Program 118: Shocking truth about the identity of our Savior!

By focusing almost exclusively on Yahushua, Satan has deflected love and adoration away from Yahuwah.

Welcome to WLC Radio, a subsidiary of World’s Last Chance Ministries, an online ministry dedicated to learning how to live in constant readiness for the Savior's return.

For two thousand years, believers of every generation have longed to be the last generation. Contrary to popular belief, though, Christ did not give believers “signs of the times” to watch for. Instead, he repeatedly warned that his coming would take even the faithful by surprise. Yahushua urgently warned believers to be ready because, he said, “The Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” [Matthew 24:44]

WLC Radio: Teaching minds and preparing hearts for Christ's sudden return.

* * *Part 1: (Miles & Dave)

Miles Robey: Hello! Welcome to WLC Radio. I’m Miles Robey and with me is Dave Wright!

Dave Wright: Hello! Thanks for joining us!

Miles: WLC is a Christian radio station and, as such, we prefer to use the personal name of the Creator whenever possible. “God” and “lord” are simply generic titles. And, as we broadcast literally all over the world, we’re heard in countries where the majority of the population worship other gods or lords.

The god of the Bible, the Creator, has a personal name that comes from the Hebrew verb of being, hayah. His name is Yahuwah—or Yah. In English, we don’t use verbs of being for names, but it’s the perfect name for the eternally, self-existent Creator.

Dave: The name “Jesus” is a bit more accurate. It comes from the Greek attempt to transliterate the Hebrew name, Yahushua. Sometimes people say Yeshua or Yahsha, and that’s fine, although Yahsha is actually the more correct. The formal name, however, is Yahushua and means “Yahuwah’s salvation.”

Miles: Hebrew does use some titles. Sometimes if we read an Old Testament Bible passage, you’ll hear “eloah” or “elohim.” These are titles that refer to Yahuwah.

So, Dave. What have you got for us today?

Dave: Have you ever heard of Princess Caraboo?

Miles: “Caribou”?? Isn’t that like a species of reindeer that lives in the arctic or something?

Dave laughs: No, it’s—well, it is, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Princess Caraboo of Javasu. You’ve never heard of her?

Miles: No. Sounds like some cartoon character.

Dave: Well, you’re not wrong. She was rather a caricature. In 1817, a pretty woman wearing a dark turban showed up in a village near Bristol, England. The locals didn’t understand her language. At first, they thought she was a foreign peasant. But then a Portuguese sailor, claiming to understand her, told everyone that she was actually a princess from an island called Javasu.

Miles: Interesting. Never heard of Javasu before.

Dave: Oh, it gets better. According to Princess Caraboo, she’d been abducted by pirates and only escaped by leaping overboard and swimming to shore.

Miles: Through the cold and stormy waters of the English Channel, of course.

Dave: Of course.

Miles: Sounds a bit like a 19^th century superhero.

Dave: Well, her story was printed up in a local newspaper, whereupon a woman said, “Hey! I know her! She used to work for me. She entertained my children by talking in made up languages.”

Miles: Now that’s audacious! So who was she?

Dave: Her name was Mary Baker. She was the daughter of a cobbler and had traveled all the way from … Devonshire, England!

Miles: Hardly an exotic locale!

Dave: I’m not sure you could call it a case of stolen identity, as Princess Caraboo never actually existed, but it was a case of mistaken identity. And that’s what I want to talk about today.

I’m going to ask you one question. Blurt out the first answer that pops into your mind. All right?

Miles: Go for it.

Dave: Who is the Savior?

Miles: Yahushua!

Yasha. Yeshua. Jesus Christ. However you want to refer to him, Yahushua is our lord and savior.

Are you saying that’s wrong?

Dave: No, you’re not wrong …

But you’re not entirely right, either.

Miles: Okaaaay …

Where are you going with this?

Dave: Have you worried, do I?

Miles: Just a bit!

Dave: All right. I know you and your family home church, but when you attended church every week, I want you to think about the music. Whether it was hymns, or praise songs, what did you sing about?

Miles: Well … Yahushua, of course!

Dave: Right! Because that’s what Christians do: they sing about Yahushua. They sing about his life; his death. They sing about him walking on the water, and seeking the lost sheep. They sing about being washed in his blood and about his return.

Miles: “Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring! Jesus is coming again!”

Dave: Exactly. And then of course, in December, there are all these Christmas carols about his birth. So you’ve got this whole … cult of personality built up around “Jesus,” or Yahushua.

Miles: That’s just wrong. That just sounds so wrong.

Dave: I know. I know. But hear me out.

The first song mamas teach their babies is …

Miles: “Jesus loves me, this I know.”

Dave: Now, name me a couple hymns that talk about Yahuwah.

Miles: Ahhh …

Dave: It’s hard, isn’t it? There aren’t that many.

Miles: About the only one I can come up with is “Before Jehovah’s Awful Throne.”

Dave: Yeah, and there’s “Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty.”

Now let me ask you: When you’re singing the songs about Yahushua, how does that make you feel?”

Miles: Warm. Loved. Protected.

Cherished.

Dave: And when you sing or listen to songs about Yahuwah?

It doesn’t give you the same warm, loved, and cherished feelings, does it?

Miles: No, it really doesn’t. It emphasizes your insignificance as compared to someone so high, and lofty, and … removed from your own existence.

Dave: And when there is no real emotional connection, or at least, not a warm, loving one, you’re not going to be able to have a close, loving relationship. You certainly are going to have a much harder time believing that He cares about you or can relate to your struggles.

Miles: That’s exactly right.

Dave: I have come to the conclusion that Satan has had a hand in this. Certainly, Yahushua is our redeemer. His death allows Yahuwah to credit the merits of his blood to cover our sins, and we stand before Yah as though we’d never sinned.

What’s more, Yahushua’s sinless life allows Yah to credit to us his righteousness. But, through it all, the Father remains this cold, distant, disapproving authority figure. And that obscures a little-known fact of Scripture: the true identity of the Saviour.

Miles: All right. I think you’ve got everyone’s attention! If it’s not Yahushua, who does Scripture say the Saviour is?

Dave: Yahuwah Himself!

Let’s read it. Turn to Isaiah 43. There are other places in Scripture, but this passage in particular makes it clear and keeps repeating it: Yahuwah is our Saviour. Start reading at verse 1.

Miles:

But now, thus says Yahuwah, who created you, O Jacob,
And He who formed you, O Israel:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name;
You are Mine.”

Dave: Who has redeemed us? Who is our redeemer?

Miles: Yahuwah.

Dave: Yahuwah. Keep going.

Miles:

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
Nor shall the flame scorch you.

Dave: This is how He is willing to save us. Now, He’s going to identify Himself by name. Verse 3.

Miles: “For I am Yahuwah your God,
The Holy One of Israel, your Savior.”

Dave: “For I am … Yahuwah your Elohim (or God),
The Holy One of Israel, your … Savior.”

Yahuwah is our ultimate Savior!

And it keeps repeating this throughout the chapter. Verses 4 and 5:

Since you were precious in My sight,
You have been honored,
And I have loved you;
Therefore I will give men for you,
And people for your life.
Fear not, for I am with you.

Now read verses 10 and 11. Again, this is Isaiah 43, verses 10 and 11.

Miles:

“You are My witnesses,” says Yahuwah,
“And My servant whom I have chosen,
That you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
Nor shall there be after Me.

I, even I, am Yahuwah,
And besides Me there is no savior.”

Dave: I’m not saying we shouldn’t be grateful to Yahushua for his selfless sacrifice. We’ll spend eternity being grateful!

But what I am saying is that Satan has done a masterful job diverting the love and worshipful adoration we should all feel for the Father, and placing it on Yahushua.

This deprives us of that connection we all need to feel for the Father. After all, Yahuwah is the one that devised the plan of salvation in the first place! And, for everyone who accepts the gift offered, our Creator then becomes our re-Creator.

Miles: That’s true. It’s Yah’s spirit—His breath—that is the active agent in cleansing us, in recreating us in the divine image. Even that passage in Ezekiel 36 … let me find it really quickly … the whole emphasis is on what Yahuwah does for us.

Listen to this. Ezekiel 36, verse 23 and following. It says:

I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am Yahuwah,” says Yahuwah Adonai, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be … your God. [Ezekiel 36:23-28.]

Unquote. He’s describing the work of a savior, the redeemer.

Dave: And it’s Yahuwah that’s speaking; that’s right. If you will accept the salvation He has provided through Yahushua, your Creator will become your re-Creator. But Satan has hidden this truth. Instead of our hearts being drawn to Yahuwah in love for all He has done, and continues to do for us, we focus all that worshipful adoration on Yahushua.

And, remember: Yahushua is not divine. Yes, he’s the sinless son of Yahuwah. But he isn’t divine in the sense that he’s a deity. There is only one true god and that is Yahuwah.

Miles: I agree.

I know this might be shocking to some of you listening if you’ve been raised believing in a triune godhead, but it’s true. The doctrine of a trinity came from ancient heathenism. It entered Christianity in the fourth century. There was a real big fight over it at the time.

If you missed our earlier programs on the doctrine of the trinity and the humanity of Christ, you can still hear them on our website, or on YouTube. Look for the program entitled “Dangers of the Trinity Doctrine” as well as the one called “Shocking New Light About the Incarnation.” They’re really eye-opening discussions.

Dave: I think in our trinity-indoctrinated minds, we’ve felt very comfortable adoring Yahushua and keeping the stern, all-powerful Father at arms’ length.

And yet, Yahushua always deferred to the Father. Let’s go to Matthew, chapter 19. One day, a rich young ruler came to Yahushua and wanted to know what he needed to do to be saved. He thought he’d been very diligent in keeping the law, but something inside told him he was still lacking. So, he comes to Yahushua to find out what.

Read verses 16 and 17 of Matthew 19.

Miles: All right. It says … uh: “Now behold, one came and said to him [Yahushua], ‘Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?’”

Dave: “Good Teacher.” This guy’s being polite. He wants Yahushua to know that he’s not like the fault-finding Pharisees, so if he pays Christ a subtle compliment, it’ll show that he’s sincere in his question. Go on. Verse 17.

Miles: “So he [Yahushua] said to him [the rich, young ruler], ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but One, that is, Yahuwah.’”

Dave: This harkens back to Deuteronomy 6, verse 4, that declares, quote: “Hear, O Israel: Yahuwah our Elohim, Yahuwah is one!” Then verse 5, the very next verse, says, quote: “You shall love Yahuwah your Elohim with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”

Yes, we can—and should be—grateful to Yahushua for his selflessness and self-sacrifice. But let us never forget that Yahuwah is our ultimate Saviour. Our worship and adoration, our ultimate gratitude and love, are due to Him.

Miles: Amen! Stay tuned. We’ll be right back.

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* * *Part 2: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: So, let me ask you, Dave: Is it wrong to refer to Yahushua as the Savior? I get your point that we shouldn’t divert from Yah the worshipful adoration that belongs to Him alone. But is it wrong to refer to Yahushua as “the Savior?” Have we been sinning, doing that all these years?

Dave: No, not at all. A “savior” is someone who saves. That’s the … the work of a savior. What most Christians don’t stop and realize is that Scripture is full of saviors.

Miles: Wait … you mean, like, those counterfeit Christs? Mithras and, I don’t know, wasn’t Dionysus one as well?

Dave: No, I’m talking about real, genuine saviors raised up by Yah to help His people.

A recurring theme throughout the Old Testament is Israel turning from the worship of the true God and apostatizing by worshipping other gods. Then, in an attempt to draw them back to Him, Yah would allow Israel’s enemies to conquer them.

Miles: Right. And then, when in times of trouble, they’d wake up and realize that as long as they worshipped Yah, they were free.

Dave: So, they’d return to the worship of the God of Heaven—

Miles: Over, and over, and over again! Yah is so patient, isn’t He?

Dave: He really is! Far more so than I’d ever be! So when Israel would repent and return to the worship of the God of Heaven, what would Yahuwah do?

Miles: He’d always forgive them. He’d always accept them back.

Dave: And He would raise up a … savior … to deliver Israel.

Miles: Hmmm. I guess I never really looked at them that way.

Dave: Well, let’s take a look at a few. I’ve printed off some Bible verses. Why don’t you read that first one there.

Miles: Okay, uh … this is from Judges 3, verses 9, 15, and 31. It says, quote: “When the children of Israel cried out to Yahuwah, Yahuwah raised up a deliverer for the children of Israel, who delivered them: Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.”

Then verse 15 says, quote: “But when the children of Israel cried out to Yahuwah, Yahuwah raised up a deliverer for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. By him the children of Israel sent tribute to Eglon king of Moab.”

Dave: And verse 31?

Miles: “After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad; and he also delivered Israel.”

Dave: There’s more. These are just a few. But they were all deliverers. Saviors, if you will.

Miles: There were even women saviors, weren’t there? There was Deborah, the wife of Lapidoth. She was a prophetess and a judge in ancient Israel. Yah used her and Barak to deliver Israel from the Cannaanite king, Jabin.

Dave: Well, and Jael. Same battle. When Jabin’s general saw the battle was lost and fled, Jael welcomed him into her home where she promptly killed him by driving a tent peg through his temple while he slept.

Miles: And Esther—she risked her life to save all the Israelites in the Persian empire. Her cousin, Mordecai, even told her that maybe Yahuwah had made her queen “for such a time as this.”

Dave: We’re used to thinking solely of Yahushua in connection to the term “savior,” but the Israelites were well acquainted with the idea of Yahuwah raising up saviors to deliver them.

Turn to Nehemiah chapter 9, and read verses 26 and 27, please.

Miles: Okay … I’ve almost got it.

All right. It says, quote:

Nevertheless they were disobedient
And rebelled against You,
Cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets, who testified against them
To turn them to Yourself;
And they worked great provocations.
Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies,
Who oppressed them;
And in the time of their trouble,
When they cried to You,
You heard from Heaven;
And according to Your abundant mercies
You gave them deliverers who saved them
From the hand of their enemies.

Dave: Yahuwah “gave them deliverers who saved them.” Yahuwah provided their saviors. Do you still have that sheet of paper? Read the, uh, fourth verse down from the top. What does that say?

Miles: All right, this is from Isaiah 43, verses 10 and 11. It says, quote:

“You are My witnesses,” says Yahuwah,
“And My servant whom I have chosen,
That you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
Nor shall there be after Me.

I, even I, am Yahuwah,
And besides Me there is no savior.”

Dave: You can’t get clearer than that: “Besides Me there is no savior.”

Obviously, there were other saviors—human saviors—but the point is that Yahuwah was the ultimate savior who raised up these human instruments to work for Him.

Okay, so then Yahushua is also a savior, raised up by Yah, to save, not just the land of Israel, but the entire human race.

Miles: I find it interesting that Yahushua, the savior of the human race, is the antitype of Joshua. They both were raised up by Yah to lead His people into the Promised Land. Joshua, to take them into Canaan; Yahushua, to lead us into the earth made new.

Dave: And Joshua’s name was, actually, “Yahushua”!

Miles: That’s right. “Joshua” is just the anglicized version of the name.

Dave: They were both set aside for a special work by Yahuwah. You remember, when Mary was found to be pregnant, her betrothed, Joseph, wasn’t sure what to make of it. So, Yahuwah sent an angel to explain what was going on. He told Joseph what the child was to be named, and in the explanation of the name was a description of the Messiah’s mission.

Let’s read it: Matthew 1, verses 18 to 21.

Miles:

Now the birth of Yahushua Christ was as follows: After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the holy spirit. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of Yahuwah appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the holy spirit. And she will bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Yahushua, for he will save his people from their sins.”

Dave: Right there, if any of them had paid attention to the significance of the angel’s words, they would have known the Messiah’s mission was a spiritual one. Not one to overthrow the Romans.

Miles: Perfect name for the redeemer. Yahushua means “Yahuwah’s salvation.” That’s what Yahushua is; he is, literally, Yahuwah’s salvation.

Dave: But again, Yahushua’s mission was far more comprehensive than merely delivering Israel from their Roman oppressors.

Miles: But there were a few who knew, right? I’m thinking of Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist.

Let me see if I can find that really quickly. It’s in Matthew—no, Luke. Luke chapter 1. This was a prophecy Zacharias gave when John the Baptist was born. Luke 1, verses 67 to 75. It says, quote:

Now his father Zacharias was filled with the holy spirit, and prophesied, saying:

“Blessed is Yahuwah, God of Israel,
For He has visited and redeemed His people,
And has raised up a horn of salvation for us
In the house of His servant David,
As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets,
Who have been since the world began,
That we should be saved from our enemies
And from the hand of all who hate us,
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers
And to remember His holy covenant,
The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
To grant us that we,
Being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Might serve Him without fear,
In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.”

Dave: This is a perfect and holy spirit-inspired description of the Messiah’s mission.

Verse 71: “That we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us.”

Verses 74 and 75: “To grant us that we,
Being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Might serve Him without fear,
In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.”

So, we have, right here, the revelation that this savior’s mission was to provide a deliverance that would allow us to serve Yahuwah in holiness and righteousness.

And what enemy would keep us from that?

Miles: Well, the devil, of course.

Dave: Right! We all have enemies. Whether it’s an angry neighbor, a co-worker you don’t get along with, an abusive parent or spouse—

Miles: A powerful, war-mongering country.

Dave: Sure. Those are all enemies that bring stress into our lives. But the greatest enemy any of us could ever have is one we all hold in common: Satan.

Miles: 1 Peter 5:8: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

Dave: He’s the worst possible enemy, because he’s the enemy of our souls. This is why Yahuwah provided Yahushua to save us from sin.

Miles: I think Paul says it best in 2 Corinthians, chapter 5 verse 21. He says, quote: “For He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of Yah in him.”

Dave: And the beautiful, hope-inspiring truth is: This righteousness is available to all who will simply accept it by faith. That’s all you have to do! When Paul and Silas were unjustly imprisoned in Philippi, you remember, Yah sent an earthquake to open the prison gates. The jailer goes rushing in there, thinking the prisoners have all escaped, but the apostles speak up, reassuring him they’re all there.

This gave them an opportunity to witness. And, after listening to their testimony, the jailer asked, “What must I do to be saved?”

Do you remember what Paul and Silas said?

Miles: Believe on the Lord, Yahushua the Christ, and you will be saved. You, and all your household.

Dave: That’s it. Believe on Yahushua, the savior raised up by Yahuwah to die for the sins of the world.

It’s not some big gush of warm, fuzzy feelings—although those are nice. It is the simple assurance that salvation is yours. Not because you deserve it.

Miles: I don’t!

Dave: Not because you’ve earned it.

Miles: That’s impossible.

Dave: But it’s yours because Yahuwah has promised.

Then, the merits of Yahushua’s blood will cover your sins. You will stand faultless before Yahuwah as though you had never sinned.

What’s more — and preachers don’t talk about this as much — is that the merits of Yahushua’s perfect life are also credited to your account. So, when Yahuwah looks at you, He doesn’t see the weak, depraved, sinful human being you are. He sees in you the perfect, sinless life of Yahushua. That’s His gift! He has provided that.

Miles: And that’s why Yahuwah is our ultimate Savior.

Dave: The Jews didn’t want that. They simply wanted a Messiah to overthrow the Romans.

Turn to John 8. Here, Yahushua was trying to explain the magnitude of his mission; that it was so much broader and provided so much more deliverance than just from a temporal enemy. Let’s read verses 31 to, uh, 36.

Miles:

Then Yahushua said to those Jews who believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

Yahushua answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore, if the son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”

Dave: This is true deliverance.

Miles: There was one other person at the time of Yahushua’s birth that understood, probably better than anyone, including Zacharias, just what the Messiah’s mission was to entail. That was Simeon. You remember? When Joseph and Mary brought the baby Yahushua to the temple? He was there and he gave a prophecy.

Dave: If you’ve got that, why don’t you go ahead and read it for us?

Miles: All right. It’s Luke, chapter 2, verses 25 to 32. “And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel—”

Isn’t that beautiful? The “Consolation of Israel.” What a perfect title for the Messiah.

Dave: It’s exactly what he is.

Miles: Okay, going on … um, he was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel …

and the holy spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the holy spirit that he would not see death before he had seen Yahuwah’s Christ. So he came by the spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the child Yahushua, to do for him according to the custom of the law, he took him up in his arms and blessed Yahuwah and said:

“Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; for my eyes have seen Your salvation which You have prepared before the face of all peoples, a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel.”

Unquote. What I find so fascinating about Simeon’s words was that he knew!! This wasn’t a deliverer to wipe out all the gentiles, but a light to enlighten them, to bring revelation to the gentiles!

Dave: And that is the hope we all have. Yahushua was provided by Yahuwah to be the redeemer of the world. He was Yahuwah’s gift to the world.

We all know the story: after living a sinless life of perfect submission to the will of Yah, Yahushua died in our stead. On the third day, Yahuwah raised him back to life, and then in recognition and gratitude for his great sacrifice, Acts 5:31 says, quote: “Him Yahuwah has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.”

Miles: It’s weird to think of Yahuwah expressing gratitude to Yahushua.

Dave: But He did! That’s how much Yahuwah loves you. Take a look at John 10, verse 17. What does that say?

Miles: Uh … “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.”

Dave: To put it in more modern terms, he’s saying: “My Father loves you so much, that He loves me even more because I am willing to give my life for you.”

That’s how much you are loved. Just as Yahuwah raised up saviors in the past to deliver His people from earthly enemies, so He raised up Yahushua to deliver His people from their sins.

Let’s close with John 3, verses 16 to 17. I think you can just recite those verses. What does it say?

Miles: It’s the entire gospel condensed into two verses. It says, quote: “For Yah so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For Yah did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.”

Dave: This offer of salvation is still available! It’s free to everyone who will turn to Yahuwah our Savior and accept His great gift by faith.

Don’t wait. Come to Him, just as you are. He has promised to accept you! Through the savior He Himself has provided, Yahuwah says, “Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out.” [John 6:37]

That’s a promise you can always claim.

Miles: Amen.

Don’t go away, folks. When we return, we’ll be answering your questions sent in to our Daily Mailbag. Stay tuned.

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* * *Daily Mailbag (Miles & Dave)

Miles: We have a question today from Taiwan! Have we had a question from there before?

Dave: I believe so, awhile ago. Taiwan, you know, is on the Ring of Fire, but did you know it is one of the most earthquake prone places in the world?

Miles: Huh! No, I didn’t know that.

Dave: Yeah, they get over 1,000 perceivable earthquakes a year, and more than 17,000 that are recorded, but not felt.

Miles: That’s insane! That’s like, what? Fifty earthquakes a day?

Dave: Something like that.

Miles: Wow. Well, they’re brave people to live there!

Let’s see … Jia Li writes: “A Bible story that has always bothered me is the story of Jephthah. Did he really kill his own daughter?”

Hmmm. I’ve wondered that, too, actually.

Dave: In a word: No. He did not.

Now for those who aren’t acquainted with the story of Jephthah, let’s recap.

Jephthah was a judge in ancient Israel. When the Ammonites came and fought against the Children of Israel, Jephthah was asked to command the army in the fight against the Ammonites.

Now, Jephthah knew that his victory came from Yahuwah, so before the battle he prayed and made a vow. Would you read it for us? It’s in Judges 11, verses 30 and 31.

Miles: Sure, give me just a sec …

Here we go. It says:

And Jephthah made a vow to Yahuwah, and said, “If You will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands, then it will be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the people of Ammon, shall surely be Yahuwah’s, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

Dave: So, that sounds good, right? He’s dedicating himself to Yah before the battle and promises to offer up whatever comes out of his house to meet him when he returns home.

Miles: Sounds like he was tired of getting jumped up on by his dog and wanted to get rid of him!

Dave: Maybe. But that’s not what happened. Yahuwah gave the Israelites victory and Jephthah returned home. Now read verse 34. What greeted him?

Miles: “When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with timbrels and dancing; and she was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.”

Dave: His own daughter! It wasn’t some mangy mutt, but his daughter. Not only that, but his only child.

Now the next verse, verse 35, is what causes the confusion. Read that.

Miles: “And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, ‘Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low! You are among those who trouble me! For I have given my word to Yahuwah, and I cannot go back on it.’”

Dave: This is what confuses everyone. Jephthah gave his word to Yah (to offer up anything that came out of his house) and he couldn’t go back on that vow.

Miles: Well, yeah, that really does sound like he followed through and killed her. I’ve wondered about that, too. Did he?

Dave: No. That would have been murder and the sixth commandment clearly states: “Thou shalt not kill.” Yah would not have approved such an action even in fulfillment of a vow.

Miles: So … what did he do? He was obviously upset so he did do something to fulfill his vow. What was it?

Dave: A clue is found in verse 31 in his original vow. Jephthah said he would offer up as a burnt offering whatever first came out of his doors to greet him. The phrase that is translated into English as “burnt offering” actually comes from a Hebrew word that means, “ascending.” It was even used to refer to stairs. So, the idea was that Jephthah would give or direct upward to Heaven, as in the service of Yahuwah, whatever came out to greet him.

Now the next clue can be found in what happened next. Go ahead and read on through to the end of the chapter. It’s just four verses.

Miles: Okay. Jephthah explained his vow to his daughter. And then she said:

“My father, if you have given your word to Yahuwah, do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, because Yahuwah has avenged you of your enemies, the people of Ammon.” Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: let me alone for two months, that I may go and wander on the mountains and bewail my virginity, my friends and I.”

So he said, “Go.” And he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains. And it was so at the end of two months that she returned to her father, and he carried out his vow with her which he had vowed. She knew no man.

And it became a custom in Israel that the daughters of Israel went four days each year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite. (Judges 11:36-40)

Dave: Notice she’s not terrified she’s going to be killed. She knows that’s not going to happen. She’s not bewailing the loss of her life. She is mourning … what?

Miles: Her virginity.

Dave: Right. So the way Jephthah’s vow was kept was by dedicating his daughter’s life in service to Yahuwah. She never married. She never had kids. It says it right there in verse 39 just how he carried out his vow: she “knew” no man.

The word “knew” in this context refers to sexual relations. Just as in Genesis where it says Adam “knew” his wife and she conceived and bore a son.

Miles: This really would be a blow to Jephthah. She was his only child. So, if she couldn’t marry and have children, his line would stop with him. There would be no one to carry on his name.

Dave: Exactly. Now, in verse 40, it says the “daughters of Israel went four days each year to lament the daughter of Jephthah.”

That’s probably not the best word choice here. “Lament” in English carries with it the connotation of mourning. You weep and cry and mourn when you lament.

But the Hebrew word means something different. The original word is tânâh and it means “to ascribe praise … to celebrate” or commemorate. It carries the idea of attributing honor.

Miles: So it wasn’t some big funeral.

Dave: Oh, I’m sure Jephthah’s daughter did spend those two months crying. Jewish girls hoped the Messiah would one day be born through their line. She probably had dreams of being a wife and mother someday. But she honored her father’s vow and dedicated her life in service to Yah.

It was for this that the daughters of Israel would go to commemorate her every year. To celebrate her faithfulness. Not to mourn her death.

Miles: Well, that makes a lot more sense. I’d always wondered about that story, too.

All right. We’ve time for one more quick question. David Mutu from Kisumu, Kenya writes: “Greetings, brothers, in the name of Yahushua! Do you know if it is possible to buy a printed calendar of the Biblical calendar? It would be really helpful, not only to use, but in sharing this truth with others to help them understand how it works.”

Dave: Actually, yes! We have one on our website that can be downloaded for free. Just go to WorldsLastChance.com. Look for the “Printable Luni-Solar Calendar.”

Miles: I’ve found it really does help to have a print version of the calendar. It helps you visualize how time is calculated using the luni-solar calendar of Scripture.

Dave: Well, another thing you can do, too, is to find a month of the modern calendar that has the same layout as a lunar month. For example, the month of June in 2019 began on a Saturday. This meant that all the other Saturdays fell on the 8^th, the 15^th, the 22^nd, and the 29^th days of that month.

Miles: Interesting. Similar to the Biblical calendar where the seventh day Sabbath always fell on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd, and 29^th days of the lunar month.

Dave: Right, except that every single month had the same layout, because the weekly cycle restarts every new moon. But, when you’re sharing and you need a quick visual of the Biblical calendar lay out, that can be helpful.

Miles: Thanks, Dave. We enjoy hearing from our listeners, whether you listen by shortwave, from our website, or on YouTube.

To send us a message, just go to WorldsLastChance.com and click on Contact Us. We may not be able to address everything on air, but we’ll at least try to get it addressed in the Q&As on our website.

Again, that’s Contact Us on WorldsLastChance.com.

* * *Daily Promise

Hello! This is Elise O’Brien with today’s daily promise from Yah’s word.

Kathleen Kohler was worried for her son, Ben. Besides going to school full time, the teenager was working long hours at two different jobs.

“You can’t keep going like this, Ben!” Kathleen told her son. “Your body isn’t a machine. You have to take time to rest, too.”

But, like a lot of teenagers, Ben felt invincible. Bad things happened to other people. He was careful. Nothing bad was going to happen to him!

Kathleen knew that a 10-second lecture from Mom wasn’t enough to get through to her son, so she did what moms do best: she prayed for her son’s protection.

That night, Ben was late coming home. He usually got home at midnight, but it was already 12:30 in the morning and he still wasn’t home. Kathleen couldn’t go to sleep until she knew her son was safe, so she lay there praying.

One o’clock came and went. At one-thirty, banging on the front door brought Kathleen flying out of bed. Had Ben forgotten his key? Through the front window, she saw an unfamiliar figure standing on the front porch, and it wasn’t Ben. It was a police officer.

“Are you Ben Kohler’s mother?” The patrolman asked.

“Yes. Is he all right?”

“He’s alive,” the policeman replied. “But he’s been in an accident. From the looks of the tire tracks, he made no attempt to stop.”

Through her tears, Kathleen said, “He probably fell asleep at the wheel.”

“Well, he’s one lucky kid,” the officer said. “If he’d gone off the road just 50 feet in either direction, he’d be dead.”

Later, Kathleen learned the whole story. As she had feared, Ben was exhausted from working such long hours. On the drive home, he had fallen asleep at the wheel. His truck had gone off the road, down a steep embankment and into a swamp. Shards of glass embedded themselves into his skull. Ben was miles from the nearest help. It was the middle of the night and he knew his truck could not be seen from the road. He would have to hike out to get help.

After stumbling along the road for 15 minutes, headlights came toward him and pulled to a stop. The driver helped Ben into his car then drove to an unmanned firehouse five miles further on. The man sounded the alarm, then as quickly as he had arrived, the stranger left, leaving Ben sitting outside the building. Within 20 minutes, firefighters arrived and immediately began working to stop the bleeding. When they got to the nearest town, paramedics were waiting to load Ben into an ambulance. They raced to the closest hospital in still another town, half an hour away.

At the hospital, Ben received a desperately needed blood transfusion.

“Someone was watching out for him,” the doctor told Ben’s parents. “Another 15 minutes and he would have bled to death.”

The Kohlers’ never did learn the identity of the stranger who had helped Ben get help that night. What they do know, however, is that both the location of the accident, and the help he received was providential. Ben narrowly escaped death.

Psalm 91, verses 9 to 12, says:

Because you have made Yahuwah, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.

In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

We have been given great and precious promises. Go and start claiming!

* * *Part 3: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: I’ve got to admit, this was a new concept to me. I can see how, by obscuring the fact that Yahuwah is our Savior, Satan has managed to deflect our attention away from the Father.

Dave: And, in doing this, he has managed to divert away our love and trust. Are you really going to love and trust someone you’re constantly viewing as this cold disciplinarian?

Miles: I wouldn’t, no.

We don’t often quote from the book of Jonah, but in chapter 2, verse 9, it says, quote: “Salvation is of Yahuwah.”

Dave: And when the Almighty is your Savior, is there really anything that is impossible? Is there any addiction too strong, any inherited or cultivated tendency too powerful for Him to overcome?

Miles: Never. And that’s what we’ve got to remember for the days ahead.

People sometimes ask, “Why do you focus so much on prophecy at WLC? Why must you always talk about the dark and the scary?”

Well, it’s not dark and scary if you know you’re on the winning side!

Dave: You’re right. You know, the story of the children of Israel:

• Their deliverance from Egyptian bondage,
• Yah’s faithfulness and care for them during their years of wilderness wandering,
• And finally, their triumphant entry into the Promised Land …

It’s all a type of the deliverance that still awaits: the deliverance from the bondage of sin, Yah’s faithfulness and watch care during the wilderness wanderings of our lives, clear through to when Yahushua returns and leads us to the Promised Land of the new earth. It’s type and antitype.

Miles: And, just as Yah brought them safely through, He’ll do the same for us!

Dave: Listen while I read Deuteronomy 7, verses 6 to 9, and as I do, keep in mind that this applies to us, every bit as much as it applied to ancient Israel.

Miles: All right.

Dave:

For you are a holy people to Yahuwah your Elohim; Yahuwah your Elohim has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. Yahuwah did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because Yahuwah loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, Yahuwah has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Therefore, know that Yahuwah your Elohim, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.

Miles: You know, like we talked about earlier: Joshua was a type, a symbol of Yahushua. Their very names were the same! What you just read reminds me of a statement Joshua made. He lived a long life. He led the Children of Israel safely into Canaan, and near the end of his life, he called Israel together. And this is what he said:

“Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahuwah your Elohim spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.” [Joshua 23:14]

That will be our testimony, too: not one word of Yah’s promises will ever fail.

Join us again tomorrow, and until then, remember: Yahuwah loves you . . . and He is safe to trust!

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