I will end talking
about the Sabbath on this one message. However, I had to speak of the extra
Sabbaths than most Gentiles do not know about it. Actually, once a Gentile, or
non believer in Yehovah, becomes born again, becomes part of Kingdom of
Yehovah. If that person has repented of their sins, and now obeys the
Commandments is no longer Gentiles. (See
Isaiah 56:1-8) That person has been joined to Yehovah and becomes part of the
commonwealth of Israel.
Gentiles are called to
keep the Sabbath and become partakers of Yehovah’s blessings.
Eph’siyim/Ephesians
2:11-12 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh-who are called
Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands-12
that at that time you were without Messiah, being aliens
from eh commonwealth of Israel and strangers from Covenants of promise, having
no hope and without Elohim in the world. 13 But now in Messiah Yeshua you who
once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Messiah.
As stated earlier the
Sabbath is not Jewish thing, but a Yehovah gift to all mankind. From the
beginning He ordained to be kept.
Yeshayahu/Isaiah 56:6 “Also
the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to Yehovah, to serve Him, And to
love the Name of Yehovah to be His servants-Everyone who keeps from defiling
the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant- 7 even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt Offerings and their
sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house shall be called a house
of prayer of all nations. 8 Adonai Yehovah, who gathers the outcasts of Israel,
says, “Yet I will gather to him others besides those who are gathered to him.”
I felt I needed to add
this few verses of Scripture because many non-Jews have been taught they do not
have to keep the Sabbath and the feasts. This is completely wrong. Anyone who
comes into Covenant through the Mashiach/Messiah is accepted in the Kingdom of
Yehovah through the shed blood of Yehoshua. Everyone is a child of Yehovah, and
partakes of the blessings through Yehoshua.
The teaching of the seven
laws supposedly Yehovah gave to Noach for the Gentiles is false. He never did
that. This is pure imagination of some leader to keep Gentiles separate and out
of the Kingdom of Yehovah. Yehovah never gave two distinct set of rules to
inherit the Kingdom. The Sabbath was given the seventh day of Creation, and
Adam was not Jewish. He is the father of all mankind. Stop teaching false
doctrine, and or obey false doctrine. There is a position in Heaven for the
Gentile who chooses to serve Yehovah, whose infinite love is so great that
encompasses all His Children. And now let us continue speaking of the special
Sabbaths.
He also has given us
special Sabbaths. Three times a year all the males had to present themselves to
Yehovah in Jerusalem.
Shemoth/Exodus 23:14 Three
times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year. 15 You shall keep the Feast of
Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded
you, at the time appointed in the month of Aviv, for in it you came out of
Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty; 16 and the Feast of Harvest, the
firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of
the year, when you have gathered I the fruit of your labors from the field. 17
Three times in the; year all your males shall appear before Yehovah Elohim.”
Shemoth 34: 18 The
Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Aviv, for in
the month of Aviv you came out of Egypt.
22, 23 “And
you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and
the Feast of Ingathering a the year’s end 23 Three times in the year all your
men shall appear before Adonai, Yehovah Elohim of Israel.
These are the Feast
that Yehovah commanded to be observed, and Israel could not abstain from going
to Jerusalem. This is what apostle Paul was reminding to the believers as we
read in the book of Hebrews. (See Hebrews 10:25).
Shemoth /Exodus 31:13 Speak
also to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for
it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know
that I am Yehovah who sanctifies you. 14 You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore,
or it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death;
for whoever does any work on it, that
person shall be cut off from among his people.15 Work shall be done for six
days, but the seventh is the ‘Sabbath or rest, holy to Yehovah. Whoever who
does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall
keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a
perpetual covenant. 1t is a sign between M and the children of Israel forever;
for in six days Yehovah made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day
he rested and was refreshed.”
Shemoth 19:5 “And you
shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nations.”
Israel received the
charge to teach all nations, and they have done it. The gentiles now know the Commandment
and they also are obeying because they have entered into Covenant in the
Messiah.
The number seven, in order not to forget the
Sabbath, is also or the seventh day rest, is also applied to the land. Shemoth 23:10-12 “Six
years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, 11 but the seventh
year you hall let it rest and lie
fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of
the field may eat In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive
grove. 12 Six days you shall do your
work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may
rest, and he son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.”
Please notice that they
could go and eat, but not pick. That would have been work.
Do you know what I have
learned by reading these few Scriptures? I have learned how much Yehovah cares
for all of us. It is because of His goodness and kindness that He wants also
the donkeys, the servants and strangers to rest on the seventh day. And He does
not want to waste anything. Therefore,
he has planned to feed the poor who most likely have no reserve like the farmers.
They got double harvest on the sixth year. It is not about Him been capricious,
when he commands us to keep the Sabbath, it is all about LOVE. He loves his Creation.
I need to still mention
that Pentecost is 7 weeks after the Sabbath on Unleavened Bread Feast, and is
kept the following day in order to complete the 7times 7. Wayyiqra 23:15-16 And
you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbaths, from the day
that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be competed.
16 Count fifty days…
The Fall Feasts, or
Sukkoth /Tabernacles, is celebrated on the Biblical Calendar on the seventh
month, and kept for seven days. (See Leviticus 23:33-36)
35 On the first day it shall be a
holy convocation, You shall do not customary work on it. For seven days you
shall offer an offering made by fire to Yehovah.”
On Mount Sinai.
Shemoth 24:9 Then
Mosheh/Moses went up, also A’aron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders
of Israel.
Do not forget the 70 sent out to preach by
Yehoshua.
Luke 10:1 After
these things the Master[i]
appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into
every city and place where He Himself was about to go.
Judgment on
Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel 4:16 “Let
his heart be changed from that of a man, Let him be given the heart of a beast,
and let seven times pass over him.”
Now Jerusalem
Daniel 9:2,” …It
would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
Daniel 9: 24,25 “Seventy
weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the
transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to
bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to
anoint the Most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the
going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah to
Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; the street shall be
built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times.
Forgiveness has to be
continuous.
MattithYahu/Matthew
18:21-22 Then Peter came to Him and said, ‘Master, how often shall my brother
sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times? (knowing the power of the number seven in
Yehovah’s ways.) 22 Yeshua said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven
times, but up to seventy times seven.”
What Yehovah has
commanded in the Tanakh, or what has been labeled as Old, is always valid, for He does not change/.
Malachi 3:6-7 “For
I am Yehovah, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, o sons of Jacob.
7 Yet from the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and
have not kept them. Return to Mem and I will return to you, says Yehovah of
Hosts.”
These words were spoken
to Israel, but the church from the beginning it forming has rejected specific
Commandments. The Sabbath, the Feasts, the Dietary Commandment. She still eats
pig which is such an abomination and all their other forbidden foods. Such
commandments were given to keep us healthy, but mankind refuses to obey
therefore becomes sick, because still eats foods that are not fit for
consummation.
I hope you are now
praying and seeking Yehovah about your life style. You may have to make some
changes. Seek Him, and He will guide you into all truth by His Ruach/Spirit.
Amen.
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