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January 16, 2016 · 8:52 pm

“Hallowed Be Thy Name, Yahweh”–More from Christ’s Example Prayer

The so called Lord’s Prayer is not an incantation, to be repeated like a chant. It is a model prayer, each phrase having great revelatory truth to be used in our communication with our Father. Our Father’s name is Yahweh–if we consider ourselves children of the Hebrew God of the Bible.

“Hallowed be Thy name.” Christ is saying in the “Lord’s Prayer” that the Father’s name is “hallowed,”which is holy and extremely special. How can Christians appreciate it and sanctify it if they don’t even know what it is?

Not many know that the Hebrew God of the Bible was known by Moses, Daniel, Isaiah, and all the rest of the prophets and apostles by His name Yahweh.

“The Hebrew national literature centres in the thought of God. It is Yahweh who is all and in all, the father, the leader, the hope, the hero of his people” ( www.1911encyclopedia.org/Christianity ). This quote is from the article “Christianity” in the Encyclopedia Britannica, entirely on-line at this link. There are 142 others articles that mention Yahweh (www.1911encyclopedia.org/index.php?q=yahweh&title=LoveToKnow_1911%3ASearch&site=1911&fulltext=LoveToSearch ).

We’ve been told that “God” is His name. But “God” is a common noun that has been capitalized. “GOD, the common Teutonic word for a personal object of religious worship. It is thus…applied to all those superhuman beings of the heathen mythologies who exercise power over nature and man…The word “god,” on the conversion of the Teutonic races to Christianity, was adopted as the name of the one Supreme Being, the Creator of the universe” (www.1911encyclopedia.org/God). It was adopted, but God is not the name of the Father. Yahweh is His name. “This is my name forever,” Yahweh said to Moses (Exodus 3:15).

Some think that the Father’s name is “LORD.” But “LORD” is merely a title of the Father. This started when the King James translators substituted “the LORD” for the Hebrew name “Yahweh” over 6,700 times. Only once did they leave “Yah” (the shortened form) in Psalms 68:4: “Sing praises to his name…Jah.” The editors of the New King James Version corrected “Jah” to “Yah” ( https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/book-yah-is-savior-the-road-to-immortality/ ).

When Christ teaches us how to pray by saying “hallowed be thy name,” He wants us to revere, keep holy, consecrate, and venerate the Father’s name. That is what the word “to hallow” means.

But first the Father’s name must be restored to our knowledge. We cannot truly make His name holy and consecrated in our hearts if we don’t know His name.

And the Father’s name is Yahweh. We must keep this in our minds when we communicate with Him. For His name is extremely important to Him. So it should be of extreme importance to us His princes and princesses. Or how else could we address the King? When we do this, we will join the ranks of the Biblical men and women of God who prayed to Yahweh and spoke His name.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the Creator Himself remembered us and wrote down our names and thought of us in a special way? He will do just that for a few. Who will they be? “Then they that feared Yahweh spake often one to another: and Yahweh hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared Yahweh, and that thought upon His name.” That thought upon His name. Those of us who are in reverential awe and that speak and think upon His name–those He will remember (Malachi 3: 16). He is saying, Those that are not ashamed of My name and will remember me by using it, then I’ll remember them. He will set an open door that no man can shut before those who “have kept my word, and have not denied my name” (Rev. 3: 8). But He will shut the door on those who deny His name through unbelief, and great shame will be their reward. Just ask the “five foolish virgins” (Matt. 25: 1-13; verse 10 especially).

Armed with this knowledge, the scriptures about His name will open to us. It is a key. But be forewarned. The knowledge of the Father’s name is a pearl, a gem. And Christ warns, “Cast not your pearls before swine, for they will turn and rend you with it.” Be careful who you share this with. It is dynamite knowledge and needs to be handled carefully. You will be vilified and derided for sharing this knowledge–usually by those close to you. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 9, 2015 · 7:19 pm

Our Exiled King, the Good News, and His Name

Our King is at present in exile. He has promised us that He will return to this troubled earth to assume the throne of His Father’s Kingdom–the Kingdom of God. This Kingdom soon to come is the gospel. His government that He will establish is the good news [1].

Many Christians believe that salvation is the gospel. But being saved from our sins is really only the first step; in our hearts He establishes a beachhead of His Kingdom and righteousness. Because this is the first thing we feel when we come to Christ, we think that this personal relationship with Him is all there is to the gospel, the good news.

And it is very good news on a personal level, no doubt, but the Kingdom of God is national, international, galactic, and universal. His Kingdom “shall never be destroyed…and it shall stand forever.” And “of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David.” It will last forever throughout all time and space. That is how big His Kingdom is. That is the gospel [2].

And this brings us to a very important point. When contemplating how vast and powerful God is, pray that He would grant you a reverential awe of Him. For this is wisdom [3].

The King of God’s Kingdom is known as Jesus Christ in the English-speaking world and Jesucristo in the Spanish-speaking world. But unto the Hebrews of His homeland He was known as Yahshua. He did say that He came in His Father’s name, which we know is Yahweh.

We are not playing with semantics here. His name has a meaning. It means Yah is Savior or Yah saves. It is the same name as the patriarch Joshua, Moses’ successor. The point: There is a very important message encrypted in His Hebrew name.

Believing in the message contained in His name is of extreme importance to God, and it should be to us. Believing that the great Spirit Yahweh is the Savior, that the Father in the Son is doing the saving, is a crucial understanding as to what the King is doing now and will do when He returns to earth [4].

In God’s eyes believing in the meaning of His name is equal to receiving Him, and it is to those that he gives power to be His sons and daughters in His very Kingdom [5].

1. Mark 1: 14

2. Dan. 2: 44; Isa. 9: 7

3. https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/book-yah-is-savior-the-road-to-immortality/

4. Isa. 43: 3, 11; 45: 15, 21; 49: 26… See http://www.blbclassic.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=saviour&t=KJV

5. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born…of God.” John 1: 12

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May 3, 2014 · 3:18 pm

The Manifestation of the Sons of God–What the World Needs Now

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This world has one major need right now at the beginning of the 21^st Century. The world doesn’t need another politician telling the people what they want to hear. The world doesn’t need a steady robust economy to help it through the hard times that have been prophesied upon it. No. The world needs the sons of God to arrive on the scene. They must come forth for these last days.

The whole creation, the apostle Paul wrote, (whether it knows it or not), is anxiously awaiting the sons of God to come upon the world stage. For the sons of God will have something that all mortals walking the face of the earth must have. They will have the key that will set the whole creation free from the chains of a certain physical death. These children of the Most High are God’s elect, His sons made in His image, and they are what this world needs. They are the ones who will have cut through all of the deception and vice in this world system. They alone will see the Spirit and walk in the Spirit and be filled with the Spirit of the living Yahweh. They will build the old waste places and build the spiritual walls to the heavenly city.

Why the World Needs the Sons of God

The creation has purposely been subjected to mortality by its Creator God. The impending gloom of a certain death is no accident or aberration of God’s original plan. It has been His will all along for death to come to all living. And then, a few mortals will be brought by Him to an awareness of the abiding power of His spiritual presence and will become His actual spiritual children. He will change them and will engulf them with immortality one day soon. And it is through them that the whole creation will finally come to know this glorious liberty from a certain physical death. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. Romans 8:19-21, NIV.

Every living thing on this planet will die; the whole creation will decay and go back to dust. And we, this earthly creation, are “in bondage of corruption,” as it says in the King James Version.

The word “corruption” is translated from the Greek word phthora, #5356 in Strong’s. It means “decay.” Its root comes from #5351 phthio, to waste, shrivel, or wither. We, the creation, are bound to become decaying matter someday. And all of us, be we religious or not, are groaning under the impending physical doom that awaits us.

All of us have a built in desire to live forever. Every ancient culture, without exception, was concerned with this impending gloom of an early exit from life. All the ancient religions were concerned about how to secure immortality for the mortal. And so it is with religions today. Man keeps on waiting, waiting, waiting for something real that will happen in order to deliver them from a certain death.

The creation is like the wife of the Creator, who is in the deep pains of childbirth. She is struggling to deliver her children, the sons of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Romans 8: 22-23, KJV.

The whole creation is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the sons of God because they are the first ones who will be released from mortality’s chains. They will be the first ones who will not have to taste death. And then after they are made known, the creation can look forward to its redemption. That is how important the sons of God are. When they are adopted or placed as sons, then a new era begins—an era where immortals will stride the earth, showing forth God’s way.

We Who Have Some Truth Also Desperately Need the Sons of God

Just look around us. What do we see in every corner? We see lurid trash in political high places, filthy-minded movies and TV. There is no shame to the world system. And it is not getting any better. So we try to lock in on the word of God. We endeavor to glimpse a truth here, a truth there. Some of us are trying to lead a holy life, but we “see through a glass darkly.” We know, or should know that we are not walking in all truth. For if we were, we would be bearing the same spiritual fruit as the prophets and apostles of God. And we can’t seem to get in agreement and one accord with other sincere followers of Christ.

As a large body of people, we can’t see eye to eye enough to get together. Divisions abound. We, if we are blessed, have a place to meet with a few other people who share some of our own beliefs, but something is dras-tically missing. The unity of the Spirit is only a dream, for one group does not see eye to eye with another. We are to be in one mind and one accord, and yet, who is to say just what that one mind is? Who has the authority to say for sure anything? Who has a sure word? There are several thousand “Christian” denominations, and they are growing exponentially daily. There is probably a different concept of God and His plan for every one of His professing followers.

And it appears that the enemy is gaining ground, and we, the body of Christ, because of our disagreements and lack of unity, are seemingly losing ground as far as any “great move of truth” is concerned.

So what is the answer to this dilemma? It is as if Yahweh Himself is needed to come down and just flat appear to His select few, whoever they are! That would clear up the dim vision of those He has chosen. They would definitely “get on the same page” after that shared glorious experience. In the light of His own countenance and glow filling the room each would be in, He would straighten out off-concepts, purge out old leaven, old hypocrisies, and false concepts of Himself. There would be no self-delusion if the King Himself came down to a handful!

Then a fire would well up from out of their bones! Then they would cry to His people in His stead. They would be His voice with his word welling up and out as springs gush out making rivers where dry land once was.

That is what we all need. We need a sure word. We need the Captain of our faith Himself to get a cadre of His brothers to catch on fire and, in turn, ignite the world. We need a group of people baptized with the Spirit and with fire. We need them! We groan within ourselves, longing for someone to stand in the gap between God and the world.

That is the only thing that will ever turn this world upside down—if the people of the world were ready and knew they had a need for God in human form, had a need for the sons of the living God.

This whole creation is crying and groaning looking for someone sincere and true to believe in. The heroes are gone; the people run to their idols of music and movies. Those are their gods—gods who cannot see or hear them and their longings and needs, for their gods can see no one but themselves. The whole creation does not know it, but they are groaning and longing for the manifestation of the sons of God. And these sons will walk with the Lamb wherever He goes, for they shall be like Him. These are they who will do the greater works that the Master spoke of.

It All Hinges on the Sons, But Do They Know Who They Are?

Yes, the manifestation of the sons of God is of extreme importance in God’s plan, but do they know who they are? Do they realize their calling that He has placed on them? Do they know that He knew them long before their earthly sojourn began? Do they at present realize that He has already given them a glorious destiny—a destiny that has them justified from sin, set apart for this special work, and also glorified from heaven? Does God’s elect, His chosen ones, know these things?

Have they called on His name and restored their heart back to Him? But if they haven’t believed on Him, then how are they to call on Him? And how can they believe on this God if they have never heard Him, never heard His Spirit, never heard Him who is the Word? They are going to have to hear Him being spoken out of the mouth of another son in order to believe on Him. And how shall these prospective sons hear unless there be a preacher? And who is really going to be effective as a preacher? The world is full of preachers. Anyone who thinks they have heard from God calls himself a preacher. The future sons will be reached by those who proclaim the truth. And these proclaimers will be sent. For whosoever shall call upon the name of Yahweh shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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April 6, 2013 · 7:01 pm

The Next Great Move of God

God will appear to certain individuals of His own choosing not many months or years hence. He always has; He always will.

How can I be sure of this? God’s history of His dealings with His people serves as a prophetic blueprint of what He will do next. “That which has been is now. And that which is to be has already been, and God requires the things of the past” (Eccle. 3: 15).

In fact, the Holy Bible is a record of God’s literal appearances to people. Before every great move of God, He has appeared to someone. He intervenes with His presence, shattering the dull, numbing grind of human earthly existence with His incomparable light. We humans evidently need this astounding experience in order for us to be sure that God really is real and means business.

These stupefying manifestations begin, appropriately enough, in the book of Genesis, the seed book of beginnings. There we see God speaking to Adam and Eve in the Garden. “And they heard the voice of the LORD God (Yahweh) walking in the garden,” (Gen. 3: 8). He was in a human form, “walking in the garden,” and they were afraid of His presence there. A bit later we see God having a lengthy conversation with Cain.

Before Yahweh destroyed by water the wicked, He talked it all over with Noah, who “found grace in the eyes of Yahweh” (6: 8). And “Noah walked with God.” And so it was that God confided in Noah His plans, instructed Him to build an ark, and established the Noahic Covenant with him, ensuring the continuance of His righteous seedline.

We next see Yahweh appear to Abraham, the father of our faith. “And Yahweh appeared unto Abram,” and established the Abrahamic Covenant with him, giving him and his heirs the Holy Land of promise (Gen. 12: 7). And “after these things the word of Yahweh came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward” (15: 1; 17: 1-19). And God makes a great move and promises Abram that of his own loins he will have a son in his and Sarah’s old age, and his seed will be as numerous as the stars of heaven. And Abram believed what Yahweh told him. And it was that very faith and belief that God appreciated so much that God “counted it to him for righteousness.”

This is huge. This is a great move of God as He shows mankind that just believing God and His word will establish us in a right standing with God. Getting right with God comes from believing Him. Period. This is when faith triumphs over man’s puny attempts in his own strength to keep the ten commandment law of God.

For the law was not given to us as a goal to strive for or a moral ideal, as it were. For we in our human strength cannot successfully keep the 10 Commandments. No. The law was given to man as a mirror to show him of his own unrighteousness and sins, and to show him his innate wickedness. “The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers…for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars…” (I Tim. 1: 9-10).

God granted to Abraham, because he believed Him and His promises, a new heart that keeps the commandments of God, which is when God counted his belief as righteousness, or being right with God.

What Does This Have to Do with Our Generation?

The take away for us in our generation? God has promised us a new heart and new spirit that keeps His ways and commandments if we believe Him. God commands us, “Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit.” How do we make this happen? By just believing His promise: “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you” (Ezk. 18: 31; 36: 26).

This new heart that does not transgress and break the 10 Commandments is called “righteousness” by God in the scriptures. It is the state of being right with God, and it is attained the same exact way that Abraham obtained it from God. By believing God.

And this way of receiving a new heart and new spirit from God that does not break His commandments is outlined in the New Testament scriptures. Although written in plain sight in black and white, you won’t hear those passages preached in the pulpits Sunday morning, for most pastors don’t believe it (for more on this read the “Introduction” of my book found here:

https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/ebook-the-unveiling-of-the-sons-of-god/ ).

No, most modern day pastors don’t believe that after letting our old heart and spirit die with Christ on the cross, that God will give us a new heart and new spirit that does not sin against him. The pastors don’t think God can do that. They don’t believe that “whosoever is born of God does not commit sin” (I John 3: 9). It is right there in black and white, but they don’t think it is possible. But I thought that “all things are possible to him that believes” (Mark 9: 23).

Do We Believe God Can Do It?

Abraham certainly did not let the “deadness of his wife’s womb” keep him from believing that God was able to keep His promise that they would have a child. He was 100 years old and Sarah was 90. Which is easier to believe? That a 90 year old woman, decades past the age of bearing children could get pregnant and deliver a baby or God being able to change our hearts to not sin against Him? Yet Abram “did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. This is why it was credited to him as righteousness” (Romans 4: 19-22 NIV).

Let us not waver either through unbelief of His promise to us of being His righteous sons. We simply must believe like Abraham did. That God will give us a new clean spirit if we believe Him; He did promise it to us if we believe that He will.

And so Yahweh appeared to Abraham and promised him much and established the way for Abraham’s spiritual children–us–to walk by faith in these last days. Faith. Belief. This is what is holding us back from becoming the manifested sons of God, the princes and princesses of the Kingdom of God. If we cannot believe Him that He will give us a pure sinless heart and spirit–a new heart that He promised–then how will we ever grow up into being like Him and those men of God that He appeared to?

Time would fail me to outline all of those men and women of faith that God appeared to–Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Samuel, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Paul–to name just a few. He appeared to them all before a great move of His in the earth. He will do the same today, for He changes not (Mal. 3: 6).

The Criteria

Wait a minute. That will be the criteria. He will appear once again to those who believe Him for a new heart and new spirit, which is being right with God. For Christ did say, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much” (Luke 16: 10).

For a new spirit is just the beginning, as it makes us a child of God. We must keep growing spiritually into spiritual young men and fathers. For God will bring forth in the last days His kingdom. That is the good news. And ruling with Him right here on earth will be the over comers. “To him that overcomes, will I grant to sit with me in my throne.” Some will sit with Christ on His throne. That is a promise. But it will be those who are full of faith and belief, those who have bought from Christ “gold tried in the fire,” and “white raiment” to hide their nakedness, and have “anointed their eyes with eye salve that they may see” (Rev. 3: 14-22). Those are the over comers; those are the manifested sons and daughters of God; those are the ones He will appear to in these latter days to strengthen them and encourage them for the battle to take back the earth and establish His literal kingdom and government right here on earth. K. W. Hancock

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March 22, 2013 · 3:06 pm

YahwehistheSavior.com Website Discontinued–Content Now Found Here

The Yahwehisthesavior.com website has been discontinued because of unresolved technical difficulties.

The site held my two books, Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality and The Unveiling of the Sons of God.

These books, first published as trade paperbacks in 1999 and 2001, will be featured online in their entirety on this site, ImmortalityRoad.wordpress.com . They can be found at the top of the home page. I currently have Yah Is Savior completely up and will have The Unveiling up in the next few days.

I am sorry for any inconvenience. KWH

Add to Your Faith Virtue–God’s Strength and Power (2 Peter 1: 5)

We must add certain spiritual qualities to our faith in God if we are to grow up into the manifested sons and daughters of God. We found that out in II Peter 1. Our faith in God needs to be shored up; it needs to become stronger in order to conquer and “quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.” We will only “partake of the divine nature” if we add these things. And the first to be added to our faith is virtue.

But what exactly does this word “virtue” really mean? It is an English word, after all. We could look it up in Webster’s Dictionary, but we would only find what it means to the English speaking mind, distilled down through the centuries. We would see that it is from the Old French virtu, which came from the Latin virtus, meaning “strength, courage, virtue.” It has come down to us meaning “moral excellence…active quality or power…manly strength or courage; valor.”

And so we dig still deeper, believing that this study is important and expedient, for we simply must know what “virtue” means. We are trying to “study to show ourselves approved unto God,” as we are admonished to do. Without study, we will not be approved.

The English word “virtue” was translated, of course, not from Latin, but from the Greek. So what was that Greek word that the King James scholars translated “virtue”? The Strong’s Concordance shows us that it was arete, #703 [http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G703&t=KJV]. Consulting Thayer’s Lexicon on that page, we see that arete denotes power stemming from moral excellence and goodness. It relates to God’s power, perfection, and excellence.

We get a further picture of “virtue” by looking up “virtuous” and “valor” in the Hebrew [http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2428&t=KJV]. We see “strength, power, might.” The Hebrew word #2428 is used many times in the phrase “mighty man of valour.” Also, it is translated as “host” as in a large army of mighty warriors. It is rendered “strength” in David’s prayer to God, “For Thou hast girded me with strength to battle” (II Samuel 22: 40).

We need to stop and reflect here and not pass over this lightly. These words in II Samuel are inspired. They are the Scriptures of truth that Paul studied, and he said by the Spirit: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness…” Why? To what purpose do we need those old books back there in the “Old Testament”? “That the man of God may be perfect…”

Perfect. Complete spiritual maturity. These passages, like this one in Samuel, teach us lessons that will help us add the “divine nature” to our faith in God. It is for the same purpose of perfection and glorification, which is the fulfillment of His promise to us of immortality.

Looking at the Picture that “Virtue” is Painting for Us

We see “virtue” as not just power. No. It is the strength and power of God, emanating right out of His very heart through His Spirit into ours. It is He; it is a part of His divine nature; it is all about His strength and power stemming from His excellent goodness. This then is His power, which gives us now the strength and ability to go on the offensive against the devil and his tricks that block our road to immortality.

Let’s go back to David speaking to Yahweh. In this song of praise, David thanks God for His strength and power in overcoming mightily all of his enemies. He thanks God for His goodness, and then details in much “war” imagery his exploits over the enemy. This picture of a warlike attitude is a real key for us in understanding just what virtue is. David’s inspired prayer shows us the spiritual application through his physical earthly accomplishments.

The First Step

First, David declares his complete trust in Yahweh, recalling how he called on Him in his despair and how God answered (verses 1-17). David says that God did deliver him, but it was “according to my righteousness…and cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me” (v. 21). David first had to be right with God, on the same spiritual page, “a man after God’s own heart.” “I kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God” (v. 22). That is the first step that we need. Walk on in His faith. Trust in Him. And then get ready to go on the offense like King David does in the following verses.

And now the war imagery looms as David spiritually attacks his enemies. “God is my strength and power…I have run through a troop…He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. Thou hast given me a shield of thy salvation…I have pursued mine enemies [read: doubt, fear, unbelief, impatience, et al], and destroyed them (v. 31-38).

Wait. Let’s savor this. “Pursued mine enemies.” He went on the offensive! He did not just sit on the couch waiting for fear and doubt and unbelief to maybe take a holiday. Would you please leave me alone, guys? I don’t appreciate these ugly thoughts I have been having lately.” No!

David “pursued” those negative thoughts and “destroyed them”! Furthermore, David “consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise…” Wouldn’t that be wonderful–to have all negativity consumed and wounded so that it just was not able to rear its ugly head up in our minds ever again?

That’s adding virtue to your faith.

But David’s not through. He knows where the strength and power is coming from. “They are fallen under my feet. For thou hast girded me with strength to battle.” It was Yahweh that subdued his enemies under him (v. 39-40).

And finally, David says, “Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Yahweh…and I will sing praises to thy name” (v. 50).

Our Spiritual Application

This song of David is so rich, reaching even unto prophetic strains that depict a vision of the Kingdom Age in all its glory. And yes, we are in that vision. But we see here now for our present edification a picture of just what virtue does when added to our faith. “Faith without works is dead.” Without virtue added, faith/belief/assurance just sits passively on the couch “waiting for the world to change.” To the contrary, we His sons and daughters must “put on the whole armor of God” (Eph. 6: 11-18). This same war imagery is used by Paul in Ephesians, that we “may be able to withstand all the wiles of the devil.” We must put the armor of the Spirit of God on and take the fight to our adversary.

“Add to your faith virtue…” This first addition to the faith, then, is an offensive weapon given to us by God to go with our trust-faith-assurance in Him. “Virtue” then is that quality of valor, that makes us like the mighty men of war as David was. They were men of strength. Mighty men. Strong men and women in the Spirit, pro-active in their attacks on the enemy. This all comes in realizing that it is God Almighty who does all this conquering–not only for us, but also in and through us.

Yet, the question will arise in hearts: But how do you add it to your faith? Answer: You add virtue to your faith–by faith. The Master said it simply. “Ask and it shall be given…When you pray, believe that you receive, and you shall have whatsoever you ask.” Now that we know what “virtue” is, we “reckon it done,” for in God’s mind, He already sees us having it. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 25, 2012 · 6:12 pm

God’s Chosen People–The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel

In these latter days, God is searching for His people. The unenlightened will respond, saying that the people known as Jews today are His people, so no problem finding them.

But they are wrong. 85% of today’s Jews did not spring from the loins of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel [1]. They are not the “lost sheep of the House of Israel” that Christ was only sent to, but are of a Turko-Mongol tribe known as the Khazars who converted en masse to Judaism at the heighth of their power during the Middle Ages.

These people are not God’s chosen people who He scattered in 721 B.C. and 603 B.C.–the House of Israel (ten tribes) and the House of Judah (two tribes), respectively. Yahweh likens His chosen people to sheep, the sheep of His pasture.

And although they strayed and sinned against Him and He scattered them, He is jealous in His watching care over them, having something wonderful planned for them at the end of this age.

Our job as His elect, is to sift through all the information out there, both true and false, and share the truth with those who are slated to come into His government, His kingdom.

But some teachers are persisting on teaching falsehoods and lies about God’s plan and purpose, about the endtimes, and about just who His people are.

In the scriptures, He refers to the religious leaders of the 12 tribes of Israel down through the centruies as “the shepherds of Israel.” These shepherds–the rabbis, pastors, ministers, priests, evangelists, prophets, teachers, and pastors–have not fed the flock of Yahweh with His truth. In fact, they have hidden the truth about Yahweh’s identity, His name and its significance and meaning, and His plan and purpose in reproducing Himself in this earth in His elect.

Another Gospel

They have substituted “another gospel,” another name, and another false vision that does not agree with the prophets’ and apostles’ vision of Yah in His kingdom glory.

Furthermore, these false shepherds grow rich from His people. They fleece the people of their money, deceiving them into supporting a system that churns out falsehoods, misconceptions, and myths about the Creator.

Because of all this, Yahweh through the prophet Ezekiel prophesied against these shepherds. “Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?” (34: 2). He is saying, You profit from my people, but you don’t do anything good for them. You don’t feed them; you don’t comfort the sick or gather the lost. “But with force and cruelty have you ruled them” (v. 3-4).

And because of you wicked pastors, my sheep were scattered and “wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill…upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them” (v. 5-6). No one eaten up by the world system cares about the “lost sheep of the House of Israel,” who Jesus/Yahshua said He was only sent to. What great importance He placed upon them! Christ’s Spirit through the apostle James wrote his book to them! “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.” To the twelve tribes that were already by then, 700 years 0n, scattered “north and west” of Jerusalem. James’ mind was thinking the same thoughts as his Master Jesus/Yahshua. He knew that he was sent to the lost sheep.

Should we think that all the other apostles were any less mindful of these “lost sheep of the House of Israel”? This proves that the above message delivered by the Holy Ghost through His prophet Ezekiel about His sheep and their false shepherds was far-reaching, spanning many centuries, even to the end of our age!

And so the Spirit has a message for the sheep and their false shepherds today. “O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD (Yahweh)…Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand…” And the false pastors will stop feeding My people, and they will stop making their living from them. “For I will deliver my flock from their mouth” (v. 7-10). Falling into the hands of the living God is a fearful thing! I would not want the Creator to be angry with me and be against me because I was teaching false doctrines!

God Is Searching for His Lost Sheep

Yahweh goes on to say that “I will search my sheep, and seek them out.” God will find them where they are scattered all over this world. He will feed them with truth, seeking out His lost ones. They are lost, for they know not who they are; they do not know that they are the descendants of the Twelve Tribes of Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel. They not only do not know who they are, they do not know that God Almighty is seeking them out.

Yes, He is seeking them out by first placing in them a hunger and a need to know their spiritual roots. Meanwhile, God is placing in the hearts of true shepherds the true knowledge of His plan and purpose, and they will with the Great Shepherd at the helm teach the lost sheep about Him and His kingdom and how He is regathering and restoring His people to the original prominence they once had with Him.

God will find them where they are scattered all over the earth. He will heal them and save them, and will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even His servant David (v. 23). Yes, King David in his new spiritual body will be over us in the kingdom. Christ is coming back to establish His government of the entire earth. There will be peace in His kingdom and “showers of blessing” will fall on the land for His people (v. 26).

To be a part of this, we, the sheep of His pasture, must prove all things out that are taught to us. Question everything and pray for God’s guidance in proving a teaching–whether it is true or false. We must dig deep, very deep into the spiritual matters if we want to reign with Him at the end of this age. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

1. See Arthur Koestler’s The Thirteeneth Tribe

http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/koestlerindex.htm http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Tribe

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars

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May 28, 2012 · 1:16 am

Be Established in the Present Truth–Walking in God’s Faith

The body of Christ, the church, is admonished to “be established in the present truth.” We are to be in a stable walk with God that is called “the present truth.”

But what is this “present truth”? To find the answer, we have to go back to Pilate’s question, “What is truth?”

Of course, the answer to that question was looking back at Pilate. The Son of God said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” He is the “Word made flesh” dwelling among us. Truth is expressed in words, and Jesus/Yahshua is the living Word, the living expression of God’s thought, “the expressed image of the invisible God.” He is the embodiment of the expression of the will and Word/Logos of God. He is the truth. He is “full of grace and truth, and we are to be established in “the present truth.” We are to be stable in Him, the Truth, and we are to be stable in Him in the present–right now.

Since Christ is the truth, then how are we to be established in Him presently–right now? We arrive at spiritual stability right now by faith. For it is all by faith, by belief. But the word “faith” is one of those worn-out words that mean so many different things to people that its original meaning is lost.

“Now faith is…” Can we believe right now what He said without first seeing the evidence of its ultimate fruition? Can we believe His words when He said, “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world” (Matt. 28: 20). His Spirit is with us though we cannot see it, for it operates like the wind which leaves behind evidence of its presence.

You can feel your skin cool as the wind breathes across your face. You can see the leaves murmur and quiver at its presence. So it is at this very moment with the Spirit–Him. He is breathing in and even through us. Yet we cannot see Him, for He is an invisible Spirit with great power to move things like the wind. “I am with you always,” He said. It takes faith to walk in this knowledge.

Faith of our Father Abraham

But how does His faith work? That’s right. It is His faith, not ours, that He has given us to work with. When we come to some knowledge of the truth, we must “reckon” it so, or count it as done. We should have confidence in doing this, for it is His word that we are reckoning done.

For the scripture says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness.” In other words, our father of the faith believed what God said to him concerning having a son through Sarah–against all odds–and God considered Abraham righteous in His eyes because he believed Him when He said that Sarah, his elderly and barren wife, would have a son.

Abraham had to reckon it so–even though what God had promised was against everything that his five senses told him. When God told him to sacrifice this miracle son Isaac a few years later, Abraham could have questioned God saying, “Wait a minute, God. You promised that through Isaac I would have countless heirs. If I kill him, that will be impossible, and your word will not come to pass.” He could have used human reasoning, “leaning unto his own understanding.”

So what was in Abraham’s heart that led him to the mountaintop, knife in hand, intent on sacrificing his son Isaac? Was he just another brainwashed religious nut, or did he hold the secret to the very key that unlocks all the spiritual mysteries and riches of God?

He had the secret to faith, and it is this: He believed that since God had told him to sacrifice Isaac, even though he did not understand it, God would evidently raise up Isaac from the dead after the sacrifice was completed. For God had previously said that “in Isaac shall thy seed be called.” God had said that through his son Isaac, his seed would be innumerable as the stars of the heaven. “And he believed in the LORD/Yahweh; and He counted it to him for righteousness” (Gen. 15: 5-6; Rom. 4: 3).

Abraham believed God, “who quickens the dead, and calls those things that be not as though they were” (Rom. 4: 17).

Now, now, this same righteousness, this same state of being right with God, is ours–by the same faith that Abraham exhibited “if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus/Yahshua from the dead” (4: 24).

For we are the ones now in Isaac’s place, “presenting our bodies a living sacrifice.” And by believing that God will raise us up from the dead after we take our sinful hearts to the cross and let them die there with Christ, we can “walk in a newness of life” with His invisible Spirit as our heartbeat. We can walk in a righteous state like the patriarchs and prophets and apostles did centuries ago. By faith. By calling “those things that be not as though they were.”

This is how we will “be established in the present truth.” This is how we will please God. For “without faith it is impossible to please Him.”

We start out in His walk by believing in His resurrection in us. But believing for our new heart is just the beginning. As His Spirit grows in us, we will eventually believe God for the big one: We will look “for a city, whose builder and maker is God”–just like Abraham believed Him and looked for that same city. And that is the New Jerusalem, the literal heavenly city that will sit down on the exact spot on the earth–on the very land that God promised to our father Abraham!

“Believest thou this?” Kenneth Wayne Hancock [For much more on this, check out my books which you can find at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”]

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December 10, 2011 · 4:07 pm

Back to the Father’s Heart–The Eternal Purpose in a Bedtime Story

Chapter 25 of the Book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality

[I wrote the following bedtime story for my grandson Cody Hancock. I wanted him to know the truth about creation, about the Creator and His plan and purpose.]

Long, long ago, before the earth or the heavens were, God, the Supreme Being, existed. He was and is the Self-existent One and needed nothing else to sustain His life, for He is Life itself. He was and is the great, wonderful, invisible Spirit. And in the beginning, He realized that even though He was great and all-powerful and magnificent, He was alone.

He knew that He could be any way He wanted to be and make happen anything He wanted to see happen. He could create things only to destroy them and watch the fires consume them, or He could create beautiful things, things with meaning, things that would endure forever. So He had to make a choice whether to be a mean, selfish destructive creator/destroyer or to be a sharing, compassionate, kind and loving creator/sustainer. So He looked inside the core of His Spirit and heart and recognized immediately that there was nothing but Love inside. All He wanted was to share and give and spread around this goodness and peace that was His essence. His nature was Love.

And because He was and is Love, He wanted to share His essence with someone else. That is the nature of true love—sharing and giving. Having all power and able to do anything that His nature of love could dictate, He began His creative power by making the Original Form.

Now this Original Form was a body composed of spirit. Our bodies are made of earth, dust, and clay. His was a body that could not die, for it was made of His essence, which is Life. It was an immortal, spiritual body through which He could speak and listen and make Himself known. He could speak the Word now that would show and express what was His essence. This was the form that He chose to express Himself through.

Through the mouth of His spiritual body He could express in a word what was inside Him. And this word that He could now express was “Love.” In the beginning was the Word and that Word is Love. He could now speak through His own mouth the things in His heart. He could speak into existence the heavens and the earth.

He would create magnificent stars set in a universal expanse so vast and wonderful. He would create a home called Heaven for Himself and the helpers He would create. He would create a special star of undying energy and warmth, a star we call the Sun. He would create on a plane of physical existence a planet that would revolve around that warmth, a planet perfect for a special life He would soon create for His own purposes.

And so He said, “Let the galaxies with their stars and planets appear.” And it happened! And as He framed the worlds and created the heavens and the earth He kept in mind His ultimate purpose for making all things. He wanted to reproduce Himself. He wanted to multiply Himself. He desired to multiply Himself as the seeds of the earth produce their own kind of fruit.

And so He thought and thought about ways in which to express and demonstrate just what was inside His heart. He asked, “How do I show just what I, Love, am about?”

So He looked around at the absolutely astounding heavens that He had created. And He said, “They are good. They are beautiful, but yet, they cannot appreciate who made them and the love wherewith they were made. For they cannot feel, think or love in return.”

And so He thought and thought some more and came up with a plan. “I will create a living creature, a human being out of the dust of one of my planets called earth. I will create him with the mental and spiritual sensibilities and capabilities to be able to comprehend just who I am and what I am about–which is Love.”

And He said, “But I will need helpers, emissaries, and messengers to help me carry out my plan to reproduce Myself. I will create immortal angels, composed of spirit, and they will assist me in ministering to the needs of the human beings.” And so He created the heavenly hosts and instructed them and assigned a third of them to the planet earth to prepare it for His crowning creation. And He called His crowning creation Adam, meaning in His original Hebrew tongue, “to show blood in the face, to flush or turn rosy, to be made red or ruddy.” In our language he is called “Man.”

Over this third part of the angels He sent one of His arch-angels whose name has come down to us as Lucifer. Lucifer knew that God had a plan to reproduce Himself and that the earth was the place for this reproduction. But the archangel said in his heart, “I will ascend and be like the most high God. I want to be like God. I’m already immortal, I’m beautiful, and I don’t see why it can’t be us, who are doing all the work during the heat and length of the day. It is not fair.”

And so Lucifer became Satan and led the angels that were with him into rebelling against the Creator who had brought them into existence and had included them in His plan. These angels made a choice to rebel and so sin entered into the universe. Pride goes before a fall. But God knew beforehand what would happen.

And so they ascended up from earth to heaven to try to overthrow the Creator. Lucifer and his angels fought against Michael and His angels. After the greatest battle the galaxies will ever see, the faithful angels overcame the evil ones, who were cast out of heaven back to the earth.

After the heavenly dust had settled, the Creator went on to the next step of His master plan. He still, however, did not have in place what He needed to express Himself and multiply Himself.

So He thought and thought some more, and He continued His plan. He said, “In order to reproduce my nature of Love, I must testify as to what the greatest Love can be. Now there is no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends. But I am a Spirit dwelling in a spiritual body, and I cannot die in this form, for I am immortal.

And then it came to Him. He would give up His life on His throne in heaven and would come to earth and dwell with his crowning creation, man, in a human body like theirs! He would walk among them and love them and care for them and show them how to do what He does and show them by His life what He is, which is Love.

He would heal their sick and raise their dead, and He would give them the example they needed in order for them to love like Him. He would be clothed in flesh for a time. He would walk humbly, knowing that it was the Great Spirit of Love within Him that was doing the works of love. And then He would do the ultimate act that would show Love; He would die for his creation; He would give up that human life He was walking in and then three days later, He would raise it from the dead. He would do this willingly and lovingly.

In doing this He would accomplish many things. It would set an example for man to follow. It would provide a perfect sacrifice to atone for man’s sins. And it would defeat His arch-enemy Satan on earth. And God would defeat Satan when God was at His weakest, in a human death. And He would show His most excellent power in raising His body from the dead. And then He would glorify that body that He had walked in and had laid down in death. He would change it into a spiritual body, an immortal body. And He would promise man that if they followed Him in spiritually laying down their lives for others, they would receive immortality also.

Yet the most astounding, beautiful, wonderful thing about this is that this glorified spiritual body of His that He raised from the dead, that body now is the same body that He originally made for Himself in the heavens before the worlds ever were created!

For He is the Beginning and the Ending, the first and the last, the root and offspring of David, the Alpha and the Omega. He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

The 100 Fold Fruit Bearers in God’s Kingdom

Chapter 21 of the book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality

Knowing about the 100 fold fruit bearers is crucial in order to understand Yahweh’s plan to reproduce Himself. What is the purpose of a seed? Obviously, it is to reproduce itself. His plan then is reproduction of Himself because He is the Seed, the original Seed. He wants to reproduce Love. He wants to reproduce Joy. He wants to fill all the earth with Himself—“the fullness of Him that fills all in all.”

Understanding that there are many mansions in the Father’s house is crucial in understanding His plan of reproducing Himself. Some people will be children in His plan. Perfect little blades of grass. “First the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.” And some will grow to near completion. And some will grow in Him so much that the Seed will reproduce Himself in them! It will be Yahweh HIMSELF in human form—again! There will be absolutely no realization in those individuals that they exist other than it is Him living in them fully. The following passages will show that “each seed bears its own kind.”

We are talking about the “secrets kept from the foundation of the world.” He is the Word, the Seed. And He is about to reveal His greatest secret. Now the secret (parable) is this:

“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God…In the beginning was the Word…and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us”…Luke 8:11. John 1:1, 14. The Seed, the Word, took on a human flesh body and lived and walked among us. We become heirs of God by the faith of Abraham. Some of us are not only the fleshly posterity of Abraham but also the spiritual heirs of promise by believing. It was to “Abraham and to his seed were the promises made.” And receiving this truth leads us into what is His plan to reproduce Himself.

Yahweh has a special ground, a special piece of earth to place Himself, the Word, the Seed, into. In the parable of the sower, the seed, the word, fell into the good ground of a good and honest heart. He has a special ground, a special piece of earthly dust (human flesh) that He pours the seed into, to reproduce the seed. And that is what all of Genesis is about. That is what all of the first five books, the torah is about. That is what all of the scriptures are about.

With all this in mind, this is the message: Yahweh wants to reproduce Himself in a 100 fold capacity in a special body of believers, the elect, the sons and daughters of God. That does not mean that they are the only ones in His kingdom! There are also, according to Yahshua, some who will bear 60 fold fruit, and some who will bear 30 fold fruit. They are in his kingdom, but they are not to be the manifested sons, the kings of the “King of kings.”

The elect will come through a special people, carefully nurtured unto Himself, even though Adam, the first of the line, sinned. Yahweh, through His foreknowledge, knew that this would happen and, consequently, had already made provisions for Adam’s offspring to fulfill His plan (through “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”). He meticulously kept their line pure, forbidding them to marry the other peoples they lived among. Remember Abraham when he made Eliezer swear unto Yahweh that he would not take a wife for Isaac from any other nation than Abraham’s own people. Also, what did Rebecca, the wife of Isaac say when Jacob her son was going out to find a wife? She was trembling, stricken with fear, when she said to him, “My whole life will be in vain if you go and take a daughter of the strangers in our midst” (Of course, that was exactly what Esau, Jacob’s twin, did).

But why would she feel this way? Because she knew Yahweh’s purpose in having a special seed line in the earth—a lineage of people chosen for Him to reproduce Himself through. This special line of people in the earth was “the apple of God’s eye.”

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