2013/10/11

The Blindness

I am sure that without our eyesight most of us would feel helpless, because we have come to rely on it.
If we turned blind we would be forced to learn to develop our other senses in order to compensate as much as possible for the lack of eyesight.
In doing so, we would develop the other senses such as hearing, smell, and touch to a greater degree than before.

Paul once wrote in a letter to the Corinthians, I Corinthians 13.12: 'For now we see in a mirror dimly (a glass darkly), but then face to face.'

Truth is like a big mosaic when we are young, and we cannot perceive the entire picture in all its clarity.
We see bits and pieces of the mosaic, and we try to connect them so that together they form an  understandable image.

When we are sincere in our walk with YHWH, He gradually reveals to us how the bits and pieces fit together, so that an image begins to unfold from the mosaic, and as long as we remain faithful to YHWH in our love for and devotion to Him, the image of Truth increases in clarity, releasing us from the stronghold of deception by the power of Truth.
We still may have difficulty in discerning the exact details, but the outline is revealed to us with clarity.

If we want to know Truth, we have to learn to avoid burying ourselves in concepts of YHWH's Truth which are based on our interpretation of how certain parts of the mosaic fit together, because as long as we hold on to the concept we have accepted as Truth we shut ourselves off from realizing how the parts of the mosaic REALLY fit together.
To know Truth we must learn to let go of our own ideas of Truth and Reality we have come to accept, and to the degree that we can let go of our own ideas, we are open to YHWH's Truth.
Faith is the element which releases us from our blindness and begins to show us the mosaic of YHWH's Truth in its entirety.

Paul's statement reminded of the movie Blind Fury featuring the Dutch actor Rutger Hauer in the role of an American soldier who was blinded during the Vietnam war.
The inhabitants of a local village in Vietnam taught him to develop his other senses to compensate for the absence of his eyesight, and he became a full-fledged Samurai warrior in the process.
He uses his new skills to help the son of a deceased friend,  a good and noble cause which challenges his lack of eyesight and draws out his skills as a Samurai warrior learning to rely on the input of his other senses.
These new skills helped him overcome and come up victorious where before he might have lost the fight if he still were able to see.

Could it be that we have come to Earth to be put in a state of spiritual Darkness for the same purpose?
In order for us to have more spiritual clarity we need to exercise discipline, we have to learn to listen very closely to YHWH's still voice guiding us in our spiritual Darkness and act the moment He speaks to us, we need to learn to develop Trust through the instruction of YHWH's voice to do one thing, and our circumstances telling us to do another.
In the conflict between the two, will we learn to listen to that still voice within because we believe that voice more than our circumstances?

Am I not describing Faith here, the 'evidence of things unseen and the certainty of things hoped for', as Paul put it?

And that is really why we have to go through the Darkness caused by this phase of Dualism, that we might grow into beings living in Faith.
It is the development of this Faith which is essential for the new phase of Creation which YHWH has in mind for us, and it is the reason why YHWH created Evil.
Faith is the strength of the Spirit, and that is the reason it needs to grow and increase in strength and intensity through the process of being challenged by the manifestation of opposites.

Our Flesh is like the blindfold worn by our Spirit, and it obstructs a clear and accurate knowledge and  understanding of the Spirit.
The Spirit is obstructed and contradicted by the Flesh, and in our Soul we receive the input of both.
The decisions we make in our Soul to follow the Spirit and reject the Flesh is part of the process of learning to live in Faith.

When we are born and we grow into adults, the dominant reality to our Soul is the physical reality, and growing up we learn to relate to this reality as the ultimate reality.
Our Soul has merged with the physical Body, yet it also is part of our Spirit.
Because of the dominant character of the physical environment to our Soul, learning to discern and listen to the silent voice of the Spirit is a process which is the equivalent of learning to find our way back home through the Darkness.
The element of Darkness is caused by our wrong relationship with our physical environment, and because this environment tends to be the dominant to the consciousness of our Soul it acts as an obstruction to the still voice of YHWH.
The process of learning to walk in Faith means the dominant consciousness of our Soul shifts from the physical to YHWH's Ruach, the Holy Spirit.
We learn to see Life through the eyes of our Spirit where before we looked at our Spirit through the eyes of our Body.

Because of the Darkness in our environment, the force of Evil manipulating that environment challenges our Soul.
It presents us with a situation where it is wise for us to move in direction A, yet the still voice of YHWH directs us to direction B.
Is our relationship with the world our physical senses can perceive so strong that we disregard the silent voice, or have we learned to develop and cultivate a relationship with the Owner of the still voice to the extent that we are willing to abandon that which is deemed as a wise move in favor of obeying the small still voice?

That is how Faith becomes stronger: through the process of being challenged by the force of Evil, Adversity, the outcome of the dualistic paradigm.
Growing in Faith then automatically becomes growing in Trust and Love to our Creator YHWH.
So the entire process of walking in spiritual Darkness for the sake of learning to grow in Faith is really a process of learning to grow in Love and Trust of our Creator.

For us to become the person our Creator YHWH intended us to be, a person ready to enter the next phase of Creation, the character of Faith needs to be carved out so that we learn to walk in complete Trust and Love for our Creator by learning to choose for Him during the process of being challenged by opposites of Faith in our walk on Earth, the walk on the road of Darkness.

The Fallen Ones seek to exploit the spiritual blindness caused by our Flesh.
They place obstructions on our path so that we fall, they set traps which wound us and make us go limp, they poke us with sharp sticks so that we end up walking in circles for their amusement, they train and domesticate us in the capacity of dumb slaves of the domain of Darkness, they seek to bind us in a prison of blindness so that they can continue their game of exploitation until the day we die.
The Evil Ones avail themselves of our blindness to steer us into their prison by creating false mirrors of Life.
In their mirror the ones who sell out to Evil receive the rewards, while the ones who hold on to what is Good are punished, isolated and rejected from their system of rewards.

The more people indulge in Sin and wallow in Evil, the more power and authority the Fallen Ones have to create false mirrors, and the less opportunity there is for those who hold fast to Good to escape the wrath of the Evil Ones upon everything which reminds them of YHWH.

Sin hooks us into the matrix of Evil, providing the Fallen Ones with the options to program us so that we come to like and cherish THEIR candidates, and reject the candidates YHWH puts forward.

Sin strengthens the cocoon of our blindness and renders us as helpless pawns in the hands of Evil Mighty Ones who exploit this weakness and program us as slaves to their cause.
The more slaves they have working for them and the more slaves occupy key positions in society, the less chance there is for someone who loves YHWH to succeed, even worse, the greater the presence of Evil, the less chance there is for YHWH's own to  make a living for themselves in a given society.
They will only let you in if you conform, if you consent, if you make a concession to your principles.
Failing that they will make you feel their wrath by excluding you from their premises, and you will find yourself left on the outside watching others receive benefits which could and should be yours.

It does not matter how much talent you have, because talent and skills are not the issue.
Conformity to Evil is what it is all about, and if you refuse, inevitably you will encounter an image of suffering reflected back at you in the mirror of the Fallen Ones.
This is the great injustice YHWH's children face in this world, especially these days as the world slides deeper into a sinkhole leading straight into hell itself.
YHWH's children all too often are degraded and abused, forced to watch how others with enslaved, dumbed-down minds receive positions of honor and esteem as a reward for their conformity.

There is a price to pay for believing in Yahshua.
YHWH's Spirit (the Ruach HaKodesh) reveals the Truth about this world, and once you discover the Truth about the deceptive games played by Fallen Beings, you become a liability to the collective, a potential threat.
It brings isolation and solitude, because the friendships of this world consist of a comradery in deception where the parties participating in the 'friendship' feed on each other and reinforce a culturally induced identity.
It brings you hardship and suffering, because the Evil One recognizes you and sees how you have grown into a threat to his system, and he will do anything in his power to destroy you.

But then again, each single one of you who are YHWH's children have experienced a measure of isolation and adversity from the day you were born.
The Evil One knows exactly who are his, and who belong to YHWH, even before we come to realize who we truly are.
From the day you were were born you have been a target for the Fallen Ones.

I wish I could tell you that once you believe in Yahshua your troubles are over, and you will live happily ever after.
Eventually you WILL live happily ever after, when the current dualistic Earth-dream is over.
But as long as you are alive on Earth as it is, the Fallen Ones and the minions who do their bidding on Earth will use every opportunity to bring suffering to YHWH's children.

I know there are religious denominations who hold up an image of smiling, happy and blessed individuals as the reward for becoming part of a particular denomination, all too often eagerly pointing out the extent of the many blessings enjoyed by the members of their particular church as a reward for their Faith.
'If you practice our religious dogma God will open up His storehouse of blessings for you'.
Yet all too often these blessings are the reward for having become an integral part of the corrupt Satanic system on this planet, and by signing on the dotted line giving your consent to be part of one of the religious wheels you sign up for a false sense of salvation, one which actually turns you into an extension of the deception.
Instead of coming out of Babylon you agreed to become a citizen of it.
That is not salvation, and those are not blessings.
Those are curses in disguise, and the salvation is camouflaged bondage to the Wicked Prince.

Yahshua came to save us from the power and consequences of Sin.
And unfortunately that is usually where any living understanding of the concept of Salvation ends.
Yes, He came to deliver us from the power of Sin so that we might be free, He came to revive our Spirit and reconnect it to YHWH's Spirit, but He also came to deliver us from bondage to the empire of Sin, the Satanic empire which, -although invisible-, becomes visible in this world in the form of a hierarchical system which can be found anywhere.
It is this latter part which most preachers, teachers and whatever-title-of-authority-the-denominations-may-use, are unable to recognize and understand, because they are part of it.

And that is a very sad comment, because the personal Salvation from the power of Sin and the Salvation of our Spirit brings about a growing awareness of Truth and the extent of deception in this world, and this awareness grows through an evolving personal relationship with YHWH.
So what other conclusion is there to draw that apparently the personal relationship with YHWH did not grow as it should and could have?
The personal relationship with YHWH is not defined and regulated by a religious dogma anymore than your personal relationship with your wife or your children is regulated by textbook procedure.
Yet the act of signing up to be part of a religious dogma equals Salvation in the minds of many people so that their Salvation becomes a fossil referring back to the moment they signed on the dotted line.

The living relationship with YHWH reveals us Truth, yet to be able to accept Truth we need to be ready for it.
The shock of seeing the Satanic deception in all its vileness upon this Earth would be too much if we suddenly were to be confronted with it, so YHWH gradually lifts the veil for His children, and they gradually begin to realize the true nature of Life on this planet.
For some the process takes many years, others are put through an accelerated process of learning the Truth.
Although YHWH's children always are the sore thumbs sticking out on Earth, the moment they are given to see the Truth about the Satanic slavery masking as freedom, they morph from a sore thumb into a living threat to the Evil Empire, and all too often the Evil One seeks to ostracize and isolate them, yes, even destroy them if possible.

Yet the ostracization of YHWH's children from the Satanic system manifesting in a given society is also its euthanasia.
Because, firstly the imbalance caused by the presence of Evil grows to proportions which cry out to be rectified (which comes in the form of destruction).
Secondly, the talents YHWH has given to His own are an asset to any given nation, a blessing for the people living in that nation, and by excluding YHWH's children from opportunities the nation ends up slicing its own wrists, due to the fact that these talents remain untapped and the nation thus bereaves itself of potential blessings.

All that remains of a nation which gives itself over to Evil is a bunch of mindless, insubstantial parrots repeating standards phrases and standard procedures, an imploding Titanic as a reminder of the omnipresent stupidity in this nation.
But, that is what the Western world has chosen for, that is what the future will bring to Western 'civilization'.
Unless the nations change and repent (which they won't), they are dooming themselves to complete extinction.
YHWH's own may suffer, but we will be granted justice and given the opportunity to shine, if not now, then upon the ashes of the nightmare the Evil Ones created for us.

My mind is boggled at the presence of so many plastic robots whose only understanding stems from the programming they were subjected to.
Never do I encounter anyone in whose Spirit I am able to see YHWH, and that is a very sad comment on the nation I live in.
Yes, there are well-intending people who mean no harm, but I cannot see YHWH's Ruach shining in them, and to them I remain a nice but awkward outsider.

And that is really what saddens me so much.
I often feel as if I am the only one left among the pod-people.
It may sound arrogant as if I think myself to be 'above the masses', but I can assure you that this is not the case.
I respect people and do not think highly of myself at all, it's just that I can find the Ruach anywhere in the hearts of the people I encounter.
And it is YHWH's Ruach I cherish and love so much, the only One Who gives me some light and consolation in this Darkness.

Evil is growing so rapidly and to such monstrous proportions that this trend cannot persist for very long without being forced to face the consequences.
It won't take another 50 years before the end comes, because all the elements which will facilitate the total control of Man in the beast system are in place.
It's just a matter of activating the elements, and suddenly people who thought themselves to be living in a free nation realize that they have been imprisoned.
All that is needed for the activation is the right circumstances in order to push the masses into conformity and persuade them to give in.
And as you all know, this push usually comes in the form of inventing an external threat which requires of the people to take 'precautionary' measures in order to protect themselves, and these measures usually imply sacrificing privacy and autonomy.
Or it comes in the form of holding up an appealing carrot which turns the people into slaves pulling the cart of the ones holding the steering wheel of the cart.
The beast system requires slaves, and to become slaves you have to relinquish your autonomy and your privacy.

In the Netherlands a class of people already is subjected to experiments designed to make people accustomed to the idea of relinquishing autonomy and independence, experiments carried out by certain local governments which turn people who need a welfare cheque into slaves.
They are forced to do whatever the governmental authorities tell them to, which includes the obligation to work without receiving proper wages.
The government provides them with social welfare, and if they want to continue to receive welfare so that they can feed themselves and their families they are forced to accept work for which they receive no payment, which often comes down to working below minimum wages.  
And as you can guess, the greater the economic depression, the more people are forced to into this straightjacket.
Slavery has returned in every aspect except for the name of the label.

I know some of you believe in a rapture, and how I wish it were true!
There's nothing I would want more than to go back home.
But, a rapture is not what I see happening in the near future.
And as the nations we are part of sink deeper into the deception, and the people compromise themselves by their conformity to Evil to an ever increasing degree, what are we to do?
I long for the day that the veil will be lifted from Israel and YHWH will restore the nation so that it becomes exactly that which YHWH created it to be: a chamber on the stage of Earth dedicated to YHWH's cause.
I would love to be part of building up a nation dedicated to YHWH, a nation where falsehood is abhorred and YHWH's Truth is upheld.
Unfortunately, today's Israel still is a far cry from what YHWH wants it to be, but I eagerly hope and pray for the restoration of YHWH's concept of Israel.

I cannot stress enough the importance to eradicate Sin from our lives.
Each time we sin we hand out authority to the Evil Mighty Ones to mess with our lives, and this can vary from manipulating your circumstances against you to very devastating consequences.

You MUST rule over Sin, or Sin will rule over you.

Any preacher who teaches you that belief in Yahshua gives you the grace card which allows you to indulge in Sin without suffering from the consequences is a deceived liar and a pawn in the hands of the Evil Ones to keep you locked into their power grid.

Sin strengthens memories of Sin together with the physical, emotional reality attached to these memories, and together they form the chains which keep you locked into Sin.
Each time elements of those memories are activated, they produce the emotional setting which led to you Sin, thus producing a strong compulsion (temptation) to indulge in the same Sin over and over again.
Do not believe liars who tell you that you can sin as much as you like because you are forgiven anyway.
You turn yourself into a slave through Sin, and you give authority to the Mighty Ones to mess with your Life as long as you keep indulging in patterns of Sin.

This can have devastating consequences.
If you indulge in Sin and you turn against the agenda of the Fallen Ones, you give them the authority to send a Shadow on your path with a loaded gun, and since you have given Darkness permission to mess with your Life you will be like a sitting duck when they point their gun at you.
So make sure you root out Sin in your Life so that you are fully protected by YHWH.

Trust in YHWH and give your heart over to Him, making sure you walk in intimacy with His Spirit, and no Darkness can have any authority over you whatsoever.
Do not let your hearts be envious when you see those who reject YHWH succeed where you fail, because what your eyes see is a false mirror held in place by the Evil One.

Those who conform to Evil have a false dream of comfort during their lives on Earth, yet when their lives come to an end, they wake up to theTruth of an everlasting nightmare.
Those who love YHWH may walk in a dream of adversity and suffering, yet when they wake up, they find themselves back in paradise, a reality of everlasting happiness and Goodness.
Not that those who conform to Evil receive good things on Earth ONLY, or that those who love YHWH receive only Evil on Earth.
But the rule of thumb is that if you promote the agenda of deception on Earth, the wind will be blowing in your back, and if you turn against the agenda of the Deceiver you will find the wind blowing in your face.
I think the ones who are to be pitied most are the ones who sold out to the Adversary and who are given to eat a diet of suffering and misfortune by their Evil Master, because they experience suffering both in this Life and the hereafter.

I know, this world seems more real than the world of the Spirit.
But it is only because we have been plastered in this clump of Flesh that the physical world seems more real than the spiritual world.
Once this trap of Flesh falls away, or when it is transformed, suddenly we will be able to see our place on Earth in the greater perspective of our place in Heaven, and then we will realize that our Life here was but a dream where we learned to walk though blinded by the Flesh, where we learned to listen though deafened by the Body.

Imagine this Life on Earth were the main course and the world of the Spirit but an insignificant desert, how cruel would our Creator be then.
Hardship, suffering, some being born blind, others being born mutilated, if that were the highlight of YHWH's creation who would want to be part of that?
However, Life here is but a cocoon, and the particular experiences we go through serve to bring out the beauty of our individual character.
It is a passing stage where nothing lasts, and this includes the suffering, the hardship, having to live in a defective Body.
I am not holding up a false, empty carrot of consolation to you, but I am urging you to look beyond your circumstances to the greater purpose of the Life you have.
Nothing in your Life is a coincidence, and everything you go through will serve to build you up and make you shine.

We may be blinded in the Spirit, but our Faith gives us eyes that see, just as the Fallen Ones can see in the Spirit, but their lack of Faith robs them of their sight of YHWH.
Hearing they fail to perceive YHWH's words, whereas we learn to perceive, even though we were born deaf in the Spirit by reason of merging with the fallen Flesh.

That is probably the greatest source of frustration to the Evil Ones, that the human Souls they sought to exploit surpass them and find freedom in their imprisoned state, and go where the Evil Ones will never be able to venture.
We learn to see and hear in our spiritual blindness and deafness, whereas they remain blind and dumb in their spiritual sight and hearing.
If they call Man stupid, then what are they when Man learns to see although he is blind, when Man learns to perceive although he is deaf, when Man finds freedom through redemption although he wears the shackles of damnation on his ankles?

Our spiritual blindness serves a very worthy purpose, which is to allow us grow into butterflies of Faith.
We have to learn to walk in Faith, Trust and Obedience, and believe me when I tell you that if you fully rely upon YHWH you will encounter miracles in your Life.
It is the spiritual blindness we are born into which serves the purpose of fostering the growth of Trust, Faith (Belief), Love, Endurance, Patience.
Here on Earth we learn to fight like Samurai warriors skilled in yielding the sword of Faith with far greater precision than ever before.

The Life we lead on Earth is but a passing dream.
Nothing here lasts, nothing can enter eternity.
Except for that which came from eternity into the dream, and which will return to eternity when the dream is over: our Soul and Spirit.

So if you suffer, and you see nothing but a trail of unfulfilled hope and shattered dreams, know then that every single event in your Life is part of a passing dream, and nothing which you might have hoped to accomplish on Earth could ever enter eternity.
The suffering will end, and the unfulfilled hope will be filled beyond your wildest expectations, and your shattered dreams will turn out to be a temporary folly as you move on to realize your greater dreams in the real life of the Spirit.

We are here to grow, and although we all abhor Evil in all its forms, it plays an important part in the growth process.
Though you may feel like giving up because the Adversary seems to have you in a deadlock and YHWH appears to be out of reach, keep moving and endure the best way you can, because YHWH is always there.

Trust and believe.

2013/10/05

The Judgment

Judgment usually is interpreted as one singular verdict, the execution of which occurs by means of one singular punishment.
A judge pronounces a verdict and a particular punishment, and that constitutes his judgment.
But when it comes to YHWH it is important to make a distinction between the different forms and ways of His judgment, and the way it is implemented.

YHWH uses the mirror as the standard and the means of His punishment.
'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' illustrates this principle.
This is why He gave Yahshua to His children so that when they believe in Yahshua's Salvation, they see the reflection of Yahshua in YHWH's mirror.
Since Yahshua is Light and knows no Darkness, YHWH's mirror reflects back that Light to the ones believing in Him.

YHWH is kind and merciful, and slow to anger.
If He held up His mirror to the world as it is now, it would be destroyed completely.
So instead of allowing His mirror of Truth to reflect back a razor sharp image of Truth, YHWH gently reveals the reflection of this world in His mirror by means of confronting the world with what it has become, warning the world through a series of intensifying judgments.
So, YHWH's judgment comes in increments, allowing Man to learn his lesson and repent of his Evil ways.

There are two forms of YHWH's judgment: the first is when He withdraws His Angels who protect and watch over us, and gives us over to the powers of Darkness.
That is when Evil is given the power to act out their plans within certain limits as determined by YHWH.

The second form of judgment consists of YHWH charging His Angels to bring Destruction upon Man.
In this case YHWH's form of judgment shows an image in His mirror of what people have become in their hearts.
Even though YHWH's own will be affected indirectly, like in the case when harvests fail and prices go up, it is not possible for YHWH to bring Destruction upon His own who love Him, because they see this love reflect in YHWH's mirror.
He will never take the life of His own, quite the contrary, He will protect His own, and not one hair on the head of His children will be harmed by YHWH.

This form of judgment is illustrated in the story of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah when the Angels carrying the assignment to destroy the cities first had to get Lot out of Sodom, because there were unable to destroy the city as long as there was any righteous man living in it.
This is also the reason why YHWH will mark and set apart His own before He will judge the lovers of Evil on Earth in the end.

The first form of judgment occurs when YHWH takes away His protection to a certain extent.

He does not take away ALL protection, because if He did this could have devastating consequences.
But as the people continue to harden their hearts by wallowing in deception and rejecting YHWH's Truth, He removes His protection incrementally in accordance with the measure and phase of the denial of His Truth.

The deeper this world sinks into the swamp of Sin, the more the world gives the Evil One the authority to shape the world in his image.
The Evil One's authority to shape this world in his image increases incrementally in accordance with the love for Evil this world has: the more people give their hearts over to Evil, the more freedom the Satan has to do as he likes.

When we conform to Evil we give the Fallen Ones the authority and power to bring Evil upon us.
There comes a point when the Fallen Ones have been given so much authority that they are granted the opportunity to act out their Evil plans without any restraint.
That is when Earth will be enveloped in Darkness because YHWH has withdrawn His protection.

The consequence is that the Fallen Ones can successfully inspire their representatives on Earth to detonate atomic bombs in cities across the nation, should they so desire, because there is no Angel there to stop them.
Since the Fallen Ones do NOT distinguish between Good and Evil, but instead determine the value of human beings in terms of usefulness to their cause, any Good people living in one of the nuked cities during this hour of Darkness WILL become their victim.
It is not YHWH directly bringing Destruction upon any Good people, it is just that these people were victimized by Evil because of the authority given to the ones bringing Evil upon this world.
Yet the blood of those who believe in YHWH and who were victimized by the agents of Evil becomes the noose around the Satan's neck, because it is integrated in the mirror which YHWH will hold up to all those who have aligned themselves to the Satanic network, and once YHWH will unveil the image in this mirror to the Evil One he will experience total Destruction.

Because of the lack of understanding in matters of Light and Darkness and how YHWH judges, there will be people asking themselves how it is possible that 'God would allow their families to be destroyed', and some will lose faith because of that.
Yet it was not YHWH actively bringing Destruction upon the nation, but it was the nation which chose align itself with the Forces of Destruction, and THEY brought Destruction when the chance was handed to them on a golden plate by MAN.
The Fallen Ones had been given the authority to visit the world with their Evil, and they availed themselves of the opportunity by detonating atomic bombs in the cities during their hour of Darkness.

Both forms of judgment are implemented in increments: YHWH withdraws His protection to a certain extent, or He brings calamity to a certain extent, so that the people can come to their senses and begin to question themselves and the values they uphold.
If during these increments people persist in their stubbornness to follow after Evil, then YHWH will persist in giving them over to Evil to a greater degree.
He will gradually peel away the layers of the veil covering His mirror of Truth until finally the last layer is removed and YHWH brings Destruction upon Evil.

When YHWH orders His Angels to stand still, suddenly a catastrophic event may strike a nation.
It means that the Shadows can inflict major damage without anyone standing in their way to prevent them from doing so.

When YHWH removes His protection from a nation, suffering is waiting in the wings.
The economy may begin to suffer and enter a recession, jobs are lost, diseases are on the rise, Earth-quakes happen, weather patterns change, floods occur, the harvests do not yield their fullness, crimes will be on the rise, major accidents happen.
Yet these events I just described can also be caused by YHWH ordering His Angels to confront Man with the Evil he embraced.

When YHWH removes His hedge of protection around a nation He is no longer there to protect the people against the Evil One when he brings suffering upon the people because he wants to realize his ambitions which ultimately encompass the replacement of Man with the new Man as designed by the Evil One.

Judgment is an incremental process: the more the people of a nation harden their hearts, the more YHWH will give them over to the consequences of their denial.
One form of judgment sees YHWH ordering His Angels to visit Man with the Evil he embraced, the other form of judgment simply gives more room and opportunity for Evil to manifest itself, and the reason is because the people voted Evil in office and gave it the authority to shape their lives.

When YHWH removes His hedge of protection, citizens of the Evil empire no longer experience the same measure of resistance and restraint.
The consequence is that the wide range of characters in the Evil empire can express themselves on Earth with greater freedom, resulting in more suffering, greater exploitation, and more cruelty.

When, in spite of YHWH ordering Angels to stand still for a while and let the Evil which people love so much have its way, the people STILL will not listen, and the imbalance caused by the presence of Evil continues to grow, there comes a time when YHWH unveils His mirror so that the full extent of the reflection of this mirror can be experienced by the people of a nation.
This means to the extent that people tolerate Evil and have become intolerant to Good, they will experience Evil and the absence of Good.

This is the active form of Judgment: YHWH's Angels kill those who believed in the killer, the Satan.
The safety margin of the Mix has been crossed to such an extent that YHWH needs to hit the reset button.

Because of the principle of the mirror, YHWH will never harm His own people.
After all, in the mirror YHWH holds up to man those who love YHWH will see a reflection of that love, in other words, they will receive love from YHWH and not punishment.
No more than you would ever do anything to harm your children would YHWH so much as think of harming His own.

In the Bible you can read in Ezekiel 9 how YHWH ordered His own to be marked on the forehead so that the Executioners can spare them.
Those who did not carry this mark were killed.

During the time when YHWH actively executes Judgment, He brings Evil on everything which is an extension of Evil.
YHWH may cause Earth-quakes which destroy entire cities, He may cause the financial system to collapse under its own weight so that people go begging for bread, He may cause other nations to become aggressive towards the nation rejecting YHWH and wage a war against that nation, He may cause deadly diseases to turn into a pandemic.
Yet YHWH will watch over His own so that they will be protected where others will perish.

The fact that YHWH's active judgment will never hurt His own leads some to believe in a rapture before the time of the 'great tribulation'.
They believe that they will be transformed and taken into Heaven before YHWH judges the Earth.
Although I understand this belief, I assure you that a huge collective rapture prior to the great tribulation will not happen.
Some of you may feel offended when you read this, perhaps even feeling that I am robbing you of your hopes.
But, don't be too quick to draw your gun, I am not about to lambast anyone for believing in the rapture.
I just want to give you some food for thought.

Aside from Biblical references which contradict the view of a rapture prior to the time of the great tribulation, you have to consider what the great tribulation really is.

Is it not the time when the love of Evil has caused the world to be transformed into the stage of the anti-christ ruling the beast system?
Is it not a time when Evil has been given so much authority by Man that it now is able to bring the plans for the destruction of mankind to fruition?

You have to understand that the judgment comes in two forms, and as the world gives itself over to Evil, the Forces of Evil will have greater authority than ever before to harm Mankind.
This means that during this period people who mean no harm will get killed, some of them will be YHWH's own.
The blood they will sacrifice will become the poison which destroys the body of Evil.

If you believe that YHWH's own can never be harmed by Evil, then perhaps you should bring to mind how many of His prophets and the disciples were killed, yes, even His own Son.
Some of the believers in Rome had to endure persecution, even unto death.
Some of YHWH's own were crucified, even burned to death.
So if the rapture serves to protect YHWH's own from any harm caused by the Evil One, why were they not raptured?
Are we any better than they were?

As I have tried to explain here, one form of judgment sees the Evil One having greater authority to act out his plans on Earth, the form which allows the world to experience the true nature of what it has embraced, Evil.
When this happens, innocent people are targeted and they can be victimized by Evil Forces.

I do not want to rob you of any hope or offend those of you who believe in a rapture, but I want to caution you not to get your hopes up too much, because I am convinced you will be disappointed.
Let your hope, joy and comfort be in YHWH and His Yahshua, and not in a rapture.
I would very much welcome a rapture back into Heaven since I am a complete misfit in the Satanic order pervading every single aspect of society, and I suffer because of that.
But in all honesty the idea of a collective rapture just prior to the time of trouble is wishful thinking at best, and if you do not believe me, let's wait and see, because time will tell.

There is one predestined group of believers who will receive a special mark of protection, and John refers to this group of the 144,000 as the first fruits, the ones who did not defile themselves by selling out to the Satanic system on this planet.

The term 'first fruits' is a direct reference to Yahshua, the first of 'first fruits', and as such it points to the transformation of these individuals as the 'first fruits' of Mankind, the first harvest.

So, they will be taken into Heaven and therefore there will be a rapture?
Not necessarily so.

The 144,000 will carry YHWH's mark so that YHWH's judgment will not harm them, and you have to ask yourself why YHWH should mark them on the forehead if they are to be taken into Heaven?
Surely, receiving the mark on Earth as described in chapter 7 of Revelation serves the purpose of making sure the Angels will not harm them as they bring YHWH's judgment upon the Earth?

This means they will still be part of Earth when YHWH implements His judgment, yet perhaps they will exist in a transformed state which will allow them to be part of Earth.
That is why this group is referred to as 'first fruits', the first of Man to be transformed.

Some believe that there are two groups of 144,000, one mentioned in Revelation 7, the other mentioned in chapter 14.
The group in chapter 7 receives the mark on the forehead, the group in chapter 14 is referred as the 'first fruits' who learned a song which no man could sing.
While I understand the reasoning I think it is incorrect.
I believe both chapters in Revelation refer to one group of 'first fruits' which was predestined to 'sing a song no one could learn', which is the sound of YHWH's creating voice altering their DNA.

We are about to enter a time when YHWH gives this world over to the Forces of Darkness because Man has embraced Evil to the extent that the Satanic deception is creating a great imbalance.
This means that the Forces of Darkness will seek to implement their plans for a New Order, which implies that they need to harvest energy and destroy the old world.
They will lead Man into a great slaughter where millions will be killed.

Furthermore, since time is short for the Evil One and he is faced with the destruction of his own empire on Earth, he will seek to rid the Earth of YHWH's paradigm of Good vs. Evil and to thwart YHWH's plan for His paradise on Earth.
For this purpose he will implement a beast system which will require that you sell your Soul in order to be able to participate in the economic advantages of this system, a Satanic counter-paradise.
The act of selling out your Soul will come in the form of your consent to adopt the 'mark of the Beast'.

This will bring a great persecution to those who refuse to conform to the image of the Beast and refuse to bear the Beast-mark.
As the Forces of Darkness are given the authority to carry out their plans during their hour of Darkness many will lose their lives, including YHWH's own.

Perhaps you may wonder why YHWH would let His own be destroyed by a nuclear holocaust?
What kind of crooked justice is that?
It is the crooked justice of Evil Ones who have been given the authority BY MAN to carry out their nefarious plans.
It is the kind of justice described in the Bible-book Job, where the Adversary (ab-)uses YHWH's authority to manipulate Job's circumstances so that they reflect a curse where there should be a blessing.
The result was that Job's Life turned into a manifestation of a Lie challenging his Belief (Faith) and Trust in YHWH.

This manipulation is what YHWH refers to when He states that the Satan moved Him against Job.
In the case of Job it served the purpose of carving out Job's character and Faith as YHWH had created it to be, and the Adversary was the fool bringing about that which he sought to destroy.

The Satan is a fool who considers himself superior to YHWH, but who has ended up all too often bringing about exactly that which he sought to prevent.
In the end many will see him in his true form and wonder, 'is that the one we feared, is that the Mighty god of Evil who thought himself capable of ruling over Creation, is that the Great Adversary depicted in so many movies as a mighty strong god of Darkness withstanding YHWH'?
Where they expect to see a mighty, strong warrior they will see a feeble con-artist stripped of his bogus pomp, and people will point at him and laugh at the con-artist their eyes will behold.
They will realize that what they feared was nothing but fear itself as they watch the Adversary under YHWH's judgment.
He will be forced to drink the cup of blood which YHWH has prepared for him to the last drop.

I guarantee you that you can be sure that YHWH will take care of His own.
Don't ever forget that He is a Father who loves His children with all His heart, and if we go through calamity we have to learn to abide in Trust, Love and Faith, because our lives matter and serve the purpose of a loving Father who uses our calamity as fertilizer to help us grow even more.

If we have to go through tribulation and we see the bomb exploding right before our eyes, TRUST and do not fear, because YHWH is able to 'rapture' your Spirit out of your Body before you can feel the pain of any nuclear explosion.
He will not let you die slowly in agonizing pains caused by the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, I am convinced of that.

Have Faith and trust in YHWH; did He not have the power to make men walk through the fire without being harmed by it?
Did He not create a path through the Red Sea when Israel was doomed to experience Pharaoh's wrath?

If He has that power, He has the power to deliver anyone of us out of an impossible situation.
If you doubt that, then bring to mind how Yahshua could walk on water, and then ask yourself is anything is too difficult for the One who creates reality.

I assure you that YHWH is able to set your entire house on fire, except for the one spot where you are standing, so that as the house burns down you will be left unscathed, not even smelling of fire.

I hope you have been able to read this article without feeling offended if you are a believer in a rapture.
All too often people condemn each other simply because they do not line up with their ideas of the future, while no one knows the exact details but YHWH alone.

It is not good to use a belief as a stick to hit those who do not agree with you on the head, as if those who oppose the notion of a rapture will be 'punished by going through all the suffering on Earth' while those who DO believe in a rapture can watch the suffering on Earth from a comfortable chair in Heaven.
That is Evil, hateful, and a form of idolatry.
Because, does faith in a rapture save you, or faith in Yahshua?
If a rapture were to happen, would you be part of it because you believe in the rapture, or would you be chosen because you love and believe in YHWH's Yahshua in your heart?

I have tried to explain how YHWH's judgment comes in two forms, and both forms have different consequences not only for this world, but also for YHWH's own.
One form of judgment subjects Man to the Evil it has embraced by YHWH ordering His Angels to stand still so that the Evil One is given the opportunity to act out his plans.
The other form of judgment subjects Man to YHWH's Angels as they implement the Destruction Man has embraced.
During this time the world needs YHWH's servants, because they need to point out the cause and effect of the suffering on Earth so that those on Earth can never plead ignorance.
They knew very well because of the word of YHWH's own, but they stubbornly refused to listen and ridiculed YHWH's own as a bunch of lunatics.

When the Earth-dwellers refuse to listen and harden their hearts, the moment comes when YHWH tells His own to be silent and enter into their chambers, because YHWH will then proceed to bring Destruction upon those who had an ongoing love-affair with the Destroyers.
During this time YHWH's own will not be harmed, not even one hair on their head will suffer.

Perhaps this passage in Isaiah may cause you to wonder.
Entering our chambers, isn't that a reference to the house of our Father where Yahshua is preparing a place for us?
Could be, but it also could refer to a place YHWH appointed on Earth as a safety haven where His people are to dwell during the time when He brings judgment.

I am certain that a kind of rapture as depicted in movies like 'Left Behind' is fantasy at best.
Those movies are false propaganda setting people up for the Great Disappointment.

But even if you disagree with me in the matter of a rapture, then let your heart at least be open to the Spirit behind the words urging you to distinguish between your ideas, and the fact that YHWH's design of the future may deviate from your ideas.
Suppose you believe in a rapture, and you come to find out afterward that the idea of a rapture which you had and because of which you condemned your family from Heaven who did not subscribe to your idea of a rapture, did not happen?
Wouldn't you feel embarrassed and ashamed because you missed the most important point, which is that you should operate in love and not seek to condemn your own brothers?

Are we not one and the same family from Heaven?
If we come from Heaven and we resemble our Father's character and nature, how then is our Father's love visible if we look down upon each other simply because one believes in a rapture and another does not?
We should not condemn each other for NOT believing in a rapture, nor should we condemn those who DO believe in a rapture.
Belief in a rapture is not important, but what IS important is belief in Yahshua bringing forth the Spiritual fruit of love and a humble nature.

Whatever may happen, and whenever it may happen, NEVER let your heart be filled with fear, because we have a Father who not only loves us and cares for us, but He also will provide us with a way out of impossible situations.
Therefore, TRUST, in spite of the impossible situation we may find ourselves in, because if YHWH was able to create an impossible path for Israel through the Red Sea so that the people of Israel could escape the wicked Pharaoh, He will create impossible paths for every one of us who are precious and loved by Him.

If you don't believe in a rapture, may YHWH bless you, and if you DO believe in a rapture, may YHWH bless you.
We have ONE Father, and we should have His love for each other in our hearts.
Let your hope be in Him, because He has prepared a very bright future for us where we shall live without knowing Death, or Evil in our hearts and minds.
We may disagree about the timing when this great transformation will happen, but let's not focus on our disagreements.

Let our focus be on our Foundation, YHWH, and let our hope be kindled by the Goodness our loving Father has prepared for us.