Friday, February 21, 2020

KEEPING THE SABBATH DAY HOLY IS A COMMANDMENT


(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

[i] Commonly called God
[ii] In English they translated as LORD. But His true Hebrew Name is Yehovah. Lord is only a simple title given to men and gods.
[iii] Moses
[iv] Sabbath
[v] Yehovah
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Friday, February 14, 2020

KEEPING HE SABBATH DAY HOLY IS A COMMANDMENT


(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

[i] Commonly called God
[ii] In English they translated as LORD. But His true Hebrew Name is Yehovah. Lord is only a simple title given to men and gods.
[iii] Moses
[iv] Sabbath
[v] Yehovah
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Friday, February 7, 2020

SHABBAT IS AN EVERLASTING COVENANT



(Part 6)
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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