Glitter And Glamour Or The World Of Reality #1
Doing The Will Of Yahweh
Excerpt From Sermon By Overseer Yisrayl Hawkins
5/30/92

Shalom everyone! Wow, what a crowd for the Sabbath! This is great! I'm not going to spend too much time chitchatting because I want to get right into some lessons for you this morning.

I have a no chitchat, no frills way of doing things. I just want to bring you the Word of Yahweh and nothing else. It's called speaking frankly. That's what you're going to hear this morning. I'm going to speak frankly with you. When you go back into the world after this Feast, I want you to remember these words.

You are going back out into a world of make-believe. Satan has created a world of make-believe for the people. Now, mind you, if you look for it, you can see reality on the news. You can see it if you know the prophecies as The House of Yahweh teaches. They're written in our books The Mark of the Beast,  Deceptions and Did Yahshua Messiah Pre-exist? If you have read those books then you know the reality of what this world is forming now and what it's going to come to in the very near future.

We see on the news today a religious leader backed by the U.S. government and by President Bush. By the way, I had a dream about him last night. Maybe our dream interpreter can tell us what this means. In the dream, a few of us from The House of Yahweh were standing on one side of this chain-link fence. There was a guard up on top. The fence had barbed wire around it. I was leaning over this fence and President Bush was sitting at a table with some of his delegates on the other side. I told President Bush, "You don't have to worry about Ross Perot."

Now, you can rest assured that the man the pope wants in office will be the one who is elected. All this rigamarole that you see around you about the election is just make-believe. The pope is in charge of the United States and almost the whole world at this time. He wants to take charge of the rest of it but he is going to have trouble taking charge of it all. That's what your prophecy shows.

This religious leader is seeking to rule the world at this time. The Scriptures show that a man will arise who will try to rule the world in these Last Days. Daniyl showed this. You can rest assured that this is the way it's going to be, but there will never be another world ruler. Yahweh showed the four world ruling Kingdoms that would take place in man's 6,000 years of history and said there would never be another. Mark my words. He won't succeed in trying to rule the world.

No, the pope won't rule the world, but he will go down trying. He will even fight against Yahshua Who will come at the end of this time period. All of this that is taking place in this time period, including The House of Yahweh being established and the soon-coming of the Messiah, is in prophecy. At this time, we see a religious power seeking to rule the world. He has already brought about a lot of things in Europe. He had a lot to do with what occurred in Russia. Satan was the spark who gave him power as Revelation shows.

There is a New World Order that is forming right now and the nations are begging to get in. We see certain nations willing to give their power to this beastly system, as the Scriptures said would occur in this time period. They are doing this to try to form another beastly system like the other one that was formed before in Rome with the Roman power that ruled the world.

We also see a struggle for oil and wine, as the prophecy predicted. There are struggles over the oil, the wine and the water. The prophecies predict these things. There are prophecies that show that the water will be both polluted and there will be a shortage of it. We see this starting to take place now. We see in the news that there is already a fuss going on over water. In fact, the Euphrates River is being drawn to the limit by irrigation with the cities and settlements being formed. Eventually this river will dry up, as prophecy shows, so the kings of the east will be prepared for slaughter. All of this is taking place at this time.

We see the world dependent on oil. The knowledge has been increased in this time period, as Daniyl the prophet said in Daniyl 12:4. Yahweh told Daniyl to seal these prophecies until the Last Days, the time when knowledge would be increased. This knowledge is both technical knowledge and the knowledge of Yahweh.

The technical knowledge has helped to form the weapons that they have today and caused the nations to be dependent on certain things like oil and coal. The knowledge of Yahweh's Word is also increased because Yahweh has brought it to His House. He's established His House so we can understand the prophecies. We are in the Last Days and Yahweh is making it possible to understand these prophecies.

Now, we also see the nuclear bombs that were prophesied back in Mosheh's day. Mosheh actually described the nuclear bomb in detail in Deuteronomy 28. If you don't have the booklet, Nuclear War: Is it Really Coming?, get it and read it.

There are other prophecies besides that. Yahshua spoke of the nuclear bomb in Mattithyah 24 when He spoke of the Great Tribulation that would also take place in the Last Days along with the establishment of The House of Yahweh. He spoke of a great power being unleashed on the human beings. Revelation said this beastly system, that we are in now, is the one with the two ruling religions, the Catholics and the Protestants. That is what you see in Revelation 13.

We see nuclear activity taking place. Scriptures say this beastly system creates a means of making fire come down out of heaven. This has taken place in my lifetime. The nuclear bombs, the atomic bombs, have been created in my lifetime. This time period is here.

Along with the development of these things, there has been the establishment of Yahweh's House in a certain place. Now, we're being tested and tried for the great Kingdom that's going to put a stop to the activities that Satan has created in the world that she's ruling at this time.

These nuclear bombs that Yahweh talks about here are created by this beastly system. It gets its power from Satan through a religious leader because this religious leader is the one who is bringing the nations together. The U.S. is only the big brother, the rich one of the whole bunch, and the one that caused the fire to come down out of heaven. She is forming a league now with the rest of the nations to yield their strength to this beastly system to try to make the rest of the world obey this system and try to bring peace to the world.

Yes, they want peace; they just want it on their own terms. They're not seeking destruction. They're seeking peace, but they want it on their own terms. They will never have it that way because they've rejected the Laws that bring peace. The Laws that bring peace are the ones you're practicing right now.

We see not only the nuclear bombs now but we also see the development of planes that can deliver those things all around the world in one day. We see the ships and the submarines loaded to the hilt with nuclear missiles. There are even nuclear submarines that can go for months under water without detection. They can be anywhere they want them to be in a certain length of time, ready to blow another nation off the face of the earth. All of that technology has developed in my lifetime, brethren. Knowledge has been increased, just as the prophecy said it would be.

How can anyone not believe these prophecies? I don't see how but I know Yahshua said, "O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken." We see the things the prophets spoke of developed in this time period. This is the period that Yahshua called the Last Days. This is also the time when Yahweh's House would be established in a place called Abilene, as it has been.

At this same time, we see the nations striving for peace. Yahweh says they're going to bring about a system that will destroy many people. We also see incurable diseases, as were prophesied in Yeremyah and Yechetzqyah.

I don't know if you saw the last report on AIDS that came out, but someone handed me a newspaper clipping on it. It was also on the world news. The world is having an epidemic now with AIDS. These things haven't been reported by the news agencies until just recently.

I kept studying reports from doctors and scientists in the large universities, like Harvard, and I saw the tests that were being run. The test results weren't matching up with what was being said by the doctors on television. On television they say, "No, you can't get AIDS just from nursing someone back to health, by giving him a shot, or going and taking his temperature." Now, they say things that are different. They're saying now, yes, you can go to a dentist and get AIDS because he didn't clean his tools properly.

They originally put out reports that the AIDS virus couldn't live outside of the body but for a short time. They said it could only survive a split second and then it would be dead so it was impossible for it to live outside of the human body. That's not true, as they've finally come out and said. They knew it wasn't true to begin with, so I wonder why they tried to cover it up.

Now, they came out with a new study and said that it's not forty million people who will have AIDS by the end of this decade, but it's one hundred and ten million people who will have it. Other literature I've studied shows that is a conservative estimate of the number of people who will have AIDS by the year 2000.

Now, these things that I've named are just some of the growing troubles for every man, woman, and child on the face of the earth. Satan has created things to take your mind off reality, off the real things that are taking place in the world in which we live. Satan has created another world for you. That environment is one that will take your mind off of the real world and the trouble you're facing. She has created a world of make-believe.

I was studying about the world fairs and how they got started. They had these thousands of years ago; they're nothing new. They said that the reason they were such a hit with mankind was because they took man out of the natural environment into a world of make-believe.

We see the same thing in the celebration of Christmas. You can go into a forest and you will see trees, birds and animals. That's reality. The world takes a tree out of the forest and decks it up with gold and silver. That's the glitter and glamour. These things take man out of his everyday environment. The fairs do the same thing.

The fairs were started by the religions. The Catholics took over the fairs because they saw them growing so fast. They wanted the fairs because of the number of people who went there. The fairs were put on for the purpose of bringing converts into the Church. The reason they grew so fast was because they took the man out of his boring environment and put him in a world of make-believe to cheer him up. Even back then, people traveled for miles on horseback and camels to get to these fairs.

You see this world of make-believe all over. You see it in the pagan holidays more than anything else. Satan takes man's world and changes it. She takes the reality of what you have to live day after day after day and she changes it into glitter, make-believe and glamour.

Someone said here a while back that we didn't have any beautiful women in The House of Yahweh. I don't know where that man's mind was, but there is something wrong with his way of thinking. The most beautiful women in the world are in The House of Yahweh. We don't have glamour here, but glamour is not beauty. Glamour is make-believe.

Satan has created this world of glamour. People start looking for that and they overlook reality and the true beauty that Yahweh has created. Beauty is not just skin deep. Yes, it's beautiful to look upon your wife in The House of Yahweh, but it's more so to look beyond this to the beauty that is contained in her heart that will be there forever. That's what will be forever and ever. That's how long your marriage will last if you will get away from this glamour and start seeking the true beauty that Yahweh puts in marriage.

Now, back to this evergreen tree. It sits in a forest and it's beautiful. This is the way Yahweh created it. Anyone who doesn't like to look at a beautiful forest, has to have something wrong up here! It's like the guy who continues to smoke after the doctor says, "If you don't quit it's going to kill you." There has got to be something wrong with this kind of thinking. It's the same wrong mentality. We should be able to look at the weeds, the grass growing out here and the little flowers sticking up and think they are beautiful. Just take a minute to gaze at them the way Yahweh created them; they're beautiful.

Satan takes the evergreen tree out of its environment. She gets a man to cut it with an ax and bring it into the house. Then he decks it up with gold and silver and lays a bunch of presents under it. He creates the lie that this sprung up overnight as a sign that there was a true savior to worship. It becomes glamorous for you to look upon then. Then supposedly Santa comes down a chimney. He brings presents and puts them under a Christmas tree for you. Now, isn't that just peachy? This is the glamorous world that Satan has created for you. The whole world has fallen for it starting 6,000 years ago.

You can also find this glamour in your Easter Goddess of love. Every book should be changed to say the Easter Goddess of lust, because there was nothing about love in the history of this Easter Goddess. She was filled with lust. Read the history of her. You will not find love there.

That is what you are looking for in looking on glamour instead of beauty when you're hunting a wife. There is no love in illegal lust; it lasts but a short time. It's over like that, in an instant. Illegal lust can turn to hatred just like that also. Do you remember the story of David's son, Absalam, and his sister, Tamar? Remember that. That is what it means.

The world shows you how to illegally lust. Illegal lust is not a lasting thing and neither is an evergreen tree once you take it out of the forest. You can't put life in it again. It starts dying right then. The minute the ax cuts it; it starts dying. This is the way everything is in Satan's world is. All the glamour is perishing.

That's not true with what Yahweh teaches. Everything that Yahweh teaches is forever, down to the herbs, the flowers and the trees. They're going to be here forever for us to enjoy.

Satan brings in an Easter Goddess and decks this holiday up very gleefully. She even has convinced the world that little bunnies lay colored eggs. You see the foolishness in this, but the world can't see it; they go for this sort of thing. They can't see that all throughout the Bible they claim to follow, these practices are condemned.

Persecution is promised to those who turn from this way of God worship. It's prophesied in Isayah 59. That is where you stand today. Yahweh has promised you that persecution will get worse. All of you who have been called here, if you continue in the righteousness that Yahweh is showing you, you will suffer persecution.

Notice what the world thinks of you because you will not accept their world of glimmer.

Isayah 59:15. Yes, truth is suppressed… That is, by the deceived world of Satan. Remember Revelation 12:9 says the whole world is deceived. …and he who departs from evil… That is, to righteousness. …is accounted as mad… They think he's gone crazy, lost his marbles, and joined this cult where they have washed his brain. I guessed we're washing all the glitter and the glamour out of your brains!

II Timothy 3:12. Yes, and all who will live righteously, as Yahshua… As Yahshua lived because Yahshua lived righteously. …and all who will live righteously as Yahshua Messiah, will suffer persecution… That is a promise to you.

Now, all of these things were prophesied so that you would know and believe that Yahweh is carrying out a plan for you. He planned all of this before He ever created the world that you're now living in. He planned it all for you because He's building a family, a righteous priesthood to lead the world forever in righteousness. He is creating a righteous family who He can trust. He won't have to turn His back on you. He won't have to be afraid of you turning from His way, like Satan did.

Yahweh created Satan perfectly. Remember the Scriptures in Yechetzqyah say He created her perfect in beauty, but not in character. Character cannot be created instantly. This is the one thing that Yahweh shows throughout the Holy Scriptures. Character must be built; it must grow within you. It is a process that is done through overcoming, seeing, believing, testing, proving and even trying something and getting your fingers burned.

Do you know what I mean about getting your fingers burned? When I was growing up there were wood stoves in the houses. We didn't have the big furnaces like they have now that come on automatically. Back then, it would take you an hour to carry wood and put it in the heater to get the fire started! That's the way I grew up.

Those stoves could be dangerous. They sat right in the middle of the room and everyone flocked around them in the wintertime. You'd stand with one side to the heater to get it warm and then you'd turn around to the other side to get it warm because the house was cold around you. In some of the houses that I lived in, we had linoleum on the floor. When the wind blew the linoleum would come up. We had paper on the walls and the wind would come in and make the paper look like it was an accordion!

You had to keep this heater red hot on really cold nights when the north wind was blowing. We had blue northers that came down. You had to keep this fire roaring so the heater would be red-hot at times. It was bright so it would get a child's attention. When the child walked up and touched the heater, it could do permanent damage to his hand. This was something that the parents had to guard against at all times.

The way they trained a child not to touch the stove, was by building a fire in the stove where it wasn't too hot. That way it would hurt the skin, but not do permanent damage. They would tell the child, "Don't touch the stove," then they would leave the child alone in the room. They would watch from the door. The first thing the child always did was touch the stove.

That's the way the parents would teach their children to leave the stove alone. Once a child got his hand burned, from then on, you didn't have to worry about him doing it again. That was the way you taught your child to keep his hands off the stove.

That is what Yahweh is teaching us today. No permanent damage is being done to you through this persecution. Even if they killed your body or burned it, there would be no permanent damage because Yahweh will resurrect that body. He's teaching you, brethren, along with the whole world, that we cannot ignore the Laws of Yahweh, the Laws of peace and joy, and still have peace and joy. In fact, ignoring the Laws is bringing the world to destruction. This world of make-believe is coming to destruction, prophecy says.

Within these same prophecies we see that the nuclear bomb would be invented in my lifetime. Many of you have lived to see these things occur. I don't know how many of you recognized that what you saw went along with prophecy.

As early as I can remember, my mother read us these things. I remember us, the children, talking to mother about this whole world being burned, back when I was a little bitty child. She would sit me on her lap and read the Bible to me from the King James Version. Yes, I can take a King James Version and show you the things that we have written in The Book of Yahweh. This Book of Yahweh is clearer. It's part of this knowledge that has been increased in these Last Days.

I can remember hearing these prophecies and I remember looking forward to these things. Then, when the atomic bomb was invented that ended World War II, we knew that was it. We knew that was what Yahweh was talking about that had been read to me when I was just a little bitty child.

I didn't know it then, but Yahweh had forecast another thing. He prophesied that The House of Yahweh would be established in the Last Days to draw out the last remnant of the priesthood. Yahweh would allow these people to be tested more severely than any of the remnants before them to know if they would follow His Laws even under persecution and hardship.

How many of you had trouble getting here to the Feast? Raise your hands. Yahweh has always allowed His people to be tested. Everyone He calls is tested to see if he will do what Yahweh commands him or not.

Exodus 16:4. Then Yahweh said to Mosheh: I will rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out and gather enough for each day, in order that I may test them, to see whether they will walk in My Law, or not… Yahweh could have rained enough bread in one day to have lasted the people for fifty years if He had wanted. He rained enough each day so He could test the people to see if they would obey this little command He gave them.

It's rather like the way He tells people, "Go to the place I have chosen. Don't go to any other place, but go to the place I have chosen."

Exodus 20:20. Mosheh said to the people; Do not fear, for Yahweh has come to test you and to prove you, so that the reverence for Yahweh will be with you, so that you do not commit sin… In other words, He's allowing you to burn your hand on the stove to teach you not to damage yourself permanently.

Exodus 15:25. Then Mosheh cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree; and when he cast the wood into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He gave them, through Mosheh, the Laws, judgments, and statutes, and there He proved; tested, them.

Verse 26, And said: If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your Father… Now He is speaking to you in the same way. …and do what is right in His sight, and will give ear to His Laws, and keep all His statutes, none of the diseases which were placed upon you, will come upon you; for I am Yahweh Ropheka; Yahweh Your Healer… Now, remember Yahweh created the ordinances and statutes to test the people to see if they would obey His Word or not.

Deuteronomy 8:2. You must remember that Yahweh your Father led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, test and prove you, and know what was in your heart, to see whether you would keep His Laws, or whether you would not… To see whether you would keep His Laws or not.

Yahweh proves every one alike, just as He proved our Fathers, to see whether they would keep His Feasts and His ordinances, statutes and judgments or whether they wouldn't. He's testing you the same way.

Deuteronomy 16:11. You shall rejoice in front of Yahweh your Father… You shall rejoice; did you get that? You shall rejoice in front of Yahweh your Father. …you and your wife, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, the Levite who lives within your city, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widows among you—at the place… Notice, He's putting all of you together in one place. …at the place Yahweh your Father chooses to establish His Name.

Verse 12, And you must remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you must be careful to observe and do these statutes.

Verse 13, You must observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, after you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

Verse 14, And you shall rejoice at your Feast—you and your wife, your son, your daughter, your manservant, the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widows in your cities… Don't just go to your own family and rejoice with them, rejoice with everyone. Get acquainted with them and rejoice with them.

Verse 15, Seven days you must keep a joyous feast… Seven days, …to Yahweh your Father at the place He will choose, for Yahweh your Father will bless you in all your income, and in all the work of your hands, so you will surely have joy.

Verse 16, Three times a year all your males shall appear in front of Yahweh your Father at the place He will choose—at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Tabernacles—and they must not appear in front of Yahweh empty handed.

The Feast of Pentecost is a Feast that people look on as just one day. Instead of thinking of it as a joyous Feast to Yahweh, they look on it as being only one day. They start looking at it as a little thing and start thinking that they don't need to put forth the effort to go like it was a seven or eight day Feast

Pentecost was the very Feast that Yahweh chose to pour out Holy Spirit upon His people. Out of the hundreds and thousands who came to hear Yahshua, there were only a hundred and twenty who thought this day was important enough to go and receive Holy Spirit. That is what Acts 2 tells you. There were only one hundred and twenty out of all the ones who had followed Yahshua who received Holy Spirit.

Verse 17, Every man shall give as he is capable of giving, in proportion to the blessing Yahweh your Father has given you… This is the way that Yahweh is testing you at this time. Now, this sets you at odds with the unbelievers.

Look on over to Mattithyah 10. Here is where Yahweh really finds out what you are made out of because almost all of you have kinfolks in the world. We have relatives who are not being called at this time. We have friends too; some of them are even preachers.

One lady here told me she had in mind that she was going to go back home and try to sell all these people books from The House of Yahweh. I told her not to be surprised if the people may not be as readily accepting as she was. All these people have now turned against her and her preacher said her brain was washed, she belongs to a cult and she's just gone crazy. They accused the Savior of that, too, because He taught the same Laws of the Father that The House of Yahweh teaches today. So I say, as the Savior says, rejoice and be exceedingly glad because great is your reward in heaven!

Mattithyah 10:34. Do not think that I have come to send peace on earth! I did not come to send peace, but a sword.

Verse 35, For I have come to set a man against his father… The very fact that you are leaving your family and going to the place that Yahweh told you that you must go causes friction. …and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Verse 36, And a man's enemies will be those of his own house… This is reality; this is not make-believe. This is no world of glitter that will make you cherish it and desire it. It's a matter of choosing right from wrong and obedience from disobedience. It's a matter of seeing the disobedience the world is following and wanting to turn from that to being obedient to Yahweh. If you do this, Yahweh says your enemies will be those of your own household. Your own family and your friends will turn against you.

Verse 37, He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

In the churches they say, "Oh, I just love the Savior." They jump around like monkeys and peep and mutter or whatever it was the apostles said. You hear women who say, "Oh, I just love the Savior."

This word love carries with it a sense of obedience. It is not some glitter and glamour that the world creates. They teach a false love that is here today and gone tomorrow. A fifty-fifty sort of love is what you see out of Satan's world. Love is a hundred percent obedience; that's what the word means.

…He who loves father and mother more than Me… And would obey them in obedience over what He tells you to do. …is not worthy of Me… Or the Kingdom.

Verse 38, And he who does not take up his yoke; and follow after Me… If you let this little bit of persecution turn you from what Yahweh has told you to do, then you are not worthy of Yahshua.

Yahchanan 14:15. If you love Me, keep My Laws… That's how you show your love for Yahshua.

What are His Laws? Look back to Mattithyah 7. The worldly preachers paint a picture of Yahshua. They accept a person of Yahshua, but they don't accept His words, teachings or Laws. Yahshua plainly tells you, "If you love Me keep My Laws, and if you don't love Me then you're going to perish." If you don't keep His Laws, you're going to perish. Here we see His Laws.

Mattithyah 7:15. Beware of false prophets… Well, who is He talking about? …who come to you in sheep's clothing…Yes, they can dress themselves up like Christmas trees, and they can put on something that appears great and wonderful, but they're dying. They're slowly dying like all the world.

Verse 21, Not everyone who says to Me; Teacher! Teacher!… Or who says he loves Him. …will enter into the Kingdom of Yahweh; but only he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven.

Verse 22, For many will say to Me in that day; Teacher! Teacher! Have we not prophesied… Have we not preached in Your Name? These are religious leaders. Some of them are leading the world into destruction at this time. These are religious leaders who go to Yahshua in the day of sentencing and say, "Didn't we preach in Your Name?"

…and cast out demons in Your Name, and in Your Name performed many wonderful works?… "Didn't we build a Salvation Army and feed all of the winos on skid row? Isn't this a wonderful work that we did?"

That would look great to someone who didn't know the Scriptures. Someone who knows the Scriptures knows that Yahweh says you will give tithes to help the poor. Help them do what? You do this to help them get to His Feasts; to go to the place He chooses. What does the world do? Well, they feed them on Christmas, the day of glitter and glamour.

Verse 23, But then I will declare to them; I never knew you. Get away from Me, you who practice sin… Who practice the breaking of the Law. These are promises from Yahshua. They are not going to be changed or altered. He says, "If you love Me, keep My Laws." He also says that you must do the will of My Father Who is in heaven.

Yahchanan 5:24. Truly, truly, I say to you; He who hears My words; believing Yahweh Who sent Me, has everlasting life, and will not come under condemnation; but has passed from death to life… Well, that settles it all there in that one verse; doesn't it? That's what the world wants to do. They want to cut it off at that one verse. They even have these old songs in the churches that say, "Only believe."

I used to hear that when mother took us to these brush arbor meetings when I was a young boy. My dad was a sharecropper. I don't know if you've ever seen or read The Grapes of Wrath. I lived through that time; I can relate to all of those things that took place in that book that they made into a movie. There were very poor, poor people who lived in that area. That's how I was brought up: poor.

We would go to these brush arbor meetings. Mother would take us to these places. The preacher would get up there and harp on loving the Savior. He would take it totally out of context. Mother would take us back home after the meetings and she would show us all the things that the preachers said and she would say, "Now here is what the Scriptures say." We had some guidance even then.

I remember the preacher pounding on this thought of "Only believe." Then, they sang that song. They would have a place down in the front of the meeting place, an old wooden bench or something that they called an altar. The preacher would get up there, hold out his hands and beg the people to come down, get down on their knees by this wooden bench, and pray for a few minutes. He would go over there and pray with them for a few minutes and then tell them, "You're saved." The next thing He would do is encourage them to join his church. The preachers were always from the Baptist Church, Methodist Church, or the Church of Christ. Those were the ones who came to that part of the country.

I remember their sermons. They would usually take one little Scripture and then they would shut their books. Mother would take us back home and she would ask, "Did you hear what the preacher said?" Well, most of the time we didn't, so she would repeat what he said! She would point out what he said and then she would point out what the Scriptures said.

I remember mother saying there is more to salvation than just believing; that doesn't cover it all. She would say you can believe all you want to but you'd be burned in hell if you didn't practice what the Scriptures teach. They teach that you must practice the Laws of Yahweh. This was the truth that mother and dad taught us.

Verse 25, Truly, truly, I say to you; The hour is coming and now is when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of Yahweh; and those who hear will live… Yes, they are going to be resurrected as Yahshua was showing it here.

Verse 26, For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son… Now I have brought this out that the Son is going to give the same power to the ones of The House of Yahweh. We are the ones who are actually going to raise the dead at that time. Power will be given to us and we will be the voice of Yahweh. That's another sermon!

Verse 27, And has given Him authority to execute judgment… Given to the Son and the Son gives it to His wife, The House of Yahweh. …also, because He is the Son of Man.

Verse 28, Do not be astonished at this—for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice.

Verse 29, And will come forth. Those who have practiced righteousness will be resurrected in order to live… And the sentence that will be passed upon you will be eternal life.

Many of you will have a place in the 144,000 priesthood; hopefully all of you sitting here at this time will have that.

…and those who have practiced wickedness… The disobedience to Yahweh's Laws that this world is following at this time. …will be resurrected in order to be damned... Yahweh gives us a promise in these Last Days that this House will not die. If Yahweh chooses to use you and you are obedient to Him you can live right through this whole mess that the world is creating at this time. You can stand alive to see the Savior at His coming.

Verse 30, I can of My own self do nothing… Get what He says here. He couldn't bring forth a new Law like the world says He did. He couldn't disobey the Laws that Yahweh had, nor could He create new Laws. In fact, the Apostle Yaaqob said the Father was the only Lawgiver.

I can of My own self do nothing; as I hear, I judge. And My judgment is just; because I do not seek My own will, but the will of the Father… Here is what Yahshua wants you to do. He's saying, "If you love Me, keep My Laws, and My Laws are that you do the will of the Father." …who has sent Me.

The Feast of Yahweh is what we're here for now. Today is a Feast day. The Feasts take us out of a world of glimmer; they take us out of this world of glamour. They take us away from even the comfort of our own homes. They take us out of the way we control the environment, and the entertainment that we have in our own homes.

Yahweh brings you out of this world of glimmer and He mixes you with His sons, daughters, menservants, maidservants and strangers. There are many strangers among you at the Feast. Then, He says to rejoice. Do you see the change you're making while you're here?

Yahweh takes you out of a world of make-believe, which is all around you in the world today. It comes through the television sets, the movies, and all the fairs, the world fairs, and the state fairs. This world of make-believe comes to you through all directions. Yahweh takes you out of the controlled atmosphere that we live in, in our own homes that we make comfortable for ourselves.

He takes you out of all this to a place that is rather uncomfortable at times. He brings you to a place where sand blows and bees fly in your food! Here the wind blows all the time, or the wind doesn't blow at all. It gets too hot or too cold and there's the smell of the trees and the other things around you that irritate you! Then, He tells you to rejoice.

This is a great place to cut it off. We will continue this the day after tomorrow. May Yahweh bless you. I'll turn the services back to the song leader.