"Yahweh, in their distress they sought for You. When Your punishment was on them, they poured forth a whispered prayer. How we missed Your presence, Yahweh! We suffered as a woman giving birth, who cries and writhes in pain. We too have writhed in agony, but all to no avail. No deliverance has come from all our efforts. Yet we have this assurance: Those who belong to Elohim (God) shall live again. Their bodies shall rise again! Those who dwell in the dust shall awake and sing for joy! For Elohim's (God's) light of chayim (life) will fall like dew upon them.

"Go home, My people, and lock your doors! Hide (quarantine) [yourselves] for a little while until Yahweh's wrath (anger) has passed. Look! Yahweh is coming from the heavens to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will no longer hide the murderers. The guilty will be found" (Isaiah 26:16-21, Living Bible).

With those opening words of warning, consolation, encouragement, and sound practical advice, I wish you Shabbat Shalom and welcome you to the last sabbath assembly of the current biblical year which begins in two days' time.

You will doubtless have noticed that we are meeting today in the evening toward sunset and there are two reasons for that. The first is for practical reasons. More importantly, the second reason is that this is a very significant sabbath indeed, because it is the last of its kind - ever. Why? Because we are coming to the rapid end of a period of major political and social change in our world - the end of an era, if you like - because we are never returning to the world we knew before the coronavirus pandemic got underway. This is the sunset of an epoch. Like it or hate it, or maybe a mixture of both, the world we have known is dying and a new one, prophetically speaking, is starting in two days' time. And I ventue to suggest, virtually nobody is prepared for it.

It is written:

"If a person is not steadfast in the fear of Yahweh, his house will be quickly overthrown" (Sirach/Ecclus. 27:3, NRSV).

This Covid-19 or coronavirus pandemic may not have killed as many people as plagues like the Black Death have in the past, at least yet, but it is going to thoroughly dislocate economies - the pride of Babylon, and the pride of the flesh - and bring governments tumbling down because Mammon is the god of billions. And when Mammon falls, peoples' hearts fail them. As I speak, the €urozone is teetering on the brink of collapse and the UK, whose Brexit departure has seriously destabilised the EU, is threatening the European Union with a no deal. Major economies are being rocked which may well lead to the prophesied Collapse being accelerated. And if that is the case, your prepping is going to have to last for more than 2 or 4 weeks - or maybe even months - while the coronavirus dies down. You may very well need it for the minimum of one year which you have been counselled to prepare for. So get into your garden patches and start growing food this summer - do it indoors too! With the National Guard being called out in parts of the United States, it may not be long before martial law and a loss of personal liberties is declared there as it has been in parts of China and elsewhere.

Brothers and sisters, we are not returning to the way things were - ever again. You were told the old order élites were going to suffer a major defeat, and they are suffering that now. Like drowning rats, they will start scurrying onto the ship decks and into the sunlight for all to see. The viral nature of this first judgment took us a little by surprise though you were counselled to make medical preparations long ago, but for the political élites there are unforseen consequences for them too - they have no idea what's coming because none but the nevi'im (prophets) know the mind of Yahweh, albeit only in part "through a glass, darkly" (1 Cor.13:12, KJV) and only when He chooses to impart that knowledge, because the nevi'im (prophets) only "prophesy in part" and must also walk by emunah (faith).

Come Wednesday - come Aviv 1 - the first of the élites will start to die, by means we will probably never know, as the vials of the wrath of El Elyon, the Most High, are emptied over them from the Throne Room. Just as Trump's victory shocked and horrified them, upsetting their plans, so this will mortify them, and a cry of panic will rise up from their hidden chambers. They will start to quake because they will not understand how it is happening. There remains for them, if they will make teshuvah (repent) - there is always a way out for those who confess and surrender to Yah'shua (Jesus) - there remains for them a trail of ash. Their arrogance, blasphemies, and murderous spirit will be turned to dust.

Aviv 1 will be the day the true nevi'im (prophets) begin to emerge. They have waited patiently for a very long time. They have suffered much in the interim, having been cast out, rejected. They have abided their time in the wilderness, often alone, and unrecognised. The majority of believers (the non-Remnant) will hate them as much as the unbelievers will. You will see them beginning to emerge and speak with power and authority while the false ones are exposed, humiliated and silenced.

Be careful of the so-called 'charismatic prophets', for their prophecies are a thoroughly mixed bag of truth and falsehood. They are by-and-large still promoting lawlessness and the false 'Prospertity Gospel' even if they have repackaged the latter to sound more 'spiritual'. Remember, Yah'shua (Jesus) said that His Kingdom is not of the current world Babylonian system. I was listening to some of these people on Sid Roth's program yesterday and on the surface they sounded very persuasive indeed. They had a form of godliness and authority about them but they were saying many false things along with the 'spiritual' things. Yahweh's nevi'im (prophets) cannot have two faces, the one face speaking truth and the other falsehoods. It is not possible. Don't get caught up in charismatic sensationalism because that is what it often is: sensuality masquerading as spirituality.

Yes, Yahweh does use all sorts of people sometimes, even those with wrong ideas, so you must test them rigorously, at least up until Aviv 1, because thereafter Yahweh will be acting differently. You must test them because a lawless (that is, demonic) spirit is there blended in with the rest. Yes, Yahweh uses whosoever He will, even the Balaam's, but do not give them carte blanche. And Balaam, you will remember, was used by Him only once before he reverted to being a false witness. Because the temptation to vanity in nevi'im (prophets) is high - remember, even Moses failed once (which was enough to end his ministry) - everyone called to this kind of ministry should not assume that his calling is for life. Many certainly were, like Elijah, Elisha and Samuel - but their records were near impeccable, like Moses'. Most of the others were called to deliver one or a few prophecies and to thereafter return to the obscurity from which they came. Anyone who goes around calling him- or herself 'a prophet' if they're producing mixed fruit is dancing dangerously. Never assume that in all cases, 'once a prophet, always a prophet'. That is why I do not call myself one, because that is not my primary calling. Most who go around assuming this title as though it were a permanent honours system will be brought low. If you're not of the Samuel or Elijah variety, prophesy when you are given authentic prophecy but don't go viewing yourself as a 'prophet', and refuse the title when people tells you to assume it, because people will sooner or later make you into an idol and an intermediary like Moses, remembering that Numbers 11:19 is the goal - viz. that all ideally should be. The same goes for 'apostles' too. If you want a title, be contet with 'brother' or 'sister'. When you are a full-time prophet or apostle you will bring do the works of the biblical prophets and apostles.

Many churches and ministries - even whiole denominations - are going to be devastated in the months to come, some will be wiped out altogether. They are old and rotten, because the resurrection and the chaiyim (life) has gone out of them, and particularly out of their leaders who are servants of the world system. The afterglow of Christianity in the once Christian West, particularly in Europe, will be all but extinguished, and then the darkness will be great indeed as men's idols, religious and secular, fail them. Those believers in the poor nations will look on in dismay as poverty strikes their former financial benefactors on whom they relied, and in whom they trusted, instead of relying upon, and trusting in, Yahweh-Elohim alone. Nevertheless, as also prophesied many years ago, an entirely new Body of Messiah will arise in a sudden blaze of light, sweeping up the faithful remnants into it and driving the false believers out of it and into the waiting arms of the arising antichrist system or one world religion, or into atheism. And yes, there will be - and already are - counterfeits of the Remnant too, invariably lawless. Only atheism will not give them sanctuary for very long because Yahweh is overturning the pride of atheists too and demonstrating that He is the Creator of the Universe through both science and the supernatural. Darwin's hegemony will in due course be toppled and is already teetering.

Having said that, let me caution you against some of the hysteria coming out of parts of Christendom. None of it's a surprise because this happens every time there is a calamity. We have the usual claims about an imminent Rapture, claims that the Second Coming is about to happen, claims that the governments of this world will start turning Christian ('Kingdom Now' theology), and so on. As I've mentioned before there is a whole spectrum of false prophecy out there, from those claiming a millennial-like Golden Era is about to begin and promising fabulous things, to those now claiming the Covid-19 vaccine will contain the Mark of the Beast leading us directly into the Great Tribulation. If a vaccine does come - and I'm sure one eventually will (because there's money to be made through them by the greedy élites) once enough people have died to satisfy the blood lust of the Deep State - I am sure it will be a bizzare poisonous cocktail that we probably won't want to have anything to do with, quite apart from the fact it probably won't work anyway.

As always, people are in a hurry either good or bad things to happen. We must always pause, carefully reflect in prayer, weigh the known data, and wait on Yahweh until He speaks clearly before we act decisively. Discretion is always the better part of valour. Again - and I cannot say it too often - don't panic, take a balanced approach. Just be sure you're where you're supposed to be right now and then take one day at a time, doing what you're supposed to be doing, not being a couch potato and not doing anything impulsive or rash either. So, husbands and fathers, take authority in your home and act as true men of Elohim (God). If you're a single mother, that burden will fall on you for now. If you're adequately prepped, you've got fewer worries to contend with. So calm down and listen closely to Yahweh yourself because there are a lot of hysterical amateurs suffering from Dunning-Kruger Syndrome (who think they know far more than they actually do) and false pop prophets who are out there trying to make a name for themselves. Yahweh is working, Yahweh is in overall control, and Yahweh is doing - and is about to do - some wonderful things for the Remnant, but it's not going to be roses for most of humanity. There is Good News too, but it is primarily for those willing to yield fully to Messiah. Faith coupled with obedience, passionate ahavah/agapé love for Elohim (God) and for people, and a willingness to suffer for Messiah's sake, is your door to the Remnant. But first you must be tested. You're being tested now.

Two days ago I was in prayer petitioning Heaven on behalf of a brother who had taken a great risk travelling directly into several pandemic zones on his way home from abroad. I was asking Yahweh for direction on how best to help him. Prior to this, about 15 minutes before, I had been talking to my wife and telling her I felt sure we were all being tested in a new and unexpected way given that almost none of us has ever directly experienced a pandemic before, never mind that one has never gone completely global before throughout the history of the world that we know of. I then went downstairs to my office to pray for guidance. I waited and heard nothing at first, and then His voice came through, saying, "1486". I knew exactly what that meant (because He's spoken to me this way before), so I grabbed my New Interpreter's Study Bible (the Bible I mostly work with), opened it, and it fell immediately on page 1486! I didn't have to flip any pages to search for it. And there, in Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 27 was the title of a section of text which immediately grabbed my eye, "Tests in Life", following right after the verse I read out to you earlier. I knew that was no concidence because of the statistical improbability of so many variables converging the way they did, leaving therefore no doubt in my mind as to the supernatural origin of this davar (word) to me. But there was more:

Yah'shua ben Sirach went on to say under this title:

"When a sieve is shaken, the refuse appears; so do a person's faults when he speaks. The kiln tests the potter's vessels; so the test of a person is in his conversation. Its fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so a person's speech discloses the cultivation of his mind. Do not praise anyone before he speaks, for this is the way people are tested" (Sirach 27:4-7, NRSV).

I had to make a really, really hard decision that would have negatively impacted many lives if I made the wrong one. I had voices telling me to go one way and other voices to go another way. I knew what Yahweh had told me to do but my heart protested and voices whispered countering what I knew. But I stayed firm and did what I had been told to do in the first place, even though there was a day of anxiety while the situation on the ground remained in the air. (You all know what it's like 'not knowing'). In times of tribulation, when in trials we face hard, hard decisions, as in times of the plague, we must be obedient to what we have been told to do, even if it makes no initial sense, even if our sensibilities are in revolt.

We are going through a major testing and it's far from being over. I don't know how long this panedemic will last, but I hear experts saying it could last as long a 1˝ years. I pray it's over much sooner because of the chaos and devastation this will cause. This is just the beginning of troubles and dilemmas to be faced and overcome in Yah'shua (Jesus). We are not used to people getting dangerously ill and dying horribly from respiratory collapse all around us in such large numbers, and the stress alone in those who don't know Yah'shua (Jesus), or who have taken their eyes off Him, will for sure weaken their immune systems and make them more susceptibe. We need calm so that we can hear the Ruach (Spirit) too. My heart goes out especially to the people of Italy and China, who are the hardest hit so far, but it's rising really fast in the USA too because no advance government preparations were made. Last week I spoke to you about the judgment against Hecate in the United States. The West and East coasts, where her dominion is the strongest, are being hardest hit by the plague so far. I hope the good folks there are armed if they're still in the cities. The totalitarian-minded wicked in high places are in some cases behaving attrociously and are frothing at the mouth at the prospect of taking away all personal liberty under the cover of a national emergency. There will, as I said, be a supernatural culling of many of these people by Yahweh, and not by their own (like Mr.Epstein). Some of them, no doubt, will be lynched by those they have oppressed

In the meantime we must learn to live in this new world which arguably began last September. The planned 'pandemic exercise' called Event 201, arranged by Bill and Melinda Gates last October, should have been a wake-up call because 'exercises' usually preceed the real thing. The Stock Market crashed in March and now John Hopkins is predicting 65 million fatalities, which probably means that is what the élites are hoping for, at the very least. If this was a engineered pandemic as I now believe it to be, then it's premeditated mass murder - genocide - and the perpetrators will be punished in the only way they deserve. Yahweh can, and will, intervene where there is repentance and faith, and out of shere mercy for His people. Nothing is 'inevitable', and whilst this is judgment, the precise outcome, as always, depends on man's response to Elohim (God). I am not speaking definitively on anything I don't know, only on what I do know, with the rest just being possibilities that we should be made aware of so we can ask Yahweh about them and make appropriate responses. The pandemic is just the 'catalyst' for the main even which, whether it happens now or later, or gradually over several years, is going to be global financial collapse dwarfing the disaster of 1929. And the purpose of engineering this long-planned collapse? To move the planet closer to a New World Oder, a one world dictatorship run by the satanic élites on behalf of their demonic overlords. The 2008 financial collapse was just a trial run for 2020 and onwards, with cryptocurriencies being established as a forerunner of their planned fully digitised global currency. When that is in place, the Deep State will know about every single currency transaction we make. That's, of course, not the end of it, with the possibility of GPS in RIFD chips tracking our every movement using this huge array of 5G satellites being launched in droves into space, giving them the power to turn off our ability to trade at a whim, but we won't talk more about that today, as you're all familiar with the various scenarios. The goal is total control. I want you prepared but I don't want you panicked as this is not necessarily how it's going to pan out all at once, or even at all. Just be informed so, like I said, you can prayerfully weigh the data, whether your sources are secular or religious.

Learn to eat less now before you are forced to, so your food will last longer, especially if you only have a small amount in your larder. Learn to eat less anyway because in the West we overeat. The stomach should ideally not be filled more than two-thirds.

Brethren and sisters, now is the time to get into intercession, to get right with Yahweh, and to consecrate yourself for full service to the Kingdom. With every trial and tribulation comes a compensatory anointing. The true nevi'im (prophets) are arising from their forced slumber and they will be going about their business supernaturally, unrestricted by the Enemy's attempts to block them, and equipped like no navi (prophet) in the past. The false 'pop prophets' will just fade away as increasingly they are seen to be totally useless to the Body, along with the counterfeit spiritual movements that produced them. As I have said many times before, the Prosperity Movement will die a sudden death as global prosperity itself suddenly dies. We're going to a new level...or we can remain behind pretending the old one will last forever and becoming more and more impotent. Even 'church' or 'assembly' will be done differently. But that will soon become apparent.

We shall be broadcasting on Wednesday for the New Year celebration as the Tabernacle Raising of Messianic Israel and the Dedication of the Melchizedek Priesthood commence. No program will be announced in advance because we are assembling as Israel did before Mount Sinai not knowing how Yahweh will do this, or even if it's going to be in a similar way. What you can usefully do is read the materials in the 2020 Dedication of the Melchizedek Priesthood on the Last Exodus website and implement the instructions already given. Then whatever is correctly dedicated and purified around the world will become one place of meeting for the qodeshim (saints, set-apart ones), connecting all together. May Yahweh bless you all in the name of Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ). Amen.