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Is Israel really Israel and are the Jews really the Jews? I think that question alone is very loaded and a lot of study of history is needed to even in an elementary way, Provide the answer to that question. Now this question is coming up a lot, especially among Christian believers who are for one reason or another, have taken it upon themselves to want to disband the narrative that Israel is a legitimate country or that the bloodline of the Jews, as we know them today are completely an utterly illegitimate people and have no links and ties to the biblical Hebrew people. So, first of all, I don’t want there to be any guise, entering in to this discussion, that I am persuaded, that all arguments that suggest that Israel is not Israel, and that the Jews are not the Jews; Those claims are unfounded and completely and utterly false. It’s nothing but a strategy from the enemy to take our eyes off of what is important in our spiritual walk with Christ and some people say “well the Jews are sinners!”. “These are sinful people” “how can they still be God‘s chosen people” and my answer to that, would be rather my response to that, would be, they are God‘s chosen people in as much as the same way we as Christians consider ourselves to be God‘s chosen people.  So it’s about the covenant. It’s about the promise.   Because God made a covenant with Israel!  So what benefit do Christians have exactly in de-legitimizing the nation of Israel if it’s none other than to just simply be hateful.  Because here’s the thing, according to the scriptures, in the  New Testament scriptures, we are not replacing Israel, but rather brought into Israel by faith!  Those that believe in Christ, we are brought into Israel by faith, we’re not replacing Israel by Faith that’s a ridiculous concept which is completely unbiblical on every account!  Roman’s here gives us the answers from the New Testament. We don’t have to go to the prophets to get this answer; The Remnant of Israel Rom 11:1  I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. Rom 11:2  God did not thrust out His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying, Rom 11:3  “Lord, they killed Your prophets and dug down Your altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.” Rom 11:4  But what does the Divine answer say to him? “I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” Rom 11:5  Even so then, also in this present time a remnant according to the election of grace has come into being. Rom 11:6  But if by grace, then it is no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it is of works, then it is no more of grace; otherwise work is no more work. Rom 11:7  What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened Rom 11:8  even as it is written, “God gave to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing” until this day. Rom 11:9  And David said, “Let their table become for a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense to them. Rom 11:10  Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and their back always bowing.” Gentiles Grafted In Rom 11:11  I say then, Did they not stumble that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy. Rom 11:12  But if their slipping away is the riches of the world, and their default is the riches of thenations, how much more their fullness? Rom 11:13  For I speak to you, the nations; since I am the apostle of the nations, I glorify my ministry; Rom 11:14  if by any means I may provoke those who are my flesh to jealousy, and might save some of them. Rom 11:15  For if their casting away is thereconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead? Rom 11:16  For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump isalso holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches. Rom 11:17  And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them, Rom 11:18  do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you. Rom 11:19  You will say then, The branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. Rom 11:20  Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not behigh-minded, but fear. Rom 11:21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, fear lest He also may not spare you either! Rom 11:22  Behold then the kindness, and theseverity of God; on those having fallen, severity; but on you, kindness, if you continue in the kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. Rom 11:23  And those also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again. Rom 11:24  For if you were cut out of the natural wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more these being according to nature will be grafted into their own olive-tree? so he’s painting a picture that the root is Israel right? This is where we came from. This is this is where Faith was sprung up from right out of the seed of Abraham the root also the branches, and if some of the branches were broken off and you being a wild olive tree or grafted in among them (as Israel)  you were a gentile, but God grafted you in among the root, which is Israel, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them do not boast against the branches, but if you boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you.  The root is Israel you’re the branches you can’t boast against it. It’s holding you up, but the root bears you, you don’t bear the root, you will say then the branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in, well because of unbelief. They were broken off and you stand by Faith, do not be high minded, but fear, for if God did not spare the natural branches fear.  lest, he also may not spare you either.  Behold in the kindness and the severity of God on those having fallen fallen away severity, but on you, kindness, if you continue in the kindness, otherwise you also will be cut off. So there’s no such thing as once save always saved here folks.  You are grafted in to Israel by a covenant that God established with Israel  long ago before any of us were born, he gave the promise to Abraham. He realized it through Moses, and that was passed on down to our current day. He made a covenant with the nations by Yeshua, Messiah, Jesus Christ, and by that covenant we are brought into Israel, so we can’t boast against Israel if we belong to Israel.  If you’re a true believer, now if you’re not a believer, then you belong to other nations then so be it, but you can choose to join a nation. You can choose to Join God in his salvation and if you are choosing God‘s salvation, then you’re a part of Israel, you’re no longer an alien.  This is very plain in the scriptures Ephesians chapter 2 verse 12 at that time you were without Christ being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise having no hope, and without God in the world.   So here is a very plain explicit statement from Paul that through Christ by faith you have been brought into Israel no longer a stranger, an alien, a gentile.  You have become an Israelite. Here’s another great scripture Hebrews chapter 8 verse 10 for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days. Says The Lord, I will put my laws into their mind and write them into their hearts, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people. Now, this is Paul quoting Jeremiah, so and it is universally believed by all of those that believe that Jesus is the Messiah, that Yeshua is the Messiah, is universally believed that Hebrews chapter 8 verse 10 is referring to people that are brought in to salvation by Jesus and that his laws the laws of God are written on our hearts, so if we believe that, then it’s just as what the scripture says; that this covenant was not made with Gentiles, this covenant was made with the house of Israel.  So if you are subscribing to that belief of Christ that he died and rose again and forgave your sins and pardoned your iniquities, then you’ve been brought into this covenant with the house of Israel. So you’re not this extension of Israel or alien to Israel. Because if you’re not a part of Israel, then you’re not a part of the covenant of Christ and the scriptures have made that very plain and the modern day church have taken an attitude that is reminiscent of a pride against Israel rather than a being thankful for having been brought into a covenant wth God.  Israel were the originators of our faith, for the Bible also tells us that Abraham being the father of faith, so again, if we’re to believe that, then we have skin in the game with Israel.  We are not to be their enemies, but rather we are being called by God to look at them as Brethren. 

Here’s the thing.  No one, and I mean, no one believed that Yehovah was more than one at any time up until the Nicene Creed time period.  The trinity doctrine comes from syncretism with babylonian mystery religion which was introduced by Simon Magus. The Simon Magus doctrine is what eventually morphs into Gnosticism and eventually Catholicism.  So without addressing any scriptures, we already have a solid foundation for an understanding of what not to believe; by that I am referring to the confusion of the trinity.  Yehovah also explains it to us in His name.  Yeshua means Yehovah Saves.  No one else saved but HIM.  Why?  because Yehovah stepped out of heaven and became flesh.  John so eloquently puts it, The Word was both with God and was God.  There aren’t two beings here, God is still One.  Yeshua said, have you been with me so long that you don’t know that if you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father also? In Revelations 1:8 we have Jesus saying, I am the Alpha and Omega, Beginning and end.  Which is the biblical definition of the name Yehovah. Rev 1:8  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. I can go on and on but it’s the simple answer that is usually the answer.  My first premise of discarding the trinity is on the basis that I’m not Catholic and the trinity doctrine is mystery religion doctrine.  So, that’s first.  Second, how is it that no one believed that God is more than one until the NT is written.  It’s like all of the sudden when you turn from Malachi to Matthew God has now split Himself into three “persons” and adopted a “merciful” mindset? Malachi 3:6 says that I am Yehovah and I change not.  That’s a very important thing to understand as one turns the page to delve into the NT scriptures,  But the disciples weren’t confused by this at all, as they understood the Torah and believed that Yehovah is Yeshua.  But after they died the non-Torah keepers who were being indoctrinated by the Simon Magus Mystery cult left a vacuum in the religious world and that eventually became Christianity as we know it. What should shock everyone, is the  fact that we are 2000+ years after the death of Yeshua and people who do not claim to be Catholic are still subscribing to their Nicene doctrines. Isa 45:15  Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. Isa 45:16  They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. Isa 45:17  But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. Isa 45:18  For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. He is all there IS and there is none else…  Explicit. I’ll leave you with this one. Isa 43:10  Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. There you have it, God is not two or three or seven or eight.  He is ONE and the only ONE. You may or may not be convinced, you have the scriptures, the rest is up to you. Shalom Shalom

Article written by Sombra Wilson   Moses begins to write Deuteronomy, and by the end of it, Moses has died and the Children of Israel need to continue on into the Promised Land without Him.The Greek word Deuteronomy means Second Law or a repetition of the law. In Hebrew this book is called Devarim, which means “Words”. These are the final words of Moses, the final speeches he makes to Israel that they may keep the commandments of Yehovah. Last week we mentioned inheritance, and how the children of the concubine do not get an inheritance, how a woman without a covenant has no protection or provision in the case of the man’s death or if he leaves her. In Deuteronomy 1, the children of Israel are being offered their inheritance following their receiving the covenant at Mount Sinai. Moses is speaking to the Young Nation of Israel on the East side of the Jordan. They are about to enter and take possession of their inheritance, but Moses reminds them of what happened over the last 40 years and reminds them to trust their Bridegroom and not fear, not fail to keep the covenant. Deuteronomy 1:1-8 The Command to Leave Horeb [1] These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. [2] It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. [3] In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them, [4] after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei. [5] Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying, [6] “The LORD our God said to us in Horeb, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. [7] Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. [8] See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’All that you see in this map was supposed to be the inheritance for the Nation of Israel, from the where they were in the South near the Red Sea, to the Mediteranean sea on the west all the way to the Euphrates in the east, to the mountains in Lebanon in the north. It should have taken them only 11 days to journey to their inheritance, but because the spies brought back a bad report, and they trusted in the evil report rather than in Yehovah’s word, they were then given a consequence of 40 years in the wilderness for this lack of faith. They would die in the wilderness, but their children would still gain an inheritance. Number 14:20-23 Then the LORD said, “I have pardoned, according to your word. 21 But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD, 22 none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, 23 shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it. Number 14:28-35 28 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’ 35 I, the LORD, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.” This inheritance of land symbolizes God’s covenant. He is faithful and gives good gifts, a tangible blessing that will be a home, in perpetuity, enduring provision. It is a home where Yehovah can continue their relationship with His people. It’s a sign of God’s love and promise, but requires obedience for the fulfillment of the covenant; we forfeit this inheritance when we are unfaithful, including the ultimate inheritance which is eternal life with Him. Leviticus 25:23-24 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land. We could have inherited all this land from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates, and today we fight to keep the land wedged between the Mediterranean and the Jordan, every day we are threatened with wicked men trying to take our inheritance from us. Let’s keep reading Deuteronomy 1:9-11 [9] “At that time I said to you, ‘I am not able to bear you by myself. [10] The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven. [11] May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you! At the time Moses was to take the Children of Israel into the Promised Land at the end of the 40 years there were approximately 2 -3 Million in the camp of Israel. Moses prays that there would be 1000 times as many. In 2026, there are about 15.7 Million Jews world wide, about half living in the State of Israel. But what of the others – the rest of the tribes of Israel, those who went into the Assyrian exile and never came back? They have scattered around the world, and there’s no real way to count them. But Christians are part of Greater Israel, and there are an estimated 2.6 Billion Christians. I would say Yehovah has answered Moses prayer. Deuteronomy 1:12-18[12] How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife? [13] Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’ [14] And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’ [15] So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes. [16] And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him. [17] You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’ [18] And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do. I have recently been in the situation that I have had trouble with a brother. I have not been able to bear the trouble myself. I could not defend myself from the assault and instead of going to God with my troubles I began to comfort myself with food. This is the sin of gluttony. The food is not the sin, the eating is not the sin, rather, the comforting myself with food rather than comforting myself by seeking Yehovah to be my defender, my protector, my comforter; that was the sin. Moses is telling of how he could not bear the weigh of all the troubles between the brethren, and Jethro, his Father in Law, advised him to set up judges to over see courts beneath him to support him. There are definitely times we need others to help us resolve our troubles, advisors, intermediaries, judges. But the best and first solution should always be to seek Yehovah’s face regarding the troubles you are in, for Yehovah is never overburdened like Moses was with our troubles. Rather, He longs for us to run to Him, especially for the little troubles, for if we did that with the little things, there would be far fewer big things that we would need to stand before a human Judge for. Because of the corruption in the world we live in, we fear the courts. The courts are supposed to be there to protect us, to discern right from wrong, to restore justice and order. But corruption in our world has made everyone feel the victim, feel oppressed and feel there is no trust for the system. Both the plaintif and the defendant feel they are the victim and feel victimized by the courts. This is why we fear to come before Yehovah – we feel we are the victim and rarely want to face that we are guilty of sin, even the smallest sin. Scripture gives us a pattern that we are to come before Yehovah and bring our sacrifices twice daily – whether it be sacrifices in the temple, or the sacrifice of prayer. If we were in the habit of doing this, with true humility, with the soul searching done to recognize our responsibility in a trouble with another – with reverence asking forgiveness, and doing the work to change what ever it is that caused us to do this part in the trouble with our brother, then we would have a much more peaceful society and the troubles would be resolved without needing the courts. 2 Peter 1:2-15 2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godli

We’re going to stay right here on this topic, because this episode brings us to the conclusion of our discussion on rabbinic authority—and, honestly, to what may be the most serious implication of everything we’ve covered so far. If someone insists on full submission to rabbinic authority—over the calendar, Sabbath boundaries, Torah interpretation—then we have to ask the unavoidable question: where does this leave Yeshua Himself? What we begin to see is not a minor disagreement, but an unavoidable collision. Over the last few episodes, we’ve talked about the Noahide Laws. We’ve talked about rabbinic authority. We’ve talked about the idea that we must wait for rabbinic approval before observing the calendar or making any changes. But when you follow those assumptions all the way out, you have to ask: what does this actually imply? That’s what we’re going to chase down today. And I want to say this carefully, respectfully, and honestly. Rabbinic authority does not merely disagree with Yeshua. It explicitly rejects Him. Once you see that clearly, the authority question can no longer be avoided or softened. This is not an attack on rabbis as people. But if you submit yourself to rabbinic authority as binding, and you believe in Yeshua, you place yourself on a collision course. There’s no way around that. We can’t soften this message without losing the truth of it. Here’s the tension that’s been turning the wheels for me over the last few episodes:If you submit to rabbinic authority, you must ultimately reject Torah as written.But if you submit to mainstream Christianity, you also reject Torah. So on one side, Torah is rejected in favor of rabbinic authority.On the other side, Torah is rejected in favor of Christian tradition. Either way, Torah loses. That’s an oxymoron—yet most believers have never actually examined it. And here’s another assumption that needs to be challenged. Many believers assume that rabbinic sources are either silent about Yeshua, or that they simply view Him as a misunderstood teacher or a marginal historical figure. That assumption is incorrect. The foundational texts of rabbinic authority do not treat Yeshua as misunderstood. They preserve explicit judgments against Him. These are not obscure footnotes. These are part of the authoritative rabbinic record itself. Today, we’re going to read some of those records directly—starting with the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 43a—where Yeshua is accused of practicing sorcery. And it’s important to understand: this accusation functions as an outright prohibition against believing in Him as Messiah. Once you see this, the authority question can no longer be ignored. I hope you enjoy the Podcast and make sure to share and subscribe to support the spreading of God’s Word! Subscribe to the Podcast: https://www.subscribebyemail.com/sightedmoon.blubrry.com/feed/podcast/ Sign up for our weekly Free Newsletter https://sightedmoon.com/newsletter-lp/ We are also giving away The Stones Cry Out PDF for FREE at this link https://sightedmoon.com/the-stones-cry-out-lp/ You can also order the following books to learn more about where we are in these last days according to the Jubilee Cycle. It Was A Riddle Not A Command (https://sightedmoon.com/riddle-lp) The 2300 Days of Hell (https://sightedmoon.com/2300-days-lp) Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016 https://sightedmoon.com/2016-sabbatical-year-co/ The Sabbatical and Jubilee Charts https://sightedmoon.com/sabbatical-chart-lp/ The Restoration of All Things https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The Abomination That Makes Desolate https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The 10 Days of Awe https://sightedmoon.com/10-days-of-awe-co/

Welcome to the SightedMoon Podcast.I’m your host, Ryan Nall, and I’m joined again today by Joseph Dumond, author and founder of SightedMoon.com. Joe, it’s great to have you back. In our last episode, we discussed the question of authority—specifically how the biblical calendar was changed from one based on observable, agricultural signs in the land of Israel, such as the ripening of barley and the sighting of the new moon, to the fixed rabbinic calendar used today. We talked about how rabbinic authorities disbanded the original calendar system, usurped the authority of the Sanhedrin, and replaced it with a highly complex calculated calendar. Joe also shared compelling archaeological evidence supporting this historical shift, including his research on the Zoar tombstones. Today, we want to take this discussion further, because the issue of authority doesn’t stop with the calendar. Rabbinic authorities often argue that believers must submit to their authority, appealing to passages in Judges and other scriptures to justify this claim. But if we accept that argument—if we say we must submit to rabbinic authority on how the law is interpreted and practiced—then we need to ask an important question: what else are we agreeing to when we say that? Authority is not something you can selectively submit to. If you accept it, you accept its rulings in full. One of the clearest implications of this authority structure is the claim that there are two separate legal systems: one for Jews by birth, and another for Gentiles. This distinction is expressed through what are commonly known as the Seven Noahide Laws, which are presented as the full extent of Gentile obligation before God. Those laws are: Prohibition of idolatry Prohibition of blasphemy Prohibition of murder Prohibition of sexual immorality Prohibition of theft Prohibition of eating flesh from a living animal The requirement to establish courts of justice According to rabbinic teaching, Gentiles are forbidden from going beyond these laws. That means calendar observance, Sabbath keeping, and biblical festivals are explicitly excluded. In Sanhedrin 58b, the Talmud states that a Gentile who keeps the Sabbath is guilty of a capital offense. The reasoning given is that the Sabbath is a covenantal sign reserved exclusively for Israel, and that a Gentile who observes it is intruding into a covenant that does not belong to them. This raises a serious problem. If someone from another nation desires to serve the God of Israel—if they want to obey His commandments—you would think that would be welcomed. Instead, this system treats that desire as trespassing, as crossing into forbidden territory. What’s even more striking is that there is no biblical passage that supports this position. Maimonides, one of the most respected rabbinic authorities in history, writes in Laws of Kings and Wars, chapter 10, section 9, that Gentiles are not permitted to observe the Sabbath or establish festivals for themselves. He states that Gentiles must restrict themselves to the Seven Noahide Laws and may not innovate religious practices or perform commandments not specifically commanded to them—implying that the Sabbath and festivals are for Jews alone. This means the debate over the calendar is not an abstract theological issue. It has real, concrete implications. If someone says, “You must submit to rabbinic authority regarding the calendar,” then consistency demands that they also accept the rest of that authority—including the ruling that Gentiles must not keep the Sabbath, must not observe the festivals, and must not follow Israel’s calendar. That’s the other side of the coin. What becomes clear is that this system does not function as an entry point into obedience, but as a ceiling. Gentiles are allowed to obey only so far—and no further. They are not permitted to grow into deeper covenantal obedience. So the question becomes unavoidable:When two authorities claim opposite things, which one are you going to follow? That’s where we’ll continue the conversation today. I hope you enjoy the Podcast and make sure to share and subscribe to support the spreading of God’s Word! Subscribe to the Podcast: https://www.subscribebyemail.com/sightedmoon.blubrry.com/feed/podcast/ Sign up for our weekly Free Newsletter https://sightedmoon.com/newsletter-lp/ We are also giving away The Stones Cry Out PDF for FREE at this link https://sightedmoon.com/the-stones-cry-out-lp/ You can also order the following books to learn more about where we are in these last days according to the Jubilee Cycle. It Was A Riddle Not A Command (https://sightedmoon.com/riddle-lp) The 2300 Days of Hell (https://sightedmoon.com/2300-days-lp) Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016 https://sightedmoon.com/2016-sabbatical-year-co/ The Sabbatical and Jubilee Charts https://sightedmoon.com/sabbatical-chart-lp/ The Restoration of All Things https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The Abomination That Makes Desolate https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The 10 Days of Awe https://sightedmoon.com/10-days-of-awe-co/

Article Written by Sombra Wilson As I begin to write today, people around the world are celebrating Christmas. A parallel was brought to my attention, that keeping Christmas is similar to the of the Golden Calf incident. The Children of Israel were trying to worship Yehovah, but because they did not have a depth of knowledge, a depth of intimacy with Yehovah, they resorted to what they knew from Egypt on how to worship deity. The Egyptians worshipped their god Hathor with revelry, so they sought to worship Yehovah in the same way. Their intention was pure, they truly wanted to worship Yehovah, who had rescued them from the slavery in Egypt, but now they were at the base of Mount Sinai, and had cut the betrothal covenant with Yehovah, and were at a loss for what to do given their leader, Moses, had gone up the mountain and not returned. They had seen the fire on top the mountain, maybe they thought he had been burned up like a sacrifice. They looked to Aaron to lead them in worship, and Aaron did what they asked. Let’s read the telling of this story. Exodus 32:1-6 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 2 So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden[a] calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD. ” 6 And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. Though they had been chosen, hopped over; though they had passed through the Red Sea, seen their enemies die, their past slavery was dead, and they had been lifted up like firstfruit on the other side of the Red Sea, as if resurrected to a new life of freedom; they still had bitterness and needed to learn to apply the Tree of Life, the Torah to their lives that they may produce good fruit. And even so, here at Mount Sinai, they’ve been betrothed to Yehovah, and they still do not understand the relationship and to whom they have been betrothed. This makes me think of Jacob, when he was to marry Rachel, and found himself tricked on his wedding day. Please read Genesis 29:15-26 15 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?” 16 Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah’seyes were weak,[a] but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. 18 Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” 20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her. 21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.” 22 So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast. 23 But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her. 24 (Laban gave[b] his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.) 25 And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” 26 Laban said, “It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. We too, as a Christian society, have been tricked into being betrothed to a different Bridegroom. If we don’t know Who Yeshua truly is, we are deceived into being the bride of another Christ. We have allowed the influences of the world to tell us who our Betrothed is, and we have seen and understood Him through a veil of deceit. Ask yourself, are you betrothed to the Hebrew Yeshua, who is defined by the Torah, Identified through it and came to fulfill it? Or are you betrothed to the Greek Jesus, of whom we are told, did away with the law, and died so we have no need to be under the law, no need for that Sabbath and those feast days, for He made all things new, even His day of rest changed to Sunday. What kind of deceit have we been deceived with? Matthew 23:1-7 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, 3 so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. 4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear,[a] and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues 7 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others. Yeshua tells us to do and observe that which the Pharisees tell us. But do the Pharisees always tell us the right thing to do? Yeshua tells us they have authority, yet he alsorebukes them in Matthew 15:13-14 13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.  15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. We could have read a dozen more verses showing us Yeshua rebuking the Pharisees, so why has He also told us to obey them? What is this Moses Seat? This is the type of seat that the leader of the Synagogue sits in on Shabbat. So is it the seat that makes us supposed to obey them? Or maybe it’s what is proclaimed from this seat! The Pharisees would read the Torah from this seat. This is what we are to do and observe! Matthew 15:1-9 Says 15 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” 3 He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother, ’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 5But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” 6 he need not honor his father. ’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 8 “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” Now I have seen the Kenyan people wash their hands, there is a strong custom in your land of washing hands, and it’s a good custom. But is it a commandment? If one fails to wash their hands, is it sin? According to the Pharisees, even the handwashing that is done in the restaurants and public washrooms is not according to the teachings of these Pharisees, these rabbis; according to them, it’s still sin. They teach that when you wash your hand, you take a jug of water and pour water over the left hand first, then the right hand, then the left hand then the right hand and then a third time. But even that is not sufficient. The addition of soap renders the ceremonial washing of the hands also not right. The thing that makes the pouring of the water over the hands three times righteous is the saying of the blessing. Blessed are You, Yehovah our God, King of the Universe who sanctifies us with the commandments and commanded us regarding the washing of hands. The complaint made in the verses of Matthew 15 by the Pharisees is that the disciples did not perform this ceremonial washing of the hands before they ate. They have made their tradition equal to, or greater than the commandments found in the Torah. This commandment that is mentioned in this blessing – this claim that we are commanded to wash our hands – there is no such commandment. It doesn’t exist. It’s not in the Torah. It is a good custom, but it is not sin to not wash the hands and say the blessing before eating. It is good health to wash the hands, it is good etquette to wash the hands, but it is not sin to wash with soap or not say the blessing. We can not make man’s traditions, man’s ways equal to God’s Commandments. Yehovah alone defines sin. The word Pharisee comes from the word Prushim; to separate, literally to disperse to wound: – scatter, declare, distinctly, shew, sting. And these Prushim are the direct descendants of the Orthodox Rabbis who hold as truths that: 1. There are 2 Torahs – the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, This oral Torah is now written down as the Mishnah, the Talmud and the Midrash.2. The Rabbis have absolute authority – even if they say the right is left and the left is right – I must obey them. 3. Midrashic Interpretation: Ignores Language and Ignores Context. They say that Scripture is a divine code and only the Rabbis have the ability to interpret the divine code. They took words out of the context of scripture and gave them divine meaning. 4. They have Authority to Sanctify custom: Clothing, Holidays, headcovering, they can determine what and how these customs are applied. 5. Commandments of the Rabbis – tradition or rabbinical enactment. – the Cere

  I want to preface this by saying, the purpose of this episode is not meant to condemn the Rabbis; but rather to challenge that status quo on the topic of the Biblical calendar presented to us in Exodus. In this episode Joe and I discuss how the Hillel calendar was installed and then tweaked over the course of hundreds of years. Fast forward to our current day, if you even hint at challenging the Rabbis on the calendar front then you are guilty of disobeying their authority, supposedly given to them in Deut 17:9. This verse has been wildly miss-appropriated to give the Rabbis authority that trumps the very Bible itself.  If this authority is granted them then they almost of unilateral authority in almost all areas pertaining to religion and daily life. This is why Jesus challenged this idiology when it was in its infancy in the first century and ultimately was the reason why they killed him.  Tradition wins at the end of the day, and what we were handed was a calendar that is based on tradition rather than Biblial truths. This is really why God has raised up a man like Joseph Dumond to dig through the annuls of history to prove this work with archeological evidence combined with scripture in order to help us get back to Yehovah’s true calendar. God’s calendar is based on observations and not pre-calculations and that it the first thing we have understand.  When the Barely is ripe (Aviv) then you know that you are in the first month of the year base on Deut 16 and Exodus 12:2 Deu 16:1  Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. Exo 12:2  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. The Hillel calendar ends the year at Tishri, which is the seventh month of the barley calendar.  So, how are we to reconcile keeping this?  If we begin the year in Tishri we are disobeying the commandment of God!  Do the Rabbis know better than Yehovah?  Certainly not! The point of this conversation is not to condemn the Rabbis but rather post a rebuttal to the traditions that has been handed down to us without question.  We should all be asking ourselves these why we keep a calendar based off of assumptions and man made calculations. But here is what came to me as Joe and I were discussing this, is that in Judaism they are denying the Bible by obeying the Rabbis and disregarding the barely calendar; And in Christianity, they are denying the Bible by saying that the Laws and Commandments of God have passed away, based on their interpretive traditions. Both Christians and Jews are guilty of deny the Bible based on tradition.  This is the very thing that Jesus was trying to help us to understand and yet, men on both sides of the fence are denying Him based on tradition. Let’s get back the Bible folks and understand that God gave us a calendar to Observe, to look, to go outside and touch grass! As we get farther into the technological age we are seeing how detached we are from knowing the times and the seasons.  Now we are dependent on our phones to tell us what month/day it is.  So, how does anyone feel secure in the expected coming of the Messiah?  The lazy approach is, oh well, we’ll just wait for Him to return before we figure this stuff out.  But that’s not what the Bible says. The Bibles tells us that He is not coming back until the restoration of all things. Act 3:20  And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Act 3:21  Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. Mat 17:11  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. Elijah must first come and restore all things before the return of our Messiah.  This is the entire purpose of the two witnesses in Revelation.  You cannot understand this, unless you understand the times and the season detailed in the Torah (Books of Moses). There are many things that were omitted in the New Testament, because the early church were widely aware of the times and seasons, therefore there was no need to write about it.  Paul tells us this in 1 Thessalonians. 1Th 5:1  But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 1Th 5:2  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. But it won’t take them like a thief in the night, why?  Because they are fully aware of the times and the seasons. 1Th 5:4  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. I hope you enjoy the Podcast and make sure to share and subscribe to support the spreading of God’s Word! 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Zion’s Coming Salvation Isa 62:1  For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until its righteousness goes out as brightness, and her salvation as a burning lamp. Isa 62:2  And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; and you will be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah will name. Isa 62:3  You also will be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. Isa 62:4  You will no more be called Forsaken; nor will your land any more be called Desolate; but you will be called My Delight is in her, and your land, Married; for Jehovah delights in you, and your land is married. Isa 62:5  For as a young man marries a virgin, so will your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so will your God rejoice over you. Isa 62:6  I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not always be silent all the day nor all the night; you who remember Jehovah, do not be silent. Isa 62:7  And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Isa 62:8  Jehovah has sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of His strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and the sons of strangers will not drink your wine for which you have labored. Isa 62:9  But its gatherers will eat it and praise Jehovah; and they who collected it will drink it in My holy courts. Isa 62:10  Pass! Pass through the gates; prepare the way of the people. Raise up! Raise up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples. Isa 62:11  Behold, Jehovah has sent a message to the end of the earth, Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. Isa 62:12  And they will call them, The Holy People, The Redeemed of Jehovah; and you will be called, Sought Out, a city not forsaken. What is the Difference Between The Wheat and the tares? In the parable of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 MKJV), Yehshua uses a real agricultural reality to illustrate a profound spiritual truth. Wheat (good seed sown by the Son of Man) produces full, heavy grains that bow the stalk under their weight—valuable, harvestable seed that becomes bread and sustains life. Tares (darnel, a poisonous weed sown by the enemy) look almost identical to wheat while growing, but when mature, their heads remain upright and their “seeds” are small, black, lightweight, and worthless for food (often toxic if ground into flour). Mat 13:24 He put out another parable to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. Mat 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went his way. Mat 13:26 But when the blade had sprung up and had produced fruit, then the darnel also appeared. Mat 13:27 So the servants of the householder came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where have the darnel come from? Mat 13:28 He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Then do you want us to go and gather them up? Mat 13:29 But he said, No, lest while you gather up the darnel you also root up the wheat with them. Mat 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest. And in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary. Yehshua explains the meaning of this parable in the following verses. Mat 13:36 Then sending the crowds away, Jesus went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field. Mat 13:37 He answered and said to them, He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; Mat 13:38 the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom; but the darnel are the sons of the evil one. Mat 13:39 The enemy who sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. Mat 13:40 Therefore as the darnel are gathered and burned in the fire, so it shall be in the end of this world. Mat 13:41 The Son of Man shall send out His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who do iniquity, Mat 13:42 and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Mat 13:43 Then the righteous shall shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. The wheat represents the true children of the kingdom—those who, by abiding in Yehshua, bear lasting spiritual fruit. Their lives produce “full grains”—righteous works, obedience to Torah, love, and souls won for the kingdom that endure into eternity. Jhn 15:1 I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. Jhn 15:2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit. Jhn 15:3 Now you are clean through the Word which I have spoken to you. Jhn 15:4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. Jhn 15:5 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. Jhn 15:6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. Jhn 15:7 If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you. Jhn 15:8 In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, so you shall be My disciples. Jhn 15:9 As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you; continue in My love. Jhn 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. Jhn 15:11 I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full. Jhn 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Jhn 15:13 No one has greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jhn 15:14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. The tares, sown by the devil, may mimic wheat outwardly (attending services, speaking religious words, even performing signs), but they produce no harvestable fruit.Their “seed” is empty, poisonous, and worthless—lives that bear no lasting righteousness, only deception and destruction. At the harvest (end of the age), the difference becomes undeniable: wheat is gathered into the barn (eternal life), tares are bound and burned (judgment). This agricultural detail underscores Yehshua’s warning. Your fruitfulness or the lack thereof reveals your identity. Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Mat 7:16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Mat 7:17 Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruits, nor can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Mat 7:19 Every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Mat 7:20 Therefore by their fruits you shall know them. I Never Knew You Mat 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Mat 7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful works? Mat 7:23 And then I will say to them I never knew you! Depart from Me, those working lawlessness! The Greek word for “lawlessness” here is anomia—literally “without law” or “Torah-lessness.” These people performed impressive works and called Him “Lord,” but they lived in rebellion against Yehovah’s commandments. Yehshua did not “know” them because they did not truly know Him—they never entered the intimate relationship that comes through obedience to the Father’s will, which is keeping His Torah. Yehshua makes this explicit in the same chapter: “Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven”. Doing the Father’s will is not optional; it is signs and wonders—it is living according to His instructions. So how do we get to know Yehovah and Yehshua? The Bible repeatedly ties “knowing” God to obedience, love expressed through the commandments, and walking in His ways: 1Jn 2:3 And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments. 1Jn 2:4 He who says, I have known Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 1Jn 2:5 But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him. 1Jn 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked. Jhn 14:15 If you love Me, keep My commandments. Jhn 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him. 1Jn 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments. 1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome. Hos 6:6 For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Those who called Him Lord refused to do what He commanded—keeping the Father’s Torah out of love. Knowledge of God is not intellectual or emotional alone; it is an intimate relationship, proven by walking in His commandments. Those who live in lawlessness, no matter their miracles or words, remain strangers to Him. The whe

The very first Hebrew word in the bible is B‘resheit. We translate it as “In the Beginning” and that’s a very good way to begin the Bible, but this is deeper than a “starting point” or a reference to the time of creation. Preparing for the coming of Passover in the next few months, we have been looking at the Passover Story and its meaning to be hopped over, chosen. We are chosen to go forward, to leave Egypt and become the New Creation, The Bride of Christ. In order to be that Bride of Christ, we need to be a FirstFruit. So let’s dig into this word for FirstFruit to understand what it means and how we become FirstFruit. Let’s read Leviticus 23:4-14 to refresh our minds about these feast days. 4 “These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight,[a] is the Lord’s Passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. 8 But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.” The Feast of Firstfruits 9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, 11 and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13 And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah[b] of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the Lord with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.[c] 14 And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. The word for Firstfruit is reshiyt ר ֵ אשׁ ִ ית means the first, as in first place, time, order or rank (specifically a firstfruit): – beginning, chief (-est), principal thing. The first word in scripture places the letter bet before this word Resheit. As a preposition, the letter beit can mean, “in – into – within – on – for – as” Translators have chosen to use “IN” – as in “in the first place”, or “IN the beginning” Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.We could also translate it as “For the Firstfruit” if we reread the Genesis 1:1 replacing that first word with this translation we read, For the Firstfruit, Yehovah created the Heavens and the Earth. If the Universe was created for the Firstfruit, we should know a little bit about this firstfruit. Remember the story of the Feast days is our story. It’s the love story between us and Yehovah, so if He is giving us a picture of these firstfruits, then this has something to do with us as His Chosen Bride. Yehovah created the Universe the heavens and the earth, and placed within it Adam- but Adam lost that position of resheit – firstfruit because he sinned against Yehovah, our Heavenly Father. Adam was cast out of the Garden and angels were placed as guards so he could not come back and eat from the Tree of Life. Genesis 3:22-24 22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. We have a similar story told to us from the Family of Israel. Jacob is father to 12 sons, and in Genesis 49, before his death, he speaks words of blessing over his sons, words of prophecy and guidance. This is what He says to Ruben Genesis 49:3-4 3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power. 4 Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it—he went up to my couch! Reuben was the firstborn, he should have lived a life of dignity and power, that his descendants would be known as the firstborn of the House of Israel. But Reuben sinned against his father, he took to bed one of Jacob’s concubines – what should have been a blessing is now taken from him. The position of Firstborn has been given to another.We were designed to be the Firstfruit, but we too have sinned and lost our position of firstfruit. Shall we just hang our heads in despair and submit to this breach of relationship? Or shall we seek to find a way back, a way to restore the relationship, and thus restore our position as Firstfruit? This is the crux of the message of scripture. This is the meaning of the word Gospel, that we hear the message and follow the path back to the restored relationship. The word Firstborn in Hebrew is בְּכוֹר bekôr as in chief: – eldest (son), first-born (-ling)… it comes from the root word bâkar meaning to burst the womb, that is, to bear or make early fruit (of woman or tree); also to give the birthright. The Feast day mentioned in Leviticus 23:9-14 is called Yom HaBikkurim. Day of the firstborns. We are either firstborns that have been hopped over at Passover, or we are firstborns that have been cut down because we failed to put the blood on the doorposts of our hearts. Exodus 12:29-32 29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said. 32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!” Exodus 13:12-14 12 you shall set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the LORD ‘s. 13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. 14 And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery. Let’s look at this word Fruit – as the FirstFruit, or First Born, the Fruit of the Womb. Fruit is the word in פְּר ִ י perı̂y – bough, ([first-]) fruit ([-ful]), reward. The root of the word is the picture of an open mouth, and a head. Combined these mean “open the head”. The heads of grains are scattered on the threshing floor, a smooth, hard and level surface.and are trodden upon to reveal the grain within the chaff.We rarely think of grain as being fruit. We tend to think of fruit as being the sweet fruit from trees, like pawpaw (papaya), guava, or from the ground like watermelon or pineapple, but these grains are also fruit. They are what opens the head, or opens the womb of the earth to nourish us. How do we know if we are the firstfruit of Egypt or the FirstFruit of Israel. We are told we need to have the Fruit of the Spirit. Galatians 5:16-24 says 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,[d] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do[e] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. How are we living today? Do we have sweet fruit like that listed in verse 22? 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Or is our fruit that of the flesh in verse 19-21 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,[d] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. If we have not left behind the Egypt of our past, if we have not let that part of us be healed; if we continue to walk in this flesh our fruit is bitterness, anger, fear – rotten fruit. And so while we may have been chosen, passed over, we still walk in the bondage that we suffered in Egypt. We have not become the Firstfruit that we were designed to be when Yehovah placed us in the Garden. We have not fulfilled our purpose as the whole reason for the Creation of the Universe.

In continuing to prepare ourselves for the Passover this coming spring, let’s look at the first time the word Pesach – Passover is actually recorded in the scriptures and seek to understand this word in order to understand the meaning of this Feast Day. Exodus 12:1-14 12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb[a] for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. 12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. 14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. Why are we talking about the Passover again? Because each year it needs to be retaught. Even this chapter of Exodus tells us we will need to explain it to our children what we are doing and why over and over again. Exodus 12:26-27 26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped. Chapter 11 of Exodus tells us about the First Born of those who are not covered by the blood and what will happen to them. Exodus 11:4-6 4 So Moses said, “This is what theLORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. 6 There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. 7 But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. This is Yehovah telling the people through Moses in advance what to expect – therefore Ch 11 is prophetic, about what will happen in the very short future before the Greater Exodus we read about in: ● Jeremiah 23:7-8: “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when they shall no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel out of the north country and from all the countries where he had driven them.'” ● Ezekiel 36:24-28: “I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries… I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you… and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.” ● Isaiah 11:11-12:11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush,[a] from Elam, from Babylonia,[b] from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean. 12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth. According to the timeline we see in the SightedMoon Charts, we expect this Greater Exodus to begin at Passover 2030. That is just 5 short years away. This is why we are preparing for Passover this year months before the event, so that you are prepared to keep this rehearsal, understanding it’s meanings for the future. Ch 13 is prophetic about the First Born of those who ARE covered by the blood, and this is a long term prophecy, for all of time. Exodus 13:8-10 8 On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ 9 This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law ofthe LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand. 10 You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year. Year after Year. So this word Passover פסח – Pasach means to Hop: To hop from one place or another. Also to be lame as one who hops on one leg. to hop, that is, (figuratively) skip over (or spare); by implication to hesitate; also (literally) to limp, to dance: – halt, become lame, leap, pass over. But we use it, in reference to this feast day – Pesach, in this context used only technically of the Passover (the festival or the victim): – passover (offering). It is both an event and a sacrifice, meaning an animal, namely a lamb or a goat, dies in place of the firstborn. Do you have in your culture this concept of the grim reaper? Imagine a person out scything the grasses. If he’s doing a good job, it all gets cut down and no blades of grass are left standing.But here is a picture of a section of grass that was hopped over, or skipped over. This is the same thing that happened with those Israelites in Egypt when the Blood was on the doorposts of their houses. They were skipped over, left to continue. We see this same picture in Matthew 24. These verses are often used to preach the Rapture Theory saying that those taken were taken up in the Rapture. They say that those left are the ones “left behind” or left without the blessing of eternal relationship with Yehovah. But given the picture we have of the Passover, where those who are covered by the blood are hopped over, skipped over, left to continue, is this really what these verses are trying to portray to us? Let’s read in Matthew 24: 36-41 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at thecoming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. Now this phrase “No one knows the day or the hour” is a phrase, an idiom, referencing the Feast of Trumpts, but there is a reason these two feasts, Passover and Feast of Trumpets are related. The Feast of Trumpets is a warning, reminding us that the Judgement is coming, that Yom Kippor, the Feast of Atonement is coming. It is reminding us we need that covering, that blood on the doorpost of our hearts. That covering says we are chosen, we were skipped over and remain close to his heart in a sea full of those He would see as strangers. This brings us to the connection between Passover and Atonement. Yeshua is that Passover Sacrifice, He is our Passover Lamb. It is His shed blood that covers us so that we may be hopped over, left standing, chosen, so that we can continue forward to the Atonement, to the Judgement. For Yeshua is not only our Passover Lamb, He is also our Atonement Goat. Yeshua’s death on the cross is not just that we may be chosen to be taken out of the ways of this world, but He also is the one who, in the days still to come will be the one who dies to make Atonement for our sin at the end of days. There is a Judgement to come, a day when those 10 virgins will be waiting for their Bridegroom to come for them, and some will be ready and waiting with their oil, and some will be waiting, but not ready, not prepared, they will have no oil and will try to gain some at the last moment and will return to find that the Bridegroom has come and the door has been shut on them. They will knock, but He will answer “Away from me, I know you not” We were taught in our Christianity that once saved always saved. We were taught that once we had been chosen, once we had experienced this Passover Moment where we entered this relationship was THE moment, and all that comes after pales in contrast to this “born again moment”, the moment where we said our sinners prayer and gave our lives to Jesus. But this is just the beginning, and this idea only recognizes Yeshua as our Passover Lamb but fails to understand, fails to see how we must continue the relationship and grow in the relationship so that we grasp the meaning of all the feasts, so that we come to understand what it means that Yeshua is also our Atonement Goat. A Relationship is not a once and done situation. We don’t choose a spouse and say to them only once “I Love You” and then never again say it, nor live it out. We can not assume that a relationship

– Ba’al Moloch the God Ba’al, the Sacred Bull, was widely worshipped in the ancient Near East and wherever Punic culture extended. Baal Moloch was conceived under the form of a calf or an ox or depicted as a man with the head of a bull. Hadad, Baal or simply the King identified the god within his cult. The name Moloch is not the name he was known by among his worshippers, but a Hebrew translation. The written form Moloch (in the Septuagint Greek translation of the Old Testament), or Molech (Hebrew), is no different than the word Melech or king, transformed by interposing the vowels of bosheth or ‘shameful thing’. He is sometimes also called Milcom in the Old Testament (1 Kings 11:5, 1 Kings 11:33, 2 Kings 23:13 and Zephaniah 1:5) Forms and grammar The Hebrew letters מלך (mlk) usually stands for melek ‘king’ (Proto-Northwest Semitic malku) but when vocalized as mōlek in Masoretic Hebrew text, they have been traditionally understood as a proper name Μολοχ (molokh) (Proto-Northwest Semitic Mulku) in the corresponding Greek renderings in the Septuagint translation, in Aquila, and in the Greek Targum. The form usually appears in the compound lmlk. The Hebrew preposition l- means ‘to’, but it can often mean ‘for’ or ‘as a(n)’. Accordingly one can translate lmlk as “to Moloch” or “for Moloch” or “as a Moloch”, or “to the Moloch” or “for the Moloch” or “as the Moloch”, whatever a “Moloch” or “the Moloch” might be. We also once find hmlk ‘the Moloch’ standing by itself. Because there is no difference between mlk ‘king’ and mlk ‘moloch’ in unpointed text, interpreters sometimes suggest molek should be understood in certain places where the Masoretic text is vocalized as melek, and vice versa. Moloch has been traditionally interpreted as the name of a god, possibly a god titled the king, but purposely misvocalized as Molek instead of Melek using the vowels of Hebrew bosheth ‘shame’. Moloch appears in the Hebrew of 1 Kings 11.7 (on Solomon’s religious failings): Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and lmlk, the abomination of the Sons of Ammon. But in other passages the god of the Ammonites is named Milcom, not Moloch (see 1 Kings 11.33; Zephaniah 1.5). The Septuagint reads Milcom in 1 Kings 11.7 instead of Moloch which suggests a scribal error in the Hebrew. Many English translations accordingly follow the non-Hebrew versions at this point and render Milcom. (The form mlkm can also mean ‘their king’ as well as Milcom and therefore one cannot always be sure in some other passages whether the King of Ammon is intended or the god Milcom.) It has also been suggested that the Baâ’al of Tyre, Melqart ‘king of the city’ (who was probably the Baâ’al whose worship was furthered by Ahab and his house) was this supposed god Moloch and that Melqart/Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical with other gods whose names contain mlk. But nothing particularly suggests these identifications other than mlk in the various names. Amos 5.27 reads in close translation: But you shall carry Sikkut your king, and Kiyyun, your images, the star-symbol of your god which you made for yourself. The Septuagint renders ‘your king’ as Moloch, perhaps from a scribal error, whence the verse appears in Acts 7.43: You have lifted up the shrine of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Accordingly this association of Moloch with these other gods is probably spurious. All other references to Moloch use mlk only in the context of “passing children through fire lmlk”, whatever is meant by lmlk, whether it means “to Moloch” or means something else. It has traditionally been understood to mean burning children alive to the god Moloch. But some have suggested a rite of purification by fire instead, though perhaps a dangerous one. References to passing through fire without mentioning mlk appear in Deuteronomy 12.31, 18.10–13; 2 Kings 21.6; Ezekiel 20.26,31; 23.37. So the existence of this practice is well documented. For a comparable practice of rendering infants immortal by passing them through the fire, indirectly attested in early Greek myth, see the entries for Thetis and also the myth of Demeter as the nurse of Demophon. Biblical texts The pertinent Biblical texts follow in very literal translation. The word here translated literally as ‘seed’ very often means offspring. The forms containing mlk have been left untranslated. The reader may substitute either “to Moloch” or “as a molk”. Leviticus 18.21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through Mo’lech, neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. Leviticus 20.25: Again, you shall say to the Sons of Israel: Whoever he be of the Sons of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives any of his seed Mo’lech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his seed Mo’lech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives of his seed Mo’lech, and do not kill him, then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, whoring after Mo’lech from among the people. 2 Kings 23.10 (on King Josiah’s reform): And he defiled the Tophet, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire Mo’lech. Jeremiah 32.35: And they built the high places of the Ba’al, which are in the valley of Ben-hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire Mo’lech; which I did not command them, nor did it come into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. Moloch has also been referred to simply as a rebel angel. Traditional accounts and theories The 12th-century rabbi Rashi, commenting on Jeremiah 7.31 stated: Tophet is Moloch, which was made of brass; and they heated him from his lower parts; and his hands being stretched out, and made hot, they put the child between his hands, and it was burnt; when it vehemently cried out; but the priests beat a drum, that the father might not hear the voice of his son, and his heart might not be moved. A different rabbinical tradition says that the idol was hollow and was divided into seven compartments, in one of which they put flour, in the second turtle-doves, in the third a ewe, in the fourth a ram, in the fifth a calf, in the sixth an ox, and in the seventh a child, which were all burnt together by heating the statue inside. Later commentators have compared these accounts with similar ones from Greek and Latin sources speaking of the offering of children by fire as sacrifices in the Punic city of Carthage, which was a Phoenician colony. Cleitarchus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch all mention burning of children as an offering to Cronus or Saturn, that is to Ba’al Hammon, the chief god of Carthage. Issues and practices relating to Moloch and child sacrifice may also have been overemphasized for effect. After the Romans finally defeated Carthage and totally destroyed the city, they engaged in post-war propaganda to make their archenemies seem cruel and less civilized. Paul G. Mosca in his thesis (described below) translates Cleitarchus’ paraphrase of a scholia to Plato’s Republic as: There stands in their midst a bronze statue of Kronos, its hands extended over a bronze brazier, the flames of which engulf the child. When the flames fall upon the body, the limbs contract and the open mouth seems almost to be laughing until the contracted body slips quietly into the brazier. Thus it is that the ‘grin’ is known as ‘sardonic laughter,’ since they die laughing. Diodorus Siculus (20.14) wrote: There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire. Diodorus also relates relatives were forbidden to weep and that when Agathocles defeated Carthage, the Carthaginian nobles believed they had displeased the gods by substituting low-born children for their own children. They attempted to make amends by sacrificing 200 children at once, children of the best families, and in their enthusiasm actually sacrificed 300 children. Plutarch wrote in De Superstitiones 171: … the whole area before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums so that the cries of wailing should not reach the ears of the people. Lev.20:1-5 (NAB) The Lord said to Moses, (2) “Tell the Israelites : Anyone, whether an Israelite or an alien residing in Israel, who gives any of his offspring too Molech shall be put to death. Let his fellow citizens stone him. (3) I myself will turn against such a man and cut him off from the body of his people; for in giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. (4) Even if his fellow citizens connive at such a man’s crime of giving his offspring to Molech, and fail to put him to death, (5) I myself will set my face against that man and his family and will cut off from their people both him and all who join him in this wanton worship of Molech.” Yahweh didn’t want Israel to begin to look on Him like Molech. As incredible as it may sound in Psalm 106:34-28 it tells us that Israel did get involved in this worship. (34)They did not exterminate the peoples, as the Lord had commanded them, (35)But mingled with the nations and learned their works. (36)They served their idols, which became a snare for them. (37)They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, (38)And they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed; Th

Who were these “Wise Men” the Bible tells us about!? Much has been written about the life of Jesus Christ, the historical person whose name is attached to the many different denominations of Christianity that exist today. In fact, so much has been written that one might wonder whether anything truly new could be written about this one life. As the reader will see, new facts about the life of Jesus Christ can be ascertained by combining the accounts of the Bible with secular historical accounts and traditions about the time in which He lived. This chapter is not intended to be a complete history of the life of Jesus Christ. It will cover those aspects of His life and times which have not been generally known. The prior chapter dealing with the Parthian Empire discussed historical events shaping the world into which Jesus Christ was born. When some surprising information about His life is added to the history contained in the previous chapter, it can be seen that Jesus Christ actually played a role in the great power politics which occurred between the empires of Parthia and Rome. The Bible hints that He could have played a much larger role in the political affairs of that era if He had chosen to do so. Did Jesus Really Live? There is no doubt that the person, Jesus Christ, actually lived in Palestine at the beginning of the first century A. D. While some skeptics doubt this fact, this chapter will begin by offering firm evidence that Jesus Christ was a real, historical person. Josephus, a Jewish historian of the first century A. D., regarded the life of Jesus Christ as an established fact. In Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus wrote: “there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for He was a doer of wonderful works, — a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was Christ; and when Pilate [Pontius Pilate, Roman Procurator of Judea], at the suggestion of the principle men among us, had condemned him to the cross…He appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.”1 In this account, written shortly after Christ died, Josephus not only gave us a powerful witness that Jesus Christ truly lived, but also provided an independent corroboration of many of the biblically-discussed events of His life. Josephus refers to him as “a wise man,” and wonders whether He was more than a mere man because of the “wonderful works” He did. That a non-Christian, Jewish historian of the apostolic era writes of the miracles of Jesus as actual facts offers contemporary support to the Bible’s accounts about them. Josephus agrees with the testamental writings that Jesus was sentenced to be crucified by Pontius Pilate at the behest of the Jewish Sanhedrin, “the principle men among us.” Josephus also acknowledged that Jesus Christ fulfilled many prophecies of the Hebrew prophets about the Messiah, and even refers to His resurrection as an historical fact! Josephus’ reference to Jesus as “the Christ” acknowledges that Jesus was the Messiah, “the anointed.” Since a non-Christian source so close to the actual time of Christ has confirmed these facts of His life, the musings of modern skeptics questioning Christ’s existence are without merit. Josephus could speak with eyewitnesses of Jesus’ life; modern skeptics are almost two millennia removed from the events, and their writings are merely speculative. Jesus Christ did live, and the writings of Josephus substantiate the Bible’s claims of His performance of supernatural deeds as well as His being raised from the dead. Roman secular sources agree with Josephus. Celsus, an anti-Christian writer of the Roman Empire in the second century A.D., wrote: “It was by magic that He [Jesus] was able to do the miracles which He appeared to have done.”2 Here a Roman opponent of Christianity grudgingly acknowledges the reality of Christ’s “miracles,” which he labels as “magic.” However, Quadratus, writing in approximately 117-134 A.D., “urged people to believe in Jesus because the effect of His miracles continued up to the present — people had been cured and raised from the dead, and ‘some of them…have survived even to our own day.’”3 Tacitus, the famous Roman historian, writing about the Christians just decades after the death of Christ, stated: “Nero fabricated scapegoats — and punished…the notoriously depraved Christians (as they were popularly called). Their originator, Christ, had been executed in Tiberius’ reign by the governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate.”4 Tacitus’ comment about Christ appears as a mere aside in an overall account of events in the reign of Nero. It is particularly compelling evidence that Jesus Christ really did live! Tacitus was no fan of Christ or Christianity, and he had no “axe to grind.” His account that “Christ” was a real person crucified by Pontius Pilate is highly credible as Tacitus refers to it as an official act of Pontius Pilate within His overall accounting of Rome’s activities. Clearly, Roman accounts confirm that Jesus Christ lived, and that He was executed in Judea during the administration of Pontius Pilate. Even His detractors acknowledged that He performed supernatural deeds. Whatever your views about Jesus Christ, we begin with the fact that He, indeed, lived and died when the Bible states that He lived and died, that He performed marvellous deeds, and that He made a major impression on the civilization of His day. Let us now review the historical setting into which Jesus Christ was born. The Roman and Parthian Empires were both powerful, well-established “superpower” rivals at the time Jesus was born. Rome ruled the Mediterranean region, and Parthia ruled Asian lands from modern Syria to the Indus River. Palestine was located within the Roman Empire, but was close to the Euphrates River constituting the Parthian border. Five decades before the birth of Jesus, Rome and Parthia fought several battles with one being fought near Antioch of Syria (very close to Palestine).5 In about 40 B.C., the Parthians launched a major assault which drove the Romans out of Asia! For three years, 40-37 B.C., Palestine was within the Parthian Empire and was ruled by a Jewish vassal king of the Parthians named Antigonus. At that time King Herod, the Roman king of Judea, fled from the Parthians in fear of his life. While the Parthian-sponsored rule of Antigonus was brief, it was apparently popular with the Jews. When the Parthians withdrew across the Euphrates, Antigonus, with Jewish support, attempted to maintain himself as king of the Jews, but was defeated by Herod. Mark Antony, the Roman leader famous for his dalliance with Cleopatra, ordered Antigonus beheaded, and Josephus records that this was done to compel the Jews to accept the hated Herod as their king.6 Mark Antony afterward led a massive invasion of Parthia in 37-36 B.C., but his army was utterly defeated by the Parthians.7 To help modern readers gain a frame of reference for these ancient events, these Roman-Parthian wars were more recent events for the people at the time Jesus was born than World War II and the Korean War are to modern readers. Parthian rule over Palestine was, therefore, vividly remembered by many in Jewish society as being preferable to Roman rule. Parthia’s victory over Mark Antony led to a long period of peace between Rome and Parthia, with the Euphrates River serving as the border between their two vast empires. This prolonged period of peaceful relations lasted from 36 B.C. until 58 A.D.,8 including not only all of Jesus Christ’s life, but also the early period of the Apostolic Church as well. Rawlinson records that it was an established Roman policy not to provoke a Parthian war during that period of time so long as both empires agreed to coexist on separate banks of the Euphrates River. Rawlinson comments on this peaceful interlude as follows: “It is a well-known fact that Augustus left it as a principle of policy to his successors that the Roman Empire had reached its proper limits, and could not with advantage be extended further. This principle, followed with the utmost strictness by Tiberius, was accepted as a rule by all the earlier Caesars…”9 As long as the Caesars wanted peace with Parthia, Roman officials along Parthia’s border, such as King Herod and Pontius Pilate, knew they risked their positions and lives if they entangled Rome in an unwanted war with Parthia. Without this period of Parthian-Roman detente, it would have been impossible for some of the events of Jesus Christ’s life to have occurred, as we shall see. The first such event was the coming of the Magi, or “Wise Men” to pay homage to Jesus. We read of this event in Matthew 2:1-12, which becomes more important when considered in the overall context of Roman-Parthian relations. Parthia’s Magi Visit Jesus (and Frighten Jerusalem) As discussed in the previous chapter, the Magi were powerful members of the Parthian bicameral body that elected Parthian monarchs and wielded great influence within the empire. One assembly was composed of members of the royal family (the Arsacids), and the other consisted of the priests (the “Magi”) and influential Parthians of non-royal blood (the “Wise Men”). The Magi and Wise Men were jointly known as the Megistanes.10 Matthew 2:1 states that “wise men from the east” came to worship Jesus. The term “Wise Men,” which appears in Matthew 2:1, is not a generic description of these visitors, but was the proper title of Parthian Megistanes. The Greek word translated “wise men” is “magian,” literally meaning “Persian astronomer or priest,”11 from which we derive the word “Magi.” Parthia governed Persia at the time of Christ, so the “Wise Men” cited in the Bible were Parthian nobles and/or priests. While traditional Christ

Indeed Satan has truly deceived the whole world. If you believe this statement to be true, then you must consider how you too, may have been  deceived as well. I pray Yehovah will open your minds to see those truths written here on this website. Whole article: https://sightedmoon.com/are-you-worshipping-molech/   Duet. 12:1-4, 29-32 (NAB) ” (1)These are the statutes and decrees which you must be careful to observe in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to occupy, as long as you live on its soil. (2)Destroy without fail every place on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every leafy tree where the nations you are to dispossess worship their gods. (3)Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, destroy by fire their sacred poles, and stamp out the remembrance of them in any such place. (4)That is not how you are to worship the Lord your God.” (29)When the Lord, your God, removes the nations from your way as you advance to dispossess them, be on your guard! Otherwise, once they have been wiped out before you and you have replaced them and are settled in their land, (30)you will be lured into following them. Do not inquire regarding their gods, ˜How did these nations worship their gods? I, too, would do the same .” (31)You shall not thus worship the Lord your God, because they offered to their gods every abomination that the Lord detests, even burning their sons and daughters to their gods.” Lev. 18:21,(NAB) “You shall not offer any of your offspring to be immolated to Molech, thus profaning the name of the Lord you God.” In the King James, it says to pass through the fire to Molech. Lev. 18:1-5,(NAB) ” The Lord said to Moses, (2)”Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I, the Lord am your God. (3) You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you once lived, nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; do not conform to their customs. (4)My decrees you shall carry out and my statutes you shall take care to follow. I, the Lord, am your God. (5)Keep, then, my statutes and decrees, for the man who carries them out will find life through them. I am the Lord you God. Lev.18:24-30 (NAB) ” Do not defile yourselves by any of these things by which the nations whom I am driving out of your way have defiled themselves. (25) Because their land has become defiled, I am punishing it for its wickedness, by making it vomit out its inhabitants. (26) You, however, whether natives or resident aliens, must keep my statutes and decrees forbidding all such abominations (27) by which the previous inhabitants defiled the land; (28) otherwise the land will vomit you out also for having defiled it, just as it vomited out the nations before you. (29) Everyone who does these abominations shall be cut off from among his people. (30) Heed my charge, then, not to defile yourselves by observing the abominable customs that have been observed before you. I, the Lord , am your God.“ From the Zondervan Bible Dict. Moloch, Molech, Muluk, Malik, Chemosh, Milcom (1 Kings 11:5), Malcam (Zeph 1:5) are all variants of Hebrew words meaning “the reigning one”. A heathen god worshiped especially by the Amorites with gruesome orgies in which little ones were sacrificed. At least in some places, an image of the god was heated and the bodies of the children who had just been slain were placed in the arms. Note ” the statue was made of bronze or iron with a hollowed out human body and the head of a calf. A fire was heated in the statute till a red glow came from the statute then the child was placed on the outstretched arms as a sacrificial offering. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molech – Ba’al Moloch the God Ba’al, the Sacred Bull, was widely worshipped in the ancient Near East and wherever Punic culture extended. Baal Moloch was conceived under the form of a calf or an ox or depicted as a man with the head of a bull. Hadad, Baal or simply the King identified the god within his cult. The name Moloch is not the name he was known by among his worshippers, but a Hebrew translation. The written form Moloch (in the Septuagint Greek translation of the Old Testament), or Molech (Hebrew), is no different than the word Melech or king, transformed by interposing the vowels of bosheth or ‘shameful thing’. He is sometimes also called Milcom in the Old Testament (1 Kings 11:5, 1 Kings 11:33, 2 Kings 23:13 and Zephaniah 1:5) Forms and grammar The Hebrew letters מלך (mlk) usually stands for melek ‘king’ (Proto-Northwest Semitic malku) but when vocalized as mōlek in Masoretic Hebrew text, they have been traditionally understood as a proper name Μολοχ (molokh) (Proto-Northwest Semitic Mulku) in the corresponding Greek renderings in the Septuagint translation, in Aquila, and in the Greek Targum. The form usually appears in the compound lmlk. The Hebrew preposition l- means ‘to’, but it can often mean ‘for’ or ‘as a(n)’. Accordingly one can translate lmlk as “to Moloch” or “for Moloch” or “as a Moloch”, or “to the Moloch” or “for the Moloch” or “as the Moloch”, whatever a “Moloch” or “the Moloch” might be. We also once find hmlk ‘the Moloch’ standing by itself. Because there is no difference between mlk ‘king’ and mlk ‘moloch’ in unpointed text, interpreters sometimes suggest molek should be understood in certain places where the Masoretic text is vocalized as melek, and vice versa. Moloch has been traditionally interpreted as the name of a god, possibly a god titled the king, but purposely misvocalized as Molek instead of Melek using the vowels of Hebrew bosheth ‘shame’. Moloch appears in the Hebrew of 1 Kings 11.7 (on Solomon’s religious failings): Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and lmlk, the abomination of the Sons of Ammon. But in other passages the god of the Ammonites is named Milcom, not Moloch (see 1 Kings 11.33; Zephaniah 1.5). The Septuagint reads Milcom in 1 Kings 11.7 instead of Moloch which suggests a scribal error in the Hebrew. Many English translations accordingly follow the non-Hebrew versions at this point and render Milcom. (The form mlkm can also mean ‘their king’ as well as Milcom and therefore one cannot always be sure in some other passages whether the King of Ammon is intended or the god Milcom.) It has also been suggested that the Baâ’al of Tyre, Melqart ‘king of the city’ (who was probably the Baâ’al whose worship was furthered by Ahab and his house) was this supposed god Moloch and that Melqart/Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical with other gods whose names contain mlk. But nothing particularly suggests these identifications other than mlk in the various names.   But you shall carry Sikkut your king, and Kiyyun, your images, the star-symbol of your god which you made for yourself. The Septuagint renders ‘your king’ as Moloch, perhaps from a scribal error, whence the verse appears in Acts 7.43: You have lifted up the shrine of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Accordingly this association of Moloch with these other gods is probably spurious. All other references to Moloch use mlk only in the context of “passing children through fire lmlk”, whatever is meant by lmlk, whether it means “to Moloch” or means something else. It has traditionally been understood to mean burning children alive to the god Moloch. But some have suggested a rite of purification by fire instead, though perhaps a dangerous one. References to passing through fire without mentioning mlk appear in Deuteronomy 12.31, 18.10–13; 2 Kings 21.6; Ezekiel 20.26,31; 23.37. So the existence of this practice is well documented. For a comparable practice of rendering infants immortal by passing them through the fire, indirectly attested in early Greek myth, see the entries for Thetis and also the myth of Demeter as the nurse of Demophon. Biblical texts The pertinent Biblical texts follow in very literal translation. The word here translated literally as ‘seed’ very often means offspring. The forms containing mlk have been left untranslated. The reader may substitute either “to Moloch” or “as a molk”. Leviticus 18.21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through Mo’lech, neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. Leviticus 20.25: Again, you shall say to the Sons of Israel: Whoever he be of the Sons of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives any of his seed Mo’lech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his seed Mo’lech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives of his seed Mo’lech, and do not kill him, then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, whoring after Mo’lech from among the people. 2 Kings 23.10 (on King Josiah’s reform): And he defiled the Tophet, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire Mo’lech. Jeremiah 32.35: And they built the high places of the Ba’al, which are in the valley of Ben-hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire Mo’lech; which I did not command them, nor did it come into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. Moloch has also been referred to simply as a rebel angel. Traditional accounts and theories The 12th-century rabbi Rashi, commenting on Jeremiah 7.31 stated: Tophet is Moloch, which was made of brass; and they heated him from his lower parts; and his hands being stretched out, and made hot, they put the child between his hands, and it was burnt; when it vehemently cried out; but the priests beat a drum, that the father might

When we look at the future, it is what we are teaching our children today that will be the path of our society in the future. The Spiritual health of our future lies in what our children grow to adopt as their truth. Society, not just parents, also influences our children, and sometimes the teaching of society is stronger than the teaching the parents give to our kids. But that doesn’t mean we give up and let society teach our kids. We must speak plainly and emphatically to our children and teach them the truth. In the coming season, the influence in our society will be about Christmas. I know this influence is strong in Kenya, as while we were out grocery shopping in Nairobi, a group of kids came up and started commenting on Stuart’s long white beard and associating him with Santa and began singing “We wish you a Merry Christmas”. Through rounds of this song we had to get into the van and get away from their begging for items from our grocery order. Yehovah also has had a hard time teaching His Own Children to worship Him in purity without adding in the worship of the pagan gods. The influences of the world are strong, behind these influences of course is the Devil, the deceiver, the destroyer, the one who leads us to worship the dead. Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; In the news this week, there was a situation in Israel where two Palestinians drove their vehicle into a crowd of people, and one man got out of the car and started stabbing the victims who had been run down. Both these terrorists were killed by soldiers in the area, but the father of one of these 18 year old terrorists praised his son and said he knew from childhood his son would die a martyr. This father was proud of his son. This is a culture of death, a culture that celebrates the death of their children and the destruction of anyone… whether Jew, Christian, American, or even anyone who is not of their own sect of Islam. This culture of death, are we guilty of teaching this to our children too? Are we teaching our children to choose life?If we are allowing the teaching of Christmas to influence our children, if we are allowing lies to infiltrate our worship of Yehovah, then all measures of other lies will easily lead our kids astray. Yehovah gave us some plain instructions in Jeremiah regarding what’s called in our modern day the Christmas Tree. Jeremiah 10:1-10 1Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says the Lord: “Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are [a]futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. 4 They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not topple. 5 They are upright, like a palm tree, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot go by themselves. Do not be afraid of them, For they cannot do evil, Nor can they do any good.” 6 Inasmuch as there is none like You, O Lord (You are great, and Your name is great in might), 7 Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your rightful due. For among all the wise men of the nations, And in all their kingdoms, There is none like You.8 But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish; A wooden idol is a [b]worthless doctrine. 9 Silver is beaten into plates; It is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of the craftsman And of the hands of the metalsmith; Blue and purple are their clothing; They are all the work of skillful men. 10 But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation. This is an idol and even the singing regarding this tree is worship – it will bring Yehovah’s indignation. We are told not to learn the ways of the Gentiles, it is difficult, it’s everywhere, everyone is doing it. Even if Kenyan’s are not putting this tree up in their homes, the venerating of such a symbol is worshipping an idol. If we are teaching our children songs to sing about this tree, or about the season, we are teaching the children to mix in the pagan worship towards Yehovah. We are teaching our children syncretism. Let me tell you a little of the history of Santa. There really was a man named Nicolas, who was the Bishop of Myra, located in Turkey, in the 4th century. He is said to have suffered persecution under Diocletian, then rescued from prison by Constantine. He is said to be known for generosity, to children and destitute women who would have otherwise fallen into prostitution, providing them with dowries. He is said to have been part of the Counsel of Nicea. Because he is said to have restored some women to life after being butchered to death, he was made a saint, and his name went from Saint Nicholas to Sinterklaus to Santa Claus. This European tradition of venerating this man for his generosity was brought to North America and became the Santa Claus of modern day Christmas. Now some say, “We don’t keep Christmas about Santa Claus, we keep it because it’s the birthday of Jesus”. I can prove to you, it is not. We must follow a trail through scripture to determine when Yeshua was born, and prove it was not December 25. The trail starts with Zechariah who is serving in the temple.Luke 1:5-7 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years. What is this division of Abijah? We follow the trail to 1 Chronicles 24:3-10 [3] With the help of Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service. [4] Since more chief men were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers’ houses of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar. [5] They divided them by lot, all alike, for there were sacred officers and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar. [6] And the scribe Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites, one father’s house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar. [7] The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, [8] the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, [9] the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, [10] the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, , Ah, there’s Abijah – Abijah is of the 8th division of these priests chosen for appointed duties So if we count from the barley, every two weeks the division changes, so 16 weeks from the barley was when Zechariah was in the temple. He goes home from his term of service when his wife Elizabeth gets pregnant. Then the Angel comes to Mary when Elizabeth is 6 months pregnant. Luke 1:36 [36] And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. Zerchariah served from the 16th to the 18th week of this year, this would be half way through the 4th month when Elizabeth conceived then. 6 months later makes it about midway through the 10th month. Now let’s read about when Mary conceives. Luke 1:26-31[26] In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, [27] to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. [28] And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” [29] But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. [30] And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. [31] And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. From the midpoint of the 10th month we add 9 months of pregnancy for Mary, this brings us to the end of that year and then another 7 months. If that year John was born in was a 13 month year, Yeshua would then be born on Yom Teruah, the first day of the 7th month. This fits with the symbolism of the Feast of Trumpets which is a day where we shout for joy, a day the trumpets bring announcement that the Bridegroom is coming, or warning that the Atonement is near. If the feast of Shouting, YomTeruah, is part of the picture, then somewhere in the birth of Yeshua story we would see something about shouting or heralding, and we do in Luke 2:8-20 8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And [c]behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a [d]manger. ” 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 14 “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill[e] toward men!” 15 So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go

Having now read all of John’s letters, who is the antichrist he is warning you about? Those who do not and will not obey the commandments and they who do not believe Yehshua is the anointed or Messiah. But before you do as other Christians do and begin to point the finger at the Jews, let’s now read some scriptures they have in the Old Testament. Yehovah is our Redeemer. Isa 41:13  For I, Jehovah your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Do not fear; I will help you. Isa 41:14  Do not fear, worm of Jacob and men of Israel; I will help you, says Jehovah, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Yehovah is our Savior! Israel’s Only Savior Isa 43:1 But now so says Jehovah who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel; Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine. Isa 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; nor shall the flame kindle on you. Isa 43:3 For I am Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you. Isa 43:4 Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you; therefore I will give men for you, and people for your life. Isa 43:5 Fear not; for I am with you. I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west. Isa 43:6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from far and My daughters from the ends of the earth; Isa 43:7 everyone who is called by My name; for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. Isa 43:8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. Isa 43:9 Let all the nations be brought together, and let the people be gathered; who among them can declare this and make us hear former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is true. Isa 43:10 You are My witnesses, says Jehovah, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me no God was formed, nor shall there be after Me. Isa 43:11 I, I am Jehovah; and there is none to save besides Me. Isa 43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you; therefore you are My witnesses, says Jehovah, that I am God. Isa 43:13 Yea, before the day was, I am He; and no one delivers out of My hand; I will work, and who will reverse it? Isa 43:14 So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all of them as fugitives, and the Chaldeans, whose shout is in the ships. Isa 43:15 I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. Isa 43:16 So says Jehovah, who makes a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters; Isa 43:17 who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise; they are put out, they are snuffed out like a wick. Isa 43:18 Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Isa 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall sprout; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. Isa 43:20 The beasts of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen. Isa 43:21 This people that I formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise. Isa 43:22 But you have not called on Me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of Me, O Israel. Isa 43:23 You have not brought Me the lamb of your burnt offerings; nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense. Isa 43:24 You have bought Me no sweet cane with silver, nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities. Isa 43:25 I, I am He who blots out your sins for My own sake, and will not remember your sins. Isa 43:26 Cause Me to remember; let us enter into judgment; declare yourself, that you may be justified. Isa 43:27 Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have sinned against Me. Isa 43:28 And I will defile rulers of the sanctuary, and will give Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. There is no other gods besides Yehovah. There are not two or three. There is no Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  Yehovah and He alone is our saviour. Isa 45:5 I am Jehovah, and there is none else, no God besides Me; I clothed you, though you have not known Me; Isa 45:6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and to the sunset, that there is none besides Me. I am Jehovah, and there is none else; Isa 45:7 forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these things. Isa 45:8 Drop down from above, O heavens, and let the clouds pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, and let salvation bear fruit; and let righteousness spring up together. I Jehovah have created it. The Lord, the Only Savior Isa 45:14 So says Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come to you, and they shall be yours. They shall come after you in chains; and they shall cross in chains and they shall fall down to you. They shall plead to you, saying, Surely God is in you; and none else, no other God. Isa 45:15 Truly You are a God who hides Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior. Isa 45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they who are makers of idols shall go into disgrace together. Isa 45:17 But Israel shall be saved in Jehovah with an everlasting salvation. You shall not be ashamed nor blush to the forevers of eternity. Isa 45:18 For so says Jehovah the Creator of the heavens, He is God, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty, but forming it to be inhabited. I am Jehovah, and there is no other. Isa 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain. I Jehovah speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. Isa 45:20 Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save. They know nothing. Isa 45:21 Declare and bring near; yea, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this of old? Who has told it from then? Is it not I, Jehovah? And there is no other God besides Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me. Isa 45:22 Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. Isa 45:23 I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Isa 45:24 He says, Only in Jehovah do I have righteousness and strength; even to Him he comes. And they are ashamed, all who are angry with Him. Isa 45:25 In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. The Lord Is My Strength and My Song Isa 12:1 And in that day you shall say, O Jehovah, I will praise You; though You were angry with me, turn away Your anger, and You shall comfort me. Isa 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation. Isa 12:3 And with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation. Isa 12:4 And in that day you shall say, Praise Jehovah! Call on His name; declare His doings among the people, make mention that His name is exalted. Isa 12:5 Sing to Jehovah; for He has done excellent things; this is known in all the earth. Isa 12:6 Cry out and shout, O dweller of Zion; for great isthe Holy One of Israel in your midst. Yehovah is telling you that He will become our Salvation, our Yehshua. Yehovah is telling you that He did become Yehshua, H3444   (Strong)  יְשׁוּעָה  yeshû‛âh  yesh-oo’-aw Feminine passive participle of H3467; something saved, that is, (abstractly) deliverance; hence aid, victory, prosperity: – deliverance, health, help (-ing), salvation, save, saving (health), welfare. God with us Immanuel. Mat 1:19 But Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man , and unwilling to expose her publicly, purposed to have put her away secretly; Mat 1:20 but while he pondered on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to take to thee Mary, thy wife, for that which is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit. Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for *he* shall save his people from their sins. Mat 1:22 Now all this came to pass that that might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord, through the prophet, saying, Mat 1:23 Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, ‘God with us.’ Yehovah just told you in Isaiah 12:2 He would become your Yehshua. Matthew is telling you the Messiah is called God with us. Luke is saying the same thing only Luke says Yehshua. Isa 7:14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Birth of Jesus Foretold Luk 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, Luk 1:27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. Luk 1:28 And the angel came in to her and said, Hail, one receiving grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed areyou among women. Luk 1:29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what kind of greeting this might be. Luk 1:30 An

Who is the Antichrist? The Antichrist is a person who is against Christ. The prefix anti can also mean “instead of,” and both meanings will apply to this coming world leader. He will overtly oppose Christ and at the same time pass himself off as Christ. The Antichrist will aggressively live up to his terrible name. He will persecute, torture, and kill the people of God as he leads the armies of the world into the Battle of Armageddon. He will be the most powerful dictator the world has ever seen, making Caesar, Hitler, Mao, and Saddam seem tame by comparison. Even though the Antichrist is identified by that name only four times in the Bible, he appears many more times under various aliases. He is also called: “the promise that shall come” –Daniel 9:26 NKJV “a fierce king”—Daniel 8:23 NLT “a master of intrigue”—Daniel 8:23 NIV “a despicable man” –Daniel 11:21 NLT “a worthless shepherd”—Zechariah 11:16–17 NLT “the one who brings destruction” –2 Thessalonians 2:3 NLT “the lawless one” –2 Thessalonians 2:8 NKJV “the evil man” –2 Thessalonians 2:9 NLT “the Beast” –Revelation 13:1 NKJV When he comes on the scene, people will flock to him like flies to honey, and they will do anything he asks. How will he unite the nations? The prophet Daniel describes the Antichrist in these terms: “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast … And there … were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words. … He shall speak pompous words against the Most High” (Daniel 7:7–8, 25). As Daniel says, the coming world leader will be renowned for this kind of eloquence, which will capture the attention and administration of the world. Daniel goes on to tell us that not only will this golden–tongued orator speak in high–blown terms, but he will also speak arrogantly against God. The apostle John describes him similarly in the book of Revelation: “And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies” (Revelation 13:5). Daniel continues his description of the Antichrist by telling us he is a man “whose appearance was greater than his fellows” (Daniel 7:20). In terms of his outward appearance, this man will be strikingly attractive. The combination of his magnetic personality, speaking ability, and extreme good looks will make him virtually irresistible to the masses. The apostle John expands on Daniel’s description of the Antichrist’s blasphemous acts by telling us that every living person will be required to worship this man. “He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as man as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed” (Revelation 13:15). Finally, Revelation 13:1–8 describes the Antichrist as a Beast—an appropriate title for him. During the last 3½ years of the Tribulation, the Antichrist will personify Satan himself. Second Thessalonians 2:9 says, “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders.” Step by step, the Antichrist will promote himself from a European leader, to a world leader, to a tyrannical global dictator, and finally to a god. What is the “unholy trinity”? Satan is the first person and the father of the unholy trinity. The Antichrist will be the second member and the son of the unholy trinity. The False Prophet, the third member of the unholy trinity, will direct the worship and praise of the people back to the Antichrist (Revelation 13:11–12). How does the Antichrist gain political power? His rise to power will be inconspicuous. It will not be noticed in the beginning and will hardly raise the attention even of the those who are closer to the center of action. He will rise out of the general population. John says, “Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns” (Revelation 13:1). The sea in biblical imagery stands for the general mass of humanity or, more specifically, the Gentile nations. Whatever power the Antichrist has, he is allowed to have it by the overriding authority of Almighty God. As bad as the Tribulation will be, it will never be out of God’s control. There is a leash on Satan, and God is holding it. Satan will be able to do only that which God allows him to do during the Tribulation period. Who will worship the Antichrist? According to Revelation 13:8, “all who dwell on the earth will worship him.” Daniel 7:25 tells us that the Antichrist is a cultic leader. “He shall speak pompous words against the Most High … and shall intend to change times and law.” He will speak out against the true God of heaven. The language suggests that he will try to raise himself to the level of God and make declarations from that position. Second Thessalonians 2:4 says the Antichrist “opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” He will accept the worship of the people of the world. What will happen to the Antichrist as he leads the Battle of Armageddon? During the Battle of Armageddon, the world will become increasingly discontented with the leadership of this global dictator who has gone back on every promise he made. Major segments of the world will begin to assemble their own military forces and rebel against him. The king of the South and his armies will be the first to come after the Antichrist, followed by the armies of the North. “At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him: and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships” (Daniel 11:40). The Antichrist will put down some of the these first attempts at rebellion against him. But before he can move toward his goal of destroying Israel and Jerusalem, something happens: “But news from the east and the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many” (Daniel 11:44). The Bible leaves no doubt as to the source of the news that so disturbs enrages the Antichrist: “Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared” (Revelation 16:12). The Euphrates is one of the greatest rivers in the world. It flows from the mountains of western Turkey, through Syria, and continues through the heart of Iraq, not far from Baghdad. It eventually unites with the Tigris to become the Shatt el Arab, and finally empties into the Persian Gulf. The entirety of the Euphrates flows through Muslim territory. In Genesis 15 and Deuteronomy 11, the Lord specified that the Euphrates would be the easternmost border of the Promised Land. It serves both as a border and a barrier between Israel and her enemies. With the disappearance of the Euphrates, the Antichrist will be vulnerable to attack by the kings of the east. Their arrival will mark the beginning of the greatest war of all history. The Man of Lawlessness 2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2Th 2:2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand. 2Th 2:3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, 2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God. 2Th 2:5 Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still with you? 2Th 2:6 And now you know what holds back, for him to be revealed in his own time. 2Th 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he is now holding back until it comes out of the midst.   Sign up for our weekly Free Newsletter https://sightedmoon.com/newsletter-lp/ We are also giving away The Stones Cry Out PDF for FREE at this link https://sightedmoon.com/the-stones-cry-out-lp/ You can also order the following books to learn more about where we are in these last days according to the Jubilee Cycle. 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If we are created naked and unashamed in the garden, then what has happened that Adam now feels the need to hide himself and cloth himself with fig leaves? The word that is translated as coverings in verse 7 is the Hebrew word חֲג ֹ ר ָ ה chăgôrâh a belt (for the waist): – apron, armour, gird (-le). It can be something we bind about ourselves to carry a weapon, so a garment of war, which gives us the image of armour. Why was this loincloth made from figs? Figs are a prolific green fruit that hide among the leaves making them difficult to see.   Genesis 3:6-11 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” 11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Was this the same belt of truth we see in the Armour of God from Ephesians 6:14? Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, No, this chagorat was a garment to cover his shame! Adam was now feeling shame not righteousness! Their eyes had been opened to good and evil. What God had created as very good was now corrupted with good AND evil. Clearly Adam was trying to hide himself and his wife. These pictures all point to the hiding. Verse 10 said they were hiding from Yehovah for they were afraid. The word Chaba means hide, and it is a chet, a fence, and a bet the house or the tent, at it’s root. Adam and Eve were putting up a wall between themselves and Yehovah by putting on these Chagorot. They were attempting to save themselves within this refuge of the loin cloth. Genesis 3:22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. How does this sentence read in Luo? Is it the same as how my English reads? If I take the Hebrew words and translate them literally it says man has become united with the intimacy of good and evil. True Yehovah knows all things – and that includes Good and Evil – but to translate this to say that our eyes open to evil as well as good makes us more like Yehovah is a bit misleading – it suggests that this action is better than how they were created on the 6th day – when Yehovah said they were made very good. Sign up for our weekly Free Newsletter https://sightedmoon.com/newsletter-lp/ We are also giving away The Stones Cry Out PDF for FREE at this link https://sightedmoon.com/the-stones-cry-out-lp/ You can also order the following books to learn more about where we are in these last days according to the Jubilee Cycle. It Was A Riddle Not A Command (https://sightedmoon.com/riddle-lp) The 2300 Days of Hell (https://sightedmoon.com/2300-days-lp) Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016 https://sightedmoon.com/2016-sabbatical-year-co/ The Sabbatical and Jubilee Charts https://sightedmoon.com/sabbatical-chart-lp/ The Restoration of All Things https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The Abomination That Makes Desolate https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The 10 Days of Awe https://sightedmoon.com/10-days-of-awe-co/

The book of Revelation tells us exactly Jesus was born and also details when He will return! Struggle Over Which New Moon to Use. : https://sightedmoon.com/conjunction-or-sighted-which/ •The author notes that modern calendars predict the Feast of Trumpets years in advance, yet Matthew 24:36 says the day cannot be known — creating a conflict. •This leads the author to believe the sighted new moon must be the correct method, since it cannot be known ahead of time. •Though this idea made sense to the author, they could not initially prove it from Scripture. Influence of Others •The author discovers Nehemia Gordon, the Karaites, and Michael Rood, who support the sighted-moon view. •However, arguments from those who use the conjunction moon cause continued uncertainty. •Both groups claim to follow the Law, leaving no definitive “thus says the Lord” Scripture. Personal Practice Caused Doubt •In 2005, the author kept two sets of each Holy Day (Passover, Pentecost, Trumpets) due to uncertainty. •This felt hypocritical and troubling, especially knowing the Hebrew Calendar uses postponements the author believes are unbiblical. Purpose of the Paper •The author seeks to offer “proof positive” for which new moon is correct for determining the biblical calendar. •Emphasizes the importance of keeping Holy Days exactly when God commands, not when humans choose. Discovery in Dr. Ernest L. Martin’s Work •While reading The Star that Astonished the World, the author encounters astronomical arguments that unexpectedly clarify the new-moon question. • Martin determines the exact day and hour of Jesus’ birth using astronomy. •This includes identifying the celestial signs described in Revelation 12. Biblical and Ancient Star-Related Background •Cites Scriptures showing: •The heavens reveal God’s glory and serve as signs (Ps 19, Gen 1:14). •God set constellations in the sky (Job 38, Isaiah 40). •Discusses how constellations (especially Virgo) historically carried prophetic significance related to the Messiah. Virgo and Messianic Symbolism •Virgo is historically associated with: •A virgin. •A branch (symbolic of the Messiah). •A seed of grain (symbolic of Christ as the seed). •The article suggests the Zodiac originally conveyed God’s messages but was later corrupted by paganism. Revelation 12 as Astronomical Evidence •Revelation 12’s imagery (woman, sun, moon, dragon) is interpreted as astronomical—not merely symbolic. •Virgo is the only zodiacal constellation that fits the description. •Martin argues: •The Sun “clothing” Virgo occurs only about 20 days per year (late Aug to mid-Sept). •The moon being under Virgo’s feet during this window happens only once per year. Struggle Over Which New Moon to Use •The author notes that modern calendars predict the Feast of Trumpets years in advance, yet Matthew 24:36 says the day cannot be known — creating a conflict. •This leads the author to believe the sighted new moon must be the correct method, since it cannot be known ahead of time. •Though this idea made sense to the author, they could not initially prove it from Scripture. Influence of Others •The author discovers Nehemia Gordon, the Karaites, and Michael Rood, who support the sighted-moon view. •However, arguments from those who use the conjunction moon cause continued uncertainty. •Both groups claim to follow the Law, leaving no definitive “thus says the Lord” Scripture. Personal Practice Caused Doubt •In 2005, the author kept two sets of each Holy Day (Passover, Pentecost, Trumpets) due to uncertainty. •This felt hypocritical and troubling, especially knowing the Hebrew Calendar uses postponements the author believes are unbiblical. Purpose of the Paper •The author seeks to offer “proof positive” for which new moon is correct for determining the biblical calendar. •Emphasizes the importance of keeping Holy Days exactly when God commands, not when humans choose. Discovery in Dr. Ernest L. Martin’s Work •While reading The Star that Astonished the World, the author encounters astronomical arguments that unexpectedly clarify the new-moon question. • Martin determines the exact day and hour of Jesus’ birth using astronomy. •This includes identifying the celestial signs described in Revelation 12. Biblical and Ancient Star-Related Background •Cites Scriptures showing: •The heavens reveal God’s glory and serve as signs (Ps 19, Gen 1:14). •God set constellations in the sky (Job 38, Isaiah 40). •Discusses how constellations (especially Virgo) historically carried prophetic significance related to the Messiah. Virgo and Messianic Symbolism •Virgo is historically associated with: •A virgin. •A branch (symbolic of the Messiah). •A seed of grain (symbolic of Christ as the seed). •The article suggests the Zodiac originally conveyed God’s messages but was later corrupted by paganism. Revelation 12 as Astronomical Evidence •Revelation 12’s imagery (woman, sun, moon, dragon) is interpreted as astronomical—not merely symbolic. •Virgo is the only zodiacal constellation that fits the description. •Martin argues: •The Sun “clothing” Virgo occurs only about 20 days per year (late Aug to mid-Sept). •The moon being under Virgo’s feet during this window happens only once per year. • In 3 BC, this alignment occurred on one specific evening only: September 11th. Key Astronomical Claim •On September 11, 3 BC: •The Sun was mid-body in Virgo. •The Moon was under her feet. •The Moon was in crescent phase, indicating a sighted new moon, not a conjunction. •This alignment lasted only about 90 minutes after sunset. Implications •Martin’s astronomical reconstruction: •Pinpoints Jesus’ birth to the evening of September 11, 3 BC. •Shows this was Tishri 1, the Feast of Trumpets. •The author concludes this proves: •The biblical new moon was a visible crescent, not a hidden conjunction. •Revelation 12 depicts a crescent new moon, validating the sighted-moon method for determining biblical months. • In 3 BC, this alignment occurred on one specific evening only: September 11th. Key Astronomical Claim •On September 11, 3 BC: •The Sun was mid-body in Virgo. •The Moon was under her feet. •The Moon was in crescent phase, indicating a sighted new moon, not a conjunction. •This alignment lasted only about 90 minutes after sunset. Implications •Martin’s astronomical reconstruction: •Pinpoints Jesus’ birth to the evening of September 11, 3 BC. •Shows this was Tishri 1, the Feast of Trumpets. •The author concludes this proves: •The biblical new moon was a visible crescent, not a hidden conjunction. •Revelation 12 depicts a crescent new moon, validating the sighted-moon method for determining biblical months. Sign up for our weekly Free Newsletter https://sightedmoon.com/newsletter-lp/ We are also giving away The Stones Cry Out PDF for FREE at this link https://sightedmoon.com/the-stones-cry-out-lp/ You can also order the following books to learn more about where we are in these last days according to the Jubilee Cycle. 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Ella is a member of our executive team here at sightedmoon.com and we had a great testimonial discussion about what lead us to God. In all of our conversation I was encouraged by her, because she kept saying something to the effect of “don’t forget the love of God.”  and her prayer was “Father, what do I need to know?” I think we all tend to pray very similar things.  At the end of the day, most of us here, are genuinely searching for God.  But the love of God is where all of the corners of the Gospel meet.  The love of God is what knits it all together.  It’s because of the love of God that we maintain breath in our bodies.  And it’s because of the love of God that we obey His word and keep His commandments. Sign up for our weekly Free Newsletter https://sightedmoon.com/newsletter-lp/ We are also giving away The Stones Cry Out PDF for FREE at this link https://sightedmoon.com/the-stones-cry-out-lp/ You can also order the following books to learn more about where we are in these last days according to the Jubilee Cycle. It Was A Riddle Not A Command (https://sightedmoon.com/riddle-lp) The 2300 Days of Hell (https://sightedmoon.com/2300-days-lp) Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016 https://sightedmoon.com/2016-sabbatical-year-co/ The Sabbatical and Jubilee Charts https://sightedmoon.com/sabbatical-chart-lp/ The Restoration of All Things https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The Abomination That Makes Desolate https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The 10 Days of Awe https://sightedmoon.com/10-days-of-awe-co/

Was Hanukkah commanded by God to observe it?  Or is it simply a tradition that has been passed down for centuries.  I want to do a deep dive into some of the history of Hanukkah since we are in the season.  Hopefully to shed some light on something that some of us may be observing.  I think when talking about traditions and holidays it’s critical to understand the roots of it the best we can and make informed decisions on wether or not this is something that we should be observing. I’ll be the first one to say that Hanukkah is not something that I have observed growing up, nor do I observe it.  So, I want to tread lightly since I know this could be a sensitive topic for some.  But regardless, there is an objective truth here, independent of our feelings toward it. I am quoting some reputable sources during the course of this episode; Encyclopedia Britannica, Dr. Nehemiah Gordon and Dr. Shrel-Fox.  Both of these men being Biblical and historical scholars.  I want to keep the discussion as objective as possible but I do insert some of my opinions into this as well.  But I want you to understand that there are places where I make a distinction about what’s my opinion and what’s historically factual. It is our mission here at sightedmoon.com to give you the best and more historically accurate information so that you can make decisions that are primarily Bible based when it comes to keeping or observing certain Holy Days or holidays. The Maccabean revolt, which was led by Judas Maccabeus around 161-164 BC were the first among the Jewish people to fight to defend their faith with their lives. The Second Temple was rededicated in 164 BC after the revolt.  The Temple was purified and dedicated on Kislev 25, Judas was said to have proclaimed that the dedication of the restored temple should be celebrated for eight days every year beginning on Kislev 25.  But is that true, or is that tradition? This was said to have been the starting point of a holiday that gets passed down for centuries leading up to our very day, called Hanukkah or The Festival of Lights. But I ask the question; Is it Biblical? Listen and find out. Sign up for our weekly Free Newsletter https://sightedmoon.com/newsletter-lp/ We are also giving away The Stones Cry Out PDF for FREE at this link https://sightedmoon.com/the-stones-cry-out-lp/ You can also order the following books to learn more about where we are in these last days according to the Jubilee Cycle. It Was A Riddle Not A Command (https://sightedmoon.com/riddle-lp) The 2300 Days of Hell (https://sightedmoon.com/2300-days-lp) Remembering the Sabbatical Year of 2016 https://sightedmoon.com/2016-sabbatical-year-co/ The Sabbatical and Jubilee Charts https://sightedmoon.com/sabbatical-chart-lp/ The Restoration of All Things https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The Abomination That Makes Desolate https://sightedmoon.com/restoration-abomination-co/ The 10 Days of Awe https://sightedmoon.com/10-days-of-awe-co/