Pastor Shane Vaughn Preaches 1/26/24 - "Victory By Vision" Part 1

Victory by Vision Rev. John Shane Vaughn — First Harvest Ministries International ________________ 1 The book of Psalms 11, verse 1 — in Yahweh will I put my trust; how say you to my soul flee as a bird to your mountain? For lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrows upon the string that they may privately shoot at the upright in heart. 2 I'd like to read that again and I'd like for you to grasp it — for the wicked is always bending their bow, they make ready their arrows upon the string that they may privily or privately shoot at the upright in heart. 3 There's always someone privately bending their bow to destroy an upright heart; there's always somebody want to bring you out of your character and they're trying to see if you're really upright in heart; amen. 4 Verse three — if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? If the foundations be destroyed — I'd like for you to underline or highlight those words — if the foundations be destroyed, what will the righteous do? 5 Now go with me to the book of Daniel chapter 7, verse 21, and we will read there what I believe the Lord has given me for this service tonight; Daniel 7, verse 21 — when you get there say amen; I'll wait for the rest of you; hallelujah. 6 I beheld and the same horn made war with the saints; now what did we just read in Psalms? We just read there's always a bended bow with an arrow on a string privately waiting to shoot the upright in heart, sir; but when we get to Daniel 7 we see a horn making war with the saints. 7 And these three words are shocking — prevailed against them; it prevailed against them; verse 25 — and he shall speak great words against the most high and shall wear out the saints of the most high and think to change times and laws. 8 And they — who is they? The saints — shall be given into Satan's hand for times, times and half a time; I hope you're seeing a connection in these verses; the first verse was what? A bow always ready to shoot you. 9 And here in Daniel we see the spirit of Antichrist that will make war with the saints in the last days and will prevail against them; and then in verse 25 he's going to wear out the saints; he's going to literally wear them out; and the saints will be given into Satan's hands. 10 Revelation 13, chapter 7 — Revelation 13, chapter 7, for verse 7 — because those three verses don't sound too encouraging to me; praise God; there's always somebody ready to shoot you and somebody doing it privately; and Satan is going to prevail against you and wear you out; yes, sir; hallelujah. 11 And God is giving you into Satan's hand to do all of that; praise God; verse seven — and it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and power was given him over every kindred, tongue, and nation. 12 Now turn with me quickly — I tell you what, we'll let you be seated there and we'll turn from there; Father, anoint your servant, anoint the precious people that have come tonight to be fed at the table of the Lord as they pull up their chair and their bowls to receive hidden manna. 13 I pray you would feed them with that supernatural revelation of the word of God, in the name of Yeshua; amen; you may be seated tonight. 14 So here we have three verses and none of them look good; hallelujah; matter of fact they look pretty hopeless, they look pretty helpless; because according to these scriptures here's how you're going to spend your life as the righteous in the heart, those that are upright in heart — here's how you're going to spend your life. 15 Boy y'all are a beautiful crowd tonight — beautiful congregation; so glad to see you, Sister Angel, come in with your children; glad to have y'all here tonight; so here we are all the days of our lives — what are we going to be doing? Dodging bullets, always getting worn out, and always in war. 16 I want to tell you something — cute Christianity is not who this is talking about; this is talking about another group of people; a group of people that make up the remnant of Israel; they are always in a war with Satan and Satan will never let up off of you. 17 And can I tell you why? Because God has sicked him on you; the Bible said God — Elder Betts — is going to hand you over to the enemy to make war against you; that's what he's doing; that's his job. 18 And the secret to overcoming that is never giving the devil a moment's notice, never giving him a moment's glory, but to always in all things give thanks — for this is the will of God concerning you; the Bible said whatsoever state you find yourself in, give thanks. 19 There is only one way to outrun the devil's arrow and it's with thanksgiving — thanksgiving that God saw fit to turn you over to the devil; hallelujah; Brother Vaughn, why would God do that? Why did he do it for Job? Come on now. 20 The devil didn't have no interest in Job — none; the Bible said the devil was doing what the devil does, going to and fro; and God Yahweh spoke to Satan and said, little buddy, I need to talk to you — have you ever considered my servant Job? That's right, that's right. 21 And he said, well now ain't no need of considering him because you blessed him so much — he got him a brand new truck not long ago, and my Lord, all the bills are paid, and there's no reason for him to doubt your goodness because you're so good. 22 Let me explain something about these arrows that Satan throws at you — they never come to dissolve your belief in God; they come to make you doubt the fairness of God and the goodness of God; he always shoots you with — if God loved you, why this or why that. 23 But Job is my servant — have you considered him? And God, you do — y'all know, y'all know that Job had a good life until God decided he's going to be more of mine; Job had a good thing going until God turned him over, until God turned him over, until Yahweh turned him over and gave him to the devil. 24 Your life will be doing just fine till you hear this message; woo; oh you'll be minding your business, going to church, being cute, you'll be doing just fine; but God — when he said I'm choosing a remnant — he says, consider him, consider her. 25 And he said, God, I can't get them to doubt you unless you take all their blessings away; and God said, I tell you what I'll do — you've got a deal; because I'm just as interested as you are to find out who they really are; hallelujah. 26 Now Yahweh did what Yahweh does — he spoke those things that were not as though they already were; he said my servant Job is perfect; amen; yes, sir; ladies and gentlemen, go read the book of Job — he was anything but perfect; he was complaining in every chapter, he was going through all of his problems, and he was not perfect. 27 But hiding inside of Job was a seed that Job didn't know about — but Yahweh knew about it; and he sent the devil to take that seed and make it bloom; and when the devil was finished with Job, Job proved that God is a prophet — because Job threw up his hands and in perfection said, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord; hallelujah, hallelujah. 28 That's when you arrived — when nothing bothers you, when nothing destroys you, because you are perfect in the eyes of your God; there's always somebody hunting you; the only time you hunt something is if you want it; men go and hunt deer because they want it. 29 Honey, if Yahweh has sent Satan to find you, it's because he wants you; don't you understand? It's because there's something he planted in you that's valuable to him; it is the seed of God, the predestined, elected seed of God; hallelujah; is anybody hearing me? Hallelujah. 30 You've got a seed in you that you can't see until a seed starts blooming; it doesn't even know it's a seed; hallelujah; God is calling you tonight to know that you're in a battle; many people will not endure this battle. 31 I want you to listen to your pastor — some of you in this very room in six months from now will not be here; you cannot endure this battle; it requires too much of you; it requires 100%; this ministry is not for the 30-fold or the 60-fold; God is calling you to 100%. 32 Give it all up, surrender it all, yield it all to me — yield your football, yield your sports, yield your life, yield anything that comes before me; it's a test of the emergency broadcast system; he's got you here for a reason. 33 You know why? There was a seed in you; you didn't know about it; your own mama didn't know about it; your family don't know about it; it's been hiding in you — predestined seed; the Bible said of Jeremiah, in your mother's womb I already knew your name, I knew the hairs on you. 34 Why? Because I put in you that seed; and I sent Satan to find the seed; Satan is a seed hunter — did you hear me? Satan is a seed hunter; he's sent by God to find the seed. 35 Everything you're going through right now will prove if you're the seed or not; the seed can be going through every attack; the seed can be — they can be arrow-shooting you in the left and the right — but the seed is bigger than the circumstance; the seed is bigger than the trial; the seed is greater than the battle; the seed is the seed of God; it's not yours. 36 Woo — you cannot outrun this seed; it's predestined in you; everybody don't have it; but those that do, Satan will find it; because right when he takes everything you've got, you'll still bring your tithe and give it to the Lord; right when you can't even pay your bills, that seed will be faithful. 37 That when you don't feel like going to the Sabbath, there's a seed in you that loves the Sabbath; it'll win every time; it'll overcome you every time; good God from Zion; this seed is in you and God uses Satan to find it. 38 He said there's always a bow and he only shoots the upright in heart — those that have the seed; yes, sir, yes, sir; here's why — because if he can shoot you and you refuse to die, you're seed; did you understand? Ah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 39 If he can shoot you and you don't die — you're seed; if he can take everything from you and you don't cry — you're seed; if he can take everything you've got and you give it all back — you are the seed, predestined, elected, chosen before the foundations of the earth; the seed never dies; hallelujah, hallelujah; woo, glory; the seed never dies; hallelujah. 40 All you need is a seed and God wants to know you've got it by sending Satan with that arrow; listen to me, I want you to hear me — y'all can ignore me if you want to but I'm gonna prophesy like I did two months ago when I said this week — 41 Somebody listen to me and I want you to listen well; if you will stand still — I'm begging you to hear me, listen to me and listen well — if you will plant your feet in this ministry, if you will stand still like a tree planted by the water, your children will turn out all right, your family will turn out all right; quit running and stand still in the battle. 42 My grandmother wrote a song called So Near Home; it's a beautiful song; it talks about a soldier — she said there was a soldier on the ocean, a sailor, and they were fighting the war — World War II, true story. 43 And in that song it says the boat was headed to shore, headed home, and right when it got within home range a torpedo came; and my grandmother said they were so near home but lost. 44 I want you to hear me and hear me well — if you're not careful, you'll get so near to the destiny that God has for you; you'll get so close to your breakthrough; you'll get to the path where God's always wanted you to be; but then something will shoot you and you'll lay there and die and run off. 45 But if you'll take the arrow and let God heal you, stand still and let God do what God does; stand still, quit running; children, what are you running for? Where are you going to next? 46 Oh, you know I'm talking to you from the Holy Ghost; you already know it; God sent me with a message to tell somebody — quit running; stand still; you're in the greatest Ministry that the end times knows anything about; where do you want to go? Stand still; watch God move for you. 47 It's a test, darling; I said it's a test to see if the seed is more important than you want to be here or there or everywhere; it's the seed of the end; do you even believe this message? 48 God's got a seed in you and it's always going to be identified by Satan; and you're going to wonder why people hate you; darling, I have no enemies — I want you to know that; I don't have any enemies; oh, I got a lot of people don't like me but I have no enemies; do you understand that? 49 You know why? There's a seed in me; oh, I heard what they said about me — but there's a seed in me; oh, I know what they think about me — but there's a seed in me; and I trust that seed; I know that it's the life of God growing in me; and you've got to know that about yourself; I said you've got to know that about yourself. 50 Because God is getting ready to give you a victory; I want to title this message tonight — Victory is tied to your vision; your victory is tied directly to your vision. 51 The book of Hosea — turn there with me tonight; the book of Hosea; thank you Lord; one of you brothers get a microphone and help me, Elder Morgan, quick; Hosea 4, verse 6; I want to read you — this is not my normal Bible; thank you Lord; Hosea chapter 4, verse 6; I want to read this to you brothers; Elder Denny, would you bring those up on the screen that I gave you earlier? Praise the Lord. 52 Hosea 4 and 6 — my people are destroyed; now what did we just read about? We just read about a hunter; what do hunters do? They destroy deer; we just read about we've been turned over to Satan. 53 See, I want to explain something to you — there's a difference in getting knocked down and being destroyed; amen; Satan's got to knock you down, but he has not the power — what did Yahweh tell him? But don't touch his life, don't destroy him, knock him down, beat him up, do it, but don't you destroy him; God's got a people that cannot be destroyed. 54 But my people are destroyed — verse number six — for the lack of knowledge; now we always stopped quoting that verse right there; oh, that means we're not smart enough, we're going to be destroyed unless we learn Hebrew words better; no, no, no. 55 You have rejected knowledge; I don't know of any church that rejects knowledge — they all love to have seminars and clubs and studies; but he said I'm going to reject you, that thou shalt not be a priest to me, seeing that you have forgotten the only true knowledge, which is the law of God. 56 Listen to me carefully — the only way that arrow destroys you is when you forget; now bring that first one up — I think it would be slide number one; no, that's not it; sorry; let's — I tell you what, you want to just pull it up on Blue Letter Bible as we go along? We'll do it that way. 57 I want to show you guys that word law and I want to help you understand; the Bible said the foundations have been destroyed — that's the reason people are being destroyed; the foundations have been destroyed; but what is the foundation? We're going to find out. 58 Hosea 4 and 6 — and then click on that; just go right there, enter, just enter, or hit this arrow over here, or enter right here; there we go; all right, click right here, Hosea 4 and 6; click — it's not clicking; there we go; slide up, slide up. 59 All right, I want to show you — going up to where you see the word law, keep going; because thou rejected knowledge — right here; somebody tell me the word for right there; I'm going to show you why God's people are destroyed. 60 The foundations have been destroyed; they have rejected the part of the Bible, the Torah of Moses, that will give you what you need to survive this mental attack of the enemy; the reason my people are destroyed — the church is destroyed — because they have rejected knowledge; but not smart knowledge — this knowledge; the instructions needed to survive the bow and arrow. 61 And the reason you crumble is because there's no foundation in your life; the only thing in the life of a Christian is his faith in Christ — that's it; that won't keep you from being destroyed; did you hear me? That'll get you into heaven wherever you're going, but that won't keep you from being destroyed. 62 And I'll tell you what else won't keep you from destruction — the blood of Jesus won't do it either; now the blood will save you; we ain't talking about salvation — for all my haters, I'm not talking about justification right now; I'm talking about survival; I'm talking about enduring to the end; I'm talking about running the race all the way. 63 There's only one way the church can do it — they have to go back to the foundation; because the reason you're under Satan's attack is to find out if you have a foundation; if you don't have a foundation — oh, my foundation is in the blood of Jesus; no; what was his foundation? His foundation was the law and the prophets. 64 That's exactly right; Yeshua said the prophets and the Torah spoke about me; and he said if I say anything that's not in those books, I'm not the Messiah; now it's very important that you understand the knowledge that you must get in your life; when you forget the Torah, then you cannot survive the attacks of the enemy. 65 Let's go to Proverbs — and go there on your screen too, brother; Proverbs 29 and 18; and here's where I've been wanting to get all night long; Proverbs 29 and 18; this used to be our favorite verse when I was growing up; we just knew this meant we needed a bigger vision to build a bigger church. 66 Where there is no vision the people perish — but he that keepeth the Torah, happy is he; click on that verse, brother; and start with vision, start with vision, start with vision; click right here; vision is the word hazon; click on it right here; no, no, no, right there — the 2377. 67 Now I want to show you what without a vision the people perish; scroll up, keep scrolling, keep going, keep going; all right, hold tight; okay, go up one more, sorry about that; keep going right here; back up, back up where we were; keep — come on back down; thank you, sir. 68 Mentally — without a mental picture, without a mental picture of something in specific, you will perish; without a mental picture — the way you look at things — you ever heard of a worldview? Your worldview is the way you see things through your mind; I've come to teach you tonight, you've got to have a specific view in your mind to survive the attacks of the enemy. 69 Okay, this is important for you to understand; now go back, brother, to the scripture itself; so we know that without a mental picture you will perish; go back up — Proverbs, whatever it was, 29:18; now click on it; there you get; click on it again; scroll up, keep growing, come on, come on, come — all right, hold on; click on the word perish. 70 It's the word para; then I want to show you a few things; scroll up, scroll up, scroll up, scroll up, scroll up; okay, go up right here — to let go, to let loose, to let alone, to let go, to let alone, to neglect, to loosen, to be let loose. 71 Of what? You know they call the Torah bondage — that's another word for restraint; to set loose your restraints; without a mental image of the Torah, you will allow the church of Christianity to set you free from your bondage; you will become an unbridled horse that does no one any good. 72 I want you to hear me — without a mental image, the people will become unbridled; they will become saved horses that you can't do nothing with; when you lose this mental picture I'm going to give you tonight, you become a wild donkey; you become a Holy Ghost-filled, free from the bondage Christianity. 73 Oh, I'm preaching tonight — without a vision, a certain way of looking at things, which is the Torah, what will happen is you will get the Holy Ghost free of charge, you will get baptized in his name free of charge, you will get saved free of charge, and then they'll take the bridle off of you and tell you you're free. 74 You'll become a running wild Christian; and then what'll happen at the end of time? You will look at your loving Lord and say, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not cast out devils in your name? Didn't we heal the sick in your name? Were we not believers? You've got to be a believer to do all of that in his name — we believed on you. 75 And he's going to say, but here's the problem — you had no vision; listen to me; you had blood but you didn't have the bondage; you had the blood but you didn't have the restraints; depart from me, you worker of lawlessness; amen; you had the blood but you refused the restraints of the Torah; you preached that I came to take those restraints off of you. 76 No — I came to put that so tight in your mouth that it was tighter than it was in the Old Testament; he said in the Old Testament here's what the bit felt like — you see a pretty woman walk by and you look to lust after — you felt that bridle; or if you slept with her, there you — but he said I come to tell you, I'm going to tighten that bridle up a little bit more. 77 Tell you what — you think I come to release you from the bridle? No; I came to make it so tight that when you even think about it you'll get convicted; if you even think about it you'll feel my bridle; don't get set loose from the restraints. 78 He said what I did in the Old Testament — if you think that bridle was restraining, I've come to put a restraint on you; you know what this restraint will do? It'll make you reach into your bank account and take 10% of everything and give it away to me; I'll put a restraint on you so hard it'll make you want to keep the Sabbath. 79 I'm going to give you a restraint so hard; because if I don't, you will perish without a certain mental vision; and we found out what that was in the previous verses — Torah, the law of God; Christians don't understand — God's not looking for show horses, he's looking for work horses; don't you understand he needs you bridled? 80 The only thing that wants to be free is a wild horse; let you see, brothers and sisters, listen to me — the Christian church offers you freedom from the bridle, but the house of Israel offers to tighten that bridle up for you so you will not perish; is anybody hearing me? Do you understand what I'm telling you? You've got to have a bridle, sir. 81 If not, you — when you get turned over to Satan, if you don't have this bridle, you'll run away; but when you allow that bridle in your life, there must be a certain window in your mind at how you look at things, how you look through to survive the mental attacks. 82 Go back to this verse where we was just at Proverbs — and I want to show you, but he — go back up — but he that keepeth the Torah; what do you need a vision of? Where there is no vision of the Torah, the people become unbridled and they will be unhappy. 83 You've got to get a vision of the Torah, the foundation of God; the foundation will put you into such a bridle to where you understand that you need that vision; he didn't say you need a vision of the cross — you need a vision of the Torah. 84 Without getting the Torah in your mind, you'll never be happy; you know why? Satan will attack your mind; every attack I'm talking about is in your mind; where does your vision from God have to come? To your mind; what did it just say? Click on it one more time. 85 The vision that you have to get is a mental vision; everything is in your mind; go up right there — vision — watch this — hazon; go up again, this is — keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going — right here; back up, back up; give me a touchscreen TV and I'll do it mentally. 86 If you don't get the Torah in your mind, you will be destroyed; you know why? You won't even understand your God; you will not even understand; so tonight I want to start this little series — I don't know how long it'll go; it's entitled Victory by Vision. 87 You need a new vision; you need a new vision in your mind to survive the mental attack from Satan, whom Yahweh has placed you under to press your mind; those arrows — we're not talking physical — they're thoughts; they're thoughts. 88 So what vision do I need, Pastor, to protect my mind from the arrows? There must be a vision laid out for us in the Torah of Moses, the foundational Torah; and because the foundations have been destroyed, the restraints of God's law has been loosened from his people; and he said that's why my people are destroyed. 89 Now let me make something plain for you — the law is not just the commandments; the Torah is all the instructions where Yahweh has told you the secrets; hang tight — now I'm going to get somewhere in a minute; the law is not just the commandments; you don't just need a vision of the commandments; you need a vision of the instructions, the plan. 90 I've come to tell you today — Christian vision will not protect you; you need a vision of the whole plan in your mind, the Torah; and the entire plan is only found in the Torah; it's the instructions. 91 So what is the primary teaching in the Torah, all the way through the first five books of the Bible? The primary teaching — because that's the vision you have to get a hold of — is the one in the foundational Torah; so Pastor, what is it? 92 I'm going to make it so simple for you; in all of Moses's writings, here was the message of the Torah that you need a vision of — that Israel is a kingdom of royalty with a destiny to rule all other nations on planet Earth; that was the message of the Torah. 93 Do you want to be protected from deception? You better get that vision; do you know why Christians cannot listen to me preach? Because what I just said they cannot comprehend. 94 To a Christian, here's their vision — watch this; the Christian vision is this — do you believe Jesus died for your sins? Yes; you confess he's Lord? Yep; you can go ask the devil the same thing — he'll say yes; the Bible said the devil believes and trembles; he told Yeshua, if you be the Son of God — he knows he's the Son of God; the devil believes. 95 But the Christian vision is — all right, you accept that, you believe that, all right, now go and live your life and anything you do before you do it's already forgiven, don't worry about it; you go on and one day when you die you will go to a place of marshmallow clouds and you will go to Candyland and you will swim with the fish made out of jelly; that's the Christian vision. 96 That vision will destroy you; you will say Lord Lord and he will say no no no no no, you didn't have the right vision; the mental image — you thought you would go to heaven, Brother Carter, and dance around the throne of Yahweh for 50 billion years; y'all can't even dance in here 10 minutes without getting tired. 97 About the time that third song's over you looking back at Brother Denny like, can we going to slow it down now? But that's your vision — you're going to live in a mansion and maybe your mother-in-law is going to live in one across the street from you for all eternity; you want golden toilets while you at it? 98 This vision will protect you; this vision will destroy you; you will go through your whole life not understanding the vision; here's the vision — Israel is a royal people called by God to take dominion over the earth and to subdue it and to bring restoration to all men and all women; that is the vision. 99 Here's the next vision — when you die, you go straight to hell; you go burned; here's the vision we had — you died, this one went to heaven, that one went to hell and they're burning now; they made out of flesh, flesh can only burn a few seconds, they're burning for all eternity. 100 And then people's up in heaven and we used to say them people could see them people in hell — my God, how horrible would that be? And we used to believe, and this was our vision, that all those people would go to hell and then we would have a judgment day — but what's the point of a judgment day when everybody's done went to hell or heaven? 101 That vision will destroy you; you cannot live an overcoming life with that vision; here's the vision — Israel is a royal priesthood and they are destined to rule and reign over the nations of the world; that is the vision of the Torah. 102 I'll break it down for you — Moses told him as he was standing there, he said what nation is like you? What nation has the law of God like you do? What nation has a God like you have? He said if you will obey what I tell you to do, all the other nations of the world will bow down to your God; they will come into your city and surrender to your law, to your Torah. 103 God did not choose Israel because they were better; he chose them because they had a purpose that no one else had; that's the vision; you've got to get this vision. 104 I want to explain to you tonight — those watching me live — the ministry that God has called me to build is a vision-building ministry; my job is to get the chicken barn out of your eyes and show you where eagles fly; you must change your vision of God's plan. 105 You've got to change it; you've got to come up higher and see God's true plan for you; without this vision you won't survive; without this vision, when that arrow hits you, Brother Betts — when that arrow hits you, you'll be destroyed. 106 But when you know you're an eagle, you take arrows out and you keep flying; you know why? You've got a different vision; you're not in that chicken barn that you was born in. 107 I love the story Brother Branham always told; he always said that there was an egg that fell in a chicken yard; and the egg rolled under mama hen and mama hen sat on that egg and gave birth to it; and that little bird that was born under mama hen — yes, he was born among chickens. 108 But all of his life he knew something wasn't right; he knew this was his brothers and sisters, supposedly; he knew this was his family, supposedly — you're not hearing me; he knew this was his mama, supposedly; he knew he was born into this family, supposedly; but something never fit right. 109 There was a — oh, there was something in that little bird that didn't match up with the vision of chickens; hallelujah; when those chickens would go around eating dung, he wouldn't eat the dung; he started looking for living worms; why? Eagles only eat the living. 110 You understand? I've come to tell you, that's why you can't watch every ministry — because you can't eat dead sermons; eagles find the living word, the ones that's crawling with vision and life; amen. 111 One day that little so-called chicken was walking through the barnyard and he heard something way up high; he heard the mama that dropped the egg in the barnyard; he heard a call, a voice from heaven; and that little chicken looked up, his mama came down, he jumped on her wings and left the vision of the barnyard. 112 There will come a day when you'll hear the word of the hour, you'll hear the message of the hour; it'll sound like an eagle; it'll call you higher, it'll bring you higher, it'll elevate you into the transcendent glory of the word of God; woo, woo; it'll change your vision; it'll change your vision. 113 Your victory is tied to your vision; you've got to get a new vision, sir; you've got to get a royal vision instead of a common vision; God's calling you tonight to get a royal vision of your plan for your life, his purpose for your life. 114 Those who have no revelation of the law wind up being unrestrained; they say things like, I don't need no man telling me what to do, I don't have to go there and I don't have to do, I'm me and God; see, that's unrestrained; you don't want no accountability; you don't want to be in a place to where God is correcting you. 115 I want to say this — if you ever listen to a preacher and you agree with everything he's saying and you didn't feel like you got beat up on, you probably don't have a preacher; God's calling you to get beat up on; he's calling you to get beat up on so that you can fly higher; get a new vision. 116 You need a vision of the Torah; I didn't say the law, the Ten Commandments — that's not all I'm talking about; I'm talking about the plan; I'm talking about the instructions on how to fly; the instructions that God wants you to have — a kingdom vision. 117 Do you know the problem with every one of us? We all had a church vision until we got a kingdom vision; you've got to get rid of your church vision and get a kingdom vision; you've got to get rid of your heaven vision and get a kingdom vision; to know who you are in Christ — you are Israel; you've got to get an Israel vision. 118 I said you are Israel; hallelujah; Brother Michael, you can't have a Mormon vision, you can't have a Baptist vision — you've got to have an Israel vision; a royal vision; you need a royal vision to know who you are in Christ. 119 One of the first attacks from Satan in your mind, once you decide you're going to walk this way with us — he'll pull the arrow back; and I'll tell you the first thing he hits you with; here it comes — as soon as you tell somebody that you're now Torah observant, you break one; if you break one law, you broke everything; and that hits your mind. 120 And then the next one — that says, you say you're Israel, you don't act like it; attack after attack after attack — well you've got sin in your life, how can you be following the Torah? 121 And I'll give you the answer; the next time the devil shoots that arrow, I want you to shoot one back to him; it's called Romans chapter 4 and verse 22; read that arrow for me; the next time he shoots that arrow, I dare you to shoot one back; hallelujah. 122 Shoot this arrow — Romans 4:22 — and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness; it was imputed to him as righteousness; it didn't say he was righteous; it said that faith and grace imputed righteousness into him until he became righteous. 123 Listen to me now — follow him to the restroom, brother, don't let him go; listen carefully, you need to know Romans 4:22; stay with me folks, come on, turn back around, stay with me; this is important — that arrow is coming your way, that you are not righteous; that's when you say, I know it, but I know a man who is, and he loaned me his righteousness; hallelujah; shoot it back. 124 Shoot him another one — Romans 4:17; shoot this arrow back at him, saints; Romans 4:17 — shoot this one to him; as it is written, it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations; before him who believed, even Yahweh who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were, as though they already are. 125 If God said you're Israel, you're Israel, whether you look like it or not, whether you act like it or not; if God says you're holy, you're holy, whether you act like it or not; if God said it, you already are; woo. 126 So when he shoots that arrow, be ready for it — well, you know, I heard you the other day, the way you was talking, that didn't sound too Israeli to me; so you're right; but let me show you what does sound Israeli — the minute I did it, I found a place to repent; I found a place to confess it and to acknowledge it and to get rid of it. 127 I will not mock the grace of God; but when I do something wrong, I will confess it and I will repent; that's what Israel does; that makes me an Israelite; Moses didn't act Israeli when he struck that rock, but he spent the rest of his life repenting over it; that's what makes you an Israelite; hallelujah. 128 Once God imputes righteousness into you, that will put you on a pathway that will lead you into righteousness until the full manifestation of the kingdom is in your very being. 129 There are three questions that every man asks — every philosopher has asked these three questions; where did we come from? Why are we here? And where are we going? If you can answer those three questions for anybody, you have answered the most difficult questions; Plato, Socrates — everyone tried to answer. 130 And I want to tell all of you something — until you know the answer to those three questions, you will be worn out by Satan in your mind every day; Sister Lis, Satan is determined to wear you out so that you'll get out of the camp of Israel; he'll wear you out. 131 There's only one way he can't do it — if you're protected by this vision of where you came from, why you're here, and where you're going; when you get those three protections in your mind, you will destroy the enemy every time he shoots an arrow; the only way to know the answers to those three questions is with a kingdom vision, to understand the Torah — it will point you to a royal mindset. 132 Go read Torah — all through the Torah here's what you'll find: a group of people that was never at home in this world; come on now, stay with me, I'm about to let you go home; all through the Torah, all you see is people following a cloud — they were different; all you see is they were always being fought by Pharaoh and always winning every time; hallelujah. 133 But you see they were different; they had a royal mentality; they believed that they were different than all other nations on the earth; they believed that they were not like other men — a royal vision; they weren't looking for ways to disobey the Torah; they knew the Torah is what made them different and it made them royal. 134 So what do we find in the Torah? The answer to these questions; let me give you an example — the Hebrew word for truth is emet; aleph, mem, tav; aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, tav is the last letter; emet — aleph, mem, tav; the letter mem is the middle. 135 Now what does that mean? The word truth is — what? First letter aleph, last letter tav; truth — watch this — truth; I'm just going to show you what truth is — knowing the beginning and knowing the end and everything in between. 136 Where do you learn all three things? In the Torah; to have truth, you've got to know the beginning, the ending, and everything in between; that's why we do Torah study, to find out everything in between; hallelujah. 137 To discover that purpose you must first know your origin, your end; and that's where the church fails you — they don't know the beginning; they think the earth's only 6,000 years old; they don't know the beginning; did you hear me? The Christian church does not know the beginning; First Harvest Ministries does. 138 We know what happened before the beginning; we know that Yahweh created everything perfect, not without form and void; and because we know that, Sister Judy, we're already developing another world vision in our mind; we know who the God of this world was before, before Jesus ever came — Satan. 139 Why? We know about — we know that Yahweh gave Satan planet Earth; what do you have to do to know truth, Sister Deborah Betts? The beginning, the end, and everything in between. 140 I've come to tell you — the only way you will not be destroyed by Satan — the truth will make you free; you've got to know the beginning, the end, and everything in between; and the Christian church will not teach you about the beginning. 141 And then when you get to the end, they mess it all up, sir — they've got you getting raptured out of here to go to a place that you were never supposed to even go to; now you see why everything's messed up; the foundations are destroyed; why? Because the foundations are in the Torah. 142 The foundations are destroyed; he said you've got to know the end; now we know the end; but then in the middle — that's where the battle is; that's where you're going to fall unless you're constantly studying the Torah; daily, daily. 143 Here's what you're going to find, ladies and gentlemen — you're looking for the answers to the beginning, the end, and everything in between; I've got them; and I'll tell you where I got them from — from a book I didn't write; hallelujah. 144 And that's what makes this ministry so hated; because you can run us down but you can't downrun us; you can hate us but you can't hurt us; you can say we're a cult but you cannot deny what we teach; you can say anything you want to say but you cannot come against our message; why? We know everything in between; hallelujah. 145 And when they can't intimidate you, they'll hate you; you need to become unintimidated by knowing everything in between; here it is — you and I; here's your beginning, your end, and everything in between. 146 You and I are Yahweh's greatest creation; we're here to rule the earth, to subdue it, to make it fruitful so that it reflects the very nature of Yahweh; the ultimate goal — and here's the goal nobody knows about — the end: our ultimate goal is to restore everything to the standard of God's nature, the way that it all started. 147 How are you going to do that if you're going to heaven? You don't even know what you were born for; you're getting ready to rule and reign; you're getting ready to restore the Garden of Eden; you're getting ready — the Bible said to restore all things. 148 And the church says, we're getting ready for the earth to be burned up; there's gonna be a new heaven, pastor, and a new — that's all gonna be destroyed; poor child; poppycock; you're a child of poppycock; that's nowhere in your Bible; nowhere. 149 Don't you know the word new heaven and new earth — don't you know it means renewed heaven and restored earth? Oh, why would God do anything new when he did the best he ever did with planet Earth? That'd be like saying Michelangelo is gonna burn up the Mona Lisa — he might go touch it up a little, but he ain't gonna burn it up; that's his creation. 150 If you think Yahweh is getting ready to destroy, you've got the wrong vision; you've got the wrong vision; the Torah will tell you what he's going to do; the Torah will tell you; the foundation will get your vision right. 151 I've come to tell you, Christians — listen to me; those that have come out of Christianity — listen to me; you can only survive being turned over to Satan, this war on the saints. 152 Do you know why the churches are emptying out? Do you know why the churches are emptying out? I'll tell you why — go look all over this town; go look; do you know why the whole world is losing? Even the Catholic church is losing. 153 You know, I'm going to tell you why — you gave them the wrong vision; why do they need the sacrificial life of holiness when you've already put them in heaven? What's the point? Why bring the church 10% of my money when y'all gave me a free ticket to heaven? Why keep the Sabbath day holy when I'm already guaranteed heaven? 154 My people are destroyed because of the lack of knowledge of the Torah, the vision of royalty; when you get a common vision, you will live a common life; you should have wrote that down in your notes; I know y'all tired but I don't care; this is too — this is life right here; you won't get this anywhere in the world, what you're getting right now. 155 Listen to me — when you live a common vision, when you have a common vision, you'll live a common life; when you've got a vision of just going to heaven, you'll live like it; but when you get a vision to know that to take dominion over the earth, you first have to take dominion over Allen. 156 When you understand that, now you start living a royal life; you can't live holiness with a chicken's vision; you'll never know the foundation; in the New Testament you go to the New Testament, you can't find the vision I'm talking about; the vision is in Genesis chapter one — subdue the earth. 157 You won't find none of this I'm preaching about; you won't find it in the New Testament; now you will find confirmations of it in the New Testament, but it doesn't start in the New Testament; for example, you get to the book of Revelation and it says the saints will rule the earth and you're like, that's weird — because you didn't know the Torah. 158 If you would have known the Torah, you would have heard God's first command to mankind — rule the earth; and when you get to Revelation, nothing changes; but you didn't have the right vision; therefore you can't rule yourself; you're welcome; that's why you can't rule your tongue; why rule if you're not planning on ruling? 159 I mean, for my God, if I'm going to heaven with all these people that don't like me, I'm going to be looking for an exit door; y'all think I'm playing; I know a few people that if I get stuck for eternity around them, as much as they hate me, I'm going to be asking the Lord, is there another heaven I can go to? Yes, sir. 160 I mean, think about it — if they don't like you now, you think they going to start liking you then? No; but if you'll take dominion over — you love your enemies — that's why he told you to do it; because you've got to live with your enemies; if you'll learn to love them now and take dominion now, you can rule over them then. 161 You need a new vision, a royal vision; glory; God's purpose for creation is being revealed; I want to close with this — to know the Torah is to know the character of God; it's revealed in the Torah; it's not revealed in the New Testament; no, no, no — it's confirmed in the New Testament but it's revealed in the Torah. 162 I want to give you an example; have you ever wondered why — and I put this on Facebook, some of you've seen it already — you ever wondered why God created men with free will, knowing, Sister Denise, knowing what they were going to do, knowing that they were going to mess the whole planet up, and yet you created them with no plan to fix the problem? 163 The Christian church has no answer for that; we do; it's called the last great day; okay, that's why we keep the feast; now listen carefully — Yahweh — who is responsible for Frankenstein? Frankenstein, or the man that created Frankenstein? 164 Who is responsible for all the sin in this world? You say the devil; nope; the Bible said Yahweh said I created evil; Yahweh said I created the light and the dark, I did all these things; the Bible says, shall evil be done in a city and Yahweh didn't do it? 165 Now if Yahweh created everything knowing how this thing was going to turn out, then we have a major problem — because we have a God that likes playing psychotic games with human beings; okay, but how many know we don't have that kind of a God? We have a wonderful God. 166 We have a God that created man with a free will, knowing exactly; and he created Satan with a free will, knowing exactly what Satan was going to do; and darling, if you think that Satan messed up God's plan, you don't understand; it was Satan that made God's plan so wonderful; oh, hallelujah; it was Satan that instituted God's plan. 167 So what is that plan? You can find it in the Torah; you need a vision of the Torah; do you know the plan of God? Read for me Exodus 21, verse 32 — I'm going to show you the plan of Yahweh; then I'm going to let y'all go eat; I still got a lot to preach but I don't have time; amen. 168 Exodus 21:32 — let's read what Yahweh wrote in his Torah; if the ox shall push a man's servant or a maidservant, he shall give unto their master 30 shekels of silver and the ox shall be stoned. 169 All right, so you've got a man that owns an ox; the ox gores one of the children, the neighbor's child; we kill the oxen; but we hold the owner ultimately responsible; he has to pay 30 pieces of silver; watch this — it's not the ox, it's the owner; why? That owner knew what that ox was capable of doing; he should have built that fence stronger. 170 I come to tell you, God's bound by his Torah; now let's read another thing about Yahweh — Exodus 21:33 and 34; this is good; hang tight; 33 and 34 — and if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit — so a man goes in his yard and digs a hole — read — and not cover it; and he don't put orange little cones all around it; right. 171 Read — and an ox or an ass fall therein; and your neighbor's ox comes walking by and falls in the hole; read — the owner of the pit shall make it good; the owner — not, no, no, no, not the ox or anybody else — the owner; hallelujah; is responsible, is responsible for making it right. 172 Y'all go ahead, read that with verse 34 — and give money unto the owner of them; he's got to give something; I want you to hear what I just said — for God so loved the world, he gave something; I need you to hear what I'm about to preach to you; hallelujah. 173 The owner has to give something to make it right; if he allowed the first Adam to fall, he's got to give the second Adam; do you understand? He's always had a plan; it ain't the devil's fault, it's God's; and God liked it that way; that put him on the hook to make sure — if he made the problem, he's got to fix the problem. 174 That's why you need to know the Torah; I just showed you the mind of God in the Torah; the vision — that your ox falls in that ditch; the Torah says the owner's responsible; how many of you's ever fallen in the ditch? The Creator is responsible; do you understand? He created you to fall; now he's got to get over there and pick you back up. 175 Do you understand me? He's got to have a plan in place to fix and restore everything; that's why you need to know the Torah; that's the mind of Yahweh. 176 Read Exodus 22 and 5 and 6 — and we done after that; if a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten and shall put in his beast and shall feed in another man's field, of the best of his own field and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution. 177 The owner has to make restitution; I've come to tell you, Elder Betts, the owner is Yahweh; the Bible said the earth is mine and the fullness thereof; he said if you think that I created creation to fall, I created creation to rise — but to rise, they had to fall. 178 Do you understand? I created creation to be restored, and I'm the one that's going to restore it; I'm the one that's going to repair the entire world; hallelujah; so he gets the glory; come on now, he gets the glory; that's right. 179 Why? If he gets the blame for the fall, he's got to get the glory for the restoration of it all; hallelujah; he's the owner; he claims responsibility; God is responsible; he's liable to pay for the damages caused by Adam's sin; that's why Yeshua paid the full penalty for the sin of the world. 180 God sent his son; amen; why would God send his son? Because he allowed Adam to fall; he created Adam to fall; brothers and sisters, I've come to tell you. 181 What did I tell you? Truth is the beginning and the end; do you know your pastor just revealed to you the beginning and the end? And that's why when Satan throws an arrow in your mind that God did this or God didn't do that, you already know the plan; you already know those are all lies; you already know he's good all the time; you already know he's good all the time. 182 Why? You're protected with your vision; you need a vision of your God; get a new vision; my people are destroyed, they perish, because they have no vision of the Torah. 183 Now you always have a plan, Sister, to restore it all; and I want to show you that plan; I want to show you how that plan is going to come to pass; they're sitting in this room; he's going to — he's going to reproduce himself; he's going to reproduce his image in you. 184 And when Yeshua returns, you will be called up from your rest to restore everything; and that's why Elder Baker right now in this life is restoring Vicki so that Vicki can restore them all; he is creating in you what he did not create in Adam; he is creating in you the answer for the problem. 185 The problem was what? Rebellion; the answer is what? Obedience; hallelujah; if rebellion started it, obedience is going to end it; and what is there to obey if there's no Torah? If there's no law of God — that the Bible said the carnal man cannot obey the law of God, neither indeed can it ever do it. 186 Why? Because it's part of that old world order; but sitting inside the secret conclaves of this assembly is a new world order that is being formed; there is a new group of people that's being created for the restoration of everything. 187 Would you stand on your feet right now if you plan to be part of that restoration, and give him the glory? Come on and give him the glory; give him the glory; come on and lift your hands and give him glory. 188 He's recreating you now; he's recreating you right now so that you can recreate all things; woo, hallelujah; oh, oh, thank you Holy Ghost, thank you Holy Ghost; every time you say yes Lord you're being recreated. 189 And one day when he's through working on you, that's when he's going to turn to all mankind and bring them into obedience; ladies and gentlemen, you're a new creature; from the bottom of my heart, you're a new creature. 190 Sing it — you're a new creation of my soul; yes Lord, yes Lord; come on, tell him yes; I'm completely yes, my soul says yes; would you tell him yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord. 191 From the bottom, from the bottom of my heart to the depth of my soul, oh yes Lord, completely yes, my soul says yes; yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord, from the bottom of my heart to the depth of my soul, oh yes Lord; woo, completely my soul. 192 Would you pray this prayer with me right now — Father Yahweh, in the name of Yeshua, search my heart, search my heart for secret rebellion, secret rebellion, hidden crumbs that is displeasing to you; if you will show them to me, Father, if you show them to me, Father, I'll sweep them out; I'll thank you Lord; yes Lord. 193 If you meant that, I want to show you something; Lord, you see these commandments right here, let me show you why they're there; Sister Rachel, here's why — if you've got a vision for the Torah, this is a measuring stick for your life. 194 Do you have any other gods besides Yahweh? Is it sports? Is it money? Is it family? I had to go to my families, I couldn't come to the Sabbath service; do you have any other gods before you? Maybe it's your bills — you couldn't pay your tithe because you had bills; you shall have no other gods. 195 And he said I'm going to test you so that I can know that I can use you; use me Lord; and then he brings you to that second commandment, the third one, the fourth — and those are your — that's your test; if you can say yes Lord to those, then you are being changed from the inside out. 196 Because everybody can't say yes when they move here and they find out they can't have no other gods besides Yahweh; God's testing you; listen to me, children — you're on testing ground; you're on testing ground. 197 Oh, you wives — I've seen all of you coming under submission to your husband; you're on testing ground; he wants everything out; just get it; it ain't worth it. 198 Lord God, if rebellion is what caused all this, I don't want it in my heart; I just want to say yes Lord, from the bottom of my heart; from the bottom of my heart, yes Lord; if that's what you want from my family, yes Lord. 199 I feel the Holy Ghost touching somebody right now; if that's what you want, Lord, I'll give it all to you; I'll surrender it all to you; my soul, my soul says yes, it says yes Lord, yes Lord. 200 Why don't you reach out to the Lord, everybody, right now? Surrender your soul to it; surrender your life; surrender your will; surrender your rebellion; surrender it all; of my soul, yes, yes Lord, completely, completely, my soul says yes.