From Sabbath to Sunday: Who Changed the Day of Worship — and Why?

For years, I read Daniel 7:25 without grasping its full weight: 

and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times and law, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time.

It was right in front of me, yet I missed it — over and over. I should have held fast to Deuteronomy 11:18, binding His words to my heart and mind. 

And you shall lay up these Words of Mine in your heart and in your being, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Instead, I drifted, unknowingly aligning myself with the warning in Revelation 13:16

And he causes all, both small and great, and rich and poor, and free and slave, to be given a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads,

What follows is the evidence I finally saw — the shift in worship, the change of times, and the authority behind it.  Continue reading From Sabbath to Sunday: Who Changed the Day of Worship — and Why?

Debarim (Deuteronomy) 1

Lesson date: 3/17/5854AA

Why study Deuteronomy? Why study Torah? Deuteronomy is the most quoted book in the B’rit Hadasha (NT). If it was good enough for Yeshua, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Sha’ul and the rest it is good enough for me. Since we read Deuteronomy for the sabbatical year it has been my favorite book of Torah because it encapsulates the other 4 books. People often forget that when the writers of the B’rit Hadasha were writing their letters Torah was the authority: Timotiyos Bět/2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is breathed by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of Elohim might be fitted, equipped for every good work.

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Debarim (Deuteronomy) 2 — What comes first?

In the past we have discussed the various “principles” of of Biblical exegesis and compared that to the Hebrew model of exegesis. Christianity has roughly 30 different levels or “principles” in exegesis of Scripture/Hermeneutics. Hebrew has 4. Naturally the rabbis insist that there is actually a fifth that has to be used in order to ‘truly’ understand the Kabbalah, (the Jewish book of black magic compiled while dispersed in Babylon). Always steer clear of rabbis and deeper meanings. The four levels are represented as an acronym PaRaDeS:

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Debarim (Deuteronomy) 3 — Giants, giants, giants

Lesson date: Rosh Chodesh Month 4/5854AA

In verse one we see the Children of Yisrael turning and “went up the way” to Bashan – H1316 – בּשׁן  – bâshân BDB Definition: Bashan = “fruitful”. Psa 22:12  Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong ones of Bashan have encircled Me.

Eze 39:18  “Eat the flesh of the mi ghty, drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and lambs, of goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

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Debarim (Deuteronomy) 4

Lesson date: Rosh Chodesh Month 4/5854AA

Chapter 4 begins with an exhortation of Mosheh: Deu 4:2  “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it, so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you.

We see it again: Deu 12:32  “All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it – do not add to it nor take away from it.

And again: Pro 30:6  Do not add to His Words, Lest He reprove you, and you be found a liar.

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Debarim (Deuteronomy) 6 — The Covenant of Love or, How to recognize the Mark of the Beast

Lesson date: 4/15/5854AA

Deu 6:1  “And this is the command, the laws and right-rulings which יהוה your Elohim has commanded, to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over to possess,

The Commands: H4687 – מִצְוָה – mitsvâh – mits-vaw’ = a command, whether human or divine (collectively the Law): – (which was) commanded (-ment), law, ordinance, precept.

The Laws: H2706 – חֹק – chôq – khoke = an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage): – appointed, bound, commandment,

Right-rulings: H4941 – מִשְׁפָּט – mishpâṭ – mish-pawt’ = properly a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (particularly) divine law,

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Debarim (Deuteronomy) 7 — Seven Nations Greater and Mightier than You or, The Enemy of YHVH is our Enemy, not our Friend

Lesson date: 4/22/5854AA

Hittites: חִּתִּי Ḥittiy – Strong’s H2850 – meaning sons of Ḥeth or terror.

Girgashites:גִּ ר גשִּי Girgashiy – Strong’s H1622 – means dwelling on a clayey soil or clay dwellers’ or ‘unsure foundation.

Amorites: אֱמֹרִּי Emoriy – Strong’s H567 – meaning cave dwellers’. amar – Strong’s H559 which means, utter, say, speak which can mean boasters.

Kena’anites: כנַעֲנִּי Kena’aniy – Strong’s H3669 zealous, lowlands people, brought down, defeated or made low’.

Perrizites: פרִּזִּי Perizziy – Strong’s H6522 – means belonging to a village’, ‘rustic village or having a breach in the wall’.  Continue reading Debarim (Deuteronomy) 7 — Seven Nations Greater and Mightier than You or, The Enemy of YHVH is our Enemy, not our Friend