5782 Moadim —
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(All feasts begin at sunset the previous day on the
Gregorian calendar) |
Mon 26 Sep 2022
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1 Tishri 5783
Lev 23:23-25
Num 29:1-6 |
Yom Taruah (Rosh HaShanah)* The “Head of the Year” (New Year)
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Wed 05 Sep 2022
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10 Tishri 5783
Lev 23:26-32 |
Yom Kippur* The Day of Atonement
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Mon 10 Sep 2022
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15 Tishri 5783
Lev 23:33-36 |
Sukkot* Booths or Tabernacles
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Mon 17 Sep 2022
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22 Tishri 5783
Lev 23:36
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Shemini Atzeret*
Eighth Day Solumn Gathering |
Mon 18 Sep 2022
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23 Tishri 5783
(Not
in Torah)
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Simchat Torah* Rejoicing of the Torah
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Mon 19 Dec 2022
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25 Kislev 5783
2 Mac 1:18
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Chanukah Dedication of the Temple
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Thur 17 Mar 2022
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14 Adar 5782
Est 9:20-22,26-27
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Purim Lots
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Sat 16 Apr 2022
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14 Nissan 5782
Lev 23:5 |
Pesach*‡
Passover
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Sat 16 Apr 2022
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15 Nissan 5782
Lev 23:6-8 |
Motzi‡ Unleavened Bread
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Sun 17 April 2022 |
Lev 23:9-14 |
First Fruits
(Not recognized by Israel
until Messiah returns) |
Sun 05 Jun 2022
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6 Sivan 5782
Lev 23:15-22 |
Shavuot* Weeks or Pentecost
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* No work is permitted on these days.
‡ Passover is technically the time when the Passover Lamb is sacrificed
at twilight
(literally, “between the evenings”); however, traditional Judaism refers
to the
Feast of Unleavened Bread as “Passover.”
Why Are HaShem’s
Appointed Times Important?
God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to divide the day from the night;
let them be for signs, seasons, days, and years; and let them be for lights in the dome of the sky to give light to the earth"; and that is how it was. (Gen 1:14-15)
In the Torah (Lev 23) God has decreed seven “appointed times” for
all His people to appear before Him in corporate holy
assembly:
Shabbat (Lev 23:3),
Pesach (Lev 23:5),
Matzah (Lev 23:6-8),
Firstfruits (Lev 23:9-14),
Shavuot (Lev 23:15-22), Yom Kippur (Lev 23:26-32), and
Sukkot (Lev 23:33-36). He said that these are to be His
“designated times of
ADONAI that you are to proclaim as holy convocations” and that
they are to be observed by all His people as “a
permanent regulation, generation after generation.” [To these, the Jewish people have added two
additional holidays, Purim (Esther 9:29-32) and Chanukkah (2Maccabees 15:36), but they are not “holy” days.]
The Church argues
that these days are “holidays of the Jews,” yet the Bible clearly calls
them “the appointed feasts [or “designated times”] of ADONAI”
(Lev. 23:2;
2Chron. 2:4). Daniel prophesied that the
Antichrist “will speak words against the Most High and oppress
the holy ones of the Most High. He will intend to change
religious festivals and laws…” (Daniel
7:25). In the spirit of Antichrist, the Church has decided that
what ADONAI has commanded is simply not important and
refuses to honor the times of worship that He has designated;
the Church presumes that He should be satisfied with their showing up
uninvited on Sunday, Christmas, and Easter, all of which are
totally pagan in origin. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked;
for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” (Gal 6:7, NASB)
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For those who would argue “But that
isn’t our intention in celebrating Christmas; we just celebrate Jesus’
birthday” let me first remind that Yeshua was born in
September, not in
December,[1] so
Christmas
has absolutely nothing at all to do with His birthday. Then I would
offer the following examples of those who violated HaShem’s
instructions without having evil intention to do so.
In Eden, HaShem told Adam and Eve to not
eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:16-17).
They had no evil intent when they disobeyed. Just the opposite,
in fact. They considered that “the tree was good for food, that
it had a pleasing appearance, and that the tree was desirable for
making one wise” (Gen. 3:6). Surely Father God would be pleased
when He noticed how wise they had become. As a result of their
good intention, death entered creation and they were expelled
from Paradise.
To atone for (cover) their sin, HaShem
“made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them”
(Gen. 3:21). For reasons we will see in just a moment, it is not
unrealistic to believe that HaShem instructed them in animal
sacrifice and it was the skin of the sacrificial animal(s) from
which he made their garments.
Some few years later Adam and Eve’s son
Hevel [Abel] brought HaShem a sacrifice “from the firstborn of
his sheep, including their fat” (Gen. 4:4). How could he have
possibly even begun to conceive of the idea of an animal
sacrifice unless he learned it from his father, who in turn
learned in from HaShem? Abel’s brother Kayin [Cain], who had
received the same instruction about sacrifice from his father,
“brought an offering to ADONAI from the produce of the soil. …
ADONAI accepted
Hevel and his offering but did not accept Kayin and his
offering. Kayin was very angry, and his face fell. ADONAI said to
Kayin, ‘Why are you angry? Why so downcast? If you are doing
what is good, shouldn't you hold your head high? And if you
don't do what is good, sin is crouching at the door — it wants
you, but you can rule over it.’” (Gen 4:3-7). Kayin wound up
murdering his brother Havel, and as a result he was driven from
the land and from the presence of ADONAI. We can
safely surmise that ADONAI
rejected Kayin’s sacrifice because it was not the kind of
sacrifice that ADONAI
had specified.
About a thousand years later, humanity
was still doing things their own way. Then “ADONAI
saw that the people on earth were very wicked, that all the
imaginings of their hearts were always of evil only.
ADONAI regretted
that he had made humankind on the earth; it grieved his heart.
ADONAI said, ‘I
will wipe out humankind, whom I have created, from the whole
earth; and not only human beings, but animals, creeping things
and birds in the air; for I regret that I ever made them’” (Gen.
6:5-7). So HaShem sent the Flood to wipe out all of humanity
except for the eight people who were still doing things His way.
After the flood waters had receded,
HaShem instructed Noah and his sons, “And you people, be
fruitful, multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply on it” (Gen.
9:7). But instead of dispersing throughout the earth as HaShem
had commanded, a few hundred years later, humanity (under the
leadership of Nimrod, according to tradition) “used the same
language, the same words. It came about that as they traveled
from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shin'ar and
lived there. They said to one another, ‘Come, let’s make bricks
and bake them in the fire.’ So they had bricks for
building-stone and clay for mortar. Then they said, ‘Come, let’s
build ourselves a city with a tower that has its top reaching up
into heaven, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be
scattered all over the earth’” (Gen. 11:1-4). The text of
Genesis says, literally, “let us build ourselves a city with a
tower, and at its top, the heavens.” It is well known by
scholars that “the Babylon Mystery Religion” was born at Babel, along with
one of its key components — the practice of
astrology. Many
believe that the phrase “at its top, the heavens” suggest
strongly that the tower was dedicated as an observatory for
astrology for the divination of future events. Because humanity had continued to “have it their way”
HaShem confounded their language and scattered them throughout
the whole earth (Gen. 11:7-9).
Fast forward another few hundred years,
and we find HaShem making a promise to Avraham that he and his
wife would have a son, and that he, Avraham, would become the
father of a great nation. Avraham and Sarah became impatient and
took matters into their own hands to have a son named Ishmael.
They had absolutely no evil intent, but only wanted to see
HaShem’s promise fulfilled — with their help. As a result, the
descendants of Ishmael (the Arab Muslims) and the promised son
Isaac (the Jews) have been at war for four thousand years, with
no end in sight until Messiah returns to settle their
differences.
About a thousand years later, HaShem had
redeemed Israel — a great nation of perhaps as many as six to
twelve million people, along with a million or so Egyptian
Gentiles (the “mixed multitude”) — out
of Egypt and brought them to Mount Sinai where He literally took
the nation as His bride. When Moshe [Moses] went up the mountain
to receive the marriage contract (the Torah), the people became
restless and concerned that Moshe had died on the mountain and
was never going to return. With absolutely no evil intent, the
people wanted to worship HaShem and felt it would be helpful if
they had an object to help them focus their worship. “Aharon
[Aaron] said to them, ‘Have your wives, sons and daughters strip
off their gold earrings; and bring them to me.’ The people
stripped off their gold earrings and brought them to Aharon. He
received what they gave him, melted it down, and made it into
the shape of a calf. They said, ‘Isra'el! Here is your God, who
brought you up from the land of Egypt!’ On seeing this, Aharon
built an altar in front of it and proclaimed, ‘Tomorrow is to be
a feast for ADONAI.’
Early the next morning they got up and offered burnt offerings
and presented peace offerings. Afterwards, the people sat down
to eat and drink; then they got up to indulge in revelry” (Exod.
32:2-6, NASB).
There are a few things that it is
critical to note about this narrative. They had absolutely no
evil intent. There were
not worshipping the golden calf; they were worshipping
ADONAI
but using the calf as a visible reminder of “your God, who
brought you up from the land of Egypt.” They were worshipping
HaShem, but were doing it “their way.” As a result, the Levites
were ordered, “‘Every man of you put his sword upon his thigh,
and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill
every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man
his neighbor.’ So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and
about three thousand men of the people fell that day.” (Exod.
32:27-28, NASB)
Just a few years later, “Nadav and Avihu,
sons of Aharon, each took his censer, put fire in it, laid
incense on it, and offered unauthorized fire before ADONAI, something
He had not ordered them to do. At this, fire came forth from the
presence of ADONAI
and consumed them, so that they died in the presence of
ADONAI. Moshe said
to Aharon, ‘This is what ADONAI said: “Through those who are near me I will be
consecrated, and before all the people I will be glorified”’”
(Lev 10:1-3). Nadav and Avihu were priests of ADONAI, serving
ADONAI in the Tabernacle, and performing their assigned task
of offering incense. However,
ADONAI had
prescribed the precise manner in which the incense was to be
offered. With absolutely no evil intent, they chose to offer the
incense in a manner other than that which He had ordered, and
for that indiscretion their lives were immediately and violently
forfeit.
God has decreed seven “appointed times” for
all His people to appear before Him in corporate holy
assembly, and said that these are to be His “designated times of
ADONAI that you are to proclaim as holy convocations” and that
they are to be observed by all His people (not just the Jews) as “a permanent regulation,
generation after generation.” If
you are not one of His people, than by all means, do as you
please. However, if you
consider yourself as a person of God, the “permanent regulation”
applies to you!
When the Ark of the Covenant was
constructed, HaShem instructed Moshe: “When Aaron and his sons
have finished covering the holy objects and all the furnishings
of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set out, after that the
sons of Kohath shall come to carry them, so that they will not
touch the holy objects and die. These are the things in the tent
of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry. … But do this
to them that they may live and not die when they approach the
most holy objects: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign
each of them to his work and to his load; but they shall not go
in to see the holy objects even for a moment, or they will die.”
(Num. 4:15,19-20, NASB).
About a thousand years later, as David
and his men were bringing the Ark of the Covenant up to
Baale-judah on an ox-drawn cart, “Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of
Abinadab, were leading the new cart. So they brought it with the
ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill;
and Ahio was walking ahead of the ark. … But when they came to
the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out toward the ark
of God and took hold of it, for the oxen nearly upset it. And
the anger of ADONAI
burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his
irreverence; and he died there by the ark of God” (2Sam. 6:3-7).
With absolutely no evil intent, but with every possible
good intent Uzza
reached out and touched a holy thing of God’s with the intent of
protecting it from harm, and God struck him down for “his
irreverence.”
Likewise, King Saul became impatient waiting
for Samuel to come offer the burnt offerings and peace offerings
prior to engaging the Philistines in battle, so he took it upon
himself to offer the sacrifices when HaShem had not instructed him
to do so, and for his arrogance, HaShem took the kingdom from him
and gave it to David. (1Sam 13:1-14)
Sh’mu’el [Samuel] said to Sha’ul [Saul], “You did a foolish thing. You didn’t observe the mitzvah
[commandment] of ADONAI, which
He gave you. If you had, ADONAI would have set up your kingship over Isra’el forever. But as it is, your kingship will not be established.
ADONAI has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and Adonai has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you did not observe what Adonai ordered you to do.””
(1Sam 13:13-14)
With absolutely no evil intent, the Church
has unilaterally decided that HaShem’s seven “appointed
times” are not important, and so they offer Christmas, Easter,
Sunday morning and evening, and Wednesday evening as the
Church’s “appointed times,” and they expect the Creator
and Emperor of the Universe to bend to their will,
show up at their appointed times, and be pleased with
their worship. Is this not the very definition of irreverence
and arrogance? Is that not exactly what Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel,
Nimrod and his priests at Babel, Aaron and those who fell down before
the golden calf, Nadav and Avihu, and King Saul did? If HaShem struck
down Uzzah for his unintentional irreverence, why should the
Church assume that He will be pleased with their collective
intentional irreverence?
So by all means, if it seems good in your
sight to ignore “the appointed times of HaShem” and expect him
to honor your worship at “the appointed times of the Church,” by
all means, feel free to do so.
If it seems bad to you to serve ADONAI,
then choose today whom you are going to serve! Will it be the gods
your ancestors served beyond the River? or the gods of the Emori,
in whose land you are living? As for me and my household, we will
serve ADONAI! (Josh. 24:15)
Updated Feast dates for 2021-2022 on
Saturday, 22 May 2021
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