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Calendar Teaching from Matthew Nolan

The Calendar by Matthew Nolan 1-14- 2017

The calendar debate has caused more pain and turmoil and is used as a method to cast people out.

Rom 14:17  - not an exercise of the flesh - but righteousness peace and joy.... that is what the kingdom of Yah is about... let us therefore follow after the things that make peace.

The calendar has brought more war among believers than any other topic over the years...

Become slaves to other men's interpretations... and find yourself disagreeing with those you used to walk with.

Colossians 2:8 - see to it no one takes you captive by the teachings of man.

Calendar people use it to hold people captive for “the love of wisdom”... “ I am so smart”... here’s 250 power points and 500 pages - see you in six months... you are my slave... I am the one full of wisdom.”

That is exactly what happens and it is terrible.

Where is the love?  Where is the edification...?

I am looking at a room of believers that used to go to church on Sunday and used to run around looking for easter eggs and now you are sitting down at the Pesach and you are keeping Shabbat and you congregating at Sukkot .  Praise YHUH  but do you forget where you came from?  Let’s glory in what he is taking us instead of entering into arguments.

We are supposed to be keeping feasts in JOY... not arguing over when and what etc...

My whole motivation is to set you free from me and any man - to the word of Yah and be encouraged and empowered by the Ruach... let us be free to serve Yah in his Holy mikra kodeshim as it is supposed to be.

I hope this is inspiring because it hasn’t been to me.. listening to people argue about... and I don’t want any part of it.

Beware of the empty and endless mathematical timelines... 

An object lesson in futility... 

It always ends up in lunar and solar philosophy ... futility. We should be loving Yahusha and one another...and how do we do that - by showing up as a congregation...

Is the calendar important? Yes. But the most important thing is leaving the pagan and into the Biblical... and that is coming out of Babylon my people...

No longer chasing eggs and erecting tabernacles...

Do biblical things biblical ways.

The calendar tends to attract intolerant people.

We shouldn’t be following the pope and the Gregorian...but we shouldn’t be following the karrites either.

But you also have to watch out for the wolves in sheeps clothing that literally having you barking at the moon every month...

Today we are going to look at:

•            • Pre Islamic origins of sliver moon gazing.

•            • The difference between Chodesh/month and Yarachah/moon

•            • King Hezekiah and the slowing of the earth's orbit causing a longer solar year the shadow to go backwards.

•            • Calculating the turning of the year using the scriptural ‘Tekufah’ Exodus 34:22

•            • The solar calendar and the counting of days, ultimately freeing you up from philosophy so you can be joyful in the Holy Spirit as you come together in your communities for the !יהוה Shabbat and Feasts and Festivals.

Lunar Shabbat:

The seven day weekly cycle was instituted before the creation of the Moon so how then can the Moon govern the weekly cycle if it was not yet created or illuminated four days after the week began?

Leviticus 23 in verse 4 follows the listing of Shabbat and then preempts the listing of the other moedim which are to be "proclaimed".

                    Meaning - Shabbat is NOT a moed that is "proclaimed" according to the Moon.

                                        It’s a fixed 7-day cycle .יהוה given as the ‘Ot’ ‘sign' - or ‘mark’ on all believers throughout all generations by YHUH.

It is what sets us apart.

The Moon and the calendar: - this is what causes the dissension.

All biblical years must have 360 days, the question arises is how to we deal with the extra 4-5 days since the days of King Hezekiah.

We can’t be adding a 13th month like the rabbis or all calendars will be off and the Feasts will be off every third year.

The 11 day difference between the lunar and solar years must be reconciled yearly so the Feasts and YHWH’s fixed times to always start in the first month and not 30 days late every 3 years, or 7 times in 19 years like the rabbinical calendar.

The Feasts of יהוה must be fixed by the 12 stations-windows of the sun and stars.

The moon has been sick [not in sync] several times through the centuries, including the days of Enoch. and we have to acknowledge that .

Because the moon has been used in calendaration and because it is not in sync...that causes so much of the contention and problems today!

The moon used to be in sync with the sun prior to the days of King Hezekiah and calculations just won’t work with required precision today.

Men try and monk with it every three years, but still, יהוה hasn’t restored it to match the earth’s solar year.

And this has been the biggest stumbling block when it comes to the calendar debate.

the question you have to ask is:

Why is the moon sick?

Why is the moon sick and not the sun if YHWH moved the sun, causing the shadow to move in King Hezekiah's day [Isaiah Ch. 38 1-9 - verse 7]

The sun has 6 portals of 30 days each, which the sun then passes through twice a year.

Rising in 6 in the east and setting in the same 6 in the west. Each portal-month is a PERFECT 30 days + we add the 4 season days as the year draws to a close before the Vernal Equinox.

and this begins our calendaration

because

The sun gives us 12 perfect months or Chodashim-a transit through 12 [6 + 6] portals, the sun is healthy. (not saying worship the sun!! - we’ve all come out of that!)

In Hezikiah’s day - YHUH didn’t actually move the sun...or else the milky way would have been destroyed and the planets would have been destroyed....

YHWH slowed the earth's orbit to cause a longer solar year, as well as to cause the shadow to go backwards.

The earth was moved back and then it slowed down in its orbit causing the same cause and effect and the shadow that moved backwards... this would cause problems with the moon making it go from 12 perfect months - to some months with 29 days  and some 30 days...

Moon out of sync by 11 days a year; or 33 days every 3 years.

All that being said; the earth actually assists the moon in its sickbed, because without the earth's gravitational rescue; the moons actual lunation is 27 days, or 27 day months; that is not very reliable.

People bring up this Psalm - so let’s look at it...

Psalm 89:37:

His zera shall endure le-olam-va-ed, and his kesay as the sun before Me. 37 It shall be established le-olam-va-ed as the moon, is a faithful witness in the shamayim. Selah.

Is it  really talking about the moon being the witness to the calendaration?  

Let’s look at the context... because a text out of context begats error and error begats error!.....

  The moon is a faithful witness  but to what?

-   to the handiwork of the Creator, (look at the context!!)  - giving-witness He’s the Grand Designer; that doesn't change; but that doesn’t mean the moon is a reliable time witness for establishing times and seasons.

-   29:31 in teaching

2 Ki. 20:9 And Yeshayahu said, This ot shall you have of YHWH, that YHWH will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forth-forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 10 And Hizqiyahu answered, It would be easy for the shadow to go down- forward ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. 11 And Yeshayahu the navi cried to YHWH: and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Achaz.

Isaiah 38:7 And this shall be an ot to you from vuvh, that vuvh will do this thing that He has spoken; 8 See, I will again bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down on the sundial of Achaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial, by the same degrees that it had gone down.

2 Chronicles 32:24 In those days Hizqiyahu was sick, near to death, and made tefillah to YHUH and He spoke to him, and He gave him again an ot. (the shadow moving backwards)

The Biblical calendar only allows for 12 months of 30 days each or 360 days. Nowhere in Scripture is an allowance made for an added 13th month.

New Months are to be celebrated on New Month Day, as the sun passes 30 degrees or 30 days in the heavens from point A to point B.

Not a new moon day because the moon has been sick and it has been unreliable ever since the days of King Hizqiyahu. It’s lunation no longer equals that of the sun. This is the game changer.

Many people think that “moon” and “month” is the same word - but it is not.

Chodesh/Yarayach:

In the Tanach almost all references to month use the Hebrew word ‘Chodesh’, 

chodesh = a set of 30 days of time,

NOT the word ‘Yarayach,’ or literally “The Moon.”

‘Yarayach’ is only used 26 times, all referring to the actual moon itself.

So we have to make the clear distinction:

Chodesh = - 30 days of time

Yarayach = literally the moon

do not confuse the 2 words!

The Hebrew word ‘Chodesh’ is used over 256 times in the Tanach and always refers to a

MONTH, solar month, not a moon of any type.

Moon is only used 26 times, not to refer to a time period, but the definite article.

The Hebrew word for New Moon = Yarayach, and the Hebrew word for  Crescent Moon = saharon Yare’akh  (Saharon Yare'akh) are NOT the same!

The Crescent is NOT the New Moon, and the evidence of Crescent-Moon "worship" in the scriptures has a very disturbing history, It’s pre Islamic, its infiltrated the Hebrew Roots from the mystery religions of Babylon just like Hanukah and Purim have!

babylonian and preislamic worship

and people will ask...  about Psalm 104:19

Psalm 104:19

There are different kinds of appointed times and only the context can determine which time it appoints.

When Psalm 104:19 is read in context with verses 21 and 22 it speaks of the Moed of the night or darkness, as beasts in the forest look for prey in the Moadim, Seasons of night-darkness.

Ps. 104:19 He created the moon for moadim: 1 the sun knows its going down.

20 You make darkness, and it is night: in it all the beasts of the forest do creep.

21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from El. 22 The sun rises, they gather themselves together, and lie down in their dens. 23 Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening. 24 O vuvh, how manifold are Your works! In chochmah have You made them all: the earth is full of Your riches.

Psalm 104:21, is a continuation of that theme and then it shifts to verse 22 where the moadeem-appointed times of light are regulated by the sun. This isn’t a reference to the moon itself regulating annual weekly Shabbats or annual feasts.

This was a major error.... people were taking things out of context and then angry when I’d bring up the rest of the texts.... because they had just devoted 5 years of their lives to studying the “calendar” and I would mess it up with Scripture... IN CONTEXT. 

The moon is not reliable and because it is out of sync - we must rely on the sun!

History of the lunar and solar year:

Enoch to Noach 364 day solar year and probably 364 day lunar year as well.

Noach to King Hezekiah; 360 days (Genesis 7:11-8:4).

360 day synchronized solar and lunar calendars are a sign of judgment, as they will return in the Great Tribulation.

King Hezekiah to the Great Tribulation; solar year 365 days, lunar year 354 days, = the moon is sick and won’t align the Feast and Festivals of יהוה in this age.

The Great Tribulation, the last 3 1/2 years of this age; The moon will be healed by being synchronized with the sun, both declaring 360 day years (judgment),

- so both or either can be used for years (THEN), days, weekly Shabbats, and annual feasts. (Revelation 11:1-2, Revelation .)12:6

In the Millennial Kingdom both the solar and lunar year will have 364 or 365:

In eternity Revelation chapter 21 and chapter 22 when the sun and moon are not needed; because when Messiah our Malki-Tzedik stands up to lead us at the fixed times, we’ll stand and follow Him and His light and His light alone!

Only during Babylonian captivity that the first visible sighting of the crescent moon...  which of course were the for-runners to the Sanhedrian...  but there is no evidence that this is how the Jews observed the New Moon  before the exhile... the only ‘proof’ was the history recorded by the pharasees...and we know the pharasees are today’s orthodox jewish rabbis... why follow them?  man’s dogma....

Why Babylon?

Because the pre Islamic Babylonian moon-deity Sin was worshipped there, whose symbol is the crescent moon. Now that same diety comes with the more modern name of allah .  but it is the preislamic moon diety “SIN”.

The scriptural record of the crescent moon and those associated with it are negative!

(Genesis 35:4) "Before Yaakov went to Bethel to present himself before Yahweh he made all his people to hand over to him their "strange elohim" and ear-rings. (i.e., Crescent-shaped amulets), and he hid them under the oak which was in Schechem.”

It was worn by women (Isaiah 3:18), and by kings (Judges 8:21/26), and tied to the necks of camels (Judges 8:21) to protect them from the Evil Eye.  This is the worship of allah in the pre-islamic god “sin” the moon god. Jericho = “Moon city”....

people don’t realize that mohommad went around and picked out one of the daily dieties and he picked SIN.....and we will make this the supreme diety and named it allah... and then he told the Jews and they wouldn’t have any of it so off with their heads...

He just picked out one of the daily dieties...in Mecca - we will take montheism...the one that was wondering around in Jericho..and the one that Scripture warns about from B’re’shiyt all the way forward.  The one that is in the war between the seed - serpent seed and seed of YHUH... between the one true alohiym and the created gods of this world... and of course they want you to bark at the moon! and these people are practicing Islam in its earliest forms and they could even be at risk at taking the mark of the beast or the mark of the beast as they get caught up in the preislamic origins of Islam...

Moshe, the Sphinx, the Pyramids, the Equinox and the dawn day start marker!

Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

The Sphinx is an equinoctial marker. The Sphinx faces East at the exact location where the Sun rises on the day of the vernal equinox (21 March). As the sun rises it illuminates its face.

The Great Pyramid is a giant sundial, with it’s shadow to the north and its reflected sunlight to the south. This accurately marks both the solstices and equinoxes. Two of its faces are orientated due east and west - the exact points of the rising and setting sun only on the spring and autumnominal equinox.

So the Mohamadins shot at it and tore up its face because it disrupts their moon gazing... and it is a marker of the Tekufah  - the turning of the year...Sphinx gaze set due east - targeting that exact position of sunrise at the beginning of the day...

The great pyramid of Geeza - shadows north...two faces are due east and west only on the spring and autumn equinox....  the faces are actually concave which give it 8 faces instead of four... and only from the air can you see this....so when the limestone veneer casing was still on it - it would literally flash - warning of the coming and turning of the year and it would flash if you missed it! Built into it... wow! When the actual point of the Tekufah came - the flashing would have ceased... flashing would have been visible from miles away.  Some astronomers believe it could be seen from the moon - if you could even get there through the Van Allen Radiation Belts ... but that is another topic itself. :)

When the sun reaches 60 Degrees altitude  from the great pyramaid- the tropical year begins and ends when reaches 60 degrees in the fall... and this is where we get the minute....   and people don’t realize the accuracy of these two things the sphinix and the great pyramid.. . are more accurate than the observatory in Greenwich observatory... especially if you take into account the concave bases and limestone veneer that would have flashed!  

There was no doubt that Moshe knew when Abib 1 was - the head of the year... no doubt... all laid out for him....Scripturally solid, historically and architecturally laid out for you and I haven’t given you a time line from creation forward... just look in your scripture and look at history and the architecture and draw your own conclusions and see if that sets you free from mans’ computations.  Literally vernal equinox last day of year.. next day - day one of year... 12 - 30 day months finish out the last 4-5 days  of the year and wait for the sign flashed all over Egypt and then is the vernal equinox and the next day is the new year... you are free - you are not a slave to me... its simple...

The Equinox is the beginning of the year... the flashing announced it... Moshe was learned in this and he knew when the head of the year would be.. Moshe knew all of the knowledge of the Egyptians.

We MUST understand the difference between equinox and equilux....

Equinox or Equilux:

 equinox is not equal day and night, that’s equilux.

The equinox is a time when the center of sun can be observed directly above the earths equator.

It’s the equinox that is the scriptural sign for the beginning of the year.

Equinox in scripture is Tekufah. Tekufah is an exact yearly event. The equilux is not exact because it can last for longer periods of time on either side of the equinox.

The Tekufah:

The Tekufah is found in Ex 34.22 (the turn of the year), 1 Sam. 1:20 (Hannah/Elkenah>Samuel prophecy) Elkenah was attending the Feast of Passover, Ps. 19:6 (the mazzoreth and the constellations), 2 Chr. 24:23 (the year end).

So I am looking at the calendar - based upon the testimony of acts that Moshe knew everything /wisdom of egyptioans , the history, the architecture in Cairo, Egypt that testifies at the time of the equinox and then I am looking at the Hebrew in scripture and I am seeing that this Hebrew word Tekufah connects us with the turning of the year... and all of this is leading me to making an educated scriptural decision based upon this information because I know that the moon is sick and I know that there can’t be a 13th month added and I know that things changed in the days of Hezakiah and I look at the testimony of Noach and i can see that there were 30 day months... and I can see that there were 12 months, my 6+6 my 12 portals 30 days per month for 360 days... and my residual days are on the end of that 4-5 days ...and I wait for the equinox and the next day is the beginning of the new year...

My Shabbats ...they are from creation - not connected to the turning of the year b/c that is the sign from creation before we got into the moon or any of that.

Deut 16:1The great Et-Ot, or sign of the year. (not barley sniffing!.. not abib green crops as the karites persist today!)

This great sign is for the entire year and all weekly and annual shabbats and it’s called the ‘turn of the year’ or the ‘Tekufah Ha Shanna’, Rosh Ha Shanna.

Deut 16:1 Shomer the month of Aviv-Ot (the great sign/Tekufah turn of the year) in order to perform the Peach to YHWH your Elohim, for in the month (not moon) of the great Aviv-Ot, sign, your Elohim brought you out of Egypt-Mitzrayim by night.

Two seasons - biblically: summer and winter:

Gen 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and

winter, day and night, shall not cease.

Beware of the Exodus 9:31 Eisegesis -

Exodus 9:31 Now the flax and the barley were struck (by hail - the 7th plague), for the barley was in the head (Aviv) and the flax was in the bud.

-   this does NOT say that when the flax and barely are in head is the beginning of the year!!

Tekufah - turn of the year - draw out - an Exegesis of the text! otherwise we are in trouble... Tekufah (understanding this) is drawing out - the exegesis of the text!

2 Sam 11:1 teshuwbah תשובה (tav-sheen-vav-bet-heh) a completion of a year.

Why did the kings always go to war in the spring?... so the invading army had all the food to feed the army!

1 Kings 20:22 The King of Syria would invade at the ‘turn of the year’ and steal the harvest.

1 Chronicles 20:1 In the time of King David, Joab would take out a raiding party after the ‘equinox’,

‘turn of the year’ and plunder the harvest!

Identifying the Equinox:

    

•            • The ecliptic represents the suns apparent yearly path in from of the constellations of the Mazzaroth.

•            • The celestial equator is a circle drawn around the sky above the earth’s equator.

•            • The elliptic and celestial equator intersect at the spring equinox and autumnal equinox points.

•Calendar Guidelines:

•            • YHWH’s calendar is verifiable in the Flood narrative, and recorded by Moshe in 2550 years later still with 30 days months and 12 months in a year.

•            • When the yearly circuit increased, you simply add the extra days to the end of the 12 months until the Tekufah resets the year again! No longer are we beholden to men’s calendaration!  It’s that simple and that’s why people will hate this teaching! Because they want to enslave you to their power points!

•            12 months

•            residual days

•            vernal equinox is the last day of the year.

•            next day is first day of the year

  You are not going to win anyone to Mashiach by fighting about this...

The Feasts of יהוה all the way through into the 7th month remain unhampered with by men’s calculations and hands. No inter-calculated days, no nonsense.

•            • Just as Noach had 5 months all with 30 days, so YHWH’s calendar will have 30 days in a month.

•            • The equinox is the last day of the year - next dawning of the day is day one, month one of the new year.

•Main adjustments:

•            • No 31 days months - the added 5 1/4 days since King Hezekiah are counted at the end of the year before the equinox arrives, never interfering with YHWH’s Feasts and festivals.

•            • We don’t begin our Sabbath in alignment with Jerusalem; so I'm not up for beginning my year in alignment with Jerusalem anymore - local time from now on! When the equinox is at your local time - that is it.

•            • The day begins at dawn - not sunrise, light breaking forth is the beginning of time event, not the cresting of the sun over the horizon.

Ultimately when I look at Scripture , history, archaeology and I see Moshe was learned in the wisdom of the Egyptians and we can now move forward with the Tekufah... the equinox and then start the new year.

This has taken me 15 years to get unshackled of the endless conversations and discussions... and always someone body has a better calendar...  you can lay out 20 calendars and they all have scriptural substance... but the motives behind them are not pure... that is the key - you’ve got to have discernment - this message is not to enslave you to my dogma - I don’t claim to have it all right.. it is just we are doing what we understand...  I follow Mashiach and until he comes again we are doing this simple thing...get out of pagan and follow YHUH... the kingdom of Alohiym is not an exercise of the flesh - but righteousness peace and Joy...

amein.

Questions and discussion....after teaching

We don’t know the year we are living in.

We are not keeping the sabbatical year - we don’t know when it is. We are in the exile... it doesn’t say do this in the exile...that is a land mitzvot.... 

Make a sundial with your kids.

The equinox is the last day of the year and then 12 months with 30 days.

Then the residual days (thanks to Hezekiah) and then in 4-5 days there is a vernal equinox and then the first day... and feasts and festivals aren’t messed up.

What are the dates this year? Click here for a printable listing.

The day starts at the dawn of the day...  look at creation.. light came and a day was...  read B’re’shiyt again...  (not at sunrise)... it is about LIGHT... the creation sign.

41 B're'shiyt Teaching - Passover - March 28

41 B’re’shiyt  28 March 2015 8 Abib (Nissan) 5775 

Torah Parashah - TZAV - Wayiqra (Leviticus) 6:8- 8:36

Pesach

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B’re’shiyt teaching - used with Permission from Bradley Scott:

p 47 in study guide

B’re’shiyt 1:15  

          “V’hayu  lim’orot  bir’qiya  hash-shamiyim  l’ha’iyr  ‘al-ha’aretz  vaye’hiy ken.”

          “And let them be for lights in the frimament of the heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.”

This is different from the light being brought forth in B’re’shiyt 1:3 and producing a 24 hour period.

         

          That light in 1:3 did not shine on earth specifically to bring light on creation - b/c you didn’t have plant or animal light yet.... so there was no need....nothing for it to give life to...

Now by B’re’shiyt 1:15 there is a need to give life to the earth and plants.. and then YHWH gives them the means by which to grow - lighten the earth with the sun!

There are no new words in this verse...

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p 48 in study guide

B’re’shiyt 1:16

          “Vay-ya’as  Elohiym  ‘et-sh’ney ham-me’orot  hag-ge’doliym  ‘et-ham-ma’or  haggadol le’meme’shelet  hay-yom  ve’et  ham-ma’or  haq-qaton  le’meme’shelet  hal-laye’lah  ve’et  hak-kokaviym.”

“And YHWH made two great lights - the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars (cochavim) also.”

In RSTNE:

          “And Elohiym made two great lights; the greater light to rule the yom(day), and the lesser light to rule the night: therefor namely the cochavim(stars).”

3/4 way down page 48 in study guide ... Brad writes:

“YHWH now focuses on the 2 lights that rule sky over over the earth.”

“The midrash is that the sun speaks of (represents) the husband, and the moon speaks of (represents) the wife.  The wife is to be the reflection of her husband.

  

Brad goes on to say that this wife is going to be expressed as the church /body of Mashiach - those who are going to be betrothed to YHWH.

at the bottom of page 48:

“Also, this is a picture of YHWH and his people, He being the natural light of the day and the witness of HIs people is to be a light in the darkness.  This only the people of YHWH can do.  Only when the sun goes away does the moon rule the night.”

In B’re’shiyt we have 2 examples of this sun and moon ruling idea ...

B’re’shiyt 37:5-10 Yosef’s dream.... gives 2 allegories of the same thing.

          First the dream of sheaves... and then the dream of the sun and moon and 11 stars bowing down to Yosef.

Certainly his father understood the imagery of this dream.... that the father is the sun,  and mom is the moon.

Brad says this is the marriage relationship of the wife...  reflecting the image of her husbandand the stars were the children... and also a pic of YHWH and His people.

(AGAIN - based on the Hebrew words regarding Marriage....  I undertand the sun to be the SON/YHWH and the moon to be the couple as ONE....  reflecting HIS light.)

The Son being bridegroom going away and giving things to his people (the reflection) to do while He is gone. 

When the Son has gone away then the moon reflects through the darkness... ..... Only Yah’s people can do this...

Brad says.... “This is why a lot of parables reflect this.”

We will talk about this with the word  l’mem’shelet.

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New word:

HAGGE’DOLIYM

ha= the

GE’DOLIYM = the great

          root - GADOL - to increase or expand to be great, magnify, high

          translated in Scripture = to be great, to maginfiy, to be high.

          used with respect to the Pharasees testing Y’shua about whether he was the Mashiach or not.

          used with  what is the the great commandment...

          GADOL = the greatest commandment

Sh’mot 18:11... “greater”...  “above them”.....  a greater light

B’midbar 35:28

Mizmor 35:27

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New word:

Lamimshalet -

          root =  mashal = to rule or reign or have dominion, power over      something

we are going to see when we read about the lights we are going to read that these are to RULE over the day and the night

and yet at the same time Yah will tell us that we are not to worship these lights...

they are to RULE yet at the same time - it is what serves man... they serve at the same time...

just like the Shabbat is... Shabbat serves man... given for us... 

-at the same time the light rules, it serves.

this is what Y’shua meant when He said He did not come ...”but to SERVE”

          ... the good kings are the good kings who ruled in the sense of being responisble for the kingdom, but also were the serving kings.. were there to serve Yisra’el.

It’s the same for the commandments they are not just there to rule our lives but to serve us

there really is no paradox....  here it is easily understood

When take idea of serving and combine that with the fact that mem’shelet is the Hebrew word for a parable ..... you can see Yah is teaching you something and putting things in the celestial glories/ sky to serve us and to teach the world... of His existance :)

Ma’shal =  is the same word as -parable... and it also means “to rule” .... many of parables Y’shua tells are about a king

-     a wedding banquet in which you have servants etc....

-     lots of them have to do with ruling.

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Torah Parasha Wayiqra (Lev) 6:8 - 8:36 p 84

          This is talking about burnt offerings and also about dressing the Cohen HaGadol /High Priest Aharon and his sons washing them, anointing and dressing them.

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I want to talk about Pesach and First Fruits and Unleavened Bread...

partially because Pesach is Friday...

but largely because most of us watched a teaching on Pesach and unleavend bread.  I have been concerned about it ever since....

So I thought we needed to study this..b/c more than I want a teacher that I mostly trust to be “right”.... I want to be doing what YHWH says...This person is a person and so he might not get it all right all the time... just like me.  It doesn’t mean I am done studying with his work... It just means - we have to check everything.

I also think that in this pursuit of the Melchizedek understanding...  sometimes he gets way to far off and sounds like Christianity. 

We are not about being Christian or about being Jewish - but rather following what the WORD of YHWH Himself says.

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Pesach is about cleansing... getting set free from sin

and Unleavened bread is about “sanctification” = setting us apart as kadosh / holy...

During this season we concentrate on putting sin out of our lives. We do the best we can to clean our homes to ensure they are leaven-free. We understand physical leaven just symbolizes sin, yet we understand what searching it out means as well: finding sin in the places we least expect. Working to clean our homes of leaven pictures the greater effort of searching out and removing the hidden and hard-to-find sin from our lives.

Then before partaking of the Passover, each of us works extra hard to make sure we are not sinning. If we have been tolerating a sin within ourselves, we are careful to put it away before taking the bread and wine. Though in this life we can never be totally blameless on our own, we want to signify to God our desire and diligence to be pure and righteous before Him (I Corinthians 5:6-8).

Sh’mot (Exodus) 12:1-27 p 56

Wayiqra (Leviticus) 23:1-14 p 98

B’midbar (Numbers) 28:16-26 p 130

Let’s look in the Brit Chadashah:

Mattityahu 26:17-30 p 702

YochananMoshe (Mark) 12-26 p 720

Luka 22:1-20 p 749

I Corinthians 5:7-8 p 854

... “but with the unleavened matzah of sincerity and emet.”

“Unleavened” = azymos = unfermented - free of leaven or yeast, “free from faults”

In that teaching I refered to earlier, the teacher said that  “Artos” is  the Greek word that is translated matzah in our RSTNE... or BREAD in others...

BUT....

I want to share an article from “Bible Tools”:

Before we start - let’s look up

Yochanan 13:26-27 p 769

Was the Sop Leavened or Unleavened (John 13:26-27)?

The following is a quote from here.

A rule of Bible study is never to base a doctrine on the meaning of a Greek or Hebrew word, and this controversy is a prime example.

It is true that artos, used in all of the gospel accounts for the bread eaten during the Last Supper, is the Greek word for "bread."

However, this word is a very general or generic term, much like the English word "bread" is. We use "bread" for everything from white to whole wheat to pumpernickel bread. We also use it for breads made of corn, barley, rye, spelt, rice, and other grains. We use it for sourdough as well as for sweet breads like banana and pumpkin.

And, most importantly, we use it for both leavened and unleavened breads.

We even use it as a generic term for food (as in "our daily bread")! The Greeks did the same with artos.

Greek also has a word for "unleavened," azumos (also transliterated as azymos), which is literally "without yeast."

Yet, just because this word does not appear in the gospel accounts of the Last Supper does not mean that the bread Jesus and His disciples ate was leavened.

Gerhard Kittle's Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, a pre-eminent source on New Testament Greek, says this on the word azumos:

P. Fiebig [a Greek-language scholar] . . . shows that the term artos does not exclude azumos, but that in certain circumstances, e.g., in description of the Passover, it may mean this. Hence the occurrence of artos at the Last Supper is no proof that this was not really the Passover.

In addition, both early Jewish writers Josephus and Philo use artos in their description of the matzo of the Passover meal.

Also, the loaves of the unleavened showbread in the Tabernacle and Temple, were regularly called artoi (plural of artos).

 It is understandable, then, that the gospel writers used the generic term artos because they knew that their readers would know what kind of bread they were talking about.

We also need to understand the "sop" itself. This is the Greek word psomion, and means "a morsel," "a crumb," "a bit," "a fragment," or as Strong's interprets, "a mouthful." Thus, it means a piece of food, and in the Last Supper, one used particularly for dipping. Therefore, the word does not necessarily suggest that the sop was used for soaking up liquid.

It could also be used like a potato or tortilla chip for dipping in a sauce or for scooping up smaller bits of another food toward the mouth. We have a traditional picture in our minds of Jesus dipping a piece of bread in gravy or something akin to salsa, but John 13:26-27 does not tell us what Jesus dipped the piece of bread in.

It could have been yogurt, gravy, oil, a sauce, or any number of other things.

Thus, that the bread must have been leavened so as to be soft and absorbent is not contemplated in the term.

Lastly, it is nearly a certainty that the bread Jesus and His disciples used during the meal was the same bread that Jesus used to teach them the Passover symbol of the bread as representing His broken body (Matthew 26:26).

His body did not contain any sin!

 Leaven is a primary biblical symbol of sin and corruption.

 Would Christ want His disciples to memorialize His sacrifice every year by thinking of Him as leavened, that is, sinful? Certainly not!

We are to remember that He sacrificed Himself as the perfect, sinless Lamb of God to pay for sin in our stead (I Corinthians 5:6-7; Hebrews 9:11-14: I Peter 2:21-24).

In fact, taking the Passover with leavened bread is tantamount to blasphemy, as it distorts and repudiates the sinless sacrifice of our Savior.

Because Jesus fulfilled all righteousness (Matthew 3:15)—meaning, He did everything perfectly—it is safe to conclude that the sop, and thus the bread in the Passover symbol, was unleavened.”

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Foot washing

Yochanan (John) 13: 12-17   p 769

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I Corinthians 11:20-34 p 859

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My understanding...

Pesach will be a meal..

Even in 3 of the 4 gospels - It clearly says they had a meal - not just bread and wine and foot washing.

We will have lamb at our meal - as per the first Pesach.

We will have our own cups for wine/juice.  We will not all share one.

We will use ONLY UNleavened bread... based on the fact that ARTOS can be several different things...

AMEIN.