I’m a watchman searching for signs in the skies and
on the earth heralding Yahushua’s soon return. Sometimes the signs I discover have
meaning, and sometimes the signs are meaningless. Every year, on the appointed
time (moedim) of Pentecost/Shavuot, an ungodly ritual called Pink Pop is
celebrated in the face of HaShem. Over the past few years inclement weather has
dampened their revelries. This year a cloud resembling a demon appeared at the
end of the festival. Then, lightening struck, and the storms raged. Was this a
message from HaShem?
Bizarre
thundercloud at Dutch PinkPop festival today. just before the start of the
#Metallica performance... – See more at: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=658_1402345159
My opinions: Many of you realize that HaShem
appointed times and seasons (moedim) for His festivals. There are three in the
spring; Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits. One festival is in the
summer; Shavuot/Pentecost, where HaShem gave us the Torah and His Spirit. And the final three festivals are in the fall; Rosh Hashanah,
Yom Kippur, and Sukkoth. We are all commanded to keep His festivals, and not
keep Halloween, May Day, and other festivals we may desire to celebrate.
I hope that unknowing Christians—although they don’t
generally keep His festivals—honor HaShem in their other festivals. My feeling
is that over the last two thousand years, there wasn’t a penalty assessed to
Christians for violating His festival commandments; however, as we approach the
Messianic Age, the blessings and the curses may become weightier. My point is
that we WILL keep His festivals in a few years, and they are edifying, so why
not celebrate them now?
On the other hand, pagans tend to get in the face of
HaShem, and this has always been a bad idea. Nimrod (his name means "We Rebel!") got in the face of HaShem,
and then he gathered the people to build a tower in the face of HaShem. Judgment soon followed. I believe that we live
in the second age of Nimrod.
Kush fathered Nimrod, who was the first powerful
ruler on earth. He was a mighty hunter before [in face of] Adonai — this is why
people say, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before [in face of] Adonai.”
…The whole earth used the same language, the same
words. It came about that as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in
the land of Shin‘ar and lived there. They
said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them in the fire.” So
they had bricks for building-stone and clay for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a
city with a tower that has its top reaching up into heaven, so that we can make
a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth.” Adonai came down
to see the city and the tower the people were building. Adonai said, “Look, the people are united,
they all have a single language, and see what they’re starting to do! At this
rate, nothing they set out to accomplish will be impossible for them! Come,
let’s go down and confuse their language, so that they won’t understand each
other’s speech.” So from there Adonai
scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. For this
reason it is called Bavel [confusion] — because there Adonai confused the
language of the whole earth, and from there Adonai scattered them all over the
earth. Genesis 10:8-9, 11:1-9 (CJB)
Most Christian theologians won’t notice a link
between moedim and judgment, for they assume that they may pick and choose
which verses of the Torah best suit THEIR intentions. They are right and wrong.
Can we link the end time’s moedim vision found in Habakkuk to our present Babylonian
Age, and to the demon cloud seen over Pink Pop?
Then Adonai answered me; he said, “Write down the
vision clearly on tablets, so that even a runner can read it. For the vision is
meant for its appointed time [moedim]; it speaks of the end, and it does not
lie. It may take a while, but wait for it; it will surely come, it will not
delay. “Look at the proud: he is inwardly not upright; but the righteous will
attain life through trusting faithfulness. Truly, wine is treacherous; the arrogant
will not live at peace but keeps expanding his desires like Sh’ol; like death,
he can never be satisfied; he keeps collecting all the nations for himself, rallying
to himself all the peoples. Habakkuk 2:2-5 (CJB)
Shalom!
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