I have mentioned in my previous message that the
teaching of Dispensationalism is a false teaching. There is also another teaching
called: Replacement Theology, which the Christian religions, with few
exceptions, now believe and teach. Some religious groups are teaching that
somehow the Shabbat/Sabbath was changed to Sunday, and that the seventh day is
not Shabbat or Saturday, but Sunday. However, when they are asked to prove with
the Scriptures they have no proof. They simply have believed a lie, and they do
not want to repent, and because of this fact judgment is coming to all of us.
In spite the fact that the Fourth Commandment is
very specific about this subject, and commands us to keep the seventh day: the
Shabbat day Holy, they still chose to believe this lie. In my opinion those
people do not read the Scriptures, and believe everything the preachers in
their ignorance say to them. They do not realize that Yehoshua can speak to
them individually and they can learn the truth by the help of the Ruach haQodesh/
Holy Spirit. I had to do that, for I heard enough of these teachings in the
church I attended for twenty eight years of my life. It came to a point that I
had to separate and come out from that place of mixed teachings. I pray for
their salvation, and that they will go back to keep the Torah as it is given to
all of us. Amen.
Now let us continue with the Word. The Scriptures
describe the Shabbat to be not only a sign, but a Covenant.
Shemot/Exodus
31:16-17 “Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Shabbat, to observe
the Shabbat throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign
between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yehoshua made
the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”
In Hebrew the word for perpetual is “olam” which
means “eternity, forever, without end.” In English it means the same thing. But
why, I ask, the so called believers do not keep it?
The Shabbat is here to stay, and it is not going
away. There are no covenants made with a group called Christians, or the Church.
He made the Covenant with Yisra’el, not with a group of people that would not
even keep it.
Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah
31:31-34: “Behold the days are coming, says Yehovah, when I will make a new
(renewed) covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Yahudah/Judah-not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took
them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim/Egypt, My covenant
which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says Yehovah. But this is the covenant that I will make with
the house of Israel after those days, says Yehovah: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their
hearts; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. No more shall
every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yehoshua,’
for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,
says Yehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember
no more.’”
When Yehoshua had His Last Supper with His disciples,
they were all Hebrews. The so called church did not exist. Please also note that this was not a seder,
but it was the last meal of Yehoshua with his talmidim. They were not a new body of believers called
church. He never invented a new religion called church, and neither did His
talmidim. The word church has heathen
roots, and that name is in use since the fallen away, long time after the
persecution of the Nazarenes began. The Natzrim/Nazarene are the followers of
the Jewish Messiah who lived in Nazareth, Yisra’el. The biblical word for the Covenant People is
congregation, or assembly, not church, as mentioned earlier. Church is a word
that should not be used for the people of Yehoshua, and I spoke about this in
my last message.
Yehoshua sealed the Renewed Covenant with a meal, as
it was usually customary in the past.
If we read Shemot/Exodus 31:16 in the Hebrew
language, we will find the two letters which are never translated. Those
letters appear even in the first sentence of Bereshith/Genesis.
The letters are “Aleph ‘and “Tav,” the first and the
last letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. Yehoshua
declared to be the Aleph and Tav, the Beginning and the End. In the Greek Bible
we read that He declared to be the Alpha and Omega, (Revelation 1:8, 21, 22:13),
which are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.
However, Yehoshua
had His dinner with Hebrew speaking disciples in Yisra’el, and since all the
Torah was originally written in Hebrew; He would not suddenly speak Greek to
them. Yet, the meaning is the same. He is the Beginning and the End, the Aleph
and Tav, as the Scriptures declare to us. Who has ears to hear, let him hear.
There is a problem in the Bibles which translators call
the Old and the New Covenant. This is a
terrible mistake, and we need to correct that thought in our minds. That concept
of Old and New has given the impression that everything before the book of
Malachi is Old, and now Yehoshua has given us a New Covenant. If this would be
the case He would not have spent so much time teaching His disciples. He could
have waited until the Last Supper, and voila,’ they would have a new religion.
But He taught Torah from the beginning to the end. He came to be the perfect
sacrifice. Now we no longer need the blood sacrifices which could not take away
sin, but we have the shed Blood of Yehoshua which is perfect and only through
that shed Blood He can wipe away, or cancel and forgive all our sins.
He did not destroy the First Covenant, but fulfilled
and gave us a deeper understanding to it. The Torah is a complete set of books, five in
all, which teach us how to relate to Yehovah and to men. He has given us everything
we need to be able to receive eternal life. When He came He added the sinless
earthly Divine Blood, by giving His Life for our sins. Only He could do such thing
for He was sinless.
Qorin’tiyim
2 /2 Corinthians 5:2 For He made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that
in Him we might become the righteousness of Elohim.
The penalty for sin is death, (Romans 3:23), but Yehovah
does not require human sacrifice, therefore He came in the flesh to take our
place on the stake, or cross. The gospel is not too difficult to understand,
but religions add and take away from it according to the special group they
belong to. Yehoshua is our perfect Sacrifice, and He did not take away any of
the Commandments. He give them meaning
by fulfilling and giving meaning to the blood sacrifices the Hebrews were
instructed to offer to Him, in order to be able to come near to Yehovah and
worship Him.
Yehovah does not change.
Mal’aki/Malachi
3:6: “For I am Yehovah, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons
of Ya’aqov/Jacob.”
Yehoshua declared that the Shabbat will be here
during the tribulation.
Mattithyahu/Matthew
24:20-21: “And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Shabbat.
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the
beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
Yehoshua expected His followers to be keeping the
Shabbat until the end. The tribulation is not yet here, although is at the
door. I want you also to notice that He
did not say that they would be gone in the rapture before that time, but that
they would be here on the earth. I just
thought that I mentioned that now, since we read the Scriptures!
The Shabbat will continue to be a sign until the end. When we are fleeing,
we are not resting! He expects us to be keeping the Shabbat holy forever, as Yehoshua
has commended us. Amen.
In the Book of Ezekiel chapter forty six, we read
that during the end times the Temple would be rebuilt. The slaughtering will again be performed, and
the Shabbat is still kept.
Yechezqel/Ezekiel
46: 4, 12: The burnt offering that the prince offers to Yehovah on the Shabbat
day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish; 12) “Now
when the prince makes a voluntary burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to
Yehovah, the gate that faces toward the east shall then be opened for him; and
he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Shabbat
day. Then he shall go out, and after he goes out the gate shall be shut.
Let us be clear that we do not need to animal
sacrifices, however those who do not yet believe in Yehoshua ha’Mashiach or
Yehoshua the Anointed One, they still will offer sacrifices.
This will be the last Temple, and all the feasts
will be celebrated. The New Moon, (or
better the Renewed Moon, for it is always the same moon) and the Blessed Shabbat
Day- or day of rest will be still kept. Yehovah does not change; nor does He change His Torah/Commandments.
We may change, but not Him.
The prophet Yeshayahu/Isaiah also speaks about the
Shabbat will be kept until the New Heaven, and the New Earth.
Yeshayahu/Isaiah
66:22-24: For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall
remain before Me, says Yehovah, “So shall your descendants and your name
remain. And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to another, and from
one Shabbat to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me.” Says
Yehovah.
The Shabbat is forever, and we need to keep it holy
now. It is not difficult to keep the Shabbat holy. It is a blessing. We work
hard six days, our bodies and our spirits need a day to rest and be refreshed.
It will enhance your health if you begin to obey
this Commandment. You will live longer and much healthier if you do what He
commands you. It is all a matter of the
heart. If you love Him, you keep His Commandments. Personally I am keeping the
Shabbat for about 12 or more years, and I am in very good health. He keeps me
meds free! I am very thankful!
But how do we keep the Shabbat day Holy? What do we do all day? When does the day start?
The day starts at sunset. We still call the time
after the sunset evening the same day, but it has changed. That evening is no longer the same day that
you lived up to sunset. At sunset the- day - changes. For instance the Shabbat
begins as the sixth day of the week, which is Friday, but it ends at sunset. This time is called in Hebrew
“erev” Shabbat or evening Shabbat, and then continues until the next sunset,
which will begin the first day of the week, which in pagan calendar is called
Sunday. The day does not begin at
midnight, but at sunset. This tradition began only for one reason; to honor the
sun.
We
do not honor the sun, but the Creator of the sun, Yehovah.
We do not wait for the sun to disappear and be a few
hours dark until midnight, then begin the new day. Yehovah does not use the
sun, but the moon to count time. In fact in the moment the sun goes down, it is
a new day. Please read the first chapter of Bereshit/Genesis.
The sixth day, Friday, is the day of preparation. We
clean the house and cook for the erev Shabbat, or Friday evening, and for the
whole Shabbat day.
Most practicing Jews have a list of prayers they
pray, but this is not a Commandment. However, it will help the believer to get
into the spirit of resting, but anyone can pray as the Holy Spirit leads
them. Some of those prayers are very
inspiring, and sometimes I pray some of them.
To keep the Shabbat there are not many Commandments
concerning of do’s or don’t, but I will talk about them on my next message.
For now, please try to think on shifting your
thoughts and begin to consider that the day begins on sundown, as the moon will
become visible. Yehoshua does not count
time according the sun.
Shalom, and let us remember His
commandment:
Zakhor et-yom hashabbat leqaddesho
Remember the Sabbath day for holiness.
Yehoshua bless you and keep you;
Yehoshua make His face shine upon
you,
And be gracious to you;
Yehoshua lift up His countenance upon
you, and give you shalom.
So they shall put My name on the
children of Israel, and I will bless them.”
Bemidbar/Numbers 6:24-27
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