(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. We
know that the Shabbat begins on the
sixth day after sundown, which 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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