Newsletter 5860-053
The 1st Year of the 5th Sabbatical Cycle
The 29th year of the 120th Jubilee Cycle
The 23th day of the 13th month 5860 years after the creation of Adam
The 5th Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle
The Sabbatical Cycle of the Red Heifer, Famine, Captivity & The 2 Witnesses
February 22, 2025
Shabbat Shalom to the Royal Family of Yehovah,
This past Sunday morning, I woke up to read the following note left in our telegram group:
It is with a heavy heart and tears in my eyes to have to convey this message to you.
Final text message from Pam.
I am so sorry to have to bring the news that Eric died this morning, February 16th, at 3:22am CT.
He was on high oxygen with just a cannula all day. This was not really sufficient so he was air hungry all day.
When the respiratory therapist offered the high flow oxygen machine again, in the evening he took it. I believe he felt some relief from that.
He woke up early in the morning about 2:30am and held my hand. He took the high flow oxygen off and my friend and I scrambled to grab a mask or cannula for him, but he said, “No”.
He told me he loved me and he asked if it would be alright and I said “yes”. He asked me another question or so and then, “Where is Meghann (Eric’s daughter)?” We told him she was about 7-8 minutes away at the hotel. He said he wanted to see her, so I called Meghann and my friend, Teresa, called her husband to escort her to the hospital.
Eric managed to wait for Meghann to arrive. We sang worship songs, and then he took is last breath at 3:22am. We are so thankful and grateful for all of your prayers and encouragement through this time. –PamEric has left this realm of existence and has transitioned to the next life. We are only separated from him for awhile, we will soon be reunited together again on the other side. The other side where there will be no more pain, no more sickness, no more tears, no more
sadness.
Please keep Pam, Meghann, Caleb (Meghann’s husband) and their two children, and all the family in your prayers as they go through this difficult time.May YHVH, the God of Mercy and Peace comfort and carry Eric’s family as they go through this difficult time.
Blessings and Shalom,
Brian
I then sent out the following reply to our family again on the Telegram group:
As much as I believe in the resurrection in 2033, at Shavuot, this morning I too am shedding tears for my friend Eric and his going to sleep on his own terms. I was planning on driving to Houston to visit him leaving Tuesday very early. In front of you all on Shabbat we were combative as we argued over scriptures. Eric knew when I was baiting the listeners and would happily accommodate me by biting the bait even though we had gone through this in previous years. Or as he said throwing a frag grenade in and leaving the room. He played the game with me well knowing that along with me we both were teaching those listening both sides of the argument.
When we met at Sukkot in KY last year, he was a larger than life marshmallow of a man. You could not help but love him.
I think Brian said it best on Shabbat, when he quoted Eric. Are you leaving a resume or are you leaving a Eulogy. May those words of Eric resonate with all of us. To step into a group of people so that when you leave you are both missed remembered and loved. This is the greatest gift you can leave.}
As Shane said we have recordings of Eric’s debates here with us at sightedmoon.com.
May Yehovah bless Pam, Meghann and Caleb as they now work through those things they must do. And May Yehovah who comforts, comfort all of us who mourn the death of our friend Eric Gibson.The Coming of the Lord
1Th 4:13 But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.
1Th 4:15 For we say this to you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not go before those who are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Many of you also left your love notes in Telegram. I will not quote them all here.
Yes, I did cry as I read Brian’s message. I cried again when I told James the news.
I want to share with you a problem I have here leading Sightedmoon.com. We have had brethren die in the past. They, too, were loved by those who knew them. I have resisted and still do resist our Newsletter becoming or having a section titled obituary. We have many older members and some of them are not healthy. Should I have a section recording those who have died?
Eric was a big man, had a big voice, and knew his scriptures. He left a mark on our Shabbat meetings, and I am going to miss his input. Here is why I wrestle with mourning those who die. Make no mistake, I cried like a baby when my Mom died this past October. I also wept for Eric when I got the news and as I tried to tell James.
Lev 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which He had not commanded them.
Lev 10:2 And there went out fire from Jehovah and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah.
Lev 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, It is that which Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
Lev 10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
Lev 10:5 And they came near and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.
Aaron’s two sons, who had been amongst the 70 elders who ate the covenant meal with Yehovah on the plateau of Mount Sinai, had now been executed by Yehovah. Then we read about what Moses then tells Aaron and his remaining boys.
Lev 10:6 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die, and lest He be angry on all the people. But let your brothers, the whole of Israel, mourn the burning which Jehovah has kindled.
Aaron and his remaining two sons were not to mourn, but the rest of Israel could. Why could they not mourn? On top of this they also had to continue doing the offerings and eating those portions for the priests.
Lev 10:7 And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die. For the anointing oil of Jehovah is on you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
Lev 10:8 And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, saying,
Lev 10:9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die, a statute forever throughout your generations.
Lev 10:10 Even for a distinction between the holy and unholy, and between the unclean and clean
Lev 10:11 and so that you may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.
Lev 10:12 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the food offering that remains of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar. For it is most holy.
Lev 10:13 And you shall eat in the holy place, because it is your due, and your sons’ due, of the fire offerings of Jehovah made by fire. For so I am commanded.
Lev 10:14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons and your daughters with you. For they have been given for your portion and the portion of your sons out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the sons of Israel.
Lev 10:15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast they shall bring with the fire offerings of the fat, to wave fora wave offering before Jehovah. And it shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, by a statute forever, even as Jehovah has commanded.
They had done what they had to do, but they did not eat the sin offering and for this Moses was angry.
Lev 10:16 And Moses carefully looked for the goat of the sin offering. And behold, it was burned! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron left alive, saying,
Lev 10:17 Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, since it is most holy, and He has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Jehovah?
Lev 10:18 Behold! The blood of it was not brought within the holy place! You should indeed have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.
Lev 10:19 And Aaron said to Moses, Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Jehovah. And such things have happened to me. And if I had eaten the sin offering today, should it have been accepted in the sight of Jehovah?
Lev 10:20 And Moses heard, and it was good in his eyes.
Why was Aaron and his two remaining sons not allowed to mourn for the two who died?
Aaron and his son represented Yehovah in all their duties at the Tabernacle. Last Sabbath we read Luke 20.
Luk 20:37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Luk 20:38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
Yehovah is not the God of the dead but of the Living. Even though Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses were all asleep at the time Yehshua said this, they were in Yehovah’s eyes, alive and about to be raised up when Yehshua came out of the grave on Wave Sheaf Day in 31 C.E. Eric is not dead. These other Saints who have fallen asleep here at Sightedmoon are not dead. They all sleep and will be raised up at the second Wave Offering called Shavuot and we all know that is to take place in 2033, just 9 years from now.
Like the Apostles who saw those come back to life and Yehshua on Wave Sheaf Day and were joyful, we have something the Apostles did not have. They did not know what was about to happen in their day, but we do have the foresight to know what will happen in 2033. We have the understanding that Eric and all the Saints, including the Apostles, are about to be brought back to life. WE KNOW THIS! The apostles only knew it after it happened and then they understood the scriptures. We know it is about to happen before it takes place because of the scriptures. Paul even said for us to comfort one another with this understanding about the dead rising first and those of us alive being changed at that same moment in an instant and all of us together would meet Yehovah is the sky before returning to this earth.
The Apostles went out preaching this Great News until they were all martyred. They no longer feared death. They knew their God was the God of the Living. Eric knew and knows His God, my God, our God, is the God of the Living. Eric will live again in just 9 years time.
Satan is the one who brought death into the world. When he is destroyed, death and the grave will also be destroyed.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
I believe with my whole heart what I have shared here. For the next nine years, I will win most of the arguments or debates now that Eric has taken a nap. And when he and I both are raised up or changed at Shavuot in 2033, we can then acknowledge that we were both wrong and begin to learn sitting at the feet of our King together.
Yes, I am going to miss Eric, but I am also going to meet him in the air in just 9 years time.
Between now and then, we have a great deal of work to get done.
February 24-27, we will be in Grapevine, Texas, presenting to the NRB and all those passing through our information about the Jubilee cycles and how they reveal end-time prophecy. This event is costing us about $40,000 in order to place our message in front of the leading religious broadcasting community of the USA. I am asking for your prayers that Yehovah opens the doors to those He is reaching to. Pray we speak in such a way to create interest in the Jubilee subject.
Then, after this event is over, we will keep Passover, and then I am off on a speaking tour of the Philippines. And again, I am asking for your financial support for this venture. Airfare, car rental, gas, lodging, and catered lunches for the events take a toll on the pocketbook and this is after we have already laid out so much this year. We need both you prayers and financial support to do this tour as we are hoping that what we have spoken in the past and has now come to pass will strike a cord with many more in the Philippines. We are building on those groups we have reached in the past. Please keep us in your prayers at this time.
This weeks Newsletter is going to address the weather in Israel, where some people say you cant have barley when it is snowing or cold or raining. I am going to show you what Yehovah says on this subject.
I am also going to show you something that is jumping out at me. I am going to first show you the story of Israel as shown to us by the monster Cetus and the other constellation, Andromeda. Andromeda represents Israel. This past week, both JD Vance and Peter Hegseth made some extremely bold statements in front of their European Allies in NATO. Even though they both may have been speaking the truth, they are similar to Adromeda thinking she was more beautiful than the other women. Go and research the story of Andromeda to know what I am talking about. This boldness of smugly boasting about how great the USA is and how much the EU needs to be like it is very much like Andromeda just before shew was stripped and chained to the rock to be destroyed by Cetus the great sea monster, only to be rescued by Perseus in the nick of time.
World events are showing us how disgusted the Europeans are becoming with the USA attitude. Psalm 83 tells us they the Assyrians, Germany, are allied with the Muslim nations who plot against Israel. Daniel 11 tells us how the god of forces will be destroyed by the god their fathers never knew. Islam is going to destroy European Christianity or the 4 seals dominating the world.
We also had the following two pictures on display with Hamas wearing the seals on their heads. The White Red, Green and Black. And the soul beneath the altar lying in the coffins. How Long Yehovah until you avenge our deaths?
Israel, the USA is about to have a severe turn of events. President Trump may be vying for the Nobel Peace Prize, but when they say peace peace, then sudden destruction comes. Watch these events in light of Biblical prophecy and understand.
Torah Portion
Torah Portions
We read through the entire Torah along with the Prophets and the New Testament, once over the course of 3 1/2 years. Or according to the Sabbatical Cycle which means we read it all twice over a 7-year period. This allows us to cover more in-depth rather than being rushed to cover as much as is covered on an annual basis. We allow all to comment and take part in the discussions.
Septennial Torah Portion
If you go to Torah Portion in our archived section, you can then go to the 1st year, which is the 1st year of the Sabbatical Cycle, the one we are in now, as we state at the top of every Newsletter. There, you can scroll down to the proper date and see that this Shabbat, we could very well be midrashing about:
Exodus 6
1 Kings 11-12
Psalm 110-111
Luke 21
We are in the 1st Sabbatical Cycle in 2024-2025. We go through the entire bible twice in a 7 year cycle. This means we cover the entire bible once every 3 1/2 years. It gives us more time to debate and discuss each portion we read.
If you missed last week’s exciting discoveries as we studied that section, you can go and watch past Shabbats on our media section.
Join Our Sabbath Meetings
Join Our Sabbath Meetings
There are many people in need of fellowship and who are sitting at home on the Sabbath with no one to talk to or debate with. I want to encourage all of you to join us on Shabbat, and to invite others to come and join us as well. If the time is not convenient then you can listen to the teaching and the midrash after on our YouTube channel.
What are we doing and why do we teach this way?
We are going to discuss both sides of an issue and then let you choose. It is the work of the Ruach (Spirit) to direct and to teach you.
The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.
Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and you and I are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.
Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.
Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teaches you and encourages you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.
We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable of explaining why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.
We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s, Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.
Jas 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
We hope you can invite those who want to keep Torah to come and join us by hitting the link below. It is almost like a Torah teaching fellowship talk show with people from around the world taking part and sharing their insights and understandings.
We start off with some music and then some prayers and it’s as though you were sitting around the kitchen back in Newfoundland having a cup of coffee and all of us enjoying each other’s company. I hope you will grace us with your company someday.
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The Perpetual Calendar
The Perpetual Calendar
We have available from our website a calendar you can use to keep track of the days of the month based on when the barley is ripe and when the moon is sighted. All you have to do is download it. https://sightedmoon.com/perpetual-calendar/
With the new year about to begin, you can learn about the calendar as you record it. This is a great tool to have and it is free to anyone who wants it.
The Stones Cry Out Are Free
The Stones Cry Out Part 1 & Part 2
Do you want to know how to prove the Zadok Calendar, the Enoch Calendar, and the Book of Jubilee Calendar false?
Do you want to know how the calendar issue became so confusing?
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In The Stones Cry Out, I walk you through the history of each change and why those changes came about, starting with the Maccabean days. Yes, it all began around 164 B.C. When Yehshua was here, he was dealing with two schools of thought. The Sadducees were all but wiped out when the Temple fell in 70 C.E. This left only the Pharisees, who began to be persecuted after the failure of the Bar Kochbah Revolt in 134 C.E.
The truth began to become out of focus around 160 C.E. when Rabbi Jose wrote the Seder Olam. This work originally was written to proof Simon Bar Kochbah was the Messiah. When that did not pan out the history was later revived and then redacted as the truth into the Mishneh Torah by Rabbi Judah ha Nasi in 180 C.E. After this the Jerusalem Talmud begins to debate these issues. It was then during this time as the Jerusalem Talmudist are forced to flee and the Babylonian Talmudist continue to grow until the 6th century that Hillel came up with a solution to help them keep the Holy Days at the proper time while they were out of the land of Israel. He did this in 358 C.E. This work was then modified and adjusted over the next 800 years with additions added and other rejected. Until it was finally redacted once again in 1177 by Rambam. And with that we now have the modern Hillel calendar which includes the errors passed on during each redaction. These errors included the time of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years.
Once the Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E., the Jews recorded time by counting from the time It was destroyed. This is why the 40 tombstones of Zoar, which record this information, are crucial to understand.
When you understand why the Postponement rules were first created so that the crescent moon would not be seen in another part of the world before it was seen in Israel then you can understand how they were still trying to follow the crescent moon to begin the month. The Tombstones show us this exact thing. The tombstones also show us when the Jews changed from a crescent moon to a Conjunction moon to begin the month. They also show us when the Jews changed the year from the month of Aviv to the Tishri to begin the year.
I really want you to understand these things so you know why you do what you do as far as following a calendar to keep Yehovah’s moedim.
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Most people assume that Hillel created the calendar in 358 C.E. They then assume that because it was a Sanhedrin, they are not allowed to change in order to obey Yehovah. The Hillel calendar has been changed many times since 358 C.E. up until 1177 C.E. Few people talk about these changes but we do in our latest Book The Stones Cry Out Part 1 which is free on our website. The Hillel calendar was changed on many occasions and many sought to make other changes during this time. They never needed a Bet Din to approve those changes. They just did them. So this excuse that we do not have the right to obey Yehovah because the Bet Din has not approved it is a crock of crap.
You have the obligation to obey Yehovah. You have the duty to prove which calendar you are to go by. You must prove it beyond all doubt. Yehshua never followed the Hillel calendar. Nor did any of the Apostles.
The reason no man can know the day or the hour is because it refers to a crescent moon to begin the 7th month. That is the day He was born on and the day He comes to judge on. At a day and hour no one can know. Using the Hillel calendar predicts Yom Teruah years in advance so every one knows when to keep it. But even in the Hillel calendar they keep two days of Yom Teruah reckoning back to the sighted moon. Also in the postponement rules developed long after Hillel, they again state that if the conjunction is at a certain time then the day begins at such and such, in order that the moon will not be seen in another part of the world before it is seen in Israel. That was rule number 2.
Everyone has to choose. You have the right to be wrong. But if you choose to be wrong then you also must live with the consequences that come with sin. And that is the death penalty for not keeping the Holy Days, these Sabbath at the proper time. It is your choice.
Just because you write in to me to justify your position does mean it is right. It just means your sounding off.
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And yes, many observe the Equinox. There are many who are deceived, improperly educated. And this is why Joe puts out a newsletter every week, why he writes books, why the SightedMoon Zoom Shabbat service started, why he travels to places like England and the Philippines to share this message and why were are going to the NRB in February. The calendar is always a divisive issue in social circles because the details are many, that’s why there are so many books Joe has written. I’m not looking to put Joe on a pedestal here. This is not about Joe worship. But Joe has tenaciously studied out the calendar from every angle, not to prove himself right, to to seek to find and share what Yehovah is telling us about His Calendar.
In The Stones Cry Out, Joe has shared the history of all the different groups within Israel, and the beliefs they had about the scriptures and the feast days and the calendar. When you line it all up, you can see for yourself the how and why these misunderstandings and arguments about how and where and why they came about.
This is my new favourite book and I’m only 60-70 pages in. And I encourage you to read the footnotes in this one. Sometimes there’s more footnote on the page than Joe’s words.
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When I wrote Stones Cry Out, I wanted it to be one of our FREE books so everyone would have it. It is more of an encyclopedia than a book to read. It will be your quick resource book; you will have access to every question about any calendar, how it got started, and who started it. You will also learn the history of how the Mishnah was assembled, when it was assembled and why. Then, you will learn how that information was transferred into both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud until it reached its final stage in the Mishneh Torah. Along with this progression, the calendar also progressed and changed long after 358 C.E. when Rabbi Hillel first published it. But…what was before the Hillel calendar? What does the Mishnah record about those things?
The Stones Cry Out was originally going to be one book explaining all the various proofs we have discovered, demonstrating when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are throughout history.
You can know; it is not a mystery.
As I began to write The Stones Cry Out, I quickly found myself going back, time and time again, to explain how the calendar is behind the confusion of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Rabbis, as they began to write the Mishnah, incorporated wrong understandings, and those errors were written into what became known as the Talmud and then the Mishneh Torah. The expulsion from the land and subsequent persecutions in trying to send out messengers to report the barley being found or the crescent moon being seen, proved to be more and more dangerous over time. All of these things took place over 14 centuries.
Then as I was working on The Stones Cry Out, I discovered that many people were now accepting the Zadok calendar as factual. This is when we pivoted to include all the details of the various calendars that have crept back into public knowledge today and are being used to mislead new people who are just starting to learn about the calendar. All of this was directly connected to the period starting with the Hasmonaeans, up to the destruction of the Temple. Then, with the compiling of the Mishnah, the studies that led into the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud, then the Babylonian Talmud and finally the Mishneh Torah, each error that was added is compounded over time.
The Stones Cry Out, Part 1 explains the history of how each compilation of the Oral Torah incorporated errors, leading the followers thereof away from the actual Torah. In understanding these facts, it is then possible to understand more readily how the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were then mixed and later changed. By explaining all this history, I will be able to help you the reader understand the tombstones when most authorities do not. They have assumed, to their error, the Hillel calendar to have always been in use since Mount Sinai. Not understanding the history of the calendars is why most authorities dismiss the tombstones as too confusing to use. Once you understand The Stones Cry Out Part 1, Part 2 will be very easy to grasp.
Daniel 7:25 tells us he will change the appointed seasons and commandments. Many assume Constantine did this when he made Sunday the Sabbath. Few have considered the calendar’s many changes and how they relate to us today. Hidden in this proverbial swamp of confusion is the truth about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Sabbatical and Jubilee years reveal the truths about the calendar that have been hidden for almost 2000 years.
We are in the very last days and Yehshua warned us that during this time:
Mat 24:10 And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.
Mat 24:11 And many false prophets will rise and deceive many.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.
Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.
Paul also warned Timothy about these last days, warning that some would leave the truth and begin to follow demonic teachers:
1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
Paul again warned the Thessalonians that the Great Falling away would take place in the last days. How can you fall away if you have never come to know the truth? So who is Paul talking to? Those who are called and answer that calling begin to walk this road of restoration back to Yehovah, and then at some point along that walk, they change and leave this walk following the teachings of demons to false calendar.
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
2Th 2:2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,
2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.
We must endure until the end. We must not let ourselves become offended by personalities and leave the faith once given.
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The Prophecy of Abraham
In 2009, I began to write about the Prophecies I saw with Abraham and the Jubilee cycles. Those Newsletters would become the basis of the book The Prophecies of Abraham published in 2010. This book would then stun those who read it and it was then nominated for a Nobel Prize.
It was a revolutionary book showing how the Jubilee cycles were used to count time. It also connected the history in Genesis with modern chronology and synchronized all the dates. That was an amazing feat in itself. But then the book compared each Jubilee Cycle with other Jubilee cycles to learn and understand future prophetic dates. Specifically our own, the last and final 120 Jubilee Cycle.
Many people had trouble understanding the Prophecies of Abraham which led me to explain how to figure out all the things I assumed people already knew. This second book is Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016. It was written in as simple a language as possible so that even my Mom who is not a believer could understand. This book came out in 2013.
To explain the prophetic aspects in The Prophecies of Abraham, which I felt most people already understood, I then wrote The 2300 Days of Hell and did so in great detail leaving no stone unturned to explain these end-time prophetic understandings. This book was published in 2014 along with another book The Blood Moons: The Elephant in the Room.
In writing the Prophecies of Abraham I did not set out to find all the prophetic messages that could be found. I have hoped others would take what I have shared and then add to it their own research.
Last Sunday we had Mark Webb on our youtube meeting along with Cyrus Harding. Both of them are using what we have shared about the Jubilee Cycles and adding their own research to it. Like many of you, I find what they bring to the table amazing. If you have not yet watched the video I hope you will soon. We will be having another interview on Sunday May 30, 2021.
Last Sunday Mark blew me away. Actually, he blew me away when he wrote to exclaim what he had discovered.
Although he presented these things in the video, I felt it needed to be explained and spelled out here in a Newsletter. And Mark has agreed to share his notes with us. Everything you are about to read has been provided by Mark and we are very thankful for it. I may add things along the way and not distinguish which is which. But all the thanks to Mark Webb for what you are about to read.
1809 BC & 3 BC
I would like to show you the year Yehovah made the covenant with Abraham. It was the year 1809 BC. We explain how you can figure that out in our book Remembering the Sabbatical year of 2016. We are not going to explain this here.
Psa 19:1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the expanse proclaims His handiwork.
Psa 19:2 Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
Psa 19:3 There is no speech nor are there words; their voice is not heard.
Psa 19:4 Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,
Psa 19:5 and he comes forth as a bridegroom from his canopy; he rejoices as a strong man to run a race,
Psa 19:6 going forth from the end of the heavens, and its course is to their ends. And there is nothing hid from its heat.
When Yehovah made His covenant with Abraham, Yehovah said to him,
Gen 15:5 And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be.
if H518 thou be able H3201 to number H5608 them:
H5608 (Strong)
סָפַרsâphar
saw-far’
A primitive root; properly to score with a mark as a tally or record, that is, (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively to recount, that is, celebrate: – commune, (ac-) count, declare, number, + penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
So H3541 shall thy seed H2233 be. H1961
H2233 (Strong)
זֶרַעzera‛
zeh’-rah
From H2232; seed; figuratively fruit, plant, sowing time, posterity: – X carnally, child, fruitful, seed (-time), sowing-time.
Both words, saphar and Zera are singular and are pointing to the Messiah. Even the word “be” which is Hayah in Hebrew is part of the Name of Yehovah.
Yehovah made this covenant with Abraham at Passover in 1809. Using Torah Calendar Passover was either March 18, or April 17, 1809.
When we look again in 3 BC the year Yehshua was born, and the next year after, 2 BC when the Magi were on their way, the events in the heavens were the same as when Yehovah was speaking to Abraham. And Mark is telling us they are the same in 2033.
March 5 1809 BCE Comet Machhol
CETUS (The Sea Monster). The great enemy bound.
The picture is that of a great sea-monster, the largest of all the constellations. It is the natural enemy of fishes, hence it is placed here in connection with this last chapter, in which fishes are so prominent.
It is situated very low down among the constellations–far away towards the south or lower regions of the sky.
Its name in the Denderah Zodiac is Knem, which means subdued. It is pictured as a monstrous head, trodden under foot by the swine, the natural enemy of the serpent. The hawk also (another enemy of the serpent) is over this figure, crowned with a mortar, denoting bruising.
THE BAND, but binding their great enemy Cetus, the sea monster.
The band that unites these two fishes has always formed a separate constellation. The Arabian poems of ANTARAH frequently mention it as distinct from the Sign with which it is so closely connected. ANTARAH was an Arabian poet of the sixth century.
Its ancient Egyptian name was U-or, which means He cometh. Its Arabic name is Al Risha, the band, or bridle.
It speaks of the Coming One, not in His relation to Himself, or to His enemies, but in His relation to the Redeemed. It speaks of Him who says:
“I drew them with cords of a man, With bands of love; And I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws.”
Hosea 11:4,
But it speaks also of His unloosing the bands with which they have been so long bound.
One end of the band is fastened securely round the tail of one fish, and it is the same with the other. Moreover, this band is fastened to the neck of Cetus, the sea monster,
while immediately above is seen a woman chained as a captive.
These both tell the same story, and, indeed, all are required to set forth the whole truth.
The fishes are bound to Cetus; the woman (Andromeda) is chained; but the Deliverer of both is near. Cepheus, the Crowned King, the Redeemer, “the Breaker,” the Branch, is seen coming quickly for the deliverance of His redeemed.
These are the three constellations of this sign, and all three are required to set forth the story.
Israel now is bound.
The great enemy still oppresses, but deliverance is sure. ARIES, the Ram, is seen with his paws on this band, as though about to loosen the bands and set the captives free, and to fast bind their great oppressor.
ARIES (The Ram or Lamb). The Lamb that was slain, prepared for the victory.
This Second Book began with the Goat dying in sacrifice, and it ends with the Lamb living again, “as it had been slain.” The goat had the tail of a fish, indicating that his death was for a multitude of the redeemed. In the two middle Signs we have had these fishes presented to us in grace, and in their conflict. We come now to the last chapter of the book: and, as we have seen, like each of the other books, it ends up with victory and triumph. Here we are first shown the foundation on which that victory rests, namely, Atonement. Hence we are taken back and reminded of the “blood of the Lamb.”
This is pictured by a ram, or lamb, full of vigour and life; not falling in death as CAPRICORNUS is.
In the Denderah Zodiac its name is Tametouris Ammon (lamb), which means the reign, dominion,
or government of Ammon (lamb). The Lambs head is without thorns and is crowned with a circle. The Hebrew name Taleh, the Lamb.
The Arabic name is Al Hamal, the sheep, gentle, merciful. This name has been mistakenly given by some to the principal star, a. The Syriac name is Amroo, as in the Syriac New Testament in
John 1:29 “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.” The ancient Akkadian name was Bara-ziggar. Bar means altar, or sacrifice; and ziggar means right making; so that the full name would be the sacrifice of righteousness.
Its chief star, a (in the forehead), is named El Nath, or El Natik, which means wounded, slain. The
next, b (in the left horn), is called Al Sheratan, the bruised, the wounded. The next g (near to b ), is
called Mesarim (Hebrew), the bound.
How is it there is no conflicting voice? How is it that all the stars unite in one harmonious voice in
testifying of the Lamb of God, slain, and bruised, but yet living for evermore, singing together,
“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and
honour, and glory, and blessing” (Rev 5:12)
“So shall your descendant be.”
This is exactly what Abraham was told by Yehovah. And now consider the word “be”.
H1961 (Strong)
הָיָהhâyâh
haw-yaw’
A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): – beacon, X altogether, be (-come, accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), continue, do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, X use.
Exo 3:14 And God H430 said H559 unto H413 Moses, H4872 I AM H1961 THAT H834 I AM: H1961 and he said, H559 Thus H3541 shalt thou say H559 unto the children H1121 of Israel, H3478 I AM H1961 hath sent H7971 me unto H413 you.
The word “be” היה hâyâh makes up the name of Ye-hov-ah. The descendant of Abraham. The same word Yehshua used when He said “I AM”.
PISCES (The Fishes). The Redeemed blessed though bound.
The Sign is pictured as two large fishes bound together by a Band, the ends of which are fastened separately to their tails. One fish is represented with its head pointing upwards towards the North Polar Star, the other is shown at right angles, swimming along the line of the ecliptic, or path of the sun.
The ancient Egyptian name, as shown on the Denderah Zodiac, is Pi-cot Orion, or Pisces Hori, which
means the fishes of Him that cometh.
The Hebrew name is Dagim, the Fishes, which is closely connected with multitudes, as in Genesis
48:26, where Jacob blesses Joseph’s sons, and says, “Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the
earth.” The margin says, “Let them grow as fishes do increase.” It refers to the fulfilment of Genesis
1:28, “Be fruitful and multiply.” The multitude of Abraham’s seed is prominent in the pronouncement of the blessings, where God compared his future posterity to the stars of the sky, and the sand upon the sea
shore. “A very great multitude of fish,” as in Ezekiel 47:9.
Gen 15:14 and afterward they will come out with many possessions.
The sign, then, speaks of the multitudes who should enjoy the blessings of the Redeemer’s work.
Gen. 17:4 “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And you will be the father of a multitude of nations.
If these Signs and these star-pictures be the results of inspired patriarchs, then this Sign of PISCES can refer to “His seed,” prophesied of in Isaiah 53 “He shall see His seed.” It must refer to
“The nation whose God is the LORD, And the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance. ”Psalm 33:12
“Such as be blessed of Him shall inherit the earth.” Psalm 37:22v “The LORD shall increase you more and more, You and your children, Ye are blessed of the LORD.”Psalm 115:14, 15
“Their seed shall be known among the Gentiles. And their offspring among the people; All that see them shall acknowledge them, That they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. ”Isaiah 61:9
“They are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, And their offspring with them.” Isaiah 65:23
The prophecy of this Sign was afterwards written in the words of Isaiah 26:15–the song which shall yet be sung in the land of Judah: “Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, Thou hast increased the nation.” And in Isaiah 9:3 (RV), speaking of the glorious time when the government shall be upon the shoulder of the coming King: “Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast increased their joy.” Of that longed-for day Jeremiah sings (30:19): “I will multiply them And they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, And they shall not be small.” Ezekiel also is inspired to say: “I will multiply men upon you, All the house of Israel, even all of it: And the cities shall be inhabited, And the wastes shall be builded; And I will multiply upon you man and beast, And they shall increase and bring fruit.” Ezekiel 36:10, 11 “Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them;
It shall be an everlasting covenant with them! And I will place them, and multiply them, And will see My sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.” Ezekiel 37:26
Indeed, this sign of PISCES has always been interpreted of Israel. Both Jews and Gentiles have
agreed in this. ABARBANEL, a Jewish commentator, writing on Daniel, affirms that the Sign Pisces always refers to the people of Israel.
He gives five reasons for this belief, and also affirms that a conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn always betokens a crisis in the affairs of Israel.
Because such a conjunction took place in his day (about 1480 AD) he looked for the coming of Messiah.
Certain it is, that when the sun is in PISCES all the constellations which are considered noxious, are seen above the horizon. What is true in astronomical observation is true also in historical fact. When God’s favour is shown to Israel, “the Jew’s enemy” puts forth his malignant powers. When they increased and multiplied in Egypt, he endeavoured to compass the destruction of the nation by destroying the male children; but their great Deliverer remembered His covenant, defeated the designs of the enemy, and brought the counsel of the heathen to naught. So it was in Persia; and so it will yet be again when the hour of Israel’s final deliverance has come.
There can be no doubt that we have in this Sign the foreshowing of the multiplication and blessing of the children of promise, and a token of their coming deliverance from all the power of the enemy.
But why two fishes? and why is one horizontal and the other perpendicular? The answer is, that not only in Israel, but in the seed of Seth and Shem there were always those who looked for a heavenly portion, and were “partakers of a heavenly calling.” In Hebrews 11 we are distinctly told that Abraham “looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (v 10). They were “strangers and pilgrims on the earth” (v 13). Strangers are those without a home, and pilgrims are those who are journeying home: “they seek a country” (v 14). They desired “a better country, that is, an HEAVENLY: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He hath prepared for them a city” (v 16). It is clear, therefore, that what are called the “Old Testament Saints” were “partakers of THE HEAVENLY CALLING” (Heb 3:1), which included a heavenly portion and a heavenly home; and all through the ages there have been “partakers of the heavenly calling.”
This is quite distinct from the calling of the Church, which is from both Jews and Gentiles to form “one body,” a “new man” in Christ (Eph 2:15). It must be distinct, for it is expressly stated at the end of that chapter (Heb 11:40) that God has “PROVIDED (marg. foreseen) SOME BETTER THING FOR US.” How can this be a “better thing,” if it is the same thing? There must be two separate things if one is “better” than the other! Our calling in Christ is the “better thing.” The Old Testament saints had, and will have, a good thing. They will have a heavenly blessing, and a heavenly portion, for God has “prepared for them a city,” and we see that prepared city, even “the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of HEAVEN, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” (Rev 21:2). This is the “heavenly” portion of the Old Testament saints, the Bride of Christ. The Church will have a still “better” portion, for “they without us should not be made perfect” (Heb 11:40).
The fish, shooting upwards to the Polar Star, exquisitely pictures this “heavenly calling”; while the other fish, keeping on the horizontal line, answers to those who were content with an earthly portion. But both alike were divinely called, and chosen, and upheld. The names of two of the stars in the sign are Okda (Hebrew), the united, and Al Samaca (Arabic), the upheld. These again speak of the redeemed seed, of whom, and to whom, Jehovah speaks in that coming day of glory in Isaiah 41:8-10 (RV):
“But thou, Israel, My servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
The seed of Abraham My friend;
Thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, And called thee from the corners thereof,
And said unto thee, Thou art My servant;
I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away;
Fear thou not, for I am with thee;
Be not dismayed, for I am thy God!
I will strengthen thee;
Yea, I will help thee;
Yea, I will UPHOLD thee with the right hand of My righteousness.”
ANDROMEDA (The Chained Woman). The Redeemed in their bondage and affliction.
Gen. 15:12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him. God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. “But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.
This is a peculiar picture to set in the heavens. A woman with chains fastened to her feet and arms, in misery and trouble; and bound, helpless, to the sky. Yet this is the ancient foreshowing of the truth.
In the Denderah Zodiac, her name is Set, which means set, set up as a queen. In Hebrew it is Sirra, the chained, and Persea, the stretched out.
There are 63 stars in this constellation, three of which are of the 2nd magnitude, two of the 3rd, twelve of the 4th, etc.
The brightest star, a (in the head), is called Al Phiratz (Arabic), the broken down. The star b (in the body) is called Mirach (Hebrew), the weak. The star g (in the left foot) is called Al Maach, or Al Amak(Arabic), struck down.
The names of other stars are Adhil, the afflicted; Mizar, the weak; Al Mara (Arabic), the afflicted. ARATUS speaks of Desma, which means the bound, and says— “Her feet point to her bridegroom Perseus, on whose shoulder they rest.”
Thus, with one voice, the stars of Andromeda speak to us of the captive daughter of Zion. And her coming Deliverer thus addresses her: “O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, Behold,…in righteousness shalt thou be established: Thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: And from terror; for it shall not come nigh thee.” Isaiah 54:11-14
“Hear now this, thou afflicted… Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem… Shake thyself from the dust; Arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for naught; And ye shall be redeemed without money.” Isaiah 51:21-52:3
“The virgin daughter of My people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow” (Jer 14:17).
The picture which sets forth her deliverance is reserved for the next chapter (or Sign), where it comes in its proper place and order. We are first shown her glorious Deliverer; for we never, in the heavens or in the Word, have a reference to the sufferings without an immediate reference to the glory.
September 10, 1806 BCE
LEO (The Lion). The Lion of the Tribe of Judah aroused for the rending of the Enemy.
September 10, 3 BCE
November 10, 2038
Comet Machholtz
July 19 – Aug 15, 2 BCE.
July 28, 2 BCE
1. HYDRA (The Serpent). That old Serpent Devil, destroyed.
Aug 3, 2 BCE
LEO (The Lion). The Lion of the Tribe of Judah aroused for the rending of the Enemy.
In the Denderah Zodiac he is treading upon a serpent, as shown in Mr Edward Cooper’s Egyptian Scenery.
Its Egyptian name is Pi Mentekeon, which means the pouring out. This is no pouring out or inundation of the Nile, but it is the pouring out of the cup of Divine wrath on that Old Serpent.
The Denderah picture exhibits all four in one. The Lion is presented treading down the Serpent. The Bird of prey is also perched upon it, while below is a plumed female figure holding out two cups, answering to Crater, the cup of wrath.
Aug 10, 2 BCE
1. COMA (The Desired. The woman and child). The Desired of all nations.
The first constellation in VIRGO explains that this coming “Branch” will be a child, and that He should be the “Desire of all nations.”
The ancient name of this constellation is Comah, the desired, or the longed for. We have the word used by the Holy Spirit in this very connection, in Haggai 2:7–“The DESIRE of all nations shall come.”
It was in all probability the constellation of Coma in which “the Star of Bethlehem” appeared. There was a traditional prophecy, well-known in the East, carefully preserved and handed down, that a new star would appear in this sign when He whom it foretold should be born.
This was, doubtless, referred to in the prophecy of Balaam, which would thus receive a double fulfilment, first of the literal “Star,” and also of the person to whom it referred. The Lord said by Balaam (Num 24:17), “There shall come * a star out of Jacob, And a scepter shall rise out of Israel.”
One step more places this new star in the constellation of COMA, and with new force makes it indeed “His star”–the “Sign” of His “coming forth from Bethlehem.” will it be “the sign of the Son of Man in heaven” (Matt 24:30) when He shall “come unto” this world again to complete the wondrous prophecies written of Him in the heavenly and earthly Revelations? *
Aug 13, 2 BCE
VIRGO (The Virgin. A woman bearing a branch in her right hand and an ear of corn in her left). The Promised Seed of the woman.
Here is the commencement of all prophecy in Genesis 3:15, spoken to the serpent: “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.” This is the prophetic announcement which the Revelation in the heavens and in the Book is designed to unfold and develop. It lies at the root of all the ancient traditions and mythologies, which are simply the perversion and corruption of primitive truth.
VIRGO is represented as a woman with a branch in her right hand, and some ears of corn in her left hand. Thus giving a two-fold testimony of the Coming One.
The name of this sign in the Hebrew is Bethulah, which means a virgin, and in the Arabic a branch. The two words are connected, as in Latin–Virgo, which means a virgin; and virga, which means a branch (Vulg. Isa 11:1). Another name is Sunbul, Arabic, an ear of corn.
In Genesis 3:15 she is presented only as a woman; but in later prophecies her nationality is defined as being of the stock of Israel, the seed of Abraham, the line of David; and, further, she is to be a virgin. There are two prominent prophecies of her and her seed: one is connected with the first coming in incarnation, Isaiah 7:14 (quoted in Matthew 1:23).
Thus the brightest star in VIRGO (a) * has an ancient name, handed down to us in all the star- maps, in which the Hebrew word Tsemech is preserved. It is called in Arabic Al Zimach, which means the branch. This star is in the ear of corn which she holds in her left hand. Hence the star has a modern Latin name, which has almost superseded the ancient one, Spica, which means, an ear of corn. But this hides the great truth revealed by its name Al Zimach. It foretold the coming of Him who should bear this name. The same Divine inspiration has, in the written Word, four times connected it with Him. There are twenty Hebrew words translated “Branch,” but only one of them (Tsemech) is used exclusively of the Messiah, and this word only four times (Jer 33:15 being only a repetition of Jer 23:5). Each of these further connects Him with one special account of Him, given in the Gospels.
* The stars are known by Greek letters and sometimes by numbers, &c. Alpha (a) denotes a star of the first magnitude; Beta (b), the second, and so on. This plan was originated by Bayer in his Uranometria, 1603. The star Alpha, as seen in the New Great Equatorial Telescope recently set up at Greenwich, is now discovered to be really a double star, though it had hitherto always appeared to be one.
(1) Jeremiah 23:5 –“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, That I will raise unto David a righteous BRANCH (i.e., a Son), And a KING shall reign and prosper.” The account of His coming as King is written in the Gospel according to Matthew, where Jehovah says to Israel, “Behold thy KING.” (Zech 9:9; Matt 21:9)
(2) Zechariah 3:8–“Behold I will bring forth my SERVANT the BRANCH.” In the Gospel according to Mark we find the record of Jehovah’s servant and His service, and we hear Jehovah’s voice saying, “Behold my SERVANT.” (Isa 42:1)
(3) Zechariah 6:12–“Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the MAN whose name is the BRANCH.” In the Gospel according to Luke we behold Him, presented in “the MAN Christ Jesus.” (4) Isaiah 4:2–“In that day shall the BRANCH of JEHOVAH be beautiful and glorious.” So that this Branch, this Son, is Jehovah Himself; and as we read the record of John we hear the voice from heaven saying, “Behold your GOD.” (Isa 40:9)
This is the Branch foretold by the star Al Zimach in the ear of corn.
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קובי ברדה-Dr. Kobby Barda
@kobbybarda
Geopolitical Revolution in Riyadh: Is Trump Closing a Global Deal?
, Vance called on European nations to increase their share of the defense burden, which had long been the backbone of NATO’s strength during the Cold War.
At this stage, Trump’s personal ambition comes into play—the need to secure his place in history as a transformative leader. Always viewing the Nobel Peace Prize as an achievable goal, Trump has now linked his vision for Gaza’s evacuation to the
first advocated by Prof. Pletzman in the summer of 2024.
The idea was first introduced on my podcast,
where it was framed as a potential long-term solution. However, it gained real traction during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where Trump officially unveiled the concept: the evacuation of Gazans, followed by 10-15 years of infrastructure redevelopment, culminating in the construction of a luxury hotel strip along Gaza’s western coastline.
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Snow in Jerusalem
Snow in Jerusalem
Cold snap could see snowfall in Jerusalem this weekend, meteorological service says
A wave of cold weather expected to hit Israel later this week could see snow fall in Jerusalem over the weekend, the Israel Meteorological Service says.
Cold weather is expected to hit Israel from Thursday, with rain on Friday and especially Saturday, and snow potentially falling — mainly in the northern hills, but also in higher areas in the center, including the capital.
Snowfall is expected in the northern Golan Heights between Thursday night and Friday morning, spreading to higher areas in the Galilee as well as the city of Safed.
The mercury will continue to drop between Friday and Saturday, with snow in the north and possibly also in places above 500 to 600 meters (1,640 to 1,970 feet) above sea level in the central hills.
It is likely to snow in the Jerusalem hills and the city itself, overnight Friday-Saturday, the IMS says.
Israel’s central hilly region, including Jerusalem, gets snowfall once every few years, though forecasts of snow often don’t pan out.
You may hear voices crying out, stating the barley can’t grow in such cold conditions. Other voices are crying out that you cant keep Passover before the equinox. We have tombstones that prove they did keep Passover and never used the equinox for centuries.
Let me remind you of the scriptures and what they say.
Exo 12:1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exo 12:2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
The exodus took place in the month of Aviv.
Exo 13:3 And Moses said to the people, Remember this day in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. For Jehovah brought you out from this place by the strength of His hand. There shall be no leaven eaten.
Exo 13:4 You are going out this day in the month Abib.
Exo 13:5 And it shall be when Jehovah shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
But before the Exodus day, there was another day of note you should understand. Many today tell you that the barley must be brittle and golden in order for it to be destroyed by hail. Those same people also tell you that the rains must stop and the hot winds from the desert must begin to flow before we can have Passover. Both are absolutely false statements.
In the past two years, Yehovah has shown us that the rains continued long after even Devorah’s dates, which were two months after ours, that it was still raining.
Read now what Yehovah does in the 7th plague of Egypt just before the Exodus.
The Seventh Plague: Hail
Exo 9:13 And Jehovah said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, So says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.
Exo 9:14 For I am going to send at this time all My plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants, and upon your people, so that you may know that there isnone like Me in all the earth.
Exo 9:15 For now I will stretch out My hand, that I may strike you and your people with plagues, and you shall be cut off from the earth.
Exo 9:16 And for this I have made you stand, to make you see My power, to declare My name in all the land.
Exo 9:17 Do you still exalt yourself against My people, that you will not let them go?
Exo 9:18 Behold! Tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the foundation of it even until now!
Exo 9:19 And now send out, gather your cattle, and all that you have in the field. Upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
Exo 9:20 He that feared the Word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle to flee into the houses.
Exo 9:21 And he that did not regard the Word of Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Exo 9:22 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
Exo 9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heavens. And Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and the fire came down to the ground. And Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exo 9:24 And there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Exo 9:25 And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast. And the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.
Exo 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exo 9:27 And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. Jehovah is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
Exo 9:28 Pray to Jehovah, for it is enough. Let there be no mighty thunderings and hail. And I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.
Exo 9:29 And Moses said to him, as soon as I go out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Jehovah. The thunder shall stop, and the hail will not be any more, so that you may know that the earth is Jehovah’s.
Exo 9:30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you will not yet fear Jehovah God.
Exo 9:31 And the flax and the barley were stricken, for the barley was in the head, and the flax was in bud.
Exo 9:32 But the wheat and the rye were not stricken, for they had not grown up.
This is chapter 9 and in chapter 12 Yehovah says this is the month of Aviv when the barley has green heads. It is those heads that are top heavy and get heavier as they develop the dough in them that were destroyed. Not because they had turned golden brown. If they were golden brown then they would not be Aviv, which is green heads of grain.
The fact that there is snow forecast for Jerusalem is exactly the type of weather you would expect around Israel as it is the same weather they had at the Exodus. Read our next section to see exactly how cold it got as they crossed the Red Sea.
Frozen Red Sea
Frozen Red Sea
The 7th Day of Unleavened Bread
Why do we keep the 7th Day of Unleavened Bread? What does it signify?
We read in Numbers
Number 33:3 They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians, while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down among them. On their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
The Passover meal was eaten on the 15th at sunset.
Exodus 12:1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”
The lambs were killed at the going down of the sun, on the 14th day. And then roasted and prepared to be eaten after sunset of the 15th day. The first day of Unleavened Bread. You are to eat Unleavened Bread for 7 days, not 8 days. And you are to eat the Passover with unleavened bread.
That same night of the 15th the Death Angel Passed Over those with the blood on the door. And that same night, Pharaoh told Israel to leave, and they left on the 15th day. The same day, the firstborn had been slain.
So, I went to google maps and clicked on the place of about where Avaris was where they lived in Goshen and then I clicked on about where Sukkot was where they gathered on the 15th day.
Numbers 33:5 So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth. And they set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol. And they set out from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness,
When I look at Torah Calendar and check the year of the exodus in 1379 BC.
On Sunday, the 1st day of Unleavened Bread and the morning after the Passover, Israel left and gathered at Succoth, where they camped that first night. According to Google, a distance of about 119 kilometres or a 24-hour walk. I do not have exact locations for Google Maps, so I am approximating. From there, they then walked to Etham, which is west of Eilat, Israel today. A distance of about 297 kilometres or 60 hours of walking. 2 and half days journey.
They did walk day and night at this time.
Exodus 13:20 And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.
This now brings us to Wednesday, when they camped at Etham. And from Etham they turned and went to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol. Today, this is called Nuweiba. This shows you that the Red Sea Crossing took place on the 7th day of Unleavened Bread.
Exodus 14:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.
When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly. The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground. And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night.
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
One of the greatest miracles that Yehovah did for Israel was the parting of the Red Sea so they could escape. We have been told to eat the Passover meal with our coats and shoes on ready to flee and to eat the meal in haste.
Exodus 12:11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.
It is a rehearsal of what we can expect in the Greater Exodus to come, as we read about in Revelation.
Rev 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood. But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
In the same fashion as Pharaoh going after the Israelites and then being destroyed in the Red Sea, Satan is again going to be pursuing the remnant of Israel at the end of this age, and this time, the earth will open up and swallow them all. Each year, we are to remember these things and eat the Meal as if ready to flee.
The Parting of the Red Sea
Have you ever read something many times and still not grasped the meaning in the words you have read? Read on for a surprise! Once you have read this explanation of the Exodus, I encourage you to go to Nefertiti and Akhenaten: Now you know the rest of the story.
I love reading about and studying the Exodus. It has so much meaning and is so powerful. I love to watch Cecil B. De Mille’s™s The Ten Commandments. I first saw it in the movie theatres with my Nan in Newfoundland around 1962 and was amazed by the colours and the amazing story. I was 5 or so at the time and colored TV was not yet a reality. The movie still has yet to bore me, even after all these years.
But do you realize how much a movie like this can influence your thoughts? Even though it is not quite right when compared with Scripture.
All through high school I tried to prove how the waters could be divided by natural causes. I read how others had theorized on earthquakes or tidal flows and many other methods being the cause, but none explained the events with any clarity. But the answer has always been in the Bible. It is so amazing!
In recent years I have learned that the actual crossing site was a total of 82 meters (approximately 269 feet) deep at one point. To learn more on this, I suggest the reader go online and order The Exodus Case by Lennart Moller at Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Case-3rd-Extended/dp/8772477083, which is a most intriguing read. You can also watch the trailers of The Exodus Conspiracy at http://www.exodusconspiracy.com/
I would point out to you Exodus 15:8, where Mariam, Moses sister, sings:
“And with the blast of Your nostrils the waters were gathered together; The floods stood upright like a heap, the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.” (The New King James Version)
How many times have I read right over this one verse? How many times have you done the same?
Now let’s look at the different translations and see what they say:
Young’s Literal Translation
Exodus 15:8 And by the spirit of Thine anger Have waters been heaped together; Stood as a heap have flowings; Congealed have been depths In the heart of a sea.The Complete Jewish Bible
With a blast from your nostrils the waters piled up -the waters stood up like a wall, the depths of the sea became firm ground.The New American Standard Bible
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.The Holman Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 78:13 He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wallThe Holman Christian Standard Bible
Exodus 15:8 The waters heaped up at the blast of Your nostrils; the currents stood firm like a dam. The watery depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
Now, if we dissect this verse, we can see the following:
The waters gathered together comes from the (Strong’s Concordance) Hebrew word ayin, resh, mem sofit H- 6192 pronounced A’RAM and it means – (Niphal) to heap up, pile, be heaped up and this expression is used just this one time in all the Bible.
the flood comes from the Hebrew word Nun Zayin Lamed and is Strong’s H-5140, pronounced Nazal and it means to drip, or shed by trickling, to flow, distil, flow forth or down, trickle, drop
(Qal)
to flow, gush out, melt, pour down, running water, stream
1a streams, floods (participle) to distil
(Hiphil)
to cause to flow
This same word is translated as follows in other places in the Bible:
King James word usage – A total of 16 times:
flood- 3; flow- 3; stream- 2; pour out- 1; distil- 1; melted- 1; drop- 1; running waters- 1; flow out- 1; pour down1 and gush out- 1.
stood upright comes from the word nun, tsade, beit Strong’s H-5324 pronounced Natsab and it means to stand, take one’s stand, stand upright, be set (over), establish
(Niphal):
To station oneself, take one’s stand, to stand, be stationed, to stand, take an upright position, to be stationed, be appointed, deputy, prefect, appointed, deputed (subst), to stand firm, (Hiphil), to station, set, to set up, erect, to cause to stand erect, to fix, establish, (Hophal) to be fixed, be determined, be stationary
King James Word Usage – Total: 75 stand 34, set 12, officers 6, set up 7, upright 2, appointed 1, deputy 1, erected 1, establish 1, Huzzab 1, miscellaneous 9
as an heap comes from the word nun, dalet Strong’s # 5067 pronounced Ned and has just this meaning – heap , piling up; a mound ; ie a wave
and is always meant as “heap.”
King James Word Usage – Total: 6 heap 6
and the depths comes from the word tav, hey, mem sofit Strong’s # 8415 pronounced T@howm and has the following meaning – deep, depths, deep places, abyss, the deep, sea
deep (of subterranean waters), deep, sea, abysses (of sea), primeval ocean, deep, deep, depth (of river), abyss, the grave
King James Word Usage – Total: 36 deep 20, depth 15, deep places 1
were congealed comes from the word ,kof, pey, aleph Strong’s # 7087 pronounced Qapha’ and means – to shrink, to thicken, ( as unracked wine, curdled milk, clouded sky, frozen water), condense, congeal, settle, become dense, (Qal) to be condensed, thickening (participle), (Hiphil) to cause to curdle, congelation
King James Word Usage – Total: 5 congeal 1, settled 1, curdle 1, variant 1, dark 1
Job 10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Zep 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Zec 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
What I am seeing after I have dissected this one verse is a very different and unimaginable view.
I live in Canada and we have real winters here. I have been to the Georgian Bay and seen the waters in the middle of winter push the ice flows into shore and the strength of the wind has caused the ice to pile up on the shoreline in a heap. It is a beautiful wonderland when this happens. I have also been to Niagara Falls in February and seen the mountains of ice around the falls and seen pictures thereof when the ice was 50 feet high. And just this year I saw (January 2005) on the news from Massachusetts, a winter storm blowing from the Atlantic covered houses and trees in 6″ of solid ice. It looked again like a wonderland of beauty.
One last thing: I work with heavy equipment in construction. In the spring and in the fall the conditions change in the ground from day to day. In the early morning, the frost can make the ground very hard. We can walk across the mud no problem. But after the heavy equipment goes over the same ground a number of times, the ground breaks up, and you have the mud and jagged pieces of frozen ground sticking up. By this time, everything is sticking to the mud, and it is very hard to walk around, by mid-morning, it is very hard to walk anywhere without getting all muddy and stuck in the mud or even falling.
Now, I would like you to stretch your imaginations with me and re-read this Exodus crossing, keeping the other translations and this understanding of what happens on the construction site in mind.
Here is what the Bible says in the NEW KING JAMES untouched:
Exodus 14:21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the Lord looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians. 25 And He took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.” 26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.” 27 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. 29 But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 30 So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses.
Exodus 15:8. And with the blast of Your nostrils the waters were gathered together; the floods stood upright like a heap; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
So that I may help you to better comprehend the events of this miraculous event, please allow me to say the following:
Now, with this new understanding in mind, let’s read from the book of Josephus, the 2nd chapter, vs. 15-16
NEW KING JAMES and my interpretation:
21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. An east wind is always an ill wind or cold wind. This wind was so cold the salt water foam looked like white clouds, or curdling white milk. And they were frozen and piled up in heaps on top of itself, piled high. In fact the deepest part of the crossing was 82 meters or over 250 feet high in the middle. Frozen walls of ice with melting ice turning into water trickling down into streams. The ground was frozen so hard Israel could walk across on dry ground. Their wagons and animals and all others on foot. 22 So Moses led the way and commanded the Israelites to follow him because the people feared it was so dangerous looking. And so foreign. A winter wonderland. The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry frozen ground, and the waters were frozen also, as if into a wall in piles on their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians when the darkness was lifted were surprised to see the Israelites crossing in the midst of this frozen wonderland and were scared to pursue in such a dangerous condition. But they remembered each and every one of them having lost a first born from each family and they recalled their land was destroyed by plagues and down into this winter wonderland they pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. Six hundred chariots, with fifty thousand horsemen, and two hundred thousand footmen. All Armed for war. A fighting force of 50 brigades. 24 Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, before dawn, as the Egyptian Army closed in on Israel, that the Lord looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and gave a glance back at them and He panicked the army of the Egyptians. 25 And He took off their chariot wheels as they became clogged in the mud, so that they drove them with difficulty; with the horses hooves breaking through the frost and sticking to the mud, and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.” And they sounded the retreat. 26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.” 27 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, just as the first rays of the sun rising from the east over the mountains hit the frozen heaps of ice on the western shore, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. With thunder and lightening and a whirl wind and pouring rain. (Psalm 77:16-20)The walls of ice crashed down on the Egyptians smashing the chariots and wagons and men and horses to pieces. 28 Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. Approximately 251,200 men were destroyed. All of Pharaoh’s army and Pharaoh as well. 29 But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall of frozen heaps to them on their right hand and on their left. 30 So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses.
This Passover season put some life into the real story of the Exodus. Make it real as you read it. Make it personal!
The continual spray coats everything around the Falls, producing fantastic ice shapes.
People walking through the ice-covered Niagara River looking at the heaps of ice.
When Israel walked through the Red Sea I would imagine it looked like this.
But by the time the Egyptians were turning to go back, it would look a lot like this.
I would imagine it looked a lot like this, with the frozen sea bed going down then up the other side and melting trickling water that looked like a cloudy sky or curdling milk, thickening. Remember, none of the Israelites had ever seen a glacier, let alone snow of any real amount. And it was nighttime, and one of the words can mean dark.
Now imagine walking through this, having been a slave in Egypt all your life and never having seen snow.
It’s dark; the Egyptian army is very close, and the only thing separating you from them is the cloud of Yehovah, which has become very dark over the Egyptians to the West. There is no place to flee. The Red Sea is 20 miles across to the east. You have no boats. The Egyptian garrison is, to the north, Migdol. The mountains are impassable as they go right into the sea to the south. The wind is blowing and cold. Then, in the dim of torches, you see the sea disappear, and the sea bed become hard. You also see the white frozen mounds of ice piled up on the side in heaps and are in wonder, having never seen snow or known of ice. You don’t know what to make of it.
Then, after a bit, this Moses guy walks to the front and says: “Come on and follow me” And then he starts to walk down into this chasm onto the hard sea bottom, going further out and down. With the torches flickering you wonder what to do. With the army only steps away and no place else to go, you start to go down after Moses. You are terrified! How can all this be happening? Where did the water go? What is all this white stuff? Then, slowly, in a moment, the others start to follow. Then suddenly, they all begin to rush forward! They bring their animals and their wagons and all of the gold the Egyptians had given them.
Quickly and quietly, they walk down deeper and deeper into the bottom of the sea until they get to the halfway point and begin to ascend. But the torches reflect off the blue, white and green ice, as high as their necks could see in the dark. 250 feet up at the deepest part. They could hear the odd crashes and would then become frightened again. They could see in the torchlight that the ice was melting and trickles of water were running down into streams. They could hear over the wind the water gushing in from streams behind the ice wall.
Two million Israelites and an unknown number of foreigners crossed that night in silence, and in awe. Trembling from the cold but also from the fear of the danger their lives were in. In constant danger of these walls crashing in on them. After all, they were a sea yesterday- and now, mountains of ice. They were in constant fear of the Egyptians still on the opposite shore. But, as they came out on the shores of Arabia, relief was in sight! They had survived this awesome and fearsome night but there were many still struggling to cross behind you. And as you looked back in the night, all you can hear is silence except for the shuffling of feet and carts, being pulled by animals making little noise. You can see hundreds of thousands of torches swaying with each step as your people walk out. And you see the awesome walls of blue and green and white ice reflecting in the shimmering torch lights. Beautiful and terrifying at the same time. And now you have just walked through this.
On the other side, the Egyptians had made camp in the darkness. Knowing that the Israelite’s only way out was through this wadi where the 250,000-strong Army of Egypt was now camped. And with smugness, they knew they would have their revenge on this unarmed mob as soon as daylight broke. The only thing on their minds was getting revenge for the firstborn that every family in Egypt lost- at least one in each household. Revenge for the animals that also died that night as well as the ones that died during the hail and the crops that were eaten and destroyed by insects and hail. Revenge for all that these slaves had cost them.
Their other goal? To get back all of the gold, clothes, and jewelry that they had given to these people, whom they now pursued and intent on destroying. As they sat in the dark, they pondered… “What were we thinking in giving away everything?”
It was still dark but the severe darkness was just now beginning to break forth into daylight. They could see and were stunned to learn the Israelites were no longer there. Pharaoh yells out for search teams to look for them and then he is told they went into the sea on dry ground, Pharaoh is beyond mad that, once again, he has been made a fool. He orders his army to go into the sea after them! His captains look at each other, thinking he was crazy. Look at the white stuff. And before they had time to reason their way out of the pursuit, Pharaoh reminds them of what they have lost; Fathers, sons, wives and animals. And again, he gives the order to charge and to kill any who resisted.
The 600 Charioteers mounted up with an archer and spearman each to a chariot, and so did the 50,000 horsemen- and down the incline, they went in hot pursuit. The 200,000 footmen, in a quick march also joined, torches in one hand, spears in the other and swords ready at their sides. Each and everyone ignored their fear as they charged down the slope in obedience. All the priests of the temple in their golden chariots and even Pharaoh in all his gold and splendour went into this strange phenomenon; the frozen white mountains of ice on both sides getting higher and higher as they went down further. Their rage and thoughts of revenge override their common sense to be fearful of such a surreal event.
From the East, the Israelites suddenly hear the echo of hooves and the rhythmic clatter of soldiers marching fast across the same frozen ground they had just passed over. As the Israelites ascend out they can look back and see the torches of Pharaoh’s army coming down the opposite slope. It is 20 miles back, but it looks like a stream of fire as it descends down the far slope. A flowing stream of fire moving fast towards them! There are still hundreds of thousands of their people who had still not yet made it out and those who had made it out begin to sound a warning: ˜Run! RUN! RUUUNNNNN!! They’re coming after us!!
Panic begins to go through Israel! People on the other side start to look for cover and those still in the sea begin to run now, despite being tired.
As the thunder of the chariots gets louder and gets closer, many begin to tell Moses, “We could just give up and go back. Why die out here for nothing?”
As the chariots grew closer, the frost in the ground begins to give out. The wheels were so thin and the chariot with the men so heavy that they broke through the frost and became stuck in the mud. The horses, too, were stepping through the frost and no longer able to gallop. The footmen also found it difficult to quick-march with so much mud. Then, as dawn was about to break, the cloud of fire that was in front of Israel and leading them turned to the rear just as Pharaoh was closing in on the last of the stragglers coming out of the sea. And the cloud gave a glance so fearsome to Pharaoh and his chariots and his horsemen, who were just about upon the Israelites, that it scared the rebelliousness out of them. Pharaoh had finally realized he had been fighting God and he sounded the retreat. But his wheels had already come off and the horses found it hard to drag the wheel-less chariots around. And they, all in a panic, tried to retreat with great difficulty due to the mud but to no avail.
Moses then stretched out his hand as God had told him too. And as the sun broke over the horizon and began to shine on the far Westerly shore, it began to melt the ice. The last of the Israelite came up out of the sea and were safe on the shore. They were all looking at the once mighty Pharoah’s Army in retreat and wondered what was going to happen next.
Suddenly, from the far side, they could see the ice crashing down; like dominoes, the mounds of ice piled-high began to crash down all along both sides of the chasm they had just walked through. At the same time, there was lightning and thunder and heavy rain and a whirlwind and in an instant 251,200 men and horses were crushed, to death. Pharaohs army was no more. Not one person survived. No, not one.
Hi Brother Joseph
Looking at the possible dates for Passover, I have a question . . .
If we observe the memorial of the Passover sacrifice by having the Passover meal on Saturday evening, 15 March at about 19:00, just after after sunset – THEN – It would seem right to me to then light a fire on that same Sabbath afternoon at about 15:30 for roasting the leg of lamb for our Passover meal.
Would you please clarify your understanding of the Sabbath laws of not kindling a fire on the Sabbath and finishing food preparation before the sun sets for the start of the weekly Sabbath and what advice you have to offer in this case.
Thanks
SHABBAT SHALOM
Your question involves interpreting Sabbath laws in the context of preparing for a Passover meal on Saturday evening, March 15, assuming it aligns with Nisan 14/15 in the Crescent moon calendar, and how that intersects with the prohibition against kindling a fire on the Sabbath. Let’s break this down step-by-step based on biblical principles, traditional Jewish practice, and your specific scenario.
Sabbath Laws and Kindling a Fire
The biblical foundation for Sabbath observance comes from the Torah, particularly Exodus 20:8-11, which mandates resting on the seventh day (Saturday), and Exodus 35:3, which explicitly states, “You shall kindle no fire in all your dwellings on the Sabbath day.” This commandment has been interpreted by Jewish tradition to prohibit initiating or tending a fire during the Sabbath, which begins at sunset Friday and ends at sunset Saturday. The broader principle is to cease creative work (melachah), including cooking or food preparation, as outlined in the 39 categories of prohibited labor derived from the construction of the Tabernacle (Mishnah Shabbat 7:2).
In traditional Jewish practice:
All food preparation, including cooking, must be completed before sunset on Friday for the weekly Sabbath.
Fires or heat sources cannot be kindled or adjusted after the Sabbath begins, though a pre-existing flame (e.g., a candle lit before sunset) can sometimes be used indirectly, depending on the community’s customs.
Passover Timing and the Meal
Passover (Pesach) commemorates the Exodus, with the sacrificial lamb traditionally slaughtered on Nisan 14 “between the evenings” (Exodus 12:6), often understood as late afternoon, and eaten that night, which becomes Nisan 15 after sunset. In 2025, Passover dates depend on the lunar calendar:
Nisan 14 is expected to fall on March 15, based on typical alignments with the Gregorian calendar.
Your plan to start the meal at 19:00 aligns with the evening of Nisan 15 in a symbolic sense, but it coincides with the weekly Sabbath (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset).
Conflict in Your Plan
Your proposal to light a fire at 15:30 on Saturday afternoon (March 15) to roast the lamb directly conflicts with traditional Sabbath laws:
Kindling a Fire: Lighting a fire at 15:30 on Saturday violates Exodus 35:3, as it occurs during the Sabbath (which runs until after your meal time, around 20:00–21:00).
Food Preparation: Roasting the lamb starting at 15:30 implies active cooking during the Sabbath, which is prohibited under the melachah of “baking/cooking” (oheh). All food for Sabbath consumption must be fully prepared before sunset Friday.
Reconciling Passover and Sabbath
Based on biblical Sabbath laws and Jewish tradition, lighting a fire at 15:30 on Saturday, March 15, and roasting during the Sabbath violates the prohibition against kindling and cooking. The spirit of Sabbath rest and pre-preparation would suggest completing all cooking by Friday sunset. For your Passover meal at 19:00 to work within these guidelines, the lamb should be fully roasted and ready before the Sabbath begins, relying on passive heat retention thereafter.
But is this right? No you do not kill the lamb on the 13th and then keep it warm until the 15th. Lets go a bit deeper on this.
Sin Offerings on Holy Days
The Torah specifies sin offerings for each Holy Day in Numbers 28–29. Were they eaten? Let’s examine each:
Passover (Pesach) and Unleavened Bread – Nisan 15-21:
Numbers 28:22-23: One male goat as a sin offering daily during the seven days of Unleavened Bread, alongside burnt offerings.
Status: This is a communal offering for the nation. Traditionally (per Mishnah Pesachim 5:3 and later interpretation), such sin offerings were eaten by the priests unless specified otherwise. Since the blood wasn’t brought inside the sanctuary (unlike Yom Kippur), priests likely ate the flesh on the day of slaughter, within the Temple court.
Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) – Sivan 6:
Numbers 28:30: One male goat as a sin offering, with burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Leviticus 23:19: Adds a sin offering of a goat alongside two lambs (peace offerings).
Status: Communal offering. The goat’s blood was sprinkled on the altar (not inside the sanctuary), so priests ate it that day in the holy precincts, per Leviticus 6:26. The peace-offering lambs, however, were priestly portions, not lay food.
Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets) – Tishrei 1:
Numbers 29:5: One male goat as a sin offering, with burnt offerings.
Status: Communal. No indication of blood entering the sanctuary, so priests ate it on Tishrei 1 within the Temple court.
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) – Tishrei 10:
Leviticus 16:5-11, 27: Two goats—one sacrificed as a sin offering, the other sent as the scapegoat—plus a bull for the High Priest’s sin.
Numbers 29:11: An additional goat as a sin offering with burnt offerings.
Status: Unique case:
The bull and the sin-offering goat (whose blood was sprinkled in the Holy of Holies) were not eaten—they were burned outside the camp (Leviticus 16:27).
The additional goat from Numbers 29:11, a communal offering for the altar, was likely eaten by priests, as its blood stayed at the outer altar (per traditional distinction in Talmud Yoma 62a).
Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) – Tishrei 15-21:
Numbers 29:12-34: One male goat as a sin offering each day for seven days, alongside the 70 bulls (burnt offerings) and other sacrifices.
Status: Communal. Since the blood was applied to the outer altar (not inside), priests ate the flesh each day in the Temple court, per Leviticus 6:26.
Shemini Atzeret (Eighth Day) – Tishrei 22:
Numbers 29:38: One male goat as a sin offering.
Status: Communal, eaten by priests on the same day, as with Sukkot.
On each of the preceeding Holy Days except Yom Kippur the sin offerings were Eaten on the Holy Days. On Shavuot the Peace Offerings were also eaten on the Holy Day.
Yes, most sin offerings on Holy Days were eaten by the priests, with the notable exception of Yom Kippur’s inner-sanctuary offerings:
Eaten: Passover/Unleavened Bread, Shavuot, Yom Teruah, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and the additional Yom Kippur goat (Numbers 29:11). These were communal offerings where the blood stayed at the outer altar, so priests consumed the meat in the Temple court on the day of sacrifice even of that Holy Day landed on the weekly Sabbath.
Not Eaten: Yom Kippur’s bull and goat (Leviticus 16), burned outside the camp due to their heightened sanctity and the High Priest’s involvement.
Timing and Context
When: Eaten on the same day as the offering, within the Temple precincts, by male priests in a state of ritual purity (Leviticus 6:27-28).
Why: Eating completed the atonement for communal or individual sins, distinguishing sin offerings from burnt offerings (fully burned) or peace offerings (shared with offerers).
Sin offerings were eaten on most Holy Days, except where the Torah specifies burning (Yom Kippur’s inner offerings). The priests’ consumption was a sacred duty, not a casual meal, tied to the atonement process.
Yehshua was that sin offering and He even said for us to eat His flesh and this is what was meant. This was done on any day the Holy Day landed including the Sabbath. The higher sanctity of the Holy Day over ruled the rules of the Sabbath.
Summing up all of the above:
In each case the meat that was to be eaten had to be cooked whether or not it was the weekly Sabbath in order to fulfil the commandment of that Holy Day. Passover and preparing the Passover meal, the lamb that represented Yehshua and the goat at Atonement that took away our sins, must be prepared and eaten according to the commandments overriding the rules of the Sabbath when necessary. It is not to be killed on the 13th and warmed for a day until the 15th. That is just contrary to the Torah and is a takanot.
Hope this helps.
Exodus 12:16 addresses this issue clearly. And on the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.
Amazing to read this article and amazing our Elohim!! The frozen walls of water happens yes in parts of the nation during these very cold winters, and the breath of Elohim nostrils, blew the east winds as the waters parted and froze, as they do now in various places in the world, displaying his power, NOW.. absolutely beautiful article and unique. Thank you!
Greetings Joseph and friends: Lamb or a Kid of the goats?
Sacrificing a lamb for Passover and painting the doorposts and lentil, with the blood of one of the Egyptian’s chief gods’ sacred animals , sent a clear, midnight message, to Pharaoh and the Egyptians, “Of your firstborn, none survive! You and your false gods are powerless over Yehovah, the one true God”, God of the Israelites, who you just released from slavery.
The original Passover in Egypt around 1451 B.C., had nothing to do with Yeshuah as the Lamb of God – that would come later. Peter Smith
Thanks a lot for your detailed response in fully answering my question.
Brother Joseph
Brother Joseph
I appreciate the time and effort you devote to the study and research of the truths that are to be found in the bible.
Shalom
Shalom Joseph. Thank you for all your newsletters & messages. Is it only 9 more years to go to the millennium? I could be wrong. I always thought around 20 more. I am preparing myself spiritually everyday. Thank you for your guidance.