Daily Bible Portion (Shabbat)
Daily Bible Portion – 7 of 7
"SAY"
(Weekly Reading>>Leviticus 21:1-24:23, Ezekiel 44:15-31, Galatians 3:26-29)
Counting to Pentecost for fifty days leads the believer to the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost. This seven-week count is a feast and the call for Israel to come before Yahweh from the North, South, East and West and worship Him on His Holy Mountain. It is a holy consecration time for the Nation of Israel being called from the Diaspora to come in from exile and make straight the pathway for Yahweh. May our hearts be made pure before Him and may we come out to meet Him on His Holy Mountain at His appointed time.
Note: Next Tuesday evening (30th) to Wednesday evening (31st) is Pentecost
After the counting of fifty days, or seven weeks, the day after the seventh Sabbath the children of Yahweh stood before Him at His holy mountain and brought a wave offering. On that day of Pentecost, Yahweh had His people come together as a holy sacred assembly, washed and consecrated , ready to receive His spoken Word. This was to be the time of Israel's betrothal and a time she received her Ketubah, her Marriage Covenant from Yahweh.
After Moses received the Marriage Covenant, the Word written on stone tablets on the mountain of Yahweh, he returned to camp to find the people adulterating themselves before a foreign man-made god. Three thousand people lost their lives that day. Generations later, the Lamb of Yahweh, Yeshua, fulfilled the Torah requirements for our waywardness on our behalf and became our Passover Lamb. In doing so, He renewed the Covenant that had been broken by our ancestor's dishonor so long ago. The renewal also released our generation today. Acts 2 records a gathering of believers who joined together in one place on the mountain of Yahweh (Jerusalem), in eager expectancy to celebrate the Feast of Pentecost. Scripture goes on to describe how they were suddenly filled with the Holy Spirit as tongues of fire rested on them. Yahweh's Word was no longer written on stony hearts (tablets). Now His Word was renewed and written on new hearts of flesh. Three thousand were redeemed that day as spoken through the prophet Jeremiah 31:31-34 and recorded in Hebrews 8:8-10.
Today, when we repent for dishonoring our Ketubah /Marriage Covenant and return to keep the Feast of Shavuot we are restored and renewed in our hearts with our Bridegroom.
The Feast of Trumpets falls on the first day of the seventh month of the Biblical lunar calendar. Trumpets is the only feast of Yahweh that is on the New Moon, the first sighting of the seventh New Moon of the year. This seventh month is considered the most sacred month of the Biblical calendar. When the New Moon is sighted, we are commanded to blow two silver trumpets. This call is from the Bridegroom to His Bride for their wedding. The trumpets are like a shout to wake the people from slumber and to call them to trim their lamps and come forth to meet their Bridegroom.
Traditional Judaism uses a secular Hebrew calendar term "Rosh HaShannah" meaning head of the year or New Year rather than Yom Trumpets. Rosh HaShannah is a man made tradition originating from the Israelites Babylonian captivity. When the term Rosh HaShannah is used in place of Trumpets, the Bride does not register. She is not aware that the trumpet is the call to her wedding procession nor does she know that her Bridegroom is coming soon. As she has been taught another celebration she does not respond to the trumpet call. Today, because of this, many are not prepared and will suddenly wonder where to purchase extra oil for their lamps. Sadly by the time the Bridegroom comes, it may be too late. The true Bride of Yeshua responds only to her Bridegroom's calling (trumpet) and a stranger's voice she will not follow/hear.
Today, those who hear the true call will heed the trumpets calling to prepare. These trumpets represent the two witnesses of the Messiah, the House of Israel and the House of Judah. On this day we are to celebrate Trumpets as a Sabbath and do no common work.
The tenth day from Trumpets is the Day of Atonement. The ten days between are called the Ten Days of Awe when the Bride is in awe of the return of her Bridegroom. Secular Judaism uses this time to repent but on the Feast of Trumpets the doors open. On The Day of Atonement the doors close . The cleansing of our temple should be completed before the Day of Trumpets. The grace period of ten days is for the Bride (who is prepared) to wake and trim her lamp with extra oil, and enter into the sanctity and holiness of Yeshua's wedding preparations. They know how and when to enter in with her Bridegroom before the doors close.
Day of Atonement is our wedding day. It is the holiest day of the year and is to be kept as a Sabbath, a fast from the common everyday life. On this day the High Priest offered a sin sacrifice to atone for the unintentional dishonoring sins committed against the Temple by corporate Israel. At Yeshua's death, He paid our price and fulfilled the required atonement for all Israel. This is the Bride's day of deliverance and liberty – the wedding to her Bridegroom, the Messiah Yeshua Ha Mashiach.
Our brother Judah spends the whole day of Atonement in repentance when in reality at a wedding, for those who are prepared there is no accuser. Yeshua showed His people the way and how to walk in Him. This walk of obedience silences the accuser. For the wise Bride who has prepared ahead of time this is a day spent in absolute adoration. For those not wise or prepared it is a day spent in penitence before the doors close going over those areas she vowed to keep but did not (Hebrews 3:1,11-12; 1 Peter 1:18-19).
The Feast of Tabernacles is celebrated five days after the wedding (Day of Atonement) , on the fifteenth day of the seventh month . This feast is the seventh Feast of Yahweh and is celebrated for seven days with one extra day, the eighth day called Shemini Atzeret, to be kept only unto Yahweh. The first day and the eighth day are High Holy Sabbaths. No common work is to be done on these two days. Each year we are called to build booths and live in them during the feast to remind us of the time in the wilderness when Yahweh sustained the Children of Israel (ourselves included) and blessed them with His mercy. We are also commanded to wave branches made of choice fruit trees, palm and leafy branches and poplars in celebration before Yahweh. As believers, we are commanded to keep this feast, as are the nations (Zechariah 14:16-21).
Sukkot/Tabernacles is the wedding reception after the wedding when the Bride and Groom are revealed. They emerge from their bridal chamber to celebrate with the guests, those who have come in from the Nations. On the eighth day, Shemini Atzeret (the extra day at the end of the celebration), when all the guests have returned home it is just the Bride and Groom alone together. This is the day the couple lingers savoring their special union together. This one day, Shemini Atzeret , is as a thousand years – called entering eternity .
Bread and Oil Set before Yahweh
(Leviticus 24:1-9)
The Bride of Yeshua is the one who is obedient to His Word (the Bread of Life, the Torah), who has the Messiah in her heart. Her lamp is full of oil and her light does not go out at night. The flame of Yeshua, the Menorah, burns brightly in her heart and lights her path.
To be continued…
Shabbat Shalom
"SAY"
(Weekly Reading>>Leviticus 21:1-24:23, Ezekiel 44:15-31, Galatians 3:26-29)
Counting to Pentecost
(The Corporate Consecration of Israel)
Leviticus 23:15-16 "From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath. "
Counting to Pentecost for fifty days leads the believer to the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost. This seven-week count is a feast and the call for Israel to come before Yahweh from the North, South, East and West and worship Him on His Holy Mountain. It is a holy consecration time for the Nation of Israel being called from the Diaspora to come in from exile and make straight the pathway for Yahweh. May our hearts be made pure before Him and may we come out to meet Him on His Holy Mountain at His appointed time.
Note: Next Tuesday evening (30th) to Wednesday evening (31st) is Pentecost
The Feast of Weeks / Pentecost – Shavuot
(The Betrothal)
Leviticus 23:17-22 "You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to Yahweh. And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be as a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to Yahweh. Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering. The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest. And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am Yahweh your God."
After the counting of fifty days, or seven weeks, the day after the seventh Sabbath the children of Yahweh stood before Him at His holy mountain and brought a wave offering. On that day of Pentecost, Yahweh had His people come together as a holy sacred assembly, washed and consecrated , ready to receive His spoken Word. This was to be the time of Israel's betrothal and a time she received her Ketubah, her Marriage Covenant from Yahweh.
After Moses received the Marriage Covenant, the Word written on stone tablets on the mountain of Yahweh, he returned to camp to find the people adulterating themselves before a foreign man-made god. Three thousand people lost their lives that day. Generations later, the Lamb of Yahweh, Yeshua, fulfilled the Torah requirements for our waywardness on our behalf and became our Passover Lamb. In doing so, He renewed the Covenant that had been broken by our ancestor's dishonor so long ago. The renewal also released our generation today. Acts 2 records a gathering of believers who joined together in one place on the mountain of Yahweh (Jerusalem), in eager expectancy to celebrate the Feast of Pentecost. Scripture goes on to describe how they were suddenly filled with the Holy Spirit as tongues of fire rested on them. Yahweh's Word was no longer written on stony hearts (tablets). Now His Word was renewed and written on new hearts of flesh. Three thousand were redeemed that day as spoken through the prophet Jeremiah 31:31-34 and recorded in Hebrews 8:8-10.
Today, when we repent for dishonoring our Ketubah /Marriage Covenant and return to keep the Feast of Shavuot we are restored and renewed in our hearts with our Bridegroom.
The Feast of Trumpets / Day of Blowing - Yom Teruah
(The Waking of the Bride)
Leviticus 23:23-25 "Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'"
The Feast of Trumpets falls on the first day of the seventh month of the Biblical lunar calendar. Trumpets is the only feast of Yahweh that is on the New Moon, the first sighting of the seventh New Moon of the year. This seventh month is considered the most sacred month of the Biblical calendar. When the New Moon is sighted, we are commanded to blow two silver trumpets. This call is from the Bridegroom to His Bride for their wedding. The trumpets are like a shout to wake the people from slumber and to call them to trim their lamps and come forth to meet their Bridegroom.
Traditional Judaism uses a secular Hebrew calendar term "Rosh HaShannah" meaning head of the year or New Year rather than Yom Trumpets. Rosh HaShannah is a man made tradition originating from the Israelites Babylonian captivity. When the term Rosh HaShannah is used in place of Trumpets, the Bride does not register. She is not aware that the trumpet is the call to her wedding procession nor does she know that her Bridegroom is coming soon. As she has been taught another celebration she does not respond to the trumpet call. Today, because of this, many are not prepared and will suddenly wonder where to purchase extra oil for their lamps. Sadly by the time the Bridegroom comes, it may be too late. The true Bride of Yeshua responds only to her Bridegroom's calling (trumpet) and a stranger's voice she will not follow/hear.
Matthew 25:1-13 "Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight a cry [trumpets] was heard: 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!' Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' But the wise answered, saying, 'No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.' And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' But he answered and said, 'Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.' Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming."
Today, those who hear the true call will heed the trumpets calling to prepare. These trumpets represent the two witnesses of the Messiah, the House of Israel and the House of Judah. On this day we are to celebrate Trumpets as a Sabbath and do no common work.
Day of Atonement / Yom Kippur
(The Wedding Day)
Leviticus 23:26-32 "And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: 'also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God. For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people. And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your Sabbath.'"
The tenth day from Trumpets is the Day of Atonement. The ten days between are called the Ten Days of Awe when the Bride is in awe of the return of her Bridegroom. Secular Judaism uses this time to repent but on the Feast of Trumpets the doors open. On The Day of Atonement the doors close . The cleansing of our temple should be completed before the Day of Trumpets. The grace period of ten days is for the Bride (who is prepared) to wake and trim her lamp with extra oil, and enter into the sanctity and holiness of Yeshua's wedding preparations. They know how and when to enter in with her Bridegroom before the doors close.
Matthew 3:1-3 "In those days [prophetic of end-times feast days] John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, 'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand! For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: 'The voice [trumpet] of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD [Yeshua]; make His paths straight.'"
Day of Atonement is our wedding day. It is the holiest day of the year and is to be kept as a Sabbath, a fast from the common everyday life. On this day the High Priest offered a sin sacrifice to atone for the unintentional dishonoring sins committed against the Temple by corporate Israel. At Yeshua's death, He paid our price and fulfilled the required atonement for all Israel. This is the Bride's day of deliverance and liberty – the wedding to her Bridegroom, the Messiah Yeshua Ha Mashiach.
Our brother Judah spends the whole day of Atonement in repentance when in reality at a wedding, for those who are prepared there is no accuser. Yeshua showed His people the way and how to walk in Him. This walk of obedience silences the accuser. For the wise Bride who has prepared ahead of time this is a day spent in absolute adoration. For those not wise or prepared it is a day spent in penitence before the doors close going over those areas she vowed to keep but did not (Hebrews 3:1,11-12; 1 Peter 1:18-19).
The Feast of Tabernacles / Booths – Sukkot
(The Wedding Reception)
Leviticus 23:33-44 "Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, saying: The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to Yahweh. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it. For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it. These are the Feasts of Yahweh which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day --besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to Yahweh. Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh for seven days; on the first day there shall be a Sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a Sabbath-rest. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God for seven days. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahweh your God.' So Moses declared to the children of Israel the Feasts of Yahweh.'"
The Feast of Tabernacles is celebrated five days after the wedding (Day of Atonement) , on the fifteenth day of the seventh month . This feast is the seventh Feast of Yahweh and is celebrated for seven days with one extra day, the eighth day called Shemini Atzeret, to be kept only unto Yahweh. The first day and the eighth day are High Holy Sabbaths. No common work is to be done on these two days. Each year we are called to build booths and live in them during the feast to remind us of the time in the wilderness when Yahweh sustained the Children of Israel (ourselves included) and blessed them with His mercy. We are also commanded to wave branches made of choice fruit trees, palm and leafy branches and poplars in celebration before Yahweh. As believers, we are commanded to keep this feast, as are the nations (Zechariah 14:16-21).
Sukkot/Tabernacles is the wedding reception after the wedding when the Bride and Groom are revealed. They emerge from their bridal chamber to celebrate with the guests, those who have come in from the Nations. On the eighth day, Shemini Atzeret (the extra day at the end of the celebration), when all the guests have returned home it is just the Bride and Groom alone together. This is the day the couple lingers savoring their special union together. This one day, Shemini Atzeret , is as a thousand years – called entering eternity .
Bread and Oil Set before Yahweh
(Leviticus 24:1-9)
The Bride of Yeshua is the one who is obedient to His Word (the Bread of Life, the Torah), who has the Messiah in her heart. Her lamp is full of oil and her light does not go out at night. The flame of Yeshua, the Menorah, burns brightly in her heart and lights her path.
Galatians 3:26-29 26 "For in union with the Messiah, you are all children of God through this trusting faithfulness; because as many of you as were immersed into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah, in whom there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor freeman, neither male nor female; for in union with the Messiah Yeshua, you are all one. Also, if you belong to the Messiah, you are seed of Abraham and heirs according to the promise." CJB
To be continued…
Shabbat Shalom