Willows By The Water Courses and Their Leader: Yashai-Ya’oh 44

[1] And now, hear, Ya’oh-ghakab my servant, and Ya’oh-shar-al, in whom I have chosen.

[2] Thus says YA’OH, the one who made you, and who formed you in the womb; I will help you! Do not be afraid my servant Ya’oh-ghakab and Ya’oh-sharon, in whom I have chosen.

[3] For I will pour out water upon the one who is thirsty, and floods upon the dry. I will pour out my breath upon your seed, and my blessing upon your offspring.

[4] And they will spring up in between grass like willows by the courses of water.

[5] This one will say: Belonging to YA’OH am I. And that one will be called by the name Ya’oh-ghakab. And this one will write by his hand, Belonging to YA’OH, and by the name of Ya’oh-shar-al, will he be nicknamed.

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COMMENTARY OF YASHAI-YA’OH 44:1-5

[Verses 1-3] The 44th chapter of the book of the prophet Yashai-Ya’oh (Isaiah) is pushing the same theme that began in chapter 40 and continued in chapters 41, 42, and 43. The voice of one crying in the wilderness in Yashai-Ya’oh 40:3 is the voice of the man who comes on the scene when the curses punishing the nation are reaching their conclusion (Yashai-Ya’oh 40:1-2). The voice begins to cry out from the wilderness when the time arrives for the remnant of Ya’oh-shar-al to be taken out of captivity and be gathered to the same wilderness where the voice is located. They are thirsty and dry, ready to die, but this will not happen to the redeemed remnant. They must not be afraid, for the one who made them and who chose them is promising to help their seed and their offspring when the time of their redemption comes.

[Verse 4] How does something spring up in between grass if it was always there and always visible for everyone to see? Clearly this statement in verse 4 presupposes that the seed and the offspring of Ya’oh-shar-al will experience a time when their true identity will not be known and will not be acknowledged. This is in accord with what Mashah wrote in Thorah 5.32:26. Then, in the latter days, they will spring up from complete obscurity and total non-visibility and come back into the light of day once again. Therefore, anyone claiming they are “Jews” and have never lost their identity, and have always been here, and have preserved their “Judaism” wherever they are in the world for generations, is proving that they must descend from converts and that they are not the seed and the offspring that this prophecy is talking about. This is not meant to be an affront to converts. No offense is intended. It is simply stating the truth according to biblical prophecy.

Interesting thing about ghaa-rabah (‘willows’) trees is that they are often considered to be weeds. Once willow trees shoot up their roots spread widely and are very aggressive in seeking out moisture. Thus, the people who suddenly spring up as willows are evidently part of a widespread grassroots movement and that new movement will be seen as aggressive. Sound familiar? Their enemies will liken them to invasive weeds which can be problematic in residential areas where willow roots are notorious for clogging drainage systems and water supply piping. Hence the people will not always be perceived by the heathen general public in a positive light. They will need to separate themselves from the heathens and live set apart unto themselves somewhere else in the world.

Also interesting is the fact that stringent requirements of seed germination and seedling establishment limit the fast-growing black willow (salix nigra) to wet soils near water courses, just like the bible describes it. The black willow is used for a variety of wooden products and the tree, with its dense root system already mentioned in the preceding paragraph, is excellent for stabilizing eroding lands. Willows also prevent landslides on mountains which contain heavy moisture from streams and receives heavy precipitation from rainfall. That means even after the tree has died, its root system underground continues to provide a service that is beneficial to the land, holding the land together. The wilderness where the willows are being gathered as we speak is a wet and mountainous country and landslides are frequent. The willows bring with them a solution to the problem of landslides within their wilderness community situated high up in their mount Tsayon (Zion).

[Verse 5] The willow movement will reach a point where its people embrace and utter the true and correct name of their Maker, in their Maker’s source language, and not in a heathen language. Verse 5 states that the people will adopt new biblical names for themselves. It is obvious that these names that they will adopt will be phonetically correct. That is to say, the people will be speaking and pronouncing Ghabaray (Hebrew) words correctly, as per Tsapan-Ya’oh (Zephaniah) 3:9, and the most important word in the entire language is the divine name itself. This correct pronunciation of words cannot happen unless the phonetic rule of the source language from which these names come is restored by someone.

These names will not be butchered or mispronounced by the people adopting them or the prophecy is not fulfilled. Their new names will be pronounced correctly by the ones adopting them because these willows will have been instructed to know shapah barorah (‘the pure language’) by a prophet who is sent to them by YA’OH to teach them. No truth hidden by YA’OH is revealed unless He sends a prophet to reveal it (Ghamos [Amos] 3:7). Therefore, the prophecy of Tsapan-Ya’oh (Zephaniah) 3:9 regarding the restoration of the pure language is evidently fulfilled by a prophet of YA’OH who teaches the pure language to the people who have forgotten it. They will have reached the end of their curses when the voice begins to cry out to them from the wilderness and they will re-learn their ancient mother tongue from that same voice.

You cannot go by a heathen English translation, like the 1611 Queen James Virus, and claim that when someone says: “I am the LORD’S” in English that they have fulfilled this prophecy in Yashai-Ya’oh 44:5! That is an outright stupidity. Knowing how to pronounce the divine name correctly is a must. I repeat: knowing how to pronounce the divine name CORRECTLY is a must. The correct way to say, “Belonging to YA’OH am I,” or “I belong to YA’OH,” in the pure language is La-YA’OH anay.

Allow me to be the first to utter these words out loud since the emergence of the willows, and those of you who are willows, like me, may repeat after me:

The willows newly sprung up will also adopt other names: Ya’oh-ghakab, which is the correct way to pronounce “Jacob” in the source language, and Ya’oh-shar-al, which is the correct way to pronounce “Israel” in the source language.

There is a verb at the end of this verse 5 that will appear again in chapter 45. That verb is chanah (כנה) which means to surname, to nickname, to give an epithet or cognomen. In other words, the names will not belong to the willows from birth. The willows will adopt new names to replace the names they were given at birth. You need to keep this point in mind as we reach the very end of this 44th chapter where the name Chorash (Cyrus) is mentioned. I will explain once we get there.

[6] Thus says YA’OH, King of Ya’oh-shar-al, and his Redeemer, YA’OH tsaba’oth. I am the first and I am the last, and beside me there is no god.

[7] And who is there, like me, that will call and declare it, and will arrange it for me, since I appointed the ancient nation, and the things coming, and which will come, let them declare unto them.

[8] Don’t be afraid you all, and don’t worry. Isn’t it since then that I proclaimed you and I declared? And you are my witnesses. Is there a god beside me? Indeed, there is no rock, not any do I know.

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COMMENTARY OF YASHAI-YA’OH 44:6-8

[Verse 6] The statement made in this verse is necessary because the willows newly sprung up must put away all forms of the idolatry that has been the staple of their people during the many centuries that they were invisible and unrecognizable in the lands of their enemies. The majority of them, as a result of slavery, became Christians who worshiped the Christian trinity of three persons in one godhead, which is a blasphemy. All of that garbage must go. YA’OH and YA’OH alone is to be their Higher Power from now on. He is the first and the last, and beside Him there is no god.

[Verse 7] The demand to be recognized as the one and only Higher Power is not made ex cathedra which cannot be questioned. A reason why is given, and also a challenge is made. If the gods of the religions your ancestors worshiped are real, then let those gods tell you what things will happen to the gham gholam (‘ancient nation’), i.e. the people of Ya’oh-shar-al who became a nation in ancient times. Let us see if those gods can call it and get it right, and let us see if I what I am saying that will happen turns out to be wrong and it doesn’t happen. Have any of these gods told you that a day would come when your oppressed people would rise up and embrace Ya’oh-shar-al as their lost identity, learn to speak ancient Hebrew, and adopt ancient Hebrew names? YA’OH alone is the one who arranged all of this to happen, and it is happening exactly as He said it would.

[Verse 8] Why are the willows told to not be afraid and to not worry? Because the willow movement will come under attack by enemies attempting to undermine and uproot it by injecting fear and uncertainty into it, and this will cause concern and worry among the willows. YA’OH gently reminds them that He is the one who told them in old times that He would punish them with memory loss but that it would not last forever. Therefore, they are His witnesses. The children driven by wrath to the end of earth in slave ships, the children with no memory of their true name and of their history, the children who were called bywords but who are now calling themselves Ya’oh-shar-al, in opposition to conventional heathen wisdom, they are the witnesses of YA’OH. Their very existence and the vicissitudes of their past are proof that there is no Higher Power other than YA’OH. He is the only one who determined all of this to happen, and declared all of it to happen before it happened. There aint no rock except for Him. He don’t recognize ANY rock except for Hisself!

[9] The ones that fashion an image, all of them flat emptiness; and their desirable things, not will they profit. And their own witnesses are they, not will they see, and not will they know that they will be ashamed.

[10] Who is the one who formed a god, even a molten image? For nothing is it profitable.

[11] Behold, all of his friends will be ashamed; and the artisans, they are from men. Let them gather themselves together, all of them. Let them stand up. Let them be afraid. Let them be ashamed together.

[12] The artisan of iron tongs, he will work with coals, and with hammers will he fashion it; and he works it by his arms with his strength. Also he is hungry, and there is no strength. Not does he drink water, and he is exhausted.

[13] The artisan of tree wood, he stretched out the rule. He will mark it out by line. He will make it with tiles, and with the compass will he mark it out. And he will make it according to the pattern of a man, according to the beauty of man, to reside a house.

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COMMENTARY OF YASHAI-YA’OH 44:9-13

These verses, and the ones that follow them (verses 14-19), which spend so much time talking about an idol image, and how it is made, and the great amount of work and effort that an artisan puts into making it, and its uselessness, are not words that the willows need to hear. These words are for the wicked of Ya’oh-shar-al who do not become willows, but cling to their idolatry instead. The prophet Yashai-Ya’oh is condemning the religion that goes to such great lengths to make a magnificent idol statue of a man, so that it looks stupendously realistic like a man, and so that it is built to reside a house (meaning built to be entered and occupied by people) because that will be the false religion that the majority of his people, the grass, will be caught up in when the time comes for the willows to spring up in between the grass. That false religion is none other than Christianity.

[14] to hew for himself cedars, and he takes cypress, and oak, and he will secure for himself among the trees of the wooded hilltops. He planted an aran, that rain will increase.

[15] And it will be for a man to burn. And he will take from them and he will heat up; yes indeed, he will cause a flame to be kindled and he will bake bread. Yes indeed, he will make a god, and he will bow down. He made an image, and he will fall down for them.

[16] Half of it he burnt in fire; half of it the flesh will he eat. He will roast a roast, and he will be satisfied. Yes indeed, he will heat up, and say Ha’akh, I am warm, I see light!

[17] And the remnant of it for a god he made, for his image. He will cause to fall down to it, and he will bow down, and he will pray to it, and he will say: Deliver me, for my god are you.

[18] Not will they know, and not will they understand; for He has shut from seeing their eyes, from understanding their hearts.

[19] And not will he turn back to his heart, and no knowledge, and no intelligence, saying: Half of it have I burnt in fire. And yes indeed, I have baked upon the coals of it the bread. I will roast flesh, and eat; and the rest of it for an abomination will I make. For the stock of wood will I fall down!

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COMMENTARY OF YASHAI-YA’OH 44:14-19

Once again, a heck of a lot of information on how an idol is made, and how the idol worshiper goes about serving that idol, and how he convinces himself that what he is doing is right. All of this seems unnecessary to say, but the amount of detail is provided so that the willows may know what religion specifically is being criticized and polemicized against. The prophet writing these words, at the command of YA’OH in the 8th century BCE, cannot just blurt out the actual name of the religion that we are all familiar with today since that would have altered the course of history. He has to use subliminal talk. A subliminal message is a coded message meant to be interpreted by a person below the level of conscious perception. They have to think about it, and read into the message what is not stated explicitly and then determine the meaning of the message according to clues, and there are a lot of clues given in verses 9-19.

The religion that manufactures idols today, and I mean manufactures them better than anyone else in the world, and on a grandiose scale, is the religion that believes the Greek New Testament is the infallible word of God. Indeed, the largest idols in the world are the statues of Jesus Christ. Some are made of wood, others of metal, and others are made with concrete reinforced by iron or steel. The metal is heated by coals and then worked into the desired shapes by the strength of the artisan with tongs and with hammers (verse 12). All of these giant monuments have been made to resemble a man (verse 13), and to stand tall among trees on top of a wooded hilltop, or on a rocky outcrop in the middle of a dense forest so that they are overlooking a city (verse 14), and all of them have been designed to be entered inside like a house (verse 13). All of them have required a massive amount of exhausting work (verse 12) lasting years.

The designers and builders of these statues have made an abomination (verse 19) that people literally flock to from all over the world in order to see, to bow down to, and to pray to. And mind you, lest you forget what century this is, we are in the 21st century CE, not the 8th century BCE. Did Art Deco exist in the 8th century BCE when the prophet Yashai-Ya’oh was writing his book? No. So how was it possible for him to describe it centuries before it became a thing in the 1920s? The artisan of tree wood, he stretched out the rule. He will mark it out by line. He will make it with tiles, and with the compass will he mark it out. And he will make it according to the pattern of a man… (verse 13). The world’s most famous Christ statue, Rio’s Cristo Redentor is the largest Art Deco-style monument in the world. The statue, made of reinforced concrete, is clad in a mosaic of thousands of triangular soapstone tiles, and it sits on a compassed square stone pedestal base 26 feet (8 m) high, which itself is situated on a deck atop the mountain’s wooded summit. He will mark it out by line. Art Deco-style of design is characterized by symmetrical lines, geometric shapes, streamlined forms, and decadent detail work.

There are, of course, many other false religions in the world, and these include Judaism, but the religion being described here in verses 9-19 is none other than the religion that worships Jesus Christ. This is because, as I have said, Christianity with its many denominations is the religion that claims the majority of the people of Ya’oh-shar-al descent, the people of the infamous Middle Passage, the people who the willows come from. The longer these people stay among the heathens in their lands the deeper they descend into assimilation and the more they adopt the ways of the heathens they live among. The only one who can stop and reverse this is the one who caused it. The one who caused it is the one who declared it would happen before it happened (verse 7). His name is YA’OH, and the people who it has happened to are His witnesses (verse 8).

Verse 14 says the idol maker plants an aran which is a hapax that heathen English bibles render as an ash tree. The aran is actually a cultic religious site, like a grove, built among trees for the purpose of appeasing a deity so that he makes it rain. Ironically, the iconic statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro is struck and damaged by lightning on average between three and five times a year during rain storms. Someone has a sense of humor it would seem. However, the day is coming when all of these statutes of the idol god Jesus Christ will be utterly destroyed and not just damaged repeatedly by lightning strikes.

The Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE was too short of a duration for all of our people to lose their identity and completely adopt the religions, the languages, and the cultures of the heathens around them to the point where they could no longer remember their own heritage. The exile which accomplished a collective national amnesia, the one from which the willows emerge, was of a much greater duration, more violent, and far more destructive than any exile had been previously.

I am talking about the destruction of our commonwealth by the Romans in 70 CE which drove us out of the promised land and into Chosh (Africa), and which ultimately led to the transatlantic slave trade in the 16th century CE which brought the seed of the nation’s 12 tribes plus Loay beyond the rivers of Chosh (Tsapan-Ya’oh 3:10) to the land of pyramids across the sea in the New World (Thorah 5.28:68). YA’OH said we would worship gods of wood and stone in the land of our enemies (Thorah 5.28:64), which amounts to integration, assimilation, and a complete memory wipe. The religion that He had in mind specifically would be the religion that makes iconic statues of Jesus Christ. He declared it would happen before it happened so that when it happened we would know it was Him, and we would know that there is no Higher Power but Him.

[20] The one who feeds on ashes, a heart deceived has turned him aside, and not will he deliver his soul, and not will he say: Is it not falsehood in my right hand?

[21] Remember these, Ya’oh-ghakab and Ya’oh-shar-al, for my servant you are. I have formed you. A servant to me are you. Ya’oh-shar-al, not will you be forgotten by me.

[22] I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud your sins. Return unto me, for I have redeemed you.

[23] Sing heavens, for YA’OH has made! Shout, lower parts of earth! Break forth, mountains, into singing. Wooded heights, and every tree in it, for YA’OH has redeemed Ya’oh-ghakab, and in Ya’oh-shar-al has He glorified Himself.

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COMMENTARY OF YASHAI-YA’OH 44:20-23

[Verse 20] The one who worships Jesus Christ and the statues representing him are feeding on ashes. Their hearts have been deceived and they cannot see it. They cannot see that falsehood is in their right hand because YA’OH has shut their eyes.

[Verse 21] In this verse, YA’OH tells the willows to remember all of this. Remember how He is the one who has caused all of this history to happen to them, and how He has used it to form them to be His servant and His witnesses. He tells them they will not be forgotten by Him because He knows the history that will play out will be a long one, so long it will seem as if He has completely forgotten about them and stopped caring about them ages ago. He has not stopped caring.

[Verse 22] Now that the people have reached the end of their curses, their transgressions are pardoned and blotted out. The time has now come for the remnant of the people to be redeemed, and to be redeemed means EXODUS.

[Verse 23] The coming of their Exodus out of the lands of pyramids where He brought them by ships is cause for all of nature to sing and shout. He is bringing His redeemed to wooded heights in the wilderness, and that is where the main party will be. That is where YA’OH will glorify Himself in His people.

[24] Thus says YA’OH, your Redeemer, and He that formed you from the womb, I am YA’OH, the one who made all, the one who stretched forth heaven alone, the one who spread forth the earth by myself.

[25] The one who frustrates the signs of empty talkers, and the soothsayers will He drive insane, the one who turns the wise ones backwards, and their knowledge will He make foolishness.

[26] The one who confirms the word of His servant, and the counsel of His messengers will He fulfill. The one saying to Yaroshalam, You will return, and the settlements of Ya’ohdah they will come, and the wastes of it them will I raise up.

[27] The one saying to the ocean-deep: Be dry, and the water ways of you will I dry up.

[28] The one saying to Chorash: My shepherd, and all of my desire will he fulfill, even saying to Yaroshalam, it will be built, and the tabernacle, it will be founded.

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COMMENTARY OF YASHI-YA’OH 44:24-28

[Verse 24] If you do not know how to say His name correctly, this verse is meaningless to you; because in this verse the Maker of heaven and earth identifies Himself by name, and He wants you to know His name. He doesn’t want you to get His name almost right. He wants His name gotten 100% right, and in this information age there is no reason why you cannot get His name 100% right unless He has blinded you because of your heart. He has put a prophet here to proclaim His name.

[Verse 25] He is the one who makes the predictions and the forecasts of the liars, the diviners, the soothsayers, and the gods they all worship to fall to the ground. Even the wisdom of the wise and the rational minded ones is made to be foolishness because they do not fear Him. He makes them chase their own tail and waste their careers and their lives on lies.

[Verse 26] On the other hand, He confirms the word of His servant, and servant here is in the singular because a single man is in view. He also fulfills the counsel of His messengers, and messengers is in the plural here because the man of the preceding clause is their leader. That leader is the one repeating the word of YA’OH to Yaroshalam, “You will return,” meaning a city will come back to life and become a vibrant community again. The settlements of the city will come and be established, and the wasted places in the land of their settlements will be raised up.

[Verse 27] In order for this redemption to happen, and since the people in question have been brought by ships across the ocean to the land of pyramids in the New World, that ocean and all of its currents and water ways has to be figuratively dried up so the people can cross over. The so-called Red Sea was frozen during the first Exodus when the people escaped from Matsraym in the Old World, but in this final Exodus from Matsraym in the New World the people will mount up with wings as eagles and fly (Yashai-Ya’oh 40:31) over the ocean-deep so that they can get to the wilderness as if the ocean and all of its water way obstacles had been dried up before them.

[Verse 28] According to Christianity and Judaism, this verse is out of place and bears no relationship to the verses preceding it. They believe Cyrus of Persia (550/547-517 BCE) is being talked about 200 years before he was alive. Whereas modern critics of the bible believe this was written by an anonymous writer AFTER the time of Cyrus of Persia in the 6th century BCE and is only by a deception made to appear as if it is a prophecy that the prophet Yashai-Ya’oh wrote about him in the 8th century BCE. It is understandable how both of these conclusions could be reached, and why they were reached, but they are both wrong. The willows nickname themselves, but the man in verse 28, their leader, is nicknamed by YA’OH.

The willows do not spring back up into existence from obscurity, and then adopt new names to embrace their Maker and their long lost identity, their ancient language, and their ancient culture, only to vanish again afterwards. They come up to stay and to flourish because they are redeemed and because they are helped by YA’OH. That help will bring them across the ocean depths to a place where they will build a new city Yaroshalam, and build settlements upon old wastes. None of this happened in the time of Cyrus of Persia in the 6th century BCE. Cyrus of Persia did not say to Yaroshalam, “You will return.” His decree only called for the construction of a second temple, and he moonwalked his decree back when he allowed heathen counsellors to prevent the construction of the second temple all the days of Cyrus’ life (Ghazar’a [Ezra] 4:5). The Yaroshalam that was built in the 6th century BCE was not built by Cyrus of Persia. It was built after his death by a later king of Persia. That city was destroyed in the 1st century CE by the Romans, and it remains a desolate ruin without inhabitant unto this day as prophesied by Danay’al 9:26.

Therefore, verse 28 cannot be talking about Cyrus of Persia. If it is talking about him then it amounts to a false prediction because Cyrus of Persia did not do the things stated in this verse. Cyrus of Persia was not a shepherd of YA’OH. In his own words in his Cyrus Cylinder from 539 BC he says he was the shepherd of the pagan Babylonian god Mardouchebag (Marduk).

[13] He (Marduk) made the land of Gutium and all the Umman-manda (the Medes) bow in submission at his (Cyrus’) feet. And he (Cyrus) shepherded with justice and righteousness all the black-headed people, [14] over whom he (Marduk) had given him (Cyrus) victory. Marduk, the great lord, guardian of his people, looked with gladness upon his good deeds and upright heart.

Cyrus Cylinder, lines 13-14

Cyrus of Persia did not build a city Yaroshalam. He did not even authorize one to be built. Verse 28 is really talking about a man whose adopted name would be Chorash, not his birth name. We learn this from Yashai-Ya’oh 45:4 in the very next chapter where YA’OH states explicitly that He nicknamed this man Chorash before this man knew YA’OH. The name Chorash is not to be confused with the Persian name Kurush that became famous in Greek as Kuros. The name Chorash is a Ghabarayth (Hebrew) name combining a vocative with an imperative verb and it means: “Oh Furnace, smash!” This is a nickname of that man, not his birth name. Cyrus was the birth name of Cyrus of Persia, not his nickname. So he is not the man of this verse, nor of the following chapter.

There is no reason to doubt that Cyrus of Persia may have been shown this prophecy and that he came to believe it was talking about him, but the fire of his initial zeal to fulfill the prophecy was quickly put out by counsellors hired against us and Cyrus listened to their counsel and turned his back on his own decree (Ghazar’a [Ezra] 4:5). It is clear, if one listens to verse 25 carefully, that YA’OH wanted people to believe this verse and Yashai-Ya’oh 45:1 is about Cyrus of Persia because the confusion this has created has served His purpose. It has given sinners their rationale for rejecting the scriptures as valid, and it has blinded the so-called believers in the scriptures, i.e. Christians and Jews, with regards to who the true witnesses of YA’OH really are.

The fact of the matter is that Cyrus of Persia was a heathen worshiper of idols and not the servant of YA’OH. He was not the man sent to do all of the desire of YA’OH. He was not the leader of the willows. The man who leads the willows which have only recently sprung up in the 20th century is a man born within that same century, not in the 6th century BCE. He is the man who leads the Exodus across the ocean-deep, and he will build the city of YA’OH and the tabernacle of YA’OH in the wilderness from where he proclaims the true name of the one who nicknamed him Chorash.

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Everything I have said above about the willows and their leader is invalid unless they are being said by a genuine prophet raised up at “the time of the end”. Anyone claiming to be able to teach the Book of Yashai-Ya’oh but who is not a prophet of YA’OH proclaiming His correct name and calling the people of Ya’oh-shar-al to return to keep the whole covenant given by the hand of Mashah, every word of it, is misleading you.

His name is YA’OH
Always has been. Always will be.

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