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Lets look at the historical practice of Shabbat that the Catholic hijacked and changed into Eucharist and was later again changed into Communion during the Protestant Reformation. Shabbat does mean rest, and is observed on the Sabbath. Sabbath is the Day of Rest on our Saturday which means Saturn-Day. When I was referencing Shabbat I mean the kindling of the Shabbat lights, Bore Pre (wine), Ha’Motzi (leavened Challah bread, Passover is the only time of unleavened bread), and Grace after meals. I am referring to the Friday Evening Shabbat in the family home done around meals which is the tradition the Catholic Church took and created a pagan infused service of Eucharist where they believed in Transubstantiation. The teaching of Transubstantiation says you where literally eating the godbody, which in effect would be crucifying the L-rd all over again, every time and comes from a pagan ritual of drinking the blood and flesh and a divine ritual where they thought they could invoke a pagan G-d to infuse the articles with deity (trans-substance-iation).

Many Christians misunderstand comments made by Rav Yeshua at a the “training seder” the night before Passover when He would be betrayed and sacrificed as our Paschal (Passover) Lamb. In addition the references to Paul’s Seder in 1 Corinthians 11 weren’t associated with the Eucharist (or its Protestant name Communion) until after the reformation. Paul’s comments most likely where in reference to comments to the Corinthians were likely in reference to the Afikomen (Three Matza’s) and its juxtaposition with the 3rd cup. The Eucharist was hijacked by the Roman Catholic priests from Shabbat and called the Eucharist, later protestants continued that tradition but called it Communion and tried to find proof text that they didn’t understand and thus stripped then of their right context. A oft misunderstood quote from Paul; “as often as you do this …” The whenever” was once a year never, randomly, Paul was speaking to Torah observant Natzerim and they understood it to mean when the met to observe the biblical feast of YHVH’s meal, not Shabbat or its Pagan Eucharist or Communion derivative. If one was unable to Observe Passover on the 14th day of the First Month called Nisan after the captivity in Babylon an exception was made for, due to ceremonial impurity or a distant journey that made it impossible, they were to observe it one month later according Numbers 9. This same thought was written in the Apostolic Constitution of the early centuries. In it, it stated if you did not observe Passover on Nisan 14th with the Hebrews you could not serve as a deacon, bishop or elder until you fulfilled that mitzvot (command) the only exception was for a family emergency or something that made it impossible, you we’re still required to observe YHVH’s Feasts of Passover. At the time of the writings of the apostolic constitutions, eucharist also called communion hadn’t been created yet.

The Eucharist was changed to a separate ceremony from Shabbat after Pagan Roman Priests who deliberately cut off the Hebrew roots for similar reasons that the rebellious king Jeroboam had done. The Catholic Church is a Pagan Universal Priesthood and is a foundation for much of Pagan Christianity or Cristos-Paganism. Actually, what is know called Communion comes from the Catholic Eucharist which was originally associated with Erev Shabbat, the kindling of the Shabbat lights, Borae Pre Hagaphen (wine commonly called the Kiddush) & the Ha Motzi (Leavened Bread). They high-jacked the Shabbat meal done in the home on Shabbat. They made it a part of their Sun-day worship and called it Eucharist which was done weekly and mediated by the priest instead of the Father of the home on Shabbat. Communion is the Christian version of the Eucharist, it wasn’t til after the Protestant Reformation that they started equating Communion to Passover. The Catholic Church still maintains Astarte (Easter) is still the festival they observe in the place of Passover not the Eucharist. Many Protestants lack a true foundation or understanding and distort and twist scripture worse than Catholics at times. I’ve done a lot of research I have over 500 pages of quotes from the Catholic Church, early Church leaders and from historical research. The Catholic Church says it outright what they took from the Jewish Tradition and why, without any support given as to who gave “them” the right to change things that Yeshua and His disciples didn’t. Before the Catholic Church there was a Christian Passover Seder done on the 14th day of the Month Nisan according to the Apostolic Constitutions and other testimonial writings from Church Fathers. That’s what is states in the Apostolic Constitution which is not the Didache and pre-dates it. There is no reference to communion as its done today til after / during the protestant reformation. Before that was the Eucharist and before than was a Christian Pesach Seder that was required on the 14 day of the first month on the Biblical calendar. The Puritans sought to do the biblical feasts, thanksgiving itself was based off of Feast of Sukkot (a fall harvest festival), the original date corresponded more closely to the biblical date. Later the date was change by one of our presidents. The first and second centuries where very Jewish / Hebrew / Biblical. The mid second to the third century became less so until Constantine and friends decided to completely hijack the early believers. They created a command and control structure through the papal system and removed Jewish / Hebraic / Biblical traditions. They did this because they felt that it opposed their national identity, so in order to keep the peace the “universal” priesthood was created to appease the people. How the Greco-Roman hand changed the church out of selfish national pride over biblical observance is disturbing.

As for the change from Sabbath worship to Sun-Dial or Sun-Day worship; the Early disciples went to Synagogue and then on the Eve (Saturday night) of the first day they would meet in homes. There we no Sun-day morning Sunrise services until the Catholic Church changed things. Any church that observes congregation on Sunday gets that tradition from the Catholic (Universal) Orthodox tradition which isn’t found in bible. Can they sure? Is it the way G-d said to? No! Did the disciples meet Sunday morning? NO! They went to Synagogue Saturday and then Saturday Eve they meet in homes. If you read every verse that says the meet the First day of the week it says in the Eve which is Saturday evening, the biblical days starts in the Eve, Genesis 1 says and there was evening (night) and day and it was the first day. Midnight being the devils hour is a pagan tradition, our calendar and time is all messed up.

As I previously stated the Eucharist is a distortion or change of Shabbat meal and blessing of the Challah bread and wine. If you study the history that’s where it comes from. Communion is the Protestant version of the Eucharist, as there was no form of Eucharist or Communion before the Catholic Church created the Eucharist from the Shabbat meal. The Protestant movement re-envisioned the Eucharist as Communion instead of returning to the traditional practice of Shabbat. As far as blessing the Bread and Wine in Remembrance of the L-rd death, G-d honors that. If they were doing it as the New Testament it would be Shabbat not Eucharist or Communion. I’m not saying its wrong to take Bread and Wine, its okay, and G-d accepts, the fact remains that doing it as Communion comes from the Eucharist, Shabbat is the original form, the Ha’Motzi (Leavened Bread) and Bore Pre (Wine). I know when I used to do communion G-d accepted it because my heart. It’s not wrong to do it in the simplified Communal form its comes from Shabbat though traditionally. That’s just a point. I’m not arguing for or against. Just saying that’s how we got the modern Communion practice versus the traditional Shabbat. The change in worship to Sunday is a Catholic tradition. I’m not judging just stating a fact about the formation of the traditions. I choose one others may choose the other. I’m not saying its wrong, just know how it came about. That’s all I’m saying.

There are many distortions in the church and by many who don’t rightly divide the word and don’t study history enough to know. The bible is Hebraic history book, written by only Jewish people, the Israelites, who are descendants of Avraham. The Old and New Testament show the practice of biblical festivals Passover, Pentecost (Shavuot), even Hanukkah was mentioned while Yeshua was in Yerushaliyem declaring He is the light of the world. Yeshua’s parables where very similar to Jewish Meshalim at the time. There are a number of early witnesses who report that the life of Yeshua was originally written down in Hebrew. Among them is Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis in Asia Minor (circa 130 AD) who says,

“Matthew put down the words of the L-rd in the Hebrew language, and others have translated them, each as best he could.”

Dr Robert Lindsey, writes,

“Passages in the Gospels have become unclear and are easily misunderstood, or the meaning entirely missed, because their interpretation has become separated from an understanding of their Hebrew linguistic and cultural roots.”

Recent analysis by scholars of the Jerusalem School has shown that there is indeed a Hebrew “Undertext” lying behind nearly half of the B’rit Chadasha (New Testament). At least the first three gospels and probably, also, the first half of the book of Acts. The sages and teachers of Israel have preserved important information about the historic, religious, cultural and linguistic context in which Yeshua and Rav Shaul taught. It is believed that Luke  was written first in Aramaic or Hebrew. The Gospel of Luke was written to Jews from a physician’s perspective. Today many scholars believe Matthew, Mark and Luke to have been first written in Hebrew or Aramaic. Even John contains ideas and thoughts that are clearly Hebrew and Jewish. The bible was written in Israel by Torah observant Jewish believers.

The Catholic church is pagan and has influenced many of it not most of protestant denominations, such as the Episcopalian Church of England, and Lutherans who accept gay marriage and teach Universalism. They have changed the New Testament priesthood of all believers for a pagan priesthood. I have known some real pagans and have talked to them in trying to witness to them, who have stated they will never become Christians because Christians have taken their pagan holidays that pre-date Jesus and tried to Christianize them. Practicing a pagan practice even if you change then name or even try to place a different name on the demon to that of a dead saint that people worship, it’s still the worship of demons and disembodied spirits of dead people. It’s damaging to willingly take part in something that turns people off from the true G-d and worship. To practice a Satanic or Luciferean rituals for fun, even if its just for fun is hedonism (self-indulgence) and its wrong. When I spoke with real Satanist and Wiccans and tried witnessing to them, many of them know the bible better than a lot of Church people. Because Christians don’t practice what the bible says and try to put Jesus in their holidays many true pagans don’t want anything to do with the Church, that’s a bad witness. Pagan anything even if done for fun is still bad and wrong. Many who haven’t reject, repented and renounced the wrong spiritual foundation can’t see the truth because the demons behind those religious spirits has blinded their minds.

One thing that’s key to understand it that Catholic means “Universal” actually the Catholic Church was a blend of Pagan Mithras religion, Platonist Philosophical Teaching, Gnostic / Enlightenment thought and they overlaid them with Jewish and Christian terms. The chaplains in America’s army have to be able to teach and lead all religious services from Christian to Muslim, to Buddhist, to Wiccan, that is the style of Priesthood that Constantine set up in the Byzantine Empire and called “Catholic.” That’s why even a year after the Nicene council which Constantine called he was worship, Saturn, the Sun and Moon, the Catholic Priest ministered all religious ceremonies. They later during the Dark Ages around 1,000 Common Era started trying to re-invent themselves as a primarily “Christian” organization even though they where still practicing a formerly blended pagan-Christianity. The g-ds of the Greek pantheon were renames to dead Saints of the Christian tradition, Dionysus the Queen of Heaven was rename Mary the Mother of Jesus and then called a co-mediatrix (Jesus is the only mediator between G-d and men).

Easter is a pagan holiday, full of kids participating in the seeding of the ovaries ceremony (Easter egg hunt) that comes from the Astarte festivities, hot cross buns, Easter Ham, and the resurrection of the Sun. They would celebrate Astarte on the vernal equinox. The ecclesiastical vernal equinox is the sunday that falls the week after the vernal equinox. The Nicene council decided to celebrate Easter on the sunday after the first full moon that comes after March 21st. If you notice, this is supposed to be during the feast of Unleavened bread and they have Buns and Ham, two things that aren’t supposed to be done on a Holy Day, as an act of Pagan disobedience. Now, we know that we aren’t judged by food and we can eat, however I do believe to rebel against G-d on a biblical feast day is an act of disobedience. Yet, I hold to the scripture that says to not judge in regards to Feast days, as I observe Passover I don’t want Judge so I don’t judge those who Observe Easter. I see it as one doing it the way G-d prescribed and another doing it as they see fit. Sure you can do it as you feel and if you have right intent G-d honors that, you can also do it as G-d says with right intent and G-d honors that.

We must return to our first love and do as Jesus disciples did. You aren’t judge if you don’t do it, yet there is still a right way under G-d and another way that seems right to man but its end is destruction. Not being bound by Rabbinical Law is good. Yeshua CLEARLY rebuked the oral traditions or rabbinical law which is a law different from the Mosaic Law. Rabbinical writings claim to be rooted in Mosaic Law they are not, they are mans attempts at applying the law. Yeshua corrected their misunderstanding of Mosaic Law. Jesus teachings RIGHT understanding of Mosaic Law, Yeshua parables teach the RIGHT understanding of Mosaic Law and for the MOST part Christians get it right, but then get a little scatter brained in the Explanation and theology (discussion on G-d) about it. The Ten Commandments is the Foundation of Mosaic Law, Yeshua made the foundation MORE STRICT, to lust and hate are Adultery and Murder, etc. Then Yeshua quoted Rabbinic writings and said “the law is summed up” in “love Adonay Your G-d with all your heart mind, body and spirit” and “you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Which is the traditional understanding of the Ten Commands given to Moshe, the first part is how to Love G-d and the second part is how you Love others and yourself. Blessings and Cursing still reside in obedience and disobedience, people are sick if they disobey and healthy if they obey, (Deuteronomy 28). Yeshua changed the priesthood from, Levitical sacrifice of Animals, to the Order of Melchizedek, where Yeshua is the Sacrifice for sin and atonement, He is also the Priest and King. Yeshua teaches right understanding of Mosaic Law, handed to Moses in the foundational documents of the Ten Commands. Yeshua makes Sabbath observance which is one of the Ten Commands an issues of conscience, stating “Man is not made for Sabbath but Sabbath for the man.” G-d made one day out of seven for rest, I don’t fault people who rest on Sunday, Monday or any other day. If you honor G-d by taking a day to rest weekly that is obeying the command. If your hungry and need food, don’t starve on Sabbath, starving isn’t rest, you can’t rest til you eat. Jesus healed on the Sabbath, its kind of hard to rest if your sick. The Pharisee’s work they taught on Sabbath, yet they created an unbearable yolk for others to not work. Yeshua was trying to help people find true Rest on the Sabbath. I try to observe true Sabbath by resting, not according to Rabbinic tradition but to do thinks that I find relaxing and peaceful.

The art of becoming a patriarch and priest seems to be a lost heritage that society needs us men to man up and find again. In the Writings we find G-d “searched for a man” because He sought someone who could be an “intercessor” one who “stands in the gap” but He “found none” (Ezekiel 22 :30). The role of the father has been lost in modern society; there are too many fatherless homes, too many independent women. Even married men defer to their wives for decisions and spiritual leadership, as many more women attend Church than men. The art and lifestyle of becoming a patriarch and priest has been lost. We must take back our strength by becoming the priests and patriarch’s of our homes.

One of the lost arts of biblical priesthood is setting the Shabbat table (or Sabbath meal). One thing we have sought to restore in our home is a day of Rest and the Shabbat blessing. As I’ve stated this is the original form of what’s commonly called Communion. Basically its “communion” plus, in which you light the Shabbat candles, bless and drink the wine (or grape juice), break Challah bread, speak blessings over spouse and children, attend Congregation and enjoy the rest G-d made for us. I read some marriage material from Gary Smalley, founder of the Smalley Relationship Center, in which he stated that they had a family day every Tuesday in which they had a family devotional time. As a family you should decide when and how you want to have family time that’s spiritual and restful. As gentiles we are not required to follow the ancient traditions and we’re forbidden from judging in regards to festival or celebration. The word says to set one day out of seven, as a day of rest, it’s the intent of the heart, not the day that matters.

Another important duty is to set the L-rds Table and remember the L-rds Supper. This is different from Shabbat (communion), this is the annual remembrance of Yeshua’s death as our Passover lamb. Whether you remember this as a traditional Christian Passover meal or having a family meal on Resurrection Sunday this is important to collectively remember that it is Yeshua’s blood that has caused us to Passover from death to life. The word declares there is life in the blood. We must set a holy table to declare G-ds goodness and love in our family’s lives. In Revelation we see the Saint overcome through the Blood of the Lamb, their testimony and the confession of their mouths.

Should We Observe Biblical Festivals? My question is this: if you are to be as one under the law to those under the law, why do most neglect that half of the scripture where Paul admonishes you to reach both those under the law and those who are lawless? It’s unbalanced to live a free pagan influenced life without a completely biblically experience to counter it The word says to not judge about any feast or festival. The church in the bible observed the feasts, even through the 2nd century in the Apostolic constitutions observing Passover on Nisan 14th was required it. Can people choose to remember the events of the bible other ways? Yes! Are the biblical? No! Would you rather have a glass half or partially full or a full cup? Many live on less than half a cup because they choose to not do half of the whole pitcher for the simple fact that they don’t have to. On the other side living with a close to full or complete cup is fulfilling. That fulfillment is what I am going to discuss. When your observing Torah, practicing right doing, and participating in biblical festivals (in light of their deeper meaning & fulfillment in Yeshua) you have very little time or need for the distractions many who are not set-apart entertain. Those who do not live set-apart entertain ungodly stuff out of sheer boredom, lack of knowledge and not knowing how to do what is right. When right-doing takes up your time and effort, you have little need for vain distractions. I believe that seeking to live a full and obedient life is so much more freeing and beneficial, it is a free-will choice. I would rather fall short of doing what’s right whilst striving to obey G-ds commands than to live in sin striving not to sin without living an obedient life or as apart of a set-apart community lifestyle. Many fall into sin whilst trying not to fall due to a lack of alternative choices. I want to look into the spiritual benefit of right-doing and the blessings that come from it. It’s a challenging knowing G-d, catching the part where He says “if you love me obey my commands” and dealing with a Church that is stiff-necked, lawless, hard-hearted and opposed to right practice. Many act like “goats” but claim to be “sheep,” the question to me is are they sheep or goats? With Sam Hain (Baal’ze,bub, the L-rd of the flies) being the underworld ruler with a goat head also known as Baphomet, who is the ruler of this world and the father of lies being ha’Shatan (the Adversary). Have you ever consider if all the paganism influence in the church causes people to be aligned with G-ds enemies without knowing? Ha’shatan is very tricky and deceitful. Many seem so full of contention and bitterness and they reject the truth. It is disturbing that “spiritually” some seem aligned with G-ds enemies at times, though in word they try to speak like they are friends of G-d and they claim to be in the truth. It is good to have the surety of your salvation and the presence of the Holy spirit comforts you, to know you’re in the truth. Until you experience the blessing for and from observing the Festivals in the light of Yeshua’s atoning work you don’t know the experience or its fruit. Before I experienced them I didn’t know I thought I did. Until I found out “how much” paganism was the “foundation” of many things that many do, I couldn’t leave “Egypt” because I didn’t realize how deep “Egypt” had infiltrated “America.” I thought my walk was “deep” but it was limited by the spiritual distraction that the European pagan influence had on my experience. I wrote about Messianic Jewish roots, even recommended them, and I thought I was alright as a Gentile because I didn’t have to do historical Biblical things or what people label as “Jewish” things. That was before I started to practice them, with the right intent its means so much more spiritually and its so much cleaner and free of question. If you asked me a few years ago I would have said you could go as deep as you wanted without following the traditions prescribed by G-d himself in Leviticus 23. If G-d laid out a blueprint on how to approach Him and we ignore major parts then we close ourselves off from the deeper, clean hand and pure heart experience. If you ignore G-ds blueprint how can you think you will be able to build His house. I thought I was deep, I thought I “knew” what the right “understanding” was until I experienced it, the mere “knowledge” didn’t do anything. Thus the “knowing” and “doing,” you can’t have one without the other. If you know and try “something else” in “faith” you won’t get the same fruit that if you “know whats right and do it” with the right intent. Much of “western xianity” is based upon doing the least you can do, and living in the very least “acceptable will of G-d.” Many don’t even try to do the “good” or “perfected” will of G-d because they can get away with it. I believe more should seek the deeper walk. What I mean is many make it a license literally as a badge to sin or be a ‘greek’ without ever being Jewish or biblical. Paul said to be a Jew to the Jew and a Gentile to the Gentile. Never did he say to be JUST a gentile. We should be able to fit in with both and reach all bringing unity and stirring to jealousy for good works. There is too much focus on “we can do it this way” and “we don’t have to do it Jewish” then they say “don’t judge me” but judge those who do. Its a paradox, it doesn’t make sense, they take the we don’t “have to”, to the extreme of “never trying” to. I mean just because you can doesn’t mean you should If “you can” should it be the “only” way? Never should it be in my opinion however to be forgiving and show grace is good. Being legalistic is “bad” too most, being dogmatic is never good, having a form or religion and accepting G-ds power is good, denying G-ds power is bad. People decide to reject religious duty out of fear and then mislead others. Religion that denies G-ds power bad, right religion that acknowledge G-ds power is good, (James 1:19-21). Understanding the “good,” the “acceptable” and the “perfect” will of G-d is vital. The “good” would be where I was before when I knew and taught and tried but didn’t fully practice. The “perfect” would be a balance between knowing and doing. The “acceptable” would be doing the least you have to do which should be the exception not the rule.

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