Time of Reckoning Has Come
His Reckoning of Time is coming to its end! The days of this wicked world are numbered and the writing on the wall concerning The War of Gog of Magog is for everyone to see.
Come now and let us reason together, says YEHOVAH. Isaiah 1:18
TORM featured articles:
The Abomination of Desolation as Reckoned in Daniel
Blessed is he who awaits and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 18 May 2022: The abomination of desolation as spoken and reckoned in Daniel makes this book different from the writings of the other prophets. The prophecies in this book are not prophetic addresses to Israel or the nations, but enigmatic visions partially unveiled in such a way that they still perplex the readers today. The whole prophetic part of the Book of Daniel is obscure. It gives neither measure for the “time, times and half a time” nor for “days” and thus no clear understanding of what exactly the visions convey. Hence, it leaves undefined when all these visions will take place. Thus, the reader is left with more questions than answers, and therefore, with variety of interpretations concerning the durations of the prophetic events and with difficulties in placing them in the correct chronological order. Read more
Law, Order, Judges, and Police in the Bible
Sanhedrin of judges and the law-enforcement police in the Bible
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 8 May 2022: Civil order in a society rests upon a righteous judicial system of judges established by a constitution, and an impartial administration of justice established by competent police that ensures respect to the laws. The political system with elections and rule by majority, as we call it today “democracy”, was unknown to the Torah. Even the first king of Israel, Shaul, was not elected by the people but chosen by YHVH Elohim. But today there is “democracy” and the separation between the executive and judicial branches of the government, and even separation of the government from the Creator. Read more
“Our Fathers Have Inherited Only Lies!”
A Torah scroll. Will the nations learn the ways of YHVH?
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 30 April 2022: Who made this confession: “Our fathers have inherited only lies” and why? While most of the commentators consider them to be the heathen nations, who will come to the faith of the true Elohim, what should give us pause, however, is that this interpretation is problematic. This interpretation fails to explicitly mention what would make the heathens convert so quickly. Moreover, those interpreters who advance this view are under the necessity of explaining another term we find in the Scripture: “the completeness of the nations”. Read more
Why the Pharisaic Trail of Yeshua Was Illegitimate
Had Yeshua been brought before the Great Sanhedrin of 71 judges, where Nikodemus and the other Pharisees, who believed in Yeshua, could have been found, the outcome of the trial must have been quite different, as it was the case of Shaul.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 28 April 2022: Was the Pharisaic trial of Yeshua illegitimate? In this introduction to the subject, we would like to clarify presently the fateful trial that much has been written on, but still some legal issues have not been perceived. In order to clarify these legal issues in their entirety, we must initially make some inquiries in the Rabbis’ own words: the Mishnah, or the so-called “the Oral Law”. In this study we will focus on how the Rabbis had broken their own rules making the trial of Yeshua illegitimate, even according to the Mishnah. This work may be a good departure point for the faithful reader not only to delve into the issues on the legitimacy of the trial of Yeshua but also to use it as a solid foundation to establish good arguments in possible disputes. Read more
Are Sacrifices Legitimate Without the Temple?
Image of the First Temple with the altar of sacrifices
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 18 April 2022: Today, there is great deal of debate in Judaism whether the Third Temple in Jerusalem should be built, who shall build it, and when. While all these are legitimate issues for the future Sanhedrin (the supreme judicial and ecclesiastical council in Judaism) to debate, all according to the last nine chapters in the Book of Ezekiel, what is left for us is to explain the matter whether sacrifices are legitimate without the Temple set in place. The Torah is very clear on the issue where the sacrifices are to be brought to. Israel was to keep the appointed times of YHVH with sacrificial gifts, which everyone was able to bring to rejoice before the Lord at the place where His Name dwelt. Read more
What Can Anger Elohim Most
Golden calf carved on a rock in Saudi Arabia
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 13 April 2022: Is there a sin that can anger Elohim most? The Infinite One is infinite in grace and compassion; He is slow to anger and of great mercy, ready to pardon. But what about His patience? Is His patience still infinite as He is? We will explain the reason for this question in due course. A good departing point to explore the matter would be “In the beginning”. Read more
The Allotted Exile of Israel in Egypt
Israel and his sons going down to Egypt.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 3 April 2022: The “exile of Israel in Egypt” sounds peculiar as we have not read anywhere that Israel had been sent in Egypt for any reason other than the famine in the land of Kana’an. The Torah is virtually silent about the time Israel spent in Egypt. There is absence of any notes concerning the intended stay or exile of Israel in Egypt, which we do not meet with in Genesis and Exodus. The Torah is silent, but not the prophets. Such absence does not usually take place unless the account has been intentionally obscured or suppressed. This raises the inevitable question: What possible transgression had the patriarch Israel done to the exile in Egypt? Read more
The Lost Purim of Israel
The lost Purim
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 23 March 2022: Today, however, Purim in Israel has been turned into what we can call something between Brazilian fiesta and “Jewish Halloween”. While celebrations and carnivals are fine and good, regrettably, this holiday has been distorted in our modern world, and little is known about its true meaning. The question we need to ask is imperative: “Why were the Jews still in the Persian Empire decades after King Koresh’s decree?” We should recall that that the king’s decree allowed all Jews to return to their homeland and build Jerusalem and the Temple, but only about 42,000 returned with Zerubbabel. Like the forefathers in Egypt, the Jews felt better “Persians” than the Persians themselves and decided to stay “home”, while their brothers and sisters were building the walls of Jerusalem. Nothing has changed since then; today, there are Jews who are better “Americans” than the Americans, and better “Europeans” than the Europeans. Read more
The Strange Way the Book of Leviticus Begins
The Aleppo Codex on display in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 15 March 2022: The Book of Leviticus Vayikra begins with “And he called”, which has given the name of this book (Hebrew for “and he called”). This seems like an unusual way to begin a book with “And”. But, this is not the only book that begins in such a way. The books of Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, Samuel 1&2, Kings 1&2, Ruth, Esther, and Ezra too begin with the Hebrew letter vav, “and”. Who called to Mosheh in the very opening of Leviticus? According to many if not all translations, it was YHVH who called to Mosheh and spoke to him. King James’ version of the Bible seems very clear as to who called and spoke to Mosheh. Regrettably, this translation, like most others, is easy to read nonetheless grammatically challengeable. But the question “Who called to Mosheh” may not be so simple to answer, as it looks like, if we go to the Hebrew text of Leviticus. And if we go even deeper, as we will do in the following, the answer will become quite revealing to the reader. Read more
Unseen Wonders in the Land Yet to be Fulfilled
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 7 March 2022: Israel saw the mighty hand of Elohim in Egypt, what He did to the Egyptians by the works of the ten plagues, and how the whole Egypt was destroyed economically, demographically, and militarily. Israel saw them, the Egyptians saw them too, and all other nations heard what the Elohim of the Israelites did to the world power of their time, so that when Israel entered the Land forty years later, the fear of these awesome events were still in their memories. Then YHVH declared that there would be even more awesome wonders when Israel would start conquering the Land than the ones they had already witnessed in Egypt. But do we see these wonders in the Book of Joshua? Read more
How to work out your own salvation (Ph 2:12)
If you believe you are blessed with the teachings of Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM), you may want to bless the unfortunate in fulfillment of the Torah to take care of the needy, the poor, the widows, and the orphans, to love our fellows as Yeshua has loved us.
Watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem:
The voice of your watchmen! They shall lift up their voices, together they shout for joy, because eye to eye they see the return of Yehovah to Tsiyon. (Isa 52:8)