Paul The Platonist – Christianity is the end times delusion

Paul the Platonist: Christianity is the End Times Delusion

Opening Statement
Shalom. I’d like to talk about Yahweh today and Paul. I haven’t talked about Paul in a while after going over the mark of the beast and the mark of Yahweh. I’ve been doing some studying, some introspection, some reflection of my life – you know how did I get to where I am? I’ve talked about my testimony, you know how I came from the Mormon church, how I was a slave to many sins. But I want to talk about why does Christianity run? Why is it the end times delusion?

Paul’s Greek Philosophical Influences
Number one: Paul was influenced by Greek philosophy. I know this is hard to believe. It’s right there in your Bible. Acts 9:5: “And he said, ‘Who art thou, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.'”

Most people don’t have the Holy Spirit – I know that’s quite an accusation – but if you did, when you read these passages, you would be grieved because Paul is quoting Greek philosophy. Paul in Acts 26:14 quotes this three times, and all three times the story is different. Was Paul crazy? Had he gone completely mad? Well, that was the accusation from Festus in Acts 26: “Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.”

We think this is because he’s learned in Scripture – this is what the Torah observant Christians believe and the non-Torah observant Christians. But this is not so. It’s because Festus knew he was quoting a Greek philosophy, a Greek play. Yes, Paul was describing a divine encounter, but what was so crazy about his account that was dissimilar to other stories of this nature? Nothing that I could tell – that is, until recently after finding the references to Greek works written by Epimenides and Menander.

The “Kick Against the Pricks” Quote
I happened upon something that might help shed light on the madness that Festus may have been referring to. Festus interrupts Paul’s proclaiming his conversion experience. This conversion experience is documented in Acts 9, Acts 22, Acts 26, and it’s alluded to in Galatians chapter 1 and First Corinthians chapter 15. For fun, you should read each of these accounts’ full chapters side by side, and I strongly recommend that as well, paying attention to subtle yet important differences in the story.

What may be key to the madness Festus is referring to could be something Paul says. Notice that Festus refers to Paul’s learning and not his experience as the source of his madness. The word used here in Greek is “gramma” which typically refers to something that has been written. In this case, I don’t believe there is an issue with how it was translated since this education would require reading or studying written documents.

Paul’s Quoting of Greek Sources
So what could it be that Paul said that pointed to something that he had learned that is causing them to wonder about his sanity? It could be part of the encounter itself: “And when we were fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me and saying…” (and he uses the Hebrew tone, which this alone is impossible as we’ll get to).

“It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks” (Acts 26:14). What I have highlighted is another example of something Paul quotes from a Greek source. The original source of this phrase is from the Bacchae by Euripides, and it’s word for word the same as he shows here: “Better to yield him prayer and sacrifice than to kick against the pricks, since Dionysius is a god and now been immortal.” The whole experience is almost word for word the same, and I believe that’s what Felix was getting at – he would have known the work of Bacchae and he would have heard Paul say this like, “You’re going mad.”

Paul’s Connection to Greek Philosophy
Bacchae has a Greek tragedy about the young god Dionysius and his struggles with his royal family. This is also why I question John’s Gospel because it’s heavily influenced by Greek paganism – like turning water into wine like Dionysius.

Next passage: So I decided to do a word search because this is one of the neo-Platonist ideas of our conscience being god. And what do we see immediately? John’s Gospel – none of the others – that their own conscience convicted them, and then heavily Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul and First Peter.

Paul’s Repeated Use of Greek Concepts
Let’s get to some of these Paul passages – and there are a lot of them. Like First Corinthians 10, he mentions it literally dozens of times: “Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake.” What he’s doing here is he elevates the conscience to god.

Titus 1:12: “One of them, even a prophet of their own, said, ‘The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.'” So who is that? That’s the Epimenides again – remember who wrote the Bacchae? No coincidence.

The Greek Philosophical Foundation
Euripides, Epimenides – these are all Greek philosophers, and this is who Paul worshiped. And if you follow Paul, you follow Greek philosophy. The Epimenides paradox reveals a problem with self-reference in logic, and Paul does that quite a bit. It is named after the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Gnosis who was alive around 600 BC who was credited with the original statement.

A typical description of the problem is given in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter: “Epimenides was a Cretan who had made one immortal statement: ‘All Cretans are liars.'” The paradox of self-reference arises when one considers whether it is possible for Epimenides to have spoken the truth.

Paul’s Theological Contradictions
So we see here a problem. Listen to what Paul says in Romans 3 – this is something I never caught this connection before but check this out. What does he say? “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.” Oh my Father, thank you! Look at this – what did Epimenides say? He said “All Cretans are liars.” So we see right away this is not from God – it’s from a Greek philosopher.

And what’s the problem with saying all men are liars? Revelation 21:8 – let’s check this out. Guess what happens to liars? “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” So if every man’s a liar, then every man is going to be thrown into the lake of fire.

Paul’s Theological Inconsistencies
And Paul even tells us a little further on here that “the truth of God hath abounded more through my lie unto his glory.” So he is the ultimate Greek philosopher that was canonized.

Let’s continue though to Acts 17 when he’s preaching (quote unquote) to the pagans: “Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, ‘Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.'”

Let’s go to Deuteronomy: “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them…” To the unknown god – him I declare unto you. There are no coincidences in the Bible – none.

Paul’s Mystical Teachings
Next, the book of Colossians. What do we see there? “That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.” You see this is the idea of gnosis – Gnosticism, philosophy.

And what does Paul say? You know anyone who comes against me, they are the problem: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” This is how Paul grabs you with his philosophy, because he calls all other philosophy vain deceit. But I’m here to tell you he’s right – he’s double-minded.

Paul’s Platonic Dualism
Go after Torah, go after Yeshua, go after the Father – don’t go after Paul and his Greek philosophy. First Corinthians – and this is going to be apparent as we read some of the work these other men did (I’ll put links in the description): “I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.” And he says this quite a bit – this worship of death. That’s what it is.

Like Galatians 2:20, which people love: “I am crucified with Christ.” Well, doesn’t he say to carry your cross? Yes, he does. But you were not dead. And look how Paul describes baptism: “We were baptized into his death.” You know, and so many just accept this because they don’t know the truth. They don’t listen to the Holy Spirit. You aren’t baptized into death – we’re baptized into life.

The True Meaning of Repentance
And even Paul – Peter says that in Acts 2, they’re washing, the renewing… must be in chapter 3: “Repent ye therefore, and be converted.” And this is the process. And what Christians will say – because this is the Greek word “metanoia” – is they take a philosophical view: “Metanoia means just to change your mind.” No! Remember, this is a Hebrew-speaking Peter – he is not Greek. You’ve got to get this Greek mindset out of your head.

Repent means to stop breaking Torah. Look at how can you have your sins blotted out if you’re still doing them? “And the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.” Be alive for the Father – live for Him, don’t die for Him. Messiah died as an example of the price of sin – not so that we worship death or the implements of death.

The Pagan Intrusion into Christianity
Now I want to go to this wonderful article I found. Like I said, the idea of me searching for this – all glory to the Father – came from “Hell and Mr. Fudge.” He was keyed off that he saw neo-paganism, Neoplatonism in Tertullian introducing the immortality of the soul. So I searched like where did the origin originate from because it’s not in the Bible.

And Paul – even though he’s in error – what happens is you have sand there, and a little leaven leavens the whole lump. And when you don’t recognize the leaven, when you don’t purge the leaven, you end up gathering more and more and more leaven into yourself. And this is what happened for the last 2,000 years.

The Greek Doctrine of Immortality
Ever since Adam and Eve gave heed to Satan’s first great deception, the immortality of the soul has become the cornerstone of apostasy and paganism. The Egyptians built an elaborate system of tombs and pyramids to protect the body as well as the possible for the return of the soul. Oriental religions such as Hinduism proclaimed the transmigration of the soul, teaching that death is but a door to a new form of life – higher or lower depending on how good a life one leads.

But it was the Greeks under the fertile genius of Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato who gave a systematic form to the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. That’s right – Christianity is Neoplatonism.

Plato’s Influence on Paul
The foundation of the Greek teaching is simple dualism – and there’s loads of this in Paul’s writing, as I’ve gone over in the past. The Greeks divided the universe into matter and spirit. Think about Paul – let’s go to a passage that really highlights this in Romans 8: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Right there – see? And what did we just read? Matter and spirit – flesh and spirit.

“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” Sin is not in the flesh – and this is where Platonism comes in. Matter and spirit: matter is bad, spirit is good. What are we reading from Paul here? The flesh is bad, but the spirit is good.

Paul’s Platonic Theology
That which is bad is temporary; that which is good is eternal. Once this was conceded, it was easy for the Greeks to divide man into body and soul – precisely what we see from Paul over and over and over again. The body is physical and so is evil and temporary; the soul is good and therefore eternal.

Plato says: “The soul is the very likeness of the divine and the immortal and intelligent and uniform and indissoluble and unchangeable.” Plato viewed the body as simply an outer garment of the soul – a house which a soul is imprisoned in. And you can see this in some of the passages just read from Paul: “For I have died, but Christ lives through me.”

The Consequences of Platonic Christianity
So long as the soul is in the body, the soul employs the body, making use of its sight, hearing and other senses. Since the body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul. Indeed, death simply frees the soul from the body and initiates it into a true being. So Plato concluded that the soul goes away to the pure and eternal and immortal and unchangeable to which it is akin. That’s unfamiliar? It’s a lot of what Paul says, isn’t it, in First Corinthians chapter 15.

This belief in the immortality of the soul was not simply a slogan with the Greeks – it was the way of life as they revealed in the death of the man who embodied the Greek thought in its noblest form. Socrates approached his death with a complete peace and composure. As he drank the hemlock, he looked to death as a friend – you made a covenant with death (Habakkuk 2:5-9; Isaiah 28:16). He came to liberate his soul from the prison house of the body, and so he said: “I am sure I can be in such matters that I am going to live with the gods who are very good masters, and therefore I am not much grieved at death. I am confident that the dead have some kind of existence, and as has been said of old, an existence that is far better for the good than for the wicked.”

The Contrast with Biblical Truth
Now the contrast – and you notice he quotes Paul a lot here. Some of these people they’re on the right path but they haven’t seen the truth. I pray for them because there is no salvation in a lawless gospel – none.

The pagan intrusion happened – and this is where he goes – it happened early on in the church. No – it happened in the Bible. And I’ve thought about making this myself, but God doesn’t have just one prophet, one man out there preaching the truth.

Faith vs. Reason in Christian Tradition
The dialogue between faith and reason has long held a place of prominence in the Christian tradition. Sometimes this relationship has been understood positively, construed in the words of Anselm of Canterbury: “Faith seeking understanding.” And sometimes it has best been construed negatively, perhaps best represented by Tertullian of Carthage when he says: “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”

However one views the relationship between faith (or theology) and reason (or philosophy), coming to terms with how these fears of knowing interact with one another remains an important part of not only knowing what it means to be Christian, but also what it means to be human.

Paul’s Rejection of Torah Observance
This passage which leads to this reflection is Colossians 2:16-23: “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.”

Paul’s Self-Contradiction
See, he calls Torah a human precept. This is so clear to me now: “These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.” See what did we just read about Platonism? That matter (flesh) is evil. No coincidence.

Though certainly not the explicit purpose of Paul’s epistle (and I disagree), his use of the Platonic language suggests not only his at least casual awareness of the category of the cave (I don’t think it was casual – I think he was a disciple of Plato), but also indicates that he found it appropriate to view Christ with a Platonic framework because this Christ was Plato.

The Platonic Framework of Christianity
This is not to argue that Paul’s primary approach to Jesus was through Greek philosophy (disagree), but rather to posit in being all things to all people (which is the opposite of what we’re called to be – the salt and light, not a car salesman), he apparently found the Platonic worldview habitable enough to creatively co-opt for his early Christian worldview. Oh, that grieves the Holy Spirit. Father, open up more eyes.

Of course, Paul was far from the only early Christian to adopt Platonism or form of Platonism as an appropriate philosophical underpinning of Christian theology. Oh, that makes it all better, doesn’t it? Also evident in the New Testament is the Platonic influence of the Gospel of John. Isn’t that what I just warned of?

Problems with the New Testament
The New Testament has some serious problems, and this is why I preached even into last year before I saw Paul: The New Testament is commentary. Look at who’s speaking and go into the history. Who is their influence? Is their influence Yahweh, the Torah, the prophets? Or is their influence the world and Greek philosophy? And he’s saying this as if there’s no problem. It’s so grieving to the Holy Spirit.

He notes that perhaps most famous among non-canonical early Christians was Justin Martyr (oh, he was definitely an anti-Semite and hated Torah even more than Paul) whose famed Logos theology built upon John’s prologue and argued that the divine Word resided in all of creation.

Similarly, second-century Christian apologist Theophilus of Antioch inhabited a Platonic worldview in his Ad Autolycum. Perhaps the most famous of all ergo-clasians to follow Paul’s example in this regard was Augustine of Hippo – and it absolutely was. And Protestantism is built on Augustinian Christianity which is built on Platonism of Paul.

Paul as the First Gnostic Heretic
So you have these – they mentioned Paul as like the first Gnostic heretic that got into the church. He poured out a bucket of sand on the rock. You know, there’s a lot of truth in Paul’s writings – there is, because this is how Satan works. But that sand, that leaven is dangerous.

And look at what people have focused on over the last 2,000 years. It’s not the Torah observant portions that he has in his passages – that’s a recent development as Father has opened eyes to return to Torah. They focus on the sand.

Building on the Rock of Torah
They go back – this is a brilliant summary, and he’s saying this in a positive light that, you know, look at all this Platonic influences in my faith. But you know, Paul was a Platonist. Well, don’t worry about it – so were the early Christians. You know, Augustine of Hippo – oh Father, open their eyes!

Augustine too employed language of a shadow and substance when talking about Christ. To provide but one example that I came across while reading this week in his Sermon 288.2, Augustine discussed the appropriate manner to interpret Psalm 72, writing that “in Solomon there is a kind of shadowy sketch, while in Christ reality is presented to us.” I pray you break free of the deception.

The Leaven in the New Testament
As this post is a little more than reflections to me from a reading of Colossians 2, I don’t want to include anything outlandish. I don’t think we need to conclude anything outlandish – it’s present in the text. And we’ve presented Scripture tonight (or whatever time you listen to this) that proves:

1. The New Testament is leaven – you have to be careful with it.

2. John’s Gospel is influenced by Greek philosophy – not just the Bacchae of turning water into wine (the Dionysius god), but the god of grace, the god of Platonism with conscience afflicting you.

The True Foundation
He mentioned other verses here I had never caught before. It is evident in John’s Gospel – and he’s right, because John’s Gospel, aside from the other three, is heavily influenced by the idea of ascetic dualism.

And we have to seek to build ourselves on the foundation stone, as he says in Matthew 7. And remember, this is also commentary of what happened. You’ve got to dig and find the truth yourself. I’m not your truth, I’m not your way, I’m not your light.

The Narrow Way
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” So what is the will of the Father? They’ll go to the Gospel of John and say the will of the Father is to have faith. No – that’s not what he’s saying. The word context does not jump to another book. First, you jump to the Sermon on the Mount. What was he saying here? He’s saying to do the will of the Father.

So let’s go back to the start: “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Saying here contrite or poor in spirit like David had a heart after God. “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” And this is super important – mourn for the sins of the land, just as we see as those who receive the mark of Yahweh.

As I said in my last study, the Lord said unto him: “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and 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.” This is the same message that Jesus’s brother says, and I think James is absolutely solid epistle: “But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

Same message we see in the beginning – Genesis 4:6-7: “And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”

The Call to Repentance
“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.”

Now let’s continue: “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” What do we just talk about? Humility – humility is so important. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Now this – they’ll go to Paul or to John: “Righteousness is what we believe.” No – he’s talking about action. Righteousness is what we do. And this goes back to the mark of Yahweh in the mark of the beast – the right hand and the forehead. What are we putting our mind to, and what are we doing?

“Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.” What does this look like? Well, as he says in the parable of the unforgiving servant, we are forgiven when we forgive. And if we refuse to forgive, we will not be shown mercy. This is not arbitrary. If you are not merciful, you will not receive mercy. If you are not forgiving, you will not be forgiven.

“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” And I say to that: Amen, amen. You know, people believe that their heart is purified just through faith. No – look at what John says: “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” Be pure in heart, be pure in thought, be pure in your deeds.

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” They shall be called – not they are called right now. This is the mistake of Paulianity. So be a peacemaker. Don’t go around calling your enemies heretics. Don’t go around cursing them – even those that have received the jab. Don’t be a Satanist and dehumanize them. Love them.

“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven.” And this is how you can tell the difference – when it came to dealing with people that believe differently, they didn’t love them – they destroyed their lives, even if they believed many of the same things, with what came to one doctrine.

Warning Against False Teachers
Like the heretic John Calvin – and I say this because I don’t want you to follow Calvin, Luther, Wesley or Arminius, Augustine, or even myself. Follow the Messiah to the Father. Calvin killed – I should say murdered – because Arminius took him… no, not Arminius – oh, what was his name? Oh, I had to look it up – the murder of Michael Servetus.

So what happened? You can look this up yourself. It’s one of the reasons that Calvinism is such a mistake to follow down. Number one, because God gives all men free will – sorry Calvin. And Luther – honestly, because Luther also followed into this Augustinian Platonism to the extreme that man has no free will – that fatalist idea.

Number two, he was a murderer. And what does John say? He says: “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” And unless he’s just talking about our heart – if we have hatred of any kind and we’re not a peacemaker, then we are a murderer. And you know that a murderer has no eternal life in him. And he’s not talking about present tense that you possess this – he’s talking about the abiding in him, the promise. If you hate your brother, you will not receive the promise. If you actually commit the act and you don’t repent, then there’s no way.

This means that John Calvin will be thrown in the lake of fire. I don’t know that he repented – I honestly look at what he’s written, and I don’t believe he did. And he says here that Luther advocated against it, but this is not completely true. His Luther did advocate against killing heretics as well.

The Danger of Tradition
And this is from the Catholic Register – because they love to hate on Luther – but the truth is Catholicism is the mother of the harlot. So Luther absolutely favored death, not religious freedom for heretics. There are so many myths about this man.

And I agree with this second post I saw here: We should love on Lutherans – we should. Otherwise, how are they going to come to the truth? But he was definitely the greatest heretic in human history – aside from Paul. There’s no doubt about it, because his idea led to taking the sand of Paul and turning it into a mudslide. It accelerated the heresy in the Catholic church – didn’t get rid of it.

Look at this idolatry – sick. And the Catholic church has a lot of room to talk there, since they were the greatest perpetrators of murdering millions of people who were faithful to the Messiah.

Luther’s Dangerous Teachings
So yeah, this is what I wanted to find though: “Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly, for he is victorious over sin and death. No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even if we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day. When the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke, or talk nonsense, or do some merry theme. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences. We are conquered if we try to consciously not sin at all. So when the devil says to you, ‘Do not drink…'”

The absolute insanity of the devil telling you not to sin! I truly believe Martin Luther blasphemed the Holy Spirit in these statements. And you can see the contrast – and that’s why I came to Matthew 5 and 7, the Sermon on the Mount – to do the will of the Father. It’s opposite of what these Protestant reformers taught you. It’s opposite of what the Catholic church teaches you. These are lawless – you need to get out of them. You have no salvation in them – none.

The Final Judgment
Let’s go back to the end of the Sermon on the Mount so we know the will of the Father now, reading just a few passages (I suggest going through the whole thing – there’s a lot of good things in Matthew – a lot): “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

Many will say to me in that day – Mormons, Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, even many in the Hebrew Roots will say in that day, “Adonai, Adonai” – or “Lord, Lord.” You see, an unbeliever is never going to call him “Lord, Lord.” And this is the fundamental error of believing this doesn’t apply to you.

Building on the Rock
“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.” The rock is Yahweh, and Torah tells us how to build – it’s our framework, our instruction, our blueprint. But when you start to add sand of Greek philosophy, Paul the false apostle, the church history, the traditions of men – “The Sabbath doesn’t apply to me,” “I can eat what I want because he’s declared all foods clean” – this is all sand.

“I’m saved by faith alone” – sand. “God can’t judge me – I have faith in Jesus” – lots of sand. “And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand.”

The Danger of Tradition
And many have – because of one reason: tradition. You’ve made tradition your god. Because a book has been put into a collection doesn’t mean it’s from God. You are responsible for your own salvation. I am simply a watchman blowing the shofar, warning you like Jonah to turn back to the ways of the Father.

That there is leaven in the New Testament – and I’ve demonstrated that from people to people here that believe much of the leaven in the New Testament still, and they admit Paul adopted Platonism. You know, that’s perfectly okay to inject a little sand to be all things to all people? No – it’s not. Narrow is the gate of life.

The Call to Purity
God hates a mixture. He does not want you to be building on sand. He wants you to do His will – the Father Yahweh – not that of Paul, not that of Augustine, not that of Luther, not that of the wicked popes (the names of blasphemy – literally). So many people are deceived because of tradition. Tradition is from HaSatan.

It doesn’t matter if it’s Jewish tradition or Christian tradition. It doesn’t matter if you’ve gone to that same church your whole life. If it’s not of the Father, you’re building on sand. And this is the last hour. The mark has already been revealed – people have already taken it. What will you do with the words I speak?

Final Plea for Repentance
I plead with you – follow the Father. Get on your knees like the Ninevites and repent – for real. Turn away from your sin and burn it. That’s what the word “repent” means in Hebrew – to burn the house of sin down. That’s why you’re covered in ash – you’ve burnt the house down, and you run from it as fast as you can.

Be covered with sackcloth – but not just externally, as Joel tells us: “Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” And there we see that again – the importance of weeping and mourning. It’s so important to cry out to the Lord – literally – to understand that your sins grieve Him.

And what is sin? All sin is lawlessness. It doesn’t matter if it’s the Sabbath or sexual immorality. And a lot of good people have turned from sexual immorality because they see it’s such a grieving sin to the Father – but yet they still eat pig, they still break the Sabbath, they still don’t understand the importance of the seven set-apart feasts.

The Torah as Blueprint
And these are just things that have been revealed to me. There’s more to this. The Torah is love. The Torah is how we love God. The Torah is how we love others. Like I said, the Father revealed the word “blueprint.” How do you build upon something like the rock? You have to have a blueprint. Without a blueprint, what are you building?

And the sand part is important too, because this is the traditions of men. So even if you have the blueprint – like the Messianic Jews admit they must have Torah – but they still have sand. They still have the Babylonian Jewish traditions.

The Urgency of the Hour
What’s going to happen when you start building upon sand? Doesn’t matter if it’s the sand of the last 2,000 years of Neoplatonic Christianity or the sands of Messianic Judaism. And a lot of Messianic Judaism is just Christianity rebranded on the Sabbath – it’s still sand, and that still has to be purged.

Get it off the rock. Build anew. We don’t have a lot of time. Please – I plead with you: purge the sand. Find out if what you’re following is the traditions of men or the doctrines of God. Please – God, open up their eyes. In Yeshua’s name I plead with you. Amen.