Chag Sameach Pesach kol beit Yisra'el and may His grace be upon the Remnant and all those coming up to her in emunah (faith) and obedience. Today is Aviv 14 during which Messianic Israel makes eager preparations for the Pesach (Passover) meal this evening, the Remnant has been called to stand aside from the actual physical observances until the beginning of the Second Month. This has never happened before, and probably won't happen again until the Final Generation gathers as we have done to rededicate the Remnant as it prepares to enter the period we have come to know as the Great Tribulation. Even though we shall not be eating a Passover Seder this evening [1], we shall most certainly be in prayer during this the second of several pivotal events for the Remnant in this season of developping tribulation. And by the 'Remnant' I am speaking both of us here and others whom we do not yet know but whom we believe we shall come to know very soon.

I mentioned 'several pivotal events'. There are so many events and processes going on at the moment that we have been forced to interface and interact with them on a daily basis, as the Ruach (Spirit) leads us. We have been in a 72 day Countdown now for some weeks and are approaching its end and though Yahweh has not told us exactly what to expect at the end of it, we are viewing it in several ways, including as a reminder to urgently clear all our debts and getting our last minute prepping completed. It is, if you like, preparation for our various arks. As Noah and his immediate family - his wife, three sons and their three wives - prepared everything for the ark in anticipation of the arrival of the animals and the very long journey they knew they would face before they would be able to cultivate the cleansed land again (that would have required food for at least one year - my family is preparing for 14 months), so every family of MLT/NCAY needs to get ready. Each man - whether single or married - must prepare his own ark and be ready. This is important because we may very well lose contact with one another for a long period of time, even if we live near one another, and must be fully prepared to go it alone until the metaphorical 'flood' of world events allows us to assemble again [2]. It is no accident that this is a Sh'mittah Sabbatical) year or that the current 'flood' is to occur during it. If the men have not made preparations in body, mind and heart, they will most likely perish, and if not, then they shall surely not have a good time of it battling to survive in a hostile and dangerous. Once those ark doors are closed it is each family and their Elohim (God) for themselves until we are regathered as a new fellowship on the other side of this. If local circumstances require it, we should be prepared to be cut off and surviving alone for as much as 12-14 months.

Today is also the second year of the Second Exodus for this current generation and the last one being born. There will be time to raise the last generation is comparitive peace once the current Mishpat Yahweh (Judgment of God) and the current troubles have reached their peak and subsided. We must make no mistake about this - though good times will be ours for a while, the tidal wave of woe must yet be faced by all of us.

On Aviv 12, when Yahweh showed me that blue altar vision, He also spoke, saying: "The only woe is this". There is much suffering we must experience as the Remnant, but perhaps the most heart-wrenching of these are consequences of our nearest-and-dearest turning against us and accusing the Altar of Elohim. You may remember I predicted this would happen a few days ago and indeed it will yet happen for some of you and is already beginning. It's at these times that we have to decide whom we will follow: the King and His Kingdom, or our loved ones railing against the Altar in order to appease and capitulate to them. I will not pretend this easy. It is not. It is agonisingly painful and a part of the 'immersion' we must all go through in the Meal or Grain offering that we were talking about last night. There is, however, always tiqveh (hope) and we must interceed for their sakes because it is not a small matter to rail against the Altar of Yahweh - the consequences are never good whether done in ignorance or deliberately. So expect the Enemy to stir things up and be prepared to stand your ground firmly but compassionately as many of us have already done many times already.

Noah had to endure the mocking of the defiled people around him for over a century as he faithfully went about his divine commission and project of ark-building. Ark-builting is very much the hallmark of this work too. We have been derided and persecuted for it. And do not expect any satisfaction in the knowledge that when the things we have spoken about do come true and we are vindicated by the Davar Elohim because this will be offset by the agony of watching a world die - if not totally, as Noah experienced, then certainly in large measure. We know from what the Book of Revelation tells us that the casualty list will be high - one third of everything and everybody will be affected at some point, and if not now, then most definitely at the time of the Last Generation (Rev.8-9).

In Noah's day only one family was saved. In ours there will be many - saved, that is, not just in the physical sense (since billions will come through the present crisis with their lives intact),but in the sense of being not just delivered out of the world in our souls but into the Sanctuary too. By now I hope you understand what I am saying. Though the physical tends to impact us more than the spiritual, it is the spiritual that is the main thing always. For us, it defines who we are, what we are called to do, how we are anointed and empowered, and where we shall go after the current judgments. Do not suppose that if you make bad choices - if you rebell or if you have not done what you were supposed to have done - that you will have the same knowledge and spiritual awareness as you do now. I know for a fact - because Yahweh has told me - that my family and I will be making the last of our preparations up until the very last day when the hammer falls. All of us wonder - or at least a part of us wonders - because of the flesh, if any of what we have been talking about is real, or whether this is some absurd religious fantasy. And sad to say some will still be doubting on the day before the baloon goes up and some will be doubting on the actual day, which may prove disasterous. That is why every man and women has to find out the emet (truth) for him- or herself. You will not be able to wave the finger in accusation at anybody if you fail to exercise your free will and assume personal responsibility over your life because you have been told, again and again, to test everything, to get personal revelation from Yahweh, and thereby to learn to stand alone in Him. Because if you are planning to lean on anyone, except a parent or a husband, for your physical or spiritual support, you will not only not be prepared but you will have so declared, by your own actions of negligence, that you are not of the Remnant. And even though your situation may seem hopeless, whether it be in the matter of prepping or spiritual readiness, you have the promise that Yahweh will give you every opportunity to be ready as a whole man or woman. There is no charity for those outside the Ark because the doors are supernaturally closed and won't be supernaturally opened again until after the 'flood'.

Tonight is an important marker in the timetable of Yahweh's Mishpat or Judgment. Unless Yahweh has told any of you spefcifically, we do not know in what form it will come. I am sure that the children of Israel, huddled in their homes with the blood of paschal lambs on their doorposts, wondered what was going to happen. Unlike us, because of their unbelief and carnality, they had been given many supernatural signs to convince them, so they were by then 'prepared' on their level of preparedness. Yahweh has chosen not to give us such signs because He wants a Remnant people who walk by emunah (faith) and not by sight, even though there are multiple evidences to be seen in the world all around us. We proclaim, with the writer of Hebrews, that "by emunah (faith) we understand that ... what is seen was not made out of what was visible" (Heb.11:3, NIV). All that has happened, and is happening, and will happen was ordained and initiated in the invisible. Those who have so trained their spiritual eyes can discern what is going on around them - in the times and seasons, amidst the tumult of the nations, and in the behaviours of people. The carnal do not see and are swept along by the tide of events, not knowing causes and effects, willfully blind because of their unbelief and disobedience and unable to save themselves. The warning messages have gone out and in a matter of days or weeks we shall be warning no longer. Then we must simply ride the storm wherever we may be.

We shall not assemble this afternoon but give ourselves over to private contemplation and prayer. This evening we shall reassemble for intercession. We received the anointing for that on Aviv 9 and must exercise it while we await further instructions. The time for words is rapidly ending. Now is the time for assembling in tavnith (pattern) for the ministrations of the Remnant. May those of you celebrating Pesach (Passover) this evening have a wonderful time of communion with Yahweh as you remember that wondrous work on the Cross wrought for us! We are most definitely with you in the Ruach (Spirit). Amen.

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