Chag sameach Rosh Chodesh kol beit Yisra'el and Mishpachah and thank you for joining with me today for this special assembly to hear what Yahweh's message is for us this month. As ever on this particular day, I will try to be brief.

First, let's deal with some of the false prophets who continue to mislead the Body. Yesterday marked the last opportunity for the fulfilment of another 'rapture' prophecy by some pop prophet which I prophesied would fail. It failed yet these people keep coming up with more and more nonsense - they're worse than the Jehovah's Witnesses and all their failed Second Coming prophecies in the 20th century! The latest of the carnal mutterers and babblers claim that the 'rapture' will take place by the end of this Gregorian month of August. Again, it will fail, many of these false prophecies being tied in with numerous other false prophecies in circulation about a Third Temple. So let me categorically state again, there will never be a 'Third Temple', the offer by Yahweh through Ezekiel if Judah and Israel in exile would repent expired 2½ millennia ago. The age of bricks-and mortar temples is long finished and any that may be constructed, whether in Jerusalem or anywhere else, will be counterfeit and deceive millions of Christians and Messianics. Such a structure could be put up at any time but it will not be of Yahweh.

The problem is that the purveyors of the rapturist myth will keep on chruning out more psychic prophesies based on a false belief system. Expect them to keep doing this again and again and again, one false prophecy after another, with them never somehow managing to connect the dots of their repeated failure to get it right. Why won't they stop? Because they are deluded, propelled by a false religious spirit bent on making them look fools so that Christianity will become more and more discredited. Their endless failures testify they are chasing the wind like a dog chasing its own tail. My message to them is unambiguous and straight forward: Stop doing this before Yahweh silences you for continually misrepresenting Him!

The latest, newest prophetic hype concerns the 'black moon' which occurred at 0413 this morning here in western Sweden. We have had our blood red moon hysteria which started in 2013 which I debunked back then and which has largely faded away as nothing of any substance has happened in connection with this natural phenomenon. What is this obsession with the moon - this lunacy? Every time there is an eclipse of the moon, somebody's brain gets eclipsed, the soothsayers lose it and speak all kinds of foolishness. Then they got excited by super moons, and blue moons, and the latest is today's 'black moon'. The irony is that the soothsayers don't, by and large, even know what a 'black moon' is. Some of them are saying that it signifies that there will be massive power outages caused by sunspot activity. I guess someone went along to the Space Weather Prediction Center website and discovered there would be lots of coronal hole activity on 1 August leading to massive solar wind, so they put '2 and 2' together, as they supposed. There haven't been any 'outages' today and I doubt there will be any by the time tomorrow arrives.

You see, there's a problem. A 'dark moon' doesn't mean that the moon is 'extra' or especially 'dark' today. Since this is bound to come up again, I thought I would start today by explaining to the astrologers out there what a 'black moon' is as they appear regularly about every 32 months or a little over 2½ years, and then only in certain time zones. Today is Rosh Chodesh or New Moon Day which we are commanded to observe to mark the beginning of the months and to calculate the sabbaths for that month according to the biblical luni-solar or creation calendar, given that name because it was the calendar given to us by the Creator right at the beginning for reckoning the set-apart times and seasons.

So what is meant by a 'black moon'? Well, it's like a 'blue moon' (hence the expression, 'once in a blue moon'). If there are two full moons in a Gregorian month (an artifical system created by the Roman Catholic Church) it is called a 'blue moon', so if there are two new moons in a Gregorian month, the second one is called a 'black' moon. There is one other type of 'black moon' and that is when there are no new moons in a Gregorian month, which can only happen in the much shorter month of February. So this is not an astronomical term at all! It has nothing to do with the moon being 'extra dark' today! So those looking for 'blackouts' have totally misunderstood the term 'black moon'. The next one isn't until 30 August 2022. But don't worry, nothing spectacular is going to happen on that day either. It's simply the second of two new moons in a regular Roman month. Nothing more. So I can't say, 'Go and enjoy your black moon' because there's nothing to be seen! Rather, rejoice that Yahweh has summonsed us to gather on the new moon day to hear the devarim (words) of the nevi'im (prophets)! It also means that, for us here, at least, that the next four sabbaths will be on Thursdays.

As I have pointed out many times in the past, the moon is never a prophetic image except in conjunction with the sun being darkened and sometimes the stars falling out of the sky (Is.13:11; Joel 2:10; 3:15; Mt.24:29; Mk.13:24). All three (or two) have to happen together and even then this is almost certainly largely symbolic imagery for reasons I have explained elsewhere. So stop gazing at the moon and stars like the heathen in search of prophetic signs! If anything important happens, it will be so dramatic that the whole world will see it! The heavenly bodies have other purposes such as for navigating and determining Yahweh's annual, monthly and weekly divine moedim or appointments. Anything else is verging on idolatry. And all the false prophesying going on should serve as a stark warning to desist immediately and instead learn to listen to the Ruach (Spirit).

And if you like astronomy, go and do some star-gazing, or maybe help flat-earthers out of their delusion and so make evangelism easier with the sceptics. It was the 50th anniverary of the amazing Apollo 11 moon-landing 8 days ago when the first men walked on the moon. Indeed last night I was reading about the incredible Apollo 15 moon-landing in a 1972 edition of the National Geographic. What an amazing created body it is!

Now that we have got the 'black moon' out of the way, let's get down to serious matters. Last month I delivered a message to you about the Return of the Red Beast based on a vision Yahweh showed me and we are witnessing the continuing rise of communist power everywhere. Boris Johnson has been elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and is already being called a 'second Trump' - the hyenas are already circling him. He is controlled like Trump but there are still many ways in which Yahweh could use him as part of the awaited and already unfolding Judgments.

The message today is more of the same. Two mornings ago I awoke and asked Father for directions for the day and once again He showed me a vision of a great fire spread out over a wide area. I have seen this vision so many times now as Yahweh keeps emphasising it. It's evidently the main thing on the divine agenda. The fire is not raging or furious yet but it is spread out over a great area and is doing its work. There is a burning going on everywhere and in everyone as the call to repentance is made:

"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near" (Matt.4:17, NIV).

"...unless you repent, you ... will all perish" (Luke 13:5, NIV).

This is a Fire of Judgment and a Fire of Purging or Refinement. It is a time of great exposing and shaking, not to menion accelerating confusion. As I mentioned in my sermon yesterday, this is a time of peirasmos - a time of testing, to see who will be loyal and who will not. And this isn't going to be over any time very soon. As I shared with you in 2016, this is a time for 'bolting down the hatches' and weathering the storm. Please take a look at that sermon again - you'll find a link on the website. Back then I also gave a strong warning about rapture deceptions which have got worse with several new false prophecies.