Gen 8:1 And Elohim remembered Noaḥ, and all the beasts
and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And Elohim made a wind to
pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
א וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-נֹחַ, וְאֵת כָּל-הַחַיָּה וְאֶת-כָּל-הַבְּהֵמָה, אֲשֶׁר אִתּוֹ בַּתֵּבָה; וַיַּעֲבֵר אֱלֹהִים רוּחַ עַל-הָאָרֶץ, וַיָּשֹׁכּוּ הַמָּיִם.
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To
the casual observer the above verse may seem insensitive and uncaring in the
face of the most terrible and horrific destruction that had just taken place.
YHVH seems to be only concerned about one man and his animals. What about the
millions of people and other animals that had just lost their lives? Shouldn’t
YHVH also have remembered them?
This
reminds us of how Lot’s righteous soul was tormented by the unrighteousness of
his day.
Pe 2:7 and rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed
with the indecent behaviour of the lawless1 – Torahlessness - Footnote: 1The Greek word here,
and in 3:17, is athesmos (not the usual one, anomos) but it also
means “lawless – implies continually overturning the truth.”
2Pe 2:8 (for day after day that righteous man,
dwelling among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their
lawless works),
So
YHVH remembers (va yizkor) a small end
time remnant who are slandered by fellow believers the same slanderer’s who
love to gorge themselves with flesh of swine and indulge themselves in the
pagan festivals of Christmas and Easter, who mock and make fun of those who
honour the Sabbath and keep YHVH’s commandments.
Isa 59:14
And right-ruling1 is driven back, and righteousness1
stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to
enter. Footnote: 1Amos 5:7. Isa 59:15 And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns
away from evil makes himself a prey. And יהוה saw, and it
displeased Him that there was no right-ruling – mishpatim.
Amo 5:13 Therefore the wise keep silent at that time,
for it is an evil time.
Amo 5:14 Seek good and not evil, so that you live. And
let יהוה Elohim of
hosts be with you, as you have spoken.
2Ti 3:1 But know this, that in the last days hard
times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of
money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, thankless,
wrong-doers,
2Ti 3:3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, haters of good,
2Ti 3:4 betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of Elohim,
2Ti 3:5 having a form of reverence1 but
denying its power. And turn away from these! Footnote: 1See v. 13,
Isa. 24:5-6, Mt. 24:12, Rom. 1:30-31, 2 Thess. 2:3-11.
2Th 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way, because
the falling away is to come first, and the man of lawlessness1 is to be revealed, the son of destruction,
Footnote: 1Some texts read sin instead of lawlessness(Torahlessness).
This man might be the same one we read of in the prophecy in Isa. 14:12 – Hĕlĕl
(“Heileil”), meaning “the shining one,” the sovereign of Baḇel.
2Th 2:4 who
opposes and exalts himself above all that is called Elohim or that is
worshipped, so that he sits as Elohim in the Dwelling Place of Elohim, showing
himself that he is Elohim.
2Th 2:5 Do
you not remember that I told you this while I was still with you?
2Th 2:6 And
now you know what restrains, for him to be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For
the secret of lawlessness(Torahlessness) is already at work – only until he who
now restrains comes out of the midst.
2Th 2:8 And
then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Master shall consume with the
Spirit of His mouth and bring to naught with the manifestation of His coming.
2Th 2:9 The
coming of the lawless one(Torahlessness one) is according to the working
of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
2Th 2:10 and
with all deceit of unrighteousness in those perishing, because they did not
receive the love of the truth, in order for them to be saved.
2Th 2:11 And
for this reason Elohim sends them a working of delusion, for them to believe
the falsehood,1 Footnote: 1Eze. 20:25, John 9:39, John
12:40, Acts 7:42, Rom. 1:24-28.
2Th 2:12 in
order that all should be judged who did not believe the truth, but have
delighted in the unrighteousness.
Joh 16:1 “These words I have spoken to you, so
that you do not stumble.
Joh 16:2 “They shall put you out of the congregations,
but an hour is coming when everyone who kills you shall think he is rendering
service to Elohim.