The Sabbath as a Divine Appointment

So, I wanted to go through that really quick before we go to the celebration part of these things. Super important, my friends, very important. And remember, these are the divine appointments of Yah for His Son Yeshua to fulfill at His first coming events and also His second coming events. And the event that we're waiting next for, just like the Apostle Paul said through Corinthians 15, 1 Thessalonians 4, is the trumpet. And that is literal. So, that is the next event that our Savior, our Messiah Yeshua will fulfill at His second coming events. But first and foremost, we're going to go through the first feast day in Leviticus 23 that is a divine appointment. Every single week of our life, it is a divine appointment: it is the Shabbat. And we're going to go through that understanding. So, people call them feast days, but they're really called divine appointments. When you look at the Hebrew, they're called mo'edim, which means a divine appointment, a set appointed time for who? For the King, for Yeshua, the Messiah, to come down. So, we've got to be with Him and observe what He did and observe what He is going to do on these things. And the Sabbath is the first feast day in Leviticus 23. Before we go there and celebrate some of the scriptures with the Sabbath, please understand that there's only one chapter in the Holy Bible, in the entire Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation, that tells the people who love Yeshua and the people who love Yahweh, only one chapter where you are to celebrate the festivals on. There are no other festivals that the Gentiles celebrate that are in the Holy Bible. Even in the New Testament, they're not there. These are the only ways to worship in the Holy Bible: the Sabbath and all of those days that you're seeing on there now. That is it. That's all you will find from Genesis to Revelation. So, to all of our Christian friends who I love and I stand with, again, we cannot find what they're doing in the Bible or the calendar. So, if they can't find the calendar in the Bible, then their days are not in the Bible, which they're not. So, these are the only days to worship on for Jew and Christian. That's it. There are no other festivals in the Bible. So, if one can't find, if one cannot find their festivals in the Bible literally, not reading into things, literally speaking, then they have a problem, and they do need to repent, because this is very serious when you stand before the King of Israel. Because if we're not worshiping Him in spirit and in truth, that means we are in error. And they need to repent, had to repent. And I think a lot of Christians had to repent before they crossed over into the true worship.

Shabbat Shalom, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us tonight on this highly anointed night, a triple anointing: Sabbath, New Month, and also Yom Teruah. And we're going to begin where we should begin with honoring what the Father has installed with the Sabbath, that He rested on this day only, and He set this day apart only. So, that means the other six days are common. And that doesn't mean you can't worship Yahweh. Please worship Him every single day. But just know there's only one day that's set apart, and that is the Sabbath, which, as we know today, is Friday night to Saturday night. With that being said, we hope that you can say, pray with us on this and come into agreement as we proclaim this here. "Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad. You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might. These words which I command you today shall be on your heart. And you shall teach them diligently to your sons, and you shall speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." My friends, this is sung in every Messianic congregation and every Orthodox congregation there is on the Shabbat. So, we want to join them as well, in unity. Although we do believe it's through Yeshua, the Messiah, for sure. So, what does Moses say? He says here, "Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad." And He expects us to be one as well, the one new body, the one new man. "You shall love Him with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might." Who else said that? Jeremiah said the new covenant. What's the new covenant? The new covenant is in Jeremiah 31:31. What does he say? "I'm going to put the Torah, My laws, on your heart." Just like Moses was pleading with the people to put it on their heart and in their mind, is what the new covenant is. That's Jeremiah 31, Ezekiel 36, Isaiah 59-60. That's the new covenant by three great prophets that had to prophesy the new covenant. And then Yeshua, of course, was going to fulfill that. So, there is not a part B. There is an "and" in this: Yeshua's blood and the commandments. So, we've got to realize that just like He said in John 14:15, "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." So, it's very important to put all of these together. But Jeremiah said, "The new covenant is going to be the Torah right here on the heart, like Moses was pleading, and also in our mind." So, I'll read it again before we move forward here. "Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad. You shall love Adonai your God where? On the heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and they shall be as frontlets on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."

In Genesis 2:1-3: "Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their host. And on the seventh day, Elohim completed His work which He had done. And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then Elohim blessed the seventh day and sanctified and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim had created in making it." So, my friends, very clear, just like Genesis 2 says, only one day is set apart, and that is the Sabbath, because Yahweh rested on that day only. He sanctified it and He set that one day apart. That means all the other six days are common. Please worship Him on those days as well. But there's only one set-apart day, just like it says, and that is the Sabbath. Let's look at what... Excuse me, let me take this banner down really quick. Let's look at what Moses confirms with us as well in Exodus 20:8-11. And before we read that, remember what we read in Exodus 19 when we started the video: "You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." Exodus 19:9 says, "I'm going to make the people believe you, Moses, forever." The remnant. He didn't say to the first coming events. He didn't say to the second coming events. He said, "I'm going to make the people believe you." How long? Forever. And then he goes into this right here. And this is the fourth commandment. To all of our Christian friends, this is the Sabbath day, which is Shabbat. So, if I can break the Sabbath, that means I can go commit adultery. I can go kill. I can go murder. I can go do idolatry. I can do whatever I want because He's fulfilled it. That is the wrong understanding. That is the wrong heart position to be in. And that will not be good to stand before the King of Israel. So, Exodus 20:8-11 is the Sabbath. That has never changed. For those who believe it did change, Constantine did that in AD 325 at the Council of Nicaea. You can read it for yourself. He says it himself. So, to a challenge to all of our Christian friends out there, who are you going to serve? You going to serve Constantine, or you going to serve Yah? Which one? Because we've got to choose who we're going to serve this day. We've got to serve Yah and Yeshua. The Sabbath, of course, never changed. I mean, why would it change? He never changes. There's no shadow of turning with Him. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. So, the Sabbath is the Sabbath, and Constantine changed it. Again, you can go read that as confirmation. He says it himself in the Council of Nicaea, AD 325. "Remember the Shabbat, remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of Yah your God. In it you shall not do any work, your son, your daughter, your male, your female slave or servant, your cattle, your sojourner who is within your gates." And then look at what He says. He points it back to the Creator. That's why you've got to love what Moses wrote. "For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them. And He rested on the seventh day. Therefore, Yahweh blessed the seventh day and made it holy." He's carrying us back to Genesis 2:1-3. Amen.

This is what Paul says right here in Hebrews 4:1-7. He says, "Therefore, let us fear lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of the promise of entering into His rest, which is the Sabbath. For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did. But the word that they heard did not profit them, because it was not mixed with faith by those who heard. For we who believe do enter into that rest, as even He has said, 'As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest,' although the works were finished from the foundation of the world," which is Genesis 2. "For He has somewhere said about the seventh day, 'God rested on the seventh day from all of His works.' In this place again, they shall not enter into My rest." So again, my friends, Paul is carrying you back, just like Moses did. Isn't that amazing? Some people want to put Paul against Moses. Paul's going to confirm Moses. And if he doesn't, then he would be a false prophet. So again, he's talking about this Shabbat. He's given the Creator, going back to Genesis 2, just like Moses did as well. And then he says, "Seeing, therefore, that it remains that some should enter into that rest, they to whom the good news were preached before failed to enter because of disobedience." Again, we've got to obey, everybody. Excuse me. Disobedience. He again defines a certain day, "today," saying through David, so long a time afterward, "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts." In Mark 2:27-28, then He said, "The Sabbath was made for the sake of man, not the man on account of the Sabbath, and because this is the Son of Eloah, of Adon, of everything, whatever is in the world, and of the Sabbath." Amen. Amen and amen. And one last scripture before we move on to Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets tonight, is Isaiah 56. This is the prophet that a lot of our Christian friends love. But let's really read what he says in Isaiah 56:1-8: "Keep justice and do righteousness, for My salvation is about to come and My righteousness to be revealed. How blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who takes hold of it, who keeps from profaning the Sabbath." Isn't that interesting? He says, "How blessed is the man," not just the Jewish man, the man in general, "who does this and keeps from profaning the Sabbath and keeps his hand from doing any evil. Let not the foreigner," okay, "the foreigner who has joined himself to Yah, saying, 'Yah will surely separate me from His people,' nor let the eunuch say, 'Behold, I am a dry tree.' For thus says Yahweh to the eunuchs who keep My Sabbath and choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant, which is the Sabbath. To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial and a name better than the sons and the daughters. I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off." How awesome is that? Also to the Gentiles, the foreigners, the Christians who join themselves to Yahweh to minister to Him, to love the name of Yahweh, to be His servants, and everyone who keeps from profaning the Sabbath and takes hold of My covenant. Even those Gentiles, foreigners, Christians, even those I will bring to My holy mountain and make them glad in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar. My house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples." Millennial kingdom. "Adonai Yah, who gathers the banished of Israel, declares, 'Yet others I will gather to them to those who are already gathered.'" Amen. Amen and amen.