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Listener Q + A

Listener Comment - embarrassing heading?
Are you aware that an embarrassing heading [in Google search results] is on a website of yours out there?

Tsiyon Answer - embarrassing heading
So far as we know, this is hacked into our search results and is not actually in our website at all. We have checked and these words are nowhere in our site. Someone has made this happen in a way that we don't understand and don't know how to get rid of. Any ideas?

Listener Comment - Google search results?
Shalom Eliyahu and Dawn, Thought you might want to see what I came across when doing a Google search for "messianic blog". "Men's Health: #####! ... Tsiyon Heights Messianic Radio. The Voice of Tsiyon In Exile to the Scattered ..."

Tsiyon Answer - Google search results
Thanks for emailing us about our Google search results. We are aware of this and have scoured our site for a source of this abomination. This "Men's Health" add does not originate at our website. It's presence in our Google search results is clearly an attempt to torpedo us by somebody, maybe even Google themselves. At this point we don't know exactly who is responsible for this. This is just more of the same battle we are fighting here every day to get out the truth.

Listener Comment - preferred version?
This is something that has been on my mind for many years and in your last broadcast you mentioned a few versions of the Bible and some problems you found with the translations. Do you have a preferred version?

Tsiyon Answer - preferred version
Thanks for your question. I've not yet found a single translation that I feel I can rely upon. All translations seem to have their strengths and weaknesses. In my study I use e-sword a lot, with multiple Bibles and Bible study helps and constantly compare to the original languages. If you don't have e-sword you can get it free here: http://www.e-sword.net/

Listener Comment - 5500 year old calendar?
I was doing some study on the Ruach ha Kodesh and came upon a website who claims they have a 5500 year old calendar. Unfortunately they reject the lunar calendar. I was wondering if you would mind taking a quick look at the page..

Tsiyon Answer - 5500 year old calendar
The calendar advocated at the website link you forwarded is their interpretation of, their translation of, Enoch Chapter 72. Since Enoch, the purported writer of this book, lived before the Flood they claim this calendar to be 5500 years old. While there are problems with that claim, let's test its implications at face value.

According to the widely accepted chronology of James Ussher the Exodus from Egypt occurred in 1491 BC. This date is not universally accepted and is held by some to be as much as two centuries off. For our purposes this debate doesn't matter, because, in any event, the Exodus from Egypt occurred roughly 2,000 years AFTER the alleged Enoch calendar.

Why is this important?

It is important because, Israel has its own calendar, given to Israel at the time of the Exodus, and all of the Appointments of YHWH given to Israel in the Torah are set according to THAT calendar. Therefore, EVEN IF there were a different calendar of Enoch, that calendar IS NOT the calendar Israel was to use in keeping the appointments. Israel must follow the Torah! (Ex 12:2, Deut 16:1)

The calendar given to Israel is the one explained in my book, Holy Time. This is the calendar Israel is to follow in keeping Yah's appointments.

While I have not researched this particular group in depth, there are a number of warning signs that scream out at me immediately. The first is the use of "code" language for ordinary words. There is no good reason why the concepts being conveyed cannot be conveyed in plain English for English speakers. Instead, the language is intentionally cryptic and technical. This is a tactic some groups use like a smokescreen to cover over what would otherwise be recognized as clear fallacies of fact and logic. The word SCAM comes to mind.

From Eliyahu

Our last program on "The Restrainer" got a lot of positive feedback from you, our listeners. I was so blessed to see that, because I broke all the "radio rules" to bring that program to you. Conventional radio wisdom is that radio hosts are not supposed to read more than a few words at a time - certainly never a whole chapter from the Bible in one reading, like we did. Also, definitions and explanations of Greek and Hebrew words are to be avoided on the air at all costs - that's just way too mind-numbing for most people to follow. "Most people" maybe, but not our listeners! And finally, NEVER publicly kick the foundation out from under a beloved sacred cow on the air - like say, the pre-trib rapture theory - or you will lose your audience. Again, that applies to "most people" but not our audience! What blessed me about your positive response to "The Restrainer" is what it says about you, listeners of On the Road to Tsiyon. You really are exceptional!

Encouraged by your warm response to our last program, I was all set in my mind where the program would go next - then I got an email from Aunt Susan about the latest machinations of the Vatican. As I looked into this more deeply I was amazed to see how these very events are a perfect example of exactly what we are discussing in 2 Thessalonians 2! I know you will be informed, amazed and horrified by the blasphemous words emanating from Vatican spokesmen just last week. Not only will you learn about that on this latest program, but much more importantly, you will learn about the plot that is behind it and how all of that figures into Scripture prophecy.

Blessings and Shalom,

Eliyahu ben David
www.tsiyon.org