2nd February 2024: Our Daily deLIGHT~6th Day-Knowledge
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Happy Preparation Day for the weekly Shabbat!!!! May it be filled with the presence of our King as we prepare to enter into Shabbat and worship of Him!!
We’ve read together in the Daily deLIGHTS concerning what happened when the exiles returned from Babylon back to the land and rediscovered the Torah; it was a time of great remorse that did lead to rejoicing once they received the knowledge of the truth. Today we will break down one of those truths from Nehemiah 9. To set it up, the children of Israel assembled, fasted and were in sackcloth and ashes repenting and confessing their sins. Next they stood and read from the book of the law and began to worship. The Levites, who were leading the worship, began to praise YHVH with one voice in a liturgical prayer of exalting His name AND telling of Yah’s wonderful deeds. They told of how He, YHVH, led them miraculously out of bondage and gave them His Torah. Among the things they recounted to the Father was concerning the Sabbath. We will read those verses now and develop some of the concepts.
Nehemiah 9:13-15 says,
13 “Then You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven; You gave them just ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
14 “So You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, and laid down for them commandments, statutes and law, through Your servant Moses.
15 “You provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger, You brought forth water from a rock for them for their thirst, and You told them to enter in order to possess the land which You swore to give them.
Exodus 16:22-30 says,
22 Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,
23 then he said to them, “This is what YHVH meant: Tomorrow [Seventh Day] is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to YHVH. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.”
24 So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and it did not become foul nor was there any worm in it.
25 Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to YHVH; today you will not find it in the field.
26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”
27 It came about on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.
28 Then YHVH said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?
29 See, YHVH has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” [So often this verse has been misused to say that we are not to leave our house on the seventh day. This would be completely contradictory to many other verses of commandments in Scripture where we read that we are to have a holy convocation, we read where the children of Israel are gathered on this day and YHVH spoke to them, we read where Yeshua was in the synagogue on the Sabbath as was His custom/practice. In context this verse means we are not to leave our home for the purpose of gathering food to eat. Whether that’s a field or grocery store, etc…we are not to gather it on the seventh day. Our food for both the sixth day and the seventh day are to be prepared on the sixth day. For forty years YHVH taught His children in the wilderness this Sabbath commandment by providing double the manna every sixth day.]
30 So the people rested [ceased from gathering food] on the seventh day.
Leviticus 23:1-3 says,
1 YHVH spoke again to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘YHVH’s appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:
3 ‘For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day [not one in seven, but THE seventh day] there is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a Sabbath to YHVH in all your dwellings.
It’s important that we allow the Spirit of Knowledge to impart to us what our Creator says about a topic and not our desires and interpretation projected onto it. When He says to rest/cease from working on the Sabbath AND have a holy convocation, which in the Hebrew means a public assembly where He’s placed His name, and yet we work and/or don’t go to the holy convocation/public assembly [with the exception of those who are house bound or contagious], then we have not been obedient to the commandment. Unfortunately, many have misrepresented the word rest to mean relax, as in stay home. However, this couldn’t be further from the Hebrew meaning. It means to stop creating or working in order to gather with His people, because every week there is a rehearsal and prophetic picture of the millennial reign with Messiah. What a treasure and gift we’ve been given with the Sabbath. Let’s not make the mistake of viewing this as legalism as legalism is requiring what Yah doesn’t require; this is about obedience and honoring our Creator and His ways. May our hearts adjust to His knowledge and not lean to our own understanding.
Here are the seven commandments for the Sabbath:
- Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Holy means to set it apart. Exodus 20:8
- Cease from your labors. Exodus 20:10
- Don’t cause others to work. Exodus 20:10
- Don’t buy or Sell. Nehemiah 13:15-22; Mark 11:15-18 where Yeshua quotes from Isaiah 56:6-8 which lets us know this issue was about keeping Shabbat. Israelites would not buy on Shabbat, but Gentiles would, and this is who they were selling to…the nations.
- A Holy Convocation…A public assembly in the Hebrew. Leviticus 23:1-3
- Do not kindle a fire. Exodus 35:3
- Bring an offering. Numbers 28:9-10
Have a blessed and shalom filled preparation day!!!
Tammy
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River of Life Tabernacle
Tammy McLendon
Great peace have they who love Your law. Psalm 119:165a
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