“Are you one of the Joes?”

Recently, after sharing this website with a friend, she responded with this:

I noticed the “jewsandjoes”–I have to chuckle, since this last Sukkot in Israel, there were 15 with me at the Jaffa Gate. Several of our group were stopped by Orthodox Jews asking, “Are you one of the Joes?”
They know who we are…

I’m curious if others have experienced similar approaches by Judah. If so, please share them by leaving a comment below or from the link near the title.

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When will Elijah (Eliyahu) come? Malachi 4

Malachi 4:1-6:
1 “For look, the day shall come, burning like a furnace, and all the proud, and every wrongdoer shall be stubble. And the day that shall come shall burn them up,” said יהוה of hosts, “which leaves to them neither root nor branch.
2 “But to you who fear My Name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings. And you shall go out and leap for joy like calves from the stall.
3 “And you shall trample the wrongdoers, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this,” said יהוה of hosts.
4 “Remember the Torah of Mosheh, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Yisrael – laws and right-rulings.
5 “See, I am sending you Eliyah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of יהוה
6 “And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with utter destruction.”

Many believe, and rightly believe, that Eliyahu (Elijah) already came in the form of John the Immerser (the Baptist). But just as Yehoshua (Jesus) is coming a second time, so Eliyahu is coming yet a second time as a preceding witness in order to prepare the way for Him (Yehoshua). Eliyahu has not yet “restored all matters” as the Prophet Malachi (Chapters 3-4) indicates he would (just as Yehoshua confirms below). Read the following passage, but be careful not to gloss over verse 11.

Matthew 17:10-14:
10 And His taught ones asked Him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Eliyahu has to come first?”
11 And Yehoshua answering, said to them, “Eliyahu is indeed coming first, and shall restore all matters.
12 “But I say to you that Eliyahu has already come, and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they wished. In this way the Son of Adam is also about to suffer by them.”
13 Then the taught ones understood that He had spoken to them about Yohanan the Immerser.

Yehoshua did not deny the future event, but indicated Eliyahu was already in their midst and prepared the way for His coming. Also note with the following passage that the Disciples of Yehoshua believed Eliyahu of Malachi 4:5 had yet come to “restore all matters”. It was yet a future event, which is quite apparent even now (that is: it is still a future event).

Acts 3:19-23:
19 “Repent therefore and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, in order that times of refreshing might come from the presence of the Master,
20 and that He sends Yehoshua Messiah, pre-appointed for you,
21 whom heaven needs to receive until the times of restoration of all matters, of which Elohim spoke through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of old.
22 “For Mosheh truly said to the fathers, יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear according to all matters, whatever He says to you.
23 ‘And it shall be that every being who does not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ [ref. Deut. 18:18-20]

History and prophecy are frequently repeated or reoccur in dual events. In fact, sometimes History is Prophecy (for example: the First Exodus is a historical event that prophesied the Greater Exodus of Jeremiah 16 and 23).

The Great and Terrible Day

Now we just need to figure out when the Great and Terrible Day of יהוה is (otherwise known as the Great Tribulation). There are many things that point to its arrival in the middle of Daniel’s 70th week, a 7 year Shmittah cycle, and lasting for 3 1/2 years or 42 months (Daniel 7:25,12:1; Matthew 24:21; Revelation 11:2-3,12:14,13:5). Malachi does not specify exactly how long “before” the Terrible Day of יהוה that Eliyahu will come. We simply know it is any time between “now” and the start of the Great Tribulation. There is good reason to believe he will be one of the Two Witnesses of Revelation who gather the First Fruits (the 144,000) to Jerusalem to be sealed, those representing a remnant from Judah and 10-Israel, just before the Terrible Day. Unless the regathering of the 144,000 (Rev 7) and “the woman” (Rev 12) is supernatural, it will take some amount of time to raise a sign in Tzion for them to see and be drawn to. Even so, Eliyahu will certainly be communicating urgency if the timing of the Day of Wrath is known and coming quickly.

There is an intriguing parallel between the 3 1/2 years that Eliyahu stopped the rain during King Ahab’s reign (I Kings 17:1) and the future 3 1/2 years of Great Tribulation. Yet again, it is uncertain how soon Eliyahu will come before the beginning of the 42 months, but we should find comfort in knowing that a great prophet will be warning the sheep before the Terrible Day. Just make sure your ears are open and willing to hear his message (much of the Christian, Jewish, and Secular world will oppose him). His message will not contradict the Prophets of the Tanakh. It will resemble Malachi 3-4 especially. And just like those righteous prophets of old, the people will want to kill Eliyahu too.

I highly recommend Tim McHyde’s book, Know the Future. He goes into much greater detail regarding Elijah’s arrival and other things to expect and watch for.

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Zechariah’s Thermonuclear War may be sparked soon!

Report: Bush Backs Israel Strike Plans on Iran (Newsmax) “The Sunday Times of London reported this weekend that ‘President George W. Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down.’ The Times report quoted a senior Pentagon official as its source.” See entire report…

Iran ready to strike at Israel’s nuclear heart (TimesOnline) “The sabre-rattling coincided with a visit to Israel yesterday by the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, for talks with his Israeli opposite number, Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi. This intensified speculation that Israel was seeking US approval for a possible attack on Iran.” See entire report…

See: Timeline of the Last Days - Daniel’s Shmita/Shavua Prophecy.

Priests (Cohanim) of Future Temple Get Fitted For Holy Garments

Future Temple Jewish Priests Get Fitted For Holy Garments (Arutz Sheva).

“(IsraelNN.com) As the Jewish People continue their national return to their ancestral homeland, tailors at the Temple Institute in Jerusalem’s Old City began taking measurements of Kohanim (the priestly tribe designated to run the Temple services) earlier this month in anticipation of an even bigger event — the dedication of the Third Temple.”

“Yehuda Glick, director of the Temple Institute, presided over the first-ever fitting of Kohanim for their priestly garments. “Today, in this room, Kohanim are being measured for the first time in 2,000 years for the type of garments they will be wearing in the rebuilt Temple,” announced Glick to an audience of rabbis, reporters and cameramen on hand to witness the historic event.”

Ministry of Yeshua (Jesus) 3.5 years or 70 Weeks (490 days)?

Many ask: “What does it matter how long Yeshua’s ministry lasted?” The reason this matters is because there are numerous prophetic parallels between Yeshua’s first coming (as the Suffering Servant) with His future coming as the Anointed Son of David, King of Israel. There are at least 3 levels to Daniel’s 70 Week Prophecy and Yeshua’s ministry chronologically falls into precisely that, 70 Weeks.

The following quotes taken from The Greatest Story NEVER Told! The Jonah Code and the Seventy Weeks Prophecy of Daniel by Michael Rood.

“From when Yahshua was baptized in water, into the Spring, the Summer, and all the way around to the Fall, showing you week by week exactly where Yahshua was with no lapse in time at all. Then we find out there is a miracle that takes place in every one of the Gospels, the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand. It takes place two weeks and three days before the Feast of Tabernacles (in everyone of the Gospels). However, in some of the ancient Greek texts, 8 Greek words were added in: “and Passover, Feast of the Jews was nigh”. And what that did was artificially expand the length of Yeshua’s ministry. They added, literally, 6 and a half months of absolutely blank canvas into the Gospel record.”

There are many places in our English Bible translations where Yeshua is falsely depicted as being anti-Torah (no doubt He was anti-Takkanot), but it is rare that entire sentences are added into the text like in the case of John 6:4 for such purposes. Rood continues:

“Then we see what they [scribes] did add was a Passover that doesn’t exist. A Passover that Yahshua never goes up to. We see exactly what He is doing for the next two weeks. He never goes any where near Jerusalem, but He does feed five thousand people with leavened bread (which I now affectionately refer to as the Feast of Leavened Bread). Five days later, He feeds another four thousand people with Leavened Bread. He teaches a whole synagogue full of people who are disobedient to the Torah and they’re hanging out in the Galilee instead of being up at Jerusalem. For this whole two week period of time, He is doing nothing but violating the Torah, if those words were in the original text.”

Rood then describes how this falsified Passover is followed up with five and half months of more blank canvas until we come all the way back around to the Festival of Tabernacles (Sukkot).

“…Yahshua’s ministry, if it is a fulfillment of Daniel’s Prophecy, is going to be 70 weeks, exactly 490 days from the day He is baptized until the day He baptizes with the Holy Spirit, one of the layers of Daniel.”

“The early church fathers, the first and second centuries after the Gospels were written, Clement of Alexandria, being the foremost on this, said that Yahshua’s ministry was about one year in duration. Four other church fathers in the first two centuries afterwards said that His ministry was about a year in duration. And you know what all the rest of the church fathers said? Absolutely nothing. They didn’t dispute it!”

Quotes taken from The Greatest Story NEVER Told! The Jonah Code and the Seventy Weeks Prophecy of Daniel by Michael Rood.

The other year which is typically used to artificially expand Yeshua’s ministry is determined by reckoning John 5:1 with yet another Passover, when it is actually the Festival of Shavout (Pentecost). Adding these two extra Passovers into the Ministry equation is the reason modern teachers insist Yeshua ministered for 3 and a half years before His ascension back to the Father. When you take these two non-Passovers out of the equation, His ministry beautifully shrinks back down to 70 Weeks (490 days). To go into this in greater detail, get Rood’s teaching: 70 Week Ministry of the Messiah.

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