Torah
Parashah - Emor - Speak
Uyiqara
(Leviticus) 21:1-24:23
Shabbat
Review:
Last
Shabbat we talked about being Kadosh and we talked about how to clean up
defilement in our own beings.
We
also talked about the crux (Greek) - cross in English = is a symbol of the sun
god!!! - Not the Living Alohiym - YHUH!
Lew
White says....
The crux is the symbol of Sun worship
known all around the
world, and many today continue to bow
down to it, or wear it as a
talisman. It was a symbol of
Constantine's Apollo, aka Mithras.
Hindu's know the symbol as a swastika,
the Norse as the Celtic
Crux, and in the temple of Osiris it was
identical to the Latin
cross. That is the symbol Stephen was
referring to. The Greek
word STAUROS should have gone
into the Latin word, STAURO -
but Jerome adopted the word CRUX for
the Latin Vulgate, and
we've inherited the word from the Latin
Vulgate into the King
James Version as cross. The cross is the
ancient astrological
symbol for the Sun, Constantine's Sol
Invictus.
His edict in 321 forced the whole Roman
empire to pay homage
to the Sun by resting from all labors on
the first day of the week.
We were warned there would be a ruler
who would think to
change Torah at Daniel 7:25. Constantine
did it, and he picked
the one Commandment that happens to be
the sign of the
everlasting
Covenant.
How suspicious is that?
The Greek word STAUROS matches the Hebrew word NAS, and is a single upright pole. When Jerome (Sophronius) translated
the Latin Vulgate in the late 4th century, he avoided the Latin word STAURO (matching the Greek word
STAUROS), and inserted CRUX. So the KJV today reflects the word cross, the ancient symbol of Sun
worship, first brought into the new faith called Catholicism during the reign
of Constantine. Another huge error is the elimination
of the Name Yahuah, and the use of the Latin Dominus. Dominus was the title for the Sun deity Apollo (Sol
Invictus Mithras) worshipped by Constantine. LORD is the definition of the
Hebrew word BAAL. The destruction of
the Name Yahuah is forbidden by the third Commandment; but to insert the
translation of a proper noun (the name BAAL) in its place (LORD) is nothing
short of blasphemous. The reapers will unleash Yahuah’s wrath upon this whole
Earth for good reason.
MARK
OF THE BEAST: A RIDDLE REQUIRING WISDOM
There’s a mark identified by a behavior:
buying and selling.
Those not having the behavior of buying
and selling don’t have
the mark. Because it’s a riddle we have to solve, we need
wisdom to deduce who’s who, and what’s
what.
DEDUCTION
– Remove Elements To Reach A Conclusion
A riddle conceals something only obvious
to the riddler.
If the one solving the riddle does not
have the specific
information
needed,
they lack the wisdom to solve it.
Samson posed a riddle at Judges 14 which
could never be
solved because he alone knew the
allegorical components.
The world is deceived by the beast, the teaching authority of
Babel, guiding all, small and great,
rich and poor, free and slave,
in what they are thinking (forehead) and behaving
(right hand,
Rev. 13:1, 17). A specific behavior is
described in the riddle:
that
“no
one should be able to buy
or sell except he that
has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
This verse is not saying the beastly
mark, name, or number is what is keeping anyone from buying and selling.
It simply says the one not having the
mark, name, or number of the beast “should
not be able to buy
and sell.”
This calls for wisdom.
What is wisdom? It’s explained in so
many places, here’s one:
Debarim
(Deut) 4:5-9
p 140
“See,
I have taught you laws and right-rulings, as Yahuah My Alahim commanded me, to
do in the land which you go to possess. And you shall guard and do them, for
this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who
hear all these laws, and they shall say,
‘Only
a wise and understanding people is this great nation!’ For what great nation is
there which has Alahim so near to it, as Yahuah our Alahim is to us, whenever
we call on Him? And what great nation is there that has such laws and righteous
right-rulings like all this Torah which I set before you this day? Only, guard
yourself, and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes have
seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days of your life. And
you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren.” – Dt. 4:5-9 BYNV
This was after spending 40 years in the
wilderness being trained by the manna as to how to determine which day is
Shabath.
YAHUAH’S MARK KEEPS US FROM BUYING AND SELLING
A strong lesson comes from the reason
for the captivity in Babel for 70 years. They failed to allow the land to rest.
Then, after a remnant returned, they
started to ignore resting on the seventh day, buying and selling with
traders who came into the walls on the Shabath.
Neh
13:16 p 626
“And
men of Tsor dwelt there, bringing in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them
on the Shabath to the children of Yahudah, and in Yerushalayim.” Nehemiah 13:16
The sign (mark) of the everlasting
Covenant is the Shabath.
Only those obeying Yahuah’s Ten Commandments have the wisdom to
know how to recognize which day not to buy and sell.
There is also a “Shabath of Shabaths,” a
fast, which we who have wisdom know is coming, so we practice for it each year.
Some say the Romans messed-up the
weekdays. Yahusha recognized all the weekly Shabaths and annual appointments of
those around Him, and never mentioned one word about them being incorrect in
their calculations.
There has been no change attempted by anyone
since He was here.
The Romans simply use a pagan term for
the 7th day
(Saturday, Saturn’s Day), but it’s still the Shabath.
It’s still blessed since Creation, and we stop
buying and selling on it every week, and rest as Yahuah rested.
On the tenth day of the 7th moon is a
“Shabath of Shabaths” – a FAST.
**
The majority of Christians have been
listening to poisonous teachings, making them unprepared to stand in the day of
wrath.
Some may be the “survivors” whom Yahuah will
call, assisted by the Natsarim who will
be on Earth during the distress.
The Natsarim are the elect (chosen ones)
for whom the duration of the distress will be lessened. Our purpose during
the distress will be to help people be restored to the Covenant. They must be
helped to overcome many false teachings learned from misguided preachers.
They will learn that Sun-day is not the day Yahuah blessed, and because
of their distress, they will listen to us
more closely. They will not argue about the true Name, and many will submit
to immersion for the remission of sins, and be sealed for protection.
Those teachers who hold to the
“pre-Tribulation rapture” in spite of the Scripture, claim that those being
gathered in the end of days are those who turned to Yahuah during the distress.
These things will happen rapidly,
shortened for the sake of the elect.
They tell their Christian assemblies
that those who listen to them will be in a special group who really understand,
and they will see nothing of the terrors and birth-pangs, and the fiery
cataclysm at the very end of days. They believe they are “in heaven” during the
distress, and will come with Yahusha when He returns.
The text says we will all see Him coming,
be gathered
by malakim into the air to meet Him, and continue down
with Him as the New Yerushalayim.
We never “go to heaven” as most
understand “heaven.”
We will reign with Yahusha in His Kingdom
of heaven located here on a renewed Earth. His Throne will be on Earth, and we will be with Him
always.
Amos 5 and Yual 2 explain to us that the
Day of Yahuah is a day of great darkness, and Yahusha’s words at Mt. 24 are
given to us so we will be comforted when we see the sun literally turn off like
a lamp. It will still be glowing RED-HOT,
but it will be so dark that we would be struck with terror if we didn’t realize
what was going on.
“For the Master Yahuah does no matter
unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. A lion has roared!
Who is not afraid? The Master Yahuah has spoken! Who would not prophesy? - Amos 3:7,8
“And there shall be signs in the Sun,
and Moon, and stars, and on the Earth anxiety of nations, in bewilderment at
the roaring of the sea, and agitation, men fainting from fear and the
expectation of what is coming on the Earth, for the powers of the heavens shall
be shaken. And then they shall see the Son of Adam coming in a cloud with power
and much esteem. And when these matters begin to take place, look up and lift
up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” - Luke 21:25-28
end
of review
****
This
week’s Torah Parashah has a listing of Shabbats in Uyiqara 23.
Uyiqara
23:1-3 p 98
And
then...in the remainder of Uyiqara 23 it talks about the “high shabbats” - the
7 Moeds of YHUH - the appointed times.
These
are all shabbats - the 7 Moeds and the 7th day Shabbat.
So
let’s start learning more about Shabbat:
**
Lew
White goes on to say....
Everything we see practiced (in
Christianity) -- is from Sun worship, including the symbols (indoor altars,
cruxes, steeples, idols, holy water, etc.).
These practices were brought to Rome by
the soldiers who had interacted with the eastern religions of Persia,
transmitting Hinduism that originated in Babel’s worship of Nimrod, Babel’s Great Architect of the World Order (worshiped as the Sun).
We are to live by “every Word that proceeds from
the Mouth of Alahim,” but Constantine made sure that we had “nothing in common with the hostile rabble
of the Yahudim.”
The church fathers at Alexandria were
former Sun worshipers, and funded by the Fiscus Judaicus.
That’s how Christianity spread.
We
are practicing absolutely nothing Yahuah told us to obey, and doing everything
He told us not to do, and that is what is called: Christianity.
YashaYahu
(Isaiah) 56:1-7 p 339
**
SIGN
OF THE EVERLASTING COVENANT
If we claim Yahuah is our Master, we
will stop and go in the same way sheep follow their shepherd.
Can we ignore the Shabath day, and claim
to know Yahusha, the Master of it?
Ex. 31:13 Ex. 31:17, Ez. 20:12,
YashaYahu / Isaiah 56 (verses 1-2
et all ) p 339
Hebrews 4 (vs 9) et all, p
815
These are-- all point out the Shabath
Day as a sign.
Buying
and selling (commerce) is to cease on the 7th day.
Without wisdom (Yahuah’s Torah), the
riddle of the mark of the beast is unsolvable.
We stop buying and selling on Shabath; those following another shepherd (beast)
will not stop.
Resting is not any sort of works.
Hebrews 4 describes resting on the Shabath Day as obedience, and tells us to do
our utmost to guard it. Obedience “perfects” our faith / belief, because
without the outward behavior of obedience, our faith is dead.
Ivrim
(Hebrews) 4:9-11
p 815
“So
there remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of Alahim. For the one, having
entered into His rest, has himself also rested from his works, as Alahim from
His own.
Let
us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the
same example of disobedience.”
Those who disobey will perish. Those who
claim, “I know Him,” but do not obey His Commandments, are liars:
I Yochanan 2:3-6 p 831
“And
by this we know that we know Him: if we guard His Commands. The one who says,
“I know Him,” and does not guard His Commands, is a liar, and the Truth is not
in him. But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Alahim has been
perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him: The one who say he stays
in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.”
Yechezkel
(Ezekiel) 20:1-24 p 407
YHUH
said....
“I
GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS”
Yechezkel 20:12 p 407
“Moreover
also I gave them MY Shabbats, to be an ot between Me and them, that they might
know that I am YHUH that sets them apart.”
Lew
White says....
We’ve
learned that a mere man was responsible for instituting the change from the 7th
day to the 1st day of each week, and the “Sun-day Sabbath” has been the
“Christian Sabbath” ever since.
Let’s
study a bit more....
MASTER
OF THE SABBATH
I
want to read what Lew says about this... because we are not going to be like the
angry ones... and Lew White is not either...
.... Please take this only as from a lover of the
Commandment, not as any condemnation or personal criticism, bearing in mind,
"He who answers before listening ~ it is to his folly and shame" (Pr.
18:13). I was once in denial and rebellion against Gentiles needing to follow
the 4th Commandment, but I listened to all of what Scripture says, not men, or
Constantine’s establishment of “Sun- day” as the new Christian day of rest.
Hebrews 4 has been "allegorized" to
mean our "rest" in Mashiach, but really the whole section deals with
the disobedient, and mentions the "Gospel".
The
message of repentance is of no value to the lost, and it says "He has
spoken about the seventh day in these words: 'And on the seventh day Elohim
rested from all His work'." At v.9: "There remains, then, a
Sabbath-rest for the people of Elohim; for anyone who enters Elohim's rest also
rests from his own work, JUST AS ALOHIM DID FROM HIS.
Let
us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall
by following their example of DISOBEDIENCE.
For
the Word of Alohim (Torah) is living, and active. Sharper than any double-edged
sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it
judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart . . ."
With
the New Covenant, we receive the Torah written on our hearts, and His
"Word" is the Torah. If the Sabbath is for only Hebrews, not
Gentiles, then why would Gentiles be punished for not observing the Feast of
Tabernacles after Yahusha's return, cited at Zech. 14?
Also,
there is no difference now between a Hebrew and a Gentile, as a follower of
Mashiach.
The
Replacement Theology has lulled us into thinking Gentiles (or the “Church”) are
now "Israel", but it is rather these wild olive tree branches grafted
into the original olive tree, Israel (Rom. 11).
This is far more than a
"Pharisaical" issue. There is no “Covenant” in Scripture with
“Christians”, only Yisrael!
BINDING
OURSELVES TO YHUH
At
Is. 66, in the Millennial Reign: "FROM ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER, ALL MANKIND
will come and bow down before Me, says YHUH. And they will go out and look upon
the DEAD BODIES of those who rebelled against Me“.
Yeshayahu
(Isaiah) 56:2
"Blessed
is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast: who keeps the Sabbath
without desecrating it . . . . "Let no foreigner who has bound himself to
YHUH say, 'YHUH will surely exclude me from His people'. . . . .To the eunuchs
who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to My Covenant ~
to them I will give within My Temple and its walls a memorial and a name BETTER
THAN SONS AND DAUGHTERS . . . . AND FOREIGNERS WHO BIND THEMSELVES TO YHUH, to
serve Him, to LOVE THE NAME OF YHWH and to worship Him, ALL WHO KEEP THE
SABBATH WITHOUT DESECRATING IT, and HOLD FAST TO MY COVENANT, these I will
bring to My holy mountain and give them joy in My house of prayer . . . . for
My house of prayer will be called a house of prayer for ALL NATIONS."
*
JERUSALEM
COUNCIL CONCERNING GENTILES.
After
deciding that fleshly circumcision is not a requirement, the Gentiles who BEAR
THE NAME are told to begin by abstaining from idolatry, sexual immorality, FOOD
STRANGLED, AND BLOOD. "For Moshe (the Torah) has been preached in every
city from the earliest times, AND IS READ IN THE SYNAGOGUES EVERY SABBATH.”
The
Nazarenes studied next to the other sects in the places where the Scrolls were
read, until after the destruction of Yerushaliyim, then were shunned for having
fled the city instead of defending it, as they were obeying what Rabbi Yahusha
had warned them of. Many of the synagogue rulers were believers in the
Mashiach!
At
Acts 1, Luke records "Then they returned to Yerushaliyim from the hill
called the Mount of Olives, A SABBATH DAY'S WALK from the city."
Even
the "day of Pentecost", called Shabuoth (weeks), is an annual Sabbath
~ one of seven, and is the memorial of the receiving of Torah at Sinai (the
Nazarenes received it in their hearts, circum- cised by Mashiach on that day,
fulfilling the prophecy at Yerme Yahu 31).
Paul
even states that we should "keep the feast", speaking of the 7 days
of unleavened bread, at 1 Cor. 5:8.
"The
Fast", or Yom Kippur, is referred to at Acts 27:9, because the weather was
turning bad because of the lateness in the year. I completely understand the
turmoil this causes in your mind; I remember it well. I endured it when I had
to weigh all the evidence, but I received Him; and the Sabbath, and all His
Commandments fill me with extreme joy.
Will
YHUH punish you for resting on Sabbath, or is it really the "bad
seed" (teachings) of ha Satan that inoculates most people from repenting?
It is only Israel, YHUH's obedient Bride, who
will enter the gates into the city. There is no gate named "the Church",
or "Christianity" ~ only gates bearing the names of the 12 tribes of
Israel.
When
Scripture says “Israel”, it is not just speaking of the Yahudim — they are one
of the tribes — Israel is all 12 tribes.
**
THE
DRAGON RECOGNIZES SABBATH-KEEPERS BY THEIR OBEDIENCE
"Then
the dragon was enraged at the woman (the Bride) and went off to make war
against the rest of her offspring ~ those WHO OBEY ALOHIM'S COMMANDMENTS, and
hold to the TESTIMONY OF YAHUSHA (which is: 'repent - for the Reign of YHUH draws
near'.)."
The
4th Commandment tells us all to remember the Sabbath, and it's the 7th day of
every week.
As
a regular observer of Sabbath, I stay home and rest, and study with my wife and
children.
Obedience
is worship. Can we “obey Elohim’s Commandments”, and not have His Sign of the
Covenant, His Sabbath? If Rabbi Yahusha is “Master of the Sabbath”, and it was
made for man, will ignoring it bring us closer to Him in our walk?
If
the 4th Commandment is only for “Jews” to obey, then the Creator has 2
different sets of rules ~ or, an enemy has sown weeds among the wheat!
The
parables are “dark sayings” that only the Bride will understand, and Proverbs 9
even refers to the 7 annual appointments: “Wisdom (Torah) has built her house;
she has hewn out its seven pillars.”
From
Passover through Tabernacles and the Last Great Day, there are “7 pillars” or
high Sabbaths. These outline the redemption plan of YHUH’s Bride.
The
parable about the “Great Banquet” (Luke 14:16-24) illustrates how many are just
not interested in coming to the appointed observances of YHUH.
As
you can readily see, there is no “break” between what is meant by the “Sabbath”
in the TaNaKh and Brit Chadasha, as many would lead you to believe.
If
you’d really like to learn how this rift occurred, you can look up a man named
Marcion in a good encyclopedia, or go to a library. He was a heretic, who
taught that we need to completely disregard the “Old Testament”. How- ever all
scholars realize that the New Covenant authors consistently used the “Old” as
their foundation, and never taught the changes we see today.
**
HOW TO BEGIN
If
you are a Gentile, you may have a little knowledge already, but you should
re-ground yourself by starting with Acts 15. Then do as it says, and study the writings of Mosheh, the Torah
(Ten Commandments).
Read all of Exodus 20, Lev. 19, Lev. 23, then
Deut. 16, understanding that you are about to enter into a Covenant with your
Creator, YHUH.
Lew
says...
Pronounce
your belief, “I believe Rabbi Yahusha of Nazareth is the Mashiach, and that He
raised from the dead 3 days and 3 nights after His execution for my past sins.”
Yahusha,
please save me.”
This
is the way you give yourself to the Bridegroom. As a woman will bath after her
period of uncleanness before contact with her husband, so we wash away our
uncleanness (past sins), and COVENANT to obey our Husband. We are His virgin
bride! The unrepentant and the very young cannot be immersed, because they have
not been convicted of their sinfulness.
The Pagan Babylonians did not
establish the 7-day week (shabua), nor did the Romans; it was YHUH alone.
AMEIN.
