Dear Brethren,

Greetings and shalom in the wonderful names of Yahweh and Yahshua. I pray that all are well and prospering. I just returned on early Friday morning from the Philippines in one of the most productive, spirit filled trips that I have ever been blessed to take. I was accompanied by Joseph Miller a deacon from our Houston Texas congregation.

The trip started by landing in Manila late Wednesday January 25th after around a 32 hour trip from Israel. I managed to get a few hours of sleep before we were off to a baptism of 4 new members into the family of Yahweh. What a joy to start a trip like this with having a baptism right away.

After this, we continued to the home of our congregational leader from the Philippines, elder Orland Alcasid, who also travelled with me and accompanied me throughout the trip. Their worship hall was full with zealous brethren who had come to greet me and welcome us on our trip.

The next day after a coordination meeting with the team we headed for the airport and flew to the south island of Bohol. A delegation of brethren picked us up from the airport with our security personal and we headed to meet the brethren from their complex, which was about 2 hours away. After greetings and dinner we got some needed rest on erev Shabbat and prepared for the Sabbath meeting the next morning.

The Sabbath was amazing. Brethren and elders came from all over the province and many came by boat to meet us. They were so excited, it is even hard to express in words the joy that I felt seeing the love and zeal that the Filipinos have for myself and the work of Yahweh from Jerusalem. They had printed large banners welcoming us and the Sabbath meeting which usually has about 30 to 40 brethren was somewhere up around 200 on this most special event. There was a baptism in the afternoon and 7 precious souls joined the family of Yahweh that day. Afterward, the brethren stayed to take pictures from the multiple congregations and provinces that were represented on this most special Sabbath.

I shared with them in my message what a special time that we live in to see Yahweh fulfilling His promises to the sons of Abraham and the redemption of Israel in these latter days. To think that more than 2700 years ago our fore-fathers were cast out of the land of Israel for idolatry and Sabbath breaking and now in this last generation, Yahweh is restoring all things and calling His people back from the four corners of the earth. I was also blessed to share with them the blessing of the Ambassadors for Israel program and the major door that Yahweh has opened up to be able to bring brethren to Israel and to stay and volunteer there.

Many of the brethren there filled out applications to come to the program this year and stay as a volunteer. I have never seen such excitement in my life for people to be willing to leave everything behind and come and serve here in Israel as volunteers in the land. Many were nurses and medical professionals and the thought of being able to stay in the Holy Land was overwhelming to them.

We also had an elders meeting to distribute the funds that so many donated for the typhoon victims from the south. I want to thank everyone again who donated to the brethren who lost homes and even a few their lives to this terrible storm that hit in December. We allocated the aid based on how severe each situation was and we have started a relief fund for such circumstances for the future if anyone who like to donate to. I was most impressed and touched that all the elders and leaders in the Philippines expressed their 100% support for my leadership from Israel and the work of Yahweh that is being administrated from the Promised Land. It is so refreshing to see all of our leadership so united and focused on the work ahead of us. We left from there that evening and went by boat to Cebu province where we were greeted at the airport by one of the leaders of the congregation there who has been a respected attorney for more than 40 years. After getting some sleep we went early the next morning on the first day of the week to do a live radio program from a local radio station. The brethren there have had this radio broadcast for more than 11 years each Sunday morning, but this was the first ever live broadcast. Since, so many listeners called in so excited about my being on the program they extended the program to an hour and one half to be able to take questions and answers from the audience.

The program was amazing and many many people called in both during the program and afterward to say how much they enjoyed it. Afterward, we went back to Cebu to meet the congregation there. Here, also, many guests came and they had almost tripled their usual meeting with about 100 people in attendance. Once again, the zeal of these brethren was breath taking and they were also so amazingly happy when they heard about the volunteer program and many wanted to sign up for the ambassador training and volunteering program on the spot. There was also a judge from the court who was a sister in the congregation who signed up her daughter who has a nursing degree to come to Israel. When we left to the airport almost the whole congregation came with us and even sang hatikva (Israeli national anthem) at the airport before we left. It was most comforting to me in a time when so many are in an anti leadership, Laodicean attitude and spirit to see such joy and happiness and excitement for Yahweh’s leadership and work from Israel.

We flew back to Manila and met with Sister Grace Gupana who was organizing our 2 day seminar outside of Manila that week. We had some of our local brethren come to the seminar, but mostly it was made up of brand new people and even quite a few Christian Sunday pastors who were present. The spirit of Yahweh was truly moving as my first message was on the name of Yahweh and Yahshua and showing from scripture that the names of ‘god’ and ;jesus’ were not the name of the creators. Truly Yahweh anointed the meetings as I continued to show how Yahweh’s Torah is binding on our lives in the New Covenant and I was also blessed to speak over the two days on the changing of the Old Covenant to the New and the difference of if one was “called”, to “chosen” to “faithful”.

The results were simply amazing and Yahweh truly poured His spirit on the meetings that we had. One local Pastor who was part of the board of bishops of all evangelicals from that denomination worldwide was so impressed and believed the message that he called his superiors who were having a worldwide conference at that time and had me invited to speak to 20 top Christian evangelical bishops about the work of Yahweh from Jerusalem. I gladly excepted and we went and after hearing me speak they gladly gave the hand of friendship and offered to host a Christian conference for me to speak in the future on the true names of Yahweh and Yahshua as well as the true Sabbath and also the torah.

It was amazing how powerful Yahweh’s spirit was moving, as several other Pastors also accepted the message of the true good news that Yahshua brought and want to come for formal training at the bible school this year. Actually, there are so many Christians that are coming to faith there that I will probably have to do a separate program here just for them. Praise Yah.

After the conference was over we had a question and answer period for more than 2 hours and the people were so excited with their questions and we could not even finish answering all the questions that they had due to time elements.

We had roughly about 120 people at the conference and about one quarter of them wanted baptism counseling and to be baptized into the name of Yahshua and Yahweh into His covenant family. Praise Yahweh that we have such strong leadership in our congregations in the Philippines and that elder Orland and the other elders there can counsel and help these people to enter covenant with Yahweh. Sister Grace had also set up a private dinner with the Ambassador from Israel to the Philippines in which I and the Ambassador were the guests of honor to officially launch the Hebraic Roots bibles in the Philippines. It was a very touching ceremony where a group from Graces’ team also made a dedication that night to prepare in their lives to become the bride of Messiah and to be a chaste bride for Him. Sister Grace is an amazing person and Yahweh has used her to open many doors in the Philippines. She is in the Guinness World Book of records for more than 10 different things including the largest 10 commandment plaques in the world and also creating the largest flag in the world which was a 4 ½ ton flag of the lion of Judah with the Filipino flag that I was blessed to open with her in Teddy Kolleck stadium 2 years ago in Jerusalem with the mayor.

Sister Grace informed me that the King of Nigeria had received a copy of the Hebraic Roots Bible that Yahweh blessed me to translate and he was so impressed by it that he wants to make it the official translation of Nigeria. She invited me to a special ceremony in Nigeria next month where the president and his 37 kingly advisors will be presented with 37 Ark of the Covenant replicas each one having a copy of the Hebraic Roots Bible in it. This will formally launch the Hebraic Roots Bible in Nigeria. Brethren, I can’t tell you how amazingly exciting this trip was for both me and Joseph Miller who accompanied me. We were both fully amazed at the love, zeal and dedication that the Filipino brethren displayed while we were there. Right now we have about 54 congregations and more than 7,000 brethren (including families) in the Philippines and the Philippines is the fastest growing work of Yahweh in the world right now. I also want to publicly thank Joseph Miller and Orland Alcasid, as well as Ephraim Licayan and our other leaders in the Philippines who helped to make this trip so successful. However, we are seeing Yahweh’s blessing also all over Africa as the work is growing in Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan, Uganda and South Africa and then spilling off in neighboring countries. Now with this major door opening in Nigeria the work is ready to explode also on the African continent. We also continue to get positive reports from central and South America and other parts of the world.

Yahweh’s word states; Mat 24:14 And this good news of the Kingdom shall be published in all the earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. In many bibles they wrongly translate the word “publish” as “preached” and think that this worldwide preaching is through one particular church or ministry. This is incorrect. The word should properly be translated as published and is speaking about the very word of Yahweh being published worldwide, and I believe that the Hebraic Roots bible is in part fulfilling this scripture. Yahweh has truly put an open door before His work that No man can shut.

Rev 3:7 And to the messenger of the congregation in Philadelphia, write: These things says the Holy One, the True One, "The One having the key of David, the One opening, and no one shuts; and shuts, and no one opens:" (Isa. 22:22)

Rev 3:8 I know your works. Behold, I have given a door being opened before you, and no one is able to shut it, for you have a little strength and have kept My Word, and have not denied My name.

They asked me about this verse while I was in the Philippines as the 7th day Adventists and other corporate Churches have tried to use this verse to explain their own personal works, but clearly the verse states they have NOT denied His name. In these last days that we are living in it is Yahweh who will get the glory for the amazing thing that He is doing in redeeming the sons of Israel back to Him (Is48:20) and redeeming the land of Israel from its enemies. I invite all to join with me in this great end time work from Jerusalem and to be part of the wonderful blessing that Yahweh is pouring out on His children in these last days. Mic 4:2 And many nations shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of YAHWEH, and to the house of the Elohim of Jacob. And He will teach us from His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For the Torah shall go forth out of Zion, and the Word of YAHWEH from Jerusalem.

B’Shem Yahshua,

Don