(Part 7)
Today I am going to remind the reader that Sunday is
the beginning of the seventh day of the week. It does not matter to Yehovah if
you have been taught that the Sabbath is Sunday. He does not care of what your
teachers have told you. He cares about the fact that He has given us
instructions and you and I must obey them, for the Word will be our judge on
the last day. For if we choose to
continue to obey the rules and traditions of men, than He is no longer our
Elohim.[i]
We must choose today whom we are going to obey. If
we obey Yehovah[ii],
He gives us blessings in this life and after; but if we choose to obey the
false teachers, then they have become our own god, and we will not be blessed,
but we will certainly be under the curse!
What we
choose today, has great consequence in our future; if we do well, we are blessed,
if we do not do well, we are cursed. I believe that I have made this matter
very clear. Obey Yehovah and be blessed.
I have already mentioned in other messages that the
day begins at sundown, not at midnight, and with that understanding then we know
that the Shabbat begins on the sixth day after sundown, that is on the pagan
evening day called Friday. There are not many rules concerning this day, and we
will begin to talk about them today.
Shemot/Exodus
35:1-3 “Then Mosheh[iii]
gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said to
them, ‘These are the words which Yehovah has commanded you to do:
2
“Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for
you, a Shabbat of rest to Yehovah. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to
death.
3
You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Shabbat[iv]
day.”
What this is saying is that we cannot work on the
Shabbat. It is a day or rest unto Yehovah.
The prohibition about kindling the fire, I firmly believe, concerns
cooking, which involved collecting wood, and preparing the fire, the food, and
cleaning after. If a person does all
these things, cannot rest. The wife usually would be working all day as usual
to fix the meals for the family, and she and or the maids would be working.
Instead we must prepare the meals the day before, which in reality means to do
all these things on the sixth day, and end working before the sun goes down on
the sixth day of the week, which is called Friday. By doing this, all the
family has the rest needed on the seventh day of the week, which is the
Shabbat.
Shemot/Exodus
16:21-30 “So they gathered it every morning, every man according to his need.
And when the sun became hot, it melted.
22
“And so it was, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two
omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Mosheh.
23
The he said to them, “This is what Yehovah has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Shabbat
rest, a holy Shabbat to Yehovah. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what
you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until
morning.’
24
So they laid it up till morning, as Mosheh commanded; and it did not stink, nor
were there any worms in it.
25
Then Mosheh said, “Eat that today, or today is a Shabbat to Yehovah; today you
will not find it in the field.
26
Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Shabbat, there will
be none.”
27
Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather,
but they found none.
28
And Yehovah said to Mosheh, ‘How long do you refuse to keep My
commandments and My laws?
29
See! For Yehovah has given you the Shabbat; therefore He gives you on the sixth
day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of
his place on the seventh day. “
30
So the people rested on seventh day.”
I do not believe that it is very difficult to
understand. We must prepare ahead of time. He commands us to take time out. Our
bodies need that rest. We cannot waste time cooking, washing dishes, washing clothes, washing and cleaning the car, water
the yard, cleaning the house, or even shopping;
we will talk about that also. I
must add here that personally lately I have had difficulty keeping the Shabbat
while in a friend’s house. She says she keeps the Sabbath day Holy, but she
still uses the stove. I drank some tea and ate her soup not thinking that it
was not correct for me to do so. But I had to repent after the fact. Therefore
now I will not go anywhere on the Shabbat evening even if it is for prayer if I
know the family does not keep the Sabbath day Holy. I am glad for the
forgiveness I received when I repented because of the shed Blood of Mashiach,
but I will stay home from now on. In my house no one breaks the Shabbat when
they come for prayer, and I want to keep it that way. Obey Him is more important
than relationships.
The Shabbat is a Set Apart Day, a Holy Day unto Yehovah,
not Sunday, which is the first day of the week. He has given us this time to be
connected with Him in a very special way. We should be grateful to Yehovah for
giving us this special time. Why should we disobey? It benefits us. It is for
our good, as all the commandments are, and they are not to hurt us or place us
into bondage, but to keep us free from the enemy attacks that come through
disobedience. Is meeting with the Creator
on weekly bases on HIS TIME, a burden to you?
Frankly, if it is a burden, then I question your
relationship with Him!
Once a person begins to keep the Shabbat Day Holy, he
or she will never go back to the old ways. That person will experience such
rest by the end of the Shabbat that he/she already thinks about celebrating on the
next Shabbat! Yes, keeping the Sabbath day holy it is a celebration with our
Creator: Yehovah
By keeping the Shabbat we are declaring that Yehovah
is more important than all the other activities. He is honored by our obedience,
and we place Him in a place of high reverence. By keeping the Sabbath we are
declaring that He is indeed number one in our lives. If we disobey this
commandment, we are saying that the Torah is outmoded, and He is no longer the
same, yesterday, today, and forever. But if we do that, we are deceiving
ourselves. If we do not want to keep the Sabbath, then we are breaking the
Covenant, and no sense keep the other nine!
He gave us Ten Commandments, and He expects us to obey them. We have to
stop obeying the RCC, and Obey Him Instead!
Buying and selling is also not allowed for it takes
us away from our time with Him, and keeps us in the realm of the flesh.
Nechemyah/Nehemiah
13:15-22 “In those days I saw people in
Judah treading wine presses on the Shabbat, and bringing in sheaves, and
loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they
brought into Yerushalayim/Jerusalem on the Shabbat day. And I warned them about
the day on which they were selling provisions.
16
Men of Tyre dwelt there also, who brought in fish and all kinds of goods, and
sold them on the Shabbat to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
17
Then I contended with the nobles of Yahudah/Judah, and said to them, ‘What evil
things is this that you do, by which you profane the Shabbat day?
18
Did not your fathers do this, and did not our Elohim bring all this disaster on
us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the
Shabbat.
19
So it was, at the gates of Yerushalayim/Jerusalem, as it began to be dark
before the Shabbat, that I commanded the gates to be shut, and charged that
they must not be opened till after the Shabbat.
Then I posted some of my servants at the gates, so that no burdens would
be brought in on the Shabbat day.
20
Now the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Yerushalayim/Jerusalem
once or twice.
21
Then I warned them, and said to them, “Why do you spend the night around the
wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you!” From that time on they came
no more on the Shabbat.
22
And I commanded the Lewites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they
should go and guard the gates, to sanctify the Shabbat day.”NKJV (I
added the correct Hebrew names as I always do)
This passage is self explanatory as all the
Scriptures. Yahudah/Judah went into captivity into Babylon because she did not
keep the Shabbat. Now they were repeating the same sins. This incident probably
took place around the Feast of Sukkoth, which is the time of harvesting the
grapes. But we cannot break the Shabbat not matter if it is harvest time or
not. Yehovah is the Master of the Harvest, and He is our Provider. The only way
we can be blessed is by our obedience.
Buying and selling on the Shabbat is sin. The
commandment is for all creation, for every human being, not only for the Jews,
or better for the Hebrew descendant of Avraham.
The Jews were not in existent yet as a religious
group when Yehovah- created the world. Only Adam existed then, and he taught
all his descendents. We are responsible to keep all the 10 commandments, and we
cannot anyone of them because we have been taught wrong.
Devarim/Deuteronomy
15:1-2 “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. And
this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his
neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his
brother, because it is called Yehovah’s release.”
Presently, sadly, the Nation of Yisra’el is not
giving the land its Shabbats. I believe if they would obey the commandment they
would be blessed, according to the Scriptures. The last Shmitah has begun the
26th of September on the pagan calendar, or sun god calendar. It
will end next around the 13th
or 14th day of September.
We have already seen major financial collapse in the last few years.
2007-8 saw the collapse of the stock market, and it happened on Elul 29! I do
not want to speak at length on his subject, but you may want to get more
information from the experts. The problem is that Yisrael went into captivity
because they did not keep this command. America has never kept it, what do you
think it is going to happen next year? We do not know, but Yehovah is giving us
many warnings. If we add the phenomena of the red moons, you may want to change
your ways and begin to serve Yehovah with all your heart, if you do not want to
be severely disciplined.
Soon the Messiah, Yehoshua, will return, and then
the whole world will be under His authority, and will be obeying Him. But are
we all going to be with Him in Yerushalayim?
Let us pray for this commandment to be kept, even in
Yisra’el, for we love Israel and want to see her blessed. Let us pray also that
your nation and mine would keep the weekly Shabbat, the seven year Shabbat, and
the true Jubilee. His blessings will be released to us, if we obey, instead of
His discipline.
It all begins with one individual, than others will also
follow. Let us not be fearful of living out our faith. Amen.
Shalom!
Zakhor et-yom hashabbat leqaddesho
Remember the Sabbath day for
holiness.
“Ye-varekhekha Yehovah
ve-yishmerekha
Ya’er
Yehovah panav ‘eleykha vichunnekha
Yisa
Yehovah panav ‘eleykha ve yasem lekha
shalom.” Bemidbar 6:24-26
Yehovah
bless you and keep you,
Yehovah
make His Face shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
Yehovah
lift up His countenance upon you, and give you Shalom.
(Bemidbar
/Numbers 6:24-26)
If you do not know Yehovah as your Creator and His
only Son Yehoshua who died for your sin, you can call upon His Name today and
be saved. Today is the day of salvation.
Tomorrow it could be too late.
If
you are Hebrew please pray the following prayer.
“Barukh
HaBa ba’Shem YHWH!” “Blessed is He Who
is coming in the Name of YHWH[v]!”
“…Hoshia-na! “Barukh is He who is coming in
the Name of Yehovah! Barukh is the coming reign of our father Dawid – in the
Name of Yehovah Hoshia-na in the
highest!”
Mark
11:9-10 HS
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