Ted Walther's Private Diary

As per the Law of Moses, you must keep Passover (Pesach) this month if you missed it last month. You should have picked out your lamb two days ago, on Friday April 27. The killing of the lamb happens two days from now, on Tuesday May 1. The ungodly will be celebrating May Day, Beltane, and Walpurgisnacht on this holy day. Do not let that deter you, nor sway you from the course of true worship.

We wish you a merry new moon
We wish you a merry new moon
We wish you a merry new moon
And a happy month two!

It is a little late to sing the new moon song, but I was thinking about a pressing problem. When you have an unbelieving mate, that mate will seduce your children with birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and other celebrations that aren't in God's word.

My strategy is to give the kids such fun celebrations out of God's word, they don't feel up to celebrating the unbiblical feasts. So far, sabbath and pesach, shavuot, yom teruah, yom kippur and sukkot have not been enough to wean my children away from false holidays. Sabbath and Passover, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles. Can you see which celebration is missing from that list?

The New Moon celebration is missing. The New Moon is a day similar to the sabbath, when one should neither buy or sell. It is a day for feasting and rejoicing. How many sabbath keepers do all the feasts, but ignore the New Moon? What is a feast day without fun little songs and special dishes to go along with it? For the next while I plan to institute a custom in my house, and see if it helps to wean my children away from Christmas and Easter. On each New Moon day we will sing the song that this blog entry started with. At the end of the song, you say the number of the month that is just beginning. Month three, month four, etc. As the children sing the song, I will walk into the dining room carrying a figgy pudding, which is similar to fruit cake, poured over with brandy, and lit on fire to glow in the dark with a bluish alcohol flame. It will be like having Christmas and a birthday every single month.

If anyone else wants to adopt this custom, feel free. I hope it works.

The Trinity doctrine persists among Two-House, Torah observant Messianic circles. I ask, why? Why is it so important to believe that Jesus is God? Why do so many cling to it as their foundational doctrine? Jesus is Messiah; that is what the scriptures say. Scriptures also say that God cannot die.

As discussed earlier in this blog, the main reason the Trinity doctrine was invented was to steer people away from Torah observance. And it does.

But people coming out of Babylon are being seduced back in again.

The Law of God says that if a man marries a wife, and divorces her, and she marries another, he can never remarry her.

It is true, Jehovah God divorced Israel. It is true she went off to be with others. Whether she remarried is a valid question. Did she? Or was she held in bondage, like a captive slave girl? If Israel didn't remarry, then God can undo the bill of divorcement, without breaking his own law. Look at the case of King David; his son Absolom raped his concubines. When David returned to power, he never slept with those concubines again. Israel being defiled with others, the Separated (Holy) God of Israel wouldn't take her to himself again.

Note, it was Israel that was defiled, not God. God would not let Israel defile his great Name.

It was prophesied that God would remarry Israel. How could he do this without breaking his own Law? The Law also says that death ends a covenant. If God died and was resurrected, he could certainly remarry Israel. But ask yourself. How would this cleanse and purify Israel from her past paramours and adulteries? It would not. But if Israel died and was resurrected, she would be clean and pure again, for at death all is forgiven and forgotten. A reborn Israel would be pure enough for the Almighty to marry.

This leaves one question. Has the wedding of the lamb taken place yet. If it has, when did Israel die? If it hasn't taken place yet, then ask, has Israel died yet?

The Jews notwithstanding, I believe Israel died in 70 C.E., and we may be very near to the true rebirth of Israel as a nation. The Jewish state in Palestine is not Torah observant.

When you understand that Israel had to die and be resurrected, you can understand how beautiful the symbolism of Messiah's death is. He indeed is the firstborn from the dead, the firstfruits of the barley. And at pentecost, the wheat harvest comes in. But at tabernacles, everyone, even the whole earth, Jew and Gentile alike, rejoice in the overflowing fullness of God's mercy and great abundance.

Because our Messiah was resurrected, we know that we, Israel, will be resurrected as a nation. As surely as the wheat harvest follows the barley harvest.