Can people escape the call of God?
The first time I remember going to church was after my
parents moved to Saint Louis when I was three.
It was a fairly large Baptist church with an active children’s ministry.
Then we moved to NWA (Northwest
Arkansas) when my parents divorced.
Mom read to us out of the Children’s Bible. After she read about Enoch, I wanted to live
a life without sin as well.
So, when I was eight I went down to an altar to be saved in
the Baptist church. I sincerely wanted the power to not sin against the Father
of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) like Enoch. The pastor and deacons told me that Enoch was
chosen by the Father of Truth for this, but it was not for people today.
They told me there was no need to live a life without sin
since believers had eternal
security. They told me that the
Chosen Few were chosen by predestination
In fact, they told me that believers were still sinners who
could not help but continue to sin. They
made it plain that I would always be a slave to sin, but I would be saved in
the end.
However, I longed to be freed from the
monster within that caused me to do what I did not want to do. They gave me no hope of that ever happening.
The weight of the
promise that I made to Dad made life harder than it should have been as I
grew up. However, the weight of my sin
was even more crushing.
I became even more sick
and twisted after Grampa died. Contrary
to what I had been told, the more I sinned, the more I was convicted by the
Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) that I
would not be saved if I continued to sin.
I knew that one day I would have to answer to the Father of Truth,
and I was not going to escape the
chamber of horrors by saying “My
DNA made me do it”. I was desperate
to be saved from my sin and not just the penalty for sin.
When I was almost twenty everything changed,
I saw the transformation of the life of my cousin Carl, so I
also took the
deal that the Father of Truth
offers. I came to the Man of
Truth (Yah'shau aka Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus) in total
surrender on 13 NOV 1982.
I told the Father of Truth that I would go to any country He
wanted and was ready to become a martyr for the Man of Truth. I only asked for Him to not send me to the
Jews because I had been told by the religious professionals that they did not
need the Man of Truth to be saved.
A few days later, I went out on the first real date of my
life and asked Julie if she would marry me.
She responded, “Of course I will silly”.
Before we got married, Julie had some other things that she
wanted me to promise her first. She made
me raise my right hand and promise the Father of Truth that we would never live
in California where she had come from. She
however agreed to go with me to places like Saudi Arabia, if the Father of
Truth called me there as a missionary.
So we created a ketubah
that was written on our hearts instead of paper, even though we had never heard
of one.
Not long after that, I found that Julie would have
nightmares. It soon became apparent that
the Father of Lies had a hold on her like he had previously had on me. I did not know what to do and I called out
for the Man of Truth to help me.
Then on Friday, my boss called and asked if I would like the
night off, which never happened. In
fact, he told me to take the entire weekend off even though I was not on
vacation.
So, I called Aunt Laura and asked if I could come over for a
visit. She said yes, and we were off to
Tulsa.
When we got there, I asked Carl if he had any plans. He said that he was going to a Bible study
and asked if I wanted to go. So, off we
went.
When I arrived, Carl asked me what I thought about speaking
in tongues. I told him that I had always
heard that it was from the Father of Lies.
(This is what people in the Baptist and Methodist churches had said when
I was growing up.)
During praise and worship, the Spirit of Truth told me to
lay hands on Julie and command the Father of Lies to leave her. Even though it was contrary to everything I
had been raised to do in church, I complied, but nothing happened.
However, the music stopped and people all around me were
praying in languages that I had never heard.
When one of them laid their hands on my head, I too began producing the
sound of power.
It felt like I was on fire, and my hands were burning, but
not in a painful way. I commanded the
Father of Lies to leave her alone in a loud authoritative voice and she passed
out. She never had another nightmare
after that.
After that I joined the US Air Force and went to Greece.
My wife and I lived among the Greeks while there. The nearest other American was about two
Klicks (kilometers) (one mile) away.
Everyone around us spoke only Greek, except for our land
lady who spoke a little English. Everything
was written in Greek around us.
The radio stations were only in Greek, except for the one on
the Air Base. Our SOFA agreement with
Greece did not allow the Air Base to broadcast American television shows – even
though the Greek televisions were not able to tune into American television channels.
It did not bother me at all.
I would spend every moment that I could praying in tongues on the
rooftop.
The Spirit of Truth would reveal things to me while I was
praying, and it was better
than sex. I would sometimes get very
loud on that rooftop.
My wife Julie learned how to speak Greek very quickly. She was fully conversational in six months
but could not read Greek.
I had figured out how to read Greek within a month and soon
I could read Greek fairly well, but I could hardly speak it. So, I would read the Athens newspaper out
loud to Julie and she would correct my mispronunciation of many of the words.
We would eat dinner with our landlord and his wife most
evenings. Greek food had a strong flavor
like the food of the Ozarks, and I loved it.
While eating dinner one evening, the landlord asked Julie a
question that she interpreted to me. He
wanted to know why I could not speak Greek at dinner when I had been proclaiming
the goodness of the Father of Truth in Greek on the rooftop.
I had no idea that I had literally been proclaiming the
Good News from rooftops. This opened
up a conversation about the
Spirit of Truth.
In many ways life in Greece would have been paradise, if it
were not for those pesky terrorists. They
were supported and trained by the USSR as part of their strategy to drive the
Americans out of Greece so they could occupy it like the rest of the Balkan
Peninsula.
Most of the older generation was thankful to have the
Americans there because they remembered how the Americans liberated them from
Nazi occupation and had kept them from being behind the Iron Curtain of the
USSR. This happened to the Greeks
because of how they had treated the Jews.
During thousands of years of Jewish-Greco
wrestling, they had come to gain a grudging respect for the Jews. After many of the Greeks came into the House
of Truth due to the efforts of Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle
Paul) and other Jews, they became very protective of the Jews.
They gave Jewish refugees cities to live in where they could
continue to keep Jewish customs after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70
AD and the Roman destruction of Judaea (that Romans renamed Palestine after the
Philistines) in 135 AD. Among these
cities was Sourmena, the suburb of Athens that I lived in.
The bakery in Sourmena made fresh Challah every Friday and
there were many other Jewish foods like Hamantaschen that appeared occasionally. There were many other Jewish customs still
practiced there, even though most of the Jews had left Sourmena in 1821 AD to
build another city with the same name in Turkey.
I had no idea that these were Jewish things and thought that
they were Greek things. The Jews and the
Greeks had become so intertwined, that it took a long time before I could
identify which customs belong to which group and which were shared between
them.
Despite this, the Greeks never lost sight of who the
real Israelites were. Even though
Thessaloniki was seventy percent Jewish until the Nazis came, the Greeks that
lived among the Jews there were still Greeks and the Jews that dominated
Thessaloniki were still Jews that the Greeks protected.
Due to this close relationship between the two and legendary
Greek stubbornness, the Greeks had refused to turn over the Jews to the Nazis
when they invaded. This infuriated
Hitler so much that he put them on the list of races to be exterminated.
However, it was the Nazis who were exterminated and the
Greeks who began to prosper. The
presence of the Americans contributed to Greece
rising from the dead after it had been erased off the map by the Romans and
Ottoman Turks.
However, the derelicts among the younger generation were enticed
by the false promise of communism that other people would work to pay their
expenses so they could live a lifestyle of drinking and debauchery. Karl Marx had invented communism to support
him in living this lifestyle.
So, about seventeen percent of the Greeks were members of
the communist party. The only thing that
kept them from being able to start a revolution to take over Greece was the
presence of the Americans.
Therefore, terrorist organizations like November 17th
were created to drive the Americans out of Greece. These terrorists attacked Americans using
guns, knives, and explosives. They wore
nothing to distinguish them from the rest of the Greeks, so they could launch
an attack and then quickly disappear into a crowd.
Americans on the other hand were not allowed to carry any
kind of weapons – even fingernail clippers were forbidden – under the SOFA
agreement with the Greek government.
They were not an occupying military force like the Nazis had been. So,
the Americans had to rely on outwitting the terrorists.
So, Athens was not a conventional war zone at the time, but
neither was it a place of peace. It was
hard to explain this to other Americans at the time, for there were no terms to
describe what was a unique situation for America at that time.
It was only after America was given the
call of 9-11 that terms like “asymmetrical urban warfare” and “IED (Improvised
Explosive Device)” became standards that described what we were dealing with in
Greece. The only ones who really understood
this at the time were the Israelis, but they just called this situation “everyday
life”.
There were seventeen terrorist incidents – about one every
six weeks – while we lived there and it put a lot of Americans on edge. However, I knew that the Father of Truth had
brought me there for a reason and would protect me.
I was also somewhat prepared in that the dirt at my feet had
been kicked up by bullets and I had to take evasive action when I was growing
up in NWA. I had to outwit bullies all
through my school years because I had not yet learned how
to deal with a bully in the most effective way.
So, the Father of Truth was using this to instill a
heroic spirit in me. I did not know
it at the time, but He was also preparing me to answer His call step
by step at the time.
After my enlistment, we decided to move to Tulsa.
After we moved to Tulsa, I started watching Christian
television shows. Among those was one
called Jewish Voice that talked about how the Man of Truth was a Jew and how to
minister to Jewish people while standing strong with Israel.
The show also showed me from the Book of Truth that Jews
could not be saved apart from surrendering to the Man of Truth. It also showed me that Gentile believers had
not replaced the Jews in the plan of the Father of Truth, because it
has always been about the Gentiles.
The show also showed from scripture that Jews did not have
any means to be saved without the Man of Truth.
They proved from scripture that he was first and foremost the
Messiah of Israel .
I began watching other shows put on by Jews who followed the
Man of Truth as well like Zola Levitt.
These shows proved from scripture that following the Man of Truth was a
Jewish thing.
They explained the
Biblical calendar and Biblical holidays.
They proved from scripture that keeping these holidays was not
just a Jewish thing but was open to everyone who followed the Man of Truth.
They showed from scripture that these holidays were all
about the Man of Truth from his death to his eternal reign in the New Heaven
and New Earth. I later realized that the
Father of Truth was using the Jewish people to put on the
greatest play ever when they kept these holidays in the way He instructed.
They also showed from scripture along with archeology and
history that the Jewish people had been sent
to the ends of the Earth and back again.
Even those that were part of the
Lost Tribes of Israel were coming back to Israel.
They also showed from history that Christian
Zionists had been part of the plan to make this happen. It became plain that the Jews were not the
forgotten people as I had heard growing up.
They showed how the Christian Zionists had an impossible
dream to bring back the
impossible people scattered all over the Earth to return to the
impossible land that no one could survive in. These Christian Zionists began the
impossible healthcare in the most disease-ridden place on Earth as part of
that dream.
They also showed how the
impossible language had become the official language of the
impossible country that was ran by the
impossible government. It was plain
that Israel was the work of the
Greatest Zionist.
I found all this to be very interesting given my interest in
the Book of Truth, history, and archeology.
However, now if someone told me that they were Jewish and did not need the
Man of Truth, then I would be able to show them from scripture why that was not
true.
Then I was given the Call.
In 1995, I had a dream that changed my life. The Father of Truth was plainly calling me to
witness to the Jewish people as well as the Gentiles while standing strong with
Israel.
During the grand vacation I took that year the Father of
Truth confirmed my dream again through total strangers including on the only TV
commercial I saw on the entire trip. I
had told no one except Julie about my dream.
Soon, I was in chat rooms on AOL discussing the Man of Truth
with Rabbis. They would often use a Hebrew
expressions that I had not heard before and they would explain them to me.
I was soon using these terms in our conversations. Slowly but surely I began learning more and
more Hebrew terms until some of our discussions were more in Hebrew than in
English.
Also, I got a Sky Angel subscription when it came out. I soon learned how to read Hebrew from shows
on it. I soon began reading Messianic
passages – albeit very slowly – in Hebrew.
I soon saw that some of these passages in the Masoretic Text
did not agree with the King James translation.
However when I read these passages in the Greek Septuagint there was no
disagreement with the King James translation.
Then I found a site on-line where I could examine the Dead
Scrolls for myself. When I read these
passages in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew there did not say the same thing
as the Masoretic Text. However, it did
agree with the Greek translation in the Greek Septuagint.
So, this not only cause me to improve my Hebrew skills but
also my Greek skills. I could see the
importance of knowing Greek as well as Hebrew when examining passages in the original
language of the Original Covenant.
I had never stopped having dreams in Greek after I left
Greece and even had one last month.
However, now I also had dreams in Hebrew as well. Sometimes I had dreams in a mixture of the
two that I call Grebrew that exists only in my head as far as I know.
So, I was having discussion with Rabbis and other followers
of Judaism on-line about the Man of Truth.
I had learned how to disprove from the Hebrew scriptures every objection
that they had.
I was answering the call, but it seemed like I needed to do
more. I was not sure what else I could
do since I did know any Jewish people in real life.
I soon left my job at the community college to join Corporate
America as a contractor.
It turned out to be one of the best things I ever did. The long periods of unemployment ended up working
to my advantage.
During my breaks as a contractor, I had taught myself to
read Biblical Hebrew better. I became better
versed in the teachings of the
Rabbis, so I could refute them when witnessing to Jewish people online. I was able to show them in Hebrew why the
Rabbis were liars.
Then the contractor market in Tulsa dried up completely in
2000. So, I became an employee of
WorldCom.
By this time, I had quit eating anything that the Book of
Truth called unclean. No one had told me
to do this, but the Spirit of Truth was writing
on my heart the commandments of the Law of Truth
These things had gone from yum to yuck and I had no more
desire to eat them than dog poop. I
wanted for
dinner what the Father of Truth said was best for me.
We soon joined a new congregation. I did not know at the time that this was part
of my calling.
When I started laying hands on people at Family Church, I
began resting and observing the Sabbath.
I was not getting any rest on Sunday, and I had been taught by Grampa to
give the Father of Truth one
day a week. So, I spent a good part
of each Saturday praying in tongues to prepare myself to lay hands on the sick
each Sunday.
I also learned how
to identify Jews. So, I began
playing an on-line game called “Jew Or No Jew” to see how well I did.
The game featured pictures of famous people and you had to
pick the “Jew” or “No Jew” option under it.
You were scored based on how many times you made a correct
identification.
According to the game, I only made one misidentification –
Harris Ford. It turned out later that
Harris Ford was a quarter Jewish on his mother’s side - like I had told the
game host when I protested my less than perfect score.
During this time I learned about things like Solomon knots
that Jews living in Christian communities in rural America had placed in
obscure places on their tombstone to identify themselves as Jews. I had seen these before in cemeteries all
over the Ozarks thanks to Mom’s morbid habit of stopping at old cemeteries to
examine the graves.
So, there had been Jews scattered all over the Ozarks for
almost two centuries. It turned out that
there had also been Jews scattered throughout the Ozarks when I was growing up.
I soon identified five families that were Jewish in our
congregation of about seven hundred people.
I told each one that they had Jewish ancestry to verify that I was
correct.
Two of them were very open about it. One of them admitted it was true but asked me
not to tell anyone else.
The other two denied it at the time, but it prompted them to
look into their ancestry more closely.
They both reported later to me that I was correct but asked me not to
tell anyone.
Like the
Reluctant Jew, they had been clueless that they were Jewish until the
internet made it easier to investigate their ancestry. It turned their world upside down.
In 2002, Julie told me about some traveling exhibits that
she thought I would be interested in due to my efforts to reach Jews. I went to see a replica of the Tabernacle, an
exhibit called “Abraham to Jesus”, a play called “The Covenant”, and finally
went to the Feast of Tabernacles for one day.
After that, I started to keep the Feasts of Truth to the
best of my understanding. I started by
keeping Passover with a Jewish couple in our church.
The only way I knew to keep it was what I had learned from
my studies of the Rabbis. They had a lot
of traditions and had really made something simple, complicated. Since I could not find a Messianic Haggadah,
I made one myself that focused on the connection between the Passover lamb and
THE LAMB.
I was very nervous in my first Seder. However, this gracious couple put me at ease,
and it turned out to be a lot of fun.
So, I now knew Jewish people in real life, but they were
already following the Man of Truth.
Still, I continued to interact with them and the other Jewish couple to
gain real life experience.
Soon, I started encountering Jewish people all over Tulsa
whenever I went shopping or out for other reasons. I was going to Jewish events like Shalom Fest
often enough that many in the Jewish community would recognize me and greet me
when I arrived.
This opened the door for me to tell them about the Man of
Truth and how Israel existed because of his followers. This shocked many of them because they
thought that the False Church of Rome that had persecuted them for centuries
were his followers.
I was beginning to get my stride in answering the call that
I had been given. I also had
opportunities at work to talk with co-workers on the phone while we both waited
for some process to finish before we could proceed with our work.
Then it all suddenly came to an end in 2008.
The economy tanked and the Jewish couple that I was friends
with were forced to move away. Soon, I
was also laid off and began my first two year-long Obama vacation.
The pastor that I had helped start this congregation also
moved away to pastor a congregation of six thousand in Florida. He had told me that the Father of Truth had
told him that he would being doing so one day and I had confirmed that this was
true by the Spirit of Truth.
I had hoped that it would be this congregation because it
was growing by leaps and bounds until a new district superintendent was
appointed - who told him to stop doing all of the unconventional things that had
caused it to grow. That quenched the
miracles that came from the Spirit of Truth.
Eventually, a new pastor was assigned to our
congregation. He kept a Torah scroll on
his desk and seemed promising.
During the Obama vacation I had created a timeline that put
in chronological order all the events from Act 1 to Revelation 3. I had gone over most of the Renewed Covenant
with a fine-toothed comb.
I had read most of the Renewed Covenant in the original
Greek using the Greek I had learned in Greece, although it took some time to
get used to the differences between that and Koine Greek. I crawled through them slowly like I had done
with Hebrew passages before.
I learned in the process that the Father of Truth had never changed
the Sabbath to Sunday like I had been told by the religious
professionals. I was shocked to learn
that Paul the Jew (Shual aka Saul aka the Apostle Paul) had never stopped
keeping the
commandments of custom, but only taught that Gentiles did not need to keep
them to be saved.
It was apparent that the supposed conflict between the Law
of Truth (Torah aka The Law) and the grace of the Father of Truth was a
farce. It was certain that Paul the Jew
had taught the very opposite of what I had always heard called “The Pauline
Revelation”.
During this time, the wife of the new pastor convinced him
to start introducing things like Ash
Wednesday into our services. At the
same time, I had come to see how evil Halloween
really was after going to the trunk or treat that the church hosted.
I had revived the
Easter controversy by refusing to participate in Pagan customs to celebrate
Resurrection
Sunday. Instead, I was telling
people that we should be saying “Happy
Firstfruits”.
I was becoming like the
Mensch who killed Christmas. I
wanted us to have nothing to do with practices that came from Paganism – which
had started in Babylon.
Finally, I was kicked out of this congregation that I helped
to start because I pointed out the errors in a teaching video that he showed. The teacher in the video taught about a
version of American
Jesus that Oprah Winfrey would have approved.
I would not go along with false teaching to get along with
anyone because I was following the
most divisive man who ever lived.
The only way I could return was if the pastor returned to his original
teachings, but he would not do so because this was what his wife wanted.
Soon after this, the Obama vacation was over.
Around this time, I watched a documentary called “Against
All Odds: Israel Survives”. It showed
how the
impossible military had kept Israel from perishing despite their attackers
have every advantage over them.
It showed how Israel has developed the
impossible economy despite being the only place in the Middle East without
any oil. This documentary also showed
that Israel had survived and thrived despite the foolish decisions that their
government often made.
I had come to realize that I needed to find a congregation
that met on the Sabbath if possible. So,
we began visiting them.
Most of them were mixing the traditions of the Rabbis, which
came from Babylon, with the teachings of the Book of Truth. This was really no different than the Sunday
congregations mixing the traditions of Paganism, which originally came from
Babylon, with the teachings of the Book of Truth.
Not long after that, we found one last congregation by
word-of-mouth on the internet. So we
went there, hopeful but cautious.
When we arrived, we were led to a guest house behind the
main house that had been converted into a synagogue. We did not expect what we would see next.
There was an Ark for the Torah on the left side, a giant
Menorah next to it, and shofars next to a choir on the right side.
In the middle stood the pastor wearing his tallit. He also had an electric guitar that he began
playing blues music on after we had been called to worship by the shofar blast. After praise and worship, he went into a
short standup comic routine before delivering his sermon.
This was the most unusual congregation we had ever seen - including the one that had started handing out
rattlesnakes prompting us to leave early.
Still, it felt like home.
After the service, we had oneg (lunch) from a sea of
crockpots, which was their weekly tradition.
It was followed by midrash (discussion of the scriptures). It was the Sabbath all day and they were in
no hurry to leave.
As I talked to the pastor, it became obvious that he was a
Jim among men. He refused to be
called Rabbi, because the Man of Truth had said to call no man Rabbi (Matthew
23:8). However, he was still new to
a lot of this and needed my help in so many ways when it came to adopting
Jewish customs in his services.
In Greece I had so immersed myself in Greek culture that
most of the Greeks thought I was a Greek – as long as I did not talk too much
in Greek. I had done the same thing when
I was called to reach Jewish people.
So, the members who had been to a synagogue were sure that I
must have grown up in one since I was so familiar with the rituals that they
had adopted from the synagogues.
However, I had only learned these from Christian television, my dealings
with the Rabbis, and my attendance of various Messianic synagogues in my
search.
However, I soon had to begin defending our new
congregation from false teachers.
It was not long before midrash became a chaotic mess. It became harder and harder to keep order in it
each week.
First we were supposed to discuss the sermon for that week
and then if there was any time left over, then we could discuss anything else
that was on the minds of people. This
left only a short amount of time for these secondary topics and the discussion
could not go really deep into each topic.
Often Jim would address one of these topics in the next
sermon. This gave him an entire week to
research it.
However, in the next midrash the person who brought the
topic up would be upset because Jim had shown what the Book of Truth said about
the topic, and it did not match what they thought about it. So, they started introducing the secondary
topics early into midrash and took the focus completely off the sermon for that
week.
Often these topics would be something that someone had
created a controversy over to sell books.
They were rarely anything central to the teachings of the Man of Truth
or any sermon that Jim had taught.
Soon, someone would challenge what the first person said
about the topic, but the one who brought up the topic would get angry over
anyone challenging what they said about it.
This would often devolve into a shouting match with both parties saying
things to each other that had nothing to do with the topic.
Part of the problem was that the two parties would have two
different translations of the Book of Truth that said the exact opposite thing
about the topic. They both were sure
that their translation was the accurate one because it said what they liked
about the topic.
Sometimes, I would be asked what I thought, so I would look
at the Hebrew and/or Greek text to see what it said. I would then show them the text and translate
it for them.
They were able to confirm my translation for themselves with
the help of a concordance on their phone.
However, if it did not agree with their position then they would not
change their position to match the text of scripture.
Often, it would turn out that the manuscripts in the
original language - including the Dead
Sea Scrolls -showed that they were both wrong.
Often neither side would admit this even though they could see for
themselves that it was written in plain Hebrew or Greek.
The fact is that they were following someone who claimed to
be a follower of the Man of Truth instead of following the Man of Truth. They would not consent to his words because
they were proud and knew nothing (1
Timothy 6:3-4).
Some of them advocated things like all people with black
skin or red hair or Anglo-Saxon ancestry were Jews and only those with their
favorite trait were the
real Jews. They completely ignored
everything the Book of Truth said about the Jews being scattered among all
ethnic groups throughout the Earth (Deuteronomy
28:64-65).
Others sought use Rabbinic
Distort to bring in practices that were contrary to the commandments found
in the Book of Truth. Jim did not let
any of these practices to be adopted because he came to see that the Rabbis
were the
source of Jewish trouble.
He had verified that the Rabbis forbade Jews from reading Isaiah
53. He had also verified that they
had literally changed the text of Psalm
22 in the Masoretic Text from what was in the Dead Sea Scrolls to keep Jews
from recognizing that the Man of Truth was their Messiah.
The Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil) had
brought some of these people in just to cause division and strife. Just like every other congregation I had been
in, there were snakes
in the leaves that the congregation needed to be protected from.
Then I got a new job that gave me new opportunities.
My second Obama vacation came to an end in the second term
of President Obama. I had not wanted to
work at HCSC, but I could not deny that the Father of Truth wanted me there.
I began solving long-standing problems there with the help
of the Spirit of Truth. My methods were
unconventional and upset some people, but the problems would never be solved by
continuing to do what had failed for years.
Soon, I was invited to join a new project using new
technologies I had never used. The
Spirit of Truth was helping me and soon even the instructors were looking to me
to solve problems and explain how these new technologies worked.
Then we had contractors and consultants from Chicago as well
as other places come down to help us.
Many of them were Jewish.
So, I told them at lunch about the Man of Truth. They were curious why I was Torah Observant
since I was a Christian.
I could talk enough Hebrew with them – often more than they
could -to make them wonder even more.
They found it curious that I was so familiar with the customs of the
synagogue and the teachings of the Rabbis that formed the various branches of
Judaism.
I told them they needed to return to the Father of Truth by
obeying the one who Moishe (Moses) said that we must obey (Deuteronomy
18:18-19). I also warned them to
return to Israel because America would soon turn against Jews.
None of them came into the House of Truth at that time, but I
got them questioning everything that they had been taught about the Man of
Truth. I have not ceased to pray that
the Father of Truth would send others to water the seed that was planted. In the end, it is His work not ours (1
Corinthians 3:5-7).
Of course, I also told Gentiles about the Man of Truth. I worked with a number of Greeks in Chicago
over the phone who said that I spoke Greek better than they did.
The project was going great, and we were winning awards. All of our management team was located in
Tulsa and that really helped us work together to get things done quickly and
effectively.
This Tulsa team was showing that it could outperform every
Chicago team in every metric. So, jealousy
caused people at the headquarters in Chicago to take action to put an end to
this.
The Tulsa team individual contributors on this project were
soon assigned new managers in Chicago.
These managers began to grade people more on how well they conformed to
Chicago values than actual work performance.
This was formalized in a new performance rating system that matrixed
in things that had absolutely nothing to do with contributing to the success of
the project. In fact, those things only
made up 20% of the score.
Given equal weight to that was “Reflecting Company
Values”. The values of anyone are
determined by their political views and religious beliefs - and they demanded that those match those of the
company headquarters in Chicago.
When Chicago Man, my new manager, asked me about my talking
to Jews and Gentiles about the Man of Truth at lunch, I pointed him to the
company policy. He did not like it, but company
policy did not apply to us when we were at lunch outside of company property.
The project suffered terribly from this attempt to force
people into the company mold. Many of
our most productive team members left to work for companies that valued them
for their work.
I was especially problematic for Chicago Man and those
behind him. The leader of the scrum of
scrums had told them that I was the heart and soul of the project. If I left the project it was doomed to
failure.
I had shown that the harder I was pushed to conform, the
harder I pushed back to not conform. So,
Chicago Man took another tactic where he told me that I needed to improve my soft
skills (which was true). He then
enrolled me in classes to do that.
A lot of the principles that they taught could be helpful if
used by people with good intentions but could also be harmful if used by people
with bad intentions. Some of the
instructors admitted this but insisted that most people had good intentions
when they used them.
It did not take long to see that a lot of these classes encouraged
people to go along to get along. They
discussed reasons why everyone should adopt this approach.
However, I would not go along with evil policies to get
along with evil people. I would not be a
good Nazi and throw Jews into the oven when ordered to do so.
Also, there was something that they kept hinting at, but did
not want to go on record as the one who said it out loud. They seemed to hope that people would figure
it out for themselves, but I could not figure out what it was that they were
not saying.
Ultimately, the entire system for having good soft skills
were the opposite of what the Man of Truth had taught and done. If he had written a book on this, it would
have been titled “How
to lose friends and irritate people”.
At my next performance review, Chicago Man gave me a two out
of five-star rating. I got my lowest
rating in “Reflecting Company Values” and a perfect rating in the only section
that pertained to actually doing my job.
He told me that I needed to learn to play The
Game. When I asked him to clarify
what he meant, he looked very uncomfortable.
He refused to explain what he meant by the game was or how to play it.
It took me a lot more study to finally understand what it
was that he and the soft skills instructors were hinting at but refuse to say
out loud. Once I understood what it was,
I was determined to never play it.
He seemed to think that denying me my bonus and cost of
living increase would get me to bow to his idol, the company, but he was wrong. I counted it all joy to be persecuted for
telling Jews and Gentiles about the Man of Truth (James
1:2-4).
A few months after that, I had my last conversation with the
Jewish consultants. They had seen my
conviction about the Man of Truth and how I had never backed down in the face
of persecution.
Shortly after that, I was taken off the project and later
fired for not going along to get along as happened to many other people across
America. Corporate
America had decided that being seen as supportive of the Woke agenda was
more important than taking care of their customers and employees – even though
it was causing formerly prosperous companies to go broke.
It did not take long after that for what had been the most
successful project in the company to go down in flames. They had spent over three hundred million
dollars and had nothing to show for it – except the webservice that I had built
all by myself. The Father of Truth had
cursed those who had cursed me.
By this time, the situation at our congregation had
gotten worse.
Jim contracted a fatal disease, but he was determined to
finish his course. However, this made it
harder for him to fight off the wolves that came to destroy his flock.
Fortunately, I was able to help some. We prevented people from teaching out of the
Book of Enoch and other books that were not part of the Book of Truth. Others
were driven off who claimed that the
Book of Daniel did not belong in the Book of Truth because it contradicted
their doctrine.
After Jim died, most of the other remaining men left the
congregation. There was just two families
and some single women.
His wife replayed sermons that he had preached before each
Sabbath. However, at midrash people
began asking me a few questions about the sermon and whole lot of questions
about other subjects.
Then his wife started bringing her friends from before she
had started following the Man of Truth into the congregation. Then she invited a guest teacher that her
friends really liked.
This man taught about the
Greater Exodus. When it was over, I
asked about verses within the same chapters that he had taught from that contradicted
what he had taught because context
is king. He really did not have any
good answers to my questions.
He was very civil and said time would tell if he was right. However, her friends were angry that I had
dared to question what he had taught.
Not long after that, his wife asked me to leave the congregation. So, I wrote a fair well e-mail and encourage
people to take care of the widow of Jim.
However, some new people had started coming and they asked
if I could continue teaching them. The Covid
shelter at home order was in effect and his wife did not have the focus to run
an on-line service.
Jim made great presentations each week, but all I had was
the Word of Truth. However, they said
that was enough.
The entire Messianic Movement had become very different
since the shows I had watched on Christian television. The
Judaizers that the Book of Truth had warned against had taken it over and
rebranded it as “Hebrew Roots”.
They were teaching that Gentiles had to become Jews to be
saved by observing the
conditional commandments that only applied to Jews. They rejected the
Covenants of Promise in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) and would not consent
to the words in it.
They spent none of their time, talent, or treasure in
carrying out the
Great Commission. Instead, they were
embroiled in the
Rapture Controversy – claiming that the entire thing had been invented by
an American in the late 1800s.
So, they rejected the teaching of the Man of Truth that only
the worthy who were doing the work he commissioned us to do would be
raptured. They flat out rejected the very words of the Man of Truth - who flat out said that the worthy would
escape all of the tribulation and stand before him (Luke
21:35-36).
They were constantly mixing in the doctrines of the
Pharisees that Rabbinic Judaism is built on as well as that of the Sadducees
that the Karites come from with the teachings of the Man of Truth. This was contrary to his commandment to have
nothing to do with these very doctrines (Matthew
16:11-12).
Instead, they were breaking the commandment of the Torah to
obey the Prophet like unto Moses (Acts
3:22-23). There was no reasoning
with them nor even convincing them with scripture because they were despising
the manna.
I was worn out from trying to clean up the
Messianic Mess. I wanted someone who
taught the Book of Truth, the whole Book of Truth and nothing but the Book of
Truth like Jim had strived to do.
However, after praying about it, I consented to pastor this
small congregation on Zoom each Sabbath and High Sabbath. I still pastor it on Zoom to this day, but I
have congregants from the other side of the world as well America now.
I have continued my efforts to reach Jews as well as
Gentiles since then - both on-line and in real life. I have fully answered the call on my life.
So, what would have happened if I had not answered that call?
I could have tried to ignore the call as if it had never
happened. I could have run from the call
to try to get away from it.
I could have kept stubbornly refusing to answer the
call. I could have neglected the call in
pursuit of other matters.
I could have done many things besides answering the
call. The only thing that I could not have
done was escape the call.
When the Father of Truth calls you to do something, there is
no escape from it. It will always be
there and affect everything that you do until you either answer it or die.
The gifts and the calling of the Father of Truth is without
repentance – whether it is to an ethnic group like the Jews or to an individual
like me (Romans
11:28-29). There are no takebacks as
if He made a mistake in calling someone to do something to fulfill His will.
You might try to ignore the call, but you will never have
peace until you do. It will bother you
night and day until you answer it like Jeremiah (Yerimayahu) (Jeremiah
20:9).
You might try to run from His call on your life, but He will
make your life miserable to get you to answer the call. He might make you suffer terribly until you
change your mind like happened to Jonah (Yonah) (Jonah
2).
You can keep stubbornly refusing to answer the call and even
go to great lengths to do the very opposite of what He called you to do. However, He might rule over your with great
fury to get you to answer the call like He will do with the nation of Israel (Ezekiel
20:30-38).
You can neglect the call in the pursuit of other things, but
you will never be satisfied with them. He
might bring you to the place where you realize that the only source of
satisfaction is answering the call like Moses (Moishe) (Hebrews
11:24-28).
So, if the Father of Truth has called you to do something
then do it no matter what it costs you.
You will never cease to regret not answering the call just like the
rich, young, ruler (Matthew
19:21-22).
There is nothing but misery for those who do not answer the
call, so they often end up answering - either because they were led or because
they were herded (1
Corinthians 9:16-17). Whatever it
costs you to answer the call, it is nothing compared to what you will gain from
doing so (2
Corinthians 4:17).
The call to repent has been given to everyone and the cost
of not answering it is endless misery.
The Father of Truth raised the Man of Truth from the dead, so everyone can
know this (Acts
17:30-31).
So, answer the call to come into the House of Truth. Everyone who answers the call will be chosen
to dwell with the Father of Truth, for He does not want anyone to perish in the
fire (2
Peter 3:9-13).
Do not be a fool by calling the Man of Truth “Lord” without
answering his call to obedience (Matthew 7:21-27). Everyone that answers his call because they
believe that his Father raised him from the dead will be saved (Romans
10:9).
Come into the House of Truth!
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