A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND - RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT CAN UNITE

At the present time the USA is a house divided. The quote above was issued by Yeshuah himself as he ministered to the people. They accused Him of doing the works of the Adversary. He said no that is not true. The works he did were of the Father, not the deceptive lies of the Father of Lies, haSatan.

We see this at work in the USA today as our elected President is working at reforming the government as the people have elected him to do. Teaming with Mr. Musk they are attacking the waste and corruption that has been ongoing for decades.

When a nation reaches this level of corruption and waste it requires bold action. This is relevant to when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River. The corrupt Roman Senate, influenced by Cicero, commanded Caesar to disband his army before he crossed the river and returned to Rome.

The people were in support of Caesar as they knew he wanted to root out the political corruption of the day and reform the Roman crony spending and corruption of the Senate of Rome. When Caesar decided to cross with his army the people rejoiced—the Senate panicked!

The Senate knew they were losing their power and did all they could do to discredit Caesar. They claimed he wanted to be a dictator. Cicero and the Senate did all they could to destroy him and his mandate.

Many people do not realize what a reformer Caesar was. He rooted out the corrupt patronage system of political payments, he got rid of many corrupt trade unions, and strengthened the currency through trade.

In order to bring about these reforms Caesar took decisive action moving swiftly and causing panic in the wealthy and corrupt governing elites of the day. They resisted reform and Caesar took more power in order to push through the reforms that the people supported.

No doubt he took more power than the Senate could bear. History says Caesar wanted to become Emperor  but in reality we don’t know beyond a doubt because the Senate had him murdered. This resulted in a civil war power struggle that lasted for 17 years until Caesar’s nephew Augustus would become the first Emperor of Rome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus  

The point is that reforming a corrupt political system is an ugly and difficult task. The push back and resistance is unrelenting. Nobody likes change especially those who are in charge of a system that needs changing like the US Government.

This is why in the previous post I wrote that this reform is judgment. It is judgment on the current corrupt system. The fear mongering from those who oppose is beyond reason. They are panicking as their corrupt systems and organizations are crumbling before them.

Justice is coming. Prison terms are looming. It’s going to be ugly in many ways. It’s going to be painful, but sadly it is necessary or the Nation will collapse from within. I pray that it will succeed and benefit We the People, all true Americans.

As stated in a previous post, “Legislation cannot change a person’s heart.” The only way a heart can be changed is through circumcision of the heart and a new covenant:

Ezekiel 31.31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Romans 2.29…circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

The process of reform we are now experiencing will renew the spirit of America if they are successful. This is the moment of transition from the old wine skin to the new wine skin. The old is bursting at the seams. The corrupt, the ungodly, and those who simply do not understand will do all they can to stop it.

Psalm 37 is a manual for us in these trying times. It tells us to wait, trust, to not fret, commit to the Lord, and watch as He judges the wicked. Please read and meditate upon it.

God is not done with the United States of America. He is proving the nations of the world as they watch what is happening here in the USA. He is allowing this to happen. It is a form of judgment on the nations. Will they follow suit and clean up or will they resist and refuse to change?

Psalm 119 is a psalm about the laws of God and how ALL His judgments are righteous. We are blessed to be able to experience God’s righteous judgment upon America and the World. This is our final opportunity to repent and follow the LAW of GOD, the TORAH.

If these reforms do not take hold we can expect the worst of times in our country and around the world. We are on the precipice of righteous judgment. How we go forward will determine our fate. This is the merciful righteous judgment which Elohim uses to warn us. If we don’t change our hearts we will face the wrath of His righteous judgment. 

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29.11

The choice is ours. We pray for the next phase which would be a spiritual revival. WE are living in momentous times. It’s time to put on God’s armor! Let us all join in prayer for true justice and revival in our country and the nations.

  

                   Part 5 – Tests of Obedience: Tree, Manna, and Festival of Lights The Pattern of Testing

Final part of the series from Sightedmoon.com

From the garden to the wilderness and into the present age, Yehovah has never changed the way He proves the hearts of His people. Each test looks simple on the surface, yet behind it lies a question of covenant faithfulness: Will you trust what He said, or will you invent something that seems better?

The first test was a tree.
The second is bread.
The third, a light.

The Tree of Knowing

In Eden, the Creator planted every tree that was pleasant to the sight and good for food, and in the midst of the garden, two trees—life and knowledge. He told Adam plainly: “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it.” — Genesis 2:16-17 (MKJV)

That command was not about fruit; it was about faith. Would Adam trust Yehovah’s definition of good and evil, or would he seize the right to decide for himself? When the woman saw that the tree was “pleasant to the eyes and to be desired to make one wise,” she reached out. The test was passed to all her children: when something looks good, do we still ask whether it was commanded?

Every false light since Eden shines with the same appeal—beautiful, enlightening, and disobedient.

The Manna in the Wilderness

After deliverance from Egypt, Israel faced the same question in a different form. Yehovah sent bread from heaven, saying, “That I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or no.” — Exodus 16:4 (MKJV)

The manna fell six days, and none on the seventh. He allowed the people to search in vain so that their hearts would be revealed. Those who gathered on the Sabbath failed the test.

Yehovah’s test was gentle: Do you trust Me enough to rest when I say rest?
To some it seemed small; to Him it was everything. The Sabbath was His sign between Him and His people for all generations (Exodus 31:13). It still is.

The Festival of Lights

Today, another test glimmers across the earth—the festival the world calls the Festival of Lights. It arrives in the dark of winter, promising warmth, family, and devotion. Its lights are beautiful, its songs sweet, and yet it was never commanded.

Whether it is celebrated as Divali, Hanukkah, Christmas, or any other light feast, it asks the same question: Will we add to the Torah?

Deuteronomy warns: “What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.” — Deuteronomy 12:32 (MKJV)

The story of the Maccabees may record a moment of courage, but the annual celebration built around it became another opportunity for man to sanctify what Yehovah never required. The light may look pure, but it is still a test.

The Nature of the Test

Yehovah’s tests always expose the heart, never confuse it. The fruit looked good, the extra day of gathering seemed reasonable, and the lights appeared innocent. But obedience is measured not by appearance but by command.

“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Yehovah.” — Deuteronomy 8:3 (MKJV)

When we celebrate what He did not appoint, we feed on bread that has no word behind it. When we sanctify our own times, we repeat the first rebellion—deciding for ourselves what is good and what is holy.

The Fire that Proves

Every generation must face its own fire. In ours, it is the fire of convenience and tradition. The test is not whether we recognize it but whether we obey in spite of it.

The prophet Malachi saw this when he wrote: “He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and He shall purify the sons of Levi.” — Malachi 3:3 (MKJV)

The refiner’s fire separates true light from false glow. It burns away sentiment, leaving obedience.

The Reward of Faithfulness

To those who overcome these tests, Yehovah promises the same reward He offered from the beginning: “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” — Revelation 2:7 (MKJV)

The Tree of Life is offered again to those who refused the tree of their own choosing. The eternal bread is given to those who kept the Sabbath rest. The true Light of the world shines for those who refused the counterfeit flame.

The Call to Return

Brethren, these stories are not distant history; they are the pattern of our testing. Each commandment reveals who we serve. Each festival we choose declares whose calendar we keep. The Tree, the Manna, and the Lights all ask the same question: Will you trust Yehovah’s Word, or your own eyes?

Let us choose the Light that was at creation, the Bread that came down from heaven, the Law that never changes. Let us keep His Sabbaths, His Feasts, His Torah—nothing more, nothing less.

Footnotes – Part 5

1. Genesis 2:16-17; Exodus 16:4; Deuteronomy 12:32; Deuteronomy 8:3; Malachi 3:3; Revelation 2:7 (MKJV).

 Part 4 – The Candle for the Dead and the Lament for Tammuz The Flame of   Mourning

When Ezekiel was carried in vision to the Temple, he saw women “weeping for Tammuz.” (Ezekiel 8:14 MKJV). The prophet stood aghast. This was no private superstition; it had invaded the very courts of Yehovah. The people had brought their torches and their tears to mourn the dying sun-god—a story repeated from Babylon to Greece and Rome.

Each year, they kindled fires to remember the “lost light” and prayed that it would return. They thought they honoured life; in truth, they honoured death. They poured oil into lamps, believing the flame would guide the spirits of the departed. They sang hymns for the dead instead of songs of obedience.

“Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.” — Ezekiel 8:15 (MKJV). Yehovah called it an abomination because He had never commanded it. The light of that candle was not the light of His Torah but of human sentiment.

The Candle for the Dead

Over the centuries, the custom of lighting for the dead spread throughout the world. Egypt placed lamps in tombs, Greece burned tapers at graves, Rome carried candles in processions for ancestors. Later ages adopted the same flame to “honour” saints or souls. But whether for Osiris, Tammuz, or a loved one, the gesture whispered the same thought: light can cross the veil; man cannot keep the fire of life alive without Yehovah.

Scripture teaches otherwise:

“The dead know not anything… neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.” — Ecclesiastes 9:5–6 (MKJV)

Lighting a candle for the dead cannot change their state; it only exposes the heart of the living. It is another test—will we trust the resurrection that Yehovah has promised, or will we build our own ritual bridge to the dead?

The False Hope of the Flame

The prophet Jeremiah confronted this same spirit when the people baked cakes for the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings: “Do they provoke Me to anger? saith Yehovah: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?” — Jeremiah 7:19 (MKJV)

Those cakes and fires symbolized the same false hope. The nations believed that if they honoured the dying god and his mother, the sun would rise again, the crops would return, and the dead might join the gods in glory. But Yehovah declared that such rites only lead to confusion.

The Light of Obedience

Yehovah does command a light—but His light burns in obedience, not in memorial. The menorah in the Tabernacle was never for the dead; it illuminated the Holy Place where His word was read and His presence dwelt. The priests trimmed it daily according to His instruction (Exodus 27:20–21). That light pointed to the living Torah, not to departed souls.

David wrote,

“The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?” — Psalm 27:1 (MKJV)

If Yehovah Himself is our light, we have no need of borrowed flames.

The Test Continues

Just as the manna tested Israel and the tree tested Adam, so the world’s candlelight tests this generation. It seems gentle, compassionate, even holy. But the question is not how it feels—the question is who commanded it.

Yehovah warns:

“What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.” — Deuteronomy 12:32 (MKJV)

To add even a single rite to His worship is to repeat the sin of those who kindled strange fire before Him (Leviticus 10). It is to believe that our own emotion can improve upon His instruction.

The Fire That Proves

Fire always tests. The false light consumes; the true light refines. The prophet Malachi said, “He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.” — Malachi 3:3 (MKJV)

The difference between Tammuz’s fire and Yehovah’s fire is purpose. One pretends to preserve life; the other purifies it. One honours the dead; the other sanctifies the living. When we choose which light to follow, we declare whose kingdom we serve.

The Lesson for the Last Days

Revelation shows a woman clothed with the sun and another drunk with the blood of the saints (Revelation 12 and 17). Both claim light; one reflects it by obedience, the other steals it by idolatry. The world will again choose between Yehovah’s commandments and man’s ceremonies. The same candles will burn, the same songs will rise, and the same test will unfold.

Brethren, we are not called to extinguish compassion but to direct it rightly. The way to honour the dead is to live faithfully. The way to comfort the living is to proclaim the resurrection. Let our light be the keeping of Torah, not the flicker of strange fire.

Footnotes – Part 4

1. Ezekiel 8:14–15 (MKJV) – The vision of the women weeping for Tammuz.
2. Ecclesiastes 9:5–6 (MKJV) – The state of the dead.
3. Jeremiah 7:19 (MKJV) – The Queen of Heaven rebuked.
4. Deuteronomy 12:32 (MKJV) – Command not to add to Torah.
5. Malachi 3:3 (MKJV) – Yehovah’s refining fire.

                                           Part 3 – Nimrod, Semiramis, and the Queen of Heaven

The Rise of the Mighty One

After Cush came Nimrod, and the Scripture says plainly,

“And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before Yehovah.” — Genesis 10:8-9 (MKJV)

To hunt before Yehovah does not mean to serve Him but to stand in His face. Nimrod organized cities—Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh—places built on defiance. Where his father had tried to interpret the heavens, Nimrod tried to control the earth. He was the first to join government and religion into one rule. From that union every later empire has borrowed its pattern.

The Birth of the Queen

Tradition remembers a woman who ruled beside Nimrod, known by many names—Semiramis, Ishtar, Astarte, Isis, Cybele, Rhea, Venus, Devi. She is called the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah 7 and 44, and the Mother of the gods in later tongues. She is the voice that says, “I sit as a queen and am no widow.” (Revelation 18:7) Her spirit is the opposite of submission; it crowns itself with light.

“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.” — Jeremiah 7:18 (MKJV)

That verse describes not only ancient Judah but the entire world system that worships the creature instead of the Creator. Every culture has honored her under new names, but the symbols remain—crescent, star, dove, child in arms, flame, and crown.

The Pattern Repeated

• Babylon called her Ishtar, the morning star.
• Egypt called her Isis, the mother of Horus.
• Greece called her Rhea or Aphrodite.
• Rome called her Venus or Cybele.
• Asia called her Shing-moo or Kwan-Yin.
• India called her Devi or Parvati.

Each name hides the same system: a mother elevated, a son glorified, and a father forgotten. Hislop traced the titles—Bel, Molech, Osiris, Ra, Zeus, Jupiter, Bacchus, Krishna—showing that the world carried one memory of rebellion through different languages. [1] It is the story of light stolen from Heaven and set up on earth as its own god.

Genesis 4:1 – Eve’s Statement and the “Manchild” Interpretation

Genesis 4:1 (MKJV): “And Adam knew Eve his wife. And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from Jehovah.”

In Hebrew, Eve says: “קָנִיתִי אִישׁ אֶת־יְהוָה” (qaniti ish et-YHWH), literally “I have acquired/produced a man with Yehovah” or “I have gotten a man – Yehovah.” Some translations render it as “I have gotten a man from the LORD,” but the phrasing “et-Yehovah” (with Yehovah) has led to ancient and modern interpretations that Eve believed she had given birth to the promised seed — the “manchild” who would crush the serpent (Genesis 3:15).

Connection to Virgo and the “Manchild” in Prophecy

This verse is linked by some (e.g., E.W. Bullinger in The Witness of the Stars, 1893, and Sightedmoon.com) to the constellation Virgo (the Virgin), which was seen in ancient star lore as a woman holding a branch (representing seed/child). The “manchild” idea ties to:

• Revelation 12:1-5 — A woman (Virgo) clothed with the sun, moon under her feet, crowned with 12 stars, giving birth to a manchild who rules nations — interpreted as the Messiah.
• Eve’s statement is viewed as her believing Cain was the fulfillment of Genesis 3:15 (“he shall bruise thy head”), but he became the first murderer instead.
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Noah’s Wife and the Stars

There is no direct biblical verse stating Noah’s wife thought she was the mother of the Messiah or looked at the stars. This is a speculative interpretation from extra-biblical or prophetic teachings, suggesting post-Flood humanity (including Noah’s family) preserved pre-Flood star knowledge (the Gospel in the Stars). Virgo’s annual “birth” (sun in Virgo, Spica as the branch) was seen as a promise of redemption, and some claim that Noah’s wife (or Semiramis in Babylonian corruption) misapplied it to her child (Ham, Cush, and Nimrod as a false messiah). 

Noah’s wife would have thought she was the one spoken of in the story of Virgo after the flood. She was the mother of all her sons, and no others were born until after the flood. She believed she was the mother of god spoken of in the Virgo constellation.

• Closest Biblical Parallel: Genesis 5:29 — Lamech names Noah, saying “This one shall comfort us… out of the ground which Jehovah has cursed,” hinting at a deliverer, but not his wife or stars.

Summary

• Verse: Genesis 4:1 — Eve: “I have gotten a man from Yehovah” (thought to be the promised seed/manchild).
• Virgo Link: Symbolic in ancient astronomy (Bullinger, Dumond), not explicit in Scripture.
• Noah’s Wife: No verse; interpretive tradition only.
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This ties into end-time warnings (Revelation 12, Jubilee cycles) — the true “manchild” is Yeshua, not a false one.

The Candle for the Dead

Among the rites of this Queen was the burning of lights for the departed. Shem executed Nimrod (Tammuz). Ezekiel saw women in the Temple “weeping for Tammuz”

Ezekiel 8:14 MKJV). Tammuz, the dying son, was said to descend to the underworld each year and rise again with the spring. The people lit lamps to guide his spirit and to honour the dead. Those same flames survive today in candles for the dead, vigils, and festivals of remembrance. Just look at what people do when someone dies today. At the large rally they all light candles in their honor.

The prophet saw it and cried out because Yehovah had not commanded such fire. He commanded repentance, not ritual light.

“Then He said unto me, ‘Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.’” — Ezekiel 8:15 (MKJV)

Every time a candle is lit to comfort the dead instead of turning hearts to obedience, the same old story repeats—the light of man replacing the life of Yehovah.

The Spread of False Light

When Babel fell, the nations carried its religion with them. Assyria carved winged bulls; Egypt built pyramids; Greece sculpted marble gods; Rome crowned them with laurel; India painted them blue; Asia gilded them in gold. Yet all of them shared one creed: enlightenment through nature and the cycle of death and rebirth.

Hislop recorded that even the Druids of Britain kept the fires of Baal, calling them Beltane; in the East, the same fires honoured Surya, the sun-lord. [2] Whether bonfire, lamp, or candle, every spark proclaimed the same message: the sun-god dies and rises; man will ascend by light of his own making.

Judah’s Lesson

Stephen reminded the Sanhedrin of this history when he said:

“Then Elohim turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O house of Israel, have you offered to Me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Molech, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.” — Acts 7:42-43 (MKJV)

The House of Israel and the House of Judah both adopted the star and the image of Molech—the very same light-symbols of Ham’s line. They carried the torch of rebellion into their worship, thinking they honored Yehovah while following the Queen of Heaven. Solomon, too, the wisest of all men, also built shrines to these same gods on the mountain across from the City of David, along its southern ridge.

The Queen’s Modern Garments

Today the world keeps her feasts without knowing her name. The lights of winter festivals, the candles of the dead, the ribbons and wreaths, even the imagery of mother and child crowned with stars—all trace back to that ancient triad. The forms have changed, but the message is unchanged: celebrate the light that is not commanded.

Yehovah warned,

“Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto Yehovah thy Elohim: for every abomination to Yehovah, which He hateth, have they done unto their gods.” — Deuteronomy 12:30-31 (MKJV)

When I see candles flicker for the dead or lights twinkle in a festival of lights not found in Leviticus 23, I remember that warning. They may look beautiful, but they are still tests of obedience. We have just finished the Festival of Lights for Divali. Next up is Chanukah, and it is followed by the Festival of Lights known as Christmas. All of them are done when the days are darkest.

The True Light

Yehovah’s light is not a flame kindled by human hands. It is His word. The psalmist said; “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” — Psalm 119:105 (MKJV)

If His word is our light, then we have no need to borrow from the Queen of Heaven or from Nimrod’s tower. The menorah in the Tabernacle was commanded; every other lamp is an invention. The true worshipper walks in the light of obedience, not the glow of imitation.

The Call

Brethren, the story of Nimrod and the Queen of Heaven is not remote history—it is prophecy fulfilled again and again. Every empire that exalts human wisdom, every religion that crowns its own light, every believer who adds to the Torah repeats their rebellion. Yet Yehovah still calls His people out of Babylon. He still says, “Come out of her, My people, that you be not partakers of her sins.” (Revelation 18:4 MKJV)

Let us come out—out of the false lights, the candles for the dead, the feasts not commanded—and return to the Sabbaths and Feasts of Yehovah. There is our safety; there is our joy. All other lights fade.

Footnotes – Part 3

1. Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, chapters II–III, on the triple deity and the titles of the Mother and Child.
2. Ibid., section “Fires of Baal,” connecting ancient Babel rites to European Beltane and Eastern Sun festivals.
3. Jeremiah 7:18; Ezekiel 8:14-15; Acts 7:42-43; Deuteronomy 12:30-31; Psalm 119:105 (MKJV).