a publication of Assemblies of Yahweh An Assemblies of Yahweh publication. Assemblies of Yahweh, The Narrow Way Newsletter, The Sacred Name Broadcaster, The Sacred Name Broadcast, The Sacred Scriptures, The Sacred Name Telecast, and WMLK Radio are Service Marks and Trade‑ marks of Assemblies of Yahweh, Bethel, PA 19507 January 2012 Volume XXXXIII, Number 10 CONTENTS 1 What Must We Do to Be Saved? Part 4 “Are they few that are saved?” asked a follower of Yahshua the Messiah in Luke 13:23. What are the steps to salvation? This thought‑provoking article reveals the important steps that we must take to receive the free gift of salva‑ tion. Will you struggle to enter in through that narrow door as our Savior 1 admonishes in verse 24? 13 The Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition—1981-2011 Remembering the past three decades of distributing the best translation of the inspired Scriptures that is available. With nearly 50,000 volumes in circulation, have you obtained your own personal copy? 13 18 The Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition Elder Jacob O. Meyer explains the need for a translation that restores the Sacred Names of Yahweh and His Son, our Savior, Yahshua the Messiah. 18 Looking through the gate The Sacred Name Broadcaster is published monthly by the Our Cover: Assemblies of Yahweh, Bethel, PA 19507. Your subscription has been paid of Megiddo out toward the by the willing co-workers of this ministry who are concerned that this Jezreel Valley, one can envi‑ message of salvation should be made available free of charge to all the sion those men of old who world as a witness before the Second Coming of Yahshua the Messiah. While no charge is ever placed upon this publication, CONTRIBUTIONS entered through this gate. (all of which are tax deductible) are gratefully accepted to help Megiddo is where Ahaz‑ defray expenses. We hope you will share in making this information iah, king of Judah, died in available to others. 2 Kings 9:27, and King Josiah also met his end here in All quotes in The Sacred Name Broadcaster are from The 2 Kings 23:29. Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition, 1981, Assemblies of Yahweh, Bethel, PA 19507, unless otherwise stated. All translations of the Bible quoted Strategically located in herein have been corrected to be consistent with the oldest available the Jezreel Valley, Megiddo manuscripts. Copies of The Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition, will again see bloodshed in are available. For information about purchasing your copy, write to the final battle that will take Assemblies of Yahweh. place in this area when our © Copyright 2012 Assemblies of Yahweh. All rights reserved. Periodical Savior, Yahshua the Messiah, postage paid at Reading, PA 19612 (ISSN 879320). Telephone (717) returns in just a few short 933‑4518. POSTMASTERS: Send form 3579 to Assemblies of Yahweh, years from now. PO Box C, Bethel, PA 19507. Will you be an iconoclast as was King Josiah, a re‑ Founder and Author: Elder Jacob O. Meyer former who turned to Yahweh wholeheartedly? SNB photo What Must We Do to be SAVED? Part 4 To continue our series on this by gone backward. Why will you important subject, let’s read Isaiah Elder Jacob O. Meyer be still stricken, that you revolt chapter 1. “The vision of Isaiah more and more? The whole head the son of Amoz, which he saw is sick, and the whole heart faint. concerning Judah and Jeru- owner, and the ass his master’s From the sole of the foot even to salem, in the days of Uzziah, crib; but Israel does not know, the head there is no soundness Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, my people does not consider. Ah in it; but wounds, and bruises, kings of Judah. sinful nation, a people loaded and fresh stripes: they have not “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, been closed, neither bound up, O earth; for Yahweh has spoken: children who deal corruptly! neither mollified with oil. Your I have nourished and brought up They have forsaken Yahweh, they country is desolate; your cit- children, and they have rebelled have despised the Holy One of ies are burned with fire; your against me. The ox knows his Israel, they are estranged and land, strangers devour it in your The Sacred Name Broadcaster, 1/2012 1 presence, and it is desolate, as full of justice! Righteousness We stand in respectful awe of the overthrown by strangers. And lodged in her, but now murder- great Majesty on High as we read the daughter of Zion is left as a ers. Your silver has become dross, His Word and comprehend His plan booth in a vineyard, as a lodge your wine mixed with water. of salvation. The manifold aspects of in a garden of cucumbers, as a Your princes are rebellious, and the subject of this series of articles besieged city. Except Yahweh of companions of thieves; every one are awesome. We are considering hosts had left to us a very small loves bribes, and follows after the various facets of the require- remnant, we should have been rewards: they judge not the fa- ments that we must fulfill in order as Sodom, we should have been to be saved. The instructions in the like Gomorrah. He tells us to sacred Scriptures tell us of the love “Hear the word of Yahweh, you that Yahweh has for His creation; rulers of Sodom; give ear to the wash and make therefore, He sent a Savior to this law of our Elohim, you people earth to redeem all those who repent of Gomorrah. What to me is the ourselves clean, of sin. Yahweh’s instructions are not multitude of your sacrifices? says to put away difficult to perform, as we have seen Yahweh: I have had enough of the in the past several articles. We have burnt-offerings of rams, and the the evil of our previously examined several facets. fat of fed beasts; and I delight We have looked carefully at the not in the blood of bullocks, or doings from word repent, which means to think of lambs, or of he-goats. When before His eyes. differently and, thereupon, to decide you come to appear before me, to change from a worldly attitude who has required this at your and carnal pursuits into an attitude hand, to trample my courts? therless, neither does the cause of thinking like Yahweh. Bring no more vain oblations; of the widow come to them. incense is an abomination to “Therefore says the Sovereign me; newmoon and sabbath, the Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One A Cleansing from Sin calling of assemblies,−I cannot of Israel, Ah, I will ease myself Our inclinations are redirected, endure iniquity along with the of my adversaries, and avenge from gratifying human desires to solemn meeting. Your new moons myself of my enemies; and I will pleasing the Almighty who created and your appointed feasts my turn my hand upon you, and us. Isaiah sounds this instruction soul hates; they are a trouble to thoroughly purge away your very clearly in the first chapter me; I am weary of bearing them. dross, and will take away all of his prophecy. “COME NOW,” And when you spread forth your your tin; and I will restore your he says, “LET US REASON TO- hands, I will hide my eyes from judges as at the first, and your GETHER.” you; yes, when you make many counselors as at the beginning: Are we thinking quite clearly prayers, I will not hear: your afterward you shall be called and reasoning logically as we read hands are full of blood. Wash The city of righteousness, a the Word of Yahweh? He tells us to yourselves, make yourselves clean; faithful town. Zion shall be wash and make ourselves clean, put away the evil of your doings redeemed with justice, and her to put away the evil of our doings from before my eyes; cease to do converts with righteousness. from before His eyes. Cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek justice, But the destruction of trans- evil, learn to do well, seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the gressors and sinners shall be relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. together, and they that forsake fatherless, plead for the widow (in “Come now, and let us reason Yahweh shall be consumed. For other words—obey the Covenant together, says Yahweh: though they shall be ashamed of the Law of Yahweh), He tells us. your sins are as scarlet, they shall oaks which you have desired, The people of Yahweh must not be as white as snow; though they and you shall be confounded rely upon sacrifices to maintain a are red like crimson, they shall for the gardens that you have relationship with the Most High, be as wool. If you are willing chosen. For you shall be as an while they continue to practice sin. and obedient, you shall eat the oak whose leaf fades, and as We cannot in any way purchase our good of the land: but if you refuse a garden that has no water. salvation. Conversely, new thought and rebel, you shall be devoured And the strong shall be as tow, patterns must be engendered within with the sword; for the mouth of and his work as a spark; and our minds and hearts. A different Yahweh has spoken it. they shall both burn together, direction must be taken in our per- “How has the faithful city and none shall quench them.” sonal lives.