Teddy lee book 2 training ground by Teddy Lee Pugh

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Project Earth

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Book Two

By Teddy Lee

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Contents: Segment-1: Prelude to Eden Segment-2: Interlude: The Eden Condition Segment-3: Dissertation to Worship Segment-4: The Abram Equation Segment-5: The Ultimate Pupil Segment-6: Freedom Factor Segment-7: Celestial Worship Segment-8: High Treason Segment-9: Inject a Prophet Segment-10: Provisionary Tactic Segment-11: Treachery of kings Segment-12: Playing the harlot Segment-13: prophetic spotlight Segment-14: acts of desolation Segment-15: acts of deception Segment-16: final deception Segment-17: mother mystery References

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Prelude to Eden The author thought it a fitting chore, to follow up on various aspects when dealing with the subject matter of Project Earth! Certain basic irrefutable facts put forth in book one established a basic underlying truth element, constituting of a number of different principles such as: 1.) A cosmic war occurred in this star sector! 2.) The original predated earth was the target ground! 3.) The original life forms (angelic beings) engaged in a revolt against the divine oracles which maintain universal peace! 4.) A wrecked planet earth came out of the first star war! 5.) A refashioning of the firmament and earth, by Yahweh, creates a new project earth! 6.) The fallen rebel band (Lucifer and his host) hijack the new project! 7.) The genetic infusion by the Nephilim into human host caused a global deluge, bringing planet earth into its current configuration! Due to the deeds of the rebel band planet earth adopted the same spirit of rebellion and warfare, and thus the original star war (or cosmic conflict) defines and confines itself to our star sector, being now the rock of decision between opposite opposing forces, of which the whole ordeal ends up in the laps of us humans! The ultimate decision of cosmic destiny commits itself, by reason of Free-Will-Choice, to the very element that caused the angelic rebel band to defect, and thus infect, their original home with treason against the sacred oracles! Moreover, the wise merits of a patient and loving GOD are fully depicted and understood within the grand-scope of the earth projectin that He chose desecrated ground to patiently settle all universal issues among every created being! The elements of greed, revolt,

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murder, warfare, hate, and violence, do not pack the merits of a peaceful, patient, and persevering solution! While world governments and humanity continue on swayed by these evil traits, the Eternal one patiently waits, injecting the elements of Love, Mercy, and Goodness, here a little and there a little, first through the prophets, and then He through human suffering and sacrifice-deals out a death blow to the fallen dissident band! The single most lethal dose of LOVE ever delivered for the future of the human racewe find in the physical sacrifice of the celestial God-man (Christ)! Furthermore, it does not take a wise God to take out the opposing powers through continual warfare, but confining the situation of rebellion to a single star sector, and using a single planet for a training ground, to execute the long-term solution, does indeed illustrate the fullness of wisdom of an all-loving God! By the continual enforcement of the Free-WillChoice-Element, at the end of the age (or current configuration), will demonstrate that Yahweh is Love, and that the way of rebellion (as demonstrated by the fallen ones), ends in misery, confusion, tumult, and eternal death! The wisdom of a God summates in the ability of such a deity to come up with a patient and permanent solution to whatever happened that knocked the visible cosmos out of synchronization! Simply snuffing out the problem, from jump start, does nothing to vindicate a wise and loving God in the eyes of the heavenly family! However, providing a stage full of actors (planet earth), to play out the cosmic drama, by the free-will-choice-element-designates planet earth the Training Ground of a future world of peace-and inhabited by a bran-new race! We indeed control our eternal destiny by whom or what we choose to follow on a daily basis; either the way of rebellion against the universal oracles, or the right to follow them! You have, since the hour of your birth-entered in upon training ground earth!

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Interlude: the Eden Condition The aftermath of the war in heaven brought Yahweh to the brink of starting over from scratch, rebuilding the universal Eden condition, but wisely placing it on wartorn groundto reinitiate the long-term effect through the powerful element of free-will-choice! Creating a physical race to manage project earth, vulnerable to the rebellious spirit now plaguing the young star system, adds the delicate spices of retrieval in the end! The supreme deity intentionally placed the new race on the front line of spiritual warfareso that the plan of salvation could awesomely peak out-culminating in the birth, death, and resurrection of the God-Man assigned to project earth! The whole ordeal would eventually fall into a liberating summation upon the induction of earthâ&#x20AC;&#x;s race into the heavenly family (or ancient ones)! Again, free-will-choice that existed among the heavenly family, led to the first star war, and ultimately free-will-choice will lead to the climatic restitution of all things at the coming end of human world powers-consumed at the glorious 2nd advent of Messiah! The rightful ownership of planet earth began with the intervention of the one (Yahweh) who refashioned it (probably similar in many ways to His own indigenous planet) out of ruin and chaos! However, the supreme deity gave it to humankind for an inheritance, to manage its beauties, wildlife, and resources! Recorded among various ancient documents is the Eden condition that dominated the very early earth! If this is so, and the author believes it to be a valid assumption, then the violence both in the forces of nature, and in the hearts of humans, sprang forth from a fall of divine knowledge (needed to manage the young earth), of which the record so plainly suggest. So then the first genetically engineered humans where given

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the task to wisely mange the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x;s beauty, resources, and wildlife (this is why we see them naming the animals), but we failed miserably! Therefore, it is evident that planet earth started out as a simple training ground in the grand-cosmic-scheme of things, but through the universal element of, free-will-choice, we lost sight of our original divine purpose! It is indeed evident that our spiritual knowledge, or higher calling, gave space to corruption through the disastrous act of tapering around with the unknown! The fallen rebellious band deceived Yahwehâ&#x20AC;&#x;s new project, and the spiritual conflict of the ages (that started in heaven), rages on here on training ground earth! Therefore, humankind forfeited their earthly inheritance into the hands of the enemy of cosmic peace (Lucifer)! Thus, as a result of this forfeiture,the earth experiences natural violent episodes (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and freak storms), and the governmental systems on earth filled themselves with greed, violence, corruption, deception, and continual warfare! The Eden condition could have been a permanent environmental fixture, but now we face the god of this world, who deceives humanity into his thickened plot of an all out future confrontation! Dissertation to Worship The forfeiture of planet earth into the hands of the fallen rebel band of angels outlines GRAVE consequences for the new race, and the first of these being that Yahweh Himself sacrificed the life of lambs in order to clothe the shame of their nakedness. This initiated the starting point for sacrificial worship, or the acknowledgement that it takes a substitute life to give back life! The clothing of sheep skin symbolically represented the future act of a better eternal sacrifice, to lift the curse of the stigmatic earth, and restore back the spiritual knowledge of the first prototype! Yahweh spoke, cursed be the earth, and through bitter toil humanity shall produce food for nourishment! A genetic separation employs the fact that

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through bitter labor the female of the species shall bring forth life! In addition, we notice the seed of the woman would produce the eternal human sacrifice of God (Genesis 3:15)! Not only a death sentence pronounced the fate of the human race, but also instability in the natural forces of earth! This instability thus led the new project earth down a future road of violent and chaotic episodes! Just as a pregnant woman in travail, so project earth cries out with the same measure of deliverance, and the contractions get more and more frequent and intense with each passing day! Indeed, the entirety of the cosmos itself cries out for a full restitution from chaos to order (consider the second law of thermodynamics)! Back on planet earth, the scene shifts to the first murder case brought on by the preparation of a sacrifice to Yahweh, by Cain and Abel the sons of Adam, indicating the continual reminder of the consequences of the Eden rebellion! Cain being a farmer, having full knowledge of a proper sacrificial method, instead brought before YHWH the sacrifice of wheat and grain, but Abel brought forth the best among the sheepfold! Yahweh accepted Abel‟s offering, of which followed Yahweh‟s own criteria, but accepted not Cain‟s offering, and Cain slew his brother in a violent rage! Cain forever severed from his family, lives out the rest of his life as an outcast and vagabond on the earth! Sacrifice continues to be of GRAVE importance in the early earth, for Noah, because of his faithfulness to the oracles and specified worship, Yahweh warns him of an impending cataclysmic deluge, and Noah builds a huge vessel in accordance with divine instruction! He pleads to humanity for 120 years to heed the warning call and hop on board, but they mocked and marked him as a foolish man! Noah also prepares apartments to accommodate earth‟s wildlife, and notice that seven of the clean animals went into the ark, but the unclean ones by two, male and female. The consumption and sacrifice of unclean animals prohibited by

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Yahweh, gave to them extra helpings of the clean ones for food and sacrifice. Upon the ablation of the waters, Noah and the crew build an altar and offer up the best beast from among the clean animals. Thus, it seems this issue of sacrifice, as we shall see, remains a constant throughout the biblical discourse! While the supreme deity prepared human minds, through an earthly sacrificial system, for the future sacrifice of His own physical body, the rebel band initiated a counterfeit worship system to further their rebellion of the cosmic peace code-through humans! This counterfeit system they based upon created celestial bodies (the sun, moon, and stars), and shortly after the flood this system portrays itself in the form of a huge megalithic or ziggurat structure known to be the infamous tower of Babel! In renaissance of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x;s modern global corporate world, earthâ&#x20AC;&#x;s inhabitants joined into a single community of language, ideals, and incomprehensible construction! In fear of another deluge, they desired to be like the Gods of heaven, and rise above any future impending doom! Their leader was Nimrod, the master architect, and he built Nineveh, Erech, Accad, Calneh, and Babel, for the sole reason of outright blatant defiance against the oracles of Yahweh! The spirit of rebellion against divine precepts takes center stage (again), with the spotlight homing in on a rebellious counterfeit system of worship. Genesis chapter ten declares Nimrod to be a mighty hunter before the LORD, but more accurately in the Hebrew it reads-a mighty hunter of men in place of Yahweh! This huge conglomerate alliance of rebellion against Yahweh soon turns into what we call today as the age-long-sun-cult, and this worship system continually plagues the spiritual destiny of humanityall the way up to this modern-age of philosophical heresy! After the death of Nimrod, his wife, Queen Semiramius, deifies Nimrod as the god of the sun, who each night fights the evil spirits of the underworld, to bring each morning the warmth of the

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sun to the world! Every descendant of Hamthat were to follow after the dispersing of Babel, practiced this abominable form of worship-for which these nations were purged out of Canaan after the Hebrew Exodus! Nonetheless, before we examine those events let us consider the man Abram, who responded to the call of Yahweh to come out from under the influence of this disastrous form of worship and spiritual treason-to inherit a land enslaved to the principles, rituals, and human sacrificial practices of the deceptive potion of the sun-cult! We shall see, throughout the discourse of this book, that, it was every intention of Yahweh to bring salvation to these pagan nations. In addition, we shall see this power crushed by the soon coming appearance of Messiah! The Abram Equation After the dispersing of the language and project at Babel, the supreme deity of the cosmos chose a man from the linage of Shem, through which every nation upon the earth would be blessed! The gentile nations came from the seed of Japheth, and would dwell under the tents or the shadow of Shem. The descendants of Ham took charge of fertile Canaan, but Yahweh made plans to purge them out of that land (Genesis chapter ten). Out of the loins of Noah, Abram followed the closest to Noah in regard to divine precepts, and that of sacrifice. Those people who retained in their knowledge the end result of the Eden calamity, thus following eternal principles of offering up the appropriate sacrifice (life for life=the consequences for sin) prevails to be the seed of promise. It indeed seems that the DNA structure of Shem remained the closest replica to the first engineered prototype, and thus through the one day hope of a coming Messiah-all other earthly races would be blessed!

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In Genesis chapter 12 we find the call of Abram, son of Terah, to flee from the clutches of the reigning sun-cult, and to start out on a journey to the fertile land of Canaan. So Abram and Lot, son of Haran, set out on their journey, and most every rest stop would be a period of worship and sacrifice (Genesis 12: 7 and 8). Then in chapter 13, Abram and his nephew Lot decide to part ways, Abram continues on in accordance with the words of Yahweh, but Lot sets his eyes on city-life, and goes into Sodom. In chapter 14 we find pagan military powers invading Sodom and Gomorrah, and in the course of this battle Lot is taken hostage. When word of Lot reaches Abram, he and his best servants (318) gird up themselves for battle and pursue them unto Dan! Abram and his servants, with the aid of the Most Holy, retrieve Lot, his goods, the women, and the rest. Then the bible records an amazing event! On Abram‟s journey back from the slaughter of the kings, the kings of Sodom join up with him and the rescued party in the valley of Shaveh. Suddenly, Melchizedek, king of Salem (this cannot be Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is to be located in the land of Canaan and not around the area of Sodom) brought for Abram bread and wine, for He was the priest of the Most High God! Pray tell me who is this person? The sanctuary worship service did not exist in those days, and altars were built on mountains and rocks, but here we see a priest! The author has no knowledge of a priesthood existing in those days for these divine things were established after the covenant at Sinai. What is up with the bread and wine, for the Passover of Yahweh did not exist until the night of the Hebrew Exodus some 2-300 years later! In addition, what‟s up with the greeting by Melchizedek declaring Abram to be the possessor of heaven and earth? It seems that through obedience of Abram‟s sacrificial worship, or his walk with Yahweh, a foreshadowing of divine events were played out-when Melchizedek ate a symbolic Passover with the man by which He (Messiah) would bring in everlasting

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righteousness to the world, and Abram pays tithe to the priesthood not yet born! (What an amazing scenario presented here in Genesis chapter 14, it is truly a divine complexity of the highest order)! Possessor of heaven and earth designates the DNA sequence, through which the Most High would take back possession (the forfeiter of Eden) at the end of this present grace age! Because of the intervening prayers, faith, and sacrifice on the part of Abram (Abraham) Lot, his family, and others were rescued from pagan kings, but this would not mark the only time of deliverance for Lot! In the plain of Mamre, Abram, in the heat of the day looks up and sees three men standing before him, and they chatted a while concerning the promises given to him! Sarah, Abram‟s wife, being barren left little hope in Abraham‟s heart for an heir to possess Canaan, let along the notion of being the father by which every nation would be blessed! Abram had a son (Ishmael) by Hager, his handmaid, but Yahweh insisted on the fact that Sarah would conceive, in her old age (around 120 years old), and that son shall be heir of the promises. These three men (apparently angels, or from another world), sat in the shade and ate with Abraham, and told Sarah of her soon coming conception. After this, the captain of the LORD‟S Host, sent the other two down to Sodom to warn Lot and his family of the swift coming destruction of those cities, and once again we see Abraham bargaining with the LORD concerning their fate! What‟s even more dramatic and surprising is the fact that he is not bargaining concerning Lot and his family, but for the salvation of both cities! He knew that Yahweh was going to deliver Lot and family, again, but he is in relentless negotiations for every single man, woman, and child within the city limits, and or within the Devastation Zone! Furthermore, once again Lot and family are rescued from evil men, and from the bondage of pagan worship. The evil of those cities (Sodom and Gomorrah) pressed

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the God of heaven to the end of mercy and patience, and they were the perfect example of a society like that of Babel! For example, their transgression progressed to the brink of them trying to sexually molest the two angels sent to rescue Lot and family! Soon after the destruction of these cities, Sarah conceives and brings forth a son named Isaac! The awesome seriousness of Yahweh‟s sacrificial system is fully depicted in the tempting of Abraham to sacrifice his only son (heir) by the womb of feeble, old, and now dying Sarah. This scenario typifies the sacrifice to be offered by Yahweh Himselfas the only begotten son from the heavenly order. Yahweh is a very serious God when it comes to dealing with both the cosmic and Eden calamities! The fact that Yahweh chose Mount Moriah, duplicates the scene of the offering of His own body on Mount Calvary some 4,000 years into the future! Abram and young Isaac climb the rough and ridged landscape overlooking vast plains on either side, and placed the wood on the altar. Just as Abraham draws back to offer the child, the angel of the LORD (Gabriel) intervenes and provides them with a ram tangled up in a thicket. The faith demonstrated by this ole‟ patriarch-did not lie to his servants waiting for them at a distance, for he had told them, “me and the lad will go yonder to worship, and then we will return”! WOW-WEE, what an awesome story-Amen! This divine concept of worship, obedience, and sacrifice shall be our theme throughout the discourse of Book two-as we make our way onward in the greatest journey that any human could ever embark on! The Ultimate Pupil Isaac and Rebekah give birth to Jacob and Esau, and Jacob was a fair child, but Esau was red and hairy! Yahweh told Rebekah that two nations were in her womb, and that the elder

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would serve the younger. By spiritual weakness, Esau deceived by Jacob, sold his birthright for a bowl of stew. Moreover, it seems that Esau did not retain spiritual knowledge, insomuch, that earth‟s training ground for him became a hunting ground for food. He, as his ancestors did in Eden, forfeited his inheritance by disregarding spiritual growth. Had Esau been as devoted to spiritual food, as that of natural nourishment, he could have retained his birthright. Furthermore, Jacob needed some spiritual brushing up, and after his vision of the heavenly ladder, the promise given to Abraham is rehearsed to Jacob. Yahweh then proceeds with the plan for Jacob being reconciled to his brother Esau! Because of Jacob‟s spiritual reluctance, God sends an angel (this is Michael the pre-incarnate Christ) to wrestle with him, change his name to Israel, and teach him to not be afraid of his brother, but be humble, for the joining of hearts is more important than the giving of gifts! Jacob and Rebekah bring forth 12 sons, who became the twelve tribes of Israel, and everyone of them were part of the promised seed, but the youngest of them, Joseph, became to be known as the ultimate spiritual student of Yahweh! Joseph, the little dreamer boy, possessed the heart of purity and nothing but all out loyalty to the divine precepts. From the coat of many colors, Jacob made for him, to his dreams that foretold a future situation in which his eleven brothers would give obeisance to him.The hatred of his brothers grew to the point that they sold Joseph into Egyptian slavery for twenty pieces of silver. Saved once from death by Reuben, and while his back was turned, his brother disappeared, and because of this brutish act the entire Hebrew nation would plunge into Egyptian slavery, after the death of Joseph, for 430 long years! Joseph‟s brothers, prior to his extradition, stripped him of his coat of many colors, dipped it in fresh goat‟s blood, and announced his unfortunate death to father Jacob!

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Meanwhile, Potiphar, a military captain in Pharaoh‟s army, bought Jacob from the Ishneelites to serve him and his household.The LORD blessed greatly Potiphar‟s home and his livestock as well. Potiphar knew nothing of the affairs of his home and field, only the bread he ate, because Joseph managed wisely everything he owned. However, slew-foot (Lucifer) is always on his job when it comes to discrediting Yahweh‟s servants in the eyes of the wicked world. Potiphar‟s wife tempted Joseph to have sexual intercourse with her, but Joseph would not adhere. Joseph kept in mind that it was God who had blessed him, as in his own words, “how then can I commit this great wickedness, and sin against Yahweh”! Day after day this woman pursued Joseph to lie with her, but Joseph did not consent. Finally, after repeated rejections, she found another way to try to destroy him-by lying and saying that Joseph tried to force himself on her. Potiphar believed the lie told by his wife, and cast Joseph in prison, but Yahweh went with him into the dungeon and made him to prosper even in the worst of conditions. The keeper of the prison perceived that the LORD was with him, and made him second in charge over the entire prison. The chief baker and butler who served Pharaoh were put into prison, and in the company of Joseph. In the course of time they both dreamed a dream, and God through the human instrument of Joseph interprets the dreams, of which one restored the cupbearer butler, but the other one fulfilled the wrath of the king by the hanging of the baker! Speaking of dreams, two years later, Pharaoh dreams two dreams of his own, and calls in his mystery religious philosophers, but none could interpret the king‟s dreams. Suddenly, Pharaoh‟s chief butler finally remembers the kindness of Joseph and recommends him to the pharaoh. Joseph interprets the dreams as being a seven year period of massive crop production, followed by seven years of extreme bitter and cruel drought. The king places

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Joseph over the whole kingdom to oversee the plan of laying up in store plenty food to survive the following period of famine. It is during this extreme period of famine, that the little dreamer boyâ&#x20AC;&#x;s dreams came true-for Jacob and his entire family travel into Egypt to obtain food and water. They unknowingly have to pay obeisance to this prince of Egypt in order to obtain necessary provisions. The ultimate spiritual pupil is found within the personage of Joseph. He simply would not transgress against the divine precepts of Yahweh! These oracles existed in the time of the patriarchs long before the official reiteration of them on Mount Sinai! Through every heartache, false accusation, and yes, even in the darkened dungeon, Yahweh blessed every effort of this most beloved spiritual student. Training ground earth does indeed produce spiritual giants in every age of timeto further inject a steady dose of truth and love into a sin blackened planet! Freedom Factor After the death of Joseph, the theme of universal worship, obedience, and sacrifice, faded out into obscurity! The twelve tribes of Israel grew and waxed great, and for fear of their multiplication factor, they were made slaves by order of a Pharaoh who recognized not the deeds of Joseph. Joseph, the great and wise Prime Minister ushered in an era of grandeur to the ancient Egyptian world, but paganism emerged dominating even more than before, of which resulted in grave consequences for all of Egypt! The divine precepts of Yahweh were choked out by the mysterious dark practices of the sun-cult! Godâ&#x20AC;&#x;s chosen people were made slaves, both in labor and in worship. They indeed served the gods of Egypt, and thus fell prey to both physical and spiritual bondage. The origin of obedience and worship engulf the totality of a cosmic debate of astronomical proportions! Mighty beings from many worlds have a common theological bond, surrounding the universal code of justice (10 precepts), of

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which centers around Love and Free-Will-Choice, the two greatest and strongest elements in the universe! The billions of beings that compose the entirety of heaven‟s host, or family, have developed and thus enveloped, the divine purpose for the rescuing of fallen worlds, especially Project Earth for the grand-cosmic-incorporation of created properly trained creatures, and the future restitution of the entire universe! Indeed it does seem, that, within this star sectorLucifer rallied together his forces to overthrow celestial unity, and inject an element (or cloud) of darkness in regard to the true nature and purpose of the divine order! The opposite collating forces of, say, with love we find hate, with health we find sickness and death, and in contrast to unity we find a society filled with lust, greed, violence, and corruption! Now let me throw at you one of those good ole‟ mountain phrases-“don‟t ever bite the hand that feeds you”-however, this is precisely what Lucifer did when he attacked the very nature and law of Yahweh. The issue of worship is thoroughly exposed when Pharaoh himself states, “you may go and sacrifice to your God”! You see friend, Yahweh, in his divine providence, reared up the priest/prince Moses to be trained and educated in their pagan universities, so that he would have knowledge of their weaknesses, customs, secret documents, way of government, their pagan gods, and a top level security clearanceaccessible to Egyptian technology! This ancient agent 007 would be the instrument used by the God of heaven to undermine and overthrow the government of Egypt! Then, finally, at last, when the fat lady sings, Yahweh stands triumphant over the sun-gods, and both His chosen nation and technology would remain secure by a long line of delegated leaders! The power of the portable sanctuary worship, with its central source of extraterrestrial power being that of the Ark of the Covenant, was already in the possession of Moses and Aaron before the Passover night of the Exodus! The dramatic

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supernatural scenes upon Sinai were the second general conference, before the reiteration of the sacred oracles, and the unveiled architecture of the earthly tabernacle! The Hebrew nation was tried on the Holy Precepts with the giving of manna, but the grand-spiritual-convention, upon launch pad Sinai, lasted for 40 days and nights! The first supernatural close encounter of the Hebrew kind happened upon Mount Horeb at the end of Moses‟ training in Shepherdhood! [Note that many secrets were revealed to Moses on Horeb before the Exodus] Celestial Worship In order for Yahweh to demonstrate His seriousness when it comes to worship, obedience, and sacrifice, in regard to the cosmic and Eden calamities (or fall), He reiterates the divine precepts upon Mount Sinai, and along with it the sanctuary system of worship. The Exodus document records that Yahweh descended upon Mount Sinai with fire and smoke like that of a great furnace, the mountain and surrounding plain quaked exceedingly, and after the vessel landedMoses went up to convene with these extraterrestrial beings! When the trumpet sounded long and loud Moses went up into the Mount and Yahweh spoke to him with the sound of a voice (Exodus 19:18 and 19)! Exodus chapter 20 and verse 18 recorded this, “And all the people saw the thundering, lightning, and the noise of a trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off”. As the preliminary convention came to a close Moses returns to the people and tells them to consecrate against the third day and do not be with your wives. During the waiting period for further instruction, Moses rehearses the divine oracles, with all the extra precepts and ordinances into the ears of the multitude, and they concurred with one voice, “all that you have said, we will do”! At the time of the next convention with the Gods of heaven Moses was to be accompanied with Nadab, Aaron, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, but they were to worship with the

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appropriate offerings at a distance, and only Moses went into the thick blackened mist into the presence of Yahweh! Very early in the morning-Moses wrote down all these words he had rehearsed audibly, and arises very early to build an altar. He sent certain young men of the house of Israel to offer sacrifice unto Yahweh, and Moses took half of the blood of these offerings and sprinkled it on the altar and the other half he placed into basons. Moses took the book with all the precepts he had recorded and rehearsed them again into the ears of the multitude, and took the blood of the bulls, and or oxen, and sprinkled it upon the people and told them that this is the blood of the covenant that Yahweh hath enjoined to you concerning all of these words! These were specific precepts concerning the treatment of slaves, landowners, celebrated feast Sabbaths of Yahweh, Health codes, dietary codes, so that they would be a separated and Holy People unto Yahweh, and moreover, that they would be very careful to steer clear of the pagan sun-cult practiced by the heathen nations who are without the revealed covenant of the Creator of the universe! The most solemn code, of which contains the eternal sign between Yahweh and His people forever, is the 4th commandment of the Decalogue! This is a no-brainer for they were tried on this sacred Holy Sign of Rest in connection with the giving of angel food (manna)! Then the time came for Moses to ascend, with the rest of the afore mentioned crew, who stayed at a distance in worship and sacrifice, to the top of the Hot-Landing-Zone to officially receive the divine precepts upon tables of stone, and to receive specific instructions for the layout of the earthlypotabletabernacle, in accordance with the patterns of the things in the heavens! The most vital precious gift to the human race was handed to Moses, and the instructions for a dwelling place for the cosmic code, and for the presence of the glory of the Shekinah cloud that had up to this point been their supernatural shield and provider for all

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their needs! Forty days later as the convention comes to a close, Yahweh tells Moses that the sound of rivalry is in the camp! The people slipped back into the pagan worship they were in bondage to for 430 long years. Moses is so angry with the crowd that he threw and broke the stones of precept, and slew those Egyptians that instigated the abominable conspiracy, and deceived Aaron into rebellion. Instead of gathering together their skills, efforts, and possessions in anticipation of the construction of Yahwehâ&#x20AC;&#x;s sanctuary, they constructed a golden image (a calf) of Egyptian paganism, and this is exactly what they told Moses they would not do at their Preliminary induction into the covenant of Yahweh! Moses caused the people to take off their jewelry, and melt down the idol, for those things had been brought from Egypt for the furnishing and construction of the LORDâ&#x20AC;&#x;S house. Moses is instructed to cut out two more tablets to replace the ones he destroyed, and return to the top of Sinai to receive both the law, and further instructions in regard to the people. After these things the skillful men are gathered in construction of the portable sanctuary, and the oracles are readministered into the hands of Moses. The Levites are given charge and instruction in bearing up the Ark of Yahweh and tabernacle while they travel, and the glory of the Christ (Messiah) enshrouded within the Shekinah Glory, made this His dwelling place in the third compartment between the golden Cherubim, above the mercy seat in which contained the divine celestial code of LOVE. It is this sanctuary system of worship that intimately details the overall redemptive and soul salvage plan for humankind. There is no greater element in the cosmic or universal truth scenario than that of the earthly sanctuary worship. These oracles of worship and offering kept ancient Israel constantly and fully aware of the Grave Consequences of a way of life in rebellion of the divine order. Furthermore, the earthly tabernacle worship foreshadowed, or prefigured, the ministry of Christ as our heavenly High

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Priest in the three phases of His celestial temple administration! WOW-WEE, what an awesome Savior is He!

High Treason One day a crew of supernatural beings landed (namely Yahweh along with the four Cherubim who are responsible for his transport, see Ezekiel chapter one), with all the splendor and array from many different worlds, upon Mount Sinai, and delivered into the hands of Moses the blessed eternal law which maintains cosmic peace! After the initial act of spiritual treason (while Moses convened with these beings on top of the quaking, noisome, and fiery mountain) the covenant is initiated and sealed with ceremonial blood! After this, the people gather their resources, and the earthly portable sanctuary is constructed. The first article of creation, by the hands of the appointed craftsman, is the infamous Ark of the Covenant, the Holiest of Holies, with the overspreading of the winged Cherubim in which the very presence of Yahweh dwelt between them! Delivered to these people were adjoining precepts and ordinances of divinity, and contained in a book (the book of Moses), and placed beside the ark. However, the eternal sacred oracles were placed inside the pure gold chest above where the presence of Yahweh dwelt! In light of what we have discussed so far in this discourse, one is overwhelmingly faced with the mysterious question of-why then would this nation proceed in the course of all out blatant Spiritual High Treason against these divine beings? It is obvious that these beings have our best interest in mind! It is moreover very obvious that they loves us, and earnestly are committed to our future spiritual transformation! Nonetheless, we find constant rebellion

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by Israel, of which summates in that immediate generation falling to the evil dangers present in the wilderness of Elam and Sin, for an enduring 40 long years! Upon the final address of Moses (the rehearsal of all the precepts of Yahweh, along with the solemn warning against sun-cult entanglement), Joshua is thus commissioned to take the next generation over into Canaan. The nameJoshua is better rendered in the Hebrew as-Yah saves, or the name of Messiah, Yeshua! Joshua was a very strong leader and Yahweh was with him! As soon as Joshua and the Leviteâ&#x20AC;&#x;s, bearing the Ark of Yahweh, set their feet in the the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x;s edge of the Jordan, the river ceased to flow, and they easily crossedthe swelling tides. After their entrance into Canaan, one of the first order of business was the Yahweh/Joshua convention, and Michael appears to him with His sword drawn, indicating that the pagan heathen would be purged from Canaan by the same Christ and sword that expelled the original spirit of rebellion in the great celestial star war. The pagan giants in the land would be no match for Michael and His sword of judgment, as thus is demonstratedby showing that the power to conquer these forces dwelled within the Ark of the Covenant!When the seven priests bearing the ark marched around the walls of Jericho, once a day for six days, and seven times around on the seventh day, and when the priests on that seventh time blew their horns loud and all the people shouted with one voice (Holiness to Yahweh) the walls guarding the city of Jericho were leveled to dust. Furthermore, on the biblical longest day, the majority of the nations and kings (Ai, Jarmuth, Englon, and others) fell, and Israel was well on her way to possessing the land promised to good oleâ&#x20AC;&#x; brother Abraham. However, brace yourself for one of the most deterrent scenarios found in the bible. The solemn pleas of leaders like Moses, Caleb, and of course Joshua, did not settle for long in the hearts of the Israelites, and after all this great God had did for them, they still fell prey to the

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sun-cult gods and goddesses of the heathen nations-thus committing the unbearable and unspeakable iniquity of Spiritual High Treason! After the death of Joshua, Yahweh, because of their cries of warranted afflictions, sends them judges such as, Deborah, Gideon, and others such as the notorious Samson, but they just could never seem to shake off the heretical practices and mind-searing rituals of the age-long-sun-cult of false worship! Through the abominable temple mismanagement of the sons of Eli, and their sudden destruction by offering strange incense (paganism mixed with Yahwehâ&#x20AC;&#x;s temple worship), God rears up the first king/priest image (Samuel), that ultimately led to the first official king/priest of IsraelDavid. Therefore, the training ground of Yahweh stands sure, and is exemplified through the actions of His servants, such as, the faith demonstrated by the harlot Rahab, and in addition, that of Ruth, for it is through her Hebrew monotheistic conversion, that the blessed seed of David leads to the eternal High Priesthood of Christ-the NT Messiah!

Inject a Prophet One day Elkanah went up to Shiloh, as his custom was, to offer up sacrifice unto Yahweh. His wife Hannah was grieved for she was without child, and so asked a petition of Yah before the high priest Eli. Please LORD, Hannah enquired, grant me a son, and I promise you from day one, he shall be consecrated to the service of this holy temple! Yahweh, heard her cry, and granted unto her a child of who became a mighty priest and his living quarters was inside the temple. He cared for all the temple furniture and holy items, and being totally sanctified and consecrated to the service of the temple grew up to be a great prophet/priest of Yahweh. He was called of God to be the New High Priest, and to replace the contemptible

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practices of the sons of Eli! So in the course of time, Yahweh took the lives of the sons of Eli (and the life of Eli as well), for they turned a deaf ear to the counsel of Yahweh! Furthermore, we find that Israel had slipped away from the divine oracles, and found themselves all tangled up with the abominable practices of the pagan heathen sun-cult! Samuel proved to be a vital spiritual reviving agent, and he experienced much success in persuading Israel in returning to the commandments of the God of Heaven! In this historical time period, the Philistines (devoted sun-worshippers) were twiddling away at both the military strength and spiritual heritage of the Israelites. One grand instance that demonstrated the spiritual leadership of Samuel was when he told all Israel to meet him at Mizpeh, and he would prove that Yahweh was still the GOD of Israel! As the Philistine armies drew nigh to Samuel and the people-Samuel builds an altar and offers up thereupon a young tender lamb, and cried out to Yahweh for Israel! The LORD thundered so loud from out of heaven, that it shook tremendously the ground surrounding the Mizpeh area, and discomfited the Philistines so that they fled away from the Hebrew nation! Israel was well on its way to a grand spiritual restoration, but as they beheld the aging Samuel they enquired of him to appoint for them a Kingso that they could, by political structure, appear to be like the other nations upon the earth. Unfortunately, it was this desire to be like the other nations that eventually brought about their spiritual demise. Yahweh knew that their request for a king to reign over them would bring yet another pitfall in their story book of high treason against the LORD! Yahweh said, I AM their king, and they are my children! I purged the heathen out from this land by a mighty hand, and so they shall not prosper with their kings! Thus Israel, after the mighty reign of David, slipped into that period in history, marked by the author, as, the period of Great Spiritual High Treason! This brought

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on the overthrow of the ten northern tribes centralized in Samaria, in 721 BC, and this suncult entanglement finally got the best of Benjamin and Judah, with the overthrow of Jerusalem, and the beautiful temple erected by Solomon in 606 BC! The very nation visited by the most Powerful GODS in the universe, had like in Edenforfeited their eternal inheritance-Man, what a TRAVISTY!

Provisionary Tactic One day Yahweh (the Supreme Cosmic Deity) set His eyes on a little shepherd boy, the youngest son from the household of Jesse, and his name was David! Yahweh did hand pick the larger statue of Saul to be the first king over Israel, but like many other notable figures in the bible, Saul started out with a good heart, but the element of power and prestige caused him to stray from the instructions of God through the prophet Samuel. In first Samuel chapter 15, Samuel instructs Saul in the will of the LORD for him to destroy king Amalek and the Amakelites for all their treachery against Israel by a snick attack during their journeys out of Egypt! Then further instructs him to take out everything that draws the breath of life-for He (Yahweh) did not even want the farm animals belonging to these pagans to defile the camp of the Israelites! That is to say that due set punishment for their past treachery includes them and everything they own, but Saul disregarded Yahwehâ&#x20AC;&#x;s instruction and saved alive king Agag, and the best of the sheep, oxen, fatlings, and Lambs. His excuse to Samuel was they were to be a gift of sacrifice unto the LORD. Samuel prettymuch tells him, listen Saul this is a no-brainer, for it is better to OBEYthan to sacrifice! Again, notice that the issues of worship and obedience take center-stage and this would prove to the ruin of his reign as king

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of Israel! However, the real straw that broke the camel‟s back occurred after the spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, in which the only relief he could obtain was when that little ole‟ Shepherd boy (David), upon Saul‟s request, played for the king on his harp! Again, Saul is faced with another battle with the Philistines and Samuel is dead and resting with the fathers. If indeed if there was any hope left for this king, he would have obtained it on his knees asking Yahweh for advice concerning Israel‟s upcoming battle. However, Saul royally blew it! Instead of asking the king of kings for advice, he commits the pagan abominable act of seeking advice of a witch. He full well knew the precepts of Yahweh concerning necromancers, sorcerers, diviners, and witches, that along with all the other heathen practices, this is the most destructive-for it deceives mortal humans into believing Satan‟s first Big Lie of-“Thou will not surely die”! The doctrinal teaching of the immortality of the soul, along with pagan festivals of worship precept brought on the fall of ancient Israel, and it will be the ruin of this latter day false system of worship! At this point in our story flow, Saul is left wide open for demonic deception, in the form of a so-called resurrection of Samuel. Yahweh does not permit demons to resurrect His faithful servants from their rest while waiting for their resurrection to immortality by Christ! This is the reason why Yahweh allows the defeat and death of Saul and his sonsin order to institute the David Provisionary Tactic! David had already, by faith and training in shepherd-hood, destroyed the Philistine giant Goliath (with only a sling and a stone), and was well on his way to being the greatest king ever to rule over the Hebrew nation. His success is depicted in the fact that, he sought after Yahweh‟s own heart and His will for the nation of Israel! In the bible, he is one of the better examples, when it comes to the proper utilization of earth‟s training ground, and Saul could

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very well be the poorest example we read of in pertaining to the divine elements or issues of worship and obedience.

Treachery of Kings King David committed a double whammy (or a dual transgression) by the acts of adultery with Bathsheba, and then having her husband, Uriah, killed by placing him on the front line of battle. However, top priority in his life was the law of Yahweh, and so he was very sorry for his acts of sin, and repented in such a way that God forgave him, but still took the life of the child that was born out of wedlock. In addition, just as the prophet (Nathan) spoke, the sword never departed from Davidâ&#x20AC;&#x;s house, and this is exemplified by the death of his adulteress son Absalom. David found forgiveness with God and was buried to rest with the fathers in the faith of Christ. Nonetheless, David understood the true meaning of worship and obedience, and this is demonstrated through his rescue of the Ark of the Covenant that was captured during the last big battle with the Philistines! David was first made king over Judah, and the most important order of business was the taking control of Zion, and the retrieval of the Ark of Yahweh from the house of Abinadab! The mission entailed thirty thousand chosen men, a bran-new cart, and Uzzah and Ahio drove the cart containing the Sacred Ark and divine oracles of Precept. Note that David is a very skillful and multi-talented musician, and they played music and sang psalms and worshipped the LORD on their way to Zion-the new home for the Ark of Truth! In addition, David was not only a king but a King/Priest, and we saw this type of office mergence within the ministry of the prophet/Priest Samuel! Upon Davidâ&#x20AC;&#x;s arrival into

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the streets of Zion, they needed no introduction, because the sound of their singing and worship reached unto heaven‟s glorious temple where the king of kings dwelt! David being a King/Priest lived and breathed for one thing and one thing only-the proper observance of the oracles, and that of proper worship and obedience unto Yahweh! It is this proper understanding of these cosmic principles of Love, devotion, worship, and obedience unto the God of Heaven that made David the most successful and powerful king that ever reigned over Israel. These loyal acts of worship and obedience to the celestial precepts are defined within the scope of his proper administration of the giving of burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings unto Yahweh at the rededication of the Ark at its new home in Zion.Furthermore, his acts of mercy in restoring Saul‟s land to Mephibosheth, remembering the love bond between him and Jonathan, and the fact that he had helped him when king Saul threatened his life. It is because of David‟s great love for the law and Ark of God, that David finds forgiveness after his spiritual fall against the commandments of the Most High! He was a man of a tender heart, and though his sin was great-his remorse for these sins was even greater, as demonstrated in the fact that he spent seven days and nights without food or drink in sackcloth and ashes in full repentance mode to the Most High! Yahweh, took the life of David and Bathsheba‟s son, and reared up Solomon born in wedlock to succeed the great and righteous rule of David. Solomon was also one of a tender heart, and he asked only one thing of Yahweh, and that was wisdom to judge righteously the nation of Israel! Because, Solomon did not ask for the vain riches of this world, but for, like his father, the proper aspects and merits of true worship and adherence to the sacred oracles, he obtained both, and made a goodly king until his riches and women from surrounding kingdoms deceived him into false worship unto other gods! One of the things David desired

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greatly to do was to build a beautiful and worthy temple to house the AWESOME ARK OF THE COVENANT, but by the mouth of the prophet Nathan, Yahweh told David, that because he was a man of warfare and had shed much blood, that his successor, or one of his sons, would build for ME a house! Before Solomonâ&#x20AC;&#x;s acts of spiritual treason, he supervised the construction of a one of a kind magnificent House for Yahweh, and executed the office of King/Priest at the dedication of the temple, and the huge structure trembled with a mighty shaking and smoke filled the temple from the presence of the King of Heaven, and the Shekinah glory once more came to rest behind the veil within the third compartment called the holiest of holies! The punch-line is this, whenever the proper execution of offerings and sacrifices of worship are demonstrated-the presence of the LORD GOD of Israel lived among them and fought for them against the heathen and their pagan practices. However, when the acting king over Israel slipped into the entanglement of pagan worship practices-the chosen people of the LORD suffered every kind of despotic and demonic evil plague! The latter reign of Solomon demonstrated the infiltration of pagan practices mingled with the true worship of Yahweh, culminating in the defilement of His sacred House of True Worship! The issues interweaved throughout the whole garment of biblical discourse are as plain as the nose on my face-they are those of true worship of the creator, in contrast to the defiling acts of the pagan worship system that began at Babel, and will be utterly and fully crushed at Messiahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s next triumphal appearance back to planet earth!

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Playing the Harlot Due to a difference in political opinion (or kingship), after the death of Solomon, civil upheaval developed between the Israeli majority and the house of David. It seems that Rehoboam was heir to the throne, but, refusing the advice of his father‟s advisory cabinet, he planned to carry out an even stricter political structure than that of his father-meaning that taxes (tribute) for the upkeep of Solomon‟s mansion, foreign aid, that of the Temple, and other extravagant royalties were going to be imposed on a greater scale. Thus in about 975 BC, 10 of the 12 tribes of the nation of Israel severed ties with Judah and Benjamin that composed the house of David! These things happened in accordance with the word of the LORD spoken to Jeroboam by the mouth of Ahijah the Shilonite! Tensions mounted between the two politico-religious factionsthat they stoned to death, Adoram, who was chief treasurer over the king‟s tribute.Rehoboam gather his chosen troops from among Judah and Benjamin to go up to war against Israel, but the word of Yahweh came to them by the mouth of Shemaiah and caused Judah and Jerusalem to abort their attack. Moreover, these two factious parties remain separated to this day!In 721 BC, Assyrian forces scattered abroad the 10 northern tribes centralized in Samaria, and they lost their identity by infiltration among the gentile nations! It would be through a succession of wicked kings, entangled up with the sun-cult, that the desolation of both northern Israel, and the southern kingdom centralized in Jerusalem, would come under the patient but strong judgment of Yahweh! Among the wicked rulers none could hold the light to Ahab, who married Jezebel, a woman of the Zidonians, of which their chief

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deity is the infamous Baal-chief sun-cult deity, who holds different names among all the heathen nations. Familiar to the common deceptions of the Sun-Cult are such deities as Ashtoreth, Ishtar, or Astarte, along with Tammuz, the gods and goddesses of fertility and spring. Jezebel, had her priest that attended to their pagan altars and groves, and Ezekiel reveals in chapter 8, that these pagan practices entered into the beautiful temple erected by Solomon, and please make no mistake in logic, for it was the multitude of Solomonâ&#x20AC;&#x;s strange women that brought in the awful stench and enduring stain of spiritual high treason, and all because Israel asked for a king! We humans make grave mistakes when we question the motives and outcome of Yahweh, or think that we know better than Him when it comes to what we, may or may not, need! Nevertheless, during the double- wicked-reign of Ahab, Yahweh had a man that survived the death decree issued by the wicked prophetess Jezebel, for Elijah knew the meaning of true allegiance and faith of the Eternal One! Indeed in every age of time Yahweh has servants that properly utilize training ground earth to advance their spiritual evolvement through true worship and obedience to the celestial code of cosmic peace. Because of the wicked influence of Ahab and Jezebel-all of Israel had forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and turned their hearts over to the fornicating wine of pagan idolatry! Elijah prayed earnestly and fervently, and because of the spiritual blight of Israel-there came a no-rain drought for 3 and Â˝ years! During that time Elijah, because of Jezebelâ&#x20AC;&#x;s death decree, fled into the wilderness and there God cared for him, feed him bread by the mouth of Ravens, angels prepared him food while he slept, and blessed him in the home of the widow Zarephath. However, there has not been an eventsince the days of Elijah the prophet that can parallel the event that comes to pass as Elijah enters back into the land of Israel to the city of Samaria! With Israel

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at a climatic maxed out condition of spiritual high treason, the ultimate showdown between the forces of good and evil were about to take the spotlight once more in the grand-unfolding of earthly and cosmic events, and the location was on top Mount Carmel.The participants in the contest were the prophets of Baal 450, and the 400 prophets of the groves of which ate at Jezebel‟s table! Notice in verse 18 of first Kings Chapter 18 that Elijah reveals the sourceproblem by telling Ahab the trouble in Israel and the reason for the severe drought was that he (Ahab) had caused all Israel to forsake the commandments of Yahweh, and have followed Baal! On top Mount Carmel Elijah looked on in ridicule, for the prophets of Baal and Jezebel could not get their god to answer them by fire. Then when it came Elijah‟s turn, he placed the wood and the stones of the altar in perfect order through divine guidance, and dug a trench around the altar, just as the Holy Spirit had instructed him, and fetched water (from the Galilean Sea), and thoroughly soaked the altar he had prepared for the God of Abram! Then Elijah lifted up his eyes toward the heavens and simply said, „Yahweh, show these pagan people and the nation called by your name right now, LORD, who is the GOD of the universe! Suddenly, a mighty sound rumbled and flared up the firmament and the fire of the Ancient of Days fell and licked up all the water in the trench and completely consumed the altar properly prepared for the God of the Universe! Thus the great showdown between the trained soldier of Yahweh, and the 850 sun-cult prophets of Baal and Jezebel were embarrassed by the prophet of the Most High! Elijah turned the hearts of Israel back to the commandments of Yahweh, and then the rain fell abundantly upon the parched earth-AMEN!

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Prophetic Spotlight Now we come to the heart of the book, and to the heart of the matter, when it comes to the celestial elements of Eternal weight within the scope of the issues of true worship and obedience toYahweh and His Law of Love! The prophetic spotlight begins with the blessings by Jacob concerning his sons, but the prophecy concerning his two grandsons bears a much heavier weight concerning the future of the entire house of Israel! Notice that Ephraim is placed before Manasseh, in spite of Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x;s strenuous objection and Jacob in his wisdom thus states: Manasseh shall be great and a great nation, but Ephraim shall be greater and become a multitude of nations (Genesis 48:15-20). In the book of Deuteronomy chapter 28 and verses 24&25, we find the solemn warning by Moses of the curse pronounced upon the Israelites if they follow after the example of their fathers in the wilderness as pertaining to the sun-cult. This curse in comparison to the promise of blessings if they walk in the law simply states that Yahweh Elohim will scatter them from one end of earth to the other end, and or among the heathen nations who walk in the mystery religions of the sun-cult! In other words, if they wanted to follow the rituals and practiced festivals of sun-worship-then they would be scattered into these nations, and their identity as belonging to the LORD of Sabbath would be lost! This simply means that they would come to be identified with paganism, and that they would therefore in effect be alienated from the celestial covenant delivered to them both at the beginning of human history and again at Sinai! If we truly desire to know the full scope surrounding the issues of obedience and worship, then one needs to temporally set aside the apocalyptic material of Daniel and Revelation, and dust off the Ezekiel document in order to allow the prophetic spotlight to expand or broaden our horizons in order to view the full scope of Hebrew prophetic literature! The Daniel and

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Revelation documents are profoundly dynamic and amazing when specifically identifying the rise and fall of world powers, the foundational outline of world events, the identifying of the real antichrist, false prophet, the dragon, the history of the church, the persecuting powers of Yahwehâ&#x20AC;&#x;s people in every age of time, and thoroughly graphs out all prophetic time codes, among a dozen other vital end-time elements! However, the Ezekiel document stands out paramount in specifically identifying for us the precise sins of the World-Wide-False-System of Worship, and the exact reason why He (Yahweh) calls His sheep out from among the pagan nations, or out of Modern-Spiritual-Babylon as depicted in Revelation 18:4&5! Let us analyze deeply the sins that caused the fall and dispersing of ancient Israel, and discover the whole truth concerning biblical prophecy! There can be no doubt as to the authenticity of the prophetic calling of this man Ezekiel-as this can be clearly seen by his vision of the Eternal One in chapters one and ten. Ezekiel a prophet of the first wave of Jewish exiles is about to know for a surety the source of the prophetic information that is revealed to him! By the river Chebar he suddenly sees a whirlwind and within the funnel a fire engulfing or a continual source of fiery energy! Out of the midst of the energetic tornado appeared four living creatures or Cherubim, each with four wings, and each beside a wheel within a wheel, and they four were navigating with the wheels, and navigated straight forward-they turned not! Above the guardian Cherubim of space-time-matter-and the Eternal Law, existed a crystal firmament and a throne housing the Ancient of Days! The Ancient of Days makes known to the prophet the reason for His visitation it is to show Ezekiel all the Abominations of the House of Israel! Among the diverse symbols and various insights of the preparatory woes of pronouncements, the main incurring issue revealed to Ezekiel was the desecration of the precious sanctuary of truth, and

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the detailed analysis that cuts straight through to the Heart of the Matter of driving the Eternal GOD of the universe from His own tabernacle reared by Solomon and once graced with the presence (Shekinah Glory) of Yahweh Himself!He (GOD) knocks meat and cuts through to the bone with the introduction to the main core of the problem in chapter eight by showing Ezekiel the Image of Jealousy (notice the first commandment of the Decalogue), this is an image of possibly the sun-god Baal, or one of the other sun-cult deities. Then Yahweh shows the prophet greater abominations with the image at the entry of the gate of the altar, and then shows him a secret compartment with all the unclean creeping things and animals that they eat in sacrifice to their gods. Then the prophet sees seventy elders of Israel and in the middle stood the High Priest Jaazaniah and these Levite priests are seen offering incense to the mystery gods of the pagan heathen! Nevertheless, Yahweh is by no means finished, for He then reveals to the prophet the root cause or the origin of these abominable practices! Then He shows Ezekiel the scene of the pagan festival surrounding the annual rituals of the springequinox, with the women sitting in the entrance to the LORDâ&#x20AC;&#x;S house and weeping for Tammuz! My GOD, brace yourself, for this ancient custom is traced all the way back to the days of Nimrod and Babel, and involves the gods and goddesses of fertility, and is synonymous with our modern day observance of Easter! There is no mistake in my logic, and this is plainly affirmed by the very next abominable act! Next Yahweh shows the prophet why the women of Israel were weeping for the fertility god Tammuz, for between the porch and the altar, at the door of the temple of YHWHâ&#x20AC;&#x;S house, were twenty five men of Israel with their backs turned away from the temple of the LORD,and they worshipped the sun in the east! It is recommended by me, the author that you take the initiative to research in any reliable encyclopedia the pagan festivals of the winter solstice and spring equinox, and while

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you‟re at it, research words like Ashtoreth, Tammuz, Marduk, Mithras, Ishtar, Astarte, Baal, Zeus, Aphrodite, of which are all sun-cult deities associated with the worship of heavenly bodies such as the sun, moon, and the 12 constellations of the Zodiac. Furthermore, let me state that you may be surprised when you discover that these are all intimately related to our modern holidays of Christmas, New Years, Easter, and our weekly Sunday worship! My GOD-what a tangled web the church world has weaved, and what is even more embarrassing is that the God of Heaven has pronounced all of these practices an ABOMINATION UNTO HIM! Moreover, please do not be offended at the author, for I only present to you the reader what is plainly recorded in the bible, and we are by no means through with our examination of this neglected document. In chapter twelve and verses 14&15, we see Yahweh, the GOD of the universe reiterating on Moses‟ original warning to the Israelites, of the grave chance of judgment scattering these people throughout the heathen nations that spiritually deceived them into serving foreign gods! Then in chapter twenty (read all of 20), Yahweh reiterates on the history of His gracious deliverance of the Hebrew nation out of pagan Egypt, and excels in words like those of verse seven of “defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt”! Furthermore, take note that in verse 8 it was for His Name’s sake that He continued to deal with them in patiently attending to their needs, and in verses 11-22, He makes it crystal clear that they forsook his law, statues, and judgments-specifically the Sabbath commandment by profaning and polluting the mark or sign that identified them as belonging to the Supreme Deity of the cosmic order! Every time He points to their pollution of His Holy Day, established in Eden, He then makes it known to us the reader that it is for the Sanctity of His Holy Name that He wrought all the works of Antiquity toward Israel! In chapter twenty-two,

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we find written extended sins of Israel, through the sins of adultery, lasciviousness, and incest, but note that the weight of the problem is directed to the priests and religious leaders of God‟s chosen nation. Verses twenty-five and twenty-six speaks of a conspiracy among these prophets and spiritual leaders, and guess what takes centerstage again as the foremost reason for their spiritual fornicating state-O‟ YES, it is the Sabbath commandment, and this time the language of Yahweh purposely deviates from the norm of desecration, to, “they have hid their eyes from MY SABBATHS, and I AM profaned among them”! There we have itand the religious leaders of that time, are, as in today‟s time, hiding their eyes from the sign of Yahweh‟s 7th day Sabbath, to the observance of a pagan substitute-Sunday! As if this weren‟t enough, another foremost issue that emerges among sound prophetic insight is the sanctity of the original Hebrew title of the Most High GOD, or better put the Eternal One! This is a paramount issue because of the fact that this is the name that appears in the original Hebrew translations, and thus is the name used by this Deity when He appeared unto Abram with the promise of a city whose builder and maker is Yahweh! The name given to the Patriarchs, and to Moses at his commission of deliverance is YHWH, or with the vowels is Yahweh! In Ezekiel chapter 36 we find the full significance behind this smothered-up vital truth. In verses 19 and 20 we find that after Yahweh scattered them into the pagan nations, that they profaned His Holy Name among those nations, and in verse 22 we find again that not for His people‟s sake, but for the sake of His holy Name, He would bring or call them out of the midst of these nations in the future-and thus sanctify His Great Name in the sight of these heathen nations, so that they shall know Him then by His Great title YHWH!

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The English speaking nations of Great Britain, England, and other European nationals are the nations that harbor the Lost Tribes of the Household of Israel, and the reason why they are the richest and most powerful nations in the world today is because of the blessings of good oleâ&#x20AC;&#x; Jacob (Israel), leaning on his staff with his hands upon the sons of Joseph! These lost tribes have been scattered and indeed lost their heritage because they lost their identifying sign or mark of the seventh day Sabbath! However, YHWH is calling them out of Babylon, as depicted in Revelation 18:4, back to the observance of the biblical day of rest, and the utilization of His sacred name that has been lost along the way! The sins of this Modern-Pagan-Sun-Cult, marked in Rev. 17 as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth, is the same system of abominable entrapment that destroyed Israel and Judah, and it is the Elijah message of Rev. 14:6-12, that calls His people back to true worship of the creator, and total adherence to the sacred oracles!

Acts of Desolation One of the most prevalent themes throughout biblical discourse is the interwoven thread of pronounced desolation upon, first, Jerusalem of which typifies the certainty of global desolation as the end result of disobedience to celestial law through the acts of sun-cult defilement! There is no error here in judgment, because it was the sun-cult that caused the fall and dispersing of the 10 tribes of Samaria, and it was the sun-cult that caused the desolation of Judah, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar in 606 BC! When we get down to real business and clean the dust off of the books of Jeremiah and Isaiah-then some startling

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revelations flood our conscious being, and the summation to the end of the age equation stares us straight in the face! In the seventeenth chapter of Jeremiah, verses 24-27, we read of the blessing/curse as pertaining to the Sabbath Day of biblical rest, and verse 27 makes it crystal clear that if Judah and all of Jerusalem do not keep holy the Sabbath rest, to HALLOW it, bear no burden, or in other words they were not to do work or buy or sell, then Yahweh would kindle a fire in the midst of Jerusalem, and it would consume the gates, temple, palaces, and everything would be the scene of perpetual desolations as put forth in Jeremiah 25: 9! Then in verses 10&11, we find that, due to Judahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s insubordination, Yahweh, by the hand of His servant, Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 27:6-8), burns to the ground Jerusalem, and Judah is taken captive into the golden city of Babylon! Now notice that the issues are as clear as water as put forth in Jeremiah chapter nineteen and verses 4-8, and please notice the apocalyptic overtures plunging us deep into the book of Revelation chapters 16-19 with the worship of sun-gods such as Baal (verse 5), to verse 7 with the feeding of the disobedient to the fowls of heaven (compare to Revelation 19:21), and these being categorized in verse 8 as plagues (compare to Revelation chapter 16, especially the 4th plague, a direct punishmentfor sunworship). In Jeremiah 32 and verses 20-23, Yahweh reiterates His divine providence and Love for this nation by His deliverance for them out of Egyptian Bondage, and then rehearses again the root problem in verse 23, as being disobedience to the Decalogue, and let us not forget the very first precept of the oracles that these people were tried on, before Sinai, is the 4th commandment. In 2nd Chronicles chapter 36 and verse 21 we find an extraordinary scenario, that because Judah (but first it was Israel) did not â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holyâ&#x20AC;?, so then to fulfill the prophecies of desolation, by the mouth of Jeremiah,

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Yahweh purposely used the Babylonian world-ruling power to lay Jerusalem desolate so that the land and the city called by His Name could keep Sabbath (or rest) to fulfill threescore and 10 years (70 years of Jewish captivity)! This my friend is a total of 3,360 Sabbaths to get the point across to His people, then and now, that when it comes to the identifying seal of His sacred law (the Sabbath commandment contains the seal of YHWH that makes the law on stone unchangeable and a legal binding universal document of covenant between the divine and physical realms) that there is no room for the compromising traditions of the false world church system! Notice in chapter 25, of Jeremiah‟s mini-apocalypse, that soon the spotlight falls on king Nebuchadnezzar as Yahweh‟s instrument, or servant (verse 9), and that Jerusalem is envisioned as an astonishment, an hissing, and the scene of perpetual desolations.Then suddenly, WAM-BAM, the apocalyptic overtones switch to the scene of global devastation at the end of the age of grace, as revealed by Saint John the Divine in Revelation 18:2-23, and in verses 22&23 we find the exact scene as that of ancient Jerusalem! The sun-cult corruption of God‟s people, Israel and then Judah, typifies or is synonymous with the destruction of Modern Spiritual Babylon, with her sorceries, and Spiritual-High-Treason. Her old pagan traditions modernized within the world church system, and the scene of global devastation (desolation) spoken of by Messiah is described for us at the end of the age in Luke 17: 26-37. The words of Messiah speak with strong language as in Revelation 19: 21, within the context of the great supper of God Almighty! Furthermore, Jeremiah finishes out his Mini-Apocalypse with the same scene of global catastrophe, as put forth in verses 30-33of chapter 25, and is all pictographic through the lenses of the scope of the nations being drunk with the wine of madness, as seen in Revelation chapters 17&18!Except this time it is in preparation for the crushing of the grapes

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of the winepress of the wrath of YHWH as seen in Revelation 14: 19&20! Jeremiah wraps it all up by recording that the inhabitants of earth who followed the fornicating doctrines of the Mother Church (Vatican City is the head of the worldwide church Organization), and the sun-cult-festivals mentioned throughout this book, or did not leave this oleâ&#x20AC;&#x; earth with Messiah in the first resurrection, are slain, and their bodies will lie from one end of earth even to the other end of the globe, and the reason we see no funerals being held, or no lamentation, or no proper burials being conducted is because there is no one around to do anything-anymore! The bride of Christ is gone for a thousand year honeymoon and marriage banquet, and everyone else is dead, either under the earth (in the grave), or upon the earth, and the fowls are having a huge banquet of their own! The only living creatures left here on planet earth during this 1,000 year honeymoon is Lucifer and the fallen ones. The earth now keeps Sabbath to fulfill the words of many prophets, and Satan (Azazel) and his host have no one to tempt-being bound for 1,000 years by a chain of unbearable circumstances.They get a good long period to contemplate the full result of their revolt in heaven, and the earth gets to enjoy a very long Sabbath rest! Let us now dust off briefly Isaiahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s Mini-Apocalypse, and it is found in Isaiah chapter 24, let me try to hit the high spots, but I recommend to you the reader that you read the entire chapter! Verse one starts off with the inclination of the earth being empty, and desolate, and turned upside down, and the reason is once more as plain as the sun shining, right now, through my bedroom window! Verse five exhorts that the earth itself is defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the divine Decalogue (laws), changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant, and the curse of such disobedience has affected both the world system and good old Mother Earth! However, what can be this ordinance that

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has been changed by the peoples of earth. The only ordinance of divine precept, in light of every other prophecy or scripture we have thus far examined, can only be the Holy Sabbath of YHWH! There is no other precept that can fit the bill! In book one of this series, Project Earth, we examined how that a religious-political power arose out of Daniel‟s fourth worldruling-power, and changed festivals of divine precept, in which the most drastic change was made to the fourth commandment by the changing of the Eden Sabbath, given to the human race, into the first day of the week-Sunday. This is a day that has its roots in the sun-cult of the pagan heathen nations of antiquity, and associated with the practices we studied in the Ezekiel document that caused the desolation of Israel and then Jerusalem. Isaiah continues with the same apocalyptic language we read in Jeremiah 25: 9-11, and Rev. 19, and here it is again in verses 7-9 of Isaiah chapter 24. When the Supreme Cosmic Intelligence of the Universe performs this end of the age judgment, the PARTY IS OVER, no more wine women and song, there only remains the scene of perpetual desolation as preempted in the total desolation of ancient Israel. However, just as God‟s people were allowed to return to their homeland, so God‟s people will return after the banquet feast, and participate in the judgmentof the resurrected wicked dead, and then renovate the earth! May we utilize wisely Messiah‟s training ground before He brings an end to His open door of grace and mercy!

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emphasize enough the importance of knowing the words of the prophets, and to identify the difference between solid truth and the deceptive potions of the fallen demons of darkness! Previously, we dusted off the Mini-Apocalypses of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and so let us now clean the cobwebs off of the Mini-apocalypse of the master of the universe, and see exactly what the greatest prophet who ever lived has to say about the conditions prevailing at the end of the age. Remember from book one that end of the age events all fit within a series of time codes within the stepladder format of prophecy! Letâ&#x20AC;&#x;s briefly examine these time-codes before we continue on in our journey-they are: 1: The outline table of the four ruling world governments, from the time of Babylon to the end of the initial reign of the papal system from 605 BC to 1798 AD. 2: The little horn or papal power came out of the ruin of Pagan Rome or the fourth kingdom of the outline chapter of Daniel two, as revealed in the metallic image seen by Nebuchadnezzar in a dream. 3: The fall of ancient Babylon in 538 BC mandated a new time era in which Cyrus would allow the Jews to return home to reestablish and rebuild Jerusalem, and thus 70 weeks in prophetic years was pronounced on the Jewish nation to get wholeheartedly back to GOD! Within this time frame Messiah would appear and mark the beginning of the last (70th) prophetic week to preach the gospel to the lost sheep of Israel, and be cut off in the middle of the week to bring an end to the old sacrificial system, usher in everlasting righteousness, be anointed to preach the gospel, and seal up the vision pertaining to Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x;s people of Daniel chapter 9: 24-27! Then in 34 AD the chosen nation sealed their dome upon the stoning of Stephan and the gospel is taken to the gentile nations. This time period started in 457 BC and

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ended 490 years later in 34 AD (70 weeks in prophetic years is 490 years. A day for a year is Yahwehâ&#x20AC;&#x;s prophetic time increment for prophecy time-codes, see, Ezekiel 4:6 and Nu. 14:34). 4: The longest time code that spans centuries of persecution and colors church history with the blood of Martyrs is the codes during the pagan Roman emperor persecutions and the horrible extension of such during the dark ages of medieval papal terror from 538-1798 AD. It was during this time era in which an estimated 50,000,000 protestant reformers were slain for their refusal to acknowledge the sovereign religious/political power of the bishops of Rome. This is the period marked as the reign of the little horn power of Daniel 7, or the Church of Rome (The Holy Roman Empire). This longest time-code found in Daniel chapter 8, the prophecy of the 2300 days or years engulfs the whole message and mysteries surrounding ancient Hebrew prophecies from the going forth of the Cyrus decree 457 BC to 2300 years later when Christ entered into His last phase of heavenly temple ministry in the year 1844. Also, when we subtract 490 years of Jewish allotted time from the gross figure of 2300 we get 1,810 years or 1844 in which a great spiritual awaking took place all over this great nation, bible societies where established, and in heaven Christ entered into the Holiest of Holies! This marked for us the time-code of Day of Atonement, or as is expressed in the book of Hebrews as the Day of Salvation (read the whole book of Hebrews)! This is why every time Daniel rehearses the four world powers, that it is then we see the courtroom in heaven convening and the books being opened, because judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High is in session right in plain view of the entire universe. The year1844 marked the time-code labeled in Daniel as the time of the end. When Christ finishes His work of cleansing and judgment, He will return with the billions of heavenly observers, seen in

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Daniel 7: 9-14, 22, 26, 27, and Revelation chapters 4, 5, and 11: 15-19, and rescue the penitent who properly utilized this Day of Grace! The Master of the Universe had both the little horn power and the end of the age revival of that power, in the form of Modern Spiritual Babylon, in mind when He told the disciples concerning end of the age events-“Take heed that no human deceive you”! This is the most profound statement made by the Master of Souls. Furthermore, this is the most vital prophetic statement made by the Messiah of the NT! The disciples retained preconceived notions of when, where, and how the kingdom of Yahweh would come, but Christ sets their expectations straight with the fact that it has nothing to do with an earthly temple, and prophesies of the destruction of the temple by Roman soldiers that took place from 64-70 AD, of which we read in His first statement in Matthew 24 and verse 2! Then He (Christ) continues on with the deception game foretelling the movement of false churches during the early church era, performing works in His name and declaring that He is the Christ. Then during that era He tells of earth‟s sad state of continued warfare, and persecution campaigns against Christians. He speaks of false prophets deceiving many, of which this is the prevailing theme throughout the whole of bible discourse, but here Christ is speaking of deception prior to the destruction of Herod‟s temple in 70 AD! However, let us take note that Christ entered in upon the twofold format of apocalyptic linguistic overtones as we have already signified by the destruction of Jerusalem having a greater fulfillment of the coming future Global Catastrophe. Just as there was great tribulation at the destruction of Jerusalem in 606 BC and 70 AD, so shall the global equivalent be at the end of the age. So then let us make a serious note again of the Art of Deception that is repeatedly rehearsed by the Master except this time it points to a final showdown as described in Revelation chapter 13:11-15,

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and 16: 12-16! He exhorts us to not believe anyone who tells you that Christ has already come-or He came in secret (Matt. 24: 26), believe it not, for His coming shall be visible to every eye on planet earth. Then in verse 28 after telling us that the brightness of His coming will be likened unto a very bright Lightning storm, then He reaffirms the words of the prophets concerning earthâ&#x20AC;&#x;s desolation by stating the same words recorded in Luke 17: 37, speaking of the Great Supper of God Almighty-when the fowls of heaven feed on the carcasses of all those destroyed by the brightness of Messiahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s 2nd advent! The Great Acts of Deception are simple to deduce, it is by no-means rocket science. If the world can be led into believing that certain events need to play out in order for the end of the age to come-then they simple will not be prepared for the coming of the LORD! Unpreparedness is exactly what the Grand-Deceiver is happy to accomplish, and this is why Christ begins His MiniApocalypse with the stern warning of do not be deceived. Most all of Modern Christendom believe in a 7 year tribulation period marked by the secret rapture of the church, and then some diabolical ruler makes a pack with the Jews, rebuilds the temple, reinstitutes the old sacrificial temple form of worship, and in the middle of the 7 year period initiates a mark on peoples hand or forehead. All the while folks are waiting for all that to happen the coming of the LORD snicks up on them as a thief, as stated by the apostles and by Christ in the gospels and in Rev. 16: 15! It is those who take the time to watch and pray and understand the prophetic time-codes and the true issues of obedience and worship that go back with Messiah to the fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x;s house and the rest lie asleep until the 1000 years are finished. Christ is concerned for us within the topic of deception, because false teachings concerning the prophetic time-codes will lead people to mismanage their time here on training ground earth, by believing that they still have plenty time to accept the gospel because this has not

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happened and that has not happened.However, notice that even the signs concerning the sun being darkened and the moon appearing blood red and the stars falling from heaven happened just before and after the initial reign of the Little Horn Power of Daniel 7, and just preceding the convening of the courts in heaven in 1844. On May 19th 1780, the sun was blotted out at midday and is known in history as the great dark-day. This continued into the night and the moon appeared in the sky blood red. In addition, just 11 years prior to 1844, the greatest star shower in recorded history took place all over this globe on 13th of November 1833! False information and misconceptions concerning the period marked as the time of the end, has led the World-Church-System down the road paved by the Acts of Deception, and the leader behind these false teachings when dealing with prophetic codes is the same being that brought deception into the church as described by Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x;s Mini-Apocalypse in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2: 3-10. Distortion of the prophetic time-codes and of the true issues surrounding the time of the end spells real trouble for peoples of earth. Being preoccupied with current technological trends, and preconceived notions of just what the prophecies may or may not mean-leaves the majority of professed believers in the danger zone of unpreparedness of which are the most-solemn words of warning in all of scripture. So let us now do an in-depth survey and learn in detail more of the final global Act of Deception.

Final Deception Vampires, werewolves, ghosts, spirits, goblins, Halloween, night of the living dead, new wave occults, and the new age movement of thought has in recent decades swept away the world with an multibillion dollar movie industry! People are fascinated with the state of the

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dead and with the supernatural world! Notice that the title of the movie above, „night of the living dead‟ is a contradiction in terminology! How can a person that is dead be living, and how can a person who is living be dead! Ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman historical documents speak of the immortality of the human soul, and we find this belief, in every case, intimately connected to the practices and customs of the sun-cult! However, nowhere in the Hebrew OT or the Greek NT, do we find such a belief! As we have already established Yahweh told the Hebrew nation to steer clear from the abominable practices of divination, sorcery, witchcraft, necromancy, and ghost whispers that peep and mutter (Isaiah 8: 19&20)! There is a reason for this, and that is, because, the bible from Genesis to Revelation teaches that death is the end result of the Eden calamity, and that death is a sleep! In order to keep His chosen people free from the deceptive acts of the master deceiver, He expressively forbade His people from seeking advice from those who claim to be able to communicate with the deceased. Lucifer is in the business of deception and he means business! Satan has had thousands of years of experience, and he is the master plagiarist. He has taken every truth established in the interest of cosmic peace, and has devised counterfeits that successfully deceive all those souls who do not take the time to learn the truth of his deceptive so-called accepted truths! So then why is the media spending millions of dollars every year on promoting the Big Lie of:that the dead are not really dead, but death is only a crossing over into a better domain of spiritual existence! The answer to the above question is found in the 3rd chapter of the book of Genesis, and is the first Big Lie preached by the master of illusion. In verses 4 and 5, we find the tap root to our modern day movie industry, and our modern new age occult scene-when the serpent said to the woman, “You shall not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat thereof-then

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your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil”! There we have it-the biggest no-brainer since the dawn of time, and Satan has used this lie to the maximum, even within the doctrinal structure of the church world! Notice that the new age wave of thought, is not very new at all, when we look close at verse 5, “You shall be as gods”, boy do I hear that a lot these days, and the other one as well, “You shall not surely die”! It was not in our best interest to not attain to the knowledge of good and evil, we were indeed created to be managersover earth‟s resources and wildlife. The wages of sin (transgression of or rebellion against the celestial oracles) is death-PERIOD! The apostles in their epistles speak of putting on immortality at the next appearing of Messiah, but humans are spoken of as being mortal (subject to death and decay), “for this mortal must put on immortality”, 1st Corinthians 15: 53, and in verses 14-18, Paul makes it clear that the only hope one has of life after death is through the resurrection of Christ, and this is the foundational pillar to the gospel. The terms immortal and immortality appear only once a piece in the NT, in 1st Timothy 1: 17, Paul writes of the King Eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only wise God, and in 1st Timothy 6: 16, Paul tells us that He only hath immortality, dwelling in the light! Then if Christ and God are only immortal then it would thus hold true that we need our maker for the breath of life now in this physical realm, and for the change to incorruption that is the blessed hope throughout scriptural discourse.If every human soul is immortal then why does the scripture teach us that the soul that sins it shall die (Ezekiel 18: 4)! The physical living soul is what we humans are it is most certainly not something that we possess! Death is an enemy that is to be destroyed through a resurrection of which Messiah is the prototype! Eternal life is promised to the righteous-NOT THE WICKED! The bible is clear that the second death of Revelation chapter 20: 11-15, is the permanent state of the wicked for all eternity-there is no more

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resurrection anymore left for them, and they will cease to exist. The author simply cannot find were God promised eternal life in the lake of fire for the impenitent wicked, but I do find in Malachi 4: 1-3 that they will be ashes under the feet of the righteous. Furthermore, we can find in Ezekiel chapter 28: 18&19 that Yahweh is going to cause a fire to come forth out of the midst of Lucifer, and will bring him to ashes upon the earth! After the 1000 year honeymoon of Christ and His bride, the New Jerusalem (Yahwehâ&#x20AC;&#x;s Space-City) descends upon the earth and the wicked dead are raised and Satan clocks-in (CHI-CHING) for his deception game to convince the nations and great military leaders to take over the headquarters of Yahweh, but fire comes down from the Ancient of Days and turns the wrecked desolate earth, along with Satan and his host, into ashes. The dead in the bible are never referred to as living-but asleep waiting whatever fate they chose during their brief physical existence! If you take the time to reference out and exhaust the subject of the state of the dead, from the bible alone, you will find that the dead are truly dead and that is why Christ had to come down here and give His life, because without Him there would be no life after death! When we as humans reject the plain truth of bible teachings, and go along with the false doctrine of the immortality of the soul-we will be as puppets on a string, and left wide-open for the great deception within the paradox of the final showdown-as outlined in Revelation chapters 13, 16, 17, and 18! For you see, not only is the Big Lie, a part of the iniquities of antiquity, so are many more traditions that crept into the church beginning with the so-called conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine, and consummating with the great takeover of the papal system in 538 AD! Satan is DEAD SERIOUS about his age-long-game of deception. In the 3rd-4th centuries AD Satan gave up the oleâ&#x20AC;&#x; frontal assault, and entered into

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the church of Rome by incorporating annual pagan feasts of antiquity, and attacking the very celestial divine law of Yahweh! The master of delusion and plagiarism (Satan) is not going to give up, and his goal is to cause the inhabitants of the earth to pay allegiance to his form of worship, and thus take away the homage and worship that belongs to the creator alone! As I pointed out earlier he is blooded well organized, and when John sees this age-longfornicating system of worship, and how she influenced the peoples, powerful kings and politicians of the earth, he is frantically amazed by her Great Art of Spiritual Deception! If all this seems to be a bit overdramatic believe me things are still a bit mellow compared to what is in store for us behind the big prophetic curtain of satanic exposure. Let us put this power under severe scrutiny, and stick Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x;s apocalyptic document under the biblical microscope in order to fully expose the great final deception!

Mother Mystery The most dramatic, stern, and solemn warning that can be found in the bible is at the announcement of the fall of Modern Babylon in Revelation 18: 1-5! Throughout the historicity of the bible, Babylon is identified as any highly sophisticated, hi-tech and wealthy society that has developed in rebellion against,and separate from,the heavenly oracles! It is therefore defined as a systematic governmental and religious order that steals away human loyalty to the Most High, and deceives peoples of earth into paying homage to the counterfeit system of falsehoods! It is a system of worship that masquerades in the name of Christ, attempts to replace the system of Yahweh, and creates counterfeits of established celestial

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truths. There are some very specific mandated facts about this system of government and worship and these are: 1) As with ancient Babel the nations of the earth enter in upon a time era of unification in technology and language. 2) The infrastructure of such a system endeavors to occupy, through advancements in technology, the minds of humans in the way of-“do it your way, or do your own thing”-thus leading society away from the divine universal law of unity and LOVE! 3) This type of society‟s foundational principles tend to sway toward the dark tunnel of greed, corruption, oppression of lower class people, and power trips resulting in warfare! 4) This type of structural society, while disguised behind political propaganda, is in fact a religious system that follows the pattern of traditions and customs that are intimately connected to the mystery religions from Egypt all the over to Rome! 5) Within the confines of biblical apocalyptic terminology the world governmental system is seen being spiritually directed by the world church scene, and the head of this great religious conglomerate is Mother-Mystery with a deceptive fornicating potion in a golden cup, and it is this abominable mixture that has caused the inhabitants of the earth, the kings, and the mighty and wealthy classes to fall into a spiritual drunken stupor! 6) This religious-politico system is further identified as the persecutor of the people of the Most High GOD in every age of time! She (the false world church system) is seen being drunk on the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Christ!

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She is seen as the head of the worldwide Church organization, and will draw on all her forces to bring about the final union of church and state -so to speak-and will through the aid of her daughter churches perform miraculous signs and wonders, to deceive the inhabitants of planet earth into worshipping in accordance with the mother-church of Rome, which is the first beast of the old world in Revelation chapter 13: 1-10! In eschatological language the events surrounding the fall of ancient Babylon, in Daniel chapter 6 will be the same events that pronounce the fall of literal spiritual Babylon on a global scale! These end-time elements are outlined in Revelation 16: 12-21, with the spirits of demons working miracles, the great Euphrates being dried up in preparation for the kings from the east, and as a result of verse 19 great Babylon is to fall, and the next 2 chapters are dedicated in describing in detail, and the reasons for her climatic fall! The bible reveals in Daniel 6, that the fall of ancient Babylon was the result of a pagan sun-cult party. Belshazzar had ascended to the throne, and though he fully realized what happened to Nebuchadnezzar, and of his conversion, he blatantly ignored Yahwehâ&#x20AC;&#x;s Love, and threw a big party for a 1000 of his lords and their wives. Now, take heed to the straw that broke the camelâ&#x20AC;&#x;s back, for then Belshazzar commands servants to bring to him the holy vessels from the locked storeroom that were consecrated for the priests service at Jerusalem. So they brought him these holy sanctuary items, and the king and his buddies drank wine from them in praising the gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone. Then a supernatural hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall in the sight of the king, and his knees smote one against the other. Daniel is brought in to interpret the writing, and announces to the king the fall of golden Babylon! Cyrus had his soldiers to dig many huge trenches literally diverting the Euphrates so that these kings from the east marched under Babylonâ&#x20AC;&#x;s massive wall, straight through the

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unsecured gate, left open due to the drunkenness and immorality of the party within, and ancient Babylon falls, to arise no more, in accordance with the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah. It is in Revelation chapter 17 that we find the true nature of this power we have been examining throughout this book. Please take a serious note that it is the 7 last plagues of Revelation 16 that are aimed straight at Mother Mystery, for this is evident by John being shown this power by one of the angels in charge of the 7 last plagues, and moreover strongly emphasized by verses 4&5 of chapter 18, with the climatic warning call to â&#x20AC;&#x153;come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plaguesâ&#x20AC;?! Here we have it, the call of God to come out from under Babylonâ&#x20AC;&#x;s deceptive potion, and worship the Creator (Rev. 14: 6-12)! Then we must ask at this point-what is this strange concoction seen in the hand of this woman, or false religious system, that has brought her under the judgment of Yahweh. Our first clue is the branding mark of her title. She is Mystery, Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the earth, and in previous verses she is riding on the political powers of the earth! She is rich and bears the names of blasphemy, and holds in her hand a potion full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication! Remember what we studied in Ezekiel chapter 8, the Eternal One marks the rituals, practices, and customs of the pagan nations as abominations, and it is these pagan customs that defiled Israel and Judah, and lead them into captivity. Again, keep in mind that the strange gods that caused the desolation of Judah, in eschatological terms, is the same abominable acts which will ensnare the whole world just prior to the next advent of Messiah. The fact that Vatican City houses the richest and most powerfully influential religious entity on this planet, and has a profound history of shedding innocent blood (approximately

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50,000,000 protestant reformers were slaughtered during the papal supremacy of medieval times), places her in the spotlight of being the Mother Church. The word Mystery depicts her religious infrastructure as pertaining to that of the mystery religions of world-ruling pagan powers, along with her false miracles or sorceries as put forth in the last phrase of Rev. 18: 23! The fact that she bears blasphemous names gives her center-stage due to the fact that the claims made by the papacy of infallibility, taking the place of Christ on earth, and the power of divine mediation to grant forgiveness of sins. So then it is crystal clear from the preponderance of biblical evidence, that the deceptive potion in the hand of this religious power is, as in ancient Babylon, the mixture of pagan worship elements (or customs) with the true worship of the Creator. From the 3rd to the 5th centuries AD Rome made Christianity the religion of the empire, and thus began the era of the Holy Roman Empire. Statues of sungods and fertility goddesses were brought into the church, and labeled as being Mary, Peter, John, and other early Christian disciples. The Pascal celebration of Passover commemorating liberation from the pagan gods of bondage was replaced with the pagan spring festival in honor of the fertility gods and goddesses as we saw in Ezekiel chapter 8, and is named after the chief goddess Ishtar (or Ashtoreth), and the modern form is called Easter, or Astarte as she is known to the Phoenicians! Easter bunnies and egg decoration is found when one studies the history of these mystery religions. The twin brother to the festival on the eve of the spring equinox, is the annual pagan holiday of the birthday of the sun-god returning from his triumphant battles with the underworld. On the winter solstice, December 25, was, and still is the birthday of the sun-god Baal, Marduk, Molech, Zeus in the Greek, or Mithras in Roman culture. The church during those years of Roman transition attached this pagan feast as the birthday of our blessed Savior. The decoration of lights, candles, trees, and the

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presence of sun-deities like good ole‟ Saint Nick have nothing at all to do with the birth of Messiah. In fact, it is these same customs and feasts that pronounced doom and destruction to ancient Israel and Judah! Please, brace yourself for the best is yet to come! In addition to the spring and winter festivals, ancient paganism observed a weekly fest, and it was always on the first day of the week, the day we call Sunday, and this is one time that the name is deserving of the day! It was known in the early Roman church as Dei Solis Invictus, the invincible or day of the unconquerable sun! This is the same Sunday that so-called Christians claim as their New Testament Sabbath, but the bible in the NT calls it the 1st day of the week. As we have already seen from Isaiah and Jeremiah, the profaning of the Eden institutional Sabbath (and Yahweh‟s Holy Name) is the very reason for the desolation of Jerusalem. Furthermore, it is the claim of the Roman Catholic Bishops and Popes that they changed the solemnity of the Eden Sabbath, and the 4th commandment of the Decalogue, and that this is her mark of ecclesiastical authority in world religious matters! From this it is clear as daylight that the deceptive potion of the Mother of harlots is the abominations and filthiness of sanctioning festivals of precept and passing them off as truth to deceive the majority of Protestantism globally! These annual feasts are the 2 greatest events spanning the globe with exotic traditions, and elaborate spending that makes the corporate moneymen of the earth-RICH THRU THE ABUNDANCE OF HER DELICACIES! Moreover, because she has substituted error for truth and changed the divine ordinance (remember Isaiah 24), she has caused earth‟s training ground to become corrupt, and her sins have reached unto heaven and YHWH has remembered her iniquity (REV.18: 5)! The call goes forth to wake up and forsake her fornicating ways, and to worship the creator on His Day. Revelation chapter 14: 6-12 indicates that judgment has come, or the

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courts in heaven have already convened. Let us not be found drunkon the deceptive potion of Mother Mystery when the horrible plagues are being poured out on this earth! Let‟s entrust our case to the heavenly High Priest and properly utilize the daily sacrifice of prayer and a watchful eye! This time the fall of Babylon, or the Great Day of the Battle of GOD Almighty, will be a spiritual battle of the mind, and again let me emphasize that the issues surrounding this battle will be those of obedience and worship! This time the liberators of God‟s people won‟t be the Persian kings of the east, that decreed for Judah to return home, but this time it will be the armies of heaven headed by the king of kings, thus the gathering of earth‟s minds, either for the Creator, or for the false trinity or demonic order, will conclude with the spiritual drying up of Babylon, as seen in Rev. 17: 16, and the armies of heaven rescuing the penitent, or all those who held to the commandments of GOD, and to the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ, (Rev. 12: 7 and 14: 12)! The issues that span the curtain of both time and space are clearly those of worship and obedience, or who are we going to worship in earth‟s most climatic and dramatic hour of apocalyptic events. May we be as Joshua in the hour of his farewell address after a very successful military campaign, “As for me and my house we shall serve YHWH”!

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References Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x;s old King James Version of the English Bible, (1962). World Publishing Company. The History of Protestantism, books 1-9, by Rev. James Aitken Wylie, LL. D, (1808-1890). London, Paris, & New York The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, vols. 1&2: by Philip Schaff, (1819-1893). Grand Rapids: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Holman Bible Dictionary, (1991), Holman Bible Publishers Nashville, Tennessee

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Can it be true that the issues of worship and obedience carry the weight of eternal destiny for both planet earth and the cosmos at large? Could it be a fact that fallen beings have established an Age-long counterfeit system ofWorship that has plagued this star sector for millenniums? The answers to these questions involve the eternal destiny of every human, and of the outcome of a future restitution of the entire physical universe!

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