The Ostrich Syndrome
I never cease to be amazed at the way people act when they are told that something they believe is wrong. You would think that they would be very happy to find out that they have been deceived, and want to know what is the truth. But I have found that most people are very happy with what knowledge they have, and feel comfortable in it and get mad when they think they may have to make a change in their beliefs.
I understand where some of them are coming from since they have made big steps to other beliefs before, and later found that the beliefs and the people who were proponents of them were false.
Hence they are afraid of anything foreign to what they were raised with. And they fear it will come of the same thing. So they, along with people who just don't care what is truth, go the way of the preverbal Ostrich. "Stick their head in the ground" so that anything they can't or won't see, can't affect them. This philosophy can't work, it is only a false cover that they think will shield them from possible harm.
Here are some undeniable truths (FACTS) that they refuse to look at.
FACT No 1. The translators of the scriptures Deleted the NAME of the heavenly Father, on purpose with no other explanation than it is tradition to do so, some do say that it is because the Jews thought the NAME was too holy to say. This name in Hebrew is called the Tetragrammaton which are the four Hebrew letters Yod Hey Wah Hey (YHWH) pronounced in English and most other languages as YAHWEH and is found in the part of the Bible that is erroneous called the Old Testament, Seven thousand times. (7.000 times) This FACT can be found in the Forward of most Bibles and was in the King James translation at one time but in the later edition it too has been deleted. If you don't want to know this, just stick your head in the ground and don't read on any further.
FACT No 2. The name of our savior was never Jesus as this would be impossibility. For this word to have been formed in any language until the 16th century since it is undeniable that there was no "J" in any language until that time, so WHO was the person that first formed that word and used it in place of the correct name, "Yahshua" and Why? Why would it be hard for any person in any language to pronounce the name correctly? I have a feeling that there has been and is a conspiracy to hide this name and the name that he was called in what we erroneously call the Old Testament.
And I know for sure that there is a conspiracy to hide the true name of our savior in what we erroneously call the new testament, any person that will think, can tell that the English pronunciation of the Saviors name Yahshua would be Joshua. If you don't want to KNOW this stick your head in the ground.
FACT No 3. Yahweh's Sabbath is the seventh day of the week, and it was made holy at creation, by the Father. There was no time when the Sabbath was changed to the first day of the week, yet people continue to go worship on the day of the Sun (Sunday)
There is no reason that people should not worship on any day of the week, as long as they observe the Sabbath and do worship on that day and set it aside to rest, and spend that time in study of the word, and fellowshipping with other believers, where ever possible. It is easy to find out where this Sunday worship came from, all you have to do is CARE enough to find the truth. Look in almost any good encyclopedia and look up Constantine the emperor of Rome, who was supposed to be the first one that became a "Christian", and made it the State religion. Only he made major changes in the worship and the rules of worship.
1. He changed the form of baptism from the name of Yahshua to the titles of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
2. He changed the feast of Passover to Easter, the spring fertility festival that the pagans had kept for hundreds of years.
3. He added all of the Pagans feast days to the "Christian" calendar and just changed what they were called. A good example of this is Christmas, it was originally called Saturnalia and kept in the last 2 weeks of Dec. and did away with the feast days of YHWH.
4. He changed the holy Sabbath from the seventh day of the week to the more popular first day of the week or the day of the Sun, that the pagans worshiped the Sun on, and it is well know that he was a Sun worshiper.
He made lots of other changes, including changing what we call our savior.
How important is it what we call him? The scripture says that there is only one name given that under heaven whereby we must be saved and that name is Yahshua. As you can plainly see in Acts 26:12-15 this is the only place where the savior was asked directly who he is (Or what is your name) the scripture says he answered in HEBREW.
There is a lot more things I could say here, but if you can get this much then the others will not be hard for you. Probably there is only a few of you left who started this study. Most will have their heads in the ground like an Ostrich and everything will be all right with them, because they can't or won’t see it.
Buddy Arthur (Pastor)