This issue of YAHSHUA'S WITNESS MAGAZINE
 was published for April-June 2011
 

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Inside this issue:

FROM THE EDITOR

Promiscuity & the Death of Love

The Loss of Love

Counting Pentecost

How Should We Observe a Day?

The Death of Death

EDITOR: Jerry Healan

  ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Frances Healan

PROOFREADERS: Frances Healan, Jerry Healan

For comments or inquiries please write to YEA, P. O. Box 31, Atlanta, TX 75551.

In Kenya contact Messianic Assemblies of Yahweh 7th day, P. O. Box 79007 Nairobi, Kenya

OUR COVER:  This picture was sent to us along with the first article concerning the death of love. Dr. Makow has written an excellent article that describes the death of love. A young bride such as this one should be saving herself for her husband. She should also be blessed with a good husband who would love and cherish her all the days of their lives. Sadly, the world has lost the ability to truly love, but we do look forward to the day that Yahshua will return and set all things in perfect order.

FROM THE EDITOR

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST!   

I wanted to get a jump start in this magazine because I know the reaction that we will receive from certain people due to the first article that we have posted in this magazine. We already receive negative input from some when we slip up and overlook certain words in the Scriptures. We do utilize the King James Version when we quote Scriptures. We have the KJV on our computers, of course, and when we do quote Scriptures we simply cut and paste. Once pasted into the article we have to go back and make the necessary changes of certain words such as changing “the Lord” to Yahweh, God to Elohim, Jesus to Yahshua, Christ to the Messiah, etc., etc. However, we are human and we slip up every now and then. Please don’t think that we approve of these terms. We don’t. If we did, then we wouldn’t go about changing them.

  The first article that we have in this particular magazine, however, does utilize the word “God” and we chose not to change it since the man who wrote the article doesn’t necessarily understand about the paganism of these words. At least, we have never seen where he understands that such is the case. But the article is a very appropriate one concerning the death of true love in today’s world. We sought his permission to run the article and he graciously gave his approval.

  Reading his article stirred me to write the second article entitled The Loss of Love. It may not have turned out exactly as I first imagined it, but I trust that Yahweh was guiding my mind to write that article. We do live in a world that is so very critically short on true love. The reason for this is, as Dr. Makow pointed out, due to a subtle and skillful manipulation by certain elements in our society, and let’s also don’t forget the dark forces of the spirit world.

  If people would only turn to their Creator, they would find the true path to love because He is love. Of course, we are to turn to Yahweh through Yahshua the Messiah. He is the door and the way to the very throne of the whole creation. Yahweh has revealed His love for us through Him. One day Yahweh is going to reveal Himself to all of mankind. That will be a most joyous occasion. At that time every knee will bow before Him and all will be worshipping Him and rejoicing before His throne for the marvelous mercy that He will reveal toward His people.

  Brethren, there is a most marvelous and fantastic world that is coming. It is our prayer and hope that we will all be able to be to witness to the awesome wonders that are in store in the future for Yahweh’s creation. We can’t even begin to understand all of the great things that will be taking place forever and ever, but we do know that it will be so awesome! May that day come soon!

  JH

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Promiscuity & The Death of Love

Why women today are losing the ability to love, and how men must adjust.
by Henry Makow Ph.D.

Please see our editorial for comments concerning this article.

If a young woman today said she was saving her virginity for her husband, she'd be considered hopelessly old fashioned. She'd be treated with disdain, as polite society treated a whore 100 years ago.

This is a measure of the triumph of Satanism, the "religion" of the modern world, which lurks behind secularism. Not coincidentally, virgins also had to hide their purity in Bolshevik Russia.

The defining characteristic of civilization is the consecration of sex to marriage, or at the very least, love and courtship. Marriage and family are the red blood cells of a healthy society and the basis for procreation.

Satanists understand this very well. That's why they used "sexual liberation," to undermine humanity. As Giuseppe Mazzini said, "we corrupt in order to conquer."

They are like the devil. Corruption is a form of conquest. Enslavement takes the form of addiction, to sex or drugs or alcohol. 

Any animal can have anonymous sex. It is human to form a permanent loving bond and raise children properly. This is why Satanists use free love to attack marriage.

FREE LOVE IS AN OXYMORON

The more sexual partners a young woman has, the less she is able to love a man. A woman's love must be exclusive. It must be focused on her husband, the father of her children. She must preserve her soul for him. That's what her body represents.

 For a woman, sex is an act of self-sacrifice and surrender. By definition, it requires trust, i.e. love and devotion to one man. When she has casual sex, inevitably she is disappointed and feels used. She starts to hate men and falls victim to feminism and lesbianism.

When men were required to get married in order to have sex, women were courted and loved. Later, they were honored for their contributions as wife and mother. Far from protecting "women's rights," feminism has left women twisting in the wind.

The separation of sex from marriage, i.e. "sexual liberation," is one of the principle ways satanism has killed love.

Wanton sex has become a substitute for love. Young women now market themselves as sex partners, not wives and mothers. Men are also trained to seek sex.

"Homosexual rights" are designed to make heterosexuals behave like homosexuals. Very few homosexuals marry. Very few have children. This is the model the elite envisages for mankind.

The Illuminati want us to be isolated, alienated and tractable.

A woman who is saving herself for marriage should be commended. She is resisting social pressure ( i.e. social engineering) and obeying her instincts instead.

  Through the mass media, the Illuminati brainwashes us to think romantic love and sex are a universal panacea that can replace religion (God.)

How many movies and songs are based on the assumption that some perfect person is going to give us our self? Woody Allen is 75 and he's still chasing this romantic chimera in his movies. This is arrested development.

People aren't meant to be loved as though they were perfect. No one is. Only God is perfect and that is where our love should be directed. As you know, I define God in terms of spiritual ideals such as truth, justice, goodness and beauty.

Especially now when fewer men and women are capable of love, we need to focus on loving God and, especially, on God's love for us.

The Illuminati have done a good job of discrediting God. He is the positive force behind Creation. He represents the inherent moral and natural design. By adhering to this design, we will be healthy and happy.

REALISTIC MARRIAGE

In olden times, men chose women for their worth as helpmates. Can she cook? Milk cows? Make clothes? They had no illusions about "soul mates." Men need to look for women who are gentle and accommodating, who have skills, character, personality and make good mothers.

Avoid promiscuous women, feminists and women who are alienated from their fathers. Avoid bean counters (women who want everything to be "equal.")

We need to take the stardust out of our eyes and realize that the importance of sex has been grossly exaggerated in order to control us.

Men are attracted to almost all fertile women. So what? That's nature's way of making sure we procreate. We don't need to be controlled by that.

In marriage, we are looking for a life-long companion. Look at old TV shows to see the traditional picture of marriage. It's not heaven. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez; Ralph and Alice Kramden were always comically at odds. It never gets boring.

Marriage is a mutual security pact. A woman accepts her husband's leadership in return for his protection and love. Men want power; women want love. Marriage is the exchange of the two.

Your spouse is nothing like you. There's going to be disagreements. It's not necessary to think alike or feel love all the time. Many women are moody.

Just keep your bargain. Be loyal. Don't say things that will upset her. Play your part. And over time, with mutual trust, a strong bond grows.

And if you can't find a suitable companion, you may be in luck. Thoreau, a bachelor, said, "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." 

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  We truly appreciate Henry Makov’s article entitled Promiscuity and the Death of Love. His observations are “right-on” with those of our own. He is right concerning his accusations of the Satanists. After all, it was the interruption of the glorious peace of the Garden of Eden by the serpent who is eventually revealed as the great red dragon, that old serpent called the Devil and Satan who has deceived the whole world (Rev. 12:3, 9), that has brought about the loss of the ability of mankind to love.

  The serpent was a deceiver and liar from the beginning, for when he entered into the garden, he met with the woman, contradicted Yahweh’s warning, confused her causing her to begin to doubt and disbelieve, which led her to partake of the forbidden fruit; gave it to her husband who also ate of it, and presto, access to the Garden of Eden was denied.

  Yahweh had just restored the earth from a state of darkness and destruction to that which  was pronounced “very good.” (Gen. 1:31). The English word “very” just doesn’t accurately convey the Hebrew word that it is translated from. The Hebrew word is meod, and conveys the idea of vehemence! Vehemence is defined as “having or characterized by intense feeling or strong passion; fervent, impassioned, etc. (Webster’s New World Dictionary) So the earth was intensely, passionately, fervently good! If we were able to see it today, it would literally take our breath away because it was so awesomely beautiful! We have never seen, nor experienced such a thing.

  The first man and woman were able to see, experience, and live in such a place, but they failed to live up to their side of the bargain (covenant) and were cast out. Since that time, men and women have tried to recapture the awesome, breath-taking, beauty of that original creation, but can never duplicate it.

MORTALITY AND CORRUPTION

  Yahweh had warned that if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, “thou shalt surely die.” (Gen. 2:17) Again, the Hebrew conveys the idea of “dying, thou shalt die.” In other words, the death process would begin in the day that they partook of that fruit, they would begin to corrupt until some day in the future, they would die. Man had become mortal and corruptible (1 Cor. 15:53).

  We must come to understand ourselves. We are the descendants of the first man and woman, Adam and Eve. They had the most amazing life and potential! They had a covenant with Yahweh wherein they could live in that awesome, breath-taking environment, and eat of every tree there, including the tree of life. All they had to do was obey the rules of the covenant, which included dressing and keeping (guarding) the Garden of Eden.

  When they reached out their hand, taking of the forbidden fruit, the covenant was broken. Mortality and corruption entered not only into them, but all of their progeny, their posterity, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come,” Ro. 5:12-14.

  We, like our first parents, Adam and Eve, are full of mortality, and corruption. They, in effect, committed suicide, destroying an amazing and awesome life and potential. We, their children, do the same thing! We build, only to destroy. Yahweh cursed the earth because of Adam’s transgression so that it would not bring forth its fullness, “cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return,” Gen. 3:17-19.

  We have a tendency to pierce ourselves with many thorns in life because of various fleshly pursuits that seem to be pleasurable, but end up causing great pain, grief, sadness, and sorrow. Take smoking, for instance. This author smoked back in his youth for about six or seven years. Smoking is a pleasurable sensation. The reality is that smoke and nicotine are addictive, and destructive. Most people are too weak-willed to give it up once the addiction has taken hold. The same goes for drugs, alcohol, and so many other things. Food can even be addictive and the flesh is weak. Sex can be addictive. I think it is safe to say that just about anything can be addictive to certain people. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. The strengths are good, but the weaknesses are the things that do us in. That is because the flesh is mortal and corruptible.

  We are born into this world as innocents, but the potential for evil is in us from the start. Of course, every newborn child is self-centered. After all, they were brought into this world knowing nothing. They must be taught everything that they learn. Children will be especially bonded to their parents. Their parents are their world. A child is helpless and needs someone to care for him/her. Their parents are their first love! But too many parents destroy that love. How? Through their own pursuits and desires. Too many parents, even though they may not mean to, neglect their children. This neglect destroys love.

  Abandonment is another process that destroys love. Separation, divorce, remarriage, etc. causes so many problems. It destroys the sense of family, togetherness, loyalty, belonging, etc. The percentage of broken homes and families in our society is overwhelming.

RICHES

  The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, “…they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows,” 1 Tim. 6:9-10.

  We all would love the good life with a beautiful home, furnishings, property (-ies), transportation, resorts, vacations, plenty of money in the bank account (s), savings, etc. so we could have whatever our hearts, our flesh desires.

  There is, of course, the concept called “The American Dream,” which is presented as, “The American Dream, sometimes in the phrase "Chasing the American Dream," is a national ethos of the United States in which freedom includes a promise of the possibility of prosperity and success. In the American Dream, first expressed by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the United States Declaration of Independence which proclaims that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (Wikipedia)

  So many people around the world have believed in this concept that they have picked and moved to America so they can live this dream. Do you get that? It is nothing more than a DREAM! But many are willing to risk their lives in order to cash in on this dream, and many lose their lives trying to get to America.

  We are now hearing things that we never heard before, such as, The End of America! Those living here in America are finding that their dreams that they have been living are quickly being eroded away. Why? How? Because of the pursuit of riches, because of the love of money. There are so many fraudulent schemes going on in this country that it absolutely makes a person sick to his stomach.

  Look at the fraudulent schemes of our leaders alone! I remember reading in our history books and being taught about the fraudulent schemes that were perpetrated upon this country by the big rich men who were in league with our leaders. Nothing has changed. The same schemes are still going on today, and have indebted our nation to the tune of over 14 trillion dollars. The pursuit of riches is in the process of destroying everything that we hold dear, and our values also.

  The pursuit of riches has caused our people to forsake real values, true morality, steadfast principles. Now, we are coming to the point of questioning what marriage is, what family is. We can’t even understand what truth is, and the problem is that people don’t care for truth anyway. Our nation has corrupted from its original intent and purity, if there was such a thing anyway. What was the statement of Giuseppe Mazzini? He said, "we corrupt in order to conquer." Now we are learning the true tactics of the one called the devil and Satan!

YAHSHUA’S PROPHECY

  Yahshua cautioned His disciples, “…because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold,” Mt. 24:12.

  What is iniquity? Iniquity is defined as; illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness. (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance) It is sometimes translated as “transgression of law.”

  The Apostle John defines sin as transgression of the law, “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law,” 1 Jn. 3:4.

  The Greek word for law is anomia. It comes from the Greek root word anomos, which is defined as; lawless, i.e. (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication, a Gentile), or (positively) wicked. (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance)

  The Jewish law is not really a Jewish law, it is Yahweh’s law. It is His covenant law! When He made His covenant with Israel, He presented His law from Mt. Sinai, and Israel agreed to do all that Yahweh had commanded.

  It is sin, transgression of the law, that brings about the destruction of, that brings about the loss of love. Basically, the first five commandments describe to us how we are to love our Creator with all of our heart. Yes, the fifth commandment has to do with honoring our parents, but Yahweh is our True Father, so that commandment also applies to Him. The last five commandments teach us how to love our neighbor equal to ourselves.

  This is what Yahshua declared when a man asked Him which is the great commandment in the law? “Yahshua said unto him, Thou shalt love Yahweh thy Elohim with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets,” Mt. 22:37-40. He was summarizing the ten commandments.

  How can true love abound when the people are taught that the law is done away? If there is no law, then there is no stability.

  We know and understand that the whole creation exists because of law. The laws of physics, chemistry, biology, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, etc. exist to bring about stability. For instance, we understand that the law of gravity is a wonderful law. Because of it, we are held firmly on the earth. But if we jump or fall from a twenty story building, the law requires a penalty to be paid.

  Man understands that there must be laws, guidelines whereby we live or there will be nothing but anarchy. Every nation, state, county, province, and city has laws to deal with stability in an attempt to prevent lawless anarchy. When the laws are broken, penalties are incurred.

  But when it is declared that Yahweh’s law is done away, which is a spiritual law, there will be nothing but spiritual lawless anarchy, which is the case.

LOVE WAXING COLD

  Yahshua’s prophecy about love waxing cold because of the abounding of lawlessness (iniquity) is, of course, right on. Think about how cold our love has become when a person/persons choose to abort their own offspring!

  In nature, the natural world, there is no love stronger than the love that a female has for her offspring. We see this in animals, but even for men and women in previous generations, abortion was absolutely forbidden, as was also homosexuality, and lesbianism.

  In times past, if the act of fornication brought about a pregnancy, then the couple married in order to give the child a name, and a family. There was a sense of responsibility, duty, and love for one’s offspring. To terminate the life of a fetus was murder and unconscionable.

  Today’s statistics are frightening! I received these statistics from Abort73.com.:

·          The abortion ratios by state ranged from a low of 43 abortions per 1,000 live births in Idaho to a high of 770 abortions per 1,000 live births in NYC.

·          The abortion rate in the United States was higher than recent rates reported for Canada and Western European countries and lower than rates reported for China, Cuba, the majority of Eastern European countries, and certain Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union (CDC).

·          Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended; about 4 in 10 of these are terminated by abortion. Twenty-two percent of all U.S. pregnancies end in abortion. (AGI).

·          At least 80% of all abortions are performed on unmarried women (CDC).

·          The abortion ratio for unmarried women is 510 abortions for every 1,000 live births. For married women it is 61 abortions for every 1,000 live births (CDC).

·          47% of women who have abortions had at least one previous abortion (AGI).

·          Black women are more than 4.8 times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2.7 times as likely (AGI).

·          43% of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% identify themselves as Catholic (AGI).

  If we look at the above statistics we can determine certain factors that should alert and alarm us. Abortion is greater in a place like New York City. Therefore, the big city environment promotes the greater corruption and control. Love is being destroyed at a far greater pace.

 Abortion is greater in Communist countries. Therefore, we can determine that the socialist, Communist spirit promotes the greater corruption and control. Love is being destroyed in that system at a far greater pace.

  Abortion is greater in unmarried women. Therefore, we can determine that the unmarried state brings in greater corruption, control, and a far greater pace in the destruction of love.

  Understand this, the wages of sin is death (Ro. 6:23, first part). People partaking in promiscuous sex, fornication, adultery are committing sin and earning the wage of death for those sins. But through abortion the ones who are paying for the initial wage of death are the unborn!

  As stated in Henry Makov’s article, promiscuous sex destroys the real ability to love. As in Yahshua’s words, because iniquity (lawlessness) abounds, the love of many is waxing cold. Abortion is outright proof of these statements!

RESTORING LOVE

  What can we do to stop this downward spiral of the destruction of love? The Apostle Peter declares, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Yahshua the Messiah for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,” Acts 2:38.

  To repent means to stop sinning. To stop sinning means to stop breaking Yahweh’s spiritual law.

  We must go to the only One Who truly knows real love. That is our wondrous Creator and Heavenly Father Yahweh! Paul writes, “…Yahweh commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, the Messiah died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to Yahweh by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in Yahweh through our Sovereign Yahshua the Messiah, by whom we have now received the atonement.” Ro. 5:8-11.

  This great love was spoken of and exhibited by the Father, and His only begotten Son Yahshua Who declared, “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,” Mt. 5:43-48.

  John writes, “…Yahweh so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” Jn. 3:16.

  He also wrote, “He that loveth not knoweth not Yahweh; for Yahweh is love,” 1 Jn. 4:8.

  If we are able to exhibit this love, we must go to the source of that love, understanding ourselves and our own failings and inability, confessing our sins so we can find the mercy and grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16).

  John also writes, “Whosoever believeth that Yahshua is the Messiah is born of Elohim: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of Elohim, when we love Yahweh, and keep his commandments,” 1 Jn. 5:1-2.

  This is the real love that this evil corrupt world is keeping from you. But in the final analysis we can say that if we depend on man to maintain love it will be corrupted and destroyed, which is taking place in the world. But praise be to Yahweh who understands, has, and exhibits true love, it will never be destroyed, but rather endure forever, because Yahweh is love; Yahweh is eternal; HalleluYah!!!!!!!

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