Keep Yah's Sabbaths

Apart from the misconception with regard to whether Yah’s High Sabbaths remain applicable there is also uncertainty with regard to the dates

In particular, the Jewish calendar typically differs from the calendars offered by others who claim to have determined the dates from consideration of New Moons

Even within the latter group dates do NOT always agree exactly

I have never researched the detailed astronomical basis for arriving at the dates but DO know this:

1. These set-apart {holy} days remain valid, Yah expects us to observe them, there are blessings for those who DO keep them and curses and judgment for those who do NOT, especially for those who CLAIM to be people of standing in the service of the Almighty

2. To the extent that the sighting of the New Moon can be different in different parts of the world and could result in a difference of a day it is my understanding that the New Moon in Jerusalem is the defining New Moon date

3. To the extent that astronomy was much more sophisticated in the days of Moshe {Moses} than most people believe today the date of Yah’s New Year was NOT determined from observation of the Barley at Jerusalem it WAS determined astronomically – ALL other dates flow from this

4. There are traditional calendars which are incorrect, the Jewish calendar is apparently based on a very old calculation

5. The astronomical determination is significantly complex and requires careful study

6. I use the calendar from Qodesh Ministries at http://www.qodesh.co.za/ which, up to now, Yah has indicated to me is reliable

7. Someone has said to me that Yah’s High Sabbaths may NOT occur on a regular Sabbath -- since the dates are determined by the cycles of the moon it is my understanding that this argument is unfounded

8. It has also been said to me that the word “Moon” is actually an incorrect translation of “Month” and that a month was originally 30 days with an extra day every four months to keep in synch with the seasons and that these dates have nothing to do with the Moon. Note that there are indications that before the ice comet fly-by / impact that caused the flood at the time of Noah, tilted the earth on its axis and knocked it into an elliptical orbit around the sun, that the year was 360 days exactly and that the orbit of the moon may have then been exactly 30 days – see http://www.youtube.com/user/ProofOfGlobalFlood for discussion of the ice comet, the earth being tilted on its axis, etc

On the above Yah says that it is so that before the flood there were 360 days in the year and the moon had a 30 day orbit giving exactly 12 months. After the flood some of Noah’s family decided to adhere to the 30 day month with various models of adjustments and others to adopt the changed cycle of the moon. The former model has prevailed but since He had created the moon for the months Yah chose to remain with the moon cycle, as did Shem and Noah thus the moon based calendar for Yah’s special days is correct.

9. I have been working according to the moon based calendar for over ten years and have repeatedly seen Yah move on these days and, on one occasion I was judged for failing to observe the Day of Trumpets and engaging in commerce on that day. Accordingly I have a high level of confidence in the dates that I publish

10. I take it as a given that most readers are aware that Sunday is the First Day of the week and therefore NOT the Sabbath

11. It has also been suggested to me that the weekly Sabbaths are linked to the New Moon and that there can be up to two “leap month” type extra days. Yah has indicated to me that this is “not so” and that the weekly Sabbaths DO follow a continuous cycle of seven days with NO exceptions

12. I am aware that there is uncertainty as to whether Saturday IS the actual seventh day of the week or whether there has been some manipulation of the calendar at some time since Creation such that the unbroken seven day cycle from Creation would give the seventh day NOT corresponding to Saturday, to which Yah says that it is “not wise” to try and figure this out and that we should pray for grace and accept the current Saturday as the seventh day

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

2013.09.06 - The relevance of Yahooshua to the Day of Atonement

Several people have written to me questioning my emails regarding the observance of the Day of Atonement and other set-apart {holy} high Sabbaths. One suggested that these have passed away because of “the cross”

This is NOT so, originally the “Day of Atonement” required a number of rituals involving highly set-apart {sanctified} priests and animals

By the time of Yahooshua the priesthood was defiled and the temple sacrifices and offerings meant nothing and there was therefore NO recourse for sincere and committed believers because they were reliant on other human beings in order to keep the terms of the covenant given through Moshe {Moses}

One of the key services that Yahooshua performed was that by living a life without sin he was able to provide a lamb for the offering which he did by being proclaimed by Yah through Yahoochanan {John} and others to be “the Lamb of Yah”

He also received the sins of the people when they laid hands on him and beat him and declared that “his blood be upon us”

He also fulfilled the role of the “scape goat” on the Day of Atonement, driven outside the walls of the city

Thus, today, we are able to commemorate the Day of Atonement by taking a piece of bread and a cup of grape juice or wine and praying along the lines of “Father we come to you and recall that Yahooshua provided a substitute for all the ordinances relating to the Day of Atonement and therefore as we eat this bread and drink this cup we claim the full benefits of the Day of Atonement through the sacrifice made by Yahooshua. In particular we ask you to forgive all our sins that we are not aware of, forgive that which we have done that we ought not to have done and that which we have not done that we ought to have done and, where repentance and correction is required, we ask you to bring this to our remembrance, we ask all this in the name of Yahooshua”

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

2012.11.12 - The Starting of a New Day

In response to the article 2012.11.09 Yah's day begins at sunrise I received the following from a man who has been on the list for many years and whose opinion I really respect:

“Hi James

“In the 90’s I received an article written by a Craig Peters from the USA entitled “Day Spring” regarding the Sabbath starting at sunrise. Initially I was taken in but then with prayer the following Old Covenant Scripture came to me and being before the Pharisees and the false teachers of Messiah’s time it convinced me that this was a false teaching.

“Nehemiah [Nehemyah] 13: 19 “ . . .when the gates of Jerusalem began to dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the gate should be shut. . “

“It darkened toward the Sabbath not lightened as it would have had the Sabbath started in the morning.

“Then we have Messiah’s sign of the 3 days and 3 nights in the New Covenant Scriptures:-

“Mark 16: 2 ; Luke 23: 54 ; Luke 24: 1 ; Matthew 28: 1 ; John 19: 31 ; John 20: 1.”

I have prayed about it again and received the following answer:

It is a majority opinion within the body of believers who attach significance to such things and is therefore likely to be wrong.
Yah says “why would I start the day when everyone is going to sleep?”
The error goes back a long time but it is not necessary for me to know its origins.
I heard correctly, the day begins at Sunrise.

In closing, I leave it to each reader to pray about the two alternative points of view and make their own choices.

Conclusion

There is NO solid basis to prove that the day in fact begins at sunrise, it is up to each person to make their own choice – I am now satisfied the day begins at sunrise.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

2012.11.09 - Yah’s day begins at sunrise

Many years ago I received an article which claimed that Yah’s day begins at sunrise NOT sunset as is generally believed in Jewish circles and amongst the vast majority of believers who observe the true Sabbath.

I prayed about it, Yah confirmed that it WAS so that His day begins at sunrise and that sunrise to sunrise was the correct time-frame for observing the Sabbath.

I published an article accordingly and for some years observed the Sabbath on this basis.

However, over the years the enormous weight of opinion and convention regarding sunset to sunset tripped me up and I started more or less observing the Sabbath from sunset on Friday to sunrise on Sunday “just to be sure” -- a classic Rabbinic cop out.

In the last few weeks I have been troubled by this and last Saturday, as I was writing the various articles about blasphemous names, etc I became more troubled.

This morning I finally asked Yah about it and He confirmed that His day DOES begin at SUNRISE – Sabbath observance, both the weekly Sabbath and most of the high Sabbaths should therefore be observed from sunrise to sunrise.

Note that we are commanded to observe the Day of Atonement from sunset to sunset and that the Passover meal is taken after sunset.

As with so many of these issues the truth has been corrupted over time.

Conclusion

Yah’s day begins at sunrise and we should therefore observe the Sabbath accordingly.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

2012.11.04 - What is a week – REALLY?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ri2ZuWwjxQ&list=UUIK-c3d04FswDfwS_2NK8_A&index=5&feature=plcp

Following the preceding mails on incorrect words I clicked on the link to “Sunday” in the table in the previous email and that took me to the attached page and subsequent pages (also attached) which collectively present an argument that the week actually cycles with the new moon.

I also visited Wikipedia (also attached) and found that because the Lunar month is a bit over 29 and a half days there are all sorts of approximations, etc so that different groups have different views of a lunar month and a lunar month is NOT 28 days so that the concept of weeks linked to new moon is therefore problematic – there are one and a half days that do not fit four weeks every month.

When I asked Yah about it he reminded me that prior to the flood He had created the solar system such that the earth had a precise orbit around the sun and the moon had a precise orbit around the earth resulting in consistent solar and lunar calendars.

This was totally disrupted by the flood when the earth was tilted on its axis, knocked out of its orbit around the sun and the moon knocked out of its orbit around the earth and consequently to try and follow lunar weeks in the current age is highly problematic from a business and employment perspective.

Refer:

for information on the massive disruption of the earth’s surface and orbits that was associated with the flood.

He advised me that the best solution was to stay with the current calendar on this point and ask for Mercy and Grace insofar as it practically impossible to be compliant with a lunar based week model in our society – then He advised me to research the origins of “Mercy” and “Grace”!

Conclusion

The true week should correlate with the lunar new moon cycle but this was only truly possible before the flood. Yah has indicated that He will accept it if we comply with the conventional calendar with regard to Sabbath observance.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

2012.06.11 - Historical Information about the Change to Sunday (by Gerry Easton)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Truth-About-Sabbath-Pinkoski/dp/B00072I1M0

In response to my article on the True Sabbath (2012.06.05) I received the following article from Gerry Easton:

SABBATH TO SUNDAY

The following statements were made by church authorities and are documented.

“Question – Have you any other way of proving that the church [Roman Catholic] has power to institute festivals of precept?

“Answer – Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her, - she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no scriptural authority”. [A Doctrinal Catechism, by Stephan Keenan, pg. 174].

That’s incredible.

“The Catholic church”, declared Cardinal Gibbons, “by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday”.

Again the question is asked to them :

“Question – Which is the Sabbath day?

“Answer – Saturday is the Sabbath day.

“Question – Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?

“Answer – We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea [A.D. 364], transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday”. [The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, pg. 50. third edition].

Another startling admission.

“You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify”. [Cardinal Gibbons, in Faith of Our Fathers, pg. 111].

The First Sunday Law.

In 321 A.D. Constantine, yielding to the suggestion of church leaders passed the first Sunday law. It reads as follows;

“Let all the judges and town people, and the occupation of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun”.

Edict of March 7, 321 A.D. Corpus Juris Civilis Cod., lid. 3, tit, 12, lex. 3.

This is further confirmed by the [Encyclopaedia Britannica, ninth edition, article “Sunday”] which states as follows:-

“The earliest recognition of the observance of Sunday as a legal duty is a constitution of Constantine in 321 A.D. enacting that all courts of justice, inhabitants of towns, and workshops were to be at rest on Sunday [Venerabili die Solis], with an exception in favour of those engaged in agricultural labour”.

The original of this Sunday law in Latin is in “The Codes Justiniani”, [Codes of Justinian], lib,3, 12, lex.3.

Also confirmed in Latin and English in the following:-

“History of the Christian Church’ by Phillip Schaff, vol. 3, 3^rd period, chapter 7, sec. 75, pg 380, footnote1.

“A Manual of Church History”, [Philadelphia: The American Baptist Publication Society, 1933], rev. ed., vol.1, pg. 3056 -307.

“The Prophetic faith of Our Fathers”, [Washington D.C.: Review & Herald Publishing Assoc., vol.1, pg. 376 – 381].

Where does the Roman Catholic Pope feature in this? A quote from the Catholic decree : Decretal, de Tranlantic Episcop, Cap.

“The Pope has power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ”. “The Pope has authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ”.

“The Pope can modify divine law”. Ferraris’ Ecclesiastical Dictionary.

In Daniel 7 : 25, we are warned about this power that would ,- “think to change times and laws”.

Who do you follow, the Heavenly Father and His commandments, or man’s commandments and man’s traditions?

Again the Bible warns us that the majority will be in the wrong.

Revelation 12 : 9. “And the great dragon was caste out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD - - -”.

May the truth set you free.

Amein”

There is further information on my websites about this and much information on the Internet.

You might also like to purchase the book “The Truth About the Sabbath” by Jim Pinkoski on Amazon at:

The Seventh Day Adventist movement has this revelation and defend it loyally so there is plenty of information for those interested in Yah’s truths.

Referring to the information above it is important to note that about the same time (300+ AD) the same people and particularly the Emperor Constantine, instituted a number of other teachings which are fundamental to the Christian Church today including declaring the Bible to be a particular authority, the deity of Jesus, the Trinity and making Monogamy law thereby outlawing Yah’s form of union of more than one woman to the same man.

Conclusion

The Roman Church changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday and this article cites some references to evidence that this took place.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

2012.06.05 - The True Sabbath

I received an email suggesting that “Jesus is the Sabbath” and that observance of the 7^th day (Saturday) Sabbath had been done away with by Yahooshua.

This is incorrect, it is an extension of the mistaken belief’s regarding the deity of Yahooshua and what he actually accomplished – refer to previous articles on the website on this topic.

In simple terms the Commandments given to Moshe {Moses} at Sinai were engraved in stone, they never change, furthermore, as a prophet who was 100% human Yahooshua did NOT have the authority to change the Commandment regarding the Sabbath or any other Commandment.

In considering these concepts it is important to recognize that the fundamental laws or Commandments whereby human beings and spirit beings will be judged on the Day of Judgment were in fact in place at the time of the Creation of Adam and will never change. The Almighty (Yah the Eternally Self Existing) was simply confirming those Commandments through Moshe because they had been forgotten and were no longer being applied. In essence by engraving the Commandments in stone at Sinai Yah was saying, remember these? They have NOT changed and they WILL NOT change!

It is also important to recognize that the stone tablets containing the Commandments were found a few decades ago by Ron Wyatt thereby reinforcing awareness that they will form the basis of judgment.

We will ultimately ALL find ourselves in heaven or burning in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone for a time or destroyed for ever on the basis of our observance of ALL Ten of these Commandments.

Accordingly, the question of the Saturday Sabbath is NOT a matter of academic interest it is a matter that WILL impact your eternal destiny.

If you are working on the Saturday Sabbath expect that on the Day of Judgment you WILL be sentenced to burn in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone which is the second death either for a season before entering heaven or until you are utterly consumed and destroyed if your other sins warrant it.

Conclusion

It is vital to understand that the Ten Commandments are cast in stone and will NEVER change and will form the basis of the Judgment.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.

http://youtu.be/ydnrqeKY-Zc

2011.07.09 - Shavuot Dallas 2011

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I was impressed by Yah to read an email from a list that i have subscribed to for many years but seldom read the posts

Reference is made to two video's on You Tube which i have just finished watching

http://youtu.be/A03NEZaDEV0

While i do not agree with all that is said and continue to understand that the essential name of the Creator is Yah and that Yahweh or Yahooeh or Jehovah, etc should all be translated as "Yah the eternally self existing" i believe that the fundamental message about the true name is extremely important and that there is a strong anointing on these two messages

I encourage you to watch both messages and, as with everything, to concentrate on seeking truth NOT error.

I will endeavour to download and make available these two messages on DVD for those of you who have constraints on downloading it -- please email me if you would like a copy

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and grant you His peace

2011.07.06 - Observing the New Moon

Some months ago a friend mentioned that they were feeling convicted by Father Yah to observe the New Moons in addition to the Saturday Sabbath and the set apart feasts and fasts that I have written about previously

Subsequently I have felt such conviction myself

Today I undertook some research and came up with the attached article

As far as I can determine at this stage there is no particular prescription as to what one should do to celebrate other than sound the shofar (trumpet) and offer a sacrifice (roast or barbecue some meat -- lamb or beef) to express it simplistically

Attached also please find attached the Qodesh calendar which Yah has indicated to me I can make use of, the New Moon is "Rosh Chodesh"

Upcoming dates are:

31 July

30 August

28 September

27 October

26 November

26 December

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and grant you His peace

2011.04.15 - How to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread

As I have already pointed out the start of Passover tonight is also the start of the seven day Feast of Unleavened Bread

Under the covenant given by Moshe {Moses} the believers were required to scrupulously remove leaven (yeast), representative of corruption, from their homes

However, Yahooshua {Jesus} repeatedly referred to the leaven of the Scribes and the Pharisees -- all the false teachings of men that had corrupted truth Faith in, and relationship with, Daddy Yah (the Almighty Creator)

It is my current understanding that what Daddy Yah desires us to do over the next seven days is to closely examine ourselves and our lives and REMOVE ALL SIN (leaven) from our lives -- recognize it, bring it before Yah, confess it, repent of it, ask for and receive forgiveness in the name of Yahooshua and make a concerted effort to live a life without sin going forward

The article on the Mark of the Beast summarizes at a headline level the most severe sins we all need to deal with over the next seven days

But ONLY Yahooshua lived without sin, I hear you cry

True AND Yahooshua said that we would do GREATER works than He did

I truly encourage you, if you do not aspire to do GREATER works than Yahooshua you are missing the mark and may well hear those words "depart from me you worker of iniquity, I never knew you" on the Day of Judgment

YOU should aspire to live a life without sin! :)

One of Satan's most effective lies is that OTHERS can walk in the power of the Spirit of Yah, the anointing, and we should look up to them -- NOT SO -- we should look to them as examples -- the WAY -- and seek to emulate them and exceed what they did

Until you can read the books commonly referred to as "the Gospels" - that is Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as though YOU ARE YAHOOSHUA, until YOU visualize yourself doing ALL that he did, until you desire to do MORE than he did you are NOT walking in your true potential as a believer

It is there for EACH ONE OF US -- YOU are the only thing standing between you and the full power and authority that Yah has for you

If you meet a highly anointed one, by all means sit at their feet for a season to learn from them, better still get them to lay hands on you and ask for a double measure of their anointing as Elisha did with Elijah -- pray regarding such a one "Father, in the name of Yahooshua I desire to know you the way ... (name of anointed one) knows you" -- see what happens -- when i did that in 1994 my bedroom was filled with the roar of the wind of the Spirit and Father placed His hand on me and I awoke with a mighty anointing and subsequently experienced for a short while what it was like to walk with the same anointing and authority that Yahooshua had

I am no better than you are, YOU can have the same or greater experience IF you are willing to lay down your life for Yah and make the sacrifices that are required to receive the power gifts of Yah

Pray daily "Father i ask you to do whatever is necessary for me to walk in the FULL anointing that you have appointed for me

AND deal with ALL the leaven of the Scribes and the Pharisees of the pagan Christian Church in your life -- refer the Mark of the Beast

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and grant you His peace.

2011.04.14 - Observing Passover TONIGHT

Passover commences at sunset this evening (18 April) and runs for 24 hours. This is also the start of the feast of unleavened bread which lasts for seven days.

The day of Passover (sunset tonight to sunset tomorrow) is a high Sabbath and we are warned that those who do not observe it will be cut off from amongst Yah's people.

On a high Sabbath we are commanded NOT to do any secular or servile work – we should take leave from our employment and not engage in anything to do with our employment. Also no shopping, no chores around the house or garden, etc.

We should devote the day to the service of Yah, praise and worship, ministry, reading inspired writings, contemplating what Yah did for Israel in Egypt and through Yahooshua for us now to deliver us from spiritual Egypt.

Passover is for the remembrance of how Yah brought the children of Israel out of Egypt and delivered them from the oppression of Pharaoh. It is also a remembrance of what Yahooshua did at Passover and how he suffered to make a way for us to be delivered from sin individually and without any other human intervention.

Exodus 11 to 13 describes the specific event, Exodus through to 11 describes the lead up and context to the judgment of Yah on the firstborn of Egypt and subsequent chapters describe the Exodus itself – you might want to read through to Exodus 20 where Yah delivers the Ten Commandments from the Mountain, the only time recorded that I know of where Yah has audibly spoken to millions of people. He then wrote the Commandments IN STONE – so they will NEVER CHANGE.

The tablets of stone with the Ten Commandments were found about thirty years ago by Ron Wyatt in the Ark of the Covenant, under the execution site where Yahooshua died, with the PHYSICAL blood of Yahooshua on the Mercy Seat of the Ark – necessary for a new sacrifice for atonement of sin and for a new Priesthood.

You might also like to read Exodus 34; Leviticus 23; Numbers 9, 28 and 33 and Deuteronomy 16.

The other important passages are Matthew 26 to the end of Matthew, Mark 14 to the end, Luke 22 to the end and John 12 to the end which describe the lead up to Yahooshua {Jesus} sacrificial death.

Consider how Yahooshua lived a life without sin, that is without leaven, consider how, knowing how he would die, he CHOSE to come to earth, chose to go up to Jerusalem, chose to go out to the garden and CHOSE TO SUBMIT to those who unjustly tormented him, tortured him and executed him – and ask yourself whether YOU are willing to be that obedient to Yah.

For some years now I have observed Passover by eating a piece of plain roast lamb for the evening meal together with observing the covenant – the bread and wine and reflecting on what Yah and Yahooshua have done for me and giving thanks accordingly.

I usually spend the day itself as described above.

The rest of the Feast of Unleavened Bread are normal working days. I do not eat unleavened bread but I do take the covenant meal every morning and reflect on sin (leaven speaks of sin) and ask Yah to cleanse me and my house of sin – it is up to each of us to seek Yah as to how He wants us to observe Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Conclusion

Contemplate what Passover means to you, give thanks and rededicate yourself to the service of Yah and chose to seek to be as faithful as Yahooshua was.

May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.