Acharit-Hayamim: Doomsday

By Erica Karas

One night in March 2012, the Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit) aroused me from sleep and told me to write a book about acharit-hayamim, which means end-times in Hebrew. I am a Messianic Jew. The Ruach HaKodesh has been leading me to scriptures about the acharit-hayamim for many months prior to giving me this message. As always, I did not question the Ruach HaKodesh. I must be obedient to the Holy One of Israel! Miraculously, I completed this book in three weeks with the guidance of the Ruach HaKodesh. The Ruach HaKodesh was with me the entire time. I give all praise and glory to the Holy One of Israel, who is the only true living G-d. Without the Holy One of Israel I can do nothing. I am just a worm of a vessel who will return to the dust of the ground. Hallelu-YAH!

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Oct 10, 2012
• ISBN: 9781449769475

Erica Karas

Erica Karas is in love with the Holy One of Isra’el! Erica was commanded by the Ruach HaKodesh to worship HIM before the Eastern Gate on 11/7/10. Read about her miraculous journey to complete her mission in her book, Acharit-Hayamim: Doomsday. Erica will soon study to become a Messianic Rabbi.

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ISBN: 978-1-4497-6947-5 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4497-6948-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4497-6949-9 (hc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012918283

WestBow Press rev. date: 10/05/2012

CONTENTS

1. Acharit-Hayamim: Doomsday

2. YHWH’s Greatest Agony

3. End-Time Signs in the Synoptic Gospels

4. YESHUA is YHWH’s Plan for Salvation

5. Who is the Holy One of Isra’el?

6. Yonah and the Great Fish: Lessons of Disobedience and Prophecy of the Resurrection of YESHUA

7. The Ark of the Covenant is YAH’s Promise to the People of Isra’el

8. Jerusalem Eastern Gate End-Time Prophecies

9. The Two Witnesses in Revelation Eleven

10. GOD’s Throne Room

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Chapter 1

Acharit-Hayamim: Doomsday

In March 2011, the Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit) aroused me from sleep in the early hours of the morning. The Ruach HaKodesh said to me, "The great and terrible day of the Lord is at hand! The great and terrible day of the Lord is at hand!" The Ruach HaKodesh said this to me three times. Then the Ruach HaKodesh asked me, And who shall be able to stand? I was filled with great holy fear and was not sure of the answer the Ruach HaKodesh wanted me to give. The Ruach HaKodesh answered, Those with a pure heart and clean hands who have not bowed their knees to Ba’al. Next, the Ruach HaKodesh told me, "Tell them!" I have been telling people since that day. This is my cry to the nations. This will be my cry to the nations until I take my last breath! Many may get tired of hearing my voice and my cry, but I must be obedient to the Holy One of Isra’el.

My mom went to be with the Lord of Hosts on the Shabbat of April 16, 2012, after a long battle with metastatic breast cancer. Psalm 24 was read at her funeral. I was amazed when I realized that the answer the Ruach HaKodesh gave me was found in Psalm 24:3–4. Who may ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god. (Psalm 24:3–4 NIV).

After hearing Psalm 24 at my mother’s funeral, I knew that it had truly been the Spirit of the living God who had spoken to me that night. I am greatly humbled and honored that the God of glory, the Holy One of Isra’el, would choose such a poor soul as me to deliver such a message to humanity. I am just a poor messenger of YAH, a vessel to be used by my Master. I give all praise and glory to the Holy One of Isra’el, the only true, living God. All other gods are Ba’al! Praise Adonai! Praise YAH! Hallelu-YAH! Baruch haba B’shem Adonai! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

I will share with you Scriptures in the Tanakh (the Old Testament) that the Holy One of Isra’el has led me to many times in the last couple of months concerning the acharit-hayamim, which means doomsday, or the end of the world, in Hebrew.

Blow the shofar in Tziyon (Zion)! Sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all living in the land tremble, for the Day of ADONAI is coming! It’s upon us! A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick fog; a great and mighty horde is spreading like blackness over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, nor will there ever be again, not even after the years of many generations. Ahead of them a fire devours, behind them a flame consumes; ahead the land is like Gan-‘Eden, behind them a desert waste. From them there is no escape. They look like horses, and like cavalry they charge. With a rumble like that of chariots they leap over the mountaintops, like crackling flames devouring stubble, like a mighty horde in battle array. At their presence, the peoples writhe in anguish, every face is drained of color. Like warriors they charge, they scale the wall like soldiers. Each one keeps to his own course, without getting in the other’s way. They don’t jostle each other, but stay on their own paths; they burst through defenses unharmed, without even breaking rank. They rush into the city, they run along the wall, they climb up into the houses, entering like a thief through the windows. At their advance, the earth quakes and the sky shakes, the sun and moon turn black, and the stars stop shining. ADONAI shouts orders to his forces—his army is immense, mighty, and it does what he says. For great is the Day of ADONAI, fearsome, terrifying! Who can endure it? Yet even now, says ADONAI, turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and lamenting. Tear your heart, not your garments; and turn to ADONAI your God. For he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in grace, and willing to change his mind about disaster. Who knows? He may turn, change his mind and leave a blessing behind him, [enough for] grain offerings and drink offerings to present to ADONAI your God. Blow the shofar in Tziyon! Proclaim a holy fast, call for a solemn assembly. Gather the people; consecrate the congregation; assemble the leaders; gather the children, even infants sucking at the breast; let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride the bridal chamber. Let the cohanim (priest), who serve ADONAI, stand weeping between the vestibule and the altar. Let them say, Spare your people, ADONAI! Don’t expose your heritage to mockery, or make them a byword among the Goyim (Gentiles). Why should the peoples say, ‘Where is their God?’ Then ADONAI will become jealous for his land and have pity on his people. Here is how ADONAI will answer his people: I will send you grain, wine, and olive oil, enough to satisfy you; and no longer will I make you a mockery among the Goyim. No, I will take the northerner away, far away from you, and drive him to a land that is waste and barren; with his vanguard toward the eastern sea and his rearguard toward the western sea, his stench and his rottenness will rise, because he has done great things. Don’t fear, O soil; be glad! Rejoice! For ADONAI has done great things. Don’t be afraid, wild animals; for the desert pastures are green, the trees are putting out their fruit, the fig tree and vine are giving full yield. Be glad, people of Tziyon! Rejoice in ADONAI your God! For he is giving you the right amount of rain in the fall, he makes the rain come down for you, the fall and spring rains—this is what he does first. Then the floors will be full of grain and the vats overflow with wine and olive oil. "I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate, the grasshoppers, shearer-worms, and cutter-worms, my great army that I sent against you. You will eat until you are satisfied and will praise the name of ADONAI your God, who has done with you such wonders. Then my people will never again be shamed. You will know that I am with Isra’el and that I am ADONAI your God, and that there is no other. Then my people will never again be shamed.