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This is a most interesting time. Whether we believe it or not, we are living at the time of the end of the seventh age or “week” prophesied by our father Enoch.

There is a lot of “stuff” on the Internet about supposed “prophecies.” Many books have been written. Some try to dismiss prophecies with the claim that all have “been fulfilled.” Others use “tradition” as the evidence to support prophecy, or they claim to be some sort of expert in prophecy based upon what they learned in a school or from their church.

Often prophecy is looked upon as a stereotype with an image of a madman sporting a long white beard and carrying signs saying “Repent” or “the end is coming.” These things make it easier for the foolish to dismiss any idea that prophecy:

1. Is a derivative of the Truth,
2. Is about events that have been known for millennia.
3. Is what true prophets were given by revelation.

The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come. Israel knows! Because of the greatness of your crookedness and the greatness of the enmity [hostility], the prophet is considered a fool — the man of the Spirit a maniac.

So I come along saying that the “march to the end of this age has begun!” Therefore, people think I am mad: …
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Many pray. A growing number meditate. A few fast. How important are these to success in growing spiritually? Are prayers heard? Does meditation work? When was the last time you fasted?

Spiritually directed tools can be a powerful asset. But if not used with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, they could be a waste of time. It is hard for us to comprehend how to make these work. Even the disciples requested, “Teach us to pray.”

For a lot of people prayer becomes nothing more than begging, and that is not healthy. Religious leaders can often be heard making public prayers, and these, some think, are model prayers. But regardless of the sad state of prayer what we really want is to find out what it really is and how to make it work.

Meditation is somewhat like prayer only the difference is that nothing is said. Instead we shut down our mind, if that is possible, and go into a meditation or trance state. For a spiritual person this can be a very refreshing time. Sometimes meditation is a time that can be very valuable for dealing with life. We can go into a meditative state, become settled, and later find new insight and knowledge come to our awareness that is exactly what we needed to solve a problem or to complete a project.

Fasting is a powerful tool, but only used by a few people. It involves abstaining from eating. Sometimes, for short periods, the fasting person drinks nothing. Why do this? The thought of missing a meal is enough to make many people faint. Most people think that they will die if they skip eating anything for one day. But true spiritual fasting should take you past the point where food is no longer important or even desired, and yes, that actually happens on or about the third or fourth day.

Why should we even consider doing any one of these things? Are we nuts?

For any of these tools to be useful to our spiritual life, we must also have the needed prerequisites. It is kind of like dealing with computer software, some packages will not function unless other programs are already in the system. These packages have what are known as “dependencies.”

Prayer, meditation and fasting have dependencies and prerequisites. Prayer is not simply a matter of saying the “right” words over and over. Meditation is not just sitting in a lotus position, alone and quiet, waiting for some vision or mental flash. Fasting does not mean that going without food or drink automatically causes God to smile down on us.

No, before we can be successful, we must start at the right place.

For several years now, I have taught about something that I call the Elahim Connection. This is a true spiritual relationship with our Creator. Not just any kind of relationship but a special one. It is based on this law, “Love Eyahuwah your Elahim with all your heart, mind and soul, and your neighbor as you love yourself.” This is foundational. Upon this hang everything else in the Law or Torah and is the theme or spine behind the writings of the prophets, from Enoch and Moses to the Apostle John.

We must ask ourselves before any prayer, meditation, or fast: Does that “commandment” accurately represent our present and continuing state? If not, how then can we even consider that we will be successful in prayer, meditations, and fasting when we don’t even have the basic character upon which the relationship depends?

Eyahuwah is far from the wicked [those who are wrong-doers], but He hears the prayer of the righteous [those do are right-doers]. Proverbs 15:29

The prayer of a righteous man [or woman] is powerful and effective. James 5:16

Blessed is the man [or woman] who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked [those who are wrong-doers] or stand in the path of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his [or her] delight is in the Law [Torah] of Eyahuwah and he [or she] meditates on His Law [Torah] day and night. He [or she] shall be as a tree planted by the rivers of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither, and whatever he [or she] does prospers. Psalm 1:1-4

Not only is focus and delight in the Law important to living in a spiritual relationship with Elah, but so also is attitude. Pride, having an inordinate self-esteem, blocks spiritual life. Before one can learn, one must recognize that Eyahuwah and the Elahim know everything. A Pharisee prayed:

“I thank you that I am not like other men. Extortioners. Unjust. … I fast twice in the week. I give tithes of all that I possess.”

But his prayer was not heard.

For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who is humble shall be exalted. Luke 18:14

Those who like to be seen praying, or who make a show of their fasting, or who proclaim their generosity to the world, have their reward. But they do not have answered prayer, and their fasting does not make them spiritual, and their charity becomes a curse to them.

“Teach us to pray” is confusion. “Teach us the way of righteousness” is more on target and it is a prayer.

“When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courtyards? Stop bringing futile offerings, incense, it is an abomination to Me. New moons, Sabbaths, the calling of meetings — I am unable to bear unrighteousness and assembly. My being hates your New Moons and your appointed times, they are a trouble to Me. I am weary of bearing them.

“And when you spread out your hands, I hide my eyes from you, even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood.

“Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean. Put away the evil doings from before My eyes. Stop doing evil! Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling. Reprove the oppressor. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Eyahuwah “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

“If you submit and obey, you shall eat the good of the land.” Isaiah 1:12-19, The Scriptures.

There is no secret to prayer, meditation and fasting. They are simple, easy and can accomplish much. But the relationship between each of us, individually, and Eyahuwah and the Elahim only comes with humility and right-doing. It is not the result of attending meetings, whether on Sunday or on a Sabbath or on any other day.

Why are prayers not heard?

“Your rulers are stubborn and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.

“I shall turn My hand against you, and shall refine your dross and remove your impurities. And I shall give back your judges as in the days of old, and your counselors as at the beginning. After this you shall be called the city of righteousness, a steadfast city.”

And it shall be in the latter days that the mountain of the House of Eyahuwah is established on the top of the mountains [large nations], and shall be exalted above the hills [small nations]. And all nations shall flow to it. And many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Eyahuwah to the House of the Elahim of Jacob, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths, for out of Zion comes forth the Torah, and the Word of Eyahuwah from Jerusalem.” And he shall judge between the nations, and shall reprove many peoples. Isaiah 1 & 2

What if the United States armed forces pull out of Iraq? Will that create a world where people no longer kill each other? Or will this create a vacuum that will be filled by an Empire that will expand world warfare and threaten all life on earth?

Using a “rondo” style, this podcast describes future events that will rock the earth. The good news of next age has a prelude that requires that the people return to their roots and that the earth be restored so that people can live long lives in peace. The scriptures are taken from The Scriptures published by the Institute for Scripture Research in South Africa.

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Who is not familiar with the Star of David? But did you know that it is a product of ancient Hebraic science? Can Hebraic Geometry tell us truths deeply buried in the Hebrew Scriptures?

In part one of this series, we saw the current form of the Kabbalah Tree. The proposition was raised that the tree may hold more mysteries now, considering the coming of the Eighth Age: The Age of Righteousness.

There are several basic elements in what some call “Hebraic Sacred Science.” The Hebrew alphabet produces a profound prophetic message every time Hebrew is spoken. But there is another branch, Hebraic Sacred Geometry, that also may give us some insight into past, present, and future prophecy. Although the concepts are basic and simple, they still might be difficult to comprehend.

The basic element of Hebraic geometry is the equal-sided hexagram. It can be used to demonstrate the acts of creations. For example, if we take the hexagon to represent the days of the creation, we will see that each of the six creation phases join together to form another day. A seventh day is formed by doing nothing, by resting.

Around the seven days can be placed another hexagon which is symbolized by the Hebrew letter Resh. This super hexagon is the universal container, formed before all else, in which all other containers reside. So the entire physical and spiritual creation can fit inside the super container.

Lines drawn between opposite corners in the hexagon form another container: a cube with six sides. So by drawing three lines the hexagon transforms from a flat object into a three-dimensional one. This will play an important role in the new Kabbalah Tree.

The hexagon can also contain two equilateral triangles: one pointing up and the other pointing down. This becomes a graphical representation of the male and female attributes of the Creator. Creation is an act of conception, process, and birth. Both the male and female life contained within the Creator are involved. You will see that the union of the male and female give birth to another hexagon: the symbol of a new Creator being. The two triangles form the Star of David within the Creator hexagon. And when that happens something new is created.

The Container Cube and the Star join to form a place in which a creation is born and resides. This geometric form then becomes the pattern from which a new Kabbalah tree is formed. The older Kabbalah is from our point of view upward. It represents the difficulty and the sometime confusion we experience while trying to establish constant communication with Eyahuwah Elahim represented by the top-most Sephira on the tree. It shows us that knowledge is often lacking and is fuzzy at best.

But the new view of the Kabbalah tree is from the top-down and follows the pattern of the Hebrew alphabet. Starting at the top the first container represents the conception, process, and birth of knowledge: Da ‘ ath, that will be manifested in all that follows. This knowledge required wisdom and understanding and contains mercy and love tempered by judgement. From this knowledge of all that exists, life, death, good, bad, will come a product of tremendous worth to all of Creation. The Mother in the first container connects down to the Beauty that will come out of this Knowledge in the middle container where another conception, process, and birth will take place. The Father looks upward to connect with the Creator, Eyahuwah Elahim the Chosen One who will wear the “Crown” and bring his Power into the creation process.

The middle Container is the time of the creation of the first heaven and earth, the physical universe, and those who must live in it. It is a time of incredible process where those who live in this Container are tested and tried to prove their individual spiritual strength and the importance of living connected to the Creator: Eyahuwah The Father of this middle phase reaches up and draws Knowledge from the first act of Creation, while the Mother looks toward the Future and what this will mean for the rest of Creation. The beginning of the Grand Plan becomes manifest in this domain and is represented by the second group of Hebrew letters. This becomes the first state of the highest result of the Creation process. By the merging of the Father and the Mother, a Son of Elahim was born in the flesh and born again in the Spirit by the Resurrection. This Creation is given the name “Beauty,” (name of the middle circle of creation.) Yet even the Son, when He was in the flesh, was tried and tested as we all are:

As he says also in another place, “You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.” Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him that was able to save him from death, was heard in that he feared. Though he was a Son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him.

During this time and after His resurrection, He ascended and was presented as the Wave Sheaf Offering, the Firstfruit of a harvest yet in the future, before “His Father and our Father, and before His Elahim (Family) and our Elahim(Family). ”

The Final phase of Creation signified by the last Container will happen when the Father reaches up to the “Beauty” of His Firstborn Son only now to produce out of those in the middle phase, multiple Sons of God who form the Foundation (represented by the middle circle of creation) from which all of humanity living and dead will find their glorious destiny. The Mother reaches forward to the future or last Sephira: the Kingdom of Elahim This is the Final fulfillment of all that was conceived in thought “Before the Beginning.”

In every act of creation the Father drew strength from what was before, while the Mother drew her strength from what was to follow.

Two Sephiroths that lie between the middle and final phases are Victory and Glory, which are very appropriate to the events of both periods of Manifestation. Victory over death and Glory seating at the right hand of the Father. This will carry the world into the final Manifestation. And we who overcome the world, during our lifetime in the flesh, as He did and become purified and made white, will share in His greatness and glory when we ascend to appear before our Father and our Elahim (Family) as the Wave Loaves Offering at the end of the 1335 days (Daniel 12) on the Feast of Firstfruits and Feast of Weeks.

Two new Sephira are added to the tree. The one on the right could be named, “Light,” and the one on left, “Righteousness.” These are the themes of the Kingdom and of the Final Manifestation, also represented by the Final group of the Hebrew alphabet.

This was prophesied long ago by our father Enoch (1 Enoch 39):

And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth, and set me down at the end of the heavens. And there I saw another vision, the dwelling places of the holy, and the resting places of the righteous. Here my eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous messengers (angels) and their resting places with the holy.

And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of men, and righteousness flowed before them as water, and mercy like dew upon the earth: thus it is among them for ever and ever.

And in that place my eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and faith, and I saw his dwelling place under the wings of the Lord of Spirits (the Father). And righteousness shall prevail in his days, and the righteous and elect before Him shall be strong as fiery lights, and their mouth shall be full of blessing and their lips extol the name of the Lord of Spirits, and righteousness before Him shall never fail, and uprightness shall never fail before Him.

There I wished to dwell …

In the New Kabbalah Tree [click here to see the incomplete Kabbalah Tree] we can start our trek either from the bottom up and top down. Either way we pass through the heart of each of the creations: Knowledge, Beauty and Foundation. The Top Sephira is Eyahuwah Elahim wearing the Crown. He is also called the Chosen One and according to some writings the first of the Creation of El. The bottom is the Kingdom of the Family of Elahim
The Kabbalah has been around for a long time. However, when I spoke to a friend who is a Jew, we discussed this revelation and he agreed that the Kabbalah is never finished. Given this view of the past, present, and future of all creation, we should look forward with great hope to our destiny. It still falls upon all of us to come out of the systems of this world and allow ourselves to be purified and made ready for this great future. Just being a follower of some religion is not enough: we, like Him, must offer up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him that is able to save us from death, and we will be heard in that we also fear.