EliYah:
- I believe Brother Curtis is on the line. Shabbat Shalom, brother.
Curtis:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- How are you all doing?
Curtis:
- Divinely wonderful.
EliYah:
- That's good.
Curtis:
- [blows shofar]
Curtis & Family:
- Praise Yahweh!
EliYah:
- [blows shofar] There, I got one for you.
Curtis:
- HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- All right, so getting ready for the feast, I presume, the Feast of Trumpets?
Curtis:
- Yes, yes, yes.
EliYah:
- Very well.
Curtis:
- You reminded me of a couple of things today in the study there, an important thing, I think. It was all important. It shows the description of walking in the Spirit and not accomplish the lusts of the flesh, for the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh, and these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you desire to do.
- If you're led by the Spirit, you're not under Torah. If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under Torah, and the works of the flesh are well know, which are adultery, whoring, uncleanness, indecency, adultery, hatred, quarrels, jealousy, fits of rage, self ambition, dissension, factions, envy, murder.
- I, for one, even as I said before, those who practice these shall not inherit the reign of Elohim. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness, gentleness, self control.
- Against such, there is no Torah, and those who are in Messiah have impaled the flesh and its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another and envying one another.
Galatians 5:16 - I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17 - For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
Galatians 5:18 - But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Galatians 5:19 - Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
Galatians 5:20 - idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
Galatians 5:21 - envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told [you] in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of Elohim.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 5:23 - gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:24 - And those [who are] Messiah's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:25 - If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:26 - Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.- We've done whole studies on those. You brought it up again today, and it's pretty basic but very deep and on the surface, as well. There's the onion of the Ruach. It's simple but difficult.
EliYah:
- It's not too difficult to understand. The flesh doesn't want to walk in that way, and so we need to recognize that as no longer being present with us. We reckon the body as dead and Yahushua as alive in us.
- We accept that by faith. We believe that. Through our faith in that, we overcome.
Curtis:
- Yeah, halleluYah. Not complicated, just a little bit difficult, but impossible without Him, impossible without submitting and seeking with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
EliYah:
- That's for sure.
Curtis:
- We have to submit to Yahweh, and have that desire, and pray for that desire, and pray that He will draw us and lead us, and that we would be helpful and drawing others. That's the whole purpose.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Curtis:
- Is Blessed to be Free still there? I wanted to do a song with my wife.
EliYah:
- He is.
Curtis:
- We put all the little ones to nap early today.
EliYah:
- All right. He's in the chat room.
Curtis:
- Is Blessed to be Free still there?
EliYah:
- Yeah, he is in the chat room.
Curtis:
- Okay, I told him I might. I was thinking of doing one real quick just for him, and it's something -- I don't sing much anymore, but I was thinking of him and remembered one of the songs I used to sing, one Maggie Lu and I had been talking about and sang to dad a couple of weeks ago. We were thinking about it and talking about it and thinking of you all.
- [Music Ministry by Curtis and Maggie Lu: "Feel Like I'm Standing on a Sandbar," "Light the Fire in My Heart Again"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah
Curtis:
- HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- That's one of my favorite songs that you sing. I like that one. We look forward to hearing you all sing in this upcoming feast, hopefully, your whole family.
Curtis:
- We're all really looking forward to seeing everybody.
EliYah:
- It should be a wonderful time.
Curtis:
- Keep praying for all of us and that everyone gets there who's supposed to be there.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Curtis:
- We love you all.
EliYah:
- Love you all, too.
Curtis:
- Yahweh bless you all and keep you all.
EliYah:
- Yahweh bless you and your family.
Curtis:
- And make His face shine upon all of us.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Amein.
Curtis:
- HalleluYah.
EliYah:
- Shalom.
Curtis:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Brother Curtis from the state of what he likes to call Flori-duh. That was a good phone call, a pretty song there by our Brother Curtis, as usual. I love to hear the "Praise Yahwehs" and the sound of the shofar. It's always wonderful to hear the sound of the shofar.
- I guess later in the broadcast, our sister Tammy Robinson is going to be calling in. Actually, she just now called. [laughs] Sounds like she's there on the phone with my daughter. She's just now calling in. This is Sister Marie Fagans and, I believe, she is going to put Tammy on the line to sing a song for us. Is that right?
Marie:
- This is Marie.
EliYah:
- Shalom.
Marie:
- This is not Tammy yet.
EliYah:
- Oh, I know.
Marie:
- Shabbat Shalom, everybody out there.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom to you.
Marie:
- I thought that she told you that I was calling, but I am in the home of the Robinsons, and I wanted everybody to know that.
EliYah:
- Okay, very good.
Marie:
- She is going to sing a song for everybody. I volunteered her. I'm going to let you say hi to John, and y'all have a good day out there.
EliYah:
- Thank you. Yahweh bless you, as well.
John:
- Hello, this is John.
EliYah:
- Shalom, Brother John. How are you doing?
John:
- Shalom. Just fine. Who is this?
EliYah:
- This is EliYah from EliYah.com.
John:
- Right, okay.
EliYah:
- Yeah.
John:
- We appreciate you putting our music on the website so much.
EliYah:
- We've been very blessed by it, and her music is a regular part of our broadcast we do here every week. The last couple of years we've done it. We've always enjoyed the recordings. Hopefully, you'll get another one out soon.
John:
- Well, that's a possibility.
EliYah:
- That'd be great. Actually, the person that you use to do the recording doesn't live too far from us, maybe 40 minutes or so. Love to have you come out sometime.
John:
- Have you ever met them?
EliYah:
- I have. We went there as part of a homeschooling field trip. He was very accommodating. He mentioned that he remembered you all and everything. It was great.
John:
- Okay. It was so good to talk to you.
EliYah:
- Good to talk to you, as well.
John:
- Okay, here's Marie. Take care.
EliYah:
- All right. Shalom.
Marie:
- Okay, I'm going to take the phone over by Tammy, everybody.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Marie:
- And I'm going to put it on speaker phone, so y'all can hear better, I hope.
EliYah:
- Sounds good.
Marie:
- Can you hear okay?
EliYah:
- We hear just fine.
Marie:
- Okay.
EliYah:
- Go ahead.
- [Live Music Ministry by Tammy Robinson, "Blessed Lamb, We Love and Adore You"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah! That was great! Fantastic! What a treat. Thank you very much.
Tammy:
- Sorry for the mess-ups there.
EliYah:
- I didn't even...
Tammy:
- She put me on the spot.
EliYah:
- That's okay. Marie is known for that.
Tammy:
- Yeah. [laughter] Yahweh bless y'all, and y'all have a wonderful Sabbath.
EliYah:
- Oh, you, as well. Thank you very much. Yahweh bless you all.
Marie:
- Tom, tell everybody don't be jealous 'cause I'm over here with the real singer now.
EliYah:
- Okay. [laughs]
Marie:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom.
Child:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom. Marie Fagans and Tammy Robinson. Wasn't that awesome? She sings very well, and we're very blessed to have her here on the broadcast today.
- Appreciate that, Marie -- and, of course, Tammy and Brother John, as well there from Emory, Texas. They've recorded several CDs. If you're interested in those, you just go to EliYah.com/Tammy.html, and you can get those CDs, listen to a couple of samples there.
- She'd be glad to send them out there for you. We've hosted her music, actually, on the website for maybe ten years or more. We've always been very blessed by the recordings. Praise Yahweh.
- I believe we have Brother Chuck Bevins on the line. Shabbat Shalom, brother.
Chuck:
- Shabbat Shalom. How are you?
EliYah:
- Doing very well. How are you doing?
Chuck:
- Pretty good.
EliYah:
- I heard you had an adventure this week.
Chuck:
- Yeah, a little one. You had a couple of interesting calls there.
EliYah:
- Uh-huh.
Chuck:
- Hard act to follow -- Curtis and then Tammy. I'm not singing nothing, so don't ask.
EliYah:
- Well, I was going to ask you, but all right.
Chuck:
- [laughs] Well, I'll just kind of let you know what happened. I had to take Effie [phonetic] to the bus stop, drop her off. Being that the bus stop was about halfway between her and my dad's, I decided to go up to Ohio and talk to these people that I feel I have been led or told to talk to.
- I've had several dreams that I'm supposed to be talking to these people. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying Yahweh talks to me in dreams. I did not say that.
EliYah:
- But the dreams were there, so you felt led to do that.
Chuck:
- They were there. There have been several dreams. It's been like over a year ago or so. I'd been there a couple of times, but I never got around to talking to them.
- This time, when I knew I was going, I called the lady and let her know I was going to be there, to make sure they'd be there, and I could get with them.
- She told me to call first, because they're gone a lot, in and out of the hospital. So I asked what was wrong, and she said, "Ron has bone cancer."
- Immediately, it was like a 200 pound gorilla. I did not want to do this. You always think the worst. A man's on his death bed, and I've got to go tell him everything he's heard for 75 years was wrong. I just didn't want to do this.
- But I went and talked dad into going with me. We rode over there. I'm taking the long way around. I seriously did not want to do this. You know how we always pray, "Use me to do your will." Things like that. I'm like, "I'm not volunteering for nothing after this." I didn't want no part of it.
- So, I get there, and we're talking small talk for about 15 minutes or so. I know dad was listening. He was sitting next to me. I'm half hoping he starts, but about 20 minutes into it, I realize he's not going to do it.
- So, I just took a deep breath and said, "Well, I've got something to tell you." We started talking, and I explained to him the road I took to get where I'm at right now.
- They were somewhat aware of it when I was doing my searching, but I haven't talked to them in well over a year, almost two. So, I told the story about how me and Effie ended up getting on the same page and everything, and then I said, "That's where you come in." The look on their face, I could tell I had their undivided attention at this point.
- I told them, "I believe I had a dream last summer, and I believe I was told to come talk to you about all these new things I believe was revealed to me."
- I said, "But I didn't do it. And this summer, I had a second dream where I was told, 'I told you to go talk to them,' but I didn't do it." I said, "Well, I had a third dream, and this time I was told, 'I warned you to go talk to these people, and you're still not doing it,' so here I am."
- And I said, "I believe I was led to come." They said, "Oh, yeah, sure, sounds like it to me. What have you got to say?"
- I hit on a few things, started with the Names. Then we went on to the Sabbath. These are Christians, by the way, really hard core grounded Christians. Good people, though.
- We talked about the Name, and we talked about the Sabbath, and we talked about -- I don't remember the order. But when I brought the pork thing up, clean meats, she didn't want to hear that one. I think her actual words were she didn't accept that.
- We hit on a few other things, Christmas and Easter. I didn't want to throw too much, but I was hitting on several subjects. He seemed a little more receptive. I don't really know, because he had had radiation treatment that day and was getting ready for chemo the next day, and he was in really bad shape.
- He was pretty much, "Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Yeah, yeah." I think he was a little more receptive, but she probably did more talking than I did. Didn't really know how it went. There was no arguing or nothing like that. I got my points across, and he was getting tired, so I figured it was time for us to go.
- We got ready to leave. When I told her the pork thing, she didn't receive it. I said, "I used to kind of feel the same way." She started talking about the sheet. I told her, "If you continue reading the rest of the chapter, it has nothing to do with meat. It was saying it's okay to talk to the Gentiles."
- She said, "I just don't accept that." I told her what Isaiah 66 says about when He returns that those who are still eating pork will be consumed in the fire. She just kind of looked at me.
- Anyway, when we got done, we got ready to leave, and I told them we'll all pray for him when I gather with the assembly this weekend. She had asked me if I was still going to church, and I said no, but we meet with this assembly every weekend. So, we've got to put him on the prayer list.
EliYah:
- All right.
Chuck:
- So, we got ready to leave. We're out on the porch, and I gave her a hug and everything, and I was starting to head toward the car, and she said, "Where did you say that was about the pork?"
- I said, "Isaiah 66:17, I think, but I don't want to give you the wrong one. Let me check." I grabbed my Bible out of the back seat. And I ran up to her and showed it to her, and we read it, and she kind of had this look on her face like, "Hm."
- She said she'd look into that, so I'm kind of hoping we may have planted a seed.
EliYah:
- All right.
Chuck:
- I gave you the "Reader's Digest" version. There was a little more to it than that, other things we talked about. I just came away thinking that maybe she's going to consider something.
- I felt 200 pounds lighter when we got in the car.
EliYah:
- [laughs] I can imagine. All this time, you've been feeling conviction.
Chuck:
- Yeah, I was like, "Why didn't I talk to them last year?" He's pretty bad. They say he has bone cancer, and he's taking radiation and chemo therapy treatments. They don't know if he's going to make it or not. I did not want to go over there.
EliYah:
- I understand. Praise Yahweh. Hopefully, Yahweh did send you there and that they are going to take the words you said to heart, and that they will bear fruit. Maybe He'll send somebody else in a dream to water.
Chuck:
- Hopefully.
EliYah:
- Or maybe it'll be you again.
Chuck:
- Not me. I'm done. [laughter] I'm not going back to that state for a long time. No, it wasn't that bad. On the way home, I told Dad to make a list of everyone he knows, and let's go talk to them. He said, "Nope." [laughs] But he's doing good.
EliYah:
- Okay, good.
Chuck:
- The guy's name is Ron Hammonds. We really need to pray extra hard for him.
EliYah:
- Okay. Ron Hammonds. What's his wife's name?
Chuck:
- Marilyn.
EliYah:
- Marilyn. All right.
Chuck:
- I don't know if I had told you this, but when I was 17 years old, they used to have a Bible study in their house on Tuesdays, I believe it was. And in the very room that we were talking to them was the room I sat when I was 17. The Christian way, we said this prayer, and we're saved. I didn't know any better, but at the time, that's what I thought was right.
- I did that with them in their house, and that came up, too. Here they are in their 70s, and in light of everything that happened, here I am trying to explain to them. It was difficult.
EliYah:
- I'm sure.
Chuck:
- Actually, it really wasn't that difficult. I just made it a lot tougher than it really was.
EliYah:
- Yeah, well, that's usually how it is. You're worried about what you're going to say, but Yahweh's Spirit gives us the words to speak. He sent you there. That's His job. Sounds like it worked out. You gave your testimony of what happened, and that's pretty much what Peter and Cornelius did and what Paul did. They just testified about their life and what happened.
- When Peter when to Cornelius, he said, "I had this angel," and Cornelius explained how things happened, and they both came together. It's kind of interesting she would bring up that particular part of scripture, because it's sort of a similar situation.
Chuck:
- Right. I remembered when I was heading over there, heading up to Ohio. I can't describe how much I was dreading it. I kept thinking, remembering Mosheh didn't want to do it either -- not that this is nowhere close or on par with what he did. I thought, "If this is even a fraction of a percent of what he felt, man, I have a whole new respect for him."
EliYah:
- The thing which he did, definitely, you kind of wonder, even at the time when he was in the desert, he probably didn't realize the scope of all that was going to happen in the future. That's how we are. We don't know what's going to happen, but Yahweh has a plan.
Chuck:
- This is true.
EliYah:
- We just want to be a part of whatever He wants us to be. HalleluYah. I appreciate you sharing that. Hopefully, that will encourage some others, as well. We've got both Ron and Marilyn here on the prayer list, and we'll mention that in our prayers today.
Chuck:
- I'm sure they'll appreciate it.
EliYah:
- And in the future, as well. Everything else going well?
Chuck:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- Getting ready for the feast?
Chuck:
- Getting ready.
EliYah:
- All right. Well, brother, good to talk to you. Yahweh bless you and your family.
Chuck:
- And you and yours.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom.
Chuck:
- All right, I'll talk to you soon.
EliYah:
- Bye. Brother Chuck. That will be our sound man for the feast. Him and his family came to faith in this walk two or three years ago. They got baptized in Yahushua's name over a year ago, and they were a blessing for us the last feast and doing the sound for us, and they're going to do it again this year. HalleluYah.
- If you'd like to call in, it doesn't look like the phone line is free, but after this phone call, if you'd like to call in, our telephone number is 417-683-3575, or you can give us a call at 866-435-4924. I'm going to pick a quick song here. This is sung by a little one. The Fournier family has a little one who recorded this song, and it's very beautiful. I want to share it with you.
- [Music Ministry: "Proverbs 22:6"]
EliYah:
- All right, I believe we're back, and I think we've got the conference call back up and running for awhile. Hopefully, the battery will survive. In the meantime, we're going to take this next phone call, and I understand we have Brother -- looks like we lost the call. Brother Bill from Alaska was on the line from Kodiak, Alaska.
- I'm sorry about that. Anyway, it's amazing where this broadcast goes, but anyway the phone call from Alaska, from Kodiak Island in Alaska, it looks like we lost the call.
- If you'd like to call in, our telephone number, once again, 417-683-3575 or toll free 866-435-4924. The phone line is open if you want to call in. Hopefully, Brother Bill in Alaska will call us once more.
- Brother Bill, if you're out there, I'm sorry I had to put you on hold. I do apologize for that. We were having a problem with the phones, and I had to get that fixed.
- Feel free to give us a call. There is someone currently on the line, though. Maybe you can call in afterward. I believe we have Finella on the line. Shabbat Shalom.
Finella:
- Shabbat Shalom. How are you today, Brother EliYah?
EliYah:
- I'm doing great. Doing great. How are you doing?
Finella:
- I'm fine.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Finella:
- I was just calling to say I'm enjoying the program. I was enjoying the song by Brother Curtis and Sister Tammy, and the testimony also by Brother Chuck.
EliYah:
- Yeah, absolutely.
Finella:
- Yeah.
EliYah:
- That was great. HalleluYah. We've been very blessed. This was a good broadcast today, also good phone calls. I'm sure you probably have some interesting questions.
Finella:
- Yeah, actually, along the line with the pork. I was looking at some of those things I have. I have a couple, at least more than a couple, baked beans, red beans and so on, and I was just reading the labels, and I notice a lot of them have bacon and pork in it.
EliYah:
- This is true.
Finella:
- So, I was thinking, what do you think I should do with it? Knowing the truth, I feel guilty to give it away to somebody else. Should I just throw it away? What do you suggest I do with it?
EliYah:
- I would throw it away. That's what I would do. If it was an animal that died of itself, the scriptures say you can sell it to the heathen, but this is not the case here, so this is considered to be an abomination for anyone to eat, according to the scriptures.
- That would be probably -- we know magic is an abomination to Yahweh. What the people did with their very expensive magic books was they burned them.
- If you have to throw them out, I think that would be the best thing to do. It's not food. According to the scriptures, that's not food in that container. So, if it has pork in it, Yahweh never designed the pig to be eaten, so it's not considered to be food and considered to be inedible. That's what I would do.
Finella:
- Okay. It's really amazing. I was so blind, the blindness the world is in. When you go to someone, and you try to show them these things, it's really difficult for them to accept. They have so many arguments. I've been trying, but it's difficult to show people the truth.
EliYah:
- Right. It was always that way, even all the way through scripture. Paul, the apostle, he's up there on Mars Hill trying to explain to these people the truth, and they just, most of them, just kind of write him off and start mocking him.
- But there's always a few -- even then, there was a few that joined him, and that's just kind of how it works. It can be discouraging. To us, we see it and say that lines right up with the scriptures, but to others it's just not time for them yet, or you may have to sow a seed and let it stay there for awhile before they actually receive it.
- Someone else may have to water that seed later. But don't be discouraged, necessarily, just by that. I know it is one of those things where you just wish, "Hey, can't you see this? Why can't you see it?"
- They just come up with one excuse after another as to why they're not going to do it. Acts 10 is one about the sheet coming down. There's just a whole lot of others. 1 Timothy 4 and Yahushua's statements about cleanness. What comes out of the mouth is what defiles you. Those scriptures like that people misinterpret to say that we can eat pork now.
- If you go to the website, EliYah.com/clean.html, every one of those scriptures are addressed, if you haven't read it already -- for those who are interested.
- There are other ingredients you may not realize. For instance, in your jars, as I mentioned bacon, but there are other ingredients, as well, that don't specifically say, "Hello, this is pork," but it is.
Finella:
- I know, because I'm seeing stuff like smoked flavor. I have the phone numbers to call some of these people to find out what it is.
EliYah:
- Right, yeah.
Finella:
- I guess it's best to cook your own food.
EliYah:
- More and more, every day, as I read and study and examine the scriptures, I become more and more convinced that the food we're eating, I don't care where it is, kosher or not, is just not what Yahweh wants us to eat.
- You can have a kosher butchered cow, but the things they feed it and pump it full of drugs and different things, that they're required to by law to give it -- even the organic sometimes is not necessarily 100% right.
- There's a lot of things like that to make you realize that this world has come a long way from what Yahweh intended. We're almost to the point where we're just ready to give it all up and make our own food, grow our own gardens. We've done some of that. We've got sheep up on the hill, but I'm talking about going full board and dropping the trips to Wal-Mart all together.
Finella:
- Right. Maybe I'll move up there by you all soon. [laughter]
EliYah:
- It's very different here in the hills.
Finella:
- I've been to the Poconos. I have a niece who is in Elizabethtown.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Finella:
- I came to see her one time, and we stayed in the Poconos. It's beautiful up that side.
EliYah:
- Oh, yeah, we love it here. We do. We had a brother come here from Miami years ago. He no longer lives there. He drove here. We had the feast at our property at the time, and he drove here with a U-Haul truck, him and his wife and baby, and another friend came with him.
- He got to our driveway, and he was so used to -- I guess in Miami there's not much in the way of ditches. You can just kind of make a shortcut through a driveway. And he tried to do that with his vehicle and got stuck.
- He just panicked, and he called me, and I pulled him out and everything. He went back to the hotel room, and he just wasn't sure whether he was going to go home or what. He was just panicking. And then I talked to him and encouraged him to come on out.
- He came out, and he saw the views and everything, and just the brethren and fellowship. He was very blessed. But it was an experience for him. If you've ever seen our driveway -- of course, you haven't -- but for those who have, sometimes they drive to the hill, and they say, "Ooh, I don't know if I want to go down there." [laughs]
- Believe it or not, we've had big RVs go down the driveway. Brother Beau Williams and his family came out, and he has nine children. They've got this big, long 38 foot motor home, and he made it in, but he didn't make it back out. I had to pull him with the tractor. [laughs]
Finella:
- Don't worry. One day I'll be up there to see you guys.
EliYah:
- That'd be great.
Finella:
- The other thing, though, I would like -- I don't know if it'll happen this year -- I want to get baptized in the right name, because I have done it before when I was back home using the incorrect names, but at that time I didn't know. I wonder if I can maybe try and do it here, but I'm looking for somewhere to go to.
- The other place I was telling you about, tak.org weren't really grounded. They don't really believe in everything that you teach. I didn't want to start and then have to stop.
- I did go on the Fellowship Finder, and I saw another place close -- well, I don't know how close it is. I sent out an email to them, and I'm still waiting. But I think they said, "If you don't agree with the teachings of Brother EliYah, this is not the place for you."
- I think they're Messianic International. I think it's MIB. I forgot the B was for. I'm still waiting for a response, but I gave them my email address, so I was hoping by the time I came home -- I was looking to see if I had a response in my email, but nothing yet.
- They had a P.O. Box number. My other choice may be to send out a letter or something to them.
EliYah:
- There you go. Well --
Finella:
- But I heard you saying Brother Curtis is in Florida. Where exactly is he? Maybe I can talk to Brother Curtis.
EliYah:
- That's one possibility. He lives near Jacksonville.
Finella:
- Oh, okay. Well, he's way up there.
EliYah:
- Yeah. There's another brother that is willing to travel to baptize, I can put you in touch with. In fact, if you'll send me an email, I'll give you his phone number, and maybe you can call him. He or someone in his congregation might come and baptize you.
Finella:
- Okay, that sounds good.
EliYah:
- There's possibilities there.
Finella:
- I'll send you an email.
EliYah:
- Sounds good.
Finella:
- Okay. Thanks again.
EliYah:
- Thanks for calling. Yahweh bless you.
Finella:
- Okay. Yahweh bless you, too. Bye-bye.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom.
Finella:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Always interesting phone call, Sister Finella from the Miami area. We want to make sure we pray for her to be able to find a place to get baptized and hopefully a place to gather on the Sabbath and praise Yahweh and worship. HalleluYah.
- If you'd like to call in -- maybe Brother Bill can call in from Alaska. Brother, our phone call was missed by you. Sorry. You can give us a call back, 417-683-3575 or 866-435-4924. An easy way to remember the phone number for the toll free is 866-4EliYah.
- If you have any questions or comments -- I do have a couple that came in earlier in the broadcast -- feel free to ask -- or a prayer request. We can take prayer requests, as well. E-Man asked a question over an hour ago. Sorry E-Man.
Q.
- EliYah, what do you think it means when He says He will create a new heavens and earth. Solomon, David says the earth will abide forever, and Messiah says the meek will inherit the earth.
EliYah:
- There will be a new heavens and new earth. I guess that's still called the earth, so if we are going to inherit the earth, the land, that is a permanent inheritance. The fact that Yahweh reforms it into something more beautiful doesn't necessarily mean that it no longer exists. There is a continued earth. That's how I would see it.
- I do believe there is another question by Small One about the rapture which we'll address after this phone call. I believe we have Bill. He's back on the line. Shabbat Shalom to you.
Bill:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- Glad to hear from you.
Bill:
- Well, I listened to you last week, and I thought that was a tremendous sermon.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Bill:
- And this week, too. I'm a rancher, a farmer, a dumb farmer. [laughs]
EliYah:
- Well, join the club.
Bill:
- I'm not real up on all the computers and stuff, although I've had one for quite awhile, but my son is up on it, but I'm not. I was trying to type on that thing you had there. I can't keep up with it.
EliYah:
- That's okay. A lot of people have that issue. It's just the way -- some people like the chat room. Other people have a hard time with it. That's all right.
Bill:
- Well, I can listen to it.
EliYah:
- You can listen. That's the main thing.
Bill:
- And it was real good, and I enjoyed listening to the comments and stuff.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah.
Bill:
- I've been studying the set apart Name probably since sometime in the late 1980s or probably early 1980s. I've written some studies on the set apart Name and the key of knowledge. I sent them to you just yesterday. I sent a CD.
- I kind of wanted you to look them over. I use some information from your studies. I just rewrote some. I just started kind of redoing them a little bit.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Bill:
- I wanted to use at least that one study, "Why Yahushua?"
EliYah:
- Okay.
Bill:
- And I use some studies from Lew White and some studies from Dave Hunt and a couple of others, not necessarily saying anybody is right, but more to try to put all the different sides, so people can seek the truth and seek it out themselves.
- As long as it goes with the scriptures, I think that's all that matters.
EliYah:
- That sounds good. So, you said you sent a CD to our address here?
Bill:
- Yes, sir, I did.
EliYah:
- Okay. Very well. I'll take a look at it. Did you include your email address for a response, or do you want me to write you back?
Bill:
- Well, I would kind of like to know, if it's okay, to keep it, because I want to print some of these up, and I have in the past and sent them out. I send out CDs with all my studies on them, but I know a lot of people don't like to use the computer and read it.
EliYah:
- Right, I understand that. Now, anyone who wants to use the studies on EliYah.com for sharing and passing along, there's nothing here that I mind about anyone doing that. If any of the studies I've written are changed, then just don't put my name on it. You don't have to worry about giving it...
Bill:
- Well, I referenced what you did, and I actually, I think, yours I could actually copy and paste, so I just copied and pasted excerpts on the thing. Now, I use Yahushua, as you use, and I use Yahueh or Yahuah. I don't think -- actually, I always used e-h before, because I corresponded with Dr. Koster for years and years, and I kind of went with that.
EliYah:
- Okay.
Bill:
- I also use I-A-U-E or I-A-U-A as the Tetragrammaton, and I believe the name could be pronounced directly from the Tetragrammaton; otherwise, why would He have given it as the Tetragrammaton?
- I think my feeling is that the -- and I'm not condemning the Jews or anything -- but they used consonants in the Tetragrammaton so they could use various vowels in there to disguise the Name, because, according to their tradition, it was an unpronounceable name.
- Of course, you probably brought that out before. They didn't want people to use the Name, because they didn't want it blasphemed or cursed or anything else.
- Again, that doesn't match what the scripture tells us to do. We're supposed to praise His Name, proclaim His Name, and you can't do that if you don't know the Name.
EliYah:
- That's true.
Bill:
- I think Paul brings that out in one of his things. If you don't know the Name, how can you proclaim it?
EliYah:
- I would agree in the sense that they generally did not proclaim the name Yahweh, so they put little vowels in between the letters so that people would say Adonai instead, but the actual Hebrew letters "yod heh waw heh" are the correct letters. Those are, in Hebrew, there are four vowels that are actually doubling as consonants.
Bill:
- Right, right. They sound like our Y and W.
EliYah:
- Right. The yod, the heh, the waw, and the aleph are four Hebrew letters that are also used as vowels in the Hebrew language, and so, of course, Yahweh's name consists of yod heh waw and heh, which those, it just so happens, are four letters in Hebrew that are often used as vowels.
- You could transliterate those as I-A-U-E, I-A giving us the Yah, and then the U-E giving us the weh, Yahweh.
- I think that if we realize that, unlike what many do say, that all of the letters in Hebrew are purely consonantal, and we realize that actually those four letters are used as vowels, we can arrive at the pronunciation of our heavenly Father's name, just by reading the text itself.
- I did a little test years ago. I went into an Israeli chat room, and I said -- they were secular. They didn't mind saying the Name. I said, "If you were to pronounce the four letters as vowels, what would you come up with?" And he told me Yahweh.
- That's kind of one of the points that I would bring out for the pronunciation being Yahweh. Of course, also, Yahweh, the actual verb form, is the third person pronunciation of how you would say the Hebrew verb Hayah.
- When Yahweh was talking to Mosheh, He told him, when He was asked what His Name was, He said, "Well, tell them that HAYAH ASHER HAYAH, I AM THAT I AM, I AM sent you." That was HaYah. That's the first person form of the verb HaYah. But then when we refer to Him, we say Yahweh, not HaYah. He said, "Thus, Yahweh, Elohim of your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has sent me."
- When we say Yahweh, we are saying HE IS. I think He was explaining the way His Name is derived from that verb when He said, "Tell them that I AM sent you."
Bill:
- I agree with that. I'd kind of like for you to look over my studies, if you can.
EliYah:
- Sure, sure. Anyone is welcome to distribute my studies wherever they want. I don't have any -- I'm not where I've got to get the glory and you have to put my name on it or anything. If it's scriptural, then Yahweh gets the glory. That's the main thing.
Bill:
- Again, I'm no scholar. I'm a farmer, a rancher. I've studied it on it for a long time, and I went to all the different Sacred Name organizations or Holy Name organizations and got their studies and everything.
- Then I just kind of perused all of them and kind of came up with a study. I wrote the study originally just for myself. I didn't write it for anybody else. Later on, I did send the study on the key of knowledge to a believer over in Australia, John Speed.
- Bob Harter, down in California, he got hold of it from the internet, and he called him back, because he didn't have a number, and Steve gave him my phone number, and he called me up.
- He printed them up for me, and I didn't know whether I wanted them printed or not, because, again, I'm not a scholar, but I had an awful lot of people that wanted copies of them.
- So, I'm just kind of redoing these. Lew White had a study on the Name, using Yahusha instead of Yahushua. I was using your study just to contradict -- not to say that yours is right and he's wrong. I'm not saying that.
- I'm just saying I wanted to put your study in there, and what I have, and what Lew White has, and some of these others, Dave Hunt, and kind of put it all out there, and then the person could make up their own mind.
- Again, I don't think we're going to know for sure what His Name is, the Father's Name, absolutely how to pronounce it, until He returns. I think there's an awful lot of scholarly works out there, and I personally believe it's pronounced Yahuah, but I'm not saying I'm right. I definitely believe it's pronounced Yahushua. Again, I'm not saying I'm right.
- Some pronounce it Yahshua or Yeshua. I think there's enough to show Yeshua is probably incorrect, just like Jehovah. I think that's probably incorrect, but if somebody believes that wholeheartedly, well, someday we'll know for sure.
EliYah:
- The main thing He's looking at, although He does want us to call on His Name, to the best of our understanding, the main thing He's looking at is our hearts. So, if our heart is truly persuaded and through our sincere and honest desire for what's right and what's true, and we make a mistake, that would be different than if we, for instance, know His Name is not the Lord.
Bill:
- Right, or God.
EliYah:
- His Name is not God I think that would be a little different. The exact pronunciation -- there are things about Hebrew, just little nuances here and there in the way they pronounce words that may be a little different. Even in the English, we have different dialects. There's going to be little variances here and there, and that's not...
Bill:
- Well, you know, there was -- and I don't remember his name right now. I've got his book, a scholar from France, and he come up with Yehoah, and he goes through showing that the Hebrew grammar and everything kind of shows it that way. But the ones that came up with the Hebrew grammar and everything are the Masoretes.
- That all came out about the time they came out of Babylon. Languages do change over time, but I think you need to go back to the Paleo Hebrew. Some of those other studies I mention in my study, they go back to the original Paleo Hebrew.
- The original sequence of the vowels was like A-O-A instead of E-O-A. I think, again, I'm reading other people's stuff. They're scholars. This other guy was a scholar. But the Catholic church got tremendous scholars, and yet I can't believe -- and my wife was Catholic. I was raised a Baptist.
- There's scholars in all religions, but they pretty much promulgate what their religions teach.
EliYah:
- Right. Well, we all want to seek the truth to the best of our understanding, and it's not so much where we are. It's what we're doing with what we've got and where we're wanting to go.
- That's the primary thing. Part of repentance is seeking truth, wanting to walk uprightly. That's what Yahweh is looking for.
Bill:
- In the CDs, I've got a history of the ranch we have here and also how I came about the Name. It has an email address on that and how to get back to us.
- When I send those out, I generally send a thing with fonts on them, because a lot of time people don't have the fonts for the Hebrew. Of course, I use Hebrew for the Name, and the Son's Name, and some other stuff in there, halleluYah, different ones.
EliYah:
- All right.
Bill:
- So people can actually see. Again, the Hebrew I'm using is the square Hebrew. It's the Hebrew they used when they came out of Babylonian captivity. It's not the Paleo. I don't have the fonts for that. I wish I did.
EliYah:
- Right. It's pronouncing the same way. It's just a different font, that's all.
Bill:
- Right. I agree with that. Again, I've been reading your site quite a bit and others, too, and I agree. The study you had last week, that was a tremendous study, and the one this week. I think everything you're doing is great. I'll probably be corresponding with you, if I can.
EliYah:
- Sounds good. Praise Yahweh.
Bill:
- I was going to just send those to you in an email, but I tried to -- I had an attachment, but when I did that, I couldn't do it. If I actually had had your email, personal email or something, I probably could have sent it, because I could have sent it through my email and attached that stuff.
EliYah:
- I see. Well, yeah, if something like that happens in the future, you can just send me a message through the web forum, and then I can email you back, and then you can send me the attachment with my email address.
Bill:
- Right. I do have more studies. I did send you a couple of other studies besides those on there. You can look at those if you want. One of them was a concordance on the Name, the Sabbaths, including the annual Sabbaths, and also Easter, Passover. You can look at them.
- The main thing is I want you to look at those two studies where I did utilize some of your study in there, just to put it in there.
- I don't like to do -- again, I'm not a scholar, and I don't want to take anybody's credit for what someone else has published or written or researched.
EliYah:
- All right. I appreciate you sharing that. It's good to hear from someone all the way in Kodiak Island.
Bill:
- On the CD also, there's pictures of the ranch and everything. It's on a Power Point thing.
EliYah:
- That sounds great.
Bill:
- We do hunts and stuff. You can see quite a bit of the ranch and different animals. We have elk, and buffalo, and yaks. I'll talk to you later.
EliYah:
- Sounds good, brother. Yahweh bless you.
Bill:
- Shalom.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom. Good call there from Brother Bill. We'll have to look over his material. We're going to pray right now for Jennifer.
- Father Yahweh, in Yahushua's name, we ask that you would protect her and her children from any harm, from any violent men. We pray, Father, that you'd give those who are called to protect right now, that you would bring them to your wisdom, to where they would do the thing they're supposed to do to adequately protect the community there, Father. In Yahushua's name, amein.
- I think we can take one more phone call, and that will be the final call for today's broadcast. There were a few questions I can get to. It looks like we do have the phone line lit up.
Q.
- What are your views on the rapture preached by the church?
EliYah:
- I believe that if you examine that rapture teaching, a lot of it is based on the example in the book of Matthew. Yahushua talks about the days of Noah. I'll just turn there.
Matthew 24:38 - "For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
Matthew 24:39 - "and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matthew 24:40 - "Then two [men] will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left.
Matthew 24:41 - "Two [women will be] grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.- They believe that's the rapture, and the one that's taken is the one that's going to be blessed. That's not true. What happened with the flood of Noah was it says that the ones that were taken all away were the ones that were killed.
Luke 17:35 - "Two [women] will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left.
Luke 17:36 - "Two [men] will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left."
Luke 17:37 - And they answered and said to Him, "Where, Master?" So He said to them, "Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together."- It's not a good thing to be taken. It's a bad thing. So, don't think for a moment -- it's good to be left behind actually. It's a good thing. That means that you will not be perishing at that time when Yahushua returns, but you will be among the ones remaining and reigning with Messiah -- in the case of some men, under the rulership of those who are reigning.
Q.
- Are you a licensed pastor or minister?
EliYah:
- No, I don't have a license. I didn't know we needed one -- not that you're suggesting we do. I've never felt the need to go get one.
- I didn't go to a seminary or a cemetery, whatever you want to call them. I just study the scriptures. It's something we all can do. We're all very blessed to be able to do that today.
- The one that was particularly a point of contention here in the chat room today was a question about lighting fire on Shabbat. They said they stopped cooking and recently stopped using the microwave. They were wondering what I thought about the coffeemaker, hot water, and heaters, heat on Shabbat, water heaters. These things generate a fire, and so on.
- I will tell you our convictions. I want to mention that there's a difference between, number one, knowing Yahweh commands to keep the Sabbath and then the actual walking it out, the halakhah, actually walking out the commandments.
- There are different views and interpretations of how to do it. Some are more strict in one area or another than others might be.
Exodus 16:23 - Then he said to them, "This [is what] YAHWEH has said: `Tomorrow [is] a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to YAHWEH. Bake what you will bake [today], and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.'"- It says we're not to bake and boil on the Sabbath, clear indication there, and so we don't do any cooking. Some say what about reheating your food that's already been cooked? I don't like loopholes, and I think that might be one. We don't do it. We also shut off our water heater on the Sabbath. We don't use coffeemakers. We don't drink coffee.
RJ:
- Shabbat Shalom.
EliYah:
- How are you doing?
RJ:
- How's it going?
EliYah:
- Doing very well. You?
RJ:
- [blows shofar]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah! That was very good. What kind of a horn was that?
RJ:
- That actually was a trumpet, because I have a trumpet. I used to play trumpet before I came to college.
EliYah:
- All right. You have to bring that with you to the feast.
RJ:
- Yeah. I didn't think about it until somebody told me I should bring the trumpet. I always thought that if I didn't have a shofar that I shouldn't bring it. I was actually wondering about -- did you just answer the question about heating up and using the microwave? I couldn't really hear you when I was on hold.
EliYah:
- Yeah, I did, actually. I did answer that question. I can answer it again, if you'd like. I did address the question there in the room. Basically, I would be agreement with you, as far as not using the microwave, coffeemakers, hot water heaters, or whatever. Anything that would heat up water or food, I think, is something Yahweh was pretty specific about.
Exodus 16:23 - Then he said to them, "This [is what] YAHWEH has said: `Tomorrow [is] a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to YAHWEH. Bake what you will bake [today], and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.'"
RJ:
- Obviously, not a coffeemaker or microwave, because those are related to food. What about hot water to take a shower? Do you also believe that we shouldn't do that either, because that's also heating up?
EliYah:
- The prohibition is regarding heating food, specifically. I'm the kind of person that when Yahweh says something specific, I don't like to look for ways around it. I'm not saying anybody else is, but I'd rather err on the side of obedience, rather than disobedience.
- Besides the fact that we're not supposed to boil on the Sabbath, we also don't want to use electricity on the Sabbath that we don't have to, either. Actually, my family and I, at the beginning of Shabbat, we turn off all the lights in the house and use oil lamps, and only that which is necessary for ministry or things to enhance our spiritual walk do we use any electricity at all.
RJ:
- Okay, so not even heating.
EliYah:
- We don't use the hot water. We can get showers before Sabbath. We don't need to use the lights. We definitely don't need to use air conditioning. That's just a comfort issue.
- As far as the heat is concerned, I understand some might need to have heat in their house. That's okay. But even that, we have a ventless propane heaters that don't require electricity. We turn off our heat pump on the Sabbath. Overall, I think the idea Yahweh is aiming for is that we don't work or make anybody else work either.
- If anybody is going to do any work, it would be the example where the priests were permitted to work, because they were functioning in the tabernacle. It's okay to do good on the Sabbath. We have a broadcast going on today. We have phones being used and the internet being used, electricity being used.
- All kinds of people are working right now for us to make this broadcast a possibility, but if I'm using their energies for the purposes of spiritual things, I don't have a problem with that, and I think that seems to be the spirit behind what Yahushua was giving us as an exception.
- But on these other areas, we don't have to have a warm hamburger on the Sabbath. We can make salads and sandwiches, and there's all kinds of things that can be done.
RJ:
- Yeah, I usually precook -- I eat rice and beans a lot, and I usually have a whole bunch of beans and rice precooked, and I just eat that with some salsa, and some apples and honey, and I'm good to go. I don't really have a problem as far as food goes.
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Everyone has their views. I don't go out and say to those who don't keep Sabbath the way that I do that they're Sabbath breakers. We all have to be persuaded as to what's right and wrong.
- Where it gets into the heart issues, something we can't necessarily see, is where someone would say in their hearts, somewhere deep in their heart, "I don't want to give that up on Sabbath."
- That would be a concern. But if it really is out of a true understanding of what Yahweh's intent is, that's not a place for judgment. Yahweh is going to deal with us according to how we're persuaded of what His Word says.
RJ:
- Okay. Thanks for going in more detail about that. That helps me get another perspective.
EliYah:
- You're welcome. Very good. Thanks for calling in.
RJ:
- Great to talk to everybody. Shabbat Shalom to everybody.
EliYah:
- Shabbat Shalom, brother. HalleluYah. Good to talk with our brother RJ. He's going to join us for the Feast of Tabernacles this year. That should be a blessing. HalleluYah.
- He's going to bring his authentic silver trumpet -- not made of silver, I would guess -- but probably nice to hear that trumpet during the feast, and the shofars, and the kudu horns. If you have it, we're just going to rejoice before Yahweh.
- Somebody asked about washing dishes on the Sabbath. That's something else that we would refrain from, as well. That can wait until sundown, Sabbath is over.
- It's supposed to be a time that we don't concern ourselves with work. I even encourage, if you have sandwiches, that you make them beforehand. That way, you just open the refrigerator or whatever and get your sandwich.
- Some would say, "What about your refrigerator running that on the Sabbath?" I would have to say it's a good point. I guess you either spoil your food every week and watch your money go down the drain, or you just don't have any refrigeration at all, or you would run it on the Sabbath.
- From my perspective, I don't think He wants us to watch all the money go down the drain on the Sabbath. Maybe we need to all just get solar. That will be the answer.
- We're doing the best we can, I hope, and trying to be obedient to Yahweh in our hearts.
- At this time, we'll go ahead and take your prayer requests. Brother Joshua, I want you to know I was not offended in the least about the license to pastor question. I get that question quite often, actually. I did not learn at a seminary. I like to call them a cemetery.
- I'm not licensed or anything like that. I was ordained -- I guess you would put it that way. I had elders lay hands on me many, many years ago, to where I felt comfortable enough in doing ministry.
- This website is just -- I'm nothing. I'm just some guy out in the middle of the woods here with a few things to share.
- I'm not trying to be a pastor or leader of a congregation. I don't think I'm qualified or old enough yet. Maybe when my children are raised and are all in the faith, and I've been faithful, and I fit the qualifications, then I'll walk in that. But until then, I'm just -- this is just a personal ministry and personal service to the body of Messiah.
- I'm not prepared to be a pastor of a congregation at this point. No, Curtis, I was not offended by the citizen's arrest, either, for preaching without a license.
- In fact, if they did that, I'd say halleluYah! I'd start leaping for joy. Yahushua says great is your reward.
- There's AbiYah on the line with his family. Good to see you back, brother. Welcome and hope to see you at the feast and your wife. HalleluYah.
- Someone asked me if the food would spoil if the refrigerator was not opened for 24 hours. I'm sure that some of it would. At least, it would spoil a lot quicker, and that could actually be dangerous to your health, depending on what kind of food it was -- poultry and different things like that. Raw poultry.
- Raw poultry, when it's not refrigerator, accelerates in bacteria. It's amazing. Far more than beef and other kinds of meats, poultry very quickly spoils or develops into dangerous strains of bacteria.
- I'm still open for questions, but in the meantime we'll take your prayer requests. Continue to pray for Jennifer. I want to make sure I didn't miss any questions here. I think that was all.
- You can always get one of those refrigerators that run off of propane. There's solutions, I'm sure, out there.
- Some would say, "Why don't you just get a generator? That would solve the whole issue." I thought, "Well, no, because then I'm lighting thousands of fires a minute, and that might not be good either. The only way I would is if I was doing something for ministry or something.
- I'm really in the same position. The only way we can really do without it is to either, one, do without it, or, two, go solar. At least, that's the way it seems to me.
- Please submit your prayer requests. We're running a little bit long on the broadcast today. That's all right. Good questions. Curtis, I'm not even going to answer that question. You know the answer to it. I do not wear a beanie.
- If you don't know what a beanie is, it is the skull cap worn by rabbis, various observant Jews, which I don't like to make fun of anybody. I know that's their conviction, but I don't agree with it.
- Yahweh bless you. We're going to pick out another song here from the library before we get in coarse jesting. The next song -- let me see if I can find the song that Tammy Robinson sang earlier, the recorded version. It's called "Blessed Lamb." I can't find it right now, but we'll go ahead and share this next song from Tammy Robinson. It's called HalleluYah.
- [Music Ministry: "HalleluYah," "Yom Kippur," "Lead Me to the River of Your Healing Waters"]
EliYah:
- HalleluYah. Beautiful song by Tammy Robinson. "Lead Me to the River." Those songs are available on the website. They're not available for download. You have to get the CD.
- Yahweh bless you. Good to be with you all once again this Shabbat day. I can hardly think of a better way to spend Shabbat than with you all. May Yahweh fill your vessel to overflowing in such a way that others receive and are blessed.
- May Yahweh be with you, as you go out into the work week once again, direct you unto His paths. Until next time, Yahweh bless you all. We love you all. Shabbat Shalom.