Paying Tithes

Do we need to pay tithes?

There have been a lot of conflicting teachings about paying tithes over the last few decades.

On one extreme, there have been claims that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) will do anything you command, if you just pay tithes and give offerings to certain “ministries”.

On the other extreme, there have been claims that believers do not need to pay tithes at all!

The basis of these claims vary, but here are three of the most popular ones:

1. Tithes were part of the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law), but the Law of Truth has been done away with, so we do not need to pay tithes.

2. Tithes were only meant as payment to the Levites for their work in the Temple, but since there is no Temple standing, then we do not need to pay tithes.

3. Tithes were only paid by those who made their living in agriculture, and were paid with agriculture products.  Those of us who do not make our living in agriculture do not need to pay tithes.

There are also a variety of conflicting teachings between these two extremes.

Obviously, these conflicting teachings on paying tithes cannot all be right. So, we will examine what the Book of Truth (The Bible) says about paying tithes.

We will start with the first person to pay tithes.

Who began tithing?

Abraham (Abram) was the first person to pay tithes (Genesis 14:19-20).

Paying tithes did not begin with the Law of Truth, but with Abraham

Who did Abraham pay tithes to?

Abraham paid tithes to a minister of the Father of Truth (Genesis 14:18-20).  Abraham did not pay tithes to the Levites, who were his descendants (Hebrews 7:4-5).  He paid tithes to a different kind of minister of the Father of Truth (Hebrews 7:6-8).

Abraham paid tithes when there was no Temple, Levites, or Priests.

What did Abraham pay tithes on?

Abraham paid tithes on ALL sources of income (Genesis 14:20).

Abraham did not pay tithes only on agricultural products.

Who else paid tithes with Abraham?

The descendants of Abraham, including the Levites, paid tithes as well to this different kind of minister of the Father of Truth (Hebrews 7:9-10).

So, the Children of Abraham also paid tithes.

What about those among the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) who are not physical descendants of Abraham?

The Children of Abraham are those who do the same things that Abraham did (John 8:39).  The Children of Abraham are those who act in faith like Abraham (Galatians 3:7-8).  The only way to be blessed with faithful Abraham is by doing acts of faith like Abraham (Galatians 3:9).

So, we are only the Children of Abraham, if we demonstrate faith in the Father of Truth like Abraham.

We pay tithes, because we have faith in the Father of Truth. We pay tithes to another kind of minister, who is not part of the Levites.  We pay tithes, because it is part of the evidence that we are the Children of Abraham.

This alone should be enough reason for us to pay tithes.

We should consider the example of Jacob (Ya'acov aka Israel).

Israel paid tithes as well (Genesis 28:20-22).

The people of Israel should imitate Israel in paying tithes, like Israel imitated Abraham.

What about those among the Children of Truth, who are not physical descendants of Israel?

They have been made citizens of the commonwealth of Israel by the Messiah of Israel (Ephesians 2:11-13).

The Gentile Children of Truth should also pay tithes like all the citizens of Israel.

So, paying tithes is evidence that we are part of the people of Israel.

We should consider the pattern for paying tithes in the Law of Truth.

What were tithes paid on?

The tithe was on the harvest of the crops (Leviticus 27:30).  The tithe on the livestock was every tenth animal that passed under the rod, regardless of the condition of the animal (Leviticus 27:32).  The Father of Truth desires to share in both the good and the bad with His people (Leviticus 27:33).

So, tithes were paid on what the tither earns.

Who was paid tithes?

The Levites, who to took care of the meeting place of the congregation received tithes (Numbers 18:23-24).  They then paid tithes to the Priests, who taught the congregation and prayed on behalf of the people (Numbers 18:26-28).

So, tithes were paid to those who took care of the meeting place of the congregation and attended to the spiritual needs of the congregation.

How could the Levites pay tithes, since they grew no crops nor raised any livestock?

The Levites were to take the best part of the offerings that they had received, and pay them to the Priests (Numbers 18:29).  Their tithes were paid out of what they had been paid and counted as if they had done the actual farm work (Numbers 18:30).

So, the wages of the Levites were counted as agricultural products that they had raised themselves.

Where were tithes paid?

Tithes were brought to the meeting place of the congregation (Deuteronomy 12:5-6).

So, tithes were brought to the workplace of those who earned them.

When were tithes due?

Since those in agriculture were only paid when they harvested their crops and took their livestock to market, then they were to pay their tithes at that time each year (Deuteronomy 14:22-23).

So, tithes were due when the tither was paid.

How were tithes paid when agricultural products were impractical?

In those cases, they were to sell the agriculture products, and then pay tithes out of the money they made from the sale (Deuteronomy 14:24-25).

So, tithes did not have to be paid in agricultural products.

So, the pattern in the Law of Truth is, that everyone who is part of Israel is to pay tithes.

When people are paid, then they are to bring a tenth of what they were paid, to the place where they congregate.  Then they are to give their tithes to those who take care of the meeting place and instruct them in following the Father of Truth. 

So, paying tithes on what we are paid, when we are paid, is required by the Law of Truth.

We should consider what the righteous in Israel did about paying tithes.

Why did they pay tithes?

The commandment to pay tithes was given, so the priests and Levites could devote themselves to the work of encouraging people in the Law of Truth (2 Chronicles 31:4).  The tithes were used to provide for the physical needs of those who took care of the meeting place and taught them how to follow the Father of Truth (Nehemiah 10:37-39).

They paid tithes to take care of the physical needs of those who took care of their spiritual needs.

What did they pay tithes on?

The people brought in tithes of ALL things, not just agricultural products (2 Chronicles 31:5).  Their tithes were consecrated to the Father of Truth (2 Chronicles 31:6).

They paid tithes on all sources of income.

When did they pay tithes?

They brought tithes in continually, from when the barley harvest ended in the third month until the grape harvest ended in the seventh month (2 Chronicles 31:7).

Whenever they received a harvest, they brought in the tithe of that harvest.

Where did they bring their tithes to?

The righteous brought their tithes to the meeting place of their congregation (Nehemiah 10:37-38).

They did not send it to another congregation.

How did they handle the excess?

The ministers prepared storage chambers and stored all that was left over, after their immediate needs were taken care of (2 Chronicles 31:10-12).  Then they appointed wise stewards over what was stored to be distributed as needed (2 Chronicles 31:12-14).  The excess of the tithes were stored for later use as determined by wise and faithful ministers in charge of the finances (Nehemiah 12:44).

These ministers were the only ones in control of the finances.

In the place where the righteous congregate, they give their tithes to take care of those who take care of their meeting place and those who minister the Word of Truth to them.  Wise and faithful stewards are then put in charge of the finances to ensure that the excess money is saved for future needs as they arise.

So, the righteous bring tithes of everything that they earn, as soon as they are paid, to the place where they congregate, and their tithes are overseen by responsible stewards.

We should consider what the Prophets said about paying tithes.

What about those who transgress against the Father of Truth, but still pay their tithes?

Many of the people of Israel transgressed against the Father of Truth at Bethel and Gilgal, which had became centers of idolatry, but they still were diligent to pay their tithes (Amos 4:4).  That was like offering a sacrifice with leaven, which is not acceptable to the Father of Truth (Amos 4:5).  So, they still came under a curse for not keeping His commandments, because they did not return to walking in ALL of His ways (Amos 4:6).

Paying tithes does not excuse us from keeping His other commandments.

How can people return to walking in all of His ways?

The Father of Truth called for the people of Israel to repent and stop robbing Him (Malachi 3:7-8).  Those who do not pay their tithes and do not make offerings besides their tithes, are robbing the Father of Truth of what belongs to Him (Malachi 3:8).

If we say that we are keeping His commandments, but we are not paying tithes, then we are liars and thieves.

So not paying tithes is robbing the Father of Truth what is due Him.  This robbery has to stop for people to walk in all of His ways.

Who was cursed for robbing the Father of Truth by not paying their tithes?

It was not just those involved in agriculture who were cursed for this robbery, but the entire nation (Malachi 3:9).

People of every profession were cursed for robbing Him by not paying their tithes.

How can people get the curse for robbing the Father of Truth reversed?

They must repent by bringing in all of the tithes to the storehouse at the meeting place of the congregation, so that it has an abundance (Malachi 3:10).

The solution to reversing the curse for robbing the Father of Truth is to repent by paying all of the tithes due Him.

(All of the tithes means the tithes that each person owes the Father of Truth based on every source of income they have.)

What will happen when they repent by paying their tithes?

This repentance puts an end to the curse of working in vain (Malachi 3:11). This repentance leads to a blessing that everyone can see (Malachi 3:12).

When we pay tithes under those conditions, then we come out from under the curse of working in vain.  Our work will be blessed, so that everyone else can see that we are blessed.

So, paying our tithes and giving offerings brings the blessing of having everything that we need, IF we are careful to walk in all of His ways for all of our days.

We should consider what the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) said about paying tithes.

What is the relative value of paying tithes?

Paying tithes is a lesser matter of the Law of Truth, so it is no substitute for judging rightly according to the Word of Truth, showing mercy to people, and having faith in the Father of Truth (Matthew 23:23).

The Father of Truth expects His people to do all four of these things.

When is paying tithes valuable to the Father of Truth?

We are to give alms to those who are reduced to begging out of what we have (Luke 11:41).  We cannot pay tithes, instead of judging things rightly according to the Word of Truth, and having real love for the Father of Truth (Luke 11:42).

Paying tithes is valuable when it is part of loving people and the Father of Truth.

Paying tithes, even out of all we have, does not make us righteous (Luke 18:9-14).  It is recognizing that we have sinned against the Father of Truth, and asking for mercy that makes us righteous (Luke 18:13-14).

Paying tithes is not valuable, if we are doing it to make ourselves righteous.

So, paying tithes is not valuable, if we do not we love the Father of Truth and love people.  Paying tithes is very valuable, if we do it because we love the Father of Truth and love people.

In like manner, paying tithes is worthless, if we are doing it to be made righteous.  However, paying tithes is very valuable, when we do it because we are humbling ourselves before the Father of Truth in repentance for transgressing the Law of Truth.

Paying tithes is part of loving the Father of Truth and loving people.

We should consider what else the Book of Truth says about paying tithes:

What motivates us to pay tithes?

We obey the commandment of the Father of Truth to pay tithes, because our hearts have been circumcised (Deuteronomy 30:6-8).  We pay tithes, because we believe His promise to bless our work for our obedience (Deuteronomy 30:8-9).  We have the faith to pay tithes, because we have turned to Him with all of our heart (Deuteronomy 30:10).

So, paying tithes is evidence of the faith that lives in a circumcised heart.

Why is it wise to pay tithes?

It is wise to pay tithes, because it shows honor to the Father of Truth (Proverbs 3:9).  It is wise to pay tithes, because He will cause our work to prosper (Proverbs 3:10).

If we do not honor the Father of Truth with our money, then we do not honor Him at all.  It is absolutely foolish to expect Him to prosper our work, if we do not pay our tithes as He commanded.

Why should we teach others to pay tithes?

Not one single commandment of the Law of Truth has been done away with (Matthew 5:17-18).

Even though paying tithes is one of the lesser commandments of the Law of Truth, if we teach people that they do not need to obey that commandment, then we will be least in His kingdom (Matthew 5:18-19).  If we want to be great in His kingdom, then we must teach people to obey the commandment to pay tithes (Matthew 5:19).

So, we should teach other people to pay tithes, because we want to be great, not least, in the kingdom of the Father of Truth.

Why are we blessed if we pay tithes?

The Father of Truth takes care of our needs, because we are seeking after His kingdom and righteousness over everything else when we pay tithes (Matthew 6:31-33).

It only makes sense that the Father of Truth would want to give us everything we need for success in expanding His kingdom and doing His will.

Why is it so important that we pay tithes?

It is being trustworthy with the temporary things that we are in charge of in this world, that trains us trustworthy to be in charge of eternal things in the world to come (Luke 16:10-12).

Paying tithes is training us to be faithful in this world, so we can be given positions of authority in the world to come.

What is the purpose of our tithes?

Those who take care of our spiritual needs deserve to have their physical needs taken care of by us (1 Corinthians 9:4-7).  We pay tithes to take care of those who take care of us (1 Corinthians 9:8-11).

So, paying tithes is not just a matter of loving the Father of Truth, but also a matter of loving people.

Whom do we pay our tithes to?

When the Temple stood, then tithes were the wages of those who took care of the Temple and taught the people how to obey His Commandments (1 Corinthians 9:12).  In the same way, our tithes are the wages of those who take care of the meeting place of our congregation and preach the Good News of His Kingdom (1 Corinthians 9:13).

We still pay tithes to those who take care of our meeting place and lead us in walking in all of His ways.  This is not money for nothing.

What should be our attitude about paying tithes?

We should never give offerings out of greed (2 Corinthians 9:5).  We should be giving offerings, because we believe that YHVH will take care of us in proportion to how we give to take care of others (2 Corinthians 9:6).  We should be glad to give as much as we can (2 Corinthians 9:7)  We should give out of faith that He will prosper our work as He promised (2 Corinthians 9:8).

It is the same with paying tithes.

We should never be giving to get.  We should be glad to pay tithes to take care of those who are working in His business.  We should be glad to pay tithes, because we have faith in His promise to take care of us.  We should be glad to pay tithes, because we are investing in His kingdom.

If this is not our attitude, then we cannot be a cheerful giver, who will be blessed.  The Father of Truth does not want us to be a fearful giver, or a tearful giver.

What does it hurt if we do not pay tithes?

Those who devote themselves to taking care of our meeting place and preaching the Gospel have the same need to be paid as everyone else (2 Corinthians 11:7).  Someone else will have to make up for their wages that we have stolen by not paying our tithes (2 Corinthians 11:8-9).

If we do not pay those who devote themselves to taking care of our meeting place and preaching the Gospel their wages, which is our tithes, then we are robbing them of their wages.  We are also robbing those people, who try to make up for our robbery, when we do not pay our tithes.

How much should those we pay tithes to be paid?

They are worthy of double wages (1 Timothy 5:17).  They deserve to be paid for the same reason as anyone else - because they worked hard to earn it (1 Timothy 5:18).

[The Greek word translated as "honor" can also mean “the amount paid”.]

(If you compare the number of Levites to everyone else in the census, you will find that there was a twenty to one ratio, which gave them twice the average salary.  This is especially true of those who labor in the Word and doctrine, like the Priests did.  Also, all of the Levites were paid the same thing, as were all the priests.)

This also precludes a minister from making an excessively high or low salary.  If the average wage of the congregation is $40,000 per year, then the minister deserves $80,000 per year.  The minister does not deserve $800,000 per year, nor does the minister deserve $8,000 per year.

If the congregation grows over the twenty to one ratio, then the excess tithes are to be put back for other needs, like providing health insurance, for example.  Once the congregation grows to being  able to support more ministers, then more ministers are added in proportion to the size of the congregation.  All ministers in the same congregation deserve to be paid the same wages. 

So, paying tithes is showing honor to the Father of Truth by giving His ministers what they have earned.

Conclusion:

If we are children of Abraham, then we will pay tithes!

If we are part of the true people of Israel, then we will pay tithes!

If we are obedient to the Law of Truth, then we will pay tithes!

If we are among the righteous, then we will pay tithes!

If we believe the Prophets, then we will pay tithes!

If we are obedient to the Man of Truth, then we will pay tithes!

If we want to advance His kingdom, then we will pay tithes!

If we want to pay people what they have earned, then we will pay tithes!

We say that we have been transformed by the Man of Truth.  We say that we fulfill the righteousness of the Law of Truth.  We say that we have faith in the Father of Truth.

It is time to put our money where our mouth is.

So, it really comes down to our hearts.  How we respond to the commandment to pay tithes reflects the condition of our hearts.

If our hearts are right with the Father of Truth, then we will pay tithes for the right reasons.  If our hearts are not right with the Father of Truth, then we might as well not pay tithes at all.

The only way for our hearts to be made right with the Father of Truth, is to come into the House of Truth.

Then the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) will enable us to fulfill the righteous commandment of the Law of Truth to pay tithes from our hearts (Romans 8:3-5).  There is no other way to obey the commandment to pay our tithes from our hearts (Romans 8:6-8).

The Spirit of Truth is given to all who come into the House of Truth (Romans 8:9-11).  The Children of Truth overcome everything that prevents them from paying tithes by following the Spirit of Truth (Romans 8:12-14).

So, surrender everything to the Man of Truth, including control of your money, because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

Come into the House of Truth!

Passover 2.0

What should you do if you cannot properly observe Passover?

Every year there are people who cannot observe Passover at the specified time for various reasons.

Those reasons often include illnesses, hospitalization, becoming unclean for some reason, being unable to travel, and not being able to get the required elements to observe Passover.

This is usually a small percentage of people who observe Passover, but this year COVID-19 is making this percentage much larger.

Thanks to COVID-19, many more observers than normal are unable to observe Passover due to illness and hospitalization.  There is also a greater chance for those with a family member who has been afflicted with COVID-19, to be made unclean from being in the same room as someone who has died.

Really, even going to the hospital can do that, because it is near impossible to know rather or not a dead person has been wheeled down the hospital corridors since the previous sunset.

Thanks to the COVID-19 Panic, many people are not able to travel due to being locked down in their homes.  In Israel, people have been told that they must observe Passover in their own homes, even if that means observing it completely alone.

Obviously, these shelter-in-place, and even more extreme quarantine measures, along with recovering from sickness, make it impossible for people to really remove the leaven from their homes.  Especially, if they normally make a focused effort for a week to clean their house like the mother of the Reluctant Jew. 

In like manner, the COVID-19 Panic has disrupted the availability of Passover essentials like Matzah.  Local stores that normally caring them did not get their usual supply.  It is hard to find Matzah on-line that will arrive in time for Passover.  Fresh vegetables and herbs used on the Seder Plate are not even available in many areas.  Meat sections of local stores have been picked clean, making it impossible to get so much as a lamb shank this year.

So, what are people to in these circumstances?  Go ahead and have a Passover Observation without properly removing the leaven from their homes and without all of the required elements?  What other option is there?

The Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) provides a better option for times like these.

If you are hindered from observing Passover in the first month due to circumstances like these, then you are to observe it in the second month, in the exact same way that you normally would have observed it in the first month (Numbers 9:10-12).  My family calls this Passover 2.0.

(Hospitalizations have forced us to celebrate Passover 2.0 with the Impossible Girl many times.)

King Hezekiah (Chizquiyah) had all of Israel celebrate Passover 2.0, because they were unable to make the preparations in time for Passover 1.0, and it turned out to be one of the best Passovers ever (2 Chronicles 30).

So, there is no reason to partially observe Passover this month due to not be able to prepare properly.  Instead, just wait until next month.  It will give you time to get properly prepared. 

You might be wondering, why would good Christians be participating in the observance of Passover?

Passover was not just for the Jewish people, but also anyone who has joined themselves to the Jewish people (Numbers 9:14).  Passover is not just a Jewish thing.

Passover is the first act in the Greatest Play Ever, which tells the story the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ).  Passover is all about the death of the Lamb.  There would be no Resurrection Sunday without Passover.  The Man of Truth is our Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7).

You might be thinking, what does the Savior of the Gentiles have to do with Jews?

The Man of Truth is first and foremost the Messiah of Israel.  It is a Jewish thing to follow him.

The better Passover can only be celebrate when you have had the better circumcision that is not made by human hands.  This is the real Passover 2.0.

This is what Moses (Moishe) foretold (Deuteronomy 30:6).  This is what the Man of Truth made possible (Colossians 2:11).

So, come into the House of Truth, where your heart will be circumcised (Romans 2:29).  This will be your best Passover ever!

You will be able to celebrate Passover 2.0, when you submit the Messiah of Israel, because you believe that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9-10).  Both Jews and Gentiles are invited to celebrate Passover 2.0 (Romans 10:11-13).

Come into the House of Truth!

The COVID-19 Panic

Why is the world in a panic over COVID-19?

This year much of the world is in a crisis from the COVID-19 virus.  In truth, the crisis is not being caused by the COVID-19 virus, as much as the world-wide panic over the COVID-19 virus.

This panic has caused shortages of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and cleaning supplies across America as people made run on stores.  People are being told every where to practice "social distancing", meaning keep at least six feet (2 m) away from other people.

Healthy people are seen wearing medical masks everywhere you go.  These masks are more designed to protect other people from the wearer than to protect the wearer from other people.  Yet, it makes people somehow safer to wear a medical mask.

In the US, Israel, and other countries, the panic has caused their governments to virtually quarantine the entire country.  People are being ordered to stay in their homes, except to do things like get groceries and hunt for toilet paper.

Any business dubbed non-essential has been ordered to shut down.  (Strangely, this did not include liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries in Oklahoma, but it did include medical clinics.)  Restaurants had to resort to carry out or delivery only.  Airports and hotels are vacant.

In like manner, places of worship have remained empty on days of worship.

American states, and entire foreign countries, have lock their residences in and everyone else out.  For example, the state of Florida ordered all beaches closed and put up check points on I-95 to keep anyone from New York or New Jersey from entering the state.  Oklahoma City has requested that anyone who leaves the state of Oklahoma to self-quarantine for 14 days after they return to Oklahoma City.

This has led to a total and complete shutdown of entertainment venues.

It has hit basketball hard. The NBA cancelled the rest of its season.  For the first time ever, March Madness, the NCAA championship has been cancelled.

Hockey also took quite a hit, canceling the rest of its season.  There will probably be no Stanley Cup for 2020.

It will also impact baseball and soccer, causing their seasons to start late and be abbreviated at best.  Even the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo have been postponed until 2021. 

No sport has been able to continue as normal due to the COVID-19 Panic.  If the COVID-19 Panic continues long enough, it will even affect the American football season.

Of course, the same is true for all forms of entertainment that rely on large audiences being physically present, like concerts.

Movie theaters have been shutdown.  Even the Admiral Twin, one of the last drive-in theaters in America, has been shutdown.  This has virtually destroyed the entire box office business.

This panic has wrecked havoc on the economy.

The longest bull market in history came to an abrupt end.  The all-time record for the stock market was set on February 12, 2020 when the market started going down significantly for the first time since March 11, 2009.

The Market fell by three record single day falls beginning on March 9, 2020.  By March 11, it had fell by 20%, the same amount as the month of October, 1929, which led to the Great Depression.  As of today, the last day of March 2020, it is down 27%, a new record for a single month drop.

What has driven this unprecedented drop in the stock market?

The COVID-19 Panic caused it.

Lots of investors began cashing out their stocks out of fear that they would need liquid assets to survive what they imagined was the approaching apocalypse.  As stock prices fell, other investors cashed out their stocks as well to prevent themselves from losing money.  This was a vicious cycle driven entirely by fear.

The smart investors are going buy these undervalued stock created by the COVID-19 Panic.  This will create an even larger gap between the richest 1% and everyone else, after the COVID-19 Panic ends.

However, it is not just the stock market that has suffered from the COVID-19 Panic.  It is also hit the job market, particularly the lowest wage earners in society.

Unemployment rates in America were at a fifty year low before the COVID-19 Panic began.  More importantly, the labor force participation rate, the percentage of people who are working, had reached an all time high.  Most importantly, the labor force participation rate was almost ninety percent for those between the ages of 25 and 54.

Then the COVID-19 Panic began.

Since then a record number of unemployment claims were filed in the US.  In some states, claims jumped over a thousand percent in a single week, smashing all previous records.

Most of those have been filed due to people not be able to go to their workplace.  Non-essential business have been shut down, so their workers are unemployed until the COVID-19 Panic ends.  Other business have cut back on their staff, as their business model has been forced to change.

Those with jobs that can work from home, have been doing so.  However, consumer confidence is low causing them to cut back on expenditures.

For the time being, the blunt of what could turn into record unemployment is being felt by the lowest paid workers.  However, if the COVID-19 Panic continues, then it will affect every level of the work force.

Is all of this panic justified?

The fact is that COVID-19 pales in comparison to other pandemics.

The Black Plague in the Medieval Europe killed approximately half the people in Europe, giving it a minimum mortality rate of 50%, if everyone in the area was actually infected.  If not everyone was infected, then the mortality rate of the Black Plague was even higher.

The Avian Flu had a mortality rate of 60% in 2008.

Then there was the Spanish Flu, which was called the Wu Shu Flu in the American South, due to the belief that it originated in China, not Spain.  It had a mortality rate of around 16%.

COVID-19?

Under 5% world-wide.  That is with areas deficient in modern medicine pulling the average up.

When I read about COVID-19 in Israel a few days ago, there were 1659 cases and only one death - that of a holocaust survivor around 90 years old.  That is a mortality rate well under 1%.  In fact, it is about the same as the flu in a mild flu season.

Does the low mortality rate of COVID-19 really justify all of this panic?

COVID-19 even looks paler, when you consider the total numbers of deaths caused by other pandemics.

The Black Plague stands out as the clear winner with as many as 200 million dead from it.  It might be a lot higher, since these are only the people killed by it in the Near East, Europe, and the edge of North Africa were recorded.  It might have caused unrecorded devastation in the rest of the Old World before and after its seven year reign of terror in the area recorded by European historians.

The Spanish Flu comes in second with only 100 million dead - half as many as the Black Plague.  However, it only lasted for three years.

Smallpox epidemics have also killed tens of millions of people at a time.

COVID-19?

A little over 33,000 at the time of this writing.  Considering that the curve has went down in China, the source of origin, the total is likely to end up around 66,000 total deaths world-wide.  This about the same number of people killed in the United States by the flu in the 2017-2018 season - and one tenth of the people killed globally by the flu that season.

Where was all the panic over the flu each season, since it has killed five to ten times as many people each year?

COVID-19 also does not hold up to other pandemics when you consider the demographics of those killed by it.

The Black Plague killed people of every age and demographic.  It seemed to be an equal opportunity killer.

The Spanish Flu likewise had no respect to age.  It sometimes killed entire families from the newborn babies to the great-grandparents.

The flu kills about the same percentage of children under one year of age and adults at least sixty years of age.  The lowest percentage killed are children about twelve years of age.  The death rate has a very slow climb until about 30 years of age, after which it rises at a slow but steady rage.

COVID-19?

Over 90% of the deaths are people that are at least seventy years old.  So far, there has been very few cases of anyone under ten years of age dying from COVID-19.

There are lots of things that primarily kill people once they reach the age of seventy.  Where is the world-wide panic over those things?

So, the world-wide panic over COVID-19 is not justified.  So, what is behind this panic?

The answer is in when the COVID-19 Panic started.

The COVID-19 virus was first identified on December 1, 2019 in Wuhan, China.  Although, the government of China, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Center for Disease Control (CDC), monitored the spread of COVID-19, the general consensus was that it was no worse than the flu.

This continued to be the case, even after it spread outside of China.

Then on January 29, 2020 - almost two months after the discovery of COVID-19 - the world began to panic causing the White House Coronavirus Task Force to be announced.  The next day, WHO added to the panic by declaring COVID-19 to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.  The next day, the first case was found in Italy.

This added to the panic when Italy immediately declared a state of emergency and began taking steps to isolate Italians from the world and each other.  By this time, the world was in a panic over COVID-19.  Other countries, including the United States and Israel, followed the Italian model of responding to COVID-19.

So, on January 28, 2020 the world was treating COVID-19 as it would a regular flu.  The next day, a panic over COVID-19 began that has had devastating effects on the life and well-being of most nations, including the United States and Israel.

So, the question then becomes, did anything significant occur on January 28, 2020?

That was the day that President Trump and Prime Minister Netenyahu announced a new "peace deal" to divide the land of Israel between Jews and so-called Palestinians.  President Trump dubbed this "peace deal" "the Deal of The Century".

You might be thinking that this is just a strange coincidence.  However, consider the timing of other such "peace deals" sponsored by the United States and other disasters.

Consider these examples.

When President Bush I pushed the Israelis to accept a "peace deal" at the Madrid peace conference, the next day the Perfect Storm formed in the Atlantic Ocean and devastated his home in Kennebunkport, Maine.

When his son,  President Bush II, announced on September 10, 2001, that he was would be unveiling a "peace deal" with the cooperation of Muslim nations the next day, the unveiling never occurred thanks to Muslim terrorists slamming hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11.

The day after Israel was pressured into a "peace deal" that left no Jews in Gaza, dead or alive, by President Bush II, Hurricane Katrina devastated the United States evacuating not just the living, but also the dead out of New Orleans.

I could go on, but I think that you have probably noticed a pattern on your own.

The fact is that this pattern has held true for as long as the United States has been sponsoring "peace deals" between the Israelis and their enemies.  In every single case, disaster has struck the United States, a day or so after the announcement of the "peace deal".  Most of the time, a disaster has also struck Israel as well as every other nation involved in making these "peace deals".

This pattern is so well documented that people have written entire books on it, carefully documenting each "peace deal" announcement and the disaster that soon followed.

This strange pattern also works in reverse.

For example, when President Trump took office, the economy of the United States was in its second worse condition ever.  In December 17 of his first year in office, he officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  The US economy took off the next day.  By the end of his first year, the US economy was in the best condition that it has ever been.

Things got even better after President Trump moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem on May 14, 2018 - Israel Independence Day.

Again, there have been books written that carefully document the pattern of the US, or any other nation, treating Israel or the Jewish people favorably, and unforeseeable good fortune suddenly coming up them.

These patterns even holds true for Israel, with a slightly different set of parameters.

Is there any explanation for these patterns concerning Israel?

The Book of Truth (The Bible) tells us exactly why these patterns exist.

It all began with Abraham (Abram).

The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) promised that if Abraham would separate himself from his ungodly relatives by moving to the land of Canaan, then He would bless anyone that blessed the great nation that would come from Abraham, and curse anyone that cursed that great nation (Genesis 12:1-3).  The Father of Truth then promised that the great nation that would come from Abraham would be given the land of Canaan, after Lot departed from Abraham (Genesis 13:14-17).

The Father of Truth then confirmed that the great nation that He had promised Abraham would surely come inherit the land of Canaan (Genesis 22:16-18).  He then confirmed to his son Isaac (Yitzhaq), that he would be the one to inherit the promises given to Abraham for his obedience, if Isaac would also remain in the land of Canaan like Abraham (Genesis 26:3-5).

Isaac, then passed down this promise to his son Jacob (Yah'acov aka Israel) (Genesis 27:29-30).  This promise was confirmed to be given to the descendants of Israel at Mount Sinai (Exodus 32:12-14).

This promise to bless those who bless the people of Israel and to curse those who curse the people of Israel has came about in numerous ways throughout history.  Often, the curse upon the nations that have cursed the Jewish people have came in the form of a plague, usually brought in by people of a foreign nation.

For example, the people of Europe, the Near East, and North Africa persecuted the Jewish people greatly during the time of the Crusades and the years that followed.

First, Europe was overran and raided by Mongols from 1223 to 1337.  Millions of Europeans were killed and large nations like Cumania and Volga Bulgaria were destroyed.  However, the Mongols also persecuted Jews in the process.

Eventually, the Mongols, Turkish people, and Eastern Europeans formed the Golden Horde in the eastern part of Europe, the northern parts of the Middle East, and central Asia. 

Then in 1346, the Black Plague appeared in the Golden Horde and began to spread west from there.  It is believed that it brought into the Golden Horde by merchant caravans from China.

By 1353, the Black Plague had covered the entire area that had participated in the persecution of the Jewish people during and after the Crusades, including much of the Middle East.

Another example came hundreds of years later.  At that time, a new wave of persecution arrived against the Jewish people in much of Europe in the form of The Pogroms.

A pogrom was a violent riot that aimed to persecute or massacre the Jewish people.  The Pogroms were often the planned actions of the ruling governments, and initiated by soldiers in the army of the government.

The first pogrom occurred at Odessa, Russia in 1821 AD.  (This was a city inside the territory of the Golden Horde.)  The majority of pogroms against Jews occurred in the Russian Empire, Eastern Europe, and the German Empire.

There was also a couple of minor pogroms in England and Ireland, that were small, and with no casualties.

These pogroms caused people, like the ancestors of the Reluctant Jew, to hide their Jewish ancestry - even from their children.

Then World War I came about through a really strange set of circumstances in 1914.

Soon, war was spread all over the world, as global empires formed alliances and went to war with each other.  This led to the death of four empires: the Austro-Hungrian Empire, the Russian Empire, the German Empire, and the Ottoman Empire.

These four empires had almost all of the Pogroms and other acts of planned violence against Jews.  They were gone by 1917, but they were not the only ones who had cursed the Jews in some manner.

The Great War was over, but trouble brewing was on the horizon.

Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States had consented to the Balfour Declaration in October of 1917.  When the British published the Balfour Declaration in November of 1917, it promised a Jewish homeland in so-called Palestine - the name that the Romans had given to Judaea after they dispersed the Jews from Judaea in 135.  The expectation was that the Judaea would be given back to the Jews.

However, the other allies of Britain and America were immediately against this plan.  So, in December of 1917, the US and Britain added restrictions that would only allow the Jews to return to Judaea - not set up their own country there.

In January of 1918, the Spanish Flu began in France, where the government kept it secret from the public.  The press of the United States, Britain, and Germany, were also forced to suppress news of the flu out of fear of public panic.  However, the press of Spain was not under any such pressure and freely reported it.  For this reason, people called it the Spanish Flu.

In the American South, many of the soldiers who returned home from France, had reported that had been many Chinese workers in France, who had performed various services behind the battle lines during the war.  They believed that these Chinese workers had brought the flu to France.  For this reason, it was called the Wu Shu Flu in the American South.

By the time that the second wave of the Spanish Flu was over in December of 1920 AD, around 100 million people were dead.

The hardest hit countries were the countries were those formed out of the four empires destroyed in World War I, America, the countries of the British Empire, and the allied countries that had demanded a reversal of the Balfour Declaration.

There are many more examples that I could give, but this is sufficient to show that if history has only one lesson to learn it is this:

Don't screw with the Jews!

The Spirit of Anti-Jewism will always bring about a curse to those given over to it.

This explains the pattern concerning nations that mistreat the Jews and Israel, but it does not explain why the Jews and Israel usually also suffer at the same time.

Two things must be considered to explain why Jews and Israel are also affected.

First, we must consider the entire seed of Abraham.

The seed of Abraham consisted of two parts, the stars in the heavens and the sand on the seashore (Genesis 22:17).

The physical descendants of Israel that would come from his children, were promised to be as numerous the sand on the seashore (Genesis 32:9-12).  This part of the seed of Abraham is Earthly, just like the sand on the seashore.  Every descendant of Israel is automatically part of this Earthly seed.

However, there is also another part of the seed of Abraham, that is Heavenly, just like the stars in the heavens.  None of the descendants of Israel are automatically part of this Heavenly seed.

Those physical descendants of Israel who refused to obey the voice of the Father of Truth, will be destroyed out from among those who were as numerous as the stars of the heavens (Deuteronomy 28:62).   It is obeying the voice of the Father of Truth that makes a person a child of Abraham, not just a descendant of Abraham (John 8:33-39).

Abraham obeyed the voice of the Father of Truth, because Abraham believed that He would do what He had promised (Romans 4:3).  So, it those who also obey the voice of the Father of Truth, because they believe that the Father of Truth will do what He has promised, who are the Children of Abraham (Romans 4:9-13).

The Father of Truth can raise up children to Abraham from people of any nation, who will obey His voice, not just the physical descendants of Israel (Luke 3:8).  It is people of every nation, who obey the voice of the Father of Truth, who are the children of Abraham (Galatians 3:6-9).

So, the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him), both Jews and Gentiles, are the Heavenly seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:26-29).

So, when some of the Earthly seed of Abraham persecutes some of the Heavenly seed of Abraham, they bring a curse upon themselves as promised to Abraham.

So, the Jews often suffer with the Gentiles for the same reason that the Gentiles are suffering.

Many Gentiles have persecuted one part of the seed of Abraham, so they have brought the curse of the COVID-19 Panic upon themselves.

Many Jews and Israelis have persecuted the other part of the seed of Abraham, so they have brought the curse of the COVID-19 Panic upon themselves.

The Spirit of Anti-Christ will always bring about a curse to those given over to it.

The root of many of the Earthy seed of Abraham being cursed for persecuting the Heavenly seed of Abraham is the Rabbis (1 Thessalonians 2:13-15).  They are the source of Jewish trouble.

Second we must consider the real owner of the Land of Israel.

The Father of Truth owns the entire Earth and everyone in it (Psalm 24:1).  He alone has the right to determine the boundaries of the land of every ethnic group on Earth (Acts 17:24-26).

The Father of Truth set the boundaries of the land that He promised Abraham (Genesis 15:18-21).  He set the boundaries of the land that He gave for the descendants of Israel to live in (Deuteronomy 1:6-8).

He is the owner of the Land of Israel and the descendants of Israel are His tenants (Leviticus 25:23).

This means that no one has a right to divide the Land of Israel or sell part of it for peace - not even the Israelis!

It is not theirs to sell or negotiate with.

For example, what if President Trump decided to let a company use the entire Trump Tower for their operations.

However, many of the former tenants refused to move out when served notice that the new company has been given the entire tower as a place of operations.  When some of the the former tenants did move out of some floors, another group of squatters move into those floors, before the new company could set up operations on those floors.

So, the new company started selling the floors to the old tenants and squatters in exchange for peace.

Eventually, these agreements broke down because the old tenants and the squatters will not keep any agreement that they make with new company.  They refused to admit that the Trump Tower never belonged to them to start with.

Eventually a master negotiator began presenting plans to partition the Trump Tower between the new company, the old tenants, and the squatters.

When President Trump learned what was going on, would he be fine with it?  No!

The Trump Tower does not belong to the new company, the old tenants, or the squatters.  It cannot be partitioned by a third party negotiator.  Only President Trump can decide who operates out the Trump Tower and who does not.

In fact, President Trump would be angry with the new company for trying to sell parts of the Trump Tower, instead of asking for his help in removing the old tenants and keeping out the squatters.  He would be angry at the old tenants and the squatters for claiming ownership of his property.  He would be angry at the third party negotiator for trying to partition his property.

There would be consequences for everyone involved.

It is exactly like that when Israel tries to sell part of the Land of Israel to the so-called Palestinians.

The Israelis have no right to sell any of the Land of Israel.  It does not belong to them. 

Those very few people that were in the Land of Israel before the Jews began returning in 1870, do not have a right to return to the Land of Israel.   It never belonged to them.

The very word Palestinian literally means "invader".  They have no right to any part of the Land of Israel.  The Father of Truth did not give it to them.

A third party like the United States has no right to negotiate deals to partition His land.

So, all of the parties involved in selling and partitioning His land have consequences, even the Jews and Israelis.

The COVID-19 Panic is one of those consequences for the latest attempt to sell and partition His land.

Israel, and the Jews who supported this partition plan, are as guilty as the Palestinians and the United States, along with whatever other nations were involved behind the scenes.  So, all of them are suffering from the effects of the COVID-19 Panic.

America, Israel, and the world need to realize that there is only one Middle East peace plan that will work!

Why do these curses not affect every individual in the punished groups equally?

The Children of Truth are not affected by these curses, when they are spending time with the Father of Truth (Psalm 91:1-10).  Even when people all around them are being destroyed, they are protected by Him (Psalm 91:5-8).  It goes well with them when the wicked, like blatant homosexuals, are reaping the destruction that they have sown (Isaiah 3:9-11).

This has been seen many times in history.

For example, my own grandmother saw this played out with her own eyes.

Her family was persecuted in south Arkansas for refusing to join the Klu Klux Klan and for hiding some of their African American neighbors from the same.  They never stopped resisting the Klu Klux Klan, because her father had heroic resolve.  Their persecution by the Klu Klux Klan continued to get worse until the Wu Shu Flu (Spanish Flu) hit southern Arkansas.

Entire families of their persecutors died from the Wu Shu Flu, from the youngest baby to the oldest great-grandparent.  However, not one member of her family even got the sniffles from it, despite taking care of their neighbors that were incapacitated by the Wu Shu Flu.  They also helped bury the families of their enemies that had died from the Wu Shu Flu - without ever getting sick.

In like manner, these disasters have a long history of striking the greatest centers of evil disproportionately hard.

For example, New Orleans suffered more than half of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.  New Orleans almost completely destroyed.

This prevented the annual public orgy of homosexuals called "Southern Decadence", which was going to occur the following Labor Day week end.

Even though Las Vegas is called "Sin City", it is not the clear winner over New Orleans.

Before Hurricane Katrina hit, and marshal law was imposed, the murder rate in New Orleans was ten times the national average.  New Orleans was famous for hosting that drunken orgy called Mardi Gras, which proceeds Ash Wednesday each year.

It also sponsored Southern Decadence since 1988.  This was part of a plan to become the preferred vacation destination for people who lived like they were married in Sodom.

It is no different with COVID-19.

As of this writing, almost half of the cases and deaths from COVID-19 in the United States have been in one city - New York City.  This is not by random chance.  New York City brought this curse upon itself.

The Democratic party gained control of both houses of the New York legislature and the governorship of New York in the 2018 election.  The Democrats were only able to gain this control due to New York City.  Without New York City, the governor of New York would be a Republican and the Republicans would control both houses of the state legislature.

The Democratically controlled state of New York then passed the Reproductive Health Act in January of 2019.  The Democrats were only able to do this after gaining control of both the executive and legislative branches.  The Republicans had blocked this act for decades.

This act allows abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy, if a doctor deems it necessary to preserve "the health" of the mother.  It puts no limit on when this abortion can occur, other than before the baby is born.  It provides no definition of what "health" means.

So, under the statue a doctor could perform an abortion on a baby while in the birth canal, because he determined that the baby being born would be bad for the "mental health" of the mother.

This law that lets these serial killers murder children in the womb with impunity was only passed because of the Democratic control made possible by New York City.  So, it fair to say that New York City is mostly responsible for wickedness.

So, it does matter how people live.  When we start examining the details, we find that COVID-19 and things like it, are not really equal opportunity killers after all.

However, the COVID-19 Panic is another curse that affects far more than just those who are infected with COVID-19.  It could actually cause more long term damage to the United States and the world than the actual disease.

Those who obey the voice of the Father of Truth have no reason to join in the COVID-19 Panic.

The best way to prevent a plague like COVID-19 is to understand how it begins.

This is not hard to understand, if you know where sickness comes from.

If people will keep His commandments, then the Father of Truth will take away from them all sickness and put none of the sickness upon them that He will lay upon His enemies (Deuteronomy 7:11-15).

On the other hand, if they do not keep those commandments, then they are opening the door to plagues like COVID-19 (Deuteronomy 28:58-61).

These commandments include commandments to eat only animals that the Father of Truth says are food, and to never eat any He says is filth (Leviticus 11:2-31).

When they ignore what He says is for dinner, then they are inviting disease into their lives.

For example, COVID-19 was first found in people in Wuhan, China.

They had been eating snakes.  These snakes had the virus in them from eating bats carrying the virus.  Other people in Wuhan could have gotten the virus from eating the infected bats.  These are animals that the Father of Truth commands people not to eat.

In like manner, pigs and chickens being raised near each other to be eaten was the source of the Spanish Flu, the Avian Flu, and the Swine Flue epidemics.  In fact, the majority the annual flu seasons start from close contact between chickens and pigs.

Pigs have an amazing immune system that allow them to carry a large variety of diseases with no visible symptoms.  In fact, there is so much toxicity in their bodies, that the poison of many types of snakes do not harm them.  This makes sense for an animal designed to be the garbage disposal of the forest.

So, the pigs catch avian diseases from chickens and pass them on to people.  This situation is made worse by the pigs being fed the chickens that died from these avian diseases.

But what about Jews and Israelis, who do not eat filthy animals like pigs?

They are also subject to plagues for not obeying the voice of the Father of Truth in a different way.

If Jews and Israelis will obey the voice of  the Angel (Messenger) of the Father of Truth that He sent before their ancestors in the wilderness, then the Father of Truth will take sickness out of their midst (Exodus 23:20-25). 

However, if they refuse to obey the voice of the Prophet like unto Moses (Moishe) that the Father of Truth raised up, then they are subject to suffering the consequences (Deuteronomy 18:15-19).

The Messiah of Israel is that Angel of the Father of Truth and that Prophet like unto Moses.  The Original Covenant (Tanakh aka The Old Testament) clearly defines the characteristics of the identity of the Messiah.  There can be no doubt that the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) is the Messiah of Israel.

The Father of Truth will destroy from among the people of Israel, all who will not obey the voice of the Man of Truth (Acts 3:20-23).

One of the ways that they can be destroyed from among the people of Israel is by plagues like COVID-19 (Deuteronomy 28:59-62).

More than that, the Father of Truth drove the people of Israel out of the Promised Land and scattered them among all the nations of the Earth, where they have had constant trouble, for refusing to obey the voice of the Man of Truth (Deuteronomy 28:63-67).

It is this reason, that the people of Israel have been scattered to the ends of the Earth and back again.

However, the COVID-19 Panic can be stopped quickly.

The COVID-19 Panic will die within days if COVID-19 suddenly ends.  The good news is that there is a way for COVID-19 to suddenly end.

America, Israel, and all of these other nations, need to return to obeying the voice of the Father of Truth.

When the Temple was standing, the Father of Truth would remove every plague like COVID-19, from their land, if the people of Israel would seek His face in the Temple (2 Chronicles 6:28-30).  The same was true of any Gentile who would do the same (2 Chronicles 6:32-33).

If they could not make it to the Temple for some reason, like fighting in a war, then they could face Jerusalem and the Temple instead (2 Chronicles 6:34-35).  They could even face towards the ruins of Jerusalem and the Temple from a far away land, if the people of Israel were scattered among the nations (2 Chronicles 6:36-39).

However, it is very important to do this in the right way.

The Father of Truth knows the heart of every person, and rather or not they will turn to obeying His voice if he delivers them (1 Kings 8:38-40).  The Father of Truth will only remove a plague like COVID-19 when people humble themselves by admitting that they brought disaster upon them selves when they refused to obey His voice, and commit from their heart to return to obeying His Voice (2 Chronicles 7:12-14).

America, Israel, and the rest of the world, failed to answer the call of 9-11 to repentance.  As a result, there has been unending war for the last eighteen years.

Will they repent quickly during this wave of COVID-19, or will there be a more deadly second wave, like there was with the Spanish Flu?

Regardless of what these nations do, you can still protect yourself from COVID-19.  You can do what has been proven to work by millions including the Impossible Girl.

The Messiah of Israel was to be beaten with stripes to bring healing to anyone that put their trust in him (Isaiah 53:5).  The Man of Truth took that terrible beating before he went to the cross, so you could be healed of any disease, if you will put your trust in him (1 Peter 2:24).

You can be healed of COVID-19, or anything else, if you will come into the House of Truth.

As great as that is, that is no where near the greatest thing that he has done for you.

The truth is, that there is not anyone who has not sinned (1 Kings 8:46).  All have sinned and fell short of the glory of the Father of Truth (Romans 3:23).

The Messiah of Israel was to come to bear our iniquities, because all of us like sheep have gone astray from the love of the Father of Truth (Isaiah 53:6).  Since, like sheep we have gone astray, the Man of Truth came to lead us back the love of the Father of Truth (1 Peter 2:25).

The Messiah of Israel was to suffer silently like a sheep led to the slaughter for the transgression of others, because he alone had no transgressions (Isaiah 53:7-9).  The Man of Truth suffered silently like a sheep led to the slaughter for the transgression of others, because he alone had no transgressions (1 Peter 2:21-23).

The Messiah of Israel was to pour out his soul until death for the transgressions of others, and then lived again to justify those, whose transgressions that he had carried away (Isaiah 53:10-12).  The Man of Truth rose from the dead to justify those who believe that he carried their transgressions away (Romans 4:22-25).

Some were not going to believe the report about the Messiah of Israel being the arm of the Father of Truth to bring salvation, when the leaders of the people of Israel did not esteem him (Isaiah 53:1-3).  Most of the people of Israel did not believe the report about the Man of Truth being the arm of the Father of Truth to bring salvation, because their leaders did not esteem him (John 12:37-43).

The leaders of Israel would say that the Messiah of Israel was afflicted by the Father of Truth for his own transgressions (Isaiah 53:4).  The leaders of Israel accused the Man of Truth of blasphemy and condemned him to death (Mark 14:61-65).

So, the people of Israel have suffered so many things due to Rabbinic Distort.  They have been denied the healing that their Messiah bought for them.  However, that healing was bought for all people, because the Man of Truth is also the Savior of the Gentiles.

So, will your believe the report about the Man of Truth being the arm of the Father of Truth to bring salvation?

You just need to make a commitment to start obeying the voice of the Man of Truth, because you believe that his Father raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9-10).  This offer is available to Jew and Gentile alike (Romans 10:11-13).

Come into the House of Truth!