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Why is mankind waxing worse?

Why does society in general fail to produce people that we can look up to? What is the reason for more and more people wanting to do things that are considered to be non-conformist or uncharacteristic in terms of what is required of us in the Scriptures? Why do most parents fail in rearing happy productive children? Why do most people believe that there are no good guidelines according to which we should rear our children?

When a son or daughter comes to us at age 16 to tell us that he or she is gay or that she is pregnant - What does that tell us about the childrearing abilities of modern society? Why are there so many teen-pregnancies and why has the use of narcotic drugs become so prevalent in countries like South Africa, and especially among young Israelite children? The cause of these problems is basically two-fold: firstly Israelites have because they believe they are Gentiles, rejected the Torah instruction manual that Elohim gave our forefathers as a source of knowledge on how to live our lives; and secondly most people have never really inquired why they were placed on earth? Or why they were born? Fellow believers we have cursed ourselves and our children and are wholly responsible for the mess society is in today? If we truly understand the Scriptures to be all the material from Genesis to Revelation, or the beginning and the end, the Aleph and the Omega, as Yahshua referred to Himself in Revelation 1: 8 and 17 & 18, since He is the embodiment of the Word of Elohim, the Scriptures, we will heed the prophet Malachi’s warning message in Malachi 4: 1 - 6, as follows: “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says YHVH of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. (2) But for you who fear My name the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. (3) And you will tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says YHVH of hosts. (4) Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. (5) Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of YHVH. (6) And he will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse.” It is our duty to teach our children that YHVH is Elohim, and there is no other; and to restore their hearts to the faith of our fathers in the faith.

But what was the faith of our fathers in the faith? Let’s consider our father Abraham, who is called the father of the faithful – because when YHVH told him to come out of the world that he lived in at that time and go and live in the Promised Land, he obeyed YHVH without question, and left immediately. But what did Abraham our father in the faith believe? Firstly, we see that Abraham called on the name of YHVH as recorded in Genesis 12: 7 & 8, ‘And YHVH appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to YHVH who had appeared to him. (8) Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to YHVH and called upon the name of YHVH.’ Secondly, Abraham obeyed Elohim’s Torah, as witnessed in Genesis 26: 5, as follows: ‘Because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.” Thirdly, Abraham believed in the salvation work of Yahshua, as witnessed in John 8: 56 where He told the Jews of His days, saying: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” Considering what happened to Abraham in Genesis 22, where Elohim asked Him to offer up his only son and he went ahead and did so, except for the fact that the angel of YHVH stopped him from killing Isaac, we see from Hebrews 11: 17 – 19, that Abraham received Isaac back as a type of Yahshua, in this way: ‘By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; (18) it was he to whom it was said, “IN ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE CALLED.” (19) He considered that Elohim is able to raise men even from the dead; from which he also received him back as a type.’ It is clear therefore that Fourthly, Abraham also believed in the resurrection of the dead. But more importantly we see from Hebrews 11: 9 & 10 that Fifthly, Abraham believed in the coming Kingdom of Elohim, as follows: ‘By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; (10) for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is Elohim.’ These are the five things, we need to believe in; but also teach our children, or else Elohim will come and smite the land with a curse; i.e. (1) Call on and honor the name of YHVH; (2) obedience to Elohim’s Torah; (3) believe in the salvation of YHVH, namely Yahshua; (4) believe in the resurrection of the dead; and (5) the coming kingdom of Elohim.

Those who believe in the false Messiah, whom they refer to as C*h*r*i*s*t*; need to be aware that He is an imposter according to Deuteronomy 13: 1 - 3[1], because of their belief that He abolished Torah for believers in Him or fulfilled it for them, thus making it unnecessary for them to keep it any longer. Such believers should also heed Messiah’s own words regarding Torah in John 5: 45 – 47, saying: “Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. (46) For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me. (47) But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” Yahshua was obviously talking to Jews here, but if we understand the last two verses, we will realize that if we do not believe in obeying the Torah, we will also not believe in what Yahshua said whilst He was on earth. In fact He confirmed this in Matthew 5: 17 – 20, saying: “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. (18) For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished. (19) Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and so teaches others, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (20) For I say to you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Despite these warnings by Messiah and the prophets, most today believe that all they have to do is ‘to believe’ that J*e*s*u*s* died for their sins and have set them free! Obviously from the way such believers interpret the Scriptures, they understand that He set them free from obeying Torah, especially when they read such Scriptures as Galatians 5: 1, as follows: ‘It was for freedom that Messiah set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.’ Yes, to such believers obedience to Torah is a tremendous burden. However, Yahshua our Messiah set us free from sin which is lawlessness (meaning Torah-lessness), as Rav Yochanan wrote in first John 3: 4, in this way: ‘Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.’ In fact Rav Yaa’cov attests in James 1: 25 that obeying the Torah is liberty (another word for freedom), as follows: ‘But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.’ It is abundantly clear that somehow mankind got deceived into believing just the opposite of what the word of Elohim tells us. But, how is it possible for the whole world to be on the wrong track? Surely the ministers of religion have spent many years studying the Scriptures in order to guide G-d’s people to do what is right? But, if that was true, why do so many Christians insist that Yahshua has abolished Torah, or that they need not keep it any longer, since He keeps it for them today. The answer to why the whole world has come to believe this falsehood, is given in Revelation 12: 9, in this way: ‘And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.’

Ask any person who testifies to believe in Messiah, if they love G-d, and they will readily say that they do, even though they hold that keeping Torah is not required at all. But Rav Yochanan again pours cold water on such reasoning, saying in first John 5: 3, ‘For this is the love of Elohim, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome(or difficult).’ But what is even more important to understand is that the whole world is deceived to misunderstand the Gospel that Messiah proclaimed at His first coming, as He explained to His disciples in Matthew 13: 11 - 12 and the first part of verse 19, saying: “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. (12) For whoever has, to him shall more be given, and he shall have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him. (19) When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart.” Yahshua our Messiah’s mission during His first advent was to tell us the good news about the coming kingdom of Elohim, which means the reestablishment of the Kingdom of Israel, consisting of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, ruled over by King David again, as Rav Yaa’cov also said in Acts 15: 14 - 18, in this way: “Simon has related how Elohim first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles (talking about returning members of the lost ten tribes of Israel who came to believe that they are Gentiles, as Rav Kepha explained in Acts 2: 32 – 36) a people for His name. (15) And with the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written, (16) ‘AFTER THESE THINGS I WILL RETURN, AND I WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I WILL RESTORE IT, (17) IN ORDER THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK YHVH, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, (18) SAYS YHVH, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM OF OLD.’” The reason why so few understand His mission to bring the lost ten tribes back to the faith, into which He was born, namely Judaism, is because they do not keep the annual Feast Days of Elohim as commanded in Leviticus 23. Only those who keep these Feast Days ordained by Elohim understand that there are two harvest periods of human beings in Elohim’s everlasting plan of salvation for all mankind. The initial harvest is similar to the first fruit harvest in the Promised Land, a smaller harvest of wheat (representing mainly Israelites of all twelve tribes, including a small number of Gentiles also chosen by Elohim as first fruits), whilst the latter harvest is made up of all the products harvested during the autumn season (grapes, olives, vegetables, etc.), which pictures all the different races of the world.

By rejecting Torah we are unknowingly cursing ourselves and our children, as witnessed in such scriptures as Deuteronomy 28. King David who ruled both houses of Israel had a very good understanding of the benefits to be had, by keeping Elohim’s commandments, as he wrote in Psalm 119: 97 – 104, saying: ‘O how I love Thy law! It is my meditation all the day. (98) Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine. (99) I have more insight than all my teachers, for Thy testimonies are my meditation. (100) I understand more than the aged, because I have observed Thy precepts. (101) I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Thy word. (102) I have not turned aside from Thine ordinances, for Thou Thyself hast taught me. (103) How sweet are Thy words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (104) From Thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.’ A second witness about the benefit that King David saw in obeying Elohim’s commandments come from Psalm 19: 7, in this way: ‘The law of YHVH is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of YHVH is sure, making wise the simple.’ Are you like King David able to see the many benefits to be had by obeying Elohim’s Torah teachings? We see from Proverbs 28: 9 that Solomon who penned most of the proverbs, saying: ‘He who turns away his ear from listening to the law, even his prayer is an abomination.’

To return to the question asked at the beginning: why is mankind waxing worse? It is clear to see that the number one reason is, that some refuse to believe and study Torah, and secondly because they have no idea why they were born and what they are doing on earth. They never answered the question for themselves and do not know that the main purpose for mankind is to build the character that Yahshua had when He was on earth; to be able to say no to things that will take anything away from our character, such as drugs, and many other things that are harmful for us and contrary to what Elohim require of us in His word. Yahshua warned believers to remain ever aware of what they are doing, saying in Matthew 24: 42 – 44, “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Master is coming. (43) But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. (44) For this reason you be ready too; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.” Many believe that this is saying we should watch world news to know exactly how it fits in with the conditions that Messiah described before His return, so that we can have a better idea of the time of His arrival. I agree wholeheartedly with this, but Yahshua meant more than that in the statement in these quoted verses. In addition to watching world events, we should also watch ourselves to make sure that the way we live always conforms to Torah. Imagine for a moment you are busy with something illegal when Messiah returns, or worse you get shot and die whilst busy breaking Elohim’s Torah – what will the consequences be?

It is therefore imperative for each and every one of us to instill in our children the importance of realizing that every action has a reaction. If you continue to break any of Elohim’s commands, you will eventually pay the consequences. Even though Yahshua paid the penalty for our past sins, we need to be very aware of what we do in future, so that we may have time to repent and be forgiven. However, certain sins have definite consequences, whether we ask for forgiveness or not. If we pick up the HIV virus because of not paying attention to what we are doing, we will eventually die from aids, even if we ask for forgiveness for our indiscretion. We should also be aware of the fact that there are certain sins for which YHVH will not forgive us – one such example is where He did not forgive King Manasseh for his sins even after he repented (according to 2 Chronicles 33: 11 – 16), as recorded in 2 Kings 24: 3 & 4, in this way: ‘Surely at the command of YHVH it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, (4) and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and YHVH would not forgive.’ We need to be aware of everything we do, and that is what Yahshua meant in Matthew 24: 42 (quoted earlier); by saying we should be on the alert.

We need to heed Rav Shaul’s warning in first Corinthians 6: 9 - 11 and repent from our wrongdoing, as follows: ‘Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of Elohim? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, (10) nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of Elohim. (11) And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Master Yahshua Messiah, and in the Spirit of our Elohim.’ This is clearly showing that if we repent and return to the way of Elohim, we can still make it into Elohim’s eternal Kingdom. Those of us called to come out of the world as first fruits to YHVH (as per James 1: 18[2]), need to understand that the further we move away from YHVH and His word, the worse our characters will become, and eventually Satan will devour us, as Rav Kepha warned in first Peter 5: 8 - 10, saying: ‘Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. (9) But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. (10) And after you have suffered for a little while, the Elohim of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Messiah, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.”

Rav Shaul also warned Timothy saying specifically about the times we live in in 2 Timothy 3: 1 – 13, ‘But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. (2) For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, (3) unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, (4) treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Elohim; (5) holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these. (6) For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, (7) always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (8) And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose truth, men of depraved mind, rejected as regards the faith. (9) But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, as also that of those two came to be. (10) But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, (11) persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Master delivered me! (12) And indeed, all who desire to live godly in Messiah Yahshua will be persecuted. (13) But evil men and imposters will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.’ The deeds and actions listed from verse 2 – 6 above are all directly opposite to the way Elohim wants us to behave, but because most have been deceived to believe that we need not be concerned with what YHVH taught in the Tanach, they are busy cursing themselves and their children.

Even so there is a Third reason for people to proceed from bad to worse. What possibly can be this third reason for people to wax worse as we are moving towards the end of the age? The answer is given clearly in Romans 1: 16 – 32, in this way: ‘For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of Elohim for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. (17) For in it the righteousness of Elohim is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.” (18) For the wrath of Elohim is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, (19) because that which is known about Elohim is evident within them (meaning mankind); for Elohim made it evident to them. (20) For since the creation of the world[3] His invisible attributes[4],His eternal power[5]and divine nature[6], have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. (21) For even though they knew Elohim, they did not honor Him as Elohim, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations (about who or what Elohim is), and their foolish heart was darkened. (22) Professing to be wise, they became fools, (23) and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible Elohim for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. (24) Therefore Elohim gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. (25) For they exchanged the truth of Elohim for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amein. (26) For this reason Elohim gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, (27) and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. (28) And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge Elohim any longer, Elohim gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, (29) being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, (30) slanderers, haters of Elohim, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, (31) without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; (32) and, although they know the ordinance of Elohim, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.’ Here in the Scriptures we are given the reason for some becoming more evil by the day and why some become lesbians and other homosexuals, something which has as recently as in the October, 21 2015 edition of the Dutch Reformed Afrikaans Church Magazine, “Die Kerkbode” been given their hearty approval. In saying this, one should not forget that these Afrikaans descendants from mainly the French and Dutch people in Europe used to be known as the most pious people in the world, after our Jewish Brothers.

The prophet Isaiah actually warned against people like these in Isaiah 5: 20 – 23, saying: ‘Woeto those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (21) Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight! (22) Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink; (23) Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!’ However, the point is: Knowing that YHVH the Eternal is the one and Only One, should motivate us to get on His right side and do what He requires of us, if we want eternal life one day. This section of the Scriptures specifically warns those of us who profess to be Nazarene Israelites, but who contradict what YHVH our Elohim teaches about Himself in Deuteronomy 6: 4, saying through Moses: “Hear, O Israel! YHVH is our Elohim, YHVH is one!”We should ensure that those who come to believe in Yahshua do not deny the Oneness of Elohim. Instead we should believe YHVH when He tells us in Isaiah 43: 10 & 11, saying: ‘“You are My witnesses,” declares YHVH, “and My servant whom I have chosen, in order that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no Elohim formed, and there will be none after Me. (10) I, even I, am YHVH; and there is no savior besides Me.” The three reasons why mankind is waxing worse are:

That most of those who say they believe in Messiah, reject (YHVH)’s Torah, because they were deceived to believe He came to abolish, or kept it for them and they are not required to keep it any longer;
Do not understand that since mankind are created in the image of Elohim, He requires us to build character to eventually conform to the image of the One who created us[7]; and
They speculate about who or what Elohim is, and contradict YHVH by believing in either a so-called trinity or that there are two (YHVH)s, Yahshua being the lesser YHVH according to this erroneous belief.

It was also for this reason that Yahshua expressed His doubt about there still being true believers when He returns one day, saying in the second part of Luke 18: 8, ‘However, when the Son of Man comes, will Hefind faith on the earth?’ Let’s make sure that when Yahshua returns one day soon, there will indeed be faith on the earth, by teaching new believers in Yahshua the truth about the Oneness; to obey all of Torah; and to realize that we are called out of the world to build the perfect character of Elohim, as shown us in our perfect example Yahshua, before we will inherit eternal life! Think about it!

[1] Deuteronomy 13: 1- 3: “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that dreamer of dreams; for YHVH your Elohim is testing you to find out if you love YHVH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul.’”

[2] James 1: 18, ‘In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be, as it were, the first fruits among His creatures.’

[3] The side reference given against the words ‘since the creation of the world’ is Mark 10: 6, in this way: “But from the beginning of creation, Elohim MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.”

[4] We read from first Timothy 1: 17: ‘Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only Elohim, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amein.’

[5] According to first Corinthians 1: 24 Yahshua is the power and wisdom of Elohim, as follows: ‘But to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Messiah the power of Elohim and the wisdom of Elohim.’ A second witness is given in Jeremiah 32: 17, in this way: ‘Ah Adonai Elohim! Behold, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth by Thy great power and by Thine outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for Thee.’ Yahshua our Messiah is according to Isaiah 53: 1 and 12: 37 – 41 ‘THE ARM OF YHVH.’

[6] The Set-apart Spirit is the divine nature of Elohim and we see according to 2 Peter 1: 4 that we can become partakers of the divine nature, in that we are given a portion of His Set-apart Spirit at Immersion (as per Acts 2: 38) and will if we qualify be like Yahshua when He returns, as confirm by King David in Psalm 17: 15, as follows: ‘As for me, I shall behold Thy face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Thy likeness when I awake.’ A second witness come from first John 3: 2, in this way: “Beloved, now we are children of Elohim, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.”

[7] Colossians 3: 9 & 10: ‘Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him’