In my days, I have seen the shepherds keep the flock only to fill their own appetites. I have seen the shepherds continually drink new wine and stagger with their drunkenness. They watch the flock to tread their wine presses and spread their wine to feed the flock, keeping them in blind stagger while the Lord’s solid food is denied so that all the congregation staggers about with new wine that is tread with soiled feet. They all consume it liberally, adore it freely, while Yahovah our God is denied true worship with them. For it is that Leviathan, that crooked serpent, the fugitive of old, whom twists the words of God to corrupt all mankind from the beginning. It is this Leviathan whom the shepherds and all the congregation exalt, its loving words which ooze sweet poison that all the peoples of God adore even more than Yahovah our God, for the lies spread among them is masked by the drunkenness of their wine.

In our days, the word of Yahovah Sabaoth (of hosts) given by the former prophet, Yeshayahu/Isaiah, have come to fruit. The budding began in the days of the pandemic, for the new wine did mourn, the vine decayed, and the joy of revelers ceased. The windows of Yahovah Sabaoth above opened and He shook the foundations of the earth. Terror and pit and snare did come to punish those on high, those whom are kings and queens upon the earth. But woe, the time was only the budding of devastations. (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 24)

The faithful gave praise to our God, Yahovah Sabaoth; those who saw the fruits of prophecy of old. They saw His wonders, His plans devised in ages past. Our eyes beheld them near. The faithful held onto our God, for He is our peace and stronghold, our refuge from the storm and from the heat of the lands wasting away, for they know the promises of Yahovah Sabaoth are sure and true. His people will rejoice in a bountiful feast upon Mount Zion and send away all the sorrows of ages past. But lo, they remained drunk with their wine in which they constantly love to tread about and rejected our God’s wisdom to stop their treading and ploughing up, for their vines no longer come to maturity and their fields are ruined before sprouting becomes a good harvest. Their wine is sour and bitter, their harvests are stunted and decayed, for little do they know that twisting serpent has directed their treading and tilling from times of old up to today. They stagger so much from their poisoned crops that they cannot see their end is near, though Yahovah Sabaoth spoke it plain to their faces. He began to trample all the inhabitants of the earth. The fruits of prophecy have only begun. He will trample the people’s fruits down as straw is trampled in the mud of manure, for their crops have become but rotting stubble, unfit for consumption. Though they stick up their noses in the arrogance of their security with God, they do not truly know whom they ally with and whom they reject. Yahovah our God will make all the high walls and fortresses of their beloved works of their hands fall. He will lay them low and bring them to the ground, even to dust. (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 25)

But a tiny remnant of the faithful understood where the works of God and the works of the devil lay and where their lines are drawn, and they stood together in song to tell and praise of the works of our God, for we have a strong city and He sets up walls and ramparts for our salvation. But lo, the budding has only begun, so remember, my people, to come and close the doors behind you until God’s indignation has run its course. Why should you remain where the devil keeps reign? (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 26)

For the days of the end have only just begun, when Yahovah Sabaoth punishes Leviathan with His fierce, great, and mighty sword. Our God has laid to bare the ways and works of the devil among His people. Leviathan reels from its wounds. The time of the end is near, but the twisting serpent will remain for the end, for the works of the devil and all those whom are deceived must continue until the blood of the saints is counted enough and the whole world comes under the rule of the lawless one. What was decreed, will be, and because Leviathan knows its days are numbered, the serpent will harbor greater disdain and the peoples of God will suffer for it, for the beast hates the Harlot Babylon and will make her desolate and naked. Her flesh will be devoured and she will be burned up. Her end will be violent destruction, but lo, let your tears be few, because it is the will of God she come to calamitous end, for she selfishly devoured the bounty of God’s flocks, she raised her nose to the rebuke of El Shaddai, God Almighty, for she feels secure under her crown, but all the while she committed great adulteries and became a habitation for every unclean spirit in which Leviathan thrives. So Yahovah Sabaoth will repay her evils with double the portion she made for herself. But the righteous, those whom removed themselves from treading and staggering in the Great Harlot’s wine, those whom see where God’s peace rests, our God will tend them as His beloved vineyard, while His judgment comes upon Yaakov/Jacob who remains with harlotry and the altars of the twisting serpent. Israel reaped the budding of it. Her fortified cities were breached. Her homesteads remain abandoned because her Maker did not have compassion on them as a people with no discernment. (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 27)

But woe, it is not only Israel whom judgments come for, because all the shepherds and their flocks remain habitually drunk, always overcome with their wine. Ephraim was given rebuke, but their arrogance rejected God and there remains no clean place among them. Mockers and scoffers who think their pact with life and death is untainted, who are not disturbed by the warnings of Yahovah Sabaoth because they believe their covenant in God’s tested and precious cornerstone is untainted, they will see God bring out the measuring line and rain the hail to sweep away their refuge of lies; the waters will overtake the secret places of their beloved spirits, where reside the idols and altars of that twisted serpent whom presumes to take the place of God. You who remain in the ways of the Great Harlot will see your covenant with death annulled as the days of budding judgments come. Morning after morning. It will be sheer terror to understand the report. So do not carry on as scoffers, or your shackles will be made stronger. I have heard from Yahovah Sabaoth of this destruction on all the earth. Heed the Lord’s rebuke and do not remain treading and tilling in the ill fruits of the Harlot and Leviathan. It is not good to continue on the way of the false teacher and false prophet, nor the conspiracist and speculator. They will become more blind than before, they will stumble seeking words from the twisted serpent, whom they mistake for our one true God, but their Baals will be silenced; their tickling prophecies and corrupt hearsay will be no more. God will no longer answer through them because the time of the end is near and He will kill Leviathan. It will be good for the teacher to stop speculation and gossip as if all is sure. This is the way for the false teacher and false prophet. Instead, humble yourselves to the Lord and devote only to the salvation of souls through faith and loyalty to Mashiach Yeshua (Christ Jesus); spread spiritual milk, for all the shepherds have fallen in doctrine, even spoiled God's milk; all their meat is spoiled; all their crops are crushed and threshed beyond help. It is not good to continue your arrogant preaching when God’s rebuke has come and His back is turning. (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 28)

For though advice for the Lord’s holidays were given, most do not heed to turn away from the many poisons your beloved shepherds and traditions hold. As if they made you, as if they were your Potter. So God says, keep your feasts and festivals as you please, but it will be woe, Ariel, Ariel the city were David camped! Ariel, the Altar, Ariel, the place to burn your sacrifices, where you worship among the works and altars of Leviathan whom you cannot discern between God. Yahovah Sabaoth will bring great distress to Ariel, Jerusalem, the inhabitants of His people, for it will be as in the days of the former prophet, when Jerusalem was brought low and surrounded with siegeworks against her. All those whom claim God as their own will see the measuring line. Ariel, the Lion of God, will see it. And though, unlike the first fall of Jerusalem, today, your enemies will be denied ultimate victory. Their end will be swift and they will become dust and blown away, but woe, the times of many judgments come to fruit before the end. Ariel, my people of God, you will see God’s measuring line. The righteous will pass tested, while the evil and complacent will stumble, the learned and naïve alike, for it will be like the words of a sealed book; no one will understand save for whom is anointed. (Yeshayahu/Isaiah 29)

So do not put your faith in allies, as Ariel did with Egypt in ancient times, thinking she would be safe from siege and destruction. Nor put your faith in your corrupt and drunken shepherds. It will be as in the days of Moshe/Moses and the Shoftim/Judges when God’s anointed one will lead to salvation; for your shepherds are doomed to destruction, all three, from the ones of the former age, to the ones of the new age, to the ones of the corruptions of this age. They are all part of the Great Harlot whom will reach her end by the power of the lawless one. God’s measuring line will be upon all the earth, destruction upon destruction, yet at the end, the redeemed will come back and rejoice in Jerusalem. Mankind will see the glory and majesty of our God, and righteousness will go forth to reign among the peoples; a highway of holiness will stretch to them all. The majesty of Yahovah Saboath, our Great God, will bring these things to fruit. Let Him be honored and glorified for ever and ever. Amen.