The reason for the Sabbath was explicitly articulated by Yahweh’s own handwriting (Exodus 31:18) and has been maintained for our understanding through His sacred Scripture.

 

Yahweh once more gave instructions to Moses, “Communicate to the Israelites and tell them, ‘Regarding Yahweh’s festivals, which you are to declare as sacred assemblies, these are My festivals. Work should be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly; you are not to do any work on this day: it is the Sabbath of Yahweh in all your homes,’” Leviticus 23:2-3.

 

Yahweh declared the seventh day as sacred. He chose to rest on this day, not out of fatigue, but to establish it as a day of rest and worship for humanity. You might argue, "Shouldn’t we honor Yahweh every day, not just weekly?" Indeed, you’re right. Our daily lives should ALWAYS prioritize Yahweh.

 

"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,' says Yahweh," Isaiah 66:23.

"Shabbat Mannah" 

 

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Shabbat Shalom, we do apologize. We had a dead battery, somebody left the switch on last week. So here we are, Seekers of Yahweh Ministries, Shabbat Shalom.

 

Today, we're going to be veering from the Torah portions and next week as well. We have a very serious topic that needs addressed. Not long ago, I was talking to Elder McKinney out there in West Virginia, and just as in any group, there's a lot of questions when it comes to the Shabbat.

 

There's a lot of things that have been added. There's new ways to keep the Shabbat, people think. But my whole view about this situation is this, it's a coveted issue.

 

It's serious. So to the best of our ability, we need to uncover what the Scriptures actually do say about the Shabbat. And I mean Hebrew Scriptures, not your English Bible.

 

So that's what we're going to be doing for the next two weeks. We're going to embark in this two-part series entitled Shabbat Mana, Sabbath Mana. Shabbat Mana.

 

So if you have anybody in your groups, or that's just coming to the knowledge of the Sabbath, this is one that you want to share with them. It's going to be very informative. It's going to be very thorough.

 

And it's going to be keyed to rejuvenate and put the joy back in Sabbath keeping. halleluYah. A lot of people don't, I mean, when you just read your English Bible, most people have a good argument when they ask you questions like, well, what is the Sabbath supposed to look like? What's my day supposed to look like on Shabbat? Other than we know to keep it.

 

We know we're supposed to holler it and all of these things. No buying, no selling, but how is my day on a Sabbath supposed to look? There's a lot of questions that need to be answered. And that's what we're going to embark on.

 

We're going to use the Hebrew text. We're going to get into a lot of that today. We're going to be getting into the Hebrew text.

 

And I know that there's many of you out there that have a hard time seeing some of the stuff on the screen. We'll have Chris zoom in as far as he can on the program that we use. And I might suggest that you get the program as well.

 

If you don't have this program, I know Elder McKinney has it. He can share it with you. And I have it and some other people in this group have it as well.

 

But that way you could follow along with me in a split screen. Okay, when we're looking at that. But you're going to hear me speaking all of the words off of the screen.

 

It's going to be very thorough, very tuned in. It's going to set things in order. Okay, we're going to go through the reasons why your English Bible doesn't seem to instruct you very well on how your Sabbath day is supposed to look.

 

Oh, it's there, Yehanan. It's there. It's in the Hebrew.

 

halleluYah. Baruch atah, Yahweh Eloheinu, Malachi Olam, blessed be Yahweh, King of the universe. halleluYah.

 

Who has sanctified us by his commands, redeemed us by the blood of the Son, Yahshua, and given us command to hear and respond to the call of the shofar. halleluYah. Sound, call, all comes from the same Hebrew word.

 

Just depends how, that's what we're dealing with. We're dealing with translators that when it came to, let's fast forward from the first century. When the English Bible started being compiled.

 

Let's start there. Do you reckon, do you reckon, do you suppose, or can you perceive, it's all the same Hebrew word, but do you think that a bunch of English speaking lads of the European nations in 1611 knew the lifestyle of the first century and prior to that Hebrew people? I mean, they had some ideas by reading books and maybe some Jewish people. That's where we're going to be focusing.

 

Jewish people in their communities. So whenever they came to, for an example, whenever they came to this thing in the book of Mark, where it talked about this feast, now we see of dedication. Dedicate, dedication.

 

Where do you think that they went? In order to get their information about these types of things. The Jewish people that they had communication with in that time period. And then they translated the Holy Bible with information that they got from Jews.

 

If they were doing their research, that's where they got their research from. The majority of it in those days is from Christian literature that kept track of Jewish events, and a lot of times it was not very accurate, and from the Jewish customary beliefs in that day and age in the 1600s and a little bit before that around 1400s. And then on into now we're dealing with how many English versions of the Bible? Oh, about 150.

 

Okay, so this is what we're dealing with, and that's where we're going to start our study. Let's go ahead and get prayed in, and we're going to get right to it. We have a lot of research to do today.

 

We have a lot of scriptures to do today, to read today. And again, before we get prayed in, I want to make a statement about this book. It's been asked of me several times, and recently, and Elder McKinney I know has had these.

 

What does the Sabbath, what is my Sabbath day supposed to look like? I'm going to give you, or begin to give you those answers today under the direction of Yahweh's language, the history that Yahweh has revealed to me of his people, the devolution of all of that, and how it was compiled for you into this. As we're going to learn, if you don't want any Jewish or pharisaical teaching in your life, throw it away. Get rid of it.

 

The whole New Testament, the majority of the New Testament was written by a Pharisee. Who was steeped in customary practices. But Yahweh chose him to bring Ephesus, Corinth, Thessalonia, Iconia.

 

We could go on and on and on and on. All of the assemblies out there in those nations that he wrote letters to, he established. Yahweh used him to establish those, which tells me that his way of worship must have been acceptable in the eyes of Yahweh.

 

And the things that Yahweh had revealed to him about the Pharisees that was contrary to the Torah, he no longer taught. Okay? And every now and then you will say, this is not, you see him say something like, this is not a command of the master, but I think I've been filled with the spirit of Yah. And he would begin to instruct.

 

You see, he was the instructor of all of those assemblies. And Yahweh chose him to be the apostle to not only set up that assembly, but to lead it with doctrine, teaching, and belief. So if you don't want any pharisaical or customary practices coming into your life and your worship with Yahweh, do away with the whole New Testament because it is compiled in such a manner.

 

And it's only gotten worse with every new English translation. It hasn't gotten better. You know what we're going to do today? We're going to honor Yahweh's wishes.

 

In his word, he honored that apostle. And we're going to honor that apostle today. And we're going to see what type of man Yahweh needed, or what still needs, the type of men that he needs to carry on the customary practices of Yisrael.

 

Do you suppose, before we pray in, do you suppose that Abraham kept the Shabbat? Does it ever say he did? Does it ever say in the scriptures that Abraham kept the Shabbat? Chris, do you understand what I'm saying? It does not. But he is the father of our belief. And in our belief, the Shabbat is a command.

 

And it says specifically in Yahweh's conversation with Isaac that Abraham, the reason why he was getting the covenant promises passed down to him is because his father kept the laws, the judgments, the precepts, and the Torah. That proves it. Why? Because in Genesis chapter 2, verses 1 through 3, Yahweh sanctified it, set it apart.

 

He hollowed it. Everything in creation rested that day as Yahweh sat on his throne in the Shemayim. It was the first Sabbath day.

 

I'm going to prove that today. It was not a day of rest. That's where we get twisted.

 

I just want to lay that foundation. We're going to go on. And we're going to point out some errors in the Masoretic script.

 

You have Genesis 2 saying Yahweh rested. And then you have in the book of Exodus, it says that Yahweh rested, but it uses a different word. Why? Which one is more accurate? You have to further investigate the scriptures in order to find out.

 

The word that they use in Exodus chapter 20 is a misprint. It's got to be. And I'll show you why.

 

Or it's a word that could mean rest that was chosen to use over the one in creation. Okay. Father, we worship you today on your Shabbat.

 

We thank you for this set apart gathering. We thank you for this place that bears your name. We pray over everybody who's watching this.

 

We pray that you would just show us these things, that you would reveal to us the truths concerning not only your Shabbat, but all of your mitzvot. That you would just lead and guide us. Forget about our own common sense.

 

Forget about the way we perceive things out of our English Bible. Show us your ways. Show us your ways.

 

Help us to prove that this thing that you have given us to live by is true in its core. In its core, Father, is your being. Who you are, what you want, your will, and your desire is there.

 

Help us to search it out. We worship you. And only you.

 

For you are the only Elohim, the only Redeemer, the only King, the only Savior. halleluYah. In the mighty name of your redemption, Yahshua, we pray.

 

halleluYah. Everybody get your pencils. You got yours? All right.

 

If you have a question or a comment at the end of part one, I want you guys to speak up. Everybody in this assembly. So, you can get turned to the book of Acts and 1 Corinthians.

 

That's where we're going to lay the foundation. And what you'll notice in me laying this foundation, gathering and Sabbath is everywhere in the format. That's what we're doing.

 

We're formatting. But what we have to do is first come to grip with, there is not a section in, one section in the scriptures that just says, on the Sabbath, this, this, this, this, this. And do you have to come? Or do you have to come? Or do you not have to come? What is rest? What is remembering? Remember the Shabbat.

 

So, I mean, obviously, some people will go, all I need to do is bring it to remembrance and rest on that day. And I fulfilled the commandments. Right? But think about it.

 

Well, yeah. I would submit to you that the view that you see out of your English Bible is only part of the equation. It takes the complete understanding of scripture from the beginning to the end to actually see Yahweh's will for what your Sabbath should look like.

 

So you no longer have to say Shabbat manah. Shabbat manah. What is it? Do you think for one moment that Yahweh wanted us to be so uneducated in one of the most important covenant things in his promises to us? It is a mark.

 

Just as the name is a mark. It's a sign. It's a seal.

 

No, it's there. But we have to look to Yahweh's people and their lives throughout millennia of time. It's not that easy to just go.

 

That verse tells me everything I need to know. It's not going to happen. It's not there.

 

That's why he wants us to study this book. That's why he wants us to study his language. That's why he brought the revelation of the Hebrew text to his people once again.

 

So that we could first restore his name. And then we could begin to restore the mitzvot. Are we or are we not willing to keep shemar, guard the commandments? Is that not part of the covenant mishpokah? Then we must understand where the majority of our information concerning the Sabbath is going to come from.

 

What is its source outside of the language and the scriptures themselves? It's embedded in his people. It's embedded in the people of the first century and the seventh day of creation, Adam. It's there.

 

It has been ordained since the very word of Yah came forth and created life. And what we're going to show today is that Adam and every creature on the planet kept the first Shabbat with Yahweh and all of the heavenly hosts. Everything was in line.

 

They were resting in the Shemayim. What do I mean by that? You see Yahweh had kicked Hasatan out you go. And all of those messengers, a third of them that went, hey, yeah, right.

 

That's not right. Out you go. So Yahweh had cleansed and sanctified the Shemayim at this point.

 

We're going to prove by scripture that there was a celebration of such. Even as they wandered around in the desert, don't believe all this stuff you're hearing from Christian pastors out there and theologians is garbage. They were very well aware of days and times and festivals, Passover and everything else while they were in the wilderness.

 

Okay, we're going to prove that. So Yahweh sanctifies the Shemayim. He kept the Shabbat on the seventh day.

 

We're going to see. It's not that he rested because he was tired of creating. No, he rested from creating.

 

That was his work. That's what Yahweh does. He creates, he gives life.

 

It's not tiresome or burdensome. Let me say this. If the Sabbath is a burden to you, don't come here.

 

Okay, sisters, brethren alike. If you're needing bread on the Sabbath, don't bring it into this assembly. The sisters hear me, right? Don't you bring that burden.

 

You do not need your bread on Shabbat and bring it into this place. Don't do it and don't present it to anybody in this place. Don't do that on the Shabbat.

 

Don't bring it here if you choose to. You cannot bear a burden into the house of Yahweh on Shabbat. If the Shabbat is a burden to you, don't bring the burden here.

 

The Shabbat is a joy. And the gathering is set apart and sanctified and should put light in our lives. We're going to get to the bottom of this.

 

The instruction and the lives of Yahweh's people. Shabbat manah. And we're going to lay a beautiful foundation for part two.

 

Okay, that's what we're going to do today. So we're going to be focusing on 1 Corinthians in chapter 11. And I want to set the foundation of the most used apostle that wrote the majority of the letters that we read in the Brit Hadashah.

 

You know, many claim that this guy was a hypocrite and a false prophet. And I submit to you, if that's the route you've taken, you're going to go the same way of Cain. Right? That's a dangerous position to take.

 

The majority of people that renounce Paul's writings renounce the Messiah before it's all over with. We're going to see today that Yahweh chose him for a reason. You see, Paul or Shaul's purpose for the Corinthian epistle, both of them, was in response to things going on in the assembly there.

 

Many times you'll see him say things like, well, you know, you asked me about this, you know, well, here's your, you know, and according to this, then this is the way I think this should be. So there was problems in Corinth. There was problems in Rome.

 

There was problems in Kalaos. There was problems everywhere. People lacked the understanding Shabbat Manah.

 

What is this supposed to look like? You know, normally Yahweh will put somebody in a position of leadership for a reason. If that person is being a good example of Mashiach and following in the footsteps of Mashiach and he is teaching men to do so. Follow me as I follow him because they're good leaders.

 

They're a good example. The men of Yahweh are supposed to be under constant scrutiny by themselves so that you, the people who are led, don't have to scrutinize us. We have to constantly be examining ourselves.

 

Yeah, people may not like me, but if they walk in my footsteps, like my boys are figuring out, it's easier to walk in the snow when it's a foot deep. If I try to put my foot where my dad just raised his up from, my boots don't get full of snow. My feet don't freeze.

 

And I don't stand out there in the middle of the field in the back in a foot of snow saying, Daddy! Yeah, it's easier to follow the trail that dad is cutting so that your walk is easier. Albeit it was sand with Yahshua, some rocks. Nevertheless, follow him.

 

So there were problems in Corinth and we must keep in mind that Yahweh used Shaul to set up the assembly there in Corinth and therefore had entrusted Shaul with leading and teaching those who were part of that assembly, whether they were elders or attendees. Do you understand? The apostle, the doctrine of the apostle is what formulated and founded each and every assembly. And then by that apostle and the laying on of hands came the authority of who would help him run that assembly in order.

 

And without that type of guidance, without those types of examples, guess what happens? Things are out of order and Yahweh doesn't like it when things are out of order. So what do you do? You find somebody whose walk is in order, whether you like him or not, it doesn't matter. If his halakh, his halakha, brother, right? His halakha, if his halakha is right in the eyes of Yah, then it's going to create order in the people in which he entrusts to be a part of the assembly.

 

Yeah, the apostle, the leaders, the elders have the right to say you can or cannot worship here. Yeah, tell that to your home group leaders. The order of Yahweh's headship is not in the majority of the groups where you go.

 

And it will always, as long as I have breath, be in this assembly. It will be there. Order in the court.

 

We're not going to adjourn until everybody understands completely what Yahweh's desire is today. No, court is not adjourned. If you think that you're not caught up in a huge legal system, you have lost your minds.

 

You know, Yahweh is one of the biggest legalists ever. Yeah, the majority of the book that you have is all of his laws and ordinances and precepts and do's and don'ts, and this will give you life, and that will give you death. Yeah, there is no other direction for order.

 

When there's order, there's happiness. Because the blessings of Yahweh will be there. No matter what we're going through, whether it be a physical ailment, whether it be something in your mind or something you can't seem to overcome, the comfort is in the assemblies of Yahweh that are in order.

 

When you slide off the road doing 50, where are we going? Have no idea where this impala is going to stop sliding. We just kind of kept going, right? Shook you up a bit, right? Made you have to call for the brethren, right? Kick in prayer, right? Everybody's all right, right? Order creates blessings and protection, and that's what we want in our lives, in our family's lives, and it all should begin and formulate in the assemblies of Yahweh. Good, wholesome teaching on Shabbat.

 

So we're going to be looking in 1 Corinthians chapter 11. So now what I want to do is begin to show you. Now remember, Shaul was raised up underneath the feet of Gamaliel, was a Pharisee, the son of another Pharisee, right? According to the oral law, not according to the Torah, but according to the oral law, he was a Pharisee.

 

He wasn't a Sad, you see. He was a fair, you see. Are you following me? He was taught, raised up as a Pharisee, and where does many of the traditions that we now know of that stem from Phariseeism, where did it come from? Shaul, the majority of your New Testament.

 

Please understand the majority of our English Bibles, when it comes to the New Testament, is based on Jewish tradition. The way that it's translated is based on the majority of information that came from Jewish tradition. I want to ask you a question.

 

Was Shaul a Jew? Nope, he was not. This is something that came later on, when these people that converted out here in the European nations took on the title Jews, and that comes from the Hebrew, well, from the Aramaic word shortened up Yehudi. So whenever you see the word Yahudim in the scriptures, it's not talking about always Judah.

 

As a matter of fact, those words aren't even connected. One's Aramaic, the other one's Hebrew. Yada, Judah, is Hebrew, and Yehudi or Yahudea is Aramaic.

 

Please follow me. But when it comes to Pharisees, that's exactly who wrote the majority of your New Testament. And the translators sought out Jews in their time frame, 14 to 1600s, to pick up on all these customary practices and learn of Yahweh's people, the history.

 

So much of it is based on information that we get from Jewish historians, Christian historians, who gleaned stuff from Jewish historians. Are you following me? So the majority of the New Testament is written under the premise of the thought process of the Pharisee. In the book of Acts, Shaul testifies.

 

And he says specifically, I am a Pharisee. He never said that he changed to Christianity or Messianic. He said, I'm a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee.

 

Okay, so there were some things that Yahshua had revealed to him that he had been doing as a Pharisee that was not of Yah. And he got rid of them. But there was some customary practices that these people had taught Shaul that was spot on according to Yahweh's desire.

 

It was acceptable, his halakha. It kept his halakha right in the eyes of Yahweh. So that's what we're dealing with.

 

When you come to a subject like this, the Shabbat, which is a covenant issue, then you must understand the book in which you're going to be gleaning this information from to make your decision. Shabbat manna. I want to help you, brothers and sisters, understand this.

 

We first have to understand the minds of the people what we're getting or seeking our information from. We must have a Hebrew mind. We must know the lives of the Pharisees and their traditions.

 

And we need to know the lives and the traditions of the customary people who were just people, laymen, fishermen, and Pharisee. We've got to know it all. That's the way he makes us fishers of men.

 

Shaul being raised as a Pharisee and then trained by Yahshua could touch the lives of the majority of every nation on this planet. But there was something about his heart. Even though he was a killer.

 

Do you understand? Even though he was killing the brethren, he was out of his passion and zeal for the word of Yahweh, not because he was a Pharisee. But he had a passion and a zeal to fulfill the mitzvot. And anybody who'd come up against his mighty one, he would fight for him.

 

It was instilled in Shaul to live out his life that way. That's what happens when your father was a Pharisee and you were a Pharisee and you went to school as a Pharisee. You would always have the teachings and understanding of a Pharisee.

 

So since we're beginning in 1 Corinthians, I want to show you, we're going to follow this right into Sabbath keeping. Sabbath keeping and gathering in a place where Yahweh's name dwelt is the root and the foundation of all of the doctrine of the Brit. He told them to go out and teach the good news to the Yehudi first and then to the Greek, didn't he? Follow me.

 

So since we're going to be looking at 1 Corinthians, let's go to the book of Acts and see how, when, where, and why, and how. It was all organized. Acts chapter 18, beginning at verse 1. And after Shaul left, what? Athens.

 

So he created a group in Athens. He went to Corinth. He found a certain Yehudi named Aquilas born in Pontos, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had commanded all of the Yehudi to leave Rome.

 

And he came to them. And because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and was working for they were tent makers by trade. Pay attention.

 

Yahshua told the 12, I want you to go out, right? And I want you to teach first the Yehudi and the Greeks. Then the Greeks, right? And he was reasoning in the town square every Thursday night. So where would the Yehudi be found gathering in the congregations? He already knew.

 

Why? It was a customary practice. And I submit to you that this customary practice was handed down from the day of creation. Chris, I know those are big words, but stick with me, brother.

 

All of you, please. Do you understand customary practices of Yahweh's people are not always customary practices that the people made up? Oh, this language is rich and deep. Stick with me.

 

But here we see that the apostle who'd been given authority to create assemblies, he'd been given the wisdom and knowledge and commanded to go out and set up these assemblies. Watch. Verse four, and he was reasoning in the congregation every Shabbat, and he won over both Yehudi and Greek.

 

So when he first got there, he went to the congregation. And the later testimony is that the ruler of the congregation believed with all of his household. So if you want to call these the Greek word synagogue or synagogues, fine, go ahead.

 

But I'm telling you right now, it was only an assembly, a congregation that bore Yahweh's name. I guarantee you this was a place of worship where everybody came to in the surrounding areas to hear the word of Yah taught on Shabbat. This is how assemblies are made.

 

You go to where Yahweh's people are gathered. He didn't say go out and gather the nations. He said, I want you to go out and gather lost sheep and bring them back to the place where my name dwells.

 

That's the overall goal is to get back to the land of Yahweh. Verse five, and when Sila and Timothy came down from Mac Adonai, Shaul was pressed by what was breathed by the Ruach and earnestly witnessed to the Yehudi that Yahshua is the Mashiach. But see, then there were some who resisted him.

 

But if you go down to verse eight and pick up there. So is this going to be accepted by everybody? Nope. But every now and then you see whole households, whole congregations drop falsehood and accept the truth.

 

We just witnessed it. John McKinney, Elder John McKinney is witnessing it right now. This stuff is real.

 

When you come with the real deal and people start looking to the elder and what he's saying and his walk, and they start using these things as an example for their own halakha, then we're making progress towards the kingdom. And you better bet Yahweh is about to set his name up in another land. West Virginia chiming in.

 

halleluYah. This is real. We're caught up smack dab in the middle of this.

 

But if you think that you can get this figured out without understanding the customary practices of Shaul and where those customary practices came from, forget about it. You can make up your own mind and your own decisions. Just leave it that way.

 

But it won't be because of the lack of me digging into these Hebrew manuscripts and showing you what it's saying. It won't be for that lacking. It will be because of your own lack of understanding.

 

It won't be mine. We're going to grow as a group. Those of you following us online, after next week, you're going to have some decisions to make.

 

Some plans to put in action. You know, the life of a priest was very comfortable. Where the priesthood is, there's peace.

 

There's covering. Picking up at verse 8, Acts chapter 18, and Crispus, the ruler of the congregation. So this was a man who had radah over a whole congregation of people.

 

Radah. So why am I bringing that up? Was not Adam given radah over every creeping creature and every form of life on the earth? Do you see the connection here? This is how we get back to the radah of the arets. It's through the congregations and through the rulers.

 

And for those men of authority who have knowledge and wisdom and understanding, but are willing to accept the truth, the emet ha-Yahweh. You've got to be willing to accept it. And just say, well, an ace is an ace, a diamond's a diamond, and a spade's a spade.

 

Or you could get the club. Oh, have a heart. And did believe in the master with all of his household.

 

What does that mean? That his male servant, female servant, sojourners, and everybody within the congregation, that he had rule over and his home and his property. His donkeys, everybody kept Shabbat. Everybody kept the mitzvot.

 

Everybody was people of Yahweh. With his whole household, the land rested. Remember, they were in the land.

 

Well, the doctrine of keeping it came from the land. We can get into that subject later. But that subject is directly connected to some of the reasons we can show what Sabbath is supposed to look like, Shabbat manah.

 

What do I mean by that? What's the function behind Teddy Wilson's statement right now? What did I mean by that? When you fail to keep the land sanctified, and you don't let it rest every seven years, what happens to it? The earth becomes defiled. And you've got to start adding stuff to the soil that is not of Yah in order to make things grow. By the sweat of your brow, it now becomes a necessity to grow food because the blessings aren't there and it becomes a burden on the land and in your life.

 

So that's directly connected to why he wants us to keep Shabbat. Without it, you're going to start adding things to that time period, right? You're adding things to your soil. Don't you know, old man, where you came from? Throw a little water on his wing, nothing but mud, or you could be a new creation.

 

He believed in the master with all of his household and many of the Corinthians hearing believed and were immersed. They were baptized. And the master spoke to Sheol in the night by a vision and said, do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent because I am with you.

 

And no one shall attack you or do you evil because I have many people in this city. A city was one. And where did it begin? And he was reasoning in the congregation every Shabbat and won over both Yehudi and Greeks.

 

A whole city of people or many people in that city were won over. And it begins on Shabbat in the congregation, hearing the word of YAH being manifested in the people of YAH on his set apart and sanctified day. Now, remember, this guy was a Pharisee.

 

OK, now with this understanding of what happened in Corinth, how it all began. Now we can move into 1 Corinthians chapter 11. We're laying a foundation, a beautiful foundation for the rest of the study next week.

 

But again, we must understand who wrote the majority of the New Testament and where the beliefs of Shabbat keeping come from in order to understand Shabbat manna. It's impossible without it. You surely can't find it in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

 

It's only a partial truth, right? You can't look to them for Hebrew answers. Where do you look for Hebrew answers? Anybody? In the Hebrew. You know, I used to look at the Hebrew text and I'd go Hebrew manna.

 

What is it? And now I look at it and go, thank you. Thank you, Ab, I thank him for my Sabbath manna that came through my understanding of Yahweh's people and the Hebrew language. Blessed be he.

 

So now let's take a little time travel here and we'll go to the first letter, 1 Corinthians and chapter 11. And I want to kind of set the stage here. Now, remember how it all started.

 

By Shaul being obedient as an apostle. So why do I keep bringing that up? I got to make sure I cross my T's and dot my I's here. Because the apostle was given the authority and the command or the command and the authority.

 

And that in that in that. Right in that order to set up these assemblies. Okay.

 

And so it was by his doctrine. It was by the apostles doctrine that these places were set up. So in order to understand this particular apostles doctrine, you must understand the mind of a Pharisee.

 

I got a series of books back there. I read. Called The Doctrine of the Pharisees.

 

Yeah. So now you guys know why I can't do Friday Night Live anymore. It's going to get crazy.

 

I'm telling you. I don't think it's bleeding over yet. But it will.

 

It's cute for a few minutes. Oh, well, 10. Now, so now now we're just see, we're going to build this up.

 

I mean, we must understand the book. We must understand the authors of these books as well. Yeah, it's probably not going to work.

 

Maybe if we try to give her a pacifier for a little bit. If not, it's about to get loud. All right.

 

So coming into Corinthians, now we have it established that that apostle who set up all of those assemblies was a Pharisee. So he was laced in the Torah. He knew it by heart could quote it.

 

He was also very well educated with the teachings of another Pharisee named Gamaliel. Not to mention the teaching that his dad as a Pharisee instilled in him. And let's take it a little bit deeper.

 

Do you not think that a righteous Pharisee? There is a such thing that if our righteousness does not exceed that of the Pharisees, we will show in no wise see the kingdom of Yahweh. Then we have to deal with the education that he received before his bar mitzvah. Which would have been his dad taking him to the local congregation every Shabbat and listening to that leader teach and give midrash.

 

Am I not right? You don't know how much education was instilled in this man before he got the wisdom and the knowledge and the understanding and the revelation of Mashiach. His walk was solid. His daddy raised him up in the way he should go.

 

And he did. So it was one of those just wind him up and boy, there he went. Who are thou? He asked the question.

 

Mana, who are you? What are you? I am Yahshua whom you persecuted. It's hard for you to kick against the goads show. What do you want me to do? I love you.

 

You got to forsake everything. And I want you to follow me. But I killed Stephen.

 

I killed many of your people. You let me worry about that. That's why I had to reveal myself to you because your sins would have killed you.

 

But now you're going to be a chosen vessel. And you're going to teach my word. Apollos, go get him.

 

Bring him blind as he is. Into the fold. But master, I've heard many terrible talk to I've just humbled him.

 

Knocked him off his horse. How serious do you think Shabbat is? How serious do you think Shabbat became to Shaul after getting knocked off of that horse? Honestly, after he was given that command. I'm going to raise you up.

 

I'm going to teach you for three years. And I'm going to I'm going to deprogram all of that junk out of you. And I'm going to reprogram you.

 

And I'm going to make you a vessel of honor. He knew where it all began. It's in the congregations.

 

It's in the places that bear Yah's name where everybody is Mikra on this HaKodesh day. HaKodesh. You understand? It's the customs.

 

It's the it's the patterns of Yah's people. We're going to see where that came from today. This is going to be a foundation shaker.

 

We're going to be reading verses one through three. First Corinthians chapter 11. And here we're going to see Shaul laying down the sequence of proper headship.

 

As he was the doctrinal leader and the teacher over not only the assembly in Corinth, but over every assembly that Yahweh used him to establish. You must continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine. Do you guys understand that? That is the that is the signet impression of Yahweh's people in the body of Yahshua.

 

Go read the end of Acts chapter 2. And they stayed steadfast in the apostles doctrine. Oh man, I don't know if I can follow a Pharisee. You better get to ripping pages out of your book.

 

Ultimately, when any man, no matter what he calls himself, turns around and follows Yahshua to the T, he is fit for the job. Hey, I'm an ex-convict. Get over it.

 

But I've got tattoos. Get over it. He did.

 

Did I mention I'm not perfect? But did I also mention that I feel complete? halleluYah. Are you following me? My, how time changes things. When you direct your time in the right place.

 

Pun intended. When you direct your time to the right place. This is where we're going to start getting into it.

 

This is this is it. I see some of you reading ahead. You already probably know where I'm taking this.

 

I'm taking this where scripture takes it. Okay, then we're going to get to the language. First Corinthians chapter 11 in verse 1 through verse 3. Become imitators of me.

 

Oh my goodness. Did you just hear the haughtiness? And the pride boil out of this man. No wonder he's been labeled a false apostle.

 

Pop, how could this man even think to tell us as a follower of Messiah to imitate him? I don't follow any man. Then you better get rid of the Brit. You are absolutely following a Pharisee who was following the one you're trying to get to.

 

Huh? See, the only way that we possess Yahshua, the Messiah at this point, is in our mind, in our heart, and by our walk. But there's going to come a time when we sit down and feast with him. It's a different type of possession.

 

Don't miss your calling. I become imitators of me as I also am of Mashiach. And I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in every way.

 

And what does that say? And keep the what? And keep the traditions as I delivered them unto you. We better read those two simultaneously. Okay.

 

Shaul writes, become imitators of me as I also am of Messiah. And I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in every way. And keep the traditions as I deliver them to you.

 

I am delivering and handing down. I am giving you sound doctrine when I advise you concerning on Shabbat manna. I'm following in the tradition of this guy who said he was following the Mashiach.

 

Who was Mashiach? Do you see a different picture here now? He said that his tradition was in line with walking with Yahshua. I've been blessed, brethren, with the way that I came into this faith and kept the Shabbat. And I can only advise you the customary practices or the traditions that I know Yahweh approved of.

 

Huh? It's in the book. It really is embedded in the book. And if Yahshua was Yahweh and the Mashiach was the sacrifice that he gave for us.

 

And Shaul told him, I want to praise you that you kept the traditions that I handed down to you. You see, it's a gift. It's something that we give to one another.

 

It doesn't have to be written. It has to be observed. It's an observation, this Shabbat manna.

 

What is it? Look to his people. And if you're going to look to these letters in the book, you better look to Shaul. Watch this.

 

And I wish you to know that the head of every man is Mashiach. And the head of woman is the man. And the head of Messiah is Yahweh.

 

Do you see what he just said? Imitate me. I'm imitating Yahweh. That means that this customary practice came down from Adam, from man, Adamah.

 

And we'll see just how it all began. We're getting, we're digging into this traditions, he says. He said, I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in every way and keep the traditions.

 

Do you understand that? He said, when you keep those traditions, you've got to remember me. Why? Because I handed them down to you. I gifted you those things.

 

I'm going to use this word gift. I have given you that. It's something that I shared with you, brethren.

 

Listen to those leaders that you know are being blessed by Yahweh for their Sabbath keeping, for their walk, for their ways of life. Not for their failures. Pray for them when you see them struggling.

 

Don't throw them under the bus, for they are messengers of Yahweh. Pray for them when you see them struggle. But look at their walk.

 

They are an example of that practice that we're talking about here. They are a product of that. And if you want in your life what you see in their life, then there's your answer.

 

Traditions, you say, Shaul? Is Shaul indeed handing down to the body of Messiah a Pharisaic tradition? That's a good question. Did the Pharisees have it all wrong? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a yes and no.

 

It's a yes and no thing. My whole point is I'm opening up our understanding today to Sabbath keeping by the one who was entrusted to us in the nations about what Sabbath keeping should look like. He just told us in 11 where his tradition came from.

 

It came from Yahweh, not the Pharisees. So it's a yes and no question. You see, the Pharisees did have a lot of righteousness and truth, as did the Sadducees.

 

I don't want to give all the credit to the Pharisees because the Sadducees are Zadokites. And they probably had more righteousness in their walk than the Pharisees did in the first century. It's just that our Bibles are geared to subject our views to Jews as Pharisees in that time frame.

 

Okay, traditions. You say, huh, Brother Paul, we are relying on the traditions that were handed down and in the knowledge of Yahweh's people for millennia now to actually come to grips with what is Shabbat, what is Sabbath manna, Shabbat manna. What is it? Oh, it's there.

 

It's on the other side of the road where you really don't look often. But it's there just because you don't see it. Don't make it not be there.

 

Oh, it's there. It's like a huge sore thumb. Yeah, that doesn't hurt.

 

But it's a constant reminder. It's there. Traditions is this Greek word, paradosis.

 

Okay, Greek number 3862, paradosis. I'm going to read you the definition and its root. Again, it's number 3862 in the Greek.

 

Oh, Father, paradosis. It's from 3860. It's a transmission, i.e., concretely a precept.

 

Specifically, Jewish traditionary law. What? Jewish traditionary law. This is paradosis.

 

Now, let's go up to the word in which it comes from, which is not defined as Jewish customary law. Number 3860. It's paradomei from 3844 and 1325.

 

To surrender, yield up in trust. You see this? So there were things written in the Jewish customary laws, or actually, they would have been written later on. But I'm sure they compiled some things in the first century as well.

 

But as far as the Mishnah and the Talmud and all of these things, those were compiled later. However, we are talking about the history of Jewish customary practice. In that day and age, it would have been Pharisee, pharisaical customary practice.

 

You see here in the root word where it came from, that it says surrender, yield up in trust. These are practices that were entrusted with Yahweh's people. Do you understand? These are practices that were allowed.

 

These were practices that were instilled. These were practices that were transmitted by Yahweh's people. It was customary.

 

Why? Because it was transmitted from somewhere else. It says to transmit. It's got something to do with communication.

 

So if you don't understand the Pharisee, and you don't understand the Sadducee, and you don't understand what he said in 1 Corinthians 11, one through three, forget about the rest of understanding anything, especially Shabbat, manna. Now, the polyglot tells us that that Greek word is used in the Greek Old Testament in Jeremiah chapter 32 and Jeremiah chapter 34. Let's turn there.

 

Yeremiah chapter 32 at verse 4. And Zedekiah, sovereign of Yehudah, shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but certainly what? Be given. He shall what? Be given. That's your word.

 

It's something that is given. The wisdom of what was about to happen to Zedekiah came from the prophet, who had the same authority as an apostle, and he was giving him information. This is the root meaning of what you're reading in the New Testament.

 

This tradition, it's something that had been given. It's not a customary practice of the Pharisees as in a law they generated, but this one was based on a customary practice, I submit to you, that was handed down to Adam, to man. In other words, it doesn't need to be written about.

 

It's been since the very beginning, huh? By Tzitzit. Oh yeah, that whole theory stems from the Shemayim. halleluYah, says Malachi.

 

Yep. Pretty simple, isn't it, three-year-old? Yep. You got it.

 

Why can't we? Now, let's look at the verse where it's used again, which is chapter 34, same book, and at verse two. Thus said Yahweh, the Elohim of Yisrael, Go and speak to Zedekiah, sovereign of Yehudah, and say to him, Thus Yahweh said, See, I am giving. Where was the source? Yahweh.

 

There's our word. I'm giving you. So this Greek word stems from the Hebrew word that they translated here as given.

 

When you give something to somebody, you're handing it down or handing it over to them. Our job is to find out whether that came from Yahweh or from this Pharisee. You understand? This is telling us everything about Shabbat because we see that he handed down a customary practice to Corinth and he established the assembly in Corinth on the Sabbath, his customary practice.

 

Was to go in there and teach on Shabbat in the congregation that bore Yahweh's name, in which they were no longer using Yahweh's name. And what did he declare to them? The name of Yahweh. And I'm going to baptize you in the name of Yahweshua.

 

He put the name back in the house where the people of Yahweh gather. On Shabbat in the place where Yahweh chooses to make his name dwell. That's where it began on Shabbat.

 

Pray not that your flight take place on the part of Shabbat. Because it would be great if he returned right now. Right? We're all together.

 

He comes and we go to the kingdom together. But there's a time period in Shabbat that wouldn't be so nice if he returned. During family dinner or after dinner when you're sitting around the fire and dad's speaking words of wisdom to you.

 

This gathering thing. Well, let me cover this first. So Paul or Shaul, the one who Yahweh used to bring or gather together those in Corinth.

 

On the Sabbath in the congregation, we now see instructing that same assembly in the ways and traditions that he himself was raised up. Obviously, because it was acceptable before Yahweh and kept his walk in order as it was meant as an example for others to walk in. He had been ordained by Yah.

 

And he said, follow me. Use me as an example. Imitate me.

 

He's not trying to get you to imitate Teddy Wilson. He's trying to get you to imitate Messiah in Teddy Wilson or Messiah in you and in you and in you and everybody here and everybody watching. If indeed your walk, your halakha is like Yahshua's.

 

Let's take this. This is not hard to understand. It's hard to get it out of your English Bible.

 

But once you see it, you'll never not see it again. This word that's used in Jeremiah chapter 32 and chapter 34, once you go back to the Hebrew is going to be ancient Hebrew lexicon number 2451 V on page 386. Chris, you want to.

 

So this is it here. Is that still a little fuzzy? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

 

Sorry about that. Now, yeah, brother Paul Matz, and now you can see good. So here we are.

 

Twenty four fifty one V. Natan. Natan is the Hebrew word. I skipped over the Strong's number here and went directly to the ancient Hebrew.

 

But as the Hebrew word Natan, noon to noon, noon to noon, a customary practice that was definitely meant for the continuance of the marking of the seed. Natan, it's something that was handed down to Adam in the garden. It was given to Adam to man was Sabbath made for man or man for the Sabbath.

 

Here we go. It means to give. See, when we investigate this, there are customary practices that were handed down by Yahweh that were just a given because the majority of Yahweh followers keep Shabbat.

 

So would it not be relevant to understand that at the same time that through the walks of Yahweh's people, how and what is permissible and what it should look like should be embedded in the history of his people. It's customary practices that were given from the very beginning. Everybody, this is Torah.

 

Like it or not, the whole book is full of customary practices. And what we have is the result of that from translator's minds to give a generic verb with a wide application, meaning to give. But the letters here are profound.

 

Found this tradition. Was embedded in the seed as a mark, and it would continue. You know that to have something happen the noon when it's present and the and the and the top when those things are together.

 

Do you understand is talking about covenant issue? Things that mark you was shown in covenant with Yahweh through Yahweh's redemption. Was he not an apostle? Was he not a Pharisee? Had he not been given the authority by Yahweh to teach them people about the Shabbat? It's a covenant issue. It's actually a mark of the covenant, a sign.

 

This is big. That's what that word goes back to. Hebraically speaking.

 

Our minds are so far away from that. Because of all the Christian stuff and and being leery with good cause. Because of so many traditions of men that we've been warned about, right, brother? Right, everybody with good reason.

 

That's why Yahweh said that he would raise up in these last days. In the body of Messiah, there were going to be apostles, prophets, teachers, leaders, evangelists, elders, something was going to have to be taught to Yahweh's people. Something given would have to be revealed to them.

 

What is given the Sabbath? The Sabbath is a day we would like to think of rest, as in kicking your boots off. Yeah, just sitting around, do nothing. So now let's get into the area of how that's relative to the Sabbath.

 

Shabbat manna. What is it? It is what it is. It is what it was.

 

It is what it always will be. It must be embedded inside of you, brother, sisters, brethren, everybody watching. These things must be revealed to you and embedded into you as a marked seed.

 

It's something that a man of Yahweh will give you. It's information, it's wisdom, it's knowledge. I've been blessed by this.

 

I used to do it like that, wasn't so good. But let me give, impart this gift unto you about the Shabbat. It's where things are gathered.

 

That's where this mikra, this mikvah, we're like waters on the earth and we all come together in the low spot. Things rest, get it? Mikra, mikvah, gathering, pull, covenant, mark, tradition, keep it, gather my people, bring them here. So Shabbat manna, Sabbath manna, do I remember the Sabbath? Which in English terms means, well, I got to bring it to recollection.

 

That's one thing I've got to do when we read the English. Text, it says, well, you got to remember the Shabbat. That's in the marriage covenant, by the way, we're going to be getting to that.

 

So we know these verses, it says that we are to remember the Sabbath. Okay, we're supposed to rest on the Sabbath, right? Isn't that what it says? Or does it not? What I want to do first is bring up the passages about the Sabbath prior to Exodus 20, prior to, because this is the one thing that we, the biggest disconnect in understanding all of this is the wrong sequence of studying the word Sabbath out. Remember Exodus 20 verse 7 was given in the marriage proposal, right? When he said, remember the Sabbath day.

 

The only thing he could be asking them to do is remember the things that had been discussed between them in the covenant prior to that day. I want you to remember to bring to recollection the things that we have spoken about concerning Shabbat, the Hebrew word Shabbat. So let's focus on that.

 

Because that in our marriage covenant with him is what he was speaking about bringing to our recollection is what was said in scripture and what was customarily practiced up unto that day. In other words, everyone, Leviticus 23 is not in the hat yet. That comes later.

 

Hey, let's go back to 1 Corinthians real quick. This is why we're searching this out. Shaul in that same chapter, chapter 11, he goes through that he received from the master that which he delivered unto them in verse 23.

 

So he's telling you again that this tradition, he received it or it was approved by the master. Why? He's an apostle. He was taught by Yahshua himself.

 

All right. These are of the master. These traditions.

 

Oh, I know there's people up there. Yeah. Oh, Teddy, your dead relatives are rolling over in the grave.

 

I wish they would. I wish they and they will. Follow me.

 

Then he goes on to tell them about this breaking of the bread, drinking of the cup and the washing of the feet that you could do this to your own condemnation. You can eat and drink of the body of Messiah unworthily. If you don't follow the customary practices of Yahweh's people.

 

That's what he's saying. Read the chapter yourself. It's not going to change.

 

Now, son, sit down. Thank you. Let's focus on 27 verse 27 through the end of the book.

 

Listen, this is huge. So that whatever. So that whoever should eat this bread or drink this cup of the master unworthily shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the master.

 

But let a man examine himself. And so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup for the one who is eating and drinking unworthily eats and drinks judgment to himself. Not discerning the body of the master.

 

Now, what did he tell us? He said these these things that he's teaching them, these traditions. Now, these are things that were given. These are customary practices that were given since the beginning of time.

 

Many of them keep going. He says in verse 30, because of this, many are weak and sick among you and many sleep asleep at the will and the body of Messiah, lacking the things that had been handed down through Yahweh's people, even this Pharisee. Throughout time, look what he says.

 

So whenever Shaul was going to enter a new city, what was his goal? We just read it. That he'd show up just in time to go into Shabbat. OK, so keep that in mind.

 

When he took a Nazarite vow, shaved his head, what did he tell everybody there? By all means, I must make this next feat in the place that bears Yahweh's name in Yerushalayim. I have a vow to fulfill. I got to get there with the brothers and sisters when they're gathered.

 

OK, verse 31. For if we were to examine ourselves, we would not be judged. And when we are judged, we are disciplined by the master that we should not be condemned with the world.

 

So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home. This is definitely talking about gathering for Shabbat.

 

Listen to what he says. Verse 34. And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment.

 

And the rest, he says, you do these things, right? And the rest, I shall set in order when I get there. Do you see this? And the rest of these things that you've been asking me about will set in order when I get there. I'm coming to bring order to the congregation.

 

Don't you have one egg knowing that there's a brother that's coming from far away through snow, through storms, through whatever. Don't you eat without him. You wait for him to come to the table and rejoice with you and give thanks over the meal that YAH has provided for his people.

 

So I got to eat and run, not on the Shabbat, you won't. And the rest, I shall set in order when I come. He's talking about, remember how I came to you the first time? That's how I'm going to come to you again.

 

I'll see you guys on Shabbat when I get there. And we're going to set some things in order. In other words, hey, Corinth, you're going to have one of the most early Shabbat services you've ever had when I get there.

 

We're going to start setting everybody's Halakha in order. Sabbath and congregation right smack dab in the middle of it and getting there. Now, so what do we do? Remember, rest on the Sabbath, these English words.

 

What is it? What is expected of me? Let's cover those. Let's go to Bereshit. Now, remember, these are prior to Exodus chapter 20 and at verse 7 in the marriage covenant proposal.

 

We're going to look at things prior to that because Yahweh could not be asking them to remember something that he had not yet implemented. Bereshit chapter 2. Man, are we having an earthquake? So listen to this. This is the English.

 

Then we're going to go to the Hebrew. Then we're going to go to Exodus chapter 16. We're going to read the English.

 

Then we're going to go to the Hebrew. All the way down the list. Then we're going to go to Exodus 20.

 

Okay, so am I supposed to just remember the Sabbath? Am I supposed to rest on the Sabbath? You know, what are these things? What does that look like? Chapter 2, Bereshit verses 1 through 3. Thus, the Shemayim and the Eretz were completed and all their array. And on Shebei, on the seventh yom, Yahweh completed his work, which he had done. And he rested on the seventh day.

 

So this is where we're getting this rest thing injected into our minds when we just read the English text. Because we know what rest is and many of us do need it. Right? We need rest.

 

We need rest for healing. We need rest for surgeries. We need rest because of this.

 

We need rest because the kids will drive you insane. Or whatever it may be. Or your job.

 

But is that the intent of a Sabbath day's rest? I'm talking about, question this. Rest, English definition. Our thought of rest.

 

Now, follow me. This is critical. He rested on the seventh day from all of his work, which he had made.

 

What? He made work? No. No, he created life. See, Yahweh's works creates life.

 

So actually, he was just resting from creating. And like we said last week, it's not that he got, you know, bushed. He was tired.

 

No, no, that's not it. From the work which he had made. Everything that we see in creation is by the works of Yahweh's hands.

 

It was created through his word. Huh? Making sense? His word? This is part of Shabbat. Right? That's why his word is what brings you rest.

 

The book of Hebrews, chapter four. We may get into that next week. But verse three.

 

And Elohim blessed the seventh day, Shabee, and set it apart. Because on it, he rested. There's that word again.

 

From all of his work, which Elohim in creating had made. All right. Chris, you might have to zoom in pretty good here.

 

Just keep me out of the frame if you can get in there as close as you can. We're looking at this one. All right.

 

So I'm going to walk you through this. We're going to look at the Hebrew here. There's the Masoretic script right to your left.

 

This is the translation of those Hebrew words. And over here to the right is the English text with the Hebrew numbers hovering over them. Okay, so I'm going to walk you through the English text.

 

And we're going to see what they translated as rest in verse two. So beginning at verse one. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the hosts of them.

 

That's critical. And all of the hosts. Something happened during that time period.

 

Now, didn't one of those hosts rebel? All right. Verse two. And on the seventh day, Elohim ended his work, which he had made, and he rested.

 

There's our English. Well, that means, hey, I'm tired of working all week. I'm going to sleep today.

 

I'm going to sleep in. I'm going to, you know what? I might not even, I might not even get dressed today. I'm going to rest, right? But I mean, that's rest to me.

 

Yeah. If I want to brush my teeth, I will. If I don't want to, I won't.

 

If I want to lay in bed, I'm going to rest. The doctor said I should get rest. Yahweh said you should rest.

 

Which one is it? How? Manah. What is it? What does it look like? And he rested. Uh-oh.

 

And he kept Shabbat. Oh, well, there's that problem again. Let me go over here.

 

We'll find it. There it is. There's your word.

 

And he Shabbat. Notice that it says in the modern

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Shabbat Shalom, Seekers of Yahweh Ministries here in Craigmont, Idaho, and welcome to another Seekers Sabbath Live, halleluyah. So today we're going to be going through the second part in the series and last part in the series called Shabbat Manah, Sabbath. What is it? What's it supposed to look like? Are we sending up that sweet smelling aroma? You know, that's why there are sacrifices on the Shabbat in the Hekal, in the Mishkan.

The Sabbath itself is a day that is sacrificed out of the seventh day week that Yahweh has instituted since the beginning of time. The time when there's no work to be done, no buying, no selling, we have the basic information that we need. And there's a lot of things in this study that we're really not touching on because there really shouldn't be a need to touch on the basics about what the scriptures say to do and what not to do on the Sabbath.

But we do offer a Word document and it's called Sabbath, a sign and a promise. Okay, so it is about a 30 page booklet and it goes through everything and at the end of the booklet it also goes through all of these questions and comments that might be used in rebuttal to keep the seventh day Sabbath. And we want to offer that this morning.

You guys, Brother Chris will be pulling up all of our contact information throughout the teaching today. And just get a hold of us, send us an email and let me know if you want that Word document and I will send it to you. That way you can share it with others and you can study it over and over and over and get it instilled into this thinking box.

This brain of ours that needs reprogrammed. halleluyah. So we do want to offer that up as well.

But this is a more of an in-depth study. And by the end of today, I know that there's going to be some, somebody's going to get their feathers ruffled. But here's the thing.

It is what it is. The language is what it is. The language will never lie to us when it's properly interpreted.

It can only shed the light on the truth if it's used correctly. More importantly, when things are set in order, like we went over last week with Shaul. He said, do this, this, and this.

And when I get there, we're going to set things in order. And how do we set things in order? Hebraically speaking, Debarim. It's by the words of Almighty Yah.

It is the final authority. This language and the Hebrew text in its unadulterated form is the final authority. It's not your view, my view, Yohanan, your view, any of us in the room today or any of us watching.

It's not our view that matters or what we think. Are we keeping, guarding Shemar, the Shabbat, which is a sign of the covenant? Or as we presented, are we merely just remembering it? We're going to set these things in order. And you guys have heard me touch on little pieces of this in the past whenever we had questions coming about the Sabbath.

But today, I'm going to compile it and set it in order. And we're going to look at the Hebrew text and the Hebrew words. And then you guys tell me what you think it means, Shabbat manna, what it is and what it's definitely not.

It's definitely not Sunday. We've got that. But blessed be the name of YAH.

This is going to be another foundation shaker. But nevertheless, it is the Emet ha Yahweh. And we're going to set these things in order.

And call up, call them up, call them up. Send this link out. We're about to dive into something.

That is stemming from something that is surreal. Not just real talk. Something that is surreal.

We're going to dive into this Hebrew. And we're going to see what this sign is supposed to look like in our lives. According to Yahweh.

And what he said and he designed and his pattern. halleluyah. Father, we praise you this morning.

And we thank you so very much for your seventh day Sabbath. We ask forgiveness of any sin we may have committed against your covenant. And as we begin to embark on your word.

A study in your word. We ask that you would lead us and you would guide us. And help us to set things in order.

That we can make some decisions today. No matter who you are or where you're at in the world. If you're watching this.

Or you watch it later in the recorded version. We have some questions to ask ourselves as the body of Messiah. Are we guarding the Shabbat? The mitzvot concerning Shabbat? Or are we merely remembering it? Father help us.

We ask for your guidance. We pray that you would continue to lead us. Into all truth by way of your Ruach.

And we ask and pray all of this in the mighty name of your redemption. Yahshua. halleluyah.

And amein. Brother Yohanan. halleluyah.

Thank you brother. So if you were not watching last week. We're going to be posting the first part of this series in the description box.

After everything's uploaded to our various platforms. After the recorded version goes up. And we'll do a brief recap.

Of what we were looking into last week as well. If you remember last week I told everybody. Now please remember.

The sequence of the way we were looking at the verses concerning Shabbat. We took a look at passages in the Hebrew text. That actually were written or spoken or took place.

Prior to the marriage covenant proposal. Or what everybody refers to as the 10 commandments. That we looked at the the ones that happened prior to that last week for a reason.

Now today we're going to take a look at the ones that came after that. We're going to take a deep look into Deuteronomy. We're going to take a deep look into Leviticus.

These are the things that were added to wrote. So this to wrote thing the instructions the plural form of Torah is the key here. Okay it doesn't say that as we're going to see Abraham guarded his charge.

And his statutes and his laws that's not what it says in the Hebrew text. He guarded the to wrote which is a plural form of Torah. Which means instructions continued instructions.

That would come from the mouth of the malech of the king. And we must also as Abraham's children accept those stipulations. Is anybody in the room or anybody watching? You got the chat section on some of the platforms go ahead and chime in here.

Are you willing are we in the body Messiah willing to do whatever it takes to fulfill the mitzvot concerning HaShabbat? Or do we even at this point know from a Hebrew perspective what those requirements are? After today we're going to have no excuse. This is it that's why I told many of you last week. And I've got a couple of emails from some of you that said well.

And where I was asking if you had been baptized yet. A few of you that have contacted me concerning last week's teaching. And both of them had the same answer.

They said well no I haven't been properly baptized. And I see that you say that we should be keeping the Shabbat. Eating clean food and using the proper names and titles.

Which I'm pretty sure both of them said the same exact thing. I'm pretty sure that I'm doing all of these things. But after your next teaching I'll know for sure whether I've got this Shabbat thing down or not.

There's many things about this stuff that we do not know. We don't see it. How can we know something that YAH has not revealed? Well I submit to you that in the Hebrew text the revelations are there.

That's why we do what we do. But if we're not willing to pull ourselves into the alignment of the will of Yahweh. Why? Let me ask you this.

This is oh father. The Mashiach made this quote. And he said I know that you hear me.

I know that you always hear me. But what was the reasoning behind all of this? Because I do the things that please you. Now we're going to get into this word please and pleasure today.

Because if we do not do our own pleasure then we are doing his pleasure on Shabbat. And a lot of people go what does that mean? Look it up. It's there.

The Hebrew confirms what is being said. Okay so having said that here's where we're going to begin today. I'm going to show you the difference.

In the point of Sabbath as well as all of the mitzvot concerning Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Because they only received the promises of the inheritance. They never saw the fulfillment.

It was Abraham's seed that went into the land. Yisrael. So Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob received the promises of the inheritance.

But Yahweh made sure that they knew it was going to be granted to their seed eternally. So they never saw the fulfillment of the inheritance of the promised land. But they did keep the Sabbath as well as all of the instructions.

The Torah. We're going to take a look at this. Given to them at that time.

Only Abraham's seed went into the land of promise. But by that time there were more Torah given. More instructions applied in the covenant of promise concerning the Shabbat.

Which included further instruction on how, when, where, and why they were to shemar the Shabbat. Shabbat manna. It's pretty simple.

It's a Hebrew thing. Do you suppose that Yahweh knew that there would be a zealous group of people in the last days. That he would begin to reveal the deep things concerning his word through his language.

Are we actually picking up what he put down? Do you hear me? Literally. Are we now starting to pick up what he literally put down. What he actually said.

I've heard so many arguments over. Well, what does it mean? What does it mean to keep and guard the Sabbath? Everybody has a different view of that. What does it mean if you don't do your own pleasure? It's very unclear in our English Bibles.

Isn't it? There's arguments to be made. Those arguments will be dissipated today. We're going to look at the Hebrew text.

The Hebrew definitions. And folks, it is what it is. We're going to set everything in order.

In other words. So there was Torah that Yahweh had instituted instructions. Concerning all of the mitzvot.

But the topic today being Shabbat. And Abraham followed those things. And he listened to the instructions.

The further instructions of our king. By the time Moshe rolls around. And they're about to go into the kingdom in the book of Deuteronomy.

We have the great reset. You think that that's happening today, people? The great reset has already happened millennia ago. There will be no great reset in this world.

The world can't reset itself. The governments of this world can't reset itself either. Well, all it can do is destroy.

It cannot build up. A true reset happens. Whenever we start to recap the promises that were given.

To Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The great resets already happened. It has nothing to do with money.

Gold, silver. The rising of one country. And the going down of another.

That has nothing to do. That's just prophecy. It's never going to change.

But what did happen was. Moshe began to recap. Reset the promises that were given.

To Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And their seed. Bereshit 26.

And at verse 5. Now remember I said. There's a lot of these little passages. That we have touched on in the past.

But today. We're going to set them in order. And go over it with a fine tooth comb.

We're not going to leave one leaf. Unraped. Or one rock.

Not turned over. We're going to set it in order. I'm going to show you what I mean.

There were institutions about the Torah. That were made in the days of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And they followed them.

But by the time we get to Moshe. And the children of Israel. About to go into the land.

And after Mount Sinai episode. As we're going to see. There were instructions added.

More instructions added to. What the Shabbat is supposed to look like. Shabbat Mana.

Now many of you that are reading the scriptures. You're going to see the word. To wrote used in this passage.

Many of you that are reading. Some other sacred name version. You're not going to see it.

Or the King Jimmy. Or one of those versions like it. Beresheet chapter 26.

Beginning of verse one. And there was a scarcity of food in the land. Besides the first scarcity of food.

Which was in the days of Abraham. And Yitzhak went to Abimelech. Sovereign of the Philistines in Gerar.

And Yahweh appeared to him and said. Do not go down to Mitzrayim. Live in the land which I command you.

Sojourn in this land. And I shall be with you and bless you. For I give all these lands to you and your seed.

And I shall establish the what? At the very end of this study. We're going to go to the root line. In the ancient Hebrew lexicon.

On the word Sabbath. A lot of people will argue. Well you can say that the Sabbath is alluded to.

In the commandments in the mitzvot. It's very hard to prove in the English. But not in the Hebrew.

Oh father. And establish the oath. Which I swore to Abraham your father.

And I shall increase your seed. Like the stars of the Shemayim. And I shall give all these lands to your.

What? Zarah. To your seed. And in your seed all the nations of the earth.

Shall be blessed. And here's why. Because.

Abraham obeyed. My voice. Shamar.

My charge. See? So Abraham. Shamard.

The charge that was given in the mitzvot. At that time. But then it says this.

My commands. There's the mitzvot. My laws.

And my. Now many of you are seeing my precepts. Or statutes.

And my laws. Because in the Hebrew. This word kukah.

It can be translated as law. It made no sense to me. It says my law and my laws did not make sense.

To the translators. Because they know the Hebrew word torot. Is the plural form of Torah.

But guess what? Torah doesn't mean law. They didn't know that either. And neither do many people.

That are starting to wake up. To the truth of Yahweh's word. My laws and my.

Then we see the word torot. Now. Point being.

This is telling us that at that time. There was a certain. Amount of mitzvot.

That Abraham. Was guarding. But had the book of Leviticus.

Been written yet. How about Deuteronomy? How about numbers? There was. Laws or torot or instructions.

From the very beginning. Or Adam could not have sinned against Yahweh. And Hosea tells us in chapter six.

Of his writings. That like Adam. They have all transgressed.

My barit. My covenant. And we can't see that in most English versions.

Because they didn't translate the English word. Or the Hebrew word Adam. As.

Adam. They put men or man there. Instead of Adam's name.

So I just many translations just say. And like man. But it's like Adam.

They have all transgressed my covenant. In other words. From the very beginning.

Yahweh's creation. Has broke. His mitzvot.

Are you following me? Chris go ahead and. Zoom in here. I want to point out the Hebrew words.

To you. 26 and at verse 5. In Bereshit. Says because that.

Abraham. Obeyed. What's that Hebrew word? Shema.

Shema. It's Shema. It's a form of Shema.

It's also the form of Shemar. These things are all connected. He's Shema.

And there we see. That it means to hear. Causatively.

To tell. See. He was going to pass this stuff down.

To Isaac. And Ya'aqob. Are you following me here? The instructions is about to be talked about.

That would be built on. Would be instilled. Into the seed of Abraham.

He Shema. Kept. Is Shemar.

Which means it's a hedge about. It is to guard. To protect.

To attend to. How about anciently? Preserve. Anciently it means to preserve it.

If something. Was not going to be used. Later.

Why. Would it need to be. Preserved.

Are you following me? This is Hebrew thought. If something was not going to be opened up. This is part of the covenant rule here.

Then why would it need to be preserved? Let's keep going. It says my charge. Which is this Hebrew word.

Meshmeret. Now I say that you go back on your own time. And look at that word in the ancient Hebrew lexicon.

And then here it says my commandments. And that's where we see the mitzvah. And then you'll see that they translated here.

As statutes. But actually more anciently speaking it meant law. Torah doesn't mean law.

But there are laws in the Torah aren't there? That's. And my see that they translated to wrote laws. That's why they went back and was looking at the word.

And so we can't put law there. So they put statue instead. And the English says and my laws.

But look is that Hebrew word the plural form of Torah. Torah wrote. How do we know there is a. There's ta wa resh.

Hey. Torah. But it's in the plural form.

Which is Torah wrote. Let me show you that over here. See it.

See how it's built. It's root is Torah. But that's the plural form.

It's got the. It doesn't have the hay at the end. It's oat making it plural.

OK. So this is to wrote. Actually it properly speaking.

He said at the end of the end of the sentence in modern Hebrew. He said Torah T. You see the yod at the very end there as a suffix. OK.

So do you guys see the basis. Here there was. Things that Abraham and his children.

Were guarding shemaring at that time. But they had also agreed to follow further instructions. That's where we're falling flat on our face.

We don't even know where these further instructions came. The majority of us. It's very important that we set.

These things in order. So now that we've established that. Let's go back recap a little bit of.

Last week study. And then we're going to move right into. Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

And we're going to embark on. What it is. What Sabbath is according to the Hebrew text.

So last week in this series we established. The fact that Shaul was setting things in order. First.

That first Corinthians. 11 teaches us. How important the gathering is.

And that it is to be. Practice in an orderly fashion. We then studied how that looks.

According to scripture. And the customary practices of Yahweh's people. This week.

Today. We will learn how we. Keep Shabbat after.

You hear me. We're going to learn how we keep guard shemar Shabbat. After.

The marriage prop proposal. All right. Because.

It wasn't until. The building of the golden calf at Sinai. After the promises had been given.

And one of those stipulations was for us to remember. The Shabbat. Now everybody's got that down pat in our faith.

They are remembering it. But they're not shemaring it. Does that make them a Sabbath breaker? Rather than a Sabbath keeper.

I can't be the judge of that. All I'm going to do is today. I'm going to present the evidence.

I'm going to put all the scriptures in order. And then all of you people out there have. Have some.

Some things to ask yourself. That's it. We're going to look at how we keep Shabbat.

After the marriage proposal covenant. At Mount Sinai. By the further instruction given to Yah's people.

Concerning Sabbath observance. In Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Remember because.

That's when the Levites were called in. And the first born priesthood. The Melchizedek priesthood.

Was put on hold. And we have the Levites now being granted. To help.

Aaron in his priesthood. And then there was more stipulation. More mitzvot given.

In the book of Leviticus. Deuteronomy. Numbers so on and so forth.

So setting those in order now. Is very very important to understand. That there were added instructions.

By the time they went into the land. Right that's and that's my point with the. Pre and post.

Egypt Passover. It's the same thing. You can't say well I'm going to do it.

Or keep it like they did. In Egypt. No you can't do that.

Now you're becoming a lawbreaker. Because there was further instructions given. It's the same thing with all of the mitzvot.

That's what I'm trying to tell you guys. This is simple. This is like 101 stuff.

When you start to break it down. And put things in order time wise. So let's.

Let's take a look at this. The big restart. Let's start looking in the book of Deuteronomy.

At the recap. Now this is going to be scriptural proof. As to what I'm laying out there for you guys today.

Deborah was. Said to be the last compilation. Of Moshe's words.

And that's what Deborah means. It's just a compilation of words. That Moshe wrote down in remembrance.

Of everything y'all had told him to write. From Bereshit. All the way up to.

The time he handed everything over to. Yahshua, but none. It's a recap.

The great restart has already happened. If you're an Israelite. A Hebrew.

The world's not going to restart mean nothing. We're ready here. We are ready here.

Come Yahshua come. Sweet, sweet. Yahshua.

So starting in Deuteronomy. Moshe begins with the marriage covenant. In the recap.

In the great restart. He starts. With the.

Marriage covenant proposal in view. He does that first. In other words, he starts with the 10 commandments.

To those of you who are still on that that level. He starts with them first. Why? That's what we're trying to get back to.

Everything else is applicable for what? To get back to the marriage covenant. The marriage supper of the lamb is going to happen. Do you understand? Reset.

Let's start over. Yahweh says. So to the man of Yah.

Moshe. He puts it on his heart to compile these writings. In this fashion.

This is huge. Let's go to. Deuteronomy.

Chapter five. Actually, let's start in four. Or stay ready with four.

Now, this is something that I've spoke on a few times in the past. We'll come back to that. Okay, let's go to Deuteronomy.

Five. And. We'll be looking through.

Verses one through 22. And Moshe called all of Yisrael. Verse one.

And said to them here. Oh, Yisrael. Shema Yisrael.

The laws and right rulings which I speak. In your hearing today. What? Is he continuing? Some to wrote here.

So I want to point this out. We're going to systematically. We're going to peel this one apart.

Like a banana. Banana. Now, I wanted to point that out first because.

Let's go back to chapter four. Verses 44 and 45. See, sometimes when we write, read this straight through.

And we're not looking for this. We're just not going to see it. We read the words and we understand the words.

But we may not know the purpose. Of the words. In chapter four.

Of Debarim. Verses 44 and 45. Look at what it says.

And this is the Torah. Which Moshe set before the children of Yisrael. These are the witnesses.

And the laws and the right rulings. Which Moshe spoke to the children of Yisrael. After they came out of Mitzrayim.

Added instructions right there. You see this? Yahweh began to add instructions. To the existing instructions.

That were connected to Abraham, Yitzchak and Ya'aqob. Again, verse 46. Beyond the Yarden in the valley.

Opposite Beth Peor. Yahweh is absolutely adding to rot. Through Moshe.

Now that they are nearing the land of promise. What? Now that they are nearing the land of promise. Yahweh begins to add to rot.

To the covenant rules. Now picking back up in chapter 5. In verse 1. And Moshe called all of Yisrael. And said to them.

Hear O Yisrael. The laws and the right rulings. Which I speak in your hearing today.

And you shall learn them. Wait a minute. So if these had been instructions that existed.

Simply from the time of Abraham, Isaac and Ya'aqob. Then they would have already known. These instructions.

Huh. Could the language be showing us exactly the truth. That what would happen to the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Ya'aqob.

That the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Ya'aqob. Isaac. Being the one that we looked at here.

In the Hebrew. He was agreeing. To follow continued instruction.

Oh you stiff neck people. Come on Israel. You don't want to be instructed by the men of Yah.

You don't. You want to be a freelancer. You want to do this on your own.

It's not going to be accepted. It's not. You better line your pleasure.

Up with his pleasure. You better line your will. Up with his will.

For such is the kingdom of the Shemayim. That's it. You know.

He doesn't need me. He doesn't have to have me. Yahweh is not hard up for servants.

The servants should be hard up for Yahweh. He's the one with the keys of eternal life. And he's the one that's going to see if your pleasure.

And your will is lining up with his. Before you go into that kingdom. You will not go into the kingdom.

In the first resurrection of the dead. Behind Yahshua. If your will is not the same will of the father.

If your will is not to gather. Or if your will is to gather. But you won't gather.

Right. You won't make the decision. That's that's my whole point in this.

What is Sabbath supposed to look like? Follow along. I'm going to show you exactly what the Hebrew says. We're going to set the scriptures in order.

You know finally deciding to do this teaching. I was very hard pressed. It was almost as hard pressed as the head covering.

Teaching that I was asked to do. It's one of those things that you really feel reserved in doing. Because you don't want to hurt the brothers and sisters feelings.

I don't want people to feel like I'm speaking against them. Or their efforts at whatever level that may be. I'm not.

I've been simply asked as a man of Yahweh. To produce the evidence of what the Sabbath is supposed to look like in our lives. Yahweh's pleasure.

What pleases Yahweh on Shabbat. Is that it pleasures you. That your desire is to Mikra and keep it Kodesh.

That is his will by his own words. Not mine. So here we see Moshe lay all of this stuff out.

And he begins with. Guess what? The marriage covenant proposal. In other words what we're doing here in Debarim from chapter 5. All the way to oh I believe it's 12, 13, and 14 somewhere in there.

He's going back over all of the right rulings. All of the taroth that have been instructed since Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Because it's how we get back to this.

This is the most important part of the instructions. To understand where he's trying to bring you. Through those instructions.

You show me where the body of Yahshua is gathered. I'm going to show you where Yahweh is. halleluyah.

You show me where the people are gathered. Keeping the Mikra HaKodesh together. And I'm going to show preserving it.

And I'm going to show you a people who will be preserved. You see the Sabbath preserves man. It was made for man.

And remembering it, it's much more than that. And you shall learn to guard them. You shall learn them and guard to do them.

Verse 2 chapter 5. Yahweh Elohim made a covenant with us in Horeb. Where? He made a covenant with us in Horeb. That's Mount Sinai.

And he's saying, but some things have changed since Horeb. Remember? In the book of Hebrews. Not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day that they rebelled against me.

It's not talking about a separate covenant. This covenant can't be broken. If you go in behind Yahshua in the first resurrection of the dead.

You can never. Your covenant. The beret between you and Yahweh can never ever be broken.

It's eternal. It's not a different covenant. It's a preserved thing.

Yahweh verse 3. Did not make this covenant with our fathers. What? But with us. Those who are here today.

All of us who are alive. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had a separate set of rules. All the way to Adam concerning Sabbath.

Concerning the mitzvot, the instructions. The laws, the precepts and everything. Yahweh has constantly been adding instruction.

Because mankind has constantly been sinning against the will of Yahweh. So he has to continually punch a loophole. And make another commandment.

Or another way to repent from the rebellion of Israel. Without the Torah. There would be no kingdom.

Do you understand? Without the gift of repentance. From new ways that mankind has conjured up in their lifestyles. To sin against Yah.

This is truth. This is Torah. We're going to get some Hebrew here.

Oh father. Look what he says in verse 3 again. Yahweh did not make this covenant.

With our. And I go look at the Hebrew there. Please it's not a different covenant.

It's just. In other words. Stipulations had been added to the original covenant.

That the patriarchs had not received. But with us. Those who are here today.

All of us who are what? Alive. Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain. In the midst of the fire.

I stood between Yahweh and you. At that time to declare you. The word of Yahweh.

For you were afraid because of the fire. And you did not go up to the mountain saying. I am Yahweh your Elohim.

Who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim. Out of the house of bondage. You have no other mighty ones against my face.

Uh oh. What did we just jump into? Here we go. He said I stood as a witness at this marriage.

That's what he's saying. I witnessed. That he said he would give us this.

And you said. Everything that he said we will do and obey. You said I do.

And I was a witness to that. So here's the great restart. Let's go over this again.

Here is the reason for the true season of Yahweh. Here's the real reason for the seasons. And it has nothing to do with Christmas.

And Easter. And little bunnies jumping around laying eggs. It's got everything to do.

With the Moadim. Do you understand what I'm saying here? Because that's where it goes after this. In verse 6. I am Yahweh your Elohim.

Who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim. And out of the house of bondage. There's number one.

Verse 8. You do not make for yourself a carved image. In the likeness. Uh.

Any likeness of which is in the heavens above. Or which is on the aretes beneath. That's two.

Then he tells you not to bow down to them. Verse 10 as well. And then in verse 11.

We go through the third instruction. In the marriage ketubah. You do not bring the name of Yahweh your Elohim.

Do not. Not using it brings it to nothing. Using other ones over it.

In your worship brings it to nothing. That's the third. Then the fourth we have.

Here it is. Uh oh. There's the word.

He just got through telling you. That the stipulations have changed. And he tells us now.

That we have to guard. Even the new stipulations. At the recap and the reset.

Of this covenant. You have to agree. To the added instruction.

Does everybody in the room agree to that? Don't be so quick. Well you guys have already done most of it. But those of you online.

Don't be so quick to say. Yes I am. Hold on.

Guard shemar ha-shabbat. Yo. Right there.

Guard the sabbath day. Now the sabbath day looks different. What is it? Huh? Shabbat manah.

Shabbat. What is it? Here we go. We have.

We now have. The proof. That there was added instructions.

To the sabbath. And the children of Israel. Our fathers.

Agreed to those stipulations. For us. As they went into the land.

That was promised to Abraham. Isaac and Jacob. Prior to the reinstitution.

Of more mitzvot. You see every time you mess up. Yahweh doesn't make it easier for you.

He adds something for you to overcome. He adds something for you to learn by. He adds something in your walk.

That will cause you. To put on the braces. Put braces on your legs.

That will make you walk straight. And in obedience. You're not going to walk into the kingdom.

Rolling all over the place. Just a hot mess. Like a train wreck.

Looking for a cup of coffee. That's not the way it works. He continually adds.

Instruction. Because it's like a leg brace. Right? That thing hinders you, doesn't it? But in the end, what is the goal? That you'll be walking properly.

That's the goal. Welcome to Yahweh's world. Everybody's wearing a neck brace.

Stiff neck. Don't hurt yourself. Again, there we see the fourth command.

Guard Shemar. HaShabbat Yom. To what? Make it Kodesh.

Set it apart. As Yahweh, your Elohim, look at this, commanded you. There's that Hebrew word, mitzvot.

There it is. So in the Hebrew here, we are agreeing to Shemar. The added instructions that were placed upon Shabbat after the golden calf.

Don't put that on Abraham. Abraham didn't build that calf. Neither did he instruct his seed to build that calf.

We're the ones that need the added instructions. And this is why Yahshua added to the instructions when he was on the earth. When Yahweh's redemption was here on the earth.

And he said, you have heard it said of old. Huh? You shall not commit adultery. And he said, but I'm telling you, when you really think about it.

If you just, if you just look at the woman with lust in your heart, you've already committed adultery. You see, he didn't, he's, he's, he's, this, the halakha constantly gets harder. Because he's training us for the kingdom.

Yeah. And it's, and it's, and it's going to penetrate your soul, your thoughts, your inner man. Or inner woman, a koteen, sisters.

Then the fifth is brought up in verse 16. Of course, 17, 18, 19 are all the sixth, seventh, and eighth instruction in the marriage ketubah. Chapter 20 is verse nine.

You do not bear false witness against your neighbor. And then we see in verse 21, number 10, you do not covet your neighbor's anything. It's not yours.

So again, here, we see the recap starts with the marriage covenant. But as we've seen, they had received different instruction or to wrote by this time. In many areas, mainly on this topic about Shabbat.

Verse 12 specifically brings up how to shamar these things. Because they had changed at that point. So you got to, what he's trying to do is get the children of Israel to say, I do again, to the same things that they said I do to at Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai.

But now that there had been instructions given, they had to reiterate some things. They had to say, I do again. Okay, we can do that.

And Moshe is the witness and advocate for them between Israel and Yahweh. He said, I got to hear you say it. Do you mean it? Look at verse 29 and verse chapter five.

Oh, that they had such a heart in them to fear me and to shamar all my men to vote always. When? Always. So it's very clear that the added to wrote were instituted in this great reset and this recap that begins in Deuteronomy chapter five.

It's also spoken about in Deuteronomy chapter four, as we read. So we see that the instructions written in the book of Leviticus are now implied. And I'm not just saying that I'm going to show you.

We're going to go to the scriptures that prove that. Let's go to the 14th chapter of Deuteronomy. If you look in chapter 14 of Debarom verses three through 23, the food laws had now been established for national inheritance.

They were to shamar that. So why do I point that out? Well, let's look here. Verse three, do not eat whatever is abominable.

These are the living creatures. So he's going over all of the right rulings and the instructions again. Before they go into the kingdom.

Do you get my point? Before you go into the kingdom, you must shamar all of the men's vote. That's why this church doctrine is so damnable about doing away with the commandments. And that there's a law of Messiah that is different than the law of Yahweh.

As we were speaking about this morning. No, there's not. So here we see he goes over all of that.

And in verse 23, let's take a look at that. And you shall eat before Yahweh your Elohim in the place where he chooses to make his name. So in these instructions, they were about to go into the kingdom and Yahweh stipulates.

We're going to look at these verses. Yahweh stipulates that he was going to raise up places where his name would dwell. In all of the tribes.

Why is that important? Let's finish reading. And you shall eat before Yahweh Elohim in the place where he chooses to make his name dwell. The tithe of your grain, and your new wine, and your oil, and your firstlings of your herds, and your sheep, so that you learn to fear Yahweh your Elohim always.

Now, so this is specifically speaking here about where you bring your offerings. These are the commanded journeys. Then it goes into instruction as well about, well, if the journey be too far.

You're not excluded from them. You still got to show up. You just don't got to bring all these animals with you.

You show up with silver. And then you buy everything he said. And don't you forget to hit your brother Levi with some of that silver.

He doesn't have an allotment. You still got to help the brother out. You're not going to show up there empty handed.

This is the Torah. You don't show up to the place where Yahweh makes his name dwell in the Moedim empty handed. You don't do that.

That's how the priesthood continued to operate. They had to have food. So they got to cut off the sacrifice.

Do you even understand that? We could, I don't want to get off track though. All right. So here we see where he chooses to make his name dwell.

Specifically. All right. And all of these instructions from chapter five all the way to here.

Specifically, as we're going to see in a few other places. He says it has to be done in the place where he makes his name dwell. In all of this, the places he chooses.

Where he chooses. So we need a little bit more instruction about that. We're going to, we're going to find it.

Let's go to chapter 12. Verse five. Now keep in mind.

Chapter 12 is starting off about for when they go into the land. You tear down all, you got to tear down all that falsehood. You have all them altars that you built for yourselves or they built for themselves.

Terrence got to come down. You got to cleanse the land. All right.

Look at what he says. Cut down all the carved images in verse three. And you shall destroy their name.

If they've got a mark on the trees, cut the trees down. They got a mark on the stone. Tear their bliss down.

Tear down their idols. Destroy their names out of that place. Verse four.

Do not do so to Yahweh your Elohim. But seek the place which Yahweh your Elohim chooses out of all of your tribes. Whoa, wait a minute.

Go look at the Hebrew text on your own. I'm not misleading or trying to lead in any certain direction. This in Hebrew is telling you that there's going to be a place out of every tribe where Yahweh's name would dwell.

And the reason being is because there were going to be instances where people weren't able to make the trip. And there were Levites there in the place where Yahweh chose to make his name dwell in the congregations. And the Levites were there to construct the services properly for the people who were not able to make the trip for whatever reason.

But that could not be one of the three trips that were commanded to be made only for the rest of the Moedim. Now, I'm going to pull up both sides of the argument here so you guys can understand where I'm coming from. Let's look at verse 11.

See, these are added instructions, you guys. These are to wrote added instructions that they had to adhere to before going into the promised land. And it shall be that unto the place which Yahweh your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there.

There you are to bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings and your offerings and your tithes and the contributions of your land and all your choice offerings which you vow unto Yahweh. Everybody, please understand what that just told us, especially from a Hebrew perspective. Every tribe, every clan had Levites operating in the congregations.

And the Levites never had their own allotment of land. This wasn't only when you went to keep the feast in Yerushalayim. These aspects are a tribal thing, a national thing for the for the Levites to be taken care of at all times in all places.

The priesthood will be taken care of. Do you see the point now, verse 14, except in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes. See, there's there's the there's the passage we're looking for for confirmation.

There you are to offer your burnt offering and there you are to do all that I command you. Only whatever your being desires, you shall slaughter and eat according to the blessings of Yahweh, your Elohim, which he has given you within all of your gates. See that within all of your gates.

The unclean and the clean do eat of it. That doesn't mean the sacrifices were unclean. It means that there were people that would have been considered unclean because why they had not made the appointed times, et cetera, et cetera.

But they were given a loophole. There'll be a Levite somewhere in your tribe and you will make the effort. You're not going to just not gather and not do it.

He's making it almost virtually impossible for the children to break the mince vote. You have to be a straight deadbeat servant to not fulfill this stuff. We've got no excuses.

You can try to think up and come up with every excuse that has to do with other people or the way somebody thinks about you or you're so connected to these people that don't even in covenant with Yahweh. And that's going to be the reason why you don't fulfill the mince vote. Come on now.

If we're doing that, we really need to think about it. Honestly, whenever Yahshua said, come follow me, they said, well, hold on, man. We've got some fishing to do.

We'll get right with you. We'll see you. We'll see you at sunset, right? That's not what happened immediately.

That's a servant. Where do I go? What do I get connected to? Shabbat manah. And so there we see that it's directly connected in verse 21 again.

So now I want to explain my position, my view. Let's read verse 21 first. All right.

The first 21 chapter 12, Debarim. When the place where Yahweh your Elohim chooses to put his name is too far from you, then you shall slaughter from your herd and from your flock, which Yahweh has given you as I have commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates as much as your being desires. And then it goes into in verse 22, only as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so are you to eat of it.

The unclean and the clean alike eat of it. So if somebody was in their impuritive state, they weren't tamim, right? If they were in the state of uncleanliness, they were still to eat of it. Okay.

But because of the other collaborating verses, this has been my view, because the Jewish view on this has to do with kosheret, kosher kill. It says that everybody had to find a rabbi, right? Or a man who was designed by three confirmed kosher kills of another rabbi that he was doing it right, and to him you had to bring it because the kill had to be kosher if you're doing it within your gates and doing it on your own. But that's not true.

We've just seen that it has to do with the Levites. It has to do with the congregations in the communities of all of the tribes. What I'm saying is, from a Jewish perspective, this was proof of an oral law way before the first century.

They tried to contend that there was an oral institution here, but that's not what it says. We get the answer from the other collaborating verses. So my view, pertaining to the scripture in the Hebrew here, is there was places where Yahweh's name dwelt in every city within each tribe, and Levites were in office there once it was settled.

For the command given to do this in a place where he chose to make his name dwell, excluded the mandatory trips. Follow me? So this command was something different that was instituted from the commanded trips, which means there would be Levites left here during this time period in the cities where people would be coming to the place in the city where Yahweh chose to make his name dwell in these places of gatherings, these congregations, and to the Levite they would bring it. The priestly law could not be broken, and this does not prove an oral tradition.

That's my argument here. So that was apart from the mandatory trips, nor were they always going to be in the promised land in following the tarot or the instructions. What do I mean by that? I've touched on this in the past, but now we fit it directly into this sequence of events when we set everything in order.

Going back to chapter 4, where we know that verse 44 and 45 proves that there were continued instructions going on between Yahweh and his people, right? That was said right after verses 24 through 27. For Yahweh Elohim is a consuming fire, a jealous hell. When you bring forth children and grandchildren and shall grow old in the land and shall do corruptly and make a carved image in the form of whatever and shall do what is evil in the eyes of Yahweh, your Elohim, to provoke him, I shall call the Shemayim and the Eretz, the heavens and the earth, to witness against you on that day that you soon completely perish from the land which you pass over the Yarden to possess.

You do not prolong your days in it, but are completely destroyed, and Yahweh shall scatter you among the people. Uh, so all of these commands, these torot, was given to them as they went into the land, but he also had given them the understanding that you won't always be in the land. These torot and instructions you're going to take with you wherever you shall go.

Wherever you shall go, the Torah of Yahweh is to be. So the instructions were given and agreed to knowing that they were not going to stay in the land. So the excuse that people use, well, we're not in the land.

It's a cop out. All of these instructions were agreed to once again in the reset of Israel, knowing that they weren't going to stay in the land. Knowing that the tribes of people would be scattered into the nations and from their places that bore his name would also dwell in all of your tribes.

Yes, even in Kregmont. It's a city where YAH has chosen to have a place where his name dwells. And where the name of Yahweh is, the people, the men of Yahweh, the man of Yahweh better make sure that it's being operated according to the desire of Yahweh and not the people.

I've had so many people get ahold of me and say, Teddy, have you ever thought about? Nope, I haven't thought about doing that. Well, why not? Because Yahweh never said to do it. We do what Yahweh instructs us to do here.

That's why those of you in the room have showed up. So this is what it comes down to. Are you shemaring the mitzvot for Shabbat? Or are you just remembering it where you're at today? Because if you're not in a place where Yahweh has chose to make his name dwell, that's part of the mitzvot that we shemared, said that we would shemar.

That we would gather in the places because as we're going to see, it's now in the instruction in Leviticus. It's now the first and most important mo'edim or that's commanded. And here we see the stipulations.

Are you keeping Shabbat? Are you guarding and preserving the Shabbat? The rules of it. We just went over it. Turn with me to Leviticus.

And here we're going to see the torot that were added to the Shabbat after Mount Sinai's demise with Yahweh's people. No, he is not going to make it easier now. Now it's going to be a little harder.

And he's not watching from the Shemayim going, oh, you'll never make it now. You'll never know. He's going, look here.

For those who YAH loves, he chastens, right? And he's looking down there and said, well, here's your punishment for that. But I know you can do it. You can do this.

And anybody out there who says that they do not have the ability to pull up stakes and get close to an assembly that bears Yahweh's name, it's not true and you know it. If you really wanted to, you could. But there's going to come a time, maybe very soon, when you're not going to be able to do it.

Then how do you ever fulfill any of the mitzvot concerning Shabbat? You'll be stuck somewhere going, Shabbat manna, Leviticus 23, Barakah 23, verses 1 through 4. This is the added instruction to Shabbat. And we're going to see that they broke this. And we're going to see what the prophets said about it.

If you don't believe the law and the prophets, click off here. It just, just forget about it. If you do not believe the words that were spoken and the Hebrew language that we've been pulling up, if you don't believe that, and that these instructions are given by Yahweh and not Teddy Wilson or any other assembly in the United States or in the world abroad, you are unreachable at this time.

Honestly, you're just not reachable. Yeah, I know. I can't stop that.

Yeah, I can't stop it. So, it caused all that ruckus. Leviticus 23, verses 1 through 4. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe saying, speak to the children of Yisrael and say to them, the appointed times of Yahweh, which you are to proclaim as set apart gatherings.

My appointed times are these, six days. Work is done. But the seventh, Shabee'i Yom.

Yom Shabee'i, the seventh day is a Shabbat Shabbaton, as we're going to see in the Hebrew here. Not only is it a Shabbat Shabbaton now, but it is also what? A commanded gathering. And so now, here's what's typically going to happen with everybody who watches this or anybody that you share this information with.

Well, so what does that look like? Well, what's the way you view that? Oh, no, that doesn't matter. I don't view it any other way other than what the Hebrew says. So, we're going to view it in the Hebrew language.

I don't have a view on how to shamar HaShabbat. It's not something you view or put out there as theoretically speaking. We don't have the right to do that.

My appointed times are these, six days work is done. But on the seventh day is a Sabbath rest, a set apart gathering. You do no work.

It is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Okay, so do we want to please Yahweh? Then this is an appointed time. Now, that's the new stipulation.

It wasn't an appointed time, a moed in the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We do not have that in context anywhere. When the children first came out and came to Mount Sinai, we don't have a record that it was ever instituted that way anywhere either.

Let me ask you this. Here's the only way out. Here's the only way out of this truth.

Did Yahshua change the instructions of the Torah in any way, shape or form? This is an honest question. Then don't use Messiah to change the law of Yahweh. Stop doing it.

Do not make him the author of confusion. Do not make him the author of compromise. Because he said not one jot, not one tittle, none of it.

So don't you say that you have the right to do it in the body of Messiah. That is wicked. It is evil to say that in the body of Yahshua, you have rights that are contrary to the instructions of Yahweh in the Torah.

It's wicked. Point being, folks, we need to get to where we need to be. There's all kinds of assemblies in the United States and in the world abroad that bear Yahweh's name.

Do your homework. Find the one that you think is teaching the truth and get closer to it so you can fulfill your duty as a servant of Yah. Bottom line, that's it.

No strings attached. If you're living out in the middle of nowhere and you're not gathering for the Shabbat, you are not shemar in Shabbat. You're not.

You're remembering the Sabbath. But remember, we're not with the covenant that he made with them in the days of the forefathers, but to the instructions that have been given to us since Mount Sinai, since the Levitical priesthood was ordained. And those things cannot be changed by the death, burial and resurrection of our Redeemer.

They can't. It's impossible. If you think that you can do the impossible, give her a shot.

I'm just teaching it like it is. It's a set apart gathering. You do no work.

It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all of your dwellings. See that? In all of your dwellings. This is not talking about your house.

It's talking about anywhere where the tribes of the clans of Yahweh would be dispersed, whether it was in the land before the dispersion or after. Right? This is eternal. This word is eternal.

It's speaking to you that are in the dispersion as well. There are dwelling places, congregations all over the world that give you no excuse. Hold on.

An unscheduled pit stop. Romans chapter two. This message is trying to get the body of Yahshua together to strengthen itself.

Don't you know that these ministries can do more, can grow more when we're together? We got a pretty good solid group of people here. We love one another. Chapter two, beginning of verse one.

Wake up, body of Yahshua. Therefore, oh man, you are without excuse. Everyone who judges for in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you who judge practice the same wrongs.

See? You're still doing wrong. And the judgments were still there. Look at what he says.

And we know that the judgment of Elohim is according to the what? To truth. Against those who practice such wrongs. And do you think, oh man, you who judge those practicing such wrongs and doing the same, that you shall escape the judgment of Elohim? That's right out of the book of Deuteronomy chapter one, everyone.

And then it goes on over here. Verse 17. You are called a Yehudi and rest on the Torah and make your boast in Elohim and know the desire of Elohim.

You know the desire of Elohim. Why? Because it's in the Torah. And you make your boast that you're a Torah follower.

This is it. You know the desire of Yahweh and approve what is superior being instructed from the Torah. And are trusting that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of baids, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Torah.

You then who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who say you should not, where does he go? Straight to the marriage covenant. I rest my case. You think that you're going to escape the righteous judgment of Elohim by not doing the desire that is in the word of Elohim? You're only lying to yourself.

We know the desire of Yah. We know where we need to be. The thoughts and the intents of our heart cannot be hidden from Yahweh.

It doesn't make a difference whether we're a good person or not. I mean, of course, that has a bearing on it. But I mean, that's not what judgment consists of, whether you were a good person or whether your intentions were good, but you never really did anything about it.

Well, my intention was good. Yeah. Is that even Tobe? Is it? No.

You still can't go in the basket. Right. Harvest.

We're speaking about. Now, try to wrap all this into one series of this is what it says. And this is what the Hebrew shows.

And I'm going to leave it with that. And Chris, if you could. Chime in on that.

Some disturbing letters floating through the top. All right. It just really can't get any more simple than this.

This is Shabbat manas. This is the answer to that question. What is it? It's what he said it is.

It's nothing more. It's nothing less. It doesn't take somebody's theology or the way they look at it.

It is what it is. The question is, do we want to be counted as a seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that has the right to this land eternally and what it's going to look like at that time? It doesn't even matter. It's getting there that matters.

Getting there is the battle. Staying there is going to be free. It's something that silver and gold cannot buy.

Why? Because the streets are going to be laced with that stuff. We're going to be walking on it. Oh, yeah.

Oh, we can start earthing. Walking barefoot. halleluyah.

Now, I want to point out here that this is this is the added instructions in the book of Leviticus that is being spoken about in the book of Deuteronomy. You see how we put that together? Does everybody understand that? So these are the added to rote that were when it comes to the Shabbat. This is the added to rote here in Leviticus chapter 23.

It is now instituted that it is the first. It is the most important. It is a mark.

You show me a person that thinks that it's okay not to gather in a place where Yahweh chooses to make his name to go on Shabbat. They don't feel it's really that important. Now, I'm going to show you a person that will keep the feast anywhere.

I'm going to show you a person that will be around syncretic worship, thinking that they're making the trip, thinking that they're making or following the command. When Yahweh in the book of Malachi says just the opposite of that. If my name's not there and you're not doing it correctly, it's your feast, not mine.

Why? Because the instructions are not there. Okay, speak to the children of Israel and say unto them. Look at this.

Properly an appointment. That is a fixed time. Festival.

Having to do with conventionally a year. During a year's time period. By implication, an assembly.

What? By implication of what? So can you assemble in the eyes of Yahweh outside of a place that makes his name dwell? Is that an assembly? Look at this. Technically, the congregation. This is saying that the moedim are the assembly.

If you're not making the moed the appointed times, then you're not part of the assembly. And I would suggest that you go back over these passages that I just gave us, because that's the instruction on how to fulfill those things. Yeah, we no longer represent Colorado.

California, Texas, Missouri and Washington and Oregon and so on and so forth. We now represent the moed. Well, not of this or of that or of this anymore.

This is simple. Look at the stipulations of the definitions of moed or moedim here. It is congregation.

It is assembly. That's Yahweh's words. Not mine.

That's Yahweh's definition. Not mine. The moed of Yahweh, which ye shall proclaim.

That's the Hebrew word kara. They translate it as proclaim. Look, it's through the idea of accosting a person met to call.

Call out to, that is properly to address by name. Why do we see the theology here concerning the Hebrew language of the name? Because you can only assemble in the place where Yahweh makes his name dwell. I'm not making this stuff up.

By definition, it is directly connected to that. Why? Because now that he made it a moed. What he said in the book of Leviticus.

What he said in the book of Deuteronomy concerning the stipulations are all confirmed. It confirms the word in the plan of Yah. So naturally, Yahweh is going to confirm those things by what? Not confusing you with other words that have other definitions.

That's what we do. John McKinney and myself have been going just around in circles with these people over this daylight Sabbath keeping stuff. It's just the same English words round and round and round.

When we've proven that those words are interchangeable with one another. I don't even, I mean, that we're kind of just done with it. If you don't get it, you're not gonna.

That's just it. Going on in the Hebrew. They are holy convocations.

Look at this. Holy, of course, is going to be Kodesh. It means that it's sacred.

This moed, where the assemblies are and where the name are, are set apart and sanctified. And the convocation is the Hebrew word mikra. This is a mikra ha-kodesh moed.

You hear me? The moed is a mikra ha-kodesh. That is the Hebrew terminology. And mikra means called, called out.

That is a public meeting. Not at home. There's going to be a place in the public where Yahweh's name dwells.

I mean, Elisha, go out front, take a picture of the front of the building. It's on Main Street. We're right here in the public's eye and we're keeping the moed.

How hard is that to understand? We are fulfilling the mitzvot concerning Shabbat in this place today. And I know there's going to be some speculation about this. Well, is it an idiomatic expression where Yahweh chooses to make his name dwell? Because his name dwells in me.

I got his name marked on my forehead right now. Oh, no, no, no. That's concerning judgment.

It's a total different topic. Don't try to go there. If you're already trying to make that excuse, then yeah, I can't help you.

See, it's the place where Yahweh chooses. That means that it must be Yahweh's desire and Yahweh will provide a way for this stuff to be erected. He'll make it happen.

Not well, because I want to stay where I'm at. I'm going to go out back and I'm going to build a shed and I'm going to insulate it. And I'm going to put Yahweh's name on it.

And I'm going to start keeping Sabbath over here. You go ahead and do that. That's your desire.

When it just all of a sudden pops up out of nowhere. How did that happen? I have no idea, brother, but you've seen a lot of it. 2013 and 14.

It just happened literally. Nobody made it happen. Nobody came into some large inheritance and built a huge temple of worship.

Nothing like that ever happened. Yahweh constructed what we have here. He did it.

Yeah, he actually redeemed these buildings. They were. Yeah.

And the people in it. halleluyah. halleluyah.

So it is a Mikra HaKodesh. Then I want to get to this verse three. But the seventh should be Yom.

Right there, the Sabbath. But the seventh day, the what? Shabbat. Remember, by definition, this can't be a different Sabbath.

It's the same Sabbath that was instituted in the beginning. Right. That Adam kept Abraham, Yitzhak, Yaakov underneath those precepts that they had then.

It is a Shabbat, not of rest. It is Shabbaton. There it is.

It's the same exact Shabbat, Shabbaton that we've seen in Genesis chapter two. With what added to wrote. We just pulled all of this stuff in by looking at the Hebrew.

And going through the passages set in order. Again, we see Kodesh. Mikra.

It's a set apart gathering. Now, all of this was to take place in the place. Yah places his name where he chooses to make it dwell.

We're going to look at some Hebrew here in closing. Blessed be Yahweh. People wanted answers.

And there might be some of those people that are going to be watching this. They're not going to hear what they wanted to hear. Well, you know, if it always went that way, then we wouldn't be very good children if it always went the way that we wanted it to go.

Right, Malachi? The other small prophet is tapped out in the front row. Lessons to be learned is what it's all about. Now, so I want to I want to hit this word, Mikra.

Actually, let's look at the Sabbath root line first. Because that's what it's all about. Let's go ahead and look at the Sabbath root line in the ancient Hebrew lexicon.

That's going to be number 2808. The root line in number 2808. It's going to be on page 451.

Those of you that are watching and those of you in the room, if you're going to open your books, I'll give you just a moment here. But I'm going to be screen sharing it.

Yahweh established the Sabbath by resting on it after the creation. He intended that all people do the same when He made rest on the seventh day one of the royal commandments. The Sabbath was to be a sign between the Creator and His creation.

 

Read Exodus 31:13-14, "Speak you also unto the children of Israel, saying, 'Verily My Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations: that you may know that I am Yahweh that does sanctify you. You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.' "

 

Notice first that the Sabbath is a special sign "throughout all your generations." Anyone that works on that day will be cut off from Yahweh's true people. The Sabbath, therefore, identifies the true worshippers of Yahweh. Keeping the seventh-day Sabbath is the difference between worshipping the Creator of this universe and worshipping a false, man-made mighty one. The pagans worshipped the sun god on "Sun"-day. Here, "sign" in the Hebrew means a monument, token or evidence. The Sabbath is a lasting memorial, evidence that those observing it are worshipping the true Creator.

 

But some say, "I keep every day holy, not any one special day." Notice verse 15, "Six days may work be done; but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest..." We are commanded to work six of the seven days of the week and rest on the seventh.

More proof that the Sabbath is to be kept forever is found in verses 16-17: "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 forever." Perpetual means "permanent, lasting indefinitely."

 

Is the Sabbath merely for Old Testament Israelites—"Jews"? "Know you therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham..." "So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham..." "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Messiah Yahshua. And if you be Messiah's, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (Gal. 3:7, 9, 28-29).

Israel was given the promise that, if they would be obedient to Yahweh's Sabbath, they would be treasured and blessed by Yahweh, Isaiah 58:13-14. The promise is exactly the same for us as spiritual Israelites.

 

"Remember the Sabbath" is as important as "Thou shalt not steal," or "Thou shalt do no murder," Exodus 20.

 

The relationships between man and Yahweh never change. Yahweh blessed and sanctified the seventh day, thus making it His Sabbath. He did not do this for any other day, nor did He undo it for the seventh. What Yahweh does is for all time. He does not change, Malachi 3:6.