SHABBAT IS A SIGN

Shemot/Exodus 31:12-17 “And Yehovah spoke to Mosheh/Moses, saying,

13 “And you speak also to the children of Ysra’el, saying, ‘My Shabbathoth you are to guard, by all means, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, Yehovah, qadosh (sanctify) you. HS

14 You shall guard the Shabbat, for it is qodesh/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 Six days work is done, and on the seventh is a Shabbath or rest, qodesh (holy) to Yehovah. Everyone doing work on the Shabbat day shall certainly be put to death. (How many Christians would be put to death today?)

16 And the children of Ysra’el shall guard (keep) the Shabbat, to perform the Shabbat throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant.

`17 ‘Between Me and the children of Ysra’el it is a sign forever. For in six days Yehovah made the shamayim (heavens) and the earth, and He rested on the seventh day and was refreshed.”

Yechezqel/Ezekiel 20:11-12, 20

11 And I gave them My Laws and showed them My Right –Rulings, ‘which if a man does, he shall live by them.’

12“Moreover I also gave them My Shabbats, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am Yehovah who sanctifies them.”

20 And qadosh (hallow) My Shabbats, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am Yehovah your Elohim.”

I mentioned before that “sanctifies” and “holy” means to be set apart unto Yehovah.  To be sanctified means we are not to live as the pagans do. When we keep the Shabbat we are set apart from the rest of the world who does not serve our Creator.  He is saying to all of us that this day is set apart unto Him. It is His day, not ours. He gives us six days to work, and the Shabbat belongs to Him. This day is a sign, or a unique mark that we, who observe this day, are set apart unto Him.

The word sign in Hebrew is “owt” and means a mark or proof.

Yehovah gave the rainbow to Noah as a sign that He would never destroy the earth with water again. He also gave a sign to Avraham, which is the circumcision. Those signs are visible to all. The Shabbat is a sign to be visible to all and distinguishes those who belong to Him. A mark testifies of the Covenant.

Some folks reading this message will argue that the circumcision was given to the seed of Abraham and not to the church. Absolutely!  The church did not exist, because it is a religious invention.  The word church is not in the Tanakh, but congregation and assembly is. The children of Yisra’el, including the multitude that joined them when they came out of Mitsrayim/Egypt, (Shemot/Exodus 12:38) represent the set apart assembly, and they were the only ones who were in Covenant with Yehovah at that time. You see, the Commandments are for all mankind who want to serve and honor Yehovah.

Anyone is required to obey him, if they chose be in Covenant with Yehovah.

 When heathens surrender their lives to their Creator and want Him to be in control of their lives, they also must keep His Commandments. To become part of the qahal or congregation a person must obey his Commander in Chief Yehovah.  The so called “church” is not part of the congregation if does not keep the Rules of the Kingdom.

The Shabbat is not only a sign to Rabbinic Judaism, nor was it made with the present State of Ysra’el.

The Shabbat is a sign between Yehovah and His Bride which is the Set Apart Assembly of Believers who love and obey Him. Only Yehovah knows who in reality His Bride is. Many church goers think they are the Bride, but they disobey Him, therefore they will be disqualified if they do not repent, and keep His Commandments. We are saved by grace, but we as result of this grace freely given, we now must love and obey Him alone. We do not stick to the teachings of denominations that say one thing, but do another. We, His Bride, must only obey Yehovah and our Bridegroom Yehoshua, who is His only Ben.  Amen.

So many people are confused concerning this issue. It should not be an issue, but they make it to be one. The Commonwealth of Yisra’el is not the Rabbinic Judaism, or even the natural seed of Avraham as one of the Ten Tribes of Yisra’el. 

Yisra’elites are persons that belong to the Commonwealth of Yisra’el, which is the Kingdom of Yehovah, and it is also called the Kingdom of Heaven, to those of us who are familiar with the Messianic Scriptures.

The Shabbat did not end when Messiah came to the earth and died for our sins. The church is not keeping the Shabbat and therefore she is not manifesting the sign of the Covenant: the Shabbat.  

By choosing to refuse to obey the fourth commandment, they are endangering their relationship with their Creator. They are not letting the world know they are children of Yehovah, because His children have to obey Him.

There are not two Brides: One Jewish and one Gentile.  Yehovah has only one plan for all. He does not give a child one thing to do, and the other one goes and do what he pleases. Yehovah is not unrighteous as men can be, and many times are.

The church needs to repent and keep all the Commandments, not only those she feels are given to her. I would not gamble my salvation knowing the Scriptures, but refusing to obey them. It is time to obey our Heavenly Father. The time is now, not tomorrow or in the death bed, as many people say they will do. You may not have time to repent after this moment. Only Yehovah knows how long your life is. Do not gamble with eternity, and or make excuses.

The Shabbat existed long before Sinai, and of course it began to be observed at creation, as I mentioned before. The patriarchs, without any doubt, kept the Shabbat before Yisra’el went down to Egypt. The Shabbat was not a new commandment given on Sinai.

Let us remember what the Messiah said to us when He lived in Yisra’el, before He was crucified.

Mattithyahu/Matthew 5:17-20: “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks on of the least of these Commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Why the church does not teach this truth? It is the anti-Semitism spirit that removed the Shabbat from being kept. In reality it is demonic, although the devil uses humans to achieve his evil plans.

The death and resurrection of Messiah did not abolish the Torah, but instead made it more powerful. We can now, by the grace given to us through His Holy Spirit, obey Him and show the sign of the Covenant to the world, as we keep all the Commandments, which include the Shabbat. The Shabbat is the sign, and if we remove it from our lives, we are in reality declaring that we do not belong to the Kingdom of Yehovah.

Dispensationalism is a false teaching. Many are led in to it, and are losing their place in the Kingdom.

I will continue on my next message about an Everlasting Covenant.  For today know that you are loved and He is patient with you and waits on you to repent. Be sensitive to His leading, and chose to follow Him where He leads you. He has great things prepared for you. But are you going to inherit them if you live in disobedience?

Yehoshua said: ‘You love Me Keep My Commandments.” Do you love Him?  Pray and seek His face today, and see Him for who He is. Amen.

Ya’aqov/James 2:10: “For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.”

If a person may keep all the Commandments minus this one, and thinks he is righteous, he is not correct. We have been given 10 major rules to follow, not nine, and we are going to be judged accordingly.

Shalom!

Yo’el (Joel) 2:32 “And it shall be that everyone who calls on the Name of Yehovah shall be delivered.  For on Mount Tsiyon and in Yerushalayim there shall be an escape as Yehovah has said, and among the remnant whom Yehovah calls.”

Will you call upon His Name today? Will you choose to serve Him, and only Him, from today on? The choice is yours alone. My prayer is that you, beloved reader, take this opportunity to call upon the Most Holy Name, the Creator’s Name, Yehovah, Yehovah, and be saved. Choose to obey His Commandments out of love, and not out of legalism. Be free in Him today and get to KNOW HIM, for according to your decision today, it will depend where you spend eternity.

Let us remember that this evening at sundown begins Yom Kippur. We who know the Mashiach know that our name is written in the Book of Life. However, we keep this day Holy, and we do not work, but rest and seek the face of Yehovah. Be ready to repent of any sin, and ask for His forgiveness. On the bases of the shed blood of Mashiach Yehoshua, you and I can be forgiven. Let us seek Him now. Shalom

OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN

OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN

I am considering the reason why many people do not get healed.

One of the reasons is they do not address the Father in prayer. He declares Himself to be Yehovah[i], your Elohim[ii] who brought us out of the land of Egypt.

Shemoth[iii]3:16b “Yehovah Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Avraham, of Yitzchak[iv], and of Ya’aqov, [v]appeared to me, saying, “I have indeed visited you and seen what is done to you in Mitsrayim[vi].”

Shemot 20:2 “I am Yehovah your Elohim your Elohim, who brought you out of the house of bondage.”

He spoke the Word in Hebrew therefore He said it this way:

Anochi Yehovah Eloheka  (I am Yehovah your Elohim). Shemot 20:2

You may say to me that you were not in the house of bondage, which in this case was Mitsrayim. That may be true, or your may be a Hebrew and your ancestors did go to Mitsrayim. However, each of us, unless has been Redeemed, is in the house of bondage. Sin makes everyone a slave.

Now I want talk about the problem in most churches. When they worship they always sing to His Ben/Son instead of addressing the worship to our Father in Heaven.

They may sing the prayer “Our Father in Heaven,” but they do not speak to Him.

Yehoshua[vii] had answered his disciples when asked Him how to pray. He answered them to pray this way:

“Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be Your Name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done On earth as it in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And do not lead us into the way of a test, but deliver us from all evil.”

Yehovah loves us.

Yochanan[viii] 1- 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that  Elohim has for us. Elohim  is love, and he who abides in love abides in Elohim, and Elohim in Him.”

Yochanan 3:16 “For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

We receive everything from the Father

Ya’aqov/James 1:17 Every good and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation, nor shadow of turning.”

Tellim/Psalm 68:19 Blessed be Yehovah, who daily loads us with benefits, the Elohim of our salvation.

Yehoshua had answered the question of the apostles, and ours, but why do we not pray to the Father? He is the Head, and Yehoshua told us to pray in His Name to the Father.

Yehovah is revealed to us in many ways, and is called with various titles or appellatives.

Yehovah Avinu (Yehovah our Father) Yeshayahu/Isaiah 64:8

Yehovah Chizki (Yehovah my Strength) Tehillim/Psalms 18:1

Yehovah Ro’i (Yehovah My Shepherd) Tehillim 23:1

Yehovah Ori Veyishi (Yehovah my Light and my Salvation) Tehillim 27:1

“Ani Yehovah Hu Shemi,  uchevodi’ le acher lo etten.” (I am Yehovah, that is My Name, and my glory I will not give to another.” Yeshayahu 42:8

I cannot write the many more descriptions of His Wonderful Name, but I wrote just a few to get the idea of who our Father really is.

Please also note that He has given us His Name. He wants us to know Him by Name, not by a simple title, as “the Lord.” It  does not matter if it is written in capital letters or not. Lord is a title given to men and false gods.  He has a Name for us to call upon Him. His Name appears in the Hebrew Scriptures almost 7000 times! He is serious. He wants us to call upon Him and also to give Him all the glory.  We are supposed to even swear by His Name.

And you shall swear, “As Yehovah lives” in truth in judgment, and in righteousness.” Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 4:2

He wants us to swear by His Name who is life. He gets very upset when we swear not in truth, because His Name is mentioned. But this is another message. He wants us to call upon Him for everything.

Yehovah loves us, and He is all powerful and capable to answer our prayers. Then why do we not ask Him to help us? Why go to the Son, when He has said, to go to the Father?

Yochanan/John 16:23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask  the Father  in My Name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”

We must not forget that Yeshua[ix] is One with the Father. But the Father is greater.

 Qorin’tiyim 1-11:3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Mashiach[x], the head of woman is man, (her husband or father if unmarried), and he head of Mashiach is Elohim (Yehovah).

/This is the Spiritual Order in Heaven and on Earth.  

 Yochanan 14:13,14 “And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”

Yochanan 5:19 “Most assuredly I say to you,  The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever he does, the Son also does in like manner.”

Yochanan 8:28 “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. 29 And he who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not  left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”

Yochanan 14:9”I have been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father;”

Yochanan 10:30 I am My Father are one.

However there is an order, which is not followed, not even in the home. The woman wants to be boss but the husband is the authority figure according to the Scriptures. Yehovah has an order, and He expects us to obey it.

If we do what we please instead of learning and doing things His ways, we cannot achieve much in His Kingdom. Let us submit to Him, and receive answers to our prayers.

I will discuss sin in another message, for now I pray you will consider this message and obey Him.

Yehovah Lives! Shalom.

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[i] The real Name of our Creator, who has been kept hidden for centuries, and the translators have called instead the LORD.

[ii] God in the English Bibles.

[iii] Exodus

[iv] Isaac

[v] Jacob

[vi] Egypt

[vii] The only Ben or Son of YEHOVAH who is usually called by another strange name Jesus. Yehoshua in Hebrew means Yehovah Saves. Jesus means nothing, it is an invented name by translators or church leaders.

[viii] John

[ix] Yeshua is Yehoshua contracted form.

[x] Messiah

MEN'S HEARTS FAILING FOR FEAR

Today I am compelled to talk about the subject of fear, anxiety and stress. So many people go to the doctor to get medication for their depression, and fatigue, lethargy, overeating, and insomnia, among many other issues.

I have learned through reading and applying to my life that fear, anxiety, and stress are indeed killers.  

Luqas/Luke 21:25-27“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, ad in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, 26 men’s heart failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Personally I grew up with many fears and I had some physical problems. But my doctor did not know the cause, and would give me some medication and everything would be fine for a while. The main problem for fear is lack of love.

When a person is not connected spiritually to her Creator fear takes place. If we have not surrendered our lives to Him, and believed in His only Ben/Son Yehoshua, or Yeshua, we are in troubles. Many react to this loss by performance and perfectionism. They are workaholics. They are trying to fill their lack of love with work thinking they will be loved. However, if they have not experienced the perfect love of their Creator Yehovah[i], they will not be satisfied. For fear will continue to be there they will always continue to strive for perfection, which they cannot attain. Many professions involve the public and they crave the love and acceptance from them. They may even promise and say all kinds of lies in order to be accepted and feel they have achieved success. This is sin, and will cause even more the fear, anxiety and stress to increase. The enemy is the devil, who knows the commandments that we are supposed to obey.

Fear is also lack of faith, which is sin.

Ivrim/Hebrew 11:6 But without belief[ii] it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to Elohim[iii] has to believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him. (HS)

Others begin to over eat to compensate their lack of love.  They may fear abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of failure and other fears. Unbelievers and followers of Mashiach[iv] do experience all these fears. No one is exempt. They may love Yehovah and being born again, but yet they do not have the complete understanding of the perfect love of Yehovah, and therefore they also lack love for others.

Autoimmune diseases are also caused by fear, anxiety and stress. They seem to feel unloved, and not being accepted, they feel self-rejection, self-bitterness, self-hatred together with guilt.

Fear also produces paranoia and schizophrenia.

The first thing to do is to spend time in the Presence of Yehovah, but is the person is not yet in Covenant with our Creator Yehovah, and have not believed in His only Ben, they need to repent of their sin and be accepted by Him.

All have sinned.

Romiyim/Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the esteem[v]of Elohim.

Yechezqel/Ezekiel18:4 “See all beings (souls) are Mine, the being of the father as well as the being of the son is Mine. The being that is sinning shall die.” HS

Modern religions are going away from the true Elohim, and they are going to Satan to find peace, joy and success. But they are sadly deluded. They do not know they are cutting their lives short because they reject the true living Elohim, who wants to bless them and have fellowship with them. He is our Creator and He loves us. He knows what we need. He has given us the freedom to choose or reject Him. But He has placed in us an area that needs to be filled with His love.  The world is enticed by the lies of Satan and look for that love in the one who hates them. They do not know that his goal is to take them with him to his eternal domain which is very hot. Yehovah has reserved a lake of fire for him, and he tries to get as many as he can to go there with him, because of his hate for the Creator and for his creatures, mankind.

I hope today you realize that serving Satan is not something you need to do.

Get read of fear; for Yehovah has not given you fear.

Timotiyos2/2Timothy 1:7 For Elohim has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Yochanan1/1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

Choose to love Yehovah and your neighbor as yourself, and love yourself also.

One day a Pharisees asked Yehovah him a question. He wanted to know if Yehoshua knew the Word, and asked Him which is the great Commandment.

Mattithyahu/Mattithyahu 22:37 “Yehoshua said to him, “You shall love Yehovah your Elohim[vi] with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 this is the first and great Commandment.  39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  40 “On these two commandments hand all the Torah[vii] and the Prophets.”

I hope that today you will choose to love Yehovah and serve Him with all your heart. If you have never believed in His only Ben/Son Yehoshua, you may want to read the Gospels, Mattithyahu, Marqos, Luqas, and Yochanan, and become acquainted with Him.

Ma’aseh/Acts 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is other Name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

Shalom.

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[i] Commonly and falsely the LORD, which is a title given to false gods and to men.

[ii] faith

[iii] Commonly called God. Elohim is the Hebrew correct title.

[iv] Messiah

[v] Other translations say- Glory

[vi] I always use the correct Hebrew Names, instead the titles the translators erroneously use.

[vii] Torah is the correct word, not Law. Torah means instruction and gives us direction for us to live by.