HE SPOKE TO ME THRU THE WHIRLWIND

Hello again Neighbor,

Today I would like to share something with you. In 2010 I had made a decision to read the bible from cover to cover for the first time in my life. I had gotten to the Psalms and wasn't reading anything else. Just the Psalms. The very same night after I had finished reading Psalm 110; that very night, I had a vision which this post is about. Then the following night I had a second vision which was much different. 

The second was quite terrifying; and, was the very first time I had ever experienced anything like it. It was the first time I had experienced spiritual warfare on that level.

These would alter the direction of my own studies forever. 

Above you will see the image I used AI to render simply because I am not that skilled an artist to render what I saw with accuracy. In the vision there was no sound. I was only using my sight. In my vision I was somewhere on a dry lakebed with cracked ground beneath me. Off in the distance I could see mountains. In front of me; perhaps ten feet in front of me, was just a scroll suspended in midair.

I had seen a Torah Scroll prior to this vision at APU Azusa Pacific University; except this scroll I saw was much smaller in size than the Torah Scroll I had previously seen. This scroll also had writing on it that didn't resemble modern Hebrew. I would later discover that this writing was 10th Century BCE Aramaic. A Common Alphabet that had once been used across the vast lands of the Middle East from Egypt deep into the Levant; and, down even into Saudi Arabia; and also in the lands we today call Turkey, Iran, Iraq; and, Syria.

As I watched. This vortex this whirlwind; came from the East. 

The whirlwind was dark; yet, brilliant shafts of light broke forth in many directions. I watched as it approached; and It came standing over the scroll. I remember being in awe; and, not understanding what I was seeing. As I watched the words from the scroll were sucked off the vellum (leather) up into the vortex. While the pages themselves remained intact; the whirlwind itself wasn't destructive to the text. 

Instead He (the being within the whirlwind) wanted to show me something. HE shrouds Himself with thick darkness. I couldn't see Him; but, I knew He was there. See the following:

• Job 38:9
• 2 Samuel 22:12
• Psalm 18:11. 

He didn't speak to Me. I didn't hear His voice. 

Only what He showed Me. 

The passages didn't break apart as you would normally expect something like that to do. As I watched these sentences were passing in front of me in their same format as on the page from right to left. This vortex was turning counterclockwise before me. As I watched in amazement this Hebrew (Aramaic) Text before me transformed into English. I was shown every single passage I had read from Psalm chapter 1 all the way through to the end of Psalm 110 that deals specifically with the following:

• statutes
• commandments
• judgments
• ordinances
• testimonies

When I awoke I felt an urging in my spirit.

"This is my covenant. Walk in It."

This vision caused me to dig even more deeply into the differences between the Oral Traditions; and, what the Written Torah itself declares. I wish I could confidently say I followed obediently. 

I studied; but, failed when it came time to be tested because it wasn't part of my heart yet. 

Friends. I do not consider myself to be a righteous man. Not at all. 

In fact for most of my life; I considered myself to be more like a doubting Thomas.
"Show Me." "Reveal Yourself to Me if You are Real" I would pray as a child.
If you are real then please just make her (my adopted mother) stop hitting me. 

As a child it would feel as if He hadn't heard me. 

As a child I would become defiled, stained, mislead.

As a child I would not receive instruction in this covenant.  

I have stumbled; and, fallen time after time. 

To my own shame I have been a fornicator. 
To my own shame I have been an adulterer.
To my own shame I have been a liar.
To my own shame I have been a thief.

To my own shame I have myself struggled with unbelief.

Yet. I am today. Quite Certain Indeed. 

Certain about what is being asked of me. 

Certain what Yeshua is asking of us. 

Certain about His Full Identity.
Certain about what true repentance looks like. 

I hope more than anything that my website can help you to see a part of Messiah that isn't really taught to us. The part of His Identity hidden from us because we fail to study the Torah of YHVH day and night as instructed. SEE PSALM 1:2. 

I hope to help you see clearly the part of His BIRTHRIGHT He obtains thru His Mother Miriam; the same birthright bestowed upon His cousin John the Baptist; via His Aunt Elizabeth; and Uncle Zachariah both LEVITES; both descendants of AARON, members of the Sub Tribe of KOHATH.   

This connection has been there all along. We just didn't see it because we weren't looking for it. This family is directly connected to LEVI; to the sub-tribe of KOHATH.

The only tribe from which ALL HIGH PRIESTS are selected. 

The only tribe that was authorized to enter into the HOLY OF HOLIES.

The only tribe that was authorized to carry the TORAH SCROLL (within the Ark upon poles). 

The only tribe that was authorized to BE in the presence of the TEMPLE MENORAH. 

The only tribe that was authorized to prepare, bake, and display the SHOWBREAD which sits within the HOLY OF HOLIES.

"The Bread of the Presence." 

The Bread of His Covenant. 

Again  The only tribe from which all HIGH PRIESTS are selected. 

Again. The only tribe that was authorized to make; bake; and display the showbread of the Presence.

I tell you the truth. His titles "The Bread of Life" and "The Prince of Peace" are both intimately connected to The Covenant of Life and Peace. 

See Proverbs 3:2, Malachi 2:5, & Romans 8:6.

The Covenant that was given to Levi; and, His descendants (Malachi 2:5). We are instructed in Deuteronomy 18 that "the Prophet Like Unto Moses" shall come from Levi, from Kohath, from the descendants of Aaron. 

I tell you the truth. Yeshua IS. The Prophet Like Unto Moses.

Shalom Friend.

  

 

Evidence Which Suggests Yeshua is a Levite

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    Messiah's Remez

    Hebrew

    But Jesus Fulfilled the Law...Right?

    Grace vs The Law

    My Yoke Is Easy

     

    

    

 

HE SAW YESHUA ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION!!!

 Neighbor, this is Rabbi Greg Hershberg's personal testimony. I hope it blesses you.

2 - MESSIANIC JUDAISM 101: THE JOY OF SHABBAT

Hello Neighbor,

So I would like to introduce you to Rabbi Greg Hershberg of Temple Beth Shalom in Macon Georgia. Greg is a Messianic Jewish Believer in Messiah. What does this mean? It means that He believes that Yeshua (the one whom many call "Jesus") is the Jewish Messiah prophesied to come in the Bible. Here in this video Greg is going to discuss the Sabbath. 

I happen to like him; and, his teaching so I hope this blesses you.  Shalom

 

SABBATH(S) IN THE TEXT

SABBATHS APPEARS 37 TIMES IN 35 VERSES

Exo 31:13 NKJV - 
""Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: 'Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it [is] a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that [you] may know that I [am] the LORD who sanctifies you."

Lev 19:3 NKJV - 
"'Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God."

Lev 19:30 NKJV - 
"'You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I [am] the LORD."

Lev 23:15 NKJV - 
"'And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed."

Lev 23:38 NKJV - 
"'besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD."

Lev 25:8 NKJV - 
"'And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years."

Lev 26:2 NKJV - 
"You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I [am] the LORD."

Lev 26:34 NKJV - 
"Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you [are] in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths."

Lev 26:35 NKJV - 
"As long as [it] lies desolate it shall rest--for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it."

Lev 26:43 NKJV -
"The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes."

1Ch 23:31 NKJV -
"and at every presentation of a burnt offering to the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the New Moons and on the set feasts, by number according to the ordinance governing them, regularly before the LORD;"

2Ch 2:4 NKJV -
"Behold, I am building a temple for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate [it] to Him, to burn before Him sweet incense, for the continual showbread, for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an ordinance] forever to Israel."

2Ch 8:13 NKJV -
"according to the daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the three appointed yearly feasts--the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles."

2Ch 31:3 NKJV -
"The king also [appointed] a portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings: for the morning and evening burnt offerings, the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths and the New Moons and the set feasts, as [it is] written in the Law of the LORD."

2Ch 36:21 NKJV -
"to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years."

Neh 10:33 NKJV -
"for the showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the regular burnt offering of the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts; for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God."

Isa 1:13 NKJV -
"Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies--I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting."

Isa 56:4 NKJV -
"For thus says the LORD: "To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant,"

Lam 2:6 NKJV -
"He has done violence to His tabernacle, [As if it were] a garden; He has destroyed His place of assembly; The LORD has caused The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion. In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest."

Eze 20:12 NKJV -
""Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I [am] the LORD who sanctifies them."

Eze 20:13 NKJV -
""Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, 'which, [if] a man does, he shall live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them."

Eze 20:16 NKJV -
""because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols."

Eze 20:20 NKJV -
"'hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I [am] the LORD your God.'"

Eze 20:21 NKJV -
""Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to observe My judgments, 'which, [if] a man does, he shall live by them'; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness."

Eze 20:24 NKJV -
""because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols."

Eze 22:8 NKJV -
""You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths."

Eze 22:26 NKJV -
""Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known [the difference] between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them."

Eze 23:38 NKJV -
""Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Sabbaths."

Eze 44:24 NKJV -
""In controversy they shall stand as judges, [and] judge it according to My judgments. They shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed meetings, and they shall hallow My Sabbaths."

Eze 45:17 NKJV -
""Then it shall be the prince's part [to give] burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.""

Eze 46:3 NKJV -
""Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before the LORD on the Sabbaths and the New Moons."

Hos 2:11 NKJV -
"I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths--All her appointed feasts."

Luk 4:31 NKJV -
"Then He went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbaths."

Act 17:2 NKJV -
"Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,"

Col 2:16 NKJV -
"So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,"

SABBATH IN THE TEXT

Sabbath occurs 135 times in 113 verses in the NKJV.

Exo 16:23 NKJV -

"Then he said to them, "This [is what] the LORD has said: 'Tomorrow [is] a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake [today], and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.' ""

Exo 16:25 NKJV -

"Then Moses said, "Eat that today, for today [is] a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field."

Exo 16:26 NKJV -

""Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.""

Exo 16:29 NKJV -

""See! For the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.""

Exo 20:8 NKJV - ""Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."

Exo 20:10 NKJV -

"but the seventh day [is] the Sabbath of the LORD your God. [In it] you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who [is] within your gates." 

Exo 20:11 NKJV -

"For [in] six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."

Exo 31:14 NKJV -

"'You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for [it is] holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does [any] work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people." 

Exo 31:15 NKJV -

"'Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh [is] the Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does [any] work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death."

Exo 31:16 NKJV -

"'Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations [as] a perpetual covenant."

Exo 35:2 NKJV -

""Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death."

Exo 35:3 NKJV -

""You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day.""

Lev 16:31 NKJV -

""It [is] a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. [It is] a statute forever."

Lev 23:3 NKJV -

"'Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day [is] a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work [on it]; it [is] the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings." 

Lev 23:11 NKJV -

"'He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it."

Lev 23:15 NKJV -

"'And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed."

Lev 23:16 NKJV -

"'Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD."

Lev 23:24 NKJV -

""Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, you shall have a sabbath-[rest], a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation."

Lev 23:32 NKJV -

""It [shall be] to you a sabbath of [solemn] rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth [day] of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.""

Lev 23:39 NKJV -

"'Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD [for] seven days; on the first day [there shall be] a sabbath-[rest], and on the eighth day a sabbath-[rest]."

Lev 24:8 NKJV -

""Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant."

Lev 25:2 NKJV -

""Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD."

Lev 25:4 NKJV -

"'but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard."

Lev 25:6 NKJV -

"'And the sabbath [produce] of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,"

Num 15:32 NKJV -

"Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day."

Num 28:9 NKJV -

"'And on the Sabbath day two lambs in their first year, without blemish, and two-tenths [of an ephah] of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, with its drink offering--"

Num 28:10 NKJV -

"'[this is] the burnt offering for every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering."

Deut 5:12 NKJV -

"'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you."

Deut 5:14 NKJV -

"but the seventh day [is] the Sabbath of the LORD your God. [In it] you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who [is] within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you."

Deut 5:15 NKJV -

"And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day."

2 Ki 4:23 NKJV -

"So he said, "Why are you going to him today? [It is] neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath." And she said, "[It is] well.""

2 Ki 11:5 NKJV -

"Then he commanded them, saying, "This [is] what you shall do: One-third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall be keeping watch over the king's house,"

2 Ki 11:7 NKJV -

""The two contingents of you who go off duty on the Sabbath shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD for the king."

2 Ki 11:9 NKJV -

"So the captains of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. Each of them took his men who were to be on duty on the Sabbath, with those who were going off duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest."

2 Ki 16:18 NKJV -

"Also he removed the Sabbath pavilion which they had built in the temple, and he removed the king's outer entrance from the house of the LORD, on account of the king of Assyria."

1 Ch 9:32 NKJV -

"And some of their brethren of the sons of the Kohathites [were] in charge of preparing the showbread for every Sabbath."

TAKE NOTE THAT THE KOHATHITES WERE A SUB TRIBE OF LEVI WHO HAD VERY SPECIAL DUTIES.

2Ch 23:4 NKJV -

""This [is] what you shall do: One-third of you entering on the Sabbath, of the priests and the Levites, [shall be] keeping watch over the doors;"

2 Ch 23:8 NKJV -

"So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each man took his men who were to be on duty on the Sabbath, with those who were going [off duty] on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest had not dismissed the divisions."

2 Ch 36:21 NKJV -

"to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years."

Neh 9:14 NKJV -

"You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, And commanded them precepts, statutes and laws, By the hand of Moses Your servant."

Neh 10:31 NKJV -

"[if] the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the seventh year's [produce] and the exacting of every debt."

Neh 13:15 NKJV -

"In those days I saw [people] in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all [kinds of] burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned [them] about the day on which they were selling provisions."

Neh 13:16 NKJV -

"Men of Tyre dwelt there also, who brought in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold [them] on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem."

Neh 13:17 NKJV -

"Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, "What evil thing [is] this that you do, by which you profane the Sabbath day?"

Neh 13:18 NKJV -

""Did not your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.""

Neh 13:19 NKJV -

"So it was, at the gates of Jerusalem, as it began to be dark before the Sabbath, that I commanded the gates to be shut, and charged that they must not be opened till after the Sabbath. Then I posted [some] of my servants at the gates, [so that] no burdens would be brought in on the Sabbath day."

Neh 13:21 NKJV -

"Then I warned them, and said to them, "Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do [so] again, I will lay hands on you!" From that time on they came no [more] on the Sabbath."

Neh 13:22 NKJV -

"And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should go and guard the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, [concerning] this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy!"

Psa 92:1 NKJV -

"A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath day. [It is] good to give thanks to the LORD, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;"

Isa 56:2 NKJV -

"Blessed [is] the man [who] does this, And the son of man [who] lays hold on it; Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil.""

Isa 56:6 NKJV - 

""Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants--Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant--"

Isa 58:13 NKJV - 

""If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, [From] doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy [day] of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking [your own] words,"

Isa 66:23 NKJV - 

"And it shall come to pass [That] from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me," says the LORD."

Jer 17:21 NKJV - 

"'Thus says the LORD: "Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem;"

Jer 17:22 NKJV - 

""nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers."

Jer 17:24 NKJV - 

""And it shall be, if you heed Me carefully," says the LORD, "to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work in it,"

Jer 17:27 NKJV - 

""But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." ' ""

Eze 46:1 NKJV - 

"'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened."

Eze 46:4 NKJV - 

""The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day [shall be] six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;"

Eze 46:12 NKJV - 

""Now when the prince makes a voluntary burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to the LORD, the gate that faces toward the east shall then be opened for him; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he goes out the gate shall be shut."

Amo 8:5 NKJV - 

"Saying: "When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,"

Mat 12:1 NKJV - 

"At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat."

Mat 12:2 NKJV - 

"And when the Pharisees saw [it], they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!""

Mat 12:5 NKJV - 

""Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?"

Mat 12:8 NKJV - 

""For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.""

Mat 12:10 NKJV - 

"And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--that they might accuse Him."

Mat 12:11 NKJV - 

"Then He said to them, "What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift [it] out?"

Mat 12:12 NKJV - 

""Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.""

Mat 24:20 NKJV - 

""And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath."

Mat 28:1 NKJV - 

"Now after the Sabbath, as the first [day] of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb."

Mar 1:21 NKJV - 

"Then they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue and taught."

Mar 2:23 NKJV - 

"Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain."

Mar 2:24 NKJV - 

"And the Pharisees said to Him, "Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?""

Mar 2:27 NKJV - 

"And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath."

Mar 2:28 NKJV - 

""Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.""

Mar 3:2 NKJV - 

"So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him."

Mar 3:4 NKJV - 

"Then He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they kept silent."

Mar 6:2 NKJV - 

"And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing [Him] were astonished, saying, "Where [did] this Man [get] these things? And what wisdom [is] this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands!"

Mar 15:42 NKJV - 

"Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,"

Mar 16:1 NKJV - 

"Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary [the mother] of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him."

Luk 4:16 NKJV - 

"So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read."

Luk 6:1 NKJV - 

"Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first that He went through the grainfields. And His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate [them], rubbing [them] in [their] hands."

Luk 6:2 NKJV - 

"And some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?""

Luk 6:5 NKJV - 

"And He said to them, "The Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.""

Luk 6:6 NKJV - 

"Now it happened on another Sabbath, also, that He entered the synagogue and taught. And a man was there whose right hand was withered."

Luk 6:7 NKJV - 

"So the scribes and Pharisees watched Him closely, whether He would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against Him."

Luk 6:9 NKJV - 

"Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy?""

Luk 13:10 NKJV - 

"Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath."

Luk 13:14 NKJV - 

"But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, "There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.""

Luk 13:15 NKJV - 

"The Lord then answered him and said, "Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead [it] away to water it?"

Luk 13:16 NKJV - 

""So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound--think of it--for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?""

Luk 14:1 NKJV - 

"Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely."

Luk 14:3 NKJV - 

"And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?""

Luk 14:5 NKJV - 

"Then He answered them, saying, "Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?""

Luk 23:54 NKJV - 

"That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near."

Luk 23:56 NKJV - 

"Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment."

Jhn 5:9 NKJV - 

"And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath."

Jhn 5:10 NKJV - 

"The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.""

Jhn 5:16 NKJV - 

"For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath."

Jhn 5:18 NKJV - 

"Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God."

Jhn 7:22 NKJV - 

""Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath."

Jhn 7:23 NKJV - 

""If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?"

Jhn 9:14 NKJV - 

"Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes."

Jhn 9:16 NKJV - 

"Therefore some of the Pharisees said, "This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them."

Jhn 19:31 NKJV - 

"Therefore, because it was the Preparation [Day], that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away."

Act 1:12 NKJV - 

"Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey."

Act 13:14 NKJV - 

"But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down."

Act 13:27 NKJV - 

""For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled [them] in condemning [Him]."

Act 13:42 NKJV - 

"So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath."

Act 13:44 NKJV - 

"On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God."

Act 15:21 NKJV - 

""For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.""

Act 16:13 NKJV - 

"And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met [there]."

Act 18:4 NKJV - 

"And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks."

SABBATH (PART III)

 

In the Book of Genesis. 

Long before there were any Jews; Muslims; Christians; or, any other tribes; the Creator (whose Name these three faith's disagree upon) essentially terraformed this planet to make it able to sustain life that he desired to create. 

The book of Genesis details the "work" which he had done breaking it into the seven days of creation. We call this the creation week; and, it contains within it a pattern (the creation week pattern) which we desperately need to remember; to consider. It matters more than we can imagine.

Genesis 2:2 

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested (ויּשׁבּת) H7673 on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.  

This phrase here we see rendered "and he rested" is the Hebrew word SABAT. A verb.

Yet the phrase "the seventh day" is in the Hebrew (השּׁביעי) Ha Sheb-ee-ee...

In Hebrew the word "YOM" ( יוֹם ) means "DAY" or "period." Hebrew reads from right to left. So below you will see the word "YOM" (יוֹם) followed by the Hebrew name for the days of the week.  

DAY ONE:
YOM (DAY) -- RISHON (ONE) 

יוֹם רִאשׁוֹן

DAY TWO:
YOM (DAY) -- SHINI (TWO)

יוֹם שֵׁנִי

DAY THREE:  
YOM (DAY) -- SHILISHI (THREE)

יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי

DAY FOUR:  
YOM (DAY) -- REVI'I (FOUR)

יוֹם רְבִיעִי

DAY FIVE:  

YOM (DAY) -- CHAMISHI (FIVE)

יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי

DAY SIX:  
YOM (DAY) -- SHIHI (SIX)

יוֹם שִׁישִׁי

DAY SEVEN:  
YOM (day) SHABBAT (REST)

יוֹם שַׁבָּת

As a Christian I was introduced to the "Sabbath" as being honored on Sunday; rather than Saturday. That was until I studied it out for myself. Below are a few documents showing how the word "Sabbath" occurs in many languages; and, how it is attached to the day we call Saturday. 

 

The Sabbath & The Seven Day Cycle

Showing the unchanged order of the days and true position of the Sabbath,
as proved by the combined testimony of Ancient and Modern Languages –
By Rev William Mead Jones D.D

WHY SABBATH (PART II)

What does the Bible have to say about Sabbath?

One of the Favorite Tools I have to study the Bible in my arsenal is BlueLetterBible.com a Web Based application you can download upon your cellular phone; or, accessible via Desktop.

I also use E-Sword which is likewise both accessible via Cellular Application or Desktop.

Both of these programs have strengths; and, weaknesses.
Both allow me to search via English; Hebrew; and, Greek.

Below I'm going to give you an example of how each program renders search results so you can see the differences. First I will show you How E-Sword Renders these search results. THEN I will show you Blueletterbible's.

E-Sword offers me many bibles to choose from. In the Very first image at the top if you click on it; the image will open in another screen where you can count just how many versions I have on my laptop.

Notice that both programs offer me the 137 Matches
and 116 Occurrences in the KJV.

This particular feature sets the two programs apart.

Notice how BlueLetterBible.com software offers us a snapshot view of EACH VERSION.

A  good student will do their best to intentionally locate all passages regarding subject material in their studies.  Below here is a screenshot of the Results by Book. This tells us what books this material shows up in; and, how frequently. 

Now. We also need to take into consideration where this word "Sabbath" in English also shows up in its plural form "Sabbaths." Let's use Blueletterbible.com and see how/where this plural form shows up, shall we? Friend this is the very first stage of studying out what the Bible has to say about "Sabbath(s)." 

Notice here that BLB (Blueletterbible.com) declares that "Sabbaths" (plural) shows up a total of 35 times.

Notice here ABOVE how the NKJV (New King James Version); which is what I use as my daily text, only lists 35 passages; however, the YLT (Young's Literal Translation) shows there are 50. Because of this I'm inclined to read; and, identify all the passages from the YLT text as well as the NKJV. 

We don't want to miss out on any of these passages. I want to most complete understanding of what the Bible's text is declaring to us about Sabbath / Sabbaths. 

Friend. We are engaging in what is called a "Topical Study."

However we are only utilizing right now the 66 books of the Bible's text and ignoring anything the Apocryphal books have to say about Sabbath / Sabbaths. 

We are also ignoring anything "Jewish Writings" (Mishnah, Gemara, Talmud) have to say about Sabbath / Sabbaths. 

So what IS the Sabbath? 

In Biblical Judaism there is a Sabbath (seventh day of rest) each week. 

Many Christian's will assert this is a "Jewish" thing. However Sabbath wasn't instituted by Jews. In fact there weren't even any "Jews" around when the Creator instituted the Sabbath. We can find it's mention in the Book of Genesis at the End of the Creation Week when the Creator himself rested.

There are 52 Weeks in a year. Meaning there are 52 Weekly Sabbaths.

However, the Weekly Sabbath's aren't the only "Sabbaths" in Biblical Judaism. 

There are also "High Sabbaths" which are connected to the Feasts themselves. 

Biblical Judaism (What Jesus practiced) contains a total of seven (7) commanded "feasts." These are detailed within Leviticus 23. The symbolism of the Menorah (A Seven Branched Golden Lampstand) that sat within the Temple itself (in the Holy of Holies) in Israel before the Destruction in 70AD allude to these seven (7) feasts called Moed'im in Hebrew. 

Art by Sefira Lightstone

Moed (singular)

Moed'im (plural)

The "im" at the end makes the term plural.

These Biblical feasts (MOED'IM) are (in order)

• Festival of Lots (Purim)
• Passover (Pesach aka "Unleavened Bread"). First and Last days are "Sabbaths."
• Pentecost (Shavu'ot)
  This particular "Feast" give us the timing of the year when the Written Torah was actually given at Mt. Sinai by YHVH. By the Messenger. By the one who was SEEN. We cannot see the Father. Nor can we see the Holy Spirit. But we CAN see the Image of the Invisible God. The Image that would become flesh; and, die for His people. This also happens to be the time of year when the Holy Spirit Descended upon the Apostles in the New Testament; and, they spoke in Tongues.
  
• Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) aka Rosh Ha Shannah (Head of the New Year)
• The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) 
• The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
• Chanukah (Not a Commanded Feast) 

I grew up in a "Christian" (Episcopalian/Methodist/Protestant) home long before I had ever studied Judaism vs. Biblical Judaism. When I began to study Judaism; I didn't really understand the significance of these feasts. Nor was I able (at the time); to initially see how they are all about Messiah. They are all about Him; and, His sacrifice. 

Even Chanukah (a National Holiday -Not a commanded Feast) itself is prophesied to connect to Blessings upon the Nation of Israel. From the first day of Chanukah the LORD shall Bless. 

"And now, carefully consider from this day forward: From before stone was laid upon stone in the Temple of the LORD -- Consider now from this day forward; from the twenty fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the LORD's Temple was laid --consider it: Is the seed still in the barn ? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate; and, the olive tree have not yielded from this day I will bless."

HAGGAI 2:15-20

*** HINT *** 

If you use the 24th day of the 9th month
(CHISLEV)
As the conception day for Yeshua. 
It gives you a BIRTHDATE
in the 7th month TISHRI. 
The Holiest Month of the Hebrew Calendar.
Falling in between the 1st and the 10th.
 

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When I say "Israel" I mean those whom YHVH calls Israel; not necessarily what the WORLD calls Israel. They are not the same. Being ethnically Jewish benefits one nothing if they reject the Messiah. Being ethnically Jewish offers us no leg up over the gentile in having a relationship with Messiah if we reject His instructions. He is the Messenger of YHVH. If we reject His Messenger. We reject Him. 

Here is an Example I think you can grasp. 

Jeffrey Epstein (a pedophile who has blood on his hands) is technically "Jewish." His allegiance isn't to America. His Allegiance is to BAAL. A bloodthirsty deity who demands the blood of the most innocent and defenseless. The blood of Children. Epstein's lifestyle; and, actions reveal that he isn't Messiah's.

His lifestyle; and, actions deny the True and Living God. He has committed abominations deserving of death. Not just once either. He deserves for his very consciousness, his light, and his spirit, to be permanently extinguished for eternity. 

Those who commit abomination; and, teach others to do so WILL NOT, WILL NOT, WILL NOT be counted within those who are WITHIN MESSIAH'S KINGDOM. 

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I tell you the truth Haggai 2 teaches us that the first day of Chanukah is attached to the laying of the foundation of the Lord's Temple. (ADONAI'S TEMPLE). Neither the first; nor, the second temple had their foundation stones laid in Chislev; the month of Chanukah. Both were laid in ZIV (the second month). So this prophecy, this riddle MUST be about another temple. It is not referring to Solomon's Temple; nor, to Herod's Temple.

Friend's there is a riddle in Haggai 2 that has great attachment to the laying of the very foundation of Messiah's body. The double Helix knitted together in Miriam's womb. The "temple" of the Lord (ADONAI). I tell you the truth. Yeshua is Adonai. The Living God. The one whose voice was heard from Sinai. The one who delivered the stones to Moses. Written by His own fingers. This is just a small clue to help you see Him as He is.   

"But he was speaking of of the Temple of His Body." John 2:21

Your body is the temple.

"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?"

1 Corinthians 6:19

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So. Friends. What I ask that you do. Is to utilize bible study software to identify; and, read all passages that have anything to do with the Sabbath; and, the term "Sabbaths." Please keep a notebook; and, look at all evidence. A good detective; just like a good scientists examines all evidence. ALL of it. 

In part III we will begin to look at these together. 

In the mean time. Shalom!

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