Shabuoth
is the Hebrew name for
the appointed time (FESTIVAL)
Gentiles
call PENTECOST.
Pentecost
is Greek
-
Pente (50) +
Cost (count) “count
fifty” 7 x 7 = 49 +
1.
Shabuoth
(weeks) is the
annual
commemoration /observance
of the giving of TORAH
at Sinai.
SHABUOTH, aka PENTECOST
The Word "Shabuoth" (aka
Pentecost – “count fifty” in Greek)
Scripture explains the week for us, telling us there are 6 days in which work
may be done, and the 7th day is to rest.
Hebrews 4 says there remains a Shabath for the people of Yahuah:
“So there remains a Shabath-keeping for the people
of Yahuah. For the one, having entered into His rest, has himself also rested
from his works, as Yahuah rested from His own. Let us therefore do our utmost to
enter into that rest, lest anyone
fall after the same example of disobedience.”
It's tough to accept for Lunar
Sabbathers, but add up the 7 weeks from First-fruits to Shabuoth (Uyiqra/Lev.
23:15, 16).
Do you know what the word "Shabuoth" means?
It's the plural of shabua, our word week, and is based on the word sheba,
"seven."
The same model exists for the Jubilee count, but involves counting 7 x 7 years.
The 50th year is the Jubilee, or “Yobel.”
The tekufah (cycle) is set by the moon as confirmed at Shemoth (Ex.) 12:2.
The continuous pattern of sevens is confirmed by both the count to Shabuoth as
well as the Jubilee count.
The great significance of this period is these 50 days recall the resurrection of Yahusha and the time He came to indwell the 120 Natsarim on the day of Shabuoth. Yahusha was "cut-off" from the living fulfilling the Passover.
The 3 days and 3 nights He was in the tomb validated His teaching authority which He gave as the sign of Yunah.
On the first day of the week during the 7-day period of Matsah, He became the wave-sheaf offering, the Bikkurim, the first-born from the dead. His resurrection fulfilled Bikkurim, and He presented Himself as the wave-sheaf on that morning when Miryam was the first to see Him alive. Talmudic tradition (which we ignore) says to count the 49 days. Uyiqra 23 tells us to count the "shabuoth" (weeks).
A "week" (shabua) is 7 days, and they are intact, actual weeks, not just any
grouping of 7 days. The count begins from the morrow after the Shabath during
Matsah, which is Bikkurim, the Hebrew word for first-fruits, and also for
first-born. A child is metaphorically "fruit."
The counting of the 7 complete weeks leads us up to a total of 49 days, which Scripture totals for us. The morrow after the 7th Shabath is the 50th day, and is the commemoration of the giving of Torah at Sinai. Christians call this day "Pentecost" - a Greek word meaning "count 50." Yahusha is the Bread of Life, and on Shabuoth His life joined to the minds of His followers in such a way that they received the power to guard and teach His Torah.
He writes a love for Torah on the hearts of all who receive Him.
Yisharal
was wedded to Yahuah
at the first Shabuoth.
It
is the wedding
anniversary of this
marriage, and is not a
birthday.
TORAH
is the Hebrew word for
teaching or
instruction.
At
Sinai, this Torah was written
in stone.
At
Acts 2 in Yerushalayim,
the Torah was written
in men’s hearts and
minds.
SHABUA
+ OTH
(SHABUA
is Hebrew for
“week”, and the
ending –OTH makes it
plural)
Shabuoth literally means “weeks”
7 weeks counted from the First-Fruits offering.
Yahusha is the
First-Fruits, or first-born, from the
dead.
Note
that many who follow
the traditions of
Judaism consider FF
to be on ABIB 16,
however the FF
wave-offering pictures
Yahusha’s
resurrection,
and He was still in
the tomb on ABIB 16.
When He rose after 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb, and met Miryam at the garden tomb, He would not allow her to touch Him, because He had not yet presented Himself to the Father as the FF wave-sheaf offering. This was, and is, always on the first day of the week, the “morrow after the Shabath.”
Shabuoth
is a COMMANDED
commemoration of the
giving of the Torah at
Sinai, year-by-year.
MOED’IM = Appointed times, FESTIVALS OF YAHUAH.
As the MOED, appointed time of
Shabuoth
(weeks) approaches,
here's something to
ponder:
Consider the "appointed times" we should be observing, as we have been enjoined to Yahuah as Yisharal through His Covenant (Lev. 23, Dt. 16). These are listed as the Shabath (weekly), Passover, Unleavened bread, Shabuoth (called "Pentecost"), and the appointments of the seventh moon, Yom Teruah, Yom Kaphar (Kippur), and Sukkoth (Tabernacles), and are carefully explained so all Yisharal will observe them and see Yahuah’s redemption plan for them.
Yahuah
uses agricultural
metaphors to represent
His "redemption plan" for Yisharal,
and Yahusha's work is
accomplishing that
redemption through all
of these shadowy outlines.
They
are literally shadows
(metaphoric
teachings) for
Yisharal.
Now,
consider the following
correction of
the translation we are
all familiar with:
"Let
no man therefore judge
you in meat, or in
drink, or in respect
of a festival, or of
the new moon, or of
the Shabath days
which are a
shadow of things to
come
for the body of Mashiak."
Kol
2:16-17
Normally
we see the word but
in the last phrase.
However, these
shadows
are intended to be for
the body of Mashiak,
not ignored as
Christianity has done.
The
word commonly
translated as but
instead of for
is the Greek word
“de” #1161, and
can mean a variety of
things in English.
It
is a primary
particle that can
mean:
but, and, or,
also, yet, however,
then, so, or FOR.
(In the last phrase, the word is does not exist in any of the received Greek texts; it is in italics in the KJV because is was added, and not in the Greek Received Text).
I had always wondered why this verse seemed to end so strangely - it never made any sense when it was rendered "but the body (is) of Christ." (KJV contains this mistranslation)
These festivals are shadows of things to come, and certainly are for the body of Mashiak.
The body of Mashiak is Yisharal.
Shabuoth is an annual Shabath day, a shadow of our Redemption. Through the Covenant we are wedded to Yahusha, our Redeemer, the Husband of all Yisharal.
Yisharal was gathered
together as we see at Acts 2 in a slightly corrected KJV so you will be familiar
“And
when the day
of Pentecost
(SHABUOTH)
was
fully come, they were
all with one accord in
one place.
And
suddenly there came a
sound from heaven as
of a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled
all the house where
they were sitting.
And
there appeared unto
them cloven tongues
like as of fire, and
it sat upon each of
them.
And
they were all filled
with the (Ruach
haQodesh), and
began to speak with
other tongues, as the
Spirit gave them
utterance.
And
there were dwelling at
Yerushalayim Yahudim,
devout men, out of
every nation under
heaven.
Now
when this was heard
abroad, the multitude
came together, and
were confounded,
because that every man
heard them speak in
his own language.
And
they were all amazed
and marveled, saying
one to another,
Behold, are not all
these which speak
Galilaeans?
Parthians,
and Medes, and
Elamites, and the
dwellers in
Mesopotamia, and in
Judaea (Yahudah), and Cappadocia,
in Pontus, and Asia,
And
they were all amazed,
and were in doubt,
saying one to another,
What is the meaning of
this?
Others
mocking said, These
men are full of new
wine.
But
Peter, standing up
with the eleven,
lifted up his voice,
and said to them, You
men of Yahudah, and
all you that dwell at Yerushalayim, be this
known to you, and
hearken to my words:
For
these are not drunken,
as you suppose, seeing
it is but the third
hour of the day.
But
this is that which was
spoken by the prophet
(YUAL) Joel;
And
it shall come to pass
in the last days,
saith (Alahim),
I will pour out of my
Spirit upon all flesh:
and your sons and your
daughters shall
prophesy, and your
young men shall see
visions, and your old
men shall dream
dreams:
And
on my servants and on
my handmaidens I will
pour out in those days
of my Spirit; and they
shall prophesy:
And
I will show wonders in
heaven above, and
signs in the earth
beneath; blood, and
fire, and vapor of
smoke:
The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of (Yahuah) come:
And
it shall come to pass,
that whosoever shall
call on the Name of (YAHUAH)
shall be saved.
You
men of Yisharal, hear
these words; (YAHUSHA)
of Natsarith, a man
approved of (Alahim)
among you by miracles
and wonders and signs,
which (Alahim)
did by him in the
midst of you, as you
yourselves also know:
Him,
being delivered by the
determinate counsel
and foreknowledge of (Alahim),
you have taken, and by
wicked hands have
executed and slain:
Whom
(Alahim)
has raised up, having
loosed the pains of
death: because it was
not possible that he
should be held by it.
For
David (Daud) speaks
concerning him, I
foresaw the Sovereign
always before my face,
for he is on my right
hand, that I should
not be moved:
Therefore
did my heart rejoice,
and my tongue was
glad; moreover also my
flesh shall rest in
hope:
Because
thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell, neither
wilt thou suffer your
Qodesh One to see
corruption.
Thou
hast made known to me
the ways of life; thou
shall make me full of
joy with thy
countenance.
Men
and brethren, let me
freely speak unto you
of the patriarch
David, that he is both
dead and buried, and
his sepulchre is with
us unto this day.
Therefore
being a prophet, and
knowing that (Alahim)
had sworn with an oath
to him, that of the
fruit of his loins,
according to the
flesh, he would raise
up (Mashiak)
to sit on his throne;
He
seeing this before
spoke of the
resurrection of(Mashiak),
that his soul was not
left in (SHEOL),
neither his flesh did
see corruption.
This
(YAHUSHA)
has (Alahim)
raised up, whereof we
all are witnesses.
Therefore
being by the right
hand of (Alahim)
exalted, and having
received of the Father
the promise of the (Ruach
haQodesh), he has
shed forth this, which
you now see and hear.
For
David is not ascended
into the heavens: but he saith
himself, (Yahuah)
said unto my
Sovereign, Sit on my
right hand,
The
Covenant
/Marriage Contract
(BRITH)
Ex
20:1-17
ASERETH
HA’DABARIM (10
WORDS)
Yahuah’s
Covenant, our wedding
vows:
The one whom you obey is the one you serve.
The Catholic format of the Ten Commandments changes them (Danial 7:25).
They eliminated the 2nd Commandment, and made the 10th Commandment into two.
LITERAL
TRANSLATION:
“And
Alahim spoke all these
Words:
1.
‘I
am
Yahuah
your Alahim, who
brought you out of
Egypt, out of the land
of slavery.
You
shall have no other
Alahim before My face.
2.
You
shall not make for
yourself an idol in
the form of anything
in heaven above or on
the Earth beneath or
in the waters below.
You shall not
bow down to them or
worship them;
for I,
Yahuah
your Alahim, am a
jealous Alahim,
punishing the children
for the sin of the
fathers to the third
and fourth generation
of those who hate me,
but showing love to a
thousand [
generations] of those
who
love
Me
and
keep
My commandments.
3.
You
shall not
lay-waste
the Name of
Yahuah
your Alahim, for
Yahuah
will not hold anyone
guiltless who
lays-waste
His Name.
4.
Remember
the Shabath day by
keeping it qodesh.
Six
days you shall labor
and do all your work,
but the seventh
day is a Shabath to
Yahuah
your Alahim.
On
it you shall not do
any work, neither you,
nor your son or
daughter, nor your
manservant or
maidservant, nor your
animals, nor the alien
within your gates.
For in six days
Yahuah
made the heavens and
the earth, the sea,
and all that is in
them, and He rested on
the seventh day.
Therefore
Yahuah
blessed
the Shabath day and
made it qodesh.
5.
Honor
your father and your
mother, so that you
may live long in the
land
Yahuah
your Alahim is giving
you.
6.
You
shall not murder.
7.
You
shall not break wedlock.
8.
You
shall not steal.
9.
You
shall not give false (destructive)
testimony against your
neighbor.
10.
You
shall not covet your
neighbor's house. You
shall not covet your
neighbor's wife, or
his manservant or
maidservant, his ox or
donkey, or anything
that belongs to your
neighbor.”
The
SHADOWS of the
Redemption Plan are
listed at Lev. 23, Dt.
16:
The Shabath
(weekly)
and
the 7 annual MOED’IM
/ appointments:
Passover
Feast of
Unleavened Bread
Pentecost
(count 50)
Feast of
Trumpets
Day of
Atonement
Feast of
Tabernacles
Lev
23:9-21
“Yahuah
said to Mosheh,
Speak to the
Yisharalites and say to
them: 'When you enter
the land I am going to
give you and you reap
its harvest, bring to
the priest
a
sheaf of the first
grain you harvest.
He
is to wave the sheaf
before (Yahuah) so it
will be accepted on
your behalf; the
priest is to wave
it on
the day after the
Shabath.’”
The
count to Shabuoth:
"'From the day after the Shabath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Shabath, and then present an offering of new grain to (Yahuah).”
From
wherever you live,
bring two loaves made
of two-tenths of an
ephah of fine flour,
baked with yeast, as a
wave offering of First-fruits to Yahuah.
Present with
this bread seven male
lambs, each a year old
and without defect,
one young bull and two
rams.
They will be a burnt offering to Yahuah, together with their grain
offerings and drink offerings--an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to Yahuah.
Then sacrifice
one male goat for a
sin offering and two
lambs, each a year
old, for a fellowship
offering.
The priest is to wave the two lambs before Yahuah as a
wave
offering,
together with the
bread of the First-fruits. They are a sacred
offering to (Yahuah)
for the priest.
On that same
day you are to
proclaim a sacred
assembly and do no
regular work.
This is to be a
lasting ordinance for
the generations to
come,
wherever you live.”
Once
each year, this
anniversary
celebration occurs
that most people don't
know much about.
It's a wedding
anniversary of a marriage
between Yahuah and
Yisharal which occurred
at the springtime of
the year, at a
mountain called Sinai
(or Horeb), 50 days
after being delivered
from slavery in
"Egypt".
In fact, this
day is a "High
Shabath", one of
seven High Shabaths,
that have
traditionally been
ignored by
Constantine's hybrid
religion,
Christianity. They've
been told they're the
"bride of
Christ", yet
don't actually
remember the marriage;
they have a
"Passover
Lamb", but no
Passover; and so it
goes, on and on.
Few even know
the NAME of their
Bridegroom, Yahusha,
and so they remain
"unwise
virgins", having
no oil
(His Name is as oil
poured forth).
When
they knock to enter
the marriage feast, He
claims to not know
them.
Like Passover
was turned into a
"Sun-day" morning
"last
supper" every
week, so Shabuoth has
become a memorial to
"speaking in
tongues", rather
than being about the renewal
of the Covenant
between Yahuah and
Yisharal.
You can begin
your personal study of
this feast at Lev. 23,
and see how the "new
grain offering to
Yahuah" relates
to how Yisharal becomes
united to Yahuah
through this renewal
of the marriage
Covenant.
Yahuah's redemption
plan for Yisharal
has seven parts to it;
not the seven
"sacraments",
but the seven High
Shabaths.
When you
carefully read the
text at Lev. 23,
you'll see that this
observance is to occur
on "the
morrow after the
seventh Shabath",
so it will always be
on the first day of
the week.
The Yahudim
today observe it
differently because
they count "50
days" from a
different beginning
point; they use the
movable High Shabath
during Unleavened
Bread instead of the
weekly Shabath.
Also, they
don't know what the
"first
fruits" is all
about yet - it's about
Yahusha, our
Bridegroom’s
resurrection.
Acts 2 clearly
shows us that this
festival is not a
Christian one at all,
but rather ALL Yisharal was
gathered together as one
man before
Yahuah.
COMMITMENT
is the defining aspect
of any marriage, and
our promise to obey
Yahuah occurs at
our immersion
into the Name of
Yahusha.
We become Yisharal,
joined in a permanent
relationship with the
Maker of Heaven and
Earth through
the Covenant.
The Mediator of
this renewed Covenant
is Yahusha, Yahuah in
human form, now the
Bridegroom of Yisharal
(not Christianity).
Christians
don't understand what
Shabuoth really is,
nor does most of
Yisharal; but through
the workers sent forth
into the harvest they
are learning.
Commitment to
the Covenant means
commitment to the
marriage.
Often, we hear
that
"Pentecost"
as recorded in Acts 2
is the "birthday
of the Church".
This is
because they realize
something very
important happened,
but their "Hebrew
roots" to what
that is have never
been connected
properly.
It's not a
birthday, but rather
an anniversary.
It's true that
the Spirit of Yahusha
was first given to the
120 Natsarim gathered
together for this
annual feast day at
Yerushalayim.
A
"renewal" of
the marriage Covenant
came to the early
Natsarim with
"power"
because Yahusha took
up His dwelling-place
in His people for the
first time, and
circumcised our hearts
with a LOVE for the
marriage, the
Covenant.
This was the
first fulfillment of
the prophecy of the
“NEW” Covenant,
given at Jer./YIrmeYahu
31, quoted at Hebrews
chapters 8 & 10.
Our Creator
literally inscribes
His Torah
on our hearts.
What a wedding
gift He has given to
His bride, Yisharal.
We love
to obey Him when we
have entered the
Covenant through
immersion into His
Name. We
take our Husband's
Name upon us at our
immersion, and become
ONE with Him when He
enters into us. We become His
TEMPLE, living stones
that together make up
this dwelling-place.
These were the
"first
fruits" of many
to come; they are the
early harvest.
We Natsarim
work the fields so
that the great harvest
will be overflowing.
As Yisharal vowed
to obey her husband at
Sinai, so we marry Yahuah at our
immersion:
The
Bridegroom says,
"Love Me,
and keep My
Commandments!"
We
say,
"All that
you command, we will
do and obey!"
("We"
means Yisharal)
What
do we obey?
The
TORAH of YAHUAH
that is our "way" or path, where we "walk."
"Go
therefore, and teach
all nations, immersing
them in the Name
of ABBA, and BEN, and
(Ruach haQodesh):
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and see, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.” Matt 28:19-20
HEBREW
TERMS RESTORED
In this quote,
Yahusha is talking to
Yisharal, His bride, and
we are to teach
the heathens to obey
the same Covenant
- so
there’s to be one
body, Yisharal, made up
of many “former
Gentiles”
(Eph. 2), all
obeying Torah, serving
Yahuah in spirit and
Truth.
"How
kind He will be
when you cry for help!
As soon as He
hears, He will answer
you.
Although Yahuah
gives you the bread of
adversity and the
water of affliction,
your teacher will be
hidden no more; with
your own eyes you will
see them. Whether you
turn to the right or
to the left, your ears
will hear a voice
behind you, saying,
'This is the way; walk
in it.'"
Isa/YashaYahu:
30:19-21
Our
teacher is
His
Torah/Commandments,
which define SIN - the
Torah of Yahuah.
See also 1 Jn./Yahukanon
3:4.
"And I
will give you
shepherds according to
My heart, which shall
feed you with knowledge
and understanding.
And it shall
come to pass, when you
have multiplied and
increased in the land,
in those days, says
Yahuah, they shall say
no more, 'the Ark of
the Covenant of Yahuah:
neither shall it come
to mind: neither shall
they remember it;
neither shall they
visit it; neither
shall that be done any
more. At
that time they shall
call Yerushalayim the
throne of Yahuah; and
all the nations shall
be gathered to it, to
the Name of Yahuah, to
Yerushalayim: neither
shall they walk any
more after the
imagination of their
evil heart.
In those days
the house of Yahudah
shall walk with the
house of Yisharal, and
they shall come
together out of the
land of the north to
the land that I have
given for an
inheritance to your
fathers."
YIrmeYahu/Jer 3:15-18
Nazarene Yisharal is a special group within Yisharal; with Yahusha, they are, like Yahusha, called the First-Fruits. Yisharal's primary objective is to obey the Covenant (Brith), or 10 Declarations, and teach these instructions to the rest of mankind, so there will be knowledge of the true Creator (Yahuah). Yisharal is the wife / ashah or bride of Yahuah, and the 10 Declarations represent the Covenant between Yahuah and Yisharal; this makes the relationship a marriage CONTRACT between them. This Covenant is referred to as the "TORAH"- a Hebrew word meaning instruction.
We were
commissioned to go and
teach all nations
everything Yisharal was
commanded to obey, and
immerse them into His
Name of salvation:
YAHUSHA
(I AM YOUR DELIVERER)
No other nation
but Yisharal has
any
Covenant relationship
with Yahuah, so in
order to enter into
one, the outsider or
foreigner must obey
the same Covenant, and
join or
"engraft"
into Yisharal.
The Mediator of
the Renewed Covenant
with Yisharal is Yahusha ha'Mashiak.
Yahusha, may You have a
wonderful anniversary
this year, and thank
you for allowing us to
be the BRIDE You
formed for yourself.
Help us to become
everything you expect
in the perfect wife
you so richly deserve,
You Who are the King of kings!
We celebrate Your Covenant, as we will do again at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
THE WORD "SHABUOTH" IS ALSO THE KEY TO PROPERLY UNDERSTANDING DANIAL'S REFERENCE TO "WEEKS"