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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Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle.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 I and you 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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On the Holy Day, Passover Monday February 26, 2024, we will be having two meetings. One at 10 AM Eastern and the afternoon will be 2 PM Eastern. Look forward to seeing you all there.

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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.

Randy Cates Testimony About the Barley Search for 2024

Joseph F Dumond’s Testimony About the Barley 2024

Lev 23:9 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev 23:10 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

Lev 23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah to be received for you. On the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Lev 23:12 And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to Jehovah.

Lev 23:13 And its food offering shall be two-tenths part of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to Jehovah for a sweet savor. And the drink offering of it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

Lev 23:14 And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the same day, until you have brought an offering to your God. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Becca’s reporting of the Barley in 2015, leading up to 2016, convinced me the barley would be ready by Wave Sheaf Day in 2016. This meant I would be splitting from the Karaites who added an Adar Beit that year, and for me, this was a huge deal. But then Nehemia went out on what was our Wave Sheaf Day and did a video confirming the barley was indeed Aviv. He confirmed our beliefs. Becca’s harmonization of the seven species of the Land of Israel with the Feast of Yehovah was also of interest to me and lined up not only in 2016, but in each year up until 2023. Since 2016,  we have been one month ahead of the Karaite groups. Also, in 2023, Devorah declared an Adar Beit and went two months out from us, which caused the rest of the Karaites and Michael Roods people to split from her and go the month before.

This year, leading up to the start of 2024, we again relied on Becca’s reports. On January 10, 2023, she reported that the barley was out of the boot already and flowering. After this, I began to hear certain things she was saying in her messages that caused me concern. Randy and I discussed going to search for the barley, but I was leaning in favour of not going.

Then on February 20, 2023, Becca declared an Adar Beit, because February 20th would have been the 10th day of the month when the lambs were selected. Her new position caught me by surprise as I had not heard her state this new takanot before. You do not need barley by the 10th day of the month. You only need barley by Wave Sheaf Day. This year, Wave Sheaf Day was going to come on the very last day of Unleavened Bread, which is the 21st day of the month, March 3, 2024. This was a full 13 days after Becca’s declaration.

I was now concerned about her being biased in any future reporting, due to her new position. This new position left me with no one searching for the barley who believed that the barley must be ready by Wave Sheaf Day. Becca said she would go out on our behalf if she had to. Again, I did not feel confident in her searching on our behalf. It was only after Becca’s declaration and a day of praying that Randy and I decided to come and find out for ourselves. We left on Thursday and Arrived on Friday, February 23.

We went out on Sabbath, February 24, to do a short preliminary search and found enough barley to declare this the month of Aviv that day. But by the time we concluded our services around midnight, I had no time left to prepare the video for the public. It was already Footwashing after the Sabbath and Preparation day for Passover on Sunday. Randy and I did another exhaustive search Sunday and again found barley and posted a video. Then we all had to decide if we were going to keep Passover or not, not knowing if the barley was ready. This year it was a pure test of faith. I advised our readership to keep it based on the number of days it takes for barley to ripen based on the January 10 first report stating it was in the flowering stage. This meant it would indeed be ready by Wave Sheaf Day on March 3, 2024. All we had to do was find enough of it.

Here again is our first report.

Randy and I paid our own airfare to go. About $2000 each. We rented a car for the two weeks we would be searching-about $1800, We rented an Air BnB room for the 2 weeks, another $1700. Then there was about $60 in gas each and every day, and meals of about $200 a day. All in we are over $11,000 to do this search on behalf of the brethren and to do it in a time of war. If knowing the truth about the barley is important to you, then I hope you will help to support us in this and then again next year as we will be alone next year as well. If it is not important, then continue to doing as you were.

Each day began at 7 AM and we were out the door looking by 8 AM. We would return home by about 5 PM. Each day, Randy drove the car all day, stopping and going down back roads wherever I said to go. It was a full-time search we did in the North, the East, the West, and the South. We went out each and every day searching for the Barley except the two High Holy Days. We drove all the way to Becca’s place and picked her up to tour with us for three days and two nights. We took care of all her meals during this time, giving her a bed in our apartment and then drove her back home, not letting her take the bus or train. We had also asked Devorah and Yoel to join us but we did not hear back from them.

Randy and I even went to the Temple Mount Institute to ask the Rabbi who had done the Barley searches for the Temple in Rukhama to join us. We went above and beyond to work with all the barley searchers.

Becca had made her declaration, and there was no need for her to state anything else. While we made our second report, Becca stood beside us, agreeing that the barley in that area was almost Aviv and would be what she considered Aviv in just a few more days, which would have been our Wave Sheaf Day.

Once we took Becca home she kept asking when I would publish my report so she could then comment on it. There was no need to comment as she had already made her decision. I felt this was odd. I did not get it done until Friday, March 1, 2024.

Here it is.

It was after this report that the mud-slinging began. Armchair quarterbacks who have never been to Israel critiquing all we did and why we did it. Then Randy and I decided we needed to get even more proof the barley was Aviv to testify to our speaking the truth. We did, and this is the final report we published on March 5, 2024, two days after Wave Sheaf Day.

I have had many write to me confused about when the year begins. The month when the Passover takes place is the month of Aviv. The MONTH OF GREEN EARS.

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 same day as the death angel passed over was the day Israel left Egypt and the month was 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.

Aviv or Abib is also mentioned in these verses Exo 23:15, Exo 34:18; Deu 16:1-3

What does the word Aviv mean?

H24   (Strong) אָבִיב  ‘âbı̂yb aw-beeb’

From an unused root (meaning to be tender); green, that is a young ear of grain; hence the name of the month Abib or Nisan: – Abib, ear, green ears of corn.

H24   (Brown-Driver-Briggs) אביב  ‘âbı̂yb

BDB Definition:

1) fresh, young barley ears, barley

2) month of ear-forming, of greening of crop, of growing green Abib, month of exodus and passover

 

B) Bba% (Bba% ABB) ac: ? co: Grain ab: ?

b^m) Biba% (Biba% A-BYB) – Green Grain: The new green ears of growing grain as the parent seeds attached to the stalk (pole) of the next generation of crops. Also Abib, the name of a month in the Hebrew calendar. [freq. 8] |kjv: abib, corn| {H24}

NOTICE; IT IS TALKING ABOUT THE TIME WHEN THE BARLEY IS GREEN!!!

IT IS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE BARLEY BEING BROWN OR IS SHATTERING OR BRITTLE!!!

IT IS TENDER, NOT BRITTLE!!

We are to be looking for the month when the barley is green, not brown and shattering.

BUT…

The Barley must be at a stage when the dough can be roasted and turned into flour as shown to us in Leviticus 2. This is anywhere after day 81 of the Zadok scale below.

In the following two pictures, the Barley is turning a golden brown. It is now two days past Wave Sheaf Day. This barley is ready to be turned into dough. We could easily pick an omers worth in just this one location. We have already reported about two other areas that were ready on the first day of Passover this year. We do not need fields of ripe barley. We only need an omers worth to offer on behalf of the nation. Then the rest of the farmers can harvest when their fields are ripe, and they will not lose them to shattering because they had to wait.

Hail can easily destroy barley in the head. You do not have to wait until it is brown and brittle; hail can also destroy the barley that has headed and flowering.

So green ears of barley are what determines the month of Aviv, green ears. But they have to be ripe enough to make dough on Wave Sheaf Day. We are not looking for brown ears of barley to begin the month. That is not green ears or what the word Aviv means.

Since 2016 and even before, the Karaites have been one month late to begin the year. In 2023, Devorah’s group became two months late. Now, those following Becca will be one month late in 2024.

You do not find brown ripe ears of barley and then watch for the new moon to then determine the month of Aviv after that. No, you watch for the month with the first green ears that can be turned into flour. That is the month of Aviv, green ears. If we all lived in the land you would know just by looking out the window which month is Aviv, the month of Green Ears of Barley. That would be when the barley is heading out of the boot and has enough time to develop the dough for Wave Sheaf Day. If the dough does not materialize, then we must postpone one month.

Last week, we showed you how the Red Sea had walls like glaciers on either side as Israel went through it. We also stated to you that the Jordan was also heaped up caused by Ice jams and how Peter heated himself by the fire because it was cold out. Cold weather does not stop the barley from growing nor does rain slow it down as some are saying. Next month, which begins Sunset on March 11, 2024, is going to be the month when everything turns brown from the heat… so listen to the future reports and understand what they are showing you. Look at the facts. Our pictures above and our videos are facts. No one is attacking our facts. Instead, they attack me and Randy’s characters or teachings or anything except the facts. Our Facts speak volumes. We drove over 2600 km to search the entire country of Israel looking for barley, and we reported it to you as we found it and where we found it. Those are facts.

Yoel HaLevi has his own standards which he looks for.  Devorah has her own standards. And now Becca has hers. We have no one looking out for our standards, free from all the takanot and Mai’asim people want to add to the Torah, in order to keep the Passover in the proper time. I want to urge each and everyone of you to consider coming to Israel 12 months from now and searching for the barley. We are now forced to do our own search going forward. Will you be one of the pioneers in the restoration of the calendar of Yehovah? Once we have the whole nations doing this, there will be no need for us individuals to go out. But we are not there yet. Consider joining Randy and I next year in Jerusalem.

Counting the Omer Week Two

Deuteronomy 16:9 You shall count seven weeks to yourselves. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time you began to put the sickle to the grain.

Leviticus 23:9-14  9 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 10 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah to be received for you. On the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to Jehovah. 13 And its food offering shall be two-tenths part of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to Jehovah for a sweet savor. And the drink offering of it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the same day, until you have brought an offering to your God. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

WEEK TWO | 2 שבוע Day Eight | Devotion To the Law of Yehovah | Psalm 119:57-64

Today is the first day of the second week of seven weeks. Today is the eighth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

57 You are my portion, O יהוה ;I have promised to guard Your words. (Psalm 119:57)

58 I have sought Your face with all my heart. Show me favor according to Your Word. (Psalm 119:58)

59 I have thought upon my ways, and turned my feet to Your witnesses. (Psalm 119:59)

60 I have hurried, and did not delay to guard Your commands. (Psalm 119:60)

61 The cords of the wrong have surrounded me, Your Torah I have not forgotten. (Psalm 119:61)

62 At midnight I rise to give thanks to You, for Your righteous right-rulings. (Psalm 119:62)

63 I am a companion of all who fear You, and of those guarding Your orders. (Psalm 119:63)

64 O יהוה, Your kindness has filled the earth. Teach me Your laws. (Psalm 119:64)

Day Nine | The Value of the Law of Yehovah | Psalm 119:65-72

Today is the second day of the second week of seven weeks. Today is the ninth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

65 You have done good to Your servant, O יהוה, according to Your Word. (Psalm 119:65)

66 Teach me good sense and knowledge, for I have trusted in Your commands. (Psalm 119:66)

67 Before I was afflicted I myself was going astray, but now I have guarded Your Word. (Psalm 119:67)

68 You are good, and do good. Teach me Your laws. (Psalm 119:68)

69 The proud have forged a lie against me. With all my heart I observe Your orders. (Psalm 119:69)

70 Their heart has become like fat, without feeling. I have delighted in Your Torah. (Psalm 119:70)

71 It was good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn Your laws. (Psalm 119:71)

72 The Torah of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces. (Psalm 119:72)

Day Ten | The Justice of the Law of Yehovah | Psalm 119:73-80

Today is the third day of the second week of seven weeks. Today is the tenth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

73 Your hands have made me and formed me; make me understand, that I might learn Your commands. (Psalm 119:73)

74 Those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have waited for Your Word. (Psalm 119:74)

75 I know, O יהוה, that Your right-rulings are righteous, and in trustworthiness You have afflicted me. (Psalm 119:75)

76 Please let Your kindness be for my comfort, according to Your Word to Your servant. (Psalm 119:76)

77 Let Your compassions come to me, that I might live, for Your Torah is my delight. (Psalm 119:77)

78 Let the proud be put to shame, for with lies they perverted me; but I study Your orders. (Psalm 119:78)

79 Let those who fear You turn to me, and those who know Your witnesses. (Psalm 119:79)

80 Let my heart be perfect in Your laws, so that I am not put to shame. (Psalm 119:80)

Day Eleven | Prayer For Deliverance | Psalm 119:81-88

Today is the fourth day of the second week of seven weeks. Today is the eleventh day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

81 For Your deliverance my being has pined away, for I have waited for Your Word. (Psalm 119:81)

82 My eyes have pined away for Your Word, saying, “When would it comfort me?” (Psalm 119:82)

83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, Your laws I have not forgotten. (Psalm 119:83)

84 How many are the days of Your servant? When do You execute right-ruling on those who persecute me? (Psalm 119:84)

85 The proud have dug pits for me, which is not according to Your Torah. (Psalm 119:85)

86 All Your commands are trustworthy. They have persecuted me with lies. Help me! (Psalm 119:86)

87 They almost made an end of me on earth, but I, I did not forsake Your orders. (Psalm 119:87)

88 Revive me according to Your kindness, that I might guard the witness of Your mouth. (Psalm 119:88)

Day Twelve | In the Law of Yehovah | Psalm 119:89-96

Today is the fifth day of the second week of seven weeks. Today is the twelfth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

89 Forever, O יהוה, Your Word stands firm in the heavens. (Psalm 119:89)

90 Your trustworthiness is to all generations; You established the earth, and it stands. (Psalm 119:90)

91 According to Your right-rulings, they have stood to this day, for all are Your servants. (Psalm 119:91)

92 If Your Torah had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. (Psalm 119:92)

93 Let me never forget Your orders, for by them You have given me life. (Psalm 119:93)

94 I am Yours, save me; for I have sought Your orders. (Psalm 119:94)

95 The wrong have waited for me to destroy me; I understand Your witnesses. (Psalm 119:95)

96 I have seen an end of all perfection; Your command is exceedingly broad. (Psalm 119:96)

Day Thirteen | Love For the Law of Yehovah | Psalm 119:97-104

Today is the sixth day of the second week of seven weeks. Today is the thirteenth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

97 O how I love Your Torah1 ! It is my study all day long. (Psalm 119:97 | Footnote: 1 See also vv. 119:113, 119:119, 119:127, 119:163, 119:165, 119:167)

98 Your commands make me wiser than my enemies; for it is ever before me. (Psalm 119:98)

99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your witnesses are my study. (Psalm 119:99)

100 I understand more than the aged, for I have observed Your orders. (Psalm 119:100)

101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I might guard Your Word. (Psalm 119:101)

102 I have not turned aside from Your right-rulings, for You Yourself have taught me. (Psalm 119:102)

103 How sweet to my taste has Your Word been, more than honey to my mouth! (Psalm 119:103)

104 From Your orders I get understanding; therefore I have hated every false way. (Psalm 119:104)

Day Fourteen | Light From the Law of Yehovah | Psalm 119:105-112

Today is the seventh day of the second week of seven weeks. Today is the fourteenth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath. Today is Sabbath, the second Sabbath of seven Sabbaths. Today completes the second week of seven weeks.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

105 Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105)

106 I have sworn, and I confirm, to guard Your righteous right-rulings. (Psalm 119:106)

107 I have been afflicted very much; O יהוה, revive me according to Your Word. (Psalm 119:107)

108 Please accept the voluntary offerings of my mouth, O יהוה, and teach me Your right-rulings. (Psalm 119:108)

109 My life is in my hand continually, and Your Torah I have not forgotten. (Psalm 119:109)

110 The wrong have laid a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your orders. (Psalm 119:110)

111 Your witnesses are my inheritance forever, for they are the joy of my heart. (Psalm 119:111)

112 I have inclined my heart to do Your laws forever, to the end. (Psalm 119:112)

Second Passover

The Passover Celebrated

Num 9:1  And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Num 9:2  Let the sons of Israel also keep the Passover at its appointed time.

Num 9:3  In the fourteenth day of this month, between the evenings, you shall keep it in its appointed time. You shall keep it according to all its statutes, and according to all the ceremonies of it.

Num 9:4  And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel to prepare the Passover.

Num 9:5  And they prepared the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so all the sons of Israel did.

Num 9:6  And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, so that they could not prepare the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Num 9:7  And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of Jehovah in its appointed time among the sons of Israel?

Num 9:8  And Moses said to them, You wait, and I will hear what Jehovah will command about you.

Num 9:9  And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying,

Num 9:10  Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean because of a dead body, or in a journey afar off, he shall still keep the Passover to Jehovah.

Num 9:11  They shall keep it the fourteenth day of the second month at evening, eating it with unleavened cakes and bitter herbs.

Num 9:12  They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any bone of it. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.

Num 9:13  But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and holds back from preparing the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because he did not bring the offering of Jehovah in His appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.

Num 9:14  And if a stranger shall live among you, and prepares the Passover to Jehovah, he shall do according to the ordinance of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and for him that was born in the land.

This year 2024 has been a testing year in the first year of the 10 Years of Awe. It is a time of judging by Yehovah. I know the calendar issues are hard to understand at times, and when you have people you trust bringing a different reports, it becomes even harder. I know Hezekiah got to do a do-over with the remnant of Israel and keep the second Passover when they all missed the first one.

Passover Celebrated

2Ch 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Jehovah, the God of Israel.

2Ch 30:2 And the king and his leaders, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, took counsel to keep the Passover in the second month.

2Ch 30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not made themselves pure enough, nor had the people gathered to Jerusalem.

2Ch 30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

2Ch 30:5 And they established a decree to send a notice throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Jehovah, the God of Israel at Jerusalem. For not many of themhad done as it was written.

2Ch 30:6 And the runners went with the letters from the king and his rulers to Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, O sons of Israel, turn again to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped out of the hands of the king of Assyria.

2Ch 30:7 And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers who sinned against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and He made them for a horror, as you see.

2Ch 30:8 And do not be stiffnecked like your fathers. Yield yourselves to Jehovah and enter into His temple which He has sanctified forever. And serve Jehovah your God, so that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

2Ch 30:9 For if you turn again to Jehovah, your brothers and your sons will have mercies before those who lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land. For Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.

2Ch 30:10 And the runners passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. But they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

2Ch 30:11 However, men from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

2Ch 30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the command of the king and of the rulers, by the Word of Jehovah.

2Ch 30:13 And many people gathered at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

2Ch 30:14 And they arose and took away the altars in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and threw them into the torrent Kidron.

2Ch 30:15 And they killed the Passover on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed and made themselves pure, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of Jehovah.

2Ch 30:16 And they stood in their place in their manner, according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood from the hand of the Levites.

2Ch 30:17 For many in the congregation were not sanctified. And the Levites were over the killing of the passovers for every one who was not clean, to sanctify them to Jehovah.

2Ch 30:18 For many of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not been cleansed, but ate the Passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, May the good LORD pardon everyone

2Ch 30:19 who prepares his heart to seek God, Jehovah, the God of his fathers, though not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

2Ch 30:20 And Jehovah listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.

2Ch 30:21 And the sons of Israel found at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness. And the Levites and the priests praised Jehovah day by day with loud instruments to Jehovah.

2Ch 30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of Jehovah. And they ate the appointed things seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 30:23 And the whole gathering agreed to keep another seven days. And they kept another seven days with gladness.

2Ch 30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep. And the rulers gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. And a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

2Ch 30:25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.

2Ch 30:26 And there was great joy in Jerusalem. For from the days of Solomon the son of David the king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.

2Ch 30:27 And the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people. And their voice was heard, and their prayer came to His holy dwelling-place, to Heaven.

It is also my understanding that Noah buried his grandfather Methuselah, who was born in 687 after Creation and died at the age of 969. This means he died in the year of the flood. If Noah had to bury his Grandfather in 1656, then it is possible it was during the time of or just before Passover in the first month. For this reason, I speculate that Noah could not keep the first Passover but kept it in the second month on the 15th day. After the Holy Day was kept, then the waters were let loose on the 17th day of the 2nd month.

Gen 7:11  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened up.

The dates for the second Passover this year will be on March 26, starting the night before. Ask Yehovah if this is OK to do and celebrate it with Him at this time. He will know your heart. The testing is going to get even harder as we get closer to the end. If you are keeping March 26 as the 2nd Passover date, then all the other Holy Days are counted from the Firat Passover or month of Aviv and not the second. So Shavuot will still be on Sunday, April 21, 2024.

We have explained how there are many people who keep the commandments in the book of Revelation, and yet they do not flee with the woman into the wilderness. Those who don’t flee are then martyred by the Beast. Why do they not flee? I propose it is because they are keeping Passover one month later. Does that sound exactly like the problem we are wrestling with this year? It is time to take Yehovah very seriously; in just 6 more years, this final test will happen, but those on the wrong side will be martyred. I am not trying to scare you, but I am telling all of you to come to grips with all the calendar issues and begin to understand how to determine the holy days. Your lives depend on it.

Rev 12:13  And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who bore the man child .

Rev 12:14  And two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the serpent’s face.

Rev 12:15  And the serpent cast out of his mouth water like a flood after the woman, so that he might cause her to be carried away by the river.

Rev 12:16  And the earth helped the woman. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

Rev 12:17  And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

‘Ramadan – Month of Jihad’ : Ramadan Will Not Stop Hamas From Killing Jews

by Bassam Tawil
March 8, 2024

International mediators and world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, are hoping to secure a ceasefire deal between Israel and the Iran-backed Hamas terror group before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which starts on March 10.

On March 5, Biden warned of potential problems without a ceasefire deal by Ramadan. “There’s got to be a ceasefire because Ramadan – if we get into circumstances where this continues to Ramadan, Israel and Jerusalem could be very, very dangerous,” he told reporters in Washington.

Such statements are undoubtedly based on the extremely false assumption that Muslims do not engage in wars and armed conflicts during the month of fasting. In fact, the opposite is true. As the New York Times reported “It is widely believed that the rewards earned for noble acts are greater during Ramadan….”

“In the holy month of Ramadan,” according to fatwa 1566/10013/L=1431, “the reward of virtues is increased.”

Uninformed Western statements also ignore that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have never hesitated to use Jewish holidays to wage war, carry out terrorist attacks and murder Jews, including October 7, 2023, which was the Jewish Sabbath and the Simchat Torah holiday — not to mention the launch of the Yom Kippur War by Egypt and Syria.

Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have long been using Ramadan to carry out terrorist attacks against Israel.

Hamas, through its military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, even published an article entitled, “Ramadan – The Month of Jihad, Fighting, and Victory over the Enemies.”

During the fasting month of Ramadan, Hamas claimed, “the Jihad fighter dedicates himself to the study of Islam by day he sets forth to defend his homeland, Palestine, by night.”

The article harked back to the 2014 Israel-Hamas war, part of which took place during Ramadan. “This month has seen the actualization of exceptional Islamic victories,” the group said. During the war, the article claimed, “the Palestinian resistance, chiefly the al-Qassam Brigades, fought the most impressive battles of heroism and martyrdom.”

In 2022, the Hamas website posted : “We welcome the blessed month of Ramadan, the month of jihad, martyrdom, and mighty victories.”

In May 2021, the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera TV station, which serves as a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, published on its website an article headlined, “Month of Jihad and Victories: How the Palestinian Resistance Turned Ramadan into the Season of Attacks and Victories.” The author, Adnan Abu Amer, a Palestinian political science lecturer at Al-Ummah University in Gaza, listed a long line of deadly attacks by the Palestinian terror organizations – against both soldiers and civilians, including suicide bombings – that were deliberately carried out during Ramadan.

In Ramadan in 2017, for example, three terrorists – members of the Jabarin family of the Israeli Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, murdered two Israeli Border Police officers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem.

A year earlier, also during Ramadan, two Palestinian cousins, Mohammed and Khalil Mukhamara, carried out a shooting attack in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market, murdering four Israelis and wounding 40 others.

During Ramadan in 2015, a Palestinian terrorist carried out a stabbing attack against two Israeli police officers near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Abu Amer also pointed out that the 2014 Israel-Hamas war coincided with Ramadan and served as a model for resistance groups because it included “the most prominent acts of heroism by the resistance in the history of Palestine and the conflict with the occupation.”

According to Amer:

“Every year, at the beginning of Ramadan, the military branches of the Palestinian resistance factions stress that this is a [special] month, in which the jihad fighters pray during the daytime and defend their Palestinian homeland during the night. It is a month marked by outstanding Muslim victories, and the month during which the resistance carried out [its] most impressive wars of heroism and sacrifice. It is the custom of the resistance to step up its activity during Ramadan. The Ramadan atmosphere increases the readiness for sacrifice, due to its religious and psychological effect, which is automatically felt by the resistance fighters.”

In 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another Gaza-based Iran-backed terror proxy, fired rockets into Israel during Ramadan. During that Ramadan, Palestinians in the West Bank and east Jerusalem rioted, burned tires, threw rocks, shot fireworks and clashed with Israeli police officers and soldiers. The Palestinians also chanted slogans praising the terrorist leaders of Hamas.

Throughout history, Muslims have taken advantage of Ramadan to wage war against their enemies. Five historic Islamic battles were fought in the month of Ramadan: Battle of Badr, Conquest of Mecca, Battle of Tabuk, Battle of Amin Jalut, and Battle of Hattin.

So, while non-Muslims such as Biden appear to be worried about violence and bloodshed during Ramadan, the Palestinian terror groups have repeatedly shown quite an appetite for it during their own holy month by engaging in terrorism and murdering Jews.

During the Jewish holiday of Passover in 2002, while 250 guests of the Park Hotel in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya were celebrating the traditional Passover Seder in the hotel dining room, Abdel Basset Oder, a Palestinian suicide bomber disguised as a woman, entered the hotel with a suitcase containing powerful explosives. He detonated the bomb, killing 30 civilians and wounding 150 others. Some of the victims were Holocaust survivors; most were senior citizens (70 and over).

The Palestinian terror groups have long demonstrated that they do not care about any holiday – Muslim or Jewish – when it comes to advancing their goal of murdering Jews. Those who believe that Hamas seeks a ceasefire ahead of Ramadan are deluding themselves. Those who are concerned about the sanctity of the holy month ought to listen to what the terrorists themselves are saying: Ramadan actually increases their desire for Jewish blood.

Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East.

New Moon of the 2nd Month

The new moon of the second month will be seen this Monday evening after sunset. Are you watching? It is only by searching for the new crescent moon that you will begin to understand the meaning of No Man can know the day or the hour. It will also be the start of Ramadan for Islam.

How Much is An Omer?

We are commanded to wave an Omer of Barley for Wave Sheaf Day. Do the math and double check my numbers. Links are there for you to check yourselves.

1 Omer is equal to 2.1999998929 Liters

1 Omer is also equal to 0.0624307021 Bushels of Grains

You can grow approximately 50 to 60 bushels of barley per acre if planted. To grow 1 bushel, divide by 50 or 60. The amount of land needed to grow 1 bushel then is 1 /50 or 1/60 of an acre.

One Acre is equal to 43560 square feet.  So now divide 43560 by 50, and you get 871.2 square feet needed to grow one bushel of barley, or divide 43560 by 60 to get 726 square feet to grow one bushel of barley.

But we only need 0.0624307021 bushels to equal one Omer. So now we multiply, 871.2 by 0.0624307021 to get 54.38962766972 square feet of land to raise up one omer of barley. In other words you need an area just over 10 feet wide by 5 feet long.

And or 726 by 0.0624307021 to get 45.3246897246 square feet to grow one omer of barley. In other words, you need an area that is 9 feet long by 5 feet wide. Basically the size of your kitchen is all you need to collect one omer of barley.