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Holy Day Greetings
from HomeWorship 101™
- “Count fifty days to the day after the
seventh Sabbath;
- then you shall offer a new grain offering
to the Lord.
- You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves…”
- - Leviticus 23:16-17
The
Biblically Holy Day of Pentecost, called in Hebrew, Shavuot, is this Sunday, June
12, 2011 (Lev.23:15-22). It
is a festive atmosphere because it is the day of new revelations from
YHWH! Log on http://www.homeworship101.com/holy_days_spring.htm
In
my newsletter for the spring Holy Days I talked about the multifaceted, multidimensional aspects that YHWH
is trying to teach all humanity in the Spiritual Opera of HIS annual
Holy Days. This Holy Day
celebrates YHWH’s Universal Laws.
These Laws are not laws to appease some angry god; YHWH prepared
these Laws to help us, not just Jews or Christians, but a-l-l humanity.
- The theme for this Holy Day:
- Watch your thoughts;
they become words.
- Watch your words; they
become actions.
- Watch your actions; they
become habits.
- Watch your habits; they
become character.
- Watch your character; it
becomes your destiny
Generally
I get a lot of criticism from the Christian world
for going, as they say, backwards and following the Biblical Holy Days.
So I ask them, “…don’t Christians observe Pentecost?”
That is a Holy Day listed in Leviticus ch.23, why are some Holy
Days important and some not?” All
the Holy Days are for the Hebrews and gentiles, and they are all
important, if there is any more doubt then look to the Jerusalem Temple
ceremony for this day and learn. Here, on this Holy Day,
lies the simple answer waved in front of you, but many do not see.
- YHWH
our CREATOR is willing
to instruct us (Ps.32.8).
- Let us
be early and often at HIS throne of grace, praying,
as the Psalmist did:
- "Show
me Your ways, O LORD, teach
me Your paths;
- guide
me in
Your truth and teach me--for
you are God my Savior,
- and my hope is in you all day long."
- -
Psalm 25:4-5
In
the theater of the Temple, the ceremony required was to have the high
priest
wave two loaves of bread over the altar as an offering to YHWH.
The offering of two loaves of bread is a product of craftsmanship
(different from a harvest or blood offering).
Unlike the previous Holy Days with symbols of unleavened bread,
these two loaves of bread are made with yeast - the symbol for sin.
With a skilled hand each loaf begins with the best ingredients,
it is then mixed, stirred, kneaded, raised, flattened, raised again, and
carefully baked to perfection. If
you think about it, it sounds a lot like the spiritual evolution of the
Hebrews and gentiles, being guided by the hand of our CREATOR.
Here on this Holy Day the Hebrews and the gentiles are
spiritually represented as two loaves of bread offered to YHWH.
- “A
wise man [or women] will hear and increase learning,”
- - Proverbs
1:5
For those who can see, and have ears to
hear, this next act in YHWH’s Spiritual Opera opens
with more stunning miracles.
~ The Curtin Rises, Act 4 - Scene 1 ~
- "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
- A good understanding have all those who do His
commandments;
- His praise endures forever."
- - Psalm 111:10
With
the start of the – Biblical – New Year and Passover season,
YHWH began HIS great spiritual opera with a stunning display of HIS
almighty power (Exo.ch.7-11). It
got the Hebrews attention and they were watching.
But many miss the subtle meaning of the Passover season, which is
that the faithful are sanctified, and justified.
Now they have to learn how to stay that way, and on this Holy Day
comes the day of new revelations on how to live righteously.
Sadly, today this day generally goes unnoticed by the religious
world, because living righteously is generally inconvenient to their
faith.
- "God has chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of
the Spirit."
- - 2 Thessalonians 2:13
During the spring season of Holy Days,
humanity learned of YHWH’s power of Passover when HE freed the
Israelites from their Egyptian bondage.
From that example, humanity learned not to be on the wrong side
of YHWH or risk winding up like Pharaoh.
YHWH’s next great miracle was to open up the Red Sea to let the
Hebrew’s escape while holding back Pharaoh’s army with a pillar of
fire. When the Hebrews
reached the other side the people were soaking wet – the symbolism is
of course, that YHWH baptized them and separated them from the evil
world of Pharaoh in a new land. What
this means is during these Spring Holy Days the Faithful have been
justified and sanctified. Sanctified
means spiritually set aside as Hebrews
in YHWH’s Name. Justified
means we are justified to continue to follow YHWH Ancient Path and learn
HIS Wisdom and mysteries. Log on
http://www.homeworship101.com/holy_days_spring.htm
- “Open my eyes,
that I may see
- wondrous things from Your law.”
- - Psalm 119:18
For those who can see, and have ears to hear,
this next act in YHWH’s Spiritual Opera opens with more spectacular
miracles. This Holy Day
celebrates YHWH Commandments because on this day in ancient times Moses
brought the Torah
/ Pentateuch, and the Ten
Commandments, written in stone by the finger of YHWH, down from Mt.
Sinai beginning YHWH'S mystical union with the Hebrew church
(Exo.ch.7-20). Click for a short 6 min video to review the highlights, its
really stunning: http://new.ba-bamail.co.il/View.aspx?emailid=8091&memberid=732978
Since ancient times, this was the Holy Day that celebrates the giving
of YHWH’S Laws. Unfortunately,
many of today’s believers, get a little nervous feeling when talking
about YHWH’S Laws. But
YHWH'S Kingdom is based on Law and order, and our CREATOR'S Laws were
first introduced to humanity through the universal Covenants given to
Adam and then again to Noah. It
is a simple agreement, if we promise to honor YHWH the CREATOR of all,
and live by HIS simple rules HE will protect us and grant us eternal
life in HIS Kingdom (Col.1:5). Log on: http://www.homeworship101.com/bb-c5_sacred_covenants.htm
~ The Commandments ~
- “Blessed are those who do His commandments,
- that they may have the right to the tree of life,
- and may enter through the gates into the city.
- But
outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral
- and murderers and idolaters,
- and whoever loves and practices a lie.”
- - Revelation 22:14-15
In the time of Noah, before there was any religion
there was the Rainbow Covenant, and from it Noah preached to a-l-l the
generations after the flood what is today called the 7 Noahic Laws or
commandments. The
Orientals, the blacks, the whites, everyone with a belly button, all
learned the same 7 Commands which formed the successful building blocks
for the new world communities. Later
in time, YHWH chose Moses to give the 10 commands to his Hebrew church,
and Yahshua endorsed them for his Messianic church.
Sometimes Christians forget not everyone applies themselves to
the narrower path of the higher Covenants, one must remember that most
of the world lives under the Rainbow Covenant and the Noahic Laws.
Log on: http://www.homeworship101.com/wp_10_commands.htm
- “Great peace have those who love
Your law…”
- - Psalm 119:165
Some people call me legalistic, but they don’t get it.
The Ten Commandments are still in effect, and they give us
freedom. This is not a
modern concept, in ancient China, Confucius sought to transmit the
wisdom of the ancient sages. Opposite
of the Roman ways, Confucius and his disciples distrusted written laws.
He felt that a dusty statute book was too inflexible to handle
the infinite variety of human experience.
He chose to trust people, not laws, and taught a philosophy of
personal virtue, devotion to family, and social justice, and to rely on
innate human goodness as the best guarantee of a civil society.
He was probably closer to the Biblical mark of the Noadic
Covenant teachings, than most give him credit for.
The reasoning for a moral personal and community philosophy is
simple, the more moral the society, the less community laws are needed
to govern or control them. In
others words, our FATHER'S few simple Laws give us freedom from the
millions of laws in mankind's dusty statue books. America’s founding fathers were wise men who knew their
history and Bibles, and they also knew this Divine truth of promoting a
moral community.
- “You fools--when will you be wise?”
- - Psalm 94:8
Unfortunately, many of today’s world’s leaders
- priests, politicians, corporate leaders, etc. - live with the Hellenist/Roman
attitude: There is one law for the rulers, and another law for the
ruled. This is not our
FATHER’S idea of an everlasting society.
The faithful accept the Kingdom Laws because YHWH, and all HIS
interstellar societies, also lives by them.
~ The Greatest
Commandment – the Golden Rule ~
- “Teach your children the Golden Rule
- and the world will thank
you.”
This Holy Day celebrates YHWH’s Laws and
at the very least, this Holy Day should be universally know as
“the Golden Rule Day” because the Golden Rule sums up all of our
CREATOR’s Laws. Much
has been written regarding the Law, but I specialize in the short
version. The bottom-line
Law governing all interstellar relations with angels, humans, or
otherwise, is the Golden Rule. It
is universal, and putting it into practice is the height of spiritual
maturity. Satan has
engineered many religious walls and divisions among the faithful, but
a-l-l humanity has our CREATOR and the Golden Rule in common - even
those who do not believe. I
have listed them all on my website, with a short history, and some
notable quotes. Log on:
http://www.homeworship101.com/golden_rule.htm
~ The Curtin Rises, Act 4 - Scene 2 ~
- “When the Day of Pentecost had fully
come,
- they were all with one accord in one
place.”
- - Acts 2:1
About 1500 years later, in the time of the
Apostles, this day was known as the day that the Holy
Spirit, (Hebrew: the Ruach HaKodesh) of YHWH, was sent by Yahshua-Jesus
to the true Believers, beginning His mystical union with the
Hebrew-Gentile Messianic Church (Act.ch.2).
It is interesting to note that the verse says, “they were
all with one accord,” meaning they all believed and understood the
same Gospel teachings of Yahshua. Sadly,
today, Yahshua’s church is very fragmented.
The Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit) is a prophesied gift
to the Faithful, made available by the success of the suffering
Messiah over evil. The
Holy Spirit lives within the bodies of the Believers of both men and
women. It is our helper,
our guiding intuition, and our strength.
The day the Ruach HaKodesh was originally given was a wonderful
early-summer morning. It
was around 9 am. The
Faithful were bright and cheerful, and of one accord.
They had just heard the scriptural lesson from the Prophet
Ezekiel 1:4, "Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming
out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and
brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the
color of amber, out of the midst of the fire."
And then, just a short while later,
as they were talking among themselves, a miracle happened!
"Suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing
mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one
sat upon each of them,…" Act.2:2-3.
Wow! Our FATHER has
impeccable timing! Read
through Acts ch 2, it was a wonderful stunning miracle, and it got
everybody’s attention!
- “God has chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the
Spirit.”
- - 2 Thessalonians 2:13
To sanctify, is to separate and set apart for
holy purposes and holy uses.
- YHWH
has separated His people, choosing them to be holy,
- and
He sanctifies them now for Himself
- by
the power, operation, and indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The good news is that GOD allows U-Turns!
In ancient Old Testament times, the Commandments were written in
hard stone and the penalty for sin is death.
Now, the Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit, writes it on our warm
hearts. The Ruach HaKodesh
/ the Holy Sprit introduces humanity to the concept of “grace.”
which is the advanced trait of mercy.
The Gospel lesson of Grace is: Don't judge and condemn too
quickly. If some have a
change of heart, and wants to change their ways, we should learn to
forgive and show mercy, and help them back on the righteous path.
- "Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows!"
- - John 16:33
This Holy Day also marks the beginning of the Age of Grace, meaning an
age to promote and learn the advanced trait of mercy. Now this is an age of forgiveness, and for learning to become
a better person, and a better community.
Individuals will make mistakes (will sin) and will have learn a
hard lesson for it, but in the end, if we learn our spiritual lessons
well, one will be a better person for it – true to the symbolism of
the YHWH’s spiritual bread offered at the Temple, HIS bread (HIS
Faithful) is being kneaded, shaped, and baked to perfection.
Log on for more info: http://www.homeworship101.com/age_of_grace.htm
Also
on this day, communication with the Heavenly Powers just became easier.
YHWH, via the Holy
Spirit, now empowers the Believer with HIS Spiritual
Powers-Tools. In Daniel
ch.10, the Archangel Gabriel wanted to visit Daniel to relay a message
from YHWH, but he prevented from that task by Satan’s dark angels.
He had to fight the dark forces for 21 days, and only succeeded
when the Archangel Michael came to help.
Here we get a hint, that at times, it wasn’t always easy for
the righteous powers to communicate to the Faithful on earth, but now
that has all changed. Prayer,
baptism, blessing, anointing, laying on of hands, are all ways for the
Believer to communicate with the Heavenly Powers.
The Spiritual Power-Tools are important defensive tools because
the Faithful is in the middle of a raging spiritual war, unfortunately
most churches do not teach the laity how to use them.
Satan knows, “to
lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away,” and he
has been busy corrupting YHWH’s Knowledge.
~ The Curtain
Closes ~
- “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
- that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
to God,
- which is your reasonable service.”
- - Romans 12:1
Our Holy Spirit is our strength and helper, but help us in doing
what? The
answer is to help us live GODLY life.
If you listen to your guiding intuition and learn to live a
righteous life your Holy Sprit will grow.
If you ignore it and live by being hardhearted, malicious, and
taking advantage of your fellow man, then your Holy Spirit will wither
and die – then come Judgment
Day you will have no sprit to revive for eternal life and then you
will only have eternal death.
We have one CREATOR with one vision!
Some will argue that YHWH’S Law has been suspended in this Age
of Grace, but it's a no-brainer, our FATHER'S Kingdom is based on law
and order. Even the angels
live by the Law. It’s the
rabbinic laws (man designed laws) that Yahshua criticized, but regarding
His FATHER’s Laws He clearly stated, He didn't come to break the Law
(Mat.5:17). If anything, He
raised the stakes - evil thoughts now constitute sin.
The Gospel message is: Don't even think about it! (Mat.5:8). A letter from the second century puts living under YHWH’S
Law beautifully, log on: http://www.homeworship101.com/wp_early_christians.htm
A
major point often missed by the controlling religionists that is not
often explained is the symbolism of Acts ch.2.
In the chapter, the Holy Spirit came directly to the faithful, it
wasn’t first sent to the Apostles and then distributed by them, the
Holy Spirit was sent directly from Heaven to the Faithful.
Based on this example, the Protestant Reformation leaders
believed the GOD directly empowers the people and became one of the main
tenets to break the yoke of the Roman Catholics version of Nicolaitanism
(Rev.2:6). The doctrine of
Nicolaitanism has its roots in paganism where you paid a priest to send
your prayers to the gods. It
always puts a priest, (a pope, a rabbi, or some mere mortal), between
you and GOD – and YHWH/GOD hates that because it leads to corruption,
Yahshua also chastised many rabbis of His time for having the same
Nicolaitan attitude (Mat.23:1-23).
The doctrine of “Spiritual Covering” preached by some Protestants churches
is much the same. The pitch
is, once you join their church then you are spiritually covered by the
priest or elders on down to the members, supposedly protecting the
person from evil – oy vey, the mishegoss of religion, this has nothing
to do about the Bible but everything about control.
~ Holy Living ~
“You Go Your Way,
I’ll go YHWH!”
The Bible clearly states:
"You
ought to live holy and godly lives." -
2 Peter 3:11
- "But now you must also put
away all the following:
- anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy
language."
-
Colossians 3:8
- "Be an example to all believers in what
you
- teach, in the way you live,
- in your love, your faith, and your purity." - 1 Timothy 4:12
The best answer to today’s loss of civility is, “you go your
way, I’ll go YAHWEH” (just like Noah did). Scriptures
call the faithful to YHWH priests and we should learn to live Holy lives
(Rom.12:1; Eph.1:4; Tit.1:8; 1Pet.2:9; Rev.1:6, 20:6, and many more),
but what does that mean? What
we generally call a holy man, paying someone, oops I mean, donating
money to someone, to stay in a sanctuary separate from the community so
that that person may remain holy, and then seek that person out for ones
spiritual needs, is mostly a pagan custom – it is not YHWH’s idea of
HIS priesthood.
- "He who walks with wise men shall be wise;
- but a companion of fools shall be destroyed!"
- - Proverbs 13:20
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- Take
heed of the company you keep!
- Beware
of unnecessary familiarity with the ungodly.
YHWH wants all HIS faithful to live Holy lives on a day-to-day basis
while interacting with the community in our work, and play - to live
honestly, to work honestly, etc, with one caveat, beware and be aware of
evil. The Book of Judges is
a good example, YHWH called people from the community both men and women
to rise up and preach YHWH’s truths to the community when they drifted
off the Path. The Apostle
Peter tells “…but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy
in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am
holy,” 1Peter1:16. It is easy enough to understand, and easy enough to read it
in Scriptures – but there is still much debate on the topic.
Generally people would rather make an icon and worship it instead
of living a holy life. Oy vey, the mishegoss of religion.
See link: Concept of Holiness, http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=219
- “Finally,
brethren, whatever things are true,
- whatever things are noble, whatever things are just,
- whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,
- whatever things are of good report,
- if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy;
- meditate on these things.”
- - Phil 4:8
It will be a long summer growing season under this Age of Grace
– stay on the righteous path. The
faithful are always longing for the coming of the Messiah to usher in
the Kingdom of peace, but this is a unique Age because the Faithful
believe without seeing YHWH or Yahshua, and it remains open to collect
as many Believers as possible. "The
Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but
is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that
all should come to repentance," 2Pet.3:9.
~ Closing Comment ~
In
recent years when it comes to answering tough Biblical questions the
answer was “What Would Jesus Do” (WWJD)?
Well today the question is, when it comes to religious Holy Days,
what DID Jesus do? Many
forget that those who believe in Christ follow a Hebrew Messiah and He
kept His FATHER’s ordained Holy Days listed in Leviticus ch.23.
As a matter of fact Yahshua/Jesus not only observed the Holy
Days, He fulfilled them! He
was crucified on Passover (the Last Supper), He was buried on the Days
of Unleavened Bread, He was resurrected of the Day of Firstfruit
(Resurrection Sunday/Easter), and today on Pentecost He sent the Ruach
HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit. Chances
are that when He returns as the conquering Messiah, He will fulfill the
fall season of Holy Days. So
the question remains, if we follow Christ then why are we following the
Popes holidays instead of Christ’s example?
"For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words
in this adulterous and sinful generation,
the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him
when He comes in the
glory of His Father with the holy angels"
- Mark 8:38
- Enjoy the journey of learning…
- > http://www.homeworship101.com/holy_days_spring.htm
- > http://www.homeworship101.com/holy_days_spring_observance.htm
- > http://www.homeworship101.com/bb-c8_age_of_grace.htm
- > http://www.homeworship101.com/bb-c6_hellenism_romanism.htm
- > http://www.homeworship101.com/sp-t7_sacred_assembly.htm
- > http://www.homeworship101.com/wp_early_christians.htm
- We wish you peace
and safety during your summer travels.
- REMEMBER:
No matter where you are traveling in the galaxy, the Golden Rule
rules!
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- Take care.
Have a blessed Holy Day, Errol.
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- Errol
Mueller, chronicler extraordinaire
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e-mail: errol@homeworship101.com
- website:
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