THE KINGDOM

Daniel Chapter 2










Today we are walking in: The Priority Of The Kingdom











Today we look to the word-DOMINION- H4475 memshalah--rule, dominion, realm, rule, dominion, realm, domain









The Torah testifies..................…



Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.





Genesis 27:40

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.




Genesis 37:8




And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.








The prophets proclaim...............…
Jeremiah 34:1

The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, H4475 and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,




Jeremiah 51:28 - Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. H4475




Miciah 4:8 - And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; H4475 the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.













The writings bear witness.............






1 Kings 9:19 - And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of




Psalm 103:22 - Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: H4475 bless the LORD, O my soul.

his dominion. H4475




Psalm 145:13 - Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion H4475 endureth throughout all generations.












THE PRIORITY OF THE KINGDOM

I want you to get your Bibles and if you will turn me to the book of Psalm 103, and then go over to Daniel we're going to read Daniel chapter 2. We're going to talk about the priority of the kingdom of Yah. The entire motivation of Yah is his kingdom. Everything Yah is doing is motivated by his desire and his passion to have his kingdom established on earth. Yah already has a kingdom in heaven. Today we're going to hopefully learn what a kingdom is. As a matter of fact I think it's so important for us to study kingdom because the Bible is not a book about a republic. The Bible is not a democracy. The Bible is about Kingdom. Yah's original purpose for creating the visible world was to establish his invisible kingdom on the visible world. That was his purpose for creation. So Yah's intent was to have his kingdom influenced in the visible realm from the invisible. The invisible produced the visible. Please write that down. The invisible produced the visible. In other words the visible world is not as real as the invisible world. The visible world is a reflection of the invisible world. Keep writing. So whatever you see in the visible world has a corresponding reflection in the invisible world. Paul in his writings to the Corinthians says we understand that the things which are seen came from those which are unseen for things that are seen are temporary but those that are unseen are eternal. That's why the invisible is more real than the visible, because the visible is temporary. That's why it has to be sustained. Yah's plan was to have his invisible kingdom manifested in the visible world. Now his program is very interesting. The way Yah plan to do this is very clear in Genesis, he planned to do it by having invisible children. That is what the word image means. Children in his own image, his own likeness. When I used the word children please don't get me wrong I'm really talking about sons and the word sons in the Hebrew is not really relegated to male. It simply means offspring. Something that Springs off is called a son. So Yah called all of us sons, whether we were a male body or a female body, we are called a son. So a woman is a son of Yah. That means a woman happens to be the house, the gender house, but the woman on the inside is a spirit and spirits have no gender. So the female is the house but the spirit the man is a genderless spirit. That's why Yah calls us all man. Through these children these sons called man he intended to establish his visible kingdom. How is he going to do that? He gave to them a visible body and then he made them a visible planet and then he put them who are invisible, who are wearing a visible body on the visible planet and then he says dominate that for me, have dominion. The word Dominion means to govern, to rule, to control, to manage, to subdue. A kingdom is a realm over which a king has Dominion or influence or control or management or administration, and that's what Yah wanted for you. So you and I were created by Yah to administrate his kingdom on earth that's as simple as it is. Adam was an administrator. He was a steward, he was a manager of planet Earth and inside of Adam was everybody we see here today and all who are on the way. Adam was filled with everybody. So we are designed by Yah to dominate planet Earth so that his King Dominion could come to earth. Adam disobeyed Yah and forfeited his kingdom rights. He gave it over to an unemployed cherub called HaSatan. HaSatan has since been wreaking havoc all over this world, I mean the guy has been ripping up Yah's beautiful program and he's been doing it by using the kids because he contaminated their minds, he depressed them, they don't even know who they are. As a matter of fact the first thing that Adam felt when he fell was fear. He became what? Afraid of Yah himself. I mean imagine the one whose image you are in you become afraid of. What a tragedy. Of course all of us became victims of that disobedience, we are now sons of disobedience and then Yah sent the second Adam to come and correct the problem, his name is Yahusha. What was the problem? Adam lost a kingdom. That was the problem. Adam did not lose heaven so going to heaven is not Yah's objective for you. Heaven to me and according to the Bible is a waiting place until the whole thing is consummated, but it's not your final destination. So if you died today you would go to heaven but you are not going to stay there because that's not Yah's official original plan for you. Heaven is real, there is a place that is called heaven, the place where Yah Himself is ruler and king and Lord, that's his territory. But the earth belongs to us. Psalm 115 verse 15 and 16. So ever since Adam fell Yah's been working on a program in the same chapter when the fall took place to put man back in charge of the kingdom on earth. In Genesis 3:15 Yah said to HaSatan the woman shall have a seed and that seed shall come and crush your head. The word head means authority. He's going to take back the power you have and give it back to man and in the process you're going to bruise his heel but he's going to crush your authority and take back the power. That was the promise and ever since Genesis 3:15 Yah has been working on this program to bring back the authority in the hands of mankind. His goal was to eventually do it himself through Yahusha Hamachiach. So all through the Old Testament Yah was attempting to reintroduce man to his kingdom responsibilities. We are a whole kingdom of kings but we are ignorant concerning who we are and what we are able to do and what our powers are without thought. In other words the greatest enemy of man is ignorance. It’s really not sin or HaSatan. Ignorance. What you don't know is killing you. So that's why Yah didn't send power to fix the earth, because power is not our main problem. We have power. Yah sent a word to fix the earth. What is his word? Knowledge. Hamachiach came to give us the information of Yah or the revelation of Yah because we were suffering from ignorance. We didn't know who we were and still don't know who we are in most cases and so we are victims of our own ignorance. Let me tell you something: the word for ignorance in the Bible is the word darkness and Hasatan is called what? The Prince of Darkness. It means he rules by ignorance. That means HaSatan has no power except your ignorance. Whatever you don't know is what he uses to destroy you, but the word for knowledge in the Bible that word is light. and Yahusha is called what? The light of the world. It doesn't mean he's glowing like a bulb. It means he came with information, with revelation. Why? Because that was our problem. We didn't know that we were Kings, didn't know this was our territory, we don't know that we are rulers of this place. That's why HaSatan is running our lives, he takes our bodies, destroys them with sickness, takes our lives and destroys them financially ,destroys our marriages, messes up our kids, destroys everything. Why? Because we don't realize the power that we have. So when Yahusha came he came to give us revelation or information, not only about Yah really but about us. He came to tell us who we are. I put it this way Yahusha Hamachiach came to the earth to introduce you to yourself. That's why he said follow me and I'll make you become real men who know how to fish in life. What does the word follow mean? Imitate, observe, learn, watch. I'm going to demonstrate this thing. What did he do? He walks on the water, he speaks to fish, he speaks to a tree; it dies, he casts out demons with a word, he points at things it happens. I mean he was showing us how you do it. When he was walking on the water one time Peter said, ``Can I come he says of course. That's what men do on earth, come on boy. Peter started stepping and walking on the water. He spoke to the tree and the tree died. The disciples say Wow. He says guess what? If you speak to mountains they’ll move. You don't know who you are, he says. So the whole thing about the kingdom of Yah is the reintroduction of this kingdom. In the Book of Daniel real quickly, Daniel knew about this Kingdom. Yah gave Revelation. In Daniel 2:44 it says in the time of those kings the Yah of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed nor will it be left to another people, it will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end and it will itself endure for how long? Forever. Daniel 7:13-15 it says in my vision at night I looked and there before me was one like the son of man, sounds familiar, coming with the clouds of heaven. Clouds means host of angels. It doesn't mean he is coming in that white stuff you see above there. Clouds of what? Heaven. That means they're hosts of angels. Continuing on…. coming with the clouds of heaven he approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. The Ancient of days is who? The father Yah, the Yahhead. Who was led into his presence? The son of man. Who's that? Yahusha Hamachiach in the Old Testament. It says he was led to him and he was given what? Authority, glory and sovereign power over all people. Now let me stress here friends what's he called in that verse? The son of what? Man. Yahusha adopted this statement, this title for himself. No one gave it to him. He adopted it himself. He started telling the people I am the son of man. He is telling them what you read about, that was me. Now we call him the Son of Yah. Why does he call himself the son of man? In John chapter 5 he gives a reason why. Can we turn there for a second? It's kingdom stuff here. In John chapter 5 Yahusha was working a lot of miracles that day, he was healing people, cleansing people, he was opening blinded eyes, He healed a man at the pool of Siloam, I mean he was doing a lot of miracles and the people were impressed by what he did and he was doing it with so much ease they thought there is something about this guy we have to find out. So they actually asked him about his authority. Look at verse 16 so because Yahusha was doing these things, plural, that means many things, on what? The Sabbath day the Jews persecuted him. Yahusha said to them my father is always at work to this very day and I too am working. By the way, that statement is a dangerous statement. When is the father working? Always. That’s a dangerous statement. When is the father working? Always. I thought it said Yah rested on the seventh day. What was their argument? The Sabbath. What was his answer? Yah's always working. Now we have a problem with the Sabbath here. Maybe we don't know what Sabbath means. They say don't work on the Sabbath. He says my father's always working. You mean Genesis chapter 2, we misunderstood it? When it says Yah works six days and he rested on the seventh day. So on the seventh day he was still working? Maybe he changed his mode of work. Maybe Shabbat doesn't mean to do nothing. Maybe Shabbat means to do a different kind of work like enjoying what you work for. My father's always working, he says and therefore what? I have to work. So when are you supposed to work? As long as the father's working. When does the father work? Always. You know when people go on vacation they forget about Yah. They go to Disneyworld, visit a rat. It's like they say, for six days I don't want to hear any bible scriptures, I don't want to witness to anybody. I came to play with Mickey. That's how they think but my father's what? Always working. He sent you to Disney World to bring somebody to Yahusha. So the man at the cash register at Disney World is cashing up your popcorn and Yah says tell him about my love. You say I don’t want to do that right now. I’m on vacation. He said my father's always working. My father is always working, Yahusha said and therefore I must also work. But not watch his answers again with regards to the Son of Man. It says for this reason the Jews all the more tried to kill him, not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling Yah his own father making himself what? The son of Yah. Now wait a minute didn't Yah say he's your father? See in the Hebrew if someone is your father that means that you came from the same source. Which means you are the same stuff. The Jewish theology did not have a fatherhood image of Yah. They were afraid of Yah. Yah was a consuming fire, a terror to them and here comes this man in the flesh calling Yah my source. In other words, my father and I are of the same stuff. They said you cannot be Yah. Well when you call Yah your father you are saying that you are little Yah. So they couldn't handle that and they tried to kill him. Well look at this verse. Verse 19 Yahusha gave them this answer. I tell you the truth, the son can do nothing of himself but he can only do what he sees his father doing because whatever the father does the son also does. We are all sons so we can do only what our father does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does, yet to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. Now watch this. For just as the father raises the dead and gives them life even so the son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. Moreover the father judges no one but has entrusted all judgment to who? The son. That all may honor the son just as they honor the father. He who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him. I tell you the truth whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned. He has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of who? The Son of Yah. And those who hear will live. Now the dead are going to hear whose voice? Not the son of man, the son of Yah. For as the father has life in himself so has he granted the son to have life in himself and he has given him authority to judge because he is the son of what? Yah. Don't read this quickly. Yahusha changes on us. When they talk about his omnipotence, the coming at the end of days with the trumpet of Yah to raise the dead, he says when I show up that way I'm the son of Yah. But he says to judge on earth, to judge means to act righteously, these healings, these deliverances, these miracles, he says I do them because I have the authority as who? The son of man. He says I am only able to do these things not because I am the son of Yah, because as the son of Yah, listen carefully, I am illegal. They said how can you heal the sick, raise the dead on the Sabbath? He says I do these things because I am a man. Because only man can function on earth legally. Everything Yahusha did on earth he claimed it possible because he was the son of man. So when you read the Bible you have to be careful every time he switches. When he talks about the future he says the son of Yah. When he talks about the present he says the son of man why? Because to be here you need a body. Now what does that mean to you? That means Hamachiach had no advantage over you. Some of us think that because he was Yah in the flesh that he was better or more equipped than us. No. He had the same stuff you have. He had the Ruach HaQadesh, he had a body that could get tired, he had to rest one day, drink water, he got thirsty, he was tempted to quit. Oh yes he was. He wanted to find another way out of this thing. He went through the whole thing why? Because he was the son of man and that he claims to be his source of authority. So you are authoritative on earth because you are a human. Son of man. Daniel said this in verse 14 he was given authority and glory and sovereign power over who? All peoples and nations and men of every language worshiped him. His Dominion is an everlasting Dominion that will not pass away and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. Now why is this important? Where did he go? It says he came into the presence of who? The Ancient of Days. I want you to picture this. The Son of Man… When was this written? Long before Yahusha came to earth. Daniel had what? A vision of the future. He saw Yah's kingdom being established by a person called the Son of Man and Daniel saw this son of man coming into the presence of the Ancient of Days to get some stuff. What does he come to get? Authority and the nature of Yah. Why? He's going to earth to have dominion over the peoples to bring back the authority of Yah. He has to go to Yah to get what? The authority. How did Yah give him the authority? By making him the son of man. Is anybody with me at all? That's a powerful scripture. This is a couple of thousand years before Yahusha came to earth but Daniel saw him going to get a kingdom and the Kingdom is already in heaven but to get it on earth he has to go as the son of man. That's where he got his authority from. and then he came and gave it to who? Every language and every person and that is why the next verse is so important. Watch this statement by Daniel 7:18. it says but the Saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will possess it forever and forever and forever. Who's going to receive it? Not angels, the Saints. They are going to receive what? The kingdom, not heaven. The kingdom. The stuff he went in the presence of the Ancient of Days to get, he went to get it for the Saints. The word Saint, write that word down please. The word Saint has been really messed up lately. The word Saint is not St. Theresa St. Thomas Moore and these dead people. Every book in the Bible that Paul wrote was addressed to the Saints and they were all alive. So don't let any philosophy cause you to believe that Saints are only dead people. Every believer is supposed to be a saint. The word saint is from the word sanctified. The word sanctified write it down, which simply means set apart for a specific use. put it another way. Sanctified means to be isolated for a specific purpose. So a saint it's not somebody with a long robe with some veil on or something. A saint as anybody who was being set apart for a specific use. You can sanctify a cup, you can sanctify a table. You can set it apart for a specific use. Now some of you have your wedding china and they are sanctified. What does that mean? Matter of fact you don't even use them at all. They set apart for guests. So they're sanctified. That's what the word Saint means, it means set apart. Now every single person listening live or the recording who has received Hamachiach into their lives, the Bible calls you church. Church is from the word ecclesia. Ecclesia means set apart ,called out and set apart. So every believer is sanctified. So you are a saint and they're the ones he gave what to? They receive the kingdom. You were born again not to go to heaven, you were born again to receive a kingdom. What is kingdom? Dominion, Authority, power, rulership. you were created to be in charge of this situation. When you wake up tomorrow morning to go to work don't go to work trying to scrape your way through life barely making it by Yah's grace saying if i just make it by Friday hanging on for Yahusha. That is not a kingdom mentality. Kingdom mentality is: bring on the problems, bring on the trouble, why? me and King Yahusha we are ready for this thing, why? I'm built to run this situation. Sanctified. He sent us to receive the kingdom of Yah. You know this is an incredible mentality change. That's why most people are so frustratingly depressing. Being around them. I mean you see these Saints, people always complaining. What kind of King are you? Imagine a king complaining about bills. Mentality. All Kings go to war. You all know that. Read history. They all go to war and I mean they go to war to win and they fight to the death. That’s what kingship is all about. It's about protecting authority and taking territory. There's always an enemy somewhere around in your life. You have to take authority and get your territory back. It's a fight. You don't roll over and say Oh Lord take care of that. You have to get this thing out yourself. The bible says that the kingdom of Yah is what? Taken by the violent. You have to be violent to get this thing that's yours. Whatever is yours you have to fight for. Stop asking people to do things for you. Kings take authority and they take territory. Daniel says he gave it to the Saints. The next verse. then the sovereignty power on greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven will be handed over to what? The Saints. Now I want you to underline a statement here in that verse in your Bible. It says both the sovereignty, power and the greatness of the kingdom under heaven. Where is it? We want to go to heaven. He said this kingdom I'm talking about is not in heaven. It is under heaven. What I'm trying to do really before you die is to get you out of heaven. let me just get you out of heaven so you can know the planet is yours that Yah gives you as a steward and then decide from this day forward I'm going to start taking back every piece of land my foot possesses. I'm going to bring it under the influence of the kingdom of Yah. think that way. That's what he says. He will give you the kingdom under heaven and it will be handed over to whom? The Saints. A whole new verse but here he is giving you the same instructions. He will give it to the people of who? the Most High. We keep wanting heaven. He says it's not about heaven it's about the kingdom. We want to go somewhere. He says no I'm giving it to you. I'm giving you authority. Kingdom. So my thought patterns are very different than I used to have when I was a religious person. When I was religious, all I wanted to do was make it into heaven. Now as a saint, as a citizen all I want to do is to stay on earth. I want to make Earth exactly what he said. when you pray he say pray thy kingdom come and thy will be done not in heaven. When we leave here people should know that there is a kingdom. In Acts chapter 8:12- 13 very powerful verse. Philip preached the kingdom of Yah and I thought it was interesting that the Ruach HaQadesh made sure these details were in this verse. You all remember when the black guy came from Africa, Ethiopia in the book of Acts. He was a very wealthy guy. He was a eunuch and he went up to Jerusalem to worship. now remember that Solomon had sex with the queen of Ethiopia and she had a baby remember? She got pregnant and went back home and the message got back to Solomon that he had this child in Africa by this black woman. its true history. and so actually one of her sons was the son of Solomon. Who's Solomon? King, who is she? She's a queen. So who is the baby? The baby is a prince. So they're in Africa, we have now an official, original child that belongs to Solomon and a queen. so now therefore the Hebrew people have African roots. This family in Ethiopia becomes the royal family connected to Solomon. That's where the Rastas get their ideas from. Now the Rastas are trying to make this boy Messiah. That's what they were trying to do. Now there was no record in Scripture about this boy being a Messiah. so you can't invent a messiah for black people but you see when you are in slavery and oppressed and you are at a disadvantage. You can’t find food to eat and then the Europeans preach a white Yahusha that was oppressing you. Then I can understand your mental problems. I can understand why you say it can't be the white Yahusha for me because the white Yahusha sent the white man from Europe to oppress me and make me a slave, so it’s got to be a black messiah somewhere and so you go looking for him. you find him in ethiopia and you try to connect him to the Lion of Judah. There was no lion that was connected to this boy. It’s an illegitimate son that Solomon made laying with this woman. This African man from Ethiopia is from a tribe that began to worship the Yah of Solomon. Remember the Queen of Sheba was impressed by Solomon and Solomon says all I have is because of our Yah, Jehovah Yahweh and she says I believe in your Yah. So she became convinced and instead of worshiping those idols back home she took Yah back home with her and told the family with the baby. She was impressed with the Yah of Solomon and that's why today the first evangelistic outreach of the church took place in this chapter. This was the first international outreach by the church. It's this black man and where was he going? He was going back home to Africa. Where had he been? The Bible says he went up to worship. well because every Jew once a year had to go to Jerusalem to the temple to take a sacrifice and to worship Yahweh. That was the tradition. So the Africans from Ethiopia who were Solomon's descendants also did the tradition. They came up and they worshiped and ran back home. This man is on his way back home, while he was in Jerusalem somebody told him that a few weeks ago a man was preaching, healing the sick, raised the dead, cast out demons, cleansed the leper and this man died on the crucifixion stake and this man changed the whole place under Ethiopia trying to figure out who this man is. Now where is the Ethiopian? He's in the temple, he's worshiping Yahweh and he hears the rumors about this man. He is reading. What is he reading? He is reading the book of Isaiah. Where'd he get that from? He got it from his mama or from the Queen. The Queen bought the scrolls back from Solomon and so now she has the scriptures back in Africa. By the way that means the roots of African convictions in Yah go way back beyond slavery. They got the word before the Europeans. So here comes this guy he's reading and they had the nerve to make black people think that they couldn’t read. And guess what? Black people were rich. He was riding in a chariot which means that he wasn't driving. He was reading in his chariot on his way back to Ethiopia and while he was reading he got to a place in Isaiah where it says he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of his peace was upon him and with His stripes we were healed. He was reading this point and he got confused and couldn't figure out who this was this talking about and the bible says while he was pondering this in his mind. Philip was in a revival, in a small town and while at the revival people were getting healed it says that the Ruach HaQadesh came and this is where the miracle starts. It says it translated Philip, took him out a revival. Philip was taken up by the Ruach HaQadesh and translated and he came alongside the chariot. the Ethiopian said to him who are you? He says I'm Philip and he says what are you reading? He says I'm reading this Isaiah but I don't understand it. and the Bible says Philip said unto him would you like to understand? Understandest thou what thou readest? He says no I don't understand, I read it but I don't understand it. Here's what Philip says but when they believed Philip as he preached the good news, the kingdom of Yah, as the Ethiopian and his colleagues there who were with him, it says, in the name of Yahusha they were to be baptized both men and women, Simon himself believed and was baptized and he followed Philip everywhere astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw. Now he preached the good news of what? That's what I want you to watch. What did he preach? The kingdom. What have we been preaching? salvation, healing, prosperity. Solomon’s heritage got the message of the kingdom. What do we have? Philip knew the gospel. The gospel was the gospel of the kingdom and that's what he preached. He didn't preach being born again, he preached the kingdom to these people. That's why I wanted to stress some points here. The purpose of Yahusha is the same. What was his original purpose? His intent was to reinstate the kingdom of heaven on earth. Something interesting I want to wrap up this session on because next week we're going to go a little heavy into this but the timing of his coming was related to the kingdom. Not only did he preach the kingdom but even the timing of his coming to earth was controlled by the kingdom message. His ministry's message was related to the kingdom. That's all he preached. The kingdom of Yah is like…. the kingdom of Yah is like….. and then the promise of his ministry was related to the kingdom. He said that when I come the kingdom shall be established in its fullness. Very interesting and that his future expectation was not heaven but he expected the kingdom to be established. All right as you write those notes down let me just wrap this up on this unique and very important point of timing. Listen carefully, what's the first thing they teach about communication in school in your communications class? Effective communication needs what? you have the sender and the receiver. Then what do you have in the middle? what they call noise right? So if I have to give you a message, listen carefully now, in communication they say I am the sender I got the message, you are the receiver. I have to get it to you. Now between me and you is a whole lot of what they call noise. Noises are people getting up walking around distracting you. Something may bite you on your foot like a mosquito or something, maybe somebody makes a loud sound or a baby cries. I mean there's a lot of noise that can interrupt my message so you miss it. Secondly they say what you need to make communication successful, you need what they call understanding or definition of terms. Follow me carefully. In other words if I'm going to communicate to you anything, the words I use, whatever my definitions are, they have to be yours too. Are you with me? Otherwise we can't communicate. For example if I said give me some bread. now in the 1960s I'd give you money. See the problem? So if someone says give me some bread and I give you some money because in the 60s that's what money was, money was bread. If I say hey man that's cool. Now it doesn't mean it's cold. In the 1950s that means you were shivering but in the 1970s it means that you are okay. See two different meanings but the same word. In other words communication is only successful if the words we are using mean the same thing. Very important here. Let’s see who was listening in the last session. So here is Yah with a whole planet of people. He's in heaven he's got this message that's important to them about who they are as a kingdom. He sends himself in a body. Now chronologically speaking in this Bible, how long ago did Adam sin? Chronologically six thousand years ago. Six thousand years ago Adam sinned according to this book. When Adam sinned the same chapter Yah promised to send the seed, in the same chapter. so when Adam sinned in verse 4, in verse 15 Yah says, I got it covered no problem the seed is coming. Yah sends the solution in the same chapter but how long did Yah take before he showed up? So now you got Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, first and second Samuel, first and second Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Songs of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, there's a blank page. Now all of those books, all that history thousands of years, Yah still didn’t send the son. What's Yah waiting for? When you study the whole book, you can see why Yah didn't send him. right after Adam sinned, you have Noah. You know what Noah did. Noah got drunk. Then Noah’s sons went off into all kinds of demon worship. Out of all of that comes this guy Yah found called Abraham. Abraham is Noah’s great great great grandson. So Yah comes to this little village where they worship the moon. That's how bad Noah’s sons came out, they worshiped the moon. The land of Err is where Abraham lived and his fathers worshiped the moon and he went in there and he said come here and he called Abraham out. Abraham comes out. He says to Abraham there's no model on earth for my message so I want you to start something for me. Through you I'm going to create a nation. Abraham says fine but I don’t have any children. Yah says that’s no problem, we will work on that. Then Abraham also says but I am 75. Yah says we will work so Yah works a miracle and at age 100 Sarah has a baby. His name is Isaac. Yah still did not have a model for the kingdom. Isaac has two sons Esau and Jacob. he says Jacob I'm going to change your name to Israel. So through Israel he had 12 sons. Here come the twelve tribes of Israel. Yah says okay I am going to try to set this model up. Listen carefully. He says look, you will be my people and I'll be your Yah. So I tell you what, there'll be no one between us. It'll be the people and Yah. Yah never wanted a king, why? He says I will be your king, you will be my kingdom. That's all Yah wanted. He says not tell you what I'm going to organize the situation where you guys will have communion with me through this worship thing. I'll come to you, I'll talk to you, you do what I say. bring the nations back to me. got it. Good. So the people say fine. They got out there and they began to realize we can't see Yah and then these other nations got Kings they could see. So when they met the other nations, their nation would say are you a nation? They would say yes we are the tribes of Israel. Then they would say but who's your King? Yah. Where is he? Somewhere around here. I mean how do you tell folks that your government is somewhere around here. That became tough for them. So they began to ask Yah to give us a king that we could see. Yah says you don’t want a king. That is not in the model. They said give us a king. He says look, I am The King, you are the kings, this is the kingdom. You don't want a king. They said we want a king, we want a king. So they got real upset at Yah and the Bible says Yah says okay if you want a king choose from among yourselves one and I will bless it so they chose Saul to be their king. So now Yah has a King in the middle of the Kings representing the Kings to the king. The model still wasn’t right. So Yah says okay I tell you what. This King is going to give you taxes. Yah's trying to set it up now. He can take taxes from you, that's your tithes. He can put your kids in war and armies, that's the angels and he is going to levy you for your land. He’s going to take property taxes. Yah listed all these things and said look you get this ruler and he is going to wipe you out. They said we still want a King so they got Saul. We know the story about Saul. Saul obeyed Yah until one day he decided he liked sheep too much. Remember that guy? He saw them sheep and said whoo I can't kill them. So he kept these sheep and he took them back home and then when Yah said I told you to kill the sheep, he said I killed them. He said but I heard the sheep bleeding. It’s an interesting story about Saul. The Prophet came to Sual and said Saul, why did you disobey Yah? It's more important to obey Yah than to worship. Saul says oh boy ask Yah to forgive me. The Prophet said Yah cannot forgive you because you broke the law and then Yah chose another one named David to take his place. David becomes king. Now David is a good fella David is now raised by Yah to try to get the model. What was Yah looking for? A model to create a kingdom so he could preach a message to the nations. David says the Lord is my Yah and my people shall be his people and he shall be my Yah. Yah says we are getting close and then David becomes a mystery. Yah says David I want you to be a king and a priest. So David wrote worship songs but he also was an administrator. Now David commits adultery and messes things up. What happened? The kingdom is split in half after David is killed, the people divide. Yahs model is gone now, the people are scattered into Babylon. They are all messed up and the Daniel starts getting information. Daniel says look, the kingdom is still around. Yah has a kingdom idea. He's going to bring his kingdom, give it to the Saints. We get the story. Yahusha is still to come. Israel then goes into Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar; the people are there now under burdens so they went to Pharaoh. They ran to the Babylonians. They were under the Assyrians, they were under the Chaldeans, they were under oppression. I mean every single generation and oppression. Yah say I have a problem here and guess what? When the Babylonians finished then the Assyrians took them and made them slaves then they went to the amorites and the hittites and now under more bites and all the other knights in the Canaanites and they became slaves to everybody. Then FINALLY the Greeks came and the Greeks began with philosophy. This is the first empire in history who takes a model and sets it up and the model exactly like the kingdom of Yah. The Romans are the only Empire that sets up an administration that resembles the kingdom of Yah Yah sent Yahusha at the right time when every word that he speaks could be understood. Clap your hands, we will pick up here next week.

REDISCOVERING THE ORIGINAL MANDATE

Matthew chapter 4










Today we are walking in: Rediscovering The Original Mandate







Today we look to the word-KINGDOM- H4467 mamlâkâh, (mam-law-kaw') -dominion, (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm):—kingdom, king's, reign, royal





The Torah testifies...............




Exodus 19:6




And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.




Numbers 32:33




And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom H4467 of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom H4467 of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.




Deuteronomy 17:18




And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, H4467 that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:






The prophets proclaim..................




1 Samuel 10:18




And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, H4467 and of them that oppressed you:





Isaiah 9:7




Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.






Jeremiah 18:9




And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom H4467, to build and to plant it;









The writings bear witness...........................





1 Kings 9:5




Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom H4467 upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.





1 Chronicles 17:11




And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom H4467.




Psalm 145:13




Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.







REDISCOVERING THE ORIGINAL MANDATE




The Bible says that when a man teaches the kingdom of Yah he’s like a man who goes into a house and brings out old things and new things, because if you lost something for a long time and then you finally found it you think it's new again. We lost this so what I decided to do today and I prayed about this last night for the longest I said Yah what do you want me to do? He says I want you to reassure everyone this afternoon about the kingdom. So I want you to write down a lot of Scripture right now and then go into your own studies. The priority of Yahusha Hamachiach is the kingdom. Yahusha never preached being born again. Yahusha mentioned born-again once, and he never spoke it to a crowd of people. Take a deep breath. He only spoke that word to one man at 2 a.m. in the morning and the man was a religious leader.The man's question was important. How do I enter the kingdom? We keep preaching what Yahusha never preached. His priority was Matthew 6 verse 33. He says seek ye first the kingdom of Yah and His righteousness and everything you need will be added to you. Seek ye first the kingdom of Yah. Now for any Pastor’s that may listen to this recording, I'm glad you are listening, because pastors, this is going to be the class that you didn't have in college. This is going to be the class that you didn't have in Bible School. This will be the class you didn't have in seminary. I got a degree in theology and there was not one class on the kingdom and Yahusha said we must seek that first. So I have a degree in theology and don't know the message. I wanted to mention this comment here about prototype timing and listen carefully. According to chronology in the Bible, Adam is about 7,000 years old according to the chronology in the Bible. Now the earth may be much older than that, we don't know. it could be a billion years, million or whatever they want to say but we don't know that, but based on the biblical chronology mankind is about seven thousand years old. So when Adam disobeyed Yah in the third chapter of Genesis, Yah made a promise in the same chapter. He says that the woman shall have a seed that shall come into the world and shall crush the head of the authority of HaSatan and then he shall restore man back. Well here's a question I had about Yah or with Yah for years. Yah why did you take so long to send the seed? Between Adam and Yahusha is four thousand years. That's a long wait and I kept asking Yah why didn't you send Yahusha in chapter 4 and solve the problem? That’s a logical question isn't it? Or why didn't you send Yahusha during the time of Abraham or at the time of Moses or the time of the Chaldeans or the Assyrians? And Yah said to me an amazing thing. He said I sent my son, this is his answer, in the fullness of time. Now the word fullness here has nothing to do with a watch, you know on your hand, a time of day or something. The word fullness of time means everything was in its right place. The setting was perfect. Yah always moves when he has everything in the right place. So why did Yah wait 4000 years before he sent the Machiach? Because it took 4000 years for there to be a prototype in the earth that was the correct prototype of the kingdom of Yah. Now listen carefully. To understand Yah's timing in sending the king, the Machiach, anointed king, you have to understand his concept of a kingdom, and there was no Kingdom on earth that had all the components in it until the Romans arrived. The Romans actually set up a prototype of a kingdom that was the closest to Yah's kingdom and that's why he came at that time. Now let me make a statement. Effective communication depends on correct concepts. So when you're going to communicate with someone you got to make sure that their concepts are the same as yours, otherwise there will be a misconception. So every time you use words, the meanings have to be the same in both people's minds. Are you with me? So when Yah is about to speak into the world he has to make sure that the words that are going to be used by him are common in the environment. So the Roman Empire had all the words, all the concepts that a kingdom that Yah desired on earth had. Let me give an example. Every Kingdom before the Romans, all of them, you could study them, whenever a kingdom took over territory or invaded foreign territory, here's what they did: they would kill all the strong soldiers, they would take the women, and then take all the the young men and they would uproot them out of the country that they invaded and take them back to their country and make them slaves. They would displace people. The Romans were the first Kingdom in history that reversed that. The Romans were the first Kingdom and that's why they were so successful, they were the most powerful Kingdom in history, they were the longest reigning Kingdom in history. Even today no one has ever passed the Romans in rulership and thirdly the Romans had the largest kingdom in history and still do. They reigned from Africa to Scotland. They controlled the world for 200 years. They were the most powerful, most successful Kingdom in history, why? Because they used Yah's system. What is Yah's system? The Romans were the first ones to invent Yah’s idea of colonization. What did the Romans do? Whenever they invaded a foreign territory they didn't uproot the people. They would leave the people in the land but the King, Caesar, which means Lord, would send from his courts a person that he hand-picked to that territory where he just invaded and that person would be called a Tetra or a governor. Pilate was one of them. There are many of them and they would live in the new territory with the people that they conquered and the job of that governor was to convert that territory into Rome. In other words, the Romans didn't bring the people to Rome to make them Romans, they took Rome to the people to make the people Rome. Please listen to me please. So the concept, when Yah saw that, he said let’s go now because everything you're going to say will make sense to them. And that's why the Romans are so successful. They used Yah's system and so came the saying when in Rome you do as the Romans do. In other words, wherever the Romans invaded became little Rome. They made you speak Latin, they made you eat Roman food, they made you wear Roman clothing, they made you pay Roman taxes, they made you practice Roman culture. In other words, everything became Rome, So wherever you are it's Rome and Yahusha came in the midst of that. He was born in a colony. Palestine was a colony. Judea, that whole area was a colony and the governor was sent there to control it and make it Rome And his name was Pilate. Are you following me? Words like colonia is a Greek word that the Romans implemented. Words like Caesar or lord kurios were words that the Greek used for their political discussion but the Romans implemented it. Caesar means Lord. Lord means owner. I own the Empire. That's why Yahusha Hamachiach was a problem to the Roman Empire because he declared that he was Lord. it was a political issue not a religious one. Yahusha Hamachiach never claimed that he was a priest. I know you are shocked but read the four Gospels. But he claimed he was what? A king. He said you call me Lord but don't do what I say, why? if I'm your owner you don't do what Caesar tells you to do, you do what I say and then he says if Caesar’s your Lord then you pay Caesar money if I'm your Lord you pay me money. It was a political conflict. it was two kingdoms clashing. Is anybody still with me? So Yahusha' message had to be a kingdom message. Okay so let me help you out so that you will settle this forever. Let's read from your Bible, Matthew 3:1. In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the desert of Judea, what did he preach? Repent! Why? Because the kingdom of heaven is near. John's message was the kingdom message. He didn't preach baptism. He wasn't a Baptist. He baptized but he was not baptist, he preached the kingdom and he baptized Yahusha. I wish I had time to talk about that. I don't want to talk about it right now but the word baptism actually implies submission to a master teacher and his philosophy. That's what baptism was about. It's really not about the ritual of the water. It was what you submitted to. Everybody had baptisms. The Pharisees baptized, the Sadducees had baptisms, Herodians had baptisms. Baptism means you submitted to a master teacher, you went under his authority and became one with his philosophy. Plato had disciples, they call them students. Aristotle baptized, he had students that followed him. Socrates was a master teacher with students; disciples. So everyone had them and Yahusha came and he saw John and John was the master teacher of his era and John was preaching the message of the kingdom and when Hamachiach saw him, Yahusha said I'm going under that teacher. He said I have to get under this philosophy because this is my message and so the teacher became just like the student and vice versa. Let's read Matthew 4:17 And from that time on Yahusha began to preach, what did he preach? Repent! Why? For the kingdom of heaven has arrived. Matthew 4:23 And Yahusha went throughout Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness among the people. That's what he preached. Matthew 5:3, blessed are those who are spiritually poor for to them they can only be satisfied by the kingdom of heaven. He was talking to six billion people. He says every human that is spiritually bankrupt, the only thing that can satisfy your emptiness is not a religion but the kingdom of heaven. This is why people in your country are atheists, they are agnostics, they are animists. They don't want religion. They're looking for something else. Religion does not satisfy your spiritual hunger. Look at that verse. He said if you are spiritually poor the only thing that can satisfy you is the kingdom of heaven. Why? Because that is what you lost. You didn't lose a religion, you lost the kingdom. Look at this, Matthew 6:33 but seek ye first the kingdom of Yah and His righteousness and all of these things shall be added unto you. Luke 4:43 but he said to them I must preach what? The good news of the kingdom to other towns also because that is why I was sent. Some of these verses you have never seen before. Matthew 13:11 but he replied the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you but not to them. Matthew 13:24 Yahusha told them another parable, the kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. Look at this, Matthew 12:28 but if I drive out demons by the Spirit of Yah then what? Then the kingdom of Yah has arrived on earth. Let me tell you what miracles are. Miracles are not religious activities. Miracles are evidence of another government. Look at that verse. He said if I drive out demons by the Spirit of Yah, he didn't say a religion has arrived. A kingdom has arrived. How about this one, verse 29 again he says can anyone enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first what? Ties up the strong man, then he can rob his house. He says I was able to cast this demon out of this man because the kingdom that was controlling him clashed with a greater Kingdom. Come on let us read the Bible, Luke 9:11 but when the multitudes knew it they followed him and he received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of Yah and healed those who had need of healing. By the way, he didn't speak to them about Calvary. Please don't attack me yet. Read the four Gospels for yourself. Yahusha never preached Calvary to the people. He only spoke of his death privately to his disciples. Publicly he preached the kingdom. I'm going to get in trouble right here but study for yourself. Calvary is not the gospel he preached to the people. Matter of fact, let's move on because some of you haven’t got it yet. Luke 12:33 Do not be afraid little flock for your father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Yah's pleasure is to give you the kingdom, not to give you a religion. Oh you haven’t had enough. Okay let's move on again Luke chapter 16:16 the law and the prophets, watch this, were preached up until John. Read on, but since John we should be preaching, he says, the kingdom and I graduated from seminary and there was not a class on it. The law represents Moses, the prophets represent all the minor and major prophets of the old testament. He says, the message is not what they said was coming. The message is what has already arrived. Take a deep breath. You never saw that verse before. Since John the message should be the kingdom. By the way it gets worse. Let's read this one, Matthew 23:14 Woe to you theologians, you seminary graduates! Woe to you religious professors, you lawgivers, you Pharisees, you hypocrites, you shut the kingdom of heaven up in men's faces, you won't teach it and you yourselves would not enter nor will you let the people who want to find it, find it. In other words, we are bent on teaching our own messages. Most of the theology that the world of Christendom is filled with things Yah knows nothing about. In other words, you want Yah to influence you in this teaching. I know how you feel right now but blame him not me! Religious people don't want you to know this message, so they shut it up. I tell you, four years in a university in Theological Seminary and no class taught this. How can I go through four years of study in theology about Yah and the Bible and have no session on the kingdom and it's the only message he said to preach? Because they shut it up. I spent one semester studying St. Augustine who was a Catholic priest. I had to read books by German theologians, all the deep guys and none of them talked about the kingdom. This community should be known as the kingdom community, the place where you go to get that message! Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen, my assignment is a very difficult assignment because the things I do, like I'm doing right now, is very difficult, because I've got a deal first of all with the church and pastors will come after you. Listen to me, Yahusha never had a single opposition nor a problem with sinners. His greatest opposition was religious people. He says you'll lock it up and you wouldn't go in either. It gets worse Matthew 24:13 and this gospel, this one, this means I know there are many others that you are preaching, but this gospel of the kingdom will be preached into the whole world as a testimony to every hindu, buddhist, Shintoists, Islamic person, every atheist. He said preach that, don't preach Christianity, preach the kingdom to them, why? That's what they're hungry for. That's why they shut down on you. They don't want religion, they have one already and it’s not working. He says, when you preach the kingdom, then the end will come. He placed the end of the world not in the hands of Yah, he left it in your hands. In other words, the end of the world is dependent on a message. So could it be that the church is holding him back because we're preaching our own stuff? I love you, you know and this is hard work man. Take a deep breath. Let’s read, and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached into the whole world as a testimony to all men and then the end will come. In other words, he says the end is depending on what you preach and he told us what to preach. So stop prophesying and telling people that the end of the world is coming soon. You are holding it back. Are you with me? Are you reading the Bible?Let me prove something to you. This particular statement is a result of a question they asked in verse 1 and 2. They said to Yahusha, when is the end of the world coming and this was his answer, when you guys preach this message to every city, every nation in the world, then I will come. But one time they asked him again. They said, when is the end of the world coming? His answer was strange. He said the end of the world will be like the days of Noah. He says you remember the days of Noah, the people raveling and sinning and everything. He says the Lord spoke to Noah and told Noah to build his ark. Watch him now. He says and when the ark was finished, the door was closed. When the ark was finished, then the rain came, he said and the floods rose. So shall it be at the end of the age. This might be a little confusing for you. Here's what he meant. He was telling the people, telling the disciples, he says look, the end of the world at that time, didn't depend on Yah, it was waiting on Noah. The rain could have come if Noah was finished in a week, if he was finished in a month, if he was finished in two years. The rain was waiting on Noah, so shall the end be. Yah's waiting on you to do that. I am not too concerned about missionaries anymore. I'm not excited about missionaries anymore but the question I have is what is your missionary preaching? Read the statement. You might be financing the retardation of his return. You have a Bible School here, thank Yah, you have a ministry school, thank Yah. Make sure that that school is teaching those people what message to preach when they leave here. When your denominations and your church tradition becomes more important than his instructions, then you have no reason for existence. Take a deep breath. Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:27 I tell you the truth some of you who are standing here today 2,000 years ago will not taste death before they see with their own eyes the Son of man coming in his kingdom. That verse is never taught by theologians. Why? Because they don't want to accept that it's already here. Okay take a deep breath. Let me explain this verse. Look at the verse. He was talking to people in a village standing with him 2,000 years ago. He says you will not die, you're going to be alive when the kingdom comes. He went to the crucifixion stake, rose again, came back and he said receive the Ruach HaQadesh. In other words, the kingdom is here. The kingdom of Yah is love, joy, peace and righteousness in the Ruach HaQadesh. The government is here now. We keep putting the kingdom in the future. The governor is already here. The kingdom is supposed to be working every day wherever you are. It's here on earth now. I put it to you, write this down. You can never appropriate what you postpone. If you keep putting the kingdom in the future you can never experience it now and he wants you to experience it now. He wants to meet all of your needs now. He wants you to be protected by his army now. And by the way, in a kingdom the citizens don't fight. This is very important. In a kingdom the army fights not the citizens. And so when you study the Bible carefully you'll find that the Army in the kingdom of Yah is the messengers. You are citizens so while you're drinking kool-aid and sipping your iced coffee with your chocolate doughnut the messengers are fighting on your behalf. He said I will give my messengers, army, charge. That means responsibility, concerning you, to protect you in all your ways, therefore stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. The next verse says, and the angel of the Lord went forth and destroyed Pharaoh's army. Let me tell you something. While you are here there are secret agents around your house walking around right now, they are walking around. That's why your car is safe, your kids are safe, your home is safe, your business is safe, why? In a kingdom the government sends its army to protect your property. These military guys are so awesome that the Bible says one of them destroyed Pharaoh's army. ONE! No wonder why Pilate became nervous when he threatened Yahusha. Let me give you an example of how powerful the army is. Yahusha is a king not a religious man. That's why when they arrested him in the garden he was arrested by the religious leaders. They took him to Caiaphas house and put him on trial in the court in the night, which was illegal but it was a religious Court, the Sanhedrin Council. Yahusha never answered them why? Wrong courtroom. You can't try a political leader in a religious court, so he just kept quiet, why? Unnecessary to talk to these guys, wrong courtroom. They have a religion. I have a kingdom, wrong courtroom. Now watch this, the Bible says then Caiaphas command that he be sent to Pilate. He went to Pilate. Now it's the right courtroom. We have Kingdom against Kingdom and he began to talk. Yahusha said Pilate, Pilate said Yahusha, the people said that you claim to be a king. Yahusha said, they rightly said, for this cause was I born to be a king, to testify of the truth, but my kingdom is not from this world it's in it but not from it. Pilate says, Do You Know Who I am? I represent King Caesar, I have the power in my thumb, I could take your life or give it to you. Now never threaten Yahusha. Watch his response. Yahusha said excuse me Pilate, listen to his words now, he says Pilot you could have no power over me except it was given to you by my government from above. That is in your Bible. The next statement he says, because even now, watch him now, I could call 10 legions of messengers……… not believers. I don't need no believer to defend me, I have an army in my country. I can call 10 legions of messengers and they can deliver me out of your hands right now. He says but I came to die so shut your mouth. Do you know that a Legion is 6,000 soldiers? 10 legions is 60,000. Only one destroyed Pharaoh's army. You better give him praise! Your house is safe, your car is safe, your business is safe, your children are safe. He has given his messengers CHARGE concerning you! The only problem is with the messengers, they work for you, you have to give them instructions because you are their boss. And so he said messengers are ministering spirits sent forth to do the bidding, the instructions of those who are of his salvation. That's why your house was broken into, because you left home and didn't leave instructions! Say thank you great governor! It is time to rediscover the original kingdom mandate!!!!!!

3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS: CAN YOU COUNT???

Matthew chapter 12
















Today we are walking in: 3 Days And 3 Nights: Can You Count???







Today we look to the word-THREE H7969 shalowsh--three, triad, third









The Torah testifies...............








Exodus 10:22




And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three H7969 days:




Exodus 15:22




So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three H7969 days in the wilderness, and found no water.




Numbers 10:33




And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three H7969 days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.






The prophets proclaim..................



Isaiah 20:3




And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three H7969 years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;




Jonah 1:17




Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three H7969 days and three H7969 nights




Daniel 3:24




Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three H7969 men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.







The writings bear witness...........................






Esther 4:16




Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three H7969 days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.




1 Chronicles 21:12




Either three H7969 years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three H7969 days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.




2 Chronicles 4:4




It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three H7969 looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.







Three Days & Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth: The Good Friday Myth




Many of us have been brought up in the church to believe that Yahusha (whom many call Jesus) died on “Good Friday” and he resurrected on “Easter Sunday.”




Well today, I am going to dismantle these lies, and show how these deceptions actually prove to discredit him as the authentic Machiach.




In Matthew 12:38, the religious leaders of his day asked him for a “sign” to prove that he was their awaited Savior that was prophesied about by Moses and the prophets.




His response to their asking for a sign is in (Matthew) 12:39-40:




39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet (Jonas).





40 For as (Jonas) was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.





If he had not resurrected EXACTLY THREE DAYS & THREE NIGHTS after he was killed on the evening of Passover, then his prophecy would have failed, and this would have rendered him a false prophet, and not the true and genuine Machiach.




When the Christian Church teaches that he died on “Good Friday,” and then resurrected on Sunday morning, HaSatan dances with glee, because he knows that this makes him out to be a false prophet!




We all know that you cannot get three days and three nights out of 36 hours. HaSatan wants to discredit Yahusha as the Machiach, so that our faith in him will be destroyed. This would mean that his victory over death, Hell, and the grave was not won, and therefore, we are all doomed to eternal damnation. At least, this is what HaSatan wants you to believe!




That is why proving that he was in the heart of the earth for EXACTLY three days and three nights is crucial to our salvation!




Before I get into the meat of this study, we must first ask ourselves, “Why have we been conditioned to believe that Machiach was crucified on the 6th day of the week on Friday?”




The answer to this question is simple. The gospel accounts tell us that after Machiach was crucified, and his body taken down from the stauros (crucifixion stake), the women were in a hurry to anoint his body with spices, because at sundown began a High Sabbath.




Those who are uneducated in the Mosaic Law (Torah) see the word “Sabbath,” and they naturally assume that he was buried just before the weekly Sabbath, (what we today call Saturday). In John 19:31, it specifically tells us that this was not a regular weekly Sabbath, but an annual Sabbath:





(John) 19:31 The (Jews) therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the crucifixion stake on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.




What is a High Sabbath Day? The Greek word in John 19:31 used for “high day,” is “megas,” which means “great, mighty, large, high.”




(Exodus) 12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto The Most High Yah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of The Most High Yah to be observed of all the children of Yisrael in their generations.




Our Machiach was killed on the 14th day of the first Hebrew Month known as “Abib” (Exodus 12:2 & 13:4). The Torah commands that we kill the lamb on the 14th day of the first month in the evening. The Hebrew word for evening is “ereb,” which means “dusk.”




He was nailed to the crucifixion stake at 9:00 a.m. and he died at 3:00 p.m. It was getting close to darkness at 3:00 p.m., for they did not have daylight savings time in 1st Century Jerusalem. This means that at 3:00 p.m. in the month of April, it was already growing dark by this time.




(Exodus) 12:6 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Yisra’el shall kill it in the evening.




After the sun went down on the 14th of Abib, it then became the 15th of Abib, The Feast of Unleavened Bread. Remember, on the Creator's reckoning of time (Genesis 1:5), a calendar date changes at sundown, not at midnight. It was Pope Gregory who caused the date to change at midnight in the year 1582.




Right after our Machiach died on the 14th (Passover), he was taken down from the crucifixion stake, and then buried before the High Sabbath, known as The Feast of Unleavened Bread:




(Leviticus) 23:




5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is The Most High Yah's Passover.




6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto The Most High Yah: seven days you must eat unleavened bread.




7 In the first day you shall have an holy convocation: you shall do no servile work therein.




The day in which Yahusha’s crucifixion took place was called the “preparation day.” On the 14th day of Abib (Passover) we are commanded to prepare the Passover Lamb, and clean out all the leaven from our homes. Our Machiach was buried just before the sun went down on the 14th, and then it became the 15th of Abib, the Feast of Unleavened Bread.




Since Yah introduced his divine calendar to us at creation in Genesis 1:5, a new calendar date was to begin at sunset. However, as I already mentioined Pope Gregory XIII caused the new date to change at midnight during his reign in 1582.




In Daniel 7:23-25, the angel told Daniel that the “fourth beast” (Rome) “shall think to change times and laws,” and since Rome has been instrumental in altering the calendar of our creator, the result has been the distorting of many prophetic events.





At the time of Yahusha’s crucifixion, Yisra’el and the entire world still acknowledged Yah’s standard of measuring time. Therefore, Yahusha was crucified and died on the 4th day of the week (what we today call Wednesday) at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and then he was buried at sunset, around 6 p.m. After sundown, the date changed, and it then became the 5th day of the week, (what we today call Thursday).




Since the day was almost over when he died, we don’t start counting “Three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” until he was buried, and the sun went down that Wednesday evening. The count of 72 hours (three days and three nights) begins on Wednesday Night after sundown once he was in the grave.




It is important to note that whenever we see a word in italics in the King James Version, it means that the word was not there in the original text. It means that the English translators added that particular word into the text to help the sentence structure flow better.




In order to help you see where the words are italicized in the King James Version, I will highlight in red the italicized words for “day.” This will bring clarity to many of the translation anomalies in the gospels which seem to confuse people about the timing of these events.




At creation, Yah “divided” (separated) the 12-hour period called “day” from the 12-hour period called “night,” and he treated them as two separate periods.




In Genesis 1:4-5 we read: “And The Most High saw the light, that it was good: and The Most High divided the light from the darkness. And The Most High called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”




As you can see, the “day” has a different name than “night.” He also did not include the “night” in with the period called “day.” He divided the 12 hours of day from the 12 hours of darkness and called them two different things.




In Genesis 1:5 people are often confused by the phrase “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” They assume that the word “evening” means the same thing as “night” and that The Most High was combining these two periods of “day and night” and calling the combination of the two periods “day.”




However, this does not make sense, because he had just finished dividing the two periods in the previous verse, yet why would he combine day and night again and call it “day?” The Hebrew word for “evening” is “ereb” which means “dusk, mixture of light and darkness,” and it is still considered part of the twelve-hour period called “day.” However, it becomes “night” when all the light is completely gone. The Hebrew word for “night” is “layil” which means “opposed to the day.”




Thus, we see that there were actually six 12-hour periods being spoken of in the prophecy of Jonah wherein our Machiach said that he would be “Three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” If he was speaking of three 24-hour periods, he would have only said “Three days in the heart of the earth.”




You may be asking yourself “Why is this important?” It is important because some people would try to argue that he was in the heart of the earth approximately three days or “inside of three days.”




Many people rationalize that if one counts the day of his crucifixion (allegedly on Friday at 3:00 p.m.), the entire day counts as day # 1. The next logical conclusion is that day # 2 was Saturday, and day # 3 was Sunday.






They claim that even a fraction of the day counts as the same thing as a 24-hour period when reckoning the three days and three nights prophecy. The only problem with this logic is that Yah, our Creator always uses precise measurements when it comes to prophecy. He is perfectly accurate in all of his ways.




From Friday evening at 3:00 p.m. until Sunday morning (when he allegedly resurrected) would mean that he was rendering a 36-hour period as “Three days & three nights.” However, we know that he purposely spoke of “Three days & three nights” because it is exactly 72 hours.






Hence, the reason why it is important to distinguish that a day is only 12 hours--not 24 hours! The period called “night” is also a 12-hour period.




(John) 11:9 Yahusha answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walks in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.






Yahusha rose again as the Sabbath was ending “After three days.” This is why he said that he is “Lord of the Sabbath.” The Catholic Church changed the Sabbath to Sunday because they rationalize “Jesus resurrected on Sunday morning.” However, a careful study in the original language of the New Testament (Aramaic & Greek), will clear up this false notion of a Sunday resurrection.




What follows is a detailed and exhaustive study on the timing of the resurrection conducted by a man named Roy Reinhold. Mr. Reinhold has done an excellent job of dissecting all four gospels and laying it out for us to see, that our Machiach resurrected on what we today call Saturday (the seventh day of the week), just as the Sabbath was ending!




Biblical Proof Yahusha (Jesus) Died Wednesday & Rose on Sabbath: Good Friday is a Myth, Yahusha (Jesus) Died on a Wednesday!






3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH




One of the most common questions asked by Christians is, this:




“How could Jesus have been in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights if He died on a Friday afternoon and rose before sunrise on a Sunday?”




Most Christians duck the question, since at most they can only come up with one day and two nights (Friday nighttime, Saturday daytime, and Saturday nighttime in our measure of days). If they add in the Friday daytime they get two periods of daytime, even though Yahusha would have died in the late afternoon. This late afternoon death is consistent with the Passover lamb being killed between the two evenings according to the Mosaic Law.




The lamb was killed between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. on the afternoon of the 14th of Abib/Nisan and prepared, because the 15th was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which was an annual Sabbath observance (the first and last days of Unleavened Bread were annual Sabbaths in addition to the normal weekly Sabbaths). This search of the Word is important, not because it affects salvation, but because it answers the questions posed on whether Yahusha kept His Word, and whether the Bible is true in this matter. A legitimate concern and question for all followers of Machiach!




(Leviticus) 23:5-8 In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at evening is The Most High Yah’s Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto The Most High Yah: seven days You must eat unleavened bread. In the first day You shall have an holy convocation: You shall do no servile work therein. But You shall offer an offering made by fire unto The Most High Yah seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: You shall do no servile work therein.




The above text confirms that the first and last days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread are annual Sabbaths, to be observed as a day of rest in addition to the weekly Sabbaths. These days would occur on the 15th and 21st of Abib/Nisan.




The Passover meal was an important religious observance in which to remember that the blood of the lamb on the doorposts of their houses kept them alive when the angel of death passed by, and that Yah had delivered them from slavery in Egypt.




The Passover is a perpetual observance to celebrate passing from death to life. These ancient events foretold the blood of Yahusha being spilled for our sins, and our passage from death to eternal life, by the everlasting covenant of the blood of Yahusha. They also foretold that Yahusha would die exactly on the 14th of Abib/Nisan and that the day following was an annual Sabbath.




What follows is a close examination of the biblical record, in which Yahusha was killed on the 14th of Abib/Nisan in the afternoon, and the next day was the annual Sabbath, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We shall also see from the biblical record that this annual Sabbath did not fall on the weekly Sabbath, in the year that Yahusha died.




(Matthew) 12:38-40 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Yonah (Jonah): For as Yonah (Jonah) was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.




(Matthew) 27:62-66 Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, You have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as You can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.




The above verses show that Yahusha had openly taught that the major sign that He was the Machiach was that He would die and three days later rise again. Even more clearly, He said that He would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. This promise meant that 72 hours would pass from His death to His resurrection and that this would be the sign for the Jews that He was who He said He was (the Machiach). The Friday crucifixion with a resurrection before sunrise on Sunday morning totals approximately 36 hours.




If we understood Yahusha to mean that “within” three days and three nights He would rise again, then any period short of that would suffice. But He taught that “after” three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, then He would rise again. This logically would necessitate the crucifixion on a Wednesday, then the daylight and nighttime periods of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday would be three days and three nights. We count from either His actual death shortly after 3:00 p.m. or from the time His body was laid in the tomb, shortly before the annual Sabbath began, although I believe we should count the 72 hours from the time the body was laid in the tomb.




You’ll notice that the above text from Matthew 27, recorded that the chief priests met with Pilate the morning after the crucifixion to get permission to post a guard and seal the tomb. The Bible records that this was the day after the day of preparation. This day of preparation is the 14th of Abib (Nisan), when the homes were scoured for any leavened bread within the house and a preparation of food was readied for the Passover meal, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread [Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54, John 19:14, 31, 42].




Therefore, the grave of Yahusha was not sealed until the morning of the 15th of Abib (Nisan), on the annual Sabbath. In the text from John 19, we learn that the body of Yahusha needed to be removed from the crucifixion stake because the Sabbath was about to begin and that Sabbath was a high day or annual Sabbath. This is consistent with the other verses which teach that the day of preparation was the day that Yahuw-shuwa died. Now we only need to determine whether the annual Sabbath and weekly Sabbath fell on the same day, which would lead us to the conclusion that Yahusha died on a Friday afternoon, shortly after 3:00 p.m. as commonly taught. If not, then He died on another day of the week.




(John) 19:31 The Yahuwdiy (Jews) therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the crucifixion stake on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.




A High Sabbath was an annual Sabbath, not the weekly Sabbath. Therefore, this is speaking of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, not the weekly Saturday Sabbath.




(John) 19:39-40 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Yahusha by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Yahusha, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Yahuwdiy (Jews) is to bury.




(Matthew) 27:59-61 And when Yahuwceph (Joseph) had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. And there was Miryam (Mary) Magdalene, and the other Miryam (Mary), sitting over against the sepulchre.




(Mark) 15:46-47 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre. And Miriyam (Mary) Magdalene and Miryam (Mary) the mother of Yahuwseph (Joses) beheld where he was laid.




(Luke) 23:54-56 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.




In totality, the above verses together give us the complete picture of what happened after Machiach’s death, how His body was prepared for burial, and who observed this process. It is extremely important to notice that none of the above texts alone gives the complete story, and that you have to read all together to get the whole story. Joseph took Yahusha’s body after receiving permission from Pilate, bought a linen sheet, and bound the body with Nicodemus’ assistance.




Nicodemus had brought a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloes, which they bound with the body. The tomb was near where he was crucified, and it belonged to Joseph who had carved this tomb out of rock. It was a new tomb that had never before been used. Also, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses accompanied the body from the crucifixion stake and watched the entire process of burial.




When Yahusha’s body was laid in the tomb, then Joseph, assisted by Nicodemus, rolled a large stone in front of the tomb opening and left. Finally, the two Mary’s left and prepared spices and perfumes, before resting on the Sabbath. Up to this point, we have no evidence that the annual Sabbath and weekly Sabbath did not fall on the same day as traditionally taught.




The next collection of verses will explore the role of the women in preparing spices and perfumes with which they intended to anoint the body of Yahusha.




In the verses where the word “day” is italicized in the King James Version, the word “day” is highlighted in red to signify that the word “day” does not appear in the original text.




(Luke) 24:1-2 Now upon the first [day] of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.




(Matthew) 28:1-4 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of The Most High Yah descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.




It is important at this point to give an explanation of the word “dawn” inMatthew 28:1. Most people assume that he resurrected on Sunday Morning because of this verse inMatthew 28:1.




The problem with Matthew 28:1 is that the word “dawn” is a poor translation from the Greek to English. If the English translators had realized that a new calendar date changes at sunset, they would have figured this out.




We know that the “end the Sabbath” cannot be talking about Sunday morning at sunrise. The Greek word there for “dawn” is the equivalent of a word in Hebrew that means “a mixture of light and dark.” Hence, the word should really be “dusk” as the sun was going down.




The Strong’s Hebrew Concordance reveals that at sundown is the “dawning of the new day” at twilight or dusk:




#5399. nesheph neh’-shef from 5398; properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails):--dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight.




The Greek words are as follows:




#2020. epiphosko ep-ee-foce’-ko a form of 2017; to begin to grow light:--begin to dawn, draw on.




#2017. epiphauo ep-ee-fow’-o a form of 2014; to illuminate (figuratively):--give light.




You can see why the English translators thought that the word should be “dawn” as in early morning, just before sunrise. The Greek word epiphosko can mean “....to draw on,” and it can mean “the beginning of something” as in the “the dawning of a new era.”




For something to “dawn” means that something new is approaching. The term is much broader than the English word that we use to describe “sunrise.”




(Matthew) 28:1 And in the evening of the Sabbath as it was dusk, as the first [day] of the week began to dawn, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary, to view the sepulcher.




You will notice that Murdock is calling this time of day “dusk” but he is saying that the “week” (Sabbaton in Greek) was beginning to “dawn” or to “draw on.” In other words it was not sunrise, but it was the end of the Sabbath at sundown, as the new week was approaching (dawning).




The MRC Translation translates it like this:




(Matthew) 28:1 Now late on the Shabbat, as it began to draw toward the first of the week, Miryam of Magdala and the other Miryam went to look at the grave.




Marqos (Mark) 16:1-4 And when the sabbath was past, Miryam (Mary) Magdalene, and Miryam (Mary) the mother of Ya’aqob (James), and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first [day] of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.




(John) 20:1-2 The first [day] of the week comes Miryam (Mary) Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and sees the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runs, and comes to Shimone Keefa (Simon Peter), and to the other disciple, whom Yahusha loved, and said unto them, They have taken away The Most High Yah out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.




You may have to reread the above verses to notice that the women who had watched the body of Yahusha being laid in the tomb, prepared perfumes and spices. Then Mark 16 text says that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary bought spices AFTER the Sabbath and prepared them. While the Luke 23 text states that the women prepared spices and then rested on the Sabbath. This is consistent with an annual Sabbath on Thursday, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the weekly Sabbath on Saturday.




We know that these are the same women because the Bible verses all relate that Mary Magdalene was involved in all these events. However, two other Mary’s are mentioned, one the mother of James and Salome, and the other the mother of Joses. In all cases, Mary Magdalene was involved. Therefore, the women saw Yahusha’s body being laid in the tomb on a Wednesday afternoon; they rested on the annual Sabbath on Thursday, and bought spices on Friday.




They prepared the spices on the 6th day of the week (Friday) and then rested according to the commandment on the weekly Sabbath on Saturday. After the weekly Sabbath, they intended to anoint Yahusha’s body with the perfumes and spices. Therefore both intuitively and by evidence, we have proven that Passover was on the 4th day (Wednesday), that year, and that Yahusha did as He had said, which was to rise again after three days and three nights. What remains next to determine, is whether Yahusha rose as the weekly Sabbath was ending or at sunrise on Sunday?




You’ll notice through a comparison of the four gospels that Mary Magdalene and the disciples went to the tomb a number of times. In some it was still dark, and in some it was already light. It wasn’t until it was light on Sunday that they actually discovered that He had risen; in the first visits the tomb was empty.




The above text in John 20, tells us of the first visit by Mary Magdalene when it was dark, the tomb was empty, and she had not been told that Yahusha was risen, and only saw the stone rolled away. However, there is one verse which seems to tell us that Yahusha rose on the first day of the week.




(Mark) 16:9 Now when Yahusha was risen early the first [day] of the week, he appeared first to Miryam (Mary) Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.




“Early the first of the week” is immediately following the Sabbath at sundown on Saturday evening. It is called Havdalah in Hebrew which means “exiting the Sabbath.” The word “day” is not in the original text as indicated by the red highlighting, because it is italicized in the King James Version.




The above text would seem to conclusively prove that Yahusha rose early in the morning on the first day of the week, what we would call Saturday night. Some commentators have speculated that verses 9-20 of this chapter were later added since they weren’t in any of the early manuscripts. The original text did not have these punctuation marks in the Greek text, so they were added later. If a comma is added after risen, the verse takes on an entirely different meaning:




“Now after He had risen, early on the first [day] of the week He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.”




This change is not altering scripture since it was not written with punctuation marks. This makes the verse consistent with all the four gospels, where Mary Magdalene visited the grave, shortly after the Sabbath ended, and saw the empty grave with the stone rolled away, but did not see an angel or see Yahusha. It was later, when the sun had risen on Sunday morning that she came with Mary the mother of James and Salome back to the tomb, saw an angel who told her that he had risen, and then they saw Yahusha.






One can imagine that Mary (the mother of James) asked Mary Magdalene, “Who would roll away the stone?” as they approached the tomb, since Mary Magdalene had not mentioned that she had been there earlier and saw the empty grave. Then she went and told the disciples that she saw the angel and saw Yahusha. What any reader should realize is that the Holy Spirit gave us the four gospels with fragments of the story in each, and it takes a study of all together, to arrive at the complete picture. The following verse clearly shows us that Mary Magdalene came to the grave as the weekly Sabbath was ending.




(Matthew) 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Miryam (Mary) Magdalene and the other Miryam (Mary) to see the sepulchre.




Bishop Papias was an early church bishop in Syria and he wrote that the book of Matthew was originally written in Aramaic, and then translated into Greek by the apostles. Irenaeus and Clement also mentioned seeing the original Aramaic of the book of Matthew.




We have some precedence and evidence that at least some of the New Testament books were first written in Aramaic, and translated by the apostles into Greek, and Matthew is one of them. I say all of this because the Aramaic of Matthew 28:1 is much clearer than the Greek. A literal, word for word translation of the Aramaic directly to English is as follows (commas separate meaning of each word):




(Matthew) 28:1 “…in the evening, at Sabbath, when went up, the beginning (the dawning), belonging, to the last of, in the Sabbath, arrived, Miryam, the Magdalene, and Miryam, the different (the other), came to see, the tomb (the grave).”




It is obvious by repeating “The Sabbath” twice, that it is making the point that it was at twilight that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to the tomb. By stressing “The last of the Sabbath,” the verse drives home the point that this was Saturday evening, but that the twilight period still belonged to the Sabbath.




There were no streetlights then, and no flashlights, so if the full moon had not yet risen, then when it got dark, it got really dark, really fast. The two Mary’s had just enough time to look around and leave. No one can read the Peshitta Aramaic of Matthew 28:1 and mistake it for any other understanding than that the Mary’s arrived at the tomb at twilight on Saturday evening and the stone had already been rolled away.




Why didn’t the two Mary’s try to anoint the body of Yahusha on Friday, since they had prepared the spices and perfumes on Friday before the weekly Sabbath began? It is because in Matthew 27:62-66, Pilate had given the Roman order to have the grave sealed on Thursday morning, and they had put the Roman seal on it and posted guards until the 3 days were complete. Therefore, if the two Mary’s had tried to anoint the body on Friday, they would have broken the law and been arrested. They waited until after the 3 days, so as to avoid arrest. The apostles were all in hiding at the time, fearing possibly of their own arrest, so it fell to the two Mary’s to anoint the body.




The fact is that the Last Supper celebrated with the bread and wine by Yahusha and the disciples took place on the evening of the third day of the week (we would say Tuesday evening). He was crucified on a Wednesday and was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights. He rose from the dead late on the Sabbath. Finally, He revealed Himself to Mary Magdalene and the disciples on the first day of the week, shortly after sunrise. Of course this means that we have a Palm Saturday and NOT a Palm Sunday.




It also means that Yahusha performed the sign He said He would, and that Sunday being “The Lord’s Day” is a fabrication of the bishop of Rome. In due time, even the keeping of the Passover bread and wine remembrance was outlawed with ex-communication.




Yahusha rose again on the Sabbath and was crucified on a Wednesday. No wonder why HaSatan has used the Catholic Church to change all of these dates!




In the 3rd Century, Constantine, the Roman Emperor changed the Sabbath day to Sunday for the pagan “sun-god,” and this is why the Roman Catholic Church has had to change all other calendar dates in order to force our Machiach to resurrect on Easter Sunday!




In reality, this was not a on a Sunday. Our Machiach rode through the streets of Jerusalem on a Sabbath day, and it can be proven by counting backwards to the 10th day of Abib. The commandment in Exodus 12:3 is to select the lamb for Passover on the 10th day of the first month of Abib (Nisan). Counting backwards from Wednesday, Abib 14, we land on the 10th of Abib, which was on the weekly Sabbath day!




As the Lamb of The Most High, Yahusha was selected as the acceptable lamb for slaughter following the triumphal entry, when the chief priests met to determine his death on the Sabbath. He was laid in the tomb as the annual Sabbath was beginning. On the following weekly Sabbath, (as it was ending), Yahusha rose from the dead. This is consistent with his teaching that he is the “Lord of the Sabbath.”




There have been many believers in a Wednesday crucifixion, from the time of the early church until now. We now know that the Bible teaches a Wednesday crucifixion, so the reader now must face the facts of the Bible as compared to the traditions of men.




At the same time, I say that this does not determine salvation, for I know that there will be millions who have believed the Friday crucifixion hoax. Also, a superficial reading of the gospels does tend to lead one to the conclusion of a Friday crucifixion, when read separately, so one cannot blame the majority of believers for this false belief.




The learned reader might say that the Passover as kept today cannot fall on a Wednesday, in the Hebrew calendar. That is the case today, but then neither does First Fruits (wave offering) or the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) occur on the first day of the week in the Hebrew calendar. The reason is a matter of history. There was a controversy between the Phariseean and Sadduceean way of keeping these important feast days. At the time of Yahusha, the Sadducees were the high priests and kept the days according to our present Hebrew understanding from the Torah.




For example, the Sadducees believed that First Fruits always fell on the first day of the week, which meant that Pentecost also fell on the first day of the week. While the Pharisees believed that First Fruits fell on the 16th of Abib (Nisan), the day after the annual Sabbath, leading to Pentecost on various days of the week. At the time of Yahusha, the Sadduceean keeping of the feasts was in effect, but after the dispersion, the more numerous and stricter Pharisees perpetuated their understanding of Hebrewism. They were the ancestors of modern day Orthodox Hebrews and are the keepers of the calendar today. Their rules have supplanted the days as kept in the time of Yahusha.




Jesus died on a Wednesday,” I’ve decided to add this part 2, to point out the explanation for ALL individual verses that readers have raised. There is not one verse that disproves the Wednesday afternoon crucifixion of Yahusha. While that’s a strong statement, you be the judge.




First, let’s review the scenario proven in part 1. The Last Supper was held on a Tuesday evening. On Wednesday the 14th of Abib/Nisan, Yahusha was crucified, and died late in the afternoon. Joseph of Arimathea received permission from Pilate and took down the body of Yahusha from the crucifixion stake, probably with Nicodemus’ help. The scriptural record states that Joseph and Nicodemus worked together.




Nicodemus had brought about 100 lbs. of myrrh and aloes. They wrapped the body in a sheet (shroud) and bound it with the myrrh and aloes. It was already getting dark, so they had to hurry, because the annual Sabbath was beginning, the first day of Unleavened Bread on the 15th of Abib (Nisan), which was a Thursday.




Watching all this a short distance away were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses. Joseph had a new garden tomb that had never been used nearby. They laid the body of Yahusha in the tomb and rolled the stone over the entrance to the tomb. The next morning the Jewish leaders met with Pilate and received permission to seal and guard the tomb, so that his disciples couldn’t steal the body and say Yahusha had risen from the dead.




They sealed the tomb and posted guards (on Thursday). The women including Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Joses, and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices on Friday and prepared them. They bought spices on the day after a Sabbath (the annual Sabbath), and after preparing them on Friday, rested on the weekly Sabbath on Saturday. As the weekly Sabbath was ending late on Saturday afternoon, Mary Magdalene and one of the other Marys’ came to the tomb to anoint the body. Since it was already almost dark, or was dark, all they saw was that the stone had been rolled away and nobody was there.




Yahusha died on Wednesday afternoon and was laid in the grave as the annual Sabbath was beginning. He was in the grave Wednesday night, Thursday day, Thursday night, Friday day, Friday night, and Saturday day. Therefore, He was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights. He was resurrected late on the weekly Sabbath on Saturday. Therefore, He rose on the third day. Also, it was after 3 days and 3 nights. Those are the incontrovertible facts from the scriptural record.