We read in the Renewed Covenant, or New Testament that Yehoshua had silenced the Sadducees, and then the Pharisees asked an important question. “Teacher, which is the great commandment I the Torah (Law)?” Yehoshua said to him, “You shall love Yehovah your Elohim with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Torah and the Prophets”
Mattithyahu/Matthew 22:37-40
Yehoshua spoke His own written Commandments. He is the Word made flesh. (Yochanan/John 1:1)
Devarim/Deuteronomy 6:4-5 Hear O Israel: Yehovah our Elohim, Yehovah is one! You shall love Yehovah with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Wayyiqra/Leviticus 19:18 “You shall not take vengeance , nor bear any grudge against the children of our people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am Yehovah.
As believers and followers of Yehoshua HaMashiach we must love our Elohim with all our heart, soul and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves. We must obey His commandments.
We read in the gospel of Yochanan that He said to us: “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” Yochanan/John 14:15
When we were still in Mitsrayim/Egypt He spoke to Mosheh/Moses saying: “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.” Shemot/Exodus 12:2
Today many keep a feast that Yehovah has not given us. It is a tradition that Israel picked up while in Babylon. We, as followers of Yehovah will not celebrate this feast unto Him, for it would dishonor Him. He has given us the instruction on when to celebrate the first day of the first month. We cannot celebrate two first months. One year is only 12 month, sometimes, biblically if the moon does not show up, we may have 13 month, as all of us know.
Messianic Jews and believers, please consider that today is not the first of the year, the first day of the seventh biblical month it may be tomorrow, when the moon will be seen. That day, or the first day of the seventh month, is called Yom Teruah, or the day of Shouting. The seventh month, is only the seventh month, not the first of the Year!
On this first day of the seventh month, we celebrate Yehovah with great joy. The Feast of Trumpets has not history. Because all the Feasts have a historical precedent, and some were already fulfilled in Mashiach, as the Spring Feasts, (Pesach/Passover, the Feast of First Fruits and the Feast of Pentecost). It is our hope that this Feast, Yom Teruah/ Day of Trumpets/ Day of Shouting, will be the day Yehoshua, our Mashiach will come back the second time to establish His Kingdom. Let us not be side tracked by men’s traditions, but obey Yehovah with all our hearts, and stop trying to please Him with our fleshly traditions.
Let us be walking in pure love, loving not the world, but loving and obeying Him alone.
Shalom
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