Excerpts

Excerpts from

The Truth Is NOT What We Were Taught

The Name of our Father
(from Chapter Three)

Surely our fathers have inherited lies, worthlessness,
and unprofitable things. Will a man make gods for
himself, which are not gods? Therefore behold, I will
this once cause them to know, I will cause them to
know My hand and My might; and they shall
know that My name is the Lord.
(Jeremiah16:19b-21 NKJV)

In the above verse, how can His name be “the LORD” in the Old Testament and His Son’s name be “the Lord” with only the “L” being in caps in the New Testament? When you stop and think about this, it doesn’t make any sense. Additionally, Jeremiah’s prophecy seems to imply that our Creator’s name would be lost and then found. I was beginning to doubt that our Heavenly Father, being so adamant in Jeremiah 16:19-21 about the Gentiles knowing the truth of who He really is and what He really demands concerning His name, idol worship, inherited lies, and futility, would use such a generic title as “the LORD” for His Name.

Some believers who are now seeking to pronounce our Father and His Son’s Names to the best of their ability use closely pronounced words and spelling to the Names I have chosen to use of “Yahuweh” and “Yahushua.” I know that the exact pronunciation may very well have been lost, but this fact still gives us no excuse to substitute other words and titles for their set-apart Names.

Relating to the Family
(from Chapter Four)

As a result of our obedience, we were isolated for a time from most of our daughters and their families. Trying to explain ourselves by showing them what we were seeing in the Scriptures, in the beginning, did more harm than good. We finally had to agree to disagree and wait on our Father’s timing for healing. It wasn’t easy to say “no” to the things they wanted us to continue to participate in during the holidays and also during the weekly Sabbaths. But we knew as much as we loved our families, we could not place pleasing them above pleasing our Heavenly Father and obeying His Word. He had to be first in our lives. We had to trust Him even when we didn’t understand why it seemed we were being shunned.

It was difficult for our friends and family too. They tried to figure out what was going on with us by trying to fit us into religious groups and denominations from Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses to Judaism, and even saying we were members of a cult. We knew we didn’t fit into any of these religious categories. It was so difficult because it seemed we had lost the respect and love of our family, and we could see how difficult and frustrating this was for them too. I’m sure they felt they had lost our love and respect as well. It would have been easier to just give up on honoring the Sabbath in order to honor our family, yet we knew deep down inside what was being revealed to us really was the will of our Father no matter how hard it seemed at the time or how much loss we had to endure.

Who did we love more? We kept on trying to live this truth:

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy
of Me, and he who loves son or daughter more than
Me is not worthy of Me. (Matthew 10:37 ISR)

Surrendering to Faith
(from Chapter One)

After six months of fighting and struggling to survive, I found the panic attacks lessening, but the depression was still just as strong. I wanted to feel better—yesterday! But no matter how much I cried out to my Savior, no matter how much I wanted to feel like myself again, to be relieved of the pain and to feel some sense of happiness and normality, it just wasn’t happening. I finally reached a point of surrender and changed the way I had been praying. Instead of begging for relief, I gave up and told my Savior, “If You can use me in this horrible state that I am in, and You want me to stay in this deep, dark hellhole, then I will stay.” Staying in that deep, dark hole was the last thing I wanted to do. Yet I sensed that maybe someday He could use me to help someone else.

Do you know what happened next? The very next morning when I woke up, over fifty percent of my deep, dark cloud had lifted! I was shocked! Is this what He had been waiting for and had been trying to teach me? I began to realize that He had been trying to be first in my life, to take center stage and for me to love Him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength—to trust Him completely—no more idolizing my dad or my husband or putting any other person before Him. After six more months, I emerged from that horrible state of existence a stronger, more positive-thinking person than I had been my entire life!

That’s what He had been waiting for—my total surrender to lay down my life for His sake, His purpose, His will, not mine!

The Narrow Way
(from Chapter 16)

We need to especially think about what we believe—questioning what we have been taught, humbly running it through the timeless test of His Word with the leading of His Spirit, and finally comparing it with what the world is believing, teaching, and doing. All the while, know that our Heavenly Father’s way to walk as His Son walked will never be popular.

I have been aware of the growing darkness for a long time. It is evident everywhere, even in the popular, seemingly innocent sitcoms that program us to laugh at the modern, worldly trends of today. I refuse to be desensitized into accepting these things since I have learned my Heavenly Father is seriously against them. I want His eyes, His heart, and to love what He loves and to hate what He hates.