Time of Reckoning Has Come
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Year 5989!
Are we due for the arrival of the Messiah? According to the reckoning of time of this ministry, this is year 5989 from Creation, which began at the sunset of the 9 of April 2024. May we merit seeing the coming of our Mashiach speedily in our days!
Set-apart to the Eternal! The High Priest’s head-plate.
Weekly Torah Portion:
Ki Tisa: Exodus 30:11-34:35
When Mosheh Declined the Messenger of YHVH
Unseen Wonders in the Land Yet to be Fulfilled
Why did Moses Have to Break the Tablets of the Covenant of YHVH?
Where are the Tablets of Stone Moses Broke? Are They Lost Forever?
From the Golden Calf to the Face Masks
Why did the sons of Mosheh not merit any leadership?
TORM Editorial
Purim 2025 begins Thursday, 13 March at sunset and ends Friday, 14 March at sunset.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 7 March 2025: Haman’s plan to annihilate the entire Jewish population in the Persian empire in one day failed miserably with his and his sons’ death. Since then, Purim has been celebrated as a holiday of victory of good over evil. But Purim for this Biblical year (Gregorian 2024/2025) is under the dark shadow of the ongoing war of Israel against the axis of evil on six fronts–Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Syria, and the Shiite militia in Iraq–all of them the personification of the new Haman today. The octopus’ tentacles are being cut off one by one but not the head: the Islamic regime in Iran. As long as the head is still alive, the tentacles grow back, and the octopus will not die until the head is smashed.
There are still debates today whether Purim is a real holiday, since it is not one of the holidays legislated in the Torah. Some argue that Purim is an obligated holiday, even though not with the same status of the appointed times of the Creator recorded in Leviticus 23. The argument for Purim is that it was canonized during the Second Temple period when there were still prophets who had the power to regulate legislation, even though not with the same power of Mosheh, unlike Chanukah, a holiday which was instituted in the Maccabean period when all prophecies had already ceased. Thus, Purim was established by Mordechai as a holiday in the twelfth month of the year, which in the Rabbinic calendar is the month “Adar”. But Purim comes with a difficulty though. In the case of a leap year, a thirteenth month is interpolated called “Adar II”. Thus, a leap year is created by adding an extra month. But in which “Adar” should Purim be celebrated, Adar or Adar II? Karaite Jews and many converts celebrate Purim in the twelfth month of the Creator’s calendar, called Adar, while Rabbis celebrate Purim in Adar II. Why is the difference? The reason is purely rabbinic. The tradition of celebrating Purim in the twelfth month fits with the narrative in the Book of Esther. According to the book, Purim is to be celebrated in the twelfth month of the year, while the Rabbinic “Adar II” is, in fact, the thirteenth month. The argument for the Karaites is that the first Purim was established and celebrated in the twelfth month of the year. While the argument in favor of Adar II is that this is the last month of the year, as the month when Purim was first celebrated in Persia was also the last month. So, when is Purim to be celebrated, in Adar or Adar II? It depends on which tradition one follows.
It is interesting to note here that every book of the Tanach has been found in the Dead Sea Scrolls (some in part), with the exception of the Book of Ester. The Dead Sea Scrolls (200 BCE – 70 CE) were found in eleven caves near the site of Qumran, Israel, by a young Bedouin shepherd in 1947. They include Torah, Prophets, Writings, Pseudepigrapha, and secular writings, but not the Book of Esther. We wonder about it! Why not Esther?
Mosheh was about to die at the threshold of the Promised Land, but before that the Eternal told him to warn the people concerning what would befall them if they violated the Covenant. In the words of the Eternal:
Then My anger shall burn against them in that day, and I shall forsake them and hide My face from them, and they shall be consumed. And many evils and distresses shall come upon them, … And I shall certainly hide My face in that day, … (Deu 31:17-18)
In Hebrew, it is literally said in verse 18, haster astir, “hide the hiding”. This sentence may explain the name of the Book of Esther known as Megillat Esther; the root of the name Esther is “hide”. When a careful reader examines the Book of Esther, it will be inevitable to see that the Name of the Eternal (the Tetragrammaton YHVH) is not present in the book. Yet, we showed that in fact His Name is present in the deep layers of the Bible codes. Although the Name is not addressed explicitly in the book, the title of the book Esther made it clear why: the Name is hidden.
Every year, we remind the readers to recall the true story of the holiday of Purim. Purim is not among the established holidays of the Creator in Leviticus 23. Nevertheless, it has its own place in the history of Israel to teach a lesson. What lessons do Purim teach us? The Sages keep the old tradition that the evil decree in the Purim story came because the Jews in Persia attended the feast King Achashverosh made to all the people that were present in the province of Shushan in celebration of what the king believed was the failure of the prophecy that the Jews would return to the Land of Israel and help rebuild the Temple. Usually, the Torah provides a reason as to why an individual, or a nation, are punished. The Book of Esther does not explicitly state what sin the people did to deserve the threat of annihilation. When viewed in historical context, however, it becomes clear that the remaining Jews in Persia were guilty of not having returned to the Promised Land, when they had King Koresh’s decree to do so. After Persia conquered the Babylon, King Koresh permitted the Jews to return to the land and even more: to begin reconstruction of the Temple that was destroyed by the Babylonians. However, only 42,360 returned to Jerusalem (Ezr 2:64) while many more chose to remain in exile. As we argued in other places, that generation was punished for ignoring Torah which mandates that the descendants of Israel are to live in the land. But if some were to argue that there is no such a command in the Torah, we feel compelled to remind them that the whole Torah and the commands in it are all about the Land. Moreover, the Babylonian Talmud states explicitly: “Anyone who dwells in the Land of Israel is like one who has God, and anyone who dwells outside the Land is like one who has no God”. It was known that the Babylonian exile would last for seventy years, according to the prophecy in Jeremiah. But how many of the Jews returned to the homeland? Every time Israel was sent into exile, the Eternal set a limit to it: 400 years in Egypt, 40 years in Arabia, and 70 years in Babylon. The last exile (in Rome) officially ended in May 1948 at the moment the first prime minister of Israel, Ben Gurion, announced the establishment of Medinat Israel, the State of Israel. But how many of the world Jewry returned to the Land then (in Egypt, Arabia, and Babilon) and how many are willing to return now from Rome? Did Kristallnacht not serve as a warning? And there is a lesson the King of the Khazars taught the Jews who still remain in exile today.
Suggested reading:
The True Purim and the Untold Truth
How the Khazars Understood the True Purim
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A replica of the Ark of the Covenant with the two cheruvim on the top of the lid. Courtesy of The Temple Institute, Jerusalem.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 5 March 2025: Idolatry undoubtedly is the most serious violation against the Creator of the universe. To Him and to Him alone, and to the exclusion of everyone else, honor is due. The most pronounced example of the prohibition of idolatry is what is spoken in the Covenant. The Eternal prohibited the making of images of any idol, of what is in heaven, what is in the earth, and what is in the water. Five chapters later, however, He told Mosheh to make two images of pure gold of what is in heaven and place them as a cover for the ark of the Covenant. When Mosheh returned from the mountain with the tablets of stone, on which this prohibition was written, the people made an image of the Eternal, an image of pure gold. For this transgression, they were punished, as about three thousand people died on that day. If the reader is not yet perplexed, the Eternal also told Mosheh to make an image of a snake, which is to be erected on a pole. Now, an obvious question presents itself: … Read more.
When Stone Became Word and Word Became Stone
The tablet contains only nine of the original Ten Commandments. (Courtesy of Sotheby’s).
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 22 February 2025: The whole subject of observing the laws of the Torah can become difficult to understand in detail, when we look only at what has been revealed to us in the Scriptural text. For instance, Torah says to cease labor on Shabbat and rest on the seventh day of the Creator but does not explicitly define what labor and rest are. Likewise with other commands. Mosheh in his last address to the nation asks us to love the Eternal with all we have and do His commands and statues, but Torah does not seem to elaborate on the details as to how to serve Him. Read more.
What is the Real Name of Mosheh?
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 20 February 2025: The Bible is a book of questions, not of answers. Israel uniquely became a nation before it became a state. It had laws before it had a land. Thus, Israel can be counted as the only nation in the world that is an ethno-religious nation. Yet, we do not know her greatest leader’s Hebrew name. Exodus 2 tells us that a Levite married a woman from his tribe, and she conceived and bore a son. Later, Torah will tell us also that the man’s name was Amram, and the woman’s name was Yocheved, but it will not tell us what the name of the baby boy was. This is hinted at in the apparent lack of a name, contrary to how the Hebrew names are formed in the Tanach. Torah thus wants to impress upon the reader that there is a deeper meaning not only in this passage but in the whole story to which we now turn. We will explain the reason for this in due course. Read more.
Hebrew Words: Father, Son, Grandson
What is the purpose of the Hebrew gematria?
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 16 February 2025: The Hebrew alphabet (aleph-bet) has 22 letters. Each of these 22 letters is correlated with a specific number, as there are no “numbers” in Hebrew as we know them today. Gematria is not a Hebrew word but Greek. Basically, gematria is the computation of individual letters of words, or entire phrases and sentences utilizing their numerical equivalence. For instance, the first letter has numerical value of 1, the second letter has 2, etc. The Biblical commentators believe that the words in the Tanach are connected through … Read more.
Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Lesson Learned by the Maccabees
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 9 February 2025: The historical events surrounding the festival of Chanukkah are described in two historical works called Maccabees I and Maccabees II. Both books tell the story of the liberation from the Greek rule of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes over the land of Judea and of the purification of the second Temple from the abominations the Greeks committed in the Temple. Vastly outnumbered, the Jews placed their trust in the Elohim of their fathers, and He gave them a miraculous victory against all odds. The accession of Antiochus Epiphanes, the villain of the Maccabees story … Read more.
Hebrew Word: Jew, Jewish
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 25 January 2025: The term “Jew” or “Jewish” is a Rabbinic misnomer that is supposedly developed from the name “Judah” or “Judea”. But “Jew” or “Jewish” is more than a mere Rabbinic misnomer designated to refer to the ancient Israelites as “Jews”. By substituting the term “Jews” for all Israelites, the Ten Tribes of the northern kingdom are thus erased from the commonwealth of Israel, and the writings concerning them in the Biblical narrative nullified. Thus, in the Rabbinic Judaism all Israel became “Jewish”. The Rabbis went even further to refer to the patriarch Avraham as “the first Jew”, the calendar and all holidays of the Creator “Jewish. But this is etymologically inaccurate, as far as the Scripture is concerned. Seeing that the Rabbis and tradition commentators engage in an incorrect usage of these terms, at least in our opinion, … Read more.
How “Let the Dead Bury Their Dead” Was Misconstrued
Ossuary. Israel Antiquities Authority.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 22 January 2025: There is a passage in Matthew 8 that always perplexes a sensitive reader who tends to read the Scripture carefully. Moreover, it is extremely confusing, when we look only at what has been revealed to us in the narration. We need to resort to the Torah to make better sense of this short episode in the Apostolic Writings. It is the object of this work, therefore, to explain what is not satisfactorily explained by the commentators and expose certain misconceptions that still exist. We read from King James’ version of the Bible thus, … Read more.
The Daughter of Pharaoh Called to Receive a New Name Through Adoption
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 19 January 2025: In the following, we would like to posit a new reading of the Scroll of Shemot, specifically in reference to one person whom the Eternal called to receive a new name through adoption. Although the traditional commentators have already treated the subject of slavery in Egypt exhaustively, yet there is some room left for our comments. We will try to show that the subject is far from being exhausted and hope to provide a new understanding and answers to the questions we will raise below. For the purpose of this study and considering the unique standing of the subject we will focus more particularly on Exodus 2 and 1 Chronicles 4. It all began with the first chapter of Exodus to which we now turn. Read more.
The Saga of the Last Patriarch
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 11 January 2025: After Yoseph was sold in slavery and spent many years first as a slave and then in a prison accused unjustly, he rose to power in Egypt to become only second to Pharoah; he became the viceroy of Egypt. And Yoseph changed. Away from home and family, he was no longer the favored son of his father, who was reporting his brothers. In his encounter with his brothers, who came down to Egypt to buy grain on account of the famine in the land of Kana’an, he learned that his brothers, who wanted first to kill him but then to sell him, were not the same brothers either. They too changed to become responsible men, especially his brother Shimon who suggested to kill him, and Yehudah who wanted to sell him for money, but it was Yehudah who offer himself as a slave in his brother’s place. They were not the brothers who had animosity toward the favored son of their father. They were not jealous toward Binyamin, the other son of Rachel, whom Yoseph favored in order to test them. But they all came together to protect Binyamin, when Yoseph threatened to take him as a slave in another test. Now that the brothers reconciled the past, they reunited in a foreign land, when Ya’akov and all his family, seventy souls, descended to Egypt in the second year of the famine. With the above in mind, we may now understand that this compels us to consider the question: The brothers indeed changed, but did their father change? Read more.
Why Israel Did Not Leave Egypt After the Famine
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 5 January 2025: Yoseph administered Egypt during the seven years of famine, which are interrupted in order to describe how his family came to settle in Egypt. In the first year of the famine, there was no bread in the entire country, since the famine was very severe and all the grain that they had set aside as a reserve during the seven years of plenty had gone. And because the people languished due to the famine, Yoseph opened the granaries of Egypt. In Gen. 47:13-27, we learn that Yoseph had done more than just rescue Egypt from the famine. He instituted a new political system of Egypt by taking over all land as property of Pharaoh and making the people his servants. Yoseph uprooted the Egyptians from their places and moved from one end of Egypt to the other end, in order to disown them. Once the Egyptians were settled on land which was not theirs, they could not return to their lands settled by other people. We should recall that King Nevuchadnetsar of Babylon did exactly that with the peoples he conquered. Read more.
Yoseph Became the Person He was Meant to Be Because He Went to Egypt
Israel and his sons going down to Egypt.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 4 January 2025: Yoseph was sold in Egypt as a slave. But the Elohim of his father was with him and did not abandon him as his brothers did. Now raised to the highest rank in Egypt, only second to Pharaoh himself, Yoseph could set his thought on his family in the land of Kana’an. On account of the famine that was throughout the whole land, his brothers came down to Egypt to buy grain, for grain could be found only in Egypt. Yoseph was expecting them to come for the famine was very great. And when they came, Yoseph put them in the same situation to commit the same sin, this time against their father’s favorite son: Binyamin. We will explore this in the context of the story of Binyamin, a story that poses significant challenges for the careful reader. Read more.
Christmas: “Do Not Do It and Do not Say You Are Doing It for Me!”
Traditional modern-day Christmas tree with ornaments and gifts beneath it. Exactly what the Lord warned: “Do not learn the way of the nations”.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 29 December 2024: The world just saw Christmas out and is preparing to see the New Year in. Christmas is considered one of the holiest if not the holiest day in the Christian calendar of the western Church. Many Christians around the world celebrated the birth of Christ on Christmas Day, the 25th of December. While Christmas is believed to be the day of the birth of Christ, there are strong arguments in the Scripture that this is not the case. Rather, Christmas-like pagan practice around ornamented evergreen trees was celebrated in the ancient world that was exposed in the Book of Jeremiah. Yet, despite this, in our world Christmas Day is a public holiday in many nations that is celebrated religiously by many Christians and culturally by many non-Christians alike. Yet, another day comes for celebration: The New Year, on the 1st of January. While on this day at midnight begins nothing: nor a year, or a month, not even a day, the Creator of the universe has clearly designated a day for the beginning of the months in Exodus 12 … Read more.
The Coronation Psalm and the War of Gog of Magog
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 25 December 2024: Psalm 2 is written as a psalm without a heading in honor of a particular king. Its content and visionary language indicate that it is not describing a specific king but rather depicts a prophetic vision of the future redeemer, Melech haMashiach, King Messiah, as it is written: “This day I have brought you forth”. The psalmist penned his Psalm as a mirrored picture of what he saw and as an echo of what he heard. In the prophecy given through Natan the prophet (2Sa 7:5-16), the Eternal promised everlasting kingship to the House of David. One of the themes of the coronation of the kings of Israel was adoption, as it is written: “I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son” (2Sa 7:14). Read more.
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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)