Avoiding God's Coming Judgement on the Entire Earth

It seems that God’s people do have at least one thing in accord: most believe that judgment is at the door!  Whether Christians, Jews, Muslims, or those in the “other” category (all that have Abraham as a starting point for their faith) seem to see the “signs” all around them (worldwide) and sense something is getting ready to happen.  How that judgment will come, exactly when it will come, what it will look like, and how to escape it, this is where the divide begins.  But maybe all these faiths could just read what God says in Isaiah 24:1-6 and remember that God declares the end from the beginning.

Behold, YHVH maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.  And it shall be, as the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.  The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for YHVH hath spoken this word.  The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.  The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and broken the everlasting covenant.  Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Observations from Scripture:

Note that right there in the passage, for all of us to see for centuries, is the “REASON” this judgment will happen to them (us) in the last days (see section above which I underlined). Also note that “all the earth” (not just Israel) is defiled for:
1) not keeping the instructions of God found in His laws;
2) for changing His ordinances; and
3) for breaking His everlasting covenant.

Questions:

1)       If these are the “reasons” that YHVH will come to judge the earth, and we have His Word on the reasons, shouldn’t teachers of Scripture be pleading with all of us to repent of these errors?

2)      Since the warning in these verses of Scripture is also “to the priest” (teachers and those who proclaim the word) shouldn’t these same teachers first repent themselves if they are not teaching others accordingly?

3)      Shouldn’t all those who claim to be followers of God seek deeply in His Scriptures to know what His laws, His ordinances, and His everlasting covenant are and how to apply them quickly to their lives to get right with Him before He comes?

Word Study:

Let’s look at some of the words in this warning from God with the hearts desire to seek His ways over our ways, or the ways we were taught, putting away bias and letting His word define itself.

We must first look at the word “laws” and define it.  The Hebrew word in that passage is “Torah” (Strong’s 8451) and is defined as God’s instructions and understood to refer specifically to the first 5 Books in Scripture. These form the foundation for all other Scripture which comes afterwards, and therefore all other Scripture must reconcile or not conflict with these foundations.  They (the Torah) by God’s own word define what “Good Doctrine” actually is.

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law (Torah - Strongs 8451) Proverbs 4:2

I believe these are also what we are being directed back to in the warning from Jeremiah 6:16-19

Thus saith YHVH, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall rest for your souls.  But they said, We will not walk therein.  Also I set watchmen over you saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet, But they said, We will not hearken.  Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.  Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my laws (Torah), but rejected it.  Jeremiah 6:16-19

Realize you in the last days will fulfill this; whether you turn to the old paths, or haughtily reject them.  Note that His actual watchmen are the ones that are calling people back to His Torah.  Sadly, many considered “watchmen” today are themselves rejecting the call back to the Torah themselves.  They themselves “will not hearken” to many who are trying to turn His people back to His old paths.

Another word in the passage is ordinances, which is the Hebrew word “choq” (Strong’s 2706) defined as: an enactment, hence and appointment of time, space, quantity, labor, or usage.  These are also found within the Torah.  The appointed times of YHVH are therefore easily found in Leviticus 23 for those who want to know YHVH’s calendar and leave behind man’s.  The ordinances include many other aspects as well, and can be expanded into a whole other paper, but for now know that the Torah is full of ordinances that can be kept by those that love God and His ways, more than their own ways.

Discussion so far:

So far we have addressed the aspect of the Torah and Ordinances, at least to understand that these are available to anyone who seeks to obey YHVH in his heart.  One can merely repent from doing things their own way; or how they were taught, and read the Torah with its ordinance and apply them as they read them.  There are most certainly others that are doing the same that can helpful on this journey of faith, His faith.  If I can be of help, let me know at ministerwya@aol.com

So what is The Everlasting Covenant?

So what is this everlasting covenant and how does one enter into it?  Again, let us look to the beginning of the Torah.  After everything was “very good” in the garden, man sinned by not following a simple command to “not eat of the tree in the midst of the garden”.  This did not catch YHVH off guard, as He had the solution to the problem already planned from the foundation of the word: the lamb of YHVH slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).

Mankind is locked “in time”; however, our heavenly Father is outside of time.  The Messiah of the whole world is YHVH’s only begotten Son, the One “slain before the foundations of the world” (Rev. 13:8). By His blood we have redemption, the forgiveness of sin.

But how did man enter into this?  Abraham was willing to offer up his son Issac; but once YHVH saw that Abraham had faith to do what YHVH said, He stopped him and provided himself a sacrifice (Genesis 22).  Remember that to YHVH, His Son Yeshua (Jesus) was “already slain from the foundations of the world” but to Abraham; the crucifying of Yeshua was not even known of yet, as it was still over a thousand years away.  That fact of “time” was not critical to YHVH as He see’s the end from the beginning. 

The Scripture defines “saints” in Psalm 50 this way: 

Gather my saints together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.  Psalm 50:5

Notice that we, to be His saints, must enter in to “His covenant” (His everlasting covenant) by sacrifice.  The word sacrifice is the Hebrew word “Zebach” (Strong’s 2077) which involves the slaughtering of something (shedding of its blood).  

Now go back to beginning and consider the first problem of sin entering the world.  The soul that sins shall die.  “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom.3:23) and hundreds of other Scriptures define man’s separation from God and his need to be redeemed from sin.

YHVH’s solution was to allow His only begotten Son, Yeshua the Messiah, to die in our place as a substitute; just as YHVH provided Abraham a substitute for Issac.  Though people groups fight over which son was offered up, they should not get caught up in the fighting, but rather look towards the One that was sacrificed in place of Abraham’s son; because their own (our own) salvation can be found in none other than Yeshua, YHVH’s own Son.  

Conclusion: Entering Into YHVH’s Covenant:

Repent of your sins and turn yourself to His ways. Accept Yeshua as your “substitute for death” your Savior and Lord.

When you enter into faith and accept Yeshua as Savior and Lord, do not think you make void His Torah, but rather realize that faith begins the journey into living according to His good doctrine the Torah (Romans 3:31).

Sin is still “the transgression of the law (Torah)” (1 John 3:4); so repent and quit sinning; stop breaking the Torah of God!  Turn back to His old paths (His Sabbath, His Festivals, His feasts that are to be kept at His appointed times – Leviticus 23).  Stop excusing yourself and leave the lies of your fathers (Jeremiah 16:16-19).

The New Testament is not a “new covenant” it is still the everlasting one; and if read and understood properly does not make void at all even one “jot or tiddle” (Mat.5:18) of the Torah.  If you have read something or have been taught that Yeshua (Jesus) came to take away the law, you have been lied to. 

For that matter, the Koran does not take the place of the Torah or its ordinance either, and does not replace the everlasting covenant as the only way to be redeemed by YHVH.  Its not good enough to be either keeping the Torah without the everlasting covenant; or supposing you have entered into that covenant with them keeping His Torah and ordinances.

How can I boldly claim that?  Start this article over again and see “the reason” that Yeshua is coming back to judge us?  If any teachers teach differently, their words do not line up with what YHVH has already told us regarding the reason He comes back to judge, period.

Here is patience of the saints; here are they that keep on keeping the commandments of God, and the faith of Yeshua.  Revelation 14:12

Note the ones mentioned in this passage are not the ones thrown into the “lake of fire” because they both; first kept YHVH’s commandments, and secondly entered into the covenant of faith with Yeshua as their Savior.

Conclusion and Plea:

There is no time to argue “doctrines” especially in the face of such clear Scriptures as Isaiah 24 (also Isaiah 66), so let’s quit trying to defend bad doctrine of Christianity, Judaism, or Islam; rather than repent that we ourselves did go astray, and if any of us are teachers, we may have also lead others astray as well.  Repent teachers while it is still today!

Any that call themselves teachers in these last days and are not directing all mankind to enter into covenant with Yeshua the Messiah by sacrifice; and then instructing them in the proper keeping of His Torah and His ordinances is not a teacher of YHVH at all, but a last-days false teacher.  Yeshua Himself said if a teacher even taught others to loosen even the least of His commandments that that teacher would be considered least in the Kingdom (read Matthew 5:17-20).

The people draweth nigh unto me with their mouths, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.  But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men.  Matthew 15:8

Let us be done with commandments of men!  Repent, turn to Yeshua as Savior and Lord, and then obey all His commandments given as His Torah and His ordinances in Scripture.

If you are in a Scripture study that doesn’t build all doctrines off first teaching the foundations of YHVH’s Torah and ordinances, you are wasting your time!

If you are a teacher and you are not instructing people in the keeping of the Torah and ordinance of YHVH, and also pointing them to His everlasting covenant, you are not preparing them for the judgment of God that is upon us in these last days.   

 I ask you especially to repent and stop teaching your own doctrines, doctrines of men, doctrines of denominations; doctrines of demons, and rather teach His good doctrine “forsake ye not my Torah” Proverbs 4:2.