“…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.