Nazarene Israelite Two House Congregation of Port Elizabeth

How did all the confusion in Churchianity come about 1?

The house of Judah remained loyal to HASHEM and His Torah Covenant, even during their seventy year captivity in Babylonbecause of their neglect to keep the land Sabbath every seventh year. Whilst in their captivity HASHEM showed Daniel the existing and future Empires that will rule the world until Messiah and His saints will take over world rulership many years into the future. Daniel described four great beasts that came out of the sea different from one another, each representing four world ruling Empires, starting with the Chaldean Empire, the Medo-Persian Empire, the Greek Empire and the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was the dominant power at the time of Messiah’s impalement and for more than 2000 years has persistently worked to destroy the people of the Covenant, as the embodiment of Esau himself. Moreover the Christian Church with its unscriptural doctrines, dispensational theology and anti-Semitic actions has shown itself to be in fullpartnership with the Roman Church rather than an emissary of Messiah.

The beginning of months for Israel, the month of Nissan (also known as Aviv) during the spring season in the Northern Hemisphere is chockfull of hope and strength for the people of the Abrahamic Covenant. It was set in the 15th century BCE when the Passover occurred in Egypt and again in the 1st century CE in the month of Nissan when Y’shua was killed at the time of the Passover. The first Passover secured the redemption of the first-born children of ancient Israel from death, as much as Messiah ben Joseph’s death as the Lamb ofG-d secured the redemption of the first-born children from the house of Israel who returned to the covenant they made with G-d, together with the house of Judah at Mount Sinai from the second death. The month of Nissan falling during the sign Aries in the Zodiac, also reveals the complete defeat to come of the rebel Esau, through his final manifestation in the events of Babylon and the anti-Messiah. The redemption of the whole house of Jacob from the controls of Esau and the anti-Messiah to come, would likely also occur during Passover as is confirmed in Jeremiah 23: 6 - 8 as follows: “In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘HASHEM our righteousness.’ (7) Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares HASHEM, “when they will no longer say, ‘As HASHEM lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land in Egypt,’ (8) but, ‘As HASHEM lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.”Christianity or the house of Israel taken captive by Esau for 2 millennia has ensured that their followers have contradicted everything Messiah ben Joseph taught and did whilst He was on earth. We read Messiah’s messages in a vision to Yochanan to the congregation in Pergamum from Revelation 2: 14 as follows: ‘But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit acts of immorality.’ Let us analyze what Messiah told Yochanan in this vision. He speaks about a teaching of Balaam that is a stumbling block before the sons of Israel. What is this teaching of Balaam and how is it a stumbling block, but more importantly who are the sons of Israel that He is talking about?

We find the answer in the Torah portion by the name of Balak in Numbers 22 – 25. In this portion Balaam was a prophet hired by Balak to curse the children of Israel who were under the leadership of Moses. The children of Israel were on their way to the Promised Land and Balak did not want them to come near the Moabites since they feared the sons of Israel. Balak was the son of Zippor the king of Moab. Because Balak did not want their pagan gods to curse the children of Israel, he hired Balaam who was on speaking terms with the G-d of Israel (much like Christianity is today), to set up altars and speak a curse from G-d upon the nation of Israel.However, Balaam explained to Balak that it was impossible for him to curse Israel through their G-d, since G-d will only allow him to say what He wants him to say. After a number of attempts to try and curse Israel, Balak noticed that Balaam only blessed Israel every time he tried to curse them, since they have the blessing of Abraham. But, at that point Balaam offered a different approach by suggesting that Balak should curse the nation by getting them to marry (or have marital relations with) foreign wives. This will cause them to lose their status as the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The foreign wives would also cause the nation to get involved in pagan customs and thereby diminish their heritage. Balaam’s teaching was to assimilate Israel and make them like anyone else, by separating them from one another so that they will lose their culture, religion and eventually their language. The teaching of Balaam is rampant in Churchianity today. Basically it is stated as the following guideline: ‘Jesus Christ came to do away with (fulfill) the temple service, the Torah, and alter the customs of Moses.’ Accordingly, the teaching is that the church is to replace Israel’s identity as the chosen nation, and change the Sabbath and Set-apart Day commands, replacing it with Xmas, Easter and other holidays to get the Israelites to forget the true G-d they once worshiped.  The church sees Moses and the Torah as a direct conflict with their teachings (the teachings of Balaam) and as a result they even contradict Messiah ben Joseph’s words in Matthew 5: 17, as if blinded to the consequences given in verses 17 – 20, as follows: “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. (18) For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished. (19) Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and so teaches others, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (20)For I say to you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Messiah ben Joseph assured His followers that Torah is even now valid for those who want to be His disciples. The church disputes the word ‘fulfill’, despite the fact that any dictionary will tell you that it is not a synonym for abolish. Messiah ben Joseph stressed that not the smallest letter or stroke of Torah would be abolished, before heaven and earth would pass away, and since both heaven and earth are still with us today, Torah remains applicable to us as Israelites. One of Messiah ben Joseph’s main functions was to proclaim the good news about the coming kingdom of G-d to earth, as it is presently in heaven. This will only happen when Messiah ben David comes from heaven to come and rule the world from Jerusalem for a thousand years. The Tanach contains more Scriptural references to the coming kingdom of G-d than what the Renewed Covenant does. Messiah ben Joseph came only to bring the lost ten tribes of Israel back to the commonwealth of Israel to establish the kingdom of G-d over Israel (as may be seen from Matthew 10: 5 – 7; Matthew 15: 24; John 10: 14 – 16;and the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15: 11 -32). Even though the Christian church is mostly made up of Israelites dispersed into the nations of mainly the western world, the church failed to understand and reconcile the teachings of Messiah ben Joseph who was born a Jew and remained so until His death. He did not come to Christianize the world as many believe. The churches of the world do not only contradict what Messiah ben Joseph taught, but in teaching that He died on Good Friday and was resurrected on Easter Sunday, they are denying Him as their Messiah, since He taught unambiguously in Matthew 12: 39 & 40, saying: “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign shall be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet; (40) for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Messiah ben Joseph was impaled on a Wednesday morning at 9 am and cut off as the sacrifice (or Passover Lamb) and (first fruit) grain offering before the First Day of Unleavened Bread, an annual Sabbath of G-d (as per Leviticus 23: 5 - 7)when He died at 3 pm, as also prophesied by Daniel in Daniel 9: 27. He had to be buried before the evening of the First day of Unleavened Bread, which according to the Hebrew way of counting days was the fourth day of the week(or Thursday) starting at what the western world know as Wednesday evening and ending at sunset the next day. He was put in the grave just before the annual Sabbath on Thursday started and was resurrected 72 hours later on the weekly Sabbath (Saturday), in the afternoon just before sunset and when three stars in addition to the evening star became visible (Havdalah), at the end of the weekly Sabbath, after which it became erev Yom Rishon or Sunday evening, (since a day starts with an evening or nighttime followed by morning or daytime, from the time when the world was created by G-d as witnessed in Genesis 1: 5). Consequently, when Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to the grave site after sunset and Havdalah, it was already Sunday evening according to the Hebrew method of determining a day.

The church somehow misunderstood the teachings of Rav Shaul (or the Apostle Paul as they refer to him) contained in his letters to the lost ten tribes scattered into the various areas where they reached in their journey north-west into Europe at that time, namely to the Romans, Colossians, Galatians, Ephesians and even to the Hebrews that serve as the main reference material for Christianity’s teaching, to be as they believe, against Torah. The church holds that Rav Shaul took issue with the Sabbath and promoted the Sunday (the first day of the week)worship. They contend that he taught the Galatians not to circumcise their sons any longer or to keep the commandments of the Jews. However, just the opposite is true since Galatians 3 was really to inform members of the lost ten tribes dispersed into Galatia to know that now that they are returning to the covenant they made together with the house of Judah with G-d at Mount Sinai, through Abraham’s one seed, as heirs to the promise made to Abraham to inherit the Promised Land eternally, they are again obliged to be circumcised and obey all of the Torah as Abraham did.Christianity also uses selected verses in Romans and Colossians to show that Rav Shaul abolished the Sabbath and Set-apart Days of G-d. They hold that both Rav Kepha (Peter) and Rav Shaul (Paul) claimed that the ‘Old Testament’ food laws do not apply any longer for believers in Messiah. However, there is obviously a major conflict here. On the one hand Messiah ben Joseph said Torah will remain until heaven and earth will one day pass away, whilst Rav Shaul said it was nailed to the cross. They do not understand that it was not the Torah that was nailed to the cross but the certificate of our debt for breaking G-d’s commandments, when we did not even know what sin was, that was nailed to the cross or done away with as may be seen from Colossians 2: 14. It is like when someone pays a traffic fine for you for having exceeded the speed limit. Logically the payment of the ticket or the certificate of debt against you does not do away with the traffic ordinance, which you should continue to obey, if you do not want another traffic ticket (or certificate of debt). Moses, Messiah ben Joseph and the Apostles must have all agreed, or our Nazarene Jewish faith is corrupt and self-destructing. It is as Messiah ben Joseph said: ‘a house divided against itself will not stand’ in Matthew 12: 22 - 28.

The Irony of all this is that Rav Kepha (or the Apostle Peter) addresses this disagreement in 2 Peter 3: 14 – 16, saying: ‘Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things; be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, (15) and regard the patience of our Master to be salvation; just as also our beloved brother Shaul, according to the wisdom given him, woe to you, (16) as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.’ Rav Kepha stated that there are some difficult things written by Rav Shaul, that need to be explained before it will be understood, which the untaught and unstable men twist to their own destruction. What are the things that Rav Kepha is referring to? We all recall when Messiah ben Joseph made the shocking statement in Luke 14: 26, saying: “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.” Does the fifth commandment not teach that we should honor our fathers and mothers? Did Messiah ben Joseph do away with the fifth command here? No, He did not. We need to understand that He was making a superlative comparison between G-d and man. G-d should take priority, even over family members such as fathers, mothers, wife, children, brothers, sisters and even our own lives. If we understand His teaching in the proper context, then why does Christianity say that Rav Shaul was doing something else when he disputed with the Galatians who elevated legalism above the grace and sacrifice of Messiah ben Joseph? Surely, anything put in priority above His sacrifice for returnees is wrong. Exactly like Messiah ben Joseph’s teaching above, implies that we should love our family less than G-d, Shaul is not teaching that the Law is bad or done away with, especially if we remember His teaching about the Law of an adulterous woman and that we should not covet another man’s wife in Romans 7, where he confirms in verse 12 and the first part of verse 14, saying: ‘So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. (14) For we know that the Law is spiritual (meaning everlasting).’ It is quite easy to twist Rav Shaul’s words while he is teaching that Messiah ben Joseph and HASHEM should be our priority and use them against Moses. This idea is not new, since this is the age old teaching of Balaam; to render Moses’ teachings null and void, by making the house of Israel forget that they once entered the same covenant with HASHEM to which the house of Judah remained loyal until today.

Butlet us backtrack to the original argument; Churchianity teaches that Messiah ben Joseph came to do away with Torah, Temple services and to change the customs taught us by Moses.In Acts 6 & 7 a group of men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freemen conspired to bring false evidence against Stephen that would shut him up. We see from verse 10 and 11 of Acts 6, ‘And yet they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. (11) Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against G-d.”As a result, the elders and the scribes came and dragged Stephen away, and brought him before the Council. These false witnesses told the Council the lies recorded in verses 13 & 14, saying: “This man incessantly speaks against this holy place, and the Law; (14) for we have heard him say that this Nazarene, Y’shua, will destroy this place and alter the customs which Moses handed down to us.” Please note the false charge against Stephen – which he speaks against Moses and G-d, and teaches that Y’shua of Nazareth came to destroy the Temple, do away with Torah and alter the customs of Moses. This is exactly what Churchianity is teaching today. It is unthinkable that the church is teaching the very same false charges made against Stephen the first Nazarene martyr, as their doctrines. It is clear that the Renewed Covenant – the so-called reference for all church doctrine is in conflict with what is taught by Churchianity today. The question to be answered at this point is: Is the Renewed Covenant inaccurate, or is Churchianity teaching falsehood?

But, before we answer the question, we need to understand that prior to Messiah teaching Rav Shaul for three years in a vision in Damascus as witnessed from Acts 9 and Galatians 1: 17 & 18, Shaul was part of this conspiracy against Stephen. In fact Rav Shaul testifies about this in Acts 8: 1 & 3, saying: ‘And Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death. (3) But Saul began ravaging the congregation (of called out believers), entering house after house; and dragging off men and woman, he would put them in prison.’ Rav Shaul was one of the leaders to persecute Stephen and as a result also involved with his death, since he was given letters of authority to arrest Nazarene believers in Messiah ben Joseph and imprison them. So, how could Rav Shaul after being taught by Messiah ben Joseph for three years, being a man who confessed falsehood against Stephen, then after his encounter with Messiah in a vision who taught him what was correct, continue to bring the same falsehood against the members of the lost ten tribes, who by then came to believe that they were mere Gentiles who turned back to the faith of Messiah ben Joseph? The reality is that after being taught by Messiah, Rav Shaul did not teach the falsehood ascribed to him by Christianity. Some teachers in Churchianity imply that Rav Shaul said one thing to Jews and another to others in the congregation of called out believers. However, we read Rav Shaul’s words in Romans 2: 9 & 10, saying: ‘There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, (10) but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.’Even though Rav Shaul conspired with his Jewish Brethren against the Nazarene congregation and against Stephen, prior to being taught by Messiah to become a fully-fledged Nazarene Jew as witnessed in Acts 24: 5 & 14, the Writings of the Nazarene clearly witness that the charges against Stephen and Rav Shaul were false. However, this falsehood is what is being taught as truth by Churchianity today. They maintain Rav Shaul as the main teacher against Moses, Torah the Sabbath and commandments of G-d. The point is that they use the things which Rav Shaul wrote about and which is difficult to explain, if you have no idea that he is quoting from Torah in most of his teachings to the various congregations in the eastern part of Europe, to get their followers who were mostly from the lost ten tribes scattered into the world for idolatry, to stumble once again.

Even though we already showed how the church denies Messiah ben Joseph as being their ‘Christ’, let us show further how they continue to do so today. They maintain that the one who abolished Torah, namely J*e*s*u*s* is their ‘Christ’, meaning ‘the anointed one’ in Greek, what the transliterated title Moshiach mean in Hebrew. At stake here is whether Messiah ben Joseph measured up to the requirements specified by Moses and the Prophets. Moses has given a number of requirements by which to identify the real Messiah. Messiah ben Joseph’s disciples were mostly Jews who were totally familiar with the prophecies of Moses and other Prophets in the Tanach given to identify the real Messiah. So, when Andrew told his brother Simon Peter in John 1: 41, saying: “We have found the Messiah”, they must have been sure that He measured up to the details given by Moses and the Prophets, before making a statement like that. In fact they were encouraged in their faith, to hear Messiah ben Joseph speak from Moses and the Prophets, since Moses has given a clear way in which to identify false prophets in Deuteronomy 13: 1 – 5, saying: “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, (2) and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’ (3) you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for HASHEM your G-d is testing you to find out if you love HASHEM your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul. (4) You shall follow HASHEM your G-d and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. (5) But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseled rebellion against HASHEM your G-d who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in which HASHEM your G-d commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.”Moses warned the nation of Israel that HASHEM would permit false teachers to enter the fellowship to test them. Messiah ben Joseph came to His disciples as well as to us as one of our kinsmen from the family of Jacob and He had the power to show signs and wonders like Moses. HASHEM told Moses that He will raise up a prophet from among his countryman and He shall put His words in this prophet’s mouth, and that He will require it of those who would not obey the words of this prophet in Deuteronomy 18: 18 & 19.

However, Moses said in Deuteronomy 13that there also would be a false prophet or ‘Messiah’ who would attempt to deceive people to follow a way different from what G-d taught through him. Moses also warned that this false prophet would tell us not to keep G-d’s Torah and that he would through signs and wonders deceive us to follow him in a new way foreign to the way our fathers in the faith served HASHEM our G-d. Churchianity actually denies that Messiah ben Joseph is the true Messiah by teaching that He came to do away with Torah, the Sabbaths and Set-apart Days specified for all Israel by HASHEM in Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy 14, and the customs of Moses. Therefore, according to the definitions given by Moses and the Prophets, it is impossible to identify Messiah ben Joseph or Christ as the church refers to Him. However, we know for certain that He is the sinless Lamb of G-d who will eventually take away the sins of all those who will bow the knee before Him. The church simply made the same mistake ancient Israel made, by departing from the teachings of Moses. The teachers in the church teach their followers that no human being is able to keep the Law of Moses, yet the true Messiah taught during a Feast Day in John 5: 43 – 47, saying: “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another (like your teacher) shall come in his own name, you will receive him. (44) How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only G-d? (45) Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. (46) For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me.  (47) But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”Rav Yochanan one of Messiah ben Joseph’s closest disciples also wrote in 1 John 5: 2 & 3, saying: ‘By this we know that we love the children of G-d, when we love G-d and observe His commandments. (3) For this is the love of G-d, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.’The church is therefore directly contradicting what the Nazarene Messiah ben Joseph and His disciples taught.

Those who fail to teach what Moses taught and wrote do not understand that Messiah ben Joseph never taught against Torah, since He like Rav Shaul, used to quote from the Tanach in most of His teachings. Everything taught by Churchianity today is the exact opposite of what He taught and did whilst He was on earth. The church has clearly achieved what Balak wanted to achieve in Israel. Messiah ben Joseph warned that those of the lost ten tribes of Israel who like Balak are teaching to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, by teaching them to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of spiritual immorality to stop or He will come and make war against them in Revelation 2: 14 & 16, saying: “But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit acts of immorality. (16) Repent therefore; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.” But who are these sons of Israel who are taught to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality? The Prophet Ezekiel prophesied about a day in the future during which the house of Israel and the house of Judah would be united once again. Before that the house of Israel who has been in captivity by Esau or Rome for more than 2000 years would cease from worshiping idols, stop transgressing G-d’s commandments and cease from eating things detestable to HASHEM, meaning they would return to HASHEM by obeying Torah, through Abraham’s one seed, Messiah ben Joseph. But how did Churchianity cause the house of Israel to eat meat sacrificed to idols? By teaching their followers to keep Xmas and Easter and by bringing Xmas trees and hams into their homes, but also by eating hot cross buns and Easter eggs laid by the Easter bunny. What about acts of spiritual immorality? The church teaches acts of spiritual immorality by teaching that their members are no longer obliged to obey Torah, since both Jesus and Paul taught against it. Having already shown that Messiah ben Joseph never taught against Torah we also see that Rav Shaul warned false teachers in Hebrews 10: 26 – 28, saying clearly: ‘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. (28) Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.’

Those who teach against Torah after seeing all the warnings in Torah and the Renewed Covenant can only be Esau, who are even now hating the children of Jacob for receiving the first-born blessing instead of him, or the agents of Satan who wants all people to land up where he is destined, namely the lake of fire and brimstone. However other than Satan who will be tormented eternally, human beings, without having received the Set-apart Spirit of G-d for being obedient to G-d, will simply be burnt to ashes. It is for this reason that Rav Shaul warns true believers in 2 Corinthians 6: 14 – 18, saying: ‘Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? (15) Or what harmony has Messiah with Belial (the devil), or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? (16) Or what agreement has the temple of G-d with idols? For we are the temple of the living G-d; just as G-d said, ‘I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR G-D, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. (17) Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPERATE,” says HASHEM. “AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; and I will welcome you. (18)And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” says HASHEM Almighty.’Messiah in a vision to Rav Yochanan similarly warned true believers to come out of the churches of the world in Revelation 18: 4 & 5, as follows: ‘And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you may not participate in her sins and that you may not receive of her plagues; (5) for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and G-d has remembered her iniquities.” Are some of the children of Israel going to wake up and heed these warnings? Let us as Messiah ben Joseph’s modern-day disciples continue to proclaim the good news about the coming kingdom of G-d into all the world as He instructed.

Matthew 10: 5 -7: ‘These twelve Y’shua sent out after instructing them, saying, “Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”

Matthew 15: 24,’But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

John 10: 14 -16:“I am the good shepherd; and I know My own, and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they shall hear My voice; and they shall become one flock with one shepherd.”

Leviticus 23: 5 -7,‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is (HASHEM)’s Passover. Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to HASHEM, for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.’

Daniel 9: 27,“And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

Genesis 1: 5,‘And G-d called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.’

Colossians 2: 14, ‘having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.’

Acts 24: 5 & 14: “For we have found this man a real pest and a fellow who stirs up dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the G-d of our Fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law, and that is written in the Prophets.”