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EVEN THESE ARE MY FEASTS

Even these are My Feasts:
The Feasts of YHVH and their Prophetic significance.
By Daniyel

Part Alef: First may I ask; Do you have an appointment? Or
when is it the Season for kick off time in Da End Zone Days?

...”Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision...Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.” Dan 8:17-19 KJV
In the original Hebrew this passage concludes: ke le mo’ed qets which has been translated as: for at the time appointed the end shall be.”

The key word in this passage is mo’ed which in this context indicates the singular form of the time appointed for the end. The root word mo’ed in it’s various forms has been translated throughout the Scriptures as meaning: appointments, to meet together, marriage betrothal, assemble yourselves, congregation, set time, or set feasts.

The first mention of the Hebrew word mo’ed in the Scriptures is found in B’reshyit (Genesis)Chapter One, thus we may begin to understand the Spiritual significance that YHVH has placed upon his appointed times:

Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs (Le’otot), and for seasons (Ul’mo’edim), and for days, and years:

In this study we shall examine Ha Mo’edim, The Set Times, The Appointed Times of the Feasts of YHVH who in Leviticus Twenty Three declares:

EVEN THESE ARE MY FEASTS

Our Heavenly Father’s plan for the redemption of mankind through the sacrifice, and resurrection of his only begotten son Yahshua (Jesus of Nazareth) as revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures provides us with only a glimpse into the truly awesome nature of his divine creative intellect. YHVH has provided clues into his plan from the first verse of Genesis through the final chapter of Revelation.
Psa 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Webster’s Seventh Collegiate Dictionary defines Easter as a combing of pagan and religious traditions: “1: The prehistoric name of a pagan spring festival. 2: A feast observed on the first Sunday after the full moon on or next after the vernal equinox in commemoration of Christ’s resurrection.” What is going on here? Have we allowed the traditions of man to enter into our resurrection worship celebrations, thus spoiling the true meaning of YHVH’s sacrifice of his only begotten Son to redeem us from our sins?

Let us consider Shaul’s (The Apostle Paul) words in I Corinthians 5:6-8:

“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

Here Shaul is instructing us to keep the feasts of YHVH set apart and pure, not to be spoiled by the vain traditions of man which do not honor the truth of YHVH’s sacrifice of his only begotten Son for our salvation. Shaul is also revealing that Yahshua the Lamb of Elohim truly fulfilled the feast of Passover by offering himself as a lamb slain upon Mt. Moriah for our sins. What are the feasts of the YHVH? and why do they matter to us, as New Covenant Believers living in a culture whose favorite Holidays are Christmas, and Easter? If we are to more fully appreciate the beauty of Elohim’s awesome plan we need to:

“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else: I am God and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure… I will bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.” Isaiah 46:9-13

In Revelation 1:8 Yahshua revealed to Yohanan (The Apostle John) that:

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

And in Revelation 22:13 Yahshua (Jesus) revealed to Yohanan that:

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”

What has been overlooked by both Christian scholars, as well as Hebrew rabbi’s for century’s was the true significance of the meaning behind the Greek words Alpha, and Omega. Yohanan gave us a clue in the first verse of his Gospel.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1

We need to understand that Yahshua was showing Yohanan that he was the literal fulfillment of Genesis 1:1. Let’s examine this verse that YHVH chose as the cornerstone of his Living Word to us; first in transliterated Hebrew, next with a word for word literal translation, and then finally in the King James English)

B’reshiyt bara Elohim ET (Alef Tav) hashamayim v’et ha’eretz
In the beginning created Elohim The heavens and the earth.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1 KJV

Remember that Yahshua was speaking to Yohanan (John the Apostle) in Hebrew as he gave him the revelation and Yahshua was referring to himself as the “Word” which can not be translated in the Hebrew scriptures because it has no literal interpretation.

In the Hebrew Alefbet (alphabet) the first letter is ALEF, and the last letter is TAV, and these two letters follow the Hebrew Elohim (masc. Plural form of EL or God) used in Genesis 1:1 Alef Tav has no literal meaning but rather creates a word picture when used together. The ancient Paleo Hebrew (Pre Babylonian Captivity) letters were different in form from the post captivity letters. In the ancient alef-bet(Alphabet) the letters had a shape, which gave meaning to the letters in the form of word pictures. The ALEF was drawn in the shape of an Ox head, and indicated the meaning of a strong leader, and numerically was first, since Hebrew numbers are represented by letters, as in Roman numerals.

The ancient TAV was drawn in the shape of our lower case “t” which has the shape of a cross, and whose meaning is “a sign”. Thus symbolically the word picture of the letters ALEF, TAV is a strong, or first sign! Yahshua revealed to Yohanan that he was the ALEF TAV the first sign in the Bible who died on a cross for our sins!

Now in order to more fully understand our Heavenly Fathers’ plan we need to go back to Genesis 22 to see the shadow picture, or rehearsal which Abraham, and Isaac portrayed upon Mount Moriah. The word Moriah is formed by the two Hebrew words Moreh, meaning teacher, and Yah, is the short form for Yahweh. Thus Mount Moriah is the mountain where YHVH is our teacher. Mt. Moriah is a ridge, which rises up between Mt. Zion, and the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. The ridge rises from South to North and has a lower summit underneath the Temple Mount, then rises up to its highest peak North of the modern city walls at the location of the Calvary Escarpment, also known as Golgatha.

King Solomon’s quarries were in this location, and actually created the escarpment as they dug into the limestone underneath the summit of Mt. Moriah to obtain the building stones for the First Temple.

In Genesis 6-14: Abraham “took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son… And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father… where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering…And they came to the place which God had told him of: and Abraham built an alter there… and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the alter upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven… and he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh: (YHVH Yireh, or YHVH is my provider) as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.”

Abraham performed a rehearsal of the sacrifice of his only legitimate son at the exact location where YHVH later sacrificed his only begotten son Yahshua upon Mt. Moriah. In order to fully appreciate Elohim’s plan for our salvation we need to understand his set apart feast days, which he gave to us in the Torah. In Luke 24:13-27 the Gospel record shows how Yahshua revealed to the 2 men on the road to Emmaus how YHVH had foretold of Yahshuas’ death, and resurrection in the pages of Scripture:

“And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”

Part Bet: Who is the Head of this House? Who’s Mo’ Who’s Ede’ Whose Feasts are these anyway? And Who keeping time?

In Leviticus 23 Elohim gave his instructions on which days were truly holy (set apart) to him.

“ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the (Mo’ede’) feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations (in Hebrew Mikraw Kadosh meaning holy rehearsals), EVEN THESE ARE MY (Mo’ede’)FEASTS. Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings…
In the 14th day of first month at evening is the Lord’s Passover. And on the 15th day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day you shall have an holy convocation (high Sabbath) ye shall do no work therein.”

In order for us to comprehend YHVH’s plan more fully we need to understand his Scriptural calendar, and his reckoning of time:

The following information is quoted from The Astronomically and Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar by Michael Rood as is available along with the accompanying DVD The Creator’s Calendar and the Restoration of All Things at:
www.michaelroodministries.com

“The Creator’s original reckoning of time is clearly defined according to the ancient Hebrew Scriptures, and the rhythm of life is cadenced by the appointed times of the Almighty. By first studying the legend on the facing page and watching the DVD video presentation; The Creator’s Calendar and the Restoration of All Things, you will have a more concrete understanding of the Creator’s reckoning of time than has been available to even the most privileged
scholar for the past millennium. The Ruach HaKodesh was given as our comforter and as our guide to lead us into all truth. Heaven is restoring that which was lost. We no longer need to be ignorant of His times and seasons.”

“And God called the light day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Genesis 1:5

In Hebrew reckoning of time each day begins at sunset. The Sabbath or Seventh day begins at sundown on our Friday night, and concludes at sundown on our Saturday. YHVH’s calendar is based upon the lunar cycle of approx 29.53 days. As well as the planting, and observation of the Barley crop as it approaches maturity on the Mount of Olives in the Land of Israel. When Barley planted in the Fall reaches a state where it can be harvested within a few weeks it is called Aviv.

In Michael Rood’s DVD presentation The Creator’s Calendar and the Restoration of All Things filmed on location in the Land of Israel, Michael is joined by Karaite Scholar Nehemia Gordon who goes into precise detail concerning the ancient Scriptural basis as well as the modern scientific observations that go into the determination of declaring when the Barley crop is indeed Aviv.

The following information is quoted from the article, Month of the Aviv
By Nehemia Gordon

“ The biblical year begins on the first new moon after the barley in the land of Israel reaches the stage in it’s development that the Bible calls Aviv. Only by checking the state of the barley crop can we fulfill the Biblical commandments to “Keep the Month of the Aviv” Deut 16:1 Only by fixing the calendar in harmony with the barley crop can we fulfill the commandment to celebrate the Hag Ha-Matzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread) “at the time of the month of the Aviv, because in the month of the Aviv you went out of Egypt.” (Exodus 34:18)

The Scriptural Calendar begins each year as a remembrance of the timing of the Exodus by the Children of Yisrael.

And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: Exo 12:1-3

In ancient Biblical times after the barley crop was declared to be Aviv The first month of YHVH’s Calendar began upon the sighting of the new moon crescent by two witnesses (Kohen priests) If the barley crop had not reached a sufficient state of maturity as the previous 12 month lunar cycle drew to a conclusion then an additional or a 13th month (Adar Bet) was determined by the Kohanim of Yisrael.

The modern Jewish, or Rabbinical Calendar was a man made attempt to solve the needs of the dispersion of the exiled Pharisees. As Michael Rood has written:

“In 359 C.E., just before disbanding themselves, the exiled Sanhedrin devised a new calendar system. After the Temple in Jerusalem had been destroyed, the Pharisees had replaced the Temple service and the Creator’s appointed times with a “new and improved” religious system—a code of righteousness defined by thousands of man-made commandments and regulated by their new calendar. As head of the 4th century Sanhedrin, Hillel II borrowed Babylonian mathematical calculations to determine the precise moment that the moon was in “conjunction” with the earth and the sun. This unobservable mathematical moment in time was used to determine the beginning of each month on the new Pharisee calendar.
The Pharisees invented additional “postponements” so that they could celebrate their adaptations of the Feasts at their own convenience. They could now plan
their religious activities months, years, and even centuries in advance. They completely disregarded the only criterion stipulated by the Almighty for determining the first month of the year–the aviv in His appointed seasons, according to His extremely simple and absolutely accurate time clock.”

Before we examine how Yahshua literally fulfilled the Spring Feasts of YHVH in every detail according to his Father’s precise timing, we really need to consider the vital importance of just what calendar(s) we choose to use in our own walk of faith as believers in Yahshua from a Torah based perspective. This is not just some ancient controversy that has no significance to our modern lives. Most of us would agree with Yahshua that the greatest Commandment is the Shema:
Shema Yisrael YHVH Elohenu YHVH Echad
And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: Mark 12:29

The verses preceding the Shema in Devarim emphasize the importance of keeping all his statutes; and we all know that the fear of YHVH is the beginning of wisdom!

That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: Deu 6:2-4

Since the exiled Sanhedrin could no longer observe the condition of the barley crop in the land of Israel or the sightings of the new moon from Jerusalem Hillel II devised a mathematical calculation to help keep his calendar as accurate as possible to the Creators calendar concerning the need to determine the additional 13th months from time to time for when the barley was not yet aviv. Devising a formula of adding an Adar Bet approx. 7 out of every 19 years Hillel’s calendar has remained fairly accurate over the centuries.

Many, although certainly not the majority of Christians find it somewhat puzzling why on some years their celebration of Easter lines up with the “Jewish” Passover, while on other years these observances of Holiday’s or Holy Days is about a month off. With the restoration of the Biblical Hebrew Calendar there is currently somewhat of a controversy concerning just what Calendar Torah based believers should follow to determine the celebrations of the Feasts of YHVH. In years past the Rabbinical Calendar has been a month off, from the actual determining of the month of the aviv in the land of Israel. With the development of the internet the guess work of when the barley has been determined to be in the state of aviv, as well as the precise timings of actual verified sightings of the new moon by two or more well qualified witnesses living in the land of Israel is no longer an issue. It’s just another sign of the times we are living in, the time when:

...many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Dan 12:4

Why is this issue so controversial? Well even in our own local congregations their sometimes is heated debate over just when our assembly should observe the Feasts of YHVH. Take this year of 2008 for instance. Some members might have a Messianic Calendar from a well respected Ministry such as Lion and Lamb. On their Calendar the Erev Pesach/Passover Seder was set on the evening commencing the day of Nisan (Babylonian name for the month of aviv) 14 which corresponded with Friday April 18th on the Pagan Roman Calendar.

While other believers might choose to follow a Calendar, or freely available information from a website that instructs believers to celebrate the Passover Seder on the evening commencing the day of Aviv 15 (shortly following the commemoration of the Scriptural timing of the Pesach sacrifice of Aviv 14 this year) that corresponded with the Pagan date of the evening of Monday April 21st.

Are we as Wild Olive Branch believers called to seek out our acceptance by the Jewish Rabbinic elite by observing the Moedim of YHVH according to Rabbinic traditional timing? Or is our true calling to become ever more obedient to YHVH’s Torah by celebrating the Moedim according to our Creators reckoning of time?

For do I now persuade men, of God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Gal 1:10

Certainly these disputes will no longer be an issue when Messiah Yahshua returns to establish his righteous Kingdom in Jerusalem. Yet we really do need to seriously consider if we would rather have the convenience of knowing precisely when to plan our observances of the Feasts months in advance to facilitate getting off from work, or if we should not rather choose to simply obey our Creator who declared: EVEN THESE ARE MY FEASTS! There is significant evidence that the timing of the return of Yahshua Ha Maschiach will be precisely according to the timing of the Fall Feasts of YHVH as we shall examine later. Trust him, it will be according to his perfect timing!

Part Gimel: The Perpetual Sign of the Covenant , or Who is the lifted up with pride Bridezilla?

In Vayiqra 23 we see that keeping the 4th Commandment is the Cornerstone of the Feasts of YHVH.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts (Mo’ede’) of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my (Mo’ede’) feasts. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. Lev 22:2-3

Each erev Shabbat shortly after the kindling of the Sabbath candles observant Jews pray the Le’cha Do’dee:

Le’cha Do-dee Lik’rat Kal’lah Pe’ney Sha-bat Ne-ka be-la
Come my Beloved to greet the Bride The presence of the Sabbath let us welcome

The sages of Yisrael have long venerated the Sabbath as the Bride of YHVH
The Hebrew word for Bride is Kal’lah and its cognate is the word kalah which means to: strive to attain, a goal, complete, accomplish, finish, to perfect!

There is an old Hebraic saying that: “A man is not complete without a Bride, when he finds one he is finished!”

The first use of the root word of kalah in the Scriptures is found in Genesis 2:1-2

Let’s examine it’s use in the second verse:

Vay’kal Elohim Ba’yom ha-she viyiy me-la’ke toe asher asah
And finished Elohim on day the seventh his work which he had made

va’yish’bot Ba’yom ha-she viyiy mikal-m’la-ke toe asher asah
and he rested on day the seventh from his work which he had made

Here we see that YHVH finished his work on the seventh day. The sages of Yisrael have also foreseen that the Messiah would return in the Seventh Millennia to establish his Kingdom upon the earth. Christian Theology contends that they are the true Bride of the Messiah, and that they will sit upon the throne of Christ Jesus
to rule and reign with him for the next thousand years.

The Scriptures are clear concerning the Messiah’s observance of the Sabbath Day in his coming Kingdom:

Eze 46:1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD

With this insight in mind it truly is puzzling why the Christian Church boldly claims to be the true Bride of the Messiah, which will escape in the so called
pre-tribulation Rapture of the Church . “The Glorious Church” envisions herself feasting for the next seven years in Heaven attending the Wedding Feast of the Lamb while “unbelieving Jews” are left to deal with the full frontal assault of the Anti-Christ and the wrath of Satan.

The Church covets the chance desires to be seated at the Bridal table for a Heavenly Feast, while she keeps missing the weekly, and yearly rehearsals of Shabbat, and the Feasts of YHVH! If there is one reason why the Christian Religious leaders will never instruct their flocks to return to keeping the seventh day Sabbath in significant numbers before the return of Yahshua the Messiah is because they believe that they are part of a New (and improved) Covenant, therefore they do not need to keep the perpetual sign of the covenant!

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. Exo 31:16-17

Clearly the Church is blind to the restoration of the two houses of Yisrael.
A simple question to ask any Religious leader who questions your desire to obey the Commandments of our Creator is:

Does your Congregation believe that they are a New Covenant Church?

Virtually all Christian leaders will smugly, and promptly respond with something like: “Yes certainly!”

Next ask him, or her this simple question:

What House does your Church belong to?

Almost all of them will get a perplexed, if not slightly agitated facial expression before responding:

What do you mean?

Next remind him that they may (re)examine the true identities of the legal parties that pertain to the New Covenant from either a Old (and outdated in their vain imaginations) Testament from Jeremiah 31, or from a New (and improved) Testament account of the New Covenant in Hebrews 8. Either way they will observe:

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. Heb 8:8-11

After reviewing this fundamental passage of Scripture next ask that individual:

Well do you belong to the House of Israel, or to the House of Judah?

Be prepared for their response! Some might choose to say they must be part of the House of Israel. If so next ask them why they are not keeping the seventh day Sabbath? The perpetual sign between YHVH and the Children of Israel.

While others, especially if you are on their Church property will ask you to leave immediately before they call Security!!!

Part Dalet: The Doorway to the Tabernacle of Elohim, The Appointed Times and Seasons of YHVH

The Feasts of YHVH are basically divided into two parts: The Early or Late Spring Feasts, and the Fall Feasts. As charted from Israel’s feasts and their fullness by Batya Wooten:

The Spring Feasts:

Pesach --- Passover—Day of Preperation
Slaying of the lamb
Aviv/Nisan14 (Corresponds to March/April)

Chag ha-Matzot --- Feast of Unleavened Bread
Week of Unleavened Bread
Aviv/Nisan 15-21 (Corresponds to March/April)

Yom HaBikkurim—Day of the Wave Sheaf
Barley Harvest
First day of the week following the Sabbath after Pesach

Shavuot—Feast of Weeks
Wheat Harvest
The seventh Sunday after the Wave Offering of Barley First Fruits
The Fall Feasts:

Yom Teruah—Day of the blowing (of trumpets)
Begins the Ten Days between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur,
often called the Days of Awe
Tishri 1 (Corresponds to September/October)

Yom Kippur—Day of Atonement
Tishri 10 (Corresponds to September/October)

Sukkoth—The Feast of Tabernacles
The First Day: Probable birth date of Messiah Yeshua
The Eighth Day: Probable day of Yeshua’s circumcision.
Tishri 15-22 (Corresponds to September/October)

Other Celebrations:

Chanukah—The Feast of Dedication—The Festival of Lights
Kislev 25—Tevet 3 (Corresponds to December)

Purim—Lots—Feast of Ester
Adar 14 (Corresponds to March)

The Spring Feasts

Returning to the Word of YHVH let’s begin to examine the Scriptural outline for the Spring Feasts of YHVH:

These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. Lev 23:4-8

Each year on the 10th of Abiv the Passover Lambs (a spotless male of the first year were selected from the sheepfolds of Bethlehem in order to find a
Spotless (faultless) male of the first year, and taken up to the Temple Mount to be inspected by the High Priest, and Levites. The Passover Lamb was slain as sundown approached ending the 14th of Abiv. After sundown the feast of unleavened bread (a High Sabbath) began and the Passover meal was celebrated, with the roasted lamb eaten with bitter herbs, and unleavened bread. All yeast needed to be purged from one’s dwellings before sundown on the 14th.

The common belief that the Last Supper during which Yahshua broke bread with his disciples on the night on which he was betrayed, and arrested was the Passover meal, does not bare record with the Gospel of John, or with Paul’s account of the Lord’s supper in I Corinthians 11. In the Greek language there are two different words used for bread. The word azumos (strong’s #106) is used to indicated unleavened bread, while artos (strong’s #740) is used to describe leavened bread. In all 4 Gospel accounts, as well as in I Corinthians 11 the word for the bread broken by Yahshua to represent his body was artos. This means that Yahshua was breaking leavened bread, at the Last Supper, and that the Last Supper took place one day earlier before the Passover. Remember the words of our Messiah Yahshua spoke in Matthew 5:17

“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.”

Yahshua would have broken the command of God had they eaten leavened bread if the Last Supper was indeed the Passover meal. In fact Yahshua kept the law because he sent the last bit of the leavened bread out the door with Judas as he received the last sop of leavened bread, as we see in John 13:30-31:

“He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. Therefore is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.”

Remember that in v.29 some of the apostles thought that Judas was going out to buy provisions for the feast: if the Last Supper were indeed the Passover meal then there would have been no buying or selling in the entire Land of Israel, because it would have been a High Sabbath.

The Gospel record of John gives undeniable proof that Yahshua was arrested, tried, crucified, died, and placed in the garden tomb before sunset on the Passover.
“Then led they Yahshua from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgement: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgement hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover.” John 18:28.

Pilate in v.38, who had the final say overYahshua, unknowingly mimicked the words spoken by the high priest upon determining the Lamb without spot, or blemish;
“I find in him no fault at all.”
In John 19:14 we read:
“ And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour; and he saith to the Jews behold your King!”

In John 19:28-31 the word of YHVH clearly shows Yahshua’s fulfillment of the Passover sacrifice:

“After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar; and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished; and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies
Should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, for that Sabbath was a high Sabbath day (the 15th of Abiv the first day of the feast of unleavened bread) besought Pilate that the legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.”

Let’s see the literal fulfillment foreshadowed in Exodus 12:21-22

“Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.”

Yahshua literally became the fulfillment of the Passover sacrifice to the very day, the very hour, the very same minute, in every detail right down to the addition of hyssop to the blood of the Passover lamb. And in John 19:42

“There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day: for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.”

Now remember that the 15th of Abiv would begin the high Sabbath of the feast of unleavened bread. What can we determine about just what day of the week Yahshua did in fact die upon? In our western Gentile Christian culture we observe Good Friday as the day on which Yahsua was crucified due to our misinterpretation of the meaning of a high Sabbath, and ignoring the sign of the prophet Jonah. A high Sabbath can occur on any day of the week due to the timing of the sighting of the new moon, which begins the first month of Abiv. What we know for certain was that Jesus arose from the grave before sunrise on the first day
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“The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.” John 20:1

In spite of all our modern knowledge, we still cling to our traditions believing that Yahshua died on Good Friday because we can not subtract 3 days, and 3 nights from before sunrise on Sunday the 1st day of the week. Like the Pharisees of old we shall be given only this sign to base our calculations on:

“… and there shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah, For as Jonah was three days, and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Matthew 12:39-40.

Based upon complex calculations, which any first grader can grasp; Jesus our Messiah was placed in the garden tomb before sundown on Wednesday. And he arose before dawn on the first day of the week, fulfilling the feast of firstfruits.

As we continue our study of Leviticus 23 we read:

Lev 23:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
Lev 23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev 23:12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
Lev 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

In Matthew 27: 50:53 we see how Yahshua fulfilled the Feast of Firstfruits:

“ Jesus when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many:”

In I Corinthians 15:20-23 we read:

“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept, For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam we all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits: afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.”

We have seen thus far how precisely Yahshua fulfilled the spring feasts of Passover, the days of unleavened bread, and the feast of firstfruits which leads us to the feast of Shavout also known in the New Testament by the Greek name of Pentecost. Pente meaning fifty, cost meaning count. As we read in Leviticus 23:15-16 & 21

“And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord… “And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no work therein: it shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.”

The feast of Pentecost was a memorial of the 10 Commandments being received by Moses on Mt. Sinai. His brother Aaron had given into the demands of the Hebrews who wished to have gods shaped into golden images of calves like the Egyptians worshiped. As we read in Exodus 32:2-5

“ And Aaron said unto them, break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me…And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf; and they said, these be thy gods O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.”

Needless to say the YHVH was not pleased, When Moses came down from the mountain he broke the stones containing the writing of Elohim. In Exodus 32:26-28 we read:

“Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? Let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel. Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion and every man his neighbor. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.”

In the New Testament we see how Yahshua fulfilled the prophecy of Yohanan Ha Mikvite (John the Baptist) as we read in Matthew 3:11

“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.”

This was fulfilled in Acts 2:1-8:

“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty rushing wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance… And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And now hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”

We have seen how Yahshua literally fulfilled each of the Spring feasts of the YHVH in precise detail. Yahshua literally became our Passover Lamb. Passover forms a shadow picture of personal protection from the death angel of the 10th plaque, which YHVH sent against Mitzraim. It is by our faith in Yahshua, that he paid the price for our sins on the cross, and that he overcame death becoming the Firstfruits of the resurrection, that we gain our personal redemption.

Yahshua promised that he would pray unto the Father:

“and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him; but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”

Yahshua fulfilled the feast of Pentecost by sending his Holy Spirit unto his believers, on the exact day of the last Spring feast.

Part Hey: Hey Behold Who is Dat Girl? Or who is cutting corners anyway?

Now looking back to the pattern given to us in Leviticus 23 we see that there is a natural division between the spring harvest feasts and the fall harvest feasts. In Leviticus 23:22 we read:

“And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.”

In this verse we see YHVH’s provision for the Gentiles, which allowed Ruth to find sustenance, and eventually redemption through Boaz the kinsman of her Mother in Law Naomi. In the book of Ruth we read that this provision for the Gentile believers who placed their trust in the Holy God of Israel, played a major role in the lineage of our Messiah Yahshua, as Ruth bore a son Obed who became the Grandfather of Melech Da’veed (King David.)

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee. Ruth 2:1-4

Upon first beholding Ruth, Boaz did not observe just another attractive young lady who happened to be from Moab. Boaz witnessed a woman who truly had the Torah of YHVH written upon her heart. Thus not only did he permit her to glean from the corners of his fields, he made it a point to instruct his servants to go out of their way to make sure that Ruth was able to gather all the grain she needed to support both her and her Mother in Law Naomi!

And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not. So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley. Ruth 2:14-17

Perhaps modern day Gentiles (or those among the Gentiles) could surely learn an essential Spiritual lesson by considering the most important decision that Ruth ever made; to leave her pagan gods behind, and follow the one true Elohim of Yisrael.
Ruth also declared that Naomi’s people the Children of Yisrael, would become her own family! How many Christians today after making the most important decision of the lives; to repent of their sins, and follow the true Messiah are willing to declare that the Messiah’s Chosen People the Children of Yisrael including his Kinsmen from the tribe of Judah will become their own people?

...Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her. And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law. And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Ruth 1:14-16

While Yahshua primarily came to find the lost sheep of the tribe of Israel, he gave us an important pattern to consider in John Ch.4. After the woman at the well believed that he was indeed the true Messiah, many more Samaritan gentiles came to believe in him as he spent 2 days with them. Now applying the principle given to us in II Peter 3:8 ”…one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” which is written in the context of the return of
Yahshua on the day of YHVH; we can see that Gentile believers in the Jewish Messiah have been grafted into the natural olive branch which Shaul spoke of in Romans 11 for almost the past 2,000 years now.

In Luke Ch. 9 As Yahshua was going up to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles he once again returned to the Gentile Samaritans, and his disciples were not received by them because they were not going to stay and worship on Mount Gerazim, but rather continue on to Jerusalem. To this day the Samaritans have the oldest surviving Torah scrolls in the ancient Paleo-Hebrew. However there are over 280 changes which the Samaritans made to the original Torah to suit the state religion started by Jeroboam, after the 10 Northern tribes of Israel split from Judah. Jeroboam was concerned that:

“if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.” I Kings 12:27.

To this day the 10th Commandment in the Samaritans Torah scrolls reads: “Thou shalt worship at Mount Gerazim.” This was the reason the woman at the well asked Yahshua the question about just where we are to worship. We need to make sure that we are worshiping the Father in spirit and in truth. Like many believers I was born into, and raised in a “universal” religion, which has taken the 2nd Commandment out of its teachings, concerning the use of carved images in worship to the Creator of the universe. And by splitting the 10th Commandment into two parts they have thus maintained their version of Ten Commandments!

Remember Yahshua told us “If ye love me, keep my Commandments.” John 14:15 There should simply be no confusion between the Commandments of YHVH and the Commandments of his only begotten Son for did he not clearly profess: “I and my Father are One.”

In the Book of Acts we see that Shaul on his second journey stated to the church at Ephesus “I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: Concluding his third journey Shaul risked his life to go up to Jerusalem for the Feast of Shavoat/Pentecost. Shaul also wrote in I Corinthians 5:7-8:

“Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; Therefore let us keep the feast…with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

If Shaul risked his life to observe the Feasts of YHVH, why is it that we in the Western Religious world are largely uninformed of the times, and seasons, which YHVH has declared to be holy convocations. EVEN THESE ARE MY FEASTS

Is it possible that we have chosen to go our own way, like the Samaritans, rather than following the path which Elohim has laid out for us as modern Christianity has well over 4,000 denominations based upon doctrinal differences in their interpretation of the Bible, and our own unbiblical traditions. Have our customs caused us to forget YHVH’s ways as in Jeremiah 18:15:

“Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up.”

Just as Yahshua continued on his way to keep the feast in Jerusalem; rather than worship in the false manner of the Samaritans, we need to be following Yahshua only, just as his Apostles did.

By studying the Gospels we can see that Yahshua kept all of the Feasts of YHVH. He obeyed the Torah (the teachings or Da Law) by going up to Jerusalem for the Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles; he observed the remainder of the feasts as well, including Chanukkah the Feast of Dedication in John 10:22.
Considering the fact that Yahshua literally fulfilled each of the Spring feasts when he first dwelt among us, we should carefully examine the pattern which Elohim has laid out for the Fall feasts in order to get a better understanding into how Yahshua will fulfill all of the law, and the Prophets in the Book of Revelation, and other books of the Holy Scriptures.

We need to remember that Elohim has declared : “the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done.” Isaiah 46:10

Or from a Hebraic perspective the same verse begins: magiyd mere’shyt achriyt
Literally translated as: (Elohim) has declared forth from out of the beginning, the end. Thus when we compare this verse in English we see another example of how we have inherited much of our Theology backwards!

Part Vav: Securely adding on to Spring Feasts of our Creator, Or who is going to get nailed for Pigging out some Autumn afternoon? The Fall Feasts of YHVH

Returning to Leviticus 23:24-25 we read:

“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, in the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumphets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.”

The Feast of Yom Teruah or the Day of Trumpets is unique among the Feasts of YHVH, in that it begins at a day and hour, which no man can know for sure!
The Feast begins upon the sighting of the new moon crescent, initiating the seventh month of Tishri. Upon the confirmation of two or more reliable witnesses (Kohenim or the priests) in Jerusalem. The two witnesses would confirm their sighting of the new moon with the Kohen Gadol (High priest) who would then signal for the shofar horn to be blown from the Temple Mount.

A signal fire would then be lit upon the Mount of Olives, and throughout the land of Israel more signal fires were lit and shofars cried out that the High Sabbath of the Feast of Trumpets had begun. Preparations for the feast had to have been taken care of well beforehand in order for each Israelite to have clean white linens to wear. Food provisions needed to be prepared to be ready for whatever time of day or night the Feast began, (the new moon is most often observed at twilight, or early evening) since no work can be done once the High Sabbath that begins instantly upon the sounding of the shofar trumpet.

In order to better understand the memorial of the Feast of Trumpets we need to return to the preparation for the 10 Commandments in Exodus 19:9-20

“ And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever… Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai…when the trumphet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people: and they washed their clothes. And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives. And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumphet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled…And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumphet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake and God answered him by a voice. And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.”

Imagine being in the presence of almighty Elohim, as his thundering voice gave the 10 Commandments to the Children of Yisrael. We can see the effect this had on the people as we read in Shemot 20:18-20:

“And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumphet, and the mountain smoking…And they said unto Moses. Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak to us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear might be before your faces, that ye sin not.”

It is hard to imagine how anyone who heard this blaze of trumpets, and then the audible voice of YHVH could ever have had the nerve to sin against him, and yet we read in Exodus 32 that when Moshe later went up on mount Sinai to receive the Commandments written in stone by the hand of YHVH that the Children of Israel broke the first, and second Commandments by their making idols of molten calves carved from a collection of their gold jewelry, and Aaron further upset YHVH by proclaiming that “tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.”

The sages of Yisrael are almost in complete agreement that the Feast of Yom Teruah/ Trumpets is a rehearsal for the day of the resurrection. Christians understand from Shaul’s writings:

“that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption, Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trunphet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.” I Corinthians 15:50-52

And yet their Pre-Tribal understanding of eschatology still seems to lack any concept of the Grecian meaning of echatos: (ultimate, last in a series, final, as in have a clue card there shall not be another trumpet after the sounding of the seventh trumpet of Revelation.)

In the Book of Revelation Yohanan (John the Apostle) was told to seal up the words which the seven thunders uttered in Ch. 10 and in verse 7 we read:

“But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound (the 7th Trumphet) the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”

And In Revelation 11 we see that after the two witnesses ascend up into heaven in a cloud.:

“And the seventh angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven, saying the KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER.”

The sighting of the new moon on Tishri 1 on Yom Teruah/the Feast of Trumpets begins what is referred to as the ten days of awe. This is a time of serious personal introspection, and reflection in Spiritual preparation for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement that is the most solemn day in the Scriptural Calendar on Tishri 10. In Biblical times this was a time when the fall harvest was being brought in to the storehouse, before Tishri 10. As a natural result of the agricultural harvest each landowner, and field worker could reflect on how their harvest could have been more abundant if only they had planted a few more seeds here, or watered a little better there. And for us followers of the Messiah we should consider how our witness to others could have been more effective in the past year, and reflect on how we have allowed sin to hinder our walk with Yahshua Ha Maschiach.

Returning to Leviticus 23:27-28 we read:

“Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a Day of Atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. And ye shall do no work in that same day; for it is an atonement for you before the Lord your God.”

Where as the Passover is a rehearsal for our individual redemption through our faith in Yahshua “The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Yom Ha Kippurim, The Day of Atonement is a rehearsal of the National redemption which the Children of Yisrael have long had faith that the Messiah will bring to us. In Biblical times the Day of Yom Kippur differed from the other Feast days in that the sacred tasks in the Temple had to be carried out by the High Priest alone. The Kohen Gadol alone performed 15 separate sacrifices, as well as the menorah, incense, and other services. The High Priest would cast lots to determine which of two goats would be the scapegoat, and which would be the sacrifice.

During the prayers on this holiest of all days the Kohen Gadol would utter the Ineffable Name of Elohim God which is most often pronounced Yahweh. Due to tradition the sacred name has been repressed as being too holy to say aloud except by the High Priest alone on Yom Kippur. In many places in the scriptures we read that the Holy One of Israel was not pleased to be called by the title of Lord or in Hebrew is Baal meaning lord, master, or husband. In Jeremiah 23:27 we read:

“… their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal”. Yet in Isaiah 52:6 we read

“Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I AM he that doth speak: behold it is I.”

In Yohanan 17:6 Yahshua stated: “I have manifested thy name…: “ and in verse 26 we read “And I have declared unto them thy name; and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” By his boldly proclaiming the name of his father Yahweh, Yahshua really irritated the Pharisees whose tradition caused them to repress the true name of Yahweh, a tradition which endures to this day.

Part Zayin Optional Tour Excursion, Whose been Cut Off? Whose left after Two Thirds have been cut off? What time is it? And Whose Who anyway?

Today’s headlines proclaim that the Land of Israel is heading towards: “a time of trouble, since as never was since there was a nation…” Daniel 12:1

The Rabbinical authorities in the Land of Israel declared in March 2002 that the time of “Jacobs trouble” has begun. We read in Zechariah 13:8-9

“And it shall come to pass that in all the land, (Eretz Israel) saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them; I will say it, it is my people: and they shall say, (Yahweh is my Elohim, Yahshua ha Meshiach) The Lord is my God.”

As Wild-Branch believers we need to truly follow the example of Yahshua our Messiah in order to fulfill Shaul’s words in Romans 11.

…”have they stumbled that they(the House of Judah) should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.”

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. Rom 11:11/16-22

This passage of Scripture is quite carefully tip-toed around in Evangelical or Charismatic Churches that teach the “Once saved always saved doctrine!”

“For I would not brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written. THERE SHALL COME OUT OF ZION THE DELIVERER, AND SHALL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB. FOR THIS IS MY COVENANT UNTO THEM, WHEN I SHALL TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.” Rom 11:25-27

This mystery of blindness upon the House of Israel, is finally being understood thanks to the perspective of the Two House Teaching. This blindness still is plainly evident in the minds of many prominently revered Christian Prophecy “experts” who have made such ludicrous statements in their national and international radio, and internet broadcasts lately such as: “now Jacob was a Jew” or “When the Jewish people were getting ready to leave Egypt at the time of the Exodus” For those who are as yet unfamiliar with the Two House teaching please recall from the Book of Genesis that YHVH made specific blessings and promises to the seed of Abraham:

Recall the Patriarchs of Yisrael:

Abraham...
Isaac...
Jacob who wrestled with an Angel, earning his blessing: ... He’s now Yisrael!

Gen 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Jacob had 12 Sons the Twelve Tribes of Yisrael, Judah was the 4th eldest (the tribe of Judah/ Jewish)

Twelve Tribes, the Children of Yisrael became slaves in Egypt...12 Tribes plus those who chose to dwell amongst them came out of the house of bondage during the Exodus...All 12 Tribes received to 10 Commandments & the Torah (Da Law!)

King David’s became the sovereign over all 12 Tribes... The Tabernacle of YHVH was established in Jerusalem...

King Solomon oversaw the construction of the Holy Temple Of Jerusalem...Plus his more elaborate Palace...had to raise taxes!...Solomon stopped being so wise...
Started living like Hugh Hefner!...Jeroboam was given 10 pieces of a torn garment...Led a tax revolt...became King over the 10 Northern Tribes of Israel...
Established his own Church/State religious system...Changed times, locations, and seasons...Set up Golden Calves @ Bethel and Dan to help his members to save on high gas prices if they drove all the way up to Jerusalem to keep the Feasts of YHVH!...Southern Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and loyal Levites become known as the House of Judah...

Ten Northern tribes transgress the Torah of YHVH...Elijah...Hosea...et all Prophecy the end of former regional superpower!...they would even forget their true identity and be scattered to all nations...The House of Israel taken into Assyrian Captivity...

Isaiah...Jeremiah...et all scoffed at by the The House of Judah...Judah does not give the land of Israel her Sabbath rest...Daniel...Mishael...et all taken into Babylonian Captivity...Daniel stays up all night studies prophecies of Yermeyahu ha Navi...

Dan 9:2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Dan 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Dan 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
Dan 9:5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Dan 9:6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land...perceives a distinction between Judah and all Israel...

Dan 9:7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee...

Checks back on his Laptop Torah program perceives source of his dietary woes ...hard to keep kosher in Babylon...

Dan 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him...

prays earnestly to discover itinerary of whole House of Yisrael’s family reunion in the promised land...finds out his flight back to Ben Gurian will be delayed...cell phone and e-mail were both down...a messenger flies to him to give him da news...

Dan 9:18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. Dan 9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. Dan 9:20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Dan 9:21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
Dan 9:22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
Dan 9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate...

Daniel is told to take a long, long, nap...

Yahshua is later briefly detained and questioned by homeland security before his departure...


...Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight... Acts 1:6-9

Later informs Yohanan of the future destiny of all 12 tribes in the New Jerusalem...

Rev 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
Earlier he summarized his mission to restore the tabernacle of King David to reign over both Houses of the Kingdom of Yisrael...

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. Ezekiel 37:19-23

Now if my RDV: Readers Digest Version has made you more confused than ever about the true identity of the Children of Yisrael may I suggest your studying the Books Who is Israel? And Restoring Israel’s Kingdom by Angus, and Batya Wooten!

Part Chet: Regular Tour package resumes, Separation to a new home; and The Feast of Sukkot, the Time of our Joy!

The Feast of Sukkot/Tabernacles begins on Tishri 15th and lasts for 7 days, concluding the fall feasts with the Last Great Day. Returning to Leviticus 23:34-36 we read:
“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, the fifteenth day of the seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord: On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. Seven days ye shall offer an offering made of fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day (the last great day) shall be an holy convocation unto you: and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. These are the feasts of the Lord. Which ye shall proclaim to be (Qadosh Mikraw or Holy Rehearsals) holy convocations.”
In verses 40-43 we read:
“ And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. … It shall be a statute forever in your generations; ye shall declare it in the seventh month. Ye shall dwell in booths seven days: all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths; That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
Sukkot or Feast of Tabernacles is a remembrance of how YHVH led the Children of Yisrael through the wilderness by dwelling with them in the set apart dwelling place the holy tabernacle built under the direction of Moses according to YHVH’s instructions: “And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.” Exodus 25:8.

The Feast of Sukkot is known as “the time of our joy” to the Hebrews. The rejoicing was centered around ceremonies upon the Temple Mount for the daily sacrifice; as well as the water libation. Each morning water was poured unto the altar in a special manner by the Kohen Gadol causing the waters to sizzle as when you pour water unto a campfire, only this was on a far larger scale. The water was collected from the spring of Siloam, also known as the wells of Yeshua which means salvation:
“Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of Yehsua (salvation).” Isaiah 12:3

Each day of the feast the High Priest went down to the spring of Yeshua located at the base of Mount Moriah, to collect the waters in a special golden vessel as trumpet blasts filled the morning air in Jerusalem. Returning up to the Temple Mount the Kohen Gadol would pour out the waters of salvation upon the red-hot coals on the holy altar after the morning sacrifice was made. It was at the time of the pouring out of the morning water’s of Yeshua after the water libation’s steamy sizzling had ceased on the last great day that Yahshua boldly made his presence known to the overflowing crowd as multitudes of the Children of Yisrael gathered upon the Temple Mount as we read in John 7:37-38:

“In that last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink, He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

Many Bible Scholars and knowledgeable historians are in agreement that Yahshua the Messiah simply was not born at the pagan festival of the Saturnalia, On December 25th, but at the Hebrew feast of Tabernacles, which is in the fall of the year. Collier’s Encyclopedia states “After the triumph of Constantine, the church at Rome assigned December 25 as the date for the celebration of the feast possibly around A.D. 353. By the end of the fourth century the whole Christian world was celebrating Christmas on that day, with the exception of the eastern churches, where it was celebrated on January 6. The choice of December 25 was probably influenced by the fact that on this day the Romans celebrated the Mithraic feast of the Sun-god, and that the Saturnalia also came at this time.”

Messianic Jewish rabbis have concurred based upon a time frame of the time that Zacharias the father of John the Baptist who was of the priestly course (or schedule) of Abia served as a Kohen priest during the Feast of Pentecost detailed in the Gospel of Luke; that Mary’s immaculate conception occurred six month’s later resulting in our Messiah’s birth on Tishri 15 the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles. As we read in John 1:14:

“And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”

The word dwelt in the Greek text is eskhnasen which literally means to tent or encamp. Yahshua was circumcised on the eight day, the last great day of the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Feast of Tabernacles has always been a picture of a Jewish wedding feast. Where the bride dwelt with her husband’s family for 7 days during the wedding feast, and on the 8th day the groom led his bride to their new home. We read in Revelation 21:2-3:
“ And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.”

This is clearly referring to the coming reign of Yahshua who will dwell with us for a thousand years. After Yahshua overcomes all nations in the battle of Armageddon we will all be required to keep the Feast of Tabernacles as we read in Zechariah 14:16-17:

“ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.”

Therefore we see in the clearest detail that if we are to truly have a prosperous future we really need to follow, and obey Yahshua our Messiah. We need to carefully inspect the traditions, which we have cherished for many centuries as misguided believers. The Constantine’s of this world who have continually tried to rule over us have certainly changed the “times and laws.” Daniel 7:25 And yet Father Yahweh’s council shall stand for:

“I am the Lord I change not: therefore ye son’s of Jacob are not consumed.” Malachi 3:6.

We need to follow the ancient paths to ensure that we are truly following the Messiah, we need to truly search the scriptures for our daily bread.: “How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea sweeter than honey to my mouth. Through thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Psalm 119:103-105

There are only a few things in the Scriptures that are described in the KJV as being something that YHVH, and Yahshua hates.

As it is written, Jacob (Yisrael) have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Rom 9:13

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. Rev 2:6 Yahshua is referring in this passage how he truly feels concerning those religious leaders who exercise a strong control (Nike the god of conquest) over the laity (laitans or common believers)

And as we see above: Through thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. Psalm 119:104

We need to seriously consider how the author of the Holy Scriptures truly feels when religious leaders both Christians and Jewish teach their flocks in serious doctrinal error. The common denominator in misguiding the Sheepfold now as ever is a strong desire for personal gain of money, power, and prestige. As these were the issues that caused so much contention between the Religious leaders of the House of Judah and Yahshua during his ministry as revealed in the Gospel.

We need to follow the Living Word of Elohim precept upon precept, and line upon line. Serving our Creator now, not out of vain personal ambition but out of sincere selfless servitude to help Yahshua find the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Yet we are called for such a time as this to expose the errors that have brought blindness for a time upon Both Houses of Yisrael. Rabbinic traditions that are un-Scriptural can be just as serious, as the remnants of Babylonian sun-god worship and other doctrinal errors of misguided Christian Fee O Logins are to the still scattered House of Israel! A clear understanding of the Feasts of YHVH will enable our witness to both the House of Judah (the Jewish people), as well as to the House of Ephraim Israel to become much more effective. We need to show Messiah from the Beginning in the Torah from out of B’reshiyt to the House of Judah;
Deu 18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

And we need to teach the relevance of obedience to the Torah, as well as faith in Messiah to the House of Israel who are still amongst the gentiles;

Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

We need to prepare and wash our garments white in the blood of Yahshua our Passover Lamb, and endure until the last trumpet blast when he will send his angels to gather his saints.

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. Deu Ch. 30

This passage from the Torah is precept upon precept, line upon line with:

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matt 24:29-31

Are we really supposed to keep YHVH’s Sabbath, and his Appointed Feasts?

Psa 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Da Feasts of da Beast of Revelation 13

Hint: these dudes ain't no Longhorn fans!!!

The funeral for EVEL KNIEVEL will be held at the Butte Civic Center in the late daredevil's hometown of Butte, Mont., on Monday, with Crystal Cathedral founder Rev. ROBERT SCHULLER officiating, The Associated Press reports. A large number of mourners are expected to gather at the Civic Center, which can hold about 10,000 people.


But Jesus said unto him: Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. Matthew 8:22

I beheld, the same horn made war with the saints... And he shall speak great words agianst the most High...and think to change times and laws: Daniel 7

The Feasts of the Beast of Revelation

An examination of the Fruits of Post Modern Ecumenical Evangelical Religious Charasmania

"Enter ye in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there at." Matthew 7:13

A real irony exists in todays Post modern User Friendly Christian Church. While claiming to love and follow the true Messiah, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Many of them still prefer to celebrate their own man made religious holidays, rather than celebrate the real Feasts of The LORD as revealed by YHVH in Leviticus 23. who clearly informed us who have eyes to see and ears to hear: EVEN THESE ARE MY FEASTS.

While claiming to live their lives according to the Bible, todays Sheeple still prefer to be followers of the traditions of man and todays Evangelical Mega-Celebrities, rather than obey the living WORD of Elohim. Preferring the precepts of their chosen Religious leaders who bind them with their man-made rules and regulations, who claim that Jesus came to put away "the bondage of the law" of Moses. Instead of believing the very Word of our true Messiah!

" FOR HAD YE BELIEVED MOSES, YE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME: FOR HE WROTE OF ME. BUT IF YE BELIEVE NOT HIS WRITINGS, HOW SHALL YE BELIEVE MY WORDS?" John 5:46

"I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE" John 10:30

"THIS PEOPLE DRAWETH NIGH UNTO ME WITH
THEIR MOUTH, AND HONORETH ME WITH THEIR
LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME. BUT IN
VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING FOR
DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN."
MATTHEW 15:8-9

"THINK NOT THAT I AM COME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS..." Matthew 5:17

" IF YE LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. "John 14:15

Da Feasts of da Beast (of Revelation)

A Torah lesson by Daniyel

"Woe be to the shepherds of Yisrael, that feed themselves instead of their flocks." Ezekiel 34:2

UnLeviticus 23 NIV (Non Inspired Version)
1 And Ba’al spoke unto hi$ Profit Bunny Hinn saying, you need a new $8 million dollar house in California to park your Rolls Royce at.

2 Preach unto the children of Babylon, whose mother is in Rome; and say unto them, concerning the feasts of Ba’al, which ye shall proclaim to be haole days of obligation, not even these are real feasts. (haole= Native Hawaiian term for mainlanders, ie: "Go home Haole!")

3 Six days shall work be done: but the first day is the Venerable Day of the Sun. Twice ye shall gather together in neat rows, listening to a paid professional orator. Thou shalt pay your 10% Religion Tax cheerfully based on the only Old Testament Law your Pastor observes. Thou shalt not read Deuteronomy 14 to understand the context of the tithe, but rather obey his interpretation of Malichi 3.Ye shall observe the Law of Constantine, for Sunday is the tradition of Nicolaitan man.

4 These are not even the feasts of Yahweh, which ye shall ignore because ye are clueless of his times and seasons.

5 And on the fourteenth day of the first month at not even is Ba’al’s Underpass, which ye shall not Passover because you follow a pagan calendar based upon the worship of the Sun god.

6 And on the fifteenth day of whatever month you choose is the feast of deep-dish pizza unto Ba’al: Six Days ye must eat leavened pizza, topped with roasted pepperoni swine flesh.

7 In the first day ye shall have a haole convocation, ye shall eat as ye please, yet ye shall drink no beer with yeast for it is the law of your denomination.

8 But ye shall offer beyond your tithe unto Ba’al six days: in the sixth day is a haole convocation: ye shall work to earn your pastor’s favor, and approval to earn a seat of honor!

9 And Ba’al spoke unto hi$ Profit Cref low Dollar saying;

10 Speak unto the daughters of Babylon, and preach unto them, when ye come into the church via television, then ye shall send a tithe of your first-bread unto a Prosperity Teacher, thus shall Ba’al bless your conscience as you build a Crystal Cathedral.

11 And he shall wave the firstbread offering in your face, as he ignores the Commandments of God and fails to teach you that Jesus was raised on the true Feast of Firstfruits. He shalt twist Paul’s words to his, and possibly your own destruction, as he
Expands his TV ministry, and trades in last years Cadillac. To be accepted by you: On the festival held on the first SUNDAY,
Following the first full moon, on or after the Vernal Equinox. Ye shall have a Carne Ba'al (Carnival) Flesh Feast of self-righteous indulgence, and say your doing it to Gods glory!
Take no heed that on this ancient pagan festival on this Venerable Day of the Sun many caught venereal diseases, as Venus the goddess of fertility was worshipped, as Pagan priests raptured Vestal virgins. Thou shalt observe the spring fertility carnival dressed in your most vivid festive attire. Before Feasting on Roasted Ham swine's flesh ye shall hide brightly eggs, and decorate the coasts of your dwellings, and Churches with cute fuzzy bunny rabbits to show your obedience to your Lord, another Jesus! and ye shall teach your children to learn the way of the heathen
As they hunt for Ishtar eggs. Thou shalt not learn from King Solomon’s errors in I Kings 11 and worship the goddess Ashteroth/ Astarte under the name of Easter. Thou shalt ignore the truth of this abomination, and never question why the Greek Orthodox die their Ishtar eggs blood red, and no die is not misspelled as that is what happened to the infants conceived by the virgins on the previous years Ishtar high mass. As the three-month old children were sacrificed. Ye need not bother with reading Pauls words, unless ye are sitting under the authority of a Pastor who is accredited by a Seminary to twist Pauls writings to the satisfaction of denominational authorities!

("Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:) 1 Cor 5:6-9

12 And ye shall tarnish the truth of the true Lamb of God,
("But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits of them which slept." )I Corinthians 15:20
Thou shalt continue Satan’s plan of combining Scriptural Christianity with pagan sun-god worship, which Constantine perfected
as ye compromise to be accepted by the world.

13 And at the time of the ancient Roman Saturnalia, four days
After the Winter Solstice, On the Birthday of Mithra the Roman Sun god, Ra the Egyptian Sun god, and Tammuz the reincarnation of Nimrod
The Babylonian Sun god of Ezekiel 8 infamy, ye shall ignore Jeremiah’s message in Chapter 10: Learn… the way of the heathen, and pay Astrologers to interpret signs of heaven for
Even Nancy Reagan did thus so: Observe the vain customs of the people and pay someone to cutteth a evergreen tree out of the forest with an ax. Ye are to deck it with shiny silver, and gold balls. Buy it from someone who has already fastened it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. Ye shalt worship on Tammuz’ birthday at a church which has a tree just like yours only grandeur, set in its lobby, or on its high alter. Ye shalt go deeper into debt as you use a "Smart Card" to buy your family one hours pleasure as you bow down to the god of prosperity, because surely God will pour out his blessing upon you for allowing your Pastor and his wife to take off on a luxury "Bible Study Cruise" which you should attend by using your "Smart Card." For after allah you should do your part for if enough members of your church’s global wide TV ministry accompany your Pastor’s cruise then he will get his Stateroom for free! Oh Bless your heart for expanding the Kingdom of your denomination!

14 And ye shall eat anything your belly lusteth after and ignore the statutes of the Old Testament God in allah your dispensations for ever throughout your generations in allah Pastor Bunny Hinn’s dwelling places.

15 And ye shalt ignore the Feast of Shavuot, unless your Pastor reads from Acts 2. Far better is it for you to watch CNN then read your Bible and count the War’s cost at the Pentegon, than to study how the Messiah fulfilled the Feast of Pentecost, by filling them with his Set Apart Spirit!

16 Then ye shall totally blowoff the Fall Feasts as your church keeps the only festival that brings in really big numbers in October, as ye worship your god with a Hallelujah night Halloween Carnival. To invite more people into your fellowships Sanctuary to have photographers record images of your neighborhood youth donned in all manner of fallen angels costumes upon your man-made altars using the Cross as a decorative background!

17 And ye shall keep the feast of Turkey Day in all of your dwelling places. Thank God you have no need for a Day of Atonement. After all you are an American you have no need of National Redemption when you possess the world’s most potent military, while the world’s bankers own our mythical
"Federal Reserve System" based upon a fiat money system worth only the paper it is printed on whenever the global bankers decide to pop the bubble on our prosperity pipe dream.
Never fear our fearless Prosperity false Profits teach us. First we shall all prosper before we are raptured next Sunday. We just simply need more faith in our earthly shepherds who feed themselves instead of their flocks. Whoever reads Ezekiel 34 anyway? Surely not a church full of actors!

18 And Ba’al spoke thru Robert Shoe Lure $aying, also on each Sunday ye shall have the feast of the Crystal Cathedral Tabernacle Choir, ye shall have a feast of TV Ecumenism every seven days. We need not observe the Set Times of the God of Israel, for we are the glorious Church that has replaced Israel! All you need to attend our User Friendly Virtual Cathedral is to be comfortably seated in your Lazy Boy, along with your credit card and cell phone to dial toll free after you have watched my awe inspiring message to get really good deals on statues of Jesus for only $99.00 shipping included! And don't forget to donate to our Ministry, and God will bless you a thousand times over for planting your seed in good spoil!
Allah you need is a remote to turn up the volume to hear such pearls of wisdom as:

"When I had a dream of this cathedral, I didn’t want to build it(with whose money?) without the blessing of the Holy Father. So I made a trip to Rome and I met with the Pope…I took a picture of the cathedral and I told him I was building this and that I wanted to receive his prayers of blessing. A photograph of course, was taken of us (In bed together see REV 17) and I have it hanging on my 12th floor… Then on the 30th anniversary of my ministry here I received the most beautiful full-colored photograph of the Holy Father bestowing his apostolic blessing upon my holy ministry, with a wonderful personal handwritten message… (Later I received a message on the side of the Cathedral in Paleo Hebrew it was something like Many Men knee tickle U-Far Sin!!!")