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WHY?
As
the world endures abnormal weather conditions and is rocked by
increasingly intensive earthquakes, not to mention the constant
threats of war and disease, many ask the obvious question...
“Why is this
happening..?”
This
may come as a surprise to some, but there are a number of people who
knew this was coming and are prepared...
...These
people are those who know and believe what is written in Scripture
and was spoken by the Messiah nearly 2000 years ago...
When asked by
His disciples about His second coming and judgement of the wicked,
this is what He warned:
Matthew
24:4-13 “And Yahushua
answering,
said
to them, ‘Take heed that no one leads you astray. 5 For
many shall come in My Name, saying,
“I am ha'Mashiaḥ,”
and they shall
lead
many astray. 6 And you shall begin
to hear of fightings and reports
of
fightings. See that you are not
troubled, for these have to take place, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation
shall
rise against nation, and reign
against reign. And there shall be scarcities of food,
and deadly diseases,
and earthquakes in
places. 8 And all these are the
beginning of birth
pains. 9
Then they shall deliver you up to affliction
and
kill you, and you shall be hated
by all nations for
My Name's sake. 10 And then many shall stumble, and they shall
deliver up one another, and shall hate
one another. 11 And many false
prophets shall rise up and
lead many astray. 12 And because of the increase
in lawlessness, the love of many
shall become cold. 14
“But he who shall have endured to the end
shall
be saved.’ ”
Reading
further in the Scriptures reveals some more signs to look for...
Read
through the list and ask yourself if any of these signs are visible
in society today...
2
Timothy 3:1-4 “But know this, that in the last days hard
times shall come. For men shall be lovers
of self, lovers of money, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, thankless,
wrong-doers, unloving, unforgiving,
slanderers, without
self-control, fierce,
haters of good, betrayers, reckless,
puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers
of Elohim.”
HISTORY
REPEATS ITSELF...
“Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it...”
All
these evil practices aren't new, but the “increase in
lawlessness”
is what's worthy to note...
Yahushua
the Messiah also warned that signs of His return would reflect those
of Noah's day:
Mat
24:37-39 “And as
the days of Noaḥ,
so also shall the coming of the Bĕn of Aḏam be. 38
For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noaḥ
entered into the ark, 39
and they did not know until the flood came and took
them all away, so also shall the coming of the Bĕn
of Aḏam be.”
The
Scriptures reveal why Yahweh destroyed the world with a flood:
Gen
6:5-7 “And YHWH saw that the
wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil
continually. 6
And YHWH was sorry that He had made man on
the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7
And YHWH
said, ‘I am going to wipe off man whom I have
created
from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping creature and
birds of the shamayim, for I am sorry that I have made them.’
”
Yahweh
doesn't “wipe off” people from the face of the earth for no
reason, and this is where we come to the crux of the matter...
Yahweh
defines “lawlessness, “evil” and
“wickedness” in His Word –
the Scriptures as disobedience to His Commands (Torah). People
through history have asked why Yahweh has treated His people Israel
with such harshness yet Scripture tells us why:
Jer
22:8-9
“And many gentiles shall pass by this city, and they shall say to
one another, ‘Why
has YHWH
done
so
to this great city?’ 9
Then they shall say, ‘Because they
have forsaken the Covenant
of YHWH their
Elohim, and bowed themselves to other mighty ones and served
them.’
”
2
Kings 17:13-14 “And YHWH warned
Yisra’ĕl and Yahuḏah, through all of His neḇi'im, and every
seer, saying, “Turn
back from your evil ways,
and guard
My Commands and
My Laws,
according to all
the Torah which
I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the
neḇi'im.” 14
But they
did not listen and
hardened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not
put their trust in YHWH
their
Elohim...”
Note:
The
disobedience is not only against the “Ten Commandments”;
but
“Commands”, “Laws” and “all
the Torah”
Nehemyah
9:29 “...and
warned them, to bring them
back to Your Torah.
But they acted proudly, and did not obey
Your Commands,
and sinned against Your Right-Rulings, ‘which if a man does, he
shall live by
them.’ And they gave the rebellious shoulder and hardened their
necks, and would not hear.”
Zecharyah
7:12 And they made their hearts like flint against
hearing the Torah, and the Words, which YHWH
of hosts had sent by His Ruaḥ through the former neḇi'im. Therefore
great wrath came from YHWH
of hosts.”
You
might be getting a few clues to what these “natural”
disasters
are pointing to...
WHY
ALL THESE DISASTERS?
History
is about to repeat itself at an intensity never before seen:
Matthew
24:21
“For then there shall be great
distress, such
as has not been since the beginning of the world
until this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
These
words of Yahushua the Messiah are speaking of this prophecy of
Yeshayah from the First Covenant:
Isaiyah
24:1-5
“See, YHWH is
making the earth empty and making it waste, and shall overturn its
surface, and shall scatter abroad its inhabitants... 3 the
earth is completely emptied and utterly plundered, for YHWH has
spoken this word. 4 The
earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither,
the haughty people of the earth shall languish. 5 For the
earth has been defiled under
its inhabitants, because they have transgressed
the Torot, changed
the Law, broken
the everlasting Covenant.
Therefore a
curse shall consume the earth,
and those who dwell in it be punished.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned,
and few
men shall be left.”
So...
the peoples of the earth are being punished because they have broken
His covenant – His laws!
The
Renewed Covenant also warns of this current age that those who reject
this Truth will not be saved from this punishment and will be deluded
into believing a lie:
1
Thessalonians 2:9-12
“The
coming of the lawless
one is
according to the working of Satan, with all
power and signs and wonders of
falsehood, 10 and
with all deceit
of unrighteousness in
those perishing, because they did not receive the
love of the truth,
in order for them to
be saved. 11 And
for this reason Elohim sends them a working of delusion,
for them to
believe the falsehood, 12 in
order that all should be judged who did
not believe the truth,
but have delighted in the unrighteousness.”
Don't
expect all your wealth and possessions to save you... Hundreds of
thousands of Jews and others who were herded into concentration camps
had swallowed their gold and diamonds and did it get them anywhere?
Here's
a prophecy of the end days from Scripture:
Ezekiel
7:19
“They throw
their silver
into the streets, and their gold
becomes as filth.
Their silver
and their gold
is unable
to deliver them
in the day of the wrath of YHWH.
They do not satisfy their appetite, nor fill their stomachs, because
it has been their stumbling-block of wickedness.”
Reading
through the numerous accounts of Jewish victims and survivors of the
Nazi death camps you will find that many acknowledged the fact that
they were undergoing the holocaust because they had forsaken the
Torah: The Covenant of Yahweh.
IS
THERE ANY HOPE?
The
Scriptures again give us the answer on how to get through the wrath
of Yahweh:
Zephanyah
2:1-3
“Gather
together, gather together, O nation without shame, 2 before
the decree is born – the day shall pass on like chaff –
before
the burning wrath of YHWH comes
upon you, before the day of wrath of YHWH comes
upon you! 3 Seek YHWH,
all you meek ones of
the earth, who have done His Right-Ruling. Seek
righteousness, seek
meekness,
if so be that you are hidden
in the day of wrath of YHWH.”
Obedience
to Yahweh's commands is a prerequisite for being part of His chosen
people, and anyone could join Israel by following His Commands:
Isa
56:6-7
“Also
the sons of the foreigner who
join themselves to YHWH, to serve Him, and to love
the Name of YHWH,
to be His servants, all who guard
the Shabbath,
and not profane it, and hold
fast to My Covenant
– 7 them
I shall bring to My qodesh mountain...”
Yahweh
has shown enduring love and patience for 2000 years since His Son and
His Covenant was rejected by Israel and Judah. Yah has continued to
withhold pouring out His cup of wrath on this world and all those who
reject and refuse to guard His Commands.
This coming tribulation
is His last resort to warn those have ears to hear...
Yahweh's
Word, His prophets, His Son and apostles throughout time have
consistently called for the same thing:
THE TORAH:
“But
you, you shall guard
My Laws and My
Right-Rulings,
and not
do any of these abominations,
the native nor stranger who sojourns among you...” (Leviticus
18:26)
THE
PROPHETS:
“Thus
said the Master YHWH,
“Repent,
and turn
back from
your idols, and turn
back your
faces from all
your abominations.” (Ezekiel
14:6)
THE
MESSIAH:
“Repent,
for the reign of the shamayim has come near!” For
this is he who was spoken of by the naḇi Yeshayahu, saying, “A
voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare
the way of YHWH,
make His paths straight.’ ” (Matthew
3:2-3)
THE
APOSTLES:
“Repent,
and let each one of you be immersed in
the Name of Yahushua
ha'Mashiaḥ for
the forgiveness
of sins.
And you shall receive the gift of the Ruaḥ ha'Qodesh.” Acts
2:38
THERE
IS SALVATION THROUGH HIS NAME!
Joel
2:32
“And
it shall be that everyone
who calls on the Name of YHWH
shall
be delivered.
For on Mount Tsiyon and in Yerushalayim there
shall be an escape as YHWH has
said, and among the remnant whom YHWH calls.
Aside
from preparing yourself spiritually you would have to be very
shortsighted not to prepare physically for some of these prophetic
disasters coming to this world. In case you forgot already Yahushua
warned of, "scarcities
of food,
and deadly
diseases,
and earthquakes" (Matt
24:7) as
some of the end-time signs not to mention some
of the seals and trumpets prophesied in the book of Revelation!
Just
ask yourself what you would do in the case of a natural disaster like
New Orleans or more recently Indonesia and Japan. Surely you would
want to have a pack of some basic survival equipment on hand that you
could grab within the few minutes before you flee?
Even
the Scriptures give hints about being ready to escape the coming
wrath:
“...then
let those who are in Yahuḏah flee
to the mountains.
Let him who is on the house-top not come down to take
whatever
out of his house. And let him who is in the field not
turn back
to get his garments. And woe to those who are pregnant and to those
who are nursing children in those days! And pray that your
flight
does not take place in winter or on the Shabbath. For then there
shall be great
distress,
such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this
time, no, nor ever shall be.” (Matthew
24:16-21)
Proverbs
27:12 “A clever man foresees calamity, hides
himself; The simple shall go on, they are punished.”
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