Program 55: The Creator Has a Calendar!

Yahuwah established a method of time-keeping at Creation. It is this calendar that reveals the true Biblical Sabbath, and the original day of Christ’s resurrection.

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For two thousand years, believers of every generation have longed to be the last generation. Contrary to popular belief, though, Christ did not give believers “signs of the times” to watch for. Instead, he repeatedly warned that his coming would take even the faithful by surprise. Yahushua urgently warned believers to be ready because, he said, “The Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” [Matthew 24:44]

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Part 1: (Miles & Dave)

Miles Robey: Hello! Welcome to World’s Last Chance Radio. I’m your host, Miles Robey, and joining me is Dave Wright.

Dave Wright: Hello! Thank you for tuning in and making us a part of your day.

Miles: I am really excited about today’s program. It’s a topic we’ve referred to a number of times before, but we’ve never really got into specifics. We’ve never dedicated an entire program to this subject. Guaranteed—if this is the first time you’ve heard of this topic, it is going to blow your mind.

Dave: Well, slow down there, Miles. Put the brakes on long enough for me to explain to our first time listeners something else that may be new to them. On WLC Radio, we prefer to use the actual name of the heavenly Father, which is Yahuwah. Or Yah. Either one.

The name of the Son, which means Yahuwah saves, is Yahushua.

You might also hear el or Eloah. These are Hebrew titles that refer to Yahuwah.

Okay! Take it away, Miles. I can see you chomping at the bit there, to get into today’s discussion.

Miles: All right! Today we’re going to be discussing the Biblical Sabbath. Now, before you groan, and turn the dial, insisting we’re under grace now, not under the law, let me assure you that we’re not going to be telling you that you need to start going to church on Saturday. In fact, you’re going to want to hear this because the information you’re going to be hearing impacts people who worship on Sunday every bit as much as it impacts those who go to church or synagogue on Saturday.

Dave: And, I would add, it even impacts those who go to mosque for prayers on Friday.

Miles: You’re right! It does!

Dave: We’re going to be presenting some information that, if you’ve never encountered the topic before, is probably going to shock you. I’m asking that you just bear with us. We never ask anyone to simply accept our word for anything, and we’re not going to start now. We’ll present the topic, and then it is up to you to go and study it out for yourself.

Miles: And don’t forget to first surrender your will to Yah and ask Him to convict of the truth.

Dave: In the interests of full disclosure, I want to state upfront that at WLC we do believe the divine law is eternally binding. This means that the 10 Commandment law was given for everyone, not just the Jews prior to Christ’s death on the cross. This also means that the 4^th commandment—the command to “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy”—is also still binding.

However, that’s not what we’re going to be discussing today. In fact, what we’re going to be sharing with you, as Miles pointed out a moment ago, is applicable to everyone who worships Yahuwah, whether they go to church or synagogue on Saturday or Sunday.

Miles: What we’re talking about is the calendar. Did you know that Yahuwah actually established a calendar at Creation? He did! And it’s very different from the modern calendar of Pope Gregory the 13^th.

Dave: Have you heard of Zechariah Sitchin?

Miles: Uh, no. Doesn’t sound familiar, no.

Dave: Well, he died in 2010, but throughout the latter part of the 20^th century, he was something of an expert on Sumerian cuneiform, the oldest written language on earth. From his translations of the ancient Sumerian writings still in existence, he came up with some interesting and different theories of how life on earth began—or at least what the Sumerians believed.

Anyway, he made a comment once that is so insightful, so accurate, I want to preface our discussion today by reading what he had to say. He said, quote:

The notion that the calendar was devised by and for farmers so that they would know when to sow and when to reap has been taken for granted too long; it fails both the test of logic and of fact. Farmers do not need a formal calendar to know the seasons, and primitive societies have managed to feed themselves for generations without a calendar.

The historic fact is that the calendar was devised in order to predetermine the precise time of festivals honoring the gods. The calendar, in other words, was a religious device.

Miles: That’s interesting. The Gregorian calendar is now the civil calendar for the world. But there are other calendars still in existence today! And invariably, they are (or were) tied to that group’s religious beliefs.

Dave: So why should Yahuwah be any different? We are to worship Him. In Exodus 20, verse 8, He commands us to: “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.”

Miles: Yeah, but then He adds: “Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of Yahuwah thy Eloah.” You aren’t going to know when the Sabbath comes, if you don’t have some way of calculating time and keeping track of the passage of days and weeks. So, yeah. It makes sense He would establish a calendar at Creation.

So, go ahead. Explain to us how it works.

Dave: Well, this isn’t just about the seventh-day Sabbath. I don’t want to lose any of our listeners who worship on Sunday, because this information impacts you, too.

What’s the main reason, would you say, people worship on Sunday?

Miles: I asked a friend that once and she just shrugged and said, “That’s when church is held.”

Dave: Yes, but church could be held any other day. Why is church held on Sunday? And don’t say because that’s the weekend. It’s the “weekend” precisely because Christians have gone to church on Sunday for centuries. So, again, why Sunday specifically? Why not Tuesday? Or Thursday?

Miles: Well, theologically, the reason given is that Christians worship then in celebration and remembrance of the resurrection of Christ.

Dave: Right.

A lot of assumptions have been made in Christianity.

Protestants who worship on Saturday believe that because Saturday is the last day of the modern seven-day week, it must be the true seventh-day Sabbath.

Roman Catholics, the Orthodox Churches, and most other Christians make the same assumption. That’s why they worship on Sunday. Because if Saturday is the seventh-day of the week, Sunday is the first day of the week and, consequently, the day of Christ’s resurrection.

Miles: Or so it is assumed.

Dave: Or so it is assumed.

The truth is—and this may be shocking to many of you listening—but the truth is, Saturday is actually not the seventh-day Sabbath of Scripture. This means that Sunday is not the day on which Yahushua was resurrected.

Miles: This is an important point. If you believe, as we do at WLC, that it’s important to worship on a precise, specific day established by Yah, you can’t find that day using the papal calendar.

And even if you don’t believe you have to worship on the seventh-day Sabbath, if you’re among the majority of Christians who worship on Sunday because that’s the day of Christ’s resurrection, well, this affects you, too. Sunday is actually not the day of Yahushua’s resurrection any more than Saturday is the biblical Sabbath.

If it’s important to worship on a specific day, it is absolutely necessary to use the correct calendar to count to that specific day.

Dave: An illustration I like to use is, say I invite you to my house for dinner. I tell you, “You can’t miss it. It’s the seventh house on the right.” What would be your response?

Miles: Well, uh, which street? It doesn’t do me any good to start counting to seven if I’m not on the right street.

Dave: Exactly. And that’s why it’s important to use the correct method of time-keeping for worship. Without the Biblical calendar, you can’t count to the seventh-day Sabbath, and you can’t even find the actual day of Yahushua’s resurrection!

Miles: Let’s talk about calendars for a minute. I think it’s something the majority of us have just taken for granted. Unless you live in a country that uses a different calendar for religious purposes or national holidays, we’ve all just kind of grown up taking the Gregorian method of time calculation for granted. But there are different ways of calculating time, aren’t there?

Dave: There really are. In fact, the ancient Egyptians used what is called a sidereal calendar. This kept track of time by the position of certain stars.

Miles: Most calendars, though, use some combination of the sun or moon for telling time. Even the Egyptians eventually moved to that, didn’t they?

Dave: Yes. In fact, they were the first to use a strictly solar calendar for tracking time. Most ancient cultures used a luni-solar calendar because that was the original calendar established at Creation.

Miles: Just so we’re all clear, let’s talk about these different types of calendars, can we for a moment?

Dave: Absolutely! The movement of the sun, moon and stars is the only accurate measurement of time. Even with modern atomic clocks, all time is measured by the cycles of the heavenly bodies. Days and years are both measured by the rotation of light as viewed from the earth.

Let’s start with a solar calendar. That’s the one we’re all most familiar with, because that is what our modern civil calendar is.

A solar year is the time it takes the sun to return to the same position in the cycle of seasons as seen on earth. This is why the ancients put so much emphasis on the spring and fall equinoxes (when the day was the exact same length as the night) and the solstices, when the day was longest in summer, and shortest in winter.

Again, our modern, civil calendar devised by the Jesuit scholar, Christopher Clavius, at the request of Pope Gregory the 13^th, is a solar calendar.

The next kind of calendar used by a large portion of the world for their religious observances is a strictly lunar calendar.

Miles: The Muslim calendar is a strictly lunar calendar. That’s why Ramadan kind of goes backward throughout the year. One year it will be in July. The next year in June, and so forth.

Dave: Why don’t you explain why that is.

Miles: Oh, yeah! Well, uh, the solar year, as any school kid will tell you, is 365 days long. It’s actually 365 days and some change, which is why we have to have a leap year every four years.

The lunar year is a little over 10 days shorter than a solar year. So if you’re calculating time by just the lunar year—the time it takes the moon to return to the same position in the sky as seen from earth, you’re going to find your months drifting backward through the seasons. This is what happens when you use the moon for calculating the years, because the lunar year is shorter than the solar year.

Dave: The other type of calendar is what is called the luni-solar calendar. This is where it gets interesting and where, ultimately, you can prove that Saturday is not the Biblical Sabbath, nor is Sunday the resurrection day.

You see, the luni-solar calendar uses both the sun and the moon. The sun is used for calculating the years. This keeps the calendar properly anchored to the appropriate seasons. Otherwise, in the northern hemisphere, instead of having a hot July and a cold January, you’d have a cold July and a hot January.

Miles: Until it changed again.

Dave: Right. Wouldn’t that be awkward? Just having the months shift through the seasons?

Miles: It would be.

Dave: The difference between luni-solar calendars, and solar calendars, is that luni-solar calendars—including the biblical calendar—use the moon for keeping tracks of months.

Miles: I’m so excited about this. It’s an absolutely brilliant method of keeping time, really, and incredibly accurate.

In fact, a lot of primitive cultures refer to their months as “moons.” Furthermore, the word for “month” in English actually originally comes from the word “moonth”, meaning, a moon, or one complete cycle of the moon.

Dave: It is this combination of the moon and the sun that Yahuwah established at Creation as His designated method of time keeping at the very dawn of earth’s history. In fact, He established it right during Creation week.

Miles, would you turn to Genesis 1 and read the fourth day of Creation for us?

Miles: Sure!

And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

And Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

And Elohim set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and Elohim saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. [Genesis 1:14-19]

Dave: What’s significant here is verse 14. Elohim established the lights in the heaven and said: “Let them be for signs, and for seasons.”

The word translated here as “signs” comes from the Hebrew ôwth. It means, literally, a signal, a beacon, and a monument.

Miles: This goes along with the idea that the Sabbath is a memorial of Creation.

Dave: But only if you actually use the Creator’s calendar to find when it occurs.

Miles: True.

Dave: The word translated “seasons” is even more telling. It comes from the Hebrew, mô’êd, and means, literally, an appointment, or assembly.

Miles: I’ve got my Lexical Aids to the Old Testament here. Let me read the definition really quickly.

Dave: Go for it.

Miles: It says that mô’êd is, quote: “festive gathering, appointment, signal … Since the Jewish festivals occurred at regular intervals, this word becomes closely identified with them … Mô’êd is used in a broad sense for all religious assemblies. [Yahuwah] met Israel there at specific times for the purpose of revealing His will. It is a common term for the worshiping assembly of [Yah’s] people.” Unquote.

So there you have it: right in the middle of Creation week, Yah made a point of stating that the sun and the moon had a work to do, and that work was to establish the times for the worshiping assemblies of His people.

We’ll be right back and talk about that some more. We’ll also explain how to use the sun and the moon for calculating the Sabbath and the true day of Yahushua’s resurrection.

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* * *Part 2: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: We just defined the word mô’êd, and saw from Scripture that Yahuwah established both the sun and the moon to be His designated method for calculating, not just time, but worship times as well.

Before we move on, I want to show you something that proves the Sabbath is to be calculated by this luni-solar method, too. It’s found in Leviticus 23. This is where Yahuwah explained His feasts to Moses. These were the annual feasts the Israelites were to keep.

Dave: And not just the Israelites. These are important anniversaries in salvation history! It’s good for believers today to remember them, too.

Miles: Of course. So the chapter lists all His feasts, giving the date, but the thing that’s interesting is that the very first feast listed is the weekly feast of the seventh-day Sabbath.

Dave: Why don’t you go ahead and read that for us?

Miles: All right. It says:

“And Yahuwah spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of Yahuwah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

“Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of Yahuwah in all your dwellings. These are the feasts of Yahuwah, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.” [Leviticus 23:1-4]

And from there, it goes on to list the rest of the yearly feasts. But the thing is, they are all called “feasts”! They are all mô’êd that are to be calculated using both the sun and the moon!

Dave: You simply cannot find the true seventh-day Sabbath or the real day of Yahushua’s resurrection on the solar, Gregorian calendar. You can’t do it! The pope’s calendar uses only the sun. That’s pagan! Solar calendars were always pagan.

The Creator’s calendar uses both. And this is a really important point. It highlights the difference between the pope’s solar calendar versus the biblical luni-solar calendar, and that is: the weekly cycle.

Miles: I think this was the hardest thing for me to understand at first. But you’re right: this is where the two calendars are the most different.

The Gregorian calendar has a continuous weekly cycle. For example, January 1, of 2017, landed on a Sunday. January 31 was a Tuesday. The very next day, February 1, came on a Wednesday.

Fast forward to the end of the year, December 31 fell on a Sunday, so the very next day, January 1 of 2018, fell on a Monday. That’s what we mean by a continuous weekly cycle. There is no interruption in the days of the week when it passes from one month to the next, or even from one year to the next.

Dave: The west has had a continuous weekly cycle for a long time. Even back in 1582, when Pope Gregory first introduced his new calendar, Thursday, October 4, was immediately followed by Friday, October 15.

All that did was knock some dates out of the calendar, but the flow of the days of the week never changed.

Miles: This is not how it works on Yah’s calendar. Each month, remember, was based on the cycles of the moon. We’ll call it a lunation. A lunation is 29.5 days long. This means that one lunation will have 29 days. The next lunation will have 30 days, before reverting back in the third month to being 29 days long again, and so on.

Each month started on what Scripture calls “New Moon” day. This was the first day of the month. The second of the month corresponded to the first day of the week. Like, if you’re looking at a grid of the modern calendar, find a month that starts on the last day of the week. That’s how the Biblical calendar months always started. The first, was always “New Moon” day and it aligned for the rest of the month with the seventh-day Sabbath.

The second of each month aligned for the rest of that lunation with the first day of the week.

Now, here’s the difference.

Dave: Here’s where it gets weird.

Miles: Or at least harder to understand. Every single month, the weekly cycle started over again. There was no continuous weekly cycle.

Just let that sit there and percolate in your mind for a moment. Every month restarted the weekly cycle.

Dave: This is why you will never be able to find the true seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible on the Gregorian calendar and why it is equally impossible to find the true day of Yahushua’s resurrection on the Gregorian calendar. You simply cannot do it. The weeks do not align.

Miles: One thing most people aren’t ever aware of, is that every single time a date is attached to the seventh-day Sabbath in Scripture—every single time—the Sabbath falls on the 8^th, the 15^th, the 22^nd, and the 29^th days of the month.

Dave: Either the actual date itself is assigned or contextual dates and other details consistently allow for that extrapolation.

For example, the story of the Exodus from Egypt contains specific dates and details for three months in a row, all of which have the seventh-day Sabbath falling on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th for each month! These calendar details were confirmed 40 years later at the time of Joshua and again at the crucifixion of the Saviour on Passover: the 14^th day of the month, which always fell on the sixth day of the week.

Miles: Then you have the Saviour resting in the tomb over the Sabbath hours of the 15^th, and being resurrected on the feast of first fruits, which was always the sixteenth of the month, and always the first day of the week.

You simply cannot align dates this way on the Gregorian calendar. When your calendar has a continuous weekly cycle, the dates are all over the place. One month, your Sabbaths may indeed align on the 8^th, the 15^th, the 22^nd, and the 29^th, but only if the first of the month falls on a Sunday. The next month, your Sabbaths will always fall on the 4^th, the 11^th, the 18^th, and the 25^th.

And the month after that, on a continuous weekly cycle, your Sabbaths will fall on the 2^nd, the 9^th, the 16^th the 23^rd, and the 30^th days of the month. There’s no regularity. It’s just all over the place.

There is simply no way you can have the Sabbaths always and without exception falling on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd, and 29^th days of the month throughout all of Scripture—

Dave: A span of history, remember, covering 4,000 years of time.

Miles: Right. There’s no way you can have that kind of date consistency unless the calendar you are using restarts the weekly cycle every single month. And that is what the Biblical, luni-solar calendar of Creation does.

Dave: The luni-solar calendar of Creation is the most accurate method of time-keeping. It’s elegant. It’s very precise.

Miles: Of course! It’s divinely designed time-keeping.

Dave: Would you please turn to Jeremiah 31 and read verse 35 for us? It’s an interesting verse that says Yahuwah gave us the “ordinances” (or laws) of the moon.

Miles: “Thus saith Yahuwah, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; Yahuwah of hosts is his name.”

This is interesting. The moon isn’t used at all on the pope’s calendar!

Dave: I love the luni-solar calendar. It’s so accurate and yet so incredibly simple that the shepherd on the hillside can be as accurate by observation, as the astronomer in his observatory is by calculation.

Miles: Well, take the count to Pentecost. It has confused people for a long time because the two specifics of the count seem contradictory. And yet, just as soon as you figure out how the luni-solar calendar works, the count to Pentecost becomes totally clear!

Dave: Obviously, there is no way we can sufficiently explain everything about the Biblical calendar, all the Biblical proofs, and the astronomical principles involved, in the limited amount of time we have here. This is simply an introduction of the topic. We’ll plan on more episodes in the future, but again: you’re going to have to study this out for yourself.

Check out our website. We’ve got lots of articles on the Biblical calendar. You can even print them off to share with your friends and family.

Miles: Or, if you want to share with someone who has an e-reader, there’s a book called Calendar Fraud on Amazon that has a lot of historical documentation on the biblical calendar. It’s only in English, but it can be a springboard for more research.

Dave: Also, check out our videos on YouTube. We’ve got a ton of information there.

Miles: You’ve done a lot of historical research on this yourself, Dave. Before we run out of time, do you think you could answer one question?

Dave: What’s that?

Miles: Well, earlier we were talking about how people have assumed that since Saturday is the seventh day of our modern week, it must be the Bible Sabbath. And if Saturday is the Bible Sabbath, that makes Sunday the resurrection day, right?

Dave: Right. Or, at least, that’s how the assumptions go.

Miles: Another extremely common assumption is that Saturday just “has” to be the true Sabbath because that’s when the Jews worship. What can you share to shed some light on this aspect of it?

Dave: I’m glad you asked that. You’re absolutely right about the assumptions this has led to. In fact, I typed “define Saturday” into my search engine and it popped up with two definitions.

The first was: “The seventh day of the week.”

Miles: Naturally! And the other?

Dave: The other was, quote: “The Jewish Sabbath.” Unquote.

Miles: Yeah. As though, just because the Jews worship then, it automatically makes it the Biblical Sabbath.

Dave: Well, I can see why that assumption is made. I mean, that is what the Jews are known for.

But the truth is, Saturday is not the Biblical Sabbath and Jewish scholars know it.

Miles: They know it … but do they admit it?

Dave: They do!

Miles: Seriously?

Dave: Absolutely! They know the truth! Listen to this quote. It’s taken from an early 20^th century addition of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, page 410. It says: “The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle.” Unquote.

See? They know it!

Here’s another quote. You read it. It’s taken from an article entitled The Jewish Calendar and Holidays” that is posted on Torah.org. Go ahead.

Miles: “Declaring the new month by observation of the new moon, and the new year by the arrival of spring, can only be done by the Sanhedrin. In the time of Hillell II, the last President of the Sanhedrin [in the 4^th century C.E.], , the Romans prohibited this practice. Hillel II was therefore forced to institute his fixed calendar, thus in effect giving the Sanhedrin's advance approval to the calendars of all future years.”

Dave: So, yeah. Jewish scholars know the modern Saturday is not the Sabbath of the Bible, nor is Sunday the true day of the resurrection. It’s just we Christians who have forgotten these facts of calendar history.

There is only one way to find the true Biblical Sabbath, and the true day of the resurrection, and that is by the Biblical, luni-solar calendar, established by Yahuwah on the fourth day of Creation.

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* * *Daily Mailbag (Miles & Dave)

Miles: Today’s question for the WLC Daily Mailbag is coming from India! Roshan Dubashi writes: “Dear Brothers, Greetings in the beloved name of Yahushua. Could you please to explain what Paul means in Galatians 6 when he says that Yah is not mocked? I find this confusing.”

Dave: What a great question! Let’s start by reading the passage in Galatians that Roshan is referring to. Do you have it there?

Miles: Almost … yep! Galatians 6, verse 7.

Dave: Let’s read it in context. Go ahead and read through verse 10.

Miles: All right. It says: “Be not deceived; Yah is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”

Dave: It’s an interesting, and rather archaic, use of the word “mocked”. So let’s take a look at how the word “mock” is actually defined.

I think most of us envision someone pointing a finger and making fun of someone else.

Miles: Yeah, that’s sort of the working definition I have of the word “mock.” Contemptuously deriding someone or something.

Dave: The definition of “mock” isn’t limited just to derisive words, however. It can also mean to treat someone with ridicule or contempt. It can even include acting, walking, or speaking in an exaggerated way intended to make fun of the other person.

Interestingly enough, though, an old definition of the word includes the meaning of false, or counterfeit and even imitating reality.

Miles: So which definition is meant in Galatians 6?

Dave: I think all of them fit. There is, of course, blatant mocking. Psalm 14:1 says: “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no Eloah.”

Miles: One obvious occasion on which Yahuwah was clearly mocked was during the trial, scourging, and crucifixion of Yahushua. In fact, Matthew 27 records some of the sneering comments they used to taunt Him. Verses 39 and 40 record, quote: “And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of Yah, come down from the cross.” Unquote.

So, obviously, this is a clear example of mocking words. But how do believers today mock Yah? Most of us don’t go around shaking our fist at the sky and saying, “Prove you exist!”

Dave: I believe the most common way we mock the Father is by how we live our lives. This analogy of sowing and reaping is found throughout Scripture. Read, for example, Proverbs 22, verse 8.

Miles: “He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity.”

Dave: This is a principle of life. You reap what you sow. Therefore, we need to be careful just what we’re sowing! Turn to Hosea 10 and read verses 12 and 13. It presents a vivid contrast between sowing what is good and sowing what is bad.

Miles: All right. It says: “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek Yahuwah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.”

Dave: When we take the name of Christ, claiming to follow Him, claiming to be Christian, and yet we sow seeds of the flesh by indulging in what we know to be wrong, we are mocking Yah. But we also mock Him when we sow seeds of pride.

Miles: Spiritual pride can be such a big stumbling block. The more you know, the more Satan tempts you to feel self-satisfied. He tries to get you to compare yourself to others and find them lacking. That’s spiritual pride.

Dave: And it mocks Yah. Anything that robs Yahuwah of the glory that is due Him, essentially mocks Him.

Miles: What about just being irreverent? Cracking jokes about spiritual topics.

Dave: Absolutely.

Miles: Certainly using Yah’s name as a curse word would qualify I’m sure.

Dave: It does. But we can also mock Him by our negligence of Him and His word.

Miles: I think there is one more way Yahuwah can be mocked, and that is when someone mocks you or ridicules you for your faith or your beliefs.

Dave: Excellent point.

Miles: This is how Yahuwah was mocked in the person of Yahushua and the apostles. It can be really hard to take! None of us like being sneered at.

I just want to encourage anyone listening that if this is happening to you, give it over to Yahuwah. He knows all about it. He’ll give you the strength to rise above it.

Dave: I’m glad you brought that out. Evil will always try to tear down righteousness. The devil knows it’s really hard to take a sneer.

Miles: It really is! That’s where Peter failed. When they asked him at Yahushua’s trial if he were one of Christ’s followers, he didn’t want to be identified with Him. So he denied knowing Yahushua.

So, what do you do if the Holy Spirit convicts you of mocking Yah?

Dave: First, don’t be discouraged. If your heart is still impressionable enough to feel guilty, it means it’s not so hardened that it cannot still repent. When you think about it, guilt is really an invitation to draw closer to Yah so He can forgive you and recreate you in His image.

Miles: 1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Dave: It’s not too late to seek forgiveness. When we are forgiven, the merits of Yahushua cover us and we stand before the Father as though we had never sinned. And the truly beautiful thing is, He doesn’t stop there!

Our Creator is also our re-Creator. When we come to Him in repentance and surrender, when we let Him write His law on our hearts, He recreates us in the divine image! It’s a beautiful transaction and should give every single one of us hope.

Miles: Stormie Omartian is a Christian author. In one of her books, she wrote, quote: “It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.” Unquote.

So there’s always hope, because Yahuwah always loves us.

Looks like our time is up for today. Send us your comments and questions. Just go to WorldsLastChance.com and click on contact us. We always enjoy hearing from our listeners.

* * *Daily Promise

Hello! This is Elise O’Brien with your Daily Promise from Yah’s Word.

Billy was only 5 weeks old when his father died of pneumonia. He grew up poor and life was hard, but he was a natural athlete and an extremely fast runner. When he was 20 years old, he signed on with the Chicago White Stockings and became a professional baseball player. He was popular with the fans, but his status as a pro athlete is not what he is most remembered for.

Just a few years later, Billy Sunday was converted and gave his heart to Yah. In 1891, he turned down a baseball contract for $3500 a year (a large sum of money at that time) and instead accepted a position with the Chicago Young Men’s Christian Association for just $83 a month – less than a third he could have made had he continued in professional sports.

This was the starting point to a career in evangelism. Billy Sunday would spend the rest of his life leading souls to Yah, and warning of the dangers of worldly enticements, especially alcohol. He said, quote: "The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery…. It is [Yahuwah’s] worst enemy and the devil’s best friend.”

And he was right. All of Satan’s allurements promise delight, but in the end, they leave you feeling empty.

On the other hand, Yah’s promises are rich, and full, and He always keeps His word. Numbers chapter 23, verse 19 declares: “Yah is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”

You can trust that what Yah has said, He will do. Always.

Remember: every single promise Yah has ever made is backed by His infinite might and power. He is the Creator of all! With your Bible in your hand, bow before Him and say: “I have done as you said and I present your promise: ‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’”

Yahushua Himself said, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”

We’ve been given great and precious promises. Go, and start claiming!

* * *Part 3: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: You know, time is a rather weird concept. I’m not some scientist that spends my hours trying to come up with an explanation for time.

Dave: It’s just something we’ve always sort of taken for granted, isn’t it?

Miles: It really is. And especially in the west, I think people take the calendar for granted as well. I mean, in the Middle East and India, people are used to having the civil Gregorian calendar, but then having another calendar for religious purposes. You’ve got the lunar calendar of the Muslims, and the various luni-solar Hindu calendars.

Dave: The traditional Chinese calendar is also luni-solar, but you’re right. In the West, where worship has been calculated for over 2,000 years by first the Julian calendar and later the Gregorian calendar, people aren’t used to thinking of differing ways to calculate time.

Miles: This is probably the most hidden, buried truth I’ve ever learned about. I mean, there are dates given throughout Scripture, but we’ve never stopped long enough to analyze the configuration of the calendar from which they are drawn.

Dave: And yet, this information is absolutely vital. Revelation 12:9 describes the devil as, quote: “The great dragon … that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.”

And that’s exactly what he’s done! He has deceived the whole world.

Miles: I think the most important point to remember, though, is why. Why has the devil gone to such lengths to insure that the Biblical calendar was lost, forgotten, so that we wouldn’t even know—I mean, before I learned about the Biblical calendar and how it worked, I didn’t even know to question it. Who ever heard of a weekly cycle that was different than the continuous one we all use?

Dave: You’re right. The devil has gone to incredible lengths to keep this truth from us. And he’s done it in such a way that we didn’t even know to question.

Miles: We didn’t know what we didn’t know.

Dave: Satan has always known that the final battle would be over worship. That’s, ultimately, what it’s always been about: being faithful to Yah and worshiping Him, or joining with Satan in his rebellion.

Miles: Basically, worshiping Satan by default. Because if you’re not worshiping Yah, if you’re not giving Him love and devotion, by default you are, in reality, worshiping Satan.

Dave: Exactly.

This is why Satan has worked so hard to hide the knowledge of the true Sabbath from people.

Miles: It’s actually really exciting when you think of it. This truth has been buried for, literally, centuries under the rubbish of ignorance, assumption, and papal traditions. And now, with truth being restored, we have the opportunity to honor Yah by returning to the true Sabbath! How exciting is that? We get to cooperate with Yahuwah in bringing truth to the world!

Dave: It really is exciting.

Miles: It really is, folks. And, in fact, Isaiah 66 contains a prophecy of the new earth. This fascinating passage reveals that not only will the seventh-day Sabbath be kept in eternity, but it will be calculated by the Biblical calendar!

Dave: Why don’t you go ahead and read it for us?

Miles: Sure! I’ve got it right here. It says: “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith Yahuwah, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith Yahuwah.”

Dave: On the pope’s sun-calendar, New Moons aren’t even a thing. And if you can’t find them, you can’t worship then.

Miles: This is serious, friends. This is what it boils down to. Who has your loyalty? Who are you going to worship.

At Mt. Carmel, Elijah said to the people, “How long will you falter between two opinions?” Can’t you just hear the exasperation in his voice?

Dave: Oh, yeah.

Miles: Then he simplifies. He says, “If Yahuwah be god, follow Him! But if Baal, follow him.” Then the rest of the verse finishes sadly, “But the people answered him not a word.”

Now is not the time for hesitation. Now is the time to make a decision.

This is a big topic. We’ve only been able to just brush the surface of it. If this is the first time you’ve encountered this information, your brain might be spinning. For you, the decision is to study more. For others who have studied it but have been hesitant whether or not to obey, the decision cuts closer.

What is your decision? Will you follow truth no matter what the cost? Yahushua gave everything for you. Will you surrender your will in return?

If Yahuwah be Eloah, follow Him. Obey Him, and honor Him. But if Baal, if the pope, if your pastor, priest, rabbi, or imam, is the ultimate authority, follow him.

But don’t wait. Make a decision. Today.

Join us again tomorrow, and until then, remember: Yahuwah loves you . . . and He is safe to trust!

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