It Was A Riddle Not A Command

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You Can Learn the Secret Meaning of:

No One Knows the Day of the Hour

 Why does no One Know When Jesus was born?

When Does the Thief in the Night Come?

Why Are the Foolish Virgins Rejected?

No One Knows The Day or The Hour is a Hebrew idiom or parable.

Jesus spoke in parables to conceal His message which He later explained to the Apostles.

No One Knows The Day or the Hour is telling you the very day He will come back on! 

The exact opposite to what you thought it said!

This is the very same day when He first came.

The Book of Revelation Tells you the very day and hour He was born.

You are given clues in Revelation about the thief that comes in the night, about being caught naked and ashamed. All of these clues tell you about the very day He is coming back.

Paul wrote to the Thessalonians telling them they had no need to write them about the Day of the Lord

FOR THEY KNEW FULL WELL THE MOEDIM!!!

Knowing the Moedim shows you the Day and Hour No Man Can Know.

We are also told about the Two Witnesses in the Book of Revelation…
What revelations do the Two Witnesses show you about the birth of Jesus?

There was a heavenly Host praising God when Jesus was born.
This, too, tells you the Day He was born.

Are you aware that the 5 Foolish Virgins did not understand what the Thief in the Night was?
Do You?

All these questions and so much more are explained in detail.
It was a Riddle for us to figure out.
It was not a command that we could not know.
We can KNOW.
YOU Can Know!

Thoroughly researched and profoundly significant!

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There just isn’t a better book on Christian prophecy than this! What an eye opener!

Of the many books and articles that I have read on prophecy in my personal search for truth, this is the only one that does not rely on old ideas that were developed hundreds of years ago when knowledge was minimal. So much more has been learned through historical and archeological research. The world has changed so much that before now no one could have clearly envisioned how prophecy might play out.

I think the average Christian doesn’t realize that recent developments in technology and huge increases in knowledge offer us a unique opportunity to raise the veil so that we might see clearly what was once hidden behind a dark glass.

After learning about these things and seriously considering the Bible, with a willingness to set aside my traditional beliefs about prophecy, I have come to the conclusion that this book is inspired by God. Mr. Dumond presents compelling information that overturns long held assumptions and unverified beliefs making the entire body of prophetic knowledge fully accessible. As a matter of fact I think that just about anyone with no previous knowledge of the Bible would understand things that scholars have devoted their lives to explaining.

I would like everyone to know what is being shown in the pages of this book. No serious truth seeker should pass up the opportunity to have their eyes opened through its revelations. I believe it is the most important book ever written,- next to the Bible itself.

Thank you Joseph Dumond.

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One lady, a newsletter reader and occasional zoom midrash participator,  took it upon herself to begin contact other assemblies and churches in order to have me come and present our banners to them. She has organized three so far. I am going to go and teach them the Jubilee message. Many of you could do a similar thing if you want to. Here is her story.

Hello, My name is Fayvah Steffie from Pennsylvania and I am part of The East Coast Prophecy Tour.

The East Coast Prophecy Tour and this is how it all came about.

 

With all of us gearing in to the end times and seasons; Anita Diltz and I did a book club and our first launch was The Stones Cry Out Part  1.

It was a blast of information! I am in great anticipation in reading Part 2 about the Tombstones!!! If you want to know the truth of some things – read these books! I have been dumbfounded about the jubilee cycles- never understood why we don’t know. Well now I do understand these cycles after reading Joe Dumond’s book.

Many things happened to bring this truth about in my life and a vision. I went on a trip to Greece in May with Joshua Aaron that was amazing.

Lo and behold our Greek Tour Guide started telling us about a tomb stone they found!

Joshua Aaron, Emma, and Israel Tour Guide-Tisha

 

 Walking in Greece – 2 things – It felt like I was walking with Y’Shua in Paul’s steps! But the realty of it was  and the most explanatory is that we are all like the fictional Indiana Jones daring expeditions in today’s antisemitic world.

Every year as a follower of Y’Shua I ask Him what event do you want me to do and I pray.

This year after finishing up the book club I asked? How can we further this truth in what we learned?

I had a vision going from one church to another -one group to another -one synagogue to another! For time is short! Well Abbah I need your help if you want me to do this and a 2nd verification! Then without saying anything my sister Anita Diltz says Oh Fayvah you should invite Joe to come to Pennsylvania. Then  brother and teacher Neil Bush  said you should invite Joe to come to Pennsylvania.   Neil has done extensive studies in looking at Joe”s literature and relaying to our Torah group.  So that was the 2nd verification to go forward with the vision I had.

Ok here we go; let’s get the show on the road!

My goal is to keep all the groups intertwined but yet each one is distinct in their own practices for the Glory of Yah!

We are in this together and together we shall stand!

May the truth go out on this tour and even the last gentile come in. We give all the glory to Abbah Father.

Blessings

Fayvah Steffie

Yes, we are going to be doing this one in both Spanish and English. Help us share the information and contact Fayvah if want to consider having me come to your assembly and present this information. All you have to do is feed me.

A big thanks to our very first underwriter of the podcast. Joseph Dumond is an international speaker. He teaches the ancient roots of the Gaelic people at Sightedmoon.com.

You’ll hear me mention him in each episode of the podcast at the end of the show. This is not exactly advertising. It’s awareness promotion. I have no more than four more slots available every month if you, your business or your band want to be mentioned as an underwriter of the podcast.

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?

I got this awesome endorsement and I want to share it here now. with you.

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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Get your copy today. If you want a paperback copy, I have them on Amazon for the least amount they would let me post them there. Order both of them and start to understand the history of how these changes affect those who follow Yehovah and keep His Feasts.

I would like to add this recent comment to encourage you all to get this book and learn these truths. And the Book is FREE. You have no reason not to get it.

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.

Allow me to share this endorsement of our latest book again. If you have read our books, please share your thoughts about them with us in the comments below or email me.

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.

Sombra Wilson

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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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.

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Shalom Shalom Bro Joseph, to you & your family!!!

 

My dear friend & spiritual Sister Fayvah in Pennsylvania, who is helping to expand your USA tour, has sent me your tour info.  And I just read your “about” message regarding your history & ministry work and it’s such an answer to my prayers!!!!

 

I hate being confused, & I had planned to do the research, but sadly I did not do it.

 

I’ve been praying to know the true calendar for obedience, & to know more prophetic info to help in my fishing for the CHOSEN ONES!!!  HalleluYah!!

 

I’m going to prayerfully visit area churches & synagogues here in Tucson, AZ in hopes that they will be open to learn more.

 

Praise YAH that you have stayed faithful to do the work HE has called you to!!!  What a huge blessing your work is to me & so many others!!!

 

Praying for safety at all times  & abundance in all goodness for your ministry & for your loved ones!

 

 

Shalom Shalom,

 

Barbie

Why Are We Keeping The Feast A Month Ahead of Everyone Else?

We are in the 40 days of repentance leading up to the Day of Atonement when the books are closed. If your name is not found in that book, then you will not be in the Kingdom. Many people are unaware of the significance of the Feast Days. They are found in Leviticus 23, and they are for all mankind. They are not just for the Jews.

Exo 12:49 There shall be one law to the native, and to the visitor that stays among you.

Lev 24:22 One judgment shall be for you whether an alien or a native; for I am Jehovah your God.

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.

Num 15:15 One ordinance for you of the congregation and also for the stranger that resides with you, an ordinance forever in your generations. As you are, so the stranger shall be before Jehovah.

Num 15:16 One law and one way shall be for you and for the stranger that lives with you.

In the Kingdom of God, there will be one law. The same law that has always been. It is and has always been men who have changed Yehovah’s laws.

Mal 3:6 For I am Jehovah, I change not. Because of this you sons of Jacob are not destroyed.

Mal 3:7 From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says Jehovah of Hosts. But you say. In what way shall we return?

The current Hillel calendar came to be created in the year 358 C.E. But on the Tombstone of Zoar they did not begin to implement it until 432 and 444 C.E. Those are the earliest dates I can find where they changed record keeping from Aviv to Tishri to begin the year and from using the crescent moon to begin the month to using the conjunction moon. We have recorded this in our books, The Stone Cry Out, Part One and Two. You can get your free copies at https://sightedmoon.com/the-stones-cry-out-lp/. Just click on the link, fill in the form, and start reading right away.

At Sightedmoon.com, we have learned when each calendar came into creation. We have documented those dates in The Stone Cry Out books. The Enoch, Zadok, Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Book of Jubilee Calendars all can be easily proven false, and we show you how to do that in The Stones Cry Out.

This week, I am showing you the calendar Yehovah uses. The same one that the Mishnah records was being used before the Temple was destroyed. The Mishnah was the first book written to record the ceremonies that took place at the temple. They wanted a record because they feared they would not be going back for many years. Rabbi Akiva began this collection before 135 C.E., when he was killed at the end of the Bar Kochba Revolt. That was 65 years after the Temple was destroyed. Rabbi Yehuda then redacted his notes and created the Mishnah in 180 C.E., 110 years after the temple was destroyed and 150 years after Yehshua was killed.

You can read about the Barley ceremony at this link from the Mishnah and this one as well. You can read about the First Fruits of Wheat and then the first fruits of wine, figs, pomegranates, dates and olives at this link.  Yes, I am giving you the links so you can look them up yourselves. The first fruits of each species was given at a specific time of year. Barley was given on Wave Sheaf Day during the 7 Days of Unleavened Bread. This was the first Chag or going up to the Temple. The second Chag was Shavuot, when the first fruits of wheat made into two loaves were offered up. The third Chag was at Sukkot when the first fruits of wine, along with the figs, pomegranates, dates and olives were offered.

None of these first fruits depended on the equinox. They were entirely dependent on Yehovah’s decision to make them ripe, which could be achieved by sending the rains or stopping them. In the video you are about to watch, you will hear the witnesses testify how the drought made the crops ripen earlier. Yes, Yehovah did that. But you will also hear how none of them changed their position to come alongside Yehovah once they saw the evidence.

We are now in the final 10 years of awe leading up to the time Satan will be locked away at Atonement in 2033. We, as the bride, must be making ourselves white and being spotless. This means perfecting our walk and not remaining the same for convenience’s sake. But when we see errors, we change and repent.

I pray that each of you watches this video and then shares it each day on your social platforms until the Feast of Trumpets comes, and we then know when the fall feast days are. You can find them on our website at Sightedmoon.com.

Barley Review of 2025: The Barley, The Wheat and the Grapes.

50 Days after Trumpets…

The Day of Atonement

(This article is from our Newsletter September 16-17, 2013, 5849-032)

Some will argue that this day is not a day of fasting. Is that right? What are you to do on this day?

We all know that on the Day of Atonement, Satan, the Azazel Goat in Leviticus 16, is going to be led away and locked up for the 7th Millennium.

All we have to do is compare Leviticus 16, which explains the Day of Atonement ceremonies, with Revelation 20, where this ceremony becomes a reality. Always remember the Holy Days are shadow pictures of future events.

Col 2:16 Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast or of the new moon or of the Sabbaths. 17 For these are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.

Lev 16:20 And when he has made an end of reconciling the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the sins of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send away by the hand of a chosen man into the wilderness. 22 And the goat shall bear on him all their sins to a land in which no one lives. And he shall let the goat go in the wilderness. 23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall strip off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the sanctuary, and shall leave them there.

And notice when you read Lev 16 just how many times you are told this is a statute FOREVER.

Lev 16:29 And it shall be a statute forever to you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work at all, the native and the alien who is staying among you. 30 For on that day an atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you, so that you may be clean from all your sins before Jehovah. 31 It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.

Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from Heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. 3 And he cast him into the abyss and shut him up and set a seal on him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that he must be loosed a little time.

Here are some other facts for those of you who are new to The Day of Atonement:  http://www.splanescorner.us/thread_of_atonement.htm

In this respect, several passages in the Talmud give textual testimony to the historical background to the events of Yom Kippur during the time of Yehshua’s death and resurrection, and provide us with information about the rituals concerning the Day of Atonement practiced during the Second Temple and Talmudic period (broadly dated between 536 B.C.E. and 500 C.E).

According to the Talmud, Yehovah publicly indicated His acceptance of Israel’s sin offering and their forgiveness through the use of a scarlet thread. The basic purpose of the scarlet thread was to “display publicly” to the people of Israel that G-d had forgiven their sins, based on the verse in Isaiah 1:18, “though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow.”8

According to the Mishna (the earliest rabbinic interpretation of the biblical commandment) the High Priest divided a thread of crimson wool, tied one half to the rock at the peak of the mountain from which the scapegoat was to be cast down, and the other half between the horns of the scapegoat itself. The goat was then pushed from behind, and “went rolling down and before it had reached half its way down it was dashed to pieces” (Yoma 6:6).

The Talmudic discussions in the Gemara (the commentary on the Mishnah) on this early practice provide different accounts of this ritual and disagree as to the reasons for the changes in practice that also occurred. In the tractate Rosh Hashanah, which deals with the commandments regulating the New Year, the Sages claim that the thread was originally tied to the outside of the door of the Temple. Apparently, the people would gather to see if the thread had turned white. If it did, “the people rejoiced, and if it did not turn white they were sad.” Therefore, the Sages ruled that the thread should be tied to the inside of the door, out of view of the public eye. However, the people “still peeped in and saw.” Once again, “if it turned white they rejoiced and if it did not turn white they were sad” (Rosh Hashanah 31b).

According to the mishna in Yoma, however, because the distance from Jerusalem to Beit Hararo (the mountain off of which the scapegoat was thrown) was three miles, it took time for the news to arrive that the scapegoat had, in fact, reached the wilderness. The thread which had been tied to the rock was therefore also tied to the door of the Temple itself. Thus, without having to wait for the news to arrive from the desert, the people would visually see that G-d had received the sacrifice of the scapegoat and that their sins had been atoned for and forgiven (Yoma 6:8).9

Although the motivations and some of the practical uses of the scarlet thread are obscure, its theological significance remains clear: G-d not only demonstrated His forgiveness of the people and the atonement of their sins, but He did so publicly, by turning the scarlet thread white so that it should be visible to the people.

A further point concerning the scarlet thread lies in the fact that in the tractate Rosh Hashanah it is raised in the middle of a debate concerning the identity of nine regulations laid down by Rabban Johanan ben Zaccai. Rabban Johanan was one of the few survivors of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C. E., and was among the leading Pharisaic Sages who laid the foundation for the establishment of rabbinic Judaism following the collapse of the Temple and its sacrificial system. He was thus alive and active in religious life in Jerusalem around the time of Yehshua’s death and resurrection (c. 27-30 C.E.). (Yehshua died in 31 C.E., not 30 like many say; and when you count from this date, you will count 40 years to the Temple’s destruction in 70 C.E.) In the continuation of the same section of the Talmud, the text says that during Rabban Johanan’s lifetime:

“For forty years before the destruction of the Temple the thread of scarlet never turned white but it remained red. “(Rosh Hashanah31b).10

According to these Jewish sources, during the forty years following Yehshua’s death up until the destruction of the Temple when the sacrificial system ceased, the scarlet thread never turned white. This indicated that G-d no longer accepted the sacrifice of the scapegoat to atone for Israel’s sins.

Paul’s text is thus confirmed by the talmudic evidence. Yehshua’s crucifixion, around 31 C.E., displayed publicly “G-d’s forgiveness, and occurred at the same historical time when, according to rabbinic sources, the scarlet thread which was contemporarily regarded as the symbol of G-d’s forgiveness ceased to turn white (forty years before the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E.), indicating that the scapegoat was unable to effect the forgiveness of Israel’s sin.”  Yehshua Himself had become the scapegoat, whose blood atoned for Israel’s sins.

Returning to the question posed at the beginning of this article. What are we to do on this Day of Atonement? Do we fast and not eat any food or water from sunset to sunset or is there another purpose meant here?

We have written to you at the beginning of the 40 days of Repentance of the need for all of us to do this. These 40 days conclude with the Day of Atonement.

Many of you who have come out of being lied to in your former Christian faith absolutely refuse to do anything that you cannot find in your own bible.

In fact, I have stated to you many times, “If it ain’t in Lev 23, then why on earth are you celebrating it?” I have said this regarding Chanukah and Purim.

And then I tell you to observe this Jewish tradition of repentance during the 40 days leading up to Atonement, a tradition.

In that article I explained to you how these 40 days are symbolic of the 40 years that lead up to the locking away of Satan, which, according to the Jubilee cycles, will take place in the year 2033 in the fall, on the Day of Atonement, thus making the start year of these 40 years in 1994. This last Jubilee cycle began in 1996 with the 49th year in 1995. This also tells us that 2014 is the half-way point during these 40 years. I have some ideas but do not have solid conclusions as to what all of this means.

In a recent article, I remind you again about the 10 Days of Awe and encourage you to be mindful of this period.  Last Shabbat I told you about Shabbat Shuva. All of which are not found in Lev 23, but are in fact some of the “traditions” of Judah.

I have explained to you that these 10 Days of Awe are representative of the final 10 years before Satan is locked away. The 10 Days of Awe are the time when Yehshua will execute judgment on the world for having destroyed all 12 tribes and just about wiped them out. Yes, this is genocide on a significant scale and is about to begin. Only a small remnant will remain.

Yehshua begins these 10 years of punishment on the world through the two witnesses and then the last 3 ½ years of the Great Tribulation, which culminates in the locking away of Satan.

The 40 days of repentance is a process we all need to go through yearly and daily to remove whatever it is that keeps us from joining Yehovah; from being close with Him and from obeying his commands.

The final Ten days of Awe are also in line with this, deeply humbling ourselves. The climax of these things is the last Great Tribulation. It is also the last Jubilee cycle, which we are now living in, the 120th one, which the parameters of how long men would rule was defined to us by Yehovah in Gen 6:3.

The atrocities of the wars we see on TV around us, the massive die-offs in nature and the pollution of our water and earth, are the real life events that have been increasing and getting worse day by day and year by year. These headline news stories are the reality of the things that go with the 40 days of repentance. We need to see our part in the evils that are in this world and how we are causing this. We can no longer point the finger at them or that company. We all must stop being like Adam blaming Eve and Eve blaming Satan. Each of us must stand up and confess our own guilt in the destruction of this world and those things around us. Even the curses in Revelation are the result of extreme heat, which is the second of the curses in Leviticus 26.

In 2024 we will begin in reality the 10 Days/years of Awe. This is when the bridegroom comes to take vengeance on the nations. 2024 is just before 2026  where it says in Daniel 8 and the 2300 Days we are to be trampled. This over-lap of the 2300 days, which end in 2026, and the start of the 10 Years of vengeance is similar to the Exodus when Israel was protected after the 3rd curse. All the world will so hate us, but come 2026, the two witnesses will begin to rescue the remnant.

Dan 9:26 And after sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of the ruler who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And the end of it shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, until the end shall be war.

In this verse the city is Jerusalem that will be destroyed, but the word used for Sanctuary is not the Holy Place. This word actually is the Saints. It is the Saints that are destroyed.

This is again confirmed with the proper interpretation in Daniel ch. 8:

Dan 8:11 Yea, he magnified himself, even to the ruler of the host, and the daily sacrifice was taken away by him, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 12 And an army was given to him against the daily sacrifice because of transgression, and it cast the truth to the ground. And it worked and succeeded. 13 Then I heard a certain holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that one who spoke, Until when shall the vision last, concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression that astounds, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled? 14 And he said to me, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be vindicated.

The word sanctuary here is not the Holy of Holies but in truth is the saints. It is the Saints that are going to be cast down and trampled. The Saints are the tribes of Israel; all 12 tribes today.

We have explained in many articles how 10% will be all that are left of all the tribes of Israel; 10%- a remnant.

The population of the USA is 330,000,000. 10% of that is 33 Million. That is all that will survive, that is all that will be alive come 2033.

The population of the Britain is 54,000,000. 10% of that is 5.4 Million. That is all that will survive, that is all that will be alive come 2033.

The population of the Canada is 30,000,000. 10% of that is 3 Million. That is all that will survive, that is all that will be alive come 2033.

The population of the Australia is 22,000,000. 10% of that is 2 Million. That is all that will survive, that is all that will be alive come 2033.

In our next book “The 70 Shabua of Daniel” we explain this in great detail and will do so at Sukkot this year in Tennessee. (Edit, this book title became the 2300 Days of Hell, remember this article is written in 2013)

So what does this mean?

Well let’s go back to our original question. Are we to fast on this Day of Atonement?

All of these events follow the five curses laid out for you in Leviticus 26 for not keeping the Sabbatical and Jubilee years.

I have said it many times and do so again now; your entire Bible revolves around the knowledge and understanding of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years and the Holy Days of Leviticus 23. If you do not know them or understand them, then you do not know nor can you properly understand your Bible and prophecy. It is impossible to do so. So learn about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years as quickly as you can if you want to know the heart of your Father in heaven.

All five curses of Leviticus 26 have been played out during this current and last Jubilee cycle that you are living in right now. They are the judgment that is upon the House of Israel right now.

Right now, you are in the 3rd Sabbatical cycle, the 4th year of this 3rd Sabbatical cycle. The Curse of the 4th cycle of war begins in 2017 and goes to 2023. The fifth and last curse of captivity begins in 2024, which is the start of the 10 years of Awe, and this fifth curse goes until the year of Shabbat Shuva, the year of returning to the land of Israel, just before the great Tribulation begins in 2030. And the Tribulation begins in 2030 and goes to 2033.

Again, once all five curses are played out, then we are told in Leviticus 26 what we are to do if we want to survive. These curses are for Israel and they are to provoke her to return to the covenant we made at Sinai with Yehovah. But because we broke that covenant these curses are now upon us.

Lev 26:40 If they shall confess their willfulness and the willfulness of their fathers, with their sin which they sinned against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me, 41 I also will walk contrary to them and will bring them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then pay for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham I will remember. And I will remember the land. 43 The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lies waste without them. And they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities; because, even because they despised My judgments, and because their soul hated My statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I hate them, to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them. For I am Jehovah their God. 45 But for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, so that I might be their God. I am Jehovah. 46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which Jehovah made between Him and the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Take special notice of this one line. “If then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then pay for their iniquity”

The word “Humbled” here is H3665 kaw-nah’
A primitive root; properly to bend the knee; hence to humiliate, vanquish: – bring down (low), into subjection, under, humble (self), subdue.

On the Day of Atonement we are to do what?

Lev 23:26 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 27 Also, on the tenth of this seventh month, this is a day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. And you shall afflict your souls and offer a fire offering to Jehovah. 28 And you shall do no work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, in order to make an atonement for you before Jehovah your God. 29 For any soul who is not humbled in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 30 And any soul who does any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. 31 You shall do no kind of work. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be to you a sabbath of rest, and you shall humble your souls. In the ninth of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your sabbath.

Take special note of “For any soul who is not humbled in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.”

The word humbled here is afflicted H6031 aw-naw’
A primitive root (possibly rather identical with H6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress literally or figuratively, transitively or intransitively (in various applications). (sing is by mistake for H6030.): – abase self, afflict (-ion, self), answer [by mistake for H6030], chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing [by mistake for H6030], speak [by mistake for H6030], submit self, weaken, X in any wise.

We are to humble our hearts. In the same way, we are told we will be doing after all of these curses are played out in our own lives.

Those who do not humble their hearts will be cut off. In other words, they will be killed. Read what Ezekiel has to say to Israel. This was over 100 years after Israel had already gone into captivity.

Eze 20:8 But they rebelled against Me and would not listen to Me. They did not each man throw away the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. And I said, I will pour out My fury against them to fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. Eze 20:21 But the sons rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes, nor kept My judgments to do them; the judgments which, if a man do, he shall even live in them; they profaned My sabbaths and I said I would pour out My fury on them, to fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.

Eze 20:33 As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, I will reign over you. 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and I will gather you out of the lands in which you are scattered among them, with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out. 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.36 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Jehovah.37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who sin against Me. I will bring them out from the land where they reside, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am Jehovah. 39 And you, O house of Israel, so says the Lord Jehovah: Every man go and serve his idols, and do so from now on if you will not listen to Me. But never again defile My holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

Yehovah is going to remove all of us from our current lodging, our current homes and make us to pass under the ROD; that rod is the current nation of Germany and Islam. Germany in the bible is Assyria. When you pass under the “rod,” it is like the shepherd’s staff. Every tenth one is Holy. The rest are not. In this case, the rest are discarded and killed or die on the way back to the land of Israel. He is going to purge them out.

Isa 10:5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And the staff in their hand is My fury.

How many times have you read how Yehovah is going to chasten us in “Fury.” And now you see that Assyria-Germany today is going to be that very Rod, and the “Fury” Yehovah will use.

In the 7th month, at the Feast of Tabernacles, was the Feast of Dedication by Solomon. Notice this is the proper time to celebrate the Feast of Dedication, which is what Solomon did. Notice the difference in how Yehovah acts, regarding that false teaching called Chanukah.

Solomon prays, asking Yehovah to forgive Israel when they have sinned, and he lists the same sins as mentioned in Leviticus 26. The same place Yehovah tells us to humble our hearts if we want to live.

1Ki 8:14 And the king turned his face around and blessed all the congregation of Israel. And all the congregation of Israel stood. 15 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to David my father, and has fulfilled it by His hand, saying, 16 From the day that I brought forth My people Israel out of Egypt, I did not choose any city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, so that My name might be in it. But I chose David to be over My people Israel. 17 And it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel. 18 And Jehovah said to my father David, Because it was in your heart to build a house to My name, you did well that it was in your heart. 19 Only, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall come out of your loins, he shall build the house to My name. 20 And Jehovah has performed His Word which He spoke, and I have risen up instead of my father David. And I sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised. And I have built a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel. 21 And I have set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Jehovah which He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. 22 And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward the heavens. 23 And he said, Jehovah, the God of Israel, there is no God like You, in Heaven above or on earth beneath, who keeps covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their heart, 24 who have kept with Your servant David my father what You promised him. You also spoke with Your mouth, and have fulfilled with Your hand, as it is today. 25 And now, Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David, my father, what You promised him, saying, There shall not be cut off from you a man in My sight to sit on the throne of Israel– if your sons take heed to their way so that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me. 26 And now, O God of Israel, I pray You, let Your Word be proved to be true, the Word which You spoke to Your servant David my father. 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this house which I have built? 28 Yet, O, Jehovah my God, You have turned toward the prayer of Your servant and to his request, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today; 29 for Your eyes to be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. 30 And You shall listen to the cry of Your servant, and of Your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place, and hear in Heaven Your dwelling-place, and when You hear, forgive! 31 If any man sins against his neighbor, and if an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and if the oath comes before Your altar in this house, 32 then hear in Heaven, and do, and judge Your servants, to declare the wicked to be wicked, to bring his way on his head, and to declare the righteous to be righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. 33 When Your people Israel are crushed before the enemy because they have sinned against You, and shall turn again to You and confess Your name, and pray, and cry to You in this house, 34 then hear in Heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them again into the land which You gave to their fathers. 35 When the heavens are restrained, and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, if they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them, 36 then hear in Heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, and of Your people Israel, for You shall teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain on Your land which You have given to Your people for an inheritance. 37 If there is famine in the land, if there is plague, blasting, mildew, locusts; if there are stripping locusts; if their enemy encircles them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness, 38 any prayer, any supplication from any man of all Your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house, 39 then hear in Heaven Your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart You know. For You, You only, know the hearts of all the sons of Adam. 40 Do this so that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers. 41 And concerning a stranger who is not of Your people Israel, but who comes out of a far country for Your name’s sake; 42 for they shall hear of Your great name and of Your strong hand and of Your stretched-out arm; and if he shall come and pray toward this house, 43 hear in Heaven Your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calls to You for, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as Your people Israel do , and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name. 44 If Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You shall send them, and shall pray to Jehovah toward the city which You have chosen, and the house that I have built for Your name, 45 then hear in Heaven their prayer and their cry, and maintain their cause. 46 If they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin), and if You are angry with them, and have delivered them up before the enemy, and they have been led away captive to the land of the enemy, far or near, 47 yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly, 48 and so return to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and if they pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, to the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name, 49 then hear their prayer and their cry in Heaven Your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause, 50 and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, even all their sins which they have done against You, and give them pity before their captors, so that they may have pity on them. 51 For they are Your people, and Your inheritance, which You brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the furnace of iron, 52 for Your eyes shall be open to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your people Israel, to listen to them in all that they call for to You. 53 For You have separated them from among all the people of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah. 54 And it happened as Solomon finished praying all this prayer and petition to Jehovah, he rose from before the altar of Jehovah, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 55 And he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56 Blessed be Jehovah, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise which He promised by the hand of Moses His servant. 57 May Jehovah our God be with us as He was with our fathers. Let Him not leave us nor forsake us, 58 to incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments which He commanded our fathers. 59 And let these my words, with which I have prayed before Jehovah, be near Jehovah our God day and night, so that He may maintain the cause of His servant, and the cause of His people Israel of each day in its day, 60 for all the people of the earth know that Jehovah is God; there is no other. 61 And let your heart be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day. 62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Jehovah. 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Jehovah, twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah. 64 On that day the king sanctified the middle of the court before the house of Jehovah. For there he had offered the burnt offering, and the food offering, and the fat of the peace offerings; because the bronze altar before Jehovah was too small to contain the burnt offering, and the food offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. 65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days, fourteen days. 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the king and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the good that Jehovah had done for David His servant, and for Israel His people.

Did you take note of this line in verse 40?

“Do this so that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.”

Daniel was one of those who actually did do this very thing we are talking about in Leviticus 26 and what Solomon is praying about here.

Dan 9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by books, which came of the Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 3 And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to Jehovah my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and mercy to those who love Him, and to those who keep His commandments, 5 we have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments.

In verse 3, the word fasted is H6685 tsome, tsome
From H6684; a fast: – fast (-ing).
H6684 tsoom
A primitive root; to cover over (the mouth), that is, to fast: – X at all, fast.

We have seen that we are to humble ourselves, to afflict ourselves and seek forgiveness for our sins as if our very lives depend on it. Pleading for them as if on death row, if I may. And in fact, our lives do depend on our pleading to Yehovah for them.

This day of Atonement marks the end of a time, the 10 years of suffering that surpass our ability to explain them to you or your ability to understand just how dire things are about to become. Once you have gone through it and are afraid of everything that moves, as it might take your life; Groups of people or individuals, enslavement of you and those with you, death of 1000 on your left hand and 10,000 on your right; The loss of your family members, and you not knowing what has become of them. Then you will be so humbled, then you will understand what this word means to humble your heart.

Yehshua said Mat 24:22 And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect’s sake, those days shall be shortened.

And Isaiah says men will be more rare than the gold of Ophir.

Isa 13:9 Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it. 10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light. 11 And I will visit evil on the world, and their iniquity on the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the pride of tyrants. 12 I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the fine gold of Ophir. 13 So I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall move out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger. 14 And it shall be as a driven gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up; each man shall look to his own people, and each one flee into his own land. 15 Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is joined to them shall fall by the sword.

The time is coming when you will completely understand what it means to humble your heart. Isaiah again explains this:

Isa 58:1 Cry aloud, do not spare, lift up your voice like a ram’s horn, and show My people their rebellion, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and one who did not forget the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God. 3 They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers. 4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness; you shall not fast as you do today, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?

6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed ones go free, and that you break every yoke?

If you were to look up these words and study them, Yehovah is saying to forgive others the hurts they have caused you. When others sin against you, they become indebted to you. You enslave them for their sin. You place this heavy yoke on them. Free them and forgive them of this burden. Show mercy

7 Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When will you see the naked and cover him; and you will not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Here too we see those who hunger for the word of Yehovah that we are to share, with the poor that is the humble who consider themselves worthless. To cover their sins, Atone, Kaphar.

8 Then shall your light break out as the dawn, and your health shall spring out quickly; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Jehovah shall gather you. 9 Then you shall call, and Jehovah shall answer; you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am. If you take the yoke away from among you, the pointing of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Taking away the yoke and accusing finger of judgment and condemnation and speaking as if you are god.

10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday.

Here then is where we can see their notion of being famished. The word Hungry here is H7457 raw-abe’
From H7456; hungry (more or less intensely): – hunger bitten, hungry.
H7456 raw-abe’
A primitive root; to hunger: – (suffer to) famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger (-ry).

If we draw out OUR soul to those who are fasting and afflicting themselves in sincere repentance, THEN, THEN shall our light shine as in the noonday.

11 And Jehovah shall always guide you and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones fat; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. 12 And those who come of you shall build the old ruins; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 13 If you turn your foot because of the Sabbath, from doing what you please on My holy days, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of Jehovah, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

There are still many of you, newer brethren and even older ones, who still work or shop on the Sabbath. You still go and cause others to serve you on the Sabbath and you do not keep the Sabbath Holy. You seek your own pleasure on Yehovah’s Set Apart Day. And you wonder why your prayers are not heard.

Repent from breaking the Sabbath or the Holy Days of Leviticus 23 and from adding to them other false days or from not keeping them at all, and strive to keep the next Sabbatical year in 2016, THEN, THEN your prayers will be heard and your prayers answered.

14 then you shall delight yourself in Jehovah; and I will cause you to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed yourself with the inheritance of Jacob your father. For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.

Brethren, all hell is soon going to be released, and we will wonder if we will make it through the night, and if we do, we will wonder if we will survive the day. From the year 2020 until the year 2033 is going to be the worse time in history and you will be in it.

On the Day of Atonement, I will be pouring out my heart to Yehovah, repenting of the things I have done and not done, and I will not eat or drink from sunset of the 9th day until after the sun has set at the end of the Tenth.

I will mourn for what is about to come and for my part in having caused it. I will be sad as I consider all that are about to die and how even some of the brethren will die during this time, as Ezekiel shows us by the hairs he throws into the fire from those he has protected.

I will remember the command to afflict my soul, and that those who don’t will be killed. Some of them are friends.

Brethren, choose what you are going to do, whether you fast or will not fast, whether you forgive others their debts or not, but choose wisely. If we do not have to fast, and we do, what have we lost? If, on the other hand, if we were to seriously fast and we do not, as we were told, then Yehovah has told us the rebellious will all be taken out and none of them will enter the Promised Land. None!!!

So choose wisely.

Blessed be Yehovah for completing what He has set out to do; separating the sheep from the goats in a spectacular fashion, the tares from the wheat. The wheat bows their heads in submission, in humbleness, while the tares stand up in their pride.

The Day of Atonement begins at Sunset Tuesday Evening Sept 2 and goes to Sunset Wednesday evening  Sept 3, 2025, when it ends. This is the 10th day of the 7th month based on the sighting of the moon.

Will you keep it this year and humble your soul like Isaiah has defined?

The torah portions you can read on this Special Day of Atonement are the following:
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Lev 16, Num 29:7-11, Lev 23:26-32, Isa 52:13 – 53:12,  Jonah 1-4, John 1:1 – 2:2, Heb 7-10

Shabbat Shuva

Shabbat Shuva Part 2

Three Times A Year

Deu 16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He shall choose: in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before Jehovah empty,

Deu 16:17 but each with his gift in his hand, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God, which He has given you.

The Book of Life

The Book of Life is referenced seven times in the Book of Revelation. Let us read them and consider what is being revealed to us.

1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things. I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead. 2 Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found your works being fulfilled before God. 3 Remember then how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. 4 You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. 5 The one who overcomes, this one will be clothed in white clothing. And I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (Revelation 3:1-6)

5 And a mouth speaking great things was given to it, and blasphemies. And authority was given to it to continue forty-two months. 6 And it opened its mouth in blasphemy toward God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those dwelling in Heaven. 7 And it was given to it to war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given to it over every tribe and tongue and nation. 8 And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the world. 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 He who leads into captivity will go into captivity. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed by a sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. (Revelation 13:5-10)

7 And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, that has the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to ascend out of the abyss and go into perdition. And those dwelling on the earth will marvel, those whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (Revelation 17:7-8)

11 And I saw a great white throne, and Him sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And a place was not found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the small and the great, stand before God. And books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead in them. And each one of them was judged according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death. 15 And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire. (Revelation 20:11-15)

22 And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, even the Lamb. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 And the nations of those who are saved will walk in the light of it; and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 And its gates may not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. 27 And there shall in no way enter into it anything that defiles, or any making an abomination or a lie; but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. (Revelation 21:22-27)

19 And if anyone takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which have been written in this Book. (Revelation 22:19)

I want you all to reread this last verse very slowly. Anyone taking away the Words of this Book of prophecy will have their name removed from the Book of Life. I say this to those who still will not keep the commandments, saying they are done away. You have removed the Words of this Book and are in danger of having your name blotted out. I say this with the knowledge of the scriptures that are again found in the Book of Revelation.

At the end of this age, the dragon is going to make war with those who KEEP the commandments. That time is directly in front of us.

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. (Revelation 12:17)

Anyone who says he or she believes in Jesus, claims to have faith in Jesus, this is awesome, but that also means that they must keep the commandments.

12 Here is the patience of the saints. Here are the ones who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. (Revelation 14:12)

Abraham also believed in Yehovah and obeyed.

6 And he believed (H539 aman) in Jehovah. And He counted it to him for righteousness.  (Genesis 15:6)

H539 Aman (verb) = to support, confirm, be faithful

This belief, or faith, translated into Abraham obeying Yehovah’s voice. Yehovah didn’t know Abraham’s faith until he obeyed His voice and offered his son.

12 And He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me. (Genesis 22:12)

Abraham’s belief in Yehovah was the same as his faith in Yehovah. If you say you believe and that you have faith, then it means you must obey, which means you keep the commandments, statutes and laws of Yehovah.

5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My Laws. (Genesis 26:5)

With just these two verses alone from the Book of Revelation mentioned above, it is very clear that one of the signs of God’s people is that they are COMMANDMENT KEEPERS. This does not sound like the commandments of God being nailed to the cross, as many churches tell their congregants.

Those who keep harping that the commandments are part of the Old Testament and that we are a New Testament Church should consider these verses just in the Book of Revelation. Most assuredly, the Book of Revelation is found in the NEW Testament.

Let me drill down on this some more. Those who keep the commandments are those who do His commandments. These are those who obey Him and then are given the Holy Spirit.

32 And we are His witnesses of these things. And so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him. (Acts 5:32)

The truth is plain, simple, and VERY OBVIOUS. If you want to be found in the Book of Life, you need to keep the commandments.

With all of this in mind, now read the very last verses in the entire Bible and again notice who will have authority over the Tree of Life. It will be those who do His commandments. Not those who have done away with them.

12 And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according as his work is. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last. 14 Blessed are they who do His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and they may enter in by the gates into the city. 15 But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie. 16 I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things to you over the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and Morning Star. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let the one hearing say, Come! And let the one who is thirsty come. And he willing, let him take of the Water of Life freely. 18 For I testify together to everyone who hears the Words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add on him the plagues that have been written in this Book. 19 And if anyone takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which have been written in this Book. 20 He who testifies these things says, Yes, I am coming quickly, Amen. Yes, come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen. (Revelation 22:12-21)

The expression “May your name be found in the Book of Life” is said during the 10 Days of Awe. It is a reminder that you must repent (“teshuva”) of your sins from breaking the commandments. You are not only to repent but also to pray for forgiveness (“tefilah”). You are also expected to make recompense for anything you have done or harm you have caused. This is done in the way of “tzedakah,” or good deeds. However, you only have 10 days to make the necessary changes, or you may not be inscribed in the books and sealed for the year.

The trials and tribulations we discuss in this book last ten years, not ten days. The 10 Days of Awe are ten Years of Awe—of repentance, prayer, and charitable works.

At the end of these 10 Years of Awe, which include the final 3 ½ years of the Great Tribulation, may YOU be sealed, and may YOUR name be found in the Book of Life.