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Dear Friends of Moriel, 

Jacob’s Itinerary 

Jacob Summer/Fall Tour 2012 

Moriel will be hosting its First Annual San Bernardino Prophecy Conference this 

August. The title is The Daniel Factor. Jacob and guests will be expounding on the 

book of Daniel and its relevance for today. With calls for a one world monetary 

system abounding, the European Union in disarray, the rise of Islam, Iran threating 

the destruction of America and the western world, this conference should be very 

relevant to the times we are living in. 

The Daniel Factor Conference, August 17, 2012 - 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM & August 

18, 2012 - 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Santos Manuel Student Union, 5500 University 

Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407- 2397. Check the website for the latest details 

as well as special guests. 

Labor Day in Pittsburgh 

Please plan on attending the 5 th Annual Moriel Labor Day Weekend Conference 

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The dates are August 31 through Sept 2, 2012. 

The event will be co-hosted by Beth Hebron church. This year we will be having 

an offsite room to hold more people and we are planning on expanding the amount 

of times Jacob is planning on speaking. Check in on the website for more details. 

Admission is free. 

Thailand Mission 

I had a wonderful time getting to know Scott Noble and his wife, Khae. Scott and 

his wife came and spoke at Beth Hebron in Pittsburgh and taught on Buddhism and 

how to lead them out of this false religion. Khae gave her testimony and also shared 

her prayer request that people would pray for her mother to come to the Lord. I hope 

everyone will get to know Scott and Khae and pray for their work in Thailand. 

Moriel Philippines 

The work continues there as well as evangelical outreach to a number of churches. 

Geoff O’Toole spent two months in the Philippines and the reports of people coming 

to the Lord are wonderful. Plus the number of people who are being reached through 

Moriel teachings as they are being translated and distributed in the local language is 

incredible. Remember Geoff and his lead missionary Hope in your prayers. Also, sad 

news to report, Pastor Paul who heads the feeding program in Olongopo mother died. 

Our condolences go out to him and his family. Pastor Paul is carrying quite a burden 

right now, so please keep him and his family in your prayers. 

Jacob in the Far East 

Jacob will soon be embarking on a tour of the Far East and then eventually end in 

the USA before returning home to his wife. This is a long tour and it is quite hard on 

the body, so please pray for Jacob and his health. Also, please pray for Pavia and the 

burdens she is taking care of on the home front. 

– SAN BERNARDINO, CA – 

The Daniel Factor Conference 

August 18, 2012, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM 

August 18, 2012 - 8:00 AM - 6:00 AM 

Santos Manuel Student Union 

55 University Parkway 92407 

San Bernardino, CA 

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August 31 thru September 2, 2012 

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60 Belvidere Street 

Crafton, PA 15205 

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October11-13, 2012 

22nd Annual Winnipeg 

Prophecy Conference 

The Victoria Inn 

(near the International airport) 

1808 Wellington Cres. Winnipeg, MB 

– CALGARY, CANADA – 

2 nd Annual Calgary Israel Bible 

Prophecy Conference 

March 21 – 23, 2013 

Calgary, Canada 

In Peace, 

David 

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Introduction 

For me, Ezekiel was always the single 

most difficult book of the Old Testament 

(arguably of all Scripture) to understand, 

but in more recent years I believe the Lord 

in His grace has been giving more Christians 

more insight into the Book of Ezekiel. 

Remember, in both Corinthians and 

in Hebrews, we have a distinction between 

“milk” and “meat.” “Milk” is baby food 

and is right for young believers and “meat” 

is for older believers, and we are told in Hebrews 

if we continue to give people “milk” 

there is not going to be calcification of the 

bones and baby is not going to grow properly 

(Heb.5:12-14). This has happened to 

many churches and many movements; they 

just continue to teach “milk” and never go 

to “meat.” It is dangerous to give babies 

meat, but it is also dangerous to give growing 

people milk because they are not going 

to grow if that is their primary diet. 

The New Testament is mainly milk. 

There are heavier books in it such as Hebrews, 

and there is deeper veiled content 

midrashically in the Gospels (particularly 

John). There are elements of meat in the 

New Testament, but it is primarily milk. 

The Old Testament, although there are 

drops of milk in it, is primarily meat. Always 

remember, “The New is in the Old 

concealed, the Old is in the New revealed.” 

Of course, the Plymouth Brethren have 

been saying that for generations, but not 

until a German academic said it in Latin did 

it become academically acceptable. 

Say there was a medical nurse in the hospital, 

she liked nursing, but she became interested 

in medical science, so she decided 

to quit her job as a nurse and go to medical 

school to become a medical doctor. When 

she was a nurse, all she had to learn was 

how to tourniquet a wound and stop the 

bleeding; when she began to study medicine 

she had to understand protein synthesis 

and how blood clotting works. She 

did not have to know this when she was a 

nurse; it is more complicated as a physician. 

Nurses and paramedics save people’s lives, 

but when someone really wants to get into 

it, they have to go into biochemistry and 

physiology and the deeper things like that. 

Or think of a policeman who decides to 

quit his job and go to law school. There he 

is studying the same subjects, but much 

more deeply. He has to learn the rules of 

evidence; he has to learn Latin; he has to 

learn things he did not need to know as a 

cop that he will need to know as a lawyer. 

Thank God for the New Testament, but 

the fact of the matter is that about 70% of 

Scripture is the Old Testament. However, 

there is an exception. The big exception is 

the Book of Revelation. 

The Link Between the Old 

Testament & Revelation 

From a literary perspective, the Book 

of Revelation can be considered to be Old 

Testament literature. It is the most Hebraic—most 

Jewish of the New Testament 

books, even more so than John’s Gospel, 

even more than Matthew. It draws on Old 

Testament themes and motifs more than any 

other book in the New Testament. From a 

literary perspective it is like Old Testament 

literature. In fact, if we were to read the 

Old Testament in the Greek Septuagint, we 

would see how incredible are the parallelisms 

to the Book of Revelation. 

The literary link between the Old Testa- 


ment and the Book of Revelation are the 

apocryphal books, particularly 1 & 2 Enoch. 

Those books are not a basis for doctrine, 

but they are biblically important history and 

literature. One would have to understand 

the literary transition to get the theology 

right, and it would be important to read 1 

& 2 Enoch. It gets very, very complicated. 

There is another reason. In the Last 

Days God turns His grace from the 

Gentile nations back toward Israel and the 

Jews. The times of the Gentiles comes to 

an end. Jesus warned of this in Luke 21; 

Paul warned of this in Romans 11. God 

will turn His grace back toward Israel at 

the end of the age, and that is another reason 

why we see the Book of Revelation 

being like an Old Testament book in its 

content. But there is a further reason. 

We need to be careful not to take the 

truths of Dispensationalism too far. It is 

a basic truth, but some people take it way 

too far. Nonetheless, understand that right 

now we are in the covenant of grace; a time 

comes when grace comes to an end. God’s 

Spirit will no longer strive with man (Gen. 

6:3). When the Holy Spirit comes, He will 

convict the world of sin (Jn. 16:8); when 

grace comes to an end, the Holy Spirit will 

no longer convict people of sin. God will 

revert to dealing with mankind the way He 

did in the Old Testament. It is the God of 

wrath. Those same judgments seen in the 

Book of Exodus are recapitulated in the 

Book of Revelation and replay the curses 

of Egypt on the Jews. He goes back to dealing 

with the nations the way He did in the 

Old Testament. The era of grace comes to 

an end. This will really take off with “the 

day of the Lord.” Once the faithful Church 

is removed between the sixth and seventh 

seal, the day of the Lord is inaugurated, 

and then it is basically an Old Testament 

scenario. There is a tribulational temple in 

Revelation 11, and God turns His redemptive 

focus back toward the salvation of Israel 

in very, very terrible circumstances—the 

worst hour of their history. 

The Book of Revelation is theologically 

different from the rest of the New Testament. 

It has as much in common with the 

Old Testament as it does with the New. It 

was not even authored in the same time 

period, but authored at the end of the first 

century after the rest of the New Testament 

had already been written. It was a further 

revelation beyond the earthly ministry of 

Jesus. Everything that had been provided, 

up that point, were the Apostles explaining 

the Old Testament and the teachings 

of John the Baptist and Jesus. Everything 

the Apostles wrote in the Epistles and Gospels 

were things Jesus taught while He was 

here or that were developed from the Old 

Testament based on the teachings of Jesus. 

Jacob Prasch 

In Revelation, Jesus actually gives an additional, 

final revelation to John on Patmos. 

There are many books that are important 

in understanding Revelation, most obviously 

Daniel. Another is quite obviously 

Zechariah, another as already mentioned is 

Exodus, but not least of all, and in some 

aspects most important of all, is the Book 

of Ezekiel. We do not study Ezekiel just for 

the sake of understanding Ezekiel, but for 

the sake of understanding the future. The 

key to understanding the future is properly 

understanding the past. As we get closer to 

the return of Jesus, we should be aiming for 

the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation to 

become clearer and clearer and clearer. 

Again, we can learn to be a paramedic or 

learn to be a nurse, but that is at most advanced 

first-aid. But if we are going to study 

medical science, that is quite another thing. 

Or if there is an electrician who decides to 

become an electrical engineer, he is going 

to have to go back and study electro-physics 

and equations for four years. One has to 

go back and get the background. When we 

go back to Ezekiel to get this background, 

understand why we are doing it: it is to understand 

the future; it is to understand what 

is going to happen. 

The Same Then As Now 

In Ezekiel’s day, the Babylonian Captivity 

was well underway. The prophecies of Joel, 

Isaiah, Jeremiah and Micah had been vindicated 

and the false prophets had been indicted. 

Nonetheless, the people still continued 

in their sin and their rejection of the truth 

and in their persecution of the true prophets 

and acceptance of the false ones. In the Last 

Days, it is the same thing. Expect people to 

continue to listen to proven false prophets. 

It does not matter how many false prophecies 

Rick Joyner or Cindy Jacobs make, 

they are still going to follow those people 

the same as they did in the days of Ezekiel. 

It is the same motifs recycled: the Temple, 

the false prophets, and the Babylon motif 

(“Fallen, fallen is Babylon”) all come from 

the time of Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah 

around the events of 585-586 BC. To understand 

the future we have to understand 

the past. Ezekiel is a type or shadow of 

Jesus eschatologically. He is called “son 

of man” same as Christ, a picture of Jesus 

coming again. 

In Ezekiel 23 we are presented with 

“Oholah” and “Oholibah.” “Oholah”— 

“tent” or “tabernacle; “Oholibah”—“My 

tent/tabernacle is within her.” Ezekiel laments 

the fact that the two southern tribes 

Judah and Benjamin, along with the Levites 

and refugees who came south from the 

ten tribes of Israel during the revivals of 

Asa and so forth, had become just as corrupt 

as the ten northern tribes. Judah had 

become as corrupt as Israel. The same thing 

happens in the Last Days. 

Thirty or forty years ago, when Christians 

used terms like “the harlot church” 

or “Babylon” or something similar, it was 

colloquially understood in Christian nomenclature 

that one was talking about the 

Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox 

Church, liberal Protestantism, the 

World Council of Churches, or a cult like 

the Jehovah’s Witnesses—that was “Babylon” 

or “the harlot church.” What is happening 

now is the same thing that happened 

in the days of Ezekiel. Today we have 

mainstream evangelical denominations that 

are just as much a part of the harlot church. 

The kind of stuff we see on TBN and such, 

or coming from the ecumenical movement, 

these are just as corrupt as the harlot 

church. What does the term “evangelical” 

mean anymore? It certainly does not mean 

what it does in Scripture—“evangelion.” It 

no longer means what it did, now that all 

kinds of people claim to be “evangelical.” 

But that has always been the case in 

Europe. In Continental Europe, the term 

“evangelical” simply meant “Lutheran” 

as opposed to “Reformed”—as opposed to 

Calvinist. It did not necessarily mean “born 

again.” Now America is becoming the same 

as Europe. What does “evangelical” mean? 

It is just a term that does not really mean 

anything anymore. Judah became as bad as 

Israel. Now mainstream evangelical denominations 

have become as bad as the World 

Council of Churches, the papacy and so forth. 

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This is the background of Ezekiel 23 

where he invokes the background of the 

motif of the harlot bride borrowed from 

Amos and Hosea, and also picked up in the 

New Testament in James 4. Israel becomes 

an unfaithful bride of Yahweh as the Church 

becomes an unfaithful bride of Christ in the 

apostate church. Ezekiel takes this motif 

of comparing the immorality to idolatry, 

equating idolatry with adultery: Oholibah—“My 

tabernacle is in her.” Because 

the holy ark and the Temple were in Jerusalem, 

the Jews thought they were special. 

They had the Lord and they had the truth, 

but once they become apostate—morally 

corrupt and looking to Babylon, it was not 

just bad, but Ezekiel said, “You are worse 

than your sister Oholah” (Eze. 23:11). 

We all know what the Roman Catholic 

Church is, but at least officially they denounce 

things like abortion, homosexuality 

and same-sex marriage. We know that among 

their clergy this stuff goes on, and even 

worse things like pedophilia, and they cover 

it up. We know what they do in practice is 

different than what they preach, but at least 

officially they do not sanction these things. 


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Recently in England, at the Anglican 

Synod in London, one hundred twenty 

Anglican pastors—vicars, put their signatures 

to a document demanding the right to 

perform same-sex marriages. Remember, 

America was evangelized by Britain, the 

mother country spiritually as well as politically. 

The Church of England (also called 

the Anglicans or Episcopalians), the United 

Reformed Church, the Church of Scotland, 

the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist 

Church are all ordaining homosexuals 

and lesbians, but even the Roman Catholic 

Church would not officially do that. What 

they do and what they teach are two different 

things, but if we were to look at a Roman 

Catholic book of theology, we would 

not find a single Roman Catholic scholar 

or theologian who would deny the historicity 

of the virgin birth or a literal resurrection. 

Not one. But we have no shortage at 

Yale Divinity School, or Princeton Divinity 

School, or Harvard, or so-called Protestants 

denying these truths. Protestantism 

has become worse than Catholicism, worse 

than what it set out to reform. It is more 

morally depraved and spiritually bankrupt 

than what it came from. So, too, Oholibah 

became worse than Oholah; Judah became 

worse than Israel. 

Look at the money preachers, what they 

do, and their complete lack of ethics. There 

are unsaved people who would not prey 

on the poor and uneducated and elderly 

the way those money preachers do on TV. 

There are unsaved people who have more 

ethics than those predators of Satan. 

This is what took place in the last days 

of Judah, and that is what happens in the 

Last Days, full stop. It is what happens in 

the last days of the Church, and it is what 

happens in the last days of the Jews before 

the Messiah comes. This is the background 

of “Ezekiel”—“the strength of God.” 

The Beginning of the End 

And the word of the LORD came to me 

in the ninth year, in the tenth month, 

on the tenth of the month, saying, 

(Ezekiel 24:1) 

I do not speculate on dates of the return 

of Jesus, but this is a superscription—it 

tells us the timeframe in which these events 

took place when this prophecy came true. I 

only mention this in passing, but that date 

by the Hebrew calendar and how far it was 

into the Captivity may be an indication 

about the time when the Antichrist will be 

revealed. 

“…the word of the LORD came…” Jesus 

is the Word. In Greek He is the “Logos,” 

in Hebrew He is the “D’var.” False 

prophets will always give us a word which 

is not prophecy but clairvoyance. “The 

word came”—Jesus came. It was an Old 

Testament revelation of Christ by the Holy 

Spirit. Unlike in the New Testament, of 

course, in the Old Covenant the Holy Spirit 

was only for certain people at certain times: 

high priests, prophets, kings, judges and 

patriarchs. The message came from an encounter 

with the Lord. If a message does 

not come from an encounter with the Lord, 

it is a false message; they are putting the focus 

on the message instead of on the Lord. 

The focus should be on the Lord, not the 

message. False prophets will always give 

someone a word; true prophets will always 

point them to the Word. There is nothing 

the Lord has to reveal to any of us, predictively 

or otherwise, that will not be doctrinally 

based on what is already revealed 

in Scripture, and the focus will always be 

on the Lord Himself, not on the message. 

Once that happens, then the message is real 

and we can act on it. 

The King of Babylon 

“Son of man…” 

(Again, this is an eschatological type of 

Christ. When we see “son of man,” it is 

pointing to the Last Days in some way.) 

“… write the name of the day, this 

very day. The king of Babylon has laid 

siege to Jerusalem this very day. (Ezekiel 

24:2) 

Nebuchadnezzar was worshiped in the 

Book of Daniel as God. Whenever we see 

a human being other than Jesus deified and 

worshiped, be it the pagan emperors of 

Rome or in this case the king of Babylon, it 

is a shadow or picture of the Antichrist. As 

Jesus was God and became a man who was 

worshipped, the Antichrist will be Satan, as 

it were, in an incarnated form, seeking worship. 

That the king of Babylon is directly 

associated with Satan is further confirmed 

by other Scripture. 

that you will take up this taunt against 

the king of Babylon, and say, “How 

the oppressor has ceased, And how 

fury has ceased! The LORD has broken 

the staff of the wicked, The scepter 

of rulers 

(As we see in Daniel, when Jesus comes 

back, He will put an end to human government.) 

Which used to strike the peoples in 

fury with unceasing strokes, Which 

subdued the nations in anger with 

unrestrained persecution. The whole 

earth is at rest and is quiet; They 

break forth into shouts of joy. Even the 

cypress trees rejoice over you, and the 

cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you 

were laid low, no tree cutter comes up 

against us.’ 

Remember, the trees of the field will clap 

their hands (Is. 55:12); we shall be trees of 

righteousness (Ps. 1). These cypress trees 

and cedars that Hiram sent down from Lebanon 

were used in the main construction of 

the Temple. The Church is described seven 

times in the New Testament as the temple, 

and these “Gentile” trees which came from 

Hiram when the Gentiles were at peace with 

the Jews under David and Solomon are figures 

of believers. When Jesus opened the 

eyes of the blind man, the man saw men as 

trees walking (Mk. 8:24). A good tree cannot 

bear bad fruit (Mt. 7:18). The trees are 

going to be happy when Satan is judged. 

“Sheol from beneath is excited over you to 

meet you when you come; It arouses for you 

the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the 

earth; It raises all the kings of the nations 

from their thrones. They will all respond 

and say to you, ‘Even you have been made 

weak as we, You have become like us. Your 

pomp and the music of your harps Have 

been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are 

spread out as your bed beneath you And 

worms are your covering.’ 

God has a sense of humor which is sardonic 

and satirical; He mocks His enemies. 

On the cross, Jesus, the King of kings, was 

mocked. The way Jesus was mocked on the 

cross is the way Satan is going to be belittled 

and ridiculed for all eternity. Part of the 

judgment of Satan is that he is going to be 

perpetually mocked, ridiculed and belittled 

for all eternity (Is. 14:16). His first sin was 

pride and that is where judgment is going 

to fall on him in large part. 

Your pomp and the music of your harps 

Have been brought down to Sheol; 

(This very closely parallels Daniel 2 

when they had to worship the image.) 

“How you have fallen from heaven, 

O star of the morning, son of the dawn! 

You have been cut down to the earth, 

You who have weakened the nations! 

Notice how Satan tries to counterfeit Jesus. 

Whereas Jesus is “the bright and morning 

star,” (Rev. 22:16) what is Satan called 

here? “Star of the morning” and “son of the 

dawn.” Jesus rose at dawn. Antichrist will 

attempt to counterfeit Christ and he will put 

on a resounding imitation. 

When we understand Luciferian theosophy, 

their argument becomes (and this is 

even incorporated into elements of Freemasonry) 

that they see God and Satan as 

the same. Because we are imago dei, beings 

made in God’s image and likeness, 

and because there is good and evil in us, 

they think there must be good and evil in 

God. They reason, “How can we have light 

without dark? How can we have good without 

evil? God requires evil so there can be 


good. God requires dark so there can be 

light.” But there is no darkness within Him 

we are told (1 Jn. 1:5). These are the convoluted 

theories to which Luciferians ascribe. 

And looking at it from a human perspective, 

it appears to make sense. Satan manifests 

himself as an angel of light (2 Co. 

11:14), and we see that here very clearly. It 

is almost the same in Hebrew as what Jesus 

would be called. 

“But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend 

to heaven; I will raise my throne 

above the stars of God, And I will sit on 

the mount of assembly In the recesses 

of the north. I will ascend above the 

heights of the clouds; I will make myself 

like the Most High.’ (Is. 14:9-14) 

Satan as the Antichrist 

Who is that? Who wants to be God? It 

is obviously speaking about Satan who is 

called “the king of Babylon” is Isaiah 14:4, 

but it also says “the recesses of the north”— 

which can also be read as the “sides” of the 

north. It is the same as Psalm 48: 

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be 

praised, In the city of our God, His 

holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, 

the joy of the whole earth, Is Mount 

Zion in the far north, The city of the 

great King. (Ps. 48:1-2) 

This is talking about the temple. Antichrist 

in his human form will take his seat 

in the temple of God (2 Th. 2:4). He wants 

to be worshiped both by Israel and the 

Church. He will take his seat within Christendom 

and he will apparently take his seat 

in Jerusalem in the rebuilt tribulational 

temple according to 2 Thessalonians and 

Revelation 11. This is the king of Babylon. 

“Son of man, write the name of the 

day, this very day. The king of Babylon 

has laid siege to Jerusalem this very 

day. (Eze. 24:2) 

That may be the day by the year of the 

lunar calendar that the Antichrist sets up the 

“shiqutz ha meshomem”—the abomination 

of desolation. (I am not being dogmatic 

about this, I am only saying it is a possibility 

that has to be weighed into account as 

something that could possibly be.) 

Ezekiel is talking about Satan, but he 

is talking about Satan coming in a human 

form; he is talking about Antichrist. What 

happened then is a picture of what is going to 

happen. The Babylonians desecrated the first 

temple as the Romans did the second temple 

on the same day of the year—T’sha B’Av. 

The Parable of the Boiling Pot 

“Speak a parable to the rebellious 

house and say to them, ‘Thus says the 

Lord GOD, “Put on the pot, put it on 

and also pour water in it; Put in it the 

pieces, Every good piece, the thigh and 

the shoulder; Fill it with choice bones. 

Take the choicest of the flock, And 

also pile wood under the pot.Make it 

boil vigorously. Also seethe its bones 

in it.” ‘Therefore, thus says the Lord 

GOD, “Woe to the bloody city, To the 

pot in which there is rust And whose 

rust has not gone out of it! Take out of 

it piece after piece, Without making a 

choice. For her blood is in her midst; 

She placed it on the bare rock; She 

did not pour it on the ground To cover 

it with dust. That it may cause wrath 

to come up to take vengeance, I have 

put her blood on the bare rock, That it 

may not be covered.” (Eze. 24:3-8) 

Remember, the life is in the blood (Gen. 

9:4). The Jews were not to consume the 

blood or get into the ritual consumption of 

blood (Lev. 17:14). This in part, of course, 

has a New Testament meaning for the Roman 

Catholic abomination of the Mass 

where they claim wine is transubstantiated 

into blood and they drink the blood in a 

vampire ritual. The Apostles condemned 

the consumption of blood in Acts 15. It is a 

complete vampire religion. It is cannibalism 

and is utterly condemned by both the Old 

and New Testaments, what Paul calls “the 

cup of demons” (1 Co. 10:21). If it was the 

real blood of Jesus, no one should be drinking 

it because the Apostles said not to drink 

the blood (Acts 15:28-29), but they get into 

these blood-sipping rituals. It is also making 

an allusion to the human sacrificing of 

their children, sacrificing the blood of their 

children which was a big thing. Well, it is 

also a big thing today. 

In supposedly what is an evangelical 

country, we have aborted 50 million babies. 

A country that is supposedly the most 

founded on New Testament principles is 

just as guilty of the same thing being spoken 

about by Ezekiel. 

The Physical Nature of the Pot 

God says, “boil the pot.” 

Today we have a mixture of ceramic and 

diamonds, and before that we had Teflon ® , 

invented by the American space program. 

In the ancient world they did not have this; 

what they had were two other metals: “barzel”—“iron” 

and “nachosheth”—“copper” 

or “bronze.” (The Nehushtan—the bronze 

serpent in Numbers 21 which Moses raised 

in the wilderness, has the same root.) In the 

same way that we would coat a pot or skillet 

with Teflon ® , they would use bronze. 

That is as far as metallurgy went in those 

days; they did not have alloys much as this 

was just after the Bronze Age. 

Long before the advent of microbiology, 


God knew that microbes have a capacity to 

induce corrosion by oxidation. If we go back 

to high school or the first year of college, 

we learned that if we react iron with heat 

we are going to get iron oxide gas which 

will be noxious. If a welder does not wear 

protective equipment, he is an ultra-high 

candidate for emphysema. It is dangerous 

to breathe iron oxide gas; it is lethal. By not 

cleaning the pots correctly, microbial film 

would build up and begin to oxidize the metal. 

In chemistry, when something is being 

oxidized, something else is being reduced. 

This is true even with us. By breathing 

we are destroying tissue—it will kill us, 

but by not breathing it will kill us quicker. 

Because of sin, bio-entropy has set in and 

oxidation will kill us. We eat, but to convert 

carbon to energy our body requires energy 

in Krebs Cycle—this requires oxygen. Eating 

will kill us, but not eating will kill us 

quicker. We are under a curse because of sin. 

They would not clean the pots correctly, 

allowing the grime to build up and build up 

and build up, and it began to oxidize the 

iron. The iron would then rust, and then 

when boiling water was poured into it, the 

rust particles would go into the boiling water. 

But then they would boil meat in it, so 

the particles permeated the muscle tissue of 

the animal. 

The Condition of the Pot 

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 

“Woe to the bloody city! I also willmake 

the pile great. Heap on the 

wood, kindle the fire, Boil the flesh 

well And mix in the spices, And let the 

bones be burned. Then set it empty 

on its coals So that it may be hot And 

its bronze may glow And its filthiness 

may be melted in it, Its rust consumed. 

She has wearied Me with toil, Yet her 

great rust has not gone from her; Let 

her rust be in the fire! “In your filthiness 

is lewdness. 

(Again, using the sexual illustration.) 

Because I would have cleansed you, 

Yet you are not clean, You will not be 

cleansed from your filthiness again 

Until I have spent My wrath on you. 

(Eze. 24:9-13) 

They got to the point where the pot was 

so filthy it began to corrode, but then something 

happens: God commands to make 

it corrode even faster. The rust is already 

coming off, but even so put boiling water 

into it; turn it up as hot as you can get it to 

make even more rust go into it. God gives 

it over to its filth. “You want it to be an 

unclean vessel? I will make it an unclean 

vessel!” Make it worse by turning up the 

heat on the vessel—make sure the copper 

is glowing, then place it empty on the coals 



and make it really hot! Get the best meat; 

go down to the kosher butcher and get the 

best stuff and throw it in. 

The Contrast to Elisha’s Pot 

In the days of Elisha there was the toxic 

stew, there was poison in the pot (2 Ki. 

4:38-41). Elisha was able to throw grain 

into the poison stew. He was able to put 

grain into the poison pot and the grain was 

able to absorb the toxins. Right doctrine 

will clean up false doctrine. Grain can be 

put into the poison stew—right doctrine 

will correct wrong doctrine. 

In Pentecostalism, the Azusa Street Revival 

went off the rails at a very, very early 

point, but another generation of Pentecostals 

came around and began bringing in 

right doctrine and straightening it out, from 

which we got the Assemblies of God and 

such. (Not the way they are now, but the 

way they were at one time.) People began 

putting grain into the poison stew. Unfortunately 

this never happened in the Charismatic 

Movement; there was very little right 

doctrine put into it and that is why it has 

never brought a revival. The poison can be 

cleaned up with the grain; the toxins can be 

removed from the stew with the grain. But 

now it is a situation where it is not the content 

of the pot that is poisoned, it is the pot itself. 

We have a remedy for the poison in the pot, 

but there is no remedy for a corroded pot. 

Modern Examples 

One example is the Assemblies of God 

in which people tried in recent history to set 

things right. There were people like Opal 

Redding, Larry Thomas and even David 

Wilkerson who were trying to warn the Assemblies 

of God 25-30 years ago that there 

was poison in the pot and that they needed to 

get right doctrine in there. We are way past 

that today. Since the Pensacola garbage, the 

pot is poisoned; now it is unsalvageable. No 

amount of good is going to remedy it. God 

says, “Put in the choice meat, the best meat 

you can get, but it is still going to come out 

poisoned.” There is no amount of “good” 

that can be put into an utterly backslidden 

movement or denomination or church that 

is going to change it. On the contrary, they 

come under the judgment of God. When 

they chronically refuse to repent, God turns 

up the heat and makes it worse; He makes 

them even more depraved. 

Today it is not just liberal Protestants 

compromising on same-sex marriage, we 

have Tony Campolo and others compromising 

on the homosexual issue; now we 

have Evangelicals doing it! This is but one 

example. Abortion will be next. “What 

about the good things?” No amount of good 

is going to change it anymore. No amount 

of good is going to save the Assemblies of 

God. This is but one example. 

My fear is that when Chuck Smith is not 

around anymore, Calvary Chapel is going 

to go the same way. We do not see it 

so much because Chuck is here, but there 

are Calvary Chapels going away from the 

original teachings of Chuck Smith and 

company and it is getting weird already. 

It is like what John Wesley said to the 

Methodists: “If this is what they are doing 

when I’m alive, what are they going to do 

when I’m dead?” They are going the same 

way. They have divorced and remarried 

men in the ministry and all sorts of stuff. 

It gets to the point where God says, “Turn 

up the heat!” There is nothing we are going 

to be able to do because it becomes 

unsalvageable; no amount of good is going 

to change it anymore. In Great Britain, 

the Evangelical Alliance cannot be saved. 

But it is not only like that, but God makes 

it like that; He gives it over to it. According 

to 2 Thessalonians, He makes it more like 

that (2 Th. 2:11-12). He says, “Go ahead; 

try to put good stuff into it and see what 

comes out.” It does not matter how good 

the meat is, even if it is the best of the best, 

it is coming out contaminated. 

No Amount of Good Will Help 

“Oh, but what about all the people being 

saved?” Being saved into what? A lunatic 

asylum? Jesus said to make disciples, not 

converts (Mt. 28:19). No good is going to 

come out of it. We can put good into it, but 

it is not going to come out good. What does 

Jesus say in Matthew 23? They go to the 

ends of the earth to make one convert and 

he becomes twice as much a son of hell as 

he used to be (Mt. 23:15). He might have 

been alright when he went in, but he is no 

good when he comes out. 

No amount of good is ever going to 

change a cult. It does not matter how much 

good, how much truth, one tries to put into 

it anymore. Anybody and anything that 

goes in good is going to come out bad because 

the pot itself is corroded; the pot itself 

will poison the meat. It is no longer the 

content of the pot that is poisoned, it is the 

pot, and it reaches a point where God says, 

“Turn up the heat! I’ll make it ever worse! 

You didn’t want to clean this stuff up? I told 

you to clean this stuff up!” 

God always warns them. Israel had multiple 

prophets before Ezekiel. Up north 

there was Amos and Hosea, down south 

there was Micah, Isaiah, Joel and Jeremiah—there 

were many before Ezekiel. God 

warned them. 

I can go back and show warnings which 

were written in the 1950s, 60s and 70s by 

people like Martin Lloyd Jones in England, 

Francis Schaffer in the United States, and 

A. W. Tozer, all giving warnings in decades 

previous that would have seemed impossible—unthinkable—at 

the time when they 

wrote it, but it happened. Over a hundred 

years ago, Charles Spurgeon warned what 

would happen to the Baptist Union in Britain. 

Over a hundred years ago, J. C. Ryle 

warned what would happen to the evangelical 

branch of the Church of England. It is 

documented. These organizations do not 

want to sell these men’s books anymore; 

they are right and they are proven right, 

the same as Micah was proven right, the 

same as Isaiah was proven right, the same 

as Joel was proven right. They were proven 

right, but the people still chose to follow 

liars. That is what happened in the last days 

of Judah and that is what happens again in 

the Last Days: the situation becomes unredeemable. 

They go beyond the point of no 

return and God says, “Turn up the heat!” 

That has happened to the Assemblies 

of God; that has happened to every major 

denomination in the United Kingdom. And 

if something does not happen quickly, it 

is only a matter of time before it happens 

to Calvary Chapel. Even though there are 

good people and good pastors in it, the 

movement as a whole is going away from 

their heritage and what they were taught. 

The Inevitability 

“I, the LORD, have spoken; it is coming 

and I will act… 

It does not matter if we believe it or not. 

Look at what they say today as they psychologize 

the Church: “That is negative, I 

don’t receive it.” It is like witnessing to an 

unsaved person. We can tell them the Gospel, 

tell them about judgment, and they say, “I 

don’t believe it.” It does not matter whether 

they believe it or not; its being true does not 

depend on whether or not they believe it. 

A medical doctor tells someone, “You’ve 

got to quit smoking.” “I don’t believe it.” 

“Here is the x-ray showing bilateral plural 

carcinoma.” “I don’t believe it.” It does not 

matter whether they believe it or not, it is 

irrelevant. If an alcoholic is so addicted to 

booze they get sclerosis, it does not matter 

whether they believe it or not. They are 

going to reject the truth because God has 

given them over to the error. 

“…I will not relent, and I will not pity 

and I will not be sorry; according 

to your ways and according to your 

deeds I will judge you,” declares the 

Lord GOD.’ ” (Eze. 24:14) 

Remember, it is always in accordance 

with their deeds. If someone wants false 

prophets, God will send them false prophets. 

Until now we have been speaking about 

what is happening in the evangelical move- 


ments and denominations, broadly speaking. 

I am not saying that there are not, individually, 

good pastors and good local congregations 

within those movements. I am not 

saying there are no independent churches 

and house churches that are faithful to the 

Lord. I am not saying we cannot find an individual 

Assemblies of God church or pastor 

that are not of God—there are some. I 

am talking about the movement as a whole, 

but anything good within them is going 

to be turned bad unless they get out of it. 

“Come out of her My people” (Rev. 18:4). 

What is going to come about in the next ten 

years if the Lord has not returned? Within 

Western Evangelicism over the next ten 

years, is what comes next. 

And the word of the LORD came to me… 

Jesus comes to him again. 

Now understand that if you are heeding 

what I am saying, you should pour yourself 

a cup of tea or cup of coffee, and turn on 

David Frost on the television. You should 

not be reading this if it is only me talking. 

If, however, it is by God’s grace the Lord 

speaking through me according to what is in 

His Word, I am just the messenger boy—it 

is the Lord saying this. That is the decision 

you have to make. You have to ask the Lord 

to show you whether this is Jacob speaking 

out of his own hurt or his own resentment 

or his own cantankerousness, his own motives, 

choices or whatever, or is this what 

the Word of God is really teaching us? If, 

God forbid, I am speaking of myself, woe 

to me. Teachers will be judged more strictly 

than the rest (Ja. 3:1). I am not going to be 

absolved if I am teaching something false. 

On the other hand, if I am teaching something 

that is true, you are not going to be 

absolved if you do not act on it. 

The Bride is Going to Die 

And the word of the LORD came to 

me saying, “Son of man, behold, I 

am about to take from you the desire 

of your eyes with a blow; but you 

shall not mourn and you shall not 

weep, and your tears shall not come. 

“Groan silently; make no mourning 

for the dead. Bind on your turban and 

put your shoes on your feet, and do 

not cover your mustache and do not 

eat the bread of men.” 

(In other words, these were Near Eastern 

mourning rituals. Today it is called “sitting 

shiva.” Jews bury the corpse before the next 

sundown and then mourn for seven days.) 

So I spoke to the people in the morning, 

and in the evening my wife died. And in 

the morning I did as I was commanded. 

The people said to me, “Will you not 

tell us what these things that you are 

doing mean for us?” (Eze. 24:15-19) 

Nobody in their right mind wants to be a 

prophet. Amos said, “I am not a prophet or 

the son of a prophet” (Amos 7:14). If anyone 

goes around claiming to be a prophet, 

the likelihood is they are a false one. Nobody 

in their right mind wants that lousy 

job. Who wants to be rejected? They must 

not only be identified with the people they 

are speaking to, they must be identified with 

the Lord and what He is going through. 

The Bride of Jehovah was going to die; 

the Bride of Christ is going to die. Ezekiel 

had to experience this in his own life and 

live it out, playing it out in front of society 

so they would see it. “She is the desire of 

your eyes, but with a blow I am going to 

take her. Do not mourn, do not weep—no 

tears shall come. Groan silently—keep 

your grief to yourself; let nobody see that 

you care.” Don’t sit shiva, don’t go to the 

funeral, don’t mourn, don’t grieve—openly 

and publicly display yourself as somebody 

who just doesn’t care. “Your wife is dead!” 

“So what?” 

It is like the guy who paid a scalper a 

thousand dollars for a ticket to the Super 

Bowl. He is way at the top where he can 

barely see the game, and with his binoculars 

sees an empty seat down on the fifty 

yard line. So he goes down there and says 

to the guy sitting next to it, “Is this seat 

free?” They guy said, “Yes.” So he says, 

“How can that be?” He says, “My wife has 

been with me at every Super Bowl for the 

last thirty years, but she died.” “That’s terrible. 

Why didn’t you give the ticket to a 

relative?” And he replied, “They’re all at 

the funeral.” 

He was not only not to care but to let the 

people see he did not care. “Let them see 

that, to you, it means nothing whatsoever.” 

The people said to me, “Will you not 

tell us what these things that you are 

doing mean for us?” Then I said to 

them, “The word of the LORD came to 

me saying, ‘Speak to the house of Israel, 

“Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, 

I am about to profane My sanctuary… 

(The Temple is going to be destroyed. 

The king of Babylon was coming—Antichrist 

is coming. He is going to take over 

Christendom as well as what he is going to 

do in Jerusalem.) 

… the pride of your power, the desire 

of your eyes and the delight of your 

soul; and your sons and your daughters 

whom you have left behind will 

fall by the sword. You will do as I have 

done; you will not cover your mustache 

and you will not eat the bread 

of men. Your turbans will be on your 

heads and your shoes on your feet. 

(They are going to go to Babylon, too.) 


You will not mourn and you will not 

weep, but you will rot away in your 

iniquities and you will groan to one 

another. Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to 

you; according to all that he has done 

you will do; when it comes, then you 

will know that I am the Lord GOD.’ ” 

(Ezekiel 24:19-24) 

“Your wife is dead!” “I don’t care.” “Are 

you going to go to the funeral?” “No.” “Are 

you going to go to the burial?” “No.” Are 

you going to go to the memorial service?” 

“No.” “Are you going to sit shiva?” “No.” 

The bride is dead. 

The Assemblies of God are dead! Who 

cares? If Jesus Christ does not care anymore, 

why should we? Protestantism is dead! It is 

morally dead, it is doctrinally dead—who 

cares? It is not even worth mourning over. 

She is such a disgusting bride she is not 

worth crying over. “Get on with your life. 

Get on with your daily routine. Pretend as 

if nothing of any significance happened because 

nothing of any significance did happen.” 

It does not matter to God anymore, 

why should it matter to you? That is going 

to be the next ten years. 

But notice there is another thing beside 

the bride: “your sons and your daughters.” 

A lot of these mega-churches—not all of 

them, but a lot of them running these youth 

programs based on the worship of “worship,” 

not the worship of God, have used 

entertainment to draw people, so they are 

going to have to use entertainment to keep 

people. The world will always have a better 

rock concert; the world will always put on 

a better show. Once the thrill is gone, the 

kids are going to wander away. They will 

go into the world and whatever. They will 

slowly rot away. 

It Rots to Death 

In England, the Muslims open one 

mosque a week; the Methodists close one 

church a week. Reports such as The Barna 

Report show that after Toronto it was massive—a 

17% decline in church attendance 

among Charismatics and Pentecostals. The 

first mega-church, the flagship mega-church 

which the others imitated—the Crystal Cathedral—has 

$56 million in debt and it is 

closed up. That is the first, the Titanic. The 

Bismarck has been sunk; now for the others. 

Who cares? 

“Oh, the Crystal Cathedral! It was the 

emblem of the mega-church! It was the 

flagship for all these big churches!” Schuller 

is gone, it is $56 million in debt, the 

Catholics bought the joint—who cares? Jesus 

does not care. That heretic Schuller had 

the Islamic mufti preaching in his church, 

and said he would not mind if his grandchildren 

became Muslims! Schuller said 



Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify 

His ego! That church belongs dead! Who 

cares? It is not coming back. 

They always talk about these things coming 

back, but they rot to death. Notice they 

do not disappear all at once; they die a long, 

slow, painful death, experiencing a steady 

period of decline. They just rot and rot and 

rot and rot. The iron corrodes, corrodes, 

corrodes; the rust oxidizes, oxidizes, oxidizes. 

It just rots away. I am not saying that 

all of these movements are going to disappear 

overnight; they are going to rot. And 

the rot has already set in for many of them. 

This is only the beginning. This is what we 

are going to see in the next ten years. Do 

not even mourn. But then what? What does 

this mean for us? 

A Time for the Word 

‘As for you, son of man, will it not be 

on the day when I take from them their 

stronghold, the joy of their pride, the 

desire of their eyes and their heart’s 

delight, their sons and their daughters… 

(They are going to lose the youth.) 

…that on that day he who escapes will 

come to you with information for your 

ears? ‘On that day your mouth will 

be opened to him who escaped, and 

you will speak and be mute no longer. 

Thus you will be a sign to them, and 

they will know that I am the LORD.’ ” 

(Eze. 24:25-27) 

To understand this, we have to go back 

Ezekiel 3 where the Lord told Ezekiel, “I 

will make your tongue cling to the roof of 

your mouth. You will not be able to warn 

them anymore until I open your mouth” 

(Eze. 3:26-27). Until now we have not 

been able to warn them—it does not work. 

God has given them over to it and these 

movements will not listen. The Lord makes 

our tongue cling to the roof of our mouth, 

it says in Ezekiel 3, but a time is going to 

come when He is going to put His Word in 

our mouth and our tongue will no longer 

cling to the roof of our mouth. A message is 

going to be given and then they are going to 

know a prophet has spoken (Eze. 33:33). 

The Near-Term Future for Us 

That is the future for them, but what is 

the future for us? What should we be looking 

at in the next decade or so if the Lord 

does not come back? “I will take from the 

desire of their eyes and their heart’s delight; 

he who escapes will come to you with information 

for your ears.” There are going 

to be people walking through our door in 

Australia, South Africa, around the United 

States, in Great Britain—all over the 

place—who have had enough of the mainstream 

churches and denominations. 

I go all over the world and I see the same 

thing everywhere: more and more people 

are meeting together in homes and in 

small groups, or meeting in American Legion 

halls or schools—they have just had 

enough. If they cannot find a decent church, 

they will go meet in a home. They will find 

fellowship with others who still believe the 

Scriptures. They will meet in a home if they 

have to. Sometimes the home groups grow 

and they have to go find a hall or something 

like that, but one thing is for sure—they are 

a semi-underground church and not part of 

the mainstream, and they tend to be populated 

with refugees. “Those who escape 

will come to you with information.” 

There will be those who will walk 

through the door and say, “I used to go to 

the Assemblies of God; do you know what 

has happened over there? Do you know 

what they are teaching now?” Yes, we 

know. They are always going to come with 

information. At some point the epiphany 

comes and they realize what has been going 

on and finally get the point. It is about 

those who escape. What do we do? We are 

here for those who escape. They are going 

to come through our door. 

There is a problem with this, a problem 

that I have been going on about for at least 

fifteen years: such groups can tend to become 

like refugee camps for people who 

leave bad churches. I think it is altogether 

fitting and scriptural to fulfill that function. 

It is necessary to be here for those people 

the same way as there was somebody here 

for us. The danger is we become introspective; 

it becomes based on what we experienced 

in some bad church. It becomes like 

Alcoholics Anonymous who are always 

talking about their past, bad experience instead 

of looking to the future. Yes, that is 

one-half of the equation in that we have to 

re-evangelize the church and get people out 

of these loony churches—that is true, but 

not at the expense of evangelism. It cannot 

be based solely on “they’re wrong,” it has 

to be based on, “they got it wrong, we have 

to get it right.” We should be growing by 

evangelism as well as picking up refugees. 

That is the problem such groups are facing: 

they tend to become self-help centers for 

people who were burned in bad churches. 

But pick up refugees we will. Those who 

escape are going to come through our door 

confused, looking for answers. “You mean 

I’ve been believing error for ten years?” 

“I’ve been believing and following false 

doctrine for twenty years?” “I got saved 

twenty years ago and 90% of all this junk is 

false?” They do not know what to believe. 

They have been misled, they have been lied 

to, very often exploited financially, and they 

are confused and hurt, but they managed, 

by God’s grace, to escape. They walked 

through that door looking for somebody to 

talk to, looking for somebody who will just 

listen, looking for somebody who can understand 

what they are saying and who can 

be used by the Lord to give them a perspective 

and a sense of direction. 

Conclusion 

Those guys in these backslidden movements 

and denominations are waiting for 

the king of Babylon. That is their future. 

They are waiting for the coming of the Antichrist. 

They may not know it, they may 

not believe it, but that is what they are waiting 

for. They are being set up for it. By following 

these false prophets, they are being 

set up for the Antichrist. They are waiting 

for Antichrist; we are waiting for Christ. 

They are about the past; we, the remnant 

though we are, are about the future. They are 

about error—false doctrine; we are about 

the truth. They are about a compromised 

gospel; we are about a straight Gospel. 

They are about a compromised standard of 

morality; we are about an uncompromised 

scriptural standard of morality. 

Remember, we are far better off—infinitely 

better off, being part of something 

that is growing slowly than being a part of 

something that is dying quickly. Once she 

dies, who cares? 

Who among us has lost a night’s sleep 

over what has happened to the Crystal Cathedral? 

Who among us lost a night’s sleep 

when Jim and Tammy went down the tubes? 

Of course not; it is not worth crying over! 

That is the past, we have to think about the 

future. Ezekiel 24 is the future—what the 

next ten or so years are going to be like. 

God bless, 

James Jacob Prasch ††† 

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10 Moriel Quarterly • June 2012

David Royle 

Moriel South Africa 

Dear Friends 

Greetings in Jesus, 

Such a lot to report this month so lets 

crack on with family news. 

First of all thank you for those who supported 

in prayer the birth of Hannah and 

Ethan. Both came through on the same day 

just two hours apart and we congratulate 

Liz and Anthony and Erin and Aaron on the 

birth of our beautiful Grandchildren. 

Behind the births though was a fair 

amount of stress, if you recall Ethan was 

supposed to have Edwards syndrome and 

we put this out on a prayer request. God 

was wonderful and the next tests showed 

no sign and we God all the glory. Liz a 

year earlier had the trauma of losing a baby 

which lay heavy on both Anthony and Liz 

and so you can imagine the upset when far 

into the pregnancy the midwife could not 

find a heart beat. But again the next time 

after much prayer the little one was fine. 

It was great to be in the UK at the time 

of the births and celebrate Gods goodness 

to all of us. 

All the above happened on our UK 

deputisation so it was a frantic time. I would 

like to take this opportunity to thank all our 

hosts on this visit for their kindness and understanding 

and also say sorry to people we 

could not visit due to the impending births. 

We came back to South Africa with DR 

Calvin Smith who is a long term friend 

of Moriel and our ministry so we hit the 

ground running so to speak with a conference 

in Hermanus and a Sunday at Garden 

city, Somerset West. Thank you to Graham 

and Pastor Thomas and to Andre from 

Christ Church Hermanus for helping s arrange 

Calvins itinerary. 

While here Calvin also did an article on 

our new mission here in the Western Cape as 

well as providing council concerning future 

plans, these will be reported on a later date. 

While away the children did fine under 

the supervision of Chris and a back up team 

of local friends who we are very grateful 

for. School work went ahead as normal 

and the childrens health remained stable. 

S’phiwe though remains a concern to us 

and we have being trying to get his issues 

sorted with our pediatrician although things 

are not advancing in this respect as much as 

we would like. 

Australia Tour & Manila mission 

Trip 

“Dear Aussie friends 

I really wanted to be with you this May 

and set about planning an itinerary that 

would take me to see the babes at the mission 

in the Philippines and then a tour that 

would take me to see beloved friends in 

Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Rockhampton 

and the Sunshine coast. I really wanted 

to share with you from Gods word and the 

vision we have for the Western Cape. However 

at this last minute we have been hindered 

in our attempt. 

Firstly to my ongoing health issues. My 

Neuropathy is getting worse and unless I 

have a strict and specific diet I struggle to 

keep it under control. This is difficult to do 

while traveling. The affect on my eyesight 

is also a factor to this. 

Secondly as you know our dear brother 

and friend Nigel (from Moriel New Zealand) 

went to be with the Lord recently. 

This has meant that Marg has had real pressure 

upon her sorting out New Zealands 

change in admin, running two offices etc. 

After talking to Marg we came to the consensus 

that if we are going to do this for 

the Lord, it must be done well and in good 

order and take into consideration all the issues 

at hand and so after much though and 

prayer we decided to hold back the tour for 

a little while more. 

I do hope you understand and that you 

will continue to uphold us in prayer over 

the next few months in the hope that God 

will shine His face upon us in our situations. 

Again I am so disappointed as I do 

not like to cancel anything in ministry, but 

at the same time I have the Lords peace this 

is the right thing to do. 

Acts 2: 42 – 47 

TRUE FELLOWSHIP 

“And they continued steadfastly in the 

apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in 

the breaking of bread and the prayers. 

And fear came upon every soul: 

and many wonders and signs were 

done through the apostles. And all 

that believed were together, and had 

all things common; and they sold their 

possessions and goods, and parted 

them to all, according as any man 

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had need. And day by day, continuing 

steadfastly with one accord in the 

temple, and breaking bread at home, 

they took their food with gladness and 

singleness of heart, praising God, and 

having favor with all the people. And 

the Lord added to them day by day 

those that were saved.” 

I was speaking to someone a while ago, 

and they were reminiscing about a church 

many years back. They said that at this 

particular church the fellowship was sweet 

like nothing they have experienced before 

or since. In fact over the last few years, I’ve 

spoken to quite a few people who have told 

me the same thing. In fact I, myself, as a 

youth leader in the late 70’s, early 80’s, have 

memories which are so sweet; of fellowship 

with the crowd I was involved with then. 

So is fellowship consigned to the past? 

Does it only exist in the nostalgic memories 

of a few? Or is there a possibility that fellowship 

can be lived and experienced among 

believers today? Despite what we see so 

often in our churches, despite the apparent 

shallowness of some of our relationships, I 

believe fellowship is a distinct possibility for 

you and I, if we endeavour to do two things. 

Firstly – We fellowship to the depth and 

breadth which the New and Old Testaments 

indicate. 

Secondly – We see fellowship as what it 

really is; something which needs to be constantly 

worked at. I don’t know about you 

but I carry baggage that hinders my fellowship; 

stuff that I need to let go of if I desire 

to grow in this area. 

The text for today is probably the text 

that most people would come up with when 

thinking about New Testament fellowship 

and that’s why I chose it. For here we see 

a group of believers who shared everything 

together in those early days straight 

after Pentecost. But today I am not going 

to exegete that text fully because when one 

looks at the original Greek and Hebrew 

texts concerning the whole area of fellowship, 

we begin to see a lot deeper into what 

God desires for us. For example, the word 

‘fellow’ in the Hebrew has four uses. 

It can just mean man or ‘ish’. ‘Isha’ is the 

feminine for woman. It’s a generic term. 

Another is ‘Reya’, an associate, an acquaintance. 

Another is ‘Amiyth,’ which means a 

comrade, a closer word than ‘Reya.’ 

And finally there is ‘Kawbare,’ which 

literally means ‘to be knitted together’ or 

intermeshed. 

When we look at the Greek we get an 

even more in depth look, because it suggests 

what we must do or be with our fellows. 

In Ephesians 2: 19 it says we must be 

‘fellow citizens’ or ‘Soompolytare’. In other 

words a native of the same town or faith. 

David Royle 

In John 11: 16 we are called ‘fellow disciples’ 

or ‘Soomathetes’. In other words a 

co-learner under the same master. 

In Ephesians 3: 6 Paul says we are ‘fellow 

heirs’ in Christ, in other words we participate 

in a common inheritance. ‘Soongklayronomos.’ 

We are also fellow members 

of the body, fellow partakers of the promise. 

In 1 Thessalonians 3: 2 we are called 

‘fellow labourers,’ or ‘helpers.’ It’s the 

same Greek word ‘Soonergos,’ a companion 

in labor. 

In Romans 16: 7 we are called ‘fellow 

prisoners,’ ‘Soonaheekmalotos,’ a co-capture 

in Christ or for Christ. 

In Colossians 1: 7 we are to be found as 

fellow servants, ‘Soondoulos’, co ministers 

with the same Master. 

Then in Philemon verse 2 the word suggests 

‘fellow soldier,’ ‘Soostiateotare,’ a 

companion in battle. 

So when we look just at the depth in the 

way scripture suggests how you and I are to 

interrelate in Christ, we see that even here, 

sometimes what we know as ‘church’ pales 

into insignificance. But there is one more 

‘fellow’ which even makes these fall short 

of what I believe God really desires and 

that ‘fellow’ is ‘fellow-ship.’ In the Hebrew 

we have several words; 

The first is, ‘Tesoometh’ or to be pledged 

together. Secondly we have ‘Yad’ which 

means an ‘open hand’ quite literally, and 

can be used to both grasp and also smack 

if necessary. Thirdly is ‘Kawbar,’ similar 

to ‘Kawbare’ and it literally means to ‘be 

fascinated’ by one another. 

In the Greek it is just as fascinating. Firstly, 

‘Soongkoynoneho,’ to share company 

with someone. Secondly, ‘Metoche’ which 

means ‘fellowship’, but not at a particularly 

deep level. But thirdly we have that word 

for fellowship, mentioned not just in Acts 

2; but in many places. It is a word that lies 

at the heart of all relationships – ‘Koinonia.’ 

Literally to have everything in common. 

So let’s look at three points in this word 

study, which we will cover over three sermons. 

Firstly What is Koinonia? How 

could it affect us? That is this session. Secondly 

Who and what we have Koinonia 

with and who we don’t. We will look at this 

in the next session. Thirdly Obstacles to 

Koinonia, which will be our final session. 

Koinonia, according to Vine is “Communion, 

fellowship, sharing in common, that 

which the outcome of fellowship, a contribution.” 

When we look, at our picture of 

the early church in the book of Acts we do 

indeed see all these things occurring. Five 

in particular which to me stand out significantly 

in our text are; 

In verse 44 they were together! It is impossible 

to have fellowship unless we meet 

as an extended family and as Hebrews 

10: 25 says “all the more as you see the day 

approaching.” It upsets me terribly when 

I see the amount of Christians out there, 

keeping away from a local church because 

of heavy shepherding churches and the 

abuses of the word of faith movement and 

other heresies. I understand, I sympathise, 

even empathise BUT someone once said 

and I agree, ‘The answer to bad church is 

not no church, but good church.’ But these 

believers were together. 

Again in verse 44, they had all things 

in common. Now let me make a point here 

because this is where quite a few churches 

go wrong. You see when we look at other 

contemporary groups of the time, we see 

some living lifestyles in a similar way to 

communes. The Qumran documents show 

clearly that the Essenes and the Qumran 

sects lived in a similar fashion; being together 

and having all things in common. In 

Acts 4: 32 – 5: 11 though, it clearly shows 

that the selling of possessions was voluntary, 

and the fact that the Christians moved 

from house to house in verse 46 shows that 

the Christians were distinct from the communes 

from the time. In fact what it does 

mean is that to hold together and have 

things together does not mean you join a 

Kibbutz or a commune; what it does mean 

is that even though you may own land, 

things, finances, a cricket bat, lawn mower 

– whatever, we can make them available 

to the community of believers if there is a 

need. In other words if you have 2 coats, 

food, whatever you should share with who 

ever has none. 600 years ago the welfare 

system of society was ‘The Church’. Justine 

the Apostate, enemy of the Church, said 

“These followers of Christ, they not only 

look after their own poor, they look after 

ours as well.” When we look at some of the 

Great welfare movements of all time with 

people such as Shaftsbury, Muller, Barnado 

etc, we see that it was always the Christian 

at the forefront. We see that the Church 

played a prominent role. In the UK after 

the 1 st and 2 nd world wars, we see a Paternal 

state taking the place of the Church. And 

now as these systems become so expensive 

to maintain and institutionalize, we see the 

failure of the state and people untouched 

and adrift in poverty. In our society, times 

are economically difficult and I believe 

once again the fellowship of believers must 

fill the GAP as we see brothers and sisters 

in terrible need, children orphaned, as we 

see an HIV pandemic shattering lives and 

families. We must respond in Christ’s love. 

Verse 46 says they had one mind, one 

accord, in the temple. Their act of worship 

was an act of unity, and this overflowed into 

their very houses because… It goes on to 

say they broke bread from house to house, 

even taking their meals together with glad- 


ness and sincerity of heart; praising God 

and having favour with all the people. So 

their ‘Koinonia’ involved communion, fellowship, 

a sharing in common and, what 

an outcome their fellowship had with gladness, 

praise, joy and sincerity of heart! Let 

me ask, when was the last time you had fellowship 

of this quality! Let me ask again, is 

our fellowship a present day reality? Or is 

it confined to the limitations of nostalgia? 

But like I said earlier, there are two things 

which we need to understand. A) That we 

must fellowship to the breadth and depth 

of the biblical term. B) And also we must 

understand then, that if we claim to be in 

Christ Jesus then we are fellows – together. 

We are fellow citizens in Christ, fellow 

disciples in Christ, fellow heirs in Christ, fellow 

labourers in Christ, fellow prisoners in 

Christ, fellow servants in Christ, fellow soldiers 

in Christ. And in Christ as we come to 

understand these terms, we must work at it. 

Koinonia does not happen overnight but 

it begins to happen when we worship together, 

when we work together, when we 

eat together, when we have fun together, 

when we show hospitality to one another. 

Then, when we begin to trust, then we begin 

to heal from our past mistrusts, then we 

stop judging according to our misconceptions, 

then we begin to have Koinonia. 

Let me ask; 

In Christ do you desire to work at Koinonia? 

Are you fed up of a pale imitation? 

Do you long for the real thing? 

Next time we will look at “Koinonia with 

who?” 

God Bless, 

Dave Royle 

Jacob’s Far East Tour 

• Singapore - June 18 through June 24 

• Australia - June 25 through July 15 

• New Zealand - July 17 through July 29 

• Contact your local Moriel office (Or 

Jeffrey or Esther in Singapore) for 

where Jacob will be speaking. 

Jacob Prasch 

PERTINENT “ ” 

Rick Warren, 

Chrislam and the Yale 

University Covenant 

Rick Warren has joined anti Israel activist 

Colin Chapman, heretical Emergent church 

guru Brian Maclaren, apostate positive 

thinking church marketing demagogue of 

the now bankrupt Chrystal Cathedral Robert 

Shuller, and Korean advocate of a hybred of 

Christinity and mystical Buddhism Yongee 

Cho as a signatory of the Yale Chrislam document 

identifying YHWH the God of Israel 

and the Judeo Christian scriptures with the 

ancient Nabaten moon god allah of Islam. 

I NOW HAVE THE OFFICIAL YALE 

UNIVERSITY COVENANT SIGNED BY 

RICK WARREN. This is proof positive that 

he is a signed partner in promoting the Covenant 

between Islam and our Jehovah God 

as one God now named “Chrislam”. I’m 

simply printing for you the entire covenant 

and also coping his and other name from 

this document. Below is the exact list directly 

from the web page itself. Please note 

the underlined names mentioned here, and 

on the radio program: Robert Schuller, Rick 

Warren, Brian D. McLaren an David Yonggi 

Cho. Check the list for other names you 

might be familiar with. There are hubdreds 

of ministers thet may include your Pastor or 

leaders in your denominations. Check the 

large list of names on this offocial list from 

Yale. www.yale.edu/faith/acw/acw.htm [1] 

While thousands of Arabs and former 

Islamic believers are coming to Christ and 

experiencing forgiveness and the “New 

Birth” by the Cross, American Apostate 

ministers are turning to Chrislam. Say 

what you please, but the Bible has made it 

plain, “seeing they crucify to themselves 

the Son Of God afresh and put Him to an 

open shame.” (Hebrews 6:6b) This crowd, 

unless they repent with great sorrow will 

spend eternity in a “devil’s hell.” 

• Rev. Colin Chapman, Former Lecturer in Islamic 

Studies, Near East School of Theology, Beirut, 

Lebanon, and author of Whose Promised Land? 

• Ellen T. Charry, Assoc. Professor of Systematic 

Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary 

• David Yonggi Cho, Founder and Senior Pastor 

of Yoido Full Gospel Church, Seoul, Korea 

• Hyung Kyun Chung, Associate Professor of 

Ecumenical Studies, Union Theological Seminary 

in New York 

• Rev. Richard Cizik, Vice President of Governmental 

Affairs, National Association of Evangelicals 

• Elsie McKee, Archibald Alexander Professor 

of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship, 

Princeton Theological Seminary 

• Scot McKnight, Karl A. Olsson Professor in Reli- 

Pertinent Factoid 

gious Studies, North Park University, Chicago, IL 

• Brian D. McLaren, Author, Speaker, Activist 

• C. Edward McVaney, Retired Chairman, CEO 

and President, J.D. Edwards and Company 

• Kathleen E. McVey, J. Ross Stevenson Professor 

of Early and Eastern Church History, Princeton 

Theological Seminary 

• Warren C. Sawyer, President and CEO, The 

Caleb Foundation, Swampscott, MA 

• Rev. Dr. Christian Scharen, Director, Faith as 

a Way of Life Program, Yale Center for Faith 

& Culture 

• Rev. Dr. Robert Schuller, Founder, Crystal Cathedral 

and Hour of Power 

• Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl 

Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School 

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Stillman Professor 

of Roman Catholic Studies, Harvard Divinity 

School 

• Charlotte R. Ward, Associate Professor of 

Physics, Emerita, Auburn University and Life 

Deacon, Auburn First Baptist Church 

• Charles H. Warnock III, Senior Pastor, Chatham 

Baptist Church, Chatham, VA 

• Rick Warren, Founder and Senior Pastor, Saddleback 

Church, and The Purpose Driven Life, 

Lake Forest, CA 

• Very Rev. Debra Warwick-Sabino, Rector, 

Grace Episcopal Church, Fairfield, CA 

• Mark R. Wenger, Director of Pastoral Studies, 

Lancaster Eastern Mennonite Seminary P.O., 

Lancaster, PA 

Yale Center for Faith and Culture 

IN THE NAME OF THE INFINITE- 

LY GOOD GOD WHOM WE SHOULD 

LOVE WITH ALL OUR BEING. This 

Title and document is word for word from 

the following Website:http://www.yale. 

edu/faith/acw/acw.htm [1] 

Preamble 

As members of the worldwide Christian 

community, we were deeply encouraged 

and challenged by the recent historic 

open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim 

scholars, clerics, and intellectuals from 

around the world. A Common Word Between 

Us and You identifies some core 

common ground between Christianity and 

Islam which lies at the heart of our respective 

faiths as well as at the heart of the 

most ancient Abrahamic faith, Judaism. 

Jesus Christ’s call to love God and neighbor 

was rooted in the divine revelation to 

the people of Israel embodied in the Torah 

(Deuteronomy 6:5; Leviticus 19:18). We 

receive the open letter as a Muslim hand 

of conviviality and cooperation extended to 

Christians worldwide. In this response we 

extend our own Christian hand in return, so 

that together with all other human beings 

we may live in peace and justice as we seek 

to love God and our neighbors. 

Muslims and Christians have not always 

shaken hands in friendship; their relations 

have sometimes been tense, even characterized 

by outright hostility. Since Jesus 

Christ says, “First take the log out your own 


Pertinent Factoid – Continued 

eye, and then you will see clearly to take 

the speck out of your neighbor’s eye” (Matthew 

7:5), we want to begin by acknowledging 

that in the past (e.g. in the Crusades) 

and in the present (e.g. in excesses of the 

“war on terror”) many Christians have been 

guilty of sinning against our Muslim neighbors. 

Before we “shake your hand” in responding 

to your letter, we ask forgiveness 

of the All-Merciful One and of the Muslim 

community around the world. 

Religious Peace—World Peace 

“Muslims and Christians together make 

up well over half of the world’s population. 

Without peace and justice between these 

two religious communities, there can be no 

meaningful peace in the world.” We share 

the sentiment of the Muslim signatories expressed 

in these opening lines of their open 

letter. Peaceful relations between Muslims 

and Christians stand as one of the central 

challenges of this century, and perhaps of 

the whole present epoch. Though tensions, 

conflicts, and even wars in which Christians 

and Muslims stand against each other 

are not primarily religious in character, they 

possess an undeniable religious dimension. 

If we can achieve religious peace between 

these two religious communities, peace in 

the world will clearly be easier to attain. It 

is therefore no exaggeration to say, as you 

have in A Common Word Between Us and 

You, that “the future of the world depends 

on peace between Muslims and Christians.” 

Common Ground 

What is so extraordinary about A Common 

Word Between Us and You is not that its 

signatories recognize the critical character 

of the present moment in relations between 

Muslims and Christians. It is rather a deep 

insight and courage with which they have 

identified the common ground between the 

Muslim and Christian religious communities. 

What is common between us lies not 

in something marginal nor in something 

merely important to each. It lies, rather, in 

something absolutely central to both: love 

of God and loveof neighbor. Surprisingly 

for many Christians, your letter considers 

the dual command of love to be the foundational 

principle not just of the Christian 

faith, but of Islam as well. That so much 

common ground exists – common ground 

in some of the fundamentals of faith – gives 

hope that undeniable differences and even 

the very real external pressures that bear 

down upon us can not overshadow the common 

ground upon which we stand together. 

That this common ground consists in love 

of God and ofneighbor gives hope that deep 

cooperation between us can be a hallmark of 

the relations between our two communities. 

Love of God 

We applaud that A Common Word Between 

Us and You stresses so insistently 

the unique devotion to one God, indeed the 

love of God, as the primary duty of every 

believer. God alone rightly commands our 

ultimate allegiance. When anyone or anything 

besides God commands our ultimate 

allegiance – a ruler, a nation, economic 

progress, or anything else – we end up 

serving idols and inevitably get mired in 

deep and deadly conflicts. 

We find it equally heartening that the 

God whom we should love above all things 

is described as being Love. In the Muslim 

tradition, God, “the Lord of the worlds,” is 

“The Infinitely Good and All-Merciful.” 

And the New Testament states clearly that 

“God is love” (1 John 4:8). Since God’s 

goodness is infinite and not bound by anything, 

God “makes his sun rise on the evil 

and the good, and sends rain on the righteous 

and the unrighteous,” according to 

the words of Jesus Christ recorded in the 

Gospel (Matthew 5:45). 

For Christians, humanity’s love of God 

and God’s love of humanity are intimately 

linked. As we read in the New Testament: 

“We love because he [God] first loved us” 

(1 John 4:19). Our love of God springs from 

and is nourished by God’s love for us. It 

cannot be otherwise, since the Creator who 

has power over all things is infinitely good. 

Love of Neighbor 

We find deep affinities with our own 

Christian faith when A Common Word Between 

Us and You insists that love is the 

pinnacle of our duties toward our neighbors. 

“None of you has faith until you love 

for your neighbor what you love for yourself,” 

the Prophet Muhammad said. In the 

New Testament we similarly read, “whoever 

does not love [the neighbor] does not 

know God” (1 John 4:8) and “whoever 

does not love his brother whom he has seen 

cannot love God whom he has not seen” 

(1 John 4:20). God is love, and our highest 

calling as human beings is to imitate the 

One whom we worship. 

We applaud when you state that “justice 

and freedom of religion are a crucial part” 

of the love of neighbor. When justice is 

lacking, neither love of God nor love of the 

neighbor can be present. When freedom to 

worship God according to one’s conscience 

is curtailed, God is dishonored, the neighbor 

oppressed, and neither God nor neighbor 

is loved. 

Since Muslims seek to love their Christian 

neighbors, they are not against them, 

the document encouragingly states. Instead, 

Muslims are with them. As Christians we 

resonate deeply with this sentiment. Our 

faith teaches that we must be with our 

neighbors – indeed, that we must act in their 

favor – even when our neighbors turn out to 

be our enemies. “But I say unto you,” says 

Jesus Christ, “Love your enemies and pray 

for those who persecute you, so that you 

may be children of your Father in heaven; 

for he makes his sun rise on the evil and 

on the good” (Matthew 5:44-45). Our love, 

Jesus Christ says, must imitate the love of 

the infinitely good Creator; our love must 

be as unconditional as is God’s—extending 

to brothers, sisters, neighbors, and even 

enemies. At the end of his life, Jesus Christ 

himself prayed for his enemies: “Forgive 

them; for they do not know what they are 

doing” (Luke 23:34). 

The Prophet Muhammad did similarly 

when he was violently rejected and stoned 

by the people of Ta’if. He is known to have 

said, “The most virtuous behavior is to engage 

those who sever relations, to give to 

those who withhold from you, and to forgive 

those who wrong you.” (It is perhaps 

significant that after the Prophet Muhammad 

was driven out of Ta’if, it was the 

Christian slave ‘Addas who went out to 

Muhammad, brought him food, kissed him, 

and embraced him.) 

The Task Before Us 

“Let this common ground” – the dual 

common ground of love of God and of 

neighbor – “be the basis of all future interfaith 

dialogue between us,” your courageous 

letter urges. Indeed, in the generosity 

with which the letter is written you embody 

what you call for. We most heartily agree. 

Abandoning all “hatred and strife,” we must 

engage in interfaith dialogue as those who 

seek each other’s good, for the one God unceasingly 

seeks our good. Indeed, together 

with you we believe that we need to move 

beyond “a polite ecumenical dialogue between 

selected religious leaders” and work 

diligently together to reshape relations 

between our communities and our nations 

so that they genuinely reflect our common 

love for God and for one another. 

Given the deep fissures in the relations 

between Christians and Muslims today, the 

task before us is daunting. And the stakes 

are great. The future of the world depends 

on our ability as Christians and Muslims to 

live together in peace. If we fail to make every 

effort to make peace and come together 

in harmony you correctly remind us that 

“our eternal souls” are at stake as well. 

We are persuaded that our next step 

should be for our leaders at every level to 

meet together and begin the earnest work of 

determining how God would have us fulfill 

the requirement that we love God and one 

another. It is with humility and hope that 

we receive your generous letter, and we 

commit ourselves to labor together in heart, 

soul, mind and strength for the objectives 

you so appropriately propose. 


Your Letters and 

Comments 

AMERICAN LETTERS 

QUESTION: 

Do Jews Really Believe That Lileth Is A 

Notorious Demon ? 

REPLY: 

Thank you for your question. 

Lilith is listed as an animal Isaiah 34 and 

as a female monster in the Dead Sea scrolls 

“Songs of the Sage”. 

The Babylonian Talmud identifies Lilith 

with Akkadian and Babylonian female demons. 

Mystical Jews in the Middle Age identified 

Lillith as a female demon who was a wife 

of Adam older than Eve who was not made 

from Adam’s rib, probably based on Jewish 

reinterpretations of Babylonian gnostic 

and mystical traditions. There may be references 

to Lilith in the Epic of Gilgemesh, 

etc. but this is disputed by scholars. 

Chassidic Jews who are kabbalists may 

believe in Lilith as a she devil. Scripturally 

however demons are mere fallen angels and 

are sexless spiritual bodies, but angels appear 

In human form as men not as women. 

Most Jews who have even heard of Lilith 

(many and in fact probably most have 

not) regard it as a medieval myth adopted 

from an older superstition of ancient Babylonian 

Jewish origin ostensibly drawn 

from the text Isaiah. Except by kabbalists, 

Lilith is usually seen as a mythologized reinterpretation 

of a creature from Isaiah 34 

or simply as a myth akin to the Golum of 

Prague (the Jewish equivalent of Frankenstein’s 

monster in Kaballah). The only Jews 

who believe in Lilith today are kabbalistic 

mystics and gnostics. Most find it a joke. 

I trust this helps.Jacob. 

QUESTION: 

Mark M. Writes: 

I am a Christian apologist deeply involved 

in studying the Yoma 39 passage 

and such. I have an important question to 

ask Jacob Prasch. It is a question I cannot 

seem to get clear answers about. 

What are the detailed meanings of not 

just the scarlet cord not turning white any 

more (we know what that means) but also 

details and significance of the references to 

the lot not coming up in the right hand, the 

bread being cursed and the fire having to be 

continuously stoked? 

No one addresses these and they are very 

powerful testimonies! 

God bless you, Mark M. 

Letters & Comments 

REPLY: 

Blessings in Yeshua Mark and thank you 

for your question. I am unable to elaborate 

in depth by e-mail but I can respond with 

the essentials. 

I take it this is what you are referring 

to (from YOMA shloshim v’tesha – alef 

v’ beht) and that you are requesting a/the 

Messianic interpretation: 

YOMA 39 

Our Rabbis taught, ‘During the forty 

years that Shimon HaTzaddik was Kohen 

Gadol the lot (for the scapegoat) always 

fell on the right side, from then on, sometimes 

on the right and sometimes on the 

left. The tongue of gold (a red string tied 

to the horns of the scapegoat) became 

white, from then on sometimes it became 

white and sometimes not. The western 

lamp remained lit (all night), from then on 

sometimes it remained lit and sometimes it 

went out. The fire on the alter burnt strong 

enough that the priests did not have to bring 

wood except for the two required portions 

of wood in order to perform the mitzvah. 

From then on at times it was strong and 

at times it was not, forcing the priests to 

bring wood the whole day long. There was 

a special blessing in the Omer offering; 

the two loaves of bread (for Shevous) and 

the (weekly) bread offerings so that any 

priest that received an olive’s worth was 

full. They would eat and leave over. From 

then on there was a curse in the omer, the 

two breads, and the bread offerings and the 

priests did not get even an olive so that the 

modest priests refused to partake of it.” 

It is best to recall that portions of the 

Mishneh, Josephus, and the Pirque Avot 

enhance our understanding of Yoma 39 alef 

v’ beht, but I mention this only briefly. 

As you are aware, both Daniel 9 and 

Yeshua in the Olivet Discourse (Matt. 24, 

Luke 21, etc.) predict prophetically that 

following the Messiah’s death and rejection 

the second temple would be destroyed. 

Thus counting from 70 AD/CE backward to 

the forty years stated in YOMA brings us to 

the time of Yeshua’s earthly ministry. A series 

of negative omens transpired (more are 

recorded in Josephus’ “Wars of The Jews” 

but we are only dealing with YOMA): 

1 st Of the two lots “For Adonai” and 

“For azazel,” it was regarded as divine 

favor if “For Adonai” came to the High 

Priest’s Right Hand. In Psalm 118:15 and 

Psalm 18:35 we read about the Lord giving 

salvation and victory by His Right Hand as 

in the Book of Acts – The Right Hand of Ha 

Shem is a metaphor for the Messiah Yeshua. 

In statistical math by any probability theorem, 

with enough random selections (as 

in tossing a coin for heads or tails enough 

times) you will eventually get an even distribution. 

The calculated odds of getting 40 

consecutive and uninterrupted “azazels” in 

the right hand are statistically nil says finite 

mathematicians; it just can’t happen 

by random selection. The probability is 

too statistically remote without an external 

causative. Moreover the Hebrew scriptures 

state that every decision of the lot is directed 

by divine providence (Proverbs 16:33). 

So scripture teaches (and even talmudic 

Judaism agrees) that if “Adonai” did not 

come to the Right Hand for forty years in a 

row, God caused it. 

Thus there were forty years of God’s 

disfavor in a row between the ministry of 

Yeshua and the prophetically predicted destruction 

of the second temple as per Daniel 

chapter 9 (which the rabbinic literatures 

pronounces a curse on reading because “the 

time of the Messiah’s coming is foretold in 

it”; but again I only mention this in passing). 

2 nd The ‘Golden Tongue’ (Scarlet Cord) 

did not turn white – but you have a handle 

on the meaning of this already so I also 

mention it only briefly in passing 

3 rd The Western Menorah ( Lamp )would 

not illuminate. Psalm 119:105 ‘The Word 

Is a Lamp Unto My Feet’ (as in Revelation 

chapter 1 etc.). The white tunic of the high 

priest from the Day of Atonement was in 

strips (see ref. Alfred Edershjeim), used as 

a wick for the giant golden lamp (that was 

hollow inside where its fuel – the “Shemen 

Zayit,” was kept as in a fuel tank and topped 

up on Simcha Torah. The Lamp again being 

a figure of the Word of God. Once Messiah 

was rejected, the Word of God no longer 

gave illumination to Israel, which directly 

relates to the corrupt priesthood in the post 

Hasmonean period as the high priests’ garments 

were defiled in God’s sight. The 

Levitical clergy could no longer properly 

teach the people after the time of Yeshua. 

This also relates to your question about 

the wood; that is the fire being continually 

stoked. Normally fig, walnut, and/ or pine 

wood would be used. If the Menoreh went 

out it would need to be burning wood from 

the altar to reignite it. But because the altar 

sacrifices were no longer accepted by Ha 

Shem after Yeshua’s rejection, the lamp 

would not stay lit. 

4 th The Omer rotted. This indirectly relates 

to the Seferit Ha Omer in the Spring 

(as in Lag B’Omer) in order to understand 

the meaning of the Omer as the ancient Hebrews 

understood it, which exactly matches 

the New Testament view. 

The counting of the Omer from Pesach 

to Shavuoth (49 days) according to rabbinic 

history in HaSefer HaChinuk on the 

6th of SDivan the Torah was given. The 49 

days the manna fell had to do with waiting 

for the Torah, the mannah itself in some 

sense being figurative of the Word of God 


Letters & Comments 

(the Christian version “Lehen Hokenu Tein 

Lanu Hayom – “Give Us This Day Our 

Daily Bread”). In both Testaments it has an 

ambiguous meaning of temporal and spiritual 

daily food. 

In John 6 Yeshua, who is the Word of 

God made flesh (John 1:14), that is logos 

become sarx in Greek or Dvar/ Mamra become 

Basar in Hebrew/ Aramaic; identifies 

Himself as the meaning of the Mannah that 

came down from heaven. It is a symbol of 

Him as the Word made flesh that must be 

eaten (believed). I cannot explain this now 

as it would take too long but it must not 

be confused with the cannibalistic misinterpretation 

of the Roman Catholic Eucharist. 

The omer is a unit of measurement of 

the Manna. So to answer your question we 

must look to where in Torah the Omer rots. 

That is in Exodus 16, read in light of John 6. 

In Exod. 16 when the omer (manna) is 

not eaten, it rots and is infected by worms 

and it stinks. Once the Messiah, ‘the Bread 

from Heaven’ in John 6, was rejected and 

not eaten, the Word of God was left by God 

to rot and be eaten by worms and turn to 

something stinking; the Talmud devoured 

the Torah and the false religion of the rabbis 

came instead. The sacrificial worship of 

God’s people were to be a pleasing aroma 

to Ha Shem according to Torah (Genesis 

8:21, Exodus 29:18, Numbers 29:2). Once 

the Messiah was rejected and the temple 

was to be destroyed there would be no 

more sacrifices of any kind. Mitzvot were 

substituted by Rabbi Yochannan Ben Zakai 

at the Council of Yavne, etc. Instead 

of a soothing aroma, the false, unscriptural 

talmudic Judaism of the rabbis became a 

stinking offense to the anthropomorphic 

nostrils of God. 

There is of course much more to these 

matters than time permits me to explain, 

but you have the concise version in reply 

to your question. I hope it assists your studies 

in Yeshua’s wonderful service. As you 

feel strongly about the importance of these 

matters (and we do not disagree) we will 

post your question and the reply on our 

website. 

In Jesus, 

Jacob Prasch 

QUESTION: 

Dear Elon, 

With respect, you are using diversionary 

tactics. 

My email was not about whether or not 

Richard Harvey should be speaking at 

Christ at the Checkpoint. 

It was about whether or not the language 

used by Jacob Prasch is appropriate for any 

believer to use about anyone, and particularly 

about another believer. I regard it as 

wrong under any circumstances, including 

the present situation. 

In addition, as I stated, Jacob has a long 

history of using unacceptable language. I 

can easily find numerous examples, some 

even worse than this one. The particular instance 

is irrelevant. 

I am sure that tensions are running high 

in Israel over this conference, and I fully 

understand that. There is concern in the 

UK as well. I hope I made my views on 

it clear. But please try to take a detatched 

attitude and consider whether using harsh 

and insulting language is compatible with 

the teaching of the Bible. I would suggest 

that it is not, and I would also suggest that 

virtually every theologian and believer who 

has ever lived would share this view. 

Kind regards, 

David Miller 

REPLY: 

Dear Brother David, 

Thank you for your e-mail. I understand 

the motivation behind it. ButI believe that 

you are misunderstanding the issue. If the 

CATC conference were a forum genuinely 

discussing theological issues in mutual respect 

regard to the issues involved that is 

one thing. But this event is far from that, by 

all accounts it is really a thinly disguised 

hate fest run by a sick band of antisemites 

who have long ago passed the point of being 

willing to listen. These people actually 

want to see us exterminated, our presence 

here in Israel eliminated, and our names 

blotted out from under heaven. If Richard 

wants to contact the ministers from the US 

and other places who are attending but have 

not yet made their mind up he could have 

done so by publishing an open letter and 

registered his protest. Or turn up outside 

the event with a bull horn and placards and 

protest (he could then taste the religious 

freedom that exists under Palestinian rule). 

But it is my feeling and that of others too, 

that by attending as an invited speaker what 

is the theological equivalent of a 1930’s 

Nuremburg rally, that he is actually providing 

the thin blanket of legitimacy that 

the organisers require, to this vile and villainous 

event by being the token Jew, and 

by doing so, he is giving those agencies in 

Israel and Jewish communities outside the 

Land who hate believers in Y’shua, a barge 

load of ammunition to support their claim 

that we are traitors and betrayers of Israel, 

and this quite apart from the fuel that is being 

given to those who hate us in the denominations 

of Western Christendom. 

I think that you also fail to understand 

the deep level of disgust and sense of betrayal 

that Richards actions have engendered 

in the Messianic Community. It’s all 

very well for him to sit in home in England, 

as yet the Palestinians have not questioned 

the UK’s right to exist. 

I feel that even if Richard’s attendance 

is arising from right motives, that it is ill 

informed, unwise and irresponsible and 

causes problems for which he will not directly 

have to answer, because he does not 

live here and will not have to suffer the fall 

out. It is not his business that will go under 

from boycotts and international pressure, 

not his job that will be lost, not his kids that 

will be blown up, by some terrorist thug 

whom the organizers of this conference effectively 

sanction, support and endorse. He 

really has gone too far and brings trouble 

on us all. If Richard is excoriated and ostracized 

by the Messianic Community, he has 

only himself to blame. 

Regards, 

Elon Moreh 

LETTER: Dear Brother Jacob Prasch.. 

I Am 66 Years old I Am A Christian and 

Love The Lord Jesus Christ. Here I will 

give you my testimony of how my Precious 

Lord touched me after my heart attack 10 

years ago and I had to get Open Heart Surgery 

Done. I was so sick, but my precious 

Lord brought me through it, and again 3 

years ago I had a stroke from bleeding on 

my brain. At first I did not know my date of 

birth, my phone number or street address 

or anything for well over a week. I did not 

know anything they felt I had to get realabilation 

done to help me get my memory 

back, and I could be in hospital for quite a 

few months. But I Cried Out to JESUS. 

He heard my prayers and a few days later 

my memory was all back. But even now I 

am shut in most of the time with other Disabilies. 

I Thank God For The Gift of Life. 

The doctor said I could have died after my 

stroke and the bleeding in my brain, but 

the great physician came to my bedside he 

touched me and removed that blood on my 

brain and I give him all the Glory. Honour. 

And Praise. I Covet Your Prayers I’m Having 

A Hard Time With My Health I struggle 

with chronic pain and mobility problems, 

and I live on very low income I covet your 

prayers. I’m very needy would you please 

donate to me some of your lovely messages 

on dvd please I sure would appreciate it. 

Thank you from the bottom of my heart I 

Love You In Jesus. 

I am shut in most of the time due to my 

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With Malice Toward None, And Love Toward 

All. 

Sister Mary 

In Newfoundland. 

PS. My Mailing Address 

Mary E. Davis. 

15 Hoyles Ave., St. John’s, Newfoundland 

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Thank You 


Elon and Hadass Moreh 

Moriel Israel 

Moriel Israel Report April 2012 

Passover has passed over and so the new 

year has begun (Ex. 12:2). In addition to 

the Gregorian New Year, Judaism has 3 

others. Rosh HaShana (before Yom Kippur), 

TuBishvat (the new year for trees), 

and 10 days before Pesach, which is the 

Biblical New Year. This gives us three 

times as many opportunities for Israelis to 

look back and see what a mess we made of 

the previous 12 months......! 

Some Personal News And Prayer Points 

“That’s The Beauty Of Gas” 

So ran the advertising slogan for British 

Gas in the 1970’s. However it’s not so 

beautiful at the moment. Recently we have 

seen the unilateral cancellation of our gas 

supply contract by the Egyptians. Perhaps 

they grew bored of replacing the piping that 

(their own home-grown) terrorists were 

constantly blowing up. Thankfully the 

LORD has supplied us with a large natural 

gas deposit just off Haifa which should 

be coming on stream soon. Because the 

gas supply agreement was part of the 1973 

Peace settlement, the dissolution of this 

contract does sound a warning bell that our 

uneasy peace with Egypt is rapidly evaporating. 

Egypt has been quietly building up 

its armed forces too for some time, so we 

have no illusions about whom Cairo’s Islamic 

government will want to test out their 

shiny new weapons on. 

The Body Here 

The past year has been a difficult one in 

the Body here in town. Many hard things 

have happened, the painful effects of which 

are still resonating, healing is coming, but is 

has been a hard time. This is not to say that 

good things have not happened too. Broken 

relationships have been healed, misunderstandings 

fixed, fellowship restored, where 

it was damaged, and so forth., but your intercession 

would be appreciated. Forgive 

me if I cannot be too specific. 

We would covet your prayers for God’s 

continued and growing work here. Ultimately, 

and I have said this before, we 

desperately need a major outpouring of the 

Spirit here. First on the congregation and 

next on the town. May the LORD have His 

way and build His church as He wants it. 

The Hebrew Side Of The Work 

We would covert also your prayers for 

the development of the Hebrew side of the 

Moriel web-site. There have been unforeseen 

delays with some things. Translation 

of materials (into any language but particularly 

back into an Israeli/Hebrew context) is 

more than just translating words sometimes 

major editing is involved, as the cultural assumptions 

of the original (English speaking 

Christian) audiences and Hebrew-speaking 

Israelis are totally different. Please pray 

that we make major progress in this area 

this year. 

Left Holding The Baby 

As part of assisting here, we have been 

giving some child care to 2 young couples 

in the congregation who just needed a little 

help while they become financially stabilised. 

People like young couples are the 

next generation of leaders/ministers here so 

we feel this is important. Employment is a 

difficult problem here in the North. People 

come here, cannot find good work, become 

discouraged and then leave for the centre 

of the country instead. One child has now 

reached the age where he can attend compulsory 

but subsidised kindergarten, so we 

are no longer needed for him, but the other 

is an 8 month old baby (who is quite a handful), 

whom we are still taking care of for at 

least 2 full days a week so his mother can 

work, as they cannot afford child care. We 

are glad to help, but it’s amazing how loud 

and demanding such a small creature can 

be. Not only that it leaks and smells funny 

at times. It’s more exhausting for Hadass, 

as I have no idea what to do with babies at 

all, particularly when nappies need changing. 

(Ignorance is bliss in this case, and I 

would rather it stayed that way.). Not only 

that blowing raspberries and talking in 

funny voices (to babies) comes much more 

naturally to her than me. 

Two Lessons From Passover 

Moses, Calling And Discouragement 

While I was thinking about the meaning 

of Passover, I was reflected on the life of 

Moses and it’s implications for us. Sometimes 

life’s difficulties can leave us totally 

crushed, and all sense of confidence is lost. 

Even those with a genuine calling of God 

(Elijah for example) can feel this way. In 

the case of Moses, we read in the pages of 

Exodus that even before the Burning Bush, 

there was a stirring, and a sense of calling 

on behalf of his people: 

“And it came to pass in those days, 

when Moses was grown, that he went 

out unto his brethren, and looked on 

their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian 

smiting an Hebrew, one of his 

brethren. And he looked this way and 

that way, and when he saw that there 

was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and 

hid him in the sand.” 

We must understand here that the Hebrews 

were, slaves who had no rights. 

Pharaoh had already exterminated many 

of the male Hebrew children like vermin 

when Moses was a baby. The Hebrew word 

translated “smite” above can carry the 

implication of killing. The Egyptian was 

giving the Hebrew a dose of GBH (grievous 

bodily harm) at least, or even in the 


Reigning from the throne of David in Israel, 

the Messiah king of Israel will bring 

blessing not just to the Jewish people only, 

but to all nations. 

The Mystery Of Inclusion 

In Ezekiel 47, we read that the stranger 

who settles in Israel was to be given the 

same inheritance as a native born Israelite. 

Compare this with Paul’s statement in 

Ephesians. 

“How that by revelation he made 

known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote 

afore in few words, Whereby, when ye 

read, ye may understand my knowledge 

in the mystery of Christ) Which 

in other ages was not made known unto 

the sons of men, as it is now revealed 

unto his holy apostles and prophets 

by the Spirit; That the Gentiles 

should be fellowheirs, and of the same 

body, and partakers of his promise 

in Christ by the gospel:” (Eph 3:4-6) 

Fellowheirs with whom? Paul answers 

this question in chapter 2: 

“Wherefore remember, that ye being in 

time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are 

called Uncircumcision by that which 

is called the Circumcision in the flesh 

made by hands; That at that time ye 

were without Christ, being aliens 

from the commonwealth of Israel, 

and strangers from the covenants of 

promise, having no hope, and without 

God in the world: But now in Christ 

Jesus ye who sometimes were far off 

are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 

For he is our peace, who hath made 

both one, and hath broken down the 

middle wall of partition between us;” 

(Eph.2:11-14). 

Paul is very explicit here in saying that the 

Gentiles who came to faith in the Messiah, 

are now part of the commonwealth of Israel, 

and one with believing Israelites. Believing 

Gentiles share in the covenants, common- 

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process of beating him to death. No one 

would have blinked at it if he had, -he was 

only a Hebrew slave.. Moses intervened to 

save his kinsman. 

Moses sense of calling is made explicit 

in Stephen’s inspired speech to the Sanhedrin 

in Acts 7. 

“And seeing one of them suffer wrong, 

he defended him, and avenged him 

that was oppressed, and smote the 

Egyptian: For he supposed his brethren 

would have understood how that 

God by his hand would deliver them: 

but they understood not.” 

After this everything went “pear-shaped” 

for Moses. His deed became known, he lost 

all privilege and position in Egypt, had to 

skip town, and then spent the next forty 

years in a tent in the middle of nowhere, 

working as an apprentice in the livestock 

trade. Interestingly enough. Because there 

was no one about when Moses killed the 

Egyptian, then either the man he saved or 

someone whom that man spoke to afterwards, 

“shopped” Moses to Pharaoh. He 

was let down by his own kinsfolk. His initial 

rejection, sadly, came from within the community 

of faith. This is not an uncommon 

occurrence biblically. After 40 years Moses 

former confidence in himself (this man who 

according to Acts 7:22, “was learned in all 

the wisdom of the Egyptians and mighty in 

word and deed”) had so evaporated, that he 

asked the LORD to send someone else instead 

to deliver Israel. Moses had lost not 

only his confidence but also sight of the 

calling of God that he perceived all those 

years ago. The LORD however had not. 

For all who in walking faithfully with 

the LORD have received setbacks this 

should encourage us. When Moses returned 

from the wilderness into Egypt, his ministry 

turned that nation upside down. Through 

Moses, God brought Egypt, the mightiest 

military power of its time to its knees. 

“Through Moses, God brought Egypt, 

the mightiest military power of its 

time, to its knees” 

Our Passover Seder 

Only a week or two ago we were celebrating 

Passover. Hadass and I made a seder in 

our own home with a few friends. We don’t 

really like to use the traditional haggadah, 

which contains a lot of Rabbinic material 

which seems more calculated to hide rather 

than reveal the Messiah. So our practice has 

been to read Exodus 12, explain the meaning 

of the elements, and then stand up and 

eat our lamb (not a whole one!), bitter herbs 

and matzah “Exodus style”, after which we 

have a time of singing and prayer and celebrate 

the Lord’s supper. Then we follow 

this with a main meal. 

Passover -Not Just a Jewish Event 

One of the common mistakes that we can 

make is to assume that Passover is purely a 

Jewish event. I know that this will sound 

strange, but let me explain. The Passover 

event in Exodus is replete with typology 

and foreshadowing, and one that we see in 

particular is a partial realisation of God’s 

promise to Abraham 

“Thy name shall no more be called 

Abram, but Abraham, for a father of 

many nations have I made thee” (See 

Gen.17:4-5). 

In the biblical accounts we see, -even in 

the catastrophic judgements of God upon 

the Land of Egypt that preceded the Exodus 

event, there was also an expression of 

God’s care and concern for the Egyptians 

and their welfare too. Moses specifically 

advised the Egyptians to bring their remaining 

livestock and field workers under cover. 

It was Pharaoh’s hardening of his heart, 

not God that made the destruction of 

Egypt inevitable. 

“Behold, to morrow about this time I 

will cause it to rain a very grievous 

hail, such as hath not been in Egypt 

since the foundation thereof even 

until now. Send therefore now, and 

gather thy cattle, and all that thou 

hast in the field; for upon every man 

and beast which shall be found in the 

field, and shall not be brought home, 

the hail shall come down upon them, 

and they shall die. He that feared the 

word of the LORD among the servants 

of Pharaoh made his servants 

and his cattle flee into the houses: 

And he that regarded not the word 

of the LORD left his servants and 

his cattle in the field.” (Ex.9:28-21) 

Some Egyptians responded to the word of 

the LORD through Moses, and later when 

the Hebrews left Egypt, it is written a “mixed 

multitude” left with them (see Exodus 

12:38). As the LORD proclaims His word 

and moves to redeem His people, He draws 

others from the nations to Himself as well. 

Throughout Old Testament history we 

see this pattern in foreshadow; Rahab, 

Ruth, Naaman the Syrian, Uzziah the Hittite 

and many others. At the dedication of 

the Temple (1Kgs.8:41-43) we see Solomon 

expecting that people from the nations 

would be drawn to fear the God of Israel. 

“As the LORD proclaims His word and 

moves to redeem His people, He draws 

others from the nations to Himself 

as well.” 

This idea is also scattered throughout 

the prophets, (particularly Isaiah) and the 

Psalms., for example 

• The Messiah is called a banner for 

the peoples to whom the Gentiles will 

seek (Isa.11:10) 

• “strangers will be joined to Israel and 

cleave to the house of Jacob” (Isa.14:1) 

• “He will bring forth judgement to 

the Gentiles, .......the isles will wait for 

His law, the LORD will give Him for a 

covenant of the people, a light of the 

Gentiles.......” (see Isa 42). 

In Psalm 72 a prophecy of the Millennial 

rein of the Messiah we also see the LORD’s 

promise to Abraham reiterated: 

“His name shall endure for ever: his 

name shall be continued as long as the 

sun: and men shall be blessed in him: 

all nations shall call him blessed.” 

(Psa. 72:17) 


wealth and inheritance promised to Israel. 

One major theme of Ephesians (the great 

in, by and through Him letter) is the drawing 

in of the Gentiles to unity with Israel’s 

community of faith. 

“Paul is very explicit in saying that 

the Gentiles who came to faith in the 

Messiah, are now part of the commonwealth 

of Israel” 

Paul is not saying in Ephesians 3 that the 

Gentile incorporation into the promise of 

the Messiah and the inheritance of Israel 

was never foretold, this is to misunderstand 

it completely. As we have seen, there is 

plenty of OT evidence (far more than I have 

listed above), that would contradict such a 

thought, therefore the “as” of revelation 

that Paul speaks of here is one of degree 

not actuality. What was seen in shadow 

and seed in the Tanakh, bursts into bright 

sunshine and full flowering in the New 

Covenant, where a great multitude of those 

who walked in darkness and the shadow of 

death are being brought into the light. 

We need to grasp firmly this idea, because 

I would suggest that, in becoming 

one with the remnant of Israel we are also 

connected with that ministry “to provoke 

to jealousy” blinded national Israel, until 

that moment when they are once again nationally 

received and there is “life from the 

dead”. (see Rom. 11). 

Displacement And Dichotomy, Two 

Roads To Self Destruction. 

What is the relevance of all this you may 

ask? If we read through Paul’s letters, we 

see that, while on the one hand he emphasises 

the unity between believing Jews and 

Gentiles, he also emphasised a distinction, 

(not a discrimination) thus Gentiles share 

the same inheritance as Israel, but they 

have not become Jews. (in the same way 

men and women have the same status in the 

Messiah, but they still retain their gender), 

etc. Historically the Church has fallen into 

two damaging areas in connection with this 

matter. 

No Distinction Brings Displacement 

If the distinction is not recognised at 

all, the result is Replacement Theology or 

Supercessionism. Where the Church displaces 

Israel, and sets itself up as the New 

Israel. The usual consequence of this is an 

arrogance and theoligically motivated antisemitism. 

“Christ At The Checkpoint” is the visible 

expression of the Palestinian Church 

committing spiritual hari kiri at the 

behest of the Palestinian Authority.” 

A classic example of which is the recent 

tragic “Christ At The Checkpoint” conference, 

fronted by that notorious Anglican 

aider and abetter of anti-Semitism Stephen 

Sizer. Hosted by Bethlehem Bible College 

a hotbed of Liberation Theology the conference 

speaker list was populated for the 

most part, by preachers of a hate filled anti- 

Zionism (masquerading as reconciliation), 

that was touting a replacementist agenda, 

the intent of which, is to politically, nationally 

and theologically delegitimise Israel 

and Israeli believers. Though the Palestinian 

christians and delegates who attended 

may not realise it, such a stance is ultimately 

self-destructive. CATC is the theological 

equivalent of the cartoon character who 

saws off the branch on which he is sitting. 

The organisers and promoters of CATC not 

only do not recognise “the root that supports 

them”, but they actively seek to poison and 

destroy that root. “Christ At The Checkpoint” 

is the visible expression of the Palestinian 

Church committing spiritual hari kiri 

at the behest of the Palestinian Authority. 

Dichotomy Brings Drowsiness 

The other end of the spectrum the distinction 

is distorted into a deep dichotomy. 

This is also deeply problematic. In the early 

19th century there was a renewal of interest 

in prophecies regarding the return of 

Christ. Unfortunately excesses and unbalanced 

ideas entered in. One of these was 

the replacement of the biblical distinction 

between the Church and Israel, with a sharp 

dichotomy. So instead of the Church being 

seen as the incorporation of the Gentiles into 

the saved remnant of Israel, the ingrafting 

of wild olive branches alongside the natural, 

the bringing near of Gentiles into the 

commonwealth of Israel and the covenants 

of promise (in other words a shared hope, 

salvation and destiny); -there arose instead 

a teaching that the Church and Israel were 

utterly separate, one having a heavenly 

hope, the other an earthly, (this even developed 

into a two track system of salvation 

in some quarters). The dichotomy seems 

to have been manufactured as a theological 

necessity so as to make the Olivet Discourse 

apply exclusively to national Israel 

and not the Church, thus circumventing Jesus’ 

direct and explicit teaching about His 

Coming, in an attempt to provide justification 

for a belief in a pretribulational rapture. 

There is absol nothing in the context 

of the Olivet Discourse that suggests it was 

addrssed to unbelieving national Israel. Jesus’ 

warnings of what is to come and the 

signs that precede His Coming were given 

to believers. 


“There is nothing in the context of 

the Olivet Discourse that suggests it 

was addressed to unbelieving national 

Israel instead of believers.” 

It is vitally important that we do not err in 

either direction. The Displacement Theology 

of CATC, Sabeel, and the like may well 

bring those who endorse it into the judgement 

of being broken off (Rom.11:20-22). 

The Dichotomy Theology, on the 

other hand, will lull us into sleep, unprepared 

for the events that are surely heading 

our way, trusting on an illusory “Get 

Out Of Tribulation Free Card” that (even 

its proponents admit) has no real exegetical 

biblical basis. It is hard to escape the 

impression that some believers come here 

on tour, (and trust me we are glad that you 

do), but go away breathing a huge sigh of 

relief that “they won’t be around when the 

whole thing kicks off”. I feel this to be particularly 

true of Western Christians, have 

been inoculated by a pretribulational rapture 

doctrine, that cannot be derived from 

honest exegesis, filling their heads with the 

idea that they will be whisked away before 

the prophesied persecutions and suffering 

come our way. I am sure I am not the only 

one, but I feel deeply burdened about this 

and its consequential lack of our preparedness 

for what lies ahead. 

Wave Farewell To Democracy 

Europe is already post-Christian, and in 

all but name, Post Deomcratic as well. Legislatively 

the noose is tightening around 

Bible believing christians in the West,. 

and as apostasy runs rampant the light of 

the Gospel is growing dim too.Toleration 

of Biblical faith is going out with it like a 

receding tide. Parallel to this is the growing 

ostracism and delegitimisation of Israel. 

Those familiar with recent history, particulary 

that of Germany in the 1930’s should 

know what happens next when there is a 

weak, liberal and flaccid church, a hedonistic, 

fractured society, major economic problems 

and weak unpopular government. 

We should be aware that, in many ways 

religious freedom and democracy are a historical 

abberation. A needle in the haystack 

of human history. For example, England, 

(thought of as a bastion of democracy) 

though possessing a truly parlimentary government 

since the 1640’s, has only actually 

had true universal suffrage since 1928, and 

true religious freedom for non-conformist 

Christians since 1828. 

“If we want to find out what historically 

normative human government 

looks like we only have to look at 

our nearest totalitarian regime.” 

If we want to find out what historically 



normative human government looks like 

we need to look at our nearest totalitarian 

regime. That will tell us all about the future 

of Europe and the West. All the surveillance, 

financial systems and data collection 

technology have been in place for some 

time now, to equip a government, so desiring 

it, with unprecedented control over the 

citizenry. The tools of surveilllance, control, 

media-manipulation and propaganda 

that are available now look like the Christmas 

wish-list of the Antichrist. At the same 

time on the back of “anti-hate speech”, 

“anti-discrimination” “human-rights”, and 

“tolerance” legislation so-called, dissenting 

voices are being silenced and democratic 

freedoms of speech, conscience and belief 

are disappearing down the plug-hole of 

past-tense. We desperately need to abandon 

the wishful thinking that the Tribulation 

couldn’t happen to us, we need to smell 

the coffee and understand the signs of the 

times. 

The first Passover from Egypt tells us 

much about what the Last Days will be 

like. The Book Of Revelation to some extent 

reiterates the features of the Exodus. 

Though the Israelites were kept safe from 

the plagues sent by God, they still suffered 

under Pharaoh’s hand, until the final deliverance. 

We all as the commonwealth of Israel 

need to arm ourselves with this mindset that 

we may have to endure the rule of the one 

who Pharaoh typifies, -the Antichrist. We 

need to start looking at the Book of Revelation 

and the Olivet Discourse as applying 

to us, so that we may be properly equipped 

to stand in the times that are coming. 

Paul in speaking of our common salvation 

in Romans 15 quotes from Psalm 117, 

“Rejoice ye Gentiles with His people”. The 

next verse is even more telling. “for his 

lovingkindess has prevailed over US”, that 

little word ties Jewish remnant and Gentile 

believers together as fellow recipients of 

God’s grace in the Messiah. Even though 

difficult times are ahead, we must look 

beyond them to the return of our glorious 

King. We can rejoice together in the shared 

glory and inheritance that will be ours when 

the Messiah returns. 

If I understand Zech. 12 correctly this 

will be after the battle of Armageddon near 

the end of the Tribulation. 

John Walvoord and others openly admitted 

that Pretribulationism is a doctrine 

“derived from inference.” This is a simply 

another way of saying that it has no solid exegetical/contextual 

basis and is produced by 

reading a preconceived idea into the Scriptures. 

The technical term for this is eisegesis. 

May the LORD bless you all, 

Elon and Hadass 

moriel’s 

prayer 

closet 

A Small corner of rest from the chaos 

and tumult of the world around us.... 

“But thou, when thou prayest, enter 

onto thy closet, and when thou 

hast shut thy door, pray to thy 

Father which is in Secret; and thy 

Father which seeth in Secret will 

reward thee openly.” 

– Matthew 6:6 – 

“If two of you shall agree in touching 

anything they shall ask, it shall 

be done of them by my father which 

is in heaven.”– Matthew 18:19 

• Prayer - Moriel & Jacob Prasch Lee 

Wardle from Sydney has been diagnosed with 

an aortic valve failure. His condition is serious 

and the DRs are trying to arrange an operation 

as soon as possible. Please pray God 

will heal him or that He will guide the hands 

of the surgeons. 

• PrayER - Moriel & Jacob Prasch request 

prayer for Annie N, a believer and mother of 

three in Galilee in Israel who is currently addressing 

an undiagnosed illness of a very painful 

nature.Their appears to be some suspician 

that her condition is related to a previous head 

injury but the situation remainss difficult. 


urgent prayer for Virginia, sister of Chuck 

and Paul Smith who is in a very serious battle 

with cancer that appears pre terminal. We 

likewise request prayer for Damien Kyle, pastor 

of Calvary Chapel Modesto in California. 

Damien has advanced stage lukemia. Please 

pray for God’s intervention. 


prayer for Dr X - Dr. X is an Iraqi military 

surgeon who worked with the US when we 

went into Iraq, and thus, has weathered death 

threats against himself, and also fears for his 

family (wife, and four kids). X applied for a 

special immigrant visa, and - despite being 

highly recommended by the US colonel he 

served under, being approved for that visa by 

the US Embassy in Baghdad, being approved 

by two US homeland departments, and having 

a successful interview at the US Embassy 

in Amman (Jordan) way back in September, 

Dr. X and his family are still waiting to come 

to the US. They were living in Jordan for several 

months, as they are safer there - but, after 

waiting five months or so to get their final 

ok’s and fly out of Jordan to Pittsburgh, it is 

too expensive to live as a family of six, and so 

have returned to Iraq to wait. 

Only the situation is now worse, because, 

formerly Fouad was in the ‘green zone’ there 

in Baghdad (the section the US had secured). 

But as the US has since pulled out, and X had 

to resign in order to move to Jordan before, 

he is thus now living outside the green zone 

and so lives in much real danger. i have just 

(again) written to the US Embassy in Jordan 

- politely, but very firmly as well - trying to 

get them to resolve his case. Please pray for X 

and his family! It would be a tragedy beyond 

words that, having already lost his brother-inlaw 

to terrorists for him having also helped 

the US (he was X’s driver, and terrorists killed 

him), and having had another brother-in-law 

held and tortured by terrorists for a year before 

being released (Y, who, by the way, has 

also been waiting in Jordan with his wife and 

two young children - one of which has a very 

critical heart problem and needs US medical 

attention - for months on end to be resettled 

here)... It would be a tragedy unspeakable 

that this man, while waiting for our nation’s 

whatever-else-in-the-world-other-paperwork 

they apparently might need or whatever (even 

after the US Embassy in Iraq, and two homeland 

US departments approved him) to finally 

quit dragging their feet and help this man who 

has risked so much for helping them. 

• Prayer - Moriel & Jacob Prasch request 

urgent prayer for Chuck Smith, founder of 

Calvary Chapel. Chuck Smith announced 

on New Years Day he has been diagnosed 

with lung cancer requiring a biopsy this 

week followed by pulmonary surgery. 

Chuck , now in his mid eighties, is a friend 

of Jacob Prasch with whom he has shared 

conference platforms, and a friend of many 

people in Moriel. We request prayer for his 

health at this time and for The Lord’s wisdom 

and guidance for his physicians. 

• Prayer - Moriel & Jacob Prasch request 

prayer for Pastor Steve Mitchell, a friend of 

Moriel in Virginia, who is battling Leukemia. 

Steve is a fairly young gentleman originally 

from Hawaii. He is undergoing a variety of 

therapies including chemo and is in considerable 

discomfort. We pray that in His mercy 

The Lord will graciously intervene. 

On behalf of all at Moriel we 

comtinue t0 thank our brethren for their 

prayers, wonderful letters and comments ! 


Margret Godwin 

Moriel Australia 

AUSTRALIANnews 

Australian Report June 2012 

The Southern Hemisphere Moriel has been extremely hectic, 

primarily due to the impending visits by Dave Royle (Missions 

South Africa) and of course Jacob to both Australia and New Zealand. 

Dave was also to join Geoff Toole of Moriel Japan on his 

inaugural trip to our ministry in Manila. But crisis/sadness struck 

us. Firstly we had the passing of our dear brother Nigel Nicholson 

(Moriel New Zealand) on the 5th of March and then we had the 

news of Dave Royle’s ill health. 

I will come back to Dave and his health problems but would 

like to share a little about my dear friend and brother Nigel. 

In loving memory 

N i g e l r o d n e y n i c h o l s o n 

may 7 1935 – march 5 2012 

Nigel had heart problems since child hood but had (Praise the 

Lord) lived a full life, however, the past couple of years had seen 

his health decline with the wear and tear on his heart, but he had 

always rallied round and was quickly back at the helm of Moriel. 

But this time it was “his time” to go home to his Beloved Saviour. 

His role in Moriel will be extremely difficult to fill and he will be 

so very sadly missed - by none more than myself. I was privileged 

to share a special relationship with Nigel, his beautiful late wife 

Jenny and his daughters Debbie, Kirsty, Jacquie, their husbands, 

Jonathan, Linford, Scott and grandchildren Michael (dec) Ennae, 

Kezia & Tamsyn. 

Nigel was laid to rest beside his beloved Jenny following a 

wonderfully attended “Celebration” of his life. Whilst there were 

lots of tears this was overwhelmed with spiritual warmth & joy 

with the knowledge that he was with the Lord. Lots of stories of 

his life were shared, the main theme being his love of the Lord 

and his work with Moriel. This led to a wonderful “Salvation” 

message and an invitation for those who had until now not had a 

relationship with the Lord. 

I had gone over to Napier to be with his family and to represent 

Jacob & Moriel. I took a pile of emails and wonderful messages 

from dear brothers & sisters from other ministries; to name just a 

few, Pst Bill Randles, Philip Powell, Elder Mike Shafton, Mike- 

Oppenheimer & Deborah (Studio Scotland) the producers of the 

Daniel Project. 

EPITAPH FOR NIGEL NICHOLSON – by Jacob Prasch 

Nigel needs no obituary. Obituaries are for the dead, Nigel is 

alive. His remains are asleep awaiting resurrection. He is in the 

conscious presence of Jesus with his beloved Jen waiting to return 

with Jesus to co-reign for 1000 years on this earth in a resurrected 

body before our eternal reward. 

Nigel needs no eulogy. The Greek term “eulogia” merely means 

“blessing,” and Nigel is blessed where he is now and has always 

been a blessing to the rest of us. We all know this. Nigel would 

prefer his funeral be used as an opportunity to explain the Gospel 

message of salvation to unbelieving family & friends so that they 

too will be blessed. 

What Nigel does need however is a suitable epitaph for the 

marker stone where the house he used to live in is being kept until 

he moves back into it again. 

This is the EPITAPH I always recommend for true believers 

in Jesus; NIGEL NICHOLSON, TEMPORARILY CLOSED 

FOR RENOVATIONS, WILL RE-OPEN SOON 

JESUS SAID: “If a Man Believes In Me, Although He Die, Yet 

Shall He Live” 

In the past Nigel had been in a Pipe Band and the girls had engaged 

a Piper to play as the casket was taken from the Chapel & 

again at the committal. The Napier cemetery is set high on a hill. In 

the background is the sea and the other direction the most beautiful 

mountain range. I cannot begin to explain to you the most serene 

and peaceful feeling I experienced (as did many others) when the 

piper played out “Amazing Grace” The afternoon sun was shining 

on a sparkling sea and reflected a stunning purple hue on the 

mountains and as I stood there with the music echoing around the 

hills I could not help but recall the words of the hymn that had 

opened the service “It is well” and as you know the chorus goes, 

It is well, with my soul, It is well, with my soul, 

It is well, it is well, with my soul. 

I felt that was my dear friends farewell to us all. 

The Royle Family 

Dave & Lyn spent a few weeks in the United Kingdom both 

for a little break but also to be there for the arrival of their two 

new grandchildren. How Dave & Lyn arranged it I don’t know but 

these two new little lambs arrived on the same day, only two hours 

apart. Anthony & Liz had a little girl Hannah (new little sister for 

Levi & Abigail) and Erin & Aaron had a little boy named Ethan. 

Although they missed the children at home in South Africa, as 

a Grandma I can just imagine how hard it must have been for Lyn 


Moriel Australia – Continued 

to leave the grandchildren. 

After I arrived back from New Zealand 

I rang Dave and was most concerned, as he 

sounded dreadful, so after dragging the news 

out of him I decided it would be quite wrong 

for him to come to Australia. I am including 

his letter to all the readers. 

Dear Aussie Friends 

I really wanted to be with you this May 

and set about planning an itinerary that would 

take me to see the babes at the mission in the 

Philippines and then a tour that would take me 

to see beloved friends in Sydney, Melbourne, 

Tasmania, and Rockhampton & Caloundra. I 

really wanted to share with you from God’s 

Word and the vision we have for the Western 

Cape, however at this last minute we have 

been hindered in our attempt. 

Firstly to my ongoing health issues. My 

Neuropathy is getting worse and unless I have 

a strict and specific diet I struggle to keep it 

under control. This is difficult to do whilst 

traveling. The affect on my eyesight is also a 

factor in this. 

Secondly as you know our dear brother 

and friend Nigel (from Moriel New Zealand) 

went to be with the Lord recently. This has 

meant that Marg has had real pressure upon 

her, sorting out New Zealand’s change in administration, 

running two offices etc. After 

talking to Marg we came to the consensus that 

if we are going to do this for the Lord, it must 

be done well and in good order, and taking 

into consideration all the issues at hand and 

so after much thought and prayer we decided 

to hold back the tour for a little while more. 

I do hope you understand and that you will 

continue to uphold us in prayer over the next 

few months in the hope that God will shine 

His face upon us in our situations. 

Again I am so disappointed as I do not like 

to cancel anything in ministry, but at the same 

time I have the Lord’s peace that this is the 

right thing to do. In Christ, Dave 

For those that are not familiar with “Neuropathy” 

I am not a medico but it causes Dave 

to loose the feeling in his legs and hands and 

as such he has difficulty walking and quite 

often stumbles. Of course he has no feeling 

in his hands, and with his diabetes it is having 

further problems with his eyesight. Please 

keep him in your prayers. 

Jacob’s Australian/New Zealand Tour 

All the details are on the flyer included 

with this issue. Please try and get along to at 

least one meeting. If you require any further 

details please do not hesitate to contact me 

here at the office. 

Health Problems: I am very aware of the 

health issues firstly with Jacob and then Dave, 

David Lister & myself. I keep thinking to 

myself that Moriel must be doing something 

right as Satan is certainly having a “go” 

BUT we serve a Glorious/Victorious Lord 

and as Jacob has been heard to say on many 

occasions “I have read the end of the Book 

and we WIN!” Praise the Lord, In Christ 

Marg 

N E W S FROM AROUND THE WORLD 

Blessings in Jesus. 

In the monthly missions report from The Philippines renovations on the feeing room 

or our rubbiish dump children are complete and the new floor will allow us to do bible 

seminars for Philippino pastors. Geoff O’Toole from Moriel Japan branch will be conducting 

a seminar in the New Testament for Philippino pastors. It will be our first on our own 

premises. Praise Jesus! 

On a down note, one of our children - little Mary Mae has been struck by Denguey 

fever. It is an ugly mosquito born infection that is all to prevelant especially in poor areas. 

Please pray for Mary Mae who is hospitlized (her photo in hospital is the one on the bottom 

of the column). Denguey fever is a terrible disease especially when it infects little 

children and please pray that no more of our kids get infected. 

In Jesus, 

Jacob Prasch 

Dear Bro Jacob and Bro. David, 

Greeting you in Jesus name. 

I attach some photos of finished flooring on extension of feeding room. It is now ready 

to use on Midrash day by Bro. Geoff. Another photo of a kid(mary mae) which we brought 

yesterday to the Hospital because of dengue. Let us continue pray for Her. 

Thank you very much. 

In Christ, 

Ptr. Paul 

"MORIEL" 



Daniel Thompson 

Guest Author 

MORMONISM - IS IT 

CHRISTIAN? 

From the author of the Mormon Scrapbook 

Editor’s Note 

I would like to introduce Daniel (Chip) 

Thompson to the Moriel readers. Daniel is 

a longtime friend of mind and a co-laborer 

with me in the field of Mormonism. His 

book “The Mormon Scrapbook” is THE 

only book I recommend to people to learn 

how to evangelize Mormons. Chip is a pastor, 

church planter and now head of Tri- 

Grace Ministries (TGM) in Ephraim Utah. 

Chip and his lovely wife Jamie Thompson, 

are the founders and Executive Directors of 

TGM, have been missionaries to the people 

of Utah since 1992. After planting and pastoring 

Ephraim Church of the Bible for 13 

years, God moved in their hearts to start 

TGM and expand their evangelistic efforts 

in Utah. Today in the rural county of Sanpete, 

with a predominant LDS population 

and against all odds, there exists a thriving 

Christian presence that continues to bring 

Mormon people into a personal relationship 

with Jesus Christ. Ephraim Church of 

the Bible, Tri-Grace Ministries and Solid 

Rock Christian Club (our Christian club at 

Snow College) stand as monuments to the 

grace of God. 

Please pray for this wonderful ministry 

to the Mormons. In Peace, David Lister 

MORMONISM - IS IT CHRISTIAN? 

Mormonism’s official title is The Church 

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but is 

it really the Church of Jesus Christ? Many 

Christians in America and around the world 

think that the LDS Church is just another 

Christian denomination but nothing 

could be further from the truth. Every 

Christian denomination should share at 

least one thing in common - JESUS. To 

say you are disciple of Jesus Christ should 

require that your doctrinal beliefs line up 

with the teachings of the Bible. 

To answer the question, “Is Mormonism 

Christian?” we must go back to the 

early roots of Mormonism. According to 

Mormonism, in 1820 a boy named Joseph 

Smith went into the woods to pray and as he 

prayed two glorious personages appeared 

to him, one being God the Father and the 

other being Jesus Christ. Joseph supposedly 

asked these bright and shining beings 

a question to which he received an answer 

that has forever shaped the religion of Mormonism. 

Consider the following historical 

narrative and its implications for the LDS 

Church today, 

Joseph Smith said, “I saw a pillar of light 

exactly over my head, above the brightness 

of the sun, which descended gradually until 

it fell upon me... When the light rested 

upon me I saw two Personages,whose 

brightness and glory defy all description, 

standing above me in the air. One of them 

spake unto me, calling me by name and 

said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved 

Son. Hear Him! My object in going 

to inquire of the Lord was to know which 

of all the sects was right, that I might know 

which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I 

get possession of myself, so as to be able 

to speak, than I asked the Personages who 

stood above me in the light, which of all 

the sects was right (for at this time it had 

never entered into my heart that all were 

wrong)—and which I should join. I was 

answered that I must join none of them, 

for they were all wrong; and the Personage 

who addressed me said that all their 

creeds were an abomination in his sight; 

that those professors were all corrupt; that: 

“they draw near to me with their lips, but 

their hearts are far from me, they teach for 

doctrines the commandments of men, having 

a form of godliness, but they deny the 

power thereof.” LDS scriptures - “Pearl of 

Great Price, Joseph Smith History 1:16-19” 

In accordance with this event, Joseph 

Smith created a religion that is the polar opposite 

of all other Christian denominations. 

The entire world view of the Mormons is 

unique and every doctrine within Mormonism 

opposes the doctrines believed by the 

Christian denominations. So why is there 

such confusion about the Christian nature 

of Mormonism? The confusion enters as 

we come to realize that Mormonism adopted 

all of th biblical terminology of 

Christianity but with completely different 

definitions. For instance, both Christians 

and Mormons believe in the “Fall of Adam 

and Eve”. All Christian denominations believe 

the fall was a sinful act of rebellion 

that plunged the entire human race into sin. 

Mormonism, however, believes that the fall 

was good and in complete harmony with 

God’s intention for mankind. Consider the 

following LDS quote, “Some people believe 

Adam and Eve committed a serious 

sin when they ate of the tree of the knowledge 

of good and evil. However, latter-day 

scriptures help us understand that their fall 

was a necessary step in the plan of life and 

a great blessing to all of us.” (Gospel Principles, 

LDS Church, pg. 33) 

Another fundamental difference between 

Mormons and Christians are our views in 

regard to the nature of God. Christianity is 

monotheistic the belief that there is only 

one true God. Mormonism on the other 

hand is polytheistic - the belief that there 

are many beings that have become Gods. 

Within Mormonism even God the Father 

has not eternally been God and if we follow 

the path which He followed, we can 

become Gods just like Him. 

Joseph Smith said, “I am going to tell you 

how God came to be God. We have imagined 

and supposed that God was God from 

all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take 

away the veil, so that you can see... God 

himself was once as we are now, and is an 

exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder 

heavens!” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph 

Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, p.345-6) 

And, a few years later another LDS prophet 

named Lorenzo Snow declared, “As man 

is, God once was; as God is, man may be.” 

(Articles of Faith, James Talmage, pg. 430) 

According to LDS doctrine, “MEN ARE 

GODS IN EMBRYO” and as such, man 

“is capable, by experience through ages of 

aeons, of evolving into a God.” (Achieving 

a Celestial Marriage, LDS church, 1976, 

pg. 130) 

These few LDS doctrines should suffice 

to prove the non-Christian nature of 

Mormonism. All of the Christian denominations 

would not only consider the above 

doctrines to be a little off base, they would 

be condemned as outright blasphemies. 

So, how should we view the Mormons? 

Due to the above named heretical LDS 

doctrines should we shun and ignore the 

Mormon people? Unfortunately this has 


Guest Author 

been the norm for the past 150 years. I 

am going to suggest that Mormon people 

are not “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” The 

Wolf is Satan - Mormon people are just lost 

sheep that have been led astray by the Deceiver. 

My family and I have been missionaries 

to the Mormon people of Utah for 20 

years and we loveMormon people. By far 

our greatest joy in life is leading these dear 

people out of the bondage and deception of 

Satan and into the glorious light of Jesus. 

Yes, Mormons can be saved and we have 

been commissioned by our Lord to preach 

the gospel to everyone. So, “HOW?” How 

do you lead Mormons to Christ? 

The one thing that Christians do have in 

common with most Mormons is a genuine 

love for Jesus. Most Mormons really want 

to please Jesus and they honestly believe 

that the doctrines of the LDS church are 

the doctrines of Jesus Christ. After 20 years 

of witnessing to Mormons, we can tell you 

that nothing bothers Mormons more than 

finding out that Jesus did not teach what 

their church tells them Jesus taught. If you 

can in a loving an kind way show them 

the true teachings of Jesus -Jesus will lead 

them into a relationship with Himself. We 

call this seed planting. We plant the seeds 

of truth and then God causes those seeds 

to draw them to the truth. Following are 

what we call the 4 pillars of Mormonism 

and how you can use the words of Jesus to 

challenge the thinking of LDS people. 

LDS Pillar #1 is a doctrine known to 

Mormons as CELESTIAL MARRIAGE. 

Celestial marriages are performed by Mormon 

leaders in LDS Temples. It is believed 

by Mormons that these temple ordinances 

seal a husband and wife together for all eternity. 

Consider the following quote: “The 

prophets have uniformly taught that–God’s 

great plan for the blessings of his children 

is eternal marriage… Mormon President 

Howard W. Hunter described celestial marriage 

as ‘the crowning gospel ordinance.’” 

(Ensign, May 2003, Eternal Marriage, Elder 

F. Burton Howard of the Seventy) 

So here is the question, “Have the prophets 

uniformly taught that celestial marriage 

is the crowning ordinance of Jesus Christ’s 

gospel?” The answer is NO. No prophet in 

the Bible (or in the Book of Mormon) ever 

taught this doctrine. And more importantly 

neither Jesus nor any of His Apostles ever 

taught this doctrine. The LDS principle of 

“Eternal Marriage” is not a doctrine taught 

by Jesus. Only once did Jesus discuss the 

topic of marriage in the afterlife. This narrative 

is found in Matthew 22:23-30. Consider 

the story and the question posed to Jesus, 

“The same day came to him the Sadducees, 

which say that there is no resurrection, and 

asked him, saying, Master, Moses said, If 

a man die, having no children, his brother 

Daniel Thompson 

shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto 

his brother. Now there were with us seven 

brethren: and the first, when he had married 

a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, 

left his wife unto his brother: Likewise the 

second also, and the third, unto the seventh. 

And last of all the woman died also. Therefore 

in the resurrection whose wife shall 

she be of the seven? For they all had her.” 

STOP HERE - If eternal marriage was 

a principle of Jesus Christ’s gospel, what 

important question should Jesus have 

asked these men? JESUS SHOULD HAVE 

ASKED, “Was the woman married to any 

of her husbands in the temple for time and 

all eternity?” But, Jesus did not ask that 

question because no one was ever married 

in a Jewish temple. Instead, “Jesus 

answered them, Ye do err, not knowing the 

scriptures, nor the power of God. For in 

the resurrection they neither marry, nor are 

given in marriage, but are as the angels of 

God in heaven.” 

Pillar #2 is THE PREEXISTENCE – 

LDS.org, Pre-earth Life, “Before we were 

born on the earth, we lived in the presence 

of our Heavenly Father as His spirit children.” 

This LDS doctrine is the primary 

support for the Mormon world view that 

men can become Gods. JESUS TAUGHT 

THE OPPOSITE: “Father, …You loved Me 

before the foundation of the world… The 

world has not known You.” (John 17:24- 

25); “The Father Himself, who sent Me, 

has testified of Me. You have neither heard 

His voice at any time, nor seen His form.” ( 

John 5:37-38); “Not that any man has seen 

the Father, except He who is from God; He 

has seen the Father. (John 6:46); “He who 

sent Me is true, whom you do not know. 

But I know Him, for I am from Him.” (John 

7:28-29); “It is My Father who honors Me, 

of whom you say that He is your God. Yet 

you have not known Him.” (John 8:54-59); 

And, Jesus said, “You are from beneath; I 

am from above. You are of this world; I am 

not of this world.” (John 8:23-24). 

THINK ABOUT IT… If we are all the 

literal children of God then why would we 

need to “become the sons of God”? (see 

John 1:12). And, why would God need to 

adopt us? (see Rom. 8:14-16). 

Pillar #3 - THE GREAT APOSTASY 

– LDS.org, Apostasy, “The Church of Jesus 

Christ of Latter-day Saints has proclaimed 

to the world… that there was an apostasy of 

the church founded by Jesus… This is a fundamental 

belief of the Latter-day Saints. If 

there had not been an apostasy, there would 

have been no need for a restoration.” 

JESUS SAID: “I will build my church; 

and the gates of hell shall not prevail 

against it.” (Matthew 16:18); “Heaven and 

earth shall pass away, but my words shall 

not pass away.” (Matt. 24:35); “I am with 

you always, even unto the end of the world. 

Amen.” (Matt. 28:20). 

THINK ABOUT IT… The Kingdom 

parables taught by Jesus leave no room for 

a total apostasy–see Matthew 13:24-30 

(parable of the tares), Matt. 13:31-32 (parable 

of the mustard seed), and Matt. 13:33 

(parable of the leaven). If the great apostasy 

happened, Jesus is a liar. 

Pillar #4 is PRIESTHOOD AUTHOR- 

ITY – LDS.org, Priesthood, “The priesthood 

is the eternal power and authority of 

God… God gives priesthood authority to 

worthy male members of the Church so 

they can act in His name for the salvation 

of His children.” Jesus must not have considered 

the topic of priesthood authority to 

be important at all because he never once 

discussed it with his disciples. Jesus consistently 

taught that all power and authority 

would come through the gift of the Holy 

Ghost/Spirit. 

JESUS SAID: “You shall receive power 

when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; 

and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, 

and in all Judea and Samaria, and 

to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:4-8). And 

in Acts chapter 2 this is exactly what happened–it 

had nothing to do with any priesthood 

(check it out for yourself). 

THINK ABOUT IT… According to the 

book of Hebrews, Jesus is the only high 

priest after the order of Melchizedek and 

the Aaronic priesthood is totally obsolete 

(study this out in Hebrews chapters 5-7). 

DO NOT GET THE WRONG IDEA – We 

are not trying to destroy any LDS person’s 

faith in Jesus. We want Mormons to have 

a faith that rest in Jesus alone and we want 

them to trust His teachings as their final authority 

(Matt. 7:24-29). We have found that 

these topics challenge Mormons to the max 

and are used by God’s Holy Spirit to draw 

these wonderful people to Himself. 

Article by Daniel (Chip) Thompson 

Author of “The Mormon Scrapbook” 

Director of Tri-Grace Ministries 

www.TriGrace.org 


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Far East 

September Report 

2011 

K 

Konnichiwa, 

Just back from a month away in the Philippines. 

Lots to report on this time! 

Tokyo and Osaka Meeings 

In Feb/March we had more teaching 

days in Osaka and Tokyo. There were some 

new people again this time as well as old 

friends. Our theme was true and false prophets. 

Beginning with Psalm 23, followed 

by a study of false prophets and the Spirit 

of AntiChrist. Then we looked at Jude’s 

epistle. Finally everyone gathered around 

and we had one very practical session on 

using a concordance, both the traditional 

book form and on line. It was nice to meet 

Br Vima Alegu who was visiting his family 

in Kanto. Jenny brought along a lovely 

young Russian scientist to hear the message 

too. She was impressed with the message of 

Psalm 23 and we pray that the Lord will be 

her personal shepherd some time soon! The 

next meetings should be in June. 

Our Japanese Moriel friends in Tokyo and 

Osaka are a blessing each time with lots of 

good questions and comments. I really hope 

the concordance lesson will help them. You 

Geoff Toole 

can take for granted how cheap and freely 

available concordances are in the English 

language. They are hundreds of dollars 

each in Japanese, and limited to only one 

or two translations. Those who could speak 

a little English learned how to use free on 

line software. We recommended e-sword. 

The Family is Growing 

Daisuke and Jean are expecting their 

first baby this July. The Lord has blessed 

Daisuke through a difficult period. He had 

to step down from his job for conscience 

sake. Now he is back in employment just 

in time for their baby. Praise The Lord! 

Daisuke has been translating the Dilemma 

of Laodicea, he is up to Thyatira now. Given 

the many theological terms of Roman 

Catholic History, you can imagine what a 

challenge it is going to be to translate that! 

Waves in the Philippines 

Speaking of the Dilemma 

of Laodicea, it 

has been making waves 

in the Philippines too. 

Two zealous Moriel 

supporters have been 

distributing it, along 

with the Moriel newsletter, 

and receiving 

criticism as well as 

gratitude. They have long been warned not 

to associate with us, at the expense of their 

positions (as pastors) and last week one 

was removed from his pastoral position, 

church and town as a result. It is sad for 

the many believers in that church who really 

appreciated the good teaching they had 

been blessed with for years. But we trust the 

Lord will continue leading them to green 

pastures. A solid foundation has certainly 

been laid for them. Just before our friend 

got boot, we had a great summer camp with 

many of the ‘young people’ in that church. 

We studied Daniel’s visions and what is going 

on in the world today. This event will 

surely serve as a living example of what it 

means to be a true witness. It came as no 

surprise and by God’s grace we had already 

prepared a plan of action, allow him, to focus 

on building up the biblical literacy of 

all the Moriel supporting churches there. 

One door opens as another closes. 

Pastor Pol, from Odiongan opened up 

to our meetings for another few days. He 

and his congregation also love midrash. His 

family have been introducing us to their 

friends in various places. 

Conspiracy Theories 

One issue I was constantly asked 

about was the name of Jesus and YWHW. 

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According to some local ‘authorities’ if you 

don’t pronounce the Name correctly you 

will “forfeit your salvation”. It has become 

a very divisive issue. From compassion I 

took great lengths to reason with those who 

have been sucked in to this way of thinking. 

But those teaching it from the pulpit 

ought to be rebuked. They are the same 

‘teachers’ who told me that the Japanese 

tsunami was caused by a nuclear bomb, 

not an earthquake. Despite the fact that I 

felt the earthquake hundreds of km away, 

and that thousands of aftershocks followed 

daily for nearly a year, these guys ‘know’ 

what we don’t. Conspiracy theory is one 

version of Anti-Christ. People become 

consumed with the ideas of man and it becomes 

another Word for them. All it does 

is discredit true prophecy. In most places I 

spent at least one session explaining what 

‘the Name’ really is, and answering the 

doubts of many believers. 

Before leaving Japan I transcribed the 

Daughters of Zion message. It is a good 

message to open people’s eyes to what 

kind of ministry God has given to women, 

and what He hasn’t. Hopefully it will be 

up on the website very soon. It was also 

a pleasure to provide more concordances 

for pastors there. The need is so great but 

many are starting to receive them and with 

it they can begin to study the bible more 

deeply and quickly. Another batch is being 

prepared now. 

Olongapo 

What a great time we had in Olongopo! 

Marjun, a ‘young people’ from Tablas Island 

came with me and we spent a wonderful 

three days with Pastor Paul and his 

family. Some of the young kids, Ben Ben, 

Joren and Jomar, gave us a tour of Subig 

bay beach. Joren (11?) was not content until 

we had sung the entire Baptist hymnal a 

few times with his mates. Maria Mae, Marie 

Mae, Mary Mae (who just got over Dengue 

fever), Marites and Lyneth are some of 

the local kids who enjoy the feeding program 

and are faithful in the church there. 

Paul and his wife, Anabel, with the help of 

Grace and Jacob, their own children, between 

them teach about 50 kids weekly. I 

have never seen a church like it. So many 

smiling kids singing so many hymns, so 

many times! Praise the Lord. Even some of 

the parents came to our teaching day. Paul 

and the kids did a great job of preparing a 

chapel for our seminar. The kids polished 

the floor smooth with half coconuts and we 

had about 20 people attend. The topics that 

day were, an introduction to midrash, applying 

midrash to 666, the Hebraic concept 

of ‘Shalom’, and by their request... the two 

witnesses! What a day! Despite the heat 

all eyes were alert. Fortunately the weath- 


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er was good and the smell of the rubbish 

dump behaved itself. Not only did I electrocute 

myself that morning with 220 volts 

for a few seconds, but I also won the stupid 

question of the year award when I asked 

why they tied so many plastic bags, high up 

in all the trees. That is what you get with a 

storm in a rubbish dump. 

Bohol 

Finally I visited Michael Carstens down 

in Bohol. We had another teaching day there 

with about 15 or so pastors. We studied ‘AntiChrist’ 

and the Day of the Lord. Michael 

even treated us to a dive over the coral to finish 

up a busy trip. The newsletter is reaching 

pastors and prisoners. Pray with us that 

the Word would grow in the Philippines. 

It was challenging to see how the Filipino 

evangelists open up their home to so many 

kids and the needy. It is also my prayer and 

desire to share the gospel with more kids 

here in Japan. It is a totally different country 

but peoples’ spiritual needs are the same. 

Prayer Requests 

Philippines 

Please pray for Pastor Hope who coordinates 

most of the work there. In the near 

future as he begins an itinerant ministry, his 

family will need 

• the grace to adapt to a new life 

• a place to live and 

• a sustainable source of income. 

There are many other specific needs of our 

brothers and sisters there. 

• Concordances 

• Good locations and practical schedules to 

hold teaching days 

• Money for transport (The cost of gasoline 

is huge for those in the developing world) 

• Michael’s outreach to prisoners and impoverished 

islands kids. Both these ministries 

are bearing fruit, but there are so 

few faithful people to do the work. 

Japan 

Here in Japan we are still seeking to: 

• expand our outreach to children. It is a 

slow work here. Pray for open doors! 

• continue our translation work. Pray that 

it goes quickly and smoothly. In our experience, 

written materials are of far greater 

value than videos, and audios here in 

Asia. Most Japanese and Filipinos can 

understand written material much better 

than audios, even in their own language! 

Vietnam 

Sensitivity is a major issue, but we are 

excited to report that we expect many more 

Moriel translations into Vietnamese soon. 

Please pray for ‘Daniel’ as he translates and 

distributes the newsletters in Vietnam. 

God bless! 

Geoff Toole 

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Philippines 

The rest of the pictures 

are of the local children 

and their families. 

Bohol, Philippines 

Midrash seminar in Bohol 

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Chuck Colson . . . . By Jacob Prasch 

In John’s Gospel Jesus spoke of those who persecuted Jewish believers 

but who thought they were serving God while doing evil (John 

16:2 -3). These however were those who so acted because they did not 

know Jesus or His Father; Chuck Colson however was a man who did 

evil and claimed to know Jesus and to be “Born Again,” the title of his 

book detailing his testimony of claimed regeneration. 

Colson was the lead author of the” Evangelicals and Catholics Together” 

(ECT) agreement signed by Pat Robertson,Calvinistic author 

JI Packer, John Kent of The Church of the Nazarene, and the late Bill 

Bright. The document accepted Catholicism as scripturally Christian 

without reference to the fact that while the true gospel teaches that 

the blood of Christ cleanses from all sin, in Roman Catholicism one 

atones for their own sin in purgatory and salvation is not by a second 

birth regeneration but by ‘ex oper operato’ sacramental rituals. 

The idolatry of graven images and worshiping bread and wine as 

a transubstantiated reincarnation of Jesus Christ when Jesus warned 

to reject any that says He has returned physically before the parousia 

meant nothing to Colson. Killing Jesus again in the mass and eating 

Him in an act of religious cannibalism didn’t matter to him. The 

false Christ of the Eucharist, the necromancy of prayers to the dead, 

and the vampire consumption of blood condemned by the apostles in 

the book of Acts chapter 15 were of no more consequence to Colson 

than was Rome’s false gospel. He just did not care. The Word of God 

meant nothing to Chuck Colson. His actions were in open defiance of 

it. If it did mean anything to him he would not have likely received the 

Templeton prize for religion. Neither would he have turned his prison 

ministry over to a Roman Catholic. 

It was Colson whom Satan ordained to persuade Evangelicals to 

refrain from evangelizing Roman Catholics. As one with a Roman 

Catholic mother on her way to eternal hell trusting in scapulars and the 

traditions of men instead of in the true gospel of Jesus for her salvation, 

I loathe the legacy of this deceiver who was misled by the devil 

and inspired by Satan to mislead others. There have been few agents 

of hell more destructive to the cause of Christ than Chuck Colson. 

Roman Catholics need salvation and should be given the true Gospel. 

I suggest those foolishly supportive of Colson ask former Catholics 

who have been saved. 

Although a convicted criminal sent to prison for political corruption, 

Colson was an activist who tried to identify the Republican Party 

with Evangelical Christianity in his radio messages. Ronald Reagan’s 

Hollywood divorce and remarriage, Nancy Reagan’s advice to her 

husband acquired from the fortune tellers such as Jean Dixon she consulted, 

and George Bush placing a Koran which states that God has no 

Son, ( a mark of antichrist according to 1 John) in the White House 

were irrelevant to Colson. That Eisenhower’s Earl Warren Republican 

Supreme Court ordered God out of the class room, that Nixon’s Warren 

Berger Republican Supreme Court ordered God out of the maternity 

ward with Roe v Wade, and that Reagan’s pro-abortion Supreme Court 

appointee Sandra Day O’Connor ordered God and the 10 Commandments 

out of the court room and judicial building and her writing the 

decision based on foreign precedent to outlaw the Texas anti sodomy 

law opening the door for the national surge to same sex marriage all 

evaded Colson’s criticism. To Colson religion was about politics. He 

had been a liar for a corrupt Nixon White House who was transformed 

into a liar for a corrupt pedophile protecting Vatican. 

Colson also cover endorsed the book ECUMENICAL JIHAD authored 

by ex- Evangelical Peter Kreeft that urges ecumenical union 

with Islam to morally redeem society. Colson had an anti christ spirit 

and he served Satan powerfully. We shall all appear before the judgment 

seat of Christ and it is not for me to judge Chuck Colon. It is 

however for all of us to judge his doctrines and his ventures on the 

basis of God’s Word. In doing so, it is evident that the deeds and doctrines 

of Chuck Colson emanated straight from the pit of hell. 

Without doubt there will be a chorus of ignorant religious cranks 

taking offense at these remarks concerning Chuck Colson oblivious to 

the factual reality that everything I have written concerning Mr. Colson 

is irrefutably true. My only response to their silly religious rhetoric 

is to deal with the established facts or don’t deal. 

Allah in the bible? It’s a matter of CONTEXT! 

By Hussein Hajji Wario 

Yahoo! Contributor Network 

A controversy is brewing over three reputable Christian organizations, 

which are based in North America, whose efforts have ousted the 

words “Father” and “Son” from new Bibles. Wycliffe Bible Translators, 

Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and Frontiers are under fire for 

“producing Bibles that remove “Father [1],” “Son” and “Son of God” 

because these terms are offensive to Muslims.” 

Concerned Christian missionaries, Bible translators, pastors, and national 

church leaders have come together with a public petition to stop 

these organizations. They claim a public petition is their last recourse 

because meetings with these organizations’ leaders, staff resignations 

over this issue and criticism and appeals from native national Christians 

concerned about the translations “have failed to persuade [2] these agencies 

to retain “Father” and “Son” in the text of all their translations.” 

Biblical Missiology, a ministry of Boulder, Colorado-based Horizon 

International, is sponsoring the petition. 

The main issues of this controversy surround new Arabic and Turkish 

translations. Here are three examples native speakers give: 

First, Wycliffe and SIL have produced Stories of the Prophets, an 

Arabic Bible that uses an Arabic equivalent of “Lord” instead of “Father 

[1]” and “Messiah” instead of “Son.” 

Second, Frontiers and SIL have produced Meaning of the Gospel of 

Christ , an Arabic translation which removes “Father” [1] in reference 

to God and replaces it with “Allah,” and removes or redefines “Son.” 

For example, the verse which Christians use to justify going all over 

the world to make disciples, thus fulfilling the Great Commission (Matthew 

28:19) reads, “Cleanse them by water in the name [1] of Allah, 

his Messiahand his Holy Spirit” instead of “baptizing them in the name 

of the Father and of the Son [3] and of the Holy Spirit.” Rev. Bassam 

Madany [4], an Arab American who runs Middle East Resources, terms 

these organization’s efforts as “a western imperialistic attempt [5] that’s 

inspired by cultural anthropology, and not by biblical theology.” 

Third, Frontiers and SIL have produced a new Turkish translation 

of the Gospel of Matthew that uses Turkish equivalents of “guardian” 

for “Father” and “representative” or “proxy” [1] for “Son.” To Turkish 

church leader Rev. Fikret Böcek, “This translation is ‘an all-American 

idea [6]‘ with absolutely no respect for the ‘sacredness’ of Scripture, or 

even of the growing Turkish church.” 

SIL has issued a public response stating “all personnel subscribe to 

a statement of faith which affirms the Trinity, Christ’s deity [7], and the 

inspiration of Scripture.” However, in the same statement, which is similar 

to Wycliffe [8]‘s, it claims “word-for-word translation of these titles 

would communicate an incorrect meaning [7] (i.e. that God had physical, 

sexual relationships with Mary) [sic],” thus justifying substituting 

“Father” and “Son” in new translations. Calls and emails to Wycliffe 

and SIL to clarify their positions were not returned. Frontiers responded 

to calls with articles that critics have already dismissed as skirting omissions 

of “Father” and “Son” in new Bible translations. 


All That Can Be Shaken 

Jacob Prasch 


by James Jacob Prasch 

See to it that you do not refuse Him who 

is speaking. For if those did not escape 

when they refused him who warned them 

on earth, much less will we escape who 

turn away from Him who warns from 

heaven. And His voice shook the earth 

then, but now He has promised, saying, 

“YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE 

NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO 

THE HEAVEN.” This expression, “Yet 

once more,” denotes the removing of 

those things which can be shaken, as 

of created things, so that those things 

which cannot be shaken may remain. 

Therefore, since we receive a kingdom 

which cannot be shaken, let us show 

gratitude, by which we may offer to 

God an acceptable service with reverence 

and awe; for our God is a consuming 

fire. (Heb. 12:25-29) 

(In the original Greek text there is no 

chapter division; that was added later on. So 

we will continue reading as one complete 

passage.) 

Let love of the brethren continue. 

Do not neglect to show hospitality to 

strangers, for by this some have entertained 

angels without knowing it. 

Remember the prisoners, as though in 

prison with them, and those who are illtreated, 

since you yourselves also are 

in the body. Marriage is to be held in 

honor among all, and the marriage bed 

is to be undefiled; for fornicators and 

adulterers God will judge. Make sure 

that your character is free from the love 

of money, being content with what you 

have; for He Himself has said, “I WILL 

NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL 

I EVER FORSAKE YOU,” so that we 

confidently say, 

“THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I 

WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT 

WILL MAN DO TO ME?” 

Remember those who led you, who 

spoke the word of God to you; and considering 

the result of their conduct, imitate 

their faith. Jesus Christ is the same 

yesterday and today and forever. Do 

not be carried away by varied and 

strange teachings; for it is good for 

the heart to be strengthened by grace, 

not by foods, through which those 

who were so occupied were not benefited. 

We have an altar from which 

those who serve the tabernacle have 

no right to eat. For the bodies of those 

animals whose blood is brought into 

the holy place by the high priest as an 

offering for sin, are burned outside 

the camp. Therefore Jesus also, that 

He might sanctify the people through 

His own blood, suffered outside the 

gate. So, let us go out to Him outside 

the camp, bearing His reproach. For 

here we do not have a lasting city, but 

we are seeking the city which is to 

come. Through Him then, let us continually 

offer up a sacrifice of praise 

to God, that is, the fruit of lips that 

give thanks to His name. And do not 

neglect doing good and sharing, for 

with such sacrifices God is pleased. 

(Heb. 13:1-16) 

Eschatology from a New Testament 

Perspective 

Let us understand that Hebrews was 

written to Messianic Jews of the 1 st century 

some time before 70 AD before the Temple 

was destroyed. Daniel 9 prophesied that 

the Messiah was to come and die some 

time before the Second Temple would be 

destroyed. In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus 

echoes this, but both Daniel and Jesus begin 

speaking of the Last Days by introducing 

that the Temple would be destroyed in 

70 AD. 

Those events surrounding 70 AD are a 

harbinger of what is to come; they are a 

microcosm of what the Last Days will be 

like. Hence, the events that the Church, at 

this time in Israel, were being prepared for 

when Hebrews was written is a picture of 

what the Church is going to have to face on 

a global level in the Last Days. “A” is to 

“B” as “B” is to “C”, as we might put it. We 

have to understand that the Jewish believers 

were being prepared for something to happen 

in 70 AD; those things are going to be recapitulated—they 

are going to happen again 

on a global scale. We have to understand the 

Last Days as the New Testament defines it. 

When we get to Hebrews 12 it gets very 

eschatological; it speaks about what is going 

to happen before Jesus comes. But first 

let us understand the eschatology—the Last 

Days, from the perspective of the New Testament. 

Most Christians do not understand 

eschatology from a New Testament perspective 

because they have a Western or 

Hellenistic mindset. The writers of the New 

Testament, however, were Jews, and they 

had a Judaic mindset. Let us understand 

how Jewish believers of the 1st century who 

wrote the New Testament under the direct 

inspiration of the Holy Spirit would have 

understood the Last Days. Unless we understand 

it the way the Apostles understood it 

we will not understand if for ourselves. 

In These Last Days 

God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers 

in the prophets in many portions 

and in many ways, in these last days 

has spoken to us in His Son, whom He 

appointed heir of all things, through 

whom also He made the world. 

(Heb. 1:1-2) 

In times past, He spoke to “the fathers,” 

“the prophets,” and in “portions.” This 

word “portions” in Judaism is known as 

“Parshat HaShavua”—“the portion of the 

week.” Every year in the synagogue the Old 

Testament is read beginning from Genesis 

1:1. It begins on the first shavas on Simchat 

Torah and is read in an annual lection as the 

portion of the week: the Torah, the Haftorah 

and the Prophets. Hebrews was written to 

Jews who would have known “the portions 

of the week” which is still read by Jews today 

in synagogues. 

But then it says, “in these last days.” 

Notice that Hebrews is saying we are already 

in the Last Days. We are already in 

the Last Days two thousand years ago! Je- 


sus tells the churches in Revelation He is 

“coming quickly.” (Rev. 3:11) There is the 

Last Days and there is the Last Days. Understand 

this: the Rapture and Resurrection 

have already begun. 

The Resurrection began with the resurrection 

of Jesus. We are told in 1 Corinthians 

15 He is the first fruit of it. (1 Co. 15:20) 

His resurrection and ours is the same event, 

but chronologically He is the first fruit of it. 

“He will revive us after two days; 

He will raise us up on the third day, 

That we may live before Him. (Hosea 6:2) 

We are not waiting for the Resurrection, 

we are waiting for our role in it; the Resurrection 

is already underway. We are already 

in the Last Days. Similarly, we are not 

waiting for the Rapture as the Rapture has 

commenced with the Ascension of Jesus; 

we are waiting for our role in the Rapture. 

The Rapture and Resurrection are already 

underway. The Last Days began with Jesus 

with His resurrection and rapture. 

Think of the Normandy invasion. Officially, 

D-Day was June 6 th , 1944. However, 

the people in the know understood the invasion 

did not start on June 6 th because on 

June 5 th British Commandos and American 

Rangers were airdropped behind German 

lines to begin cutting communications, 

blowing things up and so forth, and the 

French Underground began preparing the 

way for the invasion. However, only those 

in the know understood on June 5 th that the 

invasion was already underway. The Germans 

just thought it was sabotage and commando 

raids; they did not know it was actual 

preparation for what was going to come 

the next day. On June 6 th , thousands of ships 

and troops began landing on the beaches at 

Normandy and it became obvious to everyone 

what was happening, but only those in 

the know knew it ahead of time. It is the 

same thing today: we are the ones in the 

know; we are to understand that we are already 

in the Last Days, that Jesus’ resurrection 

is our Resurrection, that He is simply 

the first fruit of it, and that the Ascension 

of Jesus is the beginning of the Rapture and 

He is the first fruit of it. We are not waiting 

for the Rapture and Resurrection, we are 

waiting for our role in it. The Last Days are 

already here. 

The Apostle John says the same thing. 

Children, it is the last hour; and just 

as you heard that antichrist is coming, 

even now many antichrists have appeared; 

from this we know that it is the 

last hour. (1 John 2:18) 

He is writing this two thousand years ago 

saying THE Antichrist is coming but there 

are many antichrists. Two thousand years ago 

John is saying it is the Last Days. What he 

means is the same as in Hebrews, that we are 

already in the Last Days in the broad sense. 

Jacob Prasch 

Think of a football game. Your wife asks 

you when you would like dinner and you 

say, “After the football game, please. It will 

be over at 6 o’clock.” She says dinner will 

be ready at six, but in the last quarter at five 

minutes to six there is a serious injury. The 

clock is stopped. The paramedics come out, 

determine they cannot move the injured 

player and that a doctor is needed. The doctor 

says he cannot move the guy and calls for 

an ambulance. Now it is 6:15 and your wife 

asks if you want dinner in the microwave 

or in the dog. How long is left in the game? 

Five minutes. Yes, but it was “five minutes” 

twenty minutes ago. Time freezes. 

This is the time period between the 69 th 

and 70 th week of Daniel’s vision corresponding 

to what we call “the times of the 

Gentiles.” (Lk. 21:24) Israel is God’s time 

piece for the nations. We are told in Luke 21 

when we see the Jews back in Jerusalem, the 

clock is ready to begin ticking again. In Romans 

11 we are told the same thing. When 

we see Jews coming to faith in Christ, that 

clock is getting ready to tick again. 

In the 90s the American College of Rabbis 

issued a statement that more Jews had 

turned to Christ in the previous eighteen 

years than in the whole of the last eighteen 

centuries. Those were the numbers back 

then, and they have accelerated even more 

since. When I first emigrated to Israel, there 

were approximately two hundred known 

Jewish believers in the entire land; now 

we know there are at least six thousand for 

sure, probably more. That is just the change 

in my lifetime so far. What we see in the 

Middle East with Jews becoming believers 

again means that the times of the Gentiles 

is coming to a close and the clock is going 

to begin ticking. We are already in the Last 

Days in the broad sense of the word. 

But then there is the Last Days in the 

specific sense of the word, that time period 

leading up to our “episunagoge”— our 

gathering together to be with Him: the Rapture 

and Resurrection, as far as our role in 

it. This is the time leading up to “the time of 

Jacob’s Trouble,” the Great Tribulation (Jer. 

30:7), those events and the events leading up 

to it. So we have the Last Days in the broad 

sense, which is the age of the Church, but 

we have the Last Days in the specific sense 

once the clock begins to start ticking again. 

Two Kinds of Persecution 

The believers at the time of the writing of 

Hebrews were beginning to face two kinds 

of persecution. They had already faced persecution 

from the Sanhedrin—the rabbis or 

Jewish rabbinic establishment. They were 

already getting it from their own kind, their 

own people. Believe me, no one will give it 

to us worse in the back than our own kind, 

and it is not just Jews. 

All That Can Be Shaken 

In Israel we had a joke, but it was no joke. 

When an Orthodox Jew would get saved, 

his family would sit shiva for him; they 

would actually a funeral for him. I know 

people that this has happened to. When a 

Muslim got saved, his family would also 

have a funeral for him, only he would be at 

the funeral. But I have seen the same thing 

with Greek Orthodox people and I have 

seen the same thing in European countries, 

particularly Italy, Ireland and Poland: the 

families go against the believers. It is not 

seen so much in America, but it still happens 

in very Catholic countries where the 

family goes against the one who gets saved. 

Nobody will give it to us in our back like 

our own kind. 

They were getting it from their own kind, 

but then something else happened. The Romans 

had to kinds of religions: “religio licita” 

and “religio illicita”—licensed religion 

and unlicensed religion. The emperor was 

the head of the Pantheon of Rome. His title 

was the “Pontificus Maximus”—“the Great 

Bridge Builder.” They called him “Pontiff” 

for short. The emperor could care less what 

religion one had as long as they acknowledged 

him as the Pontiff—the “Bridge 

Builder” between the faiths. In the Last 

Days, the same thing happens. 

The countries which were in the Roman 

Empire in Daniel and Revelation have to 

come together into a non-democratic Europe 

to set the stage for the political Antichrist. 

At the same time, the False Prophet 

will be convening the world’s false religious 

system as a super-ecumenical entity to prepare 

the way for Antichrist. These things 

have to happen. When Constantine moved 

his empire from Istanbul to his new capital 

in Constantinople, his title “Pontificus 

Maximus” was bequeathed to the pope and 

this can be seen. 

With religio licita, anyone could have a 

religion that could be licensed as long as they 

acknowledged the emperor as Pontiff. The 

Jews made a deal because they would not 

sacrifice to the emperor, but instead would 

sacrifice for him, so they obtained a license. 

But once Jewish believers were excommunicated 

from the synagogue, and they became 

known as those who were kicked out, 

the Jews lost their license. So now they are 

not only being persecuted by the rabbis, they 

are being persecuted by the Roman government 

for being an unlicensed religion. 

In the Last Days it will be the same thing. 

There was one faith the Romans would 

not put up with: biblical Christianity. The 

Romans saw their religious system as necessary 

to create a political stability and a 

social unity in a multi-ethnic, multi-racial 

Roman Empire. In the Last Days, the same 

thing happens again. 

Just look at a map of Europe. Take Ireland, 

which is a Celtic country, and Poland, 


All That Can Be Shaken – Continued 

which is a Slavic country. Take Austria, 

which is a Germanic country, and Italy, 

which is a Latin country. What is the only 

thing that a Polish person, an Irish person, 

an Austrian person and an Italian person all 

have in common? It is not language, not 

culture, not history, it is not cuisine; there is 

only one thing they have in common, which 

is Catholicism. A Pontiff is needed to create 

stability between disparate people. The same 

thing took place during the Roman Empire 

and it will happen again in the Last Days. 

The Past Reveals the Future 

But also understand what else happens. 

When Jesus came the first time there was a 

general named Octavius who took the name 

Caesar Augustus. Other emperors had been 

deified posthumously, but Caesar Augustus 

was deified in his lifetime by the Senate; he 

was worshiped as god. And what happens? 

He assigns a number to people—he took a 

census when Jesus was born. This is a type 

of the Antichrist. Someone is going to come 

in the character of these deified emperors 

who is going to actually number people for 

the same reason, to have economic control 

of the known world just as the emperors 

did; that is why they did this. 

In other words, we have to understand the 

early Church in the first coming of Christ to 

understand His return. We have to understand 

the events surrounding 70 AD and the 

Book of Hebrews to understand what is going 

to happen in the Last Days. To learn the 

future, first learn the past. If we do not know 

what happened, we will not know what will 

happen; if we understand what happened, 

we will understand what will happen. The 

Pontiff said one could have any religion 

they wanted as long as they acknowledged 

the Pontiff. 

Twice there were convocations in Assisi, 

Italy held by Pope John Paul II. In attendance 

at his invitation were African witch doctors, 

Zoroastrian priests, Muslim Imams, rabbis, 

the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhists—he met 

with everybody. He was the Pontiff—the 

“bridge builder,” but four times Pope John 

Paul II condemned only one religion. He 

did it in Rome, Mexico City, Santo Domingo, 

and the first time in 1985 in La Paz, Bolivia: 

he condemned Evangelicals, calling 

us “rapacious wolves.” This was because 

of the large numbers of Catholics becoming 

Pentecostals and Baptists in Latin America. 

That is what the Pontiff did in the 1 st century, 

so that is what the Pontiff does in the 

21 st century. If we want to know the future 

we must understand the past. 

There is going to be a reconfederation of 

European countries into a non-democratic 

Europe and they are going to need a multireligious 

ecumenical system to create an 

artificial basis to maintain a social, cultural 

and political harmony of these widely different 

countries, the same as the Romans did. 

So these believers in Israel who received 

the Epistle of Hebrews were getting two 

kinds of persecution, first by the rabbis and 

the Sanhedrin, and now they are also being 

persecuted by the Roman government. In 

this place, some of them were being tempted 

to say that when they were in the synagogue 

and the Temple they had a license — they 

were religio licita, and that they had blood 

atonement through the sacrifices of the animals 

through the Levitical sacrificial system. 

Some were saying, “Let’s go back to 

the Law, let’s go back to the Temple. We’ll 

use that for blood atonement.” They were 

advocating recanting faith in Jesus as the 

Messiah to go back to relying on the Law 

and the blood atonement of the Levitical 

priests to make atonement for sin. That is the 

historical context of what was taking place. 

Hebrews warns them that they were forgetting 

what Daniel said, forgetting what 

Jesus said, that the Temple was going to 

be destroyed. (Heb. 9-10) Whenever we 

see Christians going back under the Law 

they become a cult such as the Seventh-day 

Adventists; we cannot live under two covenants 

at the same time. Another example 

is the extreme elements of the Messianic 

Movement; we cannot live under two covenants 

at the same time because it becomes 

something cultic and heretical. It is the oldest 

trick in the book. In the 4 th century, Satan 

paganized Christendom, but in the 1 st 

century he tried to Judaize it — put it back 

under the Law. This is what the Epistle of 

Galatians is about and this, in part, is what 

Hebrews is about. 

They are in this situation where they are 

being to go back to the Law to trust for their 

salvation in order to not be persecuted. If we 

just get religious, we will not be persecuted. 

The problem is that while we can have religion 

and not be persecuted, we cannot 

have religion and the assurance of salvation. 

Only Jesus can give us the assurance 

of salvation, but we might be persecuted, 

and if we are not willing to be persecuted 

for Jesus, we do not have Him. This is what 

Hebrews is saying to us. 

When the Heavenlies Shake, the 

Earthly Shakes 

See to it that you do not refuse Him 

who is speaking. For if those did not 

escape when they refused him who 

warned them on earth, much less will 

we escape who turn away from Him 

who warns from heaven. And His voice 

shook the earth then, but now He has 

promised, saying, “YET ONCE MORE 

I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE 

EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN.” 

This expression, “Yet once more,” 

denotes the removing of those things 

which can be shaken, as of created 

things, so that those things which cannot 

be shaken may remain. Therefore, 

since we receive a kingdom which cannot 

be shaken, let us show gratitude, 

by which we may offer to God an acceptable 

service with reverence and 

awe; for our God is a consuming fire. 

(Heb. 12:25-29) 

It speaks of this impending “shaking”. 

For them, in the short term, the “shaking” 

was the events of 70 AD which we read 

about in Josephus and Eusebius and so 

forth, but here it becomes very focused on 

the Last Days and begins quoting from the 

Old Testament. It begins to warn what is 

going to happen about this shaking that is 

going to come, and it refers back to Isaiah 

and quotes Haggai that everything that can 

be shaken will be shaken and so forth: “Yet 

once more I will shake not only the earth, 

but also the heaven.” 

Zechariah, Job, Daniel and Revelation 

all show us something. The turmoil we see 

happening on the earth is merely a reflection 

of the conflicts in heaven. Daniel sees 

Michael fighting the Prince of Persia. (Dan. 

10:13) This has political ramifications upon 

the earth. Daniel 10 tells us that in the final 

conflict, Persia—Iran, will rise up against 

Israel. But we do not struggle against flesh 

and blood (Eph. 6:12)—it is not Ahmadinejad, 

it is what is controlling him, the prince 

with the power over Persia. People call it 

“territorial spirits”— that is a bad translation 

of the more accurate term “principalities”. 

What we see happening in the Middle 

East is merely a reflection of battles in the 

heavenlies as Daniel saw. 

We see the same thing in Revelation: 

there is a battle in the heavenlies. What was 

happening to Job on earth was a reflection 

of what was happening in heaven when Satan 

was accusing him. What was happening 

in the days of Ezra, Nehemiah and Haggai 

was simply a reflection of what was happening 

before the throne of God in Zechariah. 

Zechariah opens up the curtain to show 

us what is happening in heaven at the same 

time these events are happening on earth. 

Daniel shows us what is happening in heaven 

at the same time these political events 

happen on earth. Revelation shows us both 

what is happening in heaven and what is 

happening on earth. These events we see 

in the Middle East today are all ramifications 

of a spiritual battle in the heavenlies. 

Jerusalem is where Satan received his biggest 

defeat and it is where he will receive 

his final defeat; there is a spiritual battle. 

The physical, military conflicts are simply 

the ramifications of something spiritual taking 

place and is much of what the Book of 

Daniel is about. 


This is why we are told to pray for leaders. 

I do not care for politicians, I do not like either 

Democrats or Republicans, I do not trust 

nor respect them, but I pray for them. If they 

are not influenced by our prayers they will 

be influenced by something more sinister. 

Seismology & Obstetrics 

This expression, “Yet once more,” 

denotes the removing of those things 

which can be shaken, as of created 

things… (Heb. 12:27a) 

What people made is going to be shaken; 

only what God has made cannot be shaken, 

the real kingdom of God. All over the world 

we are already seeing the impending shaking. 

The two things that describe what the Last 

Days will be like come, respectively, from 

the sciences of seismology and obstetrics. In 

seismology tectonic plates shift to produce 

tremors, but sooner or later they are not 

just going to shift, there is going to be a big 

earthquake. So, too, in obstetrics are labor 

contractions. They may ease up for a while, 

but then they come back with a double ferocity; 

they do not stop until the baby comes 

and so in the Last Days do not stop until the 

manchild comes. (Rev. 12) Both Jeremiah 

and Revelation use obstetrics to illustrate 

what the Last Days are going to be like. 

It is just like the earth tremors in the Pacific 

Rim, sooner or later there is going to 

be a big earthquake. Things may seem to 

get better in the short term just as in maternal 

labor, the contractions seem to let up 

for a bit, but then they come back worse. 

Do not be misled by intermittent periods of 

respite. If things seem to get better, it is a 

temporary period of respite, the eye of the 

proverbial hurricane. Things are going to 

get worse before they get better. Everything 

that can be shaken will be shaken. 

To those of my age who remember the 

Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam War, 

if someone had told us the Soviet Union 

would implode and self-destruct, it would 

have seemed crazy, but it collapsed overnight. 

The French Empire, the British Empire, 

overnight they collapsed in a matter 

of years. The great new economy of Japan 

where they were going to be the new 

America is now gone; China has overtaken 

them, and now even China is being shaken. 

India was “the new economy” for a while, 

but they have Hindu fundamentalism, Sikh 

fundamentalism and even Islamic fundamentalism. 

There are 160 million Muslims 

in India, in fact more Muslims in a Hindu 

country than there are people in Russia. One 

country in Europe after another is going into 

recession. Everything is being shaken—the 

political realm, the economic realm—it will 

all be shaken. 

Thanks to banks and the fundamental institutions 

of government we cannot be sure 

of anything anymore, and they are not going 

to change it. No matter what they say 

about change, the only thing a politician is 

going to change is his socks. The world is in 

the power of the wicked one and if there is a 

shaking in the heavenlies, there is going to 

be a shaking on earth. 

It Is Not Just Worldly Things That 

Will Be Shaken 

However, judgment does not begin on 

Wall Street; judgment does not begin in 

Washington; judgment does not being in the 

political or economic forces that control this 

world—judgment begins in the house of God. 

The things that people created are going to 

be shaken. Do we realize how many ministries 

and churches, although they have been 

built in the name of building the kingdom of 

God, have really been built as the empires of 

men? They are monuments to themselves. 

The fastest growing church in America in 

2007 was The Church Without Walls in Florida 

and it has wound up in debt to the tune 

of $13.5 million. The fastest growing church 

of America in 2008 was in Lakeland, Florida, 

also now in debt $12.5 million. Robert 

Schuler of the Crystal Cathedral liquidated 

$65 million in assets to stay on the air, but 

even that was not enough to stave off complete 

bankruptcy and the selling off of his 

palace to the Catholic church. They are being 

shaken, they are on their way out. These 

are things built by men. They say they are 

building things for the kingdom of God, but 

these are empires of men. The televangelists’ 

day is coming; they are going to be shaken. 

Only that which is not of God will be 

shaken; that which is of God cannot be 

shaken. This shaking is coming. It is coming 

economically, it is coming politically, it is 

coming socially, and it is not only coming to 

the world, it is coming to the Church—that 

is, it is coming to the backslidden church, 

the church of Laodicea. But we are told to 

be part of that which cannot be shaken. 

The shaking is not going to get any better. 

There is not going to be any rescue package 

or the like. It is going to be like tremors. 

Yes, the tremors can ease off, but sooner or 

later, as they know in Tokyo and Los Angeles, 

something is going to happen. When 

maternal birth pangs commence, sooner or 

later the water is going to break and a baby 

is going to show up just as predicted for 

the manchild in Revelation 12, but it is not 

going to get any better, but worse. Again, 

do not be deluded by intermittent periods 

of things seeming to ease up; expect what 

is coming. If we know what is coming we 

can prepare for what is coming. Being forewarned 

is being forearmed. 

But people who have been deluded and 

lied to by money preachers are holding to 

stuff that will not work. In fact, it has never 


really worked for anybody except the conartists 

who preached it, but now people are 

going to find out it is all a lie. Their faith is 

going to be shaken because their faith was 

not in Jesus, their faith was in “faith;” their 

god was not the Lord, their god was mammon 

even though they called it “Christianity.” It 

is going to be shaken because it is all of man. 

But we are told we can be part of something 

that cannot be shaken. Not something 

that “will not” be shaken, but “cannot” be 

shaken. The faithful Church cannot be shaken. 

However, let us understand the characteristics 

of the faithful Church. What should 

it be like as we get into this time of shaking? 

The Love of the Brethren 

Let love of the brethren continue. Do not 

neglect to show hospitality to strangers, 

for by this some have entertained angels 

without knowing it. (Heb. 13:1-2) 

It begins with love of the brethren, people 

who look destitute. If some vagabond wandered 

in off the street into the church, how 

would that vagabond be received? Well, 

if an angel walked into the church and we 

knew it was an angel, they would receive 

the best treatment possible. We are supposed 

to treat the vagabond as we would an angel 

because he might be one. It is a “put your 

money where your mouth is” kind of love. 

Do not misunderstand what I am saying. 

We are told in 2 Thessalonians 3:10 those 

who do not work should not eat, to look out 

for those people who are looking for a free 

ride on the back of the Church; these are 

parasites who are worse than unbelievers. 

But we are coming into a climate where 

people are going to lose their jobs, they are 

going to lose their businesses, they are going 

to be financially hard up, they are going 

to struggle to pay their mortgages—they are 

going to have all kinds of problems. Either 

the Church is going to function like a family 

or it is going to function like an institution. 

The institutions are going to collapse because 

they are manmade; God’s family will 

not. Will we stand together with believers 

and help the needy by going into our own 

pocket until they can get on their feet again? 

God is our Provider, He is our Helper, but 

talk is cheap—put your money where your 

mouth is. We might be the next one who 

lose their business and need the help. A 

shaking is coming. 

Jesus never came to establish a church 

that is an institution; He came to establish 

a Church that is a family. The idea of an 

institutional church is completely alien to 

the teachings of the New Testament. That 

is something people created, not something 

Jesus established. 

Remember the Prisoners 

Remember the prisoners, as though in 



prison with them, and those who are 

ill-treated, since you yourselves also 

are in the body. (Heb. 13:3) 

If our feet feel terrific like we are walking 

on air, but have a root canal that is the 

worse toothache of our life, it does not matter 

how great our feet feel, as a whole we 

feel lousy. Every Christian, every church, 

needs to be involved in praying for, and as 

they are financially able to be supporting 

ministries of, the persecuted Church. There 

are good ones and bad ones. I still love 

Richard Wurmbrand’s ministry Voice of the 

Martyrs, unfortunately Open Doors seems 

to have lost their way after the collapse of 

the Iron Curtain, but more Christians have 

been martyred in the last fifty years than in 

all of Christian history. 

“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting 

Me?” (Acts 9:4) If we are not identified 

with the persecuted Church, we are not 

identified with Jesus. The freedoms that we 

have had in Western democracies to meet 

openly is an historical anomaly. Our rights 

were copied mainly from Great Britain. We 

can read the Bible in English, we can read 

it together publicly in a church—the rights 

to do such things were purchased with the 

blood of martyrs in England. The founding 

fathers in America understood this and imitated 

it here. Now that we are turning away 

from our biblical heritage as a society, our 

freedom and democracy is going out the 

window with it. 

Why should we identify with the persecuted 

Church? Obviously because it is the 

Body of Christ and we are part of the Body. 

But actually we should identify with the 

persecuted Church because it is only a matter 

of time before they begin persecuting us. 

Do not think it will not happen in America, 

it will. They will go after home schoolers, 

they will go after right-to-life people. The 

abortion people are going to make it a “hate 

crime.” Already Christians have been prosecuted 

as close as Canada, many in Europe, 

for simply reading Romans 1 as to what it 

says about homosexuality. A pastor in Canada 

was fined $15,000 as a hate crime for 

simply reading the New Testament. Not hiring 

a pastor because they are a homosexual 

or lesbian is becoming a hate crime. The loss 

of tax-exempt status is closely following 

these trends. They are already beginning to 

make moves in that direction as we speak. 

People in this country have been very, very 

foolish looking for political solutions and 

trusting in politicians to change anything. 

In my lifetime, President Eisenhower appointed 

Earl Warren to the Supreme Court; 

it was Earl Warren who ordered God out of 

the classroom, a Republican who kicked 

God out of the classroom. It was President 

Nixon who appointed Warren Berger who 

ordered God out of the maternity ward in 

Roe v. Wade—the Republicans brought us 

abortion. Ronald Reagan, after telling Christian 

America he was Pro-Life, appointed 

Sandra Day O’Connor who wrote the decision 

to kick the Ten Commandments out of 

the judicial building in Alabama; it was the 

Republicans who ordered God out of the 

courtroom. This is the “Christian” party. 

Stop trusting in politicians. Pray for them, 

but do not trust them. Persecution is coming 

and no political party is going to make any 

difference, I do not care which one it is. 

Stand for the persecuted Church. Every 

one of us should be praying every day. Every 

church should in some way be involved with 

helping the persecuted Church. I go to countries 

where the Church is persecuted such as 

Indonesia. I have seen people saved out of 

Islamic backgrounds who are being persecuted 

where their churches are being burned 

and yet their congregations are growing. 

Hold Marriage in Honor 

The first thing we are told is to love the 

brethren, but it is a “put your money where 

your mouth is” love, then remember the prisoners, 

but then the third thing we are told… 

Marriage is to be held in honor among 

all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; 

for fornicators and adulterers 

God will judge. (Heb. 13:4) 

Marriage is the first kind of fellowship 

God ordained. “He made them male and female.” 

(Gen. 1:27) We are imago dei beings. 

We have a body, soul and a spirit because 

we are imago dei beings—we are made 

in God’s image and likeness. Concerning 

Jesus, Scripture says, “Prepare a body for 

Me.” (Heb. 10:5) God has a body—Christ, 

God become a man. God has a Spirit—the 

Holy Spirit. “Who has known the mind of 

the Father?” (Rom. 11:34; 1 Co. 2:16) God 

has a soul. The reason we are composed of 

a body, soul and spirit is because we are tripartite 

beings made in the image and likeness 

of a triune God. 

When they asked Jesus what was God’s 

greatest commandment, Jesus said, “Hear, 

O Israel! The Lord our God is Oneness.” 

(Mk. 12:29) That Hebrew term for “oneness”—“echad”, 

is the same term God used 

for Adam and Eve in Genesis to become 

one flesh. (Gen. 2:24) 

What happens in holy matrimony when 

a marriage is consummated? The Hebrew 

idiom is “he went into her” and the Lord 

allowed them to conceive like in the Book 

of Ruth. (Ruth 4:13) One person goes inside 

another person and a third person is procreated. 

It is one-in-three, it is three-in-one; 

it reflects our Creator. God hates divorce. 

(Mal. 2:16) The permanency of a Christian 

marriage is to reflect God’s own eternal 

unity within the Godhead. The idea of two 

saved Christians getting divorced should 

be unthinkable. God knew that in the Last 

Days, marriage will come under attack like 

never before. If Satan can destroy the family, 

if he can destroy marriage, he can destroy 

the Church. Cancer kills people when 

the cells become metastatic. Destroy marriage, 

destroy families, destroy the Church. 

In 1968, one out of thirteen Evangelical 

marriages ended in divorce, and then it was, 

almost inevitably, that at least one of the 

partners was unsaved. What is the divorce 

rate now among Christians in America? 

Just as high as the secular world. There are 

preachers doing it! Televangelists do it! It 

means nothing to them! Churches who tolerate 

this are going to be shaken. Christians 

who live in these kinds of marriages are going 

to be shaken. “Let marriage be held in 

honor among all.” (Heb. 13:4) 

You love your wife? I am glad to hear it. 

You love your husband? That is good, but 

it is not good enough. No matter how much 

you love that guy, no matter how much you 

love that lady, a marriage cannot be built on 

human love, it can only be built on the love of 

Jesus. Human love is still love that will fail. 

“See to it that you do not refuse Him who 

is speaking.” (Heb. 12:25) “Let the love of 

the brethren continue,” (Heb. 13:1), “Do 

not neglect…strangers,” (Heb. 13:2), “Remember 

the prisoners,” (Heb. 13:3), “See to 

it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking.” 

Remember the prisoners, remember 

those being persecuted for their faith—it 

may only be a matter of time before they 

persecute us; “See to it that you do not refuse 

Him who is speaking.” Let marriage be 

held in honor by all, let the marriage bed be 

undefiled. (Heb. 13:4) “See to it that you do 

not refuse Him who is speaking.” “He who 

is speaking” is not Jacob Prasch—I did not 

write this, by the grace of God I simply believe 

it and know it to be true. “See to it that 

you do not refuse Him who is speaking.” 

But then it continues… 

The Love of Money 

Make sure that your character is free 

from the love of money… (Heb. 13:5a) 

How did God know that in the Last Days, 

Christians are going to be swallowed up in a 

materialistic philosophy which they are then 

going to imagine to be “Christianity?” How 

did He know about suave money preachers 

on television doing a hatchet job on the 

Word of God to con naïve and undiscerning 

people out of their money? We are told that 

the love of money is the root of all kinds of 

evil. (1 Ti. 6:10) Not “money,” but “the love 

of money.” 

God uses money to get people; 

televangelists use people to get money. We 

all need money. Every Church that is honest 

needs money. Every missions program 

needs money. We have orphans in Africa 


and AIDS babies and, yes, we need money. 

But the Bible teaches that God uses money 

to get people, He does not use people to 

get money, that is what televangelists do. 

They do not teach faith in Jesus, they teach 

faith in “faith.” They are calling the sin 

of covetousness “faith.” Those who chase 

money in that manner will lose their faith, 

but they preach that anyone not chasing 

money in that way does not have faith. 

These will be shaken; we need to be part 

of a Church that will not be shaken. If we 

lose a building, we will meet in a tent. The 

early Christians did not have buildings. I am 

not against buildings, they can be used for 

all sorts of things, but the Church is not the 

building, it is the people in it. “Make sure 

that your character is free from the love of 

money.” (Heb. 13:5) So many of these programs 

are not building the kingdom of God, 

they are building the empires of men, and 

they will be shaken. May their walls come 

down faster than Jericho. 

Leadership by Example 

Remember those who led you, who 

spoke the word of God to you; and 

considering the result of their conduct, 

imitate their faith. (Heb. 13:7) 

First it is what people say, but then it how 

people live. Jesus did not live just by what He 

said, but by example. Leadership is always 

by example, not just by words. People can 

be eloquent; they can know the right things 

to say, they can even know the Scriptures. 

I have unsaved relatives and the only Bible 

they are going to read is my life, and sometimes 

I am not very interesting “reading.” 

Strange & Varied Teachings 

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and 

today and forever. (Heb. 13:8) 

Things are going to change—shaking is 

going to come, but we can know that Jesus 

Christ is the same today, yesterday and forever. 

When the Scriptures says “Christ Jesus” 

it is Him in eternity; when it says “Jesus 

Christ” it is Him on earth. But we are 

told the next thing: because He is “the same 

yesterday and today and forever,” so is His 

Word. He is the Word made flesh, (Jn. 1:14) 

He is the incarnate “Logos.” 

Do not be carried away by varied and 

strange teachings; for it is good for 

the heart to be strengthened by grace, 

not by foods, through which those who 

were so occupied were not benefited. 

(Heb. 13:9) 

In the Last Day, “Do not be carried away 

by varied and strange teachings.” Those 

who are carried away by unbiblical doctrines 

are going to be shaken. 

If you are reading The Shack, do yourself 

a favor and put a match to it. You have a 

copy of The Purpose Driven Life? Do yourself 

a favor and throw it into the incinerator. 

These things are not scriptural. Today 

what is being propagated as “teaching” is 

not teaching, it is psycho-babble by motivational 

teachers using Christian jargon. 

Think of a motivational seminar. Every 

corporation sends its executives to one at 

one point or another. They pay $400-500 to 

go down to the Holiday Inn and some guy 

comes out with a Benny Hinn haircut and a 

stylish suit and gives a spiel like, “Visualize 

your dream”, “Maximize the positive,” 

“Minimize the negative,” “Make that dream 

a reality in your mind.” Of course, when the 

Dow goes through the basement, the only 

one it worked for was the motivational 

speaker. This gets into the Church, only they 

pseudo-Christianize it. “God has given me a 

vision for a church that is going to seat ten 

thousand people.” “I rebuke negativity in the 

name of Jesus, hallelujah!” This is motivational 

psychology masquerading as preaching. 

They are not expounding the Word of 

God. It is “varied and strange teachings.” 

“Strange” means “alien to Scripture.” 

The concepts of God in The Shack are alien 

to Scripture. The Purpose Driven Life comes 

from marketing, psychology and New Age, 

it does not come from the Word of God. 

Rick Warren’s P.E.A.C.E. plan is not God’s 

peace plan according to Ephesians 6, he has 

his own; it is strange, it is alien to the Word 

of God. And so we are told in the Last Days, 

“Do not be carried away by varied and 

strange teachings.” Those Christians, those 

churches who follow these things are going 

to be shaken. “See to it that that you do not 

refuse Him who is speaking.” (Heb. 12:25) 

A Reproach for Christ 

We have an altar from which those 

who serve the tabernacle have no right 

to eat. For the bodies of those animals 

whose blood is brought into the holy 

place by the high priest as an offering 

for sin, are burned outside the camp. 

Therefore Jesus also, that He might 

sanctify the people through His own 

blood, suffered outside the gate. So, 

let us go out to Him outside the camp, 

bearing His reproach. (Heb. 13:10-13) 

These animals in the Old Testament were 

types of Christ; they were sin offerings that 

took the sin of the people. The carcasses left 

over bore a reproach because they were sin 

offerings that had to be taken outside of the 

camp. 

Those churches which cannot be shaken, 

those Christians who will not be shaken, 

those who do not follow the program, 

those who follow God’s agenda, are going 

to become a reproach. They are going 

to be ostracized by the other churches. The 

denominations will kick them out because 

they will become a reproach. If we have 

the right kind of love for the brethren, if 

we stand with the persecuted Church, if we 

hold marriage in honor and do not compromise 

God’s standard, if we are free from the 

love of money, if we will not give place to 

these crazy doctrines, we are going to become 

a reproach. They are going to think 

we are nuts. They are going to do to us what 

the rabbis did to the Jewish believers of the 

1 st century. They are going to do to us what 

the church of Rome did to Christians in the 

16 th century. 

Obey Your Leaders 

Obey your leaders and submit to them, 

for they keep watch over your souls 

as those who will give an account. 

Let them do this with joy and not with 

grief, for this would be unprofitable for 

you. (Heb. 13:17) 

But then it continues with, “Obey your 

leaders.” That word “obey” does not mean 

to do what they tell us for the sake of doing 

it, the Greek word means “to be persuaded.” 

In other words, “to be persuaded” on the basis 

of Scripture that they are telling the truth 

and the Holy Spirit shows us that, yes, it is 

right. What you are hearing now, God calls 

you to test it. It is the Holy Spirit telling you 

that what that guy is telling you is right; that 

is the issue. 

When our pastor stands before Jesus, he 

is going to give account for our souls. James 

3:1 says that teachers will be judged more 

strictly than the rest. When we stand before 

Jesus, He is going to hold me more accountable 

than He holds you. Some people 

take that very lightly, I do not, but in these 

Last Days many do. Everything that can be 

shaken will be shaken. 

Conclusion 

A real love of the brethren, an identification 

with the persecuted Church, an upholding 

of God’s standard of holy matrimony, a 

leadership that is by example and not just 

by words, those who are willing for the sake 

of Christ to become a reproach—these and 

these alone will not be shaken. Indeed, these 

alone cannot be shaken. Once again, “See to it 

that you do not refuse Him who is speaking.” 

God bless ††† 

Jacob Prasch

The Boiling Pot - Moriel Ministries

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