The final sifting before the rapture?

Yahweh has impressed on me that there is a sifting of those who are truly His and those who really do not belong to Him.  This sifting will be to mark those who are false and show who are truly His.

One was this sifting is happening is through the false prophets and their false prophecies.    The first group is those that truly love Yahweh: the True Church that followes Messiah Yeshua and what the bible says.  The next group is filled with false teachers, false prophets, deceivers, wiccan infiltrators to spread heresy, and the deceived who are not truly saved but do not want to go to hell so they said a prayer and are looking for an escape from the earth and from hell.  The next group is the fence sitters: those who do not believe the deception and lies but accept those that teach them as a fellow believer.

Yahweh does not accept a mixture and never has.  He nearly wiped out Ancient Israel when Aaron made a golden calf claiming it was to worship Yahweh.  Several times Yahweh stated He did not accept a mixture of pagan ways with worship of Him.  Messiah Yeshua said He will spew the lukewarm out of His mouth because they are compromisers.

Deuteronomy 12
29  When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
30  Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
31  Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
32  What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Exodus 32
2  And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
3  And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
4  And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
5  And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
6  And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
7  And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
8  They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
9  And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10  Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Revelation 3
15  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

In scripture we are told many times that Yahweh tests us to prove us whether we truly love Him or just using Him as an escape from what is to come.  This is why we are told we need to obey: obedience is a sign that we truly love Him for who He is and are not using Him.

Deuteronomy 13
1  If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
2  And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
3  Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4  Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
5  And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
6  If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7  Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
8  Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
9  But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10  And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Of course we no longer stone the false prophets today because Messiah Yeshua is the High Priest and He reserves the judgment of the wicked until the time of His choosing.

Other places in scripture we are told that judgment begins among the believers:

1 Peter 4
17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Messiah Yeshua stated clearly that He would reject those who do things for Him - including prophecy - if they do not OBEY what Yahweh said.  Among what Yahweh said was to not use divination as well as not follow false prophets.  Anyone who makes false prophecies, follows the false prophets, or calls the false prophets 'brothers' (which is claiming the false prophets teachings are true) will be rejected by Messiah Yeshua - they are the five foolish which thought they were saved but they were not obeying what Yahweh said.  Those that are claiming the false prophets are brothers is part of the test by Yahweh to see if we will continue to listen to them and their compromise or if we will cleave to Yahweh and His word:

1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Matthew 7
21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. ^G458

Strong's number G458 iniquity (transliterated as anomia)   :

anomia
1) the condition of without law
     a) because ignorant of it
     b) because of violating it
2) contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness

Those that follow false prophets / teachers / wolves are making false converts - they are leading people to hell by another Jesus and are deceiving people into believing they are heaven bound. Often these false converts become more heretical than those that led them to their false faith.

Matthew 23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Messiah Yeshua gave a parable of the tares and wheat.  While the main harvest and separation will be during the tribulation, the first fruit harvest is a week before the final harvest and only wheat is acceptable as the offering.  The wheat is sifted from the tares and is taken as the offering leaving the tares behind.

Matthew 13
24  Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25  But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26  But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27  So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28  He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29  But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

The first fruit offering is just as the wheat is beginning to ripen:

Exodus 34:26  The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.

I believe we may very well be in the time before the rapture when the wheat is being sifted from the tares in order to be the spotless bride for Messiah Yeshua.  It is unfortunate so many people who believe they will be taken will be left behind although Messiah Yeshua repeatedly warned this would happen.

Matthew 25
1  Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2  And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3  They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4  But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5  While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6  And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7  Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8  And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9  But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10  And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11  Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12  But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13  Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

In context, jezebel taught Israel to follow false prophets / idols and commit spiritual fornication with them

Revelation 2
20  Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
21  And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
22  Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

And finally, the apostle Paul stated that not only the evildoers will be punished but those that support them and give them comfort will receive the same punishment:

Romans 1
28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

If you have followed one of these false prophets or those who call them "brothers" you need to repent and follow Messiah Yeshua and reject any of these false prophets you have followed or those who call them brothers.  There are many popular teachers that spoke against the false prophecies but still call the false prophets brothers - they are compromisers and deceivers and they need to repent.  Those lukewarm who call the wolves / false prophets brothers are a stronger test - maybe a final test -   to see who will follow them and support them or cleave to Yahweh and His word and follow Messiah Yeshua in obedience to what Yahweh says.  If you love Yahweh you will OBEY Him and not follow after wolves or those who accept wolves as brothers.

John 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

1 John 2
3  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 5
2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Revelation 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Revelation 12:17  And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Be like a Berean

When we listen to a bible teaching, we are to be like a Berean and examine that teaching with scripture to see if it lines up with what the bible says or not and only accept what is true.  This would be so even if we were taught by one of the apostles:

Acts 17
10  And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11  These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12  Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

Remember this is before the new testament was written / canonized so the Bereans were comparing the apostle Paul's teachings with the old testament: The Torah, the prophets, the writings (abbreviated as Tanakh) so nothing they taught about Messiah Yeshua contradicted the Torah and Yeshua never taught against Torah otherwise He would have been rejected as along with the apostle Paul.

In a previous post in this blog from february The "seed of the woman" and other parroted teachings , I addressed the issue of "pastors" (and others) parroting teachings they believe sounds good but contradicts scripture.  Numerous teachings have become doctrines because those "pastors" accept other "pastors" teachings at face value without studying and making sure the teaching lines up with what the bible actually says.  Since most "christians" do not study their bibles for their selves, they accept these new doctrines as fact and contradict anyone that comes against those new and unbiblical doctrines.

This past weekend, I activated my real facebook account in order to watch some live facebook feed videos from a well known prophecy teacher Amir Tsarfati that spoke at JD Farag's Calvary Chapel in Hawaii.  Amir spoke of the "seed of the woman" and how "Genesis 3:15 speaks of a virgin birth of Messiah" (a false teaching as we will see). 

Strongs H2233

•             seed, sowing, offspring
•             a sowing      
•             seed
•             semen virile
•             offspring, descendants, posterity, children
•             of moral quality
•             a practitioner of righteousness (fig.)
•             sowing time (by meton)

Genesis 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed^H2233 and her seed^H2233; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

First of all, if this is about physical seed and not meaning posterity or offspring, it gives credibility to the satanic serpent seed doctrine which is definitely not biblical.

I believe it was either Chuck Missler or Chuck Smith (the late founder of Calvary Chapel) that introduced this new teaching:  "Genesis 3:15 is about the virgin birth because women do not have seed"   and Amir, being associated with Calvary Chapels,  blindly parrots this erroneous teaching.  In the chat on sunday, I pointed out that this teaching is wrong and Genesis 3:15 is definitely about Messiah Yeshua but not about His virgin birth and gave the verse Genesis 4:25 to show his error:

Genesis 4:25  And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed^H2233 instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

In the next session, Amir ridiculed me and made remarks that "a woman keeps insisting Genesis 3:15 is not abut the virgin birth but I know biology and women do not have seed" and mocked me over it.  Amir also stated I did not believe in the virgin birth which was not at all what I said.  All I stated was that Genesis 3:15 was about Messiah but was not about His virgin birth.  In my previous post in february regarding the erroneous "seed of a woman" teaching (  The "seed of the woman" and other parroted teachings ), I stated that Messiah Yeshua was virgin born which is revealed in other old testament scripture but Genesis 3:15 was not one of those verses.   Amir stated "Genesis 4:25 is about Eve getting another seed from Adam resulting in Seth"  which is not at all what the verse says.    Everyone else in chat blindly agreed with Amir and one person even posted "I forgive you" to me.  The masses blindly follow anything that scratches their itchy ears without verifying it with scripture as the Bereans of long ago would have done.  No wonder there is so much apostasy and deception in the churches today.  

Sunday afternoon, Amir private messaged me over this.   I stated that he should look up Strongs number H2233 for seed and he said, "I speak Hebrew so I don't need Strongs".  I replied 'I speak english and sometimes use a dictionary'  and basically he said he was right because he knew Hebrew and I was wrong so apparently he claims english bibles are not the Word of God?  or maybe because I'm female?  He was very condescending and very rude.   I messaged him back later asking about Genesis 16:7-11 and now it is wednesday afternoon and he never responded back.

Genesis 16
7  And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
8  And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
9  And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
10  And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed^H2233 exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
11  And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;  because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

The same word for seed,  Strongs H2233 , was used in the same context regarding Hagar as it was for Eve so if it meant as a prophecy for the virgin birth in Genesis 3:15, then what does it mean regarding Hagar?  This erroneous parroted teaching may lead to people accepting the muslim "virgin born" (so they will claim) antichrist during the tribulation.  This false teaching will also lead people to accept "mandela effects" and other such nonsense when what they remember from their "pastors" and "teachers" is pointed out to not align with what the bible says.  This very well could be used to discredit the bible and discredit Yahweh and Messiah during the tribulation.

When Chuck Missler taught that Genesis 3:15 meant a virgin birth, he, as he always said, was to not believe what he said but verify it with scripture to see if it was what scripture said.  Unfortunately most people refuse to study for their selves and show themselves approved unto God and studying scripture in truth:

2 Timothy 2
15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16  But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17  And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18  Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
19  Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

 Remember, when this was written, the only scripture was the OLD TESTAMENT

We are in the very end of the age and deception will be rampant as warned about throughout scripture,  The bible says there will be false prophets and people who flock to the false prophets.  I'm not saying Amir is a false prophet -he is mistaken and he needs to acknowledge his mistake and correct it.  If he continues to teach this erroneous teaching after being shown he is in error, he does so knowing it is false and it will make him a false teacher if he continues with it. 

This one example shows how erroneous teaching creep into the churches.  It is very saddening that people defend teachings that sound so good their itchy ears and refuse to examine those teachings to make sure they line up with what the bible really says.  It is even more upsetting so many "pastors" and "teachers" run with what is taught by others that sounds good without examining the teaching in light of scripture for their selves.  If they are in honest error, they will correct their faulty teachings but if they continue to teach the false after being shown it is false, then they are false teachers regardless of how popular they are or how much you like them.

People need to get into a bible study and study the BIBLE and not some book or commentary written by a pastor or someone else on a topic.  We are to be reading the BIBLE - not what someone claims the bible says. Unfortunately most "bible studies" chose to study a book written by a pastor and not the bible! (why they are called "BIBLE studies" is beyond me - it is a deception)

This is the time of deception and strong delusion and the only way to protect ourselves from the deception is by comparing everything taught with what the bible says.  It's very unsettling to listen to some of the popular and mainline "pastors" who are obviously taking their faulty teachings from other "pastors" instead of doing their own studies and teaching what the Holy Spirit wants them to teach.  If they taught what the Holy Spirit leads them to teach, much of the error and faulty doctrines would be corrected instead of parroted and accepted at face value.

Matthew 7:15  Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Matthew 24:11  And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Matthew 24:24  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

2 Peter 2
1  But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3  And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

1 Timothy 4:1  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

2 Timothy 3
1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

2 Timothy 4
3  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5  But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.