The moedim or appointments of Yahweh teach us this emet (truth) too. Everything is a progressive cycle of beginnings and endings until, at the very 'end', beginning and endings all merge together. That one Eternal Round is the reality in which we will live one day when the Millennium is no more and the current heaven and earth are all wrapped up and the new ones enter into being.

The more you operate in Yahweh's reality, the closer the Beginnings and Endings come until they are repeating at such rapidity that you cannot distinguish between them. Then time suddenly wraps back on itself and every becomes echad (one).

What propells this emerging oneness? Fervent ahavah - the fervent love of Yahweh-Elohim. It is this intensely passionate ahavah, which can only exist in true tavnith or Torah-pattern, that is the reality of the internal universe of the one authentically born-again to the chayyim or life of the Elohim Family.

In the final of the festivals of Yahweh - in that final, consumptive year of this current world system. today will mark a great and wonderful END. For us who are in Messiah Yah'shua, we are constantly at that 'end' if we truly - in our heart-of-hearts - do not wish to return to the world from which we were snatched by the divine arms of salvation. If not - if the world still has attraction for us - then we will continually approach that end by never reach it, and one day fall like one tumbling out of a skyscraper back - not to the beginning which was our initial redemption - but before even that - to the time we were not saved. That is the worst 'end' of all.

If we have not reached our "end of all things" then we need to hasten to it so as not to plummet back from whence we came, and become as a dead branch, cut off, and fit only for burning.

I had an unpleasant revelation during the teshuvah or repentance season now passed as I was preparing the series of devotionals on fruits for you. I saw that whilst I was ready for the final Yom Teruah (Second Coming) I was not ready for the final Yom Kippur (Day of Judgment) and therefore not ready for the final Sukkot (Marriage Feast of the Lamb). And if you're not ready for the spiritual reality and fulfillment of any of Yahweh's festivals, you not only can't realise the ones ahead of you but in truth you need to go back and work through another cycle because you're missing something fundamentally important.

Peter highlights the three characteristics of the person who has successfully navigated to the End and is ready for a New Beginning:

• 1. Serious-mindedness, soberness;
• 2. Watchfull, self-controlled; and
• 3. Full of intensely passionate (fervent) ahavah (agapé, self-sacrificing love).