EliYah:
- To start with, I believe we have Brother Curtis on the line. I think we're going to hear a ram's horn. Shabbat Shalom.
Curtis:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- All right.
Curtis:
- How are you doing?
EliYah:
- Well, I was waiting for the ram's horn.
Curtis:
- [ram's horn]
EliYah:
- There we go.
Curtis:
- [ram's horn]
Sonshine Girls:
- Praise Yahweh!
EliYah:
- HalleluYah!
Curtis:
- Wow, I guess that gathered them all together.
EliYah:
- Amein.
Curtis:
- [laughter] HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- Well, blessed be Yahweh.
Curtis:
- Everything's going well?
EliYah:
- Yeah, we're doing great. How about you all?
Curtis:
- Getting the spring rains a little. It seems like the seasons are later, keep backing up every year, getting a little later. You're getting some spring rains there now, right?
EliYah:
- We've been getting rain pretty solid, actually, since about the middle of winter, continuing. Yahweh is continuing to bless the land with rain. I just praise Yahweh for that.
Curtis:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- And our pasture and our sheep are all very happy about that.
Curtis:
- [laughs] Good.
EliYah:
- But there are other parts of the country getting a little too much. It's flooding. I actually got a phone call this week from somebody who wanted to know if we were okay.
- A very nice woman just saw that there was flooding in Missouri and wanted to know if we were being affected by that. I said, no. The Mississippi River is about three hours' drive east of where we are, so we're not really being affected.
- There is one creek that's about 100 feet below our house, so that's about the extent of water around here, and our ponds which overflow. We're doing fine here, and we definitely want to pray for those who may be in harm's way of the flooding. We're also going to pray for everyone who's been affected by the tornadoes also.
- There seems to be a lot of tornadoes this year. Hopefully, there won't be that many hurricanes, Brother.
Curtis:
- [laughs] Yeah, we'll see. The rains are kind of sporadic here. It seems a little bit later down Georgia and North Florida way. Down in South Florida, during the warmer months it rains every day. It's like a rainforest.
- You can almost set your clock to it sometimes in the Everglades, what's left of them, what they haven't filled in. But what they have filled in, still, the weather acts a little bit similar to what it's supposed to. It rains every day down there, and there's no telling which way it goes.
- We were down there last week. It was very interesting. We have a praise report from that. It was a very YAH-incidental trip. We had a song here that we were going to sing first. I'm not sure what else is going on here. People are reading. Hold on one second.
EliYah:
- All right.
- [Music Ministry by Curtis & Family, "Blessed Are the Peacemakers"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah! That was very nice.
Curtis:
- HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- Thank you.
Curtis:
- Yeah, I'm working on it. That was given to the Fourniers by Yahweh.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Curtis:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- We got a chance to see them here last Pentecost. They're doing very well.
Curtis:
- Yeah, yeah, I talked to them this week. That's a really fun song that was inspired in them awhile back. We really enjoy that and the music they've been singing.
- We have a little story about going down to South Florida. It was really quite YAH-incidental. We had work set up. One of the things we do, which I won't talk too much about, but it's a corporate team-building activity that involves sailing, splitting up the people into teams of four to six people going out and doing sailboat races.
- So we set up all this big deal. These people wanted everything, including the awards banquet at the end. I had to set up transportation across the city and everything and sailing in the afternoon.
- And right now, like I said, the Everglades pour down rain every summer, almost every day, and sometimes it comes over toward the Atlantic coast. Sometimes it just stays right there, and sometimes it goes over to the Gulf Side.
- Well, right now it's coming right across the cities there, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami. We were traveling down there to do this big corporate team building with this company that's based out of Switzerland. It's all channeled in. Seventy people from all over the world have traveled over to Miami to do this team building for this big thing that they're doing.
- We set up the sailboat races and everything. And we're looking, as we drive down south, just total whiteout that afternoon, and the whole place was just raining and lightning bolts coming down everywhere. Nobody's going out on sailboats with lightning bolts coming down everywhere.
- The radar on the weather reports and The Weather Channel and everything said it was set in to stay. There was a couple of bands, a couple of cells of rainstorms kind of swirling around and coming and going, but it was pretty much predicted to set in and stay.
- We just prayed a lot about it with faith and confidence, and it lightened up a little bit. The people really wanted to do the team-building activity. They really wanted to get their people out and do this stuff.
- The captains I worked with were all just kind of complaining and wanted to just get paid and go home. But we just prayed about it. My wife and I prayed about it several times, and talked to everybody, and waited a little bit, and it let up.
- And sure enough, we said, "We're going." We had all these 70 people in 12 sailing yachts from 35-45 feet long yachts that are world cruisers out sailing on the bay there.
- As soon as we went out, it just--it was funny, because afterwards--really, the whole point of the story for us was afterwards some of the captains said to me and my wife in two different locations--after the sailing part, we were doing the awards banquet, and we were both in different places setting up all the stuff.
- Two different captains said to us, that know us, have known us seven years, they said, "Well, you know, I've just got to say you guys must be living right. I have no idea what just happened, but the clouds parted, and the blue sky came, and the sailing was just better than anybody could imagine." The company was really happy about the whole event.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Curtis:
- But it just looked like it was a total wash, and there was nothing anybody was going to do. There's nothing you can do when it comes to the weather.
- Something I was saying a couple of weeks ago with all this politics and war and all this crazy stuff, they can do whatever they want, but I want to see a couple of their jets, or tanks, or even submarines handle a couple of under ocean volcanoes, or a couple of bolts of lightning.
- Do whatever you want, but if you see a couple of bolts of lightning come down, I don't think your tank's going to be doing much. There's no combating that in any way.
- One of the brethren I was talking to after that, that we were sharing with, had mentioned--because sometimes it seems kind of--even to us that are really, really faithful and really doing all we can to follow Yahweh and do the works He wants us to do, and follow all the commands that we can see that He gives us--and to take a prayer that would affect a whole region and actually literally millions of people.
- Why would He answer the prayer of just a few people that affects everything? Some of the verses you mentioned earlier, it rains on the good and evil. The brother we were talking to had said, "Well, look who's going to be bringing glory to Him and who's going to be glorifying Him. What's the benefit?"
- Humanly, it's impossible to reason out and understand, but that is a question I've had for years of prayers and things like that, that affect regions and lots of people. But it's all throughout scripture, too, how the faithfulness and prayers of His people make things happen.
- And to try to reason it out and understand why Yahweh would do this or that is not a question we should even ask, I guess. But He does things, and His purposes and everything is to be known. He will reveal all, I guess.
EliYah:
- Amein.
Curtis:
- But it was pretty neat.
EliYah:
- That was a good witness.
Curtis:
- It was a good lesson for us, because we were just putting up our partitions with confidence and depending on Him, and it really surpassed all human understanding.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Curtis:
- Yeah, it was really...
EliYah:
- About a year and a half ago, we had a hailstorm come through here, and it was raining down just south of us, and it was headed right toward us, four inch hailstones.
- The hailstones were so bad that it actually broke out the skylights there at the Wal-Mart, damaged cars and everything. I was looking at the direction of the storm, and it was headed right over top of us.
- So I walked outside, and lifted up my hands, and rebuked it in the name of Yahushua. The only thing that came down was little mush, piles of mush. It was almost like soft snow, and they were only about the size of maybe a dime.
Curtis:
- Wow.
EliYah:
- And that was it. Places around us had all kinds of damage on the roofs, but Yahweh spared us. I do believe, like Yahushua taught us, that if we do have faith, He will honor that.
- I do think we have dominion over the earth. We were given that dominion in the very beginning over the animals and different things. In Messiah, who is the One having all power and authority in heaven and earth, great things can be done.
Curtis:
- Yeah. HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- That was awesome. That was a good testimony.
Curtis:
- We had hail the next day coming back north just out of South Florida. We had hail in the storm there just the other day. Yeah, I went through Hurricane Hugo years ago in the late 80's. I owned a little restaurant at the time, and it was one of the few things that didn't seem to be touched. It was amazing.
EliYah:
- Right, yeah, I remember you telling me about that.
Curtis:
- The same thing--I just prayed with faith, and the next day I was like a little refuge in the middle of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where it hit. The worst part of it hit right in between Charleston and Pawleys Island, McClellanville.
- That's the place where it hit the worst, 160 mile an hour winds. The little place I had there was not even touched. I didn't think twice about it. I was feeding the National Guard and just carrying on, doing all I could do. Months later, people would tell me stories of things that happened, and things I did.
- And I was like, really? I did? I never stopped to think. I just prayed, and praised Him, and carried on. Those kind of things are amazing. It's beyond understanding. We just have to have faith. He will provide, and He will protect, and He will take care of His people that are of a noble heart, and do all they can do to please Him, and seek Him first, and please Him.
EliYah:
- Yeah, I think about these things, and we know tribulation is coming eventually. It may be in our lifetime. When I say tribulation, I'm not talking about the minor things we experience today. I'm talking about sometime in the future where there is severe persecution going on.
- Our light in the midst of all these things, in some ways very much like the children of Israel, they had the plagues that came down upon the Egyptians, but it did not harm Yahweh's people.
Curtis:
- Yeah, exactly.
EliYah:
- And I do believe that even if we, as Yahweh's people, go through tribulation like this, that our light will be that these things will not harm us.
Curtis:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- And I see little pockets of Yahweh's people coming together in different areas and maybe weathering these things together and helping one another through the various difficulties of being cut off from the world and so on.
Curtis:
- Yeah, halleluYah.
EliYah:
- About three or four weeks ago, I was on here, and I had mentioned something about brethren that want to go out and create a utopia and become self-focused.
- I do think that if we don't become self-focused, if we remain in our calling to reach out to others who are in need, and who need to know the Savior Yahushua, and we come together, one person doing one work in one area is one thing, but when you get families coming together and working together and reaching out and doing outreach, even greater things can be accomplished.
- Yahweh does have to lead that kind of thing. It may be in these troublesome times and tribulations, maybe Yahweh's people here and there in groups or even individuals, people are going to take notice that Yahweh's hands are with us and watching over us and protecting us. That will be a great witness to all who are around us.
Curtis:
- Yeah, exactly. As you said a second ago, the idea is fear nothing, fear absolutely nothing except disobeying Yahweh. We have no fear of any of this. Even the insects and whatever coming through and just clearing everything out, or the people coming through and chopping off heads, we can't fear it. We cannot fear anything except disobeying Yahweh.
- We don't want to disobey Yahweh. I believe, once again, as I told a brother today--I sound like a broken record to myself--but I think that's one of the factors that still we, personally, are really lacking on, which is stepping out, totally stepping out in faith.
- I believe my family is getting there. We have some things, some order issues, like everybody, in leadership and just the order of the family in following--not that we're going to have anything perfect before anything happens, but we're just moving in that direction.
- I think that the fellowship of coming together more often, quote, "daily basis," being able to help each other, as well as reaching out to those around us--the poor in spirit, the poor in whatever needs, whatever is needed.
- Most of all, it's the Spirit, the following of Yahweh and seeing the life, the truth, and the way, us being together more often, and working together in different ways personally, family, even business-wise.
- Working together more closely and more often, preparing for things, and just providing for each other as the body of Yahushua is going to be part--obviously, it's written--it's going to be part of the huge moving of all kinds of people towards Him and even the Jews being jealous of Yahushua's people being fearless and helping each other.
- I believe that's one of the areas that He's working on us. There's a lot of us, to have it in our hearts, to get together more often than just Shabbat, and the feasts, and conversing and stuff, but being closer together and doing things together physically is one of the factors that's really going to become more and more prevalent and obvious and be easy to see.
- And our encouraging each other not to get drawn away, drawn back into worldly things, or worried, or concerned with what people think, but just encouraging each other to do as scripture, as His Word says in the Ruach, as well as the scriptures and what He tells us today personally.
EliYah:
- Speaking of helping each other, I should mention that I was in contact with a woman in the general vicinity of where we live who is a widow. She has a child by a man who died, and she's a young child. She's literally living hand-to-mouth and is fasting on some days, not able to eat, and on other days just keeping it down to one meal a day.
- She'll fast, actually, to see to it that her daughter has food. She literally is going hungry. Things like that, I could see Yahweh's people really needing to come together and help one another. Here we have a fatherless and a widow right here among us in Yahweh's people, and they shouldn't have to live hand-to-mouth.
- We should be able to come together and see one another's needs and be able to help. Of course, we do have the alms fund, the open treasury, which I think has maybe a couple of hundred dollars in it right now.
- There are requests coming in. I just don't have it, so I'm having to turn some people away. This particular woman and her child needed some food. We ought to be at least in close contact, even if we're not in the close vicinity to one another, but where we should be able to recognize the needs we have and not just hear from us every Sabbath.
- Get together and talk during the week, and stay in touch, and get to know each other.
Curtis:
- Exactly, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, it's amazing. It's just totally amazing. I've been visiting a guy in prison who follows Yahushua, and it's just amazing. And then go to another country. We're just so somewhat sheltered. We are, most of us. I'm just amazed.
- I visit, I go--there's a lot of us, as you know, we go to the jail, and you're like what can I say? I don't feel like I'm that encouraging, because I leave. I leave; they're not going anywhere.
- We all have our own things to do. They don't have much of any worries. They're all taken care of, but then again they don't go anywhere. They're people, too.
- I have a friend of mine who's a Christian fella, and I do what I can to share with him about the feasts and everything. I go and do homeless things with him. That's what he really feels called to. These people are camping out. Some have tents, some have tarps, makeshift.
- Man, it's amazing. We think we have problems. It's almost silly sometimes when we think we have problems. There are some people here that participate with you every Shabbat that also we're not even in touch enough with each other to be aware of the needs amongst us right here on this small little bit of fellowship through EliYah.com.
- Like you said, we need to know each other better, even the people here learning and sharing. Sonny had something she wanted to read, and then I think we should let someone else share.
Sunny:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom. How are you doing?
Sunny:
- Good. How are you?
EliYah:
- Doing great. You have something you wanted to share with us?
Sunny:
- Yes, Tehillim 127.
EliYah:
- Tehillim 127. All right, go ahead.
Sunny:
Psalms 127:1 - <> Unless YAHWEH builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless YAHWEH guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.
Psalms 127:2 - [It is] vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; [For] so He gives His beloved sleep.
Psalms 127:3 - Behold, children [are] a heritage from YAHWEH, The fruit of the womb [is] a reward.
Psalms 127:4 - Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So [are] the children of one's youth.
Psalms 127:5 - Happy [is] the man who has his quiver full of them; They shall not be ashamed, But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah!
Sunny:
- HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- That's a great Psalm. We love that one. I appreciate you sharing that. Anyone else want to share?
Sunny:
- Yes, I think we're going to sing another song.
EliYah:
- Sounds good.
Sunny:
- Yeah.
- [Music Ministry by Curtis & Family, "Humble Thyself in the Sight of Yahweh"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah!
Curtis:
- HalleluYah. Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- All right. Shabbat Shalom to you.
Curtis:
- We love you all.
EliYah:
- We love you guys, too. Blessed be Yahweh! A good call and a good song, "Humble Yourself in the Sight of Yahweh." HalleluYah.
- There was a comment that came in the chat room. I would have to say I agree that there are con men and people like that out there, shysters who are looking to get a little bit of money.
- For that reason, I don't usually disclose how much money is in the treasury. I just wait for Yahweh to prompt people's hearts and go from there.
- The woman who needed the food, she got it, and Yahweh provided it. But there are continuing needs every month. I don't know how much can continue to be offered. Hopefully, Yahweh will use us. If not, He can use somebody.
- But we all have a responsibility, as our Brother Free has said, to not say go and be warmed and be filled. Otherwise, the love of Yahweh does not really abide in us, does it?
- We do the best we can to weed out the con people and so on. Personally, we use the alms fund to help people with their needs. For instance, if they have a rent payment or something, we prefer to pay direct and bypass the person altogether. That usually helps that.
- I think our giving of alms doesn't have to always be in the form of American dollars. There can be food sent or clothing, things like that. If somebody wants to do that, you can always contact me, and I can pass the word along, or I can just give you their contact information, and you can take care of that directly.
- It doesn't have to be through an alms fund, just as Yahweh wants to work through individuals. The goal is just so we all get to know each other's needs. We all get to know what is necessary out there in the body of Messiah. What part of the body of Messiah is hurting right now? What part of the body of Messiah is hungry right now?
- The alms fund and the internet is just a way for us to get to know what those needs are. Yahweh be magnified.
- There was a question by Brother Awb, it appears I may have missed.
Q.
- A man very popular among born again believers telling people he went to hell, saw the experiences of those torments as found in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. His motivation to reveal those experiences is, to me, scare people into repentance, being that the Messiah said that there's a great gulf which is not crossable in the parable.
- I believe Hades is simply the grave, and this man is a false teacher.
EliYah:
- I do think there is a lake of fire and that the wicked will be tormented in it. I don't have real clarity that it's going to happen until after Yahushua has returned and set up His thousand year reign. In the time following, there will be a time of judgment to which some will be put into the lake of fire and judged.
- There are some who have after death experiences of what they call hell and so on. I'm not really keen on those things, and it doesn't seem to me it's going to occur until after--first, we die, and then it appears the resurrections are not until after Messiah returns, and then the judgment.
- So if we die first, then the judgment, the resurrections--it says those who are Messiah's that is coming are resurrected, and then there's a second resurrection after that.
- So if he had some kind of vision or something, maybe Yahweh can use it. We don't want to repent because we're scared necessarily, though we do need to fear Yahweh. We want to recognize His love and mercy toward us. We love Him because He loved us first, and the goodness of Yahweh leads us to repentance.
- Those are the kind of things we need to look to. Of course, looking at the alternative, that's certainly a motivator. We don't want to face judgment and wrath, do we?
- I believe we have on line two Jasmine. Are you there?
Jasmine:
- Yes.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom to you.
Jasmine:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Would you like to share something today?
Jasmine:
- Yes.
EliYah:
- Okay. What would you like to share? Are you there?
Jasmine:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- Okay, did you want to share something today?
Jasmine:
- Yeah, I would like to share a song.
EliYah:
- Okay, what would you like to share today?
Jasmine:
- "Oh, Let's Magnify Yahweh."
EliYah:
- Okay. Is that a song?
Jasmine:
- Mm-hm.
EliYah:
- Okay, well, I'm ready when you are.
- [Music Ministry by Jasmine, "Oh, Let's Magnify Yahweh"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah! That was very good. How did you learn that song?
Jasmine:
- From my Nana and Laura off the computer.
EliYah:
- Okay. We've sung that song before, as well. It's a really good song, and it's based on the Psalms. I like the songs that are based on Yahweh's Word. Those are always the best. HalleluYah. All right. Anything else you wanted to share?
Jasmine:
- Marissa is okay, and she was going to Bible study, but her cousin is about to go back to California.
EliYah:
- So she's doing better now?
Jasmine:
- Uh-huh.
EliYah:
- Glad to hear that.
Jasmine:
- She doesn't have the hole no more. She said the hole's already been there, and it's already closed up.
EliYah:
- Well, great. HalleluYah! You said she's going back to California?
Jasmine:
- No, not Marissa, her cousin.
EliYah:
- Oh, her cousin is, okay. Well, very well. Glad to hear that report. Yahweh spared her life.
Jasmine:
- Oh, they're about to do surgery on Marissa, and they're about to sow the hole up.
EliYah:
- Oh, so they're going to do some more surgery?
Jasmine:
- Yeah, they're going to do more surgery on her.
EliYah:
- Okay, very well. HalleluYah. Yahweh heard our prayers, and has mercy upon His people and the little ones, and we give Him thanks for that. Of course, He saved you all in the tornado storm that came through, and provided you with a vehicle through the help of Yahweh's people. HalleluYah.
Jasmine:
- My Nana said shalom to all of them.
EliYah:
- Who did?
Jasmine:
- My Nana.
EliYah:
- Okay. All right, well shalom back, and Yahweh bless you.
Jasmine:
- And Laura wants to say shalom.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Laura:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom to you.
Laura:
- I just wanted to say thank you everyone for praying. I was in a bad situation, like most people are. I was in a whole lot of pain that week.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Well, halleluYah. We praise YAH. You're doing a lot better now?
Laura:
- Yes, sir.
EliYah:
- Glad to hear that.
Laura:
- I'm doing ten times better.
EliYah:
- Glad to hear that.
Laura:
- Knowing me, I'll have to have another one, take a shot sooner or later, but hopefully not too soon.
EliYah:
- Well, we all have trials, and they're all for our refining and for perfection of the saints. The main thing is we all learn something through it, and gain, and grow.
Laura:
- Yeah. I don't know if anyone's heard about what I've been told before about the vaccines. I was told about the vaccines, that they have mercury in them from monkey cells. Someone said that they had mercury in them, and that was causing a lot of kids' autism. I started crying, because my daughter has already had two sets of shots already. I can't take that back now.
- I read it on the internet and everything. Shakara, the one from Oregon, she's the one that told me that, and she gave me the website for everything.
EliYah:
- Right. Well, we've always been real leery of the vaccinations, especially this flu vaccination that everyone is being encouraged to take. We've heard many stories of people who took it and got the flu.
- They usually miss every year. They give you the flu vaccine every year to vaccinate you from something that never happens.
Laura:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- I would say that we do need to research and not just assume that these vaccinations are wise, in my opinion or not. But research it and come to your conclusion.
Laura:
- She also gave me a website to the flu vaccinations, and it had the ingredients on it, and it said it had gelatin in it. I was like, oh, my goodness. I've never taken the flu shot before until this last year.
- When I took it, I didn't get the flu afterwards, but had I known that it had gelatin or even monkey kidney cells in it--and also it's also got human fetal cells in it--I would not have taken it, had I known all that.
- I definitely don't want pork in my system. I'm glad she showed me that, because I know next year I won't be taking it.
EliYah:
- Yeah, that's another thing about medications, and vaccines, and things of that nature, that sometimes they do put things in there that Yahweh would be very unhappy about. We need to research that, as well. Very good point.
Laura:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- All right, Shabbat Shalom to you and your family.
Laura:
- Have a blessed day.
EliYah:
- You, too. HalleluYah. Another call from the Fagin family, becoming a regular caller. Did a little song and had a good talk there with Laura. We have another sister on line one, I believe calling all the way from the land down under, they call it, Australia.
Del:
- Praise Yahweh. Hello.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom to you.
Del:
- It's freezing cold here. I'm sitting in the dark. The sun hasn't come up, and I thought I'd give a call in and say good day to all my mates over there.
EliYah:
- Well, I don't understand. It's so warm out here. I don't know what's going on, but it's just really hot. This is Sister Del, if you haven't heard. I forgot to mention your name. How are you all doing? A little cold down there, huh, in the winter time?
Del:
- Yeah. You just had your longest day; we just had our shortest.
EliYah:
- That's true.
Del:
- So that's how it runs differently.
EliYah:
- That is true. And I've always wanted to know, do the birds fly north for the winter?
Del:
- [laughs] Oh, well, mostly all the birds here fly inland into the center of Australia.
EliYah:
- Oh, okay.
Del:
- And then they migrate back out to the east coast. That's how it usually works. At the moment, we've got some stunning big birds that are called Brolgas. They're huge, great big birds. Once they pair off, they pair off for life, and there's a whole flock of them, around about 100 of them around our place at the moment.
- They come from the center of Australia and then come back out here during the winter seasons. They migrate around. They don't go south, because any further south of us is the South Pole, and it's a bit cold down there.
EliYah:
- Well, I was wondering if they flew north. See, here they always fly south for the winter, and it's something you grew up with. And I thought, well, I guess in Australia they would fly north for the winter maybe. [laughs]
Del:
- No, we don't really have that type of thing like you guys have. We have a few that might go up through to Indonesia and places like that, but it doesn't go as far distances as what you guys seem to have.
EliYah:
- All right, all right. Well, I always wanted to know the answer to that, and I guess who better to ask than our Sister Del?
Del:
- [laughs] The big difference over here is our water goes down a different way down the sink. When you pull the plug out, the water actually goes down a different way than you guys. It goes the opposite way. And our light switches are different. Your on is our off and vice versa. [laughs]
EliYah:
- Okay, we'll have to remember that. Is the moon also sort of lit on the opposite side or something?
Del:
- No.
EliYah:
- I heard that.
Del:
- You only ever face the sun or the moon. We only ever see the front face of the moon. We never, ever--the whole world only sees the one part.
EliYah:
- I knew that, but I mean, when you get a crescent moon, it might be the right side for us. I wondered if it was on the right side for you all. I wasn't sure.
Del:
- Yeah, pretty much, I think. We just had a full moon.
EliYah:
- Yes. Yeah, it was lighting my bedroom last night, and I thought I forgot to turn the light off, but it was the moon. It was very bright.
Del:
- Yeah, we've had really bright this week, too. I just find with the full moon--I work with elderly and disabled people, and I just find the full moon makes everybody get a bit weird. [laughs]
EliYah:
- I've heard about that. It seems to affect some.
Del:
- It's weird.
EliYah:
- The moon shall not strike you by day--or something like that--the moon by night. The sun shall not strike you by day or the moon by night. I guess people do get moonstruck.
Del:
- What I was going to say, just to encourage everybody. We're just a small group down here. You don't need a lot of people. We've been trying to reach out to the community in lots and lots of ways. We're actually starting to get--you know the commission where it says to go out to all nations?
EliYah:
- Right.
Del:
- Ray and I and a couple of other people, we plan to use time to go out into the nations. We're going to put our house on rental and everything else, and go out into the nations, and try and tell people about the Word, as well as travel, but just to get His name out there.
- I just think we all need to do that. Sometimes the doctrine thing we get caught up in so much, and what different people want to believe, and all this sort of thing, I think it all comes down to we need to get the Word out and need to get His name out so that people know and understand that.
EliYah:
- Absolutely.
Del:
- For me, people usually, if they can understand that, they can then pick up on it and then start moving in it themselves, just like we have and just like everybody else here online has. You have to search out for yourself a lot of the time.
EliYah:
- Right.
Del:
- I just want to encourage everybody not to feel like you're isolated or anything like that. Here in Australia, there's very few people, very, very few. They're very isolated, and they're all over the place, and everybody is really diverse. I just think if we can all just work in the Spirit and work in the body in our own capacity, wherever we are, I think that's what Yahushua wants from us.
EliYah:
- Amein. I think we all can reach out to those around us. I mentioned a few weeks ago, sometimes people, if they're living alone and just kind of don't associate with anybody, that tends to become depressing.
- But we can go out and start serving others, even volunteering, helping the elderly or whatever. Yahweh can open all kinds of doors, and we feel useful when we do those things.
- Even we read in scripture about those who are widows not really being allowed to be counted into the number unless they are widows indeed, that wash the saints feet and do different things to serve the body.
- And so we're not going to be happy unless we are doing some kind of serving in our walk. Whereas, if we become inward focused, whether focused on self or focused on doctrine, our little disagreements or whatever as an assembly or whatever, that is kind of depressing.
- But if we're all working together somehow to do and accomplish goals together as brethren, or families, or individuals, or whatever, I really think that it is a healing balm for us.
Del:
- I totally agree. I've just been through different things, and I'm pretty open and share lots of things that are in my heart. I can honestly say I've been through a stage where I think I've been dwelling on self too much.
- You get into yourself too much, and you think about self too much and how you feel and how things are affecting you; whereas, if we can focus more outward, out into the community and be that witness, the stuff that's in you doesn't seem to manifest so badly, and it tends to then just disappear after awhile, because you're too busy doing other stuff.
EliYah:
- Right. Even like here in the United States, Del, when 911 occurred and all that--there are two political parties here that are prominent, Democrats and Republicans, and the United States government, the Congress usually debates every day and arguments all day long, one against another. When that happened here, both parties united and worked together to accomplish a common goal.
- It's just human nature. But if we're willing to work together with one common goal of proclaiming His Word to all nations, and we don't get so caught up into trying to set up a denomination and build our assembly or whatever through what building we're going to meet in and all those other things, we get more interested and more focused on really each of us individually serving others.
- I was given an example. There was a Christian church. I think they started off with maybe 100 people or something. He said that everybody in this church, the pastor told them to go out and find a neighbor somewhere or a friend and do something for someone once a week.
- Just do something. Mow their lawn or whatever. I think within just a few years, they had over 1,000 people going, because their focus was in serving and going outward. It's amazing what'll happen.
Del:
- Well, that's what Yahushua did, and that was the witness, and that's what drew people to Him. He was the ultimate Servant. I think we need to focus more on that than self these days. I think the self thing is what Satan wants to do to draw us away from what we actually are here to do.
- I just want to encourage everybody, that's all. I just see that a lot of people are isolated, and a lot of people are on their own. I just think we're all in it together, and we just need to love each other and manifest that love amongst each other.
EliYah:
- And serve each other.
Del:
- Serve, yes. I think that's where we need to go.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Thank you.
Del:
- I love talking with you guys.
EliYah:
- Good to talk with you, too. I believe Curtis asked a question. Let me find it here. He wanted to know something about how the little one was. There was a baby?
Del:
- Oh, I'm going to be a grandmother for the first time in February.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Del:
- Yeah, my son in Louisiana, he married a southern belle, and I'm going to be a Nana in February.
EliYah:
- Praise Yahweh.
Del:
- It's Nana Del and Poppy Ray. [laughs]
EliYah:
- That's great. Nana Del and Poppy Ray. Well, may Yahweh bless the little one, and Nana and Poppy also.
Del:
- Yes, he's asleep in bed. It's about 4:00 or so in the morning here, so he's still in bed snoring. [laughs]
EliYah:
- Yahweh bless Mum also, right?
Del:
- Yes, yes.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Del:
- Shabbat Shalom, everyone. Love you all. Catch up again soon.
EliYah:
- All right. Yahweh bless.
Del:
- Good day. Bye.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom. HalleluYah. That was great. Isn't it a blessing to be able to communicate with brethren and sistren so far away? HalleluYah.
- At this moment, the phone lines are free if you'd like to call in. Our telephone number is 417-683-3575 or you can call toll free 866-435-4924. I'd love to hear from you. Meanwhile, I believe there was a question that came through on the chat line here.
Q. My family is big on birthdays, and my big 50th is coming up. They do know I don't do the cake and stuff, but they want to take me to dinner. I'm confused about that. It seems harmless. I would like your insight.
EliYah:
- I don't see any scripture forbidding anybody from going out to dinner on the day that Yahweh blessed them with life. A few things about birthdays--number one, there are examples in scripture of birthdays. One would be Pharaoh, in which there was a feast held by the Pharaoh of Egypt. It was back in Genesis.
- That was the birthday that ultimately resulted in Joseph being freed from his dungeon, because he interpreted the dream of the baker and wine steward. One person did lose his life through that.
- Another example of a birthday is Herod's birthday, where John the Baptist was killed. Of course, that was very carnal. Then there's a birthday mentioned in the book of Job. Job's sons, each one on his day, held a feast.
- I don't think there's anything wrong with holding even a feast, as long as it's to give thanksgiving to Yahweh. Job, he said he had actually made a sacrifice during that time in order to cleanse them of any sin that they may have committed in their hearts.
- He said they weren't doing anything wrong, necessarily, but maybe something in their hearts they could have been doing wrong that he was concerned about.
- If he was concerned about something going wrong in their hearts, it'd indicate to me that them having a feast on that day wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
- He was considered to be a very upright, and just, and righteous man. I don't see anything wrong with you going out to dinner. If we're going to go out and wear the witch hats, the little pointy witch hats on our head, and make a wish, and blow out candles, and birthday cakes, and the whole nine yards, then that's pagan rituals that got incorporated into birthdays.
- It's very different than the attitude we're supposed to have as believers. We definitely don't want to participate in pagan practices.
Q. How do we reconcile Leviticus 19:1 and Job 40:1 with John 5:37?
Leviticus 19:1 - And YAHWEH spoke to Moses, saying,
Job 40:1 - Moreover YAHWEH answered Job, and said:
John 5:37 - "And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.- And prove that Yahushua is not Yahweh made flesh. What is the Father's name? Quote the scriptures. Explain it to me, please, Proverbs 30:4.
Proverbs 30:4 - Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What [is] His name, and what [is] His Son's name, If you know?
Psalms 110:1 - <> YAHWEH said to my Master, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool."- Psalm 110:1, I believe, is about Yahushua sitting at the right hand of Yahweh.
Mark 12:36 - "For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: `YAHWEH said to my Master, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool."'
Acts 2:23 - "Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;- I believe Yahushua was made to sit at Yahweh's right hand.
EliYah:
- Well, if there's someone who needs to be at Yahweh's right hand, then that shows it's a different person, a different being; otherwise, it would just be Yahweh there, nobody at Yahweh's right hand.
- I do think Yahushua is the Word of Elohim made flesh who dwelt among us. In other words, through Him, we received all of Yahweh's Word, the Word Yahweh spoke. The Word of Yahweh came unto somebody and said... Yahushua, I believe, was probably that Word of Yahweh that came.
- I believe He pre-existed. He said He would sit at the right hand of Yahweh and put all enemies at His feet, and then the Son Himself will be subject, 1 Corinthians 15, to Yahweh after everything is put under His feet.
- There are two--actually, Yahushua is called Yahweh in different places like Jeremiah 23:5. He's called Yahweh Tsidkenu. How can the Son be named Yahweh in some places and be different than the Father?
- Well, we do see both. We do see there's two separate beings. Yahushua is praying to Yahweh the Father. I don't think Yahweh is a ventriloquist, pretending, acting. I think that was Yahushua, a separate person.
- But at the same time, we see that Messiah is at Yahweh's right hand. We see that He is the Word of Elohim made flesh, because He kept the word to perfection, and He was the Word from the beginning.
- I don't think they're irreconcilable. You just have to understand the heavenly Father's name is Yahweh, and His Son can be called Yahweh, carrying His Father's name.
- In Ephesians 3:15, it says that everything named in heaven and in earth is named after Yahweh. So, putting names on things and people, the Messiah and Yahweh, these are all because of the character of Yahweh being in Messiah.
- It doesn't mean He is the heavenly Father. It means He is made in Yahweh's image and did not fail to walk in the image of Elohim, unlike Adam. Adam was created in the image of Elohim but failed.
- If we are the image of Elohim, we cannot be Elohim. We can only be an image of the One who is Elohim. We can't be Yahweh the Father, no matter how hard we try. We can only walk in His image. We can only be His image.
- If you're looking at a mirror, the one you see in the mirror is not you; it's a reflection of you. That's what Yahushua is, and that's what we are called to be. I hope that answers your question.
- I believe we do have somebody else on the line. I think it is Brother Charlie. Shabbat Shalom to you.
Charlie:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- How are you doing?
Charlie:
- I am blessed, I'm blessed. This is my first time calling in. I've been listening to your show for, I don't know, about a year, I guess, off and on. I've been reading your show more than anything.
EliYah:
- All right. Well, glad to have you online here.
Charlie:
- I appreciate it.
EliYah:
- And where are you from?
Charlie:
- I'm in Forth Worth.
EliYah:
- Forth Worth, Texas?
Charlie:
- Yes, sir.
EliYah:
- Okay, very well.
Charlie:
- I had a few different things I wanted to respond to. I really enjoy studying. There's a lot of different things I like studying about. You just had a couple of questions brought up. I was just listening to you talk about the broadcast. When you talk about the identity of Yahushua, there are a couple of different things I wanted to ask you about and maybe get your turn on it.
- I guess we'll do a little subject hopping, if you don't mind.
EliYah:
- Sure.
Charlie:
- One of the first things I wanted to address is the most recent one you were just talking about, because I just sat here and did a big study on who Yahushua was, and I've done it for several years, and I've gone through my scriptures, and I built my own chain reference Bible on that topic.
- I've kind of linked all the scriptures related to showing who Yahushua was and what His divinity was. Instead of sitting here trying to read 1,000 scriptures with you, I'll kind of give you and say what I've learned from it and then kind of listen to your take on it and see what you think.
- I've basically come to realize, from what I've read over the years, is that Yahushua was another revelation of Yahweh.
- I don't so much believe in dispensationalism, but I believe that Yahweh in the beginning is Yahweh the Almighty, and then at the correct time He reveals Himself as Yahushua the Messiah, and then after Yahushua Messiah ascended into heaven, Yahweh turned around and revealed Himself through His holy power, which is called the Holy Spirit.
- They are all Yahweh. They're all manifestations of Yahweh. It's kind of like a father that works with a son, and then he became a husband, and then he became a father. These are all different roles that this one person fills, but it's still just one person, and that's how I've come to view Yahushua.
- You have scriptures like Isaiah 44:24, Isaiah 45:5, and Isaiah 45:21. These are just a few that are very, very obvious to me saying that Yahweh is the Savior. He is Elohim. He is the only one. There is no one beside Him. You know what I mean?
EliYah:
- Yeah, I follow you, and I'm familiar with those verses. What we're faced with, difficulty in those areas, is there are places where Yahweh Himself refers to various men as saviors. For instance, Obadiah 1:21 talks about saviors coming back to Esau, and the kingdom shall be Yahweh's.
- In different verses in Isaiah, Yahweh says He's going to send a Savior. That doesn't mean that just because He calls Him Savior, like Isaiah 19:20, "...send them a savior and a mighty one, and he'll deliver them," that that means that--because Yahweh is ultimately our Savior.
- No matter, even though Messiah is called our Savior, the only reason He's called our Savior is because Yahweh used Him to save us, the fact that Yahushua means "Yahweh saves." But to call someone else a savior, there's nothing wrong with that.
- Yahweh Himself has done that in the scriptures, and so I can't use that particular principle to prove that since Yahweh is the only Savior and Yahweh calls Yahushua Savior in the scripture, that means Yahushua is the heavenly Father in a different form of some kind.
- Besides Him, there is no Elohim, I would use the same logic in that scripture. Really, there is no Elohim beside Yahweh, in the sense that there is no other power but His. The word Elohim has to do with might and with strength. That's what the word means.
- For instance, the word "el" is translated power in a few places. "Deliver those who are drawn toward death when it's within the power." Or "el of your hand to do so."
- There are places where Yahweh Himself refers to men as elohim, Psalm 83, and Yahushua pointed that out when they accused Him. "You yourself are a man, yet you claim to be elohim." He said, "Well, didn't it say in scripture that we are elohim, man is elohim?"
- And so for Yahushua to be called Elohim, or a man, or a judge, or an angel to be called elohim, there's nothing wrong with that, but we all know that ultimately the One true Elohim is Yahweh the Father, and all power comes from Him.
- The Messiah Himself referred to Yahweh, our heavenly Father, as His Elohim, His power, His strength in Revelation 3:12. This is after His resurrection where He says, "I'll make him a pillar in the temple of my Elohim." Whose Elohim? Yahushua's Elohim.
- So if Yahushua needs an Elohim, then He can't be the Supreme Being or the manifestation of the Supreme Being. He has to be subservient and under Him, as it says in 1 Corinthians 11, that the Father is first, and then the Son.
- It says the Messiah is the head of man, man is the head of woman, and Yahweh is the head of Messiah. I think that's the order in which we're to understand our heavenly Father and the Messiah.
- We are allowed to worship--there's a discussion going on in the chat room among the discussion forum about whether the Messiah can be worshiped, and I think that's another misunderstanding of Hebrew in that we bow down before one whom we consider to be greater than we.
- Satan is not greater than we are; we are greater than he is through the power of Yahweh in us. No idol is greater than we are, so we don't worship an idol, or bow down before an idol or any image.
- We see many times, like Ruth the Moabitess in scripture bowing down. We see people bowing down before the king, like King David. The same Hebrew word translated "bow down" is the word translated "worship." It's all the same word.
Charlie:
- Exactly.
EliYah:
- In Revelation, it says that "...those who are of the synagogue of Satan, I'll make them come and worship before your feet." So they're going to bow down before us, because Yahweh has made us greater than they are.
Charlie:
- Yeah, exactly.
EliYah:
- We have our own English word that we've chosen to translate called worship, and we decided to make that a separate word from bow down in English, but in Hebrew it's all the same word.
- We have our own little Americanisms we're trying to inject in a Hebrew Bible that doesn't have that Americanism and say we can't worship Messiah, but the truth is that we can bow before Messiah. He is greater than we are.
Charlie:
- Exactly. One of the things I've learned about Hebrew is it is a very pictorial language.
- In English, we have some two hundred to four hundred thousand words in English to be very precise and very literal, while in Hebrew you only have basically a little over 8,000 words, a handful of prefixes, a handful of suffixes, and when they get mixed together with the roots, that's where you get the vivid language of Hebrew itself.
- Hebrew is not a literal language; it's a pictorial language. It's designed to give you mental images and to be very poetic. That's something we were talking about earlier in the chat room, because you had quoted some scripture, and someone said something about poetry.
- Hebrew itself, almost all Hebrew writing of old is poetic in form, just through the nature of the language itself. It's not a literal language.
EliYah:
- Right.
Charlie:
- One of the things that I was thinking about when I was listening to your discussion, you said a lot of things that I agree with, but I went to the beginning of my chain reference on who Yahushua was, and it starts in Psalms 16. This is a theme I've traced just through Psalms. It's tied in to Acts 2, I think it is, and it just goes all back and forth through a pile of scriptures.
- But it starts in Psalms 16:8, and then verse 11 and then verse 7 of chapter 17. This is pretty much the beginning. I was sitting here turning pages, and I don't see any of my other references before that.
- It speaks of Yahushua as Yahweh's right hand. If you look at a lot of examples of this term--this is probably another Americanism you were just talking about, but nonetheless I'm going to use it for my example.
- If you look at the term "right hand," a general's right hand, the man who is the general's right hand in the army, he represents that general. Whenever his right hand is somewhere doing something or saying something, everybody understands that that's basically the general doing or saying the same thing.
EliYah:
- Right.
Charlie:
- That person's presence carries the weight of the general's presence itself.
EliYah:
- Right.
Charlie:
- That's the sense that I get when I read verses like verse 8 and verse 11 of chapter 16 and verse 7 of chapter 17, and Tehillim, Psalms. And then you go on to Tehillim 48:10, 20:6, and I mean it just goes on and on.
- There's so many examples. In fact, one of the best ones is 20:6, Tehillim 20:6.
Psalms 20:6 - Now I know that YAHWEH saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand.- The anointed, specifically at that time, David's talking about the king, because the king is anointed, but in a way he's also talking about the Messiah.
EliYah:
- Right.
Charlie:
- The Messiah was the anointed. [inaudible]
EliYah:
- You're dropping out. Are you there?
Charlie:
- We remember the name of Yahweh, our Elohim. It's kind of like I'm seeing three elements there. I'm seeing the anointed, I'm seeing the right hand, and I'm seeing the name of Yahweh. They're all being tied together.
- You go throughout Tehillim, I mean, I could just give you a list of scripture. And then you go to Acts 2:33; once again another reference to Yahushua being at the right hand of Yahweh.
- But then you go back in scriptures like I quoted in Isaiah, and the one that Moses says in Deuteronomy--I've been looking for it, and for some reason I can't find it. Maybe someone in the chat room could find it, where Moses was talking about how the children of Israel had just seen or heard Yahweh's voice, but they saw no form.
- Be careful not to imagine a form to go with that voice, and then it says Yahweh is by Himself. It says there is none other.
- Then there's the occasion of when the children of Israel had come out of Egypt and watched the ocean close in over the Egyptians. They, once again, talked more about His right hand and His salvation, Yahweh being that salvation, so forth and so on.
- So it seems like there's a lot, just a plethora of evidence showing that Yahushua is basically a manifestation of Yahweh Himself.
- I know there's a lot of different views in the assemblies, and I really don't believe how we view Yahushua's identity in relation to Yahweh is going to get us into or keep us out of eternal life, but it's something interesting to talk about for people who have [inaudible].
EliYah:
- Yeah, there are a lot of different kinds of views on that subject, and Yahushua is clearly called the arm of Yahweh in numerous places. Isaiah 53, when it says, "To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?"
- That's because He does sit at the right hand of the Father, and He does a tremendous amount of work for the heavenly Father, including coming and saving us through the power of Yahweh that worked in Him mightily.
- It's a picture or an allegory in that Yahushua being--I guess we lost him there--at the right hand of Yahweh. So He is called the arm of Yahweh, but I wouldn't take it so far as to say that Yahushua was a walking hand on the earth. We go real literal into it, but it's an allegory. Even today we'll say, like, this person over here is my right hand man.
- So Yahushua is working at the right hand of the Father with a mighty hand and outstretched arm. By the power of Yahweh working in Him, Yahushua has done many awesome works, including, we see in various places, creating the universe.
- HalleluYah. All right, I think we've got another phone call. Sorry to lose you there, Charlie. I guess you said your Bluetooth died there, your telephone you were using there. But we do have another call here from Brother Rich. Shabbat Shalom to you.
Rich:
- Hey, Shabbat Shalom to you, Tom. How are you?
EliYah:
- I'm doing great. How are you?
Rich:
- Doing good, thank you.
EliYah:
- Very well. Well, good to hear from you all. How is Eddie Bierto [phonetic]?
Rich:
- Eddie Bierto is doing fine. He seems to be in somewhat improved spirits regarding the situation with his son. He misses his son terribly, and his son misses him terribly.
- He prays that Yahweh would return his son to him, if that be His will, but he also understands he's possibly in a better situation there in the United States with respect to perhaps having access to better education and a better standard of living and that kind of thing, as well.
EliYah:
- I see.
Rich:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- Well, we'll keep him in prayer.
Rich:
- Thank you.
EliYah:
- What else is going on?
Rich:
- Well, we just experienced one of those typical Panama rainstorms where it rained about 45 minutes so hard that the amount of moisture coming down is so thick, so heavy, you can't see the buildings a half mile away from you.
- It did that for about 45 minutes. Now it cleared up. The sun's out. It's partly cloudy and dramatically changed.
EliYah:
- Sounds like tropical weather.
Rich:
- What's that?
EliYah:
- Sounds like tropical weather to me.
Rich:
- Absolutely. I was calling just to share a praise report with you regarding my mother. She had her surgery, as you know, a week ago this past Thursday, quadruple bypass surgery that we had been praying about.
- The surgery went very well with no complications, no difficulties. She came home this past Tuesday after being in the hospital for only about four days or so after the surgery and is out doing some walking again now.
- The surgery was successful, and it will probably be good for her having done it and give her better ability to walk and do the things she enjoys. So we're praising Yahweh for that.
EliYah:
- Wow. Glad to hear that. She's doing well, and praise Yahweh.
Rich:
- Yes.
EliYah:
- That's what we've been praying for, and He's faithful. She's coming along also in spiritual areas?
Rich:
- Yeah, definitely. When I was there last, I shared with her some of the lessons, the writings off your website, and shared with her the truth of the names and some of the other truths and the realities of spiritual deception that's been going on in the world for centuries, and helped to awaken her and enlighten her.
- She has been attending a church here. I believe she said it's a Methodist church, but the pastor, when he gives his messages, he uses the real names.
EliYah:
- Wow.
Rich:
- So she's been blessed to hear him using the name Yahweh in his sermons that he gives on Sundays.
EliYah:
- Amazing.
Rich:
- After her surgery, he and his wife called, and they were going to come over and visit her, so she was going to have a time and opportunity to visit with them personally, as well.
EliYah:
- That's great. Amazing what Yahweh is doing.
Rich:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- It really is.
Rich:
- Yes.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Rich:
- Yes, it is. He's exposing, as you've talked about, a lot of the truths. A lot of the deceptions are being lifted, it appears, from people worldwide, and they're being exposed to a lot more truths and a lot more realities that they've been sheltered from for centuries. So it is interesting.
EliYah:
- That's amazing. I wonder how long the Methodist denomination will allow him to do those things.
Rich:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- But, hopefully, he'll just continue to share with others. You say he's in St. Louis. Is that right? Is it St. Louis?
Rich:
- That's correct.
EliYah:
- That's not too far from here.
Rich:
- Yeah, I think she said the church is in Brentwood on Manchester Road, just west of Brentwood. I think it's actually not Brentwood, but that community just west of Brentwood on Manchester Road there.
EliYah:
- I don't know where that is, but it's somewhere in this state, and Yahweh is doing a work all over, even in Panama, like you've mentioned. The Word is getting out there. HalleluYah for that.
Rich:
- Yeah, I've been continuing to print off sometimes your weekly message that you share. Other times, I'll go into the archives and try to pull a lesson that is kind of along the lines of others I've shared with them. I've been pretty much trying to do that on a weekly basis.
- I gave him a lesson this last Tuesday, and when I pulled it out of my jersey--because I normally encounter him on the road when I'm out on a bicycle ride--I pulled it out of the back pocket of my jersey and gave it to him, and he just took it in both of his hands and raised it to the heavens and praised Yahweh, and brought it back down and kissed it.
- He was very excited, very enthused about that. He always tells me how his sister translates them and writes them out, and then they'll have a couple dozen people come by their home weekly, and she shares it with them, and they're sharing it with others. So the Word is spreading down here, as well.
EliYah:
- Amazing, really amazing. Well, that's encouraging. Praise Yahweh for the work He's doing. It's all His Word that does the work, isn't it?
Rich:
- Yes. HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Rich:
- HalleluYah, it is.
EliYah:
- Well, anything else?
Rich:
- No, I just wanted to--oh, our second container arrived, we believe, yesterday.
EliYah:
- Good.
Rich:
- So it should become available to us next week. Pray that we receive favor that is given to us, unloaded and moved into the house.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. I'm glad it's at least safely arrived. That's wonderful.
Rich:
- Yeah, we'll have a van now. We'll have a vehicle with which to be able to travel around the country and start to see more and more of the country.
EliYah:
- Well, great. What kind of vehicle is it?
Rich:
- It's a van, a Toyota Sienna van. It's funny. We tried to sell it numerous times when we were leading up to leaving to relocate here, and there was just no interest in it. It's a nice van. It's very clean. It rides like a new van, even though it's got about 100,000 miles on it.
EliYah:
- Wow.
Rich:
- It's very clean, in good shape, and we were just really dumbfounded that there was no interest in it. We just took that as a sign that Yahweh wanted us to bring it down here.
EliYah:
- Wow.
Rich:
- So that's what we've done.
EliYah:
- Well, praise Yahweh!
Rich:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- So Yahweh is continuing to work in your life and the lives of so many. That's awesome.
Rich:
- Yes, He is. The broadcast, the weekly messages that Yahweh provides through you and your family there are a big part of that, so we praise Him for the ministry with which you are carrying out.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Rich:
- We praise Him for that, because it makes a tremendous difference in the lives of people. HalleluYah for EliYah.com.
EliYah:
- Well, blessed be Yahweh.
Rich:
- Absolutely.
EliYah:
- He's the One doing the work, and we're just the vessels.
Rich:
- I understand.
EliYah:
- So we praise Him for that. We appreciate you, Brother, and your family. We send our greetings to everybody.
Rich:
- Mm-hm. Thank you and likewise to you all. I had a nice conversation with Kara, and it was nice to visit with her. I pray Yahweh's blessings upon you all with all the things you've got coming up this next week, the custody court appearance, I guess, and a family coming to visit, a family of 11 coming to visit, huh?
EliYah:
- Right, right, yeah. Actually, the Williams family, for those of you who know them from the feast, are going to be here a week from tomorrow, Yahweh willing, and looking forward to seeing them again. Yeah, keep everything in prayer.
Rich:
- HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- And I appreciate you all and hopefully see you at maybe the feast.
Rich:
- We are going to look at that and hope to be able to see you guys in attendance there, as well.
EliYah:
- All right. May Yahweh bless you all.
Rich:
- Thank you, Tom. Yahweh bless you and your family, as well. We love you all and Shabbat Shalom to your household.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom to your home. Love you all, too. HalleluYah. Brother Rich from Panama came up and participated in the Feast of Passover and Unleavened Bread. That was a great blessing to meet him and his family and see how Yahweh is working all over the world.
- Got a call from Panama, a call from Australia today, and we know that Yahweh's Spirit is hovering over those who seek His mercy. HalleluYah. I believe that will be the conclusion of our phone calls for today's broadcast. In the meantime, we do have a question or two that came in about the birthdays.
Q. Which calendar should we use when celebrating birthdays? Yahweh's calendar or the pagan Roman one?
EliYah:
- Obviously, the answer to that question is we should use Yahweh's calendar. I know my birthday was what the world calls August 5th. I'll be 38 years old this year, according to the world, but in Yahweh's eyes, the fifth month on the second day of the month is the time on His calendar.
- We want to go by His calendar. There is a way to do that. It may not be particularly easy. You have to go back and find the moon phases and try to determine when the new year began, which can be difficult some years to do that.
- In the case of our children, we were already observing the feast days at the time they were both born. We were following Yahweh's calendar, and so we know the timing of their birth. Both of them were fairly close to the Feast of Tabernacles time--not quite, but fairly close.
- I will confess that we, until recent years, didn't even know when their birthdays were, according to Yahweh's calendar, but we did some research and found out, and that's how we plan on doing that.
- That's the thing to at least recognize the time that Yahweh gave you life. They did count years of life in the scriptures. Nothing wrong with counting how many years of age that you are.
- I believe we can go ahead and take prayer requests at this time. If you have any prayer needs, please let them be made known. It looks like we've got a few prayer requests already. I believe that was all the questions we had, as far as I can see here. If there is another one, you may have to repeat that.
- In the meantime, we're going to go ahead and share another song from the library. This is a very beautiful song by Bill Rodgers called "I Love You Father Yahweh." HalleluYah.
- [Music Ministry: "I Love You Father Yahweh," "Blessed Is the Man Who Fears Yahweh," "Give Thanks," "Yom Kippur," "HalleluYah"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
- [Music Ministry: "Lead Me to the River of Your Healing Waters"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. May Yahweh cover you, fill you with His Holy Spirit, as you continue to enjoy the remainder of this Shabbat and go out into the work week once again. May you be a light for all nations and draw all men unto the Savior, Yahushua the Messiah, and His Torah. Yahweh bless you all. We love you all. Good to be with you all once again on this great Shabbat day.
- Looking forward to another broadcast next week, Yahweh willing. Shabbat Shalom to your homes.