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Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
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Let’s pray
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Today we use the
Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s,
December 27, 2014
December -- the tenth month (now the 12th
month)
Middle English decembre
Old French decembre
Latin december "tenth month"
Latin decem "ten" + -ber (adj. suffix)
December had 30 days, until
Numa when it had 29 days, until Julius when it became 31 days long.
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Yehovah has His own
calendar
We are now in 10th month of God called Tevet, 4th day
טֵבֵת
Esth.2 [16] So Esther was taken
unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal
in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year
of his reign.
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Just a reminder:
Beware of "false
images" of love
Beware
of "false feelings and emotions"
All pagan,
unscriptural feasts bring on loneliness, depression, suicide, violence and oh
yes, debt.
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Just for the record:
Started 2 days ago - Kwanzaa - Ron
Karenga (aka Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga) invented the
seven-day feast, Dec. 26-Jan. 1, in 1966, branding it a
black alternative to Christmas.
The idea was to
celebrate the end of what he considered the pseudo Christmas-season
exploitation of African Americans.
Just another made up
holiday to cause division
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Question: Why are we here today?
Answer: We were told to remember
the Sabbath Day to keep it holy
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The 4th Commandment is a part of the
covenant given to us at Mount Sinai in the 3rd month, Sivan
We
read from law and the prophets every Sabbath.
60
times in the Gospels and letters it uses the word Sabbath
Ex. 20 [8] Remember
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
זכר zâkar - zaw-kar' - A primitive
root; properly to mark (so as to be recognized), that is, to remember; by implication
to mention; make mention of, be mindful, recount, record (-er), remember, make
to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, still,
think on, well.
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back to Ex. 20
[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.
Rev.1 [10] I was in the Spirit on the Yehovah's Day - (The Sabbath)
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Lev. 23 [3] Six days
shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath
of rest, a "holy convocation";
ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of Yehovah in
all your dwellings.
The Sabbath is a "holy
convocation"
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
Paul tells us: in Colossians 2:16,
http://oneinmessiah.net/col216b.asf
Col. 2:16: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an
holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath
days:
17: Which are a shadow of
"things to come"; (future tense) but the body is of Messiah.
Judge - κρινω krino: to try to condemn, to
separate, put asunder, to pick out, to be of opinion, judge, to
pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong, to contend, to dispute
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Holy day - εορτη
heorte -heh-or-tay'
- a festival: - feast, holy day
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New moon -
νουμηνία
- noumēnia - noo-may-nee'-ah
- new moon
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Sabbath days - σάββατον - sabbaton
sab'-bat-on Of Hebrew origin - the Sabbath,
7th day of week, repose from secular avocations;
Also there are 7
Sabbaths in the feasts of Yehovah which are commands to keep from God.
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Shadow - σκια skia : shadow, an image cast by
an object and representing the form of that object, a sketch, outline
מושׁב moshav - seat, assembly, dwelling-place, dwelling,
your situation, location, (at) time of
dwelling
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Well, made up Christmas and Chanukah are over
again.
Soon
we will have made up New
Year, in winter
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What a made up life we have if we let it
Do your research, the truth is out there
Watch and be aware of the life you so-call live, always check for:
False
data, false people, false doctrine, false histories, false pagan holidays, false
drugs, prescriptions, remedies, false situations, propaganda, misinformation,
disinformation, forged documents,
fabrications, and misdirection, simply out, lies!
Don’t just follow the crowd
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Today’s topic:
Don’t Add and diminish from God’s word
People playing with our lives, feeding us false information
Middle English Januarie
Latin Januarius "of
Janus"
Latin Janu(s)
"Janus" + -arius
"ary (pertaining
to)"
Latin Januarius mensis
"month of Janus"
Janus is the Roman god of gates and doorways, depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. His festival month is January.
Januarius
had 29 days, until Julius when it became 31 days long.
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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 (NOT)
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.
Notice only 25 days per month at that time
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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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 Year 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 Year Day 1578 Gregory signed
into law a tax forcing Jews to pay for the support
of a “House of Conversion” to convert Jews to pseudo Christianity.
On New Year 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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What a mess
above
Why not just look in
scripture and see when God’s New Year started and then follow God?
Exod.12 Just before Passover, in spring
[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.
Exod.13 [4] This day came ye out in the month ha
aviv. (Abib)
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Adding and
diminishing from the Word of God causes all the problems
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.
Prov. 30 [6] Add thou not
unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
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In our lives, we don’t want this attitude - to be “Right in our own eyes"
Num. 15
[37] And Yehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
[38] Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they
make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their
generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
They were so evil; they needed something to “remember”
[39] And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may
look upon it, and “remember” all the commandments of Yehovah, and do them;
and that ye seek not
after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
***[40] That ye
may “remember”, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
[41] I am Yehovah your God,
which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yehovah your God.
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Tit.1[7] For a bishop must
be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not
given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
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2Pet.2 [10] But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid
to speak evil of dignities.
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Deut.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.
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Judg. 17 [6] In those days
there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own
eyes.
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Judg. 21 [25] In those days
there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own
eyes.
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Prov. 3 [7] Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear Yehovah, and depart
from evil.
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Prov. 12 [15] The way of a fool
is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
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Prov. 16 [2] All the ways of
a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yehovah weigheth the spirits.
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Prov. 12 [15] The way of a fool
is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
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Prov. 21 [2] Every way of a man is
right in his own eyes: but Yehovah pondereth the hearts.
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Prov. 30 [12] There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their
filthiness.
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Isa.
5 [20] Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and
sweet for bitter!
[21] Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent
in their own sight!
[22] Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink:
[23] Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!
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We are to be
judges, priests and Kings now
Exod.
19 [6]
And ye shall be unto me a
kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children
of Israel.
1
Pet. 2
[9] But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out
of darkness into his marvellous light: [10] Which in time past were not a people,
but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have
obtained mercy.
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Please always
prove all things
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew "thyself approved" unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always
with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye
ought to answer every man.
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1
Pet. 3 [15] But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an
answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in
you with meekness and fear:
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Colossians 3:16: Let the word of Messiah
dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and
admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with
grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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2 Peter 3:18 But grow
in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Yeshua the Messiah. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
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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.
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Prov.
14 [15] The simple believeth every
word: but the prudent man looketh well to his
going.
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Which counsel are you listening to,
Godly counsel or ungodly counsel?
Seek Godly counsel
Pss. 55 [14] We took sweet
counsel together,
and walked unto the house of God in company.
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Prov. 1 [5] A wise man will hear, and will increase
learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto
wise counsels:
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Prov. 11 [14] Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.
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Prov. 12 [15] The way
of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that
hearkeneth unto counsel
is wise.
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Prov. 15 [22] Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.
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Prov. 19 [20] Hear
counsel, and receive instruction,
that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
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Prov. 20 [18] Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good
advice make war.
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Prov. 24 [6] For by
wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.
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Prov. 27 [9] Ointment and perfume
rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
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Pss. 33 [11] The counsel of Yehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts
of his heart to all generations.
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The counsel of the ungodly
Pss. 1 [1] Blessed is the man (or woman) that: walketh
not in the counsel
of the ungodly
nor standeth in the way of sinners
nor sitteth in the seat of
the scornful.
[2] But his delight is in the law of Yehovah; and in his law doth he
meditate day and night.
[3] And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his
season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
[4]
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff
which the wind driveth away.[5]
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
[6]
For Yehovah knoweth the way of the righteous:
but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Pss.
33 [10] Yehovah bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people
of none effect.
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Don't separate yourself from the flock
where the wolf cometh
Heb. 10
[24]
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
[25]
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as
the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more,
as ye see the day approaching.
[26] For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
[27]
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which
shall devour the adversaries.
[28] He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three
witnesses:
[29] Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who
hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath
counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy
thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
[30] For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will
recompense, saith Yehovah. And again, The Lord (the Word) shall judge his people.
[31] It is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God.
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Seek Godly counsel in all things
2 Chr. 20 [20]... Believe in Yehovah your God, so shall ye be
established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
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In every generation, I
believe, there are always a few chosen people of God that try to restore God's
laws, commandments and feasts before He comes back.
All we need are the Scriptures for
truth, correction, righteous judgment, faith, encouragement and so on.
We do not need made-up religions,
gifts, philosophies, feasts or holidays to feel good.
We are told who to follow in
scripture, Yeshua, the apostles
and Paul which all observed the Sabbath and holy days of God in scripture.
After Yeshua and the
apostles die unto our time it has been approximately 1900 years again without the
God of Israel, God's Laws, Sabbaths, Calendar and feasts.
Again,
most of the world is blinded to all these things of God as of 2014 15
In 2014 -15, let us do our best to
restore God's forgotten Sabbath, laws, commandments, feasts, etc...
Ecc.12
[12]
And further, by these, my sons (and daughters), (in
2012 and the rest of your lives) be admonished: of making many books
there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
[13] Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments:
for this
is the whole duty of man.
[14] For God shall bring every work
into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it
be evil.
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In closing:
Keep far away from any false matter
Shabbat
Shalom