Hannukah – The Return of Antiochus Ephiphanes



HANUKKAH

The Return of Antiochus Epiphanes

Shocking Revelation for the End Times

In Leviticus 23, we read about the seven Festivals of Yahuweh, our Creator, and His instructions for our celebrating them! Beginning with Passover, these seven are the outline of the entire plan of the salvation of Yahuweh through His Son, Messiah Yahushua. Yahushua has fulfilled the first four of these Festivals--Pesach (Passover), Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Shavu’ot (Pentecost)--His death, burial, resurrection, and His sending of the Spirit of Yahuweh into the redeemed. In the very near future will fulfill the last three – Yom Teruah (the Feast of Trumpets), Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), and Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles)—His return, His declaration that all Israel is saved, His judgment on the nations, His wedding, and His dwelling with us forever.

These are eternal festivals to commemorate and celebrate the salvation of our Elohim (God). Yahushua literally fulfilled the first four Festivals to the very second in timing, and He will fulfill the last three perfectly, also. Each of these Festivals expresses the love of Elohim to save a remnant of the earth’s people that He could call His people-- His own family! [Refer to: “Seven Appointments with Man” for further understanding]

Two additional celebrations were added later, commemorating historical happenings. Both of them are also prophetic of what is soon to come upon this earth before the return of Yahushua. They are Purim and Hanukkah.

The information can be life-changing, if you let it. It also will expose the plans of Satan, and his agents, in these last days.

When my children were in public elementary school, I would attend their Christmas programs. There would always be at least one or two songs about Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that appeared around Christmas time. That’s all I knew about Hanukkah--that it was Jewish. I did not know at that time even what the songs were talking about, when the children would sing about spinning the dreidel. I now know that the word “dreidel” is a Yiddish word for a spinning top.

The legend of this children’s Hanukkah game goes back to 167 BCE. To escape Antiochus’ spies who were on the lookout for Jews gathering to study the Torah--a activity forbidden by Antiochus--a dreidel was always kept nearby. It a soldier approached, someone would grab the dreidel and spin it, so that the spies thought they were simply engaged in a harmless game.

Unfortunately, competing with the cultural popularity of Christmas, children getting gifts, parties, special foods, etc., the historical significance of Hanukkah has almost been lost. Its prophetic message has been lost, until now. The Spirit of Yahuweh is revealing it. Hanukkah has become a Jewish version of Christmas. Children get presents for the 8 nights of Hanukkah, parties are held, a special Hanukkia-menorah is lit, special foods are eaten, and families gather together for dinners. These things are not bad--they just tend to suppress the real meaning of the celebration, and hide the prophetic significance.

From 1963, I began studying and teaching the seven Festivals—the Feasts of Yahuweh. (Leviticus 23) I organized and oversaw several “Seder suppers,” (Passover meals) - even one in a Roman Catholic Church.

I knew they all pictured Yahushua--our Messiah and Savior. The Name Yahushua means “YAHUWEH IS SALVATION.” The Name of our Abba/Father is Yahuweh (I AM THE EVER-EXISTING ETERNAL ONE WHO BREATHES). He is the Living Elohim (God). Yahushua came in His Father’s Name! He will return in His Father’s Name.

I did not celebrate Hanukkah or Purim until about 15 years ago.

Also from 1963, I began to study and teach on what Evangelicals call “Eschatology”--the study of the end times. I began with what I knew – Hal Lindsey and Jack Van Impe teachings. But, as Abba taught me His truth by His Spirit, I learned to go from Genesis to Revelation and find out what He had to say in His Word from cover to cover. This way, He began teaching me. In 1999, when I moved to live in Aqaba, Jordan, where I lived for eight years, He began seriously teaching me from the whole Word on many subjects. I learned the nature of a real prophet, and the nature of a false one. I learned what He had to say about our future. This included His teaching me about Hanukkah and Purim.

As I progressed to learn about these things, I found that man had inserted teachings that were not true, and traditions that went along with the false teachings.

Recently, a wonderful researcher, pastor, and dear friend to me--a native of Colombia--wanted the truth about the celebration of Hanukkah, so that she and her congregation could throw out the false, and only celebrate Hanukkah in His Spirit of Truth. She found some shocking truth, which she shared with me. It dispels a large part of the traditions of Hanukkah. I did my own research which helped confirm her findings, and found more information for both of us.

I want to let you know about traditions and beliefs you can drop from Hanukkah celebration that were added, and are not true.

The First Hanukkah, or “dedication,” of the cleansed Temple, was December 164 BCE- mentioned in Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews --Antiquities 12.7.6-7 316-325, and1 Maccabees 4:36-59. It is interesting that neither Josephus, nor the book of Maccabees tells the story of the “miracle of the oil.”

In John 10:22, it is mentioned that Messiah is in Jerusalem for the Feast of Dedication, or Hanukkah. But, it appears that John only gave that fact as a time-marker in his narrative. John relates the ministry of Messiah, beginning at one Passover, going through one year to the next Passover where He dies and rises. His ministry was only a year long. He died at age 31 in 28 CE. This Feast was mentioned in John 10:22, but in His day no one lit candles in a special “Hanukkia” menorah of 8 branches, with a 9th “servant” candle branch, lighting one additional candle each night until the 8 were lit, to commemorate a miracle.

From Hanukkah by G.J. Goldberg:

Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days, which is the length of the celebration recorded in the First Book of Maccabees and which is affirmed by Josephus. In Talmudic times there was related a story of the miracle of finding a small amount of ritually pure oil that beyond expectation burned for eight days. Neither the books of Maccabees nor Josephus, however, tell this story... But Josephus also does not describe any ritual lighting of a menorah as part of the annual celebration of Hanukkah; for him, the "miracle of Hanukkah" refers not to burning oil but to the gaining against all odds of the freedom to worship and to follow ancestral customs. 

The holiday in 1 Maccabees is instituted to celebrate the "dedication of the altar" (1 Macc 4:59), and the Hebrew word for "dedication" is Hanukkah. It is by this name the festival appears in Rabbinic literature. But even today the name Hanukkah is usually "translated" into English as the "Festival of Lights," the name given ascribed to it by Josephus, who is the only ancient author to do so. 

In modern times we assume the term, “Festival of Lights, refers to the custom of lighting the Hanukkah menorah, a nine-branched candelabrum to which one candle is added each night during the eight nights of the festival (there is a ninth, central candle used to light the others). But Josephus says nothing about this custom, and in fact he seems to be unaware of it, for he invents his own explanation of the name: the freedom to worship had been concealed in darkness and is now brought to light.

From:  

“…from a letter sent circa 125 BCE from the Hasmoneans to the leaders of Egyptian Jewry, the holiday of Hanukkah was called `The festival of Sukkot,’ celebrated in the month of Kislev (December), rather than Tishri, since the Jews were still in caves fighting as guerrillas on Tishrei 1, 164 BCE. So, they could not properly honor the eight-day holiday of Sukkot (and Shemini Atzeret), which is a Temple holiday; hence it was postponed until after the recapture of Jerusalem and the purification of the Temple. This--not the Talmudic legend of the cruse of oil--explains the eight day form of Hanukkah. The use of candles may reflect the later reported tradition ofSimchat Beit HaShoava (Water-drawing Festival), the all-night dancing in the Temple on Sukkot, which required tall outdoor lamps to flood light on the dance floor of the Temple courtyard.

From – A Second Sukkot:

“The `Miracle of Oil’ story is not the whole story of Chanukah (Hanukkah). It was reported in the Babylonian Talmud in 500 C.E., almost 700 years after the Maccabees recaptured the Temple. The editors of this story recast the Maccabean revolution as the story of miracles. They were worried that subsequent generations of Jews, living under oppressive conditions, might turn to the example of the Maccabees and take up arms against their medieval oppressors. By inventing the story to emphasize God’s miraculous actions in the past, these ancient rabbis taught that miracles occur because God makes them occur. Therefore, they taught, our role in life is to pray for God’s intervention in the world.

A more accurate historical record of the Maccabean war is found in the Second Book of Maccabees. This book, written for Jews who lived outside the land of Israel, was composed around 120 BCE – about 300 years after the first Chanukah. The Second Book of Maccabees explains that the mitzvah of celebrating eight days of Hanukkah was actually invented as a substitute for celebrating the eight days of Sukkot.  It does not mention the `Miracle of Oil’ story.

This `Second Sukkot’ story teaches that when the Maccabees recaptured the Temple in Jerusalem, they worked to remove the idols and they broke apart the altars. They built new altars out of new uncut stones, polished the special holy bowls and tools, put new loaves of challah on the table and hung the curtains.  Then they were ready to celebrate.  It was winter; Sukkot was long past. King Antiochus, who had forbidden Jews to study Torah or circumcise the male babies, also prohibited Jews from participating in Sukkot celebrations (one of three important pilgrimage holidays). With the Temple holy again, each Maccabee took an etrog and a lulav and made a special, mid-winter celebration of Sukkot. This was the first celebration of Chanukah. Note that Chanukah, like Sukkot, lasts eight days. The message of this `Second Sukkot’ account is clear: Judaism is so important that, if necessary, Jews will create new ways to observe our Jewish tradition.”  

My note on this last sentence: “Rabbinic Judaism, founded by Rabbi Akiva, has been so important since the 2nd century CE, controlled by rabbis, that the Word of Yahuweh has been twisted, changed, added to, and subtracted from, to make the Word say what they want it to say. They’ve done a good job of deleting, erasing, and hiding any passages that are prophetic of Messiah’s first coming. Traditions and rabbinic teachings have been elevated above the very clear Word of our Creator. The Talmuds – the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds – the fallacious “Oral Law,” Gamatria, Mishna, commentaries of the rabbis and sages, and “takinot,”-- the traditions of religious leaders-- have been lifted up above the simple teachings of the Torah of Yahuweh, making Rabbinic Judaism such a burden that few Jews today want anything to do with it. Because, through the millenniums, so few of His people have really ever known Him, they have made up ideas about Him, and they act on those ideas. All the while, He sits in grief that His people are so far from Him, and do not know Him as He is. This is I stress above all things – knowing Him – knowing His nature, His ways, and His thinking by allowing the Spirit of Yahuweh to teach us His own Word. Isn’t this logical? If you plan to spend eternity with Him in His Kingdom, isn’t it intelligent to get to know the King and begin observing His teachings now – His way?

But, mankind is rebellious. (Ezekiel 2-3) For Him to be able to teach us His Word, we have to first humble ourselves, get rid of pride, repent of sin, and make time for Him to teach us as we sit alone with His Word, filled by His Spirit in our spirit, so that His teachings do not filter through our carnal mind’s reasoning based on the teachings of human beings, or our own thoughts. [Refer to: “Exposing Rabbinic Judaism and Its Link to Rome”, and “Religion”] No one can know Yahuweh and Yahushua though religion, which is man-created and man-ruled.

After the late 1980’s I began to just study the Word just with the Spirit of Yahuweh to teach me, especially after 1999 in the Negev desert of southern Jordan. I also studied current events from the newspaper, and media news, from history, and from books that the Father allowed me to read. I studied the one-world government, and the Luciferic plans and goals of the Illuminati through his elite world rulers, and their banking empires. Father guided me. I learned the beliefs of what the Luciferian one-world government leaders believed and how these beliefs are being carried out. Today, after all these years of research, He is showing me more, i.e. the signs, symbols, and secrets of the Illuminati--who they are, and what they are doing to reach their goals.

Before Hanukkah one year, I was visiting with my friend Lori in Fort Worth, Texas. She asked a question which led to a surprising revelation from Abba. She asked: “Why should we celebrate Hanukkah and Purim?” She had been teaching the other seven Festivals to her children and friends. She was learning about Hanukkah. I sat there, thinking that, of course, these two Festivals teach us victory over the enemy. They teach us not to compromise with the enemy in hard times. We celebrate them because they show the victory that Yahuweh had over His enemies, using the tenacity and faithfulness of the Levites (priestly tribe) and the Jews (tribe of Judah) of that day. Purim, of course, is the victory of our Abba/Father over His enemies and the enemies of His people, through Esther and Mordecai. That story is from the book of Esther. We should commemorate that holiday also. From the book of Esther: “The Jews established and imposed it (the keeping of Purim as a set-apart Festival) upon themselves and upon their seed and all who should join them, that without fail they should observe these two days every year…and that these days should be remembered and observed throughout every generation, every clan, every province, and every city, and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews and that the remembrance of them should not cease from their seed.” (Italics mine)

Of course the Jewish people did not include the “House of Israel” (the 10 northern tribes of Jacob--the House of Ephraim/House of Joseph--in their celebration declaration because those 10 tribes had been scattered among all the nations between 1,000 and 722 BCE, and the events of Purim happened after the 70 years of Babylonian captivity, at the time of the Persian King, Xerxes, son of Darius the Mede. Yet, the declaration invites all who will, to come and celebrate this Festival with the Jewish people.

Father’s holidays are simple. We begin by obeying the 4th commandment of the Ten, by setting apart Friday night at sunset until Saturday night at sunset, as our day with our Bridegroom, called Shabbat, or Sabbath. On the wilderness journey, the amount of daily manna that Abba gave to His people was doubled every 6th day, so that they would not have to work to gather food on the 7th day. He rested on the 7th day, and He expects us to also. Two simple rules apply: 1) Do not work as usual, and 2) do not make anyone else work or serve you. It is the main sign of identification with Yahuweh, our Father. [Refer to: “The Sign of Identification”] On the eve of Shabbat we set it apart unto Him. During Shabbat day, we teach our children the Word of Yahuweh, explaining it in simple terms to edify their lives. The study of the Torah is important. The “Torah” is simply the teachings and instructions of the Kingdom of Elohim for our lives on this earth. It is not the horrible old “law of the Jews,” or the “law of Moses,” as pagan Christianity makes it out to be. The Torah of Yahuweh contains the rules of His Kingdom for all mankind, as Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 tells us. If we are children of the Kingdom of Light, then we need to learn and obey the simple instructions for our righteous standing in that Kingdom with the King. Philippians 3:20-21 tell His set-apart ones are citizens of His Kingdom. Hebrews 4:9 tells that that there remains for us a guarding of the Shabbat, using the Greek word for “Sabbath-keeping.” Isaiah 66:22-23 tells us that the Festivals, whose timing is gauged by the sighting of the new moon for each new month, and the Shabbats are eternal – as in ETERNAL!

The Greek word for the Hebrew “Torah,” is “nomos.” “Nomos,” like “Torah” means teachings and instructions, and goes so far as to also say that it means to “feed the sheep.” (Note John 21:15-17)

The term “a nomia” means “without the Torah.” In Matthew 7:21-22, Messiah speaks of the judgment of “that Day,” the Day of Yahuweh, the day Messiah returns with the wrath of His Father. He tells of those who will approach Him and tell Him of their great ministry in His Name. Wow, will they ever be in for a shock. He will say to them: “…I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who work lawlessness.” The word “lawlessness” in Greek is “a nomia,” of Torahlessness. Messiah tells them that He does not know them because they are void of the Torah, which is the Covenant of the Kingdom with His people. Their arrogance shows that their nature is against His nature; their ways are against His ways; their thinking is against His thinking; and they have refused to obey His eternal Torah. Today, the world is fast becoming totally “a nomia,” – lawless. The anti-messiah (II Thessalonians 2:3) is called “the lawless one.” The Ten Commandments are the outline for the entire Torah. The displaying of the Ten Commandments has been banned from American schools, courts, other state and federal places, and even from public display in many cases. Yahuweh gave us this Torah as a marriage covenant with His Son. To reject the Torah is to reject Yahushua Messiah--the living Word! What “Word” is mentioned throughout the “New Testament?” It is the Torah, Prophets, and Writings of the Hebrew Scriptures – the Tenach – miscalled the “OLD Testament.” Messiah came to “renew” His Covenant – not abolish it! The word in Jeremiah 31:31 in Hebrew and in Matthew 26:28 in Greek is the same word used for the renewed moon each month – not “new” as opposed to something “old.” The Torah is the foundation for all Truth. It is not a Jewish thing! It is for all who identify with Yahuweh, the Elohim of Abraham, Yitzak, and Ya’cob! (Exodus 3:15)

Our Savior kept the Festivals—they were the outline of everything He would do to save His people. They are NOT the Festivals of man, though man has added traditions, some good, some bad, which are not specified in the Torah. Man creates religions. Man makes Elohim his own image, to accommodate his beliefs and lifestyle. Yahuweh did not start the religion of Rabbinical Judaism. Yahushua did not start a religion called Christianity, and neither did some guy dubbed “Paul.” His name was Sha’ul! Yahuweh/Yahushua have nothing to do with religion. They are Persons, not a theology to be debated about!

A study of correct history will reveal this truth. I have dedicated my life to digging to the roots of what our Savior left us at His ascension. What Yahushua left us is nearly 100% opposite of what was created later on by the Greeks and the Romans, called “Christianity.” Christianity has stripped Yahushua of His Jewish and Levite lineage.

Yahuweh clearly states that He came to “magnify” His Father’s Covenant, putting it under a magnifying glass,” and expanding it into the realm of our heart, so that we could guard it from our spirit, empowered by the Spirit of Yahuweh. (Matthew 5:17-20) Yahushua came to restore His people to the eternal teachings of the Kingdom of Heaven. He came to redeem us from our sin, so that He could send the Spirit of Yahuweh to write the Torah on our heart. The very nature of Elohim is ingrained in His Torah. He is a Father who only wants good for His children! (Deuteronomy 32:46-47) Our Savior kept the Festivals and Shabbat, so we must, too--to walk in His footsteps.

He was sent by Yahuweh to restore the path for the House of Israel to be reunited with the House of Judah, so that Ezekiel 37:15-23, and hundreds of other verses could come to pass. [Refer to: “The Aliyah Scriptures”] (Matthew 15:24; 10:5-6) Abba Yahuweh wants a family from the whole lineage, House, of Ya’cob (Jacob).

Many say they love Him, but they have no understanding of the fact that He was of the lineage of King David, and that to walk in His footsteps means to be like Him. To love Him means to guard to do His Commandments. Read John chapters 14 through 17 without denominational or religious eyes, and you’ll find: “IF you love Me, keep My commandments.” If you keep His commandments, He will love you.

There is no unconditional love in the Word. Yahuweh is Light – He cannot dwell with darkness, so throughout the Word there are conditions for His love and acceptance, protection and blessings. He is a loving Father, but He cannot be a Father to rebellious children! The Word was written through Hebrew culture and language. In Hebrew culture, “love” means submission and obedience to the one loved!

Deuteronomy 4:13 tells us that the outline of the whole Torah is the Ten Commandments. These ten are the terms of the marriage covenant of Yahuweh between He and His Bride-minded people. Remember! There are TEN Commandments, not nine. The 4th one applies to you the same as the other nine do.

As I meditated a few seconds on what Lori asked me, the Spirit gave me a revelation about Hanukkah and about Purim that surprised me. And just a few days earlier, I learned that a Messianic Rabbi in Dallas had spoken on these same things in his message on Hanukkah. He said that both Hanukkah and Purim are celebrations of victories of the past, but also are very important teachings for us about what is to come upon the earth in our day. This was a new thought to me. It prompted further study.

Yahushua Messiah grew up celebrating Hanukkah and Purim, along with the weekly Shabbat and the seven Festivals of Leviticus 23.

Messiah was mostly likely born during the time when there appeared a repetitive conjunction of planets, making a brilliant “star” over Bethlehem on and off for about a year. Because of the timing of this “star,” many scholars, and astute Biblical researchers like J.R. Church, have come to realize that Messiah was born on September 11, 3 BCE--a Yom Teruah, Tishre 1, going into 2 BCE on the Creator’s calendar. Therefore, going back 9 months, His conception would have come around the time of Hanukkah. Thus the words of Haggai 2:19-20 could very well be referring to the day of His conception in the future.

In the winter of 164 BCE, Judah the Maccabee and his followers triumphed over the Greeks of Syria and rededicated the Temple. Therefore, Hanukkah falls on the twenty-fifth day of the third month of the Jewish calendar, the month of Kislev, because this is the day in 164 BCE when the Maccabees rededicated the Temple. Remember! Yahuweh’s days begin at sunset. The precedent was set at Creation … i.e. “the evening and the morning was the first day.” Therefore, Hanukkah begins at sunset on the 24th of Kislev, beginning the 25th --the 25th, then, is the 1st day of Hanukkah.

No one is entirely sure where the name “Maccabee” came from. Some people think that the fighters took on the name from the Hebrew word for hammer, “makkeb.” But, others say that Judah’s battle flag displayed the letters M-K-B-Y. These letters stood for the words in Hebrew: “Mi Chamocha Ba-elim YHWH”--“Who is like unto You among the gods, Oh Yahuweh?” (Exodus 15:11)

The Syrian King, Antiochus Epiphanes, was a ruler for Greece, who headquartered in Syria. Antiochus was dedicated to eradicating Hebrew culture, and their Elohim from the face of the earth, and replacing anything Hebrew with Greek culture and Greek gods. Later the Romans added their culture and gods, much of which came to them from ancient Babylon and Persia.

Today, Western culture is Greek and Roman combined--all coming from ancient Babylon, via Pergamum, to Rome, to Western Europe, and to America. This is historical fact. America is end-time culmination of Babylon--no way around it, from history and Scripture. It is pictured clearly as an end-time nation (Jeremiah 50 and 51, Isaiah 13, 18, 47, and Revelation 18, etc.) [Refer to: “End Time Babylon”]

In our Greco/Roman culture of the West, Yahuweh and His Torah have been replaced by Greek/Plato philosophy and secular Humanism.

“Gnosticism” is basic Greek philosophy from Lucifer. By the second century, Christian Hellenized Jews and Greeks called themselves “Gnostic Christians.” Gnosticism demoted Yahushua to a created being – saying He was not being Deity. Constantine later reinstated Him to His correct position, but for his own purposes – to promote another sun god. Gnosticism teaches that everyone is their own god, and they can choose what they want to believe, and what they want to do.

In I John 2:22-23 and 4:1-3, Yochanan (John) tells us of the on-going struggle the Apostles have had with the counterfeit religion of Greek Gnostic Christianity. This religion was created by Jews who had been Hellenized--converted by Antiochus Ephiphanes to Greek culture and religion. These Jews who feared the restoration of the Torah, joined with pagan Greeks who feared that the new faith taught by the Apostles, which was growing way too fast, would hurt the worship of their gods. They reasoned that it had to be stopped. In converting under Antiochus, the Hellenized Jews had renounced the Torah, and so because this new faith of a Hebrew Messiah who guarded the Torah was gaining such ground, they joined with the Greeks to try to stop it. The religion of Christianity was created as a counterfeit to appease the pagans – and it worked. Today there are over 33,000 denominations and organizations calling themselves “Christian.” There are 350 English versions of the Bible alone. It is a screwed up mess! Like paganism, everyone can believe as they want to, and do as they want to, and still be called “Christian.”

The pagans loved it. Their sun gods were all saviors. They named this new sun god, Iesous, which became Yesu in Latin, and Jesus in English. The paganizing of our Creators has left mankind without a foundation for the Truth of the real Father and Son.

The members of this new religion were first called “Christians” in Antioch, as reported in the book of Acts. But, the name “Christian” came from the worshippers of Serapis in Alexandria, Egypt. They were called “Christians,” and their Bishops were called “the Bishops of Christ.” In the 2nd century, the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, mocked the name “Christian,” because it was from an Egyptian god. The god Christ/Christos/Krishna in India, was a common pagan god, known as the “good god.” Every pagan religion had their “Christ.” The Hebrew word is “Machiach.” Translated into English, it is “Messiah.”

Gnosticism originated in the Garden of Eden with the tree of the knowledge (gnosis) of good and evil. It taught that Eve was the illumined one (following Lucifer the “illumined one-shining one”), and that Yahuweh was the “dark god” because He restricted people from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Today, this belief is the foundation of the Freemasons and Illuminati.

The idea of perimeters being put on people by an unknown Elohim of the Hebrews is an abomination to the world’s thinking today. (Psalm 2) Today, Christians are taught that they have no responsibility to Yahuweh, “God of the OLD Testament.” They teach that His Torah is obsolete, fulfilled by the Greek-styled Jesus. Christianity’s “Replacement Theology,” tells the Christian that the “Church” replaced Israel. Gnostic teaching is basic “New Age teaching,” also. Therefore, to this day, the Gnostic, New Age Freemason’s “Bible”--Morals and Dogmas by Albert Pike, says that their god is Lucifer. Lucifer is the good one who shares his secrets with his elite followers, while Yahuweh opposes Lucifer, and is therefore is considered evil. This is the foundation of everything that you see in government, and religion and world thinking today. Unfortunately, this thinking has structured basic Christian theology. I say all this because what happened because of Antiochus didn’t just stop with the Maccabees running him out of Israel. It continued in the people that he influenced. So, today, the influence of Greek culture has destroyed the reality of Yahuweh and Yahuweh worldwide. Religion is the main tool that Satan uses to keep people from knowing the truth about his enemy – Yahuweh.

I John 3:4: “Sin is the transgression of the Torah.” The word “transgression” means: “to revolt, to rebel against, to break away from, apostasy.” Yes, apostasy is the breaking with Yahuweh’s Torah!

So to be realistic about it, since this “mystery of iniquity” or lawlessness abounded from the first century--the Greeks and their Gnostic Christianity--the lawless ONE has always been the Greek/Roman system, whether culturally, or through the Roman Catholic Church into the Protestant churches.

The Greeks hated the Torah, so outlawed it. The Romans hated the Torah, so outlawed it. The Roman Catholic Inquisitions were carried out against anyone who guarded the Torah. The Greeks, and later the Romans outlawed circumcision, Shabbat, the Festivals, and the dietary laws--forcing Jews to eat pork or die. Many died because they refused to submit to what was defiled. The Romans outlawed the Torah in the second Century under Hadrian. Only one religion on the face of the earth has as part of their foundational theology the outlawing Torah, Christianity, which contains at its core Greek and Roman culture and paganism!

I am exposing the system – not attacking individuals who are Christians! I know many precious Christians. I write to warn people to get out of the system that will be destroyed when Yahushua, the Hebrew Messiah, comes (Revelation 17-19) I’ve studied these things since 2000. You can get the whole story in detail in my new book The Foundation of Deception, sold on Amazon Kindle, or go to my website to read it.

Often times the minority is right, and the majority is very wrong. Only a remnant, a few, the minority, will be like Mattathias, and Judah the Maccabee, in resisting the world ruler.

As believers in Messiah, we are given “weapons of warfare” which are “not carnal, but are mighty to the pulling down of strongholds.” (II Corinthians 10:3-6) Our warfare must be done with our spiritual weapons of the Word of Elohim, fervent prayer, “praying in the Spirit,” with declaration and proclamation of His Word, and having on our armor of Ephesians 6:10-18--the garments of the High Priest. [Please refer to the three part study “Scriptural Spiritual Warfare”]

Antiochus was a true anti-messiah to Israel. Later the Roman Emperor Constantine was even a greater anti-messiah. All anti-messiahs have general characteristics. The “anti-messiah” to the House of Israel was Jeroboam. All of these “beasts” shut out Yahuweh and His Torah and substitute their own religious philosophies. They substitute His priesthood for their priesthood. They change His Festival days for their own festival days. They all set up idols for the people to worship. They all caused people to bow to them in worship.

Constantine brought in the priests of the Persian god, Mithra, and their order of service, into his new Christian religion. He demanded worship, as all the Roman Emperors before him had done. He worshipped Sol Invictus Mithra, the unconquerable sun. He never converted to Christianity. He knew it was just another version of the sun god religion of Nimrod. He made the celebration of Christmas and Easter mandatory – the birthday of the sun gods, and the coming of the Queen of heaven. The Roman Catholic Mass is patterned after the worship of Satan. I learned that from an ex-Satanist, and later that was confirmed in my research. Constantine, to his death, interchanged the names Mithra and Iesous or Yesu, (“Jesus” in English) depending on who he was talking to. The name Iesous comes from the expression “Hey Zeus.” Many sun gods had the “soos” sound at the end of their names – Zeus, Serapis, Bacchus, Dionysus, Osiris, etc., and Iesous/Jesus. Constantine substituted Yahuweh’s day of worship for the day of the worship of the sun god--Sun-day. Please read my article “Joyful Abominations.” Christmas is an abomination to Yahuweh--it is from an extremely defiled root—the Canaanite god Baal. A simple search on the Internet will show you its historical pagan roots.

It was the Roman Emperor Constantine who commanded that all in his new religion of Christianity drop anything Hebrew immediately, or be killed. Thus, it was Constantine’s command (on penalty of death) for all to worship on the day of Baal—the “lord’s day”, the day of the sun god—Sun-day.

The miracle of Hanukkah began almost twenty-one centuries ago when most of the Middle East was under the influence of Greek culture. At first, that didn’t seem so bad: the Greeks developed architecture and art, they appreciated philosophy and literature, and they enjoyed sports and leisure. Because the Greeks had so much to offer, most countries in the Middle East gladly adopted their ways. Soon the people of these countries forgot the ways of their ancestors. Many Jews laid down their observance of Torah, because the ways of the Greeks was easier. Their gods didn’t demand anything of anyone, except that people just be human, and follow human nature.

After Messiah came and then went back to heaven, His true followers not only spread the Good News of salvation from hell, but also taught that we must continue to obey the good teachings of Yahuweh, the Elohim of Israel. They taught that Yahushua was a Jewish Messiah. The Greeks did not like this, so they began to Hellenize the early believers, in order to get them to conform to their culture and to their gods--promoting a type of New Age philosophy.

Sha’ul came against this very strongly. And, the early Torah-observant believers did not do as others, but continued on in their Torah-observance, often to their death. Under the Hellenizing process, the people in the days of Greek rule even gave up the way they were used to dressing, their culture, their beliefs, their language, and even began to worship Greek gods. The hodgepodge of cultures began to blend into one giant Greek culture.

So it is today. America is doing what Antiochus once did--forcing Greek culture on the world, i.e. forcing Greek Democracy, which the nations of the East do not understand, and the satiating of oneself in the lusts of the flesh. America has fought Afghanistan rebels and Iraqi rebels to bring the people “Democracy.” Yet, once they got Democracy, they used it to elect dictators, and to vote in sharia law – the strictest Muslim law. Under sharia law, any Muslim converting to Christianity, stand for Israel, or not following Islam, is killed. American soldiers died giving Muslims the right to elect dictators, and kill believers. Today, America, along with Russia, funds and supplies weapons to terrorist groups in Israel so that they can kill Jews.

The word “Hellenism” comes from “Hellas”--the Greek word for Greece. Thus Hellenizing is the process of absorbing everyone into the Greek culture. In Judea, a small and poor strip of land that linked Asia and Africa, most of the Jews were not happy about the spread of Hellenism. While they appreciated many of the benefits that the Greeks had brought, there were some things that they could not accept. The Jews would not give up their ancient ways.

Jeremiah 6:16: “Thus says Yahuweh, `Stand in the way and see, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it…’ ”

Yahuweh is calling to the “few” who will choose the good way and walk in it--(Matthew 7:13-14). His conditions for discipleship are found from Genesis to Revelation, but condensed in Luke 14:25-33.

We can’t follow a Hebrew Messiah and the Elohim of Israel by following the religion of Greece and Rome – a Lucifer-based culture! We must return to the “ancient paths.”

Without the boldness of the Macabees, the Torah would have been lost to us – and to all mankind. Their boldness preserved for us the foundation of all faith in our Creator! The celebration of Hanukkah is not just a few days of parties--it is the acknowledgement that the Torah of Yahuweh will reign forever – “His Word endures to all generations!”

The word “religion,” comes from the Greek expression, “the regions of Rhea,” the mother of Zeus. Break free!

A pact made in March of 1994 between top Evangelical and Charismatic leaders of American Christianity and the Vatican began the process to eliminate the results of the Protestant Reformation, and to restore all Christianity back under the rule of the Vatican. Today, you can see the shocking result of that! Historians know that Rome never died, it just moved into the Roman Catholic Church. The popes became the Caesars, and they began to conquer the world. The express goal of the papacy is to rule the world. The Reformers boldly proclaimed that the pope was anti-messiah. [Refer to: “The Hidden Agenda Behind the Pope’s Visit”/May 2014, and all the articles on the Vatican, Popes, and Mary, from March 2013 to present]

Sha’ul wrote that “the mystery of iniquity is already at work.” He was referring to the rise of Gnostic Christianity, which was modified and institutionalized by Constantine. Messiah said: “I come in My Father’s Name and you will not receive me. Another will come in his own name – him you will receive.” Messiah prophesied that in the future, the Jews would receive a messiah who would deceive them. I remembered this when Israel so bountifully received Pope Francis in May of 2014, overlooking his powerful pro-Palestinian statements, to roll out the red carpet for him, and literally prostitute themselves at his feet.

To the Hellenistic leaders of Judea, nearly 200 years before Messiah came, the Jews were a peculiar and stubborn people, but they paid taxes and they seemed harmless. They were allowed to go about their business and worship their faceless Elohim. They were allowed to keep their Temple, and their city--Jerusalem. They were allowed to study the Torah and to live as their ancestors had lived.

In the year 175 BCE, a new dynasty came to power. On its throne sat the Syrian monarch Antiochus Epiphanes--known as Antiochus IV. He wanted everyone under his rule to be Greek in every way. If any refused, they would be killed. Though some Jews gave in, others did not, and many died for their beliefs in horrible ways. This was the Greek Inquisition.

For months, in the year 167 BCE, the people of the Judean village of Modi’in had been talking about the problems that the Greeks were causing. Jews in neighboring towns were being coerced to blaspheme by eating un-kosher animals, or forced to convert to Greek culture and gods or die. Much blood was spilled. The old ways were being forgotten. The Torah was in danger of being totally thrown out, destroyed, and forever done away with. Think about that!

If it were not for those who stood up to Greece and Rome, the Torah, the foundation of all our beliefs, would have been destroyed forever, and we could not know Yahuweh, the Elohim of Israel.

The Macabees won a great victory that ensured the Jews the right to guard Yahuweh’s Torah. But, with the ascension of Yahushua, the Greeks feared again. The new faith of a Hebrew Savior-Messiah was encroaching on their faith in the Greek savior-god Zeus. So, they had to create a counterfeit, which honored Zeus, and did away with the Hebrew Torah-guarding Messiah, and the message of His Apostles. Christianity was their weapon against the Torah, and the name Iesous/Yesu/Jesus was their weapon against Yahushua!

One day a traveler passed through and spoke to Mattathias, an old Jewish priest who lived in Modi’in with his sons, about a recent happening in Jerusalem. Elazar, a priest like Mattathias, had refused to sacrifice a pig for the honor of the King, Antiochus. The King tried to strike a deal with Elazar, offering him his life in exchange for telling his people that he had eaten pork. But, Elazar refused, and was beaten to death at the age of ninety. The news deeply troubled Mattathias.

Soon, the once great city of Jerusalem became a haven for thieves and killers; its most set-apart Temple became a shrine to the Greek god Zeus. Its altar was defiled with sacrifices of defiled, unclean animals.

Antiochus put a statue of Zeus between the cherubim where the Spirit of Yahuweh once hovered. Today, as historians point out – Zeus became a substitute for Yahuweh. His son, Apollo, became a substitute for Yahushua. The Greeks simply renamed the name of the Hebrew Messiah after Zeus. [Refer to the study: “The Hebrew Names and Titles of the Elohim of Israel”]

I read about a mother who had seven sons. They refused to eat pork at the mandate of Antiochus. They were all killed before her eyes. The Jews paid a heavy price for not abandoning the Torah. But, in approximately 200 years, the same people-group invented a defiling counterfeit religion that swept over the Torah-guarding believers to destroy them. When Rome superseded Greece as the world super power, Rome carried on the rampage against the Torah-guarding believers. It was the Torah-guarding believers in Yahushua who were burned at the stake, torn apart by lions in the Coliseum, slandered, betrayed, hunted down and slaughtered, not the pagan Christians! Do you see how history has lied to us, lumping both pagan Gnostic Christians and the followers of the Way, the followers of the Nazarene, as they were called, into one group--Christians! As you read in the book of Acts, the Torah-guarding believers in the Hebrew Messiah were called “followers of the Way,” or “followers of the Nazarene,” never “Christians!” By lumping these two totally different groups together, history has made it look like Constantine saved the Christians from persecution by creating the Roman Catholic religion. But, he saved no one. The pagan Gnostic Christians were not persecuted, only the ones Constantine hated – the Torah-guarding believers. Therefore, his Roman Catholic Church went on to become the greatest slaughterer of true believers and Jews through the centuries, up until today. The slaughtering is increasing, using the Islamic religion, which the Vatican created as their “sword,” as well as Jesuits, to do their dirty work. The Roman Catholic church not only help fund the Holocaust, for example, but priests and nuns of the hideous Ustachi participated in the massacre of Jews.

In my studying and research, I have come clearly to understand and know that the Christ of the religion of Christianity is NOT the same person as Yahushua, Messiah of Israel!

II Corinthians 6:17-7:1: “`Come out from among them and be separate,’ says Yahuweh, `and do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. And I shall be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me,’ says Yahuweh. Having then, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting set-apartness in the fear of Elohim.”

Luke 16:15: “And the Pharisees, who loved silver, also heard this and were sneering at Him. So He said to them: `You are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but Elohim knows your hearts, because what is highly thought of among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim.”

Ya’cob (James) 4:4: “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim? Whosever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim.”

By the time that Antiochus had defiled the Temple in Jerusalem with the pig on the altar, and the idol of Zeus in the Most Set-apart Place, most of the residents of Jerusalem had fled. The glory of that city ceased to exist. Messiah, speaking of our day, recorded in Matthew 24:15 and following, says that when the “abomination that lays waste” takes place in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount, as prophesied by Daniel, that the Jews in the city at that time should flee to the mountains immediately and not look back. [Refer to: “The Abomination That Lays Waste”/December 2014] What happened in the days of Antiochus Ephiphanes will happen again in our day, and soon! Are you prepared!

In 167 BCE, the forces of King Antiochus rode into Modi’in. An officer approached Mattathias at a public gathering and said to him, “You are a leader of your people and the father of five fine sons. Be the first to follow the king’s commands and others will follow you.” “What is it you ask of me and of my people?” Mattathias said. The officer said, “We ask only a sacrifice to the glory of the gods and the glory of Antiochus, who is god in flesh. Others of your people have offered similar sacrifices and have been rewarded with wealth and honor. You will be granted these things, too, if you offer up a pig upon the altar.” (See I Thessalonians 2:4 and Daniel 3:1-6) Mattathias let him know, with seething rage, that he would never do such a thing.

No sooner had Mattathias finished speaking than one of the townspeople of Modi’in, a Jew, brought forward a pig for sacrifice. When Mattathias saw this blasphemy, he could no longer control his fury. He slew the man right there, and then proceeded to kill the King’s officer. Everyone was horrified. Mattathias knew that now was the time for action. He shouted in a voice loud and strong:

“Everyone who is zealous for the Torah, and supports the Covenant of Elohim, come out with me.” And he and his sons and many of their friends fled to the hills, leaving behind all they had. Others ran off to seek shelter in the wilderness. Meanwhile, the King’s forces rallied. The townsfolk of Modi’in were now considered rebels and outlaws--in today’s language they were “enemies of the state.”

Messiah talks to us in our day regarding the “abomination that makes desolate.” (Matthew 24:15; Daniel 12:11) Antiochus thought of himself as a god. There is one who thinks of himself as god, who is looking to rule the world from the Temple Mount, sitting in the very spot where the Ark once sat. The Jesuit Order of the Vatican is dedicated to putting one of their own, a pope, there to rule the world. The Islamic muftis are also working on putting him a throne on the Temple Mount, which they oversee for the Vatican. This abomination set up on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, by an Antiochus to come, will be a repeat of the Antiochus of 167 BCE.

In the first century, Herod was a Roman puppet. He was an Idumean – a descendant of Esau. His lineage migrated into Rome and became rulers in Rome. This explains a lot, as to why the Roman Catholic Church, from its inception to this day, has kill Jews, lovers of the Torah, believers in the Jewish Messiah, and all Christians who will not bow to the pope. [I highly recommend the book by Giulio Meotti: The

Vatican Against Israel] The Vatican has been, and is now increasingly putting the hate of Esau into action!

The story of what happened in the days of the Maccabees is prophetic of what is soon to happen to us who believe in the Hebrew Messiah and guard the Torah of Yahuweh!

The frog-in-the-water scenario has been going on since the late 1800s. The people of this world, especially the people of Western culture, were mentally and emotionally programmed to sit, like frogs, in soothing lukewarm water. But, from the early 1900s, the elite leaders, the Luciferians of the one world government began to slowly turn up the heat a little at a time, without the comfort-loving frogs knowing they were doing it. Today, the frogs are about cooked to death, and they still thinking they are sitting in comfort, ease, security, and safety. Slowly, the Illuminati mind programming of the American people, and the world’s people, began to take effect. Today, we see the results in a weakened people, whose only desire is to serve themselves. Little by little, thinking has been introduced that has dulled the people to reality, and slowly taught them to accept and tolerate evil. “Woe to those that call good evil, and evil good.”

(Isaiah 5:20) Slowly, most people are beginning to believe that good is wrong, and wickedness is the right thing to do. The public schools have done a wonderful job of this. But, the main vehicle of this programming has been the television. The world-brain teaching through the television has kept all the frogs docile, as their minds, spirit, and body, from childhood upward, has been slowly destroyed.

We must LOVE THE TRUTH, or we will be deceived. We must be willing to lay down our deceptions and lies, and pick up the Truth quickly, so that we go forward and not backwards. Those who love the truth will not be deceived (See II Thessalonians 2 regarding the fate of those who do not love the truth).

The plot to destroy the Torah arose during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. If there were not those who rebelled when Hadrian tried to destroy the Torah in 133 CE, we would have lost our Hebrew roots entirely. That is why Revelation 12:11 is so important: “They (the true believers) overcame him (the anti-messiah) because of the Blood of the Lamb, and because of the Word of their witness, and they did not love their lives to the death.” (Italics mine)

Today we face the final world-stomping Roman Beast, rising to conquer, empowered by the Babylonian Beast, the Persian Beast, and the Greek Beast united! As Daniel and Revelation tell us, this world dictator will be a combination of all the empires that have set themselves against Israel – especially the last three.

We must mentally prepare ourselves to NOT love our lives, even unto death, for there will be many martyrs in the days to come, but there will also be a “great falling away” because many are not prepared for the horrors ahead.

When Mattathias and his sons and friends in the mountains learned how the army of Antiochus had senselessly slaughtered innocent people that they knew, it hardened their resolve. They knew they had no choice but to fight. They organized an army, and soon Jews from other towns were fleeing the Greeks to join them. The Jews, under the leadership of the Levites, learned to be great warriors, even though their number was very small.

Father always wins using a remnant of people who would rather die than give in to Satan. The “Gideon 300” example is still His way. These brave Jews and Levites swept into towns to overthrow the altars of Greek gods.

Who will be the leaders in these last days, before Messiah’s coming, to stand against the empowered Antiochus to come? But, they will fight with “weapons that are not carnal, but mighty to the pulling down of strongholds.” (Ephesians 6:10-18; II Corinthians 10:3-6)

They will have the spirit of Elijah, and the spirit of Phinehas from whom came the “Zadok Priesthood.” Both drew lines in the sand for the whole House of Jacob (all of the tribes). Either serve Yahuweh or serve Baal--you cannot serve both. (Numbers 25:1-13 and I Kings 18:18-39)

Years went by, and Mattathias grew very old. Though there were many battles, the great battle to regain Jerusalem had not been fought. Before Mattathias died he appointed his third son, Judah, to command the army and deliver the Jews. Judah became known as the Maccabee. His army became known as the Maccabees. What the Maccabees lacked in numbers and strength, they made up for in cunning and strategy. They fought the armies of Antiochus, which were much greater in size than they, but won.

They would swoop down at night, and set fire to the enemy camps. Judah’s knowledge of the land made it easy for him to choose winning strategies. The Greeks under Antiochus feared these Maccabees. They finally ran the army of Antiochus out of Jerusalem. You can read the details of these brave Jews in the Books of I and II Maccabees and in the history of Israel.

But, the Temple was totally ruined, defiled, and destroyed. They swept out the filth, destroyed the statues of Greek gods, they tore down the crumbled and polluted altar, and built a clean one. They made new incense burners, and pots for sacred oil. They had children helping to pull weeds and scrub the floors. Women sewed new curtains.

Finally, on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month on the Jewish calendar, the month of Kislev, the Temple was ready to be rededicated to Yahuweh and to His service.

How amazing are the words from Haggai 2:18-23! “`Consider now, from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the Temple of Yahuweh was laid consider it…From this day on, I will bless you!’ And a second time the Word of Yahuweh came to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying, `I am shaking the heavens and the earth. And I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms. I will destroy the might of gentile kingdoms…In that Day (the Day of Yahuweh, the Day Messiah returns) will I take you Zerubbabel My servant … for I have chosen you,’ declares Yahuweh of Hosts. (Italics mine) Remember, the 25th day of Kislev began at sunset on the 24th!

It is believed that Messiah was conceived on this day. Hanukkah, the Dedication, began on this day. And in the future, on this day, Messiah will sit in the Temple of Ezekiel 40-46, reigning over the kingdoms of this world! Setting up His government once again, keeping His promises to those of old. Enjoy the 25th of Kislev- a day of blessing! Enjoy the whole eight days!

“The fear of Yahuweh is the beginning of wisdom.” “The fear of Yahuweh is to hate evil.” Do you hate evil so much that you will stand against it no matter what the cost to you? (Proverbs 9:10 and 8:13; Hebrews 12:3-4)

In that day, brave Jews like Mattathias, and his son Judah, the Maccabee, stood up to the greatest world power known to man--Greece. Not by choice, but almost every human being in Western society has been Hellenized from toddler age upward. It is time we reversed this mind-programming and stood in loyalty to Yahuweh!

To learn what has been done to you by this mind-programming, please refer to: “Mind Programming, Hidden Manipulation, and the World Brain” and “Quiet Wars and Silent Weapons.”

Jeremiah 16:19, 21: “O Yahuweh, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress, those from the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say `Our fathers have inherited only falsehood and futility and there is no value in them.’ `Therefore see, I am causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And they shall know that My

Name is Yahuweh.’ ” Today, the majority of His people have ignorantly embraced falsehood. He has had mercy on us. Let us not remain in ignorance, but learn Truth from Him and stand firmly in it.

Ephesians 6:10-18, gives us the armor of the righteous priesthood, to stand firmly against the enemy. It begins with… ‘Be strong in the Master, and in the might of His strength. Put on the whole armor of Elohim that you might have power to stand against the wiles of the Devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the world rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. Because of this, take up the whole armor of Elohim so that you have power to stand in the wicked day. And having done all to stand, stand therefore…” Then the list of the armor is given. In Isaiah 59:14-18, we read that because truth has fallen in the street and Yahuweh can’t find anyone to do battle for Truth, He sends Messiah, who comes in the garments of the High Priest.

Revelation 13:16-17a: “And he causes all, both small and great, and rich and poor, and free and slave, to be given a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads, and that no one should be able to buy or sell except he that has the mark….”

The “mark” will be a vote, a pledge of loyalty to the anti-messiah. No one will be able to have a copy of the Scriptures. No one will be able to keep the Festivals of Yahuweh, or the weekly Shabbat, and all who help Jews, or have “Jewish” things in their homes, will be arrested and martyred. As the Roman Catholic Church did in the Inquisition, so the modern Vatican is still seizing the children of Elohim, torturing and killing them. Today, evidence abounds that the Jesuit Inquisition is still going on in third world nations of Africa, Asia, Mexico, Central and South America – to eliminate all who will not bow to the pope.

[Refer to: “The Sunday Laws and the Returning Inquisition”/written July of 2013] Anyone caught not eating pork, or not working on Saturday, reading their Bible too much, or talking about Yahuweh, or Yahushua, will be martyred. Some of this is already in U.S. and international law books. Already in Europe and Canada, and in the U.S., to speak against homosexuality is considered a “hate crime.” The Bible has been called a “hate crime book.”

By not taking his “mark” of the coming world ruler, believers will be called “an enemy of the state”--rebellious and dangerous, a potential terrorist or cultist, capable of “harming the government.” Anyone speaking against the one world ruler will be killed. This is besides the nuclear disasters, wars, diseases, rampages of the beasts of the earth, plagues of all sorts, and drought, famines, and earthquakes,

fires, tornados, hurricanes, floods, and conventional weapons, biological and chemical weapons, and missiles, and all associated means of destruction. The world will be turned into total disaster under this anti-messiah. Only a very small remnant will be left alive. Yahushua warns of us this in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. But, the details of this can be found from Isaiah to Malachi, throughout the writings of the Apostles, and in the book of Revelation.

Between 1535-1552 Ignatius Loyola, another type of anti-messiah, created and established the Jesuit Order (The Society of Jesus), out of which later came the Illuminati--May 1, 1776. In the late 1600’s the International Bankers began to operate under the leadership

of the Rothschild family of Germany. There are 13 Illuminati bloodlines, the 13th being the bloodline of the anti-messiah – the bloodline of the “seed of the serpent.” (Genesis 3:15)

The Illuminati consists of many organizations. The Jesuits are at the top. But, the elite Masons, the satanic royalty of Europe, called “the black royalty,” the Council on Foreign Relations, the Skull and Bones, the Trilateral Commission, the Club of Rome, the Bilderberger Group, and all other world government groups and New Age-type religions are at one with them. That is why Revelation 17 refers to what would become the Roman Catholic Church as “The great whore,” and “Mystery Babylon the Great.” [Refer to: “Exposing the Real Agenda of Mary Worship”/April 10, 2013 and “Exposing the Identity of the Roman Catholic Mary and the Baby She Holds”/August 27, 2013]

What is fast-emerging today as a unified one world government is basically a revision of the religion of Nimrod in ancient Babel. Even the early Church “fathers” like Augustine, knew that. Augustine said, “Rome is the second Babylon.” [For America’s huge part in this operation, refer to: “America’s Secret Destiny”]

The government and religion of Nimrod (Genesis 10-11), which began with Babylon (Babel--“confusion”), went into Pergamum, Rome, Western Europe, and then lodged in America, in New York (named for the York rite of Freemasonry).

We must wake up to reality. Yahuweh’s Land is Israel--“from Dan to Be’ersheva.” He is focused on returning a remnant of all the tribes of Israel to the Land, and restoring them to His covenant and His Torah. That is what the end-time work of Elijah (“Eliyahu”—“My Elohim is Yahuweh”) is all about--restoration to Yahuweh, and separation unto Yahuweh. (Malachi 4:4-6) Now it is obvious, but from 1938, America has been the leading nation on earth in controlling Jews and Israel to their great harm. Today, it is the leader in forcing Israel to give Yahuweh’s Land to their enemies. The judgment on America will be severe, as Jeremiah 50 and 51, Revelation 18, Isaiah 10, 13, 18 and 47. [Refer to “Jeremiah 25” for even more information]

We must stand in loyalty first of all with Yahuweh and Yahushua, our Abba and our Savior. Our eternal life depends on our loyalty to Them.

Today, not reported by pubic news media, millions of our brothers and sisters have been slaughtered by Jesuits, and by Muslims, because of their faith in the Jewish Messiah. For example, while America was listening to the proceedings for a year of the O.J. Simpson trial, millions of our brothers and sisters in Sudan and Indonesia were being slaughtered by Muslims for their faith. The world news never reported it. Today, Israelis are being hideously killed and the world news is not reporting it. North Korea, China, Muslim nations as a whole, are active in destroying true believers in Messiah but the world news is silent.

Laws in America are being made by our own Legislative Branch that undermine our freedoms. Our property can be confiscated. We can be arrested at the whim of the government, even set up for arrest by false accusation, if we are considered “harmful” or “resisters.”

President Obama has signed numerous Executive Orders to take away our basic human rights. While people lazily watched TV and sought fun and entertainments, these orders for our destruction were signed and put into effect over the will of the Congress and even over the Supreme Court. You can be arrested just for being “suspected” of being a terrorist. Today, a terrorist is called a religious extremist. If you believe that salvation is only through the blood of the Lamb of Elohim, then you are an extremist. If you stand against the evils thrust on us as tolerance, you are considered a dangerous activist, a fundamentalist. If you refuse to bow to the demands of the fast-changing demonic culture thrust at us, you are considered a “resister.”

The one-world government is out to destroy all vestiges of anything to do with our Father and His Torah.

The Holocaust was aimed at the elimination of religious Jews. It was orchestrated to make secular Jews want to have a nation of their own, to herd Jews into Israel for the setting up of the Mazzini/Pike Plan Part III. The PLO sniper fire, Hamas’ rocket fire into Gaza, Samaria, and the North of Israel are also attempts to defame and dishonor the settlers are a continuation of the Holocaust. Many of these settlers are religious Jews who are looking for Messiah and are Torah-observant. Many of them are finding the real Messiah, Yahushua. It has been exposed that many of the PLO snipers were trained in Virginia under George Tenent of the CIA a few years back, for the purpose of killing key Rabbis and their families that are catalysts for the people. Today, we know that the Taliban was created by President Jimmy Carter, that Al Qaeda is simply a CIA data base for mercenaries to carry out their dirty work, that Osama Bin Lauden was a business partner with the Bush family and the Queen of England and died a few days after 9/11 of a kidney disease, and that ISIS is a funded and supported tool of the West to bring about fear and terror to bring the chaos needed to set up the new world order. The Illuminati motto is: “Out of chaos, order.”

Revelation 12:17: “And the dragon (Satan) was enraged with the woman (Israel) and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed--those guarding the commandments of Elohim and possessing the witness of Yahushua Messiah.” (Italics mine)

There is victory for those who submit to Yahuweh--victory in martyrdom, and/or victory in a martyr-type life. The word “martyr” means “witness” in the Greek language. It is a good word. Those victorious ones will rule and reign with Him.

Revelation 7:9-11 tells of those who come out of great tribulation and are before the throne of Elohim. The word “tribulation” is a good word. It comes from the Latin word “tribulum,” which is a farm instrument used for raking off the chaff while leaving the wheat intact. That is what the tribulation is all about--the separation of the wicked from the righteous. “Chaff” represents what clings to us that makes us unusable in the Kingdom of Elohim – our sins, our fleshly nature that does not align to His nature. Unless we allow His testing, discipline, and tribulum to rake over us, though it does hurt, we will not be gathered into His barns as His wheat. This is found in Matthew 13--read this carefully. Our Elohim is a consuming fire. There is no darkness in Him (I John 1:5; Hebrews 12:29).

Remember that Yahushua said that “few” would find the narrow gate. In the end-times, He says that “few” will be saved. He says that “few” will survive. Yahuweh has always dealt with a remnant, and He has not changed. This is a serious thing to think about!

Messiah said: “I am the light of the world.” (John 8:12) To us He says: “You are the lights of the world.” (Matthew 5:14; Philippians 2:15) Just before Messiah comes, the darkness will grow to a “terrible darkness.” As children of Light we must not touch what is of the darkness. Read carefully Ephesians 5.

Keep up with what is happening in Israel from Israeli news. I recommend , The Times of Israel, and Israel Breaking News. Be wise! Learn the truth!

Light the candles for a 7-branch menorah each night of Hanukkah. Remember the miracle of the defeat of Antiochus. Use this time to read Revelation 19-22 – the defeat of all of the enemies of Yahuweh and Yahushua forever! Read Zechariah, which concludes with Messiah coming with all His set-apart ones.

Observe Hanukkah this year. You will be blessed! Chag Sameach!

Shalom with love and blessings, Yedidah,

November 27, 2004; Revised December 14, 2005 and November 16, 2007; totally rewritten and brought up to date: December 15, 2014

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