Written by A.R.
It was a precious moment. It didn’t last long, though. Moments like these never do. The sun was setting; it seemed to set especially fast that evening. I do not know all the thoughts inside my children’s hearts as they reflected on our time in Aqaba. We were quiet. Each of us was full of faith, each ready for the next step, and each listened to the voice of YHWH.
The moment was one more chance to look at the Red Sea from the perspective of sojourners about to take the next step on our journey. While packing, we prepared a picnic. We brought some bread and grape juice to acknowledge our Messiah and His leading at this special place. We washed our hands and faces in the warm, salty water which refreshed us during many long, hot summers. And when the night came, we went back to our villa to continue packing our belongings for the next step on our journey.
Our family has been on a journey that began when we embraced the Torah in 2010. The journey is summed up in Deuteronomy 30:1-10.
Deuteronomy 30:1-2 “And it shall be, when all these words come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you shall bring them back to your heart among all the nations where יהוה your Elohim drives you, and shall turn back to יהוה your Elohim and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your being, you and your children…”
The context of this passage is Moses and all of the Israelites on the edge of the Promised Land. Moses was spending his final moments of life exhorting and instructing those who would enter the Land. During his discourse, he prophesied about a future generation, a generation of YHWH’s people who would be dispersed among the nations and would turn back to Him and His commands. I believe this is our generation!
Many people, from many nations, are returning to YHWH. By returning to YHWH, I mean people are returning to the words found in the Torah, the blessings, and the curses. Many are making the connection between Yahushua’s words, “If you guard my commands, you shall stay in My love,” and the commands found in the Torah. Yahushua continued, “Even as I have guarded My Father’s commands and stay in His love (John 15:10).” The commands of YHWH are a covenant agreement, a marriage agreement, of the love between us and Him. We keep His commands because we love Him, He protects and provides for us because He loves us. The awakening to this truth is an authentic move of the Set-apart Spirit! YHWH is glorified through the many believers taking on the terms of His covenant.
Taking on the terms of the covenant is only the beginning of this amazing journey found in the Torah for all who obey in the End Days. YHWH will “turn back our captivity” from among the nations.
When we read the Torah, we find that our true home is not scattered among the nations where every government is in opposition to the righteousness of YHWH.
YHWH will gather His people and bring us into the Land promised to our forefathers: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He will set Yahushua as our righteous King. His obedient followers will live to enjoy life on Earth in the Promised Land!
Deuteronomy 30:3 “…then יהוה your Elohim shall turn back your captivity, and shall have compassion on you, and He shall turn back and gather you from all the peoples where יהוה your Elohim has scattered you.”
When I learned about YHWH’s promise to gather His people from all the nations, it was hard for me to wrap my mind around it. I remember being on the phone with a friend who first told me about the Second Exodus. It’s not that I didn’t believe, but I wanted proof. I wanted my friend to show it to me in the Scriptures. She laughed as she listened to me struggling to understand how I could have overlooked this in all my Bible readings. She told me it was all over the place. I asked her for just one verse—one verse to show me that YHWH was indeed going to gather His people from the nations. She gave it to me, and my eyes were opened. Once my eyes were opened, I could see it all over the Scriptures! It was in the Torah, the Prophets, the Psalms and Wisdom books, Yahushua’s Words, and the Apostolic Writings.
Deuteronomy 30:4 “If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under the heavens, from there יהוה your Elohim does gather you, and from there He does take you.”
To read the story about how YHWH brought our family from the Nations to the country of Jordan, I would like to recommend my daughter’s book, The Call to Jordan: One Girl’s Story. She was twelve when our family understood the prophetic Scriptures and moved to Jordan. After moving here, she wrote her story in a journal. When I read it, I knew it was a story that others would want to hear as YHWH awakens other families to His End Days’ plan to gather His people. So, I worked with her to take her honest thoughts and feelings and put them into a book. Hers was the first book published on our site.
While my daughter was writing her story, I felt impressed to write as well. I hadn’t even written a post on our website up to that point. In the first few years of this website, all of our writing was done by our children (and edited by my husband and I). One day, during the week of Unleavened Bread 2019, the Spirit of Yah gave me the outline and title for the first The Call to Jordan book. The outline included all the Scriptures that motivated our family to sell our home and take up residence in Jordan. I worked on this book relentlessly with a strong urgency to make this message available for others to test and study. I completed my first draft in seven weeks, just in time for the holiday of Shabuot!
I submitted my book to a list of editors with varying walks with Yahushua. While not everyone embraced the Call to Jordan, I was not able to find a single person who could challenge the message scripturally. At the beginning of 2020, my husband published and made the book available on our site for a minimal donation to our work and ministry. I find this timing interesting because the book was made available at the onset of the ‘Pandemic.’
The Call to Jordan is something for everyone to consider. It is not just for the ‘spiritually elite’ as the prophet Jeremiah said about the Ingathering,
“See, I am bringing them from the land of the north, and shall gather them from the ends of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with children and those in labor, together—a great assembly returning here.” (Jeremiah 31:8)
The Call to Jordan is for anyone willing to respond. Those who respond will discover the truth of the Torah on the journey, for sure!
Deuteronomy 30:8-10 “And you shall turn back and obey the voice of יהוה and do all His commands which I command you today. And יהוה your Elohim shall make you have excess in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground for good. For יהוה turns back to rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, if you obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim, to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Torah, if you turn back to יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being.”
In reading the Torah, as well as the entirety of Scripture, we find a connection between the voice of YHWH and keeping His commandments. At the foot of Mount Sinai, YHWH said:
Exodus 19:4-5 “You have seen what I did to the Mitsrites [Egyptians], and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples – for all the earth is Mine .”
In context, the Israelites had just come out of Egypt. They were taken to the wilderness to establish the covenant with YHWH. They learned the terms of the covenant from YHWH’s voice. They are the Ten Commandments. At the end of the day, the people agreed to the terms. They feared YHWH and wanted to learn YHWH’s voice through Moses.
The End Days generation will also learn to diligently obey YHWH’s voice and His commandments in the wilderness. The prophet Ezekiel has an excellent explanation of this in chapter 20. This is a great chapter to read in context! In speaking about the first generation of people in the wilderness, YHWH said:
Ezekiel 20:6 “On that day I lifted My hand in an oath to them, to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, the splendour of all lands.”
If we just read this verse, it would seem that YHWH was planning to take the Israelites out of Egypt and bring them directly into the land of Israel. However, we know this is not what happened. Before they could go to the Promised Land, they needed to experience the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:10-12 “So I [YHWH] took them out of the land of Mitsrayim [Egypt], and I brought them into the wilderness. And I gave them My laws and showed them My right-rulings, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them.’ And I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, to know that I am יהוה who sets them apart.”
In the wilderness, YHWH gave the people His Torah, that if they obeyed, they would live. He also gave them His Sabbaths to further set His people apart from the nation of Egypt. However, the people rejected YHWH’s commandments and profaned His Sabbaths. Their hearts went after idols. The purpose of the wilderness was to remove the idolatry of Egypt from their hearts and their actions. It was to teach them how to live in the Promised Land.
The purpose of the wilderness is the same today. As we have lived in the nations, we too have learned idolatry from the nations. There is no one currently living in the world that has not been corrupted by false teachings. All religions have influenced false worship around the world. YHWH’s Torah has been forgotten and distorted. His calendar and set-apart times have been lost and confused. Everyone does whatever is right in their own eyes, and we have lost the truths of the Scriptures. We need the wilderness so that we might return to YHWH, hear His voice, and understand His commandments.
Ezekiel prophesied about our generation when he said:
Ezekiel 20:33-35 “As I live,” declares the Master יהוה, “do not I, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, reign over you? And I shall bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. And I shall bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and shall enter into judgment with you face to face there.”
Ezekiel 20:36 “As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Mitsrayim, so I shall enter into judgment with you,” declares the Master יהוה.”
By His voice, YHWH is leading His people out of the nations and into the wilderness. It is happening now! People are hearing the wilderness Call to Jordan, and they are responding! Our family is receiving more and more emails from people who are hearing the voice of YHWH regarding Jordan and who want to learn more about how to get here. It’s exciting as the Call to Jordan is a necessary stop on the journey to the Promised Land. The Voice of YHWH will lead His people to the wilderness and confirm their steps as they obey Him.
However, there is a big however, just because a person leaves the nations, does not guarantee entrance to the Promised Land. Ezekiel said:
Ezekiel 20:37-38 “And I shall make you pass under the rod, and shall bring you into the bond of the covenant, and purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but they shall not come into the land of Yisra’ěl. And you shall know that I am יהוה.
Not everyone who follows YHWH into the wilderness will make it into the Promised Land. There are lessons to learn in the wilderness and preparations for living in covenant with Yahushua, our Bridegroom. In the wilderness we will learn Torah, we will study Yah’s calendar, and lay aside all the traditions of man and religion. We will seek Him with all our hearts, and He will reveal Himself to us. We need experience in the wilderness so that our hearts will be circumcised. There is no way around it, if we want to make it to the Promised Land under Yahushua’s reign, we must prepare in the wilderness!
Ezekiel 20:41-42 “As a sweet fragrance I shall accept you when I bring you out from the peoples. And I shall gather you out of the lands where you have been scattered. And I shall be set-apart in you before the nations. And you shall know that I am יהוה, when I bring you into the land of Yisra’ěl, into the land for which I lifted My hand in an oath to give to your fathers.”
When YHWH accomplishes His wilderness work in us, we will be ready to go into the Land. We must not presume to be ready for the Promised Land now. If a person desires to be in the Land, they must lay down their life, and follow the voice of YHWH to the wilderness first. A person cannot come too early to the wilderness. YHWH has a lot to do in our hearts and minds, and He will use the wilderness to accomplish His way in us.
For more on the Scriptural evidence that the wilderness is in Jordan, please read the teaching The Greater Exodus: One Gathering Place or Many?
Deuteronomy 28:1 “And it shall be, if you diligently obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim, to guard to do all His commands which I command you today, that יהוה your Elohim shall set you high above all nations of the earth.”
As for my wilderness journey, I am thankful for it—every moment of it! The blessings of intimacy with Yahushua, family unity and quality time, and experiences with the Land of the Scriptures are among some of my greatest. YHWH has taught me things I would have never learned from the nations. I am not the same person as when I left my home country; the wilderness has changed me. I am still learning and preparing to meet my Messiah and so is the rest of my family. We do not claim to have arrived, but we look to YHWH, we listen to His voice, and we pray that we will be found worthy of the End Days salvation He has promised to those who obey His voice.
Deuteronomy 28:2 “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim…”
May YHWH strengthen those following His voice!
