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The influence of Enoch can be found throughout the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. This Bible study shows that the book of Exodus and the Crucifixion and Resurrection provides some of the strongest evidence that the calendar revealed to Enoch is in force and supported by powerful events.

The “Revealed” calendar from the Enoch’s “Book of the Luminaries,” one of the books in I Enoch, sets pattern that persists from quarter to quarter and from year to year. The first day of the month is always on a solar event, that is, either an equinox or a solstice. The first day of the month always starts at sunset and is the fourth day of the week. Each month is thirty days long, and an extra day is added as the 31st day of the third month. There are exactly fifty-two weeks in each year.

The weekly Sabbaths are always on the same days of each quarter and the same days of the year. This means that if we know on what day of the month a weekly Sabbath occurs, then we can relate that to a position on the Revealed calendar. For example, if we read that a Sabbath is on the 16th day of the month, we know that would be the second month of the quarter. As noted, all quarter follow the same pattern.

Evidence from Exodus: First Month

Does what happened during the weeks before and after being delivered from Egypt, provide support for the Jewish lunar calendar or for the Revealed calendar given by the Messenger Uriel to Enoch
In the Bible in Exodus 12 Eyahuwah begins to align the people of Israel with the revealed calendar. First He declares the start of the year: …

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I promised Jonathan that I would give some material about the symbols found on the entrance to the tomb. It is not the “all-seeing eye” as some suppose.

First, understanding the meaning of the symbols does not add evidence to conclude or dismiss the theory that Jesus bones were put in the tomb along with Mary Magdalene, the son of Jesus, and Mary, Jesus’s brother, and others in the family.

Also the resurrection of the dead does not demand the gathering up of the pieces in an attempt to put the body back together. According to the Scriptures we will receive new bodies into which our spirits will be placed. The “resurrection of the body” is a myth. I don’t think anyone wants their old body back. I don’t.

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In the first five posts of this Bible study series I explained the keys to understanding the mystery of the 1335 days. These include the calendar revealed to Enoch the Feasts and High days revealed to Moses, and the periods of time for the end-of-the-age events that were revealed to Daniel and to John. I also showed the start and the end of the 1,335 days. Now learn why that day is so important!

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The 1,335 Days Prophecy Revealed

For the Master, Yahua does no matter unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. Amos 3:7

The 1,335 begins with the death of the two-witnesses at the time when the beast was given power over the set-apart ones. He was given this power for the period that marks the last three and one half years of the seventh age, our age.

But the resurrection of the two-witnesses three and one half days later offers hope to the righteous and the elect, and the set-apart ones are encouraged to have patience during the last three and one half years, and to wait for the day that marks the end of the 1,335 day waiting period.

The death of the two-witnesses comes after another three and one half year period or 42 months during which they prophesied over the earth and its people. The day they were killed will be the same day as the Feast of Trumpets or Shouting, which is the first day of the seventh month on Enoch’s calendar, and this is also the fall equinox.

One thousand three hundred thirty five days from that High day takes us to another very important High Day on the 15th day of the third month during the first year of the Eighth Age.

Enoch’s year is counted as 360 days, regardless of how many actual days, as we experience them, occur during a solar year. Therefore 1,335 days is equal to 360 + 360 + 360 +180 + 30 + 30 +15.

Now lets study the events of that day as given to Moses in the Law or Torah

The final day of the 1,335 days occurs on the 15th day of the third month during the first year of the Eighth Age, after the beast and false prophet are destroyed and the righteous and elect are raised up from the dead. This day is a very special High Day and Feast.

This High Day is the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Firstfruits. Some call this “Pentecost.” This High Day is linked to a special day, known to very few, that happens after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, a seven-day Feast that starts on the 15th day of the first month. The Feast of Unleavened Bread ends on sunset of the 21st day of the month.

Then on the first day of the following week, a Wave Sheaf offering is made, along with other sacrifices. Then starting from that day the people were to count seven complete weeks.

From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the Wave Offering, count off seven full weeks. Leviticus 23:15

This symbolizes the completion of the first seven “weeks” or ages given to Enoch by a vision. The very next day, after the seven weeks are complete, is the 50th day. This is also the “first day of the Eighth Week” and is the 15th day of the third month. It is called the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Firstfruits.

During the period starting from the day after the end of the Feast of Unleavened Bread until the Wave Sheaf offering the people were instructed by the Law:

And you do not eat bread or roasted grain or fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your Elohim — a law forever throughout all your generations in all your dwellings. Leviticus 23

In other words, this was a time when NO grain was to be eaten. This is separate from the Feast of Unleavened Bread during which only unleavened bread was to be eaten, and that was for seven days. But during this short time of only four days, no grain, either roasted or new, was to be eaten.

Then, after a period that represents the seven “weeks” or ages of Enoch another special offering was to be offered to “your Elohim.”

Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, you count fifty days, then you shall bring a new grain offering to Yahua.

From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a Wave Offering of Firstfruits to Yahua

The Law describes other sacrifices for the day after the weekly Sabbath day during the Feast of Unleaved Bread. This is special first day of the week.

Yet even more sacrifices are required for the Feast of Firstfruits. None of the other Feast Days and High Days have such elaborate sacrificial duties.

On the first day of the week when the Wave Sheaf was offered:

And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall prepare a male lamb a year old, a perfect one, as a burnt offering to Yahua and its grain offering: two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahua a sweet fragrance, and its drink offering of a hin of wine.

Then on the first day of the week which is the 15th day of the third month on the Feast of Firstfruits:

And beside the bread [the Wave Offering], you shall bring seven lambs a year old, perfect ones, and one young bull and two rams. They are a burnt offering to Yahua with their grain offering and their drink offering, an offering made by fire for a sweet fragrance to Yahua And you shall offer one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering. And the priest shall wave them, beside the bread of the first fruits, as a wave offering before Eyahuwah besides the two lambs. They are set apart to Yahua for the priest.

If you were to evaluate the significance of a Feast and High day by the number and quality of the sacrifices made during that day, the Feast of Firstfruits ranks at the top!

As noted in other posts in this series, the coming fulfillment of the Feast of Firstfruits is one of the greatest days in the history of the human race.

In the future, at the end of the 1,335 days which is the Feast of Firstfruits, all who overcame the world (the seven lamps) during the prior seven ages of human life, will now come together, as the Wave Loaves, to ascend to Their Father and to Their Elohim to be accepted into the Family, now as Sons of Elohim
Eyahuwah/Eyahushuah (the one young bull) is the Firstfruit represented by the Wave Sheaf and the one perfect lamb, and He was sacrificed before the foundation of the world.

Then an innumerable mass of people from every tribe, language, and nation who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, are the Firstfruits, represented by the Wave Loaves and the seven lambs.

The sacrifices is symbolic of the blood they all shed (a burnt offering or an offering made by fire), and the sin they overcame, and of the greatness of Elohim who, before the universe was created, had been looking forward to THIS DAY!

The Two Wave Loaves

When the two wave loaves are made they start as one pile of bread dough made with leaven. Leaven is a symbol of sin. At the right time the one pile of dough is cut into two identical loaves. This is a symbol of Man being separated into two: a male and a female. This was not by taking a single “rib.” The Hebrew literally means a “side.” From Man came both man and woman, male and female. Man was made in the image and likeness of Elohim After the resurrection to eternal life there is no sexual distinction. The new immortal body is neither male or female. Therefore, the two Wave Loaves represent man and woman both taken from Man, and now ascending to their Father and to their Family Elohim as individual and equal Sons of EL
This event is the BIG day for which we must cleanse ourselves and prepare, and having prepared, then we must earnestly wait for that day.

The promise is no heaven or hell after we die. It is eternal life as a member of the Family of Elahim after the resurrection from the dead. It is on the 1,335 day that we ascend to our Father. Those who fail to prepare and do not believe the prophecies of this great news can only look forward to a resurrection to a time of judgment during which time they will learn the knowledge of Yahua They will all be taught by Him! But they will have no part in the events at the end of the 1,335 days: The Feast celebrating the Firstfruits!

Here are some interesting insights to the Wave Sheaf and Loaves.

The Wave Sheaf is offered when the Seven Weeks [the world] begins:

And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear, knowing that you were redeemed [purchased] from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible, silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless [perfect], foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for your sakes, who through Him believe in EL who raised Him from the dead and gave Him esteem, so that your belief and expectation are in EL I Peter 1:17-21

What this is saying, and is supported by other Scriptures, is that the plan created before the universe began included the atoning and redeeming sacrifice. Therefore, the sacrifice that took place on Passover and the symbolic Wave Sheaf offering made on the first day of the week after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, establishes the symbol of the first “seven weeks” of human existence! So during this time we can observe both the actual events combined with the symbols.

This also applies to the events leading up to the Feast of Weeks/Firstfruits. Speaking both of the symbols and the actual fulfillment, after the end of the period of the “seven weeks”, a new age is established and the rule over the earth and its people is given to the righteous, those who overcame the world during the first seven ages. These, like their Brother, ascend and are presented to their Father and their Elohim [Family] at the Feast of Firstfruits. They all died not having received what was promised and they trusted EL to also raise them from grave. They like their Brother gained the right to be called the Sons of EL only this time on the actual fulfillment day: the Feast of Firstfruits, which is the end of the 1,335 days!

While writing this Bible study I have been pouring over the book of Hebrews [IBRIM] because this understanding is its main subject. Here is just a sample from The Scriptures translation:

For it was fitting for Him, because of Whom all are and through Whom all are, in bringing MANY SONS to esteem, to make the Princely Leader of their deliverance perfect through sufferings. For both He who sets apart and those who are set-apart are all of One [FAMILY (NIV)], for which reason He is not ashamed to call them BROTHERS, saying, “I shall announce Your Name to My brothers, in the midst of the congregation I shall sing praise to You.”

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself shared in the same, so that by means of His death He might destroy him having the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver those who throughout their life were held in slavery by fear death. For, doubtless, He does not take hold of messengers [angels], but He does take hold of the seed of Abraham!

So in every way He had to made like His brothers, in order to become a compassionate and trustworthy High Priest in matters relating to Elohim to make atonement for the sins of the people. For in what He had suffered, Himself being tried, He is able to help those who are tried.

And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment, so also the Messiah, having been offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those waiting for Him, unto deliverance.

The cry of the people rings out to Elohim at the time of the death of the two witnesses (the two rams), who had been their help for three and one half years. The two-witnesses are raised up by Elohim after three and one half days to encourage the people who believed! Now the time of patience and waiting also begins until the return of Yahua/Yahushua who delivers his people on the first day of the first year of that age and raises them ALL from the dead. Seventy five days later, the waiting comes to an end at the Feast of Firstfruits, when the righteous ascend to their Father and their Elohim [Family].

The rest of people on earth look on feeling both sadness and mourning mixed with hope that at some time in the future they will be added to the highly esteemed Family of EL: Elohim
What you have read in this six part series is the true meaning of the 1,335 days.

It is no longer sealed. We are now at the time in the history of humanity when these things will shortly come to pass. It is time now to prepare and get ready. It is a time to make straight paths for our feet.

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The end of the our age, the Seventh week of Enoch’s vision has now been made clear through the revelations given to Daniel and John the Apostle. For the first time these end time prophecies are unsealed.

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The key to unlocking the mystery of the ages lies in understanding the revelations that were at first given to our father Enoch and then later to Daniel, and finally to the Apostle John. However, all of these things had been sealed up until the time of the “second end” — our time.

In this post and the next I will show the map of the events that bring us to the end of our age and the start of the Eighth age. This is a fascinating study, particularly because this subject has been a target of mindless speculations and traditions.

Enoch’s Calendar the Key to Prophecy

Some chafe at the idea that Enoch the father of us all, could have any importance during our time. The desire for religious dominance over the mind of the masses has stupified the people into thinking that Enoch was “done away” because he was not part of the “Canon.” But Enoch prophesied that his words would be a part of understanding at this time in history. The key to prophecy is the 364 day calendar revealed to Enoch by the Messenger from Elahim Uriel. This calender always starts on the fourth day of the week and on the spring equinox, the day when the length of the day is the same as the length of the night. The calendar has four quarters of ninety one days which is the same as thirteen weeks. Thus all quarters start on the fourth day of the week. To make this work out nicely, the last month in each quarter has thirty one days. The first and second months of the quarters have thirty days each.

Only 360 days of each year are to be counted. The last day of each quarter is not included in the counting as we shall see.

I explained in prior blogs how the earth’s year length was changed to 365.242 days, not by getting struck by a comet and slowing down the orbital speed (Velikovsky’s idea). But rather a change in the atmosphere caused the earth’s rotation speed to increase by a small amount. Up until the 1930’s scientists assumed that the earth’s rotation speed was an unchangeable constant, but that proved to be false. Today NASA and other scientists keep track of the changes of rotation speed and found that weather can either speed up or slow down the rotation. This continual observation is needed for calculating trajectories required for space exploration.

The change happened as a result of the great flood when the “waters above” the troposphere came back down to the earth, and like an ice skater pulling her arms in while doing a piroette, the earth rotated faster. We now have another intercalary day of 1.242 days at the end of Enoch’s year, but each yeaer still starts on the spring equinox whether we believe or not.

Daniel’s Messages from Gabriel

Like Enoch who received the calendar from Uriel, Daniel, from the messenger Gabriel, received periods of time expressed as days. Daniel was given these messages:

The first message sets the context and then jumps to the time of trouble at the end of our age:

Out of one of them came another horn [kingdom], which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land [Israel]. It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them. It set itself up to be as great as the Prince of the host. It took away the daily sacrifice from him, and the place of his sanctuary was brought low. Because of the rebellion, the host [armies] of the chosen and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.

Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled — the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host that will be trampled underfoot?”

He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings, then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”

Evening and morning is the same as one day as we learn from Genesis 1 where the very same expression in the Hebrew is used. Now for those who want to convert these to year: hold off. No where was Daniel told to count “a day for a year.” Ezekiel was because he was instructed to act out something and each day of his duty was to count for one year of actual time. For those who have my book, I am making changes now to make this clear. It was this “day for year” misapplication of the 2,303 evenings and mornings that led some to think that “a rapture” was to happen on June 12. Sometimes people go to great lengths to deceive themselves.

As we shall see, the expression “evening and morning” is an actual day in time on Enoch’s calendar. The difference is that it includes the intercalary days which are not counted other wise. The daily sacrifice was to be carried out for each day regardless of its place on the calendar. These then are actual days as counted by sunsets and sunrises as opposed to calendar days that only count 360 days per year.

While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man. And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai [river] calling, “Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.”

As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”

As noted, many mistakes in understanding resulted from trying to “understand” this vision by converting the 2,300 evenings and mornings to years. We are not going to make that mistake, because this vision concerns our time and the end of our age.

He [Gabriel] said, “I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.”

“The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia [Iran]. The shaggy goat is the king of Greece, and the large horm between his eyes is the first king [Alexander]. The four horns that replaced the one that was broken off represent four kingdoms that will emerge from his nation but will not have the same power.”

This sets the context but not the time. The four kingdoms are the Seleucid empires that took over that region after Alexander. The presence of the four kingdoms has remained. And the vision now jumps to our time:

“In the latter part of their reign, when rebels have become completely wicked, a stern faced king, a master of intrigue, will arise. He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men [armies] and the holy [chosen] people. He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they [the rebels] feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed but not by human power.

“The vision of the evenings and mornings that has been given to you is true, but seal up the vision for it concerns the distant future.” Daniel 8 NIV

That “distant future” is now.

This is the first time period that will become part of the end-time schedule. The others follow.

Daniel 9: The End of the Sixth Age

Enoch wrote the Sixth Age:

And after that in the Sixth Week all who live in it shall be blinded. And the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom. And it it a man shall ascend. And at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire, and the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.

The ninth chapter of Daniel concerns another time of the end: the end of the sixth age. This ninth chapter has been mistakenly used to point to the coming of Jesus. However, once again, the truth has been set aside for tradition and fables. Daniel was never told that the seventy weeks were to be expanded to 490 years. Instead, the Hebrew says that the weeks were to be divided up, intersected, or parsed to fit events. It serves as an example of how Daniel’s other visions were to be used.

Briefly, Agrippa was the one who made an agreement or covenant with the mighty, the Romans. They then laid seige against Jerusalem and a war started that was to last for seven years. During the midst of that seven the sacrifices ceased and the temple was burned to the ground. After the seven years war ended, for sixty-two years the Romans occupied Jerusalem. They made it into an army camp complete with “ditches” or latrines.

Near the end of the sixty-two weeks, a “messiah” came on the scene and began a rebellion of the Jews against the Romans. Rabbi Akiba called the man, Simon Bar Kochba, the “Son of the Star” and declared him to be the promised messiah. For three and one-half years they fought against the Romans making the Roman occupation miserable. But the Romans prevailed and defeated the rebels and the Jews suffered huge losses. Bar Kochba was cut off in the “middle of a week” of years and found hiding in a cave in En-Gedi with no one to help him. At the end of 69 of the 70 weeks, it was over. The people of the Jews were dispersed and forbidden to enter Jerusalem and were “encouraged” to flee the country. The sixth age ended as Enoch and Daniel saw in their visions and recorded for our day.

Daniel 12: The End of the Age Prophecies

Along with Zechariah 14, Daniel 12 is one of the most direct prophesies about the end of the age, our age. The information in this chapter needs to be combined with the information of the eighth chapter and with some material from John’s visions. With that we can create the time line of end time events.

There is some confusion about the remaining week of Daniel 12. Some call what I am about to write, the “lost week theory.” Those who object to this are usually the same who defend the “day for a year” notion of Daniel 9 to try to make it point to Jesus. But Daniel’s vision of the weeks is clear in stating that the “70 weeks” must be intersected or divided up as the Hebrew word explains. No expansion is even suggested. Instead it is only assumed. In fact, there is little hard evidence even from the New Testament as to how long Jesus’ ministry was. Was it one year - from Passover to Passover - as John seems to suggest? Or could it have been three and one half years as some say Daniel 9 means? But then that cannot be substantiated either, and when we apply that “theory” we have the tail wagging the dog.

For our purposes here, we can use the one week that was “cut out” or “divided” from the other weeks and apply it to our time. After all, the weeks of Daniel 9 were to be applied to the People, and not to an individual. The gospel writer said concerning Daniel, “Let the reader understand.” And so we will.

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From time to time, I will write posts with answers to some of the most asked questions. This is the first of such posts.

Q. Do you believe in the rapture?

A. The “rapture” has no basis in the Bible. Although some words of Jesus are allegorically attached to the idea of a rapture, the context of those words contradicts such ideas. Paul, the Pharisee, is most often quoted in support of the rapture theory. Based on all scriptures and excluding Paul’s epistles, the prophecies foretell the resurrection at the return of Eyahuwah/Eyahushuah to the earth. He only returns, according to prophecies, after a three and one half period during which time the world, under the influence of a false “messiah,” tries to exterminate the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the righteous. The idea that the “church” will be taken off the earth during that time is not supported by scriptures. And even though there are promises of protection for the righteous those promises include death with the promise of the resurrection to eternal life. Based upon what the Scriptures, including the prophets and true apostles, teach, I find no reason to believe in a man-made fictional notion about this “us verses them” idea.

Q. Why do you quote from the Book of Enoch?

A. The Book of Enoch was rejected by the “church” in order to keep it out of the hands of the masses. The Book of Enoch also known as I Enoch contains prophecies that transcend the entire history of humanity. It is referred in passages in the Torah and is quoted by the true apostles. Moses knew what he was called to do in Egypt because it was written in the Book of Enoch Jethro was a priest who may have brought this to Moses attention. but it is also possible that the Book of Enoch could have been in the Egyptian libraries and read by Moses while he was under tutelage. The book of Enoch is a key to all of the prophecies of not only the Hebrew scriptures, but also the writings of the apostles. Enoch prophesied that his words would be read during our time. Copies of his books were found in Ethiopia and buried in the caves at Qumran with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Q. I thought we were living in the sixth age. What happened?

A. This idea comes from the a misapplication of scriptures where a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day. This then is confused with Enoch’s vision of the “weeks” or ages. Then some, without even reading Enoch assume that Enoch is writing about a “week” of “days” and that the millennium is the “sabbath” in that week. Enoch never wrote such a thing nor can this be found in any other scripture. Enoch wrote that there would be seven weeks or ages, starting from Adam, wherein humanity would struggle under confusion, deception, and corrupt governments and religions. Some of the ages were marked by events that were to take place at the close of the ages. The sixth and seventh ages had closing events. The sixth age ended in 135 AD with the dispersion of the people of Judea as prophesied by Enoch concerning the end of that age. We are now living in the seventh age, which is called in his prophecy the “Age of Apostasy.” Considering all the religions that marked the time from 135 CE to today, it is very clear that Enoch’s prophecies are being fulfilled. The eighth age or week of Enoch’s vision will be an age of righteous rule over all the nations of the earth. Eyahuwah will return to become the King of kings, and the Master of masters.

Q. Why do you not quote from Paul’s epistles?

A. When I was young and doing my initial studies, I spent most of those early years studying the writings of Paul. At one point I read the entire book of Ephesians every day for one month. As the years went on, I became more sensitive to some of the questions and problems that began to appear in my studies. Then I found that my doubts and questions were confirmed by hundreds of writers and theologians. Paul was, perhaps, the most highly trained Pharisee of his day. His teachings and his rants were a product of his training. His writings sounded like the complaints of a cranky old man. But the big question was this: Why did none of the apostles’ teachings agree with Paul? They were not followers of Paul, and they had serious questions about his authenticity both as a teacher and as an apostle. If the apostles did not borrow anything from Paul, where did their teachings come from? The answer was obvious: from the Law or Torah, and from the Prophets and Writings of the Hebrew Scriptures! It is in them that the true Gospel can be found. But didn’t Paul quote from them? Yes, but it became obvious that, as a true Pharisee, Paul replaced the teachings of the Hebrew Scriptures with his own “private interpretations.” Instead of teaching what Jesus/Eyahushuah and the apostles taught, he replaced them and created a religion and led the world into following him. From then on the words of Jesus were fulfilled: “Multitudes will come in My Name, saying that I am the Messiah, and will deceive the masses.” Also as a result of Paul’s efforts the Age of Apostasy, revealed to Enoch emerged in full force to this day. Why would this be allowed? So that righteous would shine like stars during this time of darkness and deception.

Q. Why do you use Hebrew transliterations?

A. I studied both Greek and Hebrew. The most popular language was Greek as most non-Jewish students of the Bible seem to have little interest in the Hebrew Scriptures. “After all, did not Paul teach that the law was done away?” Greek is a philosophical [Greek: "friend of wisdom"] language. It is definitely NOT theological. It has only one word for which the Hebrew has many. Hebrew is the most theological language that ever existed. From its very beginning, as evident in the pictograph letters, Hebrew paints a picture of the relationship of EL ELAH, the ELAHIM, and EYAHUWAH and the people. The names of the leaders and prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures contain clues about them and their relationship with ELAH. I find it to be much wiser to understand the actual names used in the Hebrew Scriptures in references to the Almighty. I also prefer to use “The Scriptures”, a translation by the Institute for Scripture Research. Although, even it has problems, in particular with their inconsistency when referring to ELAH and the plural as “Elohim” instead of ELAHIM. Most English translations suffer because they use only “God” or “Lord” to translate the names and this hides or even obscures the meaning in the Hebrew. These names and others in Hebrew should be understood and known. Also one must keep in mind that the addition of “vowel” markings around the tenth century CE ironically introduced a pronunciation of Hebrew with a heavy accent. Also the assumption that Hebrew letters are only consonants is false. Like other languages and prior to the use of vowel markings, some letters were vowels including all the letters in the Tetragrammatron [ee - ah - oo - ah].