One in Messiah Congregation ÷ÌÈäÈì àÆçÈã áÌÀîÌÈùÑÄéçÇ
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Shabbat Shalom
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All Welcome
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Let’s pray
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Today we use the
Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory, from the 1500’s
It was said, the month May was named for the Greek
goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility.
Today is May 14th, 2011
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God has His own calendar
We are now in the 2nd month of God, Ziv / Zif – 10th day
1 Kgs. 6 [1] And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yehovah.
æÄå - ziv - brightness, (figuratively) the month of flowers
***Make sure you change your Judaism calendars – The 2nd month is not Iyyar as Judaism states, it is Ziv.
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My ministry is a teaching ministry to bring up topics in the Bible that have never been discussed or mentioned in your life.
They have been deleted from your knowledge. You haven’t a clue they are missing. I will undelete them.
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It seems I can never review these days early enough for you, this is the 12th time.
Here are the dates for 2011 again:
**Remember, all 2011 dates I give you start in the *evening before*
The Feast of Weeks (a Sabbath) will be Sunday June 12th
**Remember: There is one extra Sabbath left, besides the 7th day Sabbath each week
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**Remember: This is the “third Sabbath” of the seven Sabbaths we were told to count.
We are counting the "Sabbaths" not omers
An "omer" is a "sheaf" of barley - òîø
omer - A dry measure of 1/10 ephah (about 2 liters)
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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:
[16] Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto Yehovah.
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Paul observing Pentecost / Feast of Weeks after the resurrection of Messiah
Acts 2 [1] And when the day of Pentecost / Feast of Weeks was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 20 [16] For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost / Feast of Weeks.
1 Cor. 16 [8] But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost / Feast of Weeks.
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Why do I say this every week? Some people may think this redundant,
The answer is simple; JUST ABOUT NO ONE KEEPS IT!
Today is the 7th day Sabbath
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.
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Deut. 5
[12] Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as Yehovah thy God hath commanded thee.
[13] Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
[14] 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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates; that thy
manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
[15] And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of
Egypt, and that Yehovah thy God brought thee out
thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore Yehovah thy God commanded
thee to keep the sabbath day.
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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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60 times in the Gospels and letters it uses the word Sabbath!
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Let's see what Yeshua, Paul and the Apostles did:
Acts 13 [13] Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. [14] But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. [15] And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
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Acts 15 [21] For Moses of old time
hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day.
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Luke 4 [16] And he, Yeshua came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom (prescribed by God's law) was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. [17] And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias.
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Acts 13: [27] For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
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Acts 13 [42] And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
[44] And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
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First day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread
Luke. 23 [56] And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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"In the future"
Yeshua said in Matt. 24 [20] But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:
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Today's topic:
We need to be Restorers of God's Laws during our time on the earth
The 3rd week of the "7 week" journey to meet God
How are you behaving these 50 days? (Physically and Spiritually)
From slaves in Egypt to the people of God
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We restore the calendar of God
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Restorers - Yeshua, the apostles and Saul /Paul, all observed these holy days
Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, First fruits, Feast of Weeks - Pentecost in the gospels and letters
Go to: http://OneinMessiah.net/SpringFeastsInGospelsLetters.htm
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We restore the Sabbath
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The words below are from Lamentations chapters 1 to 5
They can be applied exactly to our day in 2011
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Consider... as they were, so are we today - 2011
We are in captivity
We dwell among the heathen (nations)
None come to the solemn feasts
The Sabbaths are mocked
The heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
All have transgressed and rebelled against His commandment
He hath violently taken away his tabernacle (His Presense is gone)
The law (Torah) is no more
Prophets find no vision from Yehovah
The prophets have seen vain and foolish things
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her
They (we) have polluted themselves with blood
Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities
Woe unto us that we have sinned!
Thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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Lam. 1
[3] ... captivity âÌÈìÀúÈä
and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest:
[4] The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: îåÉòÅã
[5] Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for Yehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions:
her children are gone into captivity
before the enemy.
[7] Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her
miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her
people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her:
the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
H4868 îùÑáÌú mishbâth - mish-bawth' - From H7673; cessation - Sabbath
[10] The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
[18] Yehovah is righteous;
for I have rebelled against his commandment:
hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins
and my young men are gone
into captivity.
Lam. 2
[6] And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle
[7] Yehovah hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of Yehovah, as in the day of a solemn feast. ëÌÀéåÉí îåÉòÅã
[9] Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and
her princes are among the Gentiles:
the law (torah) is no more; àÅéï úÌåÉøÈä
her prophets also find no vision from Yehovah.
[14] Thy prophets have
seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away
thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
Lam. 3
[22] It is of Yehovah's mercies that we are not
consumed, because his compassions fail not.
[23] They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
[24] Yehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
[25] Yehovah is good unto them that
wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
[26] It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the
salvation of Yehovah.
[27] It is good for
a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
[28] He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath
borne it upon him.
[29] He putteth his mouth in the dust; if
so be there may be hope.
[30] He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full
with reproach.
[31] For Yehovah will not cast off for
ever:
[32] But though he
cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his
mercies.
[33] For he doth not afflict
willingly nor grieve the children of men.
[34] To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
[35] To turn aside
the right of a man before the face of the most High,
[36] To subvert a man in his cause, Yehovah approveth not.
[37] Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass,
when Yehovah commandeth it not?
[38] Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
[39] Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of
his sins?
[40] Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yehovah.
[41] Let us lift up
our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
[42] We have
transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
[43] Thou hast
covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
[44] Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
[45] Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst
of the people.
[46] All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
[47] Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation
and destruction.
[48] Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
[49] Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any
intermission,
[50] Till Yehovah look down, and behold
from heaven.
[51] Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all
the daughters of my city.
[52] Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
[53] They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
[54] Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
[55] I called upon thy name, Yehovah,
out of the low dungeon.
[56] Thou hast
heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at
my cry.
[57] Thou drewest near in the day that I
called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
[58] O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed
my life.
[59] Yehovah,
thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
[60] Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations
against me.
[61] Thou hast heard their reproach, Yehovah, and all their imaginations against me;
[62] The lips of
those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
[63] Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
[64] Render unto
them a recompence, Yehovah, according to the work of their hands.
[65] Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
[66] Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of Yehovah.
Lam. 4
[12] The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
[13] For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
[14] They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
[15] They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean èÈîÅà; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and
wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
Lam. 5
[7] Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
[16] ... woe unto us, that we have sinned!
[19] Thou, Yehovah, remainest for ever; thy
throne from generation to generation.
[20] Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake
us so long time?
[21] Turn thou us unto thee, Yehovah,
and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
[22] But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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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.
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Restore
Isa. 58
[1] Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy
voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their
transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
[2] Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation
that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of
me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
[3] Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our
soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in
the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
[4] Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of
wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard
on high.
[5] Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yehovah?
[6] Is not
this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy
burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
[7] Is it not to
deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy
house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou
hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
[8] Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy
righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of Yehovah shall be thy rereward.
[9] Then shalt thou call, and
Yehovah shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting
forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
[10] And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as
the noonday:
[11] And Yehovah shall guide thee
continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of
water, whose waters fail not.
[12] And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
[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, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, 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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A Restorer
Jeremiah
I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations - Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah
"In the days of Josiah"
Jer.1 [1] The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
[2] To whom the word of Yehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year
of his reign.
[3] It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of
Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
[4] Then the word of Yehovah came unto me, saying,
[5] Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
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No written law for a long time
(There is approximately 338 years from
King Asa to King Josiah)
2 Chr.12 [1] And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the
kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of Yehovah, and all Israel with him.
2 Chr.15
[1] And the Spirit of God
came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
[2] And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and
Benjamin;
Yehovah is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
[3] Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
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A Restorer
Josiah
2 Kgs. 22
[1] Josiah was eight years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
[2] And he did that which was right in the sight of Yehovah, and walked in all the
way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
[3] And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the
king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house
of Yehovah, saying,
[4] Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he
may sum the silver which is brought into the house of Yehovah, which the keepers of the
door have gathered of the people:
[5] And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that
have the oversight of the house of Yehovah: and let them give it to
the doers of the work which is in the house of Yehovah, to repair the breaches
of the house,
[6] Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and
hewn stone to repair the house.
[7] Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was
delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
[8] And Hilkiah the high priest said unto
Shaphan the scribe, I have found
the book of the law in the house of Yehovah. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
[9] And Shaphan the scribe came to the
king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the
money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them
that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of Yehovah.
[10] And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered
me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
Josiah (In the 18th year of king Josiah)
[11] And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
(There is appox. 338 years from
Asa to Josiah)
[12] And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's,
saying,
[13] Go ye, inquire of Yehovah for me, and for the
people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for
great is the wrath of Yehovah that is kindled against
us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do
according unto all that which is written concerning us.
[14] So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife
of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe;
(now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with
her.
[15] And she said unto them, Thus saith Yehovah God of Israel, Tell the
man that sent you to me,
[16] Thus saith Yehovah, Behold, I will bring
evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of
the book which the king of Judah hath read:
[17] Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other
gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands;
therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be
quenched.
[18] But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of Yehovah, thus shall ye say to
him, Thus saith Yehovah God of Israel, As
touching the words which thou hast heard;
[19] Because thine heart was tender, and
thou hast humbled thyself before Yehovah, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants
thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy
clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Yehovah.
[20] Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will
bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
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2 Kgs. 23
[1] And the king sent, and they gathered
unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
[2] And the king went up into the house of Yehovah, and all the men of Judah
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the
prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears
all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Yehovah.
[3] And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before Yehovah, to walk after Yehovah, and to keep his
commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all
their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this
book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
[4] And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of
the temple of Yehovah all the vessels that were
made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned
them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of
them unto Bethel.
[5] And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had
ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the
places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the
sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
[6] And he brought out the grove from the house of Yehovah, without Jerusalem, unto
the brook Kidron, and burned it at the
brook Kidron, and stamped it small to
powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the
people.
[7] And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by
the house of Yehovah, where the women wove
hangings for the grove.
[8] And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and
defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates
that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city,
which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
[9] Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar
of Yehovah in Jerusalem, but they
did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
[10] And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley
of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make
his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
[11] And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to
the sun, at the entering in of the house of Yehovah, by the chamber of
Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which
was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
[12] And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the
altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yehovah, did the king beat down,
and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
[13] And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the
right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the
abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the
Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the
children of Ammon, did the king defile.
[14] And he brake in pieces the images, and
cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
[15] Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,
had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it
small to powder, and burned the grove.
[16] And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the
mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the
altar, and polluted it, according to the word of Yehovah which the man of God
proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
[17] Then he said, What title is that that I see?
And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which
came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the
altar of Bethel.
[18] And he said, Let him alone; let no man
move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that
came out of Samaria.
[19] And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities
of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yehovah to anger, Josiah took
away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
[20] And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon
the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
[21] And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto Yehovah your God, as it is
written in the book of this covenant.
[22] Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the
judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of
the kings of Judah;
[23] But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to Yehovah in Jerusalem.
[24] Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and
the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land
of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words
of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the
house of Yehovah.
[25] And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to Yehovah with all his heart, and
with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses;
neither after him arose there any like him.
[26] Notwithstanding Yehovah turned not from the
fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,
because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
[27] And Yehovah said, I will remove Judah
also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city
Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
[28] Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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Israel was taken captive approx. 140 years by Assyria before Judah was taken by Nebuchadnezzar
The next 70 years
2 Kgs. 24 [1] In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up...against Jerusalem
Jer.25 [11] And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations hall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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Restorers
Nehemiah and Ezra the priest
Law found again and followed - Temple rebuilt
Neh. 1
[1] The words of
Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in
the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year,
as I was in Shushan the palace,
[2] That Hanani, one of my brethren,
came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that
had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
Neh. 7
[1] Now it came to
pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and
the singers and the Levites were appointed,
[2] That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace,
charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
[3] And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until
the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them:
and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every
one to be over against his house.
[4] Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and
the houses were not builded.
[5] And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the
rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I
found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found
written therein,
[6] These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity,
of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his
city;
Neh. 8
[1] And all the
people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before
the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to
bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yehovah had commanded to Israel.
[2] And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of
men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day
of the seventh month.
[3] And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate
from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that
could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book
of the law.
[4] And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made
for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and
on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
[5] And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was
above all the people;) and when he opened it, all
the people stood up:
[6] And Ezra blessed Yehovah, the great God. And all
the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed
their heads, and worshipped Yehovah with their faces to the
ground.
[7] Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused
the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
[8] So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the
sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
[9] And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the
scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto Yehovah your God; mourn not, nor
weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
[10] Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the
sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day
is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of Yehovah is your strength.
[11] So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye
grieved.
[12] And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send
portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that
were declared unto them.
[13] And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers
of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to
understand the words of the law.
[14] And they found written in the law which Yehovah had commanded by Moses,
that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh
month:
[15]
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in
Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine
branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees,
to make booths, as it is written.
[16] So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves
booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in
the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the
water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
[17] And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the
captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that
day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
[18] Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the
book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth
day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
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After Yeshua and the
apostles die unto our time it has been approximately 1900 years again without God's
Laws, Sabbaths, Calendar and feasts, etc…
Most of the world is lost again as of 2011
Let us restore God's forgotten laws, commandments, feasts, etc....
in our generation
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In closing:
We restore - Feast of Weeks / Pentecost is coming
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Shabbat Shalom