A Resolution That You Can Keep

Would you like to make a resolution that you can keep this year?

Every New Year's Day millions of Americans make New Year's resolutions.  They resolve that something in their life is going to be different starting with this year than it was in prior years.  Many times these resolutions involve some area of their life where they would like to have more discipline than they had in the previous year.  So they make resolutions to do things like lose weight, get more exercise, save more money, spend more time with their family and less time at work, stop smoking and the like. These are among the most popular New Year's resolutions.

The problem with New Year's resolutions is that people are almost never able to keep them.  Studies show that on average people have already broken their New Year's resolutions within ten days of making them and that most New Year resolutions are completely abandoned by February first.

The reason for this is that the other changes in their lives necessary to carry out their resolutions rarely happen.  They still have the same issues to deal with on January 2 of the new year that they had on December 31 of the old year.  The calendar changing from one year to another on January 1 did not change anything significant in their lives.  They still have the same job that they had before. They still have the same friends that they had before.  They still have the same family that they had before.  They still have the problems that they had before.  They still have the same things that drive their behavior.

The fact is they often do not have the will power to change even if that was all that was needed.  When they face the same temptations they fall back into the same patterns of behavior.  Even if they push everything out of their lives that might tempt them they are still the same on the inside.  Once they find themselves in those same circumstances they end up making the same choices.  They are simply slaves that cannot free themselves no matter how much they want to be free.

Then there are all of those unexpected and unforeseeable things that prevent them from carrying out their resolutions even if they have the will power.  They get injured or fall ill so that they cannot exercise and consequently gain weight.  They are laid off through no fault of their own and no longer have money to save.  They survive a lay off (which is sometimes worse than being laid off) only to find that they are now expected to make up some of the work that was being performed by those that were laid off on top of their own work.  They suffer a calamity of some sort like an accident or serious illness that devours their money.  In other words, life happens to them.

So in short they cannot make the changes that they would like to make even if they have the will power to do so because will power alone is not enough to bring about those changes.  Everything in their life is not in their control no matter how much they wish it was so .  They are making resolutions that they cannot keep.

Would it not be better to make a resolution that you can keep instead of making one that is probably doomed to failure?

The good news is that there is a resolution that you can keep.  This resolution will bring about all kinds of changes in your life when you keep it.  When you keep this resolution then you will find that you will gain the power to keep those other resolutions.  When you keep this resolution then you will be set free from the prison that your habits have built.  When you keep this resolution then you will be able to rise above every circumstance that would otherwise prevent you from making the kinds of changes that you want in your life.

A resolution that you can keep is one that does not rely upon your will power and external circumstances to be kept.  You can keep this resolution long after other resolutions are abandoned because it deals with the root cause of those things that you want out of your life instead of just the symptoms.

A resolution that you can keep is total surrender to the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ). 

This resolution will bring about the resolution of the sin problem in your life.  All of those things that you want to change in your life are the result of only one root cause and that root cause is sin.

The first thing to understand about sin is that sin is a universal problem throughout the human race.  There is no one that has not sinned (1 Kings 8:46).  No one in the entire world is good (Psalm 14:2-3).  There is not one person that has enough understanding in their own strength to avoid sin (Romans 3:10-12).  Anyone that thinks that they have never sinned is self-deceived (1 John 1:8).

Before people can avoid sin they have to know what sin is.  People can sin without knowing that they are sinning (Numbers 15:29).  People can be so ignorant of what defines sin that it is like not knowing the difference between left and right (Jonah 4:11).

The Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) was given to Moses so that people could know what was sin (Romans 3:20).  The Law of Truth revealed the sin that had already existed before it was ever given (Romans 5:13).  Only no one knew what was sin until the Law of Truth was given (Romans 7:7).  Since the Law of Truth tells what sin is then doing anything that is contrary to what is commanded in the Law of Truth is sin (1 John 3:4).

However, knowing what is sin does not keep anyone from committing sin.  Those that have been given the Law of Truth so they could know what was sin have done no better at avoiding sin than those that did not have the Law of Truth (Romans 2:12).  The Jews are just as guilty as the Gentiles (Romans 3:9).

So the Law of Truth is not enough to keep people from sin.  The Law of Truth is holy, just and good (Romans 7:12).  The problem is that we are not (Romans 7:14-16).

We cannot be good on our own because sin lives in our bodies (Romans 7:17-18).  It is the sin that lives in our bodies which keeps us from making those changes that we want to make in our lives (Romans 7:19-21).  So no matter how much we want to change to live in line with the Law of Truth we end up breaking it anyways because we are slaves to sin (Romans 7:22-23).  We simply cannot live in line with the Law of Truth on our own strength due to the sin that lives in our bodies (Romans 8:6-8).

Even worse the sin that lives in our bodies always brings death.  Our bodies die because sin lives in them (Romans 5:12).  This why people still died before the Law of Truth was ever given to Moses (Romans 5:14).  This is why we continue in behavior that we know is self destructive and will lead us to death (Romans 7:5).  The Law of Truth was given so that we could see how terrible sin really is (Romans 7:13).

Since sin is universal, lives in our bodies and always results in death then we need someone to deliver us from our hopeless state (Romans 7:24).

The obedience to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) by the Man of Truth has made him able to bring a resolution to our sin problem (Romans 5:19-21).  We have earned death with our actions that are the result from the sin that lives in our bodies but He has given us the gift of eternal life through the Man of Truth (Romans 6:23).

There is deliverance from slavery to sin when you submit in total surrender to the Man of Truth (Romans 7:25).  It is keeping your resolution of total surrender to the Man of Truth that sets you free from the sin that leads to death (Romans 8:1-2). 

Total surrender to the Man of Truth  is a resolution that you can keep because the Man of Truth has already done all of the heavy lifting. The Man of Truth died to pay for your sins and rose again so you could be counted as sinless (Romans 4:23-25).  When you had no ability to save yourself the Man of Truth died to resolve your sin problem (Romans 5:6).  The Man of Truth suffered the terrible brutality of the cross so you could be free from being controlled by the sin that lives in your body (1 Peter 4:1-2).

Total surrender to the Man of Truth is a resolution that you can keep because the Man of Truth will live in you to make you strong enough to keep this resolution.  If you will live in the Man of Truth then He will live in you so that you can keep this resolution (John 15:4-5).  He is strong enough to enable you to keep this resolution when he is living in you (Colossians 1:27-29).  If he is living you then you can live like he did, free from the sin, in this world (1 John 4:17).

Total surrender to the Man of Truth is a resolution that you can keep because of the Word of Truth will give you the ability to do so.  It is continuing to obey the Word of Truth that sets you free from the sin that lives in your body (John 8:31-32). When you live in the Man of Truth and the Word of Truth lives in you then you will be able to keep this resolution (John 15:7-8).  The Word of Truth will renew your mind so that you can keep this resolution (Romans 12:1-2).

Total surrender to the Man of Truth is a resolution that you can keep because the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) will help you to keep this resolution.  The Spirit of Truth is given to everyone that makes a resolution of total surrender to the Man of Truth (John 14:15-17).  The Spirit of Truth will guide you into all truth so that you know how to keep this resolution (John 16:13).  The Spirit of Truth will give you the strength to keep your resolution because you will not be relying on your own strength (Romans 8:3-5).

This resolution that you can keep begins when you are born again as a Child of Truth.  You must born again to keep this resolution (John 3:3-5).  Those that are born again are born as a spirit to the Spirit of Truth just as they were born as a body to a human mother (John 3:6-8).  The Spirit of Truth lives in everyone that is born again, just like they carry the DNA of their mother in their bodies when they were born the first time, so that they can keep this resolution (Romans 8:9-10).  The Spirit of Truth living on the inside makes total surrender to the Man of Truth to be a resolution that you can keep (Romans 8:12-14).  The Spirit of Truth will tell you on the inside that this is a resolution that you can keep (Romans 8:15-16).  The Spirit of Truth living on the inside of you will produce outside behavior that is pleasing to the Father of Truth as naturally as apple trees produce apples (Galatians 5:22-23).

When you are born again you are born as a baby.  It is like a riddle that I had in a set of riddle cards when I was seven years old.  Question : "How many big men were born in New York City?"  Answer: "None - just little babies were born there".  You start out as a baby Child of Truth and grow up from there.  It is a process whereby you become more and more like the Man of Truth day by day. 

Total surrender to the Man of Truth is a resolution that you can keep if you decide to make it because the Father of Truth will help you to keep it.  The Father of Truth has given other people that have made the same resolution to help you keep your resolution so that you can grow up to be like the Man of Truth (Ephesians 4:11-15).

Make no mistake I am not saying that you do not have to do anything and your life will get better overnight without any effort on your behalf.  This is the Father of Truth working with you to make changes in your life.  He has a part that He began when He sent the Man of Truth but you also have a part.  He sent the Man of Truth into this world so that He could work with you to keep this resolution (Matthew 1:22-23).

It is not all up to the Father of Truth.

You are the one that has to decide that you are going to obey the Man of Truth in total surrender to the best of your ability and understanding because you love him (John 15:9-11).  You are the one that has to decide that you are going to be the friend of the Man of Truth by making a resolution to submit to him in total surrender (John 15:14-15).  You are the one that has to reject what is evil and desire the Word of Truth like a baby desires milk so that you can grow up (1 Peter 2:1-3).

It is not all up to you either.

It is the Man of Truth and you working together that makes it possible for you to keep your resolution to submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender.  The Man of Truth began the process and he will finish it but it is up to you to look to him for strength as you run your leg of the race (Hebrews 12:1-3).   The Man of Truth did his part to help you overcome every obstacle when he shed his blood on the cross and you do your part when you learn to say the same thing as the Word of Truth about your situation (Revelation 12:11).  It is a partnership.

There are no circumstances that can prevent you from keeping this resolution. No one can pry you from the hand of the Father of Truth once you make this resolution (John 10:29).  There are no circumstances that can separate you from the love of the Man of Truth (Romans 8:35-37).  No one can separate you from the love of the Father of Truth (Romans 8:38-39).

What if you should slip in your resolve?  You can still keep your resolution by getting back up and keep trying again (Proverbs 24:16).  You can judge yourself and change your behavior or you will be chastised by the Father of Truth so that you will not continue to slip (1 Corinthians 11:31-32).  The Father of Truth will chastise you for your disobedience but you will still be His child (Hebrews 12:5-7).  He will chastise you so that you will learn to be like Him (Hebrews 12:8-10).

As you learn how to keep this resolution then you will learn how to avoid everything that is defined as sin in the Law of Truth (Romans 3:31).  This resolution is a long war that lasts for your entire life against everything that would lead you into sin (2 Corinthians 10:3-6).  When you keep this resolution and win this war you will become like the Man of Truth in every way (1 John 3:2).

Total surrender to the Man of Truth is a resolution that you can keep. The only way to lose this war is to quit fighting.  You have all the help you need to keep this resolution but you must stay in the House of Truth to do so (Matthew 24:13).  You must not leave the House of Truth like Judas did or you will also fail to keep your resolution (Acts 1:25).  You must not leave the House of Truth or you will fall from the grace that makes it possible to keep this resolution (Galatians 5:4-5).  You must not leave the House of Truth or you will fail to receive the help that you need to keep this resolution (Hebrews 12:14-16).  It would be better to never come into the House of Truth than to leave the House of Truth (2 Peter 2:20-22).

Total surrender to the Man of Truth is a resolution that you can keep.  You make this resolution when come into the House of Truth. You come into the House of Truth when call the Man of Truth the boss of every area of your life because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10). 

Come into the House of Truth.

When Was Jesus Born?

When was the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) born?

This question has been debated many times.  There have literally been small wars prompted by disagreement over the date of his birth.  Most notable were a series of violent riots that lasted for weeks across England when the celebration of Christmas was outlawed by the Puritan Parliament in 1647.  The Puritan Parliament believed that December 25 was not the correct date of his birth and was instead the date of a Pagan holiday that the Roman Catholic Church had only assigned as his birthday.

They have not been alone in this assertion.  There were similar laws passed in many places in the United States as well.  In fact, Christmas was not even celebrated by most people in the US until the mid 1800's when many Roman Catholics, Lutherans and Episcopalians immigrated to America.  It did not become a national holiday in the US until 1870.

December 25 is not the only day that people have assigned as his birthday.  For many centuries in Europe, April 1 was considered to be the date of his birthday, because many of the early church fathers taught that the Man of Truth was born in April.  For this reason the start of the year was moved from January 1, the day that Julius Caesar assigned to be the first day of the year on the Roman Calendar, to April 1 by the religious professionals.  (The Roman calendar originally began on March 1 that is why December (literally "tenth month") is called December, even though it is the twelfth month on the Julian and Gregorian calendars.)  New Years Day continued to be observed on April 1, because many still considered that to be the month of the birthday of the Man of Truth until New Years Day was changed back to January 1 by Pope Gregory in 1582.

Then there are those maintain that the Man of Truth was born during the Feast of Sukkot (Booths or Tabernacles), because he came to live among men when he was born.  Still yet others, give other dates centered around different Feasts of the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) for various reasons.  So the question still remains.

When was the Man of Truth born?

Fortunately, this is not an unanswerable question.  The Book of Truth (The Bible) gives enough information to nail down the date of his birth give or take a day.  We will begin by examining the Book of Truth, to eliminate all dates when the Man of Truth could not have been born.

Many dates can be eliminated by a simple understanding of the ancient world, and particularly the Roman world that included all of modern Israel.

This begins with an understanding of the calendar systems that were in use, and referenced in the Book of Truth. The people that lived in Israel at that time, in very many ways had to exist in three worlds, and so had to deal with three different calendars.

First, they lived in a Jewish world, that was centered around the Law of Truth (Torah) that the Father of Truth gave to Moses and Rabbinical laws.  The Jewish world used the Biblical calendar based on observation of the new moon and the state of the barley crop at Jerusalem, that regulated when the Feasts of the Father of Truth were observed .  This calendar was used by Jews scattered all over the ancient world.

Second, they live in a Greek world, that was heavily influenced by the Greek culture and language that dominated the entire eastern half of the Roman Empire, as well as much of Asia east of the Roman Empire.   The Greek world used the Macedonian calendar that was based on the calculations of the new moon and the movement of the Earth around the Sun (solar), that formed the nineteen year long Metonic cycle (that was later adopted by the Rabbis to create the modern Rabbinic calendar), and four year periods called Olympiads (based on the occurrence of the Olympics every four years).  This calendar was used for conducting all kinds of business across the entire Greek speaking world, that stretched all the way to northern India and western China.

Third, they lived in a Roman world, that was dominated by a Roman military occupation of the entire Roman empire.  The Roman world used the Roman calendar, that was based solely upon the movement of the Earth around the Sun. (This is the basis for the modern Gregorian calendar used in Europe, North America and most of the world).  This was the calendar, that was used for conducting business across the entire Roman Empire.

Needless to say, it is necessary to consider which calendar is being referenced to date an event, in order to understand when the even actually occurred.   There can only be confusion, if anyone tries to date an event without understanding the calendar, that is being used in reference to the event.

The Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka the New Testament) only references events by the Biblical calendar and the Roman Calendar, that is still in use today.  It is usually quite obvious which is being referenced, if you have any familiarity with either calendar.  The Biblical calendar is generally used to refer to events in terms related to the Feasts of the Father of Truth, or the Sabbath.  The Roman calander is used to refer to events in other terms, such as seasons of the Roman calendar like winter.

When was the Man of Truth born?

The first really big clue to when the Man of Truth was born is the decree by Caesar Augustus that everyone should be taxed (Luke 2:1).   The Romans took always took their census and levied a poll tax on each and every person in the empire during the month of Aprilis, known today as April. The month of April is so called, because it comes from the Latin word "aperio" which literally means "to open".  This was the month that the barley grains opened up, showing that they were ready for harvest.  Barley was the first crop that could be harvested after winter was over, and was extremely important in the ancient world.  The purpose of the poll tax was to secure funds to ensure an adequate supply of food for the city of Rome, and the Roman army, for the rest of the year.   (The US and most of Europe have also collected income taxes in the month of April for similar reasons.)

This taxing occurred during the first time when Cyrenius was the governor of Syria from 3 BC to 1 BC (Luke 2:2).  (He served as the governor of Syria for a second time about ten years later.)  The official records of the Roman Empire still showed, that there was a census during the first term of Cyrenius, when the Emperor Justin the Apostate tried to use those records to discredit the Gospel of Luke in 337 AD.

Caesar Augustus anticipated that there might be tax revolts, so he decreed that everyone had to go to the city of their ancestors to pay the tax (Luke 2:3).  This was done so that people in every locality would be scattered, and unable to band together.  This journey to pay their taxes, and be counted could take months for some people, that had moved to the opposite end of the Roman Empire from the city of their ancestors.  This taxing began in April, because the Roman world, and indeed the entire ancient world, came to a complete standstill during the winter.

The Mediterranean Sea is too rough to travel during the winter.  (When I lived in Greece giant iron ships would be moored together in the port of Pireaus, the deep water port of Athens, for the entire winter, because it was too dangerous for them to be on the Mediterranean Sea.)  The ancient Greeks would not travel on the Mediterranean Sea from the middle of Autumn to the middle of Spring.  The Jews would not travel on the Mediterranean Sea from the time of the Fast (late September to late October) until the first day of the Biblical year (middle March to middle April) (Acts 27:9).  The Romans did not even dare to travel the Mediterranean Sea during the winter, except when it was a matter of the survival of Rome.  This is why the Roman captain sought a port that was more accommodating to spend the winter at, when Paul (Shaul aka Saul) warned them to stay at Fair Havens, Crete (Acts 27:12).  This is why the ship from Alexandria, Egypt had spent the entire winter in Malta, before continuing on to Rome (Acts 28:11).

Not only did sea travel come to a complete stop during the winter, but so did land travel.  The caravans could not travel, because of the scarcity of food and water during the winter.  There as also the danger of being caught out in the open, when the temperatures dropped suddenly.  Mountain passes were frequently blocked by snow and ice.

There was virtually no travel of any kind in the winter, just like there was virtually no travel by the Jews on the Sabbath day (Matthew 24:20)).  It was for these reasons, that the Man of Truth says, that the Jews should pray, that their flight from the Man of Lies (The Antichrist) does not occur in the winter (Mark 13:18).  This is why Paul (Shaul aka Saul) told the Corinthian church, that he planned to spend the winter with them before continuing on his journey (1 Corinthians 16:6).  This is why Paul (Shual aka Saul) urged Timothy to make it to Rome before winter began (2 Timothy 4:21).  This is why Paul (Shual aka Saul) said, that he was determined to winter in Nicopolis (Titus 3:12).  So one thing is for sure, and that is that Caesar Augustus did not require everyone to be in their home town to be taxed during the months of December, January and February, that defined winter on the Roman calendar.  The Man of Truth was definitely not born on December 25, or any other day during the winter.

When was the Man of Truth born?

Since many people had to travel a great distance to be taxed then it could be argued that Joseph and Mary (Mariam) did not have to have necessarily arrive in the Roman month of April to be taxed in Bethlehem. So the Man of Truth could have been born during any of the Feasts of the Father of Truth because none of them ever occurred in the winter.  The most common one that is put forth is the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Law of Truth required that the Jews attend the entire Feast of Tabernacles in the place that the Father of Truth would choose (Deuteronomy 16:13-15).  The place that the Father of Truth chose was Jerusalem (1 Kings 11:36).  Joseph was man that sought to do everything in accordance with the Law of Truth (Matthew 1:19).  Joseph and Miriam were careful to follow every commandment of the Law of Truth including circumcision and purification (Luke 2:21-24).

The Law of Truth required that they spend all of the Feasts of the Father of Truth in Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 16:16).  This is why they went up to Jerusalem every year to spend the days of the Passover feasts (Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread and First Fruits) there (Luke 2:41-43).

Also the Romans had a set of laws about the Jews that kept them exempt from doing anything that interfered with their observation of the Feasts of the Father of Truth or the Sabbath.  People sometimes called these laws Jewish privileges.  The Jews had helped Julius Caesar rise to power and Herod the Great had fought beside Caesar Augustus at the battle of Actium in 31 AD.   Roman law was so strict about not interfering with the observance of these feasts that that the law of Sabbath observation even applied to the Jewish slaves on war galleys except when the ships were actually under attack. The Romans would not have required that the Jews go to the city of their ancestors during the Feasts of the Father of Truth nor would have the Romans even collected taxes in Judea from the Jews during these feasts during the reign of Herod the Great. 

Joseph and Mary (Mariam) did go not to Bethlehem to pay their taxes and give birth to the Man of Truth during any of the Feasts of the Father of Truth because they were Jews that observed the Law of Truth and spent the days of those feasts in Jerusalem as the Law of Truth required.  They would have been violating the Law of Truth if the Man of Truth was born in Bethlehem during any of the Feasts of the Father of Truth.

When was the Man of Truth born?

However, the Book of Truth not only tells when the Man of Truth could not have been born, but it also tells when the Man of Truth was actually born.

The next big clue is that the shepherds were abiding in the fields watching over their flocks by night when the Man of Truth was born (Luke 2:8).  Shepherds normally do not keep their flocks out at night, but instead put them in little booths called cotes at night, where they are safe from wolves and thieves (2 Chronicles 32:27-29).  These cotes are arranged around a pen, where the sheep spend the night, called a sheepfold (John 10:1-3).  The shepherd then calls to the sheep to take them out in the morning, to feed them during the day, and then returns them to the sheepfold to spend the night (John 10:7-9).

The only time of the entire year, that the shepherds keep the sheep out at night, is during the lambing season, because the sheep will trample on and kill the newborn lambs in the sheepfold.  The lambing season is always during the first two weeks of April, in the area around the Mediterranean Sea.  I used to see the shepherds stay out at night during the lambing season every year, when I lived in Greece.  The rest of the year, they put their sheep in the sheepfold at night, just as people in Greece, Israel, and most of the world, did during the days when the Man of Truth was born.  The Man of Truth was born during the first two weeks of April without a doubt.

When was the Man of Truth born?

The Book of Truth gets even more specific than that, if you are willing to spend the time to count backwards from the Passover after he turned thirty.  To do this, you have to know something about the Biblical calendar, that is defined in the Law of Truth.

Each Biblical day consists of a nighttime portion that begins in the evening (shortly after sunset), and a daytime portion that begins in the morning (shortly before sunrise) (Genesis 1:5).  Each Biblical month lasts from the start of one new moon until the start of the next new moon, just like each week lasts from the start of one Sabbath until the start of the next Sabbath  (Isaiah 66:23).  The first month on the Biblical calendar is the month, when the nation of Israel was taken out of Egypt (Exodus 12:1-2). This month was the month that the barley in Israel (and other places nearby like Egypt) is ready for harvest (abib aka aviv), in time to be presented to the Father of Truth at the Feast of First Fruits as explained below (Exodus 13:3-5).

Passover occurs on the fourteenth day of the first month of the Biblical calendar (Leviticus 23:4-5). The fifteenth day of the first month is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which begins the moment that Passover is over (Leviticus 23:6-8).  The Sunday (The daylight portion of the day after the regular Sabbath occurs on Sunday) after the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is the Feast of Firstfruits when the barley must be ripe enough to presented to the Father of Truth (Leviticus 23:10-11).

The months on the Biblical calendar that go from one new moon to the next new moon have an average time span of 29.5 days per month giving 354 days in a 12 month year.  So some years have a leap month of either 29 or 30 days added when the barley in the area will not be ready for harvest by the Sunday that follows the fifteenth day of the next month. So Passover starts shortly after sunset sometime between March 25 and April 25 with the daytime portion of Passover occurring after sunrise of the next day.  The exact date on the Roman calendar depends upon the year of the Roman Calendar. (This is why Easter bounces around the Roman calendar since when it occurs is based on when Passover occurs.)

The year on the Roman calender is given in this case.  John the Baptist (Yochanon the Mikveh Man) began his ministry in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar (Luke 3:1-3).  The fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar was from August 19, 28 AD to August 18, 29 AD using Roman reckoning of Imperial reigns. So the Passover in question is the Passover of 29 AD.  NASA has been able to calculate the exact time of the null moon all the way back to 1 AD give or take fifteen minutes.  (The null moon, when the moon is completely black, is often mistakenly referred to as the new moon but the actual new moon is when a sliver of the moon can first be seen by the human eye after the null moon has occurred.  The new moon actually occurs about twelve hours and fifteen minutes after the null moon.)  The month when the barley can be harvested is very regular in occurrence and always occurs during the Roman month of April give or take a day or two.  (Remember that April is so named because that is when the barley harvest occurs).  So the Passover of 29 AD is known to have started at the evening of April 16 on the Roman calendar.

The Man of Truth went to be baptized by John the Baptist (Yochanon the Mikveh Man) to prepare for his ministry when he was getting close to being thirty years old (Luke 3:21-23).  After that he went into the wilderness to be tempted for forty days (Luke 4:1-2).  After the temptation he began to operate in power and being recognized by Israel as being from the Father of Truth for the first time (Luke 4:13-14).  This is the day that he turned thirty.  (Thirty years old on the Biblical calendar which gives a slightly different date on the Roman Calendar than thirty years on the Roman calendar since the years on the Biblical calendar do not always contain only twelve months.)

The Man of Truth had to do this when he turned thirty years old to fulfill many of the types of him operating in power that were laid out in the Original Covenant (Tanach aka Old Testament).  Joseph was revealed as the savior of the world (the Egyptians actually called him "Zaphnathpaaneah" which means "the savior of the world" ) when he was thirty (Genesis 41:45-47).  David was thirty when he began to be accepted as the king of Israel (2 Samuel 5:4).  The Levites were counted as being able to oversee the building up of the House of the Father of Truth when they turned thirty (1 Chronicles 23:2-4).   The Man of Truth did all of these things when he began to operate in power.

The Man of Truth then went back to John the Baptist (Yochanon the Mikveh Man) a second time when the Spirit of Truth (HaRuach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) revealed that he was operating in power (John 1:29-34).  The third day after that he was in Cana of Galilee where he first demonstrated that he was operating in power (John 2:1-11).  Then he went to nearby Capernaum and spent a few days there (John 2:12).  Then he made the three day journey to arrive in Jerusalem not long before Passover (by sunset of the Wednesday before Passover at the latest since Passover began when the regular Sabbath ended in 29 AD and no commerce was allowed on the Sabbath or Passover) and drove out the money changers from the Temple for the first time (on the Thursday before Passover) (John 2:13-16).  Then he spent Passover of 29 AD in Jerusalem operating in power (John 2:23).

When was the Man of Truth born?

He was born on the first day of the first month of the Biblical year if the few days that he spent in Capernaum was four days (counting the Sabbath before Passover). (The Biblical year began on Sunday evening in 29 AD.)  He met John the Baptist (Yochanon the Mikveh Man) after his temptation on the next day (his birthday), he was in Capernaum by the third day after his birthday, he was in Capernaum for four days after that, he spent three days traveling to Jerusalem, he was in Jerusalem three days before Passover, and finally he celebrated the Passover of 29 AD in Jerusalem.  The fourteenth day of the first month of the Biblical year minus these thirteen days gives his birthday as being on the first day of the Biblical year.

Since the Man of Truth turned 30 in 29 AD then he was born in 2 BC (there is no 0 AD so you must add one to any year less than 1 when going from AD to BC.)  This agrees with the year given in the Book of Truth concerning the visit of the wise men.

Herod the Great died in 1 AD as testified by Josephus who wrote that he was counted as the King of the Jews by the Romans for thirty seven years after they had declared him to be so in 37 BC.  (There is no 0 BC, so you must add one to any year less than 1 when going from BC to AD.)

Some people have tried to discredit the Gospels by claiming that Herod the Great died in 4 BC.  This timing of the death of Herod the Great is based on another passage by Josephus.  Josephus says that the high priest had been arrested the day after a fast of the Jews.  (There are seven fasts of the Jews each year of the Biblical calendar.  One of these is the fast of the tenth month known as Asarah T'Bevet (Zechariah 8:19).)  After that Herod (the Great) had the high priest executed. On that very night a full lunar eclipse (aka blood moon) appeared and Herod (the Great) was struck with a horrible, painful and incurable disease that he died from a few months later. Most of the lunar eclipses that occurred between 4 BC and 1 AD were not visible in Jerusalem since they either occurred in the daytime Jerusalem time or were penumbral.  The full lunar eclipses visible at Jerusalem (Judea (Judaea)) during this five tear period were in the nights that began on 10 January 1 BC and in the night that began on 29 December 1 BC.  (The lunar eclipse of 5 September 4 BC sometimes used to date the death of Herod (the Great) peaked at 4:24 pm Jerusalem time according to NASA and was not even visible in the Roman Empire.)  The lunar eclipse of 10 January 1 BC was only four days after the first fast of Asarah T'Bevet of 1 BC (began at in the evening of 6 January) which would be enough time to effect the arrest and execution of the high priest but it would have occurred during the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Herod (the Great) from Jerusalem (Judea (Judaea)) causing him to have died in the thirty-sixth year of his reign instead of the thirty-seventh year as Josephus had also recorded.  The lunar eclipse of 29 December 1 BC was only be five days after the second fast of Asarah T'Bevet of 1 BC (began at in the evening of December 24), which is also reasonable and occurred during the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Herod (the Great) from Jerusalem (Judea (Judaea)).  (The fast of Asarah T'Bevet occurred twice in 1 BC because that Biblical year was only 354 days long while the Roman year was 365 days long.) So the eclipse of 29 December 1 BC is the one referred to by Josephus.  Herod the Great died in 1 AD based on all of the facts given about his death by Josephus.

The wise men came because they had seen the star appear in the sky that indicated when he was born while they were still far away in the East (Matthew 2:1-3).  Herod the Great asked when they had seen this star before they went where the Man of Truth was living (Matthew 2:7-9).  They found him living in a house (not a manger) as a young child (not a baby) when they gave him their gifts (Matthew 2:10-11).  Then they left town by a different route instead of reporting back to Herod the Great (Matthew 2:12).  Then Joseph and Mary escaped to Egypt with the Man of Truth that very night (Matthew 2:13-15).  Herod the Great then had all of the baby boys killed from Bethlehem that was south of Jerusalem to Ramah that was north of Jerusalem that were two years old or younger based on the time when the wise man had seen the star appear in the East when the Man of Truth was born (Matthew 2:16-18).  Herod the Great then died shortly thereafter and they came back to Israel (Matthew 2:19-21).  Two years before 1 AD is 2 BC.

When was the Man of Truth born?

He was born on the first day of the Biblical year that started in 2 BC. (I had to calculate the times of the null moon before 1 AD myself since NASA had not made that data public. (I could find lunar and solar eclipse data, but not moon cycle data.)  My approximation is not quite as accurate but it is still correct give or take 30 minutes.  I know this because I compared my calculations going forward from 1 AD against the times given by their calculations.)  This was the day that began on the evening of April 5 and ended on the evening of April 6 on the Roman calendar that is still in use today.  Since he was born about the time that the shepherds were told, then his birth time could be narrowed down further to between the evening of April 5 and the morning of April 6 on the Roman calendar.  If he was born exactly when the evening occurred (the midway point between sunset and nightfall) then his birth literally marked both the beginning and the end of the Biblical calendar.  (This would be most fitting since the Man of Truth is known as the First and the Last (Revelation 1:16-18).)

So it turns out that the early church fathers were right about the Man of Truth being born in April on the Roman calendar.  This is not too surprising since they lived during the Roman times, lived in the same area as he had lived and were much closer in time to his birth.  Some of them were Jewish and some of them were disciples of the Apostles of Truth that had actually walked with the Man of Truth.  They would have understood when he was born without any need for someone to explain to them the Roman and Biblical systems for keeping track of events.

So you might be wondering a few things about all of this.  The first question might be if the early church fathers knew that the Man of Truth was born in April then why was the celebration of his birth moved to December 25 (Christmas) by the false church of Rome?

December 25 was a Roman holiday before the Man of Truth was ever born called Sol Invictus ("The Unconquerable Sun").  Sol Invictus was considered to be the birthday of the Sun because it fell on the winter solstice.  The winter solstice was on December 25 when the birthday of the Sun was renamed to the birthday of the Man of Truth due to the Julian error that was corrected by the current Gregorian calendar in 1582.  (There is no leap day on the century years that are not evenly divided by 400 in Gregorian calendar (1700, 1800, and 1900 did not have a leap day added for example) to correct a three day per four hundred year error that is created by having a leap day every fourth year in the Julian calendar.)  So now the winter solstice is on December 21 while the renamed birthday of the Sun is still celebrated on December 25.  The reason for celebrating the birthday of the Sun is because the Romans were Pagans (idol worshipers) that worshiped the Sun as their chief deity.  They worshiped the Sun, the Moon and the stars like every other nation on Earth except the Jews (Deuteronomy 4:15-19).

This attempt to move the birthday of the Man of Truth to the birthday of the Sun has larger implications than you might realize.  The Law of Truth warns against adapting the customs of those that worship the Sun (Deuteronomy 17:2-4).  The bones of the Kings of Israel that adapted the customs of Sun worship were desecrated and the Jews that adapted the customs of Sun worship were scattered across the Earth (Jeremiah 8:1-3).  They had carried out rituals associated with worshiping the Sun while they were in the House of the Father of Truth (Ezekiel 8:16).

Now, you probably are not actually involved in any kind of worship of the Sun, but that was the purpose of moving the celebration of the birthday of the Man of Truth from his actual birthday (early April) to the birthday of the Sun (December 25).  You might be thinking what difference does it make if I sing songs about the Man of Truth being born on Christmas day (December 25) and otherwise celebrate December 25 as his birthday? 

The problem is that it is a lie to act like December 25 is his birthday when it is clearly not his birthday.  All lies are from the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil), so going along with this lie is going along with him (John 8:44).  The Children of Truth are suppose to repent of everything that is from the Father of Lies and are not supposed to give him any place in their lives (Ephesians 4:26-28).  The Father of Truth has no greater joy than when the Children of Truth (followers of the Man of Truth) are living according to the truth (3 John 1:4).

It really boils down to whether you are willing to go along with a lie that comes from the Father of Lies or to walk in the truth that comes from the Father of Truth.  We are called to act like the Father of Truth when we come into the House of Truth (Ephesians 5:1-2).  We are all called to live like the Man of Truth when we come in the House of Truth (1 John 1:7).

Of course, it does not make any real difference when the Man of Truth was born unless you first come into the House of Truth. You come into the House of Truth when you make the Man of Truth the boss of your life every day of the year, because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).

Come into the House of Truth.

The Biggest Food Fight Ever

What is the biggest food fight ever?

A food fight is usually where someone throws food at someone else, and then they retaliate by throwing food back at them.  Eventually someone else gets hit by mistake and throws food at an innocent party who they thought threw food at them.  That innocent party likewise retaliates and the whole thing keeps growing.  Before you know it someone yells "Food fight!" and everyone is throwing food at everyone else.

Food fights are a perennial favorite in movies aimed at people in the middle school to college (12-22) age group.  Food fights often occur in a movie where people in that age group are under a lot of stress and away from home for some reason like summer camp or college.  Sometimes they start because someone snaps under the pressure.  Sometimes they start because a main character needs a distraction while they are involved in something else.  Sometimes they happen by accident.  Sometimes someone starts one because they are just plain bored and want some excitement.  Regardless of the reason the food fight gets started it always ends up leaving a mess.  Usually everyone in the eating area gets punished by having to clean up the mess and then some sort of extra work or something like that even if they did nothing except get hit by some mashed potatoes.

While food fights are meant to be funny and to relieve the tension in a movie there is another kind of food fight that has been going on for a long time that is not funny at all.  In this food fight people suffer real consequences if they are on the wrong side.

This food fight has been going on for thousands of years and has covered the globe.  Everyone on Earth is involved in this food fight whether they know it or not.  This food fight is the biggest food fight ever.  This food fight is between the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) and the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil).  In this food fight the fight is over what is food, that is to say what should be eaten, and what is filth, that is to say what should not be eaten. 

The biggest food fight ever started with some pieces of fruit like so many food fights start. The Father of Truth defined what was food, that is to say what should be eaten, and what was filth, that is to say what should not be eaten (Genesis 2:16-17).   The biggest food fight ever began when the Father of Lies defined food as including what the Father of Truth said was filth (Genesis 3:1-5).  The human race ended up on the wrong side of this food fight when it decided to accept as food what Father of Truth said was filth (Genesis 3:6-7).  The consequences of accepting filth as food was devastating (Genesis 3:14-19).  Eating what the Father of Truth called filth brought death upon the entire human race (Romans 5:12).

However, this food fight was far from over.  The Father of Truth continued to define what was food, that is to say what should be eaten, and what was filth, that is to say what should not be eaten.

The food fight continued with meat.  The Father of Truth defined what animals could be used as food and which ones were to be considered as filth before the human race ever began to eat animals (Genesis 7:1-3).  The human race knew what animals could be eaten and what animals could not be eaten more than 500 years before the Law of Truth (Torah) was ever given to Moses (Genesis 7:7-9).  Noah understood that the animals would be accepted as sacrifices were those that could be eaten while the animals would not be accepted as sacrifices were those that could not be eaten (Genesis 8:19-21).  The Father of Truth spelled out exactly what meat was food and what meat was filth in the Law of Truth (Leviticus 11:1-31).  Eating those animals that the Father of Truth said to not eat would defile the eater because their meat was filth (abominable means filthy and disgusting) (Leviticus 11:41-43).  It was this single issue of accepting His definition of meat that was food and meat that was filth that would demonstrate whether or not people were willing to be holy like Him (Leviticus 11:44-45).  People were to only eat meat that He called food and avoid meat that He called filth to demonstrate that they were willing to accept His definition of what was acceptable and what was filthy in all areas of life (Leviticus 11:44-45).   The call to be holy like Him begins with distinguishing between meat that is food and meat that is filth (Leviticus 20:25-26).   Just to make sure everyone understood what meat was food and what meat was filth He told everyone again (Deuteronomy 14:3-20).

The Father of Lies counter attacked once again by convincing those that had been instructed by the Father of Truth to treat meat as food that He had called filth (Isaiah 65:3-5).  It was for this very reason that the Father of Truth would cause them to be consumed by destruction (Isaiah 66:17).  Because they desired to eat what He called filth they were forced to eat that filth as slaves in the land of their enemies (Hosea 9:2-4).   They even started raising animals for meat that He had called filth after He brought them back into their own land (Matthew 8:30-32).  They even rejected the Man of Truth (Yah'shua aka Yeshua aka Jesus aka Mashiach aka Messiah aka Christ) so they could continue to raise these animals to produce meat that His Father had called filth (Matthew 8:33-34).

The food fight even included the blood of animals whose meat that the Father of Truth had said were food instead of filth.  The very first thing that that Father of Truth did when He told the human race to start eating meat was to define the blood of all animals to be filth instead of food (Genesis 9:2-4).  This even applied to the blood of animals whose meat He defined as food (Leviticus 3:16-17).  The penalty for eating blood was death just like eating some kind of filth that contained a deadly poison (Leviticus 7:26-27).  This penalty applied to everyone (Leviticus 17:10-12).  He gave strict instructions to dispose of the blood like the filth that comes out of the bowels when someone uses the restroom (Leviticus 17:13-14).  This applied to all animals - not just those given as a sacrifice (Deuteronomy 12:15-17).  It was essential to treat the blood as filth and not food in order for things to go well for people and their children (Deuteronomy 12:23-25).  This even applied to animals whose meat were food that either wild or unfit to sacrifice (Deuteronomy 15:21-23).  This issue of calling blood filth instead of food was so important that two of the things that the Gentiles had to do immediately upon believing that the Man of Truth died and rose again to save them was to avoid eating blood and avoid eating animals that were strangled (because they still had their blood in them) while they could learn everything else that they needed to change in their lives later (Acts 15:19-21).  These were among the things that were necessary for the Gentiles that came to faith to do immediately if they wanted to do well (Acts 15:28-29).

The Father of Lies struck back by convincing people that blood was food instead of filth even though there was an immediate counter move (1 Samuel 14:32-34).  Eventually the Father of Truth threw these people out that treated the blood of various animals as food instead of filth (Ezekiel 33:25).  This is one reason why their blood was given as food to various animals (Ezekiel 39:17-19).

Of course, at the root of the biggest food fight ever is the question of who people would align themselves with.

Those that accepted His definition of what was food and what was filth aligned themselves with Him and ate with Him.  They joined themselves to Him when they sacrificed what He called food and ate that food in His presence (Exodus 18:12).  Those that ate what He called food in His presence were sharing a meal with Him (Deuteronomy 12:5-7).  Doing so was like having a party with the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 12:11-12).  This was even true about eating what He calls food that was not sacrificed in the Temple (Deuteronomy 12:20-22).

However, those that accepted the definition of food that was given by the Father of Lies aligned themselves with the Father of Lies and ate with him.  They joined themselves to the Father of Lies when they joined the Children of Lies in eating what the Father of Truth called filth that was sacrificed to the Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka unclean spirits aka gods) (Exodus 34:14-16).  This eating of filth offered to the Spirits of Lies was intended to anger the Father of Truth (Numbers 25:1-3).  The filth eaten in the worship of Spirits of Lies even included human flesh (Deuteronomy 12:29-31).  This eating of filth in the worship of Spirits of Lies was designed to make people forget the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 32:16-18).  This is what lead to the Children of Israel being thrust out of the land of Israel the first time (Psalm 106:37-42).  This is why another thing that the Gentiles that come to faith must do immediately is avoid eating anything that is offered to an idol even if they never go to the Temple (Acts 21:24-26).  Those that eat anything offered to an idol are eating with the Spirits of Lies just as surely as those that eat what the Father of Truth calls food at the Temple are eating with Him (1 Corinthians 10:18-20).  Eating things offered to idols was one of the things that caused the Man of Truth to be not pleased with the church at Pergamos (Revelation 2:12-14).  The Man of Truth killed the woman that taught others to eat the filth offered to idols with a painful sickness (Revelation 2:20-23).

However, the biggest food fight ever is still far from over. The Father of Truth will purge from the land of Israel all that have polluted His land with meat that He calls filth (Jeremiah 16:17-18).  Then the Gentiles will abandon their eating filth that is offered to the Spirits of Lies to eat with Him instead (Jeremiah 16:19-21).  The Jews will then only eat what the Father of Truth calls food and avoid what He calls filth because that is what the priests of the Temple will teach them (Ezekiel 44:21-23).  The Gentiles will learn to only eat what the Father of Truth calls food and avoid what He calls filth because that is what the Jews will teach them (Zechariah 8:20-23).  The biggest food fight ever will be over and the Father of Truth will have won.

So what about you?  Who have you let define what is acceptable and what is filth?  Of course, I am talking about something bigger than just food.  I am talking about you entire life.  Who do you let define what is acceptable in your life and what is too filthy to be in your life?

Like every single person on Earth you need to come into the House of Truth and let the Man of Truth define what is acceptable in your life and what is too filthy to be in your life (Ephesians 5:1-6).  You come into the House of Truth when you make the Man of Truth your boss in every area of your life because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9-11).

Come into the House of Truth.

The Best Healthcare Plan Ever

What is the best healthcare plan ever?

Every year many people have to choose a healthcare plan that is made available to them from their employer.  Many companies offer their employees multiple healthcare plans with a wide range of costs and benefits.   The number of factors involved in picking the best healthcare plan can make a person dizzy.

Then there is the new Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).  This federal law is forcing millions of people in America who have been without a healthcare plan to get one much like the laws of every state in the United States that require people to have auto insurance if they own a car.

Some of those that will be getting a healthcare plan for the first time ever could not afford one before but their payments will be reduced to the point of affordability by tax payer funded subsidies.  Some tax payers are angry that they will be forced to help the poorer people to afford healthcare via higher taxes.

Others that will be getting a healthcare plan have just been avoiding one up until now because they did not want to pay for a healthcare plan.  Some of them are angry that they are being told that they must purchase a healthcare plan or face a substantial fine like those that are caught driving without auto insurance.

Of course, if people from either group that will be getting a healthcare plan under the Affordable Care Act got seriously injured or ill then they still went to the hospital. They still expected the hospital to take care of them even though they knew that they would not be able to pay for those services.  The hospitals had little choice but to provide their services under US law.  The hospitals then had to try to recoup those losses by charging more for every service to those with a healthcare plan.

This means that everyone with a healthcare plan has already been subsiding those that are without a health care plan.  However, there is an uneven distribution across the US of those with a healthcare plan (the subsidizers) and those without a healthcare plan (the subsidized).  There was a rural hospital here in Oklahoma that went bankrupt because too many people without a healthcare plan showed up for treatment for the hospital to recoup its losses from those patients that had a healthcare plan.

So now millions of people will have to either pick from a wide array of healthcare plans from many private insurance companies in the Health Insurance Marketplace created by the Federal government or find a healthcare plan on their own.  They too will have to try to pick the best healthcare plan that they can find.

None of this would be necessary if everyone in America would just participate in the best healthcare plan ever.  This healthcare plan is offered by the greatest and oldest insurer in existence.  This healthcare plan has benefits that no other healthcare plan can even come close to providing.  Even the pets of the participants are covered by this healthcare plan. It covers all pre-existing conditions.  There are no forms to fill out or benefit cards to carry or co-pays with this healthcare plan. It does not lock people into a network of healthcare providers.   This healthcare plan has no premiums because they have already been paid in full.

The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) is the one that offers this healthcare plan.  He is the maker of the human body and knows how to keep it healthy (Genesis 1:27).  He has been offering His healthcare plan with guaranteed results since the very beginning of human existence (Genesis 2:15-17).

This healthcare plan offers outstanding benefits that are guaranteed.  These benefits include no one in the a fully participating group ever being sick or even knowing anyone else in the group that is sick, no woman in the group ever miscarrying, no one in the group ever being unable to reproduce, and ever participant living to a ripe old age (Exodus 23:25-26).  These benefits even extend to the pets of the participants (Deuteronomy 7:14-15).

Those that start participating in it can expect Him to heal them of every disease that they already had when they start participating (Exodus 15:26).  They can expect this even if they have brought those diseases upon themselves by their own foolish actions prior to participation in His healthcare plan (Psalm 107:17-20).

Since this healthcare plan guarantees that no one will be sick, there is no need for a network of healthcare providers.  However, for those who have not came into full participation, but are willing to do so, He has provided a network of healthcare providers for the healing of every disease (Psalm 103:2-3).  He has provided the Great Physician, the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ), to provided healthcare for everyone that will come to him (Matthew 9:35).  The Great Physician trained twelve interns to provide the same healthcare that he provided (Matthew 10:1).  These interns in turn trained more interns, the Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love him), to provide that same healthcare as the Great Physician in a truly global network (Mark 16:15-18).

There are no premiums because the Great Physician has already paid the full price for everyone that is willing to participate (Isaiah 53:5).  Just as his death paid the price for people to be forgiven of their rebellion against the Father of Truth so also the terrible beating that he took paid the price for people to be healed of the diseases that rebellion has brought upon them (2 Peter 2:21-24).

So what is needed to participate in this healthcare plan?

First of all, it must be recognized that this a group healthcare plan.  The Hebrew word translated as "you" in the benefits description is plural as verified by the Greek translation (Exodus 23:25 (M&S)).  The reasons for the need for group participation will soon be evident as the details of participation are further explained.

Secondly, there are no benefits for anyone unless they actually participate in the healthcare plan by meeting the requirements of the healthcare plan.  Full participation means doing everything that the Father of Truth requires as part of His healthcare plan (Deuteronomy 7:11-13).  Those that participate fully will certainly reap every benefit of His healthcare plan (Deuteronomy 30:8-10).   The requirements of this healthcare plan are not hard to understand (Deuteronomy 30:11-14).  Meeting these requirement will bring life instead of death (Deuteronomy 30:15-16).   It is not hard to meet these requirements (1 John 5:3).

Thirdly, this healthcare plan has never changed.  The Man of Truth did not do away with this healthcare plan when he came to the Earth (Matthew 5:17).  This healthcare plan remains in effect until the Man of Truth has fulfilled everything written about him in the Law of Truth and the writings of the Prophets of Truth when the current universe is replaced with a new universe (Matthew 5:18).  He certainly did not teach anyone that this healthcare plan had been altered in any way (Matthew 5:19).

For the sake of brevity, I will not go into all of the requirements of full participation at this time, but I will go over the three basic types of requirements .  The requirements can be grouped into three groups based on the three parts that make up a human being - the spirit, the soul, and the body.  The most important type of these requirements are laid out in the Sh'ma (Shema) that was given to Moses (Deuteronomy 6:4-5).  The second and third types were also given to Moses as part of the Law of Truth (Leviticus 19:17-18).  The Man of Truth said that these three types of requirements covered all of the requirements of the best healthcare plan ever (Matthew 22:37-40).  Paul (Shual aka Saul) also desired that all of the Children of Truth meet all three types of  requirements of the best healthcare plan ever so they could be preserved until they meet the Man of Truth in the air (1 Thessalonians 5:23).

The most important part of a person is the human spirit.  The human spirit is that part of people that connects them to the Father of Truth and the unseen world (Job 32:8).   It is the condition of human spirit that the Father of Truth is concerned with in people (Proverbs 16:2).  It is the human spirit that the Father of Truth communicates with when He enlighten people to His ways (Proverbs 20:27).  The human spirit was put in every person by Him (Zechariah 12:1).  The human spirit is what allows a person to know about their own condition (1 Corinthians 2:11).

The the most important requirements deal with the human spirit because that is what keeps the human body alive (Ecclesiastes 8:8).  In fact, the human body is dead once the human spirit leaves it (James 2:26).

The most important requirements are those that deal with loving the Father of Truth completely in total surrender (Mark 12:29-30).

The supremacy of the human spirit is why the Father of Truth told Moses that He would have to circumcise the spirit (heart) of the people of Israel so they could meet the requirements of His healthcare plan (Deuteronomy 30:6).  These requirements concerning loving the Father of Truth can only be done as an act of the human spirit (John 4:24).  The Spirit of Truth (HaRuach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) needs to live in the person as well for these requirements to met fully for the human spirit is insufficient by itself (Romans 8:8-10).

If these requirements are not met then it does not really matter if the rest of them are met.  If you provoke the Father of Truth enough then your healthcare plan will be cancelled (Genesis 38:7-10).  Your healthcare plan will be cancelled even if He had promoted you when you had been doing His will (2 Chronicles 13:20).  You will lose all your benefits if your healthcare plan is cancelled (2 Chronicles 21:18-19).  It does not matter how religious you appear to be in your church or synagogue (Acts 5:1-10).  It does not matter if you go to great lengths to keep most of the other requirements if you do not meet these requirements (Acts 12:21-23).  The Man of Truth will even cancel the healthcare plan of those in a ministry position if they do not meet these requirements (Revelation 2:20-23).

The second most important part of a person is the human soul.  The human soul is that part of people that connects them to themselves and to other people. The human soul is what blesses other people (Genesis 27:4).  It is the human soul that causes one person to cleave to another person (Genesis 34:3).  It is the human soul that longs for another person (Genesis 34:8).  It is the human soul that turns after other people so that the person end up doing the same things as them (Leviticus 20:6).  It is the human soul that grieves for the misery of other people just like the Father of Truth (Judges 10:16).  It is the human soul that loves other people (1 Samuel 20:17).

The soul of a person can be harmed by the rebellion of another person just as surely as their body can be hurt by another person.  Those that rebel against the requirements concerning the human soul bring anguish to the souls of other people (Genesis 42:21).  It is the human soul that is vexed by the nagging of other people (Judges 16:16).  It is the human soul that can be vexed by the afflicting words of other people (1 Samuel 1:6-10).  This damage to the human soul by another person can lead to damage to the human body as surely as being cut them with a knife would cause them to bleed (Proverbs 12:4).  The pleasant words of another human being can bring health to the soul that brings healing to the body as surely as a bandage will bring healing to a cut (Proverbs 16:24).  That is why when the human soul prospers then the human body will also be in health (3 John 1:2).

The second most important requirements are those that deal with loving other people (Mark 12:31).

That is why those that are sick often need the Father of Truth to heal their souls (Psalm 41:3-5).  That is why those whose souls are afflicted by other people must rely on the healing provided by His healthcare plan (Psalm 42:10-11).  That is why those are sick must often seek after the Father of Truth to heal their soul so their health can be restored (Psalm 43:3-5).  That is why those that love other people will do nothing to bring harm to the soul or body of other people by rebelling against these requirements (Romans 13:8-10). 

The third most important part of a person is the human body.  The human body is that part of people that connects them to the physical world.  The human body was made from dust and will return to dust (Genesis 3:19).  The human body will perish even though the human spirit and soul will live on so that people can be gathered with their loved ones when it dies (2 Kings 22:20).  That is why the Man of Truth said that the Children of Truth will never die (John 11:25-27).  That is why the spirit and soul can be renewed every day while the human body will perish (2 Corinthians 4:16).  That is why when the human spirit and soul are absent from the body that they are present with the Father of Truth (2 Corinthians 5:5-8).

The third most important requirements are those that deal with people loving themselves by taking care of their human body because they cannot love others correctly until they learn how to do that (Luke 10:27).  They love themselves by taking care of the needs of their human body (Ephesians 5:29). 

They take care of the needs of their bodies when they meet the requirements of His healthcare plan for taking care of the human body.  That is why there are requirements are to not just eat anything that moves (Leviticus 11:45-47).  That is why there are requirements to keep those that have a plague in their body separated from other people (Leviticus 13:44-45).  That is why there are requirements to not be a drunkard or a glutton (Deuteronomy 21:20).  That is why there are requirements to flee from fornication (any sexual relationships outside of the marriage of a man and a woman) (1 Corinthians 6:18).

You start participating in the best healthcare plan ever when you come into the House of Truth.  You do not have to be near the Father of Truth in order to be worthy to participate in this healthcare plan because He offers it to anyone that is willing repent and meet its requirements (Isaiah 57:19).   You can start learning how to obtain all of the benefits of this healthcare plan when you decide to submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).  Anyone, Jew or Gentile, that will come into the House of Truth can start participating in the best healthcare plan ever (Romans 10:11-13).

Come into the House of Truth.

Dedicating the Temple

What does dedicating the temple really mean?

Chanukah (Hanukkah) is a festival celebrated by Jews world wide and especially in the United States of America. Chanukah has also came to be celebrated by many of the Children of Truth (followers of the Man of Truth) in the United States and other countries as well.  Why would the Children of Truth celebrate a Jewish holiday?  What does Chanukah have to do with following the Man of Truth ?

Chanukah means "dedication". In particular it is celebrating the Maccabees dedicating the Temple after driving out the Syrian king of Greek descent who had desecrated it.

This was the third time that the Temple had been dedicated.  The First Temple was dedicated by King Solomon (2 Chronicles 6:1-3). The First Temple was destroyed because of the disobedience of the Jews and then the Second Temple was commanded to be built when they returned to obedience (Ezra 5:11-13).  The Second Temple was then built in troublesome times as the Prophet of Truth had foretold (Daniel 9:25).  The Second Temple was then dedicated a second time by the people of Israel (Ezra 6:15-17).  Then the Syrian king of Greek descent desecrated the Second Temple after he was pushed out of Egypt as the Prophet of Truth had foretold (Daniel 11:29-31).  That is when the Maccabees rose up and drove out the Syrian king of Greek descent at great personal cost because of their dedication to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) (Daniel 11:32-35).  After eight days of cleaning, the Second Temple was dedicated a second time.  This second dedication of the Second Temple is commemorated by the Feast of Dedication (Chanukah) that the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) celebrated at the Second Temple (John 10:22-23).

This Second Temple had been greatly expanded after the Maccabees by Herod the Great to show his dedication to the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) until it had become the largest religious structure in history.  It grew to the point of being able to hold 300,000 people at a time.  The only other structure of any kind in history that could hold as many people was the Circus Maximus in Rome.  It was twenty times the size of the Temple of Diana in Ephesus that Herodotus had listed as the greatest of the seven wonders of the ancient world while the First Temple was still in ruins (Acts 19:26-28).

People had given so much gold for use in the Second Temple to show their dedication to the Law of Truth that it was likely the largest single accumulation of gold in one place in all of history (Matthew 23:16).  It had many beautiful buildings inside of it (Matthew 24:1).  All of these massive and majestic buildings caused it to be considered to be the most beautiful building in the world (Mark 13:1-2).  These buildings were decorated with costly stones and gifts that people had given to show their dedication to the Father of Truth (Luke 21:5).  The rulers and people of Israel had been expanding and decorating the Second Temple for 46 years to show their dedication to the Law of Truth when the Man of Truth celebrated the Feast of Dedication (Chanukah) there (John 2:20).

The people of Israel were so dedicated to the Second Temple that it became even more magnificent than the First Temple that Solomon had built (Haggai 2:9).

However, dedicating the Temple in this manner was not pleasing to the Father of Truth.  He brought about destruction of the First Temple because the people of Israel had been dedicated to the First Temple but not to Him (2 Chronicles 7:19-22).  The Man of Truth said that His Father would also destroy the Second Temple (Matthew 24:1-2).  Not only the Second Temple, but the entire city of Jerusalem, was destroyed because the people of Israel had been dedicated to the Temple but not to the Son that the Father of Truth had sent (Luke 19:41-44).

Their dedication to the Second Temple was useless because they were not dedicated to the Son that was greater than the Temple (Matthew 12:6-8).  In like manner, many that call themselves the Children of Truth are dedicated to their church or synagogue but they are not dedicated to the Father of Truth that they gather to worship in their building!

While buildings to congregate in are necessary and the Father of Truth honors the dedication of buildings to be used for His purposes this by itself is not the kind of dedicating the temple that pleases Him.

No building can contain the Father of Truth for the universe cannot contain Him (1 Kings 8:27).  How could He dwell on the Earth? (2 Chronicles 6:18).

His Son was with Him when He created everything and was like the Father of Truth in every way (John 1:1-3). His Son, the Man of Truth, dwelt among men (John 1:14).  It was the same as if His Father was personally dwelling among men on the Earth (John 14:8-10).

The Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) dwelt between the Cherubim on the lid of the Ark of the Covenant that was in the Holy of Holies in the First and Second Temple (Isaiah 37:16).  That same Spirit dwelt in the Man of Truth (Luke 4:1). The body of the Man of Truth was the temple that mattered more than the massive and beautiful buildings that had been dedicated to the Father of Truth (John 2:20-22).

The same Spirit of Truth dwells in the Children of Truth (Romans 8:11).  Since the Spirit of Truth dwells in the Children of Truth then each of their bodies is also a temple that matters more than their large and beautiful buildings that have been dedicated to the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 3:16).  He will destroy those that defile this temple (1 Corinthians 3:17).

How can this temple be defiled?

It can be defiled by sexual sin (Romans 1:24).  Homosexuality is one way to defile this temple (Romans 1:26-27).  However, anyone engaging with sex with a partner of the opposite sex other than their spouse is also defiling the temple (1 Corinthians 6:15-17). 

This temple was made for the purposes of the Father of Truth and not for fornication (1 Corinthians 6:13).   The Children of Truth are dedicating the temple when they flee from fornication (sex outside of marriage) of any kind because fornication destroys the temple (1 Corinthians 6:18).  This is the kind of dedicating the temple that that He desires (1 Thessalonians 4:3).

When the Children of Truth give their bodies over to His purposes by living differently that those that do not know Him then they are dedicating their temple (Romans 12:1-2).  Their bodies are the temple of the Spirit of Truth and they should dedicate their temple to the will of the Father of Truth just like the Man of Truth did when he paid for their sins with his very life (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).  The Children of Truth are dedicating the temple when they put to death all of the evil desires of their bodies (Galatians 5:24).

This dedicating the temple was so important that it was one of only four things that the Gentiles who believed were commanded to continue doing until they could learn more about the Law of Truth (Acts 15:19-21).   Dedicating the temple in this manner was one of the four necessary things that the Gentile believers had to continue doing in order to do well (Acts 15:28-30).  This dedicating the temple was the same for the Gentile believers as fulfilling an oath in the Second Temple was for the Jewish believers (Acts 21:24-26).

This is dedicating the temple is not not a one time ceremony like the dedication of the First Temple or the dedication of a new building to congregate in.  This is dedicating the temple, your body, as a living sacrifice by living according to the reasonable constraints placed upon it by the Father of Truth (Romans 12:1).  This sacrifice of dedicating the temple is done daily like those that the priests presented every morning and evening in the First Temple and Second Temple (1 Peter 2:4-5).

If we are not dedicating the temple by keeping our bodies from sin then we will be destroyed for defiling the temple - even if we have been used to bring the Good News to others (1 Corinthians 9:27)!  Anyone that is not so dedicating the temple will not have a place in His kingdom (Galatians 5:19-21).

If you are a Child of Truth then you may have realized for the first time that you have been defiling the temple and are wondering what you can do about it.  Like the Maccabees, you can put an end to the defilement of the temple by putting an end to your sexual sin like the woman who was caught in adultery (John 8:10-12).  Like the Maccabees, you can clean the temple by removing every filthy thought out of your mind and replacing them with thoughts that are fitting instead (Philippians 4:8).  Like the Maccabees, you can start dedicating the temple a second time because the Man of Truth is your advocate (1 John 2:1-3).

If you are not a Child of Truth then your body is not the temple of the Spirit of Truth.  It will only become the temple of the Spirit of Truth when you come into the House of Truth (Romans 8:9).  After you come into the House of Truth then the Spirit of Truth will give you the ability to start dedicating the temple (Galatians 5:21-23).  You first come into the House of Truth by calling the Man of Truth your boss in every area of your life because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

Come into the House of Truth.