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The Signs, where did they go?
The office
We have been receiving a
lot of complaints from our south office. I need you to go investigate the situation and report back to me.
Yes sir I will leave in the
morning.
I am here to investigate
reports of problems here at the office. What are your perceptions of the situation Mr. Clarke?
Well we have problems from
time to time, but nothing serious. Actually we were doing pretty well until the company sent the business manager to the office.
What business manager is
that?
He was here some time ago.
He said he was sent by the company owner to help boost morale and improve understanding of the companys standards and guidelines.
He held classes on how to correctly interpret and follow the guidebook.
Did he teach something different
than what was in the guidebook?
Well to be honest I dont
think he did. He just told us that we didnt have to follow the rules like they were etched in stone, and that every situation
is different and that we should do the right thing.
That doesnt sound too bad.
If that is what he was teaching, why is this office in such a mess?
Everything was fine for a
while, then a small group of people in the office decided that since they had been taught that the letter of the guidebook
didnt have to be followed, they could define for themselves how the guidebook should be interpreted. Things have gone downhill
ever since. This attitude has gone through the office like the flu, and just about everyone has his or her own interpretations
of what the guidebook means.
Thank you for your assistance
Mr. Clarke. I need you to schedule a meeting for the whole company for me; everyone needs to be there.
Yes sir, Ill set it up for
tommorow morning.
I will make this message
short and wont take up much of your time. The company guidebook rules need to be followed. You are not to put your own meaning
into the rules. The guidelines were set up to keep everyone in the company happy. What I see happening here is a twisting
of the guidelines to fit each individuals desires. This cannot continue. If you want to remain with the company you have to
follow these rules. I will return in one month to evaluate your progress. Anyone who cannot abide by the rules will be fired.
Good afternoon Mr. Clarke,
I hope everything is going well.
Unfortunately they are not
going as well as I would like them to.
What seems to be the problem?
Well we have had about twenty
five percent of the office quit because they dont agree with the strictness of the rules in the guidebook. And we have about
seventy percent of the people who dont care about what you had to say, and dont believe you will fire them.
Mr. Clarke will you please
set up another meeting? I also want a list of the people who are keeping the rules according to the guidebook.
Certainly, I will set it
up for tommorow afternoon. Everyone will be available then.
It is with deep regret that
I must inform many of you of your termination. You were warned of the consequences, all you had to do was follow the rules
as they were intended to be followed. Everyone whose name I do not call is fired.
There was quite a disturbance
afterward, cursing, yelling, and screaming, the people objected to the penalty they had received for not listening to the
warning and for not keeping the rules set down in the guidebook.
Mr. Clarke please call all
of the remaining employees into the conference room in the morning please.
Will do.
Ladies and gentlemen thank
you for maintaining your integrity and keeping the rules of the guidebook as they were meant to be followed. I have been authorized
by the company owner to promote you all to supervisory positions, and you will all be given pay raises amounting to twenty
times your existing wages. Congratulations to you all, it is a pleasure working with you all.
Changed?
Have the warning signs been
changed? Did the Hebrew prophet Yahshua change them? Or is it the wishful thinking of most people, that the god Jesus changed
these strict guidelines and made them subject to mankinds own interpretation? Which is it?
Matthew 5 :17
17Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy
but to complete.
Matthew
19:17
17And He said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One Elohim. But if you wish to enter into life, guard the commands.
John 15:10
10If you guard My commands, you shall stay in My love, even as I have guarded My Fathers commands
and stay in His love.
Psalm 103 partial
17But the kindness of YHWH Is
from everlasting to everlasting Upon those who fear Him, And His righteousness to childrens children, 18To those who guard His covenant, And to those who remember
His orders to do them. 19YHWH has established His throne in the heavens, And
His reign shall rule over all. 20Bless YHWH,
you His messengers, Mighty in power, who do His Word, Listening to the voice of His Word. 21Bless YHWH, all you His hosts, You His servants, who do His pleasure.
Daniel
9 partial
4And I prayed to YHWH my Elohim, and made confession, and said, O YHWH, great and awesome El, guarding the
covenant and the kindness to those who love Him,
and to those who guard His commands. 5We have sinned and did crookedness, and did wrong and rebelled, to turn aside
from Your commands and from Your right- rulings. 6And we have not
listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your
Name to our sovereigns, our heads, and our
fathers, and to all the people of the land.
There are literally hundreds
of scripture verses that support Commandment keeping, and only very few verses that the meanings are twisted to fit the readers
own interpretation. The warning sign has not changed, only the attitudes and perceptions of the people have changed to fit
their liberal lifestyle. Unwilling to give up their freedom to choose how to live their lives, they adhere to the teachings
of men that lead them on the path to death. The warning signs are still valid; they are just covered up by false beliefs.
Not applicable to me
The car was speeding down
the highway at almost ninety miles an hour. Zooming past the other cars, the owner is intent on getting to his destination
in a hurry. Traffic is pretty light on the highway today; the owner should make really good time. The owner isnt late for
an engagement, he just wants to get to where he is going. He thinks to himself that the speed limit of sixt-five miles an
hour is too slow on this long straight highway. He knows that he can cut fifteen minutes off of his commute time when he drives
the speed he feels is safe for the road conditions. A car pulls into the fast lane to pass a car in front of him. Driving
to fast to avoid a collision he swerves towards the edge of the road to avoid slamming into the rear of the car in front of
him. This manuever causes his car to flip end over end many times before coming to rest and bursting into flames. He died
instantly from the trauma of the accident.
Acts 28 partial
26saying, Go to this
people and say,
Hearing you shall hear but by no means understand,
and seeing you shall see but by no means perceive, 27for the heart of this people has become thickened,
and with their ears they heard heavily, and they
have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear
with their ears, and understand with their heart,
and turn back, and I should heal them. 28Therefore let it be known to you that the deliverance of Elohim has been
sent to the gentiles, and they shall hear!
When we decide that we are
above the law or that the law is not binding on us, we must be ready to suffer the consequences of our actions.
The stop sign
Melissa
was late for her appointment at the salon. What a hectic day this has been she thought. I will sure be glad when I get to
the salon so I can relax for a while. Ive had to take the kids to school, take the van in for an oil change at the dealership,
I did the weekly grocery shopping, cleaned the house and now Im ready to take a break!
Melissa
glances in her rear view mirror and sees a police car behind her with its lights on. She pulls to the side of the road and
stops, trying to think of a reason why she is being pulled over. The officer comes to the van door and asks for her license
and registration. After checking them for problems he returns to the van and asks her if she knows why he has stopped her.
She sheepishly admits that she doesnt have a clue as to why she was stopped. The officer informs her that she had run a stop
sign about a half a mile back.
I
didnt see a stop sign officer, that cant be.
Well
Mam I watched you drive right through it without hesitating, fortunately there werent any cars coming.
I am so sorry officer; I truly didnt see the sign.
Well
Mam I have to give you a ticket for this.
But
officer I dont understand why you have to give me a ticket.
Well
if I were to just let you off with a warning, you probably wont learn your lesson and next time you may kill someone or yourself.
My conscience wont allow me to let you off, sorry Mam. The laws are given to us to protect us and we need to be aware of them
at all times.
Too
busy with the cares of this world? Heed the warning sign and be ready! If your too busy to see the signs, perhaps you should
stop and make sure you arent endangering your life, or someone elses.
Luke
21 partial
33The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall
by no means pass away. 34And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed
down by gluttony, and drunkenness, and worries of this life, and that day come on you suddenly. 35For it shall come as a snare on
all those
dwelling on the face of all the earth. 36Watch then at all times, and pray that you be counted worthy to
escape all this about to take place, and to stand before the Son
of Adam.
Deuteronomy
4 partial
5See, I have taught you laws and right- rulings, as YHWH my Elohim commanded me, to do thus in
the land which you go to possess. 6And you shall guard and do
them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes
of the peoples who hear all these laws, and they shall say, Only a wise and understanding
people is this great nation! 7For what great nation is there
which has Elohim so near to it, as YHWH our Elohim is to us, whenever we call on Him? 8And what great nation is there that has such laws and righteous
right-rulings like all this Torah which I set before you this day? 9Only, guard yourself,
and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes
have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days
of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren.
Are
we so busy with our lives here on Earth that we overlook the warning signs?
Proof of the signs validity
For the person who refuses
to believe the signs are for them even after all of the warnings, here is scriptural proof that they are for all men,
and for all time.
IsaYah
58 partial
13If you do turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My set-apart
day, and shall call the Sabbath a delight, the
set-apart day of YHWH esteemed, and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own
pleasure, nor speaking your own words, 14then you shall delight yourself in YHWH. And I shall cause you to ride on the heights of the
earth, and feed you with the inheritance of Ya'aqob your father.
For the mouth of YHWH has spoken!
IsaYah
66 partial
19And I shall set a sign among them, and shall send some of those who escape to the nations
Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Yawan,
the coastlands afar off who have not heard My report nor seen My esteem.
And they shall declare My esteem among the gentiles. 20And they shall bring all your brothers as an offering to
YHWH out of all the gentiles, on horses and in chariots
and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My
set-apart mountain Yerushalayim, declares YHWH, as the children of Yisrael bring an offering
in a clean vessel into the House of YHWH. 21And from them too I shall
take for
priests for Lewites, declares YHWH. 22For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make
stand before Me, declares YHWH, so your seed and
your
name shall stand. 23And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon,
and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh
shall come to worship before Me, declares YHWH.
IsaYah
56
Thus
said YHWH, Guard right-ruling, and do righteousness,
for near is
My deliverance to come, and My right- eousness to be revealed. 2Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who
lays hold on it, guarding the Sabbath lest he profane it, and
guarding his hand from doing any evil. 3And let not the son of the
foreigner who has joined himself to YHWH speak, saying, YHWH has certainly separated
me from His
people, nor let the eunuch say, Look I am a dry tree. 4For thus said YHWH, To the eunuchs who guard My Sabbaths,
and have chosen what pleases Me, and hold fast
to My covenant: 5to them I shall give
in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than
that of sons and daughters I give them an
everlasting name that is not cut off. 6Also the
sons of the foreigner who join themselves to YHWH, to serve Him, and to love the
Name of YHWH, to be His servants, all who guard the Sabbath, and not profane it, and hold
fast to My covenant 7them I shall bring to
My set-apart mountain, and let them rejoice
in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their slaughterings are
accepted on My altar, for My house is
called a house of prayer for all the peoples. 8The Master YHWH, who gathers the outcasts of Yisrael,
declares, I gather still others to him besides those
who are gathered to him.
9All you beasts of the field, come to devour, all you
beasts in the forest. 10His watchmen are blind, all of them, they have
not known. All of them are dumb
dogs, unable to bark, dreaming, lying
down, loving to slumber. 11And the dogs have a strong appetite, they never
have enough. And they are shepherds!
They have not known understanding. All of them look
to their own way, every one for his own gain, from his own
end, saying, 12Come, let me bring wine and fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as today,
even much greater.
When
we keep the Eternals Commandments and keep his Sabbath we show our love and respect for him. Let us do so.
The warning signs for all mankind are the Sabbaths and the Commandments.
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