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Monday, October 11, 2010

[RTM Torah Portions] - Parashat Lekh L' kha!

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

Tony & Tina Robinson

That through them The האור Light,  רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

Shalom! And Welcome To Everyone Who Is New To The Group!


This  coming Shabbat, October 15, 2010 we will read Parashat Lekh L' kha, Genesis 12:1-17:27.   The haftara reading is Isaiah 40:27-41:16.  You can download the lesson as a PDF file or a WORD file or as the Children's lesson PDF file.  Don't forget to listen to some of the audio visual lessons for the Torah portions here...


Ministry Opportunities

Translations - Torah Lessons in German!!!

Currently, I have one dear friend who wants to begin translating the Torah lessons into German.  However, I really need someone who can help, especially by proof-reading and editing.  Is there any joyous soul out there who has benefited from these lessons who would like to volunteer to help with the German translation project?  If so, just shoot me an e-mail and we can talk about this.

Translations - Torah Lessons in French!!!

The French web page has been updated with lot's of articles!  If you have any French speaking friends or relatives, please consider having them read an article or two on the RTM French web page.


Translations - Torah Lessons in Dutch!!!

The Dutch has been completed with all Torah portions!  If you have any Dutch speaking friends or relatives, please consider having them read an article or two on the RTM Dutch web page.


Translations - Torah Lessons in Spanish!!!

The Spanish has the Messiah in the Torah Portion section for every Torah lesson!  If you have any Spanish speaking friends or relatives, please consider having them read an article or two on the RTM Spanish web page. 


The Sign of the Messiah Online - The Teaching Every Messianic Should See, Lest They Give In To Anti-Missionary's!!!

It's been a long time coming, but finally I have a good copy of The Sign of the Messiah online.  Many of you are familiar with the teaching of the Sign of the Messiah through the Torah lessons.  Now RTM has an 83 minute DVD quality teaching on the web site.  This is THE teaching that sets the record straight concerning whether or not Yeshua is the Messiah!  Many of you have seen the presentation.  If you have not, I strongly encourage you to view/listen.  Many Messianics are denying Yeshua as the Messiah simply because they cannot find Him in the Torah/Tanakh.  This teaching proves to anyone who is willing to listen that Yeshua is the Messiah.  It is unique in that it presents a Messianic paradigm from the Torah!  That's right.  We go to the Torah and discover what it says about the Messiah.  We prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the death, burial and resurrection of Yeshua in three days is the most prophesied event concerning the Messiah in the Torah as well as the entirety of the Tanakh.  If, after reading the last sentence you're thinking, "How does the Tanakh teach about death, burial and resurrection in three days?" then this teaching is for you.  Please view this teaching and pass the link on to anyone who is struggling with Yeshua being the Messiah.  It's free!  In fact, help me by e-mailing the link to any and all of your friends.  

The video is located here...


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The trailer for my new song (COMING SOON) entitled The Sign of the Messiah is here...



RTM is Now on You Tube!

RTM has begun uploading YouTube video teachings!  As long as you go to the link below and watch the videos there you won't have any problems with unwanted content.  I currently have two separate PLAYLISTS on YouTube, 1) Chiastic Revelations and 2) Resurrection in the Torah! The link to the RTM YouTube web site is . . . 


Here are the latest two uploads . . .


Once there, near the top of the page click on PLAYLISTS and you'll see the two playlists on the right-hand side of the page where you will be able to click on the teachings.  They are numbered, 1, 2, 3,... for ease of remembering where you are.  These are expansions on thematic teachings from the Torah lessons.  Be on the look out for a good mix of YouTube and Power Point and Video presentations.  You absolutely almost can't believe how extensive this teaching is.  But it's here, it's there, it's every where.  In fact, Adonai is literally shouting out to us through the pages of Scripture teaching us this most blessed of truths - Resurrection occurs on day THREE!  So, GET READY! 

The Restoration of Torah Ministries’ Think Tank
 Strictly speaking, a think tank is an organization, institute, corporation, or group that conducts research. The term think tank itself, however, was originally used in reference to organizations that offered military advice, most notably the RAND Corporation, formed originally in 1945. Until around 1970, there were no more than several dozen think tanks, mostly focused on offering non-partisan policy and military advice to the United States government, and generally with large staffs and research budgets. After 1970, the number of think tanks exploded, as many smaller think tanks were formed to express various partisan, political, and ideological views. Some of you may be familiar with many of the conservative (and liberal) think tanks around.
Well, RTM doesn’t have a “large staff and research budget,” neither does it give military advice to the US governmnet. So, what is the RTM Think Tank?
It’s a web page devoted to presenting you with cutting edge thematic research of the scriptures. If you have studied the Torah lessons on this site (The Parashat HaShavuah Link) then you know that Adonai has arranged His eternal Words thematically. Furthermore, you've seen many examples of how themes converge to teach many, many truths. Well, I'd like to follow-up by presenting you with more studies designed to show you how the scriptures come alive when you begin to make thematic connections! These are fresh revelations not covered in the Torah lessons. You will find teachings devoted to uncovering some of the staggering number of chiastic structures and parallelisms found in the Word. But we don't stop at uncovering them. We will examine them for their theological content. These studies will 1) enhance your understanding of the scriptures and help you learn how to apply principles of thematic study. The ThinkTank is located at the following link...  The RTM Messianic Think Tank

The Scroll of the Gospel of David - Discovering a prophecy of the death, burial and resurrection of Yeshua in II Samuel 15:10 - 20:2
The book, The Scroll of the Gospel of David - If you have not bought a copy, I urge you to consider doing so. This book is an amazing source of Messianic information from an "Old Testament" perspective. There are very few sources that make such extensive use of the Tanakh (Old Testament) to prove that Yeshua is the Messiah. The Scroll of the Gospel of David is one such source. It is a practical application of what you learn each week during the Torah lessons you study from RTM. Again, if you don't have a copy...Get One! You will not be disappointed! If you would like, you can purchase The Scroll of the Gospel of David. Just go to the following web page . . .
The Scroll of the Gospel of David
 . . . and you will find instructions on where to purchase. It is an 8 1/2 x 11 inch paperback book that sells for 18.00 + shipping and handling. It can be shipped throughout the world.

The Scroll of the Gospel According to King David
Hebrew Version is Here!

It can be purchased at the webpage marketkplace.



Torah To The Nations - The RTM Parashat HaShavuah is already translated into Dutch & Spanish.  But can you believe we may soon have them in German, French, Urdu, Panjabi and Russian as well as various articles in Africaan!
Due to faithful translators who want their people to study RTM's Torah lessons in their native tongue, we are able to offer the weekly Torah lessons in Dutch and Spanish. The Dutch page is up and running and so is the Spanish page. If you'd like to see this week's Torah lesson in Dutch click here >>>>> Link To All Dutch Torah Lessons
For the Spanish lesson click here >>>>> Link To All Spanish Torah Lessons
For the French lesson click here >>>>> Link To All French Torah Lessons
As you know, the Torah lessons from RTM are in Spanish. Well...they've also been translated into Dutch! But wait! Soon, they will be translated in, Russian, French and German!!! Yes, you've heard me correctly!  In fact, I'm working on having them translated into Urdu and Panjabi (languages of Pakistan)!!!  I would much appreciate your prayers that Adonai would use the teachings from this website to be a blessing to peoples around the world!  Also, our Dutch translators will begin translating my book, The Scroll of the Gospel of David into Dutch later this year as an e-Book.
If you know how life changing these Torah lessons are and have a burden to see them translated into your native language, please see if Adonai would have you be a blessing by translating them!

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Podcast Tonight: The Feasts for the Beast Are Full of Yeast!

Can we do תפילות prayers for:
Double Portion Inheritance and Maria Merola

That through them The האור Light,  רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

Podcast Tonight: The Feasts for the Beast Are Full of Yeast!
“The Sunday Law & The Mark of the Beast versus the Sabbath of YaHuWaH”
Date: October 10th 2010
Time: 8:00 p.m. EST
Dial: (724) 444-7444
Enter when prompted: Call I.D. # 27750
Today’s Date is 10/10/10 and I believe that this may very well be significant to YHWH calling home the 10 Northern Tribes of the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel. This is a prophetic number of Ephraim (the 10 Northern Tribes) coming home to the Covenant of YHWH through Messiah’s blood! Whenever numbers are seen in increments of “3” it represents resurrection power. The number “10” represents the Nations for those 10 Northern Tribes who are “lost” in the Nations and they still think that they are “Gentiles” (strangers). YHWH is calling Ephraim home now to join the stick of Judah (Ezekiel 37:16-17)
Breaking News!!!
The Sunday Law Mark of the Beast is here! Please watch the youtube video below and then see the teaching that follows. Beloved, do not be deceived, because the “Sunday Sabbath” lie is the “Mark” or “sign” of authority that the Vatican has over the Protestant Churches.
The Feasts for the Beast Are Full of Yeast!
“The Sunday Law & The Mark of the Beast versus the Sabbath of YaHuWaH”
By Maria Merola
© Copyright Double Portion Inheritance, April 2009
 In previous podcasts, I have discussed the “Mark” or the “sign” that YaHuWaH marks his own people with “in the forehead” (Ezekiel 9, Revelation 7 & 14). The Holy Sabbath Days & Feast Days of YaHuWaH (Leviticus 23) are a “sign” which Elohim (God) says are between him and the children of Israel (all believers in Messiah) FOREVER! This means that we are commanded to keep them under the Renewed Covenant, and that they were never meant to go away. The devil also has a “mark” or a “sign” that he marks his own people with, which are the “antithesis” to the Mark of Yah and they are the 8 Pagan Sabbath Days celebrated by witches, Wiccans, and Satanists since the Tower of Babel. These Satanic “Holy Days” have been disguised to appear “Christian” by the Vatican. The Sabbaths of YaHuWaH will ultimately be the “sign” that separates the true believers (who have the “seal” of the Holy Spirit in their foreheads) from the counterfeit Mother Harlot Church who follow the Feast Days of the Beast (Papacy).
FEASTS FOR THE BEAST ARE FULL OF YEAST
Yahu'shua (Jesus) warned us to “beware of the leaven” (Yeast) of the Pharisees of his day. Today nothing has changed within Christendom, we have the “Doctrines and Commandments of men” (the Papacy) being taught in the Church and in Seminaries. This, my friends is the “Leaven” or Yeast that grows within the church today and it is a “bacteria” that hinders us from seeing him as the Unleavened Bread from Heaven. Yahu'shua Messiah is that “Bread of Life” and he is revealed in his Holy Feasts, for they are the TESTIMONY OF YAHU’SHUA (Jesus) (Revelation 19:10). Those who “have his testimony, and keep his commandments” are they who will have the right to “eat from the Tree of Life” (Revelation 12:17, 22:14) And to those who “overcome” the Beast and his system, Yahu'shua offers us the “hidden manna” the mysteries to understand the Kingdom.
Revelation 2:17 ....To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
In previous podcasts, I shared a teaching about the microchip implant being just one aspect of the “Mark of the Beast” but in the podcast I will be doing tonight, I will be addressing that there is another aspect to the “Mark of the Beast” besides the literal computer chip that will go underneath the skin.
When interpreting prophecy, we must see that there are usually 3 or 4 “layers” of understanding. The Torah of our Creator teaches us to “love YHWH” with 4 aspects our being: “heart (spiritual), mind (intellectual), soul (emotional), strength (physical).”
In Hebrew thought, these 4 layers of understanding apply to all 4 aspects our being.
Torah is divided into four levels of teaching. They are: P’shat, Drash, Remez and the Sod. Brief explanations are below:
1.) P’shat Level : is the plain sense of the text. What does it actually say? Every word, phrase, and thought has a meaning, there is no word that is redundant or idle. Even if it appears to be, it is not. It is filled with meaning for us to learn. (Physical or literal application)
2.) Drash Level: is where truth and principle are presented. Truth can only be truth if it is confirmed. Confirmation as we know must come in the form of evidence and evidence must be at least two or three witnesses. (Intellectual, or rational)
3.) Remez Level: is the underlying theme or story that is told while speaking of other things. It is how prophecy is laid into the story of history. This level shows the plan for Yahu’shua’s redemption and restoration. (Emotional application or parables we can relate to)
4.) Sod Level: is the mysterious and coded level. This involves the understanding of numbers along with the meaning associated with certain numerical values. For example, the number 1 represents “Echad” or Oneness, “Two” represents struggle, division or witness, etc. This level also involves the meanings of names. (Spiritual application or metaphor, allegory)
In the prophecies concerning the “Beast” system, there are 4 applications:
1.) The Beast’s Government – A corporate political system (intellectual, drash)
2.) The Beast’s Economy – A form of currency, the microchip implant (emotional, remez)
3.) The Beast’s Religion – A religion that deviates from scripture (spiritual, sod)
4.) The Man of sin – A man who will counterfeit the Messiah (literal, physical, p’shat)
This beast system will counterfeit the true Messiah at his second coming. Our Messiah Yahu'shua will have the “government upon his shoulders” and he will “rule and reign for a thousand years.
1.) Yahu'shua’s Government – (Isaiah 9:6-7, 22:21)
2.) Yahu'shua’s Economy – (Isaiah 55:1, Jeremiah 32:44)
3.) Yahu'shua’s Undefiled Religion – (Isaiah 2:3, Micah 4:2)
4.) Yahu'shua, the manchild who will rule all nations – (Isaiah 9, Revelation12)
In all three of these streams of influence we can see aspects of how the “Mark” of the Beast will have an influence upon people:
1.) The Mark of the Beast will have a political aspect: The Central Computer system in Luxembourg Germany has the acronym BEAST: The European Union headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium, has a huge computer system they call “the Beast.” It is an acronym for the Belgian Electronic Accounting Surveillance Terminal. The Beast of the scripture is a corporate “man” with “ten horns” and “seven heads.” This “corporate man” is a government headed by “the man of sin” the Antichrist.
2.) The Mark of the Beast will have an economic aspect: The microchip implant will replace currency so that no man might “buy or sell” unless they have this microchip implant. It will only be available to those who “worship” the Beast through his counterfeit religion which will also include his counterfeit “holy days.”
3.) The Mark of the Beast will have a religious aspect: The counterfeit holy days of “Sunday” Sabbath and pagan sun god worship festivals will be instituted as the official days of the Antichrist religion. Those who refuse to honor Satan’s counterfeit “holy days” and decide to honor the Feast Days of YaHuWaH will have to lose their lives for obedience to the commandments.
4.) The Beast has a physical image: Revelation 13:14-15, Revelation 14:9-11; The “image” of the Beast will be the Abomination of Desolation that sits in the temple of God, the 3rd Jewish Temple when it is built.
Eight Pagan Sabbaths Dressed up to appear "Christian" by the Papacy
 
1.) Imbolc became "Saint Valentine’s Day"; February 2nd-February 15th
2.) Ostara is Easter; Rome changed it to Passover week to identify her with Christ’s Resurrection.March 21st-March 25th (Pope changed to Passover week to confuse with Christ)
3.) Beltane; Mayfest (goddess of fertility/Catholic Mary/Queen of Heaven), May 1st
4.) Midsummer Solstice (First Day of Summer), June 21st (Catholics call it St. John’s Day)
5.) Lugnasad (Alleged Ascension of Catholic Mary/Semiramis), August 1st-August 15th
6.) Mabon (First Day of Autumn), September 21st
7.) Samhain (Halloween) Catholic “All-Saints Day” and “All-Souls Day” October 31st /November 1st
8.) Yule (Christmas) birthday of false Christ, December 21st -December 25th
The “Yule” Wheel is a pagan representation of all the annual celebrations offered up to the pagan sun god and moon goddess in their many different “reincarnated” forms. The wheel has eight segments signifying “eight pagan Sabbaths” each year. Notice the five pointed star of witchcraft also called the “Eastern Star.” The star is within a circle representing the sun god, Baal.
The Sabbaths & Holy Days of Satan are his Mark, Seal & Sign
Revelation 13:
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a "mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads":
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
What Does 666 mean?
6 = the number of "man" because on the 6th Day Elohim (God) created Adam.
666 = a "trinity" of man trying to become the Creator YHWH Elohim.
When "man" makes up his own commandments and replaces Yah's commandments with the "doctrines and commandments of men" this is exactly what 666 means!
The Papacy claims the title "Vicar of Christ" which adds up to 666 in Roman Numerals.
Another one of his titles is "Vicarius Filii Dei" (Substitute for the Son of God) which also adds up to 666 in Roman Numerals
What does Vicar mean? Vicar = SUBSTITUTE in Latin
What does Anti mean in the Strong's Greek Concordance?
#473. anti an-tee' a primary particle; opposite, i.e. instead or because of (rarely in addition to):--for, in the room of. Often used in composition to denote contrast, requital, substitution, correspondence, etc.
So you see Vicar means "substitute" and the word "anti" means "substitute" so Vicar = Anti
Did you see this? Anti-Christ = Vicar of Christ = 666
As seen above, the 8 pagan Sabbaths are the "sign" that the Beast uses to show who his true followers are. If you worship the counterfeit "Jesus" according to the "doctrines and commandments of men" (Papacy) then you will ultimately end up taking this "mark" which will be evidenced by the microchip implant literally from an economic aspect. But the "sign" or mark will also be a spiritual one evidenced in the fact that the Beasts followers obey the Papacy and not YHWH's commandments.
The Sabbaths & Holy Days of YHWH are his Mark, Seal & Sign
Exodus 31
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days YHWH made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
*Note: if you are born again by the Holy Spirit and sprinkled by the blood of Yahu’shua, you are a "child" of Israel (Ephesians 2:11-19)
Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. (on the hand & forehead)
*YHWH commands us to keep ALL of his commandments and he says that his commandments shall be a SIGN on THE RIGHT HAND & ON THE FOREHEAD.
Exodus 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am YHWH that doth sanctify you.
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am YHWH that sanctify them.
Ezekiel 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am YHWH your Elohim (God).
The word "sign" in the Hebrew Strong's Concordance is the word "owth" # 226: signal, mark, token, miracle.
Yah's Holy Feast Days are a mark or a sign between us and him forever! He tells to "bind them" on our hand and on our foreheads.
The Hand = our works, our deeds, because we "work" with our hands.
The Forehead = our intellect from where we make decisions.
We "decide" to obey him and to "think" our thoughts after him, to have the "mind of Messiah" is to be like him and to obey his commandments.
When we love YHWH with our "heart, mind, soul & strength" we obey him in our thoughts (mind, forehead) and we obey him with our actions (deeds, works, hand).
On the day of Pentecost (called Shavuot in Hebrew) the believers received the “seal” of the Holy Spirit which is also called the “Law of the Spirit of Life” the Torah written in our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit. The commandments have been transferred from Stone Tablets into “fleshy tables of the heart” (2nd Corinthians 3:3).
The commandments have not been “nailed to the cross” but they are now “written in our hearts and minds” under the New Covenant:
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith YHWH, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
So what was nailed to the cross? In Colossians 2:14 the Apostle Paul says that the “commandments contained in ordinances” were nailed to the cross. But when you look up the word “ordinance” in the original Greek text, it is the word “dogma” which is a man-made decree. Reading further down in verses 20-22, Paul says that these are “doctrines and commandments of men” so we know that he is not speaking of the commandments of YHWH, but rather man made ordinances such as Christmas & Easter. He goes on to admonish believers that they should not allow any “man” to judge them in how they keep Yah’s Holy Days. He tells them not to go back under any man made traditions “after the rudiments of the world.”
2nd Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of Elohim (God), whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
In the Greek Strong's Concordance, the word "seal" is:
# 4972 sphragizo sfrag-id'-zo from 4973; to stamp (with a signet or private mark) for security or preservation (literally or figuratively); by implication, to keep secret, to attest:--(set a, set to) seal up, stop.
Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
The word "seal" in the Hebrew Strong's Concordance is:
#2368 chowtham kho-thawm' or chotham {kho-thawm'}; from 2856; a signature-ring:--seal, signet.
* Note: The word "seal" here is synonymous with "signature" or "signet ring" in other words, the Holy Spirit gives us the Torah (instructions) written in our hearts as the "sign" or the evidence that we belong to him, and this is like a "signet ring" or a stamp of approval, the ENGAGEMENT RING!
The Ancient Paleo Hebrew Letter "Tav" is in the shape of a cross. This is the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet. It is a "pictograph" of the cross where our Messiah was crucified.
The Apostle Paul spoke of this "Mark" as being a "mark" that he bore in his own body:
Galatians 6:17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Master Yahu'shua (Jesus).
The Modern Hebrew Alphabet renders the "Tav" as this symbol which does not resemble a "cross" at all. Could it be that the unbelieving Hebrews were trying to discredit Yahu'shua as the Messiah of Israel and therefore, they changed the Hebrew Letter TAV so that it no longer looked like a cross?
Below is an illustration of the progression of how the letter TAV has undergone changes over the centuries:
 
The “Tav” is the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet. This is the same word used for “mark” in Ezekiel 9:4 “...set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.”
But Some Would Argue that the Cross is a Pagan Symbol for Tammuz
Above is shown the difference between the cross of Ba'al or Tammuz which is more like a "plus sign" versus the cross of our Messiah.
While it is true that the capital letter "T" was used to symbolize the pagan sun god Tammuz, and the Romans used this symbol to crucify their victims, we must understand that with every pagan symbol, Satan has used tried to steal these for himself, but they were originally intended to be symbols of Messiah!
Examples of Symbolism that Satan has stolen for himself:
1.) The Dove: the dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. When Yahu'shua our Messiah was baptized in the Jordan River, the Holy Spirit descended upon him as a dove. When Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receeded upon the earth, the dove came back with an Olive Branch in her beak. This symbolized the beginning of restoration upon the earth for Israel. This was a prophetic picture of the "New Earth" restored and renewed for the coming Millennial Kingdom and the Renewed Covenant.
But Satan used the dove to symbolize Semiramis, the mother of Tammuz & Wife/Mother of Nimrod. The pagan trinity from Babylon uses the dove to represent the "Queen of Heaven" (false Catholic Mary) and the pagan goddess of fertility.
2.) The Branch: the prophet Isaiah foretold of our Messiah, as THE RIGHTEOUS BRANCH:
Isaiah 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
This prophecy above is about Yeshua the Messiah--the righteous BRANCH. Ezekiel spoke of this very same BRANCH:
Zechariah 3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
Nimrod was the UNRIGHTEOUS BRANCH:
Isaiah 14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like, an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
Ezekiel 8:17 ....they commit the abominations.....to provoke me to anger: and, lo they put the branch to their nose.
Why was Nimrod & Tammuz symbolized by an "Abominable Branch"? In the history of the Babylonian Empire, Shem (Noah's son) had Nimrod killed because he and his mother/wife, Semiramis were offering up babies to Molech on December 25th during the winter solstice and also in Easter Sunrise services for the "spring equinox" on March 25th.
When Shem and his men found Nimrod, they chopped off his body parts just like limbs to a tree, and his limbs were sent to various provinces within the land of Shinar. From then on, Semiramis, (his wife and mother) commanded the Babylonians to memorialize Nimrod by going into the Forrest to cut down a tree to remember Nimrod who was "cut down like a tree."
This is why Yah forbids us to erect a "Christmas Tree" even if it is supposedly in the honor of "Jesus":
Jeremiah 10:
2 Thus saith YHWH, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
From that point on, Nimrod or Ba'al was known as "the god of the tree." The Druids and the Celts continued to worship this pagan deity through orgies in the forest and erecting Christmas Trees.
Yahu'shua is the “Aleph & Tav”, the Beginning and the Ending. Messiah is the “Tav” the end result of the Law/Instructions/Torah. In him we fulfill the righteousness of the Torah when we walk by the Spirit (Romans 8:4).
In Ezekiel 9, the word for "mark" in the Hebrew Strong's Concordance is:
#8420 tav tawv from 8427; a mark; by implication, a signature:--desire, mark
When we obey Yah’s Torah (instructions), the end result is the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet which is the “TAV” which is a “cross-shaped mark or sign.” In other words we are the living example of the cross in the earth. We are crucified with him, and our lives bear the fruit that shows it! So you see that the “mark” is an invisible mark that God places on us. Paul the Apostle says in:
Colossians 6:14-17 ....But Elohim (God) forbid that I should glory, save in the cross: of our Master Yahu’shua Messiah, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.....From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Master Yahu'shua.
What he is saying is that the “marks” are born in his body as well as in his spirit because he is crucified to the flesh.
Also, in 2nd Corinthians 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Master Yahu'shua (Jesus), that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Once again we “bear in our body” the “marks” of his cross by our crucified lives! It is both spiritual and physical; therefore the Mark of the Beast is also both physical and spiritual.
One thing I have learned with prophecy is that YaHuWaH usually has a “literal” or a physical application as well as the spiritual or “metaphor” application as well. What the Lord has taught me is that if we lean too much on just the spiritual application and never take scripture literally, that leads to gnosticism (which teaches that Jesus did not come in the flesh). You see if Yahu'shua “is come in the flesh” (1st John 4:3) then his word became “flesh” meaning literal or physical (John 1). But then he resurrected into a spiritual body also which supersedes the corruptible body. Therefore, the “word” has the literal/physical application which applies to our corruptible world, but then it also has the eternal/spiritual metaphor application as well because his word is eternal. So the “mark” is a literal/physical one but it is also a “spiritual mark” also having to do with the way that we worship God. The Holy Sabbath Days in the 4th Commandment tells us “how” Yah wants to be worshiped. But the antithesis to this is the way that Satan wants to be worshiped is through a different set of Feast Days which identify him. So you see, the Feasts we keep in these last days will determine which God we really serve. Which Feasts will you keep? The Feasts for the Beast which are full of yeast? Or will you honor the 4th Commandment to keep God’s Holy Sabbath’s Holy?
YHWH marks his own with an invisible “mark” which is mentioned in Ezekiel 9, and he says that those who SIGH AND CRY AT THE ABOMINATIONS receive a “mark” in their foreheads. Also in Revelation 7, he tells the angel to seal the 12 tribes in their foreheads (12,000 from each tribe). But in Ezekiel 8 he lists what all these ABOMINATIONS are that his elect “sigh and cry” about. He says that they set up the IMAGE OF JEALOUSY (obelisk, Washington Monument, steeples), he says that they worship the sun god Tammuz (reincarnated each year on Dec. 25th), and he says that they put the branch to the nose (Christmas Trees, mistletoe) in other words they worship nature. So we see that those who “sign and cry” at the Abominations of the Mother of Harlots church will be “marked” with God's mark which is the TAV (last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet). In other words, the Torah. Yahu'shua is the Alpeh & Tav, the beginning and the ending. The Tav is the “end of the law” or the end result of obeying the Torah. Messiah is the “end” or final result of what happens to us when we obey his Torah. We become exactly like him!