Tuesday, September 25, 2012
TM
Corrected Feast Dates- so sorry for my counting blunder- T
September 24, 2012
Shabbat Shalom Loved One!
Billie and I will be ministering, fellowshipping and teaching in Namibia and South Africa for Yom Kippur, Sukkot and beyond!! Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) the day of repentance and fasting (WEDNESDAY), September 26th, at sundown- until THURSDAY at sundown! This (Yom Kippur/Atonement) is when we AFFLICT OUR SOULS; which is always Hebraically considered fasting. (1Jn 1:9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Let's look: Lev 23:26 and יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, Lev 23:27 “On
the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall
be a set-apart gathering for you. And you shall afflict your beings, and
shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה. (Lev 23:28 “And you do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before יהוה your Elohim. Lev 23:29 “For any being who is not afflicted on that same day, he shall be cut off from his
people. Lev 23:30 “And any being who does any work on that same day, that being I shall destroy from the midst of his people. Lev 23:31 “You do no work – a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Lev 23:32 ‘It
is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your beings. On the
ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you observe
your Sabbath.” Lev 23:33 and יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, Lev 23:34 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, on the fifteenth day
of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths for seven days to יהוה. Lev 23:35 ‘On the first day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work. Lev 23:36 ‘For seven days you bring an offering made by fire to יהוה. On the eighth day there shall be a set-apart gathering for you, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה. It is a closing festival, you do no servile work. Lev 23:37 ‘These are the appointed times of יהוה which you proclaim as set-apart gatherings, to bring an offering made by fire to יהוה, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a slaughtering and drink offerings, as commanded for every day – Lev 23:38
besides the Sabbaths of יהוה, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your voluntary offerings which you give to יהוה.
Also below are two 45 min radio teachings I did about these Feasts last year!
You can listen to the broadcasts here as well:
Part 1: Recorded Last Year http://www.seedtime2harvest.com/viewMusic.php?fileID=11
Loved One, please share our studies as YHWH is restoring all to Himself- 115 countries have now read our weekly Torah Studies at Shabbat Shalom Loved One! This is nothing we have done- Mighty is YHWH who loves
us and restores all things! Thanks again Scott in Costa Rica for
posting this audio update along with our weekly study and Brian and
Kendra for starting this site years ago! These are labors of love for
YHWH’s Torah and people! These are the “Days
of Awe” loved one, starting with the Feast of Trumpets which was by most reckonings Monday (9-17-2012) at sundown! The 10 (Or
seven by some standards which would fit nicely with the 7 bowls of
Yahweh’s wrath poured out after the Last Feast of TRUMPETS and we are
GONE!) Days of Awe are days of repentance leading to repentance, fasting and The Day of Atonement (Commonly called Judgment Day by many Christians in regard to the final one) also known as Yom Kippur will be the 10th day or evening of the 9th day counting from Trumpets and will be Thursday evening at sundown. That makes our fasting day- The Day of
Atonement on Wednesday evening the 26th and all day the 27th of September
and this year’s Feast of Tabernacles starting on the evening of MONDAY
October 1st- which the 7 days ends the evening of the Monday the 8th
October however; HaShana Rabba (THE
LAST GREAT DAY) starts that same evening- so the SEASON OF REJOICING is
appropriate and a picture of our future when we will look around and
shout HalleluYAH’S proclaiming – “We made it into the Kingdom and have
entered His joy!”
Below
is during the Millennium reign of Yahshua (Jesus) loved one, so I
expect that is a good enough reason for Truth Searchers like us to start
learning obedience in “Keeping the Feasts!” Remember the Hebrew idiom “The Day that no man knows the day or the hour!” (Feast of Trumpets) then 15 days later is the Feast of Tabernacles- Season of our Joy which we will soon celebrate as written above!
(Zechariah 14:16) And
it shall be that all who are left from all the gentiles which came up
against Yerushalayim, shall go up from year to year to bow themselves to
the Sovereign, יהוה of hosts, and to observe the Festival of Booths (Tabernacles). (Zechariah 14:17) And it shall be, that if anyone of the clans of the earth does not come up to Yerushalayim to bow himself to the
Sovereign (King), יהוה of hosts, on them there is to be no rain.
How
do we know when the Biblical year starts and when we are to keep His
Biblically prescribed Feast dates loved one? YHWH put the planets and
stars in their courses for seasons days and years. The moon circles the
Earth every 29.54 days so we can only have a 29 day month or a 30 day
month- never a 28 or 31 day month like Pope Gregory determined. So YHWH
is in control of what time it is in His universe! Here is how we determine the real start of the year! (Exodus 12:1) And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of Mitsrayim, saying, Exodus 12:2) “This month is the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of the year for you. (Just before Passover)
Why
is that of any importance to you and me living today? Because many of
the body of believers have been blinded by the enemy of our souls and
still follow vain traditions which are mostly manmade subtractions, additions and traditions of “Churchianity” handed down from the anything but a “Holy” Roman Empire ruler Constantine;
who was a sun god worshipper and enforced these “manmade doctrines”
with the penalty of death for rejection. Please understand we should
know when the year starts so we can observe and do His commanded Holy
Days (Holidays) and not do vain observations that He considers
abominations. Many Christians honor all the TRADITIONAL holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Lent
and never consider their pagan roots which were orchestrated by Rome. Some know that the day of the sun (Sun-day) was rooted from sun god worship and Easter was the pagan fertility goddess, where the Easter Priests (Not Christians or follower of Messiah) -
would impregnate the virgins on the sunrise service and sacrifice the 3
month old babies from the prior years' sunrise service, dipping the
eggs of Easter into the freshly sacrificed babies blood and declare-
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! Have a prosperous and fertile year! This was
their form of Happy New Year! Lent was the 40 days
of fasting and weeping for Tamuz followed by killing the pig that killed
Tammuz on a hunting expedition and having that for Easter ham-
goodness- Loved Ones-think maybe these traditions are possibly an
abomination to our Creator? He taught us to NOT LEARN the ways of the heathen and say we are worshipping Him! (Jeremiah 10:2) Thus said יהוה, “Do not learn the way of the gentiles, 1 and do not be awed by the signs of the heavens, for the gentiles are awed by them.2 Footnotes: 1Lev. 18:3, Dt. 12:30 & 18:9, Ezek. 11:12 & 20:32, Eph. 4:17, 1 Peter 4:3. 2Dt. 4:19 & 17:3. He also COMMANDED US: (Deuteronomy 4:2) “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not subtract from it1, so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you. Footnote: 1See also 12:32, Prov. 30:6, Rev. 22:18-19. Do you and I suppose he has changed His mind about that;
so we think it okay to ADD these manmade traditions as holy days and festivals (holidays)? And SUBTRACT His Feasts and festivals?
Do "we" worship in VAIN? Maybe we should consider doing only what He says and not what tradition allows-THESE ARE THE DAYS OF REPENTANCE!
Really- Worship in VAIN? Goodness – maybe we should really reconsider
Loved Ones- another Scripture comes to mind- “Come out of her my people
or partake in her plagues!” Loved Ones, should we worship Him the way
He says or obey men and our traditions? Is obedience to the Word made
flesh that dwelled among us really important? Let’s repeat that; Worship in VAIN? Goodness
– maybe we should really reconsider Loved Ones- another Scripture comes
to mind- “Come out of her my people or partake in her plagues!” Is our own judgment possibly
only a heartbeat away? Do we really want to nullify all the promises received from obedience- given in the Word?
Mat 15:3 He answering, said to them, “Why do you also transgress the command of Elohim1 because of your tradition? Footnote: 1See Mat. 5:20. Mat 15:4 “For
Elohim has commanded, saying, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’
and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ Mat 15:5 “But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me has been dedicated,” Mat
15:6 is certainly released from respecting his father or mother.’ So you have nullified the command of Elohim by your tradition. Mat 15:7 “Hypocrites! Yeshayahu rightly prophesied about you, saying, Mat 15:8 ‘This people draw near to me with their mouth, and respect me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. Mat 15:9 ‘But in vain do they worship me, teaching as my doctrines- the commands of men.’ ”1 Footnote: 1Isa. 29:13, Mk. 7:7, 2 Kings 17:19.
Obedience is LOVE: (John 14:10) “Do
you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The
words that I speak to you I do not speak from myself. But the Father who
stays in me does His works. (John 14:11) “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in me, otherwise believe me because of the works themselves. (John 14:12)
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me, the works that I do he shall do also. And greater works than these he shall do, because I go to My Father. (John 14:13) “Whatever you ask in my name, that I shall do, in order that the Father might be esteemed in the Son. (John 14:14) “If you ask whatever in my Name, I shall do it. (John 14:15) “If you love me, you shall guard (keep) my commands.1 Footnote: 1See Ex. 20:6, vv. 21&23, 1 John 5:2-3, 2 John v. 6. (John 14:16)
“And I shall ask the Father, and He shall give you another Helper, to stay with you forever – (John 14:17) the
Spirit of the Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it
does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you
and shall be in you. (John 14:18) “I shall not leave you orphans – I am coming to you. (John 14:19) “Yet a little while, and the world no longer sees me, but you shall see me, because I live, and you shall live. (John 14:20) “In that day you shall know that I am in my Father and you in me, and I in you. (John
14:21) “He who possesses my commands and guards (keeps) them; it is he who loves me. And he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and manifest myself to him.”
Why
is this even important to us today? Because if we cannot determine when
the year starts we cannot observe His commands out of loving obedience!
Do we realize that IN THE BEGINNING Yahshua (Jesus)
was the word and is the word even at Mt Sinai? Malachi 4 and Hebrews
13:8 testifies that He changes not and is the same yesterday, today and
forever- what part of “forever” is so difficult for us to understand?
The enemy has planted many tares and blinded many of us into thinking
our religious traditions are acceptable to our King! However; He claims
we are worshipping Him in VAIN! Please let us not use the excuse that
those words have passed away because Yahshua addressed that thought
beforehand and leaves us no excuse when we stand in His presence; (Mat 5:17)
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, (Torah- Instructions) or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. (Mat 5:18) For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Mat 5:19) Whosoever
therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach
men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but
whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. So; is it ALL fulfilled? What is fulfilled were the Spring Feasts of YHWH; He was and is the Passover Lamb, He is the High Priest who had to be in seclusion until the First Fruits Offering
and could not be touched (“Don’t touch me Mary- I have not yet ascended
to the Father”) then the graves opened and many were seen around
Jerusalem risen from the dead as He was the first of many of the First
Fruits Offering; then on Shavuot (we now call Pentecost) He poured out His Spirit that His commands would no longer be impossible (burdensome) to keep. These were and are the Spring Feasts he and we start our year with- they are the shadow picture of things to come. The Fall Feasts have not yet been fulfilled- we are finally; during our generation, approaching the Feast of Trumpets and at the LAST TRUMPET, the dead in Messiah
rise first; then 10 days later we have the DAY OF ATONEMENT or some of us call Judgment Day; then 5 days later we have The Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkoth when we tabernacle or dwell with Him forever; then on the eighth day of this Feast we have the LAST GREAT DAY or the WEDDING FEAST OF THE LAMB. Once again; these Fall Feasts are not yet fulfilled.
So what does Yahshua say about this; are there still a heaven and an
earth? If there is a heaven and earth still we are commanded to: (Mat 5:17) think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. (Mat 5:18) For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass
from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Mat 5:19) Whosoever
therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach
men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but
whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Remember also LOVED ONES- WE FEAR NOT! We fast and repent getting rid of our unbelief and replacing it with TRUSTING HIM! (Psalms 20:5) We sing of your deliverance, and in the Name of our Elohim we set up a banner! יהוה (YHWH) does fill all your requests!
(Psalms 20:6) Now I know that יהוה (YHWH) shall save His Anointed; He answers him from His set-apart heavens with the saving might of His right hand. (Psalms 20:7) Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we remember (trust in) the Name of יהוה (YHWH) our Elohim. (Psalms 20:8) They, they have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and are established. (Psalms 20:9) Save us (YHWH) יהוה! Let the Sovereign answer us in the day we call.
Have a great FEAST SEASON!
Shalom to your heart-
Thurston
