- We had over 120+ youth and adults at the camp. We will start accepting registrations for next year starting January 2017. The goal of Camp Mashiach is to contribute toward righteous fellowship with like minded believers and to strengthen relationships founded in Hebrew roots. Camp Mashiach's website: http://www.CampMashiach.com
Yah willing, the following projects will be completed in the next 6 to 12 months:
(1) Teaching about the basic doctrines of the Bible in book, e-book, website and video formats.
(2) Teaching about how to prepare for marriage Yah's way in video format.
(3) Teaching about how to properly teach and raise children Yah's way in document and video format.
(4) Teaching about how to resolve conflicts in document and video format.
(5) Teaching about who the 12 tribes are in the 21st century in video format.
(6) Teaching about how Yah has preserved His Word in the book we call the Bible in video and document format.
(7) Teaching about the Book of Revelation for the 21st century in video and document format.
- It is time I start teaching ALL Yah has helped me to understand during over 30+ years of understanding all of His commandments and instructions must be respected and obeyed to the best of our ability . . . despite the persecution that will result from these teachings.
- The world hated Yeshua and His followers in the 1st century and it is no different in the 21st century (John 7:7; 15:18-19; 17:14-20; Eccl 1:9).
- I'm talking about the real Jewish Yeshua not the one most of Christianity believes nailed His Father's Torah to the stake. The GOOD NEWS is most of them will understand and believe the True Yeshua in the future (Romans 11:32; 1 Timothy 2:4; Revelation 7:9-17). Additionally, our people have disrespected prophets and those that preach a prophet's message for thousands of years (Luke 6:22-23; Isaiah 66:5; Matthew 23:34-37; Acts 7:51-52).
As I have stated a few times in my messages to you, we are living in an age where the Truth is not sought by the majority of the population of the earth (Isaiah 59).
The majority seriously think about Yah when something bad happens to them. Then when everything is okay, they forgot about Yah.
““Because I called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one inclined, and you spurned all my counsel, And would not yield to my reproof, “Let me also laugh at your calamity, Mock when your dread comes, “When your dread comes like a storm, And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. “Let them then call on me, but I answer not; Let them seek me, but not find me. “Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of יהוה, They did not accept my counsel, They despised all my reproof, "Therefore let them eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own counsels. “For the turning away of the simple slays them, And the complacency of fools destroys them. “But whoever listens to me dwells safely, And is at ease from the dread of evil.” (Proverbs 1:25-33 The Scriptures)
"Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear." (Isaiah 59:1-2 KJV)
- We have to be willing to accept Yah's correction through His words to expect to receive and have the Holy Spirit remain in us. We will not be able to understand His words if we do not accept His correction. And, when you don't have the Holy Spirit, it is very difficult to fully obey and understand Him.
“Turn at my reproof. See, I pour out my spirit on you, I make my words known to you1. Footnote: 1See Ps. 33:6." (Proverbs 1:23 The Scriptures)
"And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." (Ezekiel 36:27 KJV)
"But, as the Tanakh says, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard and no one's heart has imagined all the things that God has prepared for those who love him." It is to us, however, that God has revealed these things. How? Through the Spirit. For the Spirit probes all things, even the profoundest depths of God. For who knows the inner workings of a person except the person's own spirit inside him? So too no one knows the inner workings of God except God's Spirit. Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God, so that we might understand the things God has so freely given us. These are the things we are talking about when we avoid the manner of speaking that human wisdom would dictate and instead use a manner of speaking taught by the Spirit, by which we explain things of the Spirit to people who have the Spirit. Now the natural man does not receive the things from the Spirit of God — to him they are nonsense! Moreover, he is unable to grasp them, because they are evaluated through the Spirit. But the person who has the Spirit can evaluate everything, while no one is in a position to evaluate him. For who has known the mind of Adonai? Who will counsel him? But we have the mind of the Messiah!" (1 Corinthians 2:9-16 CJB)
The Holy Spirit can be quenched (1 Thessalonians 5:19) when we do not obey Yah by doing the following:
(1) Avoiding fellowship with people we should be fellowshipping with (Hebrews 10:24-25; 1 John 1:7).
(2) Not respecting Yah's teachers of His word (1 Peter 5:5; Hebrews 13:7).
(3) Not studying the Bible on a daily basis (Psalm 1; Psalm 119).
(4) Not praying to Yah on a daily basis (Psalm 1; Psalm 119).
(5) Having the spirit of favoritism (James 2:8-9; 1 Cor. 1:10-13; 1 Cor. 12).
(6) "Yoking" with people in the world and loving the things in the world more than Yah ( 2 Cor 6:14-18; 1 John 2:15-17).
(7) Being stingy and not giving to Yah's teachers and to others according to how Yah has blessed us (1 John 3:16-18; 1 Timothy 5:17-18; 2 Corinthians 9).
- The issues above certainly contribute toward reducing the level of Yah's spirit you have working with you and inside of you. Remember, He only gives His spirit to those who consistently obey Him.
"We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him." (Acts 5:32 CJB)
If you don't consistently obey Him, then Yah's presence will leave you and our enemy hasatan (the devil) can attack us and destroy us.
"For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." (1 Samuel 15:23 KJV)
- Rebellion is simply refusing to obey. There are no benefits for being rebellious. Our ancestors were VERY rebellious and our modern descendants are just as rebellious.
"And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
"But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. (Ezekiel 3:4-9 KJV)
"For I know how rebellious and stiffnecked you are! Here, even while I am still alive with you today, you have rebelled against Adonai; so how much more will you do so after my death? Assemble for me all the leaders of your tribes and your officials, so that I can say these things in their hearing, calling heaven and earth to witness against them - because I know that after my death you will become very corrupt and turn aside from the way that I have ordered you, and that disaster will come upon you in the acharit-hayamim, because you will do what Adonai sees as evil and provoke him by your deeds." Then Moshe spoke in the hearing of the whole assembly of Isra'el the words of this song, from beginning to end." (Deuteronomy 31:27-30 CJB)
Acharit-hayamim means the end of days or the latter days in Hebrew.
- So, you have Yah's prophetic words tell us our people (the majority) will continue to be rebellious even to the 21st century. In the Book of Revelation, Yeshua prophesied the assembly of Yah would have problems in every age include these last days (Revelation 2 & 3). This rebellion is a contributor to GREAT ignorance about Yah and His ways. Our people have a great zeal to do right but not according to proper knowledge. There is much confusion about the Bible and its message because of the failure of the majority to obey ALL His words. As Yeshua said, only the few in this evil age will live the right way (Matthew 7:14).
"Moreover, understand this: in the acharit-hayamim will come trying times. People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good, traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God, as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power. Stay away from these people!" (2 Timothy 3:1-5 CJB)
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." (Hosea 4:6 KJV)
"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." (Romans 10:1-3 KJV)
Yah states we will get blessed if we obey Him and we will get cursed when we disobey Him (Deuteronomy 28).
The GOOD NEWS is many people will finally get the message after they experience the "Great Spanking" (the Great Tribulation - Revelation 7:9-17). Remember, Yah punishes and corrects us because He loves us (Hebrews 12:5-11; Revelation 3:19; Isaiah 13:11-13; 26:9).
- We now have virtual Shabbat services. We originally started this ministry by having virtual meetings and we have decided to have virtual meetings while we have local services. If any of you are interested in our virtual meetings, then please go to our Meetup website and sign up to receive instructions and notifications of when we have our virtual meetings:
- As long as I am alive, I will do the best I can to help the assembles unite and learn how to agree on what the Bible says. However, I am just a man and I need others to help me and support me in this effort. Specifically, I would appreciate contact and support from anyone that believes what the Bible says about the assembly becoming unified and learning how to agree on the Bible's doctrines.
"Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ." (1 Corinthians 1:10-12 KJV)
Unfortunately, the "contentions" are going on in the Hebrew roots movement and in other movements. This "monkey business" must and should stop.
- TRUE and ULTIMATE unity is total agreement (Romans 12:16; Philippians 2:2; 4:2; 1 Peter 3:8). This is the type of echad (unity or oneness) Yeshua has with the Father and this is the echad He wants His bride to have.
- The Father and Yeshua are in TOTAL agreement.
He has promised in His word to have teachers that will help bring unity. Do we believe the following words?
"And He Himself gave some as emissaries, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as shepherds and teachers for the perfecting of the set-apart ones, to the work of service to a building up of the body of the Messiah, until we all come to the unity of the belief and of the knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the completeness of Messiah, so that we should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of leading astray." (Ephesians 4:11-14 The Scriptures)
"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me." (John 17:21-23 KJV)
- I understand we have to focus on what we agree on first. However, Yah prophesies in His word the wife of Yeshua will make herself ready before Yeshua comes back to the earth (Revelation 19:7).
- He is not going to come to a bride that is full of disagreements that cause division. We have to recognize who the True teachers of the Bible are and be willing to be taught by them.
- The 1st century assembly, for a period of time, believed the same thing (Acts 2:44; 4:32). And, it is possible for the 21st century assembly to believe the same things as well.
Currently, this is not happening in a significant way and this is one of the major reasons there is division in Yah's assemblies. The GOOD NEWS is Yah has prophesied that unity will be accomplished with assistance from His teachers.
"Therefore, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Messiah, and also a sharer of the esteem that is to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:
Shepherd the flock of Elohim which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but voluntarily, not out of greed for filthy gain, but eagerly, neither as being masters over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you shall receive the never-fading crown of esteem." (1 Peter 5:1-4 The Scriptures)
"Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." (Jeremiah 3:14-15 KJV)
"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD." (Jeremiah 23:1-4 KJV)
May Yah Bless and Keep You.
Shalom (Peace).
