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Sermons Series 3:186, 15 November 2008
The Communist Invasion
Living Within the Beast System
Main Themes: communism, world system, discipleship
Minor Themes: church and state, nationalism and religion, revolution vs. infiltration, socialism and democracy, scapegoats, journalistic bias, beast system, Barack Obama, witnessing, conciliation
Introduction
There comes a time - and now happens to be one of them - when it becomes necessary for us to make a clear statement as to our relationship to the governments of the land in which we reside and our attitude to the laws of these governments. This is not only a very controversial subject but also a complex one, as any Christian theologian will tell you. It's not one I enjoy writing about because such a subject is easily open to misinterpretation unless it is treated carefully, sensitively and in depth.
Church and State
There are within Christendom many differeing views about this subject which I believe stem from a fundmental misunderstanding as to what the church and state actually are as the relationship tends to get redefined as the circumstances change. We remember, I am sure - at least those who take an interest in history remember - how, following the Bolshevik Revolution, the church - and in particular the Russian Orthodox Church - was violently persecuted and blamed for being one of the major props of the class system, as indeed it was. Throughout the Stalinist years a concerted attempt was made to exterminate not just Christianity but all religion, on the one hand, whilst making religion useful as a tool of control, on the other. Thus the communists waged war on two fronts. First, they persecuted Christians to the death, and tried to keep it as secret as they could. On the other front they officially recognised religion but made sure that they staffed the churches with their own people in order to make the church both placid and an instrument of their own propaganda. They staffed the churches with liberals and pro-communists and made them organs of the communist state.
The Communist Use of Religion
When Soviet communism faced its greatest threat in 1941 as the advancing German army stood at the gates of Moscow itself, the communist overlords made a startling decision. Realising that political fervour alone was not enough to rouse the nation to the defence of the motherland, they turned to two things they avowed they would never resurrect, because they had banished them as agents of imperialism, namely, nationalism and religion. So with the Wehrmacht actually in the suburbs of Moscow, we suddenly find Russian Orthodox Priests being allowed to bless Red Army Troops in defence of the Sacred Russian Motherland. The scene was identical to that of the First World War with one exception: in the place of the late (and murdered) Czar Nicholas, (the murderous) Marshal Josef Stalin appeared instead.
Communism's True Colours Revealed in 1944
The tactic worked magnificently. The Russian soldiers, weary of the spiritlessness of political terror, were aroused in their souls for the motherland, their religious instincts were re-awakened, and they entered the conflict with fresh hope and vigour. That this was a calculated and cynical move on behalf of the communist atheists of the Soviet Union is pretty obvious, and once the tide began to turn for the Red Army after the Battle of Stalingrad, the priests began to melt away and we saw nothing of them. Instead the political commissars, like Ilya Ehrenburg, resumed their former sway and by the time the Red Army had crossed the German border at Schirwindt, all religious scruples and morality had been thrown to the wind. Whipped up by the hate-filled propagandists encouraging the Soviet soldiers to exact a terrible revenge, an orgy of rape, torture, sadism and murder was unleashed on the civilian population which continued even after hostilities had ceased in 1945. We may never know how many died both behind the Soviet lines during war and in peace time from 1945 to 1947, but the estimates reveal that from 4 to 6 million German civilians and prisoners-of-war were killed. And not just Germans, but Jews, Lithiuanians, Russian and French prisoners-of-war too, and indeed anyone who happened to be on German territory when the Red Army swept in. I shall not relate the manner in which their barbarous acts were conducted other than to say that this area of Soviet occupation was the 'Wild East' of atheistic lawlessness. It was a testimony of what atheist morals can lead to without the restraining hand of religious conscience.
The Dark Pall Over Eastern Europe
Once the blood lust was 'satisfied', Eastern Europe settled down to 45 years of oppression and repression. One in every two people worked for the secret police in communist East Germany. The churches both there and in other East European countries were full of government spies. Why were they there? They were there to exercise control. Even more ironic, Communist East Germany claimed to be a 'Democratic Republic' and multi-party state. Yes, the same political parties that existed in West Germany operated in communist East Germany. The odd thing was, the communists always won handsomely until the fall of the Berlin Wall and people could vote in real freedom. Meantime, the state spied on its citizens, and built a wall around Berlin to supposedly stop Western influence seaping in when in fact it was to keep its own citizens prisoners. No one ever tried to 'escape' from West Berlin to East Berlin, but those who tried to escape from East to West were shot. The communist state also had problems with worker's revolts - there were uprisings not only in East Germany but also in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. And yet these were all called "democratic" countries and in the case of East Germany, had multiple political parties - including conservatives and liberals!
Manufacturing the Mask of Democracy and Pluralism
Now you are probably wondering why I am bringing up this piece of recent history. And the reason that I am doing it is to point out to you that things are not always as they may seem. It is possible to make a government look one way and yet in reality is it completely different to its image. It is possible, through propaganda and subtle control, to craft an illusion and superimpose it on top the reality, thus masking the reality. In the case of the communist countries, it was to fool the West and win sympathy from idealistic left-wing organisations of a more democratic and moderate mindset. And in this is succeeded brilliantly. But it did not fool the people who had to live with the reality. In the 1990's the stack of cards began to come tumbling down, sometimes peacefully (as in East Germany) and sometimes violently (as in Romania). By the late 1990's the European communist nations were all but swept away, at least in outer form, and the Western values they had so fought hard to keep out, came sweeping in. In the first General Election in East Germany, the Social Democratic Party won hands down and the reconstituted communists were relegated to a minority party. Today a united Germany has a conservative Chancellor from the former East German part.
Communism was Never Defeated
In case you are tempted to believe that this was a victory for the West and its ideals, let me begin by suggesting that it was anything but that. Indeed, I believe that what we are seeing arising in the West today is a new form of totalitarianism modelled partly on the old communistic system but mixed in with liberal Western ideas to give the impression that it is liberal when it isn't. What we have now is a democratic, pluralistic veneer ontop of a dictatorship. The East German communists, and other communist nations, wanted the West to believe it was democratic like itself only more enlightened and fair. It especially sought to seduce the youth of the West. I myself as a teacher subscribed to Soviet and East German publications during the 1980's and became well acquainted with their image-crafting ways. It looked so very noble and idealistic. Yet the truth was that people were being more than spied on - they were being persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and killed. In those days I was a member of a German group supporting the unregistered Baptist Churches in the USSR called Friedenstimme and knew the ordeal those believers were going through. That in itself would be the subject of many sermons. And not just Christians, but liberal thinkers like Alexander Solzhenitsyn as well, whose books I used to read.
The Pink Communism of the West
The West triumphed over the East. Or did it? It is my thesis that all that has happened, and is happening now - because it's been a gradual process and therefore not so easily discerned - that we are evolving into a new communist system but with a much thicker veneer of liberalism. Because it has not come about by violent, bloody revolution, like the October 1917 revolution in Russia, which shocked and appalled the West by its viciousness - because it has come about my small, gradual increments - nobody has really noticed and even fewer care less.
Masters if Brainwashing
The communists were master brainwashers, like their fascist imitators in Germany, Italy and Spain before the war. They employed the symbols of peace and made themselves out to be the promoters and defenders of peace while they brutally suppressed their own people and waged a bloody war in Afghanistan. I have dozens of books from Novosti Press, sent free to me as a teacher from the Soviet Union, many of which carefully constructed this image of a peace-loving nation - the same nation that crushed the Prague Spring and other uprisings against its tyrrany in Poland, Germany and Hungary.
Violent Revolution vs. Gradual Infiltration
Communism as we knew it then failed because it was overtly violent. The grand strategists learned that violent revolution does not last. Even the French Revolution was punctuated by two returns to an imperial monarchy because you can't build a stable foundation on violence. What you can do - and this the eastern communists learned too late - is that you can gradually change the mindframe of a people over time without them noticing it provided you have the patience to wait. Then you can argue that everything was democratic and above board and truly determined by the majority of the people and not imposed by a small Bolshevik minority by force of arms.
The Communisation of the West
It is our belief that the West, far from defeating communist, has itself become communised - or is being communised - viâ the back door. By manipulating people's fears of the lunatic fringes of society by making them look larger than life, changing the meaning of language and - in the well established methodology of the communist and fascist propagandists - creating scapegoats on which to focus the peoples' anger and dissastisfaction with the ruling élite. The nazis used the Jews. The Argentine fascist generals used the little British Falkland Islands, and the communists used the bourgoisie and Christians. By turning all their fury on a scapegoat - someone to blame to deflect attention from their own abuses - they were able to consolidate their power, at least for a while. The Nazis and Argentine Generals were defeated in battle, the Bolsheviks were overturned by their own weary people, and the Spaniards simply changed gear when Franco died, first becoming a conservative monarchy and then a social democratic one like Britain.
Scapegoats
Systems that are not based on true freedom, but which simply manipulate freedom in a limited form to dupe people, must find scapegoats to survive and maintain power. Today's scapegoat is Christianity as should be obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense and an objectivite eye. It was Judaism before the war. If you have the time, I recommend you read the article by Dr. Peter Hammond entitled Christophobia who notes that 42 million Christians died at the hands of anti-Christian governments in the 20th century, mostly atheistic communists. If you can get a hold of a copy of the book, The Black Crimes of Communism, it also is worth your read.
The Illusion of Tamed Communism
A new idea has arisen in our time, and very much popularised in this country where it has become a major social experiment started in 1944, that of a milder, tamer form of socilaism which marries the 'best' of social democracy and communism. Sweden is, indeed, a peculiar hybrid which some call 'pink communism'. To my way of thinking, that's a bit like diluting a virus and hoping you can make it do something good and useful for you. Communism in any form has never worked and it has always led to oppression. By its very nature it is atheistic and cannot accommodate vital. life-giving religion of any kind except as a cultural curiosity. Social Democracy, which comes from the same root as communism, offers religious freedom with one democratic hand whilst slapping it down with its other communistic one, much as the former East German régime offered a multi-party state whilst in fact being at its core a communist one. In the system devised by the East German Communists the other parties could never have won a General Election because it was so structured that way. When a genuine Free Election took place after the fall of the last communist régime under Egon Krenz, the communists were swept away.
What is Being Concocted in the West?
What, I ask myself, if something similar to the East German model is being carefully crafted in the West which gives the illusion of democracy but which, in fact, isn't? Is it possible that such a system could be made without most being aware of it? If you read today's papers, it is possible to see parallels with the former East Germany where the Press was carefully controlled.
Journalistic Bias
A survey of journalists done in Norway a few years ago revealed the startling statistic that over 70% of them had left or far-left leanings. What this means in practice is that newspaper articles and TV reporting is likely to have a strongly slanted left-wing view of events that does not reflect the cross-section of political views of the country itself. And as all dictators know, the more you tell somebody something, however untrue, the more likely they are to accept it. Hitler even went so far as to say that the bigger the lies you tell, so long as you tell them often enough, the more the people will believe them. Today, if you want views which are not left-wing, you have to go to obscure websites which are being hounded off the net one by one as website providers are put under pressure by various means or are bought out by agents of the élite. We are rapidly approaching a situation where all information is reflecting narrower and narrower viewpoints. The goal is, quite obviously, to make everyone think alike.
Freedom of Religion and Education
As Christians and Messianics, our chief interest is to ensure the freedom of religious worship, education and expression. And though we are not much interested in politics, we do believe that a full expression of political beliefs should be possible too.
The Obama Scam
The United States has just voted in its first coloured President whos is being hailed as a messiah much as Hitler was, who has already lied so much that is amazing what people will believe in as an alternative to the moral demands of the true Messiah, Yah'shua of Nazareth. People are optimistic about the changes that Barack Obama is promising - I have to say that I am absolutely not. I believe this man is a prototype of the final Antimessiah or Antichrist who is waiting in the wings for his hour. He is an illuminist, a 32nd Degree Prince Hall Freemason and related to President Bush and Vice President Cheney through a satanic bloodline. 1 He has been carefully groomed for the job by the power élite and will unashamedly serve their bidding. You will see America becoming more and more communistic, just as Europe already is.
The Beast System Resurrected
The Beast System, which was delivered a fatal wound in the form of the overthrow of communism in East Europe and Russia, is simply being reconstituted in another guise:
"Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed" (Rev.13:11-12, NKJV).
This new beast system, which has been evolving now for many decades, is a combination of the worst of communism, fascism, satanism, Talmudic Judaism, Jesuit Catholicism, and all that is anti-Elohim. It is a deadly mixture being experimentally combined in different ways with different sensual flavours in different countries to find out the 'best' and most effective mix that will serve the impatient power élite and their demonic overlords hungry for dominion over the likes of us. Sweden, like Canada, is one such experiment begun in 1944. China is another. And now the USA is vying for the 'leading' position as élitsts engage in their competitive blood sport of 'dog eat dog' - they very much have the Roman Arena in their veins.
Conclusion
Many ask me how we, as believers, should respond to the world system. How are we to successfully live in it without denying Yah'shua or crushing tender hearts? We must co-exist with the world to some extent, but what are the borders? And how are we to treat the people in it who wish to remain in the matrix of its delusion? How does one live ones faith without compromising the truth in a system which, when aroused, wishes to either snuff you out or make you one of its own? It is here that each individual and family must live according to its faith and make individual decisions which other individuals and families may disagree upon, depending on the nature of the choices that need to be made.
To begin with, we should let no difficulty nor discouragement, nor success nor triumph, ever cause us to depart, for as much as an hour, from the sublime essential principles upon which the work to which Yahweh has called upon is based. In that we can all be agreed - or should be agreed. Where the differences will be found is in the precise execution of that intent. This means that each individual and family must hold to its own vision or perception of the truth positively an tenaciously whilst at the same time showing the forebearance of Yahweh's undeserved loving kindness and to displace bigotry. And though I know this will possibly be hard for some of you to understand or appreciate, it is possible to conform for a time to customs whose propriety you may doubt without abating the earnestness of your conviction or the integrity of your testimony of Yah'shua. We are, in the final analysis, trying to be witnesses of Yah'shua's love. In our bid to reach out to the hearts of others we should not insist on matters of minor importance as though they were essential and fundamental; and instead of being needlessly repellant (which thanks to the Adamic nature takes no especial effort) we should always first attempt to be conciliatory. This may not, in the majority of cases, work and thus force us to fearlessly defend what must be defended, but until we have no choice but to defend with our lives for fear of betraying the integrity of our testimony, there should always be an attempt at conciliation with those trapped in the system. You might say this is the New Covenant way of offering peace to an aggressor enemy city before waging war on it in the Ruach.
"The Master is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9, NIV).
The world system, and the invisible powers that rule it, wants you converted or out of the way, but most of the people who are in it are ignorant, to one degree or another, of what's going on. There is goodness to be found in all and that goodness is the door to your witness. Be patient and longsuffering in searching for it and appealing to it for it was though such doors in us that witnesses once reached us and led us to salvation which otherwise might never have happened. Do not be so hard and intransigent for the truth that you turn your heart off for this is a commomnly made mistake which if repeated often enough and not corrected, leads to hard-heartedness and apostacy.
May Yah'shua, the Master of Grace, show you the way for your individual and family life in disapora for without Him to guide and lead it is not possible to successfully negociate the dark corridors of mortality. This He will gladly and urgently do for the earnest soul.
"I believed therefore I have spoken" (Ps.116:10a, OJB).
May He bless you in making the critical choices that lead to, and maintain, your salvation, and the salvation of your families, is my prayer in Yah'shua's Name, Amen.
Endnotes
1
See Leo Zagami, Obama, Freemason, Related to Bush, Cheney
Author: Lev-Tsiyon
Glossary of MLT Hebraic, Greek and English Terms For other terms and full details please see the Micropedia
A
Adon(ai) = Master, a pagan fertility god, Adonis; used by many Messianics but not MLT
(a)eon(ian) = 7 dispensation- or age-long time periods, not forever (see le-olam-va-ed)
Alef-Tav = Alpha-Omega, A-Z, first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet = Yah'shua
Amen = truly, let it be so, written Amein by some Messianics
Apocrypha = Hebraic Scriptures not a part of the Protestant canon (e.g. Baruch)
Anti-Messiah = Hebraic term for the end-time Antichrist or anyone opposed to the Messiah
antinomian = lawless Christian who disregards all or part of Torah/commandments
Ashkenazi Jew = East European Jew descended from the Turkic-Japhethite Khazars
Assembly = church, congregation, ekklesia, community, fellowship, koinonia, gathering
Azazel = the Yom Kippur scapegoat
B
Baal, Ba'al = any other master than Yahweh, usually demonic in MLT terminology
Bachor(im) = firstborn son(s)
Bar/Bat Mitzvah = Son/Daughter of Commandment, covenant to obey Torah at age 12
being = soul, the whole person (spirit and body), e.g. "my whole being"
Beit, bet, beth = house, e.g. Beit Yisrael (House of Israel), Beth Lechem (House of Bread)
Beit haMikdash = Yahweh's Temple in Yerushalayim
B'rit Chadashah = the New Covenant; B'rit Chadashah Scriptures = New Testament
B'rit Milah = circumcision - abolished in the B'rit Chadashah, replaced by Mikvah
C
canon = authoritative Scripture (Heb. qaneh, Gk. kanôn = measuring instrument)
Catechumen = a serious, covenanted investigator seeking Mikvah or Baptism in MLT
Chag haMatzah = Feast of Unleavened Bread, second of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Chavurat Bekorot = MLT's Priesthood Order, Holy Order and Assembly of the Firstborn
Cohen = priest; Cohen Gadol = High Priest (also spelled Kohen)
Council of Yah's elohim = the heavenly Assembly of the Firstborn or Chavurat Bekorot
D
demon = fallen malek or angel in rebellion against Yahweh (Heb. shad; see Êl-Shaddai)
derech = the Way, Path or Road - Yah'shua and the Gospel are the Way
Drash = moral or homiletic interpretation of Scripture - see PaRDeS
E
Echad = One, Union of two or more in one (as opposed to Yachid) - see Elohim
Echad Godhead Doctrine = Father Yahweh, Son Yah'shua and Sevenfold Ruach (Mother)
Êl, Eloah, Elah = God the Father, Yahweh
Êl-Elyon = Most High God, Yahweh
Êl-Shaddai = Master/Lord over all shads or demons
Elohim = God, the Godhead (Father, Son & Holy Spirit), lit. 'Mighty One(s)', 'Ruler(s)'
elohim = Israelite judges, rulers, angels or gods (false deities, idols, demons)
emunah = faith, actively trusting, clinging or adhering to (especially Yahweh or Yah'shua)
emet = truth, Yah'shua is the Emet
Ephraimite = descendant of the patriarch Ephraim and head of Messsianic Israel
F
Feasts of Yahweh = the 7 annual Moedim (Pesach, Chag haMatzah, Yom haBikkurim, Shavu'ot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot)
G
Gan-Eden = Garden of Eden, Paradise and state of the purified heart in Messiah
goy(im) = nation(s), Israelites or gentiles not born in or converted to the Covenant
H
hallelu-Yah = praise Yah(weh)!
Heylel = proper name of Satan or haSatan = the Adversary, the devil
Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone)
Hochmah = Wisdom, title of the 7-fold Ruach haQodesh
I
IDL = International Date Line, false man-made time division in Pacific Ocean
IDL Zone = Area between the true Divine Date Line (Lake Van/Eden) and the false one
Israeli = citizen of the modern Edomite-Khazar Republic of Israel (not Biblical Israel)
Israelite = citizen of biblical state of Israel or a modern follower of the Messiah
J
Jew = post-biblical term describing descendants of Edomite and Khazar converts to Judaism
Johannine = pertaining to the Apostle Yochanan (e.g. Gospel of John)
Josephite = descendant of the patriarch Joseph, the head of Messianic Israel
Judahite = a person in direct descent from the patriarch Judah, forefather of the Messiah
Judaism = a Talmudic-based religion rejecting Yah'shua the Messiah
Judean = a citizen of the Kingdom or Province of Judah until the 2nd Century diaspora
K
Kadosh la Yahweh = set-apart or dedicated to Yahweh, 'Holiness to the Lord', MLT motto
Karaites = Jews (from 700 AD) who reject the Talmud and accept only the Tanakh
kashrut = keeping kosher, food laws of Yahweh and correspinding lifestyle
Ketuvim = Writings or Hagiographa of the Tanakh
Khazar = a Turkic convert to Judaism ~700 AD forming the Ashkenazi Jewish community
kosher = clean foods authorised by Yahweh for human consumption
L
Lashon Hara = evil-speaking, gossip or slander
legalism = false route to salvation through works (self-salvation)
le-olam-va-ed = dispensation- or age-long, aeonian, not eternal, forever or for eternity
Lev = heart, as in Lev-Tsiyon = heart of Zion
Lev-Tsiyon = Heart of the Fortress [of Yahweh], Hebrew name of MLT's founder
M
Master = Lord, Sir, Adon(ai) - (one in authority, a ruler - a king, husband, prophet, judge)
Malak(im) = Angel(s), heavenly supernatural messenger(s)
manna = wafers of honey, bread from heaven (lit. 'what is this?')
matzah = unleavened bread, see Chag haMatzah
Menorah = 7-armed candlearbra = the 7 annual Moedim and 7-fold Ruach haQodesh
Messiah = Christ; Anti-Messiah = Antichrist
Messianic Community = Body of Christ, sum total of all true believers; all true fellowships
Messianic Israel = all who worship Yahweh, trust in Yah'shua, obey Torah and overcome
Messianic Jew = Messianic convert from Judaism still clinging to Talmudic traditions
Midrash = aggadic interpretation of scripture viâ Drash, a scriptural discussion
Mikvah = baptism by immersion of convert into Yah'shua or of wife into husband
Mishpachah = family: nuclear, congregational, tribal or the whole of Messianic Israel
MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon = family of the heart of the fortress [of Yahweh]
Mishpat = right-ruling or judgement
mitzvah/mitzvot = commandment(s)
moed(im) = appointment(s) of Yahweh, 7 Annual Feasts, Sabbath and Rosh Chodesh
N
Nefilim, Nephilim = giant offspring of materialised demons and human women
Nevi'im = prophetic writings of the Old Testament or Tanakh
New Birth = spiritual conversion in the Ruach haRishon, being 'born again' with new heart
Nidah = a woman's menstruation period during which no intercourse is permitted
O
Olive Branch = collection of revelations, prophecies and visions published by MLT
P
Paraclete = Comforter, Advocate (NEB), Counsellor, Ruach haQodesh (Gk. paraklêtos)
PaRDeS = method of textual interpretation (homiletics) - see P'shat, Remez, Drash, Sod
Patriarch = a father who is head of his family, clan or tribe (lit. 'father-ruler')
Pentateuch = first five books of the Tanakh (Genesis-Deuteronomy), also called Torah
peribolaion = headcovering worn by daughters/wives in submission to fathers/husbands
Pesach = Passover, first of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Peshitta = an Aramaic version of the Bible
Prototrinitarianism = early, simplified MLT formulation of the Echad Godhead Doctrine
Prush(im) = Pharisee(s)
Pseudepigrapha = Non-canonical Hebrew writings additional to the Apocrypha
P'shat = literal, contextual, philological, exoteric, outer meaning of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Q
Qadosh Qadoshim = Holy of Holies, most sacred set-apart room of the Beit haMikdash
Qodesh, Kodesh = set-apart, holy (see Ruach haQodesh)
R
Rabbi = Teacher, term used by Messianic Jews and some Messianic Israelites = Pastor
Refuge, the 12 Cities of = divinely protected MLT fortresses during the 7-year Tribulation
Remez = hint or allegorical level of Hebraic understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Rosh Chodesh = monthly New Moon appointment of Yahweh
ruach = spirit of a person (lit.'breath')
Ruach Elohim = Spirit of God (the Spirit of the collective Godhead or Elohim)
Ruach haChamashee = 5th Ruach presides over Yom Teruah and Yom Chamashee
Ruach haQodesh = the Sevenfold Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost (lit. 'Set-Apart Breath')
Ruach haRevee = 4th Ruach presides over Shavu'ot, Yom Revee and Bar Mitzvah
Ruach haRishon = 1st Ruach presides over Pesach, Yom Rishon and the New Birth
Ruach haShanee = 2nd Ruach presides over Chag haMatzah and Yom Shanee
Ruach haSheshi = 6th Ruach presides over Yom Kippur and Yom Sheshi
Ruach haShleshi = 3rd Ruach presides over Yom haBikkurim, Yom Shleshi and Mikvah
S
Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone)
Satan = rebel archangel Heylel, father of lies, devil, chief demon (lit.'Adversary')
Sephardic Jew = West European Jew of mixed blood containing many Judahites
Septuagint = Greek translation of the Tanakh, LXX
Shegal haShabbat = 7th Ruach (Sabbath Queen) presides over Sukkot and Yom Shabbat
Shekinah = Divine Presence and Glory of Yahweh-Elohim
Set-apart = holy, sanctified, consecrated, dedicated, separated (to and by Yahweh)
Shabbat-Shabbaton = High Sabbath (e.g. Yom Kippur)
Shalom = heavenly peace, standard Hebraic greeting invoking Yahweh's peace
Shamash(im) = servant(s), deacon(s), attendant(s)
Shavu'ot = Pentecost or Weeks, fourth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Sheol = grave or pit, euphamism for Hades or hell - also see Tartarus
shofar = ram's horn, blown during Yahweh's Moedim
simcha = joy, keynote of Sukkot
Sod = mystical, anagogic, inner or esoteric understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Sukkot = Tabernacles or Booths, seventh of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Synagogue = Greek word used by Jews and Messianics (but not MLT) for a meeting house
T
talmid(a) = male/female disciple or student
Talmud = scriptures, teachings and commentaries belonging to non-Messianic Judaism
Tanakh = acronym for Old Testament Scriptures - Torah, Nevi'im & Ketuvim
Tartarus = place of imprisonment under the earth for rebellious angels and Nephilim
teshuvah = repentance, remorse and contrition leading back to Torah obedience
Torah = Yahweh's teachings or Law; New Covenant Torah includes Yah'shua's teachings
Tribulation, the Great = the final 7 years of the present aeon when Anti-Messiah rules
Trinity = Catholic Godhead formula - see Echad Godhead Doctrine and Prototrinitarianism
Tsiyon = Zion, a fortress, a name of Jerusalem and a prominent hill
Tzitzit/Tizitziyot = tassel(s) worn by men in remembrance of Torah
U
Universalism = salvation of all at the cosmic Yovel, with different rewards and punishments
Y
Yachid = one, single person or item, as opposed to Echad (many in one, unity)
Yah'shua the Messiah = Jesus Christ (the Son)
Yahudah = Judah - see Judahite
Yahweh, Yah, YHWH = the true Name of our Heavenly Father, also carried by Yah'shua
Yahweh-Elohim = LORD God (the Father, Yahweh as Head of the Godhead or Elohim)
Yahweh haQatan = the sent Yahweh = Yah(weh)'shua, Malak of Yahweh's Presence
Yam Suf = Sea of Reeds, the true Israelite Exodus water crossing, not the Red Sea
Yarden = Jordan River (lit. 'meanderer')
Yerushalayim = Jerusalem
Yisrael = Israel (lit. 'ruling with Êl') = true believers under the New Covenant
Yom Chamashee = 5th day of the week (Thursday, Friday in IDL Zone)
Yom Din, Yom haDin = (the) Day of Judgement
Yom haBikkurim = Feast of Firstfruits, third of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yom Revee = 4th day of the week (Wednesday, Thursday in IDL Zone)
Yom Rishon = 1st day of the week (Sunday, Monday in IDL Zone)
Yom Kippur = Day of Atonement, sixth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yom Shabbat = 7th day of the week and Sabbath Rest (Saturday, Sunday in IDL Zone)
Yom Shanee = 2nd day of the week (Monday, Tuesday in IDL Zone)
Yom Sheshi = 6th day of the week (Friday, Saturday in IDL Zone)
Yom Shleshi = 3rd day of the week (Tuesday, Wednesday in IDL Zone)
Yom Teruah = Day of Trumpets, fifth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yosef = Joseph - see Josephite
Yovel = Jubilee or Year of Jubilee
Z
Zaqen(im) = elder(s) of an assembly or congregation, or senior members of a community
Zoë Life = Greek term for spiritual life in the Messiah
Commonly Used MLT Abbreviations
For additional abbreviations and explanations, please see the Micropedia
A
Amp.V(er). = Amplified Version of the Bible
Aram. = Aramaic
AV = Authorised Version of the Bible - see KJV
B
BCAY = B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh - see NCCG
BoA = Books of Abraham (e.g. 1Abr., 2Abr., etc.)
C
cp, cf = compare with
CB(Q) = Chavurat Bekorot
CEV = Contemporary English Version of the Bible
ch. = chapter
CJB = Complete Jewish Bible
CLNT = Concordant Literal New Testament
CYe = Council of Yah's elohim
E
Eng. = English
F
ff. = and onwards/forwards
fn = footnote
G
Gk. = Greek
GNB = Good News Bible - see TEV
H
Heb. = Hebrew, Hebraic
HEM = Holy Echad Marriage, eternal marriage
HO = Holy Order - see Chavurat Bekorot
HOC = Holy Order Collection of revelations - see OB
HRV = Hebraic-Roots Version of the Bible
I
ibid. = ibidem (lit. 'in the same place'), referring to a book previously cited
ICJC = Independent Church of Jesus Christ, earlier name of NCCF
ISRV = Institute for Scripture Research Version of the Bible
J
JB = Jerusalem Bible
JBP/Phillips = J.B.Phillips translation of the New Testament
JNT = Jewish New Testament
K
KJV = King James Version of the Bible - see AV
L
LB = Living Bible
lit. = literally or literature
LXX = Septuagint, Greek translation of the OT
M
MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon
Moff. = Moffatt translation of the Bible
MRC = Messianic Renewed Covenant Version of the NT
MS(S) = Manuscript(s)
N
NASB, NASV = New American Standard Bible/Version
NC&C = New Covenants & Commandments - see OB
NCCF = New Covenant Christian Fellowship, earlier name of NCCG
NCCG = New Covenant Church of God, earlier name of MLT - see BCAY
NCP = New Covenant Press, publishing arm of MLT
NCW = New Covenant Witness, MLT magazine
NEB = New English Bible
NIV = New International Version of the Bible
NKJV = New King James Version of the Bible
Nor. = Norwegian
NT = New Testament, B'rit Chadashah
NWT = New World Translation of the Bible, unreliable Jehovah's Witness version
O
OB = Olive Branch - see NC&C
op.cit. = opere citato (lit. in the work cited)
OT = Old Testament, Tanakh
P
p(p). = page(s)
pl. = plural - see s.
PWNC = Prophetic Words of the New Covenant, revelation cataloging system - see OB
Q
QED = quod erat demonstrandum (lit. which was shown to be proved)
R
RCF = Restoration Christian Fellowship, earlier name of ICJC
RhQ = Ruach haQodesh, Holy Spirit
RSTNE = Restoration Scriptures True Name Edition of the Bible
RSV = Revised Standard Version of the Bible
RV = Revised Version of the Bible
S
s. = singular - see pl.
S&G = Smith & Goodspeed Version of the Bible
T
TEV = Today's English Version of the Bible - see GNB
V
Vulg. = Biblia Vulgata, Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible
W
WEB = World English Bible
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