18 Comments

1. 

   Wayne Thibodeaux 10 years ago

   Every seventh day of this count is the Sabbath. Chapter forty one of the book of Enoch tells us nothing has changed in the paths of the sun and moon or their relationship to the earth.
   Enoch 41:5 And I saw the storerooms of the sun and the moon, from what place they come out and to which place they return, and their splendid return -how in their travel one festival is celebrated more than the other. They do not depart from their orbit, neither increase nor decrease it; but they keep faith one with another: in accordance with an oath they set and they rise.
   The Hebrews were the first to use the seven day cycle, which is based on the seven year sabbatical season and the seven times seven year jubilee system. The seventh day Sabbath of the week is commanded just as the seventh year Sabbath of the land is commanded. Exodus 31:13 tells us we are to guard the Sabbath above all, as it is a sign between us and our Father. This command is throughout all generations, so much for the commandments being done away with.
   Twice the book of Jubilees commands a 364 day year ONLY. This command also identifies the year to be fifty two weeks ONLY. Enoch tells us four times the year is 364 days, which is fifty two weeks ONLY.
   We have the number of days of the year. We have the number of weeks of the year. We have the command to guard the seventh day Sabbath and the seventh year Sabbath of the land. All we need is a starting point. We know the Roman calendar didn’t exist until the year 46 BC, so there is no need bringing it into the discussion. Egypt, the Greeks, the Babylonians didn’t exist yet, so there is no need getting involved with their methods of time keeping. Nowhere in Genesis 1 are we given a start date for the year. Enoch is the only place where we find a start time for the count of days that begin the year. Enoch begins the count of days with the sun entering what he calls the fourth gate. This is the only gate Enoch calls a major gate, because two great events take place in this fourth gate, the spring and fall equinox. These are the only two events from which days are counted. The spring equinox begins our count of days of the year, the weeks and the Sabbaths. The fall equinox gives us the count of days to the fall festivals.
   Enoch ends the year with the day of equal day/night on the 364th day. Then we wait for the year to begin, just as the previous year began, with the spring equinox and then cycle of days, weeks and months begins anew.

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   Tom Caldwell 10 years ago

   The truth about the yearly calendar is probably the most important topic today in the Renewed Covenant Era. TIME has always been YHWH’s secret. To serve the Creator we must be on His time table to receive the “Times of refreshing” (Acts 3:19). The Set Apart Spirit of YHWH moves in more direct and powerful ways at the “Times of refreshing”.

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   Leon Bullet 10 years ago

   Enoch says that the equal day and night is the last day of the year not the first.the 4 season marker days are always the last days of the seasons.
   Each season has 91 days. 4×91=364.As Enoch also says that the 4 maker days are not counted so actually the calendar has 360 days + 4 divider days that divide the seasons.

4. 

   Rob 10 years ago

   Regarding the issue saying that the weekly cycle or seven day cycle of the Roman Saturday is the Shabbat day from the creation and it has never been broken….

   This is the difficulty – that the biblical Sabbath does not line up neatly with the Gregorian (Roman) Saturday – we find that HillelII changed the Rabbinic calendar in the early 300 CE it is not recorded what he did because his changes were kept secret and no one else worked with him on this task – but that he changed the calendar is acknowledged by Judaism and He did fix it to make the Judaism calendar work in the roman exile – but I am now seeing is that he single handily must have been the one to change the Sabbath in the Rabbinic calendar to re-align with the Roman Saturday to
   1) reduce persecution of the rabbinic Jews in the roman empire and
   2) because of it assisting rabbinic Jewish to participate in the economy of the roman empire.
   Soon thereafter we see Emperor Constantine (365 CE) changing the Christian “Sabbath” to occur on the Roman Sunday.
   We find that YHVH declared to Moses that he would “hide his face” from Israel when it would be in the exile – by this I understand he would hide His festivals and calendar because Israel had corrupted them. Moses and the prophets confirmed this because they foretold that when these matters are brought to the last generation of redeemed Israel – the causes of the Baruch/ ble_sings and the curse (and to keep the Torah Sabbath and true appointed times is truly a Berakah /ble_sings – but when we cannot see them because we are in exile; it is a curse), then the remnant would mourn for YHVH to bring us home to be able to keep his festivals – and Zephaniah prophesied that it is those who mourn for YHVH’s worship times that YHVH will bring back to His covenant land in the last days
   (see Zeph 3: 18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.)
   So when we find the Sabbath does not fit our ‘Egypt” calendar of the Saturday then we have a difficulty because we have to work on His days – so we will cry out for YHVH to send His Redeemer to set us free from Egypt and bring us home once again – it becomes a heart cry of true repentance for those who are truly seeking His face and His prophetic word and the end of His judgements of Redeemed Israel. SO I am convinced that He (YHVH) has hidden his calendar and is now revealing this so that we can see that we are in “the pig sty” – in Egypt/ in Babylon and only He can break us out of that Bozrah prison house and bring us home – so the revealing of the biblical Sabbath not fitting the Gregorian week as we have been told by religion for nearly 2000 years is in fact proving YHVH’s prophetic declarations to the last generation. HalleluYah!

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   Rob Moore 10 years ago

   Dear YahnEl,
   Looking at your questions, I overlooked to answer the latter part – – today the equilux (equal day equal night) does not occur on the date of the equinox (as today observe by true sun observation) in Jerusalem (the place where YHVH has chosen to put His Name) as it did when observed by Enoch, but only does so if you are living in the region of the equator. Jerusalem is not on the equator as it may well have been in the time of the garden of Eden and Enoch …This is because today the equator has moved – the earth has moved on its axis -the proof this is that in the days before the flood the area of the middle east had the equator running though its proximity – as the garden of Eden was not as desert as it is today – and so it will be until the earth is once more moved on its axis, has its tilt changed and then the prophets declare the desert will blossom as it once did before – a mark of the millennial occurs up to 4 days prior to the equinox (depending on one’s latitude) in the northern hemisphere and up to 4 days after the equinox in the southern hemisphere (depending latitude – such as New Zealand which is far from the equator and some 3-4 days later only experiences the equilux after the equinox.
   So the equilux is not only difficult to measure, (and cannot be easily measured by sundial – no straight line for that measurement given the position of the equator and one’s latitude) but also varies across the world by a total of a range of 8 days whereas the equinox is constant – yet another astronomical proof that the interpretations of the Enochian calendar were appropriate for a time before the flood (then the equinox and the equilux coincided as Enoch stated) and may well occur again put in the millennial reign, but require 1) the earth to be tilted on its axis by some 20 degrees, and 2) the orbit of the earth needs to be shortened to have 364 days in each solar year.
   Again this requires a study of astronomical realities and not just theological constructions to make interpretations of Enoch work out in a calendar today.
   But each to their own understanding as the scripture describes the situation that exists today. And the majority are running after supposed Enochian calendars, which Enoch never developed. That is if you follow the many interpretations of “Enochian” calendar interpretations out there – but…
   That is if you follow the many interpretations of “Enochian” calendar interpretations out there – but…
   1. Enoch never developed a calendar – he only described the astronomical events in his day – and now the solar year is not 364 days but 365.25 – unfortunately to the many who follow supposed “Enoch” calendars creation’s testimony is that the earth’s orbit has changed post flood – there are now 365.25 days in a solar year meaning the earth’s orbit is slightly longer than it was in the days of Enoch.
   2. Enoch never developed a calendar – the Enoch calendars are all interpretations of religious men who have no biblical authority (according to the law of Moses) to make up any calendars
   3.Again according to the Law of Moses, the law gives no authority to any interpreted “Enochian” calendar we see being published on internet sites these days.
   The law of Moses prescribe the declaration of biblically lawful calendars to the authentic (biblically prescribed) priesthood Aaron and his sons.
   4. The Zadok priesthood was lawfully prescribed (being of the line of Aaron) by King David and also by covenant of YHVH in the law of Moses to Phineas – thus the calendar proclaimed by the Zadok priesthood is the only lawful biblical calendar today , for it is directly under the law of Moses.
   5. The Zadok priesthood (unlike Enoch) actually did leave us a calendar prescription in a time capsule (Qumran scrolls) for the last generation who will need it.
   6. The Zadok calendar gives 2 essential prescriptions for identifying the biblical calendar which you have mention in your email below (after what is written in my article)
   7. The calendar I have graphed is not my own design but based on the authoritative (lawful according to Moses) Zadok precepts.
   8. The whole matter is essentially an issue of who has the biblical authority to declare the biblical calendar – Enoch does not have this authority (according to the law of Moses) – neither do the Rabbis nor the Christian church, …nor Messianic who like to create their own calendar after how they subjectively interpret Enoch (the are many variations)
   9. The Zadok priesthood submitted their authority to the Apostles of the Nazarene redeemed community (i.e. recognizing and sub,submitting to the authority of Yahushua as Melchizedek) as recorded in Acts 6:7
   10. The example of Yahushua – according to the testimony of the Apostles is the final authority on the calendar – he obsecrated the Zadok solar calendar, by redefined the incidence of when to find the Feast of First Fruits (which the Zadok’s held a week alter on their calendar) as being in accord with the sign of Jonah – 3 days and 3 night s period after the crucifixion) – with this lawful demonstration by Yahushua Melchizedek and the 2 foundation precepts of the Zadok’s on when to find day one of the new year and the wacky Sabbath – together with identifying correctly the Feat of First Fruits and that from Yahushua’s testimony we see the “day after the Sabbath” needing to identify the Feast of First fruits and day 1 of the count to the Feast of Weeks is in fact a weekly Sabbath and not a festival Sabbath.
   …Everyone has to study and sort this one out for themselves. I have done my research work over more than 3 years now on this, including observation of the actual astronomical events – and just even from astronomical observation I cannot follow the prescriptions of the so-called “Enochian calendars since it does not reflect what is happening in the sun and the stars every year – which is the lawful signs by which we are to establish the calendar (Gen 1: 14-16).
   The issue for me is biblical authority and who is Lawfully permitted to define the calendar – Form mosses only two authorities are given 1) the lawful priesthood – and the Zadok’s have given us a time capsule of an actual calendar definition – Enoch has not. and 2) Yahushua Melchizedek, by whose testimony we understand His days of the authentic calendar.
   Time will tell who is right and who is wrong since the important test is whether the last generation will be ready on the right day of the feast of Weeks for the outpouring of YHVH’s Spirit in the coming days and the Day of Atonement (coming under the mark of YHVH’s protection required for the remnant elect in the last days.) It is a very very impotent matter and time is now running out, but given the waking up of some across the globe and what is being shared there will be none who will be able to say that they never heard – the Qumran scrolls (Zadok testimony of the calendar has been fully revealed to all who would hear – and as I said an Enochian calendar as interpreted by many today was not in the Qumran library of documents)
   From the criteria I have laid out above you need to do your own study of the matter and prayerfully decide…since which calendar we keep is the matter of our own choice – but hopeful grounded in revealed biblical truth…for this matter is really a deeply hidden matter, which YHVH ha done by design and purpose…
   As for me I follow the lawful Zadok testimony, under the final authority of Yahushua Melchizedek as presented by the authoritative Apostolic testimony and not the creation of calendar(s) by men who have no biblical authority to do this – neither the Rabbis, the Christians, nor the many variations of solar – luni-solar, and Enochian” calendars of the many interpretations found in the so-called “messianic/Hebrew roots movement.
   Please remember the essential factor in this is who has the biblical authority to declare /witness to the biblical calendar of YHVH.
   [Rob (In That Day)]

6. 

   Mette Miriam 9 years ago

   I say Amein! to what You write here about us coming from one mixed religious system and so easely jumping into another system.. The call to leave Babylon is very relevant today!! Not surprisingly, my husband and I too struggle with knowing when is Shabbath… We believe that many answers can be found in the DeadSea Scrolls amongst them were many copies of both Enoch and the book of Jubilees. And we too think there was certain hidden reasons behind the expelling of them from the Bible. Something that caught my eyes and heart when praying and looking for what day is shabbat, was the “Songs for the shabbatsacrifices” fragments found in Qumran translated and free for all to read. These songs tell us the dates for the first shabbats of the year to fall on the 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th in the first month ( can be found as an pdf on http://www.marqutee.edu Songs of Sabbath Sacrice). From this the new year must at least start with day 1 on the 4th day of the week….

7. 

   Mitzi Brown Bat Yah 9 years ago

   “As the deer pants for streams of Mayim/ water;
   so my nefesh/being pants for You O Ëlohâ ( YâHuWaH יהוה )”
   Tehillim/Psalms 42:1

   My nefesh/nafshi/ my being thirsts for Ëlohâ, for the
   living El…”
   Tehillim 42:2

   “Yet Ëlohâ YâHuWaH will command His loving chesed in the
   daytime, and in the night His shir/song shall be with me,
   and my tefillah to the El of my Chayim/Life”
   Tehillim/Psalms 42:8

   For You are my Tikvah/Hope, O YâHuWaH יהוה
   You are my trust from my youth.
   Tehillim 7:5

   Truly my being waits upon Ëlohâ YâHuWaH יהוה:
   from Him comes my salvation.
   Tehillim 62:1

   He only is my Rock and my salvation, He is my defense:
   I shall not be greatly moved.
   Tehillim 62:2

   My nefesh, finds rest in Ëlohâ YâHuWaH יהוה alone:
   for my Tikvah/Hope is in Him
   Tehillim 62:5

   I will be in simcha and gilah in You: I will shir tehillot to
   Your Name, O Most High.
   Tehillim 9:2

   O YâHuWaH יהוה our Master,
   How excellent is Your Name in all the earth.
   Tehillim 8:9

   And the four creatures each had six wings
   Around him; and they were full of eyes within:
   And they rest not yom/day and night, saying,
   Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh
   YâHuWaH יהוה
   El Shaddai, who was, and is, and is to come.
   Chazon/ Revelation 4:8

   And the four creatures each had six wings
   And when those creatures give Kavod and honor
   And hodu to Him that sat on the kesay,
   Who lives le-olam-va-ed
   Chazon/ Revelation 4:9

   I will make Your Name to be remembered
   in all generations:
   Therefore shall the people hallel/praise You
   Le-olam-va-ed

   Your Name O YâHuWaH יהוה
   Endures le-olam-va-ed;
   And Your memorial, O YâHuWaH יהוה
   Throughout all generations.
   Tehillim/Psalms 135:13

   For My Name shall be great among the nations
   Says,
   YâHuWaH יהוה
   Malachi/ Malaki 1:11

   Then they that feared YâHuWaH יהוה
   Spoke often one to another:
   And YâHuWaH יהוה listened, and heard it,
   And a Sefer/Book zikkaron [remembrance] was
   Written before Him for them that fear
   YâHuWaH יהוה and that thought upon His Name.
   Malachi/ Malaki 3:16

   And I will set-apart My great Name, which was
   profaned among the gentiles,
   which you have profaned in the midst of them;
   And the gentiles shall know that I am
   YâHuWaH יהוה
   Says the Master YâHuWaH יהוה, when I shall be kadosh by you
   before their eyes.
   Yechezkel/Ezekiel 36:23

   For I will take you out from among the gentiles,
   And gather you out of all countries,
   And will bring you into your own land.
   Yechezkel/Ezekiel 36:24

   Then will I sprinkle clean mayim/water upon you,
   And you shall be clean:
   From all your filthiness, and from all your idols,
   will I cleanse You.
   Yechezkel/Ezekiel 36:25

   A new lev/heart also will I give you,
   And a new Ruach will I put inside you
   And I will take away the stony lev/heart
   out of your flesh, and I will give you
   A lev/heart of flesh.
   Yechezkel/Ezekiel 36:26

   Yevarekhekha YâHuWaH יהוה veyishmerekha
   Ya’er YâHuWaH יהוה panav Eleykha vichunneka
   Yisa YâHuWaH יהוה panav Eleykha
   veyasem lekha shalom

   YâHuWaH יהוה baruch/bless you and keep you:
   YâHuWaH יהוה make His face shine upon you
   and be gracious to you,
   YâHuWaH יהוה lift up His countenance upon you,
   and give you shalom”
   Bamidbar/Number 6:24-26

   No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper;
   and every tongue that shall rise up against you in judgment,
   you shall condemn.
   This is the heritage of the avadim/servants of YâHuWaH יהוה,
   and their tzedakah
   is from me declares YâHuWaH יהוה.
   YeshaYahu/Isaiah 54:17

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   Wayne Thibodeaux 9 years ago

   The real treasure of the book of Enoch are the calendar instructions. By this means we find the true Sabbath of our Father. The Sabbath is the key to everything.

   Exodus 31:13 tells us we are to guard the Sabbath above all, it is a sign between us and our Father. Rev. 7 tells us of those who serve our Father are sealed and protected by his sign.

   Wormwood is mentioned nine times in the scriptures. eight times it is said to be bitterness or poison. One time it is said to be a star falling to earth. An asteriod / meteorite would be bad enough, but a star would be an extinction level event with total devastation. Elsewhere we see the messengers / angelic beings called stars. In revelation they wreck havoc upon the earth.

   However, there is a group of people who these plagues have no affect on. They are those who are sealed with the sign of our Father. So many people busy themselves with seeking out the mark of the beast, when it’s the sign of our Father that could save them.

   The entire world is ignorant to the seventh day Sabbath. The reason for this ignorance is the deceit of man who has hidden the true calendar of our Father.
   We know the Sabbath of Christianity is false. So, what about Judaism? Most of those who are fleeing the deceit of christianity are being led straight into the deceit of Judaism. Slowly Judah gave up the calendar of our Father to follow the lunar calendar of Babylon, the Greeks and the Persians. Yet when Rome came to power, they pinned their Sabbath to a Roman day of Saturn on a Roman calendar that didn’t exist before the year 46BC. How can this be? How can people not see the error of this?
   Exodus 31:13 tells us we are to guard the Sabbath “above all”, it is a sign between us and our Father. Revelation 7:3 tells us the servants of our Father, those who keep the true Sabbath are sealed and protected in the last days. While everyone is so fascinated with the mark of the beast, they should be concerned about the sign of our Father. Avoiding the mark of the beast is not going to save you from the wrath to come upon the earth. Only the true Sabbath of our Father can save you.
   The book of Jubilees 2:17 And He gave us a great sign, the Shabbat day, that we should work six days, but keep Shabbat on the seventh day from all work. 18 And all the malakim of the presence, and all the malakim of sanctification, these two great classes -He has bidden us to keep the Shabbat with Him in heaven and on earth. Even the angels of heaven keep the Sabbath of our Father, wanna bet it isn’t the man made day of Saturn?
   Our Father warned us about the false Sabbath on unclean days. He warned us about using the lunar calendar of pagan Babylon. He prophesied that Israel and Judah would do just that. The book of jubilees 6:36 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.37 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 kodesh with the unclean, and the unclean day with the kodesh; for they will go wrong as to the months and Shabbats and feasts and jubilees.38 For this reason I command and testify to you that you may testify to them; for after your death your 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 new months and seasons and Shabbats and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.
   So, how do we find the true Sabbath of our Father? One man was given wisdom and authority to reveal the calendar of our Father. The book of jubilees 4:16 And in the eleventh jubilee Jared took to himself a wife, andher name was Baraka, the daughter of Rasujal, a daughter of his father’sbrother, in the fourth week of this jubilee, and she bare him a son inthe fifth week, in the fourth year of the jubilee, and he called his name Enoch.17 And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learned writing and knowledge and wisdom and who wrote down the signs of heaven according to the order of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months.18 And he was the first to write a testimony and he testified to the sons ofmen among the generations of the earth, and recounted the weeks of thejubilees, and made known to them the days of the years, and set in order the months and recounted the Shabbats of the years as we made them, known to him.
   The only way to find the true Sabbath of our Father, is to use his method of keeping time. Nowhere in scripture are we given instructions to formulate a lunar calendar. However, chapters 72-82 of the book of Enoch give us instructions to formulate the calendar of our Father. Only by this means of keeping time, do we find the true Sabbath and appointed times of our Father.

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   Daniel de Caussin 9 years ago

   Enoch records the sabbath, and the healing of sabbath.

   Notice the interaction between these words.
   healing h4832, מרפא, healing of a disease, refreshing both of mind and body, deliverance as n from a calamity, a relaxed mind, tranquility of mind, meekness as in a tranquil heart and mind
   shalom h7999, שלם, to be whole sound, safe, to be complete, finished, to make secure, peaceable, to restore as in something purloined, to requite, to recompense, to live friendly, to make peace, whole as in good health, perfect, cherishing peace and friendship
   sabbath h7673, שבת, to rest, to keep a day of rest, to cease, to desist, leave off, to celebrate the sabbath, interruption of work, time lost, the seventh day of the week,a week
   Enoch 17:4 Then, I was carried off to the region where the Angels celebrate the sabbath, which was declared, at the eve of sabbath, by the Spirit of our Father. This Angel, that had a grasp of me, did altogether with the other Angels, at the setting of the Sun.
   5 For, the person who pulverizes grain until it is prepared for the fire, and for they who spread out their nets over the sea, it is important that they lay on their back, for this period, at the eve of sabbath.

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    Stephen Kraner 9 years ago

    This is a big reason why Yahushua healed on the Shabbat.
    Torah requires that debts to fellow Israelites be forgiven prior to the Sabbatical year. If you have the ability, you are to assist (first family) your fellow Israelite in the reduction or elimination of his debt.
    Why, so as to enter into REST.
    How much more so, our bodies?! If “rest” has not been obtained by the beginning of Shabbat, why not sometime during Shabbat?
    The following text is more about Yom Kippur (which is a “Sabbath”) than the seventh-day Sabbath. But, to me, the principle should cross over to the Sabbath.
    “6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
    7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?” Isaiah 58:6-7.

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    Stephen Kraner 9 years ago

    Build The SPIRITUAL HOUSE and offering The Sabbath Sacrifices:

    When David (and later, Solomon) danced before the Ark of the Covenant, David was moved of the Ruach ha’Chodesh. His dancing represented the cycles of time, including the cycles of the mo’edim. The cycles of time include the cycles of the sabbatical years and jubilee years till the Ruach ha’Chodesh would return to the completed “spiritual house” that Messiah Yahushua (as the “greater than” of Solomon, Matthew 12:42) would build:
    “11 …, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also YHWH telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
    12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish His kingdom.
    13 He shall build an house for My Name, and I will stablish the throne of His Kingdom for ever.
    14 I will be His Father, and He shall be My Son. …” 2Samuel 7:11-14.
    “5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a SPIRITUAL HOUSE, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to Elohim by Yahushua ha’Meshiach.” 1Peter 2:5.
    Revelation 15 is about the return of the anti-typical Ark of the Covenant into the spiritual anti-type of Solomon’s completed temple. Revelation 15 is full of allusions to the dedication of Solomon’s completed temple.
    The singing of the song of Moses and the Lamb is an allusion to Deuteronomy 32, which was sung 1/6th every Sabbath morning, relative to the morning portion of the additional (Numb. 28:9-10) Sabbath sacrifice. Every seventh Sabbath, Deut. 32 was sung totally, making cycles of seven Sabbaths throughout the year. (Exodus 15 was sung 1/6th every Sabbath afternoon, relative to the evening portion of the additional lamb.)
    The Sabbath Sacrifices:
    Morning Sacrifice, with singing of Psalm 92.
    Add’l morning lamb, with singing of 1/6th of Deut. 32
    Add’l evening lamb, with singing of 1/6th of Exod. 15
    Evening Sacrifice, with singing of Psalm 92.

    P.S. Additional thought: This morning, I liked pondering the intensity of the following verse from the Hochmah (חכמה) divine counsel and prudent understanding Proverb 8:12 (Wisdom) of Solomon:
    “(28) For Elohim loveth none but him that dwelleth with Wisdom.” Wisdom of Solomon 7:28.
    Consider these words from Deuteronomy 4:
    “5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as YHWH my Elohim commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
    6 Keep therefore and do them; for THIS IS YOUR WISDOM and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” Deuteronomy 4:5-6.
    The Torah is “Wisdom” to/for us.
    Consider these words from Proverbs
    Proverbs 9:1: “Wisdom hath builded HER house, SHE hath hewn out HER seven [Strong’s H7651, sheba] pillars:”
    Notice the similarity between the Hebrew “sheba”, שׁבעה, and the Hebrew for Sabbath, שׁבּת. Wisdom’s “seven” pillars (of Her house) have a relationship to the Sabbath, which is the “seventh day” of the week.
    To “dwell” with Wisdom is to spend time with the Torah, particularly in relationship to Wisdom’s “seven” pillars, Her Sabbaths, including the “sabbaths” of Her Mo’edim, the Feasts.

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    Stephen Kraner 9 years ago

    Offering Up Spiritual Sacrifices

    In a comment on my facepage in Facebook, a friend asked me:
    “A Spiritual House, Spiritual Sacrifices”… do you understand what this means? What it looks like?
    Here is my response:
    Yes. To some degree, I do understand.
    In Hebrew, there is a word play between the word for “son” (or, “daughter”) and the word for “stone”. “The STONE that the builders rejected…” = “The SON that the builders rejected.” (See Matthew 21:42; Psalm 118:22, 23)
    “4 To whom coming, as unto a LIVING STONE, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of Elohim, and precious,
    5 Ye also, as LIVELY STONES, are built up a SPIRITUAL HOUSE, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to Elohim by Yahushua ha’Meshiach.
    6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief CORNER STONE, elect, precious: and he that believeth on Him shall not be confounded.” 1Peter 2:4-6. (See Isaiah 28:16.)
    Let us next turn to Peter’s words, “You also … are … a set apart [KJV: “holy”] priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, …”
    In the New American Standard Bible, for Romans 15:16, there is a revelation about the idea of being “a set apart priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices”:
    “16 to be a minister of Messiah Yahushua to the Gentiles, MINISTERING AS A PRIEST the gospel of Elohim, so that my OFFERING of the Gentiles may become acceptable [(implied) SACRIFICES], sanctified by the Ruach ha’Chodesh.” Romans 15:16. NASB (Sacred Names and Titles restored by Stephen Kraner.)
    Earlier, in the book of Romans, Paul admonished the Gentile Romans to:
    Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Elohim, that ye present your bodies a LIVING SACRIFICE, holy, acceptable unto Elohim, which is your reasonable service.”
    PLEASE KNOW: There are other “spiritual sacrifices” than the conversion of souls. For example, “praise” is a “spiritual sacrifice”.
    Hebrews 13:15: “By Him [Messiah Yahushua] therefore let us offer the SACRIFICE of PRAISE to Elohim continually [Hebrew would be: “tamid”], that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.” (For “sacrifice of “praise” being “better than” the offering of an ox, see Psalm 69:30- 31.) (For “fruit of our lips” as a “sacrifice”, see Hosea 14:2.) (Look these texts up. I am trying to be concise, here.)
    While examining the ministry of the Levitical priesthood, I stumbled upon the following:
    “24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to WAIT UPON the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
    25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease WAITING UPON the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
    26 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.” Numbers 8:24-26.
    The Hebrew for the words, “wait upon” and “waiting upon” are Strong’s H6633, tsaba, צבא and Strong’s H6635, tsaba, צבא. The idea of these two words is: to “war the war”, to “wage war”. This means that the typology of the ministry of the Levitical priesthood was that of WAGING WARFARE!!
    Immediately, the Ruach took my thought to Paul’s words:
    “3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not WAR after the flesh:
    4 (For the weapons of our WARFARE are not carnal, but mighty through Elohim to the pulling down of strong holds;)
    5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of Elohim, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Messiah;” 2Corinthians 10:3-5.
    Combining Peter’s and Paul’s words together:
    As a set apart, Royal Priesthood, we minister the offering up of spiritual sacrifices, the conversion of souls, as a spiritual warfare, “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of Elohim, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Messiah.”

    Stephen W. Kraner

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    Rob 9 years ago

    Question: Shalom, Achi Rob in our MessiYAH,

    Whether this is correct: March 20 is considered as the first day of the new year, the 4th day of the week in 2016

    Or shall we start the 20 after sunset/21st as the 1st day of the year, the 4th day of the week in this 2016 calendar?

    Regards,
    YahnEl

    Answer:
    HI YahnEl
    the equinox (mean mathematical calculation as printed on common calendars across the world is estimated for Jerusalem longitude at occurring on 20th March at 6.30 am (see: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html?n=110 ).

    Note that the mathematical estimate is not o be confused with the actual true sun observance which is confirmed by observation as it would occur on a sundial at the proper longitude.

    As the mathematical estimate is calculated for occurring in 2016 early in the morning (6.30 am) then we know that the actual real sun observation on a sundial would also be occurring on that day (march 20th). If the mathematical estimate for Jerusalem was estimated at 9.00pm in the evebing of the 20th for example then we would know that the day of the true sun observance of the euinox ocurring would necessarily be falling out on the next day.

    However this year it is quite simply for us to know – the actual true sun observation of the equinox this year will occur on 20th March…

    So the 20th March is day 1 of the biblical year. To then identify the weekly Sabbath (using Qumran Zadok formula), we need to then identify the 4th day from the day of the occurrence of the true sun observed equinox – that is Wednesday 23rd March.

    The biblical day begins at sunrise as opposed to the Rabbinic calendar theology of the day starting at the evening.

    That is my understanding form my research.

    regards
    Rob @ http://www.inthatday.net

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    Eyd & YahnEl 9 years ago

    Someone has asked that: are all the 7th day Sabbaths in line with the Gregorian calendar?

    The answer is: The Gregorian calendar didn’t exist until 1583. The Julian calendar didn’t exist until 46BC. How can the Sabbath of our Father be in line with the Roman calendars?

15. 

    The Shabbat Siddur 8 years ago

    The Shabbat Siddur

    Many of us are on our own or with only a few friends each Sabbath, So I have put together a Shabbat Siddur, to guide and help us celebrate the weekly Shabbats. I have used, Psalm 99, YHWH’s Prayer, Teachings from the Didache (Teaching of the Messiah to the Twelve), the Shema, and the Seventh Sabbath Sacrifice Song in the Siddur. There are thirteen Sabbath Sacrifice Songs, for each of the 13 Sabbaths per quarter of the Zadok Priesthood Solar Calendar. The Zadokite Priests and Levities would chant the Sabbath Sacrifice Songs.

    The Shabbat Siddur.

    Psalm 99: YHWH reigns, let the nations tremble;
    He sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake.
    Great is YHWH in Zion; He is exalted over all the nations.
    Let them praise Your great and awesome Name— He is holy.
    The King is Mighty, He loves justice— You have established equity;
    in Jacob You have done what is just and right.
    Exalt YHWH our Elohim and worship at His footstool; He is Holy.
    Moses and Aaron were among His priests, Samuel was among those who called on His Name; they called on YHWH and He answered them
    He spoke to them from the Pillar of Cloud; they kept His statutes and the decrees He gave them.
    YHWH our Elohim, You answered them; You were to Israel a forgiving Elohim, though you punished their misdeeds.
    Exalt YHWH our Elohim and worship at His Holy Mountain, for YHWH our Elohim is Holy.

    YHWH’s Prayer
    Our Father who act in Heaven Hallowed it be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily spiritual bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for Yours is the Kingdom the power and the glory, forever and ever Amein.

    Taken from the Didache.– Todah Rabbah—The Great Thanksgiving of the bread and the wine. (Must have been miqvahed before taking the bread and wine. Confess your short comings so your sacrifice may be clean, then gather in Yahad. And break bread while offering up your thanks. Do not allow anyone who is belligerent with his comrade to join your qahal until all has been settled. “In every place and at every time, offer Me a clean sacrifice, for I AM a great Meleq, says YHWH and My Name is awe-inspiring among My tribes. Malachi 1: 11 &14.)

    Todah Rabbah-– The Great Thanksgiving of the bread and the wine.

    First for the Cup of Wine— We give you thanks, Avinu, for the special Vine of Your Son Dawid, who You made known to us through Your Son Yahushua, may all Kavod (Shekinah) be Yours l’olam va-ed.

    Then the piece of Bread—-We give You thanks, Avinu, for the Life and Knowledge that You made known to us through Your Son Yahushua, may all Kavod be Yours l’olam va-ed.
    As this broken bread was scattered on the mountains then gathered together to become one, so may Your Qahal (called) be gathered together from the ends of the earth into your Meluqah (reign), for Yours is the Kavod (glory) and koach (strength and power) through Yahushua ha Mashiach l’olam va-ed.

    After taking the bread and the wine give thanks in this way.
    We give you Todah Rabbah (Great thanks for the bread and the wine), Av ha Oodesh, for Your qadosh Name, which you have caused to tent within our hearts and for the knowledge, trust and endurance that you have made known to us through Yahushua Your Son. Mays Yours be Kavod l’olam va-ed.
    Almighty Sovereign You created everything for Your Names sake. You have given us food and drink to benefit all so every person might have the occasion to give You thanks. More over to us You import spiritual food and drink and enduring life through Your Son. Yet before all the rest we give You thanks for Your great Koach. May Kavod be Yours l’olam va-ed.

    Sh’ma Yisra’el-— Hear Israel

    Sh’ma Yisra’el YHWH Elohinu, YHWH echad (hear Isreal, YHWH Elohim is our Elohim, YHWH alone)
    Baruch Shem k’vod malchuto l’olam va’ed (Blessed is his glorious name, His Kingdom endures for ever)
    And you shall love YHWH Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words which I command you this day shall be on your hearts and you shall teach them to your children and speak them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and to be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-9.

    Affirmation of Shabbat
    And YHWH spoke to Moshe saying; speak unto the children of Yisra’el saying, ” My Shabbats you shall keep as a sign between me and you throughout all your generations, so that you may know that I am YHWH who has sanctified you,” Exodus 31:12-14
    Therefore the children of Yisra’el shall keep the Shabbat and observe the Shabbat throughout all their generations, as a perpetual Covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Yisra’el forever, for in six days YHWH Elohim made heaven and earth and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.

    The Seventh Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice;
    Praise the Elohim of the lofty heights, O you lofty ones among all the elim of knowledge. Let the holiest of the elohim -like ones sanctify the King of Glory who sanctifies by holiness all His Holy ones. O you chiefs of the praises of all the elohim-like beings, praise the splendidly praiseworthy Elohim. For in the splendor of praise is the glory of his realm. From it comes the praises of all the elohim-like ones together with the splendor of all His majesty.
    And exalt His exaltedness to exalted heaven, you most elohim-like ones of the lofty elim and exalt His glorious divinity above all the lofty heights.. For He is Elohim of elohims of all the chiefs of the heights of heaven and King of Kings of all the eternal councils, by the intention of His knowledge at the words of His mouth come into being all the lofty angles: at the utterance of His lips all the eternal spirits: by the intention of His knowledge all His creatures in their undertakings.
    Sing with joy, you who rejoice in His knowledge with rejoicing among the wondrous elohim-like beings. And chant His Glory with the tongue of all who chant with knowledge; and chant His wonderful songs of joy with the mouth of all who chant of Him. For He is Elohim of all who rejoice in Knowledge forever and judge in His power of all the spirits of understanding.
    Thank, all you majestic elim, the King of Majesty for His Glory do all the elim of knowledge confess and all the spirits of righteous admit His faithfulness. And they make acceptable their knowledge according to the judgements of His mouth and their thanks do they make acceptable at the return of His powerful hand for judgments of recompense.
    Sing praises to the mightily Elohim with the choicest spiritual portion that there may be melody together with divine joy and let there be a celebration with all the Holy ones that there may be wondrous songs together with eternal joy, with these let all the ——

    Singing—Songs of praise, exaltation, thankfulness, celebration, eternal joy.

    Scripture readings-

    Closing Prayer

    Faithful are you YHWH Elohim and faithful are Your Words, for no Word of Yours will remain unfulfilled. You are a faithful and merciful Elohim
    Remember Your Qahal (the called), O Sovereign. Save her from all evil and perfect her in Your charity. Gather her people in Yahad from the four winds and into Your Meluqa (reign) that you have prepared for her as the Qahal ha Qadesh (set apart ). May Koach (strength and power) and Kavod (glory) be yours l’olam va-ed.
    May favor draw closer and closer as this world passes away.

    HOSHANA L’ELOHEI DAWID– Praise the Elohim of Dawid.

    If someone is qadosh, let that one come, if someone is not, let that one have a change of mind.

    MARANATHA, AMEIN —

    OUR MASTER YAHUSHUA HA MASHIACH COME, AHMEIN

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    JUBILEES AND SABBATH 8 years ago

    BOOK OF JUBILEES AND SABBATH
    BY DR. ELIYAHU LIZORKIN-EYZENBERG

    As we read about the Sabbath in our time, when the Christian Sabbath-keeping practice has been virtually abrogated, it is easy for us to dismiss the passionate desire to obey the Sabbath in full measure as resulting from legalistic Jewish tendencies. However, it is important to see that our author saw breaking of the Sabbath as only a surface issue revealing the real problem, which hid in the unbelieving heart of the covenant-breaker. Sabbath-keeping was to be performed not in dry legalistic obedience but as the holy duty of the redeemed heart: “They should keep Sabbath thereon, and that they should not forsake it in the error of their hearts.”
    The book of Jubilees is a pseudepigraphon[1] known prior to Qumran from a complete Ethiopic and partial Greek, Latin and Syriac/Aramaic translations. Jubilees was composed entirely in Hebrew, then translated into Greek and from Greek into Ethiopic, in which language alone it is extant in its entirety.[2] It has for the first time surfaced in a large number of mostly small fragments in its Hebrew original in five Qumran caves. According to Lane, the work is a midrashic retelling of the story of Genesis (and the beginning of Exodus) in the form of a revelation conveyed by angels to Moses.[3] Nickelsburg points out that the Book of Jubilees is an extensive elaboration of Genesis 1 – Exodus 12.[4] VanderKam succinctly summarizes the general content of the book:

    The revelation proves to be a heavily edited rehearsal of the material from Genesis 1 to Exodus 20, all of which is incased in chronology which divides time into units of 49 years (Jubilees), each of which consist of ‘seven weeks of years.’[5]
    The object of the author was to defend Judaism against the disintegrating effects of Hellenism, and the various means by which he did this will be discussed below. According to Ferguson, the sins[6] most frequently and strongly opposed in the book of Jubilees are idolatry, fornication, and eating blood.[7]
    THE SUMMARY POINTS
    First, the Sabbath’s heavenly origin is affirmed not only in the sense that God issued the command, but also because Sabbath-keeping is at the heart of heavenly life itself (2:17-19; 6:30b-31).
    Second, the Sabbath comes as a covenant sign. God chose Israel out of all the nations and commanded her to keep the Sabbath. Israel and the Sabbath are forever bound up together for YHWH has sanctified them both (2:19-22).
    Third, capital punishment was to be administered to anyone who has violated the Sabbath or in any way profaned it (2:26; 50:13b).
    Fourth, Sabbath-keeping was not primarily outward and superficial in character, but an inner duty of the heart (2:28-29).
    Fifth, the Sabbath was to be obeyed without any inventions of man, fully and without any compromise or avoidance (2:29-30).
    Sixth, the weekly Sabbath was greater than any of the feasts of Israel. No Sabbath, as the greatest of all feasts of Israel, ought to be overshadowed by other holiday activities that Israel’s god also decreed. The feasts could not supersede the Sabbath. The only means to accomplish this is to order life according to the heavenly 364-day calendar (6:32-33).
    Seventh, sexual relationship, contemplating/talking about any business activity or even drawing water was forbidden on the Sabbath (50:8-10). The prohibition list also includes taking a journey, farming, creating fire, riding on any kind of animal, striking or killing anything, catching a living thing, fasting or making war (50:12b-13a).
    Eighth, Sabbath-keeping was to be characterized by joy and satisfaction (50:10a).
    Ninth, only Temple worship takes precedent over observance of the Sabbath commandment (50:10b-12a).
    Here are some textual unites to consider:
    JUB. 2:17-36
    This passage can be divided into several sections for the purpose of study. First, the heavenly origins of Sabbath-keeping are affirmed in 2:17-19a, where heaven’s Sabbath-keeping is discussed. YHWH and the angels of his presence are engaged in the on-going practice of Sabbath observance. The angels affirm to Israel,
    He hath bidden us to keep the Sabbath with Him in heaven and on earth.
    The doctrine of the Supremacy of the Law, as manifest in the heavenly keeping of the Sabbath finds its application in this passage as in many others.
    Second, Israel is established as elect among the nations in 2:19b-21a. The election and separateness of Israel from all other nations of the Earth seems to be a recurring theme in the Late Second Temple literature and especially here in the Book of Jubilees. The Creator is quoted here:
    Behold, I will separate unto Myself a people from among all the peoples, and these shall keep the Sabbath day.
    Covenant election is the very basis of anything that is written or inferred in any way in this book. Our author was purposely drawing parallels between Israel and the Sabbath. YHWH has blessed and sanctified both Israel and the Sabbath; therefore, keeping the Sabbath is a means by which Israel’s holiness is marked.
    Third, in 2:21b-22a the Sabbath is presented as a covenant sign, harkening back to 2:17. It is in the context of this covenant election that we realize that the Sabbath is a very special commandment. It is both a commandment and a sign of the special, covenantal relationship between Israel and her god:
    Thus He created therein a sign in accordance with which they should keep the Sabbath.
    Strict adherence to this commandment equals passionate commitment to the god who issued it. This we will see later in more detail. The authors spare no effort in establishing the covenant relationship of Israel with their god as the emphasis in this work. In other Jewish writings, the idea that the Sabbath was something “personal” only between YHWH and Israel is even clearer. Perhaps the most radical idea that exemplifies this type of exclusivism is the idea that Gentiles who would keep the Sabbath would actually be committing adultery by doing so, because Israel alone is the bride of YHWH.[8] According to Doering, in this exclusivisim the book of Jubilees differs greatly with the writings of the Greek-speaking Jewish Diaspora where inclusivism and commonality is often emphasized as argued by Aristobulus (Fragment 5), Philo (Opif. 89-128; Mos. 2:21) and Josephus (Ag. Ap. 2:282).[9]
    Fourth, a hint for the future doctrine of the heavenly origin of the Hebrew language is given in 2:22b-23. This comes up in other portions of the book of Jubilees, establishing Israel’s connection with the divine origins (creation and covenant) connecting generations of the faithful as well as the types of creation made by YHWH with the 22 letters of the Hebrew language:
    There (were) two and twenty heads of mankind from Adam to Jacob, and two and twenty kinds of work were made until the seventh day.
    Fifth, severe punishment is emphasized for breaking the Sabbath. From the standpoint of our author, nothing short of full subscription to the Torah standards of Israel’s god would insure YHWH’s allegiance to Israel. This strictness, of course, needs to be seen in the context of the great privilege, great election and great sign given to Israel. So, the disregard of such great things should receive an appropriate disciplinary action:
    Whoever does any work thereon shall die, and that he who defiles it shall surely die.
    Sixth, in 2:28-29a it is clear that breaking this commandment is a heart related problem. As we read about the Sabbath in our time, when the Christian Sabbath-keeping practice has been virtually abrogated, it is easy for us to dismiss the passionate desire to obey the Sabbath in full measure as resulting from legalistic Jewish tendencies. However, it is important to see that our author saw breaking of the Sabbath as only a surface issue revealing the real problem, which hid in the unbelieving heart of the covenant-breaker. Sabbath-keeping was to be performed not in dry legalistic obedience but as the holy duty of the redeemed heart:
    They should keep Sabbath thereon, and that they should not forsake it in the error of their hearts.
    Seventh, uncompromising fulfillment of the commandment is demanded in 2:29b-30a. The book of Jubilees knows nothing about constructing Erub for the more convenient keeping of the Sabbath, a practice that had developed by the time of the composition of the Targums.[10] So it is that we see in this book an uncompromising call to full obedience to the ordinances of Israel’s god, especially the ordinances of the Sabbath:
    Not to bring in or take out thereon through their gates any burden, which they had not prepared for themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings.
    Eighth, in 2:30-36 we are given a succinct summary of the chapter, citing the ancient and heavenly origins of the commandment, and emphasizing Israel’s covenantal privilege that ought to be passed on to future generations of YHWH’s elect people:
    We kept Sabbath in the heavens before it was made known to any flesh to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth. And the Creator of all things blessed it, but he did not sanctify all peoples and nations to keep Sabbath thereon, but Israel alone … This law and testimony was given to the children of Israel as a law for ever unto their generations.
    What is the reason behind the call to strict obedience to the law of Israel’s god? It is because the heavenly community is committed to do the same and have done so long before Israel was commanded to join the company.
    JUB. 6:30-38
    In this second pericope, once again I will divide the text according to the logical breaks for the purposes of organizing the material. First, heavenly origin is established in 6:30b-31:
    Thus it is engraven and ordained on the heavenly tablets. And there is no neglecting (this commandment) for a single year or from year to year.
    Just as the validity of Moses’ tabernacle is established by its original that is in heaven (Heb. 8:5), so this 364 day earthly calendar is to be observed because of its heavenly origins. Once again the idea of the supremacy of the law is set forth and validated in this section.
    Second, the number of days in the full year is set forth in 6:32-33a. Wintermute is once again helpful here: The author believed that there was a theological value inherent in certain special times. Unlike modern man, he did not limit himself to the quantitative measuring or counting of days from an arbitrary starting point. For him, the days are also to be divided on a qualitative scale with respect to their sanctity. Some days were sacred and others profane.[11] None of the feasts ever fell on the Sabbaths:
    That they observe the years according to this reckoning – three hundred and sixty-four days, and (these) will constitute a complete year, and they will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts.
    No Sabbath, as the greatest of all feasts of Israel, ought to be overshadowed by other holiday activities that Israel’s god decreed. Strict obedience to the Law simply meant that all the commandments were to be obeyed. To celebrate Sabbath and the Feasts on the same day was to attempt “to kill two birds with one stone.” This was completely unacceptable in view of the nature of the Law and the history of the Covenant people.
    Three, the costly consequences of following the wrong counting of days is set forth in 6:33-38:
    They will disturb all their seasons and the years will be dislodged from this (order) … all the children of Israel … will forget the new moons, and seasons, and Sabbaths.
    Forgetting the holy days of YHWH is equal to walking “according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance.”
    JUB. 50:8-13
    The third and last major pericope reemphasizes Israel’s god’s covenant election. But it does not simply restate this fact but goes on to set forth what exactly constitutes the breaking of the Sabbath.
    First, in this last pericope under consideration, in 50:8-10a our author describes some of the work that is forbidden on the Sabbath, including a prohibition of sexual relations on the Sabbath, speaking about business and drawing water.[12]
    Whoever desecrates that day, whoever lies with (his) wife, or whoever says he will do something on it, that he will set out on a journey thereon in regard to any buying or selling: and whoever draws water thereon which he had not prepared for himself on the sixth day.
    The Law cannot be supreme in the life of a human being if on the Sabbath common things are done. All days are YHWH’s, but the Sabbath has a special seal of approval. This is the day for self-discipline, for developing trust in God’s provision, for once-a-week confession that Israel’s god is the Lord of this particular covenant-keeper.
    Second, he states the reason for the immense importance assigned to keeping the Sabbath in 50:10a:
    For great is the honor which YHWH has given to Israel that they should eat and drink and be satisfied on this festival day.
    Once again the electoral privilege given to Israel by her God is evoked. It is an honor that was not offered to any other people on the face of the earth. The Sabbath is so holy that only heavenly work is allowed. It cannot be contaminated with the good things of this world, but may only be filled with the good things of the world to come.
    Third, the heavenly work (worship) which is allowed is briefly discussed in 50:10b-12a,
    Rest thereon from all labor which belongs to the labor of the children of men save burning frankincense and bringing oblations and sacrifices before YHWH … This work alone shall be done on the Sabbath-days in the sanctuary of YHWH your God.
    It is not work that is actually forbidden on the Sabbath, but labor. The word for “worship” can after all be translated as work. In this sense it is a work of another kind.
    Fourth, more types of work that are forbidden are listed in 50:12b-13a. The author states that,
    … every man who does any work thereon, or goes on a journey, or tills (his) farm, whether in his house or any other place, and whoever lights a fire, or rides on any beast, or travels by ship on the sea, and whoever strikes or kills anything, or slaughters a beast or a bird, or whoever catches an animal or a bird or a fish, or whoever fasts or makes war on the Sabbaths …
    can not be a part of the covenant-keeping community that the author of Jubilees envisioned. As we will see later, the Maccabean wars will form a special challenge to the various Jewish communities of the time. All of them would be coping with the issues in different ways. Some would alter their Sabbath practice radically, some would do so moderately and some like this group would stay with the traditional interpretation and be a witness among the people in an age of compromise.
    Fifth, the summary-conclusion follows in 50:13b with a stern reminder of the penalty of Sabbath breaking, the electoral responsibility of the children of Israel to the land of YHWH, a recollection of the Sabbath’s heavenly origin, and the correct numbering/division of time:
    The man who does any of these things on the Sabbath shall die, so that the children of Israel shall observe the Sabbaths according to the commandments regarding the Sabbaths of the land, as it is written in the tablets, which He gave into my hands that I should write out for thee the laws of the seasons, and the seasons according to the division of their days. Herewith is completed the account of the division of the days.
    Keeping the right festival on the right day was a core, rather than a peripheral issue in the minds of at least some representatives of the Jewish community of the Late Second Temple Period. The penalty for Sabbath-breaking was death, signifying once again the supremacy of the Law in general and the nature of the covenant sign belonging to it in particular. When “stealing” (Lev. 6:2-7) and even “rape/premarital sex” (Deut. 22:28-29) are punishable with correctional deeds, but Sabbath-breaking with the ultimate penalty (death), one is forced to acknowledge the disproportionate significance of this commandment compared to many others and hence to consider what it represents to the people of Israel.

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    Eyd & YahnEl 8 years ago

    LOOKING FOR THE BELIEVERS THAT TRUST TORAH MORE THAN MAN!

    Short note to all my saturday friends who are open to honest re-evaluation. Let us assume that Saturday IS the true eternal shabbat THIS YEAR, for arguments sake.

    Well by placing it on the Jewish-Roman amalgamated calendar of exile, a 365.25 day year [AS OPPOSED TO THE required 364] , the days are no longer divisible by 7; therefore every day will shift by 1 day yearly.

    Therefore like all and any days placed on ANY 365.25 day a year calendar, the day, any day of the week will shift one day forward each year.

    That means saturday shabbat in fact and in space and time becomes Sunday next year, then Monday the year after that. This pattern continues until year 7, when saturday shabbat, once again floats back to its saturday starting point, every 7 years. FOR 6 YEARS SATURDAY IS NO LONGER FIXED AS SHABBAT.

    So all days float from year to year. Only if you divorce Saturday from the Jewish calendar totally, would it recur every 7 days; BUT no one would know when it was, as a week cannot be determined without months and years and without a starting and ending point. And if you counted 7 days without weeks and months and overslept or lost count, which you would eventually, you would have no sign-ot or signal of where and when to reset!

    Since all Roman Jewish days float, we might as well consider the Shabbat that DOES reset every year, based on the years start with a COSMIC SIGN. Again ALL days float due to the earth’s 365.25 uneven day rotation around the sun, that includes, Jewish, Roman and lunar shabbats. So pick the one that may float but is re-secured annually based on the TURN OF THE YEAR, so that all weeks and months are in perfect eternal order. Only the angelic method revealed to men and prophets of Israel, introduces us to the DAY ZERO RESET OF THE GREAT GATE shown to Enoch, so that we only count 364 days, an even number divisible by 7 and keep shabbats in perpetual order of sacred time, ritual and place.

    PS even though in the above example saturday will be shabbat 1 time in every 7 year cycle, if you don’t add a full week every 7 years to make up for the 7 lost days, in 28 years a full month will be lost and eventually all the Shabbats and feasts of Torah will be way out of season. In the Torah, Aaronic-Kohate, Tzadokite method by adding a Great Gate yearly, a day zero reset, there is no need to ever fall behind and the shabbat is the same day of each week and month year after year. Why argue with Genesis chapter 1, when we call ourselves Torah compliant? The sun was assigned on day 4 of week one, so that is when the year’s count of 364 starts yearly. Simple!

    Tried to keep it simple. Shabbat shalom friends at sunrise! Make sure to make it kadosh, as you go against the grain of the floating saturday shabbat, that moves 1 day each Jewish year, using leap years from the Vatican in February, to allegedly” keep it in place, along with adding the extra day where its not supposed to be as opposed to at years end.
    Refrence:
    https://www.yourarmstoisraelglobal.com/the-creation-shabbat-continued.html

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    Barry Smith 8 years ago

    YaHuWaH says to Mashah, Aharon, and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of Meeting.

    YaHuWaH…stood at the tent door…

    uWYidabar (Num.) 12:4-5.

    THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF SPEAKING KINDLY TO ONE ANOTHER!

    I learned, while discussing Malachi 3:16, that the word “spoke” in the phrase “…they spoke often one to another,” is the Ibri word dabar which appears in uWYiDABAR (Numbers) and DABARim (Deuteronomy).

    The word picture created in the word dabar is that of going in and out of the tent of the Head One to obtain cuttings from the Word. The lexical aid I referred to made reference to the fact that this speaking was done in a kind manner.

    Further discussion revealed that staked to the tent of the Head One is a woven basket, made from cuttings of the Word. At the bottom of that basket is a target like an archer would shoot at. In that basket is “the fruit of our doings”. See YiramYahuw (Jer.) 17:10. Those who hear the Word, understand it, and do it, their basket will have very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe. YiramYahuw (Jer.) 24:2.

    To those whose baskets contain the good figs/fruit YaHuWaH promises that He will fix His eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to the Promised Land (causing their living dirt, themselves, to blossom): and He promises that He will build them, and not pull them down; plant them, and not pluck them up. YaHuWaH promises that He will give those whose baskets contain the good fruit a heart to know Him, that He is YaHuWaH: and they will be His people, and He will be their Mighty Creator: for if you are in this category you will return unto Him with a pure heart. YiramYahuw (Jer.) 24:6-7.

    If you want a basket containing these good figs/fruit, it must be made with a very tight and precise weave and for the weave to be tight and concise YOU NEED THE CUTTINGS OF THE WORD YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OBTAINED FROM THE TENT OF THE HEAD ONE!! This means, you need to stay in their presence and communicating and the best way to accomplish this is by being kind to one another!!

    Roberta Kendall asks, “Is it proper for a woman to lead b-ble studies when men are present?? is this usurping authority over a man?

    I replied, “All at the study, should yield to one another. If the Father showed you something I want to hear!!” I want to see the cuttings she obtains from the Head One of the Tent!

    Barry Smith