Created: 4th Jan 2010

Modified 24th April 2010

 

Is the Lunar Sabbath Scriptural?

 

YHWH – The four letter name of G-d

Yahushua – Commonly called Jesus in the West

Torah – First five books of the Bible written by Moses

AFNHSS – Abrahamic-Faith Nazarene Hebraic Study Scriptures

 

 

Whilst I do not want to condemn anyone who is simply trying to obey G-d but I have to address this as this topic has been running now for almost three years and I have tried to remain quiet without addressing it publicly and I rejected the notion three years ago as unscriptural and a total waste of time.

 

    There are so many groups who are trying to teach that G-d operated on a lunar calendar therefore the Sabbath must be on a cycle of 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days each month. Then you have to deal with the fact that the same lunar days fall one or two days later each month but that is usually brushed to one side.

 

Here is what it may look like:

 

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First the common sense argument

 

    If G-d intended us to obey His Sabbath by the Lunar calendar then one has to ask what man or woman is able to keep the Sabbath on different days of the week? It wasn’t only for the Israelites in the wilderness you know, G-d knew ahead about the exile too so how can he allow His people to be in confusion and fighting over which days to keep.

 

    Next, which employer in this day and age will allow us to take off a different day each week based on the Lunar Sabbath cycle? Yes I know one employer and its called Social SecurityJ.

 

    The only way then most of us would keep the Lunar Sabbath is to be unemployed and unhappy people, unable to pay our tithes and live a secure life always begging others to help us. Does that sound like a picture of our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? However, G-d says this in Ps1:1.

 

Psalm 1:1 (AFNHSS) Happy[1] is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the halacha (way) of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.[2]

 

    Scripture itself shows us that nobody unemployed would be happy not able to pay our tithe, not able to help the poor but be poor our self, while our family is trying to find food to eat how could we ever really serve G-d? Scripture negates a lunar Sabbath at many levels and so does science. G-d knew we were going to be in the exile for many years therefore He would make it easier for us and not harder.  But ask the Lunar Sabbatarians to explain these basic things. They cannot be just explained away. We are not millionaires but ordinary people trying to live right and serve Yahuweh.

 

    This is why if we look G-d in fact did make it easier as the western nations made weekly holidays to be Saturday and Sunday and naturally the 7th day cycle each week falls on Friday Sunset to Saturday Sunset.  If you want to believe in the Lunar Sabbath then this would also make dispensationalists true and us false because they would say see, G-d would not expect you to keep the Lunar Sabbath as it is impossible because you couldn’t satisfy His requirement therefore the law is abrogated for us. However the truth is both dispensationalism and Lunar Sabbath people are 100% wrong but won’t admit it out of pride and ego issues. I will show you in second why they are wrong.

 

King Solomon’s prayer

 

2 Chronicles 7:14  (KJV) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

 

    So G-d would bless us if we turn away from our wicked ways, the only way we turn away from wicked ways is to obey the Torah of Moses because that is what judges wickedness. Scripture is clear not to walk in the Torah is sinfulness.

 

1John 3:4 (KJV) Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law (Torah).

 

    Dispensationalism is false because it allows you to commit sin, which is against the Torah of G-d. If we could not keep the Law/Torah of Moses in the exile then we also transgress the law and that means G-d could not forgive us since by definition we could not turn away from wickedness.  Also we would not be the disciples of the Messiah because He requires us to be obedient to it to be His disciples.

 

    If we could not keep his lunar Sabbath or his fixed dates Sabbath as some others espouse then how could we ever be right before G-d? This my friends negates both dispensationalism as man’s lie and also the Lunar Sabbath. Sorry to be blunt but what do you want me to do? Hold your hands.

 

Concrete proof that Lunar Sabbath is wrong

 

Zechar’yah 8:23 (AFNHSS) Thus saith YHWH of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the tzitzit of him that is a Yahudi (Jewish), saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that Elohim is with you.

 

    This is an Orthodox Jewish man in the future yes future not past, he is not Christian and he is not a lunar Sabbath keeper because no Orthodox Jewish person believes in this so this is clear proof that he did not have to be a Christian ot into dispensationalism or into the Lunar or fix dates Sabbath to have G-d with him. In fact he would be quite happily keeping the cyclical 7th day Sabbath just like me and look G-d is with him. He is actually leading Christians into the kingdom. Shame on Christianity and its bad theologies for lying to people that they need to abrogate the law/Torah of G-d to have grace.

 

    YHWH’s day is always sunset to sunset while you will find the Lunar Sabbath keepers will twist the meaning of the Hebrew word boker (morning) and Ereb (Evening) to fit their erroneous agenda. This is the only way they try to fit this bad theology to confuse people who have no idea of ancient Hebrew.

 

Genesis 1:5 (NKJV) God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

 

    Note Evening plus Morning equals ONE day or in the Hebrew, Day One, Yom Rishon. This is how the Jewish people arrived at the term “day” from sunset to sunset but this is not the only passage in the Torah but there are many others too.

 

    So if the L-rd could not keep the 7th day weekly cycle, this would indicate that G-d could not foresee the future thereby he allowed a Sabbath to operate that could not be kept by most people which would also mean that G-d deliberately allowed His own commandments to be broken and therefore people to be punished for it.  Remember breaking of the Sabbath was and still is a capital crime.  Who told you that it is no longer a Capital crime? The only reason we do not stone people is because we do not have the Sanhedrin.

 

    Yet we know that this is not the case because this lunar Sabbath idea has been created by people out of their own preconceived notions of what scripture should be and should not be by altering the meaning of the Hebrew words they try to achieve their agenda. I dare you to find two lunar months where the Sabbath cycle matches and I guarantee that you won’t find it in sequence. Yes some Saturdays will fall on the Lunar cycle but it really makes no difference if they do or don’t.

 

    The lunar Sabbath breaks at the most basic commonsense level as I have shown you above yet I have not gone into detailed scripture where people have misread and then come up with an incorrect conclusion. I do not think I really need to confuse you with the ancient Hebrew and the way it was used to interpret the text and I certainly do not want to dazzle you with science. No thanks.

 

    The scriptures that the Lunar Sabbatarians quote you appear to fit but only within their own provided parameters but breaks after the lunar month is over because the lunar cycle is not a consistent 28 days (7 days times 4) but a 29.5 days average. This means the next Sabbath is at least a day late or a day and a half late, which can never be accounted in anyway.  They will not tell you this flaw and simply brush it under the carpet that is if you have carpet in your home.

 

    Most Lunar Sabbatarians then have to juggle the moon in their palms while no one is looking and say well since the moon is not seen those days cannot be counted.

 

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    Do you see the failure? When we start from 29.5 days of the lunar cycle completing and start counting our clock the Sabbath never reaches the 8, 15, 22 and 29 days. In fact we only go as far as day 6 and then it is a 7.5 days already which means the next Lunar Sabbath actually fell later than the required 7 days cycle.

 

Let me show you the maths:

 

29.5 days month complete

30th day = ½ day

1,2,3,4,5,6,7 – by the time you have reached the 6th day you are actually 6-1/2 days in it and then you add the next half day so what time do you start the Sabbath? This shows us that you reach your Sabbath not at sunset but at mid afternoon as that is when your Sabbath starts. If we strictly stuck to the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th cycles then if you count from the last 29.5 days to the next 8th day cycle you arrive at well let’s count. 29.5 cycle concludes. OK, 29.5 + half = 30 and a ½ days, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8th day Sabbath.  Do you see you end up at 8 ½ days or could be just 8 days if it was a 30 day Lunar cycle so it just does not match and does not fit. Remember G-d never blessed the 8th day nor the 15th but He blessed the 7th Day only and always said count six.

 

    To work out this mess the Lunar Sabbath keepers come up with all sorts of juggling, first it was hiding the extra days by arguing is it a molad, sliver, conjunction or something along those lines. Then some will go so far to suggest that day starts at sunrise and not sunset. So to compound error begets another error where a Sadduceen day is chosen. Note Yahushua did not agree with any Sadducees!!!

 

    The Sadducees believed in the day starting at sunrise while the Pharisees believed in days starting at sunset. The Pharisees were correct while the Sadducees were wrong. Note also that today’s modern Karaite movement has arisen out of the Sadducees. Unlike today many of the Sadducees were in fact enemies of Yahushua at His time so do not be deceived to run after the Sadducees or the Karaite error. I am not saying all Karaites are bad, they are not.

 

The Jewish argument

 

G-d said Judah is my lawgiver (Ps 60:7) and therefore the Sabbath as organised by the Jewish people is correct.

 

Psa 60:7 (KJV) Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

 

    They have gone through the exile and came back in the land to establish the 7th day cycle and have faithfully continued to keep it. We find no argument in the Renewed Covenant (NT) at all with the Pharisees ever regarding the Sabbath where Yahushua would ever rebuke them. It did not happen as the Sabbath was a straight 7 days cycle and there was no issue even Yahushua was seen in the Synagogues teaching (Mark 1:21). By rejecting Judah’s established Sabbath you actually reject YHWH since He set them to make the jurisdiction of the Moe’dim feasts and the Sabbaths. If you would like an example then look at what happened to Korah who also rebelled with his company of men against Moses (Num 16:2), who was the lawgiver over Israel.

 

    Please do not be carried by every wind of doctrine that comes your way, use wise and righteous teachers to help you to understand things you do not understand but don’t run after the masses. If some want to follow the moon then just let them and avoid any arguments, we have enough arguments we must try to live in peace with all men that includes believers and unbelievers.

 

Scriptural argument

 

Exodus 16:4 (NKJV) Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.

 

    Some authors assert that this particular test came on the 15th of the month and Israel should have known about the lunar Sabbath and that they were transgressing it.

 

    I can tell you one coincidence of the 15th of the day of the month does not mean it ran the same each month and so this is pick and choose style of argument.

 

    One author who has been espousing this kind of theology in his book on the Lunar Sabbath presupposes that Abraham never kept the Sabbath neither did any previous ancestors so that his Lunar Sabbath theory can work.

 

    I can assure you this is pure conjecture and lack of scriptural knowledge. In fact I will prove to you here that Abraham kept the High Holy days and by extension the 7th day Sabbath.

 

Genesis 18:6-7 (NKJV) So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.'' (7) And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.

 

    When Abraham was visited by YHWH rest assured it was the day of the Passover which followed a High Holy Day Sabbath. YHWH came to Abraham on a special appointed moe’dim which Abraham and Lot were diligently keeping.  Let me show you Lot and the feast of Unleavened Bread (High Holy Sabbath). Note Abraham also asks Sarah to bake Unleavened Cakes and not leavened ones including the sacrifice of the calf. At Abraham’s time it was a calf and not a lamb that was sacrificed. We will also sacrifice a calf in the 3rd Temple and not a lamb, which means we are going back to the ancient pattern.

 

Let’s look at Lot.

 

Genesis 19: 1-3 (NKJV) Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.(2) And he said, "Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.'' And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the open square.'' (3) But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked Unleavened Bread,(Matzah) and they ate.

 

    So when G-d entered our time and space to meet Abraham it was the Passover and the next day it was the feast of Unleavened Bread, which Lot was celebrating. This shows the lunar Sabbath man in his book above who argued about the Lunar Sabbath or that Abraham and the previous generations did not keep the Sabbath is clearly in error.

 

    The Sabbath was kept by Abraham, the Sabbath was kept by Lot, the Sabbath was even kept by Noah, and by Adam by extension. Those who make foolish claims that they did not first bring proof that they did not keep the Sabbath and then I will show you how they did but I will only do it in public.  No emails and no private room discussions. If you want to wash your dirty laundry then I insist it has to be in public.

   

    This is the difference between a Levite and a non-Levite. We were chosen as the teachers in the first Tabernacle and both Temples and will remain so because G-d has a covenant with us forever. You will also find Levites operating the 3rd Temple and they don’t need the nonsensical four spiritual laws.  Remember Judah is the law giver. Levite stayed with Judah. Right now some of us are in the nations but there is good reason for that until the Messiah returns.

 

    G-d himself gave testimony of Abraham being a good Torah keeper.  Well if he broke the Sabbath then why say he was a good Torah keeper?

 

Genesis 26:5 (NKJV) "because Abraham obeyed My voice (Torah) and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws (Torot).''

 

Who are you going to believe G-d or the people leading you into the Lunar Sabbath?

 

    Lunar Sabbatarians build a straw man argument which can be easily refuted and pulled down. Here are two of the classical ones used that the moon is to be used in all moe-dim (Appointed times)

 

Genesis 1:14 (NKJV) Then G-d said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;

 

Psalms 104:19 (NKJV) He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows its going down.

 

    The problem is with those who have an agenda to subvert they will only use one and not the other. So if the passage above speaks about the moon then what about the sun? We know a day cannot be reckoned without either the sun or moon and the same goes for the weekly Sabbath. It is based on the sunset. Why use the moon and not the sun? Also all the feasts are not calculated using the moon alone this is a false assumption.

 

Leviticus 23:2-3 (NKJV) "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: `The feasts (moe’dim) of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts. (3) `Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

 

    The Lunar Sabbath keeper argument goes that the weekly Sabbath and regular yearly moe’dim are mentioned in Leviticus 23:2 where the word “feasts” is used therefore the moon must be used in the weekly Sabbath. It might seem what they are saying has some truth in it but when we examine the term moe’dim we find the argument collapses. Let me show you how.

 

Genesis 21:2 (KJV) For Sarah conceived, and bare AbrahamH85 a son in his old age, at the set timeH4150 (Moe’dim) of which G-d had spoken to him.

 

    Please note the same Hebrew term Moe’d is used for the set time when Sarah was to conceive so are we to presuppose that Sarah conceived on a new moon day and hence forth all special births are to happen on the new moons? Not so beware. Ancient Hebrew had a wide array of meanings.

 

1 Samuel 9:24 (NKJV) So the cook took up the thigh with its upper part and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, "Here it is, what was kept back. It was set apart (Mo’ed) for you. Eat; for until this time it has been kept for you, since I said I invited the people.'' So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

 

    So once again Samuel presents the thigh of meat to Shaul. This has nothing to do with the new moon. The new moon was not used in assessing all things so this is a fallacy that many people live under. Also only certain new moons are held as special which are commanded while the rest are not. Generally there is no injunction to take time off work on New moon days or to stop working unless a commanded annual feast falls on that day such as the 7th Month first day feast of blowing of Shofars or Rosh Hashana.

 

Commanded New Moon rest because of an annual feast

 

Leviticus 23:24 (NKJV) "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: `In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

 

    People in Israel in ancient times quite happily worked and carried on with the daily grind and even travelled out to places which if you remember was forbidden for more than a certain distance.

 

Ezra 7:9 (NKJV) On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

 

    Ezra was a lawgiver he was a priest who understood the Torah very well. Note he travelled on the New moon day so beware that you do not come into deceit to think that every new moon is special, the reality is its not.

 

The other doctrine running around is that Sabbath was on fixed days yearly in the following way:

 

            ABID          IYAR          SIVAN        TAMMUZ          AB                  ELUL

 

        1,8,15,22,29.  6,13,20,27. 4, 5,12,19,26.  3,10,17,24.  1,8,15,22,29.  6,13,20,27.28,29,30,  + 3, days.

 

            TISRI            BUL            CHISLEU        TIBETH      SHEBAT        ADAR

 

        1,8,15,22,29.  6,13,20,27  4,11,18,25.  2,9,16,23 30. 7,14,21,28.  5,12,19,26,27,28,29,30.+ 2 days

 

All I am going to say is to give you the following verse.

 

Psalms 60:7 (NKJV) Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is the helmet for My head; Judah is My lawgiver.

 

    Now you can either decide to believe what G-d has said about Judah (Jewish Israel) or you can run after these groups for the rest of your life. It’s really your choice. This is why G-d had teachers and Rabbis who would decide matter of law. When you have lay people deciding matters of G-d’s law then chaos is the order of the day. So be warned. I was chosen by G-d over 11 years ago when I was minding my own business in a British Merchant bank well actually a Japanese merchant bank in London called Nomura and He called me out by voice and chose me simply because I was from the line of the priestly clan while my whole family today is Muslim so why choose a Muslim and try to confuse him with the 7th day as lunar? He did not, he told me what days were what and has not once in my speech with him said to me Simon you are keeping the wrong Sabbath, in fact he commanded me to teach the 7th day and to stay away from all pagan days of Christendom.

 

    I want to point out that in 70 CE both the House of Shammai and the House of Hillel had a dispute about something and then a Bat Kol (Voice from heaven) was heard that said that both these schools speak are the words of G-d but the School of Hillel Rules from this day and the school of Hillel has ruled since that day. The Jewish people are quite correct in their Sabbath observance and in many other things they have already made halacha (way of conduct) is fine. Some things may appear to go a bit too far but they are in essence trying to protect the Torah, remember they are the lawgiver so either you agree with YHWH’s lawgiver or you don’t.  Yes it’s true they do not have a revelation of the Messiah but this is how it is meant to be so once again what has been established and practiced for over 2000 years I can tell you is correct. If you want sanity in your lives I suggest you go to a Jewish Synagogue and avoid all these bad teachers teaching bad doctrines and yes I do mean the Orthodox Synagogues.

 

The Nail in the coffin for Lunar Sabbatarians

 

The following is cited trying to obscure the truth and confuse the people into believing a lunar Sabbath:

 

Rabbi Louis Finklestein of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was selected by the Kehillas (Jewish Communities) of the World as one of the 120 top Jews who best represented “a lamp of Judaism” to the world.  In a letter to Dr. L. E. Froom, dated Feb. 20, 1939, Finklestein readily admitted, “The present Jewish calendar was fixed in the fourth century.” (3) Maimonides and most other Jewish chronologers agree that the modern Jewish calendar is based upon the “mean motions of the sun and moon, the true [calendar] having been set aside.” (4)

 

The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle ... Originally, the New Moon was celebrated in the same way as the Sabbath; gradually it became less important while the Sabbath became more and more a day of religion and humanity, of religious meditation and instruction, of peace and delight of the soul. (5)

 

(3) Box 6, Folder 4; Grace Amadon Collection, (Collection 154), Center for Adventist Research, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.

(4) Maimonides, Kiddusch Ha-hodesch, Tr. Mahler, Wein, 1889, emphasis supplied.

(5) “Holidays”, Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 1899 ed.,p. 41.

 

Note this is incorrectly quoted to prove what has not been the case.

 

Let us now examine what the Jewish custodians of the true faith of Judaism have to really say on the truth of the non-Lunar Sabbath in their Torah the first five books of Moses documented in any Chumash which can be purchased from www.artscroll.org.

 

Chumash footnotes on Chapter 12 of Shemoth (Exodus)

It says re: The Jewish Calendar

 

The Jewish calendar is based on the moon, and it is regulated by the sun.

It continues:

 

The Torah provides that Rosh Chodesh (NEW Moon) can be proclaimed ONLY by the rabbinic court on the basis of two witnesses who testify that they have observed the re-appearance of the moon. The members of such a court must have the semichah, or ordination, that was conferred by teachers upon their students, generation after generation, FROM THE TIME OF MOSES. This requirement is derived from the word in Hebrew meaning "to you" in Ch 12:2, which was addressed to Moses and Aaron, from which the Sages inferred that those deciding on the new moon must have the same legal status that they had.

 

After the destruction of the Second Temple, the level of scholarship needed to qualify for this ordination gradually ceased to exist, due to persecutions and dispersions. Had it reached a point where there was no one left who qualified for semichah, it would have been impossible to proclaim new months, and if that happened, the Jewish calendar could not have continued. TO AVOID this catastrophe, in the year 4119 (358-9 C.E.) the court of Hillel II promulgated a calendar FOR ALL SUCEEDING CENTURIES, based on the calculations that had HISTORICALLY been used to corroborate the testimony of witnesses to the new moon.

 

Furthermore it states:

The currently used names of the months are of Babylonian origin, and came into use among Jews only after the destruction of the First Temple. Those names were RETAINED as a REMINDER of the REDEMPTION from Babylon, which resulted in the building of the Second Temple

 

Footnote on Ch Exodus 12:6 from the Chumash

 

The Sages explain that the four-day interval was part of the miracle of redemption. The Egyptians saw their gods- lambs and kids- tethered to the beds of the Yisraelites and asked, "What is the purpose of this"? The Yisraelites explained that the animals were being prepared for the slaughter as offerings to God. The Egyptians were furious, but, miraculously, they were powerless to intervene. Because this happened on the tenth day of Nissan, WHICH WAS THE SHABBATH THAT YEAR, the Shabbath before Pesach is called Shabbath HaGadol (The Great Shabbath), in commemoration of that miracle.

 

Note This clearly proves that the Feast of Pesach (Passover) was not on a weekly Shabbath as many state!

 

We also know from this historical evidence that Yahushua was hung on the tree on 'Wednesday' and not Friday, which was the 4th day of that week, Aviv 14, Pesach!!!

 

This proves Israel never kept the Lunar sabbath as advocated and also citing the testimony of somebody in the 20th century many hundreds of years later and incorrectly making a point and trying to retrofit a Sabbbath is questionable.

 

     Now your belief in the Messiah is your personal belief and that will not hinder you from sitting and studying in the Synagogues. You do not need to talk about your personal life as that is personal and the Jews do not have a problem with your belief as they also expect the Messiah to return soon.

 

    Let me tell you categorically that G-d has rejected doctrines coming out of Christendom on Torah and these run away groups making up new doctrines as they do not have the right to make Torah law. Here is proof below.

 

Psalm 78:9-10 (NKJV) The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle. (10) They did not keep the covenant of G-d; They refused to walk in His law,

 

    Do you see who did not keep the Torah and to this day refuse to keep it? These are the Christians still living in dogmatic error and on top many of these groups now come up with erroneous doctrines which YHWH has rejected such as the pre trib rapture.

 

Psalm 78:67-68 (NKJV) Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, (68) But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.

 

    Now hopefully you can see why Yahushua came for Joseph the ten tribes and why G-d rejected the tents of Joseph (Christianity) because they refuse to obey His Torah (Law) but instead He chose Judah as His lawgiver and we the Levites are His priests forever not just a season. We exist and I am testimony to G-d’s faithful even being in England he called me back.

 

Psa 60:7 (KJV) Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver

 

     Also to finish Judah is the lawgiver and no runaway groups of people set new laws so if you reject Judah’s established laws of which the weekly Sabbath is a well documented law then of course you have rejected G-d who has appointed Him.

 

    If I start covering every point the article will become very big and I do not want to make it reams and reams of pages so I have only covered what I thought were the pertinent points.

May YHWH bless you.

 

Shalom Shalom

 

Rabbi Simon Altaf

 

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[1] The Hebrew word Asher H835 more accurately means happy. Having the Elohim of Israel as your head will make you happy and happiness will bring good health and blessings will follow from being obedient to Torah.

[2] He is happy because the Torah will bring him blessings and honour but sitting between scoffers will only bring dishonour and shame.