How I came to this Sabbath keeping Message

Title: How I came to this Sabbath keeping Message Summary: This message recounts how Vaughn arrived at the doctrines taught by First Harvest Ministries. He describes a progression from questioning the secret rapture, to reexamining Israel's role in Scripture, to embracing Sabbath observance, biblical feast days, and a kingdom-centered view of the millennium. The sermon presents these developments as part of a restoration of apostolic faith and a return to what he believes are the original teachings of Scripture. (1) How I came to this Sabbath keeping Message - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGnpwHjiIvE h and a return to what he believes are the original teachings of Scripture. (1) How I came to this Sabbath keeping Message - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGnpwHjiIvE Transcript: (00:02) all right the question is how did I come into this message the message we preach here at first harvest Ministry so I'm going to give you a little history about how it all started and how we got where we are today I grew up in a very fundamental uh Pentecostal Church all of my life and uh we believed things that I believe because they were taught to me uh they were taught to me about wonderful people that I had a lot of confidence in and you just pretty much believe the way you're raised that's just the way things go and I always (00:41) believe the Pentecostal message um and today still I believe many many of the great wonderful things that I was taught as a child but one of the things that I was taught as a child uh was to always make the word of God the final Authority and one day about five six years ago I began an intense study of the word of God and when I begin to study I begin to see some things that just didn't line up with what I'd always been told talk probably the first go I began an intense study of the word of God and when I begin to study I begin to see some things that just didn't line up with what I'd always been told talk probably the first thing that got me started down this pathway was the Rapture of the church (01:40) that was probably one of the first uh subjects that I began to study that began to get me to wonder about a lot of other things I'd always been taught that the church was going to be raptured before the tribulation and before the Lord comes back and that we were going to heaven for 7even years years and then we come back to the Earth that's known as the premillennial secret Rapture Theory uh and I always believe that just don't ask me why I believed it I I just believed it because it's what we've been taught so one of the first things was (02:18) when I when I proved and trust me I did from Genesis to Revelation literally proved that there's not going to be a secret Rapture um then after that the next thing I began to study was Israel all of my life we were taught a Doctrine called dispensationalism and basically that Doctrine says that God I call him by his name now Yahweh or yah Yahweh had one plan for Israel and then the e we were taught a Doctrine called dispensationalism and basically that Doctrine says that God I call him by his name now Yahweh or yah Yahweh had one plan for Israel and then the church was totally separate from Israel sort of like an interruption in the timeline and that the church was an interjection an afterthought if you will (03:15) uh into that timeline and then we had been taught that when Yahweh was through with the church age which 2,000 years then the church would be lifted off the Earth in the secret rapture and then Yahweh would turn back to the nation of Israel work with them and then we would come back once he was done with that and then we would all go to heaven that was pretty much the synopsis of it but as I begin to study the Old Testament and man did I get an appreciation for the Old Testament that I never had before we were sort of (03:55) discouraged from reading the Old Testament not not in direct way words but it was just an insinuation well that's the Old Testament so we never really dove into the Old Testament except for some good sermon scriptures or to prove why you should pay tithe or why women shouldn't wear pants that was about the only times we went lly dove into the Old Testament except for some good sermon scriptures or to prove why you should pay tithe or why women shouldn't wear pants that was about the only times we went back to the Old Testament but as I begin to study the Old Testament I found a total different concept of Israel um and every one of the major and the Minor Prophets they never spoke not one time about a separate entity called (04:33) the church and the Bible says that God does nothing without first revealing it to His prophets and the church as we know it was never revealed to any of his prophets all that was revealed to the prophets was the reuniting of the House of Israel the 10 lost tribes along with Judah and Benjamin which we know as the Jewish people the 10 lost tribes are not Jews that's another story for another day but it was as I begin to study and see that I didn't see I never found these two separate plans of gods Israel and then (05:14) the church so now disproving the Rapture and now seeing that we're not going to be called away before the tribulation that totally dis anuls the dispensationalist doctrine that I grew up with and now I begin to see Israel as not the name of a people per se as be called away before the tribulation that totally dis anuls the dispensationalist doctrine that I grew up with and now I begin to see Israel as not the name of a people per se as much as the name of an accomplishment the word Israel is the prince of God or Son of God a conqueror you become that Jacob I'm sorry uh yeah Jacob was the first one to become Israel he overcame the flesh he conquered it and so then we begin to see that when yua talked to the supposed (06:07) children of Abraham the Jews and they were bragging on their pedigree and their bloodline Joshua told the Jesus he said look you're not really of your father Abraham because you have not faith and so then I begin to come and see that at this moment those without faith are not part of the Israel of God they will be but at this moment they're not but there is a group of people that have faith in Messiah and they are the true Israel of God but that does not mean they're the only Israel of God it was then I begin (06:48) to read Paul's writings that talks about the natural tree and the wild tree and we begin to see that there were 10 tribes 10 wild trees that left Jerusalem they went and built another capital in Samaria that talks about the natural tree and the wild tree and we begin to see that there were 10 tribes 10 wild trees that left Jerusalem they went and built another capital in Samaria they forgot the Sabbath day they forgot the holy days they forgot the Commandments they became totally unidentifiable throughout the world so much so that they thought they were Gentiles so I began to see that those wild olive trees were scattered around the nations of the world but in this day that God was calling back those Wild Olive branches (07:30) that were blooming in the other parts of the world and he was going to bring them back in to their root their Hebrew root bring them back so I it was all of these things that began to mess with my mind so when I came to understand who Israel is and that we are not separate from the nation of Israel at this moment the physical nation of the Jews and the tribe of Judah have been blinded on purpose until the fullness of the in gathering from all the other nations which is what the word Gentile means other nations has taken place then there (08:11) will be a reuniting with the house of Israel with the house of Judah it it it can't get any simpler that that is ord Gentile means other nations has taken place then there (08:11) will be a reuniting with the house of Israel with the house of Judah it it it can't get any simpler that that is the plan that Ezekiel Saw two sticks Yahweh said pick up those two sticks bind them together that's what I'm going to do in the land days and that's what he is doing right now he's raising up the 10 lost tribes that have been scattered around the world lost their identity they thought they were Baptists Pentecostals Catholics and the whole nine yards but the whole time they were Israel but they had been robbed of (08:48) that identity because of the dispersement and because of the spirit of deception okay so that was number two number one was the Rapture number two was Israel so naturally after I saw that we were Israel that we were no longer Gentiles among the other nations but we had been called by the Holy Spirit back to the home the Israel the Commonwealth of Israel well now that totally discredits all of the thinking that what applied to Israel doesn't apply to the church well hogwash the church is Israel and Israel is the church Israel was the (09:34) first church in the wilderness and there's no what applied to Israel doesn't apply to the church well hogwash the church is Israel and Israel is the church Israel was the (09:34) first church in the wilderness and there's no such thing as a church and Israel Israel the word church called out on Israel is the called out on so it was then that of course I began to notice the Sabbath day how could I not it was the seal it was the sign of the Covenant with Israel and if I am no longer a gentile but I have come in to the Commonwealth of Israel no longer a stranger but I've come in the way every Israelite ever came in by circumcision My Flesh being cut away by the convicting power of the Holy Ghost that makes me a member of the (10:20) Commonwealth of Israel so now the things that apply to Israel all of a sudden apply to me and one of those things one of the primordial things was the Sabbath day it was one of the Ten Commandments it's the fourth Commandment and it was never done away with it was a seal or a sign of who the true Israel of Yahweh was so naturally we begin to understand the Sabbath day and we begin to preach it and oh man has it caused me some heartache and headache but it has brought me much joy and find the true naturally we begin to understand the Sabbath day and we begin to preach it and oh man has it caused me some heartache and headache but it has brought me much joy and find the true Sabbath of Yahweh celebrating it and (11:03) teaching it to his people well after Sabbath here comes the holy days the Feast of Israel and if I'm Israel and part of Israel then those Feast still applied to Israel and so uh I could go on and on and on about the things that brought us to where we are but one of the greatest things that I'll talk about in this video that changed my entire thinking my whole way of thinking was the Millennium reign of yua that's Jesus Christ in the original language I always was taught that when you died at the resurrection you go to (11:55) heaven but when I began to discover that that was not true when I begin to discover that nowhere in the Bible does it say that we're going to heaven that was a shock but it does say that we would inherit the earth and it does say that Yahweh would come uh and make his dwelling on Earth with men and then the New Jerusalem was coming down from God out of Heaven to the Earth everything began to change in my mind and I've no longer begin to ake his dwelling on Earth with men and then the New Jerusalem was coming down from God out of Heaven to the Earth everything began to change in my mind and I've no longer begin to see heaven as much as I did the millennial Earthly reign of the Messiah the problem that I think the (12:38) church has today they do not understand or comprehend the Millennium rain many of you watching me right now you may be in the shoes I used to be on I never heard about the millennial Reign except in maybe some prophecy conference once in every 10 years nobody preached on the millenni rign and yet it is the greatest truth in the word of God the reason we don't preach on it is we don't understand it we now do though we understand that after the resurrection a new government is going to take over our planet this is all in your Bible for (13:21) those of you that think I've lost my mind it's Daniel Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Revelation it's in the syop IC gospels when yua himself Jesus talked about it the kingdom of God is coming to the Earth and we must begin training for reigning and schooling for ruling and when my mind begin to change about the Millennium and I begin to see things 1,000% differently ng to the Earth and we must begin training for reigning and schooling for ruling and when my mind begin to change about the Millennium and I begin to see things 1,000% differently because without a millennium mentality I couldn't understand half of the Bible everything in the Major Prophets and in the Minor Prophets everything is about (14:08) the Sabbath day the day of the Lord the Thousand-Year Millennium Reign that is when this new government of saints that have been tried in the fire tested by Satan himself will resurrect in the High Calling which is the first resurrection and they will rule with the Messiah we hopefully like Paul I don't count myself to have apprehended that calling but that is my prayer the second Resurrection is not my prayer everyone's coming up in that Resurrection but in the first resurrection only the 144,000 will be in that resurrection and when I (14:50) begin to get all this when when it all of a sudden everything just begin to make sense at that point and that's how we got got to where we are today now those were the beginning understandings that we had some years ago but from that point on Revelation after revelation after Revelation because he got got to where we are today now those were the beginning understandings that we had some years ago but from that point on Revelation after revelation after Revelation because he that hungers and thirst is after God he'll be filled if God feeds you one Revelation and you love it he'll give you the next one and the next one he'll feed teach you until you understand the mysteries of the kingdom of (15:33) God now with that said I want to just let everyone know that this is not an easy walk since the Lord has called us into this walk it has turned even our very friends against us not in a bad way they don't hate us they just don't understand us um we confuse people because we we act Pentecostal if you ever come in one of our church services Holy Ghost is Fallen gifts of the Spirit is in operation we're dancing before the Lord celebrating uh but yet in our teaching uh it's it's it's a lot different now we still preach the one (16:18) God message we still believe in the correct baptism we still believe in the infilling of the Holy Ghost but we also believe and the Commandments of God let me close with this when I grew up we preached a lot of things that were sin uh we used to preach he infilling of the Holy Ghost but we also believe and the Commandments of God let me close with this when I grew up we preached a lot of things that were sin uh we used to preach that having a television would would send you to hell um some men preach that women wearing open toe shoes would send them to hell or or uh the color red or drinking coffee or I could go on and on and on but the point is this As I Grew Older I you know you try to find these things in (17:01) the Bible you know that you can't trim your hair and you can't do this and you can't and you go to looking for those things in the Bible and you don't see them they're not in the book They're nowhere now you can try to create them in the book but they're not there and you're like wow none of this is in the book and yet we're all preaching it so then you go to the Ten Commandments which are in the book and you read the fourth one remember the seventh day of the week and keep that day holy now that I can prove put my finger (17:40) on it it never passed away Jesus didn't become our Sabbath come on watch my video on that no no no no no no no didn't happen anyway I don't have time to get on that trail I'd love to but t never passed away Jesus didn't become our Sabbath come on watch my video on that no no no no no no no didn't happen anyway I don't have time to get on that trail I'd love to but listen you see there's the Commandment nobody's preaching it but yet we're preaching all this other stuff don't men don't wear mustaches or beards but here's the Sabbath day and everybody's totally in order let's go over here in the book of Jeremiah where God forbids Israel to have any practices of holidays like the world does Halloween Christmas (18:16) Easter don't do those things and yet nobody's paying attention to that we go over here and we see the Millennium rain nobody's preaching on that but we're preaching all this other junk that's not even in the book and eventually some lights just start going on in your head and you're like wait a minute what are we preaching and it is then that I go to the story of Yeshua when he comes to the Pharisees and a few of his disciples had forgotten to wash their hands before they set down and ate and they were ready to crucify bring them before the (18:58) Sanhedrin and Yeshua Jesus got so angry with the church people now he did not get angry at them for y set down and ate and they were ready to crucify bring them before the (18:58) Sanhedrin and Yeshua Jesus got so angry with the church people now he did not get angry at them for teaching that you should wash your hands that's a good thing but just because it's a good thing doesn't mean it's a God thing and yet they were preaching that the washing of hands was equal to the Ten Commandment law of God they were preaching the washing of hands as a law of God and man that reminded me of the churches that I UND that I grew up in preaching things as law of God that's not law of God preaching things that that that (19:51) that's the traditions of men now let me balance that out there are some things that we preached in the church growing up that are good things they're good and if we just preach them in that manner that hey these are suggestions that we give you to live by as Elders of the church these are our recommendations I have no problem with that God has no problem with that but when you begin to send a soul to hell for your tradition and at the same time totally ignore the Ten Commandment law of God remember the Sabbath day and keep it (20:40) holy Make No Grave in images have a soul to hell for your tradition and at the same time totally ignore the Ten Commandment law of God remember the Sabbath day and keep it (20:40) holy Make No Grave in images have no other God's holidays before me to other gods you you're totally forgetting all of that and preaching this joke and saying this is the law Yahweh yua got so mad at them for that and then as we continued in this message of course you hear me using the name Yahweh you hear me using the name yua and you're like oh my God what's wrong with them what are they saying maybe my friend we're saying his name it's heartbreaking when people that don't understand criticize when if you just took a moment (21:30) and thought about it when you say God there's gods of Plenty in the world Satan is a God now why is that not weird to you but if I say his name which is yah Yahweh Yahweh if I say his name Elohim that's weird but it's not weird for you to say his title or Yahweh became our Salvation in the form of the man named yua which means Yahweh is salvation so you hear us saying yesu and you're like oh God it's in the name of Jesus of course it is that's what I just said yesu the original I condemn no one for saying hweh is salvation so you hear us saying yesu and you're like oh God it's in the name of Jesus of course it is that's what I just said yesu the original I condemn no one for saying the name of Jesus if that's what you so (22:22) desire but as you Journey down this path and you reconnect to Israel and you think his mother would not have known him by the name of Jesus the apostles would not have known him by the name of Jesus they would have known him by his Hebrew name Yeshua so we just want to connect to that original name there that's a beautiful thing and that's part of the journey that's part of the process as you begin to return to Apostolic Faith what do we mean by Apostolic Faith Apostles the original Church in its Apostolic State before it (23:05) went into its apostate State before it be to turn to uh to Simon Magus which began the Roman Catholic church and of course I won't get into that now but this is how we got here it's started where it started and it's just now getting started every day we see new things wonderful things that reveals the heavenly father to us in a more wonderful way so I hope that helps you understand who we are what we're doing why we're doing it how e new things wonderful things that reveals the heavenly father to us in a more wonderful way so I hope that helps you understand who we are what we're doing why we're doing it how we started doing it I hope every one of you have a wonderful night I truly love each one of (23:40) you I want to thank every one of you for your financial support around the world you send your offerings and your tithe to First Harvest Ministries we try to do a wonderful work here we print books of Plenty we uh do social media outreach videos everything we can to get people to understand this glorious end time message going back to the law of God while holding on to the grace of God restoring original Christianity