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Holy
Day Greetings from HomeWorship 101™
- “…[the] times of
refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (YHWH),
- and that He may send
Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,
- whom heaven must
receive until the times of restoration of all things,
- which God (YHWH) has
spoken
- by the mouth of all
His holy prophets since the world began.”
- - Acts
3:19-21
This
years newsletter began by exploring the Prophet Jeremiah’s
reference to seeking the Ancient Path (Jer.6:16 ESV).
Jeremiah
and other Prophets also talked of a restoration of the Faith (Isa.40:3,
58:12, 62:10; Psa.68:5). I
also made reference that YHWH does not change (Isa.46:9-10).
My Christian critics do not understand why I am focusing on the
old ways, when Christians believe they follow something new.
Its unfortunate that Christianity calls the Hebrew Bible the
“Old” Testament liking it to something that is antiquated and
obsolete. But the in the
verse above, which comes from the New - Messianic – Testament, clearly
says that YHWH’s Prophets having been speaking about this since the
beginning of the world, which of course is recorded in the Old –
Hebrew – Testament. In
other words, the end of this age will bring humankind back to the
beginning.
YHWH
does not change,
and what was HIS Way in the time of Adam and Eve still is HIS Way today,
and will be in the future. The
Bible tells us that for a time YHWH will be patient and watch
humankind’s evolution of knowledge (the
Age of Grace), but there will come a day when our evolution of
knowledge will be our undoing (the Tribulation
era), then YHWH will step in by sending HIS Messiah to restore
humankind to HIS Ways. It
may startle some to hear that the beginning of YHWH’s the final
restoration starts on the first day of the seventh month – the only
thing we are not sure of is the year.
A
great part of YHWH’s Ancient Ways or Path includes HIS annual Holy
Days.
YHWH’s Holy Days are the lights that illuminate HIS Ancient
Path by teaching, and showing us the Way.
YHWH’s Holy Days are ancient and eternal, and they are HIS
annual refresher courses that teach us HIS Wisdom - I call it YHWH’s
Spiritual Opera, originally played out for world to see in the theater
of HIS ancient Jerusalem Temple. And
just to prove to humanity, and comfort HIS Faithful that HE is still in
charge of world events, YHWH shows humanity HIS hand in world affairs by
having many events of our spiritual evolution take place on these
special days – I call them coincidental dates.
And first day of the seventh month is a very important date in
our spiritual evolution.
People
debate, is the Messiah coming again, or is He coming for the first time,
the one fact we can all agree on is that He is coming.
The coming Messiah (Redeemer) is a pivotal event in YHWH’s
great master plan, and it was one of the first promises YHWH made to
humanity in HIS Universal Covenants to Adam & Eve, and Noah, and it.
Earlier this year I pointed out that in YHWH’s Spiritual Opera
the tragedy of the suffering messiah was played out in the spring Holy
Days, now the fall Holy Days will play out the triumph of the conquering
Messiah - and His Bride should be watching and waiting.
Unfortunately Satan has been corrupting YHWH’s knowledge and
just like in ancient times when the Israelites were slaves to Egypt and
forgot much of their spiritual knowledge, most of today’s faithful are
slaves to the secular world and have also forgotten most of YHWH’s
eternal spiritual knowledge, and this Holy Day proves my argument.
If
you heard a Prophet say, “the Messiah will appear on the 7th
new moon, at the 3rd hour,” would you know what he is talking
about? Most know that the
Messiah will make His long awaited worldwide appearance at the end of
the Tribulation
period. It will be a
horrible time for the earth and humanity, and those who know Biblical
prophecy will be counting the days (Rev.12:6).
Today we are not yet at the end of the tribulation era, but for
those who can see, we watch for the signs and learn their higher
spiritual lessons.
The
Believers are admonished to watch.
To watch for YHWH’s Heavenly signs (Luk21:36).
And watching for the sign of the 7th New Moon is a
very important spiritual sign. Some
believe that this is the day the Messiah will return for His Bride,
but I believe they are mistaken. The
snatching away of the Bride is a surprise, and as we know, no one but
the FATHER knows when the Bridegroom will return for His Bride
(Mat.24:36; 1Ths.4:13-18). This
is different, because of the suffering humankind must endure during the
Tribulation era, YHWH gave us solid hints as to when the Conquering
Messiah will return, and HIS Two Prophets will be relaying the same
message (Rev.12:6). The
Bride should be aware of this because on 7th new moon, at the 3rd
hour, she will be returning with Him (Rev.2:26-27, 3:21).
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Pray ·
Praise
He
who has an ear, let him hear…
Estimated
for Tuesday night, the 7th new moon will rise (estimated
evening of Sept. 30, Holy Day is dated Oct 1), and it will begin the early-fall
season of the Biblical Holy Days (Lev.23:23-36).
The day is announced with the shrill sound of the shofar or
trumpet. The last Biblical
Holy Day was in June, and since then it has been a long growing season
of day-to-day routines and trying walk a true Path.
Now the blasts of the shofar are humanities spiritual wake-up
call.
- All glory goes to our CREATOR.
- (Luke 2:14; John 10:25, 14:12-15)
The
new moon is rich in our CREATOR’S spiritual symbolism.
The new moon day, the 1st day of the month, is
mentioned 80 times in the Bible. The
14th and 15th days are mentioned 19 and 13 times,
and the 21st day is also important. In the Bible YHWH visited with HIS Prophets on these days.
Unfortunately most of the faithful haven’t got a clue.
I often wonder: Is the laity who does not want to learn, or the
priests who do not want to teach? As
the faithful know, YHWH establishes, and HIS Messiah fulfills.
When Yahshua-Jesus returns He will fulfill these Holy Days, then
all the world will worship YHWH on HIS true Holy Days (Isa.66:23;
Ezk.46:6-11) – not just the Jews.
We
do not observe the Holy Day season as a requirement of salvation.
We observe them because, for those who can see, they teach
humanity about our CREATOR’S eternal Kingdom.
This next series of Holy Days draws our attention the to
prophecies of the conquering Messiah and His promised future Millennium
Kingdom (Rev.20:1-3).
Think
about it! YHWH,
our CREATOR, established the spring Holy Days of Passover, the days of
Unleavened Bread, the Day of Firsfruits, and Pentecost – and Yahshua
fulfilled them all according to YHWH’S new moon calendar. What makes you think He (Yahshua) will not fulfill the fall
season of Holy Days when YHWH deems it so?
- “Now I saw heaven
opened, and behold, a white horse.
- And He who sat on
him was called Faithful and True,
- and in righteousness
He judges and makes war.
- His eyes were like a
flame of fire,
- and on His head were
many crowns.
- He had a name
written that no one knew except Himself.
- He was clothed with
a robe dipped in blood,
- and His name is
called The Word of God.
- And the armies in
heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean,
- followed Him on
white horses.”
- Revelation 19:1-14
The
Messiah, sent by our FATHER, has two missions: The rejected-suffering
Messiah to cancel the debt of sin; and the conquering
/ ruling Messiah to cancel the evil chaos that rules this world
(Isa.53:3-6, 9:6-7). It is
an interesting coincidence that Yahshua, exactly fulfilled the mission
of the suffering Messiah in the early-spring
season of Biblical Holy Days (Lev.23:4-22). He was crucified on Passover, buried on the Days of
Unleavened Bread, and rose on the Day of Firstfruits.
On the Day of Pentecost, He fulfilled another Covenant
promise by giving us the Holy Spirit (Act.ch.2).
It
has been a long summer and long intermission in YHWH’s Spiritual Opera
since the last Hoy Day of Pentecost.
The spiritual parable to this is long growing season is compared
to the long growing season of the Age of Grace - the time between the
appearance’s of the redeeming and conquering Messiahs.
Humanity is unique because we believe without seeing
(Joh.20:29),
thus making this time period very important because YHWH needs
as many believers as possible. It’s
a big universe out there, and YHWH has big plans for our future.
The
world is already into the third act of a spiritual opera
that, in my humble opinion, is headed toward its inevitable conclusion.
- The early-fall season of Holy
Days begins with,
- “…The day of the
LORD…” -
Joel 1
The
1st day of the 7th month, (Oct. 1, estimated) called the Day
of Trumpets (Hebrew: Yom Teru’ah – Day of Shouting), blow the
shofar or the trumpet! It
is humanities spiritual wake up call to the unfolding spiritual events!
On
the 1st day of the 7th new moon, sometime in the
future, almost tomorrow, YHWH’S
Conquering Messiah arrives to usher in the Millennium Kingdom of
Peace (Mat.24:29-31; Luk.21:25-28; Rev.1:7).
And also on this day, sometime in the future, after the
thousand years of the Messiahs Kingdom are finished, the shofar’s
blast will announce the imminent Judgment of YHWH.
YHWH will return to Earth, stop the warring factions in the last
great battle between good and evil (Rev.20:7-9), and begin the
preparations for the final Great
White Throne Judgment.
On
the 10th day of the 7th month, (Oct.10, estimated),
is the Day of Atonement (Hebrew: Yom Kippur).
It is Divine Judgment Day. Sometime
in the future, almost tomorrow, it will be the day when the Messiah
will judge the nations (Mat.25:32).
We all know, the haters, the destroyers, and warmongers will not
do well. And sometime in
the future, after the Millennium rule of the Messiah, on this day,
YHWH will judge a-l-l humanity and the angels (Rev.20:11-15; 2Pet.2:4).
On
the 15th day of the 7th month (Oct.15, estimated), is
the Festival of Tabernacles (Hebrew: Hag Ha-Sukkot – Feast of Booths).
HalleluYAH! Rejoice!
Dance! And be
happy!!! We have survived Judgment Day!
This is a 7-day festival celebrating that we are under YHWH and
HIS Messiah’s protection.
The
Tabernacles protection is temporary while permanent
arrangements are made. After
the 7-day festival, the eight-day, is the last Holy Day called the Last
Great Day (Hebrew: Shemini Atzeret – 8th Day of Assembly),
(Oct.22, estimated). The
Holy Day symbolizes the time when humanity will enter their new world of
the Messiah’s Millennium Kingdom.
And sometime in the future, after the thousand years were
finished, on this day, YHWH will establish HIS everlasting Kingdom on
Earth as humanity finally enters New Jerusalem (Rev.21:1).
Please
understand, these are NOT Jewish holidays.
And to think they are simply just worship days
is akin to one-dimensional thinking.
These are universal Biblical – YHWH’S - Holy Days, teaching
multi-faceted – multi-dimensional - universal spiritual lessons.
The secrets began because the Ancient Israelites were almost
always at war with their neighbors and they developed a kind of circle
the wagons mentality. As a
result they took these Holy Days hostage – so to speak, and covered
them with Jewish tradition, which covered their original meaning and it
was eventually forgotten. Then
what happens is that worship ritual of the tradition becomes more
important then the spiritual lessons our CREATOR was trying to teach the
world. This was the root cause of many of the Gospel controversies
(Mar.7:8).
"Truth
must be spoken, however it be taken." — John Trapp
For
example, the first Holy Day of this fall season is called
the Day of Trumpets, Yom Teru’ah, or the Day of the LORD, Joel 1:15,
3:14. Jewish religion calls
it Rosh Ha Shanah, which means the head of the New Year.
The trouble is, the Torah/Biblical New Year starts in the spring
(Exo.12.2), not in the fall – and they know that. In the time of Ancient Israel many of their pagan neighbors
had their new years celebrations in the fall, so the ancient Israelites
played the get-along game and called this Holy Day of the 7th
month, their New Years Day, and the tradition continues today.
This is ancient political correctness because this dark-ruled
world does not like any talk of the coming Messiah so the original
meaning of the Day of Elohim has been hidden
and mostly forgotten. (They
reasoned that when the Messiah arrives then it will be a new year in His
Kingdom. So they kept the
New Year and dropped any talk of the Messiah or coming Kingdom.)
As the Christian church grew, the controversies of separating
Jewish tradition from GOD’s commands continued (Act.15:1-36).
The result was that as the Christian church drifted west it
developed its own holidays and traditions.
In Christianity, as it is
in Judaism, there are many inconsistencies between what the Bible
teaches, and what is actually taught and practiced – Satan has been
busy (Gal.1:8; Col.2:18; 2Cor.11:14).
How To Observe
The Believers are commanded to grow in knowledge
and grace (2Pet.3:18), to be a living sacrifice . . .,
transformed by the renewing of your mind . . . (Rom.12:1-2).
The Holy Days are a personal, spirit-training series of Heavenly
lessons, with subtle instructions that picture a greater spiritual
truth. They repeat every
year, lest we forget, to teach understanding, to all -
men, women and children - that our CREATOR
is still in control of the Heavenly Powers of the Universe and HIS
promises will be fulfilled.
YAHWEH’S Holy Days,
dispose of your demons through reflection and afflicting your
soul, to have a change of heart and repent.
They connect us to a Heavenly timetable - signs to watch -
and they give us hope for the future.
They put us spiritually in control and encourage us to: live-learn-and
grow - HONORABLY!
Just as any skilled professional is required to
take additional training or annual refresher courses.
These are the annual spiritual refresher courses designed by our CREATOR, for all of HIS
Believers to practice their spiritual training and maintain a high level
of performance - lest we forget and lose our way.
The
concern is not for mandatory ritualism, but understanding
the truth for which it stands, and this understanding greatly enhances
our faith. For the
Faithful, the Holy Days are a joyous time because they symbolize
YHWH’s promises being fulfilled.
All the Holy Days together picture YAHWEH’S
grand majestic design of the unfolding spiritual events affecting all
humanity - that is why it is meaningful to pass on HIS
teachings to others (Heb.9:10; Rom.7:6).
The early Christians were Believers, and therefore already saved.
The observance is not done for salvation - but of love and
respect for our CREATOR,
to honor HIS Covenant with us
(1Jno.5:3), and to learn from them.
Be A Moon Spotter.
The
first order of observing the Holy Days is knowing when.
The sighting of the 7th
new moon is important because all the other Holy Days are based on it.
The Holy Day dates I quote come from reliable eyewitnesses to the
first visible new moon in Jerusalem (the printed calendars are figured
mathematically and may be off by a day or two too).
Missing the exact dates is troublesome because it will cause you
to miss your spiritual ‘appointed time’ with YHWH.
For more on Biblical timekeeping log on to:
http://www.homeworship101.com/holy_days_timekeeping&calendar.htm
For
the do-it-yourselfer, one can check the new moon sighting from
anywhere in the Internet universe.
(1)
An easy way to check the moon phase is to log on to my web page, http://www.homeworship101.com/holy_days_timekeeping&calendar.htm,
scroll down about half way and look for the current moon phase module on
the right side of the page.
(2)
Or, on the bottom of my web pages in the Bible Study Tools section,
click the solar phase link, or http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p,
to see when the evening shadow falls over Jerusalem.
When it does, click the moon phase link, or http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-m&img=Moon.evif,
to see the phase of the moon.
It
takes about 2-4% “waxing” moon to be seen by the
faithful from the ground, and that determines the first day of YHWH’s
lunar month.
In Closing
YHWH
will send a Messiah to save humanity from the curse of sin
was one of the first promises HE made to Adam and Eve.
YHWH restated it again to Noah, then to Moses, and to King David,
it is a Covenant promise that YHWH has reminded us of many times in Scriptures. Make-no-mistake, Yahshua of Nazareth was the only
man to fulfill to the letter over 200 Scriptural prophecies, many were
predicted some 1,000 years in advance.
Every single prophecy of the suffering messiah was precisely
fulfilled by the life of Yahshua, in a literal, common sense way,
culminating in YHWH’s spring season of Holy Days.
Still awaiting fulfillment are over 300 New
Testament prophecies of Yahshua's second coming as the
Conquering/Redeeming Messiah ready to be played out in the fall season
of Holy Days. YHWH already clearly demonstrated that HE keeps
HIS Covenant promises, the only question remains, will you?
- Enjoy
the journey of learning…, in the spirit of Daniel
12:4, "...knowledge shall increase in the end
times,” for more info. on the fall season of Holy Days log on:
- > Fall Holy
Days: http://www.homeworship101.com/holy_days_fall.htm
- > Holy Day Observance: http://www.homeworship101.com/holy_day_observance.htm
- >
The Conquering Messiah: http://www.homeworship101.com/bb-c11_conquering_messiah.htm
- >
The Ancient Path: http://www.homeworship101.com/NL_2008_01.htm
Please
remember to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and for all those who stand
with Israel (Ps.122).
- Wishing all
joyful season of Holy Day blessings.
- Your faithful
servant in Yahshua, Errol.
- **********************************************
- Errol
Mueller, chronicler extraordinaire
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e-mail: errol@homeworship101.com
- website:
www.homeworship101.com
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Newsletter 2008-10, posted 09/27/08.
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