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the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this
is my name for ever,
and this is my memorial unto
all generations.”
Exodus 3:15
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17
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I do not this
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profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
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profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know
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Ezekiel 36:22,23
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Isaiah 11:11,12
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liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the
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Israel, and
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the shadow of thy wings
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unto God that performeth all
things for me.
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heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
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“The righteous perisheth,
and no man layeth [it] to heart:
and merciful men [are] taken
away,
none considering that the
righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
He shall enter into peace:
they shall rest in their beds,
[each one] walking [in] his
uprightness.
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress,
the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of transgression,
a seed of falsehood,”
Isaiah 57:1-4
The
following article discusses the history of the Aborigines of Australia:
OF THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES
By RUNOKO RASHIDI
THE BLACK FAMILY IN
TASMANIA
The Black family in
Tasmania was a highly organized one--its form and substance directed by custom. A man
joined with a woman in marriage and formed a social partnership with her. It
would appear that such marriages were usually designed by the parents--but this
is something about which very little is actually known. The married couple
seems to have remained together throughout the course of their lives, and only
in rare cases did a man have more than one wife at the same time. Their
children were not only well cared for, but were treated with great affection.
Elders were cared for by the family, and children were kept at the breast for
longer than is usual in child care among Europeans.
THE BEGINNING OF THE
END OF THE BLACKS
The isolation of
Tasmania's Black aborigines ended in 1642 with the arrival and intrusion of the
first Europeans. Abel Jansen Tasman, the Dutch navigator after whom the island is
named, anchored off the Tasmanian coast in early December, 1642. Tasman named
the island Van Diemen's land, after Anthony Van Diemen--the governor-general of
the Dutch East India Company. The island continued to be called Van Diemen's
Land until 1855.
On March 5, 1772, a French expedition led by Nicholas Marion du Fresne
landed on the island. Within a few hours his sailors had shot several
Aborigines. On January 28, 1777, the British landed on the island.
Following coastal New South Wales in Australia, Tasmania was established as
a British convict settlement in 1803. These convicts had been harshly
traumatized and were exceptionally brutal. In addition to soldiers,
administrators, and missionaries, eventually more than 65,000 men and women
convicts were settled in Tasmania. A glaringly inefficient penal system allowed
such convicts to escape into the Tasmanian hinterland where they exercised the
full measure of their blood-lust and brutality upon the island's Black
occupants. According to social historian Clive Turnbull, the activities of
these criminals would soon include the "shooting, bashing out brains,
burning alive, and slaughter of Aborigines for dogs' meat."
TASMANIAN DEVILS IN HUMAN FORM
As early as 1804
the British began to slaughter, kidnap and enslave the Black people of
Tasmania. The
colonial government itself was not even inclined to consider the aboriginal
Tasmanians as full human beings, and scholars began to discuss civilization as
a unilinear process with White people at the top and Black people at the
bottom. To the Europeans of Tasmania the Blacks were an entity fit only to
be exploited in the most sadistic of manners--a sadism that staggers the
imagination and violates all human morality. As UCLA professor, Jared Diamond,
recorded:
"Tactics for hunting down Tasmanians included riding out on horseback
to shoot them, setting out steel traps to catch them, and putting out poison
flour where they might find and eat it. Sheperds cut off the penis and
testicles of aboriginal men, to watch the men run a few yards before dying. At
a hill christened Mount Victory, settlers slaughtered 30 Tasmanians and threw
their bodies over a cliff. One party of police killed 70 Tasmanians and dashed
out the children's brains."
Such vile and
animalistic behavior on the part of the White settlers of Tasmania was the rule
rather than the exception. In spite of their wanton cruelty, however, punishment in Tasmania was
exceedingly rare for the Whites, although occasionally Whites were sentenced
for crimes against Blacks. For example, there is an account of a man who was
flogged for exhibiting the ears and other body parts of a Black boy that he had
mutilated alive. We hear of another European punished for cutting off the
little finger of an Aborigine and using it as a tobacco stopper. Twenty-five
lashes were stipulated for Europeans convicted of tying aboriginal
"Tasmanian women to logs and burning them with firebrands, or forcing a
woman to wear the head of her freshly murdered husband on a string around her
neck."
Not a single European, however, was ever punished for the murder of
Tasmanian Aborigines. Europeans thought nothing of tying Black men to
trees and using them for target practice. Black women were kidnapped, chained
and exploited as sexual slaves. White convicts regularly hunted Black
people for sport, casually shooting, spearing or clubbing the men to death,
torturing and raping the women, and roasting Black infants alive. As historian,
James Morris, graphically noted:
"We hear of children kidnapped as pets or servants, of a woman chained
up like an animal in a sheperd's hut, of men castrated to keep them off their
own women. In one foray seventy aborigines were killed, the men shot, the women
and children dragged from crevices in the rocks to have their brains dashed
out. A man called Carrotts, desiring a native woman, decapitated her husband,
hung his head around her neck and drove her home to his shack."
PART 3
THE BLACK WAR
"The Black War of Van Diemen's Land" was
the name of the official campaign of terror directed against the Black people
of Tasmania.
Between 1803 and 1830 the Black aborigines of Tasmania were reduced from an
estimated five-thousand people to less than seventy-five. An article published
December 1, 1826 in the Tasmanian Colonial Times declared that:
"We make no pompous display of Philanthropy. The Government must remove the natives--if not, they will be hunted down like wild beasts and destroyed!"
With the declaration of martial law in November
1828, Whites were authorized to kill Blacks on sight. Although the Blacks
offered a heroic resistance, the wooden clubs and sharpened sticks of the
Aborigines were no match against the firepower, ruthlessness, and savagery
exercised by the Europeans against them. In time, a bounty was declared on
Blacks, and "Black catching," as it was called, soon became a big
business; five pounds for each adult Aborigine, two pounds for each child. After considering proposals
to capture them for sale as slaves, poison or trap them, or hunt them with
dogs, the government settled on continued bounties and the use of mounted
police.
After the Black War, for political expediency, the status of the Blacks, who
were no longer regarded as a physical threat, was reduced to that of a nuisance
and a bother, and with loud and pious exclamations that it was for the
benefit of the Blacks themselves, the remainder of the Aborigines were rounded
up and placed in concentration camps.
In 1830 George Augustus Robinson, a Christian missionary, was hired to round up the remaining Tasmanian Blacks and take them to Flinders Island, thirty miles away. Many of Robinson's captives died along the way. By 1843 only fifty survived. Jared Diamond recorded that:
"On Flinders Island Robinson was determined to
civilize and Christianize the survivors. His settlement--at a windy site with little fresh
water--was run like a jail. Children were separated from parents to facilitate
the work of civilizing them. The regimental daily schedule included Bible
reading, hymn singing, and inspection of beds and dishes for cleanness and
neatness. However, the jail diet caused malnutrition, which combined with
illness to make the natives die. Few infants survived more than a few weeks.
The government reduced expenditures in the hope that the native would die out.
By 1869 only Truganini, one other woman, and one man remained alive."
PART 4
THE LAST TASMANIANS
With the steady decrease in the number of Aborigines, White people began to take a bizarre interest in the Blacks, whom Whites believed "to be a missing link between humans and apes." In 1859 Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, popularized the fantasy of biological (and therefore social) evolution, with Whites at the top of the evolutionary scale and Blacks at the bottom. The Aborigines were portrayed as a group of people "doomed to die out according to a natural law, like the dodo, and the dinosaur." This is during the same period in the United States that it was legally advocated that a Black man had no rights that a White man was bound to respect.
William Lanney, facetiously known as King Billy, was the last full-blood
male Tasmanian. He was born in 1835 and grew up on Flinders Island. At the
age of thirteen Lanney was removed with the remnant of his people to a
concentration camp called Oyster Cove. Ultimately he became a sailor and some
years he went whaling. As the last male Tasmanian, Lanney was regarded as a
human relic. In January 1860 he was introduced to Prince Albert. He returned
ill from a whaling voyage in February 1868, and on March 2, 1868 he died in his
room at the Dog and Partridge public-house in Hobart, Tasmania.
Lanney, the subject of ridicule in life, became, in death, a desirable
object. Even while he lay in the Colonial Hospital at least two persons
determined to have his bones. They claimed to act in the interest of the
Royal Society of Tasmania. On March 6, 1868, the day of the funeral, fifty
or sixty residents interested in Lanney gathered at the hospital. Rumors were
circulating that the body had been mutilated and, to satisfy the mourners, the
coffin was opened. When those who wished to do so had seen the body, the coffin
was closed and sealed. Meanwhile it was reported that, on the preceding night,
a surgeon had entered the dead-house where Lanney lay, skinned the head, and
removed the skull. Reportedly, the head of a patient who had died in the
hospital on the same day was similarly skinned, and the skull was placed inside
Lanney's scalp and the skin drawn over it. Members of the Royal Society were
"greatly annoyed" at being thus forestalled and, as body-snatching
was expected, it was decided that nothing should be left worth taking and Lanney's
hands and feet were cut off. In keeping with the tradition no one was punished.
William Lanney, the last Black man in Tasmania, was gone.
"Not, perhaps, before, has a race of men been
utterly destroyed within seventy-five years. This is the story of a race which was so
destroyed, that of the aborigines of Tasmania--destroyed not only by a
different manner of life but by the ill-will of the usurpers of the race's
land.... With no defences but cunning and the most primitive weapons, the
natives were no match for the sophisticated individualists of knife and gun. By
1876 the last of them was dead. So perished a whole people." --Clive
Turnbull
On May 7, 1876, Truganini, the last full-blood Black
person in Tasmania, died at seventy-three years of age. Her mother had been
stabbed to death by a European. Her sister was kidnapped by Europeans. Her
intended husband was drowned by two Europeans in her presence, while his
murderers raped her.
It might be accurately said that Truganini's
numerous personal sufferings typify the tragedy of the Black people of Tasmania
as a whole. She was the very last. "Don't let them cut me up," she begged
the doctor as she lay dying. After her burial, Truganini's body was exhumed,
and her skeleton, strung upon wires and placed upright in a box, became for
many years the most popular exhibit in the Tasmanian Museum and remained on
display until 1947. Finally, in 1976--the centenary years of Truganini's
death--despite the museum's objections, her skeleton was cremated and her ashes
scattered at sea.
CONCLUSION
The tragedy of the
Black aborigines of Tasmania, however painful its recounting may be, is a story
that must be told. What lessons do we learn from the destruction of the Tasmanians? Truganini's
life and death, although extreme, effectively chronicle the association not
only between White people and Black people in Tasmania, but, to a significant
degree, around the world. Between 1803 and 1876 the Black aborigines of
Tasmania were completely destroyed. During this period the Black people of
Tasmania were debased, degraded and eventually exterminated. Indeed,
given the long and well-documented history of carnage, cruelty, savagery, and
the monstrous pain, suffering, and inhumanity Europeans have inflicted upon
Black people in general, and the Black people of Tasmania in particular, one
could argue that they themselves, the White settlers of Tasmania, far more than
the ravenous beast portrayed in American cartoons, have been the real Tasmanian
devil.
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The Aborigines of
Australia qualify for “holocaust” status….what say you?
Shalom and Shalom,
Yehudah ben Yacob,
President
***
Without
question, the Aborigines have experienced a heinous HOLOCAUST of untold
barbaric cruelty and extermination.
And only Blacks the world over can know and feel what the “Black
Holocaust” has really done to degrade, disgrace, and humiliate all peoples of
color who are under the control of the people called Europeans.
Just like the
FLOOD of Noah’s day, that which happened to Blacks could only have been the
will of the CREATOR GOD and for good reason…
We forsook HIM, the ONLY True and Living GOD, and we forsook HIS Paths
of Righteousness, as well…
“15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I
command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to
keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live
and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou
goest to possess it.
17 But if thine
heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and
worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce unto
you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong
your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to
possess it.
19 I call heaven
and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you
life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and
thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest
love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that
thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy
days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” Deuteronomy 30:15 – 20
***
“20 And he
said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be:
for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no
faith.
21 They have
moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me
to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which
are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish
nation.
22 For a fire
is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall
consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the
mountains.
23 I will heap
mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall
be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter
destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of
serpents of the dust.
25 The sword
without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin,
the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I
would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease
from among men:” Deuteronomy 32:20 –
26 (See also Deuteronomy 28th Chapter.)
LET’S FACE IT.
THE BIBLICAL ISRAELITES WERE BLACK!
AND THEIR SEED SUFFERS UNTO THIS DAY FOR THE SINS OF THEIR
FOREFATHERS. THE “OLD TESTAMENT”
THROUGHOUT SPEAKS TO THIS TRUTH.
BUT THERE IS HOPE FOR THE SEED OF JACOB THAT
WAS SCATTERED INTO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH FOR WORSHIPPING ALL MANNER OF
FALSE gods. AND THE WORLD WILL
ACKNOWLEDGE THIS EVIL HOLOCAUST THAT RESULTED AS A CONSEQUENCE OF DISOBEDIENCE
AND IDOLATRY…BECAUSE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB WILL IDENTIFY HIS
COVENANT PEOPLE AND REVEAL THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER, BLACK THOUGH THEY MAY BE!
***
“14 Sing, O
daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O
daughter of Jerusalem.
15 The LORD
hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of
Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not
see evil any more.
16 In that day
it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine
hands be slack.
17 The LORD
thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice
over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
18 I will
gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are
of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
19 Behold, at
that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth,
and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in
every land where they have been put to shame.
20 At that time will I bring you again, even
in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among
all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes,
saith the LORD.” Zephaniah 3:14 – 20
There is but one means for ending suffering and
extreme cruelty for the SEED of Jacob and for the world, before the dreaded
“Day of the LORD,” and it is that all peoples will learn GOD’s Ways of
Righteousness and worship ONLY HIM for assured peace on this Earth.
And then the Black Holocaust will be a thing of the
past! This is my say.
T.Y., Editor
*******
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 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. The Hebrew New Year is, thus,
determined by the “LIGHTS” in the Heavens and not by the “sighting of barley.” Please see the “TORAH READINGS CALENDAR” for more information.
***
“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
<<<PLEASE TAKE PART IN THE NEW
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<<<For The First Day of the “HEBREW” Month>>>
IF “SIGHTED,”
And if it’s
not the evening of GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath of
COMPLETE REST
or other Holy Day,
please report
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START THE NEXT
NEW MOON WATCH ON THE EVENINGS OF
<<<JULY 7,8,9, 2005>>>
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! Whether the Moon shines on its own or with
the aid of the sun, IT STILL SHINES! And the
fact that Scripture attests to this fact, is what’s important: Isaiah 60:19; Jeremiah 31:35; and Ezekiel
32:7. Therefore, Genesis 1:14 is proof enough that we must use the shining
New Moon Crescents as “…SIGNS, AND FOR SEASONS, AND FOR DAYS, AND FOR YEARS:”
Some
Israelites, along with White Jews, use the dark phase of the moon to determine
the start of a new month. If the dark phase of the moon
lasts for “2-3 days,” then which of these days is supposed to be the
distinguishing “Sign” that determines the First Day of the month? Or do we just arbitrarily select either/or
depending on the imaginations of our hearts?
On the contrary, with the use of the sighted “Sign” of the 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 sabbaths, and on the new moons, and
on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened
bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.” II
Chronicles 8:12,13
Unless there is an emergency, please try not to buy
or sell on this day. Conduct all
financial and business transactions prior to the day of the New Moon. Interesting enough, II Kings 4:23,24
constitutes the New Moon as being a day to seek “the man of God.” Although
the New Moon is NOT a Day of Rest, Our GOD did set it aside for recognition:
“Blow up the
trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” Psalm 81:3
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one
Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the
LORD.” Isaiah 66:23
“…When will
the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?…” Amos 8:5
Probably, the
Scripture that most determines and clarifies the fact that our New Moons are
Feast Days is Ezekiel 45:17:
“And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the NEW MOONS, and in the Sabbaths, in ALL SOLEMNITIES of the house of
Israel: he shall prepare the sin
offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace
offerings, to make reconciliation for
the HOUSE OF ISRAEL.” (Caps. are
mine.)
Unequivocally,
our New Moons are included in these “SOLEMNITIES” mentioned in Ezekiel 45:17.
“Likewise the
people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the Sabbaths [Feasts –
NOT 7th Day Sabbaths*] and in the NEW
MOONS.” Ezekiel 46:3 (Brackets are mine.)
Thereby, this
verse justifies the First Day of each month being our “Feast” Day. It should be realized that the Feast Days that Our GOD selected
(Leviticus 23rd Chapter) are “Holy Convocations,” i.e., on these days we cannot
do any work. However, because King Saul
observed the New Moon as a Feast Day, we have every reason to do so, as
well. We also have learned that our forefathers traveled to the 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)
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