There is an ordinance written in the Law, to observe the New Moon Crescents, to mark the Seventh Day Sabbaths and yearly Feasts of LORD:(YaHuWaH) God:(ALaHiYM). Israel, the chosen people, were put away from the presence of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, sending them forth into captivity among the heathen nations, because they turned away from obeying the ordinances of the Law. They began to worship the host of heaven, thereby dishonouring YaHuWaH ALaHiYM.
JER 15:1 Then said YaHuWaH unto me, though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
JER 15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, whither shall we go forth? Then thou shalt tell them, thus saith YaHuWaH; such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
JER 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith YaHuWaH: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
JER 15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem
What did Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, do in Jerusalem?
JER 15:5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? Or who shall bemoan thee? Or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
JER 15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith YaHuWaH, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Manasseh forsook the Law of ALaHiYM. He caused the children of Israel to turn away from Observing to Do ALL, of the Commandments of the Law, In the Presence of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, as commanded.
DEU 6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, as he hath commanded us.
About Manasseh:
2KIN 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem and his mother's name was Hephzibah.
2KIN 21:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, after the abominations of the heathen, whom YaHuWaH cast out before the children of Israel.
2KIN 21:3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a 'grove', as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
Definition of English word 'grove', in Strong’s Hebrew dictionary:
H842 אשׁירה אשׁרה 'asherah 'asheyrah ash-ay-raw', ash-ay-raw'
From H833; happy; asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same: - grove. compare H6253.
DEU 16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a 'grove' of any trees near unto the altar of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, which thou shalt make thee.
DEU 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image, which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM hateth.
The asherah is an image of the Canaanite goddess Astarte, which consists of a wooden pole or a column, which is set up by the side of the altars of Baal, a Phoenician deity.
This image was the name of a sensual Canaanite goddess Astarte, the feminine of the Assyrian Ishtar. Its symbol was the stem of a tree deprived of its boughs, and rudely shaped into an image, and planted in the ground.
1KIN 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
1KIN 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and 'groves', on every high hill, and under every green tree.
1KIN 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which YaHuWaH cast out before the children of Israel.
EZE 16:1 Again the word of YaHuWaH came unto me, saying,
EZE 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
EZE 16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
EZE 16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
EZE 16:17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
EZE 16:18 And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
EZE 16:19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith sovereign YaHuWaH.
EZE 16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
EZE 16:21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
Today, ALL nations are still causing their children to pass through the fire, in honour of the pagan alhym. Moreover, those who have control over the monetary systems of many gentile democratic nations, are weakening these same nations, with the use of paper money on warfare. On March 10 1933, by the continued use of paper money the United States had to be declared bankrupt, which was proven by the bankruptcy procedures that were followed in president Roosevelt’s executive orders. President Roosevelt declared the United States bankrupt by presidential executive order, 6073 and the subsequent executive orders, 6102, 6111 and 6260. [These documents are still publicly attainable in any federal depository library.]
EZE 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
EZE 16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee. Saith sovereign YaHuWaH;)
EZE 16:24 That thou hast also built unto thee an 'eminent place', and hast made thee a high place in every street.
The English words 'eminent place', in Strong’s Hebrew dictionary:
H1354 גב gab: pronounced as gab.
From an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; the back (as rounded (compare H1460 and H1479); by analogy the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.: - back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, [eye] brows, nave, ring.
Today, there exist many buildings that have an arch upon the top of them, which is hollow on the inside. Some of these arches are rounded in shape. Washington D.C. has a building having an arch that is rounded in shape and hollow on the inside. At one time, there was a statue of president Washington, in this same building, which was worshipped as a god. Moreover, it is written, that George Washington was a mason.
English definition of the word 'mason':
American revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the bill of rights (1725-1792)
What is an 'American revolutionary leader'? An 'American revolutionary leader' is a nationalist leader in the American revolution and in the creation of the United States.
The United States of America is founded upon principles that are not from the Law. Two of those principles are written in the constitution:
1. Freedom of speech does not promote righteousness. Why is this true? Because there are none among humankind, who observe and do all of the true moral values, which are written within the Law.
2. Freedom of religion does not promote righteousness. One’s own religion is a way, which is believed in and then lived by. The way of a person is the person's action, mode or means of livng. In other words, the way in which a person thinks, leads to action based upon that way or means. Moreover, It is the character of one, who worships one's god. It is the authority, which come from one's god. It is the honour, which is given unto one's god.
Truly, there exist LORD:(YaHuWaH) God:(ALaHiYM), Creator of heaven and earth. YaHuWaH ALaHiYM should only be reverenced among humankind, by performing the ordinances, judgements, statutes, and commandments of YaHuWaH Almighty, as recorded within the Law. However, there is only the worship of pagan alhym among humankind, in every nation upon the earth, today.
EZE 16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Today, there exist high places in almost every street. Many go there to worship their pagan alhym upon Sunday and upon Saturday. This is the worship of the sun and Saturn. They are of the host of heaven.
2KIN 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes
2KIN 17:7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other alhym,
2KIN 17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom YaHuWaH cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
2KIN 17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2KIN 17:10 And they set them up images and 'groves' in every high hill, and under every green tree:
2KIN 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom YaHuWaH carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke YaHuWaH to anger:
2KIN 17:12 For they served idols, whereof YaHuWaH had said unto them, ye shall not do this thing.
2KIN 17:13 Yet YaHuWaH testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the Prophets, and by all the seers, saying, turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the Law, which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the Prophets.
2KIN 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in YaHuWaH ALaHiYM.
2KIN 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that was confirmed with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom YaHuWaH had charged them, that they should not do like them.
2KIN 17:16 And they left all the commandments of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal
Those, who use an asherah pole to worship the host of heaven, are serving Baal, a Phoenician deity. All, who follow the pagan Gregorian calendar, to keep Sunday and Saturday as days for worship, are worshipping the host of heaven. Those of Islam, who worship their Allah upon Friday, are worshipping the host of heaven.
Who is Baal?
Definition of 'Baal', in Strong’s:
H1168 בּעל Baal Bah' - al
The same as H1167; Baal, a Phoenician deity: - Baal, [plural] Baalim.
From H1166; a master; hence a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense: - + archer, + babbler, + furious, those that are given to it, ... husband, Lord, man, + married, master, person...
H1166 בּעל Baal Baw-al'
A primitive root; to be master; hence (as denominative from H1167) to marry: - Beulah have dominion (over), be husband, marry (- ried, x wife).
Baal is the name appropriated to the principal male god of the Phoenicians. It is found in several places in the plural: Baalim (Jdg_2:11; Jdg_10:10; 1Ki_18:18; Jer_2:23; Hos_2:17). Baal is identified with Molech (Jer_19:5). It was known to the Israeli as Baal - Peor (Num_25:3; Deu_4:3). Baalim Ashtorath was served until the time of Samuel (1Sa_7:4).
In Strong’s Hebrew dictionary 'ashtorah':
H6251 עשׁתּרה ashterah ash-ter-aw'
Probably from H6238; increase: - flock.
H6238 עשׁר ashar aw-shar'
A primitive root; properly to accumulate; chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively make) rich: - be (- come, en -, make, make self, wax) rich, make [H1 Kings H22: H48 margin]. See H6240.
Today, there are many upper class people, including those of our own government, who are making themselves rich through the use of charging interest upon the principal sum of money, which is paid in order to buy something that is needed. They are serving Baal Ashtorah.
The Law forbids the charging of interest upon the principal sum of money that is paid in order to buy something that is needed from the person, who sells the thing that is needed, and who also live within the same nation. Those, who increase the principal cost of a product, which is over its true value, in order to become wealthy, are serving Baal Ashtorah.
LEV 25:35 And if thy brother be waxen poor and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
LEV 25:36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear ALaHiYM, so that thy brother may live with thee.
LEV 25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
DEU 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
DEU 23:20 Unto a 'stranger' thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that YaHuWaH ALaHiYM may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Stranger: H5237 nokriy nok-ree'
From H5235 (second form); strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non - relative, adulterous, different, wonderful): - alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange (-r, woman).
The English word 'stranger', up above, is not referring unto a gentile stranger, who sojourns in the land of Israel, and then, becomes a bondservant unto a man. This English word is referring unto a gentile stranger; who is a citizen of a heathen nation.
After the time of king Solomon, when ten tribes of Israel separated from the tribe of Judah, Baal, a Phoenician deity was served in the time of Ahab (1Ki_16:31-33; 1Ki_18:19, 1Ki_18:22). It prevailed also for a time in the kingdom of Judah (2Ki_8:27; compare 2Ki_11:18; 2Ki_16:3; 2Ch_28:2). The worship of Baal, among Judah in Jerusalem, was cut off by the severe discipline of the captivity (Zep_1:4-6). The priests of Baal were in great numbers (1Ki_18:19). There were very many prophets and priests of Baal (2Ki_10:19). Their mode of offering sacrifices is described in 1Ki_18:25-29. The sun god, under the general title of Baal:(master, lord), was the chief object of worship of the Canaanites. Each locality had its special Baal, and the various local Baals were summed up under the name of Baalim:(masters, lords). Each Baal had a wife, who was a colorless reflection of him.
Baal, a Phoenician deity, is a sun god that is worshipped by using the asherah pole, which determine the appointed set times for worshipping Baal. This sun-god worship of Baal replaced the service of reverence unto YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, Creator of heaven and the earth. Today, many modern day Gentile Christians are worshipping the sun god Baal upon the day called Sunday. Jewish sectarians, who worship a Yahweh upon Saturn-day, are worshipping the god Saturn and also the sun god, Baal, a Phoenician deity.
Baal is a sex-sun-god. There is information about Baal existing as a sex-sun-god, but this information is not explained in full detail, here.
The religious organization called 'the House of Yahweh' has a building, where they have sabbath services every Saturn-day during the year, which is located between Clyde Texas and Eula Texas, in Callahan county. A religious organization, which has sabbath services every week on Saturday:(Saturn’s day), does not understand the Law and Writings of the ancient Inspired Prophets in the scriptures.
Everyone, in the House of Yahweh, worships the god Saturn and also the sun god, Baal, every Saturday. They call it the sabbath day of Yahweh. They also keep feast days in honour to their Saturn god, named Yahweh, three times during a year. Their false prophet, Yisrayl Bill Hawkins, deceives with falsehood the House of Yahweh congregation. His House of Yahweh keeps three yearly feast days, in Callahan county of Texas. However, three yearly Feast Days are required to be kept in the land, which was vowed to be given unto Abraham and his chosen descendants, as commanded in the Law. Therefore, this false prophet and those, who serve him, are not keeping the yearly appointed Feast Days in honour of LORD:(YaHuWaH) God:(ALaHiYM).
ISA 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
ISA 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
ISA 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
ISA 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgements, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Three yearly Feast Days are commanded to be kept in the place where LORD:(YaHuWaH) God:(ALaHiYM) has chosen to place name.
The English word 'his', down below, does not represent a Hebrew word in the Hebrew text. YaHuWaH ALaHiYM are Self Existent and Continual Mighty Ones. They are a Self Existent and Continual Spirit Being Family.
DEU 12:5 But unto the place which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM shall choose out of all your tribes to put 'his' name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
DEU 12:6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
DEU 12:7 And there ye shall eat before YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein YaHuWaH ALaHiYM hath blessed thee.
DEU 12:8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
DEU 12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM giveth you.
DEU 12:10 'But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM giveth you to inherit', and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
Notice up above:
'But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land, which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM giveth you to inherit,'
'Then there shall be a place, which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM shall choose to cause 'his' name to dwell there',
As written below in:
DEU 12:11 'Then there shall be a place which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM shall choose to cause 'his' name to dwell there'; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto YaHuWaH:
The pronoun 'his' should not be written in reference to YaHuWaH ALaHiYM. Moreover, it is not in the Hebrew text.
DEU 16:6 But at the place which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM shall choose to place 'his' name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt
DEU 16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place, which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM hath chosen to place 'his' name there.
DEU 16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn Feast unto YaHuWaH ALaHiYM in the place, which YaHuWaH shall choose: because YaHuWaH ALaHiYM shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
DEU 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before YaHuWaH ALaHiYM in the place which he shall choose; in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Tabernacles: and they shall not appear before YaHuWaH empty:
DEU 26:1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
DEU 26:2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that YaHuWaH ALaHiYM giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place, which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM shall choose to place 'his' 'name' there.
DEU 26:3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day, unto YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, that I am come unto the country, which YaHuWaH sware unto our fathers for to give us.
Notice up above:
The place where YaHuWaH ALaHiYM has chosen to place name:(honour, authority, and character) is in the land of promised inheritance, which was vowed to be given unto Abraham and his chosen descendants.
'name':
H8034 שׁם shem shame
A primitive word (perhaps rather from H7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare H8064); an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honour, authority, character: - + base, [in-] fame [-ous], name (-d), renown, report.
Neh 1:7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgements, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses
Neh 1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, if ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
Neh 1:9 But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
The Inspired Prophets prophesied unto the children of Israel, saying, when the captives of Israel are dwelling among the heathen nations, then they will not be able to serve YaHuWaH ALaHiYM with reverence, by keeping the set appointed times, such as the Seventh Day Sabbaths, New Moon Days, and Feast Days, unto YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, because they have forsaken YaHuWaH ALaHiYM.
DEU 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
DEU 4:27 And YaHuWaH shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither YaHuWaH shall lead you.
DEU 4:28 And there ye shall serve alhym, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
DEU 4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
DEU 4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, 'even' 'in the latter days', if thou turn to YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Notice, the English word 'even', up above in DEU 4:30, is not represented by a Hebrew word of the Hebrew text. It should not be written there. The word 'even' is italicized in the K.J.V. Bible. The English Translators put the word 'even' there.
ALL people, who are alive in 2015, existing upon this earth, do not live in the latter days. The latter days will exist when tribulation comes, as recorded in the book of Revelation. The latter days will exist for only seven years, before Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh) returns. The latter days are The End Time Days. The great tribulation will exist in the last three and half years of the last seven years, known as The End Time Days. The Prophet Daniel spoke about The End Time Days. Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh) Christ:(MaSHiYCH) spoke about this great tribulation in Matthew chapter 24.
Now, back to:
DEU 4:31 (For YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, merciful and strong.) he will not forsake thee; neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
DEU 28:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other alhym to serve them.
DEU 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
DEU 28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
DEU 28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
DEU 28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
DEU 28:19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
DEU 28:36 YaHuWaH shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other alhym, wood and stone.
DEU 28:64 And YaHuWaH shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other alhym, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
There are many proud people, who live among the heathen nations. They live in ease, because the sole of their foot have found rest. They do not have a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and sorrow of mind. They have no fear day and night. They believe that their life is assured. What they see in their presence is life, and the pursuit of happiness.
Why is this true?
Because, they do not serve YaHuWaH ALaHiYM with reverence. They live in ease serving their pagan alhym. They do not have a humble heart to reverence YaHuWaH ALaHiYM. They put their assurance of life in the pagan alhym, whom they worship, while they pursue happiness.
JER 44:15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other alhym, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
JER 44:16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of YaHuWaH, we will not hearken unto thee.
JER 44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto 'The Queen of heaven', and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
JER 44:18 But since we left off to burn incense to 'The Queen of heaven', and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
'The Queen of heaven' is Lucifer, Satan the devil. Lucifer is a female spirit being.
The English word 'queen' in Strong’s:
H4446 מלכת meleketh mel-eh'-keth
From H4427; a queen: - queen.
H4427 מלך malak maw-lak'
A primitive root; to reign; inceptively to ascend the throne; causatively to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel: - consult, x indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign (-ing), rule, x surely.
Lucifer said, that she would ascend into heaven, to exalt her throne above the stars:(Prince) of God:(ALaHiYM).
ISA 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning. How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations.
ISA 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the 'stars' of Almighty: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
ISA 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
ISA 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
The English word 'stars' in Strong’s:
H3556 כּוכב kokab ko-kawb'
Probably from the same as H3522; (in the sense of rolling) or H3554 (in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively a prince: - star ([-gazer]).
ISA 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the Government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty:(Powerful) God:(AL), the Everlasting Father, the 'Prince' of Peace.
ISA 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgements and with justice from henceforth for evermore. The zeal of YaHuWaH of hosts will perform this.
Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh) will exist as a powerful Mighty Prince upon the earth, IN the Eternal Kingdom.
JER 44:19 And when we burned incense to 'The Queen of heaven', and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
JER 44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
JER 44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, truly YaHuWaH remembered; it came up in his mind.
JER 44:22 YaHuWaH could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
JER 44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against YaHuWaH, and have not obeyed the voice of YaHuWaH, nor walked in his Law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
These great warnings, which came from the Inspired Prophets, should be spoken unto us today, because these curses, which are written in the Law, are befalling unto us today. Because all nations continue to worship the host of heaven, namely the gods of heaven, as their Baals:(Masters), instead of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, Creator of heaven and earth.
DEU 16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, which thou shalt make thee.
DEU 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image, which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM hateth.
YaHuWaH testified against Israel, and against Judah:
2KIN 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, to provoke him to anger.
2KIN 17:18 Therefore YaHuWaH was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2KIN 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2KIN 17:20 And YaHuWaH rejected all the descendants of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
2KIN 17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David. Israel made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king: and Jeroboam drew away Israel from following YaHuWaH, causing them to commit a great sin.
2KIN 17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
2KIN 17:23 Until YaHuWaH removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the Prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
EXO 23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their alhym, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
EXO 23:25 And ye shall serve YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
DEU 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
DEU 7:6 For thou art a holy people unto YaHuWaH ALaHiYM: YaHuWaH ALaHiYM hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
DEU 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM giveth thee, man or woman, who hath wrought wickedness in the sight of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, in transgressing his covenant,
DEU 17:3 And hath gone and served other alhym, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
DEU 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEU 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
What is the host of heaven, which Manasseh king of Judah worshipped? The host of heaven is the sun, the moon, and the planets, which can be seen with the naked eyes.
Manasseh did not reverence YaHuWaH ALaHiYM by observing and doing the ordinances of the Law, concerning the set times of appointments, for the children of Israel to appear in the presence of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, in order to have holy convocations, such as gathering together upon the Seventh Day Sabbaths, the New Moon Days, and the commanded Feast Days in the presence of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, as recorded in the Law, so that they may learn to always reverence YaHuWaH ALaHiYM.
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, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
GEN 1:14 And God:(ALaHiYM) said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs:(a sign to mark), and for seasons:(a festival, an assembly, an appointed time, solemn Feast, set time appointed), and for days:(sunset to sunset), and years:(a year):
For signs:
H226 'oth oth
Probably from H225 (in the sense of appearing); a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.: - mark, miracle, (en-) sign, token.
And for seasons:
H4150 moed moed moadah mo-ade', mo-ade', mo-aw-daw'
From H3259; properly an appointment, that is, a fixed time or season; specifically a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand): - appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) Feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn (-ity), synagogue, (set) time (appointed).
And for days:
H3117 yom yome
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially): - age, + always, + chronicles, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, x end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), x full, life, as (so) long as (. . . live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, x required, season, x since, space then (process of) time.......
And years:
H8141 shaneh shanah shaw-neh', shaw-naw'
(The first form being in plural only, the second form being feminine); from H8138; a year (as a revolution of time): - + whole age, x long, + old, year (x -ly).
GEN 1:14 And God:(ALaHiYM) said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs:(a sign to mark), and for seasons:(the festival days, and the assembly days, and the appointed time, solemn Feast, set time appointed), and for days:(sunset to sunset), and years:(a year).
GEN 1:14 made clear:
GEN 1:14 And ALaHiYM said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be a sign to mark the festival days, the assembly days, the appointed times, solemn Feasts, set times appointed, and from sunset to sunset:(a day), and a year.
What was the lights in the firmament of the heaven?
The lights in the firmament of the heaven are the sun, moon, and the stars. The sun rules the day, and the moon rules the night. ALaHiYM made the stars, also.
PSA 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, that thou hast ordained;
GEN 1:16 And ALaHiYM made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
GEN 1:17 And ALaHiYM set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
GEN 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and ALaHiYM saw that it was righteous.
GEN 1:14 And ALaHiYM said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide:(separate, distinguish) the day from the night; and let them be a sign to mark the festival days, the assembly days, the appointed times, solemn Feasts, set times appointed, and from sunset to sunset:(the day), and the year.
Divide:
H914 badal baw-dal'
A primitive root; to divide (in various senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.): - (make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate (self, -ation), sever (out), x utterly.
These two lights are a sign, mark or signal for the establishment of the festival days, of the solemn Feasts, of the holy assemblies, which are appointed times, such as the Seventh Day Sabbaths, Feast Days, and New Moons. Moreover, they mark the days, the seasons, and the years.
New Moon Crescents are to be observed for appointing the Festival Days, the Solemn Feasts, the Holy Assemblies, and even Appointed Times such as the Seventh Day Sabbaths. Moreover, the New Moon Crescents are to be observed for appointing the days, the seasons, and the years.
PSA 104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons:(set appointed times); the sun knoweth his going down.
Seasons:
H4150 moed moed moadah mo-ade', mo-ade', mo-aw-daw'
From H3259; properly an appointment, that is, a fixed time or season; specifically a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand): - appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) Feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn (-ity), synagogue, (set) time (appointed).
Seasons are the Festival Days, the Solemn Feasts, the Holy Assemblies, and the Appointed Times, such as the Seventh Day Sabbaths. Moreover, the moon marks the days, the seasons, and the years.
The moon is appointed for seasons. Those, who will become like-minded as the Almighty, will establish the lunar months, by observing the New Moon Crescent. They will observe the moon by looking for the New Moon Crescent, in order to set the Holy Convocation Days.
How will the true nation of Israel, which will exist in the end time days of the last days, use the moon to appoint the seasons?
EXO 12:1 And YaHuWaH spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
EXO 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
They will begin the Abib lunar month, at the sighting of the New Moon Crescent of Abib. The sighting of the New Moon Crescent of Abib begins the year. Truly, by observing all New Moon Crescents, they will know when to keep all of the seasons throughout the year.
DEU 16:1 Observe:(watch for) H853=(namely) the month:(New Moon Crescent) of Abib, and keep the passover unto LORD:(YaHuWaH) God:(ALaHiYM): for in the month:(moon, lunar month) of Abib, LORD:(YaHuWaH) God:(ALaHiYM) brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Observe:
H8104 shamar shaw-mar'
A primitive root; properly to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to, etc.: - beware, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep (-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(- man).
Namely:
H853 'eth ayth
Apparently contracted from H226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely): - (as such not represented in English)
Month:
H2320 chodesh kho' - desh
From H2318; the New Moon; by implication a month: - month (- ly), new moon.
H2318 chadash khaw-dash'
a primitive root; to be new; causatively to rebuild: - renew, repair.
DEU 16:1 made clear:
DEU 16:1 Watch for, namely the New Moon Crescent of Abib, and keep the Passover unto LORD:(YaHuWaH) God:(ALaHiYM): for in Abib lunar month, LORD:(YaHuWaH) God:(ALaHiYM) brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
How will YaHuWaH ALaHiYM chosen people observe the New Moon Crescent of Abib, in the end time days?
They will watch for the New Moon Crescent, which ends the Dark Moon:(New Moon) days. They will wait for the visible appearance of the tiny Crescent of the New Moon, in the sky, toward the westward horizon. The New Moon Crescent, which they will look for, is the New Moon Crescent of Abib lunar month. They will look for the newly built, renewed, and repaired New Moon Crescent, by looking westward in the sky, just after the sun has set.
Now, continue reading about Manasseh, from The King James Version Bible with Hebrew names:
2KIN 21:4 And he built altars in the House of YaHuWaH, of which YaHuWaH said, in Jerusalem will I put my name.
2KIN 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the House of YaHuWaH.
2KIN 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of YaHuWaH, to provoke him to anger.
2KIN 21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which YaHuWaH said to David, and to Solomon his son, in this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name, always:
2KIN 21:8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; ONLY if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
The Everlasting Covenant is NOT an unconditional covenant. ALL Of Israel MUST Observe To Do According To ALL that YaHuWaH ALaHiYM Commanded them: According To ALL the Law that the Servant Moses Commanded them.
2KIN 21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom YaHuWaH destroyed before the children of Israel.
2KIN 21:10 And YaHuWaH spake by his servants the Prophets, saying,
2KIN 21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
2KIN 21:12 Therefore thus saith the YaHuWaH ALaHiYM of Israel, behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
2KIN 21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
2KIN 21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
2KIN 21:15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
2KIN 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH.
JER 15:7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
JER 15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
JER 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith YaHuWaH.
JER 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth. I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Notice, the Prophet Jeremiah:(YaRuMiYaHuW), in JER 15:10 Up Above, is a man of strife and contention unto the whole earth.
Why is this true?
Because the Prophet YaRuMiYaHuW Reverenced YaHuWaH ALaHiYM: he NEVER Lend with Usury:(Interest), And he NEVER Allowed other people to lend with Usury:(Interest) unto him.
Therefore, ALaHiYM was With him.
Today, all nations of the earth are worshipping the host of heaven. The names of the weekdays, within the Gregorian calendar, are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. These names are associated with the sun, moon, and the five visible planets, namely Moon:(Monday), Mars:(Tuesday), Mercury:(Wednesday), Jupiter:(Thursday), Venus:(Friday), Saturn:(Saturday), and Sun:(Sunday).
These seven-week days, which are named in the Gregorian calendar, began to gain prominence in the first century during the time of the Roman Empire. The seven week days became a fixed seven - day cycle at that time, but the order in which these seven planets were named originally, when they began to be used in the Roman Empire, is shown in the encyclopedia Britannica:
The 'planets' in their then accepted order (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon) were conceived astrologically as the respective 'masters' of the first 7 of the 24 hours of the first day and, thereafter, of each successive set of 7 hours. The first hours of seven successive days were thus ruled in turn by Saturn, the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus, after which the cycle repeated itself. Each day was named after the planet that ruled its first hour, and the seven - day planetary week was thus defined' (From Encyclopedia Britannica, 1972: Week).
Sunday was not always the first day of this pagan planetary week, which is used in the Gregorian calendar. Originally, Saturday was the first day of the pagan planetary week. At that time, Friday was a seventh day sabbath, according to this pagan calendar, for those who did not have the true faith, which was once given unto the saints of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM.
Most theologians and some scholars assume that mainstream Jewish society, at the time of Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh), was practising a fixed seven - day week which was the same as the modern fixed seven - day week. This is extremely doubtful. The power and influence of Rome brought about the change, from a lunar to a fixed week. As long as YaHuWaH's House of ALaHiYM of Jacob existed with honour, authority, and character of YaHuWaH in Jerusalem, all Roman practices and customs, including that of the consecutive week, was held at bay. Eventually after the death of the Apostles, YaHuWaH's House of ALaHiYM of Jacob ceased to exist, especially after the destruction of the temple in 70 C.E.. Shortly after that time, the early Jewish/Christian Believers, who had the true faith, which was once delivered unto them by the Apostles, were completely destroyed by the Pagan Roman Gentile Christians. The Roman fixed seven - day week began to be used among the Pagan Roman Gentile Christian circles, when the Roman Gentile Christian authorities gained control and authority, to enforce their religion upon all people, in the Roman Empire. This momentum continually gained strength until its climax in 135 A.D., when the Apostolic leadership of the Apostles were replaced with non-apostolic leadership sympathetic to the interests and culture of Rome. When the Roman Gentile Christian authorities finally gained enough political power to outlaw Sabbath observance altogether, they did not hesitate to do so, even among the remnants of the early Jewish/Christian Believers, who had the faith, which was taught from all of the Apostles. When the early Jewish/Christian Assemblies became destroyed by the Roman Gentile Christian authorites, remnants of the believers from the early Jewish/Christian Assemblies, who had the true faith, did not have authority to maintain the true faith. Therefore, the remnants were overcome with pagan god worship. Many of these remnants were put to a horrible death. Some of them joined the new Pagan Roman Gentile Christian religions, for fear of death.
The New Pagan Roman Gentile Christian Doctrine EXISTS among MANY modern day religious organizations, today. Moreover, all modern day religious organizations, which exist upon the earth, today, have similiar doctrines as the New Pagan Roman Gentile Christian Doctrine. In other words, EVEN those religious organizations, who teach from the Old Testament, have as their main foundation of doctrine, the precepts of men, which is NOT in accordance with the Law of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM.
Now, continue reading:
JER 16:1 The word of YaHuWaH came also unto me, saying,
JER 16:2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
JER 16:3 For thus saith YaHuWaH concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
JER 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
JER 16:5 For thus saith YaHuWaH, enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, never bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith YaHuWaH, even lovingkindness and mercies.
NOTICE, YaHuWaH was NO LONGER Merciful unto His Chosen people, Israel. The Lovingkindness of YaHuWaH was taken away from them. Peace did NOT Exist between YaHuWaH and Israel.
Why did this occur?
Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith YaHuWaH, and have walked after other alhym, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my Law.
In ALL of today's modern religions, the teachers of these religions do NOT Observe to Do ALL, of the Commandments of the Law, In the Presence of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, as commanded. They teach their own doctrines: commandments of men. Even in some modern day religious congregations, like the House of Yahweh, where Yisrayl Bill Hawkins teaches his own commandments: those in among the congregation, which are found out to NOT reverence Yisrayl B. Hawkins, by NOT obeying his teaching 100%, ARE Barred from his House of Yahweh Congregation. These people are deceived by Yisrayl Bill Hawkins. Some of them will finally be able to see the deceptions of falsehood that was taught unto them by Yisrayl Bill Hawkins, AFTER they have been removed from his Yahweh House of Deceptions.
JER 16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
JER 16:7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
JER 16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
JER 16:9 For thus saith YaHuWaH of hosts, ALaHiYM of Israel; behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
JER 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, wherefore hath YaHuWaH pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against YaHuWaH ALaHiYM?
JER 16:11 Then shalt thou say unto them, because your fathers have forsaken me, saith YaHuWaH, and have walked after other alhym, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my Law;
In Strong's Hebrew dictionary, for the word 'law':
H8451 תּרה תּורה Law Law to-raw', to-raw'
From H3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch: - law.
JER 16:12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
JER 16:13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other alhym day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
Even today, among all nations of the earth, this prophecy holds true upon ALL people, because there are none serving YaHuWaH ALaHiYM day and night, By Observing to Do ALL, of the Commandments of the Law, In the Presence of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, as commanded. Righteousness is Observing to Do ALL, of the Commandments of the Law, In the Presence of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, as commanded. (Deuteronomy 6:25)
JER 16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith YaHuWaH, that it shall no more be said, YaHuWaH liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
JER 16:15 But YaHuWaH liveth, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
JER 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith YaHuWaH, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
The End Time Days, of The Last Days, will exist, when YaHuWaH's House of ALaHiYM of Jacob will exist upon Mount Zion, Jerusalem, again.
MIC 4:1 But in the last days, it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of YaHuWaH shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
MIC 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, come, and let us go up to the mountain of YaHuWaH, and to the house of ALaHiYM of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the Law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of YaHuWaH from Jerusalem.
MIC 4:3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
MIC 4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of YaHuWaH of hosts hath spoken it.
MIC 4:5 For all people will walk every one in the name of 'his' god, and we will walk in the name of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM always perpetually.
Up above in Micah 4:5, the English word 'his' does not represent a Hebrew word of the Hebrew text. It should not be written there.
Made clear:
MIC 4:5 For all people (will) walk every one in the name of ALaHiYM: We (will) walk in the name of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM always perpetually.
All of the remnant of the ancient house of Israel, (who will come from the gentile nations, to reverence YaHuWaH ALaHiYM upon Mount Zion, Jerusalem, in The End Time Days, known as the last seven years of The Last Days), will learn to walk with the honour, authority, and character of God:(ALaHiYM). Yes, they will walk having the honour, authority, and character of LORD:(YaHuWaH) God:(ALaHiYM), always perpetually.
MIC 4:6 In that day, saith YaHuWaH, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
MIC 4:7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and YaHuWaH shall reign over them upon Mount Zion from henceforth, for evermore.
Back to:
JER 16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
JER 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
JER 16:19 YaHuWaH, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, 'the gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit'.
Notice that which is written up above:
'the gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit'.
In modern day Gentile religious congregations upon this earth, there exist a falsehood teaching among the Gentiles, saying, "We are associated with Jesus, the son of God." Moreover, these same Gentiles, at the same time, say, "We are NOT associated with anyone of the house of Israel." In other words, these Gentiles do NOT want to have anything to do with the Oracles of the Jews. They want to be associated with the true Son of YaHuWaH, namely Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh), BUT they do NOT want to have anything in common with the House of Judah, who are promised by YaHuWaH, to have the Appointed King of Righteousness to sit upon the Throne of the Kingdom of YaHuWaH, FOREVER. This is the CONFUSION of these Gentiles, who hate the Law of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM.
Notice what Apostle Paul spoke:
ROM 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
ROM 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
The Oracles of God is the Law of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM. The House of Judah is appointed to teach the Oracles of YaHuWaH unto the Congregations of the True House of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM. This INCLUDES all Gentiles, who become associated with Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh), the Son of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM.
Notice what else Apostle Paul has to say:
EPH 2:8 For by grace:(Divine Influence of Holy Spirit) are ye saved through faith:(Having a Moral Conviction to obey the Law); and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
EPH 2:9 Not of works:(Human Nature Minded works of the Law), lest any man should boast.
EPH 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto [good works]: (Righteous Works of the Law), which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Notice what YaHuWaH ordained before of old time:
LEV 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
LEV 26:2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
LEV 26:3 [IF YE WALK IN MY STATUTES, AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND DO THEM];
LEV 26:4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
LEV 26:5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
LEV 26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
LEV 26:7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
LEV 26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
LEV 26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
LEV 26:10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
LEV 26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
LEV 26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
EPH 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
In times past, these Gentiles, (who became associated with the True House of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, coming under the teacher, namely Apostle Paul, of the house of Judah), WERE Gentiles, being Human Nature Minded, who are called the Uncircumcision of the flesh, BY those who are called Circumcision of the flesh, made by hands.
In other words, in times past these same Gentiles were Human Nature Minded, having NOT a moral conviction to obey the Oracles of YaHuWaH.
After becoming associated with the True House of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, these Gentiles WERE NO LONGER ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH of ISRAEL. They had become Citizens of Israel. They were NO LONGER Gentiles, existing outside of the Covenants of Promise. When these Gentiles became a citizen of Israel, they came under the Everlasting Covenant of Promise, which was vowed unto Abraham and his Seed. The other Everlasting Covenant of Promise was vowed unto King David of the house of Judah: YaHuWaH vowed unto King David that he Would have a SEED:(KING of Judah) to sit upon the Throne of the Kingdom, FOREVER.
WITHOUT these TWO Promises, ALL Gentiles, that have ever existed, have NO HOPE of Receiving an Eternal Inheritance in the Kingdom of YaHuWaH. Moreover, All Gentiles will NOT be able to become Spiritual Minded, UNLESS they become associated with the KING of JUDAH, who is a citizen of Israel, being of the house of Israel. Human Nature Minded Gentiles ARE WITHOUT YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, in the World.
This is the Status of ALL Modern Day Religions. EVEN the House of Yahweh, of Abilene Texas, is NOT associated with Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh), the Son of YaHuWaH: Their false prophet teacher, namely Yisrayl Bill Hawkins, IS a Human Nature Minded Gentile, teaching falsehood, which is contrary to the Commandments of the Law and of the Writings of the Ancient Prophets of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM.
EPH 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
EPH 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
EPH 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
BOTH, Gentiles and Jews become associated as [ONE UNIT]:( Having the same Mind, to obey the Commandments): Congregations of people of the True House of YaHuWaH of ALaHiYM.
EPH 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
The English word [even], up above, is an Italicized word, NOT representing a Greek word of the Ancient Text. IT should NOT exist there, for it deceives the reader to think that the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances are ABOLISHED in the Spiritual Body of Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh).
These Gentiles, (who have become associated with the Spiritual Body of Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh), namely the House of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM), NO LONGER have a desire to transgress The Law of YaHuWaH. These Gentiles are NO LONGER in opposition to the Keeping of the Commandments of the Law of YaHuWaH. These Gentiles Become like-minded AS Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh), who works the Righteousness of the Law, being Holy Spirit Minded.
EPH 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
The ENMITY that was Slain is Hostility Against the Law of YaHuWaH.
EPH 2:17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
EPH 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
EPH 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
These Gentiles Become Citizens of YaHuWaH's Chosen People, namely Israel, who were given the Covenants of Promise.
EPH 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
YES, these same Gentiles stand firmly in agreement with the writings of the Ancient Prophets, who brought forth The Law and Prophecy.
EPH 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
EPH 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
The days are coming, when those, who will go up to Mount Zion, Jerusalem to reverence YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, will say, "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit."
JER 16:20 Shall a man make alhym unto himself, and they are no:(not) ALaHiYM?
JER 16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know truly, name:(the honour, authority, and character) of YaHuWaH.
The righteous honour, authority, and character of YaHuWaH will be truly known.
The writings of the Law show that the true Seventh Day Sabbath will always come upon the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th day of each lunar month. Moreover, the writings of the Law show that the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is a High Day Sabbath. Moreover, the writings of the Law show that the day before the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is always a Seventh Day Sabbath.
LEV 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread:(not of the grain), nor parched corn:(roasted ears of grain), nor green ears:(from the planted field), until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto ALaHiYM: it shall be a statute always throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Made clear:
LEV 23:14 And ye shall NOT eat of the grain: roasted ears of grain from the planted field, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto ALaHiYM: it shall be a statute always throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
The children of Israel are commanded in the Law, to bring an offering of barley grain unto the priest of ALaHiYM, from the field, before they can Lawfully eat the barley grain, which comes from the field.
The Law commands the children of Israel, to eat unleavened barley grain or bread during all seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Therefore, the barley stalk of grain had to be cut, from the field, immediately after the sunset, which ended the 14th of Abib lunar month, when the passover lambs were sacrificed at evening.
This up above will help one to understand what is written below in:
LEV 23:15 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:
Now to dissect LEV 23 verse 15:
LEV 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow:(High Day Sabbath) after the Sabbath:(Seventh Day Sabbath),
You are to count from the High Day Sabbath, which come after the Seventh Day Sabbath.
Now continue reading LEV 23 verse 15:
From the day:(High Day Sabbath) that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering;
You are to count from the High Day Sabbath, when you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
The sheaf is the cut barley stalk of grain, which came from the field.
Now continue reading LEV 23 verse 15:
Seven Sabbaths shall be complete:
Seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths] must be complete even unto the High Day Sabbath - Feast of Weeks, which come after the seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath]:(7th day of the third lunar month).
As shown below:
LEV 23:16 Even unto the morrow:(High Day Sabbath - Feast of Weeks) after the seventh Sabbath:(7th day of third lunar month) shall ye number fifty days;
The count unto the Feast of Weeks:(Firstfruits) must begin from the High Day Sabbath, when the sheaf is cut from the field. Then this same count continues unto the High Day Sabbath - Feast of Weeks, which come after the seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath]:(7th day of the third lunar month).
You must number fifty days from the High Day Sabbath, when the sheaf is cut from the field unto the High Day Sabbath - Feast of Weeks, which come after the seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath]:(7th day of the third lunar month).
It is Contrary to the ordinance of the Law, to begin to number 50 days after the sun has set ending the 15th day of Abib, known as the High Day Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
It is commanded in the Law to BEGIN to number or count 50 day AFTER the sun has set ending the 14th day of Abib, known as the Seventh Day Sabbath.
In other words the count must begin upon the 15th day of Abib, as commanded in the Law.
Why is this the truth?
Because the 15th day of Abib is WHEN the appointed heads of the tribes of Israel are commanded to go out into the barley field, to cut a sheaf of barley from the field, and THEN bring that sheaf of barley unto the priest, who serve at the Temple. ALL of that performance begins to take place at the BEGINNING of the 15th day of Abib, AFTER the sun has set ending the Seventh Day Sabbath, before darkness has arrived.
IF the head leaders of the tribes of Israel did NOT perform this commandment, THEN ALL of the people of Israel would be forbidden to eat the unleavened barley bread or parched grain upon the 15th day of Abib, which is the FIRST Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This would be a transgression of the Law, because it is commanded in the Law to eat the barley grain from the field, unleavened, upon ALL SEVEN DAYS of the Feast.
NOW, Continue reading in verse 16:
And ye shall offer a new meat:(grain) offering unto YaHuWaH.
Upon the High Day Sabbath - Feast of Weeks, you must offer a new grain offering unto YaHuWaH.
Now read DEU 16 verse 9:
DEU 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn:(stalk of grain).
Made clear:
DEU 16:9 Seven weeks:(49 days) shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks:(49 days) from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn:(barley stalk).
Notice what is written in that verse:
'seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee'...
If a person numbers seven weeks, they will count 49 days. Why is this true? Because a week contains 7 days. 7 times 7 equal 49 days.
Therefore, begin to number the seven weeks, immediately after the sunset, which ended the 14th of Abib:(the Seventh Day Sabbath). In other words, begin to number the seven weeks, when the 15th of Abib:(the High Day Sabbath) arrives.
Now, read the rest of verse 9:
Begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
Notice, the translators chose to write the English word 'corn' in that verse, instead of a stalk of grain; BUT, the sickle was put to the barley stalk of grain.
Why is this true?
Because barley is the only grain, which has any mature growth from it, during that time of the year of Abib lunar month.
The definition in Strong's Hebrew dictionary, for the English word 'corn':
H7054 qamah kaw-maw'
Feminine of active participle of H6965; something that rises, that is, a stalk of grain: - (standing) corn, grown up, stalk.
This English word 'corn' is not referring unto a stalk of corn, which becomes mature much further within a year. The definition show that this corn is something that rises, that is, a stalk of grain.
It is a known fact, that the grain called corn does not rise in maturity during the beginning of the year, in an Abib lunar month. Moreover, notice in Strong's, the definition of the Hebrew word 'Abib':
H24 אביב 'abiyb aw-beeb'
From an unused root (meaning to be tender); green, that is a young ear of grain; hence the name of the month Abib or Nisan: - Abib, ear, green ears of corn.
The Hebrew word 'Abib' means a young ear of grain. This young ear of grain is young barley grain.
When was the sickle put to the young barley stalk of grain?
Begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the barley stalk.
Here is the answer: The sickle was put to the young barley stalk of grain, upon the 15th of Abib lunar month, immediately after the sunset, which ended the 14th:(the Seventh Day Sabbath) of Abib lunar month.
Why is this true?
Because it is commanded, within the Law, that the young barley grain from the field must NOT be eaten, until you have brought a sheaf of the barley stalk of grain from the field unto the priest.
Here is that ordinance in the Law:
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 ALaHiYM: it shall be a statute always throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
If a sheaf of the barley stalk of grain was not brought unto the priest, upon the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, then the children of Israel would not have fulfilled the Law, to eat unleavened bread upon ALL seven days of the Feast. The children of Israel were commanded to eat unleavened barley bread during all seven days of the Feast:
DEU 16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Therefore, the count unto the Feast of Weeks did not begin upon the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Now, these ordinances up above are a key to understanding, why the true Seventh Day Sabbath does not always come upon a Saturday, nor does the true Seventh Day Sabbath come upon the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th day of a lunar month.
LEV 23:15 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:
Notice what is written in the Law, up above:
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering;
It is written, that you are to count from the morrow after the Sabbath. What occurred upon the morrow after the Sabbath? The morrow after the Sabbath is the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
When was the sheaf brought unto the priest? The sheaf was brought unto the priest, upon the 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This 1st day is a High Day Sabbath of the Feast. It is also the 15th of Abib lunar month.
There was a Seventh Day Sabbath before the High Day Sabbath of the Feast. The Seventh Day Sabbath is always upon the 14th of Abib lunar month. The sheaf was cut and brought unto the priest after the Seventh Day Sabbath:(the 14th of Abib lunar month). This is why it is written in the Law: and ye shall count unto you from the morrow:(High Day Sabbath) after the Sabbath:(the Seventh Day Sabbath): from the day:(15th of Abib lunar month) that:(when) ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
A High Day Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread existed on the 15th of Abib lunar month, when the sheaf of the wave offering was brought unto the priest.
It is written in the Law, showing that the 15th of Abib lunar month, the 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, is a Sabbath Day:
LEV 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto YaHuWaH: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
LEV 23:7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
It is written in the Law, showing that the 7th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is a Sabbath Day:
LEV 23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YaHuWaH seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
The 7th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread will Always come upon the 21st of Abib lunar month.
LEV 23:9 And YaHuWaH 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 YaHuWaH, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
When did the priest wave the sheaf offering in the presence of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM?
On the morrow after the Sabbath, the priest shall wave it.
Made clear:
On the morrow:(16th of Abib lunar month) after the Sabbath:(High Day Sabbath of the Feast) the priest shall wave it.
Therefore, these scriptures prove that the sheaf offering is to be waved in the presence of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM upon the 16th of Abib lunar month after the High Day Sabbath of the Feast, when the sheaf was brought unto the priest.
Remember that the sheaf was brought unto the priest upon the High Day Sabbath of the Feast. That High Day Sabbath is also the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
If the sheaf was not brought unto the priest upon the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, then it would have been unlawful for the children of Israel to eat unleavened barley grain from the field upon the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, as required by the written Law.
Remember, seven days, unleavened barley grain must be eaten, during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
The writings of the Law show that the Feast of Weeks, known as the day of Pentecost, will always come upon the day after the Seventh Day Sabbath, which come upon the 7th day of the third lunar month. These seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths] come at the end of each of the seven weeks of days that began to be counted from the 15th of Abib lunar month.
In other words, the first [Seventh Day Sabbath], which is counted, is the 21st of Abib lunar month. The second [Seventh Day Sabbath] of the seven Sabbaths is the 28th of Abib lunar month. Then the next solar day can be a New Moon:(Dark Moon) Day. This New Moon:(Dark Moon) Day can also exist upon a 30th solar day. It all depends upon, when the New Moon Crescent is sighted.
The 29th and 30th New Moon Days are not counted, when one counts the seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths], which must come before the Feast of Weeks arrive. After the New Moon Crescent is sighted immediately after the sunset, which ended the 29th day or 30th day, which come at the end of Abib lunar month, then the first day of the second lunar month arrives, immediately after the sunset, which ended the 29th day or the 30th day.
Why is this true?
Because all days are to begin at sunset. They do not begin after 12 P.M. midnight.
Now, to continue the count unto the Feast of Weeks:
There are six workdays before the next Seventh Day Sabbath come. After the six workdays, then the 7th day of the second lunar month arrives. It is the third [Seventh Day Sabbath] of the seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths] that are to be counted. Seven days later, the next Seventh Day Sabbath come upon the 14th day of the second lunar month. It is the fourth [Seventh Day Sabbath] of the seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths]. The number of days, so far, since the count began upon the 15th of Abib lunar month, is 7 times 4 equals 28 days. Seven days later the fifth [Seventh Day Sabbath] come upon the 21st day of the second lunar month. Seven days later the sixth [Seventh Day Sabbath] come upon the 28th day of the second lunar month. The next solar day, which come at the end of the second lunar month, CAN BE a New Moon Day. Now, after the New Moon Day or Days have ended, because of the sighting of a New Moon Crescent, then the first workday of a third lunar month arrives. The seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath] come upon the 7th day of the third lunar month. It is the seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath] of seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths], before the Feast of Weeks come. This seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath], which come upon the 7th day of the third lunar month, is the 49th day, since the count unto the Feast of Weeks began. The next day of the third lunar month is the Feast of Weeks. It is the 50th day, since the count unto the Feast of Weeks began. The count began upon the 15th:(the 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread) of Abib lunar month.
Reiteration:
LEV 23:15 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:
LEV 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto YaHuWaH.
Seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths] shall be complete: even unto the morrow after the seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath] shall ye number 50 days;
The morrow, after the seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath], is the 50th day, from when the count began. Remember the count began upon the 15th day of Abib lunar month, Which is the 1st Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The 14th day, being a Seventh Day Sabbath, had ended at sunset, when the High Day Sabbath of the Feast began. Always remember that the 15th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is the first day of that week.
When the 7th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread come, it comes upon a Seventh Day Sabbath. That Seventh Day Sabbath comes upon the 21st of Abib lunar month. Moreover, that Seventh Day Sabbath is the first [Seventh Day Sabbath] of seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths], to be counted in a row, until the morrow after the seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath]. The morrow, after the seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths] that are counted, is the Feast of Weeks.
DEU 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn:(stalk of barley grain).
DEU 16:10 And thou shalt keep the Feast of Weeks unto YaHuWaH ALaHiYM with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, according as YaHuWaH ALaHiYM hath blessed thee:
DEU 16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM hath chosen to place his name there.
I hope you will understand, by studying these very scriptures, that the Seventh Day Sabbath does NOT come upon the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th day of a lunar month.
The written Law makes this understanding very clear. Please study these words of the written Law, so that you may be able to see that this is truth.
Now, I will show, by the inspired words of the Apostles, that the Feast of Weeks, known as the Day of Pentecost, come in the 3rd lunar month. The Feast of Weeks does not come in the 4th lunar month.
Why is this true?
ACT 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
ACT 1:2 Until the day, in which he was taken up, after that he through the holy spirit had given commandments unto the Apostles whom he had chosen:
ACT 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of ALaHiYM:
The Strong's Greek definition of the English word 'passion' that is written up above in Acts chapter 1 verse 3:
G3958 pascho patho pentho pas'-kho, path'-o, pen'-tho
Apparently a primary verb (the third form used only in certain tenses for it); to experience a sensation or impression (usually painful): - feel, passion, suffer, vex.
Therefore, after Jesus':(YaHuWSHuWAh's) passion:(painful suffering), He was seen by the Apostles for 40 days.
ACT 1:4 And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
ACT 1:5 For John truly baptised with water; but ye shall be baptised with the holy ghost not many days hence.
ACT 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, master, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
ACT 1:7 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.
ACT 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the holy spirit 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.
ACT 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Upon that same 40th day, a cloud, in the sight of the Apostles, received Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh). This occurred upon the Mount of Olives.
ACT 1:10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
ACT 1:11 Which also said, ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
ACT 1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey.
ACT 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
ACT 2:1 And when the Day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
The English word 'Pentecost, in Strong's Greek dictionary:
G4005 Pentekoste Pen-tay-kos-tay'
Feminine of G4004; fiftieth (G2250 being implied) from Passover, that is, the Festival of ' Pentecost ': - Pentecost
Therefore, the fiftieth day is the Day of Pentecost.
On what day did YaHuWaH ALaHiYM pass over the children of Israel, when they were in Egypt?
EXO 12:23 For YaHuWaH will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, YaHuWaH will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
YaHuWaH will pass over the door...
EXO 12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for evermore.
And to thy sons for - ever.
EXO 12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which YaHuWaH will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
This service will be kept in The End Time Days of The Last Days, when YaHuWaH's House of ALaHiYM of Jacob is rebuilt again, upon Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
ISA 2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
ISA 2:2 And it shall come to pass, in the last days, that the mountain of YaHuWaH House shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
ISA 2:3 And many people shall go and say, come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of YaHuWaH, to the house of ALaHiYM of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of YaHuWaH from Jerusalem.
ISA 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
EXO 12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, what mean ye by this service?
EXO 12:27 That ye shall say, it is the sacrifice of YaHuWaH Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and 'worshipped'.
Worshipped:
H7812 שׁחה shachah shaw-khaw'
A primitive root; to depress, that is, prostrate (especially reflexively in homage to royalty or god): - bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
EXO 12:28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as YaHuWaH had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
EXO 12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight, YaHuWaH smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
At midnight YaHuWaH ALaHiYM smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, but They passed over the houses of the children of Israel.
This midnight was the night of the 15th of Abib lunar month, which came after the 14th of Abib lunar month, when the passover lambs were sacrificed at evening.
When the daylight of the 15th of Abib lunar month arrived, the children of Israel were leaving out away from Egypt.
LEV 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto YaHuWaH: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
EXO 12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Upon that 15th of Abib lunar month, the children of Israel baked unleavened cakes of the unleavened dough, which was brought forth out of Egypt.
LEV 23:7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
JOH 19:31 The Jews therefore, (because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day), (for that Sabbath day was a high day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
The 15th of Abib lunar month is a High Day Sabbath.
ACT 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
ACT 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
ACT 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy ghost:(Spirit), and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
The writings of the Law prove that the count unto the Feast of Weeks does not begin upon the 16th day of the Feast of Unleavened bread. Moreover, these writings of the Law prove that the counting unto every Seventh Day Sabbath is reckoned according to the sighting of each New Moon Crescent, which begin a new lunar month. Moons:(Lunar Months) are called months in The King James Version Bible.
Each lunar month always have four phases. There will always exist four [Seventh Day Sabbaths] within the four phases of a lunar month. The fourth [Seventh Day Sabbath] always come at the end of the four phases, of EVERY lunar month. In other words, AT the end of the fourth phase of a lunar month, the 28th day arrives. It is the LAST Seventh Day Sabbath of a lunar month. The next day, being a solar day, can be a Dark Moon Day, which is called a New Moon Day. The visual appearance of the New Moon is ALWAYS DARK upon ALL New Moon Days. The visual sighting of a New Moon Crescent, after a sunset of a 29th solar day or 30th solar day, means that the day, in which the New Moon Crescent is seen, begins a NEW lunar month. That same day is the 1st day of that NEW lunar month. When the 7th lunar day of that NEW lunar month arrives, it is the first Seventh Day Sabbath of that NEW lunar month.
The lunar calendar is not like the Gregorian calendar where every week is consecutively counted. The writings of the whole Bible prove that the days of every week within a lunar month are to be counted according to the sighting of the previous New Moon Crescent.
Moreover, the count unto the Feast of Weeks is based upon a lunar calendar. It is not based upon a consecutive count of seven weeks, as found in the Gregorian calendar.
If one uses the consecutive count of seven weeks as found in the Gregorian calendar; then one will not be able to count only seven [Seventh Day Sabbaths], with the 50th day occurring upon the morrow after a Seventh Day Sabbath, which comes on the 7th in the third lunar month. The 8th day of the third lunar month is always the 50th day:(Feast of Firstfruits).
One must apply the lunar calendar, which was used by the children of Israel, and also by Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh) Christ:(MaSHiYCH) and the Apostles.
The seventh day of a lunar month is always the first [Seventh Day Sabbath] of that lunar month.
Those, who teach, saying, "The counting of the week began at the time of creation, and therefore, the weeks have always been counted consecutively", are Saturday sabbath keepers. However, writings of the history of the Roman Empire, show that the Seventh Day Sabbaths did not always come upon a Saturday. This Roman history also show that the Jewish nation, of that time period, reckoned their Seventh Day Sabbaths by the sighting of all New Moon Crescents.
Take a look within the pages of the English King James Bible, and one will read:
GEN 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month:(lunar month), the seventeenth day of the month:(lunar month), the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
The definition of the English word 'month', which is written twice in the verse up above, in Strong's Hebrew dictionary:
H2320 חדשׁ chodesh kho'-desh
From H2318; the New Moon; by implication a month: - month (-ly), new moon.
Up Above, the English word 'month' is referring unto the Lunar Month, and NOT the New Moon Day.
Our modern day Gregorian calendar is not based upon the sighting of the New Moon Crescent. It is based upon a consecutive counting of weeks. The names of the weeks in this Gregorian calendar are named after the seven planets that can only be seen with the naked eye. These seven planets are worshipped (idolized) as the host of heaven. The Inspired Prophets wrote about this abominable worship of the host of heaven, which is written in the Bible.
The worship of the host of heaven is condemned in the Bible:
DEU 4:14 And YaHuWaH commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgements, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
DEU 4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that YaHuWaH spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
DEU 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
DEU 4:17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
DEU 4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
DEU 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
DEU 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates, which YaHuWaH ALaHiYM giveth thee, man or woman, who hath wrought wickedness in the sight of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, in transgressing his covenant,
DEU 17:3 And hath gone and served other alhym, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
DEU 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEU 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
The appointed days for salvation are coming, when all Saturday sabbath keepers will be destroyed, if they do not repent from this abominable worship. In the Kingdom of YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, there will NOT Exist upon this earth ANY Pagan Religions, Like the House of Yahweh. ALL pagan god worshipping congregations will be DESTROYED. Those, who rebell against YaHuWaH to continue to worship pagan gods, WILL BE DESTROYED, FOREVER.
Saturday was named after the god Saturn. Those, who always keep Saturday as their sabbath, are worshipping the god, Saturn.
The first 'day' of the month, as recorded in The King James Version Bible, is not always the first day of the lunar month.
Example:
LEV 23:24 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 trumpets, a holy convocation.
The English word 'first', up above in LEV 23:24, in Strong's Hebrew dictionary:
H259 אחד 'echad ekh-awd'
A numeral from H258; properly united, that is, one; or (as an ordinal) first: -a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any (-thing), apiece, a certain [dai-] ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together.
The English word 'day', up above in LEV 23:24, is an italicized word, which does not represent a Hebrew word of the Hebrew text.
LEV 23:24 should be written like this:
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, the seventh New Moon, a Certain New Moon Day: ye are to have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
This verse up above, show that the Feast of Trumpets did NOT come upon the first day of the seventh lunar month. The Feast of Trumpets come upon a New Moon Day. All New Moon Days come at the end of a lunar month. The New Moon Day can exist as two solar days, or it can be only one solar day.
It all depends upon, when the next New Moon Crescent is sighted by the naked eye, as commanded to be performed by the Law.
When the 28th day of a lunar month come, it is the last Seventh Day Sabbath of that lunar month. The next solar day CAN be a New Moon Day. This New Moon Day is reckoned along with the Seventh Day Sabbath that came the day before, upon the 28th day. Moreover, this New Moon can last for two solar days. If it does then both a 29th solar day and a 30th solar day, will be reckoned along with the Seventh Day Sabbath that came upon the day, before a 29th solar day.
In other words, all three days: 28th, 29th and 30th day are reckoned as one day, when counting unto the Feast of Weeks.
IMPORTANT: There are times when a New Moon Crescent is sighted after sunset, ending a Seventh Day Sabbath:(28th Lunar Day). If this occurs, then the New Moon Day comes upon the Seventh Day Sabbath:(28th Lunar Day). The next lunar day is the first workday of a new lunar month. In other words, there would not exist a 29th solar day, NOR a 30th solar day, as New Moon Days, before a first workday of a new lunar month.
Therefore, (when one counts unto the Feast of Weeks, as required by the Law), the New Moon Days, such as a 29th day and a 30th day, are not counted separately or in addition unto the 28th day of a lunar month. In this manner, the seventh [Seventh Day Sabbath] will always come upon the 7th day of the third lunar month. The next day of the third lunar month is the 8th day. This 8th day will always exist as the Feast of Weeks, according to the writings of the Law.
The New Moon Days always come at the end of a lunar month. The 28th day is always the fourth [Seventh Day Sabbath] of a lunar month.
A New Moon Day can exist upon a 29th solar day at the end of a lunar month, or, there can also be a New Moon Day, upon a 30th solar day at the end of a lunar month.
Please understand that the New Moon Day CAN come upon a 29th solar day, at the end of a lunar month. There will not always exist a New Moon Day upon a 30th solar day, at the end of a lunar month.
If the New Moon Crescent is seen after sunset ending a 29th solar day, then the first workday of a new lunar month begins at that sunset, which ends the 29th solar day. If the New Moon Crescent is not seen at the end of a 29th solar day at sunset, then there will be a New Moon Day upon a 30th solar day also, at the end of the lunar month. Sometimes, a New Moon Day CAN come upon the 28th lunar day of a lunar month. When a New Moon Crescent is spotted after a sunset, ending a 28th lunar day, then that next lunar day, after the 28th lunar day, is the first workday of a new lunar month.
It is commanded, within the Law, that you must NOT work upon the Sabbaths, in ploughing time and in harvest time. You must rest.
EXO 34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
In other words, do not go out upon the Sabbath day to plough your fields, nor to harvest the produce from your plants, like one would do upon the six workdays, for storing up the produce.
However, if a person goes out upon the Sabbath day and gathers a hand full of produce from a few plants, in order to eat upon the Sabbath day what is gathered, then that person is not transgressing the Law. This person is freely receiving produce from a few plants.
MAT 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn:(field); and His disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn:(the heads of grain), and to eat.
MAT 12:2 But when the pharisees saw it, they said unto him, behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day.
MAT 12:3 But he said unto them, have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
MAT 12:4 How he entered into the House of ALaHiYM, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them, which were with him, but only for the priests?
MAT 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath Days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
MAT 12:6 But I say unto you, that in this place is one greater than the temple.
MAT 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice; ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
The English word 'guiltless', in Strong's:
G338 anaitios an-ah'ee-tee-os
From G1 (as a negative particle) and G159 (in the sense of G156); innocent: - blameless, guiltless.
King David and his men did not transgress the Law by eating the old shewbread. The priest did not profane the Sabbath, by performing the work, which they did upon the Sabbath.
Moreover, this person, who goes out to gather a hand full of produce is not buying this produce from another person, who would sell produce. It is a transgression of the Law to buy or to sell anything upon the Sabbaths or upon the New Moons.
AMO 8:4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
AMO 8:5 Saying, when will the New Moon be gone, that we may sell kernels of grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth winnowed grain, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
AMO 8:6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes. Yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
AMO 8:7 YaHuWaH hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, surely I will never forget any of their works.
The children of Israel were commanded: To NEVER plough the field, NEVER harvest the produce for storing up produce, NEVER buy anything from another person, and NEVER sell anything unto another person upon ALL New Moon Days and ALL Sabbath Days.
Travelling upon the Sabbaths, in order to gather yourself together with your family and friends, to learn how to reverence YaHuWaH ALaHiYM, is not a sin.
Travelling upon the New Moon Days, in order to gather together with your family and friends, to feast at a New Moon meal, is not a sin.
If the journey unto a certain place were going to extend past the Sabbath day, then you would not want to journey unto that place upon the Sabbath.
Why is this true?
Because you would not be able to have a holy convocation in that place upon the Sabbath as commanded in the Law, before the Sabbath day had ended.
Acts 1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey.
The English word 'journey', in Strong's Greek dictionary:
G3598 hodos hod-os'
Apparently a primary word; a road; by implication a progress (the route, act or distance); figuratively a mode or means: - journey, (high-) way.
Journey can be the route, such as a road. Journey can be an act, such as a mode or means. Journey can be the distance, such as from the Mount of Olives unto Jerusalem.
The Mount of Olives is where Jesus:(YaHuWSHuWAh) and His disciples gathered together to have a holy convocation. This is what they did upon the Sabbaths.
In Acts 1:12, the English word 'journey' is not referring unto the time of a Sabbath day.
In other words, if Travelling unto the Mount of Olives or unto Jerusalem is going to take up the whole time of the Sabbath day, then the purpose of Travelling in the first place is defeated. The purpose of Travelling upon the Sabbath is to get unto the gathering place of holy convocation. A holy convocation must be performed upon the Sabbaths.
Nevertheless, Travelling upon the Sabbath and New Moon Days in order to start the workdays for employment, is a sin.
The Universal Jewish encyclopedia also acknowledges:
"The idea of the week, as a subdivision of the month, [was found] in Babylonia, where each lunar month was divided into four parts, corresponding to the four phases of the moon. The first week of each [lunar] month began with the New Moon [Crescent], so that as the lunar month was one or two days more than four periods of seven days, these additional days were not reckoned at all. Every seventh day (Sabbatum) was regarded as an unlucky day. This method of reckoning time spread westward through Syria and Palestine, and was adopted by the Israeli again, after they settled in Palestine." (VOL. 10, p. 482. Article 'Week')
The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopedia states:
'Among all early nations, the lunar months were the readiest large divisions of time... (and were divided into 4 weeks), corresponding to the phases or quarters of the moon. In order to connect the reckoning by weeks with the lunar month, we find that all ancient nations observed some peculiar solemnities to mark the Day of the New Moon.' (1904, p. 1497)
Today, almost all scholars agree that the primal seven-day calendar, as used among the very ancient Semites, (including the Babylonians and Hebrews), was based upon the moon. Furthermore, this unique weekly cycle was observed in tandem with the lunar phases. An example of the early week, based upon the phases of the moon, is described in the fifth tablet of the Semitic story of the creation (12-18). Note that the moon is said to 'make known the days' and its horns 'the seasons', creating the Sabbath on the 7th and 14th days of the lunar month.
Like the ancient lunar calendars, the Hellenistic calendar counts days from sunset to sunset and not from sunrise to sunrise or midnight to midnight. To the ancients in Athens, Jerusalem, and Babylon each new month began with the appearance of the Young Crescent Moon in the evening sky and not when the moon was dark, i.e. the New Moon. This evening was celebrated with the lighting of torches and bonfires, to announce to all in the countryside, that the new month had officially begun. The second day of the month began on the following evening, and the third day began on the third evening.
According to Janet and Stewart Farrar, in The Witches Goddess:
'The modern use of seven day weeks, also stems from the ancient lunar calendar. The first of every lunar month was marked as the first day of a new week and a Sabbath was celebrated every seventh day, to mark the 4 quarters of the moon. The last week was followed, by the days of the dark moon, when the goddess was held to be menstruating and so an extended Sabbath was observed until the waxing crescent moon reappeared and the new month began.' (Phoenix Publishing, pp. 24-25, p.106)
Further information is supplied by The Encyclopedia Biblica, (1899), which says:
'The New Moon and the Sabbaths alike called men to the sanctuary, to do sacrifice as in:
Isaiah 1:12-17, ISA 56:1-7, and Ezekiel 20:10-20. Hosea explains that in captivity, the children of Israel will not keep the Sabbath, along with the other Feasts, because, in his day, a Feast implied a Sanctuary. The Sabbath is a mark of separation or division from the heathen. In I Samuel 20:18, 24, and 27, the dark days of the moon was celebrated two days. The Sabbath is on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th day from each new moon (sighted). (Note: the dark side of the moon would be 1 or 2 days).' (The Macmillan Company, p. 4177)
The same encyclopedia, on page 5290, notes:
'The subdivision of the month was into 4 weeks. A week represented approximately a phase of the moon. This quadripartite division of the month, into weeks, was inline with the phases of the moon. The mode of reckoning, among the Israeli, was by dividing the first 28 days of each month, into 4 weeks, i.e. 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th day and by making the first week of the new month, always begin with the new moon [sighting]."
May you be blessed with true understanding.
To continue learning about the True Lunar Calendar, click on this link: Observance of the New Moon Crescents, Is For Marking the Seventh Day Sabbaths And the Feasts of LORD God - Part 2
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A Human Nature Minded Man Cannot Become Subservient Unto the Law of God
The House of Yahweh Message Concerning Yisrayl Hawkins and Yaaqob Hawkins Is A Falsehood Message
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