"The Last Days"
The last days are defined as the time of Messiah birth, right up to Messiah's return to gather His people together to meet Him in the air.
Hebrews 1:2 But now in these last days God has spoken to us through his Son.
One of the signs of the last days is the rising up of many false prophets that mislead the people by promoting lawlessness.
Matthew 24:1-13 Many false prophets will rise up and mislead many people. And because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will become cold. But the one who endures to the end is the one who will be saved.
Lawlessness, in a biblical sense, is Torahlessness.
Why does Torahlessness increases in the last days? Because of the apostasy, which was brought on by the man of Torahlessness, who claims to be God.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we beg you, brethren, not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
The word, “Apostasy” does not mean people stop believing in God or believing in a God, apostasy means people stop believing something they once believed.
Apostasy: the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief.
Living a Torah lifestyle is a particular way of life. Torah lifestyle people honor the seventh day Sabbath, they eat only the things that God created to be eaten, they use the Feast Days as the roadmap of what God is doing, they even call the Almighty and His Son by their biblical names. These are just some of the things that accompany living the Torah lifestyle. As a result of the apostasy, all that is gone. It's all gone because of the man of lawlessness, who claims to be God, has changed God's times and law.
So, who is this man of Torahlessness, who sits in the temple of God, and claims to be God? The Bible describes this man as the one who speaks against God, persecutes the saints of God, and who changes God’s appointed times and law.
Daniel 7:25 He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law.
So, who sits as God, in the temple of God, claiming to be God, and changes God’s appointed times and law?
"The pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man...he is as it were, God on earth, sole sovereign of he faithful of Christ, chief of kings, having plenitude of power." Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, 1763, Volume VI, ‘Papa II’, pp. 25 - 29
"The Pope has the power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ." "The Pope has the authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ." Decretal, de Tranlatic Episcop. Cap. (The Pope can modify divine law.) Ferraris' Ecclesiastical Dictionary.
The Papacy, with its persecuting power, would deem a person a heretic for rejecting the changes made to God’s times and law, and as a result, the Papacy imprisoned, tortured and killed millions of people who rejected these changes.
Inquisitions: an ecclesiastical tribunal established by Pope Gregory IX c. 1232 for the suppression of heresy. It was active chiefly in northern Italy and southern France, becoming notorious for the use of torture. In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-established to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government."
The church may by divine right confiscate the property of heretics, imprison their person, and condemn them to flames. In our age, the right to inflict the severest penalties, even death, belongs to the church. There is no graver offense than heresy, therefore it must be rooted out." - Public Eccliastical, Vol. 2, p.142.
At the end of the age, which is when Messiah returns, He will send out His angles to gather up all who practice Torahlessness, and they will be cast into the fire that consumes Torahless people, just as fire consumes weeds.
Matthew 13:40-42 So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, and they will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
If you don’t want to be consumed in the end, for living a Torahless lifestyle, all you need to do is believe that Yeshua is the Prophet like Moses, so we need to listen to Him.
Acts 3:22-23 For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
Receive the free gift of forgiveness for living your Torahless lifestyle, and receive the Spirit.
Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Now, follow the Son’s lead through the Spirit, which the early church called, the WAY. If you follow the WAY, your beliefs, lifestyle, and how you worship will be in accordance with the Torah and the Prophets. If you do this, you will no longer be living a Torahless lifestyle.
Acts 24:14 I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a cult. I believe everything that is in accordance with the Torah and that is written in the Prophets.
Being cleansed of your Torahlessness past, and receiving the gift of the Spirit, empowers you to live a holy life, as defined by the Torah and the Prophets, with Yeshua as the example of what that looks like.
Romans 6:22 But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.
1 John 2:5-6 But if we obey his word, we are the ones whose love for God has really been made perfect. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God: if we say that we remain in union with God, we should walk just as Jesus Christ walked.
Don’t be deceived by the man of lawlessness, so that you too allow your sin to destroy you in the end.
Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
Just about everything in today’s Christian churches is a mockery to God, even if it looks religious. It's a mockery to God because it’s all part of the apostasy, which was brought on by the man of lawlessness who claims to be God.
Practically everything Protestants regard as essential or important they have received from the Catholic Church... The Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible and observing the Sunday, in keeping Christmas and Easter, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope. ~ Our Sunday Visitor (February 5, 1950)
December 25th was observed as the birthday of the sun as part of the ancient Roman festival called Saturnalia. It was also the date of the birthday of the pagan sun-god Mithras (sometimes also spelled Mithra). {The Catholic Encyclopedia}
In Roman culture, Sunday was the day of the Sun god. In paganism, the Sun was a source of life, giving warmth and illumination to mankind. Sunday - Wikipedia
The Easter or Ishtar symbolism of the Sunday resurrection of the spring fertility cult (Easter, the Anglo-Saxon form of Ishtar), is a pagan system of worship that first penetrated Christianity in the second century. The symbolism stems from the death of Tammuz on Friday and his resurrection on Sunday. The 40 days of Lent were picked as one day for each year of his life since he died at age 40. The rest of the traditions of Easter were "Christianized" into the story of the death and resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah. "{WikiBooks & Wikipedia}
As one who's beliefs are in accordance with the Torah and the Prophets, we know God does not want us worshiping Him the same way the pagan nations worship their false gods, so we avoid many of the things being done in mainline church.
Deuteronomy 12:29-31 When the Lord your God goes ahead of you and destroys the nations and you drive them out and live in their land, do not fall into the trap of following their customs and worshiping their gods. Do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations worship their gods? I want to follow their example.’ You must not worship the Lord your God the way the other nations worship their gods, for they perform for their gods every detestable act that the Lord hates.
The man of sin, who claims to be god does not speak for the one true god, he speaks for Satan, who is the the god of this world, and who is really the one who is blinding the minds of God's people.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe.
Satan is really the one who blinding the minds of God's people, but he's doing through his spokesman, the Papacy.
Don’t be deceived…
