I have a habit to let the phone go
onto voicemail at times to see if this call can simply be returned another
time. It's the Sabbath day and as I'm resting in bed, because of a flu; the
phone rings...The voice is of one of my mum's friends asking me to please
return her call and she hangs up. I realize this could be something serious and
at the same time discover that I don't have her number. She rings again: Hi
Giorgio, sorry to disturb you [silence] your mum's in hospital, she's had an
accident. With a sigh of relief that she's alive we continue our conversation.
It was a very close call though; she almost killed herself.
Allow me to go back in time and tell the story in sequence so you comprehend
just some of the forces at play here. November the 15th 2008 a
sequence of correlated events brought me to my knees in deep
repentance to our Heavenly Father in Jesus name. As a young Christian
I did what every minister tells you to do: Read the Bible and join
a local church and get baptized. I joined a friendly small local
church and read my bible non-stop and watching bible lectures
online. I was convicted to keep the Sabbath but had no idea what day this
was. Google brought up countless results indicating that Saturday was
this day. I put my doubts on the side of the Sabbath and whilst
investigating it I was keeping the sat Sabbath. For a babe in Christ, this
is quite a task I have to say. My strategy was to look at studies on the
subject and by comparing I would be able to see a bias or a flaw and
hopefully arrive at the truth.
Whilst visiting the Sunday service I was also keeping the sat Sabbath
at home. Soon a mentor was assigned to me, the church leader, and we
started some interesting debates. I was an eager student and it soon
become apparent that many questions are unanswered in churches. One of my
first questions was the difference between commandments,
laws, statutes and judgments? The answer was different words to define the
same; the commandments. In my mind this didn't add up. Having received preaching
about heaven and hell I underwent the nightmare of studying hell which had
me terrified and depressed for a good while.
Thanks to the WLC ministry I was liberated from this myth, it was time to make
the Bible and Bible only my guide. Many of the things I'd learned were
videos and DVD’s, interviews and testimonials of people's firsthand
experience. This was true with the Hell myth also...which quite clearly is
quickly blown out of the water when you test it against the plain word of God.
It was a revelation to me and the truth did set me free!
It was time for my baptism, a very joyous occasion indeed. My
testimony deeply affected those attending it full of tears of gratitude
and repentance through the Holy Spirit. But a change was taking place in my
study as I was discovering that the Sunday is known amongst SDA's as
the mark of the beast. Eagerly I joined the SDA to find out more whilst I
was still at this point satisfying my thirst to more fully understand
the Sabbath I kept it anyway. I was delighted to hear all their
doctrines and I felt that they really valued the scriptures and have a
thorough knowledge of things.
Whilst feverishly devouring lectures and scriptures around the clock I
came across Walter Veith's lectures and strange enough the most persuading
evidence in my mind was the fact that the Catholic Church boldly declares
that the Sunday is their mark and that any real protestant, who proudly
proclaims the Bible to be its ultimate authority in all matters,
should therefore keep the 7th day as their Sabbath; the Saturday.
Strange matter is that Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush have also done YouTube
videos promoting openly the SDA's. This was a red flag but I never realized
till recently just how twisted this is; known fact is that most world
rules all take the Eucharist, whether they admit to it or not. On my second
visit to the SDA church a prominent thought in my mind was that It's untenable
to keep the Sunday because by so doing we encourage the Mark of the Beast.
In a hurry I wrote a long testimonial to my church leader and explained my
convictions with a lot of scriptural support and several articles attached.
My journey as a SDA member now started, but I wasn't a member I soon realized,
because I wasn't baptized into the SDA church. The initial exhilaration
was soon replaced with disappointment. Bigotry, strife, envy and backstabbing
all taking place within the sacred walls of the church, what a disappointment.
Nevertheless I kept going and hoped to be useful in some way and learn
something despite the adversities. As a natural skeptic I wanted to verify
if E.G White really was a prophet of God but when this was openly
questioned by someone in the congregation, the answer was completely
disatisfactory. Thanks to God's providence despite my initial conclusions
I was proven wrong in my assertions and sister White proven to be a faithful
prophet of God.
There were many things which stuck in my mind that impressed me with
the feeling that the SDA was a backslidden church very similar to Judea
and Israel of old. By that I mean that a sense of security pervaded the
church, like they are rich and not a widow and in need
of nothing. The pastor said that the message of the third angel
if given by him would make him an Angel, because the word says the message
is given by an Angel. This was said perhaps half-jokingly, but was deeply inadequate
and even insulting considering this was Sabbath school, bible study
time. The scripture came to mind which said that Jesus was made a little
lower than the Angels.
As I continued to devour material online and offline it became apparent that
the SDA had in fact shaken hands and relegated the claim that the CC was the
Beast to the trash bin. From the little I knew protestant reformers had died on
the stake to defend this and other doctrines or simply because the Beast, being
the Beast, killed them anyway. In their own words 100k was lynched in their blood
thirst. Furthermore sister White, who makes the SDA what they are, upheld this
truth and denounced the CC, and it's papal system, as the Beast, the seat of
the Antichrist. Therefore I denounced the SDA for being unfaithful to the
reformers, Sister White, SOP and ultimately God himself. How can you shake
hands with a power which your own church denounces as the Antichrist???
This came straight after I was sick twice in a row just before going to Sabbath
service. I would have dismissed it as a coincidence, but as a dream further
added weight to this circumstantial evidence, one has to accept that
this unworthy servant was honored by God's intervention restraining me and
calling me to come out of her.
My dream consisted of sophisticated party in a posh marina. As I stepped from
the platform onto the boat a butler offered battered prawns, Japanese style. As
I glance over his shoulder and to my horror I see just where these
"prawns" come from. At the back of the boat another butler also fully
dressed in frock is just pulling up a round net and in there are black sliddery
sea serpents. These are cut into pieces and served as battered prawns. It's notary
that the ambiance was sophisticated, suave, posh, summery yet the truth of the
matter is that the SDA with its platform party and attitudes are doing
precisely that...Spreading false doctrines wrapped in such a way that one
desires to eat of their dainties. I was soon to discover this to be a very
accurate description.
Having left my second church in a row a natural depression set in. My attitude
and arrogance and harshness in dealing with the issue and the knife sharp
manner in which I composed my emails convicted me that I'd done this the wrong
way. I should have entreated the elders like a father and established all
things with 2 or 3 witnesses. These were dark days for me and I was missing
fellowshipping with other brethren becoming quite isolated, even lonely.
As I continued my rounds of study and research I came about something
frightening. Someone was approaching me denouncing the WLC ministry as the
culprit of error. Still quite inexperienced I was drawn into a controversy over
the trinity vs. the Godhead. A ministry known as POGM with great intellectual
sharpness made a strong case in favor of a third separate person in the
Godhead. The difference they established was that they're independent instead
of made out of the same substance like the Catholic Church beliefs.
The deception was so strong that WLC did appear at one time to be a tool in
hands of the enemy and I decided to take action and alert other members at WLC.
Strange enough I felt a feeling which was like embarrassment, shame, conviction all at once. I couldn't pinpoint it exactly but in hindsight it was my MO which was totally non-Christ like. When messaging close friends of the WLC team members I pressed on feeling a relief. Deep inside of something was telling me that it was time to bring the issue to a head there was something fundamentally wrong; this wasn't me.
Galal and I talked and though I was reproved rather lovingly (well deserved) it was nothing like the reaction I expected. Clearly I'd been deceived into strong delusion and the following days were hell. My wife (who is not on the same page as I) was gone and was probably going to leave me. My guilty conscious was convicting me as I had pulled her through all my ups and downs, to hell and back, literally because that was precisely the first false doctrine I ever swallowed. Beaten down and alone it was just too hard to imagine that my dear friends at WLC and especially Galal, who had long proven to be much more than a mere brother, and real friend, were now gone out of my life forever because I had made this catastrophic mistake. A bitter lesson this was. Had I'd been more familiar at this stage with the scriptures I would have discerned the character of those who were encouraging me to take the steps I took.
Galal understood my struggle and send me a life-line: a collection of
scriptural insights into the Godhead. As I read these, the three headed
monstrosity called trinity, was slain and the Godhead: Father and Son with
their Holy Spirit appeared clearer than ever. One final thought broke the
spell: if the Holy Spirit really was a third independent person Jesus was not a
son of the Father but of the Holy Spirit, contradicting the word itself. I
don't think so! Hah. Gotcha!
Galal rang me and the feeling that came to mind was Jacob before he embraced
his brother Esau after his long exile, (Note I'm note comparing Esau to
Galal but purely going into the emotions that Jacob felt at that
point) what a reconciliation I was delighted! No condemnation, God had
given me a second chance and what God brings together nobody separates. This
was an experience that humbled me and made me appreciate my relationships much
more and make sure never to take actions without consulting the Word of
God. My wife had also returned and God had been working with her to
increase her faith bringing her back from the hell we'd both been
through.
Nearly 1 year later after I first kneeled down I hit on a video called Three Months in a Row (TMIAR). After watching it I experienced a very uncomfortable feeling, it was the most inconvenient thought ever. After all the ordeal I'd gone through that the sat Sabbath, which I had defended nail and tooth, was yet another deception? The jobs I'd refused, the arguments with family, the evidence...how come? My worst fears were confirmed that was the meaning of the video indeed. The next 3 weeks were spend in solid study using material already published by sites such as: http://www.4angelspublications.com/ and http://www.thecreatorscalendar.com/ .
At this point, realizing that there was too much evidence to ignore this I announced
to my wife that I was going to present my findings and that this was undoubtly
going to affect our lives but that I was going to walk in this new light and
that she would have an open choice. Knowing the sat. Sabbath ordeal and now
that everything was going pretty smoothly I anticipated the worse.
Evidence piled upon evidence in favour of a luni-solar Sabbath. I presented the
facts to my wife and later my mum. To my surprise truth won and no separation
took place. This was short-lived because I found myself rejecting job offers
left right and center in my quest to keep the Sabbath. My new convictions led
me to translate TMIAR into Spanish and set up a website: http://www.calendariodelcreador.com/ .
My mum was going into a deep depression and we went to visit her, despite our
low funds, in Spain. We continued with telephone support but we were literally
drained. Another visit followed shortly after. The first
accident took place and my mum by the shear mercy and divine intervention was
saved and restrained, resulting in a car crash as compared to driving off a
mountain hill. By this time we became sick and poorly. No longer patient but
rather irritated, the months of relentless rounds of lamentations had taken
their toll, this was too much for all involved.
At this low point in my life my new luni-solar conviction was shaken. This was
truly a danger zone because there was a distinct possibility of being worse off
than before. Not being able to proof sat Sabbath and neither having the
certainty of a luni-solar Sabbath would be the ultimate nightmare. Galal
advised me to hold fast onto the most prominent thoughts and to take it easy on
myself. Another way of saying this would be to "hold fast to that which is
good...and proof all things". The problem with reading other people's
material is that without realizing it we can follow them instead of the
scriptures or truth they point to. The weakness of this dilemma is not felt until
your beliefs are questioned and you have to rely on yourself to answer them.
This happened to me but I was set to get to the bottom of this.
This time I used other resources and strange enough the Jewish encyclopedia is
full of evidence that contradicts their core sat. Sabbath belief. They
recognize they made a shift from biblical to talmudian thinking. In other words
from the plain and simple word of the Almighty to the traditions of men. Then
came the deadly blow straight out of the Jewish encyclopedia in relation to
when a day starts or finishes. As we study the topic the starting and ending of
a day, and therefore the Sabbath is not from even to even. Here is
the quote: "According to the strict interpretation of the Mosaic law,
every day begins with sunrise and ends with sunset (Ibn Ezra, commentary on Ex.
xviii. 14)" Jewish Encyclopedia online.
In order to keep lawful employment and provide for my family I considered at
this point to become self-employed and spend a good week working out a
website and business plan. Whilst I was doing this I was happily pilling
up research about the luni-solar calendar and everything was going onwards
and upwards. When the amount of scriptures and categorization was big enough to
start writing some articles about these findings disaster struck. My principal
too, the laptop, broke down! Aggghhh To my horror, by accident I had
uploaded the business page over my Spanish luni-solar calendar page, and now I
had no way of accessing the files. My mum explained that her airco
unit, freezer, mobile phone, and car had all broken down one after
the other. Could this be a direct attack from the adversary aka Satan?
The combined attack of my mum who acted like some kind of
psychological torture devise was wearing us and everyone else who
was trying to assist down and again I was falling sick with chest
infection. Having lost my laptop and treasured research material, and
to further pester me, replaced the luni-solar webpage by my business page,
I felt strongly reproved. Had I focused too much on the business? Was this a
reproof signifying that I'm no longer fit to do the work that was assigned
to me?
In my greatest despair I received emails from SDA members searching for evidence about the luni-solar Sabbath. This I felt was a great encouragement and once again the joy of working for Yahuwah picked me up to refocus on what is important. The following days were filled with earnest witnessing and searching of the scriptures. I had read Isaiah up to the New Testament and was strongly impressed that though the Jews were entrusted with keeping the oracles of God, they failed miserably to keep the law and polluted the Sabbaths. To see several brothers going through the same ordeal I've just been through was an opportunity to encourage them and give some directions. My biggest failure was that I didn't backup somewhere safe.
At this point the phone rang and the bad news that my mum nearly killed
herself, on the Sabbath rest, was delivered. I dealt with it only
fully after the Sabbath and used the Sabbath time to refresh and charge up
the battery. It was like God protected me and gave me of His peace in the
midst of the greatest turmoil. I was calm and sober ready to face the issue
with my head firmly screwed on and the guidance of His Holly Spirit.
Connecting all the dots together, as far as my limited existence allows me to, this whole thing was nothing but an orchestrated attack aimed at destroying me and my family with the aim of arresting any efforts in exposing the truth. If anyone is going to study this new light let them remember to put on the whole armour of God for Satan is out there like a roaring lion seeking whom he can devour and disguised as an Angel of light. You're going to face difficulties, this is Armageddon people, this is it the battle has begun and we are being called into action. Are we willing to lay our lives on the line for Him who offered His life for us? Then let us be strong like a building fitly framed together and pray for more light and the power, through the Holy Spirit, to do exploits in Yeshiva’s name for the Glory of Yahuwah's Kingdom. Let us say: Here I am, use me; for sacrifice and work whichever brings the greatest Glory to Yahuwah!
One last word on the matter: Please don't exalt yourselves...Because we must
all be diminished that He may be exalted! All Glory to Yahuwah our Father
and Yeshiva our Lord and Savior! Let us be weak that His strength may be
made perfect in us. Let us labor diligently, watch and pray with tears and
supplication, pleading for mankind for the time is short, very short and there
is much work to do!
May the Holy Spirit guide you and instruct you in all righteousness and
spiritual wisdom and assist you in bringing many others to Yahuwah in Yeshua's
name. Special thanks to the following people: eLaine and Laura Vornholt, Kerrie
L. French, Galal Doss. I know none of you seek honour so therefore Praise
to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and Yahuwah our Father for eternity
and throughout because no words can describe, no numbers can compute, just how
richly we are blessed through Yeshiva.
If anyone wishes to collaborate on the Spanish site please let me know
and/or pray for my mum her name's Carla.
