Obedience, Zion, and the Gospel is Torah

So friends, we'll go to the comments section now and see what happens. But thank you again for being with us tonight. If you don't stay with us, we hope you have an easy fast, and also we hope you have a great Fourth of July this week, as we remember our independence, and that goes into the spiritual understanding of what we talked about tonight as well, about obedience as well. Amen. Shalom to you, Michael. Thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you again. We hope you're having a great week, and we hope you have an easy fast. Miss Denise, Shalom to you. Always great to see you. We hope all is well in the Northeast, and we hope you enjoy the fast. Have an easy fast as well, Tammuz 17th, for the three weeks of sorrow as well. Miss Sandra, always great to see you as well. We hope all is well with you, and we hope you have an easy fast as well, and a great Fourth of July, and also to you as well, Denise, as well. Have a great Fourth of July. Miss Calcow, always great to see you. Happy Fourth of July, and hope you have a happy Fourth of July and enjoy the three weeks of sorrow as well with the revelation. And Mr. Michael, "My birthday is this month." Well, happy birthday to you. It's a great month, the fourth month, or yeah, the fourth month of Tammuz. It is a great month. It's really the fourth month. The number four is creative works. So this is a beautiful, beautiful month. And it can be good judgment. It doesn't always have to be bad judgment, right? But this is a month of judgment, and it can be good or bad. And unfortunately, in the scriptures, it's bad for the nation, but individually, of course, it can be very good. So, happy birthday to you. We hope you have a blessed year ahead and a great day. Mr. Michael, "I want interactive Bible courses, Genesis to Revelation." Okay, we'll try our best. We're doing all we can to get these things up, so we'll try our best to make that happen for you. Okay. I don't like the summer. It is pretty hot, isn't it? Especially in the South, with the humidity. So, there's a lot of people who have that sentiment. But at the same time, these summer months of the biblical calendar are very important to understand through the scriptures and through history and personal revelation as we prepare ourselves for the month of repentance in the month of Elul, the sixth month, and ultimately for Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets, when the books are open for the individuals and the nations for 10 days, and then they're sealed on Yom Kippur for the year. And we'll go through that more as we get close to it. But we can show you that in the scriptures through the story of Joseph. Joseph was released on the Feast of Trumpets. We can show you that in Genesis 41. Nebuchadnezzar went into exile on the Feast of Trumpets as well. We can show you that as well. And so there's two individuals and also nations as well that can be judged. We can show that in the scripture. So, it's very important to understand the times and the seasons of the Most High. Why is that? Because the Apostle Paul says that we'll be caught as a thief in the night if we don't understand the times and the seasons in 1 Thessalonians 5. So, when Paul says that to all my Christian friends out here, he's meaning the calendar and the feast days in Leviticus 23. That's what Paul, the Jewish rabbi, would have understood. He would have been talking about that. A Messianic Jewish rabbi would have said, "The times and the seasons are God's calendar and the moed, the feast days of Adonai." Amen.

Okay, my good friend here, Mr. Roland, "Zechariah 8:19 caused me to scratch my head several times. Thank you for teaching on the subject. It's hard to find answers to questions about the verse." Yeah, and that's just my personal opinion. And while we're talking about, let's go look at it really quick to go back through it to see to see this really quick. Let me see if I can get here to it. Okay, so yeah, here we go. Let me supersize this for all of us. Zechariah 8:19. This is what it says: "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'The fast of the fourth, The fast of the fifth, The fast of the seventh, And the fast of the tenth Shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts For the house of Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.'" So again, this is my personal opinion, and again, I'll explain it to people who might not understand the different days. Tammuz 17th was the golden calf, which we went through tonight. The Ninth Day of Av was when the 10 spies brought back the bad report because they were supposed to enter the promised land then, and they had to wait 40 years to do that because of disobedience. Tishrei 3 is when they killed the high priest. They murdered the high priest Gedaliah, I believe his name. And then Tevet 10 is when Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls to that 10 on that day as well. So Yahweh is trying to get us to understand the causes of disobedience and causing these fast days. I mean, you look at idolatry, you look at lack of faith in God, idolatry to Tammuz 17th, lack of faith in Yah, Av 9, the bad report, Tishrei 3, murder, and then Tevet 10, the judgment. Nebuchadnezzar came to town. So again, we've got to really understand this, my friends. He will bring a Nebuchadnezzar upon us if we're not careful. And again, that will happen. They call him the Antichrist, but I would really look at it as Nebuchadnezzar because he's going to do exactly what Nebuchadnezzar did. He's going to rock and roll the Middle East. So, we've got to really look into it truthfully about, yes, Antichrist against Christ, of course, but really a Nebuchadnezzar anointing of destruction across the Middle East with war and bad, bad stuff ahead. So, my friend, that's just my personal opinion, Mr. Roland, that I have, and I hope that gives something to pray into.

Mr. Roland, "The meaning of Zion is a dry place, a signpost, a traditional fortress." I didn't know that. Thank you very much for sharing those definitions. "Dry place," which we know that Israel is dry desert; "a signpost," of course; and "traditional fortress." Amen. Thank you so much for sharing that with us, Mr. Michael. "Jesus' kingdom for eternity." Or friend, you will be there. Your heart position is where it needs to be with God and neighbor and enemy, so you're following the commandments, right? The worship ways and things like that, Sabbath, feast days, so man, you're good.

Miss Denise, "But I will encampment at my temple to guard it against marauding forces. Never again will an oppressor overrun my people, for now I am keeping watch." And that is Zechariah 9:8. The prophet Zechariah is amazing. It's hardcore stuff, some of it, but there is always redemption and restoration. Excuse me. Okay, Mr. Roland, from the noun, "dry place," or "signpost," from the verb "sah" to be dry or to command, from an Arabic verb that means to defend, cleansing our temple from our religious traditions. Amen to that. Amen. Amen to that. Excuse me. That is encampment. Yes. Okay. And Miss Denise says, "Zechariah 14, very hardcore stuff." Not sure what I was talking about, but Zechariah 14 is very hardcore. That's one of those passages that people don't really like to read because of what it says. And so there will be one more exile with our Jewish friends, our Israeli friends over in Israel. Messiah says to flee to the mountains. We all know that. Matthew 24, Zechariah 14, half of the city will go into captivity. Bad things happen to women. All of these things that are not pleasant to talk about. We do need to talk about them because again, they're going to happen. One of the things that I personally see, I've got friends over in Israel, and I remember being over in Israel probably when was it, 2020, I believe, right before COVID, and I was visiting one of my Israeli friends over there who's a believer, and he was showing me all these scriptures that, you know, "this is the final return," and this is, and so I say this in love to him and to other Israelis and Jewish people, this is not the final return. There's one more bad time coming. It's called the time of Jacob's trouble. It's going to be bad. We all know what the scriptures say in Zechariah 8, Zechariah 9, Zechariah 14. We all know these things. What Jeremiah says, what Ezekiel, Isaiah, Moses, Yeshua, you name it, John the Revelator, we all know there's going to be one more bad time. So, that is what I see in some Israeli friends of mine, and really the people of Israel over in the land. They believe there's not going to be a bad time. They believe the Jewish Messiah is going to show up, and it's going to be awesome. And they just don't have the timeline right. There's going to be a time of trouble coming. Daniel 12, Matthew 24. The covenant with death, Isaiah 28. But it will be annulled. The time of Jacob's trouble, but he will be saved out of it. Not he's saved out of it, then the time of Jacob's trouble. No. The time of Jacob's trouble, the seven years, then be saved out of it. Isaiah 28 again, the covenant with death, which they will sign, and it will be annulled at the end. Thank God. That's the communication that we need to have to our Israeli friends, not "the Jewish Messiah is going to show up and ain't life grand." No, there's judgment because of what's going on in the promised land right now and what's going down. The time of Jacob's trouble. So, that's the message to the Jewish people is Jeremiah 16: "The hunters are coming." They're already here. Can't we see this? Anti-Semitism is higher than it's ever been since the Holocaust. The people in Israel are in the worst position they've been in since AD 70, the ones who are in the land right now. No, this is not a good thing at all right now with what's going on, because there's a time of trouble coming, not deliverance right now. Trouble, then deliverance, once we get corrected. So again, some of these passages people don't like to read them, but we need to read them because it circumcises our heart and it puts the fear of Adonai in a good way in our heart to stay in obedience instead of disobedience. So again, Zechariah 14 is hardcore, and I'm sure we'll be going through the book of Zechariah more as we go forward, but these hardcore scriptures we need to understand because from what I think we can all see is we're not getting the victories like we should be getting if we're in obedience. We're not, as America, as Israel, we're just not getting the victories. 25 years, and there's something going down, and it's called disobedience in both countries. In both countries, we have to wake up and understand Christians and Jews. We've got to understand this to get into obedience with Yeshua, Holy Spirit, and the instructions of Yahweh with the ways to worship. Most Christians are trying to be good people. Awesome. We've got to get to the ways to worship the right way, my Christian friends, not just being good people. We've got to worship Him in spirit and in truth. Not my spirit, not your spirit, not your truth, not my truth, the Holy Spirit through His truth, through our spirit to Him. We've got to get this right because things are not going to go well. Things aren't going well. I mean, it's not the golden age, everybody. It's the end of the age. I think that's pretty understandable now when you look at the Middle East and look at just the chaos it is. And no one has a clue what's going on over there other than God. He's the one who's allowed all of these people just to turn them over to violence because that's what they want. The spirit of hate and the spirit of fear is in the Middle East. And they haven't seen anything yet. They really haven't. And our prayers need to be for all of them over there, the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims, the Alawites, everybody over there. They are in the surprise of their life is what's coming, and it's not going to be good at all. So the prayers need to be for the people to wake up, and for all of us to do the Great Commission. And if people get offended by that, then let them be offended. That's what the gospel does. That's what the Torah does. The gospel is the Torah, and the Torah is the gospel. I've said that before. If people don't understand that, I'll try to explain it to you.