I have had a bit of a revelation I would like to share with you. To understand how to get to where you are going, you must first know where you are – and it helps to understand how you got to where you are today. My most exasperating driving experience is hearing my co-piloting wife say, as she gazes at the map, "You should have turned left three streets back" – to which I invariable reply, "You cannot should have done anything on planet earth – unless you are piloting a time machine." Reality harshly teaches us that we can only proceed from where we are now, regardless of the mistakes of the past.

This has been a week of reflection for me. The recent death of my father, the birth and bris of my first grandson on the eighth day, and my fifty-ninth birthday today, all punctuate how quickly the weeks – and now the years are flying by. Almost too late, I realize what my grandfather coaxed me to understand: Life is very, very short. Burning the candle at both ends and working ones self to an early grave doesn't appear to be the best answer. Making a positive difference in another person's life – offering hope and encouragement as one searches for the narrow gate that leads to life has been my most personally rewarding endeavor. But, I have been asking myself, "What have I done for YOU lately?"

I realize that you may not particularly care to hear from me at this time of year. It reminds you that I took away your Santa Claus and I replaced your warm, fuzzy pagan holiday feelings with a distasteful distain for the abominations you so richly enjoyed until I spoiled your party. The revelry of drunken office Christmas parties was replaced with the sober notes of Hanukkah and its reminder of the cost of standing against the pressures of the collective pagan-world view. I shot your Easter Bunny at point blank range. I transformed your fun-day sun-day social functions into heated weekly debates over Truth and Tradition. I unmasked the Mystery of Iniquity and took away your pre-tribulation rapture delusion. I quashed your acquiescent acceptance of replacement theology – and challenged your unwitting adherence to the Papal Bull you inherited through Constantine's Babylonized Churchianity when I exposed the Pagan/Christian Connection. I have, in a phrase I have heard so oft repeated, "ruined your life."

But, on the bright side, I gave you the Sabbath – not just a day of rest – but the everlasting sign that you are a child of the Most High – an in-grafted son of Israel. (Which, of course, I did not give you the Sabbath– but until I introduced the reality, multitudes remained insolently oblivious.) I also gave you the Feasts of the LORD – and the keys that unlock the Gospels and the book of the Revelation as prophetic shadow pictures of good things to come – the celebrations that our Creator instituted for our encouragement, enjoyment, and education into his eternal plan. I gave you clarity on difficult passages of Scriptures so that you would Let No Pagan Judge You as you turned from idolatry to serve the one true GOD.

I gave you the ashes and brimstone from Sodom and Gomorrah that YHVH preserved as a testimony for the last generation. I gave you the Hiding of the Ark of the Covenant and its prophetic significance in the Confirmation of the Covenant spoken by the prophet Daniel. I gave you the Creator's Calendar as a prophetic part of the restoration of all things so that you would no longer be ignorant of His (as opposed to man's) Times and Moedim. I gave you the key to unlocking the Gospel of the Kingdom in the Ancient Hebrew Matthew as we Raided the Lost Book – and now you are no longer enslaved to the Takanot and Ma'asim of the Pharisees, Presbyterians, Protestants, or Papal pundits. I gave you the ONE SIGN of Yahshua's authenticity – The Jonah Code so that you could learn how to accurately count to three. I invited you to join me on my nearly forty-year journey in deciphering the Gospel Chronology and I revealed the prophetic key to the entire dilemma: the 70 Week Ministry of Messiah.

I took you to the Red Sea Crossing and put a video testimony in your hands that destroys the fairy-tale religions of Evolution and Egyptology. I escorted you to the pinnacle of the REAL Mount Sinai to clarify The Covenant, the breaking of the Covenant, and the Re-newing of the Covenant in Messiah's blood. I reconciled the "New Testament" (Re-newed Covenant) in relation to the everlasting Torah as I deciphered the Letter to the Messianic Hebrews: Moving on to Maturity. I exposed the Doctine and the Deeds of the Nicolaitans so that you could extricate yourself from the system that Messiah hates. I Mikveh-ed you in the Jordan so that you could understand the Doctine of Baptisms as one of the critical foundations of the Faith Once Delivered to the Saints.

I delivered the Divine revelation concerning the Beating of Balaam's Ass and his 3 x 7 prophetic parable now playing out on the world stage. Yes, this is the prophetic utterance that the Almighty punctually punctuated by catastrophically crashing the stock market 777 points on the day before I delivered this prophetic message at Yom Teruah in Detroit. I took you to Jerusalem for the Feast of Sukkot where the "aisha" of Zechariah's Thermonuclear War was revealed to me on the Last Great Day. As a former cult leader, I EXPOSED Michael Rood so that you might keep your foot out of the same trap – and that you might understand why I run my ministry in such a way as to keep from manipulating, intimidating, and controlling those who are all too willing to be led by men, rather than Learning to Walk by the Spirit (the hard way) and follow Messiah.

I invited you to join the widows and orphans portion of your tithe with ours – as Judith and I continue to make a spiritual and physical impact on the needy in the land of Israel. As of this moment, The Lydia Project has given more than $400,000 to the poor, widows, orphans, and victims of terror in Israel over the past four years!

This year I brought true ministers of the Word to the stage at Shavuot, Yom Teruah, and Hanukkah. At each event, we laid out clear revelation from heaven – not platitudes from the plethora of upstart teachers who provide ear-tickling entertainment – nor regurgitated readings or memorized messages from those who have never walked a mile by the Spirit for themselves. We served up a fresh, hot loaf of the Bread of Life from the oven in Heaven – and those who were invited to share my platform were truly "Sent Ones" on a mission from YHVH – and had paid a dear price for their obedience.

Today, spiritually, we are years ahead of where we were in Michigan just over a year ago, but unfortunately, we are years behind financially. Until the evil of my lecherous co-worker was exposed by his adult children, the faithful wife he discarded, our fellow workers he threatened, and the court system he unsuccessfully attempted to deceive – I could have never imagined the depravity that had so "humbly" wormed its way into our ministry and the messianic movement. Vengeance is YHVH's – and He will continue to clean house of his willful accomplices. Once the rotund one was outed, we moved on – and the floodgates of Heaven opened. It is a new season.

Last evening, I stayed up all night watching the rough cut of Nehemia Gordon's three teachings from our Yom Teruah weekend extravaganza. I watched them over, and over, and over again. I have waited over 12 years to hear Nehemia's two closing sentences. I would like to have this entire teaching available for you immediately after Hanukkah. You will understand why I paced the floor all weekend in Albuquerque. The streams of understanding were flowing together into a thunderous river in my mind – I could not sit down.

Two weeks ago, during our live Shabbat broadcast, someone wrote in and suggested that I get a job rather than ask people to obey the Torah and help support the team of Levites who are faithfully serving them each week (rather than being at home with their families). This person asserted that he was a "Torah teacher" and that he had to work for a living – and that is what I should do as well. I was appalled. I work longer hours than any business is legally allowed to employ anyone. Our materials are produced at great expense – but they allow us to reach hundreds of thousands of people around the world that would otherwise remain in darkness. Over 98% of the sales of my materials, from every avenue, goes to pay the salaries of our dedicated staff that labors with me to get the Gospel of the Kingdom out to the world. I DO NOT need the support of anyone to take care of my personal needs. Rather, I invite you to join me – and our staff – as we aggressively follow Messiah's commandment to go ye into all the world and preach the good news – without regard to personal preservation, lack of health insurance, or absence of a savings account.

We currently have 20 full and part-time employees (with families) who are fully engaged and committed to this ministry. Eight of them are completely immersed in ministry projects that provide no remuneration to the ministry – such as the Lydia Project, our Messianic Prison Outreach, and our world-wide-web YouTube assault. If I quit the ministry to make a million dollars a year, to whom would I give my tithe? Who is as equipped to reach the world with the truth as we are? Creflo Dollar? Jack Van Impe? Joel Osteen? Jimmy Swaggart? Every one of our staff members would need to go to work for someone else – just to feed their families! NO! I will not quit…

I have a job – and those who have benefited from my levitical ministry have a spiritual responsibility to tithe to the Levite who sojourns and ministers among them (Deuteronomy 18:1-8). I will apologize to no one for asking them to carry their own weight, and to then encourage them to put their shoulder under the load we bear and help push us over the next mountain. Our staff is more than involved – they are committed – and pushing forward in spite of the attacks of the enemy. I am asking YOU to join me in aggressively pushing this message, and these divine revelations, over the Internet and other Broadcast networks – as far and as fast as possible. We have no idea of how much time we have left before the brimstone hits the fan.

We now know that the Michigan mutineers not only expunged the names, addresses, and phone numbers of many who have stood with me through the years, but they also delivered my entire mailing list to an individual who maleficently broadcast manufactured lies about me, our faithful staff, and legitimate board members via his weekly "torah teaching" – and was actually selling his recorded slander on the Internet. If I lost touch with you, or someone you know because of these cretins, and have found yourself getting unwanted and unsolicited mail from Monty Judas, it was because of his complicity with his friend, MacWilliams, and not my doing. Now you know the cold, hard truth about these so-called messianic teachers. I am sorry. I apologize. Call me – let's talk.

A friend recently made a suggestion: If every family calculated the money I saved them just this pagan holiday season – and made a gift to this ministry, I would be able to complete the Charlotte studio and begin filming the three seminars I have prepared as well as a series by Keith Johnson, another by Nehemia and Keith, and yet another by Arthur Bailey. We have the ability and the opportunity to impact the world right now. Will you commit to such a bold endeavor with me?

And yes, all donations to A Rood Awakening Ministries are tax deductible – and yet I am free of any restraints from speaking the truth. Call me if you have any questions about sowing your year-end tithes and special offerings into any one of our critical projects. After the expenses of taking our free Out of Babylon seminar across the country, and needing to gear up the studio and replace $168,000 in equipment absconded by the "goodfellas" in Michigan, I need serious help from some serious believers whose lives have been touched by our ministry. Our narrow window of opportunity to reach the world will someday close. We need to make each week of our life count – beginning today.

Only one life, twill soon be past. Only what's done for Messiah will last…

I will see you on the Sea of Fire and Glass when the smoke clears (Revelation 15:1-8),

Michael Rood

P.S.
As I mentioned, the teachings during our Yom Teruah weekend were so profound, I was unable to sit down for those two days. There was undeniable revelation unfolding before me as rivers of understanding flowed together in my mind. Our last 12 years of living in Israel began to come into sharp focus. I finally understood the root of the anti-Messiah mutiny in the Oregon office while I was in Israel. I understood the covert mission of the Jesuit trained, ex-Lutheran who infiltrated the messianic movement and then attempted to destroy my ministry from the inside – again, while I was in Israel. I also understood the clear leading of the Spirit that put me together with Nehemia and why I connected him with Reggie White, Keith Johnson, and Arthur Bailey. I understood why I am where I am today – and where we are going in the immediate future.

I want to send you a set of selected teachings from our "Calling in the Dispersed of Israel – the Yom Teruah Experience". I believe that this will change your life – as it did mine. You too will be up all night long – watching it over, and over, and over again.

Do not forget where you came from. Understand where you are now – and do not settle for another round of religion. Let's charge into the future with the bold faith that was once delivered to the Messianic saints of the first century. Do not get left behind in the comfortable world of religion – we are moving on to maturity. Too many have just a little hunger for truth and they quickly settle for the next mess of pottage served from the table of religious tradition. You are not one of them! You want the whole loaf. You will not be satisfied until you are walking in the fullness of the stature of Messiah – and the book of Acts, Chapter 19,576,323 is a living reality in your life.

P.P.S. Do not forget to tune-in for Shabbat Night Live every Friday evening at 8:00pm Eastern time on www.MichaelRood.tv – it is worth getting high-speed Internet for this one feature alone!!!

The Maccabees are back in town!

Dearest Torah Fans,

This has been a year of continual, unfolding revelation from Heaven. From my "near death" experience in Costa Rica where I was raised from the sick bed with the answer to a sixteen year question that unlocked the door to the Book of Hebrews – to the vision of a Passover experience that changed the life of everyone who joined us this spring for a "once in a lifetime" extravaganza – the Almighty has led by direct revelation, inspiration, and provision to make this the most spiritually profitable year of my ministry.

Shavuot was preceded by supernatural events that led me to invite Nehemiah Gordon back to the platform for the first time in over six years. The revelations that were experienced and spoken that weekend led to another invitation for Nehemiah, Keith Johnson, Arthur Bailey and Dennis Otero to join me at the Los Lunas mountain in New Mexico for the Day of Trumpets celebration – Yom Teruah. Again, the Ruach haKodesh led us, as promised, into truths that have been hidden in the Scriptures, waiting for their revealing in the last days. I was literally on my feet, pacing back and forth, the entire weekend. The Spirit was revealing things that connected many critical dots for me. I felt like I was one of those on the road to Emmaus; "Did not our hearts burn within us as He opened to us the Scriptures?" Yes, the Scriptures that many of us have known from our youth, the verses that we memorized by the hundreds without knowing their true depth and significance – these are the very Scriptures in which there are hidden treasures of revelation to the faithful in the end times. Faithful to His word, He is leading us, by the Spirit, into "all truth" (John 16:13).

Hanukkah is the next major event on the Creator's calendar. This is the Feast that brought Yahshua back up to Jerusalem after the religious leaders' failed attempt to arrest him during Sukkot (John 7:45-49). At Hanukkah, he performed the one miracle that the rabbis claimed only the Messiah could do – open the eyes of one born blind. That miracle resulted in yet another attempt on His life (John 10:39). At Hanukkah Yahshua gave us both clear teaching, as well as cryptic clues concerning the end time fulfillment of this yearly rehearsal that he prophetically endorsed. As Yahshua met with the faithful house of Israel on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to iterate the prophetic ramifications of this Feast, so we will gather in Fort Lauderdale this Hanukkah and request His personal presence by way of the Ruach haKodesh.

Hanukkah is the celebration of our deliverance from pagan sun god worship and the dedicating of ourselves to live the truth even when death threatens our obedience. This year, just as in the year that this Feast was inaugurated, Christmas and Hanukkah are concurrent. Christmas is the celebration of the reincarnation of Nimrod (the sun-god) at the time of the winter solstice (on the ancient Babylonian calendar) – while Hanukkah is the celebration of our deliverance from pagan rule and the forced worship of fictitious heathen gods. The story of Hanukkah began when the Greeks set up a statue of Zeus in the Jerusalem Temple on Zeus's birthday – December 25th (Zeus, Jupiter, Ra, Seb, and Mithra are all "post tower of Babel" names for Tammuz of Ezekiel chapter eight fame). At that time, the Greeks ordered that anyone who continued to study the Torah would be put to death. Furthermore, anyone who obeyed the Torah by keeping the covenant of circumcision would be hung with their circumcised baby disemboweled and tied around their neck. Anyone who kept the Feasts of the LORD, including the Sabbath, would be executed. Then the Greek religious leaders slaughtered a pig and roasted it upon the very altar where we were commanded to bring our sacrifices and call on the holy name of YHVH (Exodus 20:24).

It's Hammer Time

Five brothers, priests of Israel, took sword and battle hammer in hand – and against insurmountable odds, went to war against the pagans. Judah and his four brothers, willing to die to defend the truth, took their hammers and broke down the altars that the pagans had set up. Without remorse, they struck down even fellow Israelites who compromised with the enemy to save their own skin and protect their worldly interests. Those five brothers became known as "The Maccabees – The Hammers." After three violent, bloody years, the pagans were defeated and the 8-day dedication (Hanukkah) of the new altar began.

During the past several days of planning the Hanukkah event (which will occur over the pagan "Yuletide" weekend) Friday, December 23 through Monday evening December 26, I was again interrupted by Heaven. I recalled that immediately after our Yom Teruah celebration, Nehemiah was in Colorado Springs and I was in Amarillo when we received phone calls that our fathers had died – both on the same day. Projecting my personal loss and desire to be home with my family, I had no intention of dragging Nehemiah back to the United States for Hanukkah. But, I had two dreams about Nehemiah this past week that set me up for changing EVERYTHING! In just ten minutes, I rewrote the Hanukkah program that took us three long days to construct. The sun had set in Jerusalem, so I asked Keith to get Nehemiah on the phone and ask him if he would be the fifth Maccabee brother to stand against the ban of Antiochus at Hanukkah in Fort Lauderdale. I could hear Nehemiah shouting out of Keith's other ear. Keith passed the phone to me. I asked Nehemia if he was "in." He was emphatically "in!" Our days of mourning are over – and our remaining days on earth are short…

Torah Fans – the Maccabees are back in town for Hanukkah 6011 – and it is going to get bloody. We are looking for the 300 who will stand against the pagan Greeks in the "Hot Gates." We are launching a renewed attack on the kingdom of darkness and the modern religious systems that continue to enforce Antiochus's ban and continue to commit the abominations that keep the altar in a continual state of desolation. By Divine Providence, the only hotel ballroom we could find in all of Florida that was available for Hanukkah will seat exactly 300. If you are going to be one of the 300 you need to commit now.

Innocent bystanders – stay home. Casual Christians – enjoy your Christmas toys. Warriors of the Word – join the Maccabees: Nehemia Gordon, Keith Johnson, Arthur Bailey, Andrew Hodkinson, myself and the 300 Maccabean warriors – as we break down the polluted altars and assemble together to receive revelation concerning the new altar – ready to be sanctified and put into service.

There are, of course, other options for this Hanukkah season. You can play with gelt, gematria, German Jewish fairytales about dredels, the Zohar, Kaballah, and rabbinic traditions – or sit in Santa's lap devouring charred Christmas swine flesh, decorate trees with gold and silver balls, and gorge on treats sweetened with high fructose corn syrup from genetically modified plants – or, better yet, you can continue with us on the path of Divine revelation – being led by the Holy Spirit from our Father in Heaven. Torah obedience is easy. Being led by the Spirit, on the other hand, is life's most challenging adventure. Now is the time to move on to maturity. You have been called by Heaven to be a part of this ministry. Don't sell your birth right for a mess of pottage conjured in the fertile imagination of man. Break out of mediocrity! It is time to take the Word to the world – or die trying!! Not all of us will make it to the end – but the reward goes to those who are faithful unto death.

On a Reflective Note

My last speaking tour in America was a bit disappointing. Sure, it was great when the room was packed and it was standing room only. But even when the room was packed with 500 people, it is sad to realize that so few in our nation are really interested in the truth. Our meeting in Denver was especially disappointing. Several years ago, our usual 600-seat ballroom was not large enough for everyone to have a chair – but now, after several years of false shepherding and the systematic corralling of sheeple into easily fleeced sub-cults, fewer than 200 people showed up. Very few remain who have the fire of their first love – or even a modest desire to reach out to their friends and neighbors with the truth. Yet, after over 40 years, I still have the fire! I still have the irrepressible drive to approach innocent bystanders on the street every day. I even brought people into my seminar on the very day that I arrived in Denver, but it seemed that most of the saints in Denver were either sound asleep or dead. Maybe they just found a religion that keeps them complacently satisfied – but they need to get a life!! This Hanukkah, I invite you rededicate yourself to the end time message of Yahshua, the truth of the Torah, the prophetic realities of the Feasts of the LORD, and the saving power in the Name of YHVH. Begin your final exodus out of Babylon at Hanukkah 6011. Now, we go to war against the dragon!

Let's get back together at least one more time before the brimstone hits the fan…

Michael Rood

P.S. I want to send you a very special DVD with a critical message that I delivered in Albuquerque. This may well be the most powerful, concise, and inspiring teaching concerning the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai – and the renewing of the Covenant on Mount Moriah. You will definitely want to share this DVD with everyone you consider to be a friend.

Please include a generous donation with your request. We "limped home" at the end of this speaking tour with little more than enough to cover the immediate expenses. I need production lights, cameras, and equipment for our new set in Charlotte in order to film the Coming Out Of Babylon seminar, Isaac Newton's Last Dilemma, and Hebrews: Moving Onto Maturity, as well as two series I would like to produce for Keith and Nehemiah based on their books, "A Prayer to Our Father" and "His Hallowed Name Revealed," as well as several outstanding teachings by Arthur Bailey. I had planned to record my three individual seminars upon my return to Charlotte – but I had not anticipated returning from our tour empty-handed. I need your continued and committed support to move this ministry ahead. I am tired of working to exhaustion just treading water.

Trust YHVH. Honor Him with your tithes and offerings – and don't forget the poor, the widows, and orphans in the land of Israel through your contributions to The Lydia Project.

Thank you for all that you have done! Together we have opened so many eyes on this last speaking tour in America, and we have saved so many people's lives from destruction – they are now taking their first steps out of Babylon. I may have been disappointed in the number of people we reached, but there was never one night that I was disappointed in the people who showed up. It is such a joy to reunite with those of you who continue to stand with me, and to meet those who just had their first Rood Awakening. Thank you for being one of the remnant who continues to have oil in their lamps, their wicks trimmed, and their lights illuminating the gate that leads to life. It's getting darker out there…

The wedding party gathered in the garden at the home of Jessica’s new sister-in-law.  Just before the wedding began, I was handed a curious object that looked like the spent cocoon of a Polyphemus moth tightly bound with copper florist wire.  I was instructed to pin this alien appendage to my lapel.  Judith and I figured it was part of the German wedding tradition, but all the Germans we asked about it just raised a quizzical eyebrow and shrugged their shoulders.  The “cocoon” ended up being an imaginative German interpretation of a traditional American boutonniere described to the florist by Jessica – and a source of hysterical laughter for both Judith and myself every time we look back on it.  I will forever treasure this sacred piece of manna (what is it?).

I was a bit dubious about how we were going to hold up for a twelve-hour wedding, but we were determined to succeed because the cake cutting wasn’t scheduled until midnight, and after the boutonniere interpretation I did not want to miss the German rendition of a wedding cake!  As it turned out, there were many courses of food throughout the day and night, wedding games, singing, dancing, and lots of time to get acquainted with Jessica’s new German family.  We all had a blast!

The next morning, we loaded up our cars and headed to Holland, where we spent two days exploring the history of the Netherlands and my ancestral hometown of Amsterdam – including a visit to The Rood Store, which is housed in the building designed by the architect E.M. Rood, who also built the Beit Midrash Etz Chaim Synagogue.  Everything in the store was Rood – literally (“red” in Dutch).  They offered our family a 10% discount for being so very Rood.  This is the city where the cantor, Anshel Rood, started the first Ashkenazi synagogue in his home long before the Roods moved to America – and this is the place from which I was compelled by the Spirit to launch our ministry attack on the continent of Europe…

<<<Rewind<<< Two years ago when I was speaking in Belgium, I became acquainted with a lovely family from the Netherlands who expressed an interest in getting involved with our ministry.  I was praying about having a base of operations from which we could produce and distribute our materials throughout Europe.  I have always felt a strong pull on my heart to connect with Holland.  When I returned to Europe last month, I contacted them with the hopes of exploring the possibility of ministering together to reach the continent.  We had a nice visit, but within a few minutes I knew clearly that this was not the arrangement the Spirit was orchestrating.  Time marches on; children get married; children have grandchildren; and our view of the horizon changes.  Judith, Eric, and I left feeling like we had come to a dead end with no obvious way to turn.  We only had three more days in the country to complete our mission – and at this point, our foray into Holland appeared to be a spiritual bust.  Looking for any sign that Yahweh was directing our path, I quietly searched the horizons of my mind, yet I saw nothing.  I needed divine intervention so that His will could be done on earth, as it is done in heaven.

<<<Rewind<<< Judith and I were in a similar position in Costa Rica six years ago.  We were praying and waiting on Yahweh for critical direction.  There were two weeks of silence from heaven.  When the dam finally broke, we were flooded with miraculous provisions.  The Almighty dramatically moved us into divinely orchestrated circumstances that changed the course of both our lives and the ministry.  With the past experience of those divine interventions in Costa Rica, as well as the experiences that accompanied more than forty years of attempting to walk by the Spirit, I hoped that the dimmed stage lights in Holland were just a brief intermission allowing the angels to set the next scene…

>>>Fast forward>>> When we returned to our hotel in the industrial area of Nowheresville, Holland, Eric sent out a quick email inviting anyone who wanted to meet with me to gather at a restaurant in Nijkerk (new church), a small town an hour outside of Amsterdam.  That evening, an excited group of people assembled from the area round about – everyone with a story to tell of how their lives had been transformed by the truth of the Torah and Messiah.  They were overflowing with joy and passion to take the message that had changed their lives back to their churches, their families, and their communities.

One couple invited us to their home the following evening to share Shabbat dinner with them.  We felt so at home with them, and we had a beautiful evening of fellowship together.  After nearly a month on the road, we needed to relax and unwind in the home of those with a kindred spirit.  Their hospitality reminded Judith and me of the time we first met Walter and Florence six years ago in Costa Rica…

<<<Rewind<<< Walking down a busy street in San Jose, I was accosted by four men in a white Land Rover with dark tinted glass.  The driver rolled down his window and announced that Yahweh had given him a dream that Michael Rood would be staying at his home.  The heavily accented stranger asked if I was Michael Rood.  Though the approach of this foursome was a bit disconcerting at first, the driver so comfortably asserted that “Yahweh” had given him instructions to house me that I decided to take a chance and get into the vehicle with him.  After the ensuing two weeks in the beautiful mountainside home of Walter and Florence, Judith and I knew that we had truly been “taken for a ride” by our Creator.  Since that day, Walter and Florence have availed themselves for the work of the ministry in a multitude of ways: translating my presentations in live venues in several Spanish-speaking countries, managing our Israel tours, managing our Costa Rica operations, etc.  Above all, they have become our close friends.  We were led to them, and they were led to us – not by the brilliance of our omniscient planning but by the Ruach haKodesh.  We simply had to wait for heaven’s direction in faith – nothing wavering.

>>>Fast forward>>> The next day in the Netherlands, another couple who had joined us at the restaurant opened up their home for an impromptu Shabbat gathering.  Again, we emailed people who lived in the area and invited them to join us there.  Torah keepers from all over the region met us – and each other – for the first time.  It was an electrifying day of fellowship and teaching.  As it turned out, our hosts were professional caterers, and the casual Shabbat luncheon looked like a presidential buffet.  Just as we witnessed in Costa Rica, Yahweh was supernaturally bringing people into our lives and into one another’s lives to take their place in His divine plan for preaching his Torah to the nations...
[[[Pause]]] Our European office went into full operation during the last week of August.  We began shipping our DVD’s, books, calendars, and other teaching materials all over Europe out of the Netherlands.  The first week in September we launched our European website.  How did this happen?

At the point where all of our plans had failed, we were given the desires of our hearts.  Again, it was like a flood bursting over a dam.  Our European operations are now being run by the family of business professionals who so beautifully hosted the Shabbat fellowship.  The couple that hosted us for the intimate Shabbat dinner in their home came to the fellowship the next day, having already secured an invitation for us to broadcast A Rood Awakening from Israel! on the Family Seven Christian television network, covering all of the Netherlands.  An English/Dutch translator was sitting on the couch as I taught that Sabbath – she volunteered to do the required subtitles for our program.  I cannot tell you how encouraging it is to know that our Creator is moving the heavens, the earth, and his saints around the world to enter into his harvest through the ministry he has put in our midst.  To know that heaven is working on our behalf is one of the richest treasures we humans can comprehend. You need to know these things because you are the very reason we are striving to reach out to people around the globe who have never heard the true Gospel of the Kingdom.  You are worth the wealth of the world.  The Almighty moved mountains to uncover all the religious garbage covering your hearts.  Someone had to pay the price to get to you – and we volunteered to go where no one else has gone to seek the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Because someone stood with me to reach out to you by way of television, radio, the Internet, and the production of DVD’s and books, we were able to make the connection between your hearts and the heart of our Creator.  Some of us live and serve in the kingdom as Levites – we have invested our entire lives in ministering to YHVH and to the saints.  Some of you are the provision for the Levites to do their jobs (Deuteronomy 18:1-8).  However, whether we are the warriors on the front lines who do battle face to face with the enemy or the ones who stay behind with “the stuff” – the reward will be shared equally in the Day of Judgment.

…the reward for those who go into battle shall be the same as those who tarry by the stuff.  They all shall divide the spoils equally.  25David made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day, and it was so from that day forward. (I Samuel 30:24-25)

We are continuing to put more and more video teaching materials up on the Internet free of charge.  We receive hundreds of emails each week thanking us for changing the lives of people all over the globe, yet we know that we have a very small window of opportunity to get the truth out over the Internet.  We are running on the ragged edge as we give away the materials that were once the primary source of funding our outreach work around the world.  We need you to stand with us in supporting our outreach to people like yourself – people who are hungering for truth but cannot find it in the burgeoning marketplace of spiritual options.  Someone must tarry by the stuff – because without the logistical provisioning experts in the rear, the infantry soldier will never be able to close with and destroy the enemy in the combat theatre.  Without the desk pilots, the combat pilots never get off the ground.

Every week we begin the Sabbath with Shabbat Night Live!  Our live broadcast begins each Friday night at 8:00 PM Eastern, and I would like to invite you to join us for the spiritual festivities.  While I am traveling, we record the teaching during the daytime and then broadcast it from our studio in North Carolina to our live audience around the world connected by the Internet.  Please join us for this spiritual adventure as we explore the Scriptures and their application to life in contemporary Babylon.  It is quite a challenge to come out of Babylon whilst living in the midst of Babylon.  Get your friends, family, and mortal enemies around a high-speed Internet access computer; hook up the high-powered sound system; fire up the video projector; and join us for a satellite congregation experience each week as we dig deep into the Scriptures.

Judith and I are now on our U.S. speaking tour.  We are traveling the country with an overflowing abundance of revelation from the Scriptures.  I spent last month deeply involved in the final edit of The Chronological Gospels: the Life and Seventy Week Ministry of the Messiah.  I have been in the book of the Revelation, as well as section VII of the Gospel chronology, which records the Messiah’s instructions of what we are to do and how we are to handle the tribulation that is now beginning to breathe down our necks.  This is not the hour to become slackers and live like the rest of the world, which is obviously going to hell in a handbasket.  I want to see you at the live events I am hosting at great personal and physical expense.  I do not have a single day to waste from here on out.  If I can make it from Israel to Texas, or New Mexico, or Kansas, or Colorado, do not tell me that you cannot make a little twelve-hour trip in a vehicle to get together one last time before the brimstone hits the fan – at least I hope I get there before it hits the fan…

I have been given the directive from heaven to press ahead as if there is no plan for a New World Order or any orchestrated plan to destroy the economy of the world to bring about a totalitarian Socialist regime – but I know better.  Those who have bowed the knee to hasatan in order to have their piece of the power, glory, and wealth of this world have indeed conspired together against YHVH and against his anointed – but I have “kissed the Son,” and I am in his service (Psalm 2:1-12).  I will not be transfixed on the roiling surf beneath my feet.  Yahshua asked me to come out onto the water with him – and here I stand.  I will continue to get shot at.  I will occasionally get shot.  I will have one or two characters surnamed Judas betray me for a paltry 30 shekels, and I will never be able to stop all of the Gehazis from sneaking away with leprosy-filled garments to hide in their end-time storerooms.  I will continue to have false ministers and false prophets attack me with glee – but as Yahshua said, “They will attack you because they do not know me!”  The persecution and betrayal goes with the territory that I have chosen to liberate from the enemy.  Did you think that you could attack the demonic strongholds of pagan sun-god worship – which manipulates the economies of entire nations – and not have the hordes of hell barking at your front porch?  As the good cookbook says,   “If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen” – but for YHVH’s sake, do something with the talents he gave you to steward in this life!

Yes, tough times are coming, but the promises of Yahshua reserved for his faithful servants are our hidden treasure.  I do not know what next year will bring, but I do know what he has given me to share with you now to prepare you for tomorrow.  I will see you on the road in America at least one more time.

If not – I will see you when the smoke clears…

Shalom,

Michael

Our heavenly Father has moved heaven and earth to connect everyone who has the ability to get the Word of Truth out to the Spanish-speaking world, and now our feet are divinely placed on the continent of Europe.  We have several networks waiting on the remastering of our television programs with the plan to begin broadcasting this month.  I need you to stand with me financially to push these ministry projects over the top.  You may not have the skill to edit and produce our programs for broadcast – and even if you did, you probably would not be able to work sixty hours a week without receiving a paycheck for the next two years.  We have the editor and producer.  We have the equipment.  Now we need to keep our people fed and their children clothed so that they can do the critical work it takes to keep us on the air all over the world.  Thank you for making a thanksgiving offering to YHVH today on behalf of our ministry.  Todah Rabah…