“…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,
Exodus 3:15
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“I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the
land of Egypt,
to be your God:
I am the LORD your God.”
Numbers 15:41
“Can a woman forget her sucking child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my
hands;
“…thy walls are continually before me. Thy children
shall make haste;
thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth
of thee.”
Isaiah 49:15 - 17
“Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the
Gentiles,
and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring
thy sons in their arms,
and thy daughters shall be carried upon their
shoulders.”
Isaiah 49:22
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Exodus 3:15
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 Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush,
and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from
the islands of the sea. And he
shall set up an ensign for the nations,
and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together
the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”
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
“Ye shall have one manner of law, as
well for the stranger,
as for one of your own country:
for I am the LORD your God.”
Leviticus 24:22
“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, 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
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“I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up,
and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
“Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his,
and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
“I cried to
thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.”
Psalm 30:1,4,8
“For
thou art my rock and my fortress;
therefore
for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.”
Psalm 31:3
“Oh how
great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee;
which thou
hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
“O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD
preserveth the faithful,
and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. Be of good courage,
and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the
LORD.”
Psalm 31:19,23,24
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A
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE LAWKEEPERS, CO.:
ALL PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH YIHOVAH,
ELOHIM OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB
PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME
FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!!
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
(Deuteronomy
6:4)
President Ahmadinejad's speech at the Durban Review Conference
on racism
The following is the speech of the Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Durban Review Conference on racism in
Geneva on April 20 2009.
Mr. Chairman, honorable secretary general of the United Nations, honorable
United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Ladies and gentleman:
We have gathered in the follow-up to the
Durban conference against racism and racial discrimination to work out
practical mechanisms for our holy and humanitarian campaigns.
Over the last centuries, humanity has gone
through great sufferings and pains. In the Medieval Ages, thinkers and
scientists were sentenced to death. It was then followed by a period of slavery
and slave trade. Innocent people were taken captive in their millions and
separated from their families and loved ones to be taken to Europe and America
under the worst conditions. A dark period that also experienced occupation,
lootings and massacres of innocent people.
Many years passed by before nations rose up
and fought for their liberty and freedom and they paid a high price for it.
They lost millions of lives to expel the occupiers and establish independent
and national governments. However, it did not take long before power grabbers
imposed two wars in Europe which also plagued a part of Asia and Africa. Those
horrific wars claimed about a hundred million lives and left behind massive
devastation. Had lessons been learnt from the occupations, horrors and crimes
of those wars, there would have been a ray of hope for the future.
The victorious powers called themselves the
conquerors of the world while ignoring or down treading upon rights of other
nations by the imposition of oppressive laws and international arrangements.
Ladies and gentlemen, let us take a look at the UN Security Council which is
one of the legacies of World War I and World War II. What was the logic behind
their granting themselves the veto right? How can such logic comply with
humanitarian or spiritual values? Would it not be inconformity with the
recognized principles of justice, equality before the law, love and human dignity?
Would it not be discrimination, injustice, violations of human rights or
humiliation of the majority of nations and countries?
The council is the highest decision-making world body for safeguarding
international peace and security. How can we expect the realization of justice
and peace when discrimination is legalized and the origin of the law is
dominated by coercion and force rather than by justice and the rights?
Coercion and arrogance is the origin of
oppression and wars. Although today many proponents of racism condemn racial
discrimination in their words and their slogans, a number of powerful countries
have been authorized to decide for other nations based on their own interests
and at their own discretion and they can easily violate all laws and
humanitarian values as they have done so.
Following World War II, they resorted to
military aggression to make an entire nation homeless under the pretext of
Jewish suffering and they sent migrants from Europe, the United States and
other parts of the world in order to establish a totally racist government in
occupied Palestine. And, in fact, in compensation for the dire consequences of
racism in Europe, they helped bring to power the most cruel and repressive
racist regime in Palestine.
The Security Council helped stabilize the
occupying regime and supported it in the past 60 years giving them a free hand
to commit all sorts of atrocities. It is all the more regrettable that a number
of Western governments and the United States have committed themselves to
defending those racist perpetrators of genocide while the awakened-conscience
and free-minded people of the world condemn aggression, brutalities and the
bombardment of civilians in Gaza. The supporters of Israel have always been
either supportive or silent against the crimes.
Dear friends, distinguished delegates,
ladies and gentlemen. What are the root causes of the US attacks against Iraq
or the invasion of Afghanistan?
Was the motive behind the invasion of Iraq
anything other than the arrogance of the then US administration and the
mounting pressures on the part of the possessors of wealth and power to expand
their sphere of influence seeking the interests of giant arms manufacturing
companies affecting a noble culture with thousands of years of historical
background, eliminating the potential and practical threats of Muslim countries
against the Zionist regime or to control and plunder the energy resources of
the Iraqi people?
Why, indeed, almost a million people were killed and injured and a few more
millions were displaced? Why, indeed, the Iraqi people have suffered enormous
losses amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars? And why was billions of
dollars imposed on the American people as the result of these military actions?
Was not the military action against Iraq planned by the Zionists and their
allies in the then US administration in complicity with the arms manufacturing
countries and the possessors of wealth? Did the invasion of Afghanistan restore
peace, security and economic wellbeing in the country?
The United States and its allies not only
have failed to contain the production of drugs in Afghanistan, but the
cultivation of narcotics has multiplied in the course of their presence. The
basic question is that what was the responsibility and the job of the then US
administration and its allies?
Did they represent the countries of the
world? Have they been mandated by them? Have they been authorized by the people
of the world to interfere in all parts of the globe, of course mostly in our
region? Are not these measures a clear example of egocentrism, racism,
discrimination or infringement upon the dignity and independence of nations?
Ladies and gentlemen, who is responsible for
the current global economic crisis? Where did the crisis start from? From
Africa, Asia or from the United States in the first place then spreading across
Europe and their allies?
For a long time, they imposed inequitable
economic regulations by their political power on the international economy.
They imposed a financial and monetary system without a proper international
oversight mechanism on nations and governments that played no role in
repressive trends or policies. They have not even allowed their people to
oversea or monitor their financial policies. They introduced all laws and
regulations in defiance of all moral values only to protect the interests of
the possessors of wealth and power.
They further presented a definition for
market economy and competition that denied many of the economic opportunities
that could be available to other countries of the world. They even transferred
their problems to others while the waves of crisis lashed back plaguing their
economies with thousands of billions of dollars in budget deficit. And today,
they are injecting hundreds of billions of dollars of cash from the pockets of
their own people and other nations into the failing banks, companies and
financial institutions making the situation more and more complicated for their
economy and their people. They are simply thinking about maintaining power and
wealth. They could not care any less about the people of the world and even
their own people.
Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, Racism
is rooted in the lack of knowledge concerning the root of human existence as
the selected creature of God. It is also the product of his deviation from the
true path of human life and the obligations of mankind in the world of
creation, failing to consciously worship God, not being able to think about the
philosophy of life or the path to perfection that are the main ingredients of
divine and humanitarian values which have restricted the horizon of human
outlook making transient and limited interests, the yardstick for his action.
That is why evil's power took shape and expanded its realm of power while
depriving others from enjoying equitable and just opportunities of development.
The result has been the making of an unbridled racism that is posing the most
serious threats against international peace and has hindered the way for building
peaceful coexistence in the entire world. Undoubtedly, racism is the symbol of
ignorance which has deep roots in history and it is, indeed, the sign of
frustration in the development of human society.
It is, therefore, crucially important to
trace the manifestations of racism in situations or in societies where
ignorance or lack of knowledge prevails. This increasing general awareness and
understanding towards the philosophy of human existence is the principle
struggle against such manifestations, and reveals the truth that human kind
centers on the creation of the universe and the key to solving the problem of
racism is a return to spiritual and moral values and finally the inclination to
worship God Almighty.
The international community must initiate
collective moves to raise awareness in afflicted societies where ignorance of
racism still prevails so as to bring to a halt the spread of these malicious
manifestations.
Dear Friends, today, the human community is
facing a kind of racism which has tarnished the image of humanity in the
beginning of the third millennium.
World Zionism personifies racism that
falsely resorts to religions and abuses religious sentiments to hide its hatred
and ugly face. However, it is of great importance to bring into focus the
political goals of some of the world powers and those who control huge economic
resources and interests in the world. They mobilize all the resources including
their economic and political influence and world media to render support in
vain to the Zionist regime and to maliciously diminish the indignity and
disgrace of this regime.
This is not simply a question of ignorance
and one cannot conclude these ugly phenomena through consular campaigns.
Efforts must be made to put an end to the abuse by Zionists and their political
and international supporters and in respect with the will and aspirations of
nations. Governments must be encouraged and supported in their fights aimed at
eradicating this barbaric racism and to move towards reform in current international
mechanisms.
There is no doubt that you are all aware of
the conspiracies of some powers and Zionist circles against the goals and
objectives of this conference. Unfortunately, there have been literatures and
statements in support of Zionists and their crimes. And it is the
responsibility of honorable representatives of nations to disclose these
campaigns which run counter to humanitarian values and principles.
It should be recognized that boycotting such
a session as an outstanding international capacity is a true indication of
supporting the blatant example of racism. In defending human rights, it is
primarily important to defend the rights of all nations to participate equally
in all important international decision making processes without the influence
of certain world powers.
And secondly, it is necessary to restructure
the existing international organizations and their respective arrangements.
Therefore this conference is a testing ground and the world public opinion
today and tomorrow will judge our decisions and our actions.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, the
world is going through rapid fundamental changes. Power relations have become
weak and fragile. The sound of cracks in the pillars of world systems can now
be heard. Major political and economic structures are on the brink of collapse.
Political and security crises are on the rise. The worsening crisis in the
world economy for which there can be seen no bright prospect, demonstrates the
rising tide of far-reaching global changes. I have repeatedly emphasized the
need to change the wrong direction through which the world is being managed
today and I have also warned of the dire consequences of any delay in this
crucial responsibility.
Now in this valuable event, I would like to announce
to all leaders, thinkers and to all nations of the world present in this
meeting and those who have a hunger for peace and economic well-being that the
unjust economic management of the world is now at the end of the road. This
deadlock was inevitable since the logic of this imposed management was
oppressive.
The logic of collective management of world
affairs is based on noble aspirations which centers on human beings and the
supremacy of the almighty God. Therefore it defies any policy or plan which
goes against the influence of nations. The victory of right over wrong and the
establishment of a just world system has been promised by the Almighty God and
his messengers and it has been a shared goal of all human beings from different
societies and generations in the course of history. Realization of such a
future depends on the knowledge of creation and the belief of the faithful.
The making of a global society is in fact
the accomplishment of a noble goal held in the establishment of a common global
system that will be run with the participation of all nations of the world in
all major decision making processes and the definite root to this sublime goal.
Scientific and technical capacities as well
as communication technology have created a common and widespread understanding
of the world society and has provided the necessary ground for a common system.
Now it is upon all intellectuals, thinkers and policy makers in the world to
carry out their historical responsibility with a firm belief in this definite
root.
I also want to lay emphasis on the fact that
Western liberalism and capitalism has reached its end since it has failed to
perceive the truth of the world and humans as they are.
It has imposed its own goals and directions
on human beings. There is no regard for human and divine values, justice,
freedom, love and brotherhood and it has based living on intense competition,
securing individual and cooperative material interest.
Now we must learn from the past by
initiating collective efforts in dealing with present challenges and in this
connection, and as a closing remark, I wish to draw your kind attention to two
important issues:
Firstly, it is absolutely possible to
improve the existing situation in the world. However it must be noted that this
could be only achieved through the cooperation of all countries in order to get
the best out of the existing capacities and resources in the world. My
participation in this conference is because of my conviction to these important
issues as well as to our common responsibility of defending the rights of
nations vis-à-vis the sinister phenomena of racism and being with you, the
thinkers of the world.
Secondly, mindful of the inefficiency of the
current international political, economic and security systems, it is necessary
to focus on divine and humanitarian values by referring to the true definition
of human beings based upon justice and respect for the rights of all people in
all parts of the world and by acknowledging the past wrong doings in the past
dominant management of the world, and to undertake collective measures to
reform the existing structures.
In this respect, it is crucially important
to rapidly reform the structure of the Security Council, including the
elimination of the discriminatory veto right and to change the current world
financial and monetary systems.
It is evident that lack of understanding of
the urgency for change is equivalent to the much heavier costs of delay.
Dear Friends, beware that to move in the
direction of justice and human dignity is like a rapid flow in the current of a
river. Let us not forget the essence of love and affection. The promised future
of human beings is a great asset that may serve our purposes in keeping
together to build a new world.
In order to make the world a better place
full of love and blessings, a world devoid of poverty and hatred, merging the
increasing blessings of God Almighty and the righteous managing of the perfect
human being, let us all join hands in friendship in the fulfillment of such a
new world.
I thank you Mr. President, Secretary General and all distinguished participants for having the patience to listen to me. Thank you very much.
***
Rosh Chodesh and Blessings to
all who seek to serve YIHOVAH and live by HIS Ways!!!
ALL PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH YIHOVAH,
ELOHIM OF ABRAHAM, ISSAC, AND JACOB!
PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME
FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!!
Halleluyah!! Halleluyah!! Halleluyah!!
Shalom and Shalom,
Yehudah ben Yacob,
President
The LawKeepers Co.
*****
Tribute
to the New Moon Revised:
The service of this solar/lunar calendar of TORAH READINGS is by definition using the “LIGHTS” of the
sun and moon, according to Genesis 1:14, to number the “days” of each
month. And the dark phases of the moon
cooperatively and conveniently provide a break between the months. If there were no dark phases of the moon, we
would have a tough time determining when
one month ended and when another would begin.
Hence, because the Commandment is to use the “Lights” in the Heavens for
“Signs” for seasons, days, and years, the New Moon Crescent is what provides us
with our first lights of each new month and these lights continue waxing and
waning until they are diminished to the dark phases. And then in two to three days, the New Moon Crescent reappears
again starting the First Day of another new month.
Realizing
that even some Israelites use the dark phase of the moon to call the new month,
I would like to add one obvious fact. By definition, there can only be a “New Moon,” per se, after
the dark phase interval and when the New Moon Crescent reappears,
thus, we understand the concept of having a “New” moon.
If the
dark phase of the moon begins the First Day of the month, then when the New
Moon Crescent is “Sighted” that could approximately be as far into the month as
the Fourth Day, i.e., the appearance of the “Light” in the Heavens could
possibly fall on the Fourth Day. It
makes no sense to start to count the first dark phase of the moon as being the
First Day of the month, as this process disregards the use of the “Light” in
the Heavens to determine our “days,” as we are Commanded to do in Genesis
1:14. Consider what King David said in
I Samuel 20:24: “…when the New Moon
was come…” He had to be
speaking about the New Moon Crescent, as we are unable to “Sight” the
appearance of the dark phase or rather see it “come.”
It’s the
absence of seeing the moon for forty-eight or more hours that enables us to
identify the approaching Crescent “Sign” in the Heavens (mentioned in Genesis
1:14) that recognizes the moon as being “New.” And upon “Sighting” this “New” Crescent” we distinguish it as
being the “New Moon” and the time of the New Month, as well.
PLEASE
NOTE: The Hebrew New Year is also
determined by the “LIGHTS” in the Heavens and not by the “sighting of barley,”
as some Black Hebrew Israelites and European “Jews” advocate.
“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 abbath to another,
shall all flesh come to worship before me,
saith the LORD.”
Isaiah 66:22,23
<<<PLEASE TAKE PART IN THE NEW
MOON WATCH>>>
<<<For The First Day of the
“HEBREW” Month>>>
And if it’s not the evening of GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath of
COMPLETE REST or other Holy Day,
please report your evidence (day, date, and time) to:
START THE NEXT NEW MOON WATCH ON THE EVENINGS OF
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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 Israel is supposed to be a “Righteous Judge” (II Chronicles
1:11), it stands to reason that he is also supposed to be a “Righteous Role
Model.” Thus, if the King that GOD
appoints over Israel observes a “feast” on the day of the New Moon, then
wisdom tells the Nation of Israel to do likewise. King Saul and the anointed David observed this service (I
Samuel 20th Chapter).
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 Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.”
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! Even if the Moon shines with the aid of the
sun, i.e., reflects the light 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 New Moon Crescent in
the Heavens we eliminate any confusion as to which day IS the First Day of the
month.
“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 “Moon Crescent
Sighting” - the light in the
firmament…i.e., the “Sign” for (lunar) days.
Thus, if we are to count all the lunar days (29.5) in a month, it only
makes sense to start counting from the New Moon Crescent “when the New Moon was
come” and NOT from the dark phases at the end of the month, which do not emit
any “sign” or “light” in the heavens.
The only
problem that presents itself when using the “New Moon Sighting” to call the
First Day of the month is cloud coverage, as this prevents the ability to see
the New Moon Crescent. Nonetheless,
when “Sighted,” one can easily distinguish the New Moon Crescent from all the
other phases due to its thin sliver and its low position in the heavens. And the reason is that no two days or
rather phases of the visible moon are alike.
Hence, to use the New Moon Crescent as the “Sign” in the heavens, as
we are COMMANDED to do for our seasons, days, and years, negates the belief
that the “commandment was given to the luminaries.” The “luminaries” fulfill GOD’s Commandments: the sun shines and the moon orbits the Earth. They have no need to determine seasons,
days, and years. Hence, our New
Moons are obviously of more spiritual significance to the Nation of Israel than
we are aware. And for sure, the TRUTH
concerning them are in GOD’s WORD to HIS Prophets/Seers – not the White Jews or
other Gentiles. All we need do is use
wisdom, discern what’s written in Scripture, accept it, and act accordingly!
“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 abbaths, 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 Temple to worship the Holy ONE on the New Moon (II
Kings 4:23; Ezekiel 45:17; and Ezekiel 46:1), and when HE has HIS Temple
rebuilt, then we will again be able to resume this service and worship.
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 Jerusalem, and stood
before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and
offered peace offerings, and [he] made a feast to all his servants.”
I Kings
3:15
*Leviticus
23:24,39 (Sabbaths of Feasts)
A Tribute to GOD’s “HOLY” Seventh Day Sabbath of Complete RES
T – HIS
WEEKLY ANNIVERSARY OBSERVANCE and SIGN between HIM and Israelites for HIS
CREATION of the Heavens and the Earth:
“Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the abbath,
to observe the abbath throughout their generations, for a
perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:
for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth,
and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.”
Exodus 31:17,18
Since
we know for a fact that GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath is a “Sign” between HIM
and Israel, why take any chance to profane it?
Every passage about the Holy Sabbath of COMPLETE Rest stands strong in
support of GOD’s Commandment to abide in our places on the Seventh Day (Exodus
16:29) – ever last one of them – including the passage in Jeremiah where we are
Commanded to “Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath
day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;” Jeremiah 17:21 (Please
read verses 21 to 27.)
Perhaps
the wise thing to do would be to define the word “burden.” But more importantly, we need to
determine whether or not Exodus 16:29 is a Commandment or not. And if it is determined to be one, then we
should Fear the GOD of Israel and be obedient to what HE has Commanded of us.
“But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with
great power
and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye
worship,
and to him shall ye do sacrifice. And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law,
and the commandment, which he wrote for you,
he shall observe to do for ever more;
and ye shall not fear other gods.”
II Kings 17:36,37
Why
must we debate that which is clearly written for us to do and for very good reason, if we will
only consider and think about it? The
Holy ONE wants us to be first to observe HIS weekly Anniversary of Creation,
which is to keep HIS Holy Seventh day at REST, as HE did, in order that we
might be REFRESHED!
“REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT
HOLY”
Exodus 20:8
“See, for that the LORD hath given you the abbath, 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 Israel
together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath
commanded, that ye should do them.
“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be
to you an holy day, a abbath 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 abbath of
rest, an holy convocation [“HOLY DAY”]; ye shall do no work therein: it is the
abbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.” Leviticus 23:3
“Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the abbath of
rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the abbath day, he shall
surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the abbath,
to observe the abbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days
the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was
refreshed.” Exodus 31:15 – 17
“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God
created and made.” Genesis 2:2,3
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 Seventh Day Sabbath of REST is not only one of HIS Greatest WORKS of all
time, but this Holy Day is an extraordinary “SIGN” between this Most High GOD,
the CREATOR and HIS Chosen People, the Children of Israel! This Seventh Day also marks the Anniversary
of GOD ending the Creations of the Heavens, Earth, man, and all that is
therein.
“Thus the
heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the
seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day,
and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God
created and made.” Genesis 2:1 – 3
“And he
said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, Tomorrow is the rest
of the holy abbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake today, and
seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be
kept until the morning.
“See, for
that the LORD hath given you the abbath, 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 16:23,29
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me
into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law,
and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.”
Exodus 24:12
“Behold, I have taught you statutes and
judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should DO SO IN THE
LAND whither ye go to possess it.”
Deuteronomy 4:5
(Caps. are mine.)
CONSIDER ALSO the fact that the
CREATOR GOD of Israel only Commanded that we go to Jerusalem “THREE TIMES in
the year”. Had the Holy ONE wanted
us to travel to Jerusalem on HIS Holy Sabbath Day of COMPLETE REST, HE would
have Commanded that, as well. Thus,
given Exodus 16:29, we have to realize, understand, and accept the fact that it
was never HIS intention for us to travel and/or leave our places on HIS most
Holy Seventh Day.
“Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the
year. Thou shalt keep the feast of
unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded
thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from
Egypt: and none shall appear before me emptyJ
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou
hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the
end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall
appear before the Lord GOD.” Exodus
23:14 – 17
“Three times in a year shall all
thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose;
in the feast” Deuteronomy 16:16
There is no Scripture indicating
that Israelites traveled to Jerusalem on GOD’s HALLOWED SEVENTH DAY.
THE PLACE THAT OUR GOD OF ISRAEL CHOSE IS
THE HOLY CITY JERUSALEM.
The Israelite Way of Life was set in stone
in the Wilderness, as to how we are Commanded to prepare to live
according to ALL GOD’s LAW,
as well as for HIS Holy Seventh Day Sabbath of Complete REST, i.e., how we are
supposed to keep it, as well as the consequences for profaning
it. And there are no exceptions.
CONCERNING “HOLY CONVOCATION”
The
issue stemming from the meaning of “Holy Convocation” written in Leviticus 23rd
Chapter is real, and the interpretation is grossly misunderstood. “Holy Convocation” does not mean “To
Gather.” And the sin committed by
traveling and gathering on the CREATOR’s Holy Sabbath of Complete REST has
grave consequences (Exodus 31:12 – 18).
Conclusive
evidence that “holy convocation” DOES NOT mean to assemble is provided in the
passage on Passover. In Exodus 12:16
we are told that Passover is a “holy convocation” but yet, we are Commanded to
observe this High Holy Day with our immediate families and only to join with
another family if one’s members are too few for the lamb (Exodus 12:4). This proves without a doubt that “holy
convocation” cannot mean to assemble, but rather to keep the holy days
“HOLY.” Some call attention to the fact
that because Israelites were Commanded to ”…turn in the morning and go into
their tents” (Deuteronomy 16:5-7) that
this is proof of an assembly. Those
Israelite families that joined with others are the ones GOD Commanded to return
to their tents.
The
Holy ONE of Israel DOES NOT contradict HIMSELF! HE
would not COMMAND us to “Rest” on the Sabbath Day of Rest and also Command us
to “abide ye every man in your place on the seventh day,” and then confuse us
by telling us to “assemble” on the “rest of the holy abbath unto the LORD.” This would make absolutely no sense
whatsoever. Therefore, if the Holy ONE
of Israel said don’t bear a burden on the Sabbath Day of Rest (Jeremiah
17:21,22) and that our asses (used for travel) had to also rest, then for sure
we have to “abide in our places…on the seventh day.” Thus, using our cars and paying tolls and public transportation
on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of Rest is absolutely forbidden! And walking to the Temple or to any
meeting place was and still is out of the question all because GOD’s Seventh
Day is specifically to be kept as a DAY of
“COMPLETE REST” – Shabatone (as is written in Hebrew).
The
wise, obedient ones understand the great importance of observing this Seventh
Day of Rest exactly as GOD Commanded and will not add to or diminish from this
Law of the “Blessed,” “Sanctified,” and “Holy” Seventh
Day Sabbath.
“…we will
remember the name of the LORD our God.”
Psalm 20:7
“And they that know thy name will put their trust
in thee:
for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek
thee.”
Psalm 9:10
“… The LORD God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob…this is my name for ever,
and this is my memorial unto all generations.”
Exodus 3:15
“Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my
servant
whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe
me,
and understand that
I am he:
before me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me.
“I, even I, am the LORD;
and beside me there is no saviour.”
Isaiah 43:10,11
The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord.
Next, is the keeping of HIS Laws.
THE TORAH READINGS FOR THE NEW MOON
AND GOD’s SEVENTH DAY SABBATHS
DURING THE MONTHS OF
APRIL / MAY 2009
ARE AS FOLLOWS:
(If some of the Sabbath Readings are too lengthy
for one day, then pace yourself,
and consider reading the TORAH Readings on the
Sabbath
and the rest of the Scriptures listed throughout
the week.)
NEW MOON WATCH:
April 24,25,26, 2009
“Sing, O heavens; and be
joyful,
O earth; and break forth
into
singing, O mountains: for
the
LORD hath comforted his
people,
and will have mercy upon
his
afflicted.” Isaiah 49:13
Numbers 10:10
Psalm 81:1 – 10
Ezekiel 46:3
Exodus Chapter 33 - 35
Isaiah 57:11 - 21
Ezekiel 44:10 - 31
Ezra 9th Chapter
Psalm 13th Chapter
Psalm 23rd Chapter
Psalm 44th Chapter
“And these words, which I
command thee
this day, shall be in thine
heart: And thou
shalt teach them diligently
unto thy children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in
thine house, and when thou
walkest by the
way, and when thou liest
down, and when
thou risest up.”
Deuteronomy 6:6,7
SHABBOT READINGS - 4/25/09
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 31:12 - 18
Jeremiah 17:19 - 27
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 7
Isaiah 58:10 - 14
Exodus Chapters 36 - 38
I Chronicles 28th Chapter
Ezekiel 43rd Chapter
Psalm 49th Chapter
Zechariah 2nd Chapter
Zechariah 4:1 - 6
Psalm 90th Chapter
SHABBOT READINGS – 5/2/09
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 31:12 - 18
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 7
Isaiah 58:10 - 14
Exodus Chapters 39 and 40
and Leviticus Chapter 1
Isaiah 49th Chapter
Ezekiel 10:1 - 4
Ezekiel 43:18 - 27
Psalm 103rd Chapter
Psalm 129th Chapter
Malachi 2nd Chapter
Psalm 99th Chapter
SHABBOT READINGS – 5/9/09
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 31:12 - 18
Jeremiah 17:19 - 27
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 7
Isaiah 58:10 - 14
Leviticus Chapters 2 - 4
Numbers 15:22 - 31
Ezra 6:1 - 12
Ezekiel 16th Chapter
Ezekiel 40:39 - 46
Ezekiel 42:13,14
Isaiah 61:8 - 11
Isaiah 58:1
Psalm 51st Chapter
Psalm 54th Chapter
SHABBOT READINGS - 5/16/09
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 31:12 - 18
Jeremiah 17:19 - 27
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 7
Isaiah 58:10 - 14
Leviticus Chapters 5 - 7
Numbers 18:8 - 20
Ezekiel 46:19,20
II Chronicles 29:20 - 36
Judges 11th Chapter
Psalm 16th Chapter
Psalm 119:105 – 112
SHABBOT READINGS – 5/23/09
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 31:12 - 18
Jeremiah 17:19 - 27
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 7
Isaiah 58:10 - 14
Leviticus Chapters 8 - 10
Malachi 1:7,8
II Chronicles 13:5 - 22
I Kings 18th Chapter
Nehemiah 8th Chapter
Psalm 99th Chapter
Psalm 132nd Chapter
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Watch for the next NEW MOON Crescent “Sighting” On
MAY 24,25,26, 2009
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“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:”
Genesis 1:14
“He [GOD] appointed the moon for seasons:
the sun knoweth his going down.”
Psalm 104:19
“Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by
day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light
by night,
which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar;
The LORD of hosts is his name:
“If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD,
then the seed of Israel also shall cease
from being a nation before me for ever.”
Jeremiah 31:35,36
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A complete TORAH Readings Hebrew Calendar for
all the months of the year, lists Scripture for
the “Holy” Sabbaths of Rest, the New Moon Watches, and
the Holy Feast Days and can be found on The LawKeepers WebSite:
Click on “TORAH Readings.”
*****
QUESTIONS ON “OLD TESTAMENT” BIBLE TRIVIA TO PONDER:
“For the punishment
of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of
the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on
her..” Lamentations 4:6
This verse
speaks volumes, and it is most important that we understand the magnitude of
its consequences. What is Our GOD of
Israel telling us about our forefathers, and what can we learn from it?
***
“So that the LORD
could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of
the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation,
and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the
LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in
his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you,
as at this day.” Jeremiah 44:22,23
Can we now
understand why the GOD of Israel removed the Twelve Tribes of Jacob from HIS
Land for their sins against HIM?
***
“But the seventh
day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy
maidservant may rest as well as thou.
“And remember that thou wast a servant
in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence
through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God
commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.”
Deuteronomy 5:14,15
What is the connection in the “Servant” and the “Sabbath Day” mentioned
in Deuteronomy 5:15?
Q AND A (QUESTION AND ANSWER):
“Ye are my
witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may
know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was
no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the
LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have
saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among
you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am
God.” Isaiah 43:10 – 12
How is it that
only the Children of Israel are GOD’s Witnesses?
The GOD of Israel only made HIMSELF known to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and to their SEED. HE established an Everlasting Covenant with only them. This GOD of Hosts sent HIS Servant Moses to Deliver the Nation of Israel out of Egypt and then appeared unto them in the Wilderness. The Israelites saw the Great Works of the CREATOR GOD as HE talked with HIS Prophet Moses. And of great meaning, the GOD of Israel chose the Tribe of Levi for HIS Ministers the Priests to appear before HIM in the Holy Place. No other nations or peoples can boast of these privileges. Therefore, only the Israelites are proved to be GOD’s Witnesses!
***
Should anyone
choose to respond to the above questions, it would be my pleasure to publish
your answers in the next issue of The LawKeepers JOURNAL. T.Y., Editor
*****
INFO/HINTS
FOR HARDY, HEALTHY HEBREWS:
HEALTH
REPORT FROM THE DESK OF OUR SISTER T’ZIRAH BAHT YISRAEL:
Thank
you YHWH for making me. YOU alone sustain me.
Praise
YHWH for HIS majesty, for YOUR mercy, and YOUR patience with me.
I just
wanted to thank YOU for making such a wonderful body.
What a
creation you made. . My body is a miracle of parts and systems.
Thank
you YHWH.
Praise
YHWH.
HALLELUYAH!
HALLELUYAH! HALLELUYAH!
WATCH FOR OUR
NURSE’S POST
IN NEXT
MONTH’S LAWKEEPERS JOURNAL!
June E. Porter
MSN RN CS
(T’Zirah B.
Yehudah)
We praise YHWH for HIS GREATNESS and for HIS blessings to
sustain us.
Hallelu YAH! Hallelu YAH! Hallelu YAH!
T’Zirah B.
Yehudah
***
T’Zirah B.
Yehudah holds a Masters Degree in Nursing with a specialty in Health Promotion
and Wellness. She has some 35 plus years of professional nursing experience in
various health care settings, which include Medical-Surgical health care,
Occupational Health, School nursing and Ambulatory Health. She has attended
various workshops and seminars on Health Promotion and Wellness over the years
that have included Alternative /Complementary Health Care.
[Many thanks and much appreciation to our Sister
T'Zirah for her expertise in the health field and for the valuable information
that she has shared with us. Please know that I am delighted to report that you
will be able to see her health information every month in our LawKeepers'
JOURNAL. T.Y., Editor]
*****
DO NOT DONATE
YOUR ORGANS
“SHE’S ALIVE”
I read an article in the National Enquirer dated April 13,
2009 about a young woman on life support whom the doctors had said was “brain
dead”. These doctors had repeatedly
asked the woman’s mother to remove her daughter from the life support system
and to harvest her organs. They had
given up on their patient even after just ten days. I have known of other cases where people remained in comas for
years and recovered, but these doctors wanted this woman dead for real, if you
ask me.
The doctors had even given the comatose woman paralyzing drugs to prevent
her from moving and had taped her eyelids.
What were they thinking?! She
wouldn’t have shown signs of improvement if her brain had wanted to under these
circumstances. I’m not a doctor, but I
have sense enough to realize that.
However, the mother stayed by her daughter’s bedside talking to her and
urging her to blink. Unbelievably, her
daughter could hear her, but she could not respond because of the drugs. She even heard the doctors requesting her
mother to donate her organs. Can you
imagine being in her position and unable to scream out and tell her mother and
the doctors that she was hearing their conversations? This sent chills down my spine, thinking that
there’s no telling how many people have heard these same words under drugs and
were left to die because they could not speak.
Whew! And the really shocking
thing about it is that when the mother told the doctors that her daughter was
reacting to her requests to blink, the doctors and nurses told her she was
living in a “fantasy world” and was in “denial” and “was imagining it”. Even when the mother would ask her daughter
yes/no questions and she’d blink, they still did not believe her. They told her it was “spontaneous
movement”. Unreal!
On the tenth day of the woman’s coma with doctors still “increasingly”
pressuring the mother and father to give them permission to remove their
daughter’s organs, “there was a miraculour breakthrough”. The mother had the neurologist take her
daughter’s hand, and then she told her daughter to squeeze his hand, which she
did. The article states that the doctor
“declared it a miracle”. Well, I
declare these doctors quacks and a disgrace to their profession, as well, this
case should be investigated!
I don’t have to tell you that afterwards the doctors and nurses then
“started fighting” for their patient’s life rather than fighting to harvest her
organs. This is some frightening stuff. But be the wiser, and don’t let this happen
to you. Hold on to your loved ones
until the Most High GOD pulls the plug, unless it is perfectly obvious that
there is no chance for them to survive!
Tziona Yisrael, Editor
*****
[This
ingredient is exactly what started me to limiting my consumption of processed
foods. MSG raises my blood pressure
like nothing else! Take note, as it
just might effect you, as well. T.Y.,
Editor]
MSG:
Is This Silent Killer
Lurking
in Your Kitchen Cabinets?
by Dr. Mercola
A widespread and silent killer that’s worse for your health than alcohol,
nicotine and many drugs is likely lurking in your kitchen cabinets right now.
MSG is one of the worst food additives on the market and is used in
canned soups, crackers, meats, salad dressings, frozen dinners and much
more. It’s found in your local supermarket and restaurants, in your child’s
school cafeteria and, amazingly, even in baby food and infant formula.
MSG is more than just a seasoning like salt and pepper, it actually
enhances the flavor of foods, making processed meats and frozen dinners taste
fresher and smell better, salad dressings more tasty, and canned foods less
tinny.
While MSG’s benefits to the food industry are quite clear, this food
additive could be slowly and silently doing major damage to your health.
What Exactly is MSG?
You may remember when the MSG powder called “Accent” first hit the U.S.
market. Well, it was many decades prior to this, in 1908, that monosodium
glutamate was invented. The inventor was Kikunae Ikeda, a Japanese man who
identified the natural flavor enhancing substance of seaweed.
Taking a hint from this substance, they were able to create the man-made
additive MSG, and he and a partner went on to form Ajinomoto, which is now the
world’s largest producer of MSG (and interestingly also a drug manufacturer).
Chemically speaking, MSG is approximately 78 percent free glutamic
acid, 21 percent sodium, and up to 1 percent contaminants.
It’s a misconception that MSG is a flavor or “meat tenderizer.” In reality,
MSG has very little taste at all, yet when you eat MSG, you think the food
you’re eating has more protein and tastes better. It does this by tricking your
tongue, using a little-known fifth basic taste: umami.
Umami is the taste of glutamate, which is a savory flavor found in many
Japanese foods, bacon and also in the toxic food additive MSG. It is because of
umami that foods with MSG taste heartier, more robust and generally better to a
lot of people than foods without it.
The ingredient didn’t become widespread in the United States until after
World War II, when the U.S. military realized Japanese rations were much
tastier than the U.S. versions because of MSG.
In 1959, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeled MSG as “Generally
Recognized as Safe” (GRAS), and it has remained that way ever since. Yet, it
was a telling sign when just 10 years later a condition known as “Chinese
Restaurant Syndrome” entered the medical literature, describing the numerous
side effects, from numbness to heart palpitations, that people experienced
after eating MSG.
Today that syndrome is more appropriately called “MSG Symptom Complex,”
which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identifies as "short-term
reactions" to MSG. More on those “reactions” to come.
Why MSG is so Dangerous
One of the best overviews of the very real dangers of MSG comes from Dr.
Russell Blaylock, a board-certified neurosurgeon and author of “Excitotoxins:
The Taste that Kills.” In it he explains that MSG is an excitotoxin, which
means it overexcites your cells to the point of damage or death, causing brain
damage to varying degrees -- and potentially even triggering or worsening
learning disabilities, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s
disease and more.
Part of the problem also is that free glutamic acid is the same
neurotransmitter that your brain, nervous system, eyes, pancreas and other
organs use to initiate certain processes in your body.
“Studies have shown that the body uses glutamate, an amino acid, as a nerve
impulse transmitter in the brain and that there are glutamate-responsive
tissues in other parts of the body, as well.
Abnormal function of glutamate receptors has been linked with certain
neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's chorea.
Injections of glutamate in laboratory animals have resulted in damage to nerve
cells in the brain.”
Although the FDA continues to claim that consuming MSG in food does not
cause these ill effects, many other experts say otherwise.
According to Dr. Blaylock, numerous glutamate receptors have been found
both within your heart's electrical conduction system and the heart muscle
itself. This can be damaging to your heart, and may even explain the sudden
deaths sometimes seen among young athletes.
He says:
“When an excess of food-borne excitotoxins, such as MSG, hydrolyzed protein
soy protein isolate and concentrate, natural flavoring, sodium caseinate and
aspartate from aspartame, are consumed, these glutamate receptors are
over-stimulated, producing cardiac arrhythmias.
When magnesium stores are low, as we see in athletes, the glutamate
receptors are so sensitive that even low levels of these excitotoxins can
result in cardiac arrhythmias and death.”[6]
Many other adverse effects have also been linked to regular consumption of
MSG, including:
Obesity
Eye damage
Headaches
Fatigue and disorientation
Depression
Further, even the FDA admits that “short-term reactions” known as MSG
Symptom Complex can occur in certain groups of people, namely those who have
eaten “large doses” of MSG or those who have asthma.
According to the FDA, MSG Symptom Complex can involve symptoms such as:
Numbness
Burning sensation
Tingling
Facial pressure or tightness
Chest pain or difficulty breathing
Headache
Nausea
Rapid heartbeat
Drowsiness
Weakness
No one knows for sure just how many people may be “sensitive” to MSG, but
studies from the 1970s suggested that 25 percent to 30 percent of the U.S.
population was intolerant of MSG -- at levels then found in food. Since the use
of MSG has expanded dramatically since that time, it’s been estimated that up
to 40 percent of the population may be impacted.
How to Determine if MSG
is in Your Food
Food manufacturers are not stupid, and they’ve caught on to the fact that
people like you want to avoid eating this nasty food additive. As a result, do
you think they responded by removing MSG from their products? Well, a few may
have, but most of them just tried to “clean” their labels. In other words, they
tried to hide the fact that MSG is an ingredient.
How do they do this? By using names that you would never associate with
MSG.
You see, it’s required by the FDA that food manufacturers list the
ingredient “monosodium glutamate” on food labels, but they do not have to label
ingredients that contain free glutamic acid, even though it’s the main
component of MSG.
There are over 40 labeled ingredients that contain glutamic acid,
Tips for Keeping MSG
Out of Your Diet
In general, if a food is processed you can assume it contains MSG (or one
of its pseudo-ingredients). So if you stick to a whole, fresh foods diet, you
can pretty much guarantee that you’ll avoid this toxin.
The other place where you’ll need to watch out for MSG is in restaurants.
You can ask your server which menu items are MSG-free, and request that no MSG
be added to your meal, but of course the only place where you can be entirely
sure of what’s added to your food is in your own kitchen.
To be on the safe side, you should also know what ingredients to watch out
for on packaged foods.
Here is a list of ingredients
that ALWAYS contain MSG:
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Autolyzed Yeast |
Calcium Caseinate |
Gelatin |
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Glutamate |
Glutamic Acid |
Hydrolyzed Protein |
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Monopotassium Glutamate |
Monosodium Glutamate |
Sodium Caseinate |
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Textured Protein |
Yeast Extract |
Yeast Food |
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Yeast Nutrient |
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These ingredients OFTEN contain
MSG or create MSG during processing:[10]
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Flavors and Flavorings |
Seasonings |
Natural Flavors and Flavorings |
Natural Pork Flavoring |
Natural Beef Flavoring |
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Natural Chicken Flavoring |
Soy Sauce |
Soy Protein Isolate |
Soy Protein |
Bouillon |
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Stock |
Broth |
Malt Extract |
Malt Flavoring |
Barley Malt |
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Anything Enzyme Modified |
Carrageenan |
Maltodextrin |
Pectin |
Enzymes |
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Protease |
Corn Starch |
Citric Acid |
Powdered Milk |
Anything Protein Fortified |
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Anything Ultra-Pasteurized |
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So if you do eat
processed foods, please remember to be on the lookout for these many hidden
names for MSG.
Choosing to be MSG-Free
Making a decision
to avoid MSG in your diet as much as possible is a wise choice for nearly
everyone. Admittedly, it does take a bit more planning and time in the kitchen
to prepare food at home, using fresh, locally grown ingredients. But knowing
that your food is pure and free of toxic additives like MSG will make it well
worth it.
Plus, choosing
whole foods will ultimately give you better flavor and more health value than
any MSG-laden processed food you could buy at your supermarket.
MSG:
Is This Silent Killer Lurking in Your Kitchen Cabinets?
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Sarsaparilla
Root and Herb Information
Sarsaparilla
is a natural herb that has been used by many individuals in connection with
liver disease and syphilis. However, it is most commonly used in connection
with eczema, psoriasis, and other skin disorders.
Sarsaparilla is native to South America, Latin America, Mexico, and the islands
of the Caribbean and was introduced to Europe in the late 15th century. Unlike
the sarsaparilla tree which is primarily found in the Northern hemisphere,
sarsaparilla is a vine-like plant that has wood-like stems and long thorns.
Sarsaparilla was exported to Europe before 1530 from Mexico. It was used in the
sixteenth-century for syphilis and rheumatism. Sarsaparilla was used in the
1850s for syphilis in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. Sarsaparilla products were
promoted as blood purifiers, tonics, diuretics, sweat inducers, and for many
other applications and was often used in patent medicines. With claims implying
it contains testosterone, sarsaparilla has been used as a male sexual
rejuvenator and an anabolic steroid replacement in natural body-building
formulas.
Sarsaparilla contains steroidal saponins, such as sarsasapogenin, which some
researcher claim can duplicate the action of some human hormones. However, this
purported property of sarsaparilla remains has not been substantiated by
empirical evidence. Sarsaparilla also contains beta-sitosterol, a phytosterol,
which may contribute to the anti-inflammatory property of this herb. A few
reports suggest that sarsaparilla has both anti-inflammatory and
liver-protecting effects. Similar findings on the effect of sarsaparilla on
psoriasis can also be found in European literature.
Dosage and Administration
A recommended dosage for sarsaparilla is two or three times a day as a tea or a
liquid extract. To make sarsaparilla tea, soak 1,000 mg to 4,000 mg (one gram
to 4 grams) of chopped or shredded dried root for 10 minutes in about 8 ounces
of hot water, and then filter before drinking. In its alcohol-based liquid
supplement form it is recommended to take 2-3 teaspoons of sarsaparilla extract
up to two or three times a day.
It is common to find capsules containing powdered sarsaparilla root. It is also
available in a number of combination oral herbal products. The recommended
doses can differ according to manufacturer. Follow the directions on the
package you purchase very carefully.
Although it is used in other parts of the world in connection with acne,
eczema, fungal infections, and similar skin conditions, it is not usually used
in the United States for this purpose. Sarsaparilla can be applied to the
inflamed or infected skin in a tea form by slashing it on as a wash or as a
compress. Topically it seems to be effective against itching and infections and
seems to possess slight antibacterial properties. However, there are many other
commercially available topical antibacterial agents which are more effective.
Supporting Literature
Ageel AM, Mossa JS, Al-Yahya MA, et al. Experimental
studies on antirheumatic crude drugs used in Saudi traditional medicine. Drugs
Exp Clin Res
1989;15:369-72.
Hobbs C.
Sarsaparilla, a literature review.. HerbalGram 1988;17:1, 10-15.
Rafatullah
S, Mossa JS, Ageel AM, et al. Hepatoprotective and safety evaluation studies on
sarsaparilla. Int J Pharmacognosy
1991;29:296-301.
Sarsaparilla
Root and Herb Benefits
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For
many years, people thought sarsaparilla had testosterone in it, but there is
none present, or for that matter in any plant studied so far. The spicy,
pleasant smelling root is what gave old fashioned root beer its bite and is
the part used medicinally. The exact mechanism of action has not been
identified, however it is thought that the phytosterols it contains stimulate
hormone-like activity in the body. Native Americans held it in high esteem as
a tonic and blood purifier, and the root was registered in the U.S.
Pharmacopoeia from 1820 to 1910 as a treatment for syphilis. However most
modern herbalists no longer believe that sarsaparilla cures syphilis, build
muscles or cure a flagging libido. There is research to substantiate its use.
for gout, arthritis, psoriasis, ulcerative colitis and eczema.. Certain root
phytochemicals, called saponins, have soothed psoriasis, most likely by
disabling bacterial components called endotoxins. Endotoxins show up in the
bloodstreams of people with psoriasis, arthritis and gout. If you have any of
these conditions, and feel the need for an all-around tonic to help you fight
stress sarsaparilla could certainly play a beneficial role. Closely
related species have been used in Europe and Asia to treat a variety of
conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, psoriasis, ulcerative
colitis, and other inflammatory conditions. |
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Wikipedia |
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Folklore,
Myths and Legends |
Medicinal Healing Herbs :
Properties and Uses
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Sarsaparilla
Herb Root Extract Benefits
*****
[I received the following
information as is, and went to the Internet to provide links to the info I
could find: T.Y., Editor]
***
32 GIRLS HAVE DIED
Health
Sciences Institute: Code Red Alert - Why am I getting this?
11,916 adverse events already reported to the CDC… and counting.
Pain and swelling. Life-threatening muscle weakness. Blood clots in the heart
and lungs. And the deaths of 32 innocent girls and young women.
You might think I'm talking about a deadly new disease or a global epidemic…
I'm not.
Sadly, it's more sinister than that. The health threats listed above have all
been linked with Gardasil, the so-called "cervical cancer vaccine."
And thanks to Pharma giant Merck, desperate parents and naive young women
believe this vaccine saves lives… they couldn't be more wrong.
That's why HSI's Jenny Thompson has released a new video in which she exposes
the deception for what it is…and reveals some truly shocking information no one
else is talking
about.
And you are the very first to see it.
Please, if you have daughters, granddaughters or friends who might be
considering this terrible vaccine, you must watch this video. And please
forward it to anyone you think would benefit from the vital information it
contains.
If you think you know the whole story on Gardasil, I think you'll be shocked
by what you're about to see. Just click here to start watching the video.
It's just a few minutes long…and those few minutes might just save a young
girl's life.
--Michele
Is DIABETES a BALD-FACED LIE!?
Link: HSI researchers reveal shocking news…
Imagine if you could throw away your needles, get off of insulin and never
worry about blindness, amputation, or worse.
The Health Sciences Institute announces the “Medical Breakthrough of the
Century”—From insulin dependent to NON DIABETIC in 6 weeks!?
So ask yourself… What’s the first thing you’ll eat when you’re DIABETES-FREE?
Keep reading...
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Deadly Psoriasis Drug Pulled from US Market
Stop living in fear of cancer
Read this BEFORE your colonoscopy!
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***
·
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·
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·
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Could
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Mar 21, 2009 ... Remember My Name -
Victims of the Gardasil Vaccination · Hormone News ... The Health
Sciences Institute. Septembe 2008 ...
*****
[There must be a hidden agenda and reason for
pushing this vaccine. I wouldn’t give
it to dead cat! T.Y., Editor]
***
Post Article Largely
Ignores Health Problems with Gardasil Vaccine
Washington Post writer claims debate about vaccine centers
around girls having sex, not actual health problems and death associated with
the vaccine.
Culture & Media Institute
March 26, 2009
A major pharmaceutical company lobbies to require that children be given
a vaccine. Parents should be made aware of any problems resulting from the
vaccine, right? Not according to a recent Washington Post article.
Rob Stein’s March 26 article about the Gardasil vaccine debate failed
to include any references to the several documented cases of health
problems and even death that resulted from the vaccinations. His two-page article highlighted the tone
of the Gardasil debate, reflecting the impact on young girls’ sex lives and the
potential use for a male vaccine. But Stein barely touched on the concerns of
critics that the vaccine actually caused health issues for young women.
The Gardasil vaccine is a series of three shots offered to young women
to significantly lower their risk of contracting the Human Papillomavirus
(HPV), which can cause cervical cancer. Stein noted that “Critics worried that
vaccinating children would send a subtle signal that their parents assumed they
would become sexually active and that it would give youngsters a false sense of
security.” True enough, but critics are also worried that this miracle vaccine
may come with its own set of problems.
The National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC) is one of those critics. According to the website
NVIC is “the oldest and largest consumer organization advocating the
institution of vaccine safety and informed consent protections in the mass
vaccination system…” The mission of the NVIC is to prevent vaccine injuries and
one of its targets is the Gardasil vaccine.
According to a June 26, 2007 NVIC
press release, “Nearly 90 percent of all Gardasil recipients and 85 percent
of aluminum placebo recipients reported one or more adverse events within 15
days of vaccination, particularly at the injection site. Pain and swelling at
injection site and fever occurred in approximately 83 percent of Gardasil and
73 percent of aluminum placebo recipients. About 60 percent of those who got
Gardasil or the aluminum placebo had systemic adverse events including
headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, myalgia. Gardasil
recipients had more serious adverse events such as headache, gastroenteritis,
appendicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, asthma, bronchospasm and arthritis.”
The information in the press release was obtained from the vaccine’s
maker, Merck, and the Food and Drug Administration, and it prompted NVIC to
advise against recommending the “universal use of Merck’s Gardasil
vaccine in all pre-adolescent girls” to the CDC's Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices (ACIP).
A February
2009 NVIC report noted that there are at least 29 known cases in which
young patients died after receiving the Gardasil vaccine,. “A 21-year old
Maryland artist, athlete and honor roll college student died suddenly without
explanation in June 2008 after her third Gardasil shot,” the article reported.
“She is one of the 29 Gardasil death reports in VAERS.” VAERS is the Vaccine Adverse Events
Reporting System.
Stein did note concerns that the vaccine isn’t totally safe. Buried at
the end of the article was this: “Federal health officials, Merck and others
say they are confident that the vaccine is safe. But some experts said they are
concerned that there is insufficient evidence about how long Gardasil's
protection will last, whether serious side effects will emerge and whether the
relatively modest benefits for boys are worth even the small risks associated
with any vaccine.”
Death is hardly a small risk, and NVIC’s very serious concerns should
have been prominently featured in an article about the Gardasil
controversy.
Photo via University of Wisconsin, Stout.
Erin Brown is a
CMI intern.
Post
Article Largely Ignores Health Problems with Gardasil Vaccine
*****
Fermentation and Leavening Explained
Fermentation:
In a general sense, fermentation is the conversion of a
carbohydrate such as sugar into an acid or an alcohol. More specifically,
fermentation can refer to the use of yeast to change sugar into alcohol or the
use of bacteria to create lactic acid in certain foods. Fermentation occurs
naturally in many different foods given the right conditions, and humans have
intentionally made use of it for many thousands of years.
The earliest uses of fermentation were most likely to create
alcoholic beverages such as mead, wine, and beer. These beverages may have been
created as far back as 7,000 BCE in parts of the Middle East. The fermentation
of foods such as milk and various vegetables probably happened sometime a few
thousand years later, in both the Middle East and China. While the general
principle of fermentation is the same across all of these drinks and foods, the
precise methods of achieving it, and the end results, differ.
Beer is made by taking a grain, such as barley, wheat, or rye,
germinating and drying it, and pulping it into a mash. This mash is then mixed
with hot water, and some fermentation begins. After being further treated, the
liquid is transferred to a fermentation vessel, where yeast is added to the
mixture. This yeast “eats” the sugar present in the mash and converts it into
carbon dioxide and alcohol. After a few weeks of fermentation and a further
period of conditioning, the beer is ready to be filtered and consumed.
Wine is created using a similar method that also involves
fermentation. Grapes are crushed to release the sugar-rich juices, which are
then either transferred quickly away from the skins or left to rest for a time
to absorb some of the flavor, tannins, and color of the skins. Yeast is then
added, and the grape juice is allowed to ferment for a number of weeks, at
which point it is moved to different containers and fermented at a slower rate,
and eventually aged or bottled.
Pickling foods, such as cucumbers, may be accomplished by
submerging the vegetable one wants to pickle in a salty water solution with
vinegar added. Over time, bacteria create the lactic acid that gives the food
its distinctive flavor and helps to preserve it. Other foods can be pickled
simply by packing them in dry salt and allowing a natural fermentation process
to occur.
Milk can also be cultured, and people
have been using fermentation with dairy products for nearly 5,000 years. It is
speculated that early fermented dairy, such as yogurt, was the result of a
natural process of fermentation that occurred when the milk was cultured by
bacteria that dwelt in skin sacks used to store dairy. Yogurt these days is
made by adding a number of special bacteria, such as L. acidophilus and L.
bulgaricus to milk and keeping it at the proper temperature. The bacteria begin
converting the sugar in the dairy to lactic acid, eventually creating what we
know as yogurt.
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*****
REGARDING
OTHER MATTERS OF HEALTH AND EXERCISE…
As always, before starting ANY exercise program and/or diet, check with
your doctor and get his approval. This
is all about being safe rather than sorry.
And if you feel you are suffering from depression, do know that there
are medications available for you.
Don’t be embarrassed; this malady goes with the RAT RACE. Therefore, see your doctor, and feel better
fast!
Have you started that “Walking” for weight loss and healthy heart
routine, yet? There is no excuse for not going it alone, joining with someone,
or even forming a group to take that walk at least five (5) times a week and
for 40 minutes minimum. So, stop
procrastinating and get started. Walk
to the tune of Scripture or your favorite upbeat music. And if you prefer the quiet, walk and
meditate with the Most High. Just make
sure that you make time for your body and soul. You’ll see and feel the difference after just two weeks.
***
THE 52-WEIGHT-LOSS DIET PLAN
Recently,
I heard on the news that soon people will be spending a dollar out of every
five for medical expenses. But if we
are healthy, we don’t have to fall prey to this reckoning. As we grow older, we gain weight. I am a witness! And guess what? We do not
need this extra load we are carrying. Therefore,
I am doing something about it.
My friend
and I have decided to embark upon a Weight-Loss Plan to lose 52 pounds in one
year. We have started by promising to
lose one pound a week. Thus, we hope to
lose 52 pounds by the second week in February 2007. We have already started, but it’s not too late for YOU to join
with us. So, hop on board and be a
NEW HEALTHIER, LIGHTER WEIGHT this time next year!
Some of the things we plan to do are:
-limit our intake of “white” foods:
rice, bread, potatoes, ice cream, sugar, etc.
-eliminate fast foods and processed foods
-walk at least 3 days a week
-do not eat after 8 P.M. – drink green tea with mint
-eat more fruits and veggies
-bake rather than fry our meats
-drink plenty of water and tea
-weigh in every Tuesday and E-mail the other party the new weight status
A
weekly journal is kept of weight lost or gained. And
there is no fair or fun cheating.
If you do
not need to lose 52 pounds, then adjust the plan to the amount of pounds to
lose and time frame appropriate for you.
If you need any help, let me know.
The
Brothers are welcomed to join in the program.. By all means, do feel free to
share your progress. List your name,
the date you started and the weight you lose each week, or if you prefer to
only post periodically, then list the date you started and the amount you
lost. If you have any special ways
to lose a fast pound here and there, by all means do share.
Let’s
start having some fun. The more competition, the more encouraged we
will ALL be to stick with this Weight-Loss-Diet Plan.
On my
first week, I lost four pounds, and I could feel the difference on my walk as I
climbed the hills.. My husband and I
both try to walk three days a week for forty-five minutes. We do about four miles each day.
Don’t forget to first check with your doctor! Better safe than sorry.
Now, get started and feel good and look even better!
Tziona
Yisrael
***
May the
Holy ONE of Israel be with us to keep us safe and informed in order that we
make wise and healthy decisions.
Tziona Yisrael
*****
THOUGHT FOR TODAY AND FOREVER:
Let’s keep YIHOVAH and HIS LAW our focus and pray
for deliverance and fulfillment of all of GOD’s WORD, so that every Nation will
show forth HIS Praise and Exalt HIM above all other gods.
*******
THE GREATEST “SPOIL”
OF ALL
The
Israelites received Reparations for their free labor when they left out of
Egypt (Exodus 12:35,36, Psalm 105:37).
Note also that Reparations were given to Ezra for the building of GOD’s
Temple and for the service of the House of the LORD GOD of Israel (Ezra 7:12
–21). And it is prophesied that we will
again receive compensation for our free labor and bondage in this modern-day
Egypt (all the lands that took Israelites captive):
“The
Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the
enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of
affliction.” Jeremiah 15:11
*****
EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVE:
WE ERR HORRIBLY
WHEN WE DO WHAT WE IMAGINE
TO BE ORDAINED IN GOD’s
LAWS, STATUTES, AND JUDGMENTS
“And if ye shall
despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments,
so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my
covenant:
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror,
consumption,
and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of
heart:
and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your
enemies:
they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none
pursueth you.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me,
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.”
Leviticus 26:15 - 18
“And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD
answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.”
I Samuel 28:6
“…I am with thee, saith the LORD, to
save thee:
though I make a
full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee,
yet will I not
make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure,
and will not leave
thee altogether unpunished.”
Jeremiah 30:11
“Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous
sins;
let them not have
dominion over me: then shall I be upright,
and I shall be
innocent from the great transgression.”
Psalm 19:13
If we will choose
to defy GOD’s Commandment, for the likes of our imaginations,
including the
“barley search” theory,
then we must
prepare ourselves to feel the Wrath of the GOD of Israel,
for as we know
all too well, the GOD of Israel does not wrest Judgment.
In the face of disobedience,
transgression
promises troubled times
and the inability
to connect with the CREATOR GOD of Israel!
OBEDIENCE 101
March 31, 2009
THIS MESSAGE STEMS FROM
THE “BARLEY SEARCH” VS. GENESIS 1:14,15 DEBATE
TO DETERMINE THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS UNTO ISRAELITES
DISCUSSED ON THELAWKEEPERS FORUM
CONCERNING SEARCHING AND GATHERING BARLEY
IN AN EFFORT TO “MARK” THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS UNTO US
(A PRACTICE UNFOUNDED IN GOD’s LAW OR IN HIS WORD TO HIS
PROPHETS) RATHER THAN USE THE STATUTE THE CREATOR COMMANDED OF US FOR
DISTINGUISHING THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR UNTO ISRAELITES..
THE LAWKEEPERS EMBRACE GENESIS 1:14,15 AS PROVEN EVIDENCE
FOR DETERMINING THE FIRST DAY AND MONTH OF OUR HEBREW NEW YEAR.
Because of the GREAT SINS of our forefathers, we must seek
to live and do according to GOD’s Book of the Law, AS IT IS WRITTEN without
altering HIS WORD one iota. If we are
truly concerned about seeking the Most High GOD and understanding what we have
been Commanded to do, then it stands to reason that we cannot do what we imagine
We must do all that is Lawful and Right,
according to what THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD of Moses.
According to what’s written, if we are serious about returning to our heritage, then we must follow the GOD of Israel’s Divine Plan – HIS “Perfect” LAW. And as a matter of absolute circumspect, we are compelled to seek GOD’s Paths of Righteousness at all times to ensure that HIS Ways support us and our doings throughout our Seasons, Days, and Years, since everything given to us to do is written in stone. Moreover, we should tremble with FEAR if what we do is not ordained by the CREATOR GOD of Moses.
When we are traveling and haven’t a clue about how to get
to our destination, it would be most difficult to get there by following our
imaginations. But if we seek to obtain
directions before setting out on our journey, then the trip should be without
incident GOD’s LAW is pretty much the same, except that when we do not follow
what HE has Commanded, we set up our own stumbling blocks, and worse, we must
deal with the consequences for our disobedience.
Countless times, the CREATOR GOD of Israel makes mention of the Israelites following their imaginations, i.e., doing what they chose to do rather than following after Righteousness to do HIS Walk of Life.
Following are serious incidents concerning our evil and
wicked forefathers, who rejected GOD’s Laws, Statutes, and Judgments for their
imaginations, that literally caused Israel’s pain and suffering and in many
cases their demise and, as hard as it may be to believe, their imaginations also caused the perils and mayhem
that now plague this wicked world:
If we were to give but one reason as to why the CREATOR
GOD caused the Flood of forty days and forty nights, that reason would be because the people of that day followed their own
IMAGINATIONS:
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Genesis 6:5
Ironically, the peoples who lived after the Flood did not learn. They, too, followed after the imaginations of their evil hearts, as well. And of all the nations of peoples in the world, so did GOD’s Chosen People, the Children of Israel.
“…this thing
commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall
be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
that it may be well unto you.
But they hearkened not, nor
inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of
their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.” Jeremiah 7:23,24
No matter how great the
mountain of information and scholarship that caters to the imaginations of
people’s hearts, wisdom encourages us to be strong and of good courage and to
do according to the LAW - not what’s according to mere man. This is the whole Truth of the matter that
would have the Nation of Israel in the Land of our inheritance today, had we
only been obedient to GOD’s Book of the Law!
By walking in our own counsels and in the imaginations of
our evil hearts, we are sure to go backward and not forward in our thinking
processes. Haven’t we seen and heard
enough about the shenanigans of the Ben Ammi Camp to understand just how mad
these people have become from following their weird imaginations. This
congregation looks to Ben Ammi as their Messiah and follow his ways.
“And the LORD
saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them,
and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; But have walked
after the imagination of their own heart...:”
Jeremiah 9:13,14
“Yet they obeyed
not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their
evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant,
which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.” Jeremiah 11:8
People want to
be leaders and Priests so badly, that they each feel the need to invent a new
way of life, albeit to their detriment. Consider Christianity. From century to century people have come up
with a new imaginary way to worship JC, and then only their ways are acceptable. Yet, not one of these Christian
denominations has proven to be of any divinity though they make their
imaginations stronger than reason.
Sadly, these leaders and their congregations fail to understand that
when we make up things to observe rather than do what’s Commanded by GOD, there
is no reward. Furthermore, their hearts
will find it easy to imagine other things and make their ordinances more
important than what the CREATOR GOD has Commanded of us. Just as GOD’s Book of the Law does not
confirm or support Christianity or any other man-made religion, HE also does
not go on record in the Hebrew Scripture endorsing the “barley search” theory,
either. And if this search for
barley is not found to be ORDERED by the Most High GOD of Israel, then the “barley
search” theory is just what it is – unfounded conjecture! We have got to learn when and where to draw
the line and insist upon following GOD’s Ways written for us to live and do in
Righteousness.
Mere men have
completely forgotten that the CREATOR is a most WISE Entity. They flatly refuse to accept the fact
that when HE Created mankind, HE also designed a Righteous Way of Life for all
to follow.
Consider how the
congregation of Ben Ammi has made him some kind of jack-leg Messiah. Consider how he imagined his vegan diet and
orders his camp to live by it. Consider
how he believes in the “New Testament” and how he imagines it to be about
him. He can only get away with this
by prohibiting the reading of GOD’s Book of the Law for therein is the Truth about
his teachings. He can also
experience success with changing GOD’s Ways by instilling hope in his own
literature for his congregation to read and study. By the way, this is exactly what he does. These evil and wicked imaginations have
become the mantra of the so-called “KOY” that has flourished in two ways from
generation to generation for forty years – they all follow a “man” and walk in
Gross Darkness wherein is decline, despair, and much mourning – all because
they have turned their backs on the ONE True SAVIOR and HIS Book of the Law to
embrace Ben Ammi’s books that do not Exalt and Magnify the CREATOR GOD of
Israel.
The leaders of
these people are out of control and out of touch with Divine Reality. The grassroots of this group should have stopped
Ben Ammi and his appointees in their tracks the very first time anyone of them
imagined anything outside of the LAW for them to live and do.
Instead they embrace him as their Messianic leader and forget the
CREATOR – the ONE SAVIOR and DELIVERER that made them and gave them a Glorious
Name and Land. Unequivocally, HE is the
ONE that has proven HIMSELF and SAVED Israel out of the hands of their enemies
and REDEEMED our forefathers countless times – unfortunately to no avail. We know this, but we give no credence to the
facts. Ben Ammi and many other
Israelites still choose to follow the imaginations of their evil hearts and
reject correction at every turn. And
unfortunately, there are those Israelites still, to this day, condemning the
ones who interject the WORD of GOD, proving them to transgress against the Holy
ONE of Israel.
“This evil people,
which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and
walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as
this girdle, which is good for nothing.” Jeremiah 13:10
“And ye have done
worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the
imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: Therefore
will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither
ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I
will not shew you favour.” Jeremiah 16:12,13
“And they said,
There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every
one do the imagination of his evil heart.” Jeremiah 18:12
“They say still
unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they
say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil
shall come upon you.” Jeremiah 23:17
Usually, the people who will follow the imaginations of their hearts will also strengthen the hands of evildoers. They make it a point to befriend the strong to do evil and to belittle the vulnerable who identity with doing what’s right according to GOD’s Ways of Righteousness. As a result too many sincere people have been cheated by this group that proves to be the epitome of following after the imaginations of their hearts.
“I have seen also
in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk
in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return
from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants
thereof as Gomorrah.”
Jeremiah 23:14
“And oppress not the
widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you
imagine evil against his brother in your heart. But they refused to
hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they
should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest
they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent
in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the
LORD of hosts.” Zechariah 7:10 -- 12
The mantra of the wicked is to deceive and to cheat for gain, but before that can occur, they must first fabricate an imagination be it believable or not. And sadly those who are unhappy will be first to buy into these ridiculous thoughts because they are seeking relief from the stresses of this every-day life. Regardless of the perils of our lives, we must ALWAYS do that which is “Lawful and Right” according to GOD’s Book of the Law.
THE
“ONENATIONCALENDARCOALITION”
The Israelites who make up the “onenationcalendarcoalition” are no different. This “Coalition” that is very closely associated with Ben Ammi’s blasphemous KOY also speaks of GOD’s Holy Name but follows their own imaginations. And also this “Coalition” obviously gets that “One Nation” business from their Messianic leader, Ben Ammi, who wants to be proclaimed the head of all Israelites and to be called “lord and saviour”. No way in Hell will this ever happen! If the CREATOR GOD did not establish the ONCC as such – AND HE DIDN’T, then they are most presumptuous to call this Coalition “One Nation” anything that is in regard to the Nation of Israel.
Unbeknownst to many, the
“onenationcalendarcoalition” follows the teachings of the Karaites,
Euroopean “Jews”, who started this unfounded and insane “barley search” that
has senselessly divided Israelites and has divined lies. Do note how the Karaites concocted
their information, which has nothing whatsoever to do with GOD’s Statutes:
“What is Abib?
.
Abib indicates a stage in the development of the barley crops. This is
clear from Ex 9,31-32 which describes the devastation caused by the plague of
hail:
.
"And the flax and the barley were smitten, because the barley was
Abib and the flax was Giv'ol. And the wheat and the spelt were not smitten
because they were dark (Afilot)."
.
The above passage relates that the barley crops were destroyed by the
hail while the wheat and spelt were not damaged. To understand the reason for
this we must look at how grain develops. When grains are early in their
development they are flexible and have a dark green color. As they become ripe
they take on a light yellowish hue and become more brittle. The reason that the
barley was destroyed and the wheat was not is that the barley had reached the
stage in its development called Abib and as a result had become brittle enough
to be damaged by the hail. In contrast, the wheat and spelt were still early
enough in their development, at a stage when they were flexible and not
susceptible to being damaged by hail. The description of the wheat and spelt as
"dark" (Afilot) indicates that they were still in the stage when they
were deep green and had not yet begun to lighten into the light yellowish hue
which characterizes ripe grains.. In contrast, the barley had reached the stage
of Abib at which time it was no longer "dark" and at this point it
probably had begun to develop golden streaks.
.
Parched Abib
.
We know from several passages that barley which is in the state of Abib
has not completely ripened, but has ripened enough so that its seeds can be
eaten parched in fire. Parched barley was a commonly eaten food in ancient
Israel and is mentioned in numerous passages in the Hebrew Bible as either
"Abib parched (Kalui) in fire" (Lev 2,14) or in the abbreviated form
"parched (Kalui/ Kali)" (Lev 23,14; Jos 5,11; 1Sam 17,17; 1Sam 25,18;
2Sam 17,28; Ruth 2,14).
While still early in its development, barley has not yet produced large enough and firm enough seeds to produce food through parching. This early in its development, when the "head" has just come out of the shaft, the seeds are not substantial enough to produce any food. At a later stage, the seeds have grown in size and have filled with liquid. At this point the seeds will shrivel up when parched and will only produce empty skins. Over time the liquid is replaced with dry material and when enough dry material has amassed the seeds will be able to yield "barley parched in fire"
.
Abib and the Harvest
.
The month of the Abib is the month which commences after the barley has
reached the stage of Abib. 2-3 weeks after the beginning of the month the
barley has moved beyond the stage of Abib and is ready to be brought as the
"wave-sheaf offering" (Hanafat HaOmer). The "wave-sheaf
offering" is a sacrifice brought from the first stalks cut in the harvest
and is brought on the Sunday which falls out during Passover (Hag HaMatzot).
This is described in Lev 23,10-11:”
.
http://www.karaite-korner.org/abib.shtml
The above information is evidence that the “onenationcalendarcoalition” folk have most certainly learned the customs of the heathen (Jeremiah 10:2) and have dismayed all who seek to follow GOD’s Statutes for determining the Beginning of Months unto Israelites. Even mentioned above is where this coalition got the belief that we should start counting the SEVEN WEEKS following Passover, when the Commandment is to start counting the seven weeks when the sickle is put to the corn (Deuteronomy 16:9).
GOD’s Remnant that HE will call will be Righteous in HIS LAW and worthy of taking pleasure in the KINGDOM that HE will launch – and one that will most certainly NOT be governed by Ashkenazim or the likes of Ben Ammi and his antics.
“And ye shall know
that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither
executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are
round about you.” Ezekiel 11:12
Therefore, I denounce this “onenationcalendarcoalition”
for its affiliation with Ben Ammi, a firm believer and teacher of the “New
Testament”, and for teaching the “barley search” theory that continues to
deceive many, rather than teach GOD’s Statute that HE has Commanded of us in
Genesis 1:14,15.
“Wherefore the Lord
said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and
with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and
their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I
will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a
marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall
perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. Woe
unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works
are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?”
Isaiah 29:13 - 15
“And they come unto
thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they
hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they
shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.. And,
lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant
voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do
them not.” Ezekiel 33:31,32
These folks indeed walk after their “own devices”, including this “barley search” theory that is proved to be the imaginations of their wayward and rebellious hearts. As a matter of fact, the mention of barley is made only once in reference to the time the Israelites were down in Egypt. The other times, the mention of it in no way relates to the First Month of our Hebrew New Year. Also barley is mentioned 28 times in the rest of the “Old Testament” but indicates nothing in reference to searching and gathering it for “marking” the BEGINNING of Months unto us. And it comes as no surprise to me that the Book of Ruth mentions a barley harvest but nothing about searching and gathering barley to determine the Season of the Hebrew New Year or Passover. By the way, this book has all the markings of the Ashkenazim, but hey, that’s another can of worms that we must reckon with, including the Book of Esther.
Barley, in Hebrew is called in English phonetics “shi-o-rah”, and there is absolutely nothing rooted in this word to Lawfully verify searching for and gathering it to “mark” our New Year, either. At this late day and age, we are supposed to be restricting our hearts to return to and follow the LAW, as it is advised, i.e., written in Deuteronomy 30:1 – 4. Therefore, we cannot allow ourselves to be deceived by the imaginations of this “onenationcalendarcoalition” that fails to reference GOD’s Book of the Law and/or HIS WORD in the formation of this calendar. That which proves this Coalition to err horribly is based on the fact that their Calendar, first and foremost, is not based on Genesis 1:14,15, as it is written in GOD’s Book of the Law. GOD’s Servants, Priests, teachers, and leaders will come presenting HIS LAW. There will be no misunderstanding concerning their intentions, their instructions, and their teachings – to be sure, they will be adamant about following GOD’s Book of the Law without adding to and without diminishing from it. We will be able to see and understand that GOD’s LAW will be in their hearts.
“And the LORD said
unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee
tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou
mayest teach them.”
Exodus 24:12
“And of Levi he
said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom
thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the
waters of Meribah;
“They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall
put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.” Deuteronomy 33:8,10 (II
Chronicles 17:8,9)
“For Ezra had
prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to
teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
”And thou, Ezra,
after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and
judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all
such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.” Ezra 7:10,25
“And he set the
priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of
the LORD, And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel,
which were holy unto the LORD… it shall not be a burden upon your
shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,”
II Chronicles 35:3
“Blessed is
the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;” Psalm 94:12
“And many people
shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the
house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk
in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD
from Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 2:3
“And I will give
you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and
understanding.”
Jeremiah 3:15
“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
“And many nations
shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to
the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will
walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD
from Jerusalem.”
Micah 4:2
“The law of truth
was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in
peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. For the priest's
lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth:
for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 2:6,7
There is a plethora of
information in the “Old Testament” to prove that when we turn away from
following GOD’s LAW for the likes of our imaginations that HE not only will
punish us, but HE will also turn us backward and make our knowledge foolish.
“Thus saith the
LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the
LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone;
that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that
turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;” Isaiah 44:24,25
“When I shall say
to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his
own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be
remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die
for it.” Ezekiel 33:13
And indeed, what could be more foolish than to follow our sick imagination to search and gather barley and think IT can tell us that it is NOW the BEGINNING of Months unto us and ignore what GOD has Commanded in Genesis 1:14,15.
HOW
CAN WE NOT USE GOD’S LAW TO DIRECT ALL OUR WAYS, and that includes the factor
that determines the BEGINNING of Months unto us?
The Holy ONE of Israel said not one thing to even suggest
a barley search for the start of our Hebrew New Year, yet this
“onenationcalendarcoalition” has people believing this unfounded practice. There is even evidence to the contrary. There was
NO BARLEY in the Wilderness, but only Manna to eat. Hence, how could the Israelites search for
it the 40 years they were in the Wilderness?
When are we going to learn to stop
adding to and to stop diminishing from the LAW – the very ideology that caused
our GOD to cast us from HIS Land?
“Ye shall not add
unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from
it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.” Deuteronomy 4:2
“Be ye therefore
very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of
Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to
the left;”
Joshua 23:6
How can we not heed this obvious warning when faced with what this one and what that one declares as GOD’s Commandment/WORD? How can we accept that which specifically would cause us to alter and go against that which is written in GOD’s Book of the Law? BEWARE of what people put before you, and beware of what I bring to you, as well. If what people say is not supported by Isaiah 8:20, then know of a certainty, it is not what THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL! We have a measuring stick, so let’s use it!
“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:20
“Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” Joshua 1:6 - 9
“…if the wicked
will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes,
and do that which is LAWFUL AND RIGHT, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his
transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in
his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.”
Ezekiel 18:21,22
The Holy ONE
of Israel said to keep HIS Law, “For this is your wisdom and your
understanding…”
(Deuteronomy 4:4 – 8)
If GOD’s LAW
is our wisdom and our understanding, wouldn’t that mean that everything we do
must stem from what’s written in this LAW?
And of great import, Isaiah 8:20 speaks volumes to prevent us from following our
imaginations, i.e., the ideals we believe to be the right thing to do but which
most certainly isn’t.
“To the law and to
the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there
is no light in them.”
Isaiah 8:20
No matter how great the mountain
of information and scholarship that caters to the imaginations of people
’s
hearts, wisdom encourages us to be strong and of good courage and to do
according to the LAW - not what’s according to mere man. This is the whole Truth of the matter that
would have the Nation of Israel in the Land of our inheritance today, had we
only been obedient to GOD’s Book of the Law!
The following
is yet more information that I hope people will read carefully and weigh for
GOD’s Truth, and know that it is not what I have imagined. It
is common knowledge and common sense and requires no interpretation. It would be fruitless to tell people what
they believe is wrong unless substantial evidence can be presented to them to
prove it. Then, if they still reject
it, they do not wish to know the Truth.
We, as Israelites, must live by ways “cast up” – WAYS established by the
Holy ONE of Israel, i.e., the very LAW HE presented to mankind in the BEGINNING
and gave to HIS Covenant People, the Children of Israel. Therefore, we are forbidden to follow the
imaginations of our hearts, and if we do, they will be our downfall.
The people who
believe in and teach this barley-search practice are guilty of misleading
Israelites to live by ways not cast up (Jeremiah 18:15). Please understand that barley is
mentioned not for us to know to gather it, but for us to understand how
effective GOD’s hail and fire was in destroying the plants on the ground.
“And Moses
stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and
the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of
Egypt. So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such
as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt ALL THAT WAS IN THE FIELD,
both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every
tree of the field.”
Exodus 9:23 – 25
“And the flax and
the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax
was bolled.” Exodus 9:31
True LawKeepers
are wiser than that. LawKeepers search
for Truth in GOD’s Divine LAW, as well as in HIS WORD to HIS Prophets for
answers and make decisions depending upon what’s written. LawKeepers are well aware not to follow
individuals, groups, and people who have their own agendas and beliefs
unfounded in GOD’s LAW or unheard of in HIS WORD. True LawKeepers try hard not to follow in the footsteps of our
evil and rebellious forefathers, for in doing so, there are grave consequences.
Since this is the “Season” for the growth of barley, as people believe (and I will agree), why then is it necessary to make annual searches for it to mark the start of the New Year? That makes no sense to me. Do we have to look for snow to know it is winter? Do we have to look for falling leaves before we know it is Autumn? Do we need someone to tell us that a month of 85 degree weather means we are in the summer months? Come on, now!
The CREATOR’s
Lighted “Signs” in the Heavens that HE established for mankind in the BEGINNING
determine all these seasons. Hence, we cannot allow ourselves to be
deceived by nonsense – by the imaginations of people’s hearts. We are the wiser now in knowing Our GOD and
HIS LAW and in knowing our true identity.
Let’s, therefore, use this LAW, as it is what makes us the wiser. Honestly, if the CREATOR said to use the
“Lights” in the Heavens for “Sign” for “Seasons, Days, and Years”, there is no
Truth whatsoever to searching for barley.
If you still are not sold on what we have been Commanded to do as an
indicator, more convincing facts follow:
Our GOD-given Lighted “Signs” in the Heavens
are our INDICATORS
For the BEGINNING of months unto us –
NOT a barley search
“By the word of the
LORD were the heavens made;
and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
“Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the
world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he
commanded, and it stood fast.”
Psalm
33:6,8,9
“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:
“And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth: and it was so.”
Genesis
1:14.15
MONTHS are determined by the
Lighted “Sign” of the sun.
DAYS are determined by the
Lighted “Sign” of the sun. The evening
and the morn (Genesis 1st Chapter).
YEARS are determined by the
Lighted “Sign” of the sun.
New Moon Crescents
are Sighted by the Lighted “Sign” of the sun’s reflection on the moon.
March 19 – 21 (Spring), the time of the “Equinox”
which is determined by the sun. (The
First New Moon Crescent following the Equinox marks the Hebrew New Year.)
There is an obvious and clear connection denoted in regard to the above Lighted “Signs” in the Heavens (Genesis 1:14,15) and the words: month, year, time, and season found in the Hebrew Scriptures listed below, and it should be understood that “barley” in no way is a part of this Heavenly equation.