The Sabbath and Feasts

We worship on the Sabbath because the Father, יהוה "Y-H-V-H", 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. 

He gave it to His people as part of His covenant and it was to be a sign of His covenant forever (Ez 20:20).  The Sabbath is a weekly feast for the Lord.

We hold the seven annual 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 ישׁוּע Yeshua.

The Tallit and Tzitzits

A tallit or prayer shawl, 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 tassels are called tzitzit. 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 יהוה "Y-H-V-H".

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.

The tallit was created after the Israelites stopped wearing garments with four corners. To be compliant with יהוה "Y-H-V-H'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 ישׁוּע 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 יהוה "Y-H-V-H".

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 יהוה "Y-H-V-H" on the holy mountain in Jerusalem" (Isaiah 27:13).

Torah has been misunderstood by many.  The Strongs definition is 8451 towrah {to-raw'} or torah from 3384; TWOT - 910d; nf * AV - law 219; (law, direction, instruction 1a) instruction, direction (human or divine) 1a1) body of prophetic teaching 1a2) instruction in Messianic age 1a3) body of priestly direction or instruction 1a4) body of legal directives 1b) law 1b1) law of the burnt offering 1b2 of special law, codes of law 1c) custom, manner 1d) the Deuteronomic of Mosaic Law. Torah simply means teaching or instruction.

It is a document in which יהוה "Y-H-V-H" has revealed Himself to mankind and taught us about Himself.  Torah is a covenant, a legally binding agreement between ייהוה "Y-H-V-H" and the His people.  ישׁוּע Yeshua, Himself was the greatest Torah teacher who ever lived.  He clearly states that He did not come do away with the Torah, and He rebuked anyone for teaching that it should be done away with (Matt. 5: 17-20). ישׁוּע Yeshua taught that the major purposes for the Torah was to see Him in all its teachings.

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