Newsletter 5861-024
The 2nd Year of the 5th Sabbatical Cycle
The 30th year of the 120th Jubilee Cycle
The 14th day of the 6th month, 5861 years after the creation of Adam
The 5th Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle
The Sabbatical Cycle of the Red Heifer, Famine, Captivity & The 2 Witnesses
August 9, 2025
Shabbat Shalom to the Royal Family of Yehovah,
Shabbat Shalom to you all.
This week, I want to address the subject of why we are keeping the Fall Feasts one month before everyone else this year. I want you all to understand. I hope this is going to be a very simple and easy Newsletter to go through. Then, once you have watched the video at the end, those who need to repent, during these 40 days of Selichot, will do so and return to Yehovah. Teshuvah
After Sukkot, I will be speaking in three assemblies in PA., NJ, and NY. If you would like to have me come to your assembly, then contact Fayveh on this flyer.
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All of us see the sword coming. We are all collectively the watchman spoken of in Ezekiel 33. We all have a responsibility to warn those who do not know what is coming and to wake up the sleeping 10 virgins.
Ezk 33:1 And the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 33:2 Son of man, speak to the sons of your people, and say to them: When I bring the sword on it, on a land, and take one man from the people of the land, of their borders, and set him for their watchman;
Ezk 33:3 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people,
Ezk 33:4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword does come and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.
Ezk 33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning. His blood shall be on himself. But he who takes warning shall deliver his soul.
Ezk 33:6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned; if the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity. But I will require his blood at the watchman’s hand.
Ezk 33:7 And you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore you shall hear the Word from My mouth, and warn them from Me.
Ezk 33:8 When I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
Ezk 33:9 But, if you warn the wicked of his way, to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
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Neh 13:10 And I saw that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them; for the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each one to his field.
Neh 13:11 And I contended with the rulers and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place.
Neh 13:12 And all Judah brought the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil into the treasuries.
Neh 13:13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah. And next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah. For they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute to their brothers.
Neh 13:14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds which I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices of it.
I pray to Yehovah that You will not blot out our work. I pray that Yehovah will cause it to be shared now in these last days and throughout the 7th millennium, to teach people about the Jubilee cycles and how this understanding helps them to understand prophecy, both now and again at the end of the 7th millennium. I pray Father Yehovah that you will rain down a blessing on each person supporting this work at this time. Protect them and their families from the sword that is coming. I pray, Father, you will weigh heavily on those who do not or will not support this work in any way. I pray, Father, for your help in my old age, to strengthen me and give me great health to do all that must be done in waking up both the foolish and the wise. Help us complete this work. Find us all busy at our stations and not asleep as some, which you, as that Thief in the Night, will now find. Please, Father, bless us as we do this work.
Torah Portion
Torah Portions
We read through the entire Torah along with the Prophets and the New Testament, once over the course of 3 1/2 years. Or according to the Sabbatical Cycle which means we read it all twice over a 7-year period. This allows us to cover more in-depth rather than being rushed to cover as much as is covered on an annual basis. We allow all to comment and take part in the discussions.
Septennial Torah Portion
If you go to Torah Portion in our archived section, you can then go to the 1st year, which is the 1st year of the Sabbatical Cycle, the one we are in now, as we state at the top of every Newsletter. There, you can scroll down to the proper date and see that this Shabbat, we could very well be midrashing about:
Exodus 32
Isaiah 63-65
Proverb 3
Acts 2
We are in the 1st Sabbatical Cycle in 2024-2025. We go through the entire bible twice in a 7 year cycle. This means we cover the entire bible once every 3 1/2 years. It gives us more time to debate and discuss each portion we read.
If you missed last week’s exciting discoveries as we studied that section, you can go and watch past Shabbats on our media section.
Our Celtic Roots
Our Celtic Roots
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
The Stones Cry Out Part 1 & Part 2
Do you want to know how to prove the Zadok Calendar, the Enoch Calendar, and the Book of Jubilee Calendar false?
Do you want to know how the calendar issue became so confusing?
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In The Stones Cry Out, I walk you through the history of each change and why those changes came about, starting with the Maccabean days. Yes, it all began around 164 B.C. When Yehshua was here, he was dealing with two schools of thought. The Sadducees were all but wiped out when the Temple fell in 70 C.E. This left only the Pharisees, who began to be persecuted after the failure of the Bar Kochbah Revolt in 134 C.E.
The truth began to become out of focus around 160 C.E. when Rabbi Jose wrote the Seder Olam. This work originally was written to proof Simon Bar Kochbah was the Messiah. When that did not pan out the history was later revived and then redacted as the truth into the Mishneh Torah by Rabbi Judah ha Nasi in 180 C.E. After this the Jerusalem Talmud begins to debate these issues. It was then during this time as the Jerusalem Talmudist are forced to flee and the Babylonian Talmudist continue to grow until the 6th century that Hillel came up with a solution to help them keep the Holy Days at the proper time while they were out of the land of Israel. He did this in 358 C.E. This work was then modified and adjusted over the next 800 years with additions added and other rejected. Until it was finally redacted once again in 1177 by Rambam. And with that we now have the modern Hillel calendar which includes the errors passed on during each redaction. These errors included the time of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years.
Once the Temple was destroyed in 70 C.E., the Jews recorded time by counting from the time It was destroyed. This is why the 40 tombstones of Zoar, which record this information, are crucial to understand.
When you understand why the Postponement rules were first created so that the crescent moon would not be seen in another part of the world before it was seen in Israel then you can understand how they were still trying to follow the crescent moon to begin the month. The Tombstones show us this exact thing. The tombstones also show us when the Jews changed from a crescent moon to a Conjunction moon to begin the month. They also show us when the Jews changed the year from the month of Aviv to the Tishri to begin the year.
I really want you to understand these things so you know why you do what you do as far as following a calendar to keep Yehovah’s moedim.
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Most people assume that Hillel created the calendar in 358 C.E. They then assume that because it was a Sanhedrin, they are not allowed to change in order to obey Yehovah. The Hillel calendar has been changed many times since 358 C.E. up until 1177 C.E. Few people talk about these changes but we do in our latest Book The Stones Cry Out Part 1 which is free on our website. The Hillel calendar was changed on many occasions and many sought to make other changes during this time. They never needed a Bet Din to approve those changes. They just did them. So this excuse that we do not have the right to obey Yehovah because the Bet Din has not approved it is a crock of crap.
You have the obligation to obey Yehovah. You have the duty to prove which calendar you are to go by. You must prove it beyond all doubt. Yehshua never followed the Hillel calendar. Nor did any of the Apostles.
The reason no man can know the day or the hour is because it refers to a crescent moon to begin the 7th month. That is the day He was born on and the day He comes to judge on. At a day and hour no one can know. Using the Hillel calendar predicts Yom Teruah years in advance so every one knows when to keep it. But even in the Hillel calendar they keep two days of Yom Teruah reckoning back to the sighted moon. Also in the postponement rules developed long after Hillel, they again state that if the conjunction is at a certain time then the day begins at such and such, in order that the moon will not be seen in another part of the world before it is seen in Israel. That was rule number 2.
Everyone has to choose. You have the right to be wrong. But if you choose to be wrong then you also must live with the consequences that come with sin. And that is the death penalty for not keeping the Holy Days, these Sabbath at the proper time. It is your choice.
Just because you write in to me to justify your position does mean it is right. It just means your sounding off.
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And yes, many observe the Equinox. There are many who are deceived, improperly educated. And this is why Joe puts out a newsletter every week, why he writes books, why the SightedMoon Zoom Shabbat service started, why he travels to places like England and the Philippines to share this message and why were are going to the NRB in February. The calendar is always a divisive issue in social circles because the details are many, that’s why there are so many books Joe has written. I’m not looking to put Joe on a pedestal here. This is not about Joe worship. But Joe has tenaciously studied out the calendar from every angle, not to prove himself right, to to seek to find and share what Yehovah is telling us about His Calendar.
In The Stones Cry Out, Joe has shared the history of all the different groups within Israel, and the beliefs they had about the scriptures and the feast days and the calendar. When you line it all up, you can see for yourself the how and why these misunderstandings and arguments about how and where and why they came about.
This is my new favourite book and I’m only 60-70 pages in. And I encourage you to read the footnotes in this one. Sometimes there’s more footnote on the page than Joe’s words.
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When I wrote Stones Cry Out, I wanted it to be one of our FREE books so everyone would have it. It is more of an encyclopedia than a book to read. It will be your quick resource book; you will have access to every question about any calendar, how it got started, and who started it. You will also learn the history of how the Mishnah was assembled, when it was assembled and why. Then, you will learn how that information was transferred into both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud until it reached its final stage in the Mishneh Torah. Along with this progression, the calendar also progressed and changed long after 358 C.E. when Rabbi Hillel first published it. But…what was before the Hillel calendar? What does the Mishnah record about those things?
The Stones Cry Out was originally going to be one book explaining all the various proofs we have discovered, demonstrating when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are throughout history.
You can know; it is not a mystery.
As I began to write The Stones Cry Out, I quickly found myself going back, time and time again, to explain how the calendar is behind the confusion of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Rabbis, as they began to write the Mishnah, incorporated wrong understandings, and those errors were written into what became known as the Talmud and then the Mishneh Torah. The expulsion from the land and subsequent persecutions in trying to send out messengers to report the barley being found or the crescent moon being seen, proved to be more and more dangerous over time. All of these things took place over 14 centuries.
Then as I was working on The Stones Cry Out, I discovered that many people were now accepting the Zadok calendar as factual. This is when we pivoted to include all the details of the various calendars that have crept back into public knowledge today and are being used to mislead new people who are just starting to learn about the calendar. All of this was directly connected to the period starting with the Hasmonaeans, up to the destruction of the Temple. Then, with the compiling of the Mishnah, the studies that led into the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud, then the Babylonian Talmud and finally the Mishneh Torah, each error that was added is compounded over time.
The Stones Cry Out, Part 1 explains the history of how each compilation of the Oral Torah incorporated errors, leading the followers thereof away from the actual Torah. In understanding these facts, it is then possible to understand more readily how the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were then mixed and later changed. By explaining all this history, I will be able to help you the reader understand the tombstones when most authorities do not. They have assumed, to their error, the Hillel calendar to have always been in use since Mount Sinai. Not understanding the history of the calendars is why most authorities dismiss the tombstones as too confusing to use. Once you understand The Stones Cry Out Part 1, Part 2 will be very easy to grasp.
Daniel 7:25 tells us he will change the appointed seasons and commandments. Many assume Constantine did this when he made Sunday the Sabbath. Few have considered the calendar’s many changes and how they relate to us today. Hidden in this proverbial swamp of confusion is the truth about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Sabbatical and Jubilee years reveal the truths about the calendar that have been hidden for almost 2000 years.
We are in the very last days and Yehshua warned us that during this time:
Mat 24:10 And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.
Mat 24:11 And many false prophets will rise and deceive many.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.
Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.
Paul also warned Timothy about these last days, warning that some would leave the truth and begin to follow demonic teachers:
1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
Paul again warned the Thessalonians that the Great Falling away would take place in the last days. How can you fall away if you have never come to know the truth? So who is Paul talking to? Those who are called and answer that calling begin to walk this road of restoration back to Yehovah, and then at some point along that walk, they change and leave this walk following the teachings of demons to false calendar.
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
2Th 2:2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,
2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.
We must endure until the end. We must not let ourselves become offended by personalities and leave the faith once given.
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It Was A Riddle Not A Command
It Was A Riddle Not A Command
Listen to this Podcast discussing one of Joseph’s most popular books.
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!
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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.
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Join Our Sabbath Meetings
Join Our Sabbath Meetings
There are many people in need of fellowship and who are sitting at home on the Sabbath with no one to talk to or debate with. I want to encourage all of you to join us on Shabbat, and to invite others to come and join us as well. If the time is not convenient then you can listen to the teaching and the midrash after on our YouTube channel.
What are we doing and why do we teach this way?
We are going to discuss both sides of an issue and then let you choose. It is the work of the Ruach (Spirit) to direct and to teach you.
The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.
Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and you and I are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.
Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.
Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teaches you and encourages you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.
We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable of explaining why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.
We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s, Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.
Jas 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
We hope you can invite those who want to keep Torah to come and join us by hitting the link below. It is almost like a Torah teaching fellowship talk show with people from around the world taking part and sharing their insights and understandings.
We start off with some music and then some prayers and it’s as though you were sitting around the kitchen back in Newfoundland having a cup of coffee and all of us enjoying each other’s company. I hope you will grace us with your company someday.
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Feast days of the 7th Month
Feast days of the 7th Month
We are now just 15 days away from the Feast of Trumpets and the start of the Fall Holy Day season. Are you READY??? Here is our link to all the Holy Days for the remainder of the year. Sunday, August 24, after the sun has set, the moon might be visible. However, because it is so low on the horizon, it may not be visible, so you will need to plan your time off for either Monday or Tuesday. And that goes for each of the Holy Days. We will not know until we have two witnesses. Two Witnesses who see the moon from the land of Israel. Seeing it in another part of the world, although nice, does not count. One person in Israel does not count, even if they have a camera picture to prove it. You need to have physical human beings to see the moon, so that we have two witnesses.
This also means that travelers should be cautious about their travel plans to avoid forcing someone else to work on a High Holy Day, such as flying a plane, serving a meal, or pumping gas. No one is to work on the Sabbath or High Days. You hiring them for a service makes you as guilty as they are for breaking the Sabbath. I have seen too many people suffer harm or an awful Feast when they fly on the Holy Days or travel by plane, bus, taxi, and hotel check-ins on the Sabbath, Yom Kippur, or Shemini Atzeret. Please don’t be one of those people this year. Leave early. Stay later than the 8th day. Plan. Plan. Plan your travel and adjust it when you make a mistake. If it costs you, then that is a $300 learning lesson you just paid for. I have changed flights in the past when I made a mistake. You do not leave on the Sabbath or land on the Sabbath. Give yourself some room for delays or other problems. No Excuses! Just don’t do it!
Exo 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God. You shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger within your gates.
Exo 20:11 For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it.
Exo 20:12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
Obeying the Sabbaths is about Honouring our Father, Yehovah. This is why I include it with the 4th commandment.
Next New Moon
Once again, you get to live out in real life the Hebrew expression of why no man can know the day or the hour.
This year we have been tested once again about the calendar as to when the Barley would be Aviv, when the wheat would be ready to be harvested for first fruits and when the harvest of the grapes would be according to the 9th of Av. And on every occasion, we have been shown by Yehovah that we were keeping it at the proper time so that the very first fruits of each crop could be offered if we had a temple.
Each and every single barley searcher this year declared the barley was shattering and or Aviv on March 17 and 18, 2025. One day after we kept Wave Sheaf Day. Some are actively misleading you and will not repent. Yehovah see their actions. He will deal with them; you, you just obey Him and keep His Feasts when He says to do so. No excuses, no ya buts, no so and so said…. obey with no regrets.
The Blessings and Judgment
You all saw us in the Land of Israel searching for the barley. You all witnessed that the truce with Hamas, Hezbollah, and even the Houthis all stopped shooting for the two weeks while we were there. Then they started up after we left. That is a blessing from Yehovah because we are obeying Him. But don’t forget when Achan sinned, all of Israel was punished, all of Israel. Your actions and your sins affect us all. Please obey our King and keep His laws that will be enforced in the Kingdom, and do not excuse them off, and say I will try harder next time. We are in the final 10 Days of Awe, and it is now the second year. The time for winking at your sins is over. The time of Judgment has now begun.
On Sunday, July 27, 2025, we began our 40 days of repentance, counting down to the Day of Atonement on the 10th day of the 7th month. I am once again sharing the Selichot Prayers for all of us to begin to repent as we draw closer to Atonement. I should have done so last week, but I did not. The 40-day countdown began last Sunday, the 1st day of this 6th month.
Every year since I began to keep the feasts in 1982, I have been tested about each feast, and especially as we approached Sukkot season. Every single time. I am already feeling a very heavy weight this year as we begin these 40 days. The podcasts interviews, completing my latest book, A Lion Rises Up, and the Coming of Apollyon and published by Sept 30, 2025,, getting our newsletter out each week on time, preparing for the NRB and the $20,000 needed to do this event, encouraging new people, rebuking the hate emails, and sometimes getting it wrong about things and or people, keeping our executive team updated and encouraged to complete the tasks they have taken on, staying on top of the books ordered for some place and the banners ordered for other areas that have not arrived, family life and trying to figure out how to finance the ad campaigns, podcast campaigns, and maintain this website. The stresses pile up, and they always come to a head just before Sukkot.
Most years, it would be easy and solve all my problems if I just didn’t go to Sukkot. Or that is how I felt. In the beginning, I did cave in and not go. Life just got much worse after that, and the problems did not go away. When I determined I was keeping the Feast come Hell or High Water, and I went, every single problem that seemed so unmanageable or so beyond my ability to do before the Feasts, disappeared, and when I looked back, almost all of them were a figment of my own making. They were just a puff of hot air I had worked up into a whole lot of nothing.
This is Just a Test
Yehovah is testing each and every one of us. He has commanded that we do our heavy cooking—roasting, baking, boiling, broiling on the day before the Sabbath. The command to do this is clear. It is interesting to think about how frequently men think that “what Yehovah says” does not really apply to them or that it does not matter. What they are doing is presuming to add or subtract from His Word.
Yehovah said that He was going to give Israel a test (Exodus 16:4). The test dealt with keeping the 4commandment, the Sabbath. He wanted to see whether they would obey Him. He then commanded them to prepare for it, so that they could pass the test!
Does Yehovah mean what He says? He is serious enough about our keeping of the Sabbath that He included commandments to make sure that we are prepared to keep it and thus pass the test. The test, then, is not whether we know about the Sabbath but how we keep it. To keep the Sabbath, we must prepare for it.
Whether or not we will live by Yehovah’s Word depends upon our faith because, in reality, the test is of our faith. It tests whether we believe what Yehovah says. If we are depending only upon our eyes—our senses—we are quite limited. There are things we cannot see or hear that are very important to Yehovah. By appearance, the Sabbath is no different from any other day of the week. This means everybody is confronted by a test of faith in keeping it, and preparation is a key to keeping it properly.
To Yehovah, idolatry and Sabbath-breaking go hand in hand. Sabbath-breaking is shown to be idolatry because the Israelites were either using it in idolatrous devotion to a false god or not keeping it at all.
The Sabbath was given so that Israel would know Yehovah, so that they could fulfill their purpose, which was to witness for Yehovah before the world, learn more of His purpose, and work to build character so that they could inherit Yehovah’s Kingdom. They failed miserably and totally.
Yehovah accomplished His goal of bringing them into their own land only to uphold the reputation of His name. But what was the overall result? The Israelites in the wilderness died there (Hebrews 3:16-4:2). Their descendants failed in the same manner, so Yehovah cut them off and sent them into captivity and slavery.
Israel’s history reveals that the Creator, Yehovah, is the Source of the Sabbath, and Yehovah’s children have the responsibility to honour Him by keeping it.
In Ezekiel 20, Yehovah is referring to Israel’s Sabbath-breaking in their wilderness journey, quite early in their relationship with Him. In addition, if there was any time in all of the history of Israel’s relationship with Yehovah, this was a time during which they had no excuse for breaking the Sabbath. He was with them at all times in the cloud and the pillar of fire. They were also a completely closed society. There should have been no other god to worship.
All of the people were gathered in one general location. There was no place to go. Double manna fell each Friday, and no manna fell on the Sabbath. They had no excuse for losing track of what day it was. Yehovah, jarringly, had a man executed for Sabbath-breaking to remind them how important the day is and to instill in them respect for it. Yet, Yehovah says they still rebelled, suggesting that Yehovah was mostly concerned with how they were keeping it.
They undoubtedly gave lip service to the Sabbath, setting it aside on the calendar. When that day came around, any commercial business in the wilderness probably came to a halt on that day. They did not travel. It was what they were doing or not doing personally and individually on that day that harmed their relationship with Yehovah. That was the issue.
From Ezekiel 20, it is very clear to see that a major purpose of the Sabbath, apart from it being a sign, is that we might come to know Yehovah, which is eternal life (John 17:3)! If we are going to know Yehovah, the Sabbath must be kept. This passage ties the two of them together. Without knowing Yehovah, there is no eternal life. The Sabbath, then, is a necessary fixture in having eternal life.
In Ezekiel 20 verse 24 gives a concluding statement is given as to why Israel was taken into captivity. There are two possibilities regarding Israel’s Sabbath breaking. 1) Israel completely rejected Yehovah’s Sabbath for another day. This possibility exists due to the instances of the “My/their” or “Mine/yours” contrast, that is, My Sabbath as opposed to your Sabbath. 2) They polluted the Sabbath by careless, self-centered observance.
The probability is that they did both—some people completely rejected the Sabbath, while others carelessly observed it. However, it was because of Sabbath-breaking, a type of idolatry, that they went into captivity.
When we look at secular history, even biblical history, and society around us, how to keep this day is a mixed bag. On the surface, what we see in the New Testament is rigorous legalism from the Pharisees or asceticism from the Gentiles. Today, we might call that an extreme “rightism” or perhaps a reactionary conservatism.
In today’s world, though, we are confronted with the other side of the coin. We do not even begin to know how to keep the Sabbath because, from our earliest days, our culture’s emphasis has been on Sunday, a day that cannot be kept holy because it was never made holy!
The cycle of six workdays and one day of rest and worship is a legacy of the Bible. But in fairly recent history, society has undergone a radical transformation because of scientific, industrial, and technological achievements. A shorter workweek provides us with more leisure time. Businesses, however, make every effort to make the best use of time, to maximize production by scheduling work shifts so that the weekly cycle becomes a blur.
We have come to the place where we think that time belongs to us, and we can use it as we good and well please. This, in turn, makes a person very conscious of his free time. What does almost every individual do? He does the same thing that a business does. Every bit of time in a person’s life is booked up because they want to get the most out of life.
Even among those who are reasonably religious, the result has been that Sunday has become the hour of worship. The older among us can probably remember that, in the community, Sunday was once set aside very seriously. People did not work. They usually spent the day at home. Maybe the most secular thing they allowed themselves to do was to read the Sunday newspaper. Some, perhaps, did not even listen to the radio on Sunday because, to them, the day was holy.
But over the years, Sunday worship—which used to be kept somewhat as Yehovah expects us to keep the Sabbath—has now become, even among religious folks, an hour rather than a day of worship. People go to church for that one hour then perhaps return home. Or, maybe they go to a Sunday brunch at a restaurant. They spend the rest of the time on that day either making money or seeking their own pleasure.
All the while, the real Sabbath is ridiculed or ignored. This is what confronts us when we begin trying to keep it. A similar environment even affects those who continue to keep it. When we look in the Bible, we find that Yehovah does not give us many specifics as to how to keep it. Yehovah does, however, give us a number of broad principles, and He expects us to extrapolate from those principles in applying them.
Your Identity
What caused one house (Judah) to retain its identity and the other (Israel) to lose it? Yehovah gives the answer—the Sabbath. Whedon’s Commentary on the Bible (at verse 12) states, “The Sabbath was the visible sign to the Hebrews and to the world that they were his, and that he was theirs.”
A sign identifies. An example is a burqa, the long, loose garment covering the whole body from head to feet, worn in public by many Muslim women. A woman wearing a burqa is an unmistakable sign that she is Allah’s and that he is her god. It is a sign that separates and identifies.
With these verses in chapter 20 of Ezekiel, Yehovah guarantees that if His people keep the Sabbath—the sign that signifies who they are and who they worship—that sign would assure their identity. To be separate requires a definable identity. Yehovah, by their observance of the Sabbath, guaranteed they would remain separate and set apart, preserved as a select people unmixed with the nations.
Throughout history, the house of Judah has continued to observe the Sabbath. As a result, they have retained their identity. On the other hand, the house of Israel rejected the Sabbath, and true to Ezekiel 20, they have disappeared from view. They have lost their identity. They no longer have the sign that tells them, or the rest of the world, who they are.
The house of Israel chose to rebel against the Sabbath, a proclivity that began as far back as the wilderness journey:
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them. (Ezekiel 20:13)
So, the Bible clearly and consistently identifies as Israel those nations that have become known as the “The Ten Lost Tribes” rather than the house of Judah.
John W. Ritenbaugh https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/About.website
Why Are We Keeping The Feasts A Month Ahead of Everyone Else?
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.
This video is absolutely essential for truth seekers. Thank you for making it and calmly revealing the truth. Keeping the feasts at the right time is one part of faith filled obedience.
Okay, I see a problem here. The wave sheaf day was March 16, 2025. The barley was too ripe to harvest just two days later on March 18th. How then would all the men of Israel, who were supposed to be in Jerusalem for the week of Unleavened Bread, be able to travel back to their homes AND harvest all of their fields in less than two days?! Just like during Noah’s flood or during the seven years of famine during Joseph’s time, you can’t use weather or crop conditions to determine the new year. Genesis 1:14 says that the sun, moon, and stars are for moedim, NOT the barley. Do research on the star Spica, which represents a sheaf of grain in the Virgin’s (Virgo) hand. It just happens to rise in the east at sunset in the Spring. Look for that star rising, then look for the next sighted moon. THAT is when the new year begins.
What scripture exactly was that which says to use the star Spica to begin the year? Exodus 12:2?
Exo 12:2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. The one when Sica rises in the east.
If you noticed the dates we kept Wave Sheaf Day it was March 16, 2025. They are declared the barley shattering March 18, and 30.
It would have to have been harvested before that date. ALthough we found barley in February, 2025, we did not have enough for a wave offering. But we could have harvested starting on March 16.
The Spring Equinox (also called the Vernal Equinox) in 2025 occurred on March 20, 2025, at 09:01 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). This is when the Sun crossed the celestial equator from south to north, marking the start of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, has its first heliacal rising (when it becomes visible in the eastern sky just before dawn after being hidden by the Sun’s glare) around mid-March 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere. Specifically:For latitudes around 40°N (e.g., New York or Madrid), Spica’s heliacal rising is approximately March 14-16, 2025, when it appears low in the east about an hour before sunrise.
So if we use your methodology which is not found in Yehovah’s instructions on how to begin the year. But lets just use your instructions. So Spica came up lets give you all the help you can and say March 14. the Equinox was March 20.
You then say once Spica isseen then start the year with the next new crescent moon which was on March 31, 2025. So 15 days later brings you to April 14,when everyone was keeping Passover in 2025 except us.
So just like everyone else you would have gone to Wave Sheaf day on Arpil 20 2025 with absolutley no barley. As all the searchers testified the barley was shattering March 18 and was all gone by March 30. So your reasoning is no better than thiers. Like them you would not have presented the very first fruits of barley. You would have presented the last fruits like them.
Once again your method even though not supported by Yehovah, fails to keep the Feastsin time to make a wave offering. You would have been keeping the June 8 date for Shavuot and as Becca tesitifed the wheat was all gone on June 1. We kept Shavuot on May 4 when the wheat was first being harvested.
And again for the grapes you would have been keeping the 9th of Av in August and the video shows the grape harvest was long over by then.
So although you think you are on to some new. It is nothing more than another rebellious Isrealite who is not keeping the Holy Days according to Yehovah’s timing and totalling dependant on Him. We must wait for Him to stop the rains and with the sun warm the barley so it ripens and is ready by the wave sheaf day. We at sightedmoon.com have been doing that since 2005. It is time everyone else begins to do so as well. the produce in the land of Israel confirms our method and has this year destroyed the others as well as those who go by Spica which is not found in the Torah.
On Numbers 11:16,17 God says gather me seventy of Isreal elders. ….Bring them to the tent of the meeting….I will come down and draw on the Sperit that is on you.
Many people think that this spirit continued several centuries past Christ and before disbanding approved the Hillel Two calendar.
Dose the Holy Sperit endure from God to the Hillel?.
Joseph: The Sanhedrin had a variety of roles and powers. One of these was proclaiming a new month at the first sighting of a new moon. This would determine the dates of upcoming holidays. The first Sanhedrin was formed originally from the Spirit Yehovah gave to Moses and kept going through a chain of ordination (semikhah). By this authority, the Hillel calendar was created and continues to this day. Ultra-Orthodox, Orthodox, Conservative and Reformed, you don’t hear any of these folks arguing about the calendar? (Over the years there have been changes made, it’s true, as you said Joseph) My point is the Hebrew Roots egomaniacs do not have the authority do proclaim anything. They are not and were not ordained by Hashem to proclaim anything! Thank you for the space to speak our opinions. Peter smith
when Barley is sighted or gathered for Preists Tithe it is WAVE SHEIF a persentage , the harvest hasn’t 0ccured yet after feast an wave shief’s brought inn then after last day unleavened bread till Pentecost is harvesting of grains.. 1st barley then wheat for 2 loaves @ Pentecost .
Farmer TOM
Shalom Farmer Tom. You have misunderstood teh Wave Sheaf Offering. It is not a Tithe. A Tithe is something else altogether. The Wave Offering at Passover and the other Wave Offering at Shavuot are the very first fruits of the land. The tithe is given as the crops are harvest through out the season. Huge difference.
You need just enough barley to make an omers worth of grain ground into flour. That is all. This offering is made from the very first of the barley on behalf of everyone else, even if the other barley is not yet ripe. It is the First Fruits The same goes for the wheat. You need just enogh wheat to make the loaves that then waved before Yehovah. These are not tithes. They are the first fruits.