As in the previous post about my last Wednesday’s mulling over the dream of angels singing whilst hearing a declaration of a decision on the future of a false religion, then finding Veronika West had ‘God-incidentally’ written about angelic partnership, and yet more revelation was in-hand for that afternoon she posted on her Facebook:
Perhaps this is the most powerful prophetic promise our dear sister’s received far into our future?
I heard the Spirit say,.. ”In this Hour of greater Angelic Partnership,…your Decree will become a Key that will Activate the Angelic Architects of Heaven to begin to Build,…Construct and Create the future,…
…I say again your Decree will become a Key that will unlock the Doors to the Virgin Dimensions of My Glory that will give My Remnant access to the Unlimited Resources of My Kingdom that will bring to birth New Ideas,…Greater Creativity and Divine Innovation for the Advancement of My Kingdom,…
…Watch! For the Sound within My Remnant shall go forth to break Open portals for Angelic Collaboration that will create a divine tipping-point for a Great Transfer of Wealth in the Earth”…!!
Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West
WOWEE, in returning to this and reflecting upon it I’m reminded of a flash insight I had many years ago about the possibility of a “book beyond the Bible’s back cover” on the eternal Kingdom of Heaven upon Earth upon the arrival of the New Jerusalem, as told in Revelation 21-22.
Last Sunday’s teaching during a joint service with a local Ukrainian church and baptism of several brothers and sisters therein, was on the principle gift of discerning and thus listening to the Holy Spirit, as illustrated by Adam Harding Willis helpful ‘doodle notes’ (WonderStory):
I was reminded of having had a ‘One-on-one’ direct lesson nearly 35 years ago as a new believer. Driving home from my office in Reading I was recalling and being puzzled over another’s claim of hearing God address them by their name, and had to stop at traffic lights.
Looking at the terraced row of adjacent houses to my left I saw a teenager sitting on a low wall across the narrow pavement by my car. Next, his girlfriend came out of the house, sat alongside him and turned her face to speak intimately, out of public hearing.
Immediately, I had an insight and knew, “That’s just how I speak to you Richard” – and to each of us too. Then I got the greenlight to proceed on my journey – with a huge grin! LOL!
At Monday’s house group we were running late after extended prayers, but our leader heard the Lord impress him that we should practise these holy listening skills, as two of us said “Let’s do it then!”
A couple of days later after chatting over coffee with a friend about that teaching, as well as on five decades of the Iranian regime’s war against Israel and President Trump’s ‘Midnight Hammer’ destroying its nuclear bases, I was asked about what may follow.
So, on my way home yesterday I mulled over how that war may connect into what I heard in a dream in January 1992 about Islam whilst an angelic choir spiralling upwards sing non-stop…
‘The BBC late evening news on 6th January 1992 announced that leaders in the Muslim community wanted to establish a Muslim parliament in Britain…:
In a dream that night I saw Western Europe, mainly France and the Mediterranean, as if from the space shuttle and heard the popular worship chorus ‘All Hail The Lamb’ being sung, as if in the atmosphere! This praise was repeated many times most melodiously, as though by angelic choir ,and seemed to spiral upwards. Then I heard a very loud, authoritative voice declare, “As Communism fell, so too will Islam fall”.
Then, back home yesterday and catching up online, I note this had been God-incidentally posted an hour earlier at 10:06 on Veronika West’s Facebook (published by His Kingdom Prophecy):
Angelic Partnership is here, for Divine Protection, Preservation and Kingdom Occupation!
In a meeting yesterday, I was suddenly made aware of an Angel of The LORD standing behind the man whom I was talking with.
Now, Angels don’t necessarily like to be seen, but this Angel of The LORD made himself both seen and known to me by The Spirit of Revelation as I heard The Spirit say, ”The hour of Angelic Partnership is here! Angels are now on assignment — to make way; to clear a pathway; to prepare a highway — for The Glory that is coming! I say…. Angelic Partnership, for Divine Preservation and Protection that will be needed in the days to come. Angelic Partnership for Divine Alignment and New Kingdom Era assignments. Angelic Partnership for Kingdom Advancement and Occupation. Angelic Partnership for the rebuilding of the broken down Altars of Awakening — and the uncapping of The Wells of Revival. Angelic Partnership for accelerated promotion and Kingdom Expansion. Angelic Partnership for the Healing and Restoration of nations. Angelic Partnership for the release of Prophetic Words, Visions and Dreams! Again I say, Angelic Partnership for the Destiny Seeds, sown in tears and labor. Angelic Partnership to lift and shift the veil of darkness and deception that has covered the land and blinded the eyes of the people. Angelic Partnership to break open Portals of Light that will bring forth greater Illumination, Revelation and an Understanding of the times and seasons!” Suddenly I heard the sound of Angels’ wings rustling in the winds of The Seven Spirits. The Heavenly Hosts are now on the move, creating and reconstructing, warring and conquering at the sound of The Remnant’s Decree!
Angel Armies — marching across The Nations of the earth. Tides are turning; Nations are shifting; Scales of Justice are tipping!
I heard these Words,”This is an Angelic Invasion for Kingdom Occupation!”
I heard The Spirit say, ”Listen! For this is the hour of Angelic Partnership united with the Rod of Apostolic Authority and the Fire of Divine Prophetic Power for the dismantling and uprooting of demonic strongholds that have long kept Nations bound! For this is a kairos time, the Seeds of Destiny and Promise that have laid dormant shall suddenly burst forth. Watch! For Angelic Partnership in the midst of great shaking of Nations — Angels with sickles; Angels with swords; Angels of the Harvest; Angels of Judgement and Justice have been released! Do not fear! The clash of kingdoms and the rise of the Ancients shall be heard — but The LORD of Hosts — LORD Sabaoth — shall arise and scatter His enemies. Look! Greater are those who are with you, than those who come against you,ha! A multitude of Angels — ready to stand guard and to fight for you, to bring forth Victory in the midst of great turmoil. Angelic Partnership — for where it seems impossible, impassable and impenetrable! Angelic Partnership — to direct and help discern the times and seasons, to bridge the gaps and to expose every demonic trap. Angels of Revival — Angels of Reformation — stand ready to co-labor with The Remnant, paving and forging a Highway, the way for a great Awakening and Harvest, where The Glory of The LORD will be revealed in Power and Might! I say — this is a time of in-gathering of the secret and hidden Mysteries of Heaven, and supernatural intel for Kingdom Advancement and Occupation — for in this hour and this season, the Heavenly Realm is intersecting with the earthly realm, to bring to birth the plan and purpose of The King of kings in The Nations of the earth!”
I just heard The Spirit say, ”I laugh in the heavens, as NATO Nations gather, thinking that their combined earthly fire-power can hold back the tide of darkness that shall continue to rise — and the weight of My Glory that shall continue to fall! Watch! For I shall break the back of rebellious and stiff necked Nations, whose who have bowed the knee, and who will take up the crown of the Beast! Yes! The Antichrist who shall begin to emerge in the coming days. I shall not be mocked — nor shall I be silenced, for the Gavel of My Justice shall fall, as My Righteous Remnant rises! Watch! For these NATO Nations shall surely be scattered, as The Whirlwind of My Seven Spirits comes to sift and to separate Goat and Sheep Nations!”
Once again I’m stunned by the Lord dropping God-incidental jigsaw pieces whenever I get around to writing, even to the extent of changing what I’d intended blogging – as if He’s using a Global Prophecy Signals system [Digital Globe with Hand by Watcharakun, courtesy FreeDigitalPhotos.net].
In view of events over the ‘pond’ I was going to update relevant prophecies on Monday, however first I’d had in mind replying to uninformed comments on my Facebook, BUT instead got prompted to blog separately (previous post) in order to tell others of similar mind about what I’d learned about Donald Trump’s beliefs.
I wrote, “..some in the Lord need more information… and to seek Him direct about His ‘David’ and his God-sent mission…” (emphasis added).
Much later that day this powerful message from Messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn God-incidentally pops up on my phone, its title confirming my words:
‘Trump has just come out with it to do what no president has ever done – Declare himself to be on a mission from God! Is he? And if so, what exactly is his mission? Is there an ancient mystery that reveals it & what is yet to happen? Jonathan Cahn opens it up!’
Here’s a screenshot from Jonathan’s video of one of Trump’s memes and captured ‘47‘ minutes after publication by President 47 (and my birth-year):
Extract from auto-generated transcript at 16:16 time-stamp regarding the assassination attempt in Butler, PA:
“That was just days before he’s going to be
nominated, as if an enemy wanted him
out but the hand of God saved his life
by a fraction of a second and a fraction
of an inch so much so that the bullet
actually hit him but didn’t take him out!
It was only after that that Trump said
so publicly so soberly so passionately
God had saved his life for a purpose for
a mission for America.
That bullet grazed
his head but it did more than that it
changed him where he was convicted,
convinced more than ever in his life
that it wasn’t about what he had planned
to do but that there was a greater plan.
God had a calling and a mission for his
life more now than ever before or in
Trump one, the first administration
and at the beginning of this
administration this term recent not long
ago he said that his relationship with
God had changed now was changed after
the assassination attempts something
changed and that has everything to do
with the purpose and the calling and the
mission of God it didn’t happen the
first time as it is now it was just like
that with Jehu but Jehu was one event that
just happened, interrupted him and
changed his life, gave him the mission.
Same with Trump. What mission then can we
find a secret here that actually I mean
you’re never going to hear it on CNN or
or or MSNBC or anywhere pretty much
because you have to see this in the
Bible.
What mission can we find it if we
look at the ancient template of Jehu what
was Jehu’s mission? The prophet says it
gives him the charge you shall strike
down the house of Ahab what’s the house
of Ahab house of Ahab represented the
institution or institutions under it of
Israel’s apostasy from God that were
leading the nation away from God it was
the elite the ruling class
leading the nation away from God
Jehu’s
mission from God was to strike it down.
Trump’s mission therefore is to strike
down first of all is to bring
something to an end to strike something
down
what the houses and institutions of
America’s apostasy from God that have
led America away from God. It’s the elite
or ruling parts of the culture that have
led America away from God. Jehu was
called to dismantle those houses those
temples of of the nation’s apostasy.
That’s why Trump is doing everything he
can to dismantle the houses and
institutions of America’s apostasy and
there’s something else; it wasn’t only
for Jehu to strike down the institutions
that were leading his nation away from
God but the other side of that
ultimately: the point is to turn the
nation back to God and that is Trump’s
highest mission from Godwhether he
knows it or not when he when he puts out
he’s on a mission from God … does he
fully know it to lead in turning America
back to God can somebody like Trump do
that? God will use whom God will use;
could someone like Jehu do what he did?
Well God will use whom he will use.
Jehu didn’t as far as we
know lead the nation back to God lead it
to revival. He did favor believers, he
did give them an honored place in his
reign just like Trump is doing, but we
don’t know that there was any revival,
and that was the whole point.
There was a
window for revival so when Jehu’s reign
was over the nation resumed its fall
from God so we have to pray now for
better things you know you know the fact
that Trump posts up this that he’s on a
mission from God it’s like a a prophetic
alarm for us believers of God to pray
that Trump would actually know and
fulfill his mission from God. …”
ALSO posted on Monday:
‘On Pentecost Sunday, thousands of believers across the nation made a public declaration of faith in what organizers say was the largest synchronized baptism event in American history.
More than 26,000 people were baptized as part of Baptize America, an initiative involving over 650 churches from all 50 states.
“The prayer of Jesus in John was that we would become one,” said Pastor Mark Francey, one of the organizers. “And I think that’s what we’re seeing right now — a unity around what we all agree on, which is water baptism.”
The event grew out of Baptize California, which began two years ago with 4,000 baptisms. That number jumped to more than 6,000 last year. …’
A couple of folk on my Facebook queried President Trump being a Christian, which shows some in the Lord need more information (or maybe politically prejudiced?) and to seek Him direct about His ‘David’ and his God-sent mission, as extensively researched and outlined on this blog.
My foundational reason for knowing with certainty is through two unsought personal revelations brought in the observed power of Holy Spirit upon my dear wife Nina when she twice saw him on TV (POTUS Watch refers). NB; she does not follow prophets, read or discuss Christian broadcasts, or my blogging and neither of us watch the news – moreover, living in the UK we’ve absolutely no political axe to grind on this, other than what the Lord reveals!
On top of that, there’s countless fulfilled prophecies, hundreds of which are from just the few prophets I’ve blogged upon.
So, I here’s two video shorts of President Trump’s own comments and I wish to draw your attention to the fuller coverage linked below.:
“2 Corinthians 3:17, that’s the whole ball-game!” – 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. (BibleGateway.com)
IS DONALD TRUMP’s HEART FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD? – I can but conclude DEFINITELY, as in this previous post and the following linked postings:
In early 2012 I wrote a very brief review of an account of a very young boy dying from a ruptured appendix but who lived to tell “Heaven Is For Real”. He claimed to have met Jesus and so I’d wondered what Jesus really looks like and wrote as follows:
Whilst reading the book I was personally interested in this simply because Jesus’ face had been out of sight during my own encounter, as told here (at 1st Validation). Also, I was familiar with pictures of a so-called ‘Master Jesus’ to be found in New Age circles, but didn’t regard them as being authentic.
Can you imagine how deeply stunned Todd and Sonja Burpo were whilst driving with their two children to hear their 4 years-old Colton suddenly say he’d heard angels and met Jesus Christ?
From their vehicle’s back seat little Colton pipes up in answer to a gentle tease about hospital by saying what mum and dad were doing whilst he was dying on an operating table with a severely ruptured appendix that had poisoned his abdomen. It wasn’t so much his accurate description of what they were doing in two different places – on the phone and praying; well, losing it with God! – that hit them. (Only much later did his father learn the finer points of how that prayer of desperation was answered!)
They had to stop at a nearby snack bar to hear again, and digest, Colton’s very quick account of what happened whilst being operated upon. As only a young child can, he described being with Jesus. Over the course of many weeks a fuller account gradually emerged, usually popping out during play times, of what Jesus looks like and of many things Colton ‘did and saw’ during minutes, not hours, of earth time. There was also, and more importantly, what Colton knew. Almost all of this could not be attributed to any teaching or children’s Bible stories!
The first answer to what Jesus looked like was the answer to a spiritual ‘riddle’ : what’s the only thing in heaven that’s the same as it was on earth?
He’d said, right off bat, “Jesus has markers”.
His father claims Colton didn’t know about the crucifixion wounds at that age because their Weslyan church made no references to or had any pictures of them. For nearly three years his parents would show Colton dozens of illustrations depicting Jesus but they all left him cold. He never saw one that he thought was right. He just could not recognise Jesus in any.
One day his father came across a CNN report of a young girl Akiane Kramarik, a child prodigy who began painting exceptionally sophisticated artwork at the age of 6 years. A couple of years previously she’d begun having ‘visions’ of heaven, even though both her parents were atheists! The authors of Heaven Is For Real write, ‘Slowly her mom began to accept that Akiane’s visions were real and that, therefore, God must be real’.
As I watched (writes Todd) a montage of Akiane’s artwork play across my computer screen, the narrator said, “Akiane describes God as vividly as she paints him”. (p 143)
That was similar to how Colton spoke of Jesus – both children spoke especially about His beautiful eyes. So his father told Colton to come and take a look, asking what was wrong with this one. The boy said nothing, just stared, and he was asked again – still silence and then he got nudged:
My seven-year-old turned to look at me and said, “Dad, that one’s right”.
Now to plug science into scripture of Hebrews 1:3, and just look at the effulgence of the Interlinear Greek:
Tangible evidence of Jesus being the ‘from-radiance of God’s glory’ may be found on His burial shroud, as noted in ‘What is the Importance of Shroud Science to Faith?’ (pdf 19 June 2020) on closing pages 20-21, emphases mine:
‘The voice of God that Pope Benedict XVI is referring to, for the first time resounded in Bereshit, In the Beginning, saying (65) ‘Let there be light’. And John, the Apostle, then writes (66): ‘Whoever says he is in the light, yet hates his brother, is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him to cause a fall’. Therefore, the Light with which God enlightened the world is His Love. Interesting that more recent studies show that a radiative photo-chemical process is the possible cause of the formation of the Shroud imprint (67), a process that certainly cannot be explained in a corpse.’ –
NB. Power required to produce image estimated at 34 trillion Watts!
Some important conclusions stemming from their studies are the possibility for an excimer laser to produce a permanent coloring of the linen not with a fixed light but through a light pulse lasting less than 100 nanoseconds. In particular, UV light allows coloring but only above a certain minimum wavelength threshold and below a limit beyond which the linen burns. Once the appropriate wavelength is found, the coloring appears superficial and does not fluoresce, just as occurs in the Shroud Cloth and the irradiated linen fibrils are fragile, as occurs in the Shroud. Tests performed on small linen samples indicate that to irradiate a sheet like the Shroud one would require 34 trillion Watts and there is no excimer laser of this power in the world today.’‘
Matthew 17 (NKJV) 1-9 reads as follows:
Jesus Transfigured on the Mount
17 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2 and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. 4 Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, [a]let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” 6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. 7 But Jesus came and touched them and said,“Arise, and do not be afraid.”8 When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only. 9 Now as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.”
Let’s not forget that some who’ve seen the Glory, eg David Strutt, say it makes the sun dirty by comparison!
Last weekend a second powerful prophetic vision of personal relevance after that of the previous post, but for reasons relating to my dream Father, Let Your Kingdom Come! (2011) not only for its location but also untold name directly echoing “Patmos” (!), was that told by Veronika West on her Facebook.
Thus, it’s effectively the 11th posting of the full-circle, wheels-within-wheels series! And so I’m grateful to Angus MacKillop for permitting use of images from His Kingdom Prophecy:
A NOW WORD: “THE KEY TO THE VALLEY OF VISION IS THE CRUCIBLE OF PATMOS”
So, I had a powerful and profound Dream which I believe and submit, is speaking to The Body of Christ and particularly to the Prophets — to those who are seeking a greater level and measure of Prophetic Revelation, Illumination and Understanding.
A short dream – but powerful
This Valley I knew by Revelation in the dream, was “The Valley of Vision,” and I saw from a distance that the landscape of the Valley before me was rugged and the terrain looked difficult to traverse — jagged rocks jutted out from the hillsides, and the narrow paths that marked the landscape looked somewhat daunting.
The atmosphere in the dream was thick, and yet weighty and again I knew by Revelation that the very ground I was standing on was shrouded in Divine Mystery and Hidden Secrets.
Now, as stepped forward in the Dream, I felt a Mantle come upon me.
( It was almost as if I was being clothed and prepared spiritually to enter into The Valley of Vision.
I was taking on the very fabric of the Valley, the spiritual texture of that deeper dimension of the Spirit was coming upon me which would enable and empower me to both receive and carry what would be imparted to me should I enter in. )
But as I took another step forward towards The Valley of Vision, not only did I feel a tangible sense of great weight now upon me, but suddenly my Vision began to take on greater clarity, and just as I was about to take another step towards The Valley of Vision, I saw what looked like an Ancient Door suddenly appear before me.
As I looked at the door, I saw the Word, ”PATMOS” deeply engraved upon this Ancient Door!
Ha! Immediately in the Dream, it was quickened to me of John, who was sent to the Isle of Patmos where he wrote the Book of Revelation. [RB: aka ‘The Apocalypse’]
Now, as I stood in that place, I knew by The Spirit that the Ancient Door that stood before me in the Dream was like that of the Door of Revelation 4.
“After this I looked, and there before me was a Door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”Revelation 4:1.
As I looked and looked again at the Word “Patmos” engraved upon the Ancient Door, again I knew by Revelation that the Door was Living — it was Alive!
The Ancient Door was full of The Glory of The LORD, and the Ancient Door seemed to recognise me, as a Son of Righteousness.
( Even the fact that I was being given access to traffic in this Realm and dimension in The Spirit, through a Dream, I knew that I was Marked to be there — Called — to become a Partaker of a greater level and Dimension of The Vision Realm of the Glory. )
But as I stood in that Sacred Place, I was made to understand by The Spirit of Revelation that this was not exclusive to me, but rather this was an Invitation to the Prophets — to those in The Body of Christ — who are seeking the Face of God in this Season, for the unveiling and the revealing of the Knowledge of Christ unto greater Transformation and Reformation of The Nations.
The Glory Hunters were being Invited to “go beyond” the shallows in this Season — to “go higher” — to go where “Deep Calls Unto Deep…” (Psalm 42:7)
In the Dream, I could tangibly feel The Glory of The LORD — the weight of The Spirit of The Fear of The LORD filled the atmosphere!
Yet I knew that I was being given and shown a powerful and strategic message for the hour — a Message to the 11th Hour Prophets!
And though I was being given permission to stand before the Ancient Door, I was not yet permitted to go beyond the Door, even though there was a Invitation to “Come up here! Come up higher!”
In the Dream, I began to inquire of The Holy Spirit asking, ”Spirit of Wisdom, what must I do to enter into The Valley of Vision””
In reply I heard these Words, “The Key to The Valley of Vision, is the Crucible of PATMOS!”
I woke up!
As you can imagine, I was now wide awake; grabbing my journal; writing everything down!
But the first thing I wrote was; “The Key to The Valley of Vision is the Crucible of PATMOS…..”
I immediately felt to look up the word PATMOS— Meaning ; “My killing.” (Thayer : #G3963 : Πάτμος — Patmos).
Wow! Now, as I read those words, I believe and humbly submit that God is saying,”Patmos is the crucible”, where the fiery trials and tribulations will refine the Faith and deepen the vision of His 11th Hour Prophets into the coming Season.
This Valley of Vision is not one of despair, but rather of the Birth Place of Divine Revelation; glorious Illumination; greater Understanding and Knowledge — which will bring us into a greater measure of the Statue of Christ — the place where the veil is lifted and the 11th Hour Prophets are given unfettered access to look upon His Glory!
Then I heard The Holy Spirit say, “Watch and Listen! For I AM Calling My 11th Hour Prophets into The Valley of Vision in this Hour, that their Eyes of Understanding may be Opened — and that what may BECOME what is Beheld!
Yes! For I AM Calling My 11th Hour Prophets to the Crucible of PATMOS — to the Place of Death unto greater Life and a Greater degree of the Vision — through the Light of My Glory and Power!
I say again, a Crucial of Patmos, where the Fires of Purification will bring forth greater Humility and Purity to My 11th Hour Prophets — an Invitation — to enter into a sacred place — the Birthing place of True Vision — The Valley of Vision — where the flesh dies in order that the Spiritual Senses can come Alive, and are fully Awakened, Illuminated and Ignited!”
Friends, ”The invitation is Open! It’s NOW — and it’s time to Respond in total Surrender, Faith and with Radical Expectation!”
GET READY! A LONG-READ BUT MOST POWERFUL END-TIMES MESSAGE…
This time last week I was in awe of how I’d ‘God-incidentally’ come across attorney Sidney Powell’s words “Democrats are a broken party…they have spent four years building a sandcastle of lies about Joe Biden and the tide is rolling in.”; echoing the prophetic vision of Veronika West in May 2021 (see Richard’s Watch Goes Full Circle: 9). Then on Saturday, explosive news emerged fulfilling that and exposures prophecy!
Little did I expect to get any more God-incidences, jigsaw pieces, global prophecy signals, or whatever we’d like to call such ‘coincidences’. Yet what follows is, in effect, the 10th posting of the full-circle, wheels-within-wheels series!
On Sunday evening my phone was charging whilst we watched a tv film and when I unplugged and booted up the phone this popped onto the screen (captured today):
Just a very quick scan-read amazed me at Henry’s CONFIRMATION from the Lord, not only on a specific point but also on others regarding End-times, so I commented as in ascending order shown below – moreover I could add my first writing on the Endgame wheat and tares: Continue reading →
“Daughter the Command to BLESS ISRAEL is NOT simply a suggestion….but rather it’s a DIVINE MYSTERY CONNECTED TO COVENANT THAT WHEN APPLIED…POWERFULLY UNLOCKS THE DIVINE INTERVENTION AND PROVISION OF HEAVEN IN THE LIVES OF MY REMNANT;….I SAY….AGAIN, BLESS ISRAEL AND YOU SHALL BE BLESSED…LACKING NOTHING”…!!!
Now for that latest piece in God’s Invisible Jigsaw from Dr Jurgen Buhler, President International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem:
A special call to 100 days of prayer and fasting to heal the rift between the Church and the Jewish people By Dr. Jürgen Bühler, ICEJ President
‘This year many churches around the world are commemorating 1700 years since the landmark Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. According to Church historian Philip Schaff, Nicaea was – next to the Apostolic council in Jerusalem in Acts chapter 15 – “the most important and the most illustrious of all the councils of Christendom.” (1)
Nicaea was only the second global council since the days of the original Apostles. In Acts 15, we read about the very first church council discussing how to deal with the new phenomena of Gentiles joining a predominantly Jewish church. In that Jerusalem gathering, the early Apostles had opened wide the door for Gentile believers to join the Church.
Nicaea impacted the Church in a similarly powerful way. But unlike the Jerusalem council, at Nicaea the doors of the Church began to be firmly close on the Jewish people. The umbilical cord was cut between the Church and Israel, even though it was the nation and people who had birthed the Church. It also opened the door for growing anti-Jewish tendencies among Gentile Christians in the following centuries.
To be clear, this development was neither planned nor intended when the council was first called. Yet what made Nicaea end with a very different result from its inception was not inspired by spiritual leaders as in Acts 15, but by the Roman emperor himself.
Emperor Constantine, who reigned from 306 to 337 AD, was a new convert to Christianity. This brought a tremendous sense of relief for the early Church, which had just survived one of the worst waves of persecution a few years earlier under Emperor Diocletian. Constantine not only eased the fears of the Church but decided to make his newly-found faith the most official religion of the Roman Empire….’
‘Pope Leo XIV has told the world’s Jewish communities he wants to strengthen the Roman Catholic Church’s dialog with them, in a message coming after a souring of relations between the Vatican and Israel over the war in Gaza.
The first U.S.-born pope sent a letter to Rabbi Noam Marans, the Director of Inter-religious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, who posted the letter on the social platform X late on Monday.
“Trusting in the assistance of the almighty, I pledge to continue and strengthen the Church’s dialog and cooperation with the Jewish people in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostra Aetate,” Leo said in the letter.
Nostra Aetate was a landmark document in the 1962-1965 Council that repudiated the concept of collective Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus and urged dialog with non-Christian religions.
The brief document revolutionized Catholic relations with Jews after centuries of persecution and mistrust. Dialog that ensued over the following two decades made it possible for Pope John II to become the first pontiff to visit a synagogue, giving a speech in Rome’s main temple in 1986, where he called Jews “our beloved elder brothers”.
We seem to have arrived at a veritable watershed upon the 1700th anniversary of the agreed core beliefs of Christian doctrine and published in the Nicene Creed.
WWW, wheels-within-wheels, continue to roll as dear Neil’s revisiting ‘RT’ and strong stand against anti-Semitism takes this blog full circle back to its beginning fourteen years ago in November when my emailing him and other friends on End-times went public. That month I’d already written about a broadcast theological debate and my very first item, after launching with a Welcome to the wider public, continued with a follow-up, viz
As ever, ‘God-incidental’ timing is intriguing because Neil wrote his latest as a result of a “curious series of events happened over the weekend” (Psalm Sunday) exposing the need for a proper grasp of scripture’s relevance to our times, and he wishes to share:
“Saturday morning I attended a Men’s Breakfast…I went with no intention or expectation of speaking….
There was a guest speaker from America who I did not know, and have never heard. He started by saying that he had decided the best format for the meeting would be if we attenders where to ask any question we liked, and he would answer. There was a long silence; so, to break the ice, I asked “Do you think Gaza could be under the judgement of God?” there was another silence, then he said: “I don’t know about Gaza, but I think America is under judgement”. I said: “I asked the question because the people of Gaza have been cursing Israel for at least 20 years, and probably 77. In the Bible God says that if you curse my people Israel you will be cursed: there must be an outcome”. He said: “it depends on who you think “Israel” is. It is not the land, it is the people of God who are now “Israel” and there is only one “people of God”. My comment: “that sounds like replacement theology”. He then said something about different dispensations and “grafted-in Theology”, at which point the host stepped in and said we needed to move on to other questions.”
The next day Neil was interrupted during conversation by someone saying she’d heard he’d been “controversial” at the breakfast – but the speaker was entitled to a different point of view. “I tried to explain that replacement theology is not just “a different point of view”. However, I could see I wasn’t going to get anywhere… I don’t know why what happened, happened, but I am convinced it was God engineered.”
The sadness is that very few people understood, or cared about, what had taken place. The woman’s belief that it was a fluffy little difference of opinion between two equally valid points, seems to be the consensus view.”
Such a clueless position, instead of taking a stand against hatred, it implicitly supports….
BBC and ANTI-SEMITISM
As a consequence of writing about ‘RT’ in November 2011 I noticed and posted many times in the blog’s first year on the BBC’s deeply biased reporting against Israel – hence the need for a BBC tag!
AND IT JUST SO HAPPENS that since Neil’s ‘God engineered’ encounters, relevant news emerged on Tuesday regarding a vastly overpaid sports ex-commentator:
Now, let’s get back to what holy scripture says, for this passage in Ephesians 2 featured the next day at a local house group:
Brought Near by His Blood
11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— 12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Christ Our Peace
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. (Ephesians 2 NKJV BibleGateway)
This points to God’s ultimate goal of all people, Jews and non-Jews, becoming united believers in Jesus Christ through His awesome grace. This is extensively explained in the books written to the Hebrews and the church in Rome.
“So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing where it ought not (let the reader understand)then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains…”(Mark 13:14 – emphases mine – re Dan 9:27 NKJV)
As ‘the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy’ (Rev 19:10) then His instruction is indubitably prophetic about this sign appearing sometime in the future. Thus, Jesus not only confirms the accuracy of the angel Gabriel’s prophecy to Daniel but also bears His witness to its coming true, and establishing it according to the principle of Deut 19:15.
In heeding that warning, nearly forty years later Jesus’ followers wisely fled Jerusalem when Titus’ huge Roman army besieged and destroyed the city and temple.
As told in Bio Info, the Lord had put this book in my hand and validated its content by what was being shown simultaneously on BBC. Its author Victor Dunstan examines the time-scales of Daniel’s prophecies and the ‘Abomination of Desolation’.
He cites Gibbon’s ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ regarding the outcome of the six months’ siege of Jerusalem (636-7 AD) during Muslim attacks against the Christian Byzantine empire and conquest of The Levant.
Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, agreed to surrender on condition he submit direct to the Caliph Umar in person:
‘After signing the capitulation, (Umar) entered the city without fear or precaution; and courteously discoursed with the Patriarch concerning its religious antiquities. Sophronius bowed before his new master and secretly muttered, in the words of Daniel, “The abomination of desolation is in the holy place!”
Three decades later the Islamic shrine and Dome on the Rock mosque was completed upon a wing of the ruins of the Temple Mount. Victor emphases – it still STANDS there!.
Sadly, in ignoring the scriptural and historic validity of the Jews and nation of Israel then ‘RT’ aligns itself with endemic racial and religious hatred of anti-Semitism.
A couple of historical points to add to Neil Mackereth’s Replacement Theology Revisited that I’d like to add are on the heritage of Jesus’ family and His warning prophecy of ‘the Abomination of Desolation’ in Jerusalem:
‘When he made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in the early 4th Century, Constantine discouraged all contact with Jews and the Church severed itself from its Jewish roots – from even the descendants of Jesus’ kith and kin, known as Desposyni. In doing so, the Church lost a fuller and deeper understanding of the Old Testament.’
Now let’s expand upon this matter with the help of priest and professor Malachi Martin, whom I seem to recall served as Librarian in the Vatican Library, in his seminal The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church published 1981 (page 34, emphases added):
‘..For Donatus preached the old Jewish idea of a temporal kingdom, just as the Ayatollah proclaims in behalf of Islam. The Roman popes, no matter how subordinate they became to political power, no matter how greatly corrupted by it, always saw their spiritual power as distinct from the political and never wholly identified the two. This was the narrow but all-important hair-difference between Donatus and the bishop of Rome.
4. The Blood Relatives of Jesus
‘In defeating Donatus, Silvester rejected only one extreme that could have spelled early death for Christianity. There was another that in its own attractive way could have been just as lethal. This was the policy of the Jewish Christians, who occupied the oldest Christian churches in the Middle East and whose leaders were always from the family of Jesus himself. Like all Christians, including the Donatists, they expected an imminent return of Jesus. Unlike the Donatists, and now the Romans, they shunned all worldly power and revolution, and were for the most part dirt-farmers and petty merchants, hugging close to their obscurity even though their first bishop was James, first cousin of Jesus.
Yet the issue that arose between Silvester and the Jewish Christians was nothing less than the whole nature of the church. A meeting between Silvester and the Jewish Christian leaders took place in the year 318. The emperor provided sea transport for eight rough-and-ready men as far as Ostia, the port of Rome. From there they rode on donkeys into the imperial city and up to the Lateran Palace, where Pope Silvester now lived in grandeur. In their rough woolen clothes and leather boots and hats, and with their earthy smell, they contrasted sharply with Silvester’s retinue of smartly clad and pomaded bishops and officials. They refused to sit. Silvester spoke with them in Greek-he could not understand their Aramaic; they had little or no Latin. The vital interview was not, so far as we know, recorded, but the issues were very well known, and it is probable that Joses, the oldest of the Christian Jews, spoke on behalf of the desposyni and the rest.
That most hallowed name, desposyni, had been respected by all believers in the first century and a half of Christian history. The word literally meant, in Greek, “belonging to the Lord.” It was reserved uniquely for Jesus’ blood relatives. Every part of the ancient Jewish Christian church had always been governed by a desposynos, and each of them carried one of the names traditional in Jesus’ family – Zachary, Joseph, John, James, Joses, Simeon, Matthias, and so on. But no one was ever called Jesus. Neither Silvester nor any of the thirty-two popes before him, nor those succeeding him, ever emphasized that there were at least three well-known and authentic lines of legitimate blood descendants from Jesus’ own family. One from Joachim and Anna, Jesus’ maternal grandparents. One from Elizabeth, first cousin of Jesus’ mother, Mary, and Elizabeth’s husband, Zachary. And one from Cleophas and his wife, who also was a first cousin of Mary.
Jews, and that included Jewish Christians, had been forbidden to enter Jerusalem under pain of instant death. That ban had not yet been lifted, at the time of Silvester’s meeting with the Jewish Christians. Silvester knew their history well. Jewish Christians had composed the only church ever in Jerusalem until the year 135. They left it only once in 102 years following Jesus’ death, just before the city’s capture by the Emperor Titus. Led by their bishop, Simeon, son of Cleophas, who was Jesus’ uncle by marriage, they had fled to Perea (in modern Jordan). In A.D. 72 they had returned to Jerusalem and had remained there until Hadrian’s ban. After that, Jewish Christian churches were set up all over Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia, but they were always hated by the local synagogues as apostates of Judaism, and always in quarrel with Greek Christians who refused to be circumcised and observe the Torah-things the Jewish Christians insisted on.
They therefore asked Silvester to revoke his confirmation of Greek Christian bishops in Jerusalem, in Antioch, in Ephesus, in Alexandria, and to name instead desposynos bishops.
In addition, they asked that the Christian practice of sending cash contributions to the desposynos church in Jerusalem as the mother church of Christianity, which had been suspended since the time of Hadrian, be resumed.
Silvester curtly and decisively dismissed the claims of the Jewish Christians. He told them the mother church was now in Rome, with the bones of the Apostle Peter, and he insisted that they accept Greek bishops to lead them.
It was the last known discussion between the Jewish Christians of the old mother church and the non-Jewish Christians of the new mother church. By his adaptation, Silvester, backed by Constantine, had decided that the message of Jesus was to be couched in Western terms by Western minds on an imperial model.
The Jewish Christians had no place in such a church structure. They managed to survive until the first decades of the fifth century. Then, one by one, they disappear. A few individuals reconcile themselves with the Roman Church always as individuals, never communities or whole Jewish Christian churches.’
I am disturbed and distressed by the parlous state of the World and our Nation. With few exceptions, our churches have developed a wishy washy, sit on the fence, don’t rock the boat, non-confrontational form of Complacent Theology.
Where is the conviction, robustness and power of Almighty God? I have a zeal for The Word of God, and truth, which is at odds with the smug wokeness of our time.
I want to focus on Replacement Theology (RT) (also known as Supersessionism), and its manifestation, antisemitism. I have written several papers on this subject and only return to it because it is getting much worse, as a result of the 7th October 2023 atrocities. The “Palestinian Movement” have invented a false narrative that has been taken up by the BBC and other mainstream media platforms, and that narrative has become self-affirming (“it must be right; they are saying it as well”).
In preparing for our ‘holy-day’ during Holy Week and ‘offline sabbatical’ I’d auto-scheduled republication of postings for Resurrection Sunday, the last of which (2017 reprised) refers to The Fabric of Time dvd on The Shroud of Turin. That busy week made it impossible to check linkages are up-to-date and I find the final paragraph’s link (italicised below) is no longer available:
‘Read about bizarre anomalies in scientific instruments placed on the slab of stone in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre said to be have been where Jesus’ body lay (in): Scientists Who Opened Christ’s Tomb Detect Mysterious Readings That Support Shroud Theory.’
Also, for some reason the PostScript to last year’s issue failed to show, maybe because of current problems with links failing to open on my Win 11 Chrome browser (it works on Brave!).
This video was published in December 2023 and is a most helpful illustrated overview of a most fascinating valid record of the axiomatic crux of Christianity.
2025 > MORE!
Record attendance at churches over the Holy Season incline me to believing the Lord is evidently drawing our attention to HIM and the importance of this astonishing artifact.
In fact, it took nearly 2,000 years for the unique nature of Jesus’ Burial Shroud to be verified and demonstrated by means of modern photography and scientific knowledge.
Therefore, we can be absolutely sure of the Gospels’ disturbing details of Jesus’ torture, crucifixion, death and His return to life within a tomb in truly a blaze of glory!
For readers wishing to know more I offer the following recent videos that confirm and build upon the scientific details covered in ‘The FABRIC of TIME’ dvd.
First, the official documenting photographer of the STURP (Shroud of Turin Research Project) since 1976 and inspiration behind the Shroud’s official website and practising Jew, Barrie Schwortz’s amazing personal account :
Barrie Schwortz spent years studying the Shroud of Turin and his conclusions will shock you. What I am about to reveal in this video is almost 2 decades of research culminating in the most incredible discovery of our lifetime. You’re not going to want to miss a second of this story.
2nd. This in-depth interview with archeologist Dr Jeremiah Johnson is also exceptional in providing in-depth details. The YouTube site provides ‘chapters’ with descriptions for ease of reference:
Is the Shroud of Turin the real burial cloth of Jesus Christ—or the greatest mystery in Christian history? In this powerful episode of Michael &, Michael Knowles is joined by theologian and historian Dr. Jeremiah Johnston to uncover the mind-blowing discoveries surrounding the Shroud. From scientific analysis and historical evidence to theological significance, they explore what makes the Shroud one of the most studied and debated relics in the world—and what it could mean for believers today. 👉 Watch now and decide for yourself: miracle, hoax, or holy artifact?
First published in the early years of this blog and annually thereafter for newer readers:
In preparation for the Holy-days’ weekend Nina creates a tableau for contemplating Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection. She’s inspired about what items to collect and arrange, usually including a rock with a central hole eroded by the sea and which we found on a beach. It serves as both the ‘skull’ and garden tomb of Golgotha. For example, the above display has a scarf as a ‘river of life’ flowing out of the empty cave/tomb below the cross. (In 2012 it gave an insight that I’ll share below.)
Maundy Thursday is celebrated as the night when Jesus and His twelve, principal disciples ate the Passover Seder, or meal, in advance of the main schedule in order to be ready for His being the sacrificial Lamb of God.
Following the meal, one disciple betrayed Him by leading Temple guards to capture Him at night for trial by a ‘kangaroo’ court of Jewish leaders. It was a foregone conclusion that they’d demand authorisation of His death from Pontius Pilate, the Roman Prefect, or governor, of Judea.
If you’re unfamiliar with this true story and how it led to Jesus’ gruesome torture, death and burial followed by his amazing bodily resurrection and appearance to His disciples, read doctor Luke’s investigative account and the personal account of Jesus’ closest disciple John.
Later, Saul of Tarsus, a Jewish leader violently opposed to them, had a life-changing encounter with the Ascended Jesus en-route to Damascus. He became known as Apostle Paul and wrote that Jesus had been seen simultaneously by over 500 people post-Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:6 refers).
HEAVEN & HUMAN HISTORIES’ PIVOTAL TIME
Jesus Christ died so that each of us may be forgiven for our sins. As a result of this new status, we can have direct personal access to Almighty God when we believe in Jesus Christ. As the Son of God, Jesus suffered on our behalf as our ‘scapegoat’. That is, Jesus took the place of death that we deserved because of our sinfulness, for the shedding of a sinless one’s blood was the only way our status could be changed for us to gain personal salvation. Paul explains it this way to the early church in the Rome:
8But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. (Romans 5:8-11, NIV, see whole chapter.)
Now, when I was a new Christian I found that rather hard to understand – but it works! The theological term is ‘atonement’, or ‘substitutionary atonement’. In bringing forgive-ness to the guilty, however, this can cause deep problems for those who’ve been the victim of crimes. After all, why should a killer find forgiveness by God? And what about the victim’s families, or the victim of abuse? They find it very hard if well-nigh impossible to forgive.
In 2012 I heard a Portsmouth prison chaplain address this issue with a concept taken from the criminal justice system: restorative justice. This involves an active dialogue between victim and offender, plus reparation. And it has a sound basis in theology. How?
Jesus was a guiltless victim, directly of those who wanted Him killed, and indirectly of everyone’s ‘fallen state’ of sinfulness, which could only be rectified by His death.
And Almighty God, the Father, is a victim too. How? He’s victim of humanity’s rebellion against Him. For example and especially over the way religious leaders murdered His son – how they seethed with rage when Jesus denounced them! (read Luke 20:9-19). So, every victim can find an identity and affinity in both God and Jesus Christ in their situation. Hence, they can receive God’s own ability to forgive because He will help them choose to forgive those who’ve harmed them. [Lack of forgiveness may be the only thing that hampers God – see Matt 6:14-15]
A TABLEAU IN TIME
During contemplation upon the tableau illustrated above, an insight dropped into mind that the Resurrection created a distinct point in the flow of, or perhaps even a change in, Time itself. That is, the now termed ‘common era’ calendar is the medieval Christian one that counts years from the approximate birth of Christ as ‘anno Domini’. But in fact, a more powerful one would be the point at which things in heaven changed and thus affected our lives on earth and its ultimate role in God’s scheme of creation. This took place at the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, His revival to life from death itself.
That such a concept may be valid can be found in the discoveries about the material of ‘The Shroud of Turin’, the shroud in which Jesus was thought to have been carried and covered during His interment. It is of most astounding significance when examined from the view-point of modern physics.
Apart from the supra-natural or spiritual aspect, that unique, singular event could have naturally happened by means of a ‘singularity’ (a theoretical gravitational effect associated with ‘black holes’, eg. as may have been the starting point of the creation of the universe, or ‘Big Bang’).
Don’t take my word for this but consider that of Dame Isabel Piczek (deceased 2016), famous as a monumental artist and award-winning figurative draughtswoman. Her highly detailed analysis of theories about how the image on the shroud was formed is authoritative, as in the first of several detailed articles here.
Also, as a physicist who may have considered implications from a quantum mechanics standpoint, her conclusions about how the image was formed are most intriguing: it seems that the image of Jesus can only have been created by its hovering equidistantly above and below his reclining bent corpse. Furthermore, this necessitated the body’s levitation – perhaps not an impossible feat during the moment of the Resurrection power-blast?
After all, the disciples had already witnessed Jesus walking on water but were yet to be surprisingly but joyously stunned Him by His turning up in their midst, materialising, in a private room behind closed doors for fear of the Jews (John 20:19) – maybe quantum dynamics principle of ‘tunnelling’, as in On Engaging and Governing Time, came into play? – then forty days later watch Him flying bodily upwards into the clouds!
Dame Isabel succinctly summarises:
We have a piece of cloth and it leads us to a mysterious gateGoverni which opens for us, and it lets us see a completely different world, an extraordinary world with extraordinary laws.
Consider these claims by reading those articles and watching this 19 minute of extracts from the DVD The Fabric of Time (with its own lead-in trailer). There’s also a discussion of her scientific opinion at In Case You Missed Isabel Piczek’s Wonderful Paper.
‘Coincidentally”, just after having read the last link and revised the preceding references to science (post published 5 years ago), I’m alerted to theoretical physicist Mehki’s new post on ‘black holes’ and ‘event horizons’ (see Looking to the Horizon). The discussion thread has a valuable contribution from ‘physicalrealityblog’ that’s pertinent to the Shroud site’s discussion of Dame Isabel’s analysis and indirectly reconnects it back into quantum physics! 2017: ‘Coincidentally’ amusing that bloggers ‘hidden’ on opposite sides of the world (Britain and New Zealand) were preparing items on the fabrics that Jesus Christ was buried with – the full-body shroud and the head linen – in Joseph of Arimathea’s private tomb. My post updated on Wed 12 April 2017 was scheduled on Thurs 13th for auto-publication Sun 16 April. On Good Friday 14 April Joanne Rolston published news of the ‘Sudarium’ in AB-solute Proof – The Blood That Speaks.
In the next post we’ll further consider the true identity of Jesus The Messiah …
Post-Holy Week Sabbatical PS: Apologies for lack of video per YT new bot-checks. In very busy week prepping for holiday and auto-scheduling of re-posts didn’t permit time for testing.
According to Steve Maltz, author of God’s Signature, the only time the sacred, personal Name of God was spoken by the ancient Israelites was during worship in the Temple in Jerusalem, and especially on the Day of Atonement when the High Priest pronounced it ten times.
The Talmud has many warnings about using the most holy Name – it is also regarded as having special powers of healing. Apparently knowledge of its pronunciation was lost after the fall of the Temple in AD70 prophesied by Jesus Christ.
The knock-on effect of that event, together with the Roman Church’s withdrawal in the third Century of financial support for churches in the Holy Land founded by Jesus’ own ‘kith and kin’ (‘desponyni’), was the great loss of a full understanding of the Church’s Hebraic roots. Hence the confusion and doctrinal disagreements over Jesus’ claim, “I am in the Father and the Father is in me” (John 14:10).
Digging deeper we encounter an astonishing revelation of that double-identity!
From translations of Hebrew, the post-Shakespeare English-speaking world referred to God’s Name as ‘Jehovah’ or ‘LORD’ (letter ‘J’ was then starting to replace ‘i’). However, Jews preferred well-known descriptive titles such as ‘Elohim’ – God, in all the fullness of His attributes; ‘El Shaddai’ – Almighty; ‘El Sabaoth’ – Lord of heavenly hosts; or Adonai’ – Lord, and more often than not the reverent term ‘Ha Shem’ (The Name) sufficed.
Scribes, or sopher, needed to take special care in praying before writing the holy name, which must be done without interruption. Were a mistake made, it must not be corrected but the whole page discarded and the page restarted. Numbering had to be carefully handled too because Hebrew characters represented both letters and numbers. So the logical way of writing 15 is to add a yod (ie 10) to a hey (ie 5) and likewise for 16 (a yod to a vav). But this never happened because, as part of the sacred name, they could accidentally be read as this name. The Holy Name is shown below, but read from right to left:
“Yod-Hey-Vav-Hay” first appears in Genesis 2:4 statement ‘The Book of Beginnings’ is the account of, “When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens”.This Name was first revealed when Moses encountered God in the burning bush after he’d asked Him whom should he tell the Israelites had sent him to get them out of their slavery in Egypt.
God replied, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you’. ” (Exodus 3:14 NKJV)
Steve writes, “Interestingly and contrary to popular belief, the Hebrew word used in this passage…is not YHVY (he shows Hebrew characters). So, what’s going on here? Is it His name or isn’t it? In this Exodus passage, the word used for His name is “Aleph-Hey-Yod-Hey”.
“This takes the meaning of “I will be”…(which) shares a similar three-consonant root with YHVY in Hey-Vav-Hey and Hey-Yod-Hey…and as they’re related are both ways of describing God”. Hence my liking of describing God as “Always” and “Now”, the latter being used by Charlie Shamp too.
HOLY FATHER-SON UNION REVEALED & THE CRUCIFIXION FORETOLD
As in those preceding links, literary Hebrew developed out of pictographic forms that represent gestures and their meanings. We logically surmise both original visual and later written forms were known to and, therefore, used by the Lord in communicating with Abraham and his descendants through Issac and Jacob, and used by Moses and his scribes in compiling the first five books of the Bible.
Comparing the literary and pictorial forms of the name Moses heard and recorded as being from the Lord, we have this graphic (credit Heart To Heart):
Hebrew is read right to left, ie ‘hand-look-nail-look’, but if we read as normal left to right we find not only the Name of God describing who He is, the fullness of His character and abilities, but also its exceptional prophetic nature in it foretelling the pivotal point of His action plan for humanity: the crucifixion of His Son Jesus Christ!
BEHOLD – A NAIL – BEHOLD – A HAND
AND THIS ‘WORD’ SHOWS TWO PERSONS!
Could this indicate that Christ was hidden in the Father when Moses encountered them at the burning bush but manifested as ‘The Angel of the Lord’ or pre-incarnate Christ ? It’s worth reading Exodus 3 carefully again and note Who is speaking to Moses…
Moreover, the pictographs graphically portray God as ‘hands up’ in connection with a nail. Putting all this together into one picture we get a typical image of Jesus on the Cross at Calvary, where long nails or spikes driven through Jesus’ wrists damage the median nerves thus making His hands bend into the ‘claw position’ – just like letter Yod!!
Tim Shey comments on the crucifixion post, “The First Word in the Bible says Jesus is God and He Will Die on the Cross” and he provides this excellent 10 minutes video:
The video was included when I posted the original of this item, which was based upon Jonathan Hill’s book Unlocking the Sign Miracles of John. I’ll tell more another day, but to continue:
ALPHA-OMEGA HIDDEN WITHIN GENESIS 1:1 (AS ALEPH-TAV)
In Appendix I (pages 202-203) on the meaning of number 37 and its palindromic partner 73, Jonathan says both form the numerical value for the fundamental Hebrew word ‘wisdom’. He tells how this pair play a role in a multiplication, the result being the precise number of the Hebrew for the creation verse of Genesis 1:1. He goes on to relate this to 666 and a diagrammatic representation, which he interprets as meaning:
‘This transformation represents the dispensational truth that at the second coming of Christ, the dominant spiritual hierarchy of the world changes from 666, the number of the ‘beast’, to 12 – the governmental number of Israel. All this information including this powerful intervention of God is elegantly and visually encoded in the first verse of the Bible.’
This claim continues by divulging this astounding mystery:
REVELATION 1:8, 11 – 21:6 – 22:13
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (NKJV, BibleGateway.com)