שׁבּת
Shabbat
[Sabbath]
אנחנוּ
We are
a Messianic
congregation located in Lucedale, Mississippi.
We hope our
website will provide you with the background of what we believe and teach, as
well as offer special information to our fellow believers.
We
believe that the Torah (Old Testament) is the foundation for all the New
Testament has to teach us.
We worship on the
שׁבּת
Sabbath
[Friday Evening until Saturday Evening]; because the Father,
יהוה
"Yahweh", set the seventh day apart and called it holy (Gen. 2:2-3).
Again at Mt. Sinai the Father told Moses to, "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy" (Ex. 20:8-11). Not once in all of Scripture will you find that the day set apart by the Father was changed to the first day of the week or any other day.
היא
He gave it to His people as part of His covenant and it
"
IS A
Sign Of His Covenant Forever
" (Ez 20:20). The Sabbath is a weekly
"Feast Unto The Lord."
מועד
The Feast
אנחנוּ
We hold the seven
מועד
[appointed]
חגג
[Feasts] of the Lord as Lev.23 commands. These were given by the Father, for the Father. They are the Lord's Feasts, not Jewish feasts.
These were given as a perpetual statue. They foretell of the Kingdom that we will one-day share with Messiah.
Although there are a total of seven feasts (the divine number for perfection or
completeness in the Bible), Adonai divided the seven festivals into three major
festival seasons.
Some of our men, building a Sukkah
for The Feast Of Tabernacles.
Notice:
The Son watching / learning as
his father builds the Sukkah.
Mitzvah
The feasts of
פּסח
Passover (Pesach),
מצּה
Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah), and
ביכורים
First Fruits (Bikkurim) are in the Hebrew month of
Nisan, which is the first month of the Creator's calendar in the spring of the
year.
The Feast of Weeks
שׁבוּע
(Shavuot), or Pentecost, is observed in the
third month, which is the Hebrew month of Sivan.
The Feast of
תּרוּעה
Trumpets (Yom
Teruah),
כִּפּוּר Atonement (Yom Kippur), and
סכּה Tabernacles (Sukkot)
are observed in the seventh month of Tishrei, which is in the fall of the year
(Exodus [Shemot] 23:14-17; 34:22-23: Deuteronomy [Devarim]
16:16-17).
Three is the number of complete and perfect testimony and witness
(Deuteronomy [Devarim] 17:6; 19:15; Matthew [Mattityahu]
18:19-20; Luke 24:44-45; 2 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Timothy 5:19; 1 John [Yochanan]
5:8).
So the feasts are a witness to G-d's divine plan and the role of Messiah (Yeshua)
fulfilling that plan. This is the message being communicated to Bible believers
concerning the three major festival periods in the year.
ציצת The Tzitzit
The
Torah states in Numbers 15:38: "Speak to the children of Israel and you
shall say to them that they shall make for themselves fringes on the corners of
their garments, throughout their generations, and they shall affix a thread of
blue" (Hebrew: תכלת - tekhelet) "on the fringe of each corner."
Tzitzit are also commanded in
Deuteronomy 22:12, which says: "You shall make
yourself twisted threads, on the four corners of your garment with which
you cover yourself."
They are tied in a special
way to remind us of the 613 commandments, statutes, and judgments in God’s
Torah.
The knots on the tzitzit are tied in the four Hebrew letters that is
representative of the name of Yahweh.
The blue chord that is woven into the tzitzit is a reminder of
Messiah. The blue is a special blue called techellet that is made from sea
snails that only wash up on the shore in Israel every seventy years. Except the
snail stopped coming around the end of the first century up until now.
After
almost two thousand years, the snails suddenly appeared on the seashore in the
1990’s. Enough of them were gathered up to make plenty of blue die for the
priestly garments for the next temple and the blue chords in our tzitzit.
טַלִּית
Tallit or
Prayer Shawl
The Tallit
has tassels on the four corners as the
Father has commanded us to put on our garments in Numbers 15:37-40 and
Deuteronomy 22:12.
The tallit was created after the Israelites stopped wearing
garments with four corners. To be compliant with Yahweh's command, the tallit
was made so we could have a garment with four corners on which to wear the
tzitzit.
You have probably read about the tallit in the scripture but
maybe not known exactly what it was. For example, II Kings 2:8 when Elijah rolls
up his cloak to strike the water to part the Jordan River, it is his tallit.
Later in II Kings 2:13-14, Elisha picks up the tallit and also uses it to part
the river.
In Matthew 9:20-22, the woman with the issue of blood is healed by
touching the edge of the cloak of Messiah, and Mark 6:56 we see that many people
were begging just to touch the edge of His cloak so they could be healed.
They were doing this because they were showing their faith in the
prophecies and belief that Yeshua was the Messiah. In Malachi 4:2, it says that
when Messiah comes He will have healing in His wings. The Hebrew word that is
translated as wings is kanaph, which is the corner of the tallit where
the tzitzit are tied. Wow! People were healed just like the scripture said,
because they believed in Messiah and believed the prophecies of Yahweh.
שופר The Shofar
The
ram's horn, known as the shofar (from the Hebrew root meaning "beauty"), is one
of the oldest Hebraic symbols. The Torah states that the giving of the Ten
Commandments was preceded by loud shofar blasts and shouts.
In Biblical times,
the shofar was used to proclaim the Jubilee Year, and the Feasts of Trumpets. It was also used to
accompany other musical instruments, to induce fear, to call the people to war,
to escort processionals, and to solemnize coronations.
Although the
shofar can be made from the horns of sheep, goats, antelopes, and
gazelles, as well as rams, it is strongly recommended that the ram
be used because of its association with the story of Abraham with
Isaac.
From Biblical
times, the shofar has been associated with Messianic redemption.
The Midrash claims that the left horn of the ram sacrificed by
Abraham was sounded on Mt. Sinai and the right horn will be blown in
a time to come, at the assembling of the dispersed, by the Messiah
Himself. "And in that day, a great horn shall be sounded, and they
who were lost in the land of Assyria and. in the land of Egypt,
shall come and worship Yahweh on the holy mountain in Jerusalem"
(Isaiah 27:13).
