Title: MESSIAH
1MESSIAH
2also known as The Feast of Dedicationor
Festival of Lights
3-
- And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the
dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked
in the temple in Solomon's porch. - John 1022-23
4Yahushua vs. Jesus
-
- Remembering that He was born a Jew, at a time
when there existed great animosity between Greeks
and Jews, we must then realize the name Jesus
was not known to Him, His family or followers.
The name Jesus did not appear until 1500 years
after His death, resurrection and ascension, when
man dared to rename our Almighty Saviour after a
pagan deity.
5 This then is the message which we have
heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is
Light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we
say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in
darkness, we lie, and are not doing the truth.
But if we walk in the light as He is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another, and
the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
from all sin. 1 John 15-7
6Elohim vs. God
- The word god is from the name Gawd or Gott
both with the same pronunciation. But this, in
both cases is the name of a pagan deity. If you
have trouble with Hebrew words you can just say
Mighty One. - Why the aversion to using pagan names to
address the Most High Eternal Creator? - Moses warned us with And in all that I
have said to you take heed. And make no mention
of the name of other mighty ones, let it not be
heard from your mouth. Exodus 2313 - Why? It is the breaking of the 1st Commandment.
- Elohim is Mighty Ones, Father and Son The
singular is Eloi.
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- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the
beginning with God. All came to be through Him
and without Him not even one came to be that came
to be. In Him was life and the life was the
LIGHT of men. And the LIGHT shines in darkness,
and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a
man sent from God, whose name was John. This one
came for a witness, to bear witness of the LIGHT,
that all might believe through him. He was not
that LIGHT, but was sent to bear witness of that
LIGHT. That was the true LIGHT, which LIGHTeth
every man that cometh into the world. - John 11-9
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- I am the light of the world.
John 95 -
- And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will
draw all men unto Me. - John 1232
9ICONS
- If there is an icon for our Beloved Saviour
it is the menorah, as He is the - LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Can we know His conception and birth dates? Is
December 25th correct? In Biblical terms ones
age begins, not from the actual date of birth,
but from the year of conception.
10- Everything our Heavenly Father sought to
blessed us with, satan has manufactured a
counterfeit, a forgery. - But as with everything that is fake the
enemys counterfeit holidays hold no meaning, are
an abomination in the eyes of Yahuah Elohim and
are destructive to His people.
11SATAN COUNTERFEITS
- Everything our Heavenly Father has given was
given to bless His people. Each letter of His
alphabet contains not only a message in and of
itself but also numbers and the music scale. Much
has been forgotten because the language of heaven
was rejected. Just as His language and Name was
rejected so were His divine appointments, which
when studied reveal His great plan of Redemption.
12 Gestation and His Holy Appointments
- On the fourteenth day of the first month,
the egg appears as seen in the custom of the
roasted egg on the Jewish table every Passover.
The egg must be fertilized within 24 hours, or it
will pass on Feast of Unleavened Bread and the
seed or grain that "fell into the ground and
died" in order to produce a harvest, the
Firstfruits of which was presented to Elohim.
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- Within two to six days, the fertilized egg
attaches itself to the wall of the womb and
begins to grow. Feast of Firstfruits is observed
anywhere from two to six days after Passover and
celebrates the first harvest of those
resurrected.
14- Around the fiftieth day, the embryo takes on
the form of a human being. Until then, we dont
know if we have a duck or a tadpole. Thats
Pentecost! When the Holy Spirit empowered the
believers.
15- On the first day of the seventh month, the
babys hearing is developed. For the first time,
it can hear and distinguish sounds outside the
womb. - Festival of Trumpets, the loud cry and final
warning.
16- On the tenth day of the seventh month, the
hemoglobin of the blood changes from that of the
mother, to a self-sustaining baby. Day of
Atonement, when the sacrificial blood was
sprinkled on the mercy seat, as His blood did at
His crucification.
17- On the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
the lungs become fully developed. If born before
then, the baby would have a hard time breathing.
Festival of Tabernacles also called Feast of
Ingathering, a time of celebrating the temple,
which represents Messiah and without Him we
hardly survive, and the Ingathering of His people
to go home with Him, where He will Tabernacle
with us forever.
18- Birth takes place on the tenth day of the
ninth month. Eight days after birth, in Jewish
families, a son is circumcised. the eight days
of Chanukah are celebrated right on schedule,
nine months and ten days after Passover.
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- The establishment of the Holy Days was given
to Moses by YHWH, Himself. Its correlation with
the human gestation period is not only
remarkable it proves "Intelligent Design." - It proves the existence of an intelligence
beyond this world. It proves that there is a
Creator Elohim that guides the affairs of man.
20The Feast of Tabernacles is a most important
commemoration.
- Like
- Thanksgiving,
- Chanukah is a free
- choice celebration observed
- to honor the Creator. It is not
- one of His divine appointments.
21 How Does Chanukah Fit in, then, with Messiah's
Conception and Birth?
22 1st Consideration
The Conception of John the
Baptist Luke 15-25
23When the angel, Gabriel, appeared to Zacharias as
he was ministering in the Temple, it was during
the ministration of Abia. This Abia order of
priests ministered in the Temple the eighth week
of the Hebrew year according to the ordinance of
1 Chronicles 2410. The eighth week transverses
the last week of the second Hebrew month and the
first week of the third Hebrew month, which
culminates at Shavuot (Pentecost).
24This is the anchor point for discovering the
exact time of Messiahs birth. The angel promised
Zacharias that his prayer had been answered, and
when he went home to his wife Elizabeth she
conceived. This puts the conception of John the
Baptist very near the time of Shavuot, the Feast
of Pentecost, in the second week of the third
Hebrew month.
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- 2nd consideration
- The Conception of Yahushua
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- Luke 126-55
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- At the close of the sixth month of
Elizabeth' s pregnancy the angel Gabriel appeared
to Mary. Gabriel told Mary about Elizabeth,
saying "she who was called barren is six months
pregnant," This would be the last of the ninth
Hebrew month at the time of Chanukah. There are
27 weeks between the end of the discourse of Abia
and the start of Chanukah (Festival of
Dedication), which is celebrated eight days.
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- Mary accepts the word of the angel
concerning the conception of Messiah in her, and
she immediately rushes from Nazareth to the home
of Elizabeth and Zacharias in the Judean
mountains close to Jerusalem, about a three days
journey from Nazareth. Mary was probably going
there to celebrate Chanukah and to help Elizabeth
with her pregnancy, as well as to talk to
Elizabeth about the angel's visitation.
28- Upon Mary's greeting to Elizabeth, Elizabeth
responds to Mary, calling her "the mother of my
Almighty One". This demonstrates that Mary was
already pregnant with Yahushua. Thus, Messiah
Yahushua was conceived at Chanukah, the Festival
of Lights, for He is the Light of the World.
29-
- Sometimes the time of Chanukah falls close to
Christmas. The apostate Roman church of medieval
times combined the pagan winter solstice in late
December with the 25th of Kislev (Chanukah) to
create Christmas on Dec- ember 25, to celebrate
the birth of the sun god Tammuz and most of the
people blindly followed the deception of their
leaders.
Mithras and Tammuz are the same deity. Notice
the hat? Ho, Ho, Ho!
30- During the Protestant Reformation some of
these pagan deceptions were revealed. Christmas
was outlawed in England from 1647 to 1660.
Christmas was also illegal in the New England
Colonies. But in the 1800s German and Irish
Catholics, escaping the Great Potato Famine,
brought their pagan idolatry with them. And by
1836 Alabama was the 1st of the States to accept
and make Christmas a legal holiday. A declining
of our nation.
31 Thus said YHWH, Learn not the way of the
heathenFor 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. They
deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it
with nails and with hammers, so that it does not
topple. Jeremiah 102-4
Oh, Christmas Tree! Oh, Christmas Tree! How
beautiful your branches! Is this not idol
worship?
32- Dec-ember 25 is actually the birth date of
Tammuz, the pagan god mentioned in Ezekiel 814
(KJV) Then he the angel brought me Ezekiel
to the door of the gate of YHWH's house the
Sanctuary, Church which was toward the north
ROME and, behold, there sat women churches
weeping for Tammuz.
33-
- Why weeping for Tammuz? Because the pagan
rituals surrounding Tammuz has infiltrated the
True faith of the Early Church. And people dont
want to give up their customs. In these Last Days
true believers are being called upon to separate
themselves from these pagan practices such as
Christ Mass Tammuzs birthday Easter the
goddess of Spring or fertility Halloween
worship of the dead and so onRev. 184 (KJV)
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, My people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of
her seven last plagues.
34-
- Who is this her and what are her sins? The
her is pagan worship and her sins are
idolatry.
35- And in that day seven women shall take hold
of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread,
and wear our own apparel only let us be called
by thy name, to take away our reproach. Isaiah
41 (KJV)
Symbolically speaking this can be understood as
In the LAST DAYS ALL CHURCHES shall claim to
follow Christ saying We will have our own
doctrine, and wear self-righteousness only let
us be called Christians to hide our wickedness.
36 She said, No man, Master. And Yahushua said
to her, Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no
more. John 811
- And the times of this ignorance Elohim winked
at. But now commands all men everywhere to
repent. - Acts 1730
37Messiah Was A Jew
- He was born to a Jewish mother in a Jewish
community, to a Jewish nationHe was NOT Greek
nor did He observe Greek holidays, such as
Easter, etc.. - To the Samaritan woman He said Ye worship ye
know not what we Jews know what we worship
for salvation is of the Jews. John 422
38IF WE WANT TO KNOW TRUTH
- WE MUST GO TO TORAH THE 1ST FIVE BOOK OF THE
BIBLE - For if you believed Moses you would believe
Me, since he wrote about Me. But if you do not
believe his writings how can you believe My
words? - John 546-47
39Messiah observed TorahMEANING - Teachings
- Think not that I am come to destroy the law,
or the prophets I am NOT come to destroy, but to
fulfil. Matthew 517 (KJV) - The word law is nomos meaning the first
five books of the BibleTORAH. - The word fulfil is pleroo meaning to
preach, perfect and/or fulfill. He did fulfil
the sacrificial law. And His sermon on the mount
was preaching the statutes and judgments to
perfect them in our hearts. He preached them
throughout His ministry, as did His disciples
after Him.
40PROPHECIES FOR THE LAST DAYS
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- O YHWH, my strength, and my fortress, and my
refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles
shall come to you from the ends of the earth, and
shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited
lies, vanity, and things of which there is no
benefit. - Jeremiah 1619
In those days it shall come to pass, that ten
men shall take hold, out of all languages of the
nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him
that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you for
we have heard that YHWH is with you.
Zech. 823 (KJV)
41- Yahushua is shown celebrating Chanukah in John
1022,23. It is at this celebration that He
declares "I and My Father are One" John 1030,
which testifies to His Divine origin in His
conception. It also reinforces Chanukah as the
time of His conception.
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- Historically, then, it is more accurate to
celebrate Yahushua entering the world through
conception at Chanukah rather than to celebrate
His birth at Christmas. As we shall show,
Christmas is not the birthday of Christ.
(Christmas is an invention resulting from
religious compromise with pagan tradition.
Christmas only has harmony with the truth, in
that it falls approximately at the time of year
when Yahushua was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
But that is not reason to mix the holy with the
profane.)
43-
- 3rd Consideration
- The Birth of
- John the Baptist
- Luke156-80
44- Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three
months, which was until the birth of John. Since
a full pregnancy term is 41 weeks, and 27 weeks
makes up the first six months (two trimesters),
which is exactly the time from the discourse of
Abia to Chanukah, that leaves 14 weeks to
accomplish the last trimester and bring the
pregnancy to full term. There are exactly 14
weeks from Chanukah to Passover (Nisan 14-22).
Therefore, John the Baptist was born at Passover.
He was circumcised on the eighth day, which would
be the last day of Passover/Feast of Unleavened
Bread. Gabriel had said that John would "go
forth" in the strength and power of Elijah Luke
117. Jewish teaching was that Elijah would come
again at Passover (this is still a tradition of
Judaism today).
45- 4th
- Consideration
- The Birth of
- Yahushua
- Luke 2
46- Nisan, when John was born, is the first
month of the Hebrew year. As we have shown, Mary
conceived six months after Elizabeth conceived,
which means Yahushua's birth would have to come
six months after John's birth, during the seventh
Hebrew month of Tishri. Since we know that John
was born at Passover/Feast of Unleavened Bread,
we learn the time of Yahushua's birth by counting
six Hebrew months from Passover. The Feast of
Unleavened Bread begins on Nisan 15 and six
months later Tabernacles begins on Tishri 15.
Therefore, Yahushua was born on the first day of
Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles).
47- The first day of Tabernacles is a Sabbath
rest, so it fits that Joseph and Mary planned
their journey to Bethlehem so they would finish
their journey before the festival Sabbath. They
found lodging just in time.
48-
- Concerning the Feast of Tabernacles, YHWH
commanded that Israel should observe it eight
days. They were to build temporary dwellings
called a sukkah and dwell in them Leviticus
2334-43. These sukkahs were erected to house
families with some bare comforts and food for the
eight days. Food was placed in a stall or a crib
for storage in the tabernacle. The King James
Bible calls this food crib a manger. Yahushua
was not born in a barn, but rather in a temporary
tabernacle which had been built for the
celebration. He was placed in a "manger",
demonstrating in a type that He is the Bread of
Life from heaven.
49-
- The eighth day, Yahushua was circumcised
according to the Scriptural command Luke 221.
For a male, this is what accomplishes a full
Hebrew birth. The Feast of Tabernacles is for
exactly eight days. The first and last days are
both holy Sabbaths. Yahushua was born on the
first day, a holy Sabbath, and circumcised on the
eighth day, a holy Sabbath. Evidently, the
Almighty One intended this entire Feast of
Tabernacles to be set aside in order to
accomplish and celebrate Yahushua's birth into
the world.
50-
- Note that the Almighty One provided two holy
feasts that lasted eight days, Passover/Unleavened
Bread and the Feast of Tabernacles. John the
Baptist, the forerunner of Messiah, was born and
circumcised in the eight days of the first, then
six month later Yahushua, the Messiah, was born
and circumcised the eight days of the second.
51-
- John came in the first month of the year and
Yahushua came in the seventh month seven in
Biblical terms represents completeness or
perfection. In ministry, John introduced the
way through Messiah and then Yahushua perfected
it, even as the first and seventh months signify.
52- This chronology provides us with the exact
day of Yahushua's birth, Tishri 15, according to
the Hebrew calendar. The Hebrew calendar has been
kept up to date to this modern day, and every
year the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) is set
from Tishri 15 to Tishri 22. Because the Hebrew
calendar is based on the course of the Moon
(Lunar) and the modern calendar is based on the
course of the Sun (Solar), the two move in
relation to each other. The date of His birth
will always be in the fall, not in winter.
53The Feast of Tabernacles is a most important
commemoration.
-
- Chanukah, like Thanksgiving Day, is a free
choice celebration observed by men to honor their
Creator. Feast of Tabernacles, on the other hand,
is a commanded holy appointment, as are His other
holy days listed in the 23rd chapter of the book
of Leviticus.
54-
- Zechariah 1416,17 tells us that one day all
nations that are left after Armageddon will honor
this feast. For what greater reason, than to
commemorate the birth of the King of Kings! Then
should we not be keeping it now?
55- May we all work to overcome the influence of
pagan customs in our celebrations and become
separate from this world as a holy people before
our holy Creator.
56WALK IN THE LIGHT
- Then Yahushua said to them, The Light
is with you yet a little while. Walk while you
have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. And
he who walks in darkness does not know where he
is going. While you have Light, believe in the
Light, that you become children of Light - John 1235-36
Of the New Kingdom John wrote And the city
had no need of the sun, or the moon, to shine in
it for the glory of Elohim lightened it, and the
Lamb is its Light.
Rev. 2123
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58Happy Hannakah
59REJOICE
- The LIGHT OF THE WORLD
- did come and is
- returning soon.