MYTHS
NEW MOON;
A SABBATH BECAUSE AN ENCYCLOPEDIA SAYS SO?
Certain teachers on the Internet promote all kinds of “historical proofs”
and opinions gleaned from articles and encyclopedias. From what source
are we to receive our teachings: traditions
of men (sand) or the inspired
Words of Torah
(Rock)? Building our house on
sand rather than the
unchanging Rock of Truth will cause us to be drawn along with every little
breeze that comes along, and in the end,
our entire house will suffer catastrophic failure. Scientists don’t
all agree with one another. Neither do theologians.
Articles in encyclopedias are not inspired, and reflect the personal views
of those who wrote them. When we prove what to believe about anything, the
only thing that matters is that we "speak
the Word",
from which comes our correcting, rebuking, and training in
righteousness.
Consult Scripture for doctrine, without carrying anything to the study from
the outside:
2Ti 4:2-4:
“Proclaim the Word! Be urgent in season, out of season. Reprove, warn,
appeal, with all patience and teaching.
For there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching, but
according to their own desires, they shall heap up for themselves teachers
tickling the ear, and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the Truth,
and be turned aside to myths.”
See also Romans 10:8, 16:18, Jer. 5:31, Is. 30:10
What a particular group may have done in the past has no bearing on Truth,
since there were many mixtures and misguided teachings changing the simple
instructions (hence the expulsions from the land). Leaders and prophets not
sent by Yahuah led the people astray (Jer 23:16, Is 3:12). The
mistakes recorded for us in Scripture are
examples of things we shouldn’t do,
and so “outside” writings about what they did in the past simply chronicle
more details of their errors. These are the “myths” cited to be
relevant by contemporary teachers. The Sabbath day is a
repeating cycle of 7 DAYS, and
is not based on the moon; only the cycle of night/day
(evening/morning). If the Sabbath day were based on the moon,
Yahuah would have told us, not an encyclopedia article. One does not
do any laborious work each 7th day, nor go out of his place (Ex
16:29). The first day of a month
is not, in itself, an indication we are to refrain from building,
cooking, or commerce. The one exception is the 1st day of the
7th moon, which is given
as an appointed time to do no work;
only cooking is permitted (Lev 23:24).
Notice an example of serious work
prescribed for the 1st day of the
1st moon
from the text at Ex 40:1-3:
“And Yahuah spoke to Mosheh, saying,
‘On the first day of the first month, you are to raise up the Dwelling Place
of the Tent of Meeting, and shall put in it the ark of the Witness, and
screen the ark with the veil.”
We don't practice "Judaism", we practice Torah. There's a huge
difference.
At a moment in time, a
name
came into existence for the
first time ever,
recorded at Numbers 13:16.
One man simply added
one letter
to the beginning of another man’s name.
Although the name is above every name, it is for the most part unknown
to the world.
It is the name which the Mashiach (Messiah) came in!
We know our Mashiach’s Name has the
same spelling in Hebrew,
as Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8 reveals to us. The translators have taken
the Greek spelling
IESOUS
and rendered it into English as both “Joshua”
and
“Jesus”!
These Nicolaitanes “rendered” the Name into
cryptograms
such as
IHS
and
IC XC
to conceal it.
The real Name is the last thing they want to get out into the world, and
they work diligently to prevent it. The real Name is Hebrew, and its
correct spelling is expressed in the TaNaK at least
216 times.
ZecharYah 3 identifies the 5-lettered Hebrew Name to be that of the High
Priest, and this chapter is a prophecy concerning the coming Mashiach.
For a complete list of each occurrence where the spelling is
YOD-HAY-UAU-SHIN-AYIN
(216 times as 5 letters that produce
Yahusha),
all it takes is an exhaustive concordance.
The Name “Yahusha” means “Yah is our Deliverer”.
If you have a printed concordance, you can look up the name “Joshua”
and find there are
219 occurrences. The spelling is
YOD-HAY-UAU-SHIN-AYIN
(5
letters)
for 216 of these. “Joshua” is a
construction
with several distortions. The other 3 occurrences are forms of this same
name, however there are variant spellings.
At Deut. 3:21 & Judg. 2:7, the spelling involves a 6-lettered spelling,
YOD-HAY-UAU-SHIN-UAU-AYIN
(6
letters).
Deuteronomy has 7 other incidences with 5 letters for this name.
Judges has 5 other incidences with 5 letters for this name.
At
one place
in all of the TaNaK, there is an occurrence using 4 letters,
YOD-SHIN-UAU-AYIN
(Y’shua,
a shortened form
of the name).
That address is Neh. 8:7.
Because there are 3 variants of spelling found in Scripture for the
spelling of the Name above all names, and all stand for the meaning “Yahuah
is our deliverance”, we should overlook the differences in one another
and accept all the variants:
YAHUSHA (216 occurrences)
YAHUSHUA (2 occurrences)
Y’SHUA (1 occurrence)
Love always,
brother Lew
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