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The Prophet Greater Than MOSES

January 20, 2018 No Comments

YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. YOU MUST * LISTEN TO HIM * (we are told not to listen to Moses by Moses himself. Moses pointed to the Son. The Son did not point to Moses). DEUTERONOMY 18:15

THE “BIG PICTURE” ———————ADAM TO MT SINAI

The timing of when Moses was told: “YHWH will raise up a Prophet to come after Moses”

6000 years ago:

Adam breaks his covenant and is removed out of the garden (the presence of YHWH). Curses are given as result. The SEED of the Woman is promised would come (who would also be this Prophet to come after Moses). THERE IS NO COVENANT WITH MAN FOR 1692 YEARS, RESULTING IN THE FLOOD

1692 years later:

Yah enters COVENANT with Noah (The SEED of the woman and ancestor of the Prophet to come after Moses) to purge the world from wickedness and BEGIN A BRAND NEW PLAN ushering in new changes. Noah obeys his covenant by building an ark and saving his family.

367 years later:

YHWH enters COVENANT with Abram (the SEED of the woman and ancestor of the Prophet to come after Moses) to give LAND to his descendants immediately after Abram first believed in the promise that YHWH would give him descendants.’

THE TERMS OF THIS COVENANT (this becomes HUGE knowing these TERMS for this post as THE TIMING IS 400 YEARS FROM WHEN ABRAHAM HAS A SON)
1) His descendants (which he doesn’t have even a son yet) would become enslaved in a country not their own for 400 years

2) YHWH would deliver them and punish that nation (this nation would become Egypt)

3) They would come out with great possessions

4) At the time of the sin of the Amorites reaches its full measure

430 years later…

THE TERMS ABOVE ARE FULFILLED TO THE DAY AT MT SINAI AS PLANNED ~ until… something happened

24 years later:

Abraham (still with no son) is guaranteed that he would now have a son within one year and names him Isaac. YHWH promises to enter covenant with Abraham’s descendants. (THIS COVENANT IS WHY THEY GO TO MT SINAI TO GET MARRIED TO YHWH, TO ENTER COVENANT WITH HIM)

430 YEARS LATER TO THE DAY OF THE COVENANT WITH ABRAM HIS DESCENDANTS LEAVE EGYPT AND ON THEIR WAY TO ENTER COVENANT WITH YHWH.

MOSES END UP MAKING SEVEN TRIPS UP MT SINAI

(IMPORTANT NOTE: Moses was only supposed to have made THREE TRIPS to complete the COVENANT but ends up making SEVEN as they leave Mt Sinai with a drastically different covenantal arrangement as they forfeited by their actions the first “OFFER” to become a Kingdom of Priests and Kodesh Nation)

SUMMARY OF “WHY” MOSES WENT UP SEVEN TIMES

TRIP 1 ~

Moses receives the COVENANT OFFER to go back down the mountain and ask the people if they would like to say “yes”:

“I will make you:

a Kingdom of Priests, a Kodesh Nation, and My special treasured possession

“IF” The condition of them receiving the covenantal benefits of the “OFFER”

“IF” you obey My VOICE and Keep My COVENANT

TRIP 2 ~

The people said “we will do all YHWH will say”. Moses goes up trip 2 to bring the ACCEPTANCE from the people back to YHWH and told to prepare the people on the 3rd day and when they hear the trumpet blast come up the mountain:

ENTER THE STORY ~ ———————–THIS IS NOT A THEOLOGY BOOK!

THE THIRD DAY ARRIVES:

On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with Elohim, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because YHWH descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of Elohim answered him. YHWH descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. SO MOSES WENT UP (THIS IS TRIP 3) EXODUS 19:16-20

TRIP 3 ~

Moses went up after YHWH called Moses up. The people were supposed to go up with Moses but were afraid (understandably right?):

(Moses recanting the event 40 years later) YHWH spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain. At that time I stood between YHWH and you to declare to you the word of YHWH, because YOU WERE AFRAID OF THE FIRE and DID NOT GO UP THE MOUNTAIN. DEUTERONOMY 5:4-5

So, the people do a “no show” on trip 3 because they were afraid and did not go up with Moses to receive THE TERMS OF THE COVENANT as first schedule. This moment right here is the moment in time when they will be given a ‘spokesperson’ to approach YHWH’s presence on their behalf. You may know this position of ‘spokesperson’ as the ‘religious’ term of HIGH PRIEST! That’s all the High Priest was ~ the people’s representative.

Aaron is nominated by YHWH as their ‘spokesperson’, and will become their HIGH PRIEST, because the people were too afraid to go up the mountain and approach closer.

YHWH replied, “Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to YHWH, or he will break out against them.” So Moses went down to the people and told them. EXODUS 19:25

AT BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAIN

Remember the ‘OFFER’ of the COVENANT:

“IF” you OBEY My VOICE and Keep My COVENANT

YHWH SPOKE (with His VOICE) ————————– HIS TEN WORDS (improperly translated as ‘COMMANDMENTS’)

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE PEOPLE’S RESPONSE:

When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and SAID TO MOSES, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But DO NOT HAVE ELOHIM SPEAK TO US or we will die.” Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. YHWH has come to test you, so that the fear of YHWH will be with you to keep you from sinning.” The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where YHWH was. EXODUS 20:18-21

Do you see this was NOT part of the original plan? THE PEOPLE REJECTED HIS VOICE COMPLETELY AND TOLD MOSES THEY WILL LISTEN TO HIM INSTED! So, the offer was to OBEY His voice and they rejected hearing His voice completely. (upon Moses’ 5th trip they would eventually also break His covenant and grossly disobey His instruction with the sin of the golden calf)

It is essential you see this moment in history was an insurmountable problem that the people needed to be changed by being ‘born again’ and the writing of the Ten Words (the Covenant) on their hearts and minds. When Hebrews 8:8-10 is quoting the New Covenant, verse 9 restates where this problem first occurred with a continuous disobedient people:

It will NOT BE LIKE the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares YHWH. HEBREW 8:9

Notice the verse right before very closely:

For if there had been nothing wrong (WHAT WAS WRONG??) with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But Elohim FOUND FAULT WITH THE PEOPLE (WHAT WAS WRONG WAS THE PEOPLE NEEDED TO BE CHANGED!!) and said… HEBREWS 8:7-8

THE PEOPLE NEEDED TO BE CHANGED. This right here in our storyline @ Mt Sinai is where YHWH knew that the people needed to be changed as they were too afraid to stand before Him. This is when there ABSOLUTELY needed to be a “NEW COVENANT” to arrive in the future… writing the covenant laws, the Ten Words on hearts and minds, and giving the Spirit of His Son inside their very bodies… to DWELL WITH THEM.

This… is…. THE PROPHET LIKE MOSES THAT WAS TOLD WOULD COME…

When was Deuteronomy 18:15 given Moses? Remember I shared with you in the beginning the LIGHTBULB moment that occurred to me as we were pegging all scripture to a TIMELINE and assembling the puzzle. I COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT I FOUND!!! This verse jumped off the page and into my heart a few years ago by placing it in the right moment in time. Let’s look at Trip 4 now which Moses took…

BACK TO TRIP 4

(remember, the people had been too afraid to go with Moses up the mountain on Trip 3 so Moses goes alone and YHWH then tells Moses to bring Aaron up on his next trip, which is trip 4 we are going to look at now. Instead of the covenant terms, the Ten Words, being spoken while they were in His presence YHWH waits until Moses goes back down the mountain after trip 3 when he with the people to speak His covenant. THE ENTIRE CONGREGATION REJECTS HIS VOICE COMPLETELY. We know Aaron did become High Priest, the spokesperson for the community, upon trip 5 instructions and instituted after the building of the Tabernacle to keep the presence of YHWH away from the fearful people. I am not going to go past trip 4 here in detail. Please see full article for all 7 trips here: https://perfectgiftorg.com/?p=3638

Moses goes back up on his 4th trip up Mount Sinai as the people rejected YHWH’s voice, His Ten Words. They wanted to hear Moses’ voice instead so Moses becomes mediator and then eventually “LAWGIVER” (i.e. The Law of –>> Moses) on trip 7 after they worshipped the golden calf. For the singlemost important scriptural phrase: THE LAW OF MOSES to understand please read this article which zooms in at the granular detail surround trip 7: https://perfectgiftorg.com/?p=3638

Right here, on Trip 4, is what was told Moses upon coming up after the people rejected His Voice… the turning point in the entire story of scripture as the timetable began counting a 1500 year period where the Prophet to come after Moses must come:

(Moses recanting what was told him forty years earlier) YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. (PAY ATTENTION CLOSELY: THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE SAID TO MOSES AFTER HEARING THE TEN WORDS) For this is what you asked of YHWH your Elohim at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of YHWH your Elohim nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.” DEUTERONOMY 18:15-16

NOW LOOK AT THE RESPONSE YHWH GAVE TO MOSES OF HEARING THE PEOPLE’S REQUEST:

(next verses) YHWH SAID TO ME: “What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. DEUTERONOMY 18:17-18

My brothers and sisters, do you realise “WHY” the word became flesh (in man’s likeness) and DWELT amongst us? Because in the flesh there is nobody who can stand in His presence so the Son stepped down from His heavenly position to be born of a baby, show us how to walk out the covenant the Ten Words, and then died for us sending His Spirit to dwell inside of us… as our helper!

Those at Mt Sinai did NOT have a ‘Helper’, the Spirit of Truth. It breaks my heart that Torah people, all because they have been misled by defining the phrase “Law of Moses” as “first five books of Moses”, do not make the connection that ALL OF SCRIPTURE, the Law and the Prophets as He said in Matthew 5:17 was written as He truly fulfilled them! Isn’t that what Moses was told by YHWH on trip 4 here?

YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. YOU MUST LISTEN TO HIM. DEUTERONOMY 18:15

THE PEOPLE IN THE FLESH ASKED TO LISTEN TO MOSES’ INSTEAD OF YHWH’S VOICE.

Do you see the problem clearly now in not defining “THE LAW OF –>> MOSES” correctly? Satan has propagated this grievous error of definition of this most important phrase in all of scripture to have these Torah people not LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE ONE TO COME AFTER MOSES. We aren’t supposed to listen to Moses voice. This is exactly what the Son said, yet Torah people read this verse right here thinking the Son was supporting Moses. No! It’s the other way around, just like Moses was told.

If you believed Moses, you would believe me, FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?” JOHN 5:46-47

Look very closely here: even many non-religious people understood how to interpret “the Law” (the Law of Moses, first covenant). They just did not know the Prophet to come after Moses was going to die! Nobody knew that part.

The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law (Law of Moses, first covenant) that THE MESSIAH WILL REMAIN FOREVER, so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?” JOHN 12:34

It’s all about our ‘spokesperson’, High Priest, who goes before us in the heavenly realm… the volume of the Book is written of Him.

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book IT IS WRITTEN OF ME— To do Your will, O Yah.’” HEBREWS 8:7

He is the ONLY one who could stand for us in the heavenly tabernacle because He is THE ONLY one who kept His Father’s covenant, without sin! To then… empower us to keep His covenant. When you study this covenant foundation we are trying to help teach you, you will see that the entire New Testament writings and its interpretation sits upon knowing what occurred here at Mt Sinai.

Look at this comparison between Mt Sinai and the One who came from above as the Prophet to come after Moses to mediate a New Covenant in His blood: (with the background I have just described in this article I hope this explodes with new meaning to you!)

For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, (THE FIRST COVENANT) so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. (For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.” And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.” But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living Elohim, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and body of MessiYah of the firstborn who are registered in Shamayim, to Elohim the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Yahushua/Messiah the MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT (THE PROPHET TO COME AFTER MOSES WE MUST LISTEN TO), and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. (HERE IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE NEW COVENANT. WE MUST OBEY AND LEARN FROM THEIR DISOBEDIENCE OR WE FIERCELY GET JUST WORSE THAN EVEN THEY DID) For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have Favor/grace, by which we may serve Elohim acceptably with reverence and fear. For our Elohim is a consuming fire.

HEBREWS 12:18-29

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Moses makes SEVEN TRIPS up and down Mt Sinai

January 19, 2018 No Comments

Moses makes SEVEN TRIPS up and down Mt Sinai –> THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT piece of scriptural interpretation.

by KIRK CARMICHAEL

These chronological facts of the SEVEN TRIPS Moses made up and down Mt Sinai spanning approximately 80 to 100 days is what establishes the structure to and sets the theme for ALL SCRIPTURE, especially the New Testament. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE pass this post to everybody you know… only after you have meditated on this and the Father Himself reveals this to you. It is critical to get this all down in writing with the scripture reference so the Ruach haKodesh/Set Apart Spirit can lead you to this special end of the age revelation. All believers who put their belief in Messiah Yahushua ARE ABRAHAM’S DESCENDANTS (Matthew 3:9, Matthew 8:11, Luke 3:8, Galatians 3:29, Romans 4:12, Romans 9:7-8, James 2:23-24) and what happened at Mt Sinai is HOW this is so!!! We are an extension of the plan that originated here. These SEVEN TRIPS Moses made in attempting to receive THE COVENANT fulfilment of the promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s/Israel’s descendants in the receiving their heritage/inheritance (The LAND promised them), by marrying (entering into covenant with) their Creator, describe in detail the marriage between Yahuah and His people, why the Messiah had to come, and the scriptural definition of “the Law of Moses”. We have seen nobody on either the “Torah” side or “Christian” side understand or notice what occurred in these seven sequential trips because they have not laid down a COVENANT FOUNDATION due to incorrect inherited doctrines and missing the overarching theme between Adam to Messiah, the Garden to New Jerusalem, which is COVENANT. I say this not out of exalting us, but rather to emphasize the extreme significance of this revelation.

We have discovered that scripture is knitted together by EIGHT COVENANTS Yahuah made through 5 men (Noah, Abraham x2, Moses x3, David, Yahusha/’Jesus’) in an unfolding fashion, of which each of the first seven (covenants) were all parts of one covenant and each played a specific function in this first marriage (a COVENANT is a MARRIAGE UNION) between Yahuah and Abraham’s descendants that failed time and time again due to man’s unregenerate nature always disobedient to their covenant. A covenant has a contractual structure to it. In fact, a modern day contract originates from ancient blood covenant, which is what we see take place both at Mt Sinai and 1500 years later with the death of the Savior. The New Covenant (of which also has a contractual structure) and blood shed of the Savior is directly connected to these seven trips Moses made. A CONTRACT has 4 elements:

An OFFER
An ACCEPTANCE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS, including a ceremony with blood ratification
SIGNATURE (a COVENANT is signed in BLOOD)

A modern day Wedding in our culture is followed by a ceremonial reception where the Bride and Bridegroom share their first COVENANT MEAL as Husband and Wife. This also is modelled after ancient blood covenant. We will see this occur at Mt Sinai as well. The speaking of THE TEN WORDS (often translated as Ten “COMMANDMENTS”) was, and still is, the eternal marriage conditions between Yahuah and Abraham’s descendants, which includes those of us in Yahushua/Messiah — the WORD/TEN WORDS made flesh. This wedding day 3500 years ago is also known as THE DAY OF THE ASSEMBLY (also translated incorrectly as the word “church”). Now, since you and I in Yahushua/Messiah are Abraham’s descendants as were they of this first covenant arrangement, every topic and theme of scripture and the entire New Testament must be interpreted through what happened here at the Day of the Assembly and subsequent 100 days following. You gotta know that we are the direct result of the events which occurred on this Day and not the other way around. How important you think you are (and I know you are important in the family of Yahusha/Jesus, our soon coming Messiah) the scriptures and New Testament were NOT written to you in the 20th century, but rather as a direct result of what occurred at Mt Sinai. Every writer of scripture understood the covenant plan, but ONLY Yahushua/Messiah (obviously), Paul, and the writer of Hebrews understood these events at a higher level ~ especially the SEVENTH TRIP Moses made, which is scripturally defined as “The Law of Moses”. This may take some time for this last statement to really sink in so please don’t dismiss this article because of this statement. I say this because NOT UNDERSTANDING THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THESE SEVEN TRIPS IS WHY the Hebrew Roots movement (only approx. 50 years old) and modern day Christian teaching don’t comprehend these events and that is why each of their widely held interpretations of New Testament verses regarding “Law” completely contradict one another ~ in general, the “Torah” person reads “Law” and tries to make it a GOOD THING by believing “Oral Talmud” is the way to interpret Paul and the writer of Hebrews, and the “Christian” reads “Law” in the New Testament and makes it a BAD THING as it appears to be obvious in Paul’s writings. In reality, they BOTH see the other sides problem… I propose to you, THERE IS A SOLUTION ~ and understanding these SEVEN TRIPS is the solution. These sequential events are deeply buried in the accounts of both Exodus chapters 19 through 34 and Deuteronomy chapters 4, 5, 9, 10, & 18 in assembling these SEVEN TRIPS Moses made. It is important to know that the Deuteronomy chapters include Moses recanting what took place 40 years earlier. So many people don’t enter the story of scripture they read as they just do “Torah readings” or teach “old testament allegories”. Most teachers have no concept of a timeline and because the dividing points are either “Old” and “New” Testament (common Christian perspective) or that scripture is all one jumbled story with no dividing points (a common Torah or Hebrew Roots perspective) neither group can paint the significance of the events at Mt Sinai due to doctrinal perspectives. They do not see that there are EIGHT COVENANTAL AGREEMENTS which are the hinges of scripture, and two of these eight covenantal agreements we are going to display for you was the ORIGINAL ORAL PLAN (the speaking of His Covenant) and the ALTERNATIVE WRITTEN PLAN (scripturally defined as THE LAW OF –> MOSES). URGENT NOTICE AS WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS We in the New Covenant have been given THE ORIGINAL PLAN given at THE DAY OF THE ASSEMBLY (“CHURCH”) in a much more powerful way (as the Ruach/Spirit is inside of us with the marriage conditions written on the tablets of our heart). Keeping this agreement of the TEN WORDS written on our hearts is what determines whether you will be found as the wise virgin or foolish virgin (Matthew 25 parable of wise and foolish virgins). HEBREWS 3:19-4:3 So we see that they (those WHO REFUSED the ORIGINAL PLANNED MARRIAGE and ACCEPTED THE ALTERNATIVE PLAN at Mt Sinai) could not enter in because of unbelief (unfaithfulness). Therefore, since a promise (the promise to be made a king and a priest) remains of entering His rest (His rest is given the 1000 year Sabbath rest on Earth coming, INHERITING the Kingdom of Elohim (The Almighty) by TrustworthyNESS to this covenant) let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the good news was preached to us as well as to them (comparing the blood covenant, the good news/gospel, offer at Mt Sinai to us in Yahushua/Messiah); but the word (The Ten Words, COVENANT) which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith (faithfulness of this covenant is the key) in those who heard it. For we who have believed (keep his covenant, his commandments) do enter that rest, as He has said: So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest, Let’s identify these 8 covenantal agreements, who they are with, and the function in the what is called “The First Covenant”: COVENANTAL AGREEMENTS NUMBERED 1 THROUGH 8 (1 THROUGH 7 BEING ALL PART OF THE “FIRST COVENANT”) PARTY TO THE COVENANT = FUNCTION OF THE “FIRST COVENANT” 1 – Noah = the beginning of a new plan for mankind 2 – Abram = LAND given to him and future descendants 3 – Abraham = SEED (Isaac) guaranteed and that he will become a father of many nations. 4 – Abraham’s descendants = ORIGINAL PLAN @ MT SINAI ~ BROKEN (This is Our Covenant Offer) 5 – (temp) Abraham’s descendants = ALTERNATIVE PLAN @ MT SINAI (called The Law of Moses) 6 – (temp) Abraham’s descendants = Made with the second generation out of Egypt 40 years after Mt Sinai (called the Book of the Law/The Book of Deuteronomy) to go into play when Joshua leads Abraham’s descendants into the LAND 7 – David = David’s future son (singular), who became Yahusha/Jesus, ruling over Abraham’s descendants (all twelve tribes) in the LAND 8 – The New Covenant – reinstated the ORIGINAL ORAL PLAN and ENDED temporary covenants #5 (called the “Law of Moses”, received on Moses’ 7th trip) & covenant #6 (called “the Book of the Law”) as David’s Son in fulfilment of covenant #7 as He reigns over Abraham’s descendants (you and I) to take those faithful to THE ORIGINAL ORAL PLAN to the LAND promised our father Abraham. Remember again, the FOUR ELEMENTS of a COVENANT/CONTRACT which I listed above. As you read the document you will see them as ASTERISKS.

An OFFER
An ACCEPTANCE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS including a ceremony with blood ratification
SIGNATURE (a COVENANT is signed in BLOOD)

immediately following this Wedding at Mt Sinai is the “Reception” meal between the parties of the MARRIAGE COVENANT UNION –> this SUPPER occurs on Trip 5, of which soon after committed adultery (The below SEVEN TRIPS MOSES MADE UP AND DOWN MT SINAI is recounting the story of what happened 3500 years ago in this short window of time, that altered the entire course of the story of scripture and of which sits the entire New Testament interpretation)

~ THE SEVEN TRIPS ~

TRIP 1 ~ EXODUS 19:3-6 Moses receives the OFFER: EXODUS 19:5-6 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ NOTICE: 1 SPECIAL TREASURED POSSESSION 2 A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS 3 A QODESH/SET APART NATION COMPARE TO: 1 PETER 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light Where did Peter get this idea? ANSWER: He knew the covenant plan! This OFFER to potentially become “His special treasured possession and a royal priesthood and a qodesh (holy) nation” was RENEWED as this was the ORIGINAL PLAN. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAIN ~ EXODUS 19:7-8 –> Moses went down and brought the OFFER to the elders and the people replied saying “Everything Yahauh says we will obey” which is their ACCEPTANCE.

TRIP 2 ~ EXODUS 19:8-13 Moses brings the people’s ACCEPTANCE back to YAHUAH. Moses brought their answer back (ACCEPTANCE) to YAHUAH. Moses is told that YAHUAH will come in a dense cloud and speak to Moses so they will always put their trust in him (this will occur on the next trip). Moses instructed to bring the people back on the third day for THE WEDDING by instructing them to consecrate themselves and wash their clothes, to put limits for the people around the mountain, and to warn the people to not touch the foot of the mountain or they will die. They can only approach the mountain and draw close when they hear the ram’s horn blown. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAIN ~ PREPARATION FOR THE WEDDING ~ EXODUS 19:14-20 –> Moses went down and as instructed consecrated the people and by having them wash their clothes and prepare themselves for the third day and abstain from sexual relations. —> On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning and a trumpet blast signaling the people to the mountain for THE WEDDING to YAHUAH as Bridegroom who took them out of Egypt to be His people. They trembled in the camp as YAHUAH had descended on Mt Sinai and it, smoke billowed up it, and it shook violently. Moses led the people out of the camp to the foot of Mt Sinai. The trumpet sound grew louder and louder and Moses spoke and YAHUAH answered him. YAHUAH then descended on Mt Sinai and called Moses up.

TRIP 3 ~ EXODUS 19:20-24 Moses is called up for final Wedding preparations ~ THE PEOPLE SHRINK BACK IN FEAR. Moses went up by Moses speaking (“we are all here” – basically) and YAHUAH replying to Moses, as He said He would show the people, and this is where the people become exceedingly afraid. We read more of even how afraid Moses was in Hebrew 12:21 ‘so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling”‘. Moses was told by YAHUAH “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way up the mountain to see YAHUAH or they will die.” Moses was told to go down and bring Aaron back up with him. (YAHUAH had spoken to Aaron earlier before Moses came back to Egypt and met with Moses here at Mt Sinai ~ EXODUS 4:27. Aaron was told earlier he would be the spokesperson of the people because Moses said he was slow in speech ~ EXODUS 4:10/16) AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAIN ~ THE WEDDING TIME IS HERE AND THE BRIDE SENDS MOSES IN PLACE OF THEMSELVES ~ EXODUS 20:18-19, DEUTERONOMY 5:23-31 –> Moses went down to the people and after they had seen the thunder and lightning and smoke and heard the trumpet the people shrank back in fear and stayed at a distance. The people said to Moses when he came back down that they wanted Moses to speak to them instead of YAHUAH as they had heard YAHUAH speak to Moses and believed they would die if He spoke to them. –> The Bride did a “no show” on their wedding day as they shrank back and remained at a distance. Can you imagine if you were the Bridegroom at your wedding and then the “Maid of Honor” comes to tell you that the Bride became afraid of getting married and was sent instead. That’s exactly what occurred JUST PRIOR to receiving the WEDDING VOWS. –> YAHUAH said it was a good thing they were afraid and how if only their hearts would be inclined to fear Him and keep all His commandments. Moses told the people to return to their tents.

TRIP 4 ~ EXODUS 20:21, EXODUS 20:1-17 & DEUTERONOMY 5:2-22 The Ten Commandments, EXODUS chapters 21 to 23 The Book of the Covenant (Statutes and Decrees), DEUTERONOMY 4:12-14, DEUTERONOMY 18:16-18 The announcement of “The Prophet to Come After Moses” who is Yahushua/MesiahThe Wedding continues without the Bride standing anywhere close to the Bridegroom ~ Moses mediates the THE WEDDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS The people had already left the WEDDING LOCATION at the base of Mt Sinai in fear, and was told to return to their tents. Moses goes now back up on Trip 4 and Aaron is not with him as instructed on Trip 3. It can be assumed that Aaron shrank back in fear with the rest of the people as we will see he is highly influential. THE WEDDING IS ALL READY TO TAKE PLACE AND WE HAVE NO BRIDE AND NO SPOKESPERSON FOR THE PEOPLE. THE ORIGINAL PLAN TAKES ITS FIRST CHANGE IN COURSE OF DIRECTION. YAHUAH comes up with an alternative plan to still marry and dwell with the people who are deafly afraid in their flesh. THE WEDDING does take place with the Bride at a far distance back at their tents as Moses stands on the mountain between Yahuah and the people. Yahuah speaks the WEDDING VOWS by speaking His TEN WORDS (mistranslated as The Ten Commandments). There is a clear separation between the presence of YAHUAH and the people as they rejected Him out of fear. As such, YAHUAH’s alternative plan is now to divide Himself from the people to allow being with them in their proximity, but barricaded off.

During the next trip of forty days (Trip 5) Moses is shown “the Heavenly Pattern” of the tabernacle structure to build according to the pattern shown on the mountain. This was a copy and shadow of what is in heaven (Hebrews 8:5) and the one to come from heaven was Yahusha/Jesus to change the people. Here is how we know for certain this next trip (Trip 5) is about Yahusha/ as we connect the dots to exactly what “law and commandments” of this “Heavenly Pattern” Moses is told in Exodus 24:12 he is coming to receive: Moses shares in Deuteronomy what occurred 40 years earlier at this junction of scripture. Pay close attention: DEUTERONOMY 18:15-16, ACTS 3:22 YAHUAH your Elohim will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of YAHUAH your Elohim in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying ‘Let me not hear again the voice of YAHUAH my Elohim, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’ SUMMARY OF MOSES’ CRITICAL WORDS IN DEUTERONOMY 18:15-16

There is a Prophet like Moses coming in the future. We know this Prophet is Yahusha/Jesus as Peter quotes this verse in Acts 3:22
The timing of of this statement was 40 years earlier in Horeb (where Mt Sinai is) and it was on the day of the assembly, which is the day of the Wedding happening here on Trip 4.
To further peg the timing of this statement, it was the trip before on Trip 3 that the people rejected YAHUAH by saying “Let me not hear again the VOICE of YHWH or we will die” and so they sent Moses here on Trip 4 instead.

We have to enter the story at this moment and realize what is occurring with the promised Prophet going to come. The fear of the bride, in their fleshly state of being is what is meant in Hebrews 8:7 when YAHUAH “found fault with the people”, and not fault with His Covenant ~ the Ten Words. The Word became flesh and dwelt (John 1:14) amongst them (as the Prophet like Moses to come) to change the people by writing His covenant, The Ten Words, on the people’s hearts and minds (Hebrews 8:8-10), changing the people. He will cause the people who put faith in Him to be “born again” (John 3:3, John 3:7, 1 Peter 1:23) by writing these laws/the covenant on their hearts and minds and give them His Spirit. (YAHUAH speaks His Covenant) TERMS AND CONDITIONS The ORIGINAL ORAL PLAN and also the New Covenant written on a born again heart and mind

1 I am YAHUAH your Elohim who brought you out of Egypt

2 Have no other gods and make no idols

3 Do not take the Name of YAHUAH your Elohim in vain

4 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it Set Apart (Holy)

5 Honor your father and mother

6 Do not murder

7 Do not commit adultery

8 Do not steal

9 Do not bear false witness

10 Do not covet your neighbors possessions Moses is also given THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (Exodus chapter 21 to 23) which was the initial statutes and decrees of this first covenant alternative arrangement —> in other words, the Book of the Covenant was given to Moses on this 4th trip to give instructions (laws) to the people of how to administer THE COVENANT, THE TEN WORDS, amongst themselves as now (for the first time in history since Adam) an entire nation is entering into COVENANT with YAHUAH. They were needing more instructions as a community than the SPOKEN COVENANT since they had already shrunk back in fear and needed to be changed. Take note that Moses speaks of this Trip (Trip 4) of getting both the TEN WORDS, THE COVENANT, and also THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT forty years later here in Deuteronomy: DEUTERONOMY 4:13-14 So He declared to you HIS COVENANT which He commanded you to perform, THE TEN WORD (COMMANDMENTS); and He wrote them on two tablets of stone. And YAHUAH COMMANDED ME at that time to teach you statutes and judgments (THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT), that you might observe them in the land which you cross over to possess. SUMMARY OF DEUTERONOMY 4:13-14 (speaking of Trip 4 forty years earlier)

He spoke HIS COVENANT which is THE TEN WORDS
At that time (of the speaking of His covenant) YAHUAH gave Moses statutes and judgments (THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT) to teach the people

***AS A SIDE NOTE* there are some who believe there is a cookie cutter break of the Book of the Covenant and the Book of the Law at Exodus 24:12. This is a gross oversimplification. Exodus 24:12 is forty days before the sin of the golden calf, which they say Exodus 24:12 is a result of the golden calf. The Book of the Law is actually a covenant added to “The Law of Moses” (WHICH WAS INSTITUTED AS A RESULT OF THE SIN OF THE GOLDEN CALF) given on the 7th trip, which is the Book of Deuteronomy* AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAIN THE SIGNATURE ~ EXODUS 24:3-8 —> Moses goes down and takes THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT and blood ratifies It (*THE SIGNATURE***) as the people agree to the COVENANT and it’s statutes and decrees. Moses sprinkles the blood on the book and the people and the agreement is in place. Aaron is given the BOOK OF THE COVENANT as his job was officiate it among the people as the spokesperson which he will be given instructions to do so on the next Trip 5 after the marriage supper.

TRIP 5 ~ EXODUS 24:9-EXODUS 32:16 Half way is the marriage supper with 70 elders and Moses and Joshua go the rest of the way for 40 days ~ THE “HEAVENLY PATTERN” OF THE MESSIAH

A) PART WAY POINT —> Moses comes up with Joshua and the 70 elders and they have a Marriage Supper celebration. Aaron has the Book of the Covenant and Moses instructs Aaron and the elders to STAY WHERE THEY ARE if anybody has a problem they are to come up to himself and the elders to receive decisions/judgments settling disputes (Aaron and the people blow this big time as they ended up going down Moses disappeared for long time up in the cloud).

B) COMLETE JOURNEY —> Moses and Joshua go further up for 40 days and 40 nights and they enter the cloud for this alternative arrangement of dividing Yahuah (Bridegroom) from the people (Bride). Moses receives THE PATTERN OF MESSIAH: What Moses received upon his complete journey for 40 days is called a copy and shadow of what is in heaven according to Hebrews 8:5. We know that the what is was in heaven was Yahusha/Jesus who came from heaven. The placement of Hebrews 8:5 shows us this “pattern” of about THE NEW COVENANT (Hebrews 8:8-12) as this was NOT the ORIGINAL PLAN by giving man in their flesh opportunity to enter covenant on their own power.

The Father is setting the stage for His Son to come as this pattern as they will carry the funeral casket (the Ark of the Covenant) of the Messiah with the Ten Words (He is the Living Word) written on stone inside for the majority of the first covenant (until the House of Israel and Judah are distinct). This PATTERN is shown Moses as it is determined HIS PROPHET will come in the future (as just told Moses) to die for the Bride by first preparing the casket (the Ark of the Covenant) and as His body in the flesh is being prepared. This verse below is quoting Psalm 40:6 which David knew the Ark of the Covenant was where the Messiah dwelt: HEBREWS 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME. This alternative plan is be a way He can still dwell in the midst of the Bride by dividing Himself (the Tabernacle structure) from them, while all the instructions given here in Exodus chapters 25 through 31 are all temporary physical issues which when the Prophet comes like Moses is the spiritual reason these instructions are pointing to Him as the heavenly pattern of:

The Tabernacle instructions (The Body of Messiah and His Kingdom arrangement of believers and separation between the faithful and unfaithful)
The High Priest instructions for Aaron & sons (the temporary spokesman as the only human who could enter His presence once a year until the Messiah comes to tear the veil as the our SPOKESMAN)
The Ark of the Covenant (the funeral casket of the Messiah)
The Two Stone Tablets, the WEDDING VOWS (the COVENANT LAWS Yahusha/ Messiah to be later written on our hearts and minds in the New Covenant, changing the people)

THE FAVOR/GRACE WE HAVE IN YAHUSHA IS LINKED TO THE PRIESTHOOD OFFER

These Laws are Written on our hearts ~ The Ten Words/The Ten Commandments
Yahusha/Messiah’, The Living Word/The Ten Words now lives INSIDE of the believer
We are now the Tabernacle of our Creator (1 Peter 2:5) as we carry the Tablets written on tablets of flesh ~ 2 Corinthians 3:3 This is why upon Yahushua/Jesus’ death he tore the veil in two as written in Hebrews 9:8 of the mystery: “the Set Apart Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing”
Yahusha/Messiah’ blood cleanses our evil conscience ~ ending the need for sacrifices giving us a new nature able to overcome sin and unbelief, which they could not accomplish in their flesh
Satan has been defeated by now a spiritual inward covenant as Satan overcame those of the natural physical first covenant ~ the authority of life eternal given to the Son of Adam/Man

Favor is being given the spiritual authority to go before our High Priest (as opposed to no authority in the first covenant) to repent of our own sins and make yourself set apart (holy) by NOT breaking the COVENANT (by stopping our sinful patterns) as well as the privilege to mediate between other people in the keeping of the ways of the Kingdom and intercession (prayer) for each other who are battling with the ruler of this world, Satan. Grace is NOT the overlooking of sin (as so often taught in Christian circles, i.e. “we are all just sinners”) but rather the POWER to not sin anymore because of this privileged access of His presence. By abusing this privilege is what Hebrews 10:29 means is “insulting the spirit of grace”. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAIN ~ THE PEOPLE COMMIT ADULTERY BEFORE THEY RECEIVE THE WRITTEN AGREEMENT ~ PUNISHMENT & ATONEMENT REQUIRED FOR A BROKEN BLOOD RATIFIED COVENANT ~ EXODUS 32:17-35, DEUTERONOMY 9:7-21 —> while near day 40 on the mountain and with two stone tablets in his hand, Moses is told to “GO DOWN FOR THE PEOPLE HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES AND MADE GODS BEFORE THEM SAYING THIS THESE ARE THE ONES WHO TOOK THEM OUT OF EGYPT”. Yahuah was going to destroy the people and make a nation from Moses, but Moses intercedes by pleading on the unconditional blood covenant Yahuah made with Abraham, and so Yahuah relents from destroying them. Moses sees the people singing and dancing over the golden calf they made and shatters the stone tablets, BREAKING THE COVENANT. The deal is OVER. Done. This event and subsequent two trips are CRUCIAL to see what is going on here. Most all “TORAH” people completely miss what is going on because of their incorrect doctrine that the word “LAW” or “TORAH” means “FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES”, whereas not within one verse does the word “Law” in SCRIPTURE mean this. “Torah” is an acronym. The word literally means “instructions” and most often is accurately defined as “the instructions of the covenant” ~ the question then is: “what covenant are the instructions given”. –> Moses then asks “WHO IS ON YAHUAH’S SIDE” and Moses’ fellow clansman the Levites step forward. They are told to kill their brothers with swords as a broken blood covenant requires atonement. This is very important for believers to understand that JUDGMENT is coming for those breaking the blood covenant we have in the New Covenant with the Messiah. The Levites instructions are to strap on swords and end up killing 3000 of their fellow brothers. There is a very stiff penalty and consequences for a broken blood covenant. These consequences are far worse in the New Covenant in Messiah as FAVOR makes us much more accountable to sin and unbelief to give us courage and strength to overcome because: The Levites end up becoming the PRIESTS (AND BRIDE) of the first covenant because they repented, which we will see on TRIP 6 & TRIP 7 the forgiveness sought for and granted, and the alternative covenant arrangement replacing first set of stone tablets called THE LAW OF MOSES being the alternative agreement, and the Messenger/Angel of Yahuah is sent with them who is the pre-incarnate Messiah.

TRIP 6 ~ EXODUS 32:31-34:3 Moses goes up to intercede for the breaking of the covenant ~ Yahuah sends punishment, rearranges the plan in Trip 7, as His forgiveness and grace is not to destroy them. After narrowly escaping annihilation by their worshipping the calf thanks to Moses pleading the blood covenant promise made to their ancestor Abraham, Moses goes up to intercede for the people, ask for forgiveness and to allow the people to continue to the land. Moses is told all who sinned against me will be blotted out of “My Book” and a plague struck the people. Yahuah told the people to go to the LAND promised Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob (their ancestors) by He (the Bridegroom) will not go with them because if He did He would destroy them. To see the HEART OF YAHUAH it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT because this shows us WHY the next trip is a completely different covenantal agreement making Moses THE LAWGIVER (THE LAW OF –> MOSES). The people are very sad to hear He won’t go with them and they take off their idol ornaments. The entire point of getting MARRIED here (and goal from the broken covenant with Adam in the Garden) was to then dwell together in THE LAND PROMISED BY BLOOD COVENANT TO ABRAHAM & HIS DESCENDANTS. This original COVENANT OFFER was the fulfilment of the BLOOD COVENANT spanning 400 years ~ according to the terms and conditions promised to Abraham. This LAND is the KINGDOM COMING for 1000 years upon Jesus/Yahusha coming for the FAITHFUL BRIDE to set up His Kingdom. (“Heaven” is NOT ever the destination for any person but to hope to dwell with the Bridegroom in the land promised Abraham’s descendants). They didn’t even make it fully through the wedding and the receive of the wedding vows. Yahuah agrees to then send His Messenger/Angel (The pre-incarnate Messiah Jesus/Yahusha) before them and Moses is told to come up a seventh time to receive what???? THE LAW OF –> MOSES, as Moses will become LAWGIVER as now all instructions will go through Moses from Him speaking to the Messiah in the Tent of Meeting. MOSES SEPARATES HIMSELF – EXODUS 33:12-18 Moses then set up a tent outside the camp separate the rejected people and spoke FACE to FACE with Yahuah from the tent. This was also the Messiah as Messenger/Angel He was speaking to from the tent. And, because of Moses’ actions this 6th time up and persistence to ask Yahuah “to show me your Esteem/Honor(glory)” Yahuah TRANSFERRED His Esteem/Honor(glory) and authority to Moses. Look closely at Moses’ aggression to know this is the ONLY way for His presence to continue to proceed and then Yahuah granted it to Him: EXODUS 33:12-18 Then Moses said to Yahuah, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found Favor(grace) in My sight.’ Now therefore, I pray, if I have found Favor in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find Favorin Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.” So Yahuah said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found Favor(grace) in My sight, and I know you by name.” And he said, “Please, show me Your Esteem/Honor(glory). ” MOSES’ REQUEST GRANTED AND HE BECOMES LAWGIVER EXODUS 33:19-23 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahuah before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” And Yahuah said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My Esteem/Honor(glory) passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”

TRIP 7 ~ EXODUS CHAPTER 34, DEUTERONOMY 9:24-10:5, BOOK OF LEVITICUS ATTENTIONthis is the LAW OF MOSES A temporary covenant called “The Law of Moses” is entered with Moses ~ Moses becomes Lawgiver and receives the Book of Leviticus which includes the sacrificial system Moses carves out his own two sets of stone tablets (As opposed to Yahuah carving out the first two) and goes up again for 40 days and 40 nights. Yahuah writes the same covenant, The Ten Words/Commandments as the first set but now the agreement is completely CHANGED:

Moses is made mediator and lawgiver
The Levites become the priests to assist Aaron
The other 11 tribes lose their firstborn status and proximity to the Bridegroom by losing their priesthood offer of the original agreement
The sacrificial system of temporary sacrifices is now instituted (part of this agreement/1st seven chapters of Leviticus)
As Leviticus is given on this 40 day trip, we see the Feast of Trumpets and Day of Atonement added (to the original 3 Feasts/wedding anniversaries) for specific reasons as they both have to do with work the Messiah (the prophet to come after Moses) needed to fix when He comes

This is THE LAW OF MOSES (scripturally defined) is “the law that was added for transgressions” (Galatians 3:19) and “the schoolmaster” (Galatians 3:24) and “the changing of the Priesthood resulting in the ‘law’ changing as this TEMPORARY COVENANT was not perfect” (Hebrews 7:11-12,19). Moses comes down the mountain with the second set of stone tablets written with Yahuah’s finger and Moses’ FACE WAS VEILED as he becomes LAWGIVER (LAW OF –> MOSES) and the people cannot see his face as the glory (esteem) of Yahuah is transferred to him. The book of Leviticus is given Moses during this 40 day trip and is the statutes and decrees of this temporary covenant. The Book of Leviticus was WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF MOSES (Leviticus 8:36, Leviticus 10:11, Leviticus 26:46), although remember the stone tablets were written by the hand of Yahuah. This is the distinction to be made in the New Testament writings of the difference between “The Law of Moses” an “The Law of Elohim” ~ being the Ten Words/Commandments. The first 7 chapters of Leviticus, part of the covenant ~ THE LAW OF MOSES, are instructions on how the people are to approach Yahuah in their different offerings and sacrifices. This is what everybody misses that the SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM came on this seventh trip and is attached to THE TEMPORARY COVENANT (scripturally called THE LAW OF –> MOSES) which replaced THE ORIGINAL COVENANT (THE FIRST SET OF STONE TABLETS AND BOOK OF THE COVENANT) as a temporary solution to make the people atone for each individual sin they commit as they were walking outside of blood covenant protection as that first offer was BROKEN and not re-established, but rather though Moses the mediator. THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS IS THE STATUTES AND DECREES OF THIS TEMPORARY COVENANT WHICH WILL GOVERN OVER THOSE OF THE FIRST COVENANT FOR 1500 YEARS UNTIL THE MESSIAH COMES TO EARTH, CALLED THE LAW OF MOSES, IS ALSO GIVEN TO MOSES ON THIS 40 DAY TRIP 7 LEVITICUS 7:38-39 This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the peace offering, which Yahuah commanded Moses on Mount Sinai LEVITICUS 25:1 And Yahuah spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, LEVITICUS 26:46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws which Yahuah made between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. LEVITICUS 27:34 These are the commandments which Yahuah commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai. SUMMARY The people needed to be changed inwardly (Hebrews 8:7) and given a Helper (John 14:16) so WE CAN BOLDLY COME BEFORE THE FATHER, THE THRONE OF FAVOR/GRACE (Hebrews 4:16) with the power of the Spirit of Messiah within us (Galatians 4:6, Colossians 1:27) –> because these SPOKEN TEN WORD (Ten Commandments) is the COVENANT written on our hearts and minds (Jeremiah 31:31-33, Hebrews 8:8-10), and it is THE LIVING WORD (TEN WORDS) who you will see on Trip 4 who is going to come some day “as the prophet to come after Moses which we must listen to” (Deuteronomy 18:18, Acts 3:22) to make good on this covenant offer on behalf of His promise to Abraham: (HIS PROMISE FULFILLMENT TO ABRAHAM IS YOU AND ME!!!) GENESIS 15:5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be. ”ROMANS 4:18 contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” Congratulations! By coming to the Savior you have made the heavenly Father add another “star in the sky” for Abraham, but you must RUN THE RACE by keeping this COVENANT, THE TEN WORDS, written on your heart and mind to JOIN HIM IN THE PROMISED LAND. Join us as we keep and teach these commandments to be found THE GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM (Matthew 5:19).

* a special side note* for almost a year our brother Ken Kerr in our study group with Jason and I would share how important Moses making seven trips up the mountain. In fact, it became his intro to people on the street. He would say “How many times did Moses go up and down Mt Sinai” as an ice breaker. I did not put much weight on his findings nor did I think it was even that important to know until the DAY that I found a MAJOR piece of these 7 trips which was the timing of WHEN Yahuah told Moses that “A PROPHET WOULD COME AFTER MOSES” speaking of His Son. This timing above was mentioned on Moses’ third trips and was just BEFORE THE WEDDING on trip FOUR. This shows us how significant the NEW COVENANT/NEW MARRIAGE AGREEMENT was as if you and I are standing boldly before Yahuah on that third initial trip because we have been changed. The WORD was supposed to change them on TRIP THREE by hearing the Bride hearing the Bridegrooms VOICE (My Sheep Hear My Voice) but the WORD then needed to be brought to earth to place the WORD inside of us. Do you see this? This is so powerful. I was overfilled with excitement and all of a sudden these 7 trips in my eyes went from being a novelty to being the single most important scriptural piece of interpretation within the COVENANT PLAN OF YAH. It is an absolute GOLD MINE OF TREASURES knowing these 7 trips. Hats off to our blood covenant brother Ken***

“THE LAW OF MOSES” established on Moses’ seventh trip up Mt Sinai as a result of the sin of the GOLDEN CALF

INTRODUCTION

This purpose and goal of this article is to zoom in upon the events which transpired some 3500 years ago at Mt Sinai to properly define the most important (there is no close second) scriptural phrase: “THE LAW OF MOSES”

There are two general camps of believers who read New Testament passages through their doctrinal belief of “Law” and side with others of the same belief system as to what the verses mean to them. The two groups of “Law” camps:

MODERN DAY CHRISTIANITY:

This group clearly sees “the Law of Moses” has indeed “ended” (Romans 10:4) and could NOT justify a person as it cannot get clearer than this verse here:

“Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Yahusha (the New Covenant) the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES. ACTS 13:39

The problem, however, they do NOT see there was an original plan which was supposed to have concluded on trip 3 with the SPEAKING of the TERMS of the COVENANT, the Ten Words (Commandments). This article is not addressing this subject matter. Please see this article for this important panoramic view of all seven trips Moses made: https://perfectgiftorg.com/?p=3638

THE HEBREW ROOTS OR ‘TORAH OBSERVANT’ CAMP

The one obstacle they just cannot see is that “the Law” could NOT possibly have changed because somehow they assign the phrase “The Law of Moses” to mean “the first five books of Moses” of which I must emphatically state that there is not one time in all of scripture are the phrases: “Law of Moses”, “Law”, “Law and Prophets”, or “Book of the Law” scripturally defined as “the first five books of Moses”, but rather each of these words/phrases have a very specific covenant definition and meaning to them.

To demonstrate this change in “law” is why this article is written to help straighten out so many errant doctrines associated with not seeing this, such as supporting polygamy to denying blood sacrifices to even denying the Son came from divine origin. Defining “the Law of Moses” scripturally accurate is way more important than one could imagine. Please do not reject for something I am NOT saying in this article. Every instruction has its proper covenant place as to whether it is valid or not. Clean vs unclean foods came through the covenant with Noah and are for all men since all come from Noah, and the Feast (meaning appointed times) days are anniversaries of the original covenantal agreement designed for Abrahams descendants (whom is everybody in Messiah Yahusha).

WHO WOULD DARE ARGUE THAT THE “LAW” DID NOT CHANGE?

Can we all agree of these changes?

1) The Priesthood absolutely changing from Levitical to Melchizedek 2) Blood sacrifices absolutely changing from animals to the blood of the Lamb 3) The high priest position absolutely changing from Aaron to Yahushua/Messiahs 4) The servant priests absolutely changing from the Levites to you and I in Messiah 5) The firstborn inheritance rights absolutely changing from Levites to Ephraim whom are the Nations (Gentiles) in Messiah Yahushua/Messiah 6) The mediator of the covenant absolutely changing from Moses to Yahusha 7) The tabernacle absolutely changing from a physical structure to the body of Yahusha 8) The lawgiver (this is why it is called The Law of —->> Moses) of the covenant (the one with authority to speak YHWH’s laws to the people) absolutely changing from Moses to Yahushua/Messiah. 9) A divorced bride scattered into the Nations absolutely changing to the Nations being brought back into covenant relationship (back into “Israel”) through the blood of the Lamb 10) The writing of the covenant laws (The Ten Commandments) from stone tablets absolutely changing to being written on our hearts and minds 11) Hearts of stone absolutely changing to being given hearts of flesh 12) Not having His presence among us to absolutely changing with “a new Spirit” being the Ruach haQodesh/Set Apart Spirit 13) The god of this world (the serpent/Satan) having authority over man/Adam to absolutely changing by the Son of Man/Seed of the Woman gaining victory at the cross 14) The grave taking every person born in Adam a prisoner to absolutely changing to eternal life through Yahushua/Messiah conquering death and the grave

These are only a short list of fourteen (14) issues of the “first covenant” which hopefully we all could agree upon that absolutely changed with the death, burial and resurrection of Yahushua/Messiah. Can we agree that this is also the “New Covenant” which this group would try arguing is a “Renewed Covenant”?

This article explains how THE COVENANT OFFER, STRUCTURE & AUTHORITY was CHANGED from the ORIGINAL OFFER, STRUCTURE & AUTHORITY because of the sin of the golden calf, making perfect sense of Hebrews 7:11-12. The first ten of fourteen issues listed above CHANGED after the original spoken covenantal offer to make the group a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, and a special treasure possession upon Moses’ 3rd trip which immediately went haywire by the people fearing His voice and sending Moses on their behalf. The “The Law of Moses” ESTABLISHED the Levitical Priesthood issues 1 thru 10 above as they repented by killing 3000 of their brothers for their worship of the golden calf.

“If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—and indeed THE LAW (LAW OF MOSES) GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE ESTABLISHED THAT PRIESTHOOD—why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? For when the priesthood is changed, THE LAW MUST BE CHANGED also. HEBREWS 7:11-12

So, are you in either of these two groups general believe of “Law”? This article is crucial in assisting you in proper interpretation of “the Law of Moses”.

THE GOLDEN CALF TRANSITION TO EXODUS 34

We will look at how Exodus 34 is the transition chapter of scripture, which altered the course of fulfilling the covenant promises to Abraham by putting the ORIGINAL PLAN on hold for another 3500 years (1500 years to Yahushua/Messiah first coming and another 2000 years to the Millennial reign). What you are about to read are the events occurring on Moses’ SEVENTH and final trip up Mt Sinai which YHWH had attempted to enter covenant with Abraham’s descendants. There should have only been THREE trips made but two things occurred:

1) the people shrank back in fear upon hearing YHWH’s voice and did not go up the mountain on trip three but sent Moses on their behalf agreeing to hear Moses’ voice but not YHWH’s voice anymore 2) the people were found worshipping the golden calf while Moses was on top of the mountain with YHWH on trip five.

In assembling all the pieces of the covenant puzzle, we have discovered that finding the “why” Moses made seven trips up Mt Sinai is by far the most important piece of scriptural interpretation. Please stay open and allow yourself to enter the story of the events which transpired on Mt Sinai because it is very difficult to change one’s perspective in how they have viewed the scriptures. The details surrounding these trips are all there for us to read, but the relevance of these trips which he met with the Creator on behalf of Abraham’s descendants remains veiled from so many. I have heard “I don’t care if Moses went up 100 times” as if I was only presenting the fact that Moses went up 7 times rather than WHY Moses went up each time to meet with he Creator. In demonstrating how it is in our nature to meet information with opposition and not by faith, I have seen people try to show Moses went up Mt Sinai 10 times, again, as if the amount of times he went up was what we are presenting. Recently, I have heard somebody oppose me saying “I have looked into the seven trips THEORY” as if Moses going up Mt Sinai seven times was some sort of a “theory”. And, just a couple of days ago I was told that “The Law of Moses is not the second set of stone tablets” because the person “is not trying to find a loophole to not obey laws”.

In answering this last statement there are much clearer answers to the storyline when seeing it through an unfolding covenant plan. For those very serious in obeying our Master (which we absolutely are) you will find that by properly dividing scripture by blood covenant exponentially increases the urgency to keep His covenant instructions.

We are going to look at Exodus chapter 34 which was the SEVENTH trip Moses made. Why do I tell you this background that this was the SEVENTH trip you are about to read? I share this emphatically because I have discovered that nobody puts any weight whatsoever in placing scriptural events on a timeline and cannot see how important it is to examine the detail of scripture chronologically. Imagine you are looking at a pretty girl from a distance and when you approached close she wasn’t pretty at all. Maybe she wasn’t even a girl! This is exactly the approach of zooming in close to see detail will do for you. It may cause you to lose doctrines and maybe that is the fear of looking closer. Maybe you want that girl to look pretty from a distance but if she is really ugly why be afraid of looking closer? The same goes with a false doctrine of “The Law/Torah or Moses” believing it is scripturally defined as “the first five books of Moses”. If this is an ugly doctrine causing all kinds of doctrinal error, then why would you be afraid to look closer and zoom in to the details?

Detail can ONLY be examined closely by placing what you are reading in a sequence of events and having a timeline understanding. This is WHY we stress to you that knowing WHY Moses went up Mt Sinai each of his seven times is so crucial.

Before we begin, let’s view YHWH’s attitude and the immediate action He was going to take in response to finding the people worshipping the golden calf. The below response would have taken place had Moses not have interceded on the people’s behalf and pled on the unconditional blood covenant promise YHWH made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob upon hearing what occurred while he was on the mountain on Trip 5 for 40 days and 40 nights. He hadn’t even seen what they were doing yet but was told by YHWH.

YHWH TO DESTROY THE ISRAELITES ~ HE CALLED IT “BLOT OUT THEIR NAMES FROM UNDER HEAVEN”

And YHWH said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’” And YHWH said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.” EXODUS 32:7-9

“Then YHWH said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt (CALLING THEM MOSES’ PEOPLE) have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’ “Furthermore YHWH spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people. Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and BLOT OUT THEIR NAME from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ DEUTERONOMY 9:13-14

MOSES INTERCEDED BUT THEY DID LOSE THE PRIESTHOOD CALLING IT “BEING BLOTTED OUT OF HIS BOOK”

And YHWH said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. EXODUS 32:33

The initial agreement had the nation becoming “a kingdom of priests”. Only the Levites repented and the other eleven tribes were stripped of the initial offer. This incident caused Moses to go up another time, Trip 6, to make atonement for their sins as a group which then set the stage for Trip 7 to be given authority himself to speak to the people on behalf of YHWH. This is why this covenantal arrangement is called “The Law of [who]” ~ “The Law of [Moses]”.

Moses’ actions of intercession temporarily saved the people and salvaged the covenant plan. The 7th Trip meeting with YHWH for another 40 days and 40 is what allowed them to continue, with an entirely different arrangement as we will continue to demonstrate, resulting in Moses leading the people.

So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against YHWH your Elohim; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that YHWH had commanded you. So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes. Then once again I fell prostrate before YHWH for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the YHWH’s sight and so arousing his anger. I feared the anger and wrath of YHWH, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again YHWH listened to me. And YHWH was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too. Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain. DEUTERONOMY 9:15-19

Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and YHWH listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you. “Go,” YHWH said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.” DEUTERONOMY 10:10-11

THE 1500 TRANSITION PERIOD TO WHEN THERE WILL BE A PROPHET TO COME AFTER MOSES –>> THIS IS YAHUSHA MESSIAH

The people shrank back in fear upon hearing YHWH’s voice on trip 3 and did not go up the mountain. This verse in Deuteronomy is telling us exactly what Moses was told 40 years earlier when this event occurred.

(spoken to Moses on TRIP 3, 40 years earlier) “YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of YHWH your Elohim in Horeb in the day of the assembly (SPEAKING OF MT SINAI), saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my Elohim (THEY REJECTED HEARING HIS VOICE DIRECTLY), nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die “And YHWH said to me: ‘What they have spoken is good. I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. (THIS WILL BE “THE LAW/MINISTRY OF YAHUSHUA MESSIAH”) And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.’ DEUTERONOMY 18:15-19

MOSES BECAME “THE LAWGIVER” WHO SPEAKS YHWH’S WORDS TO THE PEOPLE

This TRANSITION at Mt Sinai which I am now going to describe to you the events surrounding the SEVENTH TRIP Moses made is what is scripturally defined as:

“THE LAW OF —>>> MOSES”

EXODUS CHAPTER 34 (the 7th trip Moses made as a direct result of the people worshipping the golden calf and the first set of stone tablets)

verses 1 & 2, 5 to 8, 27 to 35

MOSES CHISELS HIS OWN SET OF STONE TABLETS “LIKE THE FIRST ONES”

And YHWH said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain. EXODUS 34:-2

YHWH STANDS WITH AND PASSES BEFORE MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN

Now YHWH descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of YHWH. And YHWH passed before him and proclaimed, “YHWH, YHWH Elohim, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O YHWH, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.” EXODUS 34:5-8

MOSES WAS SHOWN YHWH’S GLORY AS MOSES WAS AGGRESSIVE IN TAKING RESPONSIBILITY TO LEAD THE PEOPLE. MOSES IS THE ONLY HUMAN BEING EVER TO SEE YHWH (His backside)

Then Moses said to YHWH, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ EXODUS 33:12

(this is what was told in Exodus 33 what will happen when YHWH descends in the cloud and stood with Moses when he went up on trip 7) So YHWH said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.” And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of YHWH before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” And YHWH said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.” EXODUS 33:18-23

MOSES RECEIVES THE COVENANT, BUT THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT THAN THE FIRST, AS THIS COVENANT IS ALSO WITH JUST MOSES (will explore what “occurred” in between the first offer)

Then YHWH said to Moses, “Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you (with Moses) and with Israel.” So he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. EXODUS 34:27-28

MOSES FACE WAS TOO BRIGHT TO LOOK AT ~ MOSES HAD YHWH’S GLORY UPON HIM

Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him. So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. EXODUS 34:29-30

MOSES GIVES THE PEOPLE ALL THE COMMANDMENTS SPOKEN TO HIM

Then Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses talked with them. Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them as commandments all that YHWH had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. EXODUS 34:31-32

MOSES WEARS A VEIL OVER HIS FACE

And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. But whenever Moses went in before YHWH to speak with Him, he would take the veil off until he came out; EXODUS 34:33

MOSES WOULD COME OUT AND SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHEN HE WAS COMMANDED

and he would come out and speak to the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded. And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him. EXODUS 34:34-35

MOSES WAS MEETING IN HIS TENT WHICH HE MOVED FAR AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE AFTER THE GOLDEN CALF ~ YHWH SPOKE TO MOSES FACE TO FACE AS A MAN SPEAKS TO HIS FRIEND (this was the pre-incarnate Son as the Messenger of YHWH Moses was receiving instructions by)

Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought YHWH went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle. And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and YHWH talked with Moses. All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door. So YHWH spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle. EXODUS 33:7-11

PAUL CALLS THE LAW OF MOSES: “THE MINISTRY OF DEATH”

Before we look at 2 Corinthians chapter 3 please realize that there was an ORIGINAL SPOKEN PLAN given at Mt Sinai which “The Prophet to come after Moses” was told will come in the future upon Moses’ 3rd trip after the people shrank back in fear and did not come up the mountain with Moses. This Prophet to come (being Yahushua/Messiah) wrote the Ten Words, the SPOKEN TERMS OF THE COVENANT, on our hearts and minds in the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-33/Hebrews 8:8-10) and renewed the spoken offer of making the people: 1) A kingdom of Priests, 2) A set apart (holy) nation, and 3) His special treasured possession (Exodus 19:4-6, 1 Peter 2:9)

2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 3

Comparing “THE MINISTRY OF DEATH” (The Law of Moses) to “THE MINISTRY OF THE RUACH/SPIRIT”

comparison:

~ We are an epistle of Messiah written on tablets of hearts by the Spirit of Elohim VERSES written on tablets of stone

You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Messiah, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living Elohim, NOT ON TABLETS OF STONE but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:2-4

~ We are made ministers of the new covenant by the Spirit (INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN US DIRECTLY BY THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH) VERSES by the letter (TOLD TO THEM BY A MEDIATOR, MOSES)

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from Elohim, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, NOT OF THE LETTER but of the Spirit; 2 CORINTHIANS 3:5-6

~ We have been given the ministry of righteousness VERSES the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of death, which The Law of Moses (second set of stone tablets, covenant) came with a penalty of immediate death for breaking the law. We receive grace by giving us time to become righteous and quite sinning.

for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. But if THE MINISTRY OF DEATH, WRITTEN AND ENGRAVED ON STONES, was glorious, so that the children of Israel COULD NOT LOOK STEADILY AT THE FACE OF MOSES BECAUSE OF THE GLORY OF HIS COUNTENANCE, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if THE MINISTRY OF CONDEMNATION HAD GLORY, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.

~ We have boldness of speech VERSES not being able to look at Moses

Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech— unlike Moses, who PUT A VIEL OVER HIS FACE so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at THE END (THE END OF THE LAW OF MOSES ~ ROMANS 10:4) of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded.

~ The viel remains for those under the first covenant VERSES the viel is taken away in Messiah.
We have unveiled faces and have His glory being transformed to same image from glory to glory
by the Spirit of YHWH.

For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Messiah. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Master, the veil is taken away. Now YHWH is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of YHWH is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of YHWH, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of YHWH. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:2-18

SUMMARY OF THE TRANSITION UPON MOSES’ SEVENTH TRIP UP MT SINAI

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LAW OF MOSES

The covenant was made with Moses, the second set of stone tablets
This covenant was not blood ratified as opposed to the first plan which was (Exodus 24:7-8)
There was no acceptance on the people’s part because it was a “take it or leave it agreement” being mediated on their behalf by Moses
There was no covenant meal as opposed to the first agreement they broke (Exodus 24:12)
YHWH called the people Moses’ people
The ORIGINAL SPOKEN OFFER came with CONDITIONS that “If they obey My voice” and “keep My covenant” they would become a kingdom of priests and holy nation. They both REJECTED HIS VOICE by shrinking back in fear by sending Moses on their behalf and they then BROKE HIS COVENANT with the sin of the golden calf
The Levites killed 3000 as punishment for breaking of the covenant by worshipping the golden calf. They in turn TRANSITIONED and received the PRIESTHOOD. This verse clearly states this TRANSITION that they received the priesthood THROUGH THE LAW OF MOSES (GIVEN ON THE SEVENTH TRIP): HEBREWS 7:11-12 Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law/THE LAW OF MOSES), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law (THE LAW OF MOSES to THE LAW OF MESSIAH).
The other 11 tribes were EXCHANGED their firstborn inheritance rights with the Levites. This is an extremely important issue to know, because without firstborn inheritance rights you WILL NOT RECEIVE YOUR INHERITANCE. By us not being found sinning as they did at Mt Sinai we will not be disqualified with our inheritance rights as being made FIRSTBORN in Messiah.
Moses moved his tent outside the camp
Moses received YHWH’s Esteem and Honor.
Moses met with Him face to face, above the mercy seat and in between the cherubim of the ark of the Covenant, inside his tent
Moses wore a veil to cover his face
Moses now, from this point on, is the only one who will give “instructions/laws” to the people. He becomes “THE LAWGIVER” and that is the reason the straightforward definition of this covenant is called THE LAW [of who?] MOSES!!!
The instructions for the Book of Leviticus was simultaneously given on this SEVENTH TRIP Moses made for 40 days. The first seven chapters are the SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM. The sacrificial system is directly attached to this covenant as the Book of Leviticus is the statutes and decrees of administering this covenant.

SCRIPTURAL INTERPRETATION COMES TO LIFE by defining “The Law of Moses” as a temporary covenant that ENDED with the New Covenant

These are just a few verses describing “The Law of Moses” as a temporary covenant.

“ENDED” (Romans 10:4)

“WAS FULFILLED” (Matthew 5:17)

“WAS FULFILLED CONCERNING YAHUSHA” (Luke 24:44)

“NOT OF FAITH” (Galatians 3:12)

“MADE NOTHING PERFECT” (Hebrews 7:19)

“ADDED FOR TRANSGRESSIONS” (Galatians 3:19)

“KEPT UNDER GUARD BY” (Galatians 3:23)

“THE GUARDIAN/TUTOR” (Galatians 3:24)

“AFTER FAITH CAME (SPEAKING OF YAHUSHA/JESUS) WE WERE NO LONGER IN NEED OF A GUARDIAN/TUTOR” (GALATIANS 3:25)

“CHANGED W THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD” (Hebrews 7:11-12)

“WAS ‘UNTIL’ JOHN” (Luke 16:16)

“WAS ‘UNTIL’ THE SEED TO WHOM THE PROMISE REFERRED HAD COME” (Galatians 3:19)

“WAS ‘UNTIL’ SHILOH COMES” (Genesis 49:10)

“WHAT YAHUSHA WAS BORN ‘UNDER THE LAW’ TO REDEEM THOSE ‘UNDER THE LAW’” (Galatians 4:4-5)

“APART FROM ‘THE LAW’ A RIGHTEOUSNESS IS MADE KNOWN” (Romans 3:21)

“PUT THEM ‘UNDER LAW’” (Romans 6:14-15)

“LED BY THE SPIRIT, YOU ARE NOT ‘UNDER THE LAW’” (Galatians 5:18)

“FREED FROM THE LAW” (Romans 7:4)

“DELIVERED FROM THE LAW” (Romans 7:6)

“COULD NOT JUSTIFY YOU” (Acts 13:39)

“A PERSON IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, BUT BY FAITH IN YAHUSHA MESSIAH”. (Galatians 2:16)

“NOBODY IS JUSTIFIED BY” (Galatians 3:11)

“CAME THROUGH MOSES” (John 1:17)

“FALLEN FROM GRACE BY LEAVING MESSIAH” (Galatians 5:4)

“MINISTRY OF DEATH” (2 Corinthians 3:7)

“MINISTRY OF CONDEMNATION” (2 Corinthians 3:9)

“THE LETTER KILLS ENGRAVED ON STONE TABLETS” (2 Corinthians 3:6)

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HaYom ‐ The Day

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To Know When A Day Begins, Lets Look at the Beginning:

HaYom – The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom. by Matthew E. Parrott

Torah. Genesis

● Genesis 1:15 In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. 2 And the earth came to be formless and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim was moving on the face of the waters. 3 And Elohim said, “Let light come to be,” and light came to be. 4 And Elohim saw the light, that it was good. And Elohim separated the light from the darkness. 5 And Elohim called the light ‘day’ and the darkness He called ‘night.’ And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the first day.

Creation Week Daily Cycle

● Genesis 1:14 19 And Elohim said, “Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days and years, 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth.” And it came to be so. 16 And Elohim made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars. 17 And Elohim set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good. 19 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the fourth day. ● Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. 3 And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made.

● Genesis 7:12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

● Genesis 8:22 as long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.”

● Genesis 19:3334 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose. 34 And it came to be on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “See, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight as well, and you go in and lie with him, so that we keep the seed of our father.”

The passage above is a confusing one for a sunset reckoning, did this story take place over 3 days or 4? Check out the table on the next page to see how this plays out.

HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

Below shows a Dawn Reckoning of a day

Exodus

● Exodus 12:810 ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 ‘Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and its inward parts. 10 ‘And do not leave of it until morning, and what remains of it until morning you are to burn with fire. ● Exodus 16:2326 And it came to be, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Mosheh. 23 And he said to them, “This is what יהוה has said, ‘Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath setapart to יהוה.That which you bake, bake; and that which you cook, cook. And lay up for yourselves all that is left over, to keep it until morning.’ ” 24 And they laid it up till morning, as Mosheh commanded. And it did not stink, and no worm I in it. 25 And Mosheh said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to יהוה,today you do not find it in the field. 26 “Gather it six days, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath,there is none.” ● Exodus 18:13 And it came to be, on the next day, that Mosheh sat to rightly rule the people. And the people stood before Mosheh from morning until evening.

● Exodus 29:3941 “Prepare the one lamb in the morning, and the other lamb you prepare between the evenings,

● Exodus 32:56 And Aharon saw and built an altar before it. And Aharon called out and said, “Tomorrow is a festival to 6 ”.יהוה And they rose early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

● Exodus 34:28 And he was there with יהוה forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread and he did not drink water. And He wrote on the tablets the Words of the covenant, the Ten Words. Leviticus

● Leviticus 7:15 As for the flesh of the slaughtering of his peace offering for thanksgiving, it is eaten the same day it is offered, he does not leave any of it until morning

● Leviticus 8:35 “And stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days. And you shall guard the duty of יהוה ,and not die, for so I have been commanded.”

● Leviticus 11:24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.

● Leviticus 22:2930 “And when you bring a slaughtering of thanksgiving to יהוה ,bring it for your acceptance. 30 “It is eaten that same day, leave none of it till morning. I am יהוה.

Numbers

● Numbers 9:16 Thus it was continually: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

● Numbers 11:32 And the people were up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. He who has least gathered ten ḥomers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. Deuteronomy

● Deuteronomy 10:10 “And I stayed in the mountain for forty days i forty nights. And יהוה heard me at that time also, and יהוה chose not to destroy you. Other Verses that Indicate Day BEFORE Night (Not Every Single Verse):

● Judges 19:25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and brought her out to them. And they knew her and rolled themselves on her all night until morning, and let her go when the day began to break.

● 1 Samuel 19:11 And Sha’ul sent messengers to Dawiḏ’s house to watch him and to put him to death in the morning. And Miḵal, Dawiḏ’s wife, informed him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you are put to death.”

● 2 Samuel 2:32 And they brought Asah’ĕl and buried him in his father’s tomb, which was in Bĕyth Leḥem. And Yo’aḇ and his men went all night, and they came to Ḥeḇron at daybreak.

HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

● Isaiah 38:13 “I soothed myself until morning. Like a lion, so He shatters all my bones. From day to night You make an end of me. ● Jeremiah 31:35 Thus said יהוה ,who gives the sun for a light by day, and the laws of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, and its waves roar – יהוה of hosts is His Name:

● Jeremiah 33:20 “Thus said יהוה’ ,If you could break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there be not day and night in their season,

● Lamentations 3:2223, ‘The kindnesses of יהוה !For we have not been consumed, For His compassions have not ended. 23They are new every morning, Great is Your trustworthiness.

● Job 3:6 That night – let darkness seize it. Let it not be included among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

● Job 17:12 They would turn night into day, saying that light is near, in the presence of darkness!

● Isaiah 5:20211‘Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight

● Matthew 12:40 “For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so shall the Son of Aḏam be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

● Mark 14:30 And יהושע said to him, “Truly, I say to you that today, this night, before the cock shall crow twice, you shall deny Me three times.”

● Luke 31:37 And He was teaching in the Setapart Place by day, but at night He went out and stayed on the mountain of Olives,

● John 9:4 “It is necessary for Me to work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day – night is coming, when no one is able to work.

● Romans 13:12 The night is far advanced, the day has come near. So let us put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Morning Verses:

● Zephaniah 3:5, ‘יהוה is righteous in her midst, He does no unrighteousness. Morning by morning He brings His right ruling to light, it has not been lacking, yet the unrighteous one knows no shame.

● Psalms 113:3, ‘From the rising of the sun to its going down, The Name of יהוה is praised’

● Lamentations 3:22 23, ‘The kindnesses of יהוה !For we have not been consumed, For His compassion have not ended. 23 They are new every morning, Great is Your trustworthiness.’

● Isaiah 45:6, ‘so that they know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none but Me. I am יהוה ,and there is none else,’

● Isaiah 59:19, ‘And they shall fear the Name of יהוה from the west, and His esteem from the rising of the sun, when He comes like a distressing stream which the Spirit of יהוה drives on.

● Malachi 1:11, ‘For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My Name is great among nations. And in every place incense is presented to My Name, and a clean offering. For My Name is great among nations,” said יהוה of hosts.

Scriptures Where Night Appears BEFORE Day (A Complete List): (Out of 313 verses that refer to the word night (KJV), approximately 85 times scripture references Day BEFORE Nightand less than 15 times does scripture refer to Night THEN Day.

HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

1. Deut. 21:22 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

2. 1 Kings 8:29 “For Your eyes to be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name is there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.

3. Esther 4:16 “Go, gather all the Yehuḏim who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I too, and my young women shall fast in the same way, then I shall go to the sovereign, which is against the law. And if I shall perish, I shall perish!”

4. Psalms 91:5 You are not afraid of the dread by night, Of the arrow that flies by day,

5. Isaiah 27:3 “I, יהוה ,do guard it, I water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I guard it night and day.

6. Isaiah 34:10 that is not quenched night or day, its smoke going up forever. From generation to generation it lies waste, no one passes through it forever and ever,

7. Mark 4:27 then sleeps by night and rises by day, while the seed sprouts and grows, he himself does not know how.

8. Mark 5:5 And continually, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

9. Luke 2:37 and she was a widow of about eightyfour years, who did not leave the Setapart Place, but served Elohim with fastings and prayers night and day.

10. Acts 20:31 “Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease to warn each one with tears.

11. 2 Corinthians 11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep,

12. 1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship, for labouring night and day, in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the Good News of Elohim.

13. 1 Thessalonians 3:10 night and day praying exceedingly, to see your face and make complete what is lacking in your belief?

14. 2 Thessalonians 3:8 nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but worked with labour and toil night and day, in order not to burden any of you.

15. 2 Timothy 1:3 I thank Elohim, whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my forefathers did, as I unceasingly remember you in my prayers night and day,

How Do We Measure a Day? Does Sunset end the day?

● Judges 19:9 And the man arose to go, he and his concubine and his servant. But his fatherinlaw, the young woman’s father, said to him, “See, the day is now drawing toward evening. Please spend the night. See, the day is coming to an end. Stay here, and let your heart be glad. And you shall rise early tomorrowfor your journey, and you shall go to your tent.”

● Luke 23:54 And it was Preparation day, and the Sabbath was approaching.

● Mark 14:30 And יהושע said to him, “Truly, I say to you that today, this night, before the cock shall crow twice, you shall deny Me three times.

HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom. How Many Hours are in a Day?

Question: When does the first hour of the day begin? And what hour of the day is sundown in?

● Answer: If the day began at sundown why is it at the 12th hour? If sundown is “at even”, why are evening oblations at the 9th hour and not the 12th? Last time I checked the 9th hour is still daytime which falls around 6pm. I fail to see the logic in beginning a new day at sundown. It’s the 12th hour not the 1st. The 1st hour doesn’t begin until sunrise.

Furthermore, even cannot mean sundown as evening seems to begin on the 9th hour during daytime. So which is it? Do you believe sundown begins a day or evening? If evening then you cannot say sundown begins a day. If sundown then you cannot use Gen 1:4 as evidence for day beginning at sundown because evening and morning belong to day not night. Something to think about.

John 11:9 Yahushua answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

The Third Hour

● Matthew 20:3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

● Mark 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

● Acts 2:15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

● Acts 23:23 And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;

The Sixth Hour

● Matthew 20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.

● Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth u.

● Luke 23:44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

● Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

● John 4:6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

● John 19:14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

● Acts 10:9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

The Seventh Hour

● John 4:52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

The Ninth Hour

● Matthew 20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.

HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

● Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

● Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

● Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.

● Acts 10:3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.

● Acts 10:30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

The Eleventh Hour

● Matthew 20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

● Matthew 20:9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

Order of a Day

Nehemiah 9:3 ‘and they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Torah of יהוה their Elohim a fourth part of the day, and a fourth part they were confessing and worshipping יהוה their Elohim.

Order of a Day

Hr Name

1 Twilight

2 Morning

6 Even Even Length Between Sun up and Sun down

6.01 First Evening One Moment Past Even to Sunset

11 Second Evening Sunset to Darkness

12 Night

Order of a Night Hr Watch 13 1st Watch 26 2nd Watch 79 3rd Watch 1012 4th Watch

Order of a Night

Hr Watch

1-3 1st Watch

2- 6 2nd Watch

7=9 3rd Watch

10-12 4th Watch

When Does the Sabbath Begin?

Weekly Shabbat

Nehemiah 13:19 And it came to be, at the gates of Yerushalayim, as it began to be dark before the Sabbath, that I commanded the gates to be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, so that no burdens would be brought in on the Sabbath day.

Sunseting Sabbath Reckoning

Friday Sundown Saturday Dawn Saturday Sundown Sunday Dawn Close the Gates for Protection at Sundown Keep the Gates Closed for Shabbat Keep Gates Closed for Protection at Sundown Open Gates at Dawn for Business Sabbath Starts Sabbath Sabbath Ends

Dawning Sabbath Reckoning Friday Sundown Saturday Dawn Saturday Sundown Sunday Dawn Close the Gates for Protection at Sundown Keep the Gates Closed for Shabbat Keep Gates Closed for Protection at Sundown Open Gates at Dawn for Business Sabbath Starts Sabbath Sabbath Ends

In both of the above scenarios, the gates would have been closed at sunset on Friday evening, and opened at dawn on Sunday morning. The primary argument for a sunset recocking based on Nehemiah 13, is based on the idea that the gates were closed immediately prior to shabbat. However, the verse doesn’t mention immediately. Whether the gates were closed just prior to shabbat at sunset, or a full 12 hrs prior to shabbat at dawn, in either scenario the gates are shut prior to shabbat. Please also check out Nehemiah 7:3 and 1 Chronicles 9:2627

Is this the Sabbath??? And if so, does it matter that Messiah was healing on it?

● Luke 4:40 And when the sun was setting, all who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him. And He laid His hands on each one of them and healed them.

● Mark 1:32 And when evening came, when the sun had set, they brought to Him all who were sick and those who were demonpossessed.

● John 19:4220:1 There, then, I because of the Preparation Day of the Yehuḏim, they laid out , because the tomb was near. And on the first day of the week Miryam from Mag̅dala came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

Feasts:

● Pesach At Even???

● Feast of Unl. Bread

● Feast of Weeks

● Shavuot

● Yom Teruah

● Yom Kippur At Evening on the 9th to Evening on the 10th

● Sukkot

● Shemini Atzeret

Between the evenings:

b. dual in phrase (only P) םִבּיַרְעַה ָבּין ֵbetween the two evenings, i.e. probably between sunset and dark (see Thes [various views fully given]; otherwise Di Exodus 12:6 ; on form as possibly only expanded plural see Ges § 88c ), Exodus 12:6; Exodus 16:12; Exodus 29:39,41; Exodus 30:8; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:3,5,11; Numbers 28:4,8 YHWH definitely removed His feasts from His people during exile, did this occur through a different calendar?

● Hosea 2:11 “I will also put an end to all her gaiety, her feasts, her new [months], her Sabbaths and all her festal assemblies.

● Isaiah 1:14 “I hate your new [month] festivals and your appointed feasts, they have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

● Lamentations 1:4 The roads of Zion are in mourning because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; her priests are groaning, her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is bitter.

● Zephaniah 3:18 “I will gather those who grieve about the appointed feastsThey came from you, O Zion; the reproach of exile is a burden on them.

● Isaiah 29:1 Woe, O Ariel, Ariel the city where David once camped! Add year to year; observe your feasts on schedule.

Conclusion Neither Torah nor Messiah ever infer a sunset reckoning of a day. In both instances we see some scripture that could be used out of context, but it’s overwhelming the case, that the writers and characters in scripture lived and thought about a day in the context of a day starting when the sun was rising, and not when it was setting. Shalom! Resources:

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Unnecessary Historical references: Here are quotations from many credible Jewish and Gentile historians who confirm that the Yisraelite ancient day began at sunrise,…and that the “evening to evening” dayreckoning actually came at a later time, via Babylonial [Judaism] tradition: (From (https://www.facebook.com/yahunatan.powell?fref=nf)

● “There can be no doubt that in preexilic times the Israelites reckoned the day from morning to morning. The day began with the dawn and closed with the end of the night following it…” (Jacob Zallel Lauterbach, Rabbinic Essays, (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1951), p. 446)

● “…In earlier traditions a day apparently began at sunrise (e.g., Lev. 7:1517; Judg. 19:419)… later its beginning was at sunset and its end at the following sunset… this system became normative… and is still observed in Jewish tradition, where for example , the sabbath begins on Friday evening at sunset and ends Saturday at sunset…” (Oxford Companion to the Bible, p.744).

● “…It is also interesting that according to the Karaite historian AlQirqisanI (ca. 975 CE), the dissident Meswi alOkbari (ca.850 CE) broke from traditional Rabbinical Judaism in an attempt to get back to the original religion and began the reckoning of the day from sunrise. (The Itinerary of R. Benjamin of Tudela, ix, 58, ed. GruhutAdler, (1904), p. 23)

● “…Early in the old testament period, when Canaan was under Egypt’s influence, the day started at sunrise… later, perhaps under Babylonian influence, the calendar seems to have changed. the day began at moonrise (1800 hrs) and a whole day became an evening and a morning…” (Lion Encyclopedia of the Bible p.163).

● “In order to fix the beginning and ending of the Sabbathday and festivals and to determine the precise hour for certain religious observances it becomes necessary to know the exact times of the rising and setting of the sun. According to the strict interpretation of the Mosaic law, every day begins with sunrise and ends with sunset… (Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 591597)

● “When the Jews returned to Palestine after their Babylonian exile (516 B.C.E.) they brought back with them the Babylonian astronomy and way of reckoning time…” (What is a Jew, p. 108)

● “…It is also interesting that according to the Karaite historian AlQirqisanI (ca. 975 CE), the dissident Meswi alOkbari (ca.850 CE) broke from traditional Rabbinical Judaism in an attempt to get back to the original religion and began the reckoning of the day from sunrise. (The Itinerary of R. Benjamin of Tudela, ix, 58, ed. GruhutAdler, (1904), p. 23)

● “Among the Greeks the day was reckoned from sunset to sunset…” (Handbook of Chronology, op.cit., p.8).

● “…The Israelites, like the Babylonians, counted their days from sunset to sunset…” (NIV Study Bible, p.707). HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

● “…The night time is considered as belonging to the preceding period of daylight. from this there developed the meaning of “day” in the sense of the cycle made up of one period of daylight and one period of darkness, or according to our modern reckoning, twentyfour hours…from the natural viewpoint the twentyfour hour day begins at sunrise…however, beside this conception there arose another idea of the twentyfour hour day, according to which this daily period began at sunset… although the earlier computation did not die out completely, the custom of considering the day as beginning at sunset became general in later Jewish times…” (Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Bible. p.497).

● “There can be no doubt that in preexilic times the Israelites reckoned the day from morning to morning. The day began with the dawn and closed with the end of the night following it…” (Jacob Zallel Lauterbach, Rabbinic Essays, (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1951), p. 446).

● “…To the Light He gives the name Day, to the Darkness the name Night…Thus the work of the first day, reckoned probably from morning to morning, is accomplished. The period of Light is followed by Evening and Darkness, which comes to an end with the next morning when the second day begins…”

● (Peake’s Commentary on The Bible, p.136).

● “In the Old Testament the earlier practice seems to have been to consider that the day began in the morning. In Gen. 19:34, for example, the “morrow” (ASV) or “Next Day” (RSV) clearly begins with the morning after the preceding night…” (Jack Finegan, The Handbook of Biblical Chronology, p.78).

● “…In earlier traditions a day apparently began at sunrise (e.g., Lev. 7:1517; Judg. 19:419)… later its beginning was at sunset and its end at the following sunset…this system became normative… and is still observed in Jewish tradition, where for example , the sabbath begins on Friday evening at sunset and ends Saturday at sunset…” (Oxford Companion to the Bible, p.744).

● “That the custom of reckoning the day as beginning in the evening and lasting until the following evening was probably of late origin is shown by the phrase “tarry all night” (Jdg 19:69); the context shows that the day is regarded as beginning in the morning; in the evening the day “declined,” and until the new day (morning) arrived it was necessary to “tarry all night” (compare also Num 11:32)” (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia). ● “We know little about the old Israelite calendar, apart from the laws of the festivals. But the Mishnah (the collection of Jewish law made at the end of the 2nd century AD) fully describes the system which the Jews had worked out under Babylonian influence…” (Eerdman’s Handbook to the Bible).

● “In order to fix the beginning and ending of the Sabbathday and festivals and to determine the precise hour for certain religious observances it becomes necessary to know the exact times of the rising and setting of the sun. According to the strict interpretation of the Mosaic law, every day begins with sunrise and ends with sunset… (Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 591597).

● “Days were reckoned from morning to morning… Following the reign of King Josia (c. 640609), and especially after the Babylonian exile a number of significant and enduring changes occurred in the Israelite calendar showing that the Jews gradually adopted the Babylonian calendar of the time…the seven day week persisted despite its failure to divide evenly either the month or the year. The day however, was counted from evening to evening, after the Babylonian fashion…” (New Catholic Encyclopedia Volume 11, p.1068). ● “So far as we know, the Babylonian calendar was at all periods truly lunar… the month began with the evening when the new crescent was for the first time again visible shortly after sunset. Consequently, the Babylonian day also begins in the evening…” (Exact Sciences in Antiquity, p.106). HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

● “…Numerous scholars have argued for the existence in Bible times of a sunrise method of day reckoning…the evidence for the sunrise reckoning is significant and cannot be ignored…” (The Time of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, Chapter 5).

● “In Israel, the day was for a long time reckoned from morning to morning…and it was in fact in the morning, with the creation of light, that the world began; the distinction of day and night, and time too, began on a morning (Gen. 1:35, cf. 14:16, 18). The opposite conclusion has been drawn from the refrain which punctuates the story of creation: “There was an evening and there was a morning, the first, second, etc., day”; This phrase, however, coming after the description of each creative work (which clearly happens during the period of light), indicates rather the vacant time till the morning, the end of a day and the beginning of the next work…The change of reckoning must there fore have taken place between the end of the monarchy and the age of Nehemias… this would bring us to the beginning of the exile…” (Ancient Israel, p.181182).

● “The first evening was not the gloom, which possibly preceded the full burst of light as it came forth from the primary darkness, and intervened between the darkness and full broad daylight. It was not till after the light had been created, and the separation of the light from the darkness had taken place, that evening came, and after the evening the morning…It follows from this, that the days of creation are not reckoned from evening to evening, but from morning to morning…” (Commentary on the Old Testament, The First Book of Moses, p. 51).

● “Days were reckoned from morning to morning… Following the reign of King Josia (c. 640609), and especially after the Babylonian exile a number of significant and enduring changes occurred in the Israelite calendar showing that the Jews gradually adopted the Babylonian calendar of the time…the seven day week persisted despite its failure to divide evenly either the month or the year. the day however, was counted from evening to evening, after the Babylonian fashion…” (New Catholic Encyclopedia Volume 11, p.1068) ● “…Numerous scholars have argued for the existence in Bible times of a sunrise method of day reckoning…the evidence for the sunrise reckoning is significant and cannot be ignored…” (The Time of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, Chapter 5)

● “In Israel, the day was for a long time reckoned from morning to morning…and it was in fact in the morning, with the creation of light, that the world began; the distinction of day and night, and time too, began on a morning (Gen. 1:35, cf. 14:16, 18). The opposite conclusion has been drawn from the refrain which punctuates the story of creation: ‘There was an evening and there was a morning, the first, second, etc., day’; This phrase, however, coming after the description of each creative work (which clearly happens during the period of light), indicates rather the vacant time till the morning, the end of a day and the beginning of the next work…The change of reckoning must therefore have taken place between the end of the monarchy and the age of Nehemias… this would bring us to the beginning of the exile…” (Ancient Israel, p.181182).

● “In early Jewish practice,… it seems to have been customary to reckon the day from sunrise to sunrise, or, rather, from dawn to dawn. Thus the law for the “praiseoffering” (lev. 7:17 (pt) specifies that this sacrifice must be eaten on the day upon which it is offered, and that nothing may be left until morning. The repetition of the law in Lev. 22:30… is even more explicit: “On that very day (when it was sacrificed) it shall be eaten; ye shall not leave anything of it until morning. Clearly the next morning is here reckoned as belonging to the next day, and not the same day as the preceding evening and night. In other words, the day is reckoned here from sunrise to sunrise… HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

● Likewise in Exod. 16:19f…the manna was given to the people in the morning, just at dawn and before the sun had become warm (16:21). It was to be eaten only on the day upon which it was gathered; nothing was to remain over until the next morning; that which did so became foul. Here, too, the day seems to have been reckoned from dawn to dawn…From Matt. 28:1 It may be inferred that the practice of reckoning the day from sunset to sunset was not universal in Israel, but in certain circles the older practice continued for several centuries…It is manifest that the day is still reckoned here from dawn to dawn. This is also the implication of the parallel passage, Mark 16:1f…Luke 23:56b24:1 seems to imply the same…

● Finally, it is significant that in the second Temple, throughout its entire existence, the practice seems to have been in all ritual matters to reckon the day from dawn to dawn, and not according to the later practice, from sunset to sunset…even the rabbis, who, themselves, reckoned the day from sunset to sunset, and refused to admit the legitimacy of any other practice, or rather, absolutely ignored all divergent practice, none the less had to admit the validity of the interpretation of Lev. 7:15…

● the day was at one time reckoned from sunrise to sunrise…

● The earlier practice, which continued until the time of the secondary strata of the Priestly code, was to reckon the day from dawn to dawn… The later practice was to reckon the day from sunset to sunset…

● It is impossible to tell exactly when this change in the mode of reckoning the day took place in Israel, and what causes brought it about. Possibly it may have had something to do with the introduction of the lunar calendar instead of the solar, for the lunar calendar naturally presupposes a reckoning of the day from nightfall to nightfall…

● It was probably coincident with the revision of the festival calendar, which took place in the period after the time of Ezra, and was, in all probability, the work of the soferim or of the Great Synod in the fourth century B.C. This may also be inferred from the statement in the Talmud (Berachoth 33a) that the men of the Great Synod instituted the ceremonies of Kiddush and Havdalah, the solemn sanctification of the Sabbath on Friday eve, and its equally solemn ushering out on Saturday eve, in other words, ceremonies specifically marking the beginning and close of the Sabbath as at sunset. These were ceremonies for the Jewish home instead of the Temple. This, coupled with the fact that in the second Temple the old system of reckoning the day from dawn to dawn continued to be observed, as we have seen, may perhaps indicate that this entire innovation was the work of an antipriestly group or party in the Great Synod…” (The Sources of the Creation Story Gen. 1:1 2:4, p. 169212).

● “A new stage in the investigation of the problem of the calendar of ancient Israel was marked by the appearance of a learned article by E. Koenig in 1906…He maintains that two distinct calendars were current in ancient Israel. The first, a solar calendar…This solar calendar was well adapted to the conditions of the simple, agricultural life which the Israelites lived during the first period of their sojourn in Palestine. It reckoned the day from sunrise..

.● The second calendar was a lunisolar year…The day now came quite naturally to be reckoned from sunset…This second calendar was obviously based upon Babylonian models and was adopted under direct Babylonian influence at about 600 B.C., when Babylonian religion and general culture began to affect with steadily increasing force the Jewish exiles in Babylonia and, through those of them who return from exile, the Jews who had remained in Palestine. This broadly sums up Koenig’s conclusions.

● …the time of the transition from the reckoning of the day as beginning with morning to the reckoning of it as beginning with evening… HaYom ‐ The Day Psalm 90:12 So Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

● …that in the earlier calendar and in the literature which records this the day was reckoned from the morning, presumably from sunrise, while in the later calendar and the literature pertaining thereto the day was reckoned from the evening…must be eaten upon the day upon which it is sacrificed, and that nothing of it must be allowed to remain over until morning. Obviously the implication here is that the next morning is no longer a part of the day upon which the sacrifice was offered, but mark the beginning of the next day… ● …Elsewhere we have presented quite a mass of evidence which establishes conclusively that the earlier practice in Israel during the biblical period was to reckon the day from sunrise to sunrise..

● …That in the earliest period of Israelite sojourn in Palestine, under calendar 1, the day was reckoned from morning to morning is established by a superabundance of evidence… ● …This in turn, together with other important considerations, would point to a time approximately about the beginning or the first half, of the third century B.C. as that of the introduction of the new system of reckoning the day.” (Supplementary Studies in The Calendars of Ancient Israel, p. 1148).

My Story

I want to take a second to tell everyone my story and how I got here. When we came into this we were told a day started at sunset, so we switched our entire life and thought of a new day starting at sunset, even in our daily conversations. After a while I started to question this when I reread Genesis.

After asking those in my fellowship about this, they quickly pointed out some verses and I accepted their instruction. A while later we started wondering again, this time it was after Sukkot when the Torah portion restarted and we read Genesis again, and I said to my wife, this doesn’t feel right, Genesis seems to point to a dawn start. So I asked another friend who pointed to Nehemiah, Day of Atonement, and Pesach, and I accepted it again.

Finally someone on FB said a day started at Dawn and I thought I should do my own study. So, I sat down and looked up all the verses that had the word day in them and it came back with over 2,500 I think, clearly that was not the route to take. Then I looked up all the verses with the word night, still a lot, and I read some, but I wanted to narrow it down even further.

Thirdly I looked up every verse that had day and night in the same verse, this way, if night showed up first a disproportionate amount of times, that could show some insight into how the culture thought, and likewise with the reverse.

Now this may not be the most advantageous way to start it, but it’s how I went about it. I had 2 premises,

`1 Torah + Messiah’s witness matter more than the rest of scripture, since even IF Nehemiah says shabbat starts at sunset, but Torah says otherwise, I take torah since Nehemiah just went through captivity.

2. Only scripture would be used for this study, and at the end I would read 3 articles on each position, to see the potential weaknesses or scriptures I missed when forming my conclusion.

What I found was that in the 100+ verses that mention day plus night in the same verse, it’s overwhelmingly day and then night (89 vs 14).

Secondly I found time after time, where life, and not the order of words, seems to be the biggest factor in how they viewed a day.

After finishing my study using no articles or books other than scripture, and with no agenda except to find the truth, I came to the conclusion very confidently, in a dawn start

.After this I sat down and read three articles on a sunset start and was left with ton’s of confusion. I prayed and said Father, I am about to give up, if I cannot figure out something so basic, as to when a day begins, how do I have any hope to be able to understand anything else in scripture? He directed me back to my original premises and I double checked Torah and Messiah, and they are FIRMLY on the side of a dawn start. So I read my three articles on a dawn start, and was brought a lot of shalom AND CONFIDENCE in my finding through scripture. Since that time, I have studied each position more and more and more. I have concluded that there are really only 4 or 5 idea’s in s cripture that ‘prove’ a sunset position, and all 5 can be used just as convincingly to ‘prove’ a dawn position, and in the other 2040+ verses that prove a dawn position, they cannot be used to prove a sunset position. Those 5 positions are the following: Genesis creation account, Pesach order, Day of Atonement, Nehemiah, and when a person becomes clean. None of those idea’s should be used to transpose how they are done onto the structure of a day, that’s not their purpose, neither is it the context of scripture, IMO. I look forward to everyone’s feedback.

More studies:

No1. WHEN DOES THE DAY BEGIN And END By Nabi’jah Ariel

No 2. YHWH When Does a Day Begin By paradigmshift77

No3. Chodesh means month NOT moon By Samuel Thompson

https://youtu.be/BMkT_1njwK4

When does a day start? Does The Sabbath really begin at evening (sunset to sunset) like we have been told for so many years? Why didn’t the Creator say,“and the evening and the evening”, day 1? Could it be possible that the words “evening and the morning” from Genesis the first chapter mean something else?

Many Sabbath Keepers have come to the conclusion that the phrase “the evening and the morning” determines the beginning of a new day. Is this your thinking? Creation started with night first, then the light (day) came. Therefore, evening equals the night and the morning equals the day. This constitutes one day.

Do you believe this? The evening equals the night portion of the day and the morning equals the daylight portion of the day. Can this be proven from the scriptures?

Let the scriptures speak!

First, here are some graphics of the creation account as they show the passage of time.

Notice there is creation activity during the day, AND there was evening, AND there was morning.

The next day begins where the first day ended – in the morning:

Also notice that on the second day, Elohim does not declare anything good.

Here is Rashbam’s (Rashi’s grandson) interpretation of Genesis 1:5 “5. God named the newly-formed unit of twelve hours of light “day” and the newly-formed unit of twelve hours of darkness “night,” and they have been so called ever since, day always preceding night. Daylight turned to evening as its light faded; then, morning broke as the morning star signaled the end of night. The first of the six days of creation referred to in the Ten Commandments was, thus, completed and the second day began.” You can read all of his interpretation of Genesis at http://www.js.emory.edu/BLUMENTHAL/GenRashbam.html

I included the above quote for those who hold more to the rabbinic model, to show that the rabbi’s don’t all agree.

On the seventh day, He doesn’t declare anything good, and there is no mention of evening and morning.

The same pattern of creation is duplicated in the command to instruct children in Deuteronomy 6:7

And it occurs in the cycle of life as well:

Genesis 1:1-5 (King James Version)

1 In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was (became or had become) without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light,.
4 And Elohim saw the light, that it was good: and Elohim divided the light from the darkness. (The creator separates the light from the darkness)
5 And Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Why didn’t The Creator just say, “and the evening and the evening” were the first day.

We see this same pattern on each day “And the evening and the morning” second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day, and the sixth day.

Light = Day and Darkness = Night … remember this.

What is the evening and the morning?

Definition of “Evening”

The word evening comes from the Hebrew root word “arab” which means “to grow dark”. See below.

Definition of “Morning”

Let’s also look up the word “Day”

Basic Strong’s Concordance Usage 101

The word “evening” #H6153 according to Strong’s Concordance means:
1) evening, night, sunset
a) evening, sunset
b) night

So which is it? Evening or sunset or night?

“Evening and sunset” is the primary meaning and “night” is the secondary meaning. To get a clearer understanding of the meaning for “evening” we have to look at the “root word” from which it is derived. That Hebrew word is “ARAB” which means “to grow dark”. The word night is not a good definition of the word “evening”.

However, there is a separate Hebrew word for “night” and that word is “layil”. Always look at the context in which a word is used.

Let’s read Genesis 1:1-4 again using light = day and darkness = night from Genesis 1:5

1 In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
2 And the earth was (had become or became) without form, and void; and night was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And Elohim said, Let there be day: and there was day.
4 And Elohim saw the day, that it was good: and Elohim divided the day from the night.
5 ….. And it came to be evening (growing dark) and it came to be morning (growing light): the first Day.

Notice the translation from The Scriptures and The Hebrew Interlinear Bible of Genesis 1:5

The evening and the morning does not and cannot equal one day. If it did, then we would be keeping the Sabbath from sunset until sunrise in the darkness of night. Then I would ask you, why are you keeping the Sabbath from sunset to sunset instead of sunset to morning? Therefore, we know that there is a deeper meaning of “and the evening and the morning”.

Just because the darkness (night) existed on earth first doesn’t necessarily mean that the day begins at sunset or in darkness. The evening cannot exist unless there is light (day) first. In fact the evening is part of the day, but we’ll prove this later. The evening marks the ending of a day going into the night. The morning marks the period where night ends and day begins. And “the evening and the morning” are transitional periods that separate the day from the night.

When the light (day) was in the process of being removed from darkness (night), it was evening, and the coming of light brought morning, the completion of a day. A 24 hour period should be reckoned from morning to morning. However, the 24 hour period consists of The Day and The Night.

The progression would look like this:

C. H. Leupold (Exposition of Genesis, Vol. 1, pp. 57-58) states: [Gen. 1:5], presents not an addition of items but the conclusion of a progression. On this day there had been the creation of heaven and earth in the rough, then the creation of light, the approval of light, the separation of day and night. Now with evening the divine activities ceased: they are works of light not works of darkness. The evening “erbhof” merges into night and the night terminates with morning. But by the time morning is reached, the first day is concluded, as the account says succinctly, ‘the first day,’ and everything is in readiness for the second day’s task. For ‘evening’ marks the conclusion of the day, and ‘morning’ marks the conclusion of the night. It is these conclusions, which terminate the preceding, that are to be made prominent.”

Upon searching the scriptures you will discover that a 24-hour period consists of morning, day, evening and night. The day portion is a 12 hour period that occurs between the morning and the evening. Still using Genesis 1 as our foundation we see that in verse 5, the light is called day and the dark is called night, furthermore we see that the evening and morning are the separation markers between the day and night. Also notice that throughout Genesis 1 we see the words “and the evening and the morning” six times indicating the days when creation occurred. However, in Genesis 2:1-3 we see that only the seventh day was mentioned and was made set-apart. There is no “and the evening and the morning was the seventh-day.” It doesn’t exist. There is no reference of a “seventh night” or “Sabbath night” as set-apart. Only the seventh day was set apart by The Most High and should be observed as the Sabbath Day or Shabbat Yom.

Does the evening start the day (going into night) or is it a part of the day (light)?

John 11:9-10 (King James Version)
Understanding The Day

9 The Messiah answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbled not, because he seeth the light of this world. 10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbled, because there is no light in him.

When words like “tomorrow“, “the next day“, “in that day“, or “the same day“ are used in the Bible, this indicates that the evening is a continuation of the day and not the beginning of a new day. You’ll be able to see this clearly in the following verses.

Judges 19:9 (King James Version)

9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day (light) draweth toward evening (sunset), I pray you tarry all night (night comes after sunset): behold, the day (light) groweth to an end (at sunset), lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow (next day of light) get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.

Mark 4:35 (King James Version)

35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. The words “same day and even” cannot be used this way if “even” starts a new day

John 20:19 (King James Version)

19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came The Messiah and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. The words “same day and evening” cannot be used this way if “evening” starts a new day.

Jonah 4:7 (New King James Version)

7 But as morning dawned the next day The Most High prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant that it withered. The day starts in the morning at daybreak.

Exodus 18:13 [King James Version]

[13] And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening..

Leviticus 7:15 (King James Version)

15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.

Morning begins a new day; otherwise it would have said “none should be left until evening”, if evening begins the new day.

1 Samuel 19:11 (King James Version)

11 Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain. If the evening starts the day, tomorrow would be the following night and not the following morning.

Remember this verse

John 11:9 (King James Version)

9 The Messiah answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

Matthew 20:1-16 (King James Version)
The Master’s Vineyard

1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
8 So when even was come (the 12th hour), the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour (from the 11th hour until the 12th hour), and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Leviticus 23:26-32 (King James Version)
The Day of Atonement

This is the only place I have been able to find scripture that use “even to even”.

26 And YAH spake unto Moses, saying, 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh monththere shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy (set-apart) convocation (gathering) unto you; and ye shall AFFLICT (H6031) your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto YHUH. 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before YHUH your Elohim(Alahiym). 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 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

The Day of Atonement is actually on the 10th day of the 7th month . Israel was to afflict (fast) their souls starting the 9th day at even until the even of the 10th day.

If we use the sunset to sunset scenario to observe The Day of Atonement starting at sunset on the 10th day and end the Day of Atonement at the following sunset, then what happens to afflicting our souls on the 9th day?

If we use the sunset to sunset scenario to observe The Day of Atonement starting at sunset on the 9th day and end the Day of Atonement at the following sunset, then what happens to afflicting our souls on the 10th day?

The only option in keeping a Sunset to Sunset Day of Atonement to be inclusive of both the 9th day and the 10th day would be a 48 hour Day of Atonement.

However, if we recognize that a day begins at sunrise and ends at sunset (evening), then the Day of Atonement would be a 24 hour period starting the evening of the 9th and ending the evening of the 10th day. PERFECT!

Genesis 19:23, 33-35 (King James Version)
Lot’s deliverance

23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 33 And they made their father drink wine that night (after the day light, same 24 hour period): and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 And it came to pass on the morrow (the next day of light), that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight (last night; not yesterday) with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. See the progression from the day to night and the terminology used by Lot’s daughters to describe the event .

Disclaimer: Kingdom-info does not condone incest. Incest is a direct violation of the law of YAH (Torah) Leviticus 18:6-18.

Exodus 12:6-12 (King James Version)
Passover

6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day (light) of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening (sunset).
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night (the 14th), roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning (the 15th) ; and that which remained of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the The LORD’s Passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

The Day of Preparation Before The Feast of Unleavened Bread

Matthew 27:57-62
Mark 15:42-46
Luke 23:50-54
John 19:38-42

If you are reckoning time from sunset to sunset, it is very difficult to see the flow or harmony between the Torah (law) account of the Passover and the Gospel account of the Messiah Crucifixion on Passover.

Sequence of events:

1. Joseph of Arimathea prepared the body of The Messiah to be buried on the Preparation Day before the Holy Day.

2. John 19:31 (King James Version): The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

He knew that he had to get the body ready for burial as soon as possible on the preparation day (Passover) before the Feast of Unleavened Bread (The Holy Day). Joseph knew that the body of The Messiah could not be left hanging overnight according to the Law or Torah. Take a look at Deuteronomy 21:22-23 & Joshua 10:26-27 .

3. It was already ” between the evening” (from 3:00 pm to sunset toward the beginning of darkness or night) on the Day of Preparation (i.e. Wednesday evening) when Joseph requested permission from Pilate to take The Messiah’s body (See Matthew 27:57-58; Mark 15:42-43). .

4. Pilate sent a centurion to verify that The Messiah was dead (Mark 15:44-45).

5. Joseph purchased linen strips to wrap the body of The Messiah (Mark 15:46).

6. Joseph returned to the place of the crucifixion to take down the body (Mark 15:46, John 20:27).

7. Nicodemus shows up with approximately 100 pounds of myrrh and aloes to prep the body for burial (John. 19:39, 40).

8. The body of The Messiah was taken to the tomb and a stone was rolled in front of it (Mark. 15:46; John. 19:41).

Remember this: It was already between the evenings when Joseph got permission from Pilate to take the body.

By the time they got the body buried, it would have been at sunset going into the night and the Sabbath (which started the next morning) was drawing near (Luke 23:54).

Luke 23:54 (King James Version)
54 And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on.

Let’s look up the words “drew on” …

Exodus 16:1-26 (King James Version)
Manna

1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to Elohim we had died by the hand of YAH in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4 Then said YAH unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that YAH hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of YAH; for that he heareth your murmurings against YAH: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
8 And Moses said, This shall be, when YAH shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that YAH heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against YAH.
9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before YAH: for he hath heard your murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of YAH appeared in the cloud.
11 And YAH spake unto Moses, saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread
13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which YAH hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which YAH hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning (the next day).
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and
Moses was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning (the start of the day), every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is that which YAH hath said, To morrow (the next morning or day or light) is the rest of the holy sabbath unto YAH: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning (the start of the day).
24 And they laid it up till the morning (the start of the day), as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day (light); for to day is a
Sabbath (light) unto YAH: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day (light), which is the Sabbath; in it there shall be none.

Nehemiah 13:15-20 (King James Version)
Sabbath Violations

15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
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?
18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath.
19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day. (If the Sabbath is from sunset to sunset, the phrase “began to be dark before the Sabbath” would not be necessary because it should already be the Sabbath. It is obvious that the Sabbath had not come yet and that the night before is not the Sabbath. The gates of Jerusalem were closed when it became dark according to Nehemiah 7:3. The Sabbath begins on the following morning or day.
20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice. (Some translations use the word “spent the night” for the word lodged).
21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath. (They came no more on the Sabbath to do what? To sell their merchandise)

Began to be dark in Nehemiah 13:19 is used by most but not all translations of the Bible. I have noticed that some translations use “began to shadow”. This is used by the Hebrew Interlinear Bible.

New International Version Nehemiah 13:19 as:
When evening shadows (meaning sunset) fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.

If you are doing your Sabbath from sunset to sunset, then “before the sabbath” in this verse means the going down of the sun into the night.

In a sunrise to sunset reckoning of the Sabbath, “before the Sabbath” means” rising of the sun on the next day (light)

Let’s look up the words “Began to be dark” is Strong’s H6751 – tsalal. This word has the following meaning …

1) to be or become or grow dark

a) (Qal) to become or grow dark

b) (Hiphil) to shadow

This word comes from a primitive word Strong’s # H6749 – tsalal which means 1) (Qal) to sink, be submerged

Gesenius’s Lexicon states that the word means to be shaded or dusky.

When I looked at the Hebrew word, it does not have the Hiphil stem attached to it. The Hebrew Hiphil Stem would cause the word to mean “To Shadow”. Therefore the meaning of the word is (QAL) “to began to be dark”.

No matter how you translate it, it has something to do with shadows and growing dark. Since there are no shadows after sunset, the verse would have to be speaking of a time prior to sunset. Long shadows are a characteristic of the time just before sunset.

Let’s say that Nehemiah closed the gates just before sundown, what would have been the purpose? Obviously, it was “before the Sabbath” which would start the next day. Nehemiah did not want people bringing in and carrying burdens into Jerusalem to sell on the “Sabbath day” so he had the gates shut to prevent that in verse 19. The word day carries the meaning “heat of the day” from its hebrew root word.

To shadow, when does that occur? Right after the sun has reached its highest point in the sky as it descends into a sunset.

If he shut the gates at sundown, someone could have come in just before sundown. It was the intent of the merchants to bring their merchandise into Jerusalem to set up and sell on the Sabbath, but notice the use of the words “Sabbath Day” in Nehemiah 9:19 & 22.

Nehemiah 7:3 tells us that the gates were usually closed at night. This was an ongoing event every night. Therefore, Nehemiah closed the gates during the day (6th day) before sunset and the gates were not opened until after the Sabbath Day.

Nehemiah 7 (New King James Version)

[1] Then it was, when the wall was built and I had hung the doors, when the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, [2] that I gave the charge of Jerusalem to my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the leader of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared Elohim more than many.
[3] And I said to them, “Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut and bar the doors; and appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his watch station and another in front of his own house.”

Pay attention to this. From Genesis 1: day = light and night = darkness. The Most High said that light is called day, but man says, “No … the night is the day starting at sunset”.

The merchants could not get into the gates, so they spent the night outside the gates in hopes of getting into Jerusalem on the Sabbath Day.

Nehemiah put his guards at the gates and then the Levites were put on the gates on The Sabbath Day. Why would Nehemiah put guards on the gates when they were already assigned to keep the gates at night. Ah-Ha! They were to guard the gates during the day (6th Day) when the gates were normally open.

We would be assuming if we said that the Sabbath begins at sunset going into the night in light of all evidence presented in scripture and in nature.

Based upon the definition of the words and its root meaning, the message in Nehemiah 13:19 supports a sunrise to sunset Sabbath.

Genesis 2:1-3 (King James Version)
About The Sabbath

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day Elohim ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and
made. (What happened to “and the evening and the morning” the 7th Day? You do not see it because the Creator was making a point. The Sabbath is literally the 7th day (light) from morning to evening in the heat of the day).

I have already done the search or research and I have not discovered any mention of a “Sabbath Night “in the Bible. I challenge you to do the same.

Matthew 15:9 (King James Version)

[9] But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
(The Doctrine of Men: Keeping the Sabbath on the 6th night and the 7th day)

Mark 16:1 (King James Version)

1 And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

If the Sabbath was from sunrise to sunrise, then they could not have bought spices between the end of the Sabbath and the rising of the sun. Why? Because they could not buy or sell on the Sabbath because that would be profaning the Sabbath. Here is another verse from three different versions of the Bible that would further illustrate this point.

Matthew 28:1 (King James Version)

1 In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre

Matthew 28:1 (Young’s Literal Translation)

1 And on the eve of the Sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the Sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,

Let’s look up the Greek words for (“in the end of the Sabbath”)

Let’s also look up “begin to dawn”

The Sabbath ended at evening. The night followed the Sabbath. After that, we see the growing of light as the first [day] of the week started that morning (daybreak).

We see the same in Luke 23:54 “That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near (to grow light). The Greek word is the same as in Matthew 28:1 from strong’s G2020 meaning “to Grow Light”.

Understanding Acts 27:27-35

Some use this text to validate an evening to evening reckoning of a day, but is this really proof in light of what we already know?

Acts 27:27 & Acts 27:34 are talking about two different events.

#1. 14th night at sea
#2. 14th day of going without food

If Paul had said in verse 27 that “when the 14th night of fasting without food had come while in the Adria Sea”, then there would be a valid case for a day starting at even and ending at even.

27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; (This was the 14th night at sea)

28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.

29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,

31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.

32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

33 And while the day (light) was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. (This day is the fourteenth day of fasting)

Joshua 6 (King James Version)
The Day is The Light. A day is 12 hours and not 24 hours

[1] Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. [2] And YAH said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. [3] And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. [4] And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

Moving to verse 12…

[12] And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of YAH. [13] And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of YAH went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of YAH, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. [14] And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. [15] And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day. they compassed the city seven times. [16] And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for YAH hath given you the city.

1 Samuel 20 (King James Version)
David & Jonathan

5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon (new month or new month day), and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.

The translators decided to use the word “new moon” instead of new month or new month day. When David said tomorrow is the new moon, it had to have been during the day portion of a 24 hour period because he makes reference to “tomorrow” which would be the next day or next light.

We will see why “new month” or “new moon day” would have been a better translation later. 1 Samuel 20:5 tells us that tomorrow is the next day.

18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.

19 And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel. Three days concluded at even on the third day as stated in verse 5

20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as YAH liveth.

22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for YAH hath sent thee away.

23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, YAH be between thee and me for ever.

24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon (new moon day or new month) was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.

25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, and David’s place was empty.

26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean. Saul didn’t speak that day. The Hebrew word for “day” comes from a root word meaning “the heat of the day”.

27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David’s place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day? Notice that the translators used the word “month” here but they did not use new moon as in verse 5. It is now the second day of the month which means that yesterday was the 1st day of the month also called the new month or new moon day.

28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:

29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king’s table.

30 Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?

31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

35 And it came to pass in the morning (the morning started the day which was the third day), that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed (the third day) with David, and a little lad with him. Remember that David said he would hide until the 3rd day at even, but Jonathan came in the morning on the third day.

36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?

38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.

41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

New Moon should have been translated New Month Day. Tomorrow is the next day or light and not the night. Jonathan went at the appointed time to meet David on the third day in the morning. Pay attention to the sequence. David knew that tomorrow was the next day and the new moon day. The three days started with the new moon day and ended at the third day at even but Jonathan came in the morning of the third day.

2 Kings 7
The Syrians Flee

3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?

4 If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.”

5 And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was there.

What is definition of the word twilight?

Twilight can be in the evening as well as in the morning!

6 For YAH had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!”

7 Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives.

8 And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back and entered another tent, and carried some from there also, and went and hid it.

9 Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day (Hebrew word “yom” meaning day, daylight or in the heat of the day) is a day of good news, and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light (the next day) , some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore, come, let us go and tell the king’s household.” The lepers did what they did during the daylight. It is an assumption if we think that they did what they did at night. The word “day” is key in this verse.

10 So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound—only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact.”

11 And the gatekeepers called out, and they told it to the king’s household inside.

12 So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “Let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.’”

Judges 16:1-2
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. 2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

Abraham: The Smoking Furnace & the Burning Lamp

Does this passage of Scripture (Genesis 15:12-18) defines the beginning of a day at sunset?

On the surface, this passage of Scripture can be used to support both an “evening to evening” as well as a “sunrise to sunset” rendering of a day.

12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In the same day YHUH made a covenant with Abram, saying, unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Let us look a little closer

In verse 18, the word “same” was added by the translators to make the verse flow better in English. This is not in the Hebrew text from which the KJV was translated. Read this verse again without the word “same” in it. It makes a difference.

Genesis 15:18 (Revised): In day YHUH made a covenant with Abram, saying, unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates …

Now we see that the passage is talking about the light portion or day of a 24 hour period.

Back to Genesis 1:5, light is called day. This passage, Genesis 15:18, is either talking about the daylight before the Smoking Furnace and the Burning Lamp appearance at night, or it is talking about the daylight after.

Conclusion

The Sabbath Day (7th Day) should be celebrated from sunrise to sunset. An “even to even” scenario does not fit with events that happened in the Bible no matter how you try to fit it. If the day begins at sunset, wouldn’t that be like saying light equals darkness? Friday night is the 6th night and not the 7th day.

Hebrew words often carry multiple meanings for one word. The word day (yowm) has this same meaning. The context determines whether or not the day is a 24 hour period (day and night) or just the light portion called the day.

Leviticus 8:35 (King James Version)

35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

Esther 4:16 (King James Version)

16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

Leviticus 15

16 And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.

18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

The 7 days of a woman’s separation in Leviticus 15 consist of both the day and night in which we call a 24 hour period. She becomes clean after 7 days. She had to appear before the priest on the 8th day for atonement.

Key point: YAH says that 6 days you shall labor, but the seventh day is a day of rest. If he wanted to include the night with that, he would have said 6 days and 6 nights.

During the days of antiquity, people ceased working at night and slept. In modern times, we have electricity, open stores, and other things to allow us to work during night.

Ceasing work on the 7th day sets us apart from the rest of the world that continues to work during that time.

Barnes’ Notes on the Bible (commentary on Acts 2:15) states…
“For these are not drunken … – The word these here includes Peter himself, as well as the others. The charge doubtless extended to all. The third hour of the day – The Jews divided their day into twelve equal parts, reckoning from sunrise to sunset. Of course the hours were longer in summer than in winter. The third hour would correspond to our nine o’clock in the morning” (end).

Both of the expressions “the evening and the morning” and “the morning and the evening” can be found in the Bible.

The phrase “the evening and the morning”, (and similar expressions) occurs in Genesis. 1:5,8,13,19, 23, 31; Exodus 27:21; Leviticus 24:3; Numbers 9:21; Psalms 55:17 and Daniel 8:14,26.

The phrase “the morning and the evening”, (or similar expressions) occurs in Exodus 18:13,14; 1 Samuel 17:16; 1 Chronicles 16:40; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 2 Chronicles 13:11; 2 Chronicles 31:3; Ezra 3:3; Job 4:20; Psalms 65:8; Isaiah 21:12; Isaiah 28:19; and Acts 28:23.

Both of the expressions “night and day” and “day and night” can be found in the Bible.

The phrase, “night and day”, (and similar expressions) occurs in 1 Samuel. 25:16; 1 Kings. 8:29; Esther. 4:16; Psalms 19:2; Psalms 91:5; Isaiah 27:3; Isaiah 34:10; Jeremiah 14:17; Mark. 4:27; Mark 5:5; Luke 2:37; Acts 20:31; Acts 26:7; 2 Corinthians. 11:25; 1 Thessalonians. 2:9; 1 Thessalonians. 3:10; 2 Thessalonians. 3:8; 1 Timothy 5:5; 2 Timothy 1:3.

The phrase, “day and night”, (or similar expressions) occurs in Genesis 1:18; Genesis 7:4; Genesis 8:22; Genesis 31:39,40; Exodus 10:13; Exodus 13:21,22; Exodus 24:18; Exodus 34:28; Leviticus 8:35; Numbers 9:21; Deuteronomy 9:9,11,18,25; Deuteronomy 10:10; Deuteronomy 28:66; Joshua 1:8; 1 Samuel 30:12; 2 Samuel 21:10; 1 Kings 8:59; 1 Kings 19:8; 1 Chronicles 9:33; 2 Chronicles. 6:20; Nehemiah 1:6; Nehemiah 4:9; Nehemiah 9:12,19; Job 2:13; Psalms 1:2; Psalms 32:4; Psalms 42:3; Psalms 55:10; Psalms 74:16; Psalms 88:1; Psalms 121:6; Psalms 136:8-9; Ecclesiastes 8:16; Isaiah 28:19; Isaiah 38:12,13; Isaiah 60:11; Isaiah 62:6; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 16:13; Jeremiah 33:20,25; Lamentations 2:18; Jonah 1:17; Zechariah 14:7; Matthew 4:2; Luke 18:7; Acts 9:24; Revelations 4:8; Revelations 7:15; Revelations 12:10; Revelations 14:11; Revelations 20:10.

Job 17:12

They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness

Jeremiah 33:19-21

[19] And the word of YAH came unto Jeremiah, saying, [20] Thus saith YAH; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season (time); [21] Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

1 Thessalonians 5 (New King James Version)

[4] But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. [5] You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. [6] Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. [7] For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. [8] But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. [9] For YAH did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through Yahusha The Messiah [10] who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. [11] Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

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The Ancient Enoch Calendar Based on Qumran Dead Sea Scroll

January 11, 2017 15 Comments

YHWH Qumran Calendar

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YHWH Qumran Calendar

New Updated 364 Day Torah Zadokite Creation Calendar By MYK (1)

The Vernal Equinox is the day which the Sun passes the equator in the mid point of the Solar Analemma, this year it happened on March 2oth 2017 in Jerusalem Israel. Check for Vernal Equinox in Jerusalem timezone, once we identify the Vernal Equinox this year is March 2oth, its next day March 21st 2017 is the biblical 4th day of the creation week according to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the 4th day of creation is also the 1st day of 1st Month. which is the day the sun was created.

Genesis 1:14-19 This is a 364 day Solar Calendar, the calendar resets at the next day of identified vernal equinox in Spring every year. Biblically the new year starts in spring, the 7 days feast of tabernacle falls after the autumn equinox, the feast of trumpets is the day which no man knows the day or hour, but we know the season is around the Autumn Equinox.

“And Elohim appointed the Sun to be a Great Sign on the earth for Days, and for Sabbaths and for Months and for Feasts and for Years and for Sabbaths of Years and for Jubilees and for All Seasons of the Years.” Jubilees 2:9-10

“And the sun and the stars bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the years with perfect justice in 364 days” Book of Enoch Chapter 74

“1 And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting to thee and writing down for thee! and I have revealed to thee everything, and given thee books concerning all these: so preserve, my son Methuselah, the books from thy father’s hand, and (see) that thou deliver them to the generations of the world.

2 I have given Wisdom to thee and to thy children,
[And thy children that shall be to thee],
That they may give it to their children for generations,
This wisdom (namely) that passeth their thought.

3 And those who understand it shall not sleep,
But shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom,
And it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.” Book of Enoch Chapter 82

Why you should care about learning this calendar :

” 25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time” Daniel 7:25

Frag. 1 “the Passover is on the fourteenth of the month on the third day (of the week). On the eighteenth of the month is the Sabbath of Yehoiarib. Passover ends on the third day in the evening.“ 4Q325 A new Translation, The Dead Sea Scrolls. Page 403 Priestly Service: Sabbath, Month, and Festival – Year One

Frag. 1 “on the eleventh of the month is a Sabbath. On the fourteenth of the month is Passover, on the third day of the week. On the fifteenth of the month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the fourth day of the week. On the twenty-fifth of the month is a Sabbath. On the twenty- sixth of the month is the Barley Festival, on the day after the Sabbath.” 4Q326 A new Translation, The Dead Sea Scrolls. Page 405 Priestly Service: Sabbath, Month, and Festival – Year Four

“Frag. 1 verse 1 In the first month: on the fourth of the month is a Sabbath …” 4Q326 A new Translation, The Dead Sea Scrolls. Page 405 Priestly Service: Sabbath, Month, and Festival – Year Four

http://www.haderech.info/DSS/Calendar/QumranCalendar.pdf

BOOK OF ENOCH NOTING THE TURN OF THE YEAR

Enoch 82:4 Blessed are all the righteous ones; blessed are those who walk in the street of righteousness and have no sin like the sinners in the computation of the days in which the sun goes its course in the sky.

It the sun comes in through a door and rises for thirty days together with the chiefs of the thousands of the orders of the stars, together with the four which are added to determine the intervals within the year, that is, the intervals between the four seasons of the year; those that lead them along come in on four days.

Enoch 82:5 On this account there are people that err; they count them the four in the computation of the year: for the people make ERROR and do not recognize them accurately; for they belong to the reckoning of the year.

Very clearly, we are not to count the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox or the Winter Solstice as part of the months of the year – these are Seasonal Header Days/Chodesh and Memorial Feast Days to Noah and the flood.

The four of them are not counted as part of the days of the month during the year e.g. the Spring Equinox is not Day 1 of month 1 and to count it as such, as many seem to be doing, is to be in error.

If one plots out the priestly cycles from the Dead Sea Scrolls it becomes very apparent and clear that these four days are counted as 4 Chodesh Header Days + 360 days of the year = 364 days only

THE DAY OF THE GREAT GATE OTOT – the Vernal (Israel) Equinox)

REFRENCE： 20/3/2016
Date: Sunrise Sunset Length Difference
12 5:53 a.m. ↑ (93°) 5:45 p.m. ↑ (267°) 11:51:47 +1:57
13 5:52 a.m. ↑ (93°) 5:46 p.m. ↑ (267°) 11:53:44 +1:57
14 5:51 a.m. ↑ (92°) 5:46 p.m. ↑ (268°) 11:55:42 +1:57
15 5:49 a.m. ↑ (92°) 5:47 p.m. ↑ (268°) 11:57:39 +1:57
16 5:48 a.m. ↑ (92°) 5:48 p.m. ↑ (269°) 11:59:36 +1:57
17 5:47 a.m. ↑ (91°) 5:48 p.m. ↑ (269°) 12:01:34 +1:57
18 5:46 a.m. ↑ (91°) 5:49 p.m. ↑ (270°) 12:03:31 +1:57
19 5:44 a.m. ↑ (90°) 5:50 p.m. ↑ (270°) 12:05:29 +1:57
20 5:43 a.m. ↑ (90°) 5:51 p.m. ↑ (271°) 12:07:26 +1:57 The Equinox
21 5:42 a.m. ↑ (89°) 5:51 p.m. ↑ (271°) 12:09:23 +1:57
22 5:41 a.m. ↑ (89°) 5:52 p.m. ↑ (272°) 12:11:21 +1:57
23 5:39 a.m. ↑ (88°) 5:53 p.m. ↑ (272°) 12:13:18 +1:57
24 5:38 a.m. ↑ (88°) 5:53 p.m. ↑ (272°) 12:15:15 +1:57
25 5:37 a.m. ↑ (87°) 5:54 p.m. ↑ (273°) 12:17:12 +1:57
Taken from timeanddate.com

Enoch chapter 71:41 & 42
41. At that period the night is contracted in its length. It becomes ten parts, and the day eight parts. Then the sun goes from that second gate, and sets in the west; but returns to the east, and rises in the east, in the third gate, thirty-one days, setting in the west of heaven.
42. At that period the night becomes shortened. It is nine parts. And the night is equal with the day. The year is precisely three hundred and sixty-four days.

Enoch Chapter 71: 6 to 14
6. First proceeds forth that great luminary, which is called the sun; the orb of which is as the orb of heaven, the whole of it being replete with splendid and flaming fire.
7. Its chariot, where it ascends, the wind blows.
8. The sun sets in heaven, and, returning by the north, to proceed towards the east, is conducted so as to enter by that gate, and illuminate the face of heaven.
9. In the same manner IT GOES FORTH IN THE FIRST MONTH BY A GREAT GATE.
10. It goes forth through THE FOURTH OF THOSE SIX GATES, which are at the rising of the sun.
11. And in the FOURTH GATE, THROUGH WHICH THE SUN WITH THE MOON PROCEEDS, in the first part of it, there are twelve open windows; from which issues out a flame, when they are opened at their proper periods.
12. When the sun rises in heaven, it goes forth through this fourth gate thirty days, and by the fourth gate in the west of heaven on a level with it descends.
13. DURING THAT PERIOD the day is lengthened from the day, and the night curtailed from the night for thirty days. And then the day is longer by two parts than the night.
14. The day is precisely ten parts, and the night is eight.

Explanation of the above verses.

In the 12th month of the Priestly Calendar Solar year, the sun goes through the 3rd Eastern gate and has 31 days. At that period, or in that period of time the night becomes shortened to nine parts and it is equal with the day. If you look at the chart above you will see this to be so. In fact the Equilux ( daylight hours verses night hours) which Enoch is referring to above peaks on or about the 16th and 17th which is 3 to 4 days prior to the Great Gate OTOT event (Vernal Equinox).

Enoch verse 9, Then the sun goes forth in the FIRST MONTH of the Priestly Calendar Solar year, BY A GREAT GATE. And in this fourth gate, through which the SUN WITH THE MOON proceeds, in the first part of it, there are twelve open windows; from which issues out a flame, when they are opened at their proper periods.
In Verse 9, Enoch is talking about a GREAT GATE and the SUN AND THE MOON are ready in going through this GREAT GATE. Enoch does not mention another day like this in the years sun cycle or rotation (Tequfah).

THE SUN GOES FORTH IN THE FIRST MONTH BY A GREAT GATE (Sha’ar Gadol) WITH THE MOON. THIS DAY IS A UNIQUE DAY, DUE TO THE SUN AND THE MOON GOING THROUGH THIS GREAT GATE. THIS IS THE SIGN OF THE OTOT. THIS IS A WAITING TIME,GET READY FOR DECLARING THE DAY 4 OF THE WEEK AVIV 1 TO START A NEW YEAR!

On this day the shadow of the sun is a straight line, as there are no distortions. This day resembles Yahushua our fourth branch supporting all the other branches in the Menorah. THIS DAY UNLOCKS THE TRUE SABBATH DAY. THIS DAY IS THE GREAT SIGN FOR AVIV ONE TO BE CELEBRATED ON THE NEXT DAY.

DURING THAT PERIOD of 30 days, this first month of the year, the day is lengthened from the day, and the night curtailed from the night for thirty days. And then the day is longer by two parts than the night. As you can see in the chart above, there is a gradual shift from the nights being longer to the days being longer.after 16/17th days. Enoch is noting the shift in daylight and darkness hours and how this occurs around the GREAT GATE OTOT DAY.

(Today we call the GREAT GATE OTOT DAY the Vernal (Israel) Equinox)

Zadok Priesthood Calendar

By Restoring the Zadok Priesthood

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Found in 11 caves at Qumran (near the Dead Sea) from 1947 to 1956, and likely written by the Essenes, a Jewish sect in existence before and during the time of Yahushua (J-sus), the Scrolls have transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism, and the origins of Christianity. At least 972 scrolls were discovered along with some 85,000 fragments. They are dated between 250BC and 68AD. The scrolls are divided into two basic categories: 225 biblical scrolls and 747 non-biblical scrolls. The non-biblical scrolls are further divided into: Apocryphal scrolls, Sectarian scrolls, and Pseudepigraphic scrolls.

The Biblical scrolls contain multiple copies of the Hebrew Bible (Books of the Old Testament) and are the oldest complete texts of the Hebrew Bible in existence. Among the biblical scrolls are two books most are not familiar with, The Book of Jubilees and the Book of Enoch. Jubilees contains a significant amount of information about the Appointed Times of YHWH and Enoch contains the Solar Calendar. As part of the Sectarian scrolls, is the Calendar Scroll, which contains evidence of the calendar the Qumran community kept, it is the same Solar Calendar as prescribed in Enoch. What is interesting is that of the multiple biblical texts found there were more copies found of Jubilees and Enoch, 21 copies of the Book of Jubilees and 25 copies of the Book of Enoch, more than the copies of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Jeremiah and the other prophets (expect Isaiah), yet neither of these books made it into the Hebrew Bible or Christian Old Testament. The Qumran community who copied these scrolls obviously saw the significance of these two books.

A limestone sundial was discovered at Qumran showing physical evidence that the community were interested in determining the day of the Vernal Equinox. It was designed to measure the sun during the year rather than during the day. After studying it, two researchers concluded “It allows the determination of the cardinal points and fixing a calendar whose seasons are as near as possible to the signs of sun, moon and stars. There is strong supporting evidence that the Qumran calendar was indeed calculated with a method involving actual measuring when the sun arose in the east, as directed by the Book of Enoch.”

“The East Gate into the temple use to be called the Sun Gate or Sunrise Gate. The Sun Gate was used to record the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. Before the exile into Babylon it was held to be of imperative necessity that on two days of the year the sun shone directly through the Eastern Gate and through all the Eastern Gates of the Temple arranged in a line, directly into the very heart of the Temple proper. The Eastern Gate also called the Sun Gate served not only to check the equinoxes, when the sun rises exactly in the east, but the solstices as well: a device on the Eastern Gate was designed to reflect the first rays of the sun on the summer and winter solstices, when the sun rises in the southeast and the northeast respectively.” [Extracted from “Worlds in Collision” by Immanuel Veikovsky]. Determining the Equinoxes was important for determining when the year would begin. You need to know the Vernal Equinox to determine the 1^st day of the Solar Calendar and YHWH had included this in the construction of his temple in the time of King David and Solomon – highlighting the significance of the Zadok Solar Calendar.

Zadok (meaning “Righteous”) was a priest descended from Eleazar the son of Aaron which is the anointed line from which all High Priests must descend. The High Priest Zadok aided King David during the revolt of his son Absalom, and was instrumental in bringing King Solomon to the throne. After Solomon had The First Temple in Jerusalem constructed, Zadok was the first High Priest to serve in The Temple of Solomon. In 1 Chronicles 28:19 King David says to his son, Solomon,“All this is in writing, as YHWH, with his hand on me, has given me good sense in working out these detailed plans.” King David was passing on his instructions to Solomon, instructions given to him by the hand of YHWH, to build the Temple as YHWH had prescribed. The workings of the Zadok Solar Calendar are evident in the construction of YHWH’s temple because King David and his High Priest, Zadok, kept the Solar Calendar.

“David the son of Jesse was wise and shone like the light of the sun, a scribe and a man of discernment, blameless in all his ways before YHWH and humankind. YHWH gave him a brilliant and discerning spirit, so that he wrote: psalms, three thousand six hundred songs to sing before the alter accompanying the daily perpetual burnt offering for all the days of the year three hundred and sixty-four songs, for the Sabbath offerings fifty-two songs, for the new month offerings, the festival days and the Day of Atonement were thirty songs”. This extract found in the Psalms Scroll (from the Dead Sea Scrolls) shows that King David wrote:

364 psalms for each day of the year
52 songs for each weekly Sabbath
30 songs for the Festival Days;
The Festival Days are Pesach/Passover (1 day) ,
Matzah/ Unleavened Bread (7 days),
First Fruits of Barley (1 day), Shavuot/ First Fruits of Wheat (1 day),
First Fruits of New Wine (1 day),
First Fruits of Olive Oil (1 day),
Festival of Wood Offering (5 days),
Yom Kippur (1 day),
Sukkot (8 days) and
New Month days (4 days, 1st of the Month beginning of each quarter, these Days are called Days of Remembrance).

With the discerning spirit YHWH gave him, David wrote psalms to correspond to the Zadok Solar Calendar’s 364 day, 52 week year and YHWH’s moedim.

The Messiah and his lineage comes from The House of Zadok (the High Priest to King David). Those of the line of Zadok are called Zadokites or Zadok Priests and are the only ones qualified to serve in the office of High Priest over Israel. This is paramount because if Yahushua was to be The Eternal High Priest, and was to be qualified to offer the final sacrifice of The Passover Lamb, he must have been from The House of Zadok to be the Messiah.

In the Gospel accounts, Yahushua tells his disciples to enter the city and follow the man with the water pitcher to a home where the disciples prepare the Passover meal in the upper room. In those days men didn’t carry water that was the job of a woman, however, the only men that did carry water were Zadok Priests. The man Yahushua told the disciples to follow, carrying the water pitcher, was a Zadok Priest and the home was in the Zadok Priest village on Mt Zion.

In the time of Yahushua, the Pharisees and Sadducees followed the Greek Lunar Calendar, the lunar calendar is an Ancient Greek Calendar called the Metonic cycle. It was founded by a Greek Astronomer called Meton of Athens (5th century BC), and forced on the Israelite’s in the time of the Maccabees by Antiochus IV Epiphanes. In the year of Yahushua’s death, 30AD, there was one day between the two calendars. The Zadok Solar Calendar was one day ahead of the lunar calendar.

In the New Testament we read that Yahushua was arrested and crucified on the day of Passover, yet the night before he is crucified he is partaking of the Passover meal with his disciples. Why would he be partaking of it a day early? If Yahushua was without sin, why would He disobey YHWH’s law and celebrate a moedim on the wrong day? He wouldn’t have. Yahushua was arrested and crucified on the 14th day of Aviv on the lunar calendar but it was the 15th day of Aviv, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Zadok Solar Calendar. He had observed the Passover the evening prior to his arrest because that was the 14th of Aviv (Passover) on the Zadok Solar Calendar, the calendar He was following. He then spends three days and three nights in the grave and rises on the weekly Sabbath. On the Zadok Solar Calendar the Weekly Sabbath is three days and three nights after the 15^th of Aviv, the day Yahushua was crucified. The Zadok Solar Calendar fits perfectly to these time frames and confirms the testimony of the Gospels; Yahushua was keeping this calendar to fulfill his coming as the Messiah.

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The destruction of the Temple in 70AD was the turning point or upheaval from the Zadok Priesthood who adhered to the Solar Calendar, with the Jewish people dispersed from Jerusalem, the Greek Lunar Calendar took prominence and has remained with Rabbinical Judaism to this day. The Rabbinical lunar year is about eleven days shorter than the solar year and uses the 19-year Metonic cycle to bring it into line with the solar year, with the addition of an intercalary month every two or three years, for a total of seven times per 19 years. Even with this intercalation, the average Rabbinical calendar year is longer by about 6 minutes and 40 seconds than the current mean tropical year, so that every 216 years the Rabbinical calendar will fall a day behind the current mean solar year; and about every 231 years it will fall a day behind the Gregorian (Western) calendar year.

In addition to changes to the calendar, scripture has been changed. One of the significant, but subtle, changes is in the verses in Genesis 1:14-16, “Let there be two great lights”. The moon is not a light; it reflects the light of the sun. The “let there be” is a singular verb form ‘yehi’, which has been changed to a plural verb. The verse should read “Let there be a great light”. This parallels with the book of Jubilees. Jubilees 2:9 “And YHWH appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for Sabbaths and for months and for Feasts and for years and for Sabbaths of years and for Jubilees and for all seasons of the years”. Jubilees 6:36-37 “For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon -how (it) disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon. For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abominable (day) the day of testimony, and an unclean day a Feast day, and they will confound all the days, the Holy with the Unclean, and the Unclean day with the Holy; for they will go wrong as to the Months and Sabbaths and Feasts and Jubilees”.

P.S. The resource is taken from the Book, “The Three Temples”, by Rachel Elior. Chapter 5–The Sin of the Watchers and the Lunar Calendar, page 131. As follows
Qumranic version of Jubilees—He appointed the sun as a great sign above the earth for days, for Sabbaths, for months, for appointed times, for years, for the weeks of years, for Jubilees and for all the cycles of the years.
While the parallel text in Genesis uses the plural (in all textual witnesses) “Let there be lights…..; they shall serve as signs for the set times”. The Hebrew original however presents a linguistic difficulty of possible significance– the singular verbal form “yehi” translated here as “let there be” clashing with the plural “lights” raises questions as to the traditional text, as already noted by Onkelos (the Aramaic translator of the Pentateuch), who changed the verb to the plural in his Aramaic translation.
The community Rule, too, refers only to the “greater light” in connection with calculations of the festivals and other appointed times.

YHWH is an agricultural Elohim and the Zadok Solar Calendar is an agricultural calendar. The lunar calendar is a religious calendar. The rabbinic’s of today use the Gregorian solar calendar for their Sabbaths and the lunar calendar for the moedim. Is this scriptural?

“But with the remnant which hold fast to the commandments of YHWH. He made His Covenant with Israel forever, revealing to them the hidden things in which all Israel had gone astray. He unfolded before them His Holy Sabbaths and His Glorious Feasts, His Truth and the desires of His Will which a man must do in order to live” – Damascus Document from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Equilux Or Equinox

By Rob Moore

Who has Believed our Message?

by The Zadok Priesthood Solar Calendar

Who has believed our message? The message of the Prophets.
And to whom has the Arm of Yahuah been revealed? Isaiah 53:1

Who has believed our message and to whom has Yahuah’s Calendar been revealed?

The Zadokite Priesthood had to flee the Temple due to the invasion by Antiochus IV Epiphanies. They took with them the sacred scrolls and literature. They took with them the knowledge of Yahuah’s Calendar. The Zadokite Priesthood lived out in the wilderness. Later Onias IV (a Zadokite High Priest) had gone with, a number of those who remained loyal to his father’s memory to Egypt, where he obtained permission from the Egyptian king to rebuild a disused Temple at *Leontopolis (On) and to appoint “Priests of his own race” to serve in it. This Zadokite Priesthood presided over the Temple at Leontopolis until it was closed by Vespasian in 73 C.E.

Isaiah 19: 18-21, is a prophecy relating to Onias lV serving Yahuah in Egypt, called the “City of Destruction” in our Scriptures, but in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint it is called the “City of the Sun” (that is Heliopolis). The reputation which the Temple of Onias enjoyed is indicated by the fact that the Septuagint, written in the Jewish community of Alexandria, changes the phrase “City of Destruction” to “City of Righteousness.” Also a village on Mount Zion was inhabited by the Zadokites and Yahushua had His Last Passover in a Zadokite home on Mt Zion.

Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, we now have a better understanding of the history from 180BC to maybe 130AD. Because of the Dead Sea Scrolls we know that Yahuah’s Priests, the Zadokites kept a Solar Calendar. The Zealots who were living on the top of Masada for 5 years throughout the time of the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, 70 AD, also kept the same Solar calendar, as they had identical Scrolls, that where found in the Qumran caves.

Taken from Rachel Eliors Book,”The Three temples”, page 36. “The priestly group whose works were found at Qumran were adamantly opposed to the Temple cult of their time. The Temple cult being the Pharisees and Sadducee’s. They rejected the lunar calendar then governing the Temple in Jerusalem and instead upheld the superiority of a calendar based on the Solar year, demanding that the regular succession of Sabbaths and Festivals be derived from that Calendar. Up until the destruction of the second Temple, they fought for the concept of the Covenant and the Festival of Oaths or Covenants, also known as the Festival of Weeks (Shavuot), for every dimension of the sacred service that explicitly involved any aspect of cycle, number, date, fixed time, and counting, thus reflecting the regularity of the cosmic order, they stressed observance of the laws of purity and the rules of the Temple service associated with the perception of sacred place; and insisted on the superior right of the Zadokite priests to settle any question to Temple rituals and matters of purity and impurity, by virtue of their divine election to serve in the Temple and their eternal, sacred, heaven-granted authority.
In much of the Zadokite priestly struggle over questions relating to the calendar, the festivals and the administration of Temple affairs , they relied on traditions of angelic origin found in Enoch, Jubilees, the Rule Scroll and the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice.. They saw themselves as a congregation or community revolving, so they believed, in an angelic and priestly oneness or togetherness, beyond time, from which derived the authority and legitimacy of their traditions, laws and sacred service: they referred to themselves as a community of Yahad.
The angels were witnesses to the Covenant, guardians of the Calendar of Sabbaths and Festivals and partners in sacred rites that conformed to the cyclic Solar Calendar, with its subdivision into quarters (seasons) and Sabbaths (weeks).”

The Zadok Priesthood Solar Calendar

This Calendar BEGINS EVERY YEAR Following THE VERNAL EQUINOX (Israel) being identified: The next day of the Equinox is DAY ONE of the 364 day year of divine appointments.
The 12 months of the year are broken into 4 quarters, each quarter being 30 days, 30 days and 31 days. And each quarter has 13 Weekly Sabbaths.

To find the Weekly Sabbath, and this rule only applies to finding the Weekly Sabbath, Day One (the day after the Vernal Equinox being identified) becomes day 4 of the week and you count 5,6,7. The 7th day of this count is the Weekly Sabbath for the 364 days.
Example, As for this year 2017, the 21st of March was the Vernal Equinox (Israel). The 22nd of March is DAY ONE of the Calendar count for the 364 days of the Year. To find the Weekly Sabbath, Day ONE becomes day 4of the week, then 5, 6, and 7. The 7 falling on the 25th of March a Saturday. So Saturday is the Weekly Sabbath for this complete year of the Solar Calendar.

Now we can plot Yahuah’s Moedim.

Passover is on the 14th of the 1st month (Aviv)
Unleavened Bread is from the 15th to the 21st of the 1st month.
First Fruits of Barley is on the 26th of the 1st month, a 50 day count to–
First Fruits of Wheat (Shavuot) , the 15th of the 3rd month, a 50 day count to–
First Fruits of Wine, the 3rd of the 5th month, a 50 day count to—
First Fruits of Oil, the 22nd of the 6th month
Wood Offerings is from the 23rd to the 28th day. The 28th day is a Weekly Sabbath
The Day of Trumpets is on the first day of the 7th month
The Day of Atonement begins at sunset on the 9th day of the 7th month and finishes at sunset on the10th day. The weekly Sabbath falling on the 11th.
The Feast of Tabernacles, is from the 15th day to the 21st day of the 7th month, and the 8th day on the 22nd.
There are also 4 days of Remembrance these are on the 1st of Aviv, the 1st of the 4th month, the 1st of the 7th month and the 1st of the 10th month.

This Zadokite Solar Calendar is Yahuah’s Calendar,a Calendar of Sacred Time, Sacred Place and Sacred Rituals.
Every Weekly Sabbath, a Sabbath Sacrifice Song was sung, these were rotated around the 4 quarters in the year.
The last 4 days of the year and the first 4 days of the next year is called THE CREATION WEEK.
All of the Moedim perfectly fit the Ancient Hebrew Betrothal and Marriage customs.
The days begin at sunrise. The First Fruits of Barley is outside of the Unleavened Bread Week.

All the dates above are exactly taken from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

It says in the Dead Sea Scrolls that Yahuah will confirm His Appointments and He has and keeps doing so, as each Moedim and Weekly Sabbath comes.
We do not add to or subtract from the Weekly Sabbaths and Moedim as above.

Yahuah’s Calendar is more than a Calendar it is a relationship with our Heavenly Father. With each Divine Appointment, He reveals more of Himself and His kingdom to us.
All Esteem, Praise and Honor to Yahuah and His Son.

ADDITIONAL STUDY:

Enoch Calendar Edited on 2013 Feb 2nd

The Enoch Calender is shown in the 1st Book Of Enoch and was given by the Angel Uriel (YahEl), and is the original Priestly Calendar that was used in the Torah. The Enoch Calendar is a 12-Month Solar Calendar having 364 Days Only, and it was used by the antediluvian patriarchs and by Noah, Abraham, and Jacob.It was taught to Moses by the Angel Yah and it continued in effect through the 2nd Temple period under Ezra and Nehemiah. It was the official Hebrew calendar until the 2nd Century BCE, when King Antiochus IV Epiphanes ended the use of the Enoch Calendar and forced the Hebrew people (sons of Eber/Heber) to observe the Lunar Calendar.

The New Moon Calendar was the official calendar of the Greeks, and when “Alexander the Great” conquered the middle east at the end of the 4th century BCE, the Lunar Calendar was introduced and was gradually accepted by most of the people, except for the Hebrew people. In 172, King Antiochus appointed Menelaus, as Jerusalem’s High Priest, to introduce the Greek way of educating the young people, and to completely Hellenize the Hebrew people. He also sent a Senator from Athens to give the Hebrew people an ultimatum, to forsake the Laws of their Aloahiym Yah and follow the Kings orders or to be put to death, so most of the Hebrew people followed the Kings orders to save their families, and many were put to death. King Antiochus forced the Hebrew people to celebrate the “Birthday of the Month,” every month, at the time of the moon’s first visibility.

Hephaistio of Thebes was an astrologer in the 5th Century CE, who compiled the historical Hellenistic Astrology Records in his research work called “Apotelesmatics.” Hephaistio quotes King Antiochus saying that the New Moon is the time when the “Moon is Born” and is the “Birthday of the Month:”

But Antiochus of Athens says also that this method has a certain truth to it. “Observe,” he says “On a given day that the Moon is Born” and to this number add 180 and always deduct 29 from the Birthday [γενέθλιον] of the Month.

(Apotelesmatics, Hephaistio of Thebes, Book I,Vol VI, Compendium, tr. Robert H.Schmidt & Robert Hand 1994 p.82 lines 21-24)

In 167 BCE, when King Antiochus returned to Jerusalem after his campaign in Egypt, he immediately banned the Hebrew religion and the Enoch Calendar, and prohibited all religious practices. He dedicated the Temple in Jerusalem to Zeus, the Lord of Heaven (Baal Shamen), and ordered the people to worship Zeus. Forty Five days later, he began sacrificing swine and making abominable offerings on the altar, and this began the Maccabean revolt (1.Maccabees Chapter 1 and2.Maccabees Chapters 4, 6 and 7):

2 Maccabees 6:7 On the Monthly Birthday Celebration, the king had the Jews taken, under bitter constraint, to partake of the sacrifices; and when the feast of Dionysus came, they were forced to walk in the procession in honor of Dionysus, wearing wreaths of ivy.

1 Maccabees 1:41-51 Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people, 42 and that each should give up his customs. 43 All the Gentiles accepted the command of the king. Many even from Israel gladly adopted his religion; they sacrificed to idols and profaned the sabbath. 44 And the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah; he directed them to follow customs strange to the land, 45 to forbid burnt offerings and sacrifices and drink offerings in the sanctuary, to profane sabbaths and feasts, 46 to defile the sanctuary and the priests, 47 to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and unclean animals, 48 and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane, 49 so that they should forget the law and change all the ordinances. 50 “And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die.” 51 In such words he wrote to his whole kingdom. And he appointed inspectors over all the people and commanded the cities of Judah to offer sacrifice, city by city.

King Antiochus died 1,335 days after he dedicated the Temple to Zeus and 1,290 days after he sacrificed swine on Yah’s Altar. It happened exactly as Daniel prophesied and in exactly 350 years as prophesied. Daniel prophesied in 521 BCE and King Antiochus put in effect his Hellenizing policies in 171 BCE. The Jubilee Timing is 350 years, (Time = 100, Times = 200, ½ Time = 50), or 7 Jubilees:

Daniel 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives for ever, that it shall be for a time, times, and an half, when he shall have accomplished to shatter the power of the holy people, and put an end to it.

Daniel 12:11-13 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he that waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

The Book of Jubilees was written during this time and it preserved the Enoch Calendar. It warned the Hellenistic Jews to guard themselves against keeping the Athenian Calendar that began the year on the first New Moon after the Summer Solstice. The writers of the Book of Jubilees feared that if the Hebrew people observed King Antiochus’ monthly New Moon Festival Day that begins the Greek Months, that they would forget the Enoch Calendar and the Last Day of the Last Month (which connect with the Great Gate transitional day to the Equinox), that sets the first day of the first year and thereafter, the weekly Sabbath, the 1st Day of the Month, and the Annual Feast Days on Fixed Days every year.

Jubilees 6:34-38 And all the children of Israel will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the Months, and Seasons, and Sabbaths and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years. For I know and from henceforth will I declare it unto thee, and it is not of my own devising; for the book (lies) written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance. For there will be those who will assuredly “MAKE OBSERVATIONS OF THE MOON −how (it) DISTURBS THE SEASONS and comes in from year to year ten days too soon.

For this reason the years will come upon them when they will Disturb (the order), and make an Abominable (Day) the Day of Testimony, and an Unclean Day a Feast Day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for THEY WILL GO WRONG AS TO THE MONTHS AND SABBATHS AND FEASTS AND JUBILEES. For this reason I command and testify to thee that thou mayst testify to them; for after thy death thy children will disturb (them), so that they will not make the year Three Hundred and Sixty−Four Days Only, and for this reason they will go Wrong as to the Months and Seasons and Sabbaths and Festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.

The Birthday of the Moon Festival was observed by most of the Hebrew people because they feared King Antiochus, and this tradition continued until 359 CE, when Hillel II introduced the fixed calculated New Moon Calendar that is based on the conjunction of the earth, moon, and sun. This Lunar Calendar is used by Jews and others to this day, to determine the 1st Day of the Month, and the Annual Feast Days. However, the term “New Moon” (yareach chadash יָרֵחַ חָדָשׁ) is Not Written anywhere in the Hebrew Scriptures. The Scriptures only use the word “month” (chodesh חֹדֶשׁ) and it pertains to a Solar Month. The translators mixed up a few of the Hebrew words due to vowel point errors, like CHODESH חֹדֶשׁ which means either “month/s” or “new month” and the word CHADASH חָדָשׁ which means “New.” They also confused the word YERACH יֶרַח which means “Month,” as in a “Complete Month,” with the word YAREACH יָרֵחַ which means “Moon,” and this is where the translation error of New Moon came into the various books and bibles, as it was commonly known that the Hebrew people observed the New Moon and kept a New Moon Festival every month. However, observing the New Moon is not commanded in the Torah, nor is the term “New Moon” ever mentioned in the whole Tanach when you look at the original Hebrew text, and the word moon (yareach) is only mentioned THREE times in the Torah, of which two times are warnings not to worship or serve the moon:

Deuteronomy 4:15-19 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that YHWH spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. 16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the Moon and the stars, even all the host of the sky, and be drawn away to worship and serve them, which YHWH your Aloahiym has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

Deuteronomy 17:2-5 If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which YHWH your Aloahiym gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of YHWH your Aloahiym, in transgressing his covenant, 3 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the Moon, or any of the host of the sky, which I have Not commanded; 4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain that such abomination is done in Israel, 5 then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, and that man or the woman you shall stone to death with stones.

Genesis 37:9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the Moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

Later, when the Hebrew people adopted the Julian Calendar in 45 BCE, the 7 Day Week continued as usual and the Names of the Week Days remained the same, so the Hebrew people felt that the calendar changes would not affect them. However, the extra Day that was added, for a 365 Day Year, totally disrupted the weekly Sabbath cycle, as only on a 364 Day Calendar will the Sabbath be on a Fixed Day of the week every year, like every Saturday. The extra 365th Day made the 7th Day rotate to a different day of the week beginning on the last day of the year.

The Enoch Calendar is determined by the Sun and Stars, giving us a year of exactly 364 days that have exactly 24 hours in each day. The Julian and GregorianCalendars are Not determined by the Sun, but only by the Stars (the zodiac constellations that are ruled by planets/gods). The Julian Calendar reduced each hour of the day by 9.86 Seconds so that the hour has about 59 minutes and 50 Seconds, and the change was so subtle that the Hebrew people were unaware that this minor change could affect anything, let alone their Sabbath Day. The “9.86Seconds Per Hour” equates to almost 4 minutes per day (236.7 seconds per day or 3.9452 minutes per day), that is taken out of each of the 364 days to create the 365th day, that is the Great Gate in the book of Enoch. This is why our days are called Sidereal Days and have 23 hours, 56 minutes and 5 seconds. This “365th Created Day” is inserted into the calendar next to the Last Day of each year, which is around March 20th. The same procedure is followed again in each year to create the Leap Day, where an additional 2.47 Seconds is taken out of each Hour to create the Leap Day of February 29th, that is added in the Gregorian calendar every Four Years. This “Created Leap Day” is inserted into the calendar at the end of the 50th Week, every 4th year (i.e. 2/29/2008, 2/29/2012, 2/29/2016, 2/29/2020, etc.).

The following is a 5-Year Example showing that a Saturday Sabbath is not possible in every year. The Gregorian Calendar is an illusion and is deceptive in showing the “True 7th Day,” because when the 365th Day and 366th Day is added to the calendar, the Name Order will rotate to different days on the calendar. Although the “Number” for each day Does Not Change its Order (1st Day to 7th Day), the “Name” for each day Does Change its Order (Sunday to Saturday), and the week can begin and end on any day from Sunday to Saturday.

EXAMPLE OF 7TH DAY SABBATH ON GREGORIAN CALENDAR – When the 365th Day (Day 0) is inserted into the calendar every year in the 52nd Week,Saturday shifts Back One Day, and when the 366th Day (Day 0) is inserted into the calendar every 4th year in the 52nd Week, Saturday shifts Back Two Days. In other words, Saturday will fall on any day of the week from the 7th Day throughthe 6th Day of the week. Beginning in the 1st Year, you will see that Saturday (S)shifts backward One Day to the position of the 6th Day of the week; in the 2ndYear Saturday shifts backward One Day to the position of the 5th Day of the week; in the 3rd Year Saturday shifts backward One Day to the position of the 4th Day of the week; in the 4th Year Saturday shifts backward Two Days to the position of 2nd Day of the week; and in the 5th Year Saturday shifts backwardOne Day to the position of the 1st Day of the week. This process continues yearly on the Gregorian Calendar and the True 7th Day Sabbath will begin on a different Day of the Week (Sunday to Saturday) starting at the end of each year, beginning on March 20th,

Jubilees 2:20-22 And I have chosen the seed of Jacob from amongst all that I have seen, and have written him down as My first−born son, and have sanctified him unto Myself for ever and ever; 21 and I will teach them the Sabbath Day, that they may keep Sabbath thereon from all work. And thus He created therein a SIGN in accordance with which they should keep Sabbath with us on the Seventh Day, to eat and to drink, and to bless Him who has created all things as He has blessed and sanctified unto Himself a peculiar people above all peoples, 22 and that they should keep Sabbath together with us. And He caused His commands to ascend as a sweet savour acceptable before Him all the days.

The 365th and 366th added days (0) are an illusion and do not exist. The following shows what day of the week the Jewish Saturday Sabbath fell on during the first five years, or when the 365th Day, and the 366th Day, (February 29th), were originally added to the Calendar:

JULIAN & GREGORIAN CALENDARS (4 YEAR CYCLES)

WEEK 50	WEEK 51	WEEK 52	NEW YEAR NEXT 52 WEEKS
1st Year S M T W T F S 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Feb. 23,24,25,26,27,28,1	1ST YEAR S M T W T F S 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Mar. 2,3,4,5,6,7,8	1ST YEAR S M T W T F S S 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 0, 7 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16	1ST YEAR M T W T F S S 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 17,18,19,20,21,22,23
2nd Year M T W T F S S 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Feb. 23,24,25,26,27,28,1	2ND YEAR M T W T F S S 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Mar. 2,3,4,5,6,7,8	2ND YEAR M T W T F S S M 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 0, 7 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16	2ND YEAR T W T F S S M 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 17,18,19,20,21,22,23
3rd Year T W T F S S M 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Feb. 23,24,25,26,27,28,1	3RD YEAR T W T F S S M 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Mar. 2,3,4,5,6,7,8	3RD YEAR T W T F S S M T 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 0, 7 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16	3RD YEAR W T F S S M T 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 17,18,19,20,21,22,23
4th Year (Leap) W T F S S M T 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Feb. 23,24,25,26,27,28,29	4TH LEAP YEAR W T F S S M T 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Mar. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7	4TH LEAP YEAR W T F S S M T W T 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 0, 0, 7 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16	4TH LEAP YEAR F S S M T W T 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 17,18,19,20,21,22,23
1st Year F S S M T W T 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Feb. 23,24,25,26,27,28,1	1ST YEAR F S S M T W T 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Mar. 2,3,4,5,6,7,8	1ST YEAR F S S M T W T F 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 0, 7 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16	1ST YEAR S S M T W T F 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 17,18,19,20,21,22,23

As you can see above, it is impossible for Saturday to be the 7th Day Sabbath in every year because of the added two days. Although the “Number Order” of the Days remain fixed (1st Day to 7th Day), their corresponding “Name Order” of the Days change positions. This is very important to understand because only the weekly 7th Day is the DAY that was made HOLY, and NOT the Name Saturday.The 7th Day will be on a different day of the week beginning every March Equinox observed “Equal Night and Equal Day” in Jerusalem for a whole year.

The 7th Day Sabbath can only be on a Fixed Day of the week on the Enoch 364 Day Calendar because it has “Exactly 52 Weeks,” (and Not “52 Weeks and Two Days” as the Gregorian Calendar). This is clear to see on the Enoch 364 Day Calendar that does not have the Roman names Sunday through Saturday on it.

The easiest way to understand the Enoch Calendar, is to look at “Equal Night and Equal Day” in Jerusalem as One Whole Day in the week, for “Joshua’s Longest Day.” The days in Enoch’s and Joshua’s time had 18 parts/moments per day or 18 hours per day. Joshua made the sun and moon stand still for 36 moments, and this equals Two Days in Time Past, but only One Day in the Week:

Enoch 72:31-33 And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and returns to the East, and rises in the Third Portal for One-And-Thirty Mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven. On That Day the NIGHT decreases and amounts to NINE PARTS, and the DAY to NINE PARTS, and the NIGHT IS EQUAL TO THE DAY AND THE YEAR IS EXACTLY AS TO ITS DAYS THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR.

Joshua 88:64 And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Joshua, and the sun stood still in the midst of the heavens, and IT STOOD STILL SIX AND THIRTY MOMENTS, AND THE MOON ALSO STOOD STILL AND HASTENED NOT TO GO DOWN A WHOLE DAY.

The Enoch Calendar was used by David and he understood that each month had 30 days, plus one day at the end of each quarter for the change in season. This is how David knew when the new month began, as it was a SetApart Festival Day celebrated by all the Hebrew people:

1 Samuel 20:5 David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new month, and I should not fail to sit at table with the King; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.

1 Samuel 20:18 Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new month; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

Numbers 28:11-15 AT THE BEGINNINGS OF YOUR MONTHS you shall offer a burnt offering to YHWH: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 12 also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenths of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 13 and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering of pleasing odor, an offering by fire to YHWH. 14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb; THIS IS THE BURNT OFFERING OF EACH MONTH THROUGHOUT THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR. 15 Also one male goat for a sin offering to YHWH; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

Isaiah 66:23 From NEW MONTH TO NEW MONTH and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to Worship before Me says YHWH.

Ezekiel 46:1 Thus says the Master YHWH: The Gate Of The Inner Court That Faces East Shall Be “Shut” On The Six Working Days; but on the Sabbath Day it will be “Opened” and on the Day Of The NEW MONTH it will be “Opened.”

Ezekiel 46:3 The people of the land will Worship At The Entrance Of The Gate Before YHWH on the Sabbaths and on the NEW MONTHS.

Amos 8:4-7 Hear this! You that trample on the needy will desist, and the poor of the land shall rest. 5 You that say, WHEN WILL THE NEW MONTH BE OVER SO WE CAN SELL GRAIN, and the Sabbath so we can open the wheat? to measure out less and get more shekels by falsifying the scales, and being deceitful 6 to acquire the silver of the poor and the shoes of the needy, but sell them the refuse of the grain. YHWH swore that this arrogance of Jacob will Never be forgotten, nor their works.

2 Kings 4:23 He said go, it is not the Day of the NEW MONTH or Sabbath, so go in peace.

The Book of Enoch shows the original Calender and gives details on the number of days in each of the 12 months. It tells us that the Calendar is Solar, with a year that has Exactly 364 Days. It states that the Last Day of the month 6 (the 31st Day Enoch 72:31-33) has Equal Day & Night Parts.

The “Change of Season” occurs every 91 Days or 4 Days in a year. Each month has 30 days, plus an additional day at the end of each quarter (the 31st day) for the season change, where “the sun remains at the same latitude as the 30th day.”

Enoch 72:31-33 And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and returns to the East, and rises in the Third Portal for One-And-Thirty Mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven. On That Day the NIGHT decreases and amounts to Nine Parts, and the DAY to Nine Parts, and the NIGHT IS EQUAL TO THE DAY AND THE YEAR IS EXACTLY AS TO ITS DAYS THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR.

Enoch 74:12 And the SUN AND THE STARS bring in all the years EXACTLY, so that THEY DO NOT ADVANCE OR DELAY THEIR POSITION BY A SINGLE DAY unto eternity; but COMPLETE THE YEARS WITH PERFECT JUSTICE IN 364 DAYS.

Jubilees 2:9-10 And Elohim appointed the Sun to be a Great Sign on the earth for Days, and for Sabbaths and for Months and for Feasts and for Years and for Sabbaths of Years and for Jubilees and for All Seasons of the Years.

Isaiah 2:3 And many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For OUT OF ZION SHALL GO FORTH THE LAW, AND THE WORD OF YHWH FROM JERUSALEM.

Micah 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of YHWH from Jerusalem.

Enoch was the first man to write down the Calendar and it is the Calendar that Two Classes of Angels use, who also observe the Sabbath Day in heaven and on earth:

Jubilees 2:16-17 And he completed all his work on the sixth day, all that is in the heavens and on the earth and in the seas and in the abysses, in the light and in the darkness and in every thing; and he gave us [the angels] a great sign, the day of Sabbaths, that we should do work six days, and should rest on the Sabbath from all work. 17 And all the Angels of the Face and all the Angels that Cry ” Kodosh,” to us, these Two Great Kinds, He said that we should observe the Sabbath with Him in heaven and on earth.

Jubilees 4:16-19 And in the eleventh jubilee Jared took to himself a wife, and her name was Baraka, a daughter of Rasujel, a daughter of the sister of his father, in the fourth week of this jubilee; and she bore for him a son in the fifth week, in the fourth year, of this jubilee, and he called his name Enoch. 17 He was the first one from among the children of men that are born on the earth to learn writing and knowledge and wisdom. 18 And he wrote the Signs of Heaven according to the Order of their Months in a book, that the sons of men might know the time of the year according to their separate months. 19He was the first to write a testimony, and he testified to the children of men concerning the generations of the earth, and explained the Weeks of the Jubilees, and made known to them the Days of the Years, andArranged the Months and explained the Sabbaths of the Years as we made them known to him.

The Enoch Calendar was observed over 5,000 years ago in Sumer (Shinar), today’s southern Iraq. The Sumerian Priests (called Sesg Allu) would look for the following events that signaled the end of the year and the beginning of the New Year, and two events occurred on the equalized days (the last two days of the year):

1. On the 30th day of the 12th solar month, only 3 Stars of Constellation Pegasus appear just before sunrise on the eastern horizon, and that evening the moon sets with the sun (Waning Crescent Moon).

2. On the 31st day of the 12th solar month, the 4 Stars of Constellation Pegasus, forming a Square, appear just before sunrise on the eastern horizon, and the 4th star called Algenib appears to flicker as it moves above and below horizon, signaling the last day of the year, (the Spring Equinox), and that evening the moon is Completely Dark (New Moon).

3. On the 1st day of the 1st solar month, the 4 Stars of Constellation Pegasus, forming a Square, are steadily visible just before sunrise on the eastern horizon, signaling the 1st Day of the New Year, and the moon is Completely Dark (New Moon).

The moon sets with the sun on the Evening of the 30th Day, which is the end of the Twelfth month (Third Portal) and the end of the Sixth month (Fourth Portal), and these are equalization days. On the Evening of the 31st Day, the New Month and New Year’s day begins, and the moon is Covered with Darkness:

Enoch 73:4-7 And thus she rises. And her First Phase in the east comes forth on the THIRTIETH MORNING (waning crescent moon): and on that day she is visible, and constitutes for you the First Phase of the Moon (waning crescent moon) on the THIRTIETH DAY together with the Sun in the portal where the Sun Rises. 5 And the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and HER WHOLE CIRCUMFERENCE IS EMPTY, WITHOUT LIGHT, with the exception of one-seventh part of it, (and) the fourteenth part of her light. 6 And when she receives one-seventh part of the half of her light, her light amounts to one-seventh part and the half thereof. 7. And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginning of her morning [in the commencement of the lunar day] THE MOON SETS WITH THE SUN, AND IS INVISIBLE THAT NIGHT with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them.

Enoch 74:3–5 In single seventh parts she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single seventh parts ACCOMPLISHES ALL HER DARKNESS IN THE WEST. 4 And in certain months she alters her settings, and in certain months she pursues her own peculiar course. 5In two months the moon sets with the sun: in those Two middle Portals the Third and the Fourth.

Psalm 81:3 Blow the trumpet on the New Month, on the Covered Feast Day.

Originally, from the 31st day of the 12th month at sunset until the 1st Day of the1st month at sunset, the moon was in conjunction with the sun. However, a change occurred and now this happens every Saros or at the beginning of every 19th year, (in a 364 day year), when the moon phase cycle begins to repeat itself on the same dates. We think the change may have occurred during Hezekiah’s days when only the sun was held back from ascending, but the Moon continued on its regular course. In Joshua’s days, both the sun and moon stood still, so the sun and moon were synchronized. However, when only the sun was held back by 10° or for 40 minutes (360°/24 Hr. = 15° or 60 Min.), this may have caused the moon to be out of synchronization with the sun, so that a New Moon would not coincide with New Year’s Day in every year.

2 Kings 20:11 Isaiah the prophet called out to YHWH to keep back the shadow by Ten Degrees; and to keep it back from going higher or lower as it ascends on Ahaz.

Isaiah 38:8 He shall keep back the shadow from ascending or declining; as the sun ascends on Ahaz, it shall be kept back by ten degrees. The sun shall be kept back ten degrees from going higher or lower.

Nevertheless, the sun (Shamash) still Equalizes the year on the 30th Day of the Solar Month, (and also on the 31st Day of the Solar Month, which is the Season Change Day – 1 Enoch), and the star Algenib (the Sign) still Sweeps Along the Sun’s Path just before sunrise on New Year’s Day, and this is verified by a Sumerian cuneiform tablet that is housed in the British Museum:

Epic of Creation, Tablet V

He made the crescent moon appear, entrusted night (to it),

And designated it the jewel of night to mark out the days.

Go forth every month without fail in a corona,

At the beginning of the month, to glow over the land.

You shine with horns to mark out six days;

On the seventh day the crown is half.

The fifteenth day shall always be the mid-point,

the half of each month.

When Shamash looks at you from the horizon,

Gradually shed your visibility and begin to wane.

Always bring the day of disappearance,

close to the path of Shamash.

And on the thirtieth day, the [year] is always equalized,

for Shamash is [responsible for] the year.

A Sign [shall appear (?)]: sweep along its path.

Then always approach the [ sun ] and judge the case.

(The remaining 15 lines of the Tablet are broken-up, but the words “New Year’s Festival” is clearly readable.)

The star Algenib was the “Sign” that appeared on New Year’s Day just before sunrise, and it was the 4th star that completed Constellation Pegasus. Pegasus would look like a “Square” in heaven and it represented “Yah’s Temple” on earth that was called Ea-Engurra, (now called Tell Abu Shahrein / Shahrain), and was located in Sumer, in the city of Eridu. The biblical Abraham was also from Sumer, in the city of Ur, that was only 14 miles north-east of Eridu, and both cities wereon the west side of the Euphrates River [Genesis 11:27-31]. Marduk’s temple, called Esagila, was on the east side of the Euphrates River.

Only 3 Stars (Markab, Scheat, and Algenib) in constellation Pegasus were called the “Stars of Ea” (Yah) by the Sumerians, and these 3 Stars brought in the New Year. The Sumerian Priests would observe constellation Pegasus each day as Spring approached, and anxiously wait for the heliacal rising of the 3rd Star (called the IKU Star), which completed the “Square” of constellation Pegasus. On March Equinox, the IKU Star (which is now called Algenib) appears to flicker as it moves above and below the “east-north-east horizon” just before sunrise, showing that this Day is the Spring Equinox Day and ended the Last Day of the Year. On March Spring Equinox Day, the IKU Star (Algenib) sits on the “east-north-east horizon” and is Steadily Visiblejust before sunrise, and was the “Sign” that the New Year had begun and this day was called NisAnu 1.

The Akitu Festival marked the New Year and was celebrated from NisAnu 1 to NisAnu 12, with rituals, prayers, and offerings everyday, and the “Creation of the World” story, (EnUma ElIsh), was recited on NisAnu 4. The Akitu Festival rituals also depicted the Affirmation and Enthronement of Ea Alulim (Yah Elohim) as “King and Priest” under the Most High Anu. (The Hebrew word Nisan comes from the Sumerian/Akkadian word NisAnu, where Nis means “People” and Anu means “I AM,” or the “People of I AM“).

The Sumerian Akitu Festival was celebrated at the beginning of Spring and at the beginning of Autumn in every year for 12 days. These 12 days were later includedin the pagan religions and celebrated in winter, and are now known as the “12 Days of Christmas.” The biblical Moses taught the Israelites the forgotten Akitu festivals, and Yah used the “Pass Over” and Exodus events to ensure that the Israelites would never forget the season in which the festival is to occur.

The Sumerian texts also say that Ea (Yah) was the one who “Created Humanity,” and that Ea (Yah) was the one who “Saved Humanity” from extinction, when He saved Noah (Ut-Napishtim) and others in the Great Flood. Noah and his descendant Abraham were under the command of Ea (Yah) and Abraham called Ea (Yah) the “King of Truth” (Melchi’Zedek) and the “King of Peace” (Melchi’Salem):

Genesis 14:18-20 And Melchi’Zedek, a King of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was Priest of El Most High. 19 He Blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram from El Most High, the possessor of heaven and earth: 20 and blessed be El Most High who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”

Zechariah 8:19 Thus saith YHWH of Hosts; the Fast of the Fourth Month, and the Fast of the First, and the Fast of the Seventh, and the Fast of the Tenth, shall be within Judea joy and gladness and cheerful meetings; therefore Love “Truth and Peace.”

Psalm 31:5 Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me YHWH Aloahiym of Truth.

Jasher 12:38 And Abram said to them, Do not bow down to me, but bow down to the Aloahiym of the world who made you, and serve him, and go in his ways for it is he who delivered me from out of this fire, and it is he who created the souls and spirits of all men, and formed man in his mother’s womb, and brought him forth into the world, and it is he who will deliver those who trust in him from all pain.

As for the moon, it has an important timing function in the Enoch Calendar, as it regulates the waters of the earth each day and oxygenates the waters for life to exist. As the moon revolves around the earth, it causes the waters to pull towards it, thus stirring up all the oceans and seas so that they do not stagnate. The moon has “Four Appointed Times” each day; to make the Tides High, “Two Times” a day, and to make the Tides Low, “Two Times” a day:

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says YHWH, which gave the sun for a light by day; and the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night, that stir up the seas by waves and turbulence; YHWH of hosts is His name.

Psalm 104:19 The moon was made for appointed times, and the sun knows when to go down.

When the sun, moon, and earth are in conjunction, on the new moon and on the full moon, the sun has an added effect on the tides, making the high tides much higher and making the low tides much lower, (called spring tides). At half moon, the moon’s gravity pulls the least, so the tides are the lowest, (called neap tides).

Jubilees 6:23 And on the New Day of the First Month, and on the New Day of the Fourth Month, and on the New Day of the Seventh Month, and on the New Day of the Tenth Month are the days of remembrance, and the Days of the Seasons in the Four Divisions of the Year. These are written and ordained as a testimony for ever.

Jubilees 6:29-31 And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth. 30 And all the days of the commandment will be two and fifty weeks of days, and (these will make) the entire year complete. Thus it is engraven and ordained on the heavenly tablets. 31 And there is no neglecting (this commandment) for a single year or from year to year.

SABBATH YEARS AND JUBILEE YEARS

We know that the Enoch Calendar is determined by the sun and stars and therefore, the sun and stars must also determine the Sabbath Years and JubileeYears. The Sabbath Year begins every Seventh Year, on the First Day of the Seventh Month, and the Jubilee Year begins every Fiftieth Year, on the First Day of the Seventh Month. In these years, on the Tenth Day of the Seventh Month, on the Day of Atonement, a Proclamation of Liberty is made to all the inhabitants of the earth.

The binary star system Sirius (Sirius A and Sirius B – a double star) determines the Jubilee years. It takes “Sirius B” 50 years to orbit “Sirius A” and the Sirius star system was watched carefully in ancient times by the Sumerians and the Egyptians. The Sumerians called Sirius the “Bow Star” because of its double helix or bow shaped orbit, and the Egyptians and Greeks called it Sothis (Isis).

In the 50th year of Sirius B’s orbit, Sirius B is the closest to Sirius A’s orbit, and the gravitational pull of these two stars on each other releases a Tremendous amount of Energy and Power, making Sirius A look Enormously Brighter then normal and appear to wobble. This event was discovered in 1844 by the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel, who witnessed this Extraordinary event that looked like a huge magnetic storm on the eastern horizon just before sunrise, and this event was called the “Great” heliacal rising of Sirius that happens Only Once every 50 years.

The “Annual” heliacal rising of Sirius A occurs between July and August in every year and it signaled the coming of the Nile River Flood and the New Year to the Egyptians. The “Great” heliacal rising, when Sirius A and Sirius B are the closest together, was known as the “Great Conjunction” that occurred in summer every 50th year. This Great Conjunction occurred in the year 6 BCE (a Jubilee Year) and it was known as the “Star of Bethlehem,” and the previous year, 7 BCE, was a Sabbath Year.

Enoch and the Psalm describe:

Enoch 74:3-5 In single seventh parts she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single seventh parts ACCOMPLISHES ALL HER DARKNESS IN THE WEST. 4 And in certain months she alters her settings, and in certain months she pursues her own peculiar course. 5 In two months the moon sets with the sun: in those Two middle Portals the Third and the Fourth.

Psalm 81:3 Blow the Trumpet on the New Month, on the Covered Feast Day.

It is interesting to note that the most famous date in Astronomy was July 16, 1994, when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into the planet Jupiter, as a result of the tremendous energy produced by the closeness of Sirius A and Sirius B, and it was the first cataclysmic event ever observed by NASA and other government agencies around the world. July 16th is also the First Day of the 5th Month on the Enoch Calender.

The “Great” heliacal rising of the star Sirius is the “sign” that the Jubilee Year is about to begin.

Leviticus 25:9-13 The Trumpet blasts will sound on the Tenth Day of the Seventh Month; On the Day of Atonement the Trumpets will sound throughout the earth, 10 To hallow the Fiftieth Year and Proclaim Liberty to the earth’s inhabitants with Trumpets. The men shall return to their inheritance and the men shall return to their tribes. 11 DuringTrumpets, in the Fiftieth Year, you shall not sow nor reap, but what grows of itself shall be gathered. 12 Consecrate it with Trumpets for it is Holy, and eat what the field produces. 13 In the Year of Trumpets, the men shall return to their inheritance.

Leviticus 27:17-18 Sanctify the field in the Year of Trumpets, and let the price be established. 18 Sanctify the field After Trumpets, and the priest shall calculate the price according to the years behind the Year of Trumpets, and shall not diminish the price.

Leviticus 25:21-22 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the Sixth year and it shall make produce for Three years. 22 And you shallsow the Eighth year and eat of old produce until the Ninth year; until the produce comes in, you shall eat from the old storage.

2 Kings 19:29 There will be a Sign, and you shall eat in this year what grows of itself, and in the Second Year that which sprouts of itself; and in the Third Year you shall sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.

Isaiah 37:30 There will be a Sign, and you shall eat in this year what grows of itself, and in the Second Year that which sprouts of itself; and in the Third Year you shall sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.

Enoch 74:12 And the SUN AND THE STARS bring in all the years EXACTLY, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day unto eternity; but COMPLETE THE YEARS WITH PERFECT JUSTICE IN 364 DAYS.

Jubilees 2:9-10 And Aloahiym appointed the Sun to be a Great Sign on the earth for Days, and for Sabbaths and for Months and for Feasts and forYears and for SABBATHS OF YEARS and for JUBILEES and for All Seasons of the Years.

Jubilees 4:21 And he was moreover with the angels of Aloahiym these six jubilees of years, and they showed him everything which is on earth and in the heavens, THE RULE OF THE SUN, and he wrote down everything.

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The Zadok Priesthood’s “Checksum” Authenticity Test For The Ancient Biblical Calendar

April 7, 2016 No Comments

Dear All,

In parchment Q392a, concerning the priestly service on the Passover,

we find the Zadok priesthood have described a CHECKSUM test that

authenticates whether a festival worship calendar schedule is in line with

the ancient priestly calendar or not.

To download the article please go to this ITD webpage:

http://www.inthatday.net/2016/04/

the-zadok-priesthoods-checksum-authenticity-test-for-the-ancient-biblical-calendar/

Berakah in Yahushua Melchizedek

Our great Redeemer and King!

Rob

The Zadok Priesthood’s “Checksum” Authenticity Test

For The Ancient Biblical Calendar

The Zadok Priesthood’s “Checksum” Authenticity Test

For The Ancient Biblical Calendar ……………….1

Part 1 – The Zaddok’s “Checksum Test” Of The Incidence Of The Passover………2

The 4Q329a “Checksum Test” Every Successive Year For The Biblical Calendar…3

The Text of Zadok Parchment 4Q329a …………………………………4

Part 2 – A Brief Overview of The Biblical Definition Of Who Has Authority

Over The Biblical Calendar

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In parchment Q392a, concerning the priestly service on the Passover,

we find the Zadok priesthood have described a “checksum” test that

authenticates whether a festival worship calendar schedule is in fact

the ancient priestly calendar or not.

The Zadok this “checksum test” is mathematically precise and works

for every successive year as a provable authentication test .

For the theological critics of the Zadok solar calendar, who argue their

alternative calendars have biblical authority, this Zadok test is mathematically

profound and it works as a legitimate authenticity test for the biblical calendar

every successive year without fail. If a calendar cannot meet this “Checksum test”

then it fails to live up to the nature of the ancient priestly calendar.

Critics cannot point to their calendar as being able to line periodically or

intermittently in every seven to twenty years and then claim that their calendar

meets the ancient priestly criterion.

Consequently I anticipate the only way forward for those critics to continue to

stand against the authority of the Zadok calendar precepts is either;

1) to somehow argue that the Zadok priesthood does not have any authority over

the ancient biblical calendar (replacement theologies) , but that rather justify their

own authority over what constitutes the religious calendar ( which has always been

the traditional position of the institutional religious polemic of Judaism and Roman/

Protestant Christendom or

2) to keep as many as possible from knowing /understanding the Zadok Qumran testimonies

and who they were authored by (which they have done through various deliberate strategies such as

locking up the scrolls from public scrutiny for six decades and still probably

continuing to hide the most revealing Qumran scrolls they consider significantly

threatens institutional dominionism).

For this reason , the second part of this article provides a brief overview of the scriptures’ proclamations

that the ancient Zadok priesthood, (a descendent line of the ancient Aaronic priesthood),

was mandated by YHVH to have authority over the biblical calendar from ancient times

until the time of the coming of Yahushua, Many do not realise that the Zadok priesthood

ultimately lawfully culminated in Yahushua Melchizedek who holds both the Davidic and Zadok family lines.

In addition, it was after Yahushua resurrection saw all the remnant of the Zadok priesthood

submit hand their baton of authority to Yahushua Melchizedek and submitting themselves

to the Apostolic call (Acts 6:7).

Part 1 – The Zaddok’s “Checksum Test” Of The Incidence Of The Passover

Around August/September of 2015, as Boaz and I together felt called to read

through the published Zadok scrolls to get some grasp if they made any prophetic exhortations

to the last generation remnant that would find themselves “in the wilderness of the peoples” ,

Boaz discovered a “checksum” for the calculation of the Passover was laid out in the parchment

fragment 4Q329a. In this parchment, the mathematical relationship of the weekly Sabbath to the incidence

of the Passover meal is identified for the priestly services of the Passover. Boaz immediately jumped up

and examined at the calendar schedule I had setup months earlier in March of 2015, and then he sent me

an excited email – that our calendar schedule (that is based on the two substantive Zadok precepts )

was indeed congruent with the prescriptions of 4Q329a.

It was a moment of wonderful confirmation and clarification to us both that Abba YHVH had indeed been

leading our years of searching to discover the biblical calendar over the past years.

With this awaking to the “Checksum test” He had now given us His independent confirmatory test

of our understanding and consequently we now have even stronger confidence.

Hallelujah ! All Esteem and honor to YHVH’s Spirit who convicts and teaches us of all things! (John 14:26)

This year (2016), I once again laboured over the schedule of the calendar as before using the

two formative Zadok precepts – and in the pressure and demands of the task I had completely overlooked

to check the Zadok “checksum test”. After I emailed the schedule to Boaz, his immediate response was that

he had evaluated the “checksum test” and once again found the calendar schedule confirmed that we have

the Sabbath days correctly identified and the counting to the festival of Passover right. In conclusion,

I am able to testify that for two successive years now, my calendar schedule which is based on the two

formative Zadok precepts has been retrospectively checked independently by Boaz who found it to be

in accord with the prescriptions of Qumran parchment 4Q329a. As it has now occurred for two successive years,

using the Zadok precepts for the identification of Day 1 and the The Zadok “Checksum Test”

identification of the weekly Sabbath, I also expect that the “checksum Test” will confirm the calendar schedule

is reflecting the ancient priesthood’s calendar in all future years.

The 4Q329a “Checksum Test” Every Successive Year For The Biblical Calendar

As our calendar schedule perfectly fitted the “checksum test” for two successive years,

I am now confident that the ancient Zadok’s precepts that we are using to identify the calendar

to find the first day of the biblical year, and the subsequent identification of biblical weekly sabbath

are solid verifiable precepts. Furthermore, this test will pass for every future successive year without error

because we are anchored (according to Zadok precepts) in the actual observed sun incidence of

the vernal equinox on Jerusalem longitude, as the declaration of day 1 of the biblical year,

and concurrently day 4 of the biblical week. The mathematical relationships here between

the first day of the year, the weekly Sabbath and the 14 day count to the Passover meal is a perfect mathematical

relationship. Notwithstanding the revelation of this Zadok “checksum test” in the principles of time measurement

truth prescribed by YHVH’s into his laws of creation and observed (as instructed by Moses) by the incidence of the

vernal equinox as the perfect anchor of the annual biblical calendar!

It cannot be understated that this “checksum test” prescribed in 4Q329 is the true test of the ancient calendar

for EVERY SUCCESSIVE YEAR. If a calendar schedule does not live up to this test year on year then,

by Zadok testimony, the calendar is not the ancient biblical calendar. (i.e. getting a match periodically

over the years or by chance is inadequate and a single failure would indicate the calendar being tested

is not in accord with the priestly calendar)

For those who do not have access to the text of 4Q329a,it is presented below:

In summary – the “checksum test” in 4Q329a is that it defines the mathematical time relationship between the incidence of the day of the weekly sabbath and the incidence of the day of the Passover.

On the authentic priestly calendar the Passover must occur on the third day after the weekly sabbath in each and every biblical year. Using my 2016 calendar schedule, the Zadok “checksum test” can be seen here:

The Text of Zadok Parchment 4Q329a

Source:”The Dead Sea Scrolls: A new Translation” by Michael Wise et al, 2005.

(This parchment records the priestly course whose duty it was to sacrifice the lamb for the Passover, and the day counting from the weekly sabbath on which the Passover lamb was to be slaightered.)

[The festivals of the first year] on the th[ird of the] week [of Mazziah falls the Passover]. The f[estival]s of the second (year) [on the th]ird [of Seorim falls the Passover.] The festivals [of the thir]d (year) on the third [of Abijah falls the Passov]er. The festivals on the fourth (year) [on the third of Jakim falls the Pa]ssover. The festivals of the fifth year on the third of Imm[er falls the Passover. The festivals of the sixth year . . . ]

For the sake of the significance of this precept – to repeat: the “checksum test” in 4Q329a is that it defines the mathematical time relationship between the incidence of the day of the weekly sabbath and the day of the Passover.

On the calendar the Passover must occur on the third day after the weekly sabbath in each and every biblical year.

Now for your own test: Using this precept, simply check the 2016 Rabbinic lunar calendar date for of Passover in relation to the Rabbinical Saturday sabbath – it is readily seen that the calendar of the Rabbinic Passover simply does not meet the Zadok test! Is the Rabbinic calendar the ancient priestly calendar? Cannot be! Case closed?

Part 2 – A Brief Overview of The Biblical Definition Of Who Has Authority Over The Biblical Calendar

Throughout the Law and the Prophets, we will find that as ancient history progresses, the Zadok Priesthood was delegated authority over the calendar to the time of Yahushua, and then YHVH declares the physical descendants of Zadok will again have the authority over the biblical calendar in the Messianic era( Ezekiel 44:15), because they ” kept the charge of my sanctuary” when the people of Israel rebelled against Him.

With the arrival of Yahushua of Nazareth, rather than finding him replacing the Zadok Priesthood, we find that Yahushua in fact carries continuity of the Zadok priestly line in that he is descended of both the royal line of David and the priestly line of Zadok. Yahushua has legitimate title of the priestly order of “Melchizedek”. Thus ultimately Yahushua currently carries the authority over the biblical calendar that was mandated to the Zadok priestly line – and this authority is also recorded in the Apostolic testimony that He observed His last Passover on an evening that was a full day in advance of the Rabbinic calendar (Luke 22) and did not observe the subsequent time of the Pharisee Passover. Also He was raised from the dead as our Firstfruits offering from among men to YHVH, (1 Cor 15:20; 23) after the sign of Jonah of three days and nights in the grave, according to the testimony of the Apostles, thereby demonstrating the lawful incidence of the Feast of First Fruits.

1.The law of Moses informs us that YHVH established the sons of Aaron to be the High priest family line , and they were given specific authority over the biblical calendar, as written in Numbers 10:10

Numbers 10: 10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your Elohiym: I am the YHVH your Elohiym.

2. The High Priesthood Authority of the Descendants Of Phinehas

In Numbers 25:10 we see YHVH declare that Phinehas, (a son of Aaron) and his descendants (family line) would have an “everlasting” priesthood” covenant before Him and would hold His ‘Covenant of Peace”.

Numbers 25: 10 And YHVH spake unto Moses, saying, 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. 12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: 13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his Elohiym, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

3. The High Priesthood Line Of Zadok

In the books of Samuel and Chronicles, David is presented as a man having YHVH’s heart. David had a deep seated commitment to living and implementing the Word of YHVH. When David became King, he faced the rebellion of his enemies, and Zadok the (High) priest was in loyal service to King David at that time. Zadok was a patrilineal descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron the high priest. (2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 24:3). The lineage of Zadok is presented in the genealogy of Ezra (his descendant) as being of ninth generation and direct patrilineal descent from Phineas the son of Eleazar. Ezra 7:1-4…Zadok, The son of Ahitub, son of Amaryah, son of Azaryah, son of Mirayoth, son of Zerachyah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki, son of Avishua, son of Phineas

4. David Anointed Zadok To Be High Priest Of Israel And Of The Temple In the presence of King David, Solomon was anointed King over Israel and Zadok the High priest of Israel. 1 Chronicles 29:20-22 20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless YHVH your Elohiym. And all the congregation blessed YHVH the ELohiym of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the YHVH, and the king. 21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto YHVH, and offered burnt offerings unto YHVH, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel: 22 And did eat and drink before YHVH on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto YHVH to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.: In 1 Kings 1:39, we read Zadok officiated at the anointing ceremony of Solomon as king.

5. In the genealogies found in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles, the priests of the post exilic period are given lineages that explicitly name both Aaron and Zadok.

6. In the Qumran Scrolls the authors claim to be the descendants of Zadok and were living in forced exile during the latter period of the Macabeean Kings and the rise of the Pharisees (around 160 BCE).

7. The High Priesthood Line Of Yahushua

Melchizedek Yahushua had the convergence of the bloodlines of David through Solomon and The House of Zadok that result in the “King Zadok” Office or “Melchizedek”, the King and High Priest of the Redeemed House of Israel. In addition by YHVH has sworn by oath that He has made Yahushuaa priest fro ever of the order of Melchizedek. Psalm 110:4 YHVH hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. Heb 7:21 21 For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, YHVH sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec

8. The Zadok Line Restored In The Millennial Temple And Establishing The Biblical Calendar of Redeemed Israel Ezekiel 44: ” But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith YHVH Elohiym: 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. …. 24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

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Worksheet For The 2016 Biblical Calendar

March 24, 2016 2 Comments

Worksheet For The 2016 Biblical Calendar By inthatday

(Download the pdf file at the bottom of this webpage)

Several have emailed me to request I publish the biblical calendar for 2016. I have been hesitant to do this for several reasons I explain below, but mainly because it is best for others who are keenly interested to learn to work this out for themselves given I have placed a lot of info from my research in this area on the ITD website over the past few years to help.

But the requests from many is that they have indeed worked it out but now want to confirm how if they have managed ok, so now I am uploading my worksheet of the 2016 biblical calendar to assist those who want to compare their calendar workout . This is a pdf file that can be downloaded at the bottom of this webpage.

I do hope is that all who are sincerely interested in the subject will be able to learn how to do this for themselves, as I know from my own experience of discovery – it is only when one begins to prayerfully and actively seek to do this that it is in the doping (and searching out) that YHVH brings understanding… Aside from desiring all to be confidently able to work it out for yourselves next year (especially if there is now access to the internet), there are other reasons that I prefer not to publish a biblical calendar on the web any longer, which I would like you to understand.

Firstly, I do not wish to unduly influence anyone or start a calendar movement, or create emotional arguments with any who are religiously dogmatic about their versions of a lunar or solar calendar. The ethical call of the scripture is to study a matter out with prayer and due diligence, seeking revelation from above, such that each individual be fully persuaded in their own minds.

Secondly, for over a decade, because I had worked to form some congregations, I would work out what I thought was the biblical calendar for those years. At first (as we were just beginning to understand the biblical festivals) , I was influenced by Messianic Judaism’s proclamation of the Rabbinical lunar calendar. With the “Hebrew Roots” movement challenging the Rabbinic calendar with the Aviv barley calendar not having the Zadok revelations nor the background of both scriptural and astronomical study information I now have been given, I was subsequently persuaded that the “Aviv Barley” calendar appeared more biblical than the Rabbinic calendar.

In practically working out these calendars for our fellowship worship, I came to see the shortfalls of these calendars. They simply do not keep time correctly and Passover increasingly moved into the winter season necessitating a full lunar calendar 13th month to be added every 3rd year. This error was compounded by the Aviv Barley calendar (Karaite approach) which would declare a leap year on the basis of the observation of the Barley harvest in Israel…but when we started to experience that calendar calling for an additional month to be added (i.e. the declaration of a leap year) in three successive years , the errors of the Karaite approach began to become evident to me. At the same time of that discovery, I was beginning to examine the astrophysics of our solar system with the aid of astronomical simulation software and I became increasingly aware that something was seriously wrong with the lunar calendars advocated by the “hebrew roots/messianic” movements.- it became clear that lunar calendars did not accurately relate to a true seasonal/agricultural (seasonal) calendar without massive intercalations every 3 years. Only an anchor in the equinoxes could accurately honour the seasons – and I then discovered that in fact Gen 1: 3 expressly pointed us to the sun and the stars for the telling of time, not the moon…and translations of the bible that caused the reader to focus on a prominent role of the moon for accurate timekeeping were erroneous (There are articles on the website about this).

Thirdly, in addition to that, I discovered that only an equinox based calendar could accommodate both the calendar rules of Leviticus 23, and the testimony of the Apostles regarding the timing of Yahushua’s last Passover, crucifixion and resurrection according to the sign of Jonah and explain how it juxtaposed the Pharisaic lunar religious calendar in the very day of Yahushua’s crucifixion. Once again there is a study on this topic on the website – which reveals how the sun equinox biblical calendar contrasted precisely with the Pharisaic calendar with just 1 day difference in the year of 30 CE, supporting the authenticity of the Apostolic testimony that Yahushua indeed had his last Passover ( and that it was not a ‘last supper” as Christianity would have us believe, nor a law-breaker as the Rabbinic Pharisees would have us think) and He indeed implemented the New Covenant with them at that last Passover, which was precisely one day prior to the Rabbinic Lunar calendar Passover celebrated in that same year.

Then some 6 months after that discovery, I was directed towards the calendar of the ancient Zadok Qumran scrolls, through a book published by Prof. Rachel Elior. The revelation of the Zadok rules for identifying the biblical calendar (and the biblical theology that is associated is also discussed in an article I subsequently published on the website). I summary the revelation of the Zadok rules are in my understanding a true gift from Heaven and a biblical miracle that would could get access after six decades of being hidden from the general public.

Fourthly, the ancient Zadok revelation reaffirmed my conviction that the law given in Numbers 10:10 – where only the priests ordained by YHVH’s Law have the authority to declare HIS biblical calendar – still stands to this day and as there has been no temple priesthood since Acts 6:7 occurred (when the Zadok priesthood submitted to the Apostles and the new born congregation ) , this is the strongest sign that Jacob is yet in the exile and has not yet been re-gathered. This position will only change when the Zadok priesthood is reconstituted to their service in YHVH’s Millennial temple, as prophesied in Ezekiel 44:15 through 24) .

Fifthly, based on the proclamations of scripture mentioned above, far from my ignorant practices for my fellowships in a decade past, I have no authority whatsoever to establish YHVH’s biblical calendar, and do I have direct anyone to follow what I have studied and have worked through. All I can do is share what information I have found – and articles summarizing this information I have liberally shared on our website, so that anyone interested might be assisted in their own study.

Sixthly, what I can say is that my journey in this subject has led me to a confident position that the Zadok equinox calendar is backed up by the sun and the stars and not the moon, and as such is the creation ordinance by which the accurate measurement of time, especially biblical annual time for worship may be ascertained. At this point I am confident that we do not have complete revelation about the calendar – given that the Zadok priesthood is prophesied to once again be the authoritative declarers of YHVH’s calendar in the millennial reign. Thus anyone who is dogmatic on calendar issues – even to those who proclaim there must be an adoption of the Enochian 30,30,31 day month calendars – is but the practice of religion more than the search for truth, since the Enochian calendar requires a physical 364 day annual year which simply does not exist today – look to ecology and ask if it lives (experiences) a 364 day year at the moment – if not , then those who propose a lunar religious calendar year or an Enochian religious calendar year (where they emphasise one day is a hidden day – seems the most popular religious explanation here appears to be the Day of Atonement) are simply doing their preferred religion – for Moses reveals to us that it is YHVH’s creation is where we observe the measurement of time and not religion.

Add that to the fact that the days between the autumnal and vernal equinox and the vernal and autumnal equinox are not the same number – bears witness to the counting of months with a 30,30,31 day formula simply does not work out and such a calendar goes increasingly out with each month count resulting in the Feast of trumpets being declared too early. This is compounded by the 365.25 day solar year which means that in addition to the month day count errors, their calendar is advancing by 1.25 days every year and somewhere along the line they will need to intercalate back to proper solar time… It appears that YHVH has hidden His biblical calendar to protect it from intuitional apostasies of the religions of men – which He will only restore in the millennial reign . He worked this hiding of His calendar even to the degree that He has caused the earth’s orbit trajectory around the sun to be more elliptical (from 364 in the time of Enoch to 365.25 days today ) which has made the search for the His worship calendar really difficult for millennia!

Seventhly, it is clear to me that the recent revelation of the Zadok’s basic rules for identifying the calendar are not meant for us to make dogmatic religious positions about YHVH’s calendar, since when we see it worked out there are few that can observe His calendar today when the biblical Sabbath does not coincide with the Gregorian weekend. The majority of us have to work in the market place of the world order today – clearly strong evidence that the prophecies of the re-gathering of the remnant have not yet come to pass. So what are we to do then? Clearly most who are motivated will sacrifice their employment leave entitlements to observe the high days as best they can. But what of the weekly biblical Sabbath that this year falls out on the Gregorian Wednesday? The fact is that there is no reason why one cannot have fellowship meetings on the weekends with others – but why would Abba reveal His biblical Sabbaths on days which we cannot keep because most of us are yet slaves in Egypt? I believe we are beginning a “preview” of the imminent restoration of the last days remnant – we are yearning to keep His Sabbaths, to find the ancient paths and not pollute them (see the promises of Isaiah 56:1-7) by the way that He has prepared – first the wilderness of the people…

Eze 20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

and from thence the remnant will go to the “camp of Jerusalem”, as prophesied by the ancient Zadok priesthood, and in exact symmetry with the narrative of Joshua and the camp of the 2nd generation Israelites when they made their historical entry.

To conclude – what then are the essential Zadok instructions for identifying the biblical calendar(articles on the ITD website discuss these points and their scriptural support .)

For the sake of those who have not yet studied the articles on the ITD website, they are:

the first day of the biblical year is to be found on the (observed) day of the equinox – not the difference between the mean sun mathematical (formula) estimates of the occurrence of the equinox, which we see on the and the actual day of occurrence of the equinox which is ascertained by sundial observation.
The identification of the biblical week (and subsequently the weekly sabbath) is identified by counting day 1 of the biblical year as the 4th day of the biblical week – i.e. count another 3 days from the day of the beginning of the year and you find the first weekly Sabbath of the year.

And what if you do not have a sundial, or haven’t learned how to use one, or there are cloudy days and you were unable to verify the occurrence of the equinox on your sundial ?

Go to this web page and download and save or print out the mean estimates of the occurrences of the equinoxes at the Jerusalem longitude for the next 20 years.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html?year=2000&n=110

Remember that we are not using Greenwich mean time – for instance in GMT time, New Zealand is approximately 11 hours ahead of Jerusalem, but when looking at biblical time New Zealand is 12 -13 hours behind Jerusalem. Know your time difference with zero time being the Jerusalem longitude.
Remember that the equinoxes published on such website and calendars a mathematical average calculations – called means sum estimates – and are not true sun observation times. Thus if you see the equinox occurrence estimated as occurring during daylight hours then you can reasonably be sure that the actual sun observation would occur on that day listed. But if the time is listed as occurring during the night hours then you can be confident that the actual equinox by true sun observation on a sundial would be occurring the next day – for example have a look at the 2019 equinox values from the website listed:

2019	20 Mar	11:59 p.m.

As the mean estimate (average calculation)of the occurrence of the equinox is 11.59pm at night on the 20th March 2019, it is probable that the accurate true sun observation of the equinox in Jerusalem, as observed by sundial would be March 21st 2019.

To download my worksheet on the 2016 Biblical calendar click the link below:

2016 Biblical Calendar Worksheet

Berakhah
Rob

In End Times

About End Times Deceptions By David

January 21, 2016 2 Comments

The End Times Deceptions studies are a result of the Set Apart Spirit revealing many truths to me during the last two years.

Much of the information on this website has been taught for 1,800 years by the great theologians, and it’s only been during the last few centuries that Messiah’s Church has lost the truth about prophecy fulfillment.

In 2 Timothy 4:3-4 Paul warned us, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”

Up until a few years ago, I was a Christian who simply believed what my Pastors had taught me about the end times.

What they taught lined up with what my John MacArthur Study Bible says, which lined up with what I hear popular Pastors like David Jeremiah and Chuck Swindoll teach.

They’ve been to seminary, so surely they knew the proper explanations to prophecy.

There was no reason to doubt them…

Until the Set Apart Spirit started me on a journey that revealed how the Bible explains prophecy fulfillment, which is contrary to many of the teachings from Pastors today.

The Spirit put on my heart to look to theologians who had not been corrupted by all of the deceptions, which have really taken hold during the last century.

The best tool that the Spirit put in my path is SwordSearcher Bible software, as it gives me easy access to Bible commentaries from the top Bible scholars of the 1700 and 1800’s, such as:

Albert Barnes’ Notes on the New and Old Testaments.
John Calvin’s Commentaries.
Adam Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible.
Commentary from the 1599 edition of the Geneva Bible.
John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.
Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary.
Matthew Poole’s Commentary on the Holy Bible.
John Wesley’s Bible Notes.

I am baruk (ble-sed) to stand on the shoulder of these great theologians, who have taught me so much about the Word of Elohim.

You can find some of their commentaries at www.studylight.org/com/ but SwordSearcher let’s you quickly read through all of the commentaries about a particular passage. And it gives you the Strong’s word listing, a Bible dictionary and much more.

Other people who Elohim has placed in my life during the past few years are:

Henry Grattan Guinness, who wrote Romanism and the Reformation: From the Standpoint of Prophecy which gives the explanation for the prophecies in Daniel, in 2 Thessalonians 2, in John epistles and Revelation. It’s an excellent study that exposes The Holy Roman Empire and it’s role in end-times Bible prophecy. Click here to read it online.

Ralph Woodrow’s book Great Prophecies Of The Bible covers the second coming of Christ, Matthew 24, the 70 weeks of Daniel and the antichrist. Highly recommended reading!

Pastor Samuel Pestes, who wrote “The Stonecutter’s Bride“, “Ancient Nation’s Rise To Strike Again“, and “Abraham’s Message To The 21st Century“; Pastor Sam has had a great impact on my beliefs about the 70 Weeks of Daniel prophecy, and Jesus New Covenant as the fulfillment of the Everlasting Covenant that God made to Abraham.

Pastor Steve Wohlberg. Steve is a Seventh Day Adventist and though I don’t agree with some SDA beliefs, his teachings on End Times Delusions about the rapture, tribulation, antichrist and Israel, are Biblically sound. Click here to watch his videos.Click here to read about his End Times Delusions book.

**Robert Carignola’s book “The Present Reign Of Jesus Christ” explained much of the fulfillment of Revelation.**

Phillip Mauro’s study “The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation” taught me so much about the fulfillment of the 70 Weeks of Daniel prophecy, the prophecy in Daniel 11 and 12, and Jesus’ Olivet Discourse.

**Charles A. Jenning’s book “The Book Of Revelation: From An Israelite And Historicist Interpretation“**

**Victor McGowan’s book “The Revelation and the History of Christendom: Prophecy Fulfilled to the End of Our Time“**

I’ve spent many hundreds of hours reading through many books and commentaries, listening to many audios, and watching many videos.

Some Bible commentaries, such as from John Gill, are extremely detailed and long.

Most people are too busy to read these books and watch the videos, so the Spirit uses me to make the explanations more concise and easy to read.

The goal of this website is to teach how the Bible defines prophecy terms, and to show the fulfillment of many of the prophecies.

The best way to detect a fake Dollar Bill is to know the real thing so well, that the fake ones are easy to spot.

The same is true with prophecy. When you diligently study the Bible, so that you know how it defines terms and how it reveals its fulfillment; when a Pastor is teaching contrary to these things, you know that they are teaching false prophecy.

So who am I and what gives me the authority to teach these things?

I am not Seventh Day Adventist, though I have learned from some SDA teachers who diligently study prophecy.

I grew up in a Christian family and attended Baptist Churches during the early part of my life. And then was attracted to the verse-by-verse studies at Calvary Chapel Churches.

But today I am not part of any denomination, as during the last few years the Spirit has led me to understand that most of what my Pastors had taught me is not Scriptural.

That includes their futuristic prophecy explanations; but it also includes the observance of pagan Christian holiday such as Easter and Christmas, which the enemy created to replace the Father’s seven Kadosh Feast Days, which Messiah is fulfilling to redeem His set-apart people.

That includes learning that the King James and other Bible version replaced the personal covenant name of the Father, Yahuah; with God and Lord.

That includes learning that the name Jesus is the Greek variant of the name of the Messiah of Roman Christianity, but His true name is Yahusha, which means ‘Yahuah saves’.

You can read about that part of my learning journey on the **The Falling Away of 2 Thessalonians 2** study series.

I don’t call myself a Christian anymore, just a follower of the Father, Yahuah and His Son, Yahusha.

Note: This End Times Bible Prophecy website uses King James verses with God and Jesus, because the point of this website is to teach prophecy fulfillment. If I use the names Yahuah and Yahusha, that just gives people a reason to click away, and then they don’t learn anything.

Links are provided to **The Falling Away of 2 Thessalonians 2** so the Spirit can guide them to that truth when they are ready to receive it.

There are a lot of deceptions exposed on this website, and I’ve found that you can’t overwhelm people all at once. I trust the Spirit to guide them. And thankfully, many are waking up to these truths!

I have not been to seminary or a Bible school.

I am simply a child of the Most High , who has the Set Apart Scriptures as my guide and His Spirit as my teacher.

I have committed my life to learning and teaching His truth about prophecy, and I work full-time in this ministry.

I believe that the Father shows me many insights because I hunger to know truth, so that He is glorified and the enemy is defeated.

Proverbs 2:1-5 says, “My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, And find the knowledge of God.”

If you’ve read the home page, then you know that most of the deceptions have been created by the Jesuits, to deflect blame away from the Roman Catholic Church and to deceive Christians about the end times.

When you read the study titled End Times Antichrist Deception you will learn that most seminaries are teaching prophecy fulfillment concepts that hide the Antichrist.

And the leaven of these false teachings spreads around to Pastors and Christians, so that the majority are deceived.

One of my other website, www.RomanCatholicBeliefs.org, gives a concise summary of how the Roman Catholic Church is the subject of most Bible prophecy fulfillment.

Popes have proclaimed to be God, to forgive sins, and that salvation is only through the Catholic Church. They have killed over 100 million Christians during the Dark Ages and the Inquisition. And the Jesuits seek to push the world into a New World Order where everyone will worship their False Messiah.

Jesuits priests are spread around the world, and have deceived 1.2 Billion Catholics into believing in a false salvation by works through the Catholic Church.

And because Messiah’s Church doesn’t understand that the Roman Catholic Church is Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, they are not evangelizing Catholics to call them out of the Church and into true salvation through Messiah alone.

My friend, I encourage you to be a Berean and search these things out, don’t take my word for it, don’t seek to defend a position, just seek the truth.

Because until the Church understands the grand deception that has blinded her, she is unable to fight to overcome the enemy in the power of the Word.

My heart breaks for Christians as they have been so deceived, and have no clue about how the future is going to play out, so they are like the foolish virgins who are unprepared for Messiah’s return.

My tears are shed for Pastors, who are unknowingly teaching the prophecy concepts of the Antichrist, for they will be held accountable for misleading their flocks.

I pray in the power of Yahusha Messiah’s name that He will give you eye salve to see the truth.

In His love,

David

End Times Deceptions Study List

I started creating Bible Prophecy Made Easy studies that give a summary of the explanation of the fulfillment, to help you see the big picture of how they prophecies together.

This summary covers the beasts of Daniel, the Son of Perdition of 2 Thessalonians 2, and the fulfillment of Revelation.

Bible Prophecy Made Easy – All Roads Lead To Rome

Below are links to PDF studies that you can save, print and share.

You can click to save the PDF’s (right click, Save As, on a Windows PC)
or just click on the link to open it.

8-page PDF Bible Prophecy Made Easy – All Roads Lead To Rome

4-page PDF Bible Prophecy Made Easy – Daniel 9 and 12

2-page PDF Bible Prophecy Made Easy – 2 Thessalonians 2

1-page PDF Revelation Chapter Summary

Here is a one page graphic that summarizes the fulfillment of Revelation

http://christianitybeliefs.org/end-times-deceptions/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/revelation-layers-explained.gif

Here is a list of studies on this website:

End times deceptions introduction

End times deceptions big picture

How to share the End Times Deceptions studies with others

The Most Important Studies To Learn

The Roman beast fulfills Daniel, 2 Thessalonians 2 and Revelation

The 70th Week Of Daniel Covenant

Christians Should Not Support Zionist Israel

Revelation Seals, Trumpets & Bowls

The Falling Away of 2 Thessalonians 2

Revelation Timeline Decoded – new!

Revelation Timeline Decoded explains the fulfillment of the seals, trumpets and bowls; the beasts, and the Harlot, Babylon the Great, of Revelation.

Russia In End Times Prophecy – new!

Russia And President Putin In Bible Prophecy – new!

Matthew 24 Olivet Discourse Deceptions
The Great Tribulation of Matthew 24

Messiah Coming In The Clouds With Power And Great Glory

Abomination Of Desolation Deception

Daniel 12 Is Not About The Antichrist Or The End Times

The Falling Away of 2 Thessalonians 2

The Falling Away of 2 Thessalonians 2 home page

Creation Of The Religion Of Christianity

Son Of Perdition In The Temple Of God

Easter Replaced Passover Feast Day

Christmas Replaced Tabernacles Feast

The Holy Feast Days Were Hidden

The Sabbath Was Changed To SUNday

The Names Of The Father And The Son

Discernment Studies

The Truth About The Persecution Of Christians In The Middle East

Apocalyptic Events Of September 2015

Islam Studies

Islam In Bible Prophecy home page

Daniel 2 Iron Clay Feet

Why Islam Was Created

Why Mohammed Was Chosen

The Creation Of The Koran

Islam And Catholicism Similarities

The 5th Trumpet Of Revelation 9 Represents The Rise Of Islam

Muslim And Catholic Church Battles

The 6th Trumpet of Revelation 9 Represents The Ottoman Empire

The 6th Bowl of Revelation 16 The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire

The Fatima And Mary Connection

Catholics, Orthodox, Sunni, Shiite

The Faked War On Terror

The Muslims vs. Israel In WW III

Antichrist And Mahdi Comparison

Deflecting Blame From Rome

Revelation Studies

Contrary to what most Pastors teach, most of the prophecies in Jesus Revelation have been historically fulfilled (historicism). This makes more sense than saying nothing happens for 2,000 years, and then it’s all fulfilled during the last few years (futurism).

The fulfillment of the seals, trumpets and bowls of Revelation timeline

The fulfillment of the seals, trumpets and bowls of Revelation videos

The Seven Churches of Revelation

The Little Book of Revelation 10

The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11

The 7 Kings of Revelation 17

The 70th Week Of Daniel Studies

The 70th week of Daniel is one of the most important prophecies in the Bible, because of the precise fulfillment by Jesus Christ, and because of the deceptions about an end times 7-year tribulation period and one-man antichrist that are based on it.

Daniel 70th week Jesus Christ vs. Antichrist

The covenant in the 70th week of Daniel

The 70th week of Daniel prince

Confirming The 70th Week Of Daniel 9 Covenant For Seven Years

Proof that Jesus 3 1/2 year ministry occurred in the 70th week of Daniel

The anointing of Christ started the 70th week of Daniel

Jesus fulfilled the purposes of Daniel 9:24 during the 70th week of Daniel

An end times fulfillment of the 70th week of Daniel is illogical

70 Weeks Of Daniel Geneva Bible

How the leaven of the 70th week of Daniel deception spread

The 70th week of Daniel made simple

Antichrist Deception Studies

The Bible has clearly described the antichrist beasts of Daniel and Revelation, the Little Horn of Daniel, and the Son of Perdition of 2 Thessalonians 2, yet Satan has caused Christians to be deceived about who it is.

The antichrist is hidden in plain sight

Antichrist in the temple deception

A 3rd Jerusalem Temple Is Not Biblical

Witnesses Against The Papal Antichrist

Early Church Prophecy Quotes

Identifying Marks Of The Antichrist

Islam Cannot Be The Antichrist

Killing the two witnesses of Revelation 11

The beasts of Daniel and Revelation

Pope’s proclaim that salvation is only through the Roman Catholic Church

Mark of the Beast and the Mark of God

What Is The Antichrist?

Pope quotes that reveal that they are the Son of Perdition

Bible Deceptions

After the Bible was translated into English and the printing presses created millions of Bibles, the Roman Catholic Church couldn’t stop the Word of God from spreading, so they created a corrupt Greek Bible and modern Bibles to deceive Pastors and Christians.

Modern Bible deception verse study

Satan’s corrupted Bible manuscripts

Israel And Jews Deceptions

The deceptions about Jews and the modern state of Israel play a key role in causing Christians to not be able to properly discern prophecy.

Jews who are not really Jews

God’s chosen people, the Jews, incurred His wrath and judgment

Palestine Never Existed – Refuted!

Regathering of the Jews deception

The star of David deception

Torah Jews believe that the state of Israel is illegitimate

Christians should not support Israel

Prophecy Deceptions

Many Pastors don’t understand the fulfillment of prophecies, so they speculate about a future fulfillment.

The 2,300 Days Of Daniel 8

Daniel 11 Fulfillment Study

No one knows the day and hour of Jesus return

The 4 blood red moons

Rapture Deceptions

The whole pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib rapture discussion is based on a future 70th week of Daniel, which has been disproved in those studies.

The Pre-Tribulation Rapture Myth

Roman Catholic Deceptions

The Protestant Reformers rightly identified the Roman Catholic Church as the antichrist beast of Revelation, the Little Horn of Daniel, and the office of the Pope, the Son of Perdition.

The two Peters – one an Apostle and one the first Pope

What the Bible says about the Roman Catholic Church

Messiah Was Born On The Feast Of Tabernacles, As Elohim Came To Dwell With Us – New!

Jesuit End Times Antichrist Deception

This end times deception page will explain how the concepts of a one-man end-times Antichrist in a 7-year tribulation period became so prevalent, after 1800 years of Biblical teaching that knew nothing of the sort.

You will learn how the Jesuits of the Roman Catholic Church manipulated Bible prophecy to create an end-times Antichrist, in order to deflect blame away from them as the Antichrist system.

The Beasts of Daniel and Revelation study reveals that the Roman Catholic Church is the ‘beast of Revelation‘, the ‘Little Horn of Daniel‘, and the Pope, the ‘son of Perdition‘.

That’s not to say that there won’t be an end times False Messiah, but the truth is that Satan’s Antichrist beast has been waging war against Jesus and Christians since 538 A.D.

This study will explain how the Jesuits have pushed their deceptive Antichrist concepts during the last 500 years, so that they are taught to Pastors at seminary, and then preached to their congregations.

The end times prophecy teachings by John MacArthur, Chuck Swindoll, David Jeremiah and other popular pastors, support the Jesuits Antichrist deception.

Today’s teachers point to an end times Antichrist to rise up from the European Union (which they call the restored Roman Empire) or from Islam, both of which deflect blame away from the Roman Catholic Church antichrist beast system.

Today’s Pastors are teaching end times concepts that are contrary to what was taught by these esteemed Bible scholars:

Albert Barnes, John Calvin, Adam Clarke, John Gill, Matthew Henry, Phillip Mauro, Sir Isaac Newton, Matthew Poole, Charles H. Spurgeon, William Tyndale, John Wesley, John Wycliffe and others.

So how is it possible that the majority of today’s Pastors are teaching false doctrine about prophecy?

Have they been misled? Are they ignorant? Are they wolves in sheep’s clothing?

In order to understand the answers to these questions, we first need to see where the deception started, and then follow how it become so widely accepted.

Satan empowered the Roman Catholic Church to persecute the church of Jesus, which drove Christians and the Word of God into obscurity.

The truth about Jesus love, grace, forgiveness of all their sins, and the gift of eternal life, which had been taught by the early church, was buried under the weight of Catholic tradition, and salvation by works.

During the Dark Ages, the Roman Catholic Church persecuted those who proclaimed the truth of Jesus.

They banned people from reading the Bible, which was in Latin. They burned Bibles and tortured and killed those who had them.

They killed upwards of 100 million people, mostly Christians, during the Dark Ages and the Inquisition.

Then God shined the light of Jesus, by having the Bible translated into English.

With the advent of the printing press and the Word of God translated into English, the men who became the Protestant Reformers were finally able to read the Bible.

They found salvation through faith, apart from works, in the pure gospel of Jesus Christ.

And they identified the Antichrist.

When they read the books of Daniel and Revelation, they identified the Roman Catholic Church as the ‘antichrist‘, the ‘whore of Babylon’, who is guilty of the blood of the saints.

The Protestant Reformers taught that the 70th week of Daniel was fulfilled after the 69th week, when the everlasting Gospel was preached to the Jews for seven years.

Here’s the study notes from the Geneva Bible:

Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two ^x weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but ^y not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

(x) In this week of the seventy, will Christ come and preach and suffer death.

(y) He will seem to have no beauty, nor to be of any estimation; ( Isaiah 53:2 ).

Daniel 9:27 And he ^a shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to ^b cease, ^c and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

(a) By the preaching of the Gospel he affirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.

(b) Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection.

(c) Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them.

The Geneva Bible clearly witnesses that Jesus fulfilled the 70th week of Daniel, and that He sent the Roman army to desolate the Jews, so it has nothing to do with an end-times antichrist.

But the King James Bible did not include these study notes, so they were unavailable to future generations, which allowed the Jesuits deception to creep into the church.

Their dual message of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ apart from works, together with the message that Papal Rome is the Antichrist, changed the course of history.

When Martin Luther posted his ‘Ninety-Five Theses‘ in 1517, it was widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.

The Protestant Reformers told people to “come out of her” (Rev. 18:4) and millions left the Roman Catholic Church and received Jesus as their Savior, which led to the formation of the Protestant churches.

The Protestant Reformation led to a Great Awakening, where worldwide missions led to millions of people coming to Jesus.

Satan no doubt was livid as he watched God spread His Holy Word and the saving Gospel around the world, so the deceiver devised a new plan.

The Roman Catholic Church empowered the Jesuits to counter the Reformation.

In 1545, they started meeting at what’s called the Council of Trent. One of its main purposes was to plan a counterattack against Martin Luther and the Protestants.

To do this they empowered the Jesuits, who were a secret Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola. They call themselves the Society of Jesus, but you’ll soon find out that they are the Society of Satan.

Their work was to be done not only through the Inquisition and through torture, but also through theology and deception.

The Catholic Church gave the Jesuits the specific assignment of bringing Protestantism back to the “Mother Church.” Look at the state of today’s liberal Lutheran church, and you know they’ve been successful.

Central to this plan, was the need to deflect accusations that they were the Antichrist beast system.

The Jesuits are a covert military order of the Roman Catholic Church, not just priests.

They use fifth column tactics to infiltrate every institution they seek to destroy.

Instead of attacking from the outside, where everyone can see them, they covertly attack from the inside.

The Jesuits infiltrate the very thing they wish to destroy. They’ve pretended to be Christians and have infiltrated Christian institutions, to implement their deceptionsinside the walls of Christianity.

They countered accusations by creating the concept of an end times 70th week of Daniel, featuring a one man Antichrist.

The Roman Catholic Church had Jesuit Priest Francisco Ribera, a brilliant man with a doctorate in theology, write a 500 page commentary with an opposing view, where he manipulated prophecies in the books of Daniel and Revelation, to create an end-time 7-year tribulation antichrist.

Ribera applied all of Revelation to the end time rather than to the history of the church.

His explanation was that the prophecies apply only to a single sinister man who will arise up at the end of time; instead of a beast, which the Bibles says is a powerful kingdom (the Roman Catholic Church).

He said that the Antichrist would be an infidel from outside the church of God; instead of someone who presents himself as Christ (the Pope, who calls himself theVicar of Christ).

He said that the Antichrist would make a 7-year peace agreement with the Jews.

The most important passage that they manipulated is the 70 Weeks of Daniel prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27.

They applied the 70th week of Daniel to an end times Antichrist, replacing the 7-year period of Jesus new covenant being offered to the house of Israel from 27-34 A.D.

These may be the four most important prophecy verses in all of the Bible, because of the end times deceptions that are based on them.

To read a Bible study that proves that the covenant of the 70th week of Daniel was from Jesus Christ, not an end time Antichrist, click on 70 Weeks Of Daniel Covenant Deception

This idea, called Futurism, deferred accusations away from the Roman Catholic Church and the Papacy, so Rome quickly adopted this viewpoint as the Church’s official position on the Antichrist.

Prophecies in Daniel and Revelation tell us about the battle between Jesus and Satan throughout history, from the time they were written to Jesus second coming.

The ‘beast of Revelation‘, the ‘Little Horn of Daniel‘, the ‘son of Perdition’ and the ‘Babylonian Harlot,’ all apply to the history of the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church, who proclaims to be Christian, but has opposed true Christianity throughout their history. This is called Historicism.

Satan has used Jesuit controlled false prophets and misled Christians to promote the lie of Futurism.

Following close behind Francisco Ribera was another brilliant Jesuit scholar, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine of Rome.

Cardinal Bellarmine promoted Ribera’s concepts in his work “Polemic Lectures Concerning the Disputed points of the Christian Belief Against the Heretics of this Time“.

His writings claimed that Paul, Daniel, and John had nothing whatsoever to say about the Papal power. He taught that Antichrist was a single individual who would not rule until the very end of time.

His teachings won general acceptance among Catholics.

For almost 200 years after the Council of Trent, Jesuit futurism remained largely within Catholicism.

The Futurism of Ribera never posed a positive threat to Protestants worldwide for three centuries, and was virtually confined to the Roman Church.

Ribera’s manipulation of Biblical text was rejected for hundreds of years, by discerning students of the Bible, who knew better.

But the Jesuits persisted with their plan to cause the Protestants to adopt this doctrine.

**In 1812 a Roman Jesuit priest named Manuel de Lacunza published the work ‘The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty‘ under the pen name of ‘Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra’, a converted Jew.**

The pseudonym may be seen as a way of making the work acceptable to Christian readers and diverting attention from the station of the author, as the Inquisition clearly taught Christians that Jesuits were the enemy.

In the early 1800’s their futurism concepts latched on to Protestants in the Established Church of England, and from there it spread to America.

The story of how this happened is both fascinating and tragic. Many individuals were genuine Christians but unknowingly became channels of error.

In the 19th century, Dr. Samuel Roffey Maitland advanced the Jesuit teachings.

Dr. Samuel Roffey Maitland, a lawyer and Bible scholar, became a librarian to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He found Ribera’s doctrines and began to widely publish and advocate these deceptive teachings.

In 1826 he published a book attacking the Reformation and supporting Ribera’s idea of a future one-man Antichrist. For the next ten years, in tract after tract, he continued his anti-Reformation rhetoric.

As a result of his zeal and strong attacks against the Reformation, the Protestantism of England—the very nation that produced the King James Bible in 1611—received a crushing blow.

James H. Todd published pamphlets and books supporting the Jesuit teachings.

James H. Todd, a professor of Hebrew at the University of Dublin, accepted the futuristic ideas of Maitland, publishing his own supportive pamphlets and books, which caused the deception to continue to spread.

Pastor Edward Irving created the concept of the ‘secret rapture‘.

As the doctrine of futurism was spreading across Europe, the much-respected Scottish Presbyterian minister Edward Irving, the acknowledged forerunner of both the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, came onto the scene. Irving pastored the large Chalcedonian Chapel in London with over 1000 members.

When Irving turned to the prophecies, he eventually accepted the one-man Antichrist ideas of Manuel de Lacunza.

Irving translated Jesuit Priest Lacunza’s ‘The Coming of Messiah‘ into English and published it in English in 1827. It contains a lengthy ‘Preliminary Discourse’ written by Irving as a vehicle for his emerging views.

Around 1830, Edward Irving began to teach the unique idea of a two-phase return of Christ, the first phase being a secret rapture prior to the rise of the Antichrist.

The concept of the pre-tribulation rapture did not exist for 1800 years, until it was introduced by Irving, who was promoting the Jesuits end-times Antichrist deception.

To read a Bible study about the rapture, click on The Pretribulation Rapture Myth

John Henry Newman promoted the Jesuits concepts in England.

Then came John Henry Newman, a member of the Church of England and a leader of the famous Oxford Movement.

In 1850, Newman wrote his “Letter on Anglican Difficulties,” revealing that one of his goals in the Oxford movement was to absorb “the various English denominations and parties” back into the Church of Rome.

After publishing a pamphlet endorsing Todd’s futurism about a one-man Antichrist, Newman became a Roman Catholic, and later even a highly-honored cardinal.

A definite “Romeward movement was already arising, destined to sweep away the old Protestant landmarks, as with a flood.”

John Nelson Darby created the concept of Dispensationalism.

In the midst of this growing anti-Protestant climate in England arose John Nelson Darby – a brilliant lawyer, pastor, and theologian, who wrote more than 53 books on Bible subjects and is credited as the father of Dispensationalism.

Dispensationalism is the theory that God deals with mankind in major dispensations or periods.

John Nelson Darby, like Edward Irving, also became a strong promoter of a pre-tribulation rapture followed by a one-man Antichrist. In fact, his teaching has become a hallmark of dispensationalism.

John Nelson Darby laid much of the foundation for the present popular idea of removing Daniel’s seventieth week from its historical context in the time of Jesus Christ and applying it to a future tribulation after the rapture.

In spite of all the positives of his ministry, Darby followed Maitland, Todd, Bellarmine, and Ribera by incorporating the teachings of futurism into his theology.

Thus, a link was created between John Nelson Darby—the father of dispensationalism—and the Jesuit Francisco Ribera—the father of futurism.

Darby visited America six times between 1859 and 1874, preaching in all of its major cities, during which time he planted the seeds of futurism in American soil.

The Scofield Reference Bible established the deception in America.

One of the most important figures in the spread of these false doctrines is Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, a lawyer from Kansas who was greatly influenced by the writings of Darby.

In 1909, Scofield published the first edition of his famous ‘Scofield Reference Bible‘, which injected large doses of Futurism in the commentaries.

This Bible became so popular in American Protestant Bible schools that it was necessary to print literally millions of copies.

This was the beginning of the end of American Protestant Christianity and a proper exegetical understanding of prophecy and the Scripture.

The Scofield Study Bible was received by Congregationalists, Baptists, and some Presbyterian denominations.Through the immensely popular Scofield Study Bible, dispensationalism became the standard for biblical interpretation among traditional Southern Baptists in the early twentieth century.

Through the Scofield Bible, Jesuit futurism spread successfully across America. The doctrine of an Antichrist still to come was becoming firmly established inside twentieth-century American Protestantism.

Arno C. Gaebelein promoted Scofield’s Jesuit Futurism concepts.

He was a close assistant to Scofield on his monumental work, the ‘Scofield Reference Bible‘.

Two of his books, “Revelation, and Analysis and Exposition” and “Current Events in the Light of the Bible” explain the dispensationalist view of eschatology.

Lewis Sperry Chafer brought Scofield’s teachings to the Dallas Theological Seminary.

Lewis Sperry Chafer, an American theologian, became associated with the ministry of Scofield, who became his mentor.

When Scofield died in 1921, Chafer moved to Dallas, Texas, to pastor the First Congregational Church of Dallas, where Scofield had ministered.

Then in 1924 Chafer and his friend William Henry Griffith Thomas realized their vision of a simple, Bible‐teaching theological seminary, when they founded Dallas Theological Seminary (originally Evangelical Theological College).

DTS is known as a center of modern Dispensational teaching due to Dr. Chafer’s development of a Scofield-based systematic theology which approaches the Bible with a “premillennial, dispensational interpretation of the Scriptures.”

His eight-volume work describing this approach to theology, “Systematic Theology“, was first published in 1948 and is still a required textbook for some courses at DTS.

Chafer’s theology has been the subject of much study and debate in and out of the theological community since his death, especially on the two larger topics of dispensationalism and Christian Zionism, specifically that the Jews are a people called unto God with a separate historical purpose and plan from Christians.

Dallas Theological Seminary is the key place where the Jesuit concepts were taught to thousands of Pastors, including today’s top TV and radio personalities.

DTS graduates have taken positions at other seminaries, Bible schools, denominations and churches, so that the infection of the Jesuits end time concepts have been spread throughout the church.

As of Fall 2011, DTS has nearly 14,000 alumni serving in various ministerial capacities in 97 countries worldwide, and they’ve been trained according to the Jesuits end times Antichrist deceptions.

Are you seeing how the yeast of the Jesuits futurism deception has spread throughout the church?

Notice how the following Dallas Theological Seminary alumni are promoting the Jesuit Futurism deception.

John F. Walvoord promoted futurism through his publications and books.

John F. Walvoord received a Th.B., Th.M., and Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary, and then became the president .

After the death of Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, Dr. Walvoord became President of Dallas Theological Seminary and built it into a formidable graduate school of theology.

He was the editor of Bibliotheca Sacra, America’s oldest theological quarterly, was recognized as one of the leading evangelical theologians in America and an authority on systematic theology and eschatology.

He authored numerous books on theology and biblical prophecy, including “Daniel: The Key to Prophetic Revelation“, “The Rapture Question“, and “The Nations, Israel and the Church in Prophecy.”

John F. Walvoord teaches prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie promoted futurism in his Ryrie Study Bible.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie served as professor of systematic theology and dean of doctoral studies at Dallas Theological Seminary

He is the editor of The Ryrie Study Bible by Moody Publishers, which contains more than 10,000 of Dr. Ryrie’s explanatory notes.

Over 2 million of these Bibles have been sold, each one teaching the Jesuits end times deceptions.

Hal Lindsey brought the Jesuit deception to the mainstream.

He graduated from Dallas with a Master of Theology, majoring in the New Testament and early Greek literature

In the 1970s, Pastor Hal Lindsey, released his blockbuster book “The Late Great Planet Earth“.

His 177-page, easy-to-read volume brought Futurism to the masses of American Christianity, and beyond. Over 30 million copies have been sold and it’s available in over 30 languages.

Hal also embraced Dallas Theological Seminary founder Lewis Sperry Chafer’s theory that the Jews are a people called unto God with a separate historical purpose and plan from Christians.

Several of Lindsey’s books predicted the timing of the rapture, only to have the date come and go. Hal has been proven to be a False Prophet

His new program, ‘The Hal Lindsey Report‘, continues to teach the Jesuits end times concepts, and is carried on the Angel One and DayStar networks.

Chuck Swindoll and Insight For Living.

Chuck attended Dallas Theological Seminary, where he graduated magna cum laude.

In July 1994, Swindoll became the president of the Dallas Theological Seminary and now serves as its chancellor.

His Insight For Living radio program is broadcast on more than 2,000 stations around the world in 15 languages.

His series on Daniel and Revelation teaches the concepts of the Jesuits end times deceptions.

David Jeremiah and Turning Point Broadcast Ministries.

David Jeremiah received a Master’s degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.

He succeeded Tim LaHaye as Shadow Mountain’s senior pastor in 1981.

His Turning Point Ministries program is broadcast via radio stations and the Internet. His “What In the World is Going On?” prophecy series was recently broadcast to millions of people.

His wrote the prophecy books “The Coming Economic Armageddon: What Bible Prophecy Warns About the New Global Economy“, “What In the World is Going On?: 10 Prophetic Clues You Cannot Afford to Ignore“.

David Jeremiah teaches prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

J. Vernon McGee and Thru the Bible Radio Network program.

J. Vernon McGee has Master of Theology (Th.M.) and Doctor of Theology degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary.

J. Vernon McGee taught prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

Ron Rhodes and Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries

Ron Rhode holds ThM and ThD degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary, and teaches there and at several other seminaries.

He is president of ‘Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries‘, which is heard regularly on nationwide radio.

Here’s a quote for his website, “We believe that the translation of the church will be followed by the fulfillment of Israel’s seventieth week (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 6:1–19:21) during which the church, the body of Christ, will be in heaven. The whole period of Israel’s seventieth week will be a time of judgment on the whole earth, at the end of which the times of the Gentiles will be brought to a close. The latter half of this period will be the time of Jacob’s trouble (Jer. 30:7), which our Lord called the great tribulation (Matt. 24:15–21). ”

The fulfillment of the 70th week of Daniel already occurred when Jesus offered a New Covenant to the house of Israel and the House of Judah.

Ron Rhodes teaches prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

The Pre-Trib Study Group from Dr. Tim LaHaye and Dr. Thomas Ice

Dr. Ice has a B.A. from Howard Payne University, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary, a Ph.D. from Tyndale Theological Seminary

In 1991 Dr. Tim LaHaye became concerned about a perceived swaying from the pretribulational doctrine.

The Pre-trib Study Group gathers teachers together who promote the deceptions of the Jesuits.

Dr. Ice and Tim LaHaye teach prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

Talbot School of Theology teaches the Jesuits Antichrist deceptions.

The seminary’s first dean was Charles L. Feinberg, who earned his Th.M. and Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary. He was also on the faculty at DTS.

Talbut officially holds to the teaching of premillennial dispensationalism, and requiresits faculty members to be in accord with this theological and cultural.

By teaching these concepts, the Talbut School of Theology is promoting the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception and misleading future pastors.

John MacArthur and Grace To You Ministries, Master’s College and Grace Theological Seminary.

John got his theology Masters at Talbot School of Theology.

John’s ‘Master’s Seminary‘ and ‘Grace Theological Seminary‘ both teach a Dispensational premillennial position in eschatology.

Their website says, “We teach the personal, bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ before the seven-year tribulation.”

The anti-Christ reign in the 7 year tribulation and pre-trib rapture deception are based on the covenant of salvation in the Messianic 70 Week prophecy of Daniel 9:24 thru Daniel 9:27.

Our 70th Week Of Daniel Deception study proves that the covenant is from Jesus Christ, which invalidates the claim that it applies to an end times Antichrist, therefore it also invalidates that there is a 7-year tribulation period.

John MacArthur teaches prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

By teaching these concepts, the ‘Master’s Seminary‘ and ‘Grace Theological Seminary‘ are promoting the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception and misleading future pastors.

Here’s other popular pastors who promote the Jesuits end time Antichrist deception.

Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel teaches the Jesuits Antichrist deceptions.

Chuck authored books like “The Rapture“, which teach prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

Chuck prophesied that because the state of Israel was created in 1948, the generation (40 years) that followed would be the last. Of course 1988 came and went, and here we are, so that prophecy was false.

And these concepts are taught in Calvary Chapel churches worldwide and they are taught at the Calvary Chapel Bible College, which misleads future pastors..

Jack Van Impe teaches the Jesuits Antichrist deceptions.

Jack believes the Bible states that the world political leader will “come in peaceably” and create a seven-year peace deal involving Israel.

The premise for the seven-year peace has been invalidated in our 70 Weeks of Daniel study.

Jack Van Impe teaches prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

John Hagee teaches the Jesuits Antichrist deceptions.

John Hagee promotes all of Jesuits deceptions of the end times, and also Lewis Sperry Chafer’s Christian Zionists views about Jews.

Our Jews Who Are Not Really Jews study proves that 97% of people who call themselves Jews are NOT the descendents of Abraham, and have no right to the land of Israel or the promises of God.

John Hagee teaches prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

TBN teaches the Jesuits Antichrist deceptions.

The Trinity Broadcasting Network is now the world’s largest Christian television network.

They feature people like Hal Lindsey, Pastor John Hagee, who promote the Jesuit End times Antichrist concepts.

Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins brought the Jesuit deceptions to the masses.

In the 1990s, Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins took the Jesuit Futurism concepts, and applied them in the enormously successful Christian fiction series of books and movies.

The authors of Left Behind and the leaders of these television ministries may be genuine Christians who are doing their best to influence people for God’s Kingdom. Yet, in the full light of Scripture, they are teaching the doctrines of Satan.

Left Behind teaches much of the same Jesuit futurism of Francisco Ribera, hiding the real truth about the Antichrist.

Through Left Behind, the floodgates of futurism have been opened, unleashing a massive tidal wave of false prophecy, that has swept over America.

Tyndale House Publishing promotes writers who teach the Jesuits deception.

Kenneth N. Taylor, a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, created of the The Living Bible and is the founder of Tyndale House.

Its most successful publication in recent years has been the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, which is one of the best-selling book series in history with more than 60 million copies in print.

Kenneth N. Taylor and Tyndale House Publishing promote authors who teach prophecy concepts that support the Jesuits end-time Antichrist deception.

So are these Pastors misled? Are they ignorant? Are they wolves in sheep’s clothing?

The studies on this website prove that the majority of today’s pastors are teaching end time prophecy concepts that are false, which makes them False Prophets.

The concept of Futurism was created to counter the Protestant Reformation and to deflect blame away from the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church.

The majority of today’s pastors are teaching the Jesuit’s prophecy concepts, which continues to deflect blame away from the Antichrist beast of the Roman Catholic Church.

They may be sincere Christians, but they are teaching the doctrine of the Antichrist, and they will be held accountable to the Lord!

Most of them have been deceived at seminaries and Bible schools, where the Jesuits infiltrated the ranks to deceive them. Others are wolves in sheep’s clothing, who have sold out to the riches of Rome.

If you have influence with a pastor who is teaching these concepts, strongly encourage them to read the 70 Weeks Of Daniel Covenant Deception study and this page, so that they can see the truth.

There are definite strongholds in Pastors lives that aren’t allowing them to see the truth, so they desperately need your prayers.

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12

Joseph Tanner said, “It is a matter for deep regret that those who hold and advocate the Futurist system at the present day, Protestants as they are for the most part, are thus really playing into the hands of Rome, and helping to screen the Papacy from detection as the Antichrist.

It has been well said that ‘Futurism tends to obliterate the brand put by the Holy Spirit upon Popery.’ More especially is this to be deplored at a time when the Papal Antichrist seems to be making an expiring effort to regain his former hold on men’s minds.”

**The antichrist Roman Catholic Church has regained its power after sustaining a ‘deadly head wound‘ in 1798.**

My friend, Satan and his disciples have been very effective in undermining Christianity.

As a result, Christians are deceived and unprepared, because they think that God will rapture them out before the 7-year tribulation.

So they aren’t putting on the full armor of God to face times of great tribulation.

They aren’t preparing to have an escape plan, to have food and water, so that
they can protect their family and minister to others.

They will be panic stricken when it doesn’t happen and their hearts will fail them;
instead of being full of faith and helping desperate people find hope in Jesus.

They aren’t prepared to proclaim the name of Jesus when they may be forced to
decide between worshiping the False Messiah(Satan) or death.

Read the The Beasts of Daniel and Revelation study to see how the Bible clearly describes the Roman Catholic Church as the the ‘beast of Revelation‘, the ‘Little Horn of Daniel‘, and the Pope, the ‘son of Perdition‘ and the “Babylonian Harlot‘.

One of the premises of the Jesuits deception is that there would be a peace agreement with Israel by the Antichrist, which meant that they had to take control of the land to create an end time Israel.

Our Jews Who Are Not Really Jews study reveals that 97% of people who call themselves Jews are not the descendents of Abraham, so the regathering in Israel is a fraud.

Many pastors point to the reestablishment of the nation Israel as a sure sign, but it is only the ploy of the Antichrist Jesuits. To learn more, click on Regathering Of The Jews Deception

References:

Lewis Sperry Chafer – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Sperry_Chafer

John F. Walvoord – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walvoord

Charles Caldwell Ryrie – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Caldwell_Ryrie

Hal Lindsey – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Lindsey

Chuck Swindoll – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Swindoll

David Jeremiah – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jeremiah

J. Vernon McGee – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Vernon_McGee

Dr. Thomas Ice – http://www.pre-trib.org/about/dr-ice

Biola University – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biola_University

Talbut School of Theology – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_School_of_Theology

Charles Lee Feinberg – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._Feinberg

Chuck Smith 1948 the last generationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Smith_%28pastor%29

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Revelation Is Both Symbolic And Literal

January 20, 2016 3 Comments

Revelation Is Both Symbolic And Literal By David

This Revelation Timeline Decoded Bible study shows how Revelation uses symbols to explain the literal fulfillment.

Some people say that the Apocalyptic message is only symbolic and not literal.

They are saying that there is no literal historical fulfillment of the prophecies.

Some people say that the book of Revelation is literal.

**They are saying that the locust in the 5th Trumpet will be actual locust.**

To use that as an example, the symbol of locust is defined in the Old Testament as Arabs.

Judges 7:12 defines that locust represent the Arabians. “Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.”

So the 5th Trumpet is pointing to the rise of Islam and the great Muslim armies, which were used to attack part of the Roman Empire, as part of their judgment.

Here is a summary of the fulfillment of the fifth Trumpet, so that you can see the symbolism and the literal fulfillment:

The 5th Trumpet represents The Almighty YHWH using the Arabian (Mohammedan) army against the Western Roman Empire from 612-762 A.D., which is 150 years (5 months = 150 days). They wore turbans (crowns of gold); they had beards (faces of men); they had long hair like women; they wore chain-mail (breast-plates of iron); and they were fierce (teeth of lions). The falling star was Mohammed, the smoke out of Satan’s bottomless pit of lies is the Koran.

Revelation is a war manual, and John had to hide the message from the Romans who were in power at the time.

He could not say that the Arabs would come and attack the Roman Empire and prevail, as that would have invited more persecution.

The 6th Bowl refers to the symbolic drying up of the Euphrates River.

The literal interpretation focuses on the actual Euphrates River being dried up, but it symbolically points back to the domain of the the Turks, who became the great Ottoman Empire. Their drying up literally was fulfilled as they lost control of all of the lands they had conquered and were only left with the country of Turkey.

The 6th Trumpet represents The Almighty YHWH releasing the Turks to cross over the Euphrates River to conquer 1/3rd of the Roman Empire for 391 years (prepared for the hour and day and month and year, 1 + 30 + 360 = 391) from 1062-1453 A.D., which ended when they used large cannons (out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone) to knock down the thick protective walls of Constantinople.

The 6th Bowl was poured out to dry up the Ottoman Empire, the people (river) of theEuphrates who had been released during the 6th Trumpet. During the 18th and 19th centuries, they lost control of the territories that they had occupied, such as Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; the kings of the East. They lost control of Palestine to General Allenby of Great Britain in 1917 A.D.

So the book of Revelation is both symbolic and literal. If one has not studied the Old Testament, they probably don’t understand the definition of the symbols, which means that they cannot understand the literal fulfillment.

I think that it is our Father’s way of testing us to see if we read His whole Word.

Revelation truly is a baruchoth to those who read it and understand it, as it proves that the Elohim of the Scriptures is the One True Elohim; who foretold all of these events thousands of years ago, and have been fulfilled historically in precise detail. Praise Yah

History Unveils The Proper Explanation Of Prophecy Fulfillment

This Revelation Timeline Decoded Bible study focuses on how history unveils the proper prophecy interpretation.

The early church father’s could not have comprehended that it would take this long for it all to be fulfilled. They expected that after the fall of Rome, the antichrist would rise to power and reign for 3 1/2 years, and then Messiah would return to destroy the beast.

They had no comprehension that the antichrist beast would reign for 1,260 years, not 1,260 days.

But as time passed, Bible scholars began to see how prophecy was being fulfilled historically.

They had seen how the Popes of Rome, the Little Horn of Daniel, the Son of Perdition of 2 Thessalonians 2, rose to power after the last Roman Emperor, who had restrained them from taking power, was removed in 476 A.D.

They had seen how the Popes of Rome changed the law and times, and persecuted and killed the saints.

They had seen how the Popes of Rome controlled all the world in the 12th century, and blasphemed by proclaiming to be God and to forgive sins.

In the 18th century, Edward Gibbon wrote the epic 6-volume “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, a series of events recorded such as seemed to me to correspond to a great extent with the series of symbols found in the Apocalypse.

The language of Mr. Gibbon was often such as he would have used, on the supposition that he had designed to prepare a commentary on the symbols employed by John.

But this historian had no belief in the divine origin of Christianity, but he brought to the performance of his work learning and talent such as few Christian scholars have possessed.

We can use it as an impartial and fair, for it was a result which he least of all contemplated, that he would ever be regarded as an expounder of the prophecies in the Bible, or be referred to as vindicating their truth.*

Today, we have an even greater viewpoint, because we can look back on all that has happened in Rome, to see how so many prophecies have been fulfilled in exacting detail.

We can look back at the Dark Ages and Inquisition when historians record that the Roman Catholic Church killed over 50 million saints, fulfilling Revelation who said she, the Harlot Church, would be drunk with the blood of the saints.

We can see the Cardinals and Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church wearing purple and scarlet, just as Revelation 17 said the Harlot Church would.

I dare say that because we have so much evidence before us, we are more accountable. We have the whole record of history which provides the explanation of the fulfillment of prophecy.

Historicism proves how most of the prophecies in the Bible have been fulfilled during the last 1,900 years, since the book of Revelation was written.

Reference:Historicism proves how most of the prophecies in the Bible have been fulfilled during the last 1,900 years, since the book of Revelation was written.

History Unveiling Prophecy by Henry Grattan Guinness

The Revelation Timeline Is a Layered War Manual

Messiah’s Apocalyptic Vision is a war manual, which is layered and coded with symbols, to hide the message from the enemy.

Many people say that Revelation is chronological, and they are right; but it has four chronological layers whose fulfillment spans from when it was written until MessiYAH returns.

When you read the chapters of Revelation it’s difficult to get the whole picture, but when the four layers are all overlapped onto the timeline, they all fit together and explain the apocalyptic vision.

Here’s how the chapters of Revelation are layered.

In Revelation 2-3, our MessiYAH is speaking to seven church eras which have spanned from when John wrote the vision until Jesus returns, so the Seven Churches of Revelation study will show you how they have been fulfilled along the timeline.

In Revelation 12-13, our MessiYAH gives sweeping overviews of three phases of the Rome beast (the Roman Empire > The Roman Catholic Church > The Jesuits of Rome) that His followers have had to face from when John wrote the vision until Jesus returns, so the details of those chapters will overlay the timeline.

In Revelation 17-18, our MessiYAH helps John see how Satan has reigned through seven phases (heads) of the Roman beast; how the Roman Catholic Church is the eighth head, the Harlot of Babylon, the false Church; and how the Jesuits are using the Vatican to gather the world under their power, and then they will desolate the Harlot.

The seven Seals, the sealing of the 144,000, the seven Trumpet judgments, the Little Book, the Two Witnesses, the seven Bowl judgments, the Battle of Armageddon, the New World Order, and MessiYAH returning in victory, overlay the historical timeline.

Remember that John wrote the Revelation while the Roman Empire was in power, so he couldn’t just come out and point to them in the Apocalyptic visions.

To hide the message from the Romans, and from undiscerning people, he used the layers and symbols, which will be explained in the studies.

John understood Daniel’s prophecy visions, and he built on them to reveal the apocalyptic vision, so to understand Revelation, you need to understand the prophecies in Daniel.

Next Study: The Beasts Of Daniel 2 and Daniel 7

The Great Tribulation of Matthew 24

This End Times Deceptions Bible study explains the fulfillment of Messiah’s warning about Great Tribulation.

The proper context of the Olivet Discourse is not the end times, but rather about Messiah’s proclamation that the temple in Jerusalem would be destroyed.

The disciples understood the prophecy in Daniel 9, and they were inquiring about when the Messiah would cause the temple and city to be destroyed, thus ending the latter days of the Jews, who Messiah had just berated in Matthew 23.

Matthew is the only one who wrote about the end of the age, Luke and Mark did not. The King James says the end of the world, but it should be rendered as ‘age‘ as it points to the latter days of the Jews, from when they were released from Babylon, until the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.

Daniel 9:26 warned the Jews that the temple and city would be desolated. Daniel understood that to mean that because the Jews would deliver the Messiah up to be killed, they would be desolated. This is why Daniel was so distraught.

“and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.”

In Matthew 24:20-22, Messiah warned about the coming time of Great Tribulation, which Daniel had foretold:

“And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.“

Note: The command for the saints to flee Judea is very specific to the saints in the first century, and can’t apply to saints in the end times where there is no Judea. Praying that their flight would not be on the Sabbath applies to the first century, when the Jewish leaders would have closed the city gates and prohibited walking out of the city; which does not apply to the end times.

Then in Matthew 24:34 Messiah told us that all of the things that He just proclaimed would be fulfilled in that generation:

“Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”

Some people dismiss His words by saying that He was not referring to that generation, but His words to the Jews of His day reveal that He was indeed talking about them:

For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. Luke 11:30

But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. Luke 17:25

From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. Luke 11:51

Because people don’t understand the terrible calamity that happened to the Jews in the first century, they assign the fulfillment to the end times.

But as you will see, this was an intense time of suffering for the Jews, who had rejected the Messiah. When Messiah was being led to be crucified, He said:

“But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.” Luke 23:28

So let’s take Messiah at His word and see how in fact His words were fulfilled, when the people of the prince, the Roman army invaded Judea, to desolate the temple, the city of Jerusalem, and the Jewish people.

Most Christians severely underestimate the desolation of the Jews in the first century, not understanding how Messiah caused the Roman army to cause calamity unlike any other time in history.

Here is a summary of what happened, as documented by Jewish historian Josephus:

On the way through Judea to Jerusalem, the Roman army killed Jews by the 10 thousands in the outlying cities. They invaded Judea from the north, marching along the coast, and killing many – 18,000 at Askelon alone.

The Roman army surrounded Jerusalem, cutting off the food supply. Warring factions inside the city destroyed the granaries. This led to a severe famine, killing many. Josephus records that the famine widened its progress and devoured the people by whole houses and families. The upper rooms were full of women and children dying by famine; and the lanes of the city were full of the dead bodies of the aged.

People killed each other as they fought over food. The most horrible and unbelievable torments were inflicted upon all who were suspected of having any food concealed.

The city was divided against itself with rival groups. The most violent party in the city was the Zealots. These called to their aid a band of blood thirsty Idumeans, who set upon the people who were peaceably inclined, and slaughtered young and old until the outer temple was all of it overflowed with blood, and that day they saw 8500 dead bodies there.

But as for the seditious bands themselves, they fought against each other while trampling upon the dead bodies which lay heaped one upon another, and being filled with a mad rage from those dead bodies under their feet, they became the more fierce. They, moreover, were still inventing pernicious things against each other; and when they had resolved upon anything, they executed it without mercy, and omitted no method of torment or of barbarity.

Josephus also tells of the terrible torments inflicted upon nobles and citizens of the better sort who refused to comply with the demands of the Zealots. Those, after being horribly tortured, were slain, and through fear, none dared bury them. In this way 12,000 of the more eminent inhabitants perished.

The noise of those that were fighting was incessant, both by day and by night; but the lamentations of those that mourned exceeded the noise of the fighting.

The dead bodies were not taken outside the city and buried, for fear of being killed, so they stacked up around the city. The blood of all sort of dead carcases stood in lakes in the holy courts themselves.

Pestilence from unclean conditions caused diseases and death.

One man, with the consent of his family, killed his parents, his children, his wife and himself; to save themselves from a worse fate.

A woman, eminent for her family and her wealth, who, while suffering the ravages of famine, slew her infant son and roasted him, and having eaten half of him, concealed the other half.

Because the food supply was cut off by the Romans, Jews out of desperation would sneak out of the city walls at night to find food. They were captured, tortured and crucified by the Roman army. At one point 500 a night were being crucified on the trees around the city, so that all of the trees had multiple bodies on them. And these bodies were not taken down, but left up there to rot and be eaten by birds and animals.

In 70 A.D. when the people of the prince, the Roman army flooded into Jerusalem, they killed the remaining Jews with the sword, trampling over dead bodies.

Birds, dogs and wild animals, ate the flesh of the fallen.

15,000 fugitive Jews were killed by the Romans, and the number of those that were forced to leap into the Jordan was prodigious. The whole country through which they fled was filled with slaughter, and Jordan could not be passed over, by reason of the dead bodies that were in it.

97,000 were taken captive and sold cheaply to places like Egypt, as if back into bondage.

At the end of the siege in 70 A.D., there were 1.1. million dead Jews, none of which were buried.

Their bodies were stacked in the city and fallen in the temple. Their bodies filled all of the trees outside the city. Blood no doubt was everywhere. The scene and stench had to be intense, unlike anything ever seen before or after.

Of this period of great tribulation Jewish historian Josephus says, in the introduction of his ‘Wars of the Jews‘ historical documentary.

“It had come to pass that our city Jerusalem had arrived at a higher degree of felicity than any other city under the Roman government, and yet at last fell into the sorest of calamities again. Accordingly it appears to me that the misfortunes of all men from the beginning of the world, if they be compared to those of the Jews, are not so considerable as they were.”

The sufferings of the Jews had this peculiar characteristic, namely, that they were mostly inflicted upon themselves by the warring factions within the city, concerning whom Josephus says in another place:

“It is impossible to go distinctly over every instance of these men’s iniquity. I shall, therefore, speak my mind here at once briefly: That neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world” (Wars V. 10:5).

Messiah had warned about the bloodshed that would come on this generation.

“And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Luke 21:24

This fulfilled the Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers, when the wicked tenants killed the son of the vineyard owner.

“But when the vinedressers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’ So they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and destroy those vinedressers and give the vineyard to others.” Luke 20:14-15

This fulfilled Messiah words of Woe to the scribes and the Pharisees.

“Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.” Matthew 23:34-36

Recall what the Jewish leaders said when they handed Messiah over to be crucified:

“And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children.” Matthew 27:25

As so it was as the Roman army flooded into the city and killed 100’s of thousands of Jews by the sword. And those who were captured were sold into slavery.

Titus wanted to save the temple, but the Roman soldiers were so enraged at the wicked Jews, that they tore it down brick by brick, to be able to capture all of the gold.

This fulfilled Messiah words in Matthew 24:1-2, “Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

The following information is from Philip Mauro’s well-documented work, ‘The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation – A Study of the Last Two Visions of Daniel, and of the Olivet Discourse of the Lord Jesus Christ.’

The Jewish historian Josephus devotes nearly two hundred large pages (they would fill upwards of four hundred ordinary size) to the account of the events of’ those ‘days of vengeance,’ which l (as we have seen) involved not only the Jews in Palestine, but Jews all over the world.

We can refer to but a very few of those tragic events; but, inasmuch as not many of our readers have access to the history of Josephus, we believe we are rendering them a service in giving the best idea we can, in small compass, of the happenings of those times.

After the retreat of Roman army leader Cestius, there was a slaughter of about 10,000 Jews at Damascus; and then, it being evident that war with the Romans was inevitable, the Jews began making preparations to defend Jerusalem.

At that time Josephus, the writer of this history, was appointed general of the armies in Galilee. He seems to have had great ability and success as a soldier, though he was finally overpowered and captured by the Romans. Concerning one of his military operations his translator says’ I cannot but think this stratagem of Josephus to be one of the finest that ever was invented and executed by any warrior whatsoever.

At this point the emperor Nero appointed Vespasian, a valiant and experienced general, to the task of subduing the Jews; and Vespasian designated his son Titus to assist him. They invaded Judea from the north, marching along the coast, and killing many–18,000 at Askelon alone. Thus Galilee was all over filled with fire and blood; nor was it exempt from any kind of misery or calamity (III 4:1).

The incidents of this siege were terrible; and among them were events which forcibly recall the Lord’s words, But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days. The Romans were so enraged by the long and fierce resistance of the Jews that they spared none, nor pitied any. Many, moreover, in desperation, killed themselves.

The life of Josephus was spared in a manner which seems miraculous (III 8:4-7), and he was taken captive to Vespasian, to whom he prophesied that both he and Titus his son would be Caesar and emperor.

Josephus was with Titus during the subsequent siege of Jerusalem, in which the atrocities and miseries reached a limit impossible to be exceeded on earth. Only the state of the lost in hell could be worse.

After Jotapata fell, Joppa was taken, and then Tiberias and Taricheae on Lake Gennesaret. Thousands were killed, and upwards of 30,000 from the last named place alone were sold into slavery. Having now completely subdued Galilee, Vespasian led his army to Jerusalem.

For a right understanding of Matthew 24:15-21 it is important to know that the Roman armies were, for more than a year, occupied with the devastation of the provinces of Galilee and Judea, before Jerusalem was besieged. It should be noted also that Christ’s first warnings to flee were to them which be in Judea (#Mt24:16).

This makes it perfectly certain that the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, which was the appointed signal for them which be in Judea to flee into the mountains, was not an idol set up in the inner sanctuary of the Temple. For the desolation of Judea was completed long before Jerusalem and the Temple were taken.

At the time Vespasian led his armies to Jerusalem, that doomed city was in a state of indescribable disorder and confusion insomuch that, during the entire siege, the Jews suffered far more from one another inside the walls than from the enemy outside.

Josephus says there were disorders and civil war in every city, and all those that were at quiet from the Romans turned their hands one against another. There was also a bitter contest between those that were for war, and those that were desirous for peace (IV 3:2).

Josephus further tells of the utter disgrace and ruin of the high priesthood, the basest of men being exalted to that office; and also of the profanation of the sanctuary.

The most violent party in the city was the Zealots. These called to their aid a band of blood thirsty Idumeans, who set upon the people who were peaceably inclined, and slaughtered young and old until the outer temple was all of it overflowed with blood, and that day they saw 8500 dead bodies there.

Among the slain was Ananias, formerly high priest, a venerable and worthy man, concerning whom Josephus said:

“I should not mistake if I said that the death of Ananias was the beginning of the destruction of the city, and that from this very day may be dated the overthrow of her wall, and the ruin of her affairs; that being the day whereon they saw their high priest, and the procurer of their preservation, slain in the midst of their city. * * *

And I cannot but think it was because God had doomed this city to destruction, as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge His sanctuary with fire, that He cut off these, their great defenders, while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments and presided over the public worship, were cast out naked to be the food of dogs and wild beasts.

Now after these were slain the Zealots and the Idumeans fell upon the people as upon a flock of profane animals, and cut their throats.”

Josephus also tells of the terrible torments inflicted upon nobles and citizens of the better sort who refused to comply with the demands of the Zealots. Those, after being horribly tortured, were slain, and through fear, none dared bury them. In this way 12,000 of the more eminent inhabitants perished (IV 5:3). We quote further:

“Along all the roads also vast numbers of dead bodies lay in heaps; and many who at first were zealous to desert the city chose rather to perish there; for the hopes of burial made death m their own city appear less terrible to them. But those zealots came at last to that degree of barbarity as not to bestow a burial either on those slain in the city or on those that lay along the roads; as if at the same time that they defiled men with their wicked actions they would pollute the Deity itself also, they left the dead bodies to putrefy under the sun. (IV. 6. 3).

About this time above 15,000 fugitive Jews were killed by the Romans, and the number of those that were forced to leap into the Jordan was prodigious. The whole country through which they fled was filled with slaughter, and Jordan could not be passed over, by reason of the dead bodies that were in it (IV. 8. 5, 6).

VESPASIAN RECALLED. TITUS PLACED IN CHARGE

At this point Vespasian was called to Rome by reason of the death of the emperor Nero, and the operations against the Jews devolved upon Titus. Vespasian himself was soon thereafter made emperor.

Meanwhile another tyrant rose up, whose name was Simon, and of him Josephus says: Now this Simon, who was without the wall, was a greater terror to the people than the Romans themselves; while the Zealots who were within it were more heavy upon them than both the other.

Those Zealots were led by a tyrant named John; and the excesses of murder and uncleanness in which they habitually indulged are indescribable (see Bk. IV, ch. 9, sec. 10).

In order to overthrow John, the people finally admitted Simon and his followers. From that time onward the civil warfare within the city became more incessant and deadly. The distracted city was now divided into three factions instead of two.

The fighting was carried even into the inner court of the temple; whereupon Josephus laments that even those who came with sacrifices to offer them in the temple were slain, and sprinkled that altar with their own blood, till the dead bodies of strangers were mingled together with those of their own country, and those of profane persons with those of priests, and the blood of all sort of dead carcases stood in lakes in the holy courts themselves (V 1:3).

Surely there never were such conditions as these in any city before or since.

Among the dire calamities which befell the wretched people was the destruction of the granaries and storehouses of food;so that famine was soon added to the other horrors. The warring factions were agreed in nothing but to kill those that were innocent. Says Josephus:

“The noise of those that were fighting was incessant, both by day and by night; but the lamentations of those that mourned exceeded the noise of the fighting. Nor was there ever any occasion for them to leave off their lamentations, because their calamities came perpetually, one upon another.

But as for the seditious bands themselves, they fought against each other while trampling upon the dead bodies which lay heaped one upon another, and being filled with a mad rage from those dead bodies under their feet, they became the more fierce. They, moreover, were still inventing pernicious things against each other; and when they had resolved upon anything, they executed it without mercy, and omitted no method of torment or of barbarity” (V. 2. 5).

At the time described in the preceding paragraphs, the Roman armies had not yet reached the city, and inasmuch as the Passover season now came on, and things seemed to quiet down momentarily, the gates were opened for such as wished to observe the great feast. The translator, in a footnote, says:

“Here we see the true occasion of those vast numbers of Jews that were in Jerusalem during this siege by Titus and who perished therein. For the siege began at the feast of Passover, when such prodigious multitudes of the Jews and proselytes were come from all parts of Judea, and from other countries.

As to the number that perished during this siege, Josephus assures us, as we shall see hereafter, they were 1,100,000, besides 97,000 captives.

This is notable as the last Passover. That joyous feast of remembrance of God’s great deliverance of His people out of Egypt ended in an orgy of blood.

The tyrant John took advantage of this opportunity to introduce some of his followers, with concealed weapons, among the throngs of worshipers in the temple, who slew many, while others were rolled in heaps together, and trampled upon, and beaten without mercy.

And now, though the Roman armies were at their gates, the warring factions began again to destroy one another and the innocent inhabitants.

“For”, says Josephus, they returned to their former madness, and separated one from another, and fought it out; and they did everything that the besiegers could desire them to do. For they never suffered from the Romans anything worse than they made each other suffer; nor was there any misery endured by the city which, after what these men did, could be esteemed new. It was most of all unhappy before it was overthrown; and those that took it did it a kindness. For I venture to say that the sedition destroyed the city, and the Romans destroyed the sedition. This was a much harder thing to do than to destroy the walls. So that we may justly ascribe our misfortunes to our own people (V. 6. 2).

This is the most astonishing feature of this great tribulation; for surely there never was a besieged city whose inhabitants suffered more from one another than from the common enemy. In this feature of the case we see most clearly that it is one of judgment; and that, as the apostle Paul said, the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

At this point the siege began in earnest. Titus, however, sent Josephus to speak to the Jews, offering them clemency, and exhorting them to yield. Josephus made a most earnest plea to them not to resist the might of Rome, pointing out that God was no longer with them.

But it was to no purpose. So the siege proceeded outside, and the famine began to rage inside, insomuch that children pulled out of their parents’ mouths the morsels they were eating, and even mothers deprived their infants of the last bits of food that might have sustained their lives.

The fighters, of course, kept for their own use what food there was, and it seems that they took a keen delight in seeing others suffer. It was a species of madness. They invented terrible methods of torments, such as it would not be seemly for us to describe. And this was done, says Josephus, to keep their madness in exercise (V 10:3).

The most horrible and unbelievable torments were inflicted upon all who were suspected of having any food concealed. The following passage will give an idea of the conditions:

“It is impossible to give every instance of the iniquity of these men. I shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly:–that neither did any other city suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world. (This forcibly brings to mind the Lord’s own words.) Finally they brought the Hebrew nation into contempt, that they might themselves appear comparatively less impious with regard to strangers. They confessed, what was true, that they were the scum, and the spurious and abortive offspring of our nation, while they overthrew the city themselves, and forced the Romans, whether they would or no, to gain a melancholy reputation by acting gloriously against them; and did almost draw that fire upon the temple which they seemed to think came too slowly” (V. 10. 5).

Under pressure of the famine many Jews went out at night into the valleys in search of food.

These were caught, tortured and crucified in sight of those on the walls of the city. About five hundred every day were thus treated. The number became finally so great that there was not room enough for the crosses, nor crosses enough for the victims. So several were ofttimes nailed to one cross.

A little later the Roman armies encompassed the entire city, so that there was no longer any egress therefrom.

“Then, says Josephus, did the famine widen its progress and devour the people by whole houses and families. The upper rooms were full of women and children dying by famine; and the lanes of the city were full of the dead bodies of the aged. The children also and the young men wandered about the marketplaces like shadows, all swelled with the famine, and fell down dead, wheresoever their misery seized them (V. 12. 3).

Thus did the miseries of Jerusalem grow worse and worse every day.

And indeed the multitude of carcases that lay in heaps, one upon another, was a horrible sight, and produced a pestilential stench which was a hindrance to those that would make sallies out of the city and fight the enemy (VI. 1. 1).

The number of those that perished by famine in the city was prodigious, and their miseries were unspeakable. For if so much as the shadow of any kind of food did anywhere appear, a war was commenced presently, and the dearest friends fell a fighting one another about it.

In this connection Josephus relates in detail the case of a woman, eminent for her family and her wealth, who, while suffering the ravages of famine, slew her infant son and roasted him, and having eaten half of him, concealed the other half.

When presently the seditious Jews came in to search the premises, and smelt the horrid scent of this food, they threatened her life if she did not show them what food she had prepared. She replied that she had saved for them a choice part, and withal uncovered what was left of the little body, saying, Come, eat of this food; for I have eaten of it myself. Do not you pretend to be more tender than a woman, or more compassionate than a mother. Even those desperate and hardened men were horrified at the sight, and stood aghast at the deed of this mother. They left trembling; and the whole city was full of what the woman had done. It must be remembered that all this time the lives of all in the city would have been spared and the city and temple saved, had they but yielded to the Romans. But how then should the Scripture be fulfilled? (see #De 28:56,57)

Soon after this the temple was set on fire and was burned down, though Titus tried to save it. Josephus says:

But as for that house, God had for certain long ago doomed it to the fire; and now that fatal day was come, according to the revolution of ages. It was the tenth day of the month Ab, the day upon which it was formerly burnt by the king of Babylon (VI. 4. 5).

Further Josephus says:

“While the holy house was on fire everything was plundered that came to hand, and ten thousand of those were slain. Nor was there commiseration of any age, or any reverence of gravity; but children, old men, profane persons, and priests were all slain in the same manner.

Moreover many, when they saw the fire, exerted their utmost strength, and did break out into groans and outcries. Perea also did return the echo, as well as the mountains round about Jerusalem, and augmented the force of the noise.”

Yet was the misery itself more terrible than this disorder. For one would have thought that the hill itself, on which the temple stood, was seething hot, as if full of fire on every part, that the blood was more in quantity than the fire, and that the slain were more in numbers than they who slew them. For the ground did nowhere appear visible because of the dead bodies that lay upon it (VL 5. 1).

In describing how a number were killed in a certain cloister, which the soldiers set on fire, Josephus says:

“A false prophet was the occasion of the destruction of those people, he having made a public proclamation that very day that God commanded them to get upon the temple and that they should receive miraculous signs of their deliverance. There was then a large number of false prophets suborned by the tyrants to impose on the people, who announced to them that they should wait for deliverance from God (VI. 5. 2).

In this detail also the MessiYah’s Olivet prophecy was most literally fulfilled.

When at last the Romans gained entrance into the city, the soldiers had become so exasperated by the stubborn resistance of the Jews, that they could not be restrained from wreaking vengeance upon the survivors.

So they indulged in slaughter until weary of it. The survivors were sold into slavery, but at a very low price, because they were so numerous, and the buyers were few. Thus was fulfilled the word of the Lord by Moses, And there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you (#De 28:68).

Many were put into bonds and sold to slavery in the Egyptian mines, thus fulfilling several prophecies that they should be sold into Egypt again, whence God had delivered them (#Ho 8:13; 9:3).

This fulfills Luke 21:24, “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations.”

In concluding this part of his history Josephus gives the number of those who perished (a million one hundred thousand) and of those sold into slavery (ninety seven thousand), and explains, as we have already stated, that they were come up from all the country to the feast of unleavened bread, and were on a sudden shut up by an army. And he adds:

“Now this vast multitude was indeed collected out of remote places, but the entire nation was now shut up by fate as in prison, and the Roman army encompassed the city when it was crowded with inhabitants. Accordingly the multitude of those that perished therein exceeded all the destruction’s that either men or God ever brought upon the world” (VI. 9. 4).

Thus ended, in the greatest of all calamities of the sort, the national existence of the Jewish people, and all that pertained to that old covenant which was instituted with glory (#2Co 3:7,9,11), but which was to be done away.

Here may be seen an example of the thoroughness of God’s judgments, when He arises to do His strange work. Judgment must begin at the house of God; and in view of what is brought to our notice in this history of Josephus, how impressive is the question, And if it begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? (#1Pe 4:17).

Conclusion:

Many will cite the holocaust or other times when millions of people died, to say that they were worse; but I will take Messiah at His word, which is verified by Jewish historian Josephus, that the sheer horror of what happened in and around Jerusalem from 66-70 A.D. has never been seen before or since.

The time of Great Tribulation referred to in Matthew 24, is the time of Jacob’s Trouble, which is described in Daniel 12.

Read this study to see the fulfillment of the Abomination of Desolation which warned the saints in Judea, the 1,290 days, the 1,335 days, and the siege being cut short for the elect’s sake. Daniel 12 Is Not About The Antichrist Or The End Times

Additional Study Resources:

The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation, by Philip Maurohttp://www.preteristarchive.com/Books/1921_mauro_seventy-weeks.html

Flavius Josephus describes the destruction of Jerusalem. http://www.bible.ca/pre-flavius-josephus-70AD-Mt24-fulfilled.htm

Jerusalem, AD70: The Worst Desolation Ever?http://www.ukapologetics.net/09/AD70.htm

Revelation Timeline Decoded

Revelation prophecy fulfillment is fairly straight-forward.

It’s all of the futuristic deceptions of the enemy that make it hard to see the truth of the fulfillment.

The enemy has programmed Christians to look to the future for the fulfillment, as most prophecy teachers say that all of the Revelation seals, trumpets and bowls take place in the end-times. This is called futurism.

The truth is that most of Revelation has been fulfilled during the last 1,900 years, since it was written. This is called historicism.

Revelation 1:1 says, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants–things which must shortly take place.”

And as you will learn, the first seal of Revelation was fulfilled shortly after John recorded the book of Revelation.

Ask yourself, what makes more sense?

That none of the Revelation prophecies would be fulfilled for 1,900+ years, and then all of them would be fulfilled during the final few years?

Or, that the Revelation prophecies would be fulfilled during the time from when they were written, until Messiah returns?

Doesn’t it make more sense that Revelation describes what the Assembly of Messiah would face during all of the years until Messiah returns?

Let me put it another way. If the futuristic view of prophecy is true, then that means that our Messiah had nothing to say to His Church about the following events which occurred during the last 1,900 years:

Satan using the Roman Empire to kill 10 million saints, in his attempt to wipe out the Early Church.

The fall of the mighty Roman Empire from civil war, disease, famine and financial collapse.

Roman Emperor Constantine and the Roman Bishops creating a new pagan religion of Christianity, the Roman Catechism, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Army after army attacking the great Roman Empire to desolate it, causing the last Roman Emperor to be removed from power in 476 A.D.

The rise of the Popes of Rome to power in the 6th century, who went on to relentlessly burn the Set Apart Scriptures and kill the saints during the Dark Ages and the Inquisition, during which over 50 million saints were killed.

The Popes of Rome proclaiming blasphemous things, such as they are God, that they forgive sins, that they control the whole world, and condemning saints as heretics.

The translation of the Scriptures into English, German, and other languages, after it had been hidden for so long in Latin by the Papal Church. And the advent of the printing press, which caused Bibles to spread around the world.

Martin Luther, a Catholic Monk, being led to read the Bible to see that the Papal Church was a false Church, a Harlot Church. He responded by posting his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation, causing millions of people to be saved by faith, come out of the Catholic Church and form the Protestant Churches.

The rise of the Jesuit Order, which the Roman Catholic Church empowered, to counter the Reformation, to bring the Protestants back under their power.

The Spanish Inquisition and wholesale slaughter of the saints in France, by order of the Pope of Rome.

The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, which killed many Catholics, in countries which had previously killed the saints.

The time of the Great Awakening when missionaries traveled around the world spreading the Good News.

The Futuristic view tells you that Messiah had nothing to say to His Church which endured all of those things.

The Futuristic view tells you that Messiah had nothing to say to the 10 million who died at the hands of the Roman Empire, and nothing to say to the 50 million plus who died at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church.

I promise you that our Messiah did in fact speak of all of those things in the book of Revelation, not by name of course, but the events and the people groups were all described in clear detail, and history proves the fulfillment.

So my friend, you’re going to have to pray for discernment, because your programming, the things that you’ve been taught about the seals, the trumpets and the bowls… are going to interfere with your ability to understand what the Bible is really telling us.

I’m not asking you to be empty-minded, but you will need to be open-minded.
Seek to pursue truth, instead of defending what you’ve been led to believe.

The enemy has worked hard to deceive the end times Church, because the culmination of all that he has worked for to push the world into a New World Order, takes place in the last few years.

By causing you to look to a future fulfillment of prophecy, he has caused you to not understand who the enemy of Christ and His Church really are.

Many Christians haven’t studied the scriptures to validate the meaning of prophecies,
so they have blindly trusted what Pastors have told them.

Friend, you’re going to stand before your Messiah some day and be accountable for knowing the true fulfillment. Saying that your Pastors told you is not going to cut it.

The historic fulfillment of Our Messiah Revelation reveals the battle between Satan and his followers, warring against Messiah and His followers.

Right now, the enemy is prevailing, because most Christians don’t even know who the real enemy is.

And most Christians believe that they will be raptured before the supposed 7-year tribulation period, so most don’t care.

This explains why Messiah called our Laodicean Church era, lukewarm, wretched,miserable, blind, naked and poor.

The enemy has infiltrated seminaries and caused them to teach a futuristic fulfillment of Revelation. This has blinded Christians from seeing who Satan has empowered to war against them, so they are unable to fight back with the rod of iron, the Word of Elohim.

Friend, are you ready to learn the truth?

If so, click here to view: The Deceiver’s End-Times Plan For Christians

Father, I pray that you wake the church up from her slumber, and that you anoint each visitor with eye salve to help them see the truth. I pray this in Yahusha/Jesus name, for your Honor and your Esteem. Amein!

David

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A Zadok (Qumran) Prophesy By Rob

December 9, 2015 No Comments

A Zadok (Qumran) Prophesy

– The Remnant of Ephraim Will Forsake False Teachers In The Last Days

The following audio discussion (in 4 parts) is inspired by this Zadok prophecy, which is in full accord with the biblical prophets and the prophecies of Yahushua himself. It explores some significant biblical precepts that assist us in developing the spiritual gift of discernment necessary to identifying whether a teacher, or a teaching, is really a true “gatherer” servant ministry of the Most High.

Part 1: Basic Precepts For Discerning False Teachings – now available – may be downloaded from the website from:

http://www.inthatday.net/2015/12/a-zadok-qumran-prophesy-the-remnant-of-ephraim-will-forsake-false-teachers-in-the-last-days/

Looking to YHVH’s promised redemption of His remnant…

Rob

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A Zadok (Qumran) Prophesy – The Remnant of Ephraim Will Forsake False Teachers In The Last Days

By inthatday | December 8, 2015

The following audio discussion (in 4 parts) is inspired by this Zadok prophecy, which is in full accord with the biblical prophets and the prophecies of Yahushua. It explores some significant biblical precepts that assist us in developing the spiritual gift of discernment necessary to identifying whether a teacher, or a teaching, is really a true “gatherer” servant ministry of the Most High.

Ezek 20:34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

Isaiah prophesied that in the last days a repentant remnant will return (Isa 10:22). A similar narrative was expressed by Yahushua Melchizedek in his parable of the “lost son” who finally returns to his Father’s house and is restored (Luke 15:11-32).

Prophetically speaking, for this to happen to the last generation “Olive Tree” congregation, one should expect there must be a significant spiritual awakening to discern what is authoritative Divine Truthand the authentic ministry of YHVH’s Spirit, and to reject imitations and deceptions of those whom the Zadok code-named the “flattery seekers“. Without this authentic, qualitative spiritual work, the remnant would not be awoken to discerning the false from the true in a world of great darkness and deception. Clearly, this spiritual awakening must necessarily precede the remnant having the strong ability to 1) exercise sound discernment and then 2) to fearlessly forsake all false teachers and false teachings of the religious traditions of men (Mystery Babylon) that would keep YHVH’s remnant captive.

1 John 4:1 ¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of Elohiym: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

In the time of John the Baptist and Yahushua Melchizedek, the Apostles testified to such an awakening occurred amongst a remnant in ancient Judea. In the last days – according to the testimony of Yahushua, His Apostles and the Prophets, the expectation is that a repentant return of a sanctified remnant will occur from the four corners of the earth… and the Apostles declare the prophetic Word is more certain than the creation foundations of the earth!

Of note is that, in their Qumran writings, the Zadok priesthood also witnessed to this future restorative awakening and increased discernment in the last days remnant. In their commentary on Nahum (4Q 169 Col.2/3) they state:

“The bad deeds of the flattery seekers, they will be rejected by the simple folk of Ephraim, and they will ally themselves to the true Israel.”

The “true Israel” is the (biblically defined) redeemed olive tree of YHVH, which is redeemed individually (one by one) through personal acceptance of the atonement sacrifice of the Lamb of YHVH, who is Yahushua, the resurrected Melchizedek of YHVH.

Thus in the last days the remnant of those who cling to Yahushua, as described in the Yahushua’s parable of the “lost son”, while yet scattered in the nations must experience a great spiritual awaking ( as described in the shadow type of Luke 15:17 – “when he came to himself“) . A merciful outpouring of YHVH’s Spirit and grace which calls “deep unto deep” motivates the lost son to begin to seek many things …

Working to improve one’s spiritual gift of discernment is vital today and a significant part of our needed repentant preparation to be able to stand in the day of increasing deception. It all begins with a spiritual heart that has a truly sincere love to take hold of YHVH’s Truth (2 Thess 2:10).

Praise YHVH that the Zadok priesthood reminds us that the remnant will indeed be successful in this in the latter day.

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YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. YOU MUST *** LISTEN TO HIM *** (we are told not to listen to Moses by Moses himself. Moses pointed to the Son. The Son did not point to Moses). DEUTERONOMY 18:15

BY KIRK CARMICHAEL

How important is this verse to you right now (Deuteronomy 18:15)? Here is Peter quoting this verse on the day of Shavuot (Pentecost):

For Moses said, ‘YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.’ ACTS 3:22-23

Right before Acts 3:22-23 Peter states that it is only by emunah/believe in His name that we can repent for our sins and be saved, which being “saved” is also coming into the New Covenant. The audience of the “first covenant” was “under the law” which was “THE LAW OF MOSES

Placing this verse into the story at the right time shows us how the COVENANT PLAN was put on “PAUSE” @ Mt Sinai for 1500 years until the Prophet came. I will explain what I just shared with you.

THE “BIG PICTURE” ———————ADAM TO MT SINAI

The timing of when Moses was told: “YHWH will raise up a Prophet to come after Moses”

6000 years ago:

Adam breaks his covenant and is removed out of the garden (the presence of YHWH). Curses are given as result. The SEED of the Woman is promised would come (who would also be this Prophet to come after Moses). THERE IS NO COVENANT WITH MAN FOR 1692 YEARS, RESULTING IN THE FLOOD

1692 years later:

Yah enters COVENANT with Noah (The SEED of the woman and ancestor of the Prophet to come after Moses) to purge the world from wickedness and BEGIN A BRAND NEW PLAN ushering in new changes. Noah obeys his covenant by building an ark and saving his family.

367 years later:

YHWH enters COVENANT with Abram (the SEED of the woman and ancestor of the Prophet to come after Moses) to give LAND to his descendants immediately after Abram first believed in the promise that YHWH would give him descendants.’

THE TERMS OF THIS COVENANT (this becomes HUGE knowing these TERMS for this post as THE TIMING IS 400 YEARS FROM WHEN ABRAHAM HAS A SON) 1) His descendants (which he doesn’t have even a son yet) would become enslaved in a country not their own for 400 years

2) YHWH would deliver them and punish that nation (this nation would become Egypt)

3) They would come out with great possessions

4) At the time of the sin of the Amorites reaches its full measure

430 years later…

THE TERMS ABOVE ARE FULFILLED TO THE DAY AT MT SINAI AS PLANNED ~ until… something happened

24 years later:

Abraham (still with no son) is guaranteed that he would now have a son within one year and names him Isaac. YHWH promises to enter covenant with Abraham’s descendants. (THIS COVENANT IS WHY THEY GO TO MT SINAI TO GET MARRIED TO YHWH, TO ENTER COVENANT WITH HIM)

430 YEARS LATER TO THE DAY OF THE COVENANT WITH ABRAM HIS DESCENDANTS LEAVE EGYPT AND ON THEIR WAY TO ENTER COVENANT WITH YHWH.

MOSES END UP MAKING SEVEN TRIPS UP MT SINAI

(IMPORTANT NOTE: Moses was only supposed to have made THREE TRIPS to complete the COVENANT but ends up making SEVEN as they leave Mt Sinai with a drastically different covenantal arrangement as they forfeited by their actions the first “OFFER” to become a Kingdom of Priests and Kodesh Nation)

SUMMARY OF “WHY” MOSES WENT UP SEVEN TIMES

TRIP 1 ~

Moses receives the COVENANT OFFER to go back down the mountain and ask the people if they would like to say “yes”:

“I will make you:

a Kingdom of Priests, a Kodesh Nation, and My special treasured possession

“IF” The condition of them receiving the covenantal benefits of the “OFFER”

“IF” you obey My VOICE and Keep My COVENANT

TRIP 2 ~

The people said “we will do all YHWH will say”. Moses goes up trip 2 to bring the ACCEPTANCE from the people back to YHWH and told to prepare the people on the 3rd day and when they hear the trumpet blast come up the mountain:

ENTER THE STORY ~ ———————–THIS IS NOT A THEOLOGY BOOK!

THE THIRD DAY ARRIVES:

TRIP 3 ~

Moses went up after YHWH called Moses up. The people were supposed to go up with Moses but were afraid (understandably right?):

(Moses recanting the event 40 years later) YHWH spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain. At that time I stood between YHWH and you to declare to you the word of YHWH, because YOU WERE AFRAID OF THE FIRE and DID NOT GO UP THE MOUNTAIN. DEUTERONOMY 5:4-5

Aaron is nominated by YHWH as their ‘spokesperson’, and will become their HIGH PRIEST, because the people were too afraid to go up the mountain and approach closer.

YHWH replied, “Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to YHWH, or he will break out against them.” So Moses went down to the people and told them. EXODUS 19:25

AT BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAIN

Remember the ‘OFFER’ of the COVENANT:

“IF” you OBEY My VOICE and Keep My COVENANT

YHWH ***SPOKE*** (with His VOICE) ————————– HIS TEN WORDS (improperly translated as ‘COMMANDMENTS’)

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE PEOPLE’S RESPONSE:

It will NOT BE LIKE the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares YHWH. HEBREW 8:9

Notice the verse right before very closely:

For if there had been nothing wrong (WHAT WAS WRONG??) with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But Elohim FOUND FAULT WITH THE PEOPLE (WHAT WAS WRONG WAS THE PEOPLE NEEDED TO BE CHANGED!!) and said… HEBREWS 8:7-8

This… is…. THE PROPHET LIKE MOSES THAT WAS TOLD WOULD COME…

BACK TO TRIP 4

Right here, on Trip 4, is what was told Moses upon coming up after the people rejected His Voice… the turning point in the entire story of scripture as the timetable began counting a 1500 year period where the Prophet to come after Moses must come:

NOW LOOK AT THE RESPONSE YHWH GAVE TO MOSES OF HEARING THE PEOPLE’S REQUEST:

(next verses) YHWH SAID TO ME: “What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. DEUTERONOMY 18:17-18

YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. YOU MUST LISTEN TO HIM. DEUTERONOMY 18:15

THE PEOPLE IN THE FLESH ASKED TO LISTEN TO MOSES’ INSTEAD OF YHWH’S VOICE.

If you believed Moses, you would believe me, FOR HE WROTE ABOUT ME. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?” JOHN 5:46-47

Look very closely here: even many non-religious people understood how to interpret “the Law” (the Law of Moses, first covenant). They just did not know the Prophet to come after Moses was going to die! Nobody knew that part.

The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law (Law of Moses, first covenant) that THE MESSIAH WILL REMAIN FOREVER, so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?” JOHN 12:34

It’s all about our ‘spokesperson’, High Priest, who goes before us in the heavenly realm… the volume of the Book is written of Him.

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book IT IS WRITTEN OF ME— To do Your will, O Yah.’” HEBREWS 8:7

Look at this comparison between Mt Sinai and the One who came from above as the Prophet to come after Moses to mediate a New Covenant in His blood: (with the background I have just described in this article I hope this explodes with new meaning to you!)

HEBREWS 12:18-29

Moses makes SEVEN TRIPS up and down Mt Sinai –> THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT piece of scriptural interpretation.

by KIRK CARMICHAEL

An OFFER

An ACCEPTANCE

TERMS AND CONDITIONS, including a ceremony with blood ratification

SIGNATURE (a COVENANT is signed in BLOOD)

An OFFER

An ACCEPTANCE

TERMS AND CONDITIONS including a ceremony with blood ratification

SIGNATURE (a COVENANT is signed in BLOOD)

~~~~~ THE SEVEN TRIPS ~~~~~

There is a Prophet like Moses coming in the future. We know this Prophet is Yahusha/Jesus as Peter quotes this verse in Acts 3:22

The timing of of this statement was 40 years earlier in Horeb (where Mt Sinai is) and it was on the day of the assembly, which is the day of the Wedding happening here on Trip 4.

To further peg the timing of this statement, it was the trip before on Trip 3 that the people rejected YAHUAH by saying “Let me not hear again the VOICE of YHWH or we will die” and so they sent Moses here on Trip 4 instead.

1 I am YAHUAH your Elohim who brought you out of Egypt

2 Have no other gods and make no idols

YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. YOU MUST * LISTEN TO HIM * (we are told not to listen to Moses by Moses himself. Moses pointed to the Son. The Son did not point to Moses). DEUTERONOMY 18:15

THE TERMS OF THIS COVENANT (this becomes HUGE knowing these TERMS for this post as THE TIMING IS 400 YEARS FROM WHEN ABRAHAM HAS A SON)
1) His descendants (which he doesn’t have even a son yet) would become enslaved in a country not their own for 400 years

YHWH SPOKE (with His VOICE) ————————– HIS TEN WORDS (improperly translated as ‘COMMANDMENTS’)

~ THE SEVEN TRIPS ~