The RETURN Movement
International
Petah Tikvah & Scriptural-Truths
Presents …
- YHVH,
which is pronounced as YaHVaH or YaHWaH, also we will
use our Heavenly Father’s title, which is “Elohim”
rather than “God.” We need to remember that “Elohim” (God)
is NOT a name but an attribute, a title! In addition we also love to use the
actual/real Name of our beloved “Messiah” in Greek written
as “Christos”, but His loving Name is 
- “Yahushua” or
“Yeshua” in
short, for this is our Saviours original Hebrew Name as given to Him in Lukas -
Luke 1:31. This was the only Name ever used when He was on the earth by His
family, disciples and His followers for hundreds of years thereafter. However,
it was changed to a foreign name by that new Church, that later became known as
“the greater
The
three levels of learning & understanding of the blessed Word of
When we read
and study the blessed Scriptures, the Word of YHVH Elohim as a believer in Yahushua (Yeshua) the Messiah,
we should keep following three steps always in mind for they are a valuable guide and it will
certainly provide us with guidance and illuminate the sheer beauty and the
fullness of YHVH’s most blessed Word.
1. Who was YHVH
Elohim, blessed be His Holy Name speaking to?
2. When was it said?
3. How was His Word
understood at the time it was spoken/given?
I do believe that these three points are most
relevant to our understanding of 1. What
the Almighty is saying at the time – 2. As well as what it means to us
today - and 3. Especially to you and me right now!
Shalom
- Peace be with you, in Yahushua THE Messiah!
Ministry Elder & Teacher;
Founder; The RETURN Movement International – 1978.
“Scriptural Truths”
& “Ha Davar Word Studies”
A fulltime Messianic Teaching Ministry.
When
was our Messiah Really Born?
Since Yahushua the Messiah was certainly
not born on December 25 - the question is – “When was He
born?” You might reasonably think, well can you really determine with any
reasonable degree of accuracy the date of His birth? I suppose the next
question should be “Are we to observe His birthday?”
Believe it or not, there are very clear
biblical clues concerning the true date of our Saviour’s birth. However,
it is obvious the writers of the gospels did not think it important to include
the exact date, speaking only of the events
surrounding His birth, or events when he was 12 years of age, when He
answered the learned ones in the
HaSatan the evil one is the great
counterfeiter and the arch deceiver,
who will go to any lengths to deceive and mislead Elohim’s people. He
knows the old adage, “a miss is as good as a mile.” Did you know
that the word for “sin” means “to miss the mark?” Just
one tiny slash of a knife across the “smile” of the Mona Lisa would
be enough to destroy the painting, just as only a “little” poison
in an otherwise good meal can kill you. If people “miss the mark’
in observing purely pagan customs, with pagan, mystical symbols what it is all
about, but call it “Christian,” the HaSatan is happy and
satisfied, for he has duped the people into committing a great SIN against YHVH
Elohim for they will have “missed the mark” of the pure worship of
the Creator of all things by doing the opposite of what He has commanded,
“Learn NOT the way of the heathen.”
For decades, I have been sharing how HaSatan
has concealed the real truth about the Passover (Pesach) with the pagan
substitution of a feast called “Easter,” or “Ishtar,” (a fertility goddess)
a celebration of fecundity, procreation, and new life. I knew that eggs and
rabbits symbolize fertility, and have nothing to do with Messiah’s resurrection.
In addition, Halloween was first an all American evil children’s pagan
event, but now it is sweeping the world, like so many Americanisms. It is
obvious that Halloween is blatantly pagan, but is a Harvest celebration of
sorts, featuring corn stalks, squashes and pumpkins, along with all the demonic
symbolism, and obfuscates Elohim’s true fall harvest festival. Yes
beloved, I am speaking about the “Feast of Tabernacles,” (Sukkot)
which always falls on the 15th.day of the 7th.month of Elohim’s sacred
calendar.
“The one who says, “I know
Him,” and does not keep His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in
him.”
But we should also ask ourselves “what
does Christmas obscure?”
So what is really hiding behind it all? At one
time there were those who celebrated December 25, believe it or not, as
“St. Michaelmas” day, claiming it was the
day of the annunciation to Mary by the
archangel, and therefore was “CONCEPTION day” the day Elohim
“became flesh.” Now, was it?
Beloved in Yahushua THE Messiah, here are some
important clues we have to understand and they must begin with the miraculous
birth of Yochannan (
“In the time of
Old Zacharias' ministry division course would
have ended on the Sabbath, or our June 20, which would have been a Sabbath.
Therefore, he could not have journeyed to his home on that day, but would have
left on the 21st, the first day, our Sunday. He lived “in the hill
country of
Amazingly in the United Kingdom, right to this
day in England, The High Church of England, that means the Queens who is the
Churches head, and others uphold the “Day of John the Baptist
Nativity” on June the 24th! Now this is never meant to be the date of his
BIRTH, but the date of his conception!
We all now from the Word that Elizabeth and
Mary were first cousins. Therefore, John the Baptist and Yahushua were second
cousins. Thus John was conceived round the 7th of Nisan, corresponding to our
June 23rd or 24th, in 5 BC.
Six months later, on the first day of the
Jewish month of Tebeth in the year we know as 5 BC (December 25), Yahushua was
begotten. Then nine months later, when the shepherds were still “abiding
in the fields by night,” Messiah was born in
Bullinger's Companion Bible says,
“The fact of the birth of our Lord having been revealed to the shepherds by the
Archangel Michael on the 15th.of Tishri,
corresponding to September 29th, 4 BC, the FIRST DAY OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES,
must have been known to believers in the Apostolic age. But the `mystery of
iniquity' which was already working in Paul's day (2 Thessalonians 2:7) quickly
enshrouded this and the other great fact of the day of the Lord's
‘begetting’ on the first day of the Jewish month Tebeth, corresponding to December 25,
5 BC, as well as other events connected with His sojourn on earth, in a rising
mist of obscurity in which they have ever since been lost. The earliest
allusion to December 25 as the date for the Nativity is found in the Stromata of
Clement of Alexandria, about the beginning of the Third Century AD. That ‘Christmas’
was a pagan festival long before the time of our Lord is beyond doubt.
In
With the Babe having been born on the First
day of the Feast, the circumcision of our Lord took place therefore on the eighth day, the last day of the
Feast, which is also known as ‘The Great Day of the Feast,’ which
is also mentioned in John 7:37, as this was an important day for our Lord!
“On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, He was named Yahoshua, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived. When the time of their purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took Him to Jerusalem to present him to YHVH (as it is written in the Law of YHVH, ‘Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to YHVH’), and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: ‘a pair of doves or two young pigeons.’” Luke 2:21-24. NIV.
Yahushua THE Messiah is the central figure of
all the annual Feasts and weekly Sabbath of YHVH Elohim, for Yahushua is the
Passover Lamb, and He is the “living Bread” depicted by the
unleavened bread of the “Days of Unleavened Bread” following the
Passover. He is the FIRST of the “firstfruits”
depicted by the “Feast of Sabbaths,” or the “Feast of the
Firstfruits,” which was celebrated by counting until the 50th. (The word “Pentecost” is Greek for
"fiftieth”) day following the wave sheaf offering during the Days of
Unleavened Bread. Yahushua will come again soon as THE “King of kings and
Lord of lords,” whose arrival is heralded by the blowing of the great
trump of the archangel on the “Feast of Trumpets.” He is our
“Atonement” pictured by the Yom Kippur” the “Day of
Atonement.’” Yom in Hebrew means “covering” and we are
covered by the shed blood of the Lamb of Elohim!
The feast of temporary booths, or kiosks, or
“tabernacles,” portrays our total transitory nature; our
impermanence on this earth during our short physical life span. In a shadowy
type, it also looks forward to our eventual inheritance of our permanent,
spirit body, when we inherit “the
Notice this vital Scripture …
“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood (this means you and
me, in our physical bodies) cannot inherit the
Read all of chapter 15 of 1st Corinthians.
Shaul of Tarsus (Paul) explains how the physical body is to decay, but that, in
the resurrection, a new spirit body is given to the dead in Messiah, or the
living in Him, who are changed, in a “twinkling of an eye.”
Now back to John 7:37 …
“On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Yahushua stood and said in a loud voice, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.’ By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Yahushua had not yet been glorified.” NIV.
So now beloved we have looked at when our
beloved Saviour was conceived and born. 1. He was conceived on December 25, 4
AD, 2. and He was born on the First day of
“Sukkot,” the “Feast of Tabernacles” on 15 Tishri, 5 AD.
Should we observe birthdays? It was not a
custom amongst the Hebrews to celebrate such an event, although it would be known
the age of a person as it was counted, but there are no records of any real
celebration. Our Saviour certainly did not desire to commence a new trend,
which has turned into, almost a drunken money spending time of absolute
madness. Did you realise if the entire world would dump Christmas, the world
economy would collapse as half of it is reliant on your spending up BIG at
Christmas time. Hey Big Spender, greed and madness awaits you!
Shalom in Messiah -
Yahushua.
May YHVH Elohim bless and keep you in the palm of His hand
always, in Messiah Yahushua’s loving Name!
Ministry Elder/teacher:
“Scriptural Truths” & “Ha
Davar Word Studies”
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Yahushua
said; “No one can come
to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I
will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: They will all
be taught by Elohim. Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from Him
comes to Me. No one has seen the Father except the One
who is from Elohim; only He has seen the Father. I tell you the truth he who
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