Nazarene Israelite Two House Congregation of Port Elizabeth

Why Nazarene Israelites wear head coverings and tallit’s?

When new believers join our congregation for Sabbath services, they often wonder why men are required to wear head coverings and white tallit’s and women are required to cover their heads with scarfs or shawls when attending Sabbath services with us. Those who often refuse to wear such head covering claim it is only a tradition dictated by the Talmud or Jewish faith, whilst I firmly believe that it is commanded by YHVH the Elohim of all Israel for both men and married women to wear some sort of covering during prayer and services. This is a Scriptural word study from the Hebrew and Greek in the Torah and Renewed Covenant to prove the validity for the head coverings. To begin with the head covering worn by men does not have to be a kippah as such, but may be a cap or hat that would be fitting for Sabbath services.

Firstly to find out where this is coming from, we have to go right back to the very beginning in Genesis 1: 26 when YHVH created man in His likeness and image. Originally man was covered with (YHVH)’s garment of light or glory (transliterated in Hebrew as אור ohr) for glory and splendor as proclaimed in Psalm 104: 1 – 2, as follows: “Bless YHVH, Elohim, O my soul! O YHVH my Elohim, Thou art very great; Thou art clothed with splendor and majesty, (2) covering Thyself with light as with a cloak, stretching out heaven like a tent curtain.”  We know this because there are two Hebrew words used for "naked" in Genesis. Before the fall of man the word ‘arom’ was used in Genesis 2: 25 meaning a partially naked state and after the fall in Genesis 3: 7 the word ‘erom’ was used in the Hebrew meaning nudity or complete nakedness. Therefore something had to happen to mankind after their fall. They lost the "covering" of light they had from YHVH after creation. In Genesis 3: 21 YHVH clothed them with skin (transliterated in Hebrew as עורalso pronounced ohr, but in this case meaning skin or blindness), which resulted that man who was made from the dust of the earth eventually dies and go back to dust. After the fall of Adam Elohim barred Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and the ‘Tree of Life’ (symbolic of the Set-apart Spirit given to Torah obedient believers who remain faithful to YHVH as per Acts 5: 32[1]), the whole world became corrupt and YHVH destroyed all life from earth in a flood, except for Noah, his family and the animals which YHVH led to enter the ark Noah built for protection against the ravages of the flood. However, after the flood mankind’s initial failure was repeated with the rebellion at Babylon led by Nimrod, when YHVH started over again with the man Abram. YHVH entered into a two-fold covenant with Abram, namely that he and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob would eventually possess the Promised Land eternally, after being in the first better resurrection to become spiritual children of Elohim over which the second death has no power, provided they remain loyal to YHVH and to His commandments including circumcising their sons at eight days old. Secondly He provided that those descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, who eventually disobeyed and were scattered into the world because of idolatry to return to the covenant through Abraham’s one seed, Yahshua, through whom the rest of mankind will also be saved after Messiah’s millennial rule, provided they follow Him when Elohim will open the Scriptures to their understanding as witnessed in Isaiah 25: 7 – 9, in this way: “And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, even the veil which is stretched over all nations. (8) He will swallow up death for all time, and YHVH Elohim will wipe tears away from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for YHVH has spoken. (9) And it will be said in that day, ‘Behold, this is our Elohim for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is YHVH for whom we have waited; let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.’”

As a result there is now no condemnation for returnees from the lost ten tribes who find their way back to the covenant that they made with Elohim at Mount Sinai, together with the house of Judah, as we read from Romans 8: 2 – 4, as follows: “For the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yahshua has set you free from the law of sin and of death. (3) For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, Elohim did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, (4) in order that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” We are no longer perfect as YHVH commanded us to be, because of the fall. However, we now have the perfect example of Yahshua who is the visible image of the invisible Elohim (as per Colossians 1: 15). Whist our Jewish brothers will eventually be changed into the Spiritual Bride of Messiah through Torah obedience, we from the lost sheep of the house of Israel who are called according to Elohim’s gracious choice (as per Romans 11: 5) have to become like Yahshua as we grow in grace and knowledge as witnessed in Romans 8: 28 & 29, in this way: “And we know that Elohim causes all things to work together for good to those who love Elohim, to those who are called according to His purpose. (29) For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren.”  If we remain loyal in our walk with Elohim through Messiah, we will one  day be like Him in the resurrection, as Rav Yochanan wrote in 1 John 3: 2, saying: ‘Beloved, now we are children of Elohim, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when he appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.’ In fact this is also what King David wrote in Psalm 17: 15, saying: ‘As for me, I shall behold Thy face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Thy likeness when I awake.’ Moses is one of our examples in the Torah. In Exodus 3: 4 & 5, YHVH commanded him to remove his shoes as he was on set-apart ground; Moses being a shepherd in the Midian desert had to wear some type of covering over his head to protect him from the blistering sun and heat, yet YHVH did not command him to remove any head covering in His presence.

After the Exodus from Egypt YHVH told Moshe to set-apart the first-born as a royal priesthood to Him in Exodus 19: 5 & 6, provided they obey Him, saying: “‘Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; (6) and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel.”  However, this changed after the golden calf incident and YHVH chose the sons of Levi to be the priests, as the first-born children of Israel had sinned against Him. They disqualified themselves from the office of being priests to YHVH by idol worship and He commanded them to remove the "ornaments" from them from Mount Horeb onwards (as per Exodus 33: 5 & 6). By stripping them of their head coverings YHVH removed them from their office as priests and gave it to the tribe of Levi. From then on the Aaronic or Levitical priesthood was commissioned to minister directly to YHVH in the Tabernacle as witnessed in Numbers 8: 15 – 19, as follows:  “Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering; (16) for they are wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself instead of every first issue of the womb, the first-born of all the sons of Israel. (17) For every first-born among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself. (18) But I have taken the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel. (19) And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to perform the services of the sons of Israel at the tent of meeting, and to make atonement on behalf of the sons of Israel, that there may be no plague among the sons of Israel by their coming near to the Sanctuary.”

The priestly garments were given to the priests and Levites for "glory and for beauty" as YHVH told Moses in Exodus 28: 2. We also read in Isaiah 61: 2 – 7 that when Yahshua returns one day on a Jubilee in the near future, He is to: “To proclaim the favorable year of YHVH; and the day of vengeance of our Elohim; to comfort all who mourn, (3) to grant those who mourn in Zion, giving them a garland (a head covering like those worn by priests) instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise (a tallit) instead of a spirit of fainting.  So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of YHVH, that He may be glorified. (4) Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins, they will raise up the former devastations, and they will repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. (5) And strangers will stand and pasture your flocks, and foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers. (6) But you will be called the priests of YHVH; you will be spoken of as ministers of our Elohim. You will eat the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast. (7) Instead of your shame you will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion. Therefore they will possess a double portion in their land, everlasting joy will be theirs.” In fact those of us from the lost ten tribes who came back to the covenant with YHVH through Yahshua are already in this life a kingdom of priests as confirmed in 1 Peter 2: 7 - 9, as follows: “This precious value, then, is for you who believe. But for those who disbelieve, ‘THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,’ (8) and, ‘A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE’; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed. (9) But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR ELOHIM’S OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”  A second witness to this comes from Revelation 1: 5 & 6, in this way: “And from Yahshua Messiah, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by His blood, (6) and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His Elohim and Father, to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amein.” These children of the lost sheep of the sons of Israel, will be together with the Levites who remained loyal to YHVH after the sin of the golden calf, be known as the sons of Zadok (meaning righteousness) as witnessed in Ezekiel 44: 10 - 15, in this way: “‘But the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity. (11) Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house, they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. (12) Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn against them,’ declares YHVH Elohim, ‘that they shall bear the punishment for their iniquity. (13) And they shall not come near to Me to serve as a priest to Me, nor come near to any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed. (14) Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the house, of all its service, and of all that shall be done in it. (15) But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from Me, shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before me to offer Me the fat and the blood,’ declares YHVH Elohim.” Like with the original priesthood, YHVH has provided for us garments to cover our nakedness or shame in order to reflect His glory, splendor and beauty, namely the tallit and head covering.

On the Sabbath and other Set-apart Days of Elohim, we wear a white tallit, as we desire to express the symbolism of the white garments that we find in the Scriptures. We know that white is prophetic clothing that symbolizes Messiah’s coming Kingdom. On a deeper level, it is a symbol of the light Adam and Eve lost after their fall in the Garden of Eden. The wearing of white tallit’s is not only just for teachers, but for all the members of the congregation of Elohim. Whereas men wear white tallit’s, woman wear white scarfs to cover their hair during prayer and worship services as Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 9: 8, saying: ‘Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head.’ But, what is the meaning of the Hebrew idiom? Does it mean we should wear white clothing every day, or is it speaking of something deeper? We read a quote from the Zohar Book 3, 174B and 175A (The Zohar being a sod level commentary of the Torah), as follows: ‘Come see. What did he see? He saw standing before him, the angel, and Rabbi Isaac said: What does this tell us? That every man who in this world does not wrap himself in the ceremonial garb and clothe himself there with, when he enters the other world, is covered with filthy garments. It is brought up for trial. Many of the garments prepared for man in this world, and he who does not acquire the garments of religious observance, is in the next world, clad with the garment which is known to the masters of Gey-Hinnom and woe to the man who is clad therein for he is seized by many officers of judgment and dragged down to Gey-Hinnom and therefore king Solomon cried aloud at all times, let thy garments be white.”  Now this statement form the Zohar is not foreign to those familiar with Yahshua’s parable of the king who gave a wedding feast for His son in Matthew 22, where after those who had been invited to the wedding refused to come and eventually the king later told his slaves to go and invite all they can find in the streets, both evil and good. When the wedding hall was filled the king came to look over the wedding guests as recorded in verses 11 – 14, in this way: “But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw there a man not dressed in wedding clothes, (12) and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes? And he was speechless. (13) Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ (14) For many are called, but few are chosen.” But is there still a deeper meaning in this? Is there another garment that our white tallit is symbolic of? We read an explanation from Daniel 12: 10, as follows: “Many will be purged, purified and refined; but the wicked will act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.” Daniel tells us that many shall be purified and made white. Does that mean they will have white skins? Not at all, since we find out that according to the Scriptures, the color white is symbolic of the Divine Nature of Elohim, also known as mercy transliterated as ‘chessed’ in Hebrew.

Let’s therefore find a few more places in the Renewed Covenant where the word white is mentioned in regard to the coming Kingdom of Elohim. Commencing in Matthew 17 where Yahshua was transfigured before three of His disciples to show them what His resurrected body will look like after His death on the annual Passover, we read from verses 1 – 9, in this way: ‘And six days later Yahshua took with Him Kepha and Yaa’cov and Yochanan his brother, and brought them up to a high mountain by themselves. (2) And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light. (3) And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. (4) And Kepha answered and said to Yahshua, “Master, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, I will make three tabernacles here, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” (5) While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!” (6) And when the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were much afraid. (7) And Yahshua came to them and touched them and said, “Arise, and do not be afraid.” (8) And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Yahshua Himself alone. (9) And as they were coming down from the mountain, Yahshua commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead,” Yahshua’s disciples had a glimpse of what He would look like after His resurrection, but also how they will also look after they have been resurrected in the coming Kingdom of Elohim. They saw Him standing with Moses and Elijah; the one representing Torah and the other the Prophets and Yahshua being the middle pillar or the embodiment of Torah. The fact that they suggested to Him to build three tabernacles or sukkot for Him, Moses and Elijah, shows that the vision was symbolic of the Messianic Kingdom.

Later we see this is what Yahshua looked like long after His resurrection and ascension to heaven, when He appeared to Yochanan in a vision to show him what will take place before, during and after His return to rule the world from Jerusalem, as recorded by Yochanan in Revelation 1: 12 – 15, as follows: ‘And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; (13) and in the middle of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His breast with a golden girdle. (14) And His head and His hair were white like white  wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire; (15) and His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been caused to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.’ Yahshua in addressing the seven ‘church’ eras during the past 2000 years since He ascended to heaven in Revelation 2 & 3, addresses the congregation in Sardis in verses 4 & 5 of Revelation 3, saying: “But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white; for they are worthy. (5) He who overcomes shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.” He continues to address the congregation in Laodicea in verse 18, saying: “I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich, and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eyesalve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.” The underlined words in verse 18 are almost the same wording Elohim used in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve realized that they had lost the garments that Elohim had given them at creation, and they saw they were naked. This was when Elohim asked them in Genesis 3: 11, saying: “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? Yahshua advised the congregation in Laodicea (near the end of the 2000 years) in Revelation 3: 18, to buy white garments from Him that they may put on clothes so that their shame will not be seen. That is exactly what Elohim did for Adam and Eve, since they lost their original garments of light. He gave them ‘garments’ of skin, to cover their nakedness which also caused them to return to the dust from which they were made. The word nakedness is dealing with the concept we know as sin, as with sin also comes shame.

Moving on to Revelation 6: 9 – 11, we read about those who were killed because of their testimony to faith in the word of Elohim, as follows: ‘And when He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of Elohim, and because of the testimony which they had maintained; (10) and they cried out with a loud voice saying, “How long, O Adonai, holy and true, wilt Thou refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” (11) And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, should be completed also.’ We read from Revelation 7: 9 about the sealing of the 144,000 from the nation of Israel, in this way: ‘After these things I looked and behold, a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands.’  Notice, they have palm branches in their hands, which is also indicative of the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot, which takes us back to Zechariah 14, where we see that during the millennium kingdom all nations will journey to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. In verses 13 & 14 of Revelation 7, we see who this multitude mentioned in verse 9 of Revelation 7 is, as follows: ‘And one of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and from where have they come?” (14) And I said to him, “My master, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”’ They are before the throne of Elohim and serve Him day and night in His Sukkah and He shall dwell among them.

The turban worn by the high priest is called a ‘mitsnephet’ in Hebrew. According to Philo and Josephus it consisted of an ordinary priest’s cap with a turban of dark blue color over it. Josephus (Antiq.111.vii.3, 6) says that the headgear of the priests was seemed at the folds and so became a cap. Note: only the High Priest wore the Turban whilst the regular priests wore the cap. As a Set-apart priesthood we should also offer up spiritual sacrifices to YHVH and should accordingly also wear a priestly head covering to minister before Elohim. Remember, this is a part of Torah not a tradition or Talmud. We also see that David who was the King of the commonwealth of Israel and a man after Elohim’s heart, worshipped with a head covering and his prayers were answered in 2 Samuel 15: 30 – 37, in this way: “And David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went, and his head was covered and he walked barefoot. Then all the people who were with him each covered his head and went up weeping as they went. (31) Now someone told David, saying, ‘Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.’ And David said, ‘O YHVH, I pray, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolishness.’ (32) It happened as David was coming to the summit, where Elohim was worshiped, that behold, Hushai the Archite met him with his coat torn, and dust on his head. (33) And David said to him, ‘If you pass over with me, then you will be a burden to me. (34) But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant,’ then you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me. (35) And are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So it shall be that whatever you hear from the king’s house, you shall report to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.  (36) Behold their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son; and by them you shall send me everything that you hear.’ (37) So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.” In the book of Daniel we read that the prophet Daniel and his three friends were part of the Jews who were taken captive to Babylon between 598-582 BCE. All people of rank wore the proper dress codes and were taken to Babylon and together with Daniel these three served in the court of Nebuchadnezzar. When they refused to defile themselves with the Babylonian ways and refused to bow down to the Babylonian gods, they were thrown with their head coverings into the midst of a blazing furnace, as witnessed in Daniel 3: 21, as follows: ‘Then these men were tied up in their trousers, their coats, their caps and their other clothes and were cast into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.’  These men wore their caps in defiance of the king of Babylon and did not pick up the custom in Babylon as some who are against the wearing of head coverings assert.

It is only when we as Nazarene Israelites return to the covenant that we made with YHVH, together with the house of Judah that we qualify for the priesthood because of His righteousness. We wrap ourselves in His righteousness and His garment of Salvation. We put that helmet of Salvation upon our head (as per Ephesians 6: 17) and are once again clothed in His glory and splendor. The head covering and tallit are physical symbols and reminders of that righteousness. Yahshua has qualified for the High Priesthood that had been removed from Israel because of sin as we read from Daniel 7: 13 & 14, in this way: “I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, and He came up to the Ancient of Days and was presented before Him. (14) And to Him was given dominion, glory and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and men of every language might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away; and His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed.”  We  as a royal priesthood should do righteous deeds as part of our training to rule as kings and priests under Yahshua during the Millennium as we read from Hebrews 10: 21 – 27, as follows: “And since we have a great priest over the house of Elohim, (22) let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (23) Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; (24) and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, (25) not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more, as you see the day drawing near. (26) For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.”

But what about 1 Corinthians 11: 4 where we read: “Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying, disgraces his head.” This seems to tell us that we should not cover our heads during prayer and worship services. However, to find the answer to this verse, we need to look at the verse in the Greek and see what it really means. To start with, you have to understand that this is a mistranslation and this is the one witness that people quote to ‘prove’ head coverings to be wrong for men.  According to the Greek translation of this verse the word ‘Katakalupto[2]’ is used meaning down, about, against, in opposition to, down (like a veil hanging from his head like that of a woman). The word ‘Katakalupto’ therefore means that a man should not have something hanging down from his head, especially over his face like a veil. We see that this is the way the Complete Jewish Bible by David Stern translated 1 Corinthians 11: 4 as: "Every man who prays or prophesies wearing something down over his head." This verse is not against head coverings for men, but against the wearing of a veil by a man over his face, as was the custom of the women of that period. Rav Shaul did not want the men of Corinth (center for male temple prostitutes of Apollo, Poseidon, and other gods) to be mistaken for women in their dress. In verse 3 Rav Shaul says, Messiah is the head of every man, so is the man the head of every woman and is Elohim the head of Messiah. The three heads mentioned here has to do with Rulership or Authority. We are told in Ephesians 1: 22 that Yahshua is the head of the congregation. Verse 4 in this instance means that every man praying or teaching, refutes, reproves, admonishes and confronts having opposition to headship brings shame upon (dishonors) the Messiah. In the same way a married woman who does not wear a head covering brings shame or dishonor to her husband. However, verse 10 also makes it clear that married woman should wear head covering to show benevolent angels that she stands under their protection and to fallen angels (demons) that she is under her husband’s authority.

To close with, some people argue that we should not wear a kippah because the pope and cardinals wear a facsimile of the kippah because they claim to have inherited the Aaronic priesthood. The Roman church strictly forbids members of their congregations to wear this covering because they will tell you that you are subject to the Catholic Church! Who will you obey? Yahweh or the pope? In addition according to The Concise Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology by Savine Ostwalt page 261: "A sacrifice was made to Saturnus (Satan) in his temple with uncovered heads according to Greek observance.”  Even though it does not say so in Daniel, I believe that Yahshua also had some sort of head covering on in the fire, similar to the ones worn by Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. If you believe that I am making things up, let’s have a look in Zechariah 3, which is the prophets vision of Joshua the high priest. In verse 3 he sees that Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the Angel.  This is really a reference to Yahshua, who according to Galatians 3: 13 has redeemed us from the curse of the law: having become a curse for us – for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.” Yahshua became dirty with our sins and was cursed on our behalf. Yahshua was standing before the Father as the first of the first-fruits, to be  accepted on the day that He was cut off as the lamb of Elohim who takes away the sins of the world, as well as the waive sheaf or grain offering, as witnessed in Leviticus 23: 12 & 13 and Daniel 9: 27. 

We read from verse 4 of Zechariah 3, how He was accepted before the Father where we read in the second part of the verse: “See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes.”  Continuing in verse 5 of Zechariah 3, we read that a clean turban is put on His head and that He is clothed with clean garments, while the angel was standing by. In verse 8 we read a reference about ‘the Branch’ who we know refers to Yahshua, but we also read about His friends who are sitting before Him. This is talking about the disciples of Yahshua (including us His modern day disciples), whom Yahshua called His friends in John 15: 14 & 15, saying: ‘You are My friends, if you do what I command you. (15) No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.’ In Zechariah 6: 11 we see it talks about Joshua the high priest again and in verses 12 – 13 we read about the Branch who will build the Temple of YHVH and who will have two offices, namely, that of both King and Priest. We know that kings wear crowns and according to Exodus 29: 9, a High Priest wears a cap. So yes our KING and High Priest Yahshua is pictured in Zechariah as wearing a turban and will certainly wear some sort of a head covering during His rulership as our King and High Priest during the millennium, as He is shown in a vision to Yochanan in Revelation 14: 14 wearing a golden crown. Think carefully about it!

 

[1] Acts 5: 32, “And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Set-apart Spirit, whom Elohim has given to those who obey Him.”

[2] katakaluptó: to cover up. Original Word: κατακαλύπτω  Part of Speech: Verb  Transliteration: katakaluptó  Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ak-al-oop'-to) Definition: a veil to cover the head.