THAT MAN OF SIN

(The Sons of Perdition)

By Jeffrey David Dean, Sr.
The "Son of Perdition" Is BORN!
Judas Iscariot. The most tragic figure in Scripture. The
betrayer. The apostate apostle of Yahshua Messiah.
Tricked by his own agenda. Deceived by Satan into
believing he was Messiah's "most beloved" apostle. Made
to believe he would be the apostle who was instrumental in
"bringing about the Kingdom of God on Earth," he sold his
master to their enemies for 30 pieces of silver, all the while
believing he had been directed to do so by Messiah himself,
betrayed his master to the soldiers of Rome with a kiss and
hanged himself in the end.
In this article, we will be looking at the "last supper" (as it
is called), although it was actually not the last supper.
Yahshua ate with them quite a few more times after he rose
from the dead and indeed there will be a great "wedding
feast soon," so it's a bit of a misnomer to call it the "last"
supper. This was Messiah's final passover before the
betrayal It is referred to as "the last supper" by most,
therefore, reluctantly that's what I will call it in this article.
At the last supper, Yahshua Messiah waited until Judas left
to betray him before he gave the disciples some of his most
important teachings of his ministry! Judas Iscariot missed
out on these teachings and that was no coincidence.
Yahshua chose the time deliberately so that Judas would
become a "type" for all who claim to serve and follow
Yahshua, yet have betrayal and personal ambition in their
hearts. Like Judas, anyone who has an unclean heart will
miss out on the most important truths concerning the
purpose of the crucifixion of Messiah.
In the end, after realizing how badly he had been "played"
by Satan, Judas went out and took his own life in despair.
Thus he became the type for those followers of Messiah
who would destroy themselves with their conduct and
behavior! Judas, oh Judas, the lost one, forever taking on
the name "son of perdition." He became the arch type for
all those who would betray Messiah even while being
counted as "one of his followers."
Judas Iscariot's voice can be heard today. I am talking, of
course about the spirit of antimessiah (or antichrist if you
must), which Judas Iscariot embodies! It is no longer a
mystery what motivated Judas Iscariot and led him down
his personal path of perdition!

(Yahshua prays to the Father for his

disciples) Gospel of John 17:12
"While I was with them in the world, I
kept them in your name: those that you
gave me I have kept, and none of them is
lost, but the son of perdition; that the
scripture might be fulfilled."
Many people through the ages have thought it would be
awesome to be a "fulfillment" of a scripture, yet, as we see
in the case of Judas Iscariot, this is not always a good thing.
What an awesome and terrible fate, to deceive yourself and
fulfill the scriptures concerning them that deceive
themselves! Judas Iscariot, it seems, could not "endure
until the end." He started out following Yahshua, but
something was wrong in his heart, he was a "bad seed," so
to speak, he just couldn't continue as a follower of Yahshua
and tragically, in the end, he succumbed to the fleshly urges
and lure of the devil. For you see, Judas Iscariot had other
desires- worldy power, the status that comes with doing
something great in the world, his blind ambition led him to
misunderstand the words of Messiah and to betray the one
he claimed to followed, all the while believing he was, in
fact, being an obedient servant!
Judas Iscariot thought that "his status as a follower of
Yahshua" made him "immune to the punishment of the
law!" He thought that because he had been chosen as a
disciple, this meant he had found favor with God, and so he
could go out and "betray innocent blood" with impunity.
That is how he could bring himself to do the dispicable
things that he did. He believed that since his salvation was
"in the bag," being a follower of Yahshua, he could go out
and do something sinful, in violation of Moral Law and still
remain a chosen follower, because he believed by doing his
act he was taking part in the redemption of man, by
facilitating some "demonstration of power," on the part of
Messiah. There is every indication that Judas believed his
acts of betrayal actually made him even more favored with
God! Judas was deceived by a very old trick of Satan.
(Balam the prophet fell for this very same trick, intending
to curse Israel for financial gain and thinking that God was
somehow going to condone this).
I know many of you are skeptical, because, lets face it, not
a lot of detail is actually written about this sad Apostle,
other than the fact that he betrayed Yahshua; However,
from the one single quote we have of Judas Iscariot, from
his behavior, and from the timing of his actions we can
piece together much of what was in his mind when he
betrayed the only begotten Son of God into the hands of
evil men. We know that he became "the son of perdition,"
and that phrase became a byword for all those who fall
away from the truth and believe a lie!

THE ONLY QUOTE FROM JUDAS

John 12:3-6
"3 then took Mary a pound of ointment
of spikenard, very costly, and anointed
the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with
her hair: and the house was filled with
the odor of ointment.
4 Then said one of his disciples, Judas
Iscariot, simon's son, which should
betray him,
5 Why was this ointment not sold for
three hundred pence, and given to the
 poor?
6 This he said, not that he cared for the
poor; but because he was a thief, and
had the bag, and bore what was put in
there."
John states plainly that Judas was a thief! Evidently the
Apostle John knew Iscariot better than the writers of the
other Gospels, because this is the only place where Judas'
character is explored, aside from the subject of his betrayal.
Evidently he cared about money too and was in control of
the finances of the group. We can see here that Judas used
the pretense of collecting money for the poor to line his
own pockets!
So, who really knows exactly what Judas was thinking
when he betrayed the Messiah? Let's examine his spirit a
bit closer. Actually, the moment when Judas Iscariot began
to plot against Messiah is recorded in the Gospel of John.
Before I go into this, however, (for I will have to here quote
a very lengthy chapter of the Bible) I want to summarize
Judas' critical error.
There is much evidence that Judas misunderstood the
words of Yahshua and thought that Messiah was claiming
to have come down to earth from Heaven, literally! This
misunderstanding came about during a very important
sermon of Messiah's. During this sermon, the Jews, many
disciples, along with Judas Iscariot misunderstood the
Messiah to be "claiming that he was God (in person)," and
it was during this sermon when Judas Iscariot began to
entertain one of two notions:
• 1. Yahshua was claiming to be God himself, and
therefore was a false Messiah, who had to be
exposed, or
• 2. Yahshua really was God in the flesh and
therefore could not be killed.
Both errors would be based on the misguided notion that,
during one of his famous sermons, Messiah was claiming to
be God himself, come down to earth and, either way, it was
this misguided notion led Judas down the dark path to his
ultimate destruction!
We find this Sermon in the Gospel of John chapter 6. In
order to understand the sermon, however, and it's
significance, we need to understand what had just
transpired prior to the sermon. Yahshua had just perfomed
one of his most notorious miracles. He had used five
loaves of bread and two small fish and fed a multitude.
The Apostles themselves (including Judas Iscariot) were, of
course, the only ones who saw the entire miracle up close
and knew the magnitude of what had been done. The rest
of the multitude knew only that Messiah was able to feed
them. After this miracle, the Apostles all beheld Yahshua
walking on the water! I also believe that it was during this
time that Yahshua stilled the storm on the sea by calling to
the wind and waves to be still (that account is found in
Mark chapter 4).

Mark 4: 41
 "And they feared exceedingly, and said
one to another, what manner of man is
this, that even the wind and the sea obey
him?"
Some of the disciples (the ones who were not listening to
the Spirit of God) were beginning to entertain the "notion"
that perhaps Yahshua was more than just a man. They had
by this time seen him do some things that most people
attributed only to God Himself! Now he had just fed a
multitude with a handful of food! The multitude literally
followed him across the sea of Capernaum!

John 6:26-29
"26 Yahshua answered them and said,
'Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me,
not because you saw the miracles, but
because you did eat of the loaves and
were filled.
27 Labor not for the meat which
perishes, but for the meat which endures
to everlasting life, which the Son of man
shall give to you: for him has God the
father sealed.
28 Then they said to him, what shall we
do, that we might work the works of
 God?
29 Yahshua answered and said to them,
'This is the work of God, that you
believe on him who HE sent."
The multitudes were largely unaware of howYahshua had
just fed them all (with a mere five loaves and two fish).
They only knew that he seemed to be able to feed them,
with an inexhaustible supply of food. Yahshua uses this
feeding as a symbolic example of how he would be to them
the bread of life through his teachings and example, telling
them that all they have to do is believe and obey!

John 6:30-31
"30 They said therefore to him, what
sign do you show us then that we may
see and believe you, what have you
done?
31 Our fathers ate manna in the desert;
as it is written, He gave them bread
from heaven to eat."
They were asking Yahshua if the bread with which he had
just fed the multitudes had come from heaven because they
were astonished by the amount of bread that had just been
handed out and didn't know it's origins. They were asking
him if this was something he did, or if it was something
that God had sent from heaven, just like the manna.
Yahshua had a very interesting answer to this question.

John 6:32- 33
"32 Then Yahshua said to them, "Truly,
truly I say to you, Moses did not give
you bread from heaven, but my Father
gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which
comes down from heaven, and gives life
to the world." (Which everyone KNOWS
is the BREATH OF LIFE, or the
BREATH OF God... the HOLY SPIRIT)!
If you know your scriptures you must realize now that
Yahshua was here talking about the Spirit of God, when he
spoke of the bread from heaven. How do we know this?
Yahshua's own words, which were actually a quote from
the Tanakh. Yahshua used this quote when he was tempted
of the Devil in the wilderness.

Matthew 4: 3-4
"3 And when the tempter came to him,
he said, If you are the Son of God,
command that these stones be made
bread.
 4 But he answered and said, It is
written, Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceeds
out of the mouth of God."
The bread from heaven is actually "every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God." Who is the mouth of
God? Yahshua became the mouth of God. What do we
expell when we speak? Breath. Try talking without
expelling breath! It can't be done! When God speaks he
uses his mouth and the words are called, the "breath" of
God, or the Holy Spirit! Anyone speaking through the
unction of the Holy Spirit literally becomes the mouth of
God!
Yahshua was not the Holy Spirit, yet, he became the Word
made flesh, by becoming a living example in the flesh of
every word that proceeds from the mouth of God the
Father. Thus, through the Holy Spirit, Yahshua became a
walking, breathing, fleshly example of the breath of God.
His every word, his every deed came forth from the breath
of God, the Holy spirit! Anyone who looked at Yahshua
was looking right at the Word of God and in fact when they
looked at Yahshua they were (in a way) looking at God,
because Yahshua had been remade into the very image of
God. This was done to prove that a mortal man could once
again be found in the image of God! Yahshua was not
claiming to be the Holy Spirit, in person, he was teaching
us how to become the living embodiment of the Word, by
his example! This is why the Gospel of John starts out by
referring to Messiah in this manner:
 John 1:14
"And the word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
John 6: 34
"Then they said to him, Master,
FOREVER, give us this BREAD!"
Actually, Yahshua did give us this bread when he went to
the crucifixion and then rose again. He signified this to us
at the last supper by the breaking of bread and the teachings
he gave the Apostles after he broke the bread. Yet Judas
Iscariot missed those teachings, which were actually the
explanation of the bread of life sermon Yahshua had given
earlier. How the bread that gives eternal life would be
delivered to us through the crucifixion! Judas only heard
the bread of life sermon, but never got the explanation at
the last supper, because he ran out right after the breaking
of the bread and went to betray Messiah! More on this
later, but remember this connection of the bread teaching to
when Judas ran out to betray Messiah, we will get back to it
and it's significance.
After they asked Yahshua to give them this bread from
Heaven, he speaks in more riddles.

John 6: 35-38
 "35 And Jesus said to them, I am the
bread of life: he that comes to me shall
never hunger; and he that believes on
me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, that you also
have seen me, and yet do not believe.
37 All that the Father gives me shall
come to me, and him that comes to me I
will in no way cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to
do my own will, but the will of him that
sent me."
Let's look at verse 38 for a minute. To the natural mind it
appears Yahshua says flatly that he "came down from
heaven." However, if we understand that Yahshua is
talking of himself as the living example of the Holy Spirit
and the Spirit is actually the bread that came down from
Heaven, we realize he is acting in his office as the living
example, or as the PROXY, "the mouth of God." Yahsua is
still referring to himself as the example of the bread from
heaven (which is the Spirit). Another thing that stands out
is Yahshua Messiah clearly states in verse 38 that he has a
separate WILL from God (something that would be
impossible if he and God are the same person).
Yahshua did not really come down from Heaven, literally,
any more than he is literally a "loaf of bread!" If we
conclude that the "coming down from heaven" part is
literal, we have to conclude that the "bread" part of this
teaching is also literal, therefore Messiah is a loaf of bread!
Yet, interestingly enough, Catholics picked up on this
logical truth and state in their Eucharist Dogma that anyone
who denies that Messiah is literally the bread is worthy of
death.
Therefore, they know that my argument is sound and go to
great lengths to make their followers believe that the bread
that is handed out in the Eucharist Ceremony is literally the
body of Messiah. Yet, I assure you, friends, Yahshua
Messiah is not a loaf of bread and for that same reason I
can assure you he did not literally come down from Heaven
at the day of his birth! He is speaking here figuratively!

John 6:39-40
"39 And this is the Father's will who
sent me, that of all which he has given
me I should lose nothing, but should
raise it up again in the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent
me, that every one who sees the Son, and
believes on him, may have everlasting
life: and I will raise him up at the last
day."
Here is where they began to really misunderstand Messiah.
They thought he was saying that he was God, come down
from heaven, and had the power to raise them all from the
dead if they would just believe in his Diety! They didn't
understand that he was speaking figuratively about "coming
down from heaven."
One thing we have to remember is that even when Yahshua
raised Lazarus from the dead He made it clear that he did
not do it, but the Father in Heaven did the work!
(Something that would have very little meaning if Messiah
was in fact the Father come down to earth). So likewise,
when we rise from the dead, on the last day, the day of
salvation, it won't be Yahshua raising us, it will be God
who raises us from the dead. So why did Yahshua say "I
will raise him up on the last day?" Because, his is the name
by which we shall be saved and it was his WORK of
crucifixion and our belief in the same that raises us up! It
is his act of obedience and his sacrifice that raises us, being
stamped on us as the mark of God, when we obey the
Father through our Faith, after his example! It is our faith
in Yahshua and the obedience that results which causes us
to be raised up in the last day. Therefore, even though God
is doing the raising, he's doing it because of Yahshua,
soYahshua could make the statement, "I will raise him up
on the last day," without making any claim that he was
God! No one but eleven Apostles and a handful of
disciples understood this truth. The rest clearly thought
Yahshua was claiming to be God because only God has the
power to give life! (To this day apologists use this
statement of "Christ" as proof that he was claiming to be
God incarnate, they are STILL making this same mistake).
Incidentally, as proof that many do not even understand
that God is the only one with the power to ressurect from
the dead, I would like to point out that many "prophetic"
teachers are now saying that Satan has the power to give
life! Research this, you'll find out I'm right. When they
teach concerning the "antichrist" and the end times, many
believe that Satan will raise the antichrist from the dead,
and that's why the world will worship him! Thus these
"learned scholars" appear to not understand that only God
can raise the dead. In fact, Messiah's ressurection was the
only proof he offered that he was the Messiah! If Satan
can "duplicate" this, it means that Messiah's ressurection
didn't prove a thing! This may seem off the subject but it
isn't, for, you see, when Revelation speaks of a "beast," that
is "wounded and dies," but then resurrects, we know that
Satan cannot raise the dead, therefore, the false Messiah
and the true Messiah have that in common! Could it be,
the false Messiah is CLAIMING to be who that was
"wounded unto death but the deadly wound was healed?"
Better put, could it be that those who PROPOGATE the
false Messiah claim that he's the True Messiah who was
"dead, but alive again?" Interesting to ponder, isn't it?
John, in the book of Revelation, Chapter 13, predicted that
Rome (the fourth kingdom of Daniel) would create a new
Messiah, give him a different name, a Greek name, call him
God, and change the words of Messiah so that the new
Messiah they create will "open his mouth in blasphemy
against God." The world is told that this man is "God in the
Flesh," and that the Roman Emporer is his "spokesperson."
Yet this beast will be a creation of the Roman Church, he
won't actually have existed at all but will be a false
man/God Messiah they create based upon the teachings and
record of the true Messiah, but with Pagan blasphemies
thrown in, blasphemies like there's more than one God.
Thus the Romans will teach their "beast" rose from the
dead and the world will believe it because they think they
are following the TRUE Messiah who indeed did rise from
the dead!
The world will be deceived by a false Messiah who the
Romans claim to be God in the flesh, who the Romans
teach "was God, is not God, and yet is God." The Romans
will use the record of the true Messiah's ressurection as the
record of their false Messiah's resurrection. The world will
follow this beast, thinking they are following the true
Messiah, but it will not be the Messiah they are following
but a twisted and perverted version of the true Messiah!
Yet the Romans will not succeed in deceiving everyone.
The point I'm trying to make is that Satan can not raise his
followers from the dead! So, when Yahshua said "I shall
raise you up in the last day," Yahshua was talking to
dedicated Hebrews who all knew and understood that only
God can raise the dead! They thought he was claiming to
be God Himself! Here's their reaction.

John 6:41-51
"41 The Jews then murmured at him
because he said, I am the bread which
came down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is this not Yahshua,
the son of Joseph, whose father and
mother we know? how is it then that he
says "I came down from heaven?"
43 Yahshua, therefore answered and
said to them, 'Murmur not among
yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the
Father who sent me draws him: and I
will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets 'and they
shall be all taught of God." Every man
therefore that has heard, and has
learned of the Father, comes to me.
46 Not that any man has seen the
Father, except he who is OF God, he
has seen the Father.
47 Truly, truly I say to you, he that
believes on me has everlasting life
 48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the
wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which comes down
from heaven, that a man may eat
thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread that came down
from heaven: if any man eat of this
bread, he shall live for ever: and the
bread that I will give is my flesh, which I
will give for the life of the world."
Anyone who has the Spirit, like Messiah, can "see the
Father" through the "eyes of the Spirit." Even Yahshua's
own words elsewhere, repeated over and over again make it
clear that by himself he could "do nothing" and that it was
the Father who did the works!" The BREAD that comes
from Heaven is the Holy Spirit and Messiah's words came
directly from the Father through the Holy Spirit. Few
listening to Messiah's sermon at the time understood this
(and in fact few within Christiandom today understand
this).
Yahshua tells them here in parables (symbolism) that
through his giving of his flesh on the crucifixion, he would
give us the living bread which is the Holy Spirit and
ultimately would, in so doing, "raise them up on the last
day." The only way to receive the Holy Spirit is through
believing in Yahshua! Thus, he says "I am the living bread
which came down from heaven." His body was broken and
through that we are offered the living bread, the Holy spirit,
who leads us and guides us into all truth, transforms us into
sons of God through obedience out of love, makes us just
like Yahshua and as a result we will be given eternal life on
the last day!
Yet, the Jews and some disciples that were present there
that day didn't hear any of that, all they heard was a mad
man who was saying he would give them his flesh to eat!

John 6:52
"The Jews therefore strove among
themselves, saying, How can this man
give us his flesh to eat?"
Yahshua was imparting knowledge that was not found in
the scriptures, not in the terms and in the manner Yahshua
was teaching it! They were unable to follow his teachings
because they were "spiritually discerned." These were
highly educated men and their education was their
handicap! Yahshua perceived they saw him as a lunatic and
he got even more spiritual on them!
One of the reasons the Catholic Church doctrine makes
heretics of anyone who denies the Eucharist (and denies
that the bread is the literal body of Jesus) is because
Catholics understand the basic truth that if you deny
Messiah is LITERALLY the bread you are denying that
Jesus is God Incarnate! To accept the deity of Christ one
MUST accept that Jesus is literally the "bread from
heaven." Catholics know that protestants and evangelicals
who want to accept the deity of Christ but reject the
Eucharist (the bread as the literal body of Christ) are in
SERIOUS error! You can't say that Jesus is God and yet
deny the literal "bread" that comes down from heaven!

John 6: 53-59
"53 Then Yahshua said to them, "Truly,
truly I say to you, except you eat the
flesh of the Son of man, and drink his
blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whosoever eats my flesh and drinks
my blood has eternal life; and I will
raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my
blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my
blood dwells in me and I in him.
57 As the living Father has sent me, and
I live by the Father: so he that eats me,
even he shall live by me.
 58 This is that bread which came down
from heaven: not as your fathers did eat
manna and are dead: he that eats of this
bread shall live for ever.
59 These things said Messiah in the
synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum."
When Yahshua started rambling on and on about "eating
his flesh and drinking his blood," many of the disciples
began to falter. They began to doubt his sanity and began
to doubt his teachings. Judas Iscariot began to believe that
either Messiah was indeed God, come down to earth, or he
was a lunatic who needed to be exposed!
One thing is for sure, though, Judas thought Yahshua was
claiming to be God. Most of the people there did! (Many
today STILL believe this) I believe Judas got it into his
head that Yahshua wanted the Jews to try and kill him, so
that he could prove for once and for all that he was God.
There were many statements made by Messiah during his
ministry that seemed to be a challenge to the Jews to try
and kill him. For example, one day, Yahshua announced to
them, "destroy this temple and in three days my Father
will raise it again." Everyone understood this
proclomation to be a challenge that "if you kill me I will
rise again after three days." The Jews even requested that
Pilate post a guard at the tomb after the crucifixion because
everyone understood Messiah to be challenging them that
they could not kill him but within three days he'd be alive
again! We know that Judas Iscariot was aware that
Yahshua was speaking of his body when he said "this
temple." This is only just one statement of Yahshua that if
one believes his is claiming to be God one can take to mean
that Yahshua was defying the Jews and daring them to try
and kill him!
Judas was the first follower of Messiah to actually
"believe" he was "God come down to earth," and decided to
act according to that belief, (or, at the very least Judas
decided that Christ was claiming to be God and needed to
be stopped) I, myself, am convinced that Judas believed if
Messiah was going to prove he was God, somehow the
Priests had to be convinced to try and have him arrested
and put to death. It was a dirty job and, Judas thought,
someone's got to do it, or he'll never be able to prove he's
God!

The ILLOGIC of Judas

Just as Judas was illogical to think that Yahshua needed to
have them try to kill him to prove he was God, it is not
logical to believe that Yahshua's ressurection proved he
was God because, God is an eternal God, he will never die!
The only thing the death and resurrection proves is that
Yahshua was not God! Otherwise, his death would have to
be a sham, a show and not real at all! If we say Yahshua
was God, then we are saying he didn't really die! We
would be saying that only his body died, but his spirit was
immortal. However, the Apostles discussed this very error
in their epistles.
 Romans 15:17
"17 And if Messiah be not raised (from
the dead) your faith is vain; you are yet
in your sins. "
You see, if Messiah did not really die, then he did not really
rise from the dead and we have no real proof to hope for a
ressurection of our own, because we will die, for real! Let's
break this down into further logical terms.

• 1. If Messiah was God and was

immortal, what would his
ressurection mean to us mortals? It
would mean absolutely nothing,
because how does the ressurection of
an immortal being, who came down
to earth as a man and pretended to
die, prove that we mortal beings can
likewise rise from the dead?

• 2. If Messiah was God, and was

immortal, then he really couldn't
have died for our sins, because God
cannot be tempted to sin. Therefore,
 if Messiah was never tempted of sin,
he cannot then be an acceptable
sacrifice, for his righteousness came
naturally to him. If Messiah did not
die for our sins then there is no
remission of sins and, therefore, we
are all still servants to our sin,
forever! Furthermore, what would
his ability to "not sin ever" mean to
us? Of course he didn't sin, he was
God! His righteousness, therefore,
has no value to us and does not
demonstrate any sort of power over
sin that we could ever possess
because we are not God and he was!

• 3. If Messiah was God, then he was

also a charlatan, who perpetrated a
hoax on us, by pretending to die,
when in point of fact he didn't really
die! Every time he spoke of himself
as someone else, other than the
Father, he was lying and every time
 he said "my works are not my own,"
he was also lying! Not only that, if
the Apostles believed that Messiah
was the eternal immortal God, they
were all liars when they taught that
He "died" for our sins, because they
would have all known that an
immortal God cannot die and they
were lying when they said "he sits at
the right hand of God." They would
have known that he is in fact God
and sits on the throne, not at the right
hand of the throne!

• 4. If Messiah was God, an immortal

being, then the only thing that would
prove this would be if he could not
be killed! Yet, the apostles teach
that he was in fact killed and lay
dead in a tomb for 3 whole days and
nights! The minute Yahshua died on
the crucifixion and the spirit of life
exited him and he remained dead for
 any period of time, this settled
forever the question of whether or
not Messiah was God! The death
and resurrection are proof positive
that he was not God at all but was
indeed a mortal man!
Judas Iscariot and the other eleven apostles all knew that
God does not die, being immortal! Everyone present that
day of Yahshua's sermon knew that! That is why when he
spoke of "giving them his flesh" it made little sense to most
of them, unless he was claiming to be God! How can any
being (mortal or immortal) give you his flesh to eat and his
blood to drink and yet live? Therefore, Yahshua was
perceived as a lunatic by some because in one breath he
seemed to claim to be eternal and able to offer them a bread
that would make them eternal, too, then in that same breath
telling them that He was that bread and was going to die to
give them his flesh and blood for their salvation! He then
compounded this seeming contradiction with what
appeared to be "wild eyed" claims that he wanted them to
eat his flesh and drink his blood! No wonder many
disciples left him that day! He wasn't making sense to them
(in their carnal minds).
Judas Iscariot, (as did most of the others present) must have
thought that the only way Yahshua was going to prove that
he was God to anyone, was for them to try and kill him and
it sounded as if he was practically begging them to do so!
This is not an unknown concept in pagan religions. Many
ancient religions, including greek mythology are replete
with stories and myths of gods who came to the earth, or
"sons of gods," and who proved their deity by challenging
the unbelievers to try and kill them! One such myth was
Hercules son of Zues.
Judas Iscariot, being the pagan that he was, simply thought
that Yahshua was issuing a challenge, whereby they were
to try and break his flesh and pour his blood out on the
ground like wine! He apparently took this challenge to
heart, for, the record indicates that many believed arranging
this test was in the best interests of all concerned. If
Yahshua did not die, he could always say "well I betrayed
him because I knew he was immortal and could not die,"
and thereby would be praised for his great faith, or else, if
he arranged this test and Yahshua did die, he would be a
hero for exposing a fraud who claimed to be God, but yet
could be killed! The record bears out that when Yahshua
died, Judas went out and hanged himself, which tells us he
really did not expect Messiah to die. He really believed
Messiah was God and could not be killed.
There is much evidence that the Jews considered Yahshua's
death final proof that he was a fraud. They were shouting
at Him while he hung on the crucifixion, saying, "he healed
others why can't he heal himself!" It is my belief that Judas
actually thought he was helping Messiah to prove himself
when he arranged to betray Messiah! I can hear some of
you asking the question, "how do you know Judas was
thinking all of this?" He hasn't even been mentioned so far
in this whole chapter? Well here it is!
John 6:60-71
" 60 Many therefore of his disciples,
when they heard this, said, This is a
hard saying: who can listen to it?
61 When Yahshua knew in himself that
his disciples murmured at it, he said to
them, "does this offend you?"
62 What and if you should see Son of
man ascend up where he was before?
63 It is the spirit that quickens: the flesh
profits nothing: the words that I speak to
you, they are spirit, and they are life.
64 But there are some of you that do not
believe. For Yahshua KNEW FROM
THE BEGINNING WHO THEY WERE
THAT BELIEVED NOT, and WHO
SHOULD BETRAY HIM.
65 And he said, therefore said I to you,
that no man can come to me, except it
were given to him of my Father.
 66 From that time many of his disciples
went back, and walked no more with
him.
67 then said Yahshua to the twelve,
"Will you also go away?"
68 Then Simon answered him, Master,
to whom shall we go? You have the
words of eternal life.
69 And we believe and are sure that you
are the Messiah, the son of the living
god.
70 Jesus answered them, "Have not I
chosen you twelve, and one of you is a
devil?
71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of
Simon: for he it was that should betray
him, being one of the twelve."
Judas must have heard Yahshua say "what if you see the
son of man ascend up where he was before," and that made
it clear in the poor man's confused mind that Yahshua was
definately claiming to have descended down from Heaven.
However, some believe the phrase "ascend up to Heaven"
was changed to "ascend up where he was before," by the
translators. According to several experts the translators
could do this because "where he was before" is implied in
the context. Yet, it's only implied if you think Messiah is
literally a loaf of bread that "came down from Heaven." As
I said before, Messiah is not a loaf of bread and was clearly
speaking figuratively here. Even if the phrase "where he
was before," is not an altered translation, there can be one
explanation as to what he meant by this. It could be
Messiah was prophesying here concerning the events after
his death and ressurection, culminating in his final
ascending to Heaven before their very eyes in Acts 1: 9-10!
So what did Yahshua mean when he said "where he was
before?" Again, he was acting as the "proxy," and speaking
of himself figuratively as "the bread of heaven." It's not that
complicated, really. Whenever he says "I came down," or
"I will go up from where I came," he's speaking in a
figurative sense about being "the bread that came down
from Heaven." Unless you want to believe he actually was
a loaf of bread that came down from Heaven, in which
case, he was speaking literally when he said "what if you
see me go back up from where I came."
In order to believe what they teach concerning this we have
to believe in the "pre-existence" of Messiah as God, we'd
have to believe in the notion that Messiah was up in
Heaven sometime before he spoke his sermon concerning
"the bread from heaven," and there is no scriptural evidence
of this. The Torah does not teach "pre-existence." That is a
concept found only in pagan religions. If we believe he
literally meant "where he was before," we have to believe
that Messiah is actually God himself and knew that he was
God and, therefore, when he spoke about the Father in
Heaven as if he was someone else, he was being deceptive.
Later when the disciples say "he sits at the right hand of the
Father in Heaven," they too were being deceptive, for if he
is God and he has returned to Heaven, he would not sit "at
the right hand of God in Heaven," but would sit, as God, on
the throne!
Friends, let's be reasonable, if Messiah was actually God,
why wouldn't he merely just say so? Why put on some
front as if he were someone else? Why would the disciples
refer to him as someone who is a separate person as God?
Why wouldn't they merely say "and now he's back in
Heaven, sitting on his throne?" Why the subterfuge?
Those who teach this answer, saying, "it's a great mystery
that God doesn't want us to understand." So, in other
words, we are to believe that God is trying to be
deliberately evasive (or mysterious) about who he is and
who Messiah is and yet, he expects us to get to know him
so intimately that we become "just like his son." How are
we going to become just like Messiah and how are we
going to be conformed to the image of God if God won't
even reveal to us who he really is and what is his exact
relationship with his son?
None of the above verses tells us exactly what Judas was
thinking, except that he "did not believe," but what was it,
exactly, that he didn't believe? If Judas did not believe
Yahsuah was God, then why did he not go away like the
other disciples who misunderstood Yahshua? It would
make sense that if Judas Iscariot was offended by Messiah's
supposed claims of being God himself then Judas would
have left with the others. He did not leave though! Why?
Could he have decided to stick around and spy out an
occassion to turn this "blasphemer," as he saw him, over to
the authorities?
If that is why Judas stayed then why did he hang himself
when Messiah was crucified. You'd think that if Judas was
a man who decided Messiah was a liar or a lunatic and then
plotted against him from then on, when the man was finally
crucified Judas would have been "proud" of his
accomplishment of taking down a blatant false prophet who
claimed to be God! Yet, at the end of it all, Judas hanged
himself in grief!
There can be only one logical answer. He was not offended
at all when it appeared Messiah claimed to be God. Judas
must have believed that Yahshua was God and in fact
decided he knew a way to prove it! It was here that he
began to plot the Messiah's betrayal, not because he
despised Messiah, but because he saw the betrayal as
accomplishing some "greater good."
If all this is true, then it means that Yahshua called Judas an
unbeliever because Judas believed Messiah was God. Yet,
how can you be called a non-believer for believing
something? Evidently, we learn more about what we "don't
believe," by what we "do believe!" The things that we
believe often times reflect what is hard for us to believe.
For example, if you are faced with a choice, to believe
Messiah was a man or believe Messiah was God, based on
the miracles he performed and you choose to believe he
was God, you are manifesting that you cannot believe a
man could do such things, even with God's help!
People who believe Messiah was God, do so because they
just can't see themselves following "a man." Where do I
get this? Just go to the Catholic Encyclopedia and look up
the word "Atonement." You will see in there a statement
that Messiah had to be GOD himself or we could not
"accept him as Messiah," because that would make him a
"mere creature," and thus not qualified to be a Messiah.
People who teach Messiah was God just can't believe that a
man who obeys God 100 percent will be granted the power
Messiah demonstrated. They can't believe an obedient man
is granted every thing he asks from God! The person that
looks at Messiah and says "look at all the miracles he
performed," and then concludes "he must be God" has a
faith problem. Such an error reveals true unbelief. Those
who believe Messiah was God have trouble with accepting
that anyone but God could become the ruler of all mankind,
the King of Kings and the Master of Masters! They refuse
to believe Messiah is a man, out of pride. The only way
they are going to accept the rulership of Messiah is if he
was God! So they say he was God, but just because they
say he was does not make it so. Just because they have
trouble believing in a man as the Messiah, doesn't mean he
has to be God!
I can't even say how many times someone has said to me
"of course Jesus could do that, of course Jesus was perfect
and never sinned, he was God, but you aren't Jesus!" They
don't believe in the power of God towards man, thus, they
are unbelievers.
Judas Iscariot stayed as a follower of Messiah that day
because he believed that Yahshua must be God to do the
things he did and make the claims he made! He must have
decided (at that point) to prove that Yahshua was God, by
arranging for him to be put to the ultimate test. So, Judas
came up with a plan, to turn Yahshua over to the Jews.

THE SIGN OF THE BREAD

I asked you to keep in mind the significance of the bread
teaching. At the last supper, when Yahshua broke the bread
and said "take, eat, this is my body," Judas Iscariot took
this as a sign (remembering the sermon concerning the
bread) and so went off to betray Yahshua! He had already
made arrangements to do this, but was waiting "an
opportunity." I believe actually Judas was waiting for
Yahshua to tell him to do it! He was waiting for some sort
of sign of indication from Messiah, himself, that it was
time.

Matthew 26:14-16
"14 Then went one of the twelve, called
Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests.
15 And said to them, 'What will you give
me, and I will deliver him to you?' And
they covenanted with him for thirty
pieces of silver.
 16 And from that time he sought
opportunity to betray him."
I point out Judas' prior arrangement with the apostate Jews
because, if you don't know of it, you might think that the
Devil possessed Judas during the last supper and somehow
Judas was not in control of his own actions. Nothing is
farther from the truth however; as you can see by the above
quote. Judas, by the time of the last supper, had already
been seeking opportunity to betray Yahshua! So, by the
time of the last supper Judas was, I believe, thoroughly
convinced that Yahshua wanted to be betrayed, so that he
could prove he was God who cannot be killed! Judas
waited for a sign from Yahshua and he appears to get that
sign at last supper.

Matthew 26:20-28
"20 Now, when the evening was come,
he sat down with the twelve.
21 And as they did eat he said, Truly I
say to you, that one of you shall betray
me.
22 And they were exceeding sorrowful,
and began every one of them to say unto
him, Lord is it I?
23 And he answered and said, He that
 dips his hand with me in the dish, the
same shall betray me.
24 The son of man goes as it is written
of him: but woe to that man by whom the
son of man is betrayed! it had been good
for that man if he had not been born.
25 Then Judas, which betrayed him,
answered and said, Master, is it I? He
said to him 'you have said it."
26 And as they were eating, Yahshua
took the bread and blessed it and broke
it and gave it to the disciples, and said,
"Take eat; this is my body.
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks
and gave it to them, saying, Drink all of
it
28 For this is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many for
the remission of sins."
There is some confusion as to whether Judas was even
present during the breaking of the bread and the passing of
the cup. I have read and re-read all four gospel accounts
and most of them have Judas leaving after the breaking of
the bread and the passing of the cup, (and before the
explanation of the significance of the bread symbolism),
but none of that is important! The important thing to know
is that judas clearly thought Messiah was telling him to go
betray him!

John 13:21-30
"21 When Yahshua had said this, he was
troubled in spirit and testified, and said,
"Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of
you shall betray me.
22 Then the disciples looked one on
another, doubting of whom he spoke.
23 Now there was leaning on Yahshua's
bossom one of his disciples, whom
Yahshua favored
24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to
him, that he should ask who it should be
of whom he spoke.
25 He then laying on Yahshua's
shoulder said to him, Master who is it?
26 Yahshua answered, He it is, to whom
 I shall give a sop, when I have dipped
it." And when he had dipped the sop, he
gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of
Simon.
27 And after the sop, Satan entered into
him. then said Yahshua to him, What
you do, do quickly.
28 Now no man at the table knew for
what intent he spoke this to him
29 For some thought, because Judas
had the bag, that Yahshua had said to
him, Buy what we have need of against
the passover: or that he should give
something to the poor.
30 He then, having received the sop
went out immediately, and it was night."
Judas saw the bread being broken and remembered the
sermon about "the bread of life," and thought "there it is,
there is my sign!" Judas clearly thought he was doing
Yahshua's bidding! Then, to add to that, Yahshua dipped a
sop in the water, handed it to Judas and said "go do it,
quickly!" Poor Judas, ran off all excited, thinking he was
the greatest faith apostle in the group, the man that would
be credited with so believing that Yahshua was God that he
turned him over to his enemies to prove it! We know that
Judas did not expect Messiah to actually die!

Matthew 27:3-5
"3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him,
when he SAW THAT HE WAS
CONDEMNED, repented himself, and
brought again the thirty pieces of silver
to the chief priests and elders.
4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have
betrayed the innocent blood. And they
said, What is that to us? See to that
yourself.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver
in the temple, and departed, and went
and hanged himself."
When Judas saw Yahshua condemned to die, it proved that
he had made a mistake, that Yahshua was not God himself
and that meant that Judas had betrayed an innocent man to
die! He then went to try and undo the damage but the
Priests acted like they didn't know what he was talking
about and sent him away. So, he went and committed
suicide! Need I say any more? It is very likely Judas
thought Yahshua was God and therefore could not be
condemned to death! Judas became the first of those who
claim to follow Messiah yet without understanding of who
he is and Judas is the disciple who followed Messiah
without ever understanding his ministry. Judas is the first
to act upon that misunderstanding by violating the law of
God, thinking that it's ok to violate the law, as long as it
serves the Messiah's plans. Bringing the destruction of his
own life and probably his soul!

JUDAS ISCARIOT'S GOSPEL:

SIN IS AN ACT OF FAITH!
Judas thought it was "ok" to "betray innocent blood," if the
ends justified the means, as long as you are a believer that
Yahshua is God!" Betrayal of innocent blood is directly
forbidden by the Law, but that didn't stop Judas, because he
believed that he was doing an act of faith. His betrayal
became an act of faith in his own mind! In other words
Judas Iscariot equated sin with righteousness! He thought
that he could disobey the Law as long as good came of it!
He convinced himself it's ok to sin, as long as you a
"follower" of Messiah and as long as you believe Messiah
is God! Does this idea sound familiar? It should!
Judas went down in history as the "first son of perdition."
Yahshua gave him that name! Anyone who follows in the
error of Judas to run forward to do harm and to disobey the
law of God because they think their faith shields them, is
following in Judas' error and becomes a "son of perdition!"

THE BROTHERS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

Judas Iscariot's example teaches that committing of sins
will somehow prove our faith! A son of perdition thinks
that God wants them to sin so that God can prove his power
(and his grace). As far as a son of perdition is concerned,
when they sin they are doing an act of faith, by believing in
the power of Messiah to cleanse them of their sins through
God's grace because they believe Messiah is their God! A
son of perdition will further conclude that anyone who
attempts to stop sinning is "fallen from grace" and is the
real unbeliever! Sin becomes "faith" in the twisted logic of
the son of perdition and "faith unto righteous obedience," is
now "sin" for, they believe, if I seek to obey God, through
the law, I am "fallen from grace."
The Gospel of the Son of Perdition not only condones sin,
it encourages it, for sinning proves the so called "truth" of
their faith, that they are saved merely because they believe
Messiah is God! The supposed truth of a son of perdition's
faith is hinged on the idea that God came down to earth and
performed the law for them! Therefore, when they sin, as
long as they believe Messiah is God, they are saved. A son
of perdition might look at you with his glazed eyes and his
mind darkened by deceit and say "believing you are going
to heaven even though you are a horrible sinner, now that is
faith!"
This type of twisted faith is what led Judas Iscariot to go
off and "betray" his Master. He thought his Master wanted
him to do that and by so doing he was proving his faith in
the Messiah and in the Messiah's claims of deity! In other
words, the son of perdition thinks the more he sins the more
he proves the deity of Messiah! It's astounding beyond
measure that even though Judas Iscariot went out and
hanged himself after Messiah was crucified, still, his way
of thinking managed to survive! Behold, the Gospel
according to Judas, which is, namely, "betray Messiah to
prove your faith!"

TO SUM UP JUDAS ISCARIOT

• Judas Iscariot counted himself as one
of the disciples of the true Messiah.
• Judas Iscariot had no regard for
Moral Law which says "do not
betray innocent blood."
• Judas was concerned about money,
and claimed it was a "concern for the
poor," but actually he was a thief and
only wanted the money for himself.
There can be no doubt Judas Iscariot was the mold by
which the devil would define the false disciples! It's no
wonder when the Apostle warned of the coming great
apostasy or the great falling away, he mentioned Judas
Iscariot and spoke of a time when the "man of sin, the son
of perdition, would be revealed." He was directly
identifying the false believers to come in the end times with
Judas Iscariot! A follower of Messiah with betrayal in his
heart (and who is ultimately so unable to believe a mortal
man can act as God's proxy he concludes that Messiah
MUST have been God incarnate).

II Thessalonians 2: 1-14
"1 Now we beg you brethren, by the
coming of our Master Yahshua Messiah,
and by our gathering together TO him,
2 That you be not quickly shaken in
mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit,
nor by word, NOR BY LETTER AS IF
FROM US, because that day of Messiah
is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means:
(because a great deception is coming)
and in fact there is coming FIRST a
great falling away, and first that man of
sin will be revealed, the SON OF
PERDITION.
4 who opposes and exhalts himself
above all that is called god or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sits in the
temple of God, shewing himself that he
is God."
Let's look at verse 4 for a moment. Did Judas Iscariot ever
claim to be God? That depends on how you look at it!
Certainly, Yahshua called Judas "the son of perdition," and
according to this epistle, the son of perdition calls himself
God! Judas Iscariot's interpretation of Yahshua's messages
(that Messiah is God) lead you to only one conclusion;
those who believe that Yahshua is God, must also believe
they too are God! Why do I say that? Well, Yahshua said
that we have the same connection with the Father that he
had! He said that "I and the father are one, even as you and
I are one, so that God shall be all in one!"
(Indeed, Pope John Paul the Second issued a teaching
before he died that we are God because this is the logical
conclusion to the entire notion of the deity of Christ. We
are explicitly promised the same oneness and status with
the Father that Jesus had and if Jesus was God therefore
those who possess Jesus must be God as well).

1 John 17: 21-23

"21 That they all may be one; as you
Father, are in me, and I in you, that they
also may be one in us: that the world
may believe that you have sent me.

22 And the glory which you gave me I

have given them; that they may be one,
even as we are one:
 23 I in them, and you in me, that they
may be made perfect in one; and that the
world may know that you have sent me,
and has loved them, as you have loved
me."
If Yahshua's oneness with the Father means that he is God
then our oneness, which is the same oneness that Yahshua
had, must mean that we are God, too, right? When the son
of perdition says, "I and the Father are one," he has already
testified that such a statement means you are God!
Furthermore, when the son of perdition says "the Father is
in me," he has already said he believes this statement to
mean "I am the Father!" Further, logic would dictate that
when he says "Jesus lives in me," he is saying he must be
JESUS too, because if "Jesus was God" because God lived
in him, therefore, Jesus lives in me, I must be Jesus and,
therefore, God too! This is the subtlety of false doctrine.
The Son of Perdition becomes his own God and savior. It's
no wonder that he doesn't believe he has to obey Moral
Law!
If the oneness of the Father and the Son means that the Son
is the same person as the Father, therefore, the oneness of
Messiah and his followers has to mean that the followers of
Messiah are also God! You cannot get around this
conclusion to the teachings of the Son of Perdition.
There isn't a Catholic scholar who would argue with my
reasoning that "if Messiah being one with God meant that
he was God, therefore, if you are one with Messiah, then
you too are God." In fact, this is their actual teaching and
as I said before Pope John Paul II VERIFIED this before he
died!
The son of perdition "opposes and exhalts himself above
God." When he says he can do "greater works than Jesus,"
and then teaches in the same breath that "Jesus was God,"
what he is really saying is that he can do "greater works
than God!"
When protestants use the same scriptures as Catholics to
prove Messiah was God (the oneness scriptures), they are
consenting to the interpretation of Rome. Thus, they are
consenting to the authority of the Popes, as God's
representative. They just don't know they are doing this.
It must be a constant source of amusement to the Bishops
of Rome.
The son of perdition sits in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God! The temple of God is the body of
Messiah! The son of perdition, though he is only a vessel
of the Holy Spirit, "a temple," has deluded himself into
thinking that being a vessel makes a person God in the
flesh! Thus, Rome teaches their Popes are God in the flesh,
by virtue of the power of oneness passed to the Apostles by
Messiah! When protestants use these same interpretations
and conclude Messiah is God, then turn right around and
say they are "one with Jesus," they are actually giving
themselves the same status as Rome gives their Pope. They
are saying that they too are "God in the flesh," or "God's
representative on the earth."
Do you see why the reformation was such an appalling
thing to the Catholics! You can't have everyone walking
around with the authority of the Pope and yet, in their eyes
that is what Protestantism is all about! If their
interpretation concerning Messiah, that he is God because
he is "one with the Father," is true, then when the laymen
says "I'm one with God," he's saying he is in fact "God,"
and don't kid yourselves, the Protestant churches
unanimously agree with the Catholics that when Messiah
said "I and the Father are one," he was stating that he was
God!
Do you see the dilemma?
If the Catholic's interpretation of "I and the Father are one,"
and other oneness scriptures are true interpretations, (that
the oneness means you are actually God himself) then the
Protestant believers are taking on the authority of Messiah
and of God whenever they say "Jesus is in me." In which
case when the Protestants broke away from Catholicism
they were in the wrong. If Rome's is right about the deity
of Christ and when Messiah said "I and the Father are one,"
it means that Messiah was saying, "I'm God," it also means
the oneness belongs only to those to whom this oneness
was promised, namely the Apostles and this oneness was
passed down to the Popes of Rome. If we accept Rome's
teaching of Christ as God we must accept their teaching
concerning the succession of this oneness to the apostles, in
which case only the Popes can say "I and Messiah are one,"
for only the Popes are the "Vicars" of Messiah and
subsequently of God!
When Protestants concede to the notion that Messiah was
claiming deity when he said "I and the Father are one," they
are unwittingly conceding to the authority of the Popes in
Rome! It is these same interpretations of the oneness
scriptures that prove the infallibility of the Vatican (in the
minds of a Roman). If you are going to accept this
interpretation, you have to accept the authority of the
interpreters!
The son of perdition is called "the man of sin." The Son of
Perdition is the loudest supporter of the lie that we can
never stop sinning! Who is a "man of sin," but a man that
clings to his sins with a tight white knuckled death grip of
doctrine and states plainly " God wants me to keep sinning
so that I cannot boast!" Who, I ask you, is better defined as
a "man of sin" than a man who teaches that "man was born
in sin and can never escape sin?" (Original Sin Doctrines).
It is quite clear what this "great falling away," was spoken
of by the writer to the Thessalonians!

II Thessalonians 2: 5-7
"5 Remember you not, that when I was
yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what withholds
that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does
already work, only he who now
PREVENTS will PREVENT until he be
 taken out of the way."
Brethren, do not be a "son of perdition," in your thinking.
Do not give in to the mystery of iniquity! Do you know
that iniquity is another word for sin? The only thing that
was preventing this sinful mystery religion from causing a
"great falling away" was "he who now prevents." Who was
this person that was preventing this great lie until he is
"taken out of the way?" It was Yahshua the Messiah for he
said "I am the way, the truth and the light, no man comes to
the father but by me!"
The writer of this epistle foresaw a day when the sons of
perdition would introduce another "way" of salvation and
Yahshua Messiah would be taken "out of the way." The
Son of Perdition brings us an entirely new Messiah, (one
who is "God in the flesh)," and a new salvation, (sin
remains, so that faith in Jesus as God can be proved)!

II Thessalonians 2:8-12
"8 And then shall that WICKED be
revealed, whom the Master shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth,
(which is the BREAD that came down
from Heaven) and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the
working of Satan with all power and
 signs and lying wonders,
10 and with all deceivableness of
unrigtheousness in them that perish:
because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved
11 And for this cause God shall send
them a strong deluding influence, that
they should all believe a lie.
12 That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth, BUT HAD
PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS."
My friends, that wicked has been revealed! Who has
pleasure in unrighteousness more than he who says "God
doesn't want or expect me to stop sinning?" Those who
follow the lie of the son of perditionand betray Messiah,
even while claiming to follow him, do not love the truth. If
they did they would not have pleasure in unrighteousness
and would not cling to doctrines that let them go on sinning
and sinning and sinning until they die!
Protestants cannot accept the Catholic interpretation of the
"oneness of Messiah" and then turn around and reject that
the Pope is God's representative on the earth! Why not?
Because it is the teaching that Messiah is God (because he
said I and the Father are one) coupled with the promises of
Messiah to the Apostles that they would be "one even as he
and the Father are one," upon which are built the doctrines
that the Popes are God's representatives. Use logic! If
being one with God makes you God then the promise made
that we would be "one with the Father," cannot apply to
EVERYONE! Otherwise, everyone is God and everyone is
God's representative. This is the argument of the Catholic
Dogma and it is unbreakable logic! If the Protestants
accept the teaching the Messiah was God they have NO
CHOICE but to accept that the "oneness" promised to the
followers of Messiah was promised ONLY to the Apostles
and their successors! Everyone can't be God on earth! Be
reasonable!
We therefore have two choices. To believe that Messiah
was God by the "oneness" he described and, therefore, that
"oneness" is not available to us, only to the successors of
the Apostles, or we have to reject that these "oneness"
promises meant that Messiah was God and believe that the
oneness that Messiah had with the Father is available to all
men! You can't believe BOTH that Messiah's oneness
means he's God in the flesh and also that we too are "one
with the Father," not without making us all "God in the
flesh!"
Thus, the Gospel of the son of perdition, Judas Iscariot, has
now reared it's ugly head! We now know that the time of
the return of Messiah to fight with them that betrayed him
is near at hand! Which side will you be on? Will you be
like the eleven apostles who did not abandon Yahshua and
"go away," or, will you be like Judas Iscariot and inevitably
hang yourself in the end?
I pray for the deceived of the world, that they will wake up
and see. I pray that they will no longer be taken in by the
lies of the son of perdition, Judas Iscariot, the betrayer!

What The Son

Of Perdition MISSED!
During the last supper, when Yahshua Messiah broke bread
and passed the cup, (which has been turned a ritual), it held
symbolism of a very deep meaning. Judas Iscariot took this
as a "sign" from Messiah that he would be the one to betray
Messiah and thus prove Messiah was God, to the world.
Judas considered this to be a great honor and he had no
qualms about doing the betrayal even though it was against
Moral Law. Judas must have believed that his "sin" would
do good in the world, by helping Messiah prove his power.
We can relate that to those who teach the more they sin the
more they prove the grace and power of Messiah! Judas
Iscariot is the "son of perdition," and all who follow after
this same unbelieving spirit of error, (thinking that they
must continue sinning in order to prove their faith in who
Messiah is) are likewise named "son of perdition!" The
great falling away is called "the revelation of the son of
perdition."
For reminder's sake, let me again say that only the worst of
unbelievers can look at the works of Messiah and then,
instead of saying "wow, I want to be just like that," they
say, "I can't be like that, because evidently he must be
God to do all those things!"
Seeing the works of Messiah and his righteousness he
demonstrated they erroneously conclude that he must be
God! This conveniently excuses them from ever repeating
Yahshua Messiah's great obedience and the demonstrations
of power that result from that obedience. Of course they
don't believe they can repeat them for they believe he's
God. How can they be like Messiah if he was God and
they are just men? Then, to add insult to injury, they then
worship, not only Messiah, but worship his mother as
well, whom we know for a fact was just a woman!
We saw that the "deluding influence" which would come, is
associated with the "son of perdition." Delusions like,
making Yahshua "God himself" and change the nature of
God into a trinity! Thus, we end up with three gods instead
of one, contrary to the Tanakh! The third God thrown in as
the spirit of the first two Gods, which they insist on calling
a "ghost" even though believing in and communicating
with ghosts is strictly forbidden in the law!
All of these delusions listed above came about because
some, like Judas, misinterpret the nature of Yahshua and
twist his teachings concerning "the bread of life," to mean
that he claims to be God come down to earth from heaven!
This is why, when Judas made his "move" to betray
Yahshua he did so right after Yahshua broke bread and said
"take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you!"
From that moment a great rift has existed among the
disciples of Messiah, between those who misunderstood,
insisting on going from betrayal to betrayal in a futile effort
to prove Yahshua is God and the true believers who
understand what "the bread of life," means, namely,
pressing on into the kingdom by Messiah's example,
through the power of the Holy Spirit (the true bread and
breath of life).
I'm writing this lengthy sermon on Judas Iscariot, because
he is the son of perdition and to underscore once and for all
how Judas Iscariot, the original "son of perdition," left the
room and went to betray Messiah, right after the breaking
of bread symbolism and thus never found out what (the
bread of life) meant, I desire to show how Judas is the
shadow of things to come, namely, all those who follow
after his example of error and take on the name "son of
perdition" even as Judas was called!
Leaving The Last Supper Before Imparted Wisdom
We can literally observe the error of Judas Iscariot being
repeated when holy communion is given in modern
organized religion. Those who follow Judas' error rarely
go past the breaking of the bread and the passing of the cup
to study their meaning! Usually during sermons the only
time they quote from the account of the "last supper," they
are about to take part in "holy communion" or "holy
eucharist" observance, whereby they pass around
"crackers" and tiny cups of "wine." (Or, the priest
administers the bread and wine to each person).
Those who are steeped in error rarely go into the
explanations of this purely symbolic gesture on the part of
Messiah because when you read the Messiah's explanation
of these symbols, which takes place right after judas left the
room, we begin to understand that Messiah is not God at
all, cannot be God, and never claimed to be God!
Anyone who has been a Christian for any length of time
and attended "masses" or attended "sunday services" will
recognize this! When you examine in detail the lengthy
words spoken by Messiah after the breaking of bread and
his prayers he made to the Father at that time, you begin to
understand what Messiah was really talking about when he
spoke of the "bread of life that came down from heaven!"
Which is why they do not delve into those verses. Instead,
some read the account of the breaking of bread and the
passing of the cup, then they quickly put their Bibles down
and hold a ceremony! Just like Judas Iscariot, they never
get past the breaking of bread and passing of the cup but
instead after reading the account of the breaking of bread,
they rush out and away from the last supper, observing
some meaningless ritual that they think symbolizes they
can go on sinning and still be a follower of Messiah, a
ritual they believe signifies the deity!

I'm sure this is a very hard pill for many to

swallow.
It was for me. I did not come to understand the teachings
that followed the breaking of bread until one day, instead of
going up front and getting my "cracker" and my "wine
cup," I sat there in the pews and read the rest of the verses
all the way up to the crucifixion! There is power in those
words and yet, when they get to that part of their Bibles,
they immediately stop reading and go to get a cracker and
some wine!
They pressure you to take part. If you don't, you will be
looked at sideways and probably be counseled. You may
even be rebuffed and rebuked for "not partaking in
communion" and told from the pulpit that you are a
backslider if you don't go forward and receive communion!
They focus on the act of breaking of bread and passing of
the cup, seeing it as a sign of verification of Messiah's
deity. This is the ultimate betrayal of the Messiah, which is
exactly what Judas Iscariot did. This focus on the act
instead of the meaning makes it impossible for them to
delve too deeply into the meaning! Judas took part in the
"communion" then ran off to do his own thing and to carry
out his preconceived notion of what it means to be a
follower and actually betrayed betrayed Yahshua Messiah,
all the while thinking he was doing the world a "good
service."
It's important for us to understand fully the true meaning of
"I am the bread that came down from
Heaven," as Yahshua taught the multitudes at
Capernaum. It was this same sermon that led also to Judas
Iscariot's grave error, which was thinking that Messiah was
in fact "God in the flesh!" In understanding these verses
we then see that Judas Iscariot and all sons of perdition are
counted as disciples of Messiah; However; because of their
unbelief in the power of God, they, like Judas, their elder
brother, miss out on the teaching of the bread of life and
how it is that eternal life is imparted by Yahshua's
death!
So, let's dig deep into the verses that follow the breaking of
bread at the last supper and find out what Yahshua was
doing! I can assure you he was not creating a "new ritual"
whereby, if you eat some "blessed" bread and drink some
"blessed" wine you have instant eternal life!
Messiah Utters A New Commandment
In the Gospel of John chapter 13, immediately after Judas
Iscariot left the room to betray him, Messiah begins to
explain how he will give us "his flesh to eat and his blood
to drink" thereby delivering to us the "living bread which
comes down from heaven" and how by "eating this living
bread" we would obtain "eternal life" on the "last day."
(These were all key points in his sermon at Capernaum
detailed in chapter 6 and now that Judas is no longer
present, Yahshua reveals those details to the believing
Apostles.)

John 13: 31-35

"31 Therefore, when he (Judas Iscariot)
was gone out, Yahshua said, Now is the
son of man glorified, and God is
glorified in him.
32 If God be glorified in him, God shall
also glorify him in himself, and shall
straight away glorify him.
33 Little children, yet a little while I am
 with you. You shall seek me: and as I
said to the Jews, where I go you cannot
come, so now say I to you.
34 A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another: as I have
loved you, that you also love one
another.
35 By this shall all men know that you
are my disciples, if you have love one to
another."
Yahshua Messiah was issuing a commandment to his
disciples that they should love one another with the same
love he had for them! The same love, (which is the love
that he had from the Father Himself) was now available to
us and that we could demonstrate that same love on the
earth! This is how people would know we are His
disciples! To those who cling to the notion that Yahshua is
God, I ask one simple question: If Messiah is the God of
love, how can the disciples ever hope to love one another
with the same Love that that Messiah had for them? If
Yahshua were God, he'd be asking the impossible, (because
the Trinitarians teach that no one can love the way God
loves and then, they interpret the scriptures in such a way
that Messiah is now making the impossible demand of the
poor disciples to have the same love for each other that the
creator of love has for them)!
They want to say Yahshua was God yet here is Yahshua
telling his disciples to love each other with the same love
he has and making it a commandment!
If they would just not run out of the room of wisdom, after
the breaking of bread and instead if they would keep
reading and listening to the Spirit, they'd find out that
Yahshua was not God.
The next things that Messiah says prove that either he was
not God or at best he was a lunatic or at worst a deceiver!
If no one can love as God loves and we are commanded to
love as Messiah loved and Messiah was God, then God is
issuing a commandment that is impossible to obey! God
Himself would have to be a lunatic to expect his creation to
love one another with the same degree and intensity of love
with which Messiah loved, if Messiah is the Creator and no
one can love as the Creator loves!
Do you see the dichotomy here?
He, the Creator, has loved us with an everlasting love!
This is a love we can never possess, being mortal and no
one can love a child more than the child's own father,
especially a father who lives forever. First they teach God's
love is something we can never possess, not to the degree
that He loves, then they teach in their doctrines that
Messiah is God, then quote him here commanding us to
love one another as he loves! Then they further contradict
themselves by adding in the mix a doctrine that says "you
can never stop sinning and that you can't be perfect like
Messiah was perfect." This is an amazing paradox because
if we love as Messiah loves we aren't going to sin for it was
Messiah's love that kept him from sinning in the first place!
They teach that we, being mortal created beings, cannot
love this way, so he'll do the loving for them, die on the
crucifixion and then all they have to do is believe it! How
confused are they? Here they teach such love is impossible
and that's why we need "the grace of Jesus," yet when you
read the words of Messiah he's commanding them all to
love one another with his same love!
Plainly and simply if Yahshua is God and we can never
love unto sinless perfection, he's clearly commanding the
impossible and the only way for us to obey this
commandment is to somehow be as God Himself! We
therefore have no choice but to either discard Messiah's
commandments to love one another as HE loves or discard
this notion that Messiah is God Incarnate!
My dear friends for the sake of space I cannot quote all that
Yahshua had to say after Judas Iscariot left the room, I'm
going to try and focus on the "how" Messiah will give us
"living bread" that will bring us "eternal life" and also
touch on statements made by Yahshua Messiah, like the
ones above, which prove he cannot be God in the flesh!

John 14: 1
"Let not your hearts be troubled: you
believe in God, believe also in me."
Common sense dictates that this statement ALONE proves
Yahshua Messiah is not God! He's talking about God as a
SEPARATE PERSON to himself and states that if we
believe in God we should believe in HIM too! If Yahshua
WERE GOD then believing in Yahshua would be the
SAME as believing in GOD, we wouldn't HAVE to believe
in BOTH! Likewise, if Yahshua were GOD then believing
in Yahshua would be enough, we wouldn't HAVE to
believe in God at all because they are supposedly THE
SAME! Yahshua here lays to rest once and for ALL the
LIE of the Devil which Judas had just set out to "prove."

John 14: 2
"In my Father's house are many
mansions: if not, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you."
Here Yahshua does not say "in my house" there are many
mansions, he says "in my Father's house," thus
demonstrating that Heaven belongs to God, not him! If
Messiah were "God come to earth as flesh," he certainly
would not be able to disclaim his own house! Tradition
teaches that the lord of the house will never deny his right
to the lordship! If God is verbally denouncing His right to
the Lordship of Heaven and God's word is so powerful it
created the world, then when Messiah denied Lordship of
Heaven that would mean God LOST his Lordship of the
heavens. The Devil would only have to merely claim it in
his stead! (Which is incidentally why the 3 day death of
Messiah proves he's not God as well, because had God died
for 3 days, he would have ressurected to find a new God
sitting on the vacant throne of Heaven, namely Satan!)
When Yahshua says "in my Father's house," there can be
no logical conclusion but that he is not Father!
Yet, Christian apologists who attempt to prove the deity of
Christ admit that, even though God and Jesus are the same
person, the Father and the Son are NOT the same person.
This is, according to Christian theists, a "great mystery."
It's no mystery at all though it's just ILLOGIC. Here's how
their logic reads: "God and Jesus are the same person, God
is the Father and Jesus is the Son, but the Father and the
Son are not the same person."

John 14: 6- 7
"6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man comes to the
Father, but by me.
7 If you have known me, you have
known the Father; and from now on you
know him, and have seen Him."
This is the one the "God/man" proponents really love focus
on (and disregard the rest of the verses)! In the carnal mind
it does look like Yahshua is clearly saying he is the Father!
However, look at verse 6. He doesn't say "no man comes
to me but by me." He clearly makes a distinction between
himself and the Father. Furthermore, he says he is "the
way," in verse seven. The "way" to what? The way to
"come to the Father" or in other words the "way to meet the
Father," the "way to see the Father," and more importantly
Yahshua is the way to be just like the Father (the way to
become a son of God). As Yahshua is speaking he's
standing before them as the "new Adam," and is in the
exact likeness of God! Anyone who looks at Him sees the
Father! Anyone hearing Yahshua's words are hearing the
words of the Father because Yahshua only spoke the words
of the Father! Yahshua is the walking, breathing, fleshly
example of the bread from Heaven and the bread is "every
word that proceeds from the mouth of God!" He was the
Father's mouth piece. Yahshua was showing us the Father
in his words, actions, (through his love). He was the living
embodiment of the love of God manifested to the world.
That's what made him the only begotten Son of the Father!
Furthermore, he's saying that we are being offered this
same connection, this same oneness so that we, like
Messiah, can become the living embodiment of the love of
God! By making Yahshua "the father" they have washed
over this truth. It relinquishes them of obeying the
commandment to "love one another" even as Messiah
loves! It forever hides the truth from them that Yahshua is
showing us the way to be just like the Father! In the end,
they completely miss the wonderful truth that we can
become sons of God ourselves and live in our Father's
house with Yahshua!

John 14: 8-9

"8 Philip said to him, Master, show us
the Father, and it will be sufficient.
9 Yahshua said to him, Have I been so
 long time with you, and yet have you not
known me, Philip? He that sees me has
seen the Father; and how say you then,
show us the Father?"
Here's another verse that the "God/man" proponents want
focus on because if you read these verses in a carnal mind
and thinking like men then Yahshua has just stated flatly, I
am the Father! However, Messiah had just got done telling
them that he was showing them the Father with his every
word and deed! He also is acting in his office as the Proxy,
"mouthpiece of God!" The Father was speaking to Philip
with Yahshua's mouth!
Oh that we true believers can become so like Yahshua that
God can speak to others with our mouths! Some believe
that the translation was tampered with a little here and that
Yahshua actually said "have I been so long with you, Philip
and have you not known the Father?" I don't think this is
necessarily true! I believe it is quite possible that Yahshua
said it just this way. Yet, like Judas Iscariot and like the
Jews who wouldn't believe, the unbelievers of today refuse
to believe that God can speak using the mouth of a mortal
man! They refuse to believe that a mortal man can become
so in touch with the word of God that when he opens his
mouth to speak the word of God comes right out of his
mouth, directly. They refuse to believe that a man can
become the very proxy of the One True God. The great
contradiction is, they refuse to believe this, but then they
claim to believe that the scriptures were written by God and
that the holy men who wrote the scriptures were acting as
the oracle of God when they wrote the scriptures! (They
also have no problem believing their Pope is the
mouthpiece of God so it truly is a very great contradiction).
When Philip asked to be shown the Father, God spoke right
to Philip, using the mouth of Yahshua and said, "have I
been so long with you Philip and have you not known me?"
I think God's patience was getting a little tried by Philip's
thick headedness. I offer as my final evidence of this the
words of Yahshua spoken directly after this utterance from
God himself, through the mouth of Messiah:

John 14: 10-11

"10 Don't you believe that I am in the
Father, and the Father is in me? The
words that I speak to you, I speak not
from my own mouth, but the Father that
dwells in me, HE does the works (or the
speaking).
11 Believe me that I am in the Father,
and the Father in me: or else believe me
because of the works."
I have said this before but it bears repeating. If, when
Yahshua says "I am in the Father and the Father is in me,"
if he was saying that he is God, literally, then when those
who take this to mean Yahshua was God say "Jesus is in
me and I'm in Him" they are claiming to be Jesus! That's
irrefutable!
We therefore have to accept that such a person who reads
these verses to mean Yahsua is actually God, must believe
they are Jesus and since they believe Jesus is God,
therefore, there can be no conclusion other than that they
think they are God himself! It is clear, therefore, that
Yahshua is not God but that God lives in him and uses
Yahshua's flesh to show himself to the Apostles and uses
Yahshua's mouth to speak to the Apostles. That does not in
any way make Yahshua God in person! I only makes
Yahshua in the image of God, which is how man was
created to begin with, but he fell. Which also explains why
Yahshua is called the "SECOND Adam." Be warned,
however, if Yahshua is the "image of God" and we then
worship Yahshua, we have made a "fleshly idol" of God
and are bowing to worship an idol. It might not be an idol
of wood or metal or stone but we are still worshipping an
"image" of God, calling that image "God," and this is a
direct violation of the second commandment. If we then
make a stone "image" of Messiah and bow to worship it as
God, we are double idol worshippers!

1 Corinthians 14: 45
"45 And so it is written, The first man
Adam was made a living soul; the last
Adam a quickening spirit. "
DOING THE WORKS OF GOD DOES NOT
MAKE US GOD!
 John 14:12-15
"13 Truly, truly, I say to you. He that
believes on me, the works that I do shall
he also do, and greater works than these
shall he do; because I go to my Father."
14 If you shall ask anything in my name,
I will, do.
15 If you love me, keep my
commandments:"
If Yahshua is God then how can we do greater works than
he? He's the creator of the whole universe, how are you
going to top that? If Yahshua is God, he created the
miracles to begin with! You'd have to become a creator
yourself in order to top his works!
Those who believe Jesus is God have to believe that they
will someday be able to do greater works than God or they
have to disbelieve the above verses. They cannot believe
both! It is these two verses, therefore, that alone prove
most effectively that Yahshua is not God! Because no one
can do greater works than the one who created the works to
begin with!
Verse 14 also causes some problems. The God/Man
proponents say that Yahshua says "I will do it," thus
manifesting that he is in fact God! First, I retreat to my
earlier argument that even if Yahshua did say "I will do it,"
we have to remember that God was speaking to the
disciples through Yahshua! However, Yahshua did not say
"I will do it." The King James Version is actually very
helpful here. Any time a word was added to a verse by the
translators they put it in italic. The word "it" is in italics in
my King James Version Bible. Which means Yahshua
didn't say "I will do it," He said "I will do."

Yahshua gives us the bread of life

Now comes the part we've all been waiting for. Yahshua
begins to explain how he will give us the bread of life that
comes down from Heaven!

John 14: 15-17

"15 If you love me, keep my
commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he
shall give you another Comforter, that
he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the spirit of truth; whom the
world cannot receive, because it sees
him not, neither can they know him: but
you know him: for he dwells with you,
and shall be in you."
This Spirit of truth is the "breath" of God, or the "word" of
God. He is the "bread which comes down from Heaven,"
which if any man eats, he shall live forever. Yahshua states
that if we love him and keep his Commandments then we
shall have the Spirit of truth! This spirit dwelled with the
Apostles from the very beginning because the only way to
know that Yahshua is Messiah, is if "the Father reveals
him to you." This is what Yahshua told Peter. (Matthew
16:17) Evidently, the Spirit was with the Apostles from the
moment they followed Yahshua. Which goes along with
"if you love me keep my commandments." When you
make up your mind to "follow Yahshua" you manifest that
the Spirit of truth is there, leading and guiding you on for it
is the Spirit who has revealed the truth to you! The first
step is having a heart to obey God and then your obedience
leads you to follow in the footsteps of Messiah through the
Spirit speaking truth to you.

NO SPIRIT WITHOUT OBEDIENCE

(and no obedience without the Spirit)
Some have the teaching that the spirit just randomly
chooses certain people for no apparent reason at all and
then saves them! This is where the "predestination" and
"once saved always saved," doctrines have their roots! As
if God is this unfair person who just picks people at whim
to reveal His truth to them and the rest can all literally "go
to hell!" This is not the God of love Yahshua taught.
Yahshua Messiah taught us that all you have to do to have
the Spirit is "obey His commandments." Do you want God
to "choose you?" Do you want Messiah to "choose you to
be a disciple?" Start by having an heart to obey! An
obedient spirit is what God is looking for!
Which, incidentally, is exactly why the Hebrews are "God's
chosen people." They have the laws of God and seek to
obey (if they are obedient of course). If their heart is pure
in their desire to obey God they are on the path to following
Yahshua! Jews (who have never heard the true gospel of
Yahshua and have never rejected him) and who are
following God with a pure heart of obedience are true
believers, all they have to do is "give up everything they
own and follow Messiah," just like the rich man in
Matthew 19:

Matthew 19: 16-17

"16 And behold, one came and said to
him, Good Master, what good thing
shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17 And he said to me, Why do you call
me good? There is none good but one,
God: but if you will enter into life, keep
the commandments."
Notice here that Yahshua corrects the man for calling him a
title that is reserved only for God! Why would Yahshua do
that if he was in fact openly claiming to be God and
everyone present knew and believed he was God? It makes
no sense at all for Yahshua to say "I am not good, only God
is good" if Yahshua was God! Another thing that needs to
be pointed out is that Yahshua states here clearly that the
way to eternal life is keeping the commandments! This
lays to rest once and for all the notion that the
commandments are done away with! Yahshua does not tell
the man to "disregard" the commandments and just believe
on his name, he tells the man the way to inherit eternal life
is keeping the commandments!

Matthew 19: 18-20

"18 He said to him, Which? Jesus said,
'you shall not commit adultery, you shall
not steal, you shall not bear false
witness,
19 Honor your father and mother, and
you shall love your neighbor as
yourself.'
20 The young man said to him, all these
things have I kept from my youth up:
what do I lack?"
When the man asks Yahshua "which" commandments he
must keep to inherit eternal life, Yahshua Messiah starts
quoting the ten commandments, the law of Moses! He
names only four of the ten commandments then sums the
entire law up by saying "love your neighbor as yourself."
It is interesting that Yahshua left off, "you shall not murder,
you shall not covet, you shall honor the sabbath day, You
shall have no other Gods, you shall not make any graven
images, and you shall not take my name in vain." Is
Yahshua trying to exclude these commandments as a
requirement to eternal life (reducing the commandments to
four)? I don't believe so, but rather, Yahshua didn't
mention these other five because they are a given! Every
Hebrew knows that worshipping other Gods, worshipping
idols, taking his name in vain, defiling the sabbath (the
seventh day), murder and coveting (or lusting) are all
horrible sins! They didn't need to be mentioned at all!
Yahshua was not giving a dissertation on the Ten
Commandments here, every Hebrew in Israel knew them!
Messiah was just making a point that keeping the
commandments is the way to eternal life! (Notice he says
nothing about faith and grace here because these, too, are a
given and you can't keep the commandments without
them)!
The point here being made is that an Hebrew who has a
true heart to obey God is only one step away from eternal
life, namely, "following Yahshua's example" and so, when
the man says "what do I lack," that is what Yahshua told
him!

Matthew 19: 21
"21 Jesus said to him, If you will be
perfect, go and sell all you have, and
give it to the poor, and you shall have
treasure in heaven: and come, follow
 me.
I also submit that if Yahshua said that "keeping the ten
commandments" is the "way to life," it would behoove
everyone to keep them, (if they expect to inherit eternal
life). If we say we don't have to keep them we make
Yahshua a liar! You must have an heart to obey if you are
going to walk in the Spirit and so by following Yahshua
you become perfect! That was Yahshua's promise to the
rich man in Matthew 19: "if you will be perfect... come
follow me."
The sons of perdition will never accept this truth, for they
love the wages of unrighteousness!
Once you have a heart to obey, you begin to follow
Yahshua. The spirit of truth comes and leads and guides
you into all truth. You begin to hear from God Himself,
you begin to learn how to love and that love ultimately
compells you to obey! It is a terrible heresy that teaches
men that they can never obey and provides them with a
religious alternative to obedience instead. Many do not
come to God with an heart to obey because they are taught
from the very beginning that it's impossible to obey! They
are taught that all they have to do is believe, then they are
taught that you merely recite an "oath," which is called "the
sinner's prayer," and wallah, you have the spirit of truth.
An heart to obey isn't in their equation! In fact, the first
thing they get someone to accept before they get them to do
anything is that they can "never please God," and are in
need of an "alternative" to pleasing God! If you believe
you can never stop sinning you don't have to have an heart
to stop sinning. According to their twisted gospel all you
have to do is admit you are a sinner, that you will always be
a sinner and that obeying God is forever impossible for
you, then ask Jesus to come into your heart. Now the
penalty for your sin is paid and you are now free from the
penalty of sin, (even though you go on sinning and he who
commits sin is a "servant of sin") There is no obedience at
all in the son of perdition. It is a foreign concept to him
and if anyone seeks to obey God, the son of perdition
speaks evil of that person, calling them a "legalist."
The son of perdition claims he has an heart of obedience,
but he has no intention of every attempting to obey God's
commandments, saying they are "fulfilled by Messiah" and
that the Messiah has "kept the commandments for him." If
the son of perdition had an heart to obey, he wouldn't
disobey the commandments and teach others to do
likewise! The son of perdition comes to God, says the
"sinner's prayer" in the spirit of rebellion, and in a false
humility that says, "I can never please God, I need Messiah
to please God for me." God rejects rebellion. In fact
Samuel told King Saul that "rebellion is the same as
witchcraft."

The Spiritual Connection

John 14: 18-21
"18 I will not leave you comfortless: I
will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees
 me no more; but you will see me:
because I live, you shall live also."
20 At that day you shall know that I am
in my Father and you are in me, and I
am in you.
21 He that has my commandments, and
keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he
that loves me shall be loved of my
Father, and I will love him and will
manifest myself to him."
Verse 18 is yet another verse that the God/Man proponents
want to point at, for it seems to them that Yahshua is
calling Himself "the comforter" which he has already
identified as the Spirit of truth! However, this is clearly not
the case. Yahshua tells us that He will "send the
comforter," then he tells us that he will go away, to the
Father, but will again come to us! This is definately a
reference to the prelude to the second coming at the end of
the age, when his disciples will "see him," but the world
will not yet see him! We know this because of what he
says just after this. In verses 19 and 20 Messiah begins to
explain that a time is coming when the only ones who will
see see Yahshua Messiah are the true believers, them that
"love him and keep his commandments." The Apostles
knew that Yahshua was saying he would "manifest
Himself" to the believers and NOT to the World, just prior
to his triumphant return to set up his kingdom on earth.

John 14: 22
"Judas (not Iscariot but the other Judas)
said to him, Lord, how is it that you will
manifest yourself to us, and not to the
world?"
Yahshua has a very interesting answer to this question! He
begins to explain that the Holy spirit of God will be sent to
them and then shall live in them, even as the spirit was
living in Yahshua. That way God would dwell in them
even as he dwelt in Yahshua. I would like to point out the
obvious and that is if Yahshua was God the only way it
would be possible for the Spirit to live in us to the same
degree and magnitude that the Spirit lived in Yahshua
would be if we too were God in the flesh! Yet, we are
promised here clearly that the Spirit is going to dwell in us
just as he was in Yahshua! Yahshua had to be a man or
else we'd have to be God in the flesh for this to even
remotely come true!

John 14: 23-26

"23 Yahshua answered him, saying, If a
man love me, he will keep my words:
and my Father will love him, and we
will come to him, and make our abode
with him.
 24 He that loves me not keeps not my
sayings: and the word which you hear is
not mine, but the Father's, who sent me.
25 These things I have spoken to you,
being present with you.
26 But the comforter, the holy spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things and bring
forth to your rememberence whatever I
have said to you."
Again, let me point out emphatically that Yahshua says the
comforter will be sent "by the Father," not by him! Look at
it this way, if Yahshua was God then why did he keep
saying over and over again that the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit would be sent "because I go to the Father?" If he
was indeed the Father, he wouldn't have to go anywhere to
give us the Holy Spirit, so making Yahshua God in the
flesh completely nullifies the purpose of Messiah's
departure, which was the crucifixion! Judas missed these
teachings entirely because he had already run out of the
room to "betray" Messiah. Even so, modern sons of
perdition miss the meaning of the teachings entirely!
We now have available to us the same connection with God
that Yahshua had, with all the love of the Father pouring
out to us and through us, but only if we have a true heart to
obey! Yahshua showed us the power that is available to
those who truly desire and therefore set out to obey the
Moral Law! The purpose of the crucifixion of Messiah was
so that he could "go to the Father," to "prepare a place for
us," and to "send us the Holy Spirit of power," the same
power he demonstrated to the world, which is Agape love!
Some have completely nullified the crucifixion of Messiah
and put in it's place a dead religion of worshipping a
Messiah who is supposedly God! As if all their saying so
would make it so!

The Father is GREATER than the Son!

John 14: 27-28
"27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I
give to you: not as the world gives, I
give to you."
28 You have heard how I said to you, I
go away, and come again to you, If you
loved me you would rejoice because I
said I go to the Father: for my Father is
greater than I."</FONT.
There we have it! Yahshua states clearly that he is not God
and that God is greater than he is! If he were actually God,
then his words would either be very big falsehoods, or he's
crazy!

Yahshua FOCUSES on MORAL

 OBEDIENCE
Yahshua Messiah, in the next 3 chapters, focuses entirely
on having an heart to obey the commandments as a way to
God's favor, as a precurser to obtaining "the love of the
Father," and as a source of truth! I will here only highlight
some of the verses. It behooves every person to read these
chapters in their entirety. I mean, really read them! Pray
that God will reveal to you their meaning because the
teachings here are crucial to understanding the purpose of
the crucifixion of Messiah! These chapters hold the main
thrust of the gospel of Messiah. It's no wonder he waited
until the betrayer had gone before teaching these things!

John 14:31
"But that the world may know that I love
the Father; and as the Father gave me
commandment, even so i do. Arise, let us
go hence."
John 15:2
"Every branch in me that bears no fruit
he takes away: and every branch in me
that bears fruit, he purifies it, so that it
may bring forth more fruit."
John 15:4
 "Abide in me, and I in you, because the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, it must
abide in the vine; no more can you bear
fruit, unless you abide in me."
John 15: 10
If you keep my commandments, you
shall abide in my love: even as I have
kept my Father's commandments, and
abide in His love."
John 15: 12-14
"12 This is my commandment, that you
love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his
friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do
whatsoever I command you.
The next verse I'm going to quote lays to
rest the entire doctrine that says the "blood
of Jesus hides their sins from God.
 John 15:22
"If I had not come and spoken to them,
they would have no sin: but now they
they have no cloak for their sins."
Notice it's not the believers who seek a "cloak" for their
sins but the unbelievers! No wonder the world will hate the
true believer! He takes away their cloak for their sin by
showing and demonstrating that it is, in fact, possible to
obey the commandments! As we can see, there is a pattern
developing in Yahshua's words. First he talks about
obeying, then he says the "Holy Spirit" will come to you
and dwell in you!

John 15:26
"But when the comforter is come, whom
I will send to you from the Father, even
the spirit of truth, which proceeds from
the Father, he shall testify of me:"
The Spirit was the purpose of the
crucifixion!
John 16:7
"Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is
expedient for you that I go away: for if I
 go not away, the comforter will not
come to you; but if I depart, I will send
him to you."
The word used by Yahshua here is "expedient," which
means "absolutely necessary." In other words the very
purpose of his death and ressurection was to be able to send
the Spirit to us! When you deny the Holy Spirit or change
the nature of the purpose of the crucifixion to something
else, you nullify the crucifixion! That is exactly what some
have attempted to do! The reason the spirit of truth is so
critical to us is because it is that same spirit that enables
you to overcome sin in the flesh and to walk even as
Yahshua walked on the earth! We see that in the next
verses!

John 16:8-14
"8 And when he is come, he will reprove
the world of sin, and of righteousness,
and of judgement:
9 Of sin, because they believe not on
me;
10 Of righteousness, because I go to my
Father and you see me no more;
11 Of judgement, because the prince of
this world is judged.
 12 I have yet many things to say to you,
but you cannot bear them now.
13 But when he, the spirit of truth, is
come, he will guide you into all truth:
for he shall not speak of himself: but
whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he
speak: and he will show you things to
come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall
receive of mine, and shall show it to
you."
Many people like to "grasp at straws here" and make an
issue of the fact that Yahshua keeps referring to the spirit of
truth as a "he" and therefore, in their minds, he seems to be
a separate person from God! Yahshua is not going to refer
to the spirit of God as an It! How else is he going to refer
to the holy spirit? The spirit is the spirit or breath of God
and is the "presence" of God! The spirit is not a third God,
separate yet equal and part of a trinity! The spirit is just
that, the Spirit of God! (God WITH US).
The most exciting thing about the passages just quoted is,
Yahshua says everything that belongs to him the spirit will
give to us! All the love, all the power to obey, all the power
to work God's works in the earth, it's all given to us because
we believe and obey! How truly exciting!
In conclusion, if you READ chapters 14 through 17 of the
Gospel of John you begin to understand that Yahshua
Messiah was sent by the Father to accomplish IN US the
same thing Messiah accomplished on the Earth! Messiah
did not come just to pay the penalty for our sins! If that
were so there would be NO NEED FOR A
RESURRECTION for the CRUCIFIXION would suffice.
Especially if Jesus was just a fleshly shell in which God
himself came and dwelled in! Once Jesus served his
purpose as the sacrificial lamb God merely would have
discarded Jesus' body. If you believe modern Christianity
the resurrection was COMPLETELY unnecessary!
In fact, the forgiveness of sins isn't even mentioned in
chapters 14 through 17. Instead the "remission of sins" is
focused upon. Yet, if one is in "remission" from the
disease of sin, it means that disease is no longer active in
your body! When Yahshua briefs the Apostles about the
purpose of his upcoming mission, the coming crucifixion
and the ressurection, he talks mainly about obedience to
Moral Law, the coming of the Spirit of truth to empower us
(to speak to us and to teach us). In other words, the main
purpose of the crucifixion was to "write the word of God
upon the hearts of the believers," so that they would have
"no need for any man to teach" them to know God,
because, through the spirit of God, living in the believer,
they all know Him! The purpose of the crucifixion was
clearly to bring us the power that Yahshua had to make us
sons of God through faith and obedience and bring us "unto
the Father," to bring us "unto the image of Yahshua," who
was (and is) in the image of the Father. Yahshua, then, was
a man who had obeyed the Father so well that he was
"tranformed" into the very image and likeness of God!
This astounding truth has been completely eradicated from
the gospel somehow! It's time for those who believe to
stand up and take back the truth! It's time for us who
believe to go forth in power and demonstrate the love of
God that is surely offered to those of us who obey! This is
how the children of God are going to be manifested in the
end times and also how the children of the devil (sons of
perdition) will be manisfested. Anyone who says they love
God and doesn't keep his commandments is a liar and the
truth is not in them!
Thus for now I end this study of Judas Iscariot and the
"spirit of error." He who has "ears to hear," let him hear!