Dedication Uncovered – Keith Johnson (Open Door Series – Part 14)

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Dedication Uncovered - Keith Johnson (Open Door Series - Part 14)

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Speaker: For over 2,000 years, Jewish scribes and Christian translators have worked together to conceal God’s name, so that you could not proclaim it. Now, God has united a Jew and a Gentile for the singular purpose to reveal His name to the nations. “Therefore, My people shall know My name. Therefore, on that day, I am the one who is speaking. Here I am.” That day has come, for God’s people to know His name.

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Keith: This is the third time that I’ve been invited to come and speak as a part of what Michael Rood’s ministry has been doing over this last year. But I see a progression, and the progression was, first, what are these guys going to talk about? What is this thing going to be? That was at the time of Shavuot. And then, of course, at Yom Teruah, you know, how far are we going to go? Well, this time, we’re going just a little bit further.

But before I get started, I have to give you some important background, and the background is this. Ten years ago, when I was in Israel, I was confronted with three things: God’s time, God’s Torah, God’s name. The thing that arrested me more than anything was God’s name. Now, I come from a background, I was a United Methodist Pastor, I got a chance to be a chaplain for the Minnesota Vikings, athletes around the world. I had a really wonderful ministry, did everything that God called me to do. But then, this radical thing happened, I had this encounter. Well, when I was with Nehemia and we began to talk about God’s name, and he was the first Jewish person who I had ever met who was not afraid to talk to me about the name, he did a really controversial thing. And sometimes, I think, over the last 10 years he regretted it at some point. Here’s what he did.

He did the very thing that he did with you today, and he’s been doing for the last two years. He opened up the treasure chest of information to me. Now, here’s what I did. I thought to myself initially, “I’m going to take this information and just keep it to myself and my close circle of influence.” Because, you know, when you deal with something like the name of God, I didn’t realize really how controversial it was, but I knew how powerful the information was.

So as I was dealing with this information, I kept it very, very close. I actually did a study on it, shared it with a few people, but left it at that. 2009, something happens. After Nehemia and I wrote the book, A Prayer to Our Father, the Hebrew Origins of the Lord’s Prayer, I should also tell you this - and Nehemia, I just going to let you know right now, you can’t stop me. I’m going to say everything I want to say today. [laughter]

When we wrote this book, you’ve got to understand something - you’ve got a Karaite Jew and a Methodist coming together on the Hebrew origins of the Prayer of Jesus, Yeshua, depending on what you call him. We had some book organization, some publishers say, “Hey, this is an amazing book, if we could just get some more famous people to have written it.” [laughter]

One of them said, “Now, if it had been like Mandela and Netanyahu, maybe we would publish the book. But who is Keith Johnson?” And they barely knew Nehemia Gordon. We didn’t care, because what we had decided was, the information was so important, we had to get it out, and we didn’t care if they wanted to accept it or not. And I’m going to tell you something. I’m so glad that we did.

Now, there’s a section in the book that we don’t talk a lot about, but you should know something about this book. This book has crossed the boundaries, Jew, Gentile, black, white, everything you can imagine. There’s a section of the book that is quite radical, and we had an argument about it. Can I tell you about the argument?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: I mean, look at your neighbor and say, “Tell us the truth.”

Audience: Tell us the truth.

Keith: Here was the argument. There’s a section where it says that Jesus teaches the prayer, or Yeshua, that says, “Yitkadesh Shimkha,” “Your name be sanctified,” and of course, we could have read that whole book except for that section, and maybe even gotten around that section without putting the information in that section about what the name is that he told them to sanctify. Do you know, we could have written the book…? There are people that write whole books about the Lord’s Prayer and talk about “Hallowed be Thy name” and never tell you what the name is?

So here was the big argument. The argument was this, I’m like, “Nehemia, I say, we tell the people the way we understand it.” Nehemia being politically correct, the way that he is, “Well, Keith. We don’t really want to cause any division. We don’t want to cause any controversy. Let’s just tell them it could be this, it could be that.” So he won that argument.

And then, God said this to me. “All right, Keith. Tell it to them just the way you learned it.” Now, he stands up here and he says, “You know, it’s a great book. It’s a magnificent masterpiece. The only thing is, I’m not the co-author.” What he doesn’t tell you is the first person I went to about the book was him. And guess what he said? “Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no. This, Keith, is controversy that will cause us literally to be banned. If we go out and teach people, especially in the Messianic movement, about the name of God, they’re not going to invite us to speak.”

Well, guess what? I didn’t really care. [applause] Nehemia being the publisher and the public relations guy that he is, said, “Keith, don’t you know that there have been times where there have been organizations, movements, fellowships that will invite me to their fellowship, then even if I don’t believe in Jesus, I am a Karaite, they say, ‘But when they found out that I say the name as ‘Yehovah’ rather than ‘Yahweh’, they cancelled my gig.”

So Nehemia said, “I’m not doing it.” And I said, “I am,” because I’ve read something kind of interesting. You know, there are times that if you just keep doing what God wants you to do, He’ll have other people catch up to you and even pass you. Can I give you guys a secret? I have been secretly hoping that one day, my Hebrew Jewish friend, scholar, Dead Sea Scrolls reader, Hebrew Tanakh understander, all that he knows, that he would be the one that would stand up and tell you, “Guess what? This is what His name is. This is how you say it. This is how you read it. And even though it’s controversial, I’m going to tell you.” [applause]

So can you understand, can you understand for me why I get so excited about traveling around with this Hebrew scholar, who happens to come from a tradition where they tell him, “You must not, you shall not, you cannot proclaim this name.”

Now, let me get really controversial. What has bothered me more than anything else is this movement that sometimes calls itself Messianic that will say, “It is more important for us to look like, smell like, be like, act like Jews than deal in the truth.” Can I say that again?

Audience: Yes. Say it again.

Keith: Can I say that again?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: There are people in the movement that say, “If we just look like, act like, smell like, think like, feel like, do exactly like the rabbis do, we’ll feel closer to the one we call Yeshua and Jesus.” And they don’t even understand, Yeshua, Jesus, you can call him what you want, but you’d better never say he was a traditionalist. You’d better never say, “He followed the rule of the rabbi.” He was as radical as it gets.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: And let me tell you something, and I’ve said it before. I haven’t even started the message yet. [laughter] He proclaimed his Father’s name.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: He walked in his Father’s name.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: He believed in his Father’s name. He talked about his Father’s name. And do you know what’s really going on right now, that Nehemia won’t tell you? We have finally gotten the attention of those that are saying, “You’re now reaching my people.” Can I say that again?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: There are some leaders that are saying, “Okay, all right. You know what? This was funny, at first.” They laughed at us - a Methodist writing about the name of God. Are you kidding me? They laughed, they joked. Then they got a little bit offensive. They got angry. And after they got angry, they started to conspire. Now, I love the story in the book of Nehemiah. You all know about that book?

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: In the book of Nehemiah, when he heard about the problem, what he decided to do was to go and rebuild the wall. The first thing that the enemy did was ridicule him. They laughed. Then they started making fun. Then they got angry. Then they conspired. And then they lost. Can I give you all some good news? The traditionalists are losing…

Audience: Amen.

Keith: …regarding the truth of God’s name. [applause] Why does this make me so excited? I have said it, and Nehemia has heard me say it. Nehemia, here you are, this man who’s got enough guts to stand against tradition, and you’ve got keys to information that nobody in the world is willing to talk about.

Audience: Right.

Keith: He just happened to hook up with a Methodist who’s crazy enough, “I don’t care if they kick me out. I’m waiting for it.” [laughter]

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: I would rather die in truth than live in tradition, can you hear me? [applause] So there are some people that are very, very frustrated with us. They are so frustrated with us, they’re saying, “Now, listen. You guys have gone too far. It was cute for a while, but now my people are starting to ask me questions, and I don’t have the answers.” Now, if they were just humble enough to call up 214… can I give his phone number? [laughter] Or go to his Facebook, or deal with him some way, they could have the same thing happen to them that happened to me. I was humble enough to say this, though I am cum laude from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Methodist pastor, educated, there was some information that he had that I didn’t have, and I was willing to say, “Nehemia, I will humble myself down and learn Aleph, Bet, Gimmel, Daled.” Hey, come on, somebody, “Hey, Vav. Teach me the consonants. Teach me the vowels. Teach me about the notes. Teach me everything I can, because this name has captivated me. I’m arrested by it. I can’t help it. It’s doing something deep in me. It’s like Jeremiah. It’s like a fire burning inside of me, I can’t hold it back anymore. Every time I try to suppress it, it causes me problems. I’ve got to let the world know that He has a name, and that it’s only because of tradition that you don’t know it.” Bow your heads.

Father, thank you for Your goodness and Your grace. Thank you that You have decided, even against that which is comfortable for many people, to reveal Your name to people who they think are not qualified. That just seems to be Your way. You pick a Karaite to be the one to say, “My son, here’s My name, tell the world.” You pick a Methodist to be willing to go out and say, “I’m going to go against tradition.” Here’s Your name. Father, I want to thank You so much for the very pattern of Yeshua who said, “Yitkadesh Shimkha,” “Your name be sanctified. Your name be a call to action.” Father, help us to be people that will not sit on our hands, sit on our seats, and sit back and say what we don’t think and what we do think. Help us to be a people that will begin to act in Your name. And in the end, we’re going to look for exploits in this earth, just the way You promised it. In Your Holy name, Yehovah, everyone said together, amen.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: So here’s what I’ve got to tell you all. Nehemia did something really, really radical. He mentioned it to you. He actually created a logo that caused a shock wave, a literal earthquake all the way across the seas. Here’s what he did. He took the sign of the no-smoking ban and he put it over the written name of God. We have it on the screen, I want you to look at it. Do you have any idea what happened? I want to say this. I was working with him, but it’s his fault. [laughter] He created this logo, and then acted like, “Well, you know, I don’t know where it came from.”

Do you know that there are people that just… I mean, it caused such a response and we thought, “Amen. You mean, somebody cares,” and I want you to keep it on the screen. What they don’t realize is this very thing that offends them is the way they’re living. And how does our Father feel when He sees His name, which has been witnessed in the oldest, most complete manuscripts, with a line through it that is purely tradition? You can now take it off, because I’m sure some folks got nervous about that.

We did it on purpose, because what we really wanted to show was another logo. We wanted to show a logo that I hope that A Rood Awakening and every other place will take. I want you to use it. I want you to reproduce it. There’s no trademark on it, but it is a message that I want you to hear. And before I show you this next logo, you should understand something. Up until the time where I had access to the information, I didn’t know anything about pronunciation. Once I got a chance to see the information for myself, I couldn’t help but share it with you. There’s one small little dot that sort of changes the game regarding the name of God. Nehemia mentioned it last time we were here, with Yom Teruah. This particular little dot, and before you show it, allows us to speak the name. It allows us to proclaim the name.

So what I did, about a month ago was, I called the most radical man that I knew that had guts, Michael Rood. I said, “Michael, I want to call you about something. I know this is pretty radical. I know you are already doing it anyway, but I think it’s time for us to stand against the ban of proclaiming God’s name.” And Michael said, “Absolutely. Let’s do it. Let’s combine it with Chanukkah. Let’s come together, let’s tell the world about it. Let’s let everybody know that this ban is unholy.”

Audience: Right.

Keith: “Let’s stand against the ban.” The second person I called was Nehemia Gordon. I said, “Nehemia, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to meet me on Christmas Sunday in Florida.” [laughter] I said, “Nehemia, I need you to meet me on Christmas Sunday in Florida,” and guess what he said? “What is it about?” “It’s about standing against the ban.”

Now, some of you are thinking, “Keith wait a minute. Don’t you understand? We’re celebrating Chanukkah. This ain’t got nothing to do with Christmas.” Well, you know, this is a year where both Christmas and Chanukkah are celebrated together. Now, can I give you all a hint, just before I get right down to it? There are some people who celebrate Chanukkah as if it were Christmas.

Audience: Yep, yeah.

Keith: Oh, you understand what I’m saying? They celebrate Chanukkah as if it were Christmas, but they’re self-righteous. “Well, it’s not Christmas for me. It’s Chanukkah, but I put a kippah on Santa Claus with some tzitzit.” [laughter]

Now, I’m going to tell you all right now, you know, I’m so glad my wife is listening. My wife, Andrea, is listening. You know, she’s praying right now, “Keith, don’t say it. Don’t do it. Don’t go that far.” But honey, I’ve got to say it.

Audience: Come on!

Keith: Two days ago, I walked in the lobby of a hotel. When I walked into the lobby of the hotel, there was a big, large, tall Christmas tree. It had all of the little things they put on Christmas trees, you know, and it had beautiful presents with blue ribbons, and boxes, and I mean, it was one that back in the day when I was a good, old-fashioned United Methodist pastor who was preaching every Sunday, you know, these kinds of weekends were big for me, because these kinds of weekends… you know, on a Sunday, can I get an amen, Arthur? When it’s a Sunday Christmas, I mean, you get a double blessing. Not only do you preach and get the regular tithes, sometimes, they bring you, you know, every once in a while, a little pastor present or something like that.

So it was a big deal for me 10 years ago to decide, once I learned the information, that I would have no more to do with that which is unholy to my Father.

Audience: Yeah. [applause]

Keith: So I walked into this lobby of a hotel in Fort Lauderdale, and when I walk in, I see this Christmas tree. Now, whatever you think about Christmas trees, say what you want about them, I have my opinions about them. But I looked across the lobby, and it looked like something that looked like a Charlie Brown tree. [laughter] Some of you all more unholy people watch Charlie Brown Christmas. Charlie Brown brought this raggedly little tree that had nothing on it, and I looked across and sure enough, there was this thing that looked like a Charlie Brown tree with presents under it. Got a little closer, and it was a menorah that had presents exactly wrapped just like the presents under the Christmas tree.

Now you all, can I tell you what bothered me about that? There are people that are saying, “You know what? Okay, we’re not going to do Christmas, because we know that that is something that is outside of the will and the way of the Father. What we’re going to do is take a little bit of Chanukkah - we’re going to do like Michael says, add a little bit of dreidels, and a little bit of this, and a little bit of that and say, ‘We’re self-righteous, look at us.’” Let me tell you something. If you want to get down to the nitty-gritty, which I’m going to do today, if you want to get down to the nitty-gritty, Chanukkah has nothing, it does not look like, it does not smell like, it does not act like that which we call Christmas.

Audience: Amen! [applause]

Keith: So what was I saying. Anyway, honey, just forgive me on that. So I’m talking to Nehemia, I said, “Okay. Nehemia, now listen. We need to do this. We’ve got to come up with something regarding the logo for the stand against the ban.” So we came up with something and we called our friend, Renee Curtis, and we said, “Renee, can you help us communicate what it is we’re doing regarding the proclamation of God’s name?” She took what Nehemia did and what we’re doing this weekend, and by the way, what we’re going to do, not only in the United States but around the world, going forward, until our Father comes back. What is the picture that we could send that would send the right message about standing against the ban on God’s name? This is what we came up with.

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: Now, for anybody that really has any insight, if you look at that, there are so many messages, I bet you all didn’t see one is black, and one is white. I bet you didn’t see that. [laughter] I bet you didn’t see that the very thing that caused it to be broken was the holam in the middle of the Hey, and the Vav. You can see how it’s over that holam and comes out. And it says, “Bam! This is how you say My name.” There are so many things about it you all, this picture is the picture by which we are going forward, and my friend, Nehemia, has finally agreed, “Okay, Keith. It’s controversial. I will go with you, and sometimes I’ll even take credit.” [laughter] That is what we’re doing.

Audience: Yeah. [applause]

Keith: And what I love, what I love about what Michael has done is, Michael has said, “You know what? You come in with everything you got.” I said, “Michael, can we put it on the table. Michael, can we lay it out? Can we put it out just the way we have?” And I’m going to tell you where we’re at. Here’s where we’re at, right now. We’ve done the Messianic thing regarding the name. We’ve got some that are saying, “Okay, it is,” and some that are saying, “It isn’t.” And some are saying, “We don’t care if it is, but it ain’t by our tradition, so we’re not going to let our people hear about it.” But here’s the good news about what we’re doing. The Father in Heaven has decided to make His name known again.

Audience: Amen. [applause] Oh, yeah.

Keith: So what we’ve decided to do is this. We’re going to gather people, people that are not afraid to stand against the ban. So we’ve created all sorts of things. You can go to the website, hishallowedname.com. We have a section right there where we call them ambassadors. The ambassadors of God’s name, at hishallowedname.com. You go there, you become an ambassador, it doesn’t cost or anything like that. It’s simply information, as Nehemia said earlier, information for the people, inspiration for the people, and revelation for the people, because let me tell you what’s happening. He’s opening up doors beyond the Messianic movement. He’s opening up doors beyond the United States. People in China are saying, “Tell us about His name.” People in India are saying, “Tell us about His name.” People, come on, somebody, in Africa are saying, “Tell us about His name.”

Audience: Tell us about His name.

Keith: People in Australia are saying, “Tell us about His name.”

Audience: Tell us about His name.

Keith: People in South America are saying, “Tell us about His name.”

Audience: Tell us about His name.

Keith: And I’m telling you something, this is prophetic.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: God is doing something prophetic. I believe a chapter has been changed. I don’t know when it happened. I have some things I’m going to share with you in a minute about the winds. I’m not going to make predictions. I’m not going to talk about what’s happening in the future, but I will tell you something about what’s happened in the past that makes me believe that God has done something different than He’s done in any other time in history. Do you know what we can do right now? We can push a button and information can travel around the globe.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: Do you know, there are people right now that do not have the ability to get on an airplane, or a bus, or a train, but they’ve got internet access, and they’re pushing a button and they’re listening right now today, here, and they’re across the ocean. Somebody say, that in the last days, information…

Audience: Information.

Keith: …will increase.

Audience: Will increase.

Keith: God is doing things right now, you all, you ought to feel the chills that I feel. I had a dream last night. I saw last night that God is doing something right now where He’s trying to get the attention of people, and I am humbled that I’ve had an opportunity to be in a relationship with someone that people from my background would say, “Stay away from the Jew. That Jew is going to end up messing with you and you’re going to find yourself just like him.” Boy oh boy, could it ever be? [laughter]

Do you know what’s actually happened? He’s become more like me! Have you seen his haircut? [laughter] Have you seen him get up and preach and say, “Come on, this side.” When I met Nehemia, he wouldn’t move from the spot. “Well, the situation is…” Now, he’s jumping, and he’s shouting. Don’t you all know that God has gotten the attention of a Jewish man, [applause] and he’s proclaiming the name of God around the world!

So that is simply a little bit of undergirding for what it is that I’m going to talk to you about, because I’m going to do something radical. And Michael said we could put it all on the table. Michael, I’m going to tell you something. I’m going to tell you ahead of time what I’m going to do. I’m looking for some people who really want to understand what Chanukkah is. And not only understand what it is, but act on the information. Can we do that?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: Here’s what we’re going to do. I want to show you the word, the Hebrew word for Chanukkah. And you guys, I want you to bear with me right now. I have got a tough teacher, man. I’ve got a teacher that is tough. When I tell you this guy’s tough, we spent years dealing with just the Masoretic notes. We spent years dealing with the holam, the Vav, the shvah. We spent years, this guy used to make me read other languages, and I used to say to Nehemia, “Nehemia, why do I have to learn Ugaritic? And why have I got to learn this? And why have I got to learn that?” And he’d say to me in his sort of, you know, scholarly way, “Well, Keith. I can’t explain to you now why you have to learn all of this, but in the end, it will eventually make a difference.” Look at your neighbor and say, “In the end.”

Audience: In the end.

Keith: It will make.

Audience: It will make.

Keith: A difference.

Audience: A difference.

Keith: Can I tell you guys something? We’re in the end. The word “Chanukkah,” you can spell it however you want to spell it, but there are three Hebrew letters that make up this particular word. This is the root. Most, if not all, many Hebrew words have three Hebrew letters as a root. This is a Chet, a Nun, and a Kaf in the final form. That is chanakh, chanukh, however you want to say it. He says that I have some grace to be able to try to explain to you, to make it as simple as possible. But this word is important for us to understand for what I’m really going to share with you today. That is the word. The second word here, I’m going to give you an example. Enoch walked with God, you all say, “Enoch…”

Audience: Enoch.

Keith: “…and he was not, for God took him.” Now, come to find out that the name Enoch comes from where? If I show you right here, it’s this, “Chanoch,” which has the same root as “Chanukkah”. So Enoch was Chanukkah. Can I get an amen?

Audience: Amen.

Keith: What was he doing? He was walking with God, and God said, “I’m enjoying this so much. We’re having such a great time. You know what? I’m just going to do what?”

Audience: Take you.

Keith: Take you. Boy, would it mean something like that? What if we live our life like Enoch? That God was so pleased with us and enjoyed our fellowship with Him so much, He said, “Man, we’re having such a good time. We’re closer to where I live than you. [laughter] Why don’t you just come on to My house?”

Can I tell you all something radical? I can’t wait for the day when He says, “It’s time for Me to take you,” because I’m tired of what’s going on down here. Some of us are so comfortable down here. We look at what’s happening, and even though it makes our Father unhappy, we have learned to adjust to it. Do you know sometimes when I see what I see in the church that I come from, it makes me sick? My stomach begins to churn. If I was able to throw up, I would throw up sometimes, because of the prayer I prayed and He answered when I said, “Father, teach me to love what You love, and teach me to hate what You hate.” And there are things happening in my tradition, I won’t put it on you all, from where I come from, where my Father looks at it in the Methodist tradition and He hates it.

I think there might be some things in the Messianic movement that He hates. I think there might be some things in the Catholic Church that He hates. I think there might be some things right here in Fort Lauderdale that He hates. And I hope there’s nothing in your life that He hates. Chanoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

Now, let me give you another example. If we go to Genesis 14:14, “When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he let out his trained men.” Say, “trained men”.

Audience: Trained men.

Keith: “Born in his house, 318 went in pursuit.” But if I open up my Hebrew Bible, and I will tell you a radical thing that’s gotten me in quite a bit of trouble. This is my Bible. This particular Bible, every once in a while, I’ll let Nehemia borrow it but it’s my Bible. Say, “my Bible”.

Audience: My Bible.

Keith: Say, “Keith’s Bible.”

Audience: Keith’s Bible.

Keith: What I love about this Bible is when I open it up, I get to read it without the agenda of English translators, because I will tell you something. There are translations that when I read them sometimes, I get sick. Because there’s an agenda oftentimes with translators that say, “If we share that information with them, they might connect the dots. We don’t want them to connect the dots. We want to give them just enough to keep them under our control.” Can I say that?

Audience: Yeah. Amen.

Keith: What I love about this Bible, this Bible is a picture of me 10 years ago, when I was with Michael, and I met Nehemia in the Old City of Jerusalem. We’d walk around the Old City of Jerusalem. And when we’d sit down to talk, I would open up my trusty, Nearly Inspired Version, [laughter] that’s the NIV, and Nehemia would open up his Bible. Now, they were about the same size, they looked about the same. He would open his Bible, I’d open my Bible. I’d be on one side, he’d be on the other side. And I give you a hint about Nehemia. 10 years ago, he was a bit bigger of a man. And when we were out walking in the Old City of Jerusalem, every time I’d ask a question he’d say, “Okay.” He’d sit down, open up his backpack, pull out his Bible, open it up, I’d open mine, and we’d find this really weird thing. I would say to him a verse, he would read the verse in English. His translation - I didn’t know it was a translation at the time - what he would say was not the same as what I was reading. After about three or four times, I decided to look over his shoulder. Come to find out, this man is reading the Bible in Hebrew.

Now, you all, I went to seminary. I know about studying the languages. You study the languages as a reference tool to impress the parishioners. [laughter] “The Greek word means, the Hebrew word means…” And that’s as far as you go. This guy is sitting down in perfect English, translating from Hebrew. I looked at him and I’m going to tell you something, you all – an envy, a jealousy rose up inside the Methodist, and I thought to myself, “He don’t even know the truth. What’s he doing, reading that word like that? [laughter] I know the truth more than him.” I mean, you all, it really got me. I don’t want to talk about it on camera, I won’t say what I say what I really said. But I cussed in my mind, “Oh, no. This ain’t going like this.”

So guess what I said? I said, “Nehemia, you’re going to teach me to read that Bible like you did.” He said, “No, I won’t.” [laughter] I said, “Yes, you will,” and I won that argument. After 10 years, I open up the Bible and I read it just the way Yeshua, Jesus, read it, because can I give you a hint? Jesus, Yeshua, for those that are listening that are Methodists that ain’t got it yet, those that think they know everything that say they’ve got the name, but ain’t got it yet, he read it in Hebrew!

Audience: Yeah. [applause]

Keith: So I’m reading this and I’m thinkin… with Nehemia. So what I did is, I decided to learn, eat it, understand it, let it hit me in the head. Make this be my Bible. So now, when I’m with Michael, and Michael’s one of the only people that’s ever acknowledged this, I was on Shabbat Night Live with Michael. Michael, I’m going to tell you why I appreciate you, friend. I’m on Shabbat Night Live with Michael, and I’ve gotten my Hebrew Bible. I’m not saying anything. He said, “What’s the verse?” And I go to the verse, I read the verse, and he stops the interview and he says, “You know what? Can I tell you something? This man has been on this road for 10 years. He’s doing the same thing he was doing 10 years ago. And ladies and gentlemen, he’s reading from the Hebrew Bible, just the way it says it.” Do you know, I have some people that get mad about that? “What are you doing, hanging around with that Jew? Can’t you get to the New Testament? Won’t you start spending some time in the New Testament? Why are you spending so much time?” Because can I tell you something? When Yeshua walked the earth, there was no New Testament. [laughter]

Audience: That’s true.

Keith: Can I even get more radical? All Paul had were the oracles of God, the Scripture that is inspired. So the radical thing I did is, I opened up Genesis 14:14 and found something really interesting, if we can put it up on the screen. And Genesis 14:14, if I go and look at my Hebrew Bible, it is the word “chanichay,” say, “chanihay”.

Audience: Chanihay.

Keith: That means that these people that Abraham actually had that were trained men, they were chanihay. So trained men and chanihay are the same thing. Now, if I go further and I look at Numbers 7:11 it says this, “Then the Lord, L-O-R-D, said to Moses…” let me stop right now. I know you all know it, because you probably know more things than the other folks that I’ve invited to listen to this. L-O-R-D is simply a translation. It is an attempt to take the title that the Jews taught the English Christians, here’s what we use. We use “Adonai”, and so then one of the traditions that the Christians thought was, “You know what? I think we’ll go with that tradition,” though they didn’t go with others. So the Jews said, “We use Adonai,” and the Christians said, “Well, let’s come up with something that’s like Adonai. Let’s use L-O-R-D. And what we’ll do is, we’ll capitalize it, just in case for those that really want to know, will understand that that’s the name of God. But hopefully, most people will just say, ‘Lord’, and move on.”

The thing that continues to bother me is that when we tell people that His name is behind L-O-R-D, they say, “Well, that’s not something we want to understand. That seems a little too Jewish.”

Now, let me tell you what’s really under their statement – anti-Semitism. That is really what’s under their statement, because what we don’t realize is there has been a systematic actual attempt to get our minds to think that if I say, “Jew”, you say, “bad”. If I say “Jew”, you say, “cursed”. If I say, “Jew”, you say, “law, under, bad, terrible”. And unfortunately, we’ve been so conditioned that we don’t understand that this is not of our Father.

So when I go back to the verse it says this. “Then the L-O-R-D said to Moses…” If I were to go further it says, “Let them present their offering one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar.” Here’s what it says in Hebrew, “Then Yehovah said unto Moshe, ‘Let them present their offering, one leader each day for the chanukkat hamizbayakh’”, the dedication of the altar.

Let me go to the next one. This one is where it really gets interesting, and can I tell you a secret? Nehemia’s not in here. I even shocked Nehemia on this one. When I told him about this one, he said, “Oh, that can’t be.” And then I did something radical. We opened up the sources, and come to find out, Nehemia said, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” [laughter] “For My mouth shall speak truth, and wickedness is an abomination to My lips.” Do you know what happens if I open up my Hebrew Bible? Come to find out that is the word “chech”. Say, “chech”.

Audience: Chech.

Keith: This word is actually based on the root word for “Chanukkah”. Come on, somebody. “For My Chanukkah, for My mouth,” the instrument from which speech comes forth, “shall speak truth, and wickedness is an abomination to My lips.” Now, because you guys think that’s probably not true, those at home, I want you to check Brown-Driver-Briggs, Gesenius, any of them that you want, they’ll let you know this. There’s one more verse I’ve got to show you, and this was the one that really excites me. Bear with me, Hosea 8:1, it says this. “Put the trumpet to your lips!” Can I do that?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: Because you know what this says, right? When you see “trumpet”, it says, “Put the shofar to your chech.” Say, “chech”.

Audience: Chech.

Keith: Can I do this?

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: I want to grab this real quick, you all. This is the shofar. This verse tells me that what I’m supposed to do is take the shofar and put it to my Chanukkah. Donald, did you get that?

Donald: Yes, I did.

Keith: It is the same root for the word mouth, palate. It is the same for the trained men. It is the same for the word “dedication”. I’m coming with this somewhere. There’s something that is to happen when we really understand the word for “Chanukkah”. We become people that want to take the shofar, put it to our mouth, and let the people hear the warning. Can I get an amen?

Audience: Amen.

Keith: Can I, right now for a moment, can I simply do what Hosea said?

Audience: Yeah.

Audience: Yes.

Keith: Can I allow the shofar to come to my chech? Say, “chech”.

Audience: Chech.

Keith: [blows shofar] Oh, my goodness. Why do I want to do that? I am actually looking for something really radical. I guess I should tell you one more thing. There’s another verse, Numbers 26:5. I’m actually looking for what I call “Hanochites”. Here’s the verse. It says this. “Ruben, Israel’s firstborn, the sons of Ruben, of Hanoch,” say, “Hanoch…”

Audience: Hanoch.

Keith: “…the family of the Hanochites.

Audience: Hanochites.

Keith: And if I go in my Hebrew Bible, guess what I find out? It is the same word for the word “training”, the word “mouth”, the word “dedication”. So here is the secret. Michael, I will tell you this. As we prepare to go to the world, we are looking for Hanochites.

Audience: Amen, bro.

Keith: People that are dedicated. People that are willing to be trained. And finally, I want to tell you something. You’ve got to be willing to stand up and fight. Now, touch your neighbor and say, “I’m not sure.”

Audience: I’m not sure.

Keith: Tell them, “I’m not sure.” Because come on, you guys, what I’m talking about ain’t easy here. Let me get real with you right now. I’ve come to Fort Lauderdale with a purpose and a mission.

Audience: Amen, brother.

Keith: I’m looking for Hanochites. I called Michael because I said, “You know what? He’s got guts.” And even if Michael doesn’t have the information, he’s got enough guts and enough humility to get it. So he invited us. I called Nehemia, “Nehemia, will you come?” He says, “Yeah, I’ve got the guts. I’ve got the humility.” “Arthur, will you come?” “Absolutely.” “Andrew, all the way from South Africa, will you come?” “Absolutely.” Can I tell you something, you all? This is a setup. If you’re listening online, my suggestion would be that right now, you shut off the computer, unless you’re willing to become a Hanochite. Now, I’m going to give a chance for you all to leave. I’m going to turn around, and let you leave. [laughter] All right, you’re still here? You ain’t going nowhere.

I’ve got to tell you something radical about Hanochites. Hanochites have taken the time to be trained. They’ve gotten the information. They understand the information. Hanochites are people that have actually done like what my friend Michael did a couple of days ago. Do you know what this man did? In preparation for this weekend, he went out into the Atlantic Ocean and mikva’ed himself. He said, “Let me get washed. Let me get cleansed. Let me just check my mind. Let me…” Come on, somebody. “Let me just check my heart. Let me see if there be anything in me before we do this radical and amazing thing.”

Audience: Hallelujah.

Keith: What if all of us were willing to be dedicated like that? But then, it comes to this. Are we willing to use the chech? You see, because I’m going to tell you something. It’s one thing for you to come here privately and talk about this. It’s another thing for you to tell the traditional mother and father that you’re from.

Audience: That’s right.

Keith: Come on, somebody, your employer. Can we get real? “Where are you going for Christmas?” “Well, I’ll be down in Florida.” “What are you doing down there?” “Oh, just hanging out on the beach, the water.” [laughter] “What are you doing for the holidays?” “Oh, I’m just traveling with my family.” You want me to tell you what you’ve really been set up to do? To learn to fight like a Hanochite.

Audience: All right. Hallelujah!

Keith: You are going to be equipped when you leave this place, after this message, after what you hear this weekend, to be able to use that which God has given you to be dedicated, to be trained, to use your mouth to stand up and speak, because I’m going to tell you what I really want to tell you today. I believe, based on certain things, that we are very close, if not almost in the times, of the days of Elijah.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: I’m sure that based on the biblical definition, we’re not there yet. But I have to tell you something. I believe we’re getting closer. And in getting closer to those days, there’s something we’re going to have to be willing to do. We’re going to have to be willing to be Hanochites, because when it goes down, oh, and it will go down…

Audience: That’s right.

Keith: There’s a lot of people that will not stand because they have not got the ability, the conviction, the dedication, the information, the inspiration, the revelation, to hold on till the end. And so what they’ll do is, they’ll be just like some of the people thousands of years ago, when they had the folks come in with Antiochus, Epiphanes IV, and he said, “We’re about to du-duh, change God’s time, duh-duh. Change God’s Torah, duh-duh. Change God’s name.” And they said, “Okay, as long as you don’t mess with me and mine, I’ll do whatever you say.” But I’m telling you right now, there is a spirit of the Hanochite that is ready to break forth, where they will stand up and say, “If it’s not God’s time, it ain’t time. If it’s not God’s Torah, I don’t want to read it. And if it’s not His name, I’m not afraid to proclaim it.” There has got to be a spirit of the Hanochites that rises up in this hour, because I’m going to tell you something. Change is coming.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: Oh, some of you are getting nervous. You’re like, “Oh, no. Wait a minute. Now, we didn’t want to get… Give us some historical stuff. Give us a little Methodist’s message.” Let me tell you something. I ain’t got it in me no more. [laughter] I’m not going to play that game anymore. [applause] I don’t have time for that anymore. Let me tell you something. I’ve found a few people, there’s a family right here in Florida, a well-known family, big name. I mean to say, if I say the name of this family, you’ll be like, “Wow.” Let me tell you about this family. This family sat down with their children and said, “You know, we have learned that that which we have been given through tradition is not right. And so guess what? We’re not going to keep doing what they’ve taught us to do. We’re going to find out about God’s time.”

Come on, somebody. We’re going to find out about God’s Torah. We’re going to find out about God’s name. And when we find out about it, we’re actually going to do something radical. We’re not just going to sit there and listen, and say, “Oh, isn’t that nice. Let me get back to my regular life.” We’re going to change. One of the children said, “Does this mean that on Christmas morning there will be no presents?” [laughter] And let me tell you what the man of the house said. “Now, you can expect presents every day, because we’re not going to do what they tell us to do, duh-duh. It’s Christmas time, say the right words, get the tree, do this, do that, play the game. We’re not going to do that anymore. We’re going to open up the Book and find out what God says.” I’m wondering, before I get to what I’m really trying to talk about, if there are any Hanochites in this room.

Audience: Yeah! [applause]

Keith: Now, I want to, I want you to be careful, because I believe that if we’re Hanochites, we’re going to have to take the pattern of Elijah. And the pattern of Elijah is radical. So can I open my Bible? And I tell you what I’ll do to be safe. I’m going to open up my Nearly Inspired Version, just to be safe, and I’m going to share with you a little bit about what I believe the days of Elijah will look like. Open your Bibles to 1 Kings, if you would.

The first thing we have to do if we’re going to take the days of Elijah seriously is, we’ve got to find out what the problem is. 1 Kings chapter 18 is what we’re going to actually be dealing with, but what I want to do, before we do that, I’ve got to give you just a little bit of background in this particular story, of Elijah. 1 Kings 16:31, and we’ll go ahead and put this up on the screen. Here’s what it says. “It came about as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, King of the Sidonians,” we’re talking about Ahab right now, the king, “and he went to serve Baal and worshipped him.” Somebody say, “uh-oh”.

Audience: Uh-oh.

Keith: When I read this, I’m only going to give you guys what I call the “casual approach” to this verse. When I read it, there were three things that caught my attention, “Ethbaal, the Sidonians, and they went to serve Baal.” Now, the reason they caught my attention is, I remember something as a result of reading the Bible, something about Solomon that I have to share with you, because Solomon, you know, was just a few generations before. Here’s what we find if you go back to that particular thing, we see this. And you guys, don’t be overwhelmed by the Hebrew. It says, “Daughter of Ehtbaal, king of the Sidonians.” Now, in Greek it won’t say Ethbaal, it’ll say, Ehtheibaal. That’s another issue. In English, they’ll say, “Eth, E-T-H, baal,” they don’t want you to catch this, “king of the Sidonians, and they went to serve him, ha Baal.” Okay, what we’re going to do.

1 Kings 5:6, let’s look at this. “Therefore, command that cedars from the Lebanon be cut for me.” I’ll tell you what’s happening. Solomon is about to build the most holy place in the universe. He’s about to build the Temple, and he says, “My servants will join your servants, and I will give you whatever wages you set for your servants, for you know…” and this is where it gets interesting. Come on, somebody, “…that there is no one among us who knows how to cut Christmas…” I’m sorry, [laughter] “…who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

Now, here’s what’s interesting. Now, here’s what’s interesting. Solomon looked around, and this is not unlike what happens in our world today. And you know what? If it happened in a vacuum, it would be okay, but here’s what Solomon did. He looked around and he said, “You know what? Those Sidonians can cut timber like nobody else. I want some of the Sidonians cutting my timber for the Temple.” Now, if that’s all that happened, we’d be okay. But somebody say what Keith always loves to tell you, two words. “Keep…”

Audience: Reading.

Keith: This side say, “keep”.

Audience: Keep.

Keith: This side say, “reading”.

Audience: Reading.

Keith: Somebody say, “keep”.

Audience: Keep.

Keith: This side say, “reading”.

Audience: Reading.

Keith: If I keep reading, there’s something I find in the 11th chapter of 1 Kings. “For Solomon followed Ashtoret, the goddess of the Sidonians.” It started out as a business deal. “Nobody cuts trees like y’all.” A few chapters later, he follows their God. Does this sound familiar to anybody else? I mean, what’s wrong with doing a little bit of what you all do? Nobody celebrates it like the Catholics. [laughter] Nobody knows how to party like the Protestants. [laughter] Let’s just take a little bit of what you do, and a few chapters later, pretty soon, that which you have entered in to dance with, pretty soon, you’re in the bed with. Solomon starts out with cutting some trees. A few chapters later, he’s doing something that displeases his Father. He grabs a hold of that which they believe, which is contrary to the relationship he has with God. And the next thing you know, he is dealing with the Sidonians and their God. You guys are sure quiet. Somebody say, “amen”.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: Let’s go to Jezebel’s daddy instead of Jezebel. Everybody wants to pick on Jezebel, I want to pick on Jezebel’s daddy. Jezebel’s daddy’s name was “Ethbaal,” that is the Aleph and the Tav plus Baal. He’s called the first and the last L-O-R-D. Jezebel’s daddy was called Ethbaal, “with Baal,” or if you were to do like some of us like to do, when we see the et, the Aleph and the Tav, we say, “That’s Jesus. That’s Yeshua. He is the Aleph and the Tav. He is the beginning and the end. He is the alpha and the omega.” Does that apply in this situation? Is the Aleph and the Tav… come on, somebody. He is the first and the last, Lord, is that what we’re talking about? This is why, don’t mess around with stuff that you really don’t understand. Don’t fall into the trap. They give us all this sexy stuff. “You know, you can do this with the language, and you can do this with the language.” Well, is it consistent? Can we do this with this name? We can’t, can we?

Woman: No.

Keith: Jezebel had a problem. Her daddy was called Ethbaal. The very people that she came from - guess what they used to do? They would cut the trees - because they were the best at it - and they would make the trees to be this wonderful symbol of a goddess. And then, what they’d taught the people to do also is they would have an altar, and they would plant one of the Ashtoret trees right next to the altar. Somebody say, “uh-oh”.

Audience: Uh-oh.

Keith: Let’s go to 1 Kings chapter 18. Now, I’m not going to give you all of the background. I’m going to ask you to do it for yourself. The first thing that Elijah did is he found the problem. What we’ve got to learn to do is to find the problem. As it pertains to the name of God, Nehemia and I have decided to first, find the problem. And as a result of finding the problem, you start understanding how you have to address it. Now, we’re going to use Elijah, because I believe we’re getting to those days. Elijah found the problem. He found the problem that Ahab had made Jezebel, whose daddy was Ethbaal, and she had decided to live by the very background and the tradition and the culture of what her father taught her. That’s why it is so important about us, as fathers, to be the ones in our homes, when we’re in our homes, to be the ones to teach our children.

Can I make a confession? Up until the time I went to Israel… man, I tell you what, I’ve got three boys, Taylor, Kyle, and Andrew, my wife, Andrea. What I used to do, up until 10 years ago, I just gave my boys to the church and told the Sunday school teachers, “You teach them. I don’t got time.” Guess what happened when I opened up this book? Come to find out that God actually put us in position as fathers in our homes, to teach our children as we walk down the road. Now, if I ain’t got no time to walk down the road, I can’t teach them anything. So what I decided to do was to take my interest, take my ministry, all that I had, and transfer it to my family. They got the first, the ministry got what was left over.

Now, you know what? I wish I’d have done that from the time they were born. But I continue to pray that based on what I have done in these last 10 years, that that will bring fruit in their lives, that they know that their father is committed to doing it the way it says it in the word, even if they don’t believe what I believe, even if they don’t understand what I understand. But my sons will at least tell you this. What he says, he does. What he teaches, he lives. And even if they don’t choose it, it won’t be because they didn’t see it. Can I get an amen?

Audience: Amen.

Keith: Chapter 17 it says that Elijah, the Tishbite from Tishbe in Gilead said to Ahab, “As the Lord, Yehovah the God of Israel lives…” verse 1, “…whom I say there will neither be dew nor rain in the next few years, except at my word.” If you read through 17, you find out that that’s exactly what happened. Then we get to chapter 18, which is actually the basis for our teaching today. “After a long time, in the third year, the word of Yehovah came to Elijah…” and I’m going to go ahead and just every once in a while, say His name the way we find it in the oldest, most complete Hebrew manuscripts in the world. Please bear with me. “The word of Yehovah came unto Elijah, ‘Go and present yourself to Ahab and I will send rain on the land.’ So Elijah went to present himself.” The story says that as he was preparing to do this, there were two people, Ahab and his servant. “And his servant was Obadiah, who happened to be one who feared Yehovah.” He actually hid two sets of Prophets, 150 in two different caves. “And they said as they went out walking,” eventually Obadiah saw Elijah in verse, let’s see here, okay it says here in verse 7. It says, “As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized him, bowed before him to the ground and said, ‘Is it really you, my Lord?’” little Adonai, not Yehovah, “‘Elijah?’ ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘Go tell your master that I am here.’” And I’m going to tell you something - I’ve got to stop right there.

What Elijah is telling Obadiah is, “You go tell the one who thinks he’s your master that I am here.” You know what, you guys? We need to learn that. I believe something, you all. When he gets here, there ain’t going to be no time for us to be politically correct. It’s not going be a matter of what your boss thinks, what your husband thinks. Come on, somebody, what your wife thinks, what your kids think. When the days of Elijah come, we’re going to have to do just like Obadiah. He’s going to say to them, “Go tell them, ‘I am here.’” I love the silence in here, this is going to fit right in with the story. [laughter]

“’What have I done wrong’ asked Obadiah, ‘that you are willing to hand your servant over to Ahab?’” And they go on having an argument saying, “Hey, what if the spirit of God would raise you up and move you away? Then I’m going to get killed.” So he says, “No, as surely as Yehovah lives, I will present myself to Ahab.”

And then, here comes the interesting part. Verse 16, “So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him that Ahab went to meet Elijah.” When he saw Elijah, he said what they sometimes say to my friend, Nehemia, “Is that you, you troubler of the movement?” [laughter]

What they said to Elijah was, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” Now, why has he got to be a troubler of Israel for bringing truth over tradition? Why is he a troubler for Israel for saying, “Thus sayeth Yehovah,” rather than, “Thus sayeth the King?” Why is he a troubler for Israel because they’re saying, “Look, you’re messing up our party.”

Audience: That’s right.

Keith: We’ve got a good gig. Ethbaal is our Lord, we’ve got the Sidonians cutting trees for us, we’ve got ability to bow down before things that really aren’t real, and you keep talking about Yehovah, who wants to hold us accountable? You are a troubler of Israel! Well, we need some troublers…

Audience: Yeah. Agreed.

Keith: …of the Messianic movement. We need some troublers of the Methodist Church. We need some troublers of the Catholic Church. We need some troublers of good old-fashioned Bahai people, and Mormons. Come on, somebody, and Buddhists, and everybody else, because short of you being troubled, you’re going to stay in your mess, and staying in your mess you will not have life.

Audience: That’s right.

[applause]

Keith: So it says this. He tells him, “Go and gather all of the prophets of Baal, all 450, and 400 prophets of Ashtoreth who eat at Jezebel’s table.” That is 850 false prophets. “Have them meet me on…” he might as well have said this, “Your mountain.” You think it’s your mountain? It really is God’s mountain and there we’re going to make it be decided whose mountain it is. “Meet me on Mount Carmel.” Man, I’m telling you something. When I read this story, Donald, I’m so glad. You know, Donald, I feel you right now. When I read this story, Donald, I get excited, because we need a spirit of Elijah to fall upon us in this hour. I’ll tell you what. Meet me wherever you want to meet me. Let’s have a good old-fashioned fight.

Audience: Yeah, yeah.

Keith: Are there any Hanochites?

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: You all, it’s going to take a fight. Now, I know this doesn’t… some of you are so… Michael, weren’t you a Marine? You were a Marine, weren’t you?

Michael: Of course.

Keith: And every once in a while, don’t you have to fight? Okay, you don’t have to say nothing, Michael. You hang on. [laughter] Michael, don’t you have to fight sometimes?

Michael: You’ve got to fight.

Keith: You’ve got to fight. It says this, and I love this. It says this. “So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. Elijah went before the people…” and this is why I like you guys being so quiet. “Elijah went before the people and said, ‘How long will you waver between two opinions?’”

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: “If Yehovah is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” And guess what the Bible says? “But the people were just like the group in Fort Lauderdale, they said…” [laughter] Can I open up this verse for a minute?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: Because I’m concerned that you guys are kind of like those people on the mountain. You ain’t saying nothing. And one of the reasons why I believe the people said nothing is because now you’re starting to get to that nerve. Let me show you the verse, what it says. When it sums it, it says, “And he said to them, ‘How long will you waver…” guess what word waver is? Somebody say, “pesach.

Audience: Pesach. I knew it.

Keith: “How long would you pesach between two opinions?” say se’ifim.

Audience: Se’ifim.

Keith: “’If Yehovah is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.’ But the people said nothing,” and I’m going to tell you why, because he convicted them for what they were doing. What they were doing was this. They were hopping, pesaching, leaping from one movement to the next. They were jumping from one limb to the other limb. Today, Yehovah’s God, but on Christmas… [laughter]

On Shabbat, Yehovah’s God. On Sunday…

Audience: That’s right.

Keith: Half the year, I’m with Yehovah, but when it’s time to get merry with the… How long will you pesach? How long will you leap back and forth? Come on, somebody, back and forth. And how long will you have this double mindedness? Now, what I love about this word, if I can share with you this word, go to Psalms 119:113 and it says this. “I hate those who are se’efim. But I love thy Torah.”

So it seems that there’s a connection that if we are in Torah, we ain’t hopping. We’re not leaping. We’ve found the word of God as they’ve said throughout history, “This is the word of God,” and when it’s convenient and when it’s not, we don’t pesach.

Audience: Right.

Keith: We don’t leap, because our family says, “leap”. We don’t leap, because my husband says, “leap”. Can I say it? We don’t leap, because my job says, “leap”.

Audience: That’s right.

Keith: When we grab a hold of the Creator of the universe, I wish I could preach this with you right now, but you all are so quiet, I’m going to have to move on. When we grab a hold of Him, as I have learned to grab a hold of Him, there is no more time for hopping. There’s no more time for dancing. There’s no more time for leaping. Once you get the real deal, there’s no reason for you to mess around with anybody or anything else.

[applause]

It says this, go back real quick. I’ve got to give you just a little bit. It says that after he asks this question, he says, “Then all of the people said…” after he said this, “go and get two bulls.” You can take that off the screen. “Go and get two bulls for us. Let them choose one for themselves and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood, but not set fire to it. Then…” here’s the part I love. “Then you call upon the name of your little g, g-o-d, and I will call upon the title, ‘Adonai’. [laughter] I will call upon Hashem.”

Audience: No.

Keith: “I will open my mouth and I will call, even against the traditions of those who think I shall not,” Elijah says, “I will call upon the name, Yehovah.”

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: Then he says this. “The God who answers by fire, He is God.” [applause] Oh, I wish you all could feel me when he says that. He says, “The God who answers…” Oh, I feel this. “The God who answers by fire, He is God.” I’m going to tell you all something. An answer is coming in our midst.

Audience: Yes, it is.

Keith: Fire is coming in our midst. And sure as Elijah had the contest and asked for the fire to fall, it’s coming again. And I’m going to show you this. I’m not going to take a whole lot of time, but I will take my time.

Audience: Yeah. [laughter]

Keith: Guess what the people said when he said this? “You mean to say, there’s going to be a contest? You mean to say there’s going to be a debate? You mean to say there’s going to be a good old-fashioned fight between the gods?” Then, all the people said, unlike what they said earlier, before they said, “but the people said nothing.” This time they said, “What you say is good.”

Audience: Amen.

Keith: Now, I’m going to ask a question. Do we really want that kind of demonstration…

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: …in our midst?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: Do we really want the one who answers by fire to be the one that we grab a hold of and hang onto?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: “Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, ‘Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.’ So they took the bull given them, and they prepared it.” I love this. Here’s what it says. “You call on the name of your god” give the screen on the bottom, “and I will call on the name, Yehovah. And the God who answers by fire, He is God. And all the people said,” what?

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: Is it still a good idea?

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: Now, I want to ask a question again - is it still a good idea?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: If Elijah were to show up today and I would move out of the way, and if Elijah stood before you and those that are listening all around the world, and Elijah said, “Okay, tell you what. Some of you that are listening, some of you that are sitting, some of you that will eventually listen, you have become of double mindedness. When it’s convenient, you say, ‘Yehovah is God.’ And when it’s not, you call upon another name. Are you willing to let Him demonstrate Himself in fire in 2011?”

Audience: Yes.

Keith: 2012?

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: And then, here’s where it gets funny. “At noon, after they were calling upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, ‘Oh, Baal. Answer us.’” I’m sure they started singing songs, and it says that they shouted, “Oh, Baal. Oh, lord. Oh, lord.” I mean, maybe they had songs, and singing, and it even says this, and this is really interesting, it says this. “They shouted, but for some reason, there was no response.” [laughter] Nobody answered. But when they passed the plate.

Audience: Uh-oh.

Keith: Then it says something really funny. “And they pesached, they danced around the altar they had made.” Did you guys get that? Go to the slide, because I don’t think you understand what’s going on here. I’m going to take my shirt off, I’m sweating through it. It says, “Then they took the ox which was given them, and they prepared it and they called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon. And they said, ‘Oh, Baal, answer us,’ but there was no voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the altar.” Why did they leap about the altar? Because it was a cultic dance. Oh, something about that seems familiar to me.

Audience: Oh, yeah.

Keith: “Maybe if we’ll just yell a little louder, maybe if we’ll sing a little better. Maybe if we’ll dance a little longer, Baal will answer us.” I’m going to let you all do the study on that, because I can sense this is probably getting a little too touchy. Let me go on and move on, this is probably getting a little bit too touchy, because it’s some more serious things that are coming here. Like Nehemia says, “I want you all to check that for yourself.” It’s the same word, pesach.

“At noon, Elijah began to taunt them…” and I’m going to tell you something right now. Nehemia, I know you and I do not agree about this. I’m moving to the level of taunting. [laughter] He says, “Elijah says, ‘Shout louder. Surely Baal is a god. Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy on the toilet, [laughter] or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping, and must be awakened,’ but they did this. They shouted louder, and slashed themselves with swords, and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed.” And then, maybe they thought, “If we just do a little more blood, and a little more dancing, and a little more singing, and a little more shouting, if we could build bigger churches, and if we can have bigger productions,” come on, somebody, “If we can have a bigger situation, maybe then, Baal, lord, will answer us. But we will not call upon the name of that Jewish God, because that Jewish God is always messing up our party. Baal, you’ve got to come down. Baal, you’ve got to help us. We’ve set up our time. We’ve set up our Torah. We’ve set up a name. We’ve got a whole festival for you. Baal, help us, or the Jew is going to win!” [applause] [laughter]

Audience: Go for it.

Keith: But there was no response. Nobody answered. Nobody paid attention, and I’m going to tell you all a secret. Because Baal ain’t real. [laughter] His celebrations, they’re not real. You see, what we’ve done is, we’ve fallen into this terrible little trap, because they’ve got the biggest buildings, hello somebody, and the biggest choir, and they’ve got the nicest robes, and they drive the nicest cars, and some of them have airplanes, and some of them have… You understand, groups of people, and Pope mobiles, and everything else, because they’ve got all of that, we say it’s got to be God. I’m here to tell you right now, until they come to the place where they’re willing to say, “There is one God,” and call Him by His name, they’re playing with Baal.

Audience: Amen. [applause]

Keith: Boy, I tell you what, man. I mean, you know what they did, you guys? I’m going to tell you, you know what Michael Rood did this time? I’m going to get in so much trouble. I wish he hadn’t done this, because I got this word about two weeks ago. Then I got a message from Eric saying, “This year, for Chanukkah, here’s the rooming assignments.” And I’m looking, “Oh, boy. I hope they don’t do it.” Usually, what Michael does is give us our own rooms, so that if I say something really radical, I can lock the door. [laughter] This time, he made Nehemia my roommate. I know what’s going to happen when I get back to the room. “I can’t believe you said that. I can’t believe you called that.” Nehemia, you’re going to have to move out of the room, because I’ve decided, I’m going to stay in truth and not deal with tradition. Can I get an amen?

Audience: Amen. [applause]

Keith: “Then Elijah… ” After there was no response, nobody answered, nobody paid attention, “Then Elijah said to all the people…” and I’m saying it right now to the internet audience. I’m saying it right now to you. I’m saying it, if they should choose to make a third volume from this time, if it’s in the future, I’m saying to the people the words that Elijah said in the Bible. He said this. “Come here to me. Come here, right now. They came to him and he repaired… ” And you guys, if you don’t get anything else this weekend from me, get this. This is why I called Michael. “He repaired the altar of Yehovah which was in ruins.”

You all, I’ve got to tell you something. His altar has been in ruins. And if you understood the significance of the fact that Elijah, once he found the problem, decided to fix it. He found the problem, then he decided to fix it, so he went to Mount Carmel and he said, “Look. You all get to go first. I might give you 100 years. I might give you 1,000 years. I might give you up to 2012, but no matter how hard you try, no matter how loud you shout, no matter how you dance and how big your places are, if you are calling upon Baal, he will not answer.”

Audience: Right.

Keith: He repaired the altar. Why is this important, you all? He fixed it. I want to show you something. “He said to all the people, ‘Come near to me,’ so all the people came, and he repaired the altar of Yehovah which had been torn down.” I’ve got to take a moment to share this with you. I want to go to Abraham, Genesis 12:8, keep the slides up. Genesis 12:8, “And there, Abraham built an altar to Yehovah and called upon the name, Yehovah.” Stop. Abraham did something radical. He built an altar, and the next thing he did was call upon the name. There seems to be a connection with Abraham between building an altar and calling upon the name. Let’s go to the next slide. Isaac, “So he built an altar there,” say, “altar…”

Audience: Altar.

Keith: “…and he called upon the name, Yehovah.” There seems to be a connection. He built an altar, and he called upon the name. Next slide, Exodus 17:15, “And Moses built an altar and called the altar its name, Yehovah, my sign,” “Yehovah nissi, my banner, my sign.” There seems to be a connection you all, and I have to slow down here. There seems to be a connection between building an altar and calling upon the name. Do you think it was a coincidence that when Antiochus Epiphanes IV came into Israel to take over the people, he said, “Okay, listen. No more time,” because if they deal with time, they’re going to understand who made time, and I need to give them new time. “No more Torah,” because if they go by Torah, they’re going to end up dealing with this “God, I’ve got a different Torah.” But then he said, “No more speaking the name,” and so how he put that into effect is, he said, “I’m going to build an altar. I’m going to take the pig, sacrifice the pig on the altar, and you will end up calling upon my name. Or if you don’t call upon my name, maybe you’ll call upon the name of my Baal.” So there is this issue between the building of an altar and calling upon the name.

Now, why do I know this for sure? Let me show you this last verse, Nehemia talked about it. Go to Exodus 20:24, there are hats back there with this verse. I love this verse. This is definitely one of my favorite verses. “Make for me an altar,” say, “altar.”

Audience: Altar.

Keith: Come on, somebody. Say, “altar”.

Audience: Altar.

Keith: “Make for Me an altar of earth and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices of wellbeing, your sheep, and your oxen,” and usually, that is what we think about altars. But the next part of the verse is the key for back then and for now. It says, “And then, in every place where I cause My name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you.” Where? When you build an altar, the altar is so the name can be proclaimed. That is why Antiochus Epiphanes IV said, “Let’s have altars in every single place we can have altars, so that the people will not call upon the name of the Creator of the universe, but they’ll call upon the name of Baal,” the false god. This is why we’re standing against the ban.

And it says this, “After all of their singing, and all of their dancing, and all of their shouting, and everything they did…” the radical thing happens. Elijah tells the people this. “He repaired the altar,” it says, “with the stones he built an altar in the name, Yehovah, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed. He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces, laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, ‘Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood.’” Then he says this. “Do it again.” Then he says this. “Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it a third time. Can I just be a Methodist for a minute? [laughter] Nehemia, shut your ears.

First time, Shavuot. Put a little water on it. Second time, Yom Teruah. Put some more water on it. Third time, Chanukkah. Now, we’re ready for the fire. Now, we’re ready for Him to answer. Why? Plenty of washing. Plenty of cleansing. Plenty of information, inspiration, and revelation. That is why I’m calling for the ambassadors, the Hanochites, to come with us as we go around the world to proclaim this, because I believe that we are in the time, if not in the exact time, close to the time, of Elijah where he says this. “You know what? Do it three times, if you have to.” Then it says this, “The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.” And then, if we can go to the next verse, it says this. I’m sorry, let me say it here. It says, “At the time…” say, “time”.

Audience: Time.

Keith: Let me say it again. “At the time,” say, “time”.

Audience: Time.

Keith: You know, this is why I struggle right now with where I come from. Do you know, in my tradition, they’ve got their own clock? They’ve got their own calendar. They’ve got their own time. They tell God, “Meet us on this time, and that time.” They don’t want to know God’s time. But you know what Elijah did? He waited until the time, say, “time…”

Audience: Time.

Keith: …which was God’s time, according to God’s calendar, to do what God was going to do. It says, “at the time,” say, “time…”

Audience: Time.

Keith: “…of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and he prayed this prayer. ‘Oh, Yehovah. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Yisrael. Let it be known today that you are God in…’” Can I raise my voice like that? Is that okay?

Audience: Yes.

Keith: Because I think Elijah yelled, I really do. I think Elijah was dealing with 850 false prophets of Baal, and Ashtoreth. It probably stunk in his nose. It probably made his stomach turn, and he said nice and loud, “Oh, Yehovah. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today…” Say, “today”.

Audience: Today.

Keith: You all, we need Him now.

Audience: Yes.

Keith: I don’t need Him tomorrow.

Audience: Yes, that’s right.

Keith: I might not be here tomorrow. I can’t do nothing about yesterday. Somebody, listen to me. Somebody hear me, because let me tell you something about His name. His name is “Ehiyeh asher ehiyeh,” which means, “I was…” when you were messed up, “I am with you now, and I will continue to be with you.” When we call upon His name we’re saying, “You were, you are, and you will continue to be.”

Audience: Amen.

Keith: But you all have got to hear something. We need Him now.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: Is there anybody here that says, “You know what, Keith? Let me tell you something. I barely made it here. I need Him now.”

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: Is there anybody that would say, “You know what? Yesterday ain’t got nothing to do with me, and I don’t know anything about tomorrow.” There might be people listening online that are saying, “You know what? I need You now.”

It says this. Oh, I’ve got to stop, I’m sorry. I’ve got to stop.

Audience: No, you don’t.

Keith: You know, I’ve got to stop for a minute, because you know what? I want to finish the story. Michael, I’m going to finish the story. I’ve got time to finish the story. I’m going to finish the story. I’ve got to stop, because I am convinced there are some people that are saying, “You know what? I need Him now.” I think there are people in this room, I am convinced there are people listening. I am convinced there are people that will listen, because Michael’s got enough guts to invite radical people that are going to open up the word of God, and I’m going to get to this tomorrow. And I’m going to tell you something, you’re not going to leave tomorrow till I really tell you what I think. I’m just warming up.

But I’m going to tell you something. There are people in this room that are listening to us via internet and everywhere else that are saying, “You know what? I need Him now.” Do you all know what’s happening in the economy? Do you know what’s happening in people’s lives? Do you know there are people that are unemployed? Do you know there are people that are messed up, jacked up, turned around, beat up, taken up, taken down. They’ve had enough, and they’re saying, “Okay, Father. You are God. I need You now.” Here’s the good news. You can call upon Him, and if you don’t watch out, He’ll answer you. Here’s the tough news. I said that to Him 10 years ago. He answered me, and He changed my life.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: I wish I could tell you that when you deal with our Father, that it’s always easy. I wish I could tell you the bank account was always filled, the car always had gas, you always had everything you needed. I wish I could tell you that it was smooth sailing, like they say in the Prosperity Gospel. “If You just give me this money, I’ll turn it into that for you.” And if people keep waiting for this… let me tell you why that don’t work. The reason it don’t work is it’s not Scriptural. You all, it isn’t always easy, walking with our Father. But I’d rather walk with no one else.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: We’ve got to find a group of people that are saying, “Father…” can we ask this question? I want you to bow your heads and I’m going to get back to this story. But just right now, silently ask this question. Do you need Him? Just ask the question, do you need Him? And if you do, I want you to simply say what Elijah says. He says, “Answer me, oh Yehovah.” Silently, in your heart, say to Him, “You know where I’ve been. You know where I am. You know where I’m going. Answer me, Yehovah. Hallelujah.”

And then it says in verse 37, He says, “Answer me, o Yehovah. Answer me, so that these people will know that You, Yehovah, are God and that You are turning their hearts back again.” The reason that I believe that we’re in that time is something’s happening, a phenomenon is taking place around the world. People are awakening to things that 5 years ago and 10 years ago, those that have been in this movement for a long time, they can’t even figure it out. What in the heck are the Chinese doing saying, “Hey, tell you what, can we learn about Yehovah?” What are those in India saying, “Hey, hey, hey. Can you teach us about this name?” And those around the world? Something’s happening, you all. He’s turning hearts back to Him.

Then it says this, you all. Let me show you something. It says, “Then the fire of Yehovah fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.”

[applause]

Keith: When He does a thing, He goes all the way. Now, I’ve got a picture, you guys. I have been able to get a picture of exactly what it looked like in the exact spot. Nehemia ain’t even got what I got to show you all, right now. Michael doesn’t even know what I’m going to show you. I actually have a picture, a legitimate picture. Do you know that I have found a picture of fire falling upon Mount Carmel? Here it is.

Now, listen to me, you all. You all have got to listen to me now, listen to me now. This is where the Holy Spirit comes in here. This is why I’m showing you this picture. One year ago, at the time of Chanukkah, fire fell upon Mount Carmel. And everybody saw it. I believe that in this hour, last year, when that fire fell upon Mount Carmel, it was a witness.

Now, let me get really radical. Do you know why I believe the fire fell upon Mount Carmel? God’s getting tired. Do you know, if you go to Mount Carmel what you’ll find right now? You’ll find the headquarters of the Bahai faith. They claim Mount Carmel as their religious spot. They don’t care about what happened in the past. They just came along and said, “Well, you know what? Our prophet, he had a situation around Mount Carmel,” so they’ve built something that some people want to call the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” Now, this is from the Department of Tourism. They say that there are more Israelis now that visit the Gardens of Mount Carmel than visit any other place in Israel. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but for some reason, they’re looking at how the Bahai faith has made these beautiful gardens, and these beautiful buildings. And oh, I mean, my gosh, they’re just a wonderful people, because what the Bahais say is, “Look. You can be a Karaite, be a Karaite. You can be a Methodist, be a Methodist. You can be a Baptist, we don’t care. You can be a Mormon. You can be whatever you want to be, everybody just come to Mount Carmel to the headquarters…” You’re all looking at me, real strange, “…at the headquarters of the Bahai faith.” They’ve gone to Mount Carmel, which represented the prophet standing before the people saying, “You call upon Baal. You call upon Buddha. You call upon Confucius. You call upon…” you understand? “And I will call upon Yehovah, and the one who answers by fire, He is God.”

Last year, at the time of Chanukkah, fire fell on Mount Carmel. And you know what some people would say? “Let’s not get so radical. I mean, what’s the big deal? So what if they kind of covered over what it really meant at Mount Carmel?” You know what’s really funny? Christianity’s done the same thing. “Here’s what really happened in the cave in Bethlehem, but we’re going to cover it over, make it nice, put trees and drink the juice, and whatever. Who cares about what really happened? We’ve taken over that which was pagan, and now it’s ours.”

The Bahai says, “You all did it, what are you getting mad at us for?” And let me tell you something. You’ve always got to go to the root. You know what the root of Mount Carmel is? The contest between that which is not God, and the one who is.

So here we are today. Fire has fallen upon Mount Carmel one year ago, this week. And yet, as a people, we say nothing. It’s time to make a decision. It is decision time like never before. People have to decide if Yehovah is God or not. If He is, there’s a response that I’m going to teach you, but if He’s not, you keep on calling upon Baal. You just keep on singing. You keep on dancing. You keep on building bigger buildings, having greater pageants. Do everything you want to do, cut yourself and let the blood flow, but I’m going to tell you something. In the end, he will not answer, because there is only one God, and He has revealed Himself through His name.

So here’s the response, and I’m looking for this. You all, I’m looking for this, because when I got a chance to really understand who He is, I only had one response. Here’s what it says in English. “The Lord, He is God!” Now, here’s what’s dangerous about this, and I’m sure, Michael, here’s where it gets touchy.

When I read that as a Methodist, and I say, “The Lord, He is God,” and they cover and keep me away from the name, I can put anybody or anything in that verse. But if I understand it the way it was written, in its original language, history, and context, and can I go further? If I understand it the way that Paul and every other writer, and Yeshua himself understood it, there is only one response when the fire falls on Mount Carmel. And you all, you’d better learn it now, because in the end you’re going to have to say it anyway. Can I teach it to you?

Audience: Yeah.

Keith: Can I teach you these words? Because if I teach you these words, you’re accountable for them. Let me tell you why Nehemia and I can walk together. Oh, there are some things eventually, he’s going to understand. [laughter] He’ll be all right. Leave Nehemia alone, he’ll be all right.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: But let me tell you what Nehemia understands that many of you don’t. There’s one God.

Audience: Amen, that’s right.

Keith: And He is serious. Now, everything else, we can work on that. But Nehemia and I, we’ve got common ground on this book. We’ve got common ground on this book, and some in the movement would say, “You know what? There’s no way. This is not good, this is bad.” In fact, let me tell you something. He didn’t say it, but I’m going to tell you, maybe tomorrow we’ll deal with it a little bit, if you guys are still here, if we don’t run you guys out of here. You know what the truth of the matter is? What people are really angry about is they have a theological agenda that’s not fitting into the Hebrew Scriptures.

Audience: That’s right. [applause]

Keith: And so they’re angry. They’re mad. They’re upset. Their agenda is not fitting. I’m saying if it does not fit, you must acquit. If it don’t fit, leave it alone. Find out what fits and go with what’s right. Live in the truth, and let the tradition be what it is. But they’re saying, “No, don’t take it away from us. We like to pesach between two opinions. That’s how we do our shtik, we take a little bit of Jewish, we take a little bit of Christianity, we take a little bit of Yeshua, we take a little bit of Adonai, call him ‘Hashem’, and it fits for us.” But I’m telling them right now, eventually, you’re going to have to make a decision - if Yehovah is God, follow Him. But if He’s not, keep on doing what you’re doing - singing, dancing, living, having all the things that you do.

But I want to teach you guys this. I can’t believe it, my wife is probably thinking, “Keith, you sweat your shirt out.” [laughter] Are you kidding me? Is that on television like that? Nobody told me. Arthur, come on, man. “Take your shirt off, Pastor Keith.” You could have given me your jacket, something like that. I can’t believe this. It’s like a fire burning in me. [applause] [laughter] I can’t contain it. His name is causing change in me. It’s causing me to be molded, shaped. I’ll look like a fool for Him. I’ll sweat my shirt out for Him. I would rather do that than live in the comfort of tradition. [applause]

Let me close with this. In the Hebrew language, this is what those people that were double minded at one point, but when the fire fell, they changed. Here is what they said. They said this. “Yehovah, hu haElohim.” Oh, they said, “Yehovah, hu haElohim.” You all don’t understand. Come on now, they said, “Yehovah, hu haElohim.

Audience: Yehovah, hu haElohim.

Keith: Now, somebody’s going to read the verse and understand what they really did. Somebody’s going to read the verse and understand what they really did. It says, and eventually everybody will see it, “When all the people saw it,” they didn’t sit in their seats of comfort and say, “Let’s figure this out, and see whether that pronunciation matches with my revelation.” They didn’t say, “Well, you know, I still need a little bit of this to mix with a little bit of that.” When they saw the fire, they only had one response. Flat on their faces, and they said, “Yehovah, hu haElohim.” “Then Elijah said to them, ‘See the prophets of Baal. Do not let one of them escape,’” and here’s where it gets controversial, “so they seized them and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slew them there.” The first thing Elijah did was find the problem. The second thing he did was, he brought a solution. He fixed it. The third thing he did is, he had a good old-fashioned fight.

Now, let me tell you where I am today. The gloves are off. I’m ready to fight now. I’ve gone through a 10-year process, learning this information, and I have challenged, I have asked, I have begged, I have offered. And you know what? They cannot come and show me anything more than what I’ve seen, up to this point. But they want to fight me because they don’t want you to have the information. So guess what? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. That’s why I called Michael. I said, “Michael, what would you think if we called people to stand against the ban, the ban of tradition over truth?” Yehovah, hu haElohim. You all, here it is, in closing. Question, where are the Hanochites?

Audience: Right here! [applause] Here.

Keith: Last picture I’m going to show you. That, my friends, is last year in Israel at the time of Chanukkah. You see, I don’t believe that Chanukkah really has anything to do with trying to synchronize it with Christmas. I don’t think Chanukkah needs to try to find out, “Nobody does Christmas like the Christians, and so let’s try to be more like the…” I don’t think that’s what at all is happening. I think that what we need is some witnesses of people, whether they used to be, are, or will be, that would come together, Jew and Gentile together and say, “You know what? We are Hanochites. We are dedicated. We are trained. We are willing to speak the truth. We’re willing to fight the fight, come together, and help some people get out of these particular situations they are in, which is actually killing them.” It’s killing them, and they don’t even know it. So are there Hanochites? Are there people that would say, “You know what? We look at the witness. The fire’s fallen, and it will fall again.”

Now, are you willing to be one that will say, “Father, start with me. Start with me.” Are there Hanochites here? I’m not going to ask you to leave your seat, or anything like that. But are there people that would say as a witness to the world? Because I’m going to tell you something, I’m serious about this. I want people to actually do this. I want you to go to hishallowedname.com, under the Ambassadors’ section and say, “You know what? I’m willing to get the information, inspiration, revelation. I will join with Michael. I will join with everybody. I’ll grab a hold with people around the world. I will become a Hanochite. I will be one that is willing to stand against the ban. I’m willing to get on my face before Him, and say, “no more dancing, no more leaping, no more jumping”. Today, I need the One who has proclaimed to us this fact. He is God. Hanochites, where are you?

Audience: Right here.

Keith: If you’re here, I want you to do something. I simply want you to respond the way the people responded when the fire fell. Find a spot to get on your face. Hallelujah, Amen. Amen. Amen. Hanochites all over this place, look, they’re saying, “Hey, I don’t care, don’t care about me. I’m going to get on my face.” Yehovah, hu haElohim. Yehovah, hu haElohim. Yehovah, hu haElohim.” If you’re listening right now, I don’t care if your kids are saying, “Hey, it’s about to be Christmas tomorrow.” Stop the party, stop the dancing, stop the singing. Tell them, “I’ve got to take a minute. I’ve got to get on my face and say, just like they said, ‘The fire has fallen. Yehovah, hu haElohim!’”

Call upon His name. Call upon His name. Call upon His name. Call upon His name. Call upon His name. Proclaim His name. Speak His name. Praise His name. Tell Him, “Yehovah, start with me.”

Keith: [blows shofar]

Keith: Yehovah, hu haElohim. We thank You, Father. We give You praise and glory. We found some that are willing to be ready for the days of Elijah. They’re tired of dancing, tired of hopping. They’ve grabbed a hold of You as the One that was, is, and shall be. Now, do what You do. Consume them with your fire. Lick everything up, take everything away, burn it up, Father, everything that is not of You. Take them over. Make them ambassadors for You. Make them to be emissaries for Your name. Let them be ones that as they see them, they will do nothing but humble themselves in their presence. For they will know that You, Yehovah, are Elohim.

We give You the praise. We give You the glory, and we give You the honor, and for the opportunity to be in this place, I pray You, bless those that have allowed it a thousand-fold, for we’ve been able to proclaim Your name in this place. And in Your name, Yehovah, everyone said together, amen.

Audience: Amen.

Keith: [blows shofar]

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  • Elizebeth says:

    I really have enjoyed this open door series and it’s changed my life. For years I have been telling people the same thing… are you willing to sacrifice your cherished traditions for the truth, or are you content to turn a blind eye to truth when it’s staring you in the face, and sacrifice truth for tradition – even when the root of your traditions are pagan to the core and offend God.
    Fallen human beings have gone the way of Cain, and created a God in their own image, who is convenient, who will accept their own definition of a sacrifice that is cheap and easy for them to make. Many Christians wonder why their prayers are not answered. Just as with the people who called on the Ba’als, they who make such sacrifices to their “modern Ba’al” this Ba’al will not here them.
    Thank you Nehemiah and Keith. Someone please come up with a Bible in English that highlights the transliteration of certain Hebrew words, e.g. The Hebrew letter, the transliteration using Latin alphabet in English and the explanation and links.
    The word Pesach is actually what “Easter” is called in Portuguese. Yeshua was that lamb on the altar. The waving of palm leaves was one thing done with shouts of Ho sannah. Pretty amazing, how it all ties together.

  • Shlome Sieg says:

    Thank you I needed this to let me know I am not too strict in my convictions but still need too get along with others without compromising the truth, it is hard