By Maria Merola אריאל
© Copyright Double Portion Inheritance, September 2004 - 2007
No sooner did I ask the question, when he answered me quickly. He said “The Seven Feasts in Leviticus 23 are the Testimony of Messiah.”
That’s when I remembered Revelation 1:20, where Yahuwshuwa told us that “The Seven-branched golden menorah” is symbolic of “The Seven Assemblies” in the first three chapters of Revelation.
I then decided to look up the meaning of the names of these Seven Assemblies, and discovered that each of their names has a meaning that pertains to the Seven Feasts!
I found it fascinating that the same order in which our Messiah addressed the Seven Assemblies in Revelation, is the same order in which YaHuWaH listed the seven annual feasts in Leviticus 23:
Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Aleph & Taw (Alpha & Omega), the first and the last: and, What you see, write in a book, and send it unto the seven assemblies which are in Asia; unto Ephesus (Passover), and unto Smyrna (Unleavened Bread), and unto Pergamos (First Fruits), and unto Thyatira (Feast of Weeks), and unto Sardis (Feast of Trumpets), and unto Philadelphia (Feast of Tabernacles), and unto Laodicea (Yom Kippur).
The only assembly that is out of order from the annual feasts mentioned in Leviticus 23, is Philadelphia (which correlates to Sukkot or Tabernacles), as this one should be last. Laodicea (which correlates to Yom Kippur) should be the next to the last one.
However, I have a hunch as to why this is the case. I believe it is because our Messiah declared that those who “Endure to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:13). Laodicea must endure until the end, just like Smyrna must also endure until the end.
The characteristics of Laodicea seem to be describing the inhabitants of Jerusalem in Zechariah 12 & 13 who will meet their Messiah at the Mount of Olives on Yom Kippur. They are like Smyrna, who must “Suffer tribulation ten days” during what is called “The Ten Days of Awe” (Revelation 2:10).
Smyrna is like the foolish virgins who must go and buy the oil of Messiah’s name, (during those last ten days of tribulation), so they will be ready to meet him at this return. They are also like Rachel, who was married “last” to Jacob. This is a clue as to why Laodicea is listed last.
Conversely, those who qualify to elope with our Messiah on the Feast of Trumpets, will include all those who are washed in the blood of Messiah by the time the Marriage Supper of the Lamb on the Feast of Tabernacles arrives.
Therefore, Philadelphia is “all-encompassing” of those who are called, chosen and faithful, and will be counted as “The bride” (Revelation 17:14).
This is why the Feast of Tabernacles (which correlates to Philadelphia) is listed last in Leviticus 23. It is because Philadelphia includes both brides (who typify Leah & Rachel). Both brides (the wise and the foolish virgins), will become one bride, or “one stick” in time for the Wedding Feast on Sukkot.
What I have observed, is a chiastic structure with the three Spring Feasts & three Fall Feasts that are like “bookends,” in which they mirror one another.
1.) Passover & Tabernacles - These two feasts are the first and the last of the seven annual festivals listed in Leviticus 23.
*Both of these feasts last for a total of 8 days.
*Passover precedes the seven days of Unleavened Bread.
*The 8th Day or the Last Great Day follows the seven days of Sukkot/Tabernacles.
2.) Unleavened Bread & Atonement - These two feasts involve fasting, and the theme of both feasts is “affliction.”
*The Feast Unleavened Bread requires that we fast from leaven or yeast.
*Deuteronomy 16:3 commands us to eat “The bread of affliction.”
*On the Day of Atonement, we are required to “Afflict our soul,” and in Isaiah 58:3, afflicting one’s soul means to fast from food.
This explains why Smyrna & Laodicea have similar characteristics, correlating to Unleavened Bread & Atonement.
3.) First Fruits & Trumpets - The theme of both of these feasts is resurrection, and going to heaven.
*On the day of First Fruits, our Messiah resurrected in the closing minutes of the 7th day of the week (Sabbath), when the High Priest traditionally would cut the first barley, and wave it as a sheaf offering before YaHuWaH.
*Ephesians 4:8-9 tells us that our Messiah descended first into the lower parts of the earth (Abraham’s Bosom), and he then ascended to heaven, where he brought with him all those souls before the Father as his “First-fruits wave-sheaf offering.”
*The next morning, (the first day of the week) the people of Yisra’el are required to bring their sheaves of barley to the Temple to be waved by the High Priest before YaHuWaH.
*In the future, (on the Feast of Trumpets), the bride of Messiah will be caught up to meet him in the air, and they will be taken to the heavenly chuppah for a seven-day honeymoon (Genesis 27:28-30; Psalms 19:5, Hebrews 11:16; 12:18-27; 1st Thessalonians 4:17; 1st Corinthians 15:51-54; Revelation 11:11-15; 12:5).
4.) The Feast of Weeks/Shabuot - Does not have a counterpart, but it represents our Messiah as “The Light of the World.”
*The “Shamash” on the Menorah is the middle candle, which is also called “The Servant Candle,” because it is used to light the other six candles.
This word “shamash” literally means “helper or servant,” which is a title for the Holy Spirit. Our Messiah said he would baptize us with the Ruwach ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit) & Fire, and he would send the Holy Spirit to help, teach, and comfort us.
*Messiah’s first coming was in the 4th Millennium, which correlates to the 4th Feast on the Menorah, and the 4th Day of Creation, when YaHuWaH created the sun.
*Yahuwshuwa is also called “The Light of the World” & “The Sun of Righteousness.” (John 8:12 & 9:5; Malachi 4:2).
*The Hebrew word “shamash” (helper, servant) comes from the same root word as “shemesh,” which means “The sun.”
*Shabuoth acts as a connector between the 3 Spring Feasts & the 3 Fall Feasts.
*Even though Messiah had already ascended ten days earlier, Shabuoth acts as a dividing point between the first and second coming of Messiah, since it was the last feast he fulfilled at his first coming.
Incorrect Feast Menorah Models
I have noticed recently that some people on Social Media are publishing incorrect models of the Feast Menorah, because they do not understand the patterns, nor the Chiastic Structure of the correct model.
The Seven Assemblies & the Seven Annual Feasts
Let’s now examine how the Seven Annual Feasts in Leviticus 23 correlate perfectly to the Seven Assemblies that our Messiah addressed in Revelation 1:11.
1.) Ephesus means “To let go, permitted,” which correlates to Passover.
It was on Passover, that Pharaoh finally “Let Yisra’el go!”
In exchange for our Messiah’s death sentence, the gospel account, says that Pontius Pilate “Let Barabbas go!”
In Revelation 2:7, Yahuwshuwa addressed Ephesus as follows:
“He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the assemblies; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of THE TREE OF LIFE, which is in the midst of the PARADISE of Elohiym.”
These words hint about his death on the tree to give us life eternal. He also mentioned paradise, which is another hint, because it reminds us of him telling the thief next to him on the cross “Today shall you be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43).
Yahuwshuwa addressed Ephesus concerning their labor and toil, which has the same meaning as the slavery of Yisra’el in Egypt:
Revelation 2:2 I know you works, and your labour, and your patience, and how you can not bear them which are evil: and you have tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars.
*Hint: Who was tried and found to be a liar in Egypt? It was Pharaoh! He was given 10 plagues to try him, and he showed himself as a liar, who did not keep his word.
Revelation 2:3 And have borne, and have patience, and for my name’s sake have laboured, and have not fainted.
In Egypt, Yisra’el cried out to YaHuWaH to deliver them from oppression and hard labor, and he heard them, just as our Messiah answered concerning Ephesus:
Deuteronomy 26:7 And when we cried unto YHWH Elohiym of our fathers, YHWH heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
2.) Smyrna means “Strengthened for myrrh or bitter.”
This correlates to The Feast of Unleavened Bread, because myrrh was used in ancient times to embalm dead bodies. Numbers 33:3 tells us that Yisra’el left Egypt while the Egyptians were burying their dead, and this was on the 15th day of Abib (Nisan), which was the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
This was also when our Messiah’s body was prepared with “spices” (myrrh and aloes) before Nicodemus & Joseph of Arimathea buried him in the tomb (John 19:40).
Also, the Passover Meal included “bitter herbs” to remind Yisra’el of the bitterness of slavery that they were being delivered from the night that they left Egypt (Deuteronomy 16:16; Exodus 12:42; Numbers 33:3).
Additionally, in Revelation 2:8-11, Yahuwshuwa addressed Smyrna in the following way, using the theme of death three times:
“...These things says the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive” (verse 8).
“...Be you faithful unto death, and you shall receive the crown of life...” (verse 10).
“...He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death...” (verse 11).
3.) Pergamos means “height, elevation.”
This correlates to First Fruits, because our Messiah resurrected at the end of the Sabbath (what we today call Saturday evening at sundown).
In 1st Century Jerusalem, the High Priests would cut the “First Fruits” of the barley during the closing minutes of Shabbat, but the remainder of the sheaves were brought to the Temple the next day, for the priests to wave before YaHuWaH.
Ephesians 4:8-9 explains that our Messiah first “Descended into the lower parts of the earth (Abraham’s Bosom), and gave gifts unto men...”
After this, he ascended to the Father in heaven, and waved those souls as his “First Fruits” Wave Sheaf offering!
Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he says, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
Ephesians 4:9 Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.
See my other blog: He Led Captivity Captive & Gave Gifts Unto Men
In Revelation 2:13-14, our Messiah addressed the assembly at Pergamos with two examples of those who attempted to “Ascend above the heights” of heaven, but failed. The first is Satan whose seat is in Pergamos.
In Isaiah 14:14-15, it was the fallen angel Heylel (Lucifer) aka Satan who presumptuously made the declaration that he would “ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS” of heaven, but instead, YaHuWaH tells him that he will be brought down to the pit of Sheol (Hell).
And then, there was Baalam who enticed by Balak to “Ascend to the high places of Baal.”
Numbers 22:41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that there he might see the utmost part of the people.
Revelation 2:13 I know your works, and where you dwell, even where Satan’s seat is: and you hold fast my name, and have not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.
Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Yisrael, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Also see the following passages: 1st Corinthians 15:20-23; James 1:18; Revelation 14:4.
Therefore, the theme of height or elevation, is related to our Messiah ascending to the Father in heaven; and in the process, he defeated Satan who has been cast down from his high places.
For it is Yahuwshuwa who has “Ascended to the heights of heaven,” and presented to the Father his “First Fruits” of souls!
4.) Thyatira means “Burning incense or odor of affliction.” This correlates to the Feast of Weeks (Shabuoth), when Yahuwshuwa baptized his followers with the Ruwach ha’Qodesh and fire in Acts chapter 2.
In keeping with the theme of “fire, and burning,” Yahuwshuwa addressed Thyatira in the following manner:
“These things says the Son of Elohiym, who has his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass” (Revelation 2:18).
In Revelation 2:26, Yahuwshuwa tells Thyatira that they shall rule over the nations if they overcome. This is the same promise that he gave to his disciples in the first chapter of Acts, as he was ascending back to the Father in heaven.
Revelation 2:26 And he that overcomes, and keeps my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations.
Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power, after that the Ruwach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
See Revelation 8:3-4; Revelation 11:5; Acts 2:3.
5.) Sardis means “Red ones, or escaping.” This correlates to The Feast of Trumpets, because it is on this feast, that Messiah will catch away his bride to heaven (after the great tribulation of 1,260 days).
The Two Witnesses in Revelation 11:6 are said to have “Fire proceeding from their mouths to devour their enemies.” This correlates to the meaning of “Red ones,” because they are on fire with the power of the Ruwach ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit) to do signs and wonders.
After these corporate Two Witnesses are killed, they are resurrected to heaven as the bride of Messiah. They will be taken to the heavenly chuppah where they will put on immortality, and be married to the bridegroom. Thus, they will “escape the wrath” of Elohiym (1st Thessalonians 5:3 & 5:9).
See the following passages: Psalms 19:5; Luke 21:6; Hebrews 2:3, 11:16 & 12:22; 1st Thessalonians 4:17; 1st Corinthians 15:50-53; Revelation 11:12 & 12:5.
The way in which Yahuwshuwa addressed Sardis, is also indicative of the 7th Hebrew month of Ethaniym (Tishri). You will notice that he addresses himself as the one who has “The Seven Spirits of Elohiym” and “The Seven Stars” (Revelation 3:1). He does not describe himself in this manner with the other assemblies, only Sardis.
In Revelation 3:3, he tells Sardis, that if they do not repent (and are not watching), that he will come upon them as a “Thief in the night!” This is a hint that he will come and snatch away his bride to the seven-day honeymoon in heaven “In secret,” because he comes “At midnight,” to elope with his bride, according to Matthew 25:6. In 1st Corinthians 15:51, Shaul (Paul) calls this event “A mystery,” which in Greek means “A secret!”
To learn more, see these two blogs:
Interestingly, the Feast of Trumpets is called “The Day that No Man Knows,” because it is the only feast that requires the “New Moon Watchers” to “watch” for that first sliver of the new moon, before the feast can begin!
You will notice that he uses the words “watch” and “watchful” with Sardis, but not with the other assemblies:
Revelation 3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works perfect before Elohiym.
Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you shalt not know what hour I will come upon you.
Our Messiah warned us in Revelation 16:15 to “Watch, and keep our wedding garments.” This means that we must not allow our wedding garments to become stained with sin.
Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
In Revelation 3:4-5, Yahuwshuwa emphasized to Sardis the importance of “keeping their wedding garments undefiled,” because the Feast of Trumpets is when he will elope to “His Father’s house” with his bride, and she must be ready!
To learn more about the metaphor of “The Thief in the Night,” see this blog:
6.) Laodicea means “Judgment, justice, vengeance or punishment of the people.”
This correlates to Yom Kippur, because our Messiah will return to earth at the Mount of Olives with his bride (after 10 days from Trumpets), and this will be on “The Day of Vengeance.” Yom Kippur is associated with justice for the people of Yah, but vengeance and wrath to those who are the enemies of Yisra’el.
See Isaiah 61:2; 63:4; Jeremiah 23:5; 46:10; Isaiah 56:1 & 58:2; Luke 21:22; Revelation 19:2.
Yahuwshuwa addressed Laodicea, commanding them to “buy gold that is tried in the fire, and a white wedding garment.” This is the same thing that Moses commanded Yisra’el when they were preparing to take wedding vows on Mount Sinai in Exodus 19.
What Yahuwshuwa says to Laodecia is loaded with meaning that pertains to Yom Kippur:
Revelation 3:18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see.
This command to buy gold tried in the fire, and eye-salve that they may see, is addressed to the Yahuwdiym (Jews) living in Jerusalem that did not accept him in time to elope with the bridegroom to heaven on the Feast of Trumpets. However, during the final ten days between Trumpets & Atonement, they will finally be ready to see him, and accept him!
The prophet Zechariah foretold about the day when Yahuwshuwa returns to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, and one-third of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be saved when they finally repent, and mourn for him:
Zacharyahuw (Zechariah) 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says YHWH, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Zacharyahuw (Zechariah) 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, YHWH is my Elohiym.
When Messiah returns to the Mount of Olives on Yom Kippur, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who were previously blinded to him as the Messiah, will have their eyes opened that they may see!
Yom Kippur has been nick-named “Face-to-Face” by the Yahuwdiym (Jews), because it is the day when the High Priest enters the Holy of Holies, and he comes face-to-face with YaHuWaH. It also pictures the future wedding day for the Kingdom of Judah who will meet their Messiah at the Mount of Olives, as they finally “Look upon the one whom they have pierced!”
7.) Philadelphia means “Brotherly love; kindness, affection.”
This feast is associated with the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot), because Messiah will have already returned back to earth on Yom Kippur with His bride, and he will celebrate “The Marriage Supper of the Lamb” in the earthly Jerusalem, where all nations will also be invited as guests (Matthew 22:1-14).
On Yom Kippur, our Messiah will make The Two Houses of Yisra’el, aka “The Two Sticks” as only “One Stick” in his hand, and they shall no longer be divided by sibling rivalry (like Rachel & Leah).
Ever since King Solomon died in 1st Kings chapter 12, the Two Kingdoms of Judah & Yisra’el have been divided into two houses. There has been hatred, division and rivalry between these two once united families, and the Apostle Shaul (Paul) even described this as the “enmity” that our Messiah came to abolish (Ephesians 2:15).
The enmity (hatred and rivalry) between these two brothers (Judah & Joseph) will be finally healed just in time for the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot).
After the The Two Houses of Yisra’el, are made one stick (one bride), they will be called to attend the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and even those in the nations will be called to attend as guests.
However, those who try and attend without a white wedding garment on (symbolic of repentance and water baptism), will be banished from the wedding:
Matthew 22:8 Then said he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Matthew 22:9 Go you therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage.
Matthew 22:10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Matthew 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Matthew 22:12 And he said unto him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Matthew 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
From the above passages, we understand that the bride of Messiah will be at this Wedding Feast, and all nations of the earth will also be invited to attend. However, there will be a condition, before they can enter the wedding. They must be worthy to be given a white robe, or they cannot attend the feast (Revelation 1:5, 6:11, 7:9, 13 & 14).
Answer the Call To Come Out of Babylon
In these last days, YaHuWaH has a remnant of believers who will answer the call of the Holy Spirit to come out of Mystery Babylon with all of its pagan mixture.
He is raising up a corporate body of “two witnesses” in these last days which consists of Yahuwdiy (Jewish) & Gentile Believers in the earth.
We are being called to carry the “double portion anointing” which is that of Mosheh & Eliyahuw (Moses & Elijah).
This is the same anointing that Yahuwshuwa walked in, as he was seen at the Mount of Transfiguration with Moses & Elijah, symbolizing Law & Prophets, Spirit & Truth, Wisdom & Revelation. But before we can walk in that anointing, we must first overthrow Jezebel’s Table of Devils:
1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of YHWH, and the cup of devils: you cannot be partakers of YHWH’s table, and of the table of devils.
We must be able to identify the characteristics of Queen Jezebel, and her false doctrines, and then overthrow it in the Church. Only then, will the bride be able to deal with the surface issues of sexual immorality and abortion in America.
We must get to the “spiritual root” before we can deal with the sin issues that stem from this pagan religion of Jezebel in the Christian Church today.
1st Melakiym (Kings) 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Yisra’el unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Ba’al four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves (Asherah) four hundred, which eat at Ayz’Baal (Jezebel’s) table.
The Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) was speaking of the Passover table laws in the Torah and warning the Congregation of YaHuWaH that we cannot “mix” pagan table customs with Yah’s Passover Table laws. We cannot mix the pagan holidays offered up to devils with the Holy Days of YaHuWaH.
Yahuwshuwa warned us in Revelation 2:22 not to even “suffer” or tolerate this religion of Ayz’Baal (Jezebel) in the Assemblies:
Chazown (Revelation) 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer that woman Ayz’Baal (Jezebel), which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
We have to go back to the origins of this Anti-Messiah religion from the very beginning to understand it all.
According to the Esoteric Gnosticism, Nimrod’s pagan priests advised him to marry his mother Semiramis, in order to gain esoteric knowledge or what is called “The all-seeing eye” (the third eye). The history behind this can be read about in the book of Yashar (Jasher).
Together, Nimrod and his mother/wife built the Babylonian Empire which combined their pagan religion with their form of government. They worshiped the stars, the sun, and the moon, and they sacrificed their babies to Moloch. Noah’s son Shem was so angry about this, that he had Nimrod killed and his body parts were delivered to different provinces within Babylon as a warning to those who worshiped Moloch aka Satan.
Mystery School religions claim that after Nimrod’s death, his wife/mother had to find a way to keep this false pagan religion alive in order to keep the money coming in. And so she consulted her astrologers who told her that on December 22nd the sun is the furthest away from the earth, but on December 25th, the sun is “born again.”
This is known as “The Winter Solstice” in paganism. She was advised by the astrologers and soothsayers to become pregnant in order to carry on the pagan myth that Nimrod had been reincarnated. And so Semiramis became pregnant on March 25th (Easter/Ishtar), which is on the spring equinox in paganism. She told the Babylonian people that Nimrod was the god of the sun, and that he impregnated her, with the rays of the sun.
Exactly 9 months later on December 25th, she gave birth to a son and named him Tammuz. She told the Babylonians that Tammuz was a reincarnation of Nimrod the “sun god” born on December 25th and that she was the “goddess of the moon” or “The Queen of Heaven.” Later on in history, the Roman Catholic Church officially named “Mary/Miryam” the mother of YaHuW’shuwa (Jesus) “The Queen of Heaven” after this pagan fertility goddess.
According to this esoteric religion, Semiramis also ordered the Babylonians to go into the forest to cut down a tree and decorate it with little balls (which were meant to be Nimrod’s testicles). This was meant to commemorate Nimrod who was “cut down” like a tree. YaHuWaH hates this practice which is why he warned the children of Yisra’el through the prophet Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah) not to learn this custom from the pagans.
Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah) 10:
1 Hear you the word which YHWH speaks unto you, O house of Yisra’el:
2 Thus says YHWH, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; (astrology) for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not.
And so today, “Christ-Mass” trees are erected supposedly in the name of “Jesus,” but this practice was started long before our Messiah ever came to earth in human flesh. Did YaHuWaH change his mind now? No---he did not and he still hates this custom! That is why he said “learn NOT the ways of the heathen...”
YaHuWaH rebuked the children of Yisra’el for worshiping this Queen of Heaven who is called by various names in different cultures i.e. Venus, Isis, Diana, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Easter, Astoreth, Catholic “Mary” etc.
Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah) 7:18 “The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.”
YaHuWaH was also very angry with the children of Yisra’el for worshiping this pagan sun-god named Tammuz born each year on December 25th. The prophet Ezekiel was shown these abominations:
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 8:
13 He said also unto me, Turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations that they do.
14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of YHWH’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
15 Then said he unto me, Have you seen this, O son of man? turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of YHWH’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of YHWH, and their faces toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the east.
From there, this same Babylonian religion was carried over into other cultures under different names. In Egypt Semiramis was known as Isis, Queen of Heaven and Tammuz was known as Horus. Nimrod was also known as Seb.
The Egyptian priests placed these initials I H S of the pagan trinity (Isis, Horus & Seb) on a round wafer to commemorate the sun-god and they ate it each year on December 25th believing that the sun-god was being reincarnated in them as they ate this wafer god. They re-enacted the death of Nimrod on a “tree” on March 25th (Easter) and believed he would be reincarnated on December 25th. This re-enactment was called a “mass” or massacre.
Today, these same initials of I H S appear on the Catholic Eucharist Wafer. The Catholic Catechism teaches that the priest has the power to “pull Christ down from his throne” and crucify him again and again at each Mass. The Catholic Catechism states this concerning our Messiah:
“At each mass, he performs the function of the victim anew...”
The Catholic Trinity secretly disguises a different trinity than what most Protestant Christians believe in:
The Pope as the “Holy Father”, Jesus as the pagan sun-god (a reincarnation of Tammuz), and Mary as the Holy Spirit, hence, Isis (Mary), Horus (Jesus), Set (Pope/Father).
Interestingly, the word “Epiphanies” adds up to 666 in the Greek alphabet. Antiochus was a precursor to the final Anti-Messiah who will come before the second coming of the real Messiah Yahuwshuwa. The original name of Jesus was Yahuwshuwa, which is what his parents named him. Yahuwshuwa literally means “YaHuWaH shall save.”
When the angel Gabriel appeared to Miryam (Mary) the mother of Yahuwshuwa, he did not tell her to give him a Greek name “Jesus.” Gabriel said to name him Yahuwshuwa “for he shall save” his people.
Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Yahuwshuwa (not JESUS): for he shall save his people from their sins.
The Greeks called their supreme deity “Zeus” but when many of the Greeks began to follow the teachings of our Messiah, many of them took it upon themselves (against the commandments) to change our Messiah’s name.
Deuteronomy 12:32 tells us not to “Add nor diminish from” the words in the Hebrew Scriptures. But they changed our Messiah’s name in violation of this commandment. The Greeks began to use the first letter in Yahuwshuwa’s name, (the Yud) and then they used the name of their supreme deity Zeus next to the Hebrew letter “Yod,”and this is how they came up with the hybrid name of “Y’Zeus.”
Later on when Eusebeus was hired by Constantine in the 3rd Century to transcribe the Scriptures into Latin Vulgate, he used a corrupted manuscript called the “Greek Septuagint” and the Greek name for Joshua (which was rendered as Ieosus), was then used also in the Latin Catholic Bible. Later on in the 1500’s, the English translators invented a new letter “J” which had the “Y” sound, and so they began spelling Iesous as J’Zeus.
Deuteronomy 12:32 tells us not to “Add nor diminish from” the words in the Hebrew Scriptures. But they changed our Messiah’s name in violation of this commandment. The Greeks began to use the first letter in Yahuwshuwa’s name, (the Yud) and then they used the name of their supreme deity Zeus next to the Hebrew letter “Yod,”and this is how they came up with the hybrid name of “Y’Zeus.”
Later on when Eusebeus was hired by Constantine in the 3rd Century to transcribe the Scriptures into Latin Vulgate, he used a corrupted manuscript called the “Greek Septuagint” and the Greek name for Joshua (which was rendered as Ieosus), was then used also in the Latin Catholic Bible. Later on in the 1500’s, the English translators invented a new letter “J” which had the “Y” sound, and so they began spelling Iesous as J’Zeus.
Later manuscripts began spelling it as Jesous instead of Ieosus. We know that this is true because in the first printing of the King James Bible, the name Elisha in Luke 4:27 was rendered as EliZeus which means “God is Zeus.” Even to this day it is spelled as Eliseus, and so this is proof that the name “Jesus” comes from the name Zeus!
The Greeks & Romans changed the true name of our Messiah, Yahuwshuwa (Joshua) and to sound more like Zeus as Iesous. But as time went on in American culture, the letter “J” began to take on the pronunciation of the hard letter “G.” Hence today, the name “Jesus” is pronounced as “Geezus.” This name of a pagan deity means nothing to Hebrew speaking people living in Yisra’el. But Yahuwshuwa (Joshua) is his real name given to him by his heavenly Father.
In 164 B.C. Antiochus Epiphanies sacrificed a pig on the altar of sacrifice in the Yahuwdiy (Jewish) Temple, and he outlawed the set-apart Feasts of YaHuWaH from Leviticus 23. He also persecuted the people of Yahuwdah (the Jewish people) and forced them to worship him instead as a reincarnation of Zeus on December 25th. Those who refused to bow to this image were brutally tortured and killed right in front of their family members. This can all be documented in the Book of Maccabees.
During the days of this evil tyrant’s persecution of the Yahuwdiy (the Jews), there was a Yahuwdiy (Jewish) man by the name of Yahuwdah (Judah) Maccabees. He started a revolt with his army and they took back YaHuWaH’s temple, and then the priests cleansed and rededicated the temple back to YaHuWaH.
Even though it is not recorded in the book of Maccabees, there is a legend within Judaism which says that when the priests cleansed and re-dedicated YaHuWaH’s Temple, they only had enough olive oil to light the menorah for one day, but miraculously (they say) YaHuWaH allowed it to stay lit for 8 days. It is certainly possible that this could have happened, but since we don’t have any historical proof of this, I do not attach any myths to this holiday when I celebrate it.
When I commemorate the re-dedication of YaHuWaH’s Temple on Chanukkah, I do not use a 9-branch menorah, nor do I celebrate an 8-day miracle for which there is no proof. I instead use a 7-branch menorah after the pattern of the Torah. I do not believe that we have the authority to change the temple menorah to a 9-branch one for Chanukkah. I do not observe Hanukkah after the “traditions of men,” but only in the manner in which I believe that our Messiah would have observed it according to Torah.
When I commemorate the re-dedication of YaHuWaH’s Temple on Chanukkah, I do not use a 9-branch menorah, nor do I celebrate an 8-day miracle for which there is no proof. I instead use a 7-branch menorah after the pattern of the Torah. I do not believe that we have the authority to change the temple menorah to a 9-branch one for Chanukkah. I do not observe Hanukkah after the “traditions of men,” but only in the manner in which I believe that our Messiah would have observed it according to Torah.
In Numbers 19, the commandment for when the Temple is defiled says that the priests are to kill a perfect Red Heifer and they are to use the ashes of this Heifer as a cleansing agent mixed with water to sanctify the altar. After the altar is cleansed in this manner, they are then able to offer sacrifices to YaHuWaH. Hanukkah reminds us that our Messiah was the Red Heifer which is the only sacrifice that was done outside of the camp. Since our body is now the temple under the Renewed Covenant (1st Corinthians 6:19), this is a time to be reminded that we should present our bodies to YaHuWaH as a “living sacrifice” (Romans 12:1).
Yahuwshuwa was “zealous” for his Father’s house as he overthrew the money-changers tables (John 2:14-15). In the same way, Judah Maccabees was a prophetic “type” of our Messiah in the future when he returns as the Lion of Judah (Revelation 5:5). When Yahuwshuwa Messiah returns in Revelation 19:20, he will once again display that very same zeal when he overthrows the Anti-Messiah and the Abomination of Desolation in the 3rd Jewish Temple (2nd Thessalonians 2:4-8).
This is why our Messiah was seen in the Temple on “The Feast of Dedication” (Hanukkah). Nothing is recorded in the scriptures by accident or by “happenstance.” Yahuwshuwa’s presence in the Temple on Hanukkah in John 4:22 was a foreshadowing of future events to come. It is not a mandatory holiday according to Torah, but we can gain much prophetic insight from this historic event and there is nothing pagan or sinful for those of us who want to commemorate those who lost their lives for their love of YaHuWaH and his Torah.
The Hebrew for word “dedication” is Hanukkah, and it reminds us of an important time in the history of the Tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah) because many of them “loved not their lives even unto death” (Revelation 12:11). They were martyred for their obedience to the commandments of YaHuWaH in the same way that the end time believers in Yahuwshuwa Messiah will be martyred by the Anti-Messiah.
Yahuwshuwa was “zealous” for his Father’s house as he overthrew the money-changers tables (John 2:14-15). In the same way, Judah Maccabees was a prophetic “type” of our Messiah in the future when he returns as the Lion of Judah (Revelation 5:5). When Yahuwshuwa Messiah returns in Revelation 19:20, he will once again display that very same zeal when he overthrows the Anti-Messiah and the Abomination of Desolation in the 3rd Jewish Temple (2nd Thessalonians 2:4-8).
This is why our Messiah was seen in the Temple on “The Feast of Dedication” (Hanukkah). Nothing is recorded in the scriptures by accident or by “happenstance.” Yahuwshuwa’s presence in the Temple on Hanukkah in John 4:22 was a foreshadowing of future events to come. It is not a mandatory holiday according to Torah, but we can gain much prophetic insight from this historic event and there is nothing pagan or sinful for those of us who want to commemorate those who lost their lives for their love of YaHuWaH and his Torah.
The Hebrew for word “dedication” is Hanukkah, and it reminds us of an important time in the history of the Tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah) because many of them “loved not their lives even unto death” (Revelation 12:11). They were martyred for their obedience to the commandments of YaHuWaH in the same way that the end time believers in Yahuwshuwa Messiah will be martyred by the Anti-Messiah.
The number “eight” in biblical prophecy symbolizes “New Beginnings,” and this number signifies “Dedication” because on the 8th day, an Yisra’elite baby boy is dedicated in the temple and circumcised.
About 160 years after the Maccabean Revolt, Miryam (Mary) conceived Yahuwshuwa on Hanukkah in 4 B.C. on December 13th. This can be calculated precisely through scripture by knowing the date of his cousin Yahuwcanon (John) the Immerser’s birth from Luke chapter 1. John the Baptist’s father Zechariah was a priest in the temple and from the division of Abiyahuw (Abijah). In the book of 2nd Chronicles, we find out that King David divided up the priesthood into 24 courses annually.
There were 24 priests and each one would serve for 2 weeks throughout the year. Zechariah, being of the division of Abiyahuw, would serve in the Hebrew Calendar month of Sivan (June on our calendar). Zechariah went home to his wife Elizabeth and she conceived immediately following his temple duty according to the words of Gabriel.
There were 24 priests and each one would serve for 2 weeks throughout the year. Zechariah, being of the division of Abiyahuw, would serve in the Hebrew Calendar month of Sivan (June on our calendar). Zechariah went home to his wife Elizabeth and she conceived immediately following his temple duty according to the words of Gabriel.
Counting forward 271 days for a normal gestation, John the Baptist was born on Passover. Luke 1 tells us that Miryam (Mary) conceived Yahuwshuwa in the 6th month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy. And so we can count 180 days forward from Passover that year in 3 B.C. and Yahuwshuwa was then born on September 11th in 3 B.C. on the Feast called “Yom Teruah” or “Day of Trumpets.” A book entitled “The Star That Astonished the World” by Dr. Ernest L. Martin shows that the planetary alignment which occurred that year when Yahuwshuwa was born was from Chazown (Revelation) 12:
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered…
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto Elohiym, and to his throne.
On no other day except on September 11th in 3 B.C. do we see this planetary alignment taking place. On this day and never before this date nor ever again after, has this constellation been seen. It was “Virgo” the virgin” or “Bethulah” (in Hebrew), and she had 12 stars around her head (for the twelve tribes of Yisra’el), and the moon was under her feet. The sun was “mid-body” and so she was “clothed with the sun” and she was giving birth to “Ariel” the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
This happened at no other time in history, (except on this date), which is a set-apart day YaHuWaH already commands Yisra’el to “keep forever.” Yom Teruah is a “memorial of blowing trumpets” and YaHuWaH was “announcing” the arrival of his son into the world with trumpets and shouting! Eight days later, his parents circumcised Yahuwshuwa in the temple just in time for Yom Kippur (the veil of his foreskin being removed and the blood of the lamb released). And then 5 days later was the Feast of Tabernacles called “Sukkoth” where Miryam & Yahuwceph (Joseph) would have done what every other Yisra’elite family would have done which is to “dwell in a sukkah.” The Hebrew word for “tabernacle” is “sukkah” which means a stable or a manger.
This happened at no other time in history, (except on this date), which is a set-apart day YaHuWaH already commands Yisra’el to “keep forever.” Yom Teruah is a “memorial of blowing trumpets” and YaHuWaH was “announcing” the arrival of his son into the world with trumpets and shouting! Eight days later, his parents circumcised Yahuwshuwa in the temple just in time for Yom Kippur (the veil of his foreskin being removed and the blood of the lamb released). And then 5 days later was the Feast of Tabernacles called “Sukkoth” where Miryam & Yahuwceph (Joseph) would have done what every other Yisra’elite family would have done which is to “dwell in a sukkah.” The Hebrew word for “tabernacle” is “sukkah” which means a stable or a manger.
By counting 271 days backwards from Yom Teruah on September 11th in 3 B.C., we come to the exact date of Hanukkah in 4 B.C. This means that the incarnation of Yahuwshuwa Messiah took place on Hanukkah! His body will be the temple in the New Yerushalayim (Revelation 21:22), and so it is very significant that his incarnation would take place on the same day as the rededication of his Father’s temple! YaHuWaH was re-dedicating the true temple (our Messiah) when he placed the “seed” of his son in the womb of Miryam on Hanukkah!
We can see a prophetic statement being made here when Yahuwshuwa declared that he would raise up this temple (his body) “after three days” (John 2:20). Not only was he in the grave for a literal “three days and three nights” (Matthew 12:40), but this pertains to 3,000 years from his crucifixion. After the 1,000 year Millennial Reign of Messiah, he will raise up the true temple which is himself!
2nd Keefa (Peter) 3:8 tells us that “One day is like a thousand years to YaHuWaH,” and so this prophecy of his body being raised up after three days actually began to be fulfilled when he was being conceived in his mother’s womb on Hanukkah!
The prophet Haggai was being shown this event also that would take place “On the 24th day of the 9th month” (Kislev) on the Hebrew Calendar, which is Hanukkah. The “seed” would begin to be “in the barn” (Miryam’s womb) and from that moment, YaHuWaH would begin to restore his Kingdom by overthrowing pagan sun-god worship:
Haggai 2:
18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month (Hanukkah), even from the day that the foundation of YHWH’s temple was laid, consider it.
19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, has not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
20 And again the word of YHWH came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Yahuwdah (Judah), saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.
Aha! Now we see why Hanukkah was important to Yahuwshuwa, because it celebrates his conception and the future day when he will be the Temple in the New Yerushalayim!
Yahuwchanon (John) 10:22-23 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of dedication, (Hanukkah) and it was winter. And Yahuwshuwa walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.
This is why Constantine put into law “The Edict of Milan” where he declared that all Yahuwdiym (Jews) were to be disowned from the faith of our Messiah, and all Torah commandments were to be replaced with pagan customs from Babylon. Messianic Jewish believers in Yahuwshuwa were executed for their obedience to Torah just like in the days of Antiochus 490 years earlier. Constantine did not remove the pagan statues from the pagan temples but instead he gave them “Christian” names. He named Venus “Mary” and he named Sol the pagan sun-god “Jesus.”
He wrote:
“…The Jews are dogs and the Christians should have nothing to do with the Jews…God has shown us a better way…”
He outlawed Passover and enforced “Easter” in its place for the Babylonian goddess Ishtar/Semramis. He also outlawed Sabbath and enforced a day of worship to Mithra aka “Jesus” on Sunday for the sun-god instead. He had Messianic believers killed who kept these Feasts of YaHuWaH from Leviticus 23 that were also kept by the Yahuwdiy (Jewish) Apostles and our Messiah.
In the 5th Century, the Catholic Church officially made “Christ Mass” on December 25th the official date for celebrating “the birth of Christ” because of Constantine’s original decree and influence. Constantine was the first Pope historically giving himself the title “Summus Pontifex Maximus” which is still to this day the official title of a Pope. The word “pope” means “father” in Latin and Yahuwshuwa commanded in Matthew 23:9 “...call no man upon the earth your father, for there is one who is your father...”
So where does the term “Christ Mass” have its origin? The Catholic Mass is a Massacre of Christ where he is being crucified all over again according to Catholic dogma.
When people say “Merry Christ Mass” they are saying “Let’s be Merry about crucifying our Messiah afresh...”
But Hebrews 6 tells us “seeing they crucify to themselves the son of Elohiym afresh and put him to an open shame...”
If we say “Merry Christ Mass” we are saying that we are merry about putting Yahuwshuwa Messiah to an open shame!
Why Does Satan Like December 25th for the Birth of Messiah?
All of the false pagan “Christ’s” that we just learned about are supposedly reincarnations of the “Universal Christ” for all religions. In essence, this is “Gnosticism”---the false doctrine that teaches that “Yahuwshuwa Messiah did not come in the flesh.” Gnosticism teaches that he was merely a reincarnation of all the other pagan gods who came before him on December 25th. This is how Satan has been preparing the whole world to accept the Anti-Messiah. He has been gradually changing the truth into a lie so that even the “elect” could be deceived.
Why do the pagans want to associate the real Yahuwshuwa Messiah with the date of December 25th? The answer is quite simple.
Capricorn is Capricornus a Latin compound of “goat-head.” “Capra” means head in Latin while “cornus” means horn. The original Greek Aegocerus means “goat-horned.”
Why does the Catholic Church believe he must be crucified afresh? Because they teach that our Messiah did not inherit a mortal body like us, and that he did not crucify the sinful body on the tree (cross). Even though our Messiah was not a sinner, his mortal body was a “representation” of sinful man. That is why Romans 8:3 says that Yahuwshuwa “came in the likeness of sinful flesh...” so that he could destroy sin in the flesh once and for all!
Romiym (Romans) 6:10 “For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he lives, he lives unto Elohiym.”
Catholicism teaches that “Jesus inherited a sinless divine nature from Mary,” (his mother) and they teach that she was born without original sin. This is what is called the “Immaculate Conception.” Most Protestants think this has to do with the virgin birth of our Messiah, but it does not. The Immaculate Conception is about Mary’s birth supposedly without original sin. And of course this is total blasphemy and a lie.
Miryam (Mary), although she was a set-apart (holy) woman of YaHuWaH, she was born with a sinful nature like everyone else and she herself acknowledged her need for Yahuwshuwa to save her.
And so this is why the Catholic Mass is so blasphemous, and why we as believers should have nothing to do with saying “Merry Christ Mass.”
1st John 4:3 in the King James Version (other versions deleted this verse) gives us a litmus test for how to “try the spirits” to see whether or not they are from Yah. It says that “every spirit” which denies or “confesses not” that “Yahuwshuwa Messiah is come in the flesh” (with a mortal body subject to temptations) is from the Anti-Messiah.
What does this mean “come in the flesh?” The Greek word for “flesh” in this verse is “sarx” which means “having a sensual nature.” This means that Yahuwshuwa had a corruptible nature physically but not spiritually. This means that he was “tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15). The fact that he “is come in the flesh” means that he while he was not a sinner, nor did he possess a sinful or a “fallen nature” he possessed a nature that was “like” ours in the sense that he could be tempted.
His nature was like Adam & Eve before their fall in the garden, therefore, he had a human nature, but not a fallen nature. His blood came from his Heavenly Father, but his corruptible (mortal) body came from his mother. Yahuwshuwa had to possess both natures in order to be the anointed Savior. He had to have a mortal body subject to temptations and passions like us, yet without having a fallen nature.
His nature was like Adam & Eve before their fall in the garden, therefore, he had a human nature, but not a fallen nature. His blood came from his Heavenly Father, but his corruptible (mortal) body came from his mother. Yahuwshuwa had to possess both natures in order to be the anointed Savior. He had to have a mortal body subject to temptations and passions like us, yet without having a fallen nature.
He had to possess a human nature like us (physically) so that he could put to death “The body of sins in the flesh” (Colossians 2:11, 1st Peter 2:24, Romans 6:6). This does not mean that sin reigned in his body, during his earthly life. It simply means that his body “became sin” when he hung on the tree. In other words, the sins of the world were laid upon him.
This Catholic Doctrine which says that Miryam (Mary) was born without original sin and that “Jesus” did not possess a sensual nature (subject to temptations) either because of her is from the Anti-Messiah! Yahuwshuwa had to possess a sensual nature in order to destroy the weakness of human nature once and for all.
And so the Catholic Mass is Antichrist doctrine which denies that Yahuwshuwa (Jesus) destroyed the “body of sins in the flesh” once and for all!
This is why the Catholic Catechism declares: “…He must perform the function of the victim anew at every Mass...”
Now we see how Anti-Christ Christ Mass really is!
If Yahuwshuwa (who many call Jesus) is supposedly another reincarnation of all the false pagan Messiah’s born on December 25th that have come up through the centuries i.e. Nimrod, Tammuz, Apollo, Zeus, Bacchus, Krishna, etc. then “he is not come in the flesh.” In other words this teaching insinuates that “the Christ” is a consciousness rather than a person! Yahuwshuwa is the Messiah fully in the flesh! The Catholic Mass denies this by teaching that he must be crucified over and over again at each Mass.
Christendom at its very roots has borrowed much of its beliefs from the ancient Babylonian religion of Nimrod and Semiramis.
This is why Yahuwshuwa warned us in Revelation 18 concerning MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS:
Chazown (Revelation) 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
In the 1500’s many people obeyed his voice and they did just what our Messiah commanded. They left Roman Catholicism and thus began the biggest revival in European history. We call this the “Protestant Reformation.” Protestant Churches at that time preached against Christ Mass and Easter, and even the Puritans that came over on the Mayflower wanted nothing to do with these pagan days.
It was official church doctrine in the Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches as well as other Protestant denominations not to observe these Catholic pagan days known as Christ Mass and Easter. In fact, it was against the law to own a Christ Mass tree in the 1600’s in America!
Only in the past 100 years in America, have these pagan days become popular once again in the Protestant churches. Why? The Apostle Sha’ul prophesied that these last days would be eclipsed by a departure from the truth:
1st Timotiyos (Timothy) 4:1 “Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.”
As we approach the second coming of Yahuwshuwa ha’Mashiyach, Scripture tells us that many shall depart from the faith of the Yahuwdiym (Jewish) Apostles and give heed to doctrines of devils.
Many Jews believe that “Jesus” was a false pagan Messiah because Christianity has propagated lies about his birth and crucifixion. Because the entire world has been told that he was born on December 25th (the same day that Antiochus Epiphanies forced Jews to worship Zeus), this is one of the biggest reasons why Jews see him as a false Messiah! Christianity celebrates his resurrection on “Easter” which comes one month earlier before Passover on the solar pagan calendar.
They view this as a big joke because Christians claim that “Jesus” is their “Passover Lamb” yet they celebrate his resurrection one month before Passover according to the corrupted Calendar of the Roman Papacy. It is no wonder why Yahuwdiy (Jews) have a hard time accepting Yahuwshuwa as the Messiah, with all of the confusing mixture of Babylonian sun-god worship which has been adopted and practiced within Christendom. These practices and man-made doctrines only serve to distort prophecy.
They view this as a big joke because Christians claim that “Jesus” is their “Passover Lamb” yet they celebrate his resurrection one month before Passover according to the corrupted Calendar of the Roman Papacy. It is no wonder why Yahuwdiy (Jews) have a hard time accepting Yahuwshuwa as the Messiah, with all of the confusing mixture of Babylonian sun-god worship which has been adopted and practiced within Christendom. These practices and man-made doctrines only serve to distort prophecy.
Yahuwdiy (Jews) see December 25th as a day when they were being persecuted for worshiping the one true YaHuWaH Elohiym, and they were forced to worship a false Messiah named “Zeus” on December 25th.
Yahuwshuwa made a very bold statement to the Samaritan woman at the well:
Yahuwchanon (John) 4:22 “You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Yahuwdiy (Jews).”
The Tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah) have been entrusted with the “oracles of Elohiym” (Romans 3:2) and they have been chosen to hold the “scepter” (authority to rule over the other tribes). And Yahuwdah (Judah) is the tribe from where all of the Kings came and the tribe who were called to be the “lawgivers.” This of course, does not mean that Rabbinic Judaism is correct in adding “traditions of men” from the Talmud.
They are wrong in adding or subtracting from the Torah, in the same way that Christianity has done the same thing. But the House of Yahuwdah (Jews) already know that YaHuWaH would never allow the Messiah to be born on a pagan sun-god day. Any Jew knows that when Messiah comes he will be born on a Holy day of YaHuWaH from Leviticus 23. YaHuWaH already commanded all of Yisra’el by saying “You shall observe these throughout all your generations…forever…” This means the Holy Feast days of YaHuWaH were never meant to go away with the New Covenant.
They are wrong in adding or subtracting from the Torah, in the same way that Christianity has done the same thing. But the House of Yahuwdah (Jews) already know that YaHuWaH would never allow the Messiah to be born on a pagan sun-god day. Any Jew knows that when Messiah comes he will be born on a Holy day of YaHuWaH from Leviticus 23. YaHuWaH already commanded all of Yisra’el by saying “You shall observe these throughout all your generations…forever…” This means the Holy Feast days of YaHuWaH were never meant to go away with the New Covenant.
We can unveil the true Messiah from the House of Yahuwdah by telling the truth that Yahuwshuwa was born on a Holy Day of YaHuWaH and not on a man-made pagan sun-god day.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
This verse is often used out of context to justify keeping pagan days, but it is saying just the opposite. We are not to judge those who want to keep the feasts of YaHuWaH from Leviticus 23 that are called “holy” and we are not to allow these pagan Gnostics to judge us for wanting to keep the Holy Days of YaHuWaH. The only difference in the way that we keep them now, is that we don’t have to sacrifice animals any longer under the new administration of grace.
The sacrificial system has been temporarily set aside until Messiah returns to set up his Millennial Kingdom. When the Jewish Sanhedrin resumes the sacrificial system in the 3rd Jewish temple, the Anti-Messiah will commit an act of Lawlessness by “taking away the daily sacrifices” (Daniel 12:11), and this will be the sign that he is the False Messiah! When the true Messiah of Yisra’el returns to earth, he himself will be our High Priest who will offer up sacrifices as a Memorial of himself (see Ezekiel 44-48).
The sacrificial system has been temporarily set aside until Messiah returns to set up his Millennial Kingdom. When the Jewish Sanhedrin resumes the sacrificial system in the 3rd Jewish temple, the Anti-Messiah will commit an act of Lawlessness by “taking away the daily sacrifices” (Daniel 12:11), and this will be the sign that he is the False Messiah! When the true Messiah of Yisra’el returns to earth, he himself will be our High Priest who will offer up sacrifices as a Memorial of himself (see Ezekiel 44-48).
Every believer in Yahuwshuwa is now under the royal priesthood of Melchizedek (1st Kefa/Peter 2:9), and so we do not have to celebrate these feasts with animal sacrifices when there is no temple in place in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem). We can be led by the Holy Spirit in how we keep these holy days. This verse is in no way condoning keeping pagan days, because Yah never called them holy.
Only when we start associating Yahuwshuwa (Jesus) with the Holy Days of YaHuWaH, will the Jewish people begin to recognize him as the true Messiah of Yisra’el. The Tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah) or the “Jewish” people are very important to our Father, because he wants us to preach the gospel to them first! (Romans 1:16). How are we going to preach the true Besorah (gospel) or good news to them when it is filled with lies of paganism? It is a small sacrifice for us as believers to give up man-made traditions in order to win them back to the covenant:
Romiym (Romans) 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the besorah (gospel) of Messiah: for it is the power of Elohiym unto salvation to everyone that believes; to the Yahuwdiy (Jew) first, and also to the Greek.
Remember what our Messiah told us:
Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 15:6 Thus have you made the commandment of Elohiym of none effect by your tradition.
If we want the commandments of YaHuWaH to once again be effective in our lives, we must abandon the “traditions of men.”
The true Spirit of Eliyahuw (Elijah) will always be preceded by the preaching of the Torah (Law of Moses) according to Malachi 4:4-5. Christians often speak of the “Spirit of Elijah” coming in these last days, but few of them realize that before the true anointing of Elijah can come, we must tear down Jezebel’s false pagan customs which distort the image of our Messiah and turns him into a Greco-Roman pagan deity named or “J’Zeus” or Ba’al. The spirit of Eliyahuw (Elijah) will come when the LAW OF MOSHEH (Torah) is once again REMEMBERED!
Mal’akiy (Malachi) 4:
4 Remember you the Torah (Law) of Mosheh my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Yisra’el, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Eliyahuw (Elijah) the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of YHWH:
The Law of Moses has not been “done away with” (Matthew 5:17-19), but rather it has been transferred from stone into “fleshy tables of the heart” (2nd Corinthians 3:3). Under the renewed marriage covenant, these same laws given to us in stone through Moses are given to every believer since the Day of Shabuoth (Pentecost). Since that time, the commandments were written upon the minds and hearts of every follower of Messiah (Jeremiah 31:31-33, Hebrews 8:10, 10:16).
1.) He repaired the broken down altar. This means that he re-established true biblical worship not patterned after Ba’al or sun-god worship, but after the commandments.
2.) He set up 12 stones after the 12 tribes “from whom the word of Yah came.” This means that he re-established the plum line of the Torah (Law).
3.) He watered the sacrifice “three times” with “four barrels.” This symbolizes three major outpourings of the Holy Spirit in history. The number four symbolizes the “four corners” of the earth or “harvest.” This means that the pattern for true revival will always be preceded by the “washing of water by the word” (Ephesians 5:26).
In other words, there will be a return to the scriptures as the plum line and not merely “manifestations.” This means the baptism of repentance (water/word) must precede the baptism in fire (power).
The true fire of the Holy Spirit will consume the body of believers only when these steps are followed. We cannot by-pass the sacrifice of Messiah on the tree (cross) through repentance. We cannot skip over these steps and run towards the “fire” or we will end up with “strange fire” which is a counterfeit spirit.
What is the Testimony of Yahuwshuwa?
Many of us have read this well-known prophecy in Revelation 19:10 “The testimony of Yahuwshuwa is the spirit of prophecy,” yet many have wondered what this means.
In Revelation 12:17, the dragon will make war with the remnant of Yisra’el’s seed that “Keep the commandments” and “Have the testimony of Yahuwshuwa Messiah.” What does it mean to “have” the testimony of our Messiah?
In Revelation 22:14 we are told that only those who “Do his commandments,” will have the right to eat from the tree of life, and they may enter into the gate of the New Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).
Therefore, having the testimony of our Messiah must be connected to keeping his commandments. Yet, most Christians seem to think that the only commandments we are required to keep are the “The two greatest commandments” (Matthew 22:36-40).
In Revelation 22:14 we are told that only those who “Do his commandments,” will have the right to eat from the tree of life, and they may enter into the gate of the New Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).
Therefore, having the testimony of our Messiah must be connected to keeping his commandments. Yet, most Christians seem to think that the only commandments we are required to keep are the “The two greatest commandments” (Matthew 22:36-40).
What most Christians fail to realize is that these two greatest commandments are found the Mosaic Law (Torah). The greatest of these two commandments tell us to “Love YaHuWaH your Elohiym with all of your heart, and with all of your soul, and with all of your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5). The second greatest commandment is found in Leviticus 19:18 “...You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
If we are commanded to love our Creator first and foremost, what does that look like? How do we demonstrate our love for him?
If we are commanded to love our Creator first and foremost, what does that look like? How do we demonstrate our love for him?
Yahuwchanon (John) 14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
Yahuwchanon (John) 14:21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Yahuwchanon (John) 14:21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Did you catch this? In John 14:21, our Messiah said “He that HAS my commandments, and KEEPS them, he it is that loves me!” If the two greatest commandments were originally found in the Torah, (and our Messiah was quoting the Mosaic Law when he cited them), this means that those who HAVE & KEEP his commandments are those who obey the Mosaic Law (Torah)!
If this is the case, don’t you want to know what “The Testimony of Yahuwshuwa” is? Don’t you want to find out what all of this means, so that you may be able to “Do the commandments?”
If this is the case, don’t you want to know what “The Testimony of Yahuwshuwa” is? Don’t you want to find out what all of this means, so that you may be able to “Do the commandments?”
And what exactly is our Messiah’s testimony?
In the same way that Ya’aqob (Jacob) fulfilled TWO PERIODS OF SEVEN YEARS FOR BOTH BRIDES, our Messiah fulfilled ALL SEVEN FEASTS at his first coming, and he will fulfill ALL SEVEN FEASTS AGAIN at his second coming!
*Note: the Hebrew word for “feast” (mowed) literally means “One Year” (one cycle of feasts). Seven years equals seven mowediym (festivals) or feasts!
Two Sets of Seven Feasts for each bride (typified in Leah & Rachel), as they will become only ONE BRIDE!
1.) Passover (Pesach): The death of Yahuwshuwa Messiah on the tree as our Passover Lamb.
2.) Feast of Unleavened Bread (Chag Matzah): The burial of Yahuwshuwa Messiah.
3.) First Fruits (Yom ha’Bikkurim): Yahuwshuwa’s resurrection day. He went into the lowest parts of the earth and redeemed those in Abraham’s Bosom (Luke 16:24); He then ascended back to the Father and presented his redeemed as “The first fruits” (Ephesians 4:8-9; 1st Corinthians 15:20-23; James 1:18; Revelation 14:4).
4.) Feast of Weeks (Shabuot/Pentecost): Yahuwshuwa immersed (baptized) his followers with fire and the Ruwach ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit) as promised; He also wrote the Towrah (Law) in our hearts and minds as a sign of the Renewed Marriage Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31; Hebrews 8:10; 10:16).
5.) Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah): Yahuwshuwa’s date of birth, sundown Tishri 1, going into Tishri 2, the constellation of the “Virgin” pregnant with “The Sun of Righteousness” (Malachi 4:2) and giving birth to “Ariel the Lion” (The Lion of Judah, Revelation 5:5).
The planet Jupiter is also “The King of Righteousness” in ancient Hebrew. The first sliver of the new moon was seen underneath her feet (Revelation 12:1-2); Messiah’s future seven-day honeymoon in the chuppah with his resurrected bride (following the pattern of Jacob & Leah in Genesis 29:27-28). John 1:1 gives us a hint that he was born on the civil New Year “Rosh Ha’Shanah” (in the beginning).
6.) Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur): Yahuwshuwa’s circumcision in the Temple 8 days after his birth from Tishri 2; His blood was “sprinkled” in the Temple as a foreshadow of his future sacrifice; The beginning of Yahuwshuwa’s ministry in Luke 4:18-21, as he announced in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur that he had fulfilled Yeshayahuw (Isaiah) 61 as “The anointed one” who was to come (Mashiyach).
He proclaimed “The Acceptable Year YaHuWaH” which only the High Priest could do (Numbers 10:8), thus revealing himself as Melchizedek (King of Righteousness). The House of Judah (the bride that typifies Rachel) will be restored and married again (like Jacob & Rachel) on that day (Zechariah 12:10).
He proclaimed “The Acceptable Year YaHuWaH” which only the High Priest could do (Numbers 10:8), thus revealing himself as Melchizedek (King of Righteousness). The House of Judah (the bride that typifies Rachel) will be restored and married again (like Jacob & Rachel) on that day (Zechariah 12:10).
The “two brides” (typified in Rachel & Leah) will become “one bride, one stick, one house” (Ezekiel 37:16; Leviticus 16:18-19). On that future Yom Kippur, the High Priest will mingle the blood of “both bull and goat” (two animals typified in Leah & Rachel), as they will be made one. The resurrected bride will fight a 5-day war with Messiah (Revelation 19:8 & 14).
7.) Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot): Yahuwshuwa “dwelled among us” (John 1:14), as a two-week old infant; The word “dwelt” is the Greek word “skenoo,” equivalent to the Hebrew word for “Sukkah.”
The 8th day of the Feast (the last great day) pictures the future 8th Millennium when “The new heaven & earth” come down, and “YaHuWaH Almighty & the Lamb shall be the Temple” (Revelation 21:1-22).
The future restored bride (both houses of Yisrael as one bride) will go into “The Marriage Supper of the Lamb” on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot (Revelation 19:7-9); the final 8th day (8th Millennium) pictures the bride becoming the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:2).
8.) Weekly Sabbath (Shabbat): Yahuwshuwa resurrected on the 7th day of the week (Saturday night at sundown, just before the first day of the week began). This amounted to “Three days and three nights” after his Passover crucifixion on the 4th day of the week (what we call Wednesday).
8.) Weekly Sabbath (Shabbat): Yahuwshuwa resurrected on the 7th day of the week (Saturday night at sundown, just before the first day of the week began). This amounted to “Three days and three nights” after his Passover crucifixion on the 4th day of the week (what we call Wednesday).
Yahuwshuwa will fulfill the Sabbath Millennium 7,000 years from creation as 1,000 years of rest from the devil (Revelation 20:7). The bride of Messiah will become the New Jerusalem, on “The Last Great Day” as our Messiah said “I will raise him up at the last day” (John 3:39, 40, 44, 54), which will be the 7th day going into the 8th day. 2nd Peter 3:8 says “One day is like a thousand years with YaHuWaH.”
The Sabbaths & Feast Days Are a Sign of Our Covenant with YaHuWaH
As Renewed Covenant believers who are born again by the Set-Apart (Holy) Spirit and washed in the blood of the lamb, we are now grafted into the Olive Tree (Yisra’el) according to Romans 11, and we are “part of the commonwealth of Yisra’el” (Ephesians 2:12). And because we are New Covenant Yisra’el, we are still commanded to keep his “Sabbaths” (Feasts) as a “sign” between us and him forever. This is what sanctifies us and sets us apart from the other pagan religions of the world:
Shemoth (Exodus) 31:13 Speak you also unto the children of Yisra’el, saying, Verily my sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am YHWH that does sanctify you (set you apart).
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them;Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, that they might know that I am YHWH that sanctifies them (sets them apart).
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am YHWH your Elohiym.
Why should we abandon the pagan feasts of Nimrod made to appear “Christian?”
1.) Because they are an abomination to YaHuWaH, and he hates them.
2.) Because they defile us and keep us in deception.
3.) Because they point to another Christ, and not the true Messiah of Yisra’el.
4.) Because the Anti-Messiah will mark his own children with a “sign” which are the feasts ordained by the Roman Papacy.
Why should we keep the Feasts of YaHuWaH?
1.) They are a sign between us and him forever.
2.) They declare the testimony of Yahuwshuwa (Jesus).
3.) They are called “holy convocations” (rehearsals) of prophetic future events and a memorial of things he has done for us in the past.
YaHuWaH has given us a “sign” of his covenant forever and they are his appointed feasts and Sabbaths. These are what separate us and sanctify us from the other counterfeit religions.
Wow! so revealing. this teaching needs to be heard in all parts of the word
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DeleteHow will Yeshua fulfill the 7 feasts at His second coming? Specifically, the 4 spring feasts?
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