THE SABBATH(S) OF YAHUWEH
In this chapter we are going to talk about the Sabbaths. That’s right, the Sabbaths of Yahuweh - plural.
But first, precious flock, beware of those who corrupt the word of God for pride, pleasure, profit, and prestige.
Beware of those who exchange light for darkness and darkness for light; Yesh'yahu (Isaiah) 5:20-24, and who exchange the truth for the lie; Romans 1:24-32, II Thessalonians 2:9-12.
For the lie which says that if we violate the Torah of Yahuweh, we won’t really die. The same lie which has been perpetuated from the beginning; B'resheet (Genesis) 3:1-5.
I cry to you to come out of her, people of Yahuweh; and be not partakers of her Torah violations (sins); Revelation 18:4.
Cleanse your hands you sinners, and purify your hearts you double-minded; Ya'aqob (James) 4:8, for the Day of Yahuweh is near.
Be we set-apart for our Creator is set-apart; I Kepha (I Peter) 1:14-16.
Touch not that which is unclean and He will receive you; II Corinthians 6:14-18.
Partake not of the lie, and He will redeem you; I Yahuchanan (I John) 1:6,7 & 2:3-6.
Yeshua said, "Do not think that I have come to do away with the Torah (the "Law") or the Prophets, for I came not to destroy them, but to bring them out in fullness"; Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 5:17-19 & 7:21-23.
And I say to you, it is the Accuser (Sat-n) who has come to destroy the Torah, even as Yeshua says, for the Accuser has come to murder, to steal, and to destroy.
But Yeshua says, "...until the heavens and the earth pass away, not the least stroke of a pen shall under any circumstance pass from the Torah until all things are brought to completion"; Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 5:18, Luke 21:33.
The heavens and the earth will pass away before a single stroke of the pen in the Torah or the Prophets pass away; but the leaders of this world say the Torah was nailed to the cross.
Who is the liar? Yeshua? Or the leaders of this sinful world?
These corrupted leaders teach that the Torah was done away by being nailed to the cross. But Yeshua was nailed to that same stake; does that mean that Yeshua has been done away?
I Corinthians 4:4, states that the Accuser (Sat-n means Accuser) is the god of this world, and in Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 4:8, that the Accuser offered this world of his, and all its kingdoms, to Yeshua in exchange for worship;
Yeshua defeated these temptations of the Accuser by standing on the commandments of Torah; Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 4:4,7,10.
But I tell you, the leaders of this world have not resisted this temptation, but have chosen to cast down the truth, and to exchange it for the lie.
The Torah is truth; Mizmor (Psalm) 119:142,151 and these false leaders have chosen to worship the Accuser in exchange for a portion of his darkened kingdom.
Yes, Mizmor (Psalm) 119 states that the commandments, and Torah of Yahuweh, are truth; but the leaders of this world have exchanged His truth for the lie.
Because they love the things of this world more than they love the Way of Life; D’varim (Deuteronomy) 30:11-19, 32:43-47 & Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 19:16,17, they have refused to acknowledge the Torah of Almighty Yahuweh as truth, or as relevant in their lives; Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 5:18. And have refused to acknowledge that violation of Torah is eternal death; Romans 6:23.
A young man came to Yeshua one day and said, "Master, what must I do to inherit Eternal Life." Yeshua said, “If you desire to enter into Life, then obey the commandments; Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 19:16,17.
Yahuweh’s commandments are life, but the wages of sin (violation of Torah), death.
The Torah of Yahuweh is just, and good, and set-apart; Romans 7:12.
The Torah of Yahuweh is perfect, transforming the very soul; Mizmor (Psalm) 19:7-11.
The Torah of Yahuweh is spiritual; Romans 7:14, and it is only the carnal mind - the fleshly, sinful, rebellious mind that opposes it; Romans 8:5-9, Acts 5:32.
Study to show yourselves approved, a worker who does not need to be embarrassed; but who rightly discerns the word of truth so that the listeners may be built up and encouraged; II Timothy 2:15.
For all Scripture is beneficial for doctrine, for correcting ourselves and others, and for instruction in what is right; II Timothy 3:16,17.
For I tell we precious flock, where leaders go a nation will follow.
And right now America, and Israel, which represent the heart of biblical leadership, suffer great hardship because America has rejected the Torah of the Gospel and replaced Yeshua with the counterfeit J-sus. And Israel has rejected Yeshua as Messiah and replaced the written Torah with the counterfeit oral Torah of human rulings.
It is time for the crooked paths to be made straight, for the mountains to be bought low, for the knowledge of Yahuweh to be restored, and for the Good News of Messiah‘s arrival (the Gospel) to be taken to the four winds of the earth.
It is time for the lies to be exposed, for the works of darkness to be scattered, for the foundations of the earth to be shaken, and for the world to be brought to repentance.
It is time to cry out as one cries from the wilderness; to exalt the Name of Almighty Yahuweh above the nations of the earth.
To do justice, to work righteousness, to revive the womb of the sterile woman with fertility, and to raise up a nation of priests to teach the Torah of Life, and the Gospel for the Remission of sin (salvation).
Come out of her My people that you be not partaker of her sins.
The world repents of obeying the Torah; but you, My children, are being called out to repent of violating it; Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 4:17, Mark 6:7-12, Acts 2:38 & 17:30.
For you are the children of light; Ephesians 5:8-12, I Thessalonians 5:5.
My Torah is light; Mishlei (Proverbs) 6:23.
Walk in the light and darkness will have no hold on you.
Walk in the light as children of the light, and the blood of Yeshua will cleanse you of all your past violations of Torah; I Yahuchanan (I John) 1:6,7.
Do what is just, and right, and honest, and set-apart, and pure, and I will call you My people, and you will call Me your God.
Obey My Sabbaths and it will go well with you. Follow My Torah and it will be a hedge of protection to you. Do My commandments and you will be blessed, and the curse removed far from you.
The earth shall reel like a drunkard and be split apart with destruction, because its inhabitants have contaminated it, violated My Torah, forsaken My appointed times, and broken My eternal covenant which I have made with My people; Yesh'yahu (Isaiah) 24:1-6, 19-23
The nations of the earth shall fall to never rise again.
But you, My people, shall be established forever.
For you, precious flock, have heard My voice and not the voice of a stranger. You, My people, have honored My Name and My Torah, rather than the traditions of this world.
Blessed are you My people.
Blessed is Yahuweh our Maker and our Redeemer. And blessed is His Son, haMashiach Yeshua, who gave His life for our past violations of Torah.
So what is all this debate about the 7th day Sabbath? And about the Sabbaths of Scripture?
In B'resheet (Genesis) 2:1-3 it is written,
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished,
2:2 and on the 7th day God ended the work which He had done, and He rested on the 7th day from all His work which He had done.
2:3 Then God blessed the 7th day and set it apart, because in it He rested from all His work which Elohim [the plural expression of God] had created and made.
Yahuweh created this Sabbath. He created it on the 7th day; and He Himself rests on that day. The Scriptures teach that He does not change; that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The Scriptures also teach that He created man to reflect His image; and that we are to be as Him.
It is another Hebrew concept passed down through the generations, through the Scriptures written and preserved through the Jewish people. It’s the concept of the 7 day period called a week, and of a day of rest occurring at the end of that 7 day period.
The concept comes from the Torah, from the very words spoken from Yahuweh's mouth; and which shamefully, the people of the earth have proclaimed as done away. But if it is done away, then Yahuweh has changed, and has no day to rest on.
And if it is all done away, then why is weekly calendar, instituted straight from Torah, still being observed today?
Is all one has to do to know what day the 7th day falls on, or what day the 1st day of the week falls on, is to look at the common everyday calendar. Or to just simply look up the words S-turday and S-nday in a standard Webster’s dictionary to find it plainly stated that S-turday is the 7th day of the week and S-nday the 1st.
And if Yahuweh, who does not change, partakes of His rest on the 7th day, then who are we, who are created in His image, to do any differently?
If we as a bride have been told by our fiancé, to meet him on the 7th day for our wedding, are we going to show up on the 1st day of the week for our wedding instead?
Are we going to meet him on the day that we know he is waiting for us, and looking forward to our company, and to making us his wife; or going to meet him on some other day when he is not expecting us or waiting for us.
And if we are resting on the 1st day of the week, what are we resting from?
Doesn’t even common knowledge tell us that it is after a hard day's work that we are tired and in need of rest; and after a hard week’s work that we look forward to, and are in need of a day off for rest? We do not rest before we are tired, but after we are tired.
To say that the 7th day Sabbath is done away is to say there is no day to rest.
And to admit that there is a day of rest, is to admit that the Torah is not done away.
And if we treat as a Sabbath any day other than that day ordained in Torah, on which Yahuweh Himself rest, then the Torah convicts us of being still dead in sin.
The Almighty commands us to rest, and to partake in that rest at the end of the week, on the 7th day of the week. Failing to uphold the requirements of God in Torah is sin, for violation of Torah is sin; I Yahuchanan (I John) 3:4.
Failing to observe the Sabbath, and to observe it on the 7th day is a sin, and the wages of sin is death; but the Sabbath the standard for His people, His chosen, His bride.
No one can violate a law that does not exist. But because we are still declared sinners, it is evident that the Torah is still in effect. And if the Torah is still in effect, then why do we continue to violate it by continuing in our sin?
If anyone admits there remains a Sabbath day of rest for Yahuweh’s people, but they keep it on a day other than on the 7th day, then the Torah declares them to be still dead in sin.
There is no Scripture from B'resheet (Genesis) to Revelation that states His Torah would be done away, or that His 7th day Sabbath would be, or was, changed to the 1st day of the week.
And if the Sabbath of the 7th day has been changed to a different day, then we still must acknowledge the Torah is not done away, for the commandment to rest one day in the week is still a commandment of Torah.
The Scriptures teach that one will arise to change the appointed times of Yahuweh, and to alter His Torah; Daniel 7:25, II Thessalonians 2:8,9.
This is the Evil One who deceives the whole world, and who has deceived it from the beginning; Revelations 12:9 & 13:4,11-14.
Are we opposed to the appointed times of Yahuweh, and to His Torah as he, the Evil One is?
If we do not look forward with joy to the 7th day Sabbath, it is because we have self-interest we are not willing to sacrifice on the altar of truth.
And I tell you, it is not we who are to tell Yahuweh how we are going to serve Him, or we who are to tell Him what the rules are. It is He who formed us. He is the potter, we are the clay.
If one goes to work for an employer and fails to follow the instructions of his employer, will he not be fired?
If our employer is closed on the 7th day Sabbath, and we show up for work anyway, will we not have showed up in vain?
And if he tells we to take the 7th day Sabbath off, and we take off the 4th day instead, contrary to his command, will he be pleased with that? Will he invite us back to work the next day?
If we would not do these things with our earthly employer, then why would we do it with our heavenly? How much greater is our heavenly Employer than our earthly?
What a shame that we give so much greater allegiance and submission to our earthly employer than to our Creator.
Those of us out there who are justifying the breaking of the 7th day Sabbath, what self-interest are we pursuing and exalting above the commandment of Yahuweh?
Those who justify the breaking of the 7th day Sabbath have no understanding of what the 7th day Sabbath is.
The whole sum of Scripture was given to teach us only two things. It was given to teach us how to be self-less, and how to exalt Yahuweh our Maker. That is, to teach us how not to be selfish, and on how to acknowledge Yahuweh's supreme authority over us.
Why? Because the sinful nature is utterly selfish, and the spiritual nature utterly self-less; and honoring the 7th day Sabbath is one of the first steps to overcoming our selfish, fallen nature.
This selfish nature we’ve inherited is precisely why Havah (Eve) ate the forbidden fruit, and why Adam followed in her example.
It is why banks charge outrageous interest, why governments continuously raise taxes, why people commit adultery, murder, steal, and yes, why they oppose the Sabbath, or keep the Sabbath on a day other than the 7th day.
It is because it is more “convenient” to keep on another day.
The fallen nature does not want to give up its overtime pay for working on a Sabbath day. The sinful nature will take pride, pleasure, profit, and prestige over a Sabbath; and at most any cost.
Neither does the fallen nature want to sacrifice its time shopping at the mall on a Sabbath day to spend that time with God.
Nor does it want to give up partying with its secular friends on the Eve of the 7th day Sabbath; or want to be called legalistic for being "too" obedient to God.
Yes, for the fallen nature, it makes much more sense to please God by disobeying Him, than by obeying Him.
For the fallen nature, obeying God is like trying to earn one's way to heaven; for all that the fallen nature is concerned about is fulfilling its pursuit for pride, pleasure, profit, and prestige.
Yahuweh forbid that His set-apart people should ever pursue these abominable paths in place of His holy commandments! For which servant is the Master pleased with, the one who obeys Him, or the one who disobeys Him?
And who determines what the standard for obedience is to be, we or Him?
It is obedience that produces the work of Yahuweh. Not disobedience. Disobedience is the work of the Evil One.
Entering into the Kingdom by obeying the instructions of the Almighty is not getting there by one's own work, but through His work.
It is, rather, when one attempts to enter by doing their own works, apart from the commandments, that one is attempting to enter through their own work.
Only doing the work of the Almighty will gain us entry. Not the devil’s work - which is to disobey.
What else is a Sabbath, or a day of rest, besides part of Yahuweh’s standard on how to do things?
Did we know that the 7th day Sabbath of rest is just one Sabbath of 3, and of 7 other days of cessation from various types of work appointed by Yahuweh in Scripture as Mikra Kodesh, (Days of assembly)?
There are, in fact, 10 days requiring cessation from certain types of work in Torah that have been appointed by Yahuweh for His people to keep; 10 "Sabbath-like" time periods, but of which only 3 are called "Sabbaths".
There is:
1- The 7th day Sabbath. Sabbath 1; V'yikra (Leviticus) 23:1-3. A Sabbath, a Sabbath of rest, no kind of work, and a day of assembly. Hebrew: Shabat, Shabat Shabaton & Mikra Kodesh.
2- The 1st day of Hag haMatzoth (Feast of Unleavened Bread); V'yikra (Leviticus) 23:6,7. A day of assembly, and no regular work; Hebrew: Mikra Kodesh
3- The 7th day of Hag haMatzoth (Feast of Unleavened Bread); V'yikra (Leviticus) 23:6,8. A day of assembly, and no regular work. Hebrew: Mikra Kodesh.
4- Hag Shavuot (Pentecost). A day of assembly, and no regular work; V'yikra (Leviticus) 23:15-21. Hebrew: Mikra Kodesh.
5- Yom Teruach (Day of Trumpets); V'yikra (Leviticus) 23:23-25. A day of assembly, a day of rest, and no regular work. Hebrew: Mikra Kodesh & Shabaton.
6- Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Sabbath 2; V'yikra (Leviticus) 23:26-32. A Sabbath, a Sabbath of rest, no kind of work, and a day of assembly. Hebrew: Shabat, Shabat Shabaton & Mikra Kodesh.
7- The 1st day of Hag haSuccot (Feast of Tabernacles); V'yikra (Leviticus) 23:34,35,39. A day of assembly; a day of rest, no regular work. Hebrew: Mikra Kadosh, Shabaton.
8- The 8th day, following the 7th day of Hag haSuccot (Feast of Tabernacles); V'yikra (Leviticus) 23:34,36,39. A day of assembly, a day of rest, no regular work. Hebrew: Mikra Kodesh, Shabaton.
9- The 7th year Sabbath for rest of the land and for the cancellation of debts. Sabbath 3: V’yikra (Leviticus) 25:2-7. A Sabbath, a Sabbath of rest, no planting or pruning of crops. Hebrew: Shabat, Shabat Shabaton.
10- 50th year, the Year of Jubilee. V'yikra (Leviticus) 25:8-55. No planting or harvesting or gathering. It is rest of the land, cancellation of debts, freeing of slaves, and the return of all property to the original inheritors.
In America every 7th year is considered a "Sabbatical" (a Sabbath) for school teachers, and the time that credit bureaus drop bad debts off people's credit reports.
This is the influence of Torah. Protestants used to adhere significantly to a considerable amount of Torah. But the time of the Great falling away is approaching quickly, and departure from Torah will be the destruction left in its path.
The remnant of America's early Torah adherence can be seen throughout America's history even today.
- The 7 day calendar beginning S-nday and ending S-turday is one.
- And the word "Months" adopted from the original biblical "Moon" calendar;
- The word "Judicial", which comes from the word "Judah", is the tribe of Israel that was given the stewardship of the Torah, and of the rendering justice, and
- Why juries are made up of 12 "peers" (originally one representative from each of the 12 tribes).
But America is departing from the love of her youth, and has sold herself for pride, pleasure, profit, and prestige.
All these things in American culture come from Scriptures which were written wholly and entirely through the Jewish people from B'resheet (Genesis) to Revelation.
And through the twisting of these same Scriptures, the Accuser has convinced the world of the Torah as "done away".
The Jubilee of the 50th year, a "Sabbath-like" time of cessation from work mentioned above is the year that Yeshua declared when He pronounced "the Acceptable Year of Yahuweh" in Luke 4:16-21.
And this "Sabbath-like" Jubilee that Yeshua pronounced was a special Jubilee; a special time of cessation from work, of rest from our sins. The 80th Jubilee; 4,000 years from Adam.
All of the Sabbaths, and Sabbath "type" days of cessation from work of Yahuweh are prophetic. And all of the feasts and Sabbaths, and Sabbath "type" days of cessation from work of Yahuweh are Moedim; are rehearsals of the things to come.
In Luke 4:18,19 it is written,
4:18 The Ruach (Spirit) of Yahuweh is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the Good News (the Gospel) to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of the sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
4:19 to teach the acceptable year of Yahuweh.
The acceptable year of Yahuweh, that great year of Jubilee. The 80th Jubilee of Yeshua's proclamation 4,000 years from Adam.
That great Jubilee where He proclaimed liberty and freedom for Israel as our Passover Lamb in the 80th Jubilee, even as Moshe proclaimed it for our people in Egypt in his 80th year, and through the Passover Supper in Egypt.
And even as Yeshua, son of Nun, led Israel into the Promised Land after spending 40 years in the wilderness, even so, Yeshua ben David, will lead His people into the Promised Land after 40 Jubilees (2,000 years) in the wilderness of the world.
Behold, I tell you a mystery, even as Moshe was 80 years old when he led the children of Israel out of Egypt, even so; Israel will be 80 years old when Yeshua returns to take us out of this world and into the Promised Land of our eternal possession, Eretz Israel.
As it was 120 years from Noah to the destruction of the earth by water, even so it will be 120 Jubilees from Adam to the destruction of the earth by fire.
In 6 millenniums from Adam, Yahuweh will perform His work on this earth. On the 7th Millennium He shall cause all the earth to rest. And on the 8th Millennium, when the new week begins, His work will be perfected, and all things made new.
The 7th day Sabbath is a rehearsal of the 7th day Millennial Reign of Yeshua.
Those who believe, and are faithful, will enter into His rest during the Millennial Kingdom on the 7th Millennium from Adam.
For those who believe, it is the rehearsal to teach and to prepare them to enter into His rest; into the rest of His Millennial Kingdom on earth. It is our rehearsal to prepare us for that good thing to come; Colossians 2:16,17.
Yeshua came the first time on the 80th Jubilee in the year 29 CE.
And as it written in Hoshea (Hosea) 6:2,
6:2 "after 2 days He will revive us, on the 3rd day He will raise us up."
After 2,000 years He will revive us. On the 3rd millennium He will raise us up.
After 2,000 years from His first appearance in 29 CE, when the 2nd Millennium from His appearance comes to a close, and the 3rd millennium has begun, we will be resurrected.
On Yom Teruach, at the sound of the Last Shofar, the dead in Messiah will be raised, and on Yom Kippur, at the sound of the Great Shofar, those who are alive in Him and remaining will be caught up together with Yeshua, and His resurrected ones, as the wrath of Almighty Yahuweh is poured out upon the kingdoms of this darkened world.
On the 3rd Millennium from His first appearance at the beginning of the 7th Millennium from Adam, all the kingdoms of the world will become the kingdoms of our Master; and the nations of this darkened world will fall to never rise again. In the 6000th year, on the 120th Jubilee shall this be.
The nations of the earth shall be destroyed and be laid to ruin and left in torment, but the bride shall rejoice in the dance, and sing praise to her God Most High. Halleluyah to Yahuweh Most High, and to His Messiah, Yeshua our King, shall be the praise of the set-apart ones who loved not their lives, not even in the face of death.
They shall be arrayed in Robes of white on these days of Yom Teruach, and Yom Kippur as is the tradition; for these are the days that Israel, the bride, shall meet with her groom. For the saints are not Christians, but the Jewish people, the children of Israel; the chosen of God as was promised to her from the very beginning.
And if we obey the Torah, and believe the Testimony of Yeshua, then we are Israel, whether a natural branch, or grafted in, for it makes no difference.
Do we still want to believe that the Law, the Torah, and its appointed times, and Sabbaths, and Sabbath-like days of cessation from work are done away? Do we still want to say we can keep the 7th day Sabbath on any day of the week, as if Yeshua was going to return at a time other than at the 7th Millennium?
If so, be warned that anyone who is not at the rehearsals, will not take part in the performance; but will be cast out of the wedding as someone wearing inappropriate wedding garments; Mattit’yahu (Matthew) 22:1-13,14.
The 7th day Sabbath is a reflection of the Sabbath of the 7th millennium of Yeshua’s Kingdom; and of the wedding feast of the Lamb (Pesach/Passover). And He tells us to enter into His rest; Hebrews 4:1-11.
So let us do so, sacrificing our own self interest and selfish pursuits on the altar of truth, and join Him in His Sabbath rest. In all 10 of His days of cessation from work, and be refreshed.
He didn’t tell us to enter into our rest, but into His. Into the day that He set apart on the 7th day for He and His people, His special people.
There is only one who seeks to change His ways, even the Evil One. And there is only one religion which the Evil One has used as his primary tool for bringing these changes about. It is the Universal (catholic) church of Rome.
It is he, who through the Pope at the Council of Nicea in 325 CE, made this particular change amongst the many others he influenced at other times.
And it is only he, that Wicked One, that Torahless One, who in the manifestation of the flesh of man, will oppose and change the seasons and times in the end; Daniel 7:25, II Thessalonians 2:8.
The Protestant movement from the universal (catholic) church of Rome could only reveal and address the doctrinal errors easily identifiable in their generation; but the Protestant generation has played the harlot, and is quickly passing away; being rejoined with the Great Whore of Rome who gave birth to her.
She is passing away, and her light diminishing in the darkness of her unfaithfulness; but Israel arising again to her position, quickly casting off the works of darkness that formerly beheld her.
And as knowledge continues to increase, the recognition of errors passed down to us through institutionalized religion will also continue to increase.
My protestant neighbors, be aware that when we participate in S-nday worship, or in Sabbath keeping on a day other than the 7th day (S-turday), we are in fact obeying a tradition passed down to us through the universal (catholic) church of pagan Rome, of which the worship of the sun god, M-thras, was central.
The universal (catholic) church of Rome absorbs and assimilates, and resistance to her will be futile once that Wicked and Torahless One takes hold of her reins.
Repent now while there is time, and come out of her My people. Be not partakers of her sins, for judgment will come upon her swiftly and soon; and all who partake of her cup will perish.
To the Torah and the Testimony, if anyone does not speak according to these words, it is because they have no light in them; Yesh’yahu (Isaiah) 8:16-20.
Sin is the violation of Torah; I Yahuchanan (I John) 3:4, but Yeshua was without sin.
Yeshua kept the 7th day Sabbath, and was without sin. And if we do not believe this Testimony, then we are still dead in our sin - in our violation of Torah.
The Christian scribes (the theologians) will have us believe that the way to be rid of sin is by doing away with the Law, with the Torah, that defines for us what sin is.
Would our solution to crime, as men, be to eliminate the criminal code that defines what crime is? If we in our finite understanding would not consider such a futile solution, how much more so would the Creator not impose such an unjust and chaotic approach upon man?
The Torah is to Israel, what the Constitution is to America.
And even as violation of our law constitutes crime, violation of the Torah of God, of the Torah of Yahuweh, constitutes sin.
Sin and crime are synonymous with one another in all respects except that sin is violation of Yahweh’s "Law", and crime, violation of human law.
Do you, O vain man, believe that obedience to the commandments of Yahuweh will cause us to be expelled from the Kingdom of Heaven? Then how can we believe that obedience to human law (which is a mixture of good and evil), will grant us entry into it?
The Torah of Yahuweh is Light, and it is only the Torah that defines in truth the path of life.
It is Yahuweh’s Law, the Torah, that leads one in the ways of righteousness - not man's law; D’varim (Deuteronomy) 6:25, Mizmor (Psalm) 119:172.
It is Yahuweh’s Law, the Torah, that leads us in the way of justice - not human law.
Do you believe this to be legalism O vain man, full of pride, self-pursuit, and selfish ambition? Would we call a police officer legalistic for upholding the law of our country?
Would we declare as our defense, when he pulls us over for breaking our human laws, that the charge is not valid because we are under grace.
Will you insult Me vain man by treating My grace as an excuse for your sin; as a license to continue in your sin?
Is this what you would want from your courts, and from your officers and legal officials? To allow everyone to commit whatever crimes they so desired, to whoever they so desired, under the claim of grace? Is this the repulsive application of My mercy that has been assigned to My grace?
Think again vain man, and all who love lawlessness and chaos. I, Almighty Yahuweh, Creator of the heavens and earth, shall not be mocked. Whatever you plant, you will harvest. If you plant wickedness, you shall harvest misery for yourself and those around you; but if you plant righteousness, you shall harvest mercy, and life everlasting.
Do not treat lightly the blood of My Son shed for your sins. Go and sin no more. If you do this, then you will understand the truth of My grace, experience the joy of My mercy, and see My face. Every tear shall be wiped from your face, and pain and suffering you shall no longer know.
Your society has its torah, and My people My Torah. Do not call legalism that which I have declared righteousness. You understand the need to obey human law, then understand also, that as citizens of My Kingdom, you are to obey Mine.
When My Anointed One returns to rule this earth with My righteousness, it will be through My Torah from Mount Zion.
If you are not willing to obey the Torah in this life, then neither will you obey it in the next. You must overcome, or death will overcome you. Repent while there is time.
For whatever your mindset towards Torah is in this life, is what your mindset towards it will be in the next.
But Yahuweh declares that all those who offend; that is, all those who sin, and cause others to sin, will be purged out of His Kingdom, and cast from His presence; Mattit'yahu (Matthew) 13:41.
Some will argue that the Scriptures declare, "one person considers one day greater than another, and another person considers all days the same; let each be persuaded in his own mind."
What does this have to do with what day the 7th day Sabbath is on?
I think Passover is greater than Shavuot (Pentecost), but my brother thinks they are both equally important. This proves nothing about what day the Sabbath is on, or whether His Sabbath still exist or not.
This passage is not teaching about the appointed times, but about whether vegetarians should be required to eat meat. And the analogy concerning the appointed times, an analogy presented to clarify what Shaul is trying to say.
That is, the Emissary Shaul, by showing how some people prefer one appointed Day to another, even so, it’s okay for some people to prefer one kind of food to another.
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