THE MARK OF IDENTIFICATION



THE SIGN OF IDENTIFICATION

[The 2007 article rewritten, edited and re-released March 11, 2014]

We identify our true beliefs by our actions. What sets us apart unto the Elohim (God) of the Scriptures? What is the one major sign of identification with Him and with His eternal Covenant? What was the eternal identifying mark of the Jewish Messiah and His Apostles and their followers? So abhorrent was this “mark” of identification that the Roman Emperor Constantine, in 325CE at the creation of his Roman Catholic religion, literally made it a law punishable by death if anyone kept the sign of identification with Yahuweh, the Elohim of Israel. The Catholic priests and hierarchy watched carefully to see who guarded it and who did not. Why was this sign of identification with Yahuweh, the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Exodus 3:14-15) so repugnant to this pagan sun-god worshipper, Constantine, and his followers?

Constantine created the “sign of the cross” for those in his new sun god religion--called by the Greeks, “Christianity,” and anyone not adhering to his religion was killed. The symbol of the followers of the Jewish Messiah was the menorah.

At the end of the fourth century the Roman Catholic hierarchy thought they had killed off all of the “heretics.” But by the 13th century, after much “Inquisition,” Church leaders related how the heretics still existed, and that they had a copy of the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew. These heretics of the church were easily identified by:

1) Their faith in the death and resurrection of the Torah-guarding Jewish Messiah, Yahushua, Son of Yahuweh for their eternal salvation.

2) Their guarding of the Torah (Teachings and instructions of Yahuweh in the Tenach—miscalled “Old Testament”). These followers of “The Way” or the followers of the “Nazarene,” which they called themselves, would not bow to the rule of Rome or of Greece over them. They adhered to the Jewish Messiah and the teachings of His Father—the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Acts 24:5, 15-16)

In the Inquisition, in different parts of the Catholic world, the non-Catholics were watched carefully, as were the Jews. If they were seen guarding the set-apart signs of identification with Yahuweh, they were brought before “inquisitors” of the Catholic Church, who tortured them to try to make the convert to Catholicism, and if they did not convert, they were killed.

The “Inquisition” in Spain lasted 300 years. Some of the Jews from Spain fled to what we know as Mexico, Central and South America.

When the church found where they had gone, 300 years of inquisition,

torture, murder, and atrocities were brought to the “New World” in these areas also by Franciscan and Jesuit priests—even extending up into what is now the southwest United States. The “Inquisition” is still in effect, and the Inquisition Files have not closed. Today the inquisition continues under the control of the Jesuit Order of the Vatican, who still tracks down those who will not bow to Roman Catholic control to kill them. The guardian of the Inquisition Files—who guarded them all of his Church life—is now the present Pope.

What has caused such hatred, that continues today by the Jesuit- founded and controlled Illuminati/Masonic/CFR world rulers, whose god is openly proclaimed to be Lucifer, against these people who did no harm to anyone?

Lucifer’s hate still rages against Yahuweh and His set-apart teachings of the Kingdom of heaven. Protestantism, which did much good, did not remove the foundation of deception as to the Person of Yahushua, and the covenant of Yahuweh.

It was Lucifer in the Garden of Eden who persuaded Eve to eat of his tree, and forsake the tree of life, which is the Torah of Yahuweh.

I was a former Christian minister, and I proclaim: His Torah is life at its best, peace at its highest, and joy at its fullest!

Psalm 19:7-11: “The Torah of Yahuweh is perfect, restoring the soul; the witness of Yahuweh is trustworthy, making wise the simple; the orders of Yahuweh are straight, rejoicing the heart; the command of Yahuweh is clear, enlightening the eyes; the fear of Yahuweh is clean, standing forever. The right-rulings of Yahuweh are true—they are righteous altogether--more desirable than gold--than much fine gold--and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. Also, your servant is warned by them, and in guarding them there is great reward.”

Psalm 119:160, 165, and 142: “The sum of Your Word is truth, and all Your righteous right-rulings are FOREVER. Great peace have those loving Your Torah, and for them there is no stumbling-block.” “Your Torah is truth.”

Only Lucifer (Lucifer is Satan disguised as an angel of light. Lucifer means: the illumined one, the shining one, the light-bearer), could hold so much hate for the Torah and for Yahuweh, who threw Him out of heaven and condemned him to the lake of fire forever. His great vengeance is against those who love Yahuweh (I AM the eternal, ever-existing One who breathes), and who love His Son, Yahushua (I AM Salvation).

There is no higher culture or lifestyle on earth than the

guarding of the Scriptural Torah of Yahuweh and the peace of

knowing salvation through Messiah Yahushua who died for His people and rose for our eternal life. This has nothing to do with Jewish traditions—this has to do with the pure, untainted Word of Yahuweh Himself. Judaism is a man-made religion that has put terrible bondage on Yahuweh’s people. Messiah fought it when He was on earth. The Word of Yahuweh leads to life, not bondage to man.

“Come unto Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, for I am meek and lowly of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30)

It is the demands of Lucifer’s Greco/Roman culture which is slavery and bondage and is filled with heaviness and grief!

Yahushua’s Kingdom is coming—an earthly Kingdom for 1,000 years. Then the Father brings His City—the New Jerusalem—to earth and reigns over this earth forever and ever. (Revelation 19-22)

Entrance into His Kingdom comes through entering His covenant, through the blood of Messiah.

The animal sacrifices were added AFTER His Torah was given at Mt. Sinai, because the people would not stop sinning. They had been steeped in the paganism of Egypt, and did not know this Elohim of their forefathers. Therefore, they kept choosing the ways of Egypt—adhering to the gods of Egypt—and breaking the Torah of Yahuweh.

I John 3:4: “Sin is the transgression of the Torah.”

Individual judgment will be based on obedience to known truth. The Hebrew understanding of faith is this: If you believe something, prove it by your works--“Faith without works is dead”--James 2:26.

Therefore we have this correct translation of John 3:36: “He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him.”

John 14:15 & 15:14: “IF you love Me keep My commandments.” “You are My friends IF you keep My commandments.”

The commandments of the Son are the commandments of His Father. He did not come to start any new religion. Nor did the Apostles start any new religion—the Greeks did, and Rome institutionalized it. The Father did not start the religion of Rabbinical Judaism—Rabbi Akiva did in the second century (133 CE approximately).

Man starts religions and sets up rules for those in their religion. The Roman Church openly admits that their traditions rule over the

Scriptures. Also, Rabbinical Judaism says that their traditions over rule the Scriptures. Messiah’s words: Mark 7:6-9; Colossians 2:8!

Today the world’s religions are uniting with the Vatican in a counterfeit unity that is spoken of regarding these “last days.” The Roman religion of Constantine now seeks to rule the world, as the Caesars once did. Historians tell us that Rome never died, the power of the Caesars simply resided in the popes. Constantine took all the gods of the Roman Pantheon, and reduced them to the Greek Iesous. The spoken goal of the Jesuit Order is to put one of their own on the Temple Mount to rule world religion. Now we have the 1st ever Jesuit priest – Pope Francis I, who is being dubbed “the world’s pope.”

“Behold the Lamb of Elohim Who takes away the sin of the world,” John proclaimed (John 1:29). He was the final sacrifice—fulfilling Exodus 12! He fulfilled the ceremonial laws of animal sacrifice that were added after the Torah was given because of sin. But, He did not end the good Torah of the Kingdom of heaven. The Hebrew Matthew tells us that He came to expand the Torah and write it on our hearts as per Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Matthew 5:17-19. Once we receive Messiah as our Savior, we enter into a covenant with Yahuweh and His Kingdom. We become “citizens” of His Kingdom. (Philippians 3:20-21) Our part is to guard and keep His eternal laws that He gave to us through His servant Moses. The word “law”, used as a negative, was inserted into the Latin Vulgate by its Gnostic translator Jerome, along with other distorting words.

If you would substitute “Torah” for “law” in your Bible it will open your eyes to truth. His Torah is good. It is good to observe laws that give us peace, health and contentment. Also, if you will substitute the Name of the Father—Yahuweh—for “Lord”, used 6, 823 times in the Bible, you will also have your eyes opened.

John 5:46-47; 6:45: “For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed Me, since he wrote about Me. But, if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe My words? It has been written in the prophets `And they shall all be taught by Yahuweh.’ Everyone, then, who has heard from the Father and learned, comes to Me.”

In II Timothy 3:14-17, the Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) says to Timothy: “But you, stay in what you have learned and trusted, having known from whom you have learned and that from a babe you have known the Set-Apart Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Messiah Yahushua. All Scripture is breathed by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of Elohim may be fitted, equipped, for every good work.” This is this Word of Elohim that the Roman Church has called

“the Old Testament.”

Ecclesiastes 3:13: “Let us hear the conclusion of the entire matter: Fear Elohim and guard His Commandments, for this applies to all mankind! I know that what Elohim does is FOREVER. There is no adding to it, and there is no taking from it. Elohim does it that men should fear before Him.”

Yet since the Garden of Eden, man has followed the lies and deceptions of Lucifer that Yahuweh and His Torah were “bondage”—and to be avoided. The church substituted a cheap Greek Platonic philosophical “grace” that has led men into bondage to Satan through the lusts of their flesh. Messiah said His followers would be “few”: Matthew 7:14: “…the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed, which leads to life, and there are FEW WHO FIND IT.”

Matthew 19:16-17 is a passage not preached in churches: “And see, one came and said to Him, `Good teacher, what good shall I do to have everlasting life?’ Messiah answers: “…If you wish to enter into life, guard the Commandments.” The man asks: “Which ones” and Messiah proceeds to name off some of the Ten Commandments.

Messiah is the living Torah, the Word made flesh. To guard the commandments of Yahuweh means to follow Him in obedience!

It is historical fact that the Greeks broke away from the teachings of the Apostles in the mid-first century, calling themselves after the worshippers of the Hellenistic/Egyptian god of Alexandria, Egypt—Serapis--“Christians.” By the second century the Emperor Hadrian reported that “Christians,” who got their name from the worshippers of Serapis, also called themselves “Gnostics.” Gnosticism today is basic New Age/Luciferic teaching that Yahuweh is the evil one who restricted Eve, and Lucifer the good one who “illumined” Eve. This teaching is paramount thought among the rulers of the world government of today. In Albert Pike’s Masonic “Bible” he clearly states: “Our god is Lucifer.” He clearly says that Yahuweh is the dark “God.”

The persecution of the true followers of Messiah continues to this day.

To answer my original question: The ONE SIGN that the enemy looks for that identifies the follower of Yahuweh, along with

not eating of pork and the guarding of the seven festival days of Yahuweh rather than the holidays of pagan Rome, is SHABBAT, or “Sabbath.”

This day begins at sunset Friday eve, and continues until Saturday at sunset. Genesis 1: All of Yahuweh’s days begin at sunset! “Shabbat” in Hebrew means: “An intermission, rest, cessation of work, to sit still.”

The inquisitors of the Roman Catholic Church looked carefully to see who was not working on “Saturday”--the day of the god Saturn. This is the one supreme sign of belonging to the Elohim of the Scriptures, and the Devil and his agents know it.

The followers of the sun god religion of Greece, Rome and Persia worship on “Sun-day.” The Muslims worship on Friday, the day of “Dagon” the fish god of the Philistines. Other religions have their days of worship and their rules of appeasing their gods.

Once again, we see the contest of Mt. Carmel mounting to the foreground today. Elijah called all the prophets of Ba’al to Mt. Carmel in I Kings 18, and gave them two choices.

I Kings 18:19-21: Elijah tells Ahab, the King of the ten northern tribes of Israel: “`And now, send and gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal (the Lord), and the four hundred prophets of Asheroth’ (The “Queen of Heaven”—also called Ishtar or Easter)…And Elijah came to all the people and said, `How long will you keep hopping between two opinions? If Yahuweh is Elohim follow Him, if Baal, follow him.’ ” (Italics mine) These choices are today’s choices.

Who will you identify with? You have really ONLY two choices: 1) The Elohim of Israel, Yahuweh, or 2) Ba’al--the sun god--whom the Greeks worshipped as Zeus and the Roman Emperor Constantine worshipped as Mithra--re-naming him the name of the god of the Greeks—Iesous (transliterated into English as “Jesus”). The Name of our Savior is a Hebrew Name with a meaning that identifies Him with His Father--“Yah”--I AM. “Yahushua” means: “Yahuweh is salvation.”

There is a third alternative, which you don’t want to be a part of—Revelation 3:15-16: Those who straddle the fence and do not take sides--these will be vomited out of Messiah’s mouth at His coming.

The “Replacement Theology” of most of Christianity came from the separation of Yahuweh and His Son--separating the Son from His Father, and making Him identify with the sun gods of paganism back to Nimrod and Babylon after the flood. Yahuweh and Yahushua were replaced by Greco/Roman paganism, which the English call “church.”

Constantine, in creating his Roman Catholic Church, a religion of his own creation for the sole purpose of uniting his empire, created it around the popular Persian god of the day—Sol Invictus Mithra.

Here’s where we get “Sun-day” worship of “the lord”: Constantine made a law in the 4th century that all must worship “Iesous,” or “Yesu,” on the “venerable day of the sun”--the day of the god he worshipped--Sol Invictus--the day of Ba’al (Ba’al means “lord” or “master”)--Sun-day.

He made it mandatory, punishable by death, that all go to “church” on this day. Banks, schools, and all public buildings were closed in honor of Ba’al--the original sun god, Nimrod--from Babylon. He made it mandatory, punishable by death, that all keep the pagan festival of the fertility goddess Astarte, Ashteroth, Diana, or “Easter.” He made it mandatory, punishable by death, to honor the birthday of Ba’al—under the name of Tammuz, the son of Nimrod--whose birthday was December 25th.

Tammuz, son of Nimrod, was supposedly gored to death by a wild boar, which he killed before he died. Tammuz was supposedly 40 years old when he was killed. He supposedly miraculously rose from the dead on the Sunday of Ishtar (Easter) to the praises: “He is risen--he is risen from the dead.” Forty days before his “resurrection,” the church designated as a time of mourning and self-denial for Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:14). This became known as “Lent” in the Catholic Church. Then, in honor of his resurrection, all ate ham on the feast of Ishtar (Easter). Did you ever wonder why the traditional meat at Easter was ham? Now you know. Therefore, anyone continuing to guard the Shabbat, not eating pork, and guarding the festivals of Yahuweh, were considered under the death penalty.

Constantine fashioned a sword in the shape of the symbol of his new religion--the “crux”—cross. He proceeded under that “sign” to conquer the world, and to kill all who opposed him--both Jew and believer in Messiah who guarded the Torah of Yahuweh. The Greek word is “stauros” – stake, pole, or tree, fulfilling Deuteronomy 21:22-23--not “cross,” which relates to the sun god Tammuz.

By the 4th century, the church thought they had killed all of those believers in Yahushua who guarded the Torah, and who had copies of Matthew in Hebrew. But, no – they did not kill them off. By the 13th century, the Church realized these “heretics” were still around. Thus the Inquisition was born to get rid of them. But, they survived, and today are in the millions. Satan hates those of Revelation 12:7-17.

“Church” is an English word. It is taken from “kirke” –a German word that comes from the goddess Circe--the daughter of Helios, the sun god. Legend says she was infamous for turning men into pigs.

Thus, from the mid-first century, the enemies of Yahuweh and His Messiah, and His Word, proceeded to create a counterfeit religion—a religion that would separate Yahuweh and His Messiah, substituting another “messiah” of pagan origin in the place of the true Jewish Messiah--thus the warning of the Apostle Sha’ul in Galatians 1.

Sha’ul (Paul) and the other Apostles fought this Gnostic Christianity in their day, as well as the traditions of Jews who tried to make people adhere to their laws for salvation.

Today, we have Psalm 2 in full operation. The world is seeking to destroy Yahuweh and His Messiah and His Word (Messiah is the Word of Yahuweh in flesh) from planet earth. His Torah is considered “bands” and “ropes” to the “lawless.” Yet, His teachings are our health, life, and peace,--the “light yoke” that Messiah gives us.

I John 5:2-3: “By this we know that we love the children of

Elohim, when we love Elohim and guard His commands. For

this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands, and His commands are NOT HEAVY.”

Therefore, we need to look for a moment at this set-apart sign of Yahuweh—which is the identification with Him—the Shabbat or weekly Sabbath. The word also stands for the “seventh day” and is a picture each week of the 7th day – or the 7,000th millennium reign of Messiah on the earth. Every seven days you rehearse for the Kingdom.

It is the day that He meets with His set-apart ones more than any other day, to speak to us personally, to give His mind and plans, and to cause rest from all burdens, problems, and turmoil of the week.

1) On this day we do not work, as usual--we do not create. He

ceased from creation on the seventh day, and so we cease

from doing our own desires, and enter into His focus.

2) We do not buy or sell, thus making others work for us.

This is the day that we meet with Yahuweh and Yahushua. It is the day that He teaches us about His Kingdom on earth, and we learn about our part in it. It is the day we receive “revelation knowledge” from His heart to our spirit. It is the day that we connect with His plans and purposes, and learn our part in them. It is the day that He spends with us, preparing us for the times to come.

It is the day that we enter into a more personal relationship with Him, because we are identifying with Him in obedience to His covenant. It is the day that we join with the whole house of Jacob in honoring the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--our forefathers.

He will reign over all the earth from the hill of Zion in Jerusalem. His set-apart ones who guard His covenant will rule with Him. In Revelation 22:14, we see that those who guard His commandments to do them have right to the tree of life and the right to enter the gates of the New Jerusalem, forever.

How long will we celebrate the Shabbat, and go by the new moons for the timing of His seven festivals (Leviticus 23) that all represent Messiah and His salvation?

Hebrews 4:9: “So there remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of Elohim.” The Greek word for “Sabbath-keeping” is “sabattiamos, which simply means “Sabbath-keeping.”

In Isaiah 55:8-11 we read that once Yahuweh sends His Word into the earth, He does not recall it. It goes forth to accomplish what He desires. Messiah’s death fulfilled the animal sacrifices that were later added after the giving of Torah because of the sin of the people who “transgressed,” or sinned against, His Torah. Torah just means Yahuweh’s instructions for right-standing in His Kingdom! All of the animal sacrifices in the book of Leviticus were fulfilled by Yahushua as the “Lamb of Elohim.” He is our mediator. By faith in His death, and resurrection, we are acquitted of our sins, justified, declared righteous, and set free! [Refer to the article: “The Blood of Messiah”]

Isaiah 66:22-23: “`For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make stand before Me’, declares Yahuweh, `so your seed and your name shall stand. (He is speaking to the Levite priests of the Zadok priesthood – Ezekiel 44:15-24) And it shall be from New Moon to New Moon, and from Shabbat to Shabbat, all

flesh shall come to worship before Me,’ declares Yahuweh.”

How burdensome is it to rest and relax every seventh day? How burdensome is it to turn off the world and spend time with Him in His Word, letting Him teach you and instruct you in the way you should go personally?

How much bondage is involved when interacting on an intimate level with the Creator of the universe? Come on folks! We’ve been lied to by Satan himself and his religious system cronies. The last thing he wants is for you to get to know his arch-enemy. So few people really know Yahuweh--don’t you want to be one who does? If we identify with Yahuweh and His people, yes, the world will hate us. Yes, we will be persecuted. But, this is our calling—for “…it is through much tribulation that we must enter the Kingdom of Yahuweh.” (Acts 14:22) II Timothy 3:12: “And indeed, all those wishing to live set-apart lives in Messiah Yahushua, shall be persecuted.”

Philippians 1:29: “Because to you it has been given as a favor, on behalf of Messiah, not only to believe in Him but also to suffer for His sake.” (Read Romans 8:16-17; I Peter 4 and 5)

Yes, you may well be persecuted for obeying Truth. Messiah seemed to think that was normal! (Matthew 10:16-40) But, Luke 14:25-33 tells us that IF we want to follow Yahushua we must count the cost and forsake all that is appealing to the soulish flesh nature.

But, eternity is near, my friends, and I plead with you to make the right choice. You don’t need those choosing Baal to stop you from following the Lamb wherever He goes. Messiah walked out the Torah for us as an example of our walk with Him.

From these passages from His eternal Word, and the example of Messiah and His followers, we have two clear choices—either we identify with Yahuweh’s sign, or we identify with the sign (mark) of the

beast system of the Roman Empire—and the soon-coming false prophet out of Rome. The Vatican knows this pope is the false prophet!

[Please refer to the study “The Sunday Laws and the Returning Inquisition/July 31, 2013!]

Joshua 24:15: Joshua says: “And if it seems evil to you to serve Yahuweh, choose you this day whom you will serve--whether the gods your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: But as for me and my house, we will serve Yahuweh.”

Out of fear of Yahuweh, but also out of sanity and kindness to myself for eternity, I choose to serve Yahuweh and Yahushua!

Here are His simple instructions:

Exodus 31:12-17: “And Yahuweh spoke to Moses saying: `And you, speak to the children of Israel saying, `MY SABBATHS YOU ARE TO GUARD, BY ALL MEANS, FOR IT IS A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND YOU THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS, TO KNOW THAT I, YAHUWEH, AM SETTING YOU APART. And you shall guard the Sabbath, for it is set-apart to you. Everyone who profanes it

shall certainly be put to death, for anyone who does work on it, that being shall be cut off from among the people. Six days work is done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout your generations AS AN EVERLASTING COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IT IS A SIGN FOREVER. For in six days Yahuweh made the heavens

and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed…”

In Ephesians 2:8-19, we read that we are no longer “gentiles” (barbarians, heathen, pagans, aliens, strangers and foreigners) when we are “in Messiah,” but we are “in” the covenants and promises of Israel. [Refer to: “Are You a Gentile?”]

The Day of Yahuweh is against all “lawlessness.” The anti-messiah is called “the lawless one.” “Lawlessness” is the breaking of the Torah of Yahuweh--“Sin.” In Matthew 7:21-23, we see that in the Judgment, people will come to Messiah with all their good deeds of service, supposedly for Him. But, He says to them: “I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who are without the Torah.” I know it doesn’t say that in English, but the word “lawlessness” in Greek is “a nomia.” This simply means: “without the Torah.” As in Hebrew, in Greek “nomia” means “teachings and instructions,” but also adds “to graze sheep.”

Those “loving truth” will be led by His Spirit into “ALL TRUTH”--John 16:13 and Romans 8:28. II Thessalonians 2:8-12 tells us that those who do not love the truth will receive a strong delusion from Him, and be damned. Loving Truth is paramount to continuing towards eternal life! (Read I John 2:3-7!)

Our job is to seek Him and obey Him with all our heart, mind and soul--study and obey His Word and love Him with

everything in us. He will lead us into all truth by the Spirit of Yahuweh. Our job is to introduce as many as He leads us to, to the true Jewish Messiah and our covenant with Yahuweh. Our job is to be in the center of His will for us.

We have been lied to, deceived, and taught falsehood by men who are also deceived. Many are angry about this. We must repent of being a part of paganism, and then go forward to do His will.

Now His Spirit is restoring to us our roots that were lost to us from the second century when Rome stopped the teaching of Torah for both Jews and Torah-keeping believers in Messiah, on penalty of death.

A remnant survived through the last 1900 years, a remnant that today has returned to the teachings of Messiah and the Apostles—who guards His Torah and the witness of Messiah Yahushua.

He has prepared a remnant today who will guard His teachings:

Revelation 12:17: “And the dragon (Satan) was enraged with the woman (Israel) and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed—those guarding the commands of Elohim and possessing the witness of Messiah Yahushua.”

Revelation 14:12: “Here is the endurance of the set-apart ones, here are those guarding the commands of Elohim and the belief of Yahushua.”

Revelation 22:14: “Blessed are those DOING His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates of the City.”

A small remnant will be alive and remain—these are those who do “exploits” because “they know their Elohim”--Daniel 11:32.

These guard His commands and the belief in Messiah Yahushua. These are the ones who have returned to the pure teachings of the Messiah and His Apostles.

In many third world countries, the ones whose faith is in the Savior of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and who know little else, are being martyred for their faith. I’ve worked with the persecuted believers of China. There are pure of heart, childlike, and willing to die for Him. These ones who stand strong in their belief in the Savior are given great grace and mercy from the Father—for He knows Who they have put their trust in. These will rule and reign with Him (Revelation 20:6). Our judgment is based on our knowledge and how we live up to what He has given us. (Luke 12:47-48) “To whom much is given, much will be required.”

Those of us given Truth in this last hour must live up to it. If we do not take His mark of identification and obey His set-apart commands, we will easily take “the mark of the beast”—the mark of the anti-

messiah--the one who will fool the world into thinking he is the real messiah. (Revelation 13) Even the “elect” can be deceived, Messiah said. We must spend our time now getting to know the real Messiah, so that the counterfeit will be very apparent.

Exodus 20:8-11: THERE ARE TEN COMMANDMENTS—NOT NINE!

“Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart. Six days you labor and shall do all your work, but the seventh day is a SABBATH OF YAHUWEH, your Elohim. You do not do any work—you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, (nor workers at a restaurant, nor the grocery store clerk, etc.) nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates. For in six days Yahuweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them and rested the seventh

day. Therefore Yahuweh blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart”. (Italics mine)

For more on this, refer to Nehemiah 13, when he talks about stopping the sale of food on Shabbat within the gates of Jerusalem.

I Peter 1:16: “Be set-apart as Yahuweh is set apart.”

Leviticus 19:1: “And Yahuweh spoke to Moses saying, `Speak to all the congregation of Israel, and say to them, “Be set apart, for I, Yahuweh, your Elohim, am set-apart.’ ”

“Be set apart AS I AM set apart.” (Leviticus 11:45-46; 19:1; 20:7-8, 26; I Peter 1:16; Hebrews 12:14b; Revelation 22:11b)

We are commanded to come out of the midst of those who are lawless, lovers of the world, and antagonistic to the good Torah of Yahuweh, and set ourselves obviously apart from the system He will destroy in His wrath. If you want to be saved from His wrath, then obey His commandments. His wrath comes on the “children of disobedience” – (II Corinthians 6:14-7:1; Ya’cob/James 4:4; Ephesians 5:1-11)

All the Apostles, disciples, all early believers who followed the Apostles’ teachings – all kept Shabbat and the Festivals, and the dietary rules of our Creator for our health. It was these that Rome hunted down and killed. As the Greeks were inventing a counterfeit of the Hebrew Messiah, using their god Zeus as the principle Savior – Iesous (ee-zeus) – they even tried to kill the Apostle Sha’ul (Paul).

Ezekiel 20:19-25: “I am Yahuweh your Elohim. Walk in My laws and guard My right-rulings, and do them. And set apart My Sabbaths, and they shall be A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND YOU to know that I am Yahuweh your Elohim. But, the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My laws, and My right-rulings—they did not guard to do them, which, if a man does, he shall live by them. They profaned My Sabbaths, so I resolved to put out My wrath on them to complete My displeasure against them in the wilderness…Also, I Myself lifted My hand in an oath to those in the wilderness to scatter them AMONG the gentiles and disperse them throughout the lands, BECAUSE they had not done My right-rulings and they rejected My laws and they profaned My Sabbaths and their eyes were on their father’s idols. And I also gave them up to laws that were not good, and right rulings by which they would not live.”

In 722 BCE, the northern 10 tribes were dispersed into the nations AMONG the gentiles. At Yom Teruah, 2007 BCE, the 2,730-year punishment of the northern tribes was finished. The Orthodox Jews knew it, and were celebrating the end of the punishment of the House of Ephraim, Joseph, Israel. [Refer to: “Who are the Ten?” The greatest and final punishment that Yahuweh ever gave His people was to disperse them out of the Land of Israel. In 70 CE, most of the House of Judah was dispersed into the nations also, AMONG the gentiles. Now, Yahuweh is calling a remnant home of ALL the tribes of Ya’cob!

[Refer to: “The Aliyah Scriptures”]

One final Scripture out of several hundred verses on Shabbat:

Isaiah 58:13: from The Scriptures translation: “If you turn back your foot from (trampling) the Shabbat, from doing your pleasure on My set-apart day, and shall call the Shabbat `a delight,’ the set-apart day of Yahuweh `esteemed’ and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, THEN you shall delight yourself in Yahuweh. And I shall cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father. For the mouth of Yahuweh has spoken it!’ ”

Shalom with love,

Yedidah

June 2, 2007 Shabbat/revised March 11, 2014

Note: For further study: I have written a complete study on Shabbat entitled: Shabbat is Eternal. I have researched/studied Christianity all the way to the tip of the roots, and have written a mini-book on this subject entitled: The Foundation of Deception. It’s filled with quotes.

Yahuweh’s Seven Appointments With Man – This brief study covers how the seven festivals of Yahuweh picture Messiah and His work for our salvation.

Replacement Theology – An overview of what the Church has done to remove us from our Hebrew roots.

For further study, I recommend that you get alone with the Spirit of Yahuweh and go through every passage and verse in the Bible on Shabbat. If you have a complete Concordance of the Bible, simply go through every Scripture on the word Sabbath. I recommend that you read Leviticus 23 and see that the festivals are the festivals of Yahuweh, and not Moses’ creation.

For further study, I recommend these books:

Michael Brown’s Our Hands Are Stained With Blood

James Carroll’s Constantine’s Sword

Don Esposito’s The Great Falling Away

C.J. Koster’s Come Out of Her My People

Lew White’s Fossilized Customs

Norman Willis’ Nazarene Israel

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