally, the two are united under “one leader.” Thus we see that these two whirlwinds attest to
this union and Yahweh’s mercy in this very day – Ammi and Ruhamah!
Having noted once again this mercy, let us consider the question
of Yahweh adding two women to the last-days twelve apostles, clearly a
testimony of mercy. Revelation 4:4 indicates
that the twenty-four elders will have some form of governing in their
responsibilities, for they sit on twenty-four thrones around Yahshua,
who equally sits on a throne. Also, in Matthew
19:28 we read that the original twelve apostles were told that they would
“sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
So how is it that two women could perform such critical judgment? Very simply, when Linda and Kim, or whatever their
new names might be, sit on their thrones, they will be neither male nor
female, but will be like the angels (Matthew 22:29—30).
For now, they are two women who critically represent the reverse
of the Curse of 1920, or even the reverse of the curse that goes all the
way back to Eve. They occupy a governmental
intercessoral place, and it is yet to be seen what their roles will fully
be before we enter into immortality. They may
be another person just like you for now. On the
other hand, they very well, and very likely, will be anointed as one of the
twelve that are sent out, even as the original twelve were sent out (Luke
9:1-6) and as promised in kingdom John 15:16:
“You
did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you should go
and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you ask
of the Father in My Name He may give to you.”
How this work will unfold is to be seen, but let us consider the following
regarding this matter of adding two women. In
the writing, Two Trees In The
Garden, page 4, we see that there are ten dimensions of God. The first three are the three dimensions of space
– height, width, and depth. The fourth dimension
is time. The fifth dimension is the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, or Christianity. The
sixth dimension is the tree of life, the Remnant.
The seventh dimension is restored Christianity.
And the remaining eighth, ninth, and tenth dimensions are the nations
and the angels.
It is most significant that each higher dimension has an ability to
effect things that the lower dimensions lack. For
example, the law of gravity is a certain and prevailing law; however,
the law of aerodynamics is a greater law, allowing objects to overcome
and exceed the law of gravity. In like manner,
the law of time has an ability to change the first three dimensions. For example, a tree on any given day is fixed at
specific dimensions of height, width, and depth. However,
the fourth dimension of time has the ability to change those dimensions,
as well as the tree’s seasonal appearance. Thus,
the fourth dimension of time is a greater dimension.
This is true with the fifth dimension of Christianity as well. Take for example one’s emotional or even physical
state. One may be destined for certain demise,
either emotionally or physically, via the four lesser dimensions; but
by the higher fifth dimension of Christianity one can be redeemed in those
emotions or divinely physically healed. Thus
the fifth dimension affords things that are lacking in the lower four dimensions.
But even as there are limitations in the lesser four dimensions,
so there are limitations in all of these first five dimensions. The truth of this is evidenced in Yahshua’s parable
regarding the ten virgins in Matthew 25:1-13. One
can be certain that when Yahshua told this parable, there was specific
governmental order intended when the number of virgins was the same as the
number of the dimensions of Yahweh – ten.
In this governmental account, the ten virgins were divided five and
five. The first five were unique in that they
lacked sufficient oil, not taking with them flasks of oil; but the latter
five took sufficient oil with them so as to make the journey. In the end, the first five arrived too late and
were not able to enter into the wedding feast, while the other five did enter.
Here we see the weakness of the first five dimensions – they do not
have a sufficient supply of the oil of the Holy Spirit in order to enter
into the marriage of the Lamb, which is where we are today. There are 2,000 years of tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil
Christians who are in the grave, and by that very account cannot be in
the wedding feast of the Lamb. Likewise, many
Christians today will not enter into the wedding because of their own lack,
and will be told to go and take their money (that they will not give up
in order to be His disciple) and buy their way in, which of course has failed
for 2,000 years, and will continue to fail.
Thus we see that while the first five dimensions, including Christianity,
have ever-increasing authority, they have not been and are not now sufficient
to bring one into the marriage of the Lamb. The
first opportunity for this is afforded in the higher sixth dimension
of the Remnant, the first dimension to have enough oil of the Holy Spirit. And for Christianity, they will not be able to enter
into a place of effectual authority until they become the seventh dimension.
So why do we address this matter at this point?
Because things are possible at higher dimensions that are not possible
at lower dimensions; and entrance of the Bride company into immortality
via the extra oil of the Spirit, will allow things to take place that were
not possible at the lower dimensions, including two women becoming apostles
and sitting on two thrones with twenty-two men (or actually twenty-three). That which was not legal in the lesser fifth dimension,
will be legal in the sixth whereby the division of the gender will be
removed and the two will become one.
But now for an important point – until women and men become one in
gender, putting off the sexual differences of the natural, as long as we
relate to one another as men and women, Yahweh has ordained that those governmental
differences remain. In this regard, there is
a VERY important truth concerning Yahweh’s laws, and that is:
Law/government is relational.
Law is applicable relative to its setting or according to what it
is relating to. In the ways of Yahweh, law
does not change. It may temporarily be modified,
as we see when Yahweh granted man divorce because of his “hardness of heart
…; but from the beginning it has not been that way”
(Matthew 19:8, Mark 10:5, and not in Luke or John). But even then, for Yahweh to do this He has to do
so legally. Even so, any law is in force as
it relates to the things around it. While the
following examples are not perfect, they at least give an idea of how law
is relational.
If you lived in America and went to another country, even though you
are an American, when you stepped onto that other country’s soil, you would
be subject to the laws of that country. You
would thus soon find out the truth that law/government is relational, relative
to your present environment. When in that
country, you would have to conform to its laws.
For example, in America we drive on the right side of the road;
but if you visited the UK, you would have to drive on the left side of the
road. If you said that you were an American and
we drive on the right side of the road and proceeded to do so, you would
not get very far before the reality of your new relational government would
confront you, maybe even to your harm. Thus,
one has to conform to government per one’s relationships.
If you worked at a job, your association with that job would bring
with it certain relational responsibilities and rights.
One person might be able to walk into a high security area, but another
could not. One person in their duty as a police
officer or soldier might have a right to kill someone, but others cannot. What one can and cannot do is always a question
of government or law based on relationships.
One can spank their own children, at least here in America, but they
cannot spank another’s child unless they have permission. One can have relations with their spouse, but by
Yahweh’s laws they cannot have relations with another man’s spouse. Why? Because law/government
is relational.
So what does this have to do with the apostles, and more specifically
with the two women apostles? Until these two
women enter into their immortal bodies, they are still obligated to the
laws of the male-female relationships set forth by Yahweh. This is rather obvious in most regards, particularly
relating to the practical, but it also applies in the spiritual. As long as a woman is in an earthly body, she
has a relational responsibility to the one from whom she came – the man.
The error is to try to effect the heavenly order too early. This is what Christians have done, especially since
1920. They have tried to place women in that
position of equality before it is time. Like all of Christianity, their
actions are equally premature, before the time. Christianity
is a Saul work that is too early. Their actions
are like Saul who could not wait for the prophet of Yahweh, Samuel, and
went ahead and offered the burnt offering anyway for fear of losing the
people (1 Samuel 13:8-14); and for this reason his kingdom, like Christianity’s,
would not endure. It was given to another
who was made after Yahweh’s own heart, David. Timing
is critical!
We read in 1 Timothy 2:12 that the woman is not to teach or exercise
authority over a man. Even though these two
women have the office as an apostle, they continue to be in a male-female
relationship and are thereby bound by that relational government. That government was set up by Yahweh in the very
beginning in the garden of Eden, and remains to this day.
Peter and Paul reiterated that government, even though Christians,
who are lawless, have blatantly disregarded it. The
very passage cited here concerning the woman not teaching, is clearly based
upon this matter of the woman coming from the man.
But
I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but
to remain quiet. For it was Adam who was first
created, and then Eve (1 Timothy 2:12-13).
Insomuch that Yahweh redeems all things, this relationship will turn
around in time, but only at the higher dimension where the lower limitations
are not in effect. As Paul points out, while
the woman came from the man, man also comes from the woman (1 Corinthians
11:12). For 6,000 years man has been under the
government of the woman coming from man, and is thus to be ruled over by
him. But when the Bride enters into immortality,
fully entering into the higher sixth dimension, the man (the body of Christ)
will come from the woman (the Bride). When
that occurs, Yahweh will do a new thing and the woman will encompass the
man, the Bride encompassing, or becoming the covering for, the body of Christ
(Jeremiah 31:22). But this again is only possible
at the higher dimension. Then when the body
of Christ enters into the seventh dimension, the two will be neither male
nor female and will be one.
On October 16-17 we interceded to reverse the Curse of 1920, and even
for the curse per the woman going all the way back to Eve. With regard to reversing the Curse of 1920, the
very cause of that curse was the woman abandoning her place and wanting
to be equal (or even over) the man, violating the clear relational laws
of Yahweh. Obviously, reversing that curse would
bring the woman back into harmony with Yahweh’s established governmental
order in her relationship to the man.
It is quite significant that both of these ladies who are apostles
came with a male authority in their lives – Linda with her brother, Eric;
and Kim with her father, Cary. It is most likely
that when the apostles are sent out, these brother-sister/father-daughter
pairs will remain together, the male figure being a covering for the female. This is Yahweh’s government and obviously His provision/order
regarding these four apostles.
Will Linda and Kim be allowed to teach? In
a formal setting, undoubtedly not; but it is clear that a woman can pray
or prophesy if they cover their heads (1 Corinthians 11:5-10). While respecting Yahweh’s government as it relates
to the male-female relationships, we will see what the Holy Spirit does. It would certainly seem that the anointing of healing
the sick or raising the dead as promised to the twelve (Matthew 10:8,
Luke 9:6, John 15:16), should not be affected by the male-female government.
To understand why Yahweh has set forth this order regarding the man
and the woman, one has to look at its governmental origin or basis. The difficulty we have today is that the Curse of
1920 has affected our societies so extraordinarily much, that it is hard
to think governmentally and not emotionally.
Some would say that there is no difference between a man and a woman,
but that is absolutely not true. Genesis 3:16
makes this very clear, not to speak of the many other like passages. Most certainly, in harmony with the ways of Yahweh,
there is a governmental and even social reason that the man was created
before the woman. We are not benefited, either
personally or socially, by trying to outwit our Creator, but should instead
seek to gain understanding of His ways and conform our lives and our person
to them. In this world today, this means being
willing to be different from others. The question
is and has always been – Will we conform to Yahweh, or will we conform
to Satan’s rebellion? Let us further consider
Yahweh’s governmental ways.
The way of Yahweh is to create things in mirror images. As addressed in Section 4, the kingdom of heaven on
earth is a mirror image of the kingdom of heaven in heaven. Likewise, man is a mirror image of Yahweh (The Soul). In each case,
the image is made in weakness and bears a tendency toward being easily
deceived and is thus given to failure. This
is certainly true concerning the kingdom of heaven on earth and man. Therefore, when Yahweh set forth the command to the
woman that “your desire shall be for your husband, and he will rule over
you” (Genesis 3:16), this government applies universally. Should not our desire be for the kingdom of heaven
above, and it should rule over us? And should
not man’s desire be for Yahweh, and He should rule over us?
Therefore when Yahweh made the woman from the man, she too was a mirror
image of him and followed the identical pattern of being weaker and easily
deceived (1 Peter 3:7, 1 Timothy 2:14). Some
people may not like to hear this or want to accept it, but it is consistent
established governmental order, an order whereby the Curse of 1920 capitalized
on this very weakness.
And in like regard, and this hopefully will help one to understand
this matter of the man and the woman, governmentally, our soul occupies
the same feminine position, while our spirit occupies the masculine position. We as individuals, whether male or female, are challenged
with the same conflict that rages in society today – whether to follow
the lead of our feminine soul, or to follow the lead of our masculine spirit.
In like manner, there are two Adams, one the weaker and one the redemptive
– “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (the feminine); the last
Adam became a life-giving spirit (the masculine)” (1 Corinthians 15:45).
Thus we see here five levels of the identical truth/pattern:
- The kingdom
of heaven above in contrast to the kingdom of heaven on earth,
- Yahweh in contrast
to man,
- The man in
contrast to the woman,
- The spirit
in contrast to the soul, and
- The last Adam
is in contrast to the first Adam.
As you can see, this is
all the same government. Thus, one cannot
say they agree with heaven ruling, Yahweh ruling, our spirit ruling, or
the last Adam ruling, and then say that the woman is governmentally equal
to the man. It just does not work that way, and
to pursue such would only demonstrate that the feminine soul is ruling rather
than masculine government.
Given this order, the Bride then faces a very real problem, frankly
equal to the problem Tamar had when Judah refused to give her to Shelah
(Genesis 38). Something unique and new has
to take place.
One would conclude that since the Bride comes out of the body, that
the Bride will equally be a weaker and easily deceived work. Yahweh forbid, when the body is so deceived already! This would certainly be true, except for two provisions
– (1) the office of Yahshua that is occupied by the twelfth apostle, and
(2) the fulfillment of the sun-clothed woman. A
Bride coming out of the body of Christ would be even weaker than the body
if Yahweh did not provide the office of the Son of God to direct and instruct
the Bride. Also, the Bride will be clothed
with the Spirit, who convicts of sin (John 16:8) and guides into all truth
(John 16:13). (It is worthy to note here that
the Greek words for “true/truth” [#’s 225, 227, & 228] are used once
in Matthew, twice in Mark, five times in Luke, and forty-eight times in
Millennial kingdom John.) With these two critical
provisions, the Bride will become the redeemed and much needed “obedient people.”
Furthermore, Yahweh gives the Bride a legal covering that allows her
to come out from the body, even as He did with the body of Christ per the
Jews (as you will now see), and will establish her in the higher sixth
dimension. Even as the sons of Abraham increased
in understanding beyond mankind, and the body of Christ increased in understanding
beyond the Jews, so the Bride is greatly increasing in understanding beyond
the body. You will understand this order better
as this section unfolds. Let us carefully examine
this governmental truth regarding the woman/the Bride and her covering.
When the Spirit came upon this man in June, 1994, and revealed the
truth of the two-part Remnant that comes out of the body of Christ, Yahweh
had preceded this critical revelation with some vital and encompassing
truth – the law of coverings/atonement. Thus,
very significantly, the foundation to the revelation of the Bride truth
in 1994 was the writing, Coverings. In fact, the
writing Eric read and made commitments regarding that immediately preceded
Yahweh’s revelation of the Millennial calendar, was equally Coverings!
If all of this we see happening today per the Bride was initiated
with these marvelous truths regarding coverings, we cannot abandon these
truths without becoming misguided and adversely affecting what we do. If we violate the very cause for our understanding
and its foundational truths, then we negate our cause and purpose today. This entire matter regarding the Bride is founded
and being fulfilled because of the laws of coverings; and you will now
see that for 6,000 years Yahweh and man have operated according to these
laws of coverings. And the very reason the
Bride will hold all things in common is founded on the truth of the woman
covering her head. Let us review this, and even
add some additional amazing and confirming truth.
In 1 Corinthians 11:3, the passage that addresses this matter regarding
the woman covering her head, we read the following clear governmental order:
But
I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the
man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.
Thus we see this unmistakably clear governmental order.
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Yahweh Yahshua The
man The
woman |
Paul then went on to explain that if the woman prays or prophesies,
in other words if she either speaks to Yahweh (prayer) or on behalf of
Yahweh (prophecy), then she is to cover her head.
Why is this true? Because of the law
of coverings. (And as thoroughly addressed in
Chapter 5 of Coverings, long hair is unquestionably not that required
covering, but actually demands the covering , and if not covered is to
be shorn or shaved off.)
As you see in the list above:
- Yahweh is
the covering of Yahshua,
- Yahshua
is the covering of the man, and
- The man
is the covering of the woman.
As long as the woman is
looking to the man for an answer from Yahweh, she is under his covering;
but, when she goes directly to Yahweh, she is now outside of his covering. Thus we see the following:
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Yahweh Yahshua The
man |
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Having moved out from under the covering of the man, Paul goes on
to say that the woman “needs authority on her head, because of the angels”
(11:10). While the woman was receiving from Yahweh
through the man, she was covered by the man; but when she goes around the
man and directly to Yahweh, He says that she needs authority on her head
for the sake of the angels. This is Yahweh’s
government. As addressed in Coverings, Chapter 3, the Greek word here
translated “authority” is “exousia,” which basically means here – “the
right to speak.”
When a woman either speaks directly to Yahweh or on His behalf, she
needs on her head the right to speak. At that
point she is not speaking to her covering or on behalf of her covering,
so Yahweh says that she needs a covering on her head as a testimony to the
angels. And might it be noted here, this is not
a social issue, but an angel issue, an issue of proper government that the
ministering spirits before Yahweh in heaven recognize and respond to. These are the same angels through whom “the word (was)
spoken” that “proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience
received a just penalty” (Hebrews 2:2). These
are the angels spoken of for whom Yahweh tells the woman to cover her head! Thus we find the following governmental order:
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Yahweh Yahshua The
man |
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Whether you understand this or not, whether you agree with it or not,
does not change its reality or the necessity of its practice or the certainty
of its consequences on your life or, most notably, the awareness of the
angels regarding your actions. Frankly, society
today is a brief aberration from this long practiced truth (though men
will still take their hats off to pray). As
Paul wrote in verse 16 – “But if one is inclined to be contentious (about
this matter of the woman covering her head), we have no other practice,
nor have the churches of God.” In all
the history of the church since Paul’s statement here, only since the
Curse of 1920 have women unabashedly ceased to practice this clear command. This must be reversed!
Let us now consider this government regarding coverings from its
unfolding larger picture. I am very grateful
to the apostle, Linda, who asked a question about this that brought additional
understanding, as you will see here, which is not found in the original
Coverings.
First Yahweh created man, and for 2,000 years man was under the covering
of his own flesh efforts. Then Yahweh began
a new work – He created Abraham; and after Abraham brought forth Ishmael,
the ongoing flesh work, Yahweh gave testimony that He would become the
covering of this new work and fulfill it. We
see then the first preceding governmental order:
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Flesh
efforts
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Yahweh told Abraham that he and his offspring were to be circumcised
in the flesh (Genesis 17:11), indicating that He would become Abraham’s
covering, and not his flesh. He would bring
forth the promised offspring of Abraham. (Read
The Covering Bride regarding Abraham’s circumcision.) Abraham was thus set apart from mankind, and per the
testimony of circumcision Yahweh became his covering.
Therefore, for the next 2,000 years Yahweh was the covering over
the offspring of Abraham.
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Flesh
efforts
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But Yahweh was not finished, for yet another 2,000 years later He
once again called out another work, this time the body of Christ that came
out of the sons of Abraham. Thus we see the
preceding governmental order:
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Yahweh
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Since the body of Christ was coming out of the preceding work, then
it too equally had to have a covering. What
was that covering? It was Yahshua.
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Yahweh
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Once again for another period of 2,000 years there has been a work
that has been under another covering, this one under the Son of God (though
temporarily fulfilled by Satan, since the Son of God went back to heaven). But, it is now time to bring out another work – the
former, Christianity, being the tithe; and the latter, the Remnant Bride,
being the tithe of the tithe. (Keep in mind,
these last two works have been the establishment of the kingdom of heaven
on earth. This did not exist under the sons
of Abraham.) So when the Remnant comes out,
there obviously must be yet another covering.
With this basic governmental truth already established in this man’s
understanding in the days leading up to June, 1994, when the Spirit
came upon me and Yahshua specifically told me that the body of Christ is
put to sleep and a bride is taken out of its side, there was an obvious
question that had to be asked. Governmentally,
a bride coming out of the side of the body of Christ was precisely the
same thing as what Paul presented in 1 Corinthians 11:1-16.
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Yahweh
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Furthermore, it is the precise pattern Yahweh has followed for 6,000
years per these three 2,000 year periods. Thus
we now see:
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Yahweh
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Once this man saw this, the obvious question was – What then was the
covering that had to be applied to the Bride so that she would have the
authority to pray and prophesy? Typically at
that time, Yahweh answered my questions immediately; but on this one He
waited three days and then told/showed me that it was the covering of holding
all things in common, the very covering that Yahshua placed on the first
Remnant through His clear teachings regarding this.
This is addressed in One
Thing You Still Lack. Thus we see:
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Yahweh
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Thus, the government of (1) Yahweh over the sons of Abraham, (2) Yahshua
over the body of Christ, and (3) holding all things in common over the
Bride, is the identical government of (4) the woman covering her head! Once again, the critical application of this truth
at all levels is inseparable, necessitating today more than ever that
the woman cover her head and the Bride hold all things in common. They are one and the same governmental truth, and
as Yahweh’s “obedient people,” we have no choice but to uphold them. It is quite revealing that today Christianity has
rejected both of these latter two coverings, and in truth have thus reject
Yahshua.
In summary, we see then the following wherein every 2,000 years Yahweh
consistently takes out a remnant and puts a covering on it, each work being
taken out of the preceding, and of necessity a new covering being applied:
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2,000
years |
2,000
years |
2,000
years |
Today
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Flesh
efforts
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And we add to this the highly revealing testimony
that the woman is honored, truly honored, to present forth. For even as it is written in 1 Peter 3:1-2, by a woman
covering her head, others “may be won without a word” by your example and
testimony, “as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.” Without a word the woman testifies of the works and
ways of Yahweh.
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Yahweh
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The Curse of 1920 had its beginning in Christianity (The Temptation of Eve …), and its ill affects have been advanced by
Christianity. It is Christianity that supports
the woman not covering her head, immodest dress and the confusion of
the sexes, men removing their God-given beards, women dressing like men,
women voting and taking the lead in the home or espousing the equally
false idea of an equal partnership, women teaching, women abandoning the
home and being equal in the workforce, introducing and even advancing corrupt
music.
Of course there have always been small elements within Christianity
that have resisted these things, but as a whole Christianity is no different
from the world. Even the rate of abortion is
essentially the same in Christianity as it is in the world; and because
the Curse of 1920 began in Christianity, it has no authority to reverse this
horrific murderous act that is but another Holocaust.
In fact, what the Holocaust was to Hitler, abortion is to Christianity,
for the Women’s Rights Movement began in Christianity.
Christianity is a pathetic failure when it comes to overcoming Satan
and the world; in fact, they are under Satan's control and do his will.
You say you are a “believer” and you do not follow Satan, though you
do these things. You are deceived. The one whom you follow in these actions is the
deceiver, and of course you do not see it as being wrong.
Consider this. In John 8:44 Yahshua told
those who were questioning Him – “You are of your father the devil, and
you want to do the desires of you father.” Have
you ever asked the question as to whom He was speaking here? Would it shock you that He was speaking to “believers”?
In verses 30 and 31 it says that “many came to believe in Him,” and
that He was saying this to those “who had believed Him.” Is it not clear then that the message here is to
believers, who are actually following the ways of their father, the devil? Indeed so, and when men seek to look like a woman
by shaving or even fashioning a goatee, and when women seek to dress like
a man by wearing pants and paint their faces and usurp the man, they each
follow in the ways of their father, the devil. Likewise,
a man’s hair needs to be short, and a woman’s hair needs to be long (1
Corinthians 11:14-15). Men need to be men,
and women need to be women, and they need to quit abandoning their places
and conforming to the rebellion of Satan. Wake
up! Accept the image wherein you are made and
quit fashioning an idol made by your own hands.
Similarly, this man finds it quite interesting that when Tabernacles,
2005, came and Yahweh provided me my Bride, I did not choose her. Instead, as are the ways of Yahweh, it was an arranged
marriage. I chose my first wife, and she
forsook me. I did not choose who would be
the twelve apostles, but my Father chose them. Such
is His ways; but even as Yahweh allowed men to divorce because of the hardness
of their hearts, so He has allowed men to go out and choose their own wives
out of their own passions (which by its very nature has continued to deteriorate
into many divorces and numerous wives and even live-in relationships). Once you start compromising the ways of Yahweh, it
is a certain slippery slope that you are on, and leads to one place – the
bottom of the slope, the lowest point, sinking down into the mud! We have fallen a long way, and fail to either recognize
it or to change it. We are blind and vain!
I am grateful to Yahweh that He chose my Bride, for He will keep her!
We have seen repeatedly evidenced throughout this writing the incredibly
encouraging and hope-filled truth that Yahweh is having mercy; He is
bringing us into His Millennial reign. This
is why He is revealing this incredible truth to us and calling us to repentance. Yahweh has attested in many ways, even in two hurricanes,
that He is going to have mercy and reverse the curse and actually use
for good that which has thus far been used for evil.
We will now close this writing with a most encouraging and equally
hope-filled like testimony, though it will be very surprising to you at
first!
Continue to page 10 of Trumpets-2005 for HOPE FOR
THE FUTURE