“…Thus shalt thou say unto
the children of
the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is
my name for ever,
and this is my memorial unto
all generations.”
Exodus 3:15
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“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 45:15 -
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 45:22
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(Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the
house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had
driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. - Jeremiah 23:7,8)
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Exodus 3:15
Therefore say
unto the house of
I do not this
for your sakes, O house of
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
and from
the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the
nations,
and shall assemble the outcasts
of
the dispersed of
Isaiah 11:11,12
“Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD
liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the
children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither
he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave
unto their fathers.”
Jeremiah 16:14,15
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“Thy
righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
and thy law is the truth. Thou
art near, O LORD;
and all thy commandments are
truth Concerning thy testimonies,
I have known
of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Thy word is
true from the beginning:
and every one of thy righteous
judgments endureth for ever.”
Psalm 119:142,151,152,160
“For what
nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them,
as the LORD our God is in all
things that we call upon him for?
And what
nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments
so righteous as all this law,
which I set before you this day?”
Deuteronomy 4:7,8
“Thus saith
the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and
whose heart departeth from the LORD.”
Jeremiah 17:5
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“The LORD is well
pleased for his righteousness’ sake;
he will magnify the
law, and make it honourable.”
Isaiah 42:21
“Now these are
the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments,
which the Lord your God commanded
to teach you, that ye might
do them in the land whither ye
go to possess it: That thou mightest
fear the Lord thy God, to keep
all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command thee, thou, and
thy sons and thy son’s son,
all the days of thy life; and
that thy days may be prolonged. Hear
therefore,
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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“O earth,
earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.”
Jeremiah 22:29
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“God
is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
“The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of
Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Come, behold the works of
the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease
unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in
sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I
will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 46:1,7
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A
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE LAWKEEPERS, CO.:
IF WE
HE WILL DIRECT OUR PATHS!
There are just too many issues that divide us
regarding the start of our Spring Season and GOD’s Holy Days: Exodus 16:29, GOD’s LAW to abide in our
places on HIS Holy Seventh Day of Rest, determining when to start our New Year,
and when to start the count up to observing The Feast of Weeks.
Many Israelites and “Jews” observe Shavuot, the
Feast of Weeks, even though the GOD of Israel does not list a date for it to be
kept. Many start to number these weeks
the day after Passover, as shown in the Karaite Report. The information the Karaites provide, while
interesting, does not follow GOD’s Law of the Feast of Weeks, as it is
written. While everyone is in agreement
that we must count seven (7) weeks, there is much controversy as to when to
start counting them. However, our ELOHIM
is clear on when to start counting these weeks and on which day, after the
count, to observe the Feast of Weeks.
“Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to
number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to
the corn.
“And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the
LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou
shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee:
“And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.” Deuteronomy 16:9 - 11
“And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after
the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of
the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
“Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall
offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.”
Leviticus 23:15,16
Can we dismiss Deuteronomy 16:9 that’s not mentioned in the Karaite Report? You be the judge.
Something else to consider, given the above
Scripture, not everyone will observe the Feast of Weeks on the same day. Why is that?
My “corn” crop might be ready for the sickle in the southern part of the
country. Another farm of “corn” in the
northern part of the land might not be ready for the sickle for another two
weeks or so. Thus, the reason the Holy
By the way, in brief, Shavuot is a Feast to be
kept in
“And the LORD said, Even
thus shall the children of
“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
Shalom and Shalom,
Yehudah ben Yacob,
President
The LawKeepers
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The
following presentation was taken from “The Karaite Korner” to help educate and
inform about the “Feast of Weeks” celebration which follows Pesach:
Shavuot
Shavuot (Feast of Weeks/ Pentecost) is the
Biblical harvest-festival celebrated 50 days after the Sunday which falls out
during Passover. These fifty days are called the Counting of the Omer. The
Rabbis incorrectly celebrate Shavuoth on the 6th of Sivan.
What
is Shavuot?
Hag Ha-Shavuot, is the
second of the three annual Hagim [Pilgrimage-Festivals]
in the Hebrew Calendar and is known in English as the Feast of Weeks or
Pentecost. Shavuot is also referred to in the Torah as Hag HaKatzir (Feast of Harvest) [Ex 23,16] and Yom HaBikurim (Day
of Firstfruits) [Nu 28,26]. In Post-Biblical times Shavuot was believed to
be the anniversary of the Revelation at Sinai, but there is no basis for this
in the Tanach (Hebrew Bible).Error! Bookmark
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When
is Shavuot?
Unlike all the other Holidays in the Tanach, the
Feast of Weeks is not given a fixed calendar date but instead we are commanded
to celebrate it at the end of a 50-day period known as "The Counting of the Omer"
(Shavuot being the 50th day).Error! Bookmark
not defined. The commencement of this 50-day period
is marked by the bringing of the Omer
Offering in the Temple as we read, "And you shall count from the
morrow after the Sabbath from the day you bring the Omer [Sheaf] of Waving;
seven complete Sabbaths shall you count... until the morrow of the seventh
Sabbath you will count fifty days... and you shall proclaim on this very day,
it shall be a holy convocation for you " (Lev 23,15-16.21).
In late
The Rabbanites claim that in the phrase
"the morrow after the Sabbath" the "Sabbath" referred to is
the first day of Hag HaMatzot. They argue that this day is referred to as a
Sabbath because work is forbidden on it. However, the fact is that the Tanach never calls this day a SabbathError! Bookmark not defined.
and if we look at the actual commandment in the Torah,
this Rabbanite interpretation is untenable. We are commanded in Lev 23,16 "Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall
you count fifty days". While the first day of Hag HaMatzot could
theoretically be called a Sabbath there is no way the 49th day of the Omer could be called a Sabbath, since (according to
the Rabbanite theory) this day is neither a holiday nor a Sabbath. This being
so, in the Rabbanite reckoning the 50th day of the Omer (=Shavuot) would NOT be on "the morrow after the
seventh Sabbath" as commanded in
Lev 23,16. Instead it would be on the morrow after
the 7th Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday or whatever day it happened to fall out
after (see chart). The only way for the 49th day of the Omer to be a Sabbath, thereby making the 50th day "the
morrow after the Sabbath" as commanded in Lev 23,16,
is if the 1st day of the Omer is on a Sunday.
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Another
passage, which indicates that the first day of the Omer has to be the Sunday
during Hag HaMatzot, is Joshua 5,11. This verse reports the events surrounding the
cessation of the Manna shortly after the Children of Israel's entered into the
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Thus
Joshua 5,11 is reporting that the first Omer Offering
in the
When
is the "Morrow after the Pessach"?
Was the "Morrow after the Pessach" in
Joshua 5,11? It is important to remember that in the
Tanach the term Pessach [Passover] always refers to the Passover Sacrifice
while the holiday on which the sacrifice is brought is called Hag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened
Bread). So Joshua 5,11 is talking about the morrow
after the Passover Sacrifice. But
when was this "morrow"? On the morning of the 15th
(i.e. the following morning) or the morning of the 16th. The term Mimoharat, literally on the
morrow, means on the following
morning. The expression "Morrow after the Sabbath" refers to
Sunday morning, because the Sabbath is a 24-hour event ending on Saturday night
and Sunday morning is the morning which follows (see diagram). Similarly, the
"Morrow after the Pesach [sacrifice]" must be the morning immediately
following the Pesach sacrifice. Remembering that the Pessach Sacrifice was
brought on the end of the 14th of Nissan at twilight (cf. Ex 12,18; Dt 16,4), the following morning is the morning of the
15th (see diagram).
This deduction is confirmed by Nu 33,3, which relates "And
they traveled from Ramses in the first month on the 15th of the month; on the
morrow after the Pesach [sacrifice] the Children of Israel went out with a
high hand in the eyes of all
Returning
to Joshua 5,11, we have seen that in the year
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The above also answers another seemingly
difficult question, namely, does the
Omer count begin with the Sunday during Hag HaMatzot or the Sunday after the
Sabbath during Hag HaMatzot. Essentially, the question is what part of the
phrase "the morrow after the Sabbath" must fall out during Hag
HaMatzot, "the morrow" or
"the Sabbath"? The only
ramification of this semantic quandary is when the 15th of Nissan falls out on
a Sunday. In this instance, is the Omer Offering brought on the 15th of Nissan
(morrow is during Hag HaMatzot) or the 22nd (Sabbath is during Hag HaMatzot)?
The evidence from Josh 5,11 and Nu 33,3 provide a
precedent which clarifies this situation since in the year the Children of
Israel entered
Notes:
Note 1: The Revelation at Sinai did occur towards the
beginning of the Third Month (Sivan) and Shavuot always falls out towards the
beginning of the third month. Like Shavuot, the exact date of the Revelation of
Sinai is not specified, and it is
tempting to connect the two. However, it is important to remember that the
connection between the two events is never made in the Tanach and as it is
written, "You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall
you diminish from it, in order that you will keep the commandments of YHWH your
God which I command you." (Dt 4,2). Error! Bookmark not defined.
Note 2: The name
"Counting of the Omer" for the period between the Omer Offering
and Feast of Weeks does not appear in
the Tanach and is used here by common convention. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Note 3: It is
worth noting that Yom Kippur is the only other day besides the weekly Sabbath,
which is also referred to as a Sabbath. The weekly Sabbath is referred to
as YHWH's Sabbath ["Today is a Sabbath of YHWH" (Ex 16,25); "Keep My
Sabbaths" (Lev 19,3)] while Yom Kippur is referred to as
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Tribute
to the New Moon Revised:
The service of this solar/lunar calendar of TORAH
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“For as the new heavens and
the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so
shall your seed and your name remain.
“And it shall come to pass,
that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath
to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,
saith the LORD.”
Isaiah 66:22,23
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BY LOOKING IN THE “WEST”
“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
In that the King of Israel is supposed to be a “Righteous Judge” (II Chronicles
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.
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“Sing aloud
unto God our strength: make a joyful
noise unto the God of Jacob.
“Take a psalm,
and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
“Blow up the
trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed,
on our solemn feast day.
“For this was
a statute for
Psalm 81:1 - 4
(A Psalm of Asaph,
the Seer –
one who should be well informed
about GOD’s Ways)
“Also in the day of your
gladness, and in your solemn days, and in
the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt
offerings,
and over the sacrifices of your
peace offerings; that they may be to you for
a memorial before your God: I am the
LORD your God.”
Numbers
Contrary to
the belief of some Israelites, the moon does indeed shine! Whether the Moon shines on its own or with
the aid of the sun, IT STILL SHINES! And the fact
that Scripture attests to this fact, is what’s important: Isaiah 60:19; Jeremiah 31:35; and Ezekiel
32:7. Therefore, Genesis
Some
Israelites, along with White Jews, use the dark phase of the moon to determine
the start of a new month. If the dark phase of the moon
lasts for “2-3 days,” then which of these days is supposed to be the
distinguishing “Sign” that determines the First Day of the month? Or do we just arbitrarily select either/or
depending on the imaginations of our hearts?
On the contrary, with the use of the sighted “Sign” of the
“So David hid himself in the
field: and WHEN THE
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
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