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about us
kind of a blog ... sharing some thoughts here
4-19-2008
Just made it back in from Texas on Fri. after a couple
of weeks of delivering feed and picking up livestock
equipment and then delivering it on the way back.
In between those times ... and in driving over 3000
miles, have had much time for thought and also have made
some more distinct discoveries. For instance, i
realize how much people hate the truth and really love
to live the lie - the facade ... but it has become more
obvious to me after my journey and maybe it is because i
have been out and about more from being on the road and
have seen the change across this nation. I have
come to the realization that ...
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a man is more hated for telling the
truth
then he is for telling a lie
Instance
after instance comes to mind to
prove this scenario and really it is
all about complacency and living in
that comfort zone. One lie
this country lives ... "One nation
under God". How is this nation
under God? ... they have worked to
push His commandments out of schools
and offices across this land, they
have worked to push prayer out of
schools. Maybe we can make
excuses and live the lie and say
well maybe nobody knows what the
word "under" means in that sentence.
The word "under" means in submission
to Him as a wife should be in
submission to her husband, as the
church should be in submission to
Christ. I don't see a country
submitting to Him.
Unrighteousness runs rampant and
this land is spoiled ... even in
some churches they are teaching the
"name it and claim it" teaching.
Which is pretty much tell God what
you want and claim it by faith and
if your faith is great enough that
object should be yours. I call that
the spoiled brat teaching.
Could you imagine going to your
earthly father and telling him ...
"well dad, i saw a really great car
today and get it for me right now
... right now i believe you are
going to get that for me". I
don't know about other dads but i
can tell you what my dad would have
done to me but i knew better.
Yet people in churches across this
country don't have the courtesy to
even treat YHWH (whose greatness
cannot be measured) with the same
courtesy that they would treat their
earthly dad and they approach Him on
a daily basis and try to tell Him
how He owes them. HE doesn't
owe them anything and how dare the
people make demands from Him and
pull out scripture and try to show
Him how He has to pay up as if they
are handing Him divorce papers or
some legal documents ... and why do
they do this? Because they
want what they want and they don't
care about how He feels and about
His preferences. Where are His
people? Where are they people
that care about doing righteousness?
I can't hardly find them.
Judgement is coming and how sore
that day will be but when it comes
many and maybe most won't even
believe they ever even did anything
to deserve it. Some churches teach
if you have problems in your life or
hardships that there must be some
sin in your life. Where is the
church that tells people that if you
make a stand for what is right you
might face persecution like Yahshua,
like peter, like paul, like john and
that list goes on and on and what
was their sin? Many or most
churches are justifying sin ... here
is an example of the people loving
the lie. We have been telling
those that would hear the truth that
the church has taken in pagan
festivals and called them "christian"
holidays. Easter is not about
Yahshua's resurrection ... it is
about some pagan fertility festival.
This information is easy enough to
search out on the internet.
That is why the eggs and bunnies and
chicks, etc still linger because
those things were used in those
cultures to represent fertility.
Easter fell in March this year and
actual Passover started this day and
goes through this week. Easter
is celebrated by the sunday after
the first full moon after the vernal
equinox or something like that and
Passover begins the 15th of Nisan in
the Jewish calendar every year.
What Yahshua went through for His
people... the sacrifice He made for
us happened at Passover not
according to the pagan calendar
fertility festival. If you
want to try out the theory that a
man is hated more for telling the
truth than he is for telling a lie
... here is what you do ... go to
your friends and family and tell
them that they are celebrating and
observing pagan feast days, better
yet go to your pastor and tell him
and discover that he most likely
already knows this but has accepted
status quo and is living the "christian"
life of lukewarmness to keep the
offering plate going and to keep in
good standing with his congregation.
Guess what the people will tell you
most of the time ... "well, (when
you hear the word "well" know that
justification will follow) God knows
what is in my heart and knows i am
not intentionally keeping a pagan
feast day". What about what
His preferences are and yes He knows
what is in the hearts of the people
they push away YHWH's preferences in
favor of their own. This
classic scenario happened throughout
scripture and it was called keeping
the "high places", the places of
pagan idolatry where the people
would still go to the pagan places
of worship and try to serve YHWH
there. How does YHWH feel
about this? ... my hope is
that the people would seek His face
to know Him and to do righteousness.
For those that care about His
thoughts and opinions and
preferences, read the scriptures and
ask Him - all of Leviticus chapter
26 talks about what will happen when
the people turn away from His
commandments and keep high places
etc. There is much about how
He feels about high places in
scripture ... it will be great when
the day comes that we begin to know
to what extent He is holy.
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Lev 26:30 And I will destroy your high places,
and cut down your images, and cast your carcases
upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul
shall abhor you.
another in Deuteronomy, YHWH doesn't even prefer
that we mention the name of other gods and His
people are told not to, yet here there is a
pagan festival in this country that the people
are using to supposedly try to honor Yahshua by
and they call it after a false god. Below is a
command from YHWH, and note the words utterly
destroy:
Deu 12:2 Ye shall utterly
destroy all the places, wherein the nations
which ye shall possess served their gods, upon
the high mountains, and upon the hills, and
under every green tree:
Deu 12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars,
and break their pillars, and burn their groves
with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven
images of their gods, and destroy the names of
them out of that place.
Isaiah chapter 1 ... why were these holidays and
observances called iniquity? we need to know
Him!
Isa 1:12 When ye come to appear before Me, who
hath required this at your hand, to tread My
courts?
Isa 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense
is an abomination unto Me; the new moons and
sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot
away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn
meeting.
Isa 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed
feasts My soul hateth: they are a trouble unto
me; I am weary to bear them.
Much
more could be written about all these things but
i guess this will be a stopping place for now
... am hoping His people begin to come away from
being lukewarm and make a decision to follow
completely after Him, submitting to Him.
Yahshua said about the lukewarmness:
Rev 3:15 I know thy works,
that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou
wert cold or hot.
Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my
mouth.
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and
increased with goods, and have need of nothing;
and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried
in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white
raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that
the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and
anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou
mayest see.
Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
"The most effective ministry we can have is living for
Christ. To Be like Jesus. An example to others.
Living by the Word of God, with no compromise
and no justification of wrong - sin is sin, just
that clear" my dad wrote this above quote on
4-16-94.
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3-9-2008
Thought about writing here a little about us ... thought
the easiest way to tell about us is to mention what our
interests are and perhaps a little past of where we came
from and what are hopes are for this day. Some
would perhaps think that our main interest is goats.
We do enjoy our goats ... we enjoy having them here and
working with them, but they are not our main interest.
Our main interest is Jesus (Yahshua) and our heart's
intent has been to serve Him. We prayed about
serving Him and asked Him for guidance in this as some
have perhaps thought why haven't we stepped forward into
the mission fields or into a pastoral way of life, etc.
if He is our heart's intent and soul passion.
There are many reasons why we haven't ... one it is very
important to be patient and wait on Him, many scriptures
on this. Also if we go forward and it isn't His
timing or what He would have us to do then it is
possible that we could do more harm than good as the
soul of a man is a sensitive matter and not within our
reach to save, but it has to be by His hand. So we
have found ourselves waiting on Him.
In the years of waiting, we have been privileged to
learn more about Him and some of these things i would
like to share here on this page. My hope is that He
would help us in this endeavor as i feel that this is
too great of an endeavor for any to share about Him
without His help, as He is very great and what kind of
arrogance would a person (being such a small creation)
have to say they can understand Him or some theologians
sit and almost try to dissect Him ... as if they have
the capability to. I won't try to attempt that and
that is honestly offensive for me to think that some try
to do that. We will try to share some of the
little things that He has shown to us, that has been a
help, etc. to us for the knowing. I don't expect this
page to be interesting to many but my hope is that it
would be a help to some, possibly if it is His will.
For those that doubt any of these things mentioned below
as true ... it is easy enough to go to the scriptures
and or an internet search engine and look up some of
these things to check for yourselves. We would be
the first to say don't take our word for it, look it up
... that way everyone can be well informed on the facts.
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About Him
Yahweh (YHWH) is Salvation!
Something that has been of great interest to
me is discovering the true meaning behind
His name. Many have struggled with learning
that the scriptures were not originally
written in English but in Hebrew, Aramaic,
and even in Greek. It also comes as a
surprise to some that Jesus wasn't actually
called Jesus in earlier times. Easy
enough to prove because of the letter "j"
... and this is something i truly have had a
passion for and that is studying earlier
texts and discovering more about Him in them
... in the 1611 King James Version of the
Bible there is no letter "J". It is
the last of the 26 letters to be added in
the modern Latin alphabet and i don't know
why they placed it 10th in the line except
for possibly the fact that it ties in so
closely with the letter "i" in history.
"J " often has been used to replace the
Hebrew letter Yodh. For example, in the word
Hallelujah which is a Hebrew word spelled in
an English fashion ... you can see the
letter "j" yet it is pronounced as a "y" and
the fact that it has a "j" in it is given no
credibility even in English. In English, to
this day it is still pronounced as
HalleluYah ... and well it should be. I say
"well it should be" because when you see or
hear many of these Hebrew names or words
such as halleluYah and Isaiah, Elijah,
Jeremiah, Zechariah - they are giving praise
to Yahweh and those names derive from past
times when the people even praised YHWH in
the naming of their children and HE is
worthy of this Praise!
Yahshua, Yeshua, Yahoshua = YHWH is
Salvation! Many call Him Jesus. Since
learning the meaning behind his name and
pondering the fact that YHWH named Him and
was specific on what His name should be.
I began to reason with myself that YHWH
obviously had a preference on what His name
should be since He went to the extent of
being specific enough to relay a message to
Joseph on what He should be called. My
own thoughts on this ... maybe i should ,
with a concern for His preferences and
pleasing Him more than myself, also now call
Him Yahshua since learning this. By the way,
it isn't easy in a group of English speaking
people that call Him Jesus to necessarily
call Him Yahshua as the "why we do" hasn't
always been easily understood by many but it
is our own conviction and who ever said
being a set-apart people would ever be easy
anyway. Also, just for reference, i don't
think that people that call Him Jesus
are going to hell because they are calling
Him by a different name then what we call
Him by. That would be saying that His
arm is too short to save any of us and far
be it from any of us to ever declare to what
extent He can save. We are just going
by what we belief is His preference in
reference to what has been shown us in the
scriptures below and i definitely desire
that our heart's desires line up with
pleasing Him above ourselves. This is
our feeble attempt in pleasing Him.
Scriptures below to "the why" we call Him
Yahshua ... we used a Hebrew interpreted
scriptures to bring this concept back closer
to true meaning. Hebrew characters are in
some of the texts below and these characters
will not be translated correctly onto all
computers depending on font packages. Will
place in parenthesis the English
pronunciation, to the best of my ability, of
the Hebrew.
The Scriptures version Matthew, Chapter
1:20-25
Mat 1:20 But while he thought about this,
see, a messenger of יהוה (YHWH) appeared to
him in a dream, saying, “Yoseph (Joseph),
son of Dawiḏ (David), do not be afraid to
take Miryam (Mary) as your wife, for that
which is in her was brought forth from the
Set-apart Spirit. (Holy Spirit)
Mat 1:21 “And she shall give birth to a Son,
and you shall call His Name יהושע (Yahoshua)
for He shall save His people from their
sins.” Footnote: 1This is the precise
meaning of the Heberew of His Name.
Mat 1:22 And all this came to be in order to
fill what was spoken by יהוה (YHWH) through
the prophet, saying,
Mat 1:23 “See, a maiden shall conceive, and
she shall give birth to a Son, and they
shall call His Name Immanu’el, (note * El
means God in Hebrew)” which translated,
means, “El with us.”
Mat 1:24 And Yoseph (Joseph), awaking from
his sleep, did as the messenger of יהוה (YHWH)
commanded him and took his wife,
Mat 1:25 but knew her not until she gave
birth to her Son, the first-born. And he
called His Name יהושע. (Yahoshua)
Knowing His name defined brought special
meaning to me as i know that i personally am
in desperate need of a Saviour, and glad
that HE has come to save and to be our El
(God).
Some more name meanings below that give
praise to Yah.
Nehemiah - meaning = consolation, comforted
by (YHWH)
Jeremiah - meaning = Yah will rise or is
exalted! (YHWH)
Elijah - meaning = Yah is El! (El is Hebrew
for God)
There are many more throughout scriptures.
That can be an enjoyable study.
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Who is YHWH (Yahweh)?
Like i mentioned earlier, far be it from me
to be able to explain Who He Is. I am
too insignificant for that task. I can
relay some of what i know from scriptures
and the special things that He has shown to
us. (Yod, He, Waw, and He) YHWH is derived
from the four Hebrew letters called the
Tetragrammaton and are transliterated
as Yahweh ... this exact pronunciation has
been debatable by some. In modern day
English versions of the bible, His name
which was written as YHWH only in Hebrew
characters has been translated to LORD and
when you see God written in the texts ... in
the Hebrew texts, it used to say El, Elohim.
His name has been found in the Dead Sea
Scrolls and the Septuagint (antiquities
scriptures) written this way and also in New
Mexico on the Los Lunas or Decalogue Stones
here in the United States. I think the
Los Lunas stone is one of the most
fascinating finds as they knew it was there
in the desert years before they could ever
even translate it because it went back to
some ancient Hebrew characters that were
unknown to men at the time of discovery.
I want to say that they couldn't translate
it until the 1950's yet there are many that
want to toss the credibility of the presence
of that boulder in the United States out the
window. Yet it is well to remember how
many would try to totally disprove that
Yahweh exists and how many wouldn't be in
favor of letting any know of any thing that
would prove the scriptures as true.
Will provide some links here, one that will
bring an interesting insight into American
history for those that don't mind "getting
out of the box."
los lunas decalogue stone, His name is
clearly there.
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/15_home.html
More informational on the Tetragrammaton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton_in_the_New_Testament
Some of wondered why we call Him Yahweh and
no longer call Him Lord. A little
research on this will uncover the problems
with calling Him "Lord" which i know many
today feel this word is the modern English
translation for Master; but there is some
obvious problems with this translation. The
word "Lord" is the English translation for
the word baal. Which was the well
known name for the false god in scriptures
that many of the pagans would turn to as
their god. So more modern day
translators have taken a wrong name, an
insignificant name and have tried to label
Yahweh with that name in text. For
example the word beelzebub (beel being
another spelling for baal - this is easy
research on the net) is another name for the
enemy. It is also well known as being
translated into English as "lord of the
flies".
Knowing this ... this below chapter in Hosea
is given some meaning. How ironic this
is that they still call Him LORD in this
translation which is English for baal.
quick scriptures note ... i did grow up
reading kjv and still read kjv, so am not
picking on kjv text here just sharing some
things.
KJV version Hosea
Hos 2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith
the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and
shalt call me no more Baali.
Hos 2:17 For I will take away the names of
Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no
more be remembered by their name.
Hos 2:18 And in that day will I make a
covenant for them with the beasts of the
field, and with the fowls of heaven, and
with the creeping things of the ground: and
I will break the bow and the sword and the
battle out of the earth, and will make them
to lie down safely.
Hos 2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for
ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in
righteousness, and in judgment, and in
lovingkindness, and in mercies.
Hos 2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in
faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
Hos 2:21 And it shall come to pass in that
day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will
hear the heavens, and they shall hear the
earth;
Hos 2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn,
and the wine, and the oil; and they shall
hear Jezreel.
Hos 2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the
earth; and I will have mercy upon her that
had not obtained mercy; and I will say to
them which were not my people, Thou art my
people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Now to read it in a more Hebrew version of
scriptures.
The Scriptures version Hosea
Hos 2:16 “And it shall be, in that day,”
declares יהוה, “that you call Me ‘My
Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘My Baal.’
Hos 2:17 “And I shall remove the names of
the Baals from her mouth, and they shall no
more be remembered by their name.
Hos 2:18 “And in that day I shall make a
covenant for them with the beasts of the
field, and with the birds of the heavens,
and with the creeping creatures of the
ground, when bow, and sword, and battle I
break from the earth. And I shall make them
lie down in safety.
Hos 2:19 “And I shall take you as a bride
unto Me forever, and take you as a bride
unto Me in righteousness, and in
right-ruling, and kindness and compassion.
Hos 2:20 “And I shall take you as a bride
unto Me in trustworthiness, and you shall
know יהוה.
Hos 2:21 “And it shall be in that day that I
answer,” declares יהוה, “that I answer the
heavens, and they answer the earth,
Hos 2:22 and the earth answer the grain and
the new wine and the oil, and they answer
Yizreal.
Hos 2:23 “And I shall sow her for Myself in
the earth, and I shall have compassion on
her who had not obtained compassion. And I
shall say to those who were not My people,
‘You are My people,’ while they say, ‘My
Elohim!’ ”
It is obvious by these scriptures that
Yahweh looks for a day when His people will
no longer will call Him by baal names.
It should be well noted that Yahweh has a
preference and as a people with a passion
for Him shouldn't we desire His preferences?
Shouldn't we desire to please Him above
ourselves? His bride will be found
with this passion for Him and a willingness
to yield her life to Him, submitting to Him.
He is worthy of a bride with a passion for
Him. Can read Song of Solomon to see a
clearer picture of this passion.
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