Israelite Sunrise

 Sabbath sunrise 

Light  beaming down

Like fingers  from haven  reaching  down

Touching the  the  concrete of the city sidewalks

Moving between buildings and apartment complexes

and basketball courts in city parks 

Through windows with lace curtains 

Upon the faces of the sleeping Isrealites. 

Rise up

Light the frankincense and myrrh

 Morning prayer has come

draw the curtains back

and let the light of Yah shine through 

Offer up thanks and praises 

in the solitude of the morning sunrise. 

Happy Sabbath, bothers and sisters 

Zarach 

The Sabbath

 Why are the sabbath days so important to those of us returning to the Most High God and reclaiming our heritage?

The word sabbath means to rest. In the Hebrew culture the sabbath is not just a day of rest from our labors, but it is an essential part of being a true prince of God or an Israelite. Becaue it is a day dedicated to our God, the Creator of all things; a time to remember and honor him: the great I Am: Yahawah. It is also a day that distinguishes us as his chosen people.

There are many sabbaths that were given to the nation of Israel by God.  The high holy days or yearly feast days are all considered  sabbaths of rest and a time to worship  God, the Creator.

 The weekly sabbath is the most common and recognized sabbath celebration.  It begins at sundown Friday evening and goes till Saturday evening sundown. This sabbath is the most ancient sabbath celebration.  It was instituted on the seventh day of creation, when God ended his works of making the earth and the universe with all the living creatures, including man. He proclaimed seventh day as the sabbath -a day to be honored as holy for all his creation to eternity. This  is because it is a memorial of God's great acts and sovereignty as the Father of all things. 

Adam, the first created man, and the people with him knew this law of God and obeyed it in keeping the sabbath. But, man fell into disobedience to God's laws and commands. They forsook the sabbath and all of God's laws unto their own hurt and to God's warth for their sins. Only Noah, one of righteous desendants of Adam, was found upright before God, by his continued obedience to the Father. He and his family were rescued from the great flood of God that brought an end to man's first great civilization because of their evil in forsaking God. 

The survivors of the flood, Noah and his family, walked in the commandments intially, preforming holy sacrifices unto God; and we can deduce, observed the seventh day sabbath, which Noah and his family were not ignorant of.  But, with time, their generations again lost their way from God. They looked to the son of Cush, Nimrod, who became their Lord and king in place of God. They even believed that he was able to contend with the universal God from the heavens, who destroyed their ancestors for their sins. Thus, they conspired against God to become one people under Nimrod and to forsake God's laws and sabbath.

However,  from among them, God had already chosen a holy man that loved him and obeyed him: Abraham. And through Abraham and unto Moses, the Father reestablish the righteous order in the earth again with a people that are called by his name: the children of Israel ( for the name Israel means, "He is a prince of Yahawah  ").

Unto the children of Israel, He spoke through the fire and the thick darkness, saying, "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy( Ex. 20:8)."

"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you (Ex. 31:12,13)."

To the Israelites, from then till now, the sabbaths of God are a continual sign or symbolic representation of our unending covenant with the one true God. They demonstrate that we are His people, and he is our God by our fiath towards Him. The sabbaths also declare that God is and He through his divine power has chosen Israel to be his people on earth, whom he gave his laws to with all his holy sabbaths. AMEN.

Spoiler alert:

Sunday is not the seventh day sabbath of God. It is an ancient holy day of the pagans of Mesopotamia adopted by the Greeks and Romans in celebration of the Invincible Sun god -"Sol Envitus". Who by the way is Nimrod, the first king of all nations after the flood.

The early Roman Catholic church under the Roman emperor Constatine at the synod on Nicene, officially change the true seventh day sabbath to Sunday. This was done in an effort to blend or synchronize the Roman Sunday worship of Sol Envitus with Christ, and to convert more pagans to the new state religion of Christianity. (Also, interstingly, the birth day of this sun god is December 25th, which was celebrated with banquets, celebrations, and the giving of gifts- doesn't this sounds a lot like Christmas...hmm?  Because, it is. This is another pagan adoption passing as Christian.)

Another key point to consider is the fact that at this time the early church was divided, not only on doctrine, but on the continuation of obedience to Jewish laws and traditions that was maintained in many churches established by the 12 apostles; who were Hebrews, and who were followers of the Hebrew or Jewish messiah, Jesus of Nazareth.

The churches in the East at this time still maintained the biblical sabbath and the passover feast in accordance with the Jewish sacred calendar. The churches in the west or Europe wanted to distant themselves from anything Jewish or that may seem to be Jewish- the sabbath and passover being two key Jewish holy days they wished to remove.  This is because of the traditional hatred of the pagans of the Jews for their chosen people status in the ancient world and their jealousy of them.

In the 300s AD starting with Constantine and synods, the Western churches achieved their goal, with Sunday eventually replacing the sabbath and the pagan fertility godess Ashter celebration-Easter, replacing the passover holy day.

These acts are a direct assault and affront to God, the Father, His holy laws, and Christ,  the son of God. It is an act of rebellion and the arrogance of wicked men, whose lies and evil intent, as time and history has shown, will come to an end.

This, then, is why God has put in the scriptures, that his people will be recognized by the keeping of his sabbaths as commanded in the law from that time till now. It also marks a clear difference between His people and those who are not.

Therefore, brothers and sister, let us show to the world that we are the true people of God, the children of Israel,  by our obedience,  by our faith, in keeping the sabbaths of the Lord as he commanded us to do throughout all our generations.

By the way,  Christ, was known in his time on earth to be a adamant adherent of keeping the sabbaths of the Lord (if some were wondering or had any doubts)

Luke 4:16

"And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read."

Mark 1:21

"And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. "

John 7:2, 14, 37, 38

V. 2 " Now the Jews' feast ( a sabbath of the Lord) of tabernacles was at hand."

V.14 "Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. "

V.37 "In the last day, that great day of the feast( a sabbath), Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink."

V.38 " He that believe on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."

Zarach 

Trust in the scriptures and do as God and Christ commanded us, O Israel-depart from false religions and the doctrines of evil men.  keep the sabbaths of our God: Yahawah. 

For Kendrick Johnson

 12, twelve, doce, douz, wikcemna

28 year old, should be going to 29

666 the number of the people who murdered him

Who stole his organs, all of them, even his tongue and windpipe. 

12 years ago. I know they wish we would go away and pretend as if this atrocious crime never happened. 

But, this people, whose number is 666, have not and will not escape 

God has said," ...Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord( Rom. 12:19)."

"For the day of Vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come (Is. 63:4)."

"And they cried with a loud voice, saying, how long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth (Rev. 6:10)?"

" When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me (Psalm 56:9)."

"And this is the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem (the 12 tribes of Israel); Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth ( Zec. 14:12)."

Thus saith, The Lord, " And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebuke; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them(Ezekiel 25:17)."

Father, forgive us, your only beloved, the seed of Jacob, your firstborn, of all our sins; have mercy upon us, and comfort us in our pains, heartaches, and outrages committed against us by our enemies.  Remember our covenant that we made on the mountain and at Golgotha. Remember how you said, " I will never leave you or forsake you; I will be with you till the end of the world."

 You said you would deliver me from all my enemies, who seek after my soul. Call again, the days of old, when we were one; when your spirit lived in me, when we use to talk face to face in the thick darkness of the cloud. The nations saw your great fire in the sky, and they trimble with terrible fear. You thundered and shot forth your arrows at their armies and scattered them in valley of the open field. We called upon you and you stopped the sun from going down on our behalf, so we may gain the Victory over the enemy. 

God, you have not changed; your love is from everlasting to everlasting. Therefore, I have hoped in you. I know that you will rescuce us from the Beast, whose number is 666. Send your tempest, send the floods, bring your plague upon them, terrify them upon their beds with visions of death and horror, chase them with the mighty lion through the streets of their cities. Let death and mourning be to their mothers, wives, and little children; as they have done to us, so do to them- in their schools, their homes and dwelling places, their churches, their supermarkets, cause your fire from the sky to fall upon them on their country roads in their woods. Show them no pity, nor spare any of them, as they have done, so do to them. 

Comfort our hearts, O God, and allow us to see your great judgments on all them that hate us. And on that day burn them with the fire you have prepared for them. My God, hear my prayer, in the name of the most holy, your beloved son, Yahawahshi, the Christ.

Zarach 

The battle

 We struggle between opposites; between the forces of good and the forces evil. It is a part of being  borned into the physical world, where the natural and the spiritual interact with each others.  And this struggle will determine our times in the natural and our judgement in the spiritual when we return to it.

If we've been blessed with a heart that gravitates toward the good, we many come to the actualization of a holy life while we live on earth and hope for an even more godly state in the next world that is coming. Thus, to desire to follow what is true, pure, and holy is the beginning of excersing the mind towards the Devine. 

Everything starts with a desire, you have to want something first to act upon it or pursue it. A soul with a good heart then, would pursue the things of God unto God himself. It is inate in man to seek out the higher power that he originated from. It's like the natural love and desire for one's parents or origin.  We yern to draw closer to the source of all things including ourselves.  We seek to understand it and to be in harmony with it. To do this we must seek it out.

Our journey may start by the simple act of hearing the word of a preacher of the word of faith or talking with a friend or a close family member that is also more in tuned with the Devine. It may start by them saying, have you ever wondered how we got here; these times and where we are headed. Questions that triggers something on the inside of you, that leads you on the start of your journey home to the Creator.  And, to help you find your way home, He, the Universal God, Creator,  has provided you and I with a holy book as our guide to faith in Him and a path to find our way home to him again: the holy Bible. 

The struggle then is the Choice we make; do we accept Him and His holy book to put our hope in Him and do what is written in the book: do we obey and follow Him or do we  choose the opposite?

The opposite of good is evil. And the opposite of God is Satan, that old and ancient evil spirit that only desires to fulfill its lust and pleasures, even if it kills it's host(your mind and body). Satan's desire is to have you so immersed in pleasing yourself that you never consider finding your way back to God. Under his witchcraft, your mind is consumed with finding pleasures in the carnal or natural world first and only first. Thus, money, possession, fame, glory, power and dominance, and the pursute of pleasures will eventually sum up the life you were given by God. To do what is upright, true,and holy is far from your thoughts. But, in order for this evil spirit to take control of a mind or soul,  one must choose to let it in. You must choose to submit to the evil; to follow it to wherever it desire to take you till it brings you and all those like you to death.  It will entice you with the above things you find in the natural.  It will try to convince you that this is living,  that we were created to be our own gods and to use up all that we can while we live; because after this life we have no more pleasures or enjoyments to revel in. So, eat, dance, and play because tomorrow we all die. This has been Satan's mantra from the garden of Eden. 

The strange thing about the evil path, however, is that when you are on that journey the pain of death to the soul and body never truly takes hold of you. You are so engrossed in your addiction to the evil or sin that you feel as if you will enjoy this moment forever. And if the sensation ends then you are encouraged by the evil go after the thing that gave you the sensation initially.  This is the cycle of being an addict to evil and sin. It keeps repeating itself till the host dies, then it goes and finds another gullible soul that will eventually choose it over God and His laws.

As the ancient Hebrew prophets have said, "this, then,  is the true battle of every man that comes through the matrix."

Deut. 30:11-19

Matt. 12:43-45

John 6:63

Romans 6:16

Proverbs 12:26

Psalm 119:104, 105

Zarach 

The prophecy

 Dueturonomy the 30th chapter is summary of our ( Israel) triumph and our fall. It states that when the blessings (our deliverance from slavery in Eygpt, the giving of the law and the covenant with the universal God, Yahawah, our conquest of Canaan, the Davidic kingdom, Solomon and the temple of God, and all the promises and hope pronounced by the prophets of God) and curses ( the major captivities under Assyria, Babylon,  Persia-median empire, Greek and Roman empires, and worldwide dispersion and loss of our national identity as Israelites) have come upon us and we recall these things in the lands of our captivity with obedience once again the Yahawah, that then God would come to deliver us again as he did in Eygpt. 

But, for this to happen for each of us we must have faith in the prophecy, in the word of God and  His Messiah- the black Jesus that our ancestors painted throughout Africa, the middle east, and who the Europeans first worshipped  when they converted to the faith. 

Faith is our greatest struggle; to trust God, to put all our confidence and hope in the things he told us through the prophets, the Messiah and his first apostles. If we would just believe the truth and not look back to this wicked world like Lot's wife, then we too will be able to partake of this prophecy writen in Dueturonomy 30. 

The truth of God is not hidden from us, nor is it beyond the sea, or high above the clouds.It's right here, so very close to all of us, if we would only believe and seek the one true God, the lord God Almighty in the holy book he gave to us.

Let us be that next generation that will do what the prophet said-  " Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read... Is. 34:16", and glorify the living God, showing to all nations that He is.

Shalam,

Zarach 

My Pen

 I pick up my pen that you put in my hand, recording the story of us for us, to give you all the glory and praise. 

Let the enemy shiver and be move to confusion and fall off his  chair when he hears the words of this scroll. For, a man has come for the welfare of Israel; to open their graves, to unlock the prisons, opening the doors, and for breaking down the gates of the enemies, establishing the kingdom of the sons of God; declaring our redemption, the day of our salvation, the year of our Lord and the vengeance of His temple. 

The pen is mightier than the sword. The words that I write are spirits and they are life. Let all who have ears hear; stop and listen, the truth is here.

Write it in a book for the times to come. He shall never forsake his flock, nor reject his bride,  or leave his kingdom to another. O, Yahawah, you are our power.

Cause your light to shine on us, O, Lord. 

Let the heathen know that you alone art God.

Let the scriptures be fulfilled. 

Open the gates and let the saints come in.

-Amen

Zarach 

The true battle

 To know and follow your calling from the Most high is the true battle. The daily trials on the jobs, at home and our other interactions with the world are mere tools of learning for our journey-but this is not the true battle. 

The true battle is the work God has given us to finish,  to be obedient to Him,  to love the brotherhood, to live honestly among a crooked and perverse nation, to strive to be at peace with all men, to contribute to the gathering of the twelve tribes of Israel , and bring his people into the flock from among the nations that are His by Christ. 

The work of God takes consistent labor and the war of communal and individual prayer to complete it. In this work as in other daily exercises you cannot take breaks before the work is done. 

Zarach 

Counselor

 "If  you seek God, you will find him," stated the Messiah Yahawahshi. It is through our sincere request and active search that we come upon the jewels of the life giving Wisdom of God in the holy scriptures. Yet, there are many paths one can choose to seek wisdom and counsel in the midst of the storms of life. The counsel of great men, wise teachers, honored elders are all options. But, if they drink not from the pure fountain of life that flows from the God inspire holy scriptures, then they only  pave roads that lead back to the same unanswered questions we started with. 

And how do we seek out the wisdom and understanding found in the holy writ for true counsel and direction? We cannot will to know it, nor can the arts of academics uncover this source of illumination.  It comes only at the complete surrender of ourselves to God. It comes with the realization that "I can not," that "I do not know," that " I do not complete myself by myself." It comes by knowing and accepting that it is God alone that directs my heart unto the living water of truth.

Zarach