“…Thus shalt
thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my
memorial unto all generations.”
Exodus
3:15
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(Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD
liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, which brought up
and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from
all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
- Jeremiah 23:7,8)
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(Therefore
say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your
sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned
among the heathen, whither ye went.
And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen,
which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I
am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their
eyes. –
Ezekiel
36:22,23)
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“And it shall
come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again
the second
time to recover
the remnant of his people, which shall be left,
from Assyria,
and from
and from
and from the
islands of the sea. And he shall
set up an ensign for the nations,
and shall
assemble the outcasts of
and gather
together the dispersed of
Isaiah
11:11,12
“Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD
liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, that brought up
the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands
whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I
gave unto their fathers.”
Jeremiah
16:14,15
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“Thy
righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
and thy law
is the truth. Thou art near, O LORD;
and all thy
commandments are truth Concerning
thy testimonies,
I have known
of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Thy word is
true from the beginning:
and every one
of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.”
Psalm
119:142,151,152,160
“For what
nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them,
as the LORD
our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
And what
nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments
so righteous
as all this law, which I set before you this day?”
Deuteronomy
4:7,8
“Thus saith
the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh
flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the
LORD.”
Jeremiah
17:5
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“The
LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law,
and
make it honourable.”
Isaiah
42:21
“Now these
are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God
commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to
possess it: That thou mightest fear
the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command
thee, thou, and thy sons and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that
thy days may be prolonged. Hear
therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and
that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised
thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.”
Deuteronomy
6:1 - 3
“O
earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.”
Jeremiah
22:29
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EXALTATION OF
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“I
will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my
mouth.
My
soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof,
and
be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name
together.”
Psalm 34:1 –
3
“O
taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in
him.”
Psalm
34:8
“And
my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
salvation.”
Psalm
35:9
*****
A
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE LAWKEEPERS, CO.:
LET
ME BEGIN BY SAYING ALL PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH
YIHOVAH!!!
PSALM
77
I
cried unto God with my voice, [even] unto God with my voice; and he gave ear
unto me.
In
the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased
not my soul refused to be comforted.
I
remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.
Selah.
Thou
holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
I
have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
I
call to remembrance my song in the night:
I commune with mine
own heart: and my spirit made diligent
search.
Will
the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no
more?
Is
his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?
Hath
God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Selah.
And
I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right
hand of the most High.
I
will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
I
will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy
doings.
Thy
way, O God, [is] in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a God as [our]
God?
Thou
[art] the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the
people.
Thou
hast with [thine] arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
The
waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also
were troubled.
The
clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went
abroad.
The
voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world:
the earth trembled and shook.
Thy
way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not
known.
Thou
leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and
Aaron.
Shalom and
Shalom,
Yehudah
ben Yacob,
President
The
LawKeepers, Co.
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Tribute to the New Moon
Revised:
“For as the new heavens
and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so
shall your seed and your name remain.
“And it shall come to
pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall
all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.”
Isaiah
66:22,23
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BY LOOKING IN THE “WEST”
JUST ABOVE THE HORIZON.
“He appointed the moon
for seasons…”
Psalm
104:19
The first “Sign” in the
Heavens to provide the start of days, years and “seasons” can only begin with
the “Sighting” of the New Moon Crescent - that which we can “see” in
order for it to serve as a “Sign” and enable us to begin counting our
days and months. Just imagine
not being able to “see” the moon at all.
How then could it be appointed for a “Sign” or for
“seasons”?
“The natural thought
might be that the moon is like a living being. It is born, grows, reaches maximum size,
then fades and dies, going through all these stages in one month. Even today, we still talk of the thin
crescent in the western sky as a new moon and the thin crescent in the eastern
sky a month later as the old moon.
Half way between is the full moon.
As I explained earlier, this cycle of phases of the moon established the
month as a unit of time, and the first calendars were based on this.” ISAAC ASIMOV’S GUIDE TO EARTH AND
SPACE, pages 79 and 80
In that the King of
To their and our hurt
our forefathers worshipped all manner of symbols: the sun, moon, stars, and images of gold
and silver. To observe the “Sign”
in the heavens as being the New Moon “Sighting” is NOT worshipping the moon, but
rather it is doing as we are COMMANDED in Genesis
1:14:
“And God said, Let there
be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and
years:”
Some people feel that
the moon has no “light,” but according to GOD’s WORD to HIS Prophets, it most
certainly does: Isaiah 13:10;
Isaiah 30:26; Jeremiah 31:35; Ezekiel 32:7.
***
“Sing aloud unto God our
strength: make a joyful noise unto
the God of Jacob.
“Take a psalm, and bring
hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the
psaltery.
“Blow up the trumpet in
the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast
day.
“For this was a statute
for
Psalm 81:1 –
4
(A Psalm of Asaph, the
Seer –one who should be well informed about GOD’s
Ways)
“Also in the day of your
gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye
shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices
of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your
God: I am the LORD your God.”
Numbers
10:10
Contrary to the belief
of some Israelites, the moon does indeed shine! Whether the Moon shines on its own or
with the aid of the sun, IT STILL SHINES!
And the fact that Scripture attests to this fact, is what’s
important: Isaiah 60:19; Jeremiah
31:35; and Ezekiel 32:7. Therefore,
Genesis 1:14 is proof enough that we must use the shining New Moon Crescents as
“…SIGNS, AND FOR SEASONS, AND FOR DAYS, AND FOR YEARS:”
Some Israelites, along
with White Jews, use the dark phase of the moon to determine the start of a new
month. If the dark phase of the
moon lasts for “2-3 days,” then which of these days is supposed to be the
distinguishing “Sign” that determines the First Day of the month? Or do we just arbitrarily select
either/or depending on the imaginations of our hearts?
On the contrary, with
the use of the sighted “Sign” of the
“So David hid himself in
the field: and WHEN THE NEW MOON WAS COME, the king sat him down to eat
meat.”
I Samuel
20:24
At the time of the dark
phases of the moon (generally 2-3 days), as previously written, there is no
“moon” in SIGHT. Therefore, I
Samuel 20:24 sheds more light on Genesis 1:14. “WHEN THE NEW MOON WAS COME,” is clearly
telling readers that this is a reference to a visible “
The only problem that
presents itself is cloud coverage that prevents the ability to see the
“Then Solomon offered
burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built
before the porch,
“Even after a certain
rate every day, 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.” II Chronicles 8:12,13
Unless there is an
emergency, please try not to buy or sell on this day. Conduct all financial and business
transactions prior to the day of the New Moon. Interesting enough, II Kings 4:23,24
constitutes the New Moon as being a day to seek “the man of God.” Although the New Moon is NOT a Day of
Rest, Our GOD did set it aside for recognition:
“Blow up the trumpet in
the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” Psalm
81:3
“And it shall come to
pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall
all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.” Isaiah
66:23
“…When will the new moon
be gone, that we may sell corn?…”
Amos 8:5
Probably, the Scripture
that most determines and clarifies the fact that our New Moons are Feast Days is
Ezekiel 45:17:
“And it shall be the
prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings,
in the feasts, and in the NEW MOONS, and in the Sabbaths, in ALL SOLEMNITIES of
the house of Israel: he shall
prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the
peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the HOUSE OF ISRAEL.”
(Caps. are
mine.)
Unequivocally, our New
Moons are included in these “SOLEMNITIES” mentioned in Ezekiel 45:17.
“Likewise the people of
the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the Sabbaths
[Feasts – NOT 7th Day Sabbaths*] and in the NEW MOONS.” Ezekiel 46:3 (Brackets are
mine.)
Thereby, this verse
justifies the First Day of each month being our “Feast” Day. It should be realized that the Feast
Days that Our GOD selected (Leviticus 23rd Chapter) are “Holy
Convocations,” i.e., on these days we cannot do any work. However, because King Saul observed the
New Moon as a Feast Day, we have every reason to do so, as well. We also have learned that our
forefathers traveled to the
When we return to our
heritage and worship YIHOVAH according to HIS Ways, then we can establish our
own “Calendar of the Universe,” whereby, the days of the New Moon and all GOD’s
Holy Days will be recognized by the whole entire World. And I am sure that it will be the desire
of the Righteous Remnant and ALL the world to make a Feast to the Most High GOD
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel every First Day of the Month.
ALSO, I believe that if
Lot (Genesis 19:3) and Abraham (Genesis 21:8) can proclaim “Feasts,” then there
is no stipulation for NOT establishing Feast Days, as we so desire. Therefore, to proclaim a feast to EXALT
the Holy ONE of Israel on the First Day of each month is quite acceptable -
given the Scripture (above) regarding worshipping Our LORD GOD of ISRAEL, Our
SAVIOR, on the New Moons. We should
know that throughout the Tanakh Hebrew Israelites called for “feasts” for
various occasions. Therefore, we
are within our rights to observe a Feast every New Moon to Our GOD, the GOD of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel.
And those of us who love this WONDERFUL GOD and who choose HIM to EXALT
HIM for being the ONLY LORD and SAVIOR can be at liberty to use the day of the
New Moon to show forth HIS PRAISE in a “feast” and worship HIM in
Jerusalem FOREVER.
“And Solomon awoke; and,
behold, it was a dream. And he came to
I Kings
3:15
*Leviticus 23:24,39
(Sabbaths of
Feasts)
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Tribute to GOD’s “HOLY”
Seventh Day Sabbath:
“REMEMBER
THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY”
Exodus
20:8
“See,
for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the
sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go
out of his place on the seventh day.”
Exodus
16:29
“And
Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of
“Six
days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy
day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be
put to death.”
Exodus
35:1,2
“Six
days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an
holy convocation [“HOLY DAY”]; ye shall do no work therein: it is
the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.”
Leviticus
23:3
Significantly,
in the beginning when the Holy ONE of Israel established this Sabbath Day of
COMPLETE REST and when HE clearly COMMANDED the Children of Israel in the
Wilderness to observe this Holy Day, HE MADE NO EXCEPTIONS!
If “ALL”
GOD’s COMMANDMENTS are sure, then for sure, we must give credence to Exodus
16:29 and abide in our places on GOD’s HOLY Seventh Day of Complete REST as we
are COMMANDED TO DO!
“He hath
shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of
the heathen. The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his
commandments are sure.”
Psalm
111:7
GOD’s Holy
Sabbath Day of REST is not only one of HIS Greatest WORKS of all time, but this
Holy Day is a extraordinary “SIGN” between this Most High GOD, the CREATOR and
HIS Chosen People, the Children of