We are walking in today: Weekend Meditation--haSatan Masquerades His Own Lies In The Costume Of Truth
Witness falsehood throughout the Bible: H8267 sheqer lie, deception, disappointment, untruth
Isaiah 28:14-16; Ezekiel 13:8; Psalm 41:7, 59:13
This
arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty,
the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph
Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living. This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here. http://store.torah.tv/browse.c
509. You shall exact the penalties for a person inflicting injury --Exodus 21:18-19 18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
510. You shall avenge the death of a servant who has died by the rod --Exodus 21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
513. You shall exact the penalties for injuries caused by a pit --Exodus 21:33-34 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; 34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
The Ninth Commandment--Exodus 20:13 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
507. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor --Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
508. You shall put to death one who kidnaps a man and sells him --Exodus 21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
509. You shall exact the penalties for a person inflicting injury --Exodus 21:18-19 18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
510. You shall avenge the death of a servant who has died by the rod --Exodus 21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
511. You shall observe the penalties for injuries caused by an animal --Exodus 21:28 If an ox gore a man or a
woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh
shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
512. You shall not eat the flesh of a condemned ox --Exodus 21:28
513. You shall exact the penalties for injuries caused by a pit --Exodus 21:33-34 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; 34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
514. You shall observe the law for the punishment of thieves
--Exodus 22:1-3
1 If
a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall
restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be
found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be
shed for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed
for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then
he shall be sold for his theft.
515. You shall exact the penalties for damage caused by an animal --Exodus 22:4
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
516. You shall exact the penalties for damage caused by a fire --Exodus 22:6 If
fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the
standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the
fire shall surely make restitution.
Fiveamprayer this morning we are going to take a close and Biblical look at the origins of many church practices to find and determine how and where we got off course from the original plan of the Most High! This study will look to find the places where the devil has inserted his plan while pushing out or overlaying Yahweh's appointed times and instructions. The evil and counterfeit plan to usurp the power, glory and authority of Almighty God, started very long ago.
In the garden of Eden we have the sacrificial system set up for the rebellion of Adam and Eve to the perfect instruction of Adonai. From this instituted process to account the wrong's of man at the death of the innocent animal. A very visual reminder that their actions have resulted in death that should have been accounted to them. In the watching of this process, satan found a way that if man could be convinced to do the same process, but in error--he would be able to steal glory away from Yahweh. Here begins his plan to exalt himself to be like the most high--remember this declaration of the devil in Isaiah 14:14. So here it begins how to shift man, Yahweh's crafted image to worship and revere him in error. So there had to be a government, a throne, false worship based on his counterfeit religion established in this foul substitute to His perfect truth. The image that the enemy chooses is the sun. It is a strong force of nature and source of light, a ready made symbol of that which he sought to apply to himself. This process while it took hundreds of years to complete this shift of the day of worship in the church, that Yahweh's appointed day of worship the 7th day of the week, Saturday--this shift made to Sunday the first day of the week. A small shift that many may try to dismiss, yet what does scripture say? Did Yahweh ever appoint a change of the His day to meet with His people? The Sun's day of worship is directly tied to sun god worship which is not worship of the Living God, Yahweh but over the years, layers of lies and the dust of deceit we arrive to our present day worship in many churches. These which are to be of Almighty God and yet not defined according to His words at all! You may even be surprised to find that this sun god worship on Sunday was done almost as early at Sabbath keeping worship. Here in Job we find that he speaks of being secretly enticed or lead away from knowing that Yahweh is above, due to worship of the sun or the moon (Job 31:26-28). Job is saying that if he were convinced to worship either the sun or moon is denial of the Creator of the Universe--the King of kings! Wake up church! We have been secretly enticed and lead away from the Way, the Truth and the Life! But surely that is it, nothing else was changed? Let us continue on further. The golden calf worship in the wilderness by the children of Israel in Exodus 32. Why would they have to get up early on the next day for this worship? Their replica that they fashioned in gold was the calf that was a part of the sun god worship in Egypt. They were worshiping the sun is why the got up early. Now with this understanding you are not surprised at the burning anger of Moses when he returns with the instructions of Yahweh to find the people in such abject disobedience to the only God Almighty! Where else do we find sun worship in the Bible by the pagans that surrounded the people of Israel? We hear of the baal worship in the first half of the Bible--but who is baal? This is a pagan god that was attributed the characteristics of the sun, moon and the stars. The devil in ancient times was worshiped as the pagan god baal. We have all throughout the Bible the worship of baal that kept drawing the children of Israel away from the One True God--Yahweh. This is what happened in the showdown at Mt. Carmel of Elijah and the prophets of the pagans including baal. 1 Kings 18:21-27 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. 22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: 24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. 25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. 26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. This taunt of Elijah could be in regard to the season when the sun is at it's lowest point that they though that it would go to sleep, thus they had to cry out louder to be heard or maybe on a journey and out of earshot. Yet when the true God, Yahweh is called upon with all the altar in order and sacrifice set appropriately on the arranged wood that was thoroughly wet with water answers, for it was the appointed time for prayer/sacrifice. Do you consider that Yahweh gave us times and days at random? Isn't not His calendar marked for each time and date that He expects to meet with you and yet many of us either unaware or disregard and come any other time. Well if you can meet at any time, why not His appointed times? What benefit do you have to be a stubborn child and refuse correction?
Going back to the book of Genesis 10:8-10, 11:2-9 we have Nimrod the son of Cush who became the first great ruler after the great flood. This great and mighty ruler was very wicked and by the hand of hasatan is a tool crafted to begin instituting sun/devil worship. Nimrod and his wife Semiramis are the first two people deified--made as gods. At the death of Nimrod he was to be transformed into the sun for that is what Semiramis said set in motion that his soul went to the sun and that she would go to the moon to reside at her death. As she called herself the queen of heaven and was worshiped by the people in that fashion. She also has a son that she claims is the reborn Nimrod and named him Tammuz who has been worshiped by the many pagans and his symbol is the 't', the first letter of his name. There were human sacrifices offered to him on that 't' which would later be known as the cross. Since there was a huge focus on sun god worship, people noticed in December around the 21 that the sun would be at it's lowest point, and did not begin to rise again until the 25. This day became known as the birthday of the sun and celebrated. So how does this get inserted into our church practices? Not knowing the day of Christ's birth it was determined by man's intellect that since there is not a specific day given, why not choose a day that many already observe and consider special for the birth of the sun or Tammuz. Over time under the authority of the Catholic church, there was a special Mass that was done on that day which was Christ's Mass. Later followed with the decorating of a tree which represented the continuing life of Nimrod who ascended into the sun and reborn in Tammuz.
Where else was their a pagan mix up or devilish takeover in church practices? In the spring we have the crucifixion and resurrection of our Messiah Yeshua. On the pagan calendar this is the time of the moon festival. Remember the wife of Nimrod, Semiramis who likened herself to a moon god and called herself the queen of heaven? We have cakes being made for her that had a 't' on them. These were renamed, hot cross buns by the church (Jeremiah 7:16-18). The 40 days of weeping for Tammuz was later called Lent that would end on Easter Sunday (Ezekiel 8:12-18) The goddess Ishtar or Easter was known to be the goddess of reproduction and new life tied to springtime. Those who worshiped her would get up very early on Sunday as the sun was rising to worship, here enters the symbols of eggs and rabbits tied to fertility and reproduction. We have all seen Easter baskets that are certainly linked to these symbols! Wake up church, the birth of Christ assigned by men on the same day of a pagan god the people had been worshiping for centuries; the Passion of the Christ surrounded by eggs, rabbits, hot cross buns and early sunrise services; the 40 days of weeping for the death of a pagan god switched to Lent???
So let's look to Jeremiah, who speaks of correction to the people to cease worship to the 'queen of heaven' and they refused (Jeremiah 44). Fiveamprayer let us not seek to continue in the counterfeit when the Truth has been revealed unto us! Our innocence and ignorance is now over! Return to the truth without the error. Walk in all the truth you have received! He is taking the scales off of our eyes and hearing is being opened to come back to the original, holy and perfect ways of the Eternal One, Yahweh! We have accepted and been entangled in the lies and traditions that have been handed down, years over years! This suprising revelation of truth is needed to fully return to the truth. That is what Yahweh is seeking for His people to return to Him! The time is coming that you will have to make changes for the truth that you have received. Time is out for making deathly concessions for traditions over honor to He who is True! We have spent too much time in man-pleasing when he has no authority over you! We have in Ezekiel 20:12-20 gives the designation of the pagan sun god worshipers selected the first day of the week to for their time of worship. And those following Yahweh's design are observing the 7th day Sabbath as instituted from the beginning of the world. To hear the weekend meditation again click here.
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