In addressing the children of Israel who had newly been delivered out of the bondage of their Egyptian taskmasters, the Creator imparted these words to them through His servant Moses:

"I am Yahweh your Elohim (God); consecrate yourselves and be qadosh (holy, set-apart), because I am holy (qadosh (holy, set-apart)...I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt to be your Elohim (God); therefore be qadosh (holy, set-apart), because I am qadosh (holy, set-apart)" (Lev.11:44a,45, NIV).

To the ancient Hebrew, as to us, there is only one Elohim (God), one ruling, creating, sustaining, justice-implemeting and loving Power. All the other so-called 'gods' were, and are, but figments of the imagination. Since there is only one Elohim (God) and since He has only ever has one people, there was, and is, a special relationship between Him and His people.

On the Creator's side, He promised, and still promises, to do many things for them, and still for us. He promised:

• 1. To be their, and our, Government;
• 2. To be their, and our, Minister of Defence and protect them, and us;
• 3. To be their, and our, Minister of Finance, so there would be no poor among them, or us; and
• 4. To be their, and our, Minister of Health, so that none of the diseases of Egypt would touch them, or us;

As their King and ours, He promised them, and us, everything they, or we, would ever need. In return He expected them, and still expects us, to live right and do right things, or to put it another way, to be righteous. Or put another way, Be holy - be set-apart, different from the world - be Qadosh. And that because He, Yahweh, the Creator, our Sovereign King, is Holy, Set-apart, different from all other pretended deities - He is Qadosh.

We learn, right from the very beginning when He revealed Himself to mankind, that our Heavenly Father expects the people He liberates to be like Him and not like those around His people. That's what it means to be 'separated, 'separate', 'set-apart' or 'holy'. Many of the things that Yahweh says in Scripture, that may at first seem puzzling, are explained by this one fact. And the annual festivals, which we are called to faithfully observe, has that one goal in mind, but related in a different way - through ordinances and actions. When Yahweh tells us not to do something it is only because the people around us are doing it but we are to be different, we are not to imitate them, we are to be qadosh - holy, set-apart - because He is qadosh - holy, set-apart. If Yahweh saves you, He expects you to be like Him, He expects you to live His way.

With this introduction, may I wish you Shabbat shalom and Chag Sameach Yom haKippurim kol beit Yisra'el, Mishpachah and Chaverim! Welcome to this the sixth and penultimate qadosh, holy, set-apart divine moed or appointment, the Day of Atonements, on which we are commanded to assemble together fasting. All the festivals-but-one are feasting times; on one (Yom haBikkurim - the Day of Firstfruits or Resurrection Day), we do not eat natural yeast products because yeast or chametz symbolises sin (were're supposed to get sin out of our lives), and on Yom haKippurim (which sound like Yom haBikkurim when the full name of the Day of Atonements is used, and not the inaccurate 'Yom Kippur') we observe a 'Feast of Not-Eating' because this is not a 'pleasure' moed (appointment) but one of repentance leading to judgment. We are not gathered here to celebrate anything but to be soberly reminded of deep and serious truths about accountability. There is a day of reckoning, and this is it.

Yesterday evening I broadcast a special message, an updated version of a sermon I preached in 2013, called Applying the Five Atonements in Earnest as I felt its message needed repeating here today so that everyone is perfectly clear what Yom haKippurim is and to clear up any misconceptions. This festival, just to remind you, has nothing to do with personal repentance and atonement but corporate repentance and atonement. This means that we are - or have been - repenting as a collective or body as we seek Yahweh's pardon, forgiveness and justification. So I I'll not be going over yesterday evening's material here today but rather I wish to focus on the special message I have for this hour. A saying of J.C.Ryle comes especially to mind right now given the historical importance of this moment on this day and on this year of Penultimate Judgment:

"Better to confess Christ 1,000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ (Messiah) before God (Elohim) on the Day of Judgment"

We have passed through many Yom haKippurim's over the years, each year we have made our collective confession of guilt for sin, and we have repeated the Neilah Prayers together. Unfortunately these exercises can so easily devolve into mechanical rituals without spiritual substance. When Yah'shua (Jesus) came the first time 2,000 years ago, people were not prepared. False teachers had got control of the nation and poisoned the ears and hearts of Israel with false teachings. And though they were under the heavy burden of a Roman occupation, all their hopes were focussed on a false salvation because, you see, they were convinced that deliverance would be coming through a messiah like the terrorist Barabbas, whom Pontius Pilate freed, one who would rout the Romans in battle and establish, by force-of-arms, through the shedding of blood, another Maccabean-type Kingdom of Judea or, better still, a Solomonic Empire of Israel.

The descendants of those same rulers still believe that. They believe that in the aftermath of the Second World War they got their country back, they have seen it grow in size, then shrink a bit. They are under the dominion of a Deep State satanic cult and are ruled, not by their elected prime ministers, but by a Rothschild who calls himself the King of Israel and King of the World. Even the Pope pays homage to him. They believe, in spite of this, that another Barabbas-like messiah will arise and are preparing to greet him by building a 'third' temple in Jerusalem to be his throne. Their Zionist ideology has fooled millions upon millions of Evangelical Christians and Messianics. But they cannot discern the times and seasons, any more than their forefathers could.

They don't realise that quite soon, as also happened around 2,000 years ago in 70 AD when Jerusalem was destroyed, and following that, the Bar Kokhba Revolt from 132-136, when the Jews were expelled from the Holy Land altogether, that their little republic, outwardly independent but in reality completely finalcially dependent on the USA and steered by satanic Deep State agents, will be destroyed in like manner. History will repeat itself only this time there won't be another two millennia of disaspora but, first, the 12 Tribes will return dramatically and apparently out of nowhere (from their persepctive) in the Final Exodus to claim their inheritance, to be followed almost immediately by the Second Coming of Christ who will be installed as the true King of Israel. But just as the Jews of 70 and 136 AD could not believe what had happened to them, so too the modern Jews, and their Christian Zionist allies, will be astonished and horrified finding the same thing happening to their little Edomite Kingdom, which has gained so much economic and political power internationally, come crashing to the ground, along with all the other pretenders to Yahweh's own Real Estate.

Today will be the exact day that they will experience what for them will be the 'impossible', the 'unthinkable', the 'unbearable' - the loss of their power, wealth and land. It will all happen in a day. Think about it, because it will happen TODAY, on the 10th day of the 7th month in the Sacred Calendar, on a day very much like this one. Messianic Israelites will be gathered, as we are in this room, and history will be being changed at the very same moment. You see, these divine moedim, these special appointments of Yahweh, though representing all sorts of important spiritual, salvational realities, also depict actual historical events, past and future. Babylon will be DESTROYED off the face off the earth - no more deep state, no more power élites, no more corrupt politicians, no more sex-trafficers, no more slavery, no more oppression, no more murderous and abusive satanic cults, no more false religion and no more wicked ideologies like communism. They will all END on a day like today, one day in the near future. It will be concrete and all the people of the world who survive the destruction of the Great Tribulation will know it.

We are not talking abstract theology here, we're talking about the real, living Elohim (God) personally intervening to put the whole world to rights as He has promised He would involving people and nations. That's one reason we are here today because we long for this final day, when the prophetic meaning for annual assembling at Yom haKippurim is finally fulfilled, just as the spring and summer festivals have already been fulfilled, and as Yom Teruah will have been just fulfilled, a matter of days before when Yah'shua (Jesus) touches down on earth in full view as He promised He would, in glory and sovereign power.

But we are still a number of years away from this event. No matter, some of you will be witnesses of it which is why I can speak about it because some of those witnesses have already come out of my own loins and can therefore represent me as testators to the truthfulness of these words when the events actually come to pass! And not just my own progeny but many in the greater Family of Christ. Yet, in spite of the final fulfillment of Yom haKippurim not being today, what is about to happen now - today - will be concretely and actually felt by those at the top of the Babylonian pyramid, in the upper echelons, as a prefigurement of what will happen to all the Deep Staters on the Final Yom haKippurim. The Republic of Israel, that has enchanted so many, as a nation, will survive this Penulultimate Judgment but the same absolutely does not apply to all its controllers and manipulators.

Today is the closest that I, and you who are around my age, will ever personally get to the Final Yom haKippurim. We choose to be content with the Penultimate Yom haKippurim. Today is a day I have long awaited. It isn't the Great Consummation that every navi (prophet) of old has eagerly awaited, but it's the next best thing. Today is a day for the breaking of shackles. It's been a long, painful battle getting here. There have been so many casualties along the way, so many losses, so many heartbreaks. We have had to wade through chronic illness, persecution from both the enemy camp and Christians who should have known better, long stays in the wilderness, and much more, but we have made it to the line which is both an ending and a starting anew. I don't know how but we have, and we are just about intact! It is hard to believe that we have been slogging away at this work for 35 years now and have had to wait patiently as Abraham had to for his promised son who came in a way and a time that was totally unexpected for him. We can none of us know the strange and often complex route that takes us to our foreordained destination. The Enemy has been even more surprised because he just does not understand our Creator's mind and heart, he can never plummet its depths or heights. Indeed, he doesn't even know what he is doing, less his minions on earth. So the last laugh will be on him.

You know, in spite of the strange backside of the tapestries of our lives which we find nigh impossible to make sense of, our Elohim (God) is actually taking care of us. The other side of the tapesty of our life as true believers is extraordinarily beautiful to behold but we must await that viewing until the final Sukkot (Tabernacles). So maybe it's time we remind ourselves of Paul's words of encouragement to the Corinthians:

"We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed -- always carrying about in the body the dying of the Master Yah'shua (Lord Jesus), that the life of Yah'shua (Jesus) also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Yah'shua's (Jesus') sake, that the life of Yah'shua (Jesus) also may be manifested in our mortal flesh" (2 Cor.4:8-11, NKJV).

Remember that. We - you and I - are permitted to go through all these hardships so that the life of Yah'shua (Jesus) can be manifested in us. It's how His glory shines through His faithful servants. It's how His servants are made perfect but the way is not a natural one anyone would eagerly refuse because the unconquered flesh arises to oppose.

However, the day is still young and much is about to happen in the invisible - right now and in the next few hours. Three days ago, in the wee hours of Shabbat Shuvah I was up for several hours in almost continual vision. All night long I was in France, sometimes looking at places from centuries ago, seeing how the history of that nation is playing out in the grand scheme of things, with visits to ancestral homes. Reuben is about to be given a major assignment and the chance to redeem himself and his tribe in Messianic Israel. He is being given the opportunity to correct some of the historical mistakes he has made, and crimes he has committed. Keep one eye on France at this key juncture in history and pray for that nation that Yahweh's sons there may begin to arise!

Keep the other eye on Antarctica for the moment, that chilly continent flat-earthers deny even exists. So much of our hidden history is linked to it because once it housed a civilisation even older than Sumeria, Egypt and the Ancient Americas. Indeed, it seeded them. If any of the élites think they are going to be able to hide there, or resurrect its dead to harness their powers, they have another thing coming to them...a rude awakening. I dare say nearly all believers have no clue what I am talking about, which is fine for now. I will have more to say on this continent in times to come because the changes that are to come will move it back into the limelight.

That's all I am going to say this morning because I want to let you go and encourage you to spend quality time with Yah'shua (Jesus) in prayer. Why? Because you and I are both standing on a new spiritual starting line. An historical cycle ends today and a new one begins at sunsrise. We need to reorientate ourselves and pray over what is coming. Then we will gather at 5.30 pm, Swedish time, for the closing session and for a final word. See you then.

Welcome back for the concluding message of Yim haKippurim. But first, if I may, a short prayer:

"O glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, shine on our sanctuary! O hope of Israel! O Yahweh! All who forsake You shall be put to shame; those who turn away from You shall be recorded in the earth (underworld), for they have forsaken the fountain of mayim chayim (living water), [even] Yahweh.

"Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for You are my praise" (Jer.17:12-14, NRSV).

These words were spoken by the navi (Prophet) Jeremiah, and there is a reason I have cited them. We are in desperate need of healing, body and soul, because the Bride is pretty blood-spattered, battered and shattered. She is worn out, near to the end of her resources, and close to giving up. I know many of you will resonate with that and agree! Yahweh knows this but He isn't going to leave it that way. I have said a lot about the people Satan has duped, but we must not forget who is steering the chaos and all the hurting in the world. The invisible powers and principalities (Eph.6:12), dark spiritual entities, demons, devils, call them what you will, they thrive on stupidity, not only of the uneducated but of the educated too.

Stupidity is not the monopoly of the masses. Any entity, human or fallen malak (angel), is more than capable of stupidity because the door to stupidity is pride and arrogance. And such, who are of the human sort, cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Pride, if unrepented, always leads to a fall and that is one thing we have to absolutely be rid of if we are serious about walking through the door that the Father is opening for us today. That goes for believers too because, once we have resisted and then suppressed our conscience, it is not long before the professing believer becomes an unbeliever. Paul warned:

"For although they knew Elohim (God), they neither glorified Him as Elohim (God) nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal Elohim (God) for images..." (Rom.1:21-23, NIV).

An image is a replica, a copy, but always inferior to Elohim (God) Himself. We are images, copies of El Elyon, the Most High, so to worship or exalt another human being is foolishness indeed and is...idolatry. To esteem a mortal entity made of flesh and blood more than you esteem the Creator of this Universe, well, that is foolishness indeed. Dismount from your high horse and descend to your knees with a little humility.

Look at our world. As Solomon noted:

"Fools are put in many high positions,
while the rich [in wisdom] occupy the low ones.
I have seen slaves on horseback,
while princes go on foot like slaves" (Eccl.10:6-7, NIV).

Just look at the Presidents and Prime Ministers of today's world. Most of them are complete, utter idiots, puffed up in pride, mouthing nonsense, yet believing themselves to be wise benefactors. There are exceptions, of course, and they are a true blessing to their nations, but they are few. Paul said, somewhat sarcastically, in order to shame professing Christians who think themselves so clever:

"For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise" (2 Cor.11:19, KJV)

In other words, it is a fool who puts up with a fool, who indulges a fool, who pampers a fool, who hopes to gain favour from a fool. Stop trying to please a fool! Why bother? Do either of you benefit? Is righteousness accomplished through such 'magnanimity', such 'generosity'? And does this in any way demonstrate kindness or generosity or wisdom on your part? No, not at all! And isn't that how we started the message this morning - about the urgent need to pursue holiness? For that is what these festivals are all about, and Yom haKippurim is all about separating out the fools from the wise, the loving from the unloving, the kind from the cruel, the yielding from the stubborn, the humble from the proud. Therefore, the first thing we have to do, as he said we should, is to imitate godly spiritual fathers like Paul (1 Cor.4:16) in all righteousness, and the first thing me must do to accomplish that is to stop suffering fools gladly. Don't put up with such nonsense. And not just foolish people, not just stopping them when they mouth and act foolishly, but refusing any longer to put up with foolish ideas and notions that present themselves as wisdom. We will be judged, right now, if we insist on being man-pleasers and uncritical wrong idea-promoters.

Over the last few weeks demons have been appearing to me in various guises to get my attention - mostly in dreams and visions, trying to look very sophisticated and wise. They tend not to manifest to humans with red faces and horns, carrying pitchforks and flashing sharp yellow teeth in menacing grimmaces, save maybe to the very superstitious. Give them some credit. They may be fools as far as righteousness and holiness are concerned but when it comes to the art of deception they are the experts. Therefore the only hope the non-expert in unrighteousness has is to be holy, and to be holy you have to pursue righteousness in humility.

Now I don't know how stupid you have been this last year. I can only speak with any sort of authority and certainty for myself, and even then it has taken some pretty violent stripping during this season of Teshuvah (Repentance) for me to see things much more lucidly than ever before. It's been a sobering experience. Deception is mounting everywhere. I do shake my head at how easily we can get sidetracked and start missing our way. That is why a believer must stay daily focussed on the task of holiness, and that is why we have to immerse ourselves in it so that we are not deceived by the very sophisticated counterfeits that today saturate this world. Yesterday one of my favourite Pentecostal preachers, a man with a big heart for people, was unmasked as a heretic because he denies the incarnation and therefore the deity of the mortal Messiah. Unbelievable? Don't be so surprised in an age of mass apostacy. People who are sound one day can become unsound the next. It can happen that quickly. So pray for them. That's why the apostle Peter said:

"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the emunah faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of suffering" (1 Peter 5:8-9, NIV).

So I tend to by default be suspicious of those who are adulated by large crowds, and that includes popular Christians and Messianics! For the most part, people aren't listening today because they have preferred to be swayed by the crowd, or charismatic personalities, rather than do their own thinking and their own self-initiated repenting...and I deliberately underline the words 'self-initiated' because those who are forced into repentance by harsh circumstances rarely approach repentance with a completely pure heart, at least not in the long term. The fruit of forced repentance through undeniable signs and wonders in Egypt under Moses did not prevent those early Israelites from later on rebelling in the wilderness of the moon-god Sín (Sinai). So, please, come of your own free will today, not because I ask you to, but because you love truth more than error, love more than hate, love gentleness more that brute force, and love Yahweh rather than the gods of this world, and make your confession before El Elyon, the Most High God Yahweh through His Son Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ), and not out of any sense of ritualistic duty or obligation. You see, just going through the motions accomplishes nothing.

The whole Season of Teshuvah (Repentance) has been preparation for this moment as we stand on the line that separates us from the future: we can either go forward, trusting like a child, or we can do an about-face and repeat the same mistakes we made last last year, compounding our sufferings, disappointments and misery, accomplishing nothing. Don't do what those early Israelites wanted to do in the desert. The way may have been tough but it need only remain so if you choose it to be so. I am not saying the way ahead will be easy either but at least it can be fruitful and bring you peace (shalom) and joy (simcha). Alright?

So let's have our first 'prayer skirmish'. My first prayer is for all us, that Yahweh would heal the Remnant, because we have been subjected to so much pressure and are in such desperate need of relief. Whatever your personal need is, Yahweh knows it, so take a moment to bring it before Him ....... We are at the end of our tether and cannot go on without a major heavenly refreshing. We have been poisoned mentially, emotionally and physically by so many things, and you don't need me to tell you what some of these are. So we stand with our toes on this line marking the end of one segment of the æon that we are about to leave, and we look upwards to the source of our deliverance.

We petition You, Heavenly Father, through the mercies and blood of Your Son, Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ), for all kinds of healing and renewal. Be generous with us, our King, and make us generous to others too in their need. Amen.

While you pause to meditate on this in your own way, I have a message to the wicked, and specifically to the deep state élites, the 'swamp', or whatever you want to call them, because I know their 'watchers' are listening in to garner intelligence, and they have been instructed to relay any messages from Yahweh's nevi'im (prophets) to their masters. This message is not for Yahweh's people. It is given in the hope that one or two of the cabal will repent and come out of the dark kingdom of lies and sorrows, for Yahweh loves them and wants to save them. For the rest this is notice served from Heaven for the Penultimate Judgment:

"You consider yourself a lion among the nations but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul [the] streams. Thus says Yahweh-Elohim: In an assembly of many peoples I will throw My net over you; and I will haul you up in My dragnet. I will throw you on the ground, on the open field I will fling you, and I will cause all the birds of the air to settle on you, and I will let the wild animals of the whole earth gorge themselves on you. I will strew your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. I will drench the land with your flowing blood up to the mountains, and the watercourses will be filled with you. When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens, and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. And the shining lights of the heavens I will darken above you, and put darkness on your land, says Yahweh-Elohim" (Ezekiel 32:2-5).

Shall we finish? Yes, it is time. Let us now pray and make confession for ourselves and our loved ones, for the Remnant and for the whole Body of Christ that per chance they, and we, will make a sincere repentance.

O Yahweh, Elohim of our fathers! Let our prayers come before You, through Yah'shua our Deliverer, and do not hide Yourself from our supplication. What shall we say to You who dwell on High? You know all things, both hidden and revealed. You search our hearts and thoughts. Nothing is hidden from Your sight. We are not so arrogant nor hardened to say, 'We are righteous and have not sinned.' For truly we have sinned. We have turned away from the good mitzvot (commandments) You have given us. You are righteous and true in all Your ways, but we have done evil in Your sight. Thank You, our Heavenly Father, and Elohim of our fathers, that You forgive all our sins, pardon all our iniquities, sanctify the altar of our heart, bless and sanctify the quodesh (holy, set-apart) places in our homes and assemblies, sanctify your leaders in Messianic Israel, both the husband-fathers and the cohenim (priests) - the pastors and elders, and grant atonement for all our transgressions through the precious blood of Yah'shua the Messiah.

For it is written: "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness". 'Return O Israel to Yahweh-Elohim, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take words with you and return to Yahweh. Say to Him, "Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips."'

We repent for the sin we committed in Your sight by:

• sinning wilfully, and for the sin we committed in ignorance.
• slander, and for the sin of lashon hara or gossip.
• neglecting our responsibilities, and for the sin of selfishness.
• indulging evil thoughts, and for the sin of lust.
• being lukewarm, and for the sin of not loving You with all our hearts and souls.
• not hungering and thirsting for righteousness, and for the sin of not being humble in spirit.
• not being merciful, and for the sin of withholding when we could have given.
• speaking foolish words, and for the sin of not controlling our tongues.
• not loving our neighbours, and for the sin of not blessing our enemies.
• not turning the other cheek, and for the sin of practising our righteousness before men.
• being proud, and for the sin of lack of zeal.

(Final blowing of the ram's horn)

I hereby declare Yom haKippurim at an end. May Yahweh go with you, fill you with His love and give you shalom (peace) in Yah'shua's Name. Amen!

Valete.

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