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Messiah Congregation
קָּהָל
אֶחָד
בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
A part of the Congregation of Israel
עֲדַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
Happy New
Year
The “real”
Rosh Hashanah רֹאשׁ
הַשָּׁנָה / New Year (head of the year)
“The
first day of the first month” יוֹם
אֶחָד,
לַחֹדֶשׁ
הָרִאשׁוֹן
Happy New moon חֹדֶשׁ – 7 %
now
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Let’s
pray
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Today we
use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s,
April 9,
2016
April -- Aphrodite's month
Greek Aphro, short for Aphrodite.
Aprilis had 30 days, until Numa when it had 29 days, until Julius when it became
30 days long.
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. She is identified with the
Roman goddess Venus.
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Yehovah has His own calendar
Today is the daytime hours
of the first month, Nisan, day 1
Esth.3 [7] In
the first month, that is, the month Nisan
בַּחֹדֶשׁ
הָרִאשׁוֹן,
הוּא-חֹדֶשׁ נִיסָן
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Exod.13 [4] This day came ye out in the month
(ha) Abib. ha Aviv
הַיּוֹם,
אַתֶּם
יֹצְאִים,
בְּחֹדֶשׁ, הָאָבִיב
Aviv = green, a young ear of grain (barley at this time)
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Part of
April / May 2016
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I will explain the Sabbath each week
now during the coming holydays
This is how simple it is:
Exod. 20 [8] Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy.
[9] Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
[10] But the seventh day is the sabbath of Yehovah thy God:
in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
[11] For in six days Yehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Yehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed
it.
Lev. 23 [3] Six days shall work be done:
but
the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation;
ye shall do no work therein:
it is the sabbath of Yehovah in all your dwellings.
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Isa. 58 [13] If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of Yehovah, honourable; and shalt honour him,
1 - not doing thine own ways,
2 - nor finding thine own pleasure,
3 - nor speaking thine own words:
[14] Then shalt thou delight thyself in Yehovah; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and
feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for
the mouth of Yehovah hath
spoken it.
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Buying
and selling is evil on the Sabbath
Neh. 13 [16] There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
[17] Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto
them, What evil
thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
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Passover is
coming again and I always amazed how Yehovah reveals false brothers and sisters
among us so our Passover is not polluted with sin.
Amazingly,
we always lose people at this time.
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Before we start, first I will
do a short review of the Spring Feasts and Holy Days again. It seems I can never review these days
early enough for you.
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Passover – פֶּסַח
Feast of Unleavened Bread - חַג
הַמַּצּוֹת
First fruits בִּכּוּרֵי “Offering
time”
50 days from First Fruits:
Feast of Weeks, Hag Sh'vu-ot - חַג
שָׁבֻעֹת “Offering
time”
Feast of Harvest Hag ha katseer - חַג
הַקָּצִיר
(A Sabbath) Sunday,
(there are 2 Sabbaths in a row)
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Here are
the dates again
Ha Aviv / Nisan 14 - Passover is the 22nd of
April in the evening
Ha Aviv / Nisan 15 - Feast of Unleavened
Bread, Saturday, the 23rd of April, starts the evening before.
Ha Aviv / Nisan 21 – end of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, Friday, the 29th of April, starts the evening before.
Sivan (3rd month) Feast of Week -
June 12, 2016, Sunday or 1st day, a
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Today’s
topic:
God’s New Year
"Time for a New
Beginning"
Only one beginning of the
year and one end of the year
Deut. 11 [12] A land which Yehovah thy Yehovah careth for: the eyes of Yehovah thy God are always
upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the
end of the year.
Exod.12 [1] And Yehovah spake
unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
[2] This
month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of
the year to you.
הַחֹדֶשׁ
הַזֶּה לָכֶם,
רֹאשׁ
חֳדָשִׁים:
רִאשׁוֹן
הוּא לָכֶם,
לְחָדְשֵׁי
הַשָּׁנָה
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Many other very important events happened on the first day,
first month, here are a few:
Let’s read
Here are some "new beginnings"
Exod. 40 [2] On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
[17] And it came to pass in the first month in
the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
[33] And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the
altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
[34] Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the
glory of Yehovah filled the tabernacle.
[35] And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the
congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Yehovah filled the tabernacle.
[36] And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the
children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
[37] But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not
till the day that it was taken up.
[38] For the cloud of Yehovah was upon the tabernacle by
day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel,
throughout all their journeys.
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Gen. 8 [13] And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the
waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the
ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
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Ezra 7 [1] Now after these
things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
[2] The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
[3] The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
[4] The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
[5] The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
[6] This Ezra went up from Babylon;
and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yehovah Yehovah of Israel had given: and the
king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yehovah his Yehovah upon him.
[9] For upon the first day of the first month began
he to go up from Babylon,
and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according
to the good hand of his Yehovah upon him.
[10] For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of Yehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
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Ezra 10 [17] And they made an end
with all the men that had taken strange wives
נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֹת by the first day of the first month. יוֹם אֶחָד, לַחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן
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Ezek. 29 [17] And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month,
the word of Yehovah came unto me, saying,
[18] Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his
army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was
made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his
army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:
[19] Therefore thus saith the Yehovah; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil,
and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
[20] I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Yehovah.
[21] In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel
to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of
them; and they shall know that I am Yehovah.
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בִּתְחִלַּת, קְצִיר שְׂעֹרִים in the
beginning of barley harvest
Ruth 1 [22] So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of
Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning
of barley harvest.
2 Sam. 21 [9] And he delivered them
into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the
hill before Yehovah: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days
of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of
barley harvest.
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One calendar, no fiscal calendar in
scripture
Fiscal: of or pertaining
to the public treasury or revenues: example - fiscal policies that may
change. Also, of or pertaining to financial matters in general.
God laws (policies) are the same all
year round, they don’t change
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This is how we recognize when the year starts
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:
וַיֹּאמֶר
אֱלֹהִים,
יְהִי
מְאֹרֹת
בִּרְקִיעַ
הַשָּׁמַיִם,
לְהַבְדִּיל,
בֵּין הַיּוֹם
וּבֵין
הַלָּיְלָה;
וְהָיוּ
לְאֹתֹת וּלְמוֹעֲדִים,
וּלְיָמִים
וְשָׁנִים
One New Year
Deut.11 [12] A land which Yehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Yehovah thy God
are always upon it,
from the “beginning of the year” even unto the “end of the year”.
אֶרֶץ,
אֲשֶׁר-יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ
דֹּרֵשׁ אֹתָהּ:
תָּמִיד,
עֵינֵי
יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ בָּהּ--מֵרֵשִׁית
הַשָּׁנָה,
וְעַד
אַחֲרִית
שָׁנָה
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Saul tells the Corinthians: Keep it simple!
2 Cor. 11[3] But I fear, lest by
any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty,
so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity
that is in Messiah.
Exod.23 [14] Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the
year.
שָׁלֹשׁ
רְגָלִים,
תָּחֹג לִי בַּשָּׁנָה
[15] Thou shalt keep the feast
of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread
seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month abib (ha aviv); for in it thou came out from Egypt: and
none shall appear before me empty: (offering time)
[16] And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of thy labors, which
thou hast sown in the field:
and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, בְּצֵאת
הַשָּׁנָה when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.
[17] Three times in the year all thy males shall appear
before the Lord Yehovah. (Offering time)
Deut.16 [16] Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Yehovah thy God 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 Yehovah
empty.
[17] Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
of Yehovah thy God which he hath given thee.
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Here are a few references to one calendar, one
year
Num. 28 [11] And in the beginnings of your months…
ha Aviv / Nisan
14:
…offering of every month throughout the months of the
year.
[16] And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of Yehovah.
[17] And in the fifteenth day of this
month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
[18] In the first day shall be a
holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
[25] And on the seventh day
ye shall have an holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
[26] Also in the day of the first fruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto Yehovah,
after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no
servile work:
2Kgs.13 [20] And Elisha died,
and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the
coming in of the year.
1 Chr. 27 [1] … out month by month throughout all the months of the year,
2 Chr. 24 [23] And it came to pass at the end of the
year,
Job 3 [6] As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be
joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the
months.
Ezek. 40 [1] In the five and
twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of
the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after
that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of Yehovah
was upon me, and brought me thither.
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A good time to
"come out and be
separate"
By strength of hand Yehovah brought us out from Egypt,
From the house of
bondage (sin)
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Exod. 13
[3] And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt,
out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yehovah brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be
eaten.
[8] And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is
done because of that which Yehovah did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
[9] And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that Yehovah's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath Yehovah brought thee out of Egypt.
[14] And it shall be when
thy son asketh thee in
time to come, saying,
What is this?
that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand Yehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
[15] And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yehovah slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of
man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Yehovah all that openeth the matrix, being males; but
all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
Deut. 6
[20] And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which Yehovah our Yehovah hath commanded you?
[21] Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and Yehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
[22] And Yehovah shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his household, before our eyes:
[23] And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to
give us the land which he sware unto our
fathers.
[24] And Yehovah commanded us to do all these
statutes, to fear Yehovah our Yehovah, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at
this day.
[25] And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
commandments before Yehovah our Yehovah, as he hath commanded us.
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Watch out for the mixed
multitude
Exod. 12 [38] And a mixed
multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much
cattle.
Num. 11 [4] And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give
us flesh to eat?
Neh. 13 [3] Now it came to pass, when they had
heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
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"Come out and be separate"
Exod. 33[16] For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy
people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that
thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from
all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
Lev. 20 [24] But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it,
a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am Yehovah your Yehovah, which have separated you from other people.
Deut. 32 [8] When the most High divided to the
nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the
bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel
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1 Kgs. 8 [51] For they be thy
people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out
of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
[52] That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy
servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them
in all that they call for unto thee.
[53] For thou didst separate them from among all the people
of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of
Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Yehovah.
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Ezra 6 [19] And the children of
the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
[20] For the priests and the Levites were purified together,
all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the
priests, and for themselves.
[21] And the children of Israel, which were come again out of
captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the
filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek Yehovah Yehovah of Israel, did eat,
[22] And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with
joy: for Yehovah had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria
unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of Yehovah, the Yehovah of Israel.
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Ezra 10 [8] And that whosoever would not come
within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all
his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the
congregation of those that had been carried away.
[9] Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves
together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the
twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house
of Yehovah, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
[10] And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the
trespass of Israel.
[11] Now therefore make confession unto Yehovah Yehovah of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from
the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
[12] Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud
voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
[13] But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain,
and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of
one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
[14] Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let
all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times,
and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the
fierce wrath of our Yehovah for this matter be turned from us.
Neh. 9 [2] And the seed of
Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their
sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
[3] And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of
the law of Yehovah their Yehovah one fourth part of the day; and another fourth
part they confessed, and worshipped Yehovah their Yehovah.
Neh. 10 [28] And the rest of the
people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the
lands unto the law of Yehovah, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having
knowledge, and having understanding;
[29] They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered
into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in Yehovah's law, which
was given by Moses the servant of Yehovah, and to observe
and do all the commandments of Yehovah our Lord, and his
judgments and his statutes;
[30] And that we would not give our daughters unto the people
of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
Neh. 13 [1] On that day they read
in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found
written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the
congregation of Yehovah for ever;
[2] Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and
with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit
our Yehovah turned the curse into a blessing.
[3] Now it came to pass, when they
had heard the law, that they separated
from Israel all the mixed
multitude.
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Rom. 1 [1] Paul, a servant of Yeshua the Messiah, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of
Yehovah,
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In the end, Messiah will separate
all
Matt. 25 [31] When the Son of man shall come in his
glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of
his glory:
[32] And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a
shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
[33] And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the
goats on the left.
[34] Then shall the King say unto them on his
right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world:
[35] For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me in:
[36] Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in
prison, and ye came unto me.
[37] Then shall the righteous answer him, saying,
Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty,
and gave thee drink?
[38] When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee
in? or naked, and clothed thee?
[39] Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and
came unto thee?
[40] And the King shall answer and say unto them,
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of
these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
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[41] Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
[42] For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
[43] I was a stranger, and ye took me not in:
naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
[44] Then shall they also answer him, saying,
Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did
not minister unto thee?
[45] Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I
say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it
not to me.
[46] And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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Rev. 18 [4] And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
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Separate yourselves from this world, be "born from above,
born of the water and spirit", born again.
John
3 [3] Yeshua ... said ... Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of Yehovah.
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[5] Yeshua answered, verily, verily, I
say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of Yehovah.
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[6] That which is born
of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
[7] Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again!
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"A new heart and a new
spirit"
Ezek. 18 [31] Cast away from you all your
transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye
die, O house of Israel?
Ezek. 36 [26] A new heart also will I give
you, and a new spirit will I put within
you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give
you an heart of flesh.
"A new creature, a new man"
Eph. 4 [22] That ye put off
concerning the former conversation the old man,
which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
[23] And be renewed in the spirit
of your mind;
[24] And that ye put on the new man,
which after Yehovah is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Col. 3 [9] Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the
old man with his deeds; [10] And have put on
the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him
that created him:
2 Cor. 5 [17] Therefore if any man be in Messiah, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new.
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1 Pet. 1 [22] Seeing ye have purified your souls in
obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see
that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
[23] Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of Yehovah, which liveth and abideth for ever.
[24] For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower
of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
[25] But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.
And this is the word which by the
gospel is preached unto you.
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Rev. 21 [5] And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. And he
said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
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**Please: Remember this day, in which
ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yehovah brought you out from this place.
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Now some made up New Year stories if you want to read
Some history from the net
When did January 1 become the first day of the New Year?
March was the
original beginning of the year in some previous calendars.
January 1
had become the first day of the New Year when Julius Caesar (100 B.C.E.-44
B.C.E.) reorganized the Roman calendar and made it solar rather than lunar in
the year 45 B.C.E. and moved the beginning of the year to January 1.
We use the Gregorian
calendar
When the Gregorian calendar was
introduced in 1582, January 1 continued to be recognized as the first day of
the year in most places.
However, in England and the American
colonies, March 25, intended to represent the spring equinox, was the beginning
of their year. Under this system, March 24, 1700, was followed by March 25,
1701.
In 1752, the British government changed
the beginning date of the year to January 1.
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The celebration of the New Year on January 1st is a relatively new phenomenon.
The earliest recording of a New Year celebration is believed to have been in Mesopotamia, c. 2000 B.C. and was celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox, in mid-March. A variety of other dates tied to the seasons were also used by various ancient cultures. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians began their new year with the fall equinox, and the Greeks celebrated it on the winter solstice.
The early Roman calendar designated March 1 as the New Year. The calendar had just ten months, beginning with March. That the New Year once began with the month of March is still reflected in some of the names of the months. September through December, our ninth through twelfth months, were originally positioned as the seventh through tenth months (septem is Latin for "seven," octo is "eight," novem is "nine," and decem is "ten."
The first time the new year was celebrated on January 1st was in Rome in 153 B.C. (In fact, the month of January did not even exist until around 700 B.C., when the second king of Rome, Numa Pontilius, added the months of January and February.) The new year was moved from March to January because that was the beginning of the civil year, the month that the two newly elected Roman consuls—the highest officials in the Roman republic—began their one-year tenure. But this new year date was not always strictly and widely observed, and the new year was still sometimes celebrated on March 1.
In 46 B.C. Julius Caesar introduced a new, solar-based calendar that was a vast improvement on the ancient Roman calendar, which was a lunar system that had become wildly inaccurate over the years. The Julian calendar decreed that the New Year would occur with January 1, and within the Roman world, January 1 became the consistently observed start of the new year.
In medieval Europe, however, the celebrations accompanying the New Year were considered pagan and un- pseudo christian like, and in 567 the Council of Tours abolished January 1 as the beginning of the year. At various times and in various places throughout medieval pseudo Christian Europe, the new year was celebrated on:
Dec. 25, the birth of Yeshua
March 1
March 25 the Feast of the Annunciation
Easter
Looks like the Catholics took over above
In 1582, the Gregorian calendar reform restored January 1 as New Year’s Day. Although most Catholic countries adopted the Gregorian calendar almost immediately, it was only gradually adopted among Protestant countries. The British, for example, did not adopt the reformed calendar until 1752. Until then, the British Empire —and their American colonies— still celebrated the New Year in March.
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When Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) crafted the Julian calendar in 46 B.C., he moved the beginning of the year to January 1. Even after the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, January 1 continued to be recognized as the first day of the year in most places.
However, up until 1752, England and its American colonies started the new year with March 25, representing the spring equinox. (The equinox, which occurs each spring and fall, is the date on which the sun shines most directly on the equator and day and night are of roughly equal length). Under this system, March 24, 1700, was followed by March 25, 1701. In 1752, the British government declared that January 1 would begin the new year.
Source: Asimov, Isaac. Asimov on Numbers, p. 159.
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And then
there is Judaism and some Messianics that add and diminish from the Word of the God of Israel
and complicate and pervert the matter.
A Judaism source
In 46 B.C.E. the Roman emperor Julius Caesar first established January 1 as New Year’s Day. Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates, and had two faces, one looking forward and one back. Caesar felt that the month named after this god (“January”) would be the appropriate “door” to the year. Caesar celebrated the first January 1 New Year by ordering the violent routing of revolutionary Jewish forces in the Galilee. Eyewitnesses say blood flowed in the streets. In later years, Roman pagans observed the New Year by engaging in drunken orgies—a ritual they believed constituted a personal re-enacting of the chaotic world that existed before the cosmos was ordered by the gods.
As pseudo Christianity spread, pagan holidays were either incorporated into the pseudo Christian calendar or abandoned altogether. By the early medieval period most of pseudo Christian Europe regarded Annunciation Day (March 25) as the beginning of the year. (According to Catholic tradition, Annunciation Day commemorates the angel Gabriel’s announcement to Mary that she would be impregnated by G-d and conceives a son to be called Yeshua.)
After William the Conqueror (AKA “William the Bastard” and “William of Normandy”) became King of England on December 25, 1066, he decreed that the English return to the date established by the Roman pagans, January 1. This move ensured that the commemoration of Yeshua’ birthday (December 25) would align with William’s coronation, and the commemoration of Yeshua’ circumcision (January 1) would start the new year - thus rooting the English and Christian calendars and his own Coronation). William’s innovation was eventually rejected, and England rejoined the rest of the pseudo Christian world and returned to celebrating New Years Day on March 25.
About five hundred years later, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII (AKA “Ugo Boncompagni”, 1502-1585) abandoned the traditional Julian calendar. By the Julian reckoning, the solar year comprised 365.25 days, and the intercalation of a “leap day” every four years was intended to maintain correspondence between the calendar and the seasons. Really, however there was a slight inaccuracy in the Julian measurement (the solar year is actually 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds = 365.2422 days). This slight inaccuracy caused the Julian calendar to slip behind the seasons about one day per century. Although this regression had amounted to 14 days by Pope Gregory’s time, he based his reform on restoration of the vernal equinox, then falling on March 11, to the date had 1,257 years earlier when Council of Nicaea was convened (March 21, 325 C.E.). Pope Gregory made the correction by advancing the calendar 10 days. The change was made the day after October 4, 1582, and that following day was established as October 15, 1582.
The Gregorian calendar differs from the Julian in three ways:
(1) No century year is a leap year unless it is exactly divisible by 400 (e.g., 1600, 2000, etc.);
(2) Years divisible by 4000 are common (not leap) years;
(3) once again the New Year would begin with the date set by the early pagans, the first day of the month of Janus - January 1.
On New Years Day 1577 Pope Gregory XIII decreed that all Roman Jews, under pain of death, must listen attentively to the compulsory Catholic conversion sermon given in Roman synagogues after Friday night services. On New Years Day 1578 Gregory signed into law a tax forcing Jews to pay for the support of a “House of Conversion” to convert Jews to Messiahianity. On New Years 1581 Gregory ordered his troops to confiscate all sacred literature from the Roman Jewish community. Thousands of Jews were murdered in the campaign.
Throughout the medieval and post-medieval periods, January 1 - supposedly the day on which Yeshua’ circumcision initiated the reign of pseudo Christianity and the death of Judaism - was reserved for anti-Jewish activities: synagogue and book burnings, public tortures, and simple murder.
The Israeli term for New Year’s night celebrations, “Sylvester,” was the name of the “Saint” and Roman Pope who reigned during the Council of Nicaea (325 C.E.). The year before the Council of Nicaea convened, Sylvester convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living in Jerusalem. At the Council of Nicaea, Sylvester arranged for the passage of a host of viciously anti-Semitic legislation. All Catholic “Saints” are awarded a day on which pseudo Christians celebrate and pay tribute to that Saint’s memory. December 31 is Saint Sylvester Day - hence celebrations on the night of December 31 are dedicated to Sylvester’s memory.
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Made up New Years in Judaism – don’t follow them
Judaism
has four, five or six new years. Is this scriptural?
NO!
Let's examine all their made up stories:
First, I will explain their
made up stories, then I will show Scripture to prove they are wrong.
Judaism: no New Year here but this is what they say:
New Year for years?, that is, Rosh HaShana.
The 1st of Tishrei (in the 7th month) Tishrei? lol
(No word Tishrei in the Hebrew bible)
The New Year for tithing
vegetables?: Tishrei 1 marked
the beginning of the "fiscal year" for
figuring the tithe, a 10% tax payable in vegetables, on vegetables. Veggies
harvested in one "fiscal year" were not to be used as tithe for those
harvested in another. The owners didn't get to eat this tithe. It went to the
government on behalf of the Temple; every 3rd year it was to be given to the
poor.
New Year for Sabbatical years?: Every 7th
year, according to the Torah they say (Lev. 25),
that land in Israel is not to be cultivated. This was apparently observed, even
under great duress during the struggle of the Maccabees. (In the Catholic Apocrypha)
Tishrei 1 (Rosh Hashanah) is the New Year for years (when we increase the year number. Sabbatical and Jubilee
years begin at this time). Very wrong!
Rosh Hashanah means the “head
of the year” not the 7th month
Scripture
Lev. 25 [4] But in the seventh
year shall be a sabbath of rest
unto the land, a sabbath for Yehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Scripture
Where is the name Tishrei in the Hebrew Bible? No place!
1Kgs. 8:2 says the 7th month
is called ha Ethanim and it is not New Year it is the 7th
month.
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, זִכְרוֹן תְּרוּעָה an holy convocation.
1 Kgs. 8 [2] And all the men of
Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the
month ha Ethanim, which is the seventh month. (approx. Sept. - Oct.)
No mention of a New Year here
in scripture
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Judaism: no new year here but this
is what they say:
New Year for
Jubilee years?: occurs every 50th year. During a Jubilee year, land was
to be returned to its original owner, and all Jewish slaves were to be freed.
It was apparently never observed.
(There is a
tradition that states each year of the Babylonian exile was for an
unobserved Jubilee year.)
Scripture
Lev. 25 [9] Then shalt thou cause
the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the
day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.[10]
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
[13] In the year of this jubile ye shall return every
man unto his possession.
No mention of a New Year here
in scripture
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Judaism: no new year here but this
is what they say:
New Year for planting trees?: (Lev. 19:23), the fruit of a tree is not to be used
until four years pass after its planting. Tishrei 1 was used
in calculating the number of years passed since a tree's planting. This date is
not associated with planting trees today; that association is now with Tu Bishvat.
Tu BiShevat,
the 15th day of the month of Shevat, Feb., and is a holiday also known as
the New Year for Trees.
The word "Tu" is
not really a word; it is the number 15 in Hebrew
Scripture
Zech.1 [1] In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the
word of Yehovah unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, [7] Upon the four and twentieth day of
the eleventh month, which is the month Shevat
Lev. 19 [23] And when ye shall come into the land, and
shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit
thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it
shall not be eaten of.[24] But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof
shall be holy to praise Yehovah withal.[ 25]
And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may
yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Yehovah your
God.
No mention of a New Year here
in scripture
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Judaism: no New Year here but this
is what they say:
Elul 1 (in August) is the New
Year for the tithing of animals
Scripture
Lev.27 [32] And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock , even of
whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto Yehovah.
Deut.12 [17] Thou mayest not eat within thy
gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the
firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
Deut.14 [23] And thou shalt eat
before Yehovah thy God, in the place which he shall
choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and
of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and
of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear Yehovah thy God always.
No mention of a New Year here
in scripture
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Don’t follow or waste your
time reading the Talmud
There are over 300 disagreements in the
Talmud between the Schools of Hillel and Shammai.
Here is one silly argument: They say…
The 1st of Shevat is the New
Year for trees, that is the new year for calculating the tithe on fruit grown in Israel,
so says the School of Shammai
But
the School of Hillel disagrees
and says the
15th of Shevat.
The proper date of the new year of the trees is thus yet another of the famous
disputes between the Schools of Hillel and Shammai, and as usual the opinion of Hillel's
followers eventually prevailed.
Fruit that budded during one "fiscal year" was not to be used as tithe on that
which budded during another.''
This above is an example of a made up argument
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Back to “simplicity”
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You might ask, why I am making such a big deal
of this, well here is the answer: No lie is of the
truth!
Prov. 30 [6] Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and
thou be found a liar.
1 John 2 [21] I have not written unto you because ye
know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth
Rev.21 [8] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
There is only one calendar of the
God of Israel
Deut. 4 [2] Ye shall not
add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may
keep the commandments of Yehovah your God which I
command you.
Deut. 12 [32] What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou
shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
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Start a "new beginning" with the people of Yehovah today
Remember: 1Thes. 5 [21] Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Rom.12 [2] And be not conformed
to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God.
Gal.6 [4] But let every man prove his own work,
and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
2 Cor.13 [5] Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Yeshua the Messiah is in you, except ye be
reprobates?
2Tim. 4 [5] But watch thou in
all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
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Use the Scriptures, not other writings or commentaries
2 Tim. 3 [16] All scripture (TaNaKh) is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness: [17] That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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The Spring Feasts and Holy days of Yehovah we do in memorial
In God’s Spring Calendar:
The God’s New Year
Passover
Feast of Unleavened Bread
First Fruits (barley)
Feast of Weeks - Pentecost) First Fruits (wheat) Sunday
Remember we will be counting "weeks" not omers
An "omer" is a "sheaf" of barley
עמר omer
- A dry measure of 1/10 ephah (about 2 liters)
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**Remember God’s calendar is different than the
Gregorian and Judaism calendars.
**Remember, God starts His days in the evening
Lev. 23 [32] It shall be unto you a sabbath of
rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth
day of the month at even,
from even
unto even, shall ye
celebrate your sabbath.
Some words to know:
Lev. 23 [3] Six
days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of rest, an "holy
convocation";
ye shall do no work therein: it is the
Sabbath of Yehovah in all your dwellings
Dwellingמושׁב môshâv - seat, assembly,
dwelling-place, dwelling, your situation, location, (at) time of dwelling
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Servile work מְלֶאכֶת
עֲבֹדָה
עֲבֹדָה
avodah - work of any kind: act, labour, service, tillage, work
מְלֶאכֶת melakat -
occupation, work, business public business
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The Sabbath is a "holy
convocation"
Holy convocation מִקְרָא-קֹדֶשׁ
מקרא miqra: convocation, convoking, reading, a calling together, sacred
assembly, something called out,
that is, a public meeting (the
act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal
קדשׁ
kodesh: a sacred
place or thing; consecrated, dedicated, hallowed, holiness, saint, sanctuary,
apartness, sacredness, separateness, apartness, sacredness, holiness
Feast חַג chag - feast
chagag חגג
- properly to move in a circle, that is,
(specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; -
celebrate, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holy day)
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Learn the 7 extra Sabbath besides the weekly Sabbath in the
Feast and Holy Days in the 1st month, 3rd month, and 7th
month of God
3 harvests, feasts, not 7 feasts (He is, He was
and He is to come)
Preparation should be considered to observe these holydays
properly.
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In closing:
All that joined themselves
to the God of Israel prepare for the Spring Feasts and Holy days.
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Here are
the dates again and again
פֶּסַח - Ha Aviv / Nisan 14 - Passover is the 22nd of April in the
evening
חַג
הַמַּצּוֹת - Ha Aviv / Nisan 15 - Feast of Unleavened Bread, Saturday, the 23rd of
April, starts the evening before.
בִּכּוּרֵי First
fruits “Offering
time”
Ha Aviv / Nisan 21 – end of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, Friday, the 29th of April, starts the evening before.
Sivan (3rd month) Feast of Week -
June 12, 2016, Sunday or 1st day, a
Hag Sh'vu-ot - חַג
שָׁבֻעֹת “Offering time”
Feast of Harvest Hag ha katseer - חַג
הַקָּצִיר
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One last note of interest:
Look at your calendar (the Gregorian calendar we use
today) you have in your home.
They had March
27, 2016 as Easter, eggs, rabbits, chocolate
candy, etc.
**However it is the resurrection of Jesus / Yeshua from the dead
Then they will have April
22, 2016 is Passover when Jesus / Yeshua dies on the tree / cross
How could that be?
They have Jesus / Yeshua rising from the dead almost a month before He dies. (Wrong!) Oh well…
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Things not to do in false, pagan matters:
Don’t agree to disagree
Don’t condone
Don’t let things slide or wink with the eye
Don’t be guilty by association
Don’t make excuses or give an alibi for false
things
Simply, Don’t Lie
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Don’t participate in any lie! Be safe
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Start preparing!
Shabbat Shalom