Ted Walther's Private Diary

Wow! Two years ago in a sermon, I talked about an imaginary country where everyone obeyed God's laws. One of the things I saw was many small dams for hydroelectric power and irrigation. I saw this strictly as a result of respecting property rights, as God said "thou shalt not sell thy land, even forever". Now tonight, I was listening to tape two of George Gordon's series on Harvesting Rainwater. (You can listen to his tape series here. Would you believe it, he said that a dam that harvested the water from 1 hectare, or 2.5 acres, would collect 95 cubic meters of water. 345 hectare watershed 24 cubic meters. By jumping from one hectare to three hundred and fourty five hectares, you lose 75% of the rainwater that falls in that watershed! The source of George Gordon's information is Michael Evenari, from the book "Making Water Everybody's Business". These rainfall collection figures come from the Negev desert of Israel, where they only have four inches of rainfall per year.

The conclusion? Not only can you collect more water with many small dams, instead of giant government funded Hoover dams, but by obeying the Law of God, you can get more electric power, more crops, more population, and more POWER! All river water comes from rainfall. God said clearly that he is in control of rain. Men have been trying to control the weather for fifty years. They have made many experiments, project HAARP, cloud seeding, and similar. But it has not been called a science yet. Why? Not because the air is so hard to predict. But because God has angels watching over the weather, and they do as God directs, not as man directs.

People that love to gossip will tell you that chemtrails are an attempt by the government to ruin the weather and kill lots of people. This is wrong. The governments are frantically trying to SAVE the people from the effects of their sins. The chemtrails are in the skies to give us better weather. But they aren't working. יהוה God Almighty is in firm control of the weather. Every time the government scientists think they have the weather under control, they find out they were wrong. If only they would acknowledge that the skies belong to God, and that sinners must repent, or be punished. By trying to manipulate the weather against the wishes of יהוה, the government IS putting itself in the place of God. This is blasphemy.

The Hebrew word OSR (ayin shin resh) is today pronounced for similar to how Aesir is pronounced. It sounds something like Aye-sir, spoken quickly, and with the emphasis on the first syllable. OSR means "ten" in Hebrew. We know the northern Ten Tribes of Israel were scattered around the world. Could the Viking legends of their descent from the Aesir be a recollection of their flight out of the Assyrian empire long ago? Could their very name carry the meaning of "ten tribes"? If true, then a brief study of Viking religion will show the depths of depravity that the Israelites sank into. This is why we were sent into Exile.

This also fits in with the Viking tales of the Vanir, who fought with the Aesir. The Vanir lived around lake Van in Turkey. The Israelites had to pass through the Vanir as they migrated West from Assyria. Lake Van was the historical location of Urartu, literally translated as "the highlands" in old Akkadian.

Tim McHyde is a former Worldwider, who has published an excellent book on end times prophecy. In the middle of it, he takes a few pages to show what the true pronunciation of the Almighty's name is. If you have any interest in calling on our Sovereigns name, you will find his article short, punchy, and full of good information. You can read it here: Calling on the Sacred Name. The article is so short, I don't want to duplicate it here; find the truth about the shockingly brazen lie claiming that vowels of "Adonai" are those of יהוה. Or the lie that יהוה comes from the word "destruction".

Tim McHyde's book is called Know the Future — A Breakthrough in Bible Prophecy. Tim's book is worth a read. If you only buy one book on Bible prophecy this year, let it be Tim's. This book makes my all-time top ten list of Bible prophecy books. I don't agree with him 100%, but I like his approach and methodology. Tim has a lot of other interesting things at his website, Escape All These Things, a site dedicated to end times prophecy. He debunks the pre-trib rapture handily, and puts the post-trib rapture in a light you may have never seen before.

Tim McHyde's book also includes a section called the Mystery of Disunity. Why is the Church of God so disunited? Why can't we all get together, agree on right doctrine, and get along? Tim gives this a dynamite explanation. And it agrees with what I've been telling people for several years; until יהוה sends a prophet to teach us the correct law and lead us out of bondage like Moses did, we will stay scattered and hidden among all the peoples of the world. But Tim goes into much more detail, with full scriptural references for his positions.

Two more days until Pesach. Hope your sheep is being "kept up" already. A friend sent in this photo. Isn't that lamb a beauty?

Today the Reactor Core Reference Library makes available the full text of Partner of Nature, by Luther Burbank (1939). Luther Burbank was famous for his experiments in plant breeding and hybridising. Luther explains his techniques and mindset. As you learn more about how plants are hybridised and their seed is "mixed", I hope you will understand the Bible better. The Biblical word for adultery actually means to mix seed, to pollute, to make something impure. Hybridising plants is adultery. Luther Burbank is one of America's most famous adulterers. Here is some recent correspondence on the topic of mixed seed:

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From: Jeff

Hey Ted, Shalom.

Can you tell me where in Torah it says that I cannot plant to different crops in the same field? I have been searching and I cannot find anything that says that. Thanks.

From: Ted

Deuteronomy 22:9 and Leviticus 19:19 both say it. [ … ] Ciao.

Leviticus 19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Deuteronomy 22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

From: Jeff

Both of these seem to be saying that we are not to sow a field with seeds that have been crossbred. Not to cross-breed your animals seed, nor your crops seed and not to intertwine different threads together. This is what it seems to be saying. It does not appear to be saying not to plant olives next to grapevines. What you think? Agree or not? Jeff

From: Ted

Hi Jeff. You are right about the purpose being to not cross breed the plants. To understand what the real dangers of cross breeding are, I recommend this book by Luther Burbank. Luther Burbank was the plant breeder who got the whole hybrid plant movement started in the USA. He died almost 100 years ago. It describes his experiments and HOW he made dissimilar plants breed with each other. It sounds exactly like planting them in the same field. It will take a couple hours to read through, but I am not man enough to compress the book into a five minute internet message.

http://reactor-core.org/burbank.html

There is some science to it, but in general, plants that are close to each other do tend to cross breed.

There is also the issue of adulteration, or just weights and measures. If you mix barley in with your wheat seed, then harvest it; how can you separate the barley out? If you sell it as wheat, you are short-changing your buyer, because barley is a cheaper product.

But the verse was talking specifically about a vineyard. So it isn't just weights and measures that is being talked about. Let me know what you think about Burbank's book. The man was considered the inventor of plant breeding.

From: Ted

On the olives next to grape vines issue, I ask you to imagine the harvest time. If you are harvesting olives, how can you do so without damaging the grape vines? How can you harvest the grapes when they seek at every opportunity to climb up and choke the olive tree?

I believe God is teaching us about holiness, or separation, with this law. Keeping each field restricted to one crop keeps that field "holy". Also makes it easier to harvest and manage.

Lately a phenomenon called "companion planting" has entered vogue. It is popularized by a book called Carrots Love Tomatoes. I believe it violates God's law. Healthy plants on fertile soil don't need the help that "companions" are supposed to give. We keep soil fertile by not flushing our waste into the sewer, and by practicing land sabbaths and jubilees.

From: Jeff

Does this mean that I can't graze my sheep in the same pasture as the goats? I'm just using the same standard He made for animals on the crops. What do you think?

From: Ted

Drew Thompson up in Idaho has concluded that it does mean we shouldn't graze sheep together with goats. There are stories of goats mounting sheep when they are in heat. Sort of like encouraging black people to live in communities with white people. It can be done, but the sheep always suffer.

From: Jeff

But יהוה did not tell us not to graze sheep and goats together. יהוה said not to mate them. I think there is a danger in "inventing" sins. This seems to be the same thing the Pharisees did.

From: Ted

I view this as a matter of conscience. Without a specific command, we have to go on interpretation. And we are expected to interpret the Law, otherwise we must reject the writings of the prophets. By looking at the type of reasoning the prophets used to arrive at their conclusions, we learn how to reason upon the scriptures. Ezra, Nehemiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. All these prophetic books are examples unto us of good Torah interpretation.

Until יהוה sends a prophet to correct us, we have to do the best we can. Looking more closely at Leviticus 19:19 and Deuteronomy 22, it looks like two separate commands. Leviticus 19:19 does seem to refer only to sowing hybridized seeds. But Deuteronomy seems to be talking about "companion planting", or planting the plants close to each other.

Some brothers with livestock have observed sheep, goats, and cows trying to mate with each other. I myself watched a female cow mounting a ram in the barnyard. 1 Corinthians 15:33 says Evil communications corrupt good manners. Or, another translation says: "bad association spoils useful habits". You become like the people you are around. Proverbs 13:20 says He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. When Israel entered Canaan, יהוה told them, "do not learn the ways of the people of the land, nor of the people around you". (Exodus 23:32-33) The only way to avoid learning their ways is to not be around them. (Proverbs 22:24,25; Jeremiah 10:2)

Exodus 23:32-33
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

Exodus 34:10-16
10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of יהוה: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for יהוה, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:1-6
1 When יהוה thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when יהוה thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of יהוה be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
6 For thou art an holy people unto יהוה thy God: יהוה thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Proverbs 22:24,25
24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith יהוה, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Why do we wear blue tassels? To remind us that God surrounds us and is our Shepherd. The color blue represents heaven. Also, the blue is a picture of holiness; it separates the strong, united cloth inside from the isolated, lonely fringe in the outer darkness.

When you keep your olive trees and grape vines separate, when you pasture your sheep separate from your goats, you are acting holy. When you act holy in one area of life, you are reminded to act holy in other areas of life. Our God is a Holy God. Anything we can do to be like him is good. I would not lay it down as a law upon a brother that he cannot pasture his sheep with his goats. But my current understanding is that this is now what יהוה wants us to do, so I will not.

It took fourteen days to find the time to write an article on sitting shiva. Then it took almost four hours to write. Looking at it now, you can read it in five minutes. That means fifty people need to read the article to match the time spent on it. So I hope you either enjoy it and forward it to friends, or email in corrections.

You can read it here: Sitting Shiva; Jewish Tradition, or Law of God? I hope it blesses you and that you study the clean and unclean laws thoroughly for yourself. If anyone requests it, I will make available a list of all scriptures that contain the word clean, cleanness, unclean, and uncleanness.

Being clean is especially important as Passover is coming up soon. Sanctify yourself, oh Israel, and have a great Chag Pesach.

Go to YouTube and search for "Ned Calls". These are prank phone calls from the Bubba Love Sponge radio show. If you don't laugh out loud, your money back!

Someone on the Internets asked how to kill the Passover lamb without breaking any bones. Here is my reply. I hope it helps someone out there who is looking for ways to please our Creator through obedience to his Son.

Tomorrow is day ten of the first month, so pick your lamb, an unblemished male lamb of the first year tomorrow.

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From: Jammel

Hi friend my name is Jammel and I just wanted to know where I can get a pesach lamb according to the Torah!!! I really want to keep this festival!!!

Well I can get a goat or a lamb but the problem is knowing how to properly kill the animal without any broken bones.

From: Ted

You cut the throat, just underneath the adams apple. Male sheep have one, female ewes do not. Have a sharp knife. A filet or fishing knife is good. It will slice through really easily. Just one slice. Catch the blood in a basin, use it to put on your doorposts and lintel. Put salt in the blood so it doesn't turn into jello right away. Wait two or three minutes before you skin it, so all the twitching can stop and the blood can exit.

The sheep is dead within 5 seconds, but the tremors can take up to 2 minutes to stop, if the sheep was calm. If you sever the spinal nerve by cutting too much, or if the sheep is stressed before it dies, the twitching might take up to 15 minutes to stop. So keep the sheep nice and calm. Tie it down and kill it on the ground or on a rock that hasn't been hewn by a human hand or tool.

Leave the guts in and the hooves on, but skin the lamb. Roast it on a barbecue or something. Should take a minimum of 3 hours. Turn it every fifteen minutes. You can wrap it in chicken wire if you like, to keep it from falling apart while it cooks.

Don't let the lamb eat anything for the four days before you kill it. This should clean out the guts. Make sure it has water to drink though.

Then enjoy your meal with wine and unleavened bread. Let me know how it goes! If you have any more questions, feel free to phone me at 604-435-5787.

Ted

A friend called today and asked if the Jewish custom of "sitting shiva" has a basis in the Bible. A friend of hers recently died, and she was sitting shiva with the widow. She said it just "felt right".

In the matter of sitting shiva, the Jews are close to God's ordinance. They have many ungodly traditions mixed in with it, but the core of the observance is Biblically sound. When we understand sitting shiva, we can understand a lot of the uncleanness laws that the Jews do NOT observe any more.

Shiva is the Hebrew word for the number "seven". When a person dies, their parents, children, spouse and siblings sit shiva. This means they come together in a house or location, separate from the rest of the world, and stay there for seven days after the funeral. People come to visit them, but the mourners and their visitors don't speak. There is an example of this in the Bible.

Remember when Job's friends came to visit him, and they did not speak? They were sitting shiva for the death of Job's children. The comfort came from the presence of his friends. When you are in serious torment, no words can make you feel better.

Job 2:11-13
11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

But the story does not end there. The lesson of sitting shiva is not just an imitation of Job and his comforters. Job was a righteous man, knowing God's law. Sitting shiva in the way I have described here, without the extraneous Jewish additions, is the right way to obey the law of יהוה.

Numbers 19:11
11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of יהוה; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Do you see it? If you touch the dead body of a person, or the grave of a person, you are unclean for seven days. Archeologists who deal in bones must be unclean often. Every warrior becomes unclean for seven days when he kills an enemy. If grandpa dies upstairs in his bed, you are unclean for seven days. And so, you must sit shiva.

What do you do when you are unclean? By one direct commandment, and by several examples found in Biblical statute and caselaw, we deduce that an unclean person must separate themselves from others. Why? As courtesy. It is God's gentle type of quarantine. If you touch an unclean person, you too become unclean!

Numbers 5:1-4
1 And יהוה spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as יהוה spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

The command here is to put people outside the camp. Today, we don't have walled cities. Staying confined to your house in the suburbs or countryside is the best most of us can do in the way of "going outside the camp". Under what conditions did you have to leave camp? If you were unclean because of:

• leprosy (any communicable disease, whether a common cold, or syphilis)
• running issue (if a woman gives birth or has a period)
• contact with the dead body of a person.

Here is an example of this law in action: all the warriors of Israel had to stay outside the camp for seven days.

Numbers 31:12-20
12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against יהוה in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of יהוה.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.

King David mourned for his first child with Bathsheba, the one that God killed. This shows us the principle that rulers and leaders are punished through their subjects. Parents are punished in their children. King David sinned by ordering a census; many Israelites died for his sin. King David sinned by taking another man's wife; the resulting child died. When the King sins, it may be you that suffers! Therefore, do not be afraid to warn even the king when he is about to stumble and fall into sin. Your silence could get you killed!

2 Samuel 12:13-23
13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against יהוה. And Nathan said unto David, יהוה also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of יהוה to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And יהוה struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of יהוה, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether יהוה will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

There are some things to note from this account of King David. His son died on the seventh day. This is the day before he would have been circumcised. His son died uncircumcised, outside the covenant of Israel. For it is written, a bastard shall not enter into the congregation of Israel.

Also, note well that King David fasted and mourned for seven days, but he did not sit shiva. As soon as his son died, he dressed, bathed, and went to the Tabernacle. The temple had not been built at this time. How could David do this? The answer is that his son was born in another building. In Israelite society, as in almost all polygamous societies, each wife has her own separate quarters to live in. And the man has his own separate living quarters, apart from any wife. Bathsheba was unclean, but King David was not, because he had not entered into her house. King David entered into her house to comfort her after he had worshipped at the Tabernacle, while Bathsheba was sitting shiva.

What does all this tell us about other forms of uncleanness? Do you have to go "outside the camp" when you are "unclean until even"? This is where we must use deduction. Read this story and tell me what your conclusion is:

1 Samuel 20:24-26
24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.
26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

When King David was absent from court, King Saul assumed that David was unclean. To leap to this conclusion, it must have been customary for people to isolate or quarantine themselves from others when they were unclean, even if only for a day.

Leviticus 13:45,46
45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

Have you seen pictures of Japanese people when they are in public? Have you noticed that some of them are wearing white surgical masks? They are obeying the law about covering their upper lip. In Japan, and in a trend that is catching on among other Asian countries, if you have a cold or other communicable illness, you wear a surgical mask. This covers your mouth so you cannot spit, sneeze, or cough on another person. This also marks you as unclean so people can refrain from touching you and becoming unclean themselves. This is courteous, polite, and is in obedience to God's law. We in the West should return to God's law and adopt this custom as well. Remember, if someone spits on you, and by extension, if they cough or sneeze on you, then you are unclean, even if that person is clean!

Leviticus 15:8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

Numbers 12:14 And יהוה said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

Notice, if a man with a running issue (and by extension, a menstruating woman) spit on you, you are unclean until evening. But if a girls father spits on her, she is unclean for seven days. Why the disparity? Who knows? These are the questions God told us to discuss at every opportunity in Deuteronomy 6:7. But the point is, if you come in contact with bodily fluid, you come under the quarantine law of separation outside the camp.

Sitting shiva is a modern attempt to obey the law to stay outside the camp for seven days after touching a dead body, or being under the same roof as a dead body. Next time a loved one dies, give it a try. It is really the best way to mourn.

There is much more to the laws of clean and unclean, but I hope this has given you a good start.