Torah Portions

The Stones Cry Out Part 1

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When I wrote Stones Cry Out, I wanted it to be one of our FREE books so everyone would have it. It is more of an encyclopedia than a book to read. It will be your quick resource book; you will have access to every question about any calendar, how it got started, and who started it. You will also learn the history of how the Mishnah was assembled, when it was assembled and why. Then, you will learn how that information was transferred into both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud until it reached its final stage in the Mishneh Torah. Along with this progression, the calendar also progressed and changed long after 358 C.E. when Rabbi Hillel first published it. But…what was before the Hillel calendar? What does the Mishnah record about those things?

The Stones Cry Out was originally going to be one book explaining all the various proofs we have discovered, demonstrating when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are throughout history.

You can know; it is not a mystery.

As I began to write The Stones Cry Out, I quickly found myself going back, time and time again, to explain how the calendar is behind the confusion of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Rabbis, as they began to write the Mishnah, incorporated wrong understandings, and those errors were written into what became known as the Talmud and then the Mishneh Torah. The expulsion from the land and subsequent persecutions in trying to send out messengers to report the barley being found or the crescent moon being seen, proved to be more and more dangerous over time. All of these things took place over 14 centuries.

Then as I was working on The Stones Cry Out, I discovered that many people were now accepting the Zadok calendar as factual. This is when we pivoted to include all the details of the various calendars that have crept back into public knowledge today and are being used to mislead new people who are just starting to learn about the calendar. All of this was directly connected to the period starting with the Hasmonaeans, up to the destruction of the Temple. Then, with the compiling of the Mishnah, the studies that led into the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud, then the Babylonian Talmud and finally the Mishneh Torah, each error that was added is compounded over time.

The Stones Cry Out, Part 1 explains the history of how each compilation of the Oral Torah incorporated errors, leading the followers thereof away from the actual Torah. In understanding these facts, it is then possible to understand more readily how the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were then mixed and later changed. By explaining all this history, I will be able to help you the reader understand the tombstones when most authorities do not. They have assumed, to their error, the Hillel calendar to have always been 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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New Moon 10th Month

This Sunday evening, November 3, 2024, will be the 30th day of this 9th month. The moon should be visible on Sunday evening. Whether or not the moon is seen, Sunday evening and Monday will begin the 1st day of the 10th month.

Take your family out to see who can see it first in the western skies.

The National Religious Broadcasters

Shabbat Shalom Brethren, I want to thank you all for your condolences while I mourn the loss of my Mother. Her funeral will be Nov 2, 2024.

I want to take a moment to update you about our next major project. We have been accepted at the NRB convention in Dallas, Texas, this coming February. Our team is working on preparing for this event and our presentations.

It is my hope that with our message about the Jubilee cycles, we can share it and connect to some major Radio and TV programs who are willing to help share our message even further. It is also my belief that the 10 Virgins are to wake up in 2024, the first year of the 10 Days of Awe, and conclude with Satan being locked away in 2033.

I had been pleading with Yehovah that He could not destroy this world unless He first warned them. sightedmoon.com is the only group teaching about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years and how they reveal end-time prophecy. As I prayed this prayer, an invitation came to apply for the conference in Texas. We had applied before to the NRB in Nashville, Tennessee. I think it was back in 2019, but we were denied. This time, they have accepted our application and have been very hospitable to all our questions.

I want to invite you to examine our presence at the NRB site now and see what we are doing.

I am asking you to keep us in your prayers before Yehovah that He would open the doors for our message to be reached by those He is drawing and that Yehovah will connect us to the Radio and TV programs He wants us on. I am also asking that you pray for our team and that no one gets sick leading up to and during this event.

Our team has been working extra hard to prepare for this even in my absence as I tended to my mom’s needs. I am asking all of you to join our team with your prayers leading up to, during and then afterwards as the seeds we plant grow in those who hear us.

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The Wedding Day

Exo 19:9  And Jehovah said to Moses, Lo, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah.

Exo 19:10  And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.

Exo 19:11  And be ready for the third day. For the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai.

Exo 19:12  And you shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves. Do not go up into the mountain, or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

Exo 19:13  There shall not be a hand to touch it, but that he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, it shall not live. When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.

Exo 19:14  And Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people. And they washed their clothes.

Exo 19:15  And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day. Do not approach a woman.

Exo 19:16  And it happened on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain. And the voice of the trumpet was exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

Exo 19:17  And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God. And they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

Exo 19:18  And Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because Jehovah came down upon it in fire. And the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Exo 19:19  And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and became very strong, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

Exo 19:20  And Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

The ancient Rabbis teach that when Yehovah came down on Mount Sinai and Israel agreed with the terms of the covenant that the cloud that was overhead was the original Chuppa (marriage canopy) which is what the thick cloud hovering over Mt. Sinai represented. The marriage canopy or Chuppa is what Israelites get married under in a their wedding. The Chuppa symbolizes Yehovah’s covenants, promises, and covering.

Like Israel, the newlywed couple stands there not knowing the future, having nothing to start out with and all the questions about how they will make it and what is in front of them. All they have is the promises of the Yehovah. Those promises are given in the Ketubah which we call the covenant.

The Ketubah is Hebrew for a marriage contract and has been a tradition since Mt. Sinai and the giving of Torah. The intent of this tradition is powerful and universal. The word “Ketubah” comes from the root Kaf-Tav-Bet, meaning writing. The ketubah is the marriage contract between a man and a woman. The ketubah spells out the husband’s obligations to the wife during marriage and is a binding document of confidence, trust, conditions of inheritance, and obligations regarding the support of children.

The “Ketubah” (marriage contract) is read aloud before the Betrothal ceremony just as Moses did with the Torah after Mt. Sinai.

Exo 24:3  And Moses came and told the people all the Words of Jehovah, and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has said, we will do.

Two witnesses are called upon to stand under the Chupah and witness the Betrothal procedures. Let’s go back to the original wedding in Exodus.

Exo 19:16  And it happened on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain. And the voice of the trumpet was exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

Exo 19:17  And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God. And they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

Exo 19:18  And Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because Jehovah came down upon it in fire. And the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Exo 19:19  And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and became very strong, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

Exo 19:20  And Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

The entire Nation of Israel was called to be the witness of Yehovah’s holy betrothal on Mt. Sinai.

In biblical times, people were married in early youth, and marriages were usually contracted within the narrow circle of the clan and the family. It was undesirable to marry a woman from a foreign clan, lest she introduce foreign beliefs and practices.

Negotiating a Match

As a rule, the fathers arranged the match. The girl was consulted, but the “calling of the damsel and inquiring at her mouth” after the conclusion of all negotiations was merely a formality.

In those days a father was more concerned about the marriage of his sons than about the marriage of his daughters. No expense was involved in marrying off a daughter. The father received a dowry for his daughter whereas he had to give a dowry to the prospective father-in-law of his son when marrying him off.

The price paid by the father of the groom to the father of the bride was called mohar. (The term continues to be included in the text of the traditional ketubah, or Jewish wedding contract.) In Genesis (Parashat Vayishlah), Shekhem [Dinah’s suitor] said to Dinah’s father and her brothers: “Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. Ask me never so much mohar and mattan, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.”

“Mattan” was the Hebrew word for the gifts given by the groom to the bride in addition to the mohar.

The mohar was not always paid in cash. Sometimes it was paid in kind, or in service. The Book of Genesis relates the story of the servant of Abraham, who, after his request for Rebecca [to marry Isaac] was granted, “brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebecca; he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.” The servant thus gave mattan to Rebecca, and mohar to her brother and mother.

The Bible does not specify what was to be done with the mohar in case the marriage agreement was broken by either of the two parties.

Mohar as Purchase and Gift

The mohar was originally the purchase price of the bride, and it is therefore understandable why it was paid by the father of the groom to the father of the bride. In ancient days, marriage was not an agreement between two individuals, but between two families.

The newly married man usually did not find a new home for himself, but occupied a nook in his father’s house. The family of the groom gained, and the family of the bride lost, a valuable member who helped with all household tasks. It was reasonable, therefore, that the father of the groom should pay the father of the bride the equivalent of her value as a useful member of the family.

Yet in the course of time the mohar lost its original meaning as a purchase price paid to the father for his daughter and assumed the significance of a gift to the near relatives of the bride. As far back as in early biblical times, it was customary for a good father to give the whole of the mohar or at least a large part of it to his daughter. A father who appropriated the whole mohar for himself was considered unkind and harsh.

The portion of the mohar which the bride received from her father, and the mattan, which the groom presented to her, were not the only possessions she brought to matrimony. A rich father sometimes gave his daughter a field or other landed property as well as female slaves.

Betrothal and the Wedding

Until late in the Middle Ages, marriage consisted of two ceremonies that were marked by celebrations at two separate times, with an interval between. First came the betrothal [erusin]; and later, the wedding [nissuin]. At the betrothal the woman was legally married, although she still remained in her father’s house. She could not belong to another man unless she was divorced from her betrothed. The wedding meant only that the betrothed woman, accompanied by a colorful procession, was brought from her father’s house to the house of her groom, and the legal tie with him was consummated.

This division of marriage into two separate events originated in very ancient times when marriage was a purchase, both in its outward form and in its inner meaning. Woman was not recognized as a person but was bought in marriage, like chattel.

Marriage, as with any type of purchase, consisted of two acts. First the price was paid and an agreement reached on the conditions of sale. Sometime later the purchaser took possession of the object. In marriage, the mohar was paid and a detailed agreement reached between the families of the bride and groom. This betrothal was followed by the wedding, when the bride was brought into the home of the groom, who took actual possession of her.

In those days the betrothal was the more important of these two events and maintained its importance as long as marriage was actually based upon a purchase. But as women assumed more importance as individuals, and marriage ceased to be a purchase, attaining moral significance, the actual wedding became more important than the betrothal.

Wife circling 7 times.

One of the most intriguing parts of a Jewish Wedding Ceremony is when the Bride circles the Groom under the Chuppah, when they first enter the Chuppah.
The seven circles recall the seven times Joshua had to walk around the ancient city of Jericho before the walls fell and the Israelites were able to capture it. So, too, after the bride walks around the groom seven times, the walls between them will fall and their souls will be united.

Similarly, every man has a wall built around his heart. Men are taught to hide their feelings, to create an impression of impenetrability, to make it seem that they have it all figured out. Men create elaborate defenses to hide any sign of weakness or vulnerability, and fiercely guard their deepest secret – that inside they are sensitive and meek, simple and soft. This is why men do not cry.

But a wise woman can pierce this defensive wall. If she surrounds her husband with the protective aura of her love, if she envelops him with affection, and if she makes him feel that he is the anchor, the center, the focal point of her life. If the woman will treat her husband with the respect that he is to be given then he can feel safe and comfortable. Once he is respected then he will give her the love she desires and needs. When that happens, the walls protecting his heart come tumbling down. Then she has conquered him – all of him.

This circling of Jericho was symbolic of the marriage between Israel and the land of Israel. The land represents Yehovah. But it is not just Israel that is to circle Yehovah 7 times. It is all of mankind. And if we, the human race would give Yehovah the respect that he deserves and is due then He will give us the desires of our heart the love we desire from Him. It is a two-way relationship that we must act on.

Get the book Love and Respect by Emmerson Eggrich and read it. Then do what it says.

Three Times

We are commanded to go up to Jerusalem three times in the year to worship Yehovah. Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot.

Exo 23:14  You shall keep a feast to Me three times in the year.

Exo 23:15  You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And no one shall appear before Me empty.

Exo 23:16  Also the Feast of Harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field. Also the Feast of Ingathering, in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.

Exo 23:17  Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

Exo 34:23  Three times in the year your men shall appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.

Exo 34:24  For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders. Neither shall any man desire your land when you shall go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the 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.

1Ki 9:25  And three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built to Jehovah, and he burned incense on the altar which was before Jehovah. And he finished the house.

2Ch 8:12  And Solomon offered burnt offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah which he had built before the porch,

2Ch 8:13  even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Tabernacles.

Why does Yehovah command us to go three times and he does not command us to go for Trumpet and Atonement to Jerusalem?

Was it really just so He could get the first fruits of our crops?

At this point, I would like you to pause here and go and read our article Pentecost Hidden Meaning.

The week of Passover is made up of The Messiah being crucified on the 14th before the first Holy Day begins.

The First Day of Unleavened Bread which is also Passover begins and is followed by 7 days when you do not eat anything leavened. The 7th Day is also a Holy Day. Many focus on Passover and all involved with it but they fail to take serious note of what you are also told to do during the week of Unleavened Bread.

The Passover

Lev 23:4  These are the appointed feasts of Jehovah, holy convocations which you shall proclaim in their appointed seasons.

Lev 23:5  In the fourteenth day of the first month, between the evenings, is Jehovah’s Passover,

Lev 23:6  and on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Jehovah. You must eat unleavened bread seven days.

Lev 23:7  On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no work of labor,

Lev 23:8  but you shall offer a fire offering to Jehovah seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no work of labor.

The Feast of Firstfruits

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.

Right here at Passover, you are being taught the entire plan of salvation. Yehovah said that he was slain from the foundation of the world.

Rev 13:8  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.

If we are looking at the 7 days of Unleavened Bread as millennial days, then before those 7 days of Unleavened Bread even begin on the 15th of the first month, the lamb was slain on the 14th.

Then if we look at the days of the week 1 through 7 we know that the 7th day is the Day of rest. It is the weekly Sabbath. When we read Lev 23:11 then it is talking about the first day of the week.

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.

But this first day of the week is also the 8th Day and you can look at it in this respect. Although this event does not fall on a designated Holy Day, it is one of the important events that take place at this time.

Mat 27:50  And crying again with a loud voice, Jesus released His spirit.

Mat 27:51  And, behold! The veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And the earth quaked, and the rocks were sheared,

Mat 27:52  and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep arose,

Mat 27:53  and coming out of the tomb after His resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

This is the very first time anyone has come back from the grave other than the boy Elijah raised up and Lazarus. Until this time no one had gone to heaven except Yehshua who came from heaven.

Joh 3:13  And no one has ascended up to Heaven except He who came down from Heaven, the Son of Man who is in Heaven.

Paul wrote of this same event when Yehshua came out of the grave.

Eph 4:8  Therefore He says, “When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.”

Eph 4:9  (Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

Eph 4:10  He who descended is the same also as He who ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.)

Now you really must pay attention to Paul as he describes everything I am about to say.

1Co 15:20  But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruit of those who slept.

1Co 15:21  For since death is through man, the resurrection of the dead also is through a Man.

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.

1Co 15:23  But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, and afterward they who are Christ’s at His coming;

1Co 15:24  then is the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power.

Yehshua was the first fruit. He was the wave offering that was done on the morrow after the Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread. On that Sunday or 8th day, Yehshua led a host of captives, those in the grave captured by Satan and made them alive again and led them to heaven as an example of the rest of the crop of humans to come later.

But after Yehshua came out of the grave not everyone who died in the faith from that point on went to heaven. No, they are dead and remain asleep to this very day.

This first Fruits offering was the first Chag it was the first major collection of those who had died.

This is shown to us in the stars as well. It is found in the constellation of the little dipper or the small bear. Also called Ursa minor. The tail of the little bear is the North Star.

To understand the rich meaning of these two dippers we must look at them through an ancient lens.

Chapter III
The Sign Cancer (The Crab)
Messiah’s redeemed possession held fast

With regard to the sign of CANCER, one thing is certain, that we have not got the original picture, or anything like it.

It does not agree with the names either of its three constellations which have come down to us, or of its stars.

In the ancient Denderah Zodiac it is represented as a Scarabaeus, or sacred beetle. * In the Zodiac of Esneh and in a Hindu Zodiac (400 BC) it is the same.

* The Scarabaeus, passing its early existence as a worm of the earth, and thence issuing as a winged denizen of heaven, was held sacred by the Egyptians as an emblem of the resurrection of the body.
According to the Greeks, Jupiter placed this Crab amongst the signs of the Zodiac.

In Sir William Jones’s Oriental Zodiac we meet with a crab, and an Egyptian Zodiac found at Rome bears also the crab in this sign.

The more ancient Egyptians placed Hermanubis, or Hermes, with the head of an ibis or hawk, as the symbol of the sign now allotted to CANCER.

The Denderah name is Klaria, or the cattle-folds, and in this name we have the key to the meaning of the sign, and to the subject of this chapter.

The Arabic name is Al Sartan, which means who holds or binds, and may be from the Hebrew to bind together (Gen 49:11). There is no ancient Hebrew word known for the crab. It was classed with many other unclean creatues, and would be included in the general term “vermin.”

The Syriac, Sartano, means the same. The Greek name is Karkinos, which means holding or encircling, as does the Latin, Cancer, and hence is applied to the crab. In the word Khan, we have the traveller’s rest or inn; while Ker or Cer is the Arabic for encircling. The ancient Akkadian name of the month is Su-kul-na, the seizer or possessor of seed.

The sign contains 83 stars, one of which is of the 3rd magnitude, and seven are of the 4th magnitude, and the remainder of inferior magnitudes.

In the centre of the Sign there is a remarkably bright cluster of stars, so bright that they can be sometimes seen with the naked eye. It looks like a comet, and is made up of a great multitude of stars. Modern astronomers have called it the Beehive. But its ancient name has come down to us as Praesepe, which means a multitude, offspring.

The brightest star, z (in the tail), is called Tegmine, holding. The star a (or a1 and a2), in the lower large claw, is called Acubene, which, in Hebrew and Arabic, means the sheltering or hiding-place. Another is named Ma’alaph (Arabic), assembled thousands; Al Himarein (Arabic), the kids or lambs.

North and south of the nebula Praesepe are two stars, which Orientalists speak of by a name evidently of some antiquity. Asellus means an Ass, and one was called Asellus Boreas, the northern Ass; while the other, Asellus Australis, is the southern Ass. *

* The Ass was the emblem of Typhon, the king who smites or is smitten.
This connects it with the Tribe of Issachar, who is said to have borne upon the Tribal standard the sign of two asses.

This is doubtless the reference in Jacob’s blessing (Gen 49:11, RV):

“Issachar is a strong ass,
Couching down between the sheepfolds;
And he saw a resting-place that it was good;
And the land that it was pleasant;
And he bowed his shoulder to bear,
And became a servant under task work.”

Have we not here the gathering up of the teaching of this sign–

Messiah’s redeemed possessions held fast.

Here we come to the completion of His work. In CANCER we see it with reference to His redeemed, and in the next (the last) Sign, LEO, with reference to His enemies.

The three constellations develop the truth. What is now called Ursa Minor is the Lesser Flock; Ursa Major gives us The Sheepfold and the Sheep; while Argo, The Ship, shows the travellers and the pilgrims brought safely home–all conflict over.

To accomplish this, we see the true Issachar bowing his shoulder to bear. He could say, “My soul is bowed down” (Psa 57:6). He became a servant, and humbled Himself to death. He undertook the mighty task of saving His people from their sins. “Their Redeemer is strong” (Jer 50:34); for help was laid on “One that was mighty” (Psa 89:19). And His redeemed shall come to a resting-place that is good, and to a land that is pleasant. No earthly Khan on earth affords them a home. They look for a heavenly home, and in the many mansions of the Father’s house they shall find eternal rest.

Here we see that sheltering home to which the names of these stars point; where the assembled thousands (Ma’alaph) shall be received into the true Klaria, even the “everlasting habitations.”

1. URSA MINOR (The Little Bear)
The lesser sheepfold
Here we come to another grievous mistake, or ignorant perversion of primitive truth, as shown in the ancient names of these two constellations.

It is sufficient to point to the fact that no Bear is found in any Chaldean, Egyptian, Pesian, or Indian Zodiacs, and that no bear was ever seen with such a tail! No one who had ever seen a bear would have called attention to a tail, such as no bear ever had, by placing in its very tip the most important, wondrous, and mysterious Polar Star, the central star of the heavens, round which all others revolve. The patriarchal astronomers, we may be sure, committed no such folly as this.

The primitive truth that there were two, or a pair of constellations is preserved; and that of these two, one is larger, and the other smaller. But what were they? We have the clue to the answer in the name of the brightest star of the larger constellation, which is called Dubheh. Now Dubheh means a herd of animals. In Arabic, Dubah means cattle. In Hebrew, Dohver, is a fold; and hence in Chaldee it meant wealth. The Hebrew Dohveh, means rest or security; and certainly there is not much of either to be found or enjoyed with bears! The word occurs in Deuteronomy 33:25 “As thy days so shall thy strength be.” The Revised Version gives in the margin, “So shall thy rest or security be.” This accords with what we have already seen under CANCER: “Couching down between the sheepfolds, he saw a resting-place that it was good.”

Here are the two Sheepfolds, then; the Greater fold, and Lesser; and here is the rest and security which the flocks will find therein.

But in Hebrew there is a word very similar in sound, though not in spelling–dohv, which means a bear! So we find in Arabic dub; Persian, deeb and dob. We can see, therefore, how the Hebrew Dohver, a fold, and Dohv, a bear, were confused; and how the Arabic Dubah, cattle, might easily have been mistaken by the Greeks, and understood as a bear.

The constellation, which we must therefore call THE LESSER SHEEPFOLD, contains 24 stars, viz., one of the 2nd magnitude, two of the 3rd, four of the 4th, etc.

The brightest star, a (at the point of the tail), is the most important in the whole heavens. It is named Al Ruccaba, which means the turned or ridden on, and is today the Polar or central star, which does not revolve in a circle as does every other star, but remains, apparently, fixed in its position. But though the star does not revolve like the others, the central point in the heavens is very slowly but steadily moving. When these constellations were formed the Dragon possessed this important point, and the star a, in Draco, marked this central point. But, by its gradual recession, that point is sufficiently near this star Ruccaba, in the Lesser Sheepfold, for it to be what is called “the Polar Star.” But, how could this have been known five or six thousand years ago? How could it have been known when it received its name, which means the turned or ridden on? That it was known is clear: so likewise was it made known in the written Word that the original blessing included not merely the multiplicaiton of the seed of faithful Abraham, but it was then added, “And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies” (Gen 22:17).

This star was called by the Greeks the “Cynosure.” ARATUS seems to apply this term to the whole of the seven stars of the Lesser Bear. Mr. Robert Brown, Jr., shows that this word once supposed to be Hellenic, is non-Hellenic, and possibly Euphratean in origin, from a word which he transliterates An-nas-sur-ra, and renders it, “as it literally means, high in rising, i.e., in heavenly position.” (Euphratean Stellar Researches). Is not this the primitve truth of the Revelation? Will not this Lesser Fold be high, yea, the highest in heavenly position?

The Polar Star has been removed from the Dragon, and is now in the Lesser Fold; and when the Dragon shall be cast down from the heavens, the heavenly seed will be safely folded there. But this is the Lesser Sheepfold. These are they who all through the ages have been “partakers of the heavenly calling,” who desired a better country, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God “hath prepared for them a city,” the city for which Abraham himself “looked.” This was no earthly city, but a city “whose builder and maker is God” (Heb 11:10-16). These have always been a smaller company, a “little flock,” but the kingdom shall be theirs, even the kingdom of God, for which they now look and wait. They have not yet “received the promises; but, having seen them afar off” by faith, they “were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth” (Heb 11:13). Their Messiah has accomplished “the redemption of the purchased possession,” and in due time the redeemed will inherit it, “unto the praise of His glory” (Eph 1:13).

The bright star b is named Kochab, which means waiting Him who cometh. Other stars are named Al Pherdadain (Arabic), which means the calves, or the young (as in Deut 22:6), the redeemed assembly. Another, Al Gedi, means the kid. Another is Al Kaid, the assembled; while Arcas, or Arctos (from which we derive the term Arctic regions), means, according to one interpreter, a travelling company; or, according to another, the stronghold of the saved.

But there is not only the heavenly seed, which is compared “to the stars of heaven,” but there is the seed that is compared to “the sand of the sea”–the larger flock or company, who will enjoy the earthly blessing.

2. URSA MAJOR (The Great Bear)
The fold and the flock
Of these it is written–

“But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape,
And it shall be holy:
And the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.”
Obadiah 17-19, RV

It is a large and important constellation, containing 87 stars, of which one is of the 1st magnitude, four of the 2nd, three of the 3rd, ten of the 4th, etc. It always presents a splendid appearance, and is perhaps, therefore, the best known of all the constellations.

In the Book of Job (9:9, and 38:31,32) it is mentioned under the name of Ash. “Canst thou guide Ash and her offspring?” which is rendered in the AV, “Arcturus and his sons,” and in the RV, “The Bear with her train” (marg., “sons”). The Arabs still call it Al Naish, or Annaish, the assembled together, as sheep in a fold. The ancient Jewish commentators interpreted Ash as the seven stars of this constellation. They are called by others Septentriones, which thus became the Latin word for North.

The brightest star, a (in the back), is named Dubhe, which, as we have seen, means a herd of animals, or a flock, and gives its name to the whole constellation.

The star b (below it) is named Merach (Hebrew), the flock (Arabic, purchased).

The star g (on the left of b) is called Phaeda, or Phacda, meaning visited, guarded, or numbered, as a flock; for His sheep, like the stars, are both numbered and named. (See Psalm 147:4)

The star e is called Alioth, a name we have had in Auriga, meaning a she goat.

The star z (in the middle of the tail) is called Mizar, separate or small, and close to it Al Cor, the Lamb.

The star h (at the end of the so-called tail) is named Benet Naish (Arabic), the daughters of the assembly. It is also called Al Kaid, the assembled.

The star i (in its right foot) is called Talitha.

The names of other stars all give the same testimony: El Alcola (Arabic), the sheepfold (as in Psa 95:7; and 100:3); Cab’d al Asad, multitude, many assembled; Annaish, the assembled; Megrez, separated, as the flock in the fold; El Kaphrah, protected, covered (Heb. redeemed and ransomed); Dubheh Lachar (Arabic), the latter herd or flock; Helike (so called by HOMER in the Iliad), company of travellers; Amaza (Greek), coming and going; Calisto, the sheepfold set or appointed.

There is not one discordant voice in the rich abundance of this testimony. We have nothing to do here with the Grecian myths about bears or wild boars. We see only the innumeralbe seed gathered by Him who scattered (Jer 31:10).

Many are the Scriptures we might quote which speak of this gathering and assembling of the long scatterd flock. It is written as plainly in the Book, as it is in the heavens. The prophecies of this gathering are as conspicuous in the Word of God as the “Seven Stars” in the sky. It is difficult even to make a selection from the wealth of such promises; but few are more beautiful than that in Ezekiel 34:12-16:

“As a shepherd seeketh out his flock
In the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered;
So will I seek out my sheep,
And will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
And I will bring them out from the people,
And gather them from the countries,
And will bring them to their own land,
And feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers
And in all the inhabited places of the country.
I will feed them in a good pasture,
And upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be:
There shall they lie in a good fold,
And in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
I will feed my flock,
And I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD (Adonai Jehovah).
I will seek that which was lost,
And bring again that which was driven away,
And will bind up that which was broken,
And will strengthen that which was sick:
But I will destroy the fat and the strong;
I will feed them with judgment.”

It is of this judgment with which this book, and indeed the whole Revelation, ends, in the next and final chapter.

But before we come to that we have one more picture in the third constellation of this Sign, which combines the first two in one.

3. ARGO (The Ship)
The pilgrims safe at home
This is the celebrated ship of the Argonauts, of which HOMER sung nearly ten centuries before Christ. Sir Isaac Newton puts the expedition of the Argonauts shortly after the death of Solomon (about 975 BC). While Dr. Blair’s chronology puts it at 1236 BC.

Whatever fables have gathered round the story there can be no doubt as to its great antiquity. Some think that the story had its origin in name, as well as in fact, from the Ark of Noah and its mysterious journey. All that is clear, when divested of mythic details, is that the sailors in that ship, after all their dangers, and toils, and battles were over, came back victorious to their own shores. The “golden fleece,” for which the Argonauts went in search, tells of a treasure that had been lost. “Jason,” the great captain, tells of Him who recovered it from the Serpent, which guarded it with ever-watchful eye, when none else was able to approach it. And thus, through the fables and myths of the Greeks, we can see the light primeval shine; and this light, once seen, lights up this Sign and its constellations, so that their teaching cannot be misunderstood.

ARATUS sings of Argo:

“Stern-foremost hauled; no mark of onward-speeding ship.
Sternward she comes, as vessels do
When sailors turn the helm
On entering harbour: all the oars back-water,
And gliding backward, to an anchor comes.”

It tells of that blessed home-coming, when–

“The ransomed of the LORD shall return
And come to Zion with songs,
And everlasting joy upon their heads;
They shall obtain joy and gladness,
And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
Isaiah 35:10

It tells of the glorious Jason (the Graeco-Judean equivalent of Joshua or Jesus), of whom it is asked:

“Art thou not it which hath cut Rahab,
And wounded the dragon?
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep;
That hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return,
And come with singing unto Zion,” etc.
Isaiah 51:9-11

“For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob,
And ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,
And shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD.”
Jeremiah 31:11, 12

This is the return of the great emigrant-ship (Argo) and all its company of travellers (for this is the meaning of the word Argo).

In Kircher’s Egyptian Planisphere Argo, is represented by two galleys (as we have two sheepfolds), whose prows are surmounted by rams’ heads; and the stern of one of them ends in a fish’s tail. One of the two occupies four segments of the sphere (from TAURUS to VIRGO), while the other occupies the four from LEO to CAPRICORNUS. One half of the southern meridians is occupied with these galleys and their construction and decorations. Astronomers tell us that they carry us back, the one to the period when the Bull opened the year (to which time VIRGIL refers); and the other to the same epoch, when the summer solstice was in LEO–“an era greatly antecedent to the Argonautic expedition. How else, they ask, do we account for the one ship having her prow in the first Decan of TAURUS, and her poop in the last decan of LEO? or for one galley being freighted with the installed Bull, and the other with the solstitial Lion?” (Jamieson’s Scientific Display, &c.)

These are the words of an astronomer who knows nothing whatever of our interpretation of the heavens which is set forth in this work.

It will indeed be a large vessel, the true Argo, with its company of travelers, “a great multitude which no man can number.” All this is indicated by the immense size of the constellation, as well as by the large number of its stars. There are 64 stars in Argo (reckoning by the Britannic catalogue); one of the 1st magnitude, six of the 2nd, nine of the 3rd, nine of the 4th, etc. Only a small part of the ship’s poop is visible in Britain.

Its brightest star, a (near the keel), is called Canopus or Canobus, which means the possession of Him who cometh. Other star-names are–Sephina, the multitude or abundance; Tureis, the possession; Asmidiska, the released who travel; Soheil (Arabic), the desired; and Subilon, the Brach.

Is not all this exactly in harmony with the rest of this sign? And is not this what is written in the Book?

“Therefore, fear thou not, O My servant Jacob, saith the LORD;
Neither be dismayed, O Israel:
For, lo, I will save thee from afar,
And thy seed from the land of their captivity;
And Jacob shall return and be in rest,
And be quiet, and none shall make him afraid,
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee.”
Jeremiah 30:10, 11

“Lift up thine eyes round about, and see;
All they gather themselves together, they come to thee;
Thy sons shall come from far,
And thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side,
Then thou shalt see, and flow together,
And thine heart shall fear and be enlarged;
Because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee…
Who are these that fly as a cloud?
And as doves to their windows?
Surely the isles shall wait for me,
And the SHIPS of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far.”
Isaiah 60:4, 5, 8, 9

The whole chapter (Isa 60) should be read if we wish to understand the great teaching of this Sign, which tells of Messiah’s secured possessions, the safe folding of His blood-bought flock, the blessed return of His pilgrims, and their abundant entrance into everlasting rest.

“There is a blessed home
Beyond this land of woe,
Where trials never come,
Nor tears of sorrow flow;
Where faith is lost in sight,
And patient love is crowned,
And everlasting light
Its glory throws around.

O joy, all joys beyond,
To see the Lamb who died,
And count each sacred wound
In hands, and feet, and side;
To give to Him the praise
Of every triumph won,
And sing through endless days
The great things He hath done.

Look up, ye saints of God,
Nor fear to tread below
The path your Saviour trod
Of daily toil and woe;
Wait but a little while
In uncomplaining love,
His own most gracious smile
Shall welcome you above.”

The 1st Chag is speaking about Passover and Wave sheaf day. It is the first resurrection of Saints represented by the barley wave offering This is also represented by the Little Dipper.

The 2nd Chag is speaking about Pentecost. As we explained in the hidden meaning of Pentecost, it is when all those who have died in the faith will be raised up to meet him in the sky.

Mystery and Victory

1Co 15:50  And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

1Co 15:51  Behold, I speak a mystery to you; we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed;

1Co 15:52  in a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet. For a trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.

This event takes place at the feast of Shavuot, the second wave offering. This is what is represented by the Big Dipper or the bear. And this is what we are striving to be a part of right now. We believe this event is going to take place in the last year of the Great Tribulation. We believe that year to be 2033. You want to be ready for this come Shavuot 2033.

Shavuot takes place again on the 8th day of the week, Sunday. Shavuot is also the 8th Sabbath since wave sheaf day.. Yehovah is showing you by these events both being connected to the 8th day an even greater event that is to take place on THE 8TH  DAY, which is the very last Holy Day event.

But the third Chag we are told very little about this 8th Day Feast.

The Feast of Booths

Lev 23:33  And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying,

Lev 23:34  Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to Jehovah.

Lev 23:35  On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no work of labor.

Lev 23:36  Seven days you shall offer a fire offering to Jehovah. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. And you shall offer a fire offering to Jehovah. It is a solemn assembly. And you shall do no work of labor.

The Eighth Day, which is one of the most meaningful yet least understood Holy Days but it is one of the most important of them all. The rest of the Holy Days al point to this one. The Sabbatical and Jubilee years all point to this one Feast day.

The 3rd Chag is about Sukkoth but does not include the Feast of Trumpets nor Atonement. This 3rd Chag also includes the 8th Day Feast and is represented by the constellation of the Good Ship Argo.

On the last day of Sukkoth, the 7th day, the Last Great Day, Yehshua said,

Rivers of Living Water

Joh 7:37  And in the last day of the great feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.

Joh 7:38  He who believes on Me, as the Scripture has said, “Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

Joh 7:39  (But He spoke this about the Spirit, which they who believed on Him should receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

This is showing us that in the 7th Millennium all flesh will have this Holy Spirit in them.

The New Covenant

Jer 31:31  Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,

Jer 31:32  not according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah;

Jer 31:33  but this shall be the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Jer 31:34  And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more.

It is in Hebrews that we learn when this is to take place. First, we are told when in Chapter 4.

Heb 4:1  Therefore, a promise being left to enter into His rest, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it.

Heb 4:2  For also we have had the gospel preached, as well as them. But the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

Heb 4:3  For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, “I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Heb 4:4  For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested the seventh day from all His works.”

Heb 4:5  And in this place again, “They shall not enter into My rest.”

Heb 4:6  Since then it remains that some must enter into it, and since they to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief,

Heb 4:7  He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” (after so long a time). Even as it is said, “Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.”

Heb 4:8  For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

Heb 4:9  So then there remains a rest to the people of God.

Heb 4:10  For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His.

Heb 4:11  Therefore let us labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

Then in Hebrews 8, it repeats what Jeremiah said.

Heb 8:10  “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My Laws into their mind and write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Heb 8:11  And they shall not each man teach his neighbor, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.

Heb 8:12  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more.”

Now understand the chronology of events as explained to you in Revelation.

The Thousand Years

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.

Rev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.

Rev 20:3  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.

This is what the Day of Atonement is all about. The Azazel Goat being taken out and thrown into the pit.

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

This event is speaking of the Wave offering that takes place at Shavuot when all those Saints who have died since 31 AD will be raised up and live during the 1000 year reign of King David. Again this is the second Chag or Shavuot. It is during this 1000 years that the Holy Spirit or the living waters which Yehshua was speaking about on the 7th day of Sukkoth will be poured out on all flesh and there will no longer be any need for teachers about Yehovah because all will know Him at this time.

Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years.

The Defeat of Satan

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be loosed out of his prison.

Rev 20:8  And he will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. The number of them is as the sand of the sea.

Rev 20:9  And they went up over the breadth of the earth and circled around the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of Heaven and devoured them.

Rev 20:10  And the Devil who deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet were . And he will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Judgment Before the Great White Throne

Rev 20:11  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.

Rev 20:12  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.

Rev 20:13  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.

Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.

Rev 20:15  And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire.

At the end of the 7th Millennium and the beginning of the 8th Millennium, is the great White Throne Judgment on everyone who has ever lived. It is at this time that everyone from Adam until that time who has died will be raised back to life. Some to be judged and the rest to be given one more chance to repent. This is the 3rd Chag of Sukkot. It is represented by the Ship Argo.

At the start of the wave sheaf day at the end of 7th day and the start of the 1st day or 8th day, the saints came back to life and went into Jerusalem. Mat 27:50-54. It was a prelude or sample of the 7th Millennium and the start of the 8th Millennium when the rest of the souls will be revived for the Great Judgement.

Yehshua gave you a huge clue in John. At the end of chapter 7 when Yehshua said out of His belly would flow living waters, then the chapter concludes with.

Joh 7:53  And they each went to his own house.

Then it begins in chapter 8 as

Joh 8:1  But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Joh 8:2  And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him. And He sat down and taught them.

This is now the 8th Day Feast and He is teaching at the Temple again.

On this 8th Day, Yehshua said

Joh 8:12  Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

This is indicating what is taking place on the 8th day. We are going to be changed from flesh to spirit being. We will be changed to light. We know this is the 8th day as you keep reading this chapter up until chapter 10:22 when you are told;

Joh 10:22  And the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem, and it was winter.

Winter begins on the first day of the seventh month. The Feast of Dedication is not Chanukah that is currently celebrated near Christmas each year. No the Feast of Dedication was the 8th Day Feast and represented the dedication of the Temple when Solomon built it and prayed to Yehovah who came dwelt in it on this day.

Fire from Heaven
2Ch 7:1  And when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from Heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices. And the glory of Jehovah filled the house.

2Ch 7:2  And the priests could not enter into the house of Jehovah because the glory of Jehovah had filled Jehovah’s house.

2Ch 7:3  And when all the sons of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of Jehovah on the house, they bowed their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped and praised Jehovah, saying, For He is good, for His mercy endures forever.

2Ch 7:8  And at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt.

2Ch 7:9  And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly. For they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

2Ch 7:10  And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that Jehovah had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel His people.

What all of this is showing us when we study and learn about Yehovah is this. It is Yehovah’s heart to dwell with man here on this earth. He is going to achieve this at the start of the 8th Day. It is on this day that we will be changed from flesh to light. It is the consummation of the wedding which has been taking place for 7 days during Sukkot. And it is for everyone who has lived since Adam.

Each time we go around the circle of 7, we seven ourselves. Sevening ourselves is to make an oath. You are declaring your servitude and your allegiance to Yehovah. He is the one we are circling 7 times. Each time we go around the 7 Feasts of Yehovah we are sevening or giving an oath to Yehovah. The same as though we are doing this on our wedding day.

The 7 days of the week. The 7 Days of Unleavened Bread. The 7 weeks of counting the Omer. The 7th month. The 7 Holy Days each year. The 7 Days of Sukkoth The 7 years for each Schmitah cycle. The 7 Schmitahs for each Jubilee cycle. The 7 Millennial Days of Mankind.

7 Days, 7 weeks, 7 months, 7 years, and 7 groups of 7 years. 7 Millennium

We are circling our Groom Yehovah in anticipation of the 8th Day. The consummation of the wedding party and all that preceded the wedding night.

This is what the 3rd Chag is about. The final collection of mankind. The first Chag was for the 24 elders who would be raised up in 31 AD and they are now in haven. The next or the second collection of Saints will be at Shavuot the 2nd Chag, This is when we will be changed and raised up to serve with Yehovah in His kingdom. You are called to be Kings and Priests in that Kingdom. Some of you will have 5 cities to rule over and others 10 cites or kingdoms. And the third and final Chag, the rest of mankind who did not qualify for the first two resurrections will then have a chance to be in the wedding party at the very end.

The 8th day of the week Sunday was the wave sheaf day when Yehshua came out of the grave with those Saints who obeyed and had already died.

The next 8th counting will be the 8th Holy Day of Shavuot. This is when we will be changed in the twinkle of the eye and meet Him in the clouds in 2033 just before Satan is locked away at Atonement that year.

The third and final 8th will be the 8th Day Feast at the end of the 7th Millennium in the Jubilee year of 3024 C.E.

All of our relatives and loved ones who died not obeying Yehovah and keeping HIs Torah will be raised up at this time at the end of the 7th Millennium and this is when they will have a chance to obey and to be part of the kingdom.​

What the Samaritans Forgot

By Mike J

A less common look at the Samaritan peoples described in the Scriptures

You may enjoy this teaching even more, if you take some time now to study these few Scripture passages concerning the Samaritans:

• 2 Kings 17:24-41, The settling of the Samaritans into the land of Israel
• Luke 10:25-37, The parable of the good Samaritan
• John 4:7-44, The Samaritan woman at the well
• Luke 9:51-56, The Samaritans reject the Savior before He must go to Jerusalem

Why a good “Samaritan”?

• In Luke 10:25-37, Christ tells the parable of the good Samaritan as an example of loving one’s neighbor.  It is a good parable, a very familiar parable, and a lesson to us all.
• Why did Christ choose a “Samaritan” to be the protagonist of the parable?
• This presentation will explore the actual experiences Christ had with the Samaritans and where the Samaritans came from.

I believe that this is because the Samaritans were despised by the Jews in that day because the Samaritans mixed blatantly incorrect teachings in with the Scriptures.  He was making a point that actions were stronger than words.  One might consider also that he may have also been prophesying.

However, imagine if the Samaritans were like incredibly patriot immigrants who knew the history of the land and practiced the Torah (which teaches our Heavenly Father’s commands, statutes and ordinances) even better than the Jews?  The Jews would have been provoked to Jealousy, rather than despising the Samaritans because of their incorrect beliefs.  I believe that this could be part of what Paul was alluding to in Romans Chapter 11.

The Samaritan Woman at the Well

• She was a Samaritan, and the Jews avoided the Samaritans.

John 4:9

Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

• When the woman does not understand His words, the following is spoken:

John 4:15-18

Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

Often the word “Samaritan” is left out… folks often speak of just “The woman at the well” when speaking of the events written about in John chapter 4.  The following is a short summary of one of the Scripture passages mentioned at the beginning of this presentation.

Christ asks a Samaritan Woman for water (note that the Jews avoided the Samaritans). (Read 1^st scripture)

His response is that He then speaks of living water – which she does not understand, so he then asks her to recollect he husband.

She immediately calls him a prophet in verse 19 and then asks about an error in Samaritan understanding about not worshiping in Jerusalem (in verse 20).  The Samaritans had a personal belief that caused them separation.

Before going on, take a moment to contemplate the following question:  Why did he ask her to recollect her “five” husbands and say that he whom she now has is not her husband?  We’ll return to this in a moment.

• The Samaritans no longer knew what they worshiped

John 4:22

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

• They that worship the Father MUST worship him in spirit and in truth

John 4:23-24

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The Samaritans may have thought themselves to be in the correct “spirit” (if you will allow me to word it that way), but they were definitely not worshiping in truth.

The Samaritans forgot the truth that is in the five books of the Torah

After refusing Saul’s armor, when David went to confront Goliath, he chose to take five stones (1st Samuel 17:40).  What 5 things did David have that the Samaritan Woman no longer had?  Let’s look at some symbolism:

• When David went to confront Goliath, he chose to take five stones (1^st Samuel 17:40).
• The Samaritan Woman at the well had lost 5 husbands and had replaced them with another.
• The Five Books of the Torah:
  1. Genesis
  2. Exodus
  3. Leviticus
  4. Numbers
  5. Deuteronomy 

More of Christ’s words

Speaking of stones and rocks, here are a few more of Christ’s words:

Matthew 7:20-29

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

In Matthew 16:18, Peter is referred to a rock… is it no surprise that in 1^st Peter 2:4-6, Peter refers to Christ as the cornerstone?  Christ, our Salvation, is the key to understanding the Torah.  As many know, Christ is simply the word for “Annointed”.  His name is Yeshua which means Yehovah is Salvation.  Yehovah came in the flesh as our Salvation.  His Torah is how we grow close to him.

The Settling of the Samaritans

Let’s take a moment to go back in time now to discover who were the Samaritans and discover when did the Samaritans have the 5 husbands of the Torah, and how did they leave them?

They were settled by Babylon into northern Israel (Samaria is the capital of Northern Israel).  The account of this can be found in 2^nd Kings 17:24-41.   Highlights are listed below:

• A vast mixture of people were settled into Samaria (2^nd Kings 17:24)
• A priest was sent to teach them the manner of the God of the land (2^nd Kings 17:27)
• And that priest did teach them how they should fear the LORD (2^nd Kings 17:28)
• However, this mixture of people also made gods of their own (2^nd Kings 17:29-31)
• Then they did both good and bad: “They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.” (2^nd Kings 17:33)
• In time, they no longer feared the LORD or kept his statutes, ordinances, laws and commandments:

2^nd Kings 17:34-35

Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

The Samaritans were taught the truth, but they mixed it with non-truths.  The word wick (that thread in a candle that is made from twisting threads together) is where we get the word wicked.  Mixing truth and lies is wicked indeed.

…Back to our story of the Samaritan Woman at the well…

• He reveals himself as the Messiah

John 4:25-26

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

• Our Messiah spends two days with the Samaritans.

John 4:40

So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

Personally, I believe that there is a prophecy in those two days.  Consider the following two verses:

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Psalms 90:4

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

These two days (or millennia) remind me of Luke 21:24 that has the phrase…until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.  As you know, it has been nearly two millennia since these words were spoken.

Returning to 2^nd Kings 17:34-35 concerning how the settling of the Samaritans eventually ended up, I am going to make a parallel to the state of Christianity today: many Christians (and I quote from the verse above) “fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded”

If you have not guessed this already, the Samaritans may very well represent modern-day Christians.

Have you ever heard a Christian say, (and I paraphrase here) that “The Law” (The Torah) is not what’s important, but rather being a “Good Samaritan” is what it’s all about?  Indeed, being a good neighbor like the Good Samaritan in the story is half of what Christ spoke about when He said to love Yehovah and your neighbor.  Christians have in fact done a wonderful job of loving their neighbor (consider the many Christian based hospitals, organizations, and various charities).  But, they have forgotten what “The Law” (The Torah) teaches on how to love their God.

More than just loving your neighbor

However, being a good neighbor is one half of what is spoken of when Christ summarized the 10 commandments in the following verse:

Mark 12:30-31

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Note:  For further study, this verse above is also repeated in Matthew 22:37-40 and Luke 10:25.  The 10 Commandments can be found in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5.  Additional teachings on how to treat (and how not to treat) one’s neighbors can be found in, but not limited to, Leviticus 19:9-17, Proverbs 1:10-19, Proverbs 6:16-28.

I could continue on and explain that there is much reward in treating one’s neighbor well, and much disdain in murder, adultery, stealing, bearing false witness, and coveting (nobody wants a neighbor like that!).  But, that is a study in and of itself.

I will say, however, that in Exodus Chapter 20, the first eleven verses also include commandments regarding…

• Do not have other gods before יהוה (the LORD)
• Do not have graven images [as part of religious practice]
• Do not take the name of יהוה (the LORD) thy God in vain
• Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy

With the half of the commandments that regard our Heavenly Father, there’s just not that same visible and immediate reward (we serve an unseen god, and our reward comes at the end of the age).  So, ask yourself this honest question:  Have these commandments been guarded as closely by modern Christianity?

I am convinced that the 10 virgins in the parable in Matthew 25 all knew how to treat their neighbor… but, I believe half of them did not know how to love their bridegroom.

Learn not the way of the heathen.

Like the Samaritans, Western Gentile Christians have also mixed in various beliefs of the cultures of the lands in which they have been settled.  Western Gentile Christians are often referred to as the Lost Tribes of Northern Israel (of which the symbolism can be found in many places) – Samaria was the capital city of Northern Israel.    Also on the flip side, there is symbolism in the diversity of the mix of peoples that were settled into Northern Israel that became to be known as “the Samaritans” could hence possibly be a parallel to the mixture of backgrounds of Christians all over the world today.

Concerning heathen ways and similar issues that Christians may have that mirror the issues that the Samaritans had, the Scriptures tell us the following:

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Remember the ways of our God.

Have you been taught to forget the Torah and the teachings within? “Oh, that was a long time ago” or another excuse to forget? We are told to remember these “old things”!

Isaiah 43:26

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

Isaiah 46:9

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

An example of learning the way of the heathen

We just read together Jeremiah 10:2 about not learning the way of the heathen.  A modern day Christian may not think that they have ANYTHING to do with other gods or heathen paganism in any way, but let’s keep on reading a few more verses in Jeremiah chapter 10:

Jeremiah 10:3-4

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

One has to be in complete utter denial not to recognize the Christmas Tree in this example of a heathen belief presented by, not be, but the Scriptures themselves. Please know that this presentation is not a specific attack on Christmas.  Winter Solstice (what many celebrate as Christmas or Hanukkah), like Halloween, Easter, and other various holidays are holidays that have pagan/heathen roots.  Indeed, they are about other gods, from other Cultures… just like the Samaritans dealt with.  Carry-overs from their father’s culture before them.

If you have not studied the Torah (if you have not remembered the former things of old about our God)… well, then, it’s hard to remember what you have never learned… especially if you are a later generation that may have grown up a heathen or inherited heathen beliefs.  This presentation is meant to be a wake-up call to set oneself apart (that is what the word holy / Kadosh means:  set apart).

Once again, this presentation is not an attack on Christmas or other gentile holidays –  Western Gentile Protestant Christianity is based on Catholicism which is a system that mixed Sun Worship and other paganism in with beliefs associated with the Holy One of Israel.  The process was pretty much the same as we read about with the Samaritans in 2 Kings Chapter 17.  But, that topic is well beyond the scope of this teaching (and easily researched elsewhere).  However, I will just state that Idolatry does exist in our Christian culture (Idolatry is not about how one spends their time on favorite hobbies and such, as is often taught in the churches, but rather the integration of pagan beliefs into one’s life).

This may be hard for some to admit.  However…

In the coming days, Gentiles will admit that they have inherited lies

Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction,
the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say,
Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Zechariah 8:23

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

Remember Christ’s words to the Samaritan woman at the well…

John 4:23-24

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

This teaching should remind you of what your mothers and fathers before have forgotten (The truths in the Torah), rather than focus on the new pagan “husband” (if you will allow me to use that phrase) that they have taken up.  Many have forgotten truth, and that they have inherited lies in their place.

The Samaritans reject Christ, the Messiah

Remember the Samaritan woman at the well bringing up that outside belief that the Samaritans had?  Bringing it into modern terms, it was a bit like arguing over keeping Easter Ham versus Passover Lamb.

• The Samaritan woman at the well explained that the Samaritans had their own set of beliefs…

John 4:20

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

• Because the Samaritans held on to their own set of beliefs, they later rejected Christ, even after having spent two days with him previously accepting him as their Messiah

Luke 9:51-56

And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?  But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.  For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

Sadly, their disagreements literally separated the Samaritans from their Messiah.

I don’t think that anyone would deny that the Crucifixion was a major event, if not the major event, in the Scriptures.  Christ went to them on His way to Jerusalem to be crucified, and they rejected him because they had learned errors/lies from their fathers.

Nonetheless, Christ reminds us that he did not “come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”

Likewise, remember Exodus 20:6 which states “And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”  If you are reading this and have strayed away from keeping his commandments, or did not know what they were to begin with… know that Yehovah our Salvation did not come in the flesh as Yeshua to destroy men’s lives, but to show mercy to those that love him by keeping His commandments (see also Psalm 136:1-9).

Sadly though, returning to the account of the New Testament Samaritans above, Christ and his disciples “went to another village.”  I sometimes think of the Parable of the Wedding Feast (see Matthew 22) and consider, how much of this is prophetic to the state of Christianity today?  As a side note, for those of us reading this that have the knowledge of the Torah and have for the most part rooted paganism out of our lives, but still have minor disagreements with Yehovah or this or that, this “Going to another village” does remind me of Mordecai’s warning to Esther in Esther 4:14.

Accept Our Messiah for who He is

Matthew 11:6

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

Don’t like that Christ was Jewish?  Well, salvation is of the Jews; accept it.  Don’t like those odd-sounding “Holy Days”.  Leviticus 23 explains the proper holy days.  Just accept it.  Don’t like those things “of old” written about in the first five books of the Bible – or even think the word “Torah” sounds funny?  Just accept it.  We should obey the commandments.  Accept it.  Our Messiah practiced these things!  Do not be offended by Him because of things taught to you by your fathers before you.  Don’t make the same mistake as the Samaritans because you think the bible sounds “Jewish” or Hebraic – your “bible” was written mostly by Jews and other Hebraic people.

Did you get offended, and maybe are you offended that I mentioned a holiday outside of the Torah that you enjoy and called it “pagan”?  Consider this… who began the practice of keeping Holy Days that are not in the Scriptures as Holidays rather than the true Holy Days that are in the Scriptures?  Heathens.   Do not learn the way of the Heathen.   And once again, do not be offended by our Messiah.  (or, I might humbly add, His servants that suffer quite a bit of rejection for delivering the truth.)

So, why remember what the Samaritans forgot?

Well, here’s a few good reasons…

1^st Peter 1:16

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Leviticus 19:2

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:7-8

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.

Leviticus 20:26

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

 

Recommended Follow-up Reading:

If you learned from this teaching, I recommend a follow-up study of the life of King Hezekiah.  Listed below are a few places in the Scriptures where his account can be found.

The Scriptural account of the life of King Hezekiah in the historical writings:

• 2 Kings, chapters 18 through 20
• 2 Chronicles, chapters 29 through 32

In 2^nd Kings, King Hezekiah’s account is told immediately after the account of the Samaritans.  The telling is quite a contrast.  He is a contemporary of Isaiah (see also Isaiah chapters 38 & 39).

In short, King Hezekiah becomes king at the early age of 25 (an age much like one in our modern day age of beginning life and career for ourselves) and he decides to do things right, EVEN THOUGH HIS FATHER DID NOT.  He removes pagan nonsense and abominations from the land and “He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.” (that’s actually a quote of 2^nd Kings 18:5).  He does many things right and overcomes adversity, and his life is even extended. When he reads the Torah, he decides to DO what’s in the Torah as best as he can (at one point, he just could not get Passover together as fast as needed, but kept it faithfully in the 2^nd month as the scriptures allow as an exception), and God accepts his efforts.   He prospers and is remembered well.

A study of Hezekiah’s life is a study that maybe I (or, better yet, maybe one of you) may someday make into a future teaching, however I wanted to make mention of Hezekiah in this teaching, as not only is his story recorded in the very next chapter of Scripture after the settling of the Samaritans, but Hezekiah’s life is the example of the way to do it RIGHT.  Thus, ending this teaching on a more positive note.

יהוה  bless thee, and keep thee:

יהוה  make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

יהוה  lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

One Final Word: What is Our Hope to Escape from the Disasters of Life?

By Sombra Wilson
We have all heard the platitude “Yeshua is our hope”. If the counsel ends with this simple platitude, the lost and the babes in the faith are left floundering with nothing concrete to hold on to.

So is there something more to hang our hope on?  Why, yes, yes there is.

Here is a simple formula found in scripture.

• We are made in the image of Yehovah
• The Torah defines Yehovah
• Therefore, the torah defines us.

This truth helps us to see how righteous behaviour is synonymous with being Christlike. In contrast, sinful behaviour is the opposite of being Christlike.  Sometimes we call it hedonism.