Chag sameach Rosh Chodesh kol beit Yisra'el and Mishpachah and to my last message for a while. Yahweh has called me away to be with Him for a season of unknown length. I had originally prepared an entirely different sermon for you inspired by my garden in full bloom. I thought that this would make a nice change from the heavy message of the Book of Revelation we have been studying for two years and which I must pause once again in order to have a sabbatical rest. So today's original message was not-to-be.

You see, I have often had complaints about my 'doom-and-gloom' prophecies and had been asked to share something more 'uplifting'. So I listened to the word of man and wrote something uplifting because I know how so many of you love flowers and gardens being as this is summertime. Then my laptop crashed, as both my old offline machines often so - in fact all three of my machines are in their death-throes now so I thank those who have been making contributions to enable me to eventually replace them. So I was none too pleased at having lost what I thought was a good sermon and went back bed feeling none to well, deciding I would write no more after all the expended effort. I was about to go to sleep, when a jolt of pain brought me out of my semi-awakeness, and Yahweh immediatelty directed me to Jeremiah, chapter 26. It was He who had caused the sermon to be deleted because it was not in His will, and I, as His servant, am duty-bound to obey. It may have been beautiful, even inspirational, but it wasn't the message He wanted me to deliver. So if you don't want to hear about 'doom-and'gloom' again, just as the people didn't in Jeremiah's day, then you are free to turn off your computers right now.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with chapter 26, Jeremiah had been preaching to Jerusalem, and especially to the royal court, telling them to repent or perish because Jerusalem was about to be destroyed. The priests and prophets wanted to execute him on the spot for treason, to which Jeremiah replied:

"Yahweh Himself sent me to say all the things you have heard against this Temple and this city. So now amend your behaviour and actions (repent), listen to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim (God): if you do, He will relent and not bring down on you the disaster He has pronounced against you. For myself, I am as you see in your hands. Do whatever you please or think right with me. But be sure of this, that if you put me to death, you will be bringing innocent blood on yourselves, on this city and on its citizens, since Yahweh has truly sent me to you to say all these words in your hearing" (Jer.26:12-15, Jerusalem Bible).

The court priests and prophets wanted to kill Yahweh's navi (prophet) and none of them stood up for Jeremiah except for one group of people. Do you know who they were? "The officials and all the [common] people" (v.16, JB). You see, the religious leaders had totally apostacised, they were so demonised as to be dead already in Yahweh's eyes. It was the common people, and the officials, who still had their spiritual eyes open a little bit and still possessed a residue of common sense.

They reminded these renegade priests and prophets what Micah of Moresheth, the navi (prophet) in the days of Hezekiah, the repentant King of Judah, had said to the people of Judah when Jerusalem had faced an invading army and siege some years before:

"Zion will become ploughland,
Jerusalem a heap of rubble,
and the mountain of the Temple a wooded height"
(Micah 3:12; Jer.26:18b, JB).

Another true navi (prophet), Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim, whom they murdered for speaking the truth, had tried to flee to Egypt but King Jehoiakim sent a hit squad led by Elnathan son of Achbor to kidnap him. He was brought back to Jerusalem and executed for treason. Jeremiah was more fortunate because he had a protector in the person of Ahikam son of Shaphan, the king's scribe, who had supported the reforms under Josiah. His grandson, Gealiah, was also a protector of Jeremiah (Jer.40:5-6) so he had two friends in court.

Yahweh wanted me to be reminded, and to tell you, that when He brings judgment, it is thorough. What happened to Judah, and specifically to Jerusalem? It was turned into farmland. The city became a heap of rubble and the temple mount a pile of stones. You can draw your own conclusions about Washington D.C, London [1] and other Western capitals that have rejected the message of today's nevi'im (prophets) and are following their own Jehoiakim's. I have already been shown that the centre of London will be utterly destroyed one day. It looked like parched wasteland. I have already seen that New York will be set ablaze. Judging by what is coming out of Washington DC these days I would not at all be surprised if a similar fate doesn't wait for it too. I have seen a vision of Phoenix, Arizona in anarchy. Look to your national cathedrals or churches in your capitals and see if they too aren't eventually overrun by nature. This is the humiliation and judgment of the West, make no mistake about that, and it's going to be severe. And that's why I have admonished you to leave the cities and find safe spaces in the countryside.

A week ago, on 12 June, when I was in considerable physical distress because of my health issues, I asked Yahweh what was to be done, just as I know many of you are fervently asking Him about your career options or future courses of action. I saw two visions. Firstly I saw what looked like a completely flat body of water, like a mirror, and out of heaven several bright pencil-like shafts of light were coming and striking the waters. At the points of impact there were radiating circular ripples. This was at 3.45 am. A little over an hour later I was awakened and shown a second vision but this time I could see that the vast body of water was curved, not flat, and that I was looking at a representation of the earth from outer space. Where the waters had been imapacted by these shafts of light, beams of light were arising from the earth to the heavens vertically into space. I was very tired and in much pain and went straight back to sleep. About half an hour later, at 5.30 am, I was shown a third vision of the outdoor stone altar were have in our garden next to our Animal Cementry that has a menorah on it, only the altar was gone and in its place was a mound, a freshly dug above-ground grave big enough to contain a human being. My thoughts immediately went to a dear brother in England, a true man of Elohim (God), who like me is feeling his age and wondering how much time he has left on earth. I prayed for him and for others of us also entering our winter years

Listen, please, and listen carefully. All I have been saying about the penultimate judgment is neither some half-hearted joke not the ravings of a deluded madman. The West is quite literally teetering on the edge of the brink and those who have not been brainwashed by the official narratives know this to be so. Germany is close to collapse because of energy shortages leading to deindustrialisation. There are good people in the West, lots of them, but they're now in a minority and their numbers are shrinking. The 'priests' and the 'prophets', whether secular or religious, are in apostacy and aren't listening...and aren't going to listen. They are stubbornly walking the road that leads to destruction. The whole establishment has already fallen. There is no justice, let alone sanity. But there are many officials and ordinary people who see through the lies. Those visions of the beams of light refer to the true priests and prophets on the earth today, the scattered Remnant. There are very few of them and they are being awakened by the downward moving beams of spiritual endowment from heaven. In return, they are connecting with Heaven (the upward beams) in prayer and praise. Yahweh has chosen these to replace the fallen religious leaders of Christendom. Their waters have been stirred, and they are connected to, and by, a vast spiritual sea collectively making up all the true cohenim (priests) and nevi'im (prophets) of the past, present and future. Their feet are literally standing on Yah's fire, the authentic fire, like the sea like glass in the Throne Room.

Chapters 26 to 45 of the Book of Jeremiah are, interestingly, often grouped together and designated as The Prophecies of Happiness - happiness for the true servants and followers of Yahweh even if they depict a time when the apostate nation is being sorely chastised. The West is soon to be chastised and will become the vassal nations of new masters, both good (or should I say, better) and evil ones. Jeremiah is a very long book, for those of you who have never studied it, a total of 52 chapters covering a time of woe, destruction and change not unlike the one we are passing through now. For the moment, the West is the current imperial hegemon (dominated by the USA) but not for much longer as the ground of its stability is being ripped right from under its feet. In Jeremiah's day, Babylon wiped out Judah and enslaved her inhabitants, sending them intio exile. This was not a permanent exile and when she was finallly released, her status was considerably diminished and she remained independent only for a while under the Hasmoneans. And not for long. Jeremiah foresaw the nemesis of Babylon, when he prophesied:

"Yahweh Sabaoth says this:
The wide ramparts of Babylon
will be razed to the ground,
and her high gates
will be burnt down.
Thus the labouring of the peoples comes to nothing
the toiling of the nations ends in fire"
(Jeremiah 51:58, JB).

Remember that if and when you go out electioneering in 2024 or whenever you next general elections are. Ultimately it's all futile because the system that undergirds the whole political process is Babylon so it makes no difference who you vote in - that is what Babylon is today, as we're learning in our Book of Revelation study. So please stop looking for politcial saviours, you'll not find any. The West must be judged and brought low for its lack of repentance. Stand back and let it happen; instead, preach the Gospel and call individuals and nations to repentance. Are you wondering what your calling is? Had you considered that it might be to do just this? Had I been alive in Jeremiah's day knowing what was coming, I wouldn't have started any new building projects or businesses in Jerusalem, would you? I mean, the whole city was about to be torched. So why build nice new fancy churches that will either be bulldozed by the authorites or suffer other destrictive fates.

I'm sure a lot of good people who believed Jeremiah, and repented, wondered what they should be doing. I believe we should go and get useful practical skills and build communities outside the system. More and more people are doing this because they clearly see the writing on the wall. Those new communities will need people with skills. Go and acquire them as plumbers, carpenters, builders, foresters, farmers, market gardeners, hunters, teachers, nurses, doctors, mechanics, organisers, software designers, electronic engineers, and so on...in short, all that is needed for a godly community to function and thrive. Ask Yahweh, He'll show you what to do provided you stop thinking 'Babylon' and instead start thinking Zion - think right and think practical. There are communities out there who would be happy to share their experiences with you and who are successfully building new communities that are increasingly less and less reliant on the Babylonian system with all its suffocating controls and regulations with whom we can network and trade.

For folks my age it's already too late to do all that but we can share both our practical and spiritual expertise. Many of us have been stocking up on things to at least get such communities started. I can recommend people you can go to in order to learn and be inspired by. One thing is for certain...whether you build highly integrated or loose communities... it's this: you need to start now. Prepping for your own family was only ever the first step, but a vitally important one nonetheless. You also need to know that Yah'shua (Jesus) isn't returning just yet, there may be several decades remaining still, so don't hang around waiting for a rapture doing nothing concrete (because one isn't going to happen) and don't sit around waiting for someone else to build a community to which you'll be invited (you probably won't be). Everyone has to be proactive and get started because the true community-builders aren't going to want camp-followers and leaches who only want to sponge. There will be, and already are, plenty of leeches!

Only the other day I heard of how those in North America who are no longer getting state handouts are going from church to church for financial and material aid. They're not believers for the most part (or are only nominally so) but are pretending to be in order to get something free from hard-working people of true faith. They need to be taught to stand on their own two feet and not be parasites. (As soon as they are, they usually stop coming to church). The only people I would want to be part of a community I might be running would be those who are hardworking and have already made a start, however tentative, who are already demonstrating willingness to get stuck in and do whatever they can. The idle shall not eat the fat of the workers.

Finally, know this: when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem, he took the Judahite élites prisoner and then had them executed (Jer.52:24-27). The conquerors of the West will do the same to the Western élites. The wicked who have been oppressing their own people and waging covert war against their new masters will meet their deserved end. Justice will be swift and brutal and the righteous will not mourn their loss.

But you, what are you going to do now? The fact that I was so strongly led by Yahweh to share this message suggests to me that there is a still last chance for a few procrastinators. I guess this message is for them principally. But more than that, it's time for all of us to start thinking and acting community because individuals and solo families are going to have it much harder than those who have banded together to make common cause. The political system is maturing into a great evil that we all have to learn to live outside of. You know what they are planning because they've made no secret of it - they're not only doing the thinking of the masses but also their feeling too: "You'll own nothing and love it!" one famous, unelected CEO claims. How on earth do they know? Because they intend to force you to even if it means redefining words like 'love' because love without agency isn't love but slavery.

Our old and familiar ways of life are vanishing even as I speak and the rest will soon be swept away...unless you keep them alive and independent of the system. And when the final blow is struck against the West, which it will be, don't, as Jeremiah warns, complain, saying: "Why has Yahweh our Elohim (God) done all this to us?" because you already know. "As you abandoned Me to serve alien gods in your own land, so you must serve aliens in a land that is not your own," (Jer.5:19, JB). As you so faithfully served the ruling élites, swallowing all their lies and false utopias in the expectation of getting something free, so you will be forced to serve new masters, the soon-to-be conquerors of the West.

So, my concluding word must, then, be this, echoing the navi (prophet) Habakkuk:

"See how he flags (draws back), he whose soul is not at rights,
but the upright (righteous) man will live by his faithfulness"
(Habakkuk 2:4, JB).

Endnotes

[1] See the United Kingdom website and the prophecy on the fall of the USA