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CONTENTS Magazine 7 VOL. 5 | No. 3 |May-June 2015 10 ARTICLES 12 Restoration Times16 expounds the close ties between the Old and 3 | The Final Empire 12 | Where the Rubber Meets the Road New Testaments. We teach the by Randy Folliard by Alan Mansager continuity and harmony that extend from Yahweh’s actions anciently 7 | Renewal of the Biblical Covenant down through His present activity 16 | Dealing with Mistakes in Yahshua the Messiah. This was by the late Donald R. Mansager by Joel Wirl also the conviction of the early New Testament Assembly. 10 | Successful Marriages, Part 1 This publication is sent free of 20 | Questions and Answers charge, made possible through the by Randy Folliard tithes and offerings of those who 22 | Third Edition RSB Information desire to see the truth of Scripture restored in our day. © 2015 Yahweh’s Restoration Ministry 23 | Letters COVER: Earth in a state of turmoil, a depiction of the end of Yahweh’s Restoration Ministry the age. PO Box 463 Holts Summit, MO 65043 Telephone: 573-896-1000 Office hours M-F 8am-4pm www.yrm.org [email protected] The Final Empire by Randy Folliard n January 16, 2014, USA Today current events and additional signs from the and Iraq. published an article entitled, “10 Messiah’s Olivet Prophecy. Some dismiss this as only a coincidence, OGreatest Threats Facing the World but Scripture seems to show otherwise. in 2014.” It documented the following Signs in the Heavens When you consider how infrequently these threats: The first of these prophecies is heavenly tetrads occur and the fact that in the last • Fiscal crises in key economies signs, revealed first in the second chapter 500 years they have all fallen around major • Structurally high unemployment/ of Joel and later by Peter in his famous events impacting the Jewish people, the underemployment sermon on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2:20. thought of these being only happenstance • Water crises He states, “The sun shall be turned into is hard to imagine. darkness, and the moon into blood, before As many are aware, we’re presently • Severe income disparity that great and notable day of Yahweh come.” in the middle of another tetrad. The dates • Failure of climate change mitigation Prior to the Messiah’s return, the Bible are: April 15, 2014; October 8, 2014; April and adaptation prophesies that the moon will turn into 4, 2015; and September 28, 2015. Three of • Greater incidence of extreme weather blood. Many who study eschatology identify these blood moons have already occurred events this with what’s called a blood moon, which and the last is to happen this fall, right before • Global governance failure is a lunar eclipse. This occurs when the earth the Feast of Tabernacles. These latest blood • Food crises is between the sun and moon and the sun’s moons occur right before or on a biblical • Failure of a major financial mecha- rays stretch around the earth making the Feast. nism/institution moon appear red or like blood. • Profound political and social in- While a single blood moon is not The Coming Shemitah stability uncommon, four blood moons in a sequence, In addition to the current tetrad this fall, the While some of these threats pose called a tetrad, are extremely rare. Sabbatical or Shemitah year will begin on real risks to this nation and world, one So rare that in the last 500 years a tetrad the Day of Atonement. In addition to this was not included – terrorism. In the last has occurred three times. The first tetrad time of forgiving all debt, allowing slaves decade we have seen an astronomical rise occurred in 1493 and 1494, right before the to go free and the land being given rest, in terrorism from radical, jihadist Islamic Spanish Inquisition when the Jews were the Bible also confirms that the Sabbatical organizations. Not only does this present expelled from Spain. The second happened is likely prophetic. Isaiah 61:2 reads, “To a clear and present danger to the entire in 1949 and 1950, right after the rebirth of proclaim the acceptable year of Yahweh, world, but may also fulfill Bible prophecy. Israel as a nation in 1948. And the third and the day of vengeance of our Elohim; to We will now review the possible occurred between 1967 and 1968, during comfort all that mourn.” connection between Islam and the the time of the Six Day War, in which Israel Many scholars point out that the final empire that will be ruled by the was victorious over several Middle Eastern phraseology in this passage is a reference Antimessiah. We will also consider a few nations, including Egypt, Syria, Jordan, to the Sabbatical or possible Jubilee. For Restoration Times Magazine May-June 2015 3 example, the Jamieson, Fausset, and might possibly be the calm before the wars and conflicts throughout the world. Brown Commentary states, “…also from storm. According to an article published by the ‘liberty proclaimed’ to all bond-servants If this storm occurs in our lifetime, Foreign Policy entitled, “10 Wars to Watch on the year of jubilee.” The Adam Clarke’s will we be ready? Will we have the in 2015,” the number one threat to the world Commentary agrees, “The proclaiming faith, devotion, and tenacity necessary to is the conflict between Syria, Iraq, and the of perfect liberty to the bound, and the withstand the trials and tribulation that we Islamic State. The nine other areas of threat year of acceptance with YAHWEH is a may encounter? The simple truth is, if we’re include: Ukraine, South Sudan, Nigeria, manifest allusion to the proclaiming of the not completely committed, we’re not likely Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo year of jubilee by sound of trumpet. …This to remain true. (DRC), Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and the was a year of general release of debts and Over the years we’ve seen many Sahel, and Venezuela. obligations, of bondmen and bondwomen, lukewarm believers. Yahshua said, “Many of lands and possessions which had been are called, but few are chosen.” If we’re Threat of Radical Islam sold from the families and tribes to which going to remain strong through this According to the U.S. State Department, they belonged. Our Saviour, by applying unthinkable level of tribulation, we will there are currently 59 terrorist organizations this text to himself, (Luke 4:18-19), a text so need faith and devotion second to none. throughout this world. Many of these manifestly relating to the institution above Another concern that Yahshua organizations are tied to radical Islam. This mentioned, plainly declares the typical prophesied was deception. In Matthew list includes such organizations as HAMAS, design of that institution.” 24:4-5 He said, “…Take heed that no man Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Qaeda, Islamic When we consider not only the current deceive you. For many shall come in my Movement of Uzbekistan, Islamic Jihad blood moons, but also the coming Sabbatical, name, saying, I am Messiah; and shall Union, Army of Islam, Boko Haram, and it should give us reason to pause and ask, deceive many.” Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also could all this be part of end-time prophecy? This was Yahshua’s first sign in His known as ISIL or the Islamic State). Considering the evidence and the fact that Olivet Prophecy. He told His disciples While many of these organizations these correspond with our Savior’s Second not to be deceived. He went on to say that pose a real threat, there’s none greater than Coming, at minimum we should be aware many would come in His name, saying, I the Islamic State. This organization has of what’s occurring. am the Messiah. Scripture explains that the barbarically murdered thousands in the Man of Sin or Antimessiah will be the final Middle East in the name of Islam, including Yahshua’s Olivet Prophecy fulfillment of this prophecy. women and young children. The tactics used Let’s now consider a few verses from In addition to unparalleled tribulation by these radicals are beyond inhumane; they Yahshua’s Olivet Prophecy. In Matthew 24 and deception, Yahshua said there would include dismemberment, burning alive, and He states that the time immediately before be war prior to His coming. “And ye shall other unspeakable methods of torture. His coming will be marked by unparalleled hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that For those unfamiliar with ISIL, this hardship. ye be not troubled: for all these things must organization is an offshoot of Al-Qaeda, “For then shall be great tribulation, come to pass, but the end is not yet. For the same radical Islamic group that the such as was not since the beginning of the nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom United States fought in Afghanistan. Now world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And against kingdom,” Matthew 24:6-7. even though Al-Qaeda shares many goals except those days should be shortened, there Why did Yahshua make a with ISIL, they also have differences. The should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s distinction here between main difference is twofold: (1) ISIL is much sake those days shall be shortened,” verses “nation” and “kingdom”? more focused on restoring an Islamic state 21-22. The word “nation” comes or caliphate, similar to the Ottoman Empire, The Great Tribulation, from the Greek ethnos and and (2) the tactics of ISIL are far more representing the last three and refers to civil wars, violent and hostile.