As I was worshiping this morning (the Day of Atonement), I was thinking of a report I had read during the week which indicated that there were between 3 and 6 billion bibles on the earth and Father Yah said to me "The bible is the most pervasive idol on the planet today".

I have been hugely challenged by what Yah has been saying to me about the bible in recent months.

It is 18 years since I dedicated myself to serving Yah no matter what the cost and, in response to a number of experiences with teaching from the bible, I took my bible, held it up to Yah and prayed "Father, these people say this is your word, I do not understand it, but I choose to believe this and I ask you to answer all my questions".

In the next eight years I read the book repeatedly in numerous translations, the "old testament" about 20 times and the "new testament" about 35 times.

I asked numerous questions about what I read in the book and obtained numerous answers.  I have over a dozen note books filled with questions and answers.  I learned a lot, grew a lot and wrote a lot in which I referred to the bible as "The Word", cited it as "Scripture" and generally venerated the book to a substantial degree.

I advised others to read their bibles regularly from cover to cover and gave them reading plans comprising concurrent reading of "Old" and "New" "Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs and told them to read the genealogies as these were "also anointed".

I was totally convinced that the bible was everything that everyone I knew and esteemed claimed it to be.

After eight years walking the above road and following a series of intense fasts and seeking to get closer to Yah he told me to get a Quran.

I obtained a copy of a beautifully presented Quran and Father told me to "read it as quickly as you can and do not ask any questions until you have finished".

I did so and found that while there were finer points I understood differently there were only two real issues that troubled me, the first was that Muhammed was reported to have stated that Yahooshua (Jesus, Isa) was a prophet and a man and that it was gross sin to worship him or make him equal with Allah (Yah) and the second was that it was gross sin to place the bible on a pedestal and that the book was only a collection of writings by men assembled by men and was NOT the "word of God".

I reached the end of the Quran and asked Father if these statements were true, He affirmed that they were and subsequently sent Yahooshua to me personally to confirm that he was a man and a prophet and NOT Yah and that it was sin to worship him.

I wrote about what Father had said to me about the bible but I struggled with that more than the revelation that Yahooshua was not Yah – somehow I had never really worshipped Yahooshua although some of my writings before that time show undue reverence and conventional thinking with regard to Yahooshua {Jesus}.

This happened nearly ten years ago.

I more or less stopped reading the bible but I still struggled with this revelation.

In my late teens I had rejected the bible because of major discrepancies between what the church was teaching and what I read and so, in 1993 when I took the book and held it up to Yah it was a MAJOR conscious choice on my part to reverse a belief I had held for several decades that the book was not relevant.

Father effectively left me alone on this particular topic for most of the next ten years and dealt with me on other major issues that were hugely challenging and took me through some times of intense testing in other areas.

I wrote about the topic from time to time but, on reflection, most of the time my thinking and my paradigm was still shaped by my decision in 1993 – the bible was the word of Yah {God} and all inspired and without error – the final and definitive authority!

Then, late last year, as I was coming to the end of the series of seven three day fasts at intervals of one week that I went on leading up to Christmas and as I was seeking to draw closer to Yah and seeking cleansing and healing and greater revelation, I was walking through a large mall near where I was living and, as I walked past the largest bookstore in the mall, Father said to me "son of man – do you see how this people limit me to this one small book!"

I looked into the massive store and suddenly understood that the bible was the ONLY title for sale in that store that was claimed to represent Yah of all the thousands of books in the store.

On that same day I had walked into a Gospel music store and purchased a copy of the King James Bible on CD, a set of CD's of considerable bulk.  As I had taken the set to the counter to pay, Father said to me "you do not need those", to which I had replied, "but I would like them" – Father left me until I walked past the bookshop!

A few days later, as I was driving to the mountains on a two week retreat Father told me to listen to the CD's of the bible and nothing else until I finished listening to the entire bible.

I did this but his meant that I did not listen to the praise and worship CD's that it was my habit to listen to while driving.

In about two months of driving I had listened to the entire bible.  I then came to an alarming realization, the level of anointing in my life had degraded substantially.  At this point I suddenly understood that the book was hardly anointed at all and that the flow of anointing was through the praise and worship I habitually listened to and NOT the book!

Since then I have written quite widely on the subject and started to really come to grips with the harsh reality that the book is a compilation of writings by men, compiled by men, hardly inspired at all (Yah says "less than 2% of the book is inspired") and the source of considerable erroneous thinking and idolatry.

The book was vetted and validated by the same people who moved the Sabbath from the 7^th day of the week (Saturday on today's calendar) to the 1^st day (Sunday, the day of the Sun, a pagan holy day), did away with the name Yahooshua and enforced Ieosus {Jesus}, entrenched the use of "God" and "The LORD" instead of Yah,  the Almighty, etc and who took measures towards legislating monogamy in place of Yah's form of covenant between man and woman in which the taking of virginity is THE covenant act and which therefore shows definitively that Yah intended more than one woman to covenant with one man.

Yah's statement this morning was the next step in this challenging journey of revising my beliefs about the bible "The bible is the most pervasive idol on the planet today"

I can see it clearly now, but I understand how this is NOT clear to those who have esteemed the bible for years and who have received great revelation through the bible.

Last week, in response to one of my articles about the bible, written on the Day of Trumpets, someone wrote to me about the number of people who had learned to read through their access to the bible.

Bottom line, that does NOT prove the bible is what is claimed for it, it proves that many people have BELIEVED that the bible is what is claimed for it and, as a consequence, learned to read but it is the Mighty One of the bible, NOT the book who has inspired them and taught them.

To this comment you might think that I am saying that in fact the Almighty DOES work through the bible and, in a sense, I AM saying that – remember that Yah has said that we LIMIT Him to that "tiny book" so, in many cases, the bible has been the only mechanism that Yah has had to reach people so, He has done that.

BUT, can you imagine what things would look like if we had thousands of books ascribed to Yah's messengers or spokesmen {prophets}?  Well, actually we do BUT the writers devalue their writings because of their idolatry of the Bible – a well-known and highly anointed prophet devalues his writings by repeatedly stating that they are NOT part of "the canon of Scripture" and that they are "NOT Scripture" with the result that by his own admission he has been less than diligent about recording what Yah has shown to him and said to him, sometimes taking months to write down what he saw in visions and other prophetic experiences and advising readers that because of his lack of diligence they should feel free to question his writings.

This is tragic as it massively devalues Yah's words through this man and it devalues a vital message.

In addition, this man does not see fit to offer the full text of the books he has written about these visions for free but instead distributes them for money through commercial publishers.  I do not have a problem with the use of commercial publishers – they have considerable reach – BUT there are many who cannot afford these books who need to read the message.

The words of Yah should be available free of charge as far as possible.

I was also told that the bible has assisted many in business through making them aware of technical and scientific facts.

To a point that may be BUT it is the Spirit of Yah in us that is really the teacher and the problem is, once more, that by limiting Yah to the bible we prevent Him from teaching us in many other ways – He has taught me much in business that is NOT in the bible.

Furthermore, to the extent that there are passages in the bible that contain technical and commercial ideas this is simply a reflection of the advanced economies and societies that existed in bible times – we have been taught that mankind has evolved UPWARD in the past millennia when, in fact, Adam was created in the likeness and the image of Yah and was super intelligent and of great stature – mankind has been deteriorating progressively for thousands of years.

So, again, the bible is NOT all that people think it to be.

Satan is the mighty one {god} of this world – he is in control, nothing of major significance happens on this earth either unless Satan permits it or if a mighty spirit filled servant of Yah with the necessary legal standing prays it into existence on the planet.

The bible has been distributed so widely because it is NOT a threat to Satan.

YES, Satan does oppose the bible, it gives the bible greater credibility and IF Satan could entirely destroy the bible as well he would be happy but he realizes that is unlikely to happen without Yah raising up some alternative so Satan happily permits the bible to be the most widely published book on earth with all the confusion that surrounds the hundreds of different translations and the embedded errors relating to the person of Yahooshua, the names, etc that pervades just about all the versions of the book in widespread distribution.

If the bible really is what is claimed for it then with 3 to 6 billion on the earth the earth should look VERY DIFFERENT to what it does but the reality is that only a minute number of people who have bibles read them and only a very small percentage of those take the book seriously.

So, clearly, the bible is NOT the inerrant Word of Yah and full of power.

Conclusion

The bible really is NOT what is claimed for it.

This is a very uncomfortable reality, please pray about this and make the necessary course corrections and, IF you are guilty of worshipping the book, now is the time to stop!

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

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In the previous two articles I have stated that the King James Version of the bible is NOT the definitive English translation.

It is just one of well over 100 English translations all of which disagree at some level – otherwise they would not be created.

This diversity of versions reflects a number of facts:

1. The original language differs materially from modern English.

2. There are significant errors in the early translations, including the King James version.

3. There are fundamental doctrinal errors in the different translations including in many the belief in a Trinity, the worship of Yahooshua, etc.

4. Mankind has allowed themselves to be constrained to "this tiny book" as Yah referred to it when speaking to me about it late last year and therefore believers are milking the book for all it is worth and going far beyond its value to humanity.

Ultimately the bible is just one of innumerable resources and writings that Yah has provided for mankind, we should use it but be realistic about its limitations and seek other sources and, above all, seek a close and intimate relationship with Yah and seek to hear His voice clearly and be taught by Him.

Conclusion

The bible is just one of many resources.

Seek to draw close to Yah and to be taught by Him.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

Earlier this week I was sent an article which argues that the name "Jesus" has divine approval as the English name for Yahooshua and that it is error to suggest that English speakers should be told that Yah requires us to use the name Yahooshua and that Jesus is totally acceptable to Yah.

Various arguments in support of the divine approval of the name Jesus are advanced chief of which is that the name Jesus is used in the King James Version of the bible which the writer regards as an inspired translation and the definitive translation into English.

On the basis that the writer holds that the King James is THE divinely authorized and inspired translation and that the name Jesus is used in that translation the writer concludes that the name Jesus has divine approval.

In response to this I would like to offer the following thoughts:

1. Yah clearly told me over ten years ago that "Jesus" was the name of Yahooshua's "worst enemy" and that I should stop using it.

2. Yah has also told me that with isolated exceptions of those who have close relationships with Yah all those who use the name Jesus today are receiving answers from demonic strongholds and NOT from Yah.

3. The Christian bible is a compilation by men over a period of time culminating at the Synod of Nicea in about 325 AD where hundreds of Bishops and Priests of the Roman church gathered together to formalize the Christian faith under the sponsorship of the Emperor Constantine who had accepted Christianity and was championing it.

4. While reports indicate that there were compilations before this time it is the Roman Church which has formally declared there to be a "canon of scripture" and declared the bible to be the "Word of God" and without error.

5. Given that this happened a few years after the Sabbath was formally changed from Saturday (the 7^th day as appointed by Yah) to Sunday in 321 AD and other deviations from Yah's commandments by the Roman church it is reasonable to conclude that the so-called cannon of scripture is likewise contrary to Yah's commands and has pagan roots.

6. Yah has confirmed the above and this again reinforces the principle that the bible is NOT the living word of Yah and all inspired as so many believe and is just a collection of writings, some of which are partly inspired as discussed in previous articles on this list.

Conclusion

The bible is simply a collection of writings by men and has no greater significance other than that this is the oldest collection of writings that Satan has allowed to be preserved and must therefore be treated circumspectly and with caution as a resource.

We must ALL turn to Yah as our teacher as Yahooshua commanded us.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

Earlier this week I was sent an article which argues that the name "Jesus" has divine approval as the English name for Yahooshua and that it is error to suggest that English speakers should be told that Yah requires us to use the name Yahooshua and that Jesus is totally acceptable to Yah.

Various arguments in support of the divine approval of the name Jesus are advanced chief of which is that the name Jesus is used in the King James Version of the bible which the writer regards as an inspired translation and the definitive translation into English.

On the basis that the writer holds that the King James is THE divinely authorized and inspired translation and that the name Jesus is used in that translation the writer concludes that the name Jesus has divine approval.

In response to this I would like to offer the following thoughts:

1. Yah clearly told me over ten years ago that "Jesus" was the name of Yahooshua's "worst enemy" and that I should stop using it.

2. Yah has also told me that with isolated exceptions of those who have close relationships with Yah all those who use the name Jesus today are receiving answers from demonic strongholds and NOT from Yah.

3. The Christian bible is a compilation by men over a period of time culminating at the Synod of Nicea in about 325 AD where hundreds of Bishops and Priests of the Roman church gathered together to formalize the Christian faith under the sponsorship of the Emperor Constantine who had accepted Christianity and was championing it.

4. While reports indicate that there were compilations before this time it is the Roman Church which has formally declared there to be a "canon of scripture" and declared the bible to be the "Word of God" and without error.

5. Given that this happened a few years after the Sabbath was formally changed from Saturday (the 7^th day as appointed by Yah) to Sunday in 321 AD and other deviations from Yah's commandments by the Roman church it is reasonable to conclude that the so-called cannon of scripture is likewise contrary to Yah's commands and has pagan roots.

6. Yah has confirmed the above and this again reinforces the principle that the bible is NOT the living word of Yah and all inspired as so many believe and is just a collection of writings, some of which are partly inspired as discussed in previous articles on this list.

Conclusion

The bible is simply a collection of writings by men and has no greater significance other than that this is the oldest collection of writings that Satan has allowed to be preserved and must therefore be treated circumspectly and with caution as a resource.

We must ALL turn to Yah as our teacher as Yahooshua commanded us.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

Another discussion relating to the article about the so-called "New Testament" relates to the widely held but mistaken belief that Yahooshua {Jesus} changed all sorts of things that He did not have the authority to change and would not have changed anyway.

For example, in passages where Yahooshua corrects and reproves the Scribes, Pharisees and Priests he is NOT introducing new teaching {doctrine} he is re-establishing and explaining the laws [Torah] given through Moshe {Moses}.

Yahooshua clearly states that he came to fulfil the commandments and laws given through Moshe and other spokesmen {prophets} NOT change them.

But the widely held view of a "New Testament" or "New Covenant" which radically changed the laws of Yah persists amongst people who have been raised in pagan Christianity.

This happens because virtually no Christian knows the so-called "Old Testament" – the books before Matthew well and many have not even read them because they have been lied to and told that Yahooshua changed everything and that we "live under the New Covenant and so the Old Testament is not really relevant" and other lies such as this.

I realized a few days ago that those who followed Yahooshua were largely in the same situation.  Those who physically went around with Yahooshua were largely uneducated in terms of Pharisaic / Rabbinical law and most likely did not have access to nor had they read in detail the writings that today form the so-called Old Testament or, for that matter, any other writings of that time.  They were fishermen, tax collectors, etc.

There were some members of the priesthood, etc who followed Yahooshua but they were in the minority and, anyway, at the time everyone close to Yahooshua was concentrating on what he was saying filtered through their perceptions of the teachings, traditions, etc of that age.

Those who came after Yahooshua, of which Luke and Shaul {Paul} are the most notable in terms of the writings in the bible filtered their understanding through their historical context.  So, for example, Luke is unlikely to have been knowledgeable of Torah (the laws and commandments of Yah) and his writings reflect this.

Shaul, on the other hand, was raised as a Pharisee, a strict Rabbinical sect and was deeply steeped in the traditions of his day as well as the Rabbinic teachings and also presumably in the writings ascribed to Moshe which claim to report the events in the wilderness after the Exodus from Egypt but which, as we saw last week, were even then based on fragments preserved through the Babylonian exile.

Thus, the main reason that Shaul has set out diverse aspects of teaching relating to the covenant through Yahooshua is simply because he was one of the few followers to have the context and background to hear Yah on these matters and to write them down.

However, for the most part, all who have come after Yahooshua, right up to the current day, lack in-depth knowledge of the writings prior to Matthew in the bible and lack in-depth understanding of the covenant through Moshe and related matters many of which have been discussed on this list over the last eleven plus years (incidentally, my older writings are all available at www.ETIMin.org).

So, when interpreting the writings about Yahooshua and the period that followed, including modern writings and teachings right up to the present day it is VITAL to recognize that almost without exception that the writers and teachers lack an in-depth understanding let alone revelation of the covenant through Moshe and the teachings, etc of the faith going back thousands of years.

Also apply your intellect.  For example one of the most absurd teachings of this age is that Yahooshua instituted monogamy as a legal requirement.  So, we have the prospect of Yahooshua hanging on the tree in a society that widely practiced covenant between one man and more than one woman and as he dies an agonizing death he introduces a law which makes all the covenant unions of one man with several women illegal and introduces enforced monogamy – it is outright foolishness to believe things like this and a grievous insult to Yahooshua.  It also flees in the face of well-established historical information which shows that monogamy was first legislated in Christianity by Justinian in Rome in 600+ AD.  There are other false beliefs like this.

Accordingly the message must AGAIN be "turn to Yah as your teacher".

Conclusion

It is pointed out that very few of those who have followed the teachings and covenant given through Yahooshua in any age have a solid understanding of the teachings of Moshe, the prophets before Yahooshua or the commandments given by Yah.

As a consequence it is falsely imagined and claimed that Yahooshua did all sorts of things that he could NOT possibly have done.

Readers are advised to apply their intellect and think critically about what is taught and what they choose to believe.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

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In response to my recent article on "Covenant NOT New Testament" I was challenged about my statement that less than 2% of the bible is inspired.

The person who challenged me was coming from the perspective of teachings which claim that the entire bible "is the living word of God and breathed by God".

As I debated the subject with this person I came to a better understanding of what I was saying in that article which is basically that most of what is recorded in the bible is words written by men with limited or no specific anointing or inspiration.

In terms of what Yah said to me regarding less than 2% of the book being inspired this relates to words given directly by the Spirit of Yah.

By way of illustration, in Malawi in 1994 Yah spoke through me directly for about an hour as I prophesied over three other men and myself – during this time the only control I had over what was coming out of my mouth was that I could have chosen to shut my mouth.  I had no foreknowledge of what came out of my mouth, Yah was speaking through the vocal chords of James Robertson in the first person.

Yet we all knew that it was Yah speaking.

Thereafter I taught for about a further two hours and during those two hours I said things that again I had no foreknowledge of, we all knew it was Yah speaking through me although I was then speaking as James and the level of inspiration even then was lower than during the first hour.

Yah has NEVER again spoken through me with that level of anointing and inspiration.

I have written in excess of six thousand pages of documents relating to the things of the Almighty and I would like to believe that in most of these there has been some level of anointing or inspiration, yet I have to say that to my knowledge NONE of those documents were fully inspired.

I have also had Yah give me revelation in business and I would like to believe that there has been a fair level of anointing and inspiration in much of what I have written and done there as well.  Yet, to the best of my knowledge NONE of those documents were fully inspired either.

The rest of the time there has been some level of James Robertson in the message – Yah has been speaking to my spirit, my spirit has received the message and integrated it with my thoughts to produce spoken or written words which contain some level of anointing and inspiration.  However, in terms of the definition that I am seeking to develop in this article these words are NOT "inspired" in the full sense of the word!

It does not take inspiration to recount history although some level of anointing IS useful in ensuring that the most relevant information IS recorded – this applies to at least half of the bible if not more – so these historical accounts cannot be regarded as inspired.

Much of the rest of the bible comprises writings of one kind or another, including accounts of words spoken by various people that may be inspired at some level but are NOT fully inspired.

There are some limited passages which recount words spoken directly by Yah and words spoken by Yah through various spokesmen {prophets} including Yahooshua, Moshe, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc – this is the 2% I am referring to.  Much of Proverbs reports inspired words and some of the Psalms are inspired.  That is the limit.

And, once one lets go of the idolatry associated with believing that "the bible is the living word of God" then it no longer matters.  The bible IS a USEFUL collection of historical writings about interactions between the sons of Adam and Yah the eternally self-existing, in fact, arguably the most important collection that exists in widespread use – why does it have to be more?

Remember, Yah has spoken BILLIONS of words to the sons of Adam a minute fraction of which are recorded in the bible.

Yah has inspired billions of pages of writings at some level through the sons of Adam of which a minute fraction are contained in the bible.

Why limit Yah?

If YOU want inspired words then the best thing to do is to draw closer to Yah until He can speak directly and clearly to you and through you – STOP LOOKING TO OTHER SONS OF ADAM FOR THIS!

Remember also that Yah has called spirit filled believers to REIGN with His Spirit for a thousand years – Yah is looking to you and me to be filled with His Spirit but ALSO to exercise our discretion and intellect to execute Yah's will on earth.

Yah did NOT create us to be glove puppets, Yah created us to have an intelligent, deep, personal relationship with Him.

Conclusion

The quest for inspired words should take you directly to Yah.

Less than 2% of the words in the bible are directly breathed or dictated by Yah, the rest have some level of input from the writers.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

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Following a discussion relating to the articles preceding this article the issue of two people having different "revelation" on the same passage in the bible came up.

This reminded me of a Jewish tradition that relates to the "seventy facets of the Torah's jeweled words" a teaching to the effect that inspired words from Yah can have up to seventy different interpretations depending on the context.

It seems to me that there is some truth in this which you might like to pray about.

The essential principle is that words from Yah have a richness of meaning such that they can be interpreted in different ways in different contexts by different people at different times because His words ARE Spirit and life.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.