Happy New Year in March

Happy New Year! No, I haven't lost my mind. I'm not three months late with my New Years greeting. At least not according to how Yahweh reckons time. The new moon is March 16^th and that signals the beginning of the month of Abib; the first month of the New Year according to the Creator's calendar. This also begins the annual cycle of the Feasts of Yahweh.

The Feasts of Yahweh provide the picture of the Messiah and HIS plan of redemption for mankind - HIS creation.

All of the Torah, given to Moses by God, was patterned after the reality that already existed. God created everything in six days at the Genesis of Creation. This is why HE ceased from HIS creation and called it all good. AND this is why HE has commanded HIS creation to observe the Sabbath Day, the seventh day, and to keep it holy. HE created all we needed, it was good and needed nothing added to it to make it complete. Our observance of Sabbath recognizes HIS sovereignty and acknowledges that there is nothing we can do to add to what HE has already made. It is simply up to us, HIS creation, to walk in HIS Precepts.

As we enter this New Year the first Feast of Yahweh is Passover. Scripture calls Yeshua, the Messiah, known by the professing church as Jesus, the Passover Lamb of Yahweh. We are also told in Revelation that HE was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. What a wonderful thing to realize, that the Creator, Yeshua HIMSELF, created a way through HIMSELF in the very beginning, knowing that HIS creation would defile themselves and be separated from HIM through rebellion.

Beginning with Passover we move right into the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Consider that we have been set free from the bondage of sin, just as Israel was set free from the bondage to Egypt. We are told in Exodus that HE set them free so that they could leave Egypt that they might worship HIM. We have been set free from the bondage of sin, that we might leave sinfulness behind and worship HIM. Both Israel and we are to worship HIM according to HIS Word. The concept of removing leaven from our dwelling places shows us that we are to remove sin from our lives. Remember we are the dwelling place of Yeshua, if indeed we are born again.

Next will be the Feast of Shavuot, or Pentecost. This will round out the Spring Feasts of Yahweh. This Feast commemorates two things. First it is a memorial of the giving of the Torah at Sinai. Remember it was spoken first to Israel and the mixed multitude with them. The proposal by the Bridegroom at that time was that if they would obey HIS Voice and keep HIS covenant they would be a special people above all the people of the world, and would be to Yahweh a kingdom of priests. But the people refused to come near Yahweh and hear him directly. Instead they sent Moses to bring the message back to them. The result was that Yahweh wrote HIS Torah on tablets of stone and had Moses place it in the Ark as a witness against the people because they disobeyed HIS Word immediately.

The Feast of Shavuot is also a memorial of the giving of the Holy Spirit that we read of in Acts 2. I believe this is what Yahweh, in fact, I believe it was Yeshua was offering the people at Sinai, and they refused to come near HIM to hear from HIM. HE was offering HIS Holy Spirit. Moses received it, and so did Joshua. I'm sure some others did as well, along the way. The reason I say I believe it was Yeshua that made the offer to them is because Paul says it was Yeshua they complained against in the desert wanderings, and Peter tells us that it was the Spirit of Yeshua who spoke to the Prophets. Moses was a prophet. Yeshua is the Prophet HE foretold through Moses that would be sent that would be like Moses.

Today is the day. Will you hear HIS Voice? HE is calling to us to come near, receive HIS Spirit who will reveal the Words of Yeshua, who only spoke the Words of HIS Father, to us. HE is the Passover Lamb whose blood has been applied to the door posts of our hearts, changing our hearts and setting us free from the bondage of sin that we might walk in the Truth of HIS Torah. Our responsibility is to put off the old man and the sin that so easily ensnares us. We must remove the leaven of sin from our lives. Sin is lawlessness, or a disregard for and rebellion against HIS Torah. And HE wants to write HIS Torah on our hearts, put it in our minds and cause us to walk in HIS Torah Commandments. This is the New Covenant. Are you interested?

I encourage you to check out the Scriptures for yourself. See Yeshua as the Passover Lamb as the Scriptures depict HIM, instead of a false messiah that is pictured by the pagan practices of Easter and Christmas.

The Fall Feasts will be upon us in a few months as when we end the yearly Feast cycle. Each year we observe the Feasts HE reveals more to us about HIMSELF and HIS plan of redemption and how HE wants us to live here and now. The Fall Feasts speak of the last days. They may be upon us now! Will you recognize HIM when HE comes?

When HE came the first time, as a man 2000 years ago most didn't recognize HIM because they were looking through the lens of religious tradition of the elders. Sadly that is what is practiced today, in much of the church. Yeshua soundly condemned the tradition of the elders, saying that their traditions made HIS Commandments of no effect in people's lives. Will you be blinded by the pagan based traditions of Easter and Christmas, among others, and miss HIM because you are on a calendar system of man instead of observing HIS Scripturally ordained Calendar? If you profess to love HIM and that you have a desire to serve HIM according to HIS Word, then you should consider this.