Yahweh's Word Goes Out From
Isaiah 2:2-4 reads,
2:2It
shall happen in the latter days, that the
And shall be raised above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
2:3Many
peoples shall go and say,
"Come, let’s go up to the
To the house of the God of Jacob;
And he will teach us of his ways,
And we will walk in his paths.
For out of
And the word of Yahweh from
2:4He
will judge between the nations,
And will decide concerning many peoples;
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning-hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah 24:21-23 reads,
24:21It
shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the
high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. 24:22They shall be gathered together, as
prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and
after many days shall they be visited. 24:23Then
the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will
reign on
Isaiah 33:13-22 reads,
33:13Hear,
you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my
might. 33:14The sinners in
Jeremiah 3:14-15 reads,
3:14Return,
backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take
you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to
It appears that
Joel 2:28-32 reads,
2:28"It
will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
And your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Your old men will dream dreams.
Your young men will see visions.
2:29And
also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days,
I will pour out my Spirit. 2:30I
will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
Blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
2:31The
sun will be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
2:32It
will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved;
For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape,
As Yahweh has said,
And among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
Joel 3:16-17 reads,
3:16Yahweh
will roar from
And thunder from
And the heavens and the earth will shake;
But Yahweh will be a refuge to his people,
And a stronghold to the children of
3:17"So
you will know that I am Yahweh, your God,
Dwelling in
Then
And no strangers will pass through her any more.
Joel 3:20-21 reads,
3:20But
And
3:21I
will cleanse their blood,
That I have not cleansed:
For Yahweh dwells in
Micah 3:8-4:6 reads,
3:8But
as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh,
And of judgment, and of might,
To declare to Jacob his disobedience,
And to Israel his sin.
3:9Please
listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob,
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice,
And pervert all equity.
3:10They
build up Zion with blood,
And Jerusalem with iniquity.
3:11Her
leaders judge for bribes,
And her priests teach for a price,
And her prophets of it tell fortunes for money:
Yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,
Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us?
No disaster will come on us.
3:12Therefore
Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,
And Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,
And the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
4:1But
in the latter days,
It will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the
top of the mountains,
And it will be exalted above the hills;
And peoples will stream to it.
4:2Many
nations will go and say,
"Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
And to the house of the God of Jacob;
And he will teach us of his ways,
And we will walk in his paths."
For out of Zion will go forth the law,
And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;
4:3And
he will judge between many peoples,
And will decide concerning strong nations afar off.
They will beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
Neither will they learn war any more.
4:4But
they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree;
And no one will make them afraid:
For the mouth of Yahweh of Hosts has spoken. 4:5Indeed
all the nations may walk in the name of their gods;
But we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
4:6"In
that day," says Yahweh,
"I will assemble that which is lame,
And I will gather that which is driven away,
And that which I have afflicted;
4:7And I will make that which was
lame a remnant,
And that which was cast far off a strong nation:
And Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.
Zechariah 1:12-17 reads,
1:12Then
the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Hosts, how long will you not
have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had
indignation these seventy years?"
1:13Yahweh
answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words. 1:14So the angel who talked with me said to me,
"Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "I am jealous for
Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. 1:15I
am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little
displeased, but they added to the calamity." 1:16Therefore
thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall
be built in it," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and a line shall be stretched
forth over Jerusalem."’
1:17"Proclaim
further, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "My cities will again overflow
with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose
Jerusalem."’"
Zion - The Holy Mountain In
The City Of Truth
Zechariah 8:1-7 reads,
8:1The
word of Yahweh of Hosts came to me. 8:2Thus
says Yahweh of Hosts: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am
jealous for her with great wrath."
8:3Thus
says Yahweh: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of
Yahweh of Hosts, ‘The Holy Mountain.’"
8:4Thus
says Yahweh of Hosts: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the
streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. 8:5The streets of the city will be full of boys
and girls playing in its streets."
8:6Thus
says Yahweh of Hosts: "If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of
this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?" says
Yahweh of Hosts.
8:7Thus
says Yahweh of Hosts: "Behold, I will save my people from the east
country, and from the west country; 8:8and
I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they will
be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness."
The Basis Of Yahweh's Method
Of Assessing Day And Night
In essence, it is observed that Yahweh's method of assessing the day and the night is not based on the sun, but on the LIGHT that he created as shown in Genesis 1:3-5. This LIGHT he created prior to his creation of the sun and other heavenly bodies to provide light to rule the day and the night. Day and night therefore exist independently of the light received from the sun or from the moon and stellar bodies.
Also, day and night exist for the earth in an absolute sense, rather than relative to the geographical location of any part of the earth. For day and night existed prior to any land being visible on the surface of the earth, and still exist even in those parts of the earth that sometimes have no sunrise or sunset. As day and night is relatively different for each part of the earth, depending on the specific sunrise and sunset times in those parts of the earth, relative or local day and night is irrelevant with respect to the system Yahweh uses in assessing day and night. Yahweh's system is absolute, with day and night referenced to sunset and sunrise times at Mount Zion, Yahweh's dwelling place on the earth, both historically and in future. The sunrise and sunset times at Mount Zion are apparently synchronised with the LIGHT that Yahweh created as seen in Genesis 1:3-5.
Yahweh's days and nights are therefore the same for all the earth, irrespective of local days and nights, being assessed from Yahweh's dwelling place of Mount Zion, Jerusalem. Likewise, Yahweh's time for all the earth, irrespective of local timing, is assessed from Yahweh's dwelling place of Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
Information Resource On
Sunrise And Sunset Times At Jerusalem
How can one know when Yahweh's days and nights commence at Jerusalem, in order to ascertain Yahweh's days and nights for all the earth?
A web site resource that is helpful in this regard is the Sun or Moon Rise/Set Table for One Year published at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/docs/RS_OneYear.html. It requires the insertion of information specific to Jerusalem, such as its longitude and latitude, to facilitate accurate presentation of sunrise and sunset times for one year. (Jerusalem is approximately 35 degrees 10 minutes East and 31 degrees 46 minutes North, and is 2 hours ahead of GMT. Precise longitudinal and latitudinal co-ordinates should be obtained from more accurate sources.)
Other useful web resources can be found at the following sites:
http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/chronos/chronos.html
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/
http://www.auslig.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.htm
http://www.sunrisesunset.com/custom_srss_calendar.asp
http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html
Significance Of Assessing Days
And Nights According To Yahweh's Criterion
What is the significance of assessing days and nights according to Yahweh's criterion, rather than doing so according to the various variable criteria of human beings?
Yahweh Blessed And Hallowed
The Seventh Day
Genesis 1:31-2:3 reads,
1:31God
saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was
evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
2:1The
heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2:2On the seventh day God finished his work
which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he
had made. 2:3God blessed the seventh
day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had
created and made.
The Only Weekly Period Of Time
In All The Earth That Is Holy
The day that Yahweh blessed was the seventh day, as assessed by him. This is the day or period of time that he made holy, and not some other period of time.
Seeing that Yahweh's days are assessed from his habitation on the earth, Mount Zion in Jerusalem, the period of time that is blessed and is holy is that assessed from Mount Zion. Therefore periods of time in regions of the earth where the sun rises prior to Mount Zion are not blessed or holy prior to the sun so rising in Mount Zion to commence the seventh day. Likewise, periods of time in regions of the earth where the sun hasn't yet risen after it has risen in Mount Zion to end the seventh day are not blessed or holy. The only period of time in all the earth that is blessed or holy with respect to weekly days is the seventh day as assessed from Mount Zion.
Injunction To Keep Holy
Yahweh's Sabbath Day
Exodus 20:8-11 reads,
20:8"Remember
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 20:9You
shall labor six days, and do all your work, 20:10but
the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in
it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your
maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; 20:11for in six days Yahweh made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore
Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
The Sabbath day, the seventh day, is that which Yahweh rested in and blessed and made holy. This is the period of time commencing at the end of the sixth day and ending at the end of the seventh day as assessed from Mount Zion. Any period outside this time is NOT the Sabbath or period of time that Yahweh rested in during the week that he made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them.
Seeing that Yahweh has commanded the children of Israel to REMEMBER the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, it is the very period of time that Yahweh rested in and blessed that is indeed the Sabbath and should therefore be remembered.
Observance Of Yahweh's Set
Feasts - Holy Convocations
Leviticus 23 reads,
23:1Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, 23:2Speak to
the children of Israel, and tell them, The set feasts of Yahweh, which you
shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts. 23:3Six days shall work be done: but on the
seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no
manner of work: it is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
23:4These
are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim
in their appointed season. 23:5In
the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Yahweh’s
Passover. 23:6On the fifteenth day
of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh: seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread. 23:7In
the first day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work. 23:8But you shall offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall
do no servile work. 23:9Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, 23:10Speak
to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you are come into the land which
I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then you shall bring the sheaf
of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 23:11and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be
accepted for you: on the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
23:12In the day when you wave the
sheaf, you shall offer a he-lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt
offering to Yahweh. 23:13The
meal-offering of it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed
with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a sweet savor; and the
drink-offering of it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 23:14You shall eat neither bread, nor parched
grain, nor fresh ears, until this same day, until you have brought the offering
of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your
dwellings.
23:15You
shall count to you from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you
brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven Sabbaths shall there be complete:
23:16even to the next day after the
seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal-offering
to Yahweh. 23:17You shall
bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah:
they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits
to Yahweh. 23:18You shall present
with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, and one young bull, and
two rams: they shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal-offering,
and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to
Yahweh. 23:19You shall offer one
male goat for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs a year old for a sacrifice of
peace-offerings. 23:20The priest
shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave-offering before
Yahweh, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest. 23:21You shall make proclamation on the same
day; there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no servile work: it
is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 23:22When you reap the harvest of your land,
you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather
the gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the
sojourner: I am Yahweh your God.
23:23Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, 23:24Speak
to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of
the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a
holy convocation. 23:25You shall
do no servile work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
23:26Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, 23:27However
on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a
holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict your souls; and you shall offer
an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 23:28You
shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to
make atonement for you before Yahweh your God. 23:29For whatever soul it be who shall not be afflicted in
that same day; he shall be cut off from his people. 23:30Whatever soul it be who does any manner of
work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people. 23:31You shall do no manner of work: it is a
statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 23:32It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn
rest, and you shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even,
from even to even, shall you keep your Sabbath.
23:33Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, 23:34Speak
to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh
month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh. 23:35On the first day shall be a holy
convocation: you shall do no servile work. 23:36Seven
days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh: on the eighth day
shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by
fire to Yahweh: it is a solemn assembly; you shall do no servile work.
23:37These
are the set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering,
and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day; 23:38besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and
besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your
freewill-offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
23:39However
on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits
of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day
shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 23:40You shall take on the first day the fruit
of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows
of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days. 23:41You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven
days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you
shall keep it in the seventh month. 23:42You
shall dwell in booths seven days; all who are home-born in Israel shall dwell
in booths; 23:43that your
generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths,
when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahweh your God. 23:44Moses declared to the children of Israel
the set feasts of Yahweh.
It should be noted that Yahweh has his own set feasts, which are to be observed according to his specifications in their own specified days. Yahweh's days are assessed from Mount Zion, where he dwells on the earth, and rule for the entire earth. Therefore those observing Yahweh's set feasts, if they are indeed observing them at Yahweh's appointed times, should do so as assessed from Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and not as assessed from the variable and different localised sunset times in various parts of the earth.
In closing, it should be noted that Yahweh's days and nights are assessed from sunrises and sunsets at Mount Zion in Jerusalem. These days as assessed from Mount Zion, Yahweh's dwelling place on the earth, rule for all the earth. Yahweh's set feasts, including his weekly Sabbath, should be observed as assessed from Mount Zion and not as assessed by localised sunrises and sunsets in various parts of the world. By so observing Yahweh's feasts as assessed at Mount Zion all who faithfully serve Yahweh will indeed be observing his set feasts at the same point in time wherever they are in whatever part of the earth they might be. May Yahweh bless you as you walk more in his truth.
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