“…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

 

 

THE LAWKEEPERS’ MONTHLY JOURNAL

 

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OUR GOD BLESS US

AND REMEMBER HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB!

 

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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TO 

 

<>THE GOD OF ISRAEL<>

<>TAKING BACK HIS UNIVERSE<>

 

AND

 

<>MANIFESTING THE SECOND GREAT EXODUS<>

 

OF

 

<>THE SEED OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL<>

 

 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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Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,

the LORD God of your fathers,

<>the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,<>

hath sent me unto you:

<>this is my name for ever,<>

<>and this is my memorial unto all generations. <>  

Exodus 3:15

 

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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ESTABLISHED FOR

 

THE RECOGNITION, EXALTATION, AND PRAISE OF

 

THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB

 

AND HIS EVERLASTING BOOK OF THE LAW

 

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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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THE<>TRUE<>AND<>LIVING<>GOD!

 

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EXALTATION OF THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ISRAEL:

 

“O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.”

Psalm 108:1

 

“I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people:

and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. 

For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. 

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;”

Psalm 108:3 – 5

 

“I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;

yea, I will praise him among the multitude.”

Psalm 109:30

 

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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)

 

FREEDOM OF SPEECH vs. NAPPY HEADED HO’s

 

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel,

nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

DEUTERONOMY 23:17

 

During Passover week Don Imus became infamous for more than just being an obnoxious loudmouth.  He can now add to his titles “notorious racist”.  The Rutgers University women’s basketball team received the racist label “Nappy-Headed Ho’s” from Imus and “Hardcore Ho’s” from Bernard McGuirk, the producer of the Don Imus radio show.

 

The women’s basketball team of Rutgers and their head coach responded with class and dignity to the racist comments of Don Imus in a news conference.  They did not appear to be whores, and their hair was neatly styled. 

 

On Tuesday night, April 3rd, in the NCAA women’s basketball championship game they [the Scarlet Knights women’s team] were by no means soliciting prostitution and omitting their perspiration from playing the game they appeared about as well groomed as they were during their televised news conference.  One thing brothers know is; you don’t call a sister “nappy headed” and you never call her a “whore”, even if it’s true.  There used to be a certain respect thang that real brothers had for sisters prior to misogynistic rap music, down-low brothers and openly sapphic sisters that look like effeminate boys.  Somewhere along our exodus we’ve lost some of that “old school” self-respect.  Don Imus stepped into the middle of family business and showed his arrogance, ignorance and racism by committing two “don’t go there” offences in one breath.

 

The oddest thing about the discussions brought about because of the Imus racial slur is that the media was able to find so-called African-Americans willing to state that they supported Don Imus’ right to make racist statements as a form of “free speech”.  These sycophants come from the Hip-Hop community (which originally came on the scene as anti-establishment Bohemians) and from among university professors.

 

Freedom of speech does not give an individual or the media the right to defame, slander, or disrespect another person or group of people, especially when the person or group that is the object of ridicule has been governmentally, institutionally, politically and socially discriminated against as a policy of the state.

 

True free speech is the “speech” that YIHOVAH has been making to the Nation of Yisrael to flee the land of the enemy and prepare your heart to return unto HIM and to HIS land that HE gave to our forefathers and that is our inheritance.  The free speech of YIHOVAH has been ignored by Yisrael and mankind in general; but listen to the unusual weather patterns around the world, listen to the unnatural same sex acts between men, as well as women that is abhorred by YIHOVAH but accepted by society; listen to the pestilence, disease and plagues that YIHOVAH has sent among the nations; listen to the war and evil that men do in the name of false gods.  The FINAL WORD will be YIHOVAH’s!!!

 

“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;

and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,

and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.”

Isaiah 13:11

 

Halleluyah!!  Halleluyah!!  Halleluyah!!

 

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 

 

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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. 

 

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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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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 your evidence (day, date, and time) to:

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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. 

 

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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 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 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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A Tribute to GOD’s “HOLY” Seventh Day Sabbath of Complete REST - 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 sabbath,

to observe the sabbath 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 sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”   Exodus 16:29

 

“And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of 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 sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.”  Exodus 35:1,2

 

“Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation [“HOLY DAY”]; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.”   Leviticus 23:3

 

“Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath 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 sabbath 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 sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”   Exodus 16:23,29

 

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 sabbath 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 “HolySeventh Day Sabbath. 

 

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“…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

 

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THE TORAH READINGS FOR THE NEW MOON,

AND GOD’s SEVENTH DAY SABBATHS

DURING

 APRIL / MAY 2007

(The Season of the First Month of Our New Year)

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.)

 

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NEW MOON WATCH: 

April 18,19,20, 2007

“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 -  4/21/07

 

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 – 4/28/07

 

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 - 5/5/07

 

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 -  5/12/07

 

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

Ezekiel 46:19,20

II Chronicles 29:20 - 36

Judges 11th Chapter

Psalm 16th Chapter

Psalm 119:105 – 112

 

SHABBOT READINGS – 5/19/07

 

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 17,18,19, 2007

 

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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: 

 

www.thelawkeepers.org

 

Click on “TORAH Readings.”

 

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QUESTIONS ON “OLD TESTAMENT” BIBLE TRIVIA TO PONDER:

 

“For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”   Leviticus 11:44

 

How are Israelites Commanded to SANCTIFY themselves?

 

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“Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.”   Jeremiah 31:4

 

What is the meaning of “Virgin of Israel” in this context?

 

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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

 

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INFO/HINTS FOR HARDY, HEALTHY HEBREWS:

 

WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS!!!

 

[The following information is from a Sister who shares much needed information concerning keeping our bodies healthy.  And this report on salt deserves our undivided attention.  T.Y., Editor]


Shalom Yisrael,


I am sure we have all seen the Morton salt blue container with the little girl with the umbrella in the rain. Salt has been a culprit to us all, especially to our Hebrew families.


Sixty years ago in
Utah, cows were given a new kind of salt with anti-caking agents in it. (Thus salt would "pour when it rains.")  Their ankles swelled up and they died with congestive heart failure.


When they switched back to natural salt rock this stopped the cow deaths.


More than 42,000 people in this country die each year from congestive heart failure. Many people are on salt restrictive diets and virtually all of them used the kind of salt that killed the cows.


It is pretty hard to get away from this kind of salt since it is almost in everything. If you eat out at fast food joints those french fries are loaded with it. When was the last time you checked the sodium content of a can of
Campbell's soup? I have seen 1 can loaded with as much as 650 mg of salt.


Go to the frozen section and check the back of a "Healthy Choice entree", wow! it is loaded up to 800-1000mg of salt. That is a lot of salt for our families to be consuming. If it will make a cows ankles swell up what do you think it will do to us?


If you are not on a salt restrictive diet, changing to salt from a health food store that absorbs moisture could save your life. I cannot speak for everyone because we all are different when it comes to eating. I have noticed that my hands and ankles will swell whenever I eat the wrong salty foods.


I found that salts that contain minerals are much better for reducing edema (water retention). sodium Chloride is different than Krystal salt, even the structure when put under a microscope will reveal a difference. We need salt that will harmonize with our bones and enzymes, unlike table salt which does the opposite.


Check out www.krystalsalt.com <http://www.krystalsalt.com> for more information. My mother died from congestive heart failure,
Babylon used her as a guinea-pig in the 1950's for five open-heart operations, and I saw how salt would make her swell up. I am concerned about us all, as a nation, a great nation!  We can educate and not medicate!

 

Click on:  "When it rains it pours"

Circulated by: "renelamar" renelamar@hotmail.com

Feb 20, 2007

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[So interesting, I had to share.  This same article appeared in The Jordan Times Newspaper but under another title:  Desert culture battles to break “fat is beautiful” view of women.  Cultures are amazing!  T.Y., Editor]

 

Desert culture in Mauritania struggles

to stop loving fat women

By RukminI Callimachi

Associated Press Writer

Apr. 17, 2007 12:20 PM

 

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Mey Mint struggles to carry her weight up the flight of stairs, her thighs shaking with each step. It will take several minutes for the 50-year-old to catch her breath, air hissing painfully in and out of her chest.

Her rippling flesh is not the result of careless overeating, though, but rather of a tradition.

In Mauritania, to make a girl big and plump, gavage' - a borrowed French word from the practice of fattening of geese for foie gras - starts early. Obesity has long been the ideal of beauty, signaling a family's wealth in a land repeatedly wracked by drought.  Mint was 4 when her family began to force her to drink 14 gallons of camel's milk a day. When she vomited, she was beaten. If she refused to drink, her fingers were bent back until they touched her hand. Her stomach hurt so much she prayed all the animals in the world would die so that there would be no more milk.

By the time Mint was 10, she could no longer run. Unconcerned, her proud mother delighted in measuring the loops of fat hanging under her daughter's arms.

"My mother thinks she made me beautiful. But she made me sick," says Mint, who suffers from weight-related illnesses including diabetes and heart disease. She asked that her full last name not be disclosed because she feels embarrassed.

A quarter of the 1.5 million women in Mauritania - a barren, dune-enveloped country more than twice the size of Texas - are obese, according to the World Health Organization. That's lower than the 40 percent of American women who the WHO says are obese, but surprisingly high in a country that has not a single fast-food franchise.

To end the brutal feeding practices, the government has launched a TV and radio campaign highlighting the health risks of obesity. Because most Mauritanian love songs describe the ideal woman as fat, the health ministry commissioned catchy odes to thin women.

These efforts, combined with the rising popularity of foreign soap operas featuring model-thin women, has helped reduce the practice, especially among the country's urban elite.

Only one in 10 women under the age of 19 has been force-fed, compared to a third of women 40 or older, according to a survey conducted by the National Office of Statistics in 2001, the most recent available.

Those still forced to eat were overwhelmingly from the country's rural areas.

But although the canon of beauty is changing, entrenched values are hard to uproot.

"My husband thinks I'm not fat enough," complained Zeinabou Mint Bilkhere, explaining that her husband found her pretty during the last months of her pregnancy. Since giving birth, the weight has dropped, however, and with it his desire for her.

Although few women are force-fed today, many feel pressured to be bigger-than-average. Like many, Bilkhere has turned to a more scientific method of weight gain, using foreign-made appetite-inducing pills.

Wrapped in a floor-length veil, the 24-year-old, who is roughly a size 8, opens her purse and pushes a fistful of change across the counter of a roadside pharmacy for a box of Anactine, a Moroccan-made antihistamine.

The pills, commonly prescribed for hay fever, also induce hunger. They and similar drugs replace a more blunt instrument, recently outlawed by the government: animal steroids intended for fattening camels.

"When I was little, my mother hit me to eat because I didn't want to be fat. Now I want to be big because men like that," said Bilkhere, who wants to gain more than 20 pounds.

But many men say they prefer voluptuous women.

Isselmou Ould Mohamed says he loves his wife's 200-pound body and was pleased when she began adding even more weight during pregnancy. When he learned she had started walking around the soccer stadium to try to shed the extra pounds, he was revolted.

"I don't like skinny women. I want to be able to grab her love handles," said the 32-year-old. "I told her that if she loses a lot of weight, I'll divorce her."

Although Mauritania is the only culture known to force-feed girls, obesity is popular across much of the Arab world. Nomadic peoples struggling to survive the harsh desert came to prize fatness as a sign of health.

Fifty-two percent of women over 15 in Kuwait are obese, as are 46 percent in Egypt and approximately a third of women in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, according to the WHO. That contrasts sharply with most sub-Saharan countries, including Mauritania's neighbors, Senegal and Mali, where only 9 and 6 percent of women are obese.

"A man's goal is to marry a woman that fills his house. She needs to decorate it like an armoire or a TV set," said Seif l'Islam, 48, curator of a library of ancient Islamic manuscripts, which include numerous love poems to plump women.

There are signs of change. In the dying desert light, chubby women in head-to-toe veils can be seen perspiring as they walk around the capital's soccer stadium.

When she first started walking laps six years ago, 40-year-old Ramla Mint Ahmed said, she tightly veiled her face, hoping not to be recognized. Now she exercises openly and is dieting.

Her obese mother, who as a child was repeatedly woken at night and forced to drink camel's milk, says she doesn't object. But that doesn't mean her notions of beauty have changed.

Ahmed is the eldest of three daughters and the only overweight one. Her 22- and 26-year-old sisters are no larger than a size 4. In America, they would be envied for their tiny waists, yet their mother sees them differently.

Asked which daughter is the prettiest, she waves her hand dismissively toward the model-thin sisters, saying, "Definitely those two are not beautiful."

Her oldest daughter, like her, has garlands of fat on her belly and voluminous thighs.

"This one," says the mother, "has the face of a queen."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0417fat-ON.html

 

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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.

 

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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

 

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JUST FOR THE RECORD: 

 

I am on track, and thankfully losing inches and pounds.  Whoopee!!!   T.Y., Editor

 

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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

 

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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.

 

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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

 

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EDITORIAL  PERSPECTIVE:

 

 GOD’s AWESOME AND OMNIPOTENT HOLY NAME

WILL BE FEARED BY ALL PEOPLES

AND

WILL BE EXALTED BY THE RIGHTEOUS NATION OF ISRAEL

FOREVER!

 

“Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.  

He is the Rock, his work isperfect: for all his ways are judgment:

a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.”

Deuteronomy 32:3,4

 

“And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel,

which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone,

of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.”

II Kings 19:15

 

“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

 

“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake,

and will not remember thy sins.”

Isaiah 43:25

 

“And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified

from the border of Israel.”

Malachi 1:5

 

                                                                                                                              March 27, 2007

 

When we read about the CREATION of Heaven and Earth, mankind, and all things on this globe, we should want to be joined unto and in good standing with this GOD that made all this possible.  However, I’ve heard people ask how anyone can prove there is a GOD, or I watch people bow down to statutes made by man, and worship them.  I’ve also seen how people will believe in man, that GOD Created rather than believe in, hope in, and look to the GOD that Created all things.  There is nothing in GOD’s WORD suggesting that after all HE has done, HE will give HIS Glory and fame to another.

 

“My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:  Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.”    Deuteronomy 32:2,3

 

“That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.”   I Kings 8:60,61

 

“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 43:12

 

“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not rmember thy sins.  Put me in remembrance…”   Isaiah 43:25,26

 

Scripture shows us what all the CREATOR did to gain recognition and prove HIMSELF to be GOD, as if observing people on this planet on which we live and breathe is not enough. 

 

The CREATOR caused a FLOOD in Noah’s day that’s been second to none.  Why?  The reason is that the mankind HE formed used his brain to turn wicked and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

 

“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

 

WOW, the more things change, the more they stay the same, right?  Unfortunately, we still have not learned the perils of following the imaginations of our hearts.  All the more reason that we cannot dismiss the fact that the CREATOR mustered up a storm that would flood the globe HE formed and destroy every man, woman, and child, as well as animal that lived at that time.  This ultimate Judgment upon the wicked should have struck fear in the hearts of the seed of Shem, Ham, and Japheth – those who populated GOD’s Earth after this ominous Flood of forty days and forty nights.

 

“So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.”   Psalm 58:11

 

These new peoples should have known that the CREATOR was making a Holy Name for HIMSELF and calling attention to the fact that HE Judges the wicked, that HE is GOD, and that the mankind HE has put on this Earth will live according to HIS Ways of Righteousness or suffer the consequences.

 

“And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.”   Joshua 24:21

 

“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.”   Isaiah 13:11

 

“Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.”  

Isaiah 33:10

 

“I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.”   Isaiah 42:14

 

It shouldn’t come as any surprise that even after the great and horrific destruction of the Flood, mankind still would not turn to their CREATOR GOD.  So, rather than kill all mankind and animals again, the GOD of all living sought for HIMSELF a special people whom HE wished would have it in their hearts to live according to HIS Ways of Righteousness, like Noah and who would by doing so Exalt and Magnify ONLY HIM.

 

Accordingly, the CREATOR called Abraham out of Ur to give him the Land of Canaan and had his grandson, Jacob, to seed the Twelve Tribes, which make up the Nation of Israel.  This was another time when the CREATOR GOD sought to make a Holy Name and a Holy People for HIMSELF.  The previously named Land of Canaan became GOD’s Holy Land – the Land of Israel – the land GOD promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – the land that is now overrun with Strangers and too many Israelites who follow the ways of the heathen.

 

“And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.”   Jeremiah 2:7

 

The Nations today hardly acknowledge the Land of GOD, as being HIS Holy Land.  The strongest Christian religion, Catholicism, has made the Vatican its “holy” city, while the CREATOR GOD established Jerusalem.  However, few people take note and consider this discrepancy and other issues raised because of Christianity and the teachings in the “New Testament” that differ with what THUS SAITH THE LORD.  It’s these “New Testament” contradictions that have changed the way the world thinks about the CREATOR GOD and HIS Ways of Righteousness.  But if only people would stop and think, they would realize that the Christian religion can tell the world nothing that could possibly be better than the teachings GOD gave to the Prophet Moses for Israelites and for Gentiles in order that all peoples will lead lives of Righteousness.

 

No one should ever forget that GOD’s Prophet Moses was prohibited from entering the Land of Israel all because he forgot to Sanctify the GOD of Israel when water gushed from the rock at the Waters of Meribah.

 

“Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.  And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.  This is the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.”   Numbers 20:8 – 13

 

“Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.”   Deuteronomy 32:51

 

Neither the Prophet Elijah nor the Prophet Elisha made this mistake, and we shouldn’t either.   At all times we must give credit where it is truly due and Exalt and Magnify Our GOD for all HIS Works and give thanks to HIM for all that HE does for us throughout the day.  Many of us do want to return to our heritage, and to do so, we cannot forget to acknowledge the ONE True and Living GOD that has brought established and brought us this far in knowledge and in our lives.  If the GOD of Israel wanted to be Sanctified before the Israelites when water came from the rock, shouldn’t we know that HE would want to be Sanctified AT ALL TIMES?  After all HE is the CREATOR GOD that watches over us, and HE ALONE deserves this honor. 

 

Another time when the CREATOR used HIS Power to make an awesome Name for HIMSELF, that has a significant connection with his CALLING Abraham out of Ur and giving him and his SEED the Land of Canaan is when HE Delivered the Nation of Israel out of Egypt.  This is when the GOD of Israel proved to HIS Chosen People that HE is their True and Living GOD and their SAVIOR.

 

“And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.”   Exodus 3:15

 

“And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

 

And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.”   Exodus 12:14,17

 

“And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

 

It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

 

And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.”   Exodus 12:25,42,51

 

“And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

 

And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt. Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.”   Exodus 13:3,9,10

 

It was during Israel’s Great Deliverance out of Egypt that the GOD of Israel again introduced HIS Ways of Righteousness to HIS Special People and to the Strangers joined unto them.  This GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel had HIS Servant Moses to teach the Nation of Israel HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments speedily for HE knew that in Egypt they had learned to worship all manner of false gods from bugs, animals, and images to male and female false gods.  Thus, Our GOD made the wise decision to start teaching the Nation of Israel HIS Paths of Righteousness in the Wilderness, as soon as HE had brought them out of Ancient Egypt. 

 

“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

 

This Righteous Hebrew Way of Life that GOD Commanded of the Israelites and that is unknown to millions, is another fabulous Creation that only GOD could manifest.  But the Nations of the world, including GOD’s Chosen People, rejected it and still reject it unto this day.

 

Accordingly, if we are aware of GOD’s Creation, the Flood resulting from HS Great Wrath, the establishment of HIS Holy Land and HIS “Holy” People, HIS Saving the Nation of Israel out of Ancient Egypt, and HIS demonstration of endless Judgment upon HIS rebellious People for forsaking HIM and HIS LAW, then why won’t we make the decision to turn to this CREATOR GOD that has shown us and the world HIS Wondrous Works, HIS Power to Judge and to Save, and HIS Merciful kindness to all who will worship and obey HIM with their whole heart and soul?

 

We just memorialized (in my opinion) the greatest and most significant of all GOD’s Feast Days, and the reason is that Passover called attention to the GOD of Israel and struck fear in the hearts of the Peoples who heard about all the plagues GOD brought upon Egypt, the Deliverance of Israel, and the destruction of their captors, the Ancient Egyptians.  And we are living in the day when this same CREATOR GOD of Israel has said that HE will again perform another Miracle and return HIS Chosen, the SEED of Jacob back to their heritage and re-establish them to their former estate.

 

But ONLY IF Israelites will take heed to the LAW and WORD Our GOD has left for us.

 

“Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?  Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.”   Isaiah 42:23,24

 

“And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.  If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.”   Deuteronomy 30:1 – 6

 

And this, too, will be another instance when the Holy ONE, the CREATOR GOD will make an even greater and widespread Fearful and Awesome Holy Name for HIMSELF.  The reason is that this time, HE will contact HIS People who are scattered in the “Four Corners of the Earth” and put HIS LAW in their hearts to return, just as HE did in the days of Nehemiah.

 

“And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.”   Nehemiah 2:12

 

“And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,”   Nehemiah 7:5

 

Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

 

And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.”   Exodus 14:12,31

 

“And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.  For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.  And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.”   Joshua 2:9 -11

 

“That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

 

As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.”   Isaiah 63:12,14

 

“Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.”   Jeremiah 31:10,11

 

“Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.  And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.”   Jeremiah 31:15 – 17

 

“And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.”   Jeremiah 50:19,20

 

“For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.”   Ezekiel 20:40

 

“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. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.”   Ezekiel 36:22 – 24

 

“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;”   Ezekiel 39:25

 

“For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.”   Joel 3:21

 

“According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.”   Micah 7:15

 

“Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.”   Micah 7:18 - 20

 

We have a GOOD and COMPASSIONATE GOD.  I tell HIM that all the time.  Our GOD of Israel gave our forefathers everything they needed and desired, advised and Commanded them of how they must worship HIM and when to worship HIM, as well as gave them all they needed to worship HIM: the animals for sacrifice, HIS Holy City Jerusalem, and HIS Holy Temple.  How much more could our forefathers have been Blessed in knowing the True and Living GOD and be given the opportunity to Serve HIM?  HE even sent HIS Prophets to them causing them to rise early and sending them.

 

“Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:”  

Jeremiah 7:25

 

“And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.”  

Jeremiah 29:18,19

 

Let us, O Israel, turn AGAIN to Our GOD, Our ONLY SAVIOR, the GOD of Abraham, Isaaxc, and Jacob Israel.  There is no other GOD.  None other has proven himself to be greater than this CREATOR GOD of this Universe and all things therein – none other!!!

 

I ask:

 

Would the CREATOR GOD make a Name for HIMSELF by forming Heaven and Earth, Save the Israelites out of Ancient Egypt, write the First Commandment directing all Peoples to have no other god before HIM, Command that HE ALONE be worshipped, declare that HE knows of no other god, and THEN give HIS Praise and Glory to a “man” called JC, contrived by the imaginations of men who weren’t even prophets?  Would HE contradict HIMSELF in such a manner to have all Nations and Peoples, even Israelites, believe in a mere man? 

 

Okay, let’s consider something else.  Would you be all right with someone taking credit for your invention if you had one?  I wouldn’t!!!  And the CREATOR of all things certainly would not either.  So, why believe in a JC, a man such as Ben Ammi, or any false god that has had nothing whatsoever to do with the WONDROUS WORKS of the CREATOR GOD?

 

Strange enough, the only Peoples who have benefited from GOD’s beautiful planet Earth are the Gentiles HE gave rule over it, especially those who grew wealthy off the backs of Slaves out of Africa.  And sadly, they have only polluted it with carcinogenic chemicals, hazardous waste deposits on Earth and in the outer atmosphere, as well as with false religions that have secured ignorance all around the world.  They never wanted to worship the CREATOR GOD of Israel; they just wanted control over HIS Chosen People to sustain their ignorance, so that they could be assured of being the superior race. 

 

Israelites are aware that we have but ONE GOD, and that we have but ONE Path of Righteousness to walk and to follow.  Israelites are also aware of the fact that after our forebears basked in the safety of the GOD of Israel and reaped the harvests from the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, they turned from this GOD, rejected HIS LAWS, and chose false gods. 

 

“For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.”   Deuteronomy 31:20

 

“Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.  So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.  And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.  Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.”   Nehemiah 9:22 – 26

 

“Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?”   Jeremiah 2:21

 

These are the facts, and all the detailed documentation we need to prove the guilt of our forefathers written throughout the “Old Testament.”  Thus, there is no reason for Israelites to say they have no knowledge of what GOD requires and/or why HE caused the Twelve Tribes of Israel to go into captivity in the lands of their enemies.

 

That which bothers me to no end is listening to leaders and speakers in Israel who Exalt the GOD of Israel in one breath and reject HIS WORD and LAW in another.

 

Everyone should know about the issues I have with Ben Ammi, the so-called Messianic Leader of the KOY, and if there are any doubts about it, people can read the article posted in The LawKeepers’ JOURNAL.  But this isn’t just about Ben Ammi.  This is concerning all Messianics who add the teachings of the “New Testament” to GOD’s Book of the Law (of which we are forbidden to do) and about those who teach the imaginations of their heart rather than what THUS SAITH THE LORD in HIS LAW.

 

“Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.  And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.”  

II   Kings 17:13 - 15

 

“Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;”  

Psalm 94:12

 

I have read the chapters on GOD’s Prophet Elijah probably scores of times, but for some reason this last time, I was very disturbed while reading the passage where he asked GOD to take away his life.  This bothered me for almost two weeks.  Why would the Prophet Jeremiah want the GOD of Israel to save him from the hands of the wicked Israelites and the Prophet Elijah want his life taken because of wicked Israelites?   

 

From all I’ve personally witnessed in Israelite groups, I can understand why the Prophet Elijah would be upset with the rebelliousness and evils of the Israelites, but to choose death?  So many times I have wanted to just walk away from my efforts to Exalt the Holy ONE of Israel and HIS Book of the Law, but I’m really not ready to die.  I, more than anything, want to live and see GOD make the Land of Israel the Land of Milk and Honey again!  And I want to enjoy GOD’s Peace and be happy and live with other GOD-Fearing Israelites to fulfill prophecy for GOD’s Holy Name’s Sake, so that the entire world will know HIM for HIS Greatness, Power, and Loving Kindness.  But…anyway…

 

Being the Prophet (Seer) that he was, Elijah obviously foresaw that the Israelites would not turn to the GOD of Israel with their whole heart and also that the Holy ONE would eventually scatter them from the land.  Elijah wasn’t called a Seer/Prophet for naught.  He knew that if his “Elijah Test” (I Kings 18th Chapter) would not convince Israel to Fear GOD and to follow HIM and live and do HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments that he was wasting his time with them.  He was obviously aware that the Holy ONE of Israel had sought a man to make up the hedge and found none (Ezekiel 22:30.

 

“…he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”   I Kings 19:4

 

“And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of Hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left’ and they seek my life, to take it away.”   I Kings 19:10

 

“Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:”   II Kings 17:34,35

 

“And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”   II Kings 17:38,39

 

It would appear that Elijah was right.  The Israelites of Ezra and Nehemiah’s day never got it together.  Remnants of Judah and some of the other Tribes returned to the Land of Israel from Babylonian captivity and still continued doing the same wickedness that got them scattered in the first place:  false gods, defying GOD’s LAW, and following the imaginations of their evil hearts.  And unfortunately because of their wickedness, the Holy ONE never gave them control of their Land of Israel again, even unto this day.

 

Not too long ago, while trying to log onto Paltalk, I tuned in to YRBN, which I haven’t listened to in ages (since Zaquain booted me out of the room for typing messages that went against his eulogizing Ben Ammi), and a Brother was talking about our “egos” being the reason Israelites aren’t ready to return home.  He was responding to a Brother who had previously spoken about fleeing Babylon, as we are cautioned to do in Jeremiah 50th and 51st Chapters.  This Brother who flaunted his spiel on our “egos” also said that the Seventh Day Sabbath had nothing to do with “Resting.”  Well, if you know me, then you know that his statement did not set well with me at all.  This Brother, like so many others, was teaching the imaginations of his heart, and this can be as dangerous as turning to false religions and/or adopting religious material that is not what THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD of Israel.

 

“Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.  And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.”   II Kings 17:13 - 15

 

When Our GOD of Israel said, “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 not” (Jeremiah 11:8).

 

For better than an hour, I listened to this Brother contrive a new philosophy totally different from what THUS SAITH THE LORD on what it takes to resolve the Hebrew Israelite dilemma, and it was practically all based on our “egos.”

 

Are we not supposed to be focused on all that we’ve done wrong and focused on returning to GOD’s LAW?

 

“And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.”   Ezekiel 20:43,44

 

“Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.”   Ezekiel 36:31

 

The word “ego” relates to one’s “self” and “personality, be it good or evil.”  Therefore, “ego” cannot necessarily inhibit Israel’s return.  Everyone has his/her own “ego” or rather personality.  It’s what we do with it that matters.  And that which we must DO with it is LIVE GOD’s LAW in Righteousness!

 

“This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:  And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;”   Deuteronomy 26:16 – 18

 

“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 1:8,9

 

“But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”   Joshua 22:5

 

“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;  That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:  But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.”   Joshua 23:6 – 8

 

“And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:”   I Kings 8:23

 

“When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.”   I Kings 8:35,36

 

To reject what’s written in GOD’s WORD for a term contrived in psychology is adding to GOD’s WORD, especially when one changes GOD’s Ordinance to “REST” for the word, “ego,” that’s not even found in Scripture. 

 

If the GOD of Israel explains what we must do to return, why then do we need to consider the unfounded whims of people who take pleasure in fabricating explanations and solutions unheard of in the WORD of GOD.  This Brother took pride in giving numbers to situations and flying from one passage to another attempting to prove his point.  This completely baffled me, as this is not a practice I have ever read about in Scripture.  If it were, then I would be one of the first to associate numbers to letters for revelations.  LORD knows we need all the information we can get when we seek to follow HIM.  What we don’t need is to follow Brothers and/or Sisters who come up with new ideals that do not profit us or provide direction back to our heritage.

 

“The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.”   Jeremiah 2:8

 

For what do we need to do anything but follow GOD’s Ways, and LORD knows, HE has given us enough information, warnings, and Commandments.

 

GOD’s WORD, Commandments, Statutes, and Judgments are all straight forward, and the bottom line is that we be “obedient” to do HIS Book of the Law.  And for those who do not know, it requires no decoding from Hebrew letters to numbers for an understanding or interpretation.  The GOD of Israel gave HIS Servant Moses Laws, Statutes, and Judgments to teach to the Children of Israel.  This is what our leaders should be relentlessly pursuing.  And they should be reiterating GOD’s WORD at the mouth of all HIS Prophets, not just the Prophet Moses.

 

If this Brother believes that the Seventh Day is not for a day of REST, then why would the CREATOR REST on this Seventh Day?

 

“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.”   Genesis 2:1,2

 

That Scripture alone blows the “ego” theory right out of the equation.  And I thank the Holy ONE for keeping all that HE gave Moses available to us for our wisdom, understanding, and Righteousness.  If only we will realize that we have enough written in GOD’s LAW and HIS WORD to HIS Prophets to make it back home, then we will realize that even now, we only need Our GOD.

 

“Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”   Deuteronomy 4:6

 

Why would Our GOD of Israel Command that our servants and animals REST, as well, if the Seventh Day is NOT for RESTING?  Why would Nehemiah have closed the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath of Rest, if it weren’t to keep the Seventh Day Holy and free from buying and selling, even from travel in Jerusalem?  Why would GOD say bring no burden in Jerusalem on HIS Holy Day of Rest?  Being a speaker, doesn’t my Brother know the sin of changing GOD’s Commandment by saying the Law of the Sabbath Day is not about “Resting”?  And we should all ask ourselves, “Why would the GOD of Israel condemn a man to death for picking up sticks on the Holy Sabbath Day of REST, if this Seventh Day weren’t about Complete REST?  This Brother may as well be a captain telling Israelites to stay in captivity, which in fact is exactly what he is doing.  And that’s what will happen, as the Holy ONE did quite a lot to magnify HIS Holy Seventh Day of COMPLETE REST, and for HIS People to not observe it, they may as well remain in the lands of the Gentiles because the Holy ONE has no use for them in HIS.

 

“Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.”   Exodus 23:12

 

“And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.”   Numbers 15:32

 

As far as when it is time to leave the lands of our captivity, we should all know that the answer hinges on Deuteronomy 30th Chapter.

 

“And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,  And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;  That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:”   Deuteronomy 30:1 – 4

 

“But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”   Joshua 22:5

 

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:  Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,  And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:”   I Kings 8:47 - 50

 

If we do not do what’s written, then we know that we will be forever spewed from GOD’s Land.  Enjoying GOD’s safety and Peace are available to us if we will be obedient to HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments.  So, why allow someone to deceive us when we already know what’s written for us to follow, and when we already have all the facts written in GOD’s LAW and HIS WORD.

 

I don’t think this Brother means to go against GOD’s LAW (at least I hope not).  He’s just like many other Israelites who are more zealous to be “leaders” than zealous to adhere and teach only GOD’s Ways of Righteousness.

 

O that we would just be what Our GOD wants us to be, so that we can return to our heritage and Exalt and Praise Our True SAVIOR and be a Divine Light to this world for HIS Holy Name’s Sake.  For once in our lives, let us finally Cleave to Our CREATOR and the Ways HE has already established for us.  We do not need leaders!!!  We need Our GOD of Israel!!!

 

I know that I cannot hold a candle to the Righteous men and women of Israel who once lived in the land, but I am devoted to trying and to the GOD of Israel.  It’s time to return to Our GOD and to show forth HIS Praise.  And the only way this can and will be possible is that we show forth HIS Salvation and shine for HIS Holy Name’s Sake. 

 

How can we expect to be in the knowledge of Truth and Magnify Our GOD if we do not bear the LIGHT of HIS Book of the Law, HIS Righteousness, and HIS Salvation?  That’s what the establishment of a People called “Israel” is all about – showing forth GOD’s Praises and HIS Alone – not the imaginations of our hearts and certainly not our agendas

 

I cannot stress enough just how important it is for us to read our Biblical history, to read what Our GOD said to our forefathers, and to read about our culture, so that no one will be able to mislead and deceive us about what we should know and about what we should do.  We need to notice that Our GOD’s Ordinances, Ways, and Precepts do not change, not even from Adam to Noah to Abraham to Moses, HIS WORD is the same.  And more importantly, HIS Prophets – all of them – speak the same WORD of GOD – and speak the same Righteousness, even if they lived generations apart from each other.  But not today.  Ironically, almost every Israelite leader today has a different concept or ideal about how Israelites are supposed to live and do GOD’s LAW.  This “ego” idea is not the first “new” notion to change what’s already written, and it no doubt won’t be the last.  I have to believe that Our GOD of Israel has these people who are coming up with these new ways and modes are among us to prove us, just as the Holy ONE used other matters to see if we would hold fast to what HE has Commanded or not.   It’s GOD’s WORD and HIS LAW that we should be concerned with – not matters unrelated and unassociated with what’s written, such as this unfounded lesson on “ego” and books unwritten by GOD’s Prophets.  At some point we must stop trusting in people who do not speak GOD’s LAW and do GOD’s LAW.  Trusting in such people has proven over and over again to be to our hurt and to our demise.

 

“Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.”   Psalm 78:1

 

“And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.”   Ezekiel 20:11,12

 

“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

 

If we will only remember that when we start using our imaginations and ignoring what’s written, there will inevitably be confusion, controversies, and much contention among us.   And worse, Our own GOD will cause us to walk backwards 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

 

“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 7:24

 

When we start using our own concepts and interpretations, Our GOD will help us to believe a lie!  Yes, that’s true. 

 

“I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.”   Isaiah 66:4

 

“Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;”   Ezekiel 20:24,25

 

“Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.”   Hosea 8:11

 

Why shouldn’t HE?  HE has already given us HIS LAW to follow.  We know the great transgressions of our forefathers.  We know why we were cast into exile to serve our enemies.  After almost 3,000 years, why should the GOD of Israel continue to play games with us?  HE deserves to be Exalted and Praised even from the times of the Garden of Eden and certainly since the days of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and until now, but rebellious Israel changed all that.  Now, Our GOD must wait on us to turn to HIM and finally decide to be obedient and Righteous.  Haven’t we done enough wrongs against Our GOD of Abraham? 

 

To preclude false worship and teaching the imaginations of our evil hearts Our GOD of Israel Commanded our Kings and Prophets to read HIS LAW day and night.  And HE Commanded that we teach our children HIS LAW diligently when we walk by the way, when we lie down, and when we rise up.  This is so that we will be aware of what we should be doing, so that when we return to our heritage, we will discern between the Righteous and the wicked, between him or her that serves GOD and him or her that serves HIM not.  And for sure given all that the Prophet Moses taught the Nation of Israel, “ego” has nothing to do with it. 

 

Recently, I sat and listened to another broadcast on YRBN concerning a Brother who believes that Israelites should be following a 364-Day Calendar found in the Book of Jubilees.  The Brother talked for over an hour and answered questions attempting to prove his belief.  In my opinion he failed if only because if the Jubilee Calendar were of any credibility, the GOD of Israel would have ordered it used by the Israelites and by mankind in THE BEGINNING of time.  Therefore, the obvious question is, “Why wait thousands of years after Creation and wait until after the Israelites were scattered from the land to manifest a supposedly Divine Calendar?”  The Brother’s reasoning makes no sense.

 

The CREATOR GOD clearly ordered the 24-hour day of the week in one verse, when HE stated, “And the evening and the morning were the First Day…the Second Day…the Third Day,” etc.  HE gave us seven examples of when a 24-hour day starts and ends.  The CREATOR then proceeded to enlighten us about how to determine our seasons and count our days and months.  HE Commanded us to use the “LIGHTS” in the Heavens for “SIGNS” and for seasons, and for days, and years (Genesis 1:14).  

 

Quite the opposite, this Brother’s Jubilee Calendar totally disregards the moon’s lights (phases) – starting with the Crescent that enables us to count the 29.5 to 30 days for each month.  However, because this same Brother does not accept the fact that the evening starts each new day, I am not surprised at his confusion to believe that the CREATOR would form the Universe and mankind and then wait until the Roman Era to inform the world of some man-made calendar.  It’s no wonder that those who beg to differ with the CREATOR raise more confusion and questions than anything else, not to mention that it takes hours for them to explain this ridiculous nonsense, and afterwards it still doesn’t make any sense.

 

Plain and simple, if our leaders and speakers do not encourage us to seek and follow the GOD of Israel and to do HIS LAW, as it is written, then they make Israel to sin.  And consequently, GOD makes their knowledge “foolish”.

 

“…O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”   Isaiah 3:12

 

“For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.”   Isaiah 9:16

 

“My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.”   Jeremiah 50:6

 

“That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;”   Isaiah 44:25

 

I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT WE PROSPER WHEN WE FOLLOW GOD’s LAW!  ALSO, WHEN WE FOLLOW GOD’s LAW, HE IS WITH US TO GUIDE US ALONG THE WAY.  WHY TAKE THE CHANCE OF BEING DECEIVED BY PEOPLE WHO SPEAK FROM THE IMAGINATIONS OF THEIR HEARTS, WHEN WE CAN BE LED BY OUR LOVING GOD OF ISRAEL?

 

GOD’s LAW is to make us Righteous before HIM and the world and wise to understand all HIS Truth.  GOD’s LAW is not for debate and is certainly not intended to cause confusion.  It’s only the rebellious who make issue of the LAW and reject what’s written therein, as their plans conflict with GOD’s Ways.  But the good in heart seek this LAW to know it and to do it. 

 

“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 he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.”   Deuteronomy 32:46,47

 

Our rebelliousness, living by the imaginations of our evil hearts, and our transgressions have to stop!  We know that Our GOD of Israel will put HIS LAW in our hearts, so why don’t we just succumb to this goodness?  We know that Our GOD will return power to Israelites.  We know this, but only if our hearts are directed to follow HIM in Righteousness.  But it will not happen for those who rebel; they, sadly, will be forever lost…AGAIN!

 

We must learn to honor them that truly FEAR the Holy ONE of Israel to follow HIS Ways, as they are written and without adding to or diminishing from HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments.  If we cannot find Brothers and Sisters who FEAR the Holy ONE to do HIS Will, then seek GOD’s WORD at the mouth of HIS Prophets. 

 

“And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.”   II Chronicles 20:20

 

Personally, I cannot wait until Our GOD of Israel sends HIS Servant, the Prophet Elijah back to the Land of Israel to clarify ALL GOD’s LAW for the Nation of Israel so that we will know and understand HIS Ways of Righteousness, especially the one that is a “Sign” between HIM and HIS People, as this Law of the Holy Seventh Day has caused so much division among us.  For sure, this Prophet has his work cut out for him.  And I can say, that this time, he will not be disappointed, as I will make sure it!

 

We learn that GOD’s Messengers are the Levites, and we know that one Levite in particular will prepare the way before the Holy ONE of Israel. 

 

“And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

 

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 2:4,7

 

“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.”   Malachi 3:1

 

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:”   Malachi 4:5

 

I hope that your Passover was one of much contemplation and about our hopes and dreams for the future Righteous and Great Nation of Israel.  It is also my hope that the Remnant will make a Covenant before the LORD GOD of Abraham and Moses to obey HIS WORD, as it is written and as did Josiah and Jehoiada.  But more importantly, let us all who FEAR the CREATOR GOD of Israel earnestly prepare our hearts and souls to accept GOD’s “New Covenant” with the SEED of Jacob. 

 

“And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD,

to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies

and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul,

to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book.

And all the people stood to the covenant.”

II Kings 23:3

 

“And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people,

that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.”

II Kings 11:17

 

“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant

with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day

that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;

which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:  But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;

After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts,

and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.  

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them

unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity,

and I will remember their sin no more.”

Jeremiah 31:31 – 34

 

“Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another:

and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance

was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked,

between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.”

Malachi 3:16 – 18

 

“In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.”

Psalm 44:8

 

*****

 

BLESS THE LORD, YIHOVAH,

GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,

BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL

AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME, BLESS HIS HOLY NAME!

 

Tziona Yisrael,

Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name’s Sake!

 

*****

 

“Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant:

I have formed thee; thou art my servant:

O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.

 

“I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,

and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

 

“Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout,

ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing,

ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein:

for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.”

Isaiah 44:21 - 23

 

“But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me,

and my Lord hath forgotten me.

 

“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.”

Isaiah 49:14 - 16

 

“Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded;

for thou shalt not be put to shame:

for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth,

and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

 

“For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name;

and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel;

The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

 

“For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,

and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

 

“For a small moment have I forsaken thee;

but with great mercies will I gather thee.

 

“In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment;

but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee,

saith the LORD thy Redeemer.”

Isaiah 54:4 - 8

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD OUR GOD OF ISRAEL

IS JUST AND GOOD!

 

 

FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH AND BE OBEDIENT TO HIS LAW

AND TO HIS WORD TO HIS TRUE PROPHETS!

 

*****

“The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous,

and his ears are open unto their cry. 

The face of the LORD is against them that do evil,

to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.”

Psalm 34:15,16

 

“For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee;

and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.”

Psalm 36:9,10

 

“The right hand of the LORD is exalted:

the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.”

Psalm 118:16 - 18

 

“Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel:

for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,

because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.”

Hosea 4:1 

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS JUST AND GOOD!

 

Tziona Yisrael,

Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name’s Sake!

 

*****

 

THE SMOKESCREEN

 

We can assume the Universe was established by a “Big Bang,” or we can seek a more intelligent theory.

 

The more intelligent reasoning is that a Supreme Being did in fact Create the Heavens, Earth, and all things therein.  Then the issue becomes, “Did this Supreme Being intend for HIS CREATION to exist in such a chaotic state of absolute Hell, as it is now?”  If not, then it is incumbent upon us to seek answers for the present horrific state of affairs in the Land of Israel and the rest of the Middle East that is capable of spreading to other countries even to the United States.

 

It is not likely that this Supreme Being did not advise the people of HIS Creation IN THE BEGINNING of how to live in goodness and in peace with each other, which certainly entailed how to worship HIM for giving them life.  For there not to exist harmony and happiness on this Earth, it is evident that from the looks of things and from the ever-present catastrophic events taking place on Earth, this Supreme Being is furious with the peoples HE Created.

 

This is where we are now.  The CREATOR is Judging the peoples of HIS Creation and is taking back HIS Universe.

 

History proves that Jerusalem is the Holy City of the GOD of Israel, that the Israelites are HIS Chosen, Covenant People, and that the Land of Israel belongs to HIM, as well.  So, why all the attention to this area of the world that is proving to be the beginning of the end of this present world system?

 

The Palestinians have been in the land since the reign of King Saul, and the European Israelis have been a State since 1948, opening their doors to other converted Europeans and whomsoever else wishing to take part in this process and live off the fat of GOD’s Holy Land.  The Palestinians and the Israelis have been at war ever since.  If these two groups can live together anywhere in the world except in Israel, then there must be a very good reason why.  However, the reason is not one that Israelis desire to make public.  Israeli hatred of the Arabs is not at all the issue.  There exists a more profound reason than that.  Finger pointing at the Arabs is but the ubiquitous smokescreen presented to the world.

 

THE TRUTH ABOUT CONVERSION TO SO-CALLED “JUDAISM”

 

The world should connect the dots and learn the truth regarding the Europeans who control GOD’s Holy Land.  There is no way the GOD of Israel will accept a conversion process that changes Europeans, Americans, and Middle Easterners into “Jews.”  GOD’s Covenant is with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their SEED.  Accordingly, how can we dismiss the fact that Abraham was called out of Ur of the Chaldeans – NOT out of Europe.  GOD well knows HIS Chosen People, no matter that HE took their identity from them and cast them from HIS Land.

 

And their being scattered into the “Four Corners of the Earth” to serve their enemies has everything to do with the problems in the Middle East, as this crisis relates to the CREATOR GOD taking back HIS Universe, HIS Holy Land, HIS Holy City, and HIS Chosen People.  The Israelis know this.  They see the handwriting on the wall, but they are fighting the CREATOR GOD tooth and nail.  That’s what this war is all about - Israeli control - to keep out the SEED of Jacob whom GOD is calling home.  Hence, the Israelis, even if time permitted, would not give the Palestinians their State for fear the Israelites would seek to live there also.  And just for the record, one can learn about the true identity of the descendants of Jacob by reading what the CREATOR GOD of Israel said would befall them in Leviticus 26th and Deuteronomy 28th Chapters.

 

The Israelis have a rabid requirement to control all the Land of Israel including the Palestinian territories for one reason and for one reason only, which has everything to do with their “Law of Return.”  The Israelis and their Rabbinute (their religious party) are ever aware that the CREATOR GOD of Israel has a Covenant People – The Twelve Tribes of Jacob, and they know that according to Biblical Prophecy the CREATOR GOD of the Land of Israel and this Universe will restore HIS Chosen People to their heritage.  For obvious reasons, in no way do the Israelis (European converts to what’s called “Judaism,” which is of their own making) want this to happen, for then they will no longer have control of the Land of Israel at all.  However, they know their days are numbered.

 

“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame. But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:”  

Ezekiel 36:7 – 10

 

Now, the Truth is out.  This is the reason for the decades of turmoil, death, and destruction over GOD’s Holy Land.  And of a Truth, the Israeli powers-that-be have no qualms about their dilemma.  They are prepared to fight to the end, but who are they really fighting?  It all has to do with what prophecy foretells, and what must be fulfilled.

 

Conversely, Israelis are putting too much false hope in their military powers.  When it comes to the Children of Israel, the CREATOR GOD fights their battles, and since it is time for their return, there is nothing Israeli’ weaponry can do to stop GOD’s Commandment from manifesting.

 

The Israelites were formed to show forth GOD’s Praise and to be a light to the world for HIS Ways of Righteousness – HIS Book of the Law (the teachings of the Prophet Moses – NOT the Talmud compiled by European “Jews”). 

 

“Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;”  

Isaiah 42:5,6

 

“This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.”  Isaiah 43:21

 

And it is for this reason the Supreme Being, or rather the CREATOR GOD of Israel is taking back HIS magnificent Universe and making it a place of Divine Peace, one that Exalts and Magnifies HIM for all HIS Wondrous Works.

 

The CREATOR GOD has held HIS Peace for a very long time, all because of the curses HE put on HIS Chosen People for forsaking HIM for false gods and for rejecting HIS LAW.  Their rebellion caused GOD to cast HIS People into the hands of the heathen, and HE went into seclusion permitting Gentiles to run the world and teach HIS People a lesson that would send them running back to HIM seeking forgiveness with contrite spirits.

 

“I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.”   Isaiah 42:14

 

For a long time people believed that the European “Jews” were really the people of the Bible, but the CREATOR knows HIS Chosen People, the SEED of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the men with whom HE made an Everlasting Covenant  (Genesis 17:1 – 21). 

 

From the Slave Trade to world hatred, and enduring racism and discrimination all over the world, Blacks have suffered at the hands of those who ruled over them.  But now, the CREATOR GOD of Israel is awakening the Dry Bones and calling HIS People home to the chagrin and utter dismay of European Israelis who are helpless to do anything about it but who still have plans to thwart the WORD of GOD.  Trust me, their efforts will not end in victory, and nothing since 1948 has even given them hope that they could take the place of the SEED of Jacob/Israel (Genesis 32:28) – neither by conversion nor submersion. 

 

Thus, the reasons for the war for Israeli control of GOD’s Land and the reasons for a world of troubled times, disasters, endless suffering, despair, and many, many tears.

 

The CREATOR is taking back HIS Universe and keeping HIS Everlasting Promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Patriarchs of the Nation of Israel. 

 

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.”   Isaiah 10:20 - 22

 

“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.”   Isaiah 11:11

 

“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.”   Isaiah 66:22

 

“Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.”  

Jeremiah 30:18 – 21

 

“At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.”   Jeremiah 31:1 – 13

 

“The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”   Zephaniah 3:13

 

“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.”   Zephaniah 3:19

 

And for all HIS Creations, especially man, the ONE CREATOR GOD of Israel will be acknowledged and worshipped by HIS Chosen People and all Nations remaining from HIS Wrath and destruction of the wicked.  The world will revolve around its MAKER!

 

Yes, the All-Mighty CREATOR will liberate HIS Holy Land and will return to HIS Holy City Jerusalem, where once again HIS Holy Priests will minister before HIM and where people of all Nations will visit to Bless HIM for HIS GOODNESS and for HIS Holy Name’s Sake.

 

“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

 

“And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.”   Zechariah 14:16

 

FINALLY:

 

“Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.”   Zephaniah 2:3

 

WHAT IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE CREATOR GOD?

 

“And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.”   Deuteronomy 6:25

 

“When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.”   Deuteronomy 31:11 - 13

 

The fulfillment of the above passage is just a matter of time.

 

For more understanding and respect for what’s written in the “Old Testament” read…

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD

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BLESSED BE THE MOST HIGH CREATOR GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB FOR HIS MULTITUDE OF MERCIES IN NOT UTTERLY DESTROYING THE SEED OF JACOB!

 

Tziona Yisrael

 

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WE WANT ANSWERS, BUT CAN WE HANDLE THE TRUTH?

 

What in the world is happening?

 

As people watch and experience frightening and disastrous floods, killer storms, Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, destructive fires, famine, and incurable diseases, they can only ask, “Will my loved ones and I be spared?”

 

As people sit in churches and temples, they wonder, “Why aren’t my prayers being answered?”  And “Who can I trust to spiritually guide me?”

 

As people raise their children, they wonder, “How can I explain the reasons why GOD does not end hunger, impoverishment, race hatred, unhappiness, ubiquitous catastrophes, and bring peace to this Earth?”

 

And “Why would GOD hand HIS Earth over to the heathens?”

 

The ANSWERS to all these questions and many, many more can be found in “The Old Testament.”
 
For more respect for the Ancient of Books read

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD

 

A Book on the “Old Testament”

 

by

 

Tziona Yisrael

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In that this book details new revelations and unconventional perspectives about Christianity and what’s called “Judaism,” would you be so inclined to consider the answers and solutions written therein?

 

At a time when people fear for their lives because of the growing possibilities of a nuclear war, it is time to seek explanations that make sense.  Therefore, read the WORD OF GOD that has been hidden for millennia in order that the reign of the heathen may be fulfilled.  Read THUS SAITH THE LORD for knowledge and understanding, as all the world watches GOD’s WONDROUS WORKS unfold bringing an end to the corruption and evils that fill the Earth HE CREATED!

 

IT IS GOD’s TURN NOW!

WATCH

AS HE TAKES BACK HIS UNIVERSE,

CALLS ATTENTION TO HIMSELF,

AND

CAUSES ALL TO KNOW HIM AND HIS TRUTH!

 

THE CREATOR GOD WILL BE EXALTED AND

BILLIONS WILL BOW ONLY TO HIM!

 

When a child, I said I would kill whoever killed GOD.

Now, an adult, I know that no one can kill the True and Living CREATOR GOD

but rather must serve, worship, and magnify ONLY HIM or pay dire consequences, and

the order of each and every day prove to be the Truth of this matter.

 

Tziona Yisrael

Author

Afraqueen@AOL.COM

 

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A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE “KOY”

 

TAKE DILIGENT HEED…

 

“…take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law,

which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments,

and to cleave unto him,

and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Joshua 22:5

                                                                                                                                    June 19, 2006

 

What exactly does the GOD of Israel mean when HE Commands us to take diligent heed to do HIS Commandments and HIS LAW? 

 

IN THAT…

 

“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: 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 30:19,20

 

AND…

 

“And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.”   Deuteronomy 32:46,47

 

I would think that to take diligent heed means to be extremely cautious to keep GOD’s LAW, read and study it, DO IT, and pray to the GOD of Israel for wisdom to understand it.  And in addition to that common sense would be to either join with others so determined or be alone in returning back to the Holy ONE and what’s required of the SEED of Jacob.

 

This might seem ever so trivial a detail to some, but it means a world to the GOD of Israel.  You see, I used to belong to Ben Ammi’s group, and I left for many reasons, but mainly because he was allowing people to call him JC and “Saviour” and because he was not concerned about GOD’s LAW and much less about taking heed to live and do it. 

 

What truly, truly disturbs me is that there are people encouraging Israelites to join up with Ben Ammi and accept his title – “Messianic Leader,” as well as the blasphemous notion that the True and Living GOD would have such a congregation to represent HIM.  Yes, of course the so-called “KOY” exists, but it does not represent the GOD of Israel and HIS LAW, i.e., HIS Ways of Righteousness that HE Commanded of the Prophet Moses to teach to the Nation of Israel.  This group does not in any way signify the Kingdom of YAH, and indeed it cannot in any way portray GOD’s Righteous Kingdom. 

 

The “KOY” is a congregation of people calling themselves Israelites and living according to the Laws of Ben Ammi and the imaginations of his contrary and devious heart.  The wise in the knowledge of Truth know that Ben Ammi’s camp, built on corruption, crime, lust, adultery, and death, cannot in any way be connected with the Holy ONE of Israel’s Divine and Righteous Kingdom or cannot be established to receive the Remnant GOD said would return. 

 

“The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.”   Jeremiah 23:20 – 22

 

“My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.”   Jeremiah 50:6

 

Moreover, King David’s Seed will head the CREATOR GOD’s Righteous Kingdom that will exist upon this Earth, and he will know to be the perfect role model for living GOD’s LAW in Righteousness. 

 

I have never read where Kings David and Solomon called themselves “Messiah.”

 

“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.”   Isaiah 11:1 – 5

 

“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.”   Isaiah 11:10

 

And this Righteous Kingdom will be all about serving, worshipping, and PRAISING the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and about representing HIM and spreading HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments throughout this world, in order that the CREATOR GOD of Israel will be Magnified and will receive all the Praise and all the Glory, so that people will abandon the “New Testament” and its theology.  Have no doubts about it, the son of David will rule from Jerusalem and the GOD of Heaven and Earth will rule over all (Psalm 103:19). 

 

I find nothing in GOD’s WORD to support an existence of HIS Kingdom in Israel under the control of Gentile Jews.  Ben Ammi has deceived hundreds into believing this lie that he is the Messianic leader of GOD’s Kingdom.  How long are we going to follow leaders who use GOD’s Holy Name in vain?! 

 

Taking heed to keep GOD’s LAW would entail staying as far from Ben Ammi as possible.  And the fact that HE keeps his stores open on GOD’s Holy Day of Complete REST is a darn good red flag and eye-opener that shouts to stay away from this leader, as of a Truth, he does not FEAR the GOD of Israel to do HIS Will.  And what better information exists from Our GOD to prove Ben Ammi to be one who defies the All-Mighty GOD!

 

“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

 

This passage is the best gauge Israelites have for determining and for understanding who to accept as a genuine leader or know who FEARS the Holy ONE of Israel.  If Ben Ammi and the people of his camp defy the Most High GOD of Israel, then why join with them, and why take part in their beliefs unfounded in GOD’s LAW and in their disobedience?

 

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”   Psalm 1:1,2

 

“I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.”   Psalm 26:5

 

“If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:”   Psalm 66:18

 

“Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.”   Psalm 141:4

 

“Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.”   Isaiah 1:2 - 4

 

Another perfect incident that serves to explain why we cannot join with people who break GOD’s LAW concerns Jehoshaphat and Ahziah.  And does it ever speak VOLUMES!

 

“And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber. Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.”   II Chronicles 20:35 – 37

 

Let’s not pretend we don’t know about our past and how our stiffnecked and rebellious forebears loved to be connected with evildoers and how they encouraged the lawful to follow wickedness.  At least admit to what THUS SAITH THE LORD!

 

At this late day and in the time of Jacob’s Trouble, why would we even consider joining with Ben Ammi or with anyone or with any congregation that does not make GOD’s LAW the Paths of Righteousness to follow and walk?  Our GOD of Israel promises us that if we return to HIM and HIS LAW, that then we can return to our heritage (Deuteronomy 30:1-4).  If people will join with Ben Ammi, then for them GOD’s Promise is made void.

 

“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

 

“Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.”   Jeremiah 30:15

 

“And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:”  Jeremiah 32:22,23

 

What a crime!  Ben Ammi was among the blessed to return, but just like his rebellious forefathers, he, too, refuses to be obedient to the LAWS of the GOD of Israel.

 

The WORD of the GOD of Israel also condemns Ben Ammi for calling himself a “Messianic Leader” in order to gather Israelites and Christians into his fold.  But in no way does he emulate the “Old Testament” men of GOD!

 

Was Moses, Joshua, Samuel, the kings of Israel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, or any of the other Prophets who promoted GOD’s Book of the Law and who spoke “THUS SAITH THE LORD” called a Messiah?  Do we need this?  Is this something required of us to have before us?

 

I listened to a Brother in Paltalk Chat go to extremes to contrive a justifiable explanation for Ben Ammi calling himself a Messiah.  The Truth of the matter is that this word is not even connected with Hebrew-Israelite Culture.  “Jews” and Christians and the Book of Daniel and the “New Testament” are very much associated with the word “Messiah,” but not the Israelites who wandered forty years in the Wilderness and inhabited the Land of Israel.  And if Moses was NOT given this C.E. terminology to introduce to the Children of Israel, then there is no reason for us to know about it at all.  There isn’t even ANY information in this Book of Daniel or in the “New Testament” that is essential for Israelites to know and do – none at all.  All that the GOD of Israel required of us to know and do was given to HIS Servant Moses and is reiterated in the books of HIS Prophets who utter “THUS SAITH THE LORD.”  There is no “THUS SIAITH THE LORD” in the Book of Daniel or in the “New Testament.”  Both of these books were written AFTER GOD scattered HIS Chosen People, Israel, from the land.  That being the case, this literature is suspect, and proof of this is the fact that the Israelites were scattered to live in “Darkness” and to serve their enemies.  So, why would the Holy ONE give them any information about seventy weeks or seventy years or seventy anything? 

 

And even if this information is for a time after the Israelites return, the information still makes no sense.  “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week…” (Daniel 9:27).  This verse contradicts what “THUS SAITH THE LORD” about HIS Covenant in Jeremiah 31:31 – 34 and in Ezekiel 20:37.  And not one of GOD’s Prophets makes mention of this event in the Book of Daniel. 

 

Just for the record, “THUS SAITH THE LORD” is mentioned more than 400 times in the “Old Testament” but not even once in the Book of Daniel or in the “New Testament.”  That’s no mistake.  That’s for us to think logically and connect the dots!  Therefore, when we do the research concerning the year the Book of Daniel was probably written, we will see that this Book of Daniel and the “New Testament” were written to deceive Israelites, and, thus, we have no reason to accept the information in either of these books as being GOD’s WORD. 

 

GOD’s Covenants – HIS LAW and HIS Promises, as well as the “New Covenant” spoken of in Jeremiah 31:31-34 - will resume upon our return to our heritage.  And there is no other WORD of GOD to have us believe that any one of these Covenants will be one week.  Actually, when you consider what’s written in Daniel 9:27, none of this chapter makes any sense whatsoever.

 

“He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:”   Psalm 105:8 – 10

 

“Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.”   Psalm 106:44,45

 

The Holy ONE of Israel has not only remembered HIS Covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but HE has opened our eyes to the fact that WE ARE HIS PEOPLE, but unfortunately, too many of us do not choose to do that which is necessary to stay in HIS good graces.

 

Another serious issue is that certain people credit Ben Ammi with moving Israelites to Liberia and then on to Israel.  The GOD of Israel did not say that Ben Ammi would deliver HIS People.  HE said that HE would, and when HE does, for sure HE wants all the GLORY, every whit!  HE got all the GLORY in the Israelite Deliverance out of Egypt, and HE, unequivocally, will be Exalted AGAIN upon the return of the Remnant of Israel that GOD promises HE WILL GATHER.  To suggest or even think for a moment that Ben Ammi deserves recognition for that which is due to the Holy ONE of Israel leads me to believe that some of us, being Israelites, have truly lost sight of what’s important to know and understand.  It would appear that the Holy ONE is again proving Israelites to determine who will and who will not enter into HIS Glorious Kingdom.

 

And just because people think Ben Ammi to be prosperous and have more than other congregations is no reason to boast about the advancements he has made.  When I hear this, I am constantly reminded of the “green bay tree” in Psalms.

 

“Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.”   Psalm 37:1 – 3

 

“I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.”   Psalm 37:35 - 37

 

“They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:”   Psalm 49:6,7

 

“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”   Psalm 127:1

 

It would appear that people don’t yet get the full understanding of the above verse that is loaded with Truth, conviction, and certainty.  Time proves everything!  The Flood of Noah’s Day and the scattering of the Nation of Israel into the Four Corners of the Earth are proven facts that the CREATOR GOD of Israel does not tolerate people taking HIS Name in vain, disobedience of HIS LAW, and the worship of false gods and even of man.

 

Ben Ammi is not “perfect.”  He, himself, said in 1996 that he is doing 60%.  Thus, he isn’t even close to being “the perfect man.”  He is failing and falling fast!  His works and teachings speak volumes.  We have history to probe for what “THUS SAITH THE LORD” and for what required of us.  AND we have read what has happened to Israelites who stray from GOD’s LAW in order to establish their own direction.  We have book after book in the “Old Testament” that gives us all the information we need concerning rebellious Israelites.  We know what the GOD of Israel did to them, and we know that HE has not changed HIS Ordinances one iota, and that HE will NEVER change them.  Hence, knowing all this, and knowing what the GOD of Moses has said about HIS LAW and the consequences for not keeping it (in Deuteronomy 28th Chapter), knowing that HE will MAGNIFY HIS LAW and put it in our hearts, knowing that we were scattered for not observing this Divine LAW, would Our GOD of Israel send such a leader as Ben Ammi who has no regard for HIS LAW but rather for magnifying himself and a bogus “KOY”?  Perfect men of GOD do not grandstand and promote adverse teachings.  They vehemently stress doing the WORD of the GOD of Israel and with “ONE” mindset. 

 

Without question, “the perfect man” FEARS the GOD of Israel to live and do HIS Book of the Law.  It is accepting GOD’s Righteousness and to live by it that is our ticket into the CREATOR GOD of Israel’s Peaceful Kingdom.  It is not Ben Ammi’s veggie and no-salt diets.  Ben Ammi is not concerned about GOD’s LAW, and neither is the GOD of Israel in his thoughts.  This “KOY” in Dimona is really nothing more than the Kingdom of Ben Ammi, and he is no more the “Saviour” that he is called than is the jc of the “New Testament.”  Ben Ammi and the other leaders in his Camp know exactly how to run their game, and those who they beguile either know nothing of the GOD of Israel and HIS LAW, or they have chosen to forget the GOD of Israel and HIS LAW and listen to and believe in a man whose foundation is built on lies, corruption, and death.  Therefore, I caution everyone to be very cautious of what is believed, and the reason is that if we CHOOSE to believe in wickedness, then GOD will help to encourage that false belief.

 

“Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.”  

Jeremiah 6:19

 

“Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.”  

Hosea 8:11

 

What wills Israelites to turn from the WORD of GOD?  What force is there that can make GOD’s Chosen People defy HIM?  Never mind.  I don’t think I want to know.  In any case, those who join with Ben Ammi should know that you give up your assets and you are expected to conform to the expectations of the Camp, and you will adhere to WILL adhere to their ways or be punished by beatings and losing your flamboyant “title.”  What a scam, the best since the advent of Christianity.  However, only the Holy ONE will prove them a fraud and with the Righteous Remnant HE is calling – HIS Chosen Ones who have determined to serve and worship ONLY HIM.

 

“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.”   Joel 2:32

 

“For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.”   Psalm 10:3,4

 

“My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.”   Psalm 34:2,3

 

“In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.”   Psalm 44:8

 

Is this a time for us to boast?  Ben Ammi is subject to the will of Gentile Jews.  Why is he boasting, and why are others boasting for him?  Is this not a time to turn to the Most High GOD of Israel and boast of HIM and seek HIM for understanding IN HIS LAW and in HIS WORD to HIS Prophets?  Should we not thirst and hunger for GOD’s Truth?

 

“All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.”   Deuteronomy 8:3

 

Ezekiel speaks about the Holy ONE of Israel gathering us and taking us into a SECOND WILDERNESS.  If Ben Ammi, or anyone for that matter, does not observe GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of Complete REST, as it is written, will he not be purged, as the GOD of Israel has said?  Can it really be that the CREATOR GOD of the Heavens and the Earth will allow Ben Ammi and his Camp to fast on HIS Holy Day and have his restaurants open defying HIS Commandment?  Come on, People!  Who is fooling whom?

 

“And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.”   Ezekiel 20:34 – 38

 

Ironically, from this passage, Ben Ammi will not enter into the very Kingdom he boasts. 

 

“And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.”   Numbers 16:26

 

“I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.”   Psalm 26:5

 

Surely, we know about Israelites who speak of the Holy ONE of Israel with their lips but have hearts far from HIM.  This is the case with all Israel who acknowledge the Holy ONE of Israel but DO NOT live by HIS Book of the Law, as it is written.

 

“Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.”   Isaiah 59:2

 

Some of us might think it is all right to join with congregations that defy GOD’s LAW, but this is wholly against doing what Thus Saith the LORD.  The Holy ONE of Israel is not impressed with the direction some of us have taken.  First of all, we do not need leaders.  Our Merciful GOD has brought us out of darkness in revealing to us our true identity and has made us know that we are more than just descendants of Slaves. HE did this because of HIS Promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and because we are HIS Chosen People.  Wake up, Israel!  We need Our GOD, the Holy ONE of Israel.  We can call upon HIM for direction, wisdom, and understanding.  That’s why HE is Our GOD.  HE does not tell us to call upon HIM for naught.  HE did not say trust not in a friend for naught.  HE did not say that those who follow after evil leaders will be destroyed for naught (Isaiah 9:16).  Our GOD has always wanted to be the center of our lives and of our world.  And if we are obedient and will devote our lives to HIM, HE will be our LEADER, and for choosing HIM, we will not thirst or want for any good thing.  And at the designated time, HE promises to send us HIS Pastors.  But until then, trust in ONLY Our GOD of Israel and see HIS miraculous WORKS for those HE loves!

 

People have come forward with information on Ben Ammi, and the Brother promoting the so-called “Keys to the Kingdom” is aware of this.  I have also posted information on Ben Ammi and his camp to the LawKeepers Forum.  And if people will still join with him, after learning about this useless kingdom, then they certainly have no one but themselves to blame for whatever might befall them.   More importantly, those who will read this Message and will still seek to join and be associated with the Ben Ammi Camp can’t say they didn’t know and certainly won’t be able to plead ignorance.  They can’t say their leaders are at fault.  They can’t say they believed in a Brother whom they thought knew what he was talking about with some “Keys to the Kingdom.”  And the reason they cannot feign all these excuses is because all GOD’s warnings and counsel are written in HIS LAW and in HIS WORD to HIS Prophets. “TAKE DILIGENT HEED…” Also, HE provides knowledge to those who earnestly seek it.  The Holy ONE of Israel is a Most Merciful GOD and SAVIOR and has covered ALL bases, and HE has left out nothing of significance for us to know and do.  Our GOD of Israel has even left us with HIS WORD and good reason why we should not trust in man.

 

“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:”   Psalm 146:3 - 6

 

“Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.”   Micah 7:5

 

I feel like this:  If I am going to fall by the wayside, it will not be because of following some stiffnecked, grandstanding, rebellious Israelite leaders.  In that respect, I have learned what not to do very well and mainly from watching lawless Israelites in Ben Ammi’s Camp and listening to him speak the imaginations of his heart.

 

The Dry Bones have a chance to live and serve and worship the Holy ONE of Israel, but only if we will return to HIM (not to Ben Ammi) to FEAR ONLY HIM and be obedient to the Ways of the CREATOR GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  It has been more than 2,500 years since we lost our heritage.  And the only way we will return to it is by looking to our SAVIOR, Our ONLY HELP. 

 

With Ben Ammi there is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD Our GOD to help us if we will only let HIM.  But we must take diligent heed to follow HIS Paths of Righteousness.  May Our Holy ONE of Israel bless the man courageous enough to speak HIS Truth and stand up for HIS LAW, the ONLY True Path of Righteousness.

 

“Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.”   Psalm 33:18 – 21

 

“Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.”   Psalm 60:11,12

 

“Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.”   Psalm 124:8

 

Wake up, Israel.  It is a fact that Ben Ammi does not live by GOD’s LAW.  This we know!  And since he doesn’t, the so-called KOY, under the leadership of Ben Ammi is just another Messianic congregation in deep trouble with the GOD of Israel.  As for me, I shall serve the Most High GOD of Israel and strive to be perfect in HIS LAW.  And all those who FEAR the GOD of Israel will do likewise.  Going home in no way entails joining Ben Ammi’s congregation, and if this is what you believe, then you are greatly deceived. 

 

“In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.”   Jeremiah 50:4

 

“O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?”  

Micah 2:7

 

“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  (Caps. are mine.)

 

WAKE UP, ISRAEL!  Our GOD is calling us, and HE is being very selective.  HE is only taking Israelites who will vow themselves to HIM and to HIS LAW.  For that reason, there will only be a “Remnant” to make it to GOD’s Kingdom – only a Remnant.

 

“But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.”   Psalm 4:3 - 5 

 

So, be aware, and TAKE DILIGENT HEED.  This is our last shot to be returned to our heritage. 

 

“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But 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. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.”   Ezekiel 18:20 - 24

 

Thus, it is most critical that GOD FEARING Israelites discern right from wrong and denounce defiance and disobedience to GOD’s LAW.  

 

“But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.”   Psalm 103:17,18

 

And at the same time we must embrace wisdom and knowledge and abide by it.  Don’t waste precious time on a NOTORIOUS leader who has no respect for the “SIGN” of GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath of REST that binds us with Our GOD of Israel.  The last thing Israelites who seek the GOD of Israel need is to hear a philosophy inconsistent with that of GOD’s Book of the Law.

 

What a shame to have people’s stomachs growling from their hunger pains and incessantly thinking of what they will eat when the Sabbath is ended, rather than thinking about the Mercies of the SAVIOR GOD of Israel and giving Glory to HIM for giving us a Blessed Day of REST.  How do I know all this?  I’ve been there and done that!  What a shame to have people not enjoying food on GOD’s Seventh Day Sabbath and their giving in to blessed slumber and rest on full stomachs.  WHAT A SHAME!  Ben Ammi forgets that this Seventh Day is the CREATOR’s Anniversary, and it is HE that has COMMANDED, how HE wants it observed.  To his hurt, Ben Ammi does not see it that way.

 

Those who decline from GOD’s Ways of Righteousness can expect to literally go mad and die.  This is GOD’s WORD – not mine!  Ben Ammi initially taught GOD’s LAW and as far as I knew abided by it.  Actually, this was the reason I joined “Abeta Israel,” the Israelite congregation in which he was a member.  But he allowed a former Christian preacher who joined his group to entice him to be the “Messiah” and “Saviour” of the Nation of Israel.  By the way, his congregation does for sure call him “Lord and Saviour.”  I have heard a woman make reference to him as being that, and Asiel, the so-called “KOY” Ambassador confirms that Ben Ammi saved him.  He made this statement in the Paltalk Chat a few months ago.  For this reason, Ben Ammi has gone, not just mad but, stark raving mad.  I feel it is important to inform you that the woman (Rachel) who called Ben Ammi “Lord and Saviour” is now deceased.  And just for the record, the man who is supposed to have “anointed” Ben Ammi is dead and has been dead for a long time, now. 

 

ISRAEL DOES NOT KNOW!

 

“The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.”   Psalm 104:21

 

Why can’t we just seek Our GOD of Israel and be obedient to what HE requires of us?  After all, HIS Book of the Law and HIS WORD to HIS Prophets are our Bread of Life.

 

“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

 

King David Feared and loved the GOD of Israel with all his heart and soul, and we have him as evidence that we, also, can indeed be people after GOD’s own heart.  Notice his Psalm 101:

 

“I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing. I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.”

 

I question the motives of those who promote Ben Ammi’s so-called “KOY” and disseminate information leading people to believe that he is a Messiah.  Ben Ammi’s works judge him to be nothing more than a Lawbreaker who is steadfastly working against the WORD of the GOD of Israel, and who is relentlessly expounding on his books, his diets, his authority, his being a Messiah, and his “Kingdom of Ben Ammi.” 

 

Wake up, Israel, and take diligent heed to the LAW and WORD of the GOD of Israel before it is too late.  Our GOD is taking back HIS Universe, and I PRAISE HIM, for I hate this world system that enables people to live as they choose rather than live by “every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD…” (Deuteronomy 8:3). 

 

“I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD. Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.”  

Psalm 104:33 – 35

 

“Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.  Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting…”   Psalm 106:47

 

“For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.”   Psalm 5:12

 

WHO IS ON THE LORD’s SIDE, make haste to return to HIM and to HIS Book of the Law and to live and do it in Righteousness with your whole heart and soul!

 

BLESSED BE THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS TOWARDS THOSE WHO SEEK HIM AND WHO ARE OBEDIENT TO HIS LAW!

 

Me and My GOD with me,

 

Tziona Yisrael

Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name’s Sake

 

*****

 

REFLECTING ON GOD’S WORD IN REGARD TO

HIS SEVENTH DAY SABBATH COMMANDMENT!

 

REMEMBER, THIS IS HIS ANNIVERSARY DAY OF REST,

AND OUR DAY TO KEEP IN REST AND AS A SIGN BETWEEN

HIM AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL!

 

“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

 

“…the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth

you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place,

let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

Exodus 16:29

 

“…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

 

“And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel;

Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth

out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice,

and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:”

Jeremiah 11:3,4

 

As most of you know, I am a firm believer in living GOD’s Book of the Law, and that I strongly stress observance of GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath that HE proclaimed a “SIGN” between HIM and HIS Chosen People, Israel.  To strengthen the great significance of GOD’s Hallowed Seventh Day, HE used this Day of REST to prove HIS People, the Israelites, to see if they would walk in HIS LAW, or no (Exodus 16:4).

 

It didn’t take GOD long to find out that HIS Chosen People HE had JUST DELIVERED out of Egyptian bondage by HIS Mighty Hand before their very eyes, did not FEAR HIM to be OBEDIENT to HIS COMMANDMENT of the Holy Seventh Day of Rest.  The Holy ONE of Israel made no comment when the Israelites left the Manna “til the morning and it bred worms and stank.”  But, it was Moses who “was wroth with them.”  However, when some of the Children of Israel went out on the Seventh Day Sabbath to gather Manna, this, without a doubt, deeply upset the Holy ONE of Israel.

 

“And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?”   Exodus 16:27,28

 

The Israelites had failed their test!  It is obvious that the Holy ONE DID NOT want the Israelites leaving their places on HIS Holy Seventh Day of COMPLETE REST (Shabbatone in Hebrew).  And for some of us, if this is not understood, then Exodus 16:29 makes GOD’s COMMANDMENT perfectly clear without a shadow of a doubt.

 

“…the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” 

 

The questions now become, Is the Holy ONE of Israel still proving us to see if we “will walk in HIS LAW, or no?”  Is HE still using HIS Holy Sabbath Day as an indicator, and are we at liberty to violate GOD’s COMMANDMENT “to abide every man in his place on the Seventh Day”?  Also, can we be expected to return to our heritage if we do violate this COMMANDMENT?

 

“Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.”   Ezekiel 22:26

 

Perhaps at this point, I should make readers aware of the basis for this particular post.

 

Before the recent “KenesiYAH Conference” in Jackson, Tennessee held on November 12 – 14, a notice was circulated stating, “This Conference Stars YHWH King Of The Universe!!”

 

Because the Conference called for activities on GOD’s Holy Sabbath Day of Complete REST, I knew that most of the attendees, if not all, would be leaving their places (homes and hotel rooms) on the Seventh Day, November 13, to take part in whatever was being offered on GOD’s Holy Day.  In my heart, I was immediately critical of this Conference for going against GOD’s COMMANDMENT to abide in our places on the Seventh Day of Rest.  Also, knowing fully well that the GOD of Israel is against bearing burdens on HIS Holy Sabbath Day, I thought to challenge the promoter for circulating that “This Conference Stars YHWH King Of the Universe” - words that were clearly construed to draw a crowd but displeased YIHOVAH.  And I wasn’t at all in agreement with charging a fee to attend the Conference, either. 

 

However, I, for some reason, changed my mind about contacting the promoter.  And in the interim, I learned that the Conference was a success and people had really gotten something out of this gathering.  Then I thought to myself how wonderful it is for Israelites to Glory and PRAISE the Holy ONE and rejoice in revering ONLY HIM.  I also thought that the GOD of Israel might have been truly pleased with the Conference and that perhaps HE had changed the WAY HE wants us to observe HIS Holy Seventh Day of REST.  I told myself that perhaps we CAN indeed gather and teach on this Hallowed Day.  Although I had these thoughts, I didn’t seek the Holy ONE for clarification on the matter.    And I left it at that without considering putting this notion of gathering on the Sabbath to the test and without further thoughts about the issue until this past Friday, November 19, just a few days after the Conference ended when the Holy ONE of Israel gave me clarification on the matter. 

 

On this Friday, while going about my daily readings, the Holy ONE showed me that we must keep HIS LAW, as it is written or face the consequences.  And no matter how zealous and passionate we are about our concerns to worship Our GOD of Israel, and no matter how jubilant and how much Praise and admiration we bestow upon HIM in a Conference, in a parade, or in the privacy of our homes, we have got to remain bound and TRUE to HIS LAWS – ALL OF THEM - to remember to do and observe them, as HE has COMMANDED, for this Divine LAW IS OUR LIFE and is to be kept (as it is written) FOREVER!

 

“And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.”   Deuteronomy 32:46,47

 

“Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.”   Deuteronomy 11:1

 

“These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.”   Deuteronomy 12:1

 

“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, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.”   II Kings 17:36,37

 

The passage the Holy ONE showed me in Scripture that caused me to recall the November 12 – 13 KenesiYAH Conference and the activities held on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of Rest entailed the relocation of GOD’s Ark.  I did not search for this passage.  This passage was brought to me…ALL PRAISES DUE TO THE HOLY ONE!

 

“And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.”   I Chronicles 13:8

 

Without a doubt, King David and ALL Israel played before GOD WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT with SINGING, HARPS, PSALTERIES, TIMBRELS, CYMBOLS, and TRUMPETS.  For sure the Israelites made a great tumultuous noise in sincere PRAISE of the Most High GOD of Israel.  And indeed HE was taking notice!

 

I remember many years ago reading this passage for the very first time thinking about how wonderful it was for Israel to Praise GOD and how pleased HE must have been seeing HIS People Exalting HIM with such joyfulness and fervor.  But at that time, as I continued reading the chapter, something happened in the passage that I’m sure has caused Israelites and the Stranger alike to wonder why this GOD of Israel would so severely punish a man, during this moment of exultation and joy of HIM, for putting forth his hand to steady HIS Ark.  I read on with great sorrow for Uzza, seeking a valid reason for his death.

 

“And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.”   I Chronicles 13:9,10

 

The valid reason was and still is KEEP GOD’s LAWS for HE will not forgo punishment if we don’t.  For me, this passage was a tremendous wakeup call that made me realize that no matter what…we, Israelites, must take heed to obey all GOD’s COMMANDMENTS, as they are written.  And when in doubt, leave the issue alone!

 

The Conference of November 12 – 14, I’m sure was well organized with the Holy ONE in mind to draw as many people as possible and to make as much money as possible.  But given GOD’s LAW of the Holy Sabbath Day to “abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the Seventh Day,” has GOD given HIS consent and endorsed leaving our places, driving cars, teaching, and holding a Sabbath Service on this Seventh Day of Complete REST?  Now, since reading the passage about Uzza, I know for sure, the Holy ONE of Israel has not changed HIS LAW of the Sabbath.  It is yet valid, and we are bound to it, as well as to ALL of GOD’s LAWS.  And like Nehemiah, I remind everyone of how our forefathers profaned GOD’s Holy Day of REST even after having just returned to the land out of Babylonian captivity.

 

“Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.”  

Nehemiah 13:18

 

If we are specifically advised to keep GOD’s Sabbath or be punished with death, that our servants, oxen, asses, and cattle are also supposed to rest, as well, and COMMANDED NOT to bear burdens on the Holy Seventh Day of Rest, then we have no business scheduling activities on this Holy Shabbatone (Sabbath of Complete REST Day).  If the Holy ONE wanted us assembling on HIS Holy Seventh Day of Rest, then HE would not have COMMANDED us to abide in our places on this Day of REST!!!  Surely that makes a lot of sense, right?  

 

“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, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”   Exodus 20:10,11

 

“Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.  Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.”   Exodus 31:13 - 15

 

“Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: 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.”   Deuteronomy 5:13,14

 

“And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.”  

Nehemiah 13:19

 

“Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction. And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.”   Jeremiah 17:21 – 25

 

“But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.”   Jeremiah 17:27

 

Although there is nothing written above about picking up sticks on the Holy Sabbath Day of REST, GOD condemned a man to death for this act (Numbers 15:32-35).  Doesn’t this sentence of death expound upon the great importance of observing this Holy Day, as it is written and not according to what we feel is acceptable?  Of course it does!  GOD is as serious as a heart attack about our KEEPING HIS Holy Seventh Day of COMPLETE REST and about JUDGING us if we profane it.  Other than picking up sticks on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of REST, what else might we do to cause Our GOD of Israel to be angry and “smite” or condemn us to death as HE did with Uzza and the man who was found picking up sticks on HIS Holy Seventh Day Sabbath?  What about CARRYING all the books, charts, video equipment, teaching aids, and other paraphernalia we need for instruction and for the operation of the Conference?  Who are we fooling?  All of us are aware of what it entails to organize and hold a Conference.  It takes a lot of WORK, as well as a lot of energy to sustain each day’s agenda, and I am only making reference to the activities that are scheduled on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath. 

 

What about the hot meals served at the hotels or at the meeting place on the Holy Seventh Day when we are COMMANDED to prepare on the Sixth Day the food to be eaten on the Seventh Day of REST?  What about burdening someone to bear even sandwiches and beverages to drink if food is served at the meeting place?  What about getting from the hotel to the meeting place?  What about driving or being driven to the meeting place?  Think about all the work that transpires on a three-day Conference that includes GOD’s Holy Day of COMPLETE REST. 

 

And when we involve ourselves in all these transactions, we say, “This Conference Stars YHWH King Of The Universe.”  I don’t think so!  As a matter of fact, I know what “Thus Saith the LORD,” and I know better!  According to HIS WORD, HE is not pleased and no more pleased with us than HE was with Uzza, King David, and the others.  I also know that Our GOD is not pleased with our charging a fee to hear HIS WORD. 

 

“The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.”   Micah 3:11

 

I see nothing wrong with Israelites devising ways to raise money, but given the above verse, we should keep GOD’s Ways out of such plans, i.e., don’t make money off of the WORD of GOD.  By all means, create jobs, have dances, parties, sell dinners, plan spring, summer, and winter attractions, and keep them above suspicion, but don’t include a fee if at all GOD’s WORD is involved.  Let us be about following GOD’s Counsel and not that of our own.  And I can’t stress enough that it does not entail charging and paying money to hear HIS Truth.  When our hearts are right, Our GOD prospers our way.  When our hearts are NOT right, there is no peace to the wicked. 

 

When GOD did not pardon what Uzza did while King David and the Israelites were rejoicing before the Holy ONE giving HIM Praise and Glory, then what imaginations of our hearts think we can be pardoned for breaking GOD’s Law of the Seventh Day when HE distinctly COMMANDED us to “ABIDE YE EVERY MAN IN HIS PLACE, LET NO MAN GO OUT OF HIS PLACE ON THE SEVENTH DAY”?  Is this not a COMMANDMENT?  If you agree that it is, then how can we justify leaving our places on this Holy Seventh Day of REST to participate in any kind of service - Conference, Unity Shabbot or other function?  We have more than enough time to schedule get-togethers and have spiritual assemblies.  None of these gatherings should be scheduled for the Holy Seventh Day of COMPLETE REST.  And regardless of what different Messianic leaders or Prophets or Levites might say to justify it, there is NO Scripture to support such meetings on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day.  The Children of Israel did not gather or assemble on the Seventh Day in the Wilderness, and they are dead wrong to do so now!  The GOD of Israel does not change, and HE is not going to change HIS Law of the Holy Seventh Day that dates back to the end of HIS CREATION.   The Law of the Seventh Day Sabbath is to REST and keep the day “Holy.”

 

“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

 

“Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:”   Nehemiah 9:13,14

 

GOD’s Holy Seventh Day is an anniversary in remembrance of the Six Days it took HIM to CREATE the Heavens and the Earth and all things therein.  Therefore, regardless of how much we invest in this day being of spiritual significance in Conferences or other affairs to show forth HIS Praise, we are so wrong to do so.  And it’s simply because Our GOD wants us in our places on HIS Holy Seventh Day Sabbath.  By the way, if the Conference is on a weekend, there is nothing wrong with staying in our hotel rooms when the Sabbath begins and until it’s over. 

 

After GOD COMMANDED us to abide in our places on HIS Holy Seventh Day, as we know, a man thought it was all right to gather sticks.  Today many Israelites feel it’s quite all right to drive cars and use other means of transportation to ASSEMBLE and give Praise and Thanksgiving to Our GOD on HIS Holy Seventh Day, but when we do, we are ever so wrong.  Actually, we are dead wrong!

 

GOD’s LAWS, COMMANDMENTS, and HIS WORD to HIS Prophets speak volumes, and unless GOD stipulated changes, there are no exceptions to HIS Ordinances.   Throughout the “Old Testament,” we find that GOD sent HIS Prophets and instructed them to rise up early to go to the Israelites to urge them to return back to the LAW that HE gave to HIS Prophet Moses.  I only reiterate that which has already been COMMANDED of us.  And we can either accept GOD’s LAWS or contrive justification to circumvent them.  If we are in agreement to accept GOD’s LAWS, then we cannot dismiss the LAW to abide in our places on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of REST.  It’s just that simple.  Throughout GOD’s WORD, we learn that we must follow GOD’s LAW or face repercussions.

 

“But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 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.”   Deuteronomy 30:14 - 16

 

“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

 

Let us not forget that OBEDIENCE to GOD’s LAW should be our highest priority IF it is our intention to return back to our heritage (Deuteronomy 30:1-3 and I Samuel 15:19). 

 

“Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.  Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:  And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.”   Exodus 19:4 – 6

 

“But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.”   Deuteronomy 4:29 – 31

 

“And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.”   Deuteronomy 27:9,10

 

“If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.”   Deuteronomy 28:58 – 61

 

“And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.”   Deuteronomy 30:8 – 10

 

“Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.”   Isaiah 42:23,24

 

Thus, I urge everyone to consider ALL GOD’s COMMANDMENTS, especially in regard to holding Conferences, teaching, and doing any other activities on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of REST since we are supposed to abide in our places on this Holy Seventh Day.  NO ONE is in favor of coming together to sing and give Praise to the Holy ONE of Israel, Our GOD and SAVIOR, more than myself – NO ONE!  But I would make arrangements for such an occasion to be held on any day but GOD’s Seventh Day of REST!  And we have six other days from which to choose for assembling and gathering for Spiritual Reunions. 

 

Enough of seeking the imaginations of our hearts and devising new means and ways to divine and worship Our GOD of Israel.   The GOD of Israel has already established how HE wants us to serve and worship HIM:  according to HIS LAW and with our whole heart and soul and in Righteousness.   Therefore, seek GOD’s Counsel and abide by HIS Ways that HE left written for us to follow.  If revelations and the imaginations of our hearts that we embark upon are not in accord with Isaiah 8:20, then these teachings, persuasions, endeavors, events, and doings are not encouraged by Our GOD of Israel. 

 

“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

 

We must not ever forget that although we are GOD’s Chosen People, “LIFE” is not about the Children of Israel.  The ideal “LIFE” (style) is about keeping GOD’s Laws, Statutes, and Judgments and, in doing so, enjoying peace, happiness, and prosperity in our heritage with Our GOD in our midst!  This “LIFE,” per se, is the panacea, the Divine Utopia that all peoples upon this Earth should seek for keeping GOD’s Ways of Righteousness and serving and worshipping HIM is with great rewards.

 

Like many of us, I seek to return to our heritage, and it will only happen when we decide to be OBEDIENT to GOD’s LAWS that HE gave to HIS Prophet Moses for us to live and do.  So eager we are to be accepted, recognized, and joined with others, but is this what matters?  We must be extremely cautious in all that we do.  Praise is comely only for the upright.  We can have a thousand with us, but if the Holy ONE of Israel is not with us, then, let’s face it, we are lost! 

 

“The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul:

the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart:

the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever:

the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:

sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Moreover by them is thy servant warned:

and in keeping of them there is great reward.”

Psalm 19:7 - 11

 

FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH AND HONOR AND KEEP ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS, LAWS, STATUTES, AND JUDGMENTS!

 

*****

 

“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”  

Exodus 20:2,3

 

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,

and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”  

Deuteronomy 6:4,5

 

*****

 

IT IS IN VAIN TO SEEK PROSPERITY AND RELIEF IN THIS CAPTIVITY!

 

Our afflictions result from the curses Our GOD put upon us, and nothing we do will alleviate this misery in America.  And sooner than later, we will all come to know this truth.  The death, sickness, suffering, and despair among us is too great for us to bear.  Thus, it is incumbent upon us to get Our GOD’s attention to hear our supplications and change the times, in order that we will return to HIM and to our heritage and live according to HIS Ways of Righteousness.  No one lives for the True and Living GOD.  No one is in Jerusalem professing HIS Holy Name and Exalting HIM.  And no one is making the sacrifices and offerings HE loves.  IF things are to change, then we must start the process.  After all, we were formed to show forth GOD’s Praise BUT in the land where HE has ordained Israelites to serve HIM (Ezekiel 20:40,41), and the United States has nothing to do with it!  In America, Our GOD won’t let us forget that we were exiled to serve our enemies in their lands for our great sins against Our Loving GOD that gave us everything and more than that.  When will we wake up to realize the power of our actions.  Our love for our GOD and HIS LAW got us in the land flowing with milk and honey, and our transgressions against HIM got us enslaved under ruthless Gentiles.  BUT if we use our energies to live according to GOD’s Book of the Law and appeal to ONLY HIM for Deliverance, rather than succumb to life in Gentile lands, then we can expect, through GOD’s Blessings, a dramatic change in our lives.

 

“HIS Hand is stretched out still,” and it’s up to us to determine our destiny.  The “Dry Bones” CAN live but only if they will turn to the Holy ONE of Israel and live by HIS Book of the Law, as it is written.

 

“Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people,

and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them:

and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them

from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:”

Isaiah 5:25,26

 

“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;

 

“That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you;

neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

 

“But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.”

Joshua 23:6 - 8

 

“And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.”

Exodus 15:26

 

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O LORD GOD of Israel,

 

Spare the Elders of Israel.  Open their eyes, Father, and cause them to fear you to do your Will.  Have Mercy, O LORD GOD of Israel and cause the world to know your TRUTH.  FORGIVE, Father of Abraham and remember your Covenant with Jacob and your Promises to the Children of Israel.  Remember your Holy City Jerusalem and remember King Solomon’s Prayer for you to hear us when we pray toward your Holy City.  Save us, Father, for ONLY YOU have that power.  SAVE us as you saved our forefathers out of Egypt by your Awesome SUPREMACY and MIGHT.  Don’t leave us to waste away in the lands of our captivity. 

 

In your own words, LORD GOD of Israel, “Let us reason together.”  We need you, LORD GOD, like we’ve never needed you before.  Make haste, Dear Father of Israel,  Save the SEED of Jacob and let us LIVE FOR YOU in Righteousness.

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD

IS MERCIFUL AND GOOD!

 

FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH FOR WE HAVE ONLY HIM, THE ONE MERCIFUL GOD THAT IS TRUE TO HIS WORD AND THAT LISTENS WHEN WE CALL UPON HIM WITH A CONTRITE SPIRIT!

 

 

FEAR AND GLORY THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, GIVE THANKS TO HIM, AND BLESS HIS HOLY NAME!

 

Tziona Yisrael

Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name’s Sake!

 

*****

 

DEAR LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,

 

TAKE BACK your Universe! 

Don't let your enemies and the rebellious triumph over your wondrous WORKS!  This is your planet. 

YOU CREATED it, and you alone deserve ALL the PRAISE and GLORY!

Establish your RIGHTEOUSNESS for a world of Peace, Truth, and Happiness

for your MAJESTY and EXALTATION ALONE!

 

SHOW THE WORLD THAT YOU STILL EXIST!  LORD, TAKE BACK YOUR UNIVERSE!

 

TAKE BACK your Holy Land

YOU PROMISED it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

AND to the SEED of the Children of Israel!

 

TAKE BACK your Holy City, Jerusalem

YOU established it for your Praise and Glory and for your Holy Temple,

Wherein, all Nations will bow to you and worship YOU ALONE.

 

TAKE BACK your Holy People, GOD of Israel, and Save those of us who seek to follow your Book of the Law, as it is written!  Save the Righteous Remnant

 

Save the Great Nation that YOU told Moses about - those special ones who will know only to serve and worship YOU, and who will have it no other way!

Save those of us who seek to follow your Book of the Law, as it is written!  Save the Righteous Remnant

 

LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,

SAVE your Chosen, the SEED of Jacob, The Remnant you are Calling for Your Holy Name's Sake!

 

SAVE US JUST ONE MORE TIME, HEAVENLY FATHER of Abraham!

SAVE US, so that we may Glory in your PRAISE and your EXALTATION!

 

"O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name."   Isaiah 63:17-19

 

LORD GOD of Abraham, be with those of us who have the desires to return to your Lawful Ways, Your Book of the Law, that you gave to your Prophet Moses and give us the courage, wisdom, and power to be re-established in your Holy Name.  Let us show the world that YOU, the Most High GOD, the CREATOR, the Holy ONE of Israel are still in control of this Universe.  Give us a steadfast heart and determination to be True only to YOU and not to falter or waiver from your desires for the Remnant you have called to return, so that YOU may perform your promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Establish that “GREAT NATION” YOU told Moses about, FATHER,    the Israelites who will be totally devoted to YOU, your Laws, Statutes, and Judgments, and who will establish your Holy Kingdom in Truth and in Righteousness.

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL IS JUST AND GOOD!

 

MAY OUR SAVIOR GOD OF ISRAEL BLESS AND BE WITH ALL WHO SEEK HIM

IN TRUTH DURING THIS ROSH CHODESH AND NEW YEAR,

 ALWAYS!

 

Tziona Yisrael,

Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name's Sake!

THE LAWKEEPERS, CO.

www.thelawkeepers.org

 

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“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,

which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek:

and his rest shall be glorious.

 

“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 11:10 - 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

 

O TASTE AND SEE

THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL IS JUST AND GOOD!

 

 *****

 “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

 

“Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:

and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 

And I will give you pastors according to mine heart,

which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

Jeremiah 3:14,15

 

“At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem:

neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 

In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel,

and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land

that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.”

Jeremiah 3:17,18

 

IF WE SINCERELY WANT TO BE A RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE, THEN

WE MUST FOLLOW AND LIVE GOD’S RIGHTEOUS LAW,

AND TO CHANGE EVEN ONE LETTER OF THIS DIVINE LAW

IS TO MINIMIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE AND PURPOSE OF GOD’S

ALREADY DECLARED PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!

 

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid,

that the temple might be built.”

Zechariah 8:9

 

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL

IS RIGHTEOUS, JUST, AND GOOD!

 

LET US FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH ALWAYS TO BE OBEDIENT TO HIS LAW FOR OUR DELIVERANCE!

 

*****

 

 “Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?

prudent, and he shall know them?

for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them:

but the transgressors shall fall therein.”

Hosea 14:9

 

Be wise to know that Our GOD gives us wisdom and knowledge when we keep HIS LAW!

 

“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.

 

“Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say,

Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Deuteronomy 4:5,6

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS JUST AND GOOD!

 

*****

 

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and

it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

Isaiah 55:11

 

“Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice:

for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.”

Isaiah 56:1

 

“The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble;

and he knoweth them that trust in him.”

Nahum 1:7

 

LORD GOD of Israel, remember your Covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and observe that some of us seek you with our whole hearts to accept and live by ALL your Righteous and Glorious LAW; therefore, Heavenly Father, make haste to TAKE BACK YOUR UNIVERSE and re-establish the SEED of your Chosen Ones for your PRAISE and GLORY and for your Holy Name’s Sake.

 

“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

 

“For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same

my name shall be great among the Gentiles;

and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering:

for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.”

Malachi 1:11

 

***

 

“This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

“But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob;

but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.”

Isaiah 43:21,22

 

“Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou,

that thou mayest be justified.”

Isaiah 43:26

 

HEAR, O ISRAEL, the LORD Our GOD is ONE LORD!  And it’s our duty to show forth HIS Praise for indeed this is why we were chosen and formed!

 

“And they shall spring up as among the grass,

as willows by the water courses.

 

“One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD,

 

and surname himself  by the name of Israel.”

Isaiah 44:4,5

 

“I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness,

I declare things that are right.”

Isaiah 45:19

 

 “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:”

Isaiah 55:6

 

We have no time to waste!

 

FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH ALWAYS!

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD, OUR GOD AND ONLY SAVIOR

IS GOOD AND MERCIFUL TO ALL WHO TURN TO AND TRUST IN HIM TO DO HIS WILL!

 

*****

 

LET THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ISRAEL LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THE RIGHTEOUS REMNANT ALWAYS AND FOREVER!

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD

AND THAT THERE IS NO OTHER GOD LIKE UNTO HIM!

 

*******

 

Let us return to the very same GOD that Created Heaven and Earth and that saved our forefathers out of Egypt for HE is the True and Living GOD, and there is none else.

 

“…I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt

will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.”

Hosea 12:9

 

*******

 

“Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey:  for my determination is to gather the nations, that

I may assemble the kingdoms,

to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: 

for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.”

Zephaniah 3:8

 

“I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

 

”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.

 

“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: 18 - 20

 

HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH!

 

FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH ALWAYS!

 

***** 

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD AND

THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT HIM!

 

BLESSED BE THE MERCIFUL MOST HIGH GOD OF ISRAEL, THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE SAVIOR TO THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM!

 

*****

 

“See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me:  I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:  neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.”  

Deuteronomy 32:39

 

“Fear ye not, neither be afraid:  have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it?  Ye are even my witnesses.  Is there a God besides me?  Yea, there is no God; I know not any.”  

Isaiah 44:8

 

“I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins:  return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.”  

Isaiah 44:22

 

For those of us who truly Fear Our True and Living GOD, let us be blessed with answers to our prayers that HE will deliver us out of bondage just as HE saved our forefathers out of bondage down in Egypt.   We also pray that Our Holy ONE will deal with the Rulers of this World and call HIS Chosen Ones home to our heritage where HE will once again live among us and be Our GOD of gods and LORD of lords and where we will be a LIGHT to the World and show forth HIS Praise and Glory in Truth and in Righteousness FOREVER.

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD, OUR GOD OF ISRAEL, IS JUST AND GOOD to all those who Fear and seek HIM in Truth and in Righteousness!!!   The Holy ONE was with Abram, and HE will be with us, as well if we will just turn to HIM with our whole heart.  I am a Witness!

 

Let’s be ready for the Day of the LORD for therein lies our DELIVERANCE and our return to our heritage if we return to Our ONLY LORD and SAVIOR and be obedient to HIS LAW.

 

FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH AND HONOR HIS BOOK OF THE LAW ALWAYS!

 

***

 

“FEARING” YIHOVAH and “OBEDIENCE” to HIS Ways is “Key” to our attaining everything we need to know, do, and accomplish.   And for that, BLESSED BE THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL FOR EVER AND EVER!

 

***

 

I PRAY TO BE JOINED WITH THOSE WHO SEEK YIHOVAH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, BE NUMBERED AMONG HIS SAINTS, AND BE A LIGHT TO THE WORLD FOR HIS FAME AND GLORY.  I PRAY TO BE JOINED WITH THOSE WHO WILL DEMAND THE KEEPING OF GOD’s BOOK OF THE LAW AND WITHOUT ADDING TO OR DIMINISHING FROM IT!

 

BLESSED BE THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ABRAHAM AND MOSES AND EXALTED BE HIS HOLY NAME ABOVE ALL FOREVER AND EVER!

 

GLORY YIHOVAH, CLEAVE TO HIM, AND EXALT HIM AND HIS BOOK OF THE LAW ALWAYS!

 

*****

 

A MESSAGE TO ALL MESSIANICS:

 

 WAIT ON THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL

AND

MAKE HIM YOUR

LORD AND SAVIOR - NOT “MAN.”

(Psalm 25:4,5)

 

 

“And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God,

and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them,

I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.”

Deuteronomy 8:19

 

 

“Whom have I in heaven but thee?

and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.”

Psalm 73:25

 

“Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

 

“O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.

 

“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.”  

Hosea 13:4,9,14

 

 

“Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if  I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.”  

Psalm 40:5

 

“But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

 

“Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:”  

I Kings 9:6,7

 

THEREFORE, FOR WHAT REASON

DO WE NEED jc OR ANY ONE ELSE

BUT YIHOVAH,

THE ALL-MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL?!

 

 

“Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

 

“He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.”    Deuteronomy 10:20,21

 

“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 30:20

 

“Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

 

“Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.”   Psalm 107:31,32

 

“I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:  OPEN THY MOUTH WIDE, AND I WILL FILL IT.”  Psalm 37:10

 

AGAIN AND AGAIN, I ASK:

FOR WHAT REASON DO WE NEED jc

OR ANY ONE ELSE

BUT YIHOVAH

OUR ONLY GOD AND SAVIOR?

 

“And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

 

“To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?”   Deuteronomy 10:12,13

 

“At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.”   Jeremiah 31:1

 

“Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:

and let such as love thy salvation say continually,

Let God be magnified.”

Psalm 70:4

 

“My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day…

“I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

“Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things:

O God, who is like unto thee!”

Psalm 71:15,16,19

 

“And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:  And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above,

or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants

that walk before thee with all their heart:”

I Kings 8:22,23

 

FOR WHAT REASON DO WE NEED jc

OR ANY ONE ELSE

BUT YIHOVAH?

 

“And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.

Exodus 29:46

 

“And God spake all these words, saying,

 

“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

 

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”  

Exodus 20:1 - 3

 

FOR WHAT REASON DO WE NEED jc

OR ANY ONE ELSE

BUT YIHOVAH,

THE LORD OUR GOD THAT SAVED ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT?

 

“…they shall CALL ON MY NAME, and I will hear them:  I will say, It is my people:  and they shall say, The LORD is my God.”   Zechariah 13:9

 

Given all the above Scripture, YOU MESSIANICS should realize that we should not be trusting in or magnifying “man” - not any “man” for the Holy ONE of Israel is a JEALOUS GOD, and HE wants all the Praise and Glory for HIMSELF!  HE ALONE is Our SAVIOR, and there is none else:

 

“I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.”   Isaiah 43:11

 

“Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.”   Isaiah 44:8

 

“Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:  who hath declared this from ancient time?  who hath told it from that time?  have not I the LORD?  And there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

 

“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”   Isaiah 45:21,22

 

FOR WHAT REASON DO WE NEED jc OR ANY ONE ELSE

BUT YIHOVAH?

 

Our Righteous GOD gave us HIS Holy Book of the Law – not the “New Testament” that was established by “man” to support his man-made, very well organized and deceptive religion.

 

WE DO NOT NEED jc!!!

 

The TEACHINGS of the GOD of Israel are found in HIS Book of the Law, and in no way do HIS Teachings even parallel those of jc.  As a matter of fact, the “New Testament” and the teachings of jc were specifically written and embellished to REPLACE GOD’s Laws, Statutes, and Judgments - hence, the reason for the word “New” in the title of this book! 

 

This is one of the greatest sins one can commit against the Most High GOD of Israel.  Not only is GOD’s Law to be kept “to a thousand generations” and “FOR EVERMORE” (Deuteronomy 7:9; II Kings 17:37), but no one can add to or diminish from all that the GOD of Israel has COMMANDED that we should observe to DO (Deuteronomy 12:32)! 

 

Equally as important, “Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them, And all the people shall say, Amen” (Deuteronomy 27:26).  Perhaps jc wasn’t aware of this Law!

 

The “New Testament” and this “man” jc have not only added to GOD’s WORD, but they have disclaimed GOD’s Ordinances and changed them altogether!

 

“The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.”   Isaiah 24:4 - 6  

 

Every man/woman who serves and worships the All-Mighty GOD of Israel knows to Exalt ONLY HIM and HIS Book of the Law, for through meditating in this Righteous Book, one is made wise and, therefore, learns of GOD’s Truth and magnifies it and nothing else!

 

“And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.   Deuteronomy 32:4

 

“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 shal make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”   Joshua 1:7,8

 

Equally important, the wise will confirm that there is but ONE GOD, the CREATOR, and there is none else!

 

“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.”   Isaiah 43:10

 

“I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

 

“That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I amthe LORD, and there is none else.”   Isaiah 45:5,6

 

“But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

 

“Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.”   Jeremiah 10:10,11

 

Finally, when we realize that NO ONE can deliver out of GOD’s Hand, i.e., reverse the CURSES HE put on the Nation of Israel (or anyone else for that matter), then we will understand why the man, jc, is a farce, and thus, was not able to save the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel,” or establish GOD’s Kingdom.  Thus, we also realize why the writers of the “New Testament” conveniently wrote jc completely out of the picture and into a false doctrine and forged sense of hope that lies in the hearts of naïve and badly informed believers! 

 

The Holy ONE of Israel wants HIS People to SERVE, TRUST, BELIEVE, HOPE, AND WORSHIP ONLY HIM!  AND HE WILL HAVE IT NO OTHER WAY!

 

“The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.”   Nahum 1:7

 

WE NEED THE SAME GOD THAT SAVED THE NATION OF ISRAEL

OUT OF EGYPT

TO ONCE AGAIN

DELIVER US OUT OF OUR ENEMIES’ LANDS!!!

 

“And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,

and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me,

saith the LORD.

 

“And also I have withholden the rain from you,

when there were yet three months to the harvest:

and I caused it to rain upon one city,

and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon,

and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

 

“So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water;

but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me,

saith the LORD.

 

“I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased,

the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me,

saith the LORD.

 

“I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses;

and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils:

yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

 

“I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning:

yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.”

Amos 4:6  – 11

 

“For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel,

Seek ye me, and ye shall live

 

“Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.”

Amos 5:4,6

 

“The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.”

Amos 4:2

 

“The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

 

“Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

 

“Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,

saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.”

Amos 5:2,16,27

(See also Jeremiah 30:13)

 

Why didn’t jc know about Amos’ PROPHECIES?  Why didn’t he know that GOD had cursed the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel” (Matt.15:24), and that it would be impossible to SAVE them?  And why didn’t he know that we would still be UNSAVED unto this day?!   I’ll tell you why.  When the tale was woven to establish this false religion, X-tianity, the writers were so busy fabricating what they thought would be a foolproof theology that they neglected to do their homework!  They should have researched what “Thus Saith the LORD,” first!  How long will intelligent people continue to believe in this “man” jc?

 

WE DO NOT NEED jc! 

 

WE NEED THE GOD OF ABRAHAM!

 

“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 brougt 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 unto their land

that I gave unto their fathers.”

Jeremiah 16:14,15

 

“Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name:  bring an offering,

and come before him:  worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. 

FEAR BEFORE HIM ALL THE EARTH…”

I Chronicles 16:29,30

 

If the Holy ONE of Israel DECLARED that there is NONE TO PLEAD OUR CAUSE (Jeremiah 30:13), then of what value was jc???  Obviously, this man was/is of no value to the Children of Israel at all.  Hence, again and again I urge Messianics to turn to the GOD of Israel and believe, hope, and trust in ONLY HIM for HE is the ONLY ONE that has proven HIMSELF to be able to truly SAVE HIS People out of the hands of their enemies.

 

O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD

AND THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL!

 

Tziona Yisrael,

Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name’s Sake

 

P.S.

 

I live to Exalt the Most High GOD of Israel and HIS Righteous Book of the Law and all because returning to HIM and serving and worshipping HIM (when our forefathers wouldn’t) will cause Our GOD and SAVIOR to return back to us, HIS Chosen People.  Therefore, the more Israelites involved in this great Mission to return to the Holy ONE and HIS Law, the sooner the GOD’s TRUTH will be disseminated around the world and the sooner the True and Living GOD will be revealed, magnified, and PRAISED by all (Isaiah 43:21).  And LORD knows this “man” jc, or whatever people choose to call him, will have nothing to do with bringing about this disclosure or the Redemption and Deliverance from all the perils upon the SEED of the Children of Israel, as well as the rest of the nations on this Earth for that matter.   And the reason is that the man jc, in the “NT,” is too busy shedding light on himself to give Praise and Glory to the Most High GOD of Israel, which is all that this GOD wanted most from HIS Chosen People.

 

It should be realized that GOD did not let Samuel’s words fall to the ground, i.e., everything Samuel said came to pass (I Samuel 3:19).  But this was not the case with the “man” jc, and yet he was/is worshipped and magnified as if he were the GOD of this Universe.   And indeed many people think that he is.  But if he is a god or if he is “the son of God,” then certainly he should have known that GOD’s Kingdom was NOT at hand (Matthew 10:5 - 7) – a blunder from which he will never recover! 

 

And since jc could not make this significant call that would have proven his identity and godliness, the wise should know that he is as much a lying prophet as was Hananiah who disputed Jeremiah’s prophecy that the Tribe of Judah would be in Babylonian captivity for seventy years.  His claim was that they would be captives for only two years rather than seventy.  Consequently, Hananiah paid with his life for making the Judahites “trust in a lie” (Jeremiah 28th Chapter).

 

As well, we should give more thought to the fact that “there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face” (Deuteronomy 34:10).  That kind of leaves the “Son of God” out in the cold; wouldn’t you say?

 

And finally, GOD said, “The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls:  because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to my people, my chosen” (Isaiah 43:20).  There’s much to be gleaned from this passage!  But suffice it to say that the beasts of the field know well the identity of the CREATOR, and they know even better that this All-Mighty GOD is the ONLY ONE that deserves ALL THE GLORY.  Unfortunately, these days, when there is a drought, severe storm, flooding, waters in the desert or forest (lightning) fires, crippling dust storms and famine, people, not the beasts of the field, but PEOPLE will credit “Mother Nature” for these weather patterns and not make the slightest connection to the Most High GOD.

 

“That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”   Isaiah 45:6,7

 

However, for sure great afflictions will cause many people and Nations to turn to the GOD with the OMNIPOTENCE to SAVE and DELIVER out of harms way, and this will be the GOD they will serve and worship (Hosea 5:15).  I don’t think it’s necessary to reveal that this GOD will be the same GOD that SAVED the Children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage!

 

“Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.”  

Psalm 96:12,13

 

“What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?  Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?  Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;”   Psalm 114:5 – 7

 

The WISE will understand!

 

FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH ALWAYS!

 

P.P.S.

 

LORD, You were our help during Biblical days, and you did not pass the buck.  You were a Voice and a genuine Worker for us, and from the fruits of your labors our trifling forefathers were indeed saved and redeemed many times from the hands of their enemies, albeit in vain to perpetuate many sins against you.   But things have changed somewhat, and many of us have returned to you.  Therefore, once again, LORD GOD of Israel, save those of us who believe and trust in ONLY YOU to do your Will, but this time save us from the four corners of this Earth for your Holy Name’s Sake.

 

“When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:  Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.”   I Kings 8:33,34

 

“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

 

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL!  IT WILL HAPPEN!!!

 

*****

 

“Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

 

“And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob,

and I will look for him.”  

Isaiah 8:16,17

 

Let us put the Most High GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel back into our lives, our hearts, our thoughts, and in everything that we do.  Focusing on HIM and HIS Ways, as we come and go in our daily routines is ever so helpful in maintaining healthy spirits and acquiring strength and knowledge of HIS Paths of Righteousness.   This attitude certainly helps in making us meek, albeit but not weak, ALL PRAISES DUE TO THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.

 

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.”   Zechariah 8:9

 

“Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him

while he is near:”

Isaiah 55:6

 

*****

 

“I will declare thy name unto my brethren: 

in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.”  

Psalm 22:22

 

LET US EXALT, PRAISE, AND SANCTIFY THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL IN TRUTH AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE THE WORLD FOREVERMORE!  AND LET US MAGNIFY HIS LAW, WHICH IS OUR ONLY TICKET INTO HIS KINGDOM, SO THAT ALL PEOPLES WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE AND WORSHIP KNOW THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ABRAHAM AND MOSES AND TO SERVE AND WORSHIP HIM ACCORDING TO HIS WORD AND HIS WILL!

 

*****

EXPOUNDING ON WHEN THE CREATOR’s 24-HOUR DAY BEGINS:

 

I happen to be talking with my husband regarding when each new day begins.  And his input was much like that of Brother Kweli’s.  In essence, he said:

 

In The BEGINNING there was only “Darkness.”  Therefore, because “Darkness” preceded “Light,” it stands to reason why the “darkness,” which was initially first, begins the new day and not the “morning.” 

 

“In the beginning…darkness was upon the face of the deep…  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”   Genesis 1:1 - 3

 

In my opinion, adding to this belief is the CREATOR’s pronouncement of the use of “Darkness,” or rather evening, when ending and beginning each new day:

 

“…And the evening and the morning were the second day.

 

“…And the evening and the morning were the third day.

 

“…And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

 

“…And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

 

“…And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”   Genesis1:8 - 31

 

Brother Kweli made a strong point regarding this most important matter, for if we cannot recognize when to begin our 24-hour day, how then can we observe GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbaths to rest and be refreshed, and how then are we to observe HIS Holy Feast Days, as we are Commanded?  Hence, it behooves us to read GOD’s WORD and take note of all the Scriptures as to when our forefathers observed each new day.  The information is there, if we will only accept it.  There are several specific passages that cannot be ignored. 

 

Genesis First Chapter is already suggested.  Another passage is in Judges where Samson tells the Philistines to solve his riddle “within seven days.”  And “on the Seventh Day before the sun went down,” the Philistines told him the meaning of his riddle.  Point being that the Philistines knew that had they waited until AFTER sundown, then they would have been in the Eighth Day and too late to receive the reward Samson had promised them (Judges 14th Chapter).

 

Another one is in Nehemiah 13th Chapter.  Nehemiah is angered by people profaning the Holy Seventh Day by selling their wares to the stiffnecked Israelites who did not hesitate to buy them.  So, “when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark BEFORE THE SABBATH,” Nehemiah “commanded that the gates should be shut…”  Hence, Nehemiah wanted to prepare for the impending Holy Seventh Day to be sure that no sins would be committed after sundown, which is when the Sabbath or Seventh Day would obviously begin.  Again, this is more evidence that the new day begins at sundown/evening/darkness. 

 

I would be remiss if I did not also include the fact that Scripture is clear on Passover and the Day of Atonement beginning in the evening at sundown. 

 

PASSOVER:   In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.”   Exodus 12:18

 

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT:   It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.”   Leviticus23:32 

 

The GOD of Israel is and always has been consistent in teaching us HIS Commandments.  HE would not tell us to begin some Holy Days at sundown and to begin others in the morning.  There is nothing intelligent about such a directive – only confusion. 

 

T.Y., Editor

 

*****

 

Poetry and Prose Corner With A Message:

 

OUR DESTINY AWAITS US

But we must seriously pursue it!

 

In the BEGINNING of time, the CREATOR instituted HIS Righteous Plan,

Marvelous in consistency and designed to produce the virtuous man.

 

We must be steadfast to cherish all that matters,

To put not only bread but GOD’s Ways on our platters.

 

We have to live by HIS Divine Walk of Life,

Otherwise we will never end this horrific strife.

 

Our destiny awaits us, but we must seriously pursue it,

To serve and worship Our CREATOR lawfully with our heart to wit.

 

The future State of Israel will be bound in GOD’s HAND,

With HIS Angels trumpeting HIS arrival back to HIS Glorious Land.

 

Only those who sincerely cleave to HIM will marvel at HIS new globe,

And experience the taste of milk, peace, and honey to freely probe.

 

Our destiny awaits us, but we must seriously pursue it,

To serve and worship Our CREATOR lawfully with our heart to wit.

 

These latter days are full of Jacob’s Troubles and Judgment,

Hence, we must deliver every man his soul or suffer the consequence.

 

Turning to GOD’s Righteous LAWS that HE provided the world initially,

Have not changed one iota and are still written in stone forever to be.

 

Our destiny awaits us, but we must seriously pursue it,

To serve and worship Our CREATOR lawfully with our heart to wit.

 

Only the Nation of Israel was chosen to Magnify and Exalt the CREATOR GOD,

HE determined Israel’s Walk of Life and anything else is deemed odd.

 

Those Israelites who Fear this Omnipotent GOD and observe HIS LAW,

Will be gathered in this SECOND EXODUS and returned in AWE.

 

Our destiny awaits us, but we must seriously pursue it,

And beseech ONLY the GOD of Abraham with fortitude to never quit.

 

HE is Our GOD, Our SAVIOR, Our ROCK, and Our ALL,

Our LIFE, Our PROTECTOR, Our ETERNAL.

 

Our destiny is with Our GOD of Israel, the Holy ONE,

Therefore, we must decide to FEAR and make HIM Our FATHER in UNISON.

 

By

 

Tziona Yisrael

(March 8, 2007)

 

“And the LORD shall be king over all the earth:

in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.”

Zechariah 14:9

 

Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory,

I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

 

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.”

Isaiah 43:7,21

 

“Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever,

the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.”

Isaiah 60:21

 

***

 

QUESTIONS OF WHY

BUT NO ANSWERS

 

Man’s greatest faculty is his brain.  This organ cannot be duplicated, as can prostheses,

i.e., artificial arms and legs, etc.  Without fail our talented brain tells us when to eat,

when to go to the bathroom, when to fear, and when to do a host of other necessities,

but for some reason it does not ensure that we seek the POWER that made us,

that gave us existence on this Earth, and that in The BEGINNING gave us life. 

Instead, it gives us the free will to make choices and to reason and to do as we please.

 

Why won’t Israelites want for themselves the ONLY GOD ever

to choose them for HIMSELF to be HIS “Peculiar” but very extraordinary People?

 

Why won’t we all revere, obey, and be in awe of the ONE GOD that made us?

 

After seeing all of GOD’s Great Miracles and Acts,

why would the Children of Israel forsake HIM, even altogether for false gods?

 

After witnessing HIS Wrath upon the disobedient and upon idolaters,

what made our forefathers continue to commit the worst of all sins and abominations

against HIM - the ONE True and Living GOD of Israel

that proved HIMSELF countless times to be their GOD and the ONLY GOD?

 

 From reading about GOD’s Hand in The Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah,

and the total destruction of HIS Holy City, Jerusalem, and HIS Holy Land

why would Israelites of all people defy this CREATOR GOD for pursuit of ideals

that go against the Ways of this All-Mighty GOD

knowing the consequences of doing the things that HE hates? 

 

Why, if we know that we are destined to fail for wandering from GOD’s Book of the Law,

do we still seek after the imaginations of our wayward hearts?

 

How can we know of promised and assured suffering and demise under our enemies and

still reject the CREATOR GOD of Israel, when only HE is in a position to help us?

 

After crying to the GOD of Israel for Deliverance and seeing HIS Merciful Kindness,

what makes us not turn to HIM with our whole heart and soul to do HIS Will?

 

Why do Israelites today still repeat the same sins of our forefathers,

even after learning that their transgressions

are the reasons for our savage troubles and tribulations?

 

Is it because, like our forefathers, we still do not fear Our GOD?

 

Is it because, we still are not believers?

 

We know that it was ONLY the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel that

SAVED the Children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage, but yet we continue to reject HIM. 

 

WHY, WHY, WHY, ISRAEL, WHY?

 

Why, transgress against the CREATOR when all HE asks are that we make HIM Our GOD

and be obedient to HIS Ways of Righteousness – a Walk of Life

that promises to keep us healthy and prosperous?

 

Knowing of HIS Wonderful Promises to provide HIS Peace and Happiness

to all who seek to follow HIM, why would people ignore this Omnipotent GOD of Israel

that accepts all peoples who turn to HIM to walk HIS Paths of Righteousness?

 

Do I really want to know the answers to all these questions?

 

Or would it be wiser just to want to know the True GOD

and to understand that which HE deems is necessary for us all to live and do?

 

TOO MANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS

 

Our GOD of Israel bring us out of darkness before it is too late!

 

Tziona

 

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“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more:

the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

 

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it;

but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores:

they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

 

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

 

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,

as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

 

Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant,

we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”

Isaiah 1:5 - 9

 

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MAY THE WORLD SOON LEARN THE TRUTH

REGARDING THE ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD

 

THAT CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH

FOR HIS FAME AND GLORY!

 

AND MAY ALL NATIONS FEAR HIM, SERVE HIM, AND WORSHIP HIM FOR HIS POWER TO ESTABLISH GENUINE PEACE ON THIS EARTH – HIS PEACE!

 

 

HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH!

 

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Your Poetry and Prose EXALTING the Holy ONE of Israel are most welcome.  Please send them to Afraqueen@AOL.COM for publishing in The LawKeepers JOURNAL.  We only ask that they be in Exaltation of the Most High GOD of Israel.

 

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“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.”

Zephaniah 3:14,17

 

Let us mold our hearts and future NOW and succeed where our forefathers failed.  Let us be obedient to Our Holy ONE of Israel and live and do HIS Book of the Law AS IT IS WRITTEN IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.  Let us turn to Our GOD of Israel with our whole heart and soul and cause HIM to see that this time, we will keep our promise to make HIM Our ONE and ONLY GOD in Truth and serve HIM according to HIS Ways and Paths of Righteousness that HE decreed to HIS Prophet Moses!

 

“And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

 

“And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

 

“That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

 

“If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:”

Deuteronomy 30:1 - 4

 

“For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

 

“Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

 

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

 

“And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

 

“And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

 

“I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

 

“And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

 

“Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.”   Ezekiel 36:24 - 31

 

“Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.”   Micah 7:20

 

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“Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:  behold, your God will come with vengeance even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.

 

“And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion

with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: 

they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

Isaiah 35:4,10

 

“For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: 

I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

 

“Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee:  therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

 

“Fear not: for I am with thee: 

I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

 

“I will say to the north, Give up:  and to the south, Keep not back: 

bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;”

Isaiah 43:3 – 6

 

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION (FYI):

 

LET US ALL PROTEST THIS OBVIOUS RACIST JUDGMENT

ON SHAQUANDA COTTON!

 

By Tracy Stokes, BET.com News Staff & Wire Services

 

Posted March 28, 2007 – In Paris, Texas, last year, a 14-year-old White girl burns down her family's home. Her punishment? Probation. In the same town three months later, a 15-year-old Black girl, Shaquanda Cotton, is sentenced to seven years in prison for pushing a hall monitor at her high school.

 

Shaquanda had no prior arrests, and the monitor, a 58-year-old teacher's aide, was not hurt, according to Black leaders in the northeast Texas town of about 26,000 residents.  But in March 2006, the same judge, Lamar County Judge Chuck Superville, who let the White teenage girl go on probation, convicted Shaquanda of  "assault on a public servant" and sent her to prison at least until she turns 21.

 

Officials at the Texas Youth Commission declined to discuss the case with BET.com, citing Texas law.

 

"State law forbids us from acknowledging whether we have any youths are in our system, despite the 50 million issues of print that's been run," said Jim Hurley, a spokesman for the Texas Youth Commission. "We'd have to break the law to talk about it."

 

Civil Rights Uproar

While the U.S. Department of Education is investigating the incident, the case has civil rights groups in an uproar.

 

"I don't understand the judge's rationale for his decision," Dr. Howard Anderson, president of the San Antonio Branch of the NAACP, told BET.com.

 

In highlighting what he called an egregious miscarriage of justice in a town with a long history of civil rights abuses, Anderson pointed to the case of the 14-year-old convicted arson (whose name was not released because of her age), who was slapped with probation, and the case of a 19-year-old White man in Paris, convicted of killing a 54-year-old Black woman and her 3-year-old grandson with his truck. The latter, he said, was also sentenced to probation and told to send the family a Christmas card every year.

 

"Then you have Shaquanda's case," Anderson said. "She pushed a hall monitor, and she gets seven years confinement? If I look at all three of these sentences, and I'm not a lawyer, I have to wonder what the judicial system is doing.  In this particular case, what is this judge doing?"

 

Gary Bledsoe, an Austin attorney who heads the state NAACP branch, told BET.com that Shaquanda was merely trying to defend herself.

 

"All she (Shaquanda) did was grab the aide to prevent a strike," Bledsoe said.  "It's like they are sending a signal to Black folks in Paris that you stay in your place in this community, in the shadows, intimidated."

 

Sad History

And keeping Blacks in their place is nothing new in Paris, say leaders, who remind that it's the site of the first highly publicized lynching of a Black by a large White mob. In 1893, fugitive Henry White was captured in Arkansas and brought to Paris, where he was tortured and burned alive on a train bed as more than 10,000 angry townsfolk cheered and jeered.

 

Activists say that the Shaquanda sentence is nothing more than a modern-day lynching.

 

Cotton has been incarcerated at a youth prison in Brownwood, Texas, for the last year on a sentence that could run until her 21st birthday. But like many of the other youths in the system, she is eligible to earn early release if she achieves certain social, behavioral and educational milestones while in prison.

 

But according to The Chicago Tribune, officials at the Ron Jackson Correctional Complex repeatedly have extended Shaquanda's sentence because she refuses to admit guilt and because she reportedly was found with contraband in her cell – an extra pair of socks.

 

"She's not admitting any guilt, because she doesn't feel that she did anything," Anderson told BET.com. "Not to mention, who saw the pushing, if it did occur?"


Cotton's mother, Creola, who
Anderson describes as "strong-willed," said her daughter was singled out because she accused the school district of racism on several occasions. 

 

In fact, 12 discrimination complaints have been filed against the Paris Independent School District in recent years. District officials dispute the charges, but the U.S. Department of Education, which is still investigating the case, has reportedly asked the U.S. Department of Justice to get involved.

 

In 1998, Paris, Texas, was named the "Best Small Town in Texas" by Kevin Heubusch in his book The New Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities.

 

SUGGESTED LETTER:

Dear Elected Official,

I am writing to request your intervention on behalf of Shaquanda Cotton. She is a 15-year-old African-American teenager from Paris, Texas, who is serving a seven-year prison term for pushing a hall monitor at her high school in 2005. No injuries were reported in the incident.

Lamar County Judge Hon. M.C. Superville sentenced Cotton in 2006 to an indefinite term at Texas' Ron Jackson Correctional Complex. The girl, who was 14 when she was imprisoned and has no prior arrests, has to now live with violent juveniles with serious felony convictions. 

Both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice are conducting investigations into several allegations of discrimination against the girl's school district, says Cotton's mother. She has filed a complaint of her own against the school. Highlighting the unfairness in this case is another verdict: Judge Superville sentenced a White teenager to probation for arson, a much more serious offense.

The Cotton family reports that she is depressed and has attempted to hurt herself three times in prison. A guard at the facility where she is serving her sentence has also been accused of molestation.

Please take the time to at least investigate this case and decide if  a seven-year sentence is indeed unusual and extreme under the circumstances stated. If so, please stand up in the name of justice and fairness for Shaquanda and, as a result, all of America's children.

Join the many supporters of Shaquanda Cotton across the country trying to bring this teenager back home. It is our responsibility as Americans to fight for an impartial judicial system that we can trust will ensure the rights and well-being of all of our citizens.

Counting on Your Support,

Sign Your Name

H  E  R  E…

 

If you are interested in reaching out to Shaquanda please write directly to her at the address below:

She also receives mail at this address:
Ron Jackson Correctional Complex,
Unit 2, Dorm 4
P.O. Box 872
Brownwood, Texas 76804

1125308

Protest letters can also be sent to Judge Chuck Superville, who handed down the sentence at the address below:

Honorable M.C. (Chuck) Superville, Jr., Judge
Lamar County Courthouse
119 North Main
Paris, TX 75460
Phone # 903-737-2410
Fax # 903-785-3858


C. Jackie Jackson
Executive Director
Girls Incorporated of the Greater Peninsula
1300 Thomas Street, Suite C
Hampton, Virginia 23669
"Inspiring all girls to be strong, smart & bold"
(757) 722-6248 (phone)
(757) 722-6249 (fax)
www.girlsinc.org (national site)
www.girlsincgreaterpen.org (local)

 Circulated by our ever informed Sister Naaomi baht Lewi

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Squalor and shrinking hope for Ethiopian Jews

 

By Elana Ringler

Tue Mar 27, 7:37 PM ET

 

Thousands of Ethiopians who say their Jewish roots entitle them to live in Israel are stuck in a squalid camp in Ethiopia, their dream of a promised land fading as Israel scrutinizes their family ties.

 

Known as "Falashas Mura," the descendants of Ethiopian Jews have reverted to Judaism since their late 18th and 19th century forbears converted to Christianity, sometimes under duress.

 

Tens of thousands of practicing Ethiopian Jews or Falashas -- which means "outsiders" in Ethiopia's Amharic language -- were airlifted to Israel in dramatic, top-secret operations in the 1980s and 1990s after a rabbinical ruling that they were direct descendants of the biblical Jewish Dan tribe.

 

By 1998, Israel said it had brought all of Ethiopia's Jews home to the Jewish state but another rabbinical ruling that year complicated matters by also recognizing as Jews those Falashas Mura -- converted outsiders -- who revert to Judaism.

 

That spawned a special law allowing Falashas Mura with immediate relatives in Israel to immigrate, stopping short of recognizing them under the law of return' which gives Israeli citizenship to any Jew from anywhere in the world.

 

"Basically we are speaking about a law which is aimed at family unifications, I don't know of any similar law, any similar system, worldwide," said Israel's Ambassador to Ethiopia, Yaacov Amitai.

Since the law was passed small numbers of Falashas Mura every month have been emigrating to Israel.

 

But now Israel -- a country built on immigration which says it houses about 110,000 Israelis of Ethiopian descent -- has finalized a list of the last to be brought in.

 

That would leave thousands -- estimates range from 8,000 to 16,000 -- in Gondar's sprawling, filthy camp and the surrounding villages.

 

Many people in the camps have been waiting for years in cramped mud shacks with no running water or basic sanitation, depending on food donations to survive. Families have been split up, only some of their number allowed into Israel.

 

Israel has criticized the volunteer groups and charities that have been supporting the camp at Gondar, saying they raised false hopes for thousands of Ethiopians -- many of whom have no connection with the Falashas.

 

But the camps represent a glimmer of hope for the thousands who have left their villages in search of a better life.

 

"I want to go to Israel and change my life, I'm not happy here," said 9-year-old Maskaram Achinef, helping her mother sort through grain on the dusty ground, an open sewer flowing just meters away.

 

"I need a clean house and a good school. This is what will make me happy."

 

She is lucky. After seven years in the camp her family recently heard they will be allowed to emigrate before the end of next year. Many of their neighbors are still waiting: the Interior Ministry has said more than 6,000 'Falashas Mura' will be allowed in by the end of 2008.

 

But those who are left face an uncertain future in Ethiopia -- living on the margins of society in the Horn of Africa's grinding cycle of war and famine -- because they fail to meet Israel's current definition of who is a Jew and of who has a right to live in the Holy Land.

 

DOUBLE STANDARDS?

 

The Falashas Mura have vocal supporters in Israel, including religious groups and human rights campaigners, who are lobbying for an accelerated immigration program like the one for hundreds of thousands of Russian immigrants in the early 1990s.

 

Some have accused the Israeli government of racist double standards for encouraging Russians to immigrate, while complicating and delaying the Ethiopians' entry.

 

But senior Ethiopian leaders in Israel support a swift end to the Falashas Mura immigration, amid concerns that some have feigned conversion to Judaism -- or arranged marriages of convenience -- for the chance to move to Israel.

 

"Those that do not belong religiously we have no intention, as Ethiopian Jews, to bring them to the state of Israel because afterwards it will create social, religious problems amongst ourselves," said Adiso Masala, a former Israeli legislator who heads the Ethiopian Immigrants Association.

 

"It is not enough to airlift people in planes to Israel while those that have immigrated have not yet been absorbed," said Masala, referring to the hardships and social exclusion felt by many in the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel.

 

HOPE AND ANGER

 

Some of the Falashas Mura whose names do not appear on the list of approved immigrants still hope a change in Israel's political or religious leadership could herald a policy review.

 

But that hope easily turns to anger. Representatives from Israel's Interior Ministry were chased away from the Falashas Mura compound in Addis Ababa last month as they tried to hand-deliver rejection letters to immigration applicants.

 

The Falashas have been an isolated group ever since they emerged in the region in pre-Christian times.

 

Ancient records showed they were barred from owning land and hardly ever married outside the community. In 1668, the country's then Emperor Yohannes I issued a decree ordering them to live apart from Christians in their own village.

 

In modern times the legal constraints disappeared but the separation persisted. Mulugeta Kebede, an Ethiopian army veteran who now works as a guard, said: "Nobody hated them. But they kept apart from us. They never married a Christian or a Muslim."

 

Popular feelings about the group never descended to anti-Semitism, mainly because most Ethiopians outside the Falasha community also claim an ancestral link to Israel.

 

According to legend, Ethiopia's Queen of Sheba visited Israel's King Solomon and had a son with him. The son went back to Ethiopia to become the country's first Emperor, and every feudal leader since has traced a blood link back to the wise king of Israel.

 

Whatever their ancient connections, many people in the camp in Gondar fear this bad news from Israel is only the beginning: they are concerned by reports that Ethiopian officials are considering shutting it down.

 

Without the possibility of one day immigrating to Israel they face life on the margins -- forever outsiders in Ethiopia.

 

(Additional reporting by Andrew Heavens in Addis Ababa)

 

www.reuters.com

 

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READING FOR THE SOUL…

 

SEEK THE LORD AND HIS STRENGTH, SEEK HIS FACE CONTINUALLY

 

“So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.  And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.  And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.

 

And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:  Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;  Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God. Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

 

Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.  Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.  Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.  Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually. Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

 

O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.  Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;  Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac; And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;

 

When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.  And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;  He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,  Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

 

Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations. For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.

 

For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens. Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.

 

Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.  Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

 

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.

 

Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.

 

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

 

And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.  Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.

 

So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required: And Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters: And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon, To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel; And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever; And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.

 

And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.”  

I Chronicles Sixteenth Chapter

 

 

SEEK THE LORD…SEEK HIS FACE EVERMORE

 

“O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

 

Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore. Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen. He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth. He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

 

Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

 

He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

 

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:  Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:  Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.  The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

 

Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies. He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants. He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

 

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings. He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts. He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land. He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts. He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number, And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

 

He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

 

He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night. The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

 

For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness: And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people; That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.”   Psalm One hundred fifth

 

 

THEY FORGAT GOD THEIR SAVIOUR,

WHICH HAD DONE GREAT THINGS IN EGYPT

 

“Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.  Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?

 

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

 

Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation; That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

 

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

 

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.  Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

 

He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

 

Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

 

They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

 

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

 

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

 

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;  Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

 

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

 

They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

 

Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed. And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

 

They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

 

They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

 

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

 

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:  And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.  He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

 

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.  Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.”  

Psalm One hundred sixth

 

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HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH,

FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER!!!

 

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O Israel, there is hope that we will return, but we must first

Fear the Holy ONE of Israel to live before HIM in Righteousness

and to be obedient to HIS LAW without adding new ways to serve

the ONLY GOD capable of SAVING the House of Israel!

 

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O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL

IS JUST AND GOOD!

 

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“Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land,

and verily thou shalt be fed.

 

“Delight thyself also in the LORD; and

HE SHALL GIVE THEE THE DESIRES OF THINE HEART.”

Psalm 37:3

 

“Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit,

 

WHICH LEADETH THEE BY THE WAY THAT

THOU SHOULDEST GO.”

Isaiah 48:17

 

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The All-Mighty GOD of Abraham and Moses did not choose another people but fulfilled all that HE said HE would do for our forefathers.  HE kept HIS promises to the Biblical Israelites and made a name for them and for HIMSELF in the process, AND HE WILL DO IT AGAIN for this Holy ONE of Israel does not lie!

 

“We are thine: thou never barest rule over them;

they were not called by thy name.”

Isaiah 63:19

 

“My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.”

Psalm 121:2

 

“Give us help from trouble:  for vain is the help of man.

 

“Through God we shall do valiantly:  for he it is that shall

tread down our enemies.”

Psalm 108:12,13

 

“For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.”

Jeremiah 32:42

 

BLESSED BE THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB FOREVER AND EVER!

 

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PARENTS’ AND CHILDREN’S CORNER…

 

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,

he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

 

The works in this section of the JOURNAL are for our children.  I am delighted to include them, as these activities will serve to enlighten our youth about the “Old Testament” GOD of Israel and HIS concern for HIS Ways of Righteousness and for HIS Love for HIS People.  I encourage parents to read and interact with their children as they make efforts to answer the questions, complete the Word Search, and read the stories in this section.  Now, monthly, we really do have appropriate literature and activities for our Hebrew Israelite children.  In time, I shall add other things for them to do that will increase their knowledge and make learning fun. 

 

Feel free to copy this section and staple it together in the form of a booklet.  Take the time to design a cover page (even using Clip Art) and TYPE your child’s name at the bottom.  Make the activities fun and challenging as you get involved with them.

 

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“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,

and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

 

“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 6:4 – 7

 

“The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever,

that we may do all the words of this law.”

Deuteronomy 29:29

 

“Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

 

“And that their children, which have not known any thing,

may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land

whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.”

Deuteronomy 31:12,13

 

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 “OLD TESTAMENT” WORD SEARCH

 

FIND WORDS listed in Deuteronomy 30th Chapter…

 

BLESSING                   SWEAR                        CALL TO MIND

NATIONS                     DRIVEN                        RETURN TO YAH

OBEY                            ALL I COMMAND        THEE

HEART                         SOUL                            TURN CAPTIVITY

COMPASSION            GATHER                      SCATTERED

FETCH                          DAY                               FATHERS

MULTIPLY THEE        LOVE THE LORD        LIVE

CURSE                         ENEMIES                     HATE

YAH                               MAKE THEE                PLENTEOUS

FRUIT                           BODY                            CATTLE

LAND                            YAH REJOICE             HERKEN

KEEP                            COMMANDMENTS     STATUTES

LOVE YAH                   WALK IN                      HIS WAYS

CLEAVE                       UNTO HIM                    THY LIFE                     

 

 

T A L L I C O M M A N D B S E T H M

U C D R O L E H T E V O L O V E A U

R A E N S C S E I M E N E U A Y Y L

N L C A R A R V U K E I S L E A O T

C L I T E T U I R E H K S D L H T P

A T O I H T C L F E T L I R C I N L

P O J O T L D I W P L A N I G S R Y

T M E N A E E T Y L A W G V A W U T

I I R S F O A E R A W S M E T A T H

V N H E A R T P K N D O W N H Y E E

I D A E T A H B O D Y Y A H E S R E

T H Y L I F E T C H E N E K R A E H

Y S T A T U T E S B A M I H O T N U

C O M P A S S I O N E E H T E K A M

S U O E T N E L P D E R E T T A C S

T I C O M M A N D M E N T S T O C K

 

By

 

Tziona Yisrael

(April 18, 2007)

 

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“If thy people…sin against thee (for there is no man which sinneth not,)

and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies,

and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

 

Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive,

and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned,

we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

 

If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul

in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives,

and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers,

and toward the city which thou hast chosen,

and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

 

Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer

and their supplications, and maintain their cause,

and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.”

II Chronicles 6:34 - 39

 

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Words are written vertically and horizontally and some are truly challenging to find – maybe because some are written backwards or might have two words that take on two directions.

 

Only a good “eye” will enable you to find all the words.  For neatness and legibility, you might want to use a single line to cross out each word found rather than circling it, and consider giving each player a different colored pencil.

 

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Parents, you might want to copy the “Word Search” and take turns with your children to complete this puzzle.  And to make the fun even more exciting, play with a one-minute timer, as you search for each word.  If players cannot find their words within the allotted time, then it’s the next player’s turn and the unfound words can be used by the next player(s). 

 

Reward one point per word found.  Let the youngest child start first.  Each player selects his/her own word, or the words can be written on small pieces of paper and randomly pulled (with eyes closed) from a bag or hat.  To encourage vocabulary development, for certain words give one extra point to the children who can define their words.  Parents will determine which words are to be defined.

 

NOW, see who can rack up the most points!

 

ENJOY!

 

(By all means, do copy the puzzle and use the “Font Size” that suits your purpose.)

 

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In the future, if Brothers and Sisters would like to create a “Word Search” of their own, I would be delighted to include it in the next JOURNAL.   And even suggestions for a Word Search are always welcome.

 

Tziona Yisrael

 

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HOW MUCH DO OUR CHILDREN KNOW

ABOUT THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL (THE CREATOR GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB),

THE HISTORY OF THE HEBREW ISRAELITES,

AND OUR RIGHTEOUS WAY OF LIFE?

 

“…God said moreover unto Moses,

Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers,

the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,

hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever,

and this is my memorial unto all generations.”

Exodus 3:15

 

This added portion to The LawKeepers JOURNAL is to enlighten our children and provide parental/child interaction with regard to important events in the “Old Testament.”  It is my hope that these questions will provide the means for parents and children to study Scripture and enjoy quality time together.

 

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THE QUESTIONS ARENA IS FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS TO RESEARCH, REFLECT, AND DISCUSS:

 

This month’s questions are intended for youth aged ten (10) and above.

 

FEBRUARY / MARCH 2007 JOURNAL QUESTIONS:  251 - 260:

 

261.

Jacob could not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan, so from which daughters was he told to take his wife?

 

262.

Who ascended and descended the ladder in Jacob’s dream?

 

263.

What did the GOD of Abraham tell Jacob in this dream?  (3 things)

 

264.

What did Jacob vow to the GOD of his fathers?  (4 things)

 

265.

Who are the sons of Jacob by Leah?

 

266.

Who are the sons of Jacob by Rachel?

 

267.

Who are the sons of Jacob by Zilpah?

 

268.

Who are the sons of Jacob by Bilhah?

 

269.

Which one of Jacob’s wives stole Laban’s images?

 

270.

Laban was from which country?

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By all means, Parents and Children should feel free to respond and send answers to me for posting in the next LawKeepers’ JOURNAL.  And do include your name, city, and state.  By the way, the answers must be in the form of complete sentences.   Afraqueen@AOL.COM

 

SUGGESTION:

 

On one side of index cards, have children write individual questions, and on the other side write the answers to the questions.  Just imagine how knowledgeable our children will be after researching for the answers to all these questions.   CHILDREN SHOULD BE SURE TO TAKE THEIR ANSWERS FROM THE SCRIPTURES WITHOUT IMAGINING THEM and include the book, chapter, and verse where the answers were found.  From time to time, they can shuffle the cards and go over the questions to see if they are able to recall the correct responses.  This activity should not be a chore, but children should have fun with the questions and challenge their friends and siblings to see how much they know about the “Old Testament.”  By the way, the numbers of the questions need not always be in order.

 

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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,

that thou shalt be no priest to me:

seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

Hosea 4:6

 

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CHILDREN’S SHORT STORY…

 

The following children’s story is for young brothers and sisters aged twelve and older to read with their parents…

 

 

GANG BANGING FUN, Part 4

 

 

 

After the heart-to-heart Girl-Talk, Brother Micah breathed a sigh of relief because then they had covered matters that needed to be discussed immediately.  But no sooner had he started feeling good about the way things were going, he remembered Michael and Will’s scheduled circumcisions in the morning.  “I can’t wait until the Sabbath comes in,” Brother Micah told his wife, as he lay down that night. 

 

“If I didn’t know better, I’d say you’re starting to sound just like someone else I know, dear,” she told her husband.

 

“Aw, but for a different reason, I want to see the arrival of the Sabbath,” said Brother Micah sighing.

 

“Don’t worry, Micah.  Everything will be all right.  You’ll see,” Sister Jerushala told her husband. 

 

Brother Micah was up before daybreak, getting ready for Michael and Will’s appointments with Dr. Noah.  After he was all dressed, he sat at the kitchen table drinking a cup of herb tea trying to calm his nerves.  His greatest fear was not the procedure itself, but that Michael would change his mind.  Brother Micah then wondered what he would do if that happened, and then took another gulp of his tea.

 

At six-thirty Brother Micah called Brother Nathan to see if Michael had changed his mind.

 

“No, he is coming downstairs, right now, all dressed and waiting on you.  He said he doesn’t want anything to eat,” Brother Nathan told him.

 

“Well, that’s good to know.  I’ll be there right after I call Brother Jonathan,” Brother Micah told him and ended their conversation.

 

“Shalom, Brother.  How is Will this morning?”

 

“He seems great.  He just asked me if I thought you might have overslept.  Are you on your way?” Brother Jonathan asked him.

 

“You bet!  And I’ll be there in less than ten minutes.  Shalom.”

 

Brother Micah, nervous as could be, couldn’t get out of the house fast enough.  He dropped the keys to the car twice in an attempt to hurry straight over to Brother Nathan’s to pick up Michael.  And to his surprise, upon his arrival, Michael was standing outside the house waiting for him.

 

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Michael had been up half the night reading about the story of the Exodus.  He thought it was the most amazing story he had ever read.  A man talking to the All-Mighty GOD, the CREATOR that formed the Heavens and the Earth.  “You can’t make this stuff up,” he said countless times; “GOD turning water to blood, bringing frogs, lice, flies, and locusts, holding back water so they can cross the sea and then drowning the Egyptians.  Man, how I wish I coulduh seen all that,” said Michael.  “That woulduh made a believer out of me forever.  I got to ask the Brother why the Israelites turned away from this GOD.  HE was their GOD!  What were they thinking?  After all HE showed them: the Miracles and the fire by night and the cloud by day to guide them and protect them.  HE made them feel really special.  What more could they want?  But they still turned against HIM.  Someone got to explain that to me.  Maybe the Brother knows why.  Let the CREATOR show some Miracles in front of the gangs in Chicago, and all the gang banging will come to a halt – an immediate halt – and there would be peace among Black Brothers,” Michael thought smiling to himself, as Brother Micah pulled up.

 

“Shalom, Brother,” he said, as he got into the car.

 

“Shalom,” said Brother Micah, surprised to see Michael smiling.

 

“Is everything all right, Brother?” asked Michael.  “How come you sweatin’ so?  You went jogging before comin’ here?” he asked him.

 

“No, I’m fine, Michael.  How was your night?” he asked him looking in his rear-view mirror to see if he was really sweating that much.

 

“Actually, it was all right.  I didn’t get too much sleep ‘cause I was reading the whole story of Passover and a few other things.  And that’s what I want to talk to you about,” said Michael.

 

“Okay, let’s hear it,” Brother Micah told him, eager to talk about anything to get his mind off of his appointment.

 

“After GOD got Moses to prove to the Israelites that HE is their GOD, and HE called HIMSELF by their name, how could they turn their backs on HIM like that?  HE showed them all those Miracles.  I will never understand that, and I will never understand how Black people will be Christians to believe in a man stuck on a cross and doing eading’ for them, when they have the real deal, the CREATOR, that has to love them to put up with Israelites who keep turning to other gods,” Michael told him.

 

“You know, Michael, that could be for a number of reasons.  Now, don’t get me wrong.  I denounce all that my forefathers have done against the GOD of Israel in choosing false gods and rejecting HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments.  Coming out of Egypt, our forefathers learned about how to worship all kinds of images.  And what the Egyptians didn’t teach them to bow down to, the Canaanites did.  What they all did was unforgivable, and for sure, we deserved to be completely cut off, but our GOD proved that HE is indeed a Merciful GOD and permitted those of us living today to once again know HIM and enabled us to know our true identity and to know what it takes to return to our heritage.  But this seeking and choosing false gods is still with our people, even today.  And it’s going to take the GOD of Israel to make all the nations and peoples of the world to know and Fear HIM again, as HE draws attention to HIMSELF.  So, I guess of most importance is that we not be joined with people, Israelites or Stranger, who will turn our hearts to foolishness and cause us to lose our connection with our SAVIOR.  This is why our TORAH Hebrew Community is so important for our inspiration and for our well-being with our GOD.  The Holy ONE wants dedicated Israelites to make up HIS Nation of Israel, and HE is proving us daily, just like HE did our forefathers in the Wilderness, to see what we will choose to do, and HE is reading our hearts to see who will and who will not do HIS LAW and represent HIM according to the very same LAW HE gave HIS Servant Moses.  We just have to stay strong and committed and focused and pray constantly that our GOD will keep us surrounded with sincere Israelites – Israelites who are serious about serving ONLY HIM in Righteousness.”

 

“I understand all that, believe me, and I agree with you.  But how come they did what they did?  How come they saw how GOD saved them, and were so bad that they built a calf – a calf of all things – and said that it brought them out of Egypt.  First of all the calf they built wasn’t even there with them in Egypt, so how could it bring them out of Egypt?  That’s just crazy!” said Michael getting himself all worked up.  “They didn’t care eading’ ‘bout doing what GOD said?  That’s like not doing what your father said.  I never knew what it’s like to have a father.  But if he was around I’d be glad to do what he said just to have him in my life.  Israelites supposed to be like that about GOD ‘cause HE was around them protecting them and dealing with anybody who messed with ‘em.  I mean what else can you ask for?” asked Michael.

 

“Son, right now, I want to park the car and go and ask Will to hurry out to the car so we can hurry for our appointment,” said Brother Micah, as he pulled up to the curb and opened the car door to get out.  Poking his head into the car, he said, “After a day or so, we’ll discuss this matter again.  I promise.  What you are saying is important and something we must all remember, so that we won’t repeat the sins of our forefathers,” he told him as he closed the car door and ran to collect Will.

 

Just as Brother Micah was about to ring the bell, Will opened the door.

 

“Here I am, Brother Micah.  Shalom,” said Will closing the door.

 

“Shalom, yourself, Will.  You ready to go?” Brother Micah asked him.

 

“Let’s rock and roll, so we say on the streets.  I want to get this over with,” said Will.

 

“Not like I do, little Brother, and I’m not the one getting circumcised,” said Brother Micah.  “Come on, son.  Let’s roll like a big wheel, and get you and Michael taken care of.”

 

Getting into the car, Will greeted Michael with a “Shalom” and a fist to fist.  “You all right?” he asked him, as Brother Micah pulled off headed to their destination.

 

“Yea, man.  I’m cool.  I didn’t get no sleep last night.  I was up eading’ the Bible.  Check it out.  I sound like a preacher, right?” asked Michael laughing.  “Well, I ain’t.  I’m a Black-Hebrew, and I’m about to become a real Israelite,” said Michael proudly.

 

We – not just you – are about to become real Israelites and in the flesh.  And by the way,” said Will talking to Brother Micah.  “I was doing some reading about the Passover and circumcision, and I have a question for you.  I asked Brother Jonathan why we can’t keep Passover in Jerusalem.  Being Israelites, we should prove who we are to the world, and then the Israelis will have to accept us,” said Will.  “So what do you think about that?”

 

Brother Micah couldn’t have been happier that the conversation did not remain on circumcision, and he looked at his watch knowing that in ten minutes, no more than fifteen, he would be walking into Dr. Noah’s office with his two patients.  “Uh, son, you don’t have to worry about that right now.  We just have to wait on our GOD of Israel and be patient and only worry about what our GOD requires of us.  We have a wonderful Community here, Praise the Holy ONE, and we have no reason to move ahead of GOD’s Plan.  When it’s time to serve and worship the GOD of Israel in Jerusalem according to HIS Ordinances and sacrifices and offerings, HE will be the first to make us aware.  Not only that, but we won’t be able to enjoy HIS Blessings until the wicked are cut off,” Brother Micah told him.

 

“You know, that’s the same thing Brother Jonathan told me.  He said, ‘When the wicked are cut off, we will see it.’  I think that makes a whole lotta sense.  I sho’ wouldn’t want to be fightin’ for my life like people in Iraq or anywhere else and then have some country take it all from me.  So, yeah, I can wait.  I can do that, specially if I can live here till it’s time for what our GOD wants us to do.”

 

“We want to enjoy life and experience GOD’s Peace, and all we have to do is just stay with our GOD’s LAW, and HE will stay with us,” said Brother Micah.  “And so far this has worked very well for us.”

 

“I got another question for you, Brother Micah,” said Will.

 

“So long as it’s not about circumcision,” said Brother Micah to himself while looking at his watch.  “Five more minutes to go.  That’s all,” he thought.  “Sure, Will.  Let’s hear it.”

 

“I read where GOD told Joshua to circumcise the Israelites,” said Will.

 

Brother Micah nervously looked at his watch again.  “Three minutes to go, and I should be pulling into the parking lot,” he told himself. “Okay, you read about Joshua circumcising the Israelites.  And so?” Brother Micah asked him.

 

“Well, why didn’t GOD tell Moses to circumcise the Israelites before the Passover out of Egypt?” asked Will.

 

“Uh oh,” said Brother Micah, not realizing that he had spoken aloud.  Immediately he started sweating and rolling down the window.

 

“Yeah, I never thought about that,” said Michael. 

 

When Brother Micah didn’t respond, Michael turned to look at him.  “Brother Micah, are you all right?” he asked him.

 

“Yeah, of course.  I’m fine,” he said pulling into the parking place right in front of the clinic.  “We’ll talk on the way to Dr. Noah’s office.  Let’s go, gang,” Brother Micah said snatching tissue from the box between the seats to wipe his forehead before exiting the car.  “We have a very important appointment to keep,” Brother Micah told them.

 

As they walked to the building, Brother Micah proceeded to respond to Will’s question.  “Firstly, GOD had not Commanded Moses to circumcise the Israelites.  And when GOD sent Moses to deliver the Israelites out of Egypt, he had to first convince them that their GOD had heard their cries and seen their suffering.”  Brother Micah didn’t want to tell Will and Michael that the Israelites weren’t about to have someone cutting on them without real proof that GOD had ordered it.  “Then, too,” he said, “it was not clear how long before they would be leaving out of Egypt.  So, it would not have made much sense to be fleeing out of Egypt with all the men and boys sore from their circumcisions.”   

 

“Yeah, you on point, Brother Micah.  That makes a lot of sense,” Will told him.

 

“Sore!” gasped Michael. 

 

“Aw, here we are.  Let’s see if Dr. Noah is ready for us,” said Brother Micah anxiously, as they walked into the office.

 

“Good morning,” said the nurse.  “Dr. Noah is waiting for you,” she told them rising from her seat.  “Please follow me.”

 

Brother Micah looked closely at Michael for any sign that he might back down from the circumcision, but there was none.  But he, however, began to sweat anyway.

 

“Here are your first appointments, Dr. Noah, on time,” said the nurse with enthusiasm.

 

“Great,” said Dr. Noah.  “Come right in.  Shalom, to you Brother Micah, Will, and Michael.  Now, Will and Michael, my nurse will prep you for surgery.  And Brother Micah, unless you wish to be circumcised again, you can have a seat in the waiting room,” he said laughing.  “Or you can go and return in about an hour and a half,” said Dr. Noah.

 

“Well, gang, what do you think?” he asked, sick with emotion and concern for Will and Michael for what they were about to endure.

 

“Will looked at Michael and said, “We’ll be fine.  Michael you want me to go first, or do you want to go first?” he asked him.

 

“I don’t care, Will.  We’ve got to get this done and right now, before Passover,” said Michael.  “Otherwise, we aren’t Covenant Israelites.”

 

“We’re good, Brother Micah,” Will told him.  “We’ll be all right.  Besides, your GOD is ours, too.”

 

“I’ll sit in the waiting room,” Brother Micah told Dr. Noah.  “If you need me, I’ll be there.”

 

“Everything will be all right, so don’t worry,” Dr. Noah told him, conscious of exactly what Brother Micah was going through.

 

Sure enough the circumcisions went well, and no one was happier that it was all over than Brother Micah.  When he saw Will and Michael he was so overwhelmed that he could have cried.  He wanted to hug them, but he was afraid he would squeeze them and cause them undue pain.  “How’s my gang,” he asked them patting each on the shoulder.

 

“I’m good,” said Will.

 

“I’m fine, too,” said Michael.  I’m just glad it’s over.

 

“Not as glad as I am, son,” Brother Micah said wiping his brow with his tattered tissue.  “I’m thankful it’s all over for true!” he said to the smiles of Dr. Noah.  “Can I take them home now, he asked Dr. Noah.

 

“Of course.  So, now, you all get out of here.”  Dr. Noah escorted his patients to the car and reminded them to follow the instructions for post-surgical care.  “You will be fine, I promise.  And you will have nothing to worry about if you follow the directions I’ve given you.  Brother Micah, I want to see them in three days.  No appointment will be necessary.  It won’t take any time to check them and get them back on their way.  And they can get back to school, as soon as they feel up to it.  But I don’t want them doing any physical activity that might hinder the healing process.”

 

“I’ll be here for sure in three days, and they won’t be doing anything to hurt their procedure because I’m definitely going to keep an eye on them,” Brother Micah told him. 

 

“Thanks, Dr. Noah,” they both told him.

 

“You are quite welcome.  I’ll see you in three days.”

 

“Shalom, Dr. Noah.  Have a restful Sabbath,” Brother Micah said, as he closed the car door. 

 

“You can bet on it,” Dr. Noah told him.  “Now, go take your boys home and get ready for the Sabbath yourself.  Shalom for now.”

 

“Shalom, Shalom,” Brother Micah told him with a sigh, smiling and happy that it was all over, and he pulled off driving ever so slowly. 

 

“You don’t have to drive so slow, Brother Micah,” said Will.  We don’t feel any pain at all.  Dr. Noah said we won’t feel any discomfort, so he called it, for about an hour.”

 

“That discomfort he was talking about is pain,” said Michael.

 

“Okay, so let me get you home.  And listen, as soon as you get there I want you to eat because later when you are experiencing this discomfort, you might not feel like eating.  So, promise me you’ll eat a hardy breakfast, okay, gang?” Brother Micah asked them.

 

“No problem.  There ain’t been a time when I couldn’t eat, ‘cept when there wasn’t no food,” said Michael.

 

“I’ll be all right,” Will told him. 

 

“I’ll call you later and will be over after the Sabbath to see how you’re doing” he told them.  “But if you need me or want something don’t hesitate to get in touch with me.”

 

“Brother Micah?” said Will.

 

“Yes, son?”

 

“We would like for you to do us all a favor, Brother Micah, if you will.”

 

“Sure, son.  What is it?”

 

“We are wondering if we can all keep Passover together at your house, if it’s all right.  Would that be okay?” asked Will.

 

“We usually keep Passover with one of the other families because we’re only three – four with Tonya – and still we won’t be able to eat a whole lamb.  But if all five of the gang are with us, I think this will be totally possible.  Yeah, that’s a good idea.  This will be the first time we’ve kept Passover in my own house.  Sure, that will be quite okay.  I’ll let Sister Yerushala know, as soon as I get home.  I think she’ll be pleased, too.  Every year she talks about how she wants to keep Passover in her own house.  Yep, I think she’ll be real surprised and real pleased.  Everyone likes to have Passover in their own home.  Now, let me ask you this.  Do you think we’ll be able to eat a whole lamb?  That’s my only concern.  You know none of it can be left until the morning, and anything that is left has to be burned with fire.  I hate wasting food.  So, do you think we can all consume a whole lamb?” Brother Micah asked them.

 

“The way Jason eats, and the way I eat, you will be lucky to suck the bones,” Will told him.

 

“So, what do you think, Michael?” Brother Micah asked him hoping for an affirmative response.

 

“What do I think about eating a whole lamb?” said Michael.  “I think we’re going to eat like pigs on Passover!” he told Brother Micah.

 

To be Continued…

 

By

 

Tziona Yisrael

(April 2007)

 

***

“Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land,

and verily thou shalt be fed.”

Psalm 37:3

 

“Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

 

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light,

and thy judgment as the noonday.

 

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him:

fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way,

because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.”

Psalm 37:5 – 7

 

“The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

 

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:

when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.”

Psalm 37:31,34

 

“I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man

according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”

Jeremiah 17:10

 

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN:

 

Psalm 37th Chapter

Psalm 105th Chapter

Isaiah 50th Chapter

 

 

***

 

Since starting to write Children’s stories for The LawKeepers JOURNAL, I have grown to love this task for they also Exalt Our Holy ONE of Israel, and they tell rose-colored stories in the process because, with GOD’s Blessings, we will indeed lead better and happier lives upon our return to our heritage.  I believe this with all my heart! Then, we will enjoy the Righteous lifestyles that you read about in these stories and live in a tranquility, Peace, and Happiness that only the Holy ONE of Israel can bring to fruition.   And accordingly, we will one day guard this utopia that will thrive in the LIGHT of GOD’s LAW, and we will eliminate those who threaten its existence.   This won’t just be about FEARING the Holy ONE to follow HIS Ways, it will be about tasting a divine lifestyle and having it no other way.

 

***

 

Children’s stories that I have written and published, thus far, in The LawKeepers JOURNALS are as follows:

 

 

“Who Was that Strange Man?”

“The Garden of Shirri

“When You See One, You See the Other”

 “The Woods of Gilead

 “Little Talya Talks to the Animals”

“Turning the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children

and the Hearts of the Children to Their Fathers”

Lot’s Separation From Abram”

“Gideon Rocks”

“Something is Terribly Wrong!”

“Something is Terribly Wrong!” Part II

 “Something is Terribly Wrong!” Part III

 “GOD is Making Everything Right!”

(Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

“GOD is Making Everything Right!” Part II

(Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

“GOD is Making Everything Right!” Part III

(Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

“GOD is Making Everything Right!” Part IV

 (Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

“GOD is Making Everything Right!” Part V

 (Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

 “GOD is Making Everything Right!” Part VI

 (Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

“GOD is Making Everything Right!” Part VII

 (Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

“GOD is Making Everything Right!” Part VIII

 (Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

“GOD is Making Everything Right!” Part IX

 (Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

“GOD is Making Everything Right!” Part X

 (Continued from the sequel, Something Is Terribly Wrong, Part III)

“GOD Sends HIS Angel to Help and to Hurt!”

“King Solomon’s Throne”

Eden and His Gammy”

“The Humminggirl”

“GOD Alone is CREATOR, and HE Wants All the Glory!”

“Going Home!”

“We Have Heard that GOD is With You!”

“Stars, Sand, and Pomegranates!”

“GOD’s Olive Tree”

“A Blessed People”

“They Still Don’t Want to Return!”

“Trekking to Face Jerusalem to Talk to the Holy ONE of Israel!”

“Saphirah”

“Little David”

”Time is Everything”

“Little Isaiah”

“Cameras Capture More Than Just the Picture”

“Ahbah, What is Passover?”

“We‘re All In This Together”

“Then, Our GOD Will Be Happy”

“GOD Did It!”

“The Quilt of Remembrance”

“Neizkor’s Story of The CREATION”

“Skipping Rocks”

“Nathan’s Visions”

“Star, Daughter of Zion, Mother of Many”

“Rahkeeya Wants Her Own Baby Brother”

“Gang Banging Fun”

“Gang Banging Fun,” Part 2

 “Gang Banging Fun,” Part 3

 “Gang Banging Fun,” Part 4

 

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All the above children’s stories are posted on The LawKeepers Website in the monthly JOURNALS listed at:

 

www.thelawkeepers.org

Click on “JOURNAL”

 

If you would like to contribute your short stories for our youth, please feel free to submit them for publication.  The only requirement is that they are in accord with the teachings of the Most High CREATOR GOD of Abraham and Moses.

 

Tziona Yisrael,

Editor

 

*****

 

CLOSING SCRIPTURE EXALTING THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL:

 

“Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart,

in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.

The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered:

the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.”

Psalm 111:1 – 4

 

“The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.”

Psalm 111:7

 

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom:

a good understanding have all they that do his commandments:

his praise endureth for ever.”

Psalm 111:10

 

*****

 

H  A  L  L  E  L  U  Y  A  H !

 

H  A  L  L  E  L  U  Y  A  H !!

 

H  A  L  L  E  L  U  Y  A  H !!!

 

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BLESS THE LORD, YIHOVAH,

MERCIFUL GOD OF

ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,

O MY SOUL

AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME BLESS

HIS HOLY NAME

FOR

HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS TO ALL WHO FEAR HIM AND KEEP

HIS COMMANDMENTS!

 

*******

 

KNOWING  THE  BEAUTY  AND  THE  REWARD  OF  THE  FEAR  OF

THE  LORD  GOD  OF  ISRAEL  AND  

SERVING  AND  WORSHIPPING  ONLY  HIM,

AND  NOT  MAN  OR  IDOL  IS  A SALVATION  IN  ITSELF!

 

Blessed be the Most High GOD of Israel and blessed be HIS Holy Name

forever and ever! 

 

Touch our mouths, Lord GOD of Abraham, and

let us declare your Praise FOREVER!

 

*******

 

*******The LawKeepers, Co.*******

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*Where Our GOD Has Said HIS Heart Would Be*

Yehudah ben Yacob, President

500 Kappock Street, Suite 7M

Bronx, New York   10463

 

                                                                                                                                                April 2007

 

FINANCIAL REPORT FOR 2005/06:

 

DONATIONS TO KATRINA VICTIMS:

 

PLEASE BE ADVISED:

 

All contributions for the Katrina victims were mailed to the Oprah Winfrey Angel Network on February 1, 2007.

 

DONATIONS TO THE LAWKEEPERS, CO.:

 

Sister Yahoseba Yisrael

Brother Ronald Robinson in Charleston, Missouri

Brother Joseph Anderson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*

Sister June E. Porter (JELPO) of Delaware*

Anonymous*

Brother Gillium Levy

 

The LawKeepers, Co. is grateful to all who desire to assist in our Mission.

 

The LawKeepers, Co. appreciates all contributions towards our TORAH Hebrew Community and for your donations to aid the Katrina victims.

 

BLESSED BE THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL!

 

If you would like to make a donation towards our cause, please feel free to send your contributions to the President of the LawKeepers at the above address.

 

Respectfully in the Name of the Most High GOD of Israel,

 

Tziona Yisrael,

Executive Secretary

The LawKeepers, Co.

 

*Recurring supporters towards our objectives

 

*****

 

MOTHERS WITH SONS IN PRISON

 

MWSIP (Mothers with sons in prison) is striving to embrace all mothers of different races, color, creed and nationalities worldwide to bridge the gap that separates them from their sons within the prison systems with unconditional love.

 

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A Mother's Release Day

 

Freedom not only comes physically, but it originates from the heart. The anticipation of the release day for your son is also the release day for the mother. When your son goes into prison, you as his mother go in with him without even being aware of it until it's time for him to come out.

 

There's tons of unexpected emotions that happens when it gets near the release day for your son. You have occupied for the duration of his time that small little corner within the spiritual walls of that prison. A small voice from above speaks to you near that time and tells you "you can come out now".

 

Severe fear sets in and you find yourself glued to a placed that your hearts been in for the time he has been there. You fear you're leaving him! How can I come out and he's still there? The small voice speaks again..."you can come out now." the fear intensifys and you begin to cryin uncontrollably. Your inside screams... "I CANT' LEAVE HIM, I'M SCARED!" After forcefully shaking until your bones start to hurt, with a light that shines beside you, you step forward into the silhouette, and immediately, your son steps out behind you.

 

Joy unspeakable! You're at the finish line on your mark waiting for the green light, then waiting for the gun to go off to fly. A mixture of emotions starts from joy to gladness to anticipation to fear to being elated to just plain ole crazy inside.

 

You've been there for him every minute, everyday, even his day of release, you want to be there not realizing until it hits you that this is your release day too. Words will never be able to explain or capture that moment in your heart what you feel. You give up on trying to describe the feeling. You simply result to "just happy". Every minute is so special to you as well as him. All past events are just that, past events. They don't mean anything anymore.

 

The pain leaves your eyes; the wisdom sets in along with experience. Now the dove inside you and the eagle inside him is released-----GO FLY!!!!!!

 

A Mother's Day In Court

 

The first time I ever experienced screaming from the inside out. You're helpless. You've lost all control, the mercy lies on the court. But what can you do? This is the most helpless time you can experience. The Life of your child lays in someone else's hands, a total stranger. A person who has no knowledge of the heart of your son. It's like someone literally snatches a baby from your arms to do with him what they want to do with him. You can only scream from the inside out. Heart wrenching as it is, again, what can you do but beg for the mercy of the court. "Somebody's mercy, anybody's mercy"!

Everyone in the courtroom are strangers. They only know the crime and the crime knows them. But everyone, this place, this dream, you are unfamiliar with. All of the decisions without my permission come through the court.

 

What about my decision, my suggestion, my opinion or even my thoughts? This is my son! No body cares, nor do they want to hear them. All I want to do is take my boy home with me, but fate is not on my side this time. The worst day of my life was the day in court, because a part of me was taken away to a cold, unsafe, non-caring place of nowhere. Now my son is gone.

 

A Mother's Travel

 

The road to your left is the road of sorrow and grief. The road that veers off to your right is the road of heartbreak and pain. The road that goes toward the north, is the road of fear, the road that goes south is the road of unfamiliar. All these roads curve, twist, and turn.

 

They eventually end up merging into the one-way street that the mother travels during the entire time her son is in prison, which leads toward his heart. Roadblocks are in the millions all across these roads. Dead end streets are deceitful, because they are without warning. Where is the end of the road and when will I get there?

 

The end is there but is it near? Is the end of the road bright or is it dim? Who will judge that? Some roads are under construction, they take forever. Some have detours, which brings on confusion. Some are full of red lights. No matter where you travel to, to see your son, believe that there is an end to those long roads. The road will end in this world but never in your heart.

 

I traveled miles to visit my son and miles to be that voice on the outside for him, as well as support. You don't support the crime committed, you support the love for him. If I had to do it all over again, I would travel those same roads all over again. I would go down those same streets. It was the beginning of our destiny.

 

www.mothers with sons in prison.com

 

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It’s a sad state of affairs to have to be one of these mothers.  It’s even more of a poignant matter knowing that more often than not, the fathers of these boys are right there with their sons, strung out on drugs, or dead.  But there is hope:

 

“Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about;

for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.”

Psalm 142:6,7

 

“I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee,

and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,

and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.”

Isaiah 42:6,7

 

Remember those incarcerated…contact them…encourage them in GOD’s Truth…T.Y. Editor

 

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DON’T COUNT THE INCARCERATED BROTHERS AND SISTERS OUT!

 

In my last correspondence with Brother Malakim, he informed me that brothers, as young as sixteen years of age, are being incarcerated.  He wants his freedom in order to counsel our youth.  The following is what he wrote concerning this most poignant issue:

 

“…I want to do more because there are so many young children coming to prison now.  They are locking them up at 16 years old now.  They are building two more prisons, and they are not for me, because I’m already here.  The young people should wake up and see what’s gong on, and I don’t understand why they will not do that.

 

I want to render myself to them because they do need someone to look up to.

 

The LORD GOD of this whole universe is so good to me.  I have to do the right thing.”

 

It has been suggested that we get out to the prisons and befriend those in the jails [across the country] and, of course, give them reason to hope, for we know that Our Holy ONE of Israel can indeed obtain their release if they will turn to HIM and be obedient to HIS WORD. 

 

“Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me?

lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

 

Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant,

that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD,

and stay upon his God.

 

Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks:

 walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled.

This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.”

Isaiah 50:9 – 11

 

“Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,

that ye may prosper in all that ye do.”

Deuteronomy 29:9

 

Turning to the CREATOR GOD couldn’t be more what prospering entails.   And “obedience to HIM and to HIS LAW” is the pinnacle of success - not the imaginations of our hearts that will in the end only prove to cause us great pain and suffering.  What we “think” would be the last thing the incarcerated would need to hear, and they’d probably see through it anyway. 

 

Should you take the time to visit with them, PLEASE, PLEASE show these Brothers GOD’s Way of Life, and share the reasons for our downfall with them and what Our CREATOR requires that we do to rise out of this Hell. 

 

Tziona Yisrael, Editor

 

***

 

As most of you might know, our Sister Naami bat Lewi posts information about our incarcerated brothers in her Newsletter appealing to everyone to write to them.   Without question, they so desperately need mentoring by Brothers and Sisters who Fear the Holy ONE of Israel and who have knowledge of HIS LAW. 

 

If anyone is aware of support groups for those incarcerated, please send this information to anyone of the names listed in this section of the JOURNAL.  T.Y., Editor (Afraqueen@AOL.COM)

 

Please know that periodically new names are listed. 

 

The information Sister Naami provides for us to “Reach Out and Touch” our incarcerated family is as follows:

Keith Walker, #80775, Iowa State Pen, P.O.B. 316, Ft. Madison, IA 52627

Daniel Claybon,  #086106, Iowa State Pen, P.O.B. 316, Ft. Madison, IA 52627

Malakim ben Israel (AKA James Taylor, Inmate # 181800, (name was changed legally), Dorm 8, Bed 59, Powhatan Corr. Ctr., State Farm, VA 23160

David C Salley, #502283-6D116, Carlos White,#1045640, Danny L Arrington, #183437 and Derek Holmes #217983 all at Southeast Corr. Ctr., 300 E. Pedro Simmons Dr., Charleston, MO 63834

Quinn Wilkins, #294112, MacDougall Corr Fac., 1153 East Street So., Suffield, CT 06080

Peniel Pope, DIN# 03R0441, Orleans Corr Fac., 3531 Gaines Basin Rd., Albion, NY 1411-9199

Emily Legg #03671-025, Fed. Prison Camp, POB 6000, Greenville, IL 62246

Ray Legg Jr.#03676-025, US Penitentiary, POB 12015, Terre Haute, IN 47808

William C Smith #429459, POB 5500, Chillicothe, OH 45601

Michael D Salley #R41105-1B-65, Shawnee Corr Ctr., 6665 State Rte 146 East, Vienna, IL. 65542-9069

David Clay #163208- 6B225 South Central Corr Ctr.,  255 W. Highway, 32, Licking, MO 65542-9069

Robert Enelus 04A1188, MidState Corr. Facility, POB 2500, Marcy, NY 13403

Quincy Curry,#000525611D, SouthWoods State Prison, 215 So. Burlington Rd.Bridgeton, NJ 08302

Emanuel T. Newman, inmate #13418-039, Federal Corretional Institution, P.O. Box1000, Oxford, Wisconsin, 53952-1000

Ronald Robinson at the Southeast Correctional Center, Housing Unit 5-A-204, 300 East Pedro Simmons Drive in Charleston, Missouri

Sister Naami has noted they are all in need of written materials including Bibles and Tanakhs.  However, please write to them first to find out if there are any special instructions for sending them packages.  And even if you have no packages to send, write to them encouraging messages to ease their burden of confinement. 

[I graciously thank Sister Elishebah for suggesting that I include these addresses in The LawKeepers’ JOURNAL.  T.Y., Editor]

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Sister Penninah has provided more addresses of our incarcerated Brothers for our loving attention:

 

MENARD CORRECTIONAL CENTER

Derrick Jordan, Inmate # B-71536, P. O. Box 711, MenardIL  62259

 

GREENVILLE FEDERAL PRISON CAMP

Emily Legg, Inmate # 03761-025, Federal Prison Camp, P. O. Box 6000 D-2, GreenvilleIL  62246

  

SOUTHEAST CORRECTIONAL CENTER

David Salley, Inmate # 502283-6D-116, 300 East Pedro Simmons Drive, Charleston, MO  63834

 

JEFFERSON CITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER

Oscar Turner-Bey, Inmate # 168840, 8200 No More Victims Rd. 2B-210, Jefferson City,  MO  65101

  

GREEN RIVER CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX

Ovell Hampton , Jr., Inmate # 85370, 1200 River Rd, Central City,  KY  42300-9300

  

Algernon E. Tisdale, Sr., Inmate # ET4465, 1 Kelley Drive, Coal TownshipPA 17866-1021

  

IOWA STATE PENITENTIARY

Keith Walker, Inmate # 807755, P. O. Box 316, Ft. MadisonIA  52627 

 

FEDERAL CORRECTION CENTER PETTERSBURG

Vernon Roper , Inmate # 46383-019, FCC Petersburg –Low, P. O. Box 1000, Petersburg,  VA  23804

  

SOUTHPORT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

Moshe Canty, Inmate # 99A6830, P. O. Box 2000, Pine CityNY  14871-2000

 

FEDERAL PRISON CAMP

Ray Legg, Inmate # 03676-025, P. O. Box 12015, Terre Haute,  IN  47801

 

Submitted by our Brother Yehudah Benjamin ben Yisrael, our WebMaster (yehudahben@yahoo.com  ):

 

Kenneth M. Key - A-70562 aka Ananiyah ben Yisrael, P.O. Box 112, Joliet Illinois 60434

 

Submitted by our Brother Dawayadyah (dawayadyah@yahoo.com):

Gamba Oba, P.O. Box 56, 446-078, Lebanon Correctional Institution, Lebanon, Ohio 45036

 

Ade Oba, 449-098, 4104 Germantown St., Dayton, Ohio 45417

 

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Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2007 4:22:03 PM

 

Subject: Urgent Need for Yisraelite Leaders and Teachers

 

Shalom,

 

Thank you for your inquiry.  I am responding to you and to all Yisraelite leaders and teachers.

 

There is indeed an urgent need for teachers and leadership at area prisons.  At this time, however, I do not have any inmates that I am corresponding with at an Ohio prison.  If you do know of any incarcerated in Ohio, I would be happy to add them to our newsletter mailing list.

 

To provide some background, my name is Peninnah Baht Zion.  I am the Director of Daughters of Zion, Inc. and editor of the Beth OR prison newsletter.  We publish a monthly newsletter and provide tanahks and other Yisraelite publications for them.

 

We have been publishing the newsletter for a little over a year now and the one theme that is always expressed by the inmates is the need for leadership.

 

The inmates who are reaching out to us are dedicated men, who have by some unfortunate turn of events found themselves in the belly of the beast.

 

I know from their correspondence that it is a hard life, especially for adherent Yisraelites. 

 

The brothers and sisters are striving against insurmountable odds to keep the laws of Yah in captivity within captivity.

 

Struggles with dietary issues and the need for instruction are major concerns.  They need local advocates to assist them.

 

They need leadership to stay strong in prison.  Christian and Muslim organizations are strong in the prisons.  However, the Yisraelite population has no organizational structure to influence and advocate for them.  This is primarily because, thank Yah, their numbers are very small.

 

Listed above is a contact person for each of the facilities that we are in communication with.   If your camp is located near one of these prisons, please arrange a visit to teach a group.  They would be happy to receive instruction for one day, one week, or one hour a month. 

 

Please respond if you can help.

 

Todah Rabah

Peninnah 

prazyah1@netzero.net

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RUSSEL SHOATS PETITION

 

Gov. Edward Rendell

Governor of Pennsylvania,

225 Main Capital Building,

Harrisburg, PA, 17120


Honorable Edward Rendell,


Russell Shoats (z) is a 61-year-old man who has been in prison for over 33 years. For over ten of those years he has been in “solitary confinement." He is held at SCI-Greene, which is over 300 miles away from his family, who are based in
Philadelphia. He is a father, grandfather and “model prisoner,” who has only had one minor rule infraction in over 15 years.


After a prison blood test and two other examinations, it was discovered that he is probably suffering from prostate cancer.


I ask you to use the powers of your office to assure us that Russell Shoats (z) will receive all of the medical care he needs. Further, we ask that you see that he is immediately transferred to one of the states Level Four Maximum Security Prisons; either SCI-Graterford or SCI-Frackville, so that his family doesn't have to travel for twelve hours to visit him.


As governor, you share responsibility with the state's Department of Corrections for providing safety and security for
u.s. citizens. Included among these responsibilities are the duties of providing for the health needs of state prisoners and helping them maintain ties with their family members.


We call on you to ensure that these things are carried out.

 

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

 

Shortcut: http://www.petitiononline.com/shoatz/petition.html

 

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PAROLE NOTICE

 

All right, gentlemen, let’s keep the momentum going.  Recently, Congressman Sensenbrenner has established three phone numbers for our family members to call and voice support for federal parole to be reestablished.  This is a very positive step, which dictates even more congressional interest in the parole issue.  Please!!!  Pick up the phone, call your family and friends, and provide them with the three phone numbers below and tell them to call the above Congressman as soon as they hang up the phone.  Also do let them know why parole is so necessary, i.e., the money that parole will save from an already over-taxed system could be used for far more necessary purposes. 

 

First time offenders with life or near life sentences that result from draconian mandatory minimum laws deserve at least an opportunity to earn a second chance (NOTE:  the parole bill, as written, is applicable to everyone, so this statement in no way will limit parole to just first time offenders; it’s just political language used to achieve a goal), and the elderly inmates with extensive medical problems, and in no way could ever be a continued threat to society, should be provided with a means to at least spend their last few years with loved ones.

 

LEAVE MESSAGE FOR CONGRESSMAN SENSENBRENNER AT:

 

                        1-800-242-1119 (FREE)

                        1-262-784-1111 (WISCONSIN)

                        1-202-225-5101 (WASHINGTON, D.C.)

 

These numbers have been established for this very purpose, so let’s be quick to respond.

 

Also, it’s important to note that bills take an average of five (5) years before gaining the necessary congressional support to become law, which only happens after a number of reintroductions, gaining more and more signatures as it builds momentum.  This will be the parole bill’s third year since its initial introduction by Congressman Danny K. Davis, and has since only gained more and more support.  Such a process takes commitment on our part to consistently encourage our family and friends to repetitively voice their support through all the denials along the way until success is ours, which can be reasonably expected within the next 2 – 3 years.

 

Of course this is a message written only to those who actually prefer investing toward freedom, as opposed to incarceration – a preference seen by one’s behavior alone.

 

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[This article is posted with much hope that our incarcerated Brothers and Sisters will learn the TRUTH about the Most High CREATOR GOD of Israel and will make efforts to know HIM and HIS Ways of Righteousness.  In making the GOD of Israel their total focus and learning to live and do HIS Way of Life and change their wrong doings, they will encourage the Holy ONE to hear their prayers and remove them from their prisons.  Therefore, by all means, please disseminate this information.  T.Y., Editor]

 

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OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION CIRCULATED BY HEBREW ISRAELITES:

 

For information about the happenings in Hebrew Israelite Congregations, News, and Health, please contact:

 

E-mail: fao3@att.net. 

For issues of the ICN, including archived issues,

please log on to: www.icn.ctinets.net. 

 

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For a totally Black Hebrew Israelite Newspaper, please know that

the Jerusalem Chronicle subscriptions are now online. Visit the following WebSite:

 

www.jcnonline.ctinets.net

 

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www.hebrewisraelites.com

Contact:  ShoLevi@AOL.COM

 

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Also, our Brother Yehudah Benjamin ben Yisrael has set up a live Internet station YRBN that I’m sure you will find quite enjoyable. 

 

The Yisrael Internet Radio Network:

Yisrael Radio Broadcasting Network "The Place to Be"
http://www.yrbnradio.com

 

Download the YRBN Radio Toolbar!
http://yrbnradio.ourtoolbar.com

 

Contact Yehudahben and put your name on the mailing list for notification of upcoming Paltalk discussions, Classes, and Interviews on YRBN.

 

Yehudah Benyamin ben Yisrael
Director/Programmer/Webmaster

 

Yehudah@wrightwebdesigns.com

 

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If you like food and it likes you and you want to share some really good recipes or learn how to cook from information provided by “TheKoshercookgroup” then you want to get acquainted with the folks who make good use of the following link:

 

TheKoshercookgroup@yahoogroups.com

The Recipe Newsletter!

 

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For Safety Alerts:

Zeemee4u@yahoo.com

 

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A link to the King James Version can be obtained at the following WebSite:

 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/Bible/

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/frames/bibleframe.html

http://www.cforc.com/kjv/index.html

 

A link to a Hebrew / English Bible with a means to listen in Hebrew:

 

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0101.htm

 

The LawKeepers, Co. welcomes your articles, poems, short stories, and testimonials

for the Exaltation and PRAISE of Our Most High CREATOR GOD,

The GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/ISRAEL!

 

 The LawKeepers, Co. welcomes your donations.

If you would like to make a contribution to The LawKeepers, Co.,

please E-mail The President of The LawKeepers, Co. at: 

MilzAhead@AOL.COM

 

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“Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt,

and thou shalt know no God but me: 

for there is no saviour besides me.”  

Hosea 13:4

 

“Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time,

and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me?

yea, there is no God; I know not any.”

Isaiah 44:8

 

Yehudah ben Yacob, President (MilzAhead@AOL.COM) 

 

Tziona Yisrael, Executive Secretary / Editor of The LawKeepers JOURNAL (Afraqueen@AOL.COM)

 

www.thelawkeepers.org

Click on “JOURNAL” for past Editions.

 

    We Exalt and Sanctify the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

and profess the Laws HE gave to HIS Prophet Moses.

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Please support our desires to establish a TORAH Hebrew Community (housing, K-12 School, farm and equipment, and Health Center).  If interested, please contact Yehudah ben Yacob at the above E-mail address.

 

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 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting,

get understanding,

Proverb 4:7

 

Deuteronomy 28th Chapter

is all about The Slave Trade of Blacks out of “Africa.”

 

“For thou shalt worship no other god: 

for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”  

Exodus 34:14

 

“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God,

which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him

and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;”

Deuteronomy 7:9

 

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The LawKeepers, Co. is not affiliated with any congregations.

 

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Yehudah@wrightwebdesigns.com