The Grapes Of Wrath

What are the Grapes of Wrath?

In 1939 AD, John Steinbeck published his novel about the hardships faced by Oklahoma farmers, who fled to California to escape the Dust Bowl.  When he was finished, he did not really have a suitable title.  His wife gave his novel the title of "The Grapes of Wrath".

She did not get this title from the book itself.  This phrase only appears once in the novel, in the twenty-fifth chapter.  She got this title from a line in the Battle Hymn of the Republic.  The verse that inspired her was this:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

 What are the grapes of wrath referenced in this song?

 The lyrics of this song were themselves inspired from Revelation, the last book in the Book of Truth (The Bible).

In the relevant passage, an Angel of Truth gathers clusters of fully ripe grapes, throws them into the winepress of the wrath of the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD), and then millions of gallons of blood comes out of the winepress (Revelation 14:17-20).

So, the grapes, that are thrown into the winepress of the the wrath of the Father of Truth, are referred to as "the grapes of wrath" in this song.  However, the question then becomes:  What are these grapes?

The best place to start is with a little explanation of wine making.  Wine is simply the blood of grapes (Genesis 49:11).   It is made from grapes being trampled and crushed in a winepress.

There is more than one winepress in the Book of Truth.  Looking at all of them should make it plain, what the grapes of wrath are.

The winepress of Jerusalem was the place, where the Father of Truth trampled the people of Judah in His wrath, the first time (Lamentations 1:12-15). When they drank the wine of His wrath, they became as senseless as men drunk on wine (Isaiah 51:17-21).

The wine of the wrath of the Father of Truth will be poured out on his enemies completely in the future (Psalm 75:8).  The wine of the wrath of the Father of Truth will not be watered down with mercy, when He makes His enemies drink it (Revelation 14:9-11).

The Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) will first crush, all by himself, so many enemies of Israel, who are gathered in the winepress of Edom in the last days, that their blood will make his clothes look like they have been stained in a winepress (Isaiah 63:1-3).  He will make them so full of terror, that they will act as senseless as men drunk on wine (Isaiah 63:4-6).

After that, the Man of Truth will come in his blood stained garment with the armies of heaven (Revelation 19:11-14).  He will come with these armies, to tread upon the rest of the enemies of the Father of Truth in the winepress of Jerusalem, to set up his kingdom on Earth (Revelation 19:15-16).  All of the fowls of the air will be called to this winepress, to feast on the flesh of his enemies (Revelation 19:17-18).

So, Jerusalem shall become the winepress of the Father of Truth for the last time, where the enemies of Israel shall drink the wine of His wrath (Isaiah 51:22-23).  He will make Jerusalem a cup of wine that brings trembling to everyone, who drinks from it (Zechariah 12:1-2).

When the Man of Truth comes to save Jerusalem, those who came against Jerusalem, will become drunk with terror (Zechariah 12:3-4).  Then the leaders in Jerusalem will be emboldened to join in the fight against their enemies (Zechariah 12:5-6).  The Man of Truth will first save the people of Judah, who live outside of Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:7).  This will embolden even the weak of them, and then the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to fight like King David, when they join the Man of Truth in destroying their enemies (Zechariah 12:8).

The Man of Truth will destroy all, who try to destroy Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:9).  The Man of Truth and his armies, will totally destroy the Man of Lies (The Antichrist aka The Beast) and his armies, in the winepress of Jerusalem, and the fowls of the air will pick their bones clean (Revelation 19:19-21).

So, the grapes of wrath are placed in the winepress of wrath to produce the wine of wrath.  The grapes of wrath are the enemies of the Father of Truth, who are trampled in the winepress of His wrath.  When they are crushed in the winepress of His wrath, then their blood flows out of them like wine from squished grapes.  Like drinking wine causes people to act senseless, the sight of their overflowing blood will cause His enemies to become drunk with fear.

So, the grapes of wrath are people, who have provoked the Father of Truth to crush them in His wrath.  So the question becomes:  What kind of people are the grapes of wrath?

When Jerusalem was the winepress of the wrath of the Father of Truth for the first time, the people of Judah were the grapes of wrath.  They were the grapes of wrath, because of their many transgressions against the Father of Truth (Lamentations 1:5).  They were the grapes of wrath, because of they were heavily involved in sexual sin (Lamentations 1:8-9).  They were the grapes of wrath, because of their bondage to sin (Lamentations 1:14).  They were the grapes of wrath, because they rebelled exceedingly against the commandments of the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) (Lamentations 1:18-20).

When Jerusalem will be the winepress of the wrath of the Father of Truth for the last time, the enemies of Judah will be the grapes of wrath.  They will be the grapes of wrath, because of their humiliating treatment of the Jews (Isaiah 51:23).  They will be the grapes of wrath, because they will surround Jerusalem to annihilate the Jewish people (Zechariah 12:2-3).  They will be the grapes of wrath, because they will worship the Man of Lies, and choose to be marked as his property (Revelation 14:9-10).  They will be the grapes of wrath, because they will be fully ripe with sin (Revelation 14:18).  They will be the grapes of wrath, because they will make war against the Man of Truth (Revelation 19:19).

So, the grapes of wrath are people, who are in opposition to the plans of the Father of Truth.  The grapes of wrath rebel against the Law of Truth.  The grapes of wrath persecute the Jewish people.  The grapes of wrath reject the Man of Truth.

The Father of Truth will give the lives of the grapes of wrath, in order to bring the Jewish people back to Himself (Isaiah 43:4-7).  After the grapes of wrath have been trampled in the winepress of Jerusalem, the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) will be poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the people of Israel will mourn deeply for the wounds, that the leaders of their ancestors inflicted upon the Man of Truth, their savior (Zechariah 12:10-14).

So, the same day that the grapes of wrath will be crushed in judgment, will also be the day when the atonement of Jerusalem is completed.

This is all foretold in the sixth act of the Greatest Play Ever - the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).  This day is also called Judgment Day.  It is both the day, when the enemies of Israel will face the judgment of the Father of Truth, and the day, when all of the people of Israel will finally accept the Messiah of Israel as their atonement for sin.  It is the day, when all of the people of Israel will finally submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender.

The grapes of wrath dread this day, but the Children of Truth say, "Bring it on!".  This is the day when the saints go marching in.

The grapes of wrath are ripening today.   The grapes of wrath are covering the Earth today.

Everyone, who does not put their trust in the Man of Truth, is part of the grapes of wrath (John 3:36).  Everyone, who rejects the truth that the Father of Truth has made known to them, is part of the grapes of wrath (Romans 1:18-19).  Everyone, who despises the goodness of the Father of Truth, which leads to repentance, is part of the grapes of wrath (Romans 2:4-6).  Everyone, who does not obey the truth, written in the Book of Truth, is part of the grapes of wrath (Romans 2:8-9).  Everyone, who obeys the Father of Lies, by disobeying the Father of Truth, is part of the grapes of wrath (Ephesians 2:2-3).  Everyone, who does those things that are contrary to the kingdom of the Father of Truth, is part of the grapes of wrath (Ephesians 5:3-6).  Everyone, who continues in sexual sin and the like, is part of the grapes of wrath (Colossians 3:5-6).  Everyone, who opposes the Children of Truth in carrying out the Great Commission, is part of the grapes of wrath (1 Thessalonians 2:14-16).

All of the grapes of wrath will be crushed in the winepress of the Chamber of Horrors. 

This being the case, then how can people escape being part of the grapes of wrath?

They escape being part of the grapes of wrath, by showing real repentance from their sins (Luke 3:7-8).  They escape being part of the grapes of wrath, by accepting the blood of the Man of Truth as their atonement for sins (Romans 5:9-11).  They escape being part of the grapes of wrath, by remaining faithful to the Man of Truth (1 Thessalonians 1:10).  They escape being part of the grapes of wrath, by remaining alert to the Spirit of Truth (1 Thessalonians 5:8-10).

The Father of Truth has been letting the grapes of wrath ripen, so that He can extend mercy to everyone, who will come into the House of Truth (Romans 9:22-24).  The grapes of wrath will not go into the winepress of His wrath, until they are fully ripe, so that all people can be given the opportunity to come into the House of Truth (2 Peter 3:7-9).

You escape being part of the grapes of wrath, by making the Man of Truth your king, because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

Come into the House of Truth!

Breakfast of Champions

What can you eat to be closer to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) and operate more easily in supernatural power?

When I was a kid one of the greatest honors that an athlete could achieve was to have their image placed on the front panel of an orange Wheaties box.  Usually it was not just their face on the front panel but some sort of picture of them in an action pose that was appropriate for their sport.  One that is particularly memorable was Bruce Jenner throwing a javelin.

Towards the top of the front panel was the word "WHEATIES" in huge white letters.  Just below the right half of the word "WHEATIES" was the phrase "WHOLE WHEAT FLAKES" in smaller black letters.  Right below that in smaller italicized black letters was the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" in double quotes.

General Mills would have liked for the public to have believed, that becoming a champion athlete like Bruce Jenner, Mohammed Ali, or Mary Lou Retton, all started with eating Wheaties for breakfast everyday.  While diet is an important part to becoming a champion athlete, the truth is that people can become one without eating Wheaties for breakfast every day. 

Of course it is also true that these champions had to have been given the raw talent for their particular sport by the Father of Truth in the first place, or it did not matter what they ate for breakfast.  They then had to be disciplined in every area of life to develop those gifts that they were given, or it did not matter what they ate for breakfast.  No one could be come a champion athlete without these two things, by simply eating Wheaties for breakfast every day.

However, when it comes to being a champion for the Father of Truth, then there really is a breakfast of champions.  This breakfast really does help the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) grow into champions in His Kingdom.

I learned about this breakfast of champions from the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) not long after I was baptized in the Spirit of Truth.  I really wanted to be more like the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ).  I really wanted to know the Father of Truth better.  I really wanted to be able to hear the Spirit of Truth more clearly.  I really wanted to win the fight against my own flesh so I could do the will of the Father of Truth instead of my own will.  So I asked how I could do all of these things.  The Spirit of Truth told me if I really wanted to become one His champions then I should start fasting.  Fasting is the breakfast of champions.

I was not even sure what fasting really was except not eating food.  The Spirit of Truth brought several scriptures to my mind to show me.  Fasting is seeking after the Father of Truth by doing things like praying, reading the Book of Truth and singing praises to Him instead of eating (Nehemiah 9:1-6).  Fasting is serving the Father of Truth by spending time in prayer instead of eating (Luke 2:37).  Fasting is not the same as just going around hungry (2 Corinthians 11:27). 

I remember the first time I decided to fast for a day.  I was pretty much a food addict and about two hours into that first fast I thought I was going to die.  Several times I found a cookie in my hands that I had grabbed without thinking.   Each time I refrained from eating it and put it back where it belonged.  With the help of the Spirit of Truth I never gave into hunger until the twenty-four hours were over but when it was I grabbed the first food I could find and shoved it in my mouth.  You would have thought that I had not eaten in days from the way I acted.

Of course, it was absurd because I was in no actual danger of dying.  A person in average health can go about sixty days without food before they will die.  It is only the mind and emotions of a person that has such a struggle with not eating for a single day.  That is why the Book of Truth (The Bible) refers to fasting as "afflicting your soul" (Isaiah 58:3).

Where did this breakfast of champions come from?

This breakfast of champions is first explained in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law).   This breakfast of champions is to be eaten every year on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur aka The Fast aka Judgment Day) so that the soul is afflicted by fasting while the High Priest makes atonement for the Children of Truth (Leviticus 16:29-34).  The Day of Atonement is not just a day for abstaining from food but for congregating together like the weekly Sabbath (Leviticus 23:27-32).  The Day of Atonement is a day of additional sacrifices for the atonement of sins while everyone is fasting (Numbers 29:7-11).

Today it is not even possible to keep the Day of Atonement in this manner because without the Temple standing in Jerusalem at best we are Playing With Broken Toys.  The fact is that we do not need to fast on the Day of Atonement for our sins to be atoned for because the Man of Truth has presented his own blood in the Temple in Heaven to atone for our sins (Hebrews 9:11-14).  The truth is that the blood of bulls and goats that were offered on the Day of Atonement were never sufficient to atone for sin but were just a foreshadowing of the only blood that was (Hebrews 10:1-4).

So does this mean that fasting on the Day of Atonement has been done away with?

Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) never taught the Jewish Children of Truth to abandon any of the Feasts of Truth when he preached to the Gentiles for many years (Acts 21:19-21).  He was still living his life in line with the Law of Truth while preaching to the Gentiles for many years outside of the Promised Land (Acts 21:22-24).  In fact, he was still observing the Day of Atonement (The Fast) when he was in chains on the island of Crete on his way to appeal to Caesar in Rome (Acts 27:7-10).

So the Children of Truth can certainly observe the Day of Atonement to some measure.  They can still treat the Day of Atonement as a Sabbath and do the same kind of things so that they do not end up Bored On The Sabbath.   They can still fast on the Day of Atonement.

The Apostles of Truth also said that they never taught that the Gentile Children of Truth needed to keep the Law of Truth in order to come into the House of Truth (Acts 15:23-27).  They taught that the Gentile Children of Truth were under no obligation to keep these feasts (Acts 21:25-26).

It should be obvious that fasting on the Day of Atonement is not one of The Weightier Matters of The Law.  In fact, it should be understood to be one of The Lessor Matters of The Law.  The entire point of the Law of Truth is to bring us to the Man of Truth so we can become the Children of Truth (Galatians 3:24-26). 

So the Children of Truth should not judge each other as doing something wrong if some of them observe the Day of Atonement by fasting while others do not do so because what really matters is knowing the Man of Truth (Colossians 2:16-17).

So should the Children of Truth fast today?

The Man of Truth gave instructions on how the Children of Truth were to fast (Matthew 6:16-18).  He said that they should start fasting after he left this Earth (Matthew 9:15).

There is no better example of this than Paul the Jew who was the greatest champion for the Father of Truth who ever lived during the entire time from when the Man of Truth left this Earth until he returns.

The Pharisees fasted often (Matthew 9:14).  The Pharisees had regularly fasted twice every week  (Luke 18:11-12).  (They did this on Monday and Thursday because those days were both two days away from the Sabbath (Saturday).)  Paul the Jew had been trained as a young man by the greatest Rabbi of the Pharisees of his day - Gamaliel (Acts 22:3).

Paul the Jew continued to identify himself as a Pharisee more than twenty years after he encountered the Man of Truth on the road to Damascus (Acts 23:6).  He continued this discipline of fasting often during his many trials that he encountered while preaching the Good News  (2 Corinthians 11:25-27).

Paul the Jew continued to eat the breakfast of champions far more often than just on the Day of Atonement (The Fast) every year.  In fact, he would have fasted more than 100 days each year by continuing in fasting regularly as the Pharisees did.  He almost certainly fasted more than any of the other Apostles of Truth.

This is part of the reason that in 57 AD Paul the Jew was able to start a church on the island of Rhodes in under eight hours that is still operating today (Acts 21:1).  This is part of the reason that he operated in all of the gifts of the Spirit of Truth so that he could distinguish them from each other (1 Corinthians 12:1-11).  This is part of the reason that he had an abundance of revelations (2 Corinthians 12:1-7).  This part of the reason that he could write scripture that was hard for Peter the Jew (Cephas aka Simon aka Simeon) and the other Apostles of Truth to understand (2 Peter 3:15-16).  This is part of the reason that he wrote more books of the Book of Truth than anyone else.

Who else ate the breakfast of champions?

Peter the Jew chose to spend time praying on the roof while lunch was being prepared and continued to do so until he became very hungry (Acts 10:9-10).  It was while fasting that he heard the Father of Truth in a vision (Acts 10:10-16).  While he was still fasting on the roof he heard the Spirit of Truth clearly tell him to go with men that Cornelius the Gentile had sent (Acts 10:17-20).  He then was told by the Father of Truth while he was fasting that this vision was about the Gentiles being made clean from sin without first becoming Jews through circumcision contrary to every tradition that he had been raised in (Acts 10:28-29).  Cornelius the Gentile had also been fasting when he was told by an Angel of Truth to send for Peter the Jew before Peter the Jew had been given his vision (Acts 10:30-33).  Then while Peter the Jew then was preaching the Good News to Cornelius and the other Gentiles they were baptized in the Spirit of Truth to prove that the visions that Peter the Jew and Cornelius the Gentile had while fasting really were from the Father of Truth (Acts 10:44-47).  So the Good News was first brought to the Gentiles because Peter the Jew and Cornelius the Gentile had both eaten the breakfast of champions.  The vision of Peter the Jew that he had while fasting had nothing to do with food as further explained in I Did Not Mean That.

In similar manner many of champions in the Book of Truth had incredible encounters with the Father of Truth and did incredible things by the power of the Spirit of Truth after they had eaten the breakfast of champions.

Moses received the Law of Truth the first time during a forty day fast (Exodus 24:12-18).  Then he had to go up Mount Sinai to receive the Law of Truth again after it had been broken (Exodus 34:1-2).  Moses received the Law of Truth the second time during another forty day fast (Exodus 34:27-29).  The Law of Truth began to operate when Moses ate the breakfast of champions!

Elijah (Eliyahu) in like manner went up to Mount Sinai (Mount Horeb) as the result of a forty day fast (1 Kings 19:5-8).  It was while living in a cave in Mount Sinai that Elijah heard the voice of the Spirit of Truth so he could find the strength and vision to finish his mission of overcoming the evil rulers of the kingdom of Israel (1 Kings 19:9-19).  The kingdom of Israel was delivered from evil rulers when Elijah ate the breakfast of champions!

King Jehoshaphat lead the kingdom of Judah in fasting when an overwhelming force came against his kingdom (2 Chronicles 20:2-4).  They were delivered without even having to fight (2 Chronicles 20:15-17).  The kingdom of Judah was saved because they ate the breakfast of champions!

Daniel fasted when he wanted to know what would happen to the Jews after the seventy years of captivity was over (Daniel 9:2-4).  The Angel of Truth Gabriel was sent to show him that the kingdom of Judah would be restored, Jerusalem would be rebuilt, the second Temple would be built, the Man of Truth would die to atone for the sins of others, the second Temple would be destroyed by the people of the Man of Lies (The Antichrist aka The Beast), the Man of Lies would rise up in power to confirm a peace treaty to protect the nation of Israel, and then the Man of Lies would break that treaty by turning against the nation of Israel when he desecrates the third temple (Daniel 9:2-4).  Daniel then fasted again for three weeks to know the rest of the story (Daniel 10:1-3).  He was visited by another Angel of Truth who told him the rest of the story (Daniel 10:12-14).  He was told that the Man of Lies would come to a sudden end that no one could help him escape (Daniel 11:41-45).  He was told that the time of trouble for the Jewish people would finally be over (Daniel 12:1).  Daniel saw the entire future of the Jewish people and the nation of Israel because he ate the breakfast of champions.

Ezra lead the returning captives in fasting to secure safe passage to Jerusalem so they could build the second Temple (Ezra 8:21-23).  Nehemiah fasted to obtain favor from the king so he could lead the returning captives in rebuilding the city of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 1:1-4).  Nehemiah lead the Jews in fasting to rededicate themselves to keeping the Law of Truth (Nehemiah 9:1-3).  Mordecai and Esther lead the Jews in Shushan in fasting to obtain favor from the king and save the Jews throughout the Persian empire from being exterminated (Esther 4).  Another holiday was added to the Biblical calendar to commemorate the deliverance that came from fasting (Esther 9:30-32).  The nation of Israel was restored and the stage was set for the Man of Truth because these Children of Truth ate the breakfast of champions!

The Man of Truth was also lead by the Spirit of Truth to go on a forty day fast to overcome the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil) (Matthew 4:1-11).  He began to preach repentance after this fast (Matthew 4:12-17).  He began to preach the Good News after this fast (Mark 1:12-15).   He began to operate in the power of the Spirit of Truth after this fast (Luke 4:13-19).  The Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka New Testament) began to operate when the Man of Truth ate the breakfast of champions!

Paul the Jew and Barnabas the Jew were sent out in the first mission to bring the Good News to the Gentiles in foreign countries after the prophets and teachers at Antioch had fasted (Acts 13:1-3).   The Renewed Covenant began to be spread across the world when these prophets and teachers ate the breakfast of champions!

Of course, just like those athletes on the Wheaties box, eating the breakfast of champions is not enough by itself to make us into champions.  We can only develop the gifts that the Father of Truth gives us (1 Corinthians 7:7).  We must be disciplined in every area of life to develop those gifts and become champions (1 Corinthians 9:25-26).  Eating the breakfast of champions only helps us do these things and is no substitute for these things.

The truth is that fasting does not change the Father of Truth (Malachi 3:6).  It certainly does not change the Father of Lies.  The breakfast of champions changes us.

It helps us get rid of unbelief so that we can operate in the authority that The Man of Truth gave us over the Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods) to deliver other people (Matthew 17:20-21).  It changes us so that we can have victory over every Spirit of Lies (Mark 9:28-29).  It changes us so that we can so we can more clearly hear the Spirit of Truth (Acts 13:2).

It changes us by helping us to put our bodies under the control of our spirits (1 Corinthians 9:27).   This makes it easier to be lead by the Spirit of Truth so that we become more like the Man of Truth (2 Corinthians 3:18).  When we become more like the Man of Truth then we become closer to His Father (Colossians 1:13-15).  This is why I call fasting the breakfast of champions.

So you can start getting all of these benefits by fasting on the Day of Atonement and any other day that the Spirit of Truth leads you to eat the breakfast of champions.  You will even get these benefits if you fast twice a week out of habit provided that your zeal to do so is based on the knowledge of the truth (Romans 10:1-3).

The truth is there is no benefit to eating the breakfast of champions unless you first decide to come into the House of Truth (Isaiah 58:3-7).  The Day of Atonement is really about knowing the Man of Truth who paid for your atonement with his own blood so you could come into the House of Truth (Hebrews 10:12-14).  You can come into the House of Truth to eat the breakfast of champions by putting every area of your life under the discipline of the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:4-9).

Come into the House of Truth.

Total Surrender

Do you really know what it takes to be saved?

When the other Allies decided to offered to negotiate with the Central Powers to end World War I, the American General Pershing was furious.  He wanted unconditional surrender - especially from Germany.  He warned, that anything less and the next generation would be back fighting Germany again.

The next generation did indeed come back and fight Germany again in World War II.  This time the Americans were able to convince their European Allies, that the unconditional surrender of Germany was the only option, to prevent the next generation from having to come back to fight Germany in World War III.  So the war did not end in Europe until Germany agreed to unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945.  This was just eight days after their leader, Adolf Hitler, had committed suicide.

Now the European Allies and Russia would be able to help the United States fight against Japan.  The United States had already beaten the Japanese back to their main islands with very little assistance and using only one third of its military.  Japan had no remaining allies, and the US naval blockade doomed it to run out of materials, that would allow it to continue to effectively wage war.   The Japanese were already defeated for all practical purposes, but they still refused to agree to unconditional surrender.

The Emperor, Hirohito, said that Japan would fight to last man, instead of accepting unconditional surrender.  This only changed, when Hirohito realized that the United States had the ability to drop an atomic bomb on Tokyo, vaporizing his entire family, after two atomic bombs were dropped on other cities, and the US decimated Tokyo with conventional bombs.

The reason the Japanese refused unconditional surrender so much longer than Germany, was because for them unconditional surrender meant the end of their entire way of life, that they had maintained for over twenty five hundred years.  Hirohito was the one hundred and twenty fourth emperor of Japan in an unbroken chain of emperors, that went back to 660 BC.  The entirety of Japanese life revolved around the Emperor, and he was revered as God in their religion.  Hirohito believed, that if Japan lost the war, then everyone in Japan would be forced to become Christians.

The Japanese had this view partially, because there had been a long held custom in the Far East, that when people were completely defeated by an enemy, then they had to give up their religion, and take up the religion of those who defeated them.  There were similar customs of the defeated party having to adopt the language, manner of dress, calendar, and virtually every other custom of the victorious party.  So the Japanese believed, that they would have to dress in American clothes, forsake the Japanese language completely, learn to speak, read and write only in English, totally replace their calendar with the Gregorian calendar, stop observing Japanese holidays, start observing different holidays, and basically learn to do everything the American way, including how they cooked their food.  The Japanese believed, that unconditional surrender meant total surrender of their old identity, and acceptance of a new identity. 

In short, total surrender meant an end of their old way of life and the beginning of a new way of life.

As it turned out, Hirohito found out that total surrender, was not what the Americans meant at all by unconditional surrender.  When Hirohito asked the American General McArthur on the USS Missouri, about the steps that the Japanese had to take to be considered to be Christians by the Americans, the answer surprised him.  McArthur told him, that the Americans did not expect the Japanese to mass convert to Christianity, and that no one could force anyone to become a Christian in any case.  McArthur told him, that no one could become a Christian, by simply observing certain holidays and keeping certain customs.  He told Hirohito, that the decision to become a Christian, was something that each individual had to make on their own.  He told Hirohito, that making this decision, would bring about the end of the entire way of life of those who made it.   Hirohito was informed, that each person must decide for themselves, to submit to total surrender of their old identity, and acceptance of a new identity, if they wanted to become a Christian.

Hirohito, however, did have to make a public announcement to the Japanese people, that he was not God.

However, a day is coming when the Great War is over, and the Final Battle has been fought, that all the Earth will submit to the Man of Truth (Yah'shua aka Yeshua aka Jesus aka Mashiach aka Messiah aka Christ) in total surrender. 

The events leading up to this total surrender are foreshadowed in The Greatest Play Ever that is put on when people observe the Feasts of the Father of Truth (Yahoveh aka Yahweh aka God aka The Lord). In the fifth act of the Greatest Play Ever, Yom Teruah (Shofarim aka The Feast of Trumpets), the Father of Truth will prevent Collateral Damage by soon calling the Children of Truth (those that obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) to gather together with the Man of Truth in the air with the sound of a shofar (trumpet) (1 Thessalonians 4:15-18).  This will occur when the last shofar (trumpet) is sounded at the end of the fifth act to signal that His wrath is ready to be poured out on the Earth (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).  In the Greatest Play Ever, He will pour out His wrath on the Earth in the Great War (The Tribulation) during the intermission known as the Days of Awe that is between the fifth and sixth acts (Revelation 6:15-17).  In the sixth act, Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement aka The Fast aka Judgment Day), He will send the Man of Truth with an army composed of the Children of Truth and the Angels of Truth to completely defeat His enemies in the Final Battle (Armageddon) bringing to completion the pouring out of His Wrath on the Earth (Revelation 19:14-16).

This sixth act of the Greatest Play Ever is all about total surrender.

The Man of Truth will not come back to the Earth to rescue the inhabitants of Jerusalem until they submit to him in total surrender (Matthew 23:37-39).

Total surrender will mean a change in religion for all of the Jews on Earth.

For more than thousand years most Jews have followed religious leaders who claim to have derived their authority from Moses (Matthew 23:2).  For this reason the Jews have largely observed to do whatever these religious leaders have told them (Matthew 23:3). These religious leaders put on a religious show and call themselves "Rabbi" (Matthew 23:5-7).  These Rabbis have kept most of their fellow Jews from seeing that the Man of Truth is the one that Moses spoke of and have driven many other Jews into atheism (Matthew 23:13).

These Rabbis have devoured the houses of widows in private while making long prayers in public (Matthew 23:14).  They have provoke the Gentile proselytes to their religion to do even worse things than they do (Matthew 23:15).  They are more concerned with getting the rituals of the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) right than they are with treating people right (Matthew 23:23).

These blind guides put more value on material things than on spiritual things (Matthew 23:16-18).  These blind guides are more concerned with small temporary matters than with large eternal matters (Matthew 23:24).  The blind religious leaders are more concerned with appearing clean on the outside where people can see than with being clean on the inside where the Father of Truth can see (Matthew 23:25-26).  These Rabbis may look good on the outside but they are full of death on the inside (Matthew 23:27-28).

Their religion has replaced the commandments of the Law of Truth with their own traditions (Matthew 15:4-6).  Their religion has taught people a doctrine based on their commandments instead of the Law of Truth (Matthew 15:7-9).  Their religion places the heavy burden of following their rules on the shoulders of most Jews (Matthew 23:4). 

Rabbinical Judaism will come to end when the Jews submit in total surrender to the Man of Truth.

The Jews that survive the Great War will finally submit in total surrender to the Prophet like Moses who the Father of Truth raise up and who they must listen to in order to please the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:15-19). The Jews will acknowledge that the Man of Truth that was rejected by their religious leaders is the one that the Father of Truth sent to bring them salvation (Psalm 118:21-23). They will be glad and rejoice in the day that they submit to this new religion in total surrender (Psalm 118:24-26). The only one that they will call "Rabbi" in their new religion will be the Man of Truth (Matthew 23:8).

They will find that this new religion will give them the power to obey the Law of Truth by writing it on their inner most being so that they sin no more against the Father of Truth (Jeremiah 31:31-33).  This new religion will allow them dwell in the Promised Land because the Spirit of Truth (HaRuach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) will live in them so that they will be able to keep the Law of Truth (Ezekiel 36:26-28). They will be born again and find that the commandments of their new religion are not hard to keep (1 John 5:1-3).

Total surrender will bring an end to the identity of Jews as being a scattered minority that lives among the Gentiles.  When the Jews of Jerusalem submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender then every single person of Jewish descent will be gathered by the Angels of Truth to the Promised Land from every nation on Earth so that the Diaspora that began with the Assyrians will finally come to an end (Matthew 24:29-31).

This will even include those whose identity as Jews had been hidden from them by their ancestors so that they did not even know themselves that they were Jewish (Psalm 83:3-4).  The regathering of the Jews that began in 1870 will finally be complete and the Jews will no longer be scattered across the world for their disobedience to the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 30:4-6).  Their identity will be completely changed from that of a persecuted minority scattered among the Gentiles for not serving the Father of Truth to an exalted people that have been gathered together in their own land to serve the Father of Truth (Micah 4:6-8).

When they are regathered in total surrender they will have to learn to speak a new language, Hebrew, to serve the Man of Truth instead of the languages of those they served in the lands where they will be gathered from (Zephaniah 3:9).

In short total surrender will mean an end of their old way of life and the beginning of a new way of life.

The Jews will not be the only ones that will experience total surrender on that day.

The Gentiles that survive will also have to submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender (Revelation 19:15).  The Gentiles will be completely disarmed in total surrender so that they cannot rebel against the Man of Truth (Micah 4:1-3).

The Jewish kingdom will be exalted above every Gentile kingdom when the Gentiles submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender (Deuteronomy 26:18-19).  A Jewish kingdom will rule the Earth instead of Gentile kingdoms ruling the Earth (Daniel 2:44-45).  The times of the Gentile nations ruling Jerusalem will come to an end (Luke 21:24).

The Gentiles will also be given a new religion that affects every area of their lives when they submit to total surrender.

The same Law of Truth that the Jews will finally obey from their heart will become the law of the entire Earth (Isaiah 2:2-4).  The Gentiles will no longer keep the religions that they inherited from their fathers (Jeremiah 16:19-21).  They will come up to Jerusalem to learn how to keep the same laws as the Jews (Zechariah 8:20-22).  They will seek out the Jews to teach them how to keep the Law of Truth (Zechariah 8:23).

Their calendar and holidays will be completely changed.  They will have to come up to Jerusalem on the seventh month of the calendar established in the Law of Truth to worship the Man of Truth and to live in tents for a week (Zechariah 14:16).  Anyone that does not show up for Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles) will not get any rain for the next year (Zechariah 14:17-19).

The Gentiles will even have to learn only eat the same food as the Jews when they submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender (Leviticus 11).

In short total surrender will mean an end of their old way of life and the beginning of a new way of life.

Total surrender will not only be experienced by the whole Earth when the Man of Truth returns to complete the sixth act of the Greatest Play Ever but it will be experienced by everyone that has ever lived including the Spirits of Lies, the Angels of Lies, the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) and every person that has ever been born (Romans 14:11).  So voluntarily or involuntarily, now or later, everyone will submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender.

Although the day will come when everyone on Earth will submit in total surrender to the Man of Truth people can voluntarily choose total surrender to the Man of Truth now. 

If you will submit to total surrender now then you will inherit eternal life but if you wait until you are force into total surrender later then you will suffer eternal punishment (John 12:25).  Those that suffer as a result of total surrender now will reign with the Man of Truth forever but those that refuse to suffer as a result of total surrender now will have no part in his kingdom later (2 Timothy 2:12).

Totals surrender means surrendering your will to do the will of the Father of Truth even if it cost your life like total surrender meant for the Man of Truth (Matthew 26:39). You submit to total surrender when you decide to do whatever the Man of Truth wants you to do (Luke 6:46-49).  Total surrender means that you love the Man of Truth more than anyone else or even your own life (Luke 14:26-27).

If you accept total surrender then you will no longer belong to yourself because your life was bought with a price for the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 6:18-20).   You are giving up control of your time, your money, your relationships and everything else in your life.

You will no longer have an identity as one of the Children of Lies if you submit to total surrender (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). You will have to submit to total surrender of your old identity and acceptance of a new identity (2 Corinthians 5:17)  The Man of Truth will be living out his life through you because you have died to your old life (Galatians 2:20).

You will have a new religion if you submit to total surrender.  You may already be going to a congregation where you think that the religious leaders know the Father of Truth but that does not mean that you have the same religion as them or that they have submitted in total surrender to the Man of Truth.  If you submit in total surrender and they have not then you will not have the same religion that they do.  If that is the case then eventually these religious leaders will persecute you and drive you from the place of worship that you might have attended for a long time (John 16:1-3).

In short total surrender will mean an end of your old way of life and the beginning of a new way of life.

You cannot submit to total surrender in your own strength. You can only submit to total surrender when you love the Man of Truth (John 14:15).  You cannot submit to total surrender until you realize that the Father of Truth loved you so much when you were still in rebellion that He sent His son to die for your sins (Romans 5:8).  You cannot submit to total surrender without the Spirit of Truth coming to live in you to help you do so (Romans 8:8-10).   The love for the Man of Truth that prompts you to total surrender comes from realizing the love that he first had for you (1 John 4:19).

No one can force you to come into the House of Truth.  You cannot come into the House of Truth by observing certain holidays or keeping certain customs.  You cannot come into the House of Truth by simply being born to parents that are in the House of Truth. You cannot come into the House of Truth by attending a congregation with the Children of Truth.  You must decide to come into the House of Truth for yourself.

You can only come into the House of Truth by submitting in total surrender to the Man of Truth (Matthew 7:21).  You must be born again to come into the House of Truth (John 3:3).  You must repent because you are truly sorry for rebelling against the Father of Truth (2 Corinthians 7:10).  This is what it means to come into the House of Truth.

You come into the House of Truth when you decide to submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9-12).

Come into the House of Truth.