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The 7 HolyDay Feasts of YAHUAH

“When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not; But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Yarusalyim: but I will return again unto you, if YAHUAH will. And he sailed from Ephesus” (Luke in Acts 18:20).

“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even HaMashiach our Passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:6-8). Let us cover the 7 Feasts of YAHUAH…

Both of these verses, which were authored long after YAHUSHA HaMashiach passed over, inform us that the Feasts were kept—not by option, but by necessity; Luke said, “I must by all means keep the feast.” He did not allow anyone to deter him from observing the HolyDays. Paul said that by not keeping the HolyDay Feasts, even though you might be doing everything else right, you are keeping leaven that the church taught you, and therefore you, the whole lump, are corrupted with leaven holidays and traditions of men. He continues, saying, come into the unleavened way, away from the teachings of the church: “Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” This is a witness to Ephesians 4:22-24 when we are instructed: “That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the Ruach of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after ALUAH is created in Righteousness and TRUE Qodeshim.” (See post titled “Renewing Transforming & Changing the Heart Mind & Soul.”) 

1 Corinthians 8 defines worldly holidays—what we call “Beast Feasts”—as sacrifices to idols, because the world calls upon many gods and lords to worship at those appointed times. Even created the calendar, names of planets, months, days, etc. after them. You should take time to research the root of those traditions you keep; your salvation depends on it. The chapter reads, “1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that ‘We all possess knowledge.’ But knowledge puffs up [leaven] while love builds up [unleaven]. 2 Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. 3 But whoever loves ALUAH [The ALMIGHTY] is known by ALUAH. 4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that ‘An idol is nothing at all in the world’ and that ‘There is no ALUAH but one.’ 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth [as indeed there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’], 6 yet for us there is but one ALUAH, YAHUAH, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one King, YAHUSHA HaMashiach, through whom all things came and through whom we live. 7 But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food [holidays] they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us near to ALUAH; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. 9 Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom HaMashiach died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against HaMashiach. 13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall” (NIV 1 Corinthians 8). This is telling us that our knowledge knows that the gods the world idolizes are nothing. Therefore, we, knowing this, are not harmed ourselves by eating these meals. However, should someone witness us eating these meals sacrificed to idols, they may think it is acceptable when it isn’t. Consequently, we become a stumbling-block to them, even though our knowledge knows these idols are worthless. And through our knowledge, we cause them to fall. So, we, being accountable for their fall, fall with them; even before them. This chapter is a witness to Romans 14.

Let us cover the 7 Feasts of YAHUAH for the 2023 roman year. Note: these principles may be used to determine future years beginning from…

Head (beginning) of the Year or Rosh Hashanah = Abib 1, first day of Hebrew Year (occurs in March each year) (March 22nd, 2023 at Sunrise). This is not a feast day. It just marks the head of the year from which we begin our Hebraic Calendar (Exodus 12:2). Genesis 1:5 says, “And ALUAH called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” We must forget our teachings from Babylon (babble on) of am (midnight) and pm (noon), and that morning is the early part of day; scripture does not give this to us. What YAHUAH & YAHUSHA are speaking on the days of creation is day (light) and night (evening and morning) equals one day (24 hours). When the sun rises and it becomes light, this begins the next day. Then, there is night which is the evening and morning (not am nor beginning of light/day); that is the conclusion of the second day (24 hours). The sun determines the day and seasons, not the moon. There are many events described in the bible which line up with this knowledge. Anyone teaching that the day begins at sundown/sunset has not correctly studied this subject. Many of them simply think that because Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins in the evening at sundown, so does the day; this is incorrect logic. These are events (very important by the way), yet they are not a determination of the day’s cycle. We are told to prove all things, or maybe they are slothful and simply follow trends of the lunar worship. Anyone teaching that am/pm has anything to do with the marking of biblical days are just babble on (babylon), parroting whatever they heard from the Pharisees, or are intentionally misleading the people. We are told that anyone who teaches man such is least in the kingdom of YAHUAH. This is the same thing Babylon does with YAHUAH’s seasons; they break up winter and teach the ending and beginning of the year in the middle of it. This is all for the months, days, and hours to be pertinent to their traditions and their gods, sun, and moon worship, as they use a lunar calendar. The bible teaches us the year begins in the Spring, not January in the middle of winter; this is the origin of April fools! Why is morning not part of the daylight? Morning is symbolic of sadness as you are in mourning; of light as morning is in darkness; of life as darkness is representative of death, the bottomless pit, everlasting darkness, and without the sun nothing (bread/wheat/barley/fruit) grows—all would be lifeless as nothing (knowledge/wisdom/understanding) grows in the dark. Darkness is also when most evils come out to feed. The sun is representative of The SON, YAHUSHA, who is Light redeeming us from darkness, and The Life redeeming us from death. The bread (unleavened) is representative of the body (Qahal/us) of YAHUSHA; The TRUTH. This is the ONLY Way to The Kingdom; The Way, The TRUTH, and The Life. The Day (YAHUSHA, man, dawn as knowledge increases to light), the evening (Eve/Havah/woman, dusk, deceit as she was deceived by darkness), and the mourning (death, evil, darkness).

Passover is on Abib 14 (occurs March-April each year) (Tuesday, April 4th, 2023). Sundown to Sunrise only. Celebrate with a meal gathering with Unleavened Bread (Exodus 12). YAHUSHA was taken on Passover (John 18:12) and killed the next day. Matthew 7 tells us the pharisees are the benchmark for those who are not saved, that you must exceed the pharisees’ knowledge of the Word. The Pharisees tell you to forget the HolyDays and keep the holidays. It was the Pharisees that took YAHUSHA and pressured pontius pilate into crucifying HIM. This is a feast to be observed in the evening, which is not the beginning of the day, as sunrise is. Gather and feast at sundown. YAHUSHA told the apostles to get the Passover lamb and they did eat later that day (Luke 22:7-14). He was crucified the next day on the tree, on the stake, which is still the first day of Unleavened bread, and together with Passover, a full feast Sabbath. It is the same day Isaac was offered by Abraham (Genesis 22:1-19). YAHUSHA is not the Passover lamb as the Pharisees teach; scripture does not say HE is. He is “The Passover,” the sacrificial lamb for all 7 of the feasts and all 59 sabbaths. Hebrews 10 tells us that we do not sacrifice animals; this would be a lack of faith as YAHUSHA’s Blood is sufficient. Even Paul rebukes the sacrifices of animals. But the beast will try to reimplement this as to try to show he is god—he is spiritual Sodom and Egypt (Revelation 11:8, 12:14; Daniel 7:25, 11, 12:7). Passover is an evening event. It was the next day that Yasharal’s exodus from Egypt began on the first day of Unleavened bread (Exodus 12). As the Ruach of death passed over their homes which were painted with the blood of the sacrificial lamb (YAHUSHA gives life) the evening before, which is Passover. The next day at Sunrise, they are told by Pharoah they are let go. They packed and began their Exodus from Egypt (captivity), the leaven of Pharoah/Pharisees, and entering into the TRUTH, Unleavened, of their own heritage. This was all a foreshadowing of things to come in Abraham with Isaac, then YAHUAH with YAHUSHA, and finally in the so-called future with YAHUSHA and the Righteous who keep HIS ways, the ways of HIS Father YAHUAH, not the Babylonian ways of men. 

Unleavened Bread is on Abib 14-21 (occurs March-April each year) (April 4th-11th, 2023; Sundown 4th – Sundown 11th, 7 days total). This is a Feast Sabbath Gathering on the 7th day (Numbers 33:3; Exodus 12). 7 days including the half day of Passover (above) which began at sundown, it is half a day. If a day started at sunset and not sunrise, Unleavened Bread would be 8 days, and therefore, biblically incorrect. Passover is the start of Unleavened bread. The first full day of Unleavened Bread is the Passover at sundown to the next day at sundown; Passover and 1stday (24 hours) of Unleavened Bread. The last day is a full Feast Sabbath; break bread with brethren and have a memorial unto YAHUAH. Menu items are not required/necessary for unleavened bread. Only the Passover on the first day has a specific menu; bitter herbs, Lamb, or goat is usually served but not necessary. 7 days, sundown, April 4th– 11th. No one has the perfect day; we simply must keep the feasts. Just do your best. For these 7 total days we remove leaven and rising agents as a sign of removing the gas bubbles of the Pharisees as they pollute the Word of TRUTH (Mark 7). This includes crackers, cookies, etc. This is a week of cleansing, even a spiritual diet to remove the leaven of the scribes and pharisees (skip church). We must guard our heart, stay diligent, and prove all things. Keep mindful. Do no work the Sabbath day, but the rest you may. Of course, for purposes of survival, working the sabbath is ok. This is one of the points YAHUSHA was making in Matthew 12.

First fruit offering is on Abib 26 (occurs March-April each year) (Sunday, April 16th, 2023; Sunrise to Sunrise, 1 day only). An offering, not a meal (Leviticus 23:1-2, 9-14). This is the first fruits when you first start to see the fruits but not yet the harvest. This is not a feast, simply an offering. Weigh a sheaf of barley, or similar grain, with a drink offering of wine at a gathering, and pour it on the altar—an offering to YAHUAH. No feast is required, this “offering” of first fruits begins the counting to Shavuot which is the “feast” of first fruits. These days do not move nor vary. First Fruit offering is always on Abib 26, 50 days from (before) the 3rd month, 15th day of Shavuot. If you hear a Barley harvest came early in Yasharal, that is nonsense, do not follow it. These pharisees get 614 laws out of the 10 commandments, they work to change the times and laws (Daniel 7).

Shavuot (Hebrew) or Pentecost (Greek) is on day 15 of the 3rd month (occurs May-June each year) (Sunday, June 4th, 2023; Sunrise to Sunrise, 1 day only) known as Day of Covenant Renewal. Feast with a Sabbath meal; Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:10; Jubilees 1:1, 6:15-22, 44:1-5. This is the same event, not two separate as the pharisees teach; that would be incorrect. On the 15th day in the 3rd month period! Also, on the plantar in Qumran they call it sivan. The bible leaves it unnamed and identifies it as the 3rd month. This is the day acknowledged as covenant renewal, the day Adamah entered covenant for the first time, that set the precedent and never passed away, but renewed annually on this day. Noah waited almost two weeks before releasing the animals from the ark until he came out to build an altar to renew covenant on Shavuot. Abraham renewed covenant on Shavuot, so did Isaac, so did Jacob, and so did Moses on Mt. Sinai—first when YAHUAH proposed covenant and Yasharal accepted, on the 16th day of the third month that Moses went up to the mountain for 40 days. The Torah happened in the 40 days. Shavuot is the most precious day of the year, the day of covenant renewal. On the 15th day, not the 6th that the Pharisees say since they stole the temple. It is also the feast or harvest of first fruits. A double nature, exactly 50 days from Abib 26, which is when the first fruit offering was given. You can count the Omer (days) but no need, this year it will be on June 4th. This is also the day of Birth of YAHUSHA and Isaac, Abraham’s son. Isaac was the sign of things to come for YAHUSHA HaMashiach which is why Isaac is called the son of covenant. Since YAHUSHA did not pass away, HE engrained it (Mark 2) and said HE is the Master of the Sabbath (Matthew 12). Even the apostles and early Qahal kept the Sabbath for centuries following the death of YAHUSHA. Sunrise to sunrise, we have a meal and share together scriptures appropriate for the many things that took place on this day including the coming of Ruach HaQadesh. We can and do cook, but the other Sabbath rules apply. YAHUSHA was taken on the Passover, sacrificed on the first day of unleavened bread, rose on the next weekly sabbath; the whole period concluding three months (3rd month) later (on Shavuot HIS birthday), the day RUACH HaQadesh came to the apostles on Shavuot (weeks)/Pentecost (50) 50 days from the First Fruit Offering (YAHUSHA). We will receive the RUACH HaQadesh again on Shavuot in the future—He is not here now. We all need to restore His feasts and ways/laws. This is about HIS people; YAHUSHA, Isaiah, and Ezekiel said so.

3 Fall feasts – none of these have happened yet, so how can the church claim they have passed away when they have yet to even happen? The month of Ethanim, the 7th Hebrew month (occurs September – October each year):  

  1. Yom Teruah is the Hebrew name for The Feast of Trumpets in English, but never Rosh Hashanah. It is on Ethanim 1 (Wednesday, September 20th, 2023; Sunrise to Sunrise, 1 day only)(Numbers 29:1). We celebrate with sound and noise, we have fun, blow trumpets—any trumpets, even the shofar. The celebration of the sounding of the last trump when YAHUSHA returns. As it has yet to happen, it cannot pass away. The rabbis call it Rosh Hashanah. This is incorrect; Rosh Hashanah is never in the fall in scripture. What the bible calls Rosh Hashanah (Head of the year) is in March, and there are no two Head of Year Days. Exodus 12:2 says the beginning of months is on Abib 1. The Jewish calendar is wrong, they use the moon as a measure when it is supposed to be the sun based on position and harvest. This year on Wed. Sept. 20, sunrise to sunrise, one full 24-hour day, also a feast Sabbath where we celebrate, and have a meal, and blow trumpets, as well. You can serve lamb or any clean foods.
  • Yom Kippur or The Day of Atonement  is on Ethanim 9-10 (Thursday, September 28th at sundown – Friday, September 29th at sundown). Fast, no feast, from sunset to sunset (Leviticus 22:32, 16:29-31). Mohediym = appointed time. We do not eat on this day, we fast from food and water. One day per year for a solemn day of repentance. Only day we are commanded to fast; we do not fast on the Sabbath, but you may fast on a long term Sabbath. Yahusha did it (40 days and 40 nights), Isaiah did it. Even the book of Jubilees says we do not fast on the Sabbath, and the bible says we eat on the Sabbath. Yet, it is ok if you are doing a long-term cleansing. We are to atone for our sins on this day. You may take food if necessary for medical reasons; however, do your best any other time. Sundown on the 9th of Ethanim through the 10th of Ethanim at sundown. This is even in the new testament as a foreshadowing of the day of judgement. This has yet to come so how could it have passed away? This year it lands on Thursday evening, Sept 28th at sundown, to Sept 29th at sundown.
  • Feast of Tabernacles or Booths or Tents, but in Hebrew it is Sukkot (Tents), is on Ethanim 15-22 (October 4th– 11th; Sunrise to Sunrise, 8 days). Live and eat in Tents on days 1-7, Feast and Sabbath days 1 & 8 (Leviticus 23:33-36; Jubilees 16:20-31, 32:16). A foreshadowing of the day we receive our new glorified bodies instead of these temporary temples which turn to dust, as it is our spirit that gets resurrected. A new Yarusalayim comes down as the ones, body and state, we have now are also temporary, so will the church pass away. This is the longest festival of the year. It is 8 days, but originally 7 days; in the days of Yaacab, YAHUAH added an 8th day—it is written on the heavenly tablets according to the book of Jubilees. The 1st and 8th days are feast sabbaths we do cook and eat freshly cooked food. There is a Sabbath in the middle of this, a weekly Sabbath where the rules apply. We build tents and decorate, it is acceptable/permissible work. Begins sunrise Oct 4th, ends at sunrise Oct 12th. Lots of fun better than Christmas. We live and eat in our tents on the first 7 days, the 8th day we do not have to live in the tent. A pleasure to serve YAHUAH, YAHUSHA.

The 3 Hebrew months in which HIS HolyDays take place are the 1st, 3rd & 7th months (as noted above): The original text of the bible does not give us names of months, other than the few mentioned. The unnamed are in numbered sequence from Abib, the first month, and continuing from the names mentioned. Otherwise, the modern names are Babylonian names and referenced here. Notice the leaven of the scribes and Pharisees as these names did not previously exist:

  1. Abib = Ripening of grain (barley, wheat), Exodus 13:4; modern “nisan” = their flight; Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7
  2. Ziv = Splendor or Radiance [Flowers] (Barley harvest), 1 Kings 6:1, 37; modern “iyyar” = natural healing
  3. 3rd month = Wheat harvest; modern day “sivan” = bright, their covering; Esther 8:9 “India to Upper NIile Region”
  4. 4th month = unnamed; modern day “tammuz” = hidden, giver of the vine, Phoenician deity: Ezekiel 8:13-15
  5. 5th month = unnamed; modern day “av/ab” = father, av the comforter (do you see the deceit?)
  6. 6th month = Fruit Harvest; modern day “elul” = a vain thing, nothingness; Nehemiah 6:15
  7. Ethanim = Ever Flowing Streams, 1 Kings 8:2; modern day “tishri” = beginning, month of the strong/ancients
  8. Bul = Produce in the sense of rain, 1 Kings 6:38; modern day “keshvan” = eighth, the flood
  9. 9th month = unnamed; modern day “kislev” = security, trust; Zechariah 7:1; Nehemiah 1:1 
  10. 10th month = unnamed; modern day “tevet/tebeth” = good (from tov); Esther 2:16
  11. 11th month = unnamed; modern day “shevat/shebat” = meaning is unknown; Zechariah 1:7
  12. 12th month = unnamed; modern day “adar” = strength; Esther 3:7, 13, 8:12, 9:1, 15-21; Ezra 6:15
  13. 13th month = unnamed; modern day “adar II” = Additional month added during Leap Years.  About every 2nd or 3rd year. There are 7 leap years in a 19-year cycle.

The modern-day names are made-up names and even include names of other nations’ gods (tamuz), so it is best not to use those names. Also, modern day “purim” and “hannukah” are not biblical days. The book of Esther is not scripture, nor can it be proven to be. It does not even mention YAHUAH nor give HIM credit of anything. So is Maccabees the same. 

Same with the names of the days of the week, the original text of the bible does not give us names of days, other than the Sabbath (Shabbat). Days of the week are in numbered sequence from the “first day” in Genesis 1:5, through all the days of creation. Otherwise, the modern names are Babylonian names:

  1. First Day; modern Sunday (sun day) = represented by the sun, pagan deity is ra, etc.
  2. Second Day; modern Monday (moon day) = represented by the moon, deities are lucifer, geb, nut, etc. 
  3. Third Day; modern Tuesday (tiw’s day) = represented by mars & aries, deity is annibus, tiw/tiu/tyr, etc. 
  4. Fourth Day; modern Wednesday (Woden’s day) = reped by Mercury, deities are hermes, osiris, woden, EL, etc.
  5. Fifth Day; modern Thursday (Thor’s day) = represented by Jupiter, deities are zeus, isis, hova, thor, etc.
  6. Sixth Day; modern Friday (Freya’s day) = represented by Venus, deities are aphrodite, set, freya/frejya, etc.
  7. Shabbat/Sabbath (7th Day of Rest, begins at Sunrise as all days); modern Saturday (Saturn/satan day) = represented by Saturn, deities is cronos, bast, satan, etc.

Who Kept/Keeps the Feasts?

  • YAHUSHA HaMashiach kept the Feasts: Matthew 26:2-19, 5:17; Mark 14:12-16; Luke 2:41-42, 22:1-20; John 2:13-23, 6:4, 13:1-30.
  • The Apostles kept the Feasts: Acts 20:6-7, 12:3, 18:20-21; 1 Corinthians 5:6-8, 16:8
  • The Early Qahal/Ecclesia (7 churches) kept the Feasts: Polycrates, Eusebius, Apollinaris, Tertullian, etc. The 7 Qahals were in Turkey, not Rome.
  • Heaven kept the Feasts from the beginning and still does.

Who Are the Feasts For?

They are for everyone, even the strangers (gentiles) among Yasharal: Leviticus 16:29, 18:26, 19:34; Exodus 12:49; Numbers 9:14, 15:26 & 29.

When Does Keeping the Feasts End?

They are Forever: Leviticus 23:14, 21, 31, 41, 16:29 and more… Even in the Kingdom of Heaven….

Why Do We Not Keep the Feasts Today?

The church teaches us to ignore them. YAHUSHA said HE did not abolish nor replace the Feasts (Matthew 5:17-20).

Shavuot cannot be replaced by the pagan christmas holiday, this was rebuked in Jeremiah 10:2-8. Passover cannot be replaced by the pagan easter holiday, this was rebuked in Jeremiah 7:18. Tabernacles cannot be replaced by the pagan all saints day, this was rebuked by Abraham in Jubilees 22:16-24. Those who teach men to break these feasts, assuming they are saved, shall be least in the kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 5:17-20). The church teaches that the word “fulfilled” means passed away; it does not. YAHUSHA is the blood sacrifice for all Feasts and Sabbaths forever (Hebrews 10): no more animal sacrifices, But HIS Feasts remain. We may still do a burnt offering, but of spices, not animals. Otherwise, YAHUSHA’s sacrifice is in vain. It was the night HE would prepare to fulfill the Spring Feasts of YAH. HE knew HE would suffer and die, just as the feasts foreshadowed from the beginning. HE would enter Yarusalyim on the day the Passover Lamb would enter the city gates, Abib 10. HE became our Passover, the sacrificial lamb; HE is the Passover, why would we abandon it? He fulfilled the Feast of Unleavened Bread, teaching discernment against hypocrisy, exposing the leaven of the Pharisees, and it dissipates as knowledge increases… YAHUSHA is our First Fruit offering from among the dead. Shavuot (Hebrew) or Pentecost (Greek), many special occasions take place on this day: it is the day HaMashiach was born here on earth, and it is nowhere near the month of December. Shavuot is the 7th day of Creation = rest, The first Sabbath, the Covenant of Adamah. It is also the day Noah renewed the Covenant with YAHUAH, even the day Abraham renewed the Covenant. Who else would renew the covenant on this day? That’s right. Moses and Yasharal, which begins the Law. Shavuot is the day in the future of the coming of RUACH HaQadesh. The Fall feasts: The Feast of Trumpets “the end time trump shall sound”; The Day of Atonement, the day of judgement to come; The Feast of Tabernacles (Tents) when we receive new heavenly bodies & New Yarusalyim comes to earth.

Yahusha said the entire law cannot pass away until the day of judgement: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot [dot on the i] or one tittle [cross on the t] shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:17-20).

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of YAHUAH” (1 Corinthians 10:31).

All Honor, Praise, Glory, and Salvation be to YAHUAH ALUAH!; Baruhk our King, Savior, and Brother YAHUSHA HaMashiach!

-A.M., a Watchman

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