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Let's unpack the deep layers psychologically, spiritually, and communally of what can happen when fear turns fatal, when beliefs (or theories) shared online intersects with personal despair 🙁

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Tragedy in the Torah Community | Afflicted 4 Messiah

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Tragedy in the Torah Community | Afflicted 4 Messiah

A tragedy recently struck the Torah-observant community where a man took his own life after hearing a teaching that claimed those who took the COVID vaccine had received the mark of the beast and that he could no longer repent. The ripple effects hav

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Grandfather here. The young man's video seems more targeted than you took it. (I had to read it all, though, because I'm in a car on a road trip.) Over the years, I've experienced the same bad teachings he is referencing. SOME sacred namers say Jesus is derived from Zeus (preposterous) and they say God isn't to be pronounced because its close to Gad, the pagan god of Fortune. But that word is identical to the tribe of Gad, so I've never understood their perspective. Point being, I've literally heard and knew people who taught saying these words are sins (preposterous).

I've had people try to convince me the shot was the mark of the beast precisely as he was recounting. My own assembly split over this because the other side were calling the medical community murderers repeatedly. The conspiracy theories were so bad one of ours even got carted off from his house in a padded ambulance.

It's a shame this went so far as to cause a man to commit suicide (assuming this really happened). However, I've come to realize that some in our movement are pure in heart and searching for truth. But there are quite a few who are only in this because it's counter-cultural. It's just the next different thing and blended in with conspiracies to the point of being homogenous. YouTube's algorithym often can't tell the difference between a Messianic teaching and a flat earth video, recommending each to each viewer. I know of an assembly that has a sign on their door that you cannot fellowship with them if you have taken the shot. I am not kidding.

From my own 25 years in the movement, I read the young man's comments and have to cosign. He doesn't seem to be painting with a broad brush but addressing some of the same bad teachings I have experienced first hand.

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The Chinese virus shot is not the mark of the beast it never was, and it will be. It is definitely wrong for anyone in any religious circle to teach that nonsense. However, to mock the name of The Most High Mighty One of Yashar'el and the name of the Messiah is also extremely dangerous. And extremely evil doctrine. I have no doubt whatsoever that The Most is not pleased with people who do this. And to mock individuals that honor the name of the Father and do not bring the name of the Father to naught just like the Torah says it is pretty arrogant. This is the problem with pro syncretism teachers. The lukewarm Hebrew/ Messianic/Christian movement promotes this wicked practice of syncretism that is going to lead a lot of people to the gates of the kingdom only to find out they will not make it to the kingdom. Yahusha himself said in His own words those that those who practice lawlessness will not be allowed into the kingdom. Also, those who teach others false doctrine will fall into their own pit and on and on.

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isaiah 2:22
- Put no more trust in man,
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
Of what account is he? -

those who cause things like this guy committing suicide will face their Maker.
far better to show those inclined to listen to men that they shouldn't.
now this guy has gone to sleep, in despair, following a misguided teaching.
consider how the conversation could go, when he has to account for himself.
it all depends on what exactly was going through his mind, what the impulses of his heart were that drove him to it.
our Father is merciful.
now i'm not saying he's gonna be fine, i'm just saying even here we cannot judge with certainty.

as to names,

luke 10:22 says it better than matthew
- All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.” -

rev 19
- 12He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. 13He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God. -

rev 2:17
- He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it. -

point i'm making, names have power, and can you see these verses are showing we actually don't know the real names, even of ourselves, yet.
for good reason.

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1 John 1:8-10 ESV
[8] If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. [9] If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. [10] If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.