SABBATH - THE BLESSED SET APART DAY

The keeping of the Sabbath is a very important teaching that began at Creation. It is not a religious Jewish teaching, for it began the very first whole day of Adam.  I must continually publish these messages in order for everyone who needs to know truth, be well informed, and do according to their own will. My prayer is that everyone will choose to keep the Sabbath Day Holy, and receive the blessings of Yehovah.

Do not fear men, as they discourage you to keep the Commandments, but listen and obey Yehovah who is your judge. Men cannot judge unless they also are keeping this precious holy day. Have a good reading time.

(Part one) 

Shemoth -Exodus 20:1-11: And Elohim spoke all these words, saying: 2: I:  “I Am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image-any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, YHWH Your Elohim, am a jealous Elohim, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

6 But showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

7 You shall not take the name of YHWH Your Elohim in vain, for YHWH will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

8: Remember the Shabbat day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of YHWH your Elohim. In it you shall do not work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

11 For in six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore YHWH blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”

The “church” has a problem with three commandments that Exodus 20 enumerates. The first one is the command in verse four which concerns idolatry. Of course if you disobey the command in verse three, you will have images in your house. You will believe that idols will protect your house.

Next I want to touch on verse seven, which states not to take the Name of YHWH in VAIN. I have already talked at length about this in other messages. Therefore I will not say too much about it now. But I will talk about this again and again, for it is just as important as discussing the commandment about the Seventh Day. Every commandment is about death and life.

This message today begins a series about the Shabbat, the Blessed Set Apart Day. This commandment is anathema to the “Christian Church.”  From the beginning, after the resurrection of Yehoshua, began the persecution against the Nazarene, which were His followers. They were not called ‘Christians’ until many years later in Antioch, a very idolater city. Yahoshua did not start a “Church” but came to preach to His Chosen People, whom He commanded to go into the entire world and teach the Torah, and of course about the fact that He, the expected Mashiach/Messiah had come, died, and rose again according to the Scriptures, assuring eternal life to all who believe.

The Nazarene kept the Shabbat and all the Feasts, as Yehoshua did when He was on this earth. But the Romans persecuted the Nazarene, and later on, with the rise of the false Nazarene, Constantine, who declared to be a Christian, things began to change. He abolished persecution by making the Nazarene worship on the sun god day or on the first day of the week. Many followed him to avoid been killed. Latter on it became a command in the Roman Catholic Church to worship on the first day of the week, on the sun god day, instead of the Sabbath. He did this because he was a Mithra sun god worshipper.

The plan was to completely eradicate anything “Jewish”; therefore it is anti-Semitic to teach not to keep the Sabbath Day Holy.

The Pentecostal church has blindly followed that teaching, and Martin Luther was not fully delivered from anti-Semitism, and he did not go back to the roots of the faith. But he was highly anti-Semitic. And that is all I will speak about him here. You can find out from history, what he truly said against the Jewish people. All you need to do is to make a small search on your own. 

I am concerned about teaching truth, and not to speak about the sins of the church. Each of us is responsible to search the Scriptures daily. We must pray for wisdom and discernment.  We cannot follow the blind leaders, but test everything that is preached behind the pulpit. We are all able to understand the simple truths Yehovah teaches us in His Word. We are able to read, therefore, let us read and seek truth. The blessing will be ours, instead of the curses.

When the church makes distinction between the Tanakh, which is called  “Old Testament” and the Messianic Writings, which is called “New Testament,” they fall into error. The Hebrew or commonly called “Jewish” people worship Yehovah and so, supposedly, does the Church. He does not have two set or rules, one for the Chosen People, and another for the followers of the Nazarene Yahoshua. He has only one Torah, and we better understand this truth or we are in error, and fall under His judgment.

Now let us go back to the beginning.

Bereshith -Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.

Yochanan -John 1:1-3: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim.  He was in the beginning with Elohim.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”

Qolasim - Colossians 1:15-17: “He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn over all creation.  For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.  And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.”

Yahoshua was in the beginning with His Father, Yehovah. He created the world with His Father.

Genesis 2:2-3: “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.  And on the seventh day Elohim ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.  Then Elohim blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which Elohim had created and made.”

Elohim blessed three times at creation; first the animal life in the ocean and the air and blessed the seventh day and sanctify it or set it apart.

Bereshith -Genesis 1:22: “And Elohim blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Then He blessed Adam whom He created in His Image.

Bereshith -Genesis 1:27-28: “So Elohim Created man in His own image; in the image of Elohim He created him; male and female He created them.

28 Then Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that move on the earth.”

This commandment is also not being kept by the church today. Even so called believers, have decided to follow the lust of their eyes and buy everything in sight, but kill their conceived offspring. Or else, they simply go through surgery to make themselves sterile. There are other heathen methods they use, as taking the morning pill, or anything that is available in the market to stop having children. This is a terrible sin, and they will pay the consequence for their sin. The god of convenience is winning the war, but Yehovah has the last saying. He does not change, and He will avenge Himself of all His enemies. Let us be diligent and turn back to serve YHWH whom we say we love. Let us not love in word alone, but in deed.

Ya’aqov -James 2:17: “Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works is dead.”

I will continue on my next message. Please read every message and be strengthen in you walk in the light. Amen.

Zakhor et-yom hashabbat leqaddesho

Remember the Sabbath day for holiness.

Ye-varekhekha YHWH ve-yishmerekha

Ya’er YHWH panav ‘eleykha vichunekha

Yisa YHWH panav ‘eleykha ve ‘yasem  lekha’ shalom.

“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.

So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.”

Bemidbar –Numbers  6:24-27