The Magician & The Messiah Part 16 3/27/26

Part 16: The Magician & The Messiah 3/27/26 * 00:00 That brings us to tonight's study. As we continue in the magician and the Messiah, I'd like to talk about uh. We're going to turn in our Bibles to second Peter 1 and12. And I want to talk to you tonight about the responsibility that you and I have concerning truth and concerning the hour that we're living in. Our great responsibility for that and uh what is really happening in this hour. I think it's imperative that we realize our responsibility. Let's read that uh 1 Peter 1:12 wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though you know them and be established in the present truth. I want you to underline that word present truth in your Bible because there is a difference in truth and present truth and you are only responsible for present truth. That's all. What is present truth? It is the truth of your day, the message of your hour. You are only responsible for what is handed to you in your hour. And I'm looking at people tonight all over America. And I miss so many that are not here tonight. Some of our elders I don't see. I pray everyone is well. But everyone in this room has been given a responsibility over present truth. I don't know if you know, but there is people listening to me tonight that has more truth than anyone in the history of the world has ever understood. >> Amen. Apostle >> Amen. And I would even dare say even the apostles because there is a truth that is reserved for your day, for your hour and you are responsible to take that truth that the father has given to you and to hold on to that truth. It's called present truth. Every generation is responsible for present truth. The truth that is revealed in your day. You cannot be held responsible for truth that was hidden. And I'll give you an example. What about all of those people that were baptized wrong? In the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. What is going to happen to them? Absolutely nothing. Why? Because the truth of baptism was not released in their day. And therefore, they are not responsible for it. You will be in the hundfold. Not if you have all the truth that we have today, but if you held on to the truth that was given in your day. Hundfold believers are walking in the full revelation of their day. And we have to understand our forefathers walked many of them holding on with everything they had to the truth of their day. For example, we talked last week about AJ Tomlinson. And the present truth that he walked in was not Jesus name baptism. It was not one God. He walked in the present truth of being baptized with a second blessing called sanctification. And I want to dwell on that for just a moment. I want to ask you, do you understand the three blessings that come to the believer? Many Christians are familiar with the first blessing and the third blessing. What is the first blessing and the third blessing? The first blessing is salvation. The third blessing is the infilling of the Holy Ghost. But there was a second blessing that AJ Tomlinson and these men believed in the fire baptized holiness people. What was that second blessing? Somebody. Tell me. Hallelujah. All right. All that teaching and nobody remembers the second blessing. The second >> Say it again. >> Sanctification. >>. There you go. Uh there you go. Uh Minister Fulen and and and Elder Lim. It is sanctification. And that is a subject that no Christian knows about, nor do they want to talk about, nor do they care about. Even the church of God don't have it anymore. We The second blessing has been removed from the blessing box. It is a life separated from the world, wholly dedicated unto Yahweh as a Nazarene. Literally a blessing that comes upon your life that makes you care less about the things of this world and makes you a sanctified believer. So, you have saved, sanctified. I remember the Old Test. Y'all may not remember these, but the saints would testify and they'd say, "I'm so glad to be saved.". Anybody want to finish that up for me? Anybody from the old school, tell me what was the next one? Hallelujah. >> Ain't nobody >> sanctified. Sanctified >> and filled with the filled with the Holy Ghost and fire. Hallelujah. >> That's the three blessings. Saved, sanctified, and filled with the fire. And everyone in this room tonight, you don't just need salvation. And you don't just need the Holy Ghost. You need sanctification to come out from among the world. Be ye separated unto Yahweh. That is the three blessings and AJ Tomlinson walked in that. Uh. He also walked in theocratic government. We talked about that last week. And then we had men like Herbert Armstrong who uh on the other side of the aisle was walking in the seventh day Sabbath and the feast days and the uh the British uh understanding, the British American understanding. They were walking in that truth. And then what happens to every move of God? And this is something I really want to talk about tonight. Every move of Yahweh will always venture into the extreme. Always. Always. My greatest burden at this ministry has been to find and keep the balance of truth and not extremism. Extremism is the infection that corrupts every move of Yahweh. I'll give you the example. In 1913 when when Jesus name baptism was restored that was a move of the Holy Spirit. But where did that go into? Extremism called modalism in 1901 at Isuza Street. That was a move of God. Top to Kansas Shira. Schoolhouse a move of God. But eventually it went into the extremism of initial evidence. And then in Armstrong's movement, the Sabbath day, the feast days was all a move of God. But then there was extremism that came into that movement. No move of the spirit was allowed. Now, I'm going to tell you a tragic story today about Herbert Armstrong, who was an apostle of God. There's one thing you need to know about apostles and prophets. They are only as good as the present truth that they are willing to walk in. After they stop then their their their era is over and Armstrong stopped. They became extremeism in no move of the spirit. No emotionalism they called it. It was the deadest church you could ever walk into. And in another area that Armstrong failed the Lord was when it came to the sacred name. He forbid. He said it brought too much confusion. He forbade the sacred name in the church of God that he was over the worldwide church of God. And that's why I believe when he died, Yahweh honored his life until he died. And then I believe Yahweh allowed that house to fall because it rejected the Holy Spirit and it rejected the sacred name and therefore it had so much influence that it was allowed to fall because it refused to walk in further truth. And that is the sad story of every move of God. Our move of God is sometimes known as the Hebrew roots movement. Started in the early 1990s, Torah observance, the sacred name, but then it drifted into legalism. It drifted into the rejection of grace. We literally had people sacrificing animals again, returning to rabbitic Judaism, trying to trying to place a burden upon us about the Sabbath day and other things that are Judaism. And that's the extreme in our movement. They always get so caught up in the technicalities that they are clueless of the intent of the Torah. And that is an extremism. I have fought so very hard to make sure that this movement does not go in extremism in any direction. And I it's hard because some of my own people try to push me into extremism and and I refuse to go there. In other words, I don't sit here and uh and and and and nitpick on things and and turn this movement. * 12:08 Um, I I had a lady last night. I had a lady last night. She is, now listen to this. She is the city councilman in the city of Muxi, Mississippi. And I've got her message here. She sent me a message last night. I had no idea that this councilman watches everything I preach. And she wrote me, I tell you what, let me just do this. I'll just read it to you. I won't tell you who it is, but I'll just read it to show you the extremism of our movement and how it happens to everyone. And she wrote me, I had to be very careful in responding to her. Uh, she said, let's see, there we go. She said, "Hello, I'm sorry, but I have no one else to talk to. I'm literally dying and need someone else's perspective for the first time in a long time. Uh I'm dying in many areas of my life. Uh married my husband and we decided to begin keeping Sabbath and uh things have gone from worse to even worse for me. And I'm having a hard time mentally. Now the Passover comes up and my husband is adamant uh about the smallest things. Um, he will not even let me turn on the stove. Um, and now we're talking about divorce because of the Sabbath. And I wrote her back and I tried to give her understanding. And so she said, "So the Bible says we're to do no work, but but my husband won't even let me turn on the light switch.". And she says, "If this is what Sabbathkeeping is, why would anybody do this?". She said, "I want to please," she called him Yahwh, "and I want to do this right, but I'm getting to where I resent what I'm supposed to love.". She said, "I want to walk the right path, but my husband is so stubborn on everything like making up his own calendar. He claims he fasted and prayed and Passover is tonight instead of next week. He says we cannot even heat up food on the Sabbath. And I'm like, I think that law was put in place so mothers could rest instead of fixing a bunch of food as usual, but he won't even let me turn on the microwave, he said. And anyway, I won't continue, but it was heartbreaking. I spend two hours trying to show this woman that the Sabbath is beautiful that we are to delight in Shabbat that it is not this burden. It is not what her husband sadly. In other words, they found truth and but they didn't find a teacher. They didn't find a pastor. They found truth, but they didn't find someone that would protect them from the temptation of legalism. And I want to say to all of you, if you want to turn into a legalist, here's how you will do it. You will find the letter of the law without the intent of the law, and you will become a legalist. Meaning you will totally bypass the why. Figuring out the how. And when you do that, you become a danger to the move of God. And brothers and sisters, we have been given a duty to hold on to truth while rejecting extremism in every generation. That is the challenge to hold on to what's been revealed without extremism. There was but there is a remnant in every generation that will not abandon the Sabbath just because people have made it extreme. They will not abandon the sacred names just because people are fighting over it. They will not abandon the Holy Ghost baptism just because the Pentecostals added initial evidence. They will not abandon baptism in the name of Yesua just because the oneness went into modalism. They won't abandon the truth that was revealed just because it was wrapped in bad packaging. That we make a great mistake when we wrap truth in bad packaging. And brothers and sisters, we must guard ourselves from becoming. Like those, you know, h. For example, in the whole calendar issue while you're figuring it out, do not become like so many that become so legalistic in this thing that they lose sight of what we're trying to. We're trying to figure out a way for us to all be united. And to come into the unity of the faith. Your job is to keep the deposit and reject the error, preserve present day truth for the next generation. And now it's our turn. FHMI and the Apostolic Assembly, we are. I don't know if you know this or not. If you've been listening to the magician and the Messiah for these 12, 13 weeks, you and I are living in the convergence, the convergence. Okay? We are living in the convergence of two streams. The spirit stream and the truth stream. We are maybe the only I don't know if they're out there. Please, somebody introduce me to him. I'd love to meet him. But I don't know of another movement that these two streams are joining together so beautifully and perfectly. For example, not only do we have Shabbat, but we also have the free flowing of the spirit of Yahweh, the gifts of the spirit. We have them as gifts, not requirements. That right there is more truth than most people have. We are the convergence of experiential worship. You don't find that in messianic churches. You don't find that in seventh day congregations. Now. When I say experiential worship, I'm not talking about singing worship songs. Everybody does that. I'm talking about experiential, the people of the presence. I'm talking about experiencing the manifest presence of Yahweh. If you don't have my new book, the people of the presence, it's available. We must become more than Sabbathke keepers. We are the two streams. We are the headquarters of the end time prophesied move of Yahweh and we must cherish it and realize that what we've got a hold of here is dynamite. What we've grabbed a hold of is unheard of in the entire history of the world. I've shown you on this journey how some truth was on two different streams. But they never came together until this hour experiential worship singing in the spirit that melodious glossalia that that that that mother Lee brought from from England. And then we we also flow in the truth stream, the sacred names, the seventh day Sabbath, the feast days, unitarianism, Yeshua as the son of Yahweh, baptism in his name, the identity of Israel. We walk in all of that, both streams, but we reject, we reject trinitarianism, uh, modalism, initial evidence, legalism without the spirit, and we also reject spirit without truth. You see, we reject all extremism. We we we reject the move of the spirit like so many churches have, but they have no truth. And we reject churches that have truth but have no we reject that's called extremism. There is a binding together in this hour of spirit and truth. And you and I have been called into that present day truth to grab a hold of it. What's been revealed in our day. We are responsible now to walk in it and to to to hold on to it and escort Yeshua himself back to earth as a bride company walking in the fullness of God and the fullness of truth and the fullness of the spirit. And that is what Elijah is prophesied to do just before the coming of the Lord. Malachi chapter 4 verse 5. Let's read it. Elder Morgan Malachi 4. Verse. 5 and verse 6. And you're going to one day one day. This scripture is going to click in your spirit mind. You're going to realize you're. I don't know of another group of people on planet. Earth besides William Brandom's followers that understand this verse and what it truly means. I I don't I don't know if anybody grasp it. You have to grasp it because you're living in the fulfillment of it. Amen. Read, Elder. >> Amen. Remember ye the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded unto him at Horeb, for all Israel, with the statutes and the judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. >> Let's pause right there. Has that great and dreadful day of the Lord. Happened yet? >> No. Sir, that's his second coming. >> That's the second coming of Messiah. There is a prophecy here that right before, look, look what it says. I will send you Elijah the prophet right before that great and dreadful seventh day, that Shabbat. Brothers and sisters, until you anticipate the return of Elijah, you're out of order to anticipate the return of Christ. >> Amen. >> Until you can grab hold as you know I every one of you right now, and I'm just going to be so raw if I may. Every one of you right now, if I said, "How many of you are looking for the coming of the Lord?". Oh, man. You would all just go, "Oh, he's right beside me. You're out of order. You're out of order. >> I'm looking for Elijah, Apostle. I've been looking for Elijah for years because if he doesn't come, the Lord don't come.". That's exactly right, brothers and sisters. Now, you go call any Christian friend. You have and say, "Aren't you excited about the coming of the Elijah?". You have to get as happy about the coming of Elijah. That's why they missed Christ the first time. And that's why they rejected him because they did not see Elijah while he was standing right in front of them. He was in their midst. They thought he was just another preacher. Hallelujah. Read verse six. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers. >> Father is Abraham. The father is Abraham. And what he's going to do is unite Abraham with his lost tribes, his lost Israel, his lost children. Elijah's going to reunite Abraham with those that did not know that he was their father. That do you understand? This is going to be the great adoption agency, the ministry of Elijah that is going to bring the lost. My lord, that makes me so excited. >> The children the children of the covenant. >> That's he brings them back as covenant keepers. That's the ministry of Elijah. How does he do it? By restoring Torah to these lost tribes of Israel. That's what me. That's what Elijah is going to do. But Elijah doesn't just come in truth. He comes in power. He demonstrates. So brothers and sisters, we are living in the hour. Very few groups on planet earth today can teach you the father's name and bring you into the father's presence. Most that teach the sacred name have no fire. Most that have fire do not know the name. Most that sing in the spirit do not keep the Sabbath. And those who keep the Sabbath don't sing in the spirit. The ministry of Elijah stands at the convergence of those two. It teaches the name and demonstrates the presence. It keeps the day and moves in the gifts. It holds to truth while it burns with fire. * 27:14 That is the restoration of all things. You know, my mind went back to something that was restored. I've always told you that I had an unusual connection with Sister Ruth Hefty. When she died, I it was worse than my own physical grandmother when she died. There was something uh that broke in my heart. I can never explain. I was in my room for days and I thought of myself when Elisha lost Elijah what it must have felt like. Now, I didn't understand. By the way, you need to know something. I only knew Sister Ruth Hein for one year. I don't know if anybody realizes that or not. I met her in 98. She died in 2000 or so a year and a half, two years, sorry. And that that much impact was and so why did the Lord let me meet Sister Ruth when I was not supposed to meet her? It was not in the plan. Why did that happen? Um because Sister Ruth was part of something that even she didn't realize and it was the restoration of melodious glossalia. Now, when I begin to study the history of the of the church and I went back to the Shakers and their gift songs, we've already talked about that. Their gift songs, they were uniquely known for their melodies received directly from the spirit of Yahweh. Now they got that from Mother Anne Lee who died in 1784. She brought me Melodius Glossleia back to the church when she died in her rocking chair. She was singing and unknown tongues and she was singing a melodious glosselia. The first time I met Sister Ruth Hein, I heard that melodious glosselia. I heard it and something in. It was telling me you need to connect with this and I'm going to give that same thing to you. That melodious glosselia and I didn't realize at the time that what Yahweh was doing was restoring all things because this is a part of the move of the spirit that had been missing from the church for a long long time. But yet Yahweh is bringing it back through Sister Ruth Heft's ministry. And that's why he had me meet her. That was the spiritual connection that he had me to bring because at that time I did not know that she was dying in a year from then. But yet it was a it was it was a it was powerful how I had to meet her. I had to meet her by the spirit because the restoration of all things would include the restoration of this melodious glosselia. Now, some of you may wonder, what am I talking about? I'm afraid that you listen to First Harvest Ministries in our worship services and you might be taking for granted something that very few people have ever heard and very few people have ever experienced. So, I'll show you what melodious glosselia is like. Oh, let him hear your voice. Let him hear your voice. Let him hear. Let him hear. Let him hear your voice. Now, the Shakers called that the gift song. It was a gift. From heaven. And if you hear that melody, Sister Ruth always preached in melody, spoke in melody. This was a restoration from the Shakers. And then the Shakers got it before that. Uh even it goes all the way back to France. So that when you hear that, what I'm trying to tell you, First Harvest, if you're not careful, you will hear these things without realizing you're part of a restoration of of of of a sound. A sound that is unique, a sound that was lost through the ages. And Yahweh has connected me to that ministry to bring you into that melodious. That's why you see me sometimes get so frustrated in the services, in the worship services, because everybody's trying to go in a direction that I'm not trying to go in. I'm not trying to sing another song. I'm not trying to I I'm. I'm not I mean, Elder Aaron knows what I'm talking about. It it you want everybody to help you. You want everybody to be involved. And yet the one wrong move, one wrong sound, one wrong note, one wrong it it. We're restoring something here and it's precious and it moves us into the glory realm. And you listen to me, there are very few places on earth where you can get into the glory. Very few. Now there are some people that know how to worship, but worship is not glory. Glory is that third realm after praise and after worship. And this ministry has been called by Yahweh to restore that melodious glossalia singing in the spirit moving and suddenly when you start it. You'll feel the frequency of that throne room open up before you. WE ARE PART of something big. There is an opening of the throne. And that's why it's so important when you come into one of our meetings, if you don't want to be there, listen to me. If you don't want to be in one of our meetings, we beg you, excuse yourself. We beg you because as much as you don't want to be there, we don't want you there. I hate to say it like that, but we are looking to move into the rhythm of heaven. That glory that comes through our voices. And sometimes it doesn't even need music. It's in the voices of the saints. We make sure when you hear that be. Oh, see there's that melody. It comes when you begin to hear that melodious glossalia and reio. When you begin to hear it, step into it. Move, flow into it. Why? You are part of a restoration of the spirit of the end time church. And most of it comes in the sound of heaven that's being restored. Listen, if you're watching me tonight and you said, "I don't know how to do all that.". It's so very simple. When you're listening to a country song, you know how to join in. When you're listen, but there is something about the spirit. All you have to do is come into agreement with it. Begin to flow with it and it will bring you into the glory of the Lord. And this is what I need everyone to understand. When you hear that sound, you're seeing a restoration of something. The earth knows nothing about. You know, I was looking at uh every tradition, for example, brother and sister Neper and different ones that have different musical traditions. My musical tradition is southern gospel. And I love southern gospel. But now it gets on my nerves. I don't even know how to say it. It gets on my nerves now. Why? Because I've moved so far beyond it. Hallelujah. Oh, we're moving into another realm where I'm not worried about harmony and I'm not worried about it being on pitch. Uh, I'm looking for something else. Oh, I don't I'm nothing against harmony and nothing against pitch, but what I'm talking about moves beyond the hearing of the natural ear. And it moves into the realm that so few people know about. As a matter of fact, Sister Ruth Hein would not be considered a great singer. She would get on some people's nerves only if they have carnal ears. But there is a group of people that the minute they hear that sound, they begin to move into the realm of that sound. * 36:53 That's why I'll be honest with you. And I I I I don't know why I'm going here tonight, but I I I get aggravated at words on the screen. Oh, because I don't want nobody looking at words. Does that make sense to you? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. It's all right for praise. Put them up there while we're dancing. And it's all right for worship to get us started. But there will come a point where you will have to move beyond the seeing of the eye and the hearing of the ear. You'll have to move into that melodious glory realm where there are no more words. There's only an experience. Amen. And I had no no plans of teaching on that tonight. But we need to understand what we're part of. Hallelujah. We are part of a great restoration. The Shakers had it in their meetings. What I would give to go into their meetings when they got what they called the gift song. I could hear that melody as they would sing it. They had no sound systems in those little church buildings, but they received that melodious glossleia that is being restored in this hour to this group of people. And brothers and sisters, it is through that ministry of Sister Ruth Heft. It is through that ministry, even though she didn't have all truth, what was given to her was the restoration of singing in the spirit. And she did it. She didn't just teach about it. She demonstrated it. And when we gather in worship, I want to encourage every one of you. There's a reason I'm saying this tonight. Tuesday night when we come together for this night of sacricity, we the entire focus will be on the lamb himself. And we are encouraging you. I I'm begging and pleading with you. If you're coming just to drink the cup without drinking of the spirit of Yah. If you're coming just to wear a white dress, if you're coming just to eat a piece of bread, oh, you're going to be so disappointed because we are coming to drink the cup, the one that still flows from the throne of Yahweh. Hallelujah. And we're inviting every lamb that's coming to find your way. Tuesday night into that realm of the spirit to drink. Once you drink the physical cup, we want you to find your place around the altar and drink from that other cup. Hallelujah. That still flows from the throne of Yahweh. And brothers and sisters, we must grab hold of what's grabbing a hold of us. We are living in the hour of restoration. Now, I want to bring you back to our timeline that we were teaching about several weeks ago before we jumped over to the spirit side. We were over in Salem, West Virginia on the truth side. And just to refresh your memory, we was at a meeting where the church of God, seventh day, was being reunited. Remember, it had split over government. But now it was being reunited. Whenever it was reunited, they believed like me. They believed that government was top down and therefore they chose 70 elders by lot and those 70 elders all helped guide the church of God seventh day. But something was happening in that church that was causing a disturbance in the leadership. They had recovered the Sabbath and the second coming was being preached. Ellen White's message was being preached and they were beginning to observe the feast of Leviticus 23. But there was a question that kept coming up at that church of God 7th day. Now, who was one of the 70 elders of the church of God. Seventh. Day? Herbert Armstrong. This was before he broke away. This was back when him and these men were part of the great move of God happening in Missouri and Salem, West Virginia. But there was a question that would not go away. And it was popping up everywhere. What is his name? Now this question had to be answered. But people get very uncomfortable about the question, what is his name? Now, the ancient Hebrew text of the Bible contains a four-letter name for the creator. It's called the tetra grammaton. And it's simply four letters. Yode vave. That is the name. Yhv is the name of the creator. And this name Yode Vave appears 7,000 times in the Old Testament. That's a lot of times. The name of Yahweh appears seven times, 7,000 times throughout the Old Testament. Now, notice that number 7,000. Isn't that interesting? It was the name that Yahweh revealed to Moses with I am that I am. By the way, that is not a good translation. By the way, in my study, the better translation is I will be what I will be. But anyway, I'll teach on that at another time. Yahweh or Yode Vave Yhv VH. That name was written on the high priest crown. It was the name that Israel was commanded to proclaim. I want to teach you something tonight about Judaism and why I preach against it as hard as I do Catholicism. Because Israel was given a command to proclaim the name. The high priest wore YHVH on his petalon on his crown. It was so important. If you listen to the Jews today, they would have you to think Yahweh didn't want you to utter his name. But yet, it's literally on the crown of the high priest. Israel was commanded to proclaim it, to call upon that name alone, and to remember that name from generation to generation. Now, think what I just told you. They were commanded to remember the name from generation to generation. How are you supposed to do that when nobody knows the name? When it's taken literally out of the Bible. Somewhere along the way, the name was hidden. It was literally I'm talking about literally hidden. Not not on accident. This was a plan from from the enemy. And it comes from Jewish tradition. I love my Jewish brothers and sisters. I despise their religion. Amen. I love my Catholic brothers and sisters. I despise their system. Am I plain enough? The systems. I love my Pentecostal brothers and sisters. I despise their system. It was Judaism that literally took the name of our God away from us. Literally and these are hard truths that we have to be able to deal with. Now, their intent was pure. They did not want to uh misuse the sacred name. So, they substituted it for a title called Adoni. Adoni simply means Lord. When the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek, the translators followed this practice and they used the Greek word tyios which is lord. When Jerome produced the Latin vulgate, he wrote dominus which means lord. And when the English translators produced the King James version in 1611, they continued that demonic tradition and they wrote Lord in capital letters where Yahweh used to be. The result was that millions of Bible readers never knew the father had a personal name at all. There was a time in this world not long ago when no one listen to me. I don't know if you grasp that. No one knew the father's name. I I I it's just mindblowing. It literally I sit back and I think I I'll tell you how long ago. And before the 1940s, remember that 1940s, no one knew the father's name. Not even the Jews. IT WAS LOST to the world. >> No. Intimacy, apostle. No. Intimacy. >> They lost it all. >> They lost the connection with their father. They only knew him by the following titles. God, Lord, the Almighty. But titles are not names. A name is personal. A name is intimate. A name is how you call on someone that you know. Let's read. Psalms, I'm sorry, Proverbs 30 and verse 4 and and let's see what the Bible has to say about this subject. Proverbs 30 and verse four. >> Amen. Who hath ascended up into heaven or descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fist? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name? And what is his son's name? If thou canst tell >> it. It's real simple. It right there. He's telling the world. Does anybody know the father's name? Does anybody know the son's name? Does anybody know the name? * 49:23 If the Sabbath was being restored, if the Holy Ghost was being restored, if speaking in tongues was being restored, if the feast days are being restored, the church of God's seventh day was dealing with a stick of dynamite. They were willing to restore all of those other things. But when it came to the question of what's his name, they stopped. They wanted nothing to do with it. The church of God, seventh day, God had used them. We we've been studying on them for weeks. Duggar, come on. All of them. You all these guys are. God's using them to restore truth. And they stop at the father's name. I mean, do you ever wonder. Why? I'll tell you why. Because it wasn't their day. It w that had to be held for the finishing message. You see, brothers and sisters, Yahweh blinds the eyes of the people in a time appointed. And he opens the eyes of the people in a time appointed. And if that don't excite you, then you've been in this ministry way too long. >> Amen. Amen. >> You just been here too long. You're just hanging out. Now is all you do. >> Amen. Amen. Apostle >> Amen. >> Yahweh. He said, "What's his name? You go open your Bible.". I challenge you. Go open your Bible. You. It's the only book in the world. You cannot find the author's name. Go open your Bible. You go tell me in the King James version. If you can find the name of this God you serve. It's a present truth. >> It's a present truth reserved. And I'm fixing to read you the scripture of when it was reserved for. You have to understand this is a prophecy that had to come to pass. I mean you think about it. How did they not want to know his name? I mean, come on. Come on. Really? It was prophesied that this would happen. Yahweh allowed this. Or. Find it. Jeremiah 23. Book of Jeremiah 23. 26- 27. Verse. 23. 26- 27. Jeremiah 23. Brother Terl, my grandfather, called it Jerem. >> Amen. >> It was so Jerem. Let's turn to Isaiah and Jerem. Hallelujah. Jeremiah 23:26-27. >> Amen. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? >>. So, there's a length of time that the preachers were were appointed to preach lies. Read. >> Yay. They are prophets of deceit of their own heart. Which think I How will we know that they were prophets of deceit? Read. >> Which think to cause my people to forget my name? >> These preachers will cause my people to think my name is not important. >> Yeah. >> Amen. Apostle, >> these people will cause. They will the preachers will be the reason. My people forget my name. Read by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. They have forgotten my name for Lord. Baal means Lord >> for a title. >> For a title. The pastors and the preachers because they don't use. My name will cause my people that depend on their preachers to forget my name and replace it with Lord. This was a prophecy that would come to pass in your Bible that my name would be taken out and replaced with Baal, which is Lord. Wow. My my >>. This thing is of Yahweh. >> Amen. >> Pastor, I was thinking about the scripture and I believe it's in Psalms. It says, "Extol him that writeth upon the heavens by his name Yah.". >> Amen. And sister Ruth, I played a video one time. She quoted that scripture and said that in the last days that his people would begin to call his name Yah. She didn't even use that. She didn't even call him Yah, but yet she prophesied it. Because this is part of an endtime work. Let me show you why Yahweh allowed this. So you would know what time it is when that name is restored. Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 9. The book of Zephaniah chapter. 3 verse 9. When you see this prophecy fulfilled, you're at the day of the Lord. Wow. This is so exciting. Zephaniah 3 and verse 9. For then will I turn to the people a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the Lord of Yahweh to serve him with one consent or one accord. There's the day is coming when I will return the pure language, the pure name, and they will call no longer upon Lord, but they will begin to call upon Yahweh and serve Yahweh. This is a prophecy. >> Hallelujah. >> Isaiah. 52. And6. >>. It's a present truth. It's a present truth. Thank you, Elder. And that's the title of tonight's message, walking in present truth. When you realize that you're walking in present truth, you become a custodian of that present truth. Isaiah 52:6. Therefore, my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day. >> Come. On. >> That I am he that doeth speak. Behold, it is I. >> So. He allowed the name to be taken away >> till that day. >> Till that day. So the people of that day would know who they are. They would know that this is the fulfillment of an endtime prophecy. So if this end time prophecy is going to happen, he had to allow the preachers to take the name away. He had to allow that soul. The the remnant could be identified because the remnant when they hear the name, something in their spirit seed, something that was in them at birth will recognize that name. And they would be identified immediately by the recognition of the name of Yah. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. And brothers and sisters, you have lived long enough to be part of that people. But what I want to teach you tonight is how recent this is. I want to talk to you about the pioneers, the scattered seekers in the 1930s. Before, and this blows my mind, before 1930, the name of your heavenly father was known by no one. That just blows my mind. I want to take you on a journey tonight. I want to show you the magician and the Messiah. I want to show you these two seedlines that were still we're still tracing them. And tonight you're going to see one line that begin to come out in the 1930s. What was going on in the 1930s? The church of God seventh day. They've restored Sabbath. They've restored everything. But here they come to an an end time revelation that they refuse to accept. The seventh Do you know the seventh day. Adventist church does not use the father's name even though they keep his Sabbath. Do you know the worldwide church of God that had so much truth refused to use the father's name? The awakening began in the early 1930s. And it began with several people that began to study Hebrew. Remember the prophecy says, "Then I will return to the people a pure language.". And they begin to study Hebrew in their libraries. And they started noticing the word God and Lord as YHVH. And among the early pioneers of the sacred name movement were the following men. John Briggs, Paul Penn, and I say their names tonight to keep their memory alive. Joseph Alinski, William Bishop, Squire Cessna, Ralph Kenny, Angelo Traina, William Bodin, ID or LD Snow, James Rowley, and once again a woman by the name of Pearl Smith. It was once again, I don't know if you've noticed in every movement, it was a woman. All along this journey, remember Rachel Oakley? Remember it was a woman. Every time the the the reason the sacred name has been restored is because of a woman by the name of Pearl Smith of Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Now, the thing about Sister Pearl and these others that studied with her, they were not scholars. They were not academics. They were ordinary farmers, housewives. All they had was a Strongest Concordance and a Bible dictionary and a local library. And when they looked up the Hebrew word behind Lord in their Bibles, they found the tetra grammatonad. Suddenly, how many people do you think read that for thousands of years and didn't see it? And why suddenly Sister Pearl found it? 1930. All of a sudden at same strongest concordance that everybody before her had, same d. But Sister Pearl in Michigan >> because Israel was about to become a nation. >> Ah, thank you. And don't you dare get ahead of me again. Hallelujah. Amen. That's all truth, Elder. I'm playing with you. Absolutely. That folks, some things had to happen in America before they could happen in Israel. Listen to me. Yahweh is preparing America. And you wait till I get on that subject next week. Hopefully I can get there. I'm going to prove to you why America had to be founded. Because the end time work of God would not happen in Israel. It would happen in America. Because every last day truth began in the United States of America. Hallelujah. And Sister Pearl is up in Eaten Rapids, Michigan at her local library and they begin to find the tetragrammaton. Finally, they found some scholars admitting that the name was probably pronounced Yahweh or something close to it. When they read the prophets, they found Yahweh declaring his name had been forgotten. They read that same scripture in Jeremiah. They read in Zephaniah. They started reading these in the 1930s and then the pieces began to come together. Now just like our generation, their generation struggled with the pre precise pronunciation during that movement. Many names were suggested all the way from Yahweh to Yave to Yahweh. Yaha, Jehovah, Yahave, Yahweh. There was a struggle. There was a struggle during that time. And every. Group that was coming into this move of God made the same mistake every other movement made. They went into extremism and they became sacred neighbors and they begin to condemn everybody that used Jesus or God. They begin to condemn everybody extremism instead of taking that truth. They begin to condemn the world for using Jesus and God. And so all the people that's using Jesus and God won't hear a word. The sacred neighbors have to say because you've got to realize the present truth in all of your family's lives was the name of Jesus. You understand me? Come on now. It disgusts me when I see our people become so dogmatic that we have no grace on those that are walking in their present truth. You know how many souls were saved by the name of Jesus? >> You know how many people's been healed in the name of Jesus? You know how many people's been baptized in the name of Jesus? Why? They were walking in the full knowledge of their faith. And at the end of the day, it's that faith that moves the heart of Yahweh. They were walking in all they had. And so, here comes the sacred name movement now condemning anybody that says the name Jesus. And I've been so cautious in this ministry not to become those people. I try to teach when I'm preaching in other places. I say the name Jesus and I follow up with Yosua because I'm trying to use it as a teaching opportunity. Well, during the 1930s, the Church of God 7th Day, there was not only Herbert Armstrong. Sitting on the council of 70, there was another man by the name of Clarence Dodd, D O D. And if you could trace the sacred name movement back to one man in America. Now it was sister Pearl that began the movement but it was Clarence Odad that had the influence to bring the name of our father to the forefront. He was born in 1899 in Salem, West Virginia. He was part of the church of God's seventh day. And Dodd was an avid student of the scripture, a man of prayer, a tireless researcher. One day, Dodd was walking down the main street of Salem, West Virginia, and a stranger handed him a booklet about the Sabbath day. Dodd read it, was convicted, and became a committed Sabbathkeeper. He never saw that man again. He always believed it was an angel that turned him to the truth. He quickly rose in the church of God seventh day. He became the secretary treasurer for the organization. But God began to make people very uncomfortable. He had influence. And in 1928, God started keeping the Passover, not just the weekly Sabbath, because all these 70 council of elders in the church, they were all good with the Sabbath, but nobody was keeping the feast. God, even before Armstrong, began to keep the feast. Now him and Armstrong are serving on the same committee, the same council of 70, but it was God that received the revelation of the feast days. And then as Dodd began to study, he became convinced of the sacred name of the father. And then in 1933 in Salem, West Virginia, Dodd was chosen as one of the 70 elders and he was appointed over the business affairs of the church. Herbert Armstrong was his companion. But God's advocacy for the sacred name was creating friction within the leadership. I know what that feels like. I was in the leadership of an organization just like this. But I kept pushing that Zetakite calendar and it started making people very uncomfortable. I started pushing who the sun was. So I've been right where God is. I've walked in his footsteps. There's a friction that begins to create a discomfort. So in 1937, Dodd did the exact same thing I did. He resigned from his position and began teaching the sacred name. If you want to know where the sacred name finds its impetus, it's in March of 1937, 10 years before Israel becomes a nation. God began publishing a magazine called The Faith. That was what it was called, The Faith. It was produced in Salem, West Virginia. And that magazine is still being published today. By the way, I suggest you subscribe to it. We don't agree with everything they teach. But just for history's sake, it was that magazine that brought the name of our heavenly father to the whole world. Religious scholar J. Gordon Melton wrote, "No single force in spreading the sacred name movement was as important as the Faith magazine.". Now, when you read the original articles of the Faith magazine, you will find that Dodd had the same struggle that we still have today. Throughout his magazine, he used several different names for the tetrogrammaton. He used Jehovah and then he moved to Yahweh. And then when he learned there was no J in the Hebrew alphabet, he moved to Yava. And finally before his death, he wound up at Yahweh. His growth in the knowledge was visible. As you read the the faith magazine, you will see that he was growing in knowledge. But in 1941, November, God placed for the first time in history. The name Yahweh and Yeshua on the mast head of the faith magazine and announced that the titles Lord and God and Jesus Christ would no longer appear in his publication. And this was the moment, November 1941, that the prophecy of Zephaniah was fulfilled on planet Earth. It was the first time that the name had been publicly restored. Dodd died in December 1955. He devoted the last two decades of his life to proclaiming the name. His wife Martha continued printing and distributing his literature after his death. Today, his daughter Mary Dodd Ling still distributes his tracks from Ohio. The shepherd is gone, but the seed he planted is still spreading. Even in the ministry of FHMI, it was God that restored the Father's name publicly in 1941. >> Hallelujah. >> Amen. You're living in that day. You're living in that hour. You're living in that time. But there was a man that was friends with God. And there's a story that must be told here, not to condemn because you know how much I rever Herbert Armstrong, but Herbert Armstrong knew about the sacred name because Dodd and him were companions. They were peers. Both men sat on the same council. They moved in the same circles. They corresponded by mail. And Dodd's daughter, Mary Dodd, confirmed that while her father never met Armstrong in person, they exchanged letters all the time. Armstrong subscribed to the Faith magazine. He knew what God was teaching and for a brief moment, Armstrong embraced it. It's a part of history. Very few people know about. In 1940 on Herbert Armstrong's radio broadcast, he said the name Yahweh and Yeshua. But because there was no good response, he dropped the sacred name from his radio broadcast. * 01:14:32 He dropped it. Do you know. Why? It didn't sell. And do you know the thing about Dodd? Nobody ever knew Dod's name. Dodd had no world empire like Armstrong. Dodd had no magazine like Armstrong that had as many subscribers. And Dodd died with nobody knowing him hardly at all. It's so bad. I couldn't find a picture of Dodd anywhere on the internet. I looked all day long. There's no picture of Clarence Dodd. He was unknown. But he held on to faith. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Herbert Armstrong knew that truth, but his radio audience was not responding to it. The donations were not flowing. The crowd didn't like it. People got uncomfortable just like they do when you say that name in public. People get very uncomfortable. You can say, "God bless you.". Say, "Yahweh bless you.". And watch what happens. People get so uncomfortable at the father's name. So he dropped it. The man that by the way it would be Herbert Armstrong, not the church of God's seventh day that would bring the Sabbath, the feast days, Israelite identity to millions through radio and television. But he would keep the generic titles. He retained God, Lord, and Jesus Christ while knowing that those were substitutes for Yahweh and Yeshua. And you wonder why Yahweh allowed his great church to fall. Now you know the best of the story. He rejected the father's name. And brothers and sisters, when you understand that, you understand how important it is to walk in present day truth. October 1941, the issue of the Faith magazine noted that Elder Herbert Armstrong would be holding the Feast of Tabernacles in Oregon, proving Armstrong kept the feast. But he would not call upon the name. Later, Armstrong criticized the sacred name movement and dismissed it as a small, splintered and divided group doctrinally. The movement that God had birthed was, in Armstrong's view, too fractured to be taken seriously. Brothers and sisters, the Bible tells us that this would happen. Now, the first chartered assembly, this is important. If you search all the records in the United States of America, the first chartered assembly in America was in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, 1939. While Dodd was publishing the Faith magazine from West Virginia, there was something happening over in Michigan. A small group of Sabbathke keepers around Lancing, Michigan had been meeting in private homes since the 1920s. They were studying the commandments, searching the scriptures. And one of those people was Sister Pearl Smith. And she established, listen to this carefully, the first gathering place for sacred name believers in the world. She acquired a property outside of eaten rapids and established what she called the camp of Yah. And you're not going to believe this, but it was 30 acres. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Amen. It was exactly 30 acres >> and it was called the camp of Yah. When you pull up to Remnant Ranch next week, I'd like for you to look up as you drive in. It says dedicated to Yah. The curs ours is the camp of Yah as well. And she established it. And she uh literally went and filed a charter in 1939 for the assembly of YHVH. Now, why did she why did she charter it under YHVH? Because of her humility, she was admitting she did not know exactly how to pronounce it. Amen. And this history blows my mind. She chartered it. Instead of the assembly of Yahweh or the Assembly of Yah, she chartered it the Assembly of YHVH in 1939. And when when her followers explained why she did it that way, there was so much argument over how to pronounce it that she was so humble that she just said, "I don't know how to pronounce it.". Exactly. But I know it's YHVH and she chartered that in 19. So, so here the first chartered ministry in the history of the world. Since we lost the name was by a woman sister Pearl Smith called the camp of Yah. But she registered it the assembly of the tetetrogrammaton YHVH because they were not certain. There was argument whether it was YHWH, YHVH, JH, JHVH, Yahweh, Yave, Yave. And there was great war and everyone that couldn't agree. They didn't do they couldn't do what FHMI has done. They couldn't walk together. Therefore, the movement never accomplished anything because each person that pronounced it different would branch off and have nothing to do with the other. The work of Satan that gets in every move of Yah. So, you know what Sister Pearl did? She said, "You know what? I'm not sure exactly how to pronounce it myself. So, I love you all so much. We're going to choose a path that we can all walk down and we're going to choose YHVH. We're going to call it the camp of Yah. I found that so interesting because I've made that same agreement with many of you to use Yah and our assemblies. And uh may we always have that humility. May I have it to be able to walk together on this journey. And that's what's made our movement last five years. Very few movements in the Messianic are still together after all this time. But we've chosen to build the camp of Yah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So that was the first charter in the United States of America. And uh in 1969, Sister Pearl, when brother Dodd died, took over the Faith magazine. And then Pastor Sam Graham and George Kenny continued the magazine. And today, it is still being published 80 years later. There's another name. I'm running out of time. Let me try to get to the end here. I have six minutes left. There's another name, Angelo Traina. Now, this man's very important, Angelo Traina. T R A I N A because Dodd published the sacred name. But Trina kept reading his Bible and he couldn't take it seeing God and Lord and not seeing his father's name. So in 1940, Traina published a pamphlet called the deed. But then in 1950, in 1950 he published the first sacred name Bible in the history of Christianity. 1950. In 1962, he completed that work. For the first time, Englishspeaking believers could hold in their hands a Bible that did not hide their father's name under a title. We give honor to the work of Angelo Traa. He's dead and gone, but he left a great gift to the world. And so that was his gift to the world. Lorenzo Snow was a minister of the Church of God 7th Day in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He became convinced of the sacred name in 1943. And for the first time in a history of the world, he established a church of God congregation in Fort Smith putting up a sign, the Assembly of Yahweh. And in 1945, him and his wife created the magazine, the Yahweh Field Reporter that's still in existence today. But now I want to bring you up to another man. And the reason I I'm excited about this name is because when I was a little boy, my grandmother, Sister Gatlin, would fight with me every night to go to bed. * 01:25:07 I hated going to bed. I still hate going to bed. I feel like the world can't exist without me or something. I don't know. But I hate going to bed. I always fall asleep every night right here in this chair and then my wife and Shake come and bring me to bed. I hate going to bed. I reckon it. Just feels like maybe a coffin to me. And I know I'm gonna die one day. I don't want to go lay down now. So anyway, my grandmother Maybe that's But my grandmother, I used to drive her crazy at night because instead of going to bed like a good boy, getting up for school, she would come to my bedroom and I had a radio and it was one of them old AM radios that was static. Y'all may not remember that, but there was a little voice. Now I Oh, thank you, Lord. He was calling me at that age. Hallelujah. There was a voice on that radio that I remembered every night. And he came on at 11:00 at night and I would hide that radio under my bed. So my grandma wouldn't whip me and I lit because we didn't have earphones for whatever reason. And I held it right and it crackling and I would have to I would have to move that little dial to hear a voice that sounded like this. Good evening from Pennsylvania. This is Elder Jacob Omire teaching to the world. I remember it to this day. I'm quoting the sacred name of our heavenly father Yahweh. I remember that as a little boy. I waited every night to hear brother Jacob Omire on my radio. Yahweh was drawing me then to this marvelous truth. I got many weapons over Jacob Omireer. Hallelujah. Cuz I had to hear his voice. There was something about it. Maybe you could go online, YouTube, look up brother Jacob Omire and you'll hear the voice I'm talking about. The way he had that Pennsylvania Dutch voice, very proper. Anyway, in the 1960s, Jacob Omire established congregations. And now I know why I identified with brother Jacob Omire, and you will too in just a moment if you'll give me just a few more moments. Jacob Omire did not start the sacred name movement. Yahweh raised him up to organize it. Jacob Omire established churches in Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Arkansas, Texas. They were already keeping the Sabbath and observing the feast. But when they came to the sacred name, they were so disappointed in how disenfranchised and fragmented the sacred name movement was. There was no coordination between the groups. If you pronounced it one way, the other group wouldn't have nothing to do with you. They used different names and there the whole movement was just so scattered that it would it never could take off. From the 1930s to the 1960s. And that's why Herbert Armstrong wanted nothing to do with it. It was too disorganized. Nobody would come under and it was just a mess. And Jacob Omire was born in 1934 in Bethl, Pennsylvania, a region first settled by German immigrants in the early 1700s. Now listen to this. His ancestors were the founding fathers of the German Baptist brethren or the church of the brethren. They arrived in America in 1717. The Meyers family had deep roots in Pennsylvania. As a matter of fact, we have a sister here that's from that same area. I just remembered that. Sister Brenda Myers. That name has deep roots in Pennsylvania soil and the German religious tradition of plain living and biblical devotion. Meyers was raised in the same church. Elder Neper was raised in, the church of the brethren. He enrolled at the Evangelical Congregational School of Theology in Meyerstown, Pennsylvania. But during those college years, a professor introduced him to the sacred name and Jacob Meyer began studying. The more he studied, the more convinced he became. In 1962, Meyer and his wife accepted the sacred names and the conviction of the name of Yahweh. In 1964, Meyers moved to Idaho to assist in publishing the sacred name Herald. In 1965, at a feast of tabernacles in Nevada, Missouri, he was ordained into the ministry. But he was deeply troubled by what he saw in the sacred name movement, the doctrinal confusion and the lack of any government, any coordinated effort to reach the world. He later recalled being terribly disillusioned when he realized how divided the movement was. Jacob Omire said Yahweh called him to restore government and to do something about it. In February 1966, he initiated the sacred name broadcast. Now, that was in 1966. I was born in 1973. And I believe that Yahweh placed that man on the radio in 1966 because I would rise up much later and see the same disunityity among Sabbathke keepers and sacred name people and carry the same burden that Jacob Omire had to organize it and to bring it into some form of unity. And I heard that radio broadcast, the sacred name broadcast. It came out of Baltimore, Maryland on WBMD, and it brought the message. Just like Herbert Armstrong's radio broadcast brought the Sabbath day, Jacob Omire brought the sacred name to the world via the radio. His strong German accent became familiar to listeners across the eastern seabboard. In 1968, he began publishing the Sacred Name magazine. It was professional, well produced. Everyone acknowledged how much they enjoyed reading it because it was so well done. That's why I do everything in my power to make the family report so well done along with sister Jill, Minister Jill Sidok. The name Assemblies of Yahweh was what he chose for his organization. He produced the sacred scriptures, a sacred name translation that became the standard Bible of the Assemblies of Yahweh. And unlike some sacred name translations, he was conservative. He established WMLK, a shortwave radio station that broadcast the sacred name to 75 countries around the world. WMLK, that's the words for Malec. MLK, the Hebrew word for Melchzdc. He founded the Oadiah School of the Bible. What did he do? Ordained elders through that school. He ensured the next generation would be educated in Torah observant faith. He traveled extensively planning assemblies around the world. He coined the term messianic Israelites. That came from Jacob Omire. Spiritual Israelites. But Meyers understood something that very few understood in the sacred name movement. * 01:34:26 Truth without order dissolves into chaos. It was not enough to know the name. It was not enough to keep the Sabbath. There had to be disciplined community, trained ministers, ordained elders, educated children, accountable members. There had to be structure, there had to be standards. There had to be leadership that could teach, correct, and guide. And he created it. He did more for the sacred name movement than any other man in history. Oh, what was the result? He was called a cult leader. Too strict, too controlling, too exclusive. The assemblies of Yahweh developed a reputation for holding themselves separate, for refusing fellowship with anyone. But Meyers made no apologies. He believed that Yahweh's people were called to be holy, set apart, and have clear boundaries. He died in 2023. He spent more than 60 years proclaiming the sacred name. And today, the assemblies of Yahweh continue under new leadership maintaining what he taught. But I must warn you, they're dead as a doornail. They're missing out on so much wonderful truth. But yet God used them to restore the sacred name. The sacred name movement today is just like all the other movements. No government. There's no government anywhere. They differ and divide. But brothers and sisters, we are living in the century that the sacred name has been restored and is being restored and Torah is being re-examined. The physical nation of Israel was reborn in 1948. The fig tree began to put forth leaves in that time. The Hebrew way roots awakening is not an isolated American phenomenon. It's become a global stirring that connects the restoration of Israel with the restoration of Judah. And right alongside of us, Yahweh raised up Messianic Jewish congregation, sons and daughters of Abraham, who confess Yeshua as Messiah. And together, these streams are tearing down that wall of petition that so easily separated us. And today we are living in present truth. There's not much left to restore. There's not much left. We're living in the generation that will see the coming of Yesua Marinatha. Good night. Thank you for joining. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Amen. >> Shalom. Thank you, Pastor Shalom. Summary for: https://youtu.be/vsjWVDXGbjQ by Noiz — Transcript From YouTube Video