A Long Way From Where I Started

I have come a long way from my indoctrination into the quagmire of religion and religious ideology associated with Christianity. Greece and Rome were the brain and originators of this religion. They introduced it strictly for political reasons. It had nothing to do with the Spirit of the Creator or the Set Apart Word. All the history related to Greece and Rome, and the religion they gave the world, is filled with half-truths, errors, and heresies. Their misguided commentaries, the Protestant church fathers and others, as well as their misguided ideology regarding the Hebrew people called Yisra'el, have led to a gross misunderstanding of Scripture. 

In my maturity, the Creator has caused me to know and understand the truth of His Word. Many people can't handle the truth and are complicit in unbelief. Unbelief is the main issue that will bring about the destruction of the multitudes. But "he that has an ear to hear" will be delivered from the wrath to come.

I am a third-generation Shepard. The men who raised me, whose teachings I sat under, were indeed great men of the Creator, faithful to their call. Their knowledge was relative to their generation and time. Daniel 12:4 had not yet manifested. Their knowledge of the Creator was limited, even to the point of failing to investigate or straying too far beyond the European biblical sources of their time and their father's teachings. Their desire to explore and understand the Hebraic roots of Scriptural knowledge was not a matter of their understanding and, for the most part, was not available to them. With this limited knowledge, they could not take us further than the ideas associated with baptism and the repentance of dead works. They taught us the policy of holiness and love—their understanding of what sin constituted and topical subjects.

These teachings were essential but lacked the foundation of YAHWEH’s heart. The matters in Scripture that YAHWEH declared permanent. I use the word "policy” because they did not fully understand these matters from the foundation of Scripture, the Torah, and the Law, which are YAHWEH’s teachings and declare what sin is. So, it was based on their ideas of what it meant to be set apart. Our fathers did not understand YAHWEH’s teachings and instruction as a whole. They taught the commandments in part when they related to what, in their eyes, was an obvious sin. They were taught that the commandments, or the Law, were no longer applicable in their totality; therefore, they lacked the Father's true teaching. This was not their fault. They taught what they had been taught and had read from European commentators.

The Creator YAHWEH has so much more to say and teach us. These teachings anchor this generation and those beyond. They enable us to obtain complete truth and eternal life. The Book of Daniel is open, and knowledge has increased at warp speed. Our ancestors lacked the tools available to this generation. We are living in the closing hours of the sixth day, the day of man. The millennial age is approaching. Yet men act as though all things remain as they have been. 

Because of a misunderstanding of men and/or a failure to give real credence to Scripture's Hebrew foundation, men have given us a Greek understanding of Scripture, even though the nature of all Scripture is Hebrew. This has led to the misuse of Sha'ul's (Paul's) word about all Scripture, because a Greek mind defines the interpretation of such Scripture rather than the Hebraic-ness in which it was delivered and intended. Therefore, the masses lack a true and correct application of Scripture.

If Scripture, which is Hebraic in origin, is accurate and Spirit-inspired, why has error affected humanity? The answer is found in Hosea 4:6: "My people are destroyed for want of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as Cohen (priest) for me. Because you forgot the Torah (Law) of your YAH, I will also forget your children."

We are a broken people, shaped by the ideologies and theologies of man. Our only resolve is to return to the TRUTH of YAHWEH because "truth matters." These are the "last days." I loved my past knowledge, but this place where I am now, with the FATHER YAHWEH and His Word, is the greatest. Nothing can compare to it. "I can see now the rain is gone."