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The Mark of the Beast
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The Cross
of Tammuz
Revelation 13
16 It (the
beast Mystery Babylon/Christianity)
also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to
receive a mark (
) on their right hands or
on their foreheads,
17 so that they could
not buy or sell unless they had the mark (),
Tammuz, the second member of the
pagan Babylonian Trinity, the incarnation of God in the flesh, is the False
Messiah of the religion created by Semaramis (the Whore mentioned in
Revelation). Yahuah has commanded us (His people) to “come out of her” and cease
prostituting out the worship of the ONE true God to others.
The symbol of “the son of The LORD god Baal” in the pagan
religion of Babylon was a cross. It is called
The Cross of Tammuz.
This cross was worn on the head dresses of the Babylonians
and breastplates of priests and warriors alike in honor of Tammuz. The cross
was a representation of “T” in Tammuz and his symbol “x”.
The cross is a tradition of the Church which our fathers
have inherited was the adoption of the words "cross" and "crucify".
These words are nowhere to be found in the Greek versions of the New
Testament.
These words are mistranslations, a "later
rendering", of the Greek words stauros and stauroo.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
says,
"STAUROS denotes,
primarily, an upright pole or stake ... Both the noun and the verb stauroo, to
fasten to a stake or pole, are originally to be distinguished from
the ecclesiastical form of a two-beamed cross. The shape of the latter had its
origin in ancient Chaldea (Babylon), and was used as the symbol of the god
Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name)
... By the middle of the 3rd century A.D. at the Council of Nicea the churches
had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of The Faith
found in The Bible.
In order to increase the prestige of the apostate
ecclesiastical system (known as Christianity) pagans were received into the
churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted
largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. Hence the Tau or T, in its
most frequent form, with the cross piece lowered, was adopted and to this day
remains the “symbol” of Jesus (Tammuz) or the X.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christogram
The most commonly encountered
Christogram in English-speaking countries in modern times is the
X (or
more accurately, Greek letter chi) in the abbreviation
Xmas (for "Christmas"),
which represents the first letter of the word Christ
.
We see that the “cross” is not in the Bible at all, but
rather predates the New Testament in all pagan religions.
Dr. Bullinger, in the
Companion Bible, appx. 162, states,
"crosses were used as
symbols of the Babylonian Sun-god (Tammuz)... Constantine was a Sun-god
worshipper ... The evidence is complete, that Yahusha was put to death upon an
upright stake, not on two pieces of timber”
Rev. Alexander Hislop, The
Two Babylons, pp. 197-205,
frankly calls the cross
"this Pagan symbol ... the Tau, the sign of the cross, the indisputable
sign of Tammuz, the False Messiah ... the mystic Tau of the Cladeans
(Babylonians) and Egyptians - the true original form of the letter T the
initial of the name of Tammuz ... the Babylonian cross was
the recognized
emblem of Tammuz."
In the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, 11th edition, vol. 14, p. 273,
we read, "In the Egyption
churches the cross was a pagan symbol of life borrowed by the pagan-Christians
and interpreted in the pagan manner." Jacob Grimm, in his Deutsche
Mythologie, says that the Teutonic (Germanic) tribes had their idol Thor,
symbolized by a hammer, while the Roman Pagans had their crux (cross). It was
thus somewhat easier for the Teutons to accept the Roman Cross.
Greek dictionaries, lexicons and other study books also
declare the primary meaning of stauros to be an upright pale, pole or stake.
The secondary meaning of "cross" is admitted by them to be a
"later" rendering to accommodate Rome. At least two of them do not
even mention "cross", and only render the meaning as "pole or
stake".
In spite of this strong evidence and proof that the word
stauros should have been translated "stake", and the verb stauroo to
have been translated "impale", almost all the common modern versions
of the Scriptures persist with the Latin Vulgate's crux (cross), a fallacious
"later" rendering of the Greek stauros. Why then was the
"cross" (crux) brought into the Faith? And why are our modern
English Bibles implicit in this lie?
Again, historical evidence points to Constantine as the one
who had the major share in uniting Sun-worship and the Messianic Faith into a
modern day version of The Mystery Religion of Babylon. We
will look in depth at the history and evolution of Christianity in my next book
Christianity: The Great Deception and see exactly what happened.
Constantine's famous vision of "the cross superimposed
on the sun", in the year 312, is usually cited. Writers, ignorant of the
fact that the cross was not to be found in the New Testament Scriptures, put
much emphasis on this vision as the onset of the so-called
"conversion" of Constantine. But, unless Constantine had been
misguided by the Gnostic Manichean half-Christians, who indeed used the cross
in their hybrid religion, this vision of the cross superimposed on the sun
could only be the same old cosmic religion, the astrological religion of Babylon. The fact remains: that which Constantine saw, is nowhere to be found in Scripture.
But rather was a common symbol of his god… the Sungod. Constantine had just a
few years prior converted to The Cult of Sol Invictus! Constantine worshipped Chistos Mithras and the followers of Mithra were called Christians.
I prove this too in this book series. So looking up to his “sungod” seeing the
cross of Tammuz should have been expected and understood for what it really
was. There was a REASON why he was bowing down to the “sun” in the first
place. Constantine did not convert to the Jewish High Priest and Messiah Yahusha.
He converted the world to his existing religion that was known at that time as
Christians.
We read in the book of Johannes Geffcken, The Last Days of
Greco-Roman Paganism, p.319, "that even after 314 A.D. the coins of Constantine show an even-armed cross as a symbol for the Sun-god." This is the symbol
of all sun worshipping religion as I have stated. This equidistant cross is
the cut-out of the center of The Zodiac. Many scholars have doubted the
"conversion" of Constantine because of the wicked deeds that he did
afterwards, and because of the fact that he only requested to be baptized on
his death-bed many years later, in the year 337. His coins to the day he died
read “Sol Invictus Committi” or “committed to the invincible sun”. The Catholic
Encyclopedia even admits Constantine’s conversion was a legend and should be
stricken from our literature entirely.
Catholic Encyclopedia,
Farley ed., vol. xiv, pp. 370-1
The smooth generalisation, which
so many historians are content to repeat, that Constantine "embraced the
Christian religion" and subsequently granted "official
toleration", is "contrary to historical fact" and should be
erased from our literature forever (Catholic Encyclopedia, Pecci ed.,
vol. iii, p. 299, passim).
Simply put, Constantine was already a ‘Christian’ a follower
of Christos Mithras and the Church acknowledges that the tale of his
"conversion" and "baptism" are "entirely
legendary". So, if the vision of the cross impressed him, and was used as
a rallying symbol, it could not have been in honor of Yahusha, because Constantine continued paying homage to the Sun-deity and to one of the Sun-deity's symbols,
the cross until the day he died. This continuation of
Sun-worship by Constantine is demonstrated by the images of the Sun-deity on
his coins that were issued by him up to the year 323. Secondly, the fact of his
motivation to issue his Sunday-keeping edict in the year 321, which was not
done in honour of Yahshúa, but was done because of the "venerable day of
the Invicible Sun", as the edict read, is proof of this continued
allegiance to Sol Invictus. I’ll cover this in detail in this book series.
Where did the cross come from, then? J.C. Cooper,
An
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols, p. 45, aptly summarises
it,
"Cross - A universal symbol
from the most remote times; it is the cosmic symbol par excellence." Yes,
the cross is THE mark or cosmic symbol of The Zodiac of all pagan sun
worshipping religions “par excellence”. Other authorities also call it a sun-symbol,
a Babylonian sun-symbol, an astrological Babylonian-Assyrian and heathen sun-symbol,
also in the form of an encircled cross referred to as a "solar
wheel", and many other varieties of crosses. The cross with the sun in
the background is taken directly from the center of The Zodiac:
This symbol of the Sun from the center part of The Zodiac is
the exact symbol of Christianity:
Also, "the cross represents the Tree of Life",
the age-old fertility symbol, combining the vertical male and horizontal female
principles, especially in Egypt, either as an ordinary cross, or better known
in the form of the crux ansata, the Egyptian ankh (sometimes called the Tau
cross), which had been carried over into our modern-day symbol of the female,
well known in biology.
As stated above, the indisputable sign of Tammuz, the mystic
Tau of the Babylonians and Egyptians, was brought into the Church chiefly
because of Constantine, and has since been adored with all the homage due only
to the Most High.
The Protestants have for many years refrained from undue
adoration of, or homage to the cross, especially in England at the time of the
Puritans in the 16th - 17th centuries. But lately this un-Scriptural symbol has
been increasingly accepted in Protestantism and now widely believed to be a
symbol of the Messiah.
We have previously discussed "the weeping for
Tammuz", and the similarity between the Easter resurrection and the return
or rising of Tammuz. Tammuz was the young incarnate Sun, the Sun-divinity
incarnate. This same Sun-deity, known amongst the Babylonians as Tammuz, was
identified with the Greek Adonis and with the Phoenician Adoni, and the Roman
Mithras all of them Sun-deities, being slain in winter, then being "wept
for", and their return being celebrated by a festivity in spring, while
some had it in summer - according to the myths of pagan idolatry.
The evidence for its pagan origin is so convincing that The
Catholic Encyclopedia admits that "the sign of the cross, represented
in its simplest form by a crossing of two lines at right angles, greatly
antedates, in both East and the West, the introduction of Christianity. It goes
back to a very remote period of human civilization." That remote
“period” they fail to identify is Babylon!
The Catholic Encyclopedia then continues reverence to the
Tau cross of the pagan Egyptians, "In later times the Egyptian
Christians (Copts), attracted by its form, and perhaps by its symbolism,
adopted it as the emblem of the cross." That is because the Egyptian
god Horus was another incarnation of Tammus. Further proof of its pagan origin
is the recorded evidence of the Vestal Virgins of pagan Rome having the cross
hanging on a necklace, and the Egyptians doing it too, as early as the 15th
century B.C.E. The Buddhists, and numerous other sects of India,
also used the sign of the cross as a mark on their followers' heads. The cross
thus widely worshipped, or regarded as a 'sacred emblem', was the unequivocal
symbol of Bacchus (Tammuz), the Babylonian Messiah, for he was represented with
a head-band covered with crosses. It was also the symbol of Jupiter Foederis in
Rome. Furthermore, we read of the cross on top of the temple of Serapis,
the Sun-deity of Alexandria. This is Tammuz, whom the Greeks called Bacchus,
with the crosses on his head-band.
After Constantine had the "vision of the cross",
he and his army promoted another variety of the cross, the Chi-Rho or Labarum.
The identical symbols were found as inscriptions on a rock, dating from the
year ca. 2500 B.C. the time of Babylon the Great, being interpreted as "a
combination of two Sun-symbols", as the Ax or Hammer-symbol of the Sun- or
Sky-deity, and the or as the ancient symbol of the Sun, both of these signs
having a sensual or fertility meaning as well.
Another proof of its pagan origin is the identical found on
a coin of Ptolemeus III from the year 247 - 222 B.C. A well-known encyclopedia
describes the Labarum (Chi-Rho) as, "The labarum was also an emblem of the
Chaldean (Babylonian) sky-god and in Christianity it was adopted..."Emperor
Constantine adopted this Labarum as the imperial ensign and thereby succeeded
in "uniting both divisions of his troops, pagans and Christians, in a
common worship ... according to Suicer the word (labarum) came into use in the
reign of Hadrian, and was probably adopted from one of the nations conquered by
the Romans. "It must be remembered that Hadrian reigned in the years 76 -
138, that he was a pagan emperor, worshipped the Sun-deity Serapis when he
visited Alexandria, and was vehemently anti-Judaistic, being responsible for
the final near-destruction of Jerusalem in the year 130.
The
“Cross of Tammuz” and The Mark of the Beast
I go great detail on The Mark of the Beast in my book
The
Christianity and the Great Deception. But I will cover some of that
book here because this mark of The Cross of Tammuz which represents the
Babylonian Trinity was the mark of that religion on their foreheads! This mark
of Tammuz was depicted on the forehead of Aphrodite (Semaramis the mother of
Tammuz) above We see the mark of the Cross of Tammuz on the forehead of the
goddess Ishtar dating back to Babylon! What is the "mark of the
beast" of which we read in Rev 13:16-17, Rev 14:9-11, Rev 15:2, Rev 16:2,
Rev 19:20 and Rev 20:4 - a mark on people's foreheads and on their right hands?
Rev 14:11 reveals the mark to be "the mark of his (the beast's)
name." Have we not read about the mystic Tau, the T, the initial of
Tammuz's name, his mark? This same letter T (Tau) was written in Egyptian
hieroglyphics and in the old Wemitic languages as, representing the CROSS.
This is the “mark” literally made on the foreheads of
Christians in the Catholic Church. We are led as sheep to the slaughter into
Babylonian worship of Tammuz in the image and name of “Jesus”. Many protesting
Catholic (Protestant) Churches across the world on “Ash” Wednesday!
Following in the Babylonian tradition each year as they
“mark” their followers with this same mark on their forehead:
Let us rather use the true rendering of the Scriptural words
stauros and stauro, namely "stake" and "impale" and
eliminate the un-Scriptural "cross" and "crucify". The
early Church Fathers attested to the use of the sign of the cross and that it
is the Seal or Mark of Christianity; the mark that opposes The Shema.
Tertullian (d. ca. 250) described the commonness of the sign of the
cross:
"In
all our travels and movements, in all our coming in and going out, in putting
on our shoes, at the bath, at the table, in lighting our candles, in lying
down, in sitting down, whatever employment occupies us,
we mark our
foreheads with the sign of the cross"
(De corona, 30).
St. Cyril of Jerusalem (d. 386) in his Catechetical Lectures stated,
"Let
us then not be ashamed to confess the Crucified.
Be the cross
our seal, made with boldness by our fingers
on our brow and in everything; over the bread we eat and the cups we drink, in
our comings and in our goings out; before our sleep, when we lie down and when
we awake; when we are traveling, and when we are at rest" (Catecheses,
13).
Gradually, the sign of the cross was incorporated in
different acts of the Mass, such as the three-fold signing of the forehead,
lips, and heart. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent which is the
Babylonian ritual of “Weeping for Tammuz”. Occurring 46 days before Easter
which is the sacrifice of a pig in honor of the death of Tammuz. At Masses and
services of worship on Ash Wednesday, ashes are imposed on the foreheads of the
faithful.
They who don’t have the mark (X) could
not buy or sell
In Revelation 13:17 we see that those who do not take the
mark of Jesus Christ (
) are prohibited from commerce
within his realm. Is this referring to some futuristic physical “mark” or
biochip in our forehead and hand as is being taught today? Or have we simply
overlooked the obvious because we are unwilling to acknowledge the Jesus Christ
is the beast and Christianity is the second beast? If we simply take an honest
look throughout history, we see that Christianity has outlawed “buying and
selling” specifically for all those who do not bow down to the authority of The
Pope and accept the specific mark on their forehead
.
The Book of Revelation is misunderstood by many as applying
only to the last 7 years of “Tribulation” when in fact is was given 2000 years
ago and covers a 2000 year span of Christian dominance. We see below the Mark
of the Beast is the sign of the Cross
and those who do
not have that mark were forbidden to “buy or sell” throughout history and that
the mark of the X is the “seal on the forehead”:
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
the mark, or the name—Greek,
"the mark (namely), the name of the beast." The mark may be, as in
the case of the sealing of the saints in the forehead, not a
visible mark, but symbolical of allegiance. So
the sign of the cross
in Popery. The Pope's interdict has often shut out the excommunicate from
social and commercial intercourse.
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible
And that no man might buy or
sell, save he that had the mark – "If any," observes Bishop
Newton,
"dissent from the stated
and authorized forms (of Christianity); they are condemned and excommunicated
as heretics; and in consequence of that they are no longer suffered
to
buy or sell; they are interdicted from traffic and commerce, and all
the benefits of civil society.
Roger Hoveden relates of
William the Conqueror,
that he was so dutiful to the
pope that he would not permit any one in his power to buy or sell
any thing whom he found disobedient to the apostolic see (The Pope).
The canon of the council of
Lateran, under Pope Alexander III.,
made against the Waldenses and
Albigenses, enjoins, upon pain of anathema, that no man presume to entertain or
cherish them in his house or land, or exercise traffic with them
(that do not follow Papal authority).
The synod of Tours, in
France, under the same pope, orders,
“under the like intermination,
that no man should presume to receive or assist them, no, not so much as hold
any communion with them, in selling or buying; that, being deprived
of the comfort of humanity they may be compelled to repent of the error of
their way."
It was ordered by a bull of
Pope Martin the Fifth,
“that no contract should be
made with such, and that they should not follow any business and
merchandise:
save he that had the mark; took the oath to
be true to the pope, or made a public profession of the Popish religion: or the
name of the beast; Papists, so called from the pope”
“In the tenth and eleventh
centuries the severity against the excommunicated was carried to so high a
pitch, that nobody might come near them, not even their own wives, children, or
servants; they forfeited all their natural legal rights and privileges, and
were excluded from all kinds of offices.”
Again the false teacher and prophecy “experts” who are
filled with the Spirit of Error are totally blind to the fact that the mark of
the cross of Tammuz is identified by John in Revelation 13 as the
! And Christianity has already fulfilled this prophecy of “buy/sell”
in detail over the exact period prophesied.
Revelation 13
16 It (Christianity)
also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to
receive a mark (
)
on their right hands or on their foreheads,
17 so
that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark (),
This was fulfilled by the ordered of Pope Martin the Fifth,
Gill's
Exposition of the Entire Bible
And that no man might buy or sell,.... Either in an ecclesiastical sense, as
to, be in any church office, or perform any such service, to say Mass, hear
confession, give absolution, sell pardons and indulgences, &c. or in a
civil sense, as to trade, and exercise merchandise, and this was forbidden by
several Popish councils and synods; the Lateran council, under Pope Alexander,
decreed against the Waldenses and Albigenses, that no one should presume to
retain or encourage them in their houses or countries, or "trade"
with them; and the synod of Tours in France forbid any reception of heretics,
or protection, and that any communion should be had with them "in buying
and selling", as Mr. Mede has observed; and it was ordered by a bull of Pope
Martin the Fifth, that no contract should be made with such, and that they
should not follow any business and merchandise:
save he that had the mark; took the oath to be true to the pope, or made a
public profession of the Popish religion:
or the name of the beast; Papists, so called from the pope; thus the
antichristians are called from antichrist, as the Christians from Christ:
The Mark
of Jesus is “X” as in X-mas which is drawn on the forehead of Christians while
reciting “in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost” and sealing
the mind with Trinity: 
Bishop
Newton,
"dissent
from the stated and authorized forms (of Christianity); they are condemned and
excommunicated as heretics; and in consequence of that they are no longer
suffered to buy or sell; they are interdicted from traffic and commerce,
and all the benefits of civil society.
The Cross
is the opposite of the Mark/Seal of Yahuah
The Seal of Yahuah
or the protective shield
over the minds of His servants is known as The Shema. Shema is
the Hebrew word for “hear” and comes from the definition of The Seal of Yahuah
in The Torah “Hear O Israel”. That seal is the knowledge of Yahuah,
the declaration that He alone is God and there is no other. A claim Yahuah is
very clear about making... He alone is God and there is no other. He alone
is Creator and He did it alone all by Himself. He alone is our savior, our
redeemer:
Isaiah 44
24 "This is what Yahuah says—
your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am Yahuah, who has made all
things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the
earth by myself,
Isaiah 24
15 Therefore in the east give glory
to Yahuah; exalt the name of Yahuah, the God of Israel! 8 "I am Yahuah;
that is my name (not Yahusha, not LORD, and certainly
not Jesus)! I will
not give my glory to another or my
praise to idols (no other, not even to His first born
son! The name Yahusha even cries out “Yahuah is our savoir”).
Jude 1:25
25 to
Yahuah Our Savior,
who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and
forever.
Isaiah 42
5 This is what Yahuah says—
he
who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the
earth and all that comes out of it, who gives breath to its people, and life to
those who walk on it:
Isaiah 45
5
I am Yahuah, and there is
no other; apart from me there is no God. …
18 For this is what Yahuah says—
he
who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the
earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be
inhabited— he says: "I am Yahuah, and there is no other."
Isaiah 46
5 "To whom will you compare me
or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared (not even His messiah)? 8 "Remember this, fix it
in mind (seal your mind with it), take it to
heart (write it on your heart), you rebels. 9
Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no
other; I am God, and there is none like me. 10 I make known the end
from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My
purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.
The Seal of Yahuah
is very well defined as His
Name written on our foreheads. That is a metaphor for those who know
His Name and understand that He alone is God and there is no
other. He is not a trinity nor is He a bi-entity. To fully understand The
Seal of Yahuah we must understand and employ the intended physical
to spiritual parallels given to us and how they were explained over
time through progressive revelation and then transposed into His Kingdom. I
will explain these in detail.
The Seal of
The Kingdom of Yahuah is clearly
defined both in The Torah and The Yahushaic Covenant. Let us
first define exactly what that seal is. The Seal of Yahuah
is
quite literally His Name and
the knowledge that He alone is
God and it is “written” on the foreheads as a SEAL over the minds of
those who will inhabit His Kingdom:
Revelation 3
12
Him who overcomes I will
make a pillar in the temple of my God (those
sealed will become The Temple of Yahuah). Never again will
he (Yahuah) leave it (that
Spiritual Temple). I will write on him (who
overcomes) the name of my God (Yahuah)
Revelation 7:3
3 "Do not harm the land or the
sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the
servants of our God (Yahuah)."
Revelation 9
4 They were told not to harm the
grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have
the seal of God (Yahuah)
on
their foreheads.
Revelation 22
4 They will see his face, and
his
name (Yahuah)
will be (written/sealed)
on their foreheads.
This seal is defined in detail in The Torah in Deuteronomy
Chapter 6 below, in keeping with progressive revelation,
physical to
spiritual parallels, and transposition I will explain the meaning of
these physical metaphors in (blue parenthesis):
Deuteronomy 6
6 “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments
which Yahuah your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do
them
in the land where you are going over to possess it (the
future Kingdom of Yahuah),
2 so
that you and your son and your grandson might fear Yahuah your God, to keep all
His statutes and His commandments (the governing
constitution in The Kingdom of Yahuah) which I command you, all the
days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged (the promise for obedience found in The Law is Eternal Life).
3 O Israel, you should listen and be
careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply
greatly, just as Yahuah, the God of your fathers, has promised you,
in a
land flowing with milk and honey (the future
Kingdom of Yahuah). 4
“Hear (Shema), O Israel! Yahuah is our God, Yahuah
is one (God)! 5
You shall love Yahuah your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6
These words, which I am commanding you today,
shall be (written) on your heart (in
The Yahushaic Covenant see Jeremiah 31:33).
7
You shall teach them diligently to your
sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the
way and when you lie down and when you rise up. 8
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand (the works of your hand) and they (His Law) shall be as frontals (or spiritual seal) on your forehead (over your mind).
Yahusha also proclaimed
The Seal of Yahuah to
be essential to eternal life, just as it was defined in Deuteronomy 6 and
confirmed in Revelation:
John 17:3
3 And this is eternal
life, that they may know You (Yahuah),
the only true God (The Shema), AND (be in covenant with) Yahusha (the) Messiah whom You (Yahuah) have sent (as the Passover
Lamb to purchase that eternal life by covering the decrees in The Law that
demand our death for transgressing His commandments and ordinances).
The
Meaning of Frontals
We see that Yahuah’s Law and specifically the declaration and knowledge
that
Yahuah is ONE God (not a trinity or bi-entity)
and there is no other God
is said to be as frontals or
protective shield on our foreheads:
Deuteronomy 6:8
“they (His Law)
shall be as frontals (or spiritual seal)
on your forehead(Spiritual Mind).
The Frontal Bone is literally the protective shield in the
cranium (physical metaphor) that protects the Frontal Lobe of the brain:
This
physical to spiritual parallel employed
by Yahuah in Deuteronomy can only now be understood in the context it was
meant. Science has defined the purpose of the Frontal Lobe of the human brain
and we can see why that lobe MUST be sealed by Yahuah.
The Frontal Lobe has been identified and described as
follows, according to Dr. Donald Stuss of The Rotman Research Institute:
The frontal lobe is a
critical center and it controls the "essence" of our humanity.
The
frontal lobes, which are also called the cerebral cortex, are the seat of emotions
and judgments related to sympathy, which is the
ability to feel sorrow for someone else's suffering, and empathy,
which the ability to understand another's feelings and problems. They are also
the seat of understanding humor, including subtle witticisms and word plays.
The frontal lobes also recognizes sarcasm and irony. And they are where
recognition of deception occurs guiding our judgment between right and wrong.
The cerebral cortex, or frontal lobes, is indeed the seat of our essence and
nature.
We need to always keep in the foremost of our mind that Yahuah’s
purpose is to govern the Universe with His sons. The Frontal Lobe is critical
in all aspects of judgment, empathy, knowing right from wrong. Yahuah
literally provides a “protective shield” called
The Seal of Yahuah which
protects that very part of our mind that enables us to have empathy toward
others, recognize deceptive philosophies, and determines our essence and
nature.
In effect those who have this seal have in the foremost of
their mind the truth that Yahuah is ONE God and that His Law defines what is
right and wrong and that it is love (empathy) for others that are the
foundation of that Law. This is exactly what was declared by Yahusha when
asked.
When questioned by the Pharisees (teachers of The Law) about
what is the single greatest commandment, Yahusha declared The Shema,
The
Seal of Yahuah by literally quoting Deuteronomy Chapter 6:
Mark 12:28-34 (NIV)
28 One of the teachers of the law (Torah) came and heard them debating. Noticing
that Yahusha had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the
commandments, which is the most important?" 29 "The most important one," answered Yahusha
(then he quoted
Deuteronomy 6),
"is this: 'Hear, O Israel, Yahuah our God,
Yahuah is one. 30 Love Yahuah your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as
yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." 32"Well
said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that Yahuah
is one and there is no other but Him. 33 To love him with all your heart, with
all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as
yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
We see Yahusha confirm that
The Seal of Yahuah
is
the Greatest Commandment of all. He went on to explain that in that
understanding that Yahuah is the ONE and ONLY God our minds are sealed
with the Love required to enter His Kingdom: Love Yahuah and your neighbor.
Yahusha was not giving us two new commandments here that the
“Church would be built upon” as the “Old Laws” were abolished. Not at all, Yahusha
was simply summarizing the 10 Commandments which were themselves a summary of
the full set of 613 Laws. The Pharisees understood that and declared Yahusha a
“true teacher of The Law”.
The first 5 Commandments instruct us in detail how to
express our love toward Yahuah. The last 5 Commandments instruct us in detail
how to express our love toward our neighbor.
We see below that both the Seal and Sign of
The
Kingdom of Yahuah are expressed in the 10 Commandments:
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How to love Yahuah
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How to love your neighbor
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1.You
shall have no other gods before me (The Seal of
The
Kingdom of Yahuah)
2.You
shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above
or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to
them or worship them; for I, Yahuah your God showing love to a thousand
generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. (The Seal of
The Kingdom of Yahuah)
3.You
shall not misuse the name of Yahuah your God, for Yahuah will not hold anyone
guiltless who misuses his name. (The Seal of
The
Kingdom of Yahuah)
4.Remember
the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahuah
your God. (The Sign of
The Kingdom of Yahuah)
5.Honor
your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land Yahuah
your God is giving you (because your parents are
given as proxies in Yahuah’s stead so loving them is loving Him.)
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6.You
shall not murder (your neighbor).
7.You
shall not commit adultery (with your neighbor’s wife).
8.You
shall not steal (from your neighbor).
9.You
shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
10.You shall
not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or
his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to
your neighbor.
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The Pharisees understood that Yahusha was summing up The Law
which was summed up into the 10 Commandments then further summarized into
“love” by The Messiah. Yahusha was a “sealed servant of Yahuah”.
