The Lessor Matters of The Law

What place does the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) have in this present age?

What place does the Law of Truth have in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament)?  Have all of its commandments been nullified because they have been fulfilled by the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ)?  Are the Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) or anyone else subject to any of its commandments?  Does the Law of Truth only have a place in the Original Covenant (Tanach aka The Old Testament)?

If this was really the case then there would be no punishment for doing things like homosexuality, murder, and the like in the Renewed Covenant.  Instead those who do such things deserve the exact same penalty as those in the Original Covenant - death (Romans 1:26-32).  In fact, those who do these kind of things have no place in the kingdom of the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka The Lord) in the Renewed Covenant (Galatians 5:19-21).  Sin is still defined by the Law of Truth in the Renewed Covenant (1 John 3:4).   The Renewed Covenant still says that people will suffer forever for breaking these righteous commandments of the Law of Truth (Revelation 21:8).

It is these righteous laws that shows whose heart has been circumcise and whose has not (Romans 2:25-27).  It is only by walking after the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaKodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) that people can keep these righteous commandments (Romans 8:3-5).  The whole point of the Law of Truth is bring people to the Man of Truth so that they could keep these righteous commandments (Romans 10:4).   The Man of Truth died and rose again because people had no power to keep these righteous commandments on their own (Galatians 2:19-21).  So the commandments of the Law of Truth that define righteousness are still very much in effect under the Renewed Covenant as The Weightier Matters of The Law.

So the other commandments of the Law of Truth, like those that deal with the Temple sacrifices, keeping the Sabbath, wearing tzitzits (white cords with blue threads) on the corner of garments, circumcision of males, not eating filthy things like pigs, and the like are the lessor matters of the Law of Truth. They are not included in the long and exhaustive lists in the Renewed Covenant that define the commandments of righteousness.  So what about these lessor commandments of the Law of Truth?  Are they also in effect under the Renewed Covenant?

Roughly two-thirds of the 613 commandments of the Law of Truth revolve around the services of the Temple.  There is no Temple in Jerusalem so it is apparent that these commandments have not been in effect since 70 AD.  Have these commandments been permanently done away with?

There will be a Temple in Jerusalem during the reign of the Man of Truth that will be much larger than the Temple that was destroyed in 70 AD (Ezekiel 45:1-3).   When the Temple is standing during his future reign all of the commandments concerning the services of the Temple will also be in effect (Ezekiel 45:16-18).

In fact, during his reign the Law of Truth will become the law of the entire Earth so that it may enjoy an era of peace, prosperity, righteousness and justice (Isaiah 2:2-4).  This includes the commandments concerning food and keeping the Sabbath (Ezekiel 44:23-24).  Everyone will celebrate the Feasts of His Father like the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) (Zechariah 14:17-19).

So the commandments concerning the Temple services have not been permanently done away with but only suspended until the Temple is rebuilt and the Man of Truth is reigning on the Earth to ensure that its services do not become polluted like they did when people ignored the weightier matters of the Law of Truth.  It is also obvious that the lessor matters of the Law of Truth will be in effect when he reigns in the future.  So what about these lessor matters of the Law of Truth at this at this present time?  What does the Renewed Covenant say about them?

First of all, we need to determine which commandments of the Law of Truth that may or may not be in effect at this present time.

The largest part of the commandments of the Law of Truth deal with the service of the Temple and they are not in effect at this present time.  So we are not talking about these lessor commandments of the Law of Truth which are definitely not in effect at this present time.

The largest part of the remainder of the commandments of the Law of Truth deal with righteousness and they never went out of effect.  These commandments were even in effect in the Gentiles who did not know the Father of Truth (Romans 2:13-15).  What the Father of Truth says is right existed before He ever gave the Law of Truth to Moses to spell it out with these commandments (Romans 3:21).  It was breaking these commandments that brought the death penalty to every person before the Law of Truth was ever given to Moses (Romans 5:13-15).  Those who continue to break these commandments will not inherit His kingdom (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).  So we are not talking about these weightier commandments of the Law of Truth which are definitely in effect at this present time.

This only leaves commandments about paying tithes, giving offerings, keeping the Sabbath, observing the Feasts of the Father of Truth, eating only what He calls food, circumcision, and few other things like wearing garments that have white cords with a blue thread on each corner (tallits).  So we are only talking about a handful of commandments in the Law of Truth that are in question at this present time.

So we will examine the Renewed Covenant to see what it says about these remaining commandments that are a small part of the lessor matters of the Law of Truth.  Does it say that these remaining commandments have been done away with?

The Man of Truth said he did come to do away with any part of the Law of Truth (Matthew 5:17).  He said that even the smallest part of the Law of Truth would remain in effect as long as this universe exists (Matthew 5:18).  He stated that no one should teach people to just ignore even the least of its commandments (Matthew 5:19).  He only said that people should take care of  the weightier matters of the Law of Truth before attending to the lessor matters of the Law of Truth, like giving offerings, if they want to be part of the kingdom of His Father (Matthew 5:20-24).  He said that the lessor matters of the Law of Truth, like paying tithes, should still be done just like the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (Matthew 23:23).  So the Renewed Covenant does not say that these remaining commandments of the Law of Truth have been done away with.  Still the commandments regarding the Temple service are obviously not in effect at this time while the weightier matters of the Law of Truth obviously are still in effect.  So the better question is this:  Are these remaining commandments in effect at this present time?

Now I have heard many religious professionals say that the Children of Truth are not under the Law of Truth.  They are right but no longer being under the Law of Truth does not mean that the Children of Truth no longer keep its commandments.  They have been set free from the system of dying for breaking the commandments of the Law of Truth due to the weakness of their own flesh by being part of a new system where the Spirit of Truth works in their hearts so they can keep those commandments (Romans 8:1-2).  The Children of Truth are no longer under the Law of Truth where they keep its commandments under penalty of death but rather are now adopted into the family of the Father of Truth by the Spirit of Truth being at work in their hearts (Galatians 4:4-6).  Since the Spirit of Truth is living in them then they keep the commandments of the Law of Truth from their hearts instead of doing so out of religious duty to the Law of Truth (Galatians 5:16-18).  These same commandments that were once written on tablets of stone are now written by the Spirit of Truth upon their hearts (2 Corinthians 3:2-4).  So the Children of Truth are not under the Law of Truth because the Renewed Covenant is having those exact same commandments written on their hearts and minds so that they are able to obey them from the heart (Hebrews 8:8-19).  So the Children of Truth, like myself, do not do what is written in the Law of Truth because of fear.  I keep these commandments with the help of the Spirit of Truth because they are Written On My Heart.

These same religious professionals will say that the Children of Truth are obligated to pay tithes and offerings.   The only commandments in the Book of Truth (The Bible) to pay tithes are found in the Law of Truth (Leviticus 27:30-32).  The only commandments in the Book of Truth to give offerings are found in the Law of Truth (Deuteronomy 23:23).

In the last thirty years I have heard many sermons in churches and on various media such as TV where religious professionals tell their congregations that there is no need to keep these remaining commandments of the Law of Truth because we not under the Law of Truth.  Yet I have never heard one sermon urging people to stop paying tithes and giving offerings because we are no longer under the Law of Truth!

Clearly, even the most ardent opponents to keeping these remaining commandments of the Law of Truth acknowledge by their actions that people should be keeping part of the lessor matters of the Law of Truth at this present time.  So the real question is this:  Which of these remaining commandments are in effect today?

It must be understood that at no time was every commandment in effect for every person.  For example, the commandments concerning circumcision only applied to males (Exodus 12:48).  In the Renewed Covenant it is the same way with the Children of Truth.  Those who become Jews thorough circumcision of the flesh are obligated to keep all of the commandments of the Law of Truth (Galatians 5:3).  Those who remain uncircumcised Gentiles have to keep only the commandments concerning not eating blood out of these remaining commandments (Acts 21:24-25).  They are not even obligated to pay tithes and give offerings!

So since these remaining commandments do not have to be kept out of obligation then does that mean that they should not be kept at all?

These remaining commandments should also be kept because doing so brings great blessings on the Children of Truth.

Their relationship with Father of Truth and each other is greatly strengthened by giving Him One Day A Week.   There is greater peace from walking in the truth by keeping the Sabbath on the seventh day when they know Who Changed The Sabbath.  Their understanding of the plan of the Father of Truth to save the world through the Man of Truth increases ten fold once they start keeping His Feasts that are the acts of The Greatest Play Ever.  When they only eat what He calls food and avoid what He calls filth then the tangible benefits of doing so give everyone around them Food for Thought.   They will live longer and stronger by keeping all of His commandments for taking care of their bodies that form a critical part to the Best Healthcare Plan Ever.  Their treasures are laid up in Heaven so that their hearts will be focused on the things of Heaven instead of the things of Earth when they pay tithes and give offerings to fund His purposes on the Earth (Matthew 6:19-21).  They are reminded when they see the tzitzits on the corners of their clothes that their Father knows best so that they will live holy lives (Numbers 15:38-40).   So the Children of Truth should keep these remaining commandments to the best of their ability because they trust that their Father gave these commandments for their benefit!

The greatest commandments are to love the Father of Truth and other people (Matthew 22:37-40).  All other commandments in the Law of Truth are the details of how to fulfill these commandments of love (Romans 13:8-10).  So these remaining commandments are really about love as well.  They help the Children of Truth to remain focused on All That Really Matters.

The remaining commandments should be kept because the Spirit of Truth was given to the Children of Truth so that they could keep all of the commandments of the Law of Truth that apply to them (Ezekiel 36:26-27). The remaining commandments should be kept out of love for the Man of Truth (John 14:15).  The remaining commandments should be kept because the Children of Truth love their Father and do not find it hard to keep any of His commandments (1 John 5:1-3).  So it is not about keeping these remaining commandments out of an obligation from being under the Law of Truth but rather it is about keeping them out of love for the One who gave the Law of Truth to Moses!

Of course, it does not matter if you keep these lessor commandments of the Law of Truth unless you first come into the House of Truth (Matthew 5:20).  No one can come into the House of Truth by keeping these remaining commandments or the Man of Truth died for nothing (Galatians 2:21).  You can only come into the House of Truth by surrendering control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).  When you come into the House of Truth then the Spirit of Truth will begin working in your heart so that you can keep the Lessor Matters of the Law of Truth (Ezekiel 36:27).

Come into the House of Truth.

The Weightier Matters of The Law

Are all sins really equal?

It has often been said that all sins are equal but is it really true?  Is that what the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka The LORD) says?  Is that what the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) taught?

The best way to answer these questions is to see what is written about sin in the Book of Truth (The Bible).

The first place to start is understanding what sin is.  According to the Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka the Apostle Paul) it is the Law of Truth of Truth (Torah aka The Law) that tells us what is sin (Romans 7:7).  James the Jew (Yaacob aka Jacob aka the Apostle James) says that anyone that sins is convicted by the Law of Truth (James 2:9).  John the Jew (Yochanan ben Zebedee aka The Apostle John) says that sin is breaking the commandments of the Law of Truth (1 John 3:4).  So the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) says that sin is breaking one of the commandments of the Law of Truth that were given in the Original Covenant (Tanach aka The Old Testament).

There are 613 commandments in the Law of Truth by some counts.  Are all of these commandments of equal weight or are some more important than others?  Is it necessary to keep all of the commandments of the Law of Truth under the Renewed Covenant?

The Man of Truth said that two commandments, to love the Father of Truth and to love people, stood above all others (Matthew 22:37-40).  He also said that judgment, mercy and faith were the weightier matters of the Law of Truth while other matters, like paying tithes, were lessor matters that still should be done (Matthew 23:23).  So it is plain that not all of the commandments of the Law of Truth are of equal weight.

It is more important to keep the commandments that deal with treating the Father of Truth and other people right than commandments like circumcision (Romans 2:25-27).  The Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaKodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) was given so the Children of Truth could keep those commandments that dealt with righteousness (Romans 8:3-5).  The whole point of the Law of Truth was bring people to surrender to the Man of Truth so they could keep the commandments that define righteous behavior (Romans 10:4).   So the weightier matters of the Law of Truth are those commandments that deal with righteousness.  How can we tell what those commandments are?

We can tell which commandments make up the weightier matters of the Law of Truth because they carry the greatest penalty for being broken.  Those who hate the Father of Truth persist in breaking these righteous commandments and deserve to die for doing things like being malicious, engaging in deceit, doing things to make others look bad, talking behind the back of others, betraying the trust of others, being spiteful, being proud, bragging, coming up with new ways to do harm to others, being disobedient to their parents, having no understanding of the plight of others, breaking thier agreements, refusing to come to peace with others and withholding mercy from others (Romans 1:28-32).  They will not inherit His Kingdom because they break His commandments to not have sex with any one that they are legitimately married to, not to worship idols (even if they name them "Jesus" or "Mary"), not to commit adultery, not to dress like the opposite sex, not to commit homosexuality, not to steal, not to covet, not to get drunk, not to revile their rulers, and not to extort others (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).  In like manner, those who take drugs like marijuana, hate other people, stir up strife, create rivalry among people, divide people against each other for personal gain, have fits of rage, stir up dissension against the Word of Truth, cling to an opinion that is contrary to what is written in the Book of Truth, envy others, murder others (including abortion), revel at events such as Marde Gras and the like will not inherit His Kingdom (Galatians 5:19-21).  Those who do these kind of things or even engage in telling dirty jokes and the like will suffer His wrath instead of inheriting His kingdom that will be ruled by His Son (Ephesians 5:3-6).  They will suffer His wrath because they do not keep these commandments concerning righteousness even to the point of blaspheming His name and speaking filthy words (Colossians 3:5-8).  The Law of Truth was made to condemn those who do these kinds of things that are contrary to sound doctrine including those who have anything to do with prostitution, kidnappers, those who tell lies and those who bear false witness in legal proceedings (1 Timothy 1:8-11).   Those who do these things, along with those who are ruled by fear and those who do not believe the message of the Book of Truth, will suffer forever in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:8).  The commandments that forbid these unrighteous acts against the Father of Truth and other people are the righteous commandments that make up the weightier matters of the Law of Truth!

Those who love other people will always keep these righteous commandments (Romans 13:8-10).  Those who keep these righteous commandments will fulfill the commandment to love other people (Galatians 5:14).  The royal commandment of the Law of Truth is fulfilled by those attend to the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (James 2:8)!

So those who come into the House of Truth will separate themselves from idolatry (2 Corinthians 6:16-18).  His Children who know Him will have nothing to do with idols (1 John 5:20-21).

They also do all they can to never give other people a cause to blaspheme His name (1 Timothy 6:1).  They strive to please those in authority over them so that His Word will not blasphemed (Titus 2:4-6).

These are the things that are necessary to show love to the Father of Truth as part of the weightier matters of the Law of Truth.

Since there are weightier matters of the Law of Truth then there must be lessor matters of the Law of Truth as well.  These lessor matters would include any commandment of the Law of Truth that does not deal with the commandments that define righteous living.  These commandments that make up the righteousness of the Law of Truth have already been shown to be those commandments that deal with revering the Father of Truth and showing love to other people by treating them right.  So what kind of commandments are those that make up the lessor matters of the Law of Truth?

None of the commandments that make up the righteousness of the Law of Truth that must be kept to inherit the kingdom of the Father of Truth deal with observing the ceremonial and cultural commandments of the Law of Truth.  There is absolutely no mention of these kind of things in the extensive lists of things that will cause people to enter the Lake of Fire instead of His Kingdom.  These are the lessor matters of the Law of Truth.

These lessor matters of the Law of Truth include observing the Sabbath.  There is no mention of failing to observe the Sabbath as something that will keep people from inheriting His Kingdom.  In fact, the observation of the Sabbath is superseded by the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (Mark 3:4).  You may be observing the Sabbath by giving Him One Day A Week.  You might even be observing the Sabbath on the day of the week that the the Law of Truth says because you know Who Changed The Sabbath.  Still it is taking care of the weightier matters of the Law of Truth that will keep you from being Bored On The Sabbath.   So if you are observing the Sabbath but neglecting the weightier matters of the Law then Whose Sabbath Are You Keeping?

These lessor matters of the Law of Truth include keeping the Feasts of the Father of Truth that make up the acts of The Greatest Play Ever.  There is no mention of failing to keep these Feasts as something that will keep people from inheriting His Kingdom.  For example, the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) was not observed in the way that the Law of Truth commanded during the entire period that went from the days of Joshua, before the kingdom of Israel ever existed, until the days of Nehemiah, after the kingdom of Israel had vanished from the face of the Earth (Nehemiah 8:17).  Yet King David was called someone that did all that the Father of Truth desired (Acts 13:22).  In fact, He even violently did away with the observation of His Feasts in Israel when they were being punished for breaking the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (Lamentations 2:6).  It should obvious that keeping the minute details of His Feasts are some of the lessor matters of the Law of Truth.

These lessor matters of the Law of Truth include almost all of the commandments concerning what to eat.  There is no mention of eating what the Law of Truth calls filth as something that will keep people from inheriting His Kingdom.  The Renewed Covenant only excludes eating strangled animals and blood as necessary for those who would come into the House of Truth (Acts 15:19-20).  Eating only what the Father of Truth calls food has nothing to do with being part of His Kingdom unlike keeping the weightier matters of the Law of Truth with the help of the Spirit of Truth (Romans 14:16-18).  So eating only what the Father of Truth calls food is a lessor matter of the Law of Truth.

These lessor matters of the Law of Truth even include circumcision of the flesh.  There is no mention of failing to be circumcised in the flesh as something that will keep people from inheriting His Kingdom.  A circumcised heart is also a commandment of the Law of Truth (Deuteronomy 10:16).   The Father of Truth is the one who circumcises the heart (Deuteronomy 30:6).  The person with an uncircumcised heart neglects the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (Jeremiah 4:4).  In fact, circumcision of the flesh is of no value unless you are taking care the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (Romans 2:25).  A circumcised heart is more important than circumcised flesh (Romans 2:26).  It is taking care of the weightier matters of the Law of Truth that shows whose heart has been circumcised (Romans 2:27).  This is the circumcision that defines the Children of Truth (Romans 2:28-29).  So circumcision of the flesh is definitely a lessor matter of the Law of Truth.

These lessor matters of the Law of Truth include every other commandment that does not define the right way to treat the Father of Truth and other people.  There is no mention of failing to do things like wearing tzitzits (white fringes with a blue thread) on the corner of garments as something that will keep people from inheriting His Kingdom. 

In fact since the Temple has been taken away most of the commandments in the Law of Truth cannot be kept in any shape, form, or fashion at this present time (Mark 13:1-2).  The fact that the Father of Truth took away the only means to obey these commandments definitely shows that they were part of the lessor matters of the Law of Truth.  It is obvious that these commandments are not in effect at this time, so it cannot be a sin to fail to keep these commandments.  Therefore, sin does not mean transgressing every commandment of the Law of Truth.  Sin is only transgressing the weightier matters of the Law of Truth.

This does not mean that the Man of Truth was teaching that we should ignore the lessor matters of the Law of Truth completely.  He said that those who are great in His kingdom are those who teach others to keep even the least of the commandments of the Law of Truth (Matthew 5:17-19)!  It is just that we must take care of the weightier matters of the Law of Truth before concerning ourselves with the lessor matters of the Law of Truth if we are be part of the kingdom of His Father (Matthew 5:20-24).  The Children of Truth are to demonstrate on Earth what is allowed and forbidden in Heaven (Matthew 16:19).  Just because something is a lessor matter of the Law of Truth does not mean that it is wise to completely ignore it (1 Corinthians 10:23).

For example, the Renewed Covenant in no way encourages the Children of Truth to eat what the Father of Truth calls filth in the Law of Truth or that such filth is somehow now fine to eat.  This may surprise you but it is Food For Thought.  They will still benefit from keeping the commandments of the Law of Truth that deal with how to take care of their bodies.  It is an important part of The Best Healthcare Plan Ever.

So the lessor matters of the Law of Truth have nothing to do with being more righteous but they have everything to do with being more blessed.

The real issue is the heart of people.  The heart of people is revealed by whether or not they are keeping the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (Matthew 7:16-21).

Those who break these commandments of righteousness do so because they have an evil heart (Mark 7:21-23).  They even speak evil of those who do keep these commandments of righteousness because they have no fear of His wrath for breaking these righteous commandments (1 Peter 4:3-5).  Their hearts will not let them attend to the weightier matters of the Law of Truth!

The Children of Truth turn away from those who break these commandments of righteousness while pretending to know the Father of Truth (2 Timothy 3:2-5).  Those who love the Father of Truth will do all they can to keep His commandments to the best of their understanding and ability (1 John 5:1-3).   Their hearts are set on attending to the weightier matters of the Law of Truth and even the lessor matters of the Law of Truth to the best of their understanding!

So not every commandment of the Law of Truth has equal weight.  Some of the commandments are not even in effect as long as the Temple is not standing in Jerusalem.  Many of the lessor matters of the Law of Truth can only be kept to a limited degree at this time.  None of the lessor matters of the Law of Truth define the sins that will keep people out of His Kingdom. Only the commandments in the Law of Truth that deal with treating the Father of Truth and other people right define those sins.  These commandments of righteousness are the weightier matters of the Law of Truth.

So it does not really matter if we are trying our best to keep the finer points of the lessor matters of the Law of Truth if we are not first taking care of the weightier matters of the Law of Truth.

The truth is all of us have broken the commandments of righteousness in the Law of Truth (Romans 3:23).   All of us are born with an uncircumcised heart so that we cannot keep the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (Romans 5:12).  We would all deserve to die and to not inherit His Kingdom if our righteousness depended upon our own ability to keep the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (Romans 10:5).  None of us can be made righteous by our best efforts to keep even just the weightier matters of the Law of Truth (Galatians 3:21).

The Good News is that the Man of Truth died so that we can come into the House of Truth where he could live in us (Galatians 2:20-21).  When we come into the House of Truth it is no longer about our ability to keep the weightier matters of the Law of Truth but it is about his ability to do so through us (Colossians 1:27).  The record of us neglecting the weightier matters of the Law of Truth can only be wiped clean by coming into the House of Truth (1 John 1:8-10).  After we come into the House of Truth then we will start being transformed so that we will keep the weightier matters of the Law of Truth in this world just like he does (1 John 4:17).

You can only come into the House of Truth by surrendering control of every area of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).

Come into the House of Truth.

Bored on the Sabbath

How can you keep from being bored on the Sabbath?

When I was growing up we kept the Sabbath on our farm to the best of our understanding and ability.  Now we understood the Sabbath had been moved to Sunday from Saturday because we did not know Who Changed The Sabbath.

We did not do any work on Sunday except for what was absolutely necessary to take care of the animals.  Every Sunday we put on our nicest clothes and went to church where we spent time talking to the other members of our community, singing hymns, learning about the Bible in Sunday School, and listening to the circuit preacher give a sermon when he made it to our small rural community.  In short, Sunday was the One Day A Week that we gave to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD).

Now church only lasted a couple of hours or so and then we ate lunch at home.  Sometimes, we would go to visit our relatives or sick neighbors after lunch.  Sometimes people would come to visit us, particularly if one of us had been seriously sick.  However, most of the time, we would just do nothing for about five hours.  My Uncle Ken, who was a very hard working cowboy, would take a long nap and so would my grandparents.  Often us kids were not tired at all but there was nothing to do.  We were bored on the Sabbath.

We could not listen to the radio or watch television until the adults finished napping.  Even then there was nothing but preaching on either one until the evening news came on.  Worst yet, the preaching was about adult issues so it would not hold our interest.  It seemed like there was nothing to do in the house.  We were bored on the Sabbath.

We could go outside, if it was not raining, but we would run out of things to do with each other that did not make too much noise.  We had to stay in the yard while the adults slept so we still could not be too loud.  Even after they woke up we could not go fishing or anything like that because we understood that Sunday was the Sabbath.  We had been taught that we were not supposed to do things just for our own pleasure on the Sabbath.  It seemed like there was nothing to do outside as well.  We were bored on the Sabbath.

So is that how it is supposed to be on the Sabbath?  Is there really nothing to do except go to church and sleep?  Are we supposed to be bored on the Sabbath?

Of course, the best way to find out if we are supposed to be bored on the Sabbath is to look in the Book of Truth (the Bible).   Does the Book of Truth really say that there are things which we are not to do on the Sabbath?

We are not to even prepare food on the Sabbath but instead prepare it ahead of time (Exodus 16:23).   We are not to get food to be prepared on the Sabbath but instead get it ahead of time (Exodus 16:25-26).  We are not to leave our homes for these purposes on the Sabbath (Exodus 16:29).

No one is to do any kind of regular work on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:9-11).  Not even the work needed to gather and prepare the materials to start a fire on the Sabbath (Exodus 35:3).  Even to the point of not gathering sticks for starting a fire on the Sabbath (Numbers 15:31-33).  No one is even to lift up anything heavy in their home on the Sabbath (Jeremiah 17:22).  No one is to even walk very far on the Sabbath (Acts 1:12).

In like manner, no one is to buy or sell on the Sabbath (Nehemiah 10:31).  No one is to be involved in the production of goods on the Sabbath (Nehemiah 13:15).  No one is to be involved in the transport of goods on the Sabbath (Nehemiah 13:16-17).   No one is even to lift up anything pertaining to commerce on the Sabbath (Jeremiah 17:21).

We are not even to be in pursuit of our own interest or even be talking about them on the Sabbath (Isaiah 58:13)!

It is for these reasons that the women did not buy spices to give the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) a decent burial until after the special Sabbath was over (Mark 16:1)!   After that they spent all day before the regular weekly Sabbath preparing the burial spices and then they still had to wait until the regular weekly Sabbath was over to use those spices (Luke 23:55-56).   Not even this important work of giving the Man of Truth a decent burial could be done on the Sabbath!

In summary, we are not to be involved in any kind of regular work on the Sabbath including burying the dead.  We are not to be involved in any kind of regular commerce on the Sabbath including buying groceries.  We are not to be doing anything that can wait until another day or that we can do ahead of time such as preparing food to eat and the wood needed to keep a fire going with minimal effort.  We are not to use the Sabbath to pursue our own interests like sports or fishing or anything else.

In short, we are not to do any of the regular activities that we do on regular days.  Why do we need to cease from doing all of our regular activities on the Sabbath?

First of all, the Father of Truth Himself ceased His work of creating at the end of the week to set an example for us to follow (Genesis 2:1-3).  The Sabbath is His gift to us so we can get a rest from our regular activities (Exodus 16:29-30).  He gave us this day to rest from our regular activities at the end of the week so we could be refreshed to carry out our regular activities in the next week (Exodus 23:12).  This need for a rest to be refreshed is so important that the penalty for breaking the Sabbath has to be death so that no one will try to gain an advantage over other people by working on the Sabbath while everyone else is being refreshed on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:14-15).   This need for a rest to be refreshed on the Sabbath never ends (Exodus 31:16).  This need for a rest to be refreshed is so important that we must not work on the Sabbath even in the busiest seasons of our regular activities (Exodus 34:21).  Even land needs a rest to be refreshed (Leviticus 25:2-5).  This need for a rest to be refreshed is needed by everyone including our animals (Deuteronomy 5:12-14).  This is why the Father of Truth made the Sabbath known to us (Nehemiah 9:13-14).  The Sabbath was made for us so we could have a rest to be refreshed (Mark 2:27)!

Does the Sabbath serve any purpose beyond taking a day off to rest so we can be refreshed?

He set the Sabbath apart from the other days of the week about two thousand years before He revealed the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) to Moses (Exodus 20:11).   The Sabbath is to remind the Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) that He has sanctified them (Exodus 31:13).  The Sabbath is to remind them that He is holy (Exodus 31:15).  The Sabbath is to remind them that they are in covenant with Him (Exodus 31:16-17).  The Sabbath is to remind them of what He has delivered them from (Deuteronomy 5:15).  The Sabbath is a day for them to show that they know Him (Ezekiel 20:20).

An entire day of doing absolutely nothing can be pretty boring, especially for those who are young and full of energy.  Does resting from our regular activities mean doing absolutely nothing?  Are we supposed to be bored on the Sabbath?  Is there anything that we can do on the Sabbath?  

The Sabbath is a day for meeting with the Father of Truth (Exodus 20:10).  It is a day for ceasing from our regular activities so we can carry out His purposes (Exodus 35:2).  It is a day for the Children of Truth to congregate together to meet with Him (Leviticus 23:3).  It is a day for them to delight themselves in knowing Him (Isaiah 58:13-14).  It is a day for them to worship before the Father of Truth (Isaiah 66:23).  It is a day to mark that they are set apart as belonging to Him (Ezekiel 20:12).

The Children of Truth are to meet together in a place of assembly on the Sabbath to be taught how to live life from the Book of Truth (Mark 6:2).  They are to read from the Book of Truth when they meet together on the Sabbath (Luke 4:16-17).  They are to hear the preaching of the Word of Truth when they meet together on the Sabbath (Acts 13:42).  They are to hear His message to them when they meet together on the Sabbath (Acts 13:44).  They are to talk the Father of Truth when they meet together on the Sabbath (Acts 16:13).  They are to discuss what He has said in the Book of Truth when they meet together on the Sabbath (Acts 17:1-3).  They bring others into the House of Truth when they meet together on the Sabbath (Acts 18:4)!

For these reasons the Children of Truth are to never forsake assembling together on the Sabbath (Hebrews 10:23-25).   When people meet together with the Father of Truth how can they be bored on the Sabbath?

Of course, meeting together on the Sabbath does not happen without the efforts of the Ministers of Truth.  This being the case then the Ministers of Truth can do whatever work on the Sabbath that is necessary to lead the Children of Truth in worshiping the Father of Truth on the Sabbath.

Every ritual He commanded for the Sabbath was to be carried out on that day (Leviticus 24:5-8).  Every offering for the Sabbath was to be carried out on that day (Numbers 28:9-10).  The food needed for the Sabbath was prepared and cooked on that day (1 Chronicles 9:32).  Offerings for the Sabbath were burned on that day (1 Chronicles 23:31).  The Ministers of Truth can do the types of work normally forbidden on the Sabbath in order to carry out the worship of the Father of Truth on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:5).  Even circumcision is performed on the Sabbath in order to obey the commandment for it to be done when a baby boy is eight days old (John 7:22-23).

The point of the Sabbath is ceasing from our regular activities in order to carry out His activities instead.  We are making room on our calendar every week for the Father of Truth.

So on the Sabbath people are to rest from doing their regular work to meet with the Father of Truth.  Still most people do not really spend every hour of the Sabbath congregating together.  This still can leave quite a few hours with nothing to do.  People can take a nap otherwise they are still likely to be bored on the Sabbath.  Is there nothing more to the Sabbath than meeting together to worship the Father of Truth instead of doing our regular work?  Does the Father of Truth have any other purpose for the Sabbath?

We can do what is necessary to take care of our animals on the Sabbath.  We can rescue our animals from harm on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:11).  We can do what is necessary to feed and water our animals on the Sabbath (Luke 13:15).   We can deliver our animals from danger on the Sabbath (Luke 14:5).

Are not people better than animals?  We can take of other people on the Sabbath!

We can protect those that need protecting on the Sabbath (2 Kings 11:5-8).  We can put down tyrants and restore righteousness on the Sabbath (2 Kings 11:9-16).  We can perform law enforcement on the Sabbath (Nehemiah 13:19-22).  We can do what is necessary to feed the hungry on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:1-4).  We can take care of the sick on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-12).  We can do anything necessary to save the lives of other people on the Sabbath (Mark 3:4).  We can always do good to other people on the Sabbath (Luke 6:9).  We can do what is necessary to deliver other people from the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) on the Sabbath (Luke 13:16-17).  We can always do what is necessary to make other people whole on the Sabbath (John 7:23).

We can spend part of our Sabbath feeding the hungry, giving water to the thirsty, taking the stranger into our homes, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and going to those in the prison because that is also doing the will of the Father of Truth (Matthew 25:35-40).

The Sabbath is for fulfilling His purposes in meeting together to be with Him to show our love for Him and taking care of other people to show our love for those made in His image (Mark 12:33).  If we look for opportunities to do these things on the Sabbath then we will soon find our Sabbaths full of things to do.  We will no longer have time to be bored on the Sabbath.

We are not to act like we do not know when the Sabbath is occurring (Ezekiel 22:26)!  We are not long for the Sabbath to be over so we can resume pursuing our own interests (Amos 8:5)!  We are not to be bored on the Sabbath!

So when I was a kid we were bored on the Sabbath because we did not spend near enough of it taking care of other people even though we did many other things in accordance with what the Father of Truth said to do on the Sabbath.  So this begs a question:

If you do not take care of other people as well as congregate together on the Sabbath then Whose Sabbath Are You Keeping?

Of course, you are always going to be bored on the Sabbath if you try to keep it but do not know the Father of Truth.  The only way to come to know Him is by coming into the House of Truth through the Man of Truth (John 14:6).   You come into the House of Truth by surrendering control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).

Come into the House of Truth.

Whose Sabbath Are You Keeping?

Whose Sabbath are you keeping?

I do not mean by this question which day of the week are you observing the Sabbath on.   I mean by this question who owns the Sabbath that you keep?

The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka The Lord) said that the regular weekly Sabbath and all of the days during His Feast when people were to congregate together instead of doing their normal work were all Sabbaths (Leviticus 23).   He said in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) that these were His Sabbaths (Leviticus 26:2).

Yet even though the Children of Israel met at the appointed times and carried out all of the prescribe rituals He called these efforts keeping "your feasts" and that He could not endure it when they did this (Isaiah 1:12-14).  In fact, when these feasts were no longer His, but only belonged to Israel, then He said that He would cause them to cease (Hosea 2:11).  He did exactly that so that Israel no longer kept these Sabbaths (Lamentations 2:6).

So even though the Children of Israel were keeping these Sabbaths at the time and place that He had appointed these Sabbaths were no longer His Sabbaths.  They were enjoying a day of rest and congregating together to worship Him on the seventh day of every week so they were definitely observing a Sabbath but it was not His Sabbath.  They were keeping their own Sabbath.

What is the difference between keeping His Sabbath and keeping your own Sabbath?

The Children of Israel were not treating other people justly and fairly the rest of the week so that made these Sabbaths to be their Sabbaths instead of His Sabbaths (Isaiah 1:15-17).   Whenever people neglect to take care of other people then they are polluting His Sabbaths so that these Sabbaths become their Sabbaths instead of His Sabbaths (Isaiah 56:1-2).

Whose Sabbath are you keeping?

The Father of Truth chose Abraham because he would teach his children to do justice to other people as He commands (Genesis 18:19).  He set every king over Israel to do justice to other people (1 Kings 10:9).  He said that doing justice to people means taking care of the poor and needy (Psalm 82:3).  He says that doing this is more important than keeping the religious observations of the Sabbath (Proverbs 21:3).  He said that taking care of other people is what it takes to really know Him (Jeremiah 22:15-16).  He said that taking care of other people and walking humbly before Him is more desirable than the religious observations of the Sabbath (Micah 6:6-8).  The Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) said that doing these things was more important to keeping the Law of Truth than keeping religious observations on the Sabbath - even though the religious observations should still be done (Matthew 23:23).   Keeping His Sabbath means taking care of other people when they are in real need (James 1:27).

Whose Sabbath are you keeping?

The Man of Truth said that it was not breaking the Sabbath to feed hungry people on that day (Matthew 12:1-7).  He that observing the Sabbath, as intended in the Law of His Father, means doing good to other people on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-12).  He said that the Sabbath was made for taking care of the needs of people (Mark 2:27).  He said that it is right to take care of sick people on the Sabbath (Luke 13:14-17).  He said that it is never wrong to perform acts of mercy on the Sabbath (John 7:21-24).  The Man of Truth demonstrated that the Children of Truth take care of other people on the Sabbath (John 9:13-17).

Whose Sabbath are you keeping?

The Father of Truth said that the Children of Truth were to love to Him with everything they had (Deuteronomy 6:4-5).   He also commanded that the Children of Truth were to love their neighbor as themselves (Leviticus 19:18). The Man of Truth said that showing real love for people completes showing love for His Father (Mark 12:29-31).  The Law of Truth is fulfilled by loving other people as ourselves (Galatians 5:14).  The Children of Truth are to do good to all people at all times (Galatians 6:9-10).   It pleases their Father when they make sacrifices to show love to other people (Hebrews 13:16).  Taking care of the needs of other people shows that they have faith in their Father (James 2:14-18).  When they do this then they are showing that He is their Father (1 John 3:16-18).   They are acting just like their Father when they love other people (1 John 4:11-12).  It is the commandment of the Father that His Children love other people (1 John 4:21).  Those that love the Father of Truth keep His commandments to love other people (1 John 5:1-3).

Whose Sabbath are you keeping?

Keeping His Sabbath means using the Sabbath for His purposes instead of your own (Isaiah 58:13).   Keeping His Sabbath requires more than just resting and worshiping Him One Day A Week.  Keeping His Sabbath requires more than just knowing Who Changed The Sabbath and are resting on the seventh day of the week.  If you do those things but you do not show love to other people in a real and tangle way then you are not keeping His Sabbath.  At best, you are keeping your own Sabbath and it is completely useless.

Whose Sabbath are you keeping?

Everyone who comes in the House of Truth keeps His Sabbath instead of their own Sabbath and will dwell with Him forever (Isaiah 56:4-7).  When you come into the House of Truth then the Man of Truth will show you how to make your Sabbaths become His Sabbaths (Matthew 12:7-9).  When you come into the House of Truth then he will show you how to keep the Sabbath as his Father intended (Mark 2:27-28).  When you come into the House of Truth then you will keep His Sabbath by taking care of other people (Luke 6:4-6).  You come into the House of Truth when you surrender your time, talents and treasures to the Man of Truth because you believe that his Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).  After you come into the House of Truth then his Father will write the Law of Truth on your heart and mind so that you will be able to keep His Sabbath instead of your own Sabbath (Hebrews 8:10).

Come into the House of Truth.

Who Changed The Sabbath?

Who changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday?

When I was in third grade we began to learn about calendars.  We started off with the days of the week.  I had a terrible time with this.  It was not that I had any trouble remembering the name of each day or the general order of the days.  My problem was that I wanted to start the week on Monday and end it on Sunday.

My grandparents tried to help.  They took me to the calendar and showed me that Sunday was the first day of the week, not the seventh.  I told them that their calendar must have been made wrong.  They asked me why I thought that.

I told them we had learned the Ten Commandments in Sunday school class and it said that everyone was to rest on the seventh day.  Well, we did not rest on Saturday but everyone rested on Sunday.  In fact, it was the law of the land in Arkansas in 1972 and no businesses were allowed to be opened.   On the farm we stopped all of our work, except for doing what was absolutely necessary to take care of the animals, on Sunday.  If we cut hay down on Saturday and the weather forecast called for it to rain the following Monday through Friday, we still would not put up our hay on Sunday.  Sometimes everyone would take a nap after lunch.  Sunday was truly a day of rest.

I had also learned that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) had said that people were supposed to gather together to worship Him on the seventh day.  We and everyone else that I knew gathered to worship together in church on Sunday.  

They had told us that people were supposed to treat the seventh day of the week differently than the first six days of the week.  Mom made us dress up and put on a tie when we went to church on Sunday.  There was nothing but people preaching and teaching about the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) on television every Sunday.  The radio stations only played Gospel music and the like on Sundays.  People would go to visit each other to eat and discuss the Bible on Sunday.  If anyone was sick in the community, then people would go to visit them on Sunday and inquire if the sick needed help with anything.  In short, people spent Sunday worshiping the Father of Truth, taking care of each other and resting.  Sunday was truly set aside as different than the other six days of the week.

So it seemed obvious to my nine year old mind that if everyone treated Sunday the way that the Father of Truth had said to treat the seventh day then Sunday must have been the seventh day.  I had no idea why my teacher, my grandparents and the calendar kept insisting that it was the first day of the week.

So my grandparents told me that the Sabbath had been changed from Saturday to Sunday.  I asked them: who changed the Sabbath?

My Grandmother had an eighth grade education (normal for 1923 when she finished school) but loved to listen to people on the radio and television talk about the Book of Truth (the Bible).  She said that the Father of Truth or the Man of Truth or the Apostles of Truth or someone else changed it in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) somewhere.

Now my grandpa had read the Book of Truth for at least an hour every day for the past sixty years so I figured he could show me when the Sabbath had been changed.  He was not sure either about who changed the Sabbath.

So since they had told me that the Sabbath had been changed from Saturday to Sunday I was able to finally get the days of the week in the right order although it still seemed strange that the Sabbath was now on the first day of the week instead of the seventh day of the week.

Afterwards when I would go to visit my dad for the summer in Saint Louis I would hear Jewish people in the media there refer to Sunday as the "Christian Sabbath" because Christians treated Sunday the same way they treated Saturday.  The Catholics and others there would refer to Saturday as the "Jewish Sabbath" in these dialogs.  So it seemed that someone at sometime in the distant past had changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday for the Christians but not for the Jews.  Still no one answered my question: who changed the Sabbath?

Then I took French class in ninth grade and joined the French club. That was when I learned that on the French calendar Monday was the first day of the week and Sunday was the last day.  It was called "dimanche" which even translated literally as "The Lord's Day" and was used interchangeably in French with "sabbat" which literally translates to "Sabbath".  So the French also recognized Sunday as the seventh day because everyone treated it as the Sabbath.   I still did not know the answer to my question: who changed the Sabbath?

Then after I came into the House of Truth through total surrender to the Man of Truth I started listening to preachers on the radio and watching them on the television.  Some of them said that the Jew formerly known as Saul (The Apostle Paul) had some sort of "Pauline Revelation" that the Father of Truth had changed the Sabbath for Christians.  I paid close attention to what they said.  They said that Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) preached to Jews in Galatia on the Sabbath, Saturday, and when the Jews rejected the message, then he preached to the Gentiles on the next day, Sunday.  They said that he sent instructions telling the Gentiles in Corinth to take up offerings on the first day of the week, Sunday, instead of the last day of the week, Saturday.  They said that the Man of Truth confirmed that His Father had changed the Sabbath to Sunday when he chose that day to appear to John the Jew (Yochanan ben Zebedee) on the isle of Patmos.  I also heard preachers say the same sort of things from the pulpits at meetings.  I heard this over and over again during a period of more than twenty years.  I looked into the Book of Truth to examine the passages they quoted.  It seemed that the Father of Truth was the answer to my question of who changed the Sabbath.

I eventually became convinced of my need to give one day a week to the Father of Truth and that He had changed the Sabbath.  I was so convince that I refused to work on Sunday.  When my employer threatened to fire me if I did not, I responded that they would leave me with no choice but to sue them.  I gave them several cases (for example, Reed vs the FAA) that already been decided by the Supreme Court of the U.S. where the court had ruled that employers could not make anyone work on a day of the week when the employee had notified them of their deep held religious conviction to not work on that day as guaranteed by the First Amendment.  Their legal department looked into it and they decided that I could keep my job without working on Sundays.

Then in 2008 I was laid off.  This was not delayed retaliation.  My employer even offered me another position in another city and to relocate me at their expense but I was unable to make the move.  While I was unemployed I came to realize that  I was very sick by this point and that I needed time to go to doctors and recover.  During my recovering I became bored and started working on a timeline of every event that occurred between the first chapter of Acts to the third chapter of Revelation.  

I learned where the cities in the Renewed Covenant were located, what roads connected cities and how long it took to walk from each city to the next city.  Sometimes it would take the entire six days from one Sunday to the next to make the trip mentioned as starting a week later in another city.   I noticed in several places that Paul the Jew would state that he was in a particular city on a feast day on the Biblical Calendar like Pentecost.  I mastered the Biblical calendar and used data from NASA to determine the date and day of the week of each feast for a given year.  I went along plotting his progress using Sunday as the day that he preached on.  This left the other six days for travel which worked out consistently until I hit an unresolvable conflict.  

Paul the Jew had to leave one city after preaching on Sunday and be in another city by the start of the next feast day.  He only had four days to make the journey and there was no way that he could have walked it in less than five days.  I considered if he could have had a horse but he had a number of people with him and they would have to all had horses.  The text seemed to indicate that they were walking.  I checked the passage over several times in case I had somehow misunderstood something.  I checked my maps and other resources to ensure that it absolutely could not be walked in four days instead of five.  I knew that the Renewed Covenant could not be wrong but a translation could so I read the underlying Greek document.  That changed nothing.  There was just no getting around the fact that if he preached when the Children of Truth (those that obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) met on Sunday then he could not have possibly be at the next city by the feast day in the passage.  I finally called out to the Man of Truth in frustration and asked him where I had made a mistake in the timeline.

He answered me immediately and said that the reason I could not make it work was because Paul the Jew preached on Saturdays instead of Sundays.  I was in total shock.  My entire world felt like it was being turned upside down.  I brought up my three passages from the Renewed Covenant which I had been sure had confirmed that the Father of Truth had changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.  The Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) then walked me through each one these passages to show that they did not say that the Sabbath had been changed to Sunday.

This walk through began with examining the Sabbath itself.  I learned all about the Sabbath, including the term did not just refer to the regular weekly Sabbath but also to any of the days included in the Feasts of The Father Of Truth where people were to congregate together instead of doing their normal work.  In fact the word Sabbath means "Ceasing" - not "Seventh".  So our practice of observing One Day A Week for these purposes really did come from the Book of Truth.  However, we were doing these things on the first day of the week (Sunday) instead of the seventh day (Saturday).

So the walk through continued by examining what day of the week the Book of Truth said was the regular weekly Sabbath.  I was lead to begin in the beginning (Genesis) and go forward from there.  (Things often make more sense when you begin at the beginning instead of beginning in the middle.)

The Father of Truth set aside the seventh day as a day of rest as soon as there were days to count and someone to count them (Genesis 2:1-3).  He restored the seventh day as a day of rest when He gave the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) (Exodus 16:28-30).  The commandment to observe the seventh day (Saturday) as the Sabbath was so important that it was included in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:9-11).  Neither man nor beast was to work on the seventh day (Exodus 23:12).  The Father of Truth said that the covenant of resting on the seventh day as the Sabbath would never end (Exodus 31:13-16).   So the Father of Truth had set the seventh day (Saturday) apart as a Sabbath forever.

Even after Israel had returned from exile for breaking the Law of Truth the Sabbath was still to be observed on seventh day as defined in the Law of Truth (Nehemiah 13:17-19). The Father of Truth did change the Sabbath in the entire Original Covenant (Tanach aka The Old Testament) before the Man of Truth came to the Earth.

So perhaps He had done so somewhere in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) after the Man of Truth came to the Earth.  So I continued by examining the life of the Man of Truth to see if he had received some sort of instructions to change the Sabbath from the seventh day (Saturday) to the first day (Sunday).

It was brought to my attention that the Man of Truth did not come to teach anyone to do anything contrary to the Law of Truth (Matthew 5:17-19).  He also ceased from his regular work to congregate with others in the synagogue to meet with the Father of Truth on the Sabbath (Saturday) that His Father had established in the Law of Truth (Luke 4:16).  The Man of Truth clearly understood that the Sabbath was the seventh day (Saturday) and he did not change it when he was on this Earth.

Still all of the passages that I had understood to mean that the Sabbath had been changed from Saturday to Sunday were written after the Man of Truth had risen from the dead and the Gentiles had came to faith.  It seemed that the Apostles of Truth must have been given the instructions to change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, at least for the Children of Truth that were taken out of the Gentiles, after the Gentiles came to faith.  So now that the groundwork had all been laid I was walked through these three passages that seemed to support this idea.

The first two passages came from the writings of Paul the Jew.  After all, I have been told that Paul the Jew had some sort of special "Pauline Revelation" that was hard for the other writers to understand which included changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.

The first passage that I was walked through was about when Paul the Jew as in Iconium and the Gentiles asked to speak to him after he had spoken to the Jews.  They had not asked to speak to him on the next day as I had heard over and over again but on the Sabbath (Acts 13:42-44).  I did not need to read it in Greek as it was right there in plain English.  Still just to be thorough I read it in Greek to be sure that it had not been translated incorrectly on purpose as had other passages like the One Disturbing Sentence.  I had read the Renewed Covenant many times in numerous translations and I had read the word "day" where it said "Sabbath" because I had kept hearing it wrong over and over from religious professionals.  This had created a stronghold in my mind that had to be destroyed by the Spirit of Truth (2 Corinthians 10:4-6).

In fact, the Gentiles were at the synagogue when he spoke to them (Acts 13:42)  Even when Paul the Jew was in Corinth he still continued to meet with both the Jews and the Gentiles at the synagogue on the Sabbath (Acts 18:1-4).   Neither he nor the Father of Truth had changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday in this passage.

The second passage was about when Paul the Jew told the congregation in Corinth to lay aside an special offering on the first day of the week that he would collect when he arrived (1 Corinthians 16:2).  The first thing to notice is that he did not explicitly tell them to congregate together when they laid this offering aside but for each one to lay it aside for themselves.  However, some would argue that it is implied that they would be congregating together for this purpose.

So the Spirit of Truth had me examine this passage in Greek to get clarity.  When I looked at the passage in Greek one phrase instantly stood out as being not quite correctly translated.  This Greek phrase, “mian sabbaton” translated as "first day of the week" is literally “first Sabbath”.   So what is a first Sabbath?

Some weeks have a special sabbath that is one of the Feasts of the Father of Truth that make up the acts of The Greatest Play Ever.  So some of those weeks have at least one and sometimes two more special Sabbaths occurring in the week before the regular weekly Sabbath that ends the week.  Three of those special Sabbaths are when people were to bring gifts to the Father of Truth in Jerusalem.  Since two of these special Sabbaths were on the first day of the week (Sunday) and the third one usually did not occur on the regular weekly Sabbath (Saturday) they were the first Sabbath of that week.  So each of these special Sabbaths were called "a first Sabbath".  So why did Paul the Jew have the Corinthian Children of Truth collecting offerings on the first Sabbaths?

In the Law of Truth people were commanded to bring in the tithes of the appropriate crop during these three first Sabbaths since each one of these first Sabbaths was a special Sabbath for bringing in the first fruits of a particular harvest to Jerusalem.  If they could not make it to Jerusalem on a first Sabbath because they were too far away, then they were to sell that part of the harvest and keep the money until they could make it to Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 14:24-26).  Often, when a community was far from Jerusalem, like Corinth, the entire community could not go to Jerusalem at one time.  So on each of the first Sabbaths each member would set aside their offering that had been turned into money and it would be gathered together for the entire community.  Then when some part of the community made a trip to Jerusalem for one of the first Sabbaths (First Fruits, Pentecost, Feast of Tabernacles) they would take the accumulated first fruit offerings of the entire community with them and give it for the entire community at the Temple.  One of the purposes of these offerings was to take care of the poor in Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 14:29).  So Paul the Jew was having them lay aside and gather this offering on the first Sabbaths so he could take it with him to Jerusalem to give relief the Children of Truth there who had been impoverished there for telling others the Good News.   So why was “mian sabbaton” translated as "first day of the week" instead of "first Sabbath"?

This same phrase, and the equivalent phrase, “mias sabbaton”, is used to denote that Jesus rose from the dead on the first sabbath, First Fruits, in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark which always falls on the first day of the week (Sunday).  The translators of English Bibles undoubtedly used the same translation of the phrase “mian sabbaton” as “the first day of the week” in this passage as they had in the resurrection passages out of convenience.  So while “the first day of the week” accurately describes the timing of the resurrection it does not precisely convey the full meaning of the first Sabbath.  First Fruits, when the first fruit of barley, the first crop of the year, was gathered as an offering, is the first Sabbath of the week it occurs on.  This is because that week at least one and normally two more Sabbaths occurred. This is because the last day of the Feast of Unleavened bread was also a special Sabbath, which followed First Fruits (Sunday) later in the same week most years, and then the week would end with the regular Sabbath (Saturday).  This is more thoroughly explained in The Raising Of The First Fruits.

Pentecost, another special Sabbath when the first fruit of the wheat was collected as an offering, also always fell on the first day of the week (Sunday) making it the first Sabbath of the week it fell on which again have a second Sabbath when it ended with the regular weekly Sabbath at the end of week (Saturday).  This is explained further in Waving The Unleavened Bread.

In most years the end of the Feast of Tabernacles, another special Sabbath when the end of the first fruits of the crops were offered, was also the first Sabbath of the week it fell on.  This is explained more in The End of All Trouble.  Since the translators did not understand what a first Sabbath was it easy to see why they translated "mian sabbaton" as "first day of the week" instead of  "first Sabbath".  So could have Paul the Jew meant "first day of the week" instead of "first Sabbath"?

If first day of the week had been literally meant by Paul the Jew, then he could have written it that way in Koine Greek which had a concise word for day, “emera”, with a phrase like “protos emera tou sabbaton”.  He could have also used the phrase “mia tou sabbaton” that used in the Gospels of Luke and John to identify the first day of the week.

So Paul the Jew was commanding that the churches make their gatherings on these special Sabbaths that occurred on the Feasts of the Father of Truth year after year until he could take their accumulated offerings with him to Jerusalem to help the Children of Truth who had been impoverished there.  He was not telling them to collect their normal tithes and offerings on Sunday every week.  Neither he nor the Father of Truth had changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday in this passage.

There were two other passages that were not covered in this walk through that sometimes cause people to think that Paul the Jew had believers congregate on the first day of the week (Sunday) for religious services.

The first passage says that the believers were congregated to eat bread together and listen to Paul the Jew on the first day of the week before midnight (Acts 20:7).  They conclude that this was Sunday night because they are thinking that the day of week changes at midnight in accordance with Roman standards instead of changing at evening (sunset to nightfall) in accordance with Biblical standards laid out in the Law of Truth (Leviticus 23:32).  The first day, which began at sunset Saturday, was defined by the Law of Truth - just like the Feast of Unleavened Bread that the Apostles of Truth had just celebrated with the congregation at Philippi (Acts 20:6).  In fact, Paul the Jew ended his preaching at daybreak the next morning (Sunday) before religious services would have started (Acts 20:8-11).  It is certain that the Biblical Calendar was being used in this passage because Paul the Jew desired to be in Jerusalem by Pentecost so he could deliver the gifts that the churches had been collecting on the first Sabbaths for many years (Acts 20:16).  Paul the Jew had only used the occasion of everyone eating together after the Sabbath, when fresh food could be cooked, to preach to the Children of Truth at Troas because he was likely to never see them again just like the elders in Ephesus (Acts 20:25).  Neither he nor the Father of Truth had changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday in this passage.

The other passage says that believers can choose to regard one day above another or not depending upon how strong their faith is (Romans 14:5).   So some people have concluded that they can change the Sabbath to Sunday or not even observe it at all if their faith is strong.  However, in the context of the passage the day in question is not the Sabbath but it is a day associated with eating (Romans 14:4-6).  In fact, the entire chapter is about eating - not when to keep the Sabbath (Romans 14).  Paul the Jew is addressing concerns that the Gentiles in Rome who came out of idolatry had about eating just like he did with the Children of Truth in Corinth (1 Corinthians 8:4).  This is yet another case of coming to the wrong conclusion because the verse is Taken Out Of Context.  Neither he nor the Father of Truth had changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday in this passage.

So there are no passages written by Paul the Jew as part of some sort of "Pauline Revelation" that the Father of Truth had changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.   In fact, just like the Man of Truth, Paul the Jew was in the habit of ceasing from his regular work and congregating to worship the Father of Truth on the Sabbath (Acts 17:2).  Paul the Jew never taught anyone to do anything contrary to the Law of Truth - like changing the Sabbath from the seventh day of the week (Saturday) to the first day of the week (Sunday) (Acts 21:20-24).  Paul the Jew clearly understood that the Sabbath was the seventh day (Saturday) and he did not teach that the Father of Truth had changed it.

The last passage covered in this walk through was the one where the Man of Truth appeared to John the Jew on "the Lord's Day" while he was in exile on the isle of Patmos (Revelation 1:9-11). The first thing to note is that this passage says absolutely nothing about people congregating together on "the Lord's Day".  It only says that John the Jew was "in the Spirit" on "the Lord's Day" when the Man of Truth appeared to him (Revelation 1:10-11).  Does in being "in the Spirit" mean that it had to be the same time when the Children of Truth congregated together for religious services?

This is similar to when Ezekiel, the Prophet of Truth, was "in the Spirit" when he was given the vision of the valley of dry bones (Ezekiel 37:1-3).  There is no mention of the day that vision was given indicating that this vision could have occur on any day of the week or year.  It is certain that this vision was not given when he was congregated together with the Children of Truth for religious services.  In like manner, any time the Children of Truth speak in an unknown tongue they are speaking "in the Spirit" (1 Corinthians 14:2).  They are to keep the whole armor of the Father of Truth on and pray "in the Spirit" at all times - not just when they congregate together (Ephesians 6:11-18).  So being "in the Spirit" does not mean that it had to be at the time when the Children of Truth congregated together for religious services and does not prove that the Children of Truth congregated together on "the Lord's Day".

Then there is the other issue of "the Lord's Day" itself.  I had always been told that "the Lord's Day" was Sunday.  Sunday was even called "the Lord's Day" as well as Greek calendars.  So it seemed like "the Lord's Day" meant Sunday but I was lead to investigate this further.  I investigated and found out that Greek calendars did not refer to Sunday as "The Lord's Day" until 150 AD which was 55 years after John the Jew had his vision on the isle of Patmos.  In fact, no one even suggested that Sunday be called "the Lord's Day" until Ignatius proposed the name change in 108 AD because the Man of Truth had risen from the dead on a Sunday.  (The Feast of Firstfruits when he rose from the dead always falls on a Sunday.)  This was still thirteen years too late.  So if Sunday is not "the Lord's Day" then what is?

Some people have proposed that it was a day for burning incense and otherwise worshiping the current Caesar - Domitian at the time.  However, a Caesar could only be declared a god by the Roman Senate after he died and Domitian was very keen on preserving Roman religion and traditions.  (This is why John the Jew was exiled in the first place.)  Even when a Caesar was declared to be a god there was no set recurring day on the Roman Calendar called "the Lord's Day" for worshiping him.  A day for a one time holiday was declared by the Senate shortly after the Caesar died if they deemed it appropriate.  The last time one of these holidays that could be called "The Lord's Day" had been declared was shortly after Titus had died in 81 AD some 14 years before John the Jew was visited by the Man of Truth (95 AD).  Domitian died a year later (96 AD) and Patmos ceased to be used as an isle of exile at that time.  So "the Lord's Day" could not have referred to one of these holidays for worshiping Caesar.

So I was directed to look in the Book of Truth itself for the answer.  The term "Lord's Day" only appears once in the Book of Truth as well as the Greek phrase that it is translated from.  However, the term "the Day of the Lord" is found numerous times so it seemed like a good candidate on the surface.  Closer examination showed that this could not have been what was meant by "the Lord's Day" because it refers to the day in the future that the Man of Truth will come back to destroy every enemy of His Father (Joel 2:10-12).  This is the day in the future when he will come to rule the Earth (Revelation 19:13-15).  This is the day in the future when everyone on Earth will come into Total Surrender.  So what day is "the Lord's Day"?

The Father of Truth said that Israel was to keep His Sabbath on the seventh day every week to show that the Children of Truth belonged to Him just like His Sabbath (Exodus 31:13-17).   He said that the Sabbaths, the regular weekly Sabbath as well as the special Sabbaths that were part of His Feasts, belonged to Him just like the Tabernacle belonged to Him (Leviticus 26:2).   Even though every Sabbath belongs to Him there is only one day that He ever directly called His Day - the regular weekly Sabbath (Isaiah 58:13).  Since the Sabbath is His Day and He is the Lord then it would be right to call it "the Lord's Day".  Neither John the Jew nor the Father of Truth had changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday in this passage.

So no where in the Book of Truth did anyone ever change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.  So who changed the Sabbath?

The answer to that question comes from history.

Irenaeus reported that the Romans had been observing Sunday instead of Saturday as the Sabbath since the time when Xystus was the Bishop of Rome (115 AD) which was some twenty years after John the Jew had his vision and certainly after he had died.  He claimed that this change had been made by Peter the Jew (Shimon Kephas aka Simon aka Simeon aka Cephas) and Paul the Jew.  However it has already been shown that Paul the Jew made no such change.  For this reason treating Sunday as the Sabbath was actually a practice confined to Rome initially.

Even Ignatius, who was first to propose changing the name of Sunday to "the Lord's Day",  stated that the Sabbath was still being observed almost universally on Saturday by the Children of Truth more than forty years after John the Jew had his vision on Patmos.  According to him, only the churches in Rome and Alexandria (Egypt) met on the first day of the week instead of the seventh day at that time.   All other churches, including those as far away as China, India, and east central Africa met on the seventh day.

The reason for this difference was that the people of Rome had a tradition of treating Sunday like the Sabbath in many ways by this time.  Augustus had been persuaded to change the Roman week from eight days to seven days when he made his calendar reforms under the influence of Jewish men like Herod the Great.  The Romans had named the days of the week for the sun, moon and wandering stars (planets) that they could see in order of brightest to dimmest because they worshiped them. Since the Sun was the brightest it got the first day (Sun Day), the Moon got then next day (Moon Day) and so on until Saturn got the last day (Saturn Day).  They especially venerated the Sun because they believe that it was by far the strongest god being able to force all others from the sky for at least half of every day so they held Sun Day in higher esteem than the other days.

They did this because they worshiped these heavenly bodies in their religion (Jeremiah 8:2).  They imported this religion from Babylon like all nations which had rejected worshiping the Father of Truth (Romans 1:28).  

They had also observed from the many Jews that lived in Rome the long term advantages of resting one day a week, even though they initially thought that doing so was lazy.  So when their association with the Jews influenced them to also have a day of rest and worship they selected Sun Day as that day.  So treating Sunday as the Sabbath was a result of mixing the influence of the Jews with the influence of Babylonian Sun god worship that had formed the basis of Roman religion.

So many of the Children of Truth in Rome felt compelled to keep two Sabbaths - the one taught by the Apostles of Truth and the one that had became a well entrenched tradition in Rome.  Needless to say, they found this inconvenient.  Especially since the Jews had fell into great disfavor in Rome due to the many rebellions in Judaea and other places.  This caused the Children of Truth to suffer additional persecution because the Romans could not distinguish between them and the Jews due to their common practices like keeping the Sabbath.  So they wanted to move the Sabbath from the seventh day (Saturday) associated with the Jews to the first day (Sunday) associated with Rome.

This had absolutely nothing to do with Paul the Jew, Peter the Jew or John the Jew changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.  In fact, Polycarp, a disciple of John the Jew, went to Rome in 154 AD to discuss the differences between the practices of the Roman church and the practice of all the churches of Asia (modern west central Turkey) of not only keeping the regular weekly Sabbath but also all of the Feasts of the Father of Truth including Passover (Pesach).  The churches of Asia refused to change any of these practices because they had learned to observe them from John the Jew.  It is plain that John the Jew did not in any shape, form, or fashion mean "Sunday" when he had said "the Lord's Day".

However, there was another reason besides wanting to not be associated with the Jews and wanting to maintain the traditions of Rome for changing the Sabbath.  Many of the so-called Church Fathers also wanted to marry the teachings of the Apostles of Truth with the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle and other Greek philosophers that the Romans so admired.  In fact, Justin Martyr went so far as to say that these philosophers were even Christians - unknown to themselves.  This lead him and others to conclude that there was no need to observe any day as the Sabbath so Sunday was fine if it was more convenient.  So part of the impetus of the fathers of the False Church of Rome to move the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday was the philosophies of the very same Greek philosophers that Paul the Jew said the Children of Truth were to avoid (Colossians 2:8)!

So when Constantine made Sunday a universal day for rest and worship across the Roman Empire in 321 AD he was only formally putting into law what most people were already practicing.  The change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday as completed by the Council of Laodicea in 364 AD where observing the Sabbath on Saturday was made a crime in the Roman Empire and Sunday was commanded to be observed instead.  (Laodicea is the church rebuked by the Man of Truth for being lukewarm (Revelation 3:14-16).   It was completely wiped off the face of the Earth after this council.)  So it was the Romans that changed the Sabbath from Saturday from Sunday.

Even then it was only inside the Roman Empire while all of the Children of Truth outside of the Roman Empire continued to observe the seventh day (Saturday) as the Sabbath.  Even from that time to modern times, groups like the Taiping in China, the Nasrani in India, the Lemba in Zimbabwe, the Sabbotniks in Russia and every other group of the Children of Truth who maintained the practices of their ancestors from the time of the Apostles of Truth (before 100 AD) still observe the Sabbath on the seventh day as the Father of Truth commanded.  According to the fifth century church historian Sozomen even inside the Roman Empire almost all of the Children of Truth continued to observe the Sabbath on the seventh day as well but also observed Sunday as commanded by the law of the Roman Empire until the western part of the divided Roman Empire came to an end.  So it is not even true that the Sabbath was changed universally from Saturday to Sunday among the Children of Truth.  So who really changed the Sabbath?

The idea that the Father of Truth changed the Sabbath through the Man of Truth or the Apostles of Truth in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) is an outright lie perpetrated by Ministers of Lies inside the Roman Empire.  It was then spread from there unwittingly by people who simply did not know the truth.  Like all lies, the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) was behind this lie (John 8:44).  So it was the Father of Lies who really changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.

Of course it does not matter what day of the week you observe the Sabbath if you are not one of the Children of Truth.  I did not come into the House of Truth by observing the Sabbath on either Saturday or Sunday (Galatians 2:16).  It was only after I came into the House of Truth that the Spirit of Truth was able to guide me into the truth about who changed the Sabbath (John 16:13).

It is no different for you. Your journey to finding out the truth about all things begins when you come into the House of Truth by putting the Man of Truth in charge of every area of your life because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).

Come into the House of Truth.