192Observations
Perspective
5
One Covenant
Never Broken, Split, or Negated…
Now that Yahowah has brought ‘Ashtart to our attention, let’s consider why God is opposed to this figment of mankind’s fertile religious imagination. After all, at Satan’s behest, she has been finagled into almost every religion in one way or another.
There are literally thousands of inscriptions featuring her titles, countless idols scribed with her name, and remnants of hundreds of temples erected in her honor. The Canaanites and Philistines worshiped ‘Ashtart as a horned goddess of fertility, sexuality, and warfare. In Persia, she was the horned goddess of love and fortune – the one who granted victory in war. In Egypt, she was depicted as the Sphinx. In Babylon, she took the form of a winged lion.
Her most recognizable graphic symbols include a star within a circle (the symbol of the US Army), a five-pointed star (as depicted on the American flag), a dove (the universal symbol of peace), a rose (which explains why Roman Catholics recite the Rosary to the Queen of Heaven), the crescent moon (the symbol of Islam), and a fish (the symbol used by Christians). The final depiction of the mother-earth goddess was drawn as two inward-facing crescent moons and was designed to represent the female genitalia. It was later appropriated by Roman Catholics to depict their new religion and was called an Icthus. It was even drawn the same way and serves today as a bumper sticker on the rear of cars. Elsewhere, ‘Ashtart / Ishtar could be seen as a scorpion or a serpent, both of which carry explicit demonic overtones.
193The Queen of Heaven was deified as the Evening Star, also known as Venus. Statuary and frescos of ‘Ashtart almost always revealed the goddess in the naked female form – similar to the Graces and Charities. She became the figurehead on the bows of sailing ships and is the reason they are considered feminine.
Found in various archaeological sites in Israel, she was known as the goddess with two horns. She was often festooned with wings to represent her spiritual prowess, with glowing eyes as a sign of her divine light, and a rainbow necklace (depicting a counterfeit covenant), in addition to a fiery navel, thereby, depicting fertility.
Cognizant of the fact that ‘Ashtart was venerated by their religious ancestors throughout Israel, and all too often as the female demon of lust, the Masoretes altered the name of this Whore to imply that “bosheth – abomination” should be read in its place – which is why many lexicons read “Ashtaroth.” So adroit is the religious connection, ‘Ashtart actually served as the basis for the idol of the “Golden Calf” forged by the Yisra’elites while Moseh was receiving the Torah from Yahowah. Moreover, an argument can be made that the Song of Solomon was an invocation to the goddess and her association with marriage, beauty, love, and sensuality. More than any other Satanic guise, ‘Ashtart / Ishtar represents the Whore of Babylon.
By the time she became Aphrodite and Venus, her attributes included love and marriage, beauty and happiness, and laughter and pleasure, in addition to victory at war. Early Roman Catholics “taught that Aphrodite embodied conjugal love which had its origin in the conjunction of the Lord and the Church.” Her image greeted women as they entered pagan temples throughout the ancient world just as statues of Mary welcome misguided Catholics today. The ancients made prayerful 194petitions to her, as do Christians, bearing and lighting candles before her graven image.
The Roman Catholic title, “Nun,” which translates as “fish,” was derived from one of her most recognizable symbols – as is the pope’s tall and pointed Dagon hat. And as we now know, her depiction as a “Rose” became the basis of the “Rosary” which now serves as a tribute to the same virgin mother goddess. Also known as Ishtar, her Holy Feast Days were celebrated on the Sunday nearest the Vernal Equinox, providing Roman Catholics with a perfectly timed and ready-made counterfeit of Passover.
They did not even change the name. The original festival was called Eostre which was Christianized into Easter. The celebration included Easter Eggs, an Easter Bunny, Easter Hams, and Easter Cakes. After all, the Whore ‘Ashtart / Ishtar was a fertility goddess. Moreover, like her son, the Christian Jesus, she died each year and remained dead for three days, descending into the underworld for three nights before being resurrected.
This variation of the myth originated with the Babylonian worship of Tammuz who was Ishtar’s son by way of the Lord, Bel. So then, of course, after being impregnated on Easter Sunday by the supreme sun god, the nativity of Ishtar’s son was celebrated nine months later, on December 25th, providing Christendom with an existing pagan celebration upon which to base their Christmas. And if that was not bad enough, the Festival of Ishtar, which was observed in the middle of August, coincides today with the Roman Catholic Feast of the Assumption of Mary.
Quite simply stated, ‘Ashtart / Astarte / Ishtar / Isis / Aphrodite / Venus / Diana / Mary (as the Blessed Virgin, Madonna and Child, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven, Lady of the Rosary, Hearer of Petitions, and Lady of the Byblos/Bible) provided the unifying fable for the religions of the Sumerians, Philistines, Canaanites, Egyptians, 195Babylonians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Syrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Carthaginians, and Cypriots. And today, the Whore of Babylon reigns supreme in Christianity, embodying all of her former myths including serving as the basis for Easter Sunday and Christmas.
Yahowah could not have chosen a more revealing character to portray the nature of religious deception, especially recognizing how each successive religion has co-opted aspects of its predecessor in order to appeal to the masses. One of the most common and spellbinding themes among the world’s religions revolves around ‘Ashtart – the Whore of Babylon and Mother of Harlots.
And I suppose that is why Yahowah condemns the myth of ‘Ashtart / Ishtar / Mary as the “Mother of God” in Jeremiah in conjunction with His mockery of Easter rituals and the Christmas tree – both inspired by her veneration. It is also in this same prophecy that Yahowah impugns the greatest Christian lie of all: that there is a “Renewed Covenant” and thus a divinely inspired “New Testament.” We’ll consider Yirma’yah in a moment.
None of this has stopped Pauline Christianity from doing what the goddess’ name actually conveys, using the mythology of the Mother of God to: “‘ashar and ‘ashtarah – to become rich by increasing the flock while taking a tithe.” The Lady of the Horns, indeed.
In fact, ‘Ashtart/Astarte/Ishtar/Venus/Mary became a universal substitute, albeit bastardized for human appeal, for Yahowah’s Set-Apart Spirit. In the pagan mythology she influenced, she was called: the Ruler of the Heavens, the Queen of Heaven, the Shining One, the Mother of All Deities, the Leader of Hosts, the Possessor of the Tablets of Life’s Records, the Great Mother, the Great Goddess, the Light of the World, the Producer of Life, the Creator of the People, the Guardian of the Law, the Righteous Judge, the Forgiver of Sins, the Lawgiver, the Mother of War, the 196Goddess of Victory, the Source of Prophecy, the Lady of Vision, and the Lady of Heaven and Earth Who Receives Our Prayers.”
Ishtar was an intriguing guise for Satan in yet another way. Her renowned duplicity may have paved the way for Socialist Secular Humanism and its illogical moral code of Political Correctness. The cult of ‘Ashtart promoted an irrational and immoral mantra whereby wrong was considered right, bad was good, and delusion was correct. In this way, the goddess embodied dualities: love and hate, life and death, truth and lies, light and darkness, peace and war, happiness and sadness, good and bad.
She was said to embrace these opposing positions simultaneously, a trait she shares with today’s enlightened progressives and their academic and political mandates. But as such, she was temperamental, and her unpredictable nature invoked considerable confusion. She was the protégé for the Politically Correct mantra: “We are intolerant of intolerance” and the Secular Humanist hatred of hate.
This next reference to the mother, who is ‘Ashtart, and the father, who is Lord Ba’al, of religion is presented in the book of Shaphat / Judges. These men of God followed in the footsteps of Yahowsha’ ben Nuwn (Yahowah Saves, Son of the Infinite | Joshua), and they strove to execute good judgment regarding the right way to apply Yahowah’s Torah Guidance to the daily lives of Yisra’elites. They were the first in a long line that ended with Shamuw’el. And, so, it was that just after the passing of Yahowsha’, and upon entering the Promised Land, that we are made privy to a conversation which parallels 1 Shamuw’el 7:3, albeit from a slightly different perspective. The speaker is Yahowah in Spirit.
“And then (wa) the Messenger (mal’ak – the heavenly envoy and spiritual representative who is 197dispatched as a deputy) of Yahowah (Yahowah – an accurate transliteration of the name YaHoWaH, our ‘elowah – God as guided by His towrah – instructions regarding His hayah – existence and our shalowm – reconciliation) ascended (‘ala – rose and went up) from Gilgal (min ha Gilgal – of the wheel; from galgal – a cart wheel which rolls, evocative of rolling away the burden of guilt; based upon gal – a rock or stone used as a witness to mark the boundary of an agreement; related to gilgalath – the skull or cranium of an individual; also galah – the feminine of gal, meaning to reveal and make known) to Bokym (‘el ha Bokym – of the weeping, the place of tears), and He said (wa ‘amar – He claimed, He promised, and He declared (qal imperfect)),
‘I chose to lift you up because you wanted Me to take you away (‘a’lah – I decided to make an enduring sacrifice enabling you to rise up throughout time, to meet with you and withdraw you forever, and to carry those of you away who so choose (hifil stem imperfect conjugation – the subject, God, enables the object, those being lifted up and taken away, to participate in their withdrawal and ascension to the extent that it becomes a shared experience, one which is ongoing, continuing to unfold throughout time, expressed in the volitional form, similar to the cohortative (first-person volition) and the jussive (third-person volition))) from (‘eth min – out of and away from) being besieged in the Crucible of Egypt (Mitsraym – confining crucibles of human oppression; associated with Egypt, whose name for itself was the Black Land; plural of matsowr which is from tsuwr – to be confined and besieged by an adversary, to be assaulted and tested to the limit by a foe, to be bound and controlled as a result of being confronted by a militaristic enemy which hems in and precludes escape, cutting off supplies).
And so, I brought you (bow’ – I came to pursue you, to get you, to include you, and to return you (hifil imperfect – 198with the intent of motivating and engaging on an ongoing basis with unfolding implications while participating in the action together)) into the Land (‘eth ‘el ha ‘erets – accordingly to the realm) which relationally and beneficially (‘asher) I promised (shaba’ – I swore an oath, affirming the trustworthiness, reliability, and dependability of My testimony as long as the conditions were met (written identically in the text to sheba’ – seven, fully fulfill and satisfy, and abundance, making shaba’ – seven is a promise to fulfill and satisfy abundantly) (nifal stem perfect conjugation passive voice – acting on His own initiative, the subject, who is God, is providing every aspect of the sworn testimony regarding the oath which at one point in time was made so nothing more need be done or said because the promise is totally complete, lacking nothing)) to your fathers (la ‘ab – for your forefathers to approach and come near).
I explained that (wa ‘amar – then I declared and promised that) I would never break, split into two, violate, make ineffectual, or nullify (lo’ parar – I would never discontinue or cease to uphold, I would not at any time infringe upon or encroach upon, I could never invalidate or repudiate, I could not at any time annul or abolish, I would not ever revoke, fragment, or create a second variation; identical to parar – to split, separating into two parts, thereby breaking, shattering, dissolving, and voiding the original agreement (hifil stem yiqtol imperfect conjugation – the subject, Yah, enables the object, the beneficiaries of the original promise, to participate in this proposed agreement to the extent that it becomes a shared experience, one which is ongoing, continuing to unfold throughout time, never-ending, expressed in the volitional form telling us that this is the way God wants it to be)) My Covenant (beryth-y – My one and only, singular and binding, family-oriented relationship agreement of Mine, My contractual arrangement regarding My household, My alliance and partnership pledge, My marriage vow; based 199upon beyth – family and home and banah – to build a home upon the family name) with you (‘eth ‘atem), ever, throughout the whole of time (la ‘owlam – to approach for all eternity, to come near for the duration of time, always being the proper direction to reach the goal into perpetuity, consistently and continually existing without end, endlessly and for forevermore).’” (Shaphat / To Decide by Exercising Judgment / Judges 2:1)
While mal’ak can be used to describe any one of Yahowah’s vast accompaniment of spiritual messengers, errantly known as “angels” based upon a transliteration of the Greek word for “messenger,” aggelos, this individual, who was dispatched from Yah as His representative, is special. In this case, since the context shows this masculine mal’ak – deputy dispatched from Yahowah speaking in first person as God, he is projecting Yahowah’s presence as if a sophisticated probe.
Gilgal served as the first encampment of the Yisra’elites after crossing the Jordan east of Jericho – and is therefore the doorway from the wilderness into the Promised Land. It was the location where Shamuw’el served Yahowah as a Judge and, therefore, where Yahowah’s message was shared with His Children. However, Gilgal is also the location where Sha’uwl was pronounced King and which, thereafter, was known for its illicit religious worship. And on the bright side, it was the location where Yahowah revealed that He would take ‘ElYah | Elijah up to heaven.
The related word, gilgalath, addresses the place of the skull, known as Golgotha, where the Messiah rolled away the guilt of his people on Pesach and Matsah. Galgal also speaks of the round stone that served as a witness to mark the agreement Yahowah had made with mankind, the stone which was rolled away from the empty tomb on Bikuwrym.
200With introductions made and location designated, God’s next statement describes His purpose – one which reflects the intent of the Covenant. Yahowah wants to lead us away from human oppression so that we can enter His Home. And the means at His disposal to enable us to accomplish this extraordinary journey are magnificent.
First and foremost, there is no reason to ever ask God for His will for your life. He has stated it here using the yiqtol imperfect to express that it is His will, His desire, His decision, and His choice to lift us up and take us away from national and religious subjugation. While clerics and kings would have you bow down to them, Yahowah wants us to stand upright. His goal is the antithesis of that imposed by man.
Withdrawing from the grasp of human power is the first thing Yah requested of ‘Abraham, asking him to walk away from Babel – the confusion and corruption of Babylon. Now in this statement, the source of human oppression is the Black Land, called Egypt today – and known to Yahowah as “mitsraym – the crucibles of human oppression.” But before we contemplate the implications of Mitsraym for us today, please appreciate the fact that ‘a’lah in the imperfect indicates that this was not a one-and-done affair.
God has chosen to continuously elevate and eternally withdraw His children. Additionally, with the influence of the hifil stem, Yah empowers us to engage as participants in the process. God is not lifting dead weight, the lazy or inactive. He enables those who are upright and willing to walk with Him. He supports those who take some initiative and who are willing to rely on Him. He meets the willing, providing us with the means to dissociate ourselves from the clutches of man, and once we have done so, He provides the means for us to approach and enter His Home.
201It is noteworthy that at the time this was written, “Egyptians” referred to their country as the “Kemet – Black Land.” That’s telling. It’s also revealing to note that, even today, the actual Arabic name for Egypt is Misr, from the Hebrew Mitsra’, the plural of which is Mitsraym.
Muslims, of course, have no idea what Misr means, or that, like almost every word in the Quran, it is actually based in Hebrew – as is the word Quran. It is derived from the Hebrew verb qara’ – to read and to recite.
Since Mitsraym is something from which Yahowah takes great pride in having freed us, we need to understand what the name represents. It is the plural of matsowr, which is based upon the verb, “tsuwr – to be confined and besieged by the adversary, to be in a human crucible of oppression, to be assaulted and tested to the limit of human endurance by a relentless foe.” Tsuwr conveys the idea of “being controlled by a militaristic nation which binds its victims, curtailing their freedoms, making escape from their clutches difficult.”
While almost every Islamic nation falls under this definition, with their propensity toward monarchy and fascism, communist nations like China and North Korea are similarly burdened. There is no better example of this than Egypt today, especially under the oppressive dominion of Sisi’s military junta. But this is nothing new for Egypt, in that it has endured a long legacy of dictatorial control, from thousands of years of subjugation under the pharaohs to a long line of foreign oppressors, the Greeks, the Romans, and Ottomans.
Since all of the debilitating and oppressive acts associated with tsuwr are being perpetrated by the head of state, by governments and their militaries, by the religious establishment and related economic interests, mitsraym, as “crucibles of oppression,” is addressing political, religious, military, and economic domination through coercion and 202tyranny. And these conditions are as prevalent today as they were three thousand years ago. Therefore, it is sobering to realize that God is offering to help us stand up and walk away from all forms of human authority, no matter how pervasive or destructive.
Sadly, inexplicitly, very few are willing to accept Yahowah’s help in disassociating from religion and politics, nationalism and patriotism. And while distancing ourselves from these things by becoming more skeptical and independent is a productive initial step, as is going from being religious to becoming an agnostic, be cognizant of the fact that there are many paths away from human oppression, but there is only one path to God.
Starting at the Doorway to Life, Pesach | Passover, Yahowah walked with His children, guiding them step by step through His Miqra’ey, His Invitations to be Called Out and Meet. The second step along the way was Matsah | UnYeasted Bread, when the Yisra’elites were perfected prior to being reborn spiritually into Yah’s Covenant Family – an event we celebrate the following day on Bikuwrym. Seven Sevens (the Promise of Seven and the Shabat) later, on Shabuw’ah, the Yisra’elites, en route to the Promised Land during the Exodus from Mitsraym, were enriched and empowered by the revelation of Yahowah’s Towrah to Moseh (the One who Draws Out) on Mount Horeb.
These first four Miqra’ey were fulfilled in year 4000 Yah (33 CE on the pagan Roman Catholic calendar in use today) by God’s Son, the Messiah Dowd, and the Set-Apart Spirit, thereby, enabling the promised benefits of the Covenant. But there are three more steps along the Way. As part of the fifth, Taruw’ah | Trumpets, the beneficiaries of Pesach, Matsah, Bikuwrym, and Shabuw’ah act as troubadours announcing, to all who will listen, that man’s way is the wrong way and that God has invited those who are observant and receptive into His Covenant. This leads 203to the sixth Miqra’, Yowm Kipurym | the Day of Reconciliations, when Father and Son will return to reconcile their relationship with Yisra’el and Yahuwdah – which is good news considering the fallen state of the relationship expressed in Judges and Samuel.
Yahowah will arrive in Yaruwshalaim as light, as will Dowd, and they will immediately vanquish the darkness of a world lost in tribulation, on the brink of self-destruction and complete annihilation. This event, replete with the universal judgment of nations and the liberation of Yisra’el, was foretold in the Yow’el / Yah is God / Joel 4:1-4 passage we considered moments ago. Insights regarding these events are prolific throughout the prophets.
So just as the Miqra’ey foreshadow Yahowah’s return to Yaruwshalaim, Yisra’el, with His beloved Son, this is also the path that leads us Home, to the seventh and final step along the way, to Sukah | Tabernacles, and thus to Camping Out with our Heavenly Father. As the seventh step, Sukah represents our arrival in the Promised Land – to living with our Heavenly Father in His Covenant Family. As is the case with Yowm Kipurym, Sukah will be fulfilled in year 6000 Yah (October 7th, 2033, on the pagan Roman Catholic calendar, five days after the October 2nd fulfillment of Kipurym), and on a Shabat, of course.
This is God’s one and only path from man’s corrupt world to Heaven. And that is why Earth will become ‘Eden during the one-thousand-year celebration of Sukah. Hopefully, you are beginning to see the picture being painted by Yah’s words. Shaba’, Shabat, Shabuw’ah, and Sukah are equivalent concepts as are the Garden of ‘Eden, the Promised Land, the Covenant Family, and Heaven.
In this light, please consider what occurred, as well as what did not happen, in the Garden of ‘Eden. Yahowah provided ‘Adam and Chawah, man and woman, husband and wife, father and mother, and supportive companions, 204with a set of instructions, His guidance on what they should and should not consume. Instructions conveyed, He went on to experience and enjoy the life He had created with ‘Adam just as a father would share his favorite accomplishments with his son.
While God wanted His son to continue to participate in this relationship with Him for all eternity, for ‘Adam to be an equal and equitable partner, someone with whom to spend quality time sharing and exploring, man would have to be given a choice, the option to forego the relationship. And so, when he did, Yahowah not only itemized the consequences but, at that moment, began His six-plus-one or seven-thousand-year plan to return His creation to ‘Eden – on behalf of those who choose to accept His invitation.
The three most important events along this path occurred on two-thousand-year markers or, more accurately, on forty Yowbel intervals. The Yowbel, meaning Yah’s Lamb is God, is the time the Towrah tells us that all debts are forgiven, all slaves are freed, and the Land returns to Yah for all to enjoy.
Therefore, in year 2000 Yah, 1968 BCE, the Covenant was confirmed between Yahowah and ‘Abraham and Yitschaq on Mount Mowryah facilitating a return to ‘Eden. Forty Yowbel after that glorious interaction, in year 4000 Yah, 33 CE, Dowd returned as the Zarowa’ to fulfill the first four steps along the way, also on Mount Mowryah, facilitating the benefits of the Covenant. He walked out of the pages of the Towrah and his Mizmowr to become the living embodiment of the Beryth by fulfilling Pesach and Matsah leading to Bikuwrym and Shabuw’ah.
Forty Yowbel hence, in year 6000 Yah, which I calculate is 2033 CE on our Roman Catholic calendars, Yahowah will return with His Son to this same place to reconcile the relationship with Yisra’el and Yahuwdah on Yowm Kipurym – the Day of Reconciliations, renewing and 205reaffirming His Covenant with a remnant of the Chosen People. Five days later, on Sukah | Tabernacles, after removing and then disposing of all traces of man’s religious, governmental, military, societal, and economic corruptions, Yahowah will restore the entire planet so that the conditions experienced in ‘Eden will be replicated – enabling Him to Camp Out with His creation. His Home, and therefore His Tabernacle, during this one-thousand-year observation of Sukah and the Shabat, of the Promise of Seven, will be in Yaruwshalaim, Yahuwdah, in Yisra’el, on the actual summit of Mount Mowryah (which is not the current and polluted Temple Mount).
And so, it will be. The Promised Land will become the heart of ‘Eden. Our Heavenly Father and His Covenant Children will experience life together, enjoying a father-and-child relationship, one without the interference or the corrosive nature of religion or politics. As was the case with ‘Eden, there will be no government, no religion, no military, no places of worship, no pledges of allegiance.
Then, once we conclude this time of camping out in ‘Eden on Earth, in year 7000 Yah, Yahowah is going to create a new universe – this time with His children as witnesses. And this time, the entire universe will become ‘Eden – our playground, our realm to share and explore with Yah.
Recognizing that it has been a while since the full translation of God’s statement was presented, here it is again as a reminder:
“And then (wa) the Messenger (mal’ak – the heavenly envoy and spiritual representative who is dispatched as a deputy) of Yahowah (Yahowah – the proper pronunciation of YaHoWaH as ‘elowah – God instructed in His Towrah – Guidance regarding His hayah – existence) ascended (‘ala) from Gilgal (min ha Gilgal), and He said (wa ‘amar),
206‘I chose to continuously lift you up because you wanted Me to take you away (‘a’lah) from (‘eth min) being besieged in the Crucible of Oppression, Mitsraym, and so I brought you (mitsraym bow’ – I came to pursue you, to get you, to include you, and to return you (hifil imperfect – with the intent of motivating and engaging on an ongoing basis with unfolding implications while participating in the action together)) into the Land (‘eth ‘el ha ‘erets – accordingly to the realm) which relationally and beneficially (‘asher) I promised (shaba’ – I swore an oath, affirming the trustworthiness, reliability, and dependability of My testimony as long as the conditions were met (written identically in the text to sheba’ – seven, fully fulfill and satisfy, and abundance, making shaba’ – seven is a promise to fulfill and satisfy abundantly) (nifal stem perfect conjugation passive voice – acting on His own initiative, the subject, who is God, is providing every aspect of the sworn testimony regarding the oath which at one point in time was made so nothing more need be done or said because the promise is totally complete, lacking nothing)) to your fathers (la ‘ab – for your forefathers to approach and come near).
And I explained that (wa ‘amar – then I declared and promised that) I would never break, split into two, violate, make ineffectual, or nullify (lo’ parar – I would never discontinue or cease to uphold, I would not at any time infringe upon or encroach upon, I could never invalidate or repudiate, I could not at any time annul or abolish, I would not ever revoke, fragment, or create a second variation; identical to parar – to split, separating into two parts, thereby breaking, shattering, dissolving, and voiding the original agreement (hifil stem yiqtol imperfect conjugation – the subject, Yah, enables the object, the beneficiaries of the original promise, to participate in this proposed agreement to the extent that it becomes a shared experience, one which is ongoing, continuing to unfold throughout time, never-ending, expressed in the volitional 207form telling us that this is the way God wants it to be (as a result, there is absolutely no possibility whatsoever for a new covenant nor New Testament))) My Covenant (beryth-y – My one and only, singular and binding, family-oriented relationship agreement, My contractual arrangement regarding My household, My alliance and partnership pledge, My marriage vow; based upon beyth – family and home and banah – to build a home upon the family name) with you (‘eth ‘atem), ever, throughout the whole of time (la ‘owlam – to approach for all eternity, to come near for the duration of time, always being the proper direction to reach the goal into perpetuity, consistently and continually existing without end, endlessly and for forevermore).’” (Shaphat / To Decide by Exercising Judgment / Judges 2:1)
So now after having gleaned the insights already discussed in the opening statement, there is a lot more we can learn by contemplating what Yahowah said next: “I came to pursue you, to get you, to include you, and so I brought you to the Land, returning you to the Land.”
The verb, bow’, which was deployed to communicate this process, was scribed in the hifil imperfect. That means that Yahowah did so with the intent of motivating His children to the point that they would be willing to engage with Him on an ongoing basis with unfolding benefits throughout time. It also means that, in this relationship, Yahowah and His children would travel together along this journey. The Covenant is a relationship after all.
The Land is home, the place where the path leads. It represents both ‘Eden and Heaven. It is where Yahowah is taking His children. It is our inheritance as participants in the Covenant. It is “‘asher – a benefit of the relationship.” But even more telling, it is the “shaba’ – Promised” Land. The Land embodies the very essence of what Yahowah, “as a result of the relationship, beneficially promised, swearing an oath to affirm the 208trustworthiness, the reliability and dependability of His testimony.”
This is the promise of Sukah, the seventh Miqra’, which is why the Hebrew word for “promise” is written identically in the text as is the word for “seven.” A return to the “Promised Land” is the seventh step along the way. Shaba’ ‘erets is the Realm of Seven, the Promised Place. It is Sukah. It is Yahowah’s Home, God’s Tabernacle. It represents Camping Out with God.
It is why Yahowah asks us to “shuwb – return” to Him. He is taking us back to ‘Eden. He is returning us Home. It has taken six thousand years, but God isn’t burdened by the ordinary flow of time. And its passage has been to our benefit, allowing as many as are willing and receptive to join His company.
The Promise of Seven is embodied within the seven Miqra’ey, which serve to lead us to the Covenant Home, to Yahowah, to Heaven, to be participants in our Heavenly Father’s Family, where we are able to camp out with God for all eternity.
Further affirming this insight, shaba’, the Hebrew word for “promise” and also for “seven,” speaks of “fully fulfilling an oath which completely and abundantly satisfies.” Six plus One equates to Seven, which is why it is the formula for achieving Yahowah’s will: to bring man (created on the sixth day) and God (who is one) together. This is Yahowah’s “shaba’ – oath to fulfill His promise of seven.”
Adding to our understanding, we find that shaba’ was modified by the nifal stem, perfect conjugation, and passive voice. This means that, acting on His own initiative, God is providing everything required to completely fulfill His sworn testimony regarding His oath. It means that His promise was made during a particular period of time and, once made and fulfilled by Dowd, 209nothing more needs to be done or said because the promise is totally complete, lacking nothing. We are imperfect. Yahowah is perfect. His Towrah, therefore, perfects the imperfect.
The human father with whom the Covenant was affirmed, is ‘Abraham, a name which is a compound of “‘ab – father” and “racham – enriching and merciful.” So with that in mind, Yahowah’s promise was made “la ‘ab – to your fathers.” And the reason ‘ab is plural is because, in addition to making this promise to ‘Abraham, Yahowah made it to Himself as our Heavenly Father and to the first children of the Covenant, Yitschaq – Laughter and Ya’aqob who became Yisra’el.
What follows is equal parts marvelous and devastating depending upon our perspective. It affirms that there is only one Covenant and that the “‘amar – declarations, explanations, and promises” Yahowah has made regarding it will “lo’ parar – never be broken, made ineffectual, or nullified.”
This means that when we observe, come to know and understand, accept and act upon the five instructive conditions Yahowah delineated to ‘Abraham in the opening book of His Towrah to participate in His Covenant, we can rest assured in complete confidence that they will enable our participation in the same Covenant Family just as they did for ‘Abraham.
That’s the good news, because these instructive conditions are clear and succinct, and they are reaffirmed countless times, just as they have been in 1 Samuel 7:3 and Judges 2:1. The Author of life is telling His creation that we can all trust what He has to say, no matter when or where we live. Therefore, we are liberated from the Christian problem: Why trust a god who replaces his original testimony and plan with a new and different testament and proposal?
210For those who want to avail themselves of Yahowah’s invitation, the initial requirement for participation in His Covenant is to walk away from our country, from the babel – confusion and corruption of Babylon, from the oppression of religion and politics, governance and nationalism, militarism and societal customs.
Second, instead of relying on these human constructs, Yahowah asks us to trust and rely on Him exclusively. And for this to occur, we must first come to know who He is and understand what He is offering – an outcome achieved through closely examining and carefully considering His Towrah | Instructions. In this regard, trust is unlike faith and reliance is unlike belief. Information and contemplation are paramount because one has to know to trust and has to understand to rely.
Third, Yahowah asks us to walk to Him and become perfect by so doing. This path to perfection is by way of the Miqra’ey, where we walk through the door of Pesach to eternal life, across the cleaning threshold of Matsah, preparing us for Bikuwrym – adoption into the Covenant Family. Then on Shabuw’ah, which is the Promise of Seven, the Covenant’s Children are enlightened, enriched, and empowered enabling us to serve as Yahowah’s troubadours on Taruw’ah. This points the way to Kipurym | Reconciliations five days before Sukah, where the Covenant’s Children Camp Out with their Heavenly Father.
Fourth, Yahowah asks us to observe, closely examining and carefully considering, the instructive conditions associated with participation in the Covenant Relationship Agreement. These can be found in only one place: God’s Towrah. And based upon the promise Yahowah has just made, there is only one Covenant, a Covenant that will never be annulled or divided.
211Then fifth, the sign of our acceptance of the Covenant is to be circumcised as men, and as parents to circumcise our sons. This shows our commitment to raising our children to become our Heavenly Father’s children. The sign reveals that we are separating ourselves from the world and unto God.
This is all great news. Even the requirements of the Covenant are benefits. They are not difficult. They do not require us to obey any laws. They do not even require us to be good, only right. There is no prayer requested or required. There is no worship, no donations, and no obedience. It’s quite liberating.
The bad news should be obvious but, if it isn’t, let me share it with you. The world’s most popular religion, Christianity, is based upon Sha’uwl | Paul’s insistence that there is a “new covenant” and that he was the lone authorized agent of his god to announce its conditions – which turn out to be nothing more than rejecting Yahowah’s “Old” Covenant as presented in His Towrah as failed, and then believing him. In Sha’uwl | Paul’s “new covenant,” known now as the “Christian New Testament,” all five of Yahowah’s instructive conditions for participating in the original Covenant are dismissed as counterproductive.
Rather than walking away from your country, from human religious and governmental authority, as we shall discover in the next chapter, Sha’uwl | Paul presents government as an institution that is authorized by his god, to which believers should submissively subject themselves.
Rather than trusting Yahowah, it’s Sha’uwl | Paul who is to be believed. Rather than walking to God along the path He provided to perfect us, Paul presents Yahowah as a failure who cannot save anyone.
Paul implores the faithful to ignore, even reject, the Miqra’ey, thereby completely negating Dowd’s fulfillment 212of Pesach, Matsah, Bikuwrym, and Shabuw’ah. In that Yahowah’s Torah is dismissed by Paul as antiquated laws that cannot be obeyed or trusted, there is no longer any place to observe the terms and conditions of the Covenant. And Sha’uwl | Paul was history’s single most antagonistic individual against circumcision, the sign of the Covenant.
Please understand. I am not exposing the incredulous nature of the world’s most pervasive faith to save Christians from Sha’uwl | Paul but instead to protect Yahuwdym | Jews from the anti-Semitic diatribe this wannabe apostle spewed out on an unsuspecting world. It is imperative that Yisra’el comes to know her adversary so that she can more effectively defend herself against the faithful. Yahowah is exposing and condemning Sha’uwl | Paul and his religion for the same reason. I am not only following His lead; I concur with His rationale.
Beyond even this, Gowym | Gentiles deserve to know the truth. Those who are questioning their religion are entitled to answers. A gowy, like myself, who becomes Covenant, is no longer an enemy and has now become a friend and advocate of Yisra’el and Yahowah. It is akin to transforming swords into plowshares to till the Land.
There is yet another reason I am compelled to destroy the myths associated with Jesus Christ and the New Testament. Christians are aggressively promoting their faith to Jews, trying to convert them. Going from Judaism to Christianity is jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Religion is never the answer, no matter how seductive the ploy.
This problem is surprisingly large, with well-funded and slick campaigns promoting Jews for Jesus, the God Channel, Messianics, and the Hebrew Roots Movement all peddling their concoction of snake oil to those who have suffered under rabbinical authority. Their “success” is alarming, with Jewish conversions to various forms of 213Christianity becoming the fastest-growing religion in Israel.
In his second of three lives, the Messiah and Son of God had a singular purpose, one Jews and Christians alike have missed. He came to fulfill the Miqra’ey, beginning as the Passover Lamb. Then he carried his people’s guilt into She’owl – where it will never be seen again. If you are looking for a Savior, I’d like to recommend Dowd.
When Yahowah: “explained, declared, and promised, I will never break, split into two, violate, make ineffectual, or nullify My Covenant,” He nullified and made ineffectual the Christian myth that there would be a new covenant. He promised “lo’ parar – I will never discontinue it or cease to uphold it. I will not at any time infringe upon or encroach upon it. I could never invalidate or repudiate it. I could not at any time annul or abolish it. And I will never revoke, fragment, or create a second variation of My Covenant, ever!”
Lo’ parar means that Yahowah’s Covenant “will not be split or separated into two parts, one old, one new, thereby breaking, shattering, dissolving, and voiding the original agreement.” Diving deeper into the rhetoric, we find that the hifil stem and yiqtol imperfect conjugation convey that “the subject, Yah, enables the object, the beneficiaries of the original promise, to participate in this agreement to the extent that it becomes a shared experience, one which is ongoing, continuing to unfold throughout time, never-ending.”
Also, in the yiqtol imperfect, this is an ongoing and everlasting Godly commitment, expressed in the volitional form, revealing that this is the way God wants it to be. As a result, there is absolutely no possibility whatsoever for a Divinely inspired or authorized new covenant or New Testament. Period. End of conversation. End of the religion of Christianity. Goodbye and good riddance.
214While Islam’s Quran is too stupid for words, and easily the worst book ever written, the notion that a god by a different name, one who claimed to be the same as the Author of the Towrah, revealed a completely different message is also torn asunder. So is Judaism, which claims that the rabbinic arguments that comprise their Talmud represent a subsequent revelation from the Lord Ha Shem.
Please do not miss the fact that Yahowah called the Covenant “Mine.” With God as the speaker, the “beryth-y – is My one and only, singular and binding, family-oriented relationship agreement, My contractual arrangement regarding My household, My alliance and partnership pledge, My marriage vow, My Covenant.” The Hebrew word, beryth, based upon “beyth – family and home,” thereby, describes the nature of this relationship and its purpose. Further, beryth is shaded by “banah – to build a home based upon the family name.”
There are five benefits awaiting those who engage in the Covenant. Yahowah’s children become immortal, perfected, adopted, enriched, and empowered. The Covenant’s participants inherit the Promised Land and live in ‘Eden during Sukah, and then in Heaven, thereafter.
Pounding a final nail in Christianity’s coffin eighteen centuries before Imperial Rome would morph into the Roman Catholic Church under Theodosius in 400 CE, Yahowah revealed that His one and only Covenant would endure “la ‘owlam – forever, throughout the whole of time, for an eternity, always being on the proper path to reach perpetuity, consistently and continually existing without end, forevermore.”
And that means Sha’uwl / Paul lied. His New Testament cannot be trusted. Christianity is a fraud.
Yahowah’s Covenant was not Paul’s to change. He had no authorization to annul it or replace it. There cannot be two of them, one old and the other new.
215God is opposed to all religions. He does not have a church, synagogue, or mosque. He did not die for your sins, and He does not want you to kill for your salvation. He was not bodily resurrected, and He did not play religious dress-up in a black suit and hat. He does not have a New Testament, Talmud, or Quran. He has not repudiated His Towrah. He has not authorized a Renewed Covenant or Replacement Theology. He is wholly opposed to Pauline Doctrine, to Christianity, to Crosses, to Sunday worship, to the Trinity, to being called Lord, to the notion that there is a Queen of Heaven or Mother of God, and to Christmas and Easter. And He is antagonistic toward the rabbis, Judaism, Purim, Rosh Hashanah, High Holy Days, Hannukah, a nine-candle menorah, etrog, twirling chickens, Kosher, and HaShem.
Participation in the Covenant was not predicated upon obedience to a set of laws. Towrah means “Guidance and Instruction, Teaching and Direction.” There is no Hebrew word for “obey.” The Towrah does not require perfection; it instead perfects those of us who are imperfect.
There are five conditions that must be known, understood, accepted, and acted upon to gain entrance into Yahowah’s Home. None of which is difficult. All of which are liberating, enlightening, empowering, and enriching.
There is one path Home, each day of which is a celebration of life in the Covenant. As such, the Covenant is a relationship, one in which we must engage to be included.
No one enters Heaven by being good, by faith, through donations, by worshiping God, by reading the New Testament or Talmud, by being a Christian or through Judaism, by going to church or synagogue, through Communion, the Eucharist, or by eating Kosher. There are no Christians or Haredim in Heaven, no Muslims either. There are no patriots in Heaven, no military or political 216leaders. Eternity in Heaven will be comprised of Yahowah, His Covenant Family, and the universe He will create for our enjoyment.
We turned to the second chapter of Judges because we were investigating the nature of the ‘Ashtarts’ association with religion generally, the Whore of Babylon specifically, and indirectly the Lord, Ba’al. So, before we turn the page and consider what Yahowah had to say to Shamuw’el about human government and the authority of Sha’uwl, let’s linger here a moment longer.
While Yahowah has held fast to His Covenant, Yisra’el has wavered, turning instead to religion. This is from the same conversation in Judges…
“And they actually rejected, continuously abandoning their relationship with Yahowah, and they habitually served and worshiped the Lord Ba’al along with the ‘Ashtarts, acting as the Queens of Heaven, the Mothers of God, and the Virgins with Child, thereby, kindling the continual displeasure, the genuine resentment, and the resolute anger of Yahowah with Yisra’el.
And therefore, He gave them into the hands of the plunderers and their militias. So, they have raided, pillaged, looted, and ransacked them, selling them into the control of their rancorous enemies from all around so that they will not be able to stand any longer with the approaching presence of their adversaries.” (Shaphat / To Decide by Exercising Judgment / Judges 2:13-14)
Now as is our custom, let’s take a closer look and see what more we can learn.
217“And they actually rejected, continuously abandoning (wa ‘azab – so they genuinely neglected and consistently forsook, damning (qal imperfect)) their relationship with (‘eth) Yahowah (Yahowah – an accurate transliteration of the name YaHoWaH, our ‘elowah – God as guided by His towrah – instructions regarding His hayah – existence and our shalowm – reconciliation).
Moreover, they habitually served and literally worshiped (wa ‘abad ‘eth – they actually expended considerable energy and intensity to consistently work on behalf of, and were reduced to servitude by (qal imperfect)) the Lord Ba’al (ha Ba’al – their Lord and Master, the Adversary, their Possessor and Owner, the One in Control, the one to whom they are married and ruled; from ba – with and ‘al – almighty and thus with their god (Lord Ba’al, and his namesake, Bel, was the principal deity of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Philistines, Canaanites, Persians, and Roman Catholics)) along with (wa la – also drawing near) the ‘Ashtarts, the Queens of Heaven and the Mothers of God, in addition to the Virgins with Child (‘Ashtart – the pagan mother earth goddess syncretized into the world’s religions, also known as Ishtar, Astarte, Isis, Aphrodite, Venus, India, Diana, and Mary; either the wife, mother, or daughter of the Lord, Ba’al, ‘El, Ra’, Osiris, Tammuz, Ashur, Sin, Zeus, and Jupiter; called the Queen of Heaven, Mother of God, the Virgin/Madonna and Child, and Lord of the Horns; from ‘ashar and ‘ashtarah – to become rich by increasing one’s flock while taking a tithe), thereby, kindling the continual displeasure, the genuine resentment, and the resolute anger (wa charah ‘aph – so as to enrage the ongoing burning zealousness (qal imperfect)) of Yahowah (Yahowah – the proper pronunciation of YaHoWaH as ‘elowah – God instructed in His Towrah – Guidance regarding His hayah – existence) with (ba – in and against) Yisra’el (Yisra’el).
218Therefore, He gave them (wa nathan – then He allowed them to go, surrendering and placing them (qal imperfect)) into the hands (ba yad – into the grasp, power, influence, dominion, and control) of the plunderers (shasah – of those who engage militarily or with militias to raid, pillage, loot, and ransack a foe, taking a spoil and dividing it up for themselves).
And they have raided, pillaged, looted, and ransacked them (wa shasah ‘eth), surrendering and selling them into the control (makar hem ba yad) of their rancorous enemies (‘oyeb – foes in hostile and hated opposition) from all around (min sabyb – surrounding and encircling them from all sides) so that (wa) they were not able to stand (lo’ yakol ‘amad – they were incapable of prevailing, losing the capacity to make a thoughtful decision or understand) any longer (‘owd) with the approaching presence (la paneh) of their adversaries (‘oyeb – foes in hostile opposition and rancorous enemies). ” (Shaphat / To Decide by Exercising Judgment / Judges 2:13-14)
This example of cause and consequence, of rejecting God for religion, is one many people today ought to consider. Any association with “the Lord” or “the Virgin and Child, the Mother of God, or the Queen of Heaven” separates us, damning our relationship with Yahowah. And if we neglect and abandon God to worship manmade counterfeits, Yahowah will neglect and abandon us, leaving us to be plundered and pillaged by the rancorous enemies who are implements of the Adversary.
It is reprehensible, inexcusable, and especially despicable that religious men have removed Yahowah’s name from His testimony in the Towrah | Guidance, Naby’ / Prophets, and Mizmowr / Psalms 7000 times, each time replacing YHWH with “the Lord.” And indeed, that is what we find in almost every English “translation” of God’s Word, from the KJV to the NKJV, from the ESV to the 219NASB, from the NIV to the NLT. They are all guilty of committing the same unforgivable sin – the one delineated by Yahowah in the third statement He etched in stone – the one that says that Yahowah will not forgive those who negate the value of His name.
Ba’al means “lord.” Ba’al and its cognate, Bel, served as the names of the god at the head of the Babylonian pantheon. Lord has been used as the name or title for god in virtually every religion since that time right up to and including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is the name and title Yahowah affords Satan because the Adversary craves what God rejects. Satan wants to be a Lord, to own and possess the faithful. He wants mankind to bow down to him and to worship him. And so, they do by the billions.
Satan, according to Yahowah, garners his power and influence from babel, from the corruption and confusion born out of the religions manifest in Babylon. In his masculine guise, He is Ba’al, the Lord. In his feminine role, he is ‘Ashtart, the Mother of God and Queen of Heaven – especially, the Whore of Babylon. Collectively then, ‘Ashtart – the Queen of Heaven and Ba’al – the Lord serve as the mother and father of religion. Each adaptation of their Babylonian religion is perpetrated as a counterfeit. Every variation seeks to be seen as credible by corrupting the truth, thereby confusing unthinking believers.
In this regard, the May 1st observance of Beltane, now celebrated by Secular Humanists and Environmentalists as “May Day,” was based upon the Celtic worship of this same god, Bel. Their celebration of fertility rites echoes throughout the Mother Earth and Mother Nature goddess myths we witness elsewhere, especially the idea of the Mother of God and Queen of Heaven being impregnated by the Lord, Bel, the sun god, to bring forth life. The Beltane was considered the “Great Sacred Wedding of the Goddess and the God,” and thus it was evocative of a pagan covenant. The faithful would marry on this Ishtar Sunday, 220giving birth to religious children nine months later, foreshadowing Christmas.
The religious rite featured the “Maypole,” a phallic symbol still hoisted skyward, flags fluttering, on May Day. This now contemporary and secular act was specifically condemned by Yahowah in Jerimiah. The floral ring on top of the Maypole represents the goddess’ womb being impregnated by one of the sun’s rays. It was also a symbol of the union between the heavens and the earth. The graphic scientific designation for men and women, with circles, rays, and crosses, reflects this symbolism.
Dying eggs, hunting for them, placing them in floral baskets, and rolling them across the ground were hallmarks of the religious festivities, just as they are today during Easter. These rites were incorporated into the Druid religion which is telling because that is where Christians got the name “Gesus,” the Savior of the Druids, whose principal deity was the Horned One.
‘Ashtart was not only venerated as the Queen of Heaven, the Mother of God, and the Virgin with Child, she is, most assuredly, the Whore of Babylon. ‘Ashtart / Ishtar is Satan’s counterfeit for the Set-Apart Spirit, our Spiritual Mother. And her most celebrated festivals, Easter Sunday and the Nativity, Christmas to Christians, are counterfeits for Passover and Tabernacles, thereby, hiding the path home under a pile of pagan myths. And sadly, ignorantly, irrationally, and inexcusably, at the behest of religious leaders throughout time, the overwhelming preponderance of people have been beguiled to believe this babel.
Even the book Christians call “Scripture,” their Bible, shares a common root with Babel and thus Babylon. This is a particularly disgusting name for something which claims to be “the Word of God,” because babel is a compound of ba – with and bel – the Lord. It means: to be with the Lord, to be confused and corrupted by Satan. The 221combination of the “Babel – with the Lord of Babylon” title for the Christian Bible, replacing Yahowah’s name, calling the Tanach “the Old Testament,” adding a New Testament, including Paul’s letters, and then corrupting the translations from beginning to end so that the resulting collection becomes confusing, serves as the most deceitful, destructive, deadly, and damning combination of religious malfeasance ever perpetrated on humankind. There is nothing man has done or even could do, that would be as debilitating.
This is one of many reasons, that upon His return, once every choice has been rendered, Yahowah will personally write His name on the hearts and then place a copy of His Towrah inside of His Covenant children. There will be no more Bibles, no reference to the Lord, no faulty translations, no New Testament, no Talmud, no Christianity, no Judaism or Islam, no more corruption of His testimony nor confusion regarding it. And it is no accident that this promise is part of the Jerimiah 31 declaration, where Yahowah irrefutably denounces the notion of anything supplementing His Towrah.
Collectively, then, none of the following are acceptable: Churches in general and specifically those with statues to Mary as the Virgin with Child, Bibles generally and specifically New Testaments with Pauline epistles, referring to Yahowah as “the Lord,” participating in Easter or Christmas. Each of these kindles God’s resentment and resolute anger. They all serve to preclude the Christian from developing a relationship with Yahowah. It is what these things represent that excludes those who harbor them from heaven. What they may mean to the believer is irrelevant.
God only protects His children. He could care less about those who are religious. So if you are religious, Yahowah will do nothing to protect you from those who would plunder you including your government and your 222church. The faithful cannot stand and are found instead bowing down in submission to human authority.
For those whose eyes are open and minds are receptive, Shaphat | To Decide by Exercising Judgment / Judges 2:13-14 was a treasure trove of enlightenment.
Here now is a second treatise from the same prophetic collection regarding the fabrication of the Lord as God. It also includes a reference to the Mother of God and Queen of Heaven. Once again, we are confronted by the fact that religion is wrong, especially when their god is the Lord and there is a Queen of Heaven and Mother of God, a Virgin with Child – especially if the religion is Christianity and, most adroitly, Roman Catholicism.
Here then is a synopsis of God’s instruction…
“Then again, and to an increasing degree, the Children of Yisra’el engaged in that which was absolutely wrong, grievously evil, and horribly troubling in the sight of Yahowah by serving and worshiping the Ba’alym Lords, the ‘Ashtarts | the Queens of Heaven, the Mothers of God, and the Virgins with Child, all together with the gods of ‘Aram | Syria, those exalting conflict, along with the gods of Tsydown | Phoenicia, including those making a game of hunting, and with the gods of Mow’ab | Jordan and those of the contradictory father going in the opposite direction, and with the gods of the sons of ‘Amown | Northwestern Arabia, and with the gods of the Palishty | Philistines, this pretense of Palestinians who are foreign invaders who attack, invoking fear, while separating and terrorizing (and thus the invasive militaristic state).
And thus, they rejected and abandoned Yahowah. They did not work or engage with Him.” (Shaphat / Judges 10:6)
223More completely amplified and explained, here is that same statement. And as you consider it, keep in mind that at the time this was conveyed, and for a millennium thereafter, there was no such thing as Judaism. The religious customs and militant politics being condemned here were instead Babylonian.
“Then again, and to an increasing degree (wa yasaph – all the more joining in repetitively), the Children of Yisra’el (beny Yisra’el) engaged in (la ‘asah – acted upon, creating and doing (qal infinitive – literally and without regard for specific individuals, place, or time)) that which was absolutely wrong, grievously evil, and horribly troubling (ha ra’ – that which was distressing, harmful, and immoral, undesirable, worthless, bad, and improper, displeasing, malignant, and disagreeable, corrupt, wicked, and injurious) in the sight (ba ‘ayn – in the view and from the perspective and understanding) of Yahowah (Yahowah – based upon ‘elowah’s – God’s towrah – guidance on His hayah – existence) by (wa) serving and worshiping (‘abad ‘eth – acting and laboring on behalf of and being reduced to servitude by (qal imperfect)) the Ba’alym | Lords (ha Ba’alym – their Lords and Masters, the Adversaries, their Possessor and their Owner, the Ones in Control, the ones to whom they are married and ruled; from ba – with and ‘al – almighty and thus with their gods) along with (wa ‘eth – everything associated with) the ‘Ashtarts | the Queens of Heaven, the Mothers of God, and the Virgins with Child (‘Ashtart – the pagan mother earth goddess syncretized into the religions of the Philistines, Canaanites, Egyptians, Babylonians, Syrians, and Christians, especially Roman Catholics, also known as Ishtar (Star of Heaven from which Easter got its name), Astarte, Isis, Aphrodite, Venus, and Mary; either the consort or daughter of the Lord, Ba’al; from ‘ashar and ‘ashtarah – to become rich by increasing one’s flock while taking a tithe), all together with (wa ‘eth) the gods of (‘elohym) ‘Aram | Syria (‘Aram – 224exalting conflict), and with (wa ‘eth) the gods of (‘elohym) Tsydown | Phoenicia (Tsydown – Sidon; from suwd – making a game of hunting), and with (wa ‘eth) the gods of (‘elohym) Mow’ab | Moab | Jordan (Mow’ab – who is the contradictory father going in the opposite direction), and with (wa ‘eth) the gods of (‘elohym) the sons of (beny) ‘Amown | Northwestern Arabia (‘Amown – from ammy – Whose Family?), and with (wa ‘eth) the gods of (‘elohym) the Palishty | Philistines | and therefore those pretending to be Palestinians (Palishty – foreign invaders who attack, invoking fear, while separating and terrorizing (the invasive militaristic state)).
And thus (wa), they rejected and abandoned (‘azab – they forsook and separated themselves from, leaving and deserting, severing their relationship with (qal imperfect)) Yahowah (Yahowah – an accurate transliteration of the name YaHoWaH, our ‘elowah – God as guided by His towrah – instructions regarding His hayah – existence and our shalowm – reconciliation).
They no longer worked or engaged with Him (lo’ ‘abad – they did not expend their energy or intensity in any task associated with Him, never serving by working with Him (qal perfect)).” (Shaphat / To Decide by Exercising Judgment / Judges 10:6)
Religion is “ra’ – absolutely wrong, grievously evil, and horribly troubling, distressing, harmful, and immoral, undesirable, worthless, and improper, displeasing and malignant, disagreeable, corrupt, and injurious.” Religion is the author of false hope, serving as one of mankind’s most grievous crimes. The victim is deceived and defrauded, not realizing that they have been duped by those who sought to be trusted.
When Yahowah provides a list of names, it is always revealing. In this case, these are the gods of those who “exalt conflict” and, thus, of patriots who honor their 225military, and the gods of those who “make a game of hunting” and, thus, enjoy killing.
These are the gods “fathered by contradictory men who would take believers in the wrong direction,” an apt depiction of Pauline Christianity. They are the gods of a different family whose true identity isn’t known by the faithful. And these are the gods of the “invasive militaristic state, of those who would attack and apportion” Yisra’el.
Moving on to the prophet whose life’s mission was to expose and condemn religion on behalf of Gentiles, we discover that worshiping the goddess, ‘Ashtart | Ishtar, is specifically criticized using the very title Romans Catholics recite today for Mary, calling her “the Queen of Heaven.” This occurred not once but twice in Yirma’yah / Jeremiah. In the first account, we find references that are eerily similar to Christian families preparing to celebrate Easter – although this is Yisra’el circa 600 BCE.
Once again, let’s quickly review Yah’s statement and then systematically dissect it. “Do you not see what they do in the cities and towns of Yahuwdah and in the public places of Yaruwshalaim?
The children gather and collect the wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women manipulate the dough, rolling it in their hands, to make the devotional cakes for the Queen of Heaven.
And for these reasons, by pouring out holy drink offerings to approach and follow other gods, they provoke Me to anger.” (Yirma’yah / Jeremiah 7:17-18) God is denouncing religious rites, saying that they upset Him.
226More completely amplified to enhance our understanding, the prophetic declaration reads…
“Do you not see (ha ‘ayn ‘atah ra’ah) what they do (mah hem ‘asah) in the cities and towns (‘iyr) of Yahuwdah (Yahuwdah – Relate to Yah and Related to Yah) and in the public places (wa ba huwts) of Yaruwshalaim (Yaruwshalaim – Source from which Instruction, Guidance, Teaching, and Direction Regarding Reconciliation Flows)?
The children (ha benym) gather and collect the wood (laqat ‘ets), the fathers light the fire (wa ha ‘ab ba’ar ha ‘esh), and the women manipulate the dough, rolling it in their hands, to make the (wa ‘ishah luwsh batseq la ‘asah) devotional cakes (kawan – a Babylonian word used to describe the small round religious cakes which were used in the worship of Ishtar on Easter) for (la) the Queen of Heaven (Maleketh ha Shamaym).
And for these reasons (la ma’an – on this account), by pouring out (wa nasak) holy drink offerings (nesek – sacred liquids prepared and consumed as part of a religious ritual on behalf of idolatrous representations of pagan deities) to approach and follow other gods (la ‘acher ‘elohym – on behalf of the followers of different and additional gods), they provoke Me to anger (ka’as – they increase My displeasure, My sorrow, sadness, and grief, annoying Me).” (Yirma’yah / Yah Uplifts / Jeremiah 7:17-18)
It was a family affair, one celebrated right out in the open, with the children collecting the sticks, their fathers lighting the fires in the ovens, and the moms religiously shaping the dough into small round wafers. They were celebrating Easter, laying the foundation for the Eucharist, Christian Communion, and the Last Supper, all while worshiping their god, the Queen of Heaven, also known as 227the Mother of God, who was the Virgin with Child – the Whore of Babylon.
For those who celebrate Easter and claim that it doesn’t mean any of this to them, it would be wise if they considered Yahowah’s response. What the Feast of Ishtar meant to those participating in it twenty-six hundred years ago was irrelevant. All that mattered was that it was stupid, insulting, and provocative.
Religious activities anger God. It is a point He makes over and over again. There is nothing that bothers Yahowah more than religious corruption because it misleads the masses, precluding the vast preponderance of people from getting to know Him.
Simply stated, and I’m summarizing here: God damn religion!
Yirma’yah | Jeremiah is the only prophetic book expressly dedicated to Gentile readers, expressly attacking religion from beginning to end. It renounces the idea of paying clerics, while specifically demeaning Easter, Communion, the Eucharist, the Christmas Tree, the title Lord, and the Christian New Testament. So, we should not be surprised that there is a second attack launched against the Queen of Heaven, or that this title lies at the heart of the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on humankind: Roman Catholicism.
Speaking then to Yisra’el for the benefit of those open to learning from their mistakes, we read…
“‘Yahowah could no longer endure the unfolding consequence of, nor could He overcome or comprehend the protestations which were repeating again and again with regard to the actual lifting up, the promotion of, and the genuine and universal acceptance of the presence of absolute wrong, of grievous evil, and the horribly troubling nature of your abusive and insulting 228practices and ruthless dealings because of the presence of the detestable abominations, confounding deceptions, and repulsive rituals associated with the worship which you have engaged in.
Therefore, it has become such that your realm is moving toward becoming ruined, toward something horrible, an object of scorn, where appalling events will unfold, causing a person to become lowly and little resulting in the absence of life as it is this day. (Yirma’yah / Jeremiah 44:22)
On account of the presence of these things, you have burned incense and made offerings, and by association, you have sinned against, forfeiting your position on the path to approach, Yahowah.
Moreover, you have not listened to the voice of Yahowah nor walked in His Towrah, in His inscribed and clearly communicated prescriptions of what should be done to be included, nor in His restoring testimonies.
Therefore, for this reason, you have summoned and will encounter this evil and destructive shepherd, as it is this day.’ (Yirma’yah / Jeremiah 44:23)
Additionally, Yirma’yah said to all of the people and to the women, ‘Choose of your own volition to genuinely listen to the word of Yahowah, all Yahuwdah who are in the realm of the Crucible of Mitsraym. (Yirma’yah / Jeremiah 44:24)
Thus says Yahowah of the assembled spiritual envoys, the God of Yisra’el, affirming,
“You and your wives have spoken with your mouths and, with your hands, fulfilled them, thereby, promising, ‘We will surely engage and act this way with our vows which by association we have made, burning incense and perfumed candles while making offerings to the Queen of Heaven while pouring out drink 229offerings to her idolatrous image.’”’” (Yirma’yah / Jeremiah 44:25)
Wow, this is mind-blowing. God just said that He cannot comprehend, tolerate, or resolve the stigma of religion. That is to say, religion is so ignorant and irrational that God cannot understand why anyone would choose it. It is to say, God finds religion so repulsive, so disgusting, that He will not allow anyone who is religious near Him. It further says that religion is so deceitful, destructive, deadly, and damning, God, Himself, cannot save the religious.
In that this is quite literally life or death, let’s reexamine the statement, considering every nuance of each word.
“‘So (wa – therefore) Yahowah (Yahowah – the proper pronunciation of YaHoWaH as ‘elowah – God instructed in His Towrah – Guidance regarding His hayah – existence) could no longer endure the unfolding consequence of, He could not overcome or comprehend (lo’ yakol – He was no longer capable of understanding or prevailing over (qal hofal passive stem – meaning is literal rather than nuanced, actual, and genuine, albeit passive, imperfect conjugation – unfolding and habitual, consistent and continual, with ongoing consequences)) the protestations which were repeating again and again (‘owd – the binding and confining (and thus religious) testimony continuing beyond any rational extent) with regard to the actual lifting up, the promotion of, and the genuine and universal acceptance (la nasa’ – concerning being carried away by, and consistently and completely respecting and tolerating in every place and every time (qal infinitive)) of the presence (min paneh) of absolute wrong, of grievous evil, or the horribly troubling nature (ra’ – the distressing, harmful, and immoral, undesirable, worthless, and bad, improper, displeasing, and malignant, disagreeable, corrupt, and wicked as well as the injurious 230aspect) of your abusive and insulting practices and ruthless dealings (ma’alal – of your rude, offensive and obnoxious deeds and cruel, merciless, and cold-hearted actions; from ‘alal – the severity and abusive nature of your dealings, your wanton and brutal abuses) because of the presence (min paneh – as a result of the appearance) of the detestable abominations, confounding deceptions, and repulsive rituals associated with idol worship (tow’ebah – loathsome lifestyle and lies as well as the abhorrent religious ceremonies and false statements; from ta’ab and tow’ah – degrading and confusing lies, troubling and despicable errors, abhorrent and untrue spoken arguments which mislead and bewilder) which you have engaged in (‘asher ‘asah – which by association you have acted on and done (qal perfect)).
Therefore (wa), it has come to be (hayah – it has come to pass and actually happen and will continue to occur (qal imperfect)) that your realm (‘erets – your land, ground, territory, and country) is moving toward becoming ruined (la charbah – toward a lifeless and desolate place, laid waste and decaying, deserted, depopulated and destroyed, dry and drought stricken), toward something horrible, an object of scorn, where appalling and atrocious events will unfold (la shamah – moving toward becoming devastated; from shamem – being stunned and stupefied, causing people to wander away, astonished by the appalling devastation, horrible lifelessness, and absolute waste), as a result of the contemptible formulation of a curse which diminishes your status, causing a person to become lowly and little (wa la qalalah – invoking an oath of a lowly and little account, vow that results in becoming lightly esteemed, slighted, or accursed, growing smaller and descending lower, disdained and despised, even trivialized and vilified; from qalal – to recede into nothingness, to become lowly and little, being treated with contempt, and qalas – being derided and scorned, ridiculed and mocked) resulting in 231the absence of life (min ‘ayn yashab – as a result of inhabitants being for naught, the marriage vow no longer existing) as it is this day (ka ha yowm ha zeh – similar to the way it is today). (Yirma’yah / Jeremiah 44:22)
On account of the presence of such (min paneh ‘asher), you have burned incense and made offerings (qatar – you have burned a variety of things, kindling fires, creating smoke and creating barriers with your offerings, joining in while being shut out, creating difficulties and doubt), and by association (wa ‘asher), you have sinned against, forfeiting your position on the path to approach (chata’ la – missing the way, being exposed and condemned by, even offending (qal perfect)), Yahowah (Yahowah – an accurate transliteration of the name YaHoWaH, our ‘elowah – God as guided by His towrah – instructions regarding His hayah – existence and our shalowm – reconciliation).
Moreover (wa), you have not listened to the voice (la shama ba qowl – you have not actually heard the proclamation (qal perfect active)) of Yahowah (Yahowah – the proper pronunciation of YaHoWaH as ‘elowah – God instructed in His Towrah – Guidance regarding His hayah – existence) or walked (wa lo’ halak – nor journeyed through, nor embarking on a path (qal perfect active)) in His Towrah (ba towrah – with His Source of Guidance and Instruction, His Teaching and Direction), in His inscribed and clearly communicated prescriptions of what should be done to be included (wa ba chuqah – with His engraved precepts which cut us into the relationship and allot a share upon the accepted participants) in His restoring testimonies (ba ‘eduwth – in His eternal witness).
Therefore, for this reason (‘al ken – accordingly as a result), you have summoned and will encounter (qara’ – you will meet with, inviting and calling upon yourself (qal perfect)) this evil and destructive shepherd (ha ra’ah – 232this wicked and errant ruler, this immoral and troubling associate who brings disaster, depravity, misery, and injury) as it is this day (ka ha yowm ha zeh – similar to the way it is today).’ (Yirma’yah / Jeremiah 44:23)
Additionally (wa), Yirma’yah (Yirma’yah – Yah Uplifts; a compound of ruwm – to raise up and Yahowah; I Am Raised Up by Yahowah) said (‘amar – proclaimed and communicated, bearing witness (qal imperfect)) to all of the people and to the women (‘el kol ha ‘am wa ‘el ha ‘ishah – to the entire family and especially to the wives and mothers), ‘Choose of your own volition to genuinely listen to the word (shama’ dabar – elect under the auspices of freewill to hear, understand, and accept the statements (qal imperative active)) of Yahowah (Yahowah – based upon ‘elowah’s – God’s towrah – guidance on His hayah – existence), all Yahuwdah (kol Yahuwdah – everyone who Relates to Yah and is thereby Related to Yah) who are in the realm of the Crucible of Mitsraym (‘asher ba ‘erets Mitsraym – who are associated with the realm of human religious and governmental oppression in the Black Land). Yirma’yah / Jeremiah (44:24)
Thus says (koh ‘amar – this is what is conveyed by and, therefore, here and now is what is proclaimed by (qal perfect)) Yahowah (Yahowah – accurately transliterating the name YaHoWaH, our ‘elowah – God as guided by His towrah – instructions regarding His hayah – existence and our shalowm – reconciliation) of the assembled spiritual envoys (tsaba’ – the heavenly messengers and implements arranged in a command and control regimen who come forth and serve, performing the will of), the God of Yisra’el (‘elohym Yisra’el – the Mighty One for Individuals who Engage and Endure with God), affirming (la ‘amar – for the purpose of communicating),
“You and your wives (‘atem wa ‘ishah – you in addition to your mothers and women) have spoken with your mouths (dabar ba peh – have put your own words in 233your mouths, speaking them (with the piel stem, the object suffers the effect of the verb’s action and is brought into that state by the subject while the imperfect conjugation describes continuous and habitual actions which have an ongoing effect)) and, with your hands (ba yad ‘atem), fulfilled them (male’), thereby, promising (la ‘amar), ‘We will surely engage and act this way (‘asah ‘asah – we will absolutely and unequivocally perform all of this (qal infinitive imperfect with repeated word for emphasis)) with (‘eth – according to) our vows which by association we have made (neder ‘asher – our binding promises and solemn oaths to our gods expecting favors), burning incense and perfumed candles while making offerings to (la qatar la – burned a variety of religious objects on behalf of) the Queen of Heaven (Maleketh ha Shamaym) while pouring out drink offerings to her idolatrous image (la nasak nesek – preparing and consuming sacred drinks to be consumed as part of a religious ritual in front of cast representations of her).’”’” (Yirma’yah / Yah Uplifts / Jeremiah 44:25)
There comes a point when we become so religious, so moronic, that God can no longer endure our presence, comprehend our confusion, or resolve our predilection to protest against Him. Frankly, considering the merits of His offer and the utter absurdity of the counterfeits, who can blame Him? Offer man the truth, and he chooses lies. Offer a chance to stand, and he prefers bowing. Offer to enrich and empower him, and he elects to be subdued and impoverished. Offer freedom, and he opts for servitude. Offer him life, and he chooses death. Offer man a relationship, and he wants religion instead. And for those who opt for such incomprehensible options, there is no opportunity to endure with God – there is no cure.
And yet, humanity remains mired in this rut. People continue to repeat the same mistakes. Mankind remains 234bound to governments, religions, and social customs – all of which God views as irrational protestations against Him.
And as bad as it was then, twenty-six centuries ago, it may be worse now. As a result of Socialist Secular Humanism, and its moral code, Political Correctness, wrong is promoted as right, evil is upheld as good, and lies have become universally accepted. In politics, in religion, in the media, and in academia, nations of the world overtly promote harmful and immoral behavior. A nation’s rhetoric can be errant and politically correct at the same time. In an inordinate number of cases, to be accurate, a person must risk being politically incorrect.
According to God, man’s “enlightened, progressive, and compassionate” way is invalid and counterproductive. In the realm of politics, mankind has shown a willingness to promote that which is: absolutely wrong, grievously evil, and horribly troubling, equally distressing and harmful, resolutely immoral and undesirable, totally worthless and improper, displeasing and malignant, disagreeable and corrupt and, most of all, injurious.
God’s perspective and man’s views could not be more opposing. What man calls compassionate; God calls abusive. What man considers acceptable; God considers insulting. In Yah’s eyes, Political Correctness is a rude, offensive, and obnoxious ploy to circumvent the truth and to upend reality, replacing that which is beneficial with that which is destructive.
The deceptions of government are detestable abominations that confound and confuse. Man’s repulsive religious rituals are akin to idol worship and, thus, represent loathsome lies that mislead and bewilder. And as a result, we have ruined our world and destroyed our collective character.
Left to our own devices and wanton choices, something horrible is about to befall us, a time of appalling 235atrocities where life itself would cease if it was not for Yah’s return. Our planet is in a constant state of decay, and we are quickly moving to a period of widespread depopulation and death.
Since Yahowah predicted it and has broached the subject, let’s consider the five most appalling events to befall Yisra’el and Yisra’elites. First, Rome sentenced Dowd, the King of Yisra’el, to death, ripping the skin off of His body before nailing Him to an upright pole on Passover in 33 CE.
Second, in 60 CE, a Roman citizen, under the Latin name, Paulos, in a book he devoted to Romans, not only created Christianity, the deadliest religion in human history, but he expressly told believers to submit to the Roman government and encouraged the hatred of Jews.
Third, during a period of infighting among Jews, Rome destroyed Yahowah’s Temple in 70 CE, using the wealth they looted from it and Yisra’elite slaves to build the Roman Colosseum – the most hellacious tribute to national, military, and religious depravity ever erected.
Fourth, as a result of Rabbi Akiba promoting a false Messiah, Hadrian retaliated and crucified hundreds of thousands of Yisra’elites, burning others alive with the Torah wrapped around them, while sacking Yaruwshalaim and salting the Land, renaming the city after himself in 133 CE.
And fifth, the Roman Catholic Church was imposed in 400 CE by Theodosius, spreading the Roman plague worldwide. They not only conquered the Land, erecting their monuments during the reign of the Byzantines, but they made Yisra’el the epicenter of world conflict by launching the Crusades.
As a result of religion and government, we have brought a contemptible curse upon humankind, a deadly 236and lifeless scheme that diminishes our status, stupefying us. It is why the man born as Sha’uwl was called the “plague of death” by Yahowah for having conceived the world’s most popular religion. And yet, this same man is known as the Apostle Paul to Christians, a moniker based upon the Latin name he chose for himself, one which means “lowly and little.”
His New Testament letters laid the foundation for the deadliest curse mankind would ever endure: Christianity where the “Old Testament’s” God is scorned, His Torah ridiculed, and His Covenant negated, resulting in the absence of life for the billions of souls plagued by the Pauline myth. More than any other, this is the religion Yahowah is prophetically condemning through His Judges and Prophets – especially Yirma’yah.
On account of Pauline Christianity, billions of lost souls have burned incense and have made offerings, joining in while being shut out. By negating His Towrah, Christians, seduced by Paul’s Gnostic prejudices, have not listened to the voice of Yahowah preferring the screech of Paul’s poisonous pen.
Unlike the Messiah Dowd, who was resolutely Torah-observant, no Christian walks in Yahowah’s Torah. And it’s not just that the faithful are oblivious to its message, they are prejudiced against it. Christians are wholly unaware of Yahowah’s clearly communicated prescriptions of what should be done to be included in the Covenant. An evil shepherd has summoned them to error.
I realize that the prophet is addressing Yisra’elites nearly a thousand years before Rome imposed Roman Catholicism. Such is the case throughout Yahowah’s prophetic testimony. He uses the history of His people to speak to all people – and in this case to Christian Gentiles.
God has been consistent from the beginning. We began our relationship together in ‘Eden and so we will 237return to the Garden. Noach is a prototype for ‘Abraham, with his Covenant foreshadowing what would follow. ‘Abraham’s journey to Mowryah served as a dress rehearsal for what Yahowah’s Firstborn would do 2,000 years thereafter when fulfilling Pesach.
In the next chapter, we will consider yet another example of this when we read Yahowah’s indictment of Sha’uwl, the man Yisra’elites chose as their king. Every word was prophetic of the wannabe Apostle by the same name, the Christian Sha’uwl | Paul, who gained renown beginning around 50 CE.
We should not be surprised that many aspects of Christianity predate the religion, because it is essentially an amalgamation of Babylonian, Greek, and Roman mythology. Bible, Sunday worship, Easter Sunday, Christmas, Lent, the Trinity, Crosses, halos, steeples, bowing in prayer, the Eucharist, Communion, Holy Water, the Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven, the Virgin and Child and, worst of all, a god called “the Lord” who died and was resurrected were all unveiled in Babylon. The Romans simply incorporated the lore of pagan mythology into Christianity to make it more acceptable to the masses they wanted to control. So that is why we are seeing the central themes of Christianity practiced and condemned by Yahowah nearly one thousand years before Rome imposed the religion on everyone.
Should you be up for the challenge, the cure for the ills of religion is to genuinely listen to the word of Yahowah. God is ever ready to liberate us from all forms of human oppression, especially those associated with Mitsraym.
But inexplicitly, as few as one in a million individuals consider Yirma’yah’s advice. They are defiant and prefer religious activities to participating in a relationship with Yahowah. When they are confronted with God’s testimony, they counter it with citations from those who 238have deliberately misled them. God’s word does not matter; it does not resonate or influence those who are resolutely religious. And that is why Yahowah asks us to walk away from such beguiling and debilitating schemes. Until we do so, nothing He has to say will matter.
You can tell Roman Catholics how their church transformed Ishtar into Mary, the Mother of God and the Queen of Heaven. You can explain the connection between Ishtar and Easter. You can show how vehemently opposed God is to erecting religious statuary – especially in honor of the Virgin and Child. But it will not faze them. They will continue to bring candles and incense, bowing, and praying before the graven image of their false god.
This has been great fun, and I suspect you’ve enjoyed the journey as well since you have made it this far. While the message has been horrific for those clinging to religion, most especially Christianity, and for those supporting an invasive militaristic government, for those of us who have let go of these things and who have grasped hold of Yahowah’s hand, this has been a reaffirming journey down a beloved path. The closer we have looked, the more we have learned. The more connections we have made, the more we have come to understand.
Rather than quickly skimming over an incomplete and inaccurate translation, we have been focused and observant, closely examining and carefully considering every nuance of what our Heavenly Father revealed to guide His children. And we have been rewarded as a result.
The entire chapter of 1 Samuel 7 would fit on this one page, and yet we have now devoted fifty pages to the 239message contained in a single statement. Fully amplified, we considered…
“Now Shamuw’el, meaning He Listens to God, consistently spoke to the entire Household and Family of Yisra’el, for the purpose of drawing near, by saying,
‘If with all your heart, that which constitutes your most authentic nature where that which is known, considered, and accepted serving to provide perspective, guiding your thoughts and providing understanding, you return to Yahowah, choosing to turn away from and removing the foreign and worthless, feigned pretense of strange gods from among you, and in particular, the ‘Ashtarts | the Queens of Heaven, the Mothers of God, and the Virgins with Child, while also choosing to firmly fashion through unwavering preparation and confident determination your capacity to be judgmental, including your motivations and preferences for Yahowah, and work with Him, serving with Him, while approaching Him exclusively, apart from any others, then He will deliver you away from the hand and influence of the Palishty | the foreign foes who invade the Promised Land, invoking fear, while separating and terrorizing.’” (Shamuw’el / 1 Samuel 7:3)
I have done so, and so has he. How about you?
The Yisra’elites followed this advice, albeit temporarily…“So then (wa), the Children of Yisra’el (beny Yisra’el – the children who engage and endure with God) turned away from and removed (suwr – they changed their direction regarding and abolished, forsaking, rejecting, and ridding themselves of) accordingly that which was in association with (‘eth) the Lords (ha Ba’alym – the authorities seeking to rule over and control, seeking to own and to possess as lords and masters) as well as (wa ‘eth) the ‘Ashtart (ha ‘Ashtart – the religious 240veneration of the Astartes and the Ishtars, the Queens of Heaven and the Mothers of God, the Virgins and Madonnas with Child), and they expended their energy on behalf of their work (‘abad – they engaged and acted, functioning and serving) in association with (‘eth) Yahowah (Yahowah – properly pronouncing YaHoWaH as ‘elowah – God instructed in His Towrah – Guidance regarding His hayah – existence), and with Him, alone, separated unto Him exclusively (la bad huw’ – approaching Him only, becoming part of Him, sharing in the whole of what He has to offer, now clothed in linen garments).” (Shamuw’el / He Listens to God / 1 Samuel 7:4)
It was a rational response to sound advice. This was the result...
“Then (wa) the Palishty | Philistines (ha Palishty – the foreign invaders who attack, invoking fear, while separating and terrorizing (the invasive militaristic state)) were humbled (kana’ – were diminished in status, silenced and subdued), and they never, ever, again returned (wa lo’ yasaph ‘owd – they never more were witnessed for the duration of time), entering (la bow’ – arriving, pursuing, penetrating, being included, or coming) into (ba) the territorial boundaries (gebuwl – the land and region) of Yisra’el (Yisra’el – Individuals who Engage and Endure with God).
And (wa) it was, it is, and it always will be (hayah – it exists as (qal imperfect active)) that the hand (yad – the power and influence, the actions and ability) of Yahowah (Yahowah – accurately transliterating the name YaHoWaH, our ‘elowah – God as guided by His towrah – instructions regarding His hayah – existence and our shalowm – reconciliation) withstood (ba – was against) the Palishty | Philistines (ha Palishty – the foreign invaders who attack, invoking fear, while separating and terrorizing (the invasive militaristic state)) all of the days 241(kol yowmym – the entire time) of Shamuw’el (Shamuw’el – He Listens to God).” (1 Shamuw’el / He Listens to God / 1 Samuel 7:13)
God is easy to please. And He is pleased to do as He has promised.
